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China’s strange and inconsistent behavior on the international stage often stems from the externalization of internal issues. As the fourth plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th congress approached and tensions built, Beijing suddenly tore up the trade framework it had agreed upon with the US in London in June, announcing strict controls on rare earths exports — a move that was clearly driven by domestic political struggles.

Such unruly behavior led US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to publicly criticize Chinese Trade Representative Li Chenggang (李成鋼) for being “unhinged.” Almost immediately after Bessent’s comment, Beijing hastily punished Li — stripping him of his post as permanent representative to the WTO — as a show to Washington. Soon after, China and the US began two days of preliminary trade negotiations in Malaysia. Following the talks, Bessent announced that China had agreed to postpone its rare earths export controls by one year. In reality, this was another case of crying wolf — similar to when China boycotted US soybeans in 2018, only to resume purchases later.

To fool its own people, China often puts on a show, only to quickly back down and submit. This has become a routine that even Chinese citizens have come to frequently mock. However, Taiwan’s pro-unification media continues to echo the CCP’s rhetoric each time, boasting that China has “overpowered” the US.

Taiwan is a democratic nation. While the media’s misinterpretation of the US-China trade war might still fall within the bounds of free speech, echoing China’s intent to invade Taiwan with military force crosses into the realm of national security issues.

Incoming Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) once claimed that Chinese military aircraft were “defending” Taiwan during their incursions. At that time, no other foreign military forces were anywhere near Taiwan — only Taiwanese and Chinese aircraft were confronting each other. If Cheng truly believes that Chinese military aircraft were defending Taiwan, does that mean she regards Taiwan’s own military forces as the enemy? Does she consider the Republic of China to be unlawfully occupying Taiwan? Despite the scrutiny her controversial remarks have received, Cheng continues to insist that she said nothing wrong.

Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) in an interview at the Legislative Yuan said that daily “gray zone” harassment and expanding military threats from Chinese aircraft are indisputable facts. However, he did not comment on Cheng’s remarks so as to maintain administrative neutrality. Anyone who treats a foreign adversary as a friend and their own army as the enemy is precisely the kind of individual that the Ministry of National Defense must guard against. Koo must issue a stern statement on this matter — he cannot afford complacency.

The foreign ministries of normal countries around the world always strive for peace, using diplomatic means up until the point of declaring war, while defense ministries emphasize that they are willing and able to fight. However, during former president Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration, the reverse often occurred — the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued firm statements, while the Ministry of National Defense paradoxically promoted peace.

President William Lai (賴清德) appointed Koo, who served as National Security Council secretary-general under Tsai, as minister of national defense to facilitate continuity in national governance — a selfless act on behalf of the nation. However, Koo should be reminded to correct previous bad habits. When faced with the opposition’s overbearing behavior and threats to national security, a defense minister must respond with firm condemnation.

Issues of national defense and foreign affairs fall under the president’s authority. Thus, the defense minister must fully implement the president’s directives and put in the utmost effort to defend Taiwan — whether that means building up the military or correcting misinformation in the media and in the legislature. It is no longer acceptable to hide behind “administrative neutrality.”

Tommy Lin is chairman of the Formosa Republican Association and director of the Taiwan United Nations Alliance.

Translated by Kyra Gustavsen

people: 賴清德 鄭麗文 顧立雄 蔡英文

title: Koo must take a stand on defense


title: Appeasing Beijing is the real recklessness

people: 習近平 賴清德

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In an essay for Time, Lyle Goldstein, director of Asia engagement at the Defense Priorities think tank, said that Washington must “beware of Taiwan’s reckless leader.” He accused President William Lai (賴清德) of destabilizing the Taiwan Strait by asserting that Taiwan is a sovereign nation and urged the US to restrain him — perhaps with “a private warning.” The implication is clear: If only Taiwan would stay quiet, peace would return.

That argument sounds prudent, but it is profoundly mistaken. It reflects a growing strain of thought in the US that fears war with China so much it is prepared to reward coercion. The same voices call for reducing US support to Taiwan on the grounds that the country is “not a vital national interest.”

Goldstein’s reasoning turns reality upside down. If an elected president defending his country’s sovereignty is “reckless,” what, then, is the word for the autocrat threatening invasion? There is nothing wrong with being a realist — but there is something wrong when a realist cannot even be fair in rhetoric and inverts the moral. When you call Lai reckless, you should also call Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) a predatory despot.

What these so-called realists actually propose is simple: Restrain Taipei, downgrade US commitments and quietly accept that China would one day take Taiwan. They rarely say it outright, but that is the end point of their argument. To “avoid war,” Taiwan must surrender its voice, its security and its future. The US, in turn, must signal to Beijing that force would meet only condemnation, not resistance.

This is the same cowardly logic that once asked why anyone should “die for Danzig.” Each time, the cost of yielding to aggression was not peace, but a wider, costlier war. The Taiwan Strait is no exception. If Taiwan falls, the balance of deterrence across Asia collapses. Japan, the Philippines and South Korea would either rearm or lose faith in US guarantees. The entire Indo-Pacific region would become a region of anxiety — until one day, it simply becomes China’s Asia.

Taiwan’s survival is not only about chips and sea-lanes; it is about freedom itself. Silencing Taiwan would tell millions living under authoritarian rule that liberty was a mistake.

Goldstein’s essay also betrays a misunderstanding of deterrence. Peace does not come from telling small democracies to stay quiet; it comes from convincing aggressors that coercion would fail. The US need not provoke China, but it must leave no doubt that force against Taiwan would carry intolerable costs. Clarity, not ambiguity, prevents miscalculation.

There is nothing reckless about Lai stating what is already true: Taiwan governs itself, elects its leaders and belongs to the 23 million Taiwanese. What would be reckless is pretending otherwise to placate Beijing.

Goldstein’s view is not the prevailing one in Washington. In the US Congress, support for Taiwan remains bipartisan, vocal and overwhelming. The US House of Representatives and Senate continue to pass legislation strengthening ties and pushing for faster arms deliveries.

To fear war is human. To fear moral clarity is fatal. The danger is not in Taipei’s assertion of sovereignty — it is in the growing comfort with moral retreat. Peace built on silence about aggression is the peace of the intimidated. Deterrence without conviction is no deterrence at all. The freedom of one nation, once surrendered, would not be recovered with eloquent regrets. It would be lost — and the free world would be smaller for it, and when the free world shrinks, the US would only shrink with it.

John Cheng is a retired businessman from Hong Kong now living in Taiwan.


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The US Senate’s passage of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which urges Taiwan’s inclusion in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise and allocates US$1 billion in military aid, marks yet another milestone in Washington’s growing support for Taipei. On paper, it reflects the steadiness of US commitment, but beneath this show of solidarity lies contradiction. While the US Congress builds a stable, bipartisan architecture of deterrence, US President Donald Trump repeatedly undercuts it through erratic decisions and transactional diplomacy. This dissonance not only weakens the US’ credibility abroad — it also fractures public trust within Taiwan.For decades,

By Meng Chih-cheng 蒙志成

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Every generation believes that it is living in an unprecedented era with unique challenges, but time and again, the same patterns and motivations have weakened and even destroyed civilizations, or strengthened them and enabled them to flourish. To learn from the past requires recognizing its symmetries and resonances.

For example, the rise and decline of powers over the centuries has established some basic tenets. Chief among them is that when a dominant power faces two rivals, the rival that does not enter into conflict with the dominant power is usually the one that triumphs.

In the late 18th century, Britain prevailed over the Netherlands (the dominant power of the period), while France, the other contender, who went to war against the Netherlands, never became a superpower. In the early 20th century, the US prevailed over Britain largely because of the wars between the UK and its other rival, Germany.

Another lesson is that empires collapse when they can no longer afford to finance the security of their hinterlands and trade routes. Spain’s Golden Age came to an end when it could no longer fund the military expenditure required to defend its colonies. Britain’s empire depended on naval supremacy that could not be maintained. The Soviet Union fell because it confused greatness with over-armament.

A third lesson is that, even when civilizations are set up for success, they can collapse under the weight of unforced errors. For example, at the start of the 20th century, the West seemed primed for prosperity: With the advent of electrification, the automobile, the telephone, the radio, and air travel, technological progress was accelerating, while the vicious cycle of poverty and war appeared to be broken.

Global trade was booming (particularly between Britain and Germany), democracy was advancing (even in Russia, where the 1905 revolution heralded a new era of freedom), and European rulers were on good terms — George V was a first cousin of Wilhelm II and Nicholas II (who were third cousins). And by 1908, an institutional architecture for resolving global conflicts had been designed.

However, World War I disrupted this golden age. Inventions designed to liberate became weapons of destruction, and the illusion of progress died in the trenches. For decades, Europe convulsed with war and hatred, unbearable humiliation and barbaric revenge. Despite the certainty that this time would be different, the continent went up in flames.

The world is experiencing something similar today: We should be on the cusp of a prosperous future. Never has humanity’s potential been so immense. The shift to cleaner power could bring the fossil-fuel era to a close. Scientific breakthroughs could drastically change our lives by curing diseases that have defied treatment, developing a near-limitless source of clean energy, freeing humans from the most arduous tasks and much more.

Many countries have recognized the importance of addressing climate change and protecting the planet. Millions of hectares — from Kivu to the Amazon — are being reforested. The High Seas Treaty seeks to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. Banks are incorporating biodiversity considerations into their balance sheets. GDP is slowly giving way to other measures that value health, equality and well-being. The world’s young people are making themselves heard, women are gaining access to decisionmaking positions, and societies, acutely aware that they face shared challenges, are engaging in dialogue.

And yet, as in the beginning of the 20th century, the worst-case scenario is unfolding. Authoritarianism has become ever more widespread, subverting even the most established democracies. If we are not careful, artificial intelligence (AI) could destroy billions of jobs, power new weapons and erode cognitive skills.

The environment continues to deteriorate, and the climate crisis is deepening, owing to the millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions still being released into the atmosphere. Rising sea levels, drying rivers and failing crops have forced millions of people to migrate. Wars are multiplying around the world, and conflicts over food and water are set to rise.

Most democratic governments are paralyzed, postponing necessary reforms until after the next election. As globalization comes under attack, fear of the other, nostalgia for a nonexistent purity and disdain for knowledge have resurfaced. This has resulted in division, exclusion and mistrust — the conditions on which populism thrives. Collective intelligence gives way to individual anger, exactly as occurred at the beginning of the 20th century.

More worryingly, and with no precedent, we face common challenges — climate change, poverty, epidemic risks and misuse of technology, in particular AI — that affect humanity as such. Saturated with screens and video games, and still obsessed with national rivalry, we forget to think about the global future and allow powerful national interests to dominate policymaking. This is how civilizations die. This is how human civilization might die.

To avert this outcome, we must not forget the lessons of the past. We must understand that it is time to think as one human species and to fight common challenges. We must build on global cooperation and not the geopolitical selfishness of nation-states. The interests of future generations should come first, which implies a new emphasis on altruism. Perhaps one day we will look back at 2025 as the year when humanity could have taken a turn for the worse, but instead, for the first time in centuries, chose life.

Jacques Attali, founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, was a special adviser to former French president Francois Mitterrand and the author of 86 books.

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A policy of mass deporting legal immigrants was once solely the preserve of fringe racist groups such as the National Front in Britain. Now it is the position not only of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which leads the nation’s polls, but also the Conservatives, the governing party for 14 of the past 15 years. The mainstreaming of such xenophobic radicalism does nothing for Britain’s reputation as a bastion of reliability, tolerance and decency.

Katie Lam, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc vice president who became a member of the British Parliament for the Conservative opposition last year, caused a furor after telling the Sunday Times there were a large number of people in the country “who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to” and that they would need to “go home.”

Lam, a shadow home office minister, said their departures would leave a “culturally coherent” group of people.

Her comments were broadly in line with Conservative policy, the Guardian reported on Wednesday last year, citing party leader Kemi Badenoch’s spokesperson.

Retroactively changing the rules on people in the UK legally undermines long-established principles of fairness and predictability, and would not be cost-free. Such caprice would send a bad signal to the high-skilled, high-value migrants that Britain still needs to attract. Combined with anti-immigrant rhetoric, it might persuade them that other destinations are a better bet. Politicians should speak on such issues carefully and with moderation.

The backdrop is a surge in small-boat arrivals across the English Channel since British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government came to power last year, along with figures showing legal migration peaked at a yearly net influx of 906,000 under the preceding Conservative administration. This has elevated immigration to the No. 1 concern of voters, overshadowing a flatlining economy. Parties have sought to outdo each other this year in looking tough. The Conservatives in February proposed to double to 10 years the time needed to attain settled status, known in Britain as indefinite leave to remain, or ILR; Labour matched that in May; Farage now promises to scrap ILR altogether.

The rash of attention to ILR reflects a belief that too many lower-earning migrants and their dependents arrived in the wave that followed the UK’s exit from the EU, and they would become a burden on the welfare state once they are eligible for benefits (usually after five years under current rules). However, projections about the future economic contributions or costs of migrants are highly uncertain. Legal migrants are not destitute spongers; they have paid thousands of dollars in visa fees to be here. In my case, visa fees and associated costs for my spouse and one dependent have totaled about ￡15,000 (US$19,825) so far, after our decision to move from Hong Kong three years ago. ILR would cost another ￡6,000, if we are eligible to apply by then.

Imagine the reaction of migrants who, having stumped up the cash on the promise of a five-year pathway, are now being told they can double what they have already put in as part of Labour’s proposal — or, under Farage’s plan, just keep paying for visa renewals indefinitely until a Reform government deigns to grant them citizenship (if ever). On the plus side, a depleted Treasury might net an extra few billion pounds, based on the more than 1 million post-Brexit migrants who had become eligible for ILR over the coming years.

Lam’s views are not new. A video posted on the conservativehome.com Web site in July shows her pouring colored beads representing migrants into overflowing glass jars.

“Most of these people didn’t come to work and are paying no tax,” Lam says, before stating, without evidence or attribution, that if post-2021 migrants gain ILR, “it’s going to cost us hundreds of billions of pounds.”

Her Sunday Times interview helped draw attention to an immigration bill the Conservatives introduced in May, which would revoke ILR for anyone whose income falls below ￡38,700 for six months or more (that is higher than the UK median wage) — or if they or their dependents have received any form of “social protection” (including pensions, an entitlement that is earned). With the Conservatives in opposition, the bill has zero chance of becoming law — but it is draconian.

A belated backlash has arrived, including from people in Lam’s own party. With Labour compromised by having played to the same anti-immigrant gallery, it was left to Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey to claim the moral mantle.

