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Rupert Hammond-Chambers On Taiwan: Lai provides leadership on defense aligning with Japan, US

President William Lai’s (賴清德) historic announcement on Wednesday, Nov. 26, of a supplemental defense budget valued in excess of US$40 billion is a testament to the seriousness with which Taiwan is responding to the relentless expansionist ambitions of Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), the Chinese Communist Party and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Lai is responding to the threat posed to Taiwan sovereignty along with US President Donald Trump’s insistence that American partners in good standing must take on more responsibility for their own defense.

The supplemental defense budget will be broken into three main parts. The first and largest piece will be several Foreign Military Sales or FMS programs that are government-to-government transactions. FMS allows for both governments to negotiate directly on the value of procured equipment, such as previously procured HiMARS or NASAMs, while conferring sovereignty to Taiwan through the government-to-government nature of the transaction.

It equips Taiwan with important, modern, difference-making weapons while binding the two governments together in the training and sustainment of the equipment. FMS is the bedrock of America’s primary security relationships throughout the world.

Second, the budget will contain several Direct Commercial Sales or DCS programs. Where FMS is not a priority, DCS is utilized to expedite the delivery of equipment while placing increased pressure on price; it’s cheaper and faster.

This is the direction more defense transactions can go as Taiwan builds out its domestic defense industrial base and becomes further embedded in American and European supply chains.

This is possible because a new wave of relatively inexpensive unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are not tied to onerous technology restrictions and can therefore be co-developed and co-produced inexpensively and at scale.

The third set of programs are intended for Taiwan’s domestic defense industrial base. This is a critical area of investment, as Taiwan must expand the ability to produce more of what it needs, domestically. Taiwan’s contract manufacturers are the best in the world and employing their manufacturing expertise to produce large quantities of needed items, particularly UAS, is crucial for Taiwan’s defense.

As Cathy Fang at the Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) recently noted when discussing the utility of UAS, “quantity has its own quality”. It is imperative that Taiwan significantly expand its procurement of UAS capabilities; however, as the war in Ukraine demonstrates, the pace of innovation means you cannot over-procure, because the battlefield is changing so rapidly. Most UAS capabilities must be bought in tranches every two or three years, so the military and other agencies can constantly assess their needs and adjust procurement over time.

Indeed, Ukraine embeds decision making on procurement with some fighting units so they can provide input on new product development quickly.

Lai, in his recent column in The Washington Post, stated, “This landmark package will not only fund significant new arms acquisitions from the US, but also vastly enhance Taiwan’s asymmetric capabilities.” Since 2020, the US has narrowed its security assistance to Taiwan to include only so-called asymmetric capabilities. Please note, the term asymmetric is highly subjective, resulting in different interpretations. With Taiwan it mostly means procuring large quantities of munitions and mobile equipment to complicate the planning and execution of a D-Day-style attack on Taiwan’s main island. While this has the benefit of pushing off any PLA timeline regarding this scenario, it leaves Taiwan under-supported in dealing with quarantine, gray zone and blockade domains. It is no surprise that we now see China expanding its pressure on everyday challenges such as gray zone incursions. Taiwan seeks a balance between the D-Day domain and everyday challenges in the sky and on the sea.

US security assistance still needs to adjust to the reality of all of Taiwan’s challenges, not just one of them, and with the passage of the supplemental budget we should press for a less boundaried approach to Taiwan’s defense with equipment that can manage everyday challenges.

Additionally, it is essential that Taiwan’s political parties find a path forward to assess and pass the government’s regular annual budget. The defense budget, embedded in the regular government budget, is at the core of support for Taiwan’s military. A special supplemental budget is a useful mechanism to surge spending; however, it is the regular year-on-year defense budget that provides sustained resources for all the military’s needs.

To deny the military that certainty undermines the country’s defense with one step forward on the supplemental defense budget and two steps back on the regular defense budget. Both must pass in the coming several months for Taiwan’s security to be enhanced.

So what comes next? Several of the programs are already under review in the US system. When ready for contract finalization, the Trump administration will alert the US Congress, through a congressional notification or CN, of an impending sale such as the recent November 13 CN, which represented the first arms sales to Taiwan in Mr. Trump’s second term.

Given the sheer size of the programs captured in the supplemental budget, we can expect the Trump administration, over the next 6-12 months, to notify to the US Congress the largest gross value of arms sales to Taiwan since the switch in recognition in 1979.

This is an extraordinary response to the Chinese threat from the people of Taiwan and the partnered support they receive from the US.

The timing of Lai’s commitment is most welcome. The Chinese have chosen to pick an early fight with Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi when she noted in parliamentary question time, “If there are battleships and the use of force [in the Taiwan Strait], no matter how you think about it, there is a possibility that it becomes a survival-threatening situation [for Japan].”

China has rapidly escalated its rhetoric against Japan, threatened its leader with assassination, pursued some modest and frankly inconsequential economic actions while flooding the international media with claims of Japanese neo-militarism.

The latter assertion is simply preposterous given China’s recent militaristic behavior.

Takaichi’s comments are significant and worthy of consideration and support from the US and Taiwan. Like the United States, the Japanese have long pursued a policy of ambiguity over what military involvement in a Chinese attack on Taiwan would entail . As the threat from the Chinese has expanded, particularly under Xi, we are seeing increasing clarity fr2om countries affected by this threat.

Strategic ambiguity is increasingly being replaced by strategic clarity, not all at once, but with each step. We have seen multilateral and bilateral declarations include the demand for “peace and security in the Taiwan Strait.” China naturally objects given its contention that this is a domestic matter, but it is the only belligerent threatening peace. We saw former US president Joe Biden on four separate occasions state the US would come to Taiwan’s defense. Yes, three instances were walked back by his staff, but the boundaries around acceptable clarity of global interest in Taiwan’s future is expanding and clarifying.

Taiwan’s supplemental defense budget is the correct response to China’s daily harassment of Taiwan. Takaichi’s statements along with her government’s consideration of deployment of Type 03 Chu-SAM missiles on Yonaguni Island, in response to constant PLA harassment of Japanese sovereignty, is the correct way to push back on Chinese threats and elevated tensions.

President Trump would do well to robustly support Japan when speaking to China. Conversely, in the United Kingdom constant violations of British sovereignty by Chinese intelligence services are met with appeasement as the government moves toward approving China’s mega-embassy designed for a single purpose: to undermine UK sovereignty. An utterly discredited approach where Mr. Starmer’s government self-censors sovereignty for marginal economic gain. The US spent two decades plus pursuing this approach, and it was a disaster; only China wins.

Trump’s insistence that partners and allies do more for their own defense is well-established. Lai’s recent commitments place Taiwan’s defense ambitions concurrently in line with the United States, Japan, Australia and other partner nations who are expanding their military capabilities to deter China’s destabilizing military modernization — the largest expansion of hostile combat power, by any country, since the end of World War II.

Trump, Lai and Takaichi should receive global support for their leadership.

Rupert Hammond-Chambers is the president of the US-Taiwan Business Council (USTBC), a senior advisor at Bower Group Asia and sits on the board of The Institute for Indo-Pacific Security.


title: Compulsory labor deters crime, not caning

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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators have proposed caning as a punishment for online scammers. As many as 92 percent of respondents in a poll said fraud in Taiwan is severe, and more than 70 percent said they support following Singapore’s example by using caning as a deterrent.

The Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan said that caning contravenes the personal freedoms outlined in the Constitution, and is inconsistent with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Promulgated in 653, the Tang Code with commentary defined five types of punishments — beating with a light bamboo cane, beating with a heavy stick, penal servitude, exile and execution — which were inherited by successive dynasties.

Following the example of European and US criminal law, the code viewed corporal punishment as a violation of human rights, and thus abolished the five traditional punishments. That laid the foundation for what would become Article 33 of the Criminal Code, which defines the five main punishments — the death penalty, life imprisonment, imprisonment of more than two months but less than 15 years, short-term imprisonment and fines.

In the early years of the Republic of China, insufficient judicial funding made it impossible to establish nationwide prisons, and the abolition of corporal punishment led to a rapid increase in offenders. Many believed that Western-style prisons treated inmates too leniently and failed as an effective deterrent. In 1914, then-president Yuan Shikai (袁世凱) reinstated caning and exile as punishments.

While the KMT’s proposal is well-intentioned, the Criminal Code outlines several serious crimes, and applying caning solely to online scammers would result in many gaps. In a populist atmosphere, the public might demand that caning be applied to crimes such as drunk driving, drug offenses, sexual assault, child abuse and child pornography. In that scenario, caning would inevitably become the sixth principal punishment under the Criminal Code.

If the focus is only on responding to individual offenses rather than solving the root of the problem, such a measure could cause more harm than good.

In 1935, a special chapter on “rehabilitative measures” was added to the Criminal Code. The judicial resolution justifying the addition stated that the Criminal Code would mandate educational compulsory labor to toughen prisoners’ bodies and minds, instill good life habits and equip them with skills to earn a living, thereby eliminating criminal thinking. Academics at the time widely regarded this to be the most valuable improvement to the Criminal Code.

Unexpectedly, the then-Council of Grand Justices (now known as the Constitutional Court) in 2021 issued Interpretation No. 812, which said that educational compulsory labor “infringes upon the due process of law and the principle of proportionality as outlined in Article 8 and Article 23 of the Constitution respectively” and abolished the system entirely. The reasoning was baffling, and legislators were given no opportunity to make corrections — it could likely be the reason behind today’s rampant expansion of fraud rings.

The opposition parties’ proposal to reintroduce caning undermines the overall structure of the Criminal Code. The Constitutional Court should take responsibility for this outcome.

The law should promptly be amended to reinstate educational compulsory labor as a rehabilitative measure. That would safeguard the nation and ensure public security.

Chao Hsuey-wen is an assistant professor and holds a doctorate in law from Fu Jen Catholic University.

Translated by Kyra Gustavsen


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In Kaohsiung, you can find an old dojo built by the Japanese overlooking the seaside. There, a master of blade martial arts is the custodian of the sword of the legendary Japanese swordsman Musashi.The Japanese developed Kaohsiung. There was little to show before they arrived. The city does not define itself as a “Japanese” place, but it does not anchor its identity in anything that would oppose Japan, such as revanchism — a barbaric ideology that has only ever generated suffering — or national pride.The residents of Kaohsiung are too pragmatic for that. The city might have become a wonderful

By JulienOeuillet

Urban prosperity does not always begin with industrial parks or investment briefings — sometimes, it begins overnight, when the heartbeats of 170,000 people land in a stadium, shaking the ground like an invisible wave of urban renewal. During the two nights that K-pop group Twice performed in Kaohsiung last weekend, the city was not just a city. Instead, it felt like a massive body that had just woken up — the MRT’s blood flow sped up, the night markets’ sense of smell remained active until 4am and the shopping districts swelled as if injected with oxygen. This was not a

By Liu Che-ting 劉哲廷

The recent confirmation hearing for Austin Dahmer, US President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of war for strategy, plans and capabilities, was potentially groundbreaking. Asked how the US could help Taiwan deter or defeat a Chinese attack, Dahmer said: “The US strategy of denial complements Taiwan’s plans for layered defense by providing combat-capable forces on operationally relevant timelines, to provide a strong local defense that is difficult and painful to dislodge while bolstering allied confidence in our resolve.”For the US to provide “combat-capable forces on operationally relevant timelines,” it would be necessary for Washington to implement an assertive forward

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How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalismAmazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure on which businesses and societies depend, turning even governments into its serfs, but now some people are fighting back

For the past six years, every Black Friday — that made-up carnival of consumption — Amazon workers and their allies have mobilized across the world in coordinated strikes and protests. At first glance, these disputes look like the standard struggle between a giant capitalist employer and the people who keep it running. However, Amazon is no ordinary corporation. It is the clearest expression of what I call technofeudalism: a new economic order in which platforms behave like lords owning the fiefs that have replaced markets.

To appreciate Amazon’s extraordinary power, we must recall the system it is helping to bury. Capitalism relied on markets and profit. Firms invested in productive capital, hired workers, produced commodities and lived or died by profit and loss. The emerging order is one in which the most powerful capitalist firms have exited that market altogether. They own the digital infrastructure that everyone else must use to trade, work, communicate and live.

Amazon sits at the apex of this new order, because it owns the cloud computing platform — Amazon Web Services (AWS) — upon which other technological firms, such as Uber, rely, but also large parts of banking, healthcare, logistics, public administration, media and education sectors. Once these businesses are embedded in AWS, switching costs become prohibitive. Firms thus become vassals on Amazon’s vast cloud fief and surrender their customers’ data. The European Commission on 2020 charged Amazon with using the sales data of other sellers to illegally gain an advantage in the European marketplace.

Amazon fuses logistics, cloud infrastructure, data extraction and algorithmic command into one vertically integrated system. Inside Amazon’s warehouses, technofeudal domination takes a more visceral form. Workers are subjected to minute-by-minute surveillance: handheld scanners and other devices track their movements; algorithms measure their pace, track productivity and monitor behavior.

However, Amazon has said that claims of excessive surveillance are “factually incorrect,” and any recording was necessary for ensuring safety and efficiency in its operations.

Consumers, too, are drawn into the system. Each click, scroll, search and purchase on Amazon trains its algorithms to predict our needs and manipulate our desires. We, effectively, labor so that Amazon’s cloud capital accumulates. Each time we buy, Amazon can take as much as 40 percent of the sale price from the sellers in what I call cloud rents.

Governments have a job, ostensibly, to regulate behemoths such as Amazon, but they are also becoming its serfs as public institutions run their data and communications on Amazon servers.

The Guardian said key British ministerial departments that have contracts with AWS include the Home Office, the Department for Work and Pensions, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Unsurprisingly, cloud capital has invaded battlefields and the shadowy world of surveillance. Amazon Rekognition, launched in 2016, was aimed at law-enforcement bodies including the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Palantir — the surveillance firm that produces software used in everything from counterterrorism to predictive policing to ICE’s deportation machine — has a partnership with AWS. Amazon is also directly involved in Project Nimbus, the 2021 cloud contract through which Amazon and Google provide the Israeli state with advanced cloud computing, artificial intelligence and secure data storage.

Amazon is a technofeudal rentier owning the digital infrastructure on which privateers, states and societies depend. Thankfully, there are signs of a pushback. The campaign that brings workers and citizens together every Black Friday — Make Amazon Pay — recognizes this transformation. What began as a fight for workers’ rights has grown into a coalition of unions, climate campaigners, tax justice groups, digital rights advocates, and migrant and Palestine solidarity networks. They understand that Amazon’s reach extends across logistics, finance, governance, ecological destruction, surveillance and war.

Its demands — decent wages, safe workplaces, collective bargaining, climate action, tax justice, curbs on Amazon’s vast water consumption, an end to its entanglement with surveillance agencies and military operations — are integrated. Together, they map the much needed unified resistance to technofeudal domination.

In the early decades of industrial capitalism, cross-border worker solidarity was hard. Today, the resistance to cloud capital can use its own tools to coordinate at planetary scale. Campaigns such as Make Amazon Pay offer a glimpse of the alliances required to confront our new cloudalist overlords. It might be only a beginning — but it is a hopeful one.

Yanis Varoufakis is the leader of the European Realistic Disobedience Front and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.


title: Seoul is facing  a more brazen North Korea

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It is one of the most heavily armed borders on Earth, where a single miscalculation could ignite a conflict and draw in the US and China, among others. The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas — the autocratic North from the democratic South — is always tense, but over the past year, frictions have spiked.

Seoul’s offer last week to hold talks with Pyongyang over the tensions, while well-intentioned, is flawed. Dialogue with Kim Jong-un’s regime rarely works as intended. Kim is not after reconciliation; he wants regime survival, and his confidence is growing.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung is under pressure to act. Over the past 12 months, there have been repeated border breaches by North Korean troops, which have at times drawn warning shots from the South, and Pyongyang conducted a ballistic missile test earlier this month.

The two Koreas remain technically at war. There was no formal treaty ending the Korean War, meaning the two have in theory been in conflict for more than seven decades. Unification under the North’s leadership has been central to Pyongyang’s ideology, despite being an increasingly unrealistic goal. Kim last year made the break explicit, branding the South a hostile state for the first time.

This shift is telling, and marks Pyongyang’s new self-assurance, as Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth has said. Pyongyang today is not the isolated pariah Lee’s predecessors faced.

Kim has forged a mutual defense treaty with Russia, formalizing military and intelligence cooperation. He has sent troops to fight alongside Russian forces against Ukraine, and deepened ties with main trading partner China. The image of Kim flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at a military parade in Beijing in September sent a calculated message: This is an emerging anti-Western axis in Northeast Asia.

These partnerships blunt the sting of sanctions, reducing incentives for the North Korean leader to dial back his military ambitions. Pyongyang is estimated to have about 50 warheads, with some thought to be capable of reaching the continental US. He is expanding nuclear weapons development and accelerating his push to modernize the army.

Korea-watchers such as RAND adjunct senior defense researcher Bruce Bennett said Kim is not interested in peaceful unification. Instead, he “appears to be pursuing a different option: domination of South Korea.”

