The Tai-Ex opened up 64-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 24,244

on turnover of $4.1-billion N-T.

Forecasters say Taiwan can expect high temperatures today as a tropical storm

heads towards Japan.

Meteorologist Wu De-rong says weather in Taiwan will be sunny both today and

tomorrow, with highs in the north reaching 37 to 38 degrees Celsius.

The Central Weather Administration has issued a head alert for Taipei and New

Taipei in the north, as well as Chiayi County, Tainan City, and Taitung

County.

And afternoon showers and thunderstorms are expected in mountainous areas.

Wu says those traveling to or from Japan should be on the lookout for

(密切注意著) Tropical Storm Peipah, which is expected to hit Japan's Shikoku

and southern Honshu islands today.

From this weekend heading into next week, Wu says moisture from the south

will increase, leading to a chance of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the

afternoons.

And also for travelers, he adds that a tropical disturbance in the South

China Sea could affect Hong Kong and Macao on Monday next week.

(NS)

US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has defended his leadership and

vaccine policies during a grilling (審問，指責) by lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

It follows the departure of several top officials from the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

Nick Harper reports from Washington.

Congo's health minister says a new Ebola outbreak is suspected of causing 15

deaths among 28 people with symptoms.

It’s the 16th outbreak of Ebola in the central African country, and the

minister says the fatality rate, estimated at nearly 54-percent, showed the

gravity (嚴重性) of the situation.

The suspected cases included four health care workers.

They all had typical Ebola symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea and

heavy bleeding.

The World Health Organization said it dispatched its experts to Kasai

province to strengthen disease surveillance, treatment and infection

prevention and control in health facilities.

It is also delivering supplies including personal protective equipment,

mobile laboratory equipment and medical supplies.

And the W-H-O says Congo has a stockpile of treatments and of the Ervebo

Ebola vaccine.

A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a

long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect

five uncontacted tribes from outside encroachment.

It would be in the Loreto region near the Brazil border, and is roughly the

size of Jamaica.

The reserve would safeguard uncontacted tribes vulnerable to disease and

exploitation, but faces opposition from logging interests and political

resistance.

The vote follows decades of delays and comes as Congress debates changes to

the Indigenous Peoples in Isolation law that could weaken protections by

allowing periodic (定期的) re-evaluation and possible reduction of reserves.

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

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