Taiwan stocks higher on buying ahead of long holiday break

TAIPEI, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks rose on Monday

trying to stay above the key 9,400 level hit earlier this month

ahead of a long holiday break.

The local stock market will be shut at the end of trade

Tuesday for the Lunar New Year holidays. It will reopen on Feb.

2.

The main TAIEX index rose 0.9 percent to 9,417.82 as

of 0147 GMT, after closing up 0.1 percent in the previous

session. The index closed at 9,410.18 on Jan. 12, which at that

time was a closing high unseen in about a

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