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?