US forces secure Baghdad airport, take 2,500 POWs
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US Army combat engineers stand guard at a floatable bridge which the engineers built beside an existing two-lane bridge over the Euphrates River outside Baghdad as the US forces pushed towards the city and seized control of the international airport.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Officials offer proxy care, rewards
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Students at Taipei's Jian An Primary School yesterday wash their hands during a break in order to prevent possible infection with SARS. According to the Department of Health, washing hands is one of the best ways to prevent this disease.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMESN
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Twu inspects Kinmen's defenses
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Department of Health Director-General Twu Shiing-jer, left, yesterday inspects quarantine operations in Kinmen aimed at preventing the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). All travellers arriving in Kinmen are now required to rinse their mouths first.
PHOTO: CNA
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Think again, expressway planners told
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A resident of Yungho City in Taipei County discusses the Huanho Expressway during a public hearing held in the Legislative Yuan yesterday. The hearing addressed local concerns regarding the construction of the Yungho section, which will link the completed sections in Panchiao and Sanchung.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen opens child-care center for DPP
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President Chen Shui-bian, center, accompanied by DPP Legislator Yeh Yi-jin, left, who is also director of the ruling party's Department of Women's Development, yesterday inspects the new multifunctional nursery room at the party's Taipei headquarters on Women and Children's Day.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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3M, Blackmores, Tongrentang arm Asians for SARS
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Representatives of the Confucius Society in Hong Kong greet each other in front of a portrait of the ancient Chinese philosopher yesterday as they urged people to abandon shaking hands and return to the traditional Chinese way of greeting one another in an effort to prevent the spread of disease, noteably severe acute respiratory syndrome.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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A corner of a foreign field
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Over the last century or so, many foreigners have lived and died in Taiwan; the Tamsui foreign Cemetery is where many of them have come to rest.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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The Tamsui Foreign Cemetery has been under the care of Canadian Society of the last 20 years, but its inhabitabts hail from all around the world.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Schumacher bites back at jibes
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