Flying Too High? (Business)
The Korean pop music biz is Asia's hottest. But are producers and artists bribing their way to the top?

Show Me the Money (Business)
Are Korea's pop stars being underpaid?

Ultimate Idol Smackdown! (Business)
Who is Asia's killer pop icon?


Al-Qaeda's New Hideouts
Chased out of Afghanistan, bin Laden's fighters are lying low—but hot to strike back—in Pakistan

Killing for 'Mother' Kali
It was at most a fringe practice, but a spate of ritual killings in India shows that human sacrifice lives on

A War of Words Over 'Singlish' (Letter from Singapore)
Singapore's government wants its people speaking good English, not 'talking cock'


This Year's Models (Movies)
Bollywood's extras are losing their livelihood to fresh-faced parvenus


Snitches
Japan's conspiracy of silence is breaking as insiders go public

Please Me, Tweeze Me
Follicle fetish isn't new in Japan

Person of the Week
John Walker Lindh ended the first trial in the war on terror before it began

Milestones
For the Week of July 29, 2002


Where Japan Chooses to Kick Back
In Nagasaki, Foreigners are Not Strangers

Hot Spot
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

Short Cuts
For a quick break, go to the Goto archipelago

Detour
The volcanic hot springs at Jigoku: A perfect piece of hell on earth

Web Crawling
Take a virtual tour of Nagasaki