228 victims' families urge action
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President Chen Shui-bian bows his head in silence, along with relatives of victims of the 228 Incident, during a memorial ceremony in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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A mourner outside the Presidential Office yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Newsmakers: Liu Hsia celebrates 60th birthday
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A British admirer presents a bouquet to national policy advisor Liu Hsia for her 60th birthday, yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lin commemorates family's 228 tragedy
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Former DPP Chairman Lin I-hsiung, center, attends a memorial ceremony held in a Taipei church yesterday to remember his mother and twin daughters. All three were murdered on Feb. 28, 1980.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Bringing Catalonia to Taipei
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The Chamber Orchestra of the Emporda.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PARIS INTERNATIONAL
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Orchestrareaches out
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Chiang Po-po.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PMM
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Film festival looks to Europe
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Restaurant of the week: Lan Lao Lao Gourmet Äõ«¾«¾
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Lan Lao Lao has been renovated, but they didn't need to improve on the food.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant of the week: Marco Polo Restaurant
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The truffles are a delight at Far Eastern Hotel's Marco Polo Restaurant.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARCO POLO
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Bush as Japan's Arthur Andersen
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Franchises offer employment option
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Tseng Guang-tang, general manager of European Express, a company specializing in ``coffeemobiles,'' introduces the latest in transportable coffee-making equipment at the Taipei International Chain and Franchise Exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Center yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING
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The pioneers of video games found little fame
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Forty years ago, a small group of pioneering computer programmers, led by Steve Russell, designed Spacewar, which became the world's first video game. It was an early hint that a powerful new entertainment medium was on the horizon, one that would ultimately bond Silicon Valley to Hollywood. Spacewar demonstrated that sheer fun would become a driving force toward progress in computing technology. Russell, with the vintage PDP-1 computer on which Spacewars was played in Mountain View, California.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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China's GDP growth still slowing
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A Chinese couple rest on a bus-stop bench surrounded with advertisements in Beijing yesterday. China's advertising market continued to boom last year, growing 15.8 percent compared to 7.3 percent growth in the economy as a whole.
PHOTO: AFP
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