Author Tsao Yu-fang, who is in the last stages of terminal ovarian cancer, hosts a farewell ceremony at the Sherwood Hotel in Taipei yesterday. Tsao said she wanted her friends to be able to say goodbye to her before she dies.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
KMT Vice Chairman Wang Jin-pyng solicits support for his re-election bid as Legislative Yuan speaker during a meeting with the KMT's legislative caucus yesterday. Former president Lee Teng-hui has declared his support for Wang while the DPP is asking its members to wait for the party's decision before trying to run for the post.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
A man bakes tortillas in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexican Greenpeace activists said most tortillas are made with the flour of genetically modfied corn and asked for a ban on the import of such corn after researchers found native plants in the southern state of Oaxaca to be contaminated with the genetically modified variety.
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A woman walks by a field of corn on a Mexico City hillside on Tuesday. Researchers in Mexico have to go ever higher -- sometimes to remote mountain villages -- to find completely natural varieties of the 4,000-year-old crop.
PHOTO: AP
