1 x 26 48pt NCSB -

1 x 26 48pt NCSB -

SE Asia's threat of radicalism

By Eric Teo Chu Cheow

SINGAPORE: The coordinated terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center's twin towers and the Pentagon have refocused world
attention on radical Muslim terrorism and highlighted, once
again, the fragility of the situation in Southeast Asia.

2. Global --
Global crisis must be averted
1 x 42 36pt optima bold

Curbing global economic crises in the new world

TOKYO: The New York Stock Exchange will reopen Monday, after
trading was suspended due to Tuesday's terrorist attack on New
York's World Trade Center.

The nearly simultaneous terrorist assaults on New York and
Washington presented the world economy, which was already in the
doldrums, with the threat of possible simultaneous economic
crisis.

3. Post --
A Chance in the Middle East
1 x 35 36pt ncsb

U.S. has a chance in the Middle East

WASHINGTON: In the transformation of international relations
that is following last week's terrorist assault, there is a large
diplomatic opportunity for the United States in what might seem
like one of the most unlikely places: the Middle East. Militants
with roots in that region carried out the attacks on New York and
Washington, and the trail of evidence eventually may lead to one
or more governments there.

4. Donna --
The real American tragedy
1 x 42 36pt optima bold

Americans still ignorant of Arabs, Muslims

MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): On Sept. 11 in New York City
Hollywood and Hell converged. What are we to make of those
nihilistic acts which, in the words of The Guardian's Matthew
Engel, attacked America's sense of faith? What depravity set the
course and drove those planes? What was the point of it? Are
there truths to be penetrated?