Chen vows change at award bash
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President Chen Shui-bian shakes hands with local overseas Chinese waiting outside the hotel where he was to stay upon his arrival in New York, Friday.
PHOTO: SUNG CHIH-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Build state identity: conference
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Former president Lee Teng-hui, right, shakes hands with an attendant on the first day of the two-day "Cross Strait Exchanges and National Security fo Taiwan" conference in Taipei's Grand Hotel yesterday. The conference is organized by Taiwan Advocates, a think tank of which Lee is chairman.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSRONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Volunteer guides safeguard history tours
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Council of Labor Affairs chairwoman Chen Chu, right, visits a traditional house on Oct. 22 in the old city area of Anping. The area now benefits from a council scheme in which volunteer tour guides receive training and a small stipend.
PHOTO: CODY YIU, TAIPEI TIMES
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PM Abdullah's first day at the office
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Malaysia's new Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is greeted by supporters while surrounded by riot police after arriving in the northern state of Penang yesterday. Abdullah was greeted in his home state by thousands of supporters on his first day in office .
PHOTO: AFP
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California prepares for more wildfires
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Forestry worker David Gribas falls burnt trees on a property destroyed by fire in the community of Cedar Glen in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles on Friday. Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires throughout southern California for the past week.
PHOTO: AFP
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Scottish youth jailed for poison-letter campaign
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Paul Smith was detained for three years at Edinburgh High Court on Friday after he sent a letter apparently containing a deadly poison to Prince William.
PHOTO: AP
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Saddam's hometown closed off
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Iraqis attempt to locate their home on an aerial photograph of their town at the police station in Uja, Iraq, on Friday. US forces have restricted access to the village to just one point, and all adults older than 18 are required to register for identificaton cards.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem lead to minor scuffles
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Palestinians pray on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan outside Alnaser Mosqe in the old city of Nablus on Friday against a backdrop of heightened Israeli security.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Humanity's blind spot to nature's benevolent consent
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Iraqi oil exports muddle along
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An Iraqi prays at a mosque in the flashpoint town of Fallujah, 50km west of Baghdad, Friday. One person was killed when angry residents stormed municipal offices in the flashpoint Iraqi town of Fallujah, civil defense officials said. Such actions continually hamper the reconstruction efforts of Iraqi officials.
PHOTO: AFP
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Japan stays cautious on expansion
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A department store chief, left, gives a speech to his sales clerks to open the year-end gift center at a department store in Tokyo, yesterday. The department store chain with 18 branches has started to receive gift orders for ''O-seibo'' or end-of-the-year gifts, aiming to make more than ?12 billion (US$111 million) in sales. Gift exchanges ahead of the New Year's holidays are one of the two major gift-giving seasons in Japan, driving the economy to the tune of billions of yen per year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Welcome to the Napa Nation
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Sure, the vineyards of California's Napa and Sonoma valleys have become tourist magnets in the past couple of decades, but who goes to Michigan, Kansas, Texas and even North Dakota to sample wine? Plenty of people, it turns out, as a number of unlikely states have turned to wine producing as their latest tourist attraction. One Texas winery has set up a tasting bar in Terminal A of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, as seen on Wednesday.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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'We are homosecxuals! We love you!'
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The country's first gay pride parade took place yesterday through downtown Taipei, from 228 Park to Ximending. It attracted around 1,000 marchers and drew a positive response from onlookers. The march was organized by Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline to increase social acceptance of homosexuals and lobby for their rights to form a family.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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A national treasure of film
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Some of Taiwan's best short story writers reveal their true colors
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Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan
Translated by Fran Martin
247 pages
University of Hawaii Press
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Mementoes frozen in a vacuum
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Debbie Lin uses dolls to comment on identity, memory, space and time.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TFAM
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The truth is in the details, if you can stomach it
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
By James Bradley
398 pages
Illustrated
Brown & Co
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Seeing how Mongolia looks from Taiwan
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Above, an artifact from an exhibition about Mongolian culture at the National Museum of history. Below, a last-century bag made of cowhide was used by men to milk horses. Today, Mongolian women are responsible for milking, while men take care of herding responsibilities. Bottom, Mongolian dress.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY
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Roddick squeaks past Jonas Bjorkman
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World No. 1 Andy Roddick of the USA returns to Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden in the quarter finals of the Paris Masters ATP tennis tournament at Paris Bercy stadium, Friday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Rashard Lewis has 50-point game
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Seattle SuperSonics' Rashard Lewis, left, drives past Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Wilcox in the first quarter of their game at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, yesterday. The SuperSonics won the game 124-105.
PHOTO: AP
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Aussies edge out Ireland as Scots win
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South Africa's Jaque Fourie, left, heads for the try line to score despite the challenge of Samoa's Brian Lima during their Rugby World Cup match in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Simon Taylor, center, of Scotland is tackled by the Fijian defence in their Pool B match at the Aussie Stadium in Sydney, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Scottish supporters celebrate after their team won their Pool B World Cup match against Fiji. Scotland defeated Fiji 22-20.
PHOTO: AFP
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Flanker George Smith, right, of Australia is tackled by Irish center Brian O'Driscoll, left, while lock Nathan Sharpe reacts during their Pool A World Cup match at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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