The Tai-Ex opened up 97-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 18,950

on turnover of $8.6-billion N-T.

The Tai-Ex closed at an all-time high on Thursday ..

… as investor's looked to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on the back

of Nvidia's financial results - which showed the artificial intelligence chip

designer reported 12.29-billion U-S dollars in net income during the fourth

quarter of last year.

Lawmakers from across party lines are urging the government to speed-up

efforts to build a friendly environment in which to farm egg-laying hens.

The call comes after the release of a report on progress made in assisting

the industry shift to cage-free farming across Asia.

Taiwan ranked sixth out of 17 countries surveyed in the report by Open Wing

Alliance - a global coalition of 100 organizations from 72 countries.

Lawmakers say Taiwan has made no progress in phasing out (淘汰) battery cages

in the farming of egg-laying chickens and say the government to come up with

effective measures as soon as possible.

They're also calling for a policy to help cooperative egg farmers gain access

to land and loans and for subsides to be granted to farmers who adopt an

animal-friendly egg production model.

The Commissioner General of the UN aid agency in Gaza, UNRWA says the agency

has reached breaking point (失控點；極限).

Jody Jacobs reports from the United Nations in New York…

A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim

family has been sentenced to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that

the actions of the “admitted white nationalist” amounted to terrorism.

Nathaniel Veltman has also been sentenced to a concurrent (並行) life

sentence for the attempted murder of a boy who survived the 2021 attack.

Veltman was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder

and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his

truck while they were out for a walk.

The case was the first time Canada’s terrorism laws were put before a jury

in a first-degree murder trial.

A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a Japanese bay

is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a

local museum.

It’s the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in Osaka Bay,

raising questions about the reasons why and the cost of handling the

incidents.

The animal that was confirmed dead Monday is believed to be a male sperm

whale, about 12 meters long and weighing an estimated 20 tons.

The whale was spotted several times in the bay and port since mid-January.

Tidal fluctuations (起伏不定), diseases and climate change are among the

possible reasons it became stranded.

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