Taipei English camp offered free of charge
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Students practice ordering meals in English while Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, right, pretends to be a restaurant clerk at the Underprivileged English Summer Camp held at Taipei Municipal Wenhua Elementary School yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Pan-blue lawmakers say You is not from Hualien
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You Ying-lung, the DPP's candidate in the Hualien County commissioner by-election, holds up a chart explaining his campaign platform during an event yesterday. The poster says ``A change in generations: Just give me two years, and I'll give you a `different' Hualien''
PHOTO: YOU TAI-LANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen planning official trip abroad
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First lady Wu Shu-chen yesterday speaks at a press conference held at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport upon her return from a nine-day European tour, as President Chen Shui-bian looks on.
PHOTO: TONY YAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Solomons prime minister in hiding
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Women carrying firewood on their heads walk through a refugee camp just outside the Solomon Islands capital Honiara yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Rebels in Liberia keep up the pressure in Monrovia
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Government forces fire at rebel forces trying to enter Monrovia, Liberia on Monday. Yesterday, the government forces attempted to maintain control over strategic positions in the capital city.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Global warming exhibits patchiness
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Residents cross a flooded rice field after Typhoon Imbudo hit San Jose town in Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines yesterday. Jon Ove Hagen, professor of glaciology at Oslo University, said most glacial melting is causing climatic change.
PHOTO: AP
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Saddam's sons: chips off the old block
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This is an undated file photo of former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein with his sons, Uday, left, and Qusay. US soldiers battled Iraqi gunmen inside a suspected hideout of high-ranking members of Saddam's regime in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing four people. Officials in Washington said they were investigating whether the dead included Uday and Qusay.
PHOTO: AP
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The rise of the female terrorist
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Biotechs could see rapid growth
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Paochi and Paohsiang, Taiwan's first cloned goats, were on display at the Bio Taiwan 2003 exhibition yesterday. The goats were cloned by the Taiwan Livestock Research Institute and are the unofficial mascots of the biotech fair.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Notes from the underground
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A nursery picture is seen in a former World War II bunker in Berlin.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Berlin bunker tour guides Dietmar Arnold, left, and Juerge Mueller stand in a bunker doorway. Beneath Berlin's refurbished streets lies a forgotten world of bunkers and tunnels that tell tales of cruelty, suffering, escape and espionage.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Death a tourist draw in Bangkok
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A visitor to the Forensic Museum at Siriraj Hospital, in Bangkok, looks over a human skeleton.
PHOTO: AP
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Mets score victory over Phillies
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Atlanta Braves runner Chipper Jones, left, slides in safe ahead of the tag from Chicago Cubs catcher Paul Bako in the third inning at Turner Field in Atlanta on Tuesday. Jones scored on a hit by the Braves Robert Fick.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Wonderkid Phelps off to a flying start
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Michael Phelps of the US points to the crowd after setting a world record of 1m 53.93 seconds in the men's 200m butterfly semifinal at the 10th World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Man Utd make light work of Celtic
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Ruud van Nistelrooy celebrates putting Manchester United 1-0 up against Celtic during their pre-season friendly match at the Seahawks Stadium, Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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