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...plane airline in Kuala Lumpur. He now has 18 planes and is looking to buy 80 more over the next eight years. From starting with only 12 flights a day, AirAsia currently has a hundred. On July 1 alone, AirAsia launched its first flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, added a second to Bangkok and announced two more to Malaysian cities. Four days later, Fernandes was on AirAsia's first flight from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau. Upcoming in August: flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India. Fernandes boasts, "We have transformed the way people...
...could be a tight race. "[Yudhoyono] may be the favorite, but it is way too early to count Megawati out," says Indra Piliang, a political analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. "It now depends on who can win the support of the other parties." Indeed, in the event of a runoff between Yudhoyono and Megawati-which will occur if neither wins the required 50% of the vote in the first round-the two finalists will focus much of their attention on trying to woo voters who had supported Wiranto. But with the race still tight...
...nimble political moves-from cutting taxes to abolishing school fees to reshuffling ministers-could win over plenty of skeptics. "If she starts acting like a leader and makes some strong changes to the economy and the Cabinet," says Umar Juoro, of the Center for Information and Development Studies in Jakarta, "she has a chance of winning...
REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA, 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS, 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA, 21, and BELINDA, 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four...
...best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed-use hall as a home for Indonesia's semiprofessional Nusantara Symphony Orchestra; Bangkok, too, is building a classical-music venue, an opera house on the sixth floor of a shopping mall...