Yu heralds a `balance of terror'
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Two protesters dressed as President Chen Shui-bian and Uncle Sam team up to ``oppress'' a third demonstrator dressed as an unemployed Taiwanese worker during a protest against the government's NT$610.8 billion arms procurements package on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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DPP slams `cheap, blind' opponents of arms deal
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Premier Yu Shyi-kun defends the government's NT$610.8 billion arms procurement plan while speaking at the Civil Service Development Institute yesterday to a group of civil servants joining national development programs launched by the Executive Yuan.
PHOTO: CHEN TSEH-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Fighting to make China greener
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Pan Yue, deputy director of China's top environmental agency, in his Beijing office in June.
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Ethiopia tolerates abduction marriages
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Teenage girls who were abducted for rape and `marriage' are seen at a shelter in Arsi, eastern Ethiopia, earlier this month.
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China top destination for investment, study shows
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A worker labors on weaving machines in a textile factory in Meixian, in central China's Shaanxi Province, on Thursday. The factory, possessing 1,515 weaving machines, is one of the biggest in Meixian. China's textile industry grew 15 percent year on year in the first six months. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the country's strong manufacturing industry attracted foreign investment worth US$53.5 billion last year.
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Internet's predecessor turns thirty
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This picture, dated Friday, shows Ceefax, the BBC's text service, which is celebrating its 30th birthday. Originally envisioned as a service for the deaf, Ceefax supplies viewers with over 1,000 pages of information.
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Guess trying to recapture its past glory with Paris Hilton
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Paris Hilton appears in a brochure for Guess by Marciano in this undated photograph.
PHOTO: NEW YORK TIMES
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The healing powers of documentary
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Scene from Chiufen Erh Shan, where scores of people were buried alive in the 921 earthquake. Hope of finding survivors faded as the excavation process extended into weeks. The site is a focus of a series of documentaries about the quake currently showing in Taipei.
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Relatives of victims at Chiufen Erh Shan burn ghost money in the days following the 921 earthquake. Part of the mountain collapsed in the quake, burying whole families alive.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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PHOTO COURTESY OF FULL SHOT FOUNDATION
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Pan Shun-yi and his wife deal with the loss of their daughter in the documentary Life. A still from the movie is shown below.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FULL SHOT FOUNDATION
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Wu Yifeng, right, spent four years building trust and friendship with the subjects of his documentary films about the aftermath of the 921 earthquake.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FULL SHOT FOUNDATION
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Migrants face down finance proposal
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Lisa Meir, shown with her back to the camera talking with other Filipina workers at a garbage collection site. Thursday, wants the government to trash its plans for a finance-management system for foreign laborers.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan is hardly pressed for good writers
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Pressed - a Collection of Short Fiction and Poetry, Volume 1
Edited by Jason Tomassini
64 pages
Periodical; Taiwan
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CD Reviews
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New MOMA show exhibits a political agenda
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A photo documentary of Lin Ju's performance art titled The Meaning of Messiah-Christ of the Fish-Eye on exhibit at MOMA in Taipei.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TAIPEI MOMA GALLERY
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Lin in front of the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters.
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His head fully covered, dressed in a suit and carrying a large cross covered with fish, Lin Ju walks toward the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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Name that tune
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Vinyl records and old phonographs are some of the relics on display at The Song, Taipei and Me.
PHOTO: CHRIS FUCHS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ben Curtis on Vijay Singh's heels
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Ben Curtis on the 18th hole at the 84 Lumber Classic in Farmington, Pennsylvania, Friday. Curtis shot a second round 67 for a two-day total of 10-under par.
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MIT student brings NFL to China
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Tian He, 20, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology junior majoring in computer science, with his computer in his dorm room in Cambridge, Massachusets on Sept. 20. He translates the New England Patriots football team's Web page into Chinese.
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Barrichello secures the pole position
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Kimi Raikkonen negotiates a corner during a qualifying session for the China Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit, yesterday. Raikkonen is second on the grid.
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