EZ News 09/11/24

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 25-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,089 on turnover of 2.8-billion N-T. The market closed down on Tuesday - as early gains were rubbed-out on the back of lingering (持續的) investor concerns about possible further volatility on Wall Street despite a rebound overnight. Although most large cap electronics stocks came under pressure during the trading day, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing remained resilient to keep the tech sector and the broader market from falling further. MOFA Cites Inflation for Over 60% Hike in High-Level Travel Budget The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is defending a decision to raise its budget for high-level overseas trips by over 60-per cent. According to ministry spokesman Jeff Liu, the significant increase in the budget allocated for next year is due to global inflation and rising commodity prices. The 2025 budget proposal lists 424-million N-T for overseas travel - that's an increase of 160-million N-T compared with the budget allocated (分配) for overseas travel for this year. The statement comes after opposition lawmakers questioned the budget increase and called on the foreign ministry to provide more details about how the money will be spent. CDC Warns of Ongoing Diarrhea Risks Ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival The Centers for Disease Control is warning about the risks of diarrhea ahead of next week's Mid-Autumn Festival - noting that a significant number of clusters in Taiwan had been caused by a previously less common strain of norovirus. According to the C-D-C, just over 130,000 people with diarrhea visited emergency and outpatient departments from September 1 through 7. Although that was a 1.5-per cent decline from the previous week, health officials are stressing (強調) that it was the highest number for the same period since 2019. The C-D-C says 101 diarrhea clusters has also been reported over the past four weeks, marking a five-year high for the same period. US Presidential Debate Ongoing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have taken the debate stage in Philadelphia, where they’ll fight to sway 2024 election voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics. The event offers Americans their most detailed look at a campaign that’s dramatically (戲劇性地) changed since the last debate in June. It’s the only debate that’s been firmly scheduled and could be the only time voters see Harris and Trump go head-to-head before the November general election The debate has no audience, no written notes, and no live mics when candidates aren’t speaking, according to rules the host network ABC News shared. So far Trump has spoken about abortion rights, saying the issue should be left up to the states, while Harris spoke about her plans to create an "opportunity economy", and criticized Trump's economic plan as "all about tax breaks for the richest people". Space X Launches Mission with Private Citizen Spacewalk SpaceX has launched a capsule carrying four private citizens into orbit on a five day mission set to make history by including the first spacewalk conducted by a non government crew. The journey will also take the four private astronauts to the highest orbital altitude (高度) that humans have reached since the Apollo moon mission in 1972. Kate Fisher reports That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 高雄美術特區2-4房全新落成，《惟美術》輕軌C22站散步即到家，近鄰青海商圈，卡位明星學區，徜徉萬坪綠海。 住近美術館，擁抱優雅日常，盡現驕傲風範！美術東四路X青海路 07-553-3838 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn