The Tai-Ex opened up 93-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 19,398

on turnover of 7.9-billion N-T.

The market closed at yet another new all-time high on Monday, led by Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing after its American depositary receipts soared on

Wall Street at the end of last week.

The Coast Guard Administration says it has handed over audio recordings of

the February 14 fatal capsizing of a Chinese speedboat in waters near Kinmen

to prosecutors.

Confirmation that recordings have been give to the Kinmen District

Prosecutors' Office were made by Coast Guard Director-General Zhou Mei-wu

during a Legislative hearing.

According to Zhou, along with handing over audio records, his office has also

provided prosecutors with radar information showing the vessels' exact

(精確的) movements.

Zhou also denied reports the Coast Guard patrol boat had "rammed and

overturned the Chinese vessel.

The governor of the U-S state of Michigan has formally opened office to

facilitate exchanges between the state and Taiwan in areas such as commerce,

culture and education.

According Gretchen Whitmer, the opening of the Michigan Taiwan Office "is an

extension of a partnership that has been built over the years between Taiwan

and United States."

Whitmer says Taiwan's world leading expertise in the fields of semiconductors

and clean energy make it a perfect match for cooperation with the Michigan

State government, which is currently pursuing (追求) clean energy by

transitioning to electric vehicles.

French parliamentarians have voted to enshrine the right to access abortion

services into the constitution.

Lawmakers and senators overwhelmingly (壓倒性地) approved the changes in a

rare joint session of parliament at the Chateau of Versailles.

Ross Cullen reports.

Greek authorities say they have rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggling

vessel in distress off the country’s southern mainland.

The coast guard says the migrants were taken off their vessel by a tugboat

that had been ordered to the area and safely carried them to a southeastern

village on Monday.

No injuries have been reported.

The area where the incident occurred is on a route used by smugglers to send

migrants in overcrowded sailing yachts from Turkey to Italy, skirting

southern Greece and avoiding the heavily patrolled (巡邏的) waters off the

eastern Aegean Sea islands.

The European Union has fined Apple nearly $2 billion by forbidding rivals

like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions

outside of iPhone apps.

Monday's move is the 27-nation bloc’s first antitrust penalty against the

U.S. tech giant.

The EU's executive commission says Apple muzzled streaming services from

telling people about payment options available through their websites.

That would avoid the 30% fee charged when people pay through apps downloaded

with the iOS App Store.

A complaint from Spotify triggered the investigation amid a years-long feud

with Apple over music streaming supremacy.

Apple says the EU didn't “uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm”

and vowed to appeal (上訴).

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