The Tai-Ex opened up 9-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 23,532

on turnover of $4.8-billion N-T.

The market gained more then 350 points on Thursday to close at a new high on

the back of increased investor optimism over the business outlook for Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing.

T-S-M-C led the upturn on the local main board, while other tech stocks also

steamed ahead to add to the rally.

The rally by T-S-M-C comes as the company is set to hold an earnings call on

July 18

The Kaohsiung City Police Department says an electronic storage device

detection dog has played a major role in locating key evidence in a money

laundering case that led to multiple indictments.

According to the department's Criminal Investigation Corps, the dog named,

"Wafer," located two mobile phones that contained crucial evidence following

raids on three site suspected of being used as bases for money laundering.

Prosecutors have now indicted 12 people in connection with the investigation.

According to prosecutors, the case centered on an individual who rented

property in Kaohsiung and Pingtung to use a bases to assist with transfers of

illicit cash from overseas gambling websites and Ponzi scheme websites.

Police estimate that the group laundered over 5.1-billion N-T over a six

month period.

Wafer is Taiwan's first and currently only electronic storage device

detection dog.

The Kremlin says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia next

Monday and Tuesday and hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The visit was first announced by Russian officials last month, but the dates

had not been previously disclosed (公開).

Russia has had strong ties with India since the Cold War, and New Delhi’s

importance as a key trading partner for Moscow has grown since the Kremlin

sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

Molestation on Japan’s crowded trains is back in the spotlight

(引起大眾關注) as new data shows one in ten young people have been groped.

Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.

Cambodia’s culture minister is welcoming the return this week of 14

sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and

unrest.

The items repatriated from the collection New York’s Metropolitan Museum of

Art were made between the 9th and 14th centuries in the Angkorian period and

reflect the Hindu and Buddhist religious systems prevailing at that time.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts described it as a ’historic

homecoming (返家) of national treasures” followed several years of

negotiations between Cambodia’s art restitution team, U.S. federal

prosecutors in New York, investigators from the U.S. Dept of Homeland

Security and the Metropolitan Museum.

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