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...crowd of thousands of optimistic Chinese. Forty years later, it was the very same Tiananmen Square where Deng massacred hopeful Chinese. Now as China celebrates its 50th anniversary, President Jiang Zemin has promised a better future for thousands of hopeful Chinese people. Talk about history repeating itself. MAHESH SUBBA Kathmandu, Nepal...
...warm-up highlights more than two dozen athletes who are at the top of their sport, a television viewer's guide to key events, and an offbeat look at Seoul by Contributor Pico Iyer, whose recent book, Video Night in Kathmandu, examines the inroads of Western popular culture throughout Asia. Perhaps the most arresting feature of the special section is photographic. Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames began assigning photographers to cover pre- Olympic meets in April, and since then has edited 5,000 pictures provided by a dozen photojournalists and a score of photo agencies. A former professional photographer, Affa...
...tennis matches and went to Cuba for Carnaval." Iyer, 31, can focus his attention on something as small as the comma, the subject of his essay in this week's magazine, or as vast as China, which fills a chapter of his just published travel book, Video Night in Kathmandu (Knopf...
...this Shah considers necessary background to understanding his role in both press and politics in Nepal. At 41, he has been editor for eight years of Imali Bela, or Modern Times, one of four English-language dailies in the capital city of Kathmandu. (English is Nepal's second language.) At six to ten pages a day and a circulation of 45,000, his is one of the largest papers in the city, and he credits as well for having more "objective news" than the others...
Objectivity in the Nepalese press is a matter of degree. Nearly every newspaper inevitably develops a political bent in response to the interest group that most heavily funds it. The Rising Nepal and Motherland are accepted as organs of the government, while Kathmandu abounds as well with papers professing pro-Soviet, -Indian and -Chinese ideologies...