The Sky is Falling (Cover Story)
Mao envisioned a China in which women would "hold up half the sky." But as the nation embraces capitalism, women are losing ground

Shanghai's Strong Women (Cover Story)
A career of one's own

Suicide As Last Resort (Cover Story)
The Way Out of a Living Hell


Know Your Rights
Hong Kongers are going to hold Beijing to its promise of full direct elections for the territory

Not Going to Extremes (Asia | Viewpoint)
On Hong Kong, Beijing's got to walk a middle path

System Failure (Asia | Viewpoint)
Hong Kong needs not just a change of leadership but a total overhaul

The Next WMD Crisis
New evidence suggests North Korea is advancing its nuclear-weapons plans. What can the U.S. do?


A Plane Spotter's Lament
Remembering Kai Tak airport: A jet blast from Hong Kong's past

Web Crawling
Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport

Terrorism Released (Notebook | Philippines)
Criticism falls on Manila's security apparatus as JI bombmaker escapes

Great Escapes (Notebook | Philippines)
Manila's "maximum security" Camp Crame prison has an embarrassing track record

Busting the Hard Boiled (Notebook | Cambodia)
Was a bogus Cambodian NGO the cover for an international stock scam?

Severe Acute Ridiculousness Syndrome (Notebook | Japan)
Japan's lawmakers suffer an outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease

Dirty Business (Notebook | Music)
An investigation points to a payola scandal in Hong Kong's squeaky-clean canto-pop scene

Eulogy (Notebook | Movies)
Remembering Bollywood matron Leela Chitnis

Milestones
Cuban troubadour Compoy Segundo, 95

Verbatim
Quotes of the Week

Letters
Should Christians Convert Muslims?