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Toyota team president John Howett believes that Japanese squad are back on the level of competitiveness they enjoyed in 2005 and are eyeing the 2009 season as a huge opportunity to make the big jump.
Toyota have consolidated as the fourth strongest team this year, thanks to two podiums finishes by Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock, the German achieving the team’s best result of the year with a second place in Hungary last Sunday. The Cologne-based outfit have scored 35 points so far, four more than fifth-placed Renault with seven races to go. If Toyota wind up in fourth place they would equal their best championship classification,
having also finished there in 2005. Howett reckons the team are performing as strongly as three years ago, and is aware that the regulations changes for 2009 could prove a big opportunity for Toyota to take a step forward. “Yes,” he said when asked if Toyota were back on the form they showed in the past. “We had a strong beginning to 2005 because we sacrificed 2004 with the regulation change, although towards the end we lifted.”
“Last year, we had actually had a better season than the results showed and maybe we were given credit for, but I think now we have got a good team of people working together and it is coming.” “Next year is a huge opportunity and a huge risk. If you get it right you will be a star and if you get it wrong you will be struggling all season. So, we are mindful of that.” He added: “Like everybody, we have been working a long time on the 2009 car. We are still forcing this car hard, but until we actually race in Australia next year I don’t think anyone will know how they have done.” Howett said the team are still not
focusing all their efforts on their 2009 car, but he feels Toyota are already in a strong position. “To be honest, I think it will be another couple of weeks before it is 100 percent on the 2009 car,” he said. “But, even now we have been putting quite a lot of effort onto the 2009 car.” “We have been working on it for I suppose nine months to one year, but everybody has. We think we are good, but someone else may be bet-
ter. We need to be paranoid.” Howett is also aware that the battle for fourth place this year will be very tight and he believes a lot will depend on which team manage to be more consistent. “We are trying to be strong everywhere. We are trying to put more on the car, but are mindful that we have a massive change in terms of the profile of the aerodynamics for next year.”
Dennis still committed to McLaren future PAGE 16
Dennis still committed to McLaren future
Ron Dennis remains totally committed to the long term success of McLaren, his team have said, as the outfit denied reports that he is considering walking away from the sport at the end of this season. The German publication Auto Motor Und Sport reported this week that Dennis may be looking to retire at the end of this year if his team succeed in their ambition to win the F1 world championship. The magazine also suggested that Dennis was so keen to achieve the title, which would allow him to leave, that he was focusing his team’s efforts on developing this year’s car at the expense of work on their 2009 challenger. But a McLaren spokesman has moved to dismiss the speculation about Dennis’s future, claiming that the team chief’s future plans have not changed and that there is
no suggestion of them putting all their resources into 2008. “Recent articles suggesting that Ron is considering stepping back, or that he will step back if the world championship is won by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes this year, have been based around a very old quote,” said a McLaren team spokesman. “Ron has made it clear on numerous occasions that he has made no decision as to if and when he may or may not step aside. Ron’s, and the team’s, focus remains on winning every grand prix we start - and that applies to this season, next season, the season after that, and so on.” “As a result, we are maintaining development of our 2009 car, at undiminished levels, while continually improving our 2008 car, race by race, test by test, in the normal way.”
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Torchbearers take part in the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay at the Badaling section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing August 7, 2008.
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BEIJING - China evacuated nearly 400,000 people and called thousands of vessels back to port as its southern coast braced Wednesday for an approaching tropical storm, state media and government agencies said. Severe Tropical Storm Kammuri was heading north across the South China Sea and was expected to make landfall in south China’s Guangdong province late Wednesday or early Thursday, the China Meteorological Administration said. It would then head west along the densely populated coast, according to the administration’s website. The storm lashed Hong Kong on Wednesday, packing winds of 110 kilometres (68 miles) per hour at its centre, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. The ferocity prompted Chinese officials to step up the emergency response level. Guangdong, along with neighbouring Hainan island and Guangxi’s Zhuang region, decided to evacuate 388,000 people from their homes, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. The three areas also ordered a total of 57,800 vessels back to port, according to Xinhua. “(We should) ensure all these people be evacuated to safe places in order to guarantee the people’s lives,” Chen Lei, the minister for water resources, said in a statement on the department’s website. Torrential rain has affected huge parts of southern and central China in recent months, taking a heavy toll in life and material damage.
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The Houston Rockets centre who was the flag bearer for China in Athens four years ago has been selected to do the honours again here and said he expected a raucous welcome at the
92,000-seater National Stadium. “It’s exciting to be the flag bearer again in the host land,” said Yao. “It will be totally different from
my experience in Athens. The atmosphere wil reach its hottest point — I’m afraid I’ll have to wear ear plugs.” China is fielding its biggest ever Olympic delegation that includes 639 athletes who will be competing in all 28 sports at the Olympics for the first time in a bid to top the medals table ahead of the United States. Continued on page 6
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General leading Mauritania’s coup was close ally of president Agence France-Presse
NOUAKCHOTT - General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who led the military coup overthrowing Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Wednesday, was once a close ally of the president.
Anwar Ibrahim KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s top opposition leader is charged with what he dismisses as a “treacherous” accusation of sodomy, but is allowed to remain free on bail to campaign for a byelection to Parliament.
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A discreet man known for being frank and determined, he backed Abdallahi during the presidential elections in March 2007. However, relations between the two men recently soured. Political observers here say Abdel Aziz was behind the political crisis which culminated in the walkout of 48 ruling party MPs on Monday, less than two weeks after a vote of no confidence in the government prompted a cabinet reshuffle. The renegade lawmakers criticised Abdallahi’s exercise of “personal power”, adding that he had “disappointed the hopes of Mauritanians”. In an apparent effort to curb Abdel Aziz’s political influence, President Abdallahi on Wednesday said he would replace him as the head of the presidential guard. Within hours of the announcement, however, Abdel Aziz mounted
JERUSALEM - Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran’s atomic program, even if it can’t destroy it. Source: ap
Morocco, joined the Mauritanian army in 1977 and helped set up the battalion of the presidential guard in the 1990s. He has been at the helm of this prestigious force since its creation and the presidential guard was instrumental in overthrowing president Maaouiya Ould Taya in a bloodless
coup in 2005. Abdel Aziz was part of the military regime that governed Mauritania between 2005 and 2007 when it handed over power to the civilian government following the country’s first democratic presidential elections, hailed by the international community as a model for African democracy.
Sarkozy awards China ‘gold medal’ for Olympic preparations Agence France-Presse
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This recent file photo shows Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (L) shaking hands with General Ould Abdel Aziz (R) in Nouakchott. Troops led by Abdel Aziz overthrew Mauritania’s President in a military coup on August 6, 3008 after he tried to sack senior army officers accused of being behind a political crisis destabilising the country. President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and his Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf were arrested as troops rolled through the capital Nouakchott and took over the presidential palace and the prime minister’s office. a military coup. The first thing the new military junta announced was the annulment of the changes in the army decreed by Abdallahi. Abdel Aziz was born in 1956 in Akjoujt to the north of the capital Nouakchott, into a tribe of marabouts (Islamic holy men). He attended the royal military academy in Meknes in
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute Wednesday to “historic, unfailing and immovable friendship” between Paris and Beijing and awarded China a “gold medal” for its Olympic preparations. “To this China which improves every day, I address a warm message of friendship; a historic, unfailing and immovable friendship, which links the French people to the Chinese people,” he told China’s Xinhua news agency. Sarkozy, along with other world leaders, has come under fire
from human rights activists for his expected attendance at Friday’s opening ceremony. Separately, Sarkozy’s office announced on Wednesday that he would not be meeting with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan spiritual leader visits France next week. The Elysee added that Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would take part in a ceremony chaired by the Tibetan leader in exile on August 22. Sarkozy threatened to stay away from Friday’s opening ceremony following a Chinese crackdown on unrest in Tibet in March, before announcing last month he would attend
because of progress in talks between China and the Dalai Lama. But tensions have continued to simmer over the possibility Sarkozy might meet the Dalai Lama during his French visit, which was scheduled before the incidents in Tibet. In his interview with Xinhua, Sarkozy alluded to recent tensions between China and France, highlighted by the Olympic flame’s eventful journey through the streets of Paris earlier this year. He explained that “some people in our two countries wondered recently about the reality and sense of this friendship,” according to a transcript of the interview released by the
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Elysee Palace in Paris “My presence in Beijing will confirm it once more: the friendship between France and China is a fundamental axis of France’s foreign policy,” the French leader said. “It answers the profound aspirations of our two peoples, it is indispensable to the construction of a fairer, more sure and more harmonious world order.” China was upset when the chaotic Olympic torch relay through Paris in April was disrupted by human rights protesters angry at Beijing’s crackdown in Tibet. The Paris demonstrations sparked anti-French protests in China.
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Real Madrid’s Robinho seeks transfer to Chelsea - press Agence France - Presse
MADRID - Real Madrid’s Brazilian striker Robinho has told the club he wants to join Chelsea, coached by his compatriot Luiz Felipe Scolari, a Spanish newspaper said Wednesday. Robinho told Real president Ramon Calderon that no club could retain a player if he wanted to leave, ABC reported, noting the player was using the same argument as the Spanish champions are themselves deploying to lure Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United. The Spanish press has often urged Real to sell Robinho, who joined the club in 2005, to help finance the possible purchase of Ronaldo. Real are reportedly ready to pay up to 85 million euros (132.5 million dollars) for the Portuguese striker, but Manchester United have repeatedly insisted he is not for sale. Robinho feels unwanted at Real, and was hurt by the club’s decision to prevent him joining the Brazil squad at the Olympics, ABC said. Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon said on July 21 he is hopeful of signing Robinho, and British media have reported the London club has offered 25 million pounds (32 million eu-
ros, 49 million dollars) for the 24-yearold. “It is well noted we have shown interest. We have had discussions with Madrid over it and they are ongoing. The window is still open and we are still talking to Madrid,” Kenyon said. In another statement, on August 1, Kenyon said that “one of the key issues over buying Robinho has always been that Real Madrid are looking for a replacement. “It is fair to say that is what has been holding up discussions between the two clubs.”
Real Madrid’s footballer Robinho on the bench against SV Hamburg during the Emirates Cup competition at the Emirates stadium in north London, on August 2, 2008.
Fergie Welcomes Ronaldo’s Commitment
LONDON - Sir Alex Ferguson is delighted Cristiano Ronaldo is staying with Manchester United. The Portugal winger has been linked with Real Madrid throughout the summer, with the Spanish club maintaining their interest even though United repeatedly stressed Ronaldo would not be sold. But the 23-year-old has now told Portuguese newspaper Publico that he will be staying at Old Trafford for at least the next 12 months. Key to that dramatic development was a meeting between the player and Ferguson in Portugal just after his country’s exit at Euro 2008. At the time it seemed certain Ronaldo would leave, but Ferguson managed to persuade the Madeira-born player he was better off where he was. “We cleared the air in Portugal, and the boy spoke to a few of the players as well,” said the Scot. The thing is, he knows he is happy here - and has always been happy here.” “The fans have to understand it has been a very difficult time for him. He has been offered all this money - when his dad has died a young man and he is looking after his mother, his sister and his brother. He has had a troubled time, and you can understand that.” “But once he knew my stance, he settled down - and as far as we are all concerned, the matter is finished. The boy is a United player - that is what is important.” Ferguson knows he will continue to be plagued by questions over Ronaldo and is equally aware the speculation will begin again next summer - given the player’s claim he still wants to play for Real one day.
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Manchester United’s manager Sir Alex Ferguson is seen after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s testimonial soccer match against Espanyol at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008.
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France’s Ribery voted German footballer of the year Agence France - Presse
BERLIN - Bayern Munich’s French midfielder Franck Ribery has been voted German footballer of the year, according to a poll to be published in sports magazine Kicker on Thursday. Ribery, who joined the German first division giants from Marseille last year, garnered 224 votes from Bundesliga players and managers, beating second-placed German international captain Michael Ballack by 109 votes. He becomes only the second foreign player to win the award since its inception in 1960, the Brazilian Ailton winning the title in 2004. “It’s good for a sportsman to be recognized for his performances. But I have to say that the titles won last year by the team are far more important,” said the Frenchman, currently recovering from an operation to his left ankle. Ribery, 25, was part of the French national squad that came runners-up in the 2006 World Cup finals, going on to win the French Player of the Year award 12 months later. Bayern won the league and cup double last season and are hoping to make a big impression in the Champions League - which they last won in 2001 - under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
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Olympics: I’m in the form of my life, insists Murray Agence France - Presse
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Chinese city pauses for policemen slain in attack Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - British tennis star Andy Murray cut a confident figure following his first pre-Olympic tournament training session here in Beijing on Thursday.
KASHGAR - The remote Chinese city of Kashgar came to a standstill on Thursday as a government-organised ceremony was held to remember 16 policemen killed in an alleged terrorist attack.
Just hours after touching down in China, Murray joined his brother Jamie - with whom he will play in the doubles - for a light knock. And less than a week from the biggest win of his life in Cincinnati, where he claimed his first Masters Series title with a 7-6, 76 victory over world number three Novak Djokovic, Murray was bristling with self-belief. “I feel confident. I’m playing the best tennis of my career but it’s tough here,” said the world number six. “Very hard conditions, very hard tournament and I’m playing singles and doubles. “It’s pretty physically tiring as well.You have to make sure you don’t spend too much energy off the court and try to save it all for the match.” Murray is at a career high ranking following his third title of the year, and was singled out by no less a light than Roger Federer, alongside Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, as one of the Swiss master’s main rivals here. But the Scot seems delighted just to be in China. “I’m really looking forward to it. Just being in the Village for the first time, it’s
About 2,000 people from the Uighur ethnic minority lined a bridge in the Central Asian border town, with several participants telling AFP they had been ordered to take part in the ceremony, which was tightly controlled by police. Authorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region blamed Islamic Uighur militants for Monday’s attack on the policemen, saying it was part of a plot to wreck the Beijing Olympics. “All of the people of Kashgar will remember you forever,” said a banner held by a line of soldiers on the bridge. The procession was held amid a security clampdown in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi and throughout the region to prevent any more trouble ahead of Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony, thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Beijing. “To ensure security during the ceremony, the Urumqi police will guard against and severely strike any destructive or illegal activities,” the government-run Xinjiang Daily News said. “All our strength will be channelled toward increasing the frequency and intensity of public security patrols.” Several major markets in the city
an amazing facility. “Being around some of the best athletes in the world, it’s an honour. To represent your country in a competition like this is huge.” As well as the singles, where Murray faces Taipei’s Lu Yen-Hsun in the first round before a potential quarter-final match-up with Nadal, he will join his brother in the doubles competition. They face a tough first round draw against Canadians Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer. Nestor is the top ranked doubles player in the world, although he usually plays with Serbian Nenad Zimonjic. For Jamie Murray, though, it is the conditions that are most concerning him. “We just arrived this morning at midnight and had a few hours rest. However, this humidity, I’m just sweating a lot. It’s tough for me to get used to this weather,” said the elder Murray brother, who last year won the Wimbledon mixed doubles titles with Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic. “I don’t know if we have advantages,” Jamie said of his partnership with Andy. “We have played a lot before but there are also many other players here who play together a lot and do very well.”
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Andy Murray, from Great Britain, hits a forehand against Novak Djokovic, from Serbia, in the championship match at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, in Mason, Ohio.
Calzaghe Ducking Me – Pavlik
Middleweight king Kelly Pavlik says Joe Calzaghe is avoiding a clash with him. ‘The Ghost’ has become one of the stars of the sport in the last 12 months since stopping Jermain Taylor to become the best there is at 160lbs. He’s since registered victories over Taylor in a rematch and overmatched Brit Gary Lockett, but it’s a showdown with fellow unbeaten ace Calzaghe that he really wants. Instead though the Welshman has decided to face Roy Jones Junior in what could potentially be his last fight at Madison Square Garden on November 8. And that leaves Pavlik to face Bernard Hopkins at catchweight of 170lbs in Atlantic City on October 18. He said: “Calzaghe... I don’t know what I’ve got to do, perhaps shoot him in the leg to stop him running.” Pavlik, though, is determined to make the most of his opportunity of potentially ending the career of another ring legend in the shape of Hopkins. “I’m looking forward to it,” said Pavlik. “It is going to be a blue collar fight. I don’t ever change my style. I come forward, I fight and I get in the best shape I can possible get into. That is what I will do on October 18. It is a pleasure to be in the ring with Hopkins. Never in my life did I think I’d be fighting Hopkins.” Despite his defeat by Calzaghe last time out, Hopkins has little doubt that he can get back to winning ways against Pavlik. ‘The Executioner’ said: “I’m just thrilled to do what I do. “What I do is I take people’s best weapons and reduce them down to nothing. I am a master of that and there won’t be anything different.”
