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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday announced that he would step down, citing a desire to avoid further divisions within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

However, he has been politically isolated ever since the party’s historic defeat in July’s parliamentary elections. One day prior to his resignation, Ishiba’s perceived mentor, former Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga, and Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi reportedly joined forces to persuade him to step down. That move, it seems, was the final straw.

The leading candidates to succeed Ishiba are Japanese Representative Sanae Takaichi and Koizumi. Takaichi is often viewed as an ideological heir to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, advocating for constitutional revision, boosting national defense and demonstrating strong support for Taiwan. Her strengths lie in her ability to solidify the LDP’s “bedrock conservative base” and her close ties among US political circles.

However, given the male-dominated culture of Japan’s parliament, female politicians often face skepticism regarding their ability to coordinate.

Koizumi is the favorite among young people and the media for his photogenic and moderate image, but he lacks experience and policy depth. Although he initially stood out during last year’s contest for the party leadership, his poor debate performance ultimately led to him finishing third — prompting concerns that he might possess more charisma than competence.

Regardless of who emerges as Japan’s next prime minister, they will face three major challenges:

First is Japan’s economy.

The country is grappling with inflation and sluggish economic growth. Additionally, increases in defense spending combined with growing healthcare and pension costs have stretched public finances thin. The new Cabinet would struggle to regain public trust without strong and effective economic policies.

Takaichi plans to continue with Abe’s economic policies, widely known as Abenomics, advocating for a clear and consistent approach — expansionary fiscal and monetary policies. Koizumi, in contrast, has given relatively little attention to economic issues.

Second is intra-party and bipartisan coordination.

The LDP is deeply factionalized and frequent changes in leadership have further destabilized it. The slim majority of the ruling coalition has made navigating parliament increasingly difficult. Takaichi’s strong will and clear-cut conservative stance could help solidify the party’s base, but might hinder her ability to mediate and unify the factions. Koizumi, being much younger and more moderate, could offer greater flexibility in building a consensus — although his lack of experience would raise concerns about whether he could gain respect of senior party members. Ultimately, the ability to build trust within the party would be key to determining the new administration’s longevity.

Third is foreign affairs and national defense.

The international landscape is becoming increasingly volatile and the US-China rivalry is growing more intense. Ishiba attempted to strike a balance between the two powers, resulting in a massive loss of conservative voters. The next prime minister would need to deepen the US-Japan alliance and firmly stand on the side of democracy. Takaichi holds a clear advantage in this arena. She has access to the resources of the former Abe faction and is well-versed in US political affairs, while Koizumi notably lacks experience in foreign policy.

Takachi has ideals and international experience, but lacks the ability to mediate. Koizumi is popular and has a favorable image, but lacks real political strength. Japan’s political landscape requires a strong and decisive leader, but also hopes for a prime minister who can unite the LDP.

It might be difficult to find someone who embodies both.

With the weak ruling coalition and strong opposition of its post-Ishiba era, Japan seems to be entering another cycle of short-lived administrations.

The question is whether the leading role this time around would be played by a woman or a man.

Wang Hui-sheng is a founding member of the East Asian Research Institute.

Translated by Kyra Gustavsen

title: Leading Japan in the post-Shigeru Ishiba era


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Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative activist and close ally of US President Donald Trump, was shot and killed on Wednesday while giving a speech at Utah Valley University in Orem.

Perhaps, more than even firearms, it is social media algorithms that encourage violence.

Many academics have observed that, as social media algorithms become increasingly sophisticated, people have grown more self-centered and intolerant. In his 2019 book Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis and Change, Jared Diamond recalls that in the 1990s, he could share a meal with his intellectual opponents. However, today, even delivering a speech at a university event requires security guards. Debates on university campuses increasingly escalate into physical confrontations. However, while most involve physical altercations, they rarely shock the public like Kirk’s shooting has.

Although civilians in Taiwan cannot legally possess firearms like they can in the US, vigilance is still necessary.

If, like me, you come from the early generation of Taiwanese blogging and frequented Wretch (無名小站), previously Taiwan’s leading social networking Web site, you likely sense how hostile the tone of online discourse has become. Many of those who lived during the Martial Law era stood side-by-side — whether they backed unification or independence — to resist Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) dictatorship. Figures like author, politician and historian Li Ao (李敖), democracy advocate Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕) and former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) collaborated through platforms such as the Freedom Era Weekly (自由時代). Today, political affiliation, identity, or even liking different influencers can be enough to set people at odds.

Social media allow people to make unfavorable opinions disappear with the flick of a finger, building an echo chamber that does nothing but like our posts and validate us. This can become second nature. When they encounter someone in person with a different viewpoint, they might find them intolerable.

This could be the deeper, long-term context behind Kirk’s tragic death.

Even without firearms, Taiwan’s university campuses are not devoid of danger — there could be knives, gasoline, even corrosive chemicals like aqua regia. Given this, it is imperative that families, schools and the government implement reasonable controls over children’s and adolescents’ use of digital devices. The harm social media algorithms pose to people’s health might rival that of tobacco and alcohol.

Jimway Chang has a master’s degree in history from National Tsing Hua University and is a history teacher at a high school.

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title: Killing of Kirk, social media and division

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content_text: Taiwan stands at the epicenter of a seismic shift that will determine the Indo-Pacific’s future security architecture. Whether deterrence prevails or collapses will reverberate far beyond the Taiwan Strait, fundamentally reshaping global power dynamics.The stakes could not be higher. Today, Taipei confronts an unprecedented convergence of threats from an increasingly muscular China that has intensified its multidimensional pressure campaign. Beijing’s strategy is comprehensive: military intimidation, diplomatic isolation, economic coercion, and sophisticated influence operations designed to fracture Taiwan’s democratic society from within.This challenge is magnified by Taiwan’s internal political divisions, which extend to fundamental questions about the island’s identity and future

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China’s green energy projects are bringing jobs, growth and cheap electricity to the developing world

Rich democracies felt a collective shiver last week at the sight of Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un exchanging pleasantries and tips on how to live to 150 at China’s military parade. They should be much more concerned about the ties Beijing is forging elsewhere in the world.

That is because the country’s clean energy industry is making connections across a swath of the global south with far more collective significance than the crumbling nuclear-armed autocracies in Moscow and Pyongyang.

Foreign direct investment by China’s green technology industry since 2022 has hit between US$227 billion and US$250 billion. That is roughly the size, adjusted for inflation, of the post-World War II Marshall Plan that cemented the alliance between the US and Europe.

In the late 2010s, when concerns over the scale of China’s Belt and Road Initiative were at fever pitch, annual spending on all overseas infrastructure projects was running at between US$80 billion and US$120 billion a year.

In 2023 and last year, green manufacturing investments alone came to US$66 billion and US$72 billion respectively, according to data from the China Low-Carbon Technology FDI Database, hosted by Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. Last year’s figure was equivalent to about 40 percent of China’s total outbound foreign direct investment.

This could be seen as the second stage of the China-led global energy transition. The first, which is still only a few years old, came from exports of finished products — solar panels, electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries.

Thanks to that trade, about two-thirds of emerging markets have a larger share of solar power in their grids than the roughly 9 percent in the US, a separate study from pro-transition think tank Ember showed. One in four are electrifying their entire economies more rapidly. EVs are being adopted in Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates at a pace to match or even exceed developed markets. The US is increasingly resembling a steampunk relic still dependent on 19th century furnace-and-turbine technology to fuel its dreams of artificial intelligence.

This commerce is already affecting demand for fossil fuels. China’s solar exports last year alone were sufficient to cut long-run global carbon emissions by 4 billion metric tonnes, equivalent to about 40 days of emissions. Pakistan, which has for years treated gas generation as the backbone of its power network, has been asking suppliers to defer shipments of liquefied natural gas after a surge of solar imports suppressed grid demand. Saudi Arabia is facing one of the fastest declines in petroleum usage anywhere, as photovoltaic farms replace fuel oil generators.

However, these exports have raised hackles and trade restrictions due to their sheer scale. What is different about the second stage of this transition is that foreign direct investment is building physical factories, ports and facilities that would generate jobs and investments for decades to come, cementing host countries’ commitment to clean technology.

Such greenfield spending is like planting a seed: You do not see its full impact until years later.

Take Cobco, a US$2 billion factory for lithium-ion battery cathodes opened southwest of Morocco’s Port of Casablanca in June. With capacity to supply 70 gigawatt (GW)-hours of batteries per year once at full operation, it would be large enough on its own to power about 1.2 million EVs annually — sufficient to supply about a third of Europe’s market at present.

A solar panel factory established the same month east of Jakarta could churn out 1.6 GW of modules each year, enough to provide nearly all the additional 17.1 GW of photovoltaic generation Indonesia had been forecasting up to 2035. With capacity growing so fast, ambitions are accelerating, too: Last month, the government announced it was working on increasing its solar target sixfold to 100 GW.

These projects are rewriting the rules of energy, trade and international relations as dramatically as any development since the 1973 oil crisis. That emergency caused developed countries to shun fuel oil from the Middle East as their key source of grid power, and switch to nuclear and coal that was easier to secure domestically. The arrival of a clean energy supply chain that is more affordable, abundant and secure than the remaining fossil fuel trade is repeating the trick for developing countries.

Rich nations who view this shift with trepidation should instead use their own expertise in finance and project management to join it. What China is extending to the global south right now is a path to advancement: jobs, energy independence, economic growth, clean air and a chance to break free from the looming threat of climate change. Foreign investments of this sort have been a potent tool of soft power ever since the Marshall Plan.

Right now, Beijing is offering cheap clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory. This is no way to win the grand strategic contest of the 21st century.

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.


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It is a potential prize fight for the ages: US “energy dominance” versus the Power of Siberia. A proposed pipeline to bring natural gas from Russia, across Mongolia and into northern China threatens to complicate US President Donald Trump’s energy diplomacy, upend energy markets and even shape the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.

The apparent revival of the Power of Siberia 2 gas project during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) represents an enormous wildcard for the US gas sector. Together with mooted expansions of two other pipelines, this would open up 58 billion cubic meters per year of capacity to feed Russian gas directly into China. To put that into perspective, it is equivalent to almost half the expected increase in Chinese gas demand over the next decade, and a quarter of the world’s extra demand overall.

More pertinently for the US, it would exacerbate and extend a looming glut in an energy sector at the heart of Trump’s “dominance” agenda: liquefied natural gas (LNG). The US is the world’s biggest exporter of LNG and is spearheading a huge expansion in liquefaction capacity.

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said at a Council of Foreign Affairs event last week that he expects LNG to become the country’s single largest export.

The International Energy Agency’s long-term outlook last year had annual LNG global demand rising by 144 billion cubic meters between 2023 and 2030. Yet, supply capacity is set to increase by almost double that amount. The industry’s great hope is that this glut would clear as demand keeps growing and the boom in export capacity tails off. Injecting 58 billion cubic meters of effectively stranded Russian gas into the equation would dash that hope.

A persistent glut has direct implications for the US market. Over the past five years, net LNG exports soaked up two-thirds of the increase in domestic gas production, significantly outpacing the only other major source of rising demand for US gas, power generation. All else equal, a glutted global LNG market would expand gas available domestically, suppressing US prices. This would be analogous to the US Department of Energy’s “high oil and gas supply” case in its long-term projections, which results in gas prices in 2030 and 2035 that are 25 percent and 37 percent lower respectively than in its base case.

US gas producers and LNG developers would suffer, of course. If Power of Siberia 2 moves closer to being a reality, some anticipated LNG capacity in the US simply would not get built and some “drill, baby, drill” would not happen. This is where Trump’s push for energy dominance might have created its own obstacle, by giving China a reason to sign up for the pipeline.

Russia, whose invasion of Ukraine spurred Europe to drastically cut its imports of gas from Siberia, needs new export options. Its Arctic LNG projects have been hampered by sanctions, and the new pipelines to China would, at full capacity, effectively replace Europe’s prior demand. Moreover, the expected glut in LNG capacity, even before considering the impact of new pipelines, meant Europe would have less reason to consider taking Russian gas again in the event of a peace deal. Russia had previously balked at China’s hardball negotiations over pricing and minimum volume commitments, but the debacle in Ukraine has left Moscow more dependent on Beijing for support.

From a purely economic perspective, China does not need Power of Siberia 2, given the availability of LNG. That might mean the pipeline remains just a Russian dream. However, the global energy trade is tilting ever further away from pure economics.

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy gas expert Anne-Sophie Corbeau said that China’s imports of LNG from the US plunged to zero in March, after the two countries’ trade war intensified.

Power of Siberia 2 would diversify China’s gas sources, bind Russia closer strategically and economically, and strike a blow against Trump’s signature energy policy.

China has begun cranking up imports of blacklisted Russian LNG and reportedly preparing to reopen its domestic bond market to Russian energy firms, a Financial Times article said.

This would fit with China’s broad diversification strategy, having poured money into developing a world-beating electric vehicle industry to limit dependency on oil imports, along with renewables and nuclear power. As much as Trump has seized upon the shale boom as a source of supply-led diplomatic leverage, he appears to have forgotten that customers threatened with the energy weapon tend to pay up for other options (as the industrialized world did after the 1970s oil shocks and, indeed, Europe did after Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine).

Moreover, dominance efforts to date appear detached from underlying market realities. Yes, Europe has become reliant on US LNG since 2022, but a mature economy committed to reducing emissions cannot absorb an additional wave of cargoes. Prospects are similarly limited when it comes to Japan and South Korea, which have, like Europe, made nebulous commitments to buy vast amounts of US “energy” to seek a trade accommodation with Trump.

“It’s very strange to try to target slow-growing or declining markets,” Corbeau said.

The one obvious beneficiary of cheaper excess gas in the US would be datacenter developers, who are targeting gas-fired generation to meet their burgeoning electricity needs. Gas demand from the power sector in 2035 is 38 percent higher in the energy department’s “high supply” case relative to the base projection. Conversely, cheap gas is poison for coal-fired power (another Trump priority) and an added challenge for a renewables sector already under attack from the president. However, if AI hyperscalers ultimately benefit from Trump’s zero-sum energy diplomacy, it would be due to the inherent limitations of dominance.

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’ Lex column.


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The new iPhone may be thinner, but it comes with big trade-offs

There was a time when thickness and weight were two main questions when buying new technology, maybe even the most important. That is why, when Apple founder Steve Jobs slipped a MacBook Air out of an envelope in 2008, we all oohed. It was a new dawn for laptops: finally some mercy for the world’s shoulders.

There were some performance trade-offs, but they were seen as worth it. The MacBook Air redefined expectations of how a laptop could look and feel, and it only got better from there. As well as MacBook Air, by 2013 we had the iPad Air, too.

Continuing the trend on Tuesday, Apple Inc introduced the 5.64mm-thick iPhone Air to answer those critics who said that at 7.95mm, the new iPhone 17 is too thick, a certified whopper. If you could locate any of those critics, please send them to me, because I do not believe they exist. Nor do I believe many consumers would care about thickness when they learn the iPhone Air sacrifices things they worry about more than any other factor: battery life and a more capable camera.

These consumers also care about price. At US$999, the iPhone Air comes in at US$200 more than the more powerful 17, or just US$100 less than the full-featured 17 Pro. Is that a good deal to achieve thinness when you are only going to stick this phone into a case immediately anyway? This is one of the stranger products Apple has ever released. The company did not elaborate on what it meant by “all-day battery life,” but here is a clue: Alongside the launch of the device, Apple showed off an accompanying external battery pack for “life’s busier days.” (It is US$99.)

So what is the deal? International Data Corp (IDC) analyst Francisco Jeronimo said that the design refresh — which includes a new look for the other iPhones in addition to the iPhone Air — is about shortening the amount of time consumers wait to upgrade their devices, which has been trending longer and longer, as the phone and its components have improved and the phones have started to look very similar from one year to the next.

As CCS Insight chief of research Ben Wood put it: “It has been a few years since Apple has had new iPhones that you could put on the table in a coffee shop, meeting room or pub, and people would ask, ‘Is that the new iPhone?’”

So it was good news if that is the sort of thing that matters to you: The new Pro lineup looks distinctly different from the models of the past few cycles, with its massive new camera bump — the company called it a “plateau” — and distinct new colors.

On matters of thinness, Jeronimo points to Samsung’s S25 Edge — 5.8mm — which sold more than a million units in the second quarter, making it the sixth-most popular smartphone globally in IDC’s “high-premium” category of US$1,000 to US$1,600 — although online reviews, professional and from regular people, bemoan the poor battery performance.

