The Tai-Ex opened up 13-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 20,559

on turnover of 1.8-billion N-T.

The market closed slightly higher on Wednesday despite market sentiment

turning cautious ahead of the outcome of the U-S Federal Reserve's two-day

policymaking meeting.

Market watchers say many investors preferred (寧可) to stay on the sidelines

waiting for the results of the Fed's meeting, but Taiwan Semiconductor

Manufacturing attracted last ditch buying to recoup its earlier losses.

The Ministry of Labor has paused a plan to revise regulations that would have

allowed foreign students who have graduated from Taiwan universities to work

in six types of intermediate-skilled jobs.

The pause comes after the ministry in March first introduced the plan to

tackle (處理) labor shortages.

The plan covered amendments to regulation allowing such foreign students to

take employment as assistant nurses, intercity and city bus drivers and

safety management system personnel, inventory clerks, cargo vehicle drivers

and cargo vehicle driving assistants.

The amended regulations do not include those provisions.

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The Ministry of Transport says Taiwan's roads are becoming significantly

safer for pedestrians - as it recorded the lowest traffic fatality rate in

over six years between January and February.

According to the ministry, there 469 fatalities in the first two months of

this year, representing the lowest 30-day death toll since 2019.

Of that number, there were 62 pedestrian-related deaths - and that's a record

low since the government began tracking that specific category of traffic

fatalities (死亡) in 2008.

Government data terms of counties and cities, shows that Tainan saw the

greatest increase in traffic-related deaths compared with last year, while

Yunlin County recorded the highest increase in the number of pedestrian

deaths.

Indian army says at least one soldiers has died as gunfire and bombing

continue on India Pakistan border.

The region remains tense (繃緊的) a day after India fired missiles into

Pakistani territory - aimed it says at terrorist infrastructure.

Islamabad has now asked its army to carry out corresponding action.

Ishan Garg tells us more.

Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of

the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they

had sheltered for over a year.

But it has denied that their arrival to the United States occurred under an

international rescue operation as characterized by the political faction and

the U.S. State Department.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on Wednesday said the group’s

movements were negotiated with the government and further alleged that one of

the six people who entered the Argentine ambassador’s residence in March

left the compound in August, contradicting (（與…）相矛盾) earlier

statements from the opposition.

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

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