**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened down 68-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

14,602 on turnover of $2.6-billion N-T.

The market closed marginally higher on Thursday, after Wall Street posted

modest gains overnight.

**Pig Carcass Found in Kinmen Tests Positive for African Swine Fever **

The Council of Agriculture has imposed a one-week ban on the transport of

pork products from Kinmen to other parts of Taiwan.

The move comes after a pig carcass that washed up on the outlying island

tested positive for African Swine Fever.

According to the Kinmen County government, a Coast Guard patrol found the

carcass of a on the shoreline near Jinning Township's Housha Village.

Disease control officials collected samples from the carcass, and then burned

and buried it on site.

Tests of those samples by the National Institute for Animal Health showed it

had been infected with African Swine Fever.

Animal health officials have been inspecting pig farms located within a

3-kilometer radius of where the carcass was found, but no trace of the

disease has been found.

The Kinmen County government says it's not unusual to find pig carcasses

among garbage that occasionally washes ashore (上岸) in Kinmen, due to its

close proximity to China.

**US Judge Rejects DOJ Request to View MaraLago Material **

A federal Judge has rejected the US Justice Department's request to resume

reviewing classified material it seized from former president Donald Trump's

Mar a Lago home.

The Florida court also appointed a neutral (中立) third party suggested by

Trump's legal team to oversee the process.

US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more.

**Haiti Investigates Police Killings **

Haiti's National Police says it is investigating the recent slaying of three

officers that it blames on gang members.

The agency says a gang called ``Ti Makak,'', killed the officers Tuesday in

Laboule, a largely gated community just south of Port-au-Prince.

The area is also the site of recent turf wars (地盤爭奪) between gangs that

have led to other killings in the area, including two journalists in January

and a former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor

in August.

Police said Wednesday that they had opened an investigation into the killings

of the officers.

**Mexico Gov: Train Poses No Threat ot Skeleton **

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric

human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country's

Caribbean coast was actually registered by the institute in 2019 and will not

be threatened by a nearby tourist train project.

Earlier this week, archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver

Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment

(沉積物) in a cave.

They reported it to the institute, which had not publicly spoken of the find

until its statement Thursday.

The institute says that scientific analysis has still not been carried out on

the remains, but that it is 400 meters from the path of the government's Maya

Train project and not threatened.

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