Newly crowned, Vivien Yeo waves after winning the Miss Malaysia Chinese International Pageant in Genting Highland, outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Saturday, Nov.8, 2003. Vivien walks away with prizes worth more than RM260,000 and will represent Malaysia competing at the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004 further in Hong Kong.

Former US President Bill Clinton (L) talks with Song Pengfei, a 21-year-old AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patient from north China's Shanxi Province, at Qinghua University in Beijing Monday, Nov. 10, 2003. More than 300 experts, scholars and officials from around the world Monday attended the International Seminar on AIDS and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) sponsored by the university.

British explorers Andy McEwen (L) and Ed Jocelyn sit at a road sign that reads "Red Army Snow Slope" in China's southwestern province of Sichuan in August, 2003. The two men spent more than a year retracing the route of the 1934-35 "Long March" by Mao Zedong's Red Army. Many long marchers died along the snow slope from exposure, exhaustion or from slidding down the slope in winter as they had to fight off Nationalist troops in hot pursuit. Picture taken in August, 2003.

A Chinese worker cleans the windows of a commercial building next to a national flag in Beijing November 11, 2003. China's economy grew 8.5 percent in this year's first nine months. Analysts said that they expected a similar rate for the full year. Despite its fevered growth, China still has one of the lowest rates of inflation in Asia. Consumer prices rose just 1.1 percent in September from a year earlier.

The Forbidden City in Beijing is blanketed with snow November 7, 2003. Beijing residents on Friday woke up to the Chinese capital's first snow fall of the winter. The Forbidden City is the largest and best-preserved cluster of ancient buildings in China. It was home to two dynasties of emperors, the Ming and the Qing.

An Iraqi boy holds a large Saddam Hussein action figure bought at a shop in the centre of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on November 6, 2003. Washington is set to order thousands of troops to prepare for duty in Iraq next year, U.S. officials said, as Britain's top envoy in Baghdad warned of difficult months ahead due to persistent guerrilla attacks.

An Iraqi boy collects real bullets while playing at bullet casings garbage dump in Baghdad's suburb of Al-Talibeaa November 8, 2003.

A visitor looks at the sculpture "Him", a look-a-like of former German dictator Adolf Hitler by artist Maurizio Cattelan at the "Haus der Kunst" art museum in Munich November 7, 2003. The sculpture is part of the exhibition "Partners" showing items of the collection of Canadian art collector Ydessa Hendeles and runs until February 15, 2004.

Billy, does your employer or the government take anything out of that $200 or do you get the whole thing?:confused:

Of course, I must hand out my tax and others.

OK, so how much does that leave for you?:confused:

About 30$

Jury members in charge of the design for the Forest Park and Central Zone on the Olympic Green for the Beijing 2008 Olympics visit a model jointly offered by the US-based Sasaki Associates Inc and a local urban conceptual design academy November 18, 2003, in Beijing. The jury has chosen three top designs from seven contenders asked to participate.

Flying on a bike
 

Wang Huihai flies over a 35-meter gouge on a bicycle as thousands of onlookers observe in Guangwu Town, Central China¡¯s Henan Province November 16, 2003. Wang, 35, from Northwest China¡¯s Shaanxi Province, soared over the 31.4-meter-wide Huangyaguan section of the Great Wall by bike in 2002.

Chemical factory fire
 

A firefighter combats a fire at a chemical plant in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, early Tuesday morning November 18, 2003. The fire, which was caused by a series of chemical explosions, was extinguished after one hour. No deaths or injuries were reported.