Radical leftist next Korean leader
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Pro-government candidate Roh Moo-hyun of the Millennium Democratic Party waves with his wife Kwon Yang-sook to supporters as he arrives at the party headquarters in Seoul to declare victory in South Korea's presidential election yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Tsou to choose tourist ambassadors
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Aboriginal women from the Tsou tribe dance during a tourism promotion event held in Taipei yesterday. The event was organized by the Chiayi City government to promote a ``beauties and warriors'' pageant to be held in the Alishan resort area on Dec. 25.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Red Army marches into Taiwan
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The Russian Red Army Brass Band plays in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall yesterday. The band begins a 10-day nationwide tour today, with a holiday concert series that wraps up in Hualien and Taipei on New Year's Eve.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Pyongyang's dangerous game
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ILLUSTATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Moonshine makers given legal status by the Thai government
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A worker at Mahamit (Great Friend) Thai Wine caps bottles of fermented rice whiskey at the company's factory in Rayong Province, on Tuesday. The Thai government recently legalized the moonshine trade in an effort to generate revenue for the country's sagging domestic economy.
PHOTO: AP
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Playing to a different crowd
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Kan Kan enters uncharted territory tomorrow at Taipei's Huashan Music House.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF GAMMA MUSIC
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Out of the corner, into the limelight
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Chozie lounges in the corner.
PHOTO COURTESY OF AVEX RECORDS
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`Snow' sells out in Taipei
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Operas don't come much more high-brow than Gao Xingjian's Snow in August.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Mok and Follmanrelive past success
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Robin Follman.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CKS CULTURAL CENTER
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Restaurant: A-Plus Sake Bar and Gourmet
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A-Plus' eel rolls go well with some of its more affordable sakes.
PHOTO: IAN BARTHOLOMEW, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taking the Bard out of context
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Othello prepares to strangle his wife, Desdemona, in Creative Society's Shakespeare montage, Mad Scenes.
PHOTO: VICO LEE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: Roma
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More authentic than most Italian restaurants, and it won't break the bank.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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A towering achievement
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Viggo Mortensen discovers the king beneath his tattered ranger's cloak
PHOTO: MATA
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Elijah Wood's Frodo rises to the challenge of expressing deeper and more complex emotions in The Two Towers
PHOTO: MATA
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Miranda Otto combines passion and dignity as Eowyn, the ``shield maiden of Rohan``.
PHOTO: MATA
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Ian McKellan steals the show as Gandalf, his wise old eyes doing most of the acting for him.
PHOTO: MATA
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Silly Hong Kong comedy that presses all the right buttons
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Lau Ching-wan plays a ghost opposite Sammi Cheng's ditzy widow.
PHOTO: GROUP POWER
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Slumping Reds roll over villa
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Liverpool's Steven Gerrard beats Aston Villa's Finnish goalkeeper Peter Enckelman to put Liverpool 3-1 up during their Worthington Cup quarterfinal match at Villa Park, on Thursday. Liverpool will could meet Manchester United in the final if both teams win their semifinals.
PHOTO: AP
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Ban slapped on gymnasts revealing all
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Romanian Olympic gymnasts, from left, Claudia Presecan, 23, Lavinia Milosovici, 26, and Corina Ungureanu, 22, at a Tokyo hotel on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Tech reviews
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