Lee is hoping to prevent that through conciliation. He has suspended anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts and called for the restoration of the inter-Korean hotline. These gestures echo earlier attempts by previous South Korean presidents to achieve a form of peaceful coexistence, a goal that looks ever more elusive.

This should focus minds in Seoul and Washington. South Korea is a US treaty ally and an attack could drag its forces into conflict. More than 28,500 US military personnel are stationed in South Korea. US intelligence believes Kim is most likely to use his nuclear weapons for coercion, not combat, but that still raises the risks of miscalculation.

Lee’s push for dialogue is prudent, but he must also bolster deterrence. That means accelerating the modernization of South Korea’s defenses and deepening coordination with Japan, despite historical grievances. Expanding cyberintelligence capabilities to better track Pyongyang’s activities would also be a smart move.

The president would also need to manage growing public support for the ability to rapidly develop nuclear weapons.

A recent poll found a record 76 percent of South Koreans supported acquiring such capability. The debate itself shows how the credibility of the US nuclear umbrella — a promise to retaliate on their behalf in the event of attack — is fraying.

US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to South Korea, where he was feted by Lee and presented with a replica of a gold crown, has yielded results. He has given the green light for Seoul to develop nuclear-powered attack submarines, which could in theory give it the ability to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons, although the details have yet to be ironed out.

Pyongyang said the move risks igniting a global arms race, which no doubt caused considerable eye-rolling among nuclear observers.

That uncertainty shows why Seoul needs to match its military buildup with realism. Acknowledging that denuclearization has failed is strategically wise, and could drag Kim back to the negotiating table. If nothing else, it would buy time. Kim has hinted he could be open to dialogue if the US stops insisting he gives up nuclear weapons. At best, diplomacy could slow the pace of development.

The 4km-wide stretch of the DMZ has always been dangerous. With a more emboldened North Korea and shifting global alliances, the stakes are higher than ever. The goal should not be to chase an illusion of peace. It is to prevent a war from starting by mistake.

Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC’s lead Asia presenter, and worked for the BBC across Asia and South Asia for two decades.


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India’s economy, so often touted for potential to supplant China as a global engine, is having a hard time getting its arms around inflation. Not that it is too high, but because the pace of price increases is worryingly low. Fixing this would require more than the standard prescription — simply cutting interest rates. The promise of an aggressive and sustained easing is needed, one that brings its own share of challenges.

This would be tough for Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra to get right. Markets already appreciate the need for a change. The rupee is the worst-performing Asian currency this year against the dollar and it on Friday fell to a record low.

Traders attributed at least part of the slide to the RBI’s reluctance to intervene, breaking with the practice of the past few months, as the currency weakened largely because of an elusive trade deal with the US.

The bank’s absence might be a strong signal that a policy shift is in the wings; lower borrowing costs tend to weigh on a currency. (The central bank returned to the market on Monday last week.)

For Malhotra, this could be a Janet Yellen moment. For years after the end of the Global Financial Crisis, inflation failed to pick up in the US and was, in the view of then-Federal Reserve chair Yellen a little too low for comfort. Asked why inflation remained stubbornly low, she in 2017 conceded that it was a “mystery.” Two years later, her successor, Jerome Powell, called the phenomenon “one of the major challenges of our time.” It took COVID-19, massive fiscal stimulus and the supply chain pressures the pandemic uncorked for inflation to awaken.

Humility regarding India’s projections is in order. The central bank’s forecasts have consistently overestimated inflation. A surprisingly low reading for October means forecasts of 2.6 percent for the year to March are already looking out of date. And that call was made as recently as last month. Considering the bank’s target is 4 percent, policy is now way too tight.

The moment calls for boldness. The RBI should embrace the low inflation environment when its committee meets in two weeks.

At the prior gathering in early October, the bank emphasized prudence and a neutral stance, one that neither holds the economy back nor stimulates it.

It is now time to shift to an “accommodative” posture, Bloomberg Economics said. This would tell investors and consumers that Malhotra’s strong preference is to keep cutting. After a period of excessive caution, the RBI should let its hair down a bit. It would also help growth, which has been faltering.

Recognizing that inflation is not the threat it was comes with its own dangers. The rupee is likely to come under further pressure. Sure, the RBI could pair its change in rate outlook with more intervention. This should be restricted to what central banks and finance ministries like to call “smoothing” — not standing totally against the market, but watching that things do not get out of hand. To be more aggressive would risk looking like authorities are conflicted, recognizing the need for easier money, but unwilling to embrace the full implications.

There is more ailing the rupee than the rate picture.

Malhotra recently said that securing a good trade deal with the US would bring money back to India’s currency. The US currently levies 50 percent tariffs on Indian exports, the harshest among Asian nations. Assuming an accord is reached sooner or later, the definition of “good” would be in the eye of the beholder. Southeast Asian nations, for example, got a reduced levy, but agreed to certain US priorities, some aimed at constraining China.

Whatever agreement Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hatches with US President Donald Trump has to be sold domestically. It could be messy.

The RBI cannot control this, but it can attend to matters on its own patch. Acknowledging the inflation miss is part of that. Doing something about the problem, and adjusting mindsets to avoid repeating it, is critical. This month’s meeting is shaping up as eventful. In that, there should be little mystery.

Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News.

title: What India can do about its low inflation problem


title: Last-gasp Foden goal spares Man City

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TOUGH JEERS:  Spurs’ boss Thomas Frank called fans booing Vicario unacceptable, while the goalkeeper said he understood the frustration and apologized for the loss

Phil Foden on Saturday spared Manchester City’s blushes after the Premier League title challengers blew a two-goal lead in a dramatic 3-2 victory over Leeds United, while Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank’s problems mounted in a 2-1 defeat to Fulham.

Pep Guardiola’s side were in danger of losing more ground in the title race following a second-half collapse at the Etihad Stadium.

Foden and Josko Gvardiol put City two up before the interval, but third-bottom Leeds hit back through Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Lukas Nmecha.

Leeds players block a free-kick by Manchester City’s Tijjani Reijnders, right, during their Premier League match in Manchester, England, on Saturday. Photo: AP

Foden clinched a nerve-jangling victory that lifted City into second place, four points behind leaders Arsenal.

It was a much-needed win after consecutive defeats against Newcastle United the previous weekend and Bayer 04 Leverkusen on Tuesday last week.

“It was a relief,” Guardiola said. “The game was not perfect in the first half, but it should be over with the chances we had. Football is emotions. We conceded the second and after we made a step-up. In the end it’s the quality of Phil.”

Sunderland’s Granit Xhaka, left, and AFC Bournemouth’s Bafode Diakite vie for the ball during their Premier League match at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, England, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

City had made their worst start to a campaign for five years and their second-worst under Guardiola, but they took just 59 seconds to move in front as Foden fired a close-range strike in off the bar.

Leeds had no answer to City’s slick start and Gvardiol looked to have put the hosts in complete control with a tap-in from Nico O’Reilly’s header in the 25th minute.

Calvert-Lewin made an immediate impact after coming off the bench, reducing the deficit with a clinical finish after pouncing on Matheus Nunes’s woeful pass inside the City area in the 49th minute.

Leeds equalized in the 68th minute when Nmecha’s penalty — awarded for Gvardiol’s foul on Calvert-Lewin — was saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma before the forward recovered to score from the rebound.

In stoppage-time, Foden cleverly made room in the area for an ice-cool finish as Guardiola breathed a sigh of relief.

At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Frank’s men made a disastrous start as Kenny Tete put Fulham ahead before Harry Wilson’s superb strike punished a calamitous blunder from goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.

Tottenham were booed off at halftime and although Mohammed Kudus pulled one back after the interval, there were more jeers at the final whistle.

With only three wins in their last 13 games in all competitions, Tottenham have slumped to 10th place.

Frank slammed the Tottenham fans who booed Vicario.

“I didn’t like that our fans booed at him. They can’t be true Tottenham fans because everyone supports each other when you’re on the pitch and we do everything we can to perform. It is OK that they are frustrated, because we haven’t won at home for a long time. We all badly want to win so I’m fine with them booing after the game, but during the game I hope it was one incident and it never happens again. That is unacceptable in my opinion,” he said.

Vicario apologized for the error, saying that he understood the fans’ frustrations.

“The booing is part of football. I’m a big man. I’m quite old. We cannot be influenced by situations in the stand. Fans have the right to do what they think,” he said. “We apologize for the defeat. It’s painful.”

Newcastle celebrated boss Eddie Howe’s 48th birthday with a 4-1 rout of Everton at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

The first away league win since April 7 was the ideal present for Howe, whose side made an explosive start when Malick Thiaw headed home from Lewis Miley’s corner after just 52 seconds. It was the fastest goal in the Premier League this season.

Brentford striker Igor Thiago reached 11 league goals this season as his double fueled a 3-1 win against second-bottom Burnley in west London.

Sunderland climbed to fourth place after fighting back from two goals down to beat AFC Bournemouth 3-2 at the Stadium of Light.


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New Zealand’s Alice Robinson on Saturday secured a record-setting fifth FIS Alpine Ski World Cup giant slalom victory in Copper Mountain, Colorado, becoming the first woman outside Europe or North America to achieve the milestone.

The 23-year-old, who led after the first run, held her nerve to perfectly defend her advantage with an equal-best second run on the course set at an altitude of 3,000 meters and claim her 18th World Cup podium in front of a raucous American crowd.

With the win, Robinson broke a tie with compatriot Claudia Riegler to become the most successful women’s alpine ski racer from outside Europe or North America.

New Zealand’s Alice Robinson competes during a FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women’s giant slalom race in Copper Mountain, Colorado, on Saturday. Photo: AP

“I didn’t know that, but that is pretty cool,” Robinson told FIS’ Web site following the event.

“It’s always really special for me to represent New Zealand, especially in a sport like ski racing that’s so dominated by North America and Europe, so I’m really proud of that,” she said.

Robinson did not realize she had finished first, after almost losing her balance early on in the second run, she said.

“Honestly, it was complete disbelief — I thought I blew it with the mistakes,” she said.

Austria’s Julia Scheib finished second, 0.96 seconds behind Robinson, narrowly missing out on a second World Cup win. Norway’s Thea Louise Stjernesund completed the podium in third place.

American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin, tied for 18th after the first run, delighted home fans with a storming second effort that briefly vaulted her to the lead, but she was ultimately 2.08 seconds off the pace.

She remains atop the overall standings with 268 points, 50 ahead of Albanian Lara Colturi with Scheib in third on 180.

Shiffrin would get another chance to add to her record 103 World Cup wins in front of fans in her home state. The American was yesterday seeking to add to her 66 wins in slalom, the most by any skier in the World Cup’s 59-year history.

On Friday, Austria’s Stefan Brennsteiner got his first win in men’s giant slalom at age 34.

The circuit moves to Mont-Tremblant, Canada, next month.

Additional reporting by AFP

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title: Apes claim Taipei flag football title

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The Apes yesterday dominated the Buccs 20-12 to claim the APEX5 Season 2 crown in five-on-five flag football at Taipei Medical University.

Kui Wang threw three touchdown passes for the Apes, with captain Richie Han, Hiromu Toshimitsu and Bryce Jacobs crossing for six-pointers for the champions.

Toshimitsu also executed four sacks in a big defensive effort.

Apes’ and Buccs’ players pose for a photograph at Taipei Medical University yesterday, after playing the final game of the APEX5 Season 2 flag football league. Photo courtesy of @newjackphotography

“It was great,” Apes defensive linebacker Mike Nicholaides said. “A whole team win. I love playing for Richie and the Apes.”

“The Buccs played hard and made it really fun,” Nicholaides added. “I’m so happy to get the win.”

Flag football is to be played at the 2028 Olympic Games. Men’s and women’s teams are to compete in Los Angeles in the noncontact variant of football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them.

The season in Taipei started with eight teams: the Apes, the Buccs, Beitou, Songshan, the Sonics, Mamahuhu, the Challengers and the Breakers.

The eight sides played 28 group-stage games over three months ahead of the playoffs over the previous weekend.

The Apes and the Buccs earned their shot to etch their names into Taiwan flag football history after advancing with upset wins over Beitou and Songshan respectively.

Songshan were the top seed from the group stage, with Beitou second, earning direct qualification to the semi-finals and skipping the quarter-finals played earlier on Sunday last week.

Both top seeds were knocked out.

Teams who needed to win two straight games did exactly that to force their way into the championship match.

The Buccs upset the fourth-seeded Sonics 20-18 in the quarter-finals, and then shocked Songshan 28-22 in the semi-finals.

The Apes took care of business in the quarter-finals against sixth-seeded Mamahuhu, winning 40-24, before defeating Beitou 43-20 in the semis.

People interested in playing can contact the league through Instagram, @apex5_football, the organizers said.


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Two teenage Taiwanese paddlers on Saturday won gold for Taiwan at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Youth Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Seventeen-year-olds Kuo Guan-hong and Hsu Hsien-chia captured the U19 boys’ doubles title after edging Japan’s Ryuusei Kawakami and Kazuki Yoshiyama in a five-game final at BT Arena.

The Taiwanese duo looked set to close out the best-of-five match in straight games after taking the first two 11-4, 11-9, but their Japanese opponents rallied to even the score, claiming the next two games 13-11, 11-9.

Taiwanese paddlers Kuo Guan-hong, left, and Hsu Hsien-chia pose with their gold medals after winning the U19 boys’ doubles title at the International Table Tennis Federation World Youth Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Photo: screen grab from the Taiwan Cooperative BankTable Tennis Team’s Facebook page

In a tense decider, Kuo and Hsu stayed level with their opponents before pulling ahead with two straight points to seal the match 11-9.

The victory marks Taiwan’s first gold in the U19 boys’ doubles event since the former U18 World Junior Table Tennis Championships were reorganized into the ITTF World Youth Championships (U19 + U15) in 2021.

In 2021, Kuo and Hsu also won Taiwan’s first, and only, U15 boys’ doubles gold, defeating another Japanese pair in the final at Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

title: Taiwanese teens bag table tennis gold in Romania


title: Taiwanese bodybuilder wins double gold at Worlds

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Taiwanese bodybuilder Liu Ming-i yesterday won two gold medals at the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) World Bodybuilding Championships, where Taiwan placed 14th overall.

Liu captured the first gold in the men’s fitness model 176cm and under category, beating 10 other competitors, before adding another in the men’s physique 170cm and under division, topping a field of 16 athletes.

“This is our anniversary gift — the result of the hard work my wife and I put in together,” Liu wrote on Instagram after the competition.

Taiwanese bodybuilder Liu Ming-i, center, poses with a gold medal at the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness World Bodybuilding Championships in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Photo provided by the Ministry of Sports via CNA

Liu, 37, began training at the relatively late age of 27. Aware that he had to catch up to more experienced competitors in the field, he maintained an intensive, near-daily training routine for years.

Earlier this year, Liu won gold in the men’s physique 170cm and under event at the IFBB Asian Championships, earning praise for his symmetry and stage presentation.

Taiwan sent a four-member team to this year’s world championships in Saudi Arabia from Thursday to today, where China, Iran and South Korea took the top three spots.


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French-trained Calandagan yesterday became the first overseas horse in 20 years to win the Japan Cup in a thriller, edging Masquerade Ball by a nose in a record time.

The four-year-old, trained by Francis Graffard and ridden by Mickael Barzalona, broke Japan’s winning streak with a superb run at Tokyo Racecourse, coming home in 2 minutes, 20.3 seconds, breaking the previous mark held by Almond Eye.

It was the latest victory in a superb year for Calandagan after winning the Grand Prix de St Cloud, Champion Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Calandagan, center, ridden by Mickael Barzalona, races in the Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse yesterday. Photo: JIJI Press via AFP

He was also named European horse of the year earlier this month.

“The mission is accomplished,” Frenchman Barzalona said. “It was a big target for him and we’re very proud of him, he’s a very talented horse and he showed to the world today that he’s the best in the world at the moment.”

Calandagan surged down the home straight to catch Masquerade Ball at the line.

Barzalona bumped fists with his fellow Frenchman Christophe Lemaire atop Masquerade Ball after a finish for the ages.

“He’s a big fighter, my horse, and proved it today,” Barzalona said.

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RUGBY UNION

Springboks dominate Wales

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu on Saturday starred as South Africa ran in 11 unanswered tries to inflict a record 73-0 home defeat on Wales in their Autumn Nations Series international Test in Cardiff. The loss surpassed Wales’ 68-14 defeat to England in the Six Nations in March. It was also the first time they had been kept pointless in Cardiff in the professional era — the last time Wales were kept at nil in the capital was in 1967 in a 3-0 loss to Ireland. They were also beaten 51-0 by France in 1998 at Wembley in what was technically a home game. The comprehensive victory marked the second successive season that the Springboks have completed an Autumn Series clean sweep.

