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▉評審推薦語邱常婷（決選評審、小說家）

想像在一個魔魅的夜晚裡，真實與虛幻、主流與邊緣的邊界逐漸模糊……

這如同與讀者秉燭夜談的16則夜話，乍看似乎浪漫而閒適，但仔細品味本書，便能看見作者隱藏於輕盈筆觸下的嚴肅關懷。這不僅是一段東海岸旅遊紀行，更是對東臺灣傳說與在地文化的深入省思。

瀟湘神以小說家兼妖怪研究者的身分，融合實地考察與野史爬梳經驗，書寫16個主要篇章。最珍貴之處，在於他讓原本枯燥繁瑣的資料重新獲得生命，使讀者在閱讀時不因資料的厚重而卻步，反而能隨著作者的思索，一路走過那些地景與傳說。透過這些文字，我們彷彿閱讀推理小說一樣慢慢拼湊出事件的可能真相。雖然歷史的全貌永遠難以確知，但追索的過程有可能使我們更接近其輪廓。

本書另一重點是對臺灣在地神話與妖怪傳說的再發掘。書中提及的一些地點本身即是東部著名觀光景點，但在硬體設施和觀光行銷上卻經常以漢文化為中心，使其他族群身影遭遮蔽。此時透過追索被隱藏的神話與傳說，便實踐了一種重建歷史的書寫——從神話脈絡建立人類集體記憶，打破人們對東海岸乃至於整個東部地區既定的刻板印象。

閱讀此書，如同與作者踏上一場傳說和歷史交錯的旅行。十分推薦跟著書中提及的地點逐一探訪，重新認識那不可思議、歷史悠久的東臺灣。

內容節錄《東海岸十六夜》

自海上來

有一則傳說是這樣的。

太平洋有座神祕的島嶼，島上只有女性，她們健壯而美麗，遠離世間紛擾，過著與自然和諧互動的生活。這個島叫「巴萊依珊」，島上沒有任何男性，她們也不知男性為何物，彷彿世上只有一種人類，就是女人。女人自身即是圓滿和諧的宇宙，無須任何添加。

但某天，一位年輕的阿美族男子漂流到了巴萊依珊。

為何他會狼狽漂流至此？這點眾說紛紜，有出海捕魚遇到風浪，或被巨大的魚吞掉之類的，不過那不是重點，重點是他抵達這個國度，被女人發現。沒見過男人的女人相當驚奇，她們聚在海邊，圍觀這個被海沖上來的生物。真奇怪，這生物看來跟「人類」很像，甚至也跟「人類」一樣穿著衣服，只是胸脯平坦；直到她們把衣服掀開，看到陽具及睪丸，才恍然大悟—啊！這生物長了尾巴，還有睪丸，跟豬圈裡的豬一樣。牠肯定是長得比較怪的豬吧！「人類」如此判斷，並將青年帶到豬圈，用藤條綁在柵欄上，給他吃豬食。這段期間，青年當然試圖解釋，企圖證明自己也是人，畢竟他眼前的女人跟故鄉的女人並無差別，對方應能理解。

然而，「人類」不懂他的話，或許也沒興趣懂，都已經判斷他是豬了，要是每次懷疑就要重新裁斷，根本沒完沒了。

這樣下去，青年總有一天會被當成豬吃掉。就在萬念俱灰時，他突然在食物裡發現一把很小很小的刀片，正好能拿來割斷藤條—為何會有這把刀？傳說並未解釋，也許是製作豬食的人太不小心，也可能某位「人類」懷疑青年也是人，但不敢反抗其他人睿智的見解，這才偷偷將逃走用的工具藏在食物裡。

無論如何，青年總算得到逃跑的機會。他割斷藤條，逃出豬圈，往大海的方向跑去。但這裡是座絕島，能跑到哪去？海灘邊，藍色海水一望無際，豔陽刺痛他全裸的身驅，像要抽乾每個毛孔內的水分。要是女人發現他逃跑了，肯定會率眾追來吧！即使現在身後仍安安靜靜，只有風聲與蟲鳴，青年也已下定決心，飛身跳入海中。

就算要死，他寧願溺死，也不願被「人類」吃掉，成為其養分。青年奮力游泳，或許正好遇上離岸流，很快被帶離島嶼，身軀在汪洋上載浮載沉。這是令人絕望的，因為舉目所及都是大海，連該往哪個方向游都不知道；但死裡逃生的青年並未放棄希望，即使根本不知道自己前往何處，他仍專心致意，划水向前，也不知過了多久，他看到遠方有一座小小的島嶼……總算發現希望了。

青年游到島上，發現島上竟有乾燥可用的薪柴，便設法生火，為自己取暖。此時，島嶼突然開始移動—像坐船一樣—驚異之際，腳底傳來宏大的聲音，彷彿地面都在震動。「你是何人？」那個聲音問。

青年這才發現，雖然這座島有海灘、有薪柴、甚至有樹，但這不是一座普通的島，而是大魚的背！青年誠惶誠恐地表明自己的遭遇，大魚體貼地說：「原來如此，我有聽說你落海的事。我是賽尼，可以帶你回家。」這相當不可思議。

為何神奇的大魚知道青年落海？或許能解釋成大海情報往來非常頻繁，每道浪都是消息的波，將遠方的訊息帶向另一個遠方，所有祕密都無法偽裝自己。青年也很驚奇，不願放過這樣的好機會，連忙跟賽尼說自己住的地方是什麼樣子，於是賽尼便要他抓緊，身軀扭動起來，開始向西前進。

這段旅程說長不長，說短不短，青年幾乎沒有睡眠，怕被高速前進的賽尼拋下。三天後，賽尼依約將他帶回熟悉的海岸，青年大喜若狂，再三感謝，賽尼說：「如果你真心感謝，以後每五年就照我說的祭祀我吧！」

賽尼說明祭儀的方法，青年則將這個方法帶回陸地，回歸家園；據說南勢阿美中最靠近海的里漏部落，有一艘古老的獨木舟，那個獨木舟就是用來紀念青年的遭遇，因為他在巴萊依珊島上被當成豬豢養，而獨木舟的造型，就是模仿他吃豬食的容器。

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▉評審推薦語謝仕淵（決選評審、國立成功大學歷史學系副教授）

上個月造訪台南六甲匏仔寮，它位在曾文水庫與烏山頭水庫之間的曾文溪流域旁，水文環境形塑了村民的生活型態。早年的人群移動與貨物出入，只能依賴水運，村民口中的生活日常，都不脫那條河的防患、利用，水知識是村民皆知的生活常識。

「水之道」應該曾經是依水而居的人們重要的在地知識，但水之道不僅溯源於過去，也流向未來。近代國家的河川治理，遭逢極端氣候的挑戰，引發我們思考與水之間的共生關係。在地知識被視為建立韌性社會的重要基礎，近來經由書寫與策展的倡議與行動，可視為對水文化的重新看待。

基於反思人類世觀念而策劃的「曾文溪的一千個名字」與「我們從河而來」特展，被視為可能的行動契機，而《島都之河》更是重量級的作品，提供了「一門給所有流域公民的水文素養必修課」。

由顧雅文、李宗信與簡佑丞共著的《島都之河》，是本扎實且精彩的著作。作者群將嚴謹厚重、長時間與多類型的歷史材料，調度得極為靈活且有觀點。書中的淡水河是「多重交匯產生的複雜變化」，匯流，是對水文的描述，也是對淡水河關係人的形容。

作者群指出，淡水河不僅是自然景觀，也是依水而生的農民、漁人與郊商存續生養的河流，是文人雅士情感寄託的對象，因此是承載物質與精神意蘊的載體。這本書在談河川治理前，先給足了由環境、生活與人群共構的300年河域生命史。

「島都馭河術」帶我們看見不同時代，經由築堤、浚渫、建壩、改道或疏洪手段所相信的「最佳方案」。改造淡水河「是在官民紳商、知識分子、本地與外籍專家的反覆檢討及辯論中成形」，其中的選擇，多是被社會情勢與經濟需求所定義。

書中討論的治理工程，看似相關辯論已經結束：河川早被馴服，淡水河也被阻隔在城市邊緣，遠離人們的日常生活，「我們幾乎遺忘了親水文化及應對洪水的地方知識。」但《島都之河》卻拉出一個重要的討論面向，讓不同立場的人群同步發聲，多方交雜。原來對於河川的想望，一直都在。

《島都之河》透過「河流的個性」、「河流的豐饒」、「河流的明暗」、「島都馭河術」與「蛻變中的大河」等單元的討論，讓河川的個性與生命得以彰顯。我們以為的天災，不能只歸因於意外，書裡的匯流之聲，提供我們理解河川的視角與架構。因此，認識淡水河不只是為了瞭解島都，而是島國臺灣的公民素養必修課。

內容節錄《島都之河：匯流與共生，淡水河與臺北的百年互動》

基隆河畔養鴨人家

臺灣的家鴨品種最初據說是體型最小的菜鴨，在康熙年間從福建泉州引入臺南。其後，土番鴨、紅面鴨及上海種鴨才逐漸引入，在臺北等地繁殖。第一章提及的英國博物學家柯靈烏曾到臺灣北部旅行，一八六〇年代於《英國皇家地理學會會刊》發表遊記，描述了士林一帶基隆河上的養鴨情景：

從這裡再前行約三哩，即抵達名為八芝蘭［今士林］的村落。相較於艋舺或滬尾，這個村莊通風更佳，也更加乾淨整潔，且擁有一個優秀的市集，儘管當地居民的經濟條件看來較差。在河岸邊，我們經常可以看到許多鴨船（duck-boats），船上搭載約兩三百隻鴨子，載運到飼養地後，由一位少年負責牧鴨。這些鴨子整天聚集得十分緊密，以便能用毯子將其完全覆蓋，到了夜晚，再以小船將鴨群送回圍欄內。

另據總督府民政局技手木村利建於一八九七年二月的調查，臺北縣（約當今之臺北市、新北市、基隆市、桃園市、宜蘭縣、新竹縣及新竹市）的農家幾乎都有養鴨。各農家在住宅附近開鑿池塘，雖然可供多種用途，但主要目的似乎是為了養鴨。臺北縣轄內的養鴨數量大約為三十餘萬隻，最盛行的地方是芝蘭一堡、芝蘭二堡，以及興直堡等淡水河沿岸地區。這些地區的養鴨戶中，最多的一戶飼養五百隻，少的也有一百隻。

由於養鴨必須臨近水域，加上鴨子天性群居，只需飼主手持一根細長竹竿或木棒，即可輕鬆引導數百隻鴨群整齊有序地移動，左右前後毫不紊亂，場面極為壯觀，被譽為奇妙而美麗的景象。據傳日本皇室攝政宮、秩父宮及高松宮等皇族殿下訪臺時，均曾專程前往基隆河畔觀賞此一奇觀，每每展現出極大興趣與讚賞。

在基隆河流域，隨處可見成群結隊的鴨子。更有趣的是，當地常見到販售鴨隻的鴨行商人隨著鴨群移動穿梭，呈現獨特的南國風情與饒富趣味的景觀。特別是在關渡，當地向來有「關渡鴨母，一律放港」之諺。所謂「放港」，就是放流河中。昔日關渡養鴨人家往往在天亮打開鴨閘，將數百隻鴨子趕入河中覓食，而河中盛產的花殼，則是鴨群主要的天然飼料，所謂「花殼仔飼鴨母，免本」。直到即將日落之際，養鴨人家再搖船出去，以長竹竿將鴨群趕回鴨寮過夜。事實上，養鴨人家的主要財源來自鴨隻每天凌晨生產的鴨蛋，例如關渡盛產的「紅仁鹹鴨蛋」，也是昔日臺灣人餐桌上的重要蛋白質來源。

日治末期一則《興南新聞》的報導，生動地描述秋天的淡水河畔，養鴨人家和漁夫的互動過程：

連日晴朗的好天氣讓淡水河的河水如秋日的天空般清澈透亮，甚至能清晰地看到河底的碎石。一艘小船緩緩滑向岸邊，船上掛著投網作為遮陽。從水門上方有人問：「今天捕到什麼了？」看來是一對父子組合的漁夫幽默地答道：「是秋天啊，魚都變肥了！」這時，一位賣蛋的商販靠近過來，放下籠子問：「要不要買肥美的家鴨蛋？」肥美的魚和肥美的蛋簡單地進行了物物交換。秋天，萬物豐腴的秋天。

都市化的衝擊：漁業沒落與原生物種消失

一九五〇年代以來，隨著臺北市人口激增，家庭汙水成為基隆河和淡水河的主要汙染源。原有的溪流資源受到嚴重衝擊，部分原生物種逐漸消失。在景美溪上游的麻竹藔（新北市深坑區）一帶，過去以豐富的魚類資源聞名，在地居民從小傍河而居，無論是毛蟹、鱸魚、烏魚、石斑魚、甘仔魚、鯽魚、福壽魚（吳郭魚）、蝦和螺等，都是當地盛產的水產漁獲。但隨著環境變遷與淡水河汙染，該地的漁業生態已經發生巨大變化。

曾在一九七〇至一九八〇年代擔任深坑鄉長的黃世溨回憶，他的祖先自從在麻竹藔定居以來，便以捕魚為生，當地的小孩子在四、五歲時便已熟練游泳。黃世溨當時家裡擁有一艘小船，他也經常與叔叔們一同捕魚，這些漁獲不僅自己食用，還會分送親朋或出售。除了鱸魚、烏仔魚、甘仔魚等淡水魚類，淡水蝦更是當地的特色。每年五至九月是捕蝦的旺季，這些蝦肉質鮮美，與今日餐廳裡的泰國蝦大小無異。

然而，隨著時代變遷，這些魚蝦幾乎已經消失，取而代之的是繁殖力與耐汙能力較強的吳郭魚，原生的土鯽魚則數量驟減。黃世溨指出，「以前深坑的溪裡魚多得是，還有從海裡來的海魚，但現在這些魚已經消失了，因為淡水河汙染嚴重，河裡幾乎沒有魚了。」他表示，儘管本地一些原生魚種仍在，例如石斑魚和苦花魚，但整體來看，深坑地區的漁業生態已無法與往日相提並論。

深坑的案例，正是淡水河流域環境與漁業變遷的縮影。在生態作家筆下，淡水河裡曾經四季都無冷場。春來溯溪、躲藏夏颱、秋至產卵、冬天回到海洋，魚鰻蝦蟹等迴遊型水族的生命歷程，共同譜出淡水河的四季組曲。然而曾幾何時香魚消失，新店溪成為吳郭魚的天下，臺北橋下百魚絕跡，只剩耐汙力在吳郭魚之上的海鰱仔（大眼海鰱），魚苗不再湧入淡水河口。

香魚滅絕反映了環境汙染導致的水資源惡化。戰後初期，政府開始從日本引進相同物種的香魚進行復育，終於在一九七七年，透過水產養殖技術，成功孵化香魚苗，並放流到新店溪上游與石門水庫等地，希望可以重現香魚的身影。

弔詭的是，水質惡化帶來另一種生物的出現。一九七〇至一九八〇年代的基隆河下游，士林三腳渡的船夫在堀川（即日治時期的特一號排水溝）排入基隆河處，發現了耐汙性強的紅線蟲。紅線蟲可作為養鴨的飼料，隨後也成為養鰻人的新寵。隨著鰻魚價格飆升，三腳渡一度成為全臺紅線蟲的供應中心。對三腳渡人來說，這段時期是他們難忘的黃金年代。好景不長，隨著河水的汙染加深，竟連紅線蟲也逐漸無法生存，再加上鰻魚價格下跌，捕撈紅線蟲的生計也終於告終。三腳渡的歷史見證了淡水河養殖漁業的變遷，成為極富歷史意義的時空交會點。

countries: 英國 日本 泰國 臺灣

taiwan-subdivisions: 淡水 臺北 臺北市 新北市 六甲 臺南 新店 深坑區 桃園 宜蘭縣 士林 石門 成功 新竹縣 基隆 基隆市 新竹市

title: 島都之河：匯流與共生，淡水河與臺北的百年互動 | 社會人文 | 每週好書讀


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▉評審推薦語陳雨航（決選評審、前編輯人）

「天空那種藍，支亞干溪那種藍，他心裡那樣藍」，以及當地太魯閣族人稱之為大腿山的部落獵徑地盤和村落，是這部小說集的大遠景和舞台。

這個「化外之地，國中之國」，小孩騎大車，警車有默契的村子，既有容易失火的木造簡易房舍，也有堅固的水泥樓房。有三餐不繼的孩子，也有上市區補習順帶逛街買物的學生。有生活穩定的公務員，也有採集山蘇挖生薑偶爾代砍竹子噴農藥維生的邊緣居民。 有恐共症，有黨國腦粉。有疲軟的Gaya，「打獵上山，不都是長輩帶領，父子之事」，父親哀嘆未能親身帶領兒子成就為一個獵人。

