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Umaklungkung market, a banana market naturally formed

Brazil’s Gisele holds top spot in Forbes model list; Jenner jumps

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NEW YORK - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen remained the highest-paid female model in the world with annual income of $30.5 million, while Kardashian clan member Kendall Jenner more than doubled her earnings, according to Forbes’ 2016 list on Tuesday.

Jenner, 20-year-old member of reality TV’s Kardashian family, tied for third, up from 16th the prior year, and she was the biggest gainer on the 2016 list. Her salary increased from $4 million in 2015 to $10 million in 2016 in part due to partnerships with Estee Lauder and Calvin Klein, Forbes said.

Illinois native Karlie Kloss, 24, was also ranked third and doubled

her income to $10 million. The magazine said Kloss had more campaigns than any other model on the list.

Bundchen, 35, has made more money than any other model since 2002 and continues to collect top dollar from endorsement deals with Chanel, Carolina Herrera and Pantene.

Coming in second with $10.5 million was fellow Brazilian Adri-

ana Lima. The longtime Victoria’s Secret model works with Maybelline and IWC watches.

The highest-ranked of six newcomers on the list was Gigi Hadid at fifth. Hadid has more than 22 million fans on Instagram, and Forbes said brands like Maybelline and Tommy Hilfiger are eager to reach her audience.

The 20 models earned a combined $150 million between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2016. The results included income from cosmetics, fragrance and other contracts and were based on interviews with managers, agents and brand executives. (rtr)

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DENPASAR - Umaklungkung market, often referred to as Batukandik market specialises in bananas and other fruits. This market, located between Kerobokan customary village and Padangsambian Kaja administrative village, West Denpasar, formed naturally without any previous planning.

Initially, a number of wholesale merchants at Anyar Sari market (adjacent to Umaklungkung market) who were not given a space there rented a space outside of Nayar Sari market in 2002. Gradually other banana and other fruit merchants also set up shop here.

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In this Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 photo, a statue of little Barack Obama stands at at SDN Menteng 01, the elementary school he once attended, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Indonesians keep pride in Obama link even as high hopes dim

JAKARTA — As Barack Obama’s presidency nears its end, Indonesians still speak with pride of the childhood years he spent in their country, though much of the enthusiasm has faded along with the impossibly high expectations of what the first African-American president would achieve.

A fan club, books, a statue, a cafe and even a movie were all part of the mania for Obama in the world’s most populous Muslim nation after he was elected president in 2008. Many Indonesians believed he would change the world and their country, with its deep-seated problems of poverty, corruption and communal conflict.

Obama is still known here by his childhood nickname Barry and as the “Menteng Kid,” a reference to the upscale Jakarta neighborhood where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather from ages 6

to 10.

“We had great expectations about him that were not realized,” said Sonni Gondokusumo, who was one of Obama’s classmates at Menteng 01 elementary school and a neighbor, and is now a lawyer in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.

Obama is set to travel to Asia for the last time as president, visiting China for a Group of 20 meeting and Laos for a regional summit, but not Indonesia. His first of two visits to the country as president was in 2010, taking Obama-mania

to new heights that included an Indonesian lookalike becoming a national celebrity.

Gondokusumo fondly recalled how a young Obama played at his house and joined him in Muslim prayers wearing a traditional Indonesian sarong that kept falling off, causing much laughter. “Initially, we expected Barry will make a difference,” Gondokusumo said.

“To be honest, there is no significant contribution to this country.”

Widiyanto Cahyono, another of Obama’s former classmates, nodded in agreement.

He said he initially had believed that Obama’s emotional connection to Islam through childhood friends and a Muslim stepfather would lead to a world of greater tolerance. But now he realizes he

had naively projected all his hopes onto Obama. “Obama has a better understanding of Islam and his religious tolerance is genuine,” said Cahyono, who sat next to Obama in fourth grade. “But it is a pity nothing has changed,” he added, pointing to American policy in the Middle East.

He recalled Obama attending Islamic study class at the Menteng school, but said that instead of listening to the teacher, the future president acted cool by doodling a superhero in his notebook.

Even though the sky-high hopes for what Obama would achieve have faded, there is still a sense of connection in Indonesia to an important individual who helped shaped the world in the formative years of the 21st century. “With

Obama, there’s a sense of pride,” Cahyono said. “He is very special for us.”

A statue of Obama as a child now stands outside the Menteng school, intended as an enduring reminder of the school’s one-time pupil.

Back in 2008, students watched the U.S. election results on television and erupted into cheers when they learned Obama was headed to the White House.

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Nyoman Sulendra, hamlet chief of Umaklungkung accompanied by local resident I Wayan Sugita said that he helped pioneer this makeshift market by renting plots of his land to merchants who could not set up shop at Anyar Sari market, so that they could set up kiosks.

Sugita also sold fruit here.

“The merchants from the lower area (Anyar Sari market) first brought 1 or 2 truck loads of bananas here, then other merchants followed”, he explained. There are now about 25 trucks that unload bananas at this location.

Before becoming a center for wholesale banana and other fruit selling, this location was rice paddy.

However, since it was persistently taxed, the area was then made into stalls that are rented out to local merchants. “Rather than paying

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Umaklungkung Market

Other side of usaba dangsil

Aside from daha truna, the committee also abstinence Committee member for usaba dangsil 2016, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan, after the peak of ritual on Monday (Aug. 29), said that he himself experienced such consequences.

He explained that since the imple-

The Ngusaba Dangsil tradition

mentation of melasti procession of Ida Batara Kabeh to the south sea at Bugbug village on August 17, the core procession of the usaba dangsil ritual had already begun which means that everyone assigned to the success of

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expensive taxes, I thought I would borrow money from the bank to establish a warehouse”, he added.

Here fruits such as melons, watermelons, papayas and yam beans are ordered from distributors in from Malang, Flores, Banyuwangi, Borneo, Lombok and Java and are sold wholesale. “If the price is okay, we purchase directly from farmers” he said. Once the money is transferred the distributors with whom they do business regularly, deliver the goods.

“We’ve become regular customers so the goods are shipped here immediately”, he said, explaining that 90 percent of the fruits are from farms outside of Bali. He said that nearly 90 percent of the fruits are from farmers outside Bali. SO far Sugita has not thought about futur management of the market, as he said that for now he is focused on maintaining the hygien and layout of the market area. (kmb42)

Usaba dangsil requires a long periode of preparation –around 1 year, to ensure that nothing is lacking for this sacred ritual. The Daha Truna (young boys and girls) engage in abstinence during the usaba dangsil procession but the usaba dangsil committee must do the same. If this abstinence is violated, there are immediate consequences.

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the ritual must focus on completing all the requirements for ritial in the village. One of the things that committee members must abstain from is going outside of the area of Bungaya Customary Village.

However, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan admitted that he broke this comitment.. After the melasti procession, he went to Sidemen village. “At that time, I went to a relative’s hosue in Sideman to mourn someone who had passed away. Once I got home

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however, all of the suddent, I had a fever, headache and felt exhausted, I then got really sick” he said from the Bale Aging temple of Bungaya Customary Village.

His family panicked because his platelet count continued to decline to 15 from the normal count of 150 to 450. His health condition continued to deteriorate until he had to be rushed to Karangasem Hospital anf was then transferred to BaliMed Hospital Karangasem, so the treatment could be done within Bungaya village. He then realized that he had broken his comitment to abstain from leaving Bungaya when he went to Sideman.

Finally, he asked for help from De Kubayan Wayan (ritual advisor) so that he could perform a ritual to apologies to the deities of Bungaya for his transgression.

After sprinkling holy water, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan’s condition started to improve and he quickly recovered and was even able to lead the peak of the implementation of the usaba dangsil from August 29 to the end. After experiencing the consequences of breaking his abstinence, Jungkutan admitted that he was even more convinced abouteh sacred nature of the usaba dangsil ritual. All the par-

ties involved in the ritual need to pay close attention to even the smallest things which are all very important, he said.

Local residents must obey the sacred usaba dangsil ritual at each stage. The Daha Truna, are especially important as the procession of usaba dangsil makrs a new beginning for these youngsters as the Daha Truna Nyomanan certifies thems as Daha Truna of Bungaya customary village who can then take on the responsibility of doing ritual works at the customary village. “When the Dangsil Dalem collapses at the time of establishing the dangsil, villagers immediately get new materials and the new Dangsil Dalem is made”, he said.

This sacred ritual has been practiced through generations and nothing may be changed, no matter how small.

Though many questions emerge regarding the execution, no one dares to change the implementation because the sacredness of this process is directly related to maintaining the regularity of the territory of Bali territory. The use if the dangsil as an offering symbolizes the mountain, which in Hindu mythology is a symbol of fertility. (gik)

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A boy searches for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings in a polluted water channel near a temple in Kolkata June 5, 2014. Thursday marks this year’s World Environment Day.

More than 300 million at risk of lifethreatening diseases from dirty water: U.N.

LONDON - More than 300 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of life-threatening diseases like cholera and typhoid due to the increasing pollution of water in rivers and lakes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said.

Between 1990 and 2010, pollution caused by viruses, bacteria and other micro-organisms, and long-lasting toxic pollutants like fertilizer or petrol, increased in more than half of rivers across the three continents, while salinity levels rose in nearly a third, UNEP said in a report on Tuesday.

Population growth, expansion of agriculture and an increased amount of raw sewage released into rivers and lakes were among the main reasons behind the increase of surface water pollution, putting some 323 million people at risk of infection, UNEP said.

“The water quality problem at a global scale and the number of people affected by bad water quality are much more severe than we expected,” Dietrich Borchardt, lead author of the report, told the

Thomson Reuters Foundation.

However, a significant number of rivers remain in good condition and need to be protected, he said by phone from Germany.

About a quarter of rivers in Latin America, 10 percent to 25 percent in Africa and up to 50 percent in Asia were affected by severe pathogen pollution, largely caused by discharging untreated wastewater into rivers and lakes, the report said.

Some 3.4 million people die each year from diseases such as cholera, typhoid, polio or diarrhea, which are associated with pathogens in water, UNEP said.

It estimated that up to 164 million people in Africa, 134 million in Asia and 25 million in Latin America were at risk of infection from the diseases.

It said building more sewers was not enough to prevent infections and deaths, adding that the solution was to treat wastewater.

Organic pollution, which can cause water to be completely starved of oxygen, affects one kilometer (0.6 mile) out of seven kilometers (4.4 miles) of rivers in Latin America, Africa and Asia, threatening freshwater fisheries, UNEP said.

Severe and moderate salinity levels, caused by the disposal of salty water from mines, irrigation systems and homes, affect one in 10 rivers on the three continents, making it harder for poor farmers to irrigate their crops, it said.

The trend of worsening water pollution was “critical”, Borchardt said.

“It is much more expensive to clean up surface water from severe pollution than to implement proper management which includes prevention of pollution,” he said.

“Tools are available but the challenge is to implement them.” (rtr)

THE right mood music can influence how well people work together, a new management-oriented study suggests.

Many retail establishments carefully select the music they play in order to influence consumer behavior, such as encouraging shoppers to buy more, the authors write. But employees hear the same music and its effect on them hasn’t been studied.

“In our case, the new article focuses attention on the role of music in relation to management questions,” said lead author Kevin M. Kniffin of Cornell University in New York.

In the first of two studies, 78 participants were randomly divided into two groups: a “happy music” group that heard songs like “Yellow Submarine” by The Beatles and the theme from the television show “Happy Days,” and an “unhappy music” group that heard less familiar heavy metal songs like “Smokahontas” by Attack Attack!

The participants in each group used a computer application in which they played a sort of economics game with other unidentified participants in the same room, but players didn’t speak to one another.

In the application, each person was given 10 tokens corresponding to monetary value and was paired with two other people. Over 20

rounds of decision-making, each person was prompted to either keep their tokens or allocate them to a group pool which would be split among the participants at the end. Tokens in the group pool were valued 1.5 times as much as those held individually.

Consistently, people listening to happy music contributed more to the group pool.

In a second study, the researchers repeated the design with an added no-music group, and also measured participants’ moods.

Again, those hearing happy music contributed more to the group pool than those hearing unhappy music or no music at all.

Unhappy music elicited a worse mood than both other conditions, and a happier mood was tied to more token contributions to the group, according to the results in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

“The bottom line is that emotions count,” said Neal M. Ashkanasy, professor of management at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who was not part of the new research.

People in a positive mood are more cooperative and more creative, while those in a negative mood tend to narrow in on solving individual problems rather than group problems, Ashkanasy told Reuters Health. (rtr)

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Soaring demand of bamboo for penjor

Farmers claim to be overwhelmed BANGLI - Bamboo farmers at Kayubihi village, Bangli, admitted to be overwhelmed to meet the demand for penjor ahead of Galungan on September 7. The demand for bamboo does not only come from consumers in Bangli, but also those from several other districts such as Denpasar and Gianyar.

