Yeh quits post to run for Taipei mayoral seat
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Taipei Deputy Mayor Yeh Chin-chuan announces that he is resigning to focus on the year-end Taipei mayoral election at a news conference yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Interior minister slams Ma's critique
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Kao Chien-chih, center, is helped by two colleagues to hold up a poster of two pictures of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou during a question-and-answer session yesterday. The text reads:``He's not bald, he just has a receding hairline.'' Kao said that from a certain angle, Ma's scalp reflects light although he is not bald. The legislators made the remarks in reference to Chen Yi-hsiung, the suspect in the March 19, 2004, assassination attempt, who police had described as a ``bald man.'' Chen's family said earlier this week that Chen had a receding hairline but was not bald.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Milosevic's body put on display
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Supporters wait for the coffin of late Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to arrive at the St. Sava hospital morgue in Belgrade on Wednesday. Milosevic will be buried in his home town of Pozarevac, about 90km southeast of Belgrade, tomorrow.
PHOTO: EPA
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Dutch film for migrants causes controversy
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A woman wearing a Muslim head scarf walks past a lingerie advertisement in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Would-be immigrants to the Netherlands are expected to watch a film that has images of gay men kissing and topless women on the beach.
PHOTO:AP
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Iraq's parliament meets for swearing in
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An Iraqi man crosses a deserted street in Baghdad yesterday. Vehicles were banned from the streets to help prevent car bombings as Iraq's new parliament was sworn in.
PHOTO: AP
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Ecuadoreans warned of threat to democracy
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Members of the Santa Marianita de Puingulmi community block the Pan American highway some 40km north of Quito, near the town of Oton, on Wednesday in the third day of blockades organized by the Ecuadorean Indigenous Nationalities Confederation as a protest against a free-trade agreement between Ecuador and the US.
PHOTO: AFP
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UNESCO meets on climate threat to heritage sites
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In this Jan. 23 photo released by Center of Marine Studies, the University of Queensland, fish swim among bleached coral near the Keppel Islands in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Scientists warn that the bleaching is caused by above average water temperatures.
PHOTO: AP
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Chinese environmentalists fight great wall of officialdom
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A master touches familiar material
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Lorin Maazel thinks that people are getting tired of of pop music's frequent triviality.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF NTCH
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Restaurant: Lotz Food 樂鍶
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At Lotz, colors and flavors can be a little overwhelming.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF LOTZ FOOD
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Restaurant: Tien Tain 天曇
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Combining fruit and meat to create rich and exotic flavors.
PHOTO: DEREK LEE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ilan finds a greener way of living
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Green Expo displays new green ideas in Taiwan to its visitors every year.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ILAN GREEN EXPO ACTIVITY
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The Vinyl Word
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The writing is on the wall for dance music, in Ximending, Taipei, as hip hop, baggy pants and graffiti takes over.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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'Date Movie' revels in stereotypes
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A good understanding of popular culture is needed to fully appreciate this movie.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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There are plenty of cliches to poke fun at in the romance film genre.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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The phantom of vendetta
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Chaos is the only alternative to tyranny in V for Vendetta.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX MOVIES
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Maureen Stapleton's indelible stamp lives on
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A unique look 獨特的樣貌
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A South African plains zebra at a zoo in Duisburg, Germany.
德國杜伊斯堡一處動物園的南非草原斑馬. (照片：歐新社)
PHOTO: EPA
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Clean power comes to Shanghai 綠色電能到上海
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A Shanghai resident shows solar panels onthe roof of his building that create heat and electricity for his home.
上海一位民眾在寓所的大樓屋頂上展示能夠製造熱能與電力的太陽能電池板。 (照片：法新社)
PHOTO: AFP
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Tonga smash South Africa in sevens
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Samoa's Timoteo Iosua makes a run for the goal posts during Samoa's match against Uganda at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday. Samoa defeated Uganda 31-10.
PHOTO: EPA
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Middlesbrough advance despite loss to AS Roma
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Lille's Kader Keita, right, reacts after Sevilla's Jesus Navas, left, apparently head-butted him during their UEFA Cup match at the Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain, on Wednesday. Navas was sent off after receiving a red card. Sevilla beat Lille 2-0.
PHOTO: AFP
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Rest of the Empire strikes back at Aussie swimmers
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India's Nemijakpam Kunjarani Devi jumps in the air after winning the gold medal in the women's weightlifting 48kg category at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Kenya's Fahd Daim serves to Wales' Stephen Jenkins during the men's preliminary table-tennis round at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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