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INTHISISSUE

No.40,600

Books 7

Business 17

Crossword 15

Design 7

Sports 14

Views 12

SHANGHAI STYLERETAILERS STILLFLOCK TO CITYPAGE 11 | FASHION

AMERICAS CUPRIVALRY STARTSAT THE HELMPAGE14 | S PO R T S

RIDING THE WAVECHOICES EXPANDFOR USING DATAPAGE17 | BUSINESS ASIA WITH

BUSINESS ASIA

Keeping secretsTwitter hasmanagedto spread newsof

itsinitialpublicoffering withoutrevealingmuchaboutits plansorfinances.The companyhas comeundersomecriticism forbeingcoy asit takesadvantage of a recentlaw signed byPresidentObamaas a wayto createmorejobs. PAGE 18

WORLD NEWS

Tamil partywins regional voteTheTamilNationalAlliancehas swept

thefirst provincial electionsin 25yearsinSri Lankaswar-tornnorth. PAGE 3

VIEWS

Thomas L. FriedmanTwo hugenew forces havemuscled

theirwayinto Egyptianand Iranianpolitics.The firstnewcomer isMotherNature,the second is anemergent andempoweredmiddle class. PAGE 12

Nicholas D.KristofAfter sufferingextremeconditionsathome,refugees arefleeingSyriaandstraining itsneighbors. Therearenosimple fixes,butthere aresteps wecantakethatmighthelp. PAGE 13

ONLINE

Tensions over Temple MountTensions aregrowing asmore

mainstream Jews seekto visitandprayatthe TempleMountin Jerusalem, asacredsite controlledfor centuriesbyMuslims,who callit theNobleSanctuary. Palestinianleaders say thenewactivityhas createdthe worsttensionin memory around thelandmarkAl AksaMosqueandDome oftheRock.global.nytimes.com/middleeast

Legal niche after Hussein trialSince presidingoverthe trial of

SaddamHussein,MunirHaddad, whoasa Shiiteanda Kurd was doublyoppressedunderthat dictatorship,hashadan unlikelytrajectoryin privatelaw, andhas gottenrich inthe process.global.nytimes.com/middleeast

Intimacywith thousandsImprovedtechnologyin thewebcambusiness,a kindof digital-erapeepshowin which models perform liveontheInternet whileinteractingwiththeirviewers,is invertingtheusualpower dynamicof thepornographyindustry. PAGE 19

Standoffin Nairobi Thepoliceswepta mallonSundayaftera deadlyattackbymilitantswho remainedinsidewith anuncertainnumber of bystanders. PAGE 4

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EDUCATION

Online tack for Europe collegesMassiveOnlineOpenCourses,orMOOCs, arecatching onin Europe asuniversitieslook to cutcostsand reachoutto a wider audience. PAGE 8

Bo convictedof all chargesand givenlife in prisonBEIJING

BY ANDREW JACOBS

AND CHRIS BUCKLEY

Bo Xilai, the pugnacious Chinese politi-

cian whose downfall shook the Commu-nist Party, wassentencedto lifeinprisononSundayaftera court found himguiltyof taking bribes, embezzlement andabuseof powerina failedattempttostiflemurderallegationsagainsthis wife.

ThesentencemeansMr.Bo, thesonofa Communist revolutionary leader, isunlikelyto everreturnto public life,un-less there is an extraordinary reversalinhis politicalfortunes.

Given the Communist Partys tightcontrolof thejudiciary, there wasnevermuchdoubtthatthe JinanIntermediatePeoples Court in eastern China wouldfind Mr. Bo guilty. Even before the ver-dict, commentaries in the state-runnewsmediadeclaredthatMr. Bos guiltwas clear.

Yetuntiltheend, Mr. Boremainedde-fiant, pleadingnot guilty andcontestingnearly every aspect of the prosecutorscase during his trial in August. Familyassociates havesaid Mr. Bo wouldmostlikelyappealhis sentence.

Party leaders under President Xi Jin-pinghadhoped thatprosecutingMr.Bo,once an ambitious member of the elitePolitburo, would demonstrate thepartys determination to tame therampant official corruption that hasstoked public ire, posing a potentialthreat to their hold on power. The gov-ernment orchestrated an unusuallypublic and lengthy trial for Mr. Bo last-ing five days, and a court microbloggave the public selective but plentifulandsalaciousdetailsofthe proceedings,which included allegations of adulterybybothMr. Boandhiswife,GuKailai.

But the courtroom drama also let thepublic peer into a privileged world ofdizzying wealth and nonchalant excess.Prosecutors described a casual rapportbetweenMr.Bosfamilyand abusiness-man, Xu Ming, who paid for the traveland the extravagant purchases of Mr.Bos wife and younger son, including a$3.2 million villa in France, a $12,000Segway electric scooter and a flightaboarda privatejet to Tanzania.During

the trial, the prosecution said Mr. Bohad taken $4.4 million in bribes and em-bezzled money. Mr. Bo countered thathe had been unaware of the gifts andpayments.

Thecourtgave Mr. Bo a smallvictory.Although it found him culpable for tak-ing bribes worth $3.2 million, it saidthere was insufficient evidence con-cerning the air travel, which it said wasworth about$218,000.

But many Chinese believe that thatlavish lifestyle is typical for families ofsenior officials, not the depraved aber-ration presented in the state-run newsmedia. And Mr. Bos supporters, whohave remained vocal despite censor-ship,havearguedthathe isthe victimofa political vendetta aimed at thwarting

JINAN INTERMEDIATE PEOPLES COURT, VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

The former politician Bo Xilai, in the courtroom in Jinan, China, on Sunday, has retained support among some Chinese who see him as a charismatic advocate of left-leaning policies.

