The Tai-Ex opened down 40-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

22,694 on turnover of 4.6-billion N-T.

A road safety advocacy group is calling for reforms to Taiwan's driver

licensing and retraining system..

.. after a pedestrian was killed and 15 other people were injured in a

two-bus collision in Taipei over the weekend.

Taiwan Vision Zero Alliance says that "Taiwan's driver's licenses are among

the easiest to obtain in the world, and there is no mandatory retraining

system for drivers".

The alliance said that under current regulations, individuals who have held a

standard car driver's license for two years and have completed a driver

training course are eligible to take a test to obtain a commercial bus

driver's license, putting inexperienced bus drivers on the road and

endangering vulnerable road users.

The group said it had previously submitted (已提交) a report to the Ministry

of Transportation and Communications, urging the government to reform its

driver licensing and retraining systems.

The Central Weather Administration says that temperatures in northern and

northeastern Taiwan could drop to as low as 16 degrees Celsius Monday and

Tuesday, due to monsoon effects.

Forecasters say it could drop to 18 degrees in low-lying areas and 16 degrees

in open coastal areas or areas near mountains … during these two days.

Temperatures are expected to rebound on Wednesday, with lows of 20-21 degrees

in the north and northeast.

Meanwhile, the northeast monsoon and the periphery (外圍) of Typhoon Man-yi

are expected to bring rain to northern and northeastern Taiwan next week,

especially to mountainous areas in greater Taipei, Keelung North Coast and

northeastern Taiwan.

A Ukrainian official says a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the

city of Sumy killed eight people and wounded dozens, as Russia launched a

massive drone and missile attack described by officials as the largest in

recent months.

The official says among the eight killed in Sumy, 40 kilometers from the

border with Russia, were two children.

More than 400 people were evacuated from the building.

The rescuers are checking every apartment looking for people who might be

still in the damaged building.

The attack targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as fears mount about

Moscow’s intentions to devastate Ukraine’s power generation capacity (容量)

before winter.

Joe Biden becomes the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon

rainforest

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports

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