--- --- Back to the vault # August 16, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 8August 16, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 8  Issue name August 27th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 8 | Asia, South Pacific Issue date August 16, 2018 Location Asia, South Pacific Related categories [Arts](/vault/subject/arts/) [Movies](/vault/subject/movies/) [Pop Culture](/vault/subject/pop-culture/) [Society](/vault/subject/society/) [Celebrity](/vault/subject/celebrity/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentPoliticsSportsU.S.World ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Glenn Close Is One Step Closer to an Oscar With _The Wife_ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### 3 Essential Books for Women Who’d Rather Go It Alone [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### False Prophets Come Under Fire in Two Timely Summer Novels [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before_ Is the Perfect Millennial Take on Boy Meets Girl [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Country Music Star Miranda Lambert Says She Has 'Made a Career Based on Telling the Truth' The outspoken country star on the importance of women's voices, advice from Dolly Parton and why she still carries a handgun ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### No Matter Who Becomes Arizona’s Next Senator, Trump Has Already Won In the contest to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate, The President has already won ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Serena Williams Opens Up About Her Complicated Comeback, Motherhood And Making Time to Be Selfish As her comeback reaches its biggest stage, the tennis icon opens up about motivation, insecurities and life as a working mom ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How the Airline Worker Who Stole a Plane in Seattle Exposed a Security Risk ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Crazy Rich Asians Is Going to Change Hollywood. It's About Time The much-anticipated movie signals a major step forward for representation—and for the industry [World](/section/world/) ### Idlib Could Be the Last Major Battlefield of the Syrian Civil War. But Assad Won’t Take It Easily [World](/section/world/) ### What to Know About China's Crackdown on a Muslim Minority Group [World](/section/world/) ### Turkey’s Erdogan Is in a No-Win Situation With Washington August 27th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 8 | Asia, South Pacific ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 27th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 8 | Asia, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5368960/august-27th-2018-vol-192-no-8-asia-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```