Decision on chips may come today
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Premier Yu Shyi-kun, right, shakes hands with TSMC Chairman Morris Chang yesterday before discussing eight-inch wafer investment in China.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Israel weighs response to attack
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An Israeli man points at the place where a suicide bomber is believed to have detonated his explosives in the Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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`Next' reporter defends NSB story
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Next magazine reporter Hsieh Zhong-liang is surrounded by reporters outside the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office yesterday before being summoned to explain his role in publishing a story regarding secret National Security Bureau accounts.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Books give insight on 228
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President Chen Shui-bian, second right, gives books documenting the 228 Incident to Chen Chung-kuang at the Presidential Office yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kenting: party town Taiwan
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David Jr DJs Channel V's Christmas party.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROCK CANDY
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Giddyup, it's Spring Scream Horse
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It's live, it's outdoors, it's four days of solid rock `n' roll. Spring Scream Horse rides again. Below, :40 of Hell, a band from Oklahoma, will play Spring Scream for the first time this year.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF SPRING SCREAM AND :40 OF HELL
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Band highlights
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The road to Liufu Ranch.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPRING SCREAM
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The Salesmen and R.P.D.X.
PHOTO: DAVID FRAZIER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hsiao Bee of the Beeboys.
PHOTO: DAVID FRAZIER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taichung rockers Milk.
PHOTO: DAVID FRAZIER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Wonfu are as goofy as they are good.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TCM
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Restaurant of the week: Sleepingwind 睡風
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The yakitori at Sleepingwind is some of the best in Taipei.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SLEEPINGWIND
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Taking shots at China's fantasy facade
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Ge You stars opposite Donald Sutherland in Big Shot's Funeral.
PHOTO COURTESY OF BUENA VISTA
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Restaurant of the week: Mu-Lan 沐蘭
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Mu-Lan is known for its progressive use of traditional ingredients.
PHOTO: DAVID VAN DER VEEN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Movie: The Time Machine 時光機器
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Guy Pearce stars in the latest film adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
PHOTO:WARNER BROTHERS
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We must dictate limits to dictators
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Civilian pilot training center launched
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From left: China Aviation Development Foundation Chairman Tsai Chao-yang, President Chen Shui-bian, Deputy Secretary-General to the President Chen Che-nan and Director-General of the Civil Aeronautics Administration Oliver Yu celebrate the opening of Taiwan Aviation Training Center yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hyundai, Toshiba and games across the water
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South Korean passengers ride a subway train decorated with a picture of a soccer player in Seoul. The FIFA World Cup finals will kick off on May 31 and are being co-hosted by South Korea and Japan.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Flat-out fight for LCDs
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A new notebook computer by Japanese electronics giant Matsushita. Prices for LCD panels have rebounded from lows reached last year, driven by rising notebook sales and demand for LCD monitors to replace their CRT counterparts.
PHOTO: AFP
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Hollywood battling high-tech pirates
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A policeman checks boxes of seized pirated movie discs, many of them pornographic, at a police station in Beijing. United States trade officials have warned China bluntly that its efforts to curb counterfeiting were "not good enough."
PHOTO: AFP
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