COVER

The Jihadis' Tale

Bali Confessions: The revelations of two bomb suspects link the attack to Osama bin Laden

Terrorism's Missing Link

Al-Qaeda agent Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is smart, elusive, deadlyand still out there hatching plans

ASIA

A Time to Fight?

Has the time come to transform Japan's Self-Defense Forces into a true military?

Blow Your House Down

Mining is a dynamite business, and residents of one Chinese town have had enough

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Trailing Genghis

In the Empire of Genghis Khan gallops across Mongolia, the nation that once conquered Asia

The Wanderer

Stanley Stewart spoke to TIME about his six-month journey through the empire of Genghis Khan

A New Chapter

Chinese authors struggling to publish are caught between East and West

Getting Saucy

Southeast Asians love it, and Vietnam makes the best stuff

BUSINESS

Zombie Discs

Fake CDs are only part of the problem facing record producers in China

BRIEFING

Mega Power Outage (Notebook)

The Indonesian government enacted aggressive price hikes on fuel, electricity and phone tariffs

Naipaul's Friendly Fire (Notebook)

India's ruling party reveres Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and his writings on India's growing self-confidence

Milestones (Notebook)

For the Week of January 27, 2003

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