Such rhetoric from a member of the Conservative front bench was “deeply concerning and unpatriotic,” Davey wrote to Badenoch. “This shows just how far your party has moved away from the fundamental values of decency, tolerance and respect for the rule of law that the vast majority of people in our country hold dear.”

Lam, 34, is from a family that fled Nazi Germany for England. In her interview she described debating immigration as a teenager with her 90-year-old grandfather, whose extended family included Holocaust victims and who favored open borders. The international rules-based order was “based on the idea that everyone would want to be nice to each other postwar,” she told the Sunday Times. The reality was this was “not true” and people would exploit that generosity unless we stand up for ourselves.

Another interpretation might be that the postwar system reflected a knowledge that, once governments start to separate out certain groups of people and look at them as unworthy of the rights and protections afforded to others, it can lead quickly to a very dark place. Britain should not go there.

Matthew Brooker is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business and infrastructure. Formerly, he was an editor for Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

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title: A malaria resurgence could be the canary in the coal mine

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The consequences of Trump’s decision to scrap USAID and other countries’ decisions to reduce global funding are playing out in a deadly fashion

Malaria is a pandemic disease that hits the voiceless hardest: Most of those who fall ill and die are small children and pregnant women in Africa. It is the leading infectious killer on the continent, responsible for nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Cases are rising and there is an urgent need for more funding, yet Western donor countries are instead cutting back on aid. We still hear brave talk about eliminating malaria, but an expert report now warns of a potential resurgence that could add almost 1 million more deaths to the annual toll by the end of the decade.

Most of the money to fight the mosquito-borne disease — 59 percent — comes through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Its executive director, Peter Sands, last week said at the World Health Summit in Berlin that of the three killers, the one that kept him awake at night was malaria.

This could be the canary in the coal mine. Malaria kills far more quickly than HIV or tuberculosis. The impact of funding cuts and aid diversions, and the scrapping of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump, which housed so much global health expertise, would be seen in the malaria figures faster than in most other diseases, but our despoliation of the environment is also in play.

The climate crisis is altering rainfall patterns and enabling the spread of mosquitoes. The parasites they carry have developed some resistance in east Africa to the artemisinins, the best drugs we have against the disease. It happened with chloroquine and with every other malaria drug, and undermines the effectiveness of artemisinin-impregnated bed nets as well. There was a window of real opportunity while the drugs had full power, but it is closing.

The other hope is vaccines, and some have been developed and rolled out, but although they offer about 50 percent protection against death from malaria in the first year — for a child fortunate enough to get vaccinated — they do not stop transmission.

Cases surged in 2023, the latest for which we have figures, reaching 263 million, which was 11 million higher than in the previous year. The report, from a group of agencies — including Malaria No More UK and the African Leaders Malaria Alliance — supports the call of the Global Fund for more money.

Data analysis shows the damage that would be done if malaria control slips — and the hugely positive impact on African lives and economies if pressure on the parasite can be maintained. Reaching a 2030 annual funding target would save 1.86 million lives and boost African GDP by US$231 billion, as healthy children stay in school and become economically productive rather than a cost to society.

In contrast, a 20 percent cut would lead to 82,000 more deaths and a drop in GDP of US$5.14 billion. A severe cut in funding would mean 990,000 more deaths as malaria prevention collapses, and a GDP drop of US$83 billion.

Worryingly, the second scenario is already on the cards: Germany has promised 1 billion euros (US$1.16 billion) to the Global Fund, which is a 23 percent cut on previous contributions. Malaria is a really hard disease to beat, but it can be done and it would surely be unthinkable to let the killing climb again. The UK, rumored to be considering a 20 percent cut, and other countries, must find the funds however tight their budgets, to save voiceless children’s lives.


title: Blue Jays beat Dodgers 6-2, level series

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REACTION:  Less than 24 hours after a 18-inning Game 3 loss, the Blue Jays’ win ensured that the best-of-seven series is to head back to Toronto for Game 6 tomorrow

Vladimir Guerrero Jr on Tuesday blasted a two-run home run as the Toronto Blue Jays bounced back to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 and tie the MLB World Series at two games apiece.

Less than 24 hours after a shattering 18-inning Game 3 loss, the Blue Jays climbed off the canvas to breathe new life into their hopes of a first MLB title in 32 years.

Guerrero’s two-run blast off Dodgers starter Shohei Ohtani and a superb pitching performance from ace Shane Bieber laid the foundations for a gutsy victory that silenced Dodger Stadium.

The Toronto Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr, right, celebrates after a home run past Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith during the third inning in Game 4 of the MLB World Series in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Photo: AP

“I’m always trying to compete for my city, compete for the team, and when you’re competing, good things happen,” Guerrero said after a victory that ensures the best-of-seven series is to head back to Toronto for Game 6 tomorrow.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider praised his team’s ability to recover from Monday’s heartbreak.

“It’s hard to play 18 innings and come back and kind of flip the narrative against a very talented team, and a very talented individual in Shohei Ohtani on the mound,” Schneider said. “I feel really good about just us. I feel good about us every night.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts paid tribute to the Blue Jays’ resilience.

“We knew it was going to be a great series,” Roberts said. “This team is talented, they’re resilient, and they came back fighting... We just didn’t have an answer.”

With both teams having drained their respective bullpens in Monday’s marathon epic — the joint longest game in World Series history — Bieber provided valuable length for the Blue Jays.

The 30-year-old former American League Cy Young Award winner threw 5.1 innings with three strikeouts, giving up just one run.

Meanwhile, Ohtani — who had bludgeoned two home runs and got on base a record nine times in Monday’s 6-5 walk-off victory — delivered six strikeouts across six innings and was charged with four runs.

Ohtani and the rest of the Dodgers bats went ice-cold offensively, managing just six hits and two runs in nine innings.

Ohtani said he had felt no weariness after Monday’s heroics, but admitted the Dodgers offense had underperformed.

“We’re facing quality arms this time of the year against really good teams, and we’re facing the best of the best, so it’s not that easy,” Ohtani said. “But at the same time, we could do at least the bare minimum to be able to put up some runs.”

Roberts echoed Ohtani’s critique of the offense.

“We haven’t found our rhythm,” Roberts said. “It sort of draws dead at certain parts of the lineup, different innings, different games.”

Instead, it was the Blue Jays’ deep and disciplined lineup — missing injured leadoff hitter George Springer — who once again bided their time before pouncing on the vulnerable Dodgers bullpen.

After Guerrero’s two-run homer canceled out Enrique Hernandez’s sacrifice fly that had given the Dodgers an early 1-0 lead, the game remained in the balance until the seventh inning.

Ohtani began the inning and gave up singles to Daulton Varsho and Ernie Clement to leave the Blue Jays with runners on second and third with no outs.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts promptly withdrew Ohtani for reliever Anthony Banda, and the Blue Jays cut loose.

Shortstop Andres Gimenez and pinch hitter Ty France singled in rapid succession to make it 4-1, knocking Banda out of the game.

Banda’s replacement, Blake Treinen, fared little better, giving up singles to Bo Bichette and Addison Barger to complete a four-run scoring burst that left Toronto 6-1 up.

The Dodgers never looked like threatening the Blue Jays’ five-run cushion, and it was left to Toronto reliever Chris Bassitt to run through the bottom of the seventh.

Bassitt cruised through the eighth inning as the Dodgers bats once again failed to fire.

The Dodgers flirted with an improbable rally in the ninth inning after Teoscar Hernandez drew a leadoff walk followed by a double from Max Muncy.

Tommy Edman grounded out to score Hernandez, but closer Louis Varland mopped up the rest of the inning to give the Blue Jays a crucial win.

Game 5 of the best-of-seven series takes place at Dodger Stadium this morning Taipei Time before the series heads back to Toronto for games 6 and 7 tomorrow and on Saturday.


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Reigning NBA champion the Oklahoma City Thunder, fueled by 31 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Tuesday rallied to beat the Sacramento Kings 107-101 to improve to 5-0 in the young season.

The Philadelphia 76ers also remained unbeaten, erasing a double-digit deficit to improve to 4-0 with a thrilling 139-134 overtime victory over the Wizards in Washington.

Gilgeous-Alexander, who was last season’s Most Valuable Player (MVP), NBA Finals MVP and league scoring leader, shook off a slow third quarter to score nine in the fourth as the Thunder rallied despite the absence of Chet Holmgren with a sore lower back.

Philadelphia 76ers center Adem Bona, top, prepares to dunk the ball during their NBA match against the Washington Wizards at the Capital One Arena in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images

Aaron Wiggins and Ajay Mitchell scored 18 points apiece, while Lu Dort added 13 for Oklahoma City, who trailed by three going into the fourth quarter, but finally took the lead for good, 99-97, on a Dort three-pointer with 2 minutes, 33 seconds to play.

“We did what it took to win,” Gilgeous-Alexander said.

The 76ers had an even bigger mountain to climb in Washington, and they did it with guard Tyrese Maxey leading the way.

Maxey — whose two 40-point performances in the opening week of action were among the record-setting 16 in the first seven days of the season — scored 39 points and handed out 10 assists, and big man Joel Embiid added 25 points before sitting out overtime.

Trailing by as many as 19 in the third quarter, the Sixers tied it at 126-126 on Quentin Grimes’ three-pointer with 38.7 seconds left in regulation.

After Kris Middleton missed at the buzzer, they went to overtime, the 76ers taking a 132-131 lead on Adem Bona’s put-back dunk then building their cushion with three free throws from Maxey.

The Wizards closed within one point with 7.6 seconds left, but a pair of free throws by Maxey, and a steal and two free throws from Grimes sealed the victory.

“It was really amazing to be able to pull away with this one,” Bona said. “We came together and put it together.”

Grimes finished with 23 points off the bench, and Bona blocked four shots in the fourth quarter and another in overtime in a definitive defensive performance.

“It feels amazing to be able to contribute to the team in any way possible,” Bona told NBC Sports Philadelphia. “It doesn’t have to be points... I’ve just got to do it the best way I do it, rebounding, blocking shots, running the floor — it feels amazing.”

Bona, who was part of Turkey’s run to the silver medal at EuroBasket last month, said that experience had him razor-sharp coming into the NBA campaign.

“I think that helped a lot, playing in such a high stakes game back in Europe and also like I kind of started my season a little bit earlier, so I’m kind of like mid-season shape right now,” he said.

Eight Wizards players scored in double figures, led by center Alex Sarr’s 31 points with 11 rebounds five assists, two steals and two blocked shots.

In Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 37 points with eight rebounds and seven assists as the Bucks erased a 12-point halftime deficit to beat the New York Knicks 121-111.

Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 36 points, but was slowed in the fourth quarter after appearing to tweak a leg.

He stayed in the game, but the Bucks had all the momentum, knotting it at 103-103 on an Antetokounmpo dunk midway through the fourth, taking the lead on an Antetokounmpo layup and relentlessly pulling away.

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Britain’s Cameron Norrie on Tuesday stunned world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Paris Masters and end the Spaniard’s 17-match winning streak at ATP Masters 1000 level.

Fresh from claiming his eighth title of the season in Tokyo, six-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz was off his game, racking up 54 unforced errors and venting his frustration in terse exchanges with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero.

After winning the first set, Alcaraz failed to maintain momentum, while Norrie steadily grew in confidence, with the world No. 31 saving two break points in the seventh game of the final set, and holding serve to clinch the match after 2 hours, 22 minutes.

Britain’s Cameron Norrie reacts during his Paris Masters second-round match against Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

“Massive [victory], so big for me,” Norrie said. “I have been coming back from my injury. Last year, I lost first round of qualies here.”

“I have just tried to enjoy my tennis in the second half of the year, and I was able to do that and to get a win like this, the biggest of my career, my first over a world No. 1 and especially against the most confident player in the world right now,” he said.

Alcaraz’s defeat was the first time he had lost before a final since March, halting a dominant Masters 1000 run stretching back to the Miami Open, during which he captured titles in Monte Carlo, Rome and Cincinnati, Ohio.

The win propelled Norrie into the last 16 at a Masters event for the first time since 2023 in Rome while he has matched his best previous showing in Paris from 2021.

Alcaraz risks losing the year-end world No. 1 spot if Italy’s Jannik Sinner captures the Paris title this week.

title: Norrie stuns world No. 1 Alcaraz at Paris Masters


title: Donald Trump’s granddaughter to play in LPGA event

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US President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, is poised to make her LPGA Tour debut after receiving a sponsor invitation on Tuesday to the Nov. 13 to 16 tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Florida.

“My dream has been to compete with the best in the world on the LPGA Tour,” Kai Trump said in a statement posted on the LPGA’s Web site.

“This event will be an incredible experience,” she said. “I look forward [to] meeting and competing against so many of my heroes and mentors in golf as I make my LPGA Tour debut.”

Kai Trump looks on as her grandfather, US President Donald Trump, not pictured, speaks to reporters before departing the White House in Washington on Sept. 26. Photo: AP

The 18-year-old high-school senior, the eldest child of Donald Trump Jr, is ranked 461st in the American Junior Golf Association rankings and has committed to play collegiate golf at the University of Miami.

She also has a strong social media presence, with millions of followers across multiple platforms.

The US$3.25 million The ANNIKA in Belleair, Florida, is the penultimate event of the LPGA season, which is to conclude with the Tour Championship from Nov. 20 to 23 in Naples, Florida.

It traditionally attracts a strong field.

Other sponsor invitations have gone to Wake Forest University senior Anne-Sterre den Dunnen of the Netherlands and Northwestern University standout Lauryn Nguyen.

“Sponsor invitations are an important way to spotlight emerging talent and bring new attention to our tournaments and the LPGA,” LPGA chief tour business and operations officer Ricki Lasky said.

“Kai’s broad following and reach are helping introduce golf to new audiences, especially among younger fans,” Lasky said. “We’re excited to see her take this next step in her journey, and we’re proud to work closely with our partners in Tampa Bay whose continued commitment to advancing the women’s game helps elevate the LPGA and expand its visibility.”


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Zhao Yitang had always dreamed of playing soccer for China and this summer he finally did — not in boots on a pitch, but on a smartphone.

As the global popularity of soccer e-sports grows, China is vying for success on the virtual pitch, following decades of struggles in the real-life sport.

The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has announced plans to form its own national e-sports soccer team, kindling hopes for players like Zhao.

People play EA Sports FC 26 during the Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 20. Photo: AFP

“If I could join the national team, I would go all-out in my efforts for the side,” the gamer said.

Recent graduate Zhao, 21, reached the final of this year’s eFootball championship in Tokyo, finishing in second place.

