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Before 1945, the most widely spoken language in Taiwan was Tai-gi (also known as Taiwanese, Taiwanese Hokkien or Hoklo).

However, due to almost a century of language repression policies, many Taiwanese believe that Tai-gi is at risk of disappearing. To understand this crisis, I interviewed academics and activists about Taiwan’s history of language repression, the major challenges of revitalizing Tai-gi and their policy recommendations.

Although Taiwanese were pressured to speak Japanese when Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, most managed to keep their heritage languages alive in their homes.

However, starting in 1949, when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) enacted martial law in Taiwan, language repression became severe. To uphold the legitimacy of the Republic of China on Taiwan, the KMT required that only Mandarin Chinese be used in public, including in classrooms, government announcements and on TV. To protect their children from being bullied or punished, parents stopped speaking Tai-gi to their children, leading Mandarin to replace Tai-gi in public and private life.

Lim Cheng-iu (林貞佑), an academic at National Cheng Kung University, observed that during martial law, Tai-gi preservation efforts were most visible in the US, where overseas Taiwanese were not subject to the KMT’s language ban.

Taiwanese-Americans attempted several times to start monthly Tai-gi publications, with the latest one — the Tai-bun Thong-sin Bong Po (台文通訊Bong報) — still in publication today. They also congregated to hear Tai-gi sermons at churches on Sundays.

Through everyday conversation, they preserved vocabulary that was forgotten in Taiwan itself. After martial law was lifted in 1987, Taiwanese-language television shows, news, and songs experienced a renaissance. Since then, candidates from all of Taiwan’s political parties have used Tai-gi in their campaign speeches and since 2001, all Taiwanese elementary school students are required to take a local language course. In this way, it was individuals in Taiwan and overseas who worked together to preserve Tai-gi.

In the 1980s, the foremost concern among Tai-gi activists was how Tai-gi should be written. The Presbyterian Church of Taiwan used the Peh-oe-ji system to Romanize the language, while other academics used Chinese characters with tonal markings. Even though standardization remains an issue, with elementary schools still teaching regional variations of Tai-gi, many academics who I interviewed viewed other challenges as more pressing.

Tiun Hak-khiam (張學謙), a professor at National Taitung University, believes that one of the biggest challenges for preserving Tai-gi is the divisive ethnopolitics of Tai-gi activism: pro-independence politics and inter-ethnic conflict (“Holo chauvinism”). Both problems are illustrated in the name “Tai-gi” itself.

Most native Tai-gi speakers reject alternate names such as “minnan” (閩南) or “Hokkien” because those names originated from the KMT, which wanted to emphasize Tai-gi’s origins in southern China (Fujian). Those who view Taiwan as a separate political and cultural entity from China have no desire to perpetuate rhetoric that Taiwanese culture comes from China.

Shih Mu-min (石牧民), a professor at National Taiwan Normal University, told me that, being pro-independence, he would not call it minnan and prefers Tai-gi.

However, he acknowledged that emphasizing the movement’s pro-independence politics alienates people with other political convictions. Many see the partisan aspect of the Tai-gi movement as a major detriment to its development.

Additionally, some ethnic minority activists, such as Hakka or indigenous activists, have their own qualms about the term Tai-gi, which translates to “language of Taiwan.”

Tiun recalled that when Taiwan first democratized, some Tai-gi activists misguidedly attempted to force Tai-gi onto ethnic minorities, telling them: “If you are Taiwanese, speak Taiwanese.”

Tiun emphasized the need to express solidarity with other ethnic communities to overcome this mistrust: “You not only have to save your own language, but you also have to learn other people’s languages.”

Beyond these ethnopolitical conflicts, the Tai-gi movement suffers from a lack of resources. Even though local language classes are required at elementary school, the classes are only one or two hours per week and use Mandarin as the medium of instruction.

Moreover, Catherine Chou (周怡齡), a professor at National Chengchi University, pointed out that the majority of Tai-gi content (eg, textbooks, social media and history Web sites) are created by unpaid volunteers, which is unsustainable in the long term. Instead, the government must do its part to create resources and programs.

In 2019, Taiwan passed the Development of National Languages Act (國家語言發展法), but it has so far proved to be mostly symbolic rather than bringing about tangible change.

The academics I spoke with offered a wide range of more effective recommendations on how to accelerate preservation of the Tai-gi language.

Tai-gi language efforts can be radically improved within the classroom, including by correcting societal prejudices. Teachers must dissociate heritage languages from connotations of gang culture or poverty, and correct misconceptions that bilingualism impedes children’s ability to learn Mandarin properly. They must also convince parents that heritage languages can indeed communicate “modern” ideas such as science and technology.

Last year, Academia Sinica hosted a series of sociology lectures in Tai-gi to prove that point.

Once parents, teachers and students accept that bilingualism is an asset, Tiun encourages teachers to prioritize a “mother-tongue first” bilingual approach. Teachers must use the target heritage language as the medium of instruction. Written signs and verbal announcements should be in both languages.

Chou applauded Taiwan’s very first Tai-gi immersion school in Kaohsiung as a prime example of effective language instruction.

Tiun acknowledged that this type of intensive bilingual education would require many more teachers to become fluent in a heritage language and thus would require the government to incorporate heritage language training into teachers’ colleges. In fact, requiring heritage language fluency for teaching, as well as other government jobs, would be highly beneficial to the revitalization movement, as it would offer a direct pay-off for learning the language.

Nevertheless, many of the academics told me that the classroom alone had limits. What about when students go home?

Tiun suggested that the government open free adult learning centers for parents who wish to improve their own heritage language fluency, as well as subsidize bilingual children’s storybooks, television shows and social media content.

Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer Michael Shih (施文彬) has expressed the hope that one day, a high-quality piece of Tai-gi entertainment will go viral, bringing global attention to Taiwan’s heritage languages.

Many academics found other countries deeply inspirational.

Tiun told me: “Switzerland is ... a model, underscoring that different language communities should enjoy equal status within the state.”

In that vein, many interviewees recommended international collaboration as another strategy.

Tai-gi activists must strategically identify countries that would be sympathetic to heritage language revitalization.

Liu Chan-Yueh (劉展岳), the Taiwan Studies Chair at the INALCO Asian languages institute in Paris, pointed out that French society has always believed speaking French is necessary to understand French culture, even if it is no longer a global lingua franca.

He found that French people interested in Taiwan were easily convinced of the importance of Taiwan’s heritage languages.

Huang Yu-ru (?郁如), a former culture director at the Houston Taiwanese School of Languages and Culture in Texas, shared similar positive experiences visiting Barcelona, Spain, where Catalonians sympathized with Taiwan’s geopolitical situation, including regional language preservation.

As the largest overseas Taiwanese community is in the US, many academics believed that Taiwan-US Tai-gi programs would be most popular.

Chou suggested that Taiwan should collaborate with organizations such as the Keng-lam Su-in (Mosei Academy), a Tai-gi-language school in San Jose, California.

Ultimately, the academics encourage overseas Taiwanese to use their cross-cultural network and skills to introduce Taiwanese languages and culture to friendly communities.

When thinking about Taiwan’s most pressing issues, heritage language preservation seldom comes up. Yet for the academics I interviewed, preserving Tai-gi is a lifelong commitment.

Although language preservation might not single-handedly change Taiwan’s geopolitical situation, Taiwanese and the government should invest in it as a form of historical reparation, to keep the language from going extinct and to honor Taiwan’s elderly generation, the only demographic that still commonly speaks Tai-gi.

Tiun emphasized that multilingualism would set Taiwan apart from “the suppression of minority languages in the People’s Republic of China” and demonstrate its commitment to “democratic principles and popular sovereignty.”

As Taiwan fights to be recognized as a unique political and cultural entity, Lim reminds us: “Before we expect other people to respect our culture, it is important to show that we respect our own culture first.”

The author would like to thank Tiun Hak-Khiam from National Taitung University; Shih Mu-min from National Taiwan Normal University; Liu Chan-Yueh, the Taiwan Studies Chair at INALCO in Paris; Catherine Chou from National Chengchi University; Huang Yu-ru, former culture director for the Houston Taiwanese School of Languages and Culture; and Lim Cheng-iu from National Cheng Kung University. Carissa Cheng is the 2025 Ya-Hui Chiu Summer Fellow for the Global Taiwan Institute, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to insightful research on Taiwan-US relations. She recently graduated from Stanford University.

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With Taiwan becoming a “super-aged” society, the demand for long-term care has surged. In August, the government launched a new policy allowing people aged 80 or older to hire live-in foreign caregivers without undergoing health evaluations based on the Barthel index — a clinical scale used to assess a person’s ability to perform daily activities.

Anyone can apply, as long as they meet the age requirement. Some applauded the policy, saying it would reduce the unnecessary hassle associated with hiring foreign domestic caregivers, while others asked whether the new rules would be abused.

However, three months later, applications for foreign domestic caregivers have fallen short of expectations. There have been just over 8,000 applications — far below the Ministry of Labor’s estimate of 100,000. This shows that most families are actually quite rational and apply only when they have real need.

The new policy allows families to rid themselves of a long-standing source of frustration. In the past, they had to go through great trouble to qualify on the Barthel index, but the change means that those who truly need help can make one less trip and have one more option.

More importantly, age is only the key that opens the door — it is not the final criterion for allocating resources. If someone is healthy and capable of caring for themselves, there is simply no need to hire a domestic caregiver. The relatively low number of applications demonstrates that most people are not merely seeking convenience out of greed, but rather carefully assessing their actual needs.

The Barthel index is a one-time evaluation that cannot accurately reflect the day-to-day conditions that elderly people face. Some elderly people with dementia might be lucid during the day, but grow agitated at night. Moreover, a difference of just one point could determine whether someone qualifies to apply for a caregiver. If care service specialists could conduct in-home evaluations that integrate the Long-term Care 2.0 program’s Care Management Assessment Scale (照顧管理評估量表), the dual-track system could be consolidated, making it more fair and in tune with real-life needs.

The other key players — foreign domestic caregivers — must not be overlooked. Migrant workers, who leave their home countries and are often supporting their own families at home, have become the unsung pillars of Taiwan’s long-term care system. In facing dementia, nighttime care and emotional challenges, they accompany those they care for because they understand that illness only changes the symptoms, not the people themselves.

Some families share the workload with caregivers, and respect their religious beliefs and dietary customs, transforming the relationship from employer-employee to one of kinship.

Care itself is a journey of exchanging lives — elderly people, families and migrant workers are all connected. No one should be excluded.

A super-aged society’s greatest fear should not be too much access, but insufficient support. If long-term care resources and the foreign caregiver system could be better integrated, then the system would avoid being trapped in a vicious cycle.

Evaluation exemptions are only a starting point. The real key lies in building a long-term care network that is compassionate and flexible. Long-term care policy should be more than just spreadsheets and age thresholds — it should provide every family with more room to breathe.

Moreover, migrant workers should be thanked. Only when they are regarded as an integral part of Taiwan’s long-term care system would the nation’s long-term care journey continue steadily and sustainably.

Chen Ching-yun is a former director of the Legislative Yuan’s Bureau of Legal Affairs.

Translated by Kyra Gustavsen

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title: EDITORIAL CARTOON

content_text: Victory in conflict requires mastery of two “balances”: First, the balance of power, and second, the balance of error, or making sure that you do not make the most mistakes, thus helping your enemy’s victory.The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made a decisive and potentially fatal error by making an enemy of the Jewish Nation, centered today in the State of Israel but historically one of the great civilizations extending back at least 3,000 years.Mind you, no Israeli leader has ever publicly declared that “China is our enemy,” but on October 28, 2025, self-described Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP) propaganda


title: Threats of nuclear testing ignore its terrifying history

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Computer modeling has effectively made nuclear testing obsolete

Should the US and Russia resume nuclear testing?

The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, eager to project strength, have raised fears that they might be moving to revive the dangerous practice. While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled more than 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that era to a close should remain top of mind, reminding leaders why using nuclear testing to gain a strategic advantage is a terrible idea.

Thanks to Hollywood, many audiences know something about the dawn of the nuclear age. Led by physicist Robert Oppenheimer, a crack team of eccentric geniuses housed at Los Alamos, New Mexico, built and tested the first atomic bomb in 1945. It led Oppenheimer to recall a line from the Hindu sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Although the atomic scientists who followed Oppenheimer lacked his literary sensibilities, they took world-destroying quite seriously. Teams in the US and the Soviet Union competed to build and test ever-larger bombs in a blatantly obvious effort at intimidating the other side.

The US went first, forcing the indigenous people of Bikini Atoll to relocate so that it could detonate bombs in the Marshall Islands in 1946. Radioactive debris rained down on the sailors sent to watch the tests. They absorbed dangerous doses of radiation, as did many of the native islanders living in the area, inaugurating a multigenerational legacy of cancers and birth defects.

NUCLEAR RACE

Nevada, where the US military began above-ground tests in 1951, was no better. There, too, the federal government confiscated land owned by indigenous peoples and placed soldiers far too close to the detonation sites. In subsequent decades, their bodies would be plagued by cancers and other maladies born of their fateful exposure.

Back in the Marshall Islands, the US began testing a new generation of nuclear weapons that used conventional fission bombs to detonate a much larger, “fusion,” or hydrogen bomb. These experiments went terribly awry during the infamous Castle Bravo test of 1954.

The bomb in question was supposed to generate the equivalent of 5 to 6 megatonnes of TNT. However, hanks to some serious miscalculations, the explosion clocked in at 15 megatonnes, or 1,000 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion sucked up 10 million tonnes of sand and pulverized coral, creating a massive fallout cloud that fell on islanders, US military personnel and even Japanese fishing vessels 129km east of the test site.

This was what historian Alex Wellerstein has described as “the greatest single radiological disaster in American history.” It also holds the record of being the biggest nuclear test ever conducted by the US. It might have remained the biggest test ever had it not been for the Soviet Union.

After World War II, the communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini test in 1946 claimed that the purpose of the demonstration had been “to frighten the Soviets.”

Thanks to atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, the Soviets managed to detonate their first atomic weapon in 1949. Still, they spent much of the next decade playing catch-up, countering progressively larger tests with their own demonstrations. Former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, eager to pull ahead, approved a top-secret project to build the biggest nuclear weapon in human history. It was known as “Kuzma’s mother,” an allusion to a Russian idiom that basically means: “We’ll show you.”

When completed in 1961, “Kuzma’s mother” — also known as the Tsar Bomba or the “King of Bombs” — was the size of a school bus and weighed 25 tonnes. It was too big to fit into any of the Soviet bomber aircraft, so the military removed the bomb bay doors on a Tupolev TU-95 and strapped it to the bottom of the plane.

