The Tai-Ex opened up 95-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,766

on turnover of $4.5-billion N-T.

The Keelung District Court has handed Keelung City Councilor Chang Hao-han a

suspended sentence after finding his guilty of embezzling public funds.

The court found the D-P-P city councilor guilty of fraudulently claiming

782,000 N-T by falsifying the salary of his office assistant and registering

his mother as a phantom (虛假的) employee.

However, the court cited Chang's admission of guilt and return of the illicit

gains - handing him prison sentence of 24 months - suspended for five years.

He remains a Keelung city councilor

The court ruling can be appealed.

Director Tsou Shih-ching's "Left-Handed Girl" has won the Gan Foundation

Award for Distribution at the Cannes Critics' Week.

The award is intended to support the French release of a first or second

feature film by a new director.

Speaking in Cannes after receiving the award, Tsou said the film drew on her

many memories from Taiwan, including tense relationships in a traditional

family and quiet everyday acts of resistance (反抗) that often went

unnoticed.

Leaders of 9 European Union countries say they want a reinterpretation of the

European Convention on Human Rights in order to better tackle (對付，處理)

irregular migration to the continent and effectively increase deportations.

The open letter signed by the leaders of Italy, Denmark, Lithuania Poland and

others was made public in Rome late Thursday.

It argues that some of the European Court of Human Rights interpretations

have limited national governments’ ability to expel a minority of migrants

who commit crimes.

The European Court of Human Rights handles complaints against the 46-member

states of the Council of Europe, under the European Convention on Human

Rights, including many cases involving migrants and asylum-seekers.

The UK will hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to the country of

Mauritius.

That's despite a last-minute injunction (禁令) to stop the plan, which was

overturned shortly later by England's High Court.

Stuart Smith reports.

The Panamanian Civil Aviation Authority says that Panama and Venezuela will

resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when they broke

off diplomatic relations.

Venezuela pulled its diplomatic representation from Panama last July after

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize (承認) Venezuela

President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection.

Earlier Thursday, Mulino said during his weekly news briefing that he had

received a letter from Venezuela, but that he hadn’t immediately read it.

Mulino did say, however, that it would be in Panama’s interest to resume

flights, though he said he also wanted Venezuela to agree to receive

Venezuelan migrants deported from Panama.

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

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