It was China’s best international result in the game formerly known as Pro Evolution Soccer, which dominates the soccer e-sports genre along with EA Sports FC Online.

The CFA said its team would soon compete in e-sports events organized by FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation.

Despite being massively popular in China real-life soccer in the country has long been plagued by match-fixing and corruption.

Chinese President Xi Jinping once said he wanted China to host and even win the FIFA World Cup.

However, the men’s national team languish 93rd in FIFA’s rankings and failed again to qualify for next year’s World Cup.

Soccer e-sports could deliver glory at last.

China is one of the world’s biggest gaming markets, and its players are some of the best in other e-sports games.

However, for top players, striving for glory in soccer video games is far less lucrative than battling for big prize money in fantasy e-sports titles such as League of Legends or Dota 2.

The professionalism of virtual soccer, unlike other e-sports, is at an early stage.

“The prize money is too little. It’s difficult to make a living playing professionally, full-time,” former pro e-sports soccer player Monaco said, asking to use his screen name to avoid online abuse.

Even winning every tournament would only earn a top player about 70,000 yuan (US$9,858) annually before taxes, with regular salaries nonexistent, he said.

By contrast, top players in more established e-sports titles such as League of Legends can earn salaries in the seven figures, alongside sponsorship deals.

“Probably only 10 people in all of China can make a living out of playing” soccer e-sports, said Pan Shuyin, manager of the e-sports division of Chinese Super League club Changchun Yatai.

Changchun are trying to set themselves apart.

“We are the only football club in the whole Chinese Super League, maybe even the only football club in China, continuously investing in e-sports,” Pan said.

Other clubs have disbanded their e-sports teams or are reluctant to set them up, because they are seen as money-losers.

One reason for the lower exposure and commercial value of soccer e-sports is that “the bar for playing soccer games is higher.”

That is because it usually requires knowledge of real-life soccer, said Pan, whose club aims to attract more young fans through e-sports.

While Chinese teams have played soccer e-sports at global tournaments in the past, the country is not on the roster for the upcoming FIFAe World Cup, an e-soccer tournament in December in Saudi Arabia.

Worldwide, soccer e-sports is becoming a regular fixture.

The ePremier League kicked off in 2018 and e-sports — including soccer games — became an official medal event at the last Asian Games held in 2023.

Zhao, nicknamed “Ding” or “Teacher Ding” by the e-sports soccer community, first stumbled upon a soccer video game in 2018 to unwind between classes and soccer training.

“If you watch a lot of real-life football matches, or play a lot of real-life football, you will have your own understanding” of how to succeed in e-sports, he said.

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‘NO WORKABLE SOLUTION’: An official said Pakistan engaged in the spirit of peace, but Kabul continued its ‘unabated support to terrorists opposed to Pakistan’

Pakistan yesterday said that negotiations for a lasting truce with Afghanistan had “failed to bring about a workable solution,” warning that it would take steps to protect its people.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, aimed at securing peace after the South Asian neighbors’ deadliest border clashes in years.

The violence, which killed more than 70 people and wounded hundreds, erupted following explosions in Kabul on Oct. 9 that the Taliban authorities blamed on Pakistan.

People sit beside trucks as they wait to cross the border into Afghanistan near Chaman, Pakistan, yesterday. Photo: AP

“Regrettably, the Afghan side gave no assurances, kept deviating from the core issue and resorted to blame game, deflection and ruses,” Pakistani Minister of Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar wrote on X after four days of negotiations brokered by Qatar and Turkey.

“The dialogue thus failed to bring about any workable solution,” Tarar added.

Pakistan engaged with Afghanistan in the spirit of peace, but Kabul has continued its “unabated support to anti-Pakistan terrorists,” he said.

“We will continue to take all possible measures necessary to protect our people from the menace of terrorism,” he said, vowing to “decimate the terrorists, their sanctuaries, their abetters and supporters.”

There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan.

Relations between the one-time allies, who share a 2,600km frontier, have soured in the past few years over accusations from Islamabad that Afghanistan harbors militant groups that stage attacks in Pakistan.

Of particular concern to Islamabad is the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group, which Islamabad has been demanding action against.

Pakistan accuses the Taliban authorities of allowing the TTP to use Afghan territory as a “training-cum-logistic base and jump off point for terrorist activities,” Tarar wrote.

The Taliban government has denied the allegations.

After the Oct. 9 explosions in Kabul, which coincided with a visit to New Delhi by Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Muttaqi, the Taliban launched a retaliatory border offensive, prompting a response from Pakistan.

An initial 48-hour ceasefire lapsed before a second truce emerged on Oct. 19 following talks in Doha, also brokered by Qatar and Turkey.

The border between the two neighbors has been closed for more than two weeks, with only Afghans expelled from Pakistan allowed to cross.

In the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, a driver on Monday told reporters that “fruit is rotting” in trucks.

“There are 50 to 60 trucks, some with apples, others with pomegranates and grapes,” said 25-year-old Gul, who only gave his first name. “We wait and call on the government to reopen” the border.

A Pakistani security source on Tuesday said that the Afghan Taliban delegation initially agreed to Islamabad’s call for “credible and decisive action” against the TTP.

However, the Afghan side “reversed its position repeatedly after instructions from Kabul,” said the source, who was not authorized to discuss the talks publicly.

Pakistani Minister of Defense Khawaja Asif on Saturday said that failure to reach a deal could lead to “open war.”

Afghan Ministry of the Interior spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani on Tuesday said that any attack would be met with a response “that will serve as a lesson for Pakistan and a message for others.”

“It’s true that we do not possess nuclear weapons, but neither did NATO nor the United States manage to subdue Afghanistan despite 20 years of war,” Qani told Afghan media outlet Ariana News.

The violence killed at least 50 Afghan civilians and wounded 447 others in one week, the UN mission in Afghanistan said on Monday.

Pakistan’s military on Oct. 12 said that 23 personnel had been killed and 29 wounded, without detailing civilian casualties.

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OUSTED PM: ‘Free and fair elections require genuine competition, the ability of all parties to campaign and the electorate’s right to choose,’ Sheikh Hasina said

Bangladesh’s fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned that holding elections without her party — the first since her overthrow — was “sowing the seeds” of further division in her country.

In written responses to Agence France-Presse, her first interview since being ousted, Hasina also condemned her crimes against humanity trial as a “jurisprudential joke,” adding that she believed a guilty verdict was “preordained.”

Toppled in August last year by a student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule, Hasina fled by helicopter as crowds stormed her palace.

Then-Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina gestures during a news conference in Dhaka on Jan. 8 last year. Photo: AFP

The UN said that up to 1,400 people were killed in crackdowns as she tried to cling to power — deaths now at the center of her trial.

The 78-year-old former prime minister has been in hiding ever since, hosted by India.

However, she remains defiant, and, in comments likely to enrage the many who say she made a ruthless bid to maintain power at all costs, she said she “mourned all the lives lost during the terrible days” when students were gunned down in the streets.

She warned that the ban on her Awami League by the interim government of chief adviser Muhammad Yunus was deepening a political crisis in the country of 170 million people ahead of elections slated for February next year.

“Elections without the direct participation of all major parties, including the Awami League, cannot be credible,” she said.

While she has issued social media messages to supporters, her response to AFP marks her first direct communication with journalists since her overthrow.

“Without the participation of the Awami League, he is sowing the seeds of future division in the country,” she said. “Yunus must reinstate the Awami League to give Bangladeshis the choice they deserve.”

Rights groups accused her government of a litany of abuses, including the murder of rivals, suppression of opposition parties, rigged courts and one-sided elections.

Bangladesh’s interim government banned Hasina’s Awami League in May under amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act — a move Human Rights Watch condemned as “draconian.”

“Free and fair elections require genuine competition, the ability of all parties to campaign and the electorate’s right to choose between alternatives,” Hasina said. “Elections are a competition of ideas. You cannot ostracize a party because you don’t like their policies.”

Her rivals, long crushed under her rule, are now resurgent.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is seen as the frontrunner, while Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim-majority country’s largest Islamist party, is rising in popularity.

Meanwhile, Hasina has defied court orders to return to attend her trial on whether she bears command responsibility for the deadly crackdown, charges amounting to crimes against humanity under Bangladeshi law.

Bangladeshi Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam has accused Hasina of being “the nucleus around whom all the crimes were committed” during the uprising, and has called for the death penalty if found guilty.

“The charges themselves are rejected in full and are not supported by any evidence,” Hasina said. “It has been appointed by an unelected administration consisting of my political opponents to try me in absentia for capital crimes.”

A verdict is due on Nov. 13.

“A guilty verdict is preordained, sadly, and I will not be surprised when it comes,” she said.

Hasina was defended by a state-appointed lawyer, but said she would only recognize an “impartial” process, such as one at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“The charge that I personally directed security forces to open fire on crowds is bogus,” she said, although she added that “some mistakes were certainly made within the chain of command.”

“On the whole, the decisions made by senior government officials were proportionate in nature, made in good faith and intended to minimize the loss of life,” she added.

The prosecution, which insists that the trial was fair, has played audio tapes verified by police that suggested Hasina directly ordered her security forces to “use lethal weapons” against protesters.

Hasina said that the recordings had been “taken out of context.”

She also pointed to a crackdown on her loyalists since her fall, including when security forces in February launched “Operation Devil Hunt,” arresting thousands accused of trying to “destabilize” the country.

At the same time, she gave no information on the fate of the hundreds, if not thousands, of missing people reported to have vanished into secret detention centers during her rule.

Earlier this month, lawyers for the Awami League requested that the ICC investigate reported “retaliatory violence.”

That includes allegations of “beatings and lynchings” that have “no realistic prospect” of being prosecuted in Bangladesh, senior British barrister Steven Powles said in a statement.

Asked by AFP if she plans a return to politics, Hasina replied: “My priority is the welfare and stability of Bangladesh.”

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Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity on Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement.

All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on Facebook, warning that the monkeys were “aggressive.”

It was not clear how many monkeys were originally in the truck.

One of the escaped monkeys. Photo grab from Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi via Facebook

The truck was carrying Rhesus monkeys, which typically weigh about 7.7kg and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet.

They were being housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university.

In a statement, Tulane University said that the monkeys do not belong to the university and they were not being transported by the university.

It was not clear who owned the monkeys, who was transporting them or where they were being taken.

Video showed monkeys crawling through tall grass on the side of Interstate 59 just north of Heidelberg, Mississippi, with wooden crates labeled “live animals” crumpled and strewn about.

The sheriff’s department initially said the monkeys were carrying diseases including herpes, but Tulane University in a statement said that the monkeys “have not been exposed to any infectious agent.”

The sheriff’s department responded by saying that the driver of the truck told law enforcement the monkeys were dangerous and needed to be handled using personal protective equipment.

Tulane University said that it was working with law enforcement. Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries was also on site.

The crash happened about 160km from the state capital of Jackson. It was not clear what caused the truck to overturn.

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Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast.

The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday.

Her husband, Peter, and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad bike expeditions to clear the beach of trash.

A bottle with letters inside is pictured in Condingup, Australia, on Saturday. Photo: AP

“We do a lot of cleaning up on our beaches and so would never go past a piece of rubbish. So this little bottle was lying there waiting to be picked up,” Deb Brown said.

Inside the clear, thick glass were cheerful letters written in pencil by privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916.

Their troop ship, the HMAT A70 Ballarat, had left the South Australia state capital, Adelaide, to the east on Aug. 12 of that year on the long journey to the other side of the world, where its soldiers would reinforce the 48th Australian Infantry Battalion on Europe’s western front.

Neville was killed in action a year later. Harley was wounded twice, but survived the war, dying in Adelaide in 1934 of a cancer his family say was caused by him being gassed by Germans soldiers in the trenches.

Neville requested the bottle’s finder deliver his letter to his mother, Robertina Neville, at Wilkawatt, now a virtual ghost town in South Australia. Harley, whose mother was dead by 1916, was happy for the finder to keep his note.

Harley wrote: “May the finder be as well as we are at present.”

Neville wrote to his mother he was “having a real good time, food is real good so far, with the exception of one meal which we buried at sea.”

The ship was “heaving and rolling, but we are as happy as Larry,” Neville wrote, using an Australian colloquialism meaning very happy.

Neville wrote that he and his comrades were, “somewhere at sea.” Harley wrote that they were “somewhere in the bight,” referring to the Great Australian Bight, an enormous open bay that begins east of Adelaide and extends to Esperance on the western edge.

Deb Brown suspects the bottle did not travel far. It likely spent more than a century ashore buried in the sand dunes. Extensive erosion of the dunes caused by huge swells along Wharton Beach in recent months probably dislodged it.

The paper was wet, but the writing remained legible. Because of that, Deb Brown was able to notify both soldiers’ relatives of the find.

The bottle “is in pristine condition. It doesn’t have any growth of any barnacles on it. I believe that if it had been at sea or if it had been exposed for that long, the paper would’ve disintegrated from the sun. We wouldn’t have been able to read it,” she said.

Harley’s granddaughter Ann Turner said her family was “absolutely stunned” by the find.

“We just can’t believe it. It really does feel like a miracle and we do very much feel like our grandfather has reached out for us from the grave,” Turner told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Neville’s great nephew Herbie Neville said his family had been brought together by the “unbelievable” discovery.

“It sounds as though he was pretty happy to go to the war. It’s just so sad what happened. It’s so sad that he lost is life,” Herbie Neville said.

“Wow. What a man he was,” the great nephew added with pride.


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AUSTRALIA

Caesars mixed up

They came, they saw, and they squandered a year of lessons on Roman history. Schools yesterday were investigating how a curriculum blunder ended with pupils mistakenly studying Augustus instead of Julius Caesar. The high-school students only realized that they had brushed up on the wrong Roman ruler when they crossed the Rubicon to sit down for their final-year exams. Queensland State Minister for Education John-Paul Langbroek said that the mishap was anything but ancient history for at least 140 traumatized students across nine schools. “For all of us, as parents or students who have been through situations like this, it would have been extremely traumatic,” he told reporters. “And I want to reassure those students, and their parents, and the teachers affected, that we’ll be making every investigation into how this happened.” Queensland students last year were taught about Augustus Caesar, the adopted son of Julius and the first emperor of Rome, but the curriculum changed this year to focus on Julius Caesar instead — although it appeared not every school got the memo. Langbroek said that education officials were looking at ways to ensure the fiasco did not ruin the students’ grades.

