Chen talks about floods and fishing
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A man smoking a cigarette sits in a flooded house in Aoku Village in Tungshih Township, Chiayi County, yesterday. The area has been under water for 10 days.
PHOTO: TING WEI-CHIEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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GPS could solve fishing disputes: Hsieh
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PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hsieh fumes over `false report'
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Students protest at the Legislative Yuan yesterday over the recent decision by the Ministry of Education to cut the number of places at teacher-training institutes from 3,815 to 135. The students accused the ministry of ignoring student needs. The sign reads ``No more places in teacher-training institutes: Our future vanishes in an instant.''
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Honduran official looks to Taiwan
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa, speaker of the Honduran Congress, gestures during an interview yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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North Korea says US must be friendly
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A members of Korean War Abductees Family Union, the supporting group for those abducted by North Korea at the 1950-53 Korean War, shouts slogans outside a venue of a meeting between representatives of the two Koreas in Seoul,yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Former Klansman convicted over 41-year-old killing
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In this frame grab taken from video and provided by COURTTV.COM, Edgar Ray Killen sits in court as the verdict is read in Philadelphia, Mississippi on Tuesday. Forty-one years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of manslaughter in a trial that marked Mississippi's latest attempt to atone for its bloodstained, racist past.
PHOTO: AP
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Vietnam Vet interrupts PM's speech
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Vietnamese-American protesters wave an effigy of former North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh as they march past the White House during Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's meeting with US President George W. Bush, in Washington on Tuesday. The protesters chanted anti-Khai slogans and called for democracy and better human rights in Vietnam.
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Preparing for a supreme battle
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ILLUSTRATION: YUSHA
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Harrah's desires casinos in Singapore and Macau
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A model demonstrates how to play jackpot machines at the Asian Casino Expo in Singapore yesterday. Singapore lifted its four-decade-old ban on casinos in April and has shortlisted 12 international and local bidders to build and operate its two proposed casino resorts in Marina Bay and Sentosa.
PHOTO: EPA
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Designed for love
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A WeGo bedroom. No longer sleazy, love motels offer couples a short luxurious hideaway.
PHOTOS COURTESTY OF WEGO
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One of five I MORE rooms, with their own private pools.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF IMORE
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Equipped with saunas, showers, and hot tubs, I MORE rooms are larger than many apartments in Taipei.
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WeGo bathrooms.
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Galleries focus on historical and documentary photography
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Mao Zedong at Beidaiho Coast in 1960.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TIVAC
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Planet Pop
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Pope Benedict XVI blesses the crowd. But will he give Live 8 his blessing?
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The cleanest underwear in town
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Sports Briefs
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Eleni Daniilidou upsets Justine Henin-Hardenne
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Eleni Daniilidou of Greece returns to Belgium's Justine Henin-Hardenne during a first-round match at the Wimbledon Championship in Wimbledon, England on Tuesday. Daniilidou, ranked 76th in the world, defeated No. 7 Henin-Hardenne 7-6 (8), 2-6, 7-5.
PHOTO: AP
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