Those kind of sales numbers would be table stakes for Apple, but the S25 Edge at least signals an audience for thinner phones, Jeronimo said.

The iPhone Air, then, might be a consumer-testing and market research opportunity for Apple ahead of some truly large upgrades coming next year. The iPhone Air makes use of Apple’s own wireless chip and modem. Spinning up the supply chain that produces them would be useful as Apple prepares for products such as the highly anticipated folding iPhone, which would ultimately feel like two iPhones fused together. That device, far more than anything on show today, would be what gets people upgrading their iPhone more quickly.

All this leaves the iPhone Air as a niche product, built for those who simply must buy every new Apple product or those who wear their jeans too tight (there is probably plenty of overlap in that particular Venn diagram). Like the experimental Vision Pro — another case of Apple doing a little research and development, and market research out in the open — it is perhaps less about this first version of iPhone Air and more about the second one.

As Apple CEO Tim Cook wrapped up the launch event on Tuesday, Apple’s shares were trading marginally down — about 1.5 percent. It was a muted response from investors who know the real litmus test of Apple’s strategy — on artificial intelligence and the future of the iPhone — would not come until next year.

Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion’s US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News.


title: Trump booed, cheered by Yankees fans

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LOCAL MAN: Although Trump has lived in Florida for years, he was born in the New York borough of Queens and ‘remains a New Yorker at heart,’ the White House said

US President Donald Trump attended the New York Yankees 9-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night, drawing a mixed reaction from a raucous crowd while marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Authorities installed security glass for the president outside the upper level box suite belonging to the Steinbrenner family, which owns the Yankees, on the third base side over the Tigers dugout at Yankee Stadium.

Wearing a suit and tie, Trump sat next to Yankees team president Randy Levine and chatted with him throughout the game, although he sat by himself at other times. During the national anthem, the president was shown on the stadium jumbotron and received boos from some in the crowd, cheers from others.

Fans react to US President Donald Trump on screen during a baseball game between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium in New York on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

When Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit a homer in the bottom of the first, Trump stood and applauded, as did members of an entourage that included US Attorney General Pam Bondi and Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman who is now head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In the second inning, Trump’s attendance was announced and he was shown on the big screen for an extended period while Hail to the Chief played. He smiled and pumped his fist. Boos were heard at first, but many in the crowd eventually cheered.

A presidential visit always prompts extra security at sporting events, but things were heightened after conservative activist and close Trump ally Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday. When Trump attended the Sept. 11 observance ceremony at the Pentagon earlier on Thursday, authorities moved the ceremony inside as an added precaution.

Trump’s attendance recalled then-US president George W. Bush’s ceremonial first pitch 24 years earlier as the Yankees played the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series — a moment that came to symbolize national resilience after the attacks mere weeks earlier.

Later in Thursday’s game, when YMCA was played, Trump spelled out the letters with his arms, but stayed seated.

The president left shortly after the seventh-inning stretch, which featured the singing of God Bless America, as it traditionally does at Yankees games on Sept. 11, in addition to Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

Trump was shown on the big screen three times in quick succession and the announcer said: “Welcome back, New York’s own, the 45th and 47th president” and thanked Trump.

Among the announced crowd in the Bronx of nearly 41,000, that prompted cheers of “USA! USA!” and some chants of Trump’s last name as he stood, grinned and pumped his fist in a downward motion. There were also some in the crowd who booed, and they got louder each time Trump was shown.

Before the game started, Trump stopped by the Yankee clubhouse. He shook hands with the players and team staff members and talked about being close for years with late, longtime Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

“We won every time I came,” he said of his past attending games with Steinbrenner.

“You think that was easy sitting with him for a game? It wasn’t. It was brutal. But he won, and you’re going to win,” the president said.

The Yankees game is Trump’s eighth major sporting event since returning to the White House in January, most recently the US Open final last week.

Trump was born in the New York borough of Queens and, although he has lived in Florida in recent years, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president “remains a New Yorker at heart.”

Still, Trump’s appearances at baseball games have not always been welcomed by fans.

During his first term in 2019, Trump tried to make a low-profile appearance as the Washington Nationals hosted the Houston Astros in the World Series, but was booed roundly when shown on the stadium’s big screen. There were even chants of “Lock him up!”


title: Chanettee takes two-shot lead in Queen City contest

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Two-time LPGA winner Chanettee Wannasaen holed out for an eagle on the way to a nine-under par 63 on Thursday to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Queen City Championship in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Thailand’s Chanettee added seven birdies in her bogey-free effort at TPC River’s Bend, where American Gigi Stoll shook off a late bogey with a birdie at the last to post a seven-under 65.

Chanettee’s round was highlighted by her eagle at the par-four 10th, where she hit a “perfect shot” with a nine iron from the fairway that found the bottom of the cup.

Taiwan’s Chien Peiyun tees off on the ninth hole during the first round of the Kroger Queen City Championship golf tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday. Photo: AP

“After I hit, I just felt like, ‘Oh, this one is going to be close to the pin,’” she said. “I didn’t expect it’s going to roll to the pin!”

The 21-year-old won in Portland in 2023 and captured the Dana Open last year, but she has been frustrated during a campaign this year that has included a tie for 43rd at the Evian Championship followed by a missed cut at the Women’s British Open.

After feeling in recent weeks “like I cannot hit the ball,” she checked in with her coach last week and on Thursday had a confidence-boosting performance to show for it.

“Actually today I played really good,” she said, adding that she was solid with every club in her bag. “I just want to continue to hit like this until the end of the year.”

Stoll, chasing her first LPGA title, eagled the par-five 11th and was seven-under before a bogey at 17.

She rebounded with a closing birdie for a 65 that put her one stroke clear of a group of six players sharing third on 66.

That included 12-time LPGA winner Kim Sei-young of South Korea, who teed off on 10 and had three birdies in her first nine holes before she racked up five birdies and two bogeys coming in.

“I played quite solid, especially back nine,” said Kim, who was joined on six-under par by compatriots Kim A-lim — who eagled the 18th — and Park Kum-kang.

Taiwan’s Chien Peiyun, Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit and American Jenny Bae also joined joint third place on six-under par 66 after the first round.

World number two Nelly Korda carded a five-under par 67 to headline a group of four sharing ninth place that also included Australian Gabriella Ruffels, Bianca Pagdanganan of the Philippines and Spain’s Julia Lopez Ramirez.

Thailand’s world number one Jeeno Thitikul opened with a three-under 69 and defending champion Lydia Ko of New Zealand carded a 70.


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World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe yesterday said that the governing body was within “touching distance” of their goal of having all female athletes undergo gene testing before the start of the World Athletics Championships.

The one-time test, conducted by a cheek swab or blood test, was made a requirement of competing in the female category at the elite level of the sport in March following a meeting of the World Athletics Council.

Coe admitted there had been challenges and clarified that the goal was to have the female cohort tested before the world championships, but not necessarily for the tests to be validated.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe speaks at the opening press conference for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo yesterday. Photo: Reuters

“We were on 95 percent I think the other day, we’re inching our way there, and we’ll be within touching distance,” he told a news conference on the eve of the start of the championships.

“It’s had its challenges, but we are pretty much there, and I’m really pleased that we agreed to do that,” he said.

The tests identify the SRY gene, which is on the Y chromosome and triggers the development of male characteristics in mammals. Any athletes whose test shows the gene would be further investigated to decide their eligibility.

The tests replace previous rules whereby athletes with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) were able to compete as long as they artificially reduced their testosterone levels.

The most famous DSD athlete is middle distance runner Caster Semenya, who was raised as a woman and successfully competed in women’s athletics despite developing male characteristics.

Semenya, who won two Olympic gold medals before World Athletics introduced rules limiting her participation in the female class, believes she is the victim of discrimination.

Now 34, the South African has pursued her cause through the law courts, most recently winning a case at the Grand Chamber of the European Court over her right to have her appeal against the World Athletics’ rules heard at a Swiss tribunal.

Coe has framed the tests as a key plank in protecting the integrity of female competition.

There were some problems testing some athletes in Canada, Norway and France, but Coe said he thought it had been worth rushing the process through.

“The timeframe has been tight for some member federations,” he added. “The way the member federations and some of our external laboratories have worked alongside our area associations has been terrific. So yes, I think it’s an initiative that was worth doing.”

Coe said he was not aware of any athletes who had been excluded from the world championships after their results revealed the presence of the SRY gene.

“I don’t know the answer to that, nor should I, that’s really between our medical delegates and any individual athlete where we needed further interrogation after that test,” he said.

title: World Athletics chief says gene testing almost ready


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China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper on Monday published an essay about Chinese basketball it said was written by LeBron James, but a representative for the NBA star said on Thursday that the article was based on a series of interviews.

The paper, better known as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had said James authored the essay, “Basketball is a Bridge that Connects Us,” a tribute to Chinese players and fans of the sport written in the first person.

“LeBron James Pens an Article in the People’s Daily,” read a post published on the newspaper’s official WeChat account.

LeBron James throws the ball back to a referee as he attends an NBA Summer League game in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 12. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

On Thursday, a representative for the four-time NBA champion said James did not write the article and that it was based on a “series of interviews” he did in China that were “transcribed and put on the People’s Daily Web site.”

The newspaper did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside business hours.

James, who is entering a record-breaking 23rd season in the top-flight North American league, has visited China 15 times. The publication of the essay came as he wrapped up visits to Shanghai and Chengdu as part of a tour marking the 20th anniversary of his first Nike tour of Asia.

The NBA enjoyed decades of fast growth in China, where some 300 million play the game, ballooning into a business said to be worth more than US$4 billion. The league was one of the most popular US cultural exports to the country until 2019 when Daryl Morey, then-general manager of the Houston Rockets team, made a Twitter post in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.

The fallout was swift. China’s state broadcaster CCTV stopped showing NBA games for 28 months, local sponsors cut ties, and Rockets merchandise vanished from stores. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in 2022 that financial losses amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Six years later, despite renewed trade tensions, the NBA’s relationship with its most important market outside North America is much improved. In the past three years, CCTV has gradually returned to broadcasting NBA games and Chinese companies have signed deals with the league.

The NBA is gearing up next month for two preseason games in Macau, the first time since 2019 that NBA teams would play on Chinese soil.

title: LeBron James did not write piece for China media: agent


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Fubon Guardians veteran Lin Che-hsuan, the eighth Taiwanese player to reach the MLB, is to retire at the end of the current CPBL season, the franchise announced yesterday.

Now 36, Lin has been plagued by injuries over the past two seasons, playing only 55 games last year and eight games this year.

As of yesterday, he had batted .280 and recorded 771 hits in 799 games over 11 CPBL seasons.

The Fubon Guardians’ Lin Che-hsuan is pictured on April 8. Photo: Lin Cheng-kun, Taipei Times

The Fubon Guardians said that a press conference would be held for Lin on Monday.

Known for his speed and fielding skills, Lin signed with the Boston Red Sox on a US$400,000 deal after graduating from high school in June 2007.

The outfielder made his MLB debut on April 14, 2012, when Jacoby Ellsbury went on the injured list. He batted .250 with three hits in nine games. That turned out to be his only MLB season.

Lin signed minor league contracts with the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers before joining the CPBL’s EDA Rhinos as the first overall pick in the 2015 mid-season draft.

He led the EDA Rhinos to the CPBL championship and was named Taiwan Series MVP in 2016, the franchise’s final season in Kaohsiung before it moved to New Taipei City and became the Fubon Guardians.

His CPBL highlights came from 2016 to 2019, during which he was named an All-Star and won the Golden Glove Award each year.

title: Fubon Guardians’ Lin Che-hsuan set to retire


title: Strasbourg dominate Ligue 1 transfer window

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Paris Saint-Germain’s domination of Ligue 1 is almost total, but Strasbourg, rather than the European champions, were France’s biggest spenders in the recent transfer window.

While PSG reportedly shelled out just over 100 million euros (US$116.8 million) during the French summer, Strasbourg’s owners BlueCo sanctioned purchases of almost 120 million euros according to specialist Web site Transfermarkt.

PSG only signed two players in Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier and Bournemouth’s Ukraine defender Illia Zabarnyi.

Strasbourg defender Mamadou Sarr, left, fights for the ball with Monaco midfielder Lamine Camara during their Ligue 1 soccer match at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco on Aug. 31. Photo: AFP

At Strasbourg, in contrast, coach Liam Rosenior has seen 13 new faces arrive and three players who were on loan last season sign permanently, while defender Mamadou Sarr was sold to Chelsea and loaned back.

Two standout players from last season have gone to the Premier League, with midfielder Habib Diarra signing for Sunderland and winger Dilane Bakwa joining Nottingham Forest for a total of 72 million euros.

However, the Alsace outfit have spent that money, and more, to build a squad capable of competing high up the Ligue 1 and going far in Europe.

Strasbourg were in contention for Champions League qualification last season before a late collapse saw them finish seventh.

That means they are involved in the Conference League, where league phase opponents included FA Cup winners Crystal Palace.

“We have a very good squad,” said Rosenior just before the closure of the window, which notably saw England left-back Ben Chilwell arrive at the last minute from Chelsea.

“For me now it is about making sure I pick the right starting team,” added the Englishman, who insists Strasbourg aspire to be playing in the Champions League.

“I feel like we have better opportunities as a staff to make in-game tactical decisions which we didn’t have last year. I am really happy with this group,” he said.

While most French clubs, other than PSG and Marseille, have been forced to tighten belts due to the collapse of Ligue 1’s domestic broadcast deal, Strasbourg’s owners have increased investment.

“When you look at what is happening to French clubs, how is it possible that some of them are able to spend so much?” asked Nice sporting director Florian Maurice in an interview with sports daily L’Equipe.

There is controversy around the ownership model. The BlueCo consortium, led by American businessmen Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, also own Chelsea.

A pathway from Stamford Bridge to Alsace has opened up. Star performers for Strasbourg last season included goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic and Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos, who were on loan from Chelsea.

They have returned to London, but Chilwell and midfielder Mathis Amougou are new arrivals from Chelsea on permanent deals.

In addition to Sarr, goalkeeper Mike Penders and Ecuador starlet Kendry Paez have come in on loan from west London.

Many Strasbourg fans are unhappy that their team is part of a multi-club model, yet BlueCo have made the 1979 French champions stronger than they had been in decades.


content_text: Taiwan’s Wang Yi-shiang, right, pours water over teammate Li Kai-qi after Li scored a crucial walk-off to beat Puerto Rico 1-0 in the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup Super Round in Naha, Japan, yesterday.

title: Wet winner


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DIVIDED NATION: The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that Jair Bolsonaro conspired to overturn the 2022 election and incited the storming of government buildings in 2023

The Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced firebrand former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for coup plotting at the end of a landmark trial that divided the nation and drew the fury of US President Donald Trump.

The sentence could see the 70-year-old far-right leader spend the rest of his days in jail.

Judges voted 4-1 to convict Bolsonaro of plotting to overthrow Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following his October 2022 election defeat by the left-winger.

Opponents of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro celebrate at a bar in Brasilia on Thursday after the Brazilian Supreme Court sentenced him to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. Photo: AP

Prosecutors said the plan failed only due to a lack of support from military top brass.

Bolsonaro’s defense team called the sentence “incredibly excessive” and announced he would appeal, “including at the international level.”

Washington was quick to respond to the conviction of the man dubbed “the Trump of the tropics” after his election in 2019.

title: Bolsonaro given 27 years for coup plot


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Belarus freed 52 political prisoners on Thursday as part of a deal brokered by the US, which lifted some sanctions on the country’s national airline.

It was another sign of a possible rapprochement between Washington and Minsk, a close ally of Russia that has faced Western isolation for years. US President Donald Trump and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko spoke on the phone last month, and the US leader even suggested a face-to-face meeting could be in the works.

That would be a big win for Lukashenko, who has ruled his nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than three decades. Belarus has been repeatedly sanctioned by Western countries for its crackdown on human rights and for allowing Moscow to use its territory in the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

A prisoner released from Belarus is greeted by a loved one after his arrival at the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

However, more recently, Lukashenko has sought to mend ties with the West in the hopes of easing the sanctions. He has regularly released prisoners as a way to win favor, including freeing Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in June.

The concession from the US came a day after Poland denounced an incursion of Russian drones into its territory — saying some came from Belarus — in what Western officials called an act of aggression. NATO jets were scrambled and shot some of the drones down.

Trump, whose country is the major military power in NATO, offered an ambiguous initial response to the incursion, writing on Truth Social: “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!”

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, center left, welcomes released prisoners from Belarus in front of the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday. Photo: EPA

SANCTIONS EASING

Trump envoy John Coale announced the lifting of sanctions at a meeting with Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday.

