The Tai-Ex opened down 36-points this morning from Monday's close, at 21,813

on turnover of 4.5-billion N-T.

The market was closed yesterday for the Mid-Autumn Festival

holiday - but

ended the trading day moderately higher on Monday, despite turnover dipping

to an over seven-month low.

Large-cap tech stocks largely moved in a narrow range throughout the session

due to a lull in investor interest, but buying rotated to the old economy

sector, helping the broader market end above the previous closing bell.

The National Development Council is scheduled to open an overseas innovation

hub 創新中心 in Tokyo today.

The move is part of the government's efforts to boost exchanges between

innovation start-ups, enterprises and investment institutions in Taiwan and

Japan.

N-D-C head Paul Liu says the hub is expected to serve as a regular bilateral

platform for comprehensive exchanges between Taiwan and Japan, paving the

way for greater substantive business cooperation.

Liu also says the N-D-C is also planning to set up similar platforms in the

Untied States and Southeast Asia.

The Ministry of the Interior is holding separate plane crash and earthquake

drills today as part of a three-day national exercise to mark the annual

National Disaster Prevention Day.

According to the ministry, more than 1,300 people, including the public,

central and local government officials, and Japanese N-G-O staff, are

participating in the drills.

The plane crash drill will simulate 假裝 a plane crash following a typhoon

and will take place in Penghu, while the earthquake drill will simulate a

magnitude 7.3 earthquake striking Chiayi County's Zhuqi Township.

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000

Taiwan-made pagers ordered by the Lebanese group Hezbollah… months before

Tuesday's detonations 霹靂.

That's according to a senior Lebanese security source and another source

cited by the Reuters News Agency.

The details shed light on an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw

thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding

nearly 3,000 others, including the group's fighters and Iran's envoy to

Beirut.

Japan’s military reports that North Korea had test-fired two ballistic

missiles.

It happened on Wednesday at a time when tensions with Washington and

neighbors are escalating.

The launches came days after North Korea showcased a secretive uranium

enrichment 鈾濃縮 facility.

Japan’s Defense Ministry didn’t provide details about the missiles,

including their type and range.

Japan’s coast guard said the missiles had likely fallen into waters between

the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

U-S Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that would offer new protections

for in vitro fertilization 體外受精.

It's the second time Democrats have tried - and failed - to get the measure

passed.

Ed Donahue reports.

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Social media platform, Instagram, will automatically make teenagers' accounts

private and give parents more control, under revamped 改造過的 rules.

It's the company's most significant move yet to manage how minors use

Instagram as congress seeks to impose regulations on the industry.

Kate Fisher reports.

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