South Africa’s Eben Etzebeth, bottom, dives over the line to score a try during their Autumn Nations Series Test against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday. Photo: AFP

SOCCER

Kashima in sight of

Kashima Antlers yesterday moved within sight of a record-extending ninth J1 League title, but Kashiwa Reysol ensured the championship race would go down to the final day. Antlers beat Tokyo Verdy 1-0, but Reysol stayed one point behind them in the table after a 3-1 win over the league’s bottom side Albirex Niigata. Antlers can wrap up their first title since 2016 when they host Yokohama F-Marinos on Saturday, but any slipup could hand Reysol their second crown.

OLYMPICS

Hockey stadium not finished

There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time. Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going right down to the wire. A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena — the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan — had to be moved, and new test events are not scheduled until Jan. 9-11 next year. “There is no plan B,” Milan Cortina head games operations officer Andrea Francisi said on Saturday. “So necessarily we have to be able to organize the competition in an impeccable manner at Santagiulia.” The first scheduled Olympic hockey game at the arena is a women’s preliminary round match on Feb. 5 next year, one day before the opening ceremony.

BOBSLEDDING

Team asks for donations

The Belgium women’s team on Friday said they had started a donation page after traveling to Norway for a competition before finding out they were not registered to race. The Belgian Bullets arrived in Lillehammer only to find their names missing from the start list for the Europe Cup, despite having paid for travel and accommodation. A few weeks ago, their coach noticed an incorrect registration for an event on the same weekend in Innsbruck, Austria, 2,000km away. They asked the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation for a change, but to no avail. “We started a GoFundMe campaign to help us pay for our new plan toward the Winter Olympics,” they said. On Thursday, team members Kelly Van Petegem, Jienity de Kler and Dora de Haseleer posted a heart-felt video pleading for help. “As a self-funded team, where all the athletes pay for themselves, this will have a massive impact on us,” De Kler said.

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‘NO MERCY’:  Demonstrators demanded that members of the Philippine Congress, officials and company owners be prosecuted for stolen flood control project funds

Thousands of demonstrators, including Catholic Church clergy, protested in the Philippines yesterday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption scandal that has buffeted the Asian democracy.

Left-wing groups led a separate protest in Manila’s main park with a blunt demand for all implicated government officials to immediately resign and face prosecution.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption blamed for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects across an archipelago long prone to deadly flooding and extreme weather in tropical Asia.

Protesters carrying an effigy of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr march towards Malacanang palace during an anti-corruption rally in Manila yesterday. Photo: AFP

More than 17,000 police officers were deployed in metropolitan Manila to secure the separate protests. The Malacanang presidential palace complex in Manila was in a security lockdown, with key access roads and bridges blocked by anti-riot police forces, trucks and barbed wire railings.

In a deeply divided democracy where two presidents have been separately overthrown in the past 39 years partly over allegations of plunder, there have been isolated calls for the military to withdraw support for the Marcos administration.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines steadfastly rejected such calls and yesterday welcomed a statement signed by at least 88 mostly retired generals, including three military chiefs of staff, who said they “strongly condemn and reject any call for the Armed Forces of the Philippines to engage in unconstitutional acts or military adventurism.”

“The unified voice of our retired and active leaders reaffirms that the Armed Forces of the Philippines remains a pillar of stability and a steadfast guardian of democracy,” the military said in a statement.

Catholic churches across the country helped lead yesterday’s anti-corruption protests in their districts, with the main day-long rally held at a pro-democracy “people power” monument along EDSA highway in the capital region. Police said about 5,000 demonstrators mostly wearing white joined before noon.

They demanded that members of the Philippine Congress, officials and construction company owners behind thousands of anomalous flood control projects in recent years be imprisoned and ordered to return the government funds they stole.

A protester wore a shirt with a blunt message: “No mercy for the greedy.”

“If money is stolen, that’s a crime, but if dignity and lives are taken away, these are sins against fellow human beings, against the country, but, most importantly, against God,” said Reverend Flavie Villanueva, a Catholic priest, who has helped many families of impoverished drug suspects killed under former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdowns.

“Jail all the corrupt and jail all the killers,” Villanueva told the crowd of protesters.

Since Marcos first raised alarm over the flood control anomalies in his state of the nation address before the Congress in July, at least seven public works officers have been jailed for illegal use of public funds and other graft charges in one flood control project anomaly alone. Executives of Sunwest Corp, a construction firm involved in the project, were being sought.

On Friday last week, Henry Alcantara, a former government engineer who has acknowledged under oath in Philippine Senate inquiry hearings his involvement in the anomalies, returned 110 million pesos (US$1.9 million) in kickbacks that justice officials said he stole and promised to return more in a few weeks.

About 12 billion pesos worth of assets of suspects in flood control anomalies have been frozen by authorities, Marcos said.

Marcos has pledged that many of at least 37 powerful senators, members of the Congress and wealthy construction executives implicated in the corruption scandal would be in jail by Christmas.

Protesters in yesterday’s rallies said many more officials, including implicated senators and Philippine House of Representatives members, should be jailed sooner, and ordered to return the funds they stole and used to finance fleets of private jets and luxury cars, mansions, and extravagant lifestyles.


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‘UNITY’: While the pontifical visit to Muslim-majority Turkey drew little attention locally, his arrival was eagerly awaited in religiously diverse Lebanon

Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a four-day trip to Turkey yesterday after a warm welcome by its tiny Christian community, before heading to Lebanon with a message of peace for the crisis-mired nation.

On his first overseas trip since being elected leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Leo met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before traveling to Iznik for a celebration marking 1,700 years since the First Council of Nicaea, one of the early Church’s most important gatherings.

On Saturday, the American pope hosted thousands of worshipers who battled the rain to attend a public mass in Istanbul, with many traveling from across Turkey to join the multilingual service, which left many moved by its beautiful and haunting choral interludes.

Pope Leo XIV, center right, accompanied by Metropolitan of Chalcedon Bishop Emmanuel, center left, takes part in a divine liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George in Istanbul yesterday. Photo: EPA/STRINGER

On his final morning, Leo attended a prayer service at the Armenian cathedral then joined a divine liturgy — the Orthodox equivalent of Mass — at the Patriarchal Church of St. George before a final blessing.

He was to have lunch with Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, a day after they signed a joint declaration in which they pledged to take “new and courageous steps on the path towards unity.”

Despite doctrinal differences that led to the Great Schism of 1054, resulting in a split between the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Church, the two sides maintain dialogue and hold joint celebrations.

They also agreed to continue their efforts to establish a common date for Easter, which is currently celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians on different days.

The pope’s trip comes as the Orthodox world appears more fragmented than ever, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine accelerating the split between the Moscow and Constantinople patriarchates.

Pope Leo is the fifth pontiff to visit Turkey, after Paul VI in 1967, John Paul II in 1979, Benedict XVI in 2006 and Francis in 2014.

He was yesterday scheduled to leave Istanbul and fly to Beirut for a visit lasting until tomorrow.

The six-day two-nation trip is the first major international test for the first pope from the US, who was elected head of the Catholic Church in May and whose understated style contrasts with that of his charismatic and impulsive predecessor, Francis.

Although Leo’s visit drew little attention in Turkey, a Muslim-majority nation of 86 million whose Christian community numbers only about 100,000, it is eagerly awaited in Lebanon, a religiously diverse country of 5.8 million people.

Since 2019 Lebanon has been ravaged by crises, including an economic collapse, a devastating port blast in Beirut in 2020 and the recent war with Israel.

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Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a family gathering in California on Saturday night, US police said, calling it a “targeted incident.”

The shooting took place inside a banquet hall in Stockton, northeast of San Francisco, just before 6pm, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Heather Brent told reporters.

The victims, who range from “juveniles to adults,” were taken to local hospitals, Brent said, adding that information on the shooting was limited.

Police walk at the scene after several people were shot at a family gathering in Stockton, California, on Saturday night. Photo: REUTERS

“What we have confirmed at this time is that there was a banquet hall where a family was celebrating. We have 14 victims of this shooting. Four of those are deceased,” Brent said. “Early indications suggest that this may be a targeted incident. Investigators are exploring all possibilities at this time.”

The sheriff’s office said in a post on social media that detectives were “working to determine the circumstances leading up to this tragedy.”

“We are urging anyone with information, video footage, or who may have witnessed any part of this incident to contact the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office immediately,” it said.

No suspect has been identified so far.

California Governor Gavin Newsom had been briefed on the shooting, his office said in a post on social media.

There have been 504 mass shootings in the US so far this year, including the Stockton incident, according to the Gun Violence Archive — which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.

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title: Tropical storm kills three as it approaches Vietnam

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Tropical Storm Koto killed three people and left another missing as it approached Vietnam, authorities said yesterday, as strong winds and high seas buffeted vessels off the country’s flood-hit central coast.

Heavy rains have lashed Vietnam’s middle belt in recent weeks, flooding historic sites and popular holiday destinations, and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

Authorities ordered boats to shore and diverted dozens of flights as Koto whipped up huge waves and dangerous winds, state media reported.

People wade through flood water in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam, on Nov. 20. Photo: EPA/STRINGER

Two vessels sank in the rough seas, a fishing boat in Khanh Hoa province and a smaller raft in Lam Dong, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.

A total of three people were killed, and authorities were still searching for a fourth, it said.

Koto was more than 300km offshore yesterday morning, having been downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm.

Vietnam’s weather bureau said it was moving slowly and expected to weaken further before colliding with the coast this week.

It forecast rains of up to 150mm tomorrow and Wednesday from Hue to Khanh Hoa — regions that have only just recovered from historic floods.

Vietnam is in one of the most active tropical cyclone regions on Earth and is typically affected by 10 typhoons or storms a year, but Koto is the 15th of this year.

Natural disasters have left more than 400 people dead or missing this year in Vietnam and caused more than US$3 billion in damage, according to the national statistics office.

The Southeast Asian nation is prone to heavy rain between June and September, but scientists have identified a pattern of human-driven climate change making extreme weather more frequent and destructive.


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Loved ones fear for pro-Tibet student detained while visiting family in China

Her friends warned her not to go, but pro-Tibet activist Zhang Yadi (張雅笛) wanted to see her family, and so traveled home to China this summer, hoping the trip would go as smoothly as previous visits.

Instead, she disappeared and has not been seen since.

Relatives told reporters that the 22-year-old was detained by Chinese authorities and has been in solitary confinement for more than three months.

Exiled Tibetans shout slogans from a bus after being detained during a protest against the visit of Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi to India, in New Delhi on Aug. 19. Photo: AP

Her plight illustrates the risk of going home for Chinese nationals who displease the state, as it increasingly tightens control over issues it considers sensitive — such as that of Tibet.

“It’s terrible... I’m lost,” her partner Yarphel Norsang said. “I don’t know who to ask for help... I just want to know if she’s OK.”

Friends of Zhang, who had been living in France, were worried because she wrote for a Web site advocating for rights in Tibet, where China stands accused of repressing religious and ethnic freedoms.

Zhang decided to go anyway, visiting her hometown of Changsha in central Hunan Province, before going on to Yunnan, a southwestern province that includes Tibetan areas.

It was there that she vanished in late July.

She stopped answering calls, although she sent one voice note to a friend, in which she said in a weak voice that she was in hospital. Her relatives said they later received confirmation of her detention and transfer to a detention center in Changsha.

According to them, Zhang is accused of “inciting division of the country,” a crime punishable by up to five years in prison or possibly more.

She has since “had no contact with anyone except the guards and those who interrogate her,” a relative living abroad said.

Her partner, now in Germany, has called on the French government to intervene, and diplomatic sources in Paris said they have “expressed their concerns” to China.

Berlin has also confirmed it is following the case alongside other embassies. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “not aware” of the case.

Zhang, who is from the majority Han Chinese ethnic group, went to France in 2022 to study. There she met Yarphel Norsang, a Tibetan exile granted French nationality.

The two entered into a civil partnership, and she began writing for a blog anonymously from their Paris apartment while learning Tibetan.

The site — Chinese Youth Stand For Tibet — is inaccessible in China, featuring censored topics such as the 2022 self-immolation of Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu, or the impact of major construction projects on Tibetan heritage.

“I feel a strong empathy for [the Tibetans] because they are invisible and ignored by the dominant society,” Zhang said on a podcast this year, her voice altered to protect her identity.

Chinese authorities are known to pay attention to such comments though. Tibet, a region often shaken by unrest since China annexed it in 1951, is a particularly touchy subject. Rights groups say repression has increased in recent years and accuse China of trying to eradicate Tibetan identity and culture.

Anyone questioning government policies “risks disappearing, being imprisoned and/or tortured,” Human Rights Watch said.

Authorities reject such accusations and say they respect ethnic and religious differences protected by law, while invoking the need to combat separatist activities. They point to economic progress thanks to massive investment in sectors such as energy and tourism.

The blog Zhang wrote along with four others has come under “disproportionate” scrutiny from Chinese security services, according to its creator, Ginger Duan (段荊棘).

“We had very few subscribers, just a few thousand,” said Ginger, who is now in the US.

Zhang was supposed to start a master’s degree in anthropology in London in September.

She was described by another friend as a “curious young girl who wanted to enjoy her youth and the freedom of expression she did not have in China.”

“I have already said openly that Tibet should be returned to the Tibetans, but [Zhang] never did,” Ginger said. “At most, she should be reprimanded, not arrested.”


title: North Korea to equip its air force with ‘new assets’

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced the country’s air force will be equipped with “new strategic military assets,” state media said yesterday.

Kim made the announcement at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the North Korean air force on Friday, accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju-ae, who is understood to be his recognized successor.

“The air force will be given new strategic military assets and entrusted with a new important duty,” he said in a speech without elaborating, according to state news agency KCNA.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, and his daughter Kim Ju-ae visit Kalma Airport to mark the 80th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army Air Force in Pyongyang on Friday. Photo: EPA/KCNA

“The air force should resolutely repulse and control all sorts of espionage acts and possible military provocations of the enemies,” he added.

State media photos showed Kim and his daughter watching what appeared to be jets performing maneuvers in the sky.

Pyongyang has not responded to offers by South Korea for talks aimed at avoiding accidental military clashes along the two countries’ shared border.

Seoul proposed this month that the two sides hold military talks to discuss the so-called Military Demarcation Line, citing repeated incursions by North Korean troops.

On Monday last week, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said that Pyongyang had taken “extreme actions” by installing triple layers of barbed-wire fences along the border.

“We have now reached a situation where we do not know when an accidental clash may occur,” Lee said.

“All lines of connection have been cut. They are refusing all dialogue and contact. It is a very dangerous state,” he said.


content_text: A partially submerged statue of the Buddha is pictured in a flooded area following Cyclone Ditwah in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, yesterday.

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Notes from Central Taiwan: Should Taiwan save traditional industries?Taiwan’s AI and semiconductor bubble could be set to burst; with an ageing population, worker shortages and offshoring issues, a turn to traditional industries could be the answer

The government released figures for October showing that, year on year, exports increased 49 percent to a record US$61.8 billion for the month. The dramatic increases were partly due to fall being the high season, but largely due to the AI boom driving demand for exports, which many investors fear is rapidly turning into a massive bubble. An editorial in this newspaper last month warned that the government should be ready in case the boom turns to bust.

In previous boom-bust cycles, from shoes and textiles, through computer parts and accessories, to tools, bicycles and sporting goods, Taiwan has survived in part because it has had a robust, diversified manufacturing base, skilled in lean production, and cadres of managers and export firms with vast experience in operating in manufacturing clusters. Take, for example, the textile cluster in western Changhua, or the old mold and die cluster in New Taipei’s Sanchong District (三重). But one by one, these industries and products have moved to other countries.

MICROCHIPS, MEGA BUSINESS

Enter Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). That firm’s production is worth roughly 25 percent of Taiwan’s GDP and 30 percent of the Taiwan stock market’s main index, according to Wiki. By most accounts, it produces 8 to 15 percent of the nation’s GDP. The diversified manufacturing economy of the “miracle years” never depended on a single firm the way Taiwan’s economy today depends on the health of TSMC and its chip industry cohorts.

The Taipei Times editorial called for the government to be prepared for a stock market shock if the AI demand busts. But as various articles on Taiwan’s booming exports have noted in the past few months, Taiwan’s traditional industries are ailing. The Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), which uses a colored light system to indicate the health of a sector, has had electronics on yellow-red (booming) or green most of the year, but metals and chemicals largely flashing blue (contraction).

Traditional industries have been hit hard by the New Taiwan Dollar’s appreciation, which has worsened their ability to compete on price. US President Donald Trump’s tariff madness has also impacted them. TIER’s monthly report for October observed that, excluding AI applications and pre-stocking for new consumer electronics, traditional industry exports were negative. TIER also wrote that “imports of chemicals, basic metals and their products declined significantly, indicating relatively weak traditional industry demand.”

Similarly, the Chung-Hwa Institution for Economic Research (CIER) observed in an August editorial that “since the US-China trade war began in 2018, total manufacturing output has grown 23 percent, but this growth has been concentrated mainly in integrated circuits and electronic products.”