Headman of Kayubihi, I Ketut Widiana, who is also bamboo farmer, said that the market demand for bamboo used for penjor

has started to experience a surge since two weeks ago. Aside from Bangli region, he admitted the bamboo demand also comes from

other districts such as Denpasar and Gianyar.

On average he delivers 300 bamboo stems each day both to the areas in Bangli and outside Bangli. Due to such high demand, he admitted to be overwhelmed to meet the market demand. “Since we get high demand, some demands cannot be fulfilled,” said Widiana,

Tuesday (Aug. 30).

Widiana said the bamboo commonly sold to collector measures about 7.5 to 8 meters. It is usually adapted to the demands of most consumers. “Now, people are not just making a simple penjor, but also the one with nice decoration.

So, the preferred size is about 7.5 to 8 meters,” he said. He sells bam-

boo to collectors for IDR 18,000 per stem.

According to Widiana, the high demand of residents for bamboo happens because most people currently want a practical thing. They are reluctant to seek their own bamboo. “This is the condition causing the high demand for bamboo,” he said. (kmb40)

District govt strives to exempt farmers from property taxes GIANYAR - Tourism advancement attained by Gianyar district is inseparable from the beauty of the agricultural sector. However, farmers are now burdened with high property tax as located adjacent to tourist accommodation.

Seeing this condition, the district government of Gianyar will make efforts to exempt farmers from the property taxes.

“We really want to free farmers from property tax to preserve the agricultural areas,” said Deputy Regent of Gianyar, Made Mahayastra, not long ago.

Mahayastra recognized that such desire needs to be further discussed with related organizations and must also be adjusted to the higher laws.

Nevertheless, this PDI-P cadre is very optimistic to exempt farmers

from property tax. “It still needs to be discussed with relevant ranks and the parliament, so that the government can guarantee the welfare of farmers,” he said.

Moreover, all this time the agricultural sector is one of the tourist attractions like at the Ceking rice terrace, rice cultivation around Ubud and other areas in Gianyar district. “Since the first, the paddy fields have become tourist attraction. If the agriculture disappears then our tourism is also threatened,” he added.

Additionally, the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Gianyar obtained from taxes of tourism sector is high enough.

“I think the accommodation tax is already quite high, so this will be adjusted. If possible, we will

attempt the farmers in Gianyar to be exempted from property tax,” he said.

Currently a variety of measures have been carried out to preserve the agricultural sector in Gianyar district from provision of subsidy to free seed. The government has also helped the distribution of agricultural products like tangerine. “Tangerine farmers are now constrained in terms of payment because the private sector typically makes payment every two months after transaction.

Well, here we will try so that the transaction made will be bailed out first by the government of Gianyar. Then, the payment of private sector will be submitted to the government of Gianyar,” he explained. (kmb35)

Cave exposed to sunlight, harvest yield of bird’s nest slumps

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A woman lies in the grass reading a book and listening to music at Columbia University in New York, April 14, 2014.

SEMARAPURA - The Nusa Kertha Kosala government-owned enterprise (PDNKK) of Klungkung district repaired the ladder and provided training on the use of safety belt at the swallow bird’s nest in Batu Melawang cave, Ceningan Kawan hamlet, Nusa Penida, Tuesday (Aug. 30). At that time, the PDNKK managing the business saw firsthand about the condition of Batu Melawang cave currently exposed to sunlight due to the collapse of cliff at the mouth of the cave. As a result, when cleaning up the cave the harvest yields only produced one kilogram.

Director of the PDNKK Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, directly monitoring the ladder repair and the bird’s nest cleanup was quite shocked by the current cave condition. As a result of the cliff collapse at the mouth of the cave, the condition inside the cave overlooking the west was very bright when the sun is on western horizon.

When the clean-up started at 13:00 through 17:00, the harvest group leader, Wayan Abri, expressed that cave condition was no longer dark as ever. Sunlight came in and highlighted the cave wall.

Such condition only makes the swallow nest in the dark point, so that no bird’s nest is found on the cave walls exposed to sunlight. Sunlight also makes the walls turn white and the corals die. Wayan Sukadana will continue to repair the cave ladder and then harvest in October 2016. “After completing the repair, we will harvest again in October and see how the results look like,” he said, Tuesday (Aug. 30).

The activity was attended by Assistant II Ketut Suayadnya, Division Head of Economic Affairs Ketut Sukla, Resort Head of Natural Resources Conservation Agency (KSDA) of Klungkung Gusti Putu Warna, representatives of regional development planning board (Bappeda), regional revenue service (Dispenda), Legal Bureau and Klungkung Police. On that occasion, Ketut Suayadnya conveyed that reduction in the harvest requires an effort to increase the population by conducting a harvesting technique. The harvest must be done selectively and the population must be increased,” he said.

After doing the repair in the Batu Melawang cave with the budget of IDR 77 million including the making of bridges and provision of safety belt, Ketut Suayadnya requested to conduct further meeting to discuss about the Batu Melawang cave. In the meantime, the Division Head of Economic Affairs, Ketut Sukla, admitted there is a delay in the repair process so the harvest is delayed until the end of August considering that government of Klungkung district has many activities that should be prioritized such as the Semarapura Festival and celebration of the Independence Day on August 17. “After the Economic Affairs allocated the budget for the repairs, the management is handed over to the PDNKK Klungkung,” he said. (dwa)

The bamboo seller is seen on the street.

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Singaporean citizen on trial for posesion of 10 excstasy pills DENPASAR - After being arrested upon arrival at the Ngurah Rai International Airport for carrying 10 excstasy pills and a sheet of 10 strips of LSD, 33 year old Mohammad Noh Bin Abdul Salam, stood trial on Tuesday (Aug. 30).

The agenda was the reading of indictment by Before the panel of judges chaired by Judge Yanto, public prosecutor Purwanti Murtiasih read the first indictment, explaining that the defendant had acted unlawfully by producing, importing, exporting or distributing class 1 narcotics.

In this case, the defendant is being charged under Article 113 paragraph (1) of Law No. 35/2009 on Narcotics. He is also being charged, under Article 127 paragraph (1) letter (a) of the same law. Mohammad arrived in Bali

on Tuesday (Jun. 26) at 14:30 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia flying on AirAsia Kuala Lumpur-Denpasar flight AK376, landing at Ngurah Rai Airport.

On the way to airport’s customs checkpoint, the defendant was moving suspiciously. The customs officers conducted closed examination of the defendant’s luggage using X-ray and then further examination of the defendat’s suitcase revealed 10 excstasy pills -5 of which were cream colored with the ‘Mercy’ logo and weighed a net 1.55 grams and the 5 others were green with with a ‘phone handle’ logo and weighed a net 1.40 grams.

The customs officers also found a sheet of colored paper weighing 0.1 grams that was wrapped with a red cover that turned out to be LSD. (kmb37)

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Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people’s home

TOKYO - Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people’s home in Japan, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11.

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British man David Taylor re-enacts a scene as a police officer poses as victim Wayan Sudarsa on Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia, August 31, 2016.

Impersonating as travelers

A gang of thieves breaks in villa

Police found nine bodies on Wednesday in the nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi, in Iwate Prefecture in the north of Japan’s main island of Honshu, but it was not clear when their home was flooded.

It was also not clear why people there had not been taken to safety before the storm struck. The nursing home is located near a river and was partially buried in mud and debris when the river overflowed its banks.

“The area is in a state of chaos.

We are not sure what preparations the facility had taken,” said a prefectural government official who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The town issued evacuation preparation information on Tuesday morning, which is to inform elderly

or disabled people who take time to evacuate. That, however, was not as strong as an evacuation warning, according to another prefecture official.

More than 1,000 other people were forced from their homes by the flooding brought by Typhoon Lionrock.

The body of a man was also found near a river in Iwaizumi and a dead woman was found in Kuji city, police said.

Television pictures showed flooded rivers with cars and homes partly submerged, while rescuers picked up stranded people by helicopter.

Several people were also missing on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said. Iwate, the worsthit prefecture, was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (rtr)

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A residential house is damaged by driftwood in Kuji city, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock hit the northern Japan, dumping heavy rains.

MANGUPURA - Two thieves from Bogor, West Java, were arrested by Kuta Police officers, Sunday (Aug. 28). The culprits have the initials AZ, 27, and John, 27. When taking action, they pretended to be travelers and stayed at the Villa Santi on Jalan Sunset Road, Kuta. Purposely they stayed at the villa with loose security.

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a room in Bali True Living Apartment located on Jalan Imam Bonjol.

The room is used to hide their stolen goods,” said Sumara.

Related to the case, this former chief unit of Badung Police Intelligence and Security confirmed that villa and hotel owners should equip their property with CCTV so that it can monitor the people going in and out. In addition, they must hold a photo copy of guests’ identity card.

“If there is suspicion, they must also be questioned immediately such as when they do not carry identity card.

Do not just think about profit earning or the room can be sold,” he said.

Police chief alleged the gang of thieves may not take action at that time only. By exploiting the weaknesses of hotel or villa management, they can stay and steal goods in the next room. “Maybe, they take action when the guests in the next room come out and immediately sneak into the room so that it takes place so fast. We hope the cooperation of tourism stakeholders, lest this new mode occurs again and escapes from the attention of the management,” he said.

Related to this case, the officers secured the evidence in the form of

EXPANDED PRODUCTION In the past year, North Korea has boasted of numerous weapons breakthroughs in unprecedented detail.

Although some of it was bluster, international experts have concluded North Korea’s missiles have flown higher and for longer than previously, indicating progress in the country’s banned missile programme.

In June, after repeated failures, it successfully launched an intermediate-range missile, which can fly up to 3,500 km (2,100 miles).

Analysis of satellite images shows that the North has recently expanded factories known to contribute to its nuclear and missile programmes.

An Aug 22 image of a sprawling plant in a rural area 60 km (37 miles) north of Pyongyang appears to show several new structures, extensive refurbishment of existing buildings and a new entrance to a probable underground facility, according to data from satellite imagery provider Planet that was analysed by Lewis.

The January 18 General Machine Plant has long been used to produce engines for tanks, missiles and other military vessels, according to experts.

“This represents an enormous investment in North Korea’s missile production infrastructure, something that is consistent with the propaganda offensive we have seen and the spike in missile testing,” said Lewis. (rtr)

“They stayed at the scene and then stole in the unit next to the villa they rented. This is a new mode.

Besides, they stole the goods in the villa room they rented,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, Tuesday (Aug. 30).

According to the police chief, at 21:00 on Saturday (Aug. 27), both suspects checked in at the villa. When asked for identity card, they claimed not to bring with the reason if theirs was brought along by their girlfriend.

“At that time, the villa management was suspicious. After that, the villa owner named Boina Ana Tatiana told her staff to alert,” he said.

At 00:30 on Sunday (Aug. 28), the two suspects left the room while carrying belongings wrapped in bed sheets and immediately went away by riding a motorcycle. Management of the villa directly reported the incident to Kuta Police.

When followed, the suspects came into an apartment on Jalan Imam Bonjol, Denpasar. A few minutes later, both suspects came out in bare hand. Furthermore, they offered an iPod to someone on Jalan Oberoi, Kuta and at that time they were immediately arrested.

“In fact, the suspect John rented

SEOUL - North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarine-launched missile for the first time, but it’s still not clear if the isolated nation has developed a nuclear warhead.

It also does not yet have a fleet of submarines that can launch the newly developed missile.

Nevertheless, concerns about the threat

Villas in Bali are prone to criminal act. two bed sheets, iPod dock, two units of LED TV 32 inches including their remote controller, Samsung mobile phone, weight scale, hair dryer, Kris DVD, five bottles of small beer, 12 cans of soft drink and Honda Vario motorcycle.

In addition, the members of the Kuta Police Criminal Investigation also arrested the thief after

stealing 46 teak chairs worth IDR 70 million. The culprit is named Sungkono, 34, living on Jalan Pratama Gang Gundul, South Kuta.

The suspect claimed to take action on Sunday (Aug. 21) at 11:30. Initially, the suspect took 23 seats at Road Side 37 Restaurant on Jalan Majapahit, Kuta. The chairs were then transported by car and sold in

posed by North Korea have spiralled since it conducted its fourth nuclear explosion in January and followed it up with a series of missile tests despite severe United Nations sanctions.

Also, three major factories known to produce machine parts for North Korea’s sanctioned nuclear and missile programmes have been modernised or expanded, according to analysis of recent satellite imagery seen by

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the Nusa Dua area. Furthermore, the suspect came again and took 23 seats at the crime scene belonging to Christophorus Purwana, 40.

