Tour bus operators protest against weight restrictions
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Tour bus operators gather outside the Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday morning to protest weight restrictions on their vehicles and to demand the government give them special fuel discounts that other forms of public transportation, such as public buses and taxis, are entitled to receive.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen Shui-bian confirms date for Palau visit
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President Chen Shui-bian, front on carpet, and Defense Minister Lee Jye arrive on Kinmen during a whirlwind visit to the island yesterday.
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Chen respects Shih's right to protest
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From left to right, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tainan City councilors Tang Yi-ching and Chiu Li-li and DPP Legislator Tang Bi-a yesterday ring the bell of the Tainan District Prosecutors' Office. The trio filed a lawsuit against former DPP chairman Shih Ming-teh, claiming that his fundraising campaign is illegal.
PHOTO: HUANG PO-LANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Separated Chinese twins find each other in US
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At a reunion last Friday at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Mia Diamond Funk, left, and Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, then reached for each other's hand.
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Israeli army sustains casualties waiting for UN deployment
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A farmer drives his tractor by an Israeli tank on the Israel-Lebanon border yesterday. A 10-day-old truce in Lebanon continued to hold as the UN struggled to find European countries ready to put troops between the Israeli army and the Shiite militia Hezbollah.
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Mother testifies in Saddam's trial
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Adiba Owla Bayez, a Kurdish mother who lost a child to a poison gas attack on her village nearly two decades ago, testifies in the Baghdad court yesterday.
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Las Vegas Sands signs US$3.2 billion deal to build Singapore's first casino
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A dealer gathers gaming chips at the newly opened Treasure Level at the Sands Casino in Macau yesterday. With the opening, the casino, owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, becomes the largest casino in the world. Las Vegas Sands also finalized a deal to begin construction of a casino in Singapore yesterday.
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Liverpool scrape through in Kiev
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Alon Harazi of Maccabi Haifa, left, duels for the ball with Momo Sissoko of Liverpool during their second leg Champions League third-round qualifying match in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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Malaysian deputy PM calls for `sepak takraw' to be made an Olympic sport
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Thailand's Permsap Poonsak, center, makes an acrobatic kick against Malaysia as his teammate Mohamad Zaki stands by at right in the background during the Asian Games Sepak Takraw men's team final competition in Busan, South Korea, in this Oct. 6, 2002 photo.
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Rogers leads as Tigers blank Chicago
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Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before the game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals on Tuesday at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
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Florida Marlins' Alfredo Amezaga of Mexico is shown as Yoda from Star Wars fame during the game against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
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The body beautiful, and ugly ones too
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The artist Ron Mueck is shown with his Mask II.
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A security guard poses for the cameras to provide a size comparison for a sculpture of a nude man by London-based sculptor Ron Mueck.
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South Africans use artful weapon in AIDS battle
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The Keiskamma Altarpiece, which is on a tour of the US, includes embroidery, applique, and beadwork with life-size portraits and was made by the women of a South African fishing village to express both the horrors of the South African AIDS epidemic and the resilience of the town's people in the face of adversity.
PHOTOS: AP
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Carol Hofmeyr, left, Eunice Mangwane, center, and Jackie Sidwell Downs worked on the Keiskamma Altarpiece as a way to help fight AIDS and unemployment in the South African village of Hamburg.
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Malaysian ghouls to be put to the test 馬來西亞食屍鬼面臨試煉
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Joss sticks burn on the side of a road to mark the Hungry Ghost Festival in Kuala Lumpur. 吉隆坡街道旁香雲繚繞，紀念中元節。 (照片：歐新社)
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