COVER
Wretched Excess (Cover Story)
Flush with the spoils of capitalism, China's fledgling multimillionaires are living large. Mao would have had a cow
WORLD
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
ASIA
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
BRIEFING
China's New Terrorists (Notebook)
With a new U.N. 'terrorist' label, it's open season on China's Muslim minorities
Yet Another Casualty of A Lousy War (Notebook)
Don Duong's role in a Mel Gibson movie has Vietnam's censors incensed
Milestones (Notebook)
A Resistance leader and a football hero say goodbye; a con man gets his comeuppance
Starting Time (Notebook)
The words and numbers that shape our world
TRAVEL
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