China vows to prevent independence
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A group of college students at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial clench their fists or sit in protest at China's proposed ''anti-secession'' law yesterday. They called on Beijing to respect Taiwanese people.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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First offshore councilwoman speaks
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Fears grow over Hong Kong succession
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, right, and Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho take part in the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Angry foreign donors slash aid to Nepal
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Buddhist monks hold portraits of King Gyanendra and Queen Komal during a rally in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. More than 500 indigenous people including Buddhist monks took part in the rally.
PHOTO: EPA
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Iran ready to start nuclear reactor, think-tank claims
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This image released on Feb. 17 by Space Imaging/Inta-Space Turk and ISIS shows the 40-megawatt nuclear reactor at Arak, southwest of Tehran, Iran, the site of an alleged heavy water plant and building progress of a reactor.
PHOTO: AFP
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Murder of Catholics spark angry protests against the IRA in republican heartland
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Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness delivers his opening address to the Sinn Fein annual conference in Dublin, Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Blake murder trial even more bizarre than TV
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Actor Robert Blake outside a restaurant near the courthouse in Van Nuys, California, during a lunch break in his murder trial in late January. During Blake's trial, the public has been privy to one bizarre scenario after another, grist for a true-life pulp novel.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Video showing the prosecuting family praising Jackson is shown at his trial
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Michael Jackson looks at his fans as he arrives to the courthouse in Santa Maria on Tuesday. The mother of Jackson's teenage accuser praised the entertainer as an ``ideal family man'' who had made her children happier than they had ever been in a videotape played for jurors on Friday.
PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES
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China's oil diplomacy offers aid in Latin America
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Asian markets close mostly higher
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An local investor reads a newpaper in front of a wall of monitors showing the stock index in Taipei on Friday. The TAIEX closed 8.76 points, or 0.1 percent, lower at 6,193.62 on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Photo booths reinvented as fashionable toy for adults
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Lizzie Garrett, center, and Matt Mettler, right, gather around the photo booth with their friends at the Edendale Grill in Los Angeles. Formerly relegated to passport and visa offices, the old-fashioned photo booth is making a comeback.
PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Small-town druggist reaps global profits
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Andrew Strempler, founder of the online pharmacy company RxNorth, is pictured at his company headquarters in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada, in this Feb. 23 file photo. His business model has been copied by scores of others around Canada and, today, the online drug industry gives work to more than 4,000 Canadians, mostly in Manitoba, a rural province not known for high-tech innovation.
PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Taiwan's most powerful women
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Nita Ing
PHOTOS: TAIPEI TIMES
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Tsai Ing-wen
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Diana Chen
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Lin Mun-lee
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Religion kept US married to Vietman conflict
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
By Seth Jacobs
381 pages
Duke University Press
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Turning fantasy into a reality that helps others
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Lucifer Chu, 30, made millions as a translator of Lord of the Rings and now spends most of his time working on two non-profit foundations. One of his foundations promotes fantasy literature, while the other is involved in translating open-source material from the database of the prestigious American university MIT.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Old methods create new message
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Hua Chien-chiang's painting about relationship breakups.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF SUSAN KENDZULAK
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Wang Zhi-wen's sculptures capture the depth of human experience.
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Light motivates motifs
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Jung's Horizontal, a holograph of glowing rectangular bands of colors.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM
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Ping-pong, a motorized four-panel moving holograph.
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Dieter Jung's Blue Box is on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in a solo exhibition of the German artist's work.
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The Black Death shown up close
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The Great Mortality
By John Kelly
364 pages
Harpercollins
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Davenport to face Jankovic for title
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Lu Yen-hsun, front, hits a return while Taiwanese teammate Wang Yeu-Tzuoo looks on during their doubles match against Takao Suzuki and Thomas Shimada of Japan in Davis Cup action in Yangmei, Taoyuan, yesterday. The Japanese won 1-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4.
PHOTO: AFP
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Stormers, Highlanders end in draw
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De Wet Barry of the Stormers is tackled by Josh Blackie of the Highlanders during their Super 12 match at Rugby Park in Invercargill, New Zealand, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Fisichella secures provisional pole
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Giancarlo Fisichella of Italy steers his Renault around the Albert Park street circuit during the fourth practice session of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne, yesterday. The race is scheduled to be run today.
PHOTO: EPA
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PHOTO: EPA
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Richard Chang leads by example
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Richard Chang rises to the occasion while playing for Taiwan's national team during the mid-1980s. Chang is now now president of Costco Wholesale Inc (Taiwan).
PHOTO: RICHARD CHANG
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PHOTO: RICHARD CHANG
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