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TAIPEI - The intricacies of cross-strait diplomacy may not have been uppermost on her mind but Katy Perry caused a stir in both Taiwan and China with her politically tinged attire at a Taipei concert this week.

Singer-songwriter Perry moved fans to tears Tuesday, according to local media, after she appeared on stage draped in a Taiwanese flag at Taipei Arena, while donning a glittering gold dress adorned with sunflowers -- the symbol of anti-China student protests in Taiwan last year.

Photos and messages that read “I am so moved”, “awesome” and “I love you” were posted on the Internet after the stunt, though it is still unclear whether she meant to make a political statement with her attire. The flag was reportedly given to her by a member of the audience.

“Beautiful. Taiwan loves you,” read a message left by Chien Yi-ting on a fan page on Facebook, where many fans posted photos of flag-clad Perry.

But some Taiwanese fans voiced concerns for Perry, fearing a possible backlash from China, which still claims In this Feb. 1. 2015, file photo, singer Katy Perry performs during halftime of NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game in Glendale, Ariz.

sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan after the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war.

“She will have trouble holding concerts in China,” warned a Facebook message posted by Tsai Chen Wang.

Perry, 30, known as “fruit sister” in China because of her colourful costumes, also managed to upset some fans.

“I’m so disappointed with fruit sister’s behaviour!” said one.

Others pointed out the move may have been an opportunistic one by pro-independence Taiwanese aware that Perry had worn the sunflower outfit on previous occasions.

“I think maybe some Taiwanese people have found the connection between her costumes and the flag and then brought a flag intentionally to the scene. It’s just terrible,” read a message on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

Perry’s US publicist was not immediately available for comment, but an official from the Taiwanese event organiser said the costume choice was not meant to be a political statement.

“We did not prepare the flag for Katy Perry. The sunflower dress is part of her regular concert attire and there is no political implication for it,” the official at Fanta Integrated Marketing Co. told AFP. (afp)

Britney Spears cancels shows after onstage fall LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears has canceled two shows in Las Vegas this weekend after injuring her ankle in an embarrassing onstage fall, her publicist said Thursday.

“Britney injured her ankle during her performance Wednesday evening and her doctor has advised her not to perform Friday and Saturday evening so that she may heal,” said a statement.

A video posted by the TMZ celebrity website showed her tumble while surrounded by backing dancers, clutching her ankle before being helped back to her feet.

“Sorry about that,” she told the audi-

ence, before apparently resuming her performance for the next song, albeit with a slight limp.

She later tweeted: “Thank you for all of the sweet wishes! Had a little scare on stage tonight with my ankle but I’m ok!”

The former enfant terrible of US pop opened a two-year sojourn at Sin City’s Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in December 2013. The Grammy winner was hired to perform her show, “Piece of Me,” 50 times a year in 2014 and 2015.

Spears was on the front pages of celebrity magazines -- and eventually scandal supermarket tabloids -- during

much of her career.

Those scandals are in the past, although her future as the Princess of Pop was thrown into fresh doubt when her last album, “Britney Jean,” received only lukewarm reviews.

Spears has joined a panoply of music stars who have taken time out for temporary residence in Las Vegas, including Elton John, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart and Celine Dion.

Ticket holders can get refunds or exchanges. “Britney Spears, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and Live Nation apologize for any inconvenience this causes ticket holders,” it added. (afp)

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Juventus seals 4th successive Serie A title with 1-0 win

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France’s Le Pen: Send migrants back across Mediterranean

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Cheers as sleeping princess welcomed into the world

LONDON - Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.

It was both a traditional and very 21stcentury moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from the Lindo Wing doors at St Mary’s Hospital in London.

Several hundred cheering well-wishers crammed behind barricades on the streets around the private hospital wing, screaming with delight as the beaming couple emerged.

Wearing a lemon and white floral summery dress, a smiling Kate cradled her daughter in her right arm, the baby wrapped in a white blan-

ket and wearing a white bonnet. The princess, less than 12 hours old, was sound asleep despite the rousing cheers and camera lens clicks from more than 100 news photographers.

William, wearing a white shirt, blue pullover and navy trousers, held his wife’s hand as he gently helped her down the hospital steps.

“It was an absolutely fantastic moment. I’m touched by it,” said royal “superfan” John Loughrey, who had camped out for 12 days to get a glimpse of the new princess.

“It is a treasure I shall remember forever,” he told AFP, dressed top to toe in Union Flag attire.

“I got tireder and tireder. It was hard!

But at the end of it, it’s worth it,” he said.

The new baby is fourth in line to the throne of 16 realms, including Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Sarah Schlederer,

28, from Sydney, was there with her family who had just arrived from Australia on holiday.

“All the hands went up with the cheers and the cameras so I saw it through my iPhone,” she said.

“It was exciting. There was screaming and cheering because people have been waiting so long and it’s a moment in history that’s never going to come again, so to be here and be a part of it is great.”

Wily Sheila Riordan, 86, bagged herself an excellent window-side view from a hospital waiting area opposite the Lindo Wing doors, defying 11 hours of hospital staff clearing out other loitering royal-watchers.

“It was worth the wait, every bit of it,” she said.

William emerged mid-afternoon to drive home to nearby Kensington Palace and fetch his son Prince George, giving the one-year-old a first glimpse of his new

baby sister.

Himself born in the Lindo Wing in July 2013, George has rarely been seen since in Britain -- another rare treat for royal watchers.

William put George down on his feet but the toddler wanted to be picked up again, so William carried him along, saying “wave to everybody”, which the young prince duly did.

William planted a kiss on his son’s temple as the two future kings headed inside, George looking back over his father’s shoulder at the tightly-packed bank of news photographers.

George later left through a back door but William and Kate emerged with their new princess at 6:11pm.

“I saw William and Kate and the baby on the steps!” said an enthused Doreen Hyde, who was wearing her beloved “jubilee raincoat” of miniature British flags.

“It was a real party atmosphere. We had a bit of champagne and sweets and cake,” said the 69-year-old from Liverpool, northwest England.

“It was electric, everyone was full of excitement, trying to get pictures of the baby.”

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went back inside for five minutes before William emerged with his daughter in a car seat, putting her safely in the back alongside her mum.

With one last wave, William drove them home himself to start their new life as a family of four. (afp) Britain’s Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, hold their newborn daughter as they pose for the media outside St. Mary’s Hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing, London, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

The Duchess gave birth to the Princess on Saturday morning.

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BANGLI - Trunyan village in Kintamani, Bangli, is one of the villages in Bali, that remains firm in maintaining its ancestral traditions. One example of their unique traditions, is their ancestral funerary practice that involves not burying their dead but leaving them on the ground. Trunyan residents also have particular taboos that they adhere to, including the prohibition of women entering the cemetery area.

Headman of Trunyan, Wayan Arjana, explained that the graves in Trunyan village are divided into three types: sema wayah, sema nguda and sema bantas.

Sema wayah is intended specifically for the bodies of public figures and ordinary people, whose body is intact and who died naturally. Sema nguda is intended for babies and adults who are not married, while the sema bantas is intended specifically for deformed bodies and those who die of unnatural causes (such as accidents or suicide). The three kinds of graves are in different locations that are far from one and other.

Arjana went on to explaine the sema wayah graveyard is located at the edge of the lake, about 500

meters from the village center, and is the burial site that is most often visited by foreigners who come to see the corpses that are laid to rest in a hole just 20 cm deep.

The bodies are only covered in fabric and are fenced in by pieces of bamboo blades called ancak saji. When a burial takes place, women abstain form entering the sema wayah area, though they can come close to the boundary.

The entire funeral process is carried by male residents. If any women goes into the graveyard area, it is believed that they will be struck by disaster. “Thus, so far our women have never known about the conditions in the cemetery here,” he explained.

Another unique feature the

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Concrete causes flooding, biopores recommended in yards

Trunyan’s sema wayah cemetery: women steer clear

Sema Wayah Cemetery in Trunyan Village

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sema wayah cemetery is that there are only seven graves, that are laid side by side. The graves at the easternmost end are intended for public figures, while the remaining graves are for ordinary residents. The number of graves at sema wayah never increase or decrease because whenever there is a new body to be buried, the old one will be removed and replaced with the new one. The bones of the old bodies are then placed in a special area, not far from the row of graves. Considering that this unique burial tradition has been pracitced by local people since time immemorial, it is no wonder that there are quite a number of skulls and bones accumulated at the sema wayah site. (ina)

TABANAN - Many people do not realize that having a green space in ones yard has a significant impact on water absorption and is an effective way to sustain water resources and to avoide flooding. However, especially in urban areas, most people’s yards have been paved over and/or converted into a place of business such as a shops or stalls that are built using permanent materials (concrete). Given how important it is that the ground be able to absorb water, it is necessary for the urban community in particular to create biopores, or water absorbing holes in their yards.

Head of the Executive Agency of Agricultural Extension, Fisheries and Forestry of Tabanan, Nyoman Sunarta expressed this necessity after the many recent recent floods. As stated by Sunarta, during the rainy season, rainwater must be managed properly and one way of doing this is by allowing green spaces to flourish, because plants naturally absorb water and store it in their roots and allow the soil to absorb it.

Currently most peoples yards are covered in concrete and have no trees, so the next best option is to create bio-

pores through which water can drain back into the soil. “Making biopores in home yards is very important because they allow rain water to get reabsorbed by the earth,” he said.

Sunarta added that biopores do not require a lot of spaces and can easily be made by anyone. Biopores, especially in urban areas, are very helpful because they allow water to be absorbed by the ground much faster than concrete. “We made biopores at our office located at Dangin Carik and the uptake of water during the rainy season is very much faster than it was and greatly reduces flooding,” he said.

He admitted that in order to make urban people aware of the need to make bipods in their yards, everyone needs to cooperate in disseminating information on the topic and for people to take action. “We also put emphasis in counseling people about the benefits of biopores,” he said.

Apart form the creation of biopores, it is also encouraged that the general public reforest unplanted areas, especially in the highlands. “We especially appeal to the community to plant bamboos in ravines,” he said. (kmb24)

Trial for murder of Mr. Bob

Sobbing defendant admits she killed husband due to being annoyed

DENPASAR - The trial for the murder of Robert Kevin Ellis aka Mr. Bob by with victim’s wife, defendant Julaikah Noor Aini alias Noor Ellis, Thursday (Apr. 30) starting the process of the examination of the defendant.

Before the panel of judges led by A.A. Anom Wirakanta, the defendant admitted that she asked to have her husband killed because she was annoyed. Noor Ellis was in tears as she was questioned by the judges at times sobbing and occasionally adjusting her glasses.

She also said that murder should not have been an option, but that there was nothing she could do now as there was no use crying over spilt milk. Noor Elis said that she can only regret her actions.

However, there are a number of reasons underlying her regreted act, such a divorce which the victim did not want to grant. “For eleven years, I have not been treated like a wife,” she said.

Since the woman called Mrs. Nur kept on crying, a member of the judge panel, Beslin Sihombing, asked her not to cry because she was always crying in each session. Beslin who is also judge

for corruption cases then asked whether the defendant has a child. “Yes, I do,” replied the defendant. And she said that her son was also shocked by the incident, but added that her son was annoyed, too.

In the examination of the defendant, Mrs. Nur also revealed details about the abusive behavior of the victim. “He even kicked the offerings (ritual paraphernalia) during a temple ceremony,” and said Nur, then Bob grumbled that it generated a lot of rubbish. Due to frequent misunderstandings, Nur was often annoyed at being insulted. Nur allegedly asked Martin -the man who would kill Mr. Bob, to do so without causing injury.

Nur said that she did not know how the victim was killed, but she did know that the victim was wrapped up so that his blood would not leave a trail. The victim’s blood was cleaned up by the two maids (defendants in a separate case). Besides, Nur also admitted that during the execution of the victim, Nur was still angry with the victim. (kmb37)

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Ideal balance at Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa

SEMINYAK - As part of Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas worldwide new Balance wellness concept, Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali is proud to launch a range of holistic yoga, spa and energy healing experiences, as well as a raw juice menu, in a revitalising setting for health and wellbeing.

Anantara’s Balance concept offers a range of specialist wellness experiences which guests can book individually or as part of a programme that is tailored to suit their needs. This uniquely flexible approach means that guests can choose the ideal balance for them, perhaps trying a one off experience for the first time to see if they like it and what the benefits are, splitting their holiday time between a healthy recharge and a few days of splurging and indulgence, or signing up for a comprehensive wellness retreat to reap maximum results, supported and cared for by Anantara’s profes-

sional team of spa and wellness experts.

Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali now offers three new holistic Balance experiences. Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga are available in private and group classes, with qualified instructors guiding students through a series of breathing techniques and gentle asana postures, all performed slowly and consciously with a focus on inner awareness to develop strength, flexibility and balance, release energy blockages, clear the mind and relieve stress.

The Balinese Spa Detox treatment is the ideal tonic to address the effects of a hectic modern lifestyle, pollution and unhealthy consumption of food and drinks which can cause toxicity and cellulite. This specialist therapy purifies from the inside out by applying a blend of fresh organic herbs to the body using anti-cellulite massage techniques to stimulate detoxification and break-

down cellulite, accompanied by a complimentary slimming spice mask to further enhance body revitalisation and skin rejuvenation.

Offering a form of powerful yet relaxing energy healing, in the Reiki Treatment the practitioner channels universal life force energy to activate the body’s innate healing ability, with a wide range of benefits including stress reduction, feelings of profound peace and promotion of general wellbeing.

