The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened down 348.26 points at 21,254.63

on turnover of NT$8.79 billion.

The defense ministers of the United States and Japan says they "took note" of

military activities by China around Taiwan and reiterated their long-held

support for maintaining peace across Taiwan Strait.

The minister's comments come as U-S Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited

Japan on Sunday as part of his first trip to Asia since taking office

During his meeting with Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, the two sides

pledged (承諾的) to enhance their alliance and discussed China's growing

military threats.

An English-language press release issued by Japan's defense ministry said

"the ministers confirmed their opposition to any unilateral attempts to

change the status quo by force or coercion including in the East and South

China Seas."

A guesthouse in Kenting National Park will be fined for violating price

control rules.

Local authorities found it had increased its room rate by almost 900-per cent

for dates covering this week's long weekend Tomb Sweeping Day holiday.

The guesthouse was found not only to be engaging in price gouging but also

operating more rooms than permitted, with 15 rooms in use instead of the nine

registered (注冊).

The Pingtung County Bureau of Transport says the guesthouse faces fines of

between 10,000 and 50,000 for price gouging and a fine of 40,000 for

exceeding the allowed room count.

The guesthouse has also been ordered to stop operations.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has caused slight damage in Tonga and brief

evacuations (疏散) before the threat of a tsunami passed.

The temblor hit around 100km (62 miles) northeast of the main island early

today…

Julie Walker reports.

The U.N. says Gaza’s bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week.

Agencies have cut food distributions to families in half.

Markets are empty of most vegetables.

Many aid workers cannot move around because of Israeli bombardment (轟擊).

Aid groups are trying to stretch out what little supplies they have as

Israel's blockade of all food, medicine, fuel and other supplies into Gaza

enters its fifth week.

Palestinians are crowding free kitchens for prepared meals, amid fears of a

catastrophic rise in hunger. Fuel and medicine will last some weeks longer

before hitting zero.

Pope Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning

to the Vatican to convalesce…

This… after surviving (倖存下來) a life-threatening bout with

double-pneumonia.

Trisha Thomas reports from Rome.

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