The Tai-Ex opened up 77-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,603

on turnover of 2.3-billion N-T.

The market closed flat on Tuesday as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing saw

its early gains eroded due to stiff resistance ahead of the critical 1,000

N-T per share mark - despite the opening of Computex in Taipei.

President Lai Ching-te has marked the first anniversary of his taking office

by holding a press conference during which he accused Beijing of being an

"aggressor" by threatening peace across the Taiwan Strait.

However, despite branding China as an "aggressor," Lai also reiterated his

openness to continuing exchanges and collaborations with China provided that

each side treats the other equally and with respect.

According to Lai, he remains willing to "engage in dialogue instead of

confrontation" and work with China toward peace and prosperity.

Lai also told reporters that many countries, including Taiwan, are under the

threat of aggressors - but Taiwan is, on the contrary, committed to pursuing

(追求) peace.

The Centers for Disease Control is reporting an 88.2-per cent weekly increase

in the number of COVID outpatient and emergency visits last week.

According to the C-D-C, there were 19,097 outpatient and emergency visits

from between May 11 and 17.

Although that figure is up from the previous week, it was still lower than

same period of last year.

C-D-C Deputy Director-General Philip Luo says the current COVID outbreak will

peak in mid-to-late June, when weekly outpatient and emergency visits reach

between 55,000 and 65,000 and it will continue through the end of July.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to meet his US counterpart

Donald Trump today.

The crunch talks come amid ideological (思想) differences, geopolitical

alliances, and domestic policy conflicts.

Kate Fisher reports from Washington

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous

groups in northern Colombia’s mountain range face “physical and cultural”

extinction.

The UN says this threat stems from armed group conflicts over their territory

and insufficient (不足的) state protection.

Colombia’s representative for the UN High Commissioner for Human Right says

the risk of physical and cultural extinction of Indigenous People of the

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is “an ongoing (持續存在的) tragedy that we can

and must prevent.”

He urged the Colombian government to protect the Indigenous groups, whose

combined population is approximately 55-thousand people.

In 2022, UNESCO added the ancestral knowledge of these Indigenous groups to

its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.

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

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