The Tai-Ex opened marginally higher this morning from yesterday's close, at

16,691 on turnover of 1.7-billion N-T.

The market edged higher on Tuesday, bucking a regional downturn.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing helped anchor the broader market

throughout the session, while buying towards the end of the trading day moved

the main board above the 120-day moving average of 16,679-points.

The Shilin District Prosecutors' Office has indicted two Military

Intelligence Bureau officers on charges of corruption and document forgery.

According to the prosecutors' office, the two fraudulently obtained millions

of N-T from the bureau beginning in 2018 by fabricating interactions with a

Chinese intelligence operative named "Liang Fan."

Prosecutors say the two also forged multiple pieces of information to support

their claims about the network they pretended to have created around Liang

and his operations.

Both suspects have been detained (被拘留) since June and have been charged

with violating the Anti-Corruption Act.

The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed Taiwan's first monkey

pox-related death.

According to the C-D-C, the patient was a man in his 30s from northern

Taiwan, who was also infected with H-I-V.

Health authorities say the man sought medical attention for a skin ulcer in

August, and returned to see a doctor again in early September after his

condition had deteriorated (惡化).

Subsequent tests confirmed that he had contracted (感染) the monkey pox.

The man was pronounced dead on November 1.

The C-D-C designated monkey pox as a Category 2 communicable disease in June

of last year.

A total of 355 cases have been reported here in Taiwan since then.

The Elysee Palace in Paris, where the president lives and works, has brought

back its public changing of the guard ceremony for the first time in 27

years.

The presidential office says the formal (正式的) ceremony will take place on

the first Tuesday of every month.

Rebecca Bundhun reports from Paris.

The Unification Church’s Japanese branch plans to set aside up to $67

million to cover possible compensation for people seeking damages they say

were caused by the group’s manipulative fundraising tactics.

The move announced Tuesday was seen as an attempt to allay (緩和) suspicion

that the group would try to avoid later payouts by hiding assets overseas

while a government-requested dissolution order is pending.

The group’s fundraising and recruitment tactics, as well as its cozy ties

with Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, surfaced in an

investigation after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination last

year.

The accused shooter allegedly was motivated by Abe’s links to the church and

blamed it for bankrupting his family.

Thieves entered the home of Brazilian soccer star Neymar’s partner and took

her parents hostage early Tuesday morning, Bruna Biancardi, the mother of

Neymar's baby girl, wrote on her verified Instagram account.

Local media reported that her parents’ home is located in Cotia, a city in

Sao Paulo’s metropolitan area, and that one of the three armed robbers, a

neighbor of Biancardi’s parents, has been apprehended.

Biancardi says “Material things are recovered, the important thing is that

everyone is OK and that the people involved are being found”.

Neymar also lamented (哀嘆) the attack on his own Instagram account, without

providing any details.

That was the I.C.R.T. news,

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