Wretched Excess (Cover Story)
Flush with the spoils of capitalism, China's fledgling multimillionaires are living large. Mao would have had a cow


Confessions of an al-Qaeda Terrorist
American interrogators finally got to Omar al-Faruq, who detailed plans to launch a new terror spree in Southeast Asia. A TIME exclusive


Tiger Country
After 19 years of civil war and 65,000 deaths, the Tamil rebels are finally talking peace. In Tigerland a new and strange nation is being born

Three the Very Hard Way
TIME pieces together the tale of three Pakistani jihadis imprisoned in Indian-administered Kashmir

China's New Terrorists
With a new U.N. 'terrorist' label, it's open season on China's Muslim minorities

Yet Another Casualty of A Lousy War
Don Duong's role in a Mel Gibson movie has Vietnam's censors incensed

Milestones
A Resistance leader and a football hero say goodbye; a con man gets his comeuppance

Starting Time
The words and numbers that shape our world


Living on the Fire's Edge in Flores
To the Land Protected by the Cross and the Crescent

Hot Spot
The most famous volcano on Flores

Detour
Villagers in Bena will tell you they are Christians, Flores, culture, sacrifice, volcanoes, Ibolobu, Enerea

Short Cuts
The world's largest lizards

Web Crawling
An excellent guide to Maumere