看《灌籃高手》、《幽遊白書》或《美少女戰士》的，在湍急溪流或者各自的祕密基地玩到不知日落的初長少女少男，他們做了甚麼？後來又都到哪裡去了？

小說集在許多現代部落生活的縱橫敘述裡，摻雜了時不時爆開的炸彈（性）命題與情節，那才是作者落力之處。引言裡說了：「情色分明人體自然，開口卻羞赧，慾望作窗口，打開生活苦楚，排解厚重關係，尋覓山林存我。如果可以寫，我為什麼不寫。」

於是你看到充滿影像感，除了「外銷」大都市或日美的「肉體經濟學」，男男戀、女女戀、男女戀，青春無敵與否，都無損於筆下的淋漓酣暢。

這是一組優秀的短篇小說，作者顯然將最傑出的兩篇放在最後。冷冽的〈Tama〉和溫情的〈傳統服〉，誠然。

內容節錄《大腿山》

火車到站，Kimi抬頭看一下遠方那片裸露白色岩石的山，哇，更白了、更大片了。還是小女孩的她曾提起食指，在空氣中使勁揮舞，像畫圖一樣，在蓊鬱的綠色

底圖紙上，抹上一層層乾淨的白色，巨大的大腿山被塗上厚厚藥膏。

大腿山，哈哈，她心裡笑了一下，其實沒有人這樣稱呼那座山，只是Payi告訴她，布滿刻痕的手，拍打Kimi瘦小尚未飽滿的大腿：

「Btriq，Btriq ka nii，大腿，這裡叫做大腿。」，Payi再把手指向後方那座山。

「Btriq，Btriq ka nii uri，山，這裡也叫山。」

山有很多名字，Dgiyaq、Daya、Yama……都是山，一整片山、分不出形狀的山、日本人說的山；Btriq是三角形的山，頂端往下，高處往低處，從尖變鈍，從細變寬，寬得必須用雙手張開來擁抱的地方，就叫做Btriq。

慢慢走出車站，兀自站在門口發呆，享受風涼涼地吹，她用紅色絲帶把頭髮盤起來，露出清瘦後頸，風吹在髮絲上一陣癢癢的感覺。

哥哥明明說好來接她，火車只是誤點七分鐘，他走了嗎？還是沒來？ Kimi耐不住性子，看著頭頂的大太陽，盤算著走回部落差不多半小時，也還好吧，總比台北木柵市場前那條小巷子，走幾步就令人難堪，感覺厭惡。

離開部落的時候是十五歲，就在這木造斜屋頂的車站前方，Payi握著她的手，眼淚在眼眶打轉，一句話都說不出來，好像魚刺卡在喉嚨，如果手上有刀子，她想用力劃開來，將魚刺取出，說清楚講明白。

該逃避Payi的眼神嗎？遠眺大腿山，白色土石流，白色瀑布，砂石車還在搬石頭嗎？記憶裡巨大輪胎壓過家門前，水溝裡的紅線蟲都會躲起來，Payi養的黑嘴狗依偎一旁不斷吠叫，揚起的灰塵像瘟疫籠罩整條筆直馬路。

站前一條狹窄商業街，步行不到五分鐘，無數家餐廳：阿美、添丁、青葉、縱谷傳香……野味來自部落，菜單上標準國字，山羌是Pala、山羊是Mirit、山豬是Bowyak，山蘇是Sruhing……「山」開頭，字帶鮮活靈性，吸引許多Teywan(註13)前來。

Payi曾說Kimi像山羊，一雙腿細細長長，爬上爬下，專挑艱難高牆走，她卻不希望自己是山羊，至少是一條魚，順水流去大海。

穿越商店街就是Ngayngay(註14)區，接著是蔓延山上和山下的Ipaw(註15)區。

每一種人對應各自邊界：Ngayngay居住山腳，與族人一樣務農為生，他們跟著日本人進來，等日本人走了以後，住進被拋棄的菸樓和積木房子。他們田裡的豐沛水源，引自部落南邊的Yayung Qicing(註16)—陽光照不到的溪，Kimi和玩伴的遊樂之地。

日本人先是凹折大地，打實水泥，山上通平地，渠道蔓百里，清澈水波吃不完，溪水變池水，方正框線綠油油一片，蛇蛙都想搬過去。山裡人跟平地人一樣，

小米換大米，吃了半世紀；黨國進來再折一次，他們說山地人自己不喜歡彎腰水田，喜歡傾斜山坡，少一點膝蓋角度。毒蛇搶走的工寮，黨國打造的水圳主幹，拋棄連接部落的支線。主幹流部落，地比水高，看得到吃不到，缺水的旱田，蜈蚣馬陸雞母蟲，旱田水田，我們和Ngayngay最大的區別。

Teywan住在省道和車站商業區，診所雜貨家具西服電影院，初始全因大腿山的伐木事業而開張，日本人的伐木鐵軌長驅入山，離開了以後，鐵軌拆掉賣五金，黨國要Ipaw們鋪六十公里的柏油林道。

林道之字爬抓大腿山，檜木扁柏運輸道，也是野狼一二五疾速奔馳之地，山產的宅急便，一包包的帶血花袋，一道道桌上風土美食。

Ipaw整平陷落的山路及溪床，炸山挖礦開路採木頭，一邊工作一邊蓋房子，每一間都是方形洞穴，門窗小小，屋頂好矮，神話中的小黑人。

他們足跡遍布平地和山區，大腿山登山口，設下管制站，哨口兩個警衛，橫桿一條線，見人就盤查，裡面熱鬧聚落，輔導會辦公室餐廳卡拉OK檳榔攤雜貨店。

他們手勒大腿，讓卡車揚起高密度的粉塵和巨響。

從前，Payi常帶著她去輔導會賣菜，Kimi總覺得他們很難看，扁平的輪廓和不年輕的身體，手臂上刻殺朱拔毛或鯊魚刺青。其中一個斷了小拇指，舌頭卻多一條，二條舌頭的老黃，規畫工人餐食，採集山上山下。

他總咬文嚼字說難懂的話，國小教室上國語課，有幾句寫在黑板上的成語，就從老黃嘴巴吐出：「妖言惑眾、事半功倍、一無是處……」抑揚頓挫，四聲分明。

每次看到Kimi老說：「黃花閨女要不要當我太太！」

黃花閨女要不要當我太太，多像老孫也會說的話，老黃從前軍隊同袍。

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(註13)太魯閣語，漢人的統稱，或專指河洛人。

(註14)太魯閣語，客家人。

(註15)太魯閣語稱外省人為Ipaw，為華語「義胞」之諧音。

(註16)太魯閣語，清水溪，照不到陽光的溪。

taiwan-subdivisions: 山上 清水

title: 大腿山 | 文學 | 每週好書讀


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【大紀元2026年02月19日訊】（大紀元記者李平綜合報導）週四（2月19日），在漫天飛雪中，米蘭-科爾蒂納冬奧會的滑雪登山項目首秀誕生首位男女冠軍。

瑞士選手瑪麗安娜‧法頓（Marianne Fatton）以2分59.77秒的驚人成績奪得女子滑雪登山項目冠軍，她以2.38秒的優勢險勝法國選手艾米麗‧哈羅普（Emily Harrop）。西班牙選手安娜‧阿隆索‧羅德里格斯（Ana Alonso Rodriguez）帶前交叉韌帶傷（ACL）參賽，獲得銅牌。

20分鐘後舉行的男子比賽中，西班牙選手奥里奥爾‧卡多納‧科爾（Oriol Cardona Coll）輕鬆奪冠。來自俄羅斯的尼基塔‧菲利波夫獲得銀牌（Nikita Filippov），成為本屆在意大利奪牌的首位「個人中立運動員」（individual neutral athlete）。法國選手蒂博‧安塞爾梅（Thibault Anselmet）獲得銅牌。

由於是冬奧會首秀，意義非凡，法頓和科爾的首枚金牌也是意義重大。法頓的母親安娜‧亞諾什科娃（Anna Janouskova）曾代表捷克參加1992年法國阿爾貝維爾冬奧會的越野滑雪比賽。

滑雪登山，簡稱skimo，是一項起源於19世紀末的小眾高山運動，2021年被列入奧運會正式比賽項目。比賽共進行三輪，每輪約三分鐘，極考驗選手耐力。滑雪登山賽道是短距離賽道，由上坡和下坡組成，賽道呈菱形圖案，設有台階，像一個充斥各種障礙的雪地公園。

運動員首先穿過一個菱形圖案，然後脫下滑雪板，滑雪板放到背包中，穿著滑雪靴爬上台階後，再穿上滑雪板衝刺到山頂，到達山頂後，躍起撕掉滑雪板底部的「雪皮」（幫助運動員快速上坡的布料），然後一路下坡飛馳向終點線。

據了解，滑雪登山在2021年獲投票納入奧運項目。本屆滑雪登山的最後一面獎牌，將在週六（21日）登場的混合團體接力賽產生。混合團體接力則由一男一女組隊交替滑跑四圈，每圈包含兩段上升與兩段下降。

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春天養肝怎麼做？春季養肝真的能改善口乾、失眠、春困、肝氣鬱結、肝火旺嗎？本集解析春季養肝飲食原則、養肝茶是否有效、脂肪肝怎麼調整、春天必按的養肝穴位，以及九紫離火運容易上火的調理方法。特別適合北方寒冷地區、過年大魚大肉後想調整體質的人。

很多人一到春天就疲倦、睡不好、情緒暴躁，其實可能和「肝氣不舒、肝血不足」有關。中醫認為春屬木、主肝，這時養肝做對了，一整年的代謝、睡眠、婦科與情緒都會穩定下來。

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在經歷階段性回暖之後，中國大部地區將迎來一次明顯降溫過程。中央氣象部門預計，19日夜間起強冷空氣率先影響西北和華北，隨後繼續東移南下。江淮及其以北大部地區將出現5至7級偏北風，陣風8至9級；新疆山口地區、內蒙古中西部、河北北部等局地風力可達8級以上，陣風可能超過11級。

氣溫方面，上述地區普遍下降6至10℃。其中新疆北部、內蒙古、吉林中西部、遼寧北部等地部分地區降溫幅度可達10至14℃，個別地區接近或超過16℃。東北、華北、黃淮一帶最高氣溫在一兩天內累計降幅可達10至15℃，局地甚至接近20℃，呈現「斷崖式」下滑。

與北方相比，長江以南地區受影響相對較小。22日至23日氣溫也將有所回落，但整體降幅有限，中國新年假期結束前仍維持偏暖水平。

降溫的同時，北方多地將迎來雨雪天氣。新疆、內蒙古及東北部分地區預計出現中到大雪，局地或達暴雪級別。受強風影響，西北及華北部分地區還可能出現揚沙或沙塵暴天氣，能見度明顯下降。

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title: US presses Iran to do a deal as Trump hints at US strikes

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READY?  US media reports said the US military could launch strikes as early as this weekend, although the US president has not made a final decision yet

The White House on Wednesday warned that Iran would be “wise” to do a deal with the US as President Donald Trump once again hinted at military action.

The two sides recently resumed indirect talks, mediated by Oman, after Trump repeatedly threatened military action against Iran over a deadly crackdown on protesters last month.

A previous attempt at negotiations collapsed when Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran in June last year, beginning a 12-day war that Washington briefly joined to bomb Iranian nuclear sites.

“Iran would be very wise to make a deal with President Trump and with his administration,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

On Wednesday, Trump again suggested the US might strike Iran in a post on his Truth Social site, with a US military buildup under way in the Middle East.

He warned the UK against giving up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, saying that the archipelago’s Diego Garcia air base might be needed were Iran not to agree a deal, “in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous regime.”

CNN and CBS on Wednesday reported that the US military would be ready to launch strikes against Iran as early as this weekend, although Trump has reportedly not made a final decision yet.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Trump has been briefed on his military options with “all of them designed to maximize damage,” including a campaign to “kill scores of Iranian political and military leaders, with the goal of overthrowing the government,” unnamed US officials told the newspaper.

Earlier on Wednesday, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi said Tehran was “drafting” a framework for future talks with the US.

Iran and the US held a second round of Oman-mediated negotiations on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland.

Araghchi said then that Tehran had agreed with Washington on “guiding principles,” but US Vice President J.D. Vance said that Iran had not yet acknowledged all of Washington’s red lines.

Speaking on Wednesday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian insisted: “We do not want war,” but suggested Tehran could not give in to US demands.

“From the day I took office, I have believed that war must be set aside. But if they are going to try to impose their will on us, humiliate us and demand that we bow our heads at any cost, should we accept that?” Pezeshkian said.


title: CDC reports 7,500 cases of diarrhea early in holiday

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HYGIENE: People should wash their hands before eating or preparing food, and clean contaminated surfaces with a diluted bleach solution, the CDC said

More than 7,500 people sought medical attention for diarrhea during the first three days of the Lunar New Year holiday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday, adding that nearly 90 percent of the cluster diarrhea outbreaks were caused by norovirus.

Norovirus-triggered symptoms drew public attention when a temple manager in Tainan on Wednesday threw up during President William Lai’s (賴清德) visit, with part of the vomit landing on Lai’s left shoulder and arm.

The temple manager later said he had contracted norovirus from family members.

Sacrificial Rites Martial Temple manager Lin Pei-huo, center, covers his mouth moments before vomiting during an event attended by President William Lai, left, in Tainan on Wednesday. Photo: Liu Wan-chun, Taipei Times

Hospitals reported 7,581 visits due to diarrhea on the first three days of the Lunar New Year holiday, including 2,256 on Monday, 2,825 on Tuesday and 2,500 on Wednesday, CDC data showed.

Wednesday’s number was down by 68.3 percent compared with the same time last year, but up by 21 percent compared with 2024, the centers said.

Norovirus, which can survive for a long time in vomit and feces, is primarily transmitted through the fecal-oral route, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital said.

People can get infected by consuming food or water contaminated with the virus, or by touching surfaces contaminated with an infected person’s vomit or feces and then touching their own mouth, nose or eyes, it said.

If an infected person’s vomit becomes aerosolized into droplets, people in close contact might become infected as well, the hospital added.

“As the pathogen is highly contagious, outbreaks can easily occur, not only among infants, elderly people and people with weakened immune systems, but also in crowded settings such as care facilities, schools, hospitals, cruise ships and military bases,” it said.

Symptoms usually show up 24 to 48 hours after infection, with the most common symptoms including nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea, and fever, the hospital said.

A small number of people might also experience respiratory symptoms, headaches or muscle aches, it added.

Though acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus typically resolves in about two to three days, people remain contagious from the onset of symptoms until at least three days after recovery, the hospital said.

In some immunocompromised people, the virus might still be found in the stool and the person could remain infectious for up to two weeks after recovery, it said.

To prevent norovirus infection, people should properly wash their hands with soap or hand sanitizer before preparing food or eating, after using the toilet, and after caring for a person who might be infected, such as changing diapers for infants or elderly people or handling their excreta, the CDC said.

Contaminated clothing and bed linen should be changed immediately and disinfected with bleach at concentrations of 1,000 to 5,000 parts per million, depending on the level of contamination, the centers said.