MASSIVE BLAST

On Oct. 31, 1961, the TU-95 left a Russian airfield bound for Novaya Zemlya, a collection of islands above the Arctic Circle; a separate plane containing a film crew accompanied it. They departed not knowing if they would return home: Authorities had given the planes a 50/50 chance of surviving the shock wave.

When they reached the target location, the bomber dropped its lethal package. The bomb, fitted with a parachute to slow its descent and give the planes time to escape, floated downward until it reached 4,000m before exploding.

The blast, which could be seen more than 1,000km away, registered at 57 megatonnes, 10 times more powerful than all the bombs and ordnance used in World War II. Had any human been within 100km of the epicenter (there were not any), they would have been immediately vaporized or have sustained third-degree burns. The shock wave shattered windows 901km away.

The test inflamed Cold War tensions, and a year later, the world came dangerously close to complete annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In its wake, saner heads began to prevail, and the US and Soviet Union signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which moved nuclear testing underground, where it became less of a provocation. A complete test ban followed 30 years later, aided by that computer modeling has effectively made nuclear testing obsolete.

Trump and Putin now seem inclined to take us back to the bad old days of nuclear testing out of some misguided belief that it is an effective way to assert dominance over adversaries. History already shows how that story ends.

Stephen Mihm, a professor of history at the University of Georgia, is coauthor of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. 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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Australia’s green energy push and Pacific ties face setback from COP31 impasse with TurkeyBy Peter Hobson and Valerie Volcovici / Reuters, CANBERRA and BELEM, Brazil

Australia risks undermining efforts to establish itself as a leader in the green energy transition and letting down its vulnerable Pacific island neighbours if its bid to host next year’s biggest climate summit fails, diplomats and analysts say.

Australia was long considered the front-runner to hold the COP31 conference, aiming to bolster its ambitions to become “a renewable energy superpower” and highlight issues faced by Pacific island nations which it plans to cohost the conference with.

However, Turkey doubled down on a rival bid, saying it wants a summit that more directly tackles financing for developing countries’ climate efforts while showcasing its own progress toward a 2053 net zero emissions target. That has led to an attention-sapping impasse that must be overcome at this year’s COP30 meeting underway in Belem, Brazil.

The annual COP — or Conference of the Parties — is the world’s main forum for driving climate action.

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The host matters, because it sets the agenda and leads the diplomacy needed to reach global agreements, while drumming up investment for new green initiatives.

Australia is pivoting away from coal and gas power to renewables, and is seeking investment in critical minerals, green steel and transition technologies such as batteries.

“Hosting COP is absolutely crucial for Australia’s economic future,” said Wesley Morgan, a climate academic at the University of New South Wales. “We are a major commodities and fossil fuel exporter. If we stick our heads in the sand and pretend there is no transition, we will lose out. Without COP we would lose out on investment, jobs and economic growth.”

COPs have grown over the years from diplomatic gatherings into vast trade shows where host countries can promote economic prospects.

“There is a clear and compelling case for investment attractiveness for hosting COP in Australia,” said Emma Herd, a partner at EY’s Net Zero Centre.

“We have the opportunities and need the capital. COP provides the platform to showcase those opportunities,” Herd said.

For Australia, there is also the diplomatic goal of improving relations with island nations that are strategically located in the Pacific and are also being courted by China.

“This is a remarkable geopolitical opportunity for our country,” Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen told reporters last week. “The climate is the No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 issue for Pacific Islands.”

Advocacy by Pacific nations was central to the world agreeing in 2015 at COP21 in Paris to limit global warming to 1.5°C, and many supporters of Australia’s bid think a Pacific COP would drive more ambitious action.

“The big opportunity of the COP is this is the most profound opportunity we’ve ever had to demonstrate that we are the partner of choice for the Pacific,” said a former climate diplomat in Australia, who declined to be identified.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, a special envoy for Oceania at COP30, said Pacific leaders are still working hard to host the conference.

“The slogan from the Pacific is: ‘1.5 to stay alive.’ It’s literally that proximate for the Pacific,” she told Reuters in Belem. “The Pacific were critical in achieving the aspiration and the target and the goal of 1.5, but now they’re critical to its maintenance.”

Protracted struggles over hosting are uncommon, with a venue usually settled 18 or 24 months in advance. Indeed, Ethiopia was confirmed this week as venue for COP32 in 2027.

UN rules require unanimity among the 28-strong group of countries whose turn it is to host COP31. If neither Australia nor Turkey compromises, hosting duties would default to Bonn, Germany, which houses the UN’s climate headquarters.

“We would have to [host],” said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary at the German Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

“But we do not want to,” he added.

DEADLOCK

In Belem, Australia’s and Turkey’s pavilions are in prime position and side-by-side. However, the two nations have struggled to connect.

Australia assumed Turkey was not a serious bidder for COP31 given strong support for Australia’s bid and could be coaxed into withdrawing, said David Dutton, who until September was Australia’s assistant secretary of climate diplomacy.

Some observers thought Turkey would drop its bid if Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government won re-election against a climate change-skeptic opposition earlier this year, but Turkey instead upped its efforts.

Turkey dropped a previous bid to host COP26 and has said it does not want to withdraw again. The country’s expectation about hosting was entrenched after it signed onto the Paris climate accord and thinks its odds have improved, a Turkish diplomatic source said in Belem.

Albanese wrote to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a few weeks ago seeking to break the impasse, and said on Thursday that Erdogan had written back and was “maintaining his position.”

Turkish officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the negotiations.

Turkey has said it would prioritize financing of poorer countries’ efforts to meet climate goals and says its Mediterranean location would reduce emissions from flights bringing delegates to the conference.

One potential compromise is for Australia and Turkey to split hosting duties, with Turkey reportedly keen to host the global leaders’ summit, said Dutton, now director of research at the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank.

The uncertainty has prevented Australian officials from switching attention to organizing next year’s conference, Dutton said.

“All the effort has been around the bid and not so much about what you’re actually going to do to sustain climate momentum,” he added.


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Softbank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son, running the world’s biggest venture capital fund, is making waves again.

Softbank has sold its entire stake in Nvidia Corp for US$5.8 billion, renewing concerns that tech valuations have become frothy. This transaction marks a U-turn for Son. As recently as March, Softbank was busy buying up the artificial intelligence (AI) chip designer’s shares. Nvidia’s stock has risen 44 percent this year and is now trading at 42 times earnings, versus about 35 times a year ago.

While it is healthy to ask if an AI bubble is forming, it would be premature to consider Softbank’s sale as a sign of a market top. Son is no Warren Buffett.

Softbank has been dabbling in public markets in the past few years, a sharp departure from its core business of spotting unicorns. In late 2020, it started a controversial hedge fund side hustle called SB Northstar. This unit bought billions of dollars of US equity derivatives, stoking market volatility and earning Softbank the nickname of “NASDAQ whale.” However, by early 2022, Northstar had to be scaled down dramatically after incurring a cumulative loss of ￥746 billion (US$4.83 billion).

A poor track record aside, Son has desperate financing needs. Softbank is racing to lock down its equity investment in OpenAI. In March, it led a funding round at a premoney valuation of US$260 billion, promising to invest US$30 billion by year-end. It has put in only US$7.5 billion.

To raise money, Softbank offloaded T-Mobile US shares, sold senior and hybrid bonds, and expanded margin loan facilities backed by Arm Holdings PLC. Including the Nvidia sale, the conglomerate has obtained US$30 billion in net financing this year, just enough for the OpenAI investment.

Son has to complete the deal to sustain Softbank’s earnings. For the third quarter, the Japanese company reported a surprise net income of ￥2.5 trillion, far outrunning the average analyst estimates of ￥418 billion. Sam Altman’s start-up played an essential role. Softbank booked a US$12.8 billion fair value gain from its OpenAI shares.

To justify this accounting maneuver, Softbank said that at OpenAI’s latest employee share sale, which closed last month, the unicorn was valued at US$500 billion, almost double its entry point. However, more than half of this unrealized profit came from forward contracts, which might have to be reversed if Softbank is unable to close its follow-on investments by next month.

Son has been rewarded handsomely for his AI investments. Softbank’s shares hit a record high last month, in large part because it controls ARM, known for licensing central processing unit architecture to partners such as Nvidia. The Japanese firm reported its best quarterly income in three years thanks to paper gains from its OpenAI shares. As a result, Son might double down, looking at billion-US-dollar acquisition targets.

On the other hand, Son’s ambition is not backed by deep pockets. As Softbank gets busy reshuffling its massive portfolio, the company would have to sell the most liquid assets on hand to fund Son’s shopping spree. Nvidia was not the first and it is not going to be the last.

In 2020 when Softbank was making huge derivatives bets, traders complained that its entry into the stock market was dangerous and created extreme volatility. Unfortunately, the NASDAQ whale is back.

Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. A former investment banker, she was a markets reporter for Barron’s. She is a CFA charterholder. 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.

title: The NASDAQ whale’s Nvidia sale smells desperate


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ALMOST THERE: In Group G, the Netherlands inched closer to the World Cup after a 1-1 draw with Poland, leaving them at the top of the table with one match left

Croatia secured a place at next year’s FIFA World Cup with a 3-1 win that ended tiny Faroe Islands’ dream on Friday, while the Netherlands moved closer to qualification by drawing in Poland.

Croatia knew before kickoff that avoiding defeat in Rijeka, Croatia, would guarantee qualification, but it was caught cold in the 16th minute when Geza David Turi scored with a deflected shot.

The 2018 World Cup runner-up quickly recovered as Josko Gvardiol leveled in the 23rd minute. Making his return to the national team after two years away, Petar Musa put Croatia ahead 2-1 after half time from Josip Stanisic’s assist. In complete control, Croatia added a third goal when Nikola Vlasic volleyed in a precise cross from Ivan Perisic at the far post.

Faroe Islands’ Rene Joensen tackles Croatia’s Josko Gvardiol during their World Cup qualifying soccer match in Rijeka, Croatia, on Friday. Photo: AP

“Our goal was achieved with a game to spare in the qualifiers. We can proudly say we’ve qualified,” Gvardiol said. “We’ll travel to Montenegro for the final match in a relaxed manner, but with the intention of taking all three points, as every game is preparation for what awaits us in the summer.”

It was Faroe Islands’ final match in Group L and the team would finish behind runner-up the Czech Republic. The second-placed team advances to the playoffs for the World Cup cohosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.

Montenegro beat Gibraltar 2-1 in the group’s other game.

Croatian players, officials and their relatives celebrate their team’s qualification for the World Cup after their qualifying match against Faroe Islands at the Stadion HNK in Rijeka, Croatia, on Friday. Photo: AFP

Dutch coach Ronald Koeman’s Netherlands came from behind in Warsaw to draw with Poland 1-1 and take a major step toward direct qualification in Group G.

With one match left to play, the Dutch top the group, three points clear of the Poles after Memphis Depay’s second-half equalizer canceled Jakub Kaminski’s opener. The Netherlands also have a much better goal difference before the final match against Lithuania. Poland take on Malta tomorrow.

“I am more disappointed than happy, but on the other hand we made another step toward qualification,” Koeman said. “It is not easy to play against teams who defend very deep. We had to be patient, we had to try to attack in different ways, but we did not create enough good opportunities.”

In Group A, Germany is guaranteed of a top-two finish after Nick Woltemade scored twice in a scrappy 2-0 win at Luxembourg. Slovakia scored late to beat visiting Northern Ireland 1-0.

“In the second half, the commitment was noticeably better, and we also scored two good goals,” Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann said. “We might have deserved to concede but we didn’t, so we can consider ourselves lucky.”

Germany and Slovakia are level on points and are to face off tomorrow in Leipzig, Germany, in a match that would decide the group winner. Slovakia had two goals disallowed before Tomas Bobcek broke the deadlock in added time.

Malta snatched its first win in the World Cup qualifying, converting its only shot on target to stun Finland 1-0 in Helsinki in Group G. According to the Malta Football Association, this was only the fourth win ever by Malta in World Cup qualifying.

Midfielder Jake Grech came off the bench in the 79th minute and scored the decisive goal three minutes later from the edge of the area. It was only Malta’s second goal in seven qualifiers, against 16 conceded.

Malta rose to fourth in Europe Group G, five points behind Finland, which cannot qualify.

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title: Warriors beat Spurs in close win

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Stephen Curry had 49 points, outdueling Victor Wembanyama in another intense battle and the Golden State Warriors rallied to beat the San Antonio Spurs 109-108 on Friday night for their first win in the NBA Cup.

Wembanyama had 26 points, 12 rebounds, four assists and three blocks in 38 minutes, but San Antonio fell to 1-1 in the NBA Cup.

Curry had 31 points in the second half, including a pair of free throws with six seconds left that proved the difference. He was 16 for 26 from the field and nine for 17 on three-pointers in his highest-scoring game of the season.

Stephen Curry drives to the basket against Victor Wembanyama during the second half of their NBA Cup basketball game in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday. Photo: AP

Curry tied Hall of Famer Michael Jordan for the most 40-point games after 30 years old in league history with 44.

The Warriors swept the two-game set in San Antonio, rallying in the fourth quarter to win both games.

Golden State coach Steve Kerr said playing back-to-back games in San Antonio, Texas, gave the game had a playoff feel and it played out like one.

Officials had to separate Draymond Green and Wembanyama three times as they muscled for position on an inbounds play four minutes in the fourth quarter. Wembanyama would dunk on Green on an inbounds alley-oop, but officials waved off the basket because Green fouled the Spurs’ center prior to the attempt. Green collected his fifth foul seconds later on the next inbounds, storming off the court and screaming at officials over the whistle.

Wembanyama blocked Jimmy Butler’s layup attempt with 33 seconds remaining and the Spurs leading 108-107. San Antonio failed to capitalize offensively as De’Aaron Fox missed a 17 footer with 12 seconds remaining.

Curry was fouled by Fox on the ensuing possession and calmly drained both free throws to put the Warriors ahead by one point. Fox missed an 18-foot jumper as time expired.

Fox finished with 24 points and 10 assists, while Julian Champagnie added 14 points.

Butler added 21 points, and Brandin Podziemski and Will Richard added 10 each for Golden State.


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A start-up’s entry into prediction market trading is raising fresh questions about the involvement of NBA owners in sports betting.

The start-up, Mojo Interactive Inc, was cofounded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore, the owners of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Lynx. Mojo has started trading on the outcome of sports games on the prediction market exchange Kalshi, an arrangement that is now being reviewed by the NBA.

Mojo began trading event contracts tied to sports during the NFL season this fall, according to Mojo CEO Vinit Bharara.

Minnesota Timberwolves minority owner Alex Rodriguez cheers his team on as they play the Sacramento Kings in the fourth quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday. Photo: Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images

Mojo has yet to trade on any NBA games, Bharara said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Earlier this year, Kalshi introduced a new form of federally regulated sports betting, which has recently taken off, and caught the eye of both financial firms and sports gambling companies, despite pushback from state gaming authorities.

