The Tai-Ex opened marginally higher this morning from yesterday's close, at

17,291 on turnover of 2.1-billion N-T.

The market closed little changed on Friday on low turnover, due largely to

the absence (不在場的, 缺席) of foreign institutional investors because of

the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control has issued a health warning - instructing

medical professionals to be on alert to the risk of mycoplasma pneumonia

spreading to Taiwan.

The warning comes amid a surge in respiratory infections such as influenza

and clusters (群集) of pneumonia among children in northern China.

C-D-C Deputy Director-General Philip Luo says China began reporting

mycoplasma pneumonia outbreaks in May, but an epidemic usually reaches its

peak in 2 to 3 months, and there could be multiple known pathogens

circulating there.

Doctors are being asked to closely monitor cases of respiratory illness to

prevent cluster infections at hospitals here in Taiwan.

And,

The Taiwan Railways Administration says it will be providing 116 additional

train journeys to meet the expected spike in demand during the New Year's Day

holiday from December 29 through January 2.

Passengers will be able to book tickets for the weekend holiday from December

1.

According to the T-R-A, the extra train services will include 23 EMU-3000 and

Puyuma limited express train journeys, and 12 EMU 900 local express train

services along the east and west coasts.

Four extra Tze-Chiang express trains will also be added to the east coast

line.

The highest daily number of passengers during the holiday is expected to

exceed (超過) 80,000.

Attackers have seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the

coast of Yemen.

The attackers seized the Liberian-flagged Central Park in the Gulf of Aden.

Yemen’s internationally recognized government blamed (指責) the

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels for the attack, which followed at least two

other recent maritime attacks linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

Early Monday morning, Zodiac said the vessel carrying phosphoric acid and its

crew of 22 sailors from multiple nations were “unharmed.”

The Pentagon said that the vessel was “currently safe” without elaborating

on what happened to the attackers.

The Houthis did not acknowledge the attack.

Earlier…

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited troops (軍隊) inside

the Gaza strip.

Mimmi Montgomery reports.

Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his

dystopian novel “Prophet Song.”

The judges said it was a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle

to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism (極權主義)

and war.

Lynch was awarded the $63-thousand US dollar literary prize at a ceremony in

London on Sunday.

He beat five other writers from Ireland, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.

That was the I.C.R.T. news,

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