The Tai-Ex opened down 181-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

21,481 on turnover of 5.8-billion N-T.

The market lost ground on Wednesday, after Wall Street slippled overnight

following a rise in bond yields.

Premier Zhuo Rong-tai is continuing to stress that the Cabinet will not

sign-off on the just passed parliamentary reform bills.

The Cabinet will instead return the bills to the Legislative Yuan for further

review.

According to Zhuo, the decision to bounce the bills back to lawmakers is

constitutional.

He says the Cabinet is legally obligated (有義務的) to call for further

legislative reviews of any laws that would to difficult to enact.

The premier is also voicing his support for the D-P-P's decision to seek a

constitutional interpretation of the reform bills by the Constitutional

Court.

The National Taiwan University's Autonomous & Soft Robotics Laboratory has

unveiled the first locally developed robot dogs.

The lab says it says could ease labor shortages.

The laboratory showcased the prototypes of two kinds of robot dogs at an

event in Taipei.

The professor leading the development team says "one is for use as a pet,

while the other is for industrial use"

According to Professor Guo Chong-xian, robot dogs can be of particular help

in Taiwan's non-tech and service sectors.

He says their environments are not as well suited (適合) as high-tech

factories to standard robots.

North Korea has fired about ten missiles into the Sea of Japan.

Japanese officials believe the projectiles landed short of Japan’s exclusive

economic zone.

Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has withdrawn his ambassador to

Israel after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in

Gaza.

It's the latest repercussion (反響) from a South American nation over

Israel’s military campaign in the Palestinian territory.

Lula has been a frequent (常) critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

He compared the campaign to the Holocaust earlier this year.

That led Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz to summon the Brazilian

ambassador to the national Holocaust museum in Jerusalem for a public

reprimand (懲戒).

Israel says its war in Gaza is a defensive action triggered by Hamas’

unprecedented assault.

Israel rejects any comparisons of its offensive to the Holocaust.

A volcano in southwestern Iceland is erupting again.

The volcano is spewing red streams of lava and triggered the evacuation of

the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

The eruption Wednesday occurred in an area north of Grindavik, a coastal town

of 3,800 people.

The town was largely evacuated after a December eruption that ended centuries

of dormancy (休眠).

It was the fifth eruption and estimated to be the area's most vigorous

(劇烈的) so far.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said lava shot 50 meters into the sky

from a fissure (裂縫) that grew to 3.5 kilometers in length,.

Anyone still in the town was ordered to leave.

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