Mojo’s activity on Kalshi, which has not previously been publicly disclosed, comes at a sensitive moment for the NBA, as it deals with the fallout from a federal probe into the involvement of players and coaches in sports gambling.

A spokesperson for the NBA told Bloomberg the league is reviewing Mojo’s entrance into prediction markets.

“NBA team and league personnel are prohibited from trading NBA or WNBA contracts on any prediction market platform,” the spokesperson said. “We understand Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx team owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriquez each hold minority interests in Mojo, and are not involved in any day-to-day company operations. We are reviewing this arrangement to verify compliance with applicable league rules.”

Lore, the founder of multiple e-commerce startups, and Rodriguez, a former MLB All-Star, said through a spokesperson that they “remain in full compliance with the NBA’s policy as defined and have communicated with the league in keeping with their responsibilities as owners.”

The league allows owners to own stakes in betting companies so long as they do not personally oversee the operations tied to NBA wagers. Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta also owns Golden Nugget Hotel and Casinos. Dallas Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont is president and chief operating officer of resort and casino operator Las Vegas Sands.

Prediction markets are uncharted territory because they are so new and regulated differently from traditional betting.

While sports leagues have long-standing relationships with gambling companies and state gaming agencies, they are still working out their relationships with exchanges like Kalshi and its biggest rival Polymarket, which are overseen by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

“The Pandora’s box has been opened,” said Mark Conrad, a law professor and director of the sports business program at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.

Conrad said investments in prediction market trading bring up new potential concerns around conflicts of interest, market manipulation, and insider trading.

Kalshi has seen trading explode this year, driven in large part by sports-related contracts. The weekly volume of trading on Kalshi and its chief rival, Polymarket, rose above US$2 billion for the first time last month.

Kalshi prohibits NBA owners from trading on the league’s games.

“Like all Kalshi members, Mojo is strictly prohibited from using material nonpublic information to trade and is subject to our federally-regulated surveillance systems,” said Jack Such, a spokesperson for the exchange.

title: Start-up renews NBA betting worries


title: Japan’s Tomono in lead after men’s short program

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Japan’s Kazuki Tomono topped the men’s short program at Skate America on Friday with a polished performance that included a pair of quadruple jumps and earned 95.77 points.

Tomono was more than two points clear of France’s Kevin Aymoz, whose emotions spilled over after an outstanding performance that garnered 93.56 points.

World silver medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, who took bronze at the Cup of China last month, was third on 89.67 points.

Kazuki Tomono competes in the men’s short program at Skate America at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York, on Friday. Photo: Ed Wolfstein-Imagn Images

That left the precompetition favorite plenty of ground to make up going into the deciding free skate last night after press time.

Tomono, who is vying to land one of Japan’s three men’s Olympic team spots for the Milan-Cortina Winter Games in February, looked the part as the fifth stop on the grand prix circuit got underway in Lake Placid, New York.

The 27-year-old opened with a quadruple toe-triple toe jump combination, and also had a quadruple salchow and a triple axel.

Tomono is hoping to improve on a fourth-place finish at Skate Canada, where he was second after the short program but was pipped for bronze by compatriot Kao Miura.

“I hope that I can make up for my frustration from Skate Canada in the free skate,” he said. “This is the first step toward that ... and now I hope I can complete it.”

Aymoz, who has been troubled by a left foot injury, was in tears after his solid performance that put him on track to rebound after a disappointing 10th place finish at Skate Canada.

In the pairs short program, Georgia’s Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava grabbed the top spot over Japan’s reigning world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara with an powerful performance to Ravel’s Bolero.

The Georgian duo, coming off a victory at the Cup of China grand prix last month, posted a personal best of 78.83 points.

“We were happy,” Berulava told broadcaster NBC Sports. “Clean skates.”

“Step by step we get more points, a new season best,” he added after the duo — two-time world junior champions — improved on the 77.77 they scored in the short program at the Cup of China.

Miura and Kihara, whose world title in Boston in March was their second after a world triumph in 2023, garnered 74.42 for their short program to an instrumental version of the Rolling Stones’ Paint it Black.

Among several miscues, Miura reduced her jump to a double on their planned side-by-side triple toe-loops.

They would have work to do in the free skate to try to add a second grand prix title to the gold they claimed at Grand Prix France.

Germany’s Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, the 2023 Skate America champions, were third in the short program with a score of 68.26.


title: Auger-Aliassime claims last semi spot

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Felix Auger-Aliassime beat two-time champion Alexander Zverev and claimed the last spot in the semi-finals of the ATP Finals on Friday.

The Canadian’s reward? Carlos Alcaraz, who is fresh from claiming the year-end No. 1 ranking after winning all three of his group matches.

“This is a high value tournament for players,” Auger-Aliassime said. “It’s like a grand finale and when you have a look at the list of champions, there have been many No. 1s.”

Felix Auger-Aliassime returns to Alexander Zverev during their ATP Finals match in Turin, Italy, on Friday. Photo: REUTERS

“You want to be in the final, but I’ll have to go through a great player to do that. I will take my chance if I have it,” he said.

The eighth-seeded Auger-Aliassime won 6-4, 7-6 (4) to join Jannik Sinner in advancing from the Bjorn Borg group. Earlier, Sinner completed a sweep of his round-robin matches by dispatching already-eliminated Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Sinner was to face seventh-seeded Alex de Minaur in the semi-final last night after press time. The final is today.

Third-seeded Zverev and Auger-Aliassime knew the victor would advance to the semi-finals.

Auger-Aliassime appeared to deal with the nerves better than Zverev, especially in the second set, although he wasted three set points in the opener, before taking it on his fourth.

Zverev failed to convert any of his four break point opportunities and made 18 of his 27 unforced errors in the second set, during which he repeatedly gestured towards his team in apparent frustration.

He sent an easy return into the net to hand Auger-Aliassime two match points. The Canadian needed only one, as Zverev hit a forehand long.

It would be Auger-Aliassime’s first appearance in the semi-finals of the season-ending event for the top eight players.

“It feels amazing,” he said. ”I always believed that I could be in these moments, that I could win these type of matches, but you still have to come and do it.”

“Today was high in emotions I think for both of us ... and I played good when I needed to ... I’m blessed and so, so happy to be in the semifinals,” he added.

After seeing Alcaraz lift the trophy for the No. 1 player shortly before his match, Sinner proved he was still very much the man to beat in Turin, Italy.

Cheered on by a vocal home crowd, the defending champion completed a spotless group stage. Sinner has not lost a set, or service game, all week. The Italian also did not drop a set in his five matches last year on his way to the title.


content_text: Sakurai flips Ohtani during an exhibition match during the Sumo + Sushi event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on Friday. Sumo + Sushi is a touring US event that brings the ancient sport of sumo to life through live exhibition matches, personal stories from legend Konishiki, and engaging cultural education.

title: Get flipped


title: Prison looms for Brazil’s Bolsonaro

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CHARGES: The former president, who maintains his innocence, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for a failed coup bid, as well as an assassination plot

Far-right former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options to avoid prison, after judges on Friday rejected his appeal against a 27-year sentence for a botched coup bid.

Bolsonaro lost the 2022 elections and was convicted in September for his efforts to prevent Brazlian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking power after the polls.

Prosecutors said the scheme — which included plans to assassinate Lula and a top Brazilian Supreme Court judge — failed only due to a lack of support from military top brass.

A panel of Supreme Court judges weighing Bolsonaro’s appeal all voted to uphold the sentence last week. The result was not considered official until midnight on Friday.

A source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said once the result of the hearing is published — which could take place as tomorrow — the defense would have five days to submit a new appeal.

However, this appeal can be “quickly” quashed by lead judge Alexandre de Moraes, who would then publish the final judgment, they said.

“Generally, after the publication of the final judgment, the arrest warrant is issued on the same day” by the lead judge, and it is Moraes who will decide where the arrest happens, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School professor Thiago Bottino said.

The source estimated that Bolsonaro could be sent to prison in the last week of this month, according to court procedure timelines.

Bolsonaro, who maintains his innocence, has been under house arrest since August. Because of health problems stemming from a stabbing attack in 2018, he could ask to serve his prison term at home.

The charges against Bolsonaro focused on his efforts to undermine the voting system to allege fraud if Lula won the election and later justify a military intervention.

Then there was the plot to assassinate Lula, Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Moraes, which prosecutors said Bolsonaro had approved.

“We were ready to kill a lot of people,” a man suspected of being part of the planned hit squad, federal police agent Wladimir Soares, said in an audio message made public by the Supreme Court. “We were only awaiting orders from the president, but he backed down.”

In rejecting the appeal, Moraes reaffirmed that there had been a deliberate coup attempt orchestrated under Bolsonaro’s leadership, with ample proof of his involvement.

He underscored Bolsonaro’s role in instigating a Jan. 8 assault on buildings housing the Brazilian Congress and other democratic institutions, when rioting supporters demanded a military takeover to oust Lula.

Moraes ruled that the sentence of 27 years and three months was based on Bolsonaro’s high culpability as president, and the severity and impact of the crimes, adding that Bolsonaro’s age had already been considered as a mitigating factor.

Three other judges on the panel also rejected the appeal.

Also on Friday, a majority of judges on the same panel voted to move forward with a criminal case against Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, for the crime of “coercion.”

Eduardo Bolsonaro was charged by Brazil’s chief prosecutor in September for lobbying for US sanctions in a bid to sway the outcome of the coup trial against his father.


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Trinidad and Tobago on Friday announced a new round of military exercises with the US, which has ramped up what it calls anti-drug operations in the Caribbean — angering nearby Venezuela.

A US guided missile destroyer last month docked at Trinidad for four days for another round of practice drills — within firing range of Venezuela, which called it a “provocation.”

Caracas claimed recent US military activity in Latin America is really a ploy to overthrow leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who Washington considers an illegitimate leader and a drug lord.

US Navy destroyer USS Gravely sails from the Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 30. Photo: Reuters

It last month accused Trinidad and Tobago, whose prime minister is a fierce Maduro critic and Washington ally, of serving as “a US aircraft carrier.”

The Trinidadian Ministry of Foreign and Caribbean Community Affairs said joint training drills with the US Marine Corps 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is to run from today to Friday next week.

It formed part “of our longstanding history of collaboration,” the ministry said.

“Trinidad and Tobago continues to be burdened by the scourge of gun-related crimes and gang violence,” it added. “These intensified exercises form part of our coordinated strategy to ensure that our personnel are optimally trained and equipped to address these issues in our domestic environment which have taken a tremendous toll on our society.”

The US has deployed warships, fighter jets and thousands of soldiers to Latin America over the past few weeks and launched strikes on 21 alleged drug-smuggling boats, killing at least 80 people.

Washington has provided no evidence those targeted were traffickers, and rights observer groups said the strikes are illegal regardless.

A US aircraft carrier strike group on Tuesday also arrived in the region, prompting Caracas to announce a “massive” retaliatory deployment.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced a military operation aimed at “narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere,” but it was unclear how it might differ from the existing US military deployment.

The arrival of the USS Gravely in Trinidad and Tobago last month prompted Caracas to suspend an energy agreement with the nation and declare Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar “persona non grata.”

Venezuela also claimed to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack against the US vessel.

Washington recently cleared Trinidad and Tobago to exploit the Dragon gas field in Venezuelan waters despite a US oil and gas embargo, deepening friction between the neighbors.

title: US, Trinidad and Tobago to hold exercises again


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Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday denied it helps Beijing target the US, saying that a recent news report was “completely false.”

The Financial Times yesterday reported that Alibaba “provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against [US] targets,” a White House memo provided to the newspaper showed.

Alibaba hands customer data, including “IP addresses, WiFi information and payment records,” to Chinese authorities and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the report cited the memo as saying.

The Alibaba Group logo and a miniature shopping cart with boxes are pictured on Feb. 11. Photo: Reuters

The Financial Times said it could not independently verify the claims, adding that the White House believes the actions threaten US security.

An Alibaba Group spokesperson said “the assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false,” calling the memo a “malicious PR [public relations] operation [that] clearly came from a rogue voice looking to undermine [US] President [Donald] Trump’s recent trade deal with China.”

The dispute highlighted persisting suspicions between Beijing and Washington, which are locked in competition for technological superiority.

Since returning to office, Trump has reignited a fierce trade war with China. After months of tit-for-tat tariffs, he and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) agreed to a one-year truce last month.

A spokesman for China’s embassy in the US also denied the memo’s claims.

“The Chinese government... will never require companies or individuals to collect or provide data located in foreign countries in violation of local laws,” embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu (劉鵬宇) wrote on X.

The report added to growing concern in Washington about Beijing’s potential use of advanced technology to spy.

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic on Thursday said it had detected and disrupted what it described as the first documented cyberespionage campaign conducted largely autonomously by AI.

The activities were attributed to a “Chinese state-sponsored group” designated as GTG-1002, Anthropic said.

Asked about the report, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian (林劍) said he was “not familiar with the specifics,” adding that Beijing had consistently fought hacking activities.

title: Alibaba denies claims that it helps China target the US


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‘FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS’:  Conductor Paniz Faryoussefi said she hoped the historic moment marks a new era for young Iranian women and urged them to not be afraid

When conductor Paniz Faryoussefi mounts the podium and reaches for her baton, she represents more than just the hope of a thrilling orchestral performance.

The eyes turned toward her in Tehran’s renowned Vahdat Hall include those of many young female musicians inspired by her taking her place as Iran’s first female philharmonic conductor.

Women’s professional and cultural lives are still heavily restricted in the conservative Islamic republic, particularly in terms of public performance before mixed-gender audiences.

Iran’s first female conductor, Paniz Faryoussefi, leads the Iranian symphony orchestra at the Vahdat hall in Tehran on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Women, for example, are not allowed to sing solo in front of men.

However, as exemplified by 42-year-old Faryoussefi, they can now conduct an orchestra.

“When I stepped onto the stage, I noticed that all eyes were on a woman conducting the orchestra, and I felt an immense responsibility,” she said after a performance.

Widespread street protests shook Iran for several months following the death in 2022 of a young woman arrested for contravening the country’s strict dress code for women.

In the wake of the disturbances, the government has relaxed certain restrictions, and young women have become more prominent in some areas of social and cultural life.

Analysts said the authorities have shown greater tolerance, while keeping as close an eye as ever for any signals of political dissent.

Several women in the audience at the concert did not wear their scarves. The conductor wore hers, covering her hair as the law demands, but her arrival at the podium was in itself a sign of greater openness.

The crowd shared Faryoussefi’s enthusiasm, particularly the young women, who seemed aware that they were witnessing a historic moment.

In some Iranian cities, female musicians are not allowed to perform on stage, and even in Tehran, they cannot raise their voices in song in public.