Contaminated surfaces can be disinfected by wiping with a solution made from 20ml of bleach mixed with one liter of water, while vomit and feces should be cleaned and disinfected using a solution of 100ml of bleach mixed with one liter of water, it said, adding that alcohol is not effective in killing norovirus.

There is no vaccine to prevent norovirus gastroenteritis, the CDC said.

Because norovirus has multiple strains with significant genetic variations, infection with one strain of the virus does not provide immunity against others, it said.


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By Chiu Chih-jou and Esme Yeh / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Burning substandard incense containing lead-based pigments risks raising blood lead levels, doctors warned.

Paying respects to ancestors and praying for blessing at temples are traditional Lunar New Year activities, but using incense that is not domestically certified or not sourced from a reputable supplier significantly increases the risk of lead poisoning, especially among vulnerable groups such as children, said Yang Chen-chang (楊振昌), director of occupational medicine and clinical toxicology at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital.

Asia University Hospital nephrologist Lin Hsuan-jen (林軒任) in a recent Facebook post cited as an example a 65-year-old woman, who had long been burning poor-quality incense.

People offer incense at the Wusheng Temple in New Taipei City’s Sinjhuang District yesterday, the third day of the Luanr New Year. Photo: CNA

She and her family across three generations were found to have lead poisoning, Lin said.

The woman sought medical attention for severe anemia, leg edema, unexplained pain in her bones and abdomen, and shortness of breath, he said.

A preliminary examination showed that her hemoglobin levels were down to 5.8g per deciliter, which was initially considered a symptom of malnutrition, but further blood tests showed that her blood lead levels were at a surprisingly high 59 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL), he said.

An investigation found that the woman used to burn lead-containing incense at home, Lin said, adding that her husband, son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren all had extremely high levels of lead in their blood, ranging from 30mcg/dL to more than 80mcg/dL.

Studies have found that children from families that frequently burn incense had slightly higher blood lead levels than their peers, but not to the extent of lead poisoning, Yang said, adding that lead poisoning caused purely by burning incense was rare.

What is of more concern is the use of substandard incense with more lead-based pigments, he said.

Lead-containing incense produce fine dust or suspended particulate matter when burned, which might be inhaled or consumed through hand-to-mouth contact, such as when people touch incense residue and then eat food without washing their hands first, Yang said.

Given that children’s lead absorption rate is about 40 to 50 percent, much higher than adults’ 10 to 15 percent, the same amount of lead exposure would adversely impact children more than adults, he said.

Measuring lead levels through blood tests is the most straightforward way to find out whether a person is at risk of lead poisoning, he said.

Although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s blood lead reference value has been lowered to 3.5mcg/dL, blood lead levels have no safe range, with “the lower, the better,” Yang said.

Acute lead poisoning symptoms include abdominal cramps, anemia or limb weakness, and could affect the nervous system in serious cases, which requires chelation therapy once diagnosed, he added.

People should avoid burning incense unless necessary, he said.

Those who frequently burn incense for religious reasons should also reduce incense amounts and enhance ventilation, and people should wash their hands after touching incense and before eating, as well as refrain from using unreliable products, he added.

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OVERWHELMED: Taking care of traditional customs can be more stressful than work, a woman said, while a man said social gatherings can make him feel sad   By Cheng Shu-ting, Chiu Chih-jou and Esme Yeh / Staff reporters, with staff writer

People should set aside alone time for themselves to relieve social burnout and anxiety from cleaning their homes, entertaining guests and observing traditional customs during the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, Taoyuan General Hospital Department of Psychiatry director Su Po-wen (蘇柏文) said.

Social gatherings with friends or family could be a great source of anxiety and exhaustion, Su said.

Su cited the case of a woman surnamed Lee (李) who married into a big family that places great importance on traditional customs.

She told him that shopping, cleaning, preparing offerings and hosting guests could be more exhausting than going to work.

In another example, Su quoted a man surnamed Chang (張) as saying that getting together with friends and family during the holiday is exciting, but inevitably talk about jobs, salaries, or when to get married or have children is brought up.

What is supposed to be a time for reunion and relaxation can, amid all the comparisons, suddenly turn into a sense of melancholy — “feeling as if you have accomplished nothing at all,” Su quoted Chang as saying.

Lunar New Year culture in Taiwan is reflected in spring cleaning, family get-togethers, spring outings, and visiting friends and relatives, which results in a tight schedule laden with social formalities, creating stress for people who try to take care of everything, but themselves, Su said.

“Ask yourself: ‘What do you want to do over the holiday?’ Save some time for yourself, even if it is just to get some quality sleep,” he said.

“Talk to someone who would listen and understand when you feel emotionally overwhelmed,” he said.

“When dealing with inappropriate questions that evoke discomfort, prioritize your mental welfare and cut yourself some slack by leaving the conversation or setting boundaries,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Welfare urged parents to foster emotional self-awareness in their children, as family conflicts and domestic violence incidents spike during the holiday.

During winter break and the Lunar New Year, extended family time could mean more pressure for some people, Protective Services Department Director Kuo Tsai-jung (郭彩榕) said.

With gatherings and inevitable comparisons of children’s achievements, stress can quickly mount, and tensions often rise along with it, Kuo said.

If parents have difficulty managing their emotions, tend to set unrealistic expectations or lack a support network, they can be more prone to give harsh criticism — or even physical discipline — when under pressure, she said.

Comparing children’s achievements can especially strain parent-child relationships and quickly become a trigger for conflict, she said.

To prevent stress from accumulating during the holiday, parents should emphasize calmness and understanding over blame and corporal punishment, the ministry said.

Parents who feel emotionally overwhelmed during the holiday can seek assistance by calling the ministry’s 1925 mental health hotline or the 1957 social welfare hotline, Kuo said.

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China trips rose last year, but still down from 2019

The number of trips made by Taiwanese travelers to China rose 16.86 percent year-on-year last year, but remained nearly 20 percent below pre-COVID-19 levels, Ministry of Transportation and Communications data showed.

Taiwanese travelers made 3.24 million visits to China last year, and although an increase from 2024, the figure was still 19.94 percent lower than in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Providence University tourism associate professor Huang Cheng-tsung (黃正聰) attributed the shortfall from pre-pandemic levels to cooling cross-strait relations, Taiwan’s continued ban on group tours to China, and stronger demand for travel to destinations such as Japan and South Korea.

A woman poses with red lanterns hanging from a tree at a park in Beijing on Jan. 24 last year. Photo: Reuters

Travel to China has been under an “orange” alert — when the Mainland Affairs Council advises the public to avoid nonessential travel — since June 27, 2024.

The alert was raised after Beijing issued a 22-point set of guidelines targeting so-called “Taiwanese independence separatists,” which Taipei said could pose serious risks to the personal safety of Taiwanese traveling in China.

Taiwan’s travel advisory system for China consists of four levels: “gray” (reminder), “yellow” (exercise caution), “orange” (avoid nonessential travel) and “red” (do not travel).


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Penghu County head’s condition improving after surgery: Hospital

The condition of Penghu County Commissioner Chen Kuang-fu (陳光復) is continuing to improve following emergency surgery after he was flown from Penghu to Kaohsiung with a brain bleed on Tuesday, a doctor responsible for treating Chen said yesterday.

The 70-year-old member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost his footing while walking downstairs and hit his head on the ground on Tuesday during a public event in Penghu County.

After his heart stopped and he lost consciousness, Chen was rushed to the National Defense Medical University Tri- Service General Hospital Penghu Branch.

Penghu County Commissioner Chen Kuang-fu, center, hands out Lunar New Year red envelopes to children in Magong City on Tuesday. Photo: CNA

He was transferred to Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital (KVGH) for further treatment later Tuesday, in accordance with his family’s wishes.

Liao Wei-chuan (廖維專), director of KVGH’s Department of Neurosurgery, said Thursday that Chen’s condition has improved following emergency surgery performed after he was admitted to the hospital.

He is now in a postoperative intensive care unit, Liao added.

Liao said the KVGH medical team will help Chen start his rehabilitation two or three days after surgery, which took place on Tuesday, with the swelling and bruising set to reach their peak around 48 to 72 hours post-surgery.

A statement was also posted on Chen’s Facebook page yesterday afternoon thanking all his friends, supporters, and the medical team on his behalf, adding that he is “making progress.”

Chen’s family said the past few days have been difficult, but they are grateful for widespread support and best wishes they received, the post said.


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A Tainan agricultural research station has developed a new sesame variety, “Tainan No. 2,” with 35 percent lower production costs and higher oil content, boosting the competitiveness of Taiwan’s domestic sesame industry.

Taiwan relies heavily on imported sesame, with domestic production accounting for only a small fraction, Ministry of Agriculture data showed.

In 2024, imports totaled 38,149 tonnes, while domestic output was 1,290 tonnes — about 3 percent of the imported volume.

The “Tainan No. 2” sesame variety is pictured on a farm in southern Taiwan in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of the Tainan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station

To increase domestic production, the research station has been promoting “Tainan No. 2” to local farmers.

The variety has two key features: low-shattering pods and improved suitability for mechanical harvesting — which helps overcome reliance on manual labor in sesame production, the Tainan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station said in a statement.

“Shattering” refers to seeds falling out of pods before harvest. A low-shattering variety keeps seeds intact, reducing loss and making mechanical harvesting easier.

Compared with “Tainan No. 1,” the pods of which tend to split and shed seeds after maturing, the new variety reduces seed loss to less than 30 percent and keeps seeds stable in pods after ripening, significantly improving operational efficiency and yield, the station said.

With the “Tainan No. 2” variety, production costs could be cut by NT$50,000 per hectare, overall costs lowered by 35 percent and net profits boosted by more than 35 percent, it said, citing a field test.

The new variety has sturdy stems and stands upright even in wind or rain, with pod heights exceeding 20cm, while the growing period is similar to that of the earlier variety, at about 80 to 90 days, it said.

Average yield reached around 120kg per 0.1 hectare, comparable with “Tainan No. 1,” with some areas showing even higher potential, the station said.

The “Tainan No. 2” variety also has an oil content of 48.2 percent to 51.8 percent, while 100g contains 1,197 to 1,389 milligrams of calcium, both higher than those of “Tainan No. 1,” it said.


content_text: People look at displays of moth orchids at the Spring Festival Flower Exhibition at the Shilin Residence in Taipei yesterday, the third day of the Lunar New Year.

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content_text: Adults and children ride inflatable rafts at the Taipei Children’s Amusement Park yesterday, the third day of the Luanr New Year.

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title: Ambani joins rivals in AI cash splash

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TWO-HOUR SPEECH: Asia’s richest man said he plans to embed artificial intelligence across manufacturing, logistics, energy, finance, retail, agriculture and healthcare

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate is to plow as much as 10 trillion rupees (US$110 billion) over seven years into artificial intelligence (AI)-related infrastructure, joining the global rush into technology’s fastest-growing arena.

This investment by Reliance Industries Ltd and its telecom unit, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, will also seek to lower the cost of AI, Ambani said at the India AI Impact Summit on Thursday in New Delhi.

“India cannot afford to rent intelligence. Therefore, we will reduce the cost of intelligence as dramatically as we did the cost of data,” Ambani said at the event, referring to Reliance Jio’s disruptive entry in 2016 with cheap data and free calls that recast the sector’s price dynamics.

Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani speaks at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi yesterday. India held one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence summits this week as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to make the country an AI hub amid intense competition to develop frontier models. Photo: Bloomberg

The announcement by Asia’s richest person follows a US$100 billion AI investment pledge by compatriot Gautam Adani earlier this week and Tata Group’s plans to partner with OpenAI Inc earlier in the day.

India’s largest conglomerates — long known for aligning their corporate strategy to national priorities — are doubling down as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government pitches India as a hub for AI and cloud computing.

India held one of the largest AI conferences this week that has already drawn industry heavyweights, including Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The country expects to attract more than US$200 billion in AI-driven investments over the next two years, mirroring the global trend where trillions are being spent in an unprecedented AI hardware arms race.

“We will prove that AI doesn’t take away jobs. Rather it will create new high-skill opportunities,” Ambani said, assuaging widespread fears that the advent of the AI era will displace workers.

Reliance will work with India’s leading industrial groups to embed AI across manufacturing, logistics, energy, finance, retail, agriculture and healthcare, he added.

Reliance also sketched out other areas in which it is adopting AI. Its JioHotstar plans to introduce a bot based on OpenAI ’s ChatGPT that will recommend content and interact with viewers in multiple local languages on India’s largest streaming platform, according to a separate statement.

The billionaire has bet big on this sector since at least 2024 when he told shareholders that Reliance will aim to provide AI at affordable prices to Indians. In that marathon two-hour speech, he had mentioned AI more than 80 times.

That vision is now taking concrete shape. In November last year, Digital Connexion, a joint venture between Reliance Industries, Brookfield Asset Management Ltd and Digital Realty Trust Inc signed a pact to invest US$11 billion by 2030 to develop a data center in southern India.

Reliance has also begun construction of several data centers in Jamnagar in Gujarat that will house several gigawatts of computing capacity, according to Ambani. Over 120 megawatts of that will come online in the second half of this year.

“This is not a speculative investment for chasing valuation,” he said yesterday about the latest announcement. “This is patient, disciplined, nation building capital.”

Tata Group and its tech services arm, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), are partnering with OpenAI in India on AI technologies, including data center infrastructure that could become one of the largest in the country.

One pillar of the agreement will be TCS’ development of a 100 megawatt data center that could be expanded to 1 gigawatt. A 1GW data center typically costs US$35 billion to US$50 billion.

TCS and OpenAI plan to team up to build what are known as agentic solutions for specific industries. Such AI services are able to operate autonomously in certain circumstances, limiting the need for human intervention.


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French President Emmanuel Macron told a global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in India yesterday he was determined to ensure safe oversight of the fast-evolving technology.

The EU has led the way for global regulation with its Artificial Intelligence Act, which was adopted in 2024 and is coming into force in phases.

“We are determined to continue to shape the rules of the game... with our allies such as India,” Macron said in New Delhi. “Europe is not blindly focused on regulation — Europe is a space for innovation and investment, but it is a safe space.”

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi yesterday. Photo: AFP

The AI Impact Summit is the fourth annual international gathering focused on the rapidly advancing field.

At last year’s summit in Paris, US Vice President J.D. Vance warned against “excessive regulation” that “could kill a transformative sector.”

Under EU laws, regulators can ban AI systems deemed to pose “unacceptable risks” to society, such as identifying people in real time using cameras in public spaces.

Macron, speaking at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, said France was “doubling the number of AI scientists and engineers trained,” with new startups in the sector creating “dozens of thousands” of jobs.

In his address at the summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said AI has to be open to all.

“AI has to be democratized so that humans don’t just become a data point for AI or remain a raw material for AI,” Modi said yesterday, speaking in Hindi.

“We must democratize AI. It must become a medium for inclusion and empowerment, particularly for the Global South,” he said.

Modi also highlighted recent launches of AI models by Indian companies, saying that “the AI model which succeeds in India can be deployed all over the world.”

“India believes that AI technology will only be beneficial when it is shared and its core systems are open; only then will our millions of young minds be able to make it better and safer,” he added. “We must resolve that AI is used for the global common good.”

Modi, breaking into English, added: “We are entering an era where humans and intelligence systems co-create, co-work and co-evolve.”

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Fed minutes reveal rate-cut hesitancy, risking Trump clash

US Federal Reserve officials appeared surprisingly wary of cutting interest rates when they met last month, with several even suggesting the central bank might need to raise rates if inflation remains stubbornly high.

While the minutes of the central bank’s Jan. 27-28 policy meeting, released on Wednesday, fell far short of suggesting most officials were contemplating the possibility of rate increases, they made clear the Fed is shifting further away from agreeing on another cut.

That could put it on a collision course with US President Donald Trump and complicates the task of Trump’s nominee for Fed chair, Kevin Warsh.

Renovations are under way at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington on Nov. 14 last year. Photo: Reuters

Trump has repeatedly said he wants the next Fed chief to deliver lower interest rates, and on Jan. 30, two days after this policy meeting, he announced he would nominate Warsh, a former Fed governor, to take over when Jerome Powell’s tenure as chair ends in May.

