The Tai-Ex opened up 244-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

22,800 on turnover of $5.09-billion N-T.

The Ministry of Education says a program designed to encourage young people

to participate in volunteering, internships, and other learning activities

overseas with government funding will begin receiving applications next year.

According to Deputy Education Minister Yeh Bing-cheng, the program is being

supported by the newly established Youth Overseas Dream Fund and aims to help

young people go abroad and "broaden their horizons."

Yeh says the government hopes to select around 550 young people in 2025 for

the program - which is open to Taiwan nationals aged between 15 to 30.

The deputy education minister is encouraging young people with "good ideas,"

regardless of their family's financial status, to apply.

Selected applicants (申請人) will receive grants of up to 2-million N-T for

their own proposals.

Projects currently being negotiated included student tours to the central

government agencies in France as well as to different Indigenous villages in

Canada.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board has condemned Iran for failing to

cooperate fully with the agency, the second time it has done so in just five

months.

The International Atomic Energy Agency also called on Tehran to provide

answers in a long-running investigation into uranium particles found at two

locations that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites.

Diplomats say that 19 members of the IAEA board voted for the resolution,

while Russia, China and Burkina Faso opposed it, and 12 abstained and one did

not vote, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity to

describe the outcome of the closed-doors vote.

The resolution comes on the heels of a confidential report earlier this week

in which the IAEA said Iran has defied international demands to rein in its

nuclear program and has increased its stockpile (儲存，逐步積累的東西) of

uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has called on military formations in African

countries to strengthen alliances in the bid to defeat insecurity (不安全) on

the continent.

Tesem Akende reports from Jos.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to temporarily lift the federal

sales tax off a slew of items and send checks to millions of Canadians who

are dealing with rising costs as a federal election looms.

The measures come as an inflation-driven affordability (負擔能力) crunch

(困難) has left voters unhappy with the Trudeau government.

The federal goods and services tax break would begin Dec. 14 and end Feb. 15.

It will apply to a number of items including children’s clothing and shoes,

toys, diapers, restaurant meals and beer and wine.

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

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