Faryoussefi was born into an artistic family and her mother dreamed of her becoming a conductor, but Iranian performing arts academies do not teach conducting. She briefly attended classes in Armenia before returning to build a trailblazing career.

“Young women need to persevere and follow their dreams,” Faryoussefi said.

At the podium, Faryoussefi led the 50-person orchestra through works by Austria’s Franz Schubert, Finland’s Jean Sibelius and Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.

“I hope this marks a new era for young Iranian women and that they will understand that... they should not be afraid,” she said. “It is the only gateway to emancipation.

“A friend saw a little girl in the audience mimicking my movements. He thought a dream was already taking root in her, that she was thinking she, too, could one day achieve the same thing.”

The concerts took place over two days and attracted large crowds.

Said Shourabi, 53, who works in metal fabrication said he was not a big concertgoer until his daughter bought him the tickets and insisted he go along.

“In Iran, women have always been held back and haven’t been able to fully express their talents, even if I’m sure they’re just as capable as men,” he said.

Hairdresser Fariba Aghai, 44, was delighted to see a woman take up the baton at the orchestra, lamenting that women singers still cannot perform at concerts or publish their own songs.

“They shouldn’t have to sell themselves short and should know that they’re capable of anything,” she said.

title: First Iranian female orchestra conductor inspires audiences


title: Indigenous people protest at the UN climate summit

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Dozens of indigenous protesters blocked the entrance to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil on Friday to spotlight their struggle in the Amazon, prompting high-level interventions to defuse the situation.

The protest lasted about two hours, but intensified concerns over security at COP30 after a demonstration on Tuesday in which indigenous activists stormed the conference venue.

About 60 men and women in tribal garb and headdresses, some carrying babies, formed a human barricade at the main summit entrance as tens of thousands of delegates were arriving.

Indigenous people shout as they wait for Brazilian authorities during the UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Friday. Photo: AFP

Dozens of armed soldiers and military police were guarding the venue entrance, but the UN said in a message to attendees that there was “no danger.”

Beneath a blazing sun, the group demanded a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and stood their ground as diplomats were ushered through side doors into the venue.

“Come on, Lula, show yourself!” shouted indigenous leader Alessandra Korap. “We want to be heard, we also want to participate in the negotiations,” she added. “We have too many problems.”

COP30 president Andre Correa do Lago skipped a morning event to meet with the group, accepting the hand of one protester and at another point, holding a baby in a feathered headpiece.

The demonstrators had “strong and very legitimate concerns,” Correa do Lago said after the consultations in a nearby hall where indigenous people of all ages sang, danced and chanted.

“We had a very positive, very constructive dialogue,” he said.

After a second intervention that lasted many hours, Correa do Lago said: “You can be sure that this government will defend you at COP30” and denied there was any “threat” to their rights.

The protesters, from the Munduruku community, are seeking to advance the process of demarcating their traditional homelands.

They also contest the so-called Ferrograo project, a nearly 1,000km railway intended to cross Brazil from west to east to transport grain.

“Fighting for our territories is fighting for our lives,” read a banner held by one demonstrator.

Lula is a self-proclaimed ally of the indigenous cause.

He has advanced recognition of tribal groups, cut deforestation in the Amazon and appointed a widely respected figure to head the first-ever Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.

However, many deplore the slow pace of demarcating indigenous lands and oil exploration launched last month near the mouth of the Amazon.


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A team of researchers has uncovered what they said was the first reported use of artificial intelligence (AI) to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion.

The AI company Anthropic this week said that it disrupted a cyberoperation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government.

The operation involved the use of an AI system to direct the hacking campaigns, which researchers called a disturbing development that could greatly expand the reach of AI-equipped hackers.

The Anthropic logo and a doll are pictured in an illustration taken on March 31, 2023. Photo: Reuters

While concerns about AI being used to drive cyberoperations are not new, what is concerning is the degree to which AI was able to automate some of the work, the researchers said.

“While we predicted these capabilities would continue to evolve, what has stood out to us is how quickly they have done so at scale,” they said.

The hacking operation targeted tech companies, financial institutions, chemical companies and government agencies.

The hackers attacked “roughly 30 global targets and succeeded in a small number of cases,” the researchers said.

Anthropic said it detected the operation in September and took steps to shut it down and notify the affected parties.

While AI systems are increasingly being used in a variety of settings for work and leisure, they can also be weaponized by hacking groups working for foreign adversaries, it added.

Anthropic is one of many tech developers pitching AI “agents” that go beyond a chatbot’s capability to access computer tools and take actions on a person’s behalf.

“Agents are valuable for everyday work and productivity — but in the wrong hands, they can substantially increase the viability of large-scale cyberattacks,” the researchers said. “These attacks are likely to only grow in their effectiveness.”

Microsoft earlier this year warned that foreign adversaries were increasingly embracing AI to make their cybercampaigns more efficient and less labor-intensive.

The head of OpenAI’s safety panel, which has the authority to halt the ChatGPT maker’s AI development, said he is watching out for new AI systems that give malicious hackers “much higher capabilities.”

The US’ adversaries, criminal gangs and hacking companies have exploited AI’s potential, using it to automate and improve cyberattacks, spread inflammatory disinformation and penetrate sensitive systems. AI can translate poorly worded phishing e-mails into fluent English, for example, as well as generate digital clones of senior government officials.

Anthropic said the hackers were able to manipulate its AI chatbot, Claude, using “jailbreaking” techniques that involved tricking an AI system to bypass its guardrails against harmful behavior, in this case by claiming they were employees of a legitimate cybersecurity firm.

“This points to a big challenge with AI models, and it’s not limited to Claude, which is that the models have to be able to distinguish between what’s actually going on with the ethics of a situation and the kinds of role-play scenarios that hackers and others may want to cook up,” Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton said.

The use of AI to automate or direct cyberattacks would also appeal to smaller hacking groups and lone-wolf hackers, who could use the technology to expand the scale of their attacks, said Adam Arellano, field chief technology officer at Harness, a tech company that uses AI to help customers automate software development.

“The speed and automation provided by the AI is what is a bit scary,” Arellano said. “Instead of a human with well-honed skills attempting to hack into hardened systems, the AI is speeding those processes and more consistently getting past obstacles.”

AI programs would also play an increasingly important role in defending against these kinds of attacks, Arellano said, adding that AI and the automation it allows would benefit both sides.

title: Anthropic warns of China-linked AI hack campaign


taiwan-subdivisions: 北投 新北 復興

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The first part of a series on the former Indigenous settlement in Beitou District explores its early encounters with European colonizers and Han settlers

Nov. 17 to Nov. 23

When Kanori Ino surveyed Taipei’s Indigenous settlements in 1896, he found a culture that was fading. Although there was still a “clear line of distinction” between the Ketagalan people and the neighboring Han settlers that had been arriving over the previous 200 years, the former had largely adopted the customs and language of the latter.

“Fortunately, some elders still remember their past customs and language. But if we do not hurry and record them now, future researchers will have nothing left but to weep amid the ruins of Indigenous settlements,” he wrote in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Tokyo.

Kipatauw and the nearby sulfur vents as depicted in the 1654 Old Map of Greater Taipei, created by the Dutch. The settlement is labeled here as Rapan, which historian Kaim Ang identifies as another name for Kipatauw.  Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The first place Ino visited was Kipatauw, in today’s Beitou District (北投). (There are many spelling variations, but the Dutch-era “Kipatauw” remains the most common.) He counted 117 residents, noting that their clothing, dwellings and food were identical to the Han, although women still wore their hair in the traditional style: parted in the front and wrapped with black cloth at the back. Only those over 60 could remember fragments of their language, but they preserved many old objects and knew their traditional names.

By that time, their territory had shrunk considerably, consisting of the upper settlement by today’s Guizikeng (貴子坑), the middle settlement near Fuxinggang (復興崗) and the lower settlement a short walk from Beitou MRT station.

The Japanese forcibly purchased the upper settlement, and around 1930 relocated the middle settlement to build a horse racing track. Many residents moved to the lower settlement, which survived as a mixed Indigenous-Han community until MRT construction six decades later greatly reduced its size, scattering the residents into the wider city.

Today, the Ketagalan presence in Beitou can still be found in two spiritual centers led by the Pan (潘) family, originally from Kipatauw’s upper settlement: Independence Presbyterian Church (自立長老會新北投教會) and Baode Temple (保德宮). Over the past few months, I’ve been conducting field research on the descendants of Kipatauw through the Tree Tree Tree Person Project (森人). This article is the first of a series that will be published over the coming months.

FIRST ENCOUNTERS

The term “Ketagalan” now refers collectively to the Pingpu (plains) Indigenous people stretching from northern Taoyuan to the Yilan coast. But it was Ino who first grouped them under the term; earlier records only referred to individual settlements or administrative districts. Communities spoke similar languages and communicated through the common trade tongue of Basay.

title: Taiwan in Time: Echoes of Kipatauw: A shrinking homeland


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▲國軍15日偵獲17架次共機逾越中線擾台。（圖／國防部提供）

記者趙蔡州／綜合報導

國防部15日晚間表示，自15日下午2點50分開始，陸續偵獲中共戰機、軍艦逾越中線及其延伸線，進入台灣周邊空域，國軍立刻派出任務機、艦及岸置飛彈系統適切應處。

國防部指出，偵獲的中共戰機以殲16、空警500等各型主、輔戰機及無人機計26架次出海，其中17架次逾越中線及其延伸線，進入台灣北部、中部、西南及東部空域，配合共艦，假「聯合戰備警巡」之名，騷擾台灣周邊空、海域。

國防部表示，國軍運用聯合情監偵手段嚴密掌握，並檢派任務機、艦及岸置飛彈系統適切應處。

title: 17架共機越中線　配合共艦「聯合戰備警巡」侵擾台灣周邊海空域


taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 高雄

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▲雲豹推出「豹吃海鮮」主題日，投進三分送龍蝦、抽帝王蟹。（圖／台啤雲豹提供）

記者杜奕君／綜合報導

台啤永豐雲豹將在11月19日(週三)晚間於主場桃園巨蛋交手高雄全家海神，本次主場賽事特別攜手桃園知名海鮮餐廳「河馬水產」，推出「豹吃海鮮」主題日，期盼最相挺的球迷頑張應援搭配最澎湃的海味驚喜，打造豹有感的主場氛圍，邀請桃園球迷一同進場體驗最海的賽事饗宴。

本次「豹吃海鮮」主題日將以滿滿的海味熱情貫穿全場，賽事中場時間將呈現最令人食指豹動的海味美食秀，現場將抽出四位幸運球迷，直接在舞台中央享用「河馬水產」最具人氣的「龍蝦海陸個人鍋」，只要憑KKTIX入場票根就有機會抽中，一起成為海味美食秀的主角！

「豹吃海鮮」主題日當天，雲豹只要投進一顆三分球，就送出一隻龍蝦，若投進四的倍數，更直接升級帝王蟹，所有獎項將以球場現場KKTIX票根抽出，得獎球迷後續至河馬水產消費用餐時即可兌換。

球團攜手「河馬水產」也同步推出獨家勝利好康，只要球隊在該場比賽擊敗海神，並持主場KKTIX門票前往河馬水產內用餐點，即可享受「免費兌換波士頓龍蝦一隻」的澎湃優惠(限量10名)，並可於賽後一個月內兌換，將贏球的喜悅兌換成爲海鮮的極致美味。

為打造海味十足的主場體驗，11月19日(週三)當天中場將進行「螃門走到」互動遊戲，參賽豹迷將戴上螃蟹帽，以螃蟹步橫向帶球前進，最先抵達中線的參賽者即可奪得帝王蟹乙支(需內用、不限金額消費即可兌換)，大受好評的「豹達桃園」里民入場優惠也將持續進行，一起將雲豹主場打造成氣勢磅礡的海味盛宴。

title: 投進三分球送龍蝦、抽帝王蟹　台啤雲豹「豹吃海鮮」主題日登場


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▲秀峰高中許宸緯。（圖／記者楊舒帆攝）

記者楊舒帆／新北報導

中信盃黑豹旗15日秀峰高中由許宸緯先發，他飆出最速148公里，讓場邊球探驚艷。許宸緯國中畢業時球速僅124公里，目前高三曾在立德盃、媽祖盃達到150公里，短短三年進步26公里。

許宸緯高一時身高約170多公分，如今已抽高至183公分。他透露國三時曾因手肘撕裂傷休養，透過施打葡萄糖進行修復，高一回到比賽後明顯感覺球速變快，去年在新北U18富邦盃加速至145公里。他笑說：「自己也嚇到，沒想到會進步這麼多。」

談到今年暑假首次飆到150公里，許宸緯表示：「沒有看過那個數字，覺得像在作夢，沒想過真的能做到。以前都覺得自己不太可能，看到榖保、平鎮的投手身材都很好。」

他將去年黑豹旗首戰視為轉捩點，當時秀峰對上三民高中，對方先發正是剛加盟教士隊的蘇嵐鴻。許宸緯回憶：「看到他的身材跟我差不多，但球速那麼快，讓我把他當成目標。」

投入運動科學訓練也成為提升關鍵。許宸緯說：「高一下開始接觸，大概半年就感受到球速提升。主要是做肩髖分離的訓練，身體被開發後球速自然上來。」

許宸緯15日對平鎮首局被敲安打，守住得點圈危機時，他對休息室比出 Come On 手勢激勵隊友。他說：「看到隊友可能會緊張，一開始氣氛又不錯，所以希望帶著大家一起拚。」雖然後續比數被拉開，最終以0比8落敗，但他仍享受比賽過程。

目前高三的許宸緯也懷抱職棒夢，他坦言：「最希望能旅外，如果沒有機會，就是挑戰中職，不然也會往成棒隊方向努力。」

taiwan-subdivisions: 三民 新北 平鎮

title: 黑豹旗／秀峰許宸緯3年進步26公里飆到150！受蘇嵐鴻激勵再躍進


taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 桃園

title: 投進三分球送龍蝦、抽帝王蟹　台啤雲豹「豹吃海鮮」主題日登場


title: 黑豹旗／秀峰許宸緯3年進步26公里飆到150！受蘇嵐鴻激勵再躍進

taiwan-subdivisions: 平鎮 新北 三民


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海豹大逃亡！一名野生動物攝影師出海賞鯨，目擊虎鯨群獵捕海豹的驚悚畫面，這隻海豹帶著驚恐眼神爬上她的船逃過一劫，累到趴在船尾，瞇眼昏昏欲睡的樣子，全被攝影師拍了下來。

攝影師Charvet Drucker住在美國西雅圖，她租了一艘6公尺長的船出航，去她家附近的薩利希海（Salish Sea），看到至少8隻虎鯨。鯨群行動一致，尾巴拍打，她研判是在追捕獵物，把鏡頭拉近，驚見一隻港海豹（harbor seal，也稱斑海豹）忙著逃出追殺。她拍到海豹飛躍鯨群，虎鯨們在海中激起陣陣泡沫和水花，更加確認自己直擊了海豹的垂死掙扎。

