COVER

ASIA

If This is Called Peace...

A female suicide bomber kills 10, and the government responds with air raids. Is the country lurching back toward civil war?

Rocky Relations

To South Koreans, they're the Dokdo islands; Japanese call them Takeshima. Why are the two nations feuding over these tiny, barren rocks in the ocean?

BRIEFING

Nepal Picks Up the Pieces (Notebook)

The kingdom's Parliament meets for the first time in four years. It has a lot of work to do