<p>随着菲律宾倒计时迎接新年，尽管经过数十年的监管、每年的警告和加强的警察突击，相关的伤亡人数仍在不断增加。\n 卫生官员表示，在 12 月 31 日到来之前，已经有数十人受伤，随着菲律宾人用烟花爆竹庆祝新年，预计会有更多伤亡，烟花照亮了全国的街道、后院和天际线。\n 卫生部表示，截至周六，至少有 57 人因烟花相关伤害在政府医院接受治疗，其中包括一些在烟花爆炸中失去手指的儿童。警方还报告了与圣诞庆祝活动中向空中开枪相关的死亡事件。\n 尽管存在这些风险，烟花仍然深深融入该国的新年传统中，人们相信巨大的噪音可以驱赶厄运和邪灵。\n 每年从 11 月开始，卫生官员、消防员和警察都会发出警告，突击检查非法销售者，并呼吁公众避免使用强力烟花。\n 每年 12 月 31 日，数百万菲律宾人涌上街头或待在后院，点燃各种各样的烟花——其中许多是非法的，大多数都是危险的。\n\n“我们呼吁菲律宾国家警察和地方政府单位在新年前夕加强现场监控，没收非法烟花爆竹，” 环境保护组织 BAN Toxics 的倡导与活动官员 Thony Dizon 在周日的声明中表示。\n 菲律宾人预计将在新年前夕点燃烟花、迷你爆炸物、自制火炮、信号弹、火箭、风车、星爆、口哨弹和罗马蜡烛，以及昂贵而复杂的烟花表演。\n 一些人还会向空中开枪，警方警告这种做法存在很高的风险，因为落下的子弹可能会杀死或伤害到人。\n 尤其是马尼拉，预计将被近乎持续的爆炸声震撼，烟雾和闪光交织，随着时间的推移，伤亡人数不断增加。\n 到新年那天，这座城市通常会在弥漫着烟雾、散发火药味和满地焦纸的安静街道中醒来。\n 尽管有一项已有 33 年历史的法律对烟花的制造、销售和使用进行监管，禁止被认为不安全、过大或配备危险短引线的装置，但混乱依然存在。\n 根据警方和监管机构的说法，商贩仍在销售超出允许爆炸极限或燃烧速度过快的非法烟花。\n 这些烟花中的许多是在中部省份布拉干的秘密工厂制造的，该地区长期以来是烟花行业的中心，然后被运出并存放在居民区，相关部门表示。\n\n 在圣诞节当天，一名 21 岁的女学生和一名七岁女孩在吕宋岛西北部的达古潘市被一栋两层楼的房屋突然爆炸而遇难。\n 根据《菲律宾每日问询者》的报道，该建筑被用作非法烟花的重新包装地点。\n《菲律宾明星》报道，12 月 25 日早上，马尼拉有一人被流弹击中身亡，而卫生部门表示，两名 8 岁和 16 岁的儿童在烟花爆炸中失去了手指。\n 今年，菲律宾国家警察表示已确定 31 种特定的烟花为禁止使用，并警告将逮捕、罚款和监禁任何被发现使用这些烟花的人。\n 一些被禁物品的名称暗示了它们的威力：金刚、飞镖炸弹、超级老头、原子弹、本·拉登、GPH 核弹和再见菲律宾。\n 非法制造商并未因警方的突击而退缩，定期推出新型爆炸物，通常以当前事件或公众人物的名字命名。\n 今年，相关部门标记了一些强力装置——有些类似于炸药棒——其名称如 “Zaldy Co”、“Curlee 和 Sarah Discaya” 以及 “Imee Marcos”，这些名字源于近期因腐败丑闻而受到关注的人物。\n\n 警方还对 boga 的传播表示担忧，这是一种现代版的传统竹炮。\n 这些即兴装置使用 PVC 或玻璃管，点燃混合的碳化钙、酒精或气体，产生震耳欲聋的爆炸声，通常由玩具枪机制触发。\n 由于爆炸和烧伤的高风险，boga 被禁止，但在一些社区仍然很受欢迎。《问询者》周六报道，北方城市图盖加劳的警方查获了至少 100 个此类火炮，而官员警告说，网上有关于如何制作它们的教程很容易获取。\n 在新年前夕的几天里，街头小贩、临时摊位和在线广告公开销售烟花，尽管警方和地方政府会定期进行打击。\n 价格对需求几乎没有影响。小型烟花的价格可以低于 100 比索（约合 1.70 美元），而复杂的烟花表演则高达数十万比索，其中一家公司提供的所谓 “灯光交响曲套餐” 售价为 208,000 比索（约合 3,540 美元）。\n 当局表示，他们试图通过指定烟花销售区域和清理可使用烟花的公共空间来限制损害。\n\n 然而，经验表明，周三许多菲律宾人仍会在任何地方点燃禁止的烟花。\n 尽管造成了伤害、火灾、空气污染、惊恐的宠物和满地的垃圾，吸引力依然强烈。\n“那是声音和危险，刺激，来得如此突然，” 69 岁的建筑与工程公司 First Balfour 的人力资源主管 Charley Salonga 说。\n 他比大多数人更了解这种吸引力背后的风险：一枚烟花在他 15 岁时彻底改变了他的生活。\n“那是 12 月 31 日。我正在为新年前夕制作烟花，” 他告诉《亚洲周刊》。\n 当他压缩装置时，它在他手中爆炸。\n“我一定是把它拧得太紧，产生了摩擦，” 他说。\n\nSalonga 失去了意识，被紧急送往医院，医生告诉他爆炸撕掉了他右手的所有手指，只有小指幸存。\n“我很震惊——就像我的整个未来突然被改变了，” 他说。\n 他原本计划学习医学并成为外科医生，但这次受伤使这一切变得不可能。\n“我很遗憾，因为我永远不知道我是否会成为一名好医生，” 他说。\nSalonga 表示，事故后父亲在医院里安慰他：“你还有大脑。”\n 他承认，即使在事故后，他仍然继续玩烟花 “有一段时间”，然后意识到，“这太愚蠢了”。\n 他现在的建议很直接。“这不值得。”\nSalonga 表示，他仍会观看 “安全的烟花爆炸”，但补充道：“现在我们不再这样做了。我的孙女害怕大声的噪音。”</p>

<p>随着新年的临近，菲律宾面临着烟花相关伤害和死亡人数激增的情况，尽管有相关法规和警告。卫生官员报告称至少有 57 人受伤，包括一些儿童失去手指。使用烟花的传统依然存在，人们相信这可以驱赶厄运，非法和危险的烟花仍然普遍存在。有关部门呼吁加强对非法烟花的监控和查 confiscation。最近的事件包括因流弹和非法烟花重新包装地点的爆炸而导致的死亡。尽管打击力度加大，烟花的需求仍然很高，商贩们仍在公开销售</p>

<p>As the Philippines counts down to the New Year, authorities are bracing themselves for another familiar increase in injuries and deaths linked to fireworks, despite decades of regulation, annual warnings and stepped-up police raids.\nHealth officials say dozens of people have already been hurt in the run-up to December 31, with more casualties expected as Filipinos usher in the New Year with explosive celebrations that light up streets, backyards and skylines across the country.