04-03-08

京奥期间记者可不受审查限制 (Olympics Assurances)

国际奥委会说，已经从中国政府那里得到保证，在今年北京奥运会期间，记者可以自由使用互联网，电视直播传送也不会受到限制。

国际奥委会北京检查小组负责人韦尔布鲁根星期四在记者会上说，报导奥运会的大约3万名持证和非持证记者将不受互联网新闻审查限制。

奥运会协调委员会副主席高斯伯说，有关自由进入互联网措施不适用于中国13亿民众。韦尔布鲁根说，持有转播权的电视台将获得电视直播传送，并可以根据自己的需要随意使用。

最近有报导说，中国计划禁止在天安门广场等地点的直播传送。中国星期一直播了奥运会火炬抵达天安门的场面，但直播有延迟。

The International Olympic Committee says it has received assurances from China's government that journalists will have free access to the Internet and that live television feeds will not be restricted during this year's Games in Beijing.

Hein Verbruggen, the head of the IOC inspection team in Beijing, told a news conference Thursday that Internet censorship would be lifted for about 30-thousand accredited and non-accredited journalists to report on the Games.

Coordination commission vice chairman Kevan Gosper said the open access would not apply to China's one-point-three billion people. Verbruggen said rights-holding broadcasters would receive live television feeds and would be free to use them as they wish.

Recent reports said China planned to bar feeds from places such as Tiananmen Square. Monday's Olympic flame arrival in Tiananmen Square was broadcast with a delay.

中国5月1号重新向外国旅游者开放西藏 (China to Reopen Tibet to Foreign Tourists on May 1st)

在西藏3月发生反政府抗议，游客和记者被禁止进入这个僻远的喜马拉雅山地区近两个月后，中国表示将于5月重新对外国游客开放西藏。

中国官方新华社援引西藏旅游局官员的话说，从5月1号开始欢迎散客和旅游团观光。

在3月中旬的罕见的和平示威演变为暴力活动后，中国当局开始驱赶在西藏的外国游客，并禁止记者前往采访。骚乱随后又蔓延到中国的其他藏区，记者也被禁止前往这些地区。

中国宣布重新开放西藏旅游的时，正值美国财政部长保尔森访问中国。保尔森星期三在与中国官员会面时表达了华盛顿对西藏最近暴力事件的关注。

China says it will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists in May, nearly two months after the remote Himalayan region was sealed off to visitors and reporters following anti-government protests in March. 

Quoting Tibet's tourism bureau, China's official Xinhua news agency says independent travelers as well as those on group tours would be welcomed back on May first.

Chinese authorities began clearing Tibet of foreign tourists and banned reporters from traveling there after rare peaceful protests in mid-March turned violent. The unrest spread to other Tibetan regions in China, and reporters were barred from
those areas as well.

The announced decision to reopen Tibet to tourists comes as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson visits China. During meetings with Chinese officials Wednesday, Paulson voiced Washington's concern about the recent violence in Tibet.