Foreign workers slam the CLA
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Filipino worker Gil Lebria and other workers from the Formosa Plastics Group's (FPG) factory in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, protest against the company's alleged mistreatment of them in front of the Council of Labor Affairs in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Premier calls on Beijing to be `honest' about bird-flu
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A worker guides ducks at a market in Taipei yesterday. Taipei City banned the public from feeding pigeons in city parks as it cranked up its flu prevention measures.
PHOTO: SAM YEH, AFP
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PFP wants amendment giving lawmakers investigative powers
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Chao Yu-chu -- father of President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law -- presses the entry buzzer to the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office yesterday where he filed defamation lawsuits against Independent Legislator Chiu Yi and political commentator Hu Chung-hsin.
PHOTO: CNA
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Teen tells of Asia's rampant sex slavery
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Seventeen-year-old Tran Mai Hoa talks during an interview in the Vietnamese city of Ha Long. Every year, thousands of young women and girls across Asia are abducted or tricked into going abroad, where they are kept against their will and forced into sexual slavery -- obliged to work as prostitutes to pay back the gangs that bought them from human traffickers. Tran Mai Hoa considers herself lucky because just months after being unwittingly smuggled into China and incarcerated in a brothel, she escaped.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sharon promises an endless offensive
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Masked Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attend a news conference in Gaza city on Wednesday. Dozens of militants said they were celebrating the suicide bomb attack in the Israeli town of Hadera, a ``great victory as a message to our beloved Palestinian people and Islamic and Arab nations.''
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Philippine tobacco out of favor
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TSMC reports expansion in revenues
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co CEO Rick Tsai smiles as he looks at a colleague during a third quarter press conference yesterday in Taipei.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, AP
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Canadian court OKs CNPC purchase
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These PetroKazakhstan workers at an oil field in south-central Kazakhstan will soon be working for a new employer. A Canadian court approved the China National Petroleum Corporation's offer to buy PetroKazakhstan, rejecting an attempt by the Russian company Lukoil to disrupt the deal.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Omara Portuondo, with feeling
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Hwa Kang Museum opens its treasure trove of art
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PHOTO: Courtesy of the Hwa Kang Museum
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`Phantom' gets a roasting before the curtain opens
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PHOTO: COURTESY OF DELMAC
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POP STOP
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Jackie Chan is praying for good relations.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Gigi Leung and Ekin Cheng may be calling it a day after six years.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Religion brings out the best in Jet Li, Ma Ying-jeou and Lin Hwai-min.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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The Vinyl Word
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One shouldn't talk behind people's backs, but Fifi's Aoife MacCana was checking out the action at a Cartier party last week. DJs SL and Edmund are on either side.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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Restaurant: La Brasserie, The Landis (亞都麗緻大飯店)
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Cured Tasmanian salmon, warm Brie crepes, French beans and horseradish Mascarpone, at La Brasserie.
PHOTO COURTESY O F THE LANDIS
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Restaurant: Xiao Jiang (小江日本料理)
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Xiao Jiang provides more than just fusion.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Something spooky's going on
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It's Halloween on Monday, but we're in the party spirit already.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Zorro can't keep his sword still
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Historical accuracy is not the point of this film. Swashbuckling, marital rifts and dastardly acts are.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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Guess who let the wolves out
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Some nasty Turkish militants are bumping off the seamstresses of Paris.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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`Three Times' is more than enough for local audiences
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Reel News
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James Bond's next movie will be a little less British.
PHOTO: EPA
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Although JK Rowling's books, and the Harry Potter movies, have raked in a fortune, the director of the latest movie griped about its inadequate budget.
PHOTO AP
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A new life awaits Dakota Fanning in her next film.
PHOTO: AP
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A very Asian collaboration
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Zhang Yimou has finally worked with his Japanese idol Ken Takakura.
PHOTO: AP
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Jackets zip up win in overtime action
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An official, top, tries to pull Travis Moen, center, of the Mighty Ducks, off Jarome Iginla of the Flames during a brawl in the second period in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday. Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 25 saves for Anaheim in their 4-1 victory over Calgary.
PHOTO: AP
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White Sox sweep it
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Manager Ozzie Guillen of the White Sox celebrates with the championship trophy after winning Game 4 of the World Series against the Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday. Chicago defeated Houston 1-0, sweeping the series 4-0.
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White Sox fans celebrate after the final out against the Astros in Game 4 of the World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday.
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