Volunteers to help immigrants
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Cathay Cultural Foundation chairman Fredrick Chien, third left, passes a flag to Eden Social Welfare Foundation chief executive officer Huang Cho-sung, center, at the launch of a joint volunteer program for immigrants in Taiwan yesterday.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Debtors take to streets to put pressure on legislature
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Credit card debtors gather in Taipei yesterday to urge the legislature to introduce a law that will allow debtors to negotiate better payment terms with their banks.
PHOTO: AP
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Hsieh accuses Ma on running mates
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DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh gets a little overwhelmed yesterday in Taipei when a supporter keeps shaking his hand and hugging him.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Interview: Taiwan's man in Washington on maintaining relations
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Taiwan's representative to the US, Joseph Wu, smiles in this photo taken on April 12.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ketamine use increasing, official says
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Members of the Bureau of Investigation deliver their presentation on the second and the last day of the National Drug Control Conference and International Drug Control Symposium in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: LU CHUN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Gates upbeat on US-China ties
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, shakes hands with Singapore's Minister of Defense Teo Chee Hean at the Shangri-La Dialogue at the 6th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asian Security Summit in Singapore yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kidney donation show turns out to be hoax
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Three transplant candidates in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, face the audience in the Big Donor Show, which aired on Friday. The show puportedly featured a dying woman deciding who would receive one of her kidneys was revealed as a hoax to raise awareness.
PHOTO: AFP
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Mortar barrages kill eight in Baghdad suburb
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A horse-drawn carriage transports the remains of US Army private first class Joseph Anzack Jr, 20, to a funeral service on the football field of his hometown high school in Torrance, California, on Friday. Anzack, a high school football player who graduated in 2005, was found dead in the Euphrates River in Iraq nearly two weeks after he and several other servicemen were ambushed by insurgents.
PHOTO: AFP
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Financing the climate change fight
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Asian markets shrug off fears of sell-off in China
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Pakistani stockbrokers watch their monitors during trading at the Karachi Stock Exchange in Karachi on Friday. The KSE-100 index crossed the record 13,000-point barrier during intra-day trading, but closed at 12,933 points. Experts say attractive share values, better profitability and hope of improved corporate earnings during the quarter are the factors driving the market upward.
PHOTO: AFP
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Urban refugees find home in Internet cafes
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A man walks into a 24-hour Internet manga cafe in Tokyo on May 7.
PHOTO: AP
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Google adds FeedBurner to growing list of acquisitions
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Daniel Zapata, left, of Motive Path and Toyoaki Kishimoto, right, of Sony Japan relax on beanie bags during Google Developer Day 2007 in San Jose, California, on Thursday.
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Google engineers try to read users' minds
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Google engineer Matt Cutts, left, battles colleague Jianfei Zhu in Building 43 in Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. The building houses the top engineers working on Google's mathematical formulas for deciding which Web pages best answer each user's question.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, pauses for breath at the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters on May 3.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Foreigners give old Beijing new lease on life
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Australian lawyer Tom Luckock gestures as he speaks during an interview outside his Chinese traditional courtyard home in central Beijing on May 1. A surge of interest by investors, especially foreigners, is providing a new lease on life for the former homes of the ancient city's nobility and elite merchants.
PHOTO: AFP
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Federer cruises into the last 16 in Paris
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Beckham stars as England draw
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England's David Beckham, left, takes a free kick as he plays against Brazil in a friendly game at Wembley Stadium, London, on Friday.
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England's Steven Gerrard is fouled by a Brazilian player, unseen, in a friendly soccer match at Wembley Stadium, London, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Mayo wins stage in Italy
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Spain's Iban Mayo is kissed on the podium after the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race in Terme di Comano, Italy, on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Woolmer was not murdered, British newspaper says
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The late Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer stands beside the pitch waiting for play to start on the fourth day of the first cricket Test match between Pakistan and India in Lahore on Jan. 16 last year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sharapova victory sets up clash with Patty Schnyder
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Russia's Maria Sharapova serves to Alla Kudryavtseva during their French Open match in Paris yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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All Blacks stumble to win against France
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Piri Weepu leads the All Blacks ``haka ''prior to the first Test between New Zealand and France at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Gregan helps Aussies to beat Wales
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Welsh player Chris Czekaj cries out in pain after breaking his leg during the match against the Wallabies in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday.
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Taiwan Beer wins SBL title in thriller
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Taiwan Beer players celebrate after a thrilling 69-68 victory against the Dacin Tigers in the championship deciding game of the Super Basketball League last night at the Taipei Physical Education College Gymnasium.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Black, slick and combat-ready
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Smith & Wesson chief operating officer Leland Nichols, left, looks over a completed M&P 15 rifle.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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As India's economybooms, the Gangespays a heavy price
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A Hindu devotee offers prayers in the polluted waters of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.
PHOTO: AP
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TVR is back on the road
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Sagaris, TVR's new flagship vehicle.
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The wall of sound comes tumbling down
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TEARING DOWN THE WALL OF SOUND: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector By Mick Brown
425 pages
Alfred A. Knopf
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Ed Husain is fanatically tolerant
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THE ISLAMIST, by Ed Husain
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Ed Husain, author of The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left, in London. His memoir has caused a ruckus in the media.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICES
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Manga Diplomancy 漫畫外交
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Young Japanese men walk past a manga poster at a cosplay venue in Tokyo, Japan, May 3, 2007. 五月三日在日本東京一個同人誌活動會場，年輕人行經漫畫海報．
PHOTO: EPA
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David Hasselhoff is important! (According to David Hasselhoff)
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Don't Hassel The Hoff
By David Hasselhoff
304 pages
Thomas Dunne Books
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