**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened up 213-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

13,024 on turnover of $3.9-billion N-T.

The Tai-Ex came under heavy pressure on Thursday - to close at its lowest

level in two years.

Market watchers say investors opted to cut their holdings ahead of the

release of September's U-S consumer price index amid lingering concerns over

the Federal Reserve hawkish rate hike cycle.

While investor sentiment also remained cautious about the tech sector ahead

of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's investor conference - that opened

after the market closed.

**TPP Lawmaker's Master's Degree Revoked **

The De-Ming University of Science and Technology has revoked a master's

degree conferred on Taiwan People's Party lawmaker Tsai Bi-ru for improper

citations.

According to the university, the thesis violated (違反) academic ethics.

Tsai received the degree from a part-time master's program at the

university's Management Information System Department in 2019.

The moves comes after former Taoyuan City councilor Wang Hao-yu claimed in

mid-August that he had notified the university that there were improper

citations in Tsai's master's thesis.

The university said it received an anonymous report that Tsai's thesis was

extremely similar to an article published by one other person and immediately

formed a seven-member committee to conduct a review.

Four review meetings were held and the committee determined there was a

violation of academic ethics in Tsai's thesis and recommended Tsai's master's

degree be revoked.

Tsai says she respects the decision, but is accusing the committee of failing

to provide sufficient explanations on how she had violated academic ethics.

**US Jan 6th Committee Votes to Subpoena Trump **

The committee investigating the Jan 6th attack on the US Capitol has voted to

subpoena former president Donald Trump.

The committee says it has enough evidence to push for criminal charges,

against multiple individuals, relating to the attempts to overturn (翻轉) the

2020 presidential election.

Nick Harper reports from Washington.

**UN Guterres Letter to Financial Leaders **

The United Nations chief has sent a letter to finance ministers and central

bankers from the world's 20 leading economies.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in Thursday's letter that the

COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the war in Ukraine and escalating climate

emergencies ``are wreaking havoc on economies across the globe.''

Guterres urged financial leaders to change course and steer a global economic

recovery that includes developing countries that have been hardest hit by

these events, along with the rising cost of living, tightening financial

conditions, and unsustainable (不可持續的) debt burdens.

The letter comes ahead of next month's Group of 20 summit in the Indonesian

resort of Bali.

Guterres says the U.N. system and its partners have proposed a ``stimulus'',

which calls for ``a massive increase in public sector commitments towards

development, humanitarian and climate mitigation and adaptation by just 2% of

global GDP''.

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