It said that traditional industries have shrunk, “making the export structure even more lopsided.” CIER called on the government to promote R&D and innovation, since those industries employ 25 percent of all workers and offshoring them could lead to social and political disruption.


title: BOOKMAN BILINGUAL 雙語書林： Chinglish or Natural English? 中式英語或道地英語？

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1. 我離開香港前會來看你。

ˇ I will come to see you before I leave Hong Kong.

χ I will come to see you before I will leave Hong Kong.

I don’t know when he will come; but when he does, I will speak to him.

2. 他打開門，拔腿就逃。

ˇ He opened the door and ran off.

χ He opened the door and runs off.

註：在同一句中，兩個動詞表示的動作雖有先後，但都屬過去的範疇，動詞該用過去時態。

3. 他昨天告訴我他暑假期間要到泰國去。

ˇ Yesterday he told me that he was going to Thailand for the summer vacation.

χ Yesterday he told me that he is going to Thailand for the summer vacation.

註：「間接引語」的時態受主句時態的制約，主句的時態是過去式，間接引語的時態也應該用過去式；但表示「習慣動作、常例或一般真理」時，間接引語的時態不受主句時態制約。例如：

When I was a boy, my teacher told me that the earth is round.

He told me that he goes there every winter.

4. 老師指出你報告有錯後，你要怎麼辨呢？

ˇ What will you do after your teacher points (/has pointed) out the mistakes in your paper?

χ What will you do after your teacher pointed out the mistakes in your paper?

註：某些從屬句（特別是受詞從屬句）的動詞時態，常受主句裏動詞時態的制約。關於受詞從屬句的時態連續已見上例。after 子句以及有關時間的副詞子句多以現在式取代過去式，以現在完成式取代過去完成式。

5. 這是你剛才要找的人嗎？

ˇ Is this the man (whom) you were looking for a moment ago?

χ Was this the man (whom) you were looking for a moment ago?

註：修飾主句的形容詞子句的時態不受時態連續限制，應按具體需要而定。試觀察下列句子中主要子句及從屬子句的時態：

The girl who is sitting behind you will play the piano.

The girl (who is) sitting over there was my student.

The boy (whom) you met in the gym the other day is the best student in my class.

The boy (whom) you saw the other day is running towards us.

Exercises:

A. 坐在那邊的那個女孩是我以前的學生。

The girl (who is) sitting over there __________ my student.

1. was 2. were 3. is 4. are

B. 前幾天你在體育館遇到的那個男孩是我的班上最好的學生。

The boy you __________ in the gym the other day is the best student in my class.

1. have met 2. meet 3. met 4. had met

Answers: A. 1, B. 3

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蘇正隆 — 台灣翻譯學學會前理事長、師大翻譯研究所兼任副教授; 編著《走讀自然.花言樹語》，《英語的對與錯》，《世紀病毒：必讀防疫英文知識與詞彙》...等。國家教育研究院中英雙語詞彙審議委員；研究領域為翻譯、術語及詞典編譯，從事植物與人文導覽數十年，亦曾應邀遠赴國外大學做植物人文導覽。

countries: 台灣 香港 泰國


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35 年前，Aesop 創辦人在墨爾本髮廊的後方倉庫，以柑橘、迷迭香、雪松精油，調製出了品牌第一款賦活芳香護手霜的配方原型。為致敬該系列誕生的年份，Aesop 推出典藏紀念版賦活芳香手部清潔露，全球僅限量 1,990 瓶，於世界各地指定店舖限定發售。瓶身以可重複填裝的 375mL 琥珀玻璃製成，搭配典藏設計標籤與印花棉布包裝，並附專屬木盒收藏。

▲ALBION 黃金植萃全效精華油，40ml，1,650元。

ALBION推出全新升級黃金植萃全效精華油，歷經五代進化，今年升級版添加稀有甘草精華油具抗發炎、抗氧化並抑制黑色素作用，明顯提升肌膚透亮度，是今年最重要的升級關鍵。

▲Melvita 玫瑰潤澤護手霜，30ml，420元、玫瑰潤澤護唇膏，4.5g，400元。

Melvita推出香氛果油手唇護理系列，注入大馬士革玫瑰的清新潤澤，護手霜潤澤不黏手，蘊含玫瑰精華油、蘆薈與乳木果油，蓖麻油能強化美甲修護；護唇膏則是融合玫瑰精華油、蜂蠟與杏桃油，改善乾燥脫皮，讓雙唇滋潤柔適，綻放美唇光澤。

▲LIP Intimate Care 甜菜荷荷芭油私密潔膚乳，125ml，1,180元。

LIP Intimate Care 以天然植物優油為核心的私密護理油系列深受女性喜愛，品牌推出潔膚乳劑型，專為敏弱與油性私密肌而生，將荷荷芭油轉化為輕盈細緻的乳狀質地，並融入多種天然保濕配方，帶來更溫和清爽的體驗。

title: 美周記／Aesop推出「典藏版手部清潔露」全球僅1900瓶


title: 《鬼滅》聲優憶出道第五年月收入僅「1萬多」　得靠打工維持生活

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記者楊智仁／綜合報導

出道 24 年的人氣聲優宮野真守曾出演「死亡筆記本、機動戰士鋼彈00、命運石之門、排球少年」，今年更聲演《鬼滅之刃》上弦之貳·童磨 爆紅。近日宮野登上日本電視節目《キントレ》，並罕見透露自己成為聲優第五年時的月收入，引起觀眾熱烈討論。

▼宮野真守透露聲優早期月收入。（圖／翻攝自@miyanomamoru_PR、ufotable）

該節目播出單元〈鍛鍊金錢感覺！日本的平均值挑戰〉，內容透過調查 20 至 40 歲民眾的平均消費，讓藝人猜測正確金額以測試金錢觀，當天的題目之一為「入行 5 年以下的年輕藝人，月平均收入是多少？」在主持人確認題目所指的月份後，宮野隨即作答「大約 6 萬 4 千日圓吧 ( 當時匯率約 18000 台幣 )」，他笑著回憶「如果不算打工收入，我那時大概就是這個數字。」

主持人進一步提問，「搞笑藝人會做暖場表演，那聲優新人有類似的工作嗎？」宮野則透露，「有的，通常是群眾聲音演出，雖然沒有主要角色，但能參與製作，類似臨演的概念。」宮野也坦言，聲優剛出道時的收入極為有限，很多新人必須靠兼職維持生活，他的真實分享讓觀眾看見華麗光環背後的辛勞與努力，也再次引發網友對聲優行業現實面的熱議。

【告白】宮野真守、声優5年目頃の月収明かす「バイト抜いたらこれぐらい」https://t.co/UzmINB2qN2

宮野は「6万4000円」と言い、「バイト抜いたらこれぐらいだった」とした。仕事は「役はもらえないけど、その他大勢のガヤで入ってくる、みたいな。エキストラに近い感じの」と振り返った。 pic.twitter.com/xNCW53IAP3

— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) November 23, 2025


taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 成功 新北市 金門

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▲「耶誕綠意・快閃贈苗」將於12月13、14日周末府中非常熱區登場。（圖／新北市農業局提供，下同）

記者郭世賢／新北報導

新北市持續推動「為地球種下一棵樹—百萬人種百萬樹」行動，倡議以全民參與方式推廣植樹與永續環保理念，將於12月13、14日下午2時至晚上6時，在府中非常熱區推出兩日限定快閃綠行動「耶誕綠意·快閃贈苗」。活動現場將免費贈送千盆樹苗及百份耶誕小飾品，邀請民眾在濃厚節慶氛圍中，以溫柔而具意義的行動陪伴地球走向永續。

新北市與北臺 7 縣市共同發起「為地球種下一棵樹—百萬人種百萬樹」，透過專屬官方網站提供樹苗申請與種植土地媒合，號召更多民眾、企業與團體加入永續植樹。此次快閃活動特別結合耶誕節場景，希望藉由節慶吸引更多人主動接觸植樹理念，進而擴大全民參與。

▲民眾領苗後可至「為地球種下一棵樹—百萬人種百萬樹」官網了解如何種樹。

活動期間，民眾只要穿著具有任何耶誕元素的穿搭，並於現場完成「為地球種下一棵樹」植樹平台會員註冊，即可免費領取一盆樹苗。樹種包括桂花、小葉杜鵑、金門赤楠、雪茄花、重瓣梔子花、小葉翠蘆莉、情人菊及芳香萬壽菊等，另有隱藏特別款樹苗，數量有限、送完為止。此外，成功領苗後於個人社群貼文並標註活動 hashtag「為地球種下一棵樹」，可再獲得限定耶誕小飾品，每日限量 50 份。

民眾也可透過活動網站查詢「植樹百科」，觀看植樹教學影片，輕鬆學習種樹技巧。市府期盼讓參與者在冬季城市步調中，感受節慶結合綠意的獨特體驗，成為綠行動的一分子。

新北市農業局長諶錫輝表示，新北市推動「三生永續」政策，從生產、生活、生態三面向打造永續農業環境，並透過計畫型植樹提升生態健康。耶誕節象徵希望與溫暖，市府期待在最具節慶魅力的場域中，邀請更多民眾以行動支持永續精神，藉由種下一棵樹象徵種下希望，讓「百萬人種百萬樹」理念更加深入人心。更多活動詳情請追蹤「新北市農業局-稼日蒔光」臉書粉專查詢。

▲活動現場將贈送千盆樹苗及百份耶誕小飾品（資料照）。

title: 府中非常熱區化身綠意耶誕城　新北限時贈苗快閃送千盆樹苗


taiwan-subdivisions: 基隆 基隆市 嘉義 花蓮

title: 乾泰豐營造助攻守護城市韌性　基隆頒匾致謝災後復原貢獻

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▲行動力挺災後復原！乾泰豐營造助攻城市韌性。（圖／記者郭世賢翻攝，下同）

記者郭世賢／基隆報導

基隆市「乾泰豐營造有限公司」長年投入各地災後復原工作，多次在重大天災發生後第一時間馳援受災地區，協助地方盡速恢復正常生活。今年7月中度颱風「丹娜絲」（DANAS）侵襲中南部時，該公司立即派員南下嘉義協助救災；9月強烈颱風「樺加沙」（RAGASA）重創花蓮後，也再度迅速動員投入災後復原與搶通作業，展現企業社會責任。

基隆市消防局長游家懿11月28日代表市長謝國樑，頒贈「感謝狀」及「感謝匾額」，由乾泰豐營造有限公司總經理何沛紳代表受獎。他表示，乾泰豐多年來在多次重大災害中提供即時且堅實的協助，讓災後復原時程大幅縮短，是基隆市重要且值得肯定的防災夥伴。

▲基隆市消防局長游家懿（左）頒匾致謝災後復原貢獻；乾泰豐營造有限公司總經理何沛紳（右）。

總經理何沛紳受訪時指出，從去年強烈颱風山陀兒造成基隆重大災情，到今年兩次颱風的搶險經驗，更深刻感受到氣候變遷下自然環境的反撲。他強調，能以行動協助災民重建家園，是公司全體同仁最有成就感的事；無論是路燈修復、道路搶通或淤泥清理，只要能讓城市更快恢復原貌、讓居民回到日常生活，就是最大的喜悅。

游家懿也提到，何沛紳同時身兼基隆市義勇消防總隊團長，長期參與基隆大小公益與防災事務，對城市韌性提升貢獻良多。他並呼籲，極端氣候衝擊愈加明顯，防救災工作絕不可鬆懈，政府與企業需持續攜手合作，強化災害應變能力，共同守護市民安全。


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▲台南安南區城西掩埋場晚間起火，台南市長黃偉哲趕抵，消防局控制火勢。（圖／記者林東良翻攝，下同）

記者林東良、董美琪／台南報導

台南市安南區城西掩埋場30日晚間傳出廢棄物起火，燃燒位置位於城西二期生活垃圾暫置區。消防局在19時48分接獲報案後，迅速派遣人車前往，20時07分抵達後立刻布署水線、開闢防火線，全力控制火勢，成功阻止延燒。市長黃偉哲獲報後也立即趕往現場，指示消防與相關局處啟動環境監測與應變措施，保障周邊居民安全。

消防局說明，起火點位於一般垃圾堆置區，附近並沒有石棉瓦，石棉相關區域屬於城西三期，未受本次火勢波及。此次出動30輛消防車、57名警消與1名役男，並投入無人機、滅火機器人協助偵蒐與滅火，啟動循環送水機制保持水線不中斷。經機具翻動火堆並持續灌救後，火勢在21時58分撲滅，目前進入殘火處理階段，無人受傷。

環保局指出，燃燒物以生活廢棄物為主，因晚間風向與擴散條件不佳，部分區域可能出現異味。第一時間已透過臉書、跑馬燈及跨局處通報機制發布空品警示，並請相關行政區公所通知民眾。

環保局提醒，今（30）日西部空氣品質本就偏差，火勢更讓局部污染累積。敏感族群若出現不適，宜減少外出、配戴口罩，並持續關注最新空品資訊。

市府表示，現場空氣品質與火場狀況仍在持續監控，如有最新進展會立即對外說明。至於起火原因，將由消防局火調科調查，並調閱監視影像及相關資料釐清事發情況。

title: 台南掩埋場火光照天！市長黃偉哲趕抵　無人機、滅火機器人全出動

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 安南區

events: 空品 空氣品質


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美國國務卿盧比歐今天在佛羅里達州與烏克蘭代表團正式啟動事關重大磋商。華府積極推動結束俄羅斯對鄰國烏克蘭的戰爭。

法新社報導，盧比歐（Marco Rubio）在會議開始時表示：「這不只是為和平協議而談，更要開創一條讓烏克蘭保持主權、獨立和繁榮之路。」

美國特使魏科夫（Steve Witkoff）和總統川普女婿庫許納（Jared Kushner）也與會。

烏克蘭代表團由國家安全與國防事務委員會秘書烏梅洛夫（Rustem Umerov）率團。

烏梅洛夫在會談開始時指出：「我們將討論烏克蘭的未來、烏克蘭的安全、如何防止侵略再度發生、烏克蘭的繁榮，以及如何重建烏克蘭。」

他在社群媒體X發文表示，會談進行期間他與總統澤倫斯基（Volodymyr Zelenskyy）保持「持續聯繫」。

烏梅洛夫在X寫道：「我們有明確指令與優先事項：維護烏克蘭利益、確保實質性對話，並以在日內瓦取得的進展為基礎推動會談。」

「我們正致力於為烏克蘭爭取真正和平，以及可靠的長期安全保障。代表團會在今天會議結束後，向烏克蘭總統報告。」

美國、烏克蘭、歐洲一週前在日內瓦展開三方協商，預期這場佛州會談將會在這個基礎上展開。

華府提出一項結束這場逾3年衝突的計畫，正尋求莫斯科和基輔予以批准而最終敲定。

未徵詢烏克蘭歐洲盟友意見下起草的初版28點方案主張基輔撤出東部頓內茨克州（Donetsk），美國則承認頓內茨克州、克里米亞（Crimea）和盧甘斯克州（Lugansk）為事實上的俄羅斯領土。

在基輔和歐洲批評下，美方已對原案進行刪減調整，目前最新內容尚未公開。（編譯：何宏儒）1141201

title: 烏克蘭和平計畫　川普團隊與基輔代表團佛州展開磋商

taiwan-subdivisions: 和平 新社

countries: 烏克蘭 俄羅斯 美國


countries: 台灣 英國

title: 帶好友骨灰跳傘！網友狂開「地獄列車」引戰 赫見台灣鄉民

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近日有高空跳傘愛好者帶著好友的骨灰跳傘，並在空中撒下骨灰，但骨灰出奇地多，意外引發熱議。（圖翻攝自Threads）

近日網上有高空跳傘愛好者發布影片，據了解是好友過世，這群人決定帶好友的骨灰跳傘，並在好友最愛的高空中將其骨灰撒下，讓好友能夠永遠徜徉在天空。本應是令人動容的故事，卻因為片中好友的骨灰量出奇地大，各國大批網友紛紛開起「地獄列車」，甚至還有台灣鄉民「參戰」！

近日有高空跳傘愛好者在Tiktok發布影片，感性寫下「班，你永遠與我們同在」。據了解，這位「班（Ben）」是他們的跳傘好麻吉，不幸離世後，其他人幫他完成心願，就是將骨灰灑在空中，可由於撒出來的骨灰量實在太多，意外引發熱議。

有外國網友將這段影片分享到Threads上，笑稱「班將永遠活在我們的肺中」。影片曝光後吸引400多萬人迴響，各國網友們紛紛開起地獄列車，「班是被你們上傳到雲端嗎？」、「班到底是有多大啦？」、「我懷疑那袋子裡面不是只有班一個人」、「班是一個組織嗎？」、「班他X的是一匹馬嗎？」。還有英國網友分享倫敦灰濛濛的天空，調侃「班你飄到英國了」。

