Bill on 228 amended, chaos ensues
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, second left, is blocked by Democratic Progressive Party legislators from entering the legislative floor yesterday when the legislature was scheduled to tackle the draft Organizational Law of the Central Election Commission. The review was postponed.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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China not a strategic adversary: Gates
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace brief reporters at the Pentagon, Washington, on Wednesday.
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Israel unveils new surveillance drone
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Israeli Air Force officers stand next to the new Heron drone aircraft for surveillance missions at the Palmahim Air Force Base, Israel, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Shiite pilgrims flood Karbalah
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Shiite Muslim men, separated from women, pray outside the tomb of Shiite Imam Hussein in Karbalah on Wednesday. Pilgrims are gathering in the city for Arbaeen today, marking 40 days after Ashura, which commemorates the killing in 680 of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
PHOTO: AFP
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Wikipedia contributor flaunts fictional credentials
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China urged to open up markets
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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivers a speech on Chinese financial market reform in a meeting with financial sector leaders and local government officials at the Shanghai Futures Exchange yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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AU Optronics expects flat-panel market to rebound next quarter
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Employees at AU Optronics show off a 42-inch flat panel produced by the company's first 7.5G fab at the Taichung Science-based Industrial Park on July 31 last year. The company is also building a second 7.5G plant in Taichung.
PHOTO: AFP
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S Africans embrace Super 14 challenge
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All Black flyhalf Daniel Carter runs through a new resistance training machine during a team conditioning session in Wellington, New Zealand, yesterday. Carter is one of 22 All Blacks who is skipping the first seven rounds of the Super 14.
PHOTO: AP
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Checkpoint minders give mushers a little pampering
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Sixty-four-year-old musher Louis Nelson leaves the Nikolai, Alaska, checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Jan Newton, left, gets ready to serve musher Ken Anderson at the Takotna, Alaska, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race checkpoint on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Klitschko hoping to prove himself a worthy champion
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Wladimir Klitschko skips during a training session in Heidelberg, Germany, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Krajicek victory books a shot at Maria Sharapova
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Third-seed Martina Hingis of Switzerland laughs during a TV interview at the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Sami receives a rude awakening
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England's Andrew Flintoff jokes around with the team's physio ball during a team training session at Stubbs cricket ground near Kingstown, St Vincent, on Wednesday. England play Australia in a warm-up match today.
PHOTO: AFP
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More problems for Maradona as court orders investigation
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Diego Maradona, seen in this photograph taken last year, is being probed by Argentina's Central Bank over possible personal accounting irregularities, an official said on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Mixed fortunes for Aussies in cup competition
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Richie Alagich, right, of Adelaide United and Aleksandar Zivkovic of Shandong Luneng Taishan in action during the AFC Champions League match in Adelaide on Wednesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Dino's Lee Hsueh-lin voted February's MVP
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Lee Hsueh-lin give the thumbs-up on Wednesday after being named Most Valuable Player of the month for February.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SBL
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Former CKS Cultural Center artistic director sizes up her new mission
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Small is beautiful for Ping Heng.
PHOTO: NOAH BUCHAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Vinyl junkies get ready for a fix
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The collection of LP records at the Eslite record store range from the rare to the raw.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ESLITE
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Baby steps 蹣跚學步
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Andrea takes her first steps together with her mother, Lotti, in Berlin, Feb. 23, 2007.
今年2月23日在柏林，安德莉亞在母親羅蒂伴同下蹣跚學步。 (照片：法新社)
PHOTO: AFP
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The truth is out there 真相不言而喻
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Visitors to the International UFO Museum and Research Center during the 2006 UFO Festival in Roswell, June 30, 2006.
去年6月30日在羅茲威爾舉行的2006年幽浮節期間，遊客參觀國際幽浮博物館暨研究中心。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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ABBA 'Thank you for the music'
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Taipei returns to the 1970s this weekend with Abba Fever.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BAROQUE ART
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The nearness of Poncho Sanchez
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PHOTO COURTESY OF NORMAN SEEFF
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Reel News
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British actor Pierce Brosnan wants to sing ABBA songs with Meryl Streep.
PHOTO: AFP
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Nigerian director Newton Aduaka.
PHOTO: AFP
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A picturesque portrait of today's lost youth
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Reflections tells of contemporary anomic lifestyles through the story of a lesbian couple and a young man.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SINO MOVIE
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Thermopylae gets the blue screen treatment
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CGI does much of the heavy lifting in the graphic novel adaption 300.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF WARNER BROS
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He never liked his greens
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The back story of Hannibal Lector would have been better served had it been left in the dark.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF CMC
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Top Five Mandarin Album
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Peter Ho and I Want to Tell You.
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Restaurant: Marco Polo
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Marco Polo offers possibly the best dining experience in town.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FAR EASTERN PLAZA HOTEL
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Restaurant: On Tap
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On Tap will celebrate St Patrick's Day with a special Irish dishes and promotions.
PHOTO: RON BROWNLOW, TAIPEI TIMES
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The Vinyl Word
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If you know this man, then he would like to say farewell tonight.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTIST
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Set phasers to stun
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Frustrated from overwork? Marital woes getting you down? Shooting the place up at Lazertreks may help.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LASERTREKS
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