09-19-07

联合国柬埔寨特别法庭指控前红色高棉领导人犯有战争罪和反人类罪 (UN Tribunal in Cambodia Charges Former Khmer Rouge Leader with War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity)

联合国支持的柬埔寨特别法庭指控前红色高棉领导人农谢犯有战争罪和反人类罪。红色高棉前政权造成将近200万人死亡，农谢因其所起的作用而受到指控。

目击者说，柬埔寨警方星期三在柬埔寨西北部农谢的家乡拜林将他拘捕，拜林是前红色高棉在西北部的据点。农谢随后被直升机送往首都金边，并被带到这个特别法庭。这个审议民族灭绝罪的特别法庭的一位发言人说，农谢已被特别法庭扣押。

现年80多岁的农谢是还健在的前红色高棉的高级成员。在1975到1979年红色高棉执政期间，农谢担任已故前红色高棉领导人波尔布特的副手，是红色高棉政权政治思想的最高主管，以“二号大哥”著称。

A United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has charged a former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea with war crimes and crimes against humanity, for his role in the former regime that caused the deaths of nearly two million people.

Witnesses say Cambodian police took Nuon Chea into custody Wednesday in his hometown of Pailin - the former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia's northwest. Nuon Chea was flown by helicopter to the capital, Phnom Penh, where he was brought before the tribunal. A spokesman for the genocide tribunal said Nuon Chea has been placed in its custody.

Nuon Chea, in his early 80s, is the group's senior surviving member. Known as "Brother Number Two," he was the deputy of the late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and the group's chief political ideologue during its reign from 1975 to 1979.

亚洲股市在美国利率降低后大幅上涨 (Asian Stocks Surge after U.S. Rate Cut)

在美联储的政策制定者降低主要基准利率以避免美国经济陷入衰退以后，亚洲主要股市星期三大幅上涨。东京日经指数收盘时涨幅超过3.5%，以16,382点收作。香港的恒生指数在上午交易结束时跳升近4%，上升928点，达到25,505点。美联储星期二决定把联邦基准利率调低0.5个百分点，投资者作出回应。

美联储的公开市场委员会表示，这次降息的目的是为了阻止美国房屋市场疲软可能给金融市场带来破坏。降息后的联邦基准利率是4.75%。联邦基准利率决定银行之间拆借的成本。

Key Asian stock markets are surging upward in Wednesday's trading, after U.S. central bank policy-makers lowered a key interest rate to help the U.S. economy avoid recession. Tokyo's Nikkei index closed up more than three-and-a-half percent at 16-thousand-382. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index ended the morning session nearly four percent higher - up 928 points at 25-thousand-505. Investors are responding to the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision Tuesday to slash the federal funds rate by one-half percent.

The U.S. central bank's Open Market Committee said the rate cut is meant to counter possible disruptions in financial markets resulting from weakness in the U.S. housing market. The federal funds rate now stands at four-and-three-quarters percent. The federal funds rate determines the cost that banks pay to borrow from each other.