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Tai-Ex opening
The Tai-Ex opened down 22-points this morning from yesterday's close, at
20,836 on turnover of $5.2-billion N-T.
With the benchmark index closing at a new high Monday, market capitalization
on the local main board surpassed the $66 trillion NTmark for the first time,
according to the data compiled by the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
The data also shows that investors riding the uptrend have earned an average
of $740-thousand NT this year.
Higher electricity bills coming as summer rates to begin in June
The average household in Taiwan is expected to see its electricity bill rise
by more than 70 percent a month when the four-month summer-rate period begins
in June.
TaiPower said households in Taiwan use an average of 413 kilowatt-hours of
power per month from June to September, which costs around 1000 NT monthly
during that period.
While electricity use at other times of the year averages at just 301 kWh per
month, costing around 600 NT.
That means there’s a 73 percent difference in electricity bills between
summer and non-summer months.
But TaiPower says only around 100 NT is attributable to the higher summer
rate.
A TaiPower spokesperson said the summer rates were introduced in 1989, as
more power generators are deployed to meet higher consumer demand, increasing
the company’s operating costs.
UN Staffer Killed in Gaza
Another United Nations staff member has been killed in Gaza.
The UN worker was killed when the vehicle they were travelling came under
fire on Monday in Rafah.
Jody Jacobs has more…
EU Human Smuggler Arrested
One of Europe’s most notorious (惡名昭張的) human smugglers has been
arrested in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
The regional government’s security agency said it had arrested Barzan
Majeed, known as “the Scorpion,” upon a request from Interpol and “after
the exchange of intelligence information.”
The agency said he had attempted to smuggle 100 migrants to the U.K. in small
boats and trucks.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency had issued an appeal (求助，懇求) for
assistance in tracking Majeed down in 2022, after he was convicted in
absentia in Belgium of people smuggling crimes.
Officials say Majeed has been handed over to the regional justice department.
Germany Merkel Memoir Released in November
The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in
November.
The publication will come nearly three years after the end of her 16-year
tenure (任期) at Germany's helm (領導地位).
Publishers say the 700-page-long memoir will be published on Nov. 26-th.
Merkel was a scientist who grew up in communist East Germany and became
Germany’s first female chancellor in 2005.
She steered Germany through a succession of crises including the global
financial crisis, the migrant crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.
She was succeeded by current Chancellor Olaf Scholz in December 2021.
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