COVER
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?
ASIA
Al-Qaeda's New Hideouts
Chased out of Afghanistan, bin Laden's fighters are lying lowbut hot to strike backin 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'
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
This Year's Models (Movies)
Bollywood's extras are losing their livelihood to fresh-faced parvenus
BUSINESS
Snitches
Japan's conspiracy of silence is breaking as insiders go public
BRIEFING
Please Me, Tweeze Me (Notebook)
Follicle fetish isn't new in Japan
Person of the Week (Notebook)
John Walker Lindh ended the first trial in the war on terror before it began
Milestones (Notebook)
For the Week of July 29, 2002
TRAVEL
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