In this issue
Edition: Asia
Vol. 177, No. 1

COVER
Burma's First Lady of Freedom
By HANNAH BEECH / RANGOON
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi is a profile in courage, but can she bring democracy
to a troubled land? In a revealing interview, she talks of her hopes and fears

GLOBAL BUSINESS
The Secrets of Zug (Corporations)
By VIVIENNE WALT / ZUG
Why is a quiet Swiss village home to oil drillers, biotechs and the world's biggest
commodity-trading firms?

Can an Innovator Accelerate? (Small Business)
By JOSEPH R. SZCZESNY / OAK PARK
Azure's hybrid engine is efficient, but revving sales is tough for an upstart

ARTS
Cold Call (Books)
By TIM KINDSETH
Kim Young-ha's Korean spy classic is as much about existentialist crisis as it
is about peninsular tensions

WORLD
Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?
By ALEX PERRY / ABYEI
Southern Sudan is set to become the world's newest nation. But a peaceful divorce
from the north could still descend into war

Postcard from Xieng Khouang
By ARANTXA CEDILLO
Laos remains carpeted in unexploded ordnance from a 40-year-old U.S. bombing
campaign. How deadly weapons continue to rule daily life

GLOBAL ADVISER
Five Reasons to Visit Copenhagen (TIME Traveler)
By SUDI PIGOTT
It's tryghed!

Cape Crusader (Amuse-Bouche)
By ALEX PERRY
South Africa's breakthrough chef keeps it local

Beat Routes (Diversions)
By LIAM FITZPATRICK
England's rock landmarks mapped

Three's Company (Check In)
By JINI REDDY
Oman's new trio of hotels

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