Nations shut door to dissidents
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Yan Peng, a well-known democracy activist from Shandong Province, escaped from China last year.
PHOTO: SHIH HSIU-CHUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chinese dissident Cheng Rongli spent eight years in jail for helping form the China Democracy Party .
PHOTO: SHIH HSIU-CHUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Decision on resignations expected
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Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, second in the middle queue, dances with Kaohsiung City Government workers yesterday. Cabinet Spokesman Cho Jung-tai yesterday said that Premier Frank Hsieh will announce a decision concerning the resignations of Chen as well as Council of Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu tomorrow.
PHOTO: LIN YA-LI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Typhoon just brushes northern part of the country, but vegetable prices climb
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Fallen stones are shown above at a section of the northern cross-nation highway after Typhoon Kahnun skirted the northeastern tip of Taiwan.
PHOTO: CHOU MIN-HUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Afghan gunmen botch attack
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A man walks past election posters for different candidates as he goes to work early in the morning in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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`Radical' Muslims pledge loyalty to Australia
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Father Bill Burt, back left, and Imam Salih Mujala, back right, pray together as part of the ''Muslims in Australia: National Security and Harmony Summit'' in Sydney yesterday.
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Belfast parade ends in riot
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People walk past burning vehicles on the Shankill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland after clashes that saw police and soldiers attacked with petrol bombs during a bitterly contested Orange Order parade in west Belfast on Saturday. The confrontation triggered Protestant protests and street violence in several parts of the capital.
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Germany's left fights to return to parliament
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Pedestrians walk past electoral billboards of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, right, of the Social Democratic party and his challenger Angela Merkel, candidate for Chancellor of the conservative opposition and head of the Christian Democratic Union on Saturday in Berlin. Early general elections are scheduled to take place in Germany on Sept. 18.
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Hu vows to improve living standards
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (lower left) tours Niagara Falls during his state visit to Canada on Saturday.
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9/11 families oppose museum plan
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Azon De Chavez, of Carteret, New Jersey, second from right, holds a picture of her son Jayceryll De Chavez, as she joins others during a rally calling for the removal of the International Freedom Center from the World Trade Center memorial plans on Saturday outside ground zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood, in New York.
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Searching for alien life right here on earth
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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LSE head cautious, optimistic on investing in China
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Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, at an interview last Saturday. Davies warned potential Taiwanese investors in China about the liability they might be taking on.
PHOTO: WANG MENG-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Arab tourists leave the paranoid West behind
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A group of Middle-East women clad in the traditional head-to-toe black ``chador'' stroll through a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Southeast-Asian capitals are enjoying an influx of big-spending tourists from Arab states.
PHOTO: AFP
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Saving Italy's culture may cost an arm and a leg
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A fund-raising ad in which Jesus has been deleted from da Vinci's Last Supper reads: ``Without your help, Italy could lose something.''
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Planet pop
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Rod Stewart performs at the Joint Network Gulf Coast Benefit.
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When he's 63
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Above, the cover picture of McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.
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Longhorns take out the Buckeyes
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Michigan State's Javon Ringer dives across the goal line to score during the first quarter against Hawaii in East Lansing, Michigan, Saturday. The Trojans destroyed the Warriors 42-14.
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