02-05-08

中国释放因间谍罪被囚禁香港记者 (China Releases Hong Kong Journalist Imprisoned for Espionage)

中国官员说，因间谍活动被监禁两年的香港资深记者程翔已经被假释。香港的报导说，新加坡海峡时报派的首席记者程翔预计星期二返家。

程翔2005年4月被捕。在2006年一次持续一天的不公开审判中，他被定犯有为台湾充当间谍罪，判处5年监禁。

总部设在纽约的保护记者委员会上个星期说，中国目前关押着29名记者。该组织说，中国对全国媒体施行严格的控制，而且没有履行在奥运前及期间不受限制地报导2008年奥运会的承诺。

Chinese officials say a veteran Hong Kong reporter imprisoned for two years for espionage activities has been freed on parole. Reports in Hong Kong say Ching Cheong, chief correspondent for Singapore's "The Straits Times" newspaper, is expected to return home Tuesday.

Ching was arrested in April of 2005. In a one-day closed-door trial held in 2006, he was sentenced to five years in prison, convicted of spying for Taiwan.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said last week China had 29 journalists behind bars. The group said China imposes severe constraints on its national media, and has not kept a promise to apply no restrictions to the coverage of the 2008 Olympics before and during the games.

日本大臣称毒饺子可能故意所为 (Japanese Minister Says Dumpling Poisoning May Have Been Deliberate)

日本厚生劳动相舛添要一说，造成10名日本人中毒并引发全国范围食品恐慌的中国出产的饺子，可能被人有意投下杀虫剂。舛添要一星期二在东京对记者说，目前发现的证据显示，下毒非常可能是一次犯罪行为。

到目前为止，中国的检测没有发现日本当局认为造成民众中毒的这种杀虫剂的痕迹。日本调查人员在其中至少一袋涉及中毒案的饺子的外包装袋上发现了刺孔以及杀虫剂的痕迹。污染源目前还没有查明。

4名日本官员星期二在北京跟中国官员讨论毒饺子事件。他们随后将参访饺子生产厂家。

Japan's health minister says Chinese-made dumplings that left 10 people ill and sparked a nationwide food scare may have been deliberately poisoned with pesticide. 
Speaking to reporters Tuesday in Tokyo, Yoichi Masuzoe said the evidence uncovered so far suggests that it is highly likely that the poisoning was a crime.

So far, tests in China have turned up no signs of the pesticide that Japanese authorities have blamed for making people sick. Investigators in Japan have found punctures on the outside of at least one of the bags tied to the poisonings as well as traces of the pesticide. The source of the contamination has yet to be identified. 

In Beijing Tuesday, four Japanese officials began talks to discuss the event of poinous dumplings. They will later visit the factories where the dumplings were made.