“Each chair is sold for IDR 50,000. The suspect admitted to have taken action at six crime scenes but the case is still being further investigated,” said Sumara. (kmb36)

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A view shows the January 18 General Machine Plant in Kaechon, North Korea, in this satellite image taken on August 22, 2016 and provided by Planet Labs, Inc on August 24, 2016.

Reuters, a further sign of its commitment of scarce resources to weapons.

“North Korea has dramatically increased the pace of missile testing and invested heavily in modernising its factories that produce them, something we can see in satellite images,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“These investments have paid off with the recent test of a solid-fuelled submarinelaunched missile, but North Korea has not yet completed development of a submarine to carry that missile.”

In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturisation of a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile, although there was no direct evidence it had done so. The United States has said the North’s claim that it had miniaturised a warhead had to be taken as a credible threat.

“I think North Korea is capable of miniaturising nuclear bombs,” said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy. “But they don’t have any standardised warhead yet to put on missiles.

They keep gathering data through nuclear tests and working to standardise a warhead.”

Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle for the North’s first nuclear warhead would be the medium-range Rodong missile, which can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles).

Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an intercontinen-

tal ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a nuclear warhead.

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BUSINESS Political issues weigh on upcoming G-20 summit in China

BEIJING — While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of world leaders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

Terror attacks in Europe, the looming U.S. presidential election and bloody ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq are among the issues making the world an uncertain and unsettling place.

World leaders including President Barack Obama, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to take up such topics, either when gathering as a group on Sunday and Monday or during bilateral meetings held on the summit’s fringes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has grown closer to China following the imposition of Western economic sanctions, will be in attendance, along with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French Prime Minister Francois Hollande and new British Prime Minister Theresa May. May will face questions about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and its impact on the global economy amid rising economic nationalism.

Despite the wealth of controversial issues, China seems determined to deliver a non-confrontational, even uneventful summit, having endowed it with the middle-of-theroad theme of: “Toward an Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy.”

“Accounting for two-thirds of the world population and more than 80 percent of global economic out-

put, G-20 nations deserve, and are expected, to play a bigger role in the managing the world economy,” the official Xinhua News Agency said in a recent commentary. “The upcoming summit is undoubtedly a prime opportunity.”

Climate change, human rights and the fight against the Islamic State group will also feature during the meetings, with Obama and Xi expected to offer an update on progress toward ratifying the Paris agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. White House officials have said they hope the historic climate change pact could enter into force by the end of the year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be present at his first major multinational gathering since a failed summer coup added new tensions to an already complex relationship with the U.S. and its allies.

Though no breakthroughs are expected, the gathering offers a chance for leaders to discuss disagreements ranging from China’s claim to Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea to NATO’s concerns over Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine.

The opportunity even for proforma contact between disputants such as China and Japan is significant and “no doubt this will be hailed and heralded as a reduction in tensions,” said Dean Cheng, senior research fellow at the Heritage

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In this Aug. 18, 2016 photo, Helicopters hover around the main venue which will hold the upcoming G20 summit in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province. While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20, industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of world leaders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

Foundation in Washington, D.C. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are an especially sharp regional concern. Pyongyang this week denounced a U.N. Security Council statement condemning its four latest ballistic missile launches, calling it “a hostile act” perpetrated by the United States and warning that it could precipitate America’s “self-destruction.”

The North launched a ballistic missile from a submarine Aug. 24, days after the U.S. and South Korea began their annual military exercises. A press statement approved Friday night by all 15 Se-

curity Council members, including Pyongyang’s ally China, called the four launches in July and August “grave violations” of a ban on all ballistic missile activity.

While China remains politically stable under stern, one-party communist rule, east Asia faces challenges ranging from Thailand’s military governance to the election of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose bloody anti-drug campaign has drawn criticism from human-rights activists.

Obama is also expected to make a pitch for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, a

massive multination deal that has stalled in the U.S. Congress amid fierce election-year opposition from both Democrats and Republicans.

Along with Washington’s “pivot” to Asia that has boosted American military presence in the region, the TPP is a centerpiece of Obama’s policy toward the continent and seen as a litmus test for U.S. leadership. Host China is not a party to the proposed agreement and regards the pivot as a hostile attempt to contain its regional influence through strengthened military alliances with American allies including Australia and the Philippines. (ap)

Weak eurozone inflation bolsters case for more stimulus

BRUSSELS — Consumer price inflation in the eurozone was stuck at 0.2 percent in August, a low rate that could encourage the European Central Bank to offer more stimulus sooner rather than later.

The figure reported Wednesday by statistics agency Eurostat was the same as in July and below economists’ expectations for an uptick to 0.3 percent. It also remains far short of the European Central Bank’s target of 2 percent.

The main culprit was a 5.7 percent annual drop in energy prices.

But inflation for other goods and services was also relatively weak.

Not including energy and other volatile items like food, alcohol and tobacco, overall consumer price inflation was 0.8 percent, a rate the ECB consider too low for a healthy economy.

The central bank has launched a series of stimulus measures to help the economy of the 19-nation

eurozone and bring inflation to a healthier level. It has cut its key rate to zero and is pumping 80 billion euros ($90 billion) of new money into the economy every month by buying bonds from banks and companies. That aims to lower borrowing rates and encourage business activity.

Analysts are divided over whether the ECB will launch more stimulus at its next policy meeting Sept.

8. Some say it’s only a matter of

time, particularly if inflation doesn’t pick up this year.

In such an event, the central bank could extend the duration of its bond-buying program, which is currently set to end in March 2017.

Economists note that the drop in oil prices should get phased out of the inflation data in coming months, helping inflation edge up. But the eurozone economy is still weak overall and recovering only slowly from years of financial crises and recessions.

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That was evident in separate data from Eurostat that showed the currency union’s unemployment rate was stuck at 10.1 percent in July, the same as in June.

“There is a large amount of slack in the economy,” said Stephen Brow, European economist at Capital Economics in London. “There is a strong case for the ECB to announce further policy easing. This could come as soon as the bank’s meeting next week.” (ap)

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Indonesia’s Widodo masters the politics, but reform agenda fades

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JAKARTA - As he heads towards the end of his second year as Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo has never looked stronger: a crowd of political parties backs him, he is riding high in opinion polls and the economy is beginning to bounce off the bottom.

After a terrible first year when the rupiah currency plummeted and critics questioned his ability to govern, aides and politicians close to Widodo told Reuters he now feels firmly in control and is already considering re-election in 2019.

But Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, appears to have managed his recovery by soft-pedalling on the political and economic reforms that he had promised in the world’s fourth-most populous nation when he stood for election in 2014.

Instead, he has concentrated on building alliances to bolster his authority, an echo of former strongman Suharto, whose mastery of political dealmaking kept him in power for more than three decades.

“He’s turning into a new Suharto,” said one senior official, pointing to the “disciplined, coolheaded calculation” of a cabinet reshuffle in July in which Widodo handed positions to parties across the political spectrum.

Presidential spokesman Johan Budi said Widodo was “not yet thinking” about the 2019 election.

“He is focused on this period and on working for the prosperity of the people,” Budi said.

Analysts say Widodo’s political manoeuvring probably means he will be less inclined to pursue radical change in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, whose overdependence on resource exports has been painfully exposed by the recent slump in commodity prices.

That was not in the script when the former furniture salesman, who grew up in a riverside slum of central Java, won the presidency.

The first leader of modern Indonesia not to come from the military or political elite, Widodo was widely expected to shake up the

establishment. Supporters said he would root out corruption, promote people based on merit rather than connections and create an environment for investment to flow into the stalling economy.

“Instead of changing the game, as he promised voters, Jokowi has begun to master it,” said Aaron Connelly, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Affairs in Sydney.

Marcus Mietzner, an associate professor at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, added: “He has - sadly but correctly - established for himself that these issues will not win or lose elections, so he ignores them.”

POLITICAL SURVIVAL Aides said Widodo was hamstrung when he came to office because he did not have a parliamentary majority to push through reforms and because he was held back by former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, the domineering head of his political party, the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

They say that the 55-year-old president is difficult to read, but after several run-ins with Megawati it was clear he had decided to bring the PDI-P to heel and win the backing of other parties.

His big break came in January this year when Golkar, the country’s second-largest party with nearly 15 percent of parliament’s seats, agreed to support Widodo’s coalition.

With last month’s cabinet picks, he drew several parties closer to him, cementing support from about two-thirds of parliament’s members and ensuring that he no longer relied on one party for his political survival.

“These parties have each pushed

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (C) and his wife Iriana chat with school children dressed in traditional costume before the arrival of visiting Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia August 5, 2016. Picture taken August 5, 2016. their own agenda with Jokowi, but he has made sure to get what he needs from them too,” said Eva Kusuma Sundari, a senior PDI-P lawmaker.

After more than a year of being undermined by ministers speaking out of turn and at cross-purposes, there was no doubt that Widodo was asserting his control with the latest reshuffle.

From now on ministers will not be allowed to have a “vision and mission” of their own, he told his new team after their inauguration.

“No more going it alone.”

TIMID REFORM The appointment of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the World Bank’s man-

aging director, as finance minister in July’s reshuffle raised hopes that market reforms were indeed coming.

Widodo made another signature appointment in a cabinet reshuffle last year, handing the trade ministry to a Westernised former Wall Street banker. Tom Lembong, who left his private equity firm in Singapore to join the government, has since been a close adviser to Widodo and now heads the investment board.

As growth slowed to its weakest for six years in 2015, Widodo began rolling out a series of deregulation packages to drive industry and employment beyond the economy’s traditional mainstays of agriculture and mineral extraction.

The senior official said that with a recent opinion poll showing popular support for the president at 68 percent, the highest since he took office, and with so much cross-party support, he can now push ahead with difficult economic reforms such as opening up long-protected industries.

However, analysts say that after nearly two years it is still not clear if Widodo favours the free market or protectionism because his policies have been so inconsistent.

“Largely it’s nibbling at the edges, so when people use language like reform, I don’t think it’s appropriate,” said Matthew Busch, a consultant focusing on economic and investment issues in Indonesia.(rtr)

Indonesian revolutionary leader Bung Tomo`s wife passes away

SURABAYA - Sulistina Sutomo, wife of Indonesias revolutionary leader Bung Tomo, passed away at the age of 91 on early Wednesday after undergoing medical treatment for several days at the Jakarta-based Gatot Subroto Army Central Hospital.

Sulistinas death was confirmed by her son, Bambang Sulistomo, AH Tony, one

of Bung Tomos relatives, stated here.

The 91-year-old wife of charismatic Bung Tomo, who is known for his oration at a local radio to inspire the people of Surabaya to fight the British troops during the Battle of Surabaya in November 1945, died of illness and aging-related factors, he remarked.

Her coffin was transported from Ja-

karta to the East Java city of Surabaya to be buried beside the grave of her husband at the Ngagel public cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, Tony remarked.

Meanwhile, East Java Deputy Governor Saifullah Yusuf delivered his condolences to the families of the national hero Bung Tomo, saying that Sulistina was an inspirational figure.

“Representing the people of East Java, I convey their deepest condolences.

Indonesia has again lost a respected and inspirational figure. May Allah the Almighty and the Merciful accept all her good deeds,” he stated. Internet users also conveyed their condolences through a variety of social media platforms.(ant)

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Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff attends the final session of debate and voting on Rousseff’s impeachment trial in Brasilia, Brazil, August 29, 2016.

Brazil Senate expected to dismiss Rousseff in impeachment vote

SAO PAULO - Brazil’s Senate was expected to vote on Wednesday to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff, finalizing a nine-month impeachment process and confirming the country’s shift to the right with the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.

Rousseff’s supporters seemed resigned to the likelihood that more than two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate would convict her of breaking budget laws, while opponents hailed the chance to turn the page on a drawn-out economic and political crisis.

Brazil’s first female president has denied any wrongdoing and said the impeachment process was aimed at protecting the interests of the country’s economic elite.

If she is convicted as expected, a tricky transition would fall to her conservative former vice president, Michel Temer, who has served as interim president since the Senate trial began in May and will finish out the term through to 2018.

Temer has vowed to pull the economy out of its worst recession since the 1930s and implement

austerity measures to plug a growing budget deficit that cost Brazil its investment-grade credit rating last year.

But even an overwhelming vote to remove Rousseff would not mean an easy path ahead for Temer, as there are signs of clear resistance in Congress to his proposals to cap public spending and reform public pensions.

His government also risks entanglement in a sweeping investigation of kickbacks at state oil company Petrobras that already ensnared dozens of politicians in Rousseff’s coalition.

The scandal, which has tarnished Temer’s fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, could hobble efforts to restore stability to Brazil’s politics and confidence in its economy.

