The Tai-Ex surged on opening this morning - adding 316-points from

yesterday's close to hit 25,509-points on turnover of 14.9-billion N-T.

The market closed at yet another all-time high on Wednesday - as Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing beat its closing records on the back of

continuing investor optimism over artificial intelligence development.

President Lai Ching-te has highlighted what he says are the key areas of

Taiwan's national security resilience.

Speaking at a forum on national security and economic resilience in Taipei,

Lai said the four key areas of resilience (復原力) cover digital

communications, supply chain security, the economy and whole-of-society

defense.

According to Lai, his administration will also continue taking steps to

improve Taiwan's key technological capacities, due to the island's critical

role in the global semiconductor supply chain.

Lai also told the forum that the government will promote multi-layered

network construction and protection - and is looking to deploy Taiwan's own

satellites to ensure uninterrupted digital communications.

And,

Newly appointed Sports Minister, Lee Yang has marked his first day in office

by jogging for 30-minutes around the Ministry of Sports building,

underscoring (強調) his pledge to make exercise part of everyday life in the

country.

Taking to Facebook, Lee said "national fitness starts with me" and he posted

photographs of of himself signing his first policy initiative, which urges

the public to exercise for at least 30-minutes a day.

The ministry also shared pictures on its official Threads account of Lee

running alone around the building - noting that he covered 5,000 meters in

half an hour.

The two-time Olympic badminton champion is Taiwan's youngest-ever Cabinet

minister at the age of 30.

Authorities are actively searching for information related to the killing of

conservative activist and close Trump ally Charlie Kirk at a university

campus in Utah.

He had been hosting an event in front of hundreds of students when a single

shot rang out (響起).

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports

South Korea said that a charter plane carrying South Korean workers will

leave Atlanta, Georgia at noon today local time.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry made the announcement but gave no further

details.

Airport officials at Atlanta earlier said the return flight with the workers

on board planned for Wednesday had been canceled.

A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up

in the Sept. 4 raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai’s

sprawling auto plant.

U.S. authorities released video showing some being shackled with chains

around their hands, ankles and waists (被戴上手銬或腳鐐，被鐵鍊鎖住).

South Korea’s government later said it reached an agreement with the U.S.

for the release of the workers.

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

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