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Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
Taiex open
The Taiex opened up 178.34 points at 21,271.09, on turnover of NT$4.81
billion.
The upward tick came after the index suffered its third steepest decline in
history, tumbling almost 1,000 points on the back of a sell-off triggered by
Wall Street.
DPP Secretary-General Tells America that Taiwan is Determined to Defend
Itself Against China
D-P-P Secretary-General Lin You-chang says Taiwan is determined to defend
itself against China.
During a public seminar hosted by the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington,
D.C., Lin said Taiwan's will to defend itself, as well its investments in
national security, continue to grow stronger ..
.. and while the Lai administration has the ideal of pursuing peace, Taiwan
must not have illusions about China, as Beijing's intention to seize Taiwan
has never changed regardless of which party is in power in Taiwan.
Lin said Beijing has only adjusted its approach from using "shells and
missiles" during Chen Shui-bian's presidency, to "money" during Ma
Ying-jeou's presidency, and "shells, missiles, silver bullets, and cognitive
warfare" during Tsai Ing-wen's presidency.
Lin said that under President Lai Ching-te, China is using all of those
approaches as well as disinformation (假信息) and legal battles in an attempt
to disrupt and infiltrate Taiwanese society.
Taipei Zoo Announces Deaths of Three Long-Term Residents
And,
The Taipei Zoo has announced the deaths of three of long term residents -- a
white rhino, its last American bison, and a Bengal tiger.
American bison (野牛) Chiao-wa died on Wednesday, while Bengal tiger
Hsin-chun and white rhino Hsi-min died on Monday this week.
Chiao-wa was born at the zoo in October of 1999 and it was the last American
bison at the zoo.
Hsin-chun was the last Bengal tiger at the Taipei Zoo, it died after
suffering from chronic kidney disease.
While white rhino Hsi-min was 44 years old and one of the oldest residents in
the zoo's African Animal Area.
Georgia Mass Shootings
U-S authorities say a 14-year-old student has opened fire (開槍) at a Georgia
high school and killed four persons.
Nine people were also wounded.
The dead have been identified as two students and two teachers at Apalachee
High School in Winder.
Haya Panjwani reports.
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North Korea sends more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea.
North Korea is flying more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea in the
latest round of Cold War-style psychological warfare between the rivals.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (參謀長聯席會議) says it detected more
balloons launched from North Korea on Thursday morning following launches the
previous evening.
The joint chiefs said North Korea launched around 420 balloons from Wednesday
evening to early Thursday and that about 20 of them had been discovered so
far in the South Korean capital of Seoul and nearby Gyeonggi province.
It says the balloons were filled with paper waste, plastic bottles and other
trash but contained no dangerous materials.
New study sheds light on plastic pollution
A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic
pollution.
The material winds up everywhere from the deepest oceans to the highest peak
of Mount Everest to inside people's bodies.
More than two-thirds of it is in the Global South (南方國家)
Researchers in the United Kingdom examined waste produced at the local level
in more than 50,000 cities and towns.
They looked at waste that gets into the open environment, rather than plastic
that goes into landfills or gets burned properly.
But experts say that the study's focus on pollution, rather than growing
plastic production, lets the plastics industry off the hook.
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