[英文] EZ News / Afternoon
7PM EZ News Intro
Good evening. It's 7 o'clock. I'm Brian Foden with EZ News on ICRT.
Legislature on revisions
Lawmakers are tentatively set to review revisions to military law tomorrow.
Revisions to the Military Justice Act were added to the session's agenda due
to on-going protests calling for reforms within the armed force's
court-martial system.
KMT legislative whip Lin Hong-chi says if consensus is reached on the bill,
chances are it will be applied in the investigation into the death of Army
conscript Hong Zhong-qiu.
The statement comes two days after over 100-thousand people took the streets
of Taipei Saturday -- demanding further investigation into Hong's death and
called on the government to protect human rights within the island's
military.
Chang Geng Memorial Hospital
The Chang-geng Memorial Hospital has founded a research fund in the name of
Lin Jie-liang, a well-known toxicologist, to pay tribute to the contributions
he made.
Lin died of multiple organ failures at Chang-geng hospital where he had
worked for many years earlier today, possibly of infections from a certain
virus.
Hospital authorities say they're still trying to determine what kind of virus
it was.
Lin was often seen on TV news where he offered views on food safety issues or
toxicology related subjects.
He became a go-to person for the media due to his expertise in the field and
his willingness to be interviewed anytime.
BC-ML--Syria
The Syrian military is firing ballistic missiles into populated areas where
it is battling rebels, killing hundreds of civilians in recent months, Human
Rights Watch said in a report Monday.
The U.S.-based group said it has investigated nine apparent missile attacks
that killed at least 215 people, half of them children, between February and
July.
The military has repeatedly denied it is targeting civilians during the
2-year conflict, saying its troops are fighting ``terrorists'' hiding in
civilian areas.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in March
2011.
BC-ML--Egypt
A top U.S. diplomat met early today a jailed senior leader in the Muslim
Brotherhood, part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's
military-backed government and protesters supporting the ousted president,
government officials said.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met in prison with Khairat
el-Shater, the powerful deputy head of the Brotherhood. Burns was accompanied
by the foreign ministers of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as well as an
EU envoy.
El-Shater is charged with complicity in the killing of protesters who were
against former Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi.
BC-AS--India-GangRape
A lawyer says an Indian juvenile court has delayed delivering its verdict
until Aug. 19 for one suspect in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New
Delhi bus. The delay is to allow India's top court to hear a petition on the
legal definition of a juvenile.
The verdict would have been the first handed down in the case.
Defense lawyer Rajesh Tiwari said today that the Supreme Court had asked the
Juvenile Board to hold the verdict.
The defendant was 17 at the time of the attack last December and is being
tried as a minor on charges including murder and rape. He faces a maximum
sentence of three years at a reform center.
BC-AS--Japan-US-Helicopt
A U.S. military helicopter crashed at an American base on the southern island
of Okinawa, Japanese and U.S. officials said Monday.
A HH-60 rescue helicopter crashed in a training area at Camp Hansen with four
crew members on board, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. The status of
the crew members is unknown, it said.
Weather
Checking the weather forcasts from the CWB. Should be fair across Taiwan
overnight.
Current conditions:
Taipei is partly cloudy - 32.6
Taizhong - 30
and Gaoxiong is - 30.7
7PM EZ News Outro
That's EZ News at 7. I'm Brian Foden.
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