Some sanctions on Belarus national carrier, Belavia, were relaxed in light of prisoner releases so far, said a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic conversations. That would allow the airline to repair and buy parts for its planes, including Boeing aircraft.

The airline was sanctioned by the EU, the US and others after Belarusian flight controllers ordered a commercial jet traveling from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk. Once the plane landed, authorities arrested Raman Pratasevich, a dissident journalist who was on board.

Lukashenko, who has relied on Russia’s loans and cheap energy to keep Belarus’ economy afloat, called the Thursday move “very important.”

Opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya said that the easing of sanctions could allow Moscow, whose aviation industry is sanctioned, to get airplane parts through Belavia.

“We understand that this is part of the deal, but lifting sanctions without systemic changes in the country could open loopholes that both the Lukashenko regime and Russia will use to circumvent the sanctions,” she said.

That could also create new opportunities for Belarus in its relationship with Russia. Minsk would be able to resell the parts to Moscow “at a very favorable price,” independent analyst Valery Karbalevich said, adding that it makes “the Kremlin’s leash” on Belarus “a little longer.”

ACTIVIST

One of the prisoners released on Thursday, veteran opposition activist Mikalai Statkevich, refused to cross into Lithuania and tried to return to Belarus, but was blocked by the border guards, said Anatol Lyabedzka, a member of Tsikhanouskaya’s team.

Maksim Viniarski, another freed dissident, said that Statkevich repeatedly demanded to stop the bus taking him, Viniarski and others to Lithuania and let him out. As the bus entered the no-man’s land between Belarus and Lithuania, “emaciated, yet determined to resist,” Statkevich hit an emergency stop button, opened the door and got out.

For a while, Statkevich remained in the no-man’s land, but then Belarusian security operatives took him in the direction of the Belarusian border crossing, Lyabedzka said.

The other 51 freed prisoners have crossed into Lithuania, Lyabedzka said.

Statkevich, one of Lukashenko’s most prominent and charismatic opponents, attempted to run for president in 2010, but was arrested, convicted on charges of organizing mass riots and sentenced to six years. He was released in 2015 under pressure from the US

Statkevich was arrested again before the 2020 elections, found guilty once more of organizing mass riots, and sentenced to another 14 years. He has been held incommunicado since February 2023.

Also among those released were Ihar Losik, a journalist for US government-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, as well as other journalists and bloggers, party and union leaders, and 14 foreigners.

title: Belarus frees 52 prisoners as US lifts some sanctions


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From sparking protests that toppled Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to giving young people a platform to discuss their country’s political future, social media was key to Nepal’s extraordinary uprising this week.

Fuelled in part by anger over flashy lifestyles flaunted by elites, young anti-corruption demonstrators, mainly in their 20s, rallied on Monday.

The loose grouping, largely viewed as members of “Gen Z,” flooded the capital, Kathmandu, to demand an end to a ban on Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites.

An army personnel member uses a cellphone during a curfew imposed to restore law and order in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Photo: AFP

The rallies ended in chaos and tragedy, with at least 19 protesters killed in a police crackdown on Monday. The apps were restored, but protests widened in anger.

On Tuesday, other Nepalese joined the crowds. Parliament was set ablaze, Oli resigned as prime minister, and the army took charge of the streets.

Now, many protestors are taking to the US group-chat app Discord to talk over their next steps.

One server with more than 145,000 members has hosted feverish debate about who could be an interim leader, with many pushing 73-year-old former chief justice Sushila Karki, who was expected to be named interim prime minister after press time last night following her meeting with Nepalese President Ramchandra Paudel.

It is just one example of how social media have driven demands for change.

Days before the protests, many had rushed to virtual private network (VPN) services to evade blocks on platforms.

Fears of a wider Internet shutdown also drove a surge in downloads for Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat, created by tech billionaire Jack Dorsey.

“Tech played... an almost decisive role,” journalist Pranaya Rana said. “The whole thing started with young people posting on social media about corruption, and the lavish lives that the children of political leaders were leading.”

Hashtags such as #NepoKids, short for nepotism, compared the designer clothing and luxury holidays shown off in their Instagram posts to the difficulties faced by ordinary Nepalis.

One post liked 13,000 times said politicians’ children were “living like millionaires,” asking: “Where is the tax money going?”

“NepoKids was trending all the time,” including in rural areas where Facebook is popular, rights advocate Sanjib Chaudhary said.

“This fuelled the fire” of anger that “has been growing for a long time,” he said.

Deep dissatisfaction lies behind the social unrest in the Himalayan nation, among young people exasperated with slow economic development and political instability.

A week ago, Nepal said it would block access to 26 social media platforms, from Facebook to X and LinkedIn, for failing to meet a deadline to register in the country.

Interest rose in Dorsey’s Bitchat platform, which works offline and describes itself as a way to resist censorship.

“There when you need it,” wrote Dorsey on X, citing a post describing a “sudden spike” in Bitchat downloads during the protests in Indonesia and Nepal.

Chaudhary said the government “seriously underestimated the power of social media.”

Additional reporting by Reuters

title: Discord to Bitchat: Tech at the heart of Nepal protests


title: China pilots village surveillance in Solomon Islands

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‘GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE’: Chinese police are piloting a Mao-era policing system in Honiara’s villages, including household mapping and population registers

China has exported its village surveillance model to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where Chinese police are piloting fingerprint and data collection to curb social unrest, officials and locals said.

China’s “Fengqiao” monitoring model — started under Mao Zedong (毛澤東) in the 1960s to help communities mobilize against reactionary “class enemies” — has been reinvigorated by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to ensure stability in local communities.

In the Solomon Islands, a security partner of Beijing, Chinese police have visited several villages this year promoting the Fengqiao concept, familiarizing children with surveillance drones by playing games, pictures posted to social media by Solomon Islands police show.

A member of the Chinese Police Liaison Team speaks during a community engagement event in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, in an undated photograph. Photo: AFP

A grid system operates across Chinese villages, with each grid manager responsible for “monitoring blocks of households,” said Ben Hillman, Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University.

It was an “ideal mode of governance” for the Chinese Communist Party because “people mobilize in support of the party’s agenda and monitor each other so that social conflicts can be nipped in the bud before they escalate,” Hillman said.

“It is unusual to see the model promoted outside of China because its operation depends on particular social and political institutions,” he added.

A member of the Chinese Police Liaison Team hands a microphone to a young boy during a community engagement event in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, in an undated photograph. Photo: AFP

PILOT PROJECT

Andrew Nihopara, a community leader in the Solomon Islands, said that the village of Fighter 1 on the fringe of the capital, Honiara, had begun working with the Chinese police on a Fengqiao pilot, but declined to comment further.

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force said in a statement this month that the Fengqiao model of “grassroots governance” in Fighter 1 would collect population data to improve security.

Chinese police had introduced residents to population management, household registration, community mapping and the collection of fingerprints and palm prints, the statement said.

“The Fighter One community is the first attempt, and it will be expanded to a larger area across the country in the future,” the statement quoted Chinese police inspector Lin Jiamu (林嘉木) as saying, adding that the initiative would enhance safety.

The move has stirred human rights concerns.

“It is an infringement on individual rights that are protected by our Constitution and should have come through parliament, through our laws,” opposition party politician Peter Kenilorea said in a telephone interview.

The office of Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele referred questions to the police, who did not respond to a request for comment.

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security gave a seminar in February about the Fengqiao Experience in the Solomon Islands, drawing parallels between China’s villages and the island’s social structure, a Chinese embassy post on the WeChat messaging app showed.

‘DISREGARDS CULTURE’

Solomon Islands Ministry of Traditional Governance, Peace and Ecclesiastical Affairs Deputy Director Clifton Aumae said that he did not think Fengqiao would be accepted by traditional villages.

“This system disregards the culture that we have. I don’t think it will sit well with traditional communities in the Solomon Islands, where the chief is always at the center and is responsible for order,” he said.

Aumae said his ministry instead wants to restore the power of village chiefs under the law to deal with youth anti-social behavior.

‘A RISE IN LAWLESSNESS’

A resident near Fighter 1, who is familiar with the Fengqiao trial, but did not want to be named, said that the community was multi-ethnic and there had been “a rapid deterioration in social order and a rise in lawlessness.”

In the urban fringe, communities with residents drawn from many provinces were resisting traditional systems, he said.

“This might be a stepping stone toward creating order as well as keeping data, which is one thing that is lacking,” the resident said.

Kenilorea said he was concerned it was a step toward an authoritarian system. “There are better ways to manage communities that are impoverished or struggling,” he said.

Chinese police had also promoted Fengqiao when visiting 16 villages in Malaita, the largest Solomon Islands province with a history of anti-China protests, another police statement on social media showed.

China struck a security pact with the Solomon Islands in 2022 after anti-government riots in 2021. The protests were fueled in part by Malaita politicians opposing the Solomon Islands’ switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing.


title: S Korean workers return home after detention in US

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More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the US last week were brought back home on a charter plane and reunited with their loved ones yesterday.

They were among about 475 people detained during the immigration raid on Thursday last week at a battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah, Georgia.

Their roundup and the US release of video showing some Korean workers shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists have caused public outrage and a sense of betrayal in South Korea. a key US ally.

A South Korean worker, second left, who was detained in a US immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Ellabell, Georgia, is welcomed by family members after returning from the US at Incheon International Airport yesterday. Photo: AFP

After their charter plane, a Boeing 747-8i from Korean Air, landed at Incheon International Airport, just west of Seoul, they appeared in an arrivals hall, with senior officials, including South Korean Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik, clapping hands. One hugged Kang.

Hundreds of journalists gathered at the airport to cover their arrival. One protester unfurled a huge banner with a photo of US President Donald Trump and a message criticizing US immigration crackdowns before security officials persuaded him to stop.

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the media to blur the workers’ faces in videos and photos at the airport, citing requests by the workers who worried about their privacy.

The plane carried 330 people who were detained in the Georgia raid — 316 of them are South Koreans, including a pregnant woman, and the rest are Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian workers. They had been held at an immigration detention center in Folkston, 460km southeast of Atlanta.

The workers’ release provided relief to their families and colleagues, some of whom came to the airport to meet them.

Hwang In-song, the brother of one worker, said he had been unable to reach his sibling until midnight on Thursday, when he finally received a text message saying his brother was safe.

He said the past week was “the hardest time” for their family.


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Donovan’s Deep Dives: Likely KMT chair candidates a mixed, deep blue bagThe list of likely candidates ranges from deep blue to deeper blue to deepest blue — bordering on pro-CCP red

Next week, candidates will officially register to run for chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). By the end of Friday, we will know who has registered for the Oct. 18 election.

The number of declared candidates has been fluctuating daily. Some candidates registering may be disqualified, so the final list may be in flux for weeks.

The list of likely candidates ranges from deep blue to deeper blue to deepest blue, bordering on red (pro-Chinese Communist Party, CCP). Unless current Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) can be convinced to run for re-election, the party looks likely to shift towards more hardline pan-blue positions.

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu yesterday presents an invitation to former Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong to become a member of the central review committee chairpersons’ group. Jaw, founder of the influential Blue Fighters, a loose grouping of largely Taipei-based deep blue figures, says he might run for KMT chairman on Oct. 18. Photo: Screenshot from Eric Chu’s Facebook page

Estimates cited by the Chinese-language United Daily News from inside the KMT suggest that of the approximately 450,000 eligible KMT members, based on past elections, they expect around 200,000 to vote this time. Of those, the estimate is that around 50,000 will be from the “military faction,” roughly 80,000 influenced by local patronage factions and approximately 60,000 will vote “independently.”

Candidates are already vying to gain the support of the military and local factions, as well as supporters of popular favorite Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕), who has ruled out running.

The high cost of running may cause some of the candidates to drop out. Candidates must pay a registration fee of NT$200,000, an election administrative fee of NT$3 million, and a deposit of NT$10 million, totaling NT$13,200,000 (US$435,600). Though the NT$10 million deposit is refundable if the candidate meets certain conditions and can be secured with a promissory note, this is still a costly endeavor.

people: 朱立倫 盧秀燕


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Nearly three decades of archaeological finds in Gaza were hurriedly evacuated Thursday from a Gaza City building threatened by an Israeli strike, said an official in charge of the antiquities.

“This was a high-risk operation, carried out in an extremely dangerous context for everyone involved — a real last-minute rescue,” said Olivier Poquillon, director of the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem (EBAF), whose storehouse housed the relics.

On Wednesday morning, Israeli authorities ordered EBAF — one of the oldest academic institutions in the region — to evacuate its archaeological storehouse located on the ground floor of a residential tower in Gaza City that was due to be targeted.

A picture taken on Nov. 28, 2010 shows a mosaic at the archaeological site of the Saint Hilarion Monastery near Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

The Israeli army did not confirm the warning when asked, but several sources said France, UNESCO and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem played a key role in securing a brief reprieve that allowed most of the artifacts to be removed.

“With almost no international actors left on the ground, no infrastructure, nothing functioning, we had to improvise transport, labor and logistics,” said Poquillon.

The evacuation, he added, was carried out in strict secrecy, with “the overriding concern, as a religious organization, of not endangering human lives,” as Israeli military pressed operations in the territory’s largest urban hub.

The depot contained around 180 cubic meters of finds from Gaza’s five main archaeological sites, including the fourth-century Saint Hilarion Monastery, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

All of these sites have been damaged, EBAF said, expressing concern for “unique” mosaics left exposed despite their fragility.

‘ONLY TRACE’

Poquillon said Gaza has “an extremely ancient heritage, very precious for the region, showing the succession and coexistence of peoples, cultures and religions.”

Of Gaza’s two museums, one has been destroyed and the other heavily damaged since the war erupted nearly two years ago.

Researchers said that aside from scattered ruins highly vulnerable to bombardment, the EBAF storehouse was the only significant repository of artifacts left in the Palestinian territory.

The rediscovery of Gaza’s past began in the wake of the 1993 Oslo accords.

Two years later, the newly created Gaza antiquities service opened its first archaeological dig in cooperation with EBAF, unearthing remnants of the ancient Greek port of Anthedon and a Roman necropolis.

Excavations stalled after Hamas seized power in 2007 and Israel imposed a blockade, resuming years later with support from the British Council and French NGO Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI).

Now, with Israel contemplating a full takeover of Gaza and ceasefire talks stalled, archaeologists say prospects for renewed excavations are remote.

UNESCO, which has already identified damage to 94 heritage sites in Gaza using satellite images, including the 13th-century Pasha’s Palace, has not yet been able to take a full inventory.

“We saved a large part, but in a rescue you always lose things, and you always face painful choices,” said Rene Elter, an archaeologist affiliated with EBAF and scientific coordinator for PUI.

The depot, he said, was especially valuable because collections had been classified systematically.

“Many items have been broken or lost, but they had been photographed or drawn, so the scientific information is preserved,” Elter explained. “Perhaps that will be the only trace that remains of Gaza’s archaeology — in books, publications, libraries.”

title: Gaza antiquities rescued ahead of Israeli strike


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Get washed in 15 minutes: Futuristic machine showcased at ‘Osaka Expo’ 自動洗澡機在大阪世博亮相

An automated human washing machine was one of the highlights at the Osaka Kansai Expo, giving visitors a glimpse into the future of personal hygiene technology. As part of the event, 1,000 randomly selected visitors were given the chance to try out this cleansing system.

The machine operates as a capsule-like chamber where warm water filled with microscopic bubbles gently washes away dirt. The 15-minute process also includes a drying phase, removing the need for users to dry themselves manually.

Equipped with advanced sensors, the device monitors the user’s biological data, such as their pulse, to adjust water temperature and other settings for optimal comfort. It also features an AI system capable of detecting signs of anxiety. If the user appears tense, the machine plays soothing videos to help them relax throughout the process.

自動人體洗淨機是大阪關西博覽會的亮點之一，讓參觀者一睹個人衛生科技的未來。作為該項活動的一部分，一千名隨機挑選的參觀者有機會試用這種洗淨系統。

該機器是以一個膠囊狀的房間來運作，其中充滿微小氣泡的溫水會輕輕洗去汙垢。這個十五分鐘的過程還包括乾燥階段，使用者不須自行手動擦乾身體。

該裝置配備先進的感測器，可監測使用者的脈搏等生物數據來調節水溫和其他設定，以提供最佳舒適度。它還具有能夠檢測焦慮跡象的人工智慧系統。如果使用者顯得緊張，機器就會播放舒緩的影片來幫助他們在整個過程中放鬆。

What Did You Learn?

What action does the AI system take to help ease the user’s stress?