Helping guests to gain a healthy boost in a delicious way, the new Raw Juice Menu offers a selection of freshly blended raw fruit and vegetable recipes that are packed with essential nutrients, such as the “pick me up” Cleansing Booster of carrot, green apple, beetroot, cucumber, celery and lemon, which purifies and fortifies the body with ingredients that are renowned for their powerful antioxidants and anticancer compounds, to help reduce

cholesterol, lower blood pressure, promote healthy skin and improve digestion.

Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali offers the perfect setting for these new Balance experiences.

Seminyak Beach and Indian Ocean waves allow guests to sunbathe or stroll along pristine sands, enjoy a revitalising swim, as well the thrill of surfing, windsurfing and kite flying.

The gym offers well-rounded workouts and personal training sessions.

Relaxation is a tropical pleasure at the beachfront pool and sundeck.

While the tranquil rooftop sanctuary of Anantara Spa invites guests to leave behind worldly cares with an extensive menu of pampering eastern and western treatments, as well as carefully crafted spa packages for ultimate wellbeing.

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon.

The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Inspired by Scotland, golf course in Atlantic Canada

INVERNESS, Nova Scotia — Ribbons of manicured turf weave through dunes land, connecting the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the higher elevation of town in this remote corner of Cape Breton Island. Here, a 21st century golf destination has been conceived, inspired by the venerable links courses of Scotland. There is an adjacent pub with samplings of single-malt Scotch, but no motorized golf carts or beer wagons on the course itself.

It’s not cheap - up to almost $200 a round during the summer - and the drive from the airport in Nova Scotia’s provincial capital of Halifax is almost 200 miles (320 kilometers). Even so, Cabot Links has been ranked among the world’s top 50 courses since opening in 2012, and it could be surpassed by a second 18 holes next door - Cabot Cliffs - that is scheduled to debut later this year.

“Some of the best experiences and some of the best properties are off the beaten track,” says Andrew Alkenbrack, Cabot’s general manager and veteran of international tourism. “Good things are worth the effort.”

If a late summer afternoon last season is an indication, that’s true. A squall stays offshore and gives way to a freshening breeze and sunshine,

creating a silvery mosaic on the surf. Soon, Bryan Sutherland, the local school’s physical education director who moonlights as a caddy, arrives on his bicycle. The temperature hovers in the high 60s F (20 C), and the first tee is open.

What we proceed to do next is claimed to be one of the few true links golf opportunities in North America. Though many courses bill themselves as “links-style” - rolling terrain without tree cover and perhaps next to a body of water - purists believe the land must be waves of sandy hillocks that connect, or “link,” a beach to more tillable areas farther inland. In this, Cabot Links complies, just as do its older cousins across the Atlantic.

Level lies are few. Off the fairway, knee-high brush, Queen Anne’s lace and colorful JoePye weed are not. Though rain is plentiful, the grass drains quickly, rewarding low running shots. The wind confounds and confuses, but the patient advice of caddy Sutherland succeeds if followed. The pace of play is steady but not strenuous.

The sky, the distant bluffs and the rhapsodic sound of the sea merge in the background.

A “putt” of 100 feet (30 meters) or more is not uncommon, given the lack of demarcation between fairway and green. Bunkers seem

to be sculpted by nature, not a bulldozer. Dunes remain as they might have been when there was no golf, even if that produces a blind shot to a landing area behind them.

The par-4 finishing hole is downwind and fast, dictating a 130-yard (118-meter) “chip” that bounces the entire length before barely trickling just beyond the green’s back edge.

Sutherland is pleased.

Cabot Links sets atop what was once a coal mine, which attracted 19th century immigrants to Inverness. When the coal business disappeared, the village’s future dimmed. That changed when a young entrepreneur from Toronto named Ben Cowan-Dewar began building support in 2005 for a golf destination in Inverness after other such visions failed. Students of golf development will recognize the similarity of Cabot Links to the coastal Bandon Dunes resort in the United States, an even longer drive from the Portland, Oregon, airport than Cabot Links is from Halifax.

That is no coincidence. Bandon Dunes’ creator, Mike Keiser, who became a partner in Cabot Links, now is a driving force for the second 18 holes at Cabot Cliffs, along with Masters’ champion Ben Crenshaw - who perhaps is without peer as a traditionalist in golf architecture.

Like Cabot, Bandon Dunes is

walking-only.

“I think Cabot has brought a new positive atmosphere to our community,” says Sutherland, a sixth-generation Cape Breton native of Scottish descent. “It is such a pleasure to enter the Cabot premises and see the smiling, welcoming faces of our young people.” About 200 residents are employed for golf operations, three restaurants and a well-appointed lodge with minimalist exteriors that blend into the landscape.

Guests of the lodge benefit from reduced green fees and the new golf option of Cabot Cliffs may encourage longer stays. The lodge has expanded during the off-season and bookings for 2015 are brisk, given the buzz created by The Golf

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Channel and others about the Cliffs.

The formal opening of Cabot Cliffs will be in 2016, but it will be playable on a “preview” basis by July this summer.

Will the Cliffs eventually overshadow Cabot Links?

“I believe the two courses will complement each other,” says Joe Robinson, the resort’s director of golf. “Cabot Links will never be an ‘ugly sister.’”

He describes the new course as “two courses in one.” The front nine has a “true links feel” near the beach like the older course, but the back nine “will be wild in the wind as it winds its way up the hillside culminating with the drama of the closing holes along the cliffs” - hence, the new course’s name. (ap)

TABANAN - Although Jatiluwih has already been officially recognized by the U.N as world cultural heritage site, its boundaries have yet to be defined. The local government is therefore setting out to delineate the boundaries of the World Cultural Heritage (WCH) with three entrance points. However, so far the plan is still hampered by a funding problems. The plan includes erecting a jineng (rice granary) and rice statue with a budget estimation at about IDR 142 million at one of the entrances.

The planned construction of the boundary points was conformed by the subdistrict head of Penebel, IPA Hendra Manik on Sunday.

“This plan still needs to be finalized especially regarding the kind of buildings to be established at the entrances of the three entrances or boundaries of the Jatiluwih WCH,” he explained.

He said that he also plans to summon community leaders in the area of Jatiluwih to discuss what kinds of structures would be appropriate for the Jatiluwih entrances. “So far, there are only two proposed structures; a rice granary or jineng and a rice statue. But, the plan is far from being finalized,” he explained.

The cost for these two structures and a welcome sign, has been estimated at about IDR 142 million for which the subdistrict has approached Penebel legislator I Wayan Tamba.

Penebel PDI-P member, I Wayan Tamba, said that so far the plan still has many obstacles to overcome, including land rights, deciding what kind of structures will be built and how big of a budget is required. “This plan still requires lengthy discussions,” he explained.

He also said that he hopes the construction of the entrances to the Jatiluwih world heritage area can be realized this year. “Hopefully, everything will go well and our target can be reached this year,” he said.

The three markers of the boundaries of the world heritage will be located between Ngis hamlet, Jegu village, Penebel subdistrict and Timpag, Kerambitan subdistrict (in the west), between Senganan village and Baturiti subdistrict (in the east) and between Buruan village, Penebel subdistrict and Wanasari village, Tabanan subdistrict (in the south). (kmb28)

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This 2013 photo shows the Cabot Links golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada, along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

This Aug. 10, 2014, photo shows a threesome of golfers on the Cabot Links golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a portion of the village of Inverness on the hillside beyond.

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This 2013 photo shows the No. 2 green of the world-ranked 18-hole Cabot Links golf course, which opened in 2012 in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. The remote coastal location hasn’t deterred visitors from experiencing links golf rarely found elsewhere than Great Britain and Ireland.

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Although Jatiluwih has already been officially recognized by the U.N as world cultural heritage site, its boundaries have yet to be defined.

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Bandung County is a favourite destination for domestic and foreign tourist. Apparently it is also a favourite destination for hotel investors, because the the number of hotel rooms available in Badung has mushroomed to 61, 206 in just four years.

Hotels Far Outnumber Tourists in Badung

Bandung County is a favourite destination for domestic and foreign tourist. Apparently it is also a favourite destination for hotel investors, because the the number of hotel rooms available in Badung has mushroomed to 61,206 rooms in just four years. The number of star hotels has however remained stable at about 98 hotels with 16,360 rooms. However, non-star hotels, of which there were 505 (11,463 rooms) in 2009 has dramatically increased to 855 hotels with 34,815 hotel rooms (2014).

“The construction of hotels in Badung is very widespread, and it needs to be controlled. We even hope that a temporary moratorium will be issued,” said Chairman of the Badung Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD), I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya, recently.

The over abundance of non star hotels is seen by Suryawijaya, who is also Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), Badung Chapter and others involved in tourism, as being problematic. The number of accommodations far exceeds the number of tourists so there is a negative impact on the tourism industry.

“Massive incase in the number of tourist accommodations has resulted in a decrease in the quality of Badung as a tourist destination, as has caused constant price battles between hotels,” he said.

Based on the data of the Government of Bali Tourism Office (Disparda), foreign tourist arrivals to Bali in 2014 amounted to 1,766,638 people - a 14 percent increase from the previous year. However, this increase is not proportional to the rapid growth of hotel room construction.

“This means that the 14.89-percent increase in tourists still does not mean the expectations of hoteliers.

Last year, star hotels had an average

occupancy rate somewhere in the range of 50 to 59 percent,” he said.

Suryawijaya acknowledged that the regent of Badung had issued a policy, by way of a Regent Regulation, concerning minimum requirements for the construction of new hotels, but this regulation does not address the excessive rate of construction of new tourist accommodations, at best it just slows it down. “The regent’s policy (by issuing a regulation—Ed) is good. However, it would be better if he issues a moratorium. At present all that is required for a new hotel to be built is that they perform a new study - if need be, and a permit will be issued,” said Suryawijaya.

Permits for new hotels, said the bespectacled man, should only be issued when existing hotels have a better occupancy rate, so that room rates will be more stable and conditions can improve, unlike the present situation in which hotels are frequently engaged in tariff wars.

“When hotel occupancy rates are good - running at approximately 80 percent, permits for the construction of new hotels can start to be issued again. That way the number of tourist arrivals will better match the number of hotel rooms,” he said.

According to the Chairman of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Badung, the current growth

rate for hotel construction still excessive and causes unfair competition. “We do not want Badung to become a cheap destination. When the room occupancy rates average less than 60 percent, it is hazardous for everyone,” he explained while adding that Bali relies heavily on tourism as its main source of revenue. (kmb27)

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Students honour Saraswati Day in unique way BANGLI - Saraswati Day, which fell on Saniscara Umanis Wuku Watugunung (May 2), honours knowledge and wisdom as is usually celebrated with prayers accompanied with the presentation of offerings. This year however, SMPN 3 Bangli junior high school held a special procession for this festivity that is held every six months, with the addition of a mapeed or gebogan parade, as a way to express gratitude to Creator - especially Goddess Saraswati, symbol of knowledge.

The parade during Saraswati Day in Taman Bali Village.

On Saturday (May 2), hundreds of students lined the roads of Taman Bali village. A number of students marched from Kilobar Square at Taman Bali, located about 500 meters from the school. The beautifully arranged gebogan and wooden platform was carried on the heads of the participants, as they walked toward the Padmasana shrine at the local school, which was then purified by the temple priest. After the purificatory rite of sprinkling holy water, worship then began.

Deputy Principal in charge of Student Affairs of the SMPN 3 Bangli, Dewa Ketut Putra, when met after the prayers said that this is the first time that such a parade had been held. Previously, students only welcomed Saraswati Day with a gebogan making competition that would then be followed by worship at the Padmasana shrine at the school. This year there was a mapped procession that hundreds of students joined as well as the carrying of 18 gebogan that each class at the school made added a different nuance to the celebrations. “Previously the celebration only involved regular prayers and the presentation of gebogan directly to the padmasana shrine at school,” he said.

Ketut Putra, also explained that the parade is not just an ordinary ceremony, but is an expression of profound gratitude to God, especially Goddess Saraswati. In terms of culture, the parade preserves the tradition of carrying holy times on ones head, which the younger generation rarely does anymore,” he explained.

Putra added that the gebogan is not only carried by one single person, but is carried in turn by all the students. Similarly, this celebration aims to foster a sense of togetherness and fraternity that is increasingly fading in Bali. “The students carry the gebogan in turns as a way to increase their sense of community,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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Migrants crowd and inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel “ Denaro “ (not in picture) of the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

France’s Le Pen: Send migrants back across Mediterranean PARIS — Far right National Front leader Marine Le Pen says France should send migrants back across the Mediterranean Sea to stop them from taking dangerous boats to European shores. Criticizing European immigration policy, she said on Europe-1 radio Sunday that France should send migrants back to their port of departure so “traffickers know that no migrant will come ashore on our coasts.”

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Ten villages in Buleleng proposed to be tourism village

SINGARAJA - Tourism villages which so far have not been registered officially make the government of Buleleng not keep silent. Local government begins to conduct data collection and inventory of the potential tourism villages in North Bali. As a result, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency has gained ten villages proposed to be tourism village.

The ten tourism villages will be established through a decree of the Buleleng regent.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said on Sunday that so far no single village in Buleleng

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has the predicate as a tourism village. However, some villages automatically put the predicate as a tourism village. Ambengan village (Sukasada subdistrict) and Sudaji village (Sawan subdistrict), for instance, their tourism activity is very obvious that can draw a fairly crowded visitor.

