**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened up 7-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 17,205

on turnover of $4.6-billion N-T.

The Tai-Ex made solid gains on Tuesday - rising more than 160-points - as

investor enthusiasm over the development of artificial intelligence continued

to push up A-I-related stocks.

Market watchers say momentum accelerated as investors rushed to pick up

A-I-related stocks after opting to ignore the lackluster performance of the

tech-heavy Nasdaq on Wall Street overnight.

**10AM Land Warning Remains in Effect for Typhoon Doksuri **

A land warning remains in effect for Typhoon Doksuri, as it continues to

approach (逼近) the island.

The 5th typhoon of the season is currently 330-kilometers south of Eluanbi at

the island's souternmost tip.

The storm is moving in a northwesterly direction at a speed of 14-kilometers

an hour.

Doksuri is packing sustained wind speeds of 173-kilometers-an-hour, with

gusts of up to 209-kilometers-an-hour.

The Central Weather Bureau's land warning covers Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taitung,

Pingtung, and the Hengchun Peninsula.

According to the bureau, high waves are expected today in the Bashi Channel

and along Taiwan's coast.

Officials are warning the public to stay away from coastal regions.

(NS)

**UK Lawmakers Concerned About Wagner Mercenary Group **

British lawmakers say the U.K. has underestimated the threat posed by the

Russian Wagner mercenary group and should ban it as a terrorist organization.

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee says the sanctions imposed by

Britain on Wagner are “underwhelming” and U.K. authorities have done little

to track the network’s activities outside of Ukraine.

The committee said: “There are serious national security threats to the U.K.

and its allies of allowing the network to continue to thrive.”

Wagner has played a key role in fighting in Ukraine, and the committee said

it has conducted (實施) military operations in countries including Syria, the

Central African Republic, Sudan, Libya, Mozambique and Mali.

**Taliban Announces Beauty Salon Ban Now in Effect **

The Taliban has announced that all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now

close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the

edict (法令).

A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry didn't say whether

it would use force against salons that do not comply.

The ruling that took effect on Tuesday is the latest curb on the rights and

freedoms of Afghan women and girls following edicts barring them from

education, public spaces and most forms of employment.

**US Biden Establishes Monument for Murdered Black Teen **

US President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation creating a National Monument

for Emmett Till and his mother on what would have been his 82nd birthday.

Emmett Till was black teenager who was lynched in 1955 — his death and the

activism (社會運動) of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the

civil rights movement in America.

With more, Benji Hyer reports.

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