TaiwanPlus News – 18:00, August 8, 2024

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Boxer Lin Yu-ting advances to the women's featherweight gold medal match in Paris, the first time a Taiwanese boxer has made it into the Olympic finals. Police arrest 27 people in connection to an investment scam that defrauded people of more than US$12M, just one in a growing wave of similar fraud cases in Taiwan. And, TaiwanPlus asks what a Kamala Harris presidency might look like for the Indo-Pacific region. Plus: - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit southern Japan, triggering tsunami waves of up to a meter high. - Thailand’s Constitutional Court votes to dissolve the election-winning Move Forward party. - Taiwan’s Digital Minister speaks about technology and democracy on a panel at the Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei.