Council defends account plan
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The Taiwan Association for Human Rights and the Taiwan Migrant Workers' Association protest yesterday over a Council of Labor Affairs proposal to create special bank accounts for foreign workers.
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A-mei just can't please anybody
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Chang Hui-mei, left, also known as A-mei, performs on stage in Beijing on Saturday. The concert was her first in China since she was forced to cancel a concert in Hangzhou after demonstrators gathered outside the venue to protest her political views.
PHOTO: AP
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UN says Afghans flooding voter registration centers
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Afghan men wait for their turn to sign up for the country's first free elections at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. About 90 percent of the Afghan electorate, 41 percent of whom are women, have signed up to vote in October's landmark presidential elections, the UN said Sunday, as it began winding down a registration effort marred by bloody attacks on election staff and would-be voters.
PHOTO: AP
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Family slain in knife attack in Japan
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An aerial view shows police investigation at the house where three people were killed in western city of Kakogawa, about 450km southwest of Tokyo, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Iraq blames al-Zarqawi for bombing
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A US soldier stands guard yesterday in front of a Christian Syriac church in Baghdad which was targeted on Sunday by a suicide car bomb.
PHOTO: AFP
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Challenger Dahlan says Arafat `sitting on corpses'
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Militants from the Al-Aqsa brigade, an armed faction loyal to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, patrol an area in Nablus on Sunday where a meeting of Arafat's Fatah faction was being held.
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Hundreds die in shopping-center blaze
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A burn victim is carried out by firefighters after a supermarket fire on the outskirts of Paraguay's capital Asuncion. At least 296 people have died in the blaze, which appeared to have started from a gas explosion, killing shoppers and workers trapped inside.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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US polls indicate Kerry did not `bounce' very high
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Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, on Sunday greets supporters behind a highway fence at an impromptu stop along Intersate 75 in Troy, Ohio.
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These dots don't join up
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Apple's Steve Jobs says cancer surgery successful
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Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive officer, is shown on stage at the UK launch of Apple's iTunes music store in London on June 15. Jobs told employees on Sunday that he had undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer and would back at work next month.
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China's demand for condoms grows
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A Chinese worker checks condoms at a factory in Xiong County, Hebei Province on April 30. The one child, one family policy has positively encouraged condom use in China.
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Diamonds sell but we all lose our charms in the end
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Congolese worker sort diamonds.
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Formoz stuns the masses
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Formoz Rock Festival performers included Michelle Shocked, Taiwan's Chairman, DJs like Chewie and Edmund, the Sex Machineguns and more. The weekend was a high point for music events this summer.
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Stupples gets British Open
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England's Karen Stupples kisess the trophy following her victory in the Women's British Open at Sunningdale, England, Sunday. It's her first win in a major tournament.
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Davenport beats Myskina in final
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Lindsay Davenport of the US serves to Russia's Anastasia Myskina the Acura Classic final in Carlsbad, California, Sunday. Davenport defeated Myskina, 6-1, 6-1.
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Maddux still on win 299
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Infielder Nomar Garciaparra singles for his first base hit as a Cub, driving in Jose Macias in the eigth inning against the Phillies at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, Sunday.
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