The Tai-Ex opened up 28-points this morning from Friday's close, at 16,711 on

turnover of 4.1-billion N-T.

The market ended a seven-session rising streak on Friday as the bellwether

electronics sector came under pressure following losses by tech stocks Wall

Street overnight.

Market sentiment also turned cautious after U-S Federal Reserve Chair Jerome

Powell made hawkish comments on the bank's monetary policy, which compromised

(減少) the appetite of investors at home and abroad to hold tech stocks.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing founder Morris Chang will be attending the

APEC summit in San Francisco on Wednesday on behalf of President Tsai

Ing-wen.

It's the sixth time that Chang will have served as Tsai's envoy (使者) to the

APEC leaders meeting.

And there's speculation he could meet with U-S President Joe Biden on the

sidelines of the event.

Chang spoke with U-S Vice President Kamala Harris on the sidelines of the

last year's APEC meeting in Bangkok.

The Ministry of Environment says regulations requiring local mobile phone

providers to set up recycling facilities and to actively promote their use

will be introduced on April 1 next year.

According to the ministry, manufacturers and importers must also help users

delete personal data under the new regulations.

The ministry says under the rules, manufacturers and importers will have to

set phased (分階段的) targets for circular material use rate, which measures

the ratio of recycled, maintained and reused materials to the overall

material use.

Officials say the aim is to raise Taiwan's mobile phone recycling rate to

15-per cent by January 1, 2025 and 30 percent by January 1, 2030.

The World Health Organization says the situation at the Al-Shifa hospital in

Gaza is dire (悲慘的) and perilous (險惡的).

Israel denies Gaza's largest hospital has lost power but says it's helping to

evacuate (撤離) babies from the facility.

William Denselow reports from UN headquarters in New York.

Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, with

a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about

air pollution soared in the South Asian country.

Devotees lit over 2.22 million lamps and kept them burning for 45 minutes in

the northern city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state, as people marked the

national festival on Sunday.

The celebrations came as “hazardous (危險的)” levels were recorded on the

air quality index last week.

New Delhi tops the list almost annually among the Indian cities with poor air

quality.

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