Politician gunned down in cold blood
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People First Party Taipei County Councilor Wu Shan-jeou, who was killed in his office in Sindian yesterday, is seen in this file photo.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TAIPEI COUNTY COUNCIL
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Squabbling lawmakers disrupt meeting
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Chu Feng-chi, front right, and Hsieh Kuo-liang,second left, tussle for control of the microphone with Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator David Huang during a dispute over reviewing the proposed political party law during a joint meeting of the Home and Nations Committee and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee yesterday.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT supports plan to rename street
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A group of pan-blue lawmakers on the legislature's Education and Culture Committee speak to reporters yesterday during a visit to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Look east, Nicolas
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Chipmakers to ditch troubled flash units
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Hundreds of Intel NOR flash memory chips used in cellphones are shown under a BlackBerry cellphone at Intel Corp headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday. Intel Corp and STMicroelectronics NV are unloading troubled divisions that make NOR flash chips.
PHOTO: AP
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Sampo Corp strives to cut losses this year
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Sampo Corp spokesman Michael Chen, right, and Polon Electric Corp general manager Huang Pao-chang yesterday pose at a press conference to celebrate the launch of Sampo's new GK8800 model, a GSM phone with two SIM card slots.
PHOTO: WANG PEI-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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Yao Ming turns to `The Dream' for advice
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Houston's Yao Ming, left, and Hakeem Olajuwon talk with the media following a basketball workout at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Duncan leads San Antonio to victory
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Manu Ginobili, right, of the San Antonio Spurs goes up for a dunk over Paul Milsap, center, of the Utah Jazz in the first quarter of Game Two of the Western Conference Finals in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Actreee Eva Longoria attends the Spurs-Jazz game in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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US teen becomes youngest to climb `Seven Summits'
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Eighteen-year-old US climber Samantha Larson smiles from inside a van after returning from Mount Everest at Kathmandu airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Larson is the youngest foreign-born climber to reach the summit of the world's highest peak.
PHOTO: EPA
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Anaheim secure second trip to Stanley Cup finals
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Detroit Red Wings goalie Dominik Hasek lies on the ice after the Anaheim Ducks' Corey Perry scored in the second period in Game Six of their Western Conference finals in Anaheim, California, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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American clothes shoppers buy more online 美國人網路購衣 呈成長趨勢
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Drew Johnson, left, and Mack Sawicki, right, try "cyber shopping" with an interactive window display outside the Ralph Lauren store along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 27, 2006. 去年十一月二十七日在伊利諾州芝加哥市的「華麗一英里」購物區，朱爾．強生(左)與瑪可．索維琪(右)在Ralph Lauren的商店外，試著用互動展示窗進行「網路購物」。
PHOTO: AFP
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CD reviews
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VOXTROT Voxtrot MAy 22
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SKY BLUE SKY Wilco May 15
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MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Linkin Park May 15
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RElease th eStars Rufus Wainwright May 15
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Seniors set is style savvy, too
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Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is an older lady who is known for her sense of style and elegance, which is far from old hat.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Right: Dries van Noten's neon-bright anorak updates a dress or classic pants, not to mention covering the arms.
Left: Alberta Ferretti's abstract print silk dress has sleeves and a fitted bodice, which is nicely slimming.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE AND AFP
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Shark reproduced without mating, researchers say
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A hammerhead shark swims in a large tank at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta on Oct. 27, 2005. Researchers say sharks are capable of asexual reproduction.
PHOTO: AP
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Atopia: It's more than a feeling
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I Go Traveling by Tang Huang-chen
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ARTISTS
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Huang Shih-chieh's interactive installation EX-DD-06
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ARTISTS
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It's a Dream by Tsai Ming-liang.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ARTISTS
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Art Taipei pulls out all the stops
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Sam Shaw's iconic photo of Marilyn Monroe in 1950.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ART GALLERIES ASSOCIATION
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Gael Garcia Bernal rides the Latin American new wave
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Gael Garcia Bernal
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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