Police must do more to stop drug scourge, justice minister says
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Minister of Justice Shih Mao-lin, left, and vice Minister of Justice Hsieh Wen-ding, right, call for a ``drug-free homeland'' during a press conference organized by the Taipei Prosecutor's Office in Ximending to mark International Anti-Drug Day yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Wang to toe the party line if elected KMT chairman
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, dressed as a baseball catcher, attends a screening of his KMT chairmanship election campaign film yesterday in Tainan City.
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Clan feuds still a problem in Philippines
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A Philippine Marine guards a ghost village in Bayang town. Villagers fled to avoid being caught in the crossfire between two warring clans. Blood feuds have left thousands of people dead in the largely lawless southern Philippines.
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Anti-Drug Day marked in Asia
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Military attaches of foreign countries examine seized drugs to be burned at a ceremony in the capital city Yangon, Myanmar yesterday. Authorities displayed a large quantity of drugs seized in different raids throughout the country, worth around US$328 million on the US market, to be burned to mark International Anti-Drug Day.
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China braces for more rain, floods
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Residents inspect flooded house in Boluo county in east China's Guangdong province on Saturday. The death toll in two weeks of flooding in areas throughout China has risen by 31 to at least 567, with roads and rail lines cut in its southern industrial heartland and more rains forecast.
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UK faces Zimbabwean problem
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This image made from a recent video released last Thursday by Solidarity Peace Trust shows children sitting on the ground in Harare, Zimbabwe next to their belongings. Rights groups showed the smuggled video on Thursday of Zimbabweans living in the open in the winter cold after the government tore down their homes in what it describes as an urban renewal project. Police prevent journalists from filming the demolition campaign and the footage was collected clandestinely by the church-based trust.
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Stay with me on Iraq, Bush urges
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Ibrahim, center, 12, and his brother Najah, right, mourn during the funeral of their father Fadel Awda, yesterday at Baghdad's Muslim Shiite Sadr City neighborhood. The body of Awda, a member of the municipal council in Sadr City, was found after he had been kidnapped by gunmen from his home in the area, sources at the interior ministry said. The kidnapping and killing of Shiites and Iraqi security force members is an almost daily occurrence in the area.
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Thousands of people assemble as Billy Graham gives his `historic' last sermon
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People raise their hands in pray on the second day of the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York on Saturday.
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Hon Hai chief drives firm with discipline, efficiency
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PHOTO: CHEN YI-CHUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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US and Europe weigh in on nuclear energy
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The primary reactor of Taiwan's Nuclear Power Plant No. 4 under construction. A US scholar suggested that the Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) should make this power plant a thermal rather than a nuclear one. Taipower officials responded that the suggestion is technically feasible, but other issues such as nuclear waste disposal should also be taken into consideration.
PHOTO: HUANG LI-HSIANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Japan proposes total ban on pirated goods
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An employee of the Japan External Trade Organization shows off counterfeit DVDs of Japan's popular animation ''Gundam'' at its headquarters in Tokyo earlier this month.
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Maggie Cheung comes 'Clean'
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Life begins again for Maggie Cheung at 40, after she lost interest in acting during the 1990s.
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Braves chip away at Orioles for win
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Andruw Jones of the Braves hits a game-winning home run off Orioles relief piticher Todd Williams in the bottom of the ninth inning in Atlanta, on Saturday.
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Jill Craybas stuns Serena
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Jill Craybas of the US just after her 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over fifth seed Serena Williams, at the Wimbledon Championships in Wimbledon, England on Saturday.
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Brazil slips past Germany
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German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann grabs the ball in front of Brazilian Julio Baptista during a semifinal match of the Confederations Cup in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday.
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Supporters of the German and Brazilian teams hold their country's flags prior to a Confederations Cup semifinal in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday.
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