The Tai-Ex opened down 171-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

29,933 on turnover of 14-billion N-T.

The market moved sharply higher on Monday - as it closed above the

30,000-point mark for the first time as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

smashed closing records on the back of investor optimism toward demand for

its high-end processes.

The Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office Intellectual Property Branch has indicted

three individuals and Tokyo Electron Taiwan for stealing Taiwan Semiconductor

Manufacturing's 14-nanometer technology secrets.

Those indicted include Chen Li-ming, a former T-S-M-C engineer who worked at

Tokyo Electron Taiwan, a T-S-M-C employee and a Tokyo Electron employee.

Two of the individuals have been charged with reproducing trade secrets

relating to national core (核心) key technologies under the National Security

Act.

While the other individual and Tokyo Electron Taiwan have been charged with

destroying evidence in a criminal case.

All three individuals and Tokyo Electron Taiwan have also been indicted in a

seperate investigation into the theft of T-S-M-C's 2-nanometer technology.

The Tourism Administration has issued updated guidelines to better protect

foreign interns in the accommodation/hospitality sector.

It comes after the government opened the sector to foreign students enrolled

in overseas schools last year to help address labor shortages.

The administration says more than 1,900 students came to Taiwan to work as

interns last year, but there were concerns over inadequate (不足)

protections.

Under the updated guidelines, foreign interns who perform work beyond their

training must receive payment equivalent to at least the minimum wage,

training must not exceed more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week …

… and it cannot be scheduled between 10PM and 6AM, without the individual

intern's consent.

Activists say the death toll in violence surrounding (周圍的) protests in

Iran has risen to at least 35.

The figure came from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which

said more than 1,200 people have been detained in the protests, which have

been ongoing for more than a week.

It said 29 protesters, four children and two members of Iran’s security

forces have been killed.

The semiofficial Fars news agency, believed close to Iran’s paramilitary

Revolutionary Guard, says some 250 police officers and 45 members of the

Guard’s all-volunteer Basij force have been hurt.

Mobile phones will now be seized from illegal migrants entering the UK

without arrest.

The country's government says the new powers will help gather more

information on smuggling (走私) gangs organising the Channel crossings.

Lara Bentley has more…

Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, has died at 96.

The Anne Frank Trust UK, where she was honorary president, said she died

Saturday in London.

King Charles III praised Schloss for her lifelong dedication to overcoming

hatred and prejudice (偏見).

Born in Vienna in 1929, Schloss fled to Amsterdam and became friends with

Anne Frank.

Both families hid from the Nazis but were eventually captured.

Schloss survived Auschwitz and later moved to Britain.

She became a prominent Holocaust educator, speaking worldwide and writing

books.

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

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