12-19-2005

港警方釋放近千名世貿抗議者 (Hong Kong Releases Nearly 1000 Jailed WTO Protesters)

香港警方釋放了944名抗議示威者。這些人是在上星期世界貿易組織會議期間，進行了有時候有暴力性質的示威活動時被拘留。總共有1千多名反對自由貿易的抗議人士被拘捕，其中大多數是來自南韓的農民。

星期六， 抗議示威人士在試圖進入大會會場的時候，用竹竿、長管和瓶子襲擊防暴警察。香港警方說， 他們控告了14個人非法集會。將近200名示威人士已經在早些時候獲得釋放。

南韓官員星期一抵達香港，代表南韓政府對發生的暴力事件表示遺憾。

Hong Kong police have released 944 protesters detained after sometimes violent demonstrations during last week's World Trade Organization meetings. More than 1000 anti-free trade protesters were arrested. Most of them were South Korean farmers.

On Saturday, the demonstrators attacked riot police with bamboo poles, pipes and bottles as they tried to force their way into the conference hall. Hong Kong police say they are charging 14 people with unlawful assembly. Nearly 200 of the demonstrators had been released earlier.

South Korea officials arrived in Hong Kong today Monday to express his government's regret over the violence.

印尼證實兩人死於禽流感 (Indonesia Confirms Two Bird Flu Deaths)

印度尼西亞衛生官員說，當地的化驗顯示，一名上星期死去的8歲雅加達男孩是死於禽流感。世界衛生組織在香港的一家化驗室正在對這名男孩和一名39歲男子的採樣標本進行化驗。早些時候有報導說，這名男子感染了禽流感。

印尼衛生官員星期五宣佈，地方的檢驗表明，這名男子本星期早些時候死於禽流感。世界衛生組織的化驗結果還要過幾天才能出來。如果證實這兩人死於禽流感病毒感染，印尼死於禽流感的人數將達到11人。到目前為止，自2003年以來印尼已經有9人死於禽流感，整個亞洲有70多人死於這種疾病。

Indonesian health officials say local tests show an eight-year-old boy in Jakarta has died of bird flu. The child died last week. A World Health Organization laboratory in Hong Kong is testing samples from the boy as well as from a 39-year-old man who was earlier reported to have contracted the disease.

Indonesian health officials announced Friday that local tests showed the man had died of bird flue arlier in the week. Results from the WHO testing are expected in several days. If the two deaths are confirmed to be caused by the bird flu virus, they will bring Indonesia's human toll from the disease to eleven. So far, avian flu is known to have killed nine people in Indonesia, and more than 70 in Asia since 2003.