Coast guard forces Chinese ship away
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Coast Guard Administration (CGA) vessel Hai An No. 3 is engaged in an exercise outside Kaohsiung yesterday morning. The exercise addressed the CGA's ability to handle, and respond to changes in, maritime terrorism, rescue and environmental crises.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YIH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Bringing `Diamond Taiwan' to the rest of the world
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National Cultural Association Secretary-General Tchen Yu-chiou.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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China gets a boom in paternity tests
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Wang Shayan, director of the forensic authentication institute at Shenzhen People's Hospital, examines a computer analysis of a DNA paternity test at her clinic last week. With a rise in extramarital affairs in China, a growing number of people are turning to such DNA test centers to resolve uncertainties about their children's parentage.
PHOTO: AP
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Pakistani police try to identify bomber
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Policemen guard the area outside a Muslim shrine where a bomb exploded Friday, as sandals of victims are kept as evidence, near Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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France divided ahead of EU vote
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Workers use brushes to put up campaign posters reading ``No'' and ``Yes'' in reference to France's referendum today on the EU constitution in a street of Rennes.
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`Raging violence' in Iraq
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Injured are rushed from the scene after an intended car bomb attack against a police patrol instead killed two civilians and wounded 18 others in Tikrit, 130km north of Baghdad, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Warren Beatty takes on Governor Schwarzenegger
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Actor Warren Beatty speaks to the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy graduates during the commencement ceremony last week at UC Berkeley in California.
PHOTO: AFP
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Florida murder suspect ends standoff on a crane
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A man identified as Carl Roland, left, walks away from police on a construction crane Friday in Atlanta, Georgia. Roland, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Jennifer Gonzalez in Florida, was on the crane for three days.
PHOTO: AFP
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Faking babies
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ILLUSTRATION: TANIA
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Saudi king's hospitalization upsets skittish oil markets
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Trader Ronald Gillman, center, in the oil pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, shouts out orders on Thursday. The price of light, sweet crude for July delivery climbed US$0.84 to US$51.85 per barrel in New York on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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EU takes Chinese textile fight to WTO
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In this file photograph, a Chinese woman speaks on the phone as she waits for customers at her fabric and textile stall in Beijing. China on Friday announced new tariffs that it hopes will hold down surging textile exports, as it tries to avert a trade war with the US and Europe after Washington imposed import quotas.
PHOTO: AP
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Disney Hong Kong insists on shark's fin-soup meals
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A worker, in the background, shovels shark fins at a warehouse in Hong Kong last week. Environmentalists have angrily demanded that Disney boss Michael Eisner personally intervene to prevent shark's fin soup being served at Hong Kong's soon-to-be-opened Disneyland theme park.
PHOTO: AFP
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Parents footing the bill for teenagers' high-tech desires
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Jennifer Lang, 17, enjoys her iPod and mobile phone in her home in Erial, New Jersey, in May. Although parents have long struggled with their teenagers' desire to own the newest, coolest stuff, these days the battle has reached a new dimension.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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The red carpet rolls out for Golden Melody Awards
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Above, Sun Shu-mei was elected best Taiwanese female singer. Top, Jay Chou.
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F.I.R. took the Best Mandarin Newcomer.
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Wang Shi-xian was judged best Taiwanese male singer.
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Matthew Lien took an award in the world music category for his album A Journey of Water.
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Could someone point out `the real Japan' please
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Wrong About Japan
By Peter Carey
KNOPF
165 pages
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Poet Stimulates literary scene
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Taiwanese poet and newly elected chairman of the National Art and Cultural Foundation, Lee Kuei-shien.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATIONAL CULTURE AND ARTS FOUNDATION
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Sorenstam and Turner tied up at top
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Hale Irwin hits his tee shot on the 4th hole during the second round of the Senior PGA Championship at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania on Friday. Irwin shot a 3 over par 75 and is even for the tournament.
PHOTO: AFP
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South Korea's Jimin Kang tees off on the 10th hole during the second round of the LPGA Corning Classic in Corning, New York on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Sheffield drives Yankees past Red Sox
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Gary Sheffield of the Yankees hits a three-run homerun over the left-field wall during the sixth inning against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York on Friday. Mariano Rivera got two outs for his 12th save in 14 chances New York defeated Boston 6-3.
PHOTO: AFP
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Crusaders own a fifth Super 12 title
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Crusaders players celebrate their Super 12 championship after they defeated the Waratahs at Jade Stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand, yesterday. The Crusaders won the match 35-25.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sharapova moves past compatriot
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Bulgaria's Sesil Karatantcheva, ranked 98th, just after defeating Venus Williams of the US during their third-round match in the French Open at Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Friday. Karatantcheva overcame Williams 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
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