In this issue
Edition: Asia
Vol. 173, No. 25


COVER
North Korea: The Coldest War

By BILL POWELL
How a succession crisis put the U.S. and North Korea on a collision course ・
and why two Americans are caught in the middle



EUROPE
Labour Pains (Britain)

By CATHERINE MAYER / LONDON
Bruised by the parliamentary expenses scandal, humiliating losses in European
and local elections, and a series of Cabinet resignations, Gordon Brown
survives the threat of a leadership challenge. But 12 years on, New Labour
is running out of ideas



RELIGION
The Storm Over the Mormons

By DAVID VAN BIEMA
From politics to pop culture, the Church of Latter-day Saints is now a mainstream
force. But the church’s high-stakes campaign against gay marriage has made it
a target. A look at what Mormons believe



ESSAY
Foiled Again

By BILL POWELL
China’s attempts to invest strategically in the developed world keep running
into walls



LETTERS
Inbox



GLOBAL BUSINESS
One Drip at a Time (The Internet)

By THOMAS K. GROSE
Online-game companies are making money from micropayments. Can publishers?



ARTS
Buyers’ Market (Art)

By JYOTI THOTTAM
A new breed of collectors is changing the way the Indian art world operates
and views itself



GLOBAL ADVISER
Beat the Crowds at Ancient Ayutthaya (Day Tripper)

By JOHN KRICH
Compared to Angkor, the Thai ruins at Ayutthaya are serenity itself

Former Abba Star Plays Hotel Host (Check In)

By PATRICK SAWER
Stockholm’s Hotel Rival is a 1930s Art Deco cinema lovingly converted by
former Abba member Benny Andersson

A Brush with Gauguin (TIME Traveler)

By MATTHEW LINK
Follow the famed artist’s footsteps on the Polynesian island of Hiva Oa

One on the Bund, in Singapore (Amuse-Bouche)

By JOAN KOH
Hong Kong restaurateur Calvin Yeung’s new Singapore eatery borrows inspiration
from Shanghai’s famous Bund

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