鯨群越來越靠近她的船，她和團隊趕緊熄火關掉引擎，以免傷到牠們。海豹則是冒出水面，游到引擎附近，爬上船尾平台，圓眼睜大大地盯著她看。虎鯨群並未收手，排隊錯落有致地潛入海中，製造波浪搖動船隻，似乎是要把海豹搖下去。海豹也真的牠們搞到滑落海中至少一次，但拚命爬了回來。約15分鐘後，虎鯨們才放棄，收兵游走。

Charvet Drucker曾拍到虎鯨叼著海豹，她說，看到牠們有東西吃，她也很高興。她接受《美聯社》訪問時說，自己絕是「虎鯨派」，一直都是，但那隻海豹逃上船後，「我好像立刻跳槽到海豹這一邊了。」

title: 塊陶啊！海豹慘遭虎鯨群追殺 爬上船「虎」口餘生累翻畫面曝


title: 塊陶啊！海豹慘遭虎鯨群追殺 爬上船「虎」口餘生累翻畫面曝


title: 苗栗網傳虐童案件指控「社工失能」 縣府緊急澄清：絕非事實勿再散佈

taiwan-subdivisions: 苗栗 苗栗縣

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苗栗縣政府針對最近網路社群流傳「本縣某小一女童遭繼母施虐、社工失能未處理」等指控，昨天11月15日深夜緊急澄清，強調網路流傳的內容失真、誇張並與事實不符，縣府基於保護兒少提出嚴正澄清，以阻止錯假訊息造成社會恐慌及個案家庭二度傷害。

縣府指出，網路流傳的虐童案件，縣府7月間就已介入迅速查證，並啟動處遇相關機制，絕無「社工失能」情事，呼籲民眾勿再散播錯假訊息以免觸法及造成兒少二度傷害。

縣府社會處表示，縣府7月啟動處遇後，跨單位密集追蹤從未中斷，當時接獲通報後，立即啟動社福中心、保護社工及教育單位共同介入，持續家訪、關懷與風險評估。此次再度接獲訊息，第一時間也派員前往案家查證，並未發現網傳「嚴重虐待」情形，先前追蹤期間，雖確認家庭教養壓力較高，但無立即危險或外界所稱的嚴重虐打情況。

社會處表示，這次復訪，社工考量家屬情緒不穩、教養方式不足，為保障兒童安全，已依法立即啟動安置措施並提供後續支持。社群貼文指案主女童受到嚴重虐待，與事實不符，另外案主也無深夜在外遊蕩的情況， 是因案主與照顧者在生活照顧上議題的衝突，導致案主出現情緒，網傳「社工失能」指控毫無根據， 絕非網路所稱的消極或放任。

此外，社工所有處遇均依法、依專業、依評估進行，兒少保護處遇決策必須建立在專業判斷與風險評估，不可能因片段影像或未經查證的留言就任意做出判斷，縣府對第一線社工的努力表達支持，並對外界不當指控表達嚴正譴責。

社會處強烈呼籲民眾，立即停止散播未經查證的內容，以避免對兒少造成二度傷害，且社群平台出現足以辨識個案的資訊，已對兒童與家庭造成傷害，不但違反兒權法，更影響社工專業執行。民眾若持續轉傳、不實渲染或自行剪輯片段，除嚴重傷害兒少身心健康，也可能涉及法律責任。

鄉親如發現疑似兒虐情形，請依正確管道反映（113全國兒保專線24小時服務或110警政報案）；縣府將持續提供本案必要保護與輔導措施，並透過跨專業團隊協助兒少獲得最適切的照顧，縣府再次呼籲社會大眾停止轉傳不實資訊，拒絕網路謠言，共同守護兒少安全。

苗栗縣政府針對最近網路社群流傳「本縣某小一女童遭繼母施虐、社工失能未處理」等指控，15日深夜提出緊急澄清（示意圖）。記者胡蓬生／攝影


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由台中市低碳發展協會主辦的「翔童樂馬戲團」大型親子活動，昨晚近8時許在安和公園舉辦時，發生「充氣城堡」瞬間突然消風的意外，險些讓正在玩的小朋友跌落，所幸後來並無人受傷。

意外發生時的影像被貼上網，引起外界關注這些設在公園的活動安全設施是否足夠。有民眾貼文說「嚇死我了，小孩說要再玩一次，結果把他帶走後1秒！！！滑梯🛝倒了！！裡面ㄧ堆小孩」、「想到把我兒子抱走後三秒就倒掉，感覺像在演絕命終結站」。

還有人說「完全沒有管制，樓梯一個人爬的位置平均塞了三個人，好幾個小孩都坐在上面不滑下來….沒有工作人員看著」，以及也有人說「嚇死了、我在現場！我第一次聽到有個小女孩在遠處，所以一直撐著那個氣球不肯放棄，我很怕那個小女孩會不會因為氣球塌下來而窒息」。

影像中看到有身著立委廖偉翔服務處制服的工作人員在協助處理，而充氣城堡的廠商也主動在網路上解釋，經查確認是因為「電線遭到外力扯斷所致（插頭直接斷裂），導致無法立即復電」。現場也已向當時在遊玩的孩子與家長逐一確認，所幸皆無人明顯受傷。

廠商說，其中一位小朋友受到驚嚇在家長陪同下，已協助前往服務台的救護站做初步觀察，後續也有至醫院進一步檢查，經過醫生確認狀況良好無大礙。他們也持續與家長保持聯繫，關心孩子的情況。

至於往後如何處理？廠商說，為避免類似情況再次發生，將加強人手配置，安排更多工作人員在現場巡查與看顧，確保設備運作安全、讓家長與孩子都能安心遊玩。對於本次事件造成的不便與驚嚇，他們深感抱歉，後續一定會更謹慎注意。

意外發生時立委廖偉翔服務處的工作人員在現場協助處理。圖／截取自Threadsni3222222充氣城堡的廠商主動在網路上解釋，經查確認是因為「電線遭到外力扯斷所致（插頭直接斷裂）」。圖／充氣城堡廠商供

title: 台中親子活動充氣城堡突洩氣 媽媽哀呼「像在演絕命終結站」


title: 苗栗網傳虐童案件指控「社工失能」 縣府緊急澄清：絕非事實勿再散佈


title: 經濟日報社論／大陸經濟產業發展 方向底定

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中國大陸1四中全會揭示未來五年經濟產業方向，大陸躍居全球第二經濟體並強化科技。 圖為上海徐匯區肇嘉浜路，周圍商場林立。記者謝守真／攝影中國大陸10月召開中共20屆四中全會中，公布了第15個五年計畫的「建議」（即綱要），全部內容要等到明年3月召開「兩會」才會公布，但是從現在公布的綱要中，已經可以看出未來五年中國大陸經濟與產業發展的幾個重要方向。近年來中國大陸不但已經成為全球第二大經濟體，而且在科技方面也屢有突出表現；尤其是兩岸經濟關係非常密切，更應該密切注意中國大陸經濟與產業發展。

大陸的五年計畫內容一向都是非常全面性的規畫，只是以前的大都是硬指標，包括產量及成長率，但是因為很多指標不容易執行，後來改成五年規畫，大部分採用軟性的指導性指標，也就是提出一些重要的指標方向，仍然值得國人關注。

這一次的十五五規畫中，列出了14章共61個小節，可以說相當全面性的含蓋了所有經濟發展的重要層面，包括市場、產業、區域、科技和兩岸等。其中包括未來五年經濟發展方向：第一，深化改革、市場開放與高質量發展；第二，科技自主、產業現代化和AI+；第三，市場經濟、消費拉動與有效投資。

首先，深化改革和市場開放方面，幾乎是過去多次五年規畫中必然會強調的方向，這代表大陸經濟體系必須持續往自由化和市場化方向改革，包括國內市場的開放以及對外資的開放，比方說，開放外資投資採負面表列等。也就是說，雖然大陸面對美國高關稅的強大壓力，但是大陸仍將堅持市場同時對內與對外開放的大方向。另外，強調高質量的發展取代過去強調數量的發展，從而達到2035基本實現社會主義現代化的目標。

其次，在面對美國科技封鎖的壓力下，大陸必須強調自主研發，因此科技自主就是十五五規畫中的一個重點項目。在此同時，十五五規畫強調未來五年如何把AI應用在每一個產業和企業中，就是所謂的「AI+」，這個想法類似當年的「互聯網+」想法。也就是說，大陸未來五年的產業發展重點將會著重在如何應用AI，讓AI能夠運用在每一個產業和企業身上，從而帶動產業升級與企業進步。

第三，在十五五規畫中，大陸特別強調市場的重要，尤其是關於如何擴大民間消費，是重中之重的目標。因為最近這兩年，大陸受到房地產不景氣影響，民間消費變得非常疲軟；而國際上則受到美國對等關稅的衝擊，使得大陸內循環與外環循同時出現問題。由於國際因素較難掌控，因此未來五年大陸勢必會努力去改善國內需求，其中提振國內消費一定會是未來五年最重要的政策目標。另外，國內投資一直是拉動大陸經濟成長的重要引擎之一，未來將會以更有效率的方式，來執行政府與民間的投資，減少不必要或是重覆的投資。

最後，這一次的綱要中，並沒有提及未來五年中國大陸預計的經濟成長率是多少，但是從經濟理論層面來看，一國的經濟成長率通常會隨著經濟發展程度的提高，而逐漸放緩，現在中國大陸的平均所得已經接近1.3萬美元，經濟成長率目標還要維持過去十年的5%應該是相當不容易。再從實際面來說，今年第3季大陸的經濟成長率只有4.8%來看，未來經濟成長率還要長期維持5%會比較困難。因此，如果要確實預估大陸未來的經濟成長率，五年平均4.5%應該會是比較合理的推估。無論如何，中國大陸經濟榮枯和方向對台灣經濟的影響非常明顯，十五五規畫提供一個預判大陸經濟發展的重要參考，值得國人多加注意。

countries: 台灣 中國 美國


taiwan-subdivisions: 信義區 東區 中山區

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▋為了看影展，搭著捷運在台北玩大地遊戲

我是在金馬影展的座位上，知道自己想當一輩子影評人的。

作為台灣最大的國際電影節，金馬影展是影迷每年補習全球電影的冬令營。我自己看金馬的巔峰期約在十到十五年前，當初放映還散布在新光、微風、長春三地，我就搭著捷運在台北玩大地遊戲，不只摸熟了每一站進出和轉乘的完美路徑，還開發了西門町、東區、中山區沿途填肚子的美食。

最近五年，金馬影展移師信義區，集中在中型廳不少的信義威秀與嶄新的松仁威秀，通勤難度變低了，是不是也更有「祭典感」呢？我猜不同世代的影迷會有不同答案。我則是因為從第一線的影迷／影評人退到第二線當編輯，不再有時間奢侈地看三、四十部片，如今去金馬主持映後QA的頻率，說不定比看片還高。

▋影展搶票是實打實的硬仗

回想我的金馬影展回憶，最讓我懷念的有三件事。

第一是抽福袋式的選片。影展不像院線新片上映，有充分的宣傳告知看點、導演、明星是誰，尤其在前社群時代，沒有流通的國際影壇資訊，更沒有善心影迷整理的「金馬全片單IMDb分數」，只能靠感覺，憑著手冊上的一兩百字介紹挑片。

那幾年，只要是關於納粹歷史、中東種族衝突、歐陸青少年的徬徨與探索，乃至被金馬列入「性別越界」單元的片我一律都買。我也發現在影展看片，計較合不合胃口、患得患失的程度變得很低，畢竟願賭服輸嘛，抽了福袋就要看得開，何況看影展多了一點「儀式性」的滿足感，怎樣都值得。

這兩年，圈內常在感嘆影展首映時被秒殺的片，之後上了院線卻沒人看，其中一種解讀是台北影迷就那兩、三千人，影展放完就沒需求了。我則是覺得影展買票心態中的儀式性因子，同樣不能忽略。

第二項讓我懷念的，是買票過程的刺激感。影展搶票是實打實的硬仗，要先把手冊地毯式研究過，記下所有想看片子的所有場次──在金馬網站提供整理片單、檢查衝堂的服務以前，要靠自製的Excel表──再用人腦衡量交通，處理衝堂，排出完美的課表。

這還不夠。因為買票過程才是真正的搏鬥。當系統一開賣，要按照事先擬好的戰略一場場往下買，一旦有場次售罄，就得在腦中即時調班──最想看的片只能買到次理想的時間，這會衝擊到原本排好的哪部片？空下來的時段又能用誰來補？⋯⋯

再加上，年輕一點的影迷可能不知道，早期沒有「在家上網搶票」這種事，而是要去ibon排隊。以至於每年十月我都會驚覺：台北的影迷原來這麼多！明明我家步行範圍就有三間小7，還常常提前一小時去，仍然搶不到頭香。在這個分秒必爭（而且套票一買就是很多分鐘）的殘酷遊戲中，有沒有頭香，往往就是趾高氣揚走出店門口，或是回家抱著貓哭訴的差別。

▋全身的感官張開，進入到電影裡

而我懷念的第三件事，是來自電影之神的考驗。

這故事我在很多場合講過，發生在我看金馬影展的第一年。當時還是軟體工程師的我，在部落格寫了幾年影評，決定去朝聖金馬影展，於是硬是在不短的上班工時中擠出縫隙，買了十四場的票。那也是我首次體驗到，原來一天連看三部「藝術電影」，對體力、耐力、精神力都是考驗。

2010年11月13日，星期六下午，剛去微風看完該年第九部片的我，走在東區地下街，突然覺得好累，好累。我開始怨嘆到底為何，我要用這麼珍貴的周末，還請了一天（更珍貴的）年假，讓自己這麼疲憊？眼看假期就要結束了，那些被冬令營暫時忘記的工作焦慮、主管壓力，一時間全衝上來，明明是十一月天，我卻汗流浹背，手上拿著下一場21:50在長春（有夠晚）的票，生平第一次想放棄一部電影。

然而，六小時之後，勤儉的工程師還是乖乖坐進了長春戲院的Ａ廳。電影一開場，是荒漠草原裡的一顆椰棗樹，鏡頭隨著電台司令的‘You and Whose Army?’歌聲漸漸退進室內，一個個小男孩正在被剃光頭，畫面切往一個下顎厚實、五官深邃的孩子，他直直望向鏡頭的眼光裡，帶著恨意──那是好澄澈的恨啊──！

在那短短兩分半鐘，我所有的消極和疲憊都褪去了。全身的感官張開，進入到電影裡。那一刻我發現：我好喜歡、好喜歡在這裡。原來只要遇上真正打動我的電影，一切的疲憊和焦慮都可以不重要。原來，這就是我想做一輩子的事。

