EDITORIALS Kidnappings How Manila should tackle the southern crisis
Telecommunications On auctioning 3G phone licenses
THE NATIONS PHILIPPINES Estradas handling and mishandling of the Abu Sayyaf hostage crisis Perspective The view from Malaysia Hostilities How Manila and the MILF slipped into war
SRI LANKA Tamil rebels advance on Jaffna Peninsula
Security Crossstrait tensions on the eve of Chens inauguration
INDIA Manmade problems behind the drought
ARTS a SCIENCES People Is Gong Li too glamorous for university
