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...recently moved from Shanghai to Bangkok but will continue to report on China's influence throughout Asia. Adi Ignatius, a TIME executive editor who helped produce this week's package, is a Chinese speaker and a former Wall Street Journal bureau chief in Beijing; and Howard Chua-Eoan, a Filipino Chinese by birth, is our long-standing news director and an old China hand. It's his calligraphy that accompanies this week's cover story...
...SENTENCED. Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, U.S. Marine; to 40 years in prison; for raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in the back of a van in November 2005; in Makati City, the Philippines. Three U.S. soldiers and a Filipino driver were cleared of complicity in the attack on the woman, who testified she was too drunk on the evening of the assault to consent to sex. Smith is the first American marine to be convicted of rape in the country since 1998, when the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement, which in part governs the treatment...
...Number of reptiles, including poisonous cobras, found stuffed into two suitcases by airport security officials in Manila 3 Number of live Siamese crocodiles a Filipino man allegedly tried to smuggle before being arrested by Manila airport authorities last week...
...Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible. "I am taking power in the name of the Filipino people," she declared. "I pledge a government dedicated to upholding truth and justice, morality and decency, freedom and democracy." Less than 12 hours later her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and his family climbed aboard four U.S. Air Force helicopters, bound for exile after more than 20 years of increasingly authoritarian rule...
...samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacañang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away for 40 years, and never dreamed he would ever see the day when he would set foot in the palace." Read more at timearchive.com...