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TAIPEI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's inflation heated up in September, with the consumer price index (CPI) rising 2.75% from a year earlier, broadly in line with economists' predictions though also below 3% for the second month in a row. The pace quickened from a 2.66% year-on-year reading for August, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement on Thursday. In a Reuters poll of 19 economists, the CPI was expected to rise by 2.7% from a year earlier. Core CPI, a better measure of underlying price pressures, rose an on-year 2.79% last month, compared to 2.73% in August. It excludes more volatile energy, vegetable and fruit prices. Directorate official Tsao Chih-hung told reporters that October's inflation rate should be a little lower than September's, and that they still believed inflation had peaked in the second quarter. Inflation will likely continue to abate as the year progresses, Tsao added. The inflation rate had hit a near 14-year high of 3.59% in June. Like its peers, Taiwan's central bank is keeping a wary eye on price rises as it considers monetary policy. Last month the bank raised its benchmark policy rate The central bank said it expected CPI would rise 2.95% in 2022, slightly revising up the outlook from 2.83% predicted in June. But Taiwan's inflation has never been as bad as in the United States or Europe. The central bank, whose governor said last month it will need to keep inflation forecasts for next year in mind when it...

(Bloomberg) — Taiwan’s exports of chips to the U.S. rose for a 26th consecutive month in May, defying a downturn in the global semiconductor market. U.S. purchases of Taiwanese semiconductors increased 9% from a year earlier that month, while shipments to the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong dropped 14.3%, according to figures from the Ministry of Finance in Taipei. That’s despite an 8% slide in overall exports of chips from Taiwan, widening from the previous month’s drop of 7.1%.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, June 8 (Reuters) - China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160 km) from Florida, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, but the U.S. and Cuban governments cast strong doubt on the report. Such a spy installation would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from the southeastern U.S., which houses many U.S. military bases, as well as monitor ship traffic, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with classified intelligence. The U.S. Central Command headquarters is based in Tampa. Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, the largest U.S. military base, is in North Carolina. The countries have reached an agreement in principle, the officials said, with China to pay Cuba "several billion dollars" to allow the eavesdropping station, according to the Journal. “We have seen the report. It's not accurate," John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, told Reuters. But he did not specify what he thought was incorrect. He said the United States has had "real concerns" about China’s relationship with Cuba and was closely monitoring it. Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, a U.S. Defense Department spokesperson, said: "We are not aware of China and Cuba developing a new type of spy station." In Havana, Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio dismissed the report as "totally mendacious and unfounded," calling it a U.S. fabr...