Lu weighs in on Lien-Hu meeting
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Vice President Annette Lu makes a gesture while delivering a speech at a Lion's Club meeting in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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DPP looks for love in nationwide bicycle campaign
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang talks into a microphone as he leads the DPP's candidates in the coming National Assembly election on a campaign tour through Taipei City yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lien, Soong are `fools,' Lee says
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Former president Lee Teng-hui holds the baby pictured on the cover of his new book, entitled New Era Taiwanese, at a launching ceremony yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Vietnam celebrates Saigon's fall
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Firework light up the sky over Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the US-Vietnam War, on Friday. Official celebrations of the event were held yesterday in the city, which is Vietnam's economic metropole.
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Togo remains tense; German culture center torched
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Togolese residents of Lome look through the windows of the Library of the Goethe Institute German cultural center, after it was torched in Lome, Togo on Friday. The center promoted cultural exchange with Germany who first colonized Togo in 1884. A group of heavily armed men stormed into the center before dawn on Friday detaining guards at gunpoint while the attackers fired shots and burned the main library in the latest violence racking the country since disputed presidential elections.
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Astronomers find a giant planet beyond solar system
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The first planet outside of our solar system to be pictured is shown orbiting a brown dwarf at a distance that is nearly twice as far as Neptune is from the sun. The planet, known as an ``exoplanet,'' is five times bigger and 10 times hotter than the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
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Stylish porn on a shoestring budget yielding big profits
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Joanna Angel and Tommy Pistol prepare to shoot a scene for BurningAngel.com inside a Brooklyn apartment that was borrowed from the residents, who watch from their bedroom on March 20. BurningAngel.com is one of a handful of erotic Web sites that fetishize tattoos, piercings and the occasional Bettie Page hairdo along with the young women who wear them.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Airports less than eager to make room for big new Airbus
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A man walks past a scale model of the Airbus A380 at the Frankfurt Rheine-Main-Airport in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday. Representatives of airports in Europe, Asia and the US and Asia gathered in Frankfurt on Thursday to discuss how they are getting ready for the A380, which is scheduled to go into service in the middle of next year with Singapore Airlines.
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`Hell Camp' remembered
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Michael Hurst stands next to the Taiwan prisoner-of-war memorial in Jinguashih. All that remains of the notorious Kinkaseki camp today are a few concrete foundations, some wall supports and a gatepost, but Hurst's work with the Taiwan POW Memorial Society has meant that the stories of the POWs are not forgotten.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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The story of Taiwan's tanners is set straight
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Tanners of Taiwan
By Scott Simon
172 pages
Westview Press
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Pair of Belgians reach the J&S Cup semifinals
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Patty Schnyder of Swizerland returns the ball to Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium during their quarterfinal match at the J&S Cup in Warsaw on Friday. Henin-Hardenne won 6-1, 6-2.
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Crusaders cut up Sharks
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Blues center Mils Muliania is tackled by Bulls prop Richard Bands, right, and center Ettienne Botha during their Super 12 match at Loftus in Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday. The Bulls beat the Blues 38-24.
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Mils Muliaina of the Blues scores a try against the Bulls during their Super 12 rugby match in Pretoria, South Africa on Friday.
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Sixers get back in series with Detroit
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Allen Iverson of the 76ers after hitting a shot late in the game against the Pistons in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday. Detroit still leads the best-of-seven-game playoff series 2-1.
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Arjun Atwal's baby needs new shoes
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Arjun Atwal of India hits from a sand trap near the ninth green during the second round of the Zurich Classic in Avondale, Louisiana on Friday. Atwal leads by one stroke.
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