Anti-Japan protests rage for second day in China
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A group of about 600 protesters march on a downtown street as they chant anti-Japan slogans in the southern China city Shenzhen yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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DPP selects 7 Aboriginals for the National Assembly
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DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang, third left, last Wednesday hoists a cup of rice wine with Aboriginal candidates to wish them good luck in the upcoming National Assembly elections.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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US lawmakers seek China policy review
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chiang Chao-yi and the head of a pan-green camp legislative delegation visiting Washington, center, accompanied by DPP legislators Huang Wei-tze, left, and Huang Shih-cho, right, holds a press conference yesterday in the legislature after returning from a six-day trip to the US. Chiang said that certain US government officials regard Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kun's recent China visit as inappropriate.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SOONG
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Maoists attack base, free prisoners
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Nepalese villagers carry the body of an alleged Maoist rebel recovered after a major clash between Maoists and army security at Khara village in Rukum district, 400km west of Kathmandu, Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Angolan town fights killer virus
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Angolan health workers treat a 22-year-old woman last week, a new suspected case of the Marburg hemorrhagic fever in a clinic in Cacuaco township, outside Luanda, where the Ebola-like virus has killed at least 155 people. A senior UN official warned that the outbreak of the Ebola-like epidemic was not yet under control.
PHOTO: AFP
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Russia may have become democratic, but it's far from free
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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China a main focus at IDB meeting
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Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, left, listens to Inter-American Development Bank President Enrique Iglesias during the inaugural session of the Inter-American Development Bank's annual meeting in Ginowan City, Okinawa prefecture, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Completing the illusion
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DV8 Physical Theatre's dancers run through one of their illusion-filled numbers. The troupe kept audiences in Taipei this weekend wondering what surprises would be coming next.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DV8 PHYICAL THEATRE
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Japan's virgin wives turn to sex volunteers
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Japanese women enjoy the company of each other recently in Tokyo amid blooming cherry blossoms. Surveys show that an alarmingly high number of Japanese couples do not have sex or have sex only rarely. This has forced some wives to turn to sex volunteers to satisfy their needs.
PHOTO: AFP
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Pioneers venture past the Sioux
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University of Denver teammates Jussi Halme, left, Matt Laatsch, center and Kevin Ulanski celebrate with the NCAA Championship trophy after their Frozen Four Championship game at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday. Denver defeated North Dakota 4-1 to repeat as national champions in NCAA Division I men's hockey.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Blues draw as Gunners win
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Middlesbrough's Doriva, left, vies with Arsenal's Theirry Henry at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, England on Saturday. The Gunners won the match 1-0.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bulls surprise Crusaders
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Crusaders scrumhalf JustinMarshall clears his lines in a Super 12 match against the Bulls at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday. The Bulls won 35-20.
PHOTO: EPA
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DiMarco has Tiger on his tail as dusk cuts into Round 3
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Tiger Woods walks down the second faiway during the third round of the Mastersat the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia on Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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