Wang announces bid for KMT party chairmanship
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng celebrates the announcement of his intention to run for KMT chairman at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Pan-blues urged to save their energy
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Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang, right, talks with National Pharmacists Association chairman Ho Jung-sheng, left, at DPP headquarters yesterday. Su urged the association's members to join the Democracy, Peace and Defending Taiwan rally scheduled for March 26.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hsieh: Flood protection is a necessity
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Premier Frank Hsieh gestures while visiting the Yuantsushan Dam in Jueifang Township in Taipei County yesterday. The dam, scheduled to be completed in May this year, will divert the river's water away from the Taipei metropolitan area, reducing the potential for flooding.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Israeli forces hand over Jericho
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Israeli soldiers remove blocks from around a checkpoint in Jericho Wednesday, ahead of a full security transfer of the West Bank city and its surrounding area from Israel to the Palestinians.
PHOTO: AFP
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Saudi women forced to unveil for new ID card
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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GM shocks with slashed forecast
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A Cadillac CTS is shown outside the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan on Wednesday. General Motors Corp, the world's biggest auto maker, slashed its earnings forecast for this year by more than half on Wednesday and predicted a first-quarter loss.
PHOTO: AP
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'Little Brother' comes to entertain you
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Commence the 'philoso-jam'
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A circus setting for Faustian frama
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Top, Japanese director Daizo Sakurai. Above, work begins on the construction of a tent theater on a vacant piece of land off Tongan Street.
PHOTOS: GRAHAM NORRIS, TAIPEI TIMES
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POP STOP
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Jackie Cheung kept his daughter's birth a secret until this week.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Despite a broken leg, Richie Ren is feeling pretty good in advance of becoming a father next month.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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``Yeah, I'm hot.'' Yao Ming is the most famous Chinese star.
PHOTO: AP
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Restaurant: Feng Cheng »ñ«°¿Nþ¸fµæ
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The duck isn't bad at Feng Cheng.
PHOTO: CHRIS PECHSTEDT, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: Snuggles
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Food at Snuggles will change your prejudices about veggie fare.
PHOTO: YU SEN-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Spring is in the air
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Bare-faced cheek from Mimi Chan at last year's Spring Scream.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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Motherly abortionist entangled
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Vera Drake is Mike Leigh's best work in a decade.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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OK, guys, what side of the law are you on?
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Laurence Fishburne, above, and Ethan Hawke, right, do their best to overcome a bad idea at the box office.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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Reel news
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Star Wars characters stand outside the American International Toy Fair with police officers in New York.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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A forensic expert stands next to the body of Dutch director Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in Amsterdam.
PHOTO: EPA
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What's going on in there?
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Lee Kang-sheng and porn actress Sumomo Yozakura perform intense sex scenes that have stirred controversy.
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Chen Shiang-chyi performs an arousing song expressing her longing for love.
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Chen Shiang-chyi pines for love in The Wayward Cloud.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX TAIWAN
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Wu Dai-hao proves he's the man on top
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The ETTV Antelopes' Wu Dai-hao shoots to score.
PHOTO: SBL
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Norway's Sorlie wins Iditarod
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Norway's Robert Sorlie sits with his lead dogs Socks, left, and Blue, after he crossed the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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IRB World Cup Sevens kicks off in Hong Kong
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England's Ben Gollings, left, Fiji's Waisale Serevi, right, and New Zealand's Liam Messam, second right, pose with IRB Sevens tournament chairman Syd Millar as they set the stage for the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2005 in Hong Kong yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Tendulkar joins cricket's elite 10,000-Test-run club
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Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar celebrates reaching his 10,000 run mark in Test cricket while Steve Bucknor, the West Indian umpire, looks on at Eden Gardens stadium in Calcutta on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Federer battles through to Indian Wells final 8
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Kim Clijsters of Belguim returns a forehand to Conchita Martinez during the Pacific Life Open on Wednesday. Clijsters won the match 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.
PHOTO: AFP
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