<p><strong>以下文稿由臺北國際社區廣播電臺（ICRT）提供，想瞭解更多英語新聞，請至http://bit.ly/ICRTEZNEWS 網站查詢。</strong><br /> opening <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> The Tai-Ex opened up 169-points this morning from Friday's close, at 22,138 on turnover of $5.5-billion N-T.</p> <p>The market closed little changed on Friday after moving in consolidation mode throughout the session after Canada and the European Union both took retaliatory against measures against Donald Trump's tariffs.</p> <p>Analsysts say investors will be keeping a close eye on how the U-S government will impose reciprocal tariffs and the aftermath, which will affect global financial markets.</p> <p><br /> MOFA protests rep office name change on South African gov't website <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has lodged an official protest over the "unilateral" change to the name of Taiwan's representative office on a South African government website.</p> <p>The statement comes after an update to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation website listed the "Taipei Liaison Office" as the "Taipei Commercial Office."</p> <p>According to the foreign ministry, the South African government is seeking to "downgrade" the representative office and recategorize it as a "trade office" based in the commercial capital Johannesburg.</p> <p>South Africa has set a deadline of the end of this month for Taiwan to change the name of its representative office and relocate it.</p> <p>However, the foreign ministry is insisting that per an agreement signed the year before diplomatic relations with South Africa ended in 1998, Taiwan is permitted to operate a liaison office in Pretoria.</p> <p>Kaohsiung's Fengshan Marathon apologizes for PLA rifle trophies <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> The organizers of Sunday's Fengshan Marathon in Kaohsiung have apologized for giving out trophies shaped like a Chinese military rifle.</p> <p>According to the Fengshan Road Running Association, it originally chose the design for the trophies because the 2025 edition of the annual marathon passed through three military academies.</p> <p>However, the association says it recognized the choice was "inconsiderate" and had apologized to those who received the trophies.</p> <p>The association also says it will contact all trophy recipients to replace the rifle-shaped trophies with alternatives.</p> <p>The statement was issued after one of the participants of Sunday's marathon posted a photograph of the trophy and joked about how it was shaped like Chinese rifle.</p> <p>Judge stalls Trump's order to speed deportations <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> The U-S government is slamming a federal judge's decision to stop the administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping (廣泛的) 18th century law.</p> <p>The A-P's Donna Warder has more.</p> <p><br /> Mark Carney heading to Paris and London <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to seek alliances as he deals U-S President Donald Trump's attacks on Canada's sovereignty and economy.</p> <p>Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada's early existence.</p> <p>At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock (基礎) of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous.</p> <p>He said Canada is fundamentally a different country from America and will never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States.</p> <p>SpaceX capsule arrives at the International Space Station <br /> 發布於 2025-03-17 10:49:13<br /> And finally,</p> <p>A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.</p> <p>The new crew pulled up Sunday, just 29 hours after blasting off.</p> <p>The four newcomers will spend the next few days learning the station's ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.</p> <p>Then it will be time for those two to end their nine-month stay and head home.</p> <p>They expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight last June.</p> <p>The Starliner capsule had so many problems that NASA insisted it come back empty (空的).</p> <p>Wilmore and Williams will come back via SpaceX.</p>