“The minutes carry a distinctly more hawkish tilt,” EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco wrote in a note. “This sets up an interesting dynamic if and when Kevin Warsh is confirmed as Fed chair.”

White House spokesman Kush Desai said recent favorable price data provided proof that inflation is now “cool and stable” due to Trump’s policies aimed at spurring the economy’s supply side.

“It’s high time for the Federal Reserve to acknowledge this abundantly clear reality and cut rates to deliver further economic relief for American homebuyers and businesses,” he said.

The minutes showed most of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) believed last year’s labor market weakness was fading by late last month.

“The vast majority of participants judged that downside risks to employment had moderated in recent months while the risk of more persistent inflation remained,” the minutes said.

That was before the release of a strong employment report for last month. Moreover, one group of policymakers at the meeting was embracing a view even more hostile to additional rate cuts.

“Several participants cautioned that easing policy further in the context of elevated inflation readings could be misinterpreted as implying diminished policymaker commitment to the 2 percent inflation objective,” the record showed.

Still, another group of “several officials” remained open to more rate cuts if inflation declined as they expected, though most said inflation progress could be slower than generally forecast.

The FOMC voted 10-2 at its meeting last month to hold the benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent.

Numbers published since that meeting have signaled accelerating growth, slowing inflation and a stabilizing labor market.

Since last month’s meeting, several Fed policymakers have maintained that an overall stable US economy provides them room to be patient in considering additional rate adjustments, while Trump and other administration officials continue to call for the Fed to lower rates immediately.


title: Vietnam airlines sign US contracts worth US$36.9bn

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Three Vietnamese airlines announced nearly US$37 billion in purchases on Wednesday, in a series of contracts signed with US aerospace companies.

The agreements come as Hanoi and Washington continue trade negotiations on US tariffs on Vietnamese products, currently set at 20 percent.

The Southeast Asian nation posted 8 percent growth last year despite the new US tariffs, defying expectations when many feared the collapse of its export-driven growth model.

A Vietnam Airlines aircraft lands at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Dec. 26 last year. Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air announced yesterday that they have signed a series of contracts with US aerospace companies worth a total of US$14.4 billion, including US$8.1 billion in orders to Boeing. Photo: AFP

Fledgling airline Sun PhuQuoc Airways said on Wednesday it placed an order for 40 of Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliners, a long-haul aircraft, with an estimated total value of US$22.5 billion.

Founded just a year ago, the airline said in a statement that the purchase “reflects Sun PhuQuoc Airways’ strategic ambition to build a truly intercontinental network.”

National carrier Vietnam Airlines placed an US$8.1 billion order for around 50 Boeing 737-8 aircraft, and opened discussions for an additional order for around 30 wide-body aircraft in the future, the airline said in a statement.

The agreement creates “a solid foundation for our ambition to become a leading airline by 2030,” Vietnam Airlines chairman Dang Ngoc Hoa said in the statement.

Low-cost carrier Vietjet Air also announced two contracts, totalling US$6.3 billion.

Of that, about US$5.4 billion will go toward supplies and maintenance of engines for 44 Airbus SE A320 series aircraft by US manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.

Around US$960 million remaining will go towards leasing six Boeing 737 series aircraft from Griffin Global Asset Management LLC.

The signing took place on the sidelines of Vietnamese leader To Lam’s visit to Washington, where he is expected to join the inaugural meeting of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

The two countries held a sixth round of trade talks this month, but have not reached a final agreement.

Last year, Vietnam, a manufacturing hub in the region, saw a 28 percent surge in exports to the US — its largest export market — while its trade surplus swelled to US$134 billion, according to official figures.

When Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April last year, Vietnam had the third-largest trade surplus with the US of any country after China and Mexico, and was targeted with one of the highest rates in Trump’s tariff blitz.

However, by July, Hanoi secured a minimum 20 percent tariff with Washington, down from more than 40 percent, in return for opening its market to US products, including cars.


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‘VERY OPTIMISTIC’: Prabowo said the deals, part of a broader pact to be signed with Trump, aim to reduce Indonesia’s trade surplus with the US

Indonesian and US companies on Wednesday signed deals worth US$38.4 billion ahead of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s meeting with US President Donald Trump to sign a final trade pact, the Indonesian government said in a statement.

The 11 deals, signed at a dinner for Prabowo hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce, were for partnerships in mining, energy, agribusiness, textiles, furniture and technology sectors, according to the statement.

“We hope to find partners who are ready to join us in our ongoing efforts to modernize and industrialize,” Prabowo said in his speech at the dinner.

An aerial photo shows cargo containers stacked at the Jakarta International Container Terminal in Tanjung Priok Port, Indonesia, on Aug. 7 last year. Photo: AFP

Prabowo said the deals were among the implementing agreements to the US-Indonesian trade deal that he was due to sign with Trump after press time last night, adding it would help reduce Indonesia’s trade surplus with the US.

“I’m very optimistic about the future of our relationship,” he said.

The US$38.4 billion valuation was higher than the figure presented earlier in a fact sheet by US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) at over US$7 billion, which included purchases by Indonesian firms of 1 million tonnes of US soybeans, 1.6 million tonnes of corn, and 93,000 tonnes of cotton over unspecified periods.

The council said Indonesia would also buy 1 million tonnes of wheat this year and up to 5 million tonnes by 2030.

The deals include a memorandum of understanding between US mining group Freeport-McMoRan and the Indonesian Ministry of Investment for critical minerals cooperation, and an agreement between state oil producer Pertamina and Halliburton Co to cooperate on oilfield recovery, USABC said. Freeport and the investment ministry signed an initial deal to extend its mining permit beyond 2041, Freeport-McMoRan chairman Richard Adkerson said at the dinner.

“It is a life of resource extension, and we cannot wait to undertake delineation drilling of what that ore body will be for many decades to come in the future,” he said.

The deals also include two semiconductor joint venture agreements, one valued at US$4.89 billion between Essence Global Group and an Indonesian partner, and another unvalued venture involving Tynergy Technology Group.

USABC valued Indonesia’s purchases of soybeans at US$685 million, wheat at US$1.25 billion, cotton at US$122 million and an additional purchase of US shredded worn clothing for recycling at US$200 million.

Indonesia announced in July last year a string of business deals with the US worth US$34 billion as part of its tariff negotiations, including wheat and soybean import purchases similar to those signed on Wednesday. The Indonesian leader arrived in Washington this week for Trump’s Board of Peace meeting, with hopes Jakarta can secure a slight tariff reduction to 18 percent from 19 percent agreed last year. That would match the rate Trump granted to India earlier this month.

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title: Japanese capex outlook brightens on order surge

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RECORD RISE: Capital expenditure is expected to stay somewhat firm, supported by pledges to fund research, development and investment in plants and equipment

Japanese machinery orders surged at a record pace in December last year, propelled by large projects, underscoring robust corporate momentum as Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi moves to spur investment in priority areas.

Core machine orders rose 19 percent from the previous month, rebounding from an 11 percent slide in November, the Cabinet Office reported yesterday. It marked the strongest gain since the comparable data series began in 2005 and far surpassed economists’ forecast of a 5 percent increase. From a year earlier, orders advanced 17 percent, the fastest pace since April 2022.

The data, which tend to be volatile, serve as a leading indicator of capital expenditure. The increase in December was led by petroleum and coal products, as well as nonferrous metals.

While the figures can be skewed by large contracts, the latest report nevertheless indicates a solid investment backdrop. The result offers some relief after GDP data for the fourth quarter of last year missed consensus estimates, with business outlays among components that were weaker than expected.

Meanwhile, the value of overall exports gained 16.8 percent last month from a year earlier, the sharpest increase since November 2022, Japan’s Ministry of Finance reported on Wednesday. Overall shipments of semiconductors and other electronic components rose by almost 40 percent, led by a 51.7 percent jump in exports destined for China, data showed.

“The data were genuinely strong,” Daiwa Securities Group Inc economist Yutaro Suzuki said. “Non-manufacturers remain firm, supported by labor saving investment to address worker shortages, while manufacturers benefited from a rebound from the previous month and several large projects.”

Looking ahead, capital expenditure is expected to stay somewhat firm, supported in part by Takaichi’s investment agenda. After securing re-election as premier, Takaichi said on Wednesday that the government would introduce multi-year budgets and long-term funds to back research, development and investment in plants and equipment.

Still some risks remain, including higher borrowing costs, which could curb corporate spending plans. Also, fraught ties with China could disrupt the flow of rare earth supplies, weighing on spending by manufacturers.

Daiwa’s Suzuki also pointed out that backlogs for machinery orders are steadily piling up. “Labor shortages have caused delays in responding to those orders,” he said, “As a result, deliveries are being pushed back and the spending is not yet recorded as capital investment.”


title: China’s policies cause waste, damage, IMF warns

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CONSUMPTION: IMF directors urged forceful Chinese reforms, fiscal stimulus, and macroeconomic support to rebuild consumer confidence and transform growth

The IMF faulted China’s economic policies for causing waste at home and damage abroad and called for a reorientation by Beijing to embrace a model based on domestic consumer spending.

“Transitioning to a consumption-led growth model should be the overarching priority,” the IMF’s executive directors said in a statement on Wednesday released alongside the Washington-based lender’s annual review of China’s economy, known as an Article IV consultation.

In that review, IMF staff highlighted China’s large current-account surplus, which has featured “adverse spillovers to trading partners.” Some of that excess stems from exports getting a boost from “real depreciation of the RMB,” the fund said, referring to the inflation-adjusted weakening of the renminbi, also known as the yuan.

Employees work on a Neolix X3 vehicle production line at a factory of Chinese autonomous delivery vehicle maker Neolix in Yancheng, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 4 last year. Photo: AFP

China’s representative on the IMF’s executive board, Zhengxin Zhang (張正鑫), took issue with the criticism, saying in a separate statement that China’s export growth last year “was primarily driven by its competitiveness and innovation capacity,” along with front-loading caused by Washington’s trade policy.

The executive board as a whole, however, called for a major shift in China’s policy framework, making its argument just weeks before the annual gathering of the nation’s National People’s Congress — where specific economic targets will be released for this year.

“Reorienting China’s growth model requires significant cultural and economic policy transformation,” the IMF directors said. They “called for a comprehensive and more forceful response that combines increased macroeconomic policy support with structural reforms.”

Along with “more expansionary” measures including fiscal stimulus, the directors said that central government funding to deal with the overhang of unfinished properties in China’s crippled property market “would rebuild consumer confidence.”

After GDP growth of 5 percent last year — a figure that met Beijing’s official target — the IMF sees the expansion slowing to 4.5 percent this year. Many economists anticipate China will next month set this year’s target in a 4.5 percent to 5 percent range.

The IMF’s annual report used the term “external imbalances” more than 10 times, compared with no such mentions in the 2024 edition. The fund estimated China’s current account surplus at 3.3 percent of GDP for last year — more than double the 1.5 percent it had projected in its 2024 annual report. Zhang said the fund’s figure “appeared excessively large.”

The fund forecasts the surplus will narrow over the medium term, to 2.2 percent of China’s GDP in 2030 — still well above an estimated “norm” of 0.9 percent.

The IMF suggested that a weaker yuan, measured in trade-weighted, inflation adjusted terms, had given Chinese goods an advantage overseas, while imports languished amid subdued domestic demand. Staff estimated the yuan was around 16 percent undervalued, with its range stretching from 12.1 percent to 20.7 percent.

IMF executive directors called for “greater exchange rate flexibility,” while Zhang said Beijing’s currency policy is “clear and consistent,” relying on market forces to play “a decisive role.”

China also took issue with IMF staff estimates of the scale and wastefulness of Beijing’s industrial policies.

The fund calculated that the fiscal cost of government measures for priority sectors amounted to about 4 percent of GDP as of 2023. While “international comparison is difficult,” the fund said that EU state aid in 2022 was less than half that figure, at about 1.5 percent.

Staff said that scaling back “unwarranted” industrial policy measures by about 2 percent of GDP over the medium term would boost productivity, reduce mis-allocation of resources and cut fiscal costs.

The fund highlighted that almost a third of growth last year was from net exports. That reliance has “triggered overcapacity concerns, which ultimately can motivate trade actions from partners and put China’s exports at risk,” the report said.

The IMF also expressed serious concern about the continued drop in prices in China and its damage to the economy, with the words “deflation” or “deflationary” appearing more than 60 times in the report.

“Empirical evidence suggests that deflationary pressures are in part related to the demand slump, including from the protracted property sector correction,” the IMF said.


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Swiss watch exports resumed their long slump last month after a brief respite the previous month triggered by the easing of US tariffs.

Exports fell 3.6 percent last month from a year earlier to 1.9 billion Swiss francs (US$2.5 billion), the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said yesterday. Watches in the most expensive category made from precious metals led the decline.

It is a setback for an industry that was upended last year due to US President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs.

Watches made by Swiss manufacturer Tissot are displayed in Bern, Switzerland, on Aug. 8 last year. Photo: EPA

US tariffs on Swiss watches were reduced to a 15 percent flat rate, effective retroactively from Nov. 14 last year, from a sharp increase to 39 percent earlier in the year, which heavily impacted the industry.

The lower tariffs from November boosted exports the following month, but the value of watches sent to the industry’s biggest market still slumped 14 percent in the latest figures.

Overall, watches priced above SF3,000 were down 8.1 percent in value.

There was a 14 percent contraction in exports of watches made from precious metals, that was not offset by a 16 percent increase for bimetallic watches.

Exports to China and Hong Kong, meanwhile, rose 5 percent and 2.6 percent from a year earlier respectively, a boost for the industry after several months of declines. The timing coincided with the buildup to the Lunar New Year holiday, when brands typically send more inventory for a period of family gatherings and exchanging gifts.

Elsewhere, exports to France soared 37 percent, but the Singapore and UK markets turned negative, according to the federation’s data.

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title: Foreign buying of US stocks jumped in spite of tariffs

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Foreign investors bought more than twice the amount of US stocks last year as they did a year before, even as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs rattled markets and clouded corporate outlooks.

Non-US purchases climbed to US$720.1 billion on a net basis last year, up 134 percent from US$307.5 billion in 2024, according to US Department of the Treasury data released on Wednesday.

The sharp surge in buying is a challenge to the “Sell America” sentiment that gained traction last year as US tariffs threatened to upend global trade and investors worried about White House threats to US Federal Reserve independence.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 6. Photo: Bloomberg

“Sell America is an overstated story, at least for equities,” Acadian Asset Management LLC senior vice president and portfolio manager Owen Lamont said.

“What we see is American exceptionalism,” he added. “That process of the extreme love for American tech stocks seem to be continuing.”

While investors’ policy-related worries stirred up volatility on US stock indexes last year, some of their concerns were offset by the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), which, until very recently, was largely seen as a force that would boost corporate profits.

Still, American stock gains fell short of global peers last year: the benchmark S&P 500 Index posted a 16 percent annual return, trailing that of the MSCI World Excluding United States Index by 13 percentage points.

Excluding the Cayman Islands and Ireland — where many global investment funds are registered — Norway was the biggest buyer of US stocks last year, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of the data, which go back to 2023.

The Nordic country net purchased US$81.8 billion, almost three times its 2024 total. Singapore, the top buyer in 2024, was a close second, purchasing US$79 billion. South Korea was also a major buyer, adding US$73.6 billion, nearly five times more than it did in 2024.

Mainland China was a net seller for the third year in a row, shedding US$34.1 billion worth of US stocks last year. Only Kuwait sold more, offloading US$36.5 billion.

Canada, which was the biggest seller of US stocks in 2024, became a buyer last year, net purchasing US$10.6 billion. That turnaround came despite Canadians expressing fury about trade policies that weighed on their economy and Trump’s threats to the country’s sovereignty.


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British entrepreneurship appears to be on the rise, with tens of thousands of new businesses popping up. The problem, for workers, is that these start-ups are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) and freelancers instead of taking on permanent staff.

