Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
**Tai-Ex opening **
The Tai-Ex opened up 23-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 16,676
on turnover of $3.4--billion N-T.
Shares in Taiwan closed slightly lower Monday as earlier gains were eroded
amid lingering concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve will resume its rate hike
cycle in July.
Investors seemed to ignore the losses on the U.S. markets on Friday, but
selling set in as investors started to pocket their earlier gains, pushing
down the Taiex to negative territory by the end of the sessions as select
nontech stocks remained resilient on rotational buying.
**Launch date getting closer for first locally built weather satellite **
The Taiwan Space Agency says a domestically engineered weather satellite will
leave Taiwan on Friday for French Guiana, where it is scheduled to be
launched into space in September, after all tests found it ready to go.
TASA says the Triton will take off into orbit on an Arianespace Vega C rideshare mission.
TASA Director-General Wu Jong-shinn said the Triton project was initiated
(發起) in 2014 and that it has finally reached the launch phase after eight
years of hard work.
Wu said Triton was Taiwan's first domestically engineered weather satellite
and was built with many domestic components, including Taiwan's own global
navigation satellite system-reflectometry.
TASA says the Triton will be launched into a circular low earth orbit at an
altitude of about 550-650 kilometers.
**Erdogan Biden to Meet After Turkey Approves Sweden NATO Bid **
US President Joe Biden will meet his Turkish counterpart
(作用相同者，相對應者) on Tuesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit after
Turkey lifted its opposition to Sweden's membership of the military alliance.
Julia Chapman reports from the Lithuanian capital, where the summit is being
held.
**UN Envoy Warns of Strained Peace Efforts in Yemen **
A U.N. envoy says sporadic armed clashes between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and
government forces are straining peace efforts, and the rivals are now also
battling over revenue from ports, trade, banking and natural resources.
The U.N. special representative for Yemen told the U.N. Security Council on
Monday that the fight over economic wealth “has become inseparable from the
political and military conflict.”
Hans Grundberg says that fighting has decreased in Yemen markedly since an
April 2022 truce, but that “continued sparks of violence" and threats to
return to large-scale fighting have increased fear and tensions.
He says that the “the situation on the ground remains fragile (脆弱的).”
**Canada More Fires Started in British Colombia **
Lightning strikes over the weekend triggered more than 100 new wildfires in
British Columbia, raising the total above 300 and leading authorities to
order a ban on campfires for most of the province.
The wildfire danger was high to extreme across most of British Colombia on
Monday.
The province’s Wildfire Service says almost 200 of the fires are ranked as
out of control.
Officials warn of challenging conditions, with lightning storms forecast for
most of the week and above-average temperatures throughout the central
interior (內部的) of the province.
Last week, the Canadian Forest Service said wildfires raging across Canada
had already broken records for total areas burned, the number of people
forced to evacuate their homes and the cost of fighting the blazes.
That was the I.C.R.T. news,
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