JAPAN

Defense spending confirmed

Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi yesterday confirmed plans to achieve the country’s target of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense two years early, after the move was announced by the prime minister last week. “We will take measures to achieve the level of 2 percent of GDP during this fiscal year, earlier than” the original plan, Koizumi told US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Tokyo. “In light of the situation where missile capabilities have been significantly enhanced in the area surrounding Japan, I believe it is important to relentlessly enforce missile defense capabilities,” Koizumi said. Hegseth said that the two nations’ alliance was “critical to deterring Chinese military aggression.” He added: “To respond to regional contingencies and keep our country safe, shoulder to shoulder with Japan, we look forward to continuing to strengthen our alliance.”

SOUTH KOREA

Trump given crown

US President Donald Trump might be facing protests at home calling for “no kings” in the US, but in Gyeongju, officials had the perfect gift for him — a replica golden crown. Trump yesterday met with President Lee Jae-myung and capping a lavish welcome ceremony, Trump was presented with a replica of a crown worn by the kings of Silla, the dynasty that ruled most of the Korean Peninsula from 57 BC to 935 AD. The gift was a replica of “the largest and most extravagant of the existing gold crowns” from the Silla period, Trump was told. It represented “the divine connection between heavenly and earthly leadership.” Seoul’s presidential office said the crown symbolizes “peace, coexistence and shared prosperity on the peninsula — values that mirror the Silla Dynasty’s long era of stability.” The US leader was also presented with the Grand Order of Mugunghwa — the country’s highest decoration. The medal had a laurel leaf design that symbolizes prosperity and it was given “in anticipation of the peace and prosperity you will bring to the Korean Peninsula,” Trump was told. “It’s a great honor,” the US president said. “I’d like to wear it right now.”


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Notes from Central Taiwan: Disaster reconstruction, disaster colonialismToo often post-disaster reconstruction in Taiwan robs indigenous people of their lands and rights, as will probably happen in Guangfu Township

At a public meeting on Monday to discuss reconstruction efforts for Guangfu Township (光復) in Hualien County, the town recently struck by the barrier lake overflow and flood that resulted in 19 deaths, descended into chaos after Hualien County Council Speaker and Guangfu resident Chang Chun (張峻) — protesting at not being invited — stormed into the meeting and kicked the table of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator and local kingpin Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁). The meeting had been organized by Fu and another KMT legislator, Sra Kacaw (鄭天財).

Fu and Chang detest each other. In the recent recall election, Chang supported the recall against Fu. Chang controls a faction of independent legislators who have a plurality in the local county council.

The meeting was intended to focus on a special reconstruction bill under legislative review. It was attended by Hualien County government and township officials, as well as several county councilors. Local media reported that many Guangfu residents stood outside the meeting hall and banged on the windows, saying they had not been notified of a meeting.

Chinese Nationalist Party caucus whip Fu Kun-chi, front left, on Monday presides over a meeting to discuss reconstruction efforts in Hualien County’s flood-hit Guangfu Township, while independent Hualien County Council Speaker Chang Chun, second right, looks on. Chang had earlier caused a raucous when he burst into the hall and kicked the table where Fu was sitting, demanding to know why he had not been invited. Photo: CNA

Fu blamed the township office, saying the county and township governments had been inactive even before the disaster. Earlier in the month, Fu had attempted to deflect criticism of the Hualien County government — run by his wife Hualien County Commissioner Hsu Chen-wen (徐榛蔚) — by claiming that evacuations were the sole responsibility of township and village offices. Township offices typically have the fewest resources of any level of government and should have been robustly supported with an obvious disaster looming. Fu also, more reasonably, contended that the meeting space was too small to hold the thousands of local residents affected by the reconstruction program.

The reconstruction budget for Guangfu was an add-on to an existing disaster budget of NT$60 billion passed in July for a previous typhoon. That budget was amended to add another $25 billion and extend the legislation’s effecting period through Dec. 31, 2028, with some measures lasting until the end of 2030. The government has declared Hualien County a disaster area.

What is at stake? The money, first of all. According to the Cabinet, the NT$25 billion is intended for barrier lake management (NT$10.7 billion), water resource facilities (NT$4 billion), roads and transportation (NT$3.25 billion), housing and public works (NT$2.65 billion), agricultural facilities (NT$500 million) and social and industrial recovery (NT$478 million). One portion, NT$3.42 billion, acts as contingency funds.

RECONSTRUCTION

Roughly half of Guangfu’s population hails from the indigenous Amis community. Indigenous communities have long, bitter experience of getting wrecked by typhoons and then shafted by the government. Though there are numerous local cases, the reconstruction effort in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot in 2009 has generated an enormous literature on how post-disaster reconstruction robs indigenous people of their lands and rights.

After Morakot, the government argued that human activities in environmentally sensitive areas were preventing the natural environment from exercising its protective and regenerative functions. Mountain residents, largely from indigenous communities, were blamed for the flooding, landslides and other problems. But as Kuo Yung-hua (郭詠華) observed in a 2023 piece in Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, this attitude was driven by the Han Taiwanese belief that “indigenous people were unable to wisely manage land,” a belief that not coincidentally justifies Han settlement and land theft. Kuo added: “this claim disregards the fact that the majority of the mountain lands was [sic] controlled by the government and developed by enterprises.”


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Donovan’s Deep Dives: Taiwan’s political equilibrium shaken, but not stirredWith the legislative and executive branches at each other’s throats, the CCP is ramping up its military threat level and foreign relations are in a choppy period, especially with the US, the current political environment is unstable

Is there an equilibrium in Taiwan politics, or what Oxford defines as “A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced”? If there is, what is it, and what could change it?

Pattern recognition is a crucial aspect of political analysis. Correctly spotting and identifying changing or emerging trends can prove an analyst prescient.

It also presents dangers, and can show an analyst is a fool. There are at least two ways this can happen: Incorrectly identifying the causes of a trend or overextrapolating a trend beyond where it is going.

Some analysts predicted that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary-General Xi Jinping (習近平) would be ousted at the recently concluded fourth plenum. It appears their eagerness to be right, and probably a large dose of wishful thinking, led those analysts off a cliff.

ROUGH EQUILIBRIUM

In recent years, there has been a rough equilibrium between parties. Yet polling in recent months has been volatile.

Are we undergoing a major shift? Has exhaustion with nearly 10 years of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rule caught up with them, as usually happens in democracies?

Could the dominance at the local level by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) be cracking, or could the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) change the calculus?

In a recent column (“A different way of analyzing recent election results in Taiwan,” Sept. 20, page 12) we examined how voting results in local elections were nearly identical in local elections in 2018 and 2022, and in legislative elections in 2020 and last year — despite very different outcomes.

In 2022, the KMT won by a slightly higher 50.1 percent of the total popular vote compared to 48.8 percent in 2018. The DPP’s vote was also similar, at 39.7 percent in 2018 and 41.6 in 2022.

Despite not winning more city and council leadership races, 2022 was a great year for the KMT, winning big prizes like Taipei, Taoyuan and Keelung.

In constituency legislative voting, the DPP won 45.11 percent of the total vote in 2020 and 45.09 last year, dropping only .02 percent. The KMT won 40.71 percent in 2020, and even dropped to 39.96 last year.

The DPP actually increased their vote in the party list proportional representation legislative vote last year at 36.16 percent, up from 33.98 in 2020. The KMT got 33.36 in 2020 and 34.58 percent last year.

For the KMT, last year was a big win despite winning fewer votes, gaining 14 legislative seats. The typical narrative is that the tide was turning toward the KMT, but those wins were not due to more votes, but rather better get-out-the-vote campaigns in key races — likely due to KMT Chairman Eric Chu’s (朱立倫) effective strategic choices.

The presidential races can not be easily compared because last year was a three-way race, and it would likely have been closer than in 2020. However, in a previous column, we examined how William Lai (賴清德) still had the advantage in a two-way race.

THE RULING PARTY

The big immediate question facing the DPP is whether the damage inflicted by their disastrous decision to back the recall campaigns will last.

For roughly four years until June of this year, Formosa polling on the DPP has been fairly stable, with favorability averaging in the mid-40 percent range, with unfavorability roughly similar.

Similarly, confidence in former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and current President Lai over the same time period averaged from the upper-40s to mid-50s, while satisfaction with their administrations was in the mid-40s to mid-50s. Their positive polling put them well above water compared to negative polling.

The continuity between the Tsai and Lai administrations is not surprising; Lai ran and won on continuing Tsai’s path.

That changed dramatically in June, putting them well underwater on all three metrics and showing the worst results by far for the DPP and president since 2019. DPP favorability plunged to the low 30s during the recall season, satisfaction with Lai’s administration dropped to a low of 31 percent in August, while confidence in the president hit 36 percent.

Yet, since hitting bottom in August, the DPP has been rising in the polls — but has only recovered over half of what they lost. Other polls show a similar trend, with some even showing the DPP having returned to the lower end of their long-term range.

THE OPPOSITION

The KMT’s favorability has been far more variable, ranging for years in the mid-20s to upper-30s. In the last few months, they have been in the higher end of that range, but have been higher several times within just the last year.

Broadly speaking, other polls confirm the trend of the KMT receiving a boost of a few percentage points in the late summer, but not outside of their long-term range. There does not appear to be any major trend moves on the KMT side.

The TPP is an interesting case. Their long-term favorability range was in the low to mid 30s, but plunged to the low 20s when party founder and then-party chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) found himself facing a slew of legal issues, and was arrested on charges of corruption in August and September last year.

Under the leadership of Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), the TPP proved they were not a Ko one-man band, as many had speculated, but he was only able to bring favorability back up to the upper 20s, and appeared stuck roughly five percent lower than the previous long-term trend.

The recalls gave the TPP a boost, having returned to their previous low to mid 30s range since, even briefly topping the DPP in August.

QUESTIONS REMAIN

It is not surprising that the DPP and Lai are recovering from their lows, but the question remains whether they will return to the previous equilibrium, or if they have lost the support of five or even 10 percent of the population for the foreseeable future.

If the trend line continues, they will return to equilibrium, but it may yet stall out. Likely this will become clear in the next few months.

The big question for the KMT is the reaction to incoming Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文). Her energy and charisma could boost favorability, her hardcore ideology could do the opposite or she could fade into the background, concentrating on the day-to-day job of running the party and not leaving much of an impression at all. Her character comes across as being more proactive, however.

The TPP could be facing two big tests in the coming months. Ko’s trial should wrap up, possibly as soon as December or January.

Meanwhile, Huang is facing allegations of forming an alleged “political surveillance” “paparazzi” group. He currently faces no charges and has not been arrested, but that could change.

If Ko is found guilty of corruption, will that damage the party? And what if Huang is arrested? Or both?

The latest Z.media poll asked if the allegations against Huang were true, would you approve or not approve, and even 58.7 percent of TPP respondents said “disapprove” and only 24.7 percent approved — though this result had a small sample base.

The current political environment is unstable. The legislative and executive branches are at each other’s throats, the CCP is ramping up its military threat level and foreign relations are in a choppy period, especially with the US.

This appears to be a period primed for big shifts, but the data is not indicating that.

Yet.

Donovan’s Deep Dives is a regular column by Courtney Donovan Smith (石東文) who writes in-depth analysis on everything about Taiwan’s political scene and geopolitics. Donovan is also the central Taiwan correspondent at ICRT FM100 Radio News, co-publisher of Compass Magazine, co-founder Taiwan Report (report.tw) and former chair of the Taichung American Chamber of Commerce. Follow him on X: @donovan_smith.


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Unruffled by Trump, Chinese parents chase ‘American dream’ for kidsWhile some parents are sending their children to Europe or Australia, for many the benefits of a US education far outweigh the cons

Despite plummeting relations between Beijing and Washington, Shanghai resident Huang is determined that her daughter will complete her costly education in the US.

Even as the two sides have spent much of this year locked in a blistering trade row, US schools and universities remain hugely popular with parents who are chasing what they see as better opportunities and an international outlook for their children. They will be among many hoping an expected meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (習近平) in South Korea today — their first encounter since the former’s return to the White House — could pave the way to stabilizing ties.

“Even though there’s a lot of drama going on right now... this is just temporary,” Huang said. “This is something I firmly believe in.”

Boats on Oct. 19 pass Weld Boathouse on Harvard University campus during the Head of the Charles Regatta 2025 on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Photo: AFP

Her 17-year-old daughter has been enrolled in high school in the US for three years and is hoping to study computer science at university there. Trump’s mercurial nature and his “America First” policies have spooked some of Huang’s friends, who are considering sending their children to Europe or Australia instead. But for Huang, the benefits of a US education far outweigh the cons.

“We feel that the United States is a country that can provide our child with more opportunities, and education is definitely more diverse,” said Huang, who did not give her full name due to privacy concerns.

There is a hefty price tag, though, with Huang estimating she currently pays more than US$100,000 a year in education and living expenses.


title: Book review: A haunting coda to a groundbreaking career

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From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection — an echo of the novelist at his peak

Towards the end of Knife, his 2024 book about the assault at a public event in upstate New York that blinded him in his right eye, Salman Rushdie offers a thought experiment:

“Imagine that you knew nothing about me, that you had arrived from another planet, perhaps, and had been given my books to read, and you had never heard my name or been told anything about my life or about the attack on The Satanic Verses in 1989. Then, if you read my books in chronological order, I don’t believe you would find yourself thinking, Something calamitous happened to this writer’s life in 1989. The books are their own journey.”

Extraordinary if true — but though the buoyant surface of Rushdie’s prose has betrayed little overt evidence of his status as the Ayatollah Khomeini’s marked man, the novels nonetheless track his trauma and its aftermaths faithfully. The first he published after the fatwa, 1995’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, begins with Moraes Zogoiby running for his life from unknown “pursuers.” Fury (2001), published after the Iranian president Mohammad Khatami declared the fatwa “finished” in 1998, is transparently the giddy, hyped-up novel of a man set free. Shalimar the Clown (2005) began, as Rushdie tells us, with “a single image that I couldn’t get out of my mind, the image of a dead man lying on the ground while a second man, his assassin, stood over him holding a bloodied knife.” This image, Rushdie says in Knife, was “a foreshadowing.” But it was also a looking backward, at the possible fate that Rushdie was forced to contemplate for years.

“I’m a dead man”: this, he tells us in his 2012 memoir Joseph Anton, was the first thing he thought when he heard the news of the fatwa.

Well, Rushdie isn’t a dead man. He’s still writing. The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five stories, seems intended as a kind of coda to his career. The stories are death-haunted. One of them is called Late; it’s an afterlife fantasy in which a Cambridge fellow, whose career has resembled both EM Forster’s (writing a great novel about India) and Alan Turing’s (helping to crack the Enigma code), dies and haunts a young Indian student named Rosa; what links them may be the buried crimes of empire.

