The Tai-Ex opened up 169-points this morning from Friday's close, at 22,138

on turnover of $5.5-billion N-T.

The market closed little changed on Friday after moving in consolidation mode

throughout the session after Canada and the European Union both took

retaliatory against measures against Donald Trump's tariffs.

Analsysts say investors will be keeping a close eye on how the U-S government

will impose reciprocal tariffs and the aftermath, which will affect global

financial markets.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has lodged an official protest over

the "unilateral" change to the name of Taiwan's representative office on a

South African government website.

The statement comes after an update to the Department of International

Relations and Cooperation website listed the "Taipei Liaison Office" as the

"Taipei Commercial Office."

According to the foreign ministry, the South African government is seeking to

"downgrade" the representative office and recategorize it as a "trade office"

based in the commercial capital Johannesburg.

South Africa has set a deadline of the end of this month for Taiwan to change

the name of its representative office and relocate it.

However, the foreign ministry is insisting that per an agreement signed the

year before diplomatic relations with South Africa ended in 1998, Taiwan is

permitted to operate a liaison office in Pretoria.

The organizers of Sunday's Fengshan Marathon in Kaohsiung have apologized for

giving out trophies shaped like a Chinese military rifle.

According to the Fengshan Road Running Association, it originally chose the

design for the trophies because the 2025 edition of the annual marathon

passed through three military academies.

However, the association says it recognized the choice was "inconsiderate"

and had apologized to those who received the trophies.

The association also says it will contact all trophy recipients to replace

the rifle-shaped trophies with alternatives.

The statement was issued after one of the participants of Sunday's marathon

posted a photograph of the trophy and joked about how it was shaped like

Chinese rifle.

The U-S government is slamming a federal judge's decision to stop the

administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping (廣泛的) 18th

century law.

The A-P's Donna Warder has more.

Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to

seek alliances as he deals U-S President Donald Trump's attacks on Canada's

sovereignty and economy.

Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of

the two countries that shaped Canada's early existence.

At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on

the bedrock (基礎) of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous.

He said Canada is fundamentally a different country from America and will

never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States.

And finally,

A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering

the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

The new crew pulled up Sunday, just 29 hours after blasting off.

The four newcomers will spend the next few days learning the station's ins

and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

Then it will be time for those two to end their nine-month stay and head

home.

They expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first

astronaut flight last June.

The Starliner capsule had so many problems that NASA insisted it come back

empty (空的).

Wilmore and Williams will come back via SpaceX.

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

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