The Tai-Ex opened up 187-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

23,019 on turnover of $5.7-billion N-T.

The Health Promotion Administration says data shows that number of women over

the age of 50 seeking (尋求) assisted reproduction treatment grew by 45-per

cent in 2022.

According to the administration's latest report, a total of 58,476 married

women received assisted reproduction that year, marking an increase of 8,824

from 2021.

Of those women, 36.1-per cent were aged between 35 and 39, 33.3-per cent

between the ages of 40 and 44 and 19.9-per cent were aged between 30-34.

The administration says although there were only 355 women aged over 50, that

figure represented a 45-per cent increase from the previous year.

The report shows that a total of 11,549 babies were born in 2022 due to

assisted reproduction - 1,775 more than the previous year.

The U-K Government has announced new laws aimed at tackling (對付) suspected

people smugglers.

It comes after figures showed a 25-per cent increase in the number of

migrants crossing the English Channel in 2024.

The measures form part of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

and look to curb the activity of smuggling gangs responsible for channel

crossings.

Simon Gaitan has more.

Authorities say a surfer missing in Australia is believed dead in a shark

attack and they are searching the waters where the man disappeared.

The 28-year-old was at a popular surf beach in South Australia where a man

was killed by a white shark in 2023.

A witness who saw the shark attack on Thursday evening local time at Granites

Beach, near the coastal town of Streaky Bay, rode into the sea on a jet ski

and retrieved the man’s surfboard, police told local media, but there was no

sign of the victim.

Shark attacks in Australia are rare, but the state of South Australia has

registered more episodes (一連串事件) in the past two years than usual.

There were five shark attacks off the state’s coast in 2023, three of them

fatal.

Scientists at the time said they did not know the reason for the cluster.

A Europol operation during last summer’s European Championship and Paris

Olympics dismantled a network of several hundred providers of illegal

streaming of sports and other pirated (盜版的) content.

Spain’s top soccer league announced the results Thursday.

La Liga says it cooperated in the investigation.

The European Union’s law enforcement agency identified more than 560

resellers of pirated content that included streaming of movies, series and TV

channels.

More than 100 suspects were identified and 11 were arrested.

That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____.

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