Malaysia declares pollution emergency
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Students wear masks in their classroom at a Kuala Lumpur school yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Adoptees encourage adoptions
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Sander sits on his Dutch mother's lap at the end of a press conference in Taipei yesterday. He is one of a group of Taiwan-born teenagers who were adopted by families in the Netherlands and who have returned for a tour of the country as guests of the Child Welfare League Foundation to promote adoptions.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan set for `gentle rise': Lu
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Vice President Annette Lu points to a map of Pacific Rim countries during an international press conference yesterday for the establishment of the Democratic Pacific Union.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Thai satelite offers broadband promise
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A European Ariane 5 rocket, in Kourou, French Guiana, lifts the world's largest-ever communications satellite, a 6.5-tonne unit owned by a private Thai operator, into space yesterday
PHOTO: AFP
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Bombers hit southern Philippine city
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Police inspect damaged vehicles yesterday after a bomb exploded in the southern port city of Zamboanga, southern Philippines on Wednesday night. Authorities said at least seven men were being questioned in connection with the two bomb blasts that wounded 30 people and disrupted power in the area. Investigators suspect the al-Qaeda-linked Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group may have been involved.
PHOTO: AP
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Rivals to monitor Israeli pullout
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Palestinian women and children from the Khan Yunes refugee camp in the Gaza Strip demonstrate yesterday in front of the wall that divides the camp from the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim. The operation to uproot the 8,000 Gaza settlers is due to begin next Wednesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Institute says inaction will increase African hunger
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A child suffering from severe malnutrition is pictured in the Pediatric Center of the National Hospital of Niamey in Niger on Wednesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Mourning mom's vigil gains support
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Cindy Sheehan gathers herself on Wednesday as she recounts stories of her son by a tent that she is sleeping in on the side of the road that leads to US President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
PHOTO: AP
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US pushes at China's edges
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Kinpo launches first smart phone
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Rock Hsu, chairman of Kinpo Group, holds up the iDo mobile phone, the first model the company has produced under its own brand name.
PHOTO: WANG YI-HUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Love is updated
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POP STOP
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Director Tsui Hark burned his fingers on a Brigitte Lin project.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Actress/singer Vicky Zhao is a split personality after a few drinks.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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It looks like TV isn't big enough to support Wing Fan's inflated ego.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Assignment Theater takes a look at the scars left by violent change
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The Assignment Theater Festival Season is hard-hitting stuff.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSIGNMENT THEATER
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One final 'Dream' for Lin Hwai-min
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Cloud Gate performs Dream of the Red Chamber.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CLOUD GATE
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Art in the flesh
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``Life is art,'' they say.
PHOTO NICK WHEELER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: BamBoo
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Sake, strong cocktails and quality Japanese grilled cuisine at Bamboo.
PHOTO: DIANA FREUNDL, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: Persian Heaven
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There is meat in Heaven after all.
PHOTO: MEREDITH DODGE, TAIPEI TIMES
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An honest picture of N American ceramic art
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Beautiful pottery with an American twist is on show in Yingge.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE YINGGE CERAMICS MUSEUM
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The Vinyl Word
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Naughty by nature , but nice.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LUXY
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Love bug
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Herbie is not supposed to be taken seriously, so we won't .
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Putting the science back in sci-fi thrillers with the US military
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Military scientists gather to write potboilers.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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A good week for a date
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Heaven's Bookstore is this weekend's movies from Japan and Hong Kong.
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Bug Me Not.
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Music and film a perfect combination
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Top, Dream of the Red Chamber, above, Farewell My Concubine.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPOT 320 TAIPEI FILM HOUSE AND MAJESTIC CINEMA
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Reel News
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Animation from North Korea in Empress Chung.
PHOTO: AP
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The Island: A clone of a film about clones?
PHOTO: AP
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Sweet Miss Ellie is no more.
PHOTO: AP
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Uribe slides White Sox past Yankees
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Dominican Juan Uribe, right, of the Chicago White Sox scores the winning run in the 10th inning as Jorge Posada of the New York Yankees attempts the tag during their game on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York.
PHOTO: AFP
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Elephants trample Lions
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Brother Elephants slugger Wang Jin-yong keeps his eye on the ball after his game-winning home run in Wednesday's 4-3 win over the President Lions.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BROTHER ELEPHANTS
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Agassi advances over Bjorkman
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Andre Agassi of the US returns to Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden during their second-round match at the ATP Rogers Cup Masters tennis tournament on Wednesday at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Canada.
PHOTO: AP
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Australia under pressure as McGrath, Lee rebound
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Australian pace bowler Brett Lee, center, celebrates with team-mates after dismissing England's Andrew Strauss on the first day of the third Ashes Test at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester yesterday. The series is currently drawn at 1-1.
PHOTO: AFP
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