COVER
Asian Heroes (Cover Story)
TIME celebrates the people famous and unknown who remind us what the human spirit can achieve
Asian Heroes: The SARS Doctors (Asian Heroes)
Staring down a deadly disease
Asian Heroes: Yao Ming (Asian Heroes)
China's Incredible Hulk of the hardcourt becomes an NBA sensation
Asian Heroes: Sister Maria (Asian Heroes)
Salvaging the memory of China's martyred Catholics
Asian Heroes: Yo-Yo Ma (Asian Heroes)
Taking flight on a musical journey without borders
Asian Heroes: Mo Shaoping (Asian Heroes)
Defending those who have already lost
Asian Heroes: Liu Binyan (Asian Heroes)
Fearless and incorruptible, China's conscience speaks the truth
Asian Heroes: Kim Sang Hun (Asian Heroes)
One man against Kim Jong Il
Asian Heroes: Cambodia's Samaritans (Asian Heroes)
On a night of savagery, they risked death to save life
Asian Heroes: Ranil Wickremesinghe (Asian Heroes)
The Peacemaker
Asian Heroes: Agus Bambang Priyanto (Asian Heroes)
Fighting terrorism with faith and tolerance
Asian Heroes: Christine Hakim (Asian Heroes)
Indonesia's movie queen shines offscreen
Asian Heroes: Cut Syamsurniati (Asian Heroes)
In Aceh, a woman warrior fights against fear
Asian Heroes: Wu Shu-chen (Asian Heroes)
Standing up for those less fortunate
Asian Heroes: A-kuei (Asian Heroes)
The animated boy who keeps us young at heart
Asian Heroes: Stephen Chow (Asian Heroes)
The star of Shaolin Soccer doesn't mind if the joke is on him
Asian Heroes: Virender Sehwag (Asian Heroes)
A man and his bat carry the hopes of a nation
Asian Heroes: Elattuvalapil Sreedharan (Asian Heroes)
Getting New Delhi on track
Asian Heroes: The Good Women of Gujarat (Asia)
A sisterhood nurses the wounds of a battered state
Asian Heroes: Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj (Asian Heroes)
Possessing the strength to lift an entire nation
Asian Heroes: Chin Chin Gutierrez (Asian Heroes)
A Natural Beauty
Asian Heroes: Dr. Cynthia Maung (Asian Heroes)
Healer of broken souls
Asian Heroes: Hideki Matsui (Asian Heroes)
Godzilla Vs. the Americans
Asian Heroes: Satoshi Fukushima (Asian Heroes)
Sightless Visionary
Asian Heroes: Yoko Ono (Asian Heroes)
Rebirth of a renaissance rebel
Asian Heroes: Ryuichi Sakamoto (Asian Heroes)
Good deeds on the cutting edge
Asian Heroes: Asma Jahangir (Asian Heroes)
The pocket protector
Asian Heroes: Surayud Chulanont (Asian Heroes)
A soldier who answered to the people
Asian Heroes: Paradorn Srichaphan (Asian Heroes)
A rising Thai tennis star wins—and smiles—big
Asian Heroes: Gulla Jan Hairran (Asian Heroes)
Kabul's Prometheus
HEALTH
Regional Affair
As officials kept up the denials, China's SARS epidemic was spreading to regions ill-equipped to fight the bug
Silent For Too Long
Beijing is calling for an end to the SARS cover-up, but the damage to China's credibility has been done
Why Viruses are Hard to Kill
The latest SARS science
Where the Scrubbing Never Stops (Essay)
There are fewer jobs, concerts and karaoke. But Hong Kong can enjoy the swabbing
ASIA
To China with Love (Crime)
A case involving sex, double-crossing and pilfered secrets exposes embarrassing lapses at the FBI
BRIEFING
Reprocessing Talk (Notebook)
On the eve of talks, the Dear Leader reminds us he's as dangerous as ever
Verbatim (Notebook)
Quotes of the week
TRAVEL
Golf of Siam
Thailand's caddies are its best-kept secret
Keeping Time
TIME picks the best ftes in Asia this May