12-19-2005

港警方释放近千名世贸抗议者 (Hong Kong Releases Nearly 1000 Jailed WTO Protesters)

香港警方释放了944名抗议示威者。这些人是在上星期世界贸易组织会议期间，进行了有时候有暴力性质的示威活动时被拘留。总共有1千多名反对自由贸易的抗议人士被拘捕，其中大多数是来自韩国的农民。

星期六， 抗议示威人士在试图进入大会会场的时候，用竹竿、长管和瓶子袭击防暴警察。香港警方说， 他们控告了14个人非法集会。将近200名示威人士已经在早些时候获得释放。

韩国官员星期一抵达香港，代表韩国政府对发生的暴力事件表示遗憾。

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.

印尼证实两人死于禽流感 (Indonesia Confirms Two Bird Flu Deaths)

印度尼西亚卫生官员说，当地的化验显示，一名上星期死去的8岁雅加达男孩是死于禽流感。世界卫生组织在香港的一家化验室正在对这名男孩和一名39岁男子的采样标本进行化验。早些时候有报导说，这名男子感染了禽流感。

印尼卫生官员星期五宣布，地方的检验表明，这名男子本星期早些时候死于禽流感。世界卫生组织的化验结果还要过几天才能出来。如果证实这两人死于禽流感病毒感染，印尼死于禽流感的人数将达到11人。到目前为止，自2003年以来印尼已经有9人死于禽流感，整个亚洲有70多人死于这种疾病。

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.