那部片叫《烈火焚身》，是關於中東的族群衝突（就說我必買吧），還有著我觀影經驗中一等一的逆轉爆點。導演是來自魁北克、我當時聽都沒聽過的丹尼．維勒納夫。往後十五年，我看著他以《私法爭鋒》、《怒火邊界》叩關好萊塢，接著再以《異星入境》、《銀翼殺手2049》和《沙丘》第一、二部，穩穩成為當代最好的科幻導演。

直到今日，《烈火焚身》都是我在任何影展所看過、最喜歡的一場電影。也是因為它，我走到了這裡。

台灣味：金馬影展

聞天祥／從影癡到影展執行長張硯拓／想做一輩子的事──我珍藏的金馬影展回憶

title: 【台灣味：金馬影展】張硯拓／想做一輩子的事──我珍藏的金馬影展回憶


title: 【台灣味：金馬影展】聞天祥／從影癡到影展執行長

taiwan-subdivisions: 松山 成功

countries: 台灣 德國 中國

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▋打破日片在台禁演僵局

1980年起步的金馬影展，是台灣最早、規模最大的影展。第一年引進了《望鄉》（熊井啟，1974）、《砂之器》（野村芳太郎，1974）、《二○三高地》（舛田利雄，1980）、《老師的成績單》（武田一成，1977），打破1973年起日片在台禁演的僵局，也為重新交流開啟契機，形塑影展的初步功能。

我的影展經驗始於1986年。那年我高二，投稿一篇細數梅莉．史翠普早期演藝成就的文章給校刊社。幾天後編輯學長找來班上，除了通知錄用，還送我一張金馬影展的票，片名是《典子》（松山善三，1982），是由本人現身演出的劇情片，震撼我的不只出生便無雙臂卻樂觀進取的同名主角，還有遊走虛實的形式前所未見。於是第二年我搭了最早班還換了兩路公車才抵達青島東路的電影圖書館，跟著長龍排隊買了超過四十張票，正式開啟影展人生。

那年看了侯麥的《綠光》，乍看是個龜毛女子諸事不順的夏天日記，卻愈看愈有勁，當海平面終於閃出那道綠光，全場一起鼓掌的景象，十分難忘。另外賈曼《浮世繪》、塔可夫斯基《犧牲》、安哲羅普洛斯《養蜂人》、庫斯杜利卡《爸爸出差時》，酷兒、長鏡頭、魔幻寫實，同在這年見識，打開的豈止一扇窗！而未來的三屆奧斯卡影帝丹尼爾．戴-路易斯在《豪華洗衣店》演龐克小gay的活靈活現，看不出同張臉竟是隔壁《窗外有藍天》的拘禮紳士，「變色龍」演技其來有自。

幾年過去，台灣片商也從批評影展專演露毛影片與民爭利，要求新聞局與電圖停辦，到察覺影展默默培養了一群無法只滿足於港台好萊塢呆板類型的影迷，為藝術電影院的出現助一臂之力。同時激發各式影展問世，從依樣畫葫蘆到建立自己特色。

▋上陣主持安哲羅普洛斯座談會

金馬影展片量由數十到破百，除了琳瑯滿目的國外新片，專題單元也從柏格曼、楚浮、德國新電影，做到台語片、紀錄片和獨立製片，以及重新出土的三、四○年代中國電影和仍在爭議風暴中的台灣新電影。為了放映大島渚真槍實彈到電檢難以招架的《感官世界》（1976），而開了「電影專業人士才得欣賞」的詭異規矩，然後演變成成年影迷只要簽名負責便能觀看的「超限制級」。1992年掀起同志電影風潮的「愛在愛滋蔓延時」專題，雖然名稱（愛滋）與放映時段（夜間）引發了政治正確的批判，卻促成台灣大學第一個同志社團誕生。影展不只讓我們看到各種電影，也不再只是「看電影」而已。

我和影展的關係，也隨著九○年代踏入影評界而有了變化。從買一堆票支持的觀眾，成為先睹為快撰文推薦的特權兼義工。1994年還被找去包辦專刊撰寫，趁假日去金馬看國外寄來的錄影帶，消化大量英文資料，最後所有稿費換成一台多系統錄影機，可以破解各種規格，只差沒變地下盜錄商。至於看完所有參展片這種不太可能的事，我還真幹過幾次，因此賺了策展人幾頓感恩飯，也陰錯陽差起了「選片指南」跟社團學弟妹分享資訊的頭，最後成了身不由己的業果。金馬的心臟也大到叫我上陣主持安哲羅普洛斯的座談，方才二十五、六歲的我，即使啃過大師歷年作品，其實內心忐忑，幸好安全下莊。我在金馬外圍玩得不亦樂乎，但沒想過進入其中成為正式一員。

2025金馬影展在影迷熱情力挺下，已有超過158場售罄與即將完售，預售超過七萬張票券。（圖／金馬影展提供）

▋從下游淘金到上游媒合

在進金馬之前，我做過五屆（2002-2006）台北電影節節目策畫。不同影展沒有必須對立的問題，如何另闢蹊徑才更有趣。金馬影展做buffet有名，我就專攻特色菜，影迷各取所需，何樂不為！其實，是金馬無形中啟發我怎麼做出不一樣的北影。當北影想做的都玩得差不多，也不想再受每屆招標的《採購法》踐踏，決定收山做回觀眾後，2009年接手金馬影展主席的侯孝賢卻找上我。起先聽到又要做影展，立刻婉拒，但侯導卻提醒：「金馬不是只有影展，我們可以來做些改變。」我不是那種率先喊革命的人，而是一旦捲進去就會衝到底的那種。當時只想：「如果侯孝賢做主席都不能改變的話，就不需要對體制再有幻想。」於是就栽進去了。

幸，也不幸。我剛進金馬時，除了行政同仁，幾乎一員不剩。想立刻上手，確實不易。但找到志同道合者，更能齊力斷金。和金曲、金鐘不同，1990年金馬執委會成立後，金馬獎和金馬影展就屬於常設單位與民間組織。只不過兩者各走各的路慣了，想要相輔相成，要花不小力氣磨合。影展部除了滿足影迷對外國好片求知若渴的慾望，要怎麼在金馬獎入圍名單出爐後迅速將其納入馬上定案的場次內，甚至考量海外入圍影人抵台參與座談的時間，牽髮動全身的程度，需要跨部合作的默契，遠超乎想像。而歷史不到二十年的金馬創投會議、金馬電影學院，則把金馬原在下游滌石淘金的位置，拓展到上游媒合投資者與製片方，以及培育具有潛力的新銳。後兩者通常不在影迷的視線內，因為等到成果，也許是好幾年後的事。但它們對產業的帶動與激化，也超越傳統影展的功效。連帶著，影展內有針對觀眾舉辦的講堂，影展外也有針對業界舉辦的金馬大師課，甚至更細緻的專業工作坊。我想像的是，這些聚會不只提供進修充電，也是帶動業界換血以及有心人結盟改造的基地。

▋催生出金馬奇幻影展、金馬經典影展

想像，需要執行。學校放電影不稀奇，把師生送來影展感受，並和影人面對面，而有了「影迷新世代」和「青少年電影課」活動。影展不只可以有藝術電影的正襟危坐，搭配類型邪典的狂歡儀式，解放出了熱鬧繽紛的「金馬奇幻影展」。相反的，讓單一主題配上三十多部片的厚重分量，沉澱出了「金馬經典影展」。一旦嘗試成功，觀影生態就會產生更多可能。等到瓜熟蒂落，就不必在我了。這也是為什麼做了十年的亞洲電影觀察團，發掘一群又一群能辯擅寫的影癡後，不如把觀察團的推薦獎，轉給不少亞觀團戮力其間的台灣影評人協會。未來，這種開枝散葉還會更多

金馬影展，可以不只有金馬，也不只是影展而已。信電影，不會得永生，但可以樂此不疲。

台灣味：金馬影展

聞天祥／從影癡到影展執行長張硯拓／想做一輩子的事──我珍藏的金馬影展回憶


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人生有時像漫長的步道，陽光毒辣，路面炙熱，景色單調，彷彿怎麼走也看不到盡頭。腳步還在，心裡卻疲憊、懷疑。直到某個轉彎，忽然撞見一份意外的驚喜，或一個改變心情的陌生人。

在夏威夷茂宜島，我遇見「路（Rue）」，終身難忘。

那天，我獨自從Mahana Ridge Trail下山，沿柏油路往Kapalua海岸走。午後陽光炙人，林蔭漸退，我走得鞋底發燙，汗水淋漓，有點懷疑：「幹嘛走這麼遠看海？」

這時，一輛紅色的敞篷Polaris Slingshot跑車在我面前緩緩停下。年輕駕駛摘下墨鏡，朝我笑得像陽光灑在浪尖般耀眼：「要不要搭便車？我在旅行，沒有目的地，只希望你今天開心。」

聽起來像是某部青春浪漫電影的橋段，只是男主角似乎搞錯了年齡對象。我下意識地警覺，本能地拒絕。他不勉強，反而聊起了自己：他叫「Rue」，來自紐約White Plains；相簿裡滿是雪景、秋林、家人與他的旅途。他說車是租的，不為炫耀，只想分享旅途的快樂。

我笑稱羨慕他這麼年輕就能享受自由與財富。他搖頭說：「我三十五歲了，生活要靠自己，哪有真正的自由？只是努力，為自己爭取人生的選擇權。」這句話打中了我──自由不是無拘束，而是在責任之上，仍替自己保留選擇的空間。

我徵求他的同意，替他拍了張「紅車帥照」傳給家人，也上傳臉書炫耀。他笑得更開心，像個達成心願的大男孩。因為這份率真與自由信念的認同，讓信賴升溫，我終於坐上車。

海風拂面、陽光在身上跳舞；海天交融的湛藍近乎滿溢，沿岸美景如慢鏡頭滑過。夏威夷的午後，就此成為我人生一頁閃亮的浪漫。

下車後，我忍不住與家人分享這段奇遇。先生急切來電：「妳怎麼可以亂搭陌生人的車？現在社會這麼亂，萬一發生危險怎麼辦？」我理解他的擔憂，社會多半教我們「要小心」，而不是「去相信」。正因為並非所有人都可靠，那些單純、無害、願意分享的善意顯得更珍貴。

「路」恰如其分地出現在我的人生路上。他提醒我，自由不是逃避束縛，而是勇於努力、敢於選擇。善意的交流不必深刻，只需要一顆開放、信任的心。年齡，不該成為關上心門的理由；警覺，更不該讓我們錯過生命裡那場晴空萬里的奔馳。

title: 【樂齡點滴】珍齡／「路」教會我相信人心


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今天去整理頭髮時，忽然發現白髮比想像中多了許多，心中有些意外。

以前染髮，是為了時髦、為了漂亮，甚至是為了在鏡子裡看見更亮眼的自己。那時候，染髮是一種遊戲，一種為青春加上色彩的方式。朋友聚會前，會興奮討論誰的髮色最新潮，誰的造型最搶眼。染髮，帶著一種輕快與驕傲。

但如今，染髮卻成了一種「遮掩」。不是為了潮流，而是為了蓋住那些悄悄冒出來的銀絲。坐在鏡子前，看著髮間閃爍的白，我第一次清楚意識到──我真的老了。

這樣的心情，讓我想起父母。

小時候，經常看媽媽在家裡調染劑，手上戴著透明手套，動作有些笨拙。她會叫爸爸幫忙刷後腦勺的髮根，兩人嫌麻煩卻又默契十足。我還曾經笑媽媽：「為什麼一定要染髮？白頭髮不是也很好看嗎？」她只是笑笑，沒有回答。

直到今天，我才真正懂得媽媽的笑而不答。

白髮不只是年紀增長的象徵，它更像是歲月走過我們身上留下的痕跡。皺紋或許還能靠醫美、靠日常保養淡去一些；唯獨白髮，生長得直接而堅持，沒有退讓的餘地。能做的，似乎就只剩下染色。

也因此，父母當年的心情，如今的我終於能感同身受。那不是單純不服老，而是一種面對歲月時，仍然想把自己打理好的執著。

白髮教會我，不只是接受自然地老去，更要學會以另一種姿態面對生活。它提醒我理解父母，也提醒我自己──歲月無法阻擋，但我仍能選擇以體面的方式，走過屬於我的年華。

白髮教會我，無須害怕歲月，而是體面地走過屬於自己的年華。

title: 【女性心聲】織嫚／白髮教會我的事


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那年北海岸旅行，我在遊客中心量血壓，數字猛然飆高，心頭一震。朋友笑說是海風吹的，我卻明白，那不是風，是命運敲下的警訊。

醫師提醒：「妳還年輕，多運動能翻轉。」於是我盯上住家附近的小山──共有385階石梯。初次抬頭望去，石梯陡直如牆，腿還沒抬就先軟了。

但人若想改變，總得開始。起初每一步都像與身體談判，氣喘如牛，心跳如鼓，彷彿階梯在質問你能堅持多久，我只能對自己低語：「慢慢來。」日子久了，腳步漸穩，呼吸漸順，也在途中遇見同路人：拄杖如老松、口頭禪是「一步算一步」的林爸；保養得宜、笑聲爽朗的陳姊；還有能隨時做一字馬的鐵人。我們組了「385晨動會」，一個貼圖就知彼此來過。

三年過去，血壓依舊偏高。我一度懷疑難道努力只是徒勞？直到第五年，醫師看著檢驗數據，語氣第一次透著肯定：「控制得很好喔！」我沒有雀躍，只靜靜點頭──原來改變不是雷霆萬鈞的劇變，而是靜水深流的累積。

如今再上山，我已不再數階。鳥鳴替代了秒針，雲霧替代了數字。我明白了人生沒有電梯直達靈魂，每一次抬腳都是對自己的叩問，每一個堅持都是給自己的回答。底氣不是靠喊叫撐出來的，而是一步步走出來的。它藏在沉默裡，也藏在每一個沒有放棄的清晨裡。

title: 【生活點滴】純溪／385階的底氣


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小時候看酬神野台戲，作過歌仔戲演員夢；上學時孺慕老師，作過教師夢；長大後作過愛情夢、作家夢、發財夢……唯獨沒作過上電視的夢。當幸運來敲門，人生展開了一段美好篇章。

去年底臉書收到民視《飛閱文學地景》節目執行製作人來信：「想以您刊登於報上的〈仙跡岩踏尋 仙人足跡〉進行節目訪談與拍攝。冒昧詢問您是否有意願授權作品，並參與拍攝？」第一時間還以為遇到詐騙集團。

