Thai workers riot against `unfair' firm
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Thai workers clear debris from a riot in Kaohsiung yesterday. More than 1,700 Thai workers set fire to a management shack, burnt cars and hurled rocks at police after their employers refused to allow them to drink, smoke and use cellphones when they were off work, police said yesterday. The violence erupted late on Sunday among the workers, hired to help build a mass-transit railway project in Kaohsiung.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Thai workers living in cramped conditions in dormitories. The lack of basic freedoms led to a riot yesterday at worker dormitories in Kaohsiung.
PHOTO: WANG RONG-HSIANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Activist goes public over blackmailer's demands
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Lin Yu-chih, 33, who suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, speaks at a press conference yesterday in Wuku Township, Taipei County, about an attempt to blackmail him over an Internet affair.
PHOTO: CNA
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Trade and democracy bolster Taiwan-Switzerland ties
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PHOTO: CHIEN RONG-FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Pan-blues talk cooperation on Ma's first day
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New KMT Secretary-General Chan Chuen-pao, left, shakes hands with PFP Deputy Secretary-General Liao Chang-sung at PFP headquarters yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIEN RONG-FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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US forces capture Afghan valley
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Afghan boys sit next to the site of a bomb blast near Kabul that hurt two US embassy officials on Sunday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Charity bemoans wretched condition of Asian children
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A Thai boy sifts through a dump at a slum area in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday.
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Victim's family attack cash offer
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Alessandro Pereira, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, stands outside Stockwell Tube Station in South London on Friday. His cousin was shot dead in the station on July 22 by British armed police. Brazilian police will be going to Britain to carry out their own investigation into de Menezes' death.
PHOTO: EPA
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Barenboim dazzles in the West Bank
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Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra, with musicians from Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Spain, perform at the Ramallah Cultural Center on Sunday, in memory of Edward Said.
PHOTO: EPA
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Ecuadorean troops protect oil industry
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A soldier stands guard at Ecuador's state-run Petroecuador on Saturday in the town of Nueva Loja. Ecuador has slowly resumed crude oil production, though not exports, after the military took control of oil wells occupied by protesters last week.
PHOTO: EPA
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`Nisei' internees finally graduate from high school
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Mo Kanda, left, helps Russell Iwanaga fix his cap as they attend a graduation ceremony in Los Angeles to accept retroactive high-school diplomas on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Emergency food aid doesn't help anybody
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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A old holiday and an older dance
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PHOTO: EPA
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Pathogens are scientist's passion
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Listeria investigator Darren Higgins stands in front of an image from a microscope his lab built showing listeria entering cells, in Boston.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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White Sox bats come alive
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Starter Jose Contreras of the White Sox pitches against theYankees at US Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois on Sunday. Chicago won 6-2. Contreras (8-7) allowed two runs -- one earned -- and 11 hits, stuck out five and walked none over eight innings of work.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kimi grabs his fifth victory of season
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Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen, left drives his McLaren-Mercedes F1 racer ahead of Renault Spain's Fernando Alonso, racing for Renault, during the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday. Raikkonen won the race ahead of Alonso, who finished second, and Colombia's Juan Pablo Montoya, racing for McLaren-Mercedes, who came in third. It was Raikkonen's fifth win of the season.
PHOTO: AFP
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Woods secures NEC Invitational
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Kang Soo-yun of South Korea hits from the 10th tee during the Safeway Classic in Portland, Oregon, Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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