**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened up 73-points this morning from Friday's close, at 14,080 on

turnover of 5.1-billion N-T.

The market gained over 500-points on Friday, to close the session above the

14,000-point mark, as global indices rebounded after inflation in America

eased more than had been expected.

Market capitalization on the Tai-Ex surged almost 7.5-per cent over the past

week to top 43-trillion N-T driven by strong buying, amid a decline in

investor concerns that the U-S Fed will continue its aggressive (積極的)

interest rate hikes.

The weighted index gained 980.85 points, or 7.53-per cent, last week.

**DPP Lawmaker Calls for Support of Voting Age Referendum **

D-P-P lawmaker Hong Shen-han is calling for voters to support the up-coming

national referendum to lower the voting age to 18.

Hong is describing the referendum as "a matter of equity (公平) and keeping

up with the times."

The referendum on whether to ratify a Constitutional amendment to drop the

voting age from 20 to 18 will be held alongside the local government

elections on November 26.

The main political parties have all voiced their support for the proposal.

However, several civic groups have been warning there is a chance that it

could fail, as it requires around 9.65-million votes in its favor to pass.

**Ghost Hawks Approach Carmelo Anthony **

And,

Tainan T-S-G Ghost Hawks head coach Liu Meng-zhu says the team has approached

N-B-A free agent Carmelo Anthony to play in the T-1 League.

According to Liu, the team has opened talks with representatives of the

former L-A Laker's power forward.

The Ghost Hawks head coach says Taiwan Steel Group Chairman Hsieh Yu-min has

been enthusiastically trying to make a deal happen for the sake of the team

and the future of Taiwanese basketball in the international market.

Anthony is a 10-time N-B-A all-star and is a free agent (自由球員) after

being released by the Lakers at the end of the 2021-2022 season.

The U.S., Japan and South Korea have vowed a unified response to North

Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program.

This arose after a meeting on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in

Cambodia.

Karen Chammas reports.

**Twitter-Musk **

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle

misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned

over the weekend they were out of a job.

Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors

to track hate and other harmful content.

But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when

Twitter fired much of its full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and now as

it moves to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs.

Twitter hasn't said how many contract workers it cut. The company gutted

(損毀內部裝置) its communications department and hasn't responded to media

requests for information since Musk took over.

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