Chinas pushfor dronesfueled byU.S. secretsBEIJING

BY EDWARD WONG

For almost two years, hackers based inShanghai went after one foreign de-

fense contractor after another, at least20 in all. Their target, according to anAmerican cybersecurity company thatmonitored the attacks, was the technol-ogybehindthe UnitedStatesclearleadinmilitarydrones.

Ibelievethisis thelargest campaignweve seen that has been focused ondrone technology, said Darien Kind-lund, manager of threat intelligence atthe company, FireEye, based in Califor-nia. It seems to align pretty well withthe focus of the Chinese government tobuildup theirown dronetechnologyca-pabilities.

Thehacking operation, conductedbyagroup called Comment Crew, was oneof themostrecentsignsof theambitionsof Chinas drone development program.The government and the military arestriving to put China at the forefront ofdrone manufacturing, for their own useandfor export,and havemadean all-outpushto gatherdomesticand internation-altechnologyto supportthe program.

Foreign Ministry officials have saidChina does not sanction hacking and isitself a victim, but another Americancybersecurity company has trackedmembers of Comment Crew to aPeoples Liberation Army building out-side Shanghai.

China is now dispatching its owndrones into potential combat arenas.Every major arms manufacturer inChina has a research center devoted todrones, according to Chinese and for-eignmilitary analysts.Those companieshave shown off dozens of models to for-eignbuyers atinternationalair shows.

Chinese officials this month sent adrone near disputed islands admin-

DRO NES , PAGE 4

Fortune-seeking migrants turn to MexicoMEXICO CITY

BY DAMIEN CAVE

Mexico, whose economic woes havepushed millions of people north, is in-creasingly becomingan immigrantdes-tination. Thecountrys documented for-eign-born population nearly doubledbetween2000and2010,andofficialsnowsay the pace is accelerating as broadchanges in the global economy createnewdynamicsof migration.

Rising wages in China and higher

transportation costs have made Mexic-an manufacturing highly competitiveagain, with some projections suggest-ing it is already cheaper than China formany industries serving the Americanmarket. Europe is sputtering, pushingworkers away. And while Mexicoseconomy is far from trouble free, itsgrowth easily outpacedthe giantsof thehemisphere the United States,Canada and Brazil in 2011 and 2012,according to International MonetaryFunddata,makingthecountrymore at-tractiveto fortune seekersworldwide.

The new arrivals range in class fromexecutives to laborers; Mexican offi-cialssaid Fridaythat residencyrequestshad grown 10 percent since November,whena newlawmeantto streamlinetheprocesstookeffect.Andtheyarecomingfrom nearlyeverywhere.

GuillaumePace sawhis nativeFrance

wilting economically,so with hisnew de-greeinfinance,he moved toMexico City.

Lee Hwan-hee made the same movefrom South Korea for an internship,while Spanish filmmakers, Japaneseautomotive executives and entrepre-neurs from the United States and LatinAmerica arrive practically daily pur-suingdreams,livingwellandfrequentlysucceeding.

Thereis thisenergyhere,thisfeelingthat anything can happen, said LesleyTllez, a Californian whose three-year-

Tracking thefts, for art and profit

BY KATE TAYLOR

AND LORNE MANLY

Early in the morning of May 11, 1987,someone smashed through the glassdoors of the Museum of Modern Art inStockholm, removed a Matisse from awallandfled.

All it took was daring and a sledge-hammer.

The whereabouts of thepainting, LeJardin, remained a mystery until thework was found last year and made acelebratory triphome inJanuary.

Butlaw enforcementagenciesplayed

no role. The return was facilitated by

theArt LossRegister, a companybasedin London that over the past two de-cades has evolved into a little-noticedbut increasingly integral part of art in-vestigationaroundthe world.

The brainchild of Julian Radcliffe, anOxford-educatedformer risk consultantwhospeaksof oncespyingfor Britishin-telligence, the Register helps fill a gap-ingvoid:Billionsof dollarsworthof artis stolen every year, according to anF.B.I. estimate, but law enforcementagencies have too few resources to givepriorityto findingit.

For Mr. Radcliffe, whose other com-pany helps recover stolen constructionequipment, this presented a natural op-portunity. Since it began 22 years ago,the Register has developed one of themost extensive databases of stolen art

inthe world, enablingit to recovermore

than $250 million worth of art, earningfeesfrom insurersand theftvictims.

Along the way, the company hasdrawn criticism from those who say itshardball tactics push ethical, and some-times legal, boundaries. Even so, theRegistercontinuesto countlawenforce-ment agents among its supporters. Tome, theyre very important, a very use-ful tool, said Mark Fishstein, the NewYork City Police Departments artcop.

Mr. Radcliffes company operates inthedim recessesof theart world, wherethe prevalence of theft, fakery andworks of murky provenance has givenriseto manybusinessesthat promise tohelp clients navigate this lucrative butlargelyunregulated market.

American contractorshacked by group tied toPeoples Liberation Army

Defiant throughout trial,he has told relatives thatone day hell be cleared

There is this energy here,this feeling that anything canhappen.

Though crucial in findingstolen works, companysmethods are criticized

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Tropical deluge A passer-by wasdousedby a wave inHangzhou,China,causedbyTyphoonUsagi,themostpowerful storm ofthe year. global.nytimes.com/asia

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ART, PAGE 20 CHIN A, PAGE 3

SPORTS

Vettel cruises in SingaporeSebastianVettelof RedBull wonby a32-secondcushionon Sunday intheSingaporeGrand Prix. FernandoAlonso of Ferrariwas second, withKimiRaikkonenof Lotusthird. PAGE 15

Dozens killedin Pakistan blastAnattackSundayfollowinga church

servicecomes amida wave of violencetargetingreligious minorities. PAGE 3