The Tai-Ex opened marginally (略微地) down this morning from yesterday's

close, at 22,691 on turnover of 5-billion N-T.

The market rebounded from Friday's downturn on Monday - gaining almost 400

points on the back of a rally by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.

Analysts say market sentiment improved as investors reacted to gains on Wall

Street at the end of last week - where better-than-expected nonfarm payroll

data for September indicated that the U-S economy remains resilient.

Environmental groups are criticizing the basic carbon fee and preferential

rates proposed by the government - calling them "passive" and too low to

affect the behavior of big carbon emitters.

The criticisim comes after a review committee recommended setting a basic

carbon fee rate of 300 N-T per metric ton of carbon emissions.

The groups says the basic carbon fees are too low to effectively reduce

carbon emissions and companies could see them as an affordable (付得起的)

operating expense or pass them on to consumers rather than invest resources

to reduce emissions and the fees.

Actress Ariel Lin has won the award for Best Lead Female Actor at the 2024

Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards in South Korea.

Lin won the award for her performance in the Taiwanese television drama

"Imperfect Us."

She received the award in-person at the ceremony in Busan - where she gave a

teary (熱淚盈眶) speech in Korean, saying that the award was "a great

motivation for both me and the work."

The Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards is now in its sixth year.

It's organized jointly by the Busan International Film Festival and South

Korea's National I-T Industry Promotion Agency.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has warned again that he could use

nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with South Korea and the United

States.

State media today said Kim made such a warning in his speech at a university.

Kim said North Korea’s nuclear response posture must be fully enhanced

because South Korea and the United States are pushing to beef up their

military alliance based on joint nuclear and strategic planning, a move that

he said would increase (增加) the danger of breaking the balance of power on

the Korean Peninsula.

Kim has issued similar threats to use nuclear weapons preemptively numerous

times, but his latest warning came as outside experts say North Korea could

ramp up animosities ahead of next month’s U.S. presidential election.

American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have won this year's Nobel

Prize in physiology (生理)or medicine for the discovery of microRNA, a tiny

molecule that governs how cells in the body function.

It has been connected to heart disease, cancers and viral diseases.

Kate fisher reports

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