KMT bickers over new statement
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou holds hands with his mother, Chin Hou-hsiu, during a visit to his father's grave yesterday to mark the second anniversary of his father's death, together with his sisters Ma Yi-nan, left, and Ma Nai-xi.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan Quick Take
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As many as 20,000 illegally imported Chinese ''Eriocheir sinensis'' crabs, or hairy crabs, with a total weight of 3.5 tonnes are displayed yesterday after being seized by the Coast Guard Administration in Kuanyi Township, Hsinchu County.
PHOTO: LIAO HSUEH-RU, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ceiling on oil price could be lowered
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Vice Premier Chiou I-jen, who doubles as chairman of the Consumer Protection Commission, answers questions about rising oil prices at a press conference in the legislature yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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WORLD NEWS: QUICK TAKE
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Migrant workers pose for a wedding photo at a demolished site in Chongqing, China, on Wednesday. The five couples took advantage of a real estate developer's offer of free wedding photos to mark the local Migrant Workers' Day, which falls on Sunday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Motorcycle blast kills eight in Pakistan
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A Pakistani Air Force soldier stands in front of a bus damaged in a suicide bombing in Sargodha, about 200km south of Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Death toll from Noel rises to 81
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Flooded streets are pictured in Arenoso, 200km northeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Wednesday after Tropical Storm Noel.
PHOTO: EPA
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VP Cheney embraces `the dark side'
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In this photograph provided by the White House, US Vice President Dick Cheney's Labrador retrievers Jackson, left, and Dave sit for a photograph at the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington on Tuesday. Jackson is dressed as Darth Vader; Dave is dressed as Superman.
PHOTO: AP
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WORLD BUSINESS: QUICK TAKE
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Models display clothes decorated with hundreds of Austrian gold coins worth more than US$1.27 million at the Bunka Fashion college student fashion show in Tokyo yesterday. Gold hit a 28-year high yesterday after the US dollar tumbled to a record low against main currencies and oil soared to all-time highs, but the rally lost steam just a fingertip away from hitting US$800.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Lampard saves Chelsea's blushes against Leicester
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Tottenham's Jermain Defoe shoots during their Carling Cup match against Blackpool at White Hart Lane stadium in London on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Defending champ Zou routs David Ayrapetyan
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Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan celebrates after he beat Pedro Lima of Brazil during the round of 16 in the welterweight 69kg class of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago on Wednesday. Sarsekbayev won 23-11.
PHOTO: AP
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Maggie moves house 大象'梅姬'搬家囉！
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Maggie the elephant looks through her cage at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska on Oct. 27, 2007.
本月二十七日，大象梅姬在阿拉斯加安克拉治的阿拉斯加動物園中，從她的籠子中向外望。
PHOTO: AP
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Playground bully, all grown up
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Billy Bob Thornton plays a hateful coot who dates a former student's mother.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ARM
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'Saw IV' is torture for audiences and film critics
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The really horrific thing about Saw IV is that people will actually watch it.
PHOTOS:COURTESY OF CMC
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The really horrific thing about Saw IV is that people will actually watch it.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CMC
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'Bugs,' bugs everywhere
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Ashley Judd, left, and Harry Connick Jr act well in Bug, an overwrought drama.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF LIONSGATE
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Blame this one on the Bill of Rights
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In Shoot 'Em Up, Clive Owen, left, protects a baby whose bone marrow is supposed to further the cause of gun control.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS
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[REEL NEWS]
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Sienna Miller helped select a director for a film that's making use of online collaboration.
PHOTO : EPA
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Tuya's Marriage has been withdrawn from the Golden Horse Film Festival.
PHOTO: Taipei Times
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Sojourns in search of self
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'The Most Distant Course' strikes a familiar chord with audiences.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CHI HSIA FILMS
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PHOTO: COURTESY OF CHI HSIA FILMS
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Other Releases
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Puppetry sans strings
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Puppeteer Ulrike Quade manipulates the main puppet character.
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'I Love You' aims to change audience habits
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'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' is an English-language musical with an unusually long run, for Taiwan.
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The Muddy Basin blues
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David Chen and The Muddy Basin Ramblers draw on a long tradition of improvising instruments.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MUDDY BASIN RAMBLERS
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POP STOP
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Carina Lau has bagged the title of best leading actress and possibly a best leading actor husband.
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F4 are model stars in the eyes of the Tourism Bureau.
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Panty power aims to shun Myanmar's junta 以'內褲力量'對抗緬甸軍政府
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A street vendor carries dummies with panties in Guatemala City, Aug. 7, 2007.
八月七日，瓜地馬拉市的一位路邊攤小販抱著兩位穿著內褲的假人。
PHOTO: AFP
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THE VINYL WORD
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Hands in the air like you don't care - it's back to the days of rave.
PHOTO: QUEEN BEE,TAIPEI TIMES
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RESTAURANTS: Mala Yuanyang Hot Pot (馬辣鴛鴦火鍋)
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Mala Yuanyang Hot Pot serves higher quality fare than similar restaurants in the same price bracket.
PHOTO: HO YI,TAIPEI TIMES
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Circus nouveau comes to town
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Seven groups from Taiwan, Hong Kong, France and the Netherlands will turn in a medley of acrobatics, circus performances, physical theater, kung fu, hip-hop dance and music this weekend at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Plaza.
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Dance imitates life in remembering Tsai Jui-yueh
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The life of Tsai Jui-yueh, a pioneer of modern dance in Taiwan, will be celebrated this weekend.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF TESIJUI-YUEH DANCE FESTIVAL
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RESTAURANTS: Qunxiangpin (群香品)
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Qunxiangpin dishes up steamed dumplings that explode in the mouth.
PHOTO: NOAH BUCHAN,TAIPEI TIMES
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[ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ]
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The Song of Chatian Mountain bring Chung Chao-cheng's book of the same name to the silver screen.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF BLACK AND WHITE FILM STUDIO
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The ends are in sight for Godot Theater Company's Thanks for the Music.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF GODOT THEATER COMPANY
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