參考答案 : It plays soothing videos.

Words in Use

1. randomly adv. 隨機地

The survey participants were chosen randomly.

這項調查的參與者是隨機挑選的。

2. manually adv. 手動操作地

The door can be opened manually in case of a power outage.

萬一停電，這扇門可以手動開啟。

3. biological a. 生物的

The study of genes falls under the field of biological science.

基因的研究屬於生物科學的範疇。

4. adjust vt. 調整

You should adjust the mirror before you start driving.

在開車之前應該要調整一下後照鏡。

5. detect vt. 偵測

The security system can detect any unusual movement in the house.

保全系統可以偵測到房子裡的任何異常動靜。

Practical Phrases

1. give sb a glimpse into. . . 讓某人一窺…

The museum gives visitors a glimpse into ancient life.

博物館讓參觀的人一窺古代生活。

2. try out. . . / try. . . out 試用∕試驗……

I tried out the new app yesterday.

我昨天試用了那款新的應用程式。

3. be equipped with. . . 裝備配有……

The car is equipped with a GPS system.

這部車配有GPS 系統。

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title: ANALYTICAL ENGLISH 解析英語(常春藤)


taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 屏東

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軍聞社／記者林庭暉高雄12日電

114年「核安第31號演習」實兵演習昨（11）日以陸、海、空域環境輻射監測作業為演練重點，在核能安全委員會輻射監測中心統籌下，由陸軍36、39化學兵群及航特部、化生放核訓練中心、空勤總隊及海巡署支援實施海、空及陸域偵測，全方位展現各應變單位輻射偵測量能與跨單位協同合作能力。

今年一連3日的核安演習實兵演練中，國軍化學兵部隊與陸航、資通電、後備等相關支援單位，再度展現國軍寓訓練於救災，是一支「平時能救災，戰時能作戰」的戰力精實勁旅。在當天的陸域偵測中，距核能3廠8至16公里範圍，由36化學兵群以核生化偵檢車，採機動方式實施偵測演練，配合核安會輻射偵測中心及台電公司共同執行的核3廠8公里範圍內偵測，監測輻射擴散情形，並將數據回傳輻射數據圖數化系統，作為中央災害應變中心狀況判斷及災害評估依據。

空域偵測則由陸航602旅及空勤總隊支援UH-60M通用直升機，載運39化學兵群及核安會輻射監測中心人員帶領監測裝備，採水平間距飛行，進行大範圍區域內監測污染分布圖與輻射熱點位置等資訊，作為民眾防護行動決策參考，以及救災作業人員部署動線的重要依據。

至於海域偵測，則由海巡署載運輻射監測中心人員執行海水取樣與檢測；現場同時展示無人機輻射偵測技術，以及由屏東科技大學南部備援實驗室進行農林漁牧樣品接收與分析演練。

此外，為使各界了解國軍具備化生放核專業能量及裝備，在演練現場也陳展核生化偵檢車、國軍輻射安全暨決策諮詢機動管制車，由專人向核安會及評估委員、觀摩人員說明，特別是國軍輻射安全暨決策諮詢機動管制車，整合輻射安全危害評估、部隊輻射劑量管制、人員輻射劑量管制、劑量佩章計測、影像監視、環境輻射監測、指管通資等系統，可使部隊有效掌握前線狀況，大幅提升核能災防能力。

title: 核3廠8-16公里機動作業　陸海空全域輻射監測合作應變


countries: 日本 台灣

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▲日本警察示意圖。（圖／翻攝自免費圖庫PAKUTASO）

記者鄒鎮宇／綜合報導

台灣27歲潘姓男子，因涉嫌在日本愛知縣向當地女性詐取大量現金，遭警方逮捕。據了解，潘男無固定住所且無業，與其他共犯合作，於今年8月中旬至9月上旬期間，誘騙住在豐田市的58歲女性，謊稱投資獲利需要支付系統使用費，企圖騙取約460萬日圓（約新台幣92.8萬元）。

警方調查發現，受害女性在此之前，已因投資名義損失約1043萬日圓（約新台幣210萬元）。9月12日，愛知縣警接獲受害者報案後，於約定的現金交付地點加強戒備，並在現場逮捕冒充投資公司員工的潘男。

潘男向警方供稱自己是以旅遊為目的來到日本，並與受害者透過手機翻譯軟體溝通。他在偵訊時否認犯行，表示「沒有意識到這是犯罪」。目前警方懷疑潘男是詐騙集團的「車手」，正持續深入調查案情。

title: 27歲台男去日本詐騙1女460萬元　被日警當場逮捕


events: 選舉 槍殺

title: 柯克遭刺殺身亡　22歲男大生落網！警長父親手逮人

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▲猶他州州長考克斯（演說者）和聯邦調查局及當地執法部門開記者會說明。（圖／路透）

記者董美琪／綜合報導

美國總統川普宣布，涉嫌槍殺保守派倡議人士、川普的盟友柯克（Charlie Kirk）的嫌犯已經落網。美國媒體引述消息指出，嫌犯是來自猶他州的22歲男子泰勒羅賓森（Tyler Robinson），父親馬特羅賓森（Matt Robinson）認出兒子後，向當局舉報，協助警方成功鎖定並拘捕。

根據《紐約郵報》援引執法單位消息人士的說法，羅賓森的父親主動提供線索；娛樂網站TMZ也披露，他向聯邦調查局（FBI）通風報信，使追捕行動加速。川普則在《Fox and Friends》節目中率先證實此事，並透露一名牧師及嫌犯的父親在勸說他投案過程中發揮關鍵作用，父親甚至親自將他送到警局。

▲槍殺柯克（Charlie Kirk）的嫌犯是來自猶他州的22歲羅賓森（Tyler Robinson）。（圖／路透，下同）

多家外媒一度報導，羅賓森的父親馬特是華盛頓郡警長辦公室27年資深員警，亦為註冊共和黨員。《紐約郵報》也報導，消息人士指出泰勒的父親是現已退休的資深執法人員。他在看到兇手照片後與兒子對質，而兒子不願自首。

不過，稍早《新聞周刊》（Newsweek）更新報導指出，華盛頓縣檢察官辦公室表示，該報導不準確，羅賓森父親與當地執法機構沒有關聯。檢察官辦公室在臉書聲明中表示，「被逮捕的個人與華盛頓縣執法部門無關！有多名同名人士存在。」

猶他州長考克斯（Spencer Cox）周五在記者會上指出，羅賓森因涉嫌在猶他谷大學（Utah Valley University）開槍殺害柯克而被捕。根據CNN報導，羅賓森曾是一名成績優異的學生，高中時憑藉優異的學習成績獲得了猶他州立大學的獎學金，但僅一個學期後就退學了，目前攻讀迪克西技術學院（Dixie Technical College）的電機學徒計畫，是課程的三年級生。

選民登記紀錄顯示，他沒有黨派傾向，在最近兩次選舉中都沒有投票。但一位家人告訴調查人員，羅賓森近年來變得更加熱衷政治，政治傾向近年日益鮮明，曾在家庭聚餐時提到「不喜歡柯克的觀點」。

猶他州州長斯賓塞．考克斯（Spencer Cox）指出，泰勒．羅賓森（Tyler Robinson）的一名家庭成員於週四聯繫了一位家庭朋友，該朋友隨後將泰勒可能承認或暗示涉案的訊息通知了華盛頓縣警長辦公室。

案發後，羅賓森一度逃離現場，FBI更懸賞高達10萬美元徵求線索，最終在家屬協助下將人拘捕。目前羅賓森被關押在猶他郡監獄，預計將面臨起訴。

考克斯強調，初步調查顯示他單獨犯案，無跡象顯示有共犯或其他嫌疑人。

▼保守派倡議人士、川普的盟友柯克（Charlie Kirk）遭槍殺身亡，引發全美震驚。（圖／路透）


taiwan-subdivisions: 東石 嘉義

references: Facebook 網友

title: 社工幫籌葬禮費　4年後吃宵夜被員警盯上「真相超感人」

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▲嘉義社工陳鵬翔在華山東石站服務10年。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／陳鵬翔）

記者董美琪／綜合報導

嘉義36歲社工陳鵬翔，日前外出買宵夜時，突然發現有名員警盯著自己看，一度還以為自己違規受罰。沒想到，對方先認出他，並詢問是否記得曾幫助過一位單親父親辦理喪禮。陳鵬翔這才想起，眼前的警察正是4年前仍在警專就讀的孩子。當時，為了讓這名學生順利完成學業，他幫忙籌募喪葬費。沒想到，這位受助者已長大成人並成為員警，溫暖感人的相遇，也引起網友4萬多網友按讚。

日前晚間，華山基金會東石愛心天使站社工陳鵬翔在外吃宵夜時，意外遇到一段溫暖又有趣的重逢故事。當時，一名年輕警察一直盯著陳鵬翔看，走上前後小心問道：「你是不是叫鵬翔？」一時間，陳鵬翔還以為自己要出事，心中暗叫：「以為要被抓了！」

沒想到，這名警察正是4年前曾經接受陳鵬翔幫助的單親家庭兒子。當時，他的父親因經濟困難無法負擔喪禮，陳鵬翔出手協助圓滿辦理，沒想到如今這位小男孩已長大成人，並當上警察。

年輕警察感激地不斷謝謝，更留下聯絡方式，陳鵬翔幽默問：「那以後我闖紅燈，是不是可以打給你？」警察堅定地說：「以後你闖紅燈我一定抓爆，但如果有弱勢需要幫忙，一定找我」、「我長大了我也想跟你一起幫助別人」。

最後，這位年輕警察還幫社工付了宵夜錢，讓陳鵬翔笑說：「爽！直接省一餐了！」這段溫馨故事不僅讓人感動，也引起4萬多網友按讚。許多網友看到這段故事後，紛紛表示被溫暖感動，有人留言「看到當年那個小孩有好好長大，你一定很欣慰」、「這就是善意循環，告訴大家今天作的善事終有一天會回饋給自身」、「看到幫過的孩子長大又成長善良的人，真的會欣慰」、「你們兩個都很棒！」

也有人笑說「重點是，交通違規記得打給年輕警察，他會幫您加重罰則」、「現賺一餐」、「早知道飲料點大杯的了」。


taiwan-subdivisions: 基隆 七堵 基隆市 七堵區

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▲基隆七堵稍早發生停電事故，台電回應曝原因。（示意圖／記者李毓康攝）

記者柯振中／綜合報導

基隆市七堵區大華一路附近12日晚間出現停電事故，許多居民發現情況以後，立即上網詢問情況。此次共計造成428戶受影響，台電稍早對此表示，是因為桿上設備故障，因此緊急搶修，12日晚間10點會恢復供電。

有民眾在臉書社團「我是七堵人」發布貼文，詢問為何12日晚間9點左右，大華一路一帶出現停電的情況。貼文曝光以後，立即有民眾張貼台電公告，此次事故是因桿上設備故障，需要緊急停電更換，因此12日晚間9點至10點需要停電，不便之處請民眾見諒。

據了解，此次停電共有428戶受到影響，範圍為七堵區大華一路1號至61號，以及大華一路2號至8號一帶。台電稍早表示，12日晚間10點會恢復供電。

title: 基隆停電428戶受影響　台電曝原因：緊急維修


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▲柯文哲交保遭撤銷。（圖／記者李毓康攝）

記者閔文昱／綜合報導

台北地院日前裁定民眾黨前主席柯文哲以7000萬交保，並限制出境、出海與住居，然而遭高院在12日撤銷交保裁定發回更裁。此舉引發民眾黨強烈不滿，痛批高院標準不一，對比同日民進黨台北市議員陳怡君涉貪案能獲100萬元交保，出現「巨大落差」。對此，律師林智群也點出兩人之間的3大差異。

民眾黨聲明指出，高院在陳怡君案中明確強調，必須有「勾串證言的具體事實」才能符合羈押要件，且檢方既已起訴，代表證據蒐集完成，法院不應再「接力補強」，但在柯文哲案上卻以「仍可能勾串或滅證」為由撤銷交保，顯然標準不一，形同侵害人權。

不過，多名律師分析兩案有本質差異。律師林智群點出三點不同：首先，陳怡君僅涉一案，且已認罪，柯文哲則涉及四案且全盤否認；其次，陳怡君交保後未受訪，直接返家，柯文哲則高調接受媒體訪問並評論案情，甚至被動與證人陳智菡同車，引發外界爭議；第三，柯文哲尚有多名證人未完成交互詰問，風險顯著不同。

▲台北市議員陳怡君到高等法院出庭，最終獲得100萬元交保。（圖／記者黃哲民翻攝）

律師房彥輝則指出，法院判斷羈押與否的關鍵，在於是否仍有「案情不明的危險」。陳怡君已坦承犯行，不存在勾串風險；相較之下，柯文哲仍可能透過其影響力對證人施壓，甚至過去在看守所都能透過他人或社群平台對外發聲，影響審判環境，因此民眾黨指控「雙標」並不符合法律專業。

高院合議庭也強調，本案涉案人數多、證人繁雜，北院原本限制「不得接觸同案被告或證人」的條件過於籠統，應明確界定範圍，否則難以落實。基於此，才裁定撤銷交保並發回北院更裁。

title: 交保為何差這麼多？律師解析「柯文哲vs.陳怡君」3大差異


taiwan-subdivisions: 公館 基隆 南區

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▲公館圓環13日晚撤除 。（圖／記者莊喬迪攝）

記者崔至雲／台北報導

位於羅斯福路、基隆路交會口的公館圓環建於1968年，周邊有七條道路交織，為台北市東南區交通樞紐，台北市市長蔣萬安於今年3月拍板將其拆除，同時也要填平公車專用道。今（12日）晚11點35分左右，數十台混凝土攪拌車進入地下道，同時數十名警察也拿起「車輛改道」的隔板將地下道封住，近50年的公車專用地下道就此走入歷史。

北市府今晚將進行拆除公館圓環並填平公車專用地下道，但引發部分民眾反彈，約於晚間7時就舉辦「守環行動：圓環大走讀」，號召民眾到圓環表達抗議。

反對拆除圓環的民眾晚間用投影機打出大大的字在基隆路高架橋，包含「路必蔣」、「圓環地下道不能拆 北市府亂政大家塞」、「抗議市府一意孤行 傾聽民意才是王道」、「反對填平地下道 塞車公館我不要」、「都給你蔣」、「優先路權要保留 學生通勤順暢走」、「反對強拆 重啟協商」等字樣。

經記者實際觀察，晚間11點35分左右，數十台混凝土攪拌車進入地下道，同時數十名警察也拿起「車輛改道」的隔板將地下道封住，近50年的公車專用地下道就此走入歷史。

title: 直擊／公館圓環掰掰！　公車地下道封路23:35正式走入歷史


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▲國道3號深夜發生嚴重事故。（圖／翻攝即時影像監視器）

記者柯振中／綜合報導

國道3號北上59K處12日深夜至13日凌晨間發生車禍事故，一輛小客車行經該路段時，因不明原因發生翻車事故，導致車上3名乘客倒臥在車道上。國道警方、救護人員獲報後均趕到現場處理，詳細案情仍待釐清。

據了解，這起事故發生在過埔頂一隧道的路段，該輛轎車因不明原因，在外線發生翻覆事故，導致車上3名乘客均倒在車道上。行經的駕駛發現情況後，嚇得趕緊報警處理。

國道警方、消防隊獲報後趕往現場，將3人送往醫院救治。根據《中時新聞網》報導，3人傷勢不清、甚至有人失去意識，目前都已被送至醫院。至於詳細案發原因為何，仍待進一步釐清。

title: 國道3號深夜嚴重車禍！車輛翻覆倒路中　車上3人緊急送醫


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圖文／7Car 小七車觀點

Škoda 日前正式發表全新概念作品 Epiq，這款車定位為品牌最具親和力的純電城市 SUV，並預計於 2026 年量產上市。Epiq 不僅展現 Škoda 電動化戰略的下一步，也成為首款全面導入 Modern Solid 新世代設計語彙的車型，藉由簡約而鮮明的線條詮釋品牌未來電動車的方向。

在車身尺碼方面，Epiq 長度為 4.1 公尺，車內能舒適容納五名乘客，並提供達 475 公升的後行李廂容積，兼顧日常實用性與城市機動性。續航表現部分，官方表示可達 425 公里，未來量產版在多數市場的售價，預期將接近同級燃油車 Kamiq，凸顯其「親民純電 SUV」的市場定位。