Koreans fail to agree on joint march for Olympic opening ceremony Agence France - Presse
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BEIJING - North and South Korea have failed to reach an agreement to allow their athletes to march as one unified team at the Olympic opening ceremony, IOC President Jacques Rogge said Thursday. Rogge said the International Olympic Committee had been hoping the two Koreas would march together in a joint team for Friday’s procession as they had done in Sydney in 2000 and four years later in Athens. “We have tried to have this in Beijing but unfortunately this was not possible,” Rogge told reporters. “Unfortunately the political leaders in the North and the South did not agree.” Rogge said the two teams would walk one behind the other as the marching order was drawn up alphabetically. The two countries, who are still technically at war from their 195053 conflict, held last-gasp talks in Beijing in an attempt to agree a joint march, an idea originally suggested by Rogge. They had agreed in principle during their second-ever summit last year to field joint athletic and supporter squads
for the Beijing Games. But ties plummeted after South Korea’s conservative President Lee Myung-Bak took office in February and promised a tougher line towards Pyongyang. The fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist in the North last month has further soured relations. The tense relations also forced Olympic host China to drop plans to bring North and South Korean leaders together for an informal meeting at the Games. China had arranged for South Korea’s Lee and North Korea’s number two leader Kim Yong-Nam to sit at the same table during a welcoming lunch on Friday. But it changed the plan and moved Lee and Kim further apart, the presidential office in Seoul revealed earlier in the week. North Korea has sent 60 athletes to China, its closest political ally. They will compete in women’s football, judo, weightlifting, wrestling, archery, shooting, boxing, table tennis, the marathon, gymnastics, diving and synchronised swimming. South Korea has about 260 athletes in the Chinese capital.
had already shut down until Sunday to “welcome the Beijing Olympics,” said the state-controlled Xinjiang news website Tianshan.net. The crowds at the procession in Kashgar were mainly elderly Uighur men in traditional four-pointed skullcaps and women in colourful headscarves, although there were also dozens of white-shirted government employees. “We were ordered to come here by the authorities,” said one 18-year-old Uighur man, asking to remain anonymous. Asked if he wanted to be there, he said: “I guess it is okay, but I could not really say no.” Police stopped several people from talking to an AFP reporter, while those who did speak expressed similar sentiments to the reluctant teenager. The bridge where the Uighurs were arranged was near the local headquarters of China’s ruling Communist Party. Uighurs in other parts of the city told of similar gatherings as the ceremony ground the city to a halt. Police sealed off the town’s main road as more than a dozen military and police vehicles drove past, escorting four buses full of weeping civilians who appeared to be relatives of
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Ethnic Uighur women gather before an official ceremony on August 7, 2008 to remember the 16 Chinese police officers killed in an alleged terrorist attack in Xinjiang’s famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China’s far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. China’s heavily Muslim west was tense on August 7 ahead of the Beijing Olympics Games opening ceremony as the authorities vowed to crush any attempt to cause disruption. the dead police officers. According to the official explanation, two Uighur separatists attacked a group of around 70 policemen with explosives and machetes, killing 16 officers and wounding another 16. The government said the explosives used in the attack were similar
to those found in a raid on the separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a UN-listed terrorist group, during a raid on the group in Xinjiang last year. Two short-lived East Turkestan republics emerged in Xinjiang in the 1930s and 1940s, when Chinese cen-
tral government control was weakened by civil war and Japanese invasion. Xinjiang now has about 8.3 million ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people, many of whom express anger at what they say has been decades of repressive Chinese rule.
Strike, protests hits Kashmir as Indian PM bids to defuse tensions Agence France-Presse
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United Progressive Alliance Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, left, is seen with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during an all party meeting to discuss and resolve the ongoing protest over a state government decision relating to the land and a Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
SRINAGAR - A Hindu protester was shot dead in an army firing in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday as Premier Manmohan Singh held talks with the nation’s political parties in a bid to defuse tensions in the region. The protester died in a mostly Hindu area when the army opened fire to quell violent demonstrators who defied a curfew and blocked a highway in a bid to impose an economic blockade on the mainly Muslim Kashmir valley, police said. “The army had to open fire after police failed to control the unruly mob,” a police officer said, asking not to be identified. The latest turmoil in Kashmir erupted in June, when the state government reneged on a plan to transfer land to a Hindu shrine following violent protests in the Muslimdominated Kashmir valley that left six dead and hundreds injured. The government’s about-face ignited protests in the mainly Hindu region of Jammu, where three protesters have died since last week. A strike called by hardliners opposed to the Hindu land deal paralysed northern Muslim areas of the region on Wednesday. Shops and post offices were shuttered in the summer capital Srinagar, urban hub of an Islamic separatist revolt that has raged since 1989 and left at least 43,000 dead. There were simi-
lar shutdowns in other mostly Muslim areas of the state. Hardline separatist Syed Ali Geelani, who called the strike, warned authorities not to “please (Hindu) fanatics” by transferring land to the Hindu shrine. In Srinagar, protesters fought running battles with police near the main mosque and several other places. Separatist Geelani warned that Muslims would launch “a massive agitation” if the shrine received the land, which it wants to create facilities for tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting a mountain grotto. Government officials said the country’s major political parties had decided at talks in New Delhi on Wednesday to send representatives to the troubled region to assess the situation. “A dialogue process will start with all parties concerned, including the various parties who are participating in the agitation,” Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters. But in Jammu, a Hindu alliance spearheading the protests declared the “outcome of the meeting will not be binding on us.” “We will keep up our protests until we get the land for the shrine,” said Leela Karan Sharma. Before the row erupted, Kashmir had been enjoying a lull in violence while India and Pakistan worked on an ongoing peace process.
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last Wednesday. “So that we may ascertain THE HAGUE - Radovan whether this case is legally tenKaradzic challenged the legality of able, I propose that you ... order that Richard his pending Holbrooke apgenocide trial pear before We d n e s d a y, you and deurging a UN clare under war crimes oath whether court to order or not there evidence from was such an former US dipagreement and lomat Richard whether the Holbrooke USA comabout a deal he plied with its claims would obligations have shielded from that him from trial. agreement.” In an upKaradzic dated submisrepeated his sion to the Inallegation that ternational the United Criminal TriAFP PHOTO States wanted bunal for the Radovan Karadzic him dead after former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Bosnian Serb reneging on a deal to shield him wartime leader claims the very from trial by the ICTY. He said Holbrooke, the US existence of such an agreement peace negotiator in Bosnia, had invalidated his prosecution. “I wish to challenge the legal- promised he would shield ity of the proceedings in their en- Karadzic from the tribunal in retirety ...,” reads the document pro- turn from disappearing from the vided by the tribunal, into whose public eye. Holbrooke has insisted custody Karadzic was transferred that no such deal existed. Agence France-Presse
Cambodian genocide court faces new corruption allegations Agence France-Presse
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal is facing new kickback allegations, prompting international donors to withhold at least 300,000 dollars from the cash-strapped court as it reviews the situation. The UN Development Programme (UNDP), which oversees the finances of the Cambodian side of the court, said in an email to AFP that the new allegations arose in late June. “UNDP is aware of new allegations of kickbacks on the Cambodian side of the court,” the email said. The agency said it was withholding funding for July, which includes operating expenses and salaries for Cambodian staff members, but it did not reveal the amount. “UNDP is reviewing the implications with its donors so we can collectively agree how to move forward following the allegations,” it added. Helen Jarvis, spokeswoman for the tribunal, declined to comment on the allegations but confirmed that 300,000 dollars in July salary for Cambodian staff had not been paid yet. “We are hoping and expecting that the situation will soon be resolved. Of course both national and international staff deserve to
be paid for their work,” Jarvis said. The new corruption allegations emerge as the court is preparing for its first trial, set to begin in September with proceedings against Kaing Guek Eav, also know as “Duch”, who ran a notorious torture centre in Phnom Penh. International backers have appeared hesitant to pledge more money to the court after allegations of political interference and mismanagement, including claims that Cambodian staff paid kickbacks in exchange for their jobs. But court officials have said last year’s allegations were “unspecific, unsourced and unsubstantiated.” The tribunal, which opened in 2006 after nearly a decade of wrangling between the United Nations and Cambodia, was originally budgeted at 56.3 million dollars over three years. If trials of the five Khmer Rouge officials currently detained go on longer than expected or if more people are prosecuted, court officials said the budget could swell to 105 million dollars, with cases running to December 2010. Up to two million people died of starvation, overwork and execution as the communist Khmer Rouge dismantled modern Cambodian society in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia during its 19751979 rule.
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US First Lady visits Myanmar refugees Agence France-Presse
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP US First Lady Laura Bush, a vocal critic of Myanmar’s junta, toured a refugee camp on Thursday and called on the military regime to open dialogue with the pro-democracy opposition. Highlighting abuses in military-run Myanmar has been the chief cause of the first lady, and with her daughter Barbara she made her way through a muddy settlement which is home to tens of thousands who fled the junta’s repression. She thanked the Thai government for allowing the nine camps housing more than 120,000 refugees that string the border with Myanmar. “If we could see a change in the Burmese government... people could move home in safety, that would be the best result,” the first lady told camp leaders, referring to Myanmar by its previous name. “The best solution would be if General Than Shwe’s regime would start real dialogue,” she said after being greeted by refugees performing song and dance in traditional dress. About 35,000 refugees huddle in Mae La camp at the foot of forested mountains, which many risked their lives to cross in their desperation to flee military crackdowns on ethnic rebel armies in their homeland. Mae La is on the site of the first refugee camp, which was set up in 1984 as Myanmar’s army advanced into Karen state and forced thousands over the border. Most refugees are from Myanmar’s ethnic groups, including many Christians from the Karen minority, and the United States has pledged to resettle 26,811 of the refugees. But Laura Bush said: “Most people do not want to have to move to third countries. They would rather move to their home villages in safety and security.” The first lady also visited Mae Tao Clinic, one of the few medical centres in Thailand where migrant workers from Myanmar can get free health care. President George W. Bush, who arrived in Thailand on Wednesday, hailed his wife’s efforts to highlight abuses in Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962 and keeps democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi locked up. “We seek an end to tyranny in
RAMALLAH - Israel will release more than 150 Palestinian prisoners before the end of August to bolster US-backed peace talks, senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP on Wednesday.
Cheers! Drinkers’ delight at Great British Beer Festival Agence France - Presse
LONDON - Thirsty ale drinkers are trying out more than 750 different weird and wonderful brews from across the globe at the Great British Beer Festival. Some 250,000 pints of beer, from as far afield as Japan, South Africa and Australia, were being served to curious drinkers at west London’s Earls Court exhibition centre, temporarily the biggest pub in the world. In terms of the range of drinks sold, no beer festival in the world comes close to the the annual fiveday knees-up, which calls time on Saturday. More than 750 different brews, including more than 450 British real ales, were on offer at the bash that raises a glass to finely-crafted, fresh beer and rejects what purists say is gassed-up, bland, factory-produced lager. Among the exotically-named
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US First Lady Laura Bush looks at child health care during a visit to The Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot on August 7, 2008. Laura visits a clinic and Myanmar refugees on the border, where more than 120,000 civilians who have fled brutal junta crackdowns on ethnic rebel armies live in cramped camps.
Burma,” he said in a speech in Bangkok. “This noble cause has many devoted champions, and I happen to be married to one of them... America reiterates our call on Burma’s military junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.” The president also met with exiled Myanmar dissidents and politicians, a day before the 20-year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising there which was crushed by the army, leaving 3,000 dead. He told the exiles that American people “pray for the day in which the people (of Myanmar) will be free.” Aung San Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to election victory in 1990, but instead of recognising the result the junta kept
her under house arrest, where she has now spent most of the last 19 years. On Friday, activists in Myanmar will silently mark two decades since the August 8, 1988 uprising, when students led activists, Buddhist monks and even young military cadets onto the streets, only to face a massacre by the army. Last year, protesters again poured onto the streets to rally against economic hardship and junta rule. This time, 31 people were killed in the resulting crackdown, the United Nations has said. The United States has been the most vocal critic of the junta, and has a patchwork of economic sanctions against the regime. These sanctions were strengthened after the crackdown last September.
Israel to release more than 150 prisoners Agence France-Presse
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The announcement was made following a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Jerusalem, their first since Olmert announced he would resign later this year. “It was a successful meeting. We
have an agreement to release more than 150 prisoners in Israeli jails before the end of this month,” Erakat told AFP. Israeli officials confirmed they would be releasing prisoners before the end of August but declined to provide numbers.
British beers being served were Alligator Ale, Gorge Best, A Fist Full of Hops, Beserker Export, Oscar Wilde Mild, Inferno, Land of Hop and Glory, Bravo Zulu, Side Pocket for a Toad and Mother in Law. Foreign beers that made the grade were also available, including offerings from the booming US cask ale scene, Nigeria, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Belgium and Italy. Some 65,000 punters are expected at the event organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale — fresh beer brewed using traditional ingredients and left to mature in the cask from which it is served, rather than pasteurised lager fizzed up with a blast
of carbon dioxide gas. “Real ale is a natural, living product, so there is a much greater intensity of flavours,” CAMRA chief executive Mike Benner told AFP. “One of our objectives is to get people to try it. There are fruit beers, wheat beers, porters, stouts, milds and golden ales. It’s incredibly diverse, so there’s something to meet everyone’s tastes.” The very mention of factory lager brings a grimace to Benner’s face. “A processed, keg beer is completely inert, a dead, flat liquid, drawn up to bar with carbon dioxide to put some life in it.” Besides cruising the bars, bearded beer-fest veterans in faded tee-shirts and spiky-haired 20-somethings alike tried their hands at traditional pub games like skittles and snapped up pub souvenirs like ashtrays and glasses. The traditional pub snacks like pork scratchings were piled high, while food stalls served up sausages and mashed potatoes, burgers and Indian cuisine.
Nintendo DS to become personal beauty consultant Agence France - Presse
TOKYO (AFP) - Women in Japan will soon be able to have their own hand-held beauty consultant after games company Sega teamed up with cosmetics giant Shiseido to offer make-up tips on the Nintendo DS. “Project Beauty”, which will go on sale from November 27 in Japan, is used with a scanning device that feeds digital images of the user’s face into the DS, which analyses the shape and position of the eyes, lips and other parts. The software, priced at 6,090 yen (55 dollars) including the scanning device, matches faces with one of four groups — cool, active, cute or feminine. It would then show a user’s face with no make-up on one screen and a proposed make-over on the other. “The same user can have a variety of make-up tips for different occasions such as business, dating or formal gatherings. You would find colours that are good on you but you never realised before,” Sega spokeswoman Rei Sugiyama said. “The new software targets women in their 20s and 30s,” she said, noting that the Nintendo DS has attracted many users, “including children, elderly people and women who were not considered core game players.” For users who want to choose their own make-up, they can simu-
late a full make-over by selecting different shades of colours and other details of the foundation, blusher, mas-
cara, lipstick and other make-up. They can also learn how to apply foundation along with other basic skills.
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Cursing Cruise to Shock with Bad Language Tom Cruise is set gal battle with exto shock fans in new Scientologist Peter movie Tropic ThunLetterese, who filed der— with his foulpapers in Florida’s mouth. The usually Southern District clean-cut star will use Court on July 15th. “colorful language” Letterese, who also in his role as a studio names Miscavage and boss in the comedy, others in the lawsuit, which stars Ben wants the religious orStiller and Robert ganization to be invesDowney Jr. tigated under the Stiller reveals, Racketeer Influenced Tom Cruise “We knew we were and Corrupt Organizalocked into a R-rating tion law, which is used from the language in to break up Mafia the beginning of the movie anyway, families and drug rings. He claims he from all the war movie dialog. You just was constantly harassed by members have to do that if you’re doing a war of the Church after he denounced the movie. I think a lot of these studio guys faith - with one Scientologist even talk like that. I know from personal phoning the home of Letterese’s lawexperience. I have heard people in yer. When the attorney’s wife anmovie studios curse.” Cruise will be swered, the unnamed member claimed almost unrecognizable as the over- he was her husband’s gay lover, acweight, balding executive in the film. cording to the court papers. Previously Cruise has been named Branding the Church of Scientology in a $250 million lawsuit filed against a “crime syndicate”, Letterese goes on the Church of Scientology by a former to allege that Miscavage is “aided and member. The action accuses the con- abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, troversial faith’s leaders of harassment. his right-hand man for foreign and doThe Hollywood star is an outspo- mestic promotion, as well as for forken member of the Church, and is al- eign and domestic lobbying. He has asleged to be second in line to sisted the syndicate in acquiring funds Scientology head David Miscavage. and (made) his own donations of money However his close connections have believed to be in the multiple tens of landed him in the middle of a new le- millions of dollars”.
Nicole Kidman to paparazzi: Leave baby Sunday alone
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer husband Keith Urban asked the paparazzi on Thursday to leave them and baby daughter Sunday Rose alone, saying she was a “tiny doll” who would be scared by the attention. “Keith and I are both appealing to the press and stuff just to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and show the baby our town,” Kidman told Sydney radio station 2Day FM. “She’s tiny. She’s like a doll, she’s like a little, little thing. Just (don’t photograph) right in her face or in our faces because it’s scary for her,” said Kidman. Kidman, country music star Urban and baby Sunday arrived in Sydney on Wednesday, after the Oscar-winning actress gave birth in Los Angeles in July. Unlike other celebrities, no photographs of Sunday have been released and Urban said they had no intention of selling any. “I get the interest there is. But at the same time it’s our little girl,” N i c o l e Kidman he told
the breakfast radio show. “Sometimes when people come right up in your face and you think: ‘Good God, would you do that to anybody else’s child?’ That’s all,” he said. Local media said paparazzi followed Kidman, Urban and Sunday to their home on Sydney Harbour, with the couple using several decoy cars to try to avoid photographers. A newspaper published grainy photos of the couple arriving on a private jet, with Sunday bundled up in a blanket. As they pleaded for privacy, Kidman and Urban, like all parents, were happy to talk about their baby. “She looks like Keith. I think she does. She’s got a little bit of hair, it’s a bit of a reddish tint,” said Kidman, a redhead with freckles as a young girl. Urban, who said he was speaking from the kitchen with Kidman and Sunday nearby, said being a new dad was an “awesome” feeling that only other fathers could understand.
