The Tai-Ex opened up 147-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

20,691 on turnover of $4.8-billion N-T.

Shares in Taiwan saw earlier gains erased to close little changed Thursday as

contract chipmaker TSMC suffered last-ditch selling amid lingering concerns

over the possibility of tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Non-tech stocks largely moved in weakness, but so-called "military concept

stocks continued to attract rotational buying as aircraft maintenance

services provider Air Asia Co. soared 10 percent, the maximum daily increase.

Analysts say caution about Trump's tariffs on semiconductors remain,

prompting (推動) investors to lock in profits with TSMC as their major

target.

A Taiwanese business delegation has signed two memoranda of understanding

with Estonia to facilitate collaboration between aerospace and defense

industries.

According to the Taipei Mission in the Republic of Latvia, the delegation

signed the M-O-Us with the Estonian Defence and Aerospace Industry

Association and the Estonia Aviation Cluster in Tallinn.

Taiwan's top envoy to Estonia, Andrew Lee is describing the signing of the

deals as an important step for collaboration (合作) between the two countries

- and one that opens a new chapter for collaboration between the two

countries on drones, aerospace and related industries.

The delegation to Estonia was led by Hu Kai-hong of the Taiwan Excellence

Drone International Business Opportunities Alliance.

Israel has closed six U.N. schools in east Jerusalem, forcing students to

leave early and throwing the education of more than 800 students into

question.

Last month, heavily armed Israeli police and Education Ministry officials

ordered six schools in east Jerusalem to close within 30 days.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, called UNRWA, runs the

six schools.

UNRWA also runs schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which continue to

operate.

Israel claims that UNRWA schools teach antisemitic content and anti-Israel

sentiment (觀點), which UNRWA denies.

The acting director of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency is out of

a job, a day after he told lawmakers he didn't support disbanding the

disaster relief agency.

US President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have

both recently suggested the agency known as FEMA should be eliminated (廢止).

Ira Spitzer reports.

Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the

faithful in the South American country was elected pope.

Pope Leo XIV, elected Thursday, is a dual citizen of the United States and

Peru, where he first served as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

That made him the first pope from each country.

In Peru’s capital, Lima, the bells of the cathedral rang after Cardinal

Robert Francis Prevost was announced as Pope Francis’ successor. People

outside the church quickly expressed their desire (希望，想要) for a papal

visit at one point.

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