The Tai-Ex opened up 3-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 22,618

on turnover of 3.5-billion N-T.

Shares in Taiwan closed lower Monday as investors remained concerned U.S.

President Donald Trump's tariff policies after he intensified trade tensions

by announcing a 30 percent levy on imports from Europe and Mexico over the

weekend.

Analysts say the bellwether electronics sector led the downturn on the

broader market as investors locked in profits built by the sector last week,

helping the Taiex rebound.

Nineteen individuals associated with the KMT New Taipei City party

headquarters have been granted deferred prosecution, in a case involving

forged recall petitions.

The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office is investigating alleged forgery

in recall petitions targeting DPP legislators including Su Chiao-hui, Chang

Hong-lu and Lee Kun-cheng, indicting over 31 people on charges related to

violating personal data protection laws and forgery last month.

Now the office says 19 individuals, including KMT volunteers and relatives,

admitted to forging (偽造) signatures on recall petitions, and received a

one-year deferred prosecution.

The individuals must also complete three hours of legal education and eighter

pay a fine of up to $30-thousand NT to the public treasury, or perform 40

hours of community service.

(NS)

US President Donald Trump has threatened "secondary tariffs" if Russia does

not reach a ceasefire (停火) deal with Ukraine in the next 50 days.

He has also agreed to send new weapons to Ukraine under an agreement that

will see NATO members buy American-made arms.

Nick Harper reports from Washington.

U.N. health officials reported that more than 14 million children did not

receive a single vaccine last year.

In their annual estimate of global vaccine coverage, released today, the

World Health Organization and UNICEF said access to vaccines remained

“deeply unequal” and that conflict and humanitarian crises quickly

unraveled progress.

The data showed that nine countries accounted for 52% of all children who

missed out on immunizations entirely: Nigeria, India, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia,

Indonesia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Angola.

The WHO and UNICEF said that coverage against measles rose slightly, with 76%

of children worldwide receiving both vaccine doses.

But experts say measles vaccine rates need to reach 95% to prevent outbreaks

of the extremely contagious (傳染性的) disease.

WHO noted that 60 countries reported big measles outbreaks last year,

including the US, which is now having its worst measles outbreak in more than

three decades.

Customs officials have released photos from a seizure of roughly

1-thousand-500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that had been

hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes shipped to an airport in western

Germany.

Customs officials said the shipment was found at Cologne Bonn airport in a

package that had arrived from Vietnam.

The tarantulas were discovered three weeks ago.

But the customs office only made the photos public on Monday.

The office says many of the eight-legged creatures didn't survive the trip,

while survivors were given to the care of an expert handler.

Criminal proceedings are underway (正在進行) against the intended recipient.

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

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