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Jackie Chan to star in Hollywood spy comedy Jackie Chan’s next Hollywood project is an action comedy about a Chinese spy working undercover in the U.S. whose cover is blown, the movie’s producer said Thursday. “The Spy Next Door” will start shooting in mid-October, producer Robert Simonds told The Associated Press. Simonds said no one else had been cast. In an e-mail message, he described the film as a cross between “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “Big Daddy.” Chan plays a Chinese agent working undercover while on loan to the U.S. government. His cover is blown when he looks after the children of his neighbor, a beautiful single mother, and one of them accidentally downloads secret codes off his computer. Solon So, the chief executive of Chan’s company JC Group, confirmed the project on Tuesday but
declined to give details. He said the movie may be delayed if the Screen Actors Guild fails to reach a new contract with Hollywood studios and goes on strike. Chan is a SAG member. Chan usually juggles Hollywood and Chinese-language projects. His last film was the American kung fu movie “The Forbidden Kingdom,” which marked his first on-screen collaboration with action star Jet Li. He will next be seen in the Chinese-language “Shinjuku Incident,” reportedly about Chinese immigrants living in Tokyo’s Shinjuku shopping and entertainment district. Simonds’ producer credits include “The Pink Panther,” “Big Daddy,” “The Wedding Singer” and “The Waterboy.”
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Egypt to DNA test boy king’s ‘children’ Agence France-Presse
CAIRO - Egypt is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king, antiquities authorities said on Thursday.
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Federal investigators drop Ledger drug inquiry Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death this year, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan had been overseeing a Drug Enforcement Administration probe into whether the painkillers found in Ledger’s system were obtained illegally. But the prosecutors have bowed out “because they don’t believe there’s a viable target,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because no charges have been filed. The decision comes after recent reports that actress Mary-Kate
Olsen was demanding immunity before answering questions about the startling death of her close friend and his drug use. Authorities say she was the first person called by a masseuse who found the 28-year-old “Dark Knight” actor’s lifeless body in his Manhattan apartment. The DEA had obtained a subpoena that could have forced Olsen if she continued to hold out. But the subpoena, issued in April, is no longer valid because it was contingent upon prosecutors pursuing the case, the official said Wednesday. The official added that the case could still be revived if evidence of a crime emerges. Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said it’s the office’s policy to
“neither confirm nor deny the existance of an investigation.” There was no immediate response to a message left for Olsen’s attorney, Michael C. Miller. DEA investigators suspect the painkillers found in Ledger’s system, oxycodone and hydrocodone, were obtained with phony prescriptions or other illegal means. Oxycodone is sold as OxyContin and hydrocodone as Vicodin. The medical examiner’s office wouldn’t say what concentrations of each drug were found but made clear he was killed by the combination — not an excess of any one drug in particular. It’s common for the DEA to investigate an overdose death with so many different drugs involved, a DEA spokesman said last month.
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In a handout picture released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on August 6, 2008, archaeologists peel pack the protective wrapping on a mummified fetus recovered in 1922 from the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun at the University of Cairo. Egypt is to run DNA tests on two foetuses that have been stored at the University of Cairo since their discovery in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they are the children of ancient Egypt’s boy king.
KATHMANDU - A contest to choose the next “Miss Nepal” slated for Thursday was cancelled after Maoist female lawmakers denounced the beauty pageant. The former rebels emerged as the single largest party in the country’s newly elected assembly and are poised to form the next government. “We won’t let the event take G.501-ibp
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Skeleton of Canaanite soldier found in south Lebanon Agence France-Presse
SIDON - A British Museum team has found the skeleton of a Canaanite soldier that dates back to 1800 BC in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, the mission’s supervisor said on Wednesday. Claude Serhal, whose team has worked in Sidon for the past decade, told AFP the whole skeleton was found, carrying a spear in one hand. Small items of pottery, the oldest of their kind found in Lebanon, were also unearthed. The pottery have been linked to items found on the Greek island of Crete, she said. The Sidon excavations, going down several layers, show the different civilisations which have passed through Lebanon, making it one of the most important archaeological sites in the Middle East, said Serhal.
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A British archeologist digs up a skeleton dating back to Canaanite era, eighth millennium BC, at an excavation site in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
Dutch town tests ‘air-purifying’ concrete Agence France-Presse
THE HAGUE - A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Experts from the University of Twente developed and tested the concrete paving stones which contain a titanium dioxide-based additive. In laboratory conditions, the additive — under the influence of sunlight — binds the nitrogen oxide particles emitted by car exhausts and turns them into harmless nitrates. “With one rain shower everything is washed clean,” the institution said in a statement. Nitrogen oxides, produced by industry and motor vehicles, are
among the main air pollutants that lead to acid rain and smog. Developed from a Japanese invention, the bricks are now being put to the test in Hengelo in the eastern Dutch province of Overijssel. One half of a road under reconstruction is being paved with the new, green bricks, and the other half with the ordinary variety. “By measuring the air quality in both areas, we will be able to show the efficacy of the bricks,” said the statement. Apart for their ability to clean the air and repel dirt from the road surface, there was no other difference between these new bricks and the old ones, the university said. “The province of Overijssel sees an opportunity in these bricks to improve air quality,” it added. “This trial project is of great significance for the entire country.”
‘Miss Nepal’ pageant scrapped after Maoists object Agence France-Presse
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The bodies of the two still-born children were found in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun in the ancient Nile city of Luxor by British explorer Howard Carter and have since been stored at the University of Cairo. The DNA tests will determine whether the foetuses were the offspring of Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenpamon, daughter of Nefertiti, who was renowned as one of history’s great beauties, Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said. “It is thought that the tiny bodies may be those of the young king’s stillborn children,” said a statement from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. “The study aims at identifying the lineage and the family of king Tutankhamun, particularly his parents. The DNA test and the CT scan may also help to identify the foetuses’ mother,” Hawass said. “The results of these studies will also help in identifying the mummy of queen Nefertiti.” All royal mummies will be CT scanned for identification, the statement said, adding that samples from several unknown female mummies found at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have been taken for DNA testing. “All of the results will be compared with each other, along with those of the mummy of the boy king Tutankhamun, which was CT scanned in 2005,” it said. Last year, the true face of ancient Egypt’s boy king, who was proclaimed pharaoh at the age of just nine, was revealed to the public for the first time since he died more than 3,000 years ago. The pharaoh’s mummy was moved in November from its ornate sarcophagus in the tomb, where its 1922 discovery in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings caused an international sensation, to a climate-controlled case where experts say it will be better preserved. Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, remembered for having converted his kingdom to monotheism with the worship of one sun god, Aton. Her mummy has never been identified.
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place. We don’t need such a thing in the new federal democratic republic of Nepal where women are treated as objects of entertainment,” Maoist lawmaker Amrita Thapa told AFP Wednesday. She said the Maoists would not allow an “anti-women” event inspired by “capitalist” elements. “Such contests send the wrong message to society as they emphasise physical beauty rather
than intellectual ability,” said another female Maoist leader. Girendra Man Rajbanshi, the contest organiser, said: “We had to cancel our programme at the last minute.” He said they would try to change the activists’ minds and stage the contest later. The winner of the pageant gets the chance to represent Nepal at the annual Miss World contest, the organiser said.
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A recent picture shows the special paving stone in a lab of the Twente University. A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said on August 7, 2008.
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Experts find theatre where Shakespeare plays were first staged Agence France-Presse
LONDON - The remains of a London theatre where William Shakespeare’s early plays including “Romeo And Juliet” were first performed have been discovered by archaeologists, a museum said Wednesday. Shakespeare appeared at The Theatre in Shoreditch, east London, as an actor with a troupe called The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which also performed his efforts as a playwright there. “Richard III”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Merchant Of Venice” are among the other plays which are likely to have premiered at the theatre, according to the Museum of London, whose team made the discovery. After a tenancy dispute in 1599, the owners of The Theatre dismantled it during the night and its timbers were used to construct the Globe Theatre, by the River Thames, which beAFP PHOTO/STR
An Indian nurse attends to Japanese baby Manji Yamada as she lies in a ward of The Arya Hospital in Jaipur on August 6, 2008.
Baby born to surrogate Indian mother in legal limbo Agence France-Presse
JODHPUR - The future of a 12-day-old baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother hung in legal limbo Wednesday after the Japanese couple who planned to take her home divorced. Manji Yamada was born last month after eggs from an Indian donor were fertilised using the Japanese man’s sperm and implanted in the womb of the surrogate Indian mother. Her biological father split from his wife after the fertilisation process, and his former spouse no longer wants the baby. In the absence of a surrogacy law in India, the child — who is an Indian citizen — will have to be adopted by her Japanese father Ikufumi Yamada, 45. But Indian law does not allow the adoption of a girl by a single father, lawyers and doctors said. “There is a legal complication as the father is alone and Indian adoption law says a single male can’t adopt a girl,” Sanjay Arya, the doctor who is looking after the baby, told AFP by phone from western Jaipur city. Manji cannot leave the country without a passport and is being looked after in Jaipur by her paternal grandmother and an Indian friend of the father. “Yamada went to the local passport office. He was told to go to the Japanese Embassy, which asked him to get a document from an Indian court to get custody of the
child,” Arya said. “He felt like a football.” The baby’s father and grandmother were present at the hospital for her birth. Yamada has since returned to work in Japan, and is expected to come back to India after some headway has been made. “I spoke to him today. He can’t plan anything till the baby’s passport is made,” said Ikufumi’s friend, Kamal Vijayvargiya, who consulted legal experts. Arya, the doctor, said lawyers would file a court petition on Thursday seeking adoption by the father and temporary custody of the child by the grandmother till then. “The surrogacy doesn’t matter. He is, after all, the biological father,” the doctor said. Manji was born on July 25 in western Gujarat state. The child’s father, identified by the Indian media as a Tokyo surgeon, moved her to Jaipur city in Rajasthan state after serial bomb attacks in Gujarat in which some 50 people died. “The baby is alright, but the grandmother is very tense,” and wants to take the infant back to Japan as soon as possible, Arya said. The baby’s fate made front-page news in Indian dailies. “Conceived in Japan, stuck in
Jaipur” read the headline of the largest-selling English daily, The Times of India, saying the baby could become the country’s “first surrogate orphan” if the problems were not resolved. “With India emerging as a destination for surrogate pregnancies, a law (to regulate surrogacy) will have to be brought into effect,” leading lawyer Indira Jaising told the Indian Express newspaper. Critics call the practice “wombs for rent,” but surrogacy has emerged as a booming business in India. Gujarat’s Anand town — where the baby was born — has emerged as India’s surrogacy centre after the high-profile case of a woman who gave birth to her own grandchildren on behalf of her British-based daughter in 2004. Surrogate mothers in Anand charge about 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars) for a pregnancy and have been approached by a number of overseas Indian and foreign couples who can have a surrogate baby at a fraction of the cost in Western countries. Surrogate mothers are often poor women who opt to carry a stranger’s baby to help pay education and housing costs for their own families.
came the home of Shakespeare’s plays. But now Museum of London archaeologists have rediscovered the original footings or groundwork of the octagonal Shoreditch venue — ironically on a site being prepared for the construction of a new theatre. “It’s a theatre that’s been known about for a long time but no remains have ever been found,” museum spokesman Tim Morley told AFP. “This is the theatre that the company of players that Shakespeare was part of first performed in and when he started writing, the company would have performed his plays.” It is planned that the remains will be preserved on the site. Jeff Kelly, chairman of the Tower Theatre Company, which is building the new theatre on the site, added: “The discovery that we shall be building a 21st century playhouse where Shakespeare played and where some of Shakespeare’s plays must first have been performed is a huge inspiration.”
Vietnam allows some sex-change surgeries Agence France-Presse
HANOI - Vietnam has legalised some types of sex change surgery but will let government physicians have the final say on what gender a patient is, a health official in the communist country said Thursday. The decree published this week allows corrective surgery for hermaphrodites and people born with certain genital deformities, but not for people who are physically of one sex and request gender reassignment surgery. “The reassignment of gender for those who are complete in terms of gender” is forbidden, says the text of the decree, which adds that the new measure aims to “ensure that everyone can live in his/her correct
gender.” Nguyen Huy Quang, deputy head of the health ministry’s legal department, said the decree “still prohibits sex change for those who are already in their original gender,” as determined by medical and genetic testing. The decree would ensure the privacy of, and prohibit discrimination against, people who have undergone gender reassignment surgery, and also require medical proof when they register with authorities under their new gender. Statistics on people seeking gender reassignment surgery are not available in Vietnam, but several transsexuals are known to have travelled to Thailand to undergo sexchange surgery.
Olympics... From page 1 China finished second in Athens in the gold medal standings, just three adrift of the United States. Publicly, China’s leadership have played down the country’s sporting ambitions and Cui Dalin, deputy chief of China’s Olympic team, said the team had no official medal target. But he said he hoped all athletes would perform to their highest level. “We have never set a medal target. But we have made very serious preparations and all athletes have undergone very hard training,” he said. “It is safe to say that we have made progress with regard to previous performances.” China’s athletes are under extreme pressure to perform well including Yao, the 2.26-metre (7-foot 6-inch) NBA star who is also carrying the
nation’s hopes for a first-ever Olympic basketball medal. The team play the United States in their opening game on Sunday and Yao said he was looking forward to the clash. “There won’t be many opportunities like this to play against an allstar team. I have been waiting for this moment for such a long time,” he said. The choice of Yao as flag bearer effectively rules him out as the choice to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. The identity of the individual is a closely guarded secret, but Yao’s name was often cited as a candidate in the Chinese press along with other big names such as track star Liu Xiang, the Olympic 110m hurdles champion, and shooter Xu Haifeng, who won China’s first ever Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984.
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BUSINESS IMF slashes British growth forecasts Agence France-Presse
LONDON - The International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts for the British economy on Wednesday and pointed to high inflation that argued against a cut in interest rates by the Bank of England. For 2008, the IMF expects economic growth to measure 1.4 percent and in 2009 only 1.1 percent. In July, it had predicted 1.8 percent and 1.7 percent respectively. “So far in 2008, evidence points to a sharp slowing in activity alongside higher inflation,” said the report on the British economy by the Washington-based institution. The report made no reference to a recession, which an increasing number of private sector economists are predicting, but a senior IMF official explained that it was feasible. IMF vice Director Ajai Chopra told journalists that with growth “so close to zero, essentially flat growth, it doesn’t take very much to push that into negative territory.” A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. On Thursday, the Bank of England is to hold a policy meeting
to decide on interest rates with most analysts expecting no change in the cost of borrowing. The IMF argued that there was little room for easing interest rates despite the boost that such a move would give to economic activity. “Given the outlook for inflation and the stance of fiscal policy, directors saw little scope for monetary easing at present,” said the report. British 12-month inflation jumped to a 16-year high point of 3.8 percent in June, owing to big rises for food and fuel prices, according to official data. The IMF forecasts for growth differ sharply with those of the British government, which still officially foresees expansion of 2.0 percent in 2008 and 2.5 percent in 2009. These are expected to be revised down at the latest when the government presents its pre-budget in late October or November.
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A television screengrab shows the ITV logo, in London, on August 6, 2008. The International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts for the British economy on Wednesday and pointed to high inflation that argued against a cut in interest rates by the Bank of England.
China expects real estate slowdown Emergency rule boosts Bangladesh Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - Huge profits enjoyed by China’s real estate market for the past 10 years have come to an end due to tightening policies and weakening demand, state media reported Wednesday. “The era of huge real estate profit-taking is over,” the Beijing News said, citing an economic review released by the National Bureau of Statistics. “House price growth is losing momentum as a series of policies on money, land and taxation that target the real estate market has dampened demand and squeezed bubbles in the sector,” said the review, according to the
report. China’s central bank raised the amount of money banks must keep in reserve five times in the first half of this year to a historic high of 17.5 percent in a bid to cool the economy. The State Council or cabinet, ordered local governments to take back land that had been sitting idle for two years to curb bubbles in the housing market. From January to May, total transaction volumes of newly built apartments and secondhand houses in 40 major cities dropped by 24.9 percent and 20.9 percent respectively, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. Some 14 cities had seen price falls on a month-on-month basis, it added.
In this March 29, 2006 file photo a worker operates a machine to make socks at Langsha Socks Group production plant in Yiwu, China. From clothing exports to auto sales, China’s booming economy, long the bright spot amid a global slowdown, is weakening. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File
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DHAKA - Bangladesh’s garment exports are booming thanks to a new, stable business climate under the country’s state of emergency, officials said Wednesday. The nation’s exports of knitted and woven items rose by nearly 17 percent to a record 10.7 billion dollars in the financial year to June 2008. “We had an image as a strike-prone country. Buyers from all over the world used to worry a lot about whether our manufacturers could meet shipment deadlines,” Export Promotion Bureau chief Shahab Ullah told AFP. “But the state of emergency brought muchneeded stability as there have been hardly any strikes.” The garment export growth rate in the last financial year was up only marginally from the previous year’s 16 percent rise. But industry officials said the headline figure masks a big achievement considering exports fell 5.37 percent in the first quarter of the last financial year, amid concern about the country’s political outlook. It took a while for buyers to realize that Bangladesh could be a stable supplier of garments and after that “export orders jumped,” Ullah said. “To buyers, stability means a lot,” said Anwarul Alam Chowdhury Parvez, head of the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association, which covers 4,200 factories. Chowdhury said global buyers — mainly from
the US and the European Union — started looking towards Bangladesh from October. Exports leapt by 51 percent year-on-year in January and by more than 20 percent in the other months until the end of the financial year. A state of emergency was imposed in Bangladesh in January 2007, banning strikes after months of bitter political and industrial unrest that left dozens killed and closed factories and ports. The military-backed government has promised elections in December 2008 after it completes political, electoral and economic reforms. Garment industry officials said they hoped the industrial climate would remain stable after democracy is restored. Constant general strikes paralyzed the country amid a duel between Bangladesh’s two main rival political parties, the Awami League and the Bangladesh National Party, before the imposition of emergency rule. The garment trade accounts for 40 percent of all industrial jobs in Bangladesh, with women making up more than 80 percent of the workforce. Some 40 percent of Bangladesh’s 144 million people live below the poverty line. Poor households spend nearly 70 percent of their income on food. Garments, which make up three-quarters of the impoverished country’s export earnings, helped boost total exports by 16 percent to a record 14.11 billion dollars in the last financial year.
