Bald men back referendum
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One hundred bald men hold up balls bearing the number ``one'' during a DPP campaign event in Taipei yesterday to encourage the public to vote for No 1 (Chen Shui-bian's candidacy number) on the presidential ballot and ``yes'' on the two referendum ballots.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Revenge or reconciliation?
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Participants join hands Saturday on Hoping Island in Keelung City, where the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally began. Some 2 million people took part in the rally, forming a human chain 500km along the length of Taiwan down to Pingtung County. While the rally was intended to unite Taiwanese, it has also stirred up ethnic conflict. Film director Hou Hsiao-hsien, founder of the Coalition for Equal Opportunity, warns that politicians can use such events to divide ethnic groups.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen: China has not reduced threat level despite overtures
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President Chen Shui-bian speaks at a Taipei seminar on the reform of the armed forces yesterday. Chen said that the Democratic Progressive Party has long advocated an all-volunteer military, but that the process must be carried out gradually, with national security as the ultimate consideration.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Abu Sayyaf claims it set off ferry fire
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Philippine Coast Guard search-and-rescue teams yesterday prepare to search the burned out Superferry 14 for victims who may have been trapped inside when the vessel caught fire three days ago in Mariveles, north of Manila Bay.
PHOTO: AFP
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Thai media feeling the political pinch
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A man glances at a newsstand in Bangkok on Saturday. Depending on who's telling the story, the editor of Thailand's English-language Bangkok Post was shifted out of his job last week because of government pressure, a touchy shareholder or long-term business strategy.
PHOTO: AP
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Libya's `lizard' the only leader that matters
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A university student studies the philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi at the Green Book Center, as a ceiling-high portrait of the leader looks on in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday. The Green Book, which the Libyan government translated into 53 languages, is a 1970s tract on Qaddafi's philosophy.
PHOTO: AP
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Blair slept on park bench in London, wife reveals
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair grimaces in this file photo. Downing Street confirmed a newspaper report that the prime minister once slept rough in London.
PHOTO: AP
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Chavez threatens police with tanks
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People opposed to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez demonstrate in Caracas on Saturday, a day after demonstrations in favor of a referendum on recalling Chavez turned deadly, with two people killed and at least 51 injured just outside the summit of the Group of 15 developing nations.
PHOTO: AFP
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Poverty haunting new South Africa
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An unemployed man collects scrap for recycling in the industrial district of Paarden Eiland in Cape Town last week. Ten years after the end of apartheid, joblessness haunts the ruling African National Congress, in power since the country's first democratic elections in April 1994. Unofficial figures say that the unemployment rate could be as high as 40 percent.
PHOTO: AFP
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The fire this time in Haiti was US-fueled
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Job-seekers optimistic about prospects
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Students fill out questionnaires at at one of the booths at a job fair at National Taiwan University yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Diana Chen walks the business tightrope
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China Development Financial Holding Corp chairwoman Diana Chen addresses an audience in this file photo. Chen is in danger of losing her post at China Development unless she can fight attempts to oust her from the boardroom.
TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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A new park opens with a show of presidential busts
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A visitor at Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, looks at the bust of President George W. Bush. The park, which opens to the public today, features 6m-tall busts of the 43 presidents of the US. At far left is the bust of former president Lyndon Johnson. Next to each bust is some information about the defining moment in each president's term.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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A landscaper works next to the bust of former president George Washington
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Pranger gets top time asMiller flops
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Overal World Cup leader Anja Paerson from Sweden clears a gate during a slalom event above the arctic circle in Levi, Finland, Sunday. Paerson failed to finish her second run.
PHOTO: AP
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Referees receive a Stern reaction
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Kenyon Martin, right, of the Nets, is guraded by Brian Grant of the Heat during the fourth quarter in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Saturday. The Nets beat the Heat 92-86.
PHOTO: AP
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Pires, Henry come through for Arsenal
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Arsenal's Thiery Henry, second from right, scores against Charlton's Dean Kiely, left, as Jonathan Fortune, second from left, and Hermann Hreidarsson come in to defend during their Premiership match at Highbury in London, Saturday. The Gunners won the match and remain well ahead of Chelsea and Manchester United in the league standings.
PHOTO: AFP
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New Zealand overcomes South Africa by two runs
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New Zealand batsman Chris Harris bats against South Africa during a one-day match in Auckland, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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South Africa does well in Super 12
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New Zealand Shannon Paku, front, gets a pass away as South Africa Bulls Piet Krause hangs on during their Super 12 match in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday.
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