# EZ News 07/01/26 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-01-26 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-01-26.md Podcast: [EZ News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909) Published: 2026-07-01T03:39:07+00:00 Episode link: https://player.soundon.fm/p/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/episodes/b975bc78-510d-44a8-b240-921802ebcc57 Audio file: https://rss.soundon.fm/rssf/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/feedurl/b975bc78-510d-44a8-b240-921802ebcc57/rssFileVip.mp3?timestamp=1782933046111 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ez-news-1063909/episodes/ez-news-07-01-26 Duration seconds: 374 ## Resource Good afternoon, I'm _ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 108 points this morning from yesterday's close, at 46,234 on turnover of 19.1 billion N-T. The market went solidly higher on Tuesday. It also saw its third-biggest point rise during a trading day. Investors were again interested in big electronics and semiconductor shares. That helped push the main board higher. MOFA stepping up official document security amid negligence accusation The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is taking steps to make its official (官方的) document system safer. The statement comes after a Control Yuan report accused the ministry of poor handling of several possible document leaks (洩漏) in 2024 and 2025. Foreign ministry spokesman Hsiao Kuang-wei says the ministry has been checking its electronic document rules. He says it is also working to make the system safer after finding possible leaks of official papers. The Control Yuan report questioned some of the ministry's earlier responses to the leaked documents. Taipei Metro to accept credit cards and mobile pay starting today And, Passengers (乘客) on the Taipei Metro can use credit cards or digital wallets linked to those cards starting today. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an announced the new payment (付款) service. He said the move is meant to help Taipei follow international trends. The metro operator says it will accept major international and Taiwan credit cards. It will also accept Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. The change follows the launch (推出) of Q-R code payments in January. That system lets passengers use major electronic payment services to take buses and M-R-T trains in Taipei and New Taipei. Iran refuses direct talks with US in Doha Iran says it will not hold direct talks (直接談判) with the United… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ez-news-1063909/episodes/ez-news-07-01-26/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-01-26.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.