The Tai-Ex opened opened up 43-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

21,816 on turnover of $5.9-billion N-T.

Shares in Taiwan closed sharply higher, rising more than 300 points in a

continued comeback Monday as the U.S. markets showed signs of stabilizing

from a recent sell-off amid eased concerns over a possible recession in the

United States.

The bellwether electronics sector served as a driver to the upturn on the

local main board as buying focused on artificial intelligence server stocks

throughout the session.

Returning Olympians have been welcomed back to Taiwan with flares (熱焰彈)

and a jet escort.

Media reports say three Air Force F-16 jets were on standby at around 5am

today in the air southwest of the island, to accompany the E-V-A Air Flight

on orders from President Lai Ching-te.

And once the jets were alongside the returning plane, flares were set off to

cheers from the passengers inside the plane.

The Chinese Taipei team, including athletes, coaches and staff, landed at

Taoyuan International Airport just after 7am.

And the flight was greeted with a water salute as it taxied down the runway.

(NS)

Local authorities say an earthquake shook central Syria causing no major

damages.

But the equake rattled residents who remembered last year’s devastating

(毀滅性的) temblor that struck northern Syria and Turkey.

Syria’s National Center for Earthquakes said a magnitude 5.5 quake struck 28

kms east of the city of Hama at 11:56 p.m local time.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 5.0 and said it had

a depth of 10 kilometers.

There were no immediate reports of deaths.

In Damascus and Beirut - the capital of neighboring Lebanon - residents

descended to the streets fearing a stronger quake that would collapse

buildings.

In the US….

Donald Trump is suing the United States' Department of Justice for $100

million.

The former US President is seeking damages (損害賠償) over the FBI's search

of his Florida residence.

At that time, law enforcement agents found hundreds of classified documents

that he'd taken from the White House.

Benji Hyer reports.

A new study finds that the Amazon rainforest is under threat as a carbon sink.

The report from US nonprofit Amazon Conservation finds that deforestation is

the biggest immediate threat to the world's largest rainforest.

The NPO used satellite data to determine that Amazon trees held 56.8 billion

metric tons of carbon above ground in 2022.

They found the forest has been a carbon sink over the last decade.

But with deforestation there's a danger the Amazon could start contributing

more carbon than it absorbs from the atmosphere.

The researchers say that it’s now a “very small buffer (緩衝)".

They say "there’s reason to worry that the biome could flip from sink to

source with ongoing deforestation.”

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