Feature: Historian discusses Taipei's history
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Historian and Taipei resident Chuang Yung-ming sits behind a table laid out with photos and old bus tickets Thursday while talking about how Taipei's development can be traced in the tickets and the development of the public transportation system.
PHOTO: LIN HSIU-TZU, TAIPEI TIMES
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Plane crash kills two in Fenglin Township
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The remains of the RANS-S6 lie in a field in Taitung yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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Chen says KMT's `common market' a `one China' ploy
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, right, exercises with Chiayi Mayor Huang Min-hui, front left, during an event that was part of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Chiayi's elevation to city status.
PHOTO: CNA
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DPP lawmakers pan court over state funds case trial
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Gao Jyh-peng, right, and Wu Ping-jui urge the Taipei District Court yesterday to return all materials seized by prosecutors during investigations into the ``state affairs fund'' case.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Seoul sending rice aid to North Korea
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South Korean workers take a break as they load packs of rice for North Korea into a Vietnamese ship at Gunsan port in Gunsan, South Korea, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Ivory Coast PM's plane draws gunfire
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Members of the New Forces movement view the damaged fuselage of Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro 's plane after it was hit by a rocket in Bouake, Ivory Coast.
PHOTO: AFP
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Greek heat wave claims three new victims
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Firemen fight a blaze in the Afetes area of Pilion, central Greece, late on Friday. The fires, fanned by strong winds, broke out after a nine-day heat wave described by authorities as the longest ever recorded in the country.
PHOTO: AFP
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Canadian Native groups block major roads, rail lines
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Grand chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization Morris Shannacappo leads Manitoba Aborigines and supporters in a march for change during the Aboriginal Day of Action in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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A child of the yakuza spurns gangland
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Asian stocks mixed as investors digest Fed outlook
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A woman walks past a stock indicator in downtown Tokyo on Friday. Japanese stocks climbed on Friday for a second straight session, as upbeat analyst ratings prompted investors to snap up Toshiba and Takeda Pharmaceutical. The NIKKEI 225 index rose 206.09 points, or 1.15 percent, to 18,138.36 points on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Hundreds walk away with first iPhones
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Customer James Budd celebrates in the Apple Store on Chicago's Michigan Avenue on Friday after purchasing an iPhone. Apple is banking on the new cellphone to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
PHOTO: AP
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Dropped immigration bill a headache for US emplyers
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Day laborers watch a pickup truck pass by on the streets of San Diego, California, on Friday. The workers wait hoping for jobs in construction, farming or landscaping. They gather at dawn to await pickups in the northern part of the city, whose immigration dynamics reflect those of the country, and where shantytowns exist less than 2km from US$1 million homes.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Chicago's last-gasp rally beats Brewers
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A fan greets San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, right, in left field during the seventh inning of the Giants' game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday in San Francisco. Bonds calmly greeted the man and walked him off the field. The Diamondbacks won 4-3 in 10 innings.
PHOTO: AP
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Brazilian leads stormy US Open
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Park In-bee hits a shot from the rough on the 15th hole during the second round of the US Women's Open Championship on Friday in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
PHOTO: AFP
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Top teams face Copa America pressure
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Colombian players Ivan Ramiro Cordoba, right front, and David Ferreira, left front, stretch during a practice session in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on Friday. Colombia will face Argentina tomorrow.
PHOTO: EPA
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Tendulkar sets record as India tie series
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Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot against South Africa during the second one day international match at the Stormont cricket ground in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Friday. Tendulkar became the first man in cricket history to score 15,000 one day international runs when he reached 50.
PHOTO: AFP
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Tottenham sign striker Darren Bent for £6.5m
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Darren Bent, right, is tackled by West Ham United's Paul Konchesky while playing for Charlton Athletic during an English Premier League soccer match against West Ham United at Upton Park, London, on Aug. 19 last year.
PHOTO: EPA
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Shah blazes 55 as England tie series with West Indies
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England batsman Owais Shah hits out during the Twenty20 international match against the West Indies at the Brit Oval in London on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Ferrari fastest in practice for the French Grand Prix
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Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Ferrari watches practice in the pit at the Magny Cours race track near Nevers, France, on Friday.
PHOTO: EPA
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S Koreans dominate at Sun Moon Lake triathlon
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Hsu Pei-yen, left, and Hsu Tsu-hsiung point to each other after finishing first and second among Taiwanese competitors and an overall sixth and seventh in the sprint distance event of the Uni-President Triathlon at Sun Moon Lake yesterday. The Olympic distance race takes place today.
PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Federer closes in on fifth straight Wimbledon title
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Roger Federer of Switzerland returns the ball to Marat Safin of Russia during the third round at Wimbledon in south London on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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PHOTO: AFP
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Who's an ugly boy? 醜傢伙是...?
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Elwood at the 2007 World's Ugliest Dog Contest, California, USA, June 22, 2007.
六月二十二日,艾爾伍德在美國加州舉行的"二00七世界最醜狗狗大賽"上留影.
PHOTO: AP
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From industry to lifestyle
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Products designed by original design manufacturers Plustone Creative Group and Do A Little Design.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF PLUSTONE AND DO A LITTLE DESIGN
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Going to 'hell'
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A Taoist priest demonstrates one way of blocking out the material world.
PHOTOS: NOAH BUCHAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Blindfolded participants wait as a Taoist priest performs the guanlingshu ritual.
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A Taoist priest, right, helps a believer preparing to enter the spirit world.
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Lin Mei-yu, a Taoist priest, gestures as she performs a daiguan ritual.
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