Temer is so sure of the trial’s outcome that he has scheduled an address to the nation on Wednesday.

He then plans to fly to China for a summit of the G20 group of leading economies, hoping to secure pledges of trade and investment, his aides say.

Rousseff’s popularity fell into single figures this year due to the Petrobras graft scandal and the deep recession that many Brazilians blame on her government’s interventionist policies.

In an emotional speech on Monday, Rousseff compared the trial to her persecution under Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, when she was tortured by security services as a member of a leftist urban guerrilla group.

If the Senate convicts Rousseff, she would become the first Brazilian leader dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption. (rtr)

FORT LAUDERDALE - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century is set to depart on Wednesday, starting a new chapter in the Obama administration’s bid to open trade and travel with the former Cold War foe.

The first of several U.S. carriers to begin serving Cuba in the coming months, JetBlue Airways Corp will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, a city in the center of Cuba known for its monument to revolutionary Che Guevara.

Among the passengers on the 150-seat Airbus A320 will be U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, JetBlue Chief Executive Officer Robin Hayes, news reporters and photographers and other officials. Regular travelers, including some of Cuban descent, will occupy nearly half the seats on a route that may be a commercial challenge, at least initially.

Cuba and the United States began normalizing relations in December 2014 after 18 months of secret talks. The countries had been hostile for more than five decades, since Fidel Castro ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in a revolution that steered the island on a communist course and made it a close ally of the Soviet Union.

Since Obama has been unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to lift a longstanding trade embargo, U.S. citizens are still prohibited from visiting Cuba as tourists. The U.S. government has approved exceptions to the ban, ranging from cultural, religious and educational travel to business and visiting family.

Despite those limitations, U.S. airlines have rushed to start flights - adding a lot of capacity and setting themselves up to lose money on the trips in the short run, said industry consultant Robert Mann.

“Most carriers look at international markets that have been restricted and are just opening up as an investment,” Mann said. “You need to get your foot in the door.”

Services on regional carrier Silver Airways and American Airlines Group Inc from the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area to Cuba’s outlying provinces are the next to start, in September. Three other carriers will follow.

Mann said the companies probably offered to fly to Cuban cities unknown to many American travelers, so that U.S. officials would look favorably on their applications to fly to Havana.

A memorandum of understanding between Cuba and the United States will limit Havana flights to 20 round trips per day. U.S. officials have yet to announce a final decision on which companies will get those coveted routes. (rtr)

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Eight years later, students chatter enthusiastically about the pride they take in attending the school where Obama once studied. Nineyear-old Mentari Malarangeng, a third-grade student, said Obama is her idol. “I heard from my grandmother that Obama was a good student, loud and confident when he talked,” she said.

Her classmate Abdilah Kurdi said the school became famous because of Obama and gets many visitors who want to see where he sat. “I want to be a president like him,” he said. “I’m so proud of him.” The school’s principal, Edi Kusyanto, said about 40 to 60 mainly foreign tourists visit the

school every month.

A picture of an adult Obama standing beside an American flag is displayed prominently in his former third-grade classroom, with current students pointing to a desk in the next-to-last row as Obama’s. Two big photos of the president adorn the school’s lobby.

Kusyanto said the statue of a young Obama, erected in 2010, is a permanent fixture, because he is part of the school’s history. “The statue inspires and motivates the children every day,” said Kusyanto, who has high hopes that Obama will visit the school after his presidency ends.

“He tried,” Kusyanto said when asked of Obama’s legacy. “Unlike his predecessor’s legacy of war in Iraq, Obama tried to change the world to be a better place.” (ap)

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Impressive Murray leads British charge in New York

NEW YORK - Whisper it quietly, the Brits are coming. Of the eight British players in the main draw at the U.S. Open, the most since 1985, five made it through to round two, with Andy Murray, Dan Evans and Naomi Broady joining Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund in the last 64 on Tuesday.

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“It’s been a pretty interesting year and I’m happy with how it’s been.”

Evans next plays 27th-seeded German Sascha Zverev, who at 19 is tipped as a future star of the men’s game.

World number 82 Broady earned only her second ever grand slam win with a gutsy 6-7 6-3 6-4 win over fellow Briton Laura Robson.

The 26-year-old Broady recently broke into the world’s top 100 and admitted she was a late bloomer.

“I think in British tennis they like to say that you’re running out of time and you’re playing catch-up and if you’re not there by 18 then you’re behind everybody else,” she said.

“But tennis is becoming more of a longevity sport there and the average age of the top 100 is getting older.

“I think I was 25 when I broke into it this year. I’m still there and I maybe won’t be in the top 100

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Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot against Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic on day two of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. as long as Laura has the potential to be but we’ve not got the same career, so I’ll just do the best with what I’ve got.”

There was disappointment for

Heather Watson, however, who suffered from a fever and back pain as she lost 6-2 7-5 to Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp.

The other British player in ac-

tion, Aljaz Bedene, also suffered a straight sets defeat, with Australian 14th seed Nick Kyrgios proving too strong in a 6-4 6-4 6-4 victory. (rtr)

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The quintet of survivors matches the best performance by British players at Flushing Meadows since 1987, when four women and one man made it through the first round.

Second seed Murray, looking ominous in all black, was the last of the five to progress with a late-night 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol, effortlessly advancing without facing a single break point.

“I served very well,” said Murray, who set up a second round encounter against Marcel Granollers of Spain.

“It was a tough start to the match, he had a few chances early on but once I got the break up, I played well.”

Evans was ranked as low as 772 in May 2015 and still outside the top 300 when the U.S. Open began last August.

A string of successes on the Challenger Tour carried him close to the top 100 and his 6-2 4-6 7-5 6-1 over the American Rajeev Ram is set to lift his ranking from 64 to inside the top 60, a new careerhigh.

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LONDON - Renault driver Kevin Magnussen will have to pass a fitness check at Monza on Thursday before being cleared to race in the Italian Grand Prix after his big crash in Belgium last weekend.

Renault said in a statement on Tuesday that the Dane, who went to hospital after Sunday’s accident at Spa left him with a heavily bruised left ankle, had undergone further checks in Denmark that indicated he was fit to race in Italy.

He must, however, pass a mandatory FIA test at the circuit.

“I’m feeling much better, which is very good news,” said Magnussen.

“I’ve had several checks that show I am fit to race in Monza and I am sure I will be in the car this weekend. We were running in the top 10 in Belgium and I’m very motivated to repeat this again in Italy.”

Sunday’s race at Monza is the last of the European Formula One season and 14th of a record 21 on the calendar. (rtr)

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Sp rt European teams prepare to kick off World Cup qualifiers

ZURICH — Europe finally kicks off its 2018 World Cup qualifying program on Sunday, as the last of FIFA’s six continents to join the road to Russia. Defending champion Germany and European champion Portugal head 54 teams — including new FIFA members Kosovo and Gibraltar — in European action from Sunday through Tuesday.

They are competing for 13 qualifying places in world sport’s biggest event. Each will play 10 matches in one of the nine sixteam groups over the next 14 months.

Among intriguing home-and-away games ahead: Italy-Spain; France-Netherlands; and, the oldest international rivalry, EnglandScotland.

Who will join the 32-team lineup in Russia? Group winners and the winners of four playoffs in November 2017 involving the eight best runners-up.

There are no second chances for thirdplace teams, unlike in the European Championship qualifying groups and final tournament groups. Here are some things to know about World Cup qualifiers in Europe: HISTORY REPEATING History is against a repeat Germany title: No European team has won back-to-back World Cups since Italy in 1934 and 1938.

Still, history also says that the Germans have never failed to qualify for a major tournament. Coach Joachim Loew’s begins its defense against Norway in Oslo on Sunday,

General view during training

and without two veterans. Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and forward Lukas Podolski are retiring from the national team. The group includes two other Euro 2016 teams, Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic.

NO RONALDO Newly crowned European champion Portugal is without star forward Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo was left out of the squad to play Switzerland in Basel as he seeks full fitness after injuring his left knee in the Euro 2016 final.

Portugal landed in one of the tougher groups with three Euro 2016 teams, including Hungary. The Hungarians led Portugal three times, and Ronaldo equalized twice, in a thrilling 3-3 draw when they met in Lyon in June during the European Championship.

Portugal is top-seeded but has no cause to panic if it finishes second. It advanced to the past two World Cups via playoffs.

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Group A: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, Luxembourg Group B: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faeroe Islands, Latvia, Andorra Group C: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, San Marino Group D: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Ireland, Moldova, Georgia Group E: Romania, Denmark, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia, Kazakhstan Group F: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Malta Group G: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, Liechtenstein Group H: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, Gibraltar Group I: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, Kosovo. most attractive. Italy picked apart the twotime defending European champion to win 2-0 at Stade de France in the round of 16.

Slovakia vs. England, however, is a tough sell on Sunday in Trnava. It has to be better than a drab 0-0 draw in Saint-Etienne in June when Slovakia knew a point was enough to advance from the group in third place. New England coach Sam Allardyce has promised his players will have more fun on his watch.

Croatia vs. Turkey on the opening week-

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

end of Euro 2016 was lit up by Luka Modric’s volleyed shot to settle the match. They meet again on Monday, with Modric now captain after Darijo Srna’s retirement, though in an empty Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb.

FIFA ordered Croatia to play two home qualifiers in empty stadiums as punishment for persistent incidents of racism and offensive behavior by fans.

ICELAND, HUH? Iceland fans’ memorable Viking clap salute won’t be seen in its first two away qualifiers. The surprise Euro 2016 quarterfinalists visit Ukraine on Monday, and Kiev’s Olympic Stadium will be empty because of a FIFA punishment for racist fans.

Iceland goes to Zagreb on Nov. 12 to face Croatia — which will be serving its second match of a similar FIFA sanction for racism.

The World Cup homecoming for Iceland — at the 10,000-capacity Laugardalsvollur stadium in Reykjavik — is against Finland on Oct. 6.

Iceland has a tough task to become the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup. It is in Group I which seems the deepest pool of talent with four Euro 2016 teams plus Kosovo, which is likely the best of the minnows pot of No. 6 seeds.

DEBUTANTS Like all new FIFA members, Kosovo and Gibraltar — both accepted in May and fasttracked into 2018 qualifying — start their international careers at the bottom of the seeding. Kosovo makes a World Cup debut at Finland on Monday, and hosts Croatia on Oct. 6. Three days later, Kosovo will play at Ukraine which does not recognize it as an independent state.

Gibraltar is in perhaps the weakest group of the nine, with only top-seeded Belgium having played at Euro 2016. Gibraltar kicks off with a home game — in Faro, Portugal, while its own stadium is being built — against Greece on Tuesday. (ap)

England ‘keeper Joe Hart arrives in Torino to warm welcome TURIN — England goalkeeper Joe Hart is on the verge of completing a loan move to Torino from Manchester City.

Hart, who was given permission to leave the England camp to fly to Italy, underwent a medical at the Serie A club on Tuesday.

The 29-year-old was greeted by around 200 fans loudly chanting his name at Torino’s headquarters, and there were further cheers and applause when he appeared at the window brandishing a club jersey with his name on the back.

Hart has lost his starting spot at City since new coach Pep Guardiola arrived during the offseason.

Hart follows a long list of English players to ply their trade in Italy, but is one of the few at the top of his game to move abroad in recent times. (ap)

Inter Milan signs Brazil forward Gabigol until 2021

MILAN — Inter Milan has completed the signing of Gabriel Barbosa, known as Gabigol, from Brazilian club Santos.

Gabigol signed a five-year contract on Tuesday, the day of his 20th birthday. Italian media reported a transfer fee of 28 million euros ($31.2 milion).

The forward, described as “the

new Neymar” by some pundits in Brazil, has scored two goals in four appearances for Brazil’s senior side and also helped its Olympic team to a first ever gold medal in Rio de Janeiro.

Gabigol has spent the past four seasons at Santos, winning the Campeonato Paulista the past two seasons. (ap)

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Goalkeeper Joe Hart poses with a fan upon his arrival at the Torino soccer team headquarters in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016.

Barcelona signs striker Paco Alcacer as backup for Suarez

BARCELONA — Barcelona strengthened its already top-class attack by signing Spain striker Paco Alcacer from rival Spanish club Valencia on Tuesday

in a deal worth at least 30 million euros ($33.5 million).

Alcacer, who turned 23 on Tuesday, joins a Barcelona lineup featuring Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar. He will likely play a backup role to Suarez, filling the void created last year after the departure of Pedro Rodriguez to Chelsea.

“Messi, Neymar and Suarez are the three best players in the world,” Alcacer said. “It will be a privilege to play with them. I hope I can do my part to do great things at Barca.” Alcacer signed a five-year contract after passing a medical exam.

