Hospitals slow to show records
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Taiwan Health Reform Foundation chairwoman Chang Ly-yun, right, and foundation president Liu Mei-chun break through symbolic obstacles to healthcare reform at a press conference yesterday.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT unable to break up Chiang family deadlock
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Chiang Fang Chih-yi, former president Chiang Ching-kuo's daughter-in-law, speaks outside Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters yesterday. Chiang Fang has registered in Taipei City's First Constituency as a candidate in the year-end legislative elections.
PHOTO: CNA
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Officer, suspect die in shootout
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An officer injured in a shootout between police and two kidnapping suspects is rushed to an ambulance yesterday in Taichung.
PHOTO: CNA
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N Korea deal possible: analysts
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North Korean soldiers look at the southern side through binoculars at the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul, yesterday. Ahead of nuclear talks in Beijing, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that North Korea must prove to the international community that it can be trusted.
PHOTO: AP
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Afghanistan is Iraq's future, says Bush
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US President George W. Bush, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrive to speak with reporters at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
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Get out of the country, warn Iraqis
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An Iraqi boy holds a grenade launcher as he marches with a group of Shiite Muslim supporters of rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr at an anti-US demonstration in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Russian billionaire's tax evasion trial commences
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Russian police lead billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, into the court building in central Moscow yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Ugly bias underlies Europe's 'Swedenized' hubris
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Only big earners eligible for Treasure units
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The Treasure Palace residential complex is being built near the intersection of Renai and Chienkuo South Roads and the apartments in its six buildings have an average selling price of approximately NT$1 million per ping.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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The interior of the model apartment at the Treasure Palace.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Fed prepared for threats to economy: Greenspan
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US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan gestures during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Do you come here oftern?
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One of Sydney's monorails was, in Febuary, transformed into a venue for speed dating. ``Sex above the City,'' as it was called, ran only on Valentine's Day, with 13 males and females getting to know each other in the time it takes for the monorail to pass through two stations.
PHOTO: EPA
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Gaultier cooks up a new look
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A Paris-based fashion designer has created an entire collection of edible clothes made out of bread. Jean-Paul Gaultier turned croissants and baguettes into haute couture shoes, bras and even the perfect Oscar-night dresses at his Pain Couture (Bread Fashion) exhibition. Gaultier employed bakers to create the clothing designs. The bakers and sculptors reportedly worked for months on the designs.
PHOTO: EPA
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Jean-Paul Gaultier. Left, his new ``look.'' The French designer has an unusual attitude to pastry confections: ``With this exhibition, I wanted to show I am above all an artisan, and fashion is a craft, so I decided to put my trade on a level with bakery.
PHOTO: EPA
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PHOTO: EPA
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Carlos Lee on a 28 game hitting streak
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Carlos Lee of the White Sox hits a double during the 10th inning against Marlins relief pitcher Toby Borland to extend his hitting streak to 28 games in Miami, Florida, Tuesday. The streak is a franchise record and the longest in the majors this season.
PHOTO: AP
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Larry Brown wins with style
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Chauncey Billups, center, of the Pistons, receives the Finals MVP trophy from NBA commissioner David Stern, right, after defeating the Lakers in Game 5 of the finals at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Netherlands and Germany draw
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Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, left, hugs German goalscorer Ruud van Nistelrooy at the end of their Group D match at the Dragao stadium in Porto, Tuesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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