The Tai-Ex opened up 115-points this morning from Friday's close, at 23,602

on turnover of 5.5-billion N-T.

The market made major gains last Friday - as it closed the session up over

430-points despite Wall Street drifting to a mixed close overnight - as

investors were buoyed by the latest signals that America's economy is doing

just fine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is thanking the defense ministers of the G-7

member states for their voicing of support for the need to maintain the

peaceful status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

The statement comes after the G-7 defense ministers has issued a joint

declaration criticizing China for what they're calling its provocative

actions near Taiwan.

It was issued after the defense ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy,

Japan, the U-K and the U-S gathered in Naples this past weekend.

The joint statement said the ministers reaffirm that maintaining peace and

stability across the Taiwan Strait is indispensable (不可或缺) to

international security and prosperity and are concerned about provocative

actions, particularly the recent Chinese military drills around Taiwan.

And,

More than 50 walls in Hualien County have been transformed into artworks as

part of an international Meeting of Styles graffiti festival.

The Meeting of Styles event originated in Germany.

It concluded on Sunday in Hualien.

The three-day graffiti project brought together artists from across Taiwan

and overseas to revitalize (振興Zhenx?ng) areas in the city with bright and

lively murals.

Hualien City Mayor Wei Chia-yen described his city's Meeting of Styles as

"lively" on Facebook - saying the murals could bring "new life" to the

structures hit by natural disasters this year.

This year marked the second Meeting of Styles in Taiwan, following an event

in New Taipei City in 2022.

Hundreds of residents fled (逃離) their homes in the Lebanese capital late on

Sunday after Israel said it was preparing attacks on sites linked to the

financial operations of Lebanon's Hezbollah group.

Karen Chammas reports

Cyprus says it has successfully thwarted (阻撓) a digital attack aimed at

blocking access to the government’s central online portal.

It was the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period

against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek energy

company.

Cypriot digital authorities say they foiled the attack whose purpose was

exclusively to prevent access to specific government websites.

The distributed denial-of-service attack only affected the main government

portal gov.cy “for a few minutes” and that no other online government

ministry or service website was affected.

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

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