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The Tai-Ex opened down 11-points this morning
from yesterday's close at
9,757 on turnover of 1.2 billion N-T
president Tsai Ing-wen says her
government will carry out a thorough
investigation into the 228 incident and
find those accountable
according to tie the government will
pursue those responsible and change the
current status of only victims but no
perpetrators Tsai also says society
should reflect more deeply on the
mistakes of the incident learn from it
and move toward reconciliation and
create a democratic just and United
Nation Tsai made the remarks while meeting with
an overseas group of family members of
some of the victims next week marks the
70th anniversary of the February 1947
incident
meanwhile cabinet spokesperson Hsu Guo-yong
says the government is seeking to give
priority to more than 40 pieces of
legislation for passage during the
current legislative session according to
Hsu the priority bills were agreed on
during a meeting between Cabinet
officials and D-P-P legislative caucus
leaders topping the list are proposed
amendments 6 laws governing the
retirement benefits for public-sector
workers and state employees other bills
are related to economic development
urban renewal tax reforms transitional
justice long-term care and cross-strait
relations and former Ting Hsin Oil
and fat chairmanWei Ying-chong has been
sentenced to three years in prison for
tax evasion
however Wei can reduce or avoid prison
term by paying a fine of 3000 N-T for
each day of the sentence
the sentence was handed down by the Changhua
district court and the Court Thursday
also sentenced accountant Chen Xi-xun
to 22 months in prison which can be
converted into a fine of 1000 NT per day
prosecutors had charged Ting Hsin with
failing to issue uniform invoices for
sale of goods worth 732 million NT
between january 2006 and december of
2013 in an attempt to evade taxes and
international news u.s. Homeland
Security Secretary John Kelly says there
will be no mass deportations and no
military forces as part of president
Trump's integration orders from a police
report to Washington the homeland
security chief speaking just hours after
President Trump warned his new
deportation policies where a military
operation said the focus of removals
will be on the criminal element that has
made it into the United States will be
no repeat no mass deportations
everything we do in DHS will be done
legally in according to human rights in
the legal yet the system of the United
States Kelly's visit to Mexico comes
just days after his department vowed to
step up deportation of undocumented
immigrants including returning many to
Mexico even if they aren't originally
from that country ties between the
neighbors were already strained over the
Trump administration's immigration
crackdown which includes building a wall
along the southern border a construction
project Donald Trump insists Mexico will
pay for my CRT News in Washington and
Kevin mcaleese over in Asia Malaysian
police say the half-brother of North
Korea's leader who was killed in a kuala
lumpur airport more than a week ago had
a nerve agent on his eye and his face
Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of north korean
leader Kim Jong Un died on febuary 13-th
shortly after two women put a substance
on his face while he was checking in for
a flight the two suspected attackers and
indonesian woman and a Vietnamese women
are in custody
and finally Albanian police say they
have launched a nationwide operation to
try to prevent the planting of cannabis
A statement said 3100 officers have
spread out around the country checking
greenhouses old army depots and tunnels
or abandoned houses where cannabis seeds
and small plants may have been hidden
last year authorities destroyed about
2.5 million marijuana plants four
times more than the year before and now
looking at the weather across taiwan for
today we can expect cloudy skies and
rain in the north
cloudy skies and occasional rain in the
center and partly cloudy skies in south
current temperatures now taipei 14 Taichung
15 andGaoxiong 22 and that's it for EZ
news today enjoy the rest of your
morning i'm nancy son