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Tai-Ex opening
發布於 2024-05-31 10:28:13
The Tai-Ex opened up 36-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,401 on turnover of $5.4-billion N-T.
The market retreated on Thursday after Wall Street fell overnight under the weight of higher yields in the bond market.
Government Allows Tour Groups Arranged before June to Visit China
發布於 2024-05-31 10:28:13
The government says group tours to China organized before June 1 can travel there as planned.
The statement backtracks on a previous decision to suspend cross-strait group tourism starting from tomorrow.
The government originally decided to only allow tour groups scheduled to leave for China before May 31 to go ahead.
However, Cabinet spokesman Chen Shi-kai says the policy was altered.
A certain number of tour groups were unable to depart before the end of May.
According to the Cabinet spokesman, the ban on tour travel to China from tomorrow 1 will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Changes will be implemented dependent on it "being in the best interests of Taiwan's people and tourism industry."
The spokesman also says the government's policy of welcoming Chinese tourists to Taiwan has not changed.
He says it still hopes both sides of can reopen bilateral group tourism on an equal footing (平等).
US Trump Guilty on all 34 Counts
發布於 2024-05-31 10:28:13
Former US President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon after being found guilty in his New York hush-money trial.
It's a deep blow for Trump, who has spent considerable (相當多的) time attacking the case he calls a witch-hunt.
From outside the court in New York, Mitch McCann reports:
Pakistan Sends Official to Taliban
發布於 2024-05-31 10:28:13
Pakistan has sent an official to Kabul and shared the findings of its investigation into a suicide bombing with Afghanistan’s Taliban government
The March bombing killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver .
The foreign ministry in Islamabad said on Thursday that an Interior Ministry official traveled to the Afghan capital to share the findings with the Taliban administration.
Pakistan has said the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan citizen.
Pakistan alleges that the Afghan Taliban administration should be held accountable (追究責任) for the attack.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has denied it was in any way responsible.
Report Finds Billions in Gold Smuggled Out of Africa Annually
發布於 2024-05-31 10:28:13
A new report has found that billions of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year.
The report is from Swissaid, an aid and development group based in Switzerland.
It says most of the gold ends up in the United Arab Emirates.
There, it is refined and then sold to customers around the world.
The report published Thursday found that more than $30 billion worth of gold, or more than 435 metric tons, was smuggled out of the continent in 2022.
The main destinations (目的地) for African gold were the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Switzerland.
The authors of the report said their goal was to make the trade in African gold more transparent.