COVER
The Fire This Time (Cover Story)
A suicide bombing in Jakarta shows how vulnerable Indonesia remains to terrorism
The War at Home (Viewpoint)
It's up to Indonesians themselves to fight terrorism
ASIA
Dangerous Commission
Pervez Musharraf's war on al-Qaeda and on Pakistan's domestic extremists has earned him many enemies
First or Equals?
China's President Hu wants to consolidate power, but his predecessor Jiang Zemin has not yet faded away
A Blackbird's Song (TIME In Depth)
In California, a Laotian refugee remembers the long suffering of his country's Hmong tribespeople
GLOBAL ADVISER
Reaching Your Plateau (TIME Global Adviser)
A multimillion-dollar renovation creates a spa and "Hotel within a Hotel" at Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt
Coup de Grasse (TIME Global Adviser)
Got a nose for perfume? Then let the scent take you to southern France
Next Time You're In ... Bangkok (TIME Global Adviser)
Black Coffee
Slumming It (TIME Global Adviser)
Old tenements never die. They get renovated into bijoux holiday homes
Your Health (TIME Global Adviser)
Low-Calorie Sabotage?
Tech Watch (TIME Global Adviser)
In a new PC, Mickey meets the mouse
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Back in the Groove (Music)
The king of bhangra music makes his comeback after a nightmarish clash with the police
The Pride of a Nation (Sports)
Iran's Paralympic volleyball team seeks another gold, but without its secret weaponwar veterans
A Strange Magic
Han Ong's novel The Disinherited portrays the Philippines as seductive, pell-mell and repellent
BUSINESS
India's Mania for Malls
There are plans for hundreds of malls across the country. Don't expect many to turn a profit
BRIEFING
Radioactive Slips (Notebook)
More details come to light concerning South Korea's nuclear research
Sick of Avian Flu (Notebook)
Troubling new research and a lack of transparency raise the likelihood of a new pandemic on the horizon
Striking Out (Notebook)
A narrowly-averted player walkout highlights the problems in Japan's ailing baseball leagues
Milestones (Notebook)
Asia's marriage of the year
Verbatim (Notebook)
Quotes of the Week
Letters (Notebook)
Saving the Big Cats