\nThe Department of Health said as of Saturday, at least 57 people had been treated in government hospitals for firework-related injuries, including children who lost fingers when fireworks exploded in their hands. Police have also reported deaths linked to stray bullets fired into the air during Christmas celebrations.\nDespite these risks, fireworks remain deeply woven into the country’s New Year traditions, driven by a belief that loud noise scares away bad luck and evil spirits.\nEvery year from November onwards, health officials, firefighters and police issue warnings, raid illegal dealers and urge the public to avoid powerful pyrotechnics.\nAnd every December 31, millions of Filipinos pour into the streets or stay in their backyards and set off a vast assortment of fireworks – many of them illegal and most of them dangerous.\n\n“We urge the Philippine National Police and local government units to intensify on-site monitoring and confiscate illegal firecrackers as New Year’s Eve approaches,” Thony Dizon, advocacy and campaign officer of the environmental protection group BAN Toxics, said in a statement on Sunday.\nFilipinos are expected to light up New Year’s Eve with sparklers, miniature explosives, home-made cannons, flares, rockets, pinwheels, starbursts, whistle bombs and Roman candles, alongside costly and elaborate displays.\nA few will also fire guns into the air, a practice police warn carries a high risk of killing or injuring someone when spent bullets fall back to the ground.\nManila in particular is expected to be rocked by near-constant explosions, wreathed in smoke and flashes of light, with injuries mounting as the hours wear on.\nBy New Year’s Day, the city typically wakes to quieter streets shrouded in smog, smelling of gunpowder and littered with scraps of scorched paper.\nThe chaos persists despite a 33-year-old law regulating the manufacture, sale and use of firecrackers, which bans devices considered unsafe, oversized or fitted with dangerously short fuses.\nVendors continue to sell prohibited pyrotechnics that exceed allowed explosive limits or burn too fast to be safely handled, according to police and regulators.\nMany of these fireworks are made in clandestine factories in the central province of Bulacan, a long-established hub of the firecracker industry, before being shipped out and stored in residential neighbourhoods, authorities say.\n\nOn Christmas Day, a 21-year-old female student and a seven-year-old girl were killed in Dagupan City in northwest Luzon when a two-storey house they were walking past suddenly exploded.\nAccording to a Philippine Daily Inquirer report, the building was being used as a repacking site for illegal firecrackers.\nThe Philippine Star reported that one person in Manila was killed by a stray bullet early on December 25, while the health department said two children, aged eight and 16, lost fingers after fireworks exploded in their hands.