The Tai-Ex opened up 96-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 19,609

on turnover of 4.4-billion N-T.

The market bucked a regional upward trend on Monday and closed marginally

lower after early gains eroded amid lingering investor concerns over the

Trump administration's tariffs on semiconductors.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a protest with the Cambodia

government after it deported a group of recently arrested Taiwanese telecoms

fraud suspects to China.

According to the ministry, some of a group of 180 recently arrested Taiwanese

fraud suspects were deported to China late Sunday and early Monday in three

groups along with arrested Chinese fraud suspects.

The ministry says it doesn't know how many were sent to China over the past

two days because the Cambodian government has refused to provide a full list

of those who were deported.

The foreign ministry is accusing the Cambodian government of bowing to

Chinese pressure (壓力) by not providing that information and calling on

Phnom Penh to released a list of all the deportees as soon as possible.

Housing prices declined in the fourth quarter of last year.

According to Chinatrust Real Estate, the decline came after the housing

market was hit hard following the central bank;s seventh round (輪) of credit

controls - which were introduced in September.

Data from the Ministry of the Interior's real estate information platform

shows that averages housing prices fell to 338,600 N-T per ping in the fourth

quarter and that was a 6.6-per cent decline from the third quarter.

All six special municipalities registered falling housing prices in the

September to December period.

Kaohsiung's housing market saw the steepest decline at 10.4-per cent - while

housing prices in Taipei City were down by 3-per cent in the fourth quarter.

US President Donald Trump and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have ruled

out (排除…的可能性) releasing a man mistakenly sent to a maximum security

prison in the Central American country.

Nick Harper reports from Washington.

Algeria on Monday announced the expulsion of 12 French officials, shattering

recent hopes of a diplomatic thaw and plunging relations between the two

nations to a new low.

The country’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that French

consular agents had been given 48 hours to leave the country, in response to

the arrest of an Algerian consular official in France.

French counterterrorism prosecutors said three Algerians were arrested Friday

on preliminary charges of “kidnapping or arbitrary detention … in

connection with a terrorist undertaking (任務),” including one that French

media has said was an Algerian consular official.

The group is allegedly involved in the April 2024 kidnapping of an Algerian

influencer, Amir Boukhors, or Amir DZ, a known critic of the Algerian

government with 1.1 million followers on TikTok.

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