Unhatched penguin pronounced dead after long incubation
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Taipei Zoo yesterday evening announced the unhatched King penguin was dead after 65-day of incubation.
PHOTO: LEE HUNG-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ire raised along with cab fares
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Taxi drivers are installing new fare meters after the taxi rates in the Taipei area were raised yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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US vet wraps up fact-finding tour of Asian allies
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Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee, center, and Vice Minister of National Defense Chen Bi-chao, right, last night held a dinner party in Taipei to welcome US Representative Floyd D. Spence, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Activists allege labor violations
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Union activists yesterday staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking the government to look into alleged violations of labor rights by the Taiwanese-owned Chentex textile factory in Nicaragua.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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A river runs through it
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An old timer mends a rake net, a traditional tool used to dredge clams from the riverbed.
PHOTO: TSENG WEN-BANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kitted out like miners, the fishermen venture into underground drains in their search for red earthworms, once a considerable source of income, but now little more than a sideline.
PHOTO: TSENG WEN-BANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kitted out like miners, the fishermen venture into underground drains in their search for red earthworms, once a considerable source of income, but now little more than a sideline.
PHOTO: TSENG WEN-BANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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A group photo of the small fishing community that still ekes out a living along the banks of the Keelung River near Chiantan in Taipei.
(Right) An old timer mends a rake net, a traditional tool used to dredge clams from the riverbed.
PHOTO: TSENG WEN-BANG
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A fishermen rakes for clams in the shadow of Taipei's Grand Hotel.
PHOTO: TSENG WEN-BANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sony chief encourages increased collaboration
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Sony President Kunitake Ando gave a speech at ROC Information Month 2000 yesterday. Ando gave strong indications that the Japanese electronics giant would soon be increasing its chip orders to Taiwan.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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