\nThis year, the Philippine National Police said it had identified 31 specific firecrackers as prohibited and warned it would arrest, fine and jail anyone caught using them.\nThe names of some of the banned items hint at their power: King Kong, Dart Bomb, Super Lolo, Atomic Bomb, Bin Laden, GPH Nuclear and Goodbye Philippines.\nFar from being deterred by police raids, illegal manufacturers regularly introduce new explosives, often giving them names drawn from current events or public figures.\nThis year, authorities flagged powerful devices – some resembling sticks of dynamite – bearing names such as “Zaldy Co”, “Curlee and Sarah Discaya” and “Imee Marcos”, after personalities who have been in the news over alleged corruption scandals.\n\nPolice are also concerned about the spread of boga, modern versions of the traditional bamboo cannon.\nThese improvised devices use PVC or glass pipes and ignite mixtures of calcium carbide, alcohol or gas to produce thunderous explosions, often triggered by toy gun mechanisms.\nBoga are banned because of the high risk of blast and burn injuries, but remain popular in some communities.\nThe Inquirer reported on Saturday that police in the northern city of Tuguegarao seized at least 100 such cannons, while officials warn that online tutorials showing how to build them are easily accessible.\nIn the days leading up to New Year’s Eve, firecrackers are sold openly by street vendors, pop-up stalls and through online advertising, despite periodic crackdowns by police and local governments.\nPrice does little to dampen demand. Small firecrackers can cost under 100 pesos (US$1.70), while elaborate displays run into the hundreds of thousands, with one company offering what it calls a “symphony of lights package” for 208,000 pesos (US$3,540).\nAuthorities say they have tried to limit the damage by designating areas for selling fireworks and clearing common spaces where they can be used.\n\nYet experience suggests that on Wednesday, many Filipinos will set off prohibited firecrackers wherever they choose.\nDespite the toll – injuries, fires, air pollution, terrified pets and streets littered with debris – the attraction remains strong.\n“It’s the sound and the danger, the thrill, it’s so sudden,” said Charley Salonga, 69, human resources head of the construction and engineering firm First Balfour.\nHe understands better than most the risks behind that allure: a firecracker permanently altered his life when he was 15.\n“It was the day of December 31. I was making a firecracker for New Year’s Eve,” he told This Week in Asia.\nAs he compressed the device, it exploded in his hands.\n“I must have tightened it too much and created friction,” he said.\n\nSalonga lost consciousness and was rushed to hospital, where doctors told him the blast had torn off all the fingers of his right hand except his little finger.\n“I was shocked – it was as if my entire future was suddenly altered,” he said.\nHe had planned to study medicine and become a surgeon, but the injury made that impossible.