Chen urges truth of 228 Incident to be remembered
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Members of the families of victims of the 228 Incident yesterday place lilies in a Taiwan-shaped flower bed in Kaohsiung to symbolically show that love and peace have deep roots in Taiwan as part of their commemoration of the 228 Incident.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sung denies role in ETC scandal
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The new electronic toll collection system lane at a toll station in Kangshan Township, Kaohsiung County, is empty yesterday as controversy over the project grows.
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NUC `episode is closed,' US says
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President Chen Shui-bian signs a document in the Presidential Office yesterday confirming that the National Unification Council will cease to function and the Guidelines for National Unification will cease to apply. Chen is accompanied by Presidential Office Secretary-General Mark Chen.
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Remembering 228: Families remember `228'
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Former Democratic Progressive Party chairman Lin Yi-hsiung, accompanied by his wife Fang Su-min, gives a speech in the Lin Cemetery in Ilan County yesterday while commemorating the murder of several of his family members in 1980. Lin also used the occasion to remember the victims of the 228 Incident.
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Optimism grows as Afghan seige enters fourth day
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An Afghan National Army soldier prays outside the Pul-i-Charkhi prison on the outskirts of Kabul on Monday. Afghan police and soldiers backed by coalition forces and their armored vehicles ringed Kabul's main jail after hundreds of inmates led by Taliban commanders and a kidnap gang leader took over cell blocks in the prison.
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Bird flu talks resume in France
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Photographers take pictures of a duck in a poultry farm on Monday in Buanes, near Bordeaux, in southwestern France.
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EU agrees to aid Palestinians, but not Hamas
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A Palestinian woman peers to watch Israeli soldiers during their search for militants at the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank town of Nablus yesterday. Four Palestinians were arrested, Palestinian officials said. It was termed the biggest Israeli raid against West Bank militants in months.
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Serbia given deadline on Mladic
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A Bosnian Serb couple looks at photos of more than 800 Bosnian Serbs killed by Muslim troops during the war, displayed in a memorial room in Bratunac, a tiny Serb town 5km east of Srebrenica last Friday. For the Bosnian Muslims, General Ratko Mladic is a vicious war criminal. To the Bosnian Serbs, he is a hero who defended them from their wartime enemies.
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Philippine democracy flounders
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Intel chooses Vietnam for new factory
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Intel Corp chairman Craig Barrett, left, receives an investment license to build a semiconductor plant in Vietnam from Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Investment and Planning Nguyen Bich Dat, right, during a ceremony yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Sounding out the Big Sur
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A pair of bull elephant seals battle each other on a beach along the Big Sur.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Tourists get a look at resting elephant seals on a beach along the Big Sur coast line.
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The accommodations at Treebones Resort consist of 16 yurts.
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The Sierra Mar Restaurant overlooking the Pacific, in California.
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Florentino Perez resigns as Real Madrid president
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President of Real Madrid football club Florentino Perez leaves the press conference at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium after announcing his resignation on Monday in Madrid.
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Pistons push Cavaliers around
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The Atlanta Hawks' Salim Stoudamire, left, and Zaza Pachulia, right, battle for a loose ball with New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday. The Hawks beat the Nets 104-102 in overtime.
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A young fan calls for revenge against Rasheed Wallace and the Detroit Pistons during their NBA game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Cleveland on Monday. On Sunday, Wallace's elbow to the head of Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, pictured, during a game in Detroit opened a cut that required five stitches.
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The Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash, front, runs into the Houston Rockets' Yao Ming in the fourth quarter of their NBA game on Monday in Houston. The Suns beat the Rockets 111-94.
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First woman among 17 elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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Effa Manley is seen in an undated handout photo provided by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manley was among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen on Monday by a special committee for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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