Taiwan shares again closed above 10,000 points on Monday. Earlier in the day, the Finance Committee had celebrated the previous breaching of the 10,000-point mark -- and they did it in classic Taiwanese fashion. The committee chief, Lo Ming-tsai, had promised to treat the committee to fried chicken steaks and milk tea if the index passed 10,000. And that's how it came to pass that on Monday, the Finance Committee wound up sitting in a row at 11 in the morning, drinking icy bubble tea. Later, shares closed up 50.00 points, or 0.50 percent, to end 10,036.82 on turnover of NT$86.71 billion (US$2.87 billion).

Source: The China Post May 15, 2017 12:56 UTC