The Tai-Ex opened up 202-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

24,438 on turnover of $6.8-billion N-T.

The market's recent winning streak ended on Thursday, as the main board

tumbled over 280-points after Nvidia's highly anticipated earnings report

showed that sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower

pace than analysts had anticipated.

The government will be holding a series of drills that include trials

(考驗，測試) of a earthquake warning system next month.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the drill will be taking place

from September 17 through 19 and have been organized to coincide with the

annual National Disaster Prevention Day - which falls on September 21.

Deputy Interior Minister Ma Shih-yuan says the drills will simulate a

magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Ryukyu Trench east of Taiwan, followed by a

tsunami ..

.. while the main event will be a three-day exercise in Yilan County,

simulating large-scale rescue operations.

An earthquake rescue drill will also be held at Xinzhuang Sports Park in New

Taipei City on September 18 and 19.

Central bank governor Yang Jin-long has received an A- grade from New

York-based Global Finance magazine.

That grade is up from B+ last year.

Based on the Central Banker Report Cards 2025, the magazine returned Yang to

an A grade based on the bank's policies and decisions this year.

Yang has worked for the central bank since 1989 and became governor in 2018.

Yang's predecessor (前任) Peng Fai-nan has the distinction of being the only

central banker in the world to have earned the top grade 14 times since the

annual report was first released in 1994 - gaining straight A's from

2005-2017.

London says Russia's latest attack against Ukraine which killed at least 18

people in its capital, Kyiv, are "further sabotaging (破壞) international

peace efforts."

Russia launched nearly 600 drones and fired over 30 missiles overnight,

hitting residential areas as well as the British Council building in Kyiv.

Stuart Smith has more from London.

The United States is seeking U.N. authorization for a new “Gang Suppression

Force” to help tackle escalating violence in Haiti where the armed groups

have expanded their activities from the capital into the countryside.

Acting U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea made the announcement at a U.N. Security

Council meeting Thursday, but it was unclear how it would differ from the

Kenya-led Multinational Security Support force now deployed in the

violence-torn Caribbean nation trying to help police curb (抑制) gang

violence.

She said the U.S. and Panama will be circulating (傳遞) a draft resolution to

the Security Council to establish the Gang Suppression Force and create a

U.N. Support Office to provide logistical support to it.

In February, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed opening an

office that would provide drones, fuel, ground and air transportation and

other non-lethal support to the Kenya-led mission.

Shea gave no indication of whether the United States would provide any

military or police support to the new Gang Suppression Force.

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

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