Avian flu tests give local bird farm the all-clear
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A boy admires birds at a pet store in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: SAM YEH, AFP
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Students falling short: TSU
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Taiwan Solidarity Union Secretary-General Cheng Cheng-lung yesterday points to figures showing poor performance in high-school level English and math tests by technical college students.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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FSC approves official's resignation
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Shih-chien answers questions during a press conference yesterday in which he called on Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Kong Jaw-sheng to step down. Wang said Kong should take the fall for former FSC Examination Bureau director-general Lee Chin-chen's alleged involvement in the ``vultures'' insider-trading scandal.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT asked to back leaders' pension cuts
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, right, calls for financial transparency by political parties and a clear demarcation between state-owned and party assets during a meeting of the party's Central Standing Committee yesterday. He said that the people responsible for running enterprises either wholely or partly owned by the state, and foundations established by the government should in the future declare their organizations' assets and make public records of political donations.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT to blame for Taiwan's international status: DPP
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From left to right, Democratic Progressive Party legislators Trong Chai, William LaI and Tien Chiu-chin, claim yesterday that the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) flawed policy was responsible for Taiwan losing its UN seat to China.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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UN puts the spotlight on the children
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A Malawian child suffering from HIV breast-feeds at the Zomba Nutritional and Rehabilitation Unit, 60km south of Blantyre, Malawi, in this Oct. 14 file photo. The head of the UN agency battling AIDS called on the pharmaceutical industry to help roll back the HIV virus among children by slashing prices and developing medicines specially for the young who have been neglected so far.
PHOTO: AFP
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S Africa targets its hunters
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Lions recover from a tranquilizer after being transported to South Africa's first ``lion haven'' in this November 1996 file photo.
PHOTO: AP
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Iraqis bear the brunt of nation's violence
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An Iraqi commando, accompanied by US soldiers from the 2-22 Infantry 10th Mountain Division MiTT team, screams toward Iraqi civilians to avoid an area around the site of an unexploded improvised explosive device, or IED, after it was discovered by US forces patrolling the area, in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Facing nature's fury
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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McDonald's says it is going to come clean on nutrition
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A Big Mac, Coke and fries are shown at a McDonald's in Chicago on Tuesday. Nutrition information will now be displayed on the majority of McDonald's product packaging using an easy-to-understand icon and bar chart format, the company said.
PHOTO: AP
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Sleepwalking children wake up the senses
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Tseng Yu-chin's new show.
PHOTO: SUSAN KENDZULAK, TAIPEI TIMES
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More work from Tseng Yu-chin.
PHOTO: SUSAN KENDZULAK, TAIPEI TIMES
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Spring look
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Michael Kors' cropped pants on the runway in Bryant Park in Manhattan.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES
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Calvin Klein displayed in New York, and took a lighter-than-air approach to Spring fashion.
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Trousers from Yves Saint Laurent with a linen jacket over a ruffled cotton blouse and silver wedge shoes, part of the ready to wear spring summer 2006 collection, in Paris.
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Classic CD and DVD Review
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CA IRA
Roger Waters
Terfel, Groves, Huang, Lo
Sony Classical/Columbia S2K 96439
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DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
Boxed set of 8 DVDs
Including "The Making of ... "
Bayreuther Festspiele
Deutsche Grammophon
DVD 00440 073 4068
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GABRIELA MONTERO
Rachmaninov, Scriabin, etc.
Gabriela Montero, piano (2 CDs)
EMI Classics 5 58039 2
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BRAHMS
Violin Sonatas 1-3
Renaud Capucon (violin)
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Virgin Classics 7243 5 45731 2 5
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Waterproof
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PHOTO: EPA
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Cobras in Taiwan Series
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Cobras catcher Wu Jau-hui, back, uses a perfect throw from outfielder Hsieh Jia-shien to tag out Lions runner Wu Jia-rong at the plate, preventing the tying run from scoring during Game 4 of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League playoff series. The Cobras defeated the Lions 4-2 to win the series 3-1, advancing to the Taiwan Series.
PHOTO: CPBL
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Sox battle through deadlock in Texas
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Geoff Blum of the White Sox hits a solo home run against the Astros during the 14th inning of Game 3 of the World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday. Chicago defeated Houston 7-3 to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven-game series.
PHOTO: AFP
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