The Tai-Ex opened marginally lower this morning from yesterday's close, at

20,789 on turnover of 6.3-billion N-T.

The market ended the trading day at another fresh high on Tuesday.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's share price soared on news of the

company's plan to build a third wafer fab in the U-S state of Arizona.

President-elect Lai Ching-te has announced some members of his new cabinet.

Former D-P-P chairman and Cabinet Secretary-General, Zhuo Rong-tai has been

confirmed (確認) as the next Premier.

Former Culture Minister Zheng Li-jun will become the Vice Premier.

The Ministry of National Defense will be extending the tabletop war games

phase of this year's Han Kuang series of exercises.

The drills will last eight days this year, up from the previous five days.

The tabletop phase (階段) of the annual combined services exercise will be

taking place around the clock for from April 19 to 26.

According to Major General Tong Ji-xing, the extended computerized war games

will give the military more time to simulate responsive measures following an

invasion.

The measures will involve a higher level of command, with swift increased

troop deployment to key positions.

The live-fire phase of this year's Han Kuang exercise will taking place from

July 22 to 26.

The Food and Drug Administration says a shipment of 4,995-kilograms of chili

powder imported from China has been destroyed.

The products were found to contain the Sudan red dye.

Tests found the shipment contained 17 parts per billion of Sudan III, a red

fat-soluble dye banned in Taiwan for use in foodstuffs (食品).

Data shows that from October 1 of last year through April 1 this year,

samples from 27 of 145 shipments of Chinese chili powder submitted for

testing failed inspections.

They were also found to be contaminated with Sudan red dyes or banned

pesticides.

Imports of chili powder from 22 Chinese manufacturers have been indefinitely

suspended.

Arizona's Supreme Court has reinstated a 160-year-old law banning nearly all

abortions.

The move overrides a more recent law providing access to the procedure up to

15 weeks.

The ruling is the latest high-profile case as abortion becomes a central

(重要的, 主要的) issue in the upcoming presidential elections.

Toni waterman has more.

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence (存在)

of the so-called “God particle” has died at age 94.

The University of Edinburgh, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died

Monday following a short illness.

In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of the sub-atomic particle that helped

explain how matter formed after the Big Bang

But it would be almost 50 years before the its existence could be confirmed

at a particle collider (粒子對撞機) in Switzerland.

Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, alongside Francois

Englert of Belgium.

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