The Musician of Kahani replays Rushdie’s greatest hits: it is about a child born at midnight (“the approved hour for miraculous births in our part of the world”) who, aged four, abruptly becomes a gifted pianist (like the rock star Ormus Cama in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, playing air guitar in his cradle).

These stories are entertaining but not particularly strong. The Musician of Kahana leans pretty heavily on cliche: “the university of life,” “priceless art,” “finger on the pulse,” “the wedding of the year” … In the South is better: a deft, moving anecdote about two old men in Mumbai who bicker and needle one another from their respective verandas. One of them, Junior, dies in an accident. The other, Senior, despairs, until he comes to believe that “death and life were just adjacent verandas.” Oklahoma invokes Kafka; it is a metafiction about a young Indian writer and the older American novelist he admires, or perhaps more than admires — in cases of literary influence, the story seems to ask, who is writing whom?

Rushdie has been one of the deep sources of contemporary fiction. His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James). His influence has not been without its downsides.

Rushdie has licensed lesser writers to be sentimental about their own powers of invention. He has given permission for characters to be flattened into comic stickers. And he has presided over a vast boom in telling rather than showing. The events of his own recent novels, such as The Golden House (2017) and Quichotte (2019), have been relentlessly told, rather than dramatized, and the virus of telling — this and then this and then this! — has noticeably infected the contemporary novel. But Rushdie was a pathbreaker. The exuberance and linguistic force of Midnight’s Children is still, after 44 years, a joy to encounter on the page. Another writer might have been fatally discouraged by what Rushdie has gone through. But Rushdie was not. He wrote the books. And the books, many of them, have greatly mattered.

“Our words fail us,” goes the final sentence of The Eleventh Hour. It is the conclusion of a story about a piazza — a public space — in which language, here figured as a human woman, is courted, usurped, ignored. Finally she screams and vanishes, at which point, the piazza’s buildings all crack: “The piazza is broken, and so, perhaps, are we.”

Words have not yet failed Salman Rushdie, even if, in this self-consciously late book, the spectacular originality of his novelistic peak sounds more as an echo than as an urgently present voice.


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我們想讓你知道…若能刪除兄弟姊妹的特留分規定，不僅可減少繼承糾紛，也更能符合現代家庭結構的實際樣貌。

▲我國《民法》容許被繼承人於生前可透過訂立「遺囑」的方式，自由處分自己所擁有的財產；但若立遺囑人沒有子女，且其父母也已過世時，則法定繼承人的順位便落至「第三順位」，即兄弟姊妹。（圖／達志／示意圖）

●李永然／永然聯合法律事務所所長、永然法律基金會董事長

《民法》中兄弟姊妹特留分的規定 是否仍應存在？

近期媒體頻頻報導《民法》繼承篇中有關「特留分」制度的修正問題。依現行《民法》規定，凡各順位法定繼承人，包括：配偶、直系血親卑親屬、父母、兄弟姊妹及祖父母，均享有「特留分」的法律保障。然而，其中最受爭議的，莫過於「兄弟姊妹不應享有特留分」的這個議題。

兄弟姊妹不應再有特留分保障

我國《民法》容許被繼承人於生前可透過訂立「遺囑」的方式，自由處分自己所擁有的財產；但若立遺囑人沒有子女，且其父母也已過世時，則法定繼承人的順位便落至「第三順位」，即兄弟姊妹。

然而，立遺囑人可能與其兄弟姊妹感情不睦，尤其在法律上，所稱「兄弟姊妹」除「全血緣」外，也包括「半血緣」的兄弟姊妹，亦即同父異母或同母異父者的兄弟姊妹（如：父親的私生子女、母親再嫁所生的子女），都是屬於「兄弟姊妹」，而可依第三順位法定繼承，享有繼承權。

在此情形下，即使立遺囑人與兄弟姊妹關係疏遠，仍無法於生前透過立遺囑的方式完全排除其等繼承；此乃因第三順位繼承人仍得受《民法》第1223條特留分保障而取得被繼承人遺產的一部分。

社會呼聲與《民法》繼承篇修法方向

如前所述兄弟姊妹不應享有特留分的問題，目前是我國繼承制度中最受爭議的議題。此乃因隨著家庭結構的改變與社會觀念的轉變，越來越多聲音主張應檢討現行「特留分」規定。

而面對民間團體聯署刪除兄弟姊妹特留分的訴求，法務部表示已委託學者進行研究，並預計最快於明年初啟動修法程序。與此同時，立法院朝野立委也相繼表態支持，認為現行制度已與現代家庭結構脫節，且有「懲罰單身」之虞，應刪除《民法》第1223條關於兄弟姊妹特留分的規定。

貫徹遺囑自由原則

筆者對於目前的修法方向深表贊同。筆者執業以來經手多起繼承案件，其中相當一部分涉及「特留分」的爭議，其中尤以「遺囑是否侵害特留分」的問題最為常見。

筆者近期與高愛倫作家共同出版《親密搶奪》新書，於北、中、南先後舉辦三場新書發表會，會場也有諸多聽眾詢問兄弟姊妹特留分的相關問題，可見此議題已在社會上引發高度關注。

筆者認為，若能刪除兄弟姊妹的特留分規定，不僅可減少繼承糾紛，也更能符合現代家庭結構的實際樣貌。

另外，現行《民法》規定，法定繼承人包括第一順位的直系血親卑親屬、第二順位的父母、第三順位的兄弟姊妹及第四順位的祖父母，配偶則與各順位共同繼承，法定繼承人皆受有特留分的保障。

既然第三順位兄弟姊妹之特留分已有檢討廢除的共識；筆者進一步建議，未來也可考慮對其他順位繼承人的「特留分範圍」再加以限縮，使立遺囑人得以充分自主決定其身後財產的分配，擴大遺囑自由，完全落實「遺囑自由原則」。

▼面對民間團體聯署刪除兄弟姊妹特留分的訴求，法務部表示已委託學者進行研究，並預計最快於明年初啟動修法程序。（圖／視覺中國CFP）

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title: 兄弟姊妹的特留分保障應刪除　擴大遺囑自由度！


title: 不愛了嗎？感情變化的「4個跡象」   教你看懂對方心意

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▲感情變化並非一朝一夕，必須冷靜處理。（圖／翻攝自FB/tvN drama，以下同）

記者曾怡嘉／台北報導

情侶之間感情有了變化，其實從細微的態度、語氣與互動中逐漸顯露出來。以下幾個跡象，可以幫助你察覺對方是否開始對這段關係動搖。若你發現這些徵兆，別急著質問，先冷靜觀察、誠實面對彼此的感受，再決定下一步要怎麼走。

#溝通的冷淡

以前都會主動分享生活瑣事、聊天聊到半夜，如今卻開始變得敷衍，訊息常常已讀不回或拖很久才回。即使在一起，讓你感覺彼此之間隔著一層牆，溝通變成義務而非期待。

#態度的轉變

曾經在意你的感受、願意配合你的喜好，如今卻變得冷漠、挑剔，甚至對你的缺點特別敏感。以前他欣賞的優點，如今變成讓他煩躁的存在。這樣的情緒轉變，往往是因為他心中有了比較的對象，或內心已經開始抽離。

#行蹤變得模糊

原本願意報備的他，現在常常說「很忙」、「有事」，但卻說不清楚在忙什麼。假日也不再約你見面，理由一堆卻沒有實際行動。當一個人刻意保留時間不與你共享，通常代表那段時間被留給了別人，或他已經不想讓你介入他的生活。

#身體語言的疏離

牽手變少、擁抱變尷尬、眼神閃避，甚至連親密互動都變得冷淡。身體的距離往往反映心理的距離，當對方不再渴望親近時，心很可能早已飄走。


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▲蕭邦L.U.C Quattro Spirit「圓相」腕錶，2,220,000元。（圖／蕭邦提供，以下同）

記者陳雅韻／台北報導

瑞士名錶蕭邦（Chopard）融合東方哲思與西方工藝，推出三款以倫理道德金打造的L.U.C Quattro Spirit限量版腕錶，將日本文化精髓注入面盤設計，再結合跳時機芯創作L.U.C Quattro Spirit「圓相」、L.U.C Quattro Spirit「武士永曜」及 L.U.C Quattro Spirit「冥想達摩」腕錶，優雅和風錶款搭載長達8日動力儲存的L.U.C 98.06-L 手動上鍊機芯，即使在跳時瞬間能量消耗劇烈的情況下，仍能維持穩定運行，獲得日內瓦印記，三款各限量8只。

▲蕭邦L.U.C Quattro Spirit「武士永曜」腕錶，2,220,000元。

蕭邦三款L.U.C Quattro Spirit限量版腕錶的面盤均以大明火琺瑯製作，「圓相」款錶盤呈現禪宗書法中的圓環，象徵平靜、能量與當下的美感，展現對「不完美之美」的坦然接納；「武士永曜」款則取材自日本軍事史中的破損軍扇圖案，寓意生命的脆弱與逆境中的堅毅精神，面盤的細膩圖案向傳統紡織藝術與武士精神致敬；「冥想達摩」錶款的設計靈感則源自近衛信尹的名作《冥想達摩》，以極簡筆觸呈現禪宗祖師達摩的形象，象徵堅毅不屈與靜定力量，呼應日本諺語「七轉八起」所傳遞的生命韌性。

▲蕭邦L.U.C Quattro Spirit「冥想達摩」腕錶，2,220,000元。

Grand Seiko也將日本美學發揚光大，選擇日本傳統色「勝色」創作腕錶，此深靛藍色之名來自十五世紀戰國平安時代的褐衣（かちえ）發音，代表堅實、內斂的深藍色調，與日本武士追求的質樸精神相契合，被認為可為戰鬥帶來好運，進而運用在武士盔甲設計之中，成為傳統代表色，品牌運用在Evolution 9 Style系列正裝腕錶SLGW007上，特別在面盤雕如白樺樹不規則的紋理，GS藍色面盤略帶褪色感，營造宛如月光灑落時白樺樹林的景致，予人寧靜感受。

▲Grand Seiko Evolution 9 Style系列正裝腕錶的GS藍色面盤錶盤裝飾靈感源自白樺樹不規則的紋理，270,000元。（圖／Grand Seiko提供）

countries: 瑞士 日本

title: 蕭邦跳時錶流露禪意　極簡達摩像展靜定力量


title: 台積電創高領漲！5檔台股ETF活跳跳　2主動式標的入列

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▲台股示意照。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

記者巫彩蓮／台北報導

台股多頭氣盛！在美股走高、輝達年度GTC大會登場釋出AI利多消息、美中貿易爭端和緩等訊息驅動下，加權指數於10/29再創新高，終場收在28294.74點，單日上漲345.63點，漲幅為1.24%，護國神山台積點也同步改寫盤中與收盤新高紀錄，收在1505元，上漲30元、漲幅為2.03%，連帶台股ETF表現大多也跟著水漲船高。

進一步統計10/29漲幅前五強的台股ETF，以00982A主動群益台灣強棒上漲2.49%拔頭籌，其次為富邦科技（0052），漲幅為2.26%、0053上漲1.82%、00985A上漲1.76%、00881上漲1.74%。值得一提的是，00982A持有台積電比重僅4.84%，另外4強產品的台積電持股比重則在25~71%間不等，可見在多頭行情下，主動式ETF靈活選股策略，還帶來了錦上添花效果。

財富管理專家表示，主動式ETF在操作上透過研究團隊主動挖掘市場潛在投資機會，進行主動配置來尋求超額報酬，在市場震盪時，可將穩健防守型的部位提高以抵禦波動，而在牛市時則可彈性增持成長型標的來創造超額報酬。

00982A在10/29表現突出，觀察其主要持股，台積電雖非最大持股，但仍名列前十大，持股比重近4.84%，不過其他持股如致茂（2360）、京元電子（2449）佔比分為5.17%、3.3%，於10/29分別上漲6.2%與9.81%，亦為貢獻績效上行的功臣。

主動群益台灣強棒 (00982A)經理人陳沅易表示，後市來看，隨著AI技術及相關應用持續發展，包括AI基建支出上修、新一代GPU問世量產，有助帶動相關零組件出貨需求，加上消費旺季來臨，皆有利於電子強勁出口動能有望延續，因此整體而言仍看好台股表現延續。在產業配置上，電子股仍為布局重點，AI概念如晶片製造、IC設計、伺服器組裝值得關注，其他如低軌衛星、電力設備等亦可留意。


title: AI帶動散熱需求　邁萪預計11月下旬掛牌上市

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▲邁萪科技經營團隊。（圖／記者高兆麟攝）

記者高兆麟／台北報導

散熱模組廠邁萪科技（6831）將於30日舉行上市前業績發表會，並預計11月下旬掛牌上市，邁萪專注於散熱模組研發與製造，產品應用涵蓋伺服器、筆電、顯示卡、5G基地台與車用電子等多元領域，主要客戶包括國際雲端服務供應商、知名代工模組廠與電腦品牌大廠。受惠全球生成式AI熱潮推升AI伺服器建置需求，公司今年前九個月累計營收達27.63億元，年增86.86%，已超越去年全年表現。

邁科以均溫板（Vapor Chamber, VC）氣冷散熱技術起家，是台灣最早成功量產均溫板的企業。公司長期聚焦高效能運算（HPC）及AI應用領域，提供從設計、模擬到量產的整體散熱解決方案，憑藉強大研發能量與穩定品質屢獲國際客戶肯定。隨著AI運算功耗飆升、熱設計功率（TDP）持續突破極限，散熱效率成為伺服器性能的關鍵瓶頸。邁科除在氣冷領域成功量產3DVC外，更積極布局液冷技術，與Intel共同成立「先進散熱技術聯合實驗室」，提前卡位AI伺服器散熱新世代。

在AI算力需求持續升溫下，邁科AI伺服器散熱產品營收比重已逾五成。根據資策會產業情報研究所（MIC）預估，全球AI伺服器出貨量將從2024年的約194萬台成長至2028年的約361萬台，帶動水冷、3DVC等高階散熱解決方案需求急速升溫。邁科已開發「第二代增強型3DVC」與「浸沒式水冷」系統，並與國際晶片大廠合作推進超流體CDU及高功率AI晶片水冷頭研發，相關產品已成功導入國際CSP大廠。

此外，公司完成全自動化VC與熱導管生產線導入，搭配AI深度學習檢測系統與MES製程監控，確保產品良率與一致性，展現其技術與製造雙軌優勢。法人指出，AI伺服器散熱產品單價為傳統伺服器三倍以上，將有助邁科提升整體毛利結構與獲利能力。

