DPP sees pan-blue support slipping
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Premier Yu Shyi-kun's wife, Yang Pao-yu, left, stumps for the DPP candidate in the Hualien County commissioner by-election, You Ying-lung, center, at a market in Hualien yesterday. According to a DPP poll, You's chances in the race are improving.
PHOTO: YU HSIU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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Iraqi governing council holds first session
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Fourth Infantry Division soldiers from the 1st Battalion 68th Armor Task Force search a man in the village of Mashahdah, Iraq, 45km north of Baghdad, yesterday.
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President backs Hong Kong's struggle
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The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy conducted a seminar on ``one country, two systems'' and democracy in Hong Kong yesterday. Foundation Chairman Wang Jin-pyng, Chief Executive Michael Kau, and Presidential Office Secretary-General Chiou I-jen attended. Hong Kong Legislative Council member Emily Lau and others participated via a videoconferencing system.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Military's survey team re-maps nation
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Soldiers survey a harbor.
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LDP lawmaker calls Rape of Nanking a lie
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takami Eto said the 1937 Nanking Massacre "is a fabricated lie".
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Vietnam cracks down on sex trade
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Two Vietnamese bar-girls sit chatting with a foreigner in a night-club in Hanoi. A new decree will name all civil servants, military and police personnel found to have frequented the services of a lady of the night.
PHOTO: AFP
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Israel says it can arrest or deport Arafat
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, center, opens the weekly Cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on Saturday. Israel could deport or arrest Palestinian President Yasser Arafat if he holds up his prime minister's efforts to implement the ``road map''to Middle East peace.
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Liberian militia demand payment
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Ex-combatants claiming they have been poorly treated and not paid protest outside the US embassy in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Friday.
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The US has a new revolution on its hands
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Tesco undeterred by fate of rivals
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Taipei CEO of Tesco David Orchard-Smith talks about how his company will carve out its niche in a competitive market.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Orthodox Church looks to Europe for its survival
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, accompanied by Anthony Limberakis, national commander of the Order of St. Andrew, right, talk at the garden of Halki Greek Orthodox Theological School in Heybeliada in Istanbul, Turkey.
PHOTO: AP
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Monkey Insane tops the charts at Ho-Hai-Yan
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Stone plays its set during the competition section of the Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival Saturday night.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Blue Jays finally beat the Yankees
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Jolbert Cabrera of the Dodgers hits a home run in the seventh inning of the Colorado Rockies' 5-3 victory in Denver, Saturday. Cabrera also hit a home run in the ninth inning for his first game with multiple home runs in his MLB career.
PHOTO: AP
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Jeremy Burnitz of the Mets slides into home plateas Todd Pratt, left, of the Phillies tags him out at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York on Saturday.
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Daniel shares her lead with Inkster
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South Korea's Jang Jeong hits a drive on the first green during the third round of the LPGA Canadian Women's Open in Vancouver, Saturday.
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S Africa beats Australia
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South Africa's scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen gets the ball away as Australian captain George Gregan chases during their Tri-Nations rugby union match in Cape Town, on Saturday. South Africa won the match 26-22.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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