**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened up 48-points this morning from Friday's close, at 17,341 on

turnover of $6.3-billion N-T.

The market moved higher on Friday as investors ignored the losses on Wall

Street continued to pick up artificial intelligence related stocks to offset

(抵消) weakness in large cap stocks such as Taiwan Semiconductor

Manufacturing.

Buying also focused on select old economy stocks, in particular in the

transportation industry in the wake of a rebound in freight rates by both

container cargo and bulk cargo shipping companies.

**Czech Republic Launches E-Gate Clearance System for ROC Passport Holders **

The Czech Republic has launched an automatic immigration clearance system or

e-gate for R-O-C passport holders.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the reciprocal (互惠的) program

to provide electronic immigration processing at both countries' respective

airports makes the Czech Republic Taiwan's ninth e-gate partner.

However, the ministry says even with the e-gate system at the Vaclav Havel

Airport Prague, R-O-C passport holders will still need to have their travel

documents stamped by Czech customs officers when entering the country's

border.

The announcement comes after the recent launch of direct flights by Taoyuan

International Airport and Prague.

**Pakistan Suicide Bombing Leaves Dead and Injured **

A suicide bombing at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan

has killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200.

The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold

(勢力強大的地方，大本營) of the Pakistani Taliban — a close ally of

Afghanistan’s Taliban government — before the Pakistani army drove the

militants out of the area.

Supporters of hard-line Pakistani cleric and political party leader Maulana

Fazlur Rehman were meeting in Bajur on Sunday in a hall close to a market

outside the district capital.

Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally, but organizers added tents

because so many supporters showed up.

The Pakistan Taliban says the bombing was aimed at setting Islamists against

each other.

**US Heatwave Air Conditioning **

As parts of the US remain in the grips of (深陷于.) a heat wave, linked to

global warming, it’s the lower-income families that suffer the most in

hotter neighborhoods, without air conditioning.

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn report.

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