Barcelona said it will pay 30 million euros ($33.5 million), plus a possible 2 million euros ($2.2 million) more in variables, to Valencia.

The Liga champions also said they are loaning forward Munir El Haddadi to Valencia, which will have the option to buy his rights next summer for 12 million euros. Alcacer scored 43 goals in the past three seasons at Valencia.

For Spain, Alcacer has scored six goals in 13 matches. He was dropped by former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque for this summer’s European Championship, but new manager Julen Lopetegui has recalled Alcacer for this week’s international matches, including Spain’s first 2018 World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein.

He is Barcelona’s sixth summer signing, along with fellow ex-Valencia midfielder Andre Gomes, Samuel Umtiti, Denis Suarez, Lucas Digne and goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen. (ap)

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Sp rt European teams prepare to kick off World Cup qualifiers

ZURICH — Europe finally kicks off its 2018 World Cup qualifying program on Sunday, as the last of FIFA’s six continents to join the road to Russia. Defending champion Germany and European champion Portugal head 54 teams — including new FIFA members Kosovo and Gibraltar — in European action from Sunday through Tuesday.

They are competing for 13 qualifying places in world sport’s biggest event. Each will play 10 matches in one of the nine sixteam groups over the next 14 months.

Among intriguing home-and-away games ahead: Italy-Spain; France-Netherlands; and, the oldest international rivalry, EnglandScotland.

Who will join the 32-team lineup in Russia? Group winners and the winners of four playoffs in November 2017 involving the eight best runners-up.

There are no second chances for thirdplace teams, unlike in the European Championship qualifying groups and final tournament groups. Here are some things to know about World Cup qualifiers in Europe: HISTORY REPEATING History is against a repeat Germany title: No European team has won back-to-back World Cups since Italy in 1934 and 1938.

Still, history also says that the Germans have never failed to qualify for a major tournament. Coach Joachim Loew’s begins its defense against Norway in Oslo on Sunday,

General view during training

and without two veterans. Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and forward Lukas Podolski are retiring from the national team. The group includes two other Euro 2016 teams, Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic.

NO RONALDO Newly crowned European champion Portugal is without star forward Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo was left out of the squad to play Switzerland in Basel as he seeks full fitness after injuring his left knee in the Euro 2016 final.

Portugal landed in one of the tougher groups with three Euro 2016 teams, including Hungary. The Hungarians led Portugal three times, and Ronaldo equalized twice, in a thrilling 3-3 draw when they met in Lyon in June during the European Championship.

Portugal is top-seeded but has no cause to panic if it finishes second. It advanced to the past two World Cups via playoffs.

EURO REUNIONS Of several quick rematches after Euro 2016, Italy vs. Spain on Oct. 6 in Turin is the

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Group A: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, Luxembourg Group B: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faeroe Islands, Latvia, Andorra Group C: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, San Marino Group D: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Ireland, Moldova, Georgia Group E: Romania, Denmark, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia, Kazakhstan Group F: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Malta Group G: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, Liechtenstein Group H: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, Gibraltar Group I: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, Kosovo. most attractive. Italy picked apart the twotime defending European champion to win 2-0 at Stade de France in the round of 16.

Slovakia vs. England, however, is a tough sell on Sunday in Trnava. It has to be better than a drab 0-0 draw in Saint-Etienne in June when Slovakia knew a point was enough to advance from the group in third place. New England coach Sam Allardyce has promised his players will have more fun on his watch.

Croatia vs. Turkey on the opening week-

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

end of Euro 2016 was lit up by Luka Modric’s volleyed shot to settle the match. They meet again on Monday, with Modric now captain after Darijo Srna’s retirement, though in an empty Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb.

FIFA ordered Croatia to play two home qualifiers in empty stadiums as punishment for persistent incidents of racism and offensive behavior by fans.

ICELAND, HUH? Iceland fans’ memorable Viking clap salute won’t be seen in its first two away qualifiers. The surprise Euro 2016 quarterfinalists visit Ukraine on Monday, and Kiev’s Olympic Stadium will be empty because of a FIFA punishment for racist fans.

Iceland goes to Zagreb on Nov. 12 to face Croatia — which will be serving its second match of a similar FIFA sanction for racism.

The World Cup homecoming for Iceland — at the 10,000-capacity Laugardalsvollur stadium in Reykjavik — is against Finland on Oct. 6.

Iceland has a tough task to become the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup. It is in Group I which seems the deepest pool of talent with four Euro 2016 teams plus Kosovo, which is likely the best of the minnows pot of No. 6 seeds.

DEBUTANTS Like all new FIFA members, Kosovo and Gibraltar — both accepted in May and fasttracked into 2018 qualifying — start their international careers at the bottom of the seeding. Kosovo makes a World Cup debut at Finland on Monday, and hosts Croatia on Oct. 6. Three days later, Kosovo will play at Ukraine which does not recognize it as an independent state.

Gibraltar is in perhaps the weakest group of the nine, with only top-seeded Belgium having played at Euro 2016. Gibraltar kicks off with a home game — in Faro, Portugal, while its own stadium is being built — against Greece on Tuesday. (ap)

England ‘keeper Joe Hart arrives in Torino to warm welcome TURIN — England goalkeeper Joe Hart is on the verge of completing a loan move to Torino from Manchester City.

Hart, who was given permission to leave the England camp to fly to Italy, underwent a medical at the Serie A club on Tuesday.

The 29-year-old was greeted by around 200 fans loudly chanting his name at Torino’s headquarters, and there were further cheers and applause when he appeared at the window brandishing a club jersey with his name on the back.

Hart has lost his starting spot at City since new coach Pep Guardiola arrived during the offseason.

Hart follows a long list of English players to ply their trade in Italy, but is one of the few at the top of his game to move abroad in recent times. (ap)

Inter Milan signs Brazil forward Gabigol until 2021

MILAN — Inter Milan has completed the signing of Gabriel Barbosa, known as Gabigol, from Brazilian club Santos.

Gabigol signed a five-year contract on Tuesday, the day of his 20th birthday. Italian media reported a transfer fee of 28 million euros ($31.2 milion).

The forward, described as “the

new Neymar” by some pundits in Brazil, has scored two goals in four appearances for Brazil’s senior side and also helped its Olympic team to a first ever gold medal in Rio de Janeiro.

Gabigol has spent the past four seasons at Santos, winning the Campeonato Paulista the past two seasons. (ap)

Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP

Goalkeeper Joe Hart poses with a fan upon his arrival at the Torino soccer team headquarters in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016.

Barcelona signs striker Paco Alcacer as backup for Suarez

BARCELONA — Barcelona strengthened its already top-class attack by signing Spain striker Paco Alcacer from rival Spanish club Valencia on Tuesday

in a deal worth at least 30 million euros ($33.5 million).

Alcacer, who turned 23 on Tuesday, joins a Barcelona lineup featuring Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar. He will likely play a backup role to Suarez, filling the void created last year after the departure of Pedro Rodriguez to Chelsea.

“Messi, Neymar and Suarez are the three best players in the world,” Alcacer said. “It will be a privilege to play with them. I hope I can do my part to do great things at Barca.” Alcacer signed a five-year contract after passing a medical exam.

Barcelona said it will pay 30 million euros ($33.5 million), plus a possible 2 million euros ($2.2 million) more in variables, to Valencia.

The Liga champions also said they are loaning forward Munir El Haddadi to Valencia, which will have the option to buy his rights next summer for 12 million euros. Alcacer scored 43 goals in the past three seasons at Valencia.

For Spain, Alcacer has scored six goals in 13 matches. He was dropped by former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque for this summer’s European Championship, but new manager Julen Lopetegui has recalled Alcacer for this week’s international matches, including Spain’s first 2018 World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein.

He is Barcelona’s sixth summer signing, along with fellow ex-Valencia midfielder Andre Gomes, Samuel Umtiti, Denis Suarez, Lucas Digne and goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen. (ap)

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Impressive Murray leads British charge in New York

NEW YORK - Whisper it quietly, the Brits are coming. Of the eight British players in the main draw at the U.S. Open, the most since 1985, five made it through to round two, with Andy Murray, Dan Evans and Naomi Broady joining Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund in the last 64 on Tuesday.

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off,” Evans responded when asked how he would have reacted had someone offered him a chance to be ranked this high at this stage of the year.

“It’s been a pretty interesting year and I’m happy with how it’s been.”

Evans next plays 27th-seeded German Sascha Zverev, who at 19 is tipped as a future star of the men’s game.

World number 82 Broady earned only her second ever grand slam win with a gutsy 6-7 6-3 6-4 win over fellow Briton Laura Robson.

The 26-year-old Broady recently broke into the world’s top 100 and admitted she was a late bloomer.

“I think in British tennis they like to say that you’re running out of time and you’re playing catch-up and if you’re not there by 18 then you’re behind everybody else,” she said.

“But tennis is becoming more of a longevity sport there and the average age of the top 100 is getting older.

“I think I was 25 when I broke into it this year. I’m still there and I maybe won’t be in the top 100

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Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot against Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic on day two of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. as long as Laura has the potential to be but we’ve not got the same career, so I’ll just do the best with what I’ve got.”

There was disappointment for

Heather Watson, however, who suffered from a fever and back pain as she lost 6-2 7-5 to Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp.

The other British player in ac-

tion, Aljaz Bedene, also suffered a straight sets defeat, with Australian 14th seed Nick Kyrgios proving too strong in a 6-4 6-4 6-4 victory. (rtr)

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The quintet of survivors matches the best performance by British players at Flushing Meadows since 1987, when four women and one man made it through the first round.

Second seed Murray, looking ominous in all black, was the last of the five to progress with a late-night 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol, effortlessly advancing without facing a single break point.

“I served very well,” said Murray, who set up a second round encounter against Marcel Granollers of Spain.

“It was a tough start to the match, he had a few chances early on but once I got the break up, I played well.”

Evans was ranked as low as 772 in May 2015 and still outside the top 300 when the U.S. Open began last August.

A string of successes on the Challenger Tour carried him close to the top 100 and his 6-2 4-6 7-5 6-1 over the American Rajeev Ram is set to lift his ranking from 64 to inside the top 60, a new careerhigh.

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LONDON - Renault driver Kevin Magnussen will have to pass a fitness check at Monza on Thursday before being cleared to race in the Italian Grand Prix after his big crash in Belgium last weekend.

Renault said in a statement on Tuesday that the Dane, who went to hospital after Sunday’s accident at Spa left him with a heavily bruised left ankle, had undergone further checks in Denmark that indicated he was fit to race in Italy.

He must, however, pass a mandatory FIA test at the circuit.

“I’m feeling much better, which is very good news,” said Magnussen.

“I’ve had several checks that show I am fit to race in Monza and I am sure I will be in the car this weekend. We were running in the top 10 in Belgium and I’m very motivated to repeat this again in Italy.”

Sunday’s race at Monza is the last of the European Formula One season and 14th of a record 21 on the calendar. (rtr)

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First U.S.-Cuba scheduled flight in decades set to depart

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Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff attends the final session of debate and voting on Rousseff’s impeachment trial in Brasilia, Brazil, August 29, 2016.

Brazil Senate expected to dismiss Rousseff in impeachment vote

SAO PAULO - Brazil’s Senate was expected to vote on Wednesday to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff, finalizing a nine-month impeachment process and confirming the country’s shift to the right with the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.

Rousseff’s supporters seemed resigned to the likelihood that more than two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate would convict her of breaking budget laws, while opponents hailed the chance to turn the page on a drawn-out economic and political crisis.

Brazil’s first female president has denied any wrongdoing and said the impeachment process was aimed at protecting the interests of the country’s economic elite.

If she is convicted as expected, a tricky transition would fall to her conservative former vice president, Michel Temer, who has served as interim president since the Senate trial began in May and will finish out the term through to 2018.

Temer has vowed to pull the economy out of its worst recession since the 1930s and implement

austerity measures to plug a growing budget deficit that cost Brazil its investment-grade credit rating last year.

But even an overwhelming vote to remove Rousseff would not mean an easy path ahead for Temer, as there are signs of clear resistance in Congress to his proposals to cap public spending and reform public pensions.

His government also risks entanglement in a sweeping investigation of kickbacks at state oil company Petrobras that already ensnared dozens of politicians in Rousseff’s coalition.

The scandal, which has tarnished Temer’s fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, could hobble efforts to restore stability to Brazil’s politics and confidence in its economy.

Temer is so sure of the trial’s outcome that he has scheduled an address to the nation on Wednesday.

He then plans to fly to China for a summit of the G20 group of leading economies, hoping to secure pledges of trade and investment, his aides say.

