Agreement reached on direct flights
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Taipei Airlines Association chairman Lo Ta-hsin, center, shakes hands with executive director of China's Civil Aviation Association, Pu Zhaozhou, left, in the Macau Holiday Inn. The director-general of Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration, Billy Chang, right, also attended the meeting.
PHOTO:CNA
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Israel cuts ties with Abbas over strikes
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Palestinian boys hurl stones at an Israeli vehicle during clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday. Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians and injured a third in eastern Gaza City yesterday, Palestinian medical and security officials said.
PHOTO: EPA
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Ma stays put to deal with furor over comatose girl
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Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou chokes and holds back tears yesterday while dicussing the crisis sparked when city hospital turned away a critically-injured child.
PHOTO: CNA
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Hospital confession points to possible staff negligence
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Taipei City Deputy Mayor Yeh Chin-chuan, center, and Department of Health Director Chang Heng, left, make a pre-dawn inspection tour of Jen-ai Hospital yesterday in connection with the incident in which city hospitals tunred away a critically-injured infant girl, causing a public uproar.
PHOTO: FANG CHAO-PIN, TAIPEI TIMES
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US `eager' to get military out of devastated region
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An Acehnese man, assisted by his friend, carries his injured daughter to higher ground through a flooded street only moments after the tsunami struck in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia on Dec. 26. The disaster killed more than 150,000 in the region. The photographer lost his camera in the tsunami. Two days ago someone found it and returned it to him.
PHOTO: AP
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A man walks near the remains of his home which was destroyed by the Tsunami in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka on Thursday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Muslim pilgrims pray for tsunami victims
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A pigeon flies over the great mosque in Mecca as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims perform Friday prayers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday. Many pilgrims streaming into Islam's holy city for the annual hajj prayed for the 157,000 people killed in last month's tsunami that devastated southern Asia.
PHOTO: AP
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Iraq war creates `professional terrorists'
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An Iraqi man kisses an electoral poster featuring the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, in Najaf, some 160km south of Baghdad, yesterday. Sunni Muslim militants claimed responsibility Friday for the assassination of a community leader promoting the election on behalf of al-Sistani.
PHOTO: AP
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Things we should know by the end of the year
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ILLUSTRATION: JUNE HSU
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Supply snags and low temperatures drive oil prices up
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Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, left, talks to an engineer during a visit to the repaired part of the oil refinery in Baghdad's Dora district on Thursday. The refinery was damaged during a rocket attack two weeks ago that interrupted heating-fuels production in Iraq, where an unseasonably cold winter has brought below-freezing temperatures. Fears of more attacks against oil infrastructure in Iraq contributed to rising crude oil futures prices in New York, analysts said.
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Asian markets crumble as oil prices peak
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A Filipino counts his money in front of a local money changer in Manila on Friday. Philippine share prices on Friday closed 0.59 percent higher on last-minute buying in select blue chips, dealers said.
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China's push for nuclear reactors sparks concern
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In this Aug. 21, 2004, file photo, power plant employees cycle past a power station in Guangan in China's Sichuan Province. China currently has only eight nuclear reactors that supply less than 2 percent of the country's energy needs, but Beijing policy makers have vowed to increase that to 4 percent by 2020.
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Goodbye geekiness, hello hip
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Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs shows the new iPod shuffle MP3 player at the 2005 Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California, last week. Jobs announced several new products including the new Mac Mini personal computer starting at US$499 and the iPod shuffle for US$99.
PHOTO: AFP
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Calling Taipei's streets home
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Volunteers from the Chinese Christian Relief Association work in close conjunction with the Taipei City Government and make regular visits to areas where the city's homeless gather. Along with befriending the homeless the association also carries out rudimentary medical checkups and helps find jobs for those who wish to work.
PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK KAN, CCRA
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The woman who makes Taipei's underground rock
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KK is the brains and brawn behind White Wabbit Records.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Cliches and worse in a Rani Manicka novel about Bali
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Touching Earth
By Rani Manicka
Scepter, 433 pages
[UK, paperback]
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VS Pritchett that rarity among writers: A happy man
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A Working Like
By Jeremy Treglown
334 pages
Random House
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More of the same old Hakka fare
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Art or craft, metal working works for new designers in Taipei
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Dandy Chao, Yang Hsi-hsia, Nick Dong and Wang E-ting.
Photos Courtesy of Forging Red Studio
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Dong's installation Do Re Me.
Photos Courtesy of Forging Red Studio
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Sport Briefs
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Russian's Sharapova remains a class act
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Maria Sharapova of Russia during a press conference at Melbourne Park in Melbourne Australia, yesterday. Sharapova is seeded fourth in the Australian Open.
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HV 71 defeats Dukla to advance
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Peter Fabus, right, of Slovakia's Dukla Trencin, battles with Andreas Karlsson of Sweden's HV71 Jonkoping during their Champions Cup match in St. Petersburg, Friday.
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Racers cloud Phoenix's sunny outlook
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Ben Wallace, right, of the Pistons, goes to the basket against Kelvin Cato of the Magic during the first half of their game in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Rookie QB may beat New York Jets
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger looks to pass against the Panthers during a preseason game in Pittsburgh on Sept. 2. Roethlisberger was the first NFL quarterback to win The Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
PHOTO: AP
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Raich closes in on Miller
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Austrian ski racer Benjamin Raich is airborne over the Hundschopf jump during the men's World Cup Combined Downhill at the Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland on Friday. Raich won the event, but American Bode Miller still leads in the standings.
PHOTO: EPA
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Austria's Renate Goetschl kisses her ski as she celebrates her first place finish in the World Cup Super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on Friday.
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