The Tai-Ex opened up 32-points this morning from Friday's close, at 17,416 on

turnover of 4.2-billion N-T.

The market rebounded on Friday to close up more 100-points, as investors were

buoyed ahead of a U-S jobs report after Wall Street rose overnight to snap

its first three-day losing streak since the end of October.

K-M-T presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih says he believes exchanges between

Taiwan and China should start in less sensitive areas before official

interactions begin.

Speaking at a campaign event in New Taipei's Zhonghe District, Hou said if

elected he will first seek (要求, 設法) cross-strait interaction in a

"low-level and stable" way.

According to Hou, along with prioritizing efforts to strengthen Taiwan's

self-defense capabilities, he will also propose that the two sides start with

educational, religious, cultural and economic exchanges before launching an

official mode of interaction.

The Ministry of National Defense says a carrier rocket launched by China has

passed directly over Taiwan before entering orbit.

According to defense officials, it's the first rocket to take that path

following four other launchers earlier in the month.

Defense officials say the Long March-2D carrier rocked blasted off Sunday

morning from the Xi-Chang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province and its

takeoff trajectory (軌道) saw it pass over southwestern Taiwan.

The defense ministry says its intelligence systems closely tracked (追蹤) the

launch.

It was the fifth such rocket to be launched by China this month and the

second one in as many days.

However, none of the other rockets passed directly over Taiwan.

Divers have recovered the remains of the seventh of the eight crew members

from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off southern Japan during a

training mission.

The Air Force CV-22 Osprey went down Nov. 29 just off Yakushima Island in

southwestern Japan while on its way to Okinawa.

The bodies of six of the crew had since been recovered, including five from

the sunken wreckage (殘骸) of the aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command said in a statement Sunday that

the body recovered by Air Force divers was one of the two crew still missing.

The U.S. military has grounded all its Osprey helicopters after a preliminary

investigation indicated something went wrong with the aircraft that was not a

human error.

From the US…..

Donald Trump says he won't testify again at his fraud trial, where he's

facing charges of inflating (誇大, 抬高) the value of his properties.

It's a change of course for the former president who earlier had planned to

appear in the New York court on Monday as the trial nears its conclusion

Ira Spitzer reports.

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