外觀設計上，Epiq 採用品牌最新 Modern Solid 語言，將剛毅感與功能性結合。車頭以霧面米白色塗裝搭配亮黑色 Tech-Deck Face 面板，並配有 T 字型日行燈與方向燈，營造獨特視覺辨識度。車側的 Tornado Line 則強化了肩線與車艙的比例，塑造出更具動感且現代的輪廓。

車室設計延續實用與科技並重的思路，內裝採極簡風格，強調「Mobile First」概念，提供無線充電、簡潔的實體按鍵與觸覺滾輪，搭配多處「Simply Clever」巧思收納設計，如隱藏式地板收納、掛鉤與固定帶等，進一步提升日常便利性，兼顧家庭與個人生活的多元需求。

值得一提的是，Epiq 將在西班牙 Volkswagen Navarra 工廠投產，隸屬於 Volkswagen 集團 Electric Urban Car Family (EUCF) 計畫的一環。該計畫將推出四款親民電動車，橫跨 Škoda 與集團其他核心品牌，目標是讓電動車更普及、更貼近日常用車需求，而 Epiq 的量產版本則預計於 2026 年中正式問世。

title: Skoda「入門電動休旅車Epiq」概念亮相！新設計語彙上身明年量產


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圖文／7Car 小七車觀點

為慶祝 Volante 車系問世六十週年，Aston Martin 旗下客製化部門「Q by Aston Martin」特別打造兩款限量紀念車型：DB12 Volante 與 Vanquish Volante。這兩款新車各自僅限量生產 60 輛，以極致工藝與專屬設計，向品牌超過一甲子的敞篷跑車傳統致敬。新車預計將於 2025 年第四季開始交付。

外觀上，兩款六十週年紀念版採用專屬 Q Pentland Green 車色與 Q Westminster Green 軟頂篷設計，並以陽極青銅色細節點綴，包括品牌標誌性格柵、21 吋專屬輪圈及側面導流飾板。車側更飾有「Q by Aston Martin」徽章，彰顯其獨特限量身份。

內裝融合三色皮革鋪陳，包括 Centenary Saddle Tan、象牙白及編織皮革，搭配深色開放毛孔胡桃木飾板、青銅金屬飾件，以及繡有「60th Anniversary」字樣的專屬座椅與雕刻飾板，營造出兼具豪華與運動感的座艙氛圍。

性能方面，Vanquish Volante 搭載 5.2 升 V12 雙渦輪增壓引擎，可輸出最大 835PS 馬力與 1000Nm 扭矩，極速高達 214 mph，0–60 mph 加速僅需 3.4 秒，成為品牌有史以來最強勁的量產敞篷車型。DB12 Volante 則配備 4.0 升 V8 雙渦輪增壓引擎，提供 680PS 馬力與 800Nm 扭矩，極速為 202 mph，0–60 mph 加速也只需 3.6 秒，強調豪華長途旅行與高性能駕駛的完美結合。

Aston Martin 此次以極致工藝與限量身份，將 Volante 六十年的敞篷精神凝煉於這兩款紀念之作中，不僅是對輝煌過往的致敬，更是對頂級客製化未來的展望。對於追求極致個性與傳承意義的收藏家而言，這無疑是一次不容錯過的珍藏機會。

title: Aston Martin推「敞篷跑車60周年紀念版」！雙車型各限量60輛Q4交付


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記者蕭采薇／台北報導

林依晨首部監製電影《失明》，日前舉辦媒體試片。林依晨、吳可熙兩大影后首度合體與觀眾見面，身為監製的林依晨對於電影即將上映表示：「我們都在追尋被認同、被肯定的感受，也時刻需要愛人與被愛的成就感及滿足感，希望藉由這部電影讓大家有勇氣做出不同的選擇。」

▲林依晨與吳可熙在電影《失明》裡有許多精采對手戲。（圖／周子娛樂提供）

而兩人為了宣傳也馬不停蹄，晚上接著現身《失明》唯一秘密口碑場與粉絲近距離互動，對於口碑場一開賣就秒殺完售，林依晨開心表示，希望能再接再厲，延伸到後續的票房表現上。兩人現場也特別重現經典劇照上的親密擺拍動作，甜度爆表，令現場粉絲嗨翻。

《失明》被譽為今年最「裸視衝擊，直擊靈魂」的電影。飾演擁有完美家庭的醫師娘林依晨，在多年後遇見初戀吳可熙，一段禁忌愛情、女性自覺、自我認同的故事，挑戰觀眾直視內心真正的渴望與抉擇。

▲林依晨與吳可熙多場情慾流動的戲劇張力。（圖／周子娛樂提供）

在媒體試片上，林依晨分享在選角過程中，認為可熙的個性是比較率性且乾脆的俠女型，英姿颯爽的氣質和角色非常契合，「我很喜歡她在《再見瓦城》和《血觀音》當中的表演，這次角色迥異，讓我又看到她不同的面貌，很驚喜，很開心能與她合作。」

▲林依晨、吳可熙重現經典劇照擺拍寵粉回饋。（圖／周子娛樂提供）

吳可熙也分享開拍第二天就遇到魔王場：「一整天情慾戲，早上跟依晨、下午跟劉敬、晚上還拍攝難度很高的結尾親密戲，壓力非常大，非常挑戰。還好我們事前有跟親密指導大量的溝通，熟悉彼此的狀態，最後順利完成魔王場，很開心可以和依晨合作。」

▲林依晨、吳可熙新戲細膩大膽的演出，令觀眾震撼。（圖／周子娛樂提供）

《失明》即將上映，天后蔡依林更特別錄了一段影片，為好友林依晨首部監製的電影加油打氣。蔡依林表示：「依晨一直對表演、藝術都非常有熱情，相信她在每個階段都會給出不一樣的戲劇內容，跟內心的探索。」展現兩人的好感情。《失明》將於9月19日上映。

▲劉敬愛上媽媽的前女友吳可熙，超禁忌話題引起討論。（圖／周子娛樂提供）

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title: 林依晨、吳可熙《失明》重現親密擺拍！　挑戰禁忌情慾戲口碑場秒殺


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記者蕭采薇／台北報導

張榕容主演的電影《鬼才之道》，近來爆出編劇蔡坤霖遭指控「權勢性騷擾」課程女學員。她12日出席「JASMINE Galleria」十周年大秀時，表示不清楚事件，「我們群組也沒有討論這件事情，我想事情還沒釐清的情況下，就交給司法去處理。」

▲張榕容。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

而談到對蔡坤霖的印象，張榕容回應是「專業的編劇」，但除了工作之外，彼此沒太多交集，私下也不太會聯絡。而她張近日正在為新劇《整形過後》進行配音，下週也會出席釜山影展。被問到有沒有想見的韓國影人，她笑說：「池晟吧！我的老公，但他好像不會去。」

▲林辰唏。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

同樣出席該活動的林辰唏，曾以《第一次遇見花香的那刻》奪下第57屆金鐘獎迷你劇集視后，而CP搭檔程予希奪下迷你劇集女配角。隨著金鐘獎即將在15日公布入圍名單，她大方表示：「當然希望作品被看見，不管是怎樣入圍都很好，很希望樂樂（程予希）可以入圍，這次主線在她身上，希望拿獎。」而她今年會報名女配角，程予希則改報女主角，「我們講好輪流。」

▲李翊君（右）帶著女兒王敏淳（左）出席。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

歌手李翊君也帶著女兒王敏淳出席，母女難得可以一起打扮美美、開同台車出門工作，兩人都非常開心。被問老公檢場是有沒義務擔任司機，李翊君則說：「爸爸通常不太加入我們的活動。」她即將在台北小巨蛋開唱，透露心情難免緊張，但目前已經做好十足準備。

title: 編劇驚爆性騷女學員！　張榕容談《鬼才之道》蔡坤霖：交給司法處理


countries: 臺灣 法國

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文／人物誌

鬼月當然要來談鬼片，在歷年的影視作品中，有哪些作品是出了名的「鬼」故事？這邊特地把「鬼」字標注出來，是不想侷限於鬼的範圍，而是更廣義地去看某些巧合，對人心造成的影響。

窗簾後方的神祕男孩

最經典的案子是翻拍自法國喜劇《光棍添丁》的溫馨喜劇《三個奶爸一個娃》（1987年），影片敘述三名單身漢突然多了一名女娃要照顧，他們從一開始手忙腳亂的狀況，變成手腳俐落的稱職奶爸。電影上映後票房鼎盛，甚至還出了續集《三個奶爸一個妞》（1990年）。

然而，眼尖的影迷卻在某個一閃即逝的場景中，赫然發現主角背景的窗簾邊，居然站著一名亂入的「男孩」身影，而引發熱議，流言紛起。傳言一：一名九歲男孩在拍攝地點的房子中用獵槍自殺，悲痛的家人已經搬離住所，男孩鬼魂仍在房子逗留。傳言二：一閃即逝的神祕身影是主角泰德丹森的人形立牌，同一個立牌在影片後段有再次出現，只是攝影角度的不同，而產生立牌變小的錯覺。

不管答案是什麼，這個靈異傳說都讓溫馨的《三個奶爸一個娃》，在影迷心中留下一抹神祕色彩。

超乎常理的行為反應

另一種「鬼」故事，是將現實生活中的事件拍成影集或電影，知名的例子包括《厲陰宅》系列，或是臺灣不少鬼片，如《紅衣小女孩》或《杏林醫院》等，習慣從真實事件擷取靈感。

不同於《厲陰宅》或《紅衣小女孩》是將真實事件補上虛構血肉拍攝而成的戲劇作品，網飛出品的《犯罪現場：賽西爾酒店失蹤事件》，則是用紀錄片的方式，分析藍可兒的失蹤之謎。

事情回溯至2013年，華裔女子藍可兒下榻洛杉磯市中心的賽希爾酒店，卻在某天失去聯繫，經過多日調查，發現她溺斃在頂樓的水塔中。而藍可兒失蹤前被監視器拍下她在酒店電梯內，令人費解的奇特反應和舉止，使得中邪之說不脛而走。

這四分鐘的監視器畫面，遠比任何影像創作都更容易激發人們的想像力。我們傾向在固定的行為模式中找尋熟悉的共通性，一旦與認知的規則不同時（非常理的反應），就會感到疑慮與不安，越是想要給出一個清楚的解釋，就越容易陷入各種想像之中。

為意外冠上解釋，以尋求安心感

這引導到另一種「鬼」故事：詛咒。當某些意外與悲劇重複發生，人們會為這些事件加上一個說法，繪聲繪影的「詛咒」是其中一種常見的回應方式。例如李小龍和兒子李國豪，都在事業巔峰之際猝逝，李小龍死因被裁定為腦水腫、李國豪則是在拍攝《龍族戰神》時，因道具槍走火不幸身亡。儘管有明確的死因，坊間仍出現了父子倆命運受到詛咒的傳說。

此外，史蒂芬史匹柏監製的恐怖片《鬼哭神嚎》，劇情描述住在郊區的平凡家庭碰上靈異事件，讓一家人吃足苦頭。隨著電影創下票房佳績，續集也跟著開拍，只是劇中的年輕演員在拍完電影後，卻接連傳出不幸的消息。飾演姊姊的 Dominique Dunne，在電影上映那年（1982年）遭到前男友謀殺而香消玉殞，而飾演妹妹的童星Heather O’Rourke，則在拍完第三集《腥風血雨》後，於12歲那年（1988年）因病過世。

從李小龍、李國豪到《鬼哭神嚎》的兩名演員，他們的早逝可能只是悲劇性的巧合，但人類天性裡有著熱愛說故事的因子，習慣為事情冠上解釋，以符合我們心目中對於悲劇的想像。

無論是靈異現象、詛咒傳聞，還是未解之謎，這些鬼故事之所以長存不墜，不見得因為它們真實，而是因為它們反映了我們面對未知時的不安與想像力的延伸。從窗簾後的身影到影壇的悲劇命運，都市傳說不只是娛樂，更是我們心中對世界某種不可解之處的投射。

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title: 從《三個奶爸一個娃》到《鬼哭神嚎》　鬼月這些都市傳說你聽過嗎？


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2025/09/13 02:20

〔記者董冠怡／台北報導〕台北市公館圓環拆除及填平地下道開始動工，交通局長謝銘鴻日前表示12日晚間會到場與抗議民眾溝通，不過現場未見人影，他今天凌晨1時受訪表示，自己是副指揮官，到了之後前往應變中心，和相關局處開會討論細節事項、公務協調，故無時間與民眾溝通，另一方面也是讓民眾有機會去發表看法，所以並未出面。

他指出，現場民眾陳述的意見，其實先前大概都有收錄進來，並由記者會等不同管道說明，無非就是以安全為第一優先考量，市府有聽到也知道民眾陳情內容，但是相信歷經65天工期完成後，整體道路環境一定會截然不同，形成低車流交織的路口，也會盡快測試提升通行安全。

原先提送的交通維持計畫，就是在今天凌晨零時，工程車零時開始進駐，目前施工狀況都還好。謝銘鴻說，本週六、日是觀察期，但因未有上班車潮應該還好，關鍵在於週一，勢必嚴陣以待。由於車行地下道無法使用，公車會溢流至平面車道，規劃延長羅斯福路的綠燈秒數，並與新北端保持聯繫、聯合管制，北市也有監控平台，可以看見市中心區域、福和橋、永福橋的車流量隨時監控。

警察也會根據現場維勤狀況進行驅離，此外，配合公館圓環及地下道填平，搭乘台北捷運有優惠，呼籲民眾善加利用，使進出城更省時、更省錢。當初預估11月16日前完工，會盡力能夠提早，施工期間造成不便請大家體諒。

title: 說好動工前與民溝通卻未現身 北市交通局長回應了

taiwan-subdivisions: 公館 新北


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美國海軍飛彈驅逐艦「希金斯號」（USS Higgins）。（法新社檔案照）

〔記者方瑋立／台北報導〕中國人民解放軍東部戰區今（12）日晚間透過社群平台聲稱，美國海軍飛彈驅逐艦「希金斯號」（USS Higgins）及英國皇家海軍威爾斯親王號打擊群編隊巡防艦「里契蒙號」（HMS Richmond）今天通過台灣海峽「滋擾挑釁」。

據「東部戰區」微信公眾號貼文，東部戰區新聞發言人施毅陸軍大校表示，9月12日美「希金斯」號驅逐艦、英「里契蒙」號護衛艦（我國稱巡防艦）過航台灣海峽並「滋擾挑釁」。

東部戰區聲稱，中國人民解放軍東部戰區組織海空兵力對其過航行動全程跟監警戒，有效應對處置。美方、英方行徑傳遞錯誤信號，破壞台海和平穩定。

東部戰區說，戰區部隊時刻保持高度戒備，堅決捍衛國家主權安全和地區和平穩定。

此為中國軍方片面消息，目前並未獲我國國防部及英、美及周邊國家證實。

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title: 英美2軍艦今通過台灣海峽 共軍嗆「滋擾挑釁」：全程跟監

countries: 台灣 英國 美國 中國

taiwan-subdivisions: 和平 新社


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清華大學藝術學院院長張芳宇說，擎天廳音樂會曲目從16世紀的文藝復興時期一路穿越至20世紀的現代音樂。（記者吳正庭攝）

〔記者吳正庭／金門報導〕金門縣政府今宣布，縣文化局與國立清華大學藝術學院合辦「金門擎天廳音樂會」11月8日登場，9月15日線上報名，清大演出團隊將與台北市立交響團法國號首席、低音號首席攜手初探花崗石打造的「擎天廳」，透過銅管五重奏與弦樂四重奏精彩曲目，引領聽眾感受數百年音樂語言的演變與風格多樣性。

1992年11月7日是金門解除戰地政務33週年日子，縣文化局與清大藝術學院11月8日在軍方重要管制核心區的擎天廳內舉辦音樂會，呈現一種解放的反差；樂聲在長60公尺、寬18公尺、高11公尺的花崗石廳迴盪，更是難得的音場體驗。

副縣長李文良說，希望在文化部、陸軍金門防衛指揮部的支持下，藉由擎天廳的演出，再加上翟山坑道金門音樂節，坑道音樂會能成為金門文化品牌的新樂章。

清華大學藝術學院院長張芳宇說，當天演出陣容有銅管五重奏魏廷安（小號）、穆恩信（小號）、王濟楊（法國號）、宋光清（長號）、陳建勳（低音號）；弦樂四重奏杜沁澐（小提琴）、蔡秉璋（中提琴）、許詠傑（小提琴）、婭力木（大提琴），其中包括前國家交響樂團長號首席、現任台北市立交響樂團法國號首席、低音號首席，曲目從16世紀的文藝復興一路穿越至20世紀的現代音樂。音樂系主任李威龍說，為了這場演出，清大去年開始場勘，挑選曲目慎重，演出前會先在金門「快閃」。