隨CSP客戶ASIC伺服器需求持續增溫，相關新晶片預計於2026年第二季量產，邁科將持續受惠於高功率散熱模組需求。法人表示，邁科可望持續擴大水冷與3DVC技術應用版圖，強化與國際大廠合作，深化AI伺服器與車用電子散熱布局，並透過自動化製造與資本支出計畫提升產能效率，持續推升營運成長。


title: 金控砸錢併壽險　公會理事長陳慧遊：關鍵是「重置成本」評估

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▲壽險公會理事長陳慧遊。（圖／資料照）

記者陳瑩欣／台北報導

玉山金（2884）傳出砸逾470億併三商壽（2867），壽險公會理事長陳慧遊今 (29) 日指出，目前國內壽險公司家數已縮至約20家整併案應已「差不多了」，金控願意出更高金額買壽險公司，與「重置成本」評估有關，是在重新取得或建造相同資產所需資金與時間評估下所得的結果。

陳慧遊出席「數位躍進．信任啟動─保險業數位信任服務成果發表會」，媒體詢問對國內壽險業併購看法，他以「金控像百貨公司，壽險業的重要性遠超過百貨公司美食街」形容金控需要補強壽險版圖的原因。

「以金控的角度來看，要成為國內頂尖金控，就像是頂尖大學一樣，一定是綜合大學，文、法、商、理、工、農、醫、管理學院等都需具備。」陳慧遊說，金控也像是百貨公司，產品線越完整，這家百貨公司就越豐富有趣。

陳慧遊認為，壽險公司規模「大有大的好，小也有小的好」可以百花齊放，各自展現特色，像古典樂有了貝多芬、蕭邦，也要有國民樂派像德弗札克；壽險公司從早期很多家，到現在的20家左右，就壽險端來看，家數差不多。

壽險公會今日亦宣布結合 FIDO與 電子簽章技術，正式達成理賠服務全程無紙化，同時，「保險理賠醫起通」服務不僅持續擴大醫院合作網絡，更首次將其成果與「行動理賠聯盟鏈」延伸至保險經紀人公司，標誌著保險服務在效率、安全與普及率上的全面躍進。


title: 華爾街大佬示警美國貧富差距擴大　底層60％「高度依賴」頂尖1％

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▲達里歐（Ray Dalio）（圖／路透）

記者鄒鎮宇／綜合報導

億萬富豪、美國避險基金橋水聯合公司（Bridgewater Associates）創辦人雷．達利歐（Ray Dalio）近日在沙烏地阿拉伯利雅德舉行的《財富全球論壇》上直言，美國經濟正日益依賴頂端1％的高生產力族群，而底層60％的勞動者則逐漸被邊緣化，形成龐大的經濟弱勢階層。

據《Quartz》報導，達利歐指出，現今美國經濟已難以視為一個整體，成長主力集中在科技與金融領域的少數精英。頂尖1％不僅是最大受益者，連帶讓前5至10％也有機會參與分紅，但底層勞動者卻越來越無法跟上腳步。他分析，AI與數位化時代到來後，低技能工作者的機會不增反減，導致社會結構產生明顯分化與不平衡，這種現象進一步加劇了經濟脆弱性與風險。

他還引用一項數據強調憂慮，目前美國約有六成民眾的閱讀能力僅相當於小學六年級或更低，這表示相當多人口難以應付現代知識型產業的需求。達利歐認為，這正是美國生產力停滯、社會階層分化的根本原因之一。

達利歐進一步表示，AI技術並未如外界期待般促進社會公平，反而使低技能族群陷入更深的弱勢。他形容底層60％不只失去機會，還因技術進步而加劇依賴，形成極端的經濟依附現象。他呼籲政策制定者必須「務實而非意識形態」地檢視財富分配，否則只專注於高表現群體，將可能忽略大批弱勢民眾的生計。

此外，達利歐近期也曾公開警告，美國國債規模不斷攀升，恐進一步阻礙全民共享的經濟成長。

countries: 美國 沙烏地阿拉伯


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記者蘇晟彥／台北報導

恩奕遊戲旗下開放世界 MMORPG《逆水寒》今(29)日於台北三創生活園區盛大舉辦一週年版本發佈會，由原廠親自來台向玩家搶先介紹改版內容，在2.0新賽年中，《逆水寒》將以「返還玩家250億」、「1款新遊戲」為核心，同時公布全新職業「玄機」及與 《尼爾 NieR》 與 《新世紀福音戰士 EVA》跨界合作引起玩家期盼。此外，今年也邀請到幻藍小熊擔任一周年活動大使，發誓要給所有玩家最猛的一週年。

▼幻藍小熊擔任《逆水寒》一週年活動大使。

在發表會上，官方宣布遊戲正式進入全局光線追蹤（Ray Tracing）時代。團隊與輝達 NVIDIA 工程師聯手突破光線重構（Ray Reconstruction）與 DLSS 技術瓶頸，繁體版即將導入 4K 畫質升級與寫實光照技術，帶來主機級的沉浸視覺體驗。

在現場也展示 300 件以上歷史外觀進行全建模與材質精修，整體畫面質感全面進化。現場展示「汴京虹橋」場景升級前後的對比畫面，象徵《逆水寒》畫質邁入次世代，更宣示繁體版正式對標全球最高規格。官方也同步針對行動端進行包體減量與載入速度優化，展現出在跨平台體驗與技術實力上的領先地位。

在新職業上，官方公開全新遠攻職業「玄機」，雙馬尾、單鏡框的標誌造型二次元萌宅感十足！玄機上線日開放全體玩家「免費不定向轉職」，落實不肝不課理念，打造唯一提供免費自由轉職的 MMO。玄機以高爆發、高機動著稱，武器可在弓、浮刃、傘等多形態間自由切換，帶來多段位移與空戰操作的爽快體驗。同場亮相的新門派「宅宅門」則以次文化與現代風潮為靈感，展現年輕世代自由多元的遊戲態度，「宅」的門派文化讓現場GENZ玩家强烈共鳴。

這次在發布會上也重磅宣布，將與《尼爾 NieR》 與 《新世紀福音戰士 EVA》進行聯動，將推出限定角色造型、主題任務及活動等豐富内容，並同步釋出定檔預告影片。此外，官方預告 11/28 將展開與茶飲品牌 水巷茶弄 的聯名合作，玩家現場搶先品嘗聯名口味並欣賞「玄機」杯身展示。

▼《逆水寒》線上線下跨界活動同步展開。

最後壓軸，女團GENBLUE幻藍小熊首度跨界與遊戲合作，現場帶來《逆水寒》宅宅門派的宅宅舞首跳，可愛與活力兼具的表演瞬間掀起全場熱烈應援。再透過遊戲內建模式，將成員的舞蹈影片一鍵導入2.0新賽年全新升級「劇組模式」，讓六位遊戲中的角色能完美複製團員舞步，將用最熱鬧的2.0新賽季迎接玩家進入全新的《逆水寒》世界。

title: 《逆水寒》2.0新賽年搶先爆　２大跨界聯動、人氣女團現身加持


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記者黃冠瑋／綜合報導

由KONAMI所推出恐怖新作《沉默之丘f》先前就由於各種詭異設定，再加上深水雛子扮演者透露製作當時快精神崩潰，讓這款遊戲熱度迅速竄起並在後續成功賣破100萬套。如今雛子扮演者加藤小夏更是打開實況親自遊玩遊戲，影片後續迅速達到200萬觀看，期間加藤小夏遊玩驚慌動作，更是讓不少網友直呼好可愛。

▼《沉默之丘f》深水雛子扮演者「加藤小夏」再次掀起話題。（圖／翻攝自x／@cncnpi）

事情其實是，隨著《沉默之丘f》在9月25日上市大獲成功後，深水雛子扮演者「加藤小夏」也在10月初表示，已經拿到《沉默之丘f》遊戲片，會在近日展開遊玩遊戲直播，並特地為了此事在23日開設新頻道，隔日便展開《沉默之丘f》遊玩直播，並以「我玩我自己」為主題，一時之間吸引了無數粉絲湧入。起初由於加藤小夏首次接觸 PS5 DualSense控制器以及遊戲，因此花了不少時間在學習操作，當然粉絲也非常好心一步一步教導她如何操作。

不過也由於加藤小夏本身不是重度遊戲玩家，因此與遊戲中深水雛子呈現了反差對比，再加上本人在遊玩時出現許多天然呆的反應，讓不少粉絲感到印象深刻，甚至後續還被製作成各種二創情境圖，像是「等等這是按鍵」、「喔喔這個我知道」等，消息也迅速成為玩家們間的話題。

另外，在直播結束後，該影片短短四日，便迅速累積超過100萬瀏覽次數，截至撰稿目前已突破210萬，頻道訂閱人數也在直播三天後突破13萬訂閱，對此她也向大家表示感謝，並半開玩笑聲稱跟她想像的方向不太一樣的跌倒了（意旨遊玩糟糕），但能獲得大家支持太好了，如此可愛回應，又再次為這款《沉默之丘f》添加不同樂趣。

title: 《沉默之丘f》雛子本尊實況破百萬觀看　心驚闖關網笑喊：好可愛


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記者黃冠瑋／綜合報導

《瑪利歐》系列對於任天堂而言，可說是經典不敗之作，像是先前新作《瑪利歐賽車世界》乳牛加入戰場引發玩家話題。如今該系列迎滿40週年，就有人好奇關於瑪利歐未來是否能持續下去。對此，任天堂資深總監手塚卓志和其創造者宮本茂表示，期許瑪利歐的傳奇能延續百年，關鍵核心奔跑、跳躍能保持不變。

▼《瑪利歐》40週年，製作喊話續寫百年傳奇。（圖／翻攝自X／@ToonHive）

根據外媒報導，在紀念瑪利歐40週年的最新專書《任天堂博物館》中，就有被問到關於瑪利歐是否能在2085年依然是重要的文化象徵，意味著百年之後仍然受到玩家喜愛。對此，任天堂資深總監並參與過多個《瑪利歐》系列製作的手塚卓志坦言，「大家可能會覺得，瑪利歐要再紅一百年簡直是天方夜譚，畢竟我們也無法預測玩家何時會對他感到厭倦」，雖說他無法確定未來發展，但他也強調「不同時代的好玩，有不同定義」，其實從過去所有《瑪利歐》系列也不難看出，從最紅白機到現今Switch2，瑪利歐已經歷了無數變化，而這也顯現這些經典角色要能歷久不衰的關鍵，就是必須持續與時俱進，不斷自我突破。

此外，瑪利歐創始人宮本茂也認同瑪利歐進化重要性，《瑪利歐》系列勢必會隨著科技進步而不斷演進，並且除了遊戲發展外，也會延伸到電影等不同媒介，但他也表示，瑪利歐至今能保持熱度，關鍵核心在於保持「互動」與「數位化」。至於未來能否延續至百年以後，他則認為只要不忘記瑪利歐根本，也就是「奔跑」和「跳躍」樂趣，想必瑪利歐傳奇能一直延續下去。

另外，任天堂也在先前提到瑪利歐40週年，不會依照慣例推出全新本傳版本，雖說對於許多粉絲而言，感到非常可惜，但官方也在先前確定下一部《超級瑪利歐》系列動畫電影將於2026年4月3日在全球上映，想必會再次掀起一波《瑪利歐》熱潮。

title: 《瑪利歐》40週年掀不老論　任天堂資深總監稱：奔跑跳躍是關鍵


title: 國際火線／全面啟動！川普總統第三任期，逐步實現中

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▲美國總統川普要選第三任，誰敢反對？（圖／路透）

文／朱錦華

之前，川普屢屢在有意無意之間透露他會爭取第三任期。今年3月31日他接受「國家廣播公司」(NBC)新聞網訪談，被問到此一問題時，他板起面孔說：「我不是在開玩笑。」如今又來了。10月27日，川普在亞洲之行期間、在「空軍一號」專機上又被記者問到此一問題，他說：「我還沒認真想過這個問題。但在民調上是我有史以來最好的。」

稍早前，川普的前戰略顧問班農(Steve Bannon)曾透露：已經制定好一項「計劃」，可確保川普總統連任。今年4月，川普官方網路商店開始販售「川普2028」的帽子，訂價50美元。網頁上還出現川普兒子艾瑞克戴著這款帽子的照片，圖說上寫著：「前途一片光明！」

▲網路商店上出現川普總統角逐2028第三任期的宣傳帽子。（圖／翻攝自川普集團網站）

儘管美國憲法「第二十二修正案」明文規定：任何人不得擔任總統超過兩屆。川普曾對這個規定表示「可惜」，但真的是這樣嗎？早在七、八年前川普第一次當選時，我就預言過：川普未來必定尋求「余又任」、 吾三連」。原因無他，老八十才出來選總統，為的是什麼？

當然是為了權力！而且，競選之初他早已把它當作終身職。況且，在嚴父的管束下，川普的童年必然很不快樂。直到如今，他終於能夠以總統身分恣意的撒野、胡鬧，這種快樂豈是可以輕輕放下的？

▲川普正在韓國慶州的2025年APEC峰會上意氣風發。韓方送給他一頂「金冠」。（圖／達志影像）

關於所謂憲法問題，其實很好解決。羅斯福不也有過第三任期嗎？沒錯，那是二戰時的「非常時期」，但川普陣營同樣可以宣稱眼下美國「正值危急存亡之秋也」；加上萬民擁戴，川普選第三任期絕對沒問題！要不然，採「繞道手術」嘛也通：例如下一屆先讓范斯當總統、川普當副總統；然後范斯再讓位給川普，就像普丁玩的那套一樣。

權力就像魔戒，一旦上了身，就很難摘下。何況，川普也有非連任不可的堅強理由。需知道，川普因封口費案被陪審團裁定：34項偽造商業紀錄重罪全部成立。但他一旦卸任，很可能被送去坐牢。更何況，還有一籮筐對川普的控罪仍未審理完畢。若非大法官判決在總統大選期間暫停審理這些案件，2024年大選時川普能否選得上、還很難說。

▲卡爾弗特（右）等成人影片演員展開「別碰我的色情片」廣告活動，呼籲民眾反擊共和黨的「2025計畫」。（組圖／翻攝自Facebook）

「美國傳統基金會」制定的「2025計畫」，本來就是為「川普終身當總統」量身打造的，目前正在順利的逐步實現中。如果說，有什麼會讓川普第三任期夢碎的，第一，今年已79歲的他，萬一未來數年內健康嚴重亮紅燈，或許會讓他產生「不如歸去」的念頭。第二，他對外國實施的高關稅政策大失敗，造成國內通膨嚴重，民意沸騰，他想連任就沒那麼容易了。第三，本來已經趴在地上的民主黨再度奮起在期中選大贏共和黨；或是領導「不要國王」運動獲得人民熱烈響應，擋住川普的連任之路…….。

