COVER

What You Can Do (Health)

You don't have to suffer. There are many ways to find relief

ASIA

To Have & Have Not

The city of Karachi in Pakistan has become one of the region's roughest towns

Cleaning House

President Roh wants to reform the South's notoriously brutal intelligence agency, but will he render it ineffective?

History of Harm

TIME Asia, Korea, Asia, spy agency, NIS, Korean Central Intelligence Agency

General Strike

Dashing hopes of democracy, Burma's junta turns deadlyand again locks up Aung San Suu Kyi

HEALTH

Heal Thyself?

China's physicians must make life-and-death decisions using the Party's ethical compassand death wins far too often

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Enter The Animatrix (Movies)

A collection of Matrix-related anim offers beauty, horror and lots of violence

Wong's World (Movies)

Truth or Dare shows Hong Kong kids are O.K.

The Art of Titillation (Books)

Cheap sex. Cheap drugs. Sordid foreigners. Books about Thailand rarely escape the tawdry clichs

BRIEFING

South Korea: Run DMZ (Notebook)

U.S. troops prepare to clear out of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea

Living Too Large? (Notebook)

An ongoing crackdown takes its toll on China's high-riding tycoons

A Very Dirty Plot (Notebook)

A police raid on Islamic militants uncovers uranium and bomb-making instructions

Milestones (Notebook)

Vietnam's Mr. Big sentenced to death; America's Ms. Clean charged with insider trading

Verbatim (Notebook)

Quotes of the Week

TRAVEL

Thailand: Hot Spot

A policeman-turned-hotelier's spread makes a cheerful stop among Umphang's splendors