Lee blasts DPP on China policy
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Former president Lee Teng-hui accepts a large Republic of Taiwan passport from students at the Lee Teng-hui School during the school's graduation ceremony yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Coast guard cracks down on Chinese ships
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A member of the coast guard stands on a vantage point in Keelung Harbor to inspect a ship through his binoculars yesterday after President Chen Shui-bian ordered a crackdown on Chinese vessels and smuggling at a national security meeting on Friday.
PHOTO: LIN CHIA-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Direct vote confuses KMT members
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Candidates vying for a seat on the Chinese Nationalist Party's Central Committee hold up banners and signs to promote their election bid ahead of the elections that were held yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chinese unhappy with their party
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, right, and President of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) Ong Ka Ting stand during the 52nd MCA general assembly at MCA building in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Leaders of the main Chinese party in Malaysia's ruling coalition faced a tough re-election yesterday amid complaints they have failed to stand up for the community at a time when ethnic Malays are seeking to boost their decades-old privileges.
PHOTO: AP
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Koizumi fires first shots in campaign
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, front, gestures as he delivers a speech while campaigning for the Sept. 11 general election in Itami, western Japan yesterday while Environment Minister Yuriko Koike, back, listens.
PHOTO: AFP
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Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip on track
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greets his supporters of Fateh movement as they celebrate the Israeli pullout from Gaza strip at the Airport of Gaza in Rafah, on Friday. Israel has almost completed the removal of all people from the 21 Gaza Strip settlements under the ``disengagement plan.''
PHOTO: EPA
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Recent violence exposes rifts among Sunnis
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Iraqis take to the streets in a show of opposition to a federal Iraq, protesting in the northern city of Kirkuk yesterday. Leaders of the ousted Sunni Arab elite warned that a federal system would be rejected at the polls.
PHOTO: EPA
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Eye treatment comes of age
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Terror fears drive up oil prices
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Brittany Davis fills up her car at a Chevron station in west Las Vegas on Friday. Oil prices rose nearly US$2 a barrel on Friday, bouncing back from a dip earlier in the week as markets reacted to a fire at a massive refining complex in Venezuela and developments in Ecuador, where protesters had forced a halt to production.
PHOTO: AP
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Merck loss likely to increase lawsuits
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Plaintiff Carol Ernst, center, and her attorneys Randy Moore and Ben Morelli react to the jury's verdict in her favor in her case against Vioxx maker Merck & Co on Friday in Angleton, Texas.
PHOTO: AP
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Everyone wants to break the petaflop
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The fastest computer in the world today, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, California, last week. A global race is under way to reach the next milestone in supercomputer performance, many times the speed of today's most powerful machines.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Counterfeit pills are not placebos
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ILLUSTRATION: CONSTANCE CHOU
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A businessman's adventures
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Businessman Chen Pin has written several books on business and his experiences in China.
PHOTOS: DEREK LEE, TAIPEI TIMES
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A foreign babe catches China fever and recovers
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Foreign Babes in Beijing
By Rachel Dewoskin
332 pages
Granta
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Bret Easton Ellis loses a few marbles in `Lunar Park'
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Lunar Park
By Bret Easton Ellis
360 pages
Alfred Knopf
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obligatory exercisers endanger their health
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ILLUSTRATION BY STUART BRADFORD, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Woods, Donald share lead
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Luke Donald of England hits from the sand to the 8th green at Firestone Country Club Friday at the NEC Invitational. Donald's three-under par 67 moved him to four under for the tournament and tied for the lead with Tiger Woods.
PHOTO: AP
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Mauresmo slips into semifinals
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Kim Clijsters of Belgium kicks water on a flooded center court after torrential rains delayed play during the Rogers Cup at the Rexall Centre in Toronto, Friday. Amelie Mauresmo of France had been playing Russian Nadia Petrova in a quarterfinal match.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kimi Raikkonen grabs pole in Turkey
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Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen of McLaren Mercedes in action yesterday during a practice session ahead of the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul Park in Turkey. The Finlander claimed the pole position for today's F1 race.
PHOTO: EPA
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Titans demonstrate solid depth
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James Thrash of the Redskins tackles Keiwan Ratliff of the Bengals during the first half of their preseason game at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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