Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
Tai-Ex opening
The Tai-Ex opened up 169-points this morning from Friday's close, at 22,138
on turnover of $5.5-billion N-T.
The market closed little changed on Friday after moving in consolidation mode
throughout the session after Canada and the European Union both took
retaliatory against measures against Donald Trump's tariffs.
Analsysts say investors will be keeping a close eye on how the U-S government
will impose reciprocal tariffs and the aftermath, which will affect global
financial markets.
MOFA protests rep office name change on South African gov't website
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has lodged an official protest over
the "unilateral" change to the name of Taiwan's representative office on a
South African government website.
The statement comes after an update to the Department of International
Relations and Cooperation website listed the "Taipei Liaison Office" as the
"Taipei Commercial Office."
According to the foreign ministry, the South African government is seeking to
"downgrade" the representative office and recategorize it as a "trade office"
based in the commercial capital Johannesburg.
South Africa has set a deadline of the end of this month for Taiwan to change
the name of its representative office and relocate it.
However, the foreign ministry is insisting that per an agreement signed the
year before diplomatic relations with South Africa ended in 1998, Taiwan is
permitted to operate a liaison office in Pretoria.
Kaohsiung's Fengshan Marathon apologizes for PLA rifle trophies
The organizers of Sunday's Fengshan Marathon in Kaohsiung have apologized for
giving out trophies shaped like a Chinese military rifle.
According to the Fengshan Road Running Association, it originally chose the
design for the trophies because the 2025 edition of the annual marathon
passed through three military academies.
However, the association says it recognized the choice was "inconsiderate"
and had apologized to those who received the trophies.
The association also says it will contact all trophy recipients to replace
the rifle-shaped trophies with alternatives.
The statement was issued after one of the participants of Sunday's marathon
posted a photograph of the trophy and joked about how it was shaped like
Chinese rifle.
Judge stalls Trump's order to speed deportations
The U-S government is slamming a federal judge's decision to stop the
administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping (廣泛的) 18th
century law.
The A-P's Donna Warder has more.
Mark Carney heading to Paris and London
Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to
seek alliances as he deals U-S President Donald Trump's attacks on Canada's
sovereignty and economy.
Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of
the two countries that shaped Canada's early existence.
At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on
the bedrock (基礎) of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous.
He said Canada is fundamentally a different country from America and will
never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States.
SpaceX capsule arrives at the International Space Station
And finally,
A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering
the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.
The new crew pulled up Sunday, just 29 hours after blasting off.
The four newcomers will spend the next few days learning the station's ins
and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Then it will be time for those two to end their nine-month stay and head
home.
They expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first
astronaut flight last June.
The Starliner capsule had so many problems that NASA insisted it come back
empty (空的).
Wilmore and Williams will come back via SpaceX.
That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____.
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