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Taiwan investigators identify gunman who shot fisherman Staff Reporter 2013-06-01 18:04 Yang Wan-li, left, says her team have collected sufficient evidence and received assistance from the authorities in the Philippines. (File photo/Kao Hsing-yu) Taiwanese investigators said on May 31 that...

More Taiwanese food products recalled in Singapore CNA 2013-06-01 16:55 A factory making Sun Chi noodles, one of the products named in the recall. (Photo/Tsao Ting-ting) Four more starch-based food products from Taiwan have been ordered off shelves in Singapore after they were found to...

Commander ordered us to fire, say Philippine coast guard officers Staff Reporter 2013-06-01 09:17 Philippine coast guard officers leave after questioning by Taiwanese investigators on May 29. (Photo/Chen Cheng-tang) Eight Philippine coast guard officers have told Taiwanese investigators...

3D printing technology used in Chinese fighter jets Staff Reporter 2013-05-31 13:11 A large 3D printer at Northwestern Polytechnical University in northwest China's Shaanxi province. (Photo/Xinhua) China is employing 3D printing technology in the development of its military aircraft, from...

Barack Obama's second term 'an extraordinary disappointment', says Mitt Romney Barack Obama's second term has been an "extraordinary disappointment" so far, according to Mitt Romney, the defeated Republican presidential candidate. Mr Romney, left, said that Mr Obama still appears to be...

Starbucks 'toilet water' coffee prompts anger in Hong Kong A Starbucks café in Hong Kong's financial district that used water from a tap near a urinal to brew coffee has prompted a torrent of angry reactions from customers. A branch of Starbucks in the financial district of Hong Kong...

Treehouses are seen on the Nine Ladies site in Stanton Lees, Derbyshire, northern England, March 25, 2004. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

General view of a tree-house in Le Pian Medoc, southwestern France, April 24, 2009. France's Natura Cabana company rents various cabins perched in the trees for ecological holidays. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Miguel Restrepo (L), 62, and wife Maria Garcia are seen from their sewer home in Medellin December 4, 2012. The former drug addict has been living in an abandoned sewer with his wife and dog Blackie for 22 years. Their home, which is fitted with a kitchen, a fan, tv, a chair and a bed, is a 6...

Residents climb into their houses atop gravestones inside a cemetery in Manila October 21, 2008. Many poor urban dwellers make their homes in public cemeteries, converting abandoned tombs and mausoleums into houses. The local government plan to move out the hundreds of people who live in the...

A man takes a picture of the one of the world's narrowest buildings, built as an artistic installation wedged between two existing buildings, in Warsaw October 23, 2012. A building just 92 cm (36 inches) wide as its narrowest point was opened in Warsaw on October 20 as an artistic installation...

Kong Siu-kau waits for dinner in a small cage in Hong Kong's Tai Kok Tsui district July 16, 2008. In older districts like Tai Kok Tsui, hundreds of elderly men still reside in caged cubicles in cramped, old tenement flats which house up to 12 individuals in often squalid conditions. Hong Kong on...

Girls play on a trampoline near a home blasted from a rock wall at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, November 2, 2012. The "Rock" as it is referred to by the approximately 100 people living there in about 15 families, was founded about 35 years ago on a sandstone formation near...

Visitors walk inside a nearly 700 year old Fujian Tulou in Nanjing county, Fujian province, China November 19, 2012. The earthen Tulou buildings, which set up enclosed walls to defend against outside dangers, have served the Hakka people since 11th century, when their ancestors settled down at...

Bohumil Lhota, a 73-year-old builder, turns the house he built in Velke Hamry, near the town of Jablonec nad Nisou, 100km (62 miles) north-east from Prague, Czech Republic August 7, 2012. Lhota conceptualized the idea to create the unique house and started to build it in 1981, building it close...

Palestinian Halimeh Saleem (L) washes dishes at her cave home in the northern Negev Desert, near the West Bank city of Hebron, January 17, 2007. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

A man sits as he smokes at the door of his cave-room in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China August 7, 2010. REUTERS/China Daily

A Bulgarian woman looks inside her wine vat home in Socuellamos, central Spain, October 2, 2007. About 40 people living in this makeshift camp are ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who came to the vineyards of Socuellamos to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest. At night they sleep in 20 or...

A child stands at the door of a shipping container serving as his accommodation, in Shanghai March 4, 2013. The containers, which house different families, were set up by the landlord, who charges a rent of 500 yuan ($ 80) per month for each container. REUTERS/Aly Song

A house partially built in the shape of an airplane is seen in Abuja November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic