The Tai-Ex opened down 158-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

22,789 on turnover of 5.7-billion N-T.

The market gave up most of its initial gains on Monday, but still managed to

end the marginally higher with expanded turnover before regular index

adjustments by M-S-C-I took effect after the close of trading.

Former D-P-P lawmaker Chen Qi-yu has turned himself in to prosecutors as part

of an investigation into allegations of fraud at a state-linked green energy

enterprise in Tainan.

He arrived at the Tainan District Prosecutors' Office with his lawyer three

weeks after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Prosecutors says they believe Chen violated the Securities and Exchange Act

for breach of trust (違反信託) offenses and the Criminal Code for knowingly

causing a public servant to publish an official document containing false

information.

A court has now ordered Chen to be detained as prosecutors continue their

investigation.

The Changhua District Prosecutors' Office has indicted a surgeon and four

accomplices for allegedly facilitating illegal organ transplants conducted in

China.

The prosecutors' office says the transplant specialist orchestrated

(精心策劃的) a criminal ring that profited from sending 10 Taiwanese patients

to China to undergo organ transplant surgery between 2016 and 2019.

According to prosecutors, the group charged patients between 5 and

7.5-million N-T for liver transplants and between 3 and 3.5-million N-T for

kidney transplants that were conducted in China's Shandong and Hunan

provinces.

Prosecutors are seeking a six-year sentence for the surgeon and three year

sentences for the four accomplices.

US President-elect Donald Trump looks set to escape trial for his alleged

efforts to overturn the 2020 election result after investigators filed a

motion to drop the case.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss

(駁回（指法官因證據不足而）) the charges against the former President due to

a long-standing Justice Department policy that bars the prosecution of a

sitting President.

Benji Hyer reports.

Police have detained dozens of people in Istanbul who tried to join a rally

calling for greater protection for women in Turkey, where more than 400 women

have been murdered this year.

The demonstrators tried to enter the main pedestrian street to mark the

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Monday.

But there is a ban on all protests in the area.

Many demonstrators protested President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision in

2021 that withdrew (退出) Turkey from a landmark European agreement to

protect women from violence.

The agreement was signed in Istanbul and is named for the city.

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

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