\n“I regret it because I would never know if I would have been a good doctor,” he said.\nSalonga said his father helped him cope after the accident by telling him in hospital: “You still have your brain.”\nHe admitted that even after the incident he continued playing with firecrackers “for a while”, before realising, he said, “the foolishness in it”.\nHis advice now is blunt. “It’s not worth it.”\nSalonga said he would still watch “safe firecracker explosions”, but added: “Now we don’t do it any more. My granddaughter’s afraid of loud noises.”\n</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>随着菲律宾倒计时迎接新年，尽管经过数十年的监管、每年的警告和加强的警察突击，相关的伤亡人数仍在不断增加。\n 卫生官员表示，在 12 月 31 日到来之前，已经有数十人受伤，随着菲律宾人用烟花爆竹庆祝新年，预计会有更多伤亡，烟花照亮了全国的街道、后院和天际线。\n 卫生部表示，截至周六，至少有 57 人因烟花相关伤害在政府医院接受治疗，其中包括一些在烟花爆炸中失去手指的儿童。警方还报告了与圣诞庆祝活动中向空中开枪相关的死亡事件。\n 尽管存在这些风险，烟花仍然深深融入该国的新年传统中，人们相信巨大的噪音可以驱赶厄运和邪灵。\n 每年从 11 月开始，卫生官员、消防员和警察都会发出警告，突击检查非法销售者，并呼吁公众避免使用强力烟花。\n 每年 12 月 31 日，数百万菲律宾人涌上街头或待在后院，点燃各种各样的烟花——其中许多是非法的，大多数都是危险的。\n\n“我们呼吁菲律宾国家警察和地方政府单位在新年前夕加强现场监控，没收非法烟花爆竹，” 环境保护组织 BAN Toxics 的倡导与活动官员 Thony Dizon 在周日的声明中表示。\n 菲律宾人预计将在新年前夕点燃烟花、迷你爆炸物、自制火炮、信号弹、火箭、风车、星爆、口哨弹和罗马蜡烛，以及昂贵而复杂的烟花表演。\n 一些人还会向空中开枪，警方警告这种做法存在很高的风险，因为落下的子弹可能会杀死或伤害到人。\n 尤其是马尼拉，预计将被近乎持续的爆炸声震撼，烟雾和闪光交织，随着时间的推移，伤亡人数不断增加。\n 到新年那天，这座城市通常会在弥漫着烟雾、散发火药味和满地焦纸的安静街道中醒来。\n 尽管有一项已有 33 年历史的法律对烟花的制造、销售和使用进行监管，禁止被认为不安全、过大或配备危险短引线的装置，但混乱依然存在。\n 根据警方和监管机构的说法，商贩仍在销售超出允许爆炸极限或燃烧速度过快的非法烟花。\n 这些烟花中的许多是在中部省份布拉干的秘密工厂制造的，该地区长期以来是烟花行业的中心，然后被运出并存放在居民区，相关部门表示。\n\n 在圣诞节当天，一名 21 岁的女学生和一名七岁女孩在吕宋岛西北部的达古潘市被一栋两层楼的房屋突然爆炸而遇难。\n 根据《菲律宾每日问询者》的报道，该建筑被用作非法烟花的重新包装地点。\n《菲律宾明星》报道，12 月 25 日早上，马尼拉有一人被流弹击中身亡，而卫生部门表示，两名 8 岁和 16 岁的儿童在烟花爆炸中失去了手指。\n 今年，菲律宾国家警察表示已确定 31 种特定的烟花为禁止使用，并警告将逮捕、罚款和监禁任何被发现使用这些烟花的人。\n 一些被禁物品的名称暗示了它们的威力：金刚、飞镖炸弹、超级老头、原子弹、本·拉登、GPH 核弹和再见菲律宾。\n 非法制造商并未因警方的突击而退缩，定期推出新型爆炸物，通常以当前事件或公众人物的名字命名。\n 今年，相关部门标记了一些强力装置——有些类似于炸药棒——其名称如 “Zaldy Co”、“Curlee 和 Sarah Discaya” 以及 “Imee Marcos”，这些名字源于近期因腐败丑闻而受到关注的人物。\n\n 警方还对 boga 的传播表示担忧，这是一种现代版的传统竹炮。\n 这些即兴装置使用 PVC 或玻璃管，点燃混合的碳化钙、酒精或气体，产生震耳欲聋的爆炸声，通常由玩具枪机制触发。\n 由于爆炸和烧伤的高风险，boga 被禁止，但在一些社区仍然很受欢迎。《问询者》周六报道，北方城市图盖加劳的警方查获了至少 100 个此类火炮，而官员警告说，网上有关于如何制作它们的教程很容易获取。\n 在新年前夕的几天里，街头小贩、临时摊位和在线广告公开销售烟花，尽管警方和地方政府会定期进行打击。\n 价格对需求几乎没有影响。小型烟花的价格可以低于 100 比索（约合 1.70 美元），而复杂的烟花表演则高达数十万比索，其中一家公司提供的所谓 “灯光交响曲套餐” 售价为 208,000 比索（约合 3,540 美元）。\n 当局表示，他们试图通过指定烟花销售区域和清理可使用烟花的公共空间来限制损害。\n\n 然而，经验表明，周三许多菲律宾人仍会在任何地方点燃禁止的烟花。\n 尽管造成了伤害、火灾、空气污染、惊恐的宠物和满地的垃圾，吸引力依然强烈。\n“那是声音和危险，刺激，来得如此突然，” 69 岁的建筑与工程公司 First Balfour 的人力资源主管 Charley Salonga 说。\n 他比大多数人更了解这种吸引力背后的风险：一枚烟花在他 15 岁时彻底改变了他的生活。\n“那是 12 月 31 日。我正在为新年前夕制作烟花，” 他告诉《亚洲周刊》。\n 当他压缩装置时，它在他手中爆炸。\n“我一定是把它拧得太紧，产生了摩擦，” 他说。\n\nSalonga 失去了意识，被紧急送往医院，医生告诉他爆炸撕掉了他右手的所有手指，只有小指幸存。\n“我很震惊——就像我的整个未来突然被改变了，” 他说。\n 他原本计划学习医学并成为外科医生，但这次受伤使这一切变得不可能。\n“我很遗憾，因为我永远不知道我是否会成为一名好医生，” 他说。\nSalonga 表示，事故后父亲在医院里安慰他：“你还有大脑。”\n 他承认，即使在事故后，他仍然继续玩烟花 “有一段时间”，然后意识到，“这太愚蠢了”。\n 他现在的建议很直接。“这不值得。”\nSalonga 表示，他仍会观看 “安全的烟花爆炸”，但补充道：“现在我们不再这样做了。我的孙女害怕大声的噪音。”</p>
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为什么菲律宾人冒着受伤和死亡的风险，用危险的烟花庆祝新年