Against such conditions, the government seems to be unable to do much. It happens because the village is not legally recognized by a binding legal rule. As the government does not want such condition to last longer, the Culture and Tourism Agency has conducted a monitoring and evaluation of the

villages considered worthy to bear the predicate as tourism village. As a result, a total of 21 villages are considered worthy to bear the predicate of tourism village. “We’ve been doing monitoring and evaluation. Of the 21 villages, they cannot entirely be proposed into tourism village in 2015,” he said.

According to him, the consideration to propose a tourism village is done through a rigorous selection. Some indicators in the selection process include the existence of tourism awareness group (Darwis—Ed), high community participation, availability of tourist accommodation, decent

access to tourist destination and availability of a unique heritage.

After going through the selection process, most villages do not meet the predefined indicators. Nevertheless, the Culture and Tourism Agency must establish the villages that are feasible to become tourism village. Of the ten villages selected, Sambangan and Ambengan village (Sukasada subdistrict) and Sekumpul and Sudaji village (Sawan subdistrict) are proposed to be designated as an object of tourism village in North Bali.

“These villages are already worth being a tourism village and we immediately propose them to obtain

legal recognition,” he said.

On the other hand, Suyasa said that after determining the tourism village his agency will not stop to that effort. The tourism village determined will continue to be developed and provided with mentoring program to strengthen human resources of the management. In the long-term, his party will perform the setup program for the infrastructure and supporting facilities.

“We will not just set up and leave them unkempt, but we do a good follow-up program either involving human resource improvement or infrastructures strengthening at villages,” he said. (kmb38)

European ships rescued nearly 3,700 migrants on Saturday alone.

Le Pen also said her outspoken father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, “should no longer speak in the name of the National Front.”

Jean-Marie Le Pen is facing a party disciplinary board Monday for his anti-Semitic remarks. His daughter, leading the party since 2011, has cleaned up its image as she aims for the French presidency.

In Italy, ships rescued 3,690 migrants in just one day from smugglers’ boats on the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday. The agency said 17 different rescue operations were carried out Saturday after smugglers took advantage of calm seas and warm weather to move the migrants out of Africa

on motorized rubber dinghies and fishing boats.

Some of the migrants were being brought Sunday to ports in Sicily while others were expected to reach Calabria, in the south of the Italian mainland, on Monday, as temporary shelters for those rescued were reaching full capacity on the Mediterranean island.

While there was no issue with the weather, the smugglers often use include aging vessels that sometimes begin leaking shortly after leaving Libya. The boats are crammed with too many people as traffickers try to maximize earnings off the migrants, who pay hundreds of euros (dollars) for the passage between the Mediterranean’s southern shore and Italy.

It is not uncommon for thousands of migrants to be rescued over a

day or two.

The relentless flood of migrants is continuing this year after 170,000 were rescued at sea by Italy in 2014 — a 277 percent increase over the numbers in 2013. Italy has pressed the European Union to do more to help it save the migrants, especially since many of those plucked to safety are asylum seekers hoping to reach relatives in northern Europe.

An estimated 800 migrants drowned last month when their boat capsized off Libya with hundreds of them locked in the hold by smugglers. After that, European Union officials at an emergency meeting agreed to beef up the Triton rescue mission with boats and patrol aircraft contributed by several countries. Italy, often pressing nearby cargo ships into service, coordinates the rescue operations.

Overall, a record 280,000 illegal border crossings were detected in the 28-nation EU last year, according to Frontex, Europe’s border agency.(ap)

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S. Korea confirms college student held in N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea confirmed on Sunday that North Korea detained a South Korean student of New York University, but said it was still unclear whether the 21-year-old New Jersey resident attempted to enter the North illegally. An official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles affairs with North Korea, said his department was still trying to gather information on Won Moon Joo’s travels and the circumstances of his arrest.

“Our judgment is that Joo is being held in North Korea, but we are still trying to confirm the details of how he got arrested,” he said on condition of anonymity, citing office rules. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Joo was arrested on April 22 after trying to illegally enter North Korea by crossing the Amnok River from the Chinese border town of Dandong.

A spokesman for New York University, John Beckman, confirmed that Joo was a junior at NYU’s Stern School of Business, but that he was not taking classes this semester and the university was unaware of his travels. He said the university was in touch with the U.S. State Department and the South Korean Embassy.

North Korea has occasionally detained South Koreans, Americans and other foreigners, often on accusations of spying, in what analysts say are attempts to wrest outside concessions.

In March, North Korea announced that it had detained two South Korean citizens over alleged espionage. It has been holding another South Korean man since late 2013 on suspicion of spying and allegedly trying to set up underground churches in the North. He was sentenced last year to life in prison with hard labor.

Also last year, the North released three Americans — two of whom entered the country on tourist visas — and Kenneth Bae, a KoreanAmerican missionary who was convicted of “anti-state” crimes.(ap)

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South Korean Prime Minister Lee Wan Koo walks on the terrace of his residence in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

Lee has offered to resign amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country’s No. 2 post, officials said Tuesday, in the latest political crisis to hit President Park Geun-hye.

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Indosat’s 4G data access launched in Bali US consumer sentiment rises on optimism over job market

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In this April 6, 2015 file photo, Lucy Perez, of Charlotte, N.C., pumps gas at a station in Matthews, N.C. Optimism about the job market lifted U.S. consumer sentiment in April to its second-highest level since 2007.

Japan eyes ‘large-scale’ cooperation with Cuba HAVANA - Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday that Tokyo wants to launch “large-scale cooperation” with Havana to support the island’s reforms.

In the first visit to Cuba by a Japanese foreign minister, Kishida also met with President Raul Castro to discuss “the positive direction” of their ties, a government statement read out on state television said.

Kishida said Japan supports US and Cuban efforts to normalize relations and that Tokyo wants to take its own ties with Havana to “a new level.”

The foreign minister, who traveled with a delegation of 30 business leaders, said Tokyo wants to launch a “new scheme of Japanese cooperation of wide range, large scale” to support reforms undertaken by Castro.

Speaking during a meeting with Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, he said the scheme was called “nonreimbursable financial assistance.”

“Secondly, we would like to con-

solidate our economic relations,” Kishida said.

For his part, Rodriguez said relations with Japan are a “priority” and that the communist country has “the willingness to deepen bilateral ties in all areas, including trade, investment, scientific cooperation and multifaceted cooperation.”

Kishida’s spokesman, Ken Okaniwa, told reporters on Thursday that the US embargo against Cuba in force since 1962 is making it “difficult” for Japanese companies to do business with the island.

Bilateral trade amounts to $52 million, with Japanese exports to Cuba accounting for two thirds of that commerce. Cuba buys machinery from Japan and exports tobacco, coffee and fish, Okaniwa said.

Castro and US President Barack Obama made a surprise announcement in December that they would work to normalize ties under severe strain for more than 50 years. (afp)

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WASHINGTON — Optimism about the job market lifted U.S. consumer sentiment in April to its second-highest level since 2007.

The University of Michigan’s sentiment index rose to 95.9 from 93 in March. Only January’s reading of 98.1 has been higher since 2007, the year the Great Recession began. Over the past five months, sentiment has been, on average, at its highest level since 2004.

Richard Curtin, chief economist of the Michigan survey, attributed the April increase to optimism over consistently low inflation and low interest rates and improving prospects for jobs and incomes.

Curtin said consumers expect interest rates to rise from current historically low levels but only modestly. And they expect any economic damage from higher rates to be offset by the benefits of more jobs and incomes.

Since March 2014, the U.S. economy has produced a healthy 3.1 million job gains. The government said Wednesday that the economy grew at an annual rate of just 0.2 percent from January through March. But economists expect growth to strengthen in the spring.

“Consumers appear to be shrugging off recently disappointing economic data and stock market choppiness,” Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Moran Financial Advisors, said in a research note. “Despite evidence that the economy slowed considerably in the first quarter, sentiment remains relatively high and suggests that the important consumer spending engine isn’t at risk of stalling.” (ap)

Indosat, members of the Group Ooredoo, on Wednesday (29/4) officially launched the Super 4G-LTE network in Bali.

Indonesia strives to Russia signs up to $100 bn BRICS stamp out thyphoid fund to rival IMF

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an accord Saturday to set up a $100-billion reserve fund for the so-called BRICS -- the five leading emerging economies that include Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa.

Moscow is expected to contribute $18 billion to the reserve, well behind the $41 billion China has promised to pour into the fund that was set up after an agreement signed in July 2014 in Brazil.

The emerging economies also plan to form their own international bank based in Shanghai to challenge western dominance over international money markets.

“The accord on the creation of a common reserve fund for BRICS countries has been ratified,” a document from the Kremlin quoted by RIA Novosti news agency said.

The fund is meant to shield the BRICS against “short-term liquidity pressures” and promote greater cooperation between the five member countries.

Russia -- which has suffered huge currency fluctuations since the outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine -- sees the fund as an alternative to international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank that are dominated by the United States. The BRICS countries between them account for 40 percent of the world’s population, and a fifth of the planet’s GDP. (afp)

NUSA DUA - The Indonesian government is trying to eradicate typhoid, which continues to be a threat especially in developing countries, a government official said.

Those aged between 5 and 24 years are susceptible to the disease the most, Director of the Center for Biomedical Affairs and Basic Health Technology of the Ministry of Health, Pretty Multihartina, stated at the International Conference on Typhoid and Non-Typhoidal Salmonella in Nusa Dua, Bali, held over the weekend.

Referring to a research on basic health carried out in 2007 by the Health Research and Development Agency, the directorate found that 1.6 percent of some 900 thousand re-

spondents of different ages admitted to have been diagnosed with typhoid at least once.

The research was conducted through telephonic interviews in 33 provinces.

As the disease is still a health problem in developing countries in Asia and Africa, they need to establish cooperation to develop selective diagnostic devices and vaccinations for affordable treatment.

The problem indicates that vaccines are needed for the short term, although the World Health Organization recommends that they be used at an early stage.

Indonesia alone has state pharmaceutical company Bio Farma that produces typhoid vaccines, which are exported to countries across the world.

The typhoid vaccines are expected to provide effective protection to the high-risk group as they can be consumed by children since they are six months old.

The vaccines are expected to prevent nearly 90 percent of typhoid cases and to save as many as 190 thousand people every year.

Moreover, health experts from the Coalition against Typhoid, which is part of the Sabin Vaccine Institute of the United States, noted that some 21 million people in the world are affected by typhoid, which leads to 216 thousand deaths every year. Children under 15 years of age make up the largest segment of these cases.

In addition, non-typhoidal salmonella causes some 3.4 million cases and 681,316 deaths annually. (ant)

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KUTA - Indosat, members of Ooredoo Group, officially launched the Super 4G-LTE network simultaneously in Bali, Yogyakarta, and Bandung. The launched is in line with the company’s plans to expand its 4G-LTE network coverage while ensuring Indosat always deliver the best data access in terms of speed and stability.

Super 4G-LTE Indosat has been introduced at the anniversary of Indosat in December 2014 in Jakarta. At that time, Indosat has shown the fastest LTE network in Indonesia. Its download speed up to 185 Mbps. “We expect to meet the need of data users and always in the forefront on providing the best data service for the people of Indonesia. It is also in line with the government’s vision in providing the latest technologies and innovative ways to provide benefits to the people of Indonesia,” said Alexander Rusli, President Director & CEO Indosat.

Rusli invites customers to experience and enjoy the benefits of this technology by exchange their GSM SIM card with the same number into LTE-ready SIM card for free in Gallery Indosat at Bali, Yogyakarta and Bandung. To enjoy the LTE service, customers can subscribe to a monthly internet package from IDR 49,000 to get 11 GB of data service. “This is the most affordable LTE service commercially ever offered at this time,” added Rusli.

Explained Rusli, Indosat has implemented Network Modernization Program since 2013 by using technology U900 and DC-HSPA + in Indonesia with download speed up to 42 Mbps. Indosat new network is already in the modernization of the fastest and largest in Indonesia.

Not only focus on building networks with the latest technology, Indosat is also committed to building supporting ecosystems so that people can enjoy the benefits of the latest technology. There are a variety of VAS and Content, as Arena Music which offers life streaming and download a variety of the latest music, both locally and internationally; Arena Video that offers live streaming league international football including Barclay’s Premier League; and also the Arena Games that offer a variety of games, including MMOG. (kmb18)

Bio Farma develops vaccine for thypus NUSA DUA - Indonesia’s leading vaccine manufacturer, Bio Farma, is developing a typhus vaccine to encourage the prevention and eradication of typhus in Indonesia, director of marketing of Bio Farma Mahendra Suhardono said on Saturday.

“We hope in the near future that the vaccine will be useful for the Indonesian community,” he added.

According to Mahendra, the state-owned enterprise is responsible to achieve vaccine self-sufficiency by fulfilling the need in vaccines through the use of domestic resources.

The typhus vaccine, named Typhoid Conjugate, is in the clinical test phase and expected to be in use by 2018.

Typhus has remained a threat in a number of developing countries in Asia and

Africa, including Indonesia.

According to Dr. Bonita Effendi from the University of Indonesia, there are several provinces in Indonesia still reporting typhus infections above 1.6 percent, among others being Aceh, Bengkulu, West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, Banten, West Java, West Papua, Papua, Gorontalo and East Kalimantan.

