Village missing after landslide
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The Yihsing section of the No. 120 County Highway in Hsinchu, which has been virtually washed away by Typhoon Aere. The torrential rains brought by Aere, and the resultant flooding, damaged many roads in the Aboriginal townships of Chienshih and Wufeng in Hsinchu County.
PHOTO: TSAI MENG-HSIANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Row erupts over local boy's stamp design
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Yang Chih-yuan, left, and Pan Wen-chung, right, director of Taipei County's bureau of education, show Yang's design for a commemorative UN postage stamp yesterday. The drawing was one of eight shortlisted for publication.
PHOTO: HO YU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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Military sends 2,000 soldiers to aid in storm relief
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Military police join city workers in clearing Taipei's streets of debris from Typhoon Aere yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sydney streets left in terror by attack of the currawongs
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Charlie Dunn is attacked by a currawong which has been terrorizing pedestrians in the center of Sydney, yesterday.
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New polio outbreak adds to woes of Sudanese refugees
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A baby is given polio vaccine in northern Nigeria on July 31 as the nation resumed polio immunizations. Strains from a Nigerian outbreak of 453 cases so far this year have been found in four cases in Sudan's refugee camps.
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Home truths from faraway places
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Boeing gets big Singapore order
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A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 plane takes off from Changi Airport in Singapore in this undated file photo. Singapore Airlines Ltd said yesterday that it will purchase 18 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft for delivery between 2006 and 2010.
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World Business Quick Take
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SEC hands Shell US$120m fine
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Jeroen van der Veer, second from right, president of Royal Dutch Petroleum and chairman of the committee of managing directors,is applauded as he rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 3. Joining him were David Lawrence, left, Shell International Group Investor Relations, John Thain, second left, NYSE CEO, and Nina Henderson, non-executive director of Shell Transport. The occassion marked the 50th anniversary of the listing of the company. The SEC fined the company on Tuesday for misleading investors.
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Greenspan speaks on `housing bubble'
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies on Capitol Hill in February.On Tuesday Greenspan admitted that housing prices in the US have outstripped incomes in recent years, but said that data indicating a bubble in the market was `inconclusive.'
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Bali back in vogue for travelers
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Tropical fish swim around the coral formations on the artificial reef project. The project is part of a an ambitious underwater experiment which uses low-voltage electrical stimuli to revive the badly damaged coral reef.
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Hewitt continues unbeaten run
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Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a shot to Mashona Washington of the US in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Kazakhstani upsets US's Gardner
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Rulon Gardner is shown after being defeated yesterday by Georgiy Tsurtsumia, from Kazakhstan.
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