文化局表示，當天還加入全國學生音樂比賽特優得主，金門高中薩克斯風手黃沛媛、單簧管手黃宏濬姐弟的精彩演出；因應鄉親詢問度極高，將保留200名金門籍鄉親入場名額，9月15日上午11點在「藝起金門」臉書開放線上報名。

title: 清大團隊攜手北市交首席 金門「擎天廳」音樂會11/8登場

taiwan-subdivisions: 金門 復興 金門縣


title: 華府演說 邱垂正：台灣淪陷將觸發骨牌效應衝擊美國安全

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陸委會主委邱垂正12日於華府智庫傳統基金會（The Heritage Foundation）發表演說，邱垂正稱，中國大陸現在是台海和平穩定最大的威脅，並透過多重壓力來施壓台灣，逼迫台灣就範；邱垂正也說，如果中國以武力奪取台灣，將形成骨牌效應，衝擊美國安全和繁榮。

傳統基金會12日以「台灣邁向和平、繁榮和維持台美夥伴關係的策略」（Taiwan’s Strategy for Peace, Prosperity and Partnership with United State）為題舉行座談會，邀請邱垂正發表談話。

活動由美國前副總統副國安顧問葉望輝（Steve Yates）主持，內容聚焦維持台海和平穩定的重要性，同時也提及中國對台灣和地區的威脅，以及台灣政府現行如何維持和平現狀和保持與美國強健的連結。

邱垂正發表談話時表示，中國大陸現在已經演變成台海和印太地區的和平與穩定的最大威脅。

邱垂正指出，中國透過六大壓力來施壓台灣，包括軍事威脅、外交壓迫、經濟壓迫、社會滲透、法律戰和混合認知戰；邱垂正表示，中共現在正透過不同施壓手段來挑戰兩岸現狀，並認為，中國的目標是擴張主義，也有意挑戰美國。

邱垂正說，中共的真實意圖是統一台灣，也具有取代美國的野心，不但希望成為亞太地區的霸權，甚至成為世界的霸權；邱垂正也說，中國的權力結構已經出現改變，演變成高度集中的情況，以中國國家主席習近平為核心，增加誤判的的風險。

邱垂正並表示，台灣具有無可取代的戰略地位，不只是台灣的地理戰略位置，還有經濟和科技重要性，同時台灣追求自由民主；邱垂正說，台灣的安全和繁榮可以幫助「美國再次偉大」；邱垂正也說，如果台灣淪陷，將觸發骨牌效應，不但會破壞區域權力平衡，還會衝擊到美國的安全和繁榮。

邱垂正最後呼籲中國大陸應該面對現實，即中華民國是存在的，也呼籲北京方面應該放棄對台的軍事威脅和統戰滲透；邱垂正也呼籲說，中國應當與台灣的民選政府展開正面的互動和對話。

我國陸委會與華府智庫合作舉辦研討會行之有年，包括前總統蔡英文在擔任陸委會主委時就曾在2001年，以「兩岸關係新紀元：台灣、大陸加入WTO」為題於傳統基金會發表演說；2018年，陸委會也委託台灣民主基金會，與傳統基金會合作舉辦「兩岸關係的機遇與挑戰」（The Opportunities and Challenges of Cross-Strait Relations）國際學術研討會，由時任陸委會主委陳明通在開幕式發表演說。

此外，陸委會前主委邱太三也曾在2022年應邀於美國布魯金斯學會（The Brookings Institution），以「守護台灣民主 確保台海和平」發表專題演講。

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countries: 美國 台灣 中國 中華民國

people: 邱太三 習近平 卓榮泰 陳明通 蔡英文


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美國商務部長盧特尼克點名美國即將和台灣達成「重大協議」，學者觀察美國總統川普作風，認為誰說都不準，一切還是要川普點頭。目前台灣比較不確定的部分，在於最後要對美國投資多少？投資什麼項目？是會與二三二條款綁一起、還是會脫鉤？但無論如何，此時最重要的關鍵在於，「不要疊加稅率，減輕產業衝擊。」

中經院院長連賢明分析，美國與日本、南韓雖說取得協議，但至今仍是各說各話，即使談妥，但也還存在很多的不確定性。而從之前各國談判來看，最終還是要川普同意，因此，現在商務部長盧特尼克說什麼，也不代表最終情勢，一切還是要看川普。

他認為，台灣也可能是關稅、二三二條款兩部分一起談。目前較不確定的是台灣被要求投資多少？投資哪些項目？至於開放市場，應該已說好，不會有太大意外。

連賢明說，大家也不用太緊張，因為日本、南韓雖已談完，但到現在仍有不確定性，而且川普還要面對法院對關稅的判決，不確定性因素真的還很多。

中央大學經濟系教授吳大任則認為，日本、南韓雖從關稅談判中獲得美國對二三二條款最惠國待遇稅率，但此舉也顯示美國不會對半導體採零關稅，因此，台灣對等關稅問題應會與二三二條款切開考慮。而從日本接受投資五千五百億美元條件，事後川普還說投資項目由美國決定，成本回收後百分之九十利潤歸美國，台灣可能也要接受類似條件，只是金額可能不會像日本那麼高。

吳大任認為，台灣此時最重要是爭取不要疊加稅率，雖然原本平均稅率約百分之三點三，疊加稅率是百分之廿，但部分產業，如自行車等，原本稅率就是百分之十一，加上百分之廿就是百分之卅一，如果能降下來，對相關產業都非常重要。

吳大任說，目前很難判斷是否很快達成協議，川普是談判高手，到目前為止幾乎都是大獲全勝，台灣對美國貿易逆差這麼大，很難樂觀，執政黨不管是哪個黨去談都一樣，都很難避免。

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title: 台美將達重大協議 學者：關稅不疊加最重要

people: 川普 卓榮泰

countries: 美國 日本 台灣


title: 盧特尼克指即將達成「美台重大協議」經貿辦：待美安排總結性會商

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美國商務部長盧特尼克表示，美國即將與台灣達成一項「重大協議」，同時預期與瑞士、印度等國也有望在不久後達成共識。知情人士解釋，盧特尼克負責處理二三二條款談判，他提到的「重大協議」，原文是「big deal」，其實應該是指對等關稅會與二三二條款一起處理。

美國商務部長盧特尼克十一日上午接受財經媒體ＣＮＢＣ訪問時說，美國即將和台灣達成重大協議。盧特尼克的前述受訪內容，明顯比近幾周在其他場合的說法還更加樂觀，顯示至今未能成功向川普政府爭取調降關稅的國家，可望出現轉圜契機。

美國總統川普七月簽署行政命令，將對台灣的對等關稅稅率暫時調整為百分之廿，另需加上台灣輸美商品原有的最惠國（ＭＦＮ）稅率與任何反傾銷或反補貼稅。此一稅率八月七日正式生效，我政府已多次宣稱該稅率屬於「暫時性」。

行政院經貿談判辦公室昨表示，台美雙方關稅談判持續推進，雙方皆承認有一定進展，尚待美方安排總結性會商。由於目前的暫時性對等關稅對我國產業帶來衝擊影響，因此我方希望透過達成協議，爭取更好、更合理的對等關稅稅率，以及二三二關稅優惠待遇，若有相關進展將適時向各界說明。

據了解，我方正在為第五輪實體談判做準備，但實際進度要待二三二調查結果出爐才能觀察，戰線會持續延長；而我方談判仍以百分之十五稅率且不疊加原稅率作為目標。

外界也關心，台美雙方是否再與美方進行視訊會議，或赴美展開實體諮商；經貿辦僅表示，若有相關進展，將適時向各界說明。據了解，八月一日暫行關稅施行後，台美在八月七日、八日和廿二日分別舉行三次視訊會議，我方正在為第五輪實體談判做準備，談判團隊近日持續透過其他方式與美方溝通討論。

據悉，談判過程中，美方期待各國拿出大規模投資方案，這被視為談判進度推進的關鍵；我方在談判投資金額上，是採「大禮包」概念，並非皆是現金投資，赴美設廠也是一環，行政院近期將展開產業座談，也與半導體上中下游有接觸，研擬一套投資方案。

傳出我方有意以「類科學園區模式」赴美投資。消息人士說，鼓勵半導體製造業回流，向來是川普政府的目標，而台灣科學園區成功關鍵在於能提供「一站式」服務，而赴美需要解決購地，水電、建築法規等難關，若美方能採取類似模式，提供自然能增加台商赴美設廠誘因，不失為一種良方。消息人士透露，台美對達成貿易協議有共識，我方也盼稅率再調降，對情勢樂觀期待。

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countries: 台灣 美國 印度 瑞士

people: 卓榮泰 川普


people: 習近平 邱太三 蔡英文 陳明通 卓榮泰

countries: 美國 台灣 中國 中華民國

title: 華府演說 邱垂正：台灣淪陷將觸發骨牌效應衝擊美國安全


title: 台美將達重大協議 學者：關稅不疊加最重要


title: 盧特尼克指即將達成「美台重大協議」經貿辦：待美安排總結性會商

countries: 瑞士 印度 美國 台灣


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黃姓女子在臉書看到求才廣告，對方告訴她是「外送跑腿工作」，每取款一次可領3000元，她在去年12月依「公司」指示前往收款被害人要投資虛擬貨幣的20萬元時，被警方查獲，還在其身上發現已收的121萬多元，檢方讓她交保，她卻在今年2月又再當車手，彰化地方法院認為她不知悔改，將她重判1年4月。

35歲黃姓女子去年12 月加入詐團群組，群組內的成員「宅肥」、「萊法國際LF-K」指示她同月20日去跑腿取款，每取款一次可獲得3000元，當天她在彰化縣向一名被害人取款20萬元時，被員林警方查獲，還在她身上查到121萬多元，她即坦承她從台北住處搭高鐵南下，在雲林星巴克向人收了90萬元，在南投某超商收了31萬元，三筆款項都還來不及交回給詐團就落網了。

黃女起初否認是詐團車手，辯稱僅是找到「外送跑腿工作」，檢察官原認為此案即時被查獲，詐欺、洗錢犯行終未得逞，損害未完全實現，情節稍輕，被害人因能即時拿回被騙的錢，也無欲追究，檢方即讓她交保，沒想到不到2個月，她竟又與同一詐欺集團合作，於今年2月初又在新北市犯案，擔任車手，向被害人收現金而落網，被新北地方法院判刑8月。

彰化檢方發現她交保後竟繼續犯案，去年12月所犯的「詐欺取財未遂案」偵結後將她起訴，並向法院求刑1年6月。

法官認為，黃女有聽力障礙，又因欠債鋌而走險，被檢方交保後，對於從未入監的她，經歷被逮、移送檢方偵訊受人身自由拘束逾12小時，震懾力應該不小，重獲自由後，竟不知警惕，再度與同一詐欺集團搭上線，又再犯案，實欠缺悔悟，因此依共同詐欺取財未遂罪，判刑1年4月。

黃姓女子當車手，被檢察官交保後，竟再犯，彰化地方法院將她重判1年4月。記者林宛諭／攝影

title: 她收款百萬落網辯稱找工作誤成車手 檢方交保又再犯 被判重刑

taiwan-subdivisions: 雲林 南投 員林 彰化縣 彰化 新北市


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台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體、在地民眾及學生團體等人不滿台北市長蔣萬安一意孤行，晚上到場抗議，並將「蔣不聽！」、「都給你蔣！」等反對標語投影在現場表達不滿，但預拌混凝土車及工程人員仍在凌晨依序進入工地，進行地下道灌漿填土工程。

公館圓環拆除工程自13日凌晨開始，預計先填平公車專用地下道，再拆除公館圓環，工期預計於11月16日完成。

台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車與大砂石車進入地下道作業。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車與砂石車依序進入地下道作業。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車與砂石車依序進入地下道作業。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車進入工地，進行地下道灌漿填土。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車與大砂石車依序進入地下道作業。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，並將周圍人行地下道封閉。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車與大砂石車進入地下道作業。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體與學生在現場抗議，將反對標語貼在圓環施工圍欄上表達不滿。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體與學生在現場抗議，將反對標語投影在高架道路上表達不滿。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體與學生在現場抗議，將反對標語投影在高架道路上表達不滿。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體與學生在現場抗議。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，公民團體與學生在現場抗議。記者余承翰／攝影台北市府13日零晨開始進行公館圓環填平地下道工程，預拌混凝土車進入工地，進行地下道灌漿填土。記者余承翰／攝影

title: 影／公館圓環今凌晨填地下道 民團投影標語表達不滿


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「吃」出好心情與好眠 我家就是專屬運動場

主講：台大醫院精神醫學部醫師黃薇嘉、中華民國健身運動協會教練楊仲哲

時間：9月19日（五）下午1時15分至3時45分

地點：台大癌醫中心醫院五樓國際會議廳，台北市大安區基隆路三段155巷57號

洽詢：02-2322-0322轉237092、237093

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title: 非聽不可

taiwan-subdivisions: 大安區 基隆


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六十耳順，參加旅遊團的小旅行，不再只是「看世界」，而是我健腦、防失智的一種生活習慣。

過去會為了知識、為了挑戰而旅行，如今體力有限，腳步緩慢，記憶力也不如前。正因如此，旅行的意義更顯珍貴。行前準備行李、列清單，是腦力的練習；車上聽導遊講解、記集合地點，是記憶測驗；與團員聊天、合照，則是最好的社交刺激。這些過程看似平凡，卻正是醫師建議的「動腦、動身、互動」的健腦祕訣。

有人笑我們老年人旅行愛拍照，但對我來說，照片不是浪費，而是記憶的延長。當腦海模糊時，相簿提醒我：那天和誰在一起、去過哪裡。照片不只是影像，更是抗衡遺忘的憑證。

車上的卡拉OK，更是健腦的好方法。唱得好不好不重要，重要的是旋律能喚醒青春往事，讓腦迴路再次亮起；那一刻，我們不是在表演，而是在證明「還能唱、還能快樂」。

或許有人說這樣的旅行只是走馬看花，但我明白能下車走幾步、看一眼風景，就是福氣。旅行不需面面俱到，重點是參與過程。

小旅行讓我動腦規畫、動身體力、動心互動。它提醒我：我還在生活之中，還能記得、還能笑，這正是最重要的健腦活動。

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title: 健康你我他／小旅行拍照唱歌 動身動心更動腦


taiwan-subdivisions: 楠梓區 高雄市

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孔子說過：「道不同不相為謀！」原本是做人處世的智慧，但放到人體醫學裡，竟然同樣適用。

人體的各種「大道」，如果亂了分寸，就不只是哲學問題，而是醫療急症。

在人體的各種大道中，一般人最耳熟能詳的就是食道。吃下去的東西，經過口腔一路往下，到食道、胃、小腸、大腸，最後抵達終點站——馬桶。這條食道與腸胃道一路忙進忙出，卻是人體最不乾淨的一段，裡面滿是食物殘渣與細菌。

問題是，萬一食物走錯路，誤闖呼吸道，麻煩就大了。

呼吸道全道都是無菌乾淨的，但如果吃東西時不小心嗆到，食物由口腔誤入歧途跑到氣管肺部，很容易引起吸入性肺炎，常發生在安養院或中風病人身上，一口菜下去，可能就得送ICU。

在胃腸道中，如果咖啡喝太多、止痛藥吃過量，會破壞胃的保護層，造成胃或十二指腸潰瘍。萬一潰瘍穿孔，腸胃裡的細菌流進腹腔，就會演變成細菌性腹膜炎。病人會劇痛、肚子硬如木板，不立刻開刀清理，敗血症就跟著來報到。

膽道也很重要。它是人體的黃金油管，把膽汁送到腸子裡分解油膩食物。可是膽結石或膽囊發炎，常讓病人痛到滿地打滾。若膽囊破裂，膽汁流進腹腔，就會引起膽汁性腹膜炎，需要緊急引流，不然同樣可能要命。

尿道則是泌尿系統的出口，平時乾淨無菌，小便從腎臟製造，經輸尿管到膀胱，再由尿道排出。問題是，細菌若尿道口逆流而上，就會引發泌尿道感染。輕微時是頻尿、灼熱感，嚴重則可能到腎臟，變成腎盂腎炎，高燒發冷、腰部痠痛，嚴重時也可能敗血症。女性因為尿道短，更容易「被偷襲」。

至於生殖道，則是傳宗接代的專屬通道。理論上是無菌的，但因與外界接觸，難免會有細菌光顧，引起陰道炎或骨盆腔感染，甚至影響生育。雖然它是人類繁衍後代的重要道路，卻同樣需要細心保護。