“The death risk due to typhus is 1.25 percent, and this is due to low public awareness to practice clean and healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as washing hands before eating, and using clean water for various household needs,” she added.

Therefore, the best way to avoid contracting the disease is by maintaining clean and healthy life styles, Bonita said. (ant)

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1 man dead, 14 police hurt in football rioting in Poland

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Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard, right, checks his solar-powered plane before taking off from Jiangbei International Airport in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

Pilot to fly solar plane across Pacific for 5 days, 5 nights

BEIJING — A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. André Borschberg, 62, is due to fly over the Pacific Ocean for five days and five nights in the plane that has more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings to power its motors and recharge its batteries for nighttime flying.

The Solar Impulse 2 set off from Abu Dhabi in March and has stopped in Oman, India and Myanmar. Borschberg and another Swiss pilot, Bertrand Piccard, are taking turns flying the single-seater Swiss plane during a five-month journey to promote renewable energy use.

The 8,175-kilometer (5,079mile) flight from Nanjing in eastern China to Hawaii — which may take off Thursday, depending on weather — is the seventh of 12 flights. None of the previous legs were more than 20 hours — compared with an estimated flight time of 120 hours to Hawaii. “It’s the most challenging, yes, in the sense that we never flew over the oceans,” Borschberg said in a phone interview from Nanjing.

“There are of course also question marks with the type of airplane we have, is it capable to fly solo with this type of energy, and of course the challenge is on the pilot side as well ... can I stay alert for this leg and be able to pilot this airplane, can I keep my energy at the right level, can I keep my spirits, my mindset to get this airplane to Hawaii.”

The aircraft will climb to the altitude of Mount Everest, almost 9,000 meters (29,500 feet), during the day to get more sunlight, recharge the batteries and store more energy. At nighttime, the plane will fly lower, at a minimum of 1,000 meters (3,000 feet). The pilot will experience temperatures ranging from 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the morning to minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) early in the evening while the plane is still high up.

“It’s winter and summer every day in the cockpit,” said Borschberg, who flew military jets for 25 years as a reserve pilot in the Swiss army and is an entrepreneur by profession.

He plans to take periods of rest of 20 minutes up to eight times a day, but said he doesn’t know if the weather or turbulence will let him. Borschberg said the plane has a “virtual co-pilot” that is a stabilization tool. It will sound an alarm to wake him if the aircraft does something unplanned.

The cockpit is too small to stand

in, although the seat can recline into a horizontal position to allow him to lie down and practice yoga. He also plans to use breathing techniques and meditation to help him through the long journey. He said that when flying, he focuses on how he feels as well as the situation in the air, so that the journey wasn’t just about exploring how to cross the Pacific using solar energy.

“You don’t have the pressure of time so with this airplane you can really live the present moment,” he said. “It’s almost an inner voyage, at the end it’s not so much exploring the Pacific ... it’s also exploring myself.”

The Si2 aircraft has a wingspan of 72 meters (236 feet), spanning larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

At about 2,300 kilograms (5,000 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.

After Hawaii, the plane is slated to stop in Phoenix and New York before flying over the Atlantic Ocean. It will then stop either in southern Europe or North Africa, depending on weather conditions. (ap)

WARSAW, Poland — A man died after being hit by a rubber bullet and 14 police officers were injured during clashes that erupted during a Polish league football match in the south of the country.

Supporters of the local Concordia Knurow team stormed onto the pitch during Saturday’s match against Ruch Radzionkow, with the home team trailing 4-1.

A 27-year-old man was struck by a rubber bullet when police fired at the attackers. More rioting broke out around the hospital, where the man was pronounced dead.

Tomasz Pitsch, the deputy director of the Knurow hospital, says: “We are shaken by the fighting we witnessed. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown.”

An autopsy of the victim is planned for Monday as prosecutors begin an investigation. (ap)

Arab coalition ‘reconnaissance’ troops in Yemen

SANAA — Yemeni military officials say at least 20 Arab coalition troops have landed in the southern coastal city of Aden on a “reconnaissance” mission.

The officials and witnesses reached in Aden said the blackclad and masked troops landed Sunday in a central area between the city’s neighborhood of al-Mansoura and the airport. They said helicopter gunships hovered above the landing area.

There were no reports of fighting between the Arab troops and Iranian-allied Shiite rebels and their supporters, who have for weeks been trying to capture the strategic port city on the Arabian Sea. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to brief journalists.

Defending Aden are militiamen loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled Aden to neighboring Saudi Arabia in March. (ap)

Rescuers find 3 survivors in Nepal 8 days after quake KATHMANDU, Nepal — An official says rescuers have found three survivors in a mountainous village in Nepal, eight days since the earthquake.

Surya Prasad Upadhaya, a government administrator, says two men and a woman were pulled out Sunday from near Syauli village. They have been taken to a nearby military hospital for treatment. Other details are not immediately known.

The district is the worst hit by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake with the highest number of casualties.

It is located about 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu. (ap)

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Economic ministers less sensitive to people’s basic needs JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo’s economic ministers are less sensitive to the people’s basic needs, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for inter-agencies relations, Bambang Soesatyo said.

Bambang Soesatyo said Joko Widodo’s economic team was not sensitive to the people’s basic needs after the abolition of energy subsidies.

“Joko Widodo needs to expedite his agenda on cabinet reshuffle by changing his economic team,” Soesatyo said.

He said that Jokowi, as the president is popularly called, should reshuffle his cabinet because the popularity of his government was currently going down.

Soesatyo quoted a survey result which revealed that about 66.6 percent of the public were not satisfied with the government’s performance because the prices of basic neces-

sities had been increasing significantly. The prices of sugar and electricity were on the rise and fuel oil prices were also fluctuating.

Soesatyo, who is also a member of Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR), stated that the economic ministers of Jokowi’s Working Cabinet were not able to adjust to the working rhythm after Jokowi adopted a policy on the abolition of energy subsidies.

The policy has direct impact on the people namely as it left the retail prices of the fuel oils to the market mechanism.

As a result, the people felt significant impacts because the policy affected the prices of basic neces-

sities and transportation service fares which can any time increase or go down.

“In such a situation, the government should not remain silent. As a regulator, it should be present in the market to stimulate and stabilize prices and goods supplies so that they will be under control and within the financial reach of the people,” he said.

He therefore suggested that the President should form a strong economic team. “Besides focusing on large scale projects in the infrastructure sector, the team should also consistently heed the basic need issues,” he added. (ant)

Bodies of Australians executed in Indonesia arrive home

SYDNEY - Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was confident Australia could restore its relationship with Indonesia despite anger over the execution of two drug convicts, whose bodies reportedly returned home Saturday.

Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 34, were killed by firing squad on Wednesday over their role in a plot to bring heroin to Australia from the Indonesian resort island of Bali, despite international pleas to Jakarta for clemency.

Abbott said he understood the dismay and anger over the executions but respected Indonesia’s sovereignty.

“It really was terrible that these cruel and unnecessary executions went ahead,” he told reporters in Sydney.

“Our anger and our grief, sadly, is not going to bring those two young men back.

“The important thing now is not

to do any thing that would make a difficult situation worse.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was unable to confirm reports that the men’s bodies were on a flight which touched down early Saturday in Sydney.

The flight was carrying Sukumaran’s parents, brother and sister and Chan’s wife Febyanti Herewila, who married him on the eve of his execution.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said Chan’s mother and brother were understood to have wanted to travel back with his body, but were unable to due to a hold-up with the repatriation. They returned on Friday.

Chan and Sukumaran were among seven foreigners and one Indonesian executed in Indonesia in the early hours of Wednesday.

The Australians had spent a decade in prison for their role in masterminding the so-called ‘Bali Nine’ group of smugglers, during

which time Chan had become a Christian pastor and Sukumaran had studied art.

The executions have cast a shadow over Australia’s relationship with its important neighbour Indonesia, with Abbott withdrawing Canberra’s ambassador to Indonesia.

But the prime minister said Saturday that it remained important for the country’s future that the relationship with Jakarta be restored.

“I am confident that we will be able to rebuild the relationship,” Abbott said.

“It’s important to Australia, it’s important to Indonesia and it’s important to the wider world that Australia and Indonesia’s friendship is strong and growing in the months and years ahead.”

Australia and Indonesia are key allies in counter-terrorism efforts, while Indonesia is also a significant economic partner. (afp)

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A worker walks on top of wooden boat at Muara Baru port in Jakarta in this December 8, 2014 file photo. President Joko Widodo’s economic ministers are less sensitive to the people’s basic needs, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for inter-agencies relations, Bambang Soesatyo said.

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Mertasari Beach

SANUR - Mertasari Beach is located facing north, unlike the Sanur Beach facing west. So, to see the position of sunrise is not in the middle of the beach, but it emerges from the side of coastline. This beach is located on Jalan Tirta Empul, Sanur, or can be reached through Jalan Pengembak, Sanur. To access the beach can be made through Jalan Danau Poso, Sanur then turn southwards to Jalan Pengembak and straight to the beach. However, people more frequently access it through Jalan Danau Poso and then turn southward into Jalan Sekar Waru and then turn right to the T-junction and encounter a large banyan tree in the middle and then turn left. Ultimately, you will arrive on Mertasari Beach.

Mertasari Beach is an ideal place for relaxing, while bathing, swimming or sunbathing on the white sand. In the late 1976, this beach was used to sunbathe by tourists while facing east at sunrise. When exploring the coast, we will see many travelers lying down along the white sandy beach, bathing in sunlight or they call it sunbathing. On certain days, Mertasari Beach will be thronged by a myriad of visitors. Moreover, on Umanis Kuningan that coincides with Sunday, it will be very crowded.

Hindu people of Bali will cross to Serangan Island to pray at Sakenan Temple. So, do not to miss this rare opportunity.

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Paul lifts Clippers past Spurs, 111109 in Game 7

LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul banked in a shot with a second left to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a thrilling 111-109 victory over San Antonio in Game 7 on Saturday that eliminated the defending NBA champion Spurs from the playoffs. After Spurs veteran Tim Duncan made two free throws to tie it with 8.8 seconds left, Paul drove the right side. He originally was covered by Danny Green before Duncan came over to help. Paul put up a one-handed shot over the 39-year-old that went in as he was falling away.

Paul said coach Doc Rivers spoke to him and Blake Griffin before the game about last-shot scenarios. “We’ve been in that situation a lot of times already this year, and most of the time I hadn’t made it,” Paul said. “We talked about it, and finally it worked when we needed it.”

Rivers said Paul, who was hampered by a hamstring injury, is “just a tough kid. He’s a street fighter. I mean, he really is. I love him to death because of his will.”

Duncan said Paul’s shot was “just unbelievable. I know he was playing a little hurt, and he played through all that, found ways to get it done. Just an unbelievable last shot over two of us. He’s just a great leader, and it was amazing to watch.

I wish I wasn’t on the other end.”

Matt Barnes knocked away the

inbound pass to seal the victory and the Staples Center crowd went crazy after the Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals for just the fourth time in franchise history. The Clippers, who faltered at home in Games 2 and 5, move on to face Houston starting Monday.

Paul scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half, including four big 3-pointers. Duncan had 27 points and 11 rebounds, his sixth double-double of the series. Paul missed the final 2 minutes of the first quarter and the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second quarter. He appeared to get hurt as he dribbled up court before making a 3-pointer.

He sat on the bench with his head in his hands before leaving for the locker room.

“I thought about the team and all the things we’d been through,” Paul

said. “I know that if it was any other guy on our team in a situation like this, they wouldn’t lay down, so I just tried to find a way.” Blake Griffin had 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for Los Angeles for his second triple-double of the series.

The Clippers trailed by five points with 5:42 left before Griffin made two free throws and J.J. Redick a 3-pointer to tie it at 97 with 3:58 to go.

The teams traded leads during the final minutes, with Duncan, Kawhi Leonard and Manu Ginobili scoring for the Spurs and Barnes hitting a 3-pointer for the Clippers.

Paul made two three throws with 13.3 seconds left for a 109-107 lead before Duncan was fouled by Redick and made both shots. There was just enough time for Paul to reply. (ap)

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Filipinos watch a live satellite feed of the welterweight title fight between Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. during a free public viewing in downtown Manila, Philippines on Sunday, May 3, 2015. Mayweather Jr. won the match.

MANILA — Sadness and disappointment gripped Filipinos after Manny Pacquiao’s defeat in his much-anticipated fight against American Floyd Mayweather Jr. but they still considered the boxing icon a national hero. Gymnasiums and other public venues where the

12-round fight was shown for free on Sunday lunchtime local time were quickly vacated after it was announced Pacquiao lost by unanimous decision.

Herminio Coloma, a spokesman for President Benigno Aquino III, said “the country still holds its

head high in the admirable fight of our National Fist.” He said Aquino thanked Pacquiao, who is also a congressman, for being “an inspiration to every Filipino who is struggling with life’s challenges to achieve a bright future.”

Some fans said Pacquiao should retire from boxing while others demanded a rematch. For thousands at a plaza in Marikina city, part of metropolitan Manila, the party mood was dampened not just by his loss but also a sudden downpour.

Roland Purificacion, a 45-yearold pedicab driver who watched the fight on a huge television screen outside the Quiapo Church in central Manila, was disappointed but spoke for many of his compatriots when he said Pacquiao “is still the people’s champ. He is still our hero.”

