12-27-2005

中国前部长被定犯有受贿罪被判无期徒刑 (Chinese Former Minister Sentenced for Life on Bribery Conviction )

北京一家法庭以收接受贿赂罪判处前中国国土资源部部长田凤山无期徒刑。官方媒体报导说，田凤山的全部个人财产被没收，被剥夺政治权利终身。田凤山被判在担任黑龙江省省长以及后来担任国土资源部部长期间犯有收受了相当于50多万美元贿赂的罪行。他在2003年因腐败问题被解除了部长职务。

美联社报导说，田凤山是4年来中国仍在进行的反腐行动中起诉的最高级别的官员。前中国人大常委会副委员长成克杰在2001年因受贿罪而被处死。

A Beijing court has sentenced former Minister of Land and Resources Tian Fengshan to life in prison for accepting bribes. State media report that Tian Fengshan will have all his personal assets confiscated and his political rights will be forfeited for life. Tian was convicted for accepting more than a half million dollars in bribes while he was governor of Heilongjiang Province and then Minister of Lands and Resources. He was dismissed from his ministerial post in 2003 on ethics charges.

The Associated Press reports that Tian is the highest-ranking Chinese official in four years to be prosecuted in China's ongoing anti-graft drive. Former Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Cheng Kejie was executed in 2001 after a bribery conviction.

卢武炫为两名抗议者死亡道歉 (Roh Apologizes for Two Protesters' Deaths)

韩国总统卢武炫为两名抗议示威者死亡公开道歉。这两人上个月在首尔与防暴警察发生冲突时受了致命伤之后死亡。这两名男子当时和一批种植稻米的农民一道举行示威，反对开放韩国稻米市场并引入国际竞争。

他们11月中旬在首尔发生的冲突中受伤，几个星期后死亡。卢武炫星期二在一次对全国广播的新闻发布会上做出道歉。韩国警察厅厅长许准荣表示道歉，他说，他个人觉得要为抗议者之死负责。他承诺要惩罚那些把他们两人打成致命重伤的人。在两名死者当中，一人头部受到重击，另一人被打中了脊椎。

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has publicly apologized for the deaths of two protesters who suffered fatal injuries during a clash with riot police last month in Seoul. The two men were in a group of rice farmers demonstrating against plans to open South Korea's rice market to international competition.

They died several weeks after the mid-November clash in Seoul. Roh Moo-hyun apologized to his nation during a nationally-broadcast news conference Tuesday. South Korea's police chief Huh Joon-young, who also has apologized, says he feels personally responsible for the protesters' deaths. He has promised to punish those who caused the fatal injuries -- blows to one victim's head and the other's spine.