Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
**Tai-Ex opening **
The Tai-Ex opened down 68-points this morning from yesterday's close, at
14,602 on turnover of $2.6-billion N-T.
The market closed marginally higher on Thursday, after Wall Street posted
modest gains overnight.
**Pig Carcass Found in Kinmen Tests Positive for African Swine Fever **
The Council of Agriculture has imposed a one-week ban on the transport of
pork products from Kinmen to other parts of Taiwan.
The move comes after a pig carcass that washed up on the outlying island
tested positive for African Swine Fever.
According to the Kinmen County government, a Coast Guard patrol found the
carcass of a on the shoreline near Jinning Township's Housha Village.
Disease control officials collected samples from the carcass, and then burned
and buried it on site.
Tests of those samples by the National Institute for Animal Health showed it
had been infected with African Swine Fever.
Animal health officials have been inspecting pig farms located within a
3-kilometer radius of where the carcass was found, but no trace of the
disease has been found.
The Kinmen County government says it's not unusual to find pig carcasses
among garbage that occasionally washes ashore (上岸) in Kinmen, due to its
close proximity to China.
**US Judge Rejects DOJ Request to View MaraLago Material **
A federal Judge has rejected the US Justice Department's request to resume
reviewing classified material it seized from former president Donald Trump's
Mar a Lago home.
The Florida court also appointed a neutral (中立) third party suggested by
Trump's legal team to oversee the process.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more.
**Haiti Investigates Police Killings **
Haiti's National Police says it is investigating the recent slaying of three
officers that it blames on gang members.
The agency says a gang called ``Ti Makak,'', killed the officers Tuesday in
Laboule, a largely gated community just south of Port-au-Prince.
The area is also the site of recent turf wars (地盤爭奪) between gangs that
have led to other killings in the area, including two journalists in January
and a former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor
in August.
Police said Wednesday that they had opened an investigation into the killings
of the officers.
**Mexico Gov: Train Poses No Threat ot Skeleton **
Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric
human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country's
Caribbean coast was actually registered by the institute in 2019 and will not
be threatened by a nearby tourist train project.
Earlier this week, archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver
Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment
(沉積物) in a cave.
They reported it to the institute, which had not publicly spoken of the find
until its statement Thursday.
The institute says that scientific analysis has still not been carried out on
the remains, but that it is 400 meters from the path of the government's Maya
Train project and not threatened.
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