Firebomb kills student, teacher in Taoyuan
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Premier Chang Chun-hsiung comforts a boy injured during yesterday's Molotov cocktail attack at a cram school in Taoyuan City.
PHOTO: LI JUNG-PING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Dalai Lama takes China to task over treatment of Tibet
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The Dalai Lama waves to the staff of the legislature as he is led into the Legislative Yuan by speaker Wang Jin-pyng, right, to deliver a speech yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Combating sexual harassment
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Women's organizations protest in front of the Taipei District Court on Thursday to show their support for a nurse who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against a physician at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. The nurse won the lawsuit on that day.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Several female interns from the DPP's youth department accused its director, Wang Ming-yuan, of sexual harassment at a press conference last Thursday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Stateless mom sues government
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Hu Hui-chin, daughter of a KMT loyalist that lived in northern Myanmar and who entered Taiwan 10 years ago with a forged passport, yesterday sued the government for the naturalization of her two daughters. Both were born in Taiwan.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHEN, TAIPEI TIMES
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The many faces of Miaoli
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This Tibetan mask, on display in Miaoli, is used in ritual dances to represent the mythical Dagiraz attendant warrior.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ACEF
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The Miaoli Mask Festival features dazzling masks from Indonesia.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ACEF
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This is a common mask featured in Indian Chhau performances.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ACEF
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Taiwan's Hakka masks are typically made of cloth.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ACEF
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The Mongol National Ethnic Dance Group performs at the Miaoli Mask Festival Saturday wearing religious masks.
PHOTO: TIFFANY FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Boeing to turbocharge air travel
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Randolph Baseler, senior vice president of marketing of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, says the aircraft maker wants to build smaller, faster commercial airliners that will utilize current technology.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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