想起之前在詩人醫師的臉書上，看他參與過數次《飛閱文學地景》的訪談，私下請教，詩人熱心回說這是千載難逢的機會，鼓勵我好好把握，並不藏私分享他的經驗。

雖然我個性膽小、自信不足，但當舞台搭建好了，就該勇敢登場。小女兒聽說媽媽要上電視，搞笑地問要紅了嗎？哈哈，歐巴桑可沒想紅，也紅不了，只想體驗一下登上螢幕的感覺。在等待錄影通知的期間，找了之前過往影片來研究，愈看愈喜歡，作家們侃侃而談自己的創作動機，我一邊觀摩他們的語言和肢體動作，一邊欣賞節目中介紹的台灣美景。

為了不要漏氣，我特意兩度走訪仙跡岩，對訪談既充滿期待，也有焦慮擔憂。終於，在淡淡的四月天，迎來人生中第一個通告，敲定日期後，我開始著手準備，將要訪談的內容寫好，再把整段話背下來。反覆練習，並請女兒用手機錄下，對照著改進，希望屆時不會NG。然而，不管怎麼練習，我的閩南腔國語總無法字正腔圓。

當錄影的日子到來，興奮與緊張交織，我告訴自己要鎮定，但一看到導演和攝影師，還是不由自主地慌亂起來，表情也變得僵硬，甚至忘了怎麼微笑。還好製作團隊絲毫沒有架子，耐心地引導我完成拍攝，即使失誤也讓我一再重拍。

三分鐘的影片足足花了一個多小時。回程時想著如果再有一次機會，我應該會表現更好一些。

節目播出後，懷著忐忑的心情與女兒守在電視機前，螢幕裡的自己有些拘謹不自然，但卻也是一次嶄新的體驗。朋友說妳好棒、本人比電視好看，而我最在意的閩南腔國語，則被當作一種特色。

人生第一次上電視，儘管只有三分鐘，可這份難得的經歷，會永遠烙印在我心底。

title: 【生活進行式】李月治／人生第一次上電視


title: 【中年後開始有點不良】賴鈺婷／飄出嬸味又何妨

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不管實際年齡多少，大家都想當「志玲姊姊」

不再是小女生之後，年齡成為女性的敏感話題。實際年齡、視覺年齡、心理年齡、行為年齡……自認為和別人眼中的。關於女性的年齡應對，我們永遠不知道會不會無意中冒犯別人，即使自認為理性，也極有可能不經意落入年齡歧視的圈套。

譬如，帶著幼兒吃飯，女店員送餐來，提醒孩子「跟阿姨說謝謝」，對方笑了笑，那笑裡的內在怨念可能是：「誰是你阿姨，我才幾歲，當我是阿姨！」這時，阿姨不是提高輩分作為敬稱，對聽的人來說，可能是自己看起來顯老。

網路論壇裡，時不時就會出現這樣的發文：「幾歲被叫阿姨才合理？」「難過今天被叫阿姨了，哭哭。」不管實際年齡多少，大家都想當「志玲姊姊」，就算是公園裡跳著廣場舞、登山步道旁唱卡拉OK的婆婆媽媽，也要挺直腰桿、理直氣壯仿效謝金燕大聲唱跳「叫我姊姊」。

所謂「資深、熟齡、大齡、美魔女」，聽起來都是年齡真相被識破的貶義，所有以女性為客群的廣告都在催眠大眾，女性要學會體態管理、容貌管理、衣妝管理、氣質管理……要達到「看不出年紀」的最高境界，娃娃臉、娃娃音，天真活潑的「少女樣」。內服外敷、體態雕塑、皮相穿搭……方方面面，如何可以長保年輕、回春、不顯老？

聽說市場上生意最好的攤商，管他賣魚賣肉，賣女裝、鍋碗瓢盆，凡是擅於招攬顧客做生意的老手，面對男客一律稱帥哥，女客一律喊美女。稱人小姐是普通常識，別說喊人阿姨、敬稱老太太為奶奶阿婆了，有時喊姊姊也會遭人白眼。鄉間習慣敬稱中年男客為老闆，女客為老闆娘，上了年紀的女客為「頭家媽」。但這時代的女性，單身女強人多的是，就算結婚生子，也期盼自己看起來就如未婚小姐般的風采。

被稱某某媽，某太太，附庸於丈夫孩子，實在太落伍老派。看起來像個家庭主婦，這是中性用語，比較直白的說法，可能是黃臉婆，人老珠黃。

那彷彿是女性走入婚姻墳墓，青春斷崖式下墜的起點。猶如明日黃花，過時、失去光彩價值。只能遠目昔日身著幹練套裝、臉上精緻妝容、腳踩高跟鞋的自己，稱羨身旁還保有自身某小姐名姓、休閒嗜好、經濟、生活品味的女性。她們無須照應家庭一干老小的日常瑣事，有全副心力好好照顧自己，健身、保養、美容、用心於時尚裝扮，不讓自己飄出嬸味。

二十五歲之後的女性，開始面對嚴峻的檢驗

是了。時下用語，飄出嬸味。嬸是什麼呢？是一種不合時宜、俗嗆、平庸，一種家常直率，有話直說，不害臊、不委婉、不修飾，渾然忘我的大嗓門。常常正義感爆棚，常常熱心過度，愛多管閒事。總之是中式大媽、大嬸、日式歐巴桑、韓式阿珠媽、台式阿桑……

全世界老去的女人彷彿都一個樣，活在青春不再、體貌變異，就會被世界理所當然鄙夷的輕視裡。

飄出嬸味，是偽裝為幽默揶揄，實為物化女性的戲謔。諷刺女性魅力漸失，女人味產生質變。不僅體態外在失格了，連帶臉皮也變厚了。敢於討價還價，敢於錙銖必較，敢於拋下無謂的顧忌，不在意別人的眼光了。

那是時尚雜誌、頻道最喜歡做的警世專題：如何擺脫嬸味？保持女性迷人風采。要人即使不再少女，也不可自暴自棄，要倍萬自愛，千萬不要變成歐巴桑。

女人的年齡恐慌很早。十幾歲稱少女，謂之青春，二十來歲保有女孩、小女人的高光期。二十五歲後的女人，開始有面臨三十歲大關的時間感。至此之後，被社會認知貼上中年的標籤，輕熟女、熟女、大齡、熟齡……

世界對於成熟的女性並不友善。抗老要趁早，防老於未然。二十五歲之後的女性，開始面對飄著嬸味的嚴峻檢驗，掙脫來自媒體與他人目光的厭老標籤，努力活出我之為我，不受貶抑輕視的尊嚴。

人到中年，無可閃躲。如今我也是媒體報導中稱之為大媽、大嬸、歐巴桑的年紀了。開始注重健康，已經不執著美麗的玻璃鞋。

當女孩的時候，成長得小心翼翼，動輒得咎。在意旁人的目光，想要吸引注目，獲得肯定、青睞。願意面對飄出嬸味又何妨的自己時，漸漸放下委曲求全的包袱，懂得真正該在意的，是自己的心。

以前不敢直球對決，是好是壞，都不敢輕易袒露真實的想法，現在感染了一點熱情大媽魂，勇於讚美，也勇於為不平發聲。努力鍛鍊笑容，對抗老病醜和惡意。笑著接納這個飄出嬸味的年紀，肯定自己一路走來的美好，成為溫暖正直、自在自信的歐巴桑。


title: 【職場百味錄】梁小魚／白衣天使也白頭

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見行動不便的大爺準備搭電梯，我按著電梯，等他緩緩走來。大爺望著我的後腦，問：「該退休了吧？」我不失禮貌地回答：「還有好幾年。」大爺不依不饒地說：「妳的髮色透露妳的年齡了。」我不慌不忙地回：「現在年輕人還故意把頭髮染白咧。」大爺這才尷尬地隨口應著：「對啦！」

頭髮稀疏的阿伯來量血壓，過一會兒，他問：「妳還有幾年退休？」我笑著回答：「四年。」「看妳的頭髮都白了！」我仍笑著說：「我四十歲頭髮就白了，用腦過度啦。」阿伯語帶輕蔑：「妳怎麼會用腦！」我笑不出來了：「阿伯，我是護理師，怎會不用腦？」阿伯說：「我看妳在這個單位就用不到腦！」

染著黑髮的歐吉桑，來做老人健檢。他盯著我：「為什麼妳不染髮？」我耐著性子：「我是天然的挑染，年輕人還故意把黑髮漂成白髮。」他表示：「我在廟裡執事，有廟會活動時，我要掌旗，所以我要染髮。」我一面納悶掌旗跟染髮的關聯，一面回應：「我的工作不需要染髮。」

老翁從診間出來，一臉好奇：「妳是來玩票的喔？」我明白他的言下之意，直接了當地回：「我還沒退休喔。護理工作沒所謂的玩票性質，我每天都忙得很呢！」

對於這些日常提問，我常常覺得啼笑皆非。四年來堅持不染髮，是接受了白髮為年齡增長的徵象。再說，頂著白髮上班，好處可多著，除了同事皆稱我學姊，碰上刁鑽的來客，光看到白髮的我，氣焰便小了五分。

但從上面的例子，也可見對我髮色頗有意見的大多為男性。反之，與我同輩的女性，見閃閃發光的銀髮，大多稱讚有加，羨慕我的髮色頗有個人特色。

白髮，不影響我的智力，也不會降低我的活力。各位，如遇白髮者仍堅守在工作崗位，是不是別再提出令自己尷尬的問題了？


taiwan-subdivisions: 東區 中山區 信義區

title: 【台灣味：金馬影展】張硯拓／想做一輩子的事──我珍藏的金馬影展回憶


taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 松山

title: 【台灣味：金馬影展】聞天祥／從影癡到影展執行長


title: 【女性心聲】織嫚／白髮教會我的事


title: 【生活點滴】純溪／385階的底氣


title: 【生活進行式】李月治／人生第一次上電視


title: 【中年後開始有點不良】賴鈺婷／飄出嬸味又何妨


title: 澤連斯基啟動烏克蘭國有能源企業改革　與反腐機構嚴查違規操作

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烏克蘭總統澤連斯基宣布，啟動國有能源企業全面改革，同步推進財務審計與管理架構更新。

澤連斯基在社交媒體表示，他與總理及經濟部長共同敲定有關實施路線，具體安排包括國家原子能公司一星期內完成組建新監事會的籌備工作；水力能源公司啟動行政總裁招聘並完善監事會；天然氣運輸系統營運商完成監事會改組及總經理招聘；石油天然氣公司啟動新一屆監事會招聘，確保2026年1月交接；其他大型國企將同步更新國家代表監事。

澤連斯基說烏克蘭政府將聯同執法與反腐機構，嚴查違規操作，以保障能源領域透明廉潔為核心優先事項。


title: 日媒指高市早苗探討修改「無核三原則」中不引進核武器原則

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新華社引述日本共同社報道，多名日本政府消息人士透露，首相高市早苗正探討在修訂國家安全保障戰略等「安保三文件」時，修改「無核三原則」中不引進核武器的原則，如果實現修改，將意味日本戰後安保政策的轉變，必將引發國內外強烈批評。

「無核三原則」指不擁有、不製造、不引進核武器。1967年，時任日本首相佐藤榮作在國會發言時提出「無核三原則」，有關原則於1971年在日本眾議院全體會議上獲得通過，成為日本政府關於核武器的基本政策。2022年，日本政府通過的「安保三文件」中，亦明確寫入堅持「無核三原則」的基本方針，不會改變。 報道指高市有意堅持不擁有、不製造核武器，但認為如果堅持不引進核武器，就無法允許美軍相關艦艇停靠日本，從而削弱美國的核威懾力。

countries: 日本 美國


countries: 美國 加拿大

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加拿大總理卡尼表示，美國關稅措施將令加拿大損失500億加元。

卡尼說美國的關稅政策及所帶來的不確定因素，將令加拿大損失約1.8%的國內生產總值，相當於500億加元，又形容美國已經改變了，若加拿大不採取行動，損失只會更大。

卡尼宣布，加拿大政府將透過改革運作方式、拓展多元化交易伙伴等新計劃，推動經濟增長，並增強加拿大的自主性。

title: 卡尼指美國關稅政策將令加國損失5百億加元　若不行動損失更大


title: 剛果民主共和國與反政府武裝簽協議為未來和議奠定基礎

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卡塔爾外交部宣布，剛果民主共和國政府與反政府武裝「M23運動」，星期六在卡塔爾首都多哈簽署框架協議，為雙方未來達成和平協議，奠定基礎。

卡塔爾外交部發聲明說，雙方在框架協議中承諾透過對話建立互信，分階段推進穩定進程，解決衝突根源。協議強調應保護平民，尊重人權，確保流離失所者安全、有尊嚴地返回家園等。

「M23運動」對話代表姆博寧帕在社交媒體上說，框架協議包括衝突根源、未來談判議題、實施時間表及相關責任方等內容，將作為未來全面和平協議談判的基礎，但他同時指框架協議不包含任何具約束力條款，在針對有關內容進行逐一談判並達成共識前，前線局勢不會因此發生變化。

things: 人權 和平協議


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冬盟》余謙低潮的一年 平野惠一有特別叮嚀 2025/11/15 19:14 亞洲冬季棒球聯盟台灣山林隊余謙明晚將扛下初先發，今年他在中職一軍僅投2局寫下生涯新低，這次到冬盟的目標就是把球速找回來。中信兄弟總教練平野惠一則希望他健康出賽，完成冬季聯盟的每一場出賽。余謙連續2年參加冬季聯盟，去年在沖繩，今年則在台灣。他透露去年去沖繩打冬季聯盟，胸口就有不舒服的感覺，春訓實戰投球

中職》不希望在冬盟看見余謙 彭政閔老實說 2025/11/15 18:32 亞洲冬季棒球聯盟台灣山林隊余謙明晚將扛下初先發，今年他在中職一軍僅投2局寫下生涯新低，總教練彭政閔直言，希望他能在冬季聯盟投出身價，將過程中的經驗和想法帶入中職球季。余謙今年因傷所苦，10月4日才首度升上一軍，在10月5日對統一獅登板後援，投2局被敲1支安打，失掉1分，最快球速146公里，恰總直言，

中職》中信兄弟如果順利封王 盧孟揚、余謙有機會在補賽週先發 2025/09/29 18:53 中信兄弟在下半季冠軍、全年戰績第一的魔術數字都只來到M3，最快後天10月1日在新莊雙雙歸零，投手教練王建民表示，如果球隊在補賽週的前段就順利封王，預計會在後段讓盧孟揚、余謙各在一軍投1場先發。王建民指出，補賽週後段的先發輪值基本上不會變動，維持上週六、日李博登、羅戈的出賽順序，如果球隊在週末以前已經

