Forecasters expect drought to defy storm
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A woman with a dog in her arms watches a plane landing at Taipei's Sungshan Airport yesterday afternoon. Thick clouds in irregular shapes appeared as Tropical Storm Nangka was sweeping across southern and eastern Taiwan yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Economy, Middle East dominate G8 meet
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US President George W. Bush, left, and French President Jacques Chirac look in opposite directions at the G8 summit in Evian, France, on Sunday.
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SARS fighter made Hoping chief
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Chu Ta-cheng, 45, was named by the Taipei City Government yesterday as the new superintendent of Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Soong warns of constitutional crisis
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PFP Chairman James Soong walks past a bank of television cameras in this photo from 1999.
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Former city health chief speaks out
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Former director of the Taipei City Health Bureau, Chiu Shu-ti, has her temperature taken before entering the Control Yuan building yesterday to clarify her role in the closure of Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Bali bomber goes on trial for his life
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Imam Samudra, the alleged mastermind behind last year's Bali bombings, shouts upon his arrival in court in Denpasar. Samudra faces six charges under Indonesia's anti-terrorism laws for planning, financing and carrying out the attack which killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, last October.
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Protests derail local government in Basra
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An Iraqi policeman carrying an AK-47 takes part in a joint police patrol flanked by a British military serviceman as they work together to police the streets of Basra. Crime has dropped and life is becoming more normal after the fall of former president Saddam Hussein's regime, but governing the city has proved vexing for the British occupying forces.
PHOTO:AP
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Why the poor get poorer
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Consumers spending again ...
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A waiter at Tasty restaurant on Nanking East Road serves a packed crowd yesterday after the steak house chain saw a major rebound in guest numbers.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Thaksin touts free trade at APEC
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives a speech at a two-day APEC meeting of trade ministers in the northeastern town of Khon Kaen, 500km from Bangkok, yesterday.
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Legal eagles in China seek `change from within'
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Nanyingfang, an enclave near the center of Beijing is home to thousands of poor people, many of them migrants who have lived there for generations. A new proposal is being considered to enforce personal rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution, starting with the protection of such downtrodden migrant workers in the cities.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Diamondbacks do a dance on Padres
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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Kazuhisa Ishii pitches to the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning of their game in Los Angeles on Sunday. The Dodgers lost 4-3 to the Brewers.
PHOTO: AP
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Gilberto Simoni overall winner of Giro d'Italia
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The Giro d'Italia overall winner Italian Gilberto Simoni celebrates after arriving at the end of the final stage of the cycling race, in Milan.
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Montoya finishes first in Monaco
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Italian Renault driver Jarno Trulli steers his car ahead of German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher and Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso on the Monaco racetrack during the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday. Colombian BMW-Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya won the race ahead of Finnish McLaren-Mercedes driver Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher.
PHOTO: AFP
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Zvonareva rises up against Venus
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Nadia Petrova reacts after defeating Jennifer Capriati in a fourth round of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Sunday.
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