底下也有不少台灣網友參戰，其中一位鄉民拍了一張水泥地板趙，地上可以看到有一些灰色碎屑，用英文開玩笑稱「哈囉，班！我是李，歡迎來到台灣」。其他鄉民則留言，「骨灰是不會真的燒到只剩灰的，燒完的量也沒那麼大，這燒的不是Ben，起碼是個董卓」、「到底有多少Ben啦靠杯，Ben是大象是不是」、「難怪前兩天有空汙警報，原來是Ben」。


title: 帶好友骨灰跳傘！網友狂開「地獄列車」引戰 赫見台灣鄉民


title: 「秋鬥」反戰 呼籲賴政府停止無條件軍購

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二○二五秋鬥大遊行昨天登場，逾百人高舉「反Lie求真、反戰求生」白布條。國民黨主席鄭麗文高聲質問，台灣一旦淪為戰場，什麼都是空談，政府砸錢債留子孫，能換來台海安全？鄭麗文昨出席台北市議會黨慶活動時表示，國民黨絕對不會讓台灣淪為戰場，也絕對不會讓台灣成為下一個烏克蘭，「我們不是麻煩製造者，不要戰爭、要和平」。

秋鬥遊行隊伍昨從立法院出發，行經台北車站後抵達凱達格蘭大道。勞團質疑，一點二五兆國防特別預算將排擠教育、社福等預算，呼籲賴政府停止無條件軍購。秋鬥發起人鄭村棋說，台灣、中國大陸可以和平相處，為何要走到兵戎相向？賴清德總統上任後不只擴大對美投資，一點二五兆軍費更是要掏空台灣，真正帶來戰爭的從來就不是中國大陸，而是美國。

本報調查發現，國防部戰規司正與美國在台協會（ＡＩＴ）安全合作組針對研擬中「強化防衛韌性及不對稱戰力特別預算」及二○二六年度國防預算，整合九大項準備對美提出的軍購要價書（ＬＯＲ，台灣向美國提出正式採購軍事設備的書面請求），內容包括「台灣之盾」所需首批對美採購第四套並具備美軍現役整合戰鬥指揮系統（ＩＢＣＳ）的愛國者三型飛彈、同時性能提升九個愛國者連至美軍現役指管構型案。

根據中科院資料，目前向我方提案者，有美商諾斯洛普．格魯曼公司所提ＩＢＣＳ案，與安杜里爾公司所提開放式ＡＩ指管平台Lattice OS案。兩公司都承諾有能力以愛國者架接國造天弓系列防空飛彈，這也是「台灣之盾」重要關鍵。

在國防特別預算案中，其中一項是空軍建案準備向美商雷神公司新採購第四套、三個連的愛國者三型防空飛彈，指管將採用ＩＢＣＳ案，同時將據此提升我現役九個愛國者連至美軍指管構型。但目前編列的預算案中，未見國造與美製防空飛彈系統整合案。

國防部昨表示，台灣之盾係達到建立重層攔截網、導入ＡＩ輔助整合式之決策與感知系統、有效攔截之整體防空系統，任何可達到此要求的防空指管系統，均為未來選商籌購之潛在標的。

「反戰」成為今年秋鬥主訴求，鄭麗文昨上台抨擊，勞保面臨破產危機，民進黨不敢改革，想要每年直接以政府撥補千億元，如此寅吃卯糧，債留子孫，能換來台海安全？結果可能剛好相反。她也說，「沒有命，什麼都是假的」，和平是不可以倒退的底線，不要讓台灣成火藥庫。

countries: 台灣 中國 烏克蘭 美國

people: 賴清德 鄭麗文


title: 健康名人堂／真實老化：在有限裡活出平靜與智慧

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我們這個時代熱愛青春，也害怕老去。化妝品、保健品、廣告標語，都在告訴我們該如何「抗老」。但事實上，老化並不是敵人。它不是要被擊退的疾病，而是一段需要被理解與擁抱的旅程。

學習饒恕 時間不再成為枷鎖

我們要學習「真實老化（authentic aging）」，也就是真實地活在漸漸老去的生命過程中，那是一種對生命的真誠；那是練習，練習在有限裡找到平衡，在失去裡重新看見豐盛。它讓我們學習與自己和解，學習梳理自己的生命，也學習饒恕與被饒恕。

在變老的過程裡，我們會回頭看自己的一生。有人把過去理想化，覺得年輕歲月才是真正的自己；也有人被悔恨糾纏，總覺得若能重來，一切會不一樣。但老年讓我們重新學會誠實，誠實面對那些曾經的選擇與錯誤，也誠實地接納那個不完美的自己。

梳理生命，不是重寫歷史，而是讓零散的片段重新編織成故事。當我們回望那些疼痛與遺憾，若能多一點理解，少一點責備，那便是與自己和解的開始。

「饒恕」不只是宗教字眼，是深刻的靈性功課。老年常常讓人想起那些未竟的關係，還沒說出口的歉意、未能彌補的錯失、無法改變的遺憾。饒恕他人，也饒恕自己，這兩者缺一不可。饒恕，是放過別人，也是放過自己；是讓時間不再成為枷鎖，而成為醫治的泉源。

聆聽自己 這一生想留下什麼

身體會退化，但生命的活力不隨年齡凋零。真正的活力，不只走得快、說得清楚，而是仍然願意感受世界的美、仍然願意愛。當我們與人連結，當我們願意分享、傾聽與擁抱，就像重新點燃心裡那盞柔和的燈。孤單會讓人老得更快，而被理解、被需要，會讓人重新感覺「我還在這裡」。

隨著歲月推移，外在喧囂漸漸遠去，生活變得更靜。我們開始有時間聆聽自己。那是一種深層的覺察，問自己：「我這一生想留下什麼？」「我還有什麼需要放下？」這樣的對話，不再關於成就，而是關於意義。當我們能夠正視自己的有限，坦然面對死亡，反而更懂得珍惜活著的每一天。死亡，不是結束，而是一面鏡子，讓我們看清生命的珍貴。

接納有限 老化最困難的一課

接納有限，或許是老化中最困難的一課。當身體不再強壯、記憶不再敏銳、生活需要他人幫助時，我們會感到挫敗，甚至覺得自己「沒用了」。但真正的成熟，是明白脆弱也有其價值。被照顧，並不是失敗，而是另一種連結，讓別人有機會去愛，也讓自己學會被愛。

「真實老化」不是要求完美，而是學會在變化中找到平衡。有些日子我們充滿能量，願意參與生活；有些日子我們只是靜靜地坐著，與自己的心和平共處。這樣的起伏，本身就是生命的節奏。

當我們走入老年，真正的功課，不在於如何延緩衰老，而在於如何與時間、與自己和解。梳理生命片段，饒恕那些曾經讓我們痛苦的人，也包括那個年輕時不懂事的自己。當我們願意放下糾結，生命便重新變得輕盈。老化，不是凋零，而是一種收成。它收成了理解、慈悲與平靜。是一種內在的光，來自個人終於明白：生命從未完美，但一直值得被愛。


title: 健康你我他／臉冒雀斑成困擾 求助醫美大掃除

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小時候住在澎湖，不管刮風下雨或是豔陽高照，荒郊野外到處跑或是跳入海中游泳，海島小孩都不怕，從來不知道什麼是皺紋，也不會管陽光直曬，臉上會長出雀斑，我只是快樂無憂地享受屬於海的日子，直到結婚生子，年過35，才發現雀斑一顆顆不自覺的從臉上冒出來。

那時雖然是雙薪家庭，但是有許多家庭費用待支出，即使發現臉上有斑，卻無暇無錢照顧自己的外表，等到黑斑漸漸成形，洗也洗不掉，它們就變成我的生活困擾。

後來生活較為寬裕，有一回住家附近剛好新開一家皮膚科診所，我經過時看診所廣告有除斑項目，於是就診詢問後，就勇敢地接受醫師的雷射除斑治療，多年前的除斑技術尚未先進，除斑後會留有傷口，必須貼人工貼皮十天左右，斑點才會漸漸消除，而且要注意防曬，這是我的醫美初體驗。

隨著時代進步，除斑技術也跟著與時俱進，尤其社會經濟普遍變好，男男女女，不分年齡層，都會把錢花在愛美的事項上，除斑、紋眉、霧眉、霧唇、瘦身、除皺、除眼袋等醫美項目琳瑯滿目，雖費用頗高，但愛美人士還是趨之若鶩、不美不休。

每個人都敵不過大自然的催化，變老是人生必經的過程，不過，就我而言，大部分醫美項目我都忽略，只選擇每年做一次除斑大掃除，讓臉上有光，人生有光。


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52歲王女士這幾個月來覺得「肚子悶悶脹脹」，以為腸胃不適，休息、吃藥都無效。直到9月，她前往北醫附醫家醫科求診，以超音波檢查發現，螢幕上出現一顆顆密密麻麻的黑影，是滿滿的肝轉移腫瘤，立刻轉入急診經電腦斷層檢查顯示，她罹患了「末期胰臟癌併多發性肝轉移」。

「這是典型的胰臟癌。」北醫附醫血液腫瘤科主任蔡佳叡說，胰臟癌早期幾乎沒有明顯症狀，常被誤以為是腸胃病、胃潰瘍或消化不良，等到出現黃疸、體重驟降時，往往已無法手術。

胰臟癌被稱為「癌中之王」，也是最難治療、死亡率最高的癌症之一，因為胰臟位於腹腔深處、胃的後方，主要負責分泌胰島素及消化液，加上位置隱密、鄰近重要血管神經，一旦癌細胞擴散，就會迅速侵犯周邊器官，使治療難上加難。

據臨床統計，超過9成的胰臟癌屬於「胰腺癌」，平均5年存活率不到1成。胰臟癌患者多半在中晚期才被發現，即使進行化療或放療，平均存活期僅約9至11個月。

蔡佳叡提醒，胰臟癌的發生與生活習慣息息相關，吸菸者罹癌風險是非吸菸者的2到3倍，只要戒菸就是最強的預防方式，肥胖、缺乏運動與長期大量飲酒也是危險因子。慢性胰臟炎、糖尿病及有家族病史或基因突變的人，屬高風險族群。高風險者應主動與醫師討論定期影像追蹤，如電腦斷層或內視鏡超音波檢查。

蔡佳叡表示，儘管胰臟癌凶猛，醫學仍持續突破，目前治療強調「多科整合」，結合外科手術、化學治療、放射治療與細胞治療等手段。早期患者可藉手術切除爭取治癒機會，若為局部晚期或轉移性病人，則以化療為主。

近年複合式化療藥物與免疫細胞治療，如CIK、DC並用，已可明顯延長存活期。北醫附醫細胞治療中心統計顯示，接受化療合併細胞治療的病人，平均可延長至2年，部分病人甚至可恢復正常生活品質。

蔡佳叡說，胰臟癌的可怕在於沉默，但預防永遠比治療更有力，如果發現上腹痛、背痛、食欲不振、體重驟降或出現黃疸，千萬不要拖延就醫。

title: 沉默殺手...52歲女腹痛 竟是胰臟癌末期


title: 健康主題館／吃黃豆脹氣過敏 浸泡煮熟去隱患

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黃豆被譽為「田中之肉」，是茹素者的肉，因含有完整的胺基酸，屬於優質的蛋白質來源，是我們攝取蛋白質食物的優良選擇。黃豆還富含膳食纖維，有助腸道蠕動、降低血壓；大豆異黃酮含量也高，能改善更年期症狀，預防骨鬆。不過，有些人喝豆漿、吃豆腐，卻經常出現脹氣、消化不良等問題，該如何避免？

黃豆含有豆類常見的「凝集素」，這是一種抗營養物質，大量攝食，會造成紅血球凝集、干擾蛋白質的消化與吸收，而導致腹脹及消化不良的問題。

有些人大量喝，甚至會出現腸漏問題，引起皮膚過敏等狀況。因此，如果經常喝豆漿、吃豆製品出現脹氣問題，很有可能是攝取的豆製品，沒有徹底消滅「凝集素」。

去除凝集素 建議採行5方法

如何吃黃豆才不會脹氣過敏？由於凝集素是水溶性，而且對熱敏感，所以透過適當的處理，可以使其失去活性。建議可採行以下5方法，幫助去除黃豆的凝集素：

1.充分浸泡：將黃豆放在水裡浸泡數小時，最好可以放隔夜，並換水幾次，因為凝集素為水溶性物質，所以黃豆在泡發準備發芽的過程中，也會吸收部分的凝集素。

2.高溫煮熟：是去除凝集素最關鍵的做法。泡發黃豆後，可以透過徹底的高溫加熱，使絕大多數的凝集素失去活性。建議最好是使用可以達到更高溫度與壓力的壓力鍋，以確保凝集素被徹底破壞；如果使用電鍋烹煮，建議外鍋兩杯水，跳起後續悶至隔夜。

3.多次煮沸：如果是豆漿，應該用100℃的溫度持續煮沸至少10分鐘。低溫烹煮無法有效破壞凝集素。

4.發酵：透過發酵黃豆變成納豆、天貝、味噌、豆腐乳等，也可以減少凝集素含量。

5.發芽：讓黃豆發芽變成黃豆芽，因黃豆芽會吸收絕大多數的凝集素。

市售豆腐食用前 要徹底加熱

市售的豆腐大都是生的，豆腐裡的凝集素並沒有被完整去除，為了不要讓凝集素造成腸道過敏，建議豆製品買回來後，也應該徹底加熱，最好是用燉煮、紅燒等方式，透過較長時間的烹煮，才不會出現脹氣等消化不良的狀況。

有些人會使用豆漿機製作豆漿，建議應先將乾黃豆進行泡發的動作，才能完整去除凝集素。

只要是豆類，不管是扁豆、豌豆、紅豆、黑豆、鷹嘴豆、紅腰豆等，也都含有不同種類的凝集素。尤其是紅腰豆，含植物性血球凝集素的量極高，建議吃這類的豆類，都應該泡發至少一晚後，倒掉浸泡水，再以高溫徹底煮熟，才能是確保食品安全，以及最佳化營養吸收的原則。


title: 健康你我他／臉冒雀斑成困擾 求助醫美大掃除


people: 川普 金正恩

things: 油價 經濟

countries: 墨西哥 美國 委內瑞拉 巴西 千里達及托巴哥 智利 北韓 台灣 沙烏地阿拉伯 中國

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美國智庫大西洋理事會日前分析，一旦美國總統川普對委國用兵，委國石油的生產及出口勢必大受影響。全球油市短期內有美國本身及波斯灣國家的供應支撐，但長期的狀況較複雜，委國的石油生產很可能將需幾年才能恢復，恐因此推高油價。

委內瑞拉是全球油市的重要參與者，目前的石油出口量已少於已故總統查維茲任內，但每天出口約八十萬桶，僅略低於全球石油消費量的百分之一，其中大多直接或間接銷往中國大陸，近幾月來、即川普一月回任後，美國逐漸減少進口委國石油，每天已降至十萬桶。

短期內，由於美國也生產原油及液化天然氣（ＬＮＧ），以及沙烏地阿拉伯等波灣國家持續對油市供應過剩的預期，都將構成對全球油價的支撐。然而，長期來說，只要主要的石油出口國，遭美國發動大規模的軍事干預行動，戰後的石油生產需費時幾年才能復原。

委內瑞拉石油若長期停產，很可能推高油價，尤其是柴油價格，原因是委國的重質酸原油很適合製造柴油。

另外，由於千里達及托巴哥十一月與美國舉行新一輪聯合軍演，惹惱委內瑞拉。若委內瑞拉總統馬杜洛支持者，藉由網路或無人機等「動能打擊」鄰國千里達及托巴哥的工業重鎮利薩斯角港，將對整個美洲甚至更遠的地區造成影響。原因在於美歐是千里達及托巴哥最大的氨氣出口市場，該國一旦停產氨氣，墨西哥、智利及巴西的肥料市場都將遭波及。

去年墨西哥從千里達及托巴哥進口廿五萬公噸的氨氣，而墨國的氨氣產量才卅一點九萬公噸。美國去年從全球進口的農產品中，有百分之廿二點八來自墨西哥，勢必推高美國乃至全球糧價。

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▪訪中闖禍被「冷處理」？金正恩愛女破紀錄神隱84天 外界揣測四起 ▪台積電年薪500萬 等同美FAANG剛入行菜鳥價？他揭密是這因素 ▪「讓我再見父母一面」北韓亮麗女軍人被性侵殺害 3學生遭立即處決 ▪AI大幅提振台灣經濟 市井小民卻無感？CNN揭關鍵原因 ▪懶人包／高市早苗「台灣有事」惹怒北京 中日關係惡化一次看懂 ▪快檢查！全球常用密碼前20名曝光 老年人「1偏好」最容易破解

title: 委國石油出口恐受衝擊 美若用兵可能推高油價


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華爾街日報十一月廿九日報導，廿年來委內瑞拉在全球積極結交反美盟友，像俄羅斯、中國大陸、古巴及伊朗，希望建立能對抗美國的新世界秩序，但事與願違。

一月上台的川普政府以掃毒為名，動用軍力施壓委內瑞拉時，這些盟友除在口頭上表達支持，幾乎不見實際行動，他們不是因身陷戰爭而實力大減，就是忙於和美國的貿易及關稅談判。