Rousseff’s popularity fell into single figures this year due to the Petrobras graft scandal and the deep recession that many Brazilians blame on her government’s interventionist policies.

In an emotional speech on Monday, Rousseff compared the trial to her persecution under Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, when she was tortured by security services as a member of a leftist urban guerrilla group.

If the Senate convicts Rousseff, she would become the first Brazilian leader dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption. (rtr)

FORT LAUDERDALE - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century is set to depart on Wednesday, starting a new chapter in the Obama administration’s bid to open trade and travel with the former Cold War foe.

The first of several U.S. carriers to begin serving Cuba in the coming months, JetBlue Airways Corp will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, a city in the center of Cuba known for its monument to revolutionary Che Guevara.

Among the passengers on the 150-seat Airbus A320 will be U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, JetBlue Chief Executive Officer Robin Hayes, news reporters and photographers and other officials. Regular travelers, including some of Cuban descent, will occupy nearly half the seats on a route that may be a commercial challenge, at least initially.

Cuba and the United States began normalizing relations in December 2014 after 18 months of secret talks. The countries had been hostile for more than five decades, since Fidel Castro ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in a revolution that steered the island on a communist course and made it a close ally of the Soviet Union.

Since Obama has been unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to lift a longstanding trade embargo, U.S. citizens are still prohibited from visiting Cuba as tourists. The U.S. government has approved exceptions to the ban, ranging from cultural, religious and educational travel to business and visiting family.

Despite those limitations, U.S. airlines have rushed to start flights - adding a lot of capacity and setting themselves up to lose money on the trips in the short run, said industry consultant Robert Mann.

“Most carriers look at international markets that have been restricted and are just opening up as an investment,” Mann said. “You need to get your foot in the door.”

Services on regional carrier Silver Airways and American Airlines Group Inc from the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area to Cuba’s outlying provinces are the next to start, in September. Three other carriers will follow.

Mann said the companies probably offered to fly to Cuban cities unknown to many American travelers, so that U.S. officials would look favorably on their applications to fly to Havana.

A memorandum of understanding between Cuba and the United States will limit Havana flights to 20 round trips per day. U.S. officials have yet to announce a final decision on which companies will get those coveted routes. (rtr)

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Eight years later, students chatter enthusiastically about the pride they take in attending the school where Obama once studied. Nineyear-old Mentari Malarangeng, a third-grade student, said Obama is her idol. “I heard from my grandmother that Obama was a good student, loud and confident when he talked,” she said.

Her classmate Abdilah Kurdi said the school became famous because of Obama and gets many visitors who want to see where he sat. “I want to be a president like him,” he said. “I’m so proud of him.” The school’s principal, Edi Kusyanto, said about 40 to 60 mainly foreign tourists visit the

school every month.

A picture of an adult Obama standing beside an American flag is displayed prominently in his former third-grade classroom, with current students pointing to a desk in the next-to-last row as Obama’s. Two big photos of the president adorn the school’s lobby.

Kusyanto said the statue of a young Obama, erected in 2010, is a permanent fixture, because he is part of the school’s history. “The statue inspires and motivates the children every day,” said Kusyanto, who has high hopes that Obama will visit the school after his presidency ends.

“He tried,” Kusyanto said when asked of Obama’s legacy. “Unlike his predecessor’s legacy of war in Iraq, Obama tried to change the world to be a better place.” (ap)

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BUSINESS Political issues weigh on upcoming G-20 summit in China

BEIJING — While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of world leaders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

Terror attacks in Europe, the looming U.S. presidential election and bloody ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq are among the issues making the world an uncertain and unsettling place.

World leaders including President Barack Obama, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to take up such topics, either when gathering as a group on Sunday and Monday or during bilateral meetings held on the summit’s fringes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has grown closer to China following the imposition of Western economic sanctions, will be in attendance, along with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French Prime Minister Francois Hollande and new British Prime Minister Theresa May. May will face questions about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and its impact on the global economy amid rising economic nationalism.

Despite the wealth of controversial issues, China seems determined to deliver a non-confrontational, even uneventful summit, having endowed it with the middle-of-theroad theme of: “Toward an Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy.”

“Accounting for two-thirds of the world population and more than 80 percent of global economic out-

put, G-20 nations deserve, and are expected, to play a bigger role in the managing the world economy,” the official Xinhua News Agency said in a recent commentary. “The upcoming summit is undoubtedly a prime opportunity.”

Climate change, human rights and the fight against the Islamic State group will also feature during the meetings, with Obama and Xi expected to offer an update on progress toward ratifying the Paris agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. White House officials have said they hope the historic climate change pact could enter into force by the end of the year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be present at his first major multinational gathering since a failed summer coup added new tensions to an already complex relationship with the U.S. and its allies.

Though no breakthroughs are expected, the gathering offers a chance for leaders to discuss disagreements ranging from China’s claim to Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea to NATO’s concerns over Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine.

The opportunity even for proforma contact between disputants such as China and Japan is significant and “no doubt this will be hailed and heralded as a reduction in tensions,” said Dean Cheng, senior research fellow at the Heritage

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In this Aug. 18, 2016 photo, Helicopters hover around the main venue which will hold the upcoming G20 summit in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province. While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20, industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of world leaders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

Foundation in Washington, D.C. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are an especially sharp regional concern. Pyongyang this week denounced a U.N. Security Council statement condemning its four latest ballistic missile launches, calling it “a hostile act” perpetrated by the United States and warning that it could precipitate America’s “self-destruction.”

The North launched a ballistic missile from a submarine Aug. 24, days after the U.S. and South Korea began their annual military exercises. A press statement approved Friday night by all 15 Se-

curity Council members, including Pyongyang’s ally China, called the four launches in July and August “grave violations” of a ban on all ballistic missile activity.

While China remains politically stable under stern, one-party communist rule, east Asia faces challenges ranging from Thailand’s military governance to the election of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose bloody anti-drug campaign has drawn criticism from human-rights activists.

Obama is also expected to make a pitch for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, a

massive multination deal that has stalled in the U.S. Congress amid fierce election-year opposition from both Democrats and Republicans.

Along with Washington’s “pivot” to Asia that has boosted American military presence in the region, the TPP is a centerpiece of Obama’s policy toward the continent and seen as a litmus test for U.S. leadership. Host China is not a party to the proposed agreement and regards the pivot as a hostile attempt to contain its regional influence through strengthened military alliances with American allies including Australia and the Philippines. (ap)

Weak eurozone inflation bolsters case for more stimulus

BRUSSELS — Consumer price inflation in the eurozone was stuck at 0.2 percent in August, a low rate that could encourage the European Central Bank to offer more stimulus sooner rather than later.

The figure reported Wednesday by statistics agency Eurostat was the same as in July and below economists’ expectations for an uptick to 0.3 percent. It also remains far short of the European Central Bank’s target of 2 percent.

The main culprit was a 5.7 percent annual drop in energy prices.

But inflation for other goods and services was also relatively weak.

Not including energy and other volatile items like food, alcohol and tobacco, overall consumer price inflation was 0.8 percent, a rate the ECB consider too low for a healthy economy.

The central bank has launched a series of stimulus measures to help the economy of the 19-nation

eurozone and bring inflation to a healthier level. It has cut its key rate to zero and is pumping 80 billion euros ($90 billion) of new money into the economy every month by buying bonds from banks and companies. That aims to lower borrowing rates and encourage business activity.

Analysts are divided over whether the ECB will launch more stimulus at its next policy meeting Sept.

8. Some say it’s only a matter of

time, particularly if inflation doesn’t pick up this year.

In such an event, the central bank could extend the duration of its bond-buying program, which is currently set to end in March 2017.

Economists note that the drop in oil prices should get phased out of the inflation data in coming months, helping inflation edge up. But the eurozone economy is still weak overall and recovering only slowly from years of financial crises and recessions.

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That was evident in separate data from Eurostat that showed the currency union’s unemployment rate was stuck at 10.1 percent in July, the same as in June.

“There is a large amount of slack in the economy,” said Stephen Brow, European economist at Capital Economics in London. “There is a strong case for the ECB to announce further policy easing. This could come as soon as the bank’s meeting next week.” (ap)

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Indonesia’s Widodo masters the politics, but reform agenda fades

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JAKARTA - As he heads towards the end of his second year as Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo has never looked stronger: a crowd of political parties backs him, he is riding high in opinion polls and the economy is beginning to bounce off the bottom.

After a terrible first year when the rupiah currency plummeted and critics questioned his ability to govern, aides and politicians close to Widodo told Reuters he now feels firmly in control and is already considering re-election in 2019.

But Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, appears to have managed his recovery by soft-pedalling on the political and economic reforms that he had promised in the world’s fourth-most populous nation when he stood for election in 2014.

Instead, he has concentrated on building alliances to bolster his authority, an echo of former strongman Suharto, whose mastery of political dealmaking kept him in power for more than three decades.

“He’s turning into a new Suharto,” said one senior official, pointing to the “disciplined, coolheaded calculation” of a cabinet reshuffle in July in which Widodo handed positions to parties across the political spectrum.

Presidential spokesman Johan Budi said Widodo was “not yet thinking” about the 2019 election.

“He is focused on this period and on working for the prosperity of the people,” Budi said.

Analysts say Widodo’s political manoeuvring probably means he will be less inclined to pursue radical change in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, whose overdependence on resource exports has been painfully exposed by the recent slump in commodity prices.

That was not in the script when the former furniture salesman, who grew up in a riverside slum of central Java, won the presidency.

The first leader of modern Indonesia not to come from the military or political elite, Widodo was widely expected to shake up the

establishment. Supporters said he would root out corruption, promote people based on merit rather than connections and create an environment for investment to flow into the stalling economy.

“Instead of changing the game, as he promised voters, Jokowi has begun to master it,” said Aaron Connelly, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Affairs in Sydney.

Marcus Mietzner, an associate professor at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, added: “He has - sadly but correctly - established for himself that these issues will not win or lose elections, so he ignores them.”

POLITICAL SURVIVAL Aides said Widodo was hamstrung when he came to office because he did not have a parliamentary majority to push through reforms and because he was held back by former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, the domineering head of his political party, the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

They say that the 55-year-old president is difficult to read, but after several run-ins with Megawati it was clear he had decided to bring the PDI-P to heel and win the backing of other parties.

His big break came in January this year when Golkar, the country’s second-largest party with nearly 15 percent of parliament’s seats, agreed to support Widodo’s coalition.

With last month’s cabinet picks, he drew several parties closer to him, cementing support from about two-thirds of parliament’s members and ensuring that he no longer relied on one party for his political survival.

“These parties have each pushed

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (C) and his wife Iriana chat with school children dressed in traditional costume before the arrival of visiting Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia August 5, 2016. Picture taken August 5, 2016. their own agenda with Jokowi, but he has made sure to get what he needs from them too,” said Eva Kusuma Sundari, a senior PDI-P lawmaker.

After more than a year of being undermined by ministers speaking out of turn and at cross-purposes, there was no doubt that Widodo was asserting his control with the latest reshuffle.

From now on ministers will not be allowed to have a “vision and mission” of their own, he told his new team after their inauguration.

“No more going it alone.”

TIMID REFORM The appointment of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the World Bank’s man-

aging director, as finance minister in July’s reshuffle raised hopes that market reforms were indeed coming.

Widodo made another signature appointment in a cabinet reshuffle last year, handing the trade ministry to a Westernised former Wall Street banker. Tom Lembong, who left his private equity firm in Singapore to join the government, has since been a close adviser to Widodo and now heads the investment board.

As growth slowed to its weakest for six years in 2015, Widodo began rolling out a series of deregulation packages to drive industry and employment beyond the economy’s traditional mainstays of agriculture and mineral extraction.

The senior official said that with a recent opinion poll showing popular support for the president at 68 percent, the highest since he took office, and with so much cross-party support, he can now push ahead with difficult economic reforms such as opening up long-protected industries.

However, analysts say that after nearly two years it is still not clear if Widodo favours the free market or protectionism because his policies have been so inconsistent.

“Largely it’s nibbling at the edges, so when people use language like reform, I don’t think it’s appropriate,” said Matthew Busch, a consultant focusing on economic and investment issues in Indonesia.(rtr)

Indonesian revolutionary leader Bung Tomo`s wife passes away

SURABAYA - Sulistina Sutomo, wife of Indonesias revolutionary leader Bung Tomo, passed away at the age of 91 on early Wednesday after undergoing medical treatment for several days at the Jakarta-based Gatot Subroto Army Central Hospital.

Sulistinas death was confirmed by her son, Bambang Sulistomo, AH Tony, one

of Bung Tomos relatives, stated here.

The 91-year-old wife of charismatic Bung Tomo, who is known for his oration at a local radio to inspire the people of Surabaya to fight the British troops during the Battle of Surabaya in November 1945, died of illness and aging-related factors, he remarked.