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New data adds to gloom for German economy Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - German industrial orders fell sharply in June, data showed on Wednesday, adding to fears that Europe’s largest economy and the eurozone as a whole might be heading for recession. According to preliminary figures released by the economy ministry, factory orders in Germany fell by 2.9 percent in June from May when adjusted for price and seasonal effects. Germany accounts for around a third of eurozone output, and the result was much worse than expected by economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires, who had predicted a moderate rise of about 0.5 percent. The fall, reported a day before the European Central Bank’s board meets to discuss interest rates, was the seventh monthly decrease running, something that has never been seen before, Unicredit economist Alexander Koch said. The ministry also revised down-
wards the fall recorded for May to 1.4 percent from an initial estimate of a drop of 0.9 percent. Even on the less volatile quarterly basis, new orders were down a very strong 4.1 percent in the second quarter, the strongest decrease since the second quarter of 1992, Koch said. “The risk of a recession in Germany has increased,” Commerzbank economist Matthias Rubisch said. The figures painted a particularly gloomy picture of conditions in Germany’s export sector, the main engine of economic growth. Orders from abroad for German goods plunged by 5.1 percent in June, the ministry said, with those
from other countries in the eurozone slumping by 7.7 percent. From elsewhere they fell by 3.1 percent. Domestic orders fell by 0.6 percent. “Demand from abroad is slowing more sharply than domestic demand, which is also on a downward trajectory, “the economics ministry said. “As a result prospects for industrial production all in all have worsened.” Despite slowing economic conditions, rampant energy and food prices and a strong euro making German exports less competitive, The economy had surprised economists by growing a stellar 1.5 percent in the first quarter. But economists have warned that
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A couple tend to their child who is suspected to be infected with bird flu at a hospital in Medan on August 6, 2008. Three people have died and 13 have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of bird flu in Indonesia, a nurse treating the patients said. Officials and residents in Asahan district of North Sumatra province said villagers began showing symptoms of avian flu after a large number of chickens died suddenly last week.
Three dead in feared bird flu outbreak in Indonesia Agence France-Presse
MEDAN - Three people have died and 13 have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of bird flu in Indonesia, a nurse treating the patients said Wednesday. Officials and residents in Asahan district of North Sumatra province said villagers began showing symptoms of avian flu after a large number of chickens died suddenly last week. The nurse at Asahan district’s Kisaran hospital said three people had died after suffering bird flu-like symptoms in Air Batu village. “According to residents there, a number of chickens died suddenly last week followed by several pigeons. Days later, three people died with the same ailments,” the nurse, Mariana, told AFP. Another 13 people had been ad-
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Slamet Riadi, said a lot of poultry had died in the village a week ago. His baby developed a high fever and respiratory problems shortly afterward. A spokeswoman for the health ministry could not be reached for comment. The ministry, which has stopped giving regular bird flu updates, announced earlier this week that the human toll from avian influenza in Indonesia had risen to 112 with the recent death of a 19-year-old man. The man was from a town adjoining the capital Jakarta on Java Island. Indonesia is the country worst-hit by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which can be passed from bird to human. Experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans and kill millions in a global pandemic.
Strong quake hits Sumbawa Antara
MATARAM, W Nusa Tenggara - A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted the West Nusa Tenggara town of Sumbawa at around 6 on Thursday morning, the Selaparang Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) reported.
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Zeitung on Tuesday quoted government experts as saying that in the second quarter of 2008, the German economy contracted by around 1.0 percent. Official figures on the second quarter will be published on August 14. A spokeswoman for the economics ministry declined to comment on Wednesday, but economists believe that a contraction of around one percent is a realistic expectation. Capital Economics said that if the Sueddeutsche’s numbers are correct then it was “likely that the eurozone will be the first major economy to fall into recession.” And looking further ahead, the fall in orders in the second quarter — the worst since the recession of 1992-3 — “does not bode well for economic activity in the third quarter either,” Bank of America economist Gilles Moec said.
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BMG spokesman Catur Minarti said the epicenter of the earthquake was located at some 51 kilometers northeast of Sumbawa at a depth of 17 kilometers under the sea, or at 8.14 degrees southern latitude and 117.16 degrees eastern longitude. According to Minarti, the quake was also felt in Mataram at II to III Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI), and in Sumbawa town it was III-IV
MMI. But so far there was no immediate report of fatality or damage. Minarti said the earthquake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami and therefore the local people should stay calm. Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
JAKARTA - Nokia Global in association with Universal Musik Group (UMG) is offering 100 songs from artist UMG who buys a Nokia 5320 XpressMusic Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phones to consumers of six countries Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines. “The collaboration with Universal Music provides an opportunity to music lovers to get 100 of their favorite songs in their cell phones,” Head of Go To Market Nokia Indonesia, Goh Doh Hau said during the launching of the two XpressMusic cell phones in Jakarta on Tuesday. Each Nokia 5320 XpressMusic purchase at a price of Rp2.9 million, and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phone at Rp1.95 million, will get a voucher and code to activate for selecting the songs from the UMG song catalogue, both foreign and Indonesian singers. Goh said Nokia cell phones
with musical facility are the best selling cell phones in the world with the sale of 146 million units in 2007, but he failed to specify the number of the cell phones sold in Indonesia. The previous five Nokia cell phones with special music features are Nokia 5320, Nokia 5220, Nokia 5610, Nokia 5310, and Nokia 5300. The features in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phones include features 3,5G HSDPA and OS Symbian. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic’s features include musical playback with many choices like Say and Play, Internet connection web 2.0, audio jack 3, 5mm, chip audio for hi-fi sound quality, memory would be increased until 8GB with a capacity to store 6000 songs, HSDPA for downloading songs and a 2MP camera. Nokia 5220 XpressMusic’s features include audio jack 3,5mm, audio chip for hi-fi quality sound, 2GB memory storing 1500 songs, FM stereo and Bluetooth.
RI, Australia to complete border security alert computer project Antara
JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister for Law and Human Rights Andi Matalatta and visiting Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans on Wednesday announced the successful implementation of a major border movement alert computer project. According to an Australian embassy media release made available to Antara on Thursday, Senator Evans said the Enhanced CEKAL System was a partnership between Australian and Indonesian immigration services and an example of the close cooperation between the two countries to enhance border security. “The CEKAL system is an Indonesian system used in ports and offices in Indonesia, and also in embassies and consulates around the world, to check the names of people applying for visas or entry permits,” Senator Evans said. “The Enhanced CEKAL System is a major upgrade to the CEKAL system and it is now operational at five Indonesian ports - Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Medan and Batam - it will enable more reliable detection of people of concern, as well as assist to prevent peoplesmuggling and irregular migration,” Senator Evans said, adding that projects like these help make travel in the region safer and more secure. He said the total cost of the project was about A$10 million. An additional A$2.4 million was allocated in 2008-09 to provide support
and maintenance of the project until 2010. Other measures to further enhance regional cooperation on border security were also high on the agenda during the ministers’ meeting, which also included the Australian Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Bob Debus MP and senior Australian Government officials. Evans said Indonesia was a key partner for Australia and the Government was committed to a close, practical working relationship. “We are doing a lot together to improve border security, including through forensic document examination training and initiatives to detect people who seek to travel on fake or altered passports,” he said. “The new 400-bed center on Christmas Island is now available for use and people encouraged by people-smugglers to try to improperly enter Australia will be taken to Christmas Island for processing,” he said. The Australian government delegation also met senior representatives of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the regional representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “A robust immigration program benefits both countries through forging closer people-to-people links and we have seen a steady growth in Indonesian visitors to Australia with nearly 60 000 visitor visas granted last year,” Senator Evans said.
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Edible Skin of Sentul
Here is a local and rare fruit that resembles a mangosteen. The Balinese call it ‘sentul’ (Sandoricum indicum). If the flesh of mangosteen is sweet, this one is on the contrary, sour. So, how can people enjoy this fruit? People prefer to use it for rujak (mixed with sweet sour sauce) by taking its skin instead of its sour flesh and may discard the flesh. The skin is not as sour as the flesh. This fruit is also used as ingredients for common offering before its position was taken over by imported fruits. However, at the moment, there are certain kinds of offerings that still needs sour fruit like cepala namely offering on the paddy’s ritual in the rice field before it turns yellow. So, sentul can be taken advantage to fulfill this need. Sentul can grow well in lowlands. Its tree can reach fifteen meters high and has a straight trunk with rare branches. When young, the fruit colors light green and when ripe it turns dark yellow. (BTN/Punia)
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DENPASAR – The Beijing Olympics that will be held on August 8th through August 24th 2008 affected the number of tourists visited Bali. Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali’s Statistics Department said that the number of tourists from China visited Bali keep decreasing. In June 2008, the number of Chinese tourists visited Bali were 7,952 people, compared to in May 2008 which was 9,361 tourists. In February 2008 the number of Chinese tourists visited Bali were 18,371 so there was 70% decrease. On the first semester of 2008, the total number of Chinese tourists visited Bali was 63,013 people. Wisnu predicted that the decrease was because of the Beijing Olympics. “The Chinese are more interested with
the Beijing Olympic rather than go abroad for holiday,” added Wisnu. Hopefully the number Chinese tourists visited Bali will increase after the Olympic. The number of Chinese tourists actually can be increased because the number of Chinese people visited Bali was only 0.02% from the total number of China’s citizen. So the tourism businessmen must be more creative in attracting the tourist to visit Bali.
Kamasan traditional painting exhibition at Art Center Antara
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Tourists sunbathing at Sanur beach. The Beijing Olympics which are being held from August 8th through August 24th 2008 are affecting the numbers of tourists visiting Bali. Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali’s Statistics Department, said that the numbers of tourists from China visiting Bali are continuing to decrease.
Balinese painter preparing exhibitions in Japan Antara
DENPASAR - Noted Balinese painter I Ketut Budiana is making preparations for an exhibition of his works in a number of big cities in Japan in 2009. “The exhibition will be focused on similarities in the arts, cultures and lives of Bali and Japan,” Budiana said here Wednesday on his arrival from a 2.5-month visit to Japan. After living among the Japanese people, he had found that Bali and
Japan had many similarities which could be expressed in paintings, he said. “Japan is a developed country which is applying science and technology but its people still maintain their traditional values just like the Balinese do,” said Budiana who has successfully held exhibitions in many countries. Balinese and Japanese also share the same respect for the environment, including plants and big
trees which they consider sacred, he said, adding that Balinese and Japanese made similar efforts like festivals in maintaining and developing arts and culture. “The similarities between Bali and Japan will be expressed on canvases to be exhibited in a number of cities in Japan,” Budiana said. Budiana is now completing several paintings using special tools and materials he brought from Japan, including painting brushes and paper.
Pelindo will make Benoa Harbor the turn – around port for luxurious international cruise ships. “The development of the harbor will benefit the economic sectors not only in transportation but also for the tourist businesses,” added Mr. Sasiang. The Benoa Harbor is a very strategic location for this kind of development because it lies in between Australia and Singapore, both of which have large cruise ship harbors. Mr. Saskiang also said that
many departments are in support of the development of Benoa harbor. Bali’s Culture and Tourism Department already donated 500 million rupiah to the Benoa Harbor project. Santoso Eddy Wibowo, the head of the Research Center and Transportation Service Division in the Indonesian Transportation Department, said that the Indonesian Government is in support of the investments made by the Korean companies.
Denpasar – Balinese artists from Kamasan, Klungkung will exhibit their finest works at the Art Center in Denpasar starting August 8th through August 27th 2008. 21 artists will exhibit 40 of their finest works during this 3 week exhibition. Putu Ardana, the coordinator of the exhibition, said “The painters come from all generations. The youngest painter to join the exhibition is I Putu Mahendra who is 12 years old, and the oldest is I Nyoman Madra who is 62 years old.” The exhibition is being held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Art Center in Denpasar, the 63rd anniversary of Indonesian Independence, and the 50th anniversary of Bali’s Government. The exhibition will be opened by I Nyoman Nikanaya, the head of Bali’s Cultural Department. There is great hope that the exhibition
will resurrect the traditional art forms of the people from Kamasan, who are famous for their ‘Wayang’, or traditional Balinese puppet paintings. Local painters rarely paint ‘Wayang’paintings anymore, even though there is a high demand for them abroad. Traditional Balinese paintings have been recognized since the 11th century. The paintings were mainly used for religious purposes and were usually hung in the temples. The themes of these paintings were often of Hindu Gods such as Brahma, Wisnu, or Siwa, or classic Hindu tales including the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The art of painting in Bali originated in Kamasan, and spread to Ubud, Sanur, Singaraja, Tanah Lot, Kapal, and others. The styles and functions of Balinese paintings have become more complex and unique over time.
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Denpasar – The Indonesian Harbor Company (Pelindo) III branch Benoa, Bali is planning to invest 3 trillion rupiah to further develop their cruise ship business. The ships will have five star hotel accommodations. Heskiel Sasiang, the General Manager of Pelindo III, said “We have signed the memorandum of understanding with six companies from Korea. Hopefully the development will begin immediately.”
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The photo shows a traditional Kamasan painting. Balinese artists from Kamasan, Klungkung will exhibit their finest works at the Art Center in Denpasar starting August 8th through August 27th 2008. 21 artists will exhibit 40 of their finest works during this 3 week exhibition.
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For the Balinese (Hindus), Galungan is ‘paweton jagat’ (ritual festivity on the creation of the universe along with its contents). One day before Galungan, a ‘penjor’ is erected in front of the house entrance gate.
Galungan Holiday in Bali
For the Balinese (Hindus), Galungan is paweton jagat (ritual festivity on the creation of the universe along with its contents). When this macrocosm was precisely created and how old is it now? No one knows it exactly! However, the Balinese celebrate Galungan just like they do on their birthdays in compliance with the Balinese calendar, and not by their date of birth. In addition, the celebration of Galungan conveys the meaning as the triumph of dharma (righteousness) against adharma (unrighteousness). Dharma and adharma are consistent with the day-to-day lives that involve proper and improper things. The summit of triumph of dharma is celebrated every 210 days, on Buda Kliwon Dungulan—this year it falls on Wednesday, 20 August 2008. On Galungan day, the Hindu community offer oblations, either individually or together. The sacrifice is begun at Merajan (family temple in every house compound), then Merajan Gede (larger family temple) up to public temples. “By
nature, such oblations consist of patram (leaf), puspam (flower), palam (fruit), toyam (water) and fire. While, the pork that is slaughtered on the day before Galungan, some is intended for oblation and the rest for consumption,” he says while adding that after the worship en masse, physically, the Galungan celebration is considered to have come to an end. On the following day, Umanis Galungan is a mutual visit among families, neighbours and wider general public to maintain social relationships. This day is called nganyarin as a new day. Import of Penjor One day before Galungan, a penjor is erected in front of the house entrance gate. Penjor has philosophical import. Hindu communities in Bali believe if from the height one will be easier to get composure and self-enlightenment. The height is associated with mountains, equals to penjor and a curved bamboo pole to make penjor’s is the mountain symbol. The Curved bamboo pole of the penjor is embellished with crops, like paddy, bananas or other fruits that are suspended as a sacrificial oblation.
On the upper end of the penjor is hung a piece of white or yellow fabric as the symbol of purity and cleanliness as the ultimate goal of human life. Having had religious value, the penjor is frequently delivers aesthetic or cultural values. It is said that Penjor Galungan and other kinds of penjor have nearly the same form; however, the form of its sanggah and function distinguishes them. In this case, penjor can be divided into two kinds, namely the sacred and that of decoration. At a glance, both look the same, but they are indeed different. Penjor as complement of a religious ceremony is made sacred, its content should be complete and marked off with the presence of sampian indicated by elements of leaves, fruits (crops), paraphernalia (sanggah to put the oblation) and a piece of white or yellow fabric. While, the content of decorative penjor is not complete is also added with sampian but not along with canang sari (means of veneration for the Hindus) and crops. Even though it contains some leaves, they are just intended for decoration. (BTN/015)
Ni Cempaka, named after the fragrant cempaka (champak) flower, is Blanco’s daughter from his Balinese wife. The dynamic movements of Balinese dance are shown with quick, spontaneous brush strokes in the figure and background. The illusion of motion also is repeated as her hair flies through the air, the blurred hands, and the lower part of her body not visible. Antonio Maria Blanco studied at the National Academy of Art in the New York City, U.S.A. He has lived in Bali since 1952. His spontaneous style of works feature voluptuous nude women, often in rather erotic or suggestive poses, with unusual frames, designed by the artist himself. Awards: National College of Windsor honorary doctorate (Canada, 1948), Chevalier du Sahametri Scroll Decoration and silver medal (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1950), title of “Don” (Madrid, Spain, 1992), Dharma Kusuma (Bali, 1995). Exhibitions: Singapore Art Museum (1994), Center for strategic and International Studies (Jakarta, Indonesia, 1996), Indonesian-Japan Friendship Festival (Morioka, Tokyo, 1997). (BTN/ Suteja Neka)
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Edible Skin of Sentul
Here is a local and rare fruit that resembles a mangosteen. The Balinese call it ‘sentul’ (Sandoricum indicum). If the flesh of mangosteen is sweet, this one is on the contrary, sour. So, how can people enjoy this fruit? People prefer to use it for rujak (mixed with sweet sour sauce) by taking its skin instead of its sour flesh and may discard the flesh. The skin is not as sour as the flesh. This fruit is also used as ingredients for common offering before its position was taken over by imported fruits. However, at the moment, there are certain kinds of offerings that still needs sour fruit like cepala namely offering on the paddy’s ritual in the rice field before it turns yellow. So, sentul can be taken advantage to fulfill this need. Sentul can grow well in lowlands. Its tree can reach fifteen meters high and has a straight trunk with rare branches. When young, the fruit colors light green and when ripe it turns dark yellow. (BTN/Punia)
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DENPASAR – The Beijing Olympics that will be held on August 8th through August 24th 2008 affected the number of tourists visited Bali. Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali’s Statistics Department said that the number of tourists from China visited Bali keep decreasing. In June 2008, the number of Chinese tourists visited Bali were 7,952 people, compared to in May 2008 which was 9,361 tourists. In February 2008 the number of Chinese tourists visited Bali were 18,371 so there was 70% decrease. On the first semester of 2008, the total number of Chinese tourists visited Bali was 63,013 people. Wisnu predicted that the decrease was because of the Beijing Olympics. “The Chinese are more interested with
the Beijing Olympic rather than go abroad for holiday,” added Wisnu. Hopefully the number Chinese tourists visited Bali will increase after the Olympic. The number of Chinese tourists actually can be increased because the number of Chinese people visited Bali was only 0.02% from the total number of China’s citizen. So the tourism businessmen must be more creative in attracting the tourist to visit Bali.