美國智庫戰略與國際研究中心（ＣＳＩＳ）研究員柏格說，這些所謂「威權主義軸心」的國家在承平時期看來很強大，但在其組成分子面臨危難之際，卻顯得有些空洞。

委內瑞拉前總統查維茲任內，委國憑藉龐大石油和礦產資源，與美國的對手建立政經關係，例如委國從中國的銀行借貸數十億美元，投入其國內的住房、電信及基礎建設，再以油償貸。

古巴則以派遣醫療團隊及軍事顧問換取委內瑞拉的廉價石油；伊朗協助委國建立製造小型車的工廠；白俄羅斯則幫忙興建磚廠。

分析家指出，委內瑞拉盟友基本上無力對抗美國，古巴、伊朗及尼加拉瓜等委國緊密夥伴的經濟已自身難保；委國兩個最強盟友則是中俄，提供軍備、維修、軍事訓練及經援，甚至外傳俄國正幫委國維修軍機與建構地對空飛彈防禦系統。

不過中俄正各自面臨挑戰，不再投入處理委內瑞拉面臨的安全問題。俄國陷於俄烏戰爭的高昂成本；中國則面臨經濟疲軟的壓力，且美國對委國祭出金融制裁，其他國家若伸援恐招致美方報復。

中俄都正與川普政府在外交或經貿上進行談判，此刻沒有動機在委內瑞拉問題上耗費自身的政治資本。

【全球熱話題】

▪訪中闖禍被「冷處理」？金正恩愛女破紀錄神隱84天 外界揣測四起 ▪台積電年薪500萬 等同美FAANG剛入行菜鳥價？他揭密是這因素 ▪「讓我再見父母一面」北韓亮麗女軍人被性侵殺害 3學生遭立即處決 ▪AI大幅提振台灣經濟 市井小民卻無感？CNN揭關鍵原因 ▪懶人包／高市早苗「台灣有事」惹怒北京 中日關係惡化一次看懂 ▪快檢查！全球常用密碼前20名曝光 老年人「1偏好」最容易破解

title: 只見口頭相挺 中俄反美盟友自顧不暇

countries: 伊朗 美國 古巴 委內瑞拉 俄羅斯 中國 白俄羅斯 台灣 北韓 尼加拉瓜


countries: 委內瑞拉 美國 北韓 台灣

title: 人心惶惶…戰爭陰影 將委人逼入困境

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華盛頓郵報十一月廿九日報導，委內瑞拉人民已正試圖為美國攻擊做準備。他們一邊面臨美國總統川普的威脅，一邊又是無法信任的馬杜洛政府，生活朝不保夕，無從得知未來發展。一名當地婦女坦言，這種不確定性正將她逼入絕境。

上周某一天，幾架美軍戰機曾經護送一架戰略轟炸機飛近委內瑞拉的沿岸，委內瑞拉官媒也播出委國軍人對空鳴槍的畫面；首都卡拉卡斯東部的一家超市，則擠滿正搶購物資的民眾。隔天委內瑞拉空域和首都又恢復平靜。

一名委內瑞拉婦女說，十一月廿四日的首都街上一度空無一人，但過兩天國家又恢復正常。她直言，馬杜洛政府「是操弄民眾情緒的高手，並淡化任何可能代表他政權終結的可信威脅」。

委內瑞拉人民面臨美國攻擊威脅，又不信任馬杜洛政府能提供準確資訊，這種不安、疲憊的狀態讓部分民眾希望若有事要發生，那就趕快發生。

委內瑞拉人民原本更關注的是每天生計。在蘊藏豐富石油資源的委內瑞拉，民眾長年飽受專制社會主義政府經濟管理不善及政治壓迫之苦，通貨膨脹率和失業率均高，水、食品、藥品和能源的供應也不可靠，政治迫害還普遍發生。

但近幾周事態加速發展。美國聯邦航空總署（ＦＡＡ）十一月廿一日示警，委內瑞拉和其周邊的安全情勢惡化、軍事活動升高後，委內瑞拉同月廿六日已撤銷六家主要國際航空公司營運許可。上述婦女就是旅行計畫被迫擱置的眾多旅客之一，她說這次旅行已計畫很久，「我幾個孩子都哭了。我已一年沒見到我姊妹」。

川普十一月廿九日在社媒發文表示，委內瑞拉空域應視為關閉後，卡拉卡斯附近的西蒙波利瓦國際機場出現接機民眾焦急等待，但本該抵達的航班遲未起飛；在該機場出發層，行李打包和餐飲服務區旅客也比平日少很多。

一名在卡拉卡斯從業的廚師也抱怨，「每次美國開口，我們就開始燃起希望。我們覺得事情或許真的可能發生，馬杜洛終於將下台。但什麼也沒發生」。

【全球熱話題】

▪訪中闖禍被「冷處理」？金正恩愛女破紀錄神隱84天 外界揣測四起 ▪台積電年薪500萬 等同美FAANG剛入行菜鳥價？他揭密是這因素 ▪「讓我再見父母一面」北韓亮麗女軍人被性侵殺害 3學生遭立即處決 ▪AI大幅提振台灣經濟 市井小民卻無感？CNN揭關鍵原因 ▪懶人包／高市早苗「台灣有事」惹怒北京 中日關係惡化一次看懂 ▪快檢查！全球常用密碼前20名曝光 老年人「1偏好」最容易破解


countries: 美國 委內瑞拉 哥倫比亞 俄羅斯 北韓 台灣

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路透十一月廿九日報導，美國軍力遠勝委內瑞拉，委軍長期面臨缺乏訓練、薪餉低與裝備老舊問題。委內瑞拉對美國可能的入侵，已制定兩套因應策略。

委內瑞拉總統馬杜洛雖號稱，國內已有達八百萬名平民接受民兵訓練，但真正具戰力、可能在保衛委國行動中派上用場的僅數千名情治人員、武裝的執政黨「委內瑞拉聯合社會黨」（ＰＳＵＶ）支持者colectivo與部分民兵。

在軍備上，委軍主力為蘇聯（俄羅斯）製、已服役數十年的武器，像二○○○年代所買的約廿架蘇愷戰機，但在軍機的「代差」上，完全無法應對美國的Ｂ─２「幽靈」匿蹤轟炸機。委軍的俄製直升機、戰機及肩射飛彈也很老舊，妥善率偏低。

根據路透查閱的消息和委內瑞拉當局規畫的文件，委國對美國可能的入侵制定兩套因應策略。

其一是游擊式的持久抵抗。小股部隊將分散在全國逾二八○處，除破壞基礎設施，並使出游擊戰術。馬杜洛日前在委國國營媒體誇稱的五千枚俄製「針式」肩射飛彈已完成部署。受攻擊時，委國軍方將下令各部隊立即分散隱蔽，以確保委軍的有生力量。

除了委軍部隊，鄰國哥倫比亞的游擊隊，像「全國解放軍」（ＥＬＮ）長期活躍在委國西部，當地也盛行種植毒品古柯鹼的原料古柯。

其二則是「無政府化」策略。儘管委國官方從未表明，但該策略旨在運用情治單位與武裝的執政黨群眾在首都卡拉卡斯「搞破壞」製造混亂，這些群眾常以機車車隊的方式作為側翼，和反馬杜洛政府的抗議人士對抗，旨在使委國陷入無政府狀態而無法治理，以拖延或弱化美國可能採取的軍事行動。

然而委軍現役基層士兵每月薪餉僅約一百美元（約台幣三一七○元），僅能支應家庭基本開銷的兩成左右，是軍中士氣低落主因之一。

六位熟悉委國軍力的人士指稱，一旦美軍展開攻擊，委軍部分部隊早已出現的逃兵情況可能進一步擴大。近年來委軍主要的「實戰經驗」在於鎮壓國內街頭示威抗議，而非面對正規的軍事衝突及戰爭。

【全球熱話題】

▪訪中闖禍被「冷處理」？金正恩愛女破紀錄神隱84天 外界揣測四起 ▪台積電年薪500萬 等同美FAANG剛入行菜鳥價？他揭密是這因素 ▪「讓我再見父母一面」北韓亮麗女軍人被性侵殺害 3學生遭立即處決 ▪AI大幅提振台灣經濟 市井小民卻無感？CNN揭關鍵原因 ▪懶人包／高市早苗「台灣有事」惹怒北京 中日關係惡化一次看懂 ▪快檢查！全球常用密碼前20名曝光 老年人「1偏好」最容易破解

title: 兵力輸人…委國抗美 擬打游擊、搞破壞


title: 委國石油出口恐受衝擊 美若用兵可能推高油價

countries: 千里達及托巴哥 台灣 北韓 智利 沙烏地阿拉伯 中國 墨西哥 美國 委內瑞拉 巴西


countries: 美國 伊朗 古巴 委內瑞拉 俄羅斯 台灣 北韓 尼加拉瓜 中國 白俄羅斯

title: 只見口頭相挺 中俄反美盟友自顧不暇


title: 人心惶惶…戰爭陰影 將委人逼入困境

countries: 美國 委內瑞拉 台灣 北韓

people: 金正恩 川普


title: 兵力輸人…委國抗美 擬打游擊、搞破壞

countries: 俄羅斯 哥倫比亞 美國 委內瑞拉 台灣 北韓


title: 宏福苑五級火｜死亡人數增至146人　警方：環境惡劣影響搜索

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大埔宏福苑五級火，警方尋獲多18具遺體，死亡人數增至146人，不排除數字再上升，另外有79人受傷。

警方指現場環境相當惡劣，光線不足，影響搜索進度。

另外，房屋局特別巡查行動發現，深水埗怡閣苑維修工程以塑料膠板遮封窗戶，已即時要求移除，並會諮詢法律意見考慮作出檢控。


content_text: 大埔宏福苑發生五級大火，事故導致過百人傷亡。昨日(30日)晚上近10時，有過百市民懷着沉重心情前往廣福休憩處為火災罹難者獻花悼念。至今日(12月1日)凌晨時分，仍有零星市民到場獻花，數名男女目睹眼前一片花海，疑一時感觸拭淚，並低頭默哀。

title: 大批市民廣福休憩處為火災罹難者致哀 過百人獻花悼念


content_text: 大埔宏福苑上周發生五級大火。香港國安處日前拘捕一名男子，涉嫌藉大埔宏福苑火災意圖煽動。消息指，香港國安處昨日(11月30日)再拘捕2名男女，其中一人為前屯門區議員張錦雄；另一名被捕女子為一名義工。

title: 消息指香港國安處拘捕2人 包括前區議員張錦雄


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（中央社記者高華謙台北30日電）台美關稅談判正處最後階段，經貿辦指出，現階段談判重點是以「台灣模式」與美方洽談供應鏈合作，共有3項重點，包括台美政府間（G2G）合作協助美國產業聚落的形成；另有包括關稅、非關稅、貿易便捷化、經濟安全與商業機會等5大談判議題。

立法院經濟委員會明天邀經濟部長、行政院經貿談判辦公室等報告「台美關稅協議之談判方針、進度、爭議事項、雙方可能承諾及台灣產業之影響評估」，並備質詢。

根據經貿辦送抵立法院的書面報告指出，自4月初美方宣布對等關稅以來，行政院副院長鄭麗君率領談判團隊，至今歷經5輪實體談判及多次線上磋商，持續取得進展。現階段談判重點，是以「台灣模式」與美方洽談供應鏈合作，並爭取調降對等關稅且不疊加原MFN（最惠國待遇）稅率，以及232條款多項關稅最優惠待遇。

經貿辦說，政府依循「根留台灣、布局全球」總體戰略目標，根據台灣產業優勢與經濟發展需求，提出「台灣模式」對美投資方案，共有3大重點，首先是產業投資由企業基於國際布局自主規劃，貼近客戶結合市場；第二，台灣政府透過信用保證機制，支持金融機構為企業赴美提供金融支持。

經貿辦說，第三，透過台美政府間（G2G）合作，降低台灣企業赴美投資成本與風險，協助美國產業聚落的形成，包括向美方爭取有利投資環境及條件，例如土地、水電等基礎建設、簽證、法規環境等支持。

至於台美5大談判議題，經貿辦指出，關稅部分，面對美方要求各國全面市場開放，台灣基於維護產業利益、糧食安全等原則與美方討論。

非關稅障礙方面，經貿辦說，美國年度貿易障礙報告包含美方長期對台灣關切的非關稅議題，例如美規車准入、農產品標準、輸入許可制度、符合國際標準技術性法規及符合性評鑑等，美國在談判過程提出關切時，台灣都以維護國民健康為原則，並在符合科學證據、國際標準、國際經貿規範求取平衡。

貿易便捷化方面，經貿辦表示，台美討論優化經貿體制作法，例如增進電子化通關作業、落實良好法制作業，都是奠基於雙方在2024年底生效的台美21世紀貿易倡議首批協定的共識。

經貿辦說，經濟安全部分，台灣將透過打擊洗產地、強化高科技貨品出口管制及投資審查、打造「非紅供應鏈」，確保台美有可信賴、具韌性的供應鏈。

商業機會方面，經貿辦指出，台灣民間企業籌組農訪團，增加自美採購黃豆、玉米、小麥，有助糧食安全；國營事業基於能源安全與韌性，規劃增加自美採購石油與天然氣。此外，近年台美投資關係熱絡，台灣致力打造促進及便捷跨境投資最佳環境，也鼓勵美商投資台灣的5大信賴產業，包含半導體、AI、軍工、安控與次世代通訊。（編輯：林克倫）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者高華謙台北30日電

countries: 台灣 美國

title: 對美關稅 經貿辦提台灣模式投資3重點、5談判議題 | 政治


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金管會統計顯示，20家國銀10月底高資產客戶管理資產規模（AUM）達到新台幣1兆9946億元，預計今年底2兆元目標有望提前達標。（中央社檔案照片）（中央社記者蘇思云台北30日電）金管會推動台灣成為亞資中心，銀行積極推動高資產業務，金管會統計顯示，20家國銀10月底高資產客戶管理資產規模（AUM）達到新台幣1兆9946億元，AUM月增968億元，金管會說明，預計今年底2兆元目標有望提前達標。

金管會2020年8月推出「媲美星港」財管2.0方案，開放銀行申請辦理資產超過億元高資產客戶業務，截至今年10月底，已核准21家銀行辦理高資產業務，目前20家銀行開辦財管2.0業務。金管會主委彭金隆日前提到，國銀高資產戶管理資產規模今年底有望破新台幣2兆元。

金管會銀行局副局長張嘉魁表示，10月底國銀高資產客戶數為1萬8540人，AUM達新台幣1兆9946億元，分別月增959人與968億元。客戶數與AUM都較去年同期增加，主要是因銀行開辦家數增加，也持續推動業務所致。

至於高資戶資產配置占比，10月底存款比例下降到44.9%，基金16.5%、債券13.7%、保險11.1%，以及境外結構型商品增至6.6%。

張嘉魁表示，跟去年同期相比，存款跟保險占比減少，基金、債券跟境外結構商品比例增加，主要可能是市場預期美國持續降息，因此也吸引客戶增加高收益類型商品。存款占比44.9%創下2023年1月以來新低，可能跟市場看好其他財務性投資有關，帶動存款比例下降。

金管會證期局副局長黃厚銘指出，截至10月底止，金管會核准10家證券商以複委託、財富管理及自營等管道辦理高資產客戶業務，累計高資產客戶數達1606人，累計交易金額約4125億元，跟去年同期相比，客戶數、累計交易金額分別年增45%與66%。

觀察證券商表現，前3名排名跟9月相同，分別為永豐金證券、國泰證券與兆豐證券，自開業累計到10月底的交易金額分別為2108億元、939億元與420億元，其餘7家證券商合計658億元。

金管會7月啟動高雄專區，截至目前共有18家國銀進駐高雄專區；保險業部分，4家壽險業包括國泰人壽、富邦人壽、南山人壽、凱基人壽已進駐高雄專區，另有2家正在審查中。

金管會表示，投信投顧業近期有14家提出申請進駐高雄專區，其中11家已核准，3家審查中；券商有10家提出申請，已核准7家，包括永豐金證券、中信證券、兆豐證券、玉山證券、國泰證券、元大證券與群益金鼎證券，另外3家審查中。（編輯：林興盟）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者蘇思云台北30日電

countries: 美國 台灣

title: 國銀衝刺高資產業務 年底2兆元目標有望提前達標 | 產經


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（中央社海藍戴爾海灘30日綜合外電報導）美國國務卿盧比歐今天在佛羅里達州與烏克蘭代表團正式啟動事關重大磋商。華府積極推動結束俄羅斯對鄰國烏克蘭的戰爭。

