A: Hey, didn’t you go to the opening of the Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport Nangang last week?
B: Yeah, there are about 300 shops, including the first overseas branch of Japan’s Mahou Dokoro — a famous Harry Potter-themed store.
A: Wow, I’ve always wanted to get a magic wand.
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B: There are also a bunch of great restaurants, such as Smart Fish hotpot restaurant.
A: I wish I had Harry Potter’s “apparition” and “disapparition” magic, so I could teleport to the mall right now.
A: 你上週不是有去LaLaport南港的盛大開幕嗎？有什麼特別的？
B: 那裡有多達300家專櫃，包括魔法之地的海外首店——它可是日本知名的《哈利波特》專賣店。
A: 哇我一直想買根魔杖。
B: 另外還有各式各樣的美食，像是林聰明沙鍋魚頭。
A: 真希望我也有哈利波特的「現影術／消影術」魔法，能瞬間移動到商場去！
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
Computex, Asia’s biggest electronics conference, kicked off Monday in Taipei, and as in years past drew industry chieftains from Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang and Qualcomm Inc.’s Cristiano Amon to Young Liu of Foxconn, which makes the bulk of the world’s iPhones and Nvidia servers. But while last year’s event was a celebration of the post-ChatGPT AI boom, executives this time are likely grappling with the uncertainty of the Trump administration’s effort to reshape the global trade order — disrupting a decades-old model for tech manufacturing. This year’s exhibition will of course feature the hardware required to bring artificial intelligence to life.
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