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Tourists sunbathing at Sanur beach. The Beijing Olympics which are being held from August 8th through August 24th 2008 are affecting the numbers of tourists visiting Bali. Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali’s Statistics Department, said that the numbers of tourists from China visiting Bali are continuing to decrease.
Balinese painter preparing exhibitions in Japan Antara
DENPASAR - Noted Balinese painter I Ketut Budiana is making preparations for an exhibition of his works in a number of big cities in Japan in 2009. “The exhibition will be focused on similarities in the arts, cultures and lives of Bali and Japan,” Budiana said here Wednesday on his arrival from a 2.5-month visit to Japan. After living among the Japanese people, he had found that Bali and
Japan had many similarities which could be expressed in paintings, he said. “Japan is a developed country which is applying science and technology but its people still maintain their traditional values just like the Balinese do,” said Budiana who has successfully held exhibitions in many countries. Balinese and Japanese also share the same respect for the environment, including plants and big
trees which they consider sacred, he said, adding that Balinese and Japanese made similar efforts like festivals in maintaining and developing arts and culture. “The similarities between Bali and Japan will be expressed on canvases to be exhibited in a number of cities in Japan,” Budiana said. Budiana is now completing several paintings using special tools and materials he brought from Japan, including painting brushes and paper.
Pelindo will make Benoa Harbor the turn – around port for luxurious international cruise ships. “The development of the harbor will benefit the economic sectors not only in transportation but also for the tourist businesses,” added Mr. Sasiang. The Benoa Harbor is a very strategic location for this kind of development because it lies in between Australia and Singapore, both of which have large cruise ship harbors. Mr. Saskiang also said that
many departments are in support of the development of Benoa harbor. Bali’s Culture and Tourism Department already donated 500 million rupiah to the Benoa Harbor project. Santoso Eddy Wibowo, the head of the Research Center and Transportation Service Division in the Indonesian Transportation Department, said that the Indonesian Government is in support of the investments made by the Korean companies.
Denpasar – Balinese artists from Kamasan, Klungkung will exhibit their finest works at the Art Center in Denpasar starting August 8th through August 27th 2008. 21 artists will exhibit 40 of their finest works during this 3 week exhibition. Putu Ardana, the coordinator of the exhibition, said “The painters come from all generations. The youngest painter to join the exhibition is I Putu Mahendra who is 12 years old, and the oldest is I Nyoman Madra who is 62 years old.” The exhibition is being held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Art Center in Denpasar, the 63rd anniversary of Indonesian Independence, and the 50th anniversary of Bali’s Government. The exhibition will be opened by I Nyoman Nikanaya, the head of Bali’s Cultural Department. There is great hope that the exhibition
will resurrect the traditional art forms of the people from Kamasan, who are famous for their ‘Wayang’, or traditional Balinese puppet paintings. Local painters rarely paint ‘Wayang’paintings anymore, even though there is a high demand for them abroad. Traditional Balinese paintings have been recognized since the 11th century. The paintings were mainly used for religious purposes and were usually hung in the temples. The themes of these paintings were often of Hindu Gods such as Brahma, Wisnu, or Siwa, or classic Hindu tales including the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The art of painting in Bali originated in Kamasan, and spread to Ubud, Sanur, Singaraja, Tanah Lot, Kapal, and others. The styles and functions of Balinese paintings have become more complex and unique over time.
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Denpasar – The Indonesian Harbor Company (Pelindo) III branch Benoa, Bali is planning to invest 3 trillion rupiah to further develop their cruise ship business. The ships will have five star hotel accommodations. Heskiel Sasiang, the General Manager of Pelindo III, said “We have signed the memorandum of understanding with six companies from Korea. Hopefully the development will begin immediately.”
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The photo shows a traditional Kamasan painting. Balinese artists from Kamasan, Klungkung will exhibit their finest works at the Art Center in Denpasar starting August 8th through August 27th 2008. 21 artists will exhibit 40 of their finest works during this 3 week exhibition.
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For the Balinese (Hindus), Galungan is ‘paweton jagat’ (ritual festivity on the creation of the universe along with its contents). One day before Galungan, a ‘penjor’ is erected in front of the house entrance gate.
Galungan Holiday in Bali
For the Balinese (Hindus), Galungan is paweton jagat (ritual festivity on the creation of the universe along with its contents). When this macrocosm was precisely created and how old is it now? No one knows it exactly! However, the Balinese celebrate Galungan just like they do on their birthdays in compliance with the Balinese calendar, and not by their date of birth. In addition, the celebration of Galungan conveys the meaning as the triumph of dharma (righteousness) against adharma (unrighteousness). Dharma and adharma are consistent with the day-to-day lives that involve proper and improper things. The summit of triumph of dharma is celebrated every 210 days, on Buda Kliwon Dungulan—this year it falls on Wednesday, 20 August 2008. On Galungan day, the Hindu community offer oblations, either individually or together. The sacrifice is begun at Merajan (family temple in every house compound), then Merajan Gede (larger family temple) up to public temples. “By
nature, such oblations consist of patram (leaf), puspam (flower), palam (fruit), toyam (water) and fire. While, the pork that is slaughtered on the day before Galungan, some is intended for oblation and the rest for consumption,” he says while adding that after the worship en masse, physically, the Galungan celebration is considered to have come to an end. On the following day, Umanis Galungan is a mutual visit among families, neighbours and wider general public to maintain social relationships. This day is called nganyarin as a new day. Import of Penjor One day before Galungan, a penjor is erected in front of the house entrance gate. Penjor has philosophical import. Hindu communities in Bali believe if from the height one will be easier to get composure and self-enlightenment. The height is associated with mountains, equals to penjor and a curved bamboo pole to make penjor’s is the mountain symbol. The Curved bamboo pole of the penjor is embellished with crops, like paddy, bananas or other fruits that are suspended as a sacrificial oblation.
On the upper end of the penjor is hung a piece of white or yellow fabric as the symbol of purity and cleanliness as the ultimate goal of human life. Having had religious value, the penjor is frequently delivers aesthetic or cultural values. It is said that Penjor Galungan and other kinds of penjor have nearly the same form; however, the form of its sanggah and function distinguishes them. In this case, penjor can be divided into two kinds, namely the sacred and that of decoration. At a glance, both look the same, but they are indeed different. Penjor as complement of a religious ceremony is made sacred, its content should be complete and marked off with the presence of sampian indicated by elements of leaves, fruits (crops), paraphernalia (sanggah to put the oblation) and a piece of white or yellow fabric. While, the content of decorative penjor is not complete is also added with sampian but not along with canang sari (means of veneration for the Hindus) and crops. Even though it contains some leaves, they are just intended for decoration. (BTN/015)
Ni Cempaka, named after the fragrant cempaka (champak) flower, is Blanco’s daughter from his Balinese wife. The dynamic movements of Balinese dance are shown with quick, spontaneous brush strokes in the figure and background. The illusion of motion also is repeated as her hair flies through the air, the blurred hands, and the lower part of her body not visible. Antonio Maria Blanco studied at the National Academy of Art in the New York City, U.S.A. He has lived in Bali since 1952. His spontaneous style of works feature voluptuous nude women, often in rather erotic or suggestive poses, with unusual frames, designed by the artist himself. Awards: National College of Windsor honorary doctorate (Canada, 1948), Chevalier du Sahametri Scroll Decoration and silver medal (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1950), title of “Don” (Madrid, Spain, 1992), Dharma Kusuma (Bali, 1995). Exhibitions: Singapore Art Museum (1994), Center for strategic and International Studies (Jakarta, Indonesia, 1996), Indonesian-Japan Friendship Festival (Morioka, Tokyo, 1997). (BTN/ Suteja Neka)
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New data adds to gloom for German economy Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - German industrial orders fell sharply in June, data showed on Wednesday, adding to fears that Europe’s largest economy and the eurozone as a whole might be heading for recession. According to preliminary figures released by the economy ministry, factory orders in Germany fell by 2.9 percent in June from May when adjusted for price and seasonal effects. Germany accounts for around a third of eurozone output, and the result was much worse than expected by economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires, who had predicted a moderate rise of about 0.5 percent. The fall, reported a day before the European Central Bank’s board meets to discuss interest rates, was the seventh monthly decrease running, something that has never been seen before, Unicredit economist Alexander Koch said. The ministry also revised down-
wards the fall recorded for May to 1.4 percent from an initial estimate of a drop of 0.9 percent. Even on the less volatile quarterly basis, new orders were down a very strong 4.1 percent in the second quarter, the strongest decrease since the second quarter of 1992, Koch said. “The risk of a recession in Germany has increased,” Commerzbank economist Matthias Rubisch said. The figures painted a particularly gloomy picture of conditions in Germany’s export sector, the main engine of economic growth. Orders from abroad for German goods plunged by 5.1 percent in June, the ministry said, with those
from other countries in the eurozone slumping by 7.7 percent. From elsewhere they fell by 3.1 percent. Domestic orders fell by 0.6 percent. “Demand from abroad is slowing more sharply than domestic demand, which is also on a downward trajectory, “the economics ministry said. “As a result prospects for industrial production all in all have worsened.” Despite slowing economic conditions, rampant energy and food prices and a strong euro making German exports less competitive, The economy had surprised economists by growing a stellar 1.5 percent in the first quarter. But economists have warned that
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figure was skewed by special effects and that data for the second quarter would show that the economy has returned to reality with a bump. The picture for Germany’s consumers is far from rosy, for instance, with data last week showing inflation touching a 15-year high of 3.3 percent in July on the back of higher food and energy prices. Last Monday a survey of German consumers by the GfK institute showed consumer confidence falling to a five-year low owing to chronic price increases. And the monthly business climate index for June from the Ifo institute two weeks ago fell to its lowest level since September 2005 — and marked the biggest drop since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. A report in the Sueddeutsche
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A couple tend to their child who is suspected to be infected with bird flu at a hospital in Medan on August 6, 2008. Three people have died and 13 have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of bird flu in Indonesia, a nurse treating the patients said. Officials and residents in Asahan district of North Sumatra province said villagers began showing symptoms of avian flu after a large number of chickens died suddenly last week.
Three dead in feared bird flu outbreak in Indonesia Agence France-Presse
MEDAN - Three people have died and 13 have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of bird flu in Indonesia, a nurse treating the patients said Wednesday. Officials and residents in Asahan district of North Sumatra province said villagers began showing symptoms of avian flu after a large number of chickens died suddenly last week. The nurse at Asahan district’s Kisaran hospital said three people had died after suffering bird flu-like symptoms in Air Batu village. “According to residents there, a number of chickens died suddenly last week followed by several pigeons. Days later, three people died with the same ailments,” the nurse, Mariana, told AFP. Another 13 people had been ad-
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mitted to the hospital with “high temperatures and respiratory problems,” she said. Two of these — a baby boy and a seven-year-old girl — were transferred early Wednesday to a bird flu isolation unit at Adam Malik hospital in the provincial capital of Medan, officials said. Adam Malik hospital spokesman Sinar Ginting confirmed that blood samples from the two children were sent Wednesday to a health ministry laboratory in Jakarta for analysis. “We are now waiting for the result,” he said. The father of the baby boy,
Slamet Riadi, said a lot of poultry had died in the village a week ago. His baby developed a high fever and respiratory problems shortly afterward. A spokeswoman for the health ministry could not be reached for comment. The ministry, which has stopped giving regular bird flu updates, announced earlier this week that the human toll from avian influenza in Indonesia had risen to 112 with the recent death of a 19-year-old man. The man was from a town adjoining the capital Jakarta on Java Island. Indonesia is the country worst-hit by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which can be passed from bird to human. Experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans and kill millions in a global pandemic.
Strong quake hits Sumbawa Antara
MATARAM, W Nusa Tenggara - A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted the West Nusa Tenggara town of Sumbawa at around 6 on Thursday morning, the Selaparang Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) reported.
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Zeitung on Tuesday quoted government experts as saying that in the second quarter of 2008, the German economy contracted by around 1.0 percent. Official figures on the second quarter will be published on August 14. A spokeswoman for the economics ministry declined to comment on Wednesday, but economists believe that a contraction of around one percent is a realistic expectation. Capital Economics said that if the Sueddeutsche’s numbers are correct then it was “likely that the eurozone will be the first major economy to fall into recession.” And looking further ahead, the fall in orders in the second quarter — the worst since the recession of 1992-3 — “does not bode well for economic activity in the third quarter either,” Bank of America economist Gilles Moec said.
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BMG spokesman Catur Minarti said the epicenter of the earthquake was located at some 51 kilometers northeast of Sumbawa at a depth of 17 kilometers under the sea, or at 8.14 degrees southern latitude and 117.16 degrees eastern longitude. According to Minarti, the quake was also felt in Mataram at II to III Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI), and in Sumbawa town it was III-IV
MMI. But so far there was no immediate report of fatality or damage. Minarti said the earthquake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami and therefore the local people should stay calm. Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
JAKARTA - Nokia Global in association with Universal Musik Group (UMG) is offering 100 songs from artist UMG who buys a Nokia 5320 XpressMusic Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phones to consumers of six countries Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines. “The collaboration with Universal Music provides an opportunity to music lovers to get 100 of their favorite songs in their cell phones,” Head of Go To Market Nokia Indonesia, Goh Doh Hau said during the launching of the two XpressMusic cell phones in Jakarta on Tuesday. Each Nokia 5320 XpressMusic purchase at a price of Rp2.9 million, and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phone at Rp1.95 million, will get a voucher and code to activate for selecting the songs from the UMG song catalogue, both foreign and Indonesian singers. Goh said Nokia cell phones
with musical facility are the best selling cell phones in the world with the sale of 146 million units in 2007, but he failed to specify the number of the cell phones sold in Indonesia. The previous five Nokia cell phones with special music features are Nokia 5320, Nokia 5220, Nokia 5610, Nokia 5310, and Nokia 5300. The features in Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic cell phones include features 3,5G HSDPA and OS Symbian. Nokia 5320 XpressMusic’s features include musical playback with many choices like Say and Play, Internet connection web 2.0, audio jack 3, 5mm, chip audio for hi-fi sound quality, memory would be increased until 8GB with a capacity to store 6000 songs, HSDPA for downloading songs and a 2MP camera. Nokia 5220 XpressMusic’s features include audio jack 3,5mm, audio chip for hi-fi quality sound, 2GB memory storing 1500 songs, FM stereo and Bluetooth.
RI, Australia to complete border security alert computer project Antara
JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister for Law and Human Rights Andi Matalatta and visiting Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans on Wednesday announced the successful implementation of a major border movement alert computer project. According to an Australian embassy media release made available to Antara on Thursday, Senator Evans said the Enhanced CEKAL System was a partnership between Australian and Indonesian immigration services and an example of the close cooperation between the two countries to enhance border security. “The CEKAL system is an Indonesian system used in ports and offices in Indonesia, and also in embassies and consulates around the world, to check the names of people applying for visas or entry permits,” Senator Evans said. “The Enhanced CEKAL System is a major upgrade to the CEKAL system and it is now operational at five Indonesian ports - Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Medan and Batam - it will enable more reliable detection of people of concern, as well as assist to prevent peoplesmuggling and irregular migration,” Senator Evans said, adding that projects like these help make travel in the region safer and more secure. He said the total cost of the project was about A$10 million. An additional A$2.4 million was allocated in 2008-09 to provide support
and maintenance of the project until 2010. Other measures to further enhance regional cooperation on border security were also high on the agenda during the ministers’ meeting, which also included the Australian Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Bob Debus MP and senior Australian Government officials. Evans said Indonesia was a key partner for Australia and the Government was committed to a close, practical working relationship. “We are doing a lot together to improve border security, including through forensic document examination training and initiatives to detect people who seek to travel on fake or altered passports,” he said. “The new 400-bed center on Christmas Island is now available for use and people encouraged by people-smugglers to try to improperly enter Australia will be taken to Christmas Island for processing,” he said. The Australian government delegation also met senior representatives of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the regional representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “A robust immigration program benefits both countries through forging closer people-to-people links and we have seen a steady growth in Indonesian visitors to Australia with nearly 60 000 visitor visas granted last year,” Senator Evans said.
