02-19-08

北京奧運會 (BEIJING OLYMPIC)

8月份在北京舉行的北京奧運會的組委會宣佈，中國工作人員將負責全部28個項目的比賽。組委會運動項目負責人星期二作出了以上的宣佈。他說，中國極力說服國際奧會和國際單項運動各聯盟組織，接受中國官員承擔所有比賽項目的責任。

有關主管人員將和有關項目的運動聯盟一起安排所負責項目的全部比賽進程。沒有達到奧運會標準的主管人員都經過了嚴格的訓練，其中包括在雅典接受6個月的培訓，並在雅典舉行的2004年夏季奧運會期間充當技術人員以獲取足夠的經驗。

The organizing committee for this August's Beijing Olympics has announced that Chinese officials will manage all 28 sports at the Games. Director of the organizing committee's sports department, made the announcement Tuesday in Beijing. He said China extensively lobbied the International Olympic Committee and international sports federations to persuade them to accept Chinese officials for all the sports.

The managers are responsible for organizing their sport's competition and coordinating with the applicable sports federations. Managers not up to Olympic standards were put through extensive training regimens, including spending six months in Athens gaining experience and working as technical officials at the 2004 Summer Games there.

中國一輛巴士裝車導致油罐車爆炸至少十五人喪生 (Chinese Bus Collision Causes Tanker to Explode, At Least 15 Dead)

中國官方媒體說，在中國湖南省境內，一輛大客車撞上一輛罐車，引發爆炸，造成15人死亡，25人受傷。官方的新華社報導說，這次重大交通事故星期一晚上發生在中國主要的南北高速公路的湖南省境內的路段。新華社沒有報導罐車上運載的是何種物質。

Chinese state media says 15 people were killed and 25 injured when a bus crashed into a tanker truck, triggering an explosion in Hunan Province. The official Xinhua news agency says the accident occurred Monday evening in the central province of Hunan on China's main north-south highway. Xinhua did not say what substance the tanker was carrying.