Japanese royal birth puts an end to succession row
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A group of Japanese dancers perform to celebrate the birth of Japan's new prince in Tokyo yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sex workers slam Su's crackdown
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Members of the Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters protest in front of the Executive Yuan yesterday. The woman in front is holding a picture of Kuan Hsiu-chin, a prostitute who killed herself.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Executive injured in mail-bombing
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Yang Kuo-cheng is rushed to hospital after he was injured in a mail-bomb attack at a commercial building on Dunhua S Road.
PHOTO: VIDEO GRAB FROM ETTODAY
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Chen makes first-ever visit to Nauru
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President Chen Shui-bian and Nauruan President Ludwig Scotty inspect an honor guard in Yaren, Nauru, yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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DPP city councilors lash out over expanded sit-in
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Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City councilors Hsu Chia-ching, left, and Li Chien-chang yesterday hold up a map at a press conference in Taipei showing the route for the upcoming anti-President Chen Shui-bian demonstration.
PHOTO: LIN SHU-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Villagers scorn adoration of Mao
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Tourists visit the birthplace of Chinese president Liu Shaoqi in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, on Aug. 16. Liu, who opposed some of Mao's policies, became president in 1959 in the wake of the Great Leap Forward, an ambitious industrialization drive initiated by Mao that caused an estimated 30 million people to starve to death.
PHOTO: AFP
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Nine dead in two Baghdad blasts
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Iraqis inspect the damage at a bomb site in the al-Qahira district of Baghdad yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Can the IMF avert a global meltdown?
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Ford names Boeing man as new CEO
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Bill Ford, right, and Alan Mulally laugh during a news conference at Ford Motor Co headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday. Mulally will replace Ford as president and chief executive of the US' No. 2 automaker.
PHOTO: AP
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Intel announces massive layoffs
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A basket is filled with Intel Corp toys in their ``bunny'' outfit at the store at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday. The company announced on Tuesday that it would eliminate 10,500 jobs over the next year, including the 5,000 that were previously announced.
PHOTO: AP
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Jankovic defeats Dementieva as rain interrupts ninth day
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Jelena Jankovic of Serbia and Montenegro kisses a tennis ball after defeating Elena Dementieva of Russia during their quarter-final at the 2006 US Open tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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PHOTO: EPA
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Santana's two-hitter makes it 17 wins
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Los Angeles Angels shortstop Orlando Cabrera, top, jumps over the Baltimore Orioles' Kevin Millar after throwing to first base during the fifth inning of their game in Anaheim, California, on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Tourists say London's transport is tops 觀光客認為倫敦的大眾運輸最佳
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A subway sign at Westminster in London.
倫敦西敏寺站的地鐵標誌。 (照片：法新社)
PHOTO: AFP
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Technology Review
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Epson's Stylus Photo RX580 printer.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Canon's EOS Digital Rebel XTi.
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Hewlett-Packard's latest high-definition TV, the MediaSmart.
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The Port-O-Rotary from Spark Fun Electronics.
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MiniBlaster, external speakers for the iPod Nano.
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Singapore Biennale puts the city state on the arts map
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Jane Alexander's installation at City Hall, Singapore.
PHOTOS: SUSAN KENDZULAK
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Inigo Manglano-Ovallo's tip of an iceberg at the National Museum.
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Singapore and Yayoi Kusama's polka-dot covered trees cohabit with signs for the upcoming IMF/World Bank meetings on Orchard Road, Singapore.
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The king of kitsch bows out
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Vladimir Tretchikoff painted one of the world's best-selling prints and was so popular and prolific that he was dubbed the “king of kitsch.”
PHOTO: AP
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