總之，人體的各種「大道」各司其職，不能隨便串門子。食道走食物，呼吸道走空氣，膽道走膽汁，尿道走小便，生殖道走生命。若是「走錯道」，就不是「不相為謀」這麼簡單，而是可能「同歸於盡」。孔子雖然沒有學過醫，但他的智慧放在醫學裡依舊管用：天生我道必有用，道不同，千萬別亂走！

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title: 愛肝達人站／食道、呼吸道、尿道，「道不同，不相為謀？」


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年僅59歲的大腸直腸外科醫師魏柏立，今年一月成為台北癌症中心的新任掌舵者，甫上任就對癌症中心拋出明確方向，首重「篩檢」；更要把年輕醫師留在醫院，過去許多昂貴醫療多以資深醫師為主，如今只要是有意願學習的住院醫師，都能參與如質子治療的醫療計畫，提早找到自身對於醫療的興趣。

大腸癌患者 各年齡層都增加

十大癌症死因中，大腸癌已連續多年退居第二位，但當社會討論到大腸癌時，常用「年輕化」來形容台灣大腸癌的趨勢。魏柏立說，這絕對是個誤解，大腸癌的患者仍在增加中，老年大腸癌患者也持續增加，換言之，各年齡層大腸癌的患者是「同步」增長。

據統計，40歲以下的大腸癌患者約占總數的3%，40至50歲患者約占7%，其餘9成左右是50歲以上患者。從多年的數據顯示，大腸癌的中位發病年齡始終維持在66歲上下，並未下降。魏柏立指出，如果把問題過度簡化成「年輕化」，反而忽略了真正的重點「整體癌症發生率在攀升。」

大腸癌退居十大癌症死因的第二位，魏柏立說，2020到2021年新冠疫情嚴重而影響篩檢，許多人怕染疫不敢進醫院，使篩檢數明顯下滑。疫情效應後，可能導致一波大腸癌患者的「補漲」，光是疫情期間未能及時篩檢就醫者，就可能讓病情一口氣拖到第四期才就醫。

篩檢揪癌症 貢獻比藥物還大

據北醫附醫的數據顯示，今年大腸癌晚期的患者，一度回升到占總數的25%，國際也發現有類似的趨勢，要趕快補回篩檢率，否則未來的代價會更大。「再怎麼昂貴的新藥，真正對改善存活率的貢獻，大約只有3%；篩檢能改變超過5成的趨勢。」魏柏立以美國數據為例，過去30年間，大腸癌發生率與死亡率同時下降，其中生活習慣改善貢獻35%，篩檢則高達53%。

台灣近年已將糞便潛血檢查年齡下修到45歲，如果具有大腸癌家族史，則是40歲就符合公費條件，魏柏立認為，未來可望進一步結合基因檢測、生物標記檢驗，讓篩檢更精準，如果民眾真的不願意改變飲食、不願運動，那至少要去做篩檢。

零食很難戒 定期運動很重要

身為大腸直腸專科醫師，自知飲食控制非常重要，魏柏立說，有些零食「真的很好吃」，連他都難以戒斷，坦承偶爾會吃一些垃圾食物，其餘時間會叮囑自己少吃精緻澱粉、多補充膳食纖維，定期篩檢。

雖然飲控對魏柏立來說有些難度，但定期的運動是他的日常，平時都習慣走路上下班，現在的辦公室在八樓，每天都是爬樓梯上下樓層，假日則會挑戰拇指山、九五峰等路線，動輒數小時健行。他笑說，他妹妹常笑他爬山不是看風景，而是在比速度。

接下台北癌症中心院長一職，除了要積極推廣癌症篩檢外，另外的使命是留住年輕醫師，魏柏立說，如何留人是各大醫院不可迴避挑戰，外科長年人力吃緊，工作繁重又高壓，不少年輕人寧可轉行，甚至有人去夜市賣小吃，收入與壓力相比，反而更「划算」。

「我們不能只要求年輕醫師有理想，必須給他們舞台。」魏柏立的解方，是讓住院醫師就能參與質子治療、機械手臂手術等尖端項目，而非等到主治醫師階段才有機會。「讓年輕醫師在學習過程中就能接觸頂尖治療，才能產生成就感，也才會願意留下來。」

魏柏立

●年齡：59歲

●專長：大腸直腸及肛門疾病、頑固型便祕的治療、直腸癌的達文西機械手臂手術、直腸腫瘤無痕微創手術、大腸癌的微創手術治療

●現職：台北癌症中心院長

●學歷：國立台灣大學醫學士、台北醫學大學醫學研究所博士

●經歷：北醫附醫醫務副院長、醫品副院長、教學副院長、一般外科主任、台北市立萬芳醫院醫務副院長、台大醫院外科部兼任主治醫師、台灣內視鏡外科醫學會理事長

給病人的一句話：

醫師是病人的朋友，能幫助病人和家人，給予最圓滿照顧。

魏柏立平時喜歡走路上下班，養成健行、健身的習慣。 圖／魏柏立提供農曆七月特輯

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title: 院長講堂／台北癌症中心院長魏柏立 力推大腸癌篩檢 給年輕醫師舞台

countries: 美國 台灣

events: 死亡 疫情


taiwan-subdivisions: 基隆 大安區

title: 非聽不可


title: 院長講堂／台北癌症中心院長魏柏立 力推大腸癌篩檢 給年輕醫師舞台

events: 疫情 死亡

countries: 台灣 美國


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大陸商務部十二日晚間宣布，經中美雙方商定，中共中央政治局委員、國務院副總理何立峰將於九月十四日至十七日率團赴西班牙與美方舉行會談。雙方將討論美單邊關稅措施、濫用出口管制及TikTok等經貿問題。

這將是美國總統川普四月初祭出對等關稅後，美中之間第四輪高階經貿會談。中美分別於五月在瑞士日內瓦、六月在英國倫敦、七月在瑞典斯德哥爾摩舉行過三次高層經貿會談。

彭博稍早報導，美國財政部長貝森特計畫與大陸副總理何立峰在馬德里會晤，討論貿易、經濟和國家安全議題。彭博稱，這是雙方談判升溫的另一個跡象。

根據美國財政部周四發布的行程，中美下周討論議題將涵蓋TikTok現狀及打擊洗錢。

中美近日已接連舉行國防和外交高層會談，一般認為，這是雙方在為大陸國家主席習近平和美國總統川普預期將在下個月舉行的會面鋪路。

英媒：美促Ｇ７徵印中百分百關稅

與此同時，英國金融時報引述四位知情人士報導，美國將施壓七大工業國集團（Ｇ７）對印度和中國大陸加徵更高關稅，懲罰兩國購買俄羅斯石油，並試圖迫使莫斯科重返俄烏和談。

Ｇ７財長十二日透過視訊會議商討美國提出的新措施。美國總統川普正加緊推動，力推俄烏和平協議。川普本周已敦促歐盟對印中課徵最高百分之百的關稅，如今進一步將要求擴大至Ｇ７國家。

美國財政部發言人說，中印買俄油，正為俄國總統普丁的戰爭機器提供資金，並延長對烏克蘭人民毫無意義的屠殺；美國本周已明確告知歐盟國家，若真想結束這場發生在他們自家後院的戰爭，就必須和美國站在一起祭出有實質效力的關稅，而這些關稅會在終戰那天立即取消。

歐盟官員深知，要對其兩大貿易夥伴印中徵高關稅相當困難，除了衝擊經濟，也恐招致北京報復。歐盟還正爭取在數周內和印度敲定貿易協議，以深化雙邊關係。但布魯塞爾希望說服華府，能透過其他方式達成相同壓力，像對俄國能源業者祭出更嚴厲制裁，並提前原定後年實施的歐盟國家全面停買俄國油氣期限。

此外，根據美國國會官網，川普十日撤回二月對海德（Landon Heid）出任商務部助理部長的提名，該職位負責督導美國以國安為由的出口管制，是美中科技戰中要職。他在立場上屬對中鷹派。路透十一日報導說，川普此舉引發外界懷疑是否顯示要對北京採取更鴿派的做法。

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title: 貝森特會何立峰 美中14日起在西班牙經貿會談

countries: 西班牙 瑞典 中國 美國 英國 烏克蘭 俄羅斯 台灣 日本 歐盟 瑞士 印度

people: 習近平 川普

things: 和平協議 經濟 死刑


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解放軍東部戰區表示，美軍驅逐艦希金斯號和英軍護衛艦里士滿號，昨日過航台灣海峽並滋擾挑釁，戰區組織海空兵力全程跟監警戒，有效應對處置。

發言人表示，美方和英方的行徑傳遞錯誤信號，破壞台海和平穩定，戰區部隊時刻保持高度戒備，堅決捍衛國家主權安全與地區和平穩定。

英國國防部表示，這次是例行航行，皇家海軍在任何地方展開行動，都完全遵守國際法和規範，並根據《聯合國海洋法公約》行使航行自由。

title: 解放軍指美英軍艦過航台海並滋擾挑釁　傳遞錯誤信號

countries: 英國 台灣


title: 北約將啟動東部哨兵行動加強歐洲東翼防務

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北約秘書長呂特表示，北約將會啟動東部哨兵行動，旨在在俄羅斯無人機入侵波蘭領空後，加強歐洲東翼的防務。

呂特與北約歐洲盟軍最高司令格林克維奇出席記者會時說，作為北約，必須明確保衛領土的決心和能力，這次軍事行動將於未來幾日展開，並會調動包括丹麥、法國、英國、德國等盟國的一系列資源，行動亦包括旨在解決與使用無人機相關特殊任務的要素。

呂特表示，北約仍在評估俄羅斯無人機入侵波蘭背後的潛在意圖，但無論是否有意，俄方的行動都是魯莽和不可接受。

countries: 波蘭 德國 英國 法國 丹麥 俄羅斯


countries: 以色列 美國 巴勒斯坦

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聯合國大會以142票贊成、10票反對、12票棄權通過決議，批准和平解決巴勒斯坦問題及實施兩國方案的紐約宣言，美國和以色列等國家投反對票。

宣言強調，戰爭、佔領、恐怖主義和被迫流離失所，不會帶來和平與安全，只有政治解決方案才能夠實現和平與安全，結束以巴衝突並實施兩國方案，是根據國際法滿足以色列和巴勒斯坦雙方合法願望的唯一途徑。

以色列批評決議是毫無意義的政治操控，鼓勵哈馬斯繼續戰爭，對和平毫無貢獻。美國形容，決議是給哈馬斯的禮物。

title: 聯大通過決議批准落實兩國方案的紐約宣言　美國和以色列反對


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民眾黨主席黃國昌指總統府秘書長潘孟安私下傳話談財劃法，總統府發言人郭雅慧今天表示，很遺憾當時政府提出覆議遭在野黨拒絕，當務之急是儘快糾正錯誤，呼籲黃國昌不要模糊焦點，若當初民眾黨贊成覆議，就不會有今日爭議。

黃國昌昨天透露，財劃法修法時，總統賴清德找人傳話給他說，如果民眾黨團支持財劃法覆議，民進黨團將會支持民眾黨團版的財劃法。

黃國昌今天受訪時指出，有位立委去總統府參加活動後，被潘孟安留下來談這件事，回來後這位立委向他報告賴總統的提議，「我直接回絕說，『不可能』」。

對此，郭雅慧表示，很遺憾當時政府提出覆議遭到在野黨拒絕，以至於為國家與國民帶來傷害，當務之急就是儘快糾正錯誤。

她指出，國家的財政穩健、地方的均衡發展以及國民的權益，都無分藍綠，也不應該受到錯誤立法的傷害，呼籲黃國昌不要模糊焦點，如果當初民眾黨贊成覆議，就不會有今日的爭議。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

journalist: 芋傳媒

people: 黃國昌 潘孟安 賴清德

title: 黃國昌指潘孟安銜命談財劃法 總統府：不要模糊焦點


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民眾黨主席黃國昌今天表示，民眾黨前主席柯文哲的案子審理至今，台灣社會反應非常明確，擺明就是政治追殺；司法應該是為公平正義服務，「而不是為民進黨存在、為賴清德服務」。

黃國昌昨天接受專訪時提到，他已與柯文哲長談，柯文哲支持落實2年條款。黃國昌上午受訪表示，2 人長談 3 小時，他向柯文哲詳細報告近期發生的事情，充分交換意見，包括民眾黨倡議聯合政府、 2026 布局、2 年條款等。

黃國昌說明，民眾黨全國黨代表大會後，就已確定 2 年條款會繼續執行，「到目前為止，沒有收到主席（柯文哲）給我其他任何特別的指示」，現在執著談 2 年條款並不適當，還是要尊重在立法院兢兢業業打拚的立委。

黃國昌指出，柯文哲的案子審理到現在，台灣社會的反應非常明確，擺明就是政治追殺、司法迫害；司法應該是為公平正義服務，「而不是為民進黨存在、為賴清德服務」。

台灣民意基金會民調顯示，5 成 4 民眾不滿意北署偵辦柯文哲案的整體表現。黃國昌批評，把台灣司法完全踐踏到谷底、讓人民無法信任，要負最大責任的當然是總統賴清德、法務部長鄭銘謙、北檢檢察長王俊力，「他們已經成為台灣司法史上最大的罪人」。

另有網友在社群平台 Threads 發文，指黃國昌撞臉韓團 BTS 成員金泰亨。黃國昌表示，「差太遠了啦」，政治工作者在自己工作崗位上把工作做好，演藝工作是另一種不同專業，演藝人員的表現對他來說是望塵莫及，根本無法相提並論。

此外，黃國昌中午接受網路節目「觀點芹爆戰」主持人黃光芹專訪，談及 2026 年選舉，黃國昌指出，柯文哲對於他要成為新北最好選擇，「給我全力支持、鼓勵」，並要他先自己做好準備、贏得選民支持，沒有實力、要跟國民黨談什麼。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

people: 黃國昌 柯文哲 賴清德

title: 黃國昌：柯文哲案是政治迫害 司法不是為民進黨存在


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高院認定，尚有諸多證人未交互詰問，原裁定認為柯文哲與應曉薇滅證、串證的可行性與可能性已大幅降低，有前後矛盾及理由欠備的不當，今天撤銷原交保裁定，發回北院更裁。

根據台灣高等法院新聞資料，依原審審理計畫記載，尚有證人及兼具共同被告身分者未交互詰問，柯文哲部分，其滅證、串證可能性是否降低、有無繼續羈押必要性，何以僅限於涉犯違反貪污治罪條例，而不及於涉犯公益侵占、背信等罪。

新聞資料指出，原審 7 月 21 日裁定時，以有部分證人尚待傳喚到庭、無法排除滅證或勾串共犯、證人之虞為由，裁定柯文哲與應曉薇延長羈押，卻又於1個月後，在尚有諸多證人未交互詰問的情形下，認為柯文哲與應曉薇滅證、串證的可行性與可能性已大幅降低，有前後矛盾及理由欠備的不當。

合議庭認為，原審裁定停止羈押，並均命柯文哲、應曉薇「不得與同案被告、證人有任何接觸、騷擾、恐嚇或探詢案情之行為」，但本案事證繁雜，檢察官起訴被告雖僅 11 人，但於偵查中所列同案被告，或曾經傳喚、列於起訴書中，或於本案審理過程中已傳喚，或尚待交互詰問的證人繁多。

合議庭表示，原裁定內容僅泛指「同案被告」、「證人」，有範圍未明的疑慮，因此有再詳加界定，以便柯文哲、應曉薇知悉的必要；檢察官抗告有理由，因此撤銷原裁定，並發回原審法院另為適法處理。

前台北市長柯文哲、國民黨台北市議員應曉薇涉京華城等案，日前聲請具保停押，台北地方法院裁定柯文哲新台幣 7000 萬元交保，應曉薇 3000 萬元交保，並均限制住居於居所地，限制出境、出海 8 月。合議庭並要求柯文哲不得與同案被告、證人有任何接觸、騷擾、恐嚇或探詢案情的行為，並接受左腳配戴電子腳鐶、攜帶個案手機等科技設備監控。

案經台北地檢署以本案證人尚未詰問完畢，且柯文哲 8 日具保後，即與本案證人民眾黨立法院黨團主任陳智菡、民眾黨台北市議員陳宥丞有所接觸，已違反法院具保命遵守的「不得與證人有任何接觸之行為」的事由，因此向台灣高等法院提起抗告。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

people: 柯文哲 應曉薇

title: 撤銷柯文哲交保裁定 高院：諸多證人未交互詰問


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U18 世界盃棒球賽台灣隊今天與波多黎各交手，陳世展先發 7 局表現完美，兩隊正規 7 局打完僵持不下，延長賽賴謙凡後援 2 局壓制，台灣隊 9 局下靠著李楷棋再見安以 1 比 0 搶勝、保有 4 強機會。

