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

17,340 on turnover of 2.5-billion N-T.

The market lost ground on Tuesday, to close below the 17,400 point mark as

investors opted to move to the sell side following losses on Wall Street

overnight and the bellwether electronics sector led the downturn.

The National Science and Technology Council has unveiled a set of key

technologies that it says will be subject to tougher controls to prevent

(防止) technology leaks and boost industrial competitiveness.

The 22 key technologies cover five industries.

Those being defense, aerospace, agriculture, semiconductors and information

and communications technology.

According to the council, the term "key technologies" refers to tech that, if

exported to China, Macau, Hong Kong or "external hostile forces," would

significantly harm national security, industrial competitiveness, or economic

development.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially opened a news representative

office in Montreal.

The office is Taiwan's fourth in Canada.

The foreign ministry says it chose Montreal as the site for the office

because it is the largest city in French-speaking Quebec, and is known as a

technology hub, notably (尤其) in video game and artificial intelligence

development.

Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says the latest office in Canada showed Taiwan's

determination to expand its relations with the North American country on all

fronts.

Taiwan's main representative office is in Ottawa, while other branches are

located in Toronto and Vancouver.

The United Nations refugee agency says as many as 400 Rohingya Muslims could

be adrift (漂流) in the Andaman Sea without adequate supplies.

It's warning they could die if more is not done to rescue them.

Patrick Fok reports.

Peru’s constitutional court has ordered an immediate humanitarian release

for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori.

The 85-year-old former leader has been serving a 25-year sentence in

connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s.

The court ruled in favor of a 2017 pardon that had granted the former leader

a release on humanitarian grounds but that later was annulled (被廢除).

Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison on charges of human

rights abuses.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is ordering the country’s state-owned

companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and

mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region.

Maduro’s announcement comes a day after Venezuela's electoral authorities

announced that the five questions with which the government wanted to claim

sovereignty over Essequibo were approved in Sunday’s referendum.

Guyana has denounced the referendum as pretext (藉口) to annex the land.

The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court, has

ordered Venezuela not to take any action to change the status quo until the

panel can rule on the two countries’ competing claims, which could take

years.

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