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The Tai-Ex opened down 25-points this morning from yesterday's close, at
16,538 on turnover of 2.2-billion N-T.
The market lost ground in Tuesday on the back of lingering investor concerns
that fund outflows will be triggered (觸發) by expectations of sustained
interest rate hikes by the U-S Federal Reserve.
Turnover for the session remained thin - at 187-billion N-T.
And that marked the third time this year that daily turnover on the main
board has dropped below the 200-billion N-T mark.
Local shipbuilder C-S-B-C is denying reports that it received leaked
information on submarine building from a South Korean technology advisory
company, S-I.
The denial comes after a South Korean newspaper reported that the company
provided C-S-B-C with information about the design of the the Jang Bogo class
submarine used by the South Korean Navy.
The Jang Bogo class submarine is a variant of a submarine developed by a
German company.
According to C-S-B-C, the it has designed, in the in "entirety (整體)" the
submarines it has been contracted to building under the government's
indigenous development program and the news report from South Korea is
"without foundation."
The Central Weather Bureau is warning that the current third plum rain front
of this year will continue to affect the island for the remainder of the week
and into the early weekend.
According to the bureau's forecast center, some of the largest accumulation
(積累) of rainfall since the weather front began affecting Taiwan earlier
this week has been reported in Hsinchu and Miaoli.
Heavy rain has also been affecting Chiayi, Kaohsiung and Pingtung.
Heavy rain advisories remain in effect for nearly all of Taiwan proper - with
the exception of Yilan, Hualien and Taitung.
And those advisories will currently remain in effect through late this
morning, but are likely to be extended.
The weather bureau says the rain will gradually ease from Sunday.
An American woman who prosecutors say led an all-female battalion (營) of
Islamic State militants in Syria pleads guilty.
The AP's Ed Donahue reports.
Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Korosi has been elected as the next president of
the U.N. General Assembly.
And he warned immediately after Tuesday's vote that the world is in the
throes of (處于…困境（或痛苦）中) a dangerous crisis and the credibility of
the United Nations is at stake (處於危急關頭).
Korosi takes over the presidency of the 193-member world body in September.
Health workers protested on Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and
better salaries in public hospitals.
Nine unions and collectives organized a day of protest, including a
demonstration outside the Health Ministry in Paris and in dozens of other
towns and cities.
They are pressing the government's attention to do something about staff
shortages, as emergency services risk closing.
President Emmanuel Macron has promised a rethink of the public hospital
system and commissioned an urgent (緊迫的) review by July 1-st.