U18 世界盃棒球賽在日本沖繩舉行，超級循環賽（ Super Round ）首戰台灣昨天不敵韓國隊，今天與波多黎各交手沒有退路，派出下勾投手「綠島潛水艇」陳世展先發。

陳世展雖在 2 局上被首名打者敲出安打，但沒讓對手延續攻勢，3、4 局都讓對手 3 上 3 下，5 局上 1 人出局後被敲出安打、盜上二壘，但連抓 2 個出局數，瓦解對手攻勢。

陳世展今天先發 7 局表現完美，僅被敲出 2 支安打，投出 5 次三振、沒有四死球保送，無失分、展現壓制力。

台灣隊打線還是沒能突破，3 局下 1 人出局後蔡琞傑靠著失誤一口氣跑上二壘，再靠著滾地球上到三壘，帕蘇拉．塔基斯利尼安獲得四壞保送、盜上二壘，但攻勢沒能延續、沒有拿下分數。

台灣隊前 5 局都沒能敲出安打，直到 6 局下 2 人出局後曾聖恩敲出台灣隊首支安打，但打線沒有串連、還是沒能送回分數。

兩隊 7 局打完僵持不下，突破僵局制延長賽 8 局，台灣隊換上投手賴謙凡接替登板，後援 2 局無失分，台灣隊 9 局下靠著雙盜壘戰術、李楷棋關鍵再見安，幫助球隊搶下重要勝利。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 台灣 波多黎各 韓國 日本

title: U18世界盃李楷棋延長賽再見安 率台灣擊敗波多黎各


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2025 新北富邦全國 U12 棒球錦標賽今天在重新壘球場舉行冠軍戰，台北市福林國小以 13 比 2，擊敗台東縣卑南國小，勇奪冠軍金盃與新台幣 8 萬元獎品。

新北市府體育局發布新聞表示，2025 新北富邦全國 U12 棒球錦標賽，由富邦金控冠名贊助，號召全台 24 支菁英少棒隊伍齊聚新北。

歷經 8 日至 12 日，5 天 40 場比賽，最終由北市福林國小奪冠，亞軍台東縣卑南國小、季軍台南市崇學國小、殿軍台北市東園國小。

個人獎方面，打擊獎由福林國小張雨齊、陳皇碩與崇學國小曾辰恩分列前三；全壘打獎為屏東縣大平國小陳恩宇；打點王福林國小徐宇炫；投手獎卑南國小簡子翔；美技獎東園國小林郁宸；教練獎福林國小林閔建。MVP 則由福林國小張雨齊摘下。

體育局表示，參賽隊伍包括今年威廉波特少棒賽冠軍台北市東園國小、2024 年威廉波特少棒賽亞軍桃園市龜山國小、2022 年威廉波特少棒賽季軍的台北市福林國小，及勁旅卑南國小、中平國小等，陣容星光閃閃。

體育局表示，透過企業支持，能更深耕基層棒球並打造特色賽事品牌。比賽於重新壘球場 A、B 及重新棒球場三地開打，高強度比賽除能精進技術，也讓球員彼此交流累積實戰經驗，未來在國際賽事更有利爭取佳績，12 月將接續舉辦新北富邦國際城市 U18 棒球邀請賽。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 龜山 卑南 桃園 新北市 屏東縣

title: 2025新北U12少棒錦標賽 北市福林國小奪冠


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中職統一獅隊 12 日前半段被封鎖，9 局下靠著林子豪關鍵 2 打點二壘打，及陳重羽的再見高飛犧牲打，以 5 比 4 逆轉味全龍；另一場中信兄弟則是靠許庭綸轟 3 分砲，擊退樂天桃猿。

12 日在新莊棒球場的賽事，味全龍隊先發投手鋼龍（ Andrew Gagnon ）此戰前 5 局完全沒有讓統一獅隊打者上壘，直到 6 局下才被林祖傑擊出內野安打、挑戰完全比賽破功。

龍隊本來取得 4 比 0 領先，不過獅隊在 8 局下展開攻勢，林子豪敲出安打後，鋼龍退場、林凱威接替登板，接著林佳緯敲出二壘安打，送回 1 分。

9 局下獅隊的陳鏞基選到保送後，蘇智傑、林安可都敲安打，攻占滿壘，接著林子豪敲二壘安打，帶有 2 分打點，陳聖平再敲 1 打點安打追平，最後陳重羽擊出再見高飛犧牲打，獅隊以 5 比 4 逆轉搶勝，龍隊吞下 3 連敗。

鋼龍用 93 球主投 7 局，僅被擊出 2 支安打，沒有出現保送，送出 6 次三振，失掉 1 分，最終陳冠偉吞下敗投。獅隊先發投手飛力獅（ Felix Pena ）則是用 107 球投 6 局，被敲 5 支安打，投 4 次保送、3 次三振，失掉 3 分，勝投由吳承諭拿下。

在台北大巨蛋的賽事，雖然樂天桃猿隊本來取得 1 比 0 領先，不過 6 局上中信兄弟的許庭綸從莊昕諺手中轟出 3 分砲，一棒逆轉，生涯首轟出爐；7 局上江坤宇再敲 2 打點安打，最終兄弟以 5 比 1 擊退桃猿。

另一場在澄清湖棒球場的賽事，富邦悍將與台鋼雄鷹以 3 比 3 鏖戰到延長賽， 10 局上悍將的戴培峰、周佳樂連 2 棒犧牲短打戰術成功，送回超前分，加上後援投手曾峻岳 2 局 6 上 6 下好投，悍將最終以 4 比 3 搶下 3 連勝。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

taiwan-subdivisions: 新莊 成功

title: 獅隊9下灌4分逆轉龍 兄弟許庭綸3分砲勝桃猿


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美國科技媒體 The Information 引述 4 名知情人士報導，中國阿里巴巴與百度已開始使用自家設計的晶片訓練人工智慧（ AI ）模型，部分取代美國 AI 晶片大廠輝達所製產品。

路透社引用 The Information 內容報導，阿里巴巴自今年初以來，已開始將自有晶片應用於規模較小的 AI 模型；百度則正嘗試以自家昆侖 P800 （ Kunlun P800 ）晶片訓練其文心一言（ Ernie Bot ）AI 模型的新版本。

阿里巴巴及百度對路透社的置評要求暫未回應。

此舉是中國科技與 AI 產業一大轉變，這個領域業者過去多依賴輝達強大處理器發展 AI ，但阿里巴巴百度開始用自家晶片訓練 AI 後，勢必讓輝達（ Nvidia ）在中國的業務進一步受挫。

針對這項報導，輝達發言人回應說：「競爭無疑已經來臨，我們將持續努力爭取全球主流開發者的信任與支持。」

美國針對先進 AI 晶片出口中國的限制不斷增加，迫使中國企業加快自研 AI 晶片進程，而北京對企業採用本土技術的壓力也持續增大。

報導指出，無論是阿里巴巴還是百度，目前都尚未完全放棄輝達產品，兩家公司仍以輝達晶片開發最先進的 AI 模型。

然而，The Information 引述 3 名使用過該晶片的員工指出，如今阿里巴巴的 AI 晶片足以與輝達 H20 競爭。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 中國 美國

title: 美媒：阿里巴巴百度用自家晶片訓練AI 逐步取代輝達


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京華城案被告柯文哲、應曉薇聲請具保停押獲台北地院裁准，北檢提起抗告，高院今天撤銷原裁定發回更裁。北院合議庭訂 15 日上午 10 時重開羈押庭，要求柯文哲、應曉薇當天上午 9 時到法警室報到。

前台北市長柯文哲、國民黨台北市議員應曉薇涉京華城等案遭羈押禁見，日前聲請具保停押，台北地方法院 5 日裁定柯文哲新台幣 7000 萬元交保，應曉薇 3000 萬元交保，並均限制住居、限制出境、出海 8 月。

合議庭並要求柯文哲、應曉薇不得與同案被告、證人有任何接觸、騷擾、恐嚇或探詢案情的行為，並接受左腳配戴電子腳鐶、攜帶個案手機等科技設備監控。

台北地檢署以本案證人尚未詰問完畢，且柯文哲 8 日具保後即與本案證人民眾黨立法院黨團主任陳智菡、民眾黨台北市議員陳宥丞有所接觸，已違反法院具保命遵守的「不得與證人有任何接觸之行為」的事由，向台灣高等法院提起抗告。

高院指出，依原審審理計畫，尚有證人及兼具共同被告身分者未交互詰問，原審 7 月 21 日裁定時，以有部分證人尚待傳喚到庭、無法排除滅證或勾串共犯、證人之虞為由，裁定柯文哲、應曉薇延長羈押，卻又於 1 個月後，在尚有諸多證人未交互詰問的情形下，認為柯文哲與應曉薇滅證、串證的可行性與可能性已大幅降低，有前後矛盾及理由欠備的不當。

高院表示，原審裁定停止羈押，並均命柯文哲、應曉薇「不得與同案被告、證人有任何接觸、騷擾、恐嚇或探詢案情之行為」，但本案事證繁雜，檢察官起訴被告雖僅 11 人，但於偵查中所列同案被告，或曾經傳喚、列於起訴書中，或於本案審理過程中已傳喚，或尚待交互詰問的證人繁多。

高院認為，原裁定內容僅泛指「同案被告」、「證人」，有範圍未明的疑慮，因此有再詳加界定，以便柯文哲、應曉薇知悉的必要；檢察官抗告有理由，因此撤銷原裁定，並發回原審法院另為適法處理。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

people: 應曉薇 柯文哲

title: 高院撤銷柯文哲、應曉薇交保 北院15日重開羈押庭


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全國漁民節頒獎典禮今天在淡水舉行，總統賴清德今天表示，政府以 3 行動支持漁民，包括三保一金、擴大外銷市場、編列 180 億元，照顧受到關稅衝擊的漁民。

全國漁民節頒獎典禮今天下午在淡水漁人碼頭福容大飯店舉行，表揚 12 位模範漁民。總統賴清德、農業部長陳駿季、漁業署長王茂城、新北市長侯友宜、立法委員洪孟楷、蘇巧慧、許宇甄等人皆出席。

賴總統致詞表示，政府以 3 項行動支持農漁民，第一是三保一金，無論是保險或補助金都要提高，用制度確保漁民的權利。第二是收成有增加，同時也要擴大市場，例如去年台灣龍虎斑成功銷往日本，代表未來台灣的養殖漁業能愈做愈大。

第三，面對美國對等關稅影響到漁業市場，政府不能不關心，因此政府將編 180 億元預算照顧受到關稅衝擊的漁民。

陳駿季說明，農業和漁業是台灣的「起家厝」，針對增加外銷部分，會透過金融支持和外交支持，讓魚種順利銷到國外，尤其是鬼頭刀。同時也會協助漁船增加冷鏈設施，讓漁民捕魚後能急速冷凍，確保魚產品能成功輸出。目前農業部已和漁民召開逾 30 場座談，會努力將漁民需求化為用實際行動力。

侯友宜致詞時感謝漁民們的辛勞付出，這次新北市 5 區漁會推薦人選，共有 2 位模範漁民、3 位優秀漁民及1位模範外籍船員獲獎，獲獎率百分之百，其中女性漁民佔了 3 位，展現新北漁業堅強實力。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 日本 美國 台灣

people: 蘇巧慧 洪孟楷 賴清德 侯友宜

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北市 成功 淡水

title: 美對等關稅衝擊 賴總統：政府編180億元照顧漁民


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U18 世界盃棒球賽晉級關係確定，日本今天與巴拿馬鏖戰至延長賽 9 局，靠著強迫取分搶下再見分，以 6 比 5 拿勝、維持不敗，將與美國爭冠；另也確定季軍戰組合為台灣對上韓國。

U18 世界盃棒球賽在日本沖繩舉行，日本隊今天晚間與巴拿馬交手也是苦戰，巴拿馬 1 局上首名打者就敲出三壘打，靠著滾地球跑回分數；日本前 5 局沒能拿下分數，直到 6 局下靠著為永皓適時安打，扳平比數。

兩隊正規 7 局打完，1 比 1 僵持不下；延長賽突破僵局制，8 局上巴拿馬隊攻下 4 分，8 局下日本隊追回 4 分，再度延長戰線；9 局上巴拿馬沒能拿下分數，9局下日本隊靠著犧牲觸擊、保送，岡部飛雄馬強迫取分戰術，日本跑回致勝分，紀錄上岡部飛雄馬是 1 支再見安打。

日本隊先發投手森下翔太投 7.2 局，僅被敲出1支安打，投出 11 次三振、沒有四死球保送，失掉 3 分（1 分責失分）；奧村頼人、辻琉沙、中野大虎依序登板，僅奧村頼人再失掉 2 分責失分，中野大虎後援 1.1 局無失分、拿下勝投。

日本擊敗巴拿馬，賽後戰績 4 勝、維持不敗；美國戰績 3 勝 1 敗，唯一 1 敗就是輸給日本；台灣與韓國戰績都是 2 勝 2 敗；波多黎各戰績 1 勝 3 敗；巴拿馬吞下 4 連敗，也確定晉級關係， 14 日賽程為日本與美國打冠軍戰，台灣與韓國爭季軍。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 台灣 日本 巴拿馬 韓國 美國 波多黎各

title: U18世界盃日本勝巴拿馬將與美爭冠 台灣拚季軍


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菲律賓最近一份民調顯示，菲律賓民眾對台灣的信任度創下歷史新高，菲律賓駐台代表葛若菲接受訪問時說，菲律賓與台灣是「天然夥伴」，相信關係會越來越好。

菲律賓民調機構「社會氣象站」（ SWS ） 10 日公布 6 月進行的「國家信任」調查， 42 % 菲人「相當信任」台灣、 24 % 表示「只有一點信任」，相減後淨信任值為+ 18 ，是 SWS 自 2013 年 9 月首次把台灣納入民調以來的最高值。

排在台灣前面的是美國、日本和澳洲，中國在 11 個受測國家或地區當中排名倒數第 2 位，僅優於伊朗。

菲律賓駐台代表葛若菲（ Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil ）近日接受中央社訪問時形容菲台關係「越來越好」、「強健堅實」。

她指出，近年來有許多台灣企業到菲律賓投資，馬尼拉期待未來有更多資金進入。此外，菲律賓自今年 7 月起給予台灣旅客 14 天免簽證待遇，盼望能帶動觀光產業。

談到未來藍圖，上任剛滿 1 年葛若菲表示，遵照菲律賓總統小馬可仕（ Ferdinand Marcos Jr .）指示，首要任務是照顧好 20 萬名在台菲勞，其次是全力招商。

她坦言，菲律賓長年在外國直接投資（ FDI ）方面落後東南亞鄰國，極需迎頭趕上。

葛若菲說，菲台僅一海之隔，地理相近，是「天然的朋友」與「天然的合作夥伴」，希望雙邊關係持續升級，並確保 20 萬在台菲人受到妥善照顧。

雖然菲律賓於 1975 年與中國建交並奉行「一個中國」政策，但觀察人士注意到，小馬可仕上任後，菲台交流漸趨頻繁，去年與今年上半年，赴台菲律賓旅客人數在東南亞穩居首位。

今年 4 月，菲律賓總統府公告放寬對台官方交流限制；同月，立委揭露財政部長莊翠雲低調赴菲簽署租稅協議。

7 月初，菲律賓海軍發言人崔尼代（ Roy Vincent Trinidad ）與海岸防衛隊發言人塔瑞耶拉（ Jay Tarriela ）赴台出席「台灣海洋國際論壇」。

台灣涉外官員最近也證實，外交部長林佳龍 8 月間曾率領經貿考察團訪菲，菲律賓台商總會名譽總會長黃世模說，這是台菲斷交以來，首次有外交部長踏上菲律賓的土地。

9 月初，海巡署副署長許靜芝應菲律賓智庫 Stratbase 研究所邀請訪菲，並就「認知戰」議題進行交流。不久前，菲律賓警界高層也赴台參訪。

菲律賓經濟特區管理署（ PEZA ）7 日宣布，2 家台灣企業將對菲投資大約 1000 萬美元，另有多家台廠承諾進駐或擴產。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 伊朗 菲律賓 台灣 美國 中國 澳洲 日本

title: 菲人對台信任創新高 駐台代表：菲台是天然夥伴