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...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...
...bullet wounds received when shooting dead a soldier in July. He says that as a boy he was told tales of atrocities committed by security forces against Muslims and so needed little convincing that the south should secede. Abdullah says he was recruited by a traveling preacher called Ustaz Soh. "The organization is always looking for people and has members all over, seeing who has the potential to be an insurgent," he told TIME. Abdullah spent four years preparing for a mission. Sometimes his training consisted of paramilitary drills in remote jungle locations, always with other young men from different...
...perhaps because he was older and less impressionable, when he was finally ordered into action on April 28, Abdullah balked. He says he refused because it was suicidal to attack "soldiers with M-16s when we only had knives. Ustaz Soh was very angry with me, and three weeks later he came back and ordered me to attack on my own. He said the leaders had decided that attacks would now use guns and bombs, and gave me a 9-mm pistol. When I asked for a driver, he told me a boy from my own village would drive...
...running a laundry service. AsianWeek.com reported how Shaquille O’Neal cracked racial jokes, repeatedly singled out Houston Rockets player Yao Ming for mockery and even threats of violence, and told a reporter to “Tell Yao Ming, ‘ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” The media, including The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press, ignored the incident and declined to report...
...even dealt deftly with his first media mini-controversy. Last summer Shaquille O'Neal asked a reporter to "tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'" In an Asian Week column early last month, the remarks were repeated, and Yao was asked for a response. Tongue in cheek, he said that Chinese was a hard language to learn. (To defuse any controversy, Yao had also sent Shaq a Christmas card, not a typical Chinese gesture.) Before the two played in Houston later in January, Shaq apologized, using the Mandarin dui bu qi. Yao invited Shaq to his home...