# EZ News 07/09/26 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-09-26 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-09-26.md Podcast: [EZ News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909) Published: 2026-07-09T04:10:16+00:00 Episode link: https://player.soundon.fm/p/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/episodes/df2546be-7559-4e98-948b-2678986e269f Audio file: https://rss.soundon.fm/rssf/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/feedurl/df2546be-7559-4e98-948b-2678986e269f/rssFileVip.mp3?timestamp=1783707425851 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ez-news-1063909/episodes/ez-news-07-09-26 Duration seconds: 435 ## Resource Good afternoon, I'm _ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened 71-points higher this morning from yesterday's close, at 45,805, on turnover of 9.8 billion N-T. The market rose again on Wednesday after falling a day earlier. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing got support from last-minute buying near the end of trading. Lawmakers call for officials to resign over contaminated cooking oil case A Legislative committee has passed a motion (動議) calling for (要求) Premier Cho Jung-tai, Health Minister Shih Chung-liang and Food and Drug Administration head Chiang Chih-kang to step down (辭職) and take responsibility for the latest cooking oil contamination case. The motion was passed during a meeting of the legislative Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee. The committee asked health, education and economics officials to report on food safety measures following the discovery of excessive levels (含量過高) of a carcinogen (致癌物) in soybean oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp. Opposition lawmakers criticized the Lai administration for changing its policy on the issue several times. The motion also asks all three officials to apologize (道歉) to the public. Lai touts ties with Guatemala President Lai Ching-te says Taiwan will build stronger ties with Guatemala. He says his administration will encourage (鼓勵) more Taiwanese companies to use Guatemala as a base (以…為基地) for entering Latin American markets. The statement came as Lai held talks with the visiting president of Guatemala's Congress, Luis Alberto Contreras Colindres. According to Lai, closer ties between Taiwan and Guatemala will bring more business opportunities for both sides. Lai also said Guatemalan exports to Taiwan have reached 130 million US dollars for two years in a row. He said Guate… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ez-news-1063909/episodes/ez-news-07-09-26/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-07-09-26.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.