Her coffin was transported from Ja-

karta to the East Java city of Surabaya to be buried beside the grave of her husband at the Ngagel public cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, Tony remarked.

Meanwhile, East Java Deputy Governor Saifullah Yusuf delivered his condolences to the families of the national hero Bung Tomo, saying that Sulistina was an inspirational figure.

“Representing the people of East Java, I convey their deepest condolences.

Indonesia has again lost a respected and inspirational figure. May Allah the Almighty and the Merciful accept all her good deeds,” he stated. Internet users also conveyed their condolences through a variety of social media platforms.(ant)

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Singaporean citizen on trial for posesion of 10 excstasy pills DENPASAR - After being arrested upon arrival at the Ngurah Rai International Airport for carrying 10 excstasy pills and a sheet of 10 strips of LSD, 33 year old Mohammad Noh Bin Abdul Salam, stood trial on Tuesday (Aug. 30).

The agenda was the reading of indictment by Before the panel of judges chaired by Judge Yanto, public prosecutor Purwanti Murtiasih read the first indictment, explaining that the defendant had acted unlawfully by producing, importing, exporting or distributing class 1 narcotics.

In this case, the defendant is being charged under Article 113 paragraph (1) of Law No. 35/2009 on Narcotics. He is also being charged, under Article 127 paragraph (1) letter (a) of the same law. Mohammad arrived in Bali

on Tuesday (Jun. 26) at 14:30 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia flying on AirAsia Kuala Lumpur-Denpasar flight AK376, landing at Ngurah Rai Airport.

On the way to airport’s customs checkpoint, the defendant was moving suspiciously. The customs officers conducted closed examination of the defendant’s luggage using X-ray and then further examination of the defendat’s suitcase revealed 10 excstasy pills -5 of which were cream colored with the ‘Mercy’ logo and weighed a net 1.55 grams and the 5 others were green with with a ‘phone handle’ logo and weighed a net 1.40 grams.

The customs officers also found a sheet of colored paper weighing 0.1 grams that was wrapped with a red cover that turned out to be LSD. (kmb37)

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Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people’s home

TOKYO - Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people’s home in Japan, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11.

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British man David Taylor re-enacts a scene as a police officer poses as victim Wayan Sudarsa on Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia, August 31, 2016.

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A gang of thieves breaks in villa

Police found nine bodies on Wednesday in the nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi, in Iwate Prefecture in the north of Japan’s main island of Honshu, but it was not clear when their home was flooded.

It was also not clear why people there had not been taken to safety before the storm struck. The nursing home is located near a river and was partially buried in mud and debris when the river overflowed its banks.

“The area is in a state of chaos.

We are not sure what preparations the facility had taken,” said a prefectural government official who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The town issued evacuation preparation information on Tuesday morning, which is to inform elderly

or disabled people who take time to evacuate. That, however, was not as strong as an evacuation warning, according to another prefecture official.

More than 1,000 other people were forced from their homes by the flooding brought by Typhoon Lionrock.

The body of a man was also found near a river in Iwaizumi and a dead woman was found in Kuji city, police said.

Television pictures showed flooded rivers with cars and homes partly submerged, while rescuers picked up stranded people by helicopter.

Several people were also missing on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said. Iwate, the worsthit prefecture, was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (rtr)

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A residential house is damaged by driftwood in Kuji city, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock hit the northern Japan, dumping heavy rains.

MANGUPURA - Two thieves from Bogor, West Java, were arrested by Kuta Police officers, Sunday (Aug. 28). The culprits have the initials AZ, 27, and John, 27. When taking action, they pretended to be travelers and stayed at the Villa Santi on Jalan Sunset Road, Kuta. Purposely they stayed at the villa with loose security.

N.Korea makes progress on missiles, but no evidence of nuclear weapons yet

a room in Bali True Living Apartment located on Jalan Imam Bonjol.

The room is used to hide their stolen goods,” said Sumara.

Related to the case, this former chief unit of Badung Police Intelligence and Security confirmed that villa and hotel owners should equip their property with CCTV so that it can monitor the people going in and out. In addition, they must hold a photo copy of guests’ identity card.

“If there is suspicion, they must also be questioned immediately such as when they do not carry identity card.

Do not just think about profit earning or the room can be sold,” he said.

Police chief alleged the gang of thieves may not take action at that time only. By exploiting the weaknesses of hotel or villa management, they can stay and steal goods in the next room. “Maybe, they take action when the guests in the next room come out and immediately sneak into the room so that it takes place so fast. We hope the cooperation of tourism stakeholders, lest this new mode occurs again and escapes from the attention of the management,” he said.

Related to this case, the officers secured the evidence in the form of

EXPANDED PRODUCTION In the past year, North Korea has boasted of numerous weapons breakthroughs in unprecedented detail.

Although some of it was bluster, international experts have concluded North Korea’s missiles have flown higher and for longer than previously, indicating progress in the country’s banned missile programme.

In June, after repeated failures, it successfully launched an intermediate-range missile, which can fly up to 3,500 km (2,100 miles).

Analysis of satellite images shows that the North has recently expanded factories known to contribute to its nuclear and missile programmes.

An Aug 22 image of a sprawling plant in a rural area 60 km (37 miles) north of Pyongyang appears to show several new structures, extensive refurbishment of existing buildings and a new entrance to a probable underground facility, according to data from satellite imagery provider Planet that was analysed by Lewis.

The January 18 General Machine Plant has long been used to produce engines for tanks, missiles and other military vessels, according to experts.

“This represents an enormous investment in North Korea’s missile production infrastructure, something that is consistent with the propaganda offensive we have seen and the spike in missile testing,” said Lewis. (rtr)

“They stayed at the scene and then stole in the unit next to the villa they rented. This is a new mode.

Besides, they stole the goods in the villa room they rented,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, Tuesday (Aug. 30).

According to the police chief, at 21:00 on Saturday (Aug. 27), both suspects checked in at the villa. When asked for identity card, they claimed not to bring with the reason if theirs was brought along by their girlfriend.

“At that time, the villa management was suspicious. After that, the villa owner named Boina Ana Tatiana told her staff to alert,” he said.

At 00:30 on Sunday (Aug. 28), the two suspects left the room while carrying belongings wrapped in bed sheets and immediately went away by riding a motorcycle. Management of the villa directly reported the incident to Kuta Police.

When followed, the suspects came into an apartment on Jalan Imam Bonjol, Denpasar. A few minutes later, both suspects came out in bare hand. Furthermore, they offered an iPod to someone on Jalan Oberoi, Kuta and at that time they were immediately arrested.

“In fact, the suspect John rented

SEOUL - North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarine-launched missile for the first time, but it’s still not clear if the isolated nation has developed a nuclear warhead.

It also does not yet have a fleet of submarines that can launch the newly developed missile.

Nevertheless, concerns about the threat

Villas in Bali are prone to criminal act. two bed sheets, iPod dock, two units of LED TV 32 inches including their remote controller, Samsung mobile phone, weight scale, hair dryer, Kris DVD, five bottles of small beer, 12 cans of soft drink and Honda Vario motorcycle.

In addition, the members of the Kuta Police Criminal Investigation also arrested the thief after

stealing 46 teak chairs worth IDR 70 million. The culprit is named Sungkono, 34, living on Jalan Pratama Gang Gundul, South Kuta.

The suspect claimed to take action on Sunday (Aug. 21) at 11:30. Initially, the suspect took 23 seats at Road Side 37 Restaurant on Jalan Majapahit, Kuta. The chairs were then transported by car and sold in

posed by North Korea have spiralled since it conducted its fourth nuclear explosion in January and followed it up with a series of missile tests despite severe United Nations sanctions.

Also, three major factories known to produce machine parts for North Korea’s sanctioned nuclear and missile programmes have been modernised or expanded, according to analysis of recent satellite imagery seen by

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the Nusa Dua area. Furthermore, the suspect came again and took 23 seats at the crime scene belonging to Christophorus Purwana, 40.

“Each chair is sold for IDR 50,000. The suspect admitted to have taken action at six crime scenes but the case is still being further investigated,” said Sumara. (kmb36)

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A view shows the January 18 General Machine Plant in Kaechon, North Korea, in this satellite image taken on August 22, 2016 and provided by Planet Labs, Inc on August 24, 2016.

Reuters, a further sign of its commitment of scarce resources to weapons.

“North Korea has dramatically increased the pace of missile testing and invested heavily in modernising its factories that produce them, something we can see in satellite images,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“These investments have paid off with the recent test of a solid-fuelled submarinelaunched missile, but North Korea has not yet completed development of a submarine to carry that missile.”

In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturisation of a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile, although there was no direct evidence it had done so. The United States has said the North’s claim that it had miniaturised a warhead had to be taken as a credible threat.

“I think North Korea is capable of miniaturising nuclear bombs,” said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy. “But they don’t have any standardised warhead yet to put on missiles.

They keep gathering data through nuclear tests and working to standardise a warhead.”

Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle for the North’s first nuclear warhead would be the medium-range Rodong missile, which can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles).

Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an intercontinen-

tal ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a nuclear warhead.

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Upbeat music may make people more cooperative

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A boy searches for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings in a polluted water channel near a temple in Kolkata June 5, 2014. Thursday marks this year’s World Environment Day.

More than 300 million at risk of lifethreatening diseases from dirty water: U.N.

LONDON - More than 300 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of life-threatening diseases like cholera and typhoid due to the increasing pollution of water in rivers and lakes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said.

Between 1990 and 2010, pollution caused by viruses, bacteria and other micro-organisms, and long-lasting toxic pollutants like fertilizer or petrol, increased in more than half of rivers across the three continents, while salinity levels rose in nearly a third, UNEP said in a report on Tuesday.

Population growth, expansion of agriculture and an increased amount of raw sewage released into rivers and lakes were among the main reasons behind the increase of surface water pollution, putting some 323 million people at risk of infection, UNEP said.

“The water quality problem at a global scale and the number of people affected by bad water quality are much more severe than we expected,” Dietrich Borchardt, lead author of the report, told the

Thomson Reuters Foundation.

However, a significant number of rivers remain in good condition and need to be protected, he said by phone from Germany.

About a quarter of rivers in Latin America, 10 percent to 25 percent in Africa and up to 50 percent in Asia were affected by severe pathogen pollution, largely caused by discharging untreated wastewater into rivers and lakes, the report said.

Some 3.4 million people die each year from diseases such as cholera, typhoid, polio or diarrhea, which are associated with pathogens in water, UNEP said.

It estimated that up to 164 million people in Africa, 134 million in Asia and 25 million in Latin America were at risk of infection from the diseases.

It said building more sewers was not enough to prevent infections and deaths, adding that the solution was to treat wastewater.

Organic pollution, which can cause water to be completely starved of oxygen, affects one kilometer (0.6 mile) out of seven kilometers (4.4 miles) of rivers in Latin America, Africa and Asia, threatening freshwater fisheries, UNEP said.

Severe and moderate salinity levels, caused by the disposal of salty water from mines, irrigation systems and homes, affect one in 10 rivers on the three continents, making it harder for poor farmers to irrigate their crops, it said.

The trend of worsening water pollution was “critical”, Borchardt said.

“It is much more expensive to clean up surface water from severe pollution than to implement proper management which includes prevention of pollution,” he said.

“Tools are available but the challenge is to implement them.” (rtr)

THE right mood music can influence how well people work together, a new management-oriented study suggests.

Many retail establishments carefully select the music they play in order to influence consumer behavior, such as encouraging shoppers to buy more, the authors write. But employees hear the same music and its effect on them hasn’t been studied.

“In our case, the new article focuses attention on the role of music in relation to management questions,” said lead author Kevin M. Kniffin of Cornell University in New York.

In the first of two studies, 78 participants were randomly divided into two groups: a “happy music” group that heard songs like “Yellow Submarine” by The Beatles and the theme from the television show “Happy Days,” and an “unhappy music” group that heard less familiar heavy metal songs like “Smokahontas” by Attack Attack!

The participants in each group used a computer application in which they played a sort of economics game with other unidentified participants in the same room, but players didn’t speak to one another.

In the application, each person was given 10 tokens corresponding to monetary value and was paired with two other people. Over 20

rounds of decision-making, each person was prompted to either keep their tokens or allocate them to a group pool which would be split among the participants at the end. Tokens in the group pool were valued 1.5 times as much as those held individually.

Consistently, people listening to happy music contributed more to the group pool.

In a second study, the researchers repeated the design with an added no-music group, and also measured participants’ moods.

Again, those hearing happy music contributed more to the group pool than those hearing unhappy music or no music at all.

