Support for consumer group urged
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Premier Frank Hsieh, right, yesterday visits the Consumers' Foundation in an attempt to give a boost to the cash-strapped group.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Wang flip-flops on threat to sue Mayor Ma for libel
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, right, yesterday speaks to KMT Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng as they attend the funeral of former Taipei City Council speaker James Chen's mother.
PHOTO: LIAO CHENG-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Archeologists shake up history
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A worker stands on a stack of bags of cement before a huge billboard featuring the famous ''bronze human head figure with gold mask,'' one of the treasures of the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan Province in this photo from May. Recent archeological finds from previously unknown civilizations such as the Sanxingdui and the Jinsha are dealing shattering blows to traditional views of Chinese history.
PHOTO: AFP
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Call for constitutional change in Manila
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Religious followers of a spiritual leader, brother Eddie Villanueva, pray during a protest in Manila yesterday demanding that Philippine President Gloria Arroyo resign over a recent scandal. Opposition legislators said they would try to impeach Arroyo.
PHOTO: AFP
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South Africa dramatically revises its HIV estimate
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Three-year-old Nomsa, infected with AIDS, eats spaghetti in Cotlands Baby Sanctuary for abused, abandoned and HIV-positive children in Johannesburg last year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bomb targets pro-Syrian official
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Lebanese security forces and civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Beirut yesterday. Lebanon's outgoing pro-Syrian Defense Minister Elias Murr was wounded in a car bomb explosion in a Christian suburb north of Beirut that also killed at least one and wounded six others, police said.
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Muslims face attacks, resentment after terror strike
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A man stands inside a mosque at Whitechapel in the East End of London on Monday. The mosque is the biggest in Europe and hosts about 7,000 Muslims. It has received hundreds of theatening e-mails since the London bombings last Thursday. London's Muslims have asked the government and the media not to link them with the terrorist attacks, saying they have already started to become the victims of racist assaults.
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Prevention the best defense against terrorism
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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WTO chief warns of global trade crisis
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Policemen stand on a corner as a World Trade Organization (WTO) flag flies outside meetings in the Chinese city of Dalian yesterday. Security is tight as around 30 WTO members are in the northeastern Chinese city for meetings aimed at energizing negotiations on liberalizing global commerce.
PHOTO: AFP
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Gloom looms large over Philippine economy
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, center, before the start of the National Economic Development Authority board meeting yesterday. Philippine stocks fell and the peso weakened after credit-rating agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor's downgraded outlooks for the Philippines.
PHOTO: AP
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It's rough unless you have money
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An Australian farmer feeds cattle by hand on a property near Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
PHOTO: AFP
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Echos of concrete
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The Holocaust Memorial is located in the heart of Berlin, near embassies, cultural institutions, business premises, schools, federal structures, apartments, and the city's green lung, a park called the Tiergarten.
PHOTOS: CHIU YU-TZU, TAIPEI TIMES
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Michelle Wie fades before hundreds of fans at APL
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Michelle Wie reacts after missing her second put for bogie on the 17th hole on Monday during the first round of the US Amateur Public Links at Shaker Run Golf Club in Lebanon, Ohio.
PHOTO: AP
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