Security guard Melchor Yaba, 48, said he lost 5,000 pesos ($113), a half month’s salary, betting on Pacquiao. “I can’t accept that he lost. I now regret it,” he said, referring to his bet. “He cannot retire yet.

Let’s have a rematch.”

In Pacquiao’s hometown of Kiamba, a fishing and farming town in southern Sarangani province,

which he represents in Congress, passenger mini-buses brought villagers who have no television to watch the fight in the town’s 2,500-seat gymnasium. Vice Mayor Bogi Martinez said the municipal government roasted a calf and pig to be served to the crowd.

Winning or losing, Pacquiao’s fights with the world’s top boxers often lifts the spirit of Filipinos amid troubles brought by corruption scandals, a decades-long separatist insurgency in the south, and natural disasters such as the November 2013 super Typhoon Haiyan that killed more than 7,000 people a month after a killer earthquake struck the same region.

Jose Luis Nepomuceno, a 62year-old retired congressional liaison officer, brought along his wife to watch the fight at the San Andres Sports Complex, one of nine public venues the city government set up for the public to watch the bout, partially funded by a popular department store. “We may not be in Las Vegas, but our hearts are there for him,” Nepomuceno said.

Louis Tinsley, a 25-year-old tourist from Manchester, England, and

his fiancée, Jade Broadhurst, were among the early birds at San Andres eager to support Pacquiao. “In the eyes of Filipinos he is a role model ... a very humble man, which is not usual for a boxer. That’s his most endearing quality,” Tinsley said.

At the Manila branch of the country’s biggest mall operator, SM, the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight was shown in six of its 12 theaters.

Cinema manager Rico Ramos said ticket sales were three times bigger this time than Pacquiao’s previous big U.S. fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in December 2012.

Hundreds of soldiers and civilian employees and their families watched the fight at the grandstand inside the armed forces headquarters. The fight also was shown in camps throughout the country as a morale-booster.

Chief of Staff Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, congratulated Pacquiao, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve force, despite his defeat because the boxer “gave his best, and (that is) what is important to us.” “He gave us a good fight. Unfortunately his opponent kept on running around,” he said. (ap)

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Monday, May 4, 2015

Sp rt Juventus seals 4th successive Serie A title with 1-0 win

MILAN — His appointment protested against, coach Massimiliano Allegri won over any last doubters as Juventus clinched a fourth successive Serie A title on Saturday with four matches to spare and a treble in sight.

Juventus was rocked when Antonio Conte quit in the offseason, and further stunned when he was replaced by Allegri, who was fired by AC Milan months earlier and appeared to be the antithesis of the beloved former coach.

However, the Italian giant won 1-0 at Sampdoria on Saturday to claim the first of potentially three trophies as it faces Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals, and Lazio in the Italian Cup final. After dominating the entire season, Juventus needed just a point to mathematically seal a 31st Serie A title. A first-half header from Arturo Vidal gave it all three.

“The first days here were good. I only had five or six players and we lost a friendly against Lucento!” Allegri said with laugh.

“Afterwards, the lads were at my disposal and I tried to create a group, we started to work without ruining the work done in three e x -

traordinary years.

“The players have great human qualities as well as technical ones, as to win four consecutive scudetti is extraordinary. Now we have to put this crazy evening to one side a n d think of the cups.

I thank e v eryone who has helped me on this path, from the staff, to the club, to the players.”

Allegri was also the last coach before Conte to win the league, with Milan in 2011 — also

in his first season in charge. Andrea Pirlo was part of that team, and has now won his fifth successive Serie A. Although the title was never really in doubt, the relief and joy at the final whistle was clear, although the club has put its trophy celebrations on ice with a crucial Champions League match in just three days.

Vidal, who also scored in a 1-0 win against Palermo which clinched the league in 2013, admitted he had “never seen a title celebrated so little.” “They gave us 10 minutes,” Juventus captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. “Also because the thought of Real is pulsating through us. Our joy is inevitable, also because we have sealed it as soon as possible, allowing us to dedicate our body and soul to this challenge.”

Buffon admitted the

change of manager was difficult for the players as well as the fans. “This title has a particular taste for me, for the group too,” he said. “It’s the proof that the squad has a very exceptional mentality, a spirit of self-sacrifice which I don’t think has an equal.

“Certainly, when we changed coach in July many people, including us, could have had doubts, but it was also a push to show that we also had an important worth, on a human level as well as technical.” The defeat was Sampdoria’s first at home this season and left it provisionally fifth.

Juventus knew even if second-place Lazio was to beat Atalanta on Sunday, a draw at Sampdoria would leave it 12 points clear with four matches remaining and the better head-to-head record. Allegri rested key playmaker Pirlo, defender Giorgio Chiellini, and forward Alvaro Morata ahead of Tuesday’s semifinal at home to Real Madrid.

Sampdoria had the better of the early opportunities, but Vidal broke the deadlock in 32nd as he was left unmarked to head Stephan Lichtsteiner’s cross from the right over goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano and in off the inside of the far post. In 34 rounds, Juventus has 24 victories, seven draws, and only three losses, scoring 64 goals and conceding just 19. (ap)

AP Photo/Carlo Baroncini

Juventus’ coach Massimiliano Allegri is thrown in the air in celebration at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Sampdoria and Juventus, at the Luigi Ferraris stadium in Genoa, Italy, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

Lyon wins to keep the heat on PSG

PARIS — In a frantic race for the French title, Lyon kept the pressure firmly on Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-0 win over struggling Evian on Saturday. Clement Grenier’s strike and Alexandre Lacazette’s penalty in the first half put Lyon back at the top of the standings on goal difference from PSG. Lyon, which has played one game more than PSG, struggled physically and relied on set-pieces to prevail against Evian. The hosts went ahead in the 21st minute when the in-form Grenier scored his first goal since returning from a long injury layoff,

with a powerful strike from a direct free kick that goalkeeper Benjamin Leroy parried into his own net.

Lacazette scored a league-leading 27th goal from the spot later in the half after Corentin Tolisso was fouled in the area.

“This is the final sprint, we know what we want, and this is the most important thing,” said midfielder Maxime Gonalons, a product of Lyon’s renowned academy system.

“We can dream of something big; finishing champions would be exceptional.”

After winning its game in hand against

Metz midweek, two-time defending champion PSG remains the favorite and can move three points clear with a victory at Nantes on Sunday. Top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to return to lead the attack after a three-game ban for insulting French officials.

Lyon was again without the injured Yoann Gourcuff and Milan Bisevac but Nabil Fekir, who has been one of the league’s best players, had another impressive performance. The highly rated midfielder set up Clinton Njie in the 52nd as the Cameroon forward beat Leroy from close

range before the goal was canceled for an offside position.

Fekir also hit the woodwork 25 minutes from time from a free kick that Leroy tipped onto the post, then saw another effort blocked by teammate Mohamed Yattara.

Evian’s best chance came in the 71st when Clarck N’Sikulu missed the target with a header from Adrien Thomasson’s precise cross as ‘keeper Anthony Lopes looked beaten. With three games left to play, Evian is in 18th place, one point from safety. (ap)

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3rd successive loss for Man United; 8th in row for Newcastle

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, celebrates scoring his goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Cordoba and FC Barcelona at El Arcangel stadium in Cordoba, Spain, Saturday May 2, 2015.

Suarez scores hat trick as Barcelona routs Cordoba 8-0

BARCELONA — Luis Suarez netted his first hat trick for Spanish league leader Barcelona to lead its 8-0 rout at last-place Cordoba on Saturday, while Cristiano Ronaldo also scored three to ensure Real Madrid stayed in the title chase.

Lionel Messi notched his 50th and 51st goals in all competitions to help Barcelona match its biggest away win in league history and seal Cordoba’s relegation.

Later, Ronaldo almost singlehandedly dealt Sevilla its first loss at home in 35 consecutive games going back to February 2014 with a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium. Barcelona leads Madrid by two points with three games left to decide which replaces Atletico Madrid as champion.

“Hope is the last thing you lose.

We have to do what we are supposed to and win the last three games,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

Barcelona will take a run of 15 wins in 16 matches back to Camp Nou, where it faces former coach Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals on Wednesday. Madrid visits Juventus the day before in their final-four tie.

Messi surpassed the 50-goal mark in his 50th match of the season. Suarez, likewise, stayed in fine form with five goals in his last two matches, and 17 goals in his last 16 appearances, while Neymar earned

and converted a penalty five minutes from time to extend his scoring run to four straight matches.

Elsewhere, Atletico was held to 0-0 at home by Athletic Bilbao as the soon-to-be-dethroned titleholder remained in third place at 11 points adrift. Deportivo La Coruna was left in the relegation zone after drawing 1-1 at home with sixth-place Villarreal.

Cordoba resisted as long as Barcelona misfired. But once Messi unlocked its five-man defense with a lobbed pass for Ivan Rakitic to rifle into the top of the net, the hosts quickly collapsed. Suarez got his first goal in first-half injury time, and Dani Alves crossed for Messi and Suarez to add two headed goals before Gerard Pique netted a header of his own.

Messi, Neymar and Suarez then polished off the demolition to equal Barcelona’s highest away wins at Almeria in 2010 and at Las Palmas in 1959.

“If we want to win the league, we have to take care of business, regardless of where we play or the situation of our opponents,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “Today we took care of business.” Ronaldo’s three goals took his league-leading tally to 42, keeping the Ballon d’Or holder ahead of Messi with his 40 goals, as the two stars vie to finish the league as top scorer.

Sevilla held its own and traded

scoring opportunities with Jose Antonio Reyes leading its attack until holding midfielder Gregorz Krychowiak smashed his face into the back of Sergio Ramos’ head, causing his nose to bleed profusely.

The Polish player went to the sideline to receive treatment in the 30th minute and when he returned 10 minutes later Madrid has winning by two goals.

Ronaldo scored them both against the undermanned defense, first heading home Francisco “Isco” Alarcon’s cross in the 36th before he acrobatically dove to stab in a ball flicked on by Javier Hernandez a minute later. Back to full strength, Sevilla mustered a push before halftime that yielded a penalty for Carlos Bacca to convert in injury time after Ramos fouled Aleix Vidal.

Gareth Bale returned from a leftleg injury in the 66th and three minutes later sent in a cross to the far post that Ronaldo scored with a brilliant header to lift the ball over goalkeeper Sergio Rico from a tight angle.

Substitute Vicente Iborra slotted in a short pass from Vidal to boost Sevilla’s hopes of a comeback in the 79th, and Unai Emery’s team just missed the equalizer when Denis Suarez’s effort squirmed by the post with five to play. Sevilla stayed in fifth place, level on points with Valencia in fourth as they contest the last Champions League berth. (ap)

After a third successive loss, Manchester United’s bid to return to the Champions League is stuttering. A 1-0 loss to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday left United still in fourth place but only four points ahead of Liverpool with three Premier League games to go. Liverpool relied on Steven Gerrard’s late goal after the captain missed a penalty, to beat 10-man Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Anfield.

United’s slump has come just when it appeared to have turned a corner under Louis van Gaal, reeling off six successive victories before this latest downturn at Old Trafford. “We knew in defense they park the bus so we have to deal with that, and in the first half we didn’t create enough chances to score,” Van Gaal said. “The finishing was not good enough.”

West Brom, though, will be more hopeful of surviving in the topflight after Chris Brunt’s free kick was deflected into the net by Jonas Olsson in the second half, and United striker Robin van Persie then had a penalty saved. The central England team is seven points clear of the drop zone. But Newcastle has been sucked into a relegation battle by losing a club record eight Premier League games in a row.

As if the club wasn’t in enough disarray after a 3-0 loss at Leicester, manager John Carver then accused one of the two dismissed Newcastle players of intentionally getting sent off. Discussing Mike Williamson’s late knee-high chal-

lenge on Jamie Vardy after an hour, Carver said: “I thought he meant that and I have told him so.” Newcastle was already losing at that point, having conceded two goals from Leonardo Ulloa and another from Wes Morgan.

Leicester is a point and a place above the danger zone but relegation rivals have games in hand, including Sunderland, which is directly below them. Jordi Gomez scored two penalties to clinch a 2-1 victory over Southampton, of which Jamie Ward-Prowse was sent off. Aston Villa edged Everton 3-2 to stay two points clear of Sunderland, with Christian Benteke scoring twice and Tom Cleverley adding a third for the FA Cup finalists.

But Burnley and QPR nudged closer to an instant return to the League Championship after losses.

Burnley is eight points from safety — with nine points to play for — after Mark Noble converted a penalty following Michael Duff’s sending off to give West Ham a 1-0 victory.

QPR is a point above Burnley.

Although Leroy Fer volleyed QPR level at Anfield, canceling out Philippe Coutinho’s first-half opener, the London club saw Nedum Onuoha sent off 10 minutes later for fouling Jordon Ibe before Gerrard’s winner.

There was only one match in the Premier League with few nerves on Saturday. Swansea beat Stoke 2-0 in a mid-table clash, and the eighth-place side is set for its highest ever finish. (ap)

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Angel Di Maria walks from the pitch after his team’s 1-0 loss during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Monday, May 4, 2015

Sp rt Juventus seals 4th successive Serie A title with 1-0 win

MILAN — His appointment protested against, coach Massimiliano Allegri won over any last doubters as Juventus clinched a fourth successive Serie A title on Saturday with four matches to spare and a treble in sight.

