Highways packed on Tomb-Sweeping Day
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A man places paper money on one of his relatives' tombs in a cemetery in Taipei City on Tomb-Sweeping Day, yesterday. On this day, ethnic Chinese worldwide clean their ancestors' tombs and make offerings.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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US commitment to Taiwan remains firm
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File photo of Peter Brookes, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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Scrape with DPP leaves conbative Chiu feeling bruised
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PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Two held over bank raid
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Two suspects involved in the robbery of the Shihlin District Farmers' Association's Tienmu branch on March 29, Lin Yung-san, second from right, and Lee Chun-sung, second from left, are brought in for questioning after their arrest yesterday by Taipei City police officers.
PHOTO: CHU YU-PIN, TAIPEI TIMES
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'Never again' ringing hollow
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Relearning the language of nature
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Peter Morehead inspects the cabbage patch
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Peter Morehead checks up on his hens at Wind Valley Garden.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Plug pulled on scooter subsidies
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A woman is offered a test ride on an electric scooter in front of Taipei Railway Station in this file photo.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hewlett-Packard drafts a veteran to manage merger
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Webb McKinney heads a 1,000-member team that must figure out how to integrate large work forces, select products and save money. McKinney explaining a point of the Compaq/Hewlett-Packard merger in his Silicon Valley office yesterday.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Bin Laden falls off Pakistan's best-seller list
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With American an dEuropean development money pouring in to revive education in Afghanistan, the publishing district of Quissi Khawani, a cacophonous bazaar in Peshawar's old city is flourshing. There are some 500 printing companies in this bazaar, most of them small operations with antiquated presses. A boy creases pages that will go into a primary school child's exercise book, in a shop in the Qissa Khawani bazaar.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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New York's Chinatown still hurting
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A woman in New York's Chinatown looks over fish at a local market. Chinatown is still reeling from the Sept. 11 attacks, with businesses hurting and thousands of workers laid off, according to a report released Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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US Fed's Poole warns against inflation threat
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PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Sharp's LCD business looking bright
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A Sharp employee displays the company's latest video player. Sharp expects profits to climb 23 percent this year, helped by increased demand for LCD televisions.
PHOTO: AFP
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