Unhappy music elicited a worse mood than both other conditions, and a happier mood was tied to more token contributions to the group, according to the results in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

“The bottom line is that emotions count,” said Neal M. Ashkanasy, professor of management at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who was not part of the new research.

People in a positive mood are more cooperative and more creative, while those in a negative mood tend to narrow in on solving individual problems rather than group problems, Ashkanasy told Reuters Health. (rtr)

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Soaring demand of bamboo for penjor

Farmers claim to be overwhelmed BANGLI - Bamboo farmers at Kayubihi village, Bangli, admitted to be overwhelmed to meet the demand for penjor ahead of Galungan on September 7. The demand for bamboo does not only come from consumers in Bangli, but also those from several other districts such as Denpasar and Gianyar.

Headman of Kayubihi, I Ketut Widiana, who is also bamboo farmer, said that the market demand for bamboo used for penjor

has started to experience a surge since two weeks ago. Aside from Bangli region, he admitted the bamboo demand also comes from

other districts such as Denpasar and Gianyar.

On average he delivers 300 bamboo stems each day both to the areas in Bangli and outside Bangli. Due to such high demand, he admitted to be overwhelmed to meet the market demand. “Since we get high demand, some demands cannot be fulfilled,” said Widiana,

Tuesday (Aug. 30).

Widiana said the bamboo commonly sold to collector measures about 7.5 to 8 meters. It is usually adapted to the demands of most consumers. “Now, people are not just making a simple penjor, but also the one with nice decoration.

So, the preferred size is about 7.5 to 8 meters,” he said. He sells bam-

boo to collectors for IDR 18,000 per stem.

According to Widiana, the high demand of residents for bamboo happens because most people currently want a practical thing. They are reluctant to seek their own bamboo. “This is the condition causing the high demand for bamboo,” he said. (kmb40)

District govt strives to exempt farmers from property taxes GIANYAR - Tourism advancement attained by Gianyar district is inseparable from the beauty of the agricultural sector. However, farmers are now burdened with high property tax as located adjacent to tourist accommodation.

Seeing this condition, the district government of Gianyar will make efforts to exempt farmers from the property taxes.

“We really want to free farmers from property tax to preserve the agricultural areas,” said Deputy Regent of Gianyar, Made Mahayastra, not long ago.

Mahayastra recognized that such desire needs to be further discussed with related organizations and must also be adjusted to the higher laws.

Nevertheless, this PDI-P cadre is very optimistic to exempt farmers

from property tax. “It still needs to be discussed with relevant ranks and the parliament, so that the government can guarantee the welfare of farmers,” he said.

Moreover, all this time the agricultural sector is one of the tourist attractions like at the Ceking rice terrace, rice cultivation around Ubud and other areas in Gianyar district. “Since the first, the paddy fields have become tourist attraction. If the agriculture disappears then our tourism is also threatened,” he added.

Additionally, the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Gianyar obtained from taxes of tourism sector is high enough.

“I think the accommodation tax is already quite high, so this will be adjusted. If possible, we will

attempt the farmers in Gianyar to be exempted from property tax,” he said.

Currently a variety of measures have been carried out to preserve the agricultural sector in Gianyar district from provision of subsidy to free seed. The government has also helped the distribution of agricultural products like tangerine. “Tangerine farmers are now constrained in terms of payment because the private sector typically makes payment every two months after transaction.

Well, here we will try so that the transaction made will be bailed out first by the government of Gianyar. Then, the payment of private sector will be submitted to the government of Gianyar,” he explained. (kmb35)

Cave exposed to sunlight, harvest yield of bird’s nest slumps

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A woman lies in the grass reading a book and listening to music at Columbia University in New York, April 14, 2014.

SEMARAPURA - The Nusa Kertha Kosala government-owned enterprise (PDNKK) of Klungkung district repaired the ladder and provided training on the use of safety belt at the swallow bird’s nest in Batu Melawang cave, Ceningan Kawan hamlet, Nusa Penida, Tuesday (Aug. 30). At that time, the PDNKK managing the business saw firsthand about the condition of Batu Melawang cave currently exposed to sunlight due to the collapse of cliff at the mouth of the cave. As a result, when cleaning up the cave the harvest yields only produced one kilogram.

Director of the PDNKK Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, directly monitoring the ladder repair and the bird’s nest cleanup was quite shocked by the current cave condition. As a result of the cliff collapse at the mouth of the cave, the condition inside the cave overlooking the west was very bright when the sun is on western horizon.

When the clean-up started at 13:00 through 17:00, the harvest group leader, Wayan Abri, expressed that cave condition was no longer dark as ever. Sunlight came in and highlighted the cave wall.

Such condition only makes the swallow nest in the dark point, so that no bird’s nest is found on the cave walls exposed to sunlight. Sunlight also makes the walls turn white and the corals die. Wayan Sukadana will continue to repair the cave ladder and then harvest in October 2016. “After completing the repair, we will harvest again in October and see how the results look like,” he said, Tuesday (Aug. 30).

The activity was attended by Assistant II Ketut Suayadnya, Division Head of Economic Affairs Ketut Sukla, Resort Head of Natural Resources Conservation Agency (KSDA) of Klungkung Gusti Putu Warna, representatives of regional development planning board (Bappeda), regional revenue service (Dispenda), Legal Bureau and Klungkung Police. On that occasion, Ketut Suayadnya conveyed that reduction in the harvest requires an effort to increase the population by conducting a harvesting technique. The harvest must be done selectively and the population must be increased,” he said.

After doing the repair in the Batu Melawang cave with the budget of IDR 77 million including the making of bridges and provision of safety belt, Ketut Suayadnya requested to conduct further meeting to discuss about the Batu Melawang cave. In the meantime, the Division Head of Economic Affairs, Ketut Sukla, admitted there is a delay in the repair process so the harvest is delayed until the end of August considering that government of Klungkung district has many activities that should be prioritized such as the Semarapura Festival and celebration of the Independence Day on August 17. “After the Economic Affairs allocated the budget for the repairs, the management is handed over to the PDNKK Klungkung,” he said. (dwa)

The bamboo seller is seen on the street.

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Nyoman Sulendra, hamlet chief of Umaklungkung accompanied by local resident I Wayan Sugita said that he helped pioneer this makeshift market by renting plots of his land to merchants who could not set up shop at Anyar Sari market, so that they could set up kiosks.

Sugita also sold fruit here.

“The merchants from the lower area (Anyar Sari market) first brought 1 or 2 truck loads of bananas here, then other merchants followed”, he explained. There are now about 25 trucks that unload bananas at this location.

Before becoming a center for wholesale banana and other fruit selling, this location was rice paddy.

However, since it was persistently taxed, the area was then made into stalls that are rented out to local merchants. “Rather than paying

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Other side of usaba dangsil

Aside from daha truna, the committee also abstinence Committee member for usaba dangsil 2016, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan, after the peak of ritual on Monday (Aug. 29), said that he himself experienced such consequences.

He explained that since the imple-

The Ngusaba Dangsil tradition

mentation of melasti procession of Ida Batara Kabeh to the south sea at Bugbug village on August 17, the core procession of the usaba dangsil ritual had already begun which means that everyone assigned to the success of

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expensive taxes, I thought I would borrow money from the bank to establish a warehouse”, he added.

Here fruits such as melons, watermelons, papayas and yam beans are ordered from distributors in from Malang, Flores, Banyuwangi, Borneo, Lombok and Java and are sold wholesale. “If the price is okay, we purchase directly from farmers” he said. Once the money is transferred the distributors with whom they do business regularly, deliver the goods.

“We’ve become regular customers so the goods are shipped here immediately”, he said, explaining that 90 percent of the fruits are from farms outside of Bali. He said that nearly 90 percent of the fruits are from farmers outside Bali. SO far Sugita has not thought about futur management of the market, as he said that for now he is focused on maintaining the hygien and layout of the market area. (kmb42)

Usaba dangsil requires a long periode of preparation –around 1 year, to ensure that nothing is lacking for this sacred ritual. The Daha Truna (young boys and girls) engage in abstinence during the usaba dangsil procession but the usaba dangsil committee must do the same. If this abstinence is violated, there are immediate consequences.

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the ritual must focus on completing all the requirements for ritial in the village. One of the things that committee members must abstain from is going outside of the area of Bungaya Customary Village.

However, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan admitted that he broke this comitment.. After the melasti procession, he went to Sidemen village. “At that time, I went to a relative’s hosue in Sideman to mourn someone who had passed away. Once I got home

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however, all of the suddent, I had a fever, headache and felt exhausted, I then got really sick” he said from the Bale Aging temple of Bungaya Customary Village.

His family panicked because his platelet count continued to decline to 15 from the normal count of 150 to 450. His health condition continued to deteriorate until he had to be rushed to Karangasem Hospital anf was then transferred to BaliMed Hospital Karangasem, so the treatment could be done within Bungaya village. He then realized that he had broken his comitment to abstain from leaving Bungaya when he went to Sideman.

Finally, he asked for help from De Kubayan Wayan (ritual advisor) so that he could perform a ritual to apologies to the deities of Bungaya for his transgression.

After sprinkling holy water, Ida Bagus Wayan Jungutan’s condition started to improve and he quickly recovered and was even able to lead the peak of the implementation of the usaba dangsil from August 29 to the end. After experiencing the consequences of breaking his abstinence, Jungkutan admitted that he was even more convinced abouteh sacred nature of the usaba dangsil ritual. All the par-

ties involved in the ritual need to pay close attention to even the smallest things which are all very important, he said.

Local residents must obey the sacred usaba dangsil ritual at each stage. The Daha Truna, are especially important as the procession of usaba dangsil makrs a new beginning for these youngsters as the Daha Truna Nyomanan certifies thems as Daha Truna of Bungaya customary village who can then take on the responsibility of doing ritual works at the customary village. “When the Dangsil Dalem collapses at the time of establishing the dangsil, villagers immediately get new materials and the new Dangsil Dalem is made”, he said.

This sacred ritual has been practiced through generations and nothing may be changed, no matter how small.

Though many questions emerge regarding the execution, no one dares to change the implementation because the sacredness of this process is directly related to maintaining the regularity of the territory of Bali territory. The use if the dangsil as an offering symbolizes the mountain, which in Hindu mythology is a symbol of fertility. (gik)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 photo, a statue of little Barack Obama stands at at SDN Menteng 01, the elementary school he once attended, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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JAKARTA — As Barack Obama’s presidency nears its end, Indonesians still speak with pride of the childhood years he spent in their country, though much of the enthusiasm has faded along with the impossibly high expectations of what the first African-American president would achieve.

A fan club, books, a statue, a cafe and even a movie were all part of the mania for Obama in the world’s most populous Muslim nation after he was elected president in 2008. Many Indonesians believed he would change the world and their country, with its deep-seated problems of poverty, corruption and communal conflict.

Obama is still known here by his childhood nickname Barry and as the “Menteng Kid,” a reference to the upscale Jakarta neighborhood where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather from ages 6

to 10.

“We had great expectations about him that were not realized,” said Sonni Gondokusumo, who was one of Obama’s classmates at Menteng 01 elementary school and a neighbor, and is now a lawyer in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.

Obama is set to travel to Asia for the last time as president, visiting China for a Group of 20 meeting and Laos for a regional summit, but not Indonesia. His first of two visits to the country as president was in 2010, taking Obama-mania

to new heights that included an Indonesian lookalike becoming a national celebrity.

Gondokusumo fondly recalled how a young Obama played at his house and joined him in Muslim prayers wearing a traditional Indonesian sarong that kept falling off, causing much laughter. “Initially, we expected Barry will make a difference,” Gondokusumo said.

“To be honest, there is no significant contribution to this country.”

Widiyanto Cahyono, another of Obama’s former classmates, nodded in agreement.

He said he initially had believed that Obama’s emotional connection to Islam through childhood friends and a Muslim stepfather would lead to a world of greater tolerance. But now he realizes he

had naively projected all his hopes onto Obama. “Obama has a better understanding of Islam and his religious tolerance is genuine,” said Cahyono, who sat next to Obama in fourth grade. “But it is a pity nothing has changed,” he added, pointing to American policy in the Middle East.

He recalled Obama attending Islamic study class at the Menteng school, but said that instead of listening to the teacher, the future president acted cool by doodling a superhero in his notebook.

Even though the sky-high hopes for what Obama would achieve have faded, there is still a sense of connection in Indonesia to an important individual who helped shaped the world in the formative years of the 21st century. “With

Obama, there’s a sense of pride,” Cahyono said. “He is very special for us.”

A statue of Obama as a child now stands outside the Menteng school, intended as an enduring reminder of the school’s one-time pupil.

Back in 2008, students watched the U.S. election results on television and erupted into cheers when they learned Obama was headed to the White House.

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