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The Tai-Ex opened down 21-points this morning from yesterday's close, at
16,025 on turnover of 3.4-billion N-T.
The market closed marginally (少量地) lower on Tuesday, but managed to
recover most of its early losses to remain above the 16,000-point mark on the
back of renewed investor interest in the financial sector.
Turnover also remained thin as investors remain cautious ahead of a two-day
policy making of the U-S Federal Reserve, at which its expected to hike
interest rates.
Industries
Deputy Economics Minister Chen Zheng-qi says Taiwan will help Lithuania to
build its semiconductor manufacturing capacity and will draw on the Baltic
country's strengths in the field of laser technologies.
The statement comes as members of a delegation of representatives from
Lithuania's high-tech sector are holding talks here in Taiwan this week
seeking cooperation in those two areas.
Speaking following a visit by the delegation to the Industrial Technology
Research Institute and Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute in Hsinchu,
the deputy economics minister said Taiwan is willing to share its experience
and expertise (專業知識) with Lithuania.
The Lithuanian delegation is be led by the country's Vice Minister of the
Economy and Innovation.
Transport Minister Wang Kwo-tsai says motorcycles with an engine capacity
greater than 250 CC will soon be allowed to use three sections of the Su-Hua
Highway.
All three sections of the 118-kilometer road connecting Yilan's Su-Ao
Township with Hualien City have recently undergone (經歷過) improvement.
According to the transport minister, a six month trial period ended in March
and it found that the motorcycles didn't disrupt traffic or pose safety
risks.
The statement comes after heavy motorcycle owners had threatened to protest
the continuing ban on the use of freeways, despite a 2012 amendment to the
Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act stating that it is legal.
Brazil's federal police say they have arrested a second suspect in connection
with the disapperance of an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a
remote area of the Amazon.
The suspect is a fisherman and a brother of the man so far considered by
police to be the main suspect in the case.
Federal police also say that they seized ammunition and an oar, but did not
say why the items were confiscated (沒收), who they belonged to or where they
were found.
Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were last
seen June 5 near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory,
which borders Peru and Colombia.
That area has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and
government agents.
FDA advisers back (支持) Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for older kids.
AP correspondent Mike Gracia reports.