Chen Chi-mai takes over in Kaohsiung
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Cabinet Spokesman Chen Chi-mai talks to reporters in Taipei yesterday after being appointed acting mayor of Kaohsiung.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen asks Wang Yung-ching for help on rail project
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Workers check electrical systems on the Tainan section of the high-speed railway yesterday. The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp will test-drive trains on a 60km stretch of track between Kaohsiung and Tainan today.
PHOTO: WU CHUN-FUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Historic sea tragedy revisited
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The author Chang Tien-wan, whose adoptive mother traveled on the Taiping Steamer, lays down flowers in her mother's memory at a memorial last month for those who died in the tragedy.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Family members of passengers who perished in the Taiping Steamer tragedy in 1949 share their memories during a meeting last week organized by the Democratic Progressive Party's department of ethnic affairs and Phoenix TV, which has launched a research program to produce a TV documentary on the marine disaster.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Groups slam CLA for treatment of foreign workers
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Three of 112 Filipina workers transferred to new employers by a lottery, and not even knowing where they were going till they ended in their new respective factories, protest against their treatment when participating in a press conference yesterday, where labor rights groups urged the Council of Labor Affairs to make the transfer of foreign migrant workers from one employer to another a transparent process.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Spoonbill population on the rise, study shows
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A flock of black-nosed spoonbills is seen in a pond in Tainan County in this Dec. 30 file photo.
PHOTO: LIBERTY TIMES
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Japanese toymaker sprouts bean plants bearing messages
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An employee from the Japanese toymaker Tomy displays a bean plant with the message ``Bonne chance'' (Good luck), sprouted from a calcium-made faked egg, at the company's showroom in Tokyo yesterday.
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Explosions cause panic during Indian celebrations
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Security officials and others react after the blast during Republic Day celebrations in Gauhati, India, yesterday.
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Ukraine's Yushchenko calls for EU membership talks
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Members of the Ukrainian community of Strasbourg greet Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko, right, on his arrival at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Tuesday. Yushchenko told Europe's top human rights body on Tuesday that his nation would push through democratic reforms to prepare itself to apply for membership in the EU.
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Copter crash kills 31 US troops in Iraq
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An Iraqi tribal shiekh attends a ceremony to support Shiekh Muthana Hatem, chief of the Bani Hassan Tribe, an independent election candidate in the town of as-Sulayiyah near the holy city of Najaf on Tuesday. US officials are looking to the elections in Iraq for the first glimmer of an exit strategy, even if they leave the country far short of the stable democracy once promised, analysts said.
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Bush may struggle for a real legacy
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ILLUSTRATION: YUSHA
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'Neo-Chinese chic' is in
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Gray mullet's roe spawns seasonal treats
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The call it ``black gold,'' but mullet eggs are golden at New Year's.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Tech Review - Motorola a ringer in cellphone sales
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Nokia 2650.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Motorola V3.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Motorola E680.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Davenport to face Dechy in semifinals
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Second seed Andy Roddick serves to Nikolay Davydenko during their quarterfinal match during the Australian in Melbourne on Wednesday. Roddick, who was leading the Russian 6-3, 7-5, 4-1 when the 26th seed called a halt with apparent breathing problems in the stifling hot conditions on Rod Laver Arena, advanced to the semifinals.
PHOTO: AFP
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PHOTO: AFP
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