The Tai-Ex opened down 118-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

22,238 on turnover of 7-billion N-T.

The market closed on higher Wednesday as investor interest in the bellwether

electronics and financial sectors resumed ..

… and the main board reversed an initial downturn, as investors remained

upbeat about the local semiconductor sector and continued to increase their

holdings, in particular in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.

The Ministry of Agriculture has banned shipments of pork and pork products

from Kinmen from entering any other parts of Taiwan after a pig carcass found

on a beach last week tested positive for African swine fever.

The ban currently runs until next Monday.

The ministry says it implemented the measures after it identified (識別,

確定) the virus found in the dead pig as matching a strain currently

spreading in China.

The pig carcass was spotted by the Coast Guard Administration last Saturday

in the northwestern part of Kinmen's main island.

Local animal disease control personnel took samples from the carcass before

it was incinerated and officials say the surrounding area has been

disinfected.

The Tourism Administration has announced that it terminated its contracts

with a Vietnamese beauty pageant queen immediately after she was accused of

fraud.

Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien won Miss Vietnam in 2018 and Miss Grand International

in 2021.

She was invited to serve as a tourism ambassador by the administration in

2024 to to help boost interest in Taiwan as a travel destination for

Vietnamese people.

However, she was accused of promoting a counterfeit (偽造) fiber supplement

by Vietnamese authorities in April and was arrested for consumer fraud a

month later.

A human rights group says Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 639

people and wounded over 1-thousand-300 others.

The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists offered the figures, which

covers the entirety of Iran.

It said Thursday it identified over 260 civilians and 150 security force

personnel among the dead.

Iran has not been given regular death tolls during the conflict and has

minimized (最小化) casualties in the past. It has not updated its figures

since Monday.

Donald Trump says he "may" or "may not" instruct the US military to strike

Iran, as the situation also exposes (使曝光) divisions within his party and

among his supporters.

Jagruti Dave has more from Washington.

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas

pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately

1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface.

The mummy had gone unnoticed (未被注意到的) despite urban development in a

district of Lima where former agricultural and livestock fields have been

converted into working-class neighborhoods over the past decades.

An archaeologist working on the site says the unearthed mummy was found in a

seated position.

It was covered by a bundle, and still has dark brown hair.

Officials believe the mummy would have belonged to a society of fishermen of

the Chancay culture, which flourished between 1,000 and 1,470 AD.

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

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