A: What other events are also on Yahoo-Kimo’s 2024 “Taiwan Top 10 News?”
B: No. 5 to 3 are: more typhoons hit Taiwan, the 2024 presidential election, and a series of corruption scandals.
A: And the sports fever triggered by the Paris Olympics, as well as Taiwan’s victory in the WBSC Premier 12 championship touched us all.
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B: That took the second spot, while the massive Hualien earthquake on April 3 took the top spot.
A: The giant, magnitude 7.2 quake was absolutely horrific.
A: 根據Yahoo奇摩公布的2024年「台灣10大新聞」，還有哪些大新聞上榜？
B: 第5名︰颱風接力侵台、第4名︰總統大選、第3名︰貪污連環爆。
A: 巴黎奧運、棒球12強掀起的運動熱也很令人感動。
B: 這是第2名，第1名則是403花蓮強震！
A: 那場規模7.2的地震真的好可怕。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
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