Juventus was rocked when Antonio Conte quit in the offseason, and further stunned when he was replaced by Allegri, who was fired by AC Milan months earlier and appeared to be the antithesis of the beloved former coach.

However, the Italian giant won 1-0 at Sampdoria on Saturday to claim the first of potentially three trophies as it faces Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals, and Lazio in the Italian Cup final. After dominating the entire season, Juventus needed just a point to mathematically seal a 31st Serie A title. A first-half header from Arturo Vidal gave it all three.

“The first days here were good. I only had five or six players and we lost a friendly against Lucento!” Allegri said with laugh.

“Afterwards, the lads were at my disposal and I tried to create a group, we started to work without ruining the work done in three e x -

traordinary years.

“The players have great human qualities as well as technical ones, as to win four consecutive scudetti is extraordinary. Now we have to put this crazy evening to one side a n d think of the cups.

I thank e v eryone who has helped me on this path, from the staff, to the club, to the players.”

Allegri was also the last coach before Conte to win the league, with Milan in 2011 — also

in his first season in charge. Andrea Pirlo was part of that team, and has now won his fifth successive Serie A. Although the title was never really in doubt, the relief and joy at the final whistle was clear, although the club has put its trophy celebrations on ice with a crucial Champions League match in just three days.

Vidal, who also scored in a 1-0 win against Palermo which clinched the league in 2013, admitted he had “never seen a title celebrated so little.” “They gave us 10 minutes,” Juventus captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. “Also because the thought of Real is pulsating through us. Our joy is inevitable, also because we have sealed it as soon as possible, allowing us to dedicate our body and soul to this challenge.”

Buffon admitted the

change of manager was difficult for the players as well as the fans. “This title has a particular taste for me, for the group too,” he said. “It’s the proof that the squad has a very exceptional mentality, a spirit of self-sacrifice which I don’t think has an equal.

“Certainly, when we changed coach in July many people, including us, could have had doubts, but it was also a push to show that we also had an important worth, on a human level as well as technical.” The defeat was Sampdoria’s first at home this season and left it provisionally fifth.

Juventus knew even if second-place Lazio was to beat Atalanta on Sunday, a draw at Sampdoria would leave it 12 points clear with four matches remaining and the better head-to-head record. Allegri rested key playmaker Pirlo, defender Giorgio Chiellini, and forward Alvaro Morata ahead of Tuesday’s semifinal at home to Real Madrid.

Sampdoria had the better of the early opportunities, but Vidal broke the deadlock in 32nd as he was left unmarked to head Stephan Lichtsteiner’s cross from the right over goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano and in off the inside of the far post. In 34 rounds, Juventus has 24 victories, seven draws, and only three losses, scoring 64 goals and conceding just 19. (ap)

AP Photo/Carlo Baroncini

Juventus’ coach Massimiliano Allegri is thrown in the air in celebration at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Sampdoria and Juventus, at the Luigi Ferraris stadium in Genoa, Italy, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

Lyon wins to keep the heat on PSG

PARIS — In a frantic race for the French title, Lyon kept the pressure firmly on Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-0 win over struggling Evian on Saturday. Clement Grenier’s strike and Alexandre Lacazette’s penalty in the first half put Lyon back at the top of the standings on goal difference from PSG. Lyon, which has played one game more than PSG, struggled physically and relied on set-pieces to prevail against Evian. The hosts went ahead in the 21st minute when the in-form Grenier scored his first goal since returning from a long injury layoff,

with a powerful strike from a direct free kick that goalkeeper Benjamin Leroy parried into his own net.

Lacazette scored a league-leading 27th goal from the spot later in the half after Corentin Tolisso was fouled in the area.

“This is the final sprint, we know what we want, and this is the most important thing,” said midfielder Maxime Gonalons, a product of Lyon’s renowned academy system.

“We can dream of something big; finishing champions would be exceptional.”

After winning its game in hand against

Metz midweek, two-time defending champion PSG remains the favorite and can move three points clear with a victory at Nantes on Sunday. Top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to return to lead the attack after a three-game ban for insulting French officials.

Lyon was again without the injured Yoann Gourcuff and Milan Bisevac but Nabil Fekir, who has been one of the league’s best players, had another impressive performance. The highly rated midfielder set up Clinton Njie in the 52nd as the Cameroon forward beat Leroy from close

range before the goal was canceled for an offside position.

Fekir also hit the woodwork 25 minutes from time from a free kick that Leroy tipped onto the post, then saw another effort blocked by teammate Mohamed Yattara.

Evian’s best chance came in the 71st when Clarck N’Sikulu missed the target with a header from Adrien Thomasson’s precise cross as ‘keeper Anthony Lopes looked beaten. With three games left to play, Evian is in 18th place, one point from safety. (ap)

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3rd successive loss for Man United; 8th in row for Newcastle

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, celebrates scoring his goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Cordoba and FC Barcelona at El Arcangel stadium in Cordoba, Spain, Saturday May 2, 2015.

Suarez scores hat trick as Barcelona routs Cordoba 8-0

BARCELONA — Luis Suarez netted his first hat trick for Spanish league leader Barcelona to lead its 8-0 rout at last-place Cordoba on Saturday, while Cristiano Ronaldo also scored three to ensure Real Madrid stayed in the title chase.

Lionel Messi notched his 50th and 51st goals in all competitions to help Barcelona match its biggest away win in league history and seal Cordoba’s relegation.

Later, Ronaldo almost singlehandedly dealt Sevilla its first loss at home in 35 consecutive games going back to February 2014 with a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium. Barcelona leads Madrid by two points with three games left to decide which replaces Atletico Madrid as champion.

“Hope is the last thing you lose.

We have to do what we are supposed to and win the last three games,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

Barcelona will take a run of 15 wins in 16 matches back to Camp Nou, where it faces former coach Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals on Wednesday. Madrid visits Juventus the day before in their final-four tie.

Messi surpassed the 50-goal mark in his 50th match of the season. Suarez, likewise, stayed in fine form with five goals in his last two matches, and 17 goals in his last 16 appearances, while Neymar earned

and converted a penalty five minutes from time to extend his scoring run to four straight matches.

Elsewhere, Atletico was held to 0-0 at home by Athletic Bilbao as the soon-to-be-dethroned titleholder remained in third place at 11 points adrift. Deportivo La Coruna was left in the relegation zone after drawing 1-1 at home with sixth-place Villarreal.

Cordoba resisted as long as Barcelona misfired. But once Messi unlocked its five-man defense with a lobbed pass for Ivan Rakitic to rifle into the top of the net, the hosts quickly collapsed. Suarez got his first goal in first-half injury time, and Dani Alves crossed for Messi and Suarez to add two headed goals before Gerard Pique netted a header of his own.

Messi, Neymar and Suarez then polished off the demolition to equal Barcelona’s highest away wins at Almeria in 2010 and at Las Palmas in 1959.

“If we want to win the league, we have to take care of business, regardless of where we play or the situation of our opponents,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “Today we took care of business.” Ronaldo’s three goals took his league-leading tally to 42, keeping the Ballon d’Or holder ahead of Messi with his 40 goals, as the two stars vie to finish the league as top scorer.

Sevilla held its own and traded

scoring opportunities with Jose Antonio Reyes leading its attack until holding midfielder Gregorz Krychowiak smashed his face into the back of Sergio Ramos’ head, causing his nose to bleed profusely.

The Polish player went to the sideline to receive treatment in the 30th minute and when he returned 10 minutes later Madrid has winning by two goals.

Ronaldo scored them both against the undermanned defense, first heading home Francisco “Isco” Alarcon’s cross in the 36th before he acrobatically dove to stab in a ball flicked on by Javier Hernandez a minute later. Back to full strength, Sevilla mustered a push before halftime that yielded a penalty for Carlos Bacca to convert in injury time after Ramos fouled Aleix Vidal.

Gareth Bale returned from a leftleg injury in the 66th and three minutes later sent in a cross to the far post that Ronaldo scored with a brilliant header to lift the ball over goalkeeper Sergio Rico from a tight angle.

Substitute Vicente Iborra slotted in a short pass from Vidal to boost Sevilla’s hopes of a comeback in the 79th, and Unai Emery’s team just missed the equalizer when Denis Suarez’s effort squirmed by the post with five to play. Sevilla stayed in fifth place, level on points with Valencia in fourth as they contest the last Champions League berth. (ap)

After a third successive loss, Manchester United’s bid to return to the Champions League is stuttering. A 1-0 loss to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday left United still in fourth place but only four points ahead of Liverpool with three Premier League games to go. Liverpool relied on Steven Gerrard’s late goal after the captain missed a penalty, to beat 10-man Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Anfield.

United’s slump has come just when it appeared to have turned a corner under Louis van Gaal, reeling off six successive victories before this latest downturn at Old Trafford. “We knew in defense they park the bus so we have to deal with that, and in the first half we didn’t create enough chances to score,” Van Gaal said. “The finishing was not good enough.”

West Brom, though, will be more hopeful of surviving in the topflight after Chris Brunt’s free kick was deflected into the net by Jonas Olsson in the second half, and United striker Robin van Persie then had a penalty saved. The central England team is seven points clear of the drop zone. But Newcastle has been sucked into a relegation battle by losing a club record eight Premier League games in a row.

As if the club wasn’t in enough disarray after a 3-0 loss at Leicester, manager John Carver then accused one of the two dismissed Newcastle players of intentionally getting sent off. Discussing Mike Williamson’s late knee-high chal-

lenge on Jamie Vardy after an hour, Carver said: “I thought he meant that and I have told him so.” Newcastle was already losing at that point, having conceded two goals from Leonardo Ulloa and another from Wes Morgan.

Leicester is a point and a place above the danger zone but relegation rivals have games in hand, including Sunderland, which is directly below them. Jordi Gomez scored two penalties to clinch a 2-1 victory over Southampton, of which Jamie Ward-Prowse was sent off. Aston Villa edged Everton 3-2 to stay two points clear of Sunderland, with Christian Benteke scoring twice and Tom Cleverley adding a third for the FA Cup finalists.

But Burnley and QPR nudged closer to an instant return to the League Championship after losses.

Burnley is eight points from safety — with nine points to play for — after Mark Noble converted a penalty following Michael Duff’s sending off to give West Ham a 1-0 victory.

QPR is a point above Burnley.

Although Leroy Fer volleyed QPR level at Anfield, canceling out Philippe Coutinho’s first-half opener, the London club saw Nedum Onuoha sent off 10 minutes later for fouling Jordon Ibe before Gerrard’s winner.

There was only one match in the Premier League with few nerves on Saturday. Swansea beat Stoke 2-0 in a mid-table clash, and the eighth-place side is set for its highest ever finish. (ap)

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Manchester United’s Angel Di Maria walks from the pitch after his team’s 1-0 loss during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

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Mertasari Beach

SANUR - Mertasari Beach is located facing north, unlike the Sanur Beach facing west. So, to see the position of sunrise is not in the middle of the beach, but it emerges from the side of coastline. This beach is located on Jalan Tirta Empul, Sanur, or can be reached through Jalan Pengembak, Sanur. To access the beach can be made through Jalan Danau Poso, Sanur then turn southwards to Jalan Pengembak and straight to the beach. However, people more frequently access it through Jalan Danau Poso and then turn southward into Jalan Sekar Waru and then turn right to the T-junction and encounter a large banyan tree in the middle and then turn left. Ultimately, you will arrive on Mertasari Beach.

Mertasari Beach is an ideal place for relaxing, while bathing, swimming or sunbathing on the white sand. In the late 1976, this beach was used to sunbathe by tourists while facing east at sunrise. When exploring the coast, we will see many travelers lying down along the white sandy beach, bathing in sunlight or they call it sunbathing. On certain days, Mertasari Beach will be thronged by a myriad of visitors. Moreover, on Umanis Kuningan that coincides with Sunday, it will be very crowded.

Hindu people of Bali will cross to Serangan Island to pray at Sakenan Temple. So, do not to miss this rare opportunity.

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Paul lifts Clippers past Spurs, 111109 in Game 7

LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul banked in a shot with a second left to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a thrilling 111-109 victory over San Antonio in Game 7 on Saturday that eliminated the defending NBA champion Spurs from the playoffs. After Spurs veteran Tim Duncan made two free throws to tie it with 8.8 seconds left, Paul drove the right side. He originally was covered by Danny Green before Duncan came over to help. Paul put up a one-handed shot over the 39-year-old that went in as he was falling away.

Paul said coach Doc Rivers spoke to him and Blake Griffin before the game about last-shot scenarios. “We’ve been in that situation a lot of times already this year, and most of the time I hadn’t made it,” Paul said. “We talked about it, and finally it worked when we needed it.”

Rivers said Paul, who was hampered by a hamstring injury, is “just a tough kid. He’s a street fighter. I mean, he really is. I love him to death because of his will.”

Duncan said Paul’s shot was “just unbelievable. I know he was playing a little hurt, and he played through all that, found ways to get it done. Just an unbelievable last shot over two of us. He’s just a great leader, and it was amazing to watch.

I wish I wasn’t on the other end.”

Matt Barnes knocked away the

inbound pass to seal the victory and the Staples Center crowd went crazy after the Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals for just the fourth time in franchise history. The Clippers, who faltered at home in Games 2 and 5, move on to face Houston starting Monday.

Paul scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half, including four big 3-pointers. Duncan had 27 points and 11 rebounds, his sixth double-double of the series. Paul missed the final 2 minutes of the first quarter and the first 5 1/2 minutes of the second quarter. He appeared to get hurt as he dribbled up court before making a 3-pointer.

