6.28.2001 what's behind the apparent paradox of a slumping Asia that nevertheless produces an overflow of outstanding entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, and reformers? It's the simple fact that Asia is changing for the better.

6.22.2001 as jakarta loses control of its domestic situation, the region confronts a slowdown in foreign investment, a rise in muslim extremism, and the threat of chaos — or even civil war — in southeast asia's largest country