不過，我認為上述的可能性都不太高。川普的第三任期，正在逐步實現中…….。

countries: 韓國 美國


people: 習近平 川普

countries: 中國 美國 韓國

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▲川習會30日上午登場。（圖／路透）

記者董美琪／綜合報導

根據《路透社》消息，白宮今日發布聲明指出，美國總統川普將於明（30日）上午11時（台北時間上午10時），在韓國與中國國家主席習近平舉行會晤。中國外交部發言人下午表示，經中美雙方商定，國家主席習近平將於當地時間30日在韓國釜山同美國總統川普會晤，就中美關係和雙方共同關心的問題交換意見。

中國外交部長王毅27日曾與美國國務卿盧比歐（Marco Rubio）通話。王毅在通話中指出，近期中美於吉隆坡舉行的經貿會談「有助於釐清分歧、加深互信」，並期盼雙方能夠相向而行，為即將登場的「川習會」鋪路，推動兩國關係朝穩定方向發展。

根據美方公布的訊息，盧比歐則表示，美國同樣期待透過高層對話，向全球釋出積極訊號，展現美中雙方合作意願。這通電話被外界視為「川習會」前的重要暖身動作，也顯示雙方正在為高層會晤積極布局。

title: 白宮證實「川習會」10/30上午10時舉行　中美高層會晤全球關注


taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 林口 太平

countries: 日本 台灣 中國 紐西蘭 菲律賓 韓國 埃及 香港

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▲賴瓊慧教授（右6）與MWIA新任理事長Dr. Amany Asfour （右5）等人士於國際女醫師協會世界大會。（圖／長庚醫院提供）

記者楊淑媛／桃園報導

林口長庚醫院29日表示，該院婦癌權威賴瓊慧教授於第33屆國際女醫師協會(MWIA)世界大會中，榮任副理事長(VP)暨亞太地區主席，成為全球矚目的台灣之光，此榮職不僅是國際對其專業與領導力的肯定，更展現長庚醫院在全球醫學舞台的深厚實力。

長庚醫院表示，本屆MWIA世界大會於10月中在埃及開羅舉行，台灣女醫師協會(TMWA)代表團共有12位出席。賴瓊慧是林口長庚紀念醫院和長庚大學醫學院的教授，為國內外婦癌研究的重要領航者，她的研究橫跨子宮頸癌篩檢、人類乳突病毒(HPV)分子流行病學、卵巢癌與子宮內膜癌治療策略、癌症預後分析與精準醫學臨床應用，並與跨領域團隊共同推動婦科癌症分子影像技術，改變了癌症治療的評估模式。多年來她以扎實的研究實力與臨床經驗，為無數病患帶來新希望。

▲賴瓊慧教授與MWIA會員大會新一屆理事會。(圖／長庚醫院提供)

憑藉卓越的研究成果與貢獻，賴瓊慧教授曾榮獲「國家科學委員會傑出研究獎」(2007、2010)、「台灣衛生福利專業獎章」(2018)、「台灣醫師公會全國聯合會醫療典範獎」(2019)、「國家新創獎」(2020)和「國科會傑出特約研究員獎」(2025)，是台灣醫界少數兼具臨床、學術與國際領導力的傑出女醫師。

此外，賴瓊慧教授更是推動台灣女醫師國際交流的重要推手。她在2020年12月至2023年12月擔任TMWA理事長任內，積極促成與世界衛生組織(WHO)及各國醫療組織的互動，並多次率團參與世界衛生大會(WHA)及MWIA活動，爭取台灣在國際醫療舞台上的發聲機會。

長庚決策委員會程文俊主委表示，賴瓊慧教授兼具專業、熱忱與國際視野，她以行動展現了台灣女醫師的能力與力量，長庚人都以她為榮。

目前擔任TMWA副理事長、也是林口長庚神經內科部部長的吳逸如醫師指出，MWIA於1919年成立，宗旨促進全球女性健康與醫療平權，是世界衛生組織(WHO)諮詢團體。目前會員遍佈六大洲、54個國家，並分成八個區域(Region)，每個區域各設一位副理事長暨Region主席。台灣隸屬西太平洋區，還包含日本、韓國、菲律賓、香港、澳大利亞、紐西蘭和中國。因此賴瓊慧教授能當選MWIA VP暨亞太地區主席，相當不容易。

title: 長庚婦癌權威賴瓊慧教授　當選國際女醫師協會副理事長暨亞太地區主席


title: 大江購物中心北側要蓋社宅　推年青族群共享房型

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▲內壢段社宅正面模擬圖。（圖／住宅發展處提供）

記者楊淑媛／桃園報導

桃園市政府持續推動社會住宅政策，住宅發展處即日起辦理-中壢區「內壢段社宅統包工程案」公開閱覽，基地鄰近大江購物中心，預計興建250戶社宅，邀請業界先進對招標文件草案提出寶貴意見，共同充實、完備文件內容，預計11月底前正式公告上網招標。

▲內壢段社宅基地位置。（圖／住宅發展處提供）

內壢段社宅為桃園市政府在中壢區推動的第5案，位於大江購物中心北側，東側接鄰內定大江公園，西側鄰新街溪，視野良好，基地面積約5,000平方公尺。興建需求總樓地板面積3萬平方公尺以上，規劃地上11層，約250戶社宅，包含一房型規劃占一半的戶數約125戶，其中包括了約60戶提供給青年學子族群的共融經濟房型，此類房型提供個人的衛浴和房間，但強調共享廚房、客廳的概念，打造完整的共享空間，類似設計在北歐非常盛行，鼓勵居民要有互助的概念；另二、三房型配為30%及20%，以滿足家庭與多元族群需求。

本案面南側12米計畫道路側規劃店鋪空間，低樓層結合社會福利設施與社區公共空間。另外，建物規劃要取得銀級綠建築、銅級智慧建築及建築能效1+、耐震標章、無障礙建築等多項標章，提升生活品質與機能。住宅發展處表示，公開閱覽期間即日起至11月3日止，相關資料可至政府電子採購網下載參閱。

taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 中壢


title: 別被騙了！一張圖看下波變天更冷「猛降10°C」　轉雨濕5天

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▲明天晚上又一波東北季風增強轉雨 。（圖／中央氣象署）

記者許力方／台北報導

放晴回暖！中央氣象署表示，明天（30日）東北季風要減弱了，白天除了北東局部有零星雨外，各地天氣穩定，北台灣高溫還會回升到28度，但入夜後馬上有另一波東北季風增強，且水氣增多、再度轉雨，氣溫一路下滑，到了周末北部宜蘭有涼意，可能下探19度。

氣象署預報，明天東北季風減弱，各地大多為多雲到晴，僅基隆北海岸、大台北山區及宜花地區有零星短暫雨，午後高屏地區及其他山區有零星短暫陣雨，入夜後東北季風增強，北部地區降雨機率提高。到了31日（周五）降雨逐步擴大到東半部地區。

氣溫部分，明天北台灣氣溫回升，白天北部及東半部高溫約27至29度，中南部可達31度以上，氣象署提醒，別被這樣的暖意騙了，各地早晚仍稍涼，入夜之後東北季風再度增強，不僅水氣增多，北部、宜蘭氣溫也會下降，全天涼冷，清晨可能下探19、20度，其他地區雖然白天氣溫還蠻高，可是夜裡、晨間也比較涼，低溫約21至24度，日夜溫差較大。這波東北季風預計到11月4日（下周二）才會逐漸減弱，屆時氣溫又會明顯回升。

天氣風險公司則分析，明天東北季風減弱，氣溫回升，北部地區天氣是本周較穩定、溫暖的一天，高溫可回升到 27至29度，但31日起東北季風增強再轉涼，北部、東北部局部短暫雨，北部、宜蘭全天涼，中南部、花東日夜溫差大；這樣天氣一直持續到周末，早晚低溫普遍在19至21度。

▼北台灣周末濕涼。（圖／NCDR）

taiwan-subdivisions: 宜蘭 基隆


title: 重訓完吃這款優格「比乳清更好」！專家曝最新研究：助肌肉恢復

countries: 加拿大 希臘

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▲韋恩表示，運動完後吃希臘優格是更優秀的選擇。（示意圖／免費圖庫Unsplash）

記者柯振中／綜合報導

食安專家「韋恩」（楊世煒）表示，許多人運動後會選擇香蕉或高蛋白飲品補充能量，但最新研究顯示，希臘優格可能是更優的選擇。除了富含蛋白質與低碳水化合物外，希臘優格還具有抗發炎與促進肌肉修復的效果。研究團隊發現，攝取希臘優格者運動後的發炎指標明顯下降，顯示它能有效協助肌肉恢復。

韋恩在臉書粉專「韋恩的食農生活」指出，這項研究由加拿大團隊針對18至25歲健康男性進行，受試者連續12週接受阻力訓練，一組運動後食用希臘優格，另一組則吃相同熱量的布丁。結果發現，優格組的發炎指標IL-6與TNF-α上升幅度明顯較低，而布丁組則出現TNF-α增加的情況，顯示優格有助抑制運動引發的肌肉發炎。

研究學者表示，希臘優格富含蛋白質與活性發酵成分，能促進肌肉修復並減少發炎反應。與一般乳製品相比，它擁有更高比例的蛋白質與大量益生菌，能改善腸道菌相、穩定免疫系統，降低全身性發炎風險。韋恩也提到，這反映出「腸肌軸」的重要性，腸道健康與肌肉修復之間存在密切關聯。

專家進一步說明，希臘優格含有豐富的白胺酸（leucine），這是一種能促進肌肉合成的必需胺基酸。與常見的高蛋白飲品相比，希臘優格不僅能提供均衡營養，還能透過益生菌調整腸道環境，達到抗發炎與加速恢復的雙重功效。他強調，運動後適量攝取希臘優格，是天然又高效的修復補給方式。


title: 王子在范姜彥豐頭上拿「綠帽」合照　網朝聖：2022年哇賽

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▲王子在范姜彥豐頭上拿「綠帽」合照。（圖／翻攝meigo.c）

記者鄒鎮宇／綜合報導

男星范姜彥豐今（29日）在社群平台公開影片，指控妻子粿粿在婚姻期間與王子（邱勝翊）發生不正當關係，導致兩人3年婚姻破裂。消息曝光後，網友陸續在網路上挖出粿粿與王子過往的親密互動，其中一張3年前耶誕節的合照成為焦點，被認為是「神預言」，引發熱烈討論。

這張合照拍攝於2022年12月26日，粿粿當時在IG分享與范姜彥豐、王子及胡釋安、吳心緹、房思瑜等好友一同慶祝耶誕節的畫面。照片中，王子手持一頂綠色毛帽站在耶誕樹旁，范姜彥豐和粿粿則坐在他的前方。

粿粿表示，「幸福的節日與幸福的人們！Merry Xmas得斯⸜(⌯'֊'⌯ )⸝♡ 話說今年都與懲罰擦肩而過，好險。不然會太漂亮吧哈哈哈，還好都交給顏值擔當。」

近期婚姻風暴延燒，這張王子手拿綠帽的照片被網友翻出，大批網友留言朝聖，「綠帽準備好囉」、「2022啊哇賽」、「好扯，王子已經準備好綠帽了」、「考古」、「朝聖」。

王子邱勝翊在聲明中，先是為佔用大家時間道歉，並向當事人及所有受影響的人表達最真誠的歉意。他接著澄清：「我不是破壞家庭關係的人，這也不是一段長久隱瞞的情感，更不存在任何不當企圖或預謀。」然而，他接著在文中承認：「在得知女方協議離婚的過程中，從一個單純傾聽者逐漸漸漸萌生了超過朋友間，應有的界線，雖出於心疼與關心，但不是應有的表達方式。」

而粿粿則在社群發文回應，「謝謝大家關心，這段婚姻的結束，我一直盡力以理性與誠意溝通。協議談了很久，由於對方提出的離婚金額，超乎了我的負擔，協商破裂及無預警的影片說了許多與事實不符的內容。我不想以情緒對抗情緒，我會把完整事實清楚整理給大家。身為一個母親，我會負起該負的責任，不會隱瞞或誤導任何人。」


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▲洪永祥表示，含糖飲料對粒線體而言是毒物，務必要少喝。（示意圖／LibreStock網站）

記者柯振中／綜合報導

腎臟科醫師洪永祥在臉書發文提醒，腎臟不僅是人體的「過濾站」，更依賴細胞中的「粒線體」提供能量。當粒線體受損，就如同腎臟「沒電」，恐導致功能下降甚至慢性腎病。日常照顧的方面，則可以從少喝含糖飲料、規律運動及規律睡眠等方面著手，以保護腎臟健康。

洪永祥說，粒線體是人體細胞的「發電廠」，每個細胞內可含上千個粒線體，負責產生能量、控制氧化壓力與進行自我修復。特別是腎臟這類高耗能器官，若粒線體功能失衡，能量供應中斷、細胞受損，最終可能引發腎小管壞死或腎功能退化。

醫學研究指出，粒線體功能下降與糖尿病腎病變、慢性腎臟病密切相關。洪永祥引述《Nature Reviews Nephrology》、《Kidney International》等期刊研究指出，粒線體異常會增加氧化壓力與發炎反應，是導致腎病惡化的重要原因。換言之，保護粒線體，也就是在保護腎功能。

他進一步指出，粒線體容易受老化、高糖高脂飲食、壓力與睡眠不足，以及藥物或重金屬影響而受損。相關研究顯示，氧化壓力與糖尿病都會讓粒線體分裂失衡、產能下降；長期睡眠不足或過度用藥，也會削弱腎臟細胞的能量供應。若不改善生活習慣，腎臟恐長期處於「缺電」狀態。

洪永祥建議，日常保護粒線體可從四方向著手：飲食上多採地中海型餐飲、減少加工食物與糖分攝取‵、少喝含糖飲料；運動上維持規律有氧活動，促進粒線體新生；睡眠與壓力管理同樣關鍵，規律作息能幫助粒線體修復；此外，也要避免過度服用止痛藥或暴露於重金屬。洪強調，想保腎，應從「顧好粒線體」做起。

title: 粒線體損傷恐害腎臟「缺電」！腎臟醫教4招充電：別喝含糖飲料


title: 機器人預約自助取書　桃園市立圖書館青埔智慧科技分館啟用

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▲機器人預約自助取書區。（圖／市府提供）

記者楊淑媛／桃園報導

桃園市立圖書館青埔智慧科技分館29日啟用，市長張善政表示，青埔智慧科技分館是桃園首座結合AI與自動化系統的智慧型圖書館，不僅展示未來圖書館的發展趨勢，更象徵桃園邁向智慧城市的重要里程碑。未來市府也將逐步把相關智慧科技導入全市各分館，讓市民體驗更便利、智能與人性化的閱讀服務。

