The Tai-Ex opened up 51-points this morning from Friday's close, at 20,839 on

turnover of 6.8-billion N-T.

The market closed up more than 500 points on Friday, led by Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing, after strong earnings from two major U-S tech

giants overnight eased concerns about A-I demand despite U-S tariff

disruptions.

The Food and Drug Administration says it will keep current pork import

inspection procedures in place.

The statement comes despite the agency detecting ractopamine in imported pork

for the first time since the ban on the leanness-enhancer was lifted in 2021.

According to the F-D-A, pork imports will continue to undergo between 2 and

10-per cent batch inspections.

The F-D-A says a 22.99-metric-ton shipment from Australia on April 29 tested

positive for 0.001 parts per million of ractopamine -- well below the legal

threshold (界限，水準).

The secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been named as

the Lai administration's new top envoy to Ireland.

According to a Cabinet personnel announcement, Daniel Tang will fill the

vacancy (空缺) left by his immediate predecessor, Yang Zi-bao - whose

resignation has been approved by the Presidential Office.

Yang had served as Taiwan's representative to the European country since 2018.

Tang has served as the foreign ministry's secretary general since February

2023 and was previously Taiwan's top envoy to South Korea and ambassador to

the Marshall Islands.

US President Donald Trump says he doesn't see everyone in the the country

getting due process (正當法律程序), as the Constitution states.

AP correspondent Donna Warder reports.

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO

because it awarded a prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan

newspaper, La Prensa.

UNESCO’s director general announced she had received a letter Sunday morning

from the Nicaraguan government announcing its withdrawal because of the

attribution (歸屬) of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

The 2025 award was attributed Saturday to La Prensa on the recommendation

(推薦) of an international jury of media professionals.

The prize jury hailed the newspaper's work in the face of “severe

repression” and reporting from exile to "keep press freedom alive" in the

Central American country.

Nicaragua’s government, led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife and

co-president, Rosario Murillo, has been cracking down on dissent since it

violently repressed protests in 2018, claiming they were backed by foreign

powers that sought his overthrow.

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

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