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	Asiaweek Magazine Closes Furthering hard times in Hong Kong media By Dirk Beveridge/AP Adding to the gloom in Hong Kong’s battered media industry, the publisher Time Inc. on Nov. 29 shut down its magazine Asiaweek, eliminating 80 jobs and one of the region’s two big English-language newsweeklies. Asiaweek President Peter Brack said a difficult market had been made even worse by the financial fallout from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, forcing the closure that follows other rounds of job losses in the news business here. FULL STORY...		APA Women Flex Muscles (Feature) President's Advisory Commission on AAPI (in National News) Community Fears Loss of Chinese Language Programming (in Bay Area News) AsiaWeek Magazine Closes (in Business) The Next Big Thing (in Sports) Death Becomes Him (in A&E) Emil Amok: Mineta Minutes (in Opinion)

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