**Tai-Ex opening **

The Tai-Ex opened up 35-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 14,205

on turnover of 2.2-billion N-T.

The market shed more than 250-points on Tuesday.

Selling was seen across the main board as investors were spooked by heavy

losses on the Nikkei following an unexpected decision by Japan's central bank

to tighten its monetary policy.

**Visiting European Parliament Delegation Calls for EU-Taiwan BIA **

Members of a visiting delegation of the European Parliament's international

trade committee are expressing support for the signing of a bilateral

investment agreement between the European Union and Taiwan.

Speaking during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen at the Presidential

Office, committee vice chair Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou said the E-U

recognizes its trade and investment partnership with Taiwan as a "strategic

relationship with geopolitical implications (影響)."

According to the Greek lawmaker, she also firmly believes that further

bilateral cooperation on global supply chains will be mutually beneficial due

to Taiwan's leading role in semiconductor production.

The 13-member delegation arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a four-day visit.

**Prosecutors Seek to Annul Miaoli Magistrate Election **

The Miaoli District Prosecutors' Office filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify

(使無效、取消) the election of county Magistrate-elect Chong Dong-jin.

The move comes amid allegations that Chong's supporters handed out cash

bribes to voters.

According to the prosecutors' office, one of Chong's campaign office

directors allegedly engaged in vote-buying on behalf of the candidate -

handing out cash bribe's of between 1,000 and 2,000 N-T to each voter.

Chong is denying the charges.

**Ukraine President to Visit Washington **

Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky is to visit Washington on Wednesday for

face-to-face meetings with President Biden at the White House.

He's also expected to make a speech before a joint session of Congress.

It will be the first time he's left Ukraine since the war began, as our

Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.

**German Nazi Stenographer Senteced for Crimes **

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to

murder (謀殺案的同謀) for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the

Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

The court in northern Germany gave the woman a two-year suspended sentence on

Tuesday.

The defendant was found to have known about and deliberately supported the

killing of more than 10,500 prisoners through her work as a stenographer in

the commander's office between 1943 and 1945.

**UN Votes to Keep Peacekeepers to Congo **

The Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. peacekeeping

mission in Congo with an eye to its eventual exit.

It also voted to lift a notification requirement on some government arms

purchases which Congo’s foreign minister recently called unjustified.

The separate resolutions were approved amid worsening security in Congo’s

mineral-rich east, which has seen an upsurge in violence and civilian

killings that has uprooted tens of thousands of people.

The resolution extends (延伸) the U.N. force until Dec. 20, 2023.

It strongly condemns all domestic and foreign armed groups operating in the

country and demands that they immediately stop all violence and exploitation

of Congo's resources.

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