The Tai-Ex opened down 3.4-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

21,675 on turnover of $3.2-billion N-T.

The market lost ground on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of the

U-S Federal Reserve's two-day policymaking meeting.

Selling focused on large-cap tech stocks, which pushed the broader market

near the 20-day moving average of 21,801-points, while select old economy

stocks appeared resilient to investor caution.

China

The Tainan District Prosecutors' Office has indicted 23 people on charges of

spying for China.

The 23 include eight serving personnel from the Air Force, the Army, the Navy

and the Coast Guard Administration.

According to the prosecutors' office, the espionage (間諜) ring was created

by two brothers in 2021 and targeted serving personnel who were having

financial problems.

Reports says they received some 5-million N-T over a two and half year period

from China to gather sensitive information.

The the Ministry of National Defense has said the active service personnel

were not high ranking officers and little access to restricted information.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted

resolution that demands Israel end "its unlawful presence in the Occupied

Palestinian Territory" within 12 months.

The resolution received 124 votes in favor, while 43 countries abstained and

Israel, the United States and 12 others voted no.

Jody Jacobs reports from the United Nations in New York.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two

types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s

military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats.

The tests were apparent references to the multiple missile launches that

neighboring countries said North Korea performed off its east coast on

Wednesday, extending its run of weapons display as confrontations

(對抗，衝突) with the U.S. and South Korea escalate.

State media said Thursday that Kim oversaw the launch of the North's newly

built Hwasongpho ballistic missile tipped with a dummy “4.5-ton super-large

conventional warhead.”

Kim also guided the launch of an improved “strategic” cruise missile, a

word implying the weapons were developed to carry nuclear warheads.

Officials from the U.S. and the Dominican Republic have arrested nearly a

dozen suspects after they launched a joint operation to crack down on a

regional drug trafficking ring.

Officials with the Dominican Republic’s Anti-Drug Agency and agents with the

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Southern Command fanned out

(散開) across the Caribbean country early Wednesday as part of the operation.

Among those arrested are the suspected heads of the ring that officials say

received drugs from South America in the Dominican Republic and neighboring

Puerto Rico and then shipped them to the United States and Europe.

Officials said the drug trafficking ring is responsible for more than two

tons of drugs seized in the Dominican Republic.

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