One million kids shake Great Britain
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The pupils of Kings Hill junior school in Kent, southern England attempt to help register a shockwave across Great Britain yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Mystery surrounds grisly demise of a whole family
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Police yesterday dig up a charred lawn in the backyard of Hung Jo-tan's luxurious home. Officials suspect that Hung's three children might have been cremated and their ashes buried there.
PHOTO: WANG PAI-LIEN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lien Chan pledges support for joint candidate
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Wang Chien-shien, left, the KMT and New Party's mutual candidate for Taipei County commissioner, visits KMT Chairman Lien Chan, right, yesterday to seek his support in the election.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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US pushes germ warfare limits
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Kuanghwa mirrors tech era's rise
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Kuanghwa Market is a great place to pick up a cheap homemade PC.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kuanghwa Market now has bookstores with comics and pornographic magazines stacked to the ceiling.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Shoppers browse the comics that fill most of the remaining bookstores in the basement level of Kuanghwa Market.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Movie Guide: The Hole ¡q°¦a¤è¡r
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Four teenagers looking for fun get locked in a bomb shelter and only one survives to tell the tale in The Hole.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPRING INTERNATIONAL
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Movie Guide: Rush Hour 2 ¡q¦y®p®É¨è2¡r
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Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker head to Hong Kong for some fisticuffs in Rush Hour 2.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MATA
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Beijing holds firm on `one China' policy
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Taiwanese Minister of Finance Yen Ching-chang, left, talks with Chinese Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng, at a bilateral meeting in China's eastern city of Suzhou yesterday. The meeting took place against the backdrop of a four-day APEC finance ministers' meetings.
PHOTO: AFP
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Resorts dream of Chinese tourists
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Patrick Luo, developer of the Hualien Ocean Park, posed last month for a photograph during a sea lion training session on the site of a soon-to-be built aquarium in Hualien. Like many in the tourism industry, Luo is eager for the government to end the ban on tourist visits from China, a move officials say will increase their business by 25 percent.
PHOTO: AP
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China denies Matsushita phone ban over Taiwan gaffe
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A representative of Panasonic shows one of the latest examples of "3G" mobile phone technology. China denied yesterday that it had banned the company from selling its handsets in the country for one year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Hynix CEO wants one more try
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Creditors of Hynix Semiconductor attend a meeting to arrange a new rescue plan for the company at the headquarters of the Korea Exchange Bank in Seoul.
PHOTO: AP
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US Justice Department changes tack
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Bill Gates laughs as he answers a question following his presentation at the conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2001 in Seattle. The George W. Bush administration, reversing the Bill Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software manufacturer it no longer seeks to have the company broken up.
PHOTO: AP
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Internet access gives Microsoft edge
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Dave Fox plays Pro Skater 2x on an Xbox in Los Angeles, California.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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