法新社報導，盧比歐（Marco Rubio）在會議開始時表示：「這不只是為和平協議而談，更要開創一條讓烏克蘭保持主權、獨立和繁榮之路。」

美國特使魏科夫（Steve Witkoff）和總統川普女婿庫許納（Jared Kushner）也與會。

烏克蘭代表團由國家安全與國防事務委員會秘書烏梅洛夫（Rustem Umerov）率團。

烏梅洛夫在會談開始時指出：「我們將討論烏克蘭的未來、烏克蘭的安全、如何防止侵略再度發生、烏克蘭的繁榮，以及如何重建烏克蘭。」

他在社群媒體X發文表示，會談進行期間他與總統澤倫斯基（Volodymyr Zelenskyy）保持「持續聯繫」。

烏梅洛夫在X寫道：「我們有明確指令與優先事項：維護烏克蘭利益、確保實質性對話，並以在日內瓦取得的進展為基礎推動會談。」

「我們正致力於為烏克蘭爭取真正和平，以及可靠的長期安全保障。代表團會在今天會議結束後，向烏克蘭總統報告。」

美國、烏克蘭、歐洲一週前在日內瓦展開三方協商，預期這場佛州會談將會在這個基礎上展開。

華府提出一項結束這場逾3年衝突的計畫，正尋求莫斯科和基輔予以批准而最終敲定。

未徵詢烏克蘭歐洲盟友意見下起草的初版28點方案主張基輔撤出東部頓內茨克州（Donetsk），美國則承認頓內茨克州、克里米亞（Crimea）和盧甘斯克州（Lugansk）為事實上的俄羅斯領土。

在基輔和歐洲批評下，美方已對原案進行刪減調整，目前最新內容尚未公開。（編譯：何宏儒）1141201

countries: 烏克蘭 美國 俄羅斯

title: 烏克蘭和平計畫 川普團隊與基輔代表團佛州展開磋商 | 國際


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（中央社記者高華謙台北30日電）中選會6位委員任期至11月3日屆滿，目前僅剩4位委員，無法開會決議；行政院長卓榮泰先前指出，將在11月中將人選補齊。行政院發言人李慧芝今天說，將在近期提出。

中選會目前僅剩4位委員，但依規定至少要有5位委員才能舉行委員會議並決議。行政院10月底除發函給立法院朝野各黨團搜集推薦人選的意見，也歡迎各界舉薦。卓榮泰先前則表示，正向各方徵詢適當的社會公正人士或法律專業人士，無論如何會在11月中將人選補齊，希望立法院能同意。

行政院發言人李慧芝今天說，有關中選會人選提名，行政院將會在近期之內提出。

至於國家通訊傳播委員會（NCC）委員方面，政院7月底曾提名成功大學資工系暨研究所特聘教授蔣榮先、東吳大學法學院專任特聘教授程明修等4人擔任NCC委員，並指定蔣榮先為主委、程明修為副主委。不過立法院11月7日在藍白多數情況下，4位被提名人都未跨過同意門檻，NCC仍維持3位委員現狀。

李慧芝對此表示，卓榮泰於立法院11月7日投票否決當天就在備詢時表示，立法院一再要求行政院儘速提出人選，由於NCC主責廣電衛星、人事制度、兒少安全等權責，行政院在綜合考量專業學識及實務經驗後所提人選，卻無一被立院採納，政院對否決結果感到遺憾，而基於這次否決結果，行政院將重新思考未來人事提名時與立法院的合作模式。（編輯：林興盟）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者高華謙台北30日電

title: 中選會6委員任期屆滿未提名 政院：近期將提出 | 政治


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（中央社香港30日綜合外電報導）香港宏福苑大火增至146死，根據香港勞工處給路透社的回覆，宏福苑居民去年曾一再針對維修工程的火災隱患提出投訴，但當局當時回應稱，他們面臨的火災風險「相對低」。

位於香港新界大埔的大型集合住宅社區「宏福苑」有8棟大廈，去年7月起展開大維修工程，外牆竹棚架（鷹架）自去年8月起搭建，至今已超過一年。

26日下午，宏福苑其中一棟大廈宏昌閣外的防護網首先起火，其後現場傳出多聲爆炸，火勢再蔓延至周邊6棟大廈，截至今天下午已確認146人死亡、79人受傷，是香港77年來最嚴重的火災。

路透社報導，香港勞工處發言人在電子郵件中表示，宏福苑住戶去年9月曾對大廈維修工程表達疑慮，包括承包商用來覆蓋棚架的綠色防護網可能具可燃性。

這種防護網是用來防止碎片掉落傷及路人，勞工處隨後檢查防護網安全認證，並告知居民其阻燃性符合標準。

勞工處協助執行屋宇署訂定的建築標準。然而，香港警方27日表示，大廈外牆安裝的防護網、保護膜、防水帆布及塑膠布，疑似未符合防火標準。

維修工程承建商「宏業建築工程有限公司」已有多名相關人士遭拘捕，但確切起火原因待查。

香港理工大學消防安全專家江黎明在檢視過火災錄影後則表示，大火顯然是沿著外部裝修設施迅速蔓延，而初期評估並未把窗外裝設的發泡膠板納入考量。

宏業建築工程有限公司在2024年1月獲得總值3.3億港幣（約新台幣13.2億元）的維修合約，路透社多次致電該公司，均未獲回應。記者28日上午前往公司辦公室時，發現入口處鐵捲門拉下。

針對勞工處檢查防護網安全認證一事，警方援引27日的聲明表示，火勢全滅後將全面蒐證，並深入調查起火原因。勞工處則告訴路透社，之前告訴居民只要避免焊接等工序，火災風險相對低，但這項說法不代表忽視潛在危險，勞工處亦曾提醒承包商應落實防火措施。

該處補充道，2024年7月至2025年11月間，曾對宏福苑進行16次巡查，並曾對承包商發出6張敦促改善通知書和3宗檢控，但勞工處並未說明細節。

路透社無法確認上述程序的結果或公司方面的回應。

香港版「格蘭菲塔大火」？本次大火蔓延速度極其驚人。

26日下午2時51分，消防單位獲報宏福苑其中一棟大廈發生火警。根據消防處聲明，消防員只花5分鐘就抵達現場，但火勢已沿棚架蔓延至大廈內部，並波及其他多棟建築。

大約4小時內，每棟32層樓、總共8棟大廈的宏福苑中，就有7棟大廈陷入火海，濃煙使得救難人員難以登上較高樓層。

宏福苑約有4600名居民，數百人被安置在臨時庇護所。截至今天下午5時，仍有逾40人失蹤，另有100個失聯個案無法追查。

任教於香港理工大學的江黎明將宏福苑大火與2017年造成72死的英國倫敦格蘭菲塔（Grenfell Tower）惡火相比。他表示：「（兩者）火焰蔓延機制非常相似，都是從外牆燒進（公寓）住房內。」

根據路透社，針對格蘭菲塔火災的調查發現，英國政府、建築業以及在外牆上包覆可燃材料的廠商均有疏失。

香港行政長官李家超已表示，政府將檢討竹棚架的使用。屋宇署及勞工處則於27日分別宣布，將針對全港維修中建築物展開緊急巡查，確保棚架及防護網符合防火要求。

警方26日也提到，他們在現場發現可能加劇火勢蔓延的發泡材料。臉書（Facebook）用戶梁某2024年9月曾在宏福苑居民交流社團貼出白色材料燃燒的照片，指窗戶隔板具可燃性。路透社透過臉書聯絡梁某，但他並未回應。

香港建造業總工會理事長周思傑向路透社表示，發泡材料燃燒迅速且會產生有毒濃煙，該物料有助在施工期間阻擋灰塵並防止玻璃破損，但他也質疑管理團隊及現場監督人員是否評估過風險。

一名58歲歐姓居民指出，窗邊安裝的發泡膠板讓父母無法察覺外頭火勢與濃煙，「他們是我打電話才知道起火了」。其父母獲救後待在醫院，目前情況穩定。

住戶黃小姐對公寓窗戶被封死感到憤怒，並稱政府雖訂有法規，但她對建材品質及安全的執法力度抱持懷疑態度。

countries: 香港 英國

references: 臉書 Facebook

title: 香港大火前頻繁發現消防隱患 官方曾稱防護網「風險低」 | 兩岸


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11月27日在沙烏地阿拉伯舉行世界健美錦標賽。台灣選手劉明毅（右3）榮獲男子形體組170公分級金牌。（駐沙烏地阿拉伯代表處提供）中央社記者施婉清開羅傳真 114年11月30日（中央社記者施婉清開羅30日專電）世界健美錦標賽27日在沙烏地阿拉伯開賽。台灣健美國家代表隊選手劉明毅奪得雙金。台灣隊整體最終排名第14名；中國、伊朗和韓國包辦前3名。

總統賴清德和運動部部長李洋在比賽結果宣布後，發賀電向劉明毅致賀。

國際健美總會（International Fitness & Bodybuilding Federatioin，IFBB）於11月27日至12月1日，在沙烏地阿拉伯舉行世界男子健美錦標賽（IFBB WORLD MEN'S BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS）。中華民國健美健身協會選派徐定甫、王言庭、鄭遠承、劉明毅共4名頂尖健美選手參賽。

劉明毅不負眾望，在男子「健身模特兒176公分級」（Fitmodel 176）擊敗其他10名選手，並在「形體170公分級」（physique 170）項目中力壓16名選手，奪得雙面金牌。

11月27日至12月1日在沙烏地阿拉伯舉行世界健美錦標賽。駐沙烏地阿拉伯代表張治平（前排右5）率台僑前往觀賽，並與台灣代表隊及雙金奪主劉明毅（前排左5）在賽場合影。（駐沙烏地阿拉伯代表處提供）中央社記者施婉清開羅傳真 114年11月30日駐沙烏地阿拉伯代表處代表張治平專程率領當地僑胞親臨現場觀賽。張治平轉述，當時，劉明毅特別提到，3年前在IFBB世界健美錦標賽奪冠後，其實有遇到訓練停滯期。經過沉澱，身心也重新調整，讓壓力降到最低，覺得自己已經準備得差不多了，才以輕鬆的心情面對此次國手選拔。

劉明毅在賽後於「臉書」（Facebook）上透露，29日比賽當天恰逢他的結婚週年。奪冠這個原本只敢在心中悄悄期盼的夢想，如今終於成真。他將這份榮耀做為週年禮物獻給妻子，並表示這是兩人共同努力的成果。

劉明毅還表示，「這次好不容易表現出有史以來最好的狀態—狀態飽滿，又逐步乾到極致。」

然而，回想起賽前準備工作的種種艱辛和心理壓力，劉明毅也擔心，「這一路辛苦疲憊的成果，會不會終究功虧一簣。然後眼淚就奪眶而出。」

journalist: 中央社記者施婉清開羅30日專電

countries: 中華民國 美國 韓國 沙烏地阿拉伯 中國 伊朗 台灣

title: 劉明毅奪健美世錦賽雙金 結婚週年圓夢榮耀獻妻子 | 運動


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淡北道路工程日前進行主線高架橋基樁挖掘時，施工廠商不慎鑽破自來水管線，造成淡水部分區域停水，經台灣自來水公司全力搶修完成換管、接管作業後，30日下午恢復供水。（工務局提供）中央社記者王鴻國傳真 114年11月30日（中央社記者王鴻國新北30日）淡北道路工程施作基樁鑽掘時，施工廠商27日不慎鑽破地下自來水管線，導致淡水16個里、共6萬多戶停水，新北市工務局表示，經台水搶修後，今天下午5時已恢復正常供水。

新北市工務局發布新聞稿指出，淡北道路工程27日進行主線高架橋基樁挖掘時，施工廠商不慎鑽破自來水管線，自28日凌晨0時起減壓供水，中午過後暫停供水，影響範圍涵蓋淡水區16個里、共約6.2萬戶。

工務局表示，市府獲報立即啟動搶修工程，陸續完成設置鋼板樁支撐及擋土設施，原預估今天凌晨搶修完成，但因遭遇無法預期的地下水湧出，有坍方疑慮，考量安全緊急中斷暫停施工。

工務局長馮兆麟表示，經緊急增加打設鋼板樁做補強，確認安全無虞下再次進場施工，並持續抽水及切割破損自來水管後，今天下午4時多完成置換接管，下午5時起恢復供水。

馮兆麟表示，淡北道路工程於施作基樁前，都會先完成管線調查、試挖、探測作業，並與台灣自來水公司會勘確認，但此次事件顯示圖資與實際狀況有落差，將邀集台水檢討勘驗，在恢復供水後，市府也會與台水研商相關補償機制。

新建工程處長簡必琦表示，有關事故責任與賠償問題，後續將與台水釐清探管與圖資套疊等溝通歷程，確認事發原因後，倘有承包商應負擔的責任，將依約檢討並予裁罰。（編輯：張雅淨）1141130

journalist: 編輯：張雅淨

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 新北市 淡水區 淡水

title: 淡北道路施工挖破管線停水 新北：已恢復供水 | 地方


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（中央社記者林尚縈柏林特稿）「與另類選擇黨（AfD）的距離」成為德國中小企業近期被迫表態的議題，不少企業接力退出日前宣布取消與AfD接觸原則的「家族企業協會」，也有成員強調與極右翼政治人物對話的重要性，爭議目前持續延燒。

為防止正常化極右翼政黨，避免重蹈納粹時代覆轍，德國主流政治與企業界多年來奉行「不與極右翼合作」原則，設下「防火牆」（Brandmauer），然而這座牆卻因AfD受民意支持，今年二月大選後躍升國會第二大黨，而顯得搖搖欲墜。

德國「家族企業協會」（Die Familienunternehmer）日前宣布，取消成員與AfD接觸禁令，也在10月與德國國會交流活動中，首次邀請AfD籍議員參加，此動作具指標性意義，同時引發巨大爭議。

德國經濟高度依賴中小企業，約9成企業為家族經營，「家族企業協會」6500餘名會員，長期在稅務、能源、移民與勞動等各項社會關鍵議題上具社會影響力，被視為德國中小企業之聲。

●家族企業協會願對話afd 用道德框架難救德國經濟

協會主席奧斯特曼（Marie-Christine Ostermann）聲明，開放成員與AfD接觸，是因為只以善惡二分道德框架談論AfD、拒絕往來，對改善德國經濟並無助益，強調唯有透過直接對話，才能向AfD傳達其主張的反移民政策不利德國中小企業發展。

然而協會方針的轉向，仍引起震盪，被認為是德國企業對極右翼「防火牆」的鬆動。除引發反極右翼人士批評，成員包括知名連鎖藥妝店Rossmann、家電品牌福維克（Vorwerk）、飲料製造商Fritz-Kola等，相繼宣布退出協會。

●退會成員憂與AfD牽連 損企業形象引消費者抵制

退會成員表示，企業價值應以民主、多元與法治為基礎，協會與AfD接觸將對社會傳達錯誤訊號，正當化極右翼政黨。

福維克即強調，排除與AfD任何政治合作，公司創辦人謝德（Timm Scheid）2019年發起的「德國製造，多元倡議」（Made in Germany, made by Diversity）目前有約155家家族企業參與，目標推動經濟與社會多元價值。

這場退出風暴，除了價值選擇，也攸關企業品牌形象與消費者抵制。這幾年因嘲諷川普廣告而熱賣的飲料製造商Fritz-Kola第一時間發布退會聲明，指出開放民主與多元，是品牌得以運作的前提。

不少網友則正在社群媒體炎上德國最大連鎖藥妝店dm，起因是dm執行長斐納（Christoph Werner）日前受南德日報（SZ）訪問時回應，「家族企業協會的活動可邀請所有政黨」，被視為支持協會與AfD接觸。

面對輿論壓力，dm近日澄清，公司已退出協會，卻持續受到消費者抨擊，公民行動團體Campact更發起「不去dm，改買Rossmann」（dm和Rossmann分別是德國前二大連鎖藥妝店）運動。

●協會內部務實派：不能假裝正崛起大黨不存在

與此同時，也有協會內部人士與匿名企業主支持「家族企業協會」的策略轉向，主張在AfD支持度持續攀升、在不少邦已成第一大黨的現實下，商界不能再假裝AfD不存在。

協會柏林分會主席塔尼爾迪茲（Florian Tanyildiz）批評，「家族企業協會」正成為一場動員行動的受害者，認為協會能容納民主光譜內的多元意見，而「媒體也應如此」，公開支持奧斯特曼決定。

極右翼的聲音是否應被視為多元意見的一部份？在德國仍是大哉問。今年5月，AfD正式被德國聯邦憲法保護局定性為「明確極右翼」政黨，為戰後德國首個以國會最大在野黨規模、被官方如此定性的全國性政黨。

記者曾分別詢問多位德國國會議員幕僚，他們表示各黨與AfD涇渭分明，不僅在公開的議場辯論舞台，不少幕僚表示，縱使私下在國會辦公室電梯遇到，連招呼也不會打。

●是否與極右翼接觸成多重難題 企業摸石子過河

然而，真實社會的運作往往比價值選擇更為複雜，在經濟下滑、越來越多民眾以支持極右翼表達不滿的情況下，如何平衡企業利益、社會責任與消費者期待，早已成為德國政治與企業必須思考、面對，甚至不得不公開揭露答案的問題。