張善政指出，青埔智慧科技分館導入全臺首創的機器人預約自助取書區，並設置AI互動牆、小書僮機器人、智慧尋書架、電子紙閱讀器與書籍盤點機器人等六大智慧設施，透過科技提升圖書館的借還書效率與服務品質。

▲桃園市立圖書館青埔智慧科技分館啟用。（圖／市府提供）

此外，館內的智慧伺服器系統亦為桃園智慧城市的重要基礎設施之一，支撐全館自動化的運作。期許青埔智慧科技分館啟用後，能延續桃園市於今（114）年榮獲「整體閱讀力表現績優城市」及「教育部閱讀推手團體獎」的榮耀，讓更多市民走進圖書館，享受科技閱讀的嶄新體驗，讓書香遍佈桃園。

國立公共資訊圖書館長馬湘萍表示，青埔智慧科技分館充分體現智慧圖書館的理念，結合AI互動、機器人取書與智能推薦等應用，讓讀者能更直覺地找到適合的書籍與主題。桃園市立圖書館在智慧化服務的推動上已走在前端，期待未來持續提升閱讀體驗與服務品質，成為全國各公立圖書館智慧轉型的標竿。

桃園市立圖書館表示，青埔智慧科技分館位於亞矽IoT展廳內，鄰近A19桃園體育園區站與桃園國際棒球場，樓地板面積約1,539平方公尺，館藏逾2萬3千冊，涵蓋期刊、兒童讀物及人工智慧主題藏書，並規劃閱覽區、資訊檢索區、兒童閱覽室與研習教室，提供市民舒適的學習與探索空間。

桃園市立圖書館進一步說明，本館1樓大廳外部結合經發局「智慧資料中心（IDC）」設施，導入NVIDIA H200與L40S晶片AI伺服器，支援生成式AI與數位孿生應用，並開放算力資源予產學研機構使用，創造更多跨域智慧應用場景；三樓則與國立臺灣科學教育館合作策劃科普展覽，結合「植感桃園」主題，展示科學展品、沉浸式劇場與互動體驗。青埔智慧科技分館將於10月31日至11月14日試營運，並於11月15日正式開館，邀請市民一同走進智慧科技圖書館，體驗科技融入閱讀的新風貌。


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▲市長張善政宣布，桃園敬老愛心卡福利再升級。（圖／市府提供）

記者楊淑媛／桃園報導

桃園市長張善政29日於市政會議宣布，為回應長輩通勤與休閒需求，並鼓勵銀髮族安心便利外出活動，市府研擬兩項敬老愛心卡新措施，分別為「提高臺鐵補助點數上限」及「開放使用YouBike 2.0E電輔車」，自明（115）年1月1日起正式實施，進一步完善高齡友善交通環境。

張市長指出，第一項新措施為「調整臺鐵補助點數上限」。過去長輩使用敬老愛心卡搭乘臺鐵，每趟最高補助30點。隨臺鐵票價調整，桃園往返臺北、新竹等短程路線票價多已超出補助額度。市府分析發現，桃園長輩搭乘臺鐵往來本市境內及鄰近的台北新竹的比例逾九成，為減輕通勤與出遊交通支出，將自明年起提高補助上限至70點，使補助更貼近實際需求。

第二項新措施為「開放敬老愛心卡適用YouBike 2.0E電輔車」。電輔車騎乘省力、操作簡便，特別適合中高齡族群使用。未來長輩可直接以敬老愛心卡租借電輔車，前兩小時每30分鐘扣20點，其後每30分鐘扣40點；若卡內點數不足，系統亦可自動混合支付，提供更具彈性與便利的使用體驗。

桃園敬老愛心卡福利再升級，即將實施，市議員林政賢、黃敬平、王珮毓等民代紛紛表示，他們近年來，於市議會提案詢，整理出全台各縣市敬老卡扣點機制，要求市府在推動長者福利政策上升級，獲得重視。

taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 新竹 員林 臺北

title: 桃園敬老卡福利再升級　提升台鐵補貼與開放YouBike電輔車


title: 《可愛冤仇人》到南投　金枝演社劇團邀您體驗台式歌舞魅力

countries: 臺灣 台灣

taiwan-subdivisions: 南投 南投縣

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▲金枝演社劇團將赴南投縣公演《可愛冤仇人》。（圖／南投縣政府提供，下同）

記者高堂堯／南投報導

有「台客戲劇第一天團」美譽「金枝演社劇團」，將於11月赴南投縣公演原創代表作品《可愛冤仇人》，即日起開始售票；縣政府文化局邀請民眾一起體驗其輕鬆俏皮的台式歌舞喜劇風格，在歡笑中渡過90分鐘難忘時光。

南投縣文化局表示，金枝演社劇團秉持「從土地長出來的文化最感人」創作理念，製作屬於台灣原生的音樂歌舞劇，其獨特的台戲美學為國內僅見，並以「寓藝術於生活、用歡笑播希望」的強大創作能量，為當代大眾搭建起與藝術的橋樑，為極具台灣文化美學特色的現代劇團。

《可愛冤仇人》全劇時空背景橫跨五○到七○年代的臺灣社會，取擷提煉通俗文化精髓為創作素材，且融合三廳電影院(客廳、餐廳、咖啡廳)的愛情模式、金光戲的熱鬧繽紛、老式台語片的寫實風格等，交織劇中多首讓觀眾朗朗上口的雋永經典老歌，並以歌中劇、音樂、舞蹈、演歌等豐富表演形式，展現自由獨特的台式美學魅力。

縣府文化局提醒，金枝演社劇團《可愛冤仇人》公演時間地點為11月16日(日)14:30於該局演藝廳(南投市建國路135號)，購票請上Opentix兩廳院文化生活系統（https://www.opentix.life/event/1958057254768513025），票價分別為200、300、500元。


title: 國際火線／全面啟動！川普總統第三任期，逐步實現中

countries: 美國 韓國


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▲台股示意照。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

記者巫彩蓮／台北報導

台股多頭氣盛！在美股走高、輝達年度GTC大會登場釋出AI利多消息、美中貿易爭端和緩等訊息驅動下，加權指數於10/29再創新高，終場收在28294.74點，單日上漲345.63點，漲幅為1.24%，護國神山台積點也同步改寫盤中與收盤新高紀錄，收在1505元，上漲30元、漲幅為2.03%，連帶台股ETF表現大多也跟著水漲船高。

進一步統計10/29漲幅前五強的台股ETF，以00982A主動群益台灣強棒上漲2.49%拔頭籌，其次為富邦科技（0052），漲幅為2.26%、0053上漲1.82%、00985A上漲1.76%、00881上漲1.74%。值得一提的是，00982A持有台積電比重僅4.84%，另外4強產品的台積電持股比重則在25~71%間不等，可見在多頭行情下，主動式ETF靈活選股策略，還帶來了錦上添花效果。

財富管理專家表示，主動式ETF在操作上透過研究團隊主動挖掘市場潛在投資機會，進行主動配置來尋求超額報酬，在市場震盪時，可將穩健防守型的部位提高以抵禦波動，而在牛市時則可彈性增持成長型標的來創造超額報酬。

00982A在10/29表現突出，觀察其主要持股，台積電雖非最大持股，但仍名列前十大，持股比重近4.84%，不過其他持股如致茂（2360）、京元電子（2449）佔比分為5.17%、3.3%，於10/29分別上漲6.2%與9.81%，亦為貢獻績效上行的功臣。

主動群益台灣強棒 (00982A)經理人陳沅易表示，後市來看，隨著AI技術及相關應用持續發展，包括AI基建支出上修、新一代GPU問世量產，有助帶動相關零組件出貨需求，加上消費旺季來臨，皆有利於電子強勁出口動能有望延續，因此整體而言仍看好台股表現延續。在產業配置上，電子股仍為布局重點，AI概念如晶片製造、IC設計、伺服器組裝值得關注，其他如低軌衛星、電力設備等亦可留意。

title: 台積電創高領漲！5檔台股ETF活跳跳　2主動式標的入列


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▲夢想家張宗憲出現已經被驅逐出場，但仍持續上場比賽的烏龍狀況。（圖／TPBL職籃提供）

記者杜奕君／綜合報導

TPBL職籃29日晚間高雄全家海神主場迎戰福爾摩沙夢想家，比賽最終由夢想家終結開季3連敗並喜迎開季首勝。不過比賽進行至第3節卻爆發嚴重「大烏龍」，夢想家張宗憲因為單場累積1次違反運動精神犯規、1次技術犯規，理應被驅逐出場，但包括聯盟、紀錄台、裁判以及臨場技術委員都沒發現此事，張宗憲就這樣多「存活」了4分4秒，期間還拿下3分，最後才被發現緊急驅逐出場，但先前得分數據全數照算。

海神主場迎戰夢想家之戰，夢想家展現強大求勝決心，在開季3連敗後，終於拿下本季首勝，也是新任總教練簡浩執教首勝。

此戰除了末節獨拿12分，全場貢獻18分的林俊吉成為致勝功臣外，全場斬獲21分的「噴射機」張宗憲也同樣功不可沒，為夢想家賽季勝場開胡。不過張宗憲此戰卻出現已經遭驅逐出場，但官方紀錄台卻沒發現，讓他持續在場上出賽多達4分4秒的烏龍事件。

事發起因在第3節剩下8分5秒時，張宗憲與夢想家洋將凱帝在卡位時爆發衝突，場面險些擦槍走火，隨後裁判給予雙方各1次技術犯規（T），但由於當時場面一度混亂，且並未明確直接公告，因此當下並未發現異狀。

但由於張宗憲早在第2節剩下8分53秒時，就遭吹一次違反運動精神犯規（U）、，在第3節累積1U1T後，應該直接驅逐出場，當下包括聯盟、紀錄台、裁判以及臨場技術委員，都沒發現張宗憲應該被驅逐出場，導致他在場上進行比賽4分4秒並拿到3分，隨後下場休息，直到第3節剩下1分2秒，夢想家執行出界球回放挑戰時，紀錄台才發現張宗憲應該早就被驅逐出場，並透過現場主持人宣布公告。

不過最奇妙之處在於，由於比賽已經不能回溯，因此張宗憲在理論上「不該存在的上場時間」所拿3分，依舊照算，雖然夢想家以99比86勝出，倘若此戰雙方勝負分差在3分之內，這樣的烏龍狀況，勢必將衍生出更多爭議與討論。

此戰砍下28分的海神一哥胡瓏貿賽後則無奈表示，「我覺得今天這場比賽非常醜陋、非常難看，內容不是很好，就是這麼簡單，大家自己體會就好了。」

▲張宗憲此戰貢獻21分，成為球隊贏球關鍵要角。（圖／TPBL職籃提供）

title: 大烏龍！紀錄台沒發現張宗憲早該驅逐出場　多打了4分鐘還拿3分


taiwan-subdivisions: 中壢 桃園

title: 大江購物中心北側要蓋社宅　推年青族群共享房型


taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 臺北 員林 新竹

title: 桃園敬老卡福利再升級　提升台鐵補貼與開放YouBike電輔車


title: AI帶動散熱需求　邁萪預計11月下旬掛牌上市

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▲邁萪科技經營團隊。（圖／記者高兆麟攝）

記者高兆麟／台北報導

散熱模組廠邁萪科技（6831）將於30日舉行上市前業績發表會，並預計11月下旬掛牌上市，邁萪專注於散熱模組研發與製造，產品應用涵蓋伺服器、筆電、顯示卡、5G基地台與車用電子等多元領域，主要客戶包括國際雲端服務供應商、知名代工模組廠與電腦品牌大廠。受惠全球生成式AI熱潮推升AI伺服器建置需求，公司今年前九個月累計營收達27.63億元，年增86.86%，已超越去年全年表現。

邁科以均溫板（Vapor Chamber, VC）氣冷散熱技術起家，是台灣最早成功量產均溫板的企業。公司長期聚焦高效能運算（HPC）及AI應用領域，提供從設計、模擬到量產的整體散熱解決方案，憑藉強大研發能量與穩定品質屢獲國際客戶肯定。隨著AI運算功耗飆升、熱設計功率（TDP）持續突破極限，散熱效率成為伺服器性能的關鍵瓶頸。邁科除在氣冷領域成功量產3DVC外，更積極布局液冷技術，與Intel共同成立「先進散熱技術聯合實驗室」，提前卡位AI伺服器散熱新世代。

在AI算力需求持續升溫下，邁科AI伺服器散熱產品營收比重已逾五成。根據資策會產業情報研究所（MIC）預估，全球AI伺服器出貨量將從2024年的約194萬台成長至2028年的約361萬台，帶動水冷、3DVC等高階散熱解決方案需求急速升溫。邁科已開發「第二代增強型3DVC」與「浸沒式水冷」系統，並與國際晶片大廠合作推進超流體CDU及高功率AI晶片水冷頭研發，相關產品已成功導入國際CSP大廠。

此外，公司完成全自動化VC與熱導管生產線導入，搭配AI深度學習檢測系統與MES製程監控，確保產品良率與一致性，展現其技術與製造雙軌優勢。法人指出，AI伺服器散熱產品單價為傳統伺服器三倍以上，將有助邁科提升整體毛利結構與獲利能力。

隨CSP客戶ASIC伺服器需求持續增溫，相關新晶片預計於2026年第二季量產，邁科將持續受惠於高功率散熱模組需求。法人表示，邁科可望持續擴大水冷與3DVC技術應用版圖，強化與國際大廠合作，深化AI伺服器與車用電子散熱布局，並透過自動化製造與資本支出計畫提升產能效率，持續推升營運成長。


title: 長庚婦癌權威賴瓊慧教授　當選國際女醫師協會副理事長暨亞太地區主席

countries: 韓國 菲律賓 埃及 香港 日本 台灣 紐西蘭 中國

taiwan-subdivisions: 林口 太平 桃園


title: 別被騙了！一張圖看下波變天更冷「猛降10°C」　轉雨濕5天


title: 重訓完吃這款優格「比乳清更好」！專家曝最新研究：助肌肉恢復