New firms launched in the UK last year generated an average of 2.7 jobs each, around one fewer than when records began in 2017, according to a Bloomberg analysis of official data. Total employment created by new enterprises fell 16 percent to the lowest level on record.

That is despite Britons starting new firms at the fastest pace in two years, during the fourth quarter of last year.

The Tower 42 skyscraper in the City of London is pictured on Feb. 5. There are signs of accelerating growth and an entrepreneurial revival in the UK, with recent figures showing the number of new businesses being created rising at the fastest pace in over two years. Photo: Bloomberg

“It’s scary to hire people, the minimum wage is so high and there’s so many additional protections,” said Rachael Twumasi-Corson, an entrepreneur from London who is set to launch a new company later this year. “I would much rather have a team, celebrate wins and figure out ways to solve problems together, but at the moment, my team is ChatGPT and Gemini.”

Business groups say the UK’s Labour government has made it more risky and expensive to hire permanent staff, despite the left-leaning party promising to prioritize economic growth. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves hiked national insurance, a key payroll tax, last year — and while small businesses are largely exempt, they face higher costs from rising salaries, including sharp increases in the minimum wage.

Entrepreneurs are also concerned about new employment laws, which allow workers to claim unfair dismissal after six months on the job, instead of the current two years, effectively making it harder to fire staff. The proposals will also give workers sick pay rights from day one.

AI technology means that some founders can avoid hiring in the first place. Twumasi-Corson initially wanted to employ a designer and a social media marketing specialist — she even wrote the job descriptions — but ended up relying on contractors and AI chatbots because of the costs. The London Living Wage, an optional rate the entrepreneur cited as a benchmark, has reached ￡14.80 (US$20) per hour in 2025-2026, a 36 percent increase over the last five years.

That approach is common among new start-ups, according to Timothy Barnes, CEO at the Centre for Entrepreneurs. Founders are starting out with just a small team of specialists, while using AI to reduce the number of people needed to support each specialist, particularly in roles like business development, accounting or marketing. There is also less appetite for human coders in new tech businesses as AI fills the gap.

“Before, the mindset might have been: We’ve got this idea and we’re going to quickly recruit as many people as possible to pursue it,” Entrepreneurs Network research director Eamonn Ives said. “Now start-ups are thinking twice about taking on new hires who they might not be able to keep on if things don’t pan out.”

One in four founders have made fewer administrative hires, and 19 percent recruited fewer juniors in response to AI technological advancements, according to a survey conducted by the Entrepreneurs Network in November last year. Only 2 percent said they increased headcount.

“Newer firms are starting out leaner, more automated, and less labor-intensive,” British Chambers of Commerce research head David Bharier said.

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title: Floating into spring

content_text: Children play with bubbles at the Taipei Children’s Amusement Park on the third day of the Lunar New Year yesterday as the weather turned slightly warmer.


content_text: The archway and lampposts of Shengde Temple in New Taipei City’s Sijhih District are pictured with the city’s skyline and verdant mountains in the distance yesterday. The temple has become one of the top popular, Instagrammable photo spots in the greater Taipei area in recent years, with its architectural style giving the scene a dreamlike quality.

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UEFA on Wednesday said that it would “investigate allegations of discriminatory behavior” after Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior accused SL Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni of racially abusing him during a UEFA Champions League match in Lisbon.

Tuesday’s first leg of the playoff was stopped for 10 minutes after Vinicius complained to French referee Francois Letexier about the alleged abuse following a confrontation between him and Prestianni.

That came just moments after Brazil international Vinicius scored the only goal in a 1-0 win before picking up a yellow card for his dancing celebration in front of the home crowd at the Estadio da Luz.

Real Madrid`s Vinicius Junior with Benfica coach Jose Mourinho as the match was stopped due to racist chants. Photo: Reuters

After arguing with Prestianni, Vinicius ran over to the referee and told him he had been called mono, the Spanish word for monkey, by the Argentine midfielder.

The 20-year-old Prestianni, who covered his mouth with his shirt as he appeared to say something to Vinicius, denies racially abusing the Real Madrid star.

Real’s England fullback Trent Alexander-Arnold said the incident had left a sour taste in the mouth.

“It’s disgusting. What’s happened tonight is a disgrace for football. It’s ruined the night for the team,” he said.

Real forward Kylian Mbappe called on Prestianni to be banned.

“We cannot accept there’s a player playing in Europe’s best competition and behaving like this,” the France captain told reporters. “This guy doesn’t deserve to play in the Champions League again.”

Benfica head coach Jose Mourinho hit out at Vinicius for inciting Benfica’s players and fans with his celebration.

“When you score a goal like that, you celebrate in a respectful way,” the Portuguese said.

Soccer anti-discrimination body Kick It Out criticized Mourinho’s reaction and accused him of “gaslighting.”

“When anyone reports discrimination in football, or anywhere, the first priority is that they are listened to and feel supported,” it said in a statement. “Focusing on Vinicius Jr’s goal celebration or the history of the club, instead of acknowledging the report, is a form of gaslighting. This approach not only harms the individual affected, but also sends the wrong message to others around the world who may have experienced similar situations.”

Benfica reiterated the club’s backing for Prestianni and said it “regrets a smear campaign of which the player has been a victim.”

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he was “shocked and saddened” by the incident, and praised the action taken by the referee, who initiated European soccer’s anti-racism protocol.

“There is absolutely no room for racism in our sport and in society,” Infantino wrote on social media. “We need all the relevant stakeholders to take action and hold those responsible to account.”

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SENSITIVE POLL: A survey of 2,000 families, administered by Palestinian pollsters, found that the official death toll was a substantial undercount by a margin of about 40%

More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, a study published on Wednesday in the Lancet Global Health medical journal showed.

The research also found that reporting by the Gaza health ministry about the proportion of women, children and elderly people among those killed was accurate.

A total of 42,200 women, children and elderly people died between Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack into Israel that prompted a devastating Israeli offensive into Gaza, and Jan. 5 last year, the study found.

People gather to break their fast by eating iftar meals on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, near the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the two-year Israeli offensive in Gaza City on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

The deaths comprised 56 percent of violent deaths in Gaza.

“The combined evidence suggests that, as of Jan 5., 2025, 3 to 4 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip had been killed violently and there have been a substantial number of nonviolent deaths caused indirectly by the conflict,” the authors of the study, a team including an economist, demographer, epidemiologist and survey specialists.

The exact death toll in Gaza has been bitterly disputed, although last month a senior Israeli security officer told Israeli journalists that figures compiled by health authorities in Gaza were broadly accurate, marking a U-turn after years of official attacks on the data.

The officer was quoted as saying that about 70,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks on the territory since October 2023, excluding those missing.

Gaza health authorities say the direct toll from Israeli attacks has exceeded 71,660 people, including more than 570 killed since a ceasefire came into effect in October last year.

Researchers who published a study in the Lancet Global Health last year estimated the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the war given by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry was about 40 percent lower than their estimate.

The new research also suggests that official death toll was a substantial undercount, and by a roughly similar margin.

It was based on a survey of 2,000 families in Gaza, carefully selected to be representative of the territory’s population, who were asked to give details of deaths among their members. The survey was run by experienced Palestinian pollsters known for their work in Palestine and elsewhere in the region.

“This is a very sensitive survey, and potentially very upsetting [for respondents], so it was important to have Palestinians both asking and answering the questions,” said Michael Spagat, a professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, one of the authors of the peer-reviewed study.

Spagat, who has worked on the calculation of casualties of conflicts for more than 20 years, said the new research suggested 8,200 deaths in Gaza from October 2023 to January last year were attributable to indirect effects, such as malnutrition or untreated disease.

He questioned another study published in the journal in 2024 that estimated there would be four “indirect” deaths for every “direct” death.

“There is a huge variation depending on the specific circumstances of every conflict. In [the] Kosovo [conflict of 1998-1999] almost all the deaths were violent. In somewhere like Darfur, you see something very different. In Gaza, at least initially, there were resources in terms of well-trained doctors and a health system... Also, the territory is very small, so when aid does flow you can reach people,” Spagat said.

“I would push back on the notion that this is a small number of deaths. I think we’re experiencing desensitization effects ... but, yes, it’s much lower than what many people say and believe,” he added.

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UNEASE: The Lebanese Muslim Association, which runs the Lakemba Mosque, said it had asked the government for funding for additional security and surveillance cameras

Australian police yesterday said they had launched an investigation after a threatening letter was sent to the country’s largest mosque, the third such incident in the lead-up to the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

The letter sent on Wednesday to Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s west contained a drawing of a pig and a threat to kill the “Muslim race,” local media reported.

Police said they had taken the letter for forensic testing, and would continue to patrol religious sites including the mosque, as well as community events.

A security guard stands outside the Lakemba Mosque as people arrive for Friday prayers in Sydney on Dec. 19 last year. Photo: Reuters

The latest letter comes weeks after a similar message was mailed to the mosque, depicting Muslim people inside a mosque on fire.

Police have also arrested and charged a 70-year-old man in connection with a third threatening letter sent last month to Lakemba Mosque’s staff.

The Lebanese Muslim Association, which runs the mosque, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) it had written to the government to request more funding for additional security guards and surveillance cameras.

About 5,000 people are expected to attend the mosque each night during Ramadan.

More than 60 percent of residents in the suburb of Lakemba identify as Muslim, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Bilal El-Hayek, mayor of Canterbury-Bankstown Council, where Lakemba is located, said the community was feeling “very anxious.”

“I’ve heard firsthand from people saying that they won’t be sending their kids to practice this Ramadan because they’re very concerned about things that might happen in local mosques,” he said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the string of threats.

“It is outrageous that people just going about commemorating their faith, particularly during the holy month for Muslims of Ramadan, are subject to this sort of intimidation,” he told ABC radio. “I have said repeatedly we need to turn down the temperature of political discourse in this country, and we certainly need to do that.”

Anti-Muslim sentiment has been growing in Australia since the war in Gaza War in late 2023, a report commissioned by the government showed.

The Islamophobia Register Australia has also documented a 740 percent rise in reports following the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Dec. 14 last year, where authorities allege two gunmen inspired by Islamic State killed 15 people attending a Jewish holiday celebration.

“There’s been a massive increase post-Bondi,” El-Hayek said. “Without a doubt, this is the worst I have ever seen it. There’s a lot of tension out there.”


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One of Australia’s most highly valued defense firms is helping Ukrainian soldiers knock Russian drones off the battlefield, riding a surge in military spending by Western governments with tech combating the weapon of the future.

From the trenches of Ukraine to the Red Sea and the cartel wars of South and Central America, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an ubiquitous part of modern conflict — conducting surveillance, taking airports offline, dropping deadly payloads and carrying out “kamikaze” strikes.

Shares in the Sydney-based DroneShield — with technology originally conceived as a high-tech mosquito swatter — soared more than 300 percent in the past year on hopes that it is uniquely positioned to profit from the wars of the 21st century.

An advertisement for DroneShield is displayed at the company’s office in Sydney on Oct. 10 last year. Photo: Bloomberg

“Any future war will have all the normal things you expect like tanks and artillery and missiles, but also to have drones, and with it, you need counter drone systems to cover that,” CEO Oleg Vornik said at the firm’s headquarters in Sydney. “You have to now assume the threat from the air is just as likely as the threat from the ground.”

An hour’s drive from DroneShield’s headquarters, in a leafy Sydney suburb, the firm’s technicians try to give a sense of what it looks like in the field.

A drone hovers over the trees as a technician wields DroneGun Tactical, its black veneer and size looking like something out of science fiction.

A DroneGun Tactical, a long-range counter-drone rifle, is displayed at DroneShield’s office in Sydney on Oct. 10 last year. Photo: Bloomberg

As the technician fixes the gun’s sights on the drone, he pulls the trigger, and brings it down.

It is a different scene from the battlefront of Ukraine, where if you see or hear the drone it is probably too late — “you’re very likely to die,” Vornik said.

DroneShield’s tech enables the user to scan the area for enemy UAVs. They then have a choice.

“You wait for the drone to move on and find something else to focus on,” Vornik said. “Or alternatively, you want to take a drone gun out.”

The DroneGun uses directional concentrated radio wave energy to disrupt the control, navigation and video of multiple drones simultaneously.

“The drone says: ‘OK, I’m lost. I don’t know where I am, so I’m just going to crash or gonna land,’” Vornik said.

DroneShield is now Australia’s highest-valued defense firm, with a market cap of A$3.01 billion (US$2.13 billion).

That rapid increase has raised questions over whether the firm’s success is really a product of its long-term potential or whether it is a “meme stock” — a share driven by retail investors and hype.

Last year, as the firm’s share price soared to a record high, Vornik offloaded a US$50 million stake.

That sent the share price plummeting and raised questions about DroneShield’s long-term future.

Vornik said he sold the shares to pay off a tax bill, as well as to secure his financial future.

However, he admitted that DroneShield had become a “retail stock” and that like many defense firms, there was “basically high risk, high reward type situation.”

Beyond the battlefields of Ukraine, which he said constitutes just 5 percent of revenue, he sees growing civilian applications for counter-drone technology.

That includes security for airports, a number of which have been shut down by drone incursions in the past year, and for prisons in the UK, where UAVs are often used for smuggling contraband to inmates.

Vornik points to the growing use of drones by drug cartels in South and Central America.

Many are learning the lessons of the war in Ukraine, he said.

Australian financial firm Bell Potter has declared this year to be the “Year of the Drone” in a bullish note backing DroneShield.

Drones have “become an integral part of how war is being fought,” said Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

“They do things that otherwise are much more expensive and much harder to replicate using traditional munitions,” he said. “And then it’s the cost, it’s the ability to do things in a much cheaper way with much more maximal effect, and to do so at scale.”

The real challenge for firms like DroneShield is keeping up with this “moment of disruption” in warfare, he said.

“But that’s true in any kind of weapon that comes about — whether it’s tanks and anti-tank systems or supersonic aircraft or stealth fighters,” he said. “That’s the nature of war.”

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ELUSIVE PEACE: At least 61 political leaders have been killed ahead of the legislative elections on March 8 and the presidential vote on May 31, a monitoring group said

A presidential candidate has been assassinated, rebels have pipe-bombed a major city and one-third of the country is considered unsafe for candidates — all making Colombia’s 2026 election campaign one of the most violent in decades.

Nowhere is that danger more palpable than in Cauca, where a silver armored SUV hurries along a mountain track, watched by rifle-wielding guerrillas.

Every second spent along the route is a risk for passenger Esneyder Gomez Salamanca, a 46-year-old indigenous candidate hoping to win election to Colombia’s Congress on March 8.

Indigenous leader Esneyder Gomez Salamanca, center, candidate for a Peace Seat in Congress, speaks during a campaign rally in El Playon, department of Cauca, Colombia, on Thursday last week. Photo: AFP

Neatly groomed and driven by anger about the treatment of his Nasa minority, Gomez is hunting for votes in a rebel-controlled region of Colombia’s lawless southwest.

The danger is real. He has been threatened by the guerrilla for a decade. A few months ago his vehicle was shot up as he returned from a political event.

Just days ago, indigenous legislator Aida Quilcue was kidnapped in the same area, before being released after frantic negotiations.

AFP recently followed Gomez as he trudged village to village along muddy roads, trying to win the votes of indigenous communities.

The son of a Nasa Indigenous guerrilla and an Afro-Colombian police officer, his protection is a phalanx of about 30 indigenous guards, some barely out of their teens and armed with little more than batons.

“The risk is constant,” Gomez said, adding that in the decade-and-a-half since Colombia’s biggest armed groups signed a peace deal, peace remains elusive.

“Post-conflict is turning out harsher than the conflict itself,” he said.

Ahead of the legislative elections and a presidential vote on May 31, at least 61 political leaders have been killed, the Colombian Electoral Observation Mission said.

The violence was brought into sharp focus in June last year, when young conservative presidential front-runner Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in broad daylight while campaigning in the capital, Bogota.

Candidates are under threat of violence in 130 municipalities — about one-third of the total, observers said.

