# EZ News 08/27/26

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Podcast: [EZ News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909)
Published: 2026-08-27T02:46:58+00:00
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Good afternoon, I'm _ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 57-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 45,890 on turnover of 8.4-billion N-T. However, the main board surged nearly 400 points within ten minutes of the opening bell to bounce back over the 46,000 mark, as investors were boosted by Nvidia's latest quarterly results - which beat expectations. AI-related and heavyweight electronics stocks are in focus this morning. Lawmakers to vote on drone procurement bills today Lawmakers are voting today on competing (競爭的) drone procurement (採購) bills. The vote had originally been scheduled for tomorrow. However, Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu proposed bringing it forward during cross-party caucus talks. The legislative caucuses agreed to move up the vote to allow lawmakers to return to their districts to inspect damage caused by the recent heavy rains and flooding in southern Taiwan. However, the D-P-P, K-M-T and Taiwan People's Party caucuses failed to agree on key aspects of the bills, including which ministry will oversee the drone procurement program, the budget for drone procurement and whether annual spending caps will be imposed. ASF found in** pig carcass in Kinmen and pork shipments suspended** The Kinmen County Government has suspended shipments of pork and processed pork products to Taiwan proper and other outlying islands after a African swine fever was detected in the carcass of a pig that had washed ashore. The suspension (暫停) of shipments of processed pork products runs until next Monday. Live pigs from Kinmen are already banned from being shipped to Taiwan proper and other outlying islands under existing regulations. According to Kinmen County Department of Economic Development, the pig carcass was found on the shore…

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