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Experts find theatre where Shakespeare plays were first staged Agence France-Presse
LONDON - The remains of a London theatre where William Shakespeare’s early plays including “Romeo And Juliet” were first performed have been discovered by archaeologists, a museum said Wednesday. Shakespeare appeared at The Theatre in Shoreditch, east London, as an actor with a troupe called The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which also performed his efforts as a playwright there. “Richard III”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Merchant Of Venice” are among the other plays which are likely to have premiered at the theatre, according to the Museum of London, whose team made the discovery. After a tenancy dispute in 1599, the owners of The Theatre dismantled it during the night and its timbers were used to construct the Globe Theatre, by the River Thames, which beAFP PHOTO/STR
An Indian nurse attends to Japanese baby Manji Yamada as she lies in a ward of The Arya Hospital in Jaipur on August 6, 2008.
Baby born to surrogate Indian mother in legal limbo Agence France-Presse
JODHPUR - The future of a 12-day-old baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother hung in legal limbo Wednesday after the Japanese couple who planned to take her home divorced. Manji Yamada was born last month after eggs from an Indian donor were fertilised using the Japanese man’s sperm and implanted in the womb of the surrogate Indian mother. Her biological father split from his wife after the fertilisation process, and his former spouse no longer wants the baby. In the absence of a surrogacy law in India, the child — who is an Indian citizen — will have to be adopted by her Japanese father Ikufumi Yamada, 45. But Indian law does not allow the adoption of a girl by a single father, lawyers and doctors said. “There is a legal complication as the father is alone and Indian adoption law says a single male can’t adopt a girl,” Sanjay Arya, the doctor who is looking after the baby, told AFP by phone from western Jaipur city. Manji cannot leave the country without a passport and is being looked after in Jaipur by her paternal grandmother and an Indian friend of the father. “Yamada went to the local passport office. He was told to go to the Japanese Embassy, which asked him to get a document from an Indian court to get custody of the
child,” Arya said. “He felt like a football.” The baby’s father and grandmother were present at the hospital for her birth. Yamada has since returned to work in Japan, and is expected to come back to India after some headway has been made. “I spoke to him today. He can’t plan anything till the baby’s passport is made,” said Ikufumi’s friend, Kamal Vijayvargiya, who consulted legal experts. Arya, the doctor, said lawyers would file a court petition on Thursday seeking adoption by the father and temporary custody of the child by the grandmother till then. “The surrogacy doesn’t matter. He is, after all, the biological father,” the doctor said. Manji was born on July 25 in western Gujarat state. The child’s father, identified by the Indian media as a Tokyo surgeon, moved her to Jaipur city in Rajasthan state after serial bomb attacks in Gujarat in which some 50 people died. “The baby is alright, but the grandmother is very tense,” and wants to take the infant back to Japan as soon as possible, Arya said. The baby’s fate made front-page news in Indian dailies. “Conceived in Japan, stuck in
Jaipur” read the headline of the largest-selling English daily, The Times of India, saying the baby could become the country’s “first surrogate orphan” if the problems were not resolved. “With India emerging as a destination for surrogate pregnancies, a law (to regulate surrogacy) will have to be brought into effect,” leading lawyer Indira Jaising told the Indian Express newspaper. Critics call the practice “wombs for rent,” but surrogacy has emerged as a booming business in India. Gujarat’s Anand town — where the baby was born — has emerged as India’s surrogacy centre after the high-profile case of a woman who gave birth to her own grandchildren on behalf of her British-based daughter in 2004. Surrogate mothers in Anand charge about 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars) for a pregnancy and have been approached by a number of overseas Indian and foreign couples who can have a surrogate baby at a fraction of the cost in Western countries. Surrogate mothers are often poor women who opt to carry a stranger’s baby to help pay education and housing costs for their own families.
came the home of Shakespeare’s plays. But now Museum of London archaeologists have rediscovered the original footings or groundwork of the octagonal Shoreditch venue — ironically on a site being prepared for the construction of a new theatre. “It’s a theatre that’s been known about for a long time but no remains have ever been found,” museum spokesman Tim Morley told AFP. “This is the theatre that the company of players that Shakespeare was part of first performed in and when he started writing, the company would have performed his plays.” It is planned that the remains will be preserved on the site. Jeff Kelly, chairman of the Tower Theatre Company, which is building the new theatre on the site, added: “The discovery that we shall be building a 21st century playhouse where Shakespeare played and where some of Shakespeare’s plays must first have been performed is a huge inspiration.”
Vietnam allows some sex-change surgeries Agence France-Presse
HANOI - Vietnam has legalised some types of sex change surgery but will let government physicians have the final say on what gender a patient is, a health official in the communist country said Thursday. The decree published this week allows corrective surgery for hermaphrodites and people born with certain genital deformities, but not for people who are physically of one sex and request gender reassignment surgery. “The reassignment of gender for those who are complete in terms of gender” is forbidden, says the text of the decree, which adds that the new measure aims to “ensure that everyone can live in his/her correct
gender.” Nguyen Huy Quang, deputy head of the health ministry’s legal department, said the decree “still prohibits sex change for those who are already in their original gender,” as determined by medical and genetic testing. The decree would ensure the privacy of, and prohibit discrimination against, people who have undergone gender reassignment surgery, and also require medical proof when they register with authorities under their new gender. Statistics on people seeking gender reassignment surgery are not available in Vietnam, but several transsexuals are known to have travelled to Thailand to undergo sexchange surgery.
Olympics... From page 1 China finished second in Athens in the gold medal standings, just three adrift of the United States. Publicly, China’s leadership have played down the country’s sporting ambitions and Cui Dalin, deputy chief of China’s Olympic team, said the team had no official medal target. But he said he hoped all athletes would perform to their highest level. “We have never set a medal target. But we have made very serious preparations and all athletes have undergone very hard training,” he said. “It is safe to say that we have made progress with regard to previous performances.” China’s athletes are under extreme pressure to perform well including Yao, the 2.26-metre (7-foot 6-inch) NBA star who is also carrying the
nation’s hopes for a first-ever Olympic basketball medal. The team play the United States in their opening game on Sunday and Yao said he was looking forward to the clash. “There won’t be many opportunities like this to play against an allstar team. I have been waiting for this moment for such a long time,” he said. The choice of Yao as flag bearer effectively rules him out as the choice to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. The identity of the individual is a closely guarded secret, but Yao’s name was often cited as a candidate in the Chinese press along with other big names such as track star Liu Xiang, the Olympic 110m hurdles champion, and shooter Xu Haifeng, who won China’s first ever Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984.
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BUSINESS IMF slashes British growth forecasts Agence France-Presse
LONDON - The International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts for the British economy on Wednesday and pointed to high inflation that argued against a cut in interest rates by the Bank of England. For 2008, the IMF expects economic growth to measure 1.4 percent and in 2009 only 1.1 percent. In July, it had predicted 1.8 percent and 1.7 percent respectively. “So far in 2008, evidence points to a sharp slowing in activity alongside higher inflation,” said the report on the British economy by the Washington-based institution. The report made no reference to a recession, which an increasing number of private sector economists are predicting, but a senior IMF official explained that it was feasible. IMF vice Director Ajai Chopra told journalists that with growth “so close to zero, essentially flat growth, it doesn’t take very much to push that into negative territory.” A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. On Thursday, the Bank of England is to hold a policy meeting
to decide on interest rates with most analysts expecting no change in the cost of borrowing. The IMF argued that there was little room for easing interest rates despite the boost that such a move would give to economic activity. “Given the outlook for inflation and the stance of fiscal policy, directors saw little scope for monetary easing at present,” said the report. British 12-month inflation jumped to a 16-year high point of 3.8 percent in June, owing to big rises for food and fuel prices, according to official data. The IMF forecasts for growth differ sharply with those of the British government, which still officially foresees expansion of 2.0 percent in 2008 and 2.5 percent in 2009. These are expected to be revised down at the latest when the government presents its pre-budget in late October or November.
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A television screengrab shows the ITV logo, in London, on August 6, 2008. The International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts for the British economy on Wednesday and pointed to high inflation that argued against a cut in interest rates by the Bank of England.
China expects real estate slowdown Emergency rule boosts Bangladesh Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - Huge profits enjoyed by China’s real estate market for the past 10 years have come to an end due to tightening policies and weakening demand, state media reported Wednesday. “The era of huge real estate profit-taking is over,” the Beijing News said, citing an economic review released by the National Bureau of Statistics. “House price growth is losing momentum as a series of policies on money, land and taxation that target the real estate market has dampened demand and squeezed bubbles in the sector,” said the review, according to the
report. China’s central bank raised the amount of money banks must keep in reserve five times in the first half of this year to a historic high of 17.5 percent in a bid to cool the economy. The State Council or cabinet, ordered local governments to take back land that had been sitting idle for two years to curb bubbles in the housing market. From January to May, total transaction volumes of newly built apartments and secondhand houses in 40 major cities dropped by 24.9 percent and 20.9 percent respectively, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. Some 14 cities had seen price falls on a month-on-month basis, it added.
In this March 29, 2006 file photo a worker operates a machine to make socks at Langsha Socks Group production plant in Yiwu, China. From clothing exports to auto sales, China’s booming economy, long the bright spot amid a global slowdown, is weakening. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File
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DHAKA - Bangladesh’s garment exports are booming thanks to a new, stable business climate under the country’s state of emergency, officials said Wednesday. The nation’s exports of knitted and woven items rose by nearly 17 percent to a record 10.7 billion dollars in the financial year to June 2008. “We had an image as a strike-prone country. Buyers from all over the world used to worry a lot about whether our manufacturers could meet shipment deadlines,” Export Promotion Bureau chief Shahab Ullah told AFP. “But the state of emergency brought muchneeded stability as there have been hardly any strikes.” The garment export growth rate in the last financial year was up only marginally from the previous year’s 16 percent rise. But industry officials said the headline figure masks a big achievement considering exports fell 5.37 percent in the first quarter of the last financial year, amid concern about the country’s political outlook. It took a while for buyers to realize that Bangladesh could be a stable supplier of garments and after that “export orders jumped,” Ullah said. “To buyers, stability means a lot,” said Anwarul Alam Chowdhury Parvez, head of the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association, which covers 4,200 factories. Chowdhury said global buyers — mainly from
the US and the European Union — started looking towards Bangladesh from October. Exports leapt by 51 percent year-on-year in January and by more than 20 percent in the other months until the end of the financial year. A state of emergency was imposed in Bangladesh in January 2007, banning strikes after months of bitter political and industrial unrest that left dozens killed and closed factories and ports. The military-backed government has promised elections in December 2008 after it completes political, electoral and economic reforms. Garment industry officials said they hoped the industrial climate would remain stable after democracy is restored. Constant general strikes paralyzed the country amid a duel between Bangladesh’s two main rival political parties, the Awami League and the Bangladesh National Party, before the imposition of emergency rule. The garment trade accounts for 40 percent of all industrial jobs in Bangladesh, with women making up more than 80 percent of the workforce. Some 40 percent of Bangladesh’s 144 million people live below the poverty line. Poor households spend nearly 70 percent of their income on food. Garments, which make up three-quarters of the impoverished country’s export earnings, helped boost total exports by 16 percent to a record 14.11 billion dollars in the last financial year.
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Cursing Cruise to Shock with Bad Language Tom Cruise is set gal battle with exto shock fans in new Scientologist Peter movie Tropic ThunLetterese, who filed der— with his foulpapers in Florida’s mouth. The usually Southern District clean-cut star will use Court on July 15th. “colorful language” Letterese, who also in his role as a studio names Miscavage and boss in the comedy, others in the lawsuit, which stars Ben wants the religious orStiller and Robert ganization to be invesDowney Jr. tigated under the Stiller reveals, Racketeer Influenced Tom Cruise “We knew we were and Corrupt Organizalocked into a R-rating tion law, which is used from the language in to break up Mafia the beginning of the movie anyway, families and drug rings. He claims he from all the war movie dialog. You just was constantly harassed by members have to do that if you’re doing a war of the Church after he denounced the movie. I think a lot of these studio guys faith - with one Scientologist even talk like that. I know from personal phoning the home of Letterese’s lawexperience. I have heard people in yer. When the attorney’s wife anmovie studios curse.” Cruise will be swered, the unnamed member claimed almost unrecognizable as the over- he was her husband’s gay lover, acweight, balding executive in the film. cording to the court papers. Previously Cruise has been named Branding the Church of Scientology in a $250 million lawsuit filed against a “crime syndicate”, Letterese goes on the Church of Scientology by a former to allege that Miscavage is “aided and member. The action accuses the con- abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, troversial faith’s leaders of harassment. his right-hand man for foreign and doThe Hollywood star is an outspo- mestic promotion, as well as for forken member of the Church, and is al- eign and domestic lobbying. He has asleged to be second in line to sisted the syndicate in acquiring funds Scientology head David Miscavage. and (made) his own donations of money However his close connections have believed to be in the multiple tens of landed him in the middle of a new le- millions of dollars”.
Nicole Kidman to paparazzi: Leave baby Sunday alone
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer husband Keith Urban asked the paparazzi on Thursday to leave them and baby daughter Sunday Rose alone, saying she was a “tiny doll” who would be scared by the attention. “Keith and I are both appealing to the press and stuff just to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and show the baby our town,” Kidman told Sydney radio station 2Day FM. “She’s tiny. She’s like a doll, she’s like a little, little thing. Just (don’t photograph) right in her face or in our faces because it’s scary for her,” said Kidman. Kidman, country music star Urban and baby Sunday arrived in Sydney on Wednesday, after the Oscar-winning actress gave birth in Los Angeles in July. Unlike other celebrities, no photographs of Sunday have been released and Urban said they had no intention of selling any. “I get the interest there is. But at the same time it’s our little girl,” N i c o l e Kidman he told
the breakfast radio show. “Sometimes when people come right up in your face and you think: ‘Good God, would you do that to anybody else’s child?’ That’s all,” he said. Local media said paparazzi followed Kidman, Urban and Sunday to their home on Sydney Harbour, with the couple using several decoy cars to try to avoid photographers. A newspaper published grainy photos of the couple arriving on a private jet, with Sunday bundled up in a blanket. As they pleaded for privacy, Kidman and Urban, like all parents, were happy to talk about their baby. “She looks like Keith. I think she does. She’s got a little bit of hair, it’s a bit of a reddish tint,” said Kidman, a redhead with freckles as a young girl. Urban, who said he was speaking from the kitchen with Kidman and Sunday nearby, said being a new dad was an “awesome” feeling that only other fathers could understand.
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Jackie Chan to star in Hollywood spy comedy Jackie Chan’s next Hollywood project is an action comedy about a Chinese spy working undercover in the U.S. whose cover is blown, the movie’s producer said Thursday. “The Spy Next Door” will start shooting in mid-October, producer Robert Simonds told The Associated Press. Simonds said no one else had been cast. In an e-mail message, he described the film as a cross between “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “Big Daddy.” Chan plays a Chinese agent working undercover while on loan to the U.S. government. His cover is blown when he looks after the children of his neighbor, a beautiful single mother, and one of them accidentally downloads secret codes off his computer. Solon So, the chief executive of Chan’s company JC Group, confirmed the project on Tuesday but
declined to give details. He said the movie may be delayed if the Screen Actors Guild fails to reach a new contract with Hollywood studios and goes on strike. Chan is a SAG member. Chan usually juggles Hollywood and Chinese-language projects. His last film was the American kung fu movie “The Forbidden Kingdom,” which marked his first on-screen collaboration with action star Jet Li. He will next be seen in the Chinese-language “Shinjuku Incident,” reportedly about Chinese immigrants living in Tokyo’s Shinjuku shopping and entertainment district. Simonds’ producer credits include “The Pink Panther,” “Big Daddy,” “The Wedding Singer” and “The Waterboy.”
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Egypt to DNA test boy king’s ‘children’ Agence France-Presse
CAIRO - Egypt is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king, antiquities authorities said on Thursday.
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Federal investigators drop Ledger drug inquiry Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death this year, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan had been overseeing a Drug Enforcement Administration probe into whether the painkillers found in Ledger’s system were obtained illegally. But the prosecutors have bowed out “because they don’t believe there’s a viable target,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because no charges have been filed. The decision comes after recent reports that actress Mary-Kate
Olsen was demanding immunity before answering questions about the startling death of her close friend and his drug use. Authorities say she was the first person called by a masseuse who found the 28-year-old “Dark Knight” actor’s lifeless body in his Manhattan apartment. The DEA had obtained a subpoena that could have forced Olsen if she continued to hold out. But the subpoena, issued in April, is no longer valid because it was contingent upon prosecutors pursuing the case, the official said Wednesday. The official added that the case could still be revived if evidence of a crime emerges. Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said it’s the office’s policy to
“neither confirm nor deny the existance of an investigation.” There was no immediate response to a message left for Olsen’s attorney, Michael C. Miller. DEA investigators suspect the painkillers found in Ledger’s system, oxycodone and hydrocodone, were obtained with phony prescriptions or other illegal means. Oxycodone is sold as OxyContin and hydrocodone as Vicodin. The medical examiner’s office wouldn’t say what concentrations of each drug were found but made clear he was killed by the combination — not an excess of any one drug in particular. It’s common for the DEA to investigate an overdose death with so many different drugs involved, a DEA spokesman said last month.
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In a handout picture released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on August 6, 2008, archaeologists peel pack the protective wrapping on a mummified fetus recovered in 1922 from the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun at the University of Cairo. Egypt is to run DNA tests on two foetuses that have been stored at the University of Cairo since their discovery in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they are the children of ancient Egypt’s boy king.
