Lee inaugurates Taiwan Advocates
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KMT Vice Chairmen Vincent Siew, left, and Wang Jin-pyng, right, attend the founding ceremony of Taiwan Advocates, a cross-party think tank set up under the auspices of former president Lee Teng-hui, second left. Tseng Wen-hui, Lee's wife, sits at her husband's left.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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US inventor at last unveils `IT'
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Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates his scooter in New York yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Lien promises reshuffle
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Legislative Yuan Speaker and KMT Vice Chairman Wang Jin-pyng (left), talks with KMT Chairman Lien Chan at the party's headquarters yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan's democracy `still has a lot of progress to be made'
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Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University Larry Diamond talks to the Taipei Times about Saturday's elections. Diamond said that in a time of economic downturn it is critical the public see ``accountable governance.''
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Asia's democracies share similarities
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Former Seoul bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review Shim Jae-hoon discusses the democracies of Taiwan and South Korea.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Digging begins on Luchou MRT line
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Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou attends the ground-breaking ceremony for the Luchou line of the Taipei MRT network yesterday.
PHOTO: HSING YUEH-HUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Impunity in Croatia
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Sales of PCs brighten up this season
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The personal computer market is becoming more lively. Since Thanksgiving, PC sales have risen alongside improving sales of home-entertainment equipment, such as DVD players, high-definition televisions and video game consoles. Above, shoppers are trying out computers last week at Datavision in Manhattan, New York.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Micron Technology may buy Hynix
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PHOTO: REUTERS
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Patriotism invariably loses out to greed
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An Afghan man talks on radio behind a truck loaded with sacks of flour, humanitarian aid for Afghans. The US government purchased 15,000 tonnes of grain from Asian countries in order to speed aid to starving Afghan refuges over the protests of US farmers.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Berlin's tourism boom died Sept. 11
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Children dressed in traditional clothes ride a float in an Oktoberfest parade Sunday. Visitors to this year's festival were a third fewer than last year and they drank a modest 510,000 litre beers, 35 percent lower than a year ago.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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