He sat on the bench with his head in his hands before leaving for the locker room.

“I thought about the team and all the things we’d been through,” Paul

said. “I know that if it was any other guy on our team in a situation like this, they wouldn’t lay down, so I just tried to find a way.” Blake Griffin had 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for Los Angeles for his second triple-double of the series.

The Clippers trailed by five points with 5:42 left before Griffin made two free throws and J.J. Redick a 3-pointer to tie it at 97 with 3:58 to go.

The teams traded leads during the final minutes, with Duncan, Kawhi Leonard and Manu Ginobili scoring for the Spurs and Barnes hitting a 3-pointer for the Clippers.

Paul made two three throws with 13.3 seconds left for a 109-107 lead before Duncan was fouled by Redick and made both shots. There was just enough time for Paul to reply. (ap)

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Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, center, goes up for a dunk as San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan, left, and guard Tony Parker, of France, defends during the second half of Game 7 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, Saturday, May 2, 2015, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 111-109.

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Filipinos watch a live satellite feed of the welterweight title fight between Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. during a free public viewing in downtown Manila, Philippines on Sunday, May 3, 2015. Mayweather Jr. won the match.

MANILA — Sadness and disappointment gripped Filipinos after Manny Pacquiao’s defeat in his much-anticipated fight against American Floyd Mayweather Jr. but they still considered the boxing icon a national hero. Gymnasiums and other public venues where the

12-round fight was shown for free on Sunday lunchtime local time were quickly vacated after it was announced Pacquiao lost by unanimous decision.

Herminio Coloma, a spokesman for President Benigno Aquino III, said “the country still holds its

head high in the admirable fight of our National Fist.” He said Aquino thanked Pacquiao, who is also a congressman, for being “an inspiration to every Filipino who is struggling with life’s challenges to achieve a bright future.”

Some fans said Pacquiao should retire from boxing while others demanded a rematch. For thousands at a plaza in Marikina city, part of metropolitan Manila, the party mood was dampened not just by his loss but also a sudden downpour.

Roland Purificacion, a 45-yearold pedicab driver who watched the fight on a huge television screen outside the Quiapo Church in central Manila, was disappointed but spoke for many of his compatriots when he said Pacquiao “is still the people’s champ. He is still our hero.”

Security guard Melchor Yaba, 48, said he lost 5,000 pesos ($113), a half month’s salary, betting on Pacquiao. “I can’t accept that he lost. I now regret it,” he said, referring to his bet. “He cannot retire yet.

Let’s have a rematch.”

In Pacquiao’s hometown of Kiamba, a fishing and farming town in southern Sarangani province,

which he represents in Congress, passenger mini-buses brought villagers who have no television to watch the fight in the town’s 2,500-seat gymnasium. Vice Mayor Bogi Martinez said the municipal government roasted a calf and pig to be served to the crowd.

Winning or losing, Pacquiao’s fights with the world’s top boxers often lifts the spirit of Filipinos amid troubles brought by corruption scandals, a decades-long separatist insurgency in the south, and natural disasters such as the November 2013 super Typhoon Haiyan that killed more than 7,000 people a month after a killer earthquake struck the same region.

Jose Luis Nepomuceno, a 62year-old retired congressional liaison officer, brought along his wife to watch the fight at the San Andres Sports Complex, one of nine public venues the city government set up for the public to watch the bout, partially funded by a popular department store. “We may not be in Las Vegas, but our hearts are there for him,” Nepomuceno said.

Louis Tinsley, a 25-year-old tourist from Manchester, England, and

his fiancée, Jade Broadhurst, were among the early birds at San Andres eager to support Pacquiao. “In the eyes of Filipinos he is a role model ... a very humble man, which is not usual for a boxer. That’s his most endearing quality,” Tinsley said.

At the Manila branch of the country’s biggest mall operator, SM, the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight was shown in six of its 12 theaters.

Cinema manager Rico Ramos said ticket sales were three times bigger this time than Pacquiao’s previous big U.S. fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in December 2012.

Hundreds of soldiers and civilian employees and their families watched the fight at the grandstand inside the armed forces headquarters. The fight also was shown in camps throughout the country as a morale-booster.

Chief of Staff Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, congratulated Pacquiao, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve force, despite his defeat because the boxer “gave his best, and (that is) what is important to us.” “He gave us a good fight. Unfortunately his opponent kept on running around,” he said. (ap)

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Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard, right, checks his solar-powered plane before taking off from Jiangbei International Airport in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

Pilot to fly solar plane across Pacific for 5 days, 5 nights

BEIJING — A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. André Borschberg, 62, is due to fly over the Pacific Ocean for five days and five nights in the plane that has more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings to power its motors and recharge its batteries for nighttime flying.

The Solar Impulse 2 set off from Abu Dhabi in March and has stopped in Oman, India and Myanmar. Borschberg and another Swiss pilot, Bertrand Piccard, are taking turns flying the single-seater Swiss plane during a five-month journey to promote renewable energy use.

The 8,175-kilometer (5,079mile) flight from Nanjing in eastern China to Hawaii — which may take off Thursday, depending on weather — is the seventh of 12 flights. None of the previous legs were more than 20 hours — compared with an estimated flight time of 120 hours to Hawaii. “It’s the most challenging, yes, in the sense that we never flew over the oceans,” Borschberg said in a phone interview from Nanjing.

“There are of course also question marks with the type of airplane we have, is it capable to fly solo with this type of energy, and of course the challenge is on the pilot side as well ... can I stay alert for this leg and be able to pilot this airplane, can I keep my energy at the right level, can I keep my spirits, my mindset to get this airplane to Hawaii.”

The aircraft will climb to the altitude of Mount Everest, almost 9,000 meters (29,500 feet), during the day to get more sunlight, recharge the batteries and store more energy. At nighttime, the plane will fly lower, at a minimum of 1,000 meters (3,000 feet). The pilot will experience temperatures ranging from 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the morning to minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) early in the evening while the plane is still high up.

“It’s winter and summer every day in the cockpit,” said Borschberg, who flew military jets for 25 years as a reserve pilot in the Swiss army and is an entrepreneur by profession.

He plans to take periods of rest of 20 minutes up to eight times a day, but said he doesn’t know if the weather or turbulence will let him. Borschberg said the plane has a “virtual co-pilot” that is a stabilization tool. It will sound an alarm to wake him if the aircraft does something unplanned.

The cockpit is too small to stand

in, although the seat can recline into a horizontal position to allow him to lie down and practice yoga. He also plans to use breathing techniques and meditation to help him through the long journey. He said that when flying, he focuses on how he feels as well as the situation in the air, so that the journey wasn’t just about exploring how to cross the Pacific using solar energy.

“You don’t have the pressure of time so with this airplane you can really live the present moment,” he said. “It’s almost an inner voyage, at the end it’s not so much exploring the Pacific ... it’s also exploring myself.”

The Si2 aircraft has a wingspan of 72 meters (236 feet), spanning larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

At about 2,300 kilograms (5,000 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.

After Hawaii, the plane is slated to stop in Phoenix and New York before flying over the Atlantic Ocean. It will then stop either in southern Europe or North Africa, depending on weather conditions. (ap)

WARSAW, Poland — A man died after being hit by a rubber bullet and 14 police officers were injured during clashes that erupted during a Polish league football match in the south of the country.

Supporters of the local Concordia Knurow team stormed onto the pitch during Saturday’s match against Ruch Radzionkow, with the home team trailing 4-1.

A 27-year-old man was struck by a rubber bullet when police fired at the attackers. More rioting broke out around the hospital, where the man was pronounced dead.

Tomasz Pitsch, the deputy director of the Knurow hospital, says: “We are shaken by the fighting we witnessed. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown.”

An autopsy of the victim is planned for Monday as prosecutors begin an investigation. (ap)

Arab coalition ‘reconnaissance’ troops in Yemen

SANAA — Yemeni military officials say at least 20 Arab coalition troops have landed in the southern coastal city of Aden on a “reconnaissance” mission.

The officials and witnesses reached in Aden said the blackclad and masked troops landed Sunday in a central area between the city’s neighborhood of al-Mansoura and the airport. They said helicopter gunships hovered above the landing area.

There were no reports of fighting between the Arab troops and Iranian-allied Shiite rebels and their supporters, who have for weeks been trying to capture the strategic port city on the Arabian Sea. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to brief journalists.

Defending Aden are militiamen loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled Aden to neighboring Saudi Arabia in March. (ap)

Rescuers find 3 survivors in Nepal 8 days after quake KATHMANDU, Nepal — An official says rescuers have found three survivors in a mountainous village in Nepal, eight days since the earthquake.

Surya Prasad Upadhaya, a government administrator, says two men and a woman were pulled out Sunday from near Syauli village. They have been taken to a nearby military hospital for treatment. Other details are not immediately known.

The district is the worst hit by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake with the highest number of casualties.

It is located about 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu. (ap)

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Economic ministers less sensitive to people’s basic needs JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo’s economic ministers are less sensitive to the people’s basic needs, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for inter-agencies relations, Bambang Soesatyo said.

Bambang Soesatyo said Joko Widodo’s economic team was not sensitive to the people’s basic needs after the abolition of energy subsidies.

“Joko Widodo needs to expedite his agenda on cabinet reshuffle by changing his economic team,” Soesatyo said.

He said that Jokowi, as the president is popularly called, should reshuffle his cabinet because the popularity of his government was currently going down.

Soesatyo quoted a survey result which revealed that about 66.6 percent of the public were not satisfied with the government’s performance because the prices of basic neces-

sities had been increasing significantly. The prices of sugar and electricity were on the rise and fuel oil prices were also fluctuating.

Soesatyo, who is also a member of Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR), stated that the economic ministers of Jokowi’s Working Cabinet were not able to adjust to the working rhythm after Jokowi adopted a policy on the abolition of energy subsidies.

The policy has direct impact on the people namely as it left the retail prices of the fuel oils to the market mechanism.

As a result, the people felt significant impacts because the policy affected the prices of basic neces-

sities and transportation service fares which can any time increase or go down.

“In such a situation, the government should not remain silent. As a regulator, it should be present in the market to stimulate and stabilize prices and goods supplies so that they will be under control and within the financial reach of the people,” he said.

He therefore suggested that the President should form a strong economic team. “Besides focusing on large scale projects in the infrastructure sector, the team should also consistently heed the basic need issues,” he added. (ant)

Bodies of Australians executed in Indonesia arrive home

SYDNEY - Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was confident Australia could restore its relationship with Indonesia despite anger over the execution of two drug convicts, whose bodies reportedly returned home Saturday.

Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 34, were killed by firing squad on Wednesday over their role in a plot to bring heroin to Australia from the Indonesian resort island of Bali, despite international pleas to Jakarta for clemency.

Abbott said he understood the dismay and anger over the executions but respected Indonesia’s sovereignty.

“It really was terrible that these cruel and unnecessary executions went ahead,” he told reporters in Sydney.

“Our anger and our grief, sadly, is not going to bring those two young men back.

“The important thing now is not

to do any thing that would make a difficult situation worse.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was unable to confirm reports that the men’s bodies were on a flight which touched down early Saturday in Sydney.

The flight was carrying Sukumaran’s parents, brother and sister and Chan’s wife Febyanti Herewila, who married him on the eve of his execution.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said Chan’s mother and brother were understood to have wanted to travel back with his body, but were unable to due to a hold-up with the repatriation. They returned on Friday.

Chan and Sukumaran were among seven foreigners and one Indonesian executed in Indonesia in the early hours of Wednesday.

The Australians had spent a decade in prison for their role in masterminding the so-called ‘Bali Nine’ group of smugglers, during

which time Chan had become a Christian pastor and Sukumaran had studied art.

The executions have cast a shadow over Australia’s relationship with its important neighbour Indonesia, with Abbott withdrawing Canberra’s ambassador to Indonesia.

But the prime minister said Saturday that it remained important for the country’s future that the relationship with Jakarta be restored.

“I am confident that we will be able to rebuild the relationship,” Abbott said.

“It’s important to Australia, it’s important to Indonesia and it’s important to the wider world that Australia and Indonesia’s friendship is strong and growing in the months and years ahead.”

Australia and Indonesia are key allies in counter-terrorism efforts, while Indonesia is also a significant economic partner. (afp)

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A worker walks on top of wooden boat at Muara Baru port in Jakarta in this December 8, 2014 file photo. President Joko Widodo’s economic ministers are less sensitive to the people’s basic needs, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for inter-agencies relations, Bambang Soesatyo said.

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Indosat’s 4G data access launched in Bali US consumer sentiment rises on optimism over job market

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In this April 6, 2015 file photo, Lucy Perez, of Charlotte, N.C., pumps gas at a station in Matthews, N.C. Optimism about the job market lifted U.S. consumer sentiment in April to its second-highest level since 2007.

Japan eyes ‘large-scale’ cooperation with Cuba HAVANA - Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday that Tokyo wants to launch “large-scale cooperation” with Havana to support the island’s reforms.

In the first visit to Cuba by a Japanese foreign minister, Kishida also met with President Raul Castro to discuss “the positive direction” of their ties, a government statement read out on state television said.

Kishida said Japan supports US and Cuban efforts to normalize relations and that Tokyo wants to take its own ties with Havana to “a new level.”

