Elections 2006: Voters stay faithful to big parties
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Chen Chu, center, is joined by DPP heavyweights yesterday as she thanks voters for their support after winning the election.
PHOTO: HUANG CHIH-YUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) mayoral candidate Hau Lung-bin, center, accompanied by his wife, Kao Lang-hsian, hugs his father, former premier Hau Pei-tsun, after winning the Taipei mayorship last night.
PHOTO: CNA
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Elections 2006: People First Party chairman announces an end to his career
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Independent Taipei mayoral candidate and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong, left, thanks PFP Deputy Chairman Chang Chao-hsiung, right, for his support after Soong announced his decision to withdraw from politics at a press conference yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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Elections 2006: Ma attributes Kaohsiung result to `unethical' DPP
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A woman supporter of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Huang Chun-ying prays for her favorite yesterday. Huang was a very close but constant second to Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Chu throughout yesterday's vote count.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Elections 2006: Democracy in action as voters replace BMWs
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An elderly Taipei resident in a wheelchair exercises his voting rights in yesterday's mayoral and city council elections.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Elections 2006: Parties trade vote-buying allegations
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Campaign workers representing the Democratic Progressive Party's Kaohsiung mayoral candidate, Chen Chu, wear face masks during a press conference in Kaohsiung yesterday at which they claimed that supporters of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Huang Chun-ying seemed to offer money to voters attending Chen's campaign rally.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMESN
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Theme restaurant causes real nurses' blood to boil
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Cyndi Altman, a "nurse" at the Heart Attack Grill, served up a pair of single bypass burgers on Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in Tempe, Arizona. The servers, called nurses at the restaurant because of their minimal nurses attire, have angered a group of real Arizona nurses who said they demean their profession.
PHOTO: AP
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US gunman killed after shooting three
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An unidentified person is loaded into an ambulance outside a commuter train station in Chicago on Friday. A gunman fatally shot three people and injured another in a law office in downtown Chicago.
PHOTO: AP
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Suicide attack kills eight, injures 36 in Iraq
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Iraqis pray over the bodies of people killed yesterday in a US airstrike in Ishaqi, 80km northwest of Baghdad. Locals say civilians were killed in the air raid, while the US military said they killed 20 al-Qaeda terrorists.
PHOTO: AFP
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In a multimedia realm where book meets blog
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Wall Street losses take toll on Asian stocks
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A Japanese businessman checks stock prices on a board in front of a Tokyo brokerage on Friday. Japanese stocks slipped on Friday following the release of two disappointing economic reports.
PHOTO: AP
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Trump's Mexican border condos could spark boom
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Trump Baja managing director, Brian Sedrish, far right, makes his sales pitch to a group of prospective buyers next to a model of the first phase of the Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico during a sale at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Nintendo Wii outsells PlayStation3
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Gaming fans pose for photographer as they line up to purchase a Nintendo Wii console in the early hours of Friday in London. Nintendo is bringing a total 4 million units to markets around the world before the end of the year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Lavish holiday parties in full swing amid economic boom
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Cigars are hand rolled for guests at the Thrillist.com holiday party in New York on Monday. The holiday party season, which typically runs for the first few weeks of December, seems too brief to contain this year's extravagances.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Diamonds no longer fueling wars, yet fail to deliver on poverty
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Miners pan for diamonds near Koidu in northeastern Sierra Leone near the Guinean border on June 8, 2004. Hollywood's take on ''conflict diamonds'' has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamor have too often meant war and suffering in Africa.
PHOTO: AP
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THE ASHES 2006/2007: Barmy army go the distance to satisfy curry craving
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English fans pose during the second day of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane on Nov. 24. Several members of England's Barmy Army who longed for a taste of home ordered takeaway curry from an English restaurant. It will be delivered to Perth in time for the third Test.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kiwis thump Sri Lanka in opening Test
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Sri Lanka's Prasanna Jayawardene, right, and Mahela Jayawardene, back, successfully appeal for the wicket of New Zealand's Nathan Astle on day three of the first Test between the New Zealand Black Caps and Sri Lanka at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Iverson out as Wizards prevail
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Kirk Hinrich of the Chicago Bulls goes to the basket over Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors in NBA action on Friday at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Bulls won 93-90.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bonds agrees to continue home run chase with Giants
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Barry Bonds reacts after flying out against the Los Angeles Dodgers in July in Los Angeles. Bonds is headed back to the San Francisco Giants after agreeing to a $16 million, one-year deal.
PHOTO: AP
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Former Giants shortstop Jose Uribe killed in Dominican Republic accident
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San Francisco Giants shortstop Jose Uribe turns a double play against the New York Mets at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1985. Uribe was killed early on Friday in a car crash in the Dominican Republic.
PHOTO: AP
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Asian Games: Weather slows Zhou in marathon
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Gold medalist Zhou Chunxiu of China races to a win in the women's marathon at the Asian Games in Doha yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Asian Games: Taiwan wins tennis gold medals
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Lee Chia-hung, right, and Yang Sheng-fa of Taiwan hug after winning the gold medal in the soft tennis doubles at the Asian Games in Doha yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Asian Games: Team Taiwan too tough for Lebanon in basketball
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Taiwan's Tseng Wen-ding and Lin Chin-jeh work together to grab the ball from a Lebanese player at the Asian Games in Doha yesterday. Taiwan jumped out to several big leads before going on to win 86-72.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Whither Taiwanese theater?
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Lu Po-shen, right, on the set of White Shake. The artistic director is unhappy with the state of theater in Taiwan and blames the lack of focus on character development for the problem.
PHOTO: NOAH BUCHAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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" I think the main problem with Taiwanese plays [is thatyou seldom see good characters." -- Lu Po-shen, artistic director of Tainaner Ensemble
PHOTO: NOAH BUCHAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Phil Karber goes back to the future in Indochina
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THE INDOCHINA CHRONICLES
By Phil Karber
335 pages
Marshall Cavendish
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Is this the end of Christmas? Bah! Humbug
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PHOTO: AFP
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For crying out loud! 放聲大哭!
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From left to right Sandy Leach, Martin Marlin and Morgan Son displlay their digital manikin babies. (由左到右)珊蒂李區，馬丁馬林和孫慶國展示電子娃娃。 照片：歐新社
PHOTO: EPA
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Murder most foul in the American outdoors
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Species like elk have been targeted by increasing numbers of illegal hunters who leave their victims' carcasses behind to rot instead of taking the meat home.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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All aboard for a lightening tour of Western history
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CIVILIZATION: A New History of the Western World
By Roger Osborne
532 pages
Pegasus Books
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