Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
Tai-Ex opening
The Tai-Ex opened up 25-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,089
on turnover of 2.8-billion N-T.
The market closed down on Tuesday - as early gains were rubbed-out on the
back of lingering (持續的) investor concerns about possible further
volatility on Wall Street despite a rebound overnight.
Although most large cap electronics stocks came under pressure during the
trading day, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing remained resilient to keep
the tech sector and the broader market from falling further.
MOFA Cites Inflation for Over 60% Hike in High-Level Travel Budget
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is defending a decision to raise its budget
for high-level overseas trips by over 60-per cent.
According to ministry spokesman Jeff Liu, the significant increase in the
budget allocated for next year is due to global inflation and rising
commodity prices.
The 2025 budget proposal lists 424-million N-T for overseas travel - that's
an increase of 160-million N-T compared with the budget allocated (分配) for
overseas travel for this year.
The statement comes after opposition lawmakers questioned the budget increase
and called on the foreign ministry to provide more details about how the
money will be spent.
CDC Warns of Ongoing Diarrhea Risks Ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival
The Centers for Disease Control is warning about the risks of diarrhea ahead
of next week's Mid-Autumn Festival - noting that a significant number of
clusters in Taiwan had been caused by a previously less common strain of
norovirus.
According to the C-D-C, just over 130,000 people with diarrhea visited
emergency and outpatient departments from September 1 through 7.
Although that was a 1.5-per cent decline from the previous week, health
officials are stressing (強調) that it was the highest number for the same
period since 2019.
The C-D-C says 101 diarrhea clusters has also been reported over the past
four weeks, marking a five-year high for the same period.
US Presidential Debate Ongoing
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have taken the debate stage in Philadelphia,
where they’ll fight to sway 2024 election voters on the biggest stage in
U.S. politics.
The event offers Americans their most detailed look at a campaign that’s
dramatically (戲劇性地) changed since the last debate in June.
It’s the only debate that’s been firmly scheduled and could be the only
time voters see Harris and Trump go head-to-head before the November general
election
The debate has no audience, no written notes, and no live mics when
candidates aren’t speaking, according to rules the host network ABC News
shared.
So far Trump has spoken about abortion rights, saying the issue should be
left up to the states, while Harris spoke about her plans to create an
"opportunity economy", and criticized Trump's economic plan as "all about tax
breaks for the richest people".
Space X Launches Mission with Private Citizen Spacewalk
SpaceX has launched a capsule carrying four private citizens into orbit on a
five day mission set to make history by including the first spacewalk
conducted by a non government crew.
The journey will also take the four private astronauts to the highest orbital
altitude (高度) that humans have reached since the Apollo moon mission in
1972.
Kate Fisher reports
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