The Tai-Ex opened up 513-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

20,344 on turnover of 13.7-billion N-T.

The market plunged 1,807-points on Monday, as the main board recorded its

biggest points and percentage decline in history.

The fall came as the bellwether electronics sector and artificial

intelligence development-related stocks all tumbled,

This comes amid reports of economic weakness in the U-S and heightened

geopolitical (地緣政治的) tensions.

There's speculation the Cabinet could now seek to use to the National

Financial Stabilization Fund to support the stock market following the sharp

decline.

The National Communications Commission has announced that it will mediate

(調解) a dispute over copyright fees between cable TV provider Homeplus

Digital and Yong Xin Multimedia - the Taiwanese agent for several well-known

foreign channels.

The statement comes after Yong Xin notified Homeplus of its plan to stop

transmitting 12 channels on August 16, after negotiations on copyright fees

with the cable TV operator brokedown.

Those channels include HBO, Animax, Cinemax, CNN and the Cartoon Network.

Homeplus has just over 1-million subscribers and accounts for 22-per cent

Taiwan cable TV market.

And,

Taiwan's representative to India has presented scholarships to more than 100

Indian students.

He expressed his hope that they will become an "important bridge" between the

two countries.

Representative Baushuan Ger presented scholarship certificates to local

students at a ceremony hosted by the New Delhi-based Taipei Economic and

Cultural Center in India.

According to Ger, more than 40 students were awarded Taiwan Scholarships,

which fund (資助) university-level study, while more than 90 others received

Chinese-language Huayu Enrichment Scholarships.

US Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is expected to announce her vice

presidential pick on Tuesday morning, ahead of the pair's first campaign

rally in Philadelphia.

Harris has reportedly cut her pool of possible running mates (競選夥伴) down

to just two.

As Nick Harper reports from Washington.

Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation against

the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and its leader

Maria Corina Machado.

The attorney general says the case is related to their call on the armed

forces to abandon their support for President Nicolas Maduro and to stop

repressing (鎮壓) demonstrators.

The statement tied the investigation directly to a written appeal the two

members of the opposition sent hours earlier about Maduro and the

demonstrators who have come out in force to defend their votes in the July 28

election.

The attorney general says the duo “falsely announced a winner of the

presidential election other than the one proclaimed by the National Electoral

Council" and they openly incited (煽動) “police and military officials to

disobey the laws.”

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