KATHMANDU - A contest to choose the next “Miss Nepal” slated for Thursday was cancelled after Maoist female lawmakers denounced the beauty pageant. The former rebels emerged as the single largest party in the country’s newly elected assembly and are poised to form the next government. “We won’t let the event take G.501-ibp
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Skeleton of Canaanite soldier found in south Lebanon Agence France-Presse
SIDON - A British Museum team has found the skeleton of a Canaanite soldier that dates back to 1800 BC in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, the mission’s supervisor said on Wednesday. Claude Serhal, whose team has worked in Sidon for the past decade, told AFP the whole skeleton was found, carrying a spear in one hand. Small items of pottery, the oldest of their kind found in Lebanon, were also unearthed. The pottery have been linked to items found on the Greek island of Crete, she said. The Sidon excavations, going down several layers, show the different civilisations which have passed through Lebanon, making it one of the most important archaeological sites in the Middle East, said Serhal.
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A British archeologist digs up a skeleton dating back to Canaanite era, eighth millennium BC, at an excavation site in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
Dutch town tests ‘air-purifying’ concrete Agence France-Presse
THE HAGUE - A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Experts from the University of Twente developed and tested the concrete paving stones which contain a titanium dioxide-based additive. In laboratory conditions, the additive — under the influence of sunlight — binds the nitrogen oxide particles emitted by car exhausts and turns them into harmless nitrates. “With one rain shower everything is washed clean,” the institution said in a statement. Nitrogen oxides, produced by industry and motor vehicles, are
among the main air pollutants that lead to acid rain and smog. Developed from a Japanese invention, the bricks are now being put to the test in Hengelo in the eastern Dutch province of Overijssel. One half of a road under reconstruction is being paved with the new, green bricks, and the other half with the ordinary variety. “By measuring the air quality in both areas, we will be able to show the efficacy of the bricks,” said the statement. Apart for their ability to clean the air and repel dirt from the road surface, there was no other difference between these new bricks and the old ones, the university said. “The province of Overijssel sees an opportunity in these bricks to improve air quality,” it added. “This trial project is of great significance for the entire country.”
‘Miss Nepal’ pageant scrapped after Maoists object Agence France-Presse
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The bodies of the two still-born children were found in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun in the ancient Nile city of Luxor by British explorer Howard Carter and have since been stored at the University of Cairo. The DNA tests will determine whether the foetuses were the offspring of Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenpamon, daughter of Nefertiti, who was renowned as one of history’s great beauties, Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said. “It is thought that the tiny bodies may be those of the young king’s stillborn children,” said a statement from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. “The study aims at identifying the lineage and the family of king Tutankhamun, particularly his parents. The DNA test and the CT scan may also help to identify the foetuses’ mother,” Hawass said. “The results of these studies will also help in identifying the mummy of queen Nefertiti.” All royal mummies will be CT scanned for identification, the statement said, adding that samples from several unknown female mummies found at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have been taken for DNA testing. “All of the results will be compared with each other, along with those of the mummy of the boy king Tutankhamun, which was CT scanned in 2005,” it said. Last year, the true face of ancient Egypt’s boy king, who was proclaimed pharaoh at the age of just nine, was revealed to the public for the first time since he died more than 3,000 years ago. The pharaoh’s mummy was moved in November from its ornate sarcophagus in the tomb, where its 1922 discovery in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings caused an international sensation, to a climate-controlled case where experts say it will be better preserved. Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, remembered for having converted his kingdom to monotheism with the worship of one sun god, Aton. Her mummy has never been identified.
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place. We don’t need such a thing in the new federal democratic republic of Nepal where women are treated as objects of entertainment,” Maoist lawmaker Amrita Thapa told AFP Wednesday. She said the Maoists would not allow an “anti-women” event inspired by “capitalist” elements. “Such contests send the wrong message to society as they emphasise physical beauty rather
than intellectual ability,” said another female Maoist leader. Girendra Man Rajbanshi, the contest organiser, said: “We had to cancel our programme at the last minute.” He said they would try to change the activists’ minds and stage the contest later. The winner of the pageant gets the chance to represent Nepal at the annual Miss World contest, the organiser said.
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A recent picture shows the special paving stone in a lab of the Twente University. A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said on August 7, 2008.
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Karadzic challenges legality of trial Wants Holbrooke to testify
last Wednesday. “So that we may ascertain THE HAGUE - Radovan whether this case is legally tenKaradzic challenged the legality of able, I propose that you ... order that Richard his pending Holbrooke apgenocide trial pear before We d n e s d a y, you and deurging a UN clare under war crimes oath whether court to order or not there evidence from was such an former US dipagreement and lomat Richard whether the Holbrooke USA comabout a deal he plied with its claims would obligations have shielded from that him from trial. agreement.” In an upKaradzic dated submisrepeated his sion to the Inallegation that ternational the United Criminal TriAFP PHOTO States wanted bunal for the Radovan Karadzic him dead after former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Bosnian Serb reneging on a deal to shield him wartime leader claims the very from trial by the ICTY. He said Holbrooke, the US existence of such an agreement peace negotiator in Bosnia, had invalidated his prosecution. “I wish to challenge the legal- promised he would shield ity of the proceedings in their en- Karadzic from the tribunal in retirety ...,” reads the document pro- turn from disappearing from the vided by the tribunal, into whose public eye. Holbrooke has insisted custody Karadzic was transferred that no such deal existed. Agence France-Presse
Cambodian genocide court faces new corruption allegations Agence France-Presse
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal is facing new kickback allegations, prompting international donors to withhold at least 300,000 dollars from the cash-strapped court as it reviews the situation. The UN Development Programme (UNDP), which oversees the finances of the Cambodian side of the court, said in an email to AFP that the new allegations arose in late June. “UNDP is aware of new allegations of kickbacks on the Cambodian side of the court,” the email said. The agency said it was withholding funding for July, which includes operating expenses and salaries for Cambodian staff members, but it did not reveal the amount. “UNDP is reviewing the implications with its donors so we can collectively agree how to move forward following the allegations,” it added. Helen Jarvis, spokeswoman for the tribunal, declined to comment on the allegations but confirmed that 300,000 dollars in July salary for Cambodian staff had not been paid yet. “We are hoping and expecting that the situation will soon be resolved. Of course both national and international staff deserve to
be paid for their work,” Jarvis said. The new corruption allegations emerge as the court is preparing for its first trial, set to begin in September with proceedings against Kaing Guek Eav, also know as “Duch”, who ran a notorious torture centre in Phnom Penh. International backers have appeared hesitant to pledge more money to the court after allegations of political interference and mismanagement, including claims that Cambodian staff paid kickbacks in exchange for their jobs. But court officials have said last year’s allegations were “unspecific, unsourced and unsubstantiated.” The tribunal, which opened in 2006 after nearly a decade of wrangling between the United Nations and Cambodia, was originally budgeted at 56.3 million dollars over three years. If trials of the five Khmer Rouge officials currently detained go on longer than expected or if more people are prosecuted, court officials said the budget could swell to 105 million dollars, with cases running to December 2010. Up to two million people died of starvation, overwork and execution as the communist Khmer Rouge dismantled modern Cambodian society in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia during its 19751979 rule.
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US First Lady visits Myanmar refugees Agence France-Presse
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP US First Lady Laura Bush, a vocal critic of Myanmar’s junta, toured a refugee camp on Thursday and called on the military regime to open dialogue with the pro-democracy opposition. Highlighting abuses in military-run Myanmar has been the chief cause of the first lady, and with her daughter Barbara she made her way through a muddy settlement which is home to tens of thousands who fled the junta’s repression. She thanked the Thai government for allowing the nine camps housing more than 120,000 refugees that string the border with Myanmar. “If we could see a change in the Burmese government... people could move home in safety, that would be the best result,” the first lady told camp leaders, referring to Myanmar by its previous name. “The best solution would be if General Than Shwe’s regime would start real dialogue,” she said after being greeted by refugees performing song and dance in traditional dress. About 35,000 refugees huddle in Mae La camp at the foot of forested mountains, which many risked their lives to cross in their desperation to flee military crackdowns on ethnic rebel armies in their homeland. Mae La is on the site of the first refugee camp, which was set up in 1984 as Myanmar’s army advanced into Karen state and forced thousands over the border. Most refugees are from Myanmar’s ethnic groups, including many Christians from the Karen minority, and the United States has pledged to resettle 26,811 of the refugees. But Laura Bush said: “Most people do not want to have to move to third countries. They would rather move to their home villages in safety and security.” The first lady also visited Mae Tao Clinic, one of the few medical centres in Thailand where migrant workers from Myanmar can get free health care. President George W. Bush, who arrived in Thailand on Wednesday, hailed his wife’s efforts to highlight abuses in Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962 and keeps democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi locked up. “We seek an end to tyranny in
RAMALLAH - Israel will release more than 150 Palestinian prisoners before the end of August to bolster US-backed peace talks, senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP on Wednesday.
Cheers! Drinkers’ delight at Great British Beer Festival Agence France - Presse
LONDON - Thirsty ale drinkers are trying out more than 750 different weird and wonderful brews from across the globe at the Great British Beer Festival. Some 250,000 pints of beer, from as far afield as Japan, South Africa and Australia, were being served to curious drinkers at west London’s Earls Court exhibition centre, temporarily the biggest pub in the world. In terms of the range of drinks sold, no beer festival in the world comes close to the the annual fiveday knees-up, which calls time on Saturday. More than 750 different brews, including more than 450 British real ales, were on offer at the bash that raises a glass to finely-crafted, fresh beer and rejects what purists say is gassed-up, bland, factory-produced lager. Among the exotically-named
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US First Lady Laura Bush looks at child health care during a visit to The Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot on August 7, 2008. Laura visits a clinic and Myanmar refugees on the border, where more than 120,000 civilians who have fled brutal junta crackdowns on ethnic rebel armies live in cramped camps.
Burma,” he said in a speech in Bangkok. “This noble cause has many devoted champions, and I happen to be married to one of them... America reiterates our call on Burma’s military junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.” The president also met with exiled Myanmar dissidents and politicians, a day before the 20-year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising there which was crushed by the army, leaving 3,000 dead. He told the exiles that American people “pray for the day in which the people (of Myanmar) will be free.” Aung San Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to election victory in 1990, but instead of recognising the result the junta kept
her under house arrest, where she has now spent most of the last 19 years. On Friday, activists in Myanmar will silently mark two decades since the August 8, 1988 uprising, when students led activists, Buddhist monks and even young military cadets onto the streets, only to face a massacre by the army. Last year, protesters again poured onto the streets to rally against economic hardship and junta rule. This time, 31 people were killed in the resulting crackdown, the United Nations has said. The United States has been the most vocal critic of the junta, and has a patchwork of economic sanctions against the regime. These sanctions were strengthened after the crackdown last September.
Israel to release more than 150 prisoners Agence France-Presse
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The announcement was made following a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Jerusalem, their first since Olmert announced he would resign later this year. “It was a successful meeting. We
have an agreement to release more than 150 prisoners in Israeli jails before the end of this month,” Erakat told AFP. Israeli officials confirmed they would be releasing prisoners before the end of August but declined to provide numbers.
British beers being served were Alligator Ale, Gorge Best, A Fist Full of Hops, Beserker Export, Oscar Wilde Mild, Inferno, Land of Hop and Glory, Bravo Zulu, Side Pocket for a Toad and Mother in Law. Foreign beers that made the grade were also available, including offerings from the booming US cask ale scene, Nigeria, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Belgium and Italy. Some 65,000 punters are expected at the event organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale — fresh beer brewed using traditional ingredients and left to mature in the cask from which it is served, rather than pasteurised lager fizzed up with a blast
of carbon dioxide gas. “Real ale is a natural, living product, so there is a much greater intensity of flavours,” CAMRA chief executive Mike Benner told AFP. “One of our objectives is to get people to try it. There are fruit beers, wheat beers, porters, stouts, milds and golden ales. It’s incredibly diverse, so there’s something to meet everyone’s tastes.” The very mention of factory lager brings a grimace to Benner’s face. “A processed, keg beer is completely inert, a dead, flat liquid, drawn up to bar with carbon dioxide to put some life in it.” Besides cruising the bars, bearded beer-fest veterans in faded tee-shirts and spiky-haired 20-somethings alike tried their hands at traditional pub games like skittles and snapped up pub souvenirs like ashtrays and glasses. The traditional pub snacks like pork scratchings were piled high, while food stalls served up sausages and mashed potatoes, burgers and Indian cuisine.
Nintendo DS to become personal beauty consultant Agence France - Presse
TOKYO (AFP) - Women in Japan will soon be able to have their own hand-held beauty consultant after games company Sega teamed up with cosmetics giant Shiseido to offer make-up tips on the Nintendo DS. “Project Beauty”, which will go on sale from November 27 in Japan, is used with a scanning device that feeds digital images of the user’s face into the DS, which analyses the shape and position of the eyes, lips and other parts. The software, priced at 6,090 yen (55 dollars) including the scanning device, matches faces with one of four groups — cool, active, cute or feminine. It would then show a user’s face with no make-up on one screen and a proposed make-over on the other. “The same user can have a variety of make-up tips for different occasions such as business, dating or formal gatherings. You would find colours that are good on you but you never realised before,” Sega spokeswoman Rei Sugiyama said. “The new software targets women in their 20s and 30s,” she said, noting that the Nintendo DS has attracted many users, “including children, elderly people and women who were not considered core game players.” For users who want to choose their own make-up, they can simu-
late a full make-over by selecting different shades of colours and other details of the foundation, blusher, mas-
cara, lipstick and other make-up. They can also learn how to apply foundation along with other basic skills.
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Nissan Motor’s prototype full-electric car is presented at a testdrive event in Nissan Oppama Grandrive in Yokosuka on August 6, 2008. The third largest automaker in Japan aims to start selling an electric car in the United States and Japan in 2010 and the rest of the world in 2012.
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The new Asus Eee PC 1000H, left, is shown next to a Dell laptop in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Asus has expanded its line with laptops that are just big enough for a full-size touch-typist.
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Olympics: I’m in the form of my life, insists Murray Agence France - Presse
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Chinese city pauses for policemen slain in attack Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - British tennis star Andy Murray cut a confident figure following his first pre-Olympic tournament training session here in Beijing on Thursday.
KASHGAR - The remote Chinese city of Kashgar came to a standstill on Thursday as a government-organised ceremony was held to remember 16 policemen killed in an alleged terrorist attack.
Just hours after touching down in China, Murray joined his brother Jamie - with whom he will play in the doubles - for a light knock. And less than a week from the biggest win of his life in Cincinnati, where he claimed his first Masters Series title with a 7-6, 76 victory over world number three Novak Djokovic, Murray was bristling with self-belief. “I feel confident. I’m playing the best tennis of my career but it’s tough here,” said the world number six. “Very hard conditions, very hard tournament and I’m playing singles and doubles. “It’s pretty physically tiring as well.You have to make sure you don’t spend too much energy off the court and try to save it all for the match.” Murray is at a career high ranking following his third title of the year, and was singled out by no less a light than Roger Federer, alongside Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, as one of the Swiss master’s main rivals here. But the Scot seems delighted just to be in China. “I’m really looking forward to it. Just being in the Village for the first time, it’s
About 2,000 people from the Uighur ethnic minority lined a bridge in the Central Asian border town, with several participants telling AFP they had been ordered to take part in the ceremony, which was tightly controlled by police. Authorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region blamed Islamic Uighur militants for Monday’s attack on the policemen, saying it was part of a plot to wreck the Beijing Olympics. “All of the people of Kashgar will remember you forever,” said a banner held by a line of soldiers on the bridge. The procession was held amid a security clampdown in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi and throughout the region to prevent any more trouble ahead of Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony, thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Beijing. “To ensure security during the ceremony, the Urumqi police will guard against and severely strike any destructive or illegal activities,” the government-run Xinjiang Daily News said. “All our strength will be channelled toward increasing the frequency and intensity of public security patrols.” Several major markets in the city
an amazing facility. “Being around some of the best athletes in the world, it’s an honour. To represent your country in a competition like this is huge.” As well as the singles, where Murray faces Taipei’s Lu Yen-Hsun in the first round before a potential quarter-final match-up with Nadal, he will join his brother in the doubles competition. They face a tough first round draw against Canadians Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer. Nestor is the top ranked doubles player in the world, although he usually plays with Serbian Nenad Zimonjic. For Jamie Murray, though, it is the conditions that are most concerning him. “We just arrived this morning at midnight and had a few hours rest. However, this humidity, I’m just sweating a lot. It’s tough for me to get used to this weather,” said the elder Murray brother, who last year won the Wimbledon mixed doubles titles with Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic. “I don’t know if we have advantages,” Jamie said of his partnership with Andy. “We have played a lot before but there are also many other players here who play together a lot and do very well.”
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Andy Murray, from Great Britain, hits a forehand against Novak Djokovic, from Serbia, in the championship match at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, in Mason, Ohio.
Calzaghe Ducking Me – Pavlik
Middleweight king Kelly Pavlik says Joe Calzaghe is avoiding a clash with him. ‘The Ghost’ has become one of the stars of the sport in the last 12 months since stopping Jermain Taylor to become the best there is at 160lbs. He’s since registered victories over Taylor in a rematch and overmatched Brit Gary Lockett, but it’s a showdown with fellow unbeaten ace Calzaghe that he really wants. Instead though the Welshman has decided to face Roy Jones Junior in what could potentially be his last fight at Madison Square Garden on November 8. And that leaves Pavlik to face Bernard Hopkins at catchweight of 170lbs in Atlantic City on October 18. He said: “Calzaghe... I don’t know what I’ve got to do, perhaps shoot him in the leg to stop him running.” Pavlik, though, is determined to make the most of his opportunity of potentially ending the career of another ring legend in the shape of Hopkins. “I’m looking forward to it,” said Pavlik. “It is going to be a blue collar fight. I don’t ever change my style. I come forward, I fight and I get in the best shape I can possible get into. That is what I will do on October 18. It is a pleasure to be in the ring with Hopkins. Never in my life did I think I’d be fighting Hopkins.” Despite his defeat by Calzaghe last time out, Hopkins has little doubt that he can get back to winning ways against Pavlik. ‘The Executioner’ said: “I’m just thrilled to do what I do. “What I do is I take people’s best weapons and reduce them down to nothing. I am a master of that and there won’t be anything different.”
