Wang-Chung ticket set to secure speakers' posts
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, right, lobbies for votes for his re-election as legislative speaker yesterday. PFP legislator-at-large and deputy speaker nominee Chung Jung-chi accompanies him.
PHOTO: CHOU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen praises Solomon Islands
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President Chen Shui-bian, left, raises his glass to Sir Allen Kemakeza, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, right, after signing a joint declaration yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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DPP to select 150 people for National Assembly list
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The newly appointed chairman of the DPP, Su Tseng-chang, right, arrives at the DPP legislative caucus meeting yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES.
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After tsunami, return to normalcy sought
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Renate Reinstaller, a tourist from Meran, Italy, walks a beach at the Baros Resort Island in the Maldives last week. With French charter flights likely to resume soon and Italy lifting a warning against travel to the Indian Ocean archipelago, authorities are hoping that the balm of tourism would ease the impact of the Dec. 26 tsunami on Maldives.
PHOTO: AP
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Observers absent from Iraq election
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An Iraqi working with the International Organization for Migration which organized the overseas balloting in 14 countries, including Syria, for the Iraqi elections carries a ballot box after sealing it, as the out-of-country vote ended on Sunday in Damascus, after three days of balloting.
PHOTO: AP
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The software of life
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ILLUSTRATION: YUSHA
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Teenage girls fuel US `manga' mania
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Jenna Leary, 18, sits dressed as a ``shojo manga`` character in her home in Berkley, Massachusetts, in June last year, with related posters pasted on the wall behind her. The popularity of ``manga'' among teenage girls has helped to significantly boost the growth of this segment of the US publishing industry.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Volcanoes not asteroids led to `Great Dying,' scientists say
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Chelsea overcomes Birmingham City
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Chelsea's Glen Johnson, left, goes for the ball with Birminghan City's Julian Gray during their FA Cup match at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge in London on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Serena soars in rankings
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Serena Williams celebrates winning the Australian Open women's singles title in Melbourne on Saturday. Williams is now ranked No. 2 by the WTA.
PHOTO: EPA
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