For many Colombians, the uptick in violence has recalled bad old days of the 1980s and 1990s, when five presidential candidates were assassinated, with drug lords like Pablo Escobar calling the shots.

Colombian Minister of Defense Pedro Sanchez announced a deployment of security forces to ensure “safe” elections, but many blame the rise in violence on the incumbent leftist government’s policy of trying to negotiate rather than fight armed groups.

During Colombian Gustavo Petro’s four years in office, many groups have expanded territory and grown rich as coca production has hit record highs.

UN figures show that cocaine exports are now more than 1,700 tonnes, higher than at any point on record.

Evidence of the trade can be seen all across the steep mist-covered mountains that flank Gomez’s route.

The hillsides are painted emerald green with coca crops. They will likely be harvested, turned into cocaine and shipped to rich customers in North America and Europe.

Immediately after the 2016 peace agreement, people “could move more safely,” Gomez said.

The main faction of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) laid down arms, but dissident factions did not.

Today they impose “territorial control,” Gomez said.

“I’ve seen many, many colleagues fall” to armed groups, he added. “It is infuriating. It makes your blood boil.”

In this part of the Cauca, the rebels make no attempt to remain in the shadows. A poster boasts of “61 years of struggle” featuring a famed guerrilla fighter. Along the road, armed rebels man checkpoints where travelers must identify themselves. Cameras are unwelcome.

Gomez’s indigenous bodyguards are always unarmed, hoping to avoid confrontation, Nasa unit coordinator Jose Yatacue said.

They hope to solve any problems through dialogue, but acknowledge their protectee “is at risk,” because of his past role as a social leader “and even more as a candidate.”

Neither the communities nor Yatacue’s guard can rely on the large-scale intervention of the state, only a few unarmed state bodyguards accompany them. The region is replete with dissidents loyal to warlord Nestor Gregorio Vera Fernandez — better known as Ivan Mordisco, Colombia’s most wanted guerrilla.

He is accused by the government of crimes against humanity and ethnocide of the Nasa, including the forced recruitment of indigenous children.

“It has been systematic,” Gomez said. “They have brutalized the Nasa people. This must stop.”

The area will be a test of whether Colombia’s elections can be free, fair and safe across the whole country.

“We have been a forgotten territory,” said Luz Dary Munoz, leader of a nearby hamlet. “Everything we have built has been through community effort.”

title: Colombia endures deadly poll campaign


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▲美國總統川普表示，美國可能不得不展開進一步的行動，「接下來的十天內知道答案」。（圖／路透）

記者趙蔡州／綜合報導

美國、伊朗近日在瑞士展開核談判，儘管雙方都宣稱取得進展，但外媒卻傳出川普將向伊朗動武。對此，川普19日表示，伊朗必須達成一項具有意義的協議，否則將會發生糟糕的事情，「我們可能會展開『進一步』的行動，也可能會達成協議，你們大概會在接下來的十天內知道答案」。

綜合外媒報導，川普19日在和平理事會（Board of Peace）會議上表示，多年來的事實已經證明，跟伊朗達成「有意義」的協議並非簡單的事情，「我們必須達成一項有意義的協議，否則將會發生糟糕的事情」、「伊朗不能擁有核武，就這麼簡單，如果他們擁有核武器，中東就不可能實現和平」。

針對是否對伊朗展開軍事行動，川普指出，「我們可能會展開『進一步』行動，也可能不會，或許我們會達成協議，你們大概會在接下來的十天內知道答案。」

countries: 伊朗 瑞士 美國

title: 給伊朗下通牒　「開戰或和平」川普：未來10天內就會有答案


references: Facebook 臉書

countries: 韓國 美國

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▲濟州島南方出現一圈圈漂亮的雲渦，其實是「卡門渦旋」現象。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／鄭明典）

網搜小組／董美琪報導

前氣象局長鄭明典19日上午9點多在臉書分享一張衛星影像，畫面中在濟州島南方海域出現一圈圈如花瓣般排列的雲渦，整齊排列像「666數字」。

濟州島下風處出現整齊雲渦 宛如花瓣與數字排列

鄭明典發文寫道「漂亮的卡門渦列！現在在濟州島下風處的卡門渦列，一圈圈排列，很可愛！」畫面上特殊雲形，屬於流體力學中的「卡門渦旋」現象。

冷空氣遇島嶼形成渦旋 冬季偶可見

報天氣粉絲團曾發文指出，當大陸冷空氣南下時，有時可以在東海上空看到花瓣狀的美麗雲系，這是「卡門渦旋」效應所造成的特殊雲形，在冬天並不罕見。

卡門渦旋，是穩定層流通過障礙物時會出現的紊流，在後方產生兩列非對稱且互相交錯的渦旋。來自陸地的冷空氣是相對穩定的流體，通過韓國濟州島這個障礙物時，便在下風處產生了這般美麗的雲系。

渦旋曾釀橋梁崩塌事故

儘管卡門渦旋形成的雲系十分美麗，但它卻會對建築物造成危害。例如1940年11月7日美國華盛頓州塔科馬海峽吊橋（Tacoma Narrow Bridge）崩塌事件，就是因為卡門渦旋與吊橋形成共振效應，讓建築體產生劇烈晃動而損毀結構。

title: 濟州島外海現「神秘666」雲渦！鄭明典讚可愛　竟曾釀橋梁崩塌


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▲「神行盃」四驅車大賽，結合鑽轎底特色玩法與專業賽制。（圖／桃園護國宮提供）

記者胡至欣／綜合報導

春節行程還沒排滿的，可以直接把「走廟」與「親子放電」一次打包。桃園護國宮「公益慈善太子遊樂園」有旋轉木馬、小火車、咖啡杯、旋轉賽車、鋼彈機器人等多項設施，免費暢玩最後2天；今年更首創第一屆台灣國際四驅車大賽「神行盃」，等於把年節逛廟變成大型親子遊樂場，讓你一路嗨到初五。

「神行盃」將於初四（2/20）及初五（2/21）正式登場。賽事除了具備國際規格的五軌專業賽道與電競等級的實況轉播外，更融入了極具在地特色的玩法：「先鑽轎底，再開跑」，把信仰文化玩出新花樣，號召車友與親子族群在太子爺公的守護下，展開一場跨世代的極速對決，透過實體互動「遠離3C育兒」。

除了玩樂，護國宮今年也推出3大限量聖品，主打新春祈福與「重整財庫」概念，包括馬年限定「太子招財撲滿」、首次與酒商聯名限量的「護國限定開運太子平安酒」，以及以七星太極肚兜為靈感的「護身太子兜平安符」，鎖定開車族、上班族與做生意族群祈求平安順利。

● 《》提醒您：喝酒不開車，開車不喝酒。

title: 走廟+親子放電！桃園護國宮遊樂園免費玩　四驅車「鑽轎底」開跑


taiwan-subdivisions: 福興 太平 西螺 安定 雲林

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▲西螺福興宮董事長楊文鐘率董監事依古禮請籤，儀式莊嚴隆重。（圖／記者游瓊華翻攝）

記者游瓊華／雲林報導

今（20）日農曆正月初四「接神」，西螺福興宮依循古禮舉行年度接神與開聖籤儀式，子時鐘鼓齊鳴，董監事、地方仕紳與爐下信眾整齊列隊，訟疏文接神開籤。儀式由董事長楊文鐘主禮，依序完成請籤、開籤、抽國運籤等傳統程序，現場氣氛莊嚴。

▲西螺福興宮國運籤為第六首甲戌籤。（圖／記者游瓊華翻攝）

今年國運籤連續抽籤四次才獲三聖筊允准定案，最終公布為第六首甲戌籤，籤文「風雲致雨落洋洋，天災時氣必有傷；命內此事難和合，更逢一足出外鄉。」屬中下籤。西螺福興宮董事長楊文鐘說明，詩句語氣雖帶警示意味，核心卻並非災厄，而是提醒世人對環境與時局保持警覺，提前修德行善、穩健應對，才能在變動中找到轉機。

▲今年國運籤連續抽籤四次才獲三聖筊允准定案。（圖／記者游瓊華翻攝）

儀式完成後，廟方同步公布年度各類民生籤象，人口籤為第四十三首辛丑、五穀籤第二十三首丁酉、六畜籤第三十六首己亥，象徵民生面向各有課題。董事長楊文鐘受訪表示，籤詩並非預言，而是指引方向，「神明給的是提醒，不是答案。只要人心向善、彼此扶持，再難的局勢都能一起走過。」他強調，籤意核心在於「守成與團結」，提醒社會面對挑戰時切勿躁進，只要穩住腳步、凝聚共識，自能轉危為安。

▲人口籤為第四十三首辛丑、五穀籤第二十三首丁酉、六畜籤第三十六首己亥，象徵民生面向各有課題。（圖／記者游瓊華翻攝）

來自西螺鎮的陳姓信徒說，中下籤讓人更懂得珍惜平安日子，「像長輩提醒一樣，聽進去反而踏實。」也有第一次參與的民眾表示，比起吉凶，他更在意儀式帶來的凝聚感，「大家一起等籤、一起聽解釋，那種同心感很難得。」廟方強調，國運籤提供的是省思契機，盼信眾以此為警醒，在生活中多行善念、互助互信，共同守護社會安定。

▲西螺福興宮太平媽祖，國運籤一句話點醒世道人心。（圖／記者游瓊華翻攝）

title: 西螺福興宮國運籤連擲三聖筊才定案　太平媽示警藏轉機


title: 長庚大學「森呼吸」生態展即日起登場　邀民眾與生態共舞

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▲長庚大學永續發展辦公室主辦的「森呼吸：與生態共舞的日常」生態展，即日起在台塑企業文物館展出。（圖／長庚大學提供）

記者沈繼昌／桃園報導

一項由長庚大學永續發展辦公室主辦的「森呼吸：與生態共舞的日常」生態展即日起在台塑企業文物館展出至6月14日，長庚大學指出，展覽以「呼吸」作為人與自然共存的隱喻，透過生態觀察的行動故事與視覺策展，呈現台塑企業及長庚大學師生如何以永續思維，具體實踐「與生態共舞」的日常。

▲長庚大學校長湯明哲在生態展上致詞勉勵。（圖／長庚大學提供）

這項展覽結合影像裝置與拍照互動區，規劃三大主題展牆，呈現豐富的觀展體驗。內容則包括長庚大學韓學宏教授20餘年來持續進行的「校園動植物紀錄成果」、王光正老師主持的「長庚大學周遭林地生態調查計畫」等。透過細緻的觀察與資料整理，呈現校園生態變遷與多樣性，讓民眾了解林口與龜山的自然生態面貌及其環境價值。

此外，長庚大學藝文中心也共襄盛舉，策劃展出學生以校園環境為主題的攝影作品，透過學生不同的視角，邀請大眾感受生態與日常生活的連結，理解自然環境對人們生活的重要影響。

▲台塑企業總管理處資深經理劉耀文在生態展上致詞。（圖／長庚大學提供）

本次展出還特別結合台塑楊梅農場與台塑蔬菜，展示農場在造林復育及有機耕作上的成果，彰顯台塑企業與長庚大學在永續環境行動上的努力。民眾可透過影像裝置與拍照互動體驗，親身感受自然生態的魅力。展覽設計以「全齡共享」為理念，兼具教育性與趣味性，適合各年齡層參觀，希望讓參觀者能一同體驗「與生態共舞」的理念，理解人與自然共生的重要性。

▲長庚大學韓學宏老師導覽森羅萬象展示區。（圖／長庚大學提供）

長庚大學永續發展辦公室表示，這項生態展即日起將展至今年6月14日，展覽呈現長庚師生多年來的生態研究成果與創作，希望提升社會大眾對生態保育與永續議題的關注。期待大家走出展場的那一刻，能夠一起關注到身邊的樹影、風聲與鳥鳴，甚至在呼吸間感受到與大地同頻的節奏，共同在日常生活中實踐永續理念。

taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 林口 龜山 楊梅


taiwan-subdivisions: 西螺 太平 福興 安定 雲林

title: 西螺福興宮國運籤連擲三聖筊才定案　太平媽示警藏轉機


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圖文／7Car 小七車觀點

Rolls-Royce 日前發表全新客製化作品 Phantom Arabesque，這款以 Phantom Extended 為基礎打造的唯一訂製車型，由 Private Office Dubai 主導策劃，向中東深厚的建築文化致敬。新車最大亮點在於品牌首度將專利雷射雕刻技術應用於引擎蓋，透過嶄新工藝語彙詮釋傳統 Mashrabiya 花窗圖騰，展現 Rolls-Royce 在當代奢華工藝領域的持續探索。

Mashrabiya 為中東傳統建築常見的木製格柵結構，兼具隱私、採光與通風功能，是當地住宅與宮殿建築的重要元素。設計團隊從其幾何結構與光影變化汲取靈感，將圖騰轉化為車身視覺主軸。為呈現更具層次的效果，Rolls-Royce 歷時五年研發全新雷射雕刻製程：先以深色塗層打底，覆上多層透明漆，再施以淺色面漆，最後以高精度雷射在表層刻蝕約 145 至 190 微米深度，使下層色彩隱約浮現。經手工細緻打磨後，形成具立體感且耐久的表面質地，隨光線變化呈現細膩光影層次。

外觀方面，Phantom Arabesque 採用 Bespoke 雙色塗裝，車身主體為 Diamond Black，上半部則以 Silver 形成對比，並搭配同色手繪單條 Coachline，於細節處融入 mashrabiya 圖騰。車頭配置發光式 Pantheon 水箱護罩，外框以 Dark Chrome 處理，搭配上照式 Spirit of Ecstasy 立像，強化夜間辨識度與雕塑感。22 吋局部拋光鋁圈則進一步提升整體氣勢與精緻度。

座艙鋪陳延續外觀設計主題，最引人注目的為橫跨前座儀表台的 Gallery 區域。設計團隊以 Blackwood 與 Black Bolivar 木材打造繁複鑲嵌藝術，透過精準拼接呈現 mashrabiya 幾何圖樣，並搭配深色調偏心時鐘作為視覺焦點。內裝主色選用 Selby Grey 與 Black 皮革，前後座頭枕繡有黑色 mashrabiya 圖騰，Starlight Doors 星光車門則以灰色滾邊與黑色對比縫線收邊。發光門檻飾板亦融入呼應引擎蓋雕刻的圖樣，形塑由外而內一致的設計敘事。

Phantom Arabesque 已交付中東客戶，成為其私人收藏之一。透過此一專屬訂製作品，Rolls-Royce 不僅展示在塗裝與表面處理領域的技術突破，也進一步強化品牌在全球高端客製市場的定位。雷射雕刻工藝的成功應用，象徵未來 Bespoke 領域在材質運用與視覺表現上仍具備廣闊發展空間。

title: 勞斯萊斯最新客製化「首度應用雷射雕刻」！引擎蓋花紋致敬中東建築


countries: 伊朗 美國 瑞士

title: 給伊朗下通牒　「開戰或和平」川普：未來10天內就會有答案


title: 濟州島外海現「神秘666」雲渦！鄭明典讚可愛　竟曾釀橋梁崩塌

countries: 美國 韓國

references: 臉書 Facebook


taiwan-subdivisions: 林口 龜山 楊梅 桃園

title: 長庚大學「森呼吸」生態展即日起登場　邀民眾與生態共舞


title: 喝一杯有意義的酒！　減碳環保的再生有機葡萄酒

taiwan-subdivisions: 大安 和美

countries: 美國 阿根廷 智利

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▲再生有機農法的葡萄酒減碳。（示意圖／記者蔡玟君攝）

● B型企業協會

全球有機葡萄酒市場規模預計將以15.9% 的複合年增長率 (CAGR) 成長，到2030年達到 690億美元。受歡迎的原因，除了有機會施行有機農法扭轉氣候緊急狀態，更因消費者對健康有益，越來越關注永續和有機農產品，且許多線上零售通路普及，市場大開。