中職》兄弟1指余謙5局好投 卻不敵樂天大物6局無安打 2025/09/26 19:18 中信兄弟第一指名余謙今天在二軍對樂天桃猿繳出5局掉1分好投，中信也開箱2位今年選秀的新秀投手錢可倫和陳英睿，錢可倫遭到樂天震撼教育，0.2局掉3分，終場中信以0：4輸給樂天。余謙前3局被2支安打無失分，4局下被陳佳樂、馮健庭敲安，樂天滾地球推進三壘後，毛英傑擊出高飛犧牲打，讓余謙失掉全場唯一分數，合

中職》二軍久違先發！兄弟1指余謙飆好投 最快球速出爐 2025/09/19 19:01 中信兄弟第一指名余謙今天在二軍久違先發，繳出5局掉1分好投，助隊以5：2擊敗台鋼二軍。台鋼雄鷹重砲魔鷹的首場復健賽敲雙安，總教練洪一中透露本人回報已恢復85%。余謙前次在二軍先發要追溯至6月20日，今天首局就繳出3上3下，2局被敲雙安失掉1分，但在3、4局6上6下，5局上被敲1支安打，最終仍化解危機

title: 余謙 - 標籤頁


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MLB》60轟強打捕手羅里無緣MVP 美節目主持人諷：若他是洋基捕手... 2025/11/15 17:51 〔體育中心／綜合報導〕洋基「法官」賈吉（Aaron Judge）今年達成美聯年度MVP二連霸，讓本季60轟的水手強打捕手羅里（Cal Raleigh）締造史詩賽季卻無緣年度MVP獎項。《ESPN》前記者派崔克（Dan Patrick）主持的美國播客節目《The Dan Patrick Show》近日

MLB》電子好球帶明年啟用 水手60轟鐵捕羅里持反對意見 2025/09/29 09:35 〔體育中心／綜合報導〕電子好球帶系統（Automated Ball-Strike System，簡稱ABS）已在小聯盟執行數年，如今將在明年於大聯盟正式啟用，然而今年打下生涯年、狂敲領銜全聯盟60發全壘打的水手重砲鐵捕羅里（Cal Raleigh）卻持反對意見。

中職》如果手握MVP選票 林泓育會投給「Big Dumper」 2025/09/26 14:15 如果手握選票，今年美聯MVP會投給誰？樂天桃猿「小胖」林泓育的答案是：「我會投給水手隊那個捕手（羅里）。」水手左右開弓的重砲捕手「Big Dumper（大屁屁）」羅里（Cal Raleigh），本季狂掃傲視全大聯盟的60發全壘打，打下美聯最多的125分打點，另有14次盜壘成功，以捕手身分出賽120場

MLB》史上最會轟捕手羅里雙響砲達標60轟！ 水手相隔24年封王 2025/09/25 12:12 〔體育中心／綜合報導〕水手捕手重砲羅里（Cal Raleigh），今天在對洛磯一戰單場雙響砲，賽季60轟達標，把史上最會轟捕手的紀錄又往上提升到新的里程碑，水手也在今天以9：2擊敗洛磯，順利於美聯西區封王。羅里在首局開轟，8局再貢獻一發全壘打，單場雙響砲達標賽季60轟，成為美聯除了洋基選手外，第一位

taiwan-subdivisions: 西區 成功

title: 羅里 - 標籤頁


content_text: 台灣新北市長侯友宜上周五（14日）赴市議會報告明年度總預算案，包括捷運工程、基礎建設等多項預算皆增加，將配合財劃法修正增加的統籌稅款，依「基礎建設加倍、計劃推動加速、社會福利加碼」原則分配編列。侯友宜指出，2026年總預算案歲入逾2,478億元（新台幣，下同，約619.5億港元），較上年度增逾388億元（約97億港元）；歲出逾2,612億元（約653億港元），較上年度增逾387億元（約96.75億港元），歲出前3項主要支出包括教育科學文化831.9億元（約207億港元）、經濟發展支出567.6億元（約141.9億港元）、社會福利支出489.3億元（約122億港元），其中捷運建設等重大工程、基礎建設經費都較今年增加。因台電取消學校電價優惠凍漲差額、鮮奶幸福周等政策，教育經費增加約30億元（約7.5億港元），市政府明年度成立高齡長期照顧處、擴大敬老卡使用範圍與生育獎勵金等，社福支出也增加。侯友宜另表示，因應非洲豬瘟疫情，新北市加碼補助產業3,000萬元（約750萬港元），協助業者及攤商度過難關，也將輔導業者轉型，包括廚餘場逐步轉用飼料或植物性廢渣餵養等，強化防疫安全並提升業者面對風險的能力。

events: 疫情 豬瘟

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 新北市

things: 經濟 防疫

title: 新北明年度總預算案 基礎建設將加倍


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companies: 蘋果 Google 特斯拉 台積電

countries: 卡達 韓國 伊朗 俄羅斯 印尼 日本 美國 歐盟 中國 比利時 瑞士 台灣 泰國 越南 民主剛果 香港

people: 徐國勇 林佳龍 鄭麗文 黃國昌 柯文哲

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 和平

title: 中獎號碼 | 關鍵字新聞


companies: 台積電 蘋果 特斯拉 Google

countries: 泰國 台灣 香港 民主剛果 越南 俄羅斯 印尼 韓國 卡達 伊朗 瑞士 美國 日本 比利時 中國 歐盟

people: 黃國昌 柯文哲 林佳龍 徐國勇 鄭麗文

taiwan-subdivisions: 萬榮 和平 成功

title: 萬榮鄉 | 關鍵字新聞


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位於台北萬華加蚋仔商圈的樂崎火鍋，是華江高中旁的社區型火鍋店，Google4.8顆星、超過6000則評價的高人氣不是假的。一樓木質桌椅搭紅磚牆，溫馨燈光讓人放鬆；二樓則有 270 度大面窗，自然光灑進來特別舒服。沙發區可坐12人，適合家庭聚餐或朋友聚會，不過晚餐時段幾乎座無虛席，建議先訂位比較保險。

▲美國頂級老饕翼板牛肉，肉片有厚度、油花蠻漂亮的。（圖片來源：Maruko與美食有個約會）

湯底有９種選擇，麻辣鍋用四川大紅袍花椒手炒，附鴨血豆腐；藥膳鍋則是喝起來順口。肉品從309元起就有究好豬、氣冷雞可選，想吃好一點還有美國雪花牛、龍蝦海陸套餐。海鮮類像蛤蜊、草蝦都挺新鮮。自助吧有北海道冰淇淋、萬丹紅豆湯、冷泡紅茶吃到飽，白飯也是台梗九號米隨你裝，不收服務費這點真的加分。

▲１樓有２～４人的桌位，有可能會和其他人併桌，不過中間有隔板。（圖片來源：Maruko與美食有個約會）

樂崎火鍋-萬華店Google評價4.8分，共6195則，網友大多稱讚海鮮新鮮、肉質不錯、服務親切，也有人提到雙人套餐份量超大根本吃不完。比較常被提到的小缺點是座位略緊湊、一樓靠牆位置有點熱。整體來說瑕不掩瑜，想吃平價火鍋又要自助吧吃到飽，這間可以。

＃推薦原因

‧309元起就能吃到品質不錯個人鍋，自助吧冰淇淋、紅豆湯、白飯無限續

‧９種自熬湯底任選不加價，麻辣鍋、藥膳鍋都有水準

‧萬華在地經營，服務親切、適合聚餐

＃樂崎火鍋-萬華店 店家資訊

特色：平價個人鍋／９種自熬湯頭／自助吧吃到飽／不收服務費

價位：單人鍋309元起，雙人套餐海陸組合價格依搭配而定

小提醒：晚餐時段很容易客滿，建議提前訂位。雙人套餐份量很大，食量小的人可以考慮單點。座位略緊湊，帶大包包可能要注意擺放空間。

journalist: 食尚資深編輯 陳怡君

taiwan-subdivisions: 萬丹 萬華

title:
台北火鍋推薦！４星好評精選20家：黃仁勳愛店、268元雙主餐、豬油拌飯吃到飽 |
 食尚玩家


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你是家有毛孩的台北人嗎？還是愛狗愛貓成痴的寵物迷？狗奴貓奴們的週末計畫，常常不只是「吃什麼？」而是「毛孩能不能一起去？」有時候想帶自己的狗狗貓咪出門放風、找間好拍又能落地走走的咖啡廳；有時候只是想被貓咪療癒，坐著放空、邊喝咖啡邊吸貓；偶爾也會突然想去店狗趴趴走的咖啡廳，讓牠們來場療癒巡場。

《食尚玩家》編輯為你整理所有「心情選店」的需求：想跟毛孩一起耍廢，有不限時咖啡廳、韓系網美風、寬敞座位、可落地，甚至有毛孩鮮食餐的店；想吸貓吸狗，台北也有一些店貓店狗，甚至能近距離互動或邊用餐邊做公益的中途咖啡廳。這篇精選14間台北必去寵物友善咖啡廳，從擼貓、吸狗到和毛孩一起喝咖啡的店通通涵蓋，而且加碼整理一份「寵物友善餐廳清單」——想吃義式、韓式、日式還是想找深夜場，都能快速比對捷運站、是否可落地、是否有毛孩餐，一張表搞定你的寵物聚餐計畫。下載食尚APP，天天免費抽大獎！

title:
台北寵物友善咖啡廳精選！14家可帶毛孩＋貓狗主題店，加碼寵物餐廳推薦 |
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事業運不錯，雖然外在環境多變，但只要冷靜應對，即可保持穩定節奏。上班族適合先整理手邊未完成的案子，別急著推進新計畫；創業者可趁本週檢視資金與庫存，為年底布局。愛情運平順，單身者可以與朋友或舊識多聊天聚會，有機會從中慢慢發展成曖昧關係；有伴者關係和諧，能在平凡互動中重新找回熟悉的默契。財運提升，正財穩定、偏財運漸旺，若參與抽獎、活動或接案，有望獲得小驚喜，但得財後不宜張揚，應保持低調，才能延續好運。

事業運平穩，能以耐心與行動換得成果。上班族在例行工作中易被看見努力，若有想爭取的企劃或調職，可趁機展現實力；創業者宜穩定現有基礎，避免冒進。愛情運平順，單身者有機會透過女性親友或長輩認識適合的新對象；有伴者互動和諧，若有爭執，不妨先做出退讓，將對雙方的感情經營有極大幫助。財運漸旺，正財穩定，偏財有望因女性貴人或合作夥伴帶來機會。投資以細水長流為宜，小額分散更能見長效，只要持之以恆，便能自然聚財。

journalist: 女大編輯部

title: 雨揚老師十二生肖一週運勢 11/16~11/22！屬羊事業運大好進展順利，「這生肖」愛情運欠佳|女人我最大


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今日活動由《藍色海洋的約定》與《隱形公主與她的天線朋友》揭開序幕，以色彩繽紛的故事和活潑旋律，帶領大小朋友走進夢幻童話世界。緊接登場的「奇幻扯鈴魔法」以高難度拋接與默契十足的團隊動作，引來現場熱烈掌聲。樂天啦啦隊亮麗現身帶動跳「饗賓洗手歌」，在歡樂舞步中寓教於樂，孩子們跟著節奏開心模仿。

接著《人魚公主奇遇記》以大自然與環保議題為主軸，透過冒險故事讓孩子理解「愛護地球」的重要性。傍晚時分，孩子最愛的「泡泡繽紛樂」登場，巨型泡泡在燈光下彷彿星光閃耀，小朋友追逐、跳躍、尖叫，讓現場氣氛推向高點。

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領取優惠：知山田頂級燒肉店獨家優惠

知山田頂級燒肉店品牌特色｜現點現切原塊肉

桃園人氣燒肉「知山田頂級燒肉店」，主打頂級日本A5和牛、澳洲和牛舌、美國Prime牛小排等現點現切原塊肉，還有北海道干貝、南非活鮑魚、生蠔等海鮮，更提供專人代烤服務，讓你能輕鬆享用。店家更特別設置聚餐包廂空間，無論是家庭或公司聚餐都超適合。至於價位則從單人的1,380元到３人套餐的8,680元都有，有多種價格可供選擇。

▲設有８人聚餐包廂空間，適合家庭或公司聚餐。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

知山田頂級燒肉店必吃１｜A5和牛肋眼、和牛翼板

「知山田」主要提供A5和牛、伊比利豬與海鮮選擇，其中A5和牛套餐為1,880元起，和牛控必點「A5和牛海鮮頂級套餐」，包含取自牛隻脊骨兩側的「A5和牛肋眼」，肉質滑嫩帶有大理石般漂亮油花，還有油花細緻不膩口的「A5和牛貝身」、油花均勻分布且帶有筋肉的「A5和牛翼板」，以及近期日本最流行的燒肉赤身部位「A5和牛龜之子」，取自瘦肉比例高、脂肪少的牛隻臀腿部位，脂肪含量低，口感清爽，多種不同部位的A5和牛讓你一次吃好吃滿，尤其透過優惠現省逾1,100，可說相當划算！

▲A5日本和牛海鮮頂級套餐包含：A5和牛肋眼、A5和牛貝身、A5和牛翼板、A5和牛龜之子等肉品。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

▲肉質滑嫩的A5和牛肋眼（圖左）、A5和牛貝身（圖右）油花細緻不膩口。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

知山田頂級燒肉店必吃２｜海大蝦、大生蠔

愛吃海鮮的也能獲得大滿足！跟手一樣大的「野生海大蝦」，店家還貼心幫你去殼，肉質Q彈，鮮甜飽滿；自家養殖的「南非活鮑魚」，吃得到最原始的海味；超級肥美的「嚴選大生蠔」，入口滑嫩、鮮甜多汁，好吃到停不下來！

▲跟手一樣大的「野生海大蝦」肉質Q彈。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

▲自家養殖南非活鮑魚（圖左）、嚴選大生蠔（圖右）口感多汁鮮甜。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

知山田頂級燒肉店必吃３｜楊枝甘露雪花冰、焦糖布丁

不用飛香港也能吃到經典楊枝甘露！甜點提供現剉的「楊枝甘露雪花冰」，淋上店家特製楊枝甘露，芒果香氣飽滿，甜而不膩；另外還有「焦糖布丁」可選擇，布丁入口即化，濃郁焦糖香與蛋香在嘴裡散開，絕對是飯後甜點的最佳首選！

▲套餐甜點提供楊枝甘露雪花冰（圖左）、焦糖布丁（圖右）共２種選擇。（圖片來源：冠婷生活趣）

知山田頂級燒肉店菜單-套餐

▲知山田頂級燒肉店除了單點，也有很多套餐組合可選擇。

知山田頂級燒肉店營業資訊、優惠領取

journalist: 食尚主編 劉易昇

countries: 香港 澳洲 南非 美國 日本

title:
燒肉優惠現賺千元！「桃園燒肉天花板」4.8星好評，必吃A5和牛、手掌大海大蝦 |
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