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...Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than Japan, the region's economic engine-but there was charm in that, too. "Travellers' Tales," a column poking fun at bad use of English in Asia, remained one of the magazine's most popular features, even when Asian readers far outnumbered expatriates...
...would call him a liberal in the Western sense?he headed the dictatorship's military intelligence service?but diplomats from the outside world considered him more pragmatic and less xenophobic than the country's paramount leader, General Than Shwe. Khin Nyunt steered the country into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1997. (Burma is set to chair the regional grouping in 2006.) He succeeded in brokering cease-fires with 17 of Burma's armed, rebellious tribes. And when he was elevated to Prime Minister 14 months ago, he announced a "road map to democracy" that envisaged...
...make up the world's fourth most populous country. Still, in his first interview since being sworn in as the country's sixth chief executive on October 20, the former general appeared relaxed and confident. In a 30-minute talk at the presidential palace in Jakarta with TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief Simon Elegant and Correspondent Jason Tedjasukmana, Yudhoyono addressed the many daunting challenges facing his fledgling presidency: doubtful economic prospects, disappearing foreign investment, rampant corruption, terrorism, and separatist and religious strife. Excerpts...
...says Jaa is "uncool" and is urging him to get a new haircut. His English teacher despairs that two years of lessons have yielded little more than a rudimentary grasp of the language. Listen to his minders long enough, and you may start doubting the buzz that Jaa is Southeast Asia's long-overdue answer to Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan...
Shamil Basayev's home village of Dyshne-Vedeno stretches for a kilometer or two along a dusty road in the mountainous Vedeno district of Chechnya, 55 km southeast of the capital, Grozny. Cattle and sheep graze around the village, and the local cream is fresh and delicious. If the villagers are right, Russia's most-wanted man is hiding only a few kilometers away. Perhaps in the hamlet of Dargo, about 10 km to the east; or in Ersanoi, just up the road; or even right here in Dyshne-Vedeno itself, within sight of the ruins of his once sumptuous...