再生有機農法的葡萄酒減碳

美國B型企業Fetzer酒莊於1968年成立於北加州的門多西諾(Mendocino)創立，是美國第 19 大酒莊 ，1987年開始按照有機標準種植葡萄，成為採用有機栽培方法的先驅之一，並於1993 年推出了好土地 (Bonterra ) 品牌。

2000 年獲得了生物動力農法的Demeter認證；2021 年擁有 960 英畝葡萄園（相當於15個大安森林公園）更獲得了再生有機認證 (ROC)，且獲得加州有機農民認證 (CCOF) 和加州永續葡萄種植者認證 (CCSW) 的認證。更於2022年大膽地改名為為好土地有機酒莊(Bonterra Organic Estate)。

有機與再生有機農法的差別？

有機認證的葡萄園主要不使用化學除蟲、草劑、化學農藥及肥料；再生有機的獨特之處，除了執行有機農法，也更深入關注農場環境之上的人權、動物福利和生態健康。

Bonterra 的再生有機農法：

．春天會於葡萄園行間種植覆蓋作物，以促進生物多樣性、土壤肥力、防止表土侵蝕並自然地抑制雜草生長。於葡萄園間中實行免耕來減少耕作，促進表土穩定性，並減少溫室氣體排放。

．冬天則與當地的牧羊牧場合作，將羊群帶到葡萄園吃雜草，增加土壤的自然肥力。

．將生產中剩餘的果渣進行堆肥，再重新成為葡萄生長的天然肥料。

．絕不使用化學品，並用綜合害蟲管理促進土壤健康。

．於葡萄園周圍種植灌木、果樹和本地的植物來保護河岸地區和棲息地走廊，為如蜜蜂等播種昆蟲及小鳥提供築巢地並創造生態系統平衡。

▲施行再生有機農法更有助於固碳！（資料圖／記者蔡玟君攝）

施行再生有機農法更有助於固碳！

加州大學戴維斯分校研究人員2018 年的一項研究表明，傳統種植的葡萄園每英畝的土壤碳儲量為41,000 磅，而有機葡萄園為45,000 磅。 Bonterra最大的排放量是酒瓶玻璃重量及其運輸佔總排放量的58.4%， 葡萄園中所使用的柴油拖拉機也佔了16%。因此，施行再生有機農法，Bonterra將能因其葡萄園中固碳，而減少其總碳排。

用水比同業低50%，設定2030年碳排放量減少 55%

年營業額約9千9百萬美元(約新台幣308億) 的智利B型企業孔雀酒莊Concha y Toro 則於 2011年以 2.38 億美元(約新台幣74億)的價格收購了Bonterra （時名為Fetzer酒莊）。孔雀酒莊被評為全球10 個最有價值的葡萄酒酒莊之一，共29,600 英畝的葡萄園(約相當於462個大安森林公園)分布於智利、阿根廷和美國；旗下多個品牌，出口到全球 140 個國家，其中魔鬼酒窖(Casillero del Diablo)為25,000個消費者評為全球第2名的葡萄酒品牌。

孔雀酒莊的永續發展總監瓦倫蒂娜·里拉(Valentina Lira) 表示：「我們2021年獲得B型企業之後，這是一次徹底的心態轉變，與零售及通路商開會時就發現溝通的重點就不只在業務上，而是多方面展現我們永續營運的不同面向，並建立一種使命夥伴關係。 像是我們與Walmart的關係晉升，當他們想推出一個新計劃時，我們是被邀請去參與討論的三家公司之一。

行銷主管維琪·霍伊(Vicky Hoey)也說：「我們透過社群媒體和店內活動進行『喝一杯正面影響力的酒』的活動，讓更多消費者瞭解B型企業的內涵，全球有超過8,000家的企業正在努力利用商業發揮影響力。」

孔雀酒莊執行長吉利薩斯蒂(Eduardo Guilisasti)更表示：「B型企業認證是我們對環境、社會和公司治理的承諾向前邁出的重要一步，這些議題是策略成長的支柱；更重要的是，這是一條不斷改進的道路，目標是讓使我們的營運為全球葡萄酒產業帶來積極影響並做出貢獻。」

過去十年中孔雀酒莊努力降低水資源的衝擊及面對氣候緊急狀態， 100% 採用了滴灌和技術灌溉系統，確保負責任地用水。更是全球第一家在 10 年前開始測量水足跡的酒莊，目前水足跡比全球葡萄酒行業平均水準低 50%。且自2018年起，以科學為基礎的淨零排放行動，目標是到 2030 年將碳排放量減少 55%。

● 本文獲「B型企業協會」授權。專欄觀點不代表本網立場。


title: 潛水撈「白色金子」　球場水池翻出高爾夫球環保商機

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▲法國回收再利用公司「Another Swing」，希望把球場水域中的廢棄物轉化為可再使用的資源。（圖／翻攝自Another Swing官網）

記者潘姿吟／綜合報導

在高爾夫球場上，落入水池的球只是打球過程中的小插曲；但在法國兩名年輕創業者眼中，沉入淤泥中的白色小球，卻是資源。26 歲的 Arthur Derderian 與 Jules Barranco 在打球過程中觀察到，每年都有大量高爾夫球落入球場池塘後無人撿拾，不僅造成浪費，也增加環境負擔。於是，他們親自穿上潛水裝備潛入水池打撈廢棄球，將這些被遺忘的球重新清洗、分級與再利用，並稱之為「白色金子」。兩人因此創立回收再利用公司「Another Swing」，把球場垃圾轉化為循環經濟的新商機，讓沉沒水底的資源重新回到球道。

▲法國兩名年輕創業者Arthur Derderian 與 Jules Barranco，創立回收再利用公司「Another Swing」。（圖／翻攝自Another Swing官網）

兩位創辦人觀察到，廢棄的高爾夫球的問題不只在浪費，因為高爾夫球體由塑膠與橡膠複合材料製成，分解時間可能長達數百年，而且，長期浸泡可能釋放微塑膠與污染物，這讓球場水域成為隱形污染源。

他們因此創立回收再利用公司「Another Swing」，希望把球場水域中的廢棄物轉化為可再使用的資源。

於是，兩人在球場主人許可的情況下，親自穿上潛水裝備，背著氧氣瓶潛入球場水池打撈高爾夫球。不過，實際的水下作業環境並不輕鬆，水深可達 6 公尺、視線不佳且滿布淤泥，作業環境潮濕且具風險，，但他們仍一顆顆撿起被遺忘的球，將這些回收球賦予再利用的價值，並稱之為「白色金子」。

打撈上岸的高爾夫球會進入標準化的三段流程：先進行工業清洗與消毒以去除泥沙、藻類與污染物，之後，依品牌、型號與磨損程度，進行品質篩選與分級，最後，做二次包裝銷售，將狀況良好球重新販售，設定價格通常比新品低 30%～50% 以上，提供高性價比選擇給球友。

為貫徹環境理念，Another Swing 採用回收紙材製作包裝盒、環保膠帶與印刷材料、在法國本地生產與包裝，減少運輸碳足跡與材料浪費。

這項模式同時解決三個問題：清理球場水域污染、降低運動用品浪費、提供更可負擔的高爾夫球選擇。他們將事業定位為「循環經濟」的一環，而非單純的二手商品買賣。

在法國，類似理念的團隊，另還有一組由三位好友組成的 Golfiller，同樣致力於高爾夫球回收再利用。這顯示，運動產業也正走向資源循環與永續轉型，且二次使用市場具備成長潛力。


title: WBC回顧／國際賽外掛接力：張建銘勝打　林威助初代四棒到張育成

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▲張建銘 。（圖／本報資料照）

記者楊舒帆／綜合報導

2026年世界棒球經典賽前夕，中華隊再度集結，回顧歷屆經典賽舞台，總有幾位球員像「國際賽外掛」般挺身而出。從首屆經典賽張建銘敲下歷史性勝利打點、林威助身扛初代第四棒硬撼名投，到2023年張育成強勢崛起，新舊世代的強棒接力，構成中華隊國際賽最具象徵性的火力傳承。

2006年首屆世界棒球經典賽，中華隊在預賽前兩戰不敵南韓、日本後，第3戰迎戰中國隊背水一戰。外界原本看好中華隊輕鬆過關，但比賽開局卻打得綁手綁腳，直到第3局，「火哥」張建銘挺身而出，將壘上跑者陳鏞基送回本壘，敲下中華隊在經典賽史上的第一分勝利打點，也正式寫下歷史新頁。

隨後第4局，陳鏞基再補上滿貫全壘打，拉開比數，中華隊終場以12比3擊敗中國，拿下經典賽隊史首勝。這一戰不只讓中華隊卸下壓力，也再次印證張建銘在國際賽「專打外國人」的外掛體質。2008年奧運最終資格賽，他同樣頻頻上演雷射肩美技、打擊率逼近5成，成為國際賽最令人安心的存在。

上屆經典賽張建銘首度以教練身分加入國家隊，今年也在中華隊陣中。他過去受訪時曾直言，「以前當球員就知道國家隊不好打，所以不用給自己太大壓力。」

▲林威助。（圖／達志影像／美聯社）

回到2006年，除了張建銘，當時扛下中華隊初代第四棒的林威助，同樣留下經典畫面。首戰對南韓，9局下他面對大聯盟強投朴贊浩，掃出深遠二壘安打，為落後的中華隊點燃反攻希望。該屆經典賽，林威助3戰皆先發第4棒，分別從朴贊浩與松坂大輔手中敲安，展現不畏名投的氣勢。

世代更迭之下，2023年經典賽迎來「新台灣第四棒」張育成。他在該屆賽事16打數敲7安，包含2轟、8分打點，打擊率4成38、長打率9成38，勇奪分組MVP。歷屆中華隊第四棒從林威助、彭政閔、林智勝到張育成，火力接棒不曾中斷。2026年經典賽，張育成再度入選，也被期待延續這條屬於中華隊的強棒傳承之路。

▲2023WBC世界棒球經典賽張育成。（圖／記者李毓康攝）

countries: 台灣 中國 日本


title: 走廟+親子放電！桃園護國宮遊樂園免費玩　四驅車「鑽轎底」開跑


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智利當局今天表示，一輛運送液化瓦斯的卡車在首都聖地牙哥發生車禍並爆炸，造成至少3人死亡，另有10人受傷。

路透社報導，智利警察機構「卡賓槍騎兵」（Carabineros）首長維爾馬（Victor Vielma）在記者會中表示，這輛卡車失控撞上護欄，原因仍待調查。

events: 車禍 死亡

title: 智利首都卡車失控撞護欄爆炸　釀3死10傷


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日本福岡昨晚發生傷人案，3人受傷、其中1人傷勢較重，疑犯被捕。

事發在當地時間昨晚近8時，有民眾報案指福岡市內一座圖書館發生持刀傷人事件，兩男一女遇襲，其中一人腹部被刺傷，傷勢較重。

警方說，拘捕一名男疑犯，正在調查他的犯案動機。

編輯：盧曉珊

title: 日本福岡發生持刀傷人案3人受傷　疑犯被捕


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（中央社聖地牙哥19日綜合外電報導）智利當局今天表示，一輛運送液化瓦斯的卡車在首都聖地牙哥發生車禍並爆炸，造成至少3人死亡，另有10人受傷。

路透社報導，智利警察機構「卡賓槍騎兵」（Carabineros）首長維爾馬（Victor Vielma）在記者會中表示，這輛卡車失控撞上護欄，原因仍待調查。

今晨這起事故地點位於聖地牙哥北部，另有7台較小型的車輛受到波及。（編譯：楊昭彥）1150220

events: 死亡 車禍

title: 智利首都卡車失控撞護欄爆炸 釀3死10傷 | 國際


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米蘭科爾蒂納冬奧會，國家隊選手寧忠岩在速度滑冰男子1500米賽事中，以1分41秒98的成績奪得金牌兼打破奧運紀錄，是國家體育代表團今屆冬奧會收穫的第三面金牌。

美國選手斯托爾茲慢0.77秒得銀牌；至於銅牌就由荷蘭選手獲得。

編輯：盧曉珊

countries: 美國 荷蘭

title: 國家隊寧忠岩在冬奧會速滑男子1500米 奪金兼破奧運紀錄 - RTHK


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【本報訊】為向曾駐守國之北疆、於馬祖服役的退役官兵致敬，連江縣交通旅遊局推出「老兵榮歸・戰地巡禮」一日軍事體驗行程，邀請老兵與家人重返熟悉的戰地場域，走訪昔日駐防據點，重新連結青春歲月與戰地情感。

行程以「戰地巡禮」為主軸，精選馬祖具代表性的軍事地景，涵蓋四鄉五島路線，帶領參與者透過導覽解說與實地走訪，重溫當年戍守歲月，並讓年輕世代理解馬祖在歷史上的戰略角色與島嶼故事。

title: 「老兵榮歸・戰地巡禮」開跑 - 馬祖日報


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陸軍東引地區指揮部指揮官馮少毅致贈春節紅包慰勉留守官兵，肯定弟兄姊妹落實「戰備無假期」要求，確保春節期間防區安全無虞，讓國人安心過好年。（圖︰東引指揮部）

【本報訊】迎接春節及弘揚慎終追遠的傳統美德，營造溫馨祥和的年節氛圍，陸軍東引地區指揮部日前舉行春節祭祖典禮，由指揮官馮少毅少將率高勤官及各單位主官陪祭。典禮儀程簡樸而隆重，現場備妥鮮花與水果，向歷代先烈致上最深敬意，感念其以鮮血捍衛國門、守護家園。一柱清香寄託追思與感恩，也象徵對戰備任務圓滿順遂的期許。祭祀牌位依百家姓書寫全體官兵姓氏，寓意同袍一體、榮辱與共，展現部隊團結向心的精神。

指揮官致詞表示，春節是闔家團圓的時節，更是飲水思源、緬懷先賢的重要時刻。唯有不忘來時路，方能堅定向前行；期勉全體官兵在傳承優良傳統之餘，持續精進戰備本務與專業職能，以實力守護國家安全。

祭祖儀式結束後，指揮官隨即前往各據點慰問春節留守官兵，逐一關心執勤與生活情形，並致贈春節紅包，提前向弟兄們賀節致意。對於堅守崗位、無法返鄉團圓的官兵，指揮官特別表達肯定與感謝，強調正因官兵全天候守望與無私奉獻，國人方能安心歡度佳節。各據點官兵士氣高昂，表示將恪遵戰備規定，嚴密戒護，確保防區安全無虞。

指揮官進一步指出，春節期間除規劃團拜與文康活動，凝聚同袍情誼外，亦同步強化戰備整備與安全維護工作，落實「戰備無假期」要求。面對瞬息萬變的情勢，全體官兵將秉持忠誠、團結與榮譽信念，戮力戰訓本務，以實際行動守護國家與人民，讓社會大眾在平安喜樂中迎接嶄新的一年。

title: 春節團圓時刻 東引官兵堅守崗位守護家園 - 馬祖日報


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【記者王致潔報導】為鼓勵創作風氣，並進一步推廣馬祖文化及特色，連江縣政府文化處啟動115年度「扶植文化出版品補助計畫」，個人或團體均可參加，自即日起至115年3月6日17時止受理申請，補助範疇為「馬祖相關主題」之文化出版品，一般補助經審查通過後，每冊每次最高可獲10萬元補助。

補助類別包含圖書、連續性出版品（包含全國性與地區性刊物）、有聲及影像出版品，以及網際網路出版品等多元形式。補助類型分為一般補助與專案補助：一般補助經審查通過後，每冊每次最高可獲10萬元補助；專案補助則視個案辦理，總補助金額依年度預算而定。

受補助出版品之著作權仍歸屬作者，但須於顯著位置註明「本出版品曾獲連江縣政府之補助」字樣，且連江縣政府擁有非營利性質之無限期使用權。

有意申請者可至連江縣文化處官網（https://reurl.cc/XaYErj）下載簡章及申請書，備妥申請書、徵稿作品一式7份及電子檔1份，如為團體或法人組織應另附立案或登記證書影本。信封封面註明「申請連江縣政府扶植文化出版品補助案」及申請者姓名或團體名稱，於3月6日17時前，將申請文件親送或掛號郵寄（以郵戳為憑）至文化處藝文推廣科（連江縣南竿鄉清水村136-1號），並將電子檔寄至matsucc@gmail.com。

