Taiwanese lack vision for future: Lee
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Former president Lee Teng-hui tours the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on Monday as part of his tour of the US.
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EU warns of virus threat
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A girl chases pigeons in the company of her grandfather at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei yesterday. The government is urging residents to avoid close contact with wild birds in parks and athletic areas to avoid contracting bird flu.
PHOTO: WALLY SANTANA, AP
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CDC urges people to learn about bird flu
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A staffer of Wild Bird Federation Taiwan wearing protective mask and gloves collects excrement from migratory birds for avian-flu testing in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Pan-blue camp blocks arms bill for 33rd time
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Democratic Progressive Party legislative caucus whip William Lai, center, yesterday appears to look on helplessly as the pan-blue legislators in the legislative procedure committee reject placing the arms procurement bill on the legislative agenda for the 33rd time.
PHOTO: LUO PEI-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Conference line-up identifies reforms
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Examination Yuan President Yao Chia-wen yesterday gives the closing speech at the conference on national administrative personnel systems held by the Examination Yuan.
PHOTO: LIAO CHENG-HUI, TAIPEI TIMESN
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Backpacker trial witness IDs suspect
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In this undated photo released by Australia's Northern Territory Police, Joanne Lees, left, and her British boyfriend Peter Falconio are shown while traveling on the Stuart Highway, north of Alice Springs, Australia, before Falconio was killed in July 2001.
PHOTO: AP
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Irregularities color Iraqi ballot
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An Iraqi mother, right, mourns over the body of her son Ayed Abdel Ghani Yussef, a senior adviser at the Iraqi Minister of Industry in Baghdad, yesterday. Unidentified gunmen shot Yussef outside his house as he was preparing to go to work. The woman on the left is Yussef's aunt.
PHOTO: AFP
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Should we be worried?
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Inventec to sell shares abroad
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A model displays Inventec's latest OKWAP cell phone, the A375, featuring a built-in voice recorder and MP3 player and targeted at female consumers, at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG YI-HUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lenovo to introduce its brand in Taiwan soon
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A model displays the latest IBM ThinkPad Z60 series notebook during a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: JAMESON WU, REUTERS.
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Snow upbeat after tour of China
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US Treasury Secretary John Snow gestures during a press conference in Beijing on Monday.
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A rose is a rose is a hibiscus
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After the hibiscus has been harvested the seeds must be removed. Below, a hibiscus farmer shows people around.
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Fields of hibiscus are a sight to behold around this time of the year.
PHOTOS: YANG YI-MIN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Better than Christmas
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PHOTO: EPA
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NY Rangers down Panthers 4-0
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Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers makes the save on a shot by Serge Payer of the Florida Panthers during NHL action at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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