Yimin Festival begins in Taipei
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People parade along a street in Hsinchu County during the Hsinchu County Hakka Yimin Festival yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG CHIN-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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More Taiwanese using `ghost money' burning services
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Two Taipei residents burn ''ghost money'' yesterday. Taiwanese traditionally celebrate Ghost Month, which is the seventh lunar month, believing that ghosts, including those of dead ancestors, emerge from the netherworld then.
PHOTO: AP
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Wang's supporters blast KMT chiefs
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung speaks at an award ceremony for KMT group leaders in Hsinchu and Miaoli counties yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN WEI-JEN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sichuan offers avant-garde artists museums
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Artist Zhang Xiaogang stands in his studio in Beijing in June 2005. Zhang is one of eight artists who have been offered their own museums by Sichuan Province.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Death toll in Greece rises to 37
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A shrine is seen in front of a fire in the village of Kato Samika, about 320km southwest of Athens, early yesterday. An unprecedented wave of massive fires fanned by gale-force winds raged out of control across Greece on Friday, sweeping into towns and villages. At least 37 people have died in the fires.
PHOTO: AP
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Seale receives three life terms in jail for 1964 killing of two black teenagers
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Convicted reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale, left, is taken by US Marshalls from the federal courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 15 after being convicted on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.
PHOTO: EPA
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Asian stocks hit five-year high on bullish sentiment
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An investor chats with an associate at a private securities company in Shanghai on Friday. Chinese stocks rose to another record close on Friday on strong demand from securities funds, despite signs the country's central bank may be poised to tighten credit again.
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ASEAN considering sanctions
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Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai talks to reporters during a break in the ongoing 39th ASEAN economic ministers meeting at a hotel in the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, in the Philippines yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Teenager opens iPhone to wider audience
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George Hotz, 17, holds an iPhone that he has unlocked and is using on T-Mobile's network, on Friday in New York. Hotz has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cellphone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
PHOTO: AP
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Brazilian beauty bottled for export
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Actress Luciana Gimenez, who is part of Brazil's culture of beauty, gets a beauty treatment in Sao Paulo on July 27. Brazilians' longtime devotion to the body beautiful -- whether it be spending fortunes on perfumes and cosmetics, slimming down to fit into minuscule swimsuits or revealing body waxing -- is paying off. Exports of the country's beauty products have been rising quickly in the last few years.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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A technician works on a line of beauty products based on caipirinha, a mix made from sugar cane liquor and lime, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 2, 2007.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Blake, Fish set for showdown
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James Blake celebrates his semi-final victory over Paul-Henri Mathieu at the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven, Conneticut, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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RUGBY WORLD CUP: Ireland beat Italy but disappoint coach
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Outside half Ronan O'Gara, right, of Ireland fights off Italian winger Kaine Robertson before scoring the winning try on Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
PHOTO: AFP
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Ireland's Paul O'Connell, left, and Donncha O'Callaghan, right, tackle Italy's Gonzalo Canale during their international at Ravenhill, Belfast, on Friday.
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RUGBY WORLD CUP: World Cup fever beginning to spread to French players
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France rugby scrumhalf Pierre Mignoni, in front of forward Sebastien Chabal, throws the ball during a training session in Marcoussis, south of Paris, on Friday, ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup. France face Wales today in their final Rugby World Cup preparatory match in Cardiff.
PHOTO: AP
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RUGBY WORLD CUP: Wales face France in cup warm-up
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England's Andy Farrell, right, gets a fist in the jaw during a tackle from Wales' Chris Horsman during their international friendly at Twickenham, London, earlier this month. England won the game 62-5.
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Liverpool beat Sunderland 2-0
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Sunderland's Michael Chopra, right, struggles for the ball with Liverpool's Xabi Alonzo during their English Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, England, yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Gay, Powell stroll through 100m heats, Kibet wins marathon
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Tendulkar hits 99 as India tie series against England
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Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot during the second one day interntional match against England at the Rose Bowl in Bristol, England, on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Jazz it up
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Hsieh in the studio.
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Another face of the River Nile
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Omran Frihy, who has published several reports on sea level rise and erosion, looks out from a hotel roof over the beach in Alexandria, Egypt
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The Mediterranean Sea is creeping higher, flooding parts of the Egyptian shoreline in an inexorable process caused by global warming.
PHOTO: AP
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Malaysia celebrates 50 years of independence
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Malaysian food reflects the diversity of the country's culture.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SUNWORLD DYNASTY HOTEL
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Dr. Siri Paiboun is Laos' answer to Precious Ramotswe
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ANARCHY AND OLD DOGS
By Colin Cotterill
272 pages
SOHO PRESS
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Beginning, middle and ... nothing
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MOTHERS AND SONS
By Colm Tobin
311 pages
PICADOR
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US troop surge sets Iraq asunder
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A young Iraqi girl looks on, as her family shelters at a house in the Shualah camp, a makeshift refuge for expelled Shiites on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, Aug. 22.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Children peer in curiosity past the gate of a house in the Shualah camp.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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An elderly woman hides her face at the Shualah camp.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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