至於這道題目的正確回答，應該是一道長長的申論，還是篤定的是非選擇，德國社會也仍在摸索這個難題的答案。（編輯：韋樞）1141130

journalist: 編輯：韋樞

title: 是否與極右政黨對話？ 德中小企業陷難題摸石過河 | 國際


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台南市安南區城西掩埋場30日晚間起火，消防局指出，經環保局水車與重機具支援，火勢已撲滅，隨後進行殘火處理。（讀者提供）中央社記者楊思瑞台南傳真 114年11月30日（中央社記者楊思瑞台南30日電）台南市安南區城西掩埋場今天晚間起火，消防局開闢防火線避免延燒，於晚間9時58分左右撲滅，隨後進行殘火處理。環保局初步調查為生活垃圾暫置區燃燒，未波及石棉瓦堆置區。

台南市消防局於晚間7時48分獲報，指稱在通往城西焚化爐的安南區安清路三段附近，有掩埋場起火燃燒，陸續調派30部各式車輛、57名警消人員，搭配無人機、消防機器人等設備前往灌救，抵達現場發現為約20公尺高垃圾堆燃燒，隨即出水灌救並開闢防火線避免延燒。

台南市消防局指出，經環保局水車與重機具支援，火勢於晚間9時58分左右撲滅，隨後進行殘火處理，未造成人員傷亡，起火原因有待釐清。

台南市環保局初步調查，燃燒區域為生活垃圾暫置區，並無石棉瓦堆置，石棉瓦堆置區未遭波及，環保局已同步嚴密監控。（編輯：張雅淨）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者楊思瑞台南30日電

title: 台南城西掩埋場火警撲滅 後續進行殘火處理 | 社會


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韓國女團MAMAMOO成員頌樂（Solar）（圖）30日晚間在台北國際會議中心（TICC）開唱，她以一襲華麗黑色禮服亮相，為演唱會揭開序幕。中央社記者翁睿坤攝 114年11月30日（中央社記者王寶兒台北30日電）繼11月初在高雄開唱，韓國女團MAMAMOO成員頌樂再次來台，今天在台北舉辦演唱會與粉絲相會，除加碼「月亮代表我的心」與全場大合唱，還因不捨巡演將結束而一度眼眶泛淚。

今晚是頌樂第3次個人亞洲巡迴演唱會「Solar 3rd CONCERT“Solaris”」台北場，她以頭戴皇冠、身穿黑色亮片禮服造型亮相，並接連演唱Ave Maria Paien、RAW、Egotistic等曲目，後來還換上帥氣的艦長裝扮，幾乎全程都以中文向粉絲交流。

在演唱自創曲Star Wind Flower Sun時，頌樂情緒激動泛淚，她坦言，想到Solaris巡演即將在台北劃下句點，心中難免感到不捨。台下粉絲立刻大喊「再開一場」，她笑回「不好意思，我沒有體力了。」

粉絲聽到後繼續回應「不想回去」，頌樂便開玩笑說：「不行，你們明天要上班吧？」聽到粉絲說不用，頌樂驚訝又好笑地說：「你們都不用工作嗎？每天都在玩嗎？哇，好羨慕喔。」

玩笑話後，頌樂也感性向粉絲告白，她說，今天的舞台畢竟是最後了，所以對她來說很特別、也更加珍貴，「有點捨不得，裡面包含很多情感。下次見面之前，我會更加努力，所以請大家多多等待，要跟我再見面喔。」

演唱會最後，頌樂加碼安可多首歌曲，更驚喜走入觀眾席與粉絲近距離互動、寵粉無極限。她還特別開放粉絲現場點歌，連續演唱多首不在原定歌單內的歌曲，而在粉絲的熱情鼓吹下，更臨時加碼演唱經典中文歌曲「月亮代表我的心」，讓全場一起大合唱，氣氛溫馨。（編輯：張雅淨）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者王寶兒台北30日電

title: MAMAMOO頌樂登台 加碼獻唱「月亮代表我的心」 | 娛樂


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（中央社記者戴雅真東京30日專電）日本首相高市早苗「台灣有事」答詢引發中國不滿，中國14日呼籲公民避免前往日本，至今已半個月。部分地區有中國團客取消飯店預約，但日本旅遊界整體態度冷靜。部份名店仍大排長龍，有業者表示，「中國客減少，其他國家旅客立刻補上」。

產經新聞報導，受影響最明顯的是關西地區。根據大阪觀光局，大阪府內約20家飯店，在12月底前有50％至70％中國旅客取消預約。另一方面，東京的飯店則普遍反應「目前沒有感覺到明顯衝擊」，呈現地域差異。

短期影響在所難免，尤其是明年農曆春節將面臨中國訪客下滑。航空與旅遊分析師鳥海高太朗表示，「春節的觀光商機相當嚴峻，影響至少會持續到（明年）春天，最快要半年至1年才能恢復」。

不過，東京、大阪、京都等地的飯店房價目前都開始下滑。鳥海分析，「城市地區未來有望緩解觀光公害問題，期待迎來更多日本旅客。不過，春節減少的部分不可能完全彌補」。

關鍵在於擺脫對中國市場的依賴。根據日本政府觀光局統計，今年1至10月訪日旅客達3554萬7200人，中國旅客佔23％，雖然依舊居首，但已從2019年的約30％縮減。

此外，今年10月韓國、台灣、美國等13個國家、地區的訪日旅客人數都創下歷年10月新高。甚至中東地區訪日旅客也比去年同期成長33.8％，德國旅客增加29.2％。

中國政府呼籲公民避免赴日後，日本各大觀光景點的中國旅客明顯減少。然而，不少以外國旅客為主的飯店與餐飲業者依舊態度淡定，因為這些店家的客層已經拓展至歐美與東南亞，成功分散了「中國風險」。

在東京淺草雷門擔任人力車伕的岩崎櫂表示，過去約3成客人來自中國，現在幾乎沒有中國客。他雖然不會中文，但擅長以英文服務，「現在更專注於接待歐美和東南亞旅客，營業額沒有明顯下滑」。

淺草知名蜜地瓜店家「芋屋興伸」員工三橋由香利表示，「以前客人大多是中國人，最近多半是韓國和歐美旅客」。

即使中國客減少，其他國家的觀光客與修學旅行的學生依然讓店外大排長龍。淺草炸肉餅的打工生也說，「歐美觀光客很多，營業額幾乎沒變」。

萬雷飯店則表示，「即使（中國客）取消住宿，也很快被補上」。自從中國發布旅遊公告後，中國客確實明顯減少，但目前飯店客源主要來自美國與澳洲，「完全沒有危機感」。

淺草以外的地區，受到的影響也有限。東京帝國飯店表示，雖然有少數宴會被取消，但「跟其他飯店相比影響不大」。

經營東京椿山莊大飯店的藤田觀光株式會社表示，目前沒有受到顯著影響，並稱公司在疫情期間中國客減少時，就積極拓展歐美與澳洲客源。（編輯：謝怡璇）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者戴雅真東京30日專電

countries: 日本 中國 美國 澳洲 韓國 德國 台灣

taiwan-subdivisions: 關西 成功

title: 中國赴日喊卡半個月影響有限 日本旅遊業照樣忙 | 國際


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宜蘭縣羅東高工30日在「中信盃黑豹旗全國高中棒球大賽」獲得亞軍，創下隊史在黑豹旗最佳成績。（林燈文教公益基金會提供）中央社記者王朝鈺傳真 114年11月30日（中央社記者王朝鈺宜蘭30日電）宜蘭縣羅東高工棒球隊從2019年參加黑豹旗以來始終無法突破32強，成軍初期更面臨招不到球員窘境，甚至遭到質疑，球隊今天在黑豹旗獲得亞軍，用實力證明「玩真的」。

羅東高工今天在「中信盃黑豹旗全國高中棒球大賽」冠軍戰，以1比4不敵平鎮高中獲得亞軍，創下隊史在黑豹旗最佳成績。

羅東高工棒球隊原本是社團形式，不僅經費拮据，訓練環境極度克難，球員們用的是職棒汰換下的球具，棒球破皮也捨不得換，集訓時甚至只能在教室打地鋪。

2019年，中道中學停招棒球隊，宜蘭瞬間陷入沒有木棒組球隊的空窗期，林燈文教公益基金會得知後，決定挺身出手接棒，將羅東高工青棒隊升級成為硬式木棒代表隊。

林燈文教公益基金會不僅提供每年約新台幣300萬元經費，縣府無償借用羅東運動公園棒球場供球隊使用，基金會出資將三壘看台區下方改造為球員住宿區，一壘看台區下方則作為教室，並建置牛棚和打擊場，全面升級球隊環境。

2025第13屆黑豹旗全國高中棒球大賽羅東高工隊史首闖冠軍戰，30日在新莊棒球場收下亞軍，教練、球員賽後高舉雙手鼓掌列隊，把掌聲獻給自己，也謝謝支持球隊的每個人。中央社記者張新偉攝 114年11月30日教練何昱德透露，目前球隊有4名教練和40名球員，有10名球員是宜蘭子弟，現在每個月至少都會出去打1次盃賽，每年至少打10個盃賽，如果沒有林燈文教公益基金會支援，不可能在短時間打出成績。

然而，球隊成立初期招生慘澹，羅東高工前體育組長、秘書楊瑞耀回憶，球隊成立初期前往國中招生，家長擔心學校資源不足，球隊又沒成績，不敢將孩子送到羅東高工，甚至質疑學校「是玩真的嗎」，即便學校詳細說明規劃，家長依舊卻步，在地球員外流至其他縣市情況嚴重。

楊瑞耀說，在球隊學長口耳相傳下，無論對球員的照顧或學業規劃，校方與基金會都用心付出，加上國中端的教練團看見球員的紮實訓練，感受到學校「是玩真的」，近年招生情況才改善許多。

journalist: 中央社記者王朝鈺宜蘭30日電

taiwan-subdivisions: 羅東 平鎮 宜蘭縣 新莊

title: 黑豹旗奪亞軍 羅東高工用實力證明「玩真的」 | 運動


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基隆河水源近日受到油污染，使得許多基隆市用戶自來水有油味，市長謝國樑（前）30日晚間召開會議後受訪表示，經稽查，油膜感測器故障，台水公司大規模造成市民不便，市府最快於12月1日下午開罰。中央社記者王朝鈺攝 114年11月30日（中央社記者王朝鈺基隆30日電）基隆河水源近日受到油污染，使得許多基隆市用戶自來水有油味，市長謝國樑今天表示，經稽查，油膜感測器故障，台灣自來水公司大規模造成市民不便，市府最快明天下午開罰。

謝國樑晚間邀集台水公司等單位，召開跨局處緊急應變會議後受訪表示，環保局稽查過程中，發現八堵抽水站水面油膜感測器為故障狀態，也就是台水公司並沒有足夠的儀器，發現與偵測這次的油污。

謝國樑說，環保局與警察局這幾天針對污染源周邊盤查，截至目前並未發現人為傾倒污水，不過，經與台水公司等專家討論後，認為人為因素機率高，已責成警察局與環保局，持續針對上游清查近期是否有異常情形。

謝國樑說，截至目前，這起事件起因並沒有定論，市府對此感到相當困擾，希望更多擁有公權力的單位介入調查，盡快還給市民真相，而這幾天大規模造成用水不便，台水公司已明確違反「飲用水管理條例」，市府最快明天下午針對第一波情形予以開罰。

謝國樑表示，這兩天因週末，派出的水車數量並不足，希望台水公司明天起調派更多水車，並透過新聞稿向外界說明。市府很關心學校和托兒所，鼓勵學校暫停使用自來水，暫時全面改用礦泉水，費用部分市府會盡力負擔。

謝國樑表示，台水公司專家建議市民，先關閉飲水相關馬達等設備，盡量把舊的存水排出，油污問題應該可獲得改善，將請台水公司派出更多水車，協助各里、學校、社區展開排除存水作業。（編輯：陳正健）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者王朝鈺基隆30日電

taiwan-subdivisions: 基隆市 基隆

title: 謝國樑：油膜感測器故障 最快12/1開罰台水公司 | 生活


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政治受難者陳武鎮（圖）30日發表新書畫冊「監獄島政治犯的囚房隨想」，期待能運用創作帶起更多人關注白色恐怖的歷史，同感政治受難者的境遇。（國家人權博物館提供）中央社記者王寶兒傳真 114年11月30日（中央社記者王寶兒台北30日電）當年因寫下「反中央」、「反對國民黨」8個字而入獄2年，政治受難者陳武鎮今天發表新書畫冊「監獄島政治犯的囚房隨想」，他說，既是為受難者的遭遇發聲，也是他深刻反思人權議題後的精華。

國家人權博物館今天舉辦「監獄島政治犯的囚房隨想」新書發表會，除台灣藝術大學教授廖新田、國史館館長陳儀深等人外，來自全台灣各地許多政治受難者也與會，見證陳武鎮的新書問世。

陳武鎮致詞時特別感謝國家人權博物館這些年協助出版他所有的人權藝術創作作品，今天發表新書畫冊是他這6年來創作歷程的展現。例如以政治受難者柯旗化提出來的「監獄島」概念進行系列創作，展現面對威權統治者時，古今中外其他地方何嘗沒有監獄島的存在。

而「賤民」系列是陳武鎮最喜歡的作品，畫的是威權統治下，充滿生命光輝及為自身而屈服的人物。陳武鎮提到，最近他開始創作有關香港人權、描繪香港際遇的作品，也推薦香港流亡藝術家黃國才的作品。

此外，陳武鎮也與廖新田進行對談，從中他回憶起那些被囚禁的日子裡，「無論是監獄中的煎熬，還是對抗不公的歷程，都深刻塑造了我的創作與思維。」而藝術創作是他宣揚人權與歷史真相的一種方式。

陳武鎮期待，能運用創作帶起更多人關注白色恐怖的歷史，同感政治受難者的境遇。有些人作畫是用手指、用手臂，他認為自己是「整個人、整個身體撞上去」，至於有沒有達到這個目標，就留待歷史決斷。

人權館館長洪世芳表示，陳武鎮畫風呈現出強烈的語彙，一刀一筆直指人心，表達出對國家權勢暴力無情輾壓的深沉抗議。每幅作品都帶著震撼人心的力量，「我們不僅是在翻閱前輩的創作歷程，更在回顧一段傷痛的歷史。」期盼陳武鎮能持續以其方式為台灣人權創作及發聲。（編輯：李錫璋）1141130

journalist: 中央社記者王寶兒台北30日電

countries: 香港 台灣

title: 以畫筆回顧政治犯歲月 陳武鎮新作為受難者發聲 | 文化


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（中央社記者戴雅真東京1日專電）日本歌手濱崎步原定在上海舉行的演唱會取消後，她在無觀眾的情況下，從頭到尾演出一次歌單。她11月30日晚間在Instagram發布「無人演唱會」照片，稱「雖然是1萬4000個空座位，但我感受到滿滿的愛」。

濱崎步發布9張演唱會照片。照片中，她的服裝造型完整，現場燈光絢爛、紙花飛舞，舞台效果完全不打折扣，完全看不出來是一場沒有觀眾的演出。

她以英文發文表示，「雖然是1萬4000個空座位，但我感受到來自世界各地TA們（Team Ayu縮寫，濱崎步粉絲名）滿滿的愛，這是我最難忘的演出之一。感謝來自中日的200名工作人員、樂隊成員和舞者，讓這場舞台得以實現，由衷感謝你們...。」

照片中有多張是她與工作人員共同謝幕，華麗的燈光後面，是空著的觀眾席。

不少粉絲看到這些照片感動萬分。有粉絲留言說，「光是看到照片，就知道濱崎步是真正的表演者。當我知道她要舉辦無觀眾演唱會時，就覺得這真的是濱崎步會做的事啊，也讓我再次覺得身為TA真是太好了。她讓我覺得今後也要一直、一直當TA。對Ayu只有滿滿的感動與感謝。希望能有舉辦上海公演的那一天...。」

濱崎步11月28日在限時動態宣布上海演唱會取消，同時，她向參與演唱會籌備的工作人員、舞者、樂團成員以及粉絲表示歉意，「在沒有機會直接見面道歉的情況下，就只能把這個舞台拆掉，我至今仍無法相信，也無法用言語形容。非常對不起。」

濱崎步隔天深夜再次更新限動，透露「我們在昨天接到中止要求後，在沒有觀眾的狀態下，從第一首歌演出到安可曲之後，才離開會場。」

她接著寫道：「為了原本能見到的1萬4000名，所有演出者、工作人員，都以與正式公演毫無差別、傾盡全力的心情，完成了這場演出。」

濱崎步也張貼了與工作人員的合照，留言給TA們表示，「我正與一路並肩作戰至今的團隊、中國所有的工作人員，以及日本的大家庭一起向前邁進。請不要擔心我。請找到那些能讓心靈變得滿足的正面事物，無論是多麼微小的事，然後保護好自己。」

她最後說，「娛樂應該是連接人與人之間的橋梁，而我希望自己能成為那個搭橋的人，我至今仍如此堅信著。」（編輯：何宏儒）1141201

journalist: 中央社記者戴雅真東京1日專電

countries: 日本 中國

title: 濱崎步公開「無人演唱會」照片 面對1.4萬空席唱全場 | 娛樂