Koreans fail to agree on joint march for Olympic opening ceremony Agence France - Presse
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BEIJING - North and South Korea have failed to reach an agreement to allow their athletes to march as one unified team at the Olympic opening ceremony, IOC President Jacques Rogge said Thursday. Rogge said the International Olympic Committee had been hoping the two Koreas would march together in a joint team for Friday’s procession as they had done in Sydney in 2000 and four years later in Athens. “We have tried to have this in Beijing but unfortunately this was not possible,” Rogge told reporters. “Unfortunately the political leaders in the North and the South did not agree.” Rogge said the two teams would walk one behind the other as the marching order was drawn up alphabetically. The two countries, who are still technically at war from their 195053 conflict, held last-gasp talks in Beijing in an attempt to agree a joint march, an idea originally suggested by Rogge. They had agreed in principle during their second-ever summit last year to field joint athletic and supporter squads
for the Beijing Games. But ties plummeted after South Korea’s conservative President Lee Myung-Bak took office in February and promised a tougher line towards Pyongyang. The fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist in the North last month has further soured relations. The tense relations also forced Olympic host China to drop plans to bring North and South Korean leaders together for an informal meeting at the Games. China had arranged for South Korea’s Lee and North Korea’s number two leader Kim Yong-Nam to sit at the same table during a welcoming lunch on Friday. But it changed the plan and moved Lee and Kim further apart, the presidential office in Seoul revealed earlier in the week. North Korea has sent 60 athletes to China, its closest political ally. They will compete in women’s football, judo, weightlifting, wrestling, archery, shooting, boxing, table tennis, the marathon, gymnastics, diving and synchronised swimming. South Korea has about 260 athletes in the Chinese capital.
had already shut down until Sunday to “welcome the Beijing Olympics,” said the state-controlled Xinjiang news website Tianshan.net. The crowds at the procession in Kashgar were mainly elderly Uighur men in traditional four-pointed skullcaps and women in colourful headscarves, although there were also dozens of white-shirted government employees. “We were ordered to come here by the authorities,” said one 18-year-old Uighur man, asking to remain anonymous. Asked if he wanted to be there, he said: “I guess it is okay, but I could not really say no.” Police stopped several people from talking to an AFP reporter, while those who did speak expressed similar sentiments to the reluctant teenager. The bridge where the Uighurs were arranged was near the local headquarters of China’s ruling Communist Party. Uighurs in other parts of the city told of similar gatherings as the ceremony ground the city to a halt. Police sealed off the town’s main road as more than a dozen military and police vehicles drove past, escorting four buses full of weeping civilians who appeared to be relatives of
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Ethnic Uighur women gather before an official ceremony on August 7, 2008 to remember the 16 Chinese police officers killed in an alleged terrorist attack in Xinjiang’s famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China’s far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. China’s heavily Muslim west was tense on August 7 ahead of the Beijing Olympics Games opening ceremony as the authorities vowed to crush any attempt to cause disruption. the dead police officers. According to the official explanation, two Uighur separatists attacked a group of around 70 policemen with explosives and machetes, killing 16 officers and wounding another 16. The government said the explosives used in the attack were similar
to those found in a raid on the separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a UN-listed terrorist group, during a raid on the group in Xinjiang last year. Two short-lived East Turkestan republics emerged in Xinjiang in the 1930s and 1940s, when Chinese cen-
tral government control was weakened by civil war and Japanese invasion. Xinjiang now has about 8.3 million ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people, many of whom express anger at what they say has been decades of repressive Chinese rule.
Strike, protests hits Kashmir as Indian PM bids to defuse tensions Agence France-Presse
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United Progressive Alliance Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, left, is seen with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during an all party meeting to discuss and resolve the ongoing protest over a state government decision relating to the land and a Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
SRINAGAR - A Hindu protester was shot dead in an army firing in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday as Premier Manmohan Singh held talks with the nation’s political parties in a bid to defuse tensions in the region. The protester died in a mostly Hindu area when the army opened fire to quell violent demonstrators who defied a curfew and blocked a highway in a bid to impose an economic blockade on the mainly Muslim Kashmir valley, police said. “The army had to open fire after police failed to control the unruly mob,” a police officer said, asking not to be identified. The latest turmoil in Kashmir erupted in June, when the state government reneged on a plan to transfer land to a Hindu shrine following violent protests in the Muslimdominated Kashmir valley that left six dead and hundreds injured. The government’s about-face ignited protests in the mainly Hindu region of Jammu, where three protesters have died since last week. A strike called by hardliners opposed to the Hindu land deal paralysed northern Muslim areas of the region on Wednesday. Shops and post offices were shuttered in the summer capital Srinagar, urban hub of an Islamic separatist revolt that has raged since 1989 and left at least 43,000 dead. There were simi-
lar shutdowns in other mostly Muslim areas of the state. Hardline separatist Syed Ali Geelani, who called the strike, warned authorities not to “please (Hindu) fanatics” by transferring land to the Hindu shrine. In Srinagar, protesters fought running battles with police near the main mosque and several other places. Separatist Geelani warned that Muslims would launch “a massive agitation” if the shrine received the land, which it wants to create facilities for tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting a mountain grotto. Government officials said the country’s major political parties had decided at talks in New Delhi on Wednesday to send representatives to the troubled region to assess the situation. “A dialogue process will start with all parties concerned, including the various parties who are participating in the agitation,” Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters. But in Jammu, a Hindu alliance spearheading the protests declared the “outcome of the meeting will not be binding on us.” “We will keep up our protests until we get the land for the shrine,” said Leela Karan Sharma. Before the row erupted, Kashmir had been enjoying a lull in violence while India and Pakistan worked on an ongoing peace process.
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General leading Mauritania’s coup was close ally of president Agence France-Presse
NOUAKCHOTT - General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who led the military coup overthrowing Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Wednesday, was once a close ally of the president.
Anwar Ibrahim KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s top opposition leader is charged with what he dismisses as a “treacherous” accusation of sodomy, but is allowed to remain free on bail to campaign for a byelection to Parliament.
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A discreet man known for being frank and determined, he backed Abdallahi during the presidential elections in March 2007. However, relations between the two men recently soured. Political observers here say Abdel Aziz was behind the political crisis which culminated in the walkout of 48 ruling party MPs on Monday, less than two weeks after a vote of no confidence in the government prompted a cabinet reshuffle. The renegade lawmakers criticised Abdallahi’s exercise of “personal power”, adding that he had “disappointed the hopes of Mauritanians”. In an apparent effort to curb Abdel Aziz’s political influence, President Abdallahi on Wednesday said he would replace him as the head of the presidential guard. Within hours of the announcement, however, Abdel Aziz mounted
JERUSALEM - Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran’s atomic program, even if it can’t destroy it. Source: ap
Morocco, joined the Mauritanian army in 1977 and helped set up the battalion of the presidential guard in the 1990s. He has been at the helm of this prestigious force since its creation and the presidential guard was instrumental in overthrowing president Maaouiya Ould Taya in a bloodless
coup in 2005. Abdel Aziz was part of the military regime that governed Mauritania between 2005 and 2007 when it handed over power to the civilian government following the country’s first democratic presidential elections, hailed by the international community as a model for African democracy.
Sarkozy awards China ‘gold medal’ for Olympic preparations Agence France-Presse
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This recent file photo shows Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (L) shaking hands with General Ould Abdel Aziz (R) in Nouakchott. Troops led by Abdel Aziz overthrew Mauritania’s President in a military coup on August 6, 3008 after he tried to sack senior army officers accused of being behind a political crisis destabilising the country. President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and his Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf were arrested as troops rolled through the capital Nouakchott and took over the presidential palace and the prime minister’s office. a military coup. The first thing the new military junta announced was the annulment of the changes in the army decreed by Abdallahi. Abdel Aziz was born in 1956 in Akjoujt to the north of the capital Nouakchott, into a tribe of marabouts (Islamic holy men). He attended the royal military academy in Meknes in
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute Wednesday to “historic, unfailing and immovable friendship” between Paris and Beijing and awarded China a “gold medal” for its Olympic preparations. “To this China which improves every day, I address a warm message of friendship; a historic, unfailing and immovable friendship, which links the French people to the Chinese people,” he told China’s Xinhua news agency. Sarkozy, along with other world leaders, has come under fire
from human rights activists for his expected attendance at Friday’s opening ceremony. Separately, Sarkozy’s office announced on Wednesday that he would not be meeting with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan spiritual leader visits France next week. The Elysee added that Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would take part in a ceremony chaired by the Tibetan leader in exile on August 22. Sarkozy threatened to stay away from Friday’s opening ceremony following a Chinese crackdown on unrest in Tibet in March, before announcing last month he would attend
because of progress in talks between China and the Dalai Lama. But tensions have continued to simmer over the possibility Sarkozy might meet the Dalai Lama during his French visit, which was scheduled before the incidents in Tibet. In his interview with Xinhua, Sarkozy alluded to recent tensions between China and France, highlighted by the Olympic flame’s eventful journey through the streets of Paris earlier this year. He explained that “some people in our two countries wondered recently about the reality and sense of this friendship,” according to a transcript of the interview released by the
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Real Madrid’s Robinho seeks transfer to Chelsea - press Agence France - Presse
MADRID - Real Madrid’s Brazilian striker Robinho has told the club he wants to join Chelsea, coached by his compatriot Luiz Felipe Scolari, a Spanish newspaper said Wednesday. Robinho told Real president Ramon Calderon that no club could retain a player if he wanted to leave, ABC reported, noting the player was using the same argument as the Spanish champions are themselves deploying to lure Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United. The Spanish press has often urged Real to sell Robinho, who joined the club in 2005, to help finance the possible purchase of Ronaldo. Real are reportedly ready to pay up to 85 million euros (132.5 million dollars) for the Portuguese striker, but Manchester United have repeatedly insisted he is not for sale. Robinho feels unwanted at Real, and was hurt by the club’s decision to prevent him joining the Brazil squad at the Olympics, ABC said. Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon said on July 21 he is hopeful of signing Robinho, and British media have reported the London club has offered 25 million pounds (32 million eu-
ros, 49 million dollars) for the 24-yearold. “It is well noted we have shown interest. We have had discussions with Madrid over it and they are ongoing. The window is still open and we are still talking to Madrid,” Kenyon said. In another statement, on August 1, Kenyon said that “one of the key issues over buying Robinho has always been that Real Madrid are looking for a replacement. “It is fair to say that is what has been holding up discussions between the two clubs.”
Real Madrid’s footballer Robinho on the bench against SV Hamburg during the Emirates Cup competition at the Emirates stadium in north London, on August 2, 2008.
Fergie Welcomes Ronaldo’s Commitment
LONDON - Sir Alex Ferguson is delighted Cristiano Ronaldo is staying with Manchester United. The Portugal winger has been linked with Real Madrid throughout the summer, with the Spanish club maintaining their interest even though United repeatedly stressed Ronaldo would not be sold. But the 23-year-old has now told Portuguese newspaper Publico that he will be staying at Old Trafford for at least the next 12 months. Key to that dramatic development was a meeting between the player and Ferguson in Portugal just after his country’s exit at Euro 2008. At the time it seemed certain Ronaldo would leave, but Ferguson managed to persuade the Madeira-born player he was better off where he was. “We cleared the air in Portugal, and the boy spoke to a few of the players as well,” said the Scot. The thing is, he knows he is happy here - and has always been happy here.” “The fans have to understand it has been a very difficult time for him. He has been offered all this money - when his dad has died a young man and he is looking after his mother, his sister and his brother. He has had a troubled time, and you can understand that.” “But once he knew my stance, he settled down - and as far as we are all concerned, the matter is finished. The boy is a United player - that is what is important.” Ferguson knows he will continue to be plagued by questions over Ronaldo and is equally aware the speculation will begin again next summer - given the player’s claim he still wants to play for Real one day.
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France’s Ribery voted German footballer of the year Agence France - Presse
BERLIN - Bayern Munich’s French midfielder Franck Ribery has been voted German footballer of the year, according to a poll to be published in sports magazine Kicker on Thursday. Ribery, who joined the German first division giants from Marseille last year, garnered 224 votes from Bundesliga players and managers, beating second-placed German international captain Michael Ballack by 109 votes. He becomes only the second foreign player to win the award since its inception in 1960, the Brazilian Ailton winning the title in 2004. “It’s good for a sportsman to be recognized for his performances. But I have to say that the titles won last year by the team are far more important,” said the Frenchman, currently recovering from an operation to his left ankle. Ribery, 25, was part of the French national squad that came runners-up in the 2006 World Cup finals, going on to win the French Player of the Year award 12 months later. Bayern won the league and cup double last season and are hoping to make a big impression in the Champions League - which they last won in 2001 - under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
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Toyota team president John Howett believes that Japanese squad are back on the level of competitiveness they enjoyed in 2005 and are eyeing the 2009 season as a huge opportunity to make the big jump.
Toyota have consolidated as the fourth strongest team this year, thanks to two podiums finishes by Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock, the German achieving the team’s best result of the year with a second place in Hungary last Sunday. The Cologne-based outfit have scored 35 points so far, four more than fifth-placed Renault with seven races to go. If Toyota wind up in fourth place they would equal their best championship classification,
having also finished there in 2005. Howett reckons the team are performing as strongly as three years ago, and is aware that the regulations changes for 2009 could prove a big opportunity for Toyota to take a step forward. “Yes,” he said when asked if Toyota were back on the form they showed in the past. “We had a strong beginning to 2005 because we sacrificed 2004 with the regulation change, although towards the end we lifted.”
“Last year, we had actually had a better season than the results showed and maybe we were given credit for, but I think now we have got a good team of people working together and it is coming.” “Next year is a huge opportunity and a huge risk. If you get it right you will be a star and if you get it wrong you will be struggling all season. So, we are mindful of that.” He added: “Like everybody, we have been working a long time on the 2009 car. We are still forcing this car hard, but until we actually race in Australia next year I don’t think anyone will know how they have done.” Howett said the team are still not
focusing all their efforts on their 2009 car, but he feels Toyota are already in a strong position. “To be honest, I think it will be another couple of weeks before it is 100 percent on the 2009 car,” he said. “But, even now we have been putting quite a lot of effort onto the 2009 car.” “We have been working on it for I suppose nine months to one year, but everybody has. We think we are good, but someone else may be bet-
ter. We need to be paranoid.” Howett is also aware that the battle for fourth place this year will be very tight and he believes a lot will depend on which team manage to be more consistent. “We are trying to be strong everywhere. We are trying to put more on the car, but are mindful that we have a massive change in terms of the profile of the aerodynamics for next year.”
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Dennis still committed to McLaren future
Ron Dennis remains totally committed to the long term success of McLaren, his team have said, as the outfit denied reports that he is considering walking away from the sport at the end of this season. The German publication Auto Motor Und Sport reported this week that Dennis may be looking to retire at the end of this year if his team succeed in their ambition to win the F1 world championship. The magazine also suggested that Dennis was so keen to achieve the title, which would allow him to leave, that he was focusing his team’s efforts on developing this year’s car at the expense of work on their 2009 challenger. But a McLaren spokesman has moved to dismiss the speculation about Dennis’s future, claiming that the team chief’s future plans have not changed and that there is
no suggestion of them putting all their resources into 2008. “Recent articles suggesting that Ron is considering stepping back, or that he will step back if the world championship is won by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes this year, have been based around a very old quote,” said a McLaren team spokesman. “Ron has made it clear on numerous occasions that he has made no decision as to if and when he may or may not step aside. Ron’s, and the team’s, focus remains on winning every grand prix we start - and that applies to this season, next season, the season after that, and so on.” “As a result, we are maintaining development of our 2009 car, at undiminished levels, while continually improving our 2008 car, race by race, test by test, in the normal way.”
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Torchbearers take part in the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay at the Badaling section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing August 7, 2008.
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BEIJING - China evacuated nearly 400,000 people and called thousands of vessels back to port as its southern coast braced Wednesday for an approaching tropical storm, state media and government agencies said. Severe Tropical Storm Kammuri was heading north across the South China Sea and was expected to make landfall in south China’s Guangdong province late Wednesday or early Thursday, the China Meteorological Administration said. It would then head west along the densely populated coast, according to the administration’s website. The storm lashed Hong Kong on Wednesday, packing winds of 110 kilometres (68 miles) per hour at its centre, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. The ferocity prompted Chinese officials to step up the emergency response level. Guangdong, along with neighbouring Hainan island and Guangxi’s Zhuang region, decided to evacuate 388,000 people from their homes, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. The three areas also ordered a total of 57,800 vessels back to port, according to Xinhua. “(We should) ensure all these people be evacuated to safe places in order to guarantee the people’s lives,” Chen Lei, the minister for water resources, said in a statement on the department’s website. Torrential rain has affected huge parts of southern and central China in recent months, taking a heavy toll in life and material damage.
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The Houston Rockets centre who was the flag bearer for China in Athens four years ago has been selected to do the honours again here and said he expected a raucous welcome at the
92,000-seater National Stadium. “It’s exciting to be the flag bearer again in the host land,” said Yao. “It will be totally different from
my experience in Athens. The atmosphere wil reach its hottest point — I’m afraid I’ll have to wear ear plugs.” China is fielding its biggest ever Olympic delegation that includes 639 athletes who will be competing in all 28 sports at the Olympics for the first time in a bid to top the medals table ahead of the United States. Continued on page 6