The Tai-Ex opened marginal down this morning from yesterday's close, at

28,385 on turnover of 4.1-billion N-T.

The market gained ground on Wednesday, as investors were optimistic that the

U-S Federal Reserve would cut its key interest rates for a third time this

year following its policy making meeting.

While reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will produce Nvidia's

high-performance H-200 A-I chips and they will be made here in Taiwan also

drove investor confidence higher.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has thanked eight formal diplomatic

allies for supporting Taiwan's bid to participate in Interpol during the

agency's annual General Assembly in Morocco late last month.

According to the ministry, senior officials from the Marshall Islands,

Belize, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Guatemala, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent

and the Grenadines, Paraguay, and Eswatini all spoke up on Taiwan's behalf.

The foreign ministry says it delayed publicly thanking the allies until now

because the assembly was held in a closed-door format (模式，格式), and it

needed time to collect information on their respective addresses.

Former Digital Affairs Minister Huang Yen-nan is warning that cyberattacks

could be the most effective way for hostile actors to damage Taiwan's

semiconductor advantage.

According to Huang, companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing need

to strengthen precautions.

The former digital minister now heads (領導) Academia Sinica's Taiwan

Information Security Center.

Speaking at a conference on geopolitics and chip strategy, Huang said

T-S-M-C's global influence has grown with A-I, making it "too big to fail,"

as any disruption to its production a national security concern.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has appeared in public for

the first time in 11 months.

She appeared on a hotel balcony in Norway's capital early this morning and

waved to supporters.

Her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf (代表她) a day

earlier.

Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9 after being briefly detained during a

protest in Caracas.

She was expected to attend the award ceremony Wednesday in Oslo but couldn’t

make it in time.

European leaders have rejected claims (聲稱) from U.S. President Donald Trump

that the continent is run by weak people.

William Denselow reports from Brussels.

New analysis suggests that ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate

change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides

across Asia in recent weeks.

The rapid study by World Weather Attribution focused on heavy rainfall from

cyclones Senyar and Ditwah in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka

starting late last month.

The analysis found that warmer sea surface temperatures over the North Indian

Ocean added energy to the cyclones.

Floods and landslides triggered by (觸發於) the storms have killed more than

1,600 people, with hundreds more still missing.

The cyclones are the latest in a series of deadly weather disasters affecting

Southeast Asia this year, resulting in loss of life and property damage.

That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____.

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