Rules relaxed on China investment
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PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Labor groups fight for the jobless
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Members of the Labor Legislation Action Council protest at the Council of Labor Affairs yesterday, demanding the government pay labor insurance and national health insurance fees for the unemployed.
PHOTO: CHU YU-PING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Typhoon Nari's aftermath keeps woman from home
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Mudslides from Typhoon Nari nearly cover the first floor of the two-story apartment in Taipei's Neihu district, leaving only a small hole for residents to enter.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Jenny Ke, a resident in Taipei's Neihu district, looks through a narrow opening in the entrance to her condo, which has been blocked by a mudslide since Typhoon Nari.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hsieh demands release of frigate report
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A group of protesters yesterday unfold a banner reading ``pay us back the NT$20 billion (US$597.7 million) in kickbacks'' from the Lafayette frigate scandal between Taiwan and France. The group of some 40 people was demanding the Control Yuan immediately release a report on the investigation of the scandal.
PHOTO: AFP
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US seeking new war allies
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US President George W. Bush, left, and French President Jacques Chirac, right, speak to the press in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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US seaports present new security risk
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A member of the US Coast Guard keeps watch as a tanker pulls into the Portland Pipe Line Corp in Maine. Oil from the tanker will go through pipelines to a Canadian refinery.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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US planes target al-Qaeda, Taliban frontline positions
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A US pilot inspects his AV-8B Harrier prior to a mission over Afghanistan, aboard the USS Peleliu at an undisclosed location at sea.
PHOTO: AP
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Agencies struggle to reach needy
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Afghan refugee children play in the dust while their families wait for tent allocation at the Makaki refugee camp, 2km from the Iranian border.
PHOTO: AP
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Contreras keeps Cuba on right track
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The Philippines' Ernesto Binarao follows through on a pitch during the bottom of the fourth innning against Japan in the second game of the 34th International Baseball World Cup yesterday in Taipei. Japan won 21-0.
PHOTO: AP
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The Dominican Republic catcher watches a US player slide home.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Foreign liquor to get WTO boost
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A local shopkeeper shows bottles of the local ``red label'' rice wine. The popular cooking wine stands to nearly quadruple in price after Taiwan enters the WTO.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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H-P's Fiorina running out of time on her tenure
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Carly Fiorina, chairwoman and CEO of Hewlett Packard, foreground, gestures as Robert Wayman, CFO of H-P, and Michael Capellas, chairman and CEO of Compaq, look on during their press conference in New York in September.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Potato-chip makers face rising costs
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A man eats frites, a Dutch favorite, outside a stand in Ooltgensplaat, the Netherlands, on Oct. 10. The average Dutchman eats 78kg of potatoes a year, compared with 70kg for each German and 65kg per American.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Soaring potato prices could spark inflation
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Jacob Jan van Nieuwenhuis, a farmer, stoops in his 70-hectare field and displays potatoes on his Ooltgensplaat, the Netherlands farm on Oct. 10.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Coffee growers fear mounting debt
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Green coffee is divided into three different grades at Ipanema Agricola Farm in Alfanes, Brazil, in June last year.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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