文化處提醒，獲補助計畫應於115年11月30日前提送成果報告書完成結報與核銷。洽詢請於上班時間撥打0836-22393分機108黃小姐。

journalist: 記者王致潔報導

taiwan-subdivisions: 連江縣 南竿 清水

title: 連江縣115年度「扶植文化出版品補助計畫」啟動 - 馬祖日報


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【記者王致潔報導】馬祖一年一度的民俗盛事「擺暝」即將熱鬧登場。

擺暝是馬祖獨具特色的民俗信仰活動，也是馬祖年節最熱鬧的時刻之一，不僅展現馬祖深厚的信仰文化與人情味，也讓年節氛圍延續升溫。

南竿各廟宇擺暝時程如下：

2月26日（正月初十）：

．擺暝：介壽白馬尊王廟。

3月1日（正月十三）：

．擺暝：介壽白馬尊王廟、仁愛天后宮、福澳華光大帝廟。

3月2日（正月十四）：

．擺暝：介壽白馬尊王廟、仁愛天后宮、珠螺玄天上帝廟。

3月3日（正月十五，元宵節）：

．擺暝：復興牛峰境五靈公廟、介壽白馬尊王廟、介壽元帥王、介壽邱元帥陳春蘭大姐、介壽青檀澳道祖廟、清水白馬尊王廟、清水梅石高王爺廟、馬港白馬文武大王廟、四維天母宮、四維夫人澳白馬大王廟、仁愛天后宮。

．擺暝＋遶境：馬港天后宮、福澳華光大帝廟、珠螺白馬尊王廟、津沙天后宮。

3月4日（正月十六）：

．擺暝：介壽白馬尊王廟、介壽中隴玄天上帝神壇、清水白馬尊王廟。

3月5日（正月十七）：

．擺暝：介壽北極玄天宮。

3月6日（正月十八）：

．擺暝：介壽白馬尊王廟。

．擺暝＋遶境：仁愛天后宮。

3月8日（正月二十）：

．擺暝＋遶境：復興牛峰境五靈公廟。

3月10日（正月二十二）：

．擺暝＋遶境：介壽白馬尊王廟、介壽邱元帥廟。

taiwan-subdivisions: 南竿 仁愛 復興 清水

title: 南竿各廟宇擺暝正月初十陸續登場 - 馬祖日報


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【本報訊】東引115年慶元宵迎神擺暝慶典自正月初九起熱鬧登場，西引忠義廟於正月初九率先擺暝，正月十三關帝廟接力登場，正式揭開連續一週擺暝活動的序幕。

正月十四為「臨水夫人」擺暝，正月十五元宵夜由天后宮、泰山府及白王爺廟聯合擺暝；正月十六輪到「張將軍」，正月十七則有白馬尊王遶境與璇璣廟擺暝，正月十八舉行白馬尊王擺暝與遊燈活動，直到正月十九白馬尊王回宮遶境，迎神活動連續不間斷，整整熱鬧一個禮拜。今年適逢白王爺廟三年一科的遶境大典，格外受到地方關注，宗教文化氣氛更顯濃厚。

此外，正月二十二、二十三日，尚有安寧廟及「齊天大聖」擺暝，為今年東引迎神、拜神、謝神系列節慶活動畫下圓滿句點。

taiwan-subdivisions: 東引 泰山 將軍

title: 東引第一場擺暝 忠義廟正月初九率先登場 - 馬祖日報


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連江縣衛生局啟動「餐飲衛生自主管理」計畫，最高獎勵達3萬元，即日起至2月26日開放報名。（圖：連江縣衛生局）

【記者馮紹夫報導】連江縣衛生局正式啟動「餐飲衛生自主管理」年度招募計畫！本次特別針對馬祖四鄉五島的餐飲業者，精選7家進行深度輔導。入選者不僅能獲得專業團隊一對一秘笈傳授，更有高達3萬元的獎勵與改善津貼，即日起熱烈報名中。

為了協助業者，衛生局提供實質獎勵，凡入選並積極參與課程、完成訪查建議後並通過評核之業者，衛生局將提供最強力的資源後盾，包括：1萬元獎勵品，表揚優良餐廳的專業榮耀，以及提供2萬元改善津貼，直接補助軟硬體升級，減輕經營壓力。

計畫名額僅限7家，誠摯邀請馬祖在地業者踴躍報名，一同提升馬祖餐飲的服務高度，

欲參與輔導之業者請於115年02月26日(四)13時前完成報名，於報名期間填寫報名表傳至daydream83376707@gmail.com完成後請來電，電話：04-23399046 歐先生。活動簡章與報名表單連結：https://reurl.cc/AboRDp。

title: 衛生局「餐飲衛生自主管理」啟動 招募7家業者輔導 - 馬祖日報


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財經中心／余國棟報導

農曆馬年即將到來，年終獎金正式入袋，這筆資金怎麼用，倫元投顧王春盛分析師從矽光子、機器人、漲價概念股與ETF四大方向，替一般投資人整理馬年值得關注的投資主軸。（圖／王春盛提供）

農曆馬年即將到來，年終獎金正式入袋，這筆資金怎麼用，往往決定新一年的財富起跑點。馬年象徵速度、行動力與突破，但投資不能只靠衝，更要選對賽道、跟對趨勢。與其短線追高殺低，不如趁過年期間，靜下心來把年終獎金布局在「未來一年到三年最有機會發酵的主流族群」。倫元投顧王春盛分析師從矽光子、機器人、漲價概念股與ETF四大方向，替一般投資人整理馬年值得關注的投資主軸。

矽光子 比擬AI時代的高速公路

AI、高效能運算與資料中心持續擴建，傳輸速度與功耗問題日益嚴峻，矽光子被視為下一世代關鍵解方，王春盛分析師認為，台積電積極推動先進封裝與矽光子平台，等於為整個台灣供應鏈指路，相關族群具備長線爆發力。可留意個股如啟碁（6285）在高速通訊、網通與資料中心領域具備完整解決方案；光聖（6442）深耕高速光通訊與雲端應用；以及波若威（3163）光纖與高速傳輸模組布局明確。矽光子屬於「現在打底、未來成長」型族群，適合用年終獎金分批卡位，耐心等待趨勢發酵。

機器人 缺工、自動化長線主升段湧現

而全球製造業正全面邁向智慧化與自動化，缺工、高齡化問題讓機器人不再只是選項，而是剛性需求，台灣在機械、電子與關鍵零組件具備高度整合優勢，是全球供應鏈不可或缺的一環。在機器人族群王春盛分析師看好，上銀（2049）具線性傳動與工業機器人核心零組件龍頭；佳能（2374）跨足自動化、影像與機器視覺應用，受惠智慧工廠升級；以及信邦（3023）在工業線束、機電整合長期深耕，客戶分散、訂單能見度高。機器人族群屬於「慢牛型趨勢」，適合中長線投資人穩穩抱。

漲價概念股 通膨環境下的獲利放大器

在高通膨與成本結構持續上升的環境中，真正能夠「把成本轉嫁給客戶」的公司，往往才是最後的贏家。王春盛分析師提醒投資人，漲價並不是利空，反而是檢驗企業競爭力的照妖鏡，只要具備技術門檻、產業地位或規模優勢，漲價往往代表毛利率回升、獲利彈性放大，股價自然有表現空間。可優先留意國巨（2327）身為被動元件龍頭，在全球供應鏈中具備高度話語權，歷次漲價循環都能率先反映在獲利上景碩（3189）受惠ABF載板需求回溫與高階產品比重拉升，報價調整將直接挹注獲利動能以及南亞（1303）在材料與化工領域產品線完整，當下游需求回升時，具備同步調價與改善體質的雙重優勢。漲價概念股向來是景氣回溫初期的急先鋒，特性是「發動快、力道猛」，非常適合在馬年行情中搭配波段與中期布局。對年終獎金投資人而言，這族群就是通膨時代下，最實在的獲利放大器。

ETF 堪比馬年投資的穩定底盤

若不想承擔個股波動，分析師王春盛認為，ETF依然是年終獎金最安心的配置選擇。建議將部分資金放在核心型ETF，讓投資組合更穩定。可考慮元大台灣50（0050），掌握台股權值與長線成長；國泰永續高股息（00878），高股息搭配防禦屬性，適合過年後領息；以及群益台灣精選高息（00919），兼顧配息與成長性，適合中性投資人長抱。ETF就像投資的底盤，讓你在馬年行情快跑時不會翻車。

馬年代表衝刺，但真正能累積財富的，是方向正確、節奏穩定的投資策略。最後，他提醒投資人，年終獎金不必一次梭哈，建議分批進場，核心放在長線趨勢族群，再搭配部分漲價題材提升彈性，只要卡在對的賽道，時間自然會站在你這邊。

三立新聞網提醒您：

內容僅供參考，投資人於決策時應審慎評估風險，並就投資結果自行負責。投資一定有風險，基金投資有賺有賠，申購前應詳閱公開說明書。

更多三立新聞網報導． 輪圈股突踩油門！巧新推高價值產品布局 出貨動能全面回溫． AI監控、國防安全全面啟動！達運1月營收年增134% 今年營運續加溫． 上櫃1月營收狂飆年增24%！半導體、AI伺服器撐腰 這族群卻意外翻黑． 散熱股偷偷發熱 動力切入利基市場後勢加溫 !

journalist: 三立新聞

title: 獨／馬年投資 王春盛點名這4大主流 - 鏡週刊 Mirror Media


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財經中心／程正邦報導

輝達（NVDA）在通膨與戰爭陰影下表現疲軟，盤中小幅下跌 0.77%。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

19 日美股開盤後，全球市場陷入極度不安。受美軍傳出準備對伊朗開戰，以及聯準會（Fed）暗示可能重啟升息的雙重利空衝擊，美股四大指數盤中集體承壓。道瓊工業指數一度下挫近 250 點，避險資金瘋狂湧入美元與油市，美匯指數升至 98 關卡，國際油價更因衝突迫在眉睫而噴漲超過 4%。

台積電ADR受大盤影響，跟輝達連動，同樣在平盤震盪。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

地緣政治震撼彈：川普是否下令週末對伊朗「開戰」？

根據外電最新報導，白宮消息指出，美軍在中東大舉增兵後已完成戰備，只要總統川普（Donald Trump）一聲令下，最快本週末就會對伊朗發動打擊。

伊朗近期與俄羅斯舉行海軍聯演，加上核武談判陷入僵局，讓局勢惡化至臨界點。雖然川普仍在與顧問商討最終方案，但軍方「蓄勢待發」的消息已引發市場恐慌，導致能源價格急劇噴發。

經濟動盪，沃爾瑪 (WMT)吸引資金回流，逆勢上漲。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

Fed 紀要澆冷水：升息選項竟重回檯面？

除了地緣政治風險，聯準會 1 月會議紀要也釋放出比市場預期更強硬的「鷹派」訊號。紀要顯示，部分委員認為通膨仍高於 2% 目標，若物價降溫進度停滯，聯準會不排除再次「升息」的可能性。這項表態直接重擊了投資人對 2026 年降息的期待。

外送龍頭DoorDash (DASH) 受惠於全球外送訂單量激增 32%，逆勢上揚逾 4%。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

個股走勢分化：EPAM 遭血洗、外送龍頭與零售巨頭撐盤

在動盪的市場環境下，企業財報與展望成為股價的生死線：

* EPAM Systems (EPAM) 股價重摔逾 21%： 儘管去年第四季營收優於預期，但執行長 Balazs Fejes 對 2026 年展望轉趨保守，並計畫放緩 AI 領域的擴張腳步。市場對其增長動能放緩感到失望，股價盤中慘跌超過 36 美元。

* DoorDash (DASH) 逆勢上揚逾 4%： 受惠於全球外送訂單量激增 32%，這家外送龍頭在歐美市場展現強勁成長能見度，成為盤中少數走紅的焦點。

EPAM Systems (EPAM) 放緩AI擴張腳步，股價遭血洗，重摔逾 21%。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

* 沃爾瑪 (WMT) 低開高走升 2%： 雖然業績指引一度令人失望導致盤前下挫，但開市後因其在經濟動盪時的防禦性特質，吸引資金回流，股價由黑翻紅，雖然盤中一度下挫仍維持紅盤。

* 科技巨頭動向： 權值股蘋果（AAPL）展現支撐力道，上漲逾 1%，可惜盤中無法維持漲勢又跌回來；輝達（NVDA）則在通膨與戰爭陰影下表現疲軟，小幅下跌 0.77%。

中東戰雲與鷹派紀要雙重夾擊！美股開盤全線跳水。（圖／翻攝Yahoo!股市）

即時行情快訊（截至發稿時間）

目前美股三大指數皆處於修正區間。道瓊工業指數下跌 334 點（-0.67%），報 49328 點；那斯達克綜合指數下跌 103.32 點，報 22650 點（-0.45%）；標普 500 指數則跌落 33.32 點至 6847 點（-0.48%）。代表半導體市況的費城半導體指數表現最為弱勢，跌幅達1.36%。

專家警告： 週末前的市場情緒極為脆弱，任何來自白宮或德黑蘭的消息都可能引發更劇烈的資產重新定價。

更多三立新聞網報導． 林邊驚魂夜！油漆工火燒車站再劫超商 「有反覆實施之虞」遭羈押． 花蓮震得不尋常！今年13起有感地震「全避開」 郭鎧紋：改寫27年紀錄． 貼身危機！全球 81 款耳機驗出致癌物 專家警示：流汗恐助毒素滲入皮膚． 超燃衝壓！中國「長劍-1000」正式服役 陸媒：美軍防空網面臨代差挑戰

companies: 蘋果 台積電

countries: 伊朗 中國 俄羅斯

taiwan-subdivisions: 林邊 花蓮

things: 油價 經濟

title: 新／中東戰雲！美股跳水 油價暴漲逾4% - 鏡週刊 Mirror Media


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日本時事通信社於13日至16日進行2月民調顯示，自民黨支持率較上月大幅上升7.6個百分點，來到30.1%。這是自岸田文雄內閣的2022年4月以來，自民黨支持率時隔約4年站上3字頭。

高市早苗競選時承諾將「減稅並擴大支出」，促進經濟成長。（圖／翻攝畫面）去年10月高市內閣成立後，支持率一直在2字頭徘徊，隨著眾議院選舉大勝，黨勢明顯回溫。

高市內閣支持率則上升2.8個百分點至63.8%，與去年11月並列為最高紀錄。不支持率也增加3.3個百分點，來到18.4%。

在眾議院選舉結果方面，自民黨單獨取得超過2/3席次，能在眾議院重新表決並通過曾遭參議院否決的法案。對此，39.5%的受訪者認為「這是好事」，32.7%則表示「不認為是好事」，評價呈現分歧。

高市早苗、川普共同簽署了象徵「日美黃金時代」的合作文件。（圖／翻攝自日本首相官邸官網）關於未來政權架構的選擇，最多人支持「繼續與日本維新會維持聯合執政」（36.9%）。其次為「自民與維新聯盟，並納入部分在野黨」（19.9%），以及「自民黨單獨執政」（16.1%）。主張「改與維新會以外政黨重新組閣」者僅占7.0%。

若僅限於自民黨與維新會支持者，自民支持者中有49.3%、維新支持者中更高達70.4%希望維持現行聯合政權。

各政黨支持率方面，自民黨居首，其次為中道改革聯合6.3%，之後依序為國民民主黨3.6%、參政黨2.6%、維新會2.4%、未來團隊2.2%、共產黨2.0%、公明黨0.9%、令和新選組0.8%、日本保守黨0.8%、立憲民主黨0.7%、社民黨0.3%。

本次調查以全國18歲以上2000人為對象，採個別面訪方式進行，有效回收率為55.7%。

title: 自民黨支持率時隔4年重返3字頭 高市內閣聲勢續漲 | 國際