The Tai-Ex opened up 270-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

23,717 on turnover of $12.2-billion N-T.

The market fell sharply on Wednesday - as semiconductor stocks tumbled after

U-S President Donald Trump announced that he will announce new tariffs on

chips within the next week or so.

The TransAsia Sisters Association says migrant workers in Taiwan are facing

many types of fraud - but the cases are going underreported because of

language barriers and other factors.

According to the association, it has identified several potential problems in

the effort to fight scams against migrants through interviews over the past

year with mainly migrant workers and a small proportion (部分) of foreign

spouses.

The association says around 30-per cent of interviewees had experienced

financial fraud, but that only a third of them reported their cases to

authorities.

The group is attributing the reluctance to report fraud cases to police to a

lack of readily available multilingual services at police stations.

The Workforce Development Agency says migrant workers can use the 1955

hotline, which provides multilingual services, to help them identify

potential fraud schemes ..

.. and the hotline can contact third parties on behalf of workers to verify

suspicious situations and report cases to local labor authorities.

US President Donald Trump says he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of

semiconductors.

But he said he would exempt companies making their chips in the US… or are

in the process of (的過程中) building chip fabrication facilities in the

country.

Toni Waterman has more.

The independent U.N. investigator on human rights in Afghanistan says its

Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress

women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity."

Richard Bennett said in a report to the U.N. General Assembly circulated

Wednesday that after seizing power in 2021 the Taliban suspended the 2004

constitution and specific laws protecting the rights of women and girls.

These include a landmark law that criminalized 22 forms of violence against

women, including rape and child and forced marriage.

The Taliban defend their approach to justice by claiming they are

implementing Islamic sharia law, but Islamic scholars and others have said

their interpretation is unparalleled (無與倫比的) in other Muslim-majority

countries and does not adhere to Islamic teachings.

Bennett urged all countries to support efforts to bring Afghanistan before

the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s highest tribunal.

Four Barbary lion cubs have been born in a Czech zoo.

The birth marks a significant boost for the rare species, which is extinct

(滅絕的) in the wild.

The three females and one male were seen playing at Dvur Kralove Safari Park

on Wednesday.

Soon, the cubs will be sent to other zoos as part of an international program

to ensure (確保) their survival.

Zoo officials say that while reintroducing the Barbary lion into its natural

habitat is considered, it remains a distant goal.

The Barbary lion once roamed northern Africa but was wiped out due to human

activities.

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

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