Big Lotto fever grips the country
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People line up to buy Big Lotto tickets in Taipei yesterday, hoping to win the jackpot of NT$1.2 billion.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Braving a storm to cross the new Strait
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Vice President Annette Lu says that Central America offers Taiwan a chance to defy its diplomatic isolation.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Name-change lobby group changes tack
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Members of the Alliance to Campaign for Rectifying the Name of Taiwan, left to right, Chan Kuei-mu, Wang To-far, Mayao Kumu, Chen Pei-chi and Wang Cheng-chung, hold a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The members represent different ethnic groups and were promoting a nationwide event this November.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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India's monsoon death toll rises above 1,000
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A family moves to higher ground, away from a flooded colony in Ambala, 200km north of New Delhi, India on Tuesday. The death toll from monsoon flooding in India crossed 1,000 Wednesday with reports of at least 168 people killed in the country's west, north and east as rains destroyed crops, flooded highways and halted trains in South Asia.
PHOTO: AP
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Israel expands W. Bank housing
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Palestinian youths carry a dying 17-year-old shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip's Beit Lahia on Wednesday. Medical sources said Wael Abul Jedyan died of a bullet in the heart en route to a hospital, one of three Palestinians killed in the area that day.
PHOTO: AFP
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Photographer Cartier-Bresson dies
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Eminent photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, pictured in a 1989 file photo, has died at age 95, France's LCI television reported on Wednesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Sudanese protest UN ultimatum
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A Sudanese refugee rides his donkey at dusk as he crosses a dry riverbed near Bredjing camp in eastern Chad on Wednesday. Over 200,000 refugees fleeing fighting in neighboring Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region are living in camps scattered along Chad's eastern border.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Russia to abolish Soviet-era benefits
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A bandaged Russian Yabloko party demonstrator shouts out slogans in central Moscow at a protest rally on Tuesday against a plan to convert certain benefits for the elderly into cash payments. The poster reads ``No to Social Benefits Ban!''
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Pragmatism unites the States
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Guangzhou's new airport opens
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Passengers use the new Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou yesterday. The US$2.4 billion airport officially opened for business yesterday morning. It is capable of handling 25 million passengers and 1 million tons of cargo annually -- and it has aviation officials in Hong Kong worried about competition.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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A dream comes full circle
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Andre Nobels will release his first six-track CD tomorrow at the first annual Circle of Dreams Music Festival to be held at Hsichih's Dream Community.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CIRCLE OF DREAMS
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The measure of a classic is its age
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Dafeng Musical Theater brings to the stage its version of Sleeping Beauty.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAFENG MUSICAL THEATER
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Pop Stop
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Chiang Wei-wen wants to know why everyone's beating up on him.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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William Hung is the bomb in Hong Kong.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Hear a big-cat rumble in the urban jungle of Nangang
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Height of excitement: The tiger show generates the most cheers during the circus portion of the outdoor education day-camp in Nangang.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION OF PROMOTION FOR STUDENT OUTDOOR
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Dai Laoshi's sing-a-longs are performed during the African-themed fair and circus show in Nangang.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION OF PROMOTION FOR STUDENT OUTDOOR
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Restaurant: Wicked
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Enjoy some Euro-Asian combinations at the recently opened Neihu restaurant, Wicked.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: Sonoma Grill
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Great steak artfully presented.
PHOTO: ADAM ULFERS , TAIPEI TIMES
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The Vinyl Word
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DJ Joe Ho waits for the bus.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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The Shanghai Beijing Opera is behind a musical rennaissance
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTS FORMOSA
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The first major China-based opera troupe to tour Taiwan in nearly two years, the Shanghai Beijing Opera Theatre will be performing a series of 10 classical operas beginning next Tuesday at the National Theatre.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTS FORMOSA
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Traditional foods turn on the taste buds at carnival
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Pinghsi cake is one of the featured foods at the Traditional Food Carnival.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE TING HSIANG
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Catwoman provides an antidote to 'Garfield'
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Australia exudes Olympic optimism
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Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe, one of the stars expected to shine at the Athens Olympics.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Hafner wreaks havoc with Blue Jays
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Cleveland Indians' Travis Hafner, right, is greeted at home plate by team mate Coco Crisp after hitting a two-run home run off the Toronto Blue Jays.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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China, Japan face off in uneasy final
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A Chinese paramilitary policeman watches whilst a fan enjoys herself at China's semifinal game against Iran during the 2004 Asian Cup Soccer tournament at the Workers Stadium in Beijing. Authorities said yesterday that they are taking no chances that the grudge Asian Cup final between China and Japan will turn nasty, drafting in more than 1,000 extra police to keep order.
PHOTO: AFP
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Agassi continues his winning ways
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Andre Agassi of the US reaches for a shot from Thomas Johansson of Sweden.
PHOTO: AFP
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