The foreign minister, who traveled with a delegation of 30 business leaders, said Tokyo wants to launch a “new scheme of Japanese cooperation of wide range, large scale” to support reforms undertaken by Castro.

Speaking during a meeting with Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, he said the scheme was called “nonreimbursable financial assistance.”

“Secondly, we would like to con-

solidate our economic relations,” Kishida said.

For his part, Rodriguez said relations with Japan are a “priority” and that the communist country has “the willingness to deepen bilateral ties in all areas, including trade, investment, scientific cooperation and multifaceted cooperation.”

Kishida’s spokesman, Ken Okaniwa, told reporters on Thursday that the US embargo against Cuba in force since 1962 is making it “difficult” for Japanese companies to do business with the island.

Bilateral trade amounts to $52 million, with Japanese exports to Cuba accounting for two thirds of that commerce. Cuba buys machinery from Japan and exports tobacco, coffee and fish, Okaniwa said.

Castro and US President Barack Obama made a surprise announcement in December that they would work to normalize ties under severe strain for more than 50 years. (afp)

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WASHINGTON — Optimism about the job market lifted U.S. consumer sentiment in April to its second-highest level since 2007.

The University of Michigan’s sentiment index rose to 95.9 from 93 in March. Only January’s reading of 98.1 has been higher since 2007, the year the Great Recession began. Over the past five months, sentiment has been, on average, at its highest level since 2004.

Richard Curtin, chief economist of the Michigan survey, attributed the April increase to optimism over consistently low inflation and low interest rates and improving prospects for jobs and incomes.

Curtin said consumers expect interest rates to rise from current historically low levels but only modestly. And they expect any economic damage from higher rates to be offset by the benefits of more jobs and incomes.

Since March 2014, the U.S. economy has produced a healthy 3.1 million job gains. The government said Wednesday that the economy grew at an annual rate of just 0.2 percent from January through March. But economists expect growth to strengthen in the spring.

“Consumers appear to be shrugging off recently disappointing economic data and stock market choppiness,” Jim Baird, chief investment officer for Plante Moran Financial Advisors, said in a research note. “Despite evidence that the economy slowed considerably in the first quarter, sentiment remains relatively high and suggests that the important consumer spending engine isn’t at risk of stalling.” (ap)

Indosat, members of the Group Ooredoo, on Wednesday (29/4) officially launched the Super 4G-LTE network in Bali.

Indonesia strives to Russia signs up to $100 bn BRICS stamp out thyphoid fund to rival IMF

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an accord Saturday to set up a $100-billion reserve fund for the so-called BRICS -- the five leading emerging economies that include Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa.

Moscow is expected to contribute $18 billion to the reserve, well behind the $41 billion China has promised to pour into the fund that was set up after an agreement signed in July 2014 in Brazil.

The emerging economies also plan to form their own international bank based in Shanghai to challenge western dominance over international money markets.

“The accord on the creation of a common reserve fund for BRICS countries has been ratified,” a document from the Kremlin quoted by RIA Novosti news agency said.

The fund is meant to shield the BRICS against “short-term liquidity pressures” and promote greater cooperation between the five member countries.

Russia -- which has suffered huge currency fluctuations since the outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine -- sees the fund as an alternative to international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank that are dominated by the United States. The BRICS countries between them account for 40 percent of the world’s population, and a fifth of the planet’s GDP. (afp)

NUSA DUA - The Indonesian government is trying to eradicate typhoid, which continues to be a threat especially in developing countries, a government official said.

Those aged between 5 and 24 years are susceptible to the disease the most, Director of the Center for Biomedical Affairs and Basic Health Technology of the Ministry of Health, Pretty Multihartina, stated at the International Conference on Typhoid and Non-Typhoidal Salmonella in Nusa Dua, Bali, held over the weekend.

Referring to a research on basic health carried out in 2007 by the Health Research and Development Agency, the directorate found that 1.6 percent of some 900 thousand re-

spondents of different ages admitted to have been diagnosed with typhoid at least once.

The research was conducted through telephonic interviews in 33 provinces.

As the disease is still a health problem in developing countries in Asia and Africa, they need to establish cooperation to develop selective diagnostic devices and vaccinations for affordable treatment.

The problem indicates that vaccines are needed for the short term, although the World Health Organization recommends that they be used at an early stage.

Indonesia alone has state pharmaceutical company Bio Farma that produces typhoid vaccines, which are exported to countries across the world.

The typhoid vaccines are expected to provide effective protection to the high-risk group as they can be consumed by children since they are six months old.

The vaccines are expected to prevent nearly 90 percent of typhoid cases and to save as many as 190 thousand people every year.

Moreover, health experts from the Coalition against Typhoid, which is part of the Sabin Vaccine Institute of the United States, noted that some 21 million people in the world are affected by typhoid, which leads to 216 thousand deaths every year. Children under 15 years of age make up the largest segment of these cases.

In addition, non-typhoidal salmonella causes some 3.4 million cases and 681,316 deaths annually. (ant)

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KUTA - Indosat, members of Ooredoo Group, officially launched the Super 4G-LTE network simultaneously in Bali, Yogyakarta, and Bandung. The launched is in line with the company’s plans to expand its 4G-LTE network coverage while ensuring Indosat always deliver the best data access in terms of speed and stability.

Super 4G-LTE Indosat has been introduced at the anniversary of Indosat in December 2014 in Jakarta. At that time, Indosat has shown the fastest LTE network in Indonesia. Its download speed up to 185 Mbps. “We expect to meet the need of data users and always in the forefront on providing the best data service for the people of Indonesia. It is also in line with the government’s vision in providing the latest technologies and innovative ways to provide benefits to the people of Indonesia,” said Alexander Rusli, President Director & CEO Indosat.

Rusli invites customers to experience and enjoy the benefits of this technology by exchange their GSM SIM card with the same number into LTE-ready SIM card for free in Gallery Indosat at Bali, Yogyakarta and Bandung. To enjoy the LTE service, customers can subscribe to a monthly internet package from IDR 49,000 to get 11 GB of data service. “This is the most affordable LTE service commercially ever offered at this time,” added Rusli.

Explained Rusli, Indosat has implemented Network Modernization Program since 2013 by using technology U900 and DC-HSPA + in Indonesia with download speed up to 42 Mbps. Indosat new network is already in the modernization of the fastest and largest in Indonesia.

Not only focus on building networks with the latest technology, Indosat is also committed to building supporting ecosystems so that people can enjoy the benefits of the latest technology. There are a variety of VAS and Content, as Arena Music which offers life streaming and download a variety of the latest music, both locally and internationally; Arena Video that offers live streaming league international football including Barclay’s Premier League; and also the Arena Games that offer a variety of games, including MMOG. (kmb18)

Bio Farma develops vaccine for thypus NUSA DUA - Indonesia’s leading vaccine manufacturer, Bio Farma, is developing a typhus vaccine to encourage the prevention and eradication of typhus in Indonesia, director of marketing of Bio Farma Mahendra Suhardono said on Saturday.

“We hope in the near future that the vaccine will be useful for the Indonesian community,” he added.

According to Mahendra, the state-owned enterprise is responsible to achieve vaccine self-sufficiency by fulfilling the need in vaccines through the use of domestic resources.

The typhus vaccine, named Typhoid Conjugate, is in the clinical test phase and expected to be in use by 2018.

Typhus has remained a threat in a number of developing countries in Asia and

Africa, including Indonesia.

According to Dr. Bonita Effendi from the University of Indonesia, there are several provinces in Indonesia still reporting typhus infections above 1.6 percent, among others being Aceh, Bengkulu, West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, Banten, West Java, West Papua, Papua, Gorontalo and East Kalimantan.

“The death risk due to typhus is 1.25 percent, and this is due to low public awareness to practice clean and healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as washing hands before eating, and using clean water for various household needs,” she added.

Therefore, the best way to avoid contracting the disease is by maintaining clean and healthy life styles, Bonita said. (ant)

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Students honour Saraswati Day in unique way BANGLI - Saraswati Day, which fell on Saniscara Umanis Wuku Watugunung (May 2), honours knowledge and wisdom as is usually celebrated with prayers accompanied with the presentation of offerings. This year however, SMPN 3 Bangli junior high school held a special procession for this festivity that is held every six months, with the addition of a mapeed or gebogan parade, as a way to express gratitude to Creator - especially Goddess Saraswati, symbol of knowledge.

The parade during Saraswati Day in Taman Bali Village.

On Saturday (May 2), hundreds of students lined the roads of Taman Bali village. A number of students marched from Kilobar Square at Taman Bali, located about 500 meters from the school. The beautifully arranged gebogan and wooden platform was carried on the heads of the participants, as they walked toward the Padmasana shrine at the local school, which was then purified by the temple priest. After the purificatory rite of sprinkling holy water, worship then began.

Deputy Principal in charge of Student Affairs of the SMPN 3 Bangli, Dewa Ketut Putra, when met after the prayers said that this is the first time that such a parade had been held. Previously, students only welcomed Saraswati Day with a gebogan making competition that would then be followed by worship at the Padmasana shrine at the school. This year there was a mapped procession that hundreds of students joined as well as the carrying of 18 gebogan that each class at the school made added a different nuance to the celebrations. “Previously the celebration only involved regular prayers and the presentation of gebogan directly to the padmasana shrine at school,” he said.

Ketut Putra, also explained that the parade is not just an ordinary ceremony, but is an expression of profound gratitude to God, especially Goddess Saraswati. In terms of culture, the parade preserves the tradition of carrying holy times on ones head, which the younger generation rarely does anymore,” he explained.

Putra added that the gebogan is not only carried by one single person, but is carried in turn by all the students. Similarly, this celebration aims to foster a sense of togetherness and fraternity that is increasingly fading in Bali. “The students carry the gebogan in turns as a way to increase their sense of community,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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Migrants crowd and inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel “ Denaro “ (not in picture) of the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

France’s Le Pen: Send migrants back across Mediterranean PARIS — Far right National Front leader Marine Le Pen says France should send migrants back across the Mediterranean Sea to stop them from taking dangerous boats to European shores. Criticizing European immigration policy, she said on Europe-1 radio Sunday that France should send migrants back to their port of departure so “traffickers know that no migrant will come ashore on our coasts.”

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Ten villages in Buleleng proposed to be tourism village

SINGARAJA - Tourism villages which so far have not been registered officially make the government of Buleleng not keep silent. Local government begins to conduct data collection and inventory of the potential tourism villages in North Bali. As a result, the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency has gained ten villages proposed to be tourism village.

The ten tourism villages will be established through a decree of the Buleleng regent.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said on Sunday that so far no single village in Buleleng

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has the predicate as a tourism village. However, some villages automatically put the predicate as a tourism village. Ambengan village (Sukasada subdistrict) and Sudaji village (Sawan subdistrict), for instance, their tourism activity is very obvious that can draw a fairly crowded visitor.

Against such conditions, the government seems to be unable to do much. It happens because the village is not legally recognized by a binding legal rule. As the government does not want such condition to last longer, the Culture and Tourism Agency has conducted a monitoring and evaluation of the

villages considered worthy to bear the predicate as tourism village. As a result, a total of 21 villages are considered worthy to bear the predicate of tourism village. “We’ve been doing monitoring and evaluation. Of the 21 villages, they cannot entirely be proposed into tourism village in 2015,” he said.

According to him, the consideration to propose a tourism village is done through a rigorous selection. Some indicators in the selection process include the existence of tourism awareness group (Darwis—Ed), high community participation, availability of tourist accommodation, decent

access to tourist destination and availability of a unique heritage.

After going through the selection process, most villages do not meet the predefined indicators. Nevertheless, the Culture and Tourism Agency must establish the villages that are feasible to become tourism village. Of the ten villages selected, Sambangan and Ambengan village (Sukasada subdistrict) and Sekumpul and Sudaji village (Sawan subdistrict) are proposed to be designated as an object of tourism village in North Bali.

“These villages are already worth being a tourism village and we immediately propose them to obtain

legal recognition,” he said.

On the other hand, Suyasa said that after determining the tourism village his agency will not stop to that effort. The tourism village determined will continue to be developed and provided with mentoring program to strengthen human resources of the management. In the long-term, his party will perform the setup program for the infrastructure and supporting facilities.

“We will not just set up and leave them unkempt, but we do a good follow-up program either involving human resource improvement or infrastructures strengthening at villages,” he said. (kmb38)

European ships rescued nearly 3,700 migrants on Saturday alone.

Le Pen also said her outspoken father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, “should no longer speak in the name of the National Front.”

Jean-Marie Le Pen is facing a party disciplinary board Monday for his anti-Semitic remarks. His daughter, leading the party since 2011, has cleaned up its image as she aims for the French presidency.

In Italy, ships rescued 3,690 migrants in just one day from smugglers’ boats on the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday. The agency said 17 different rescue operations were carried out Saturday after smugglers took advantage of calm seas and warm weather to move the migrants out of Africa

on motorized rubber dinghies and fishing boats.

Some of the migrants were being brought Sunday to ports in Sicily while others were expected to reach Calabria, in the south of the Italian mainland, on Monday, as temporary shelters for those rescued were reaching full capacity on the Mediterranean island.

While there was no issue with the weather, the smugglers often use include aging vessels that sometimes begin leaking shortly after leaving Libya. The boats are crammed with too many people as traffickers try to maximize earnings off the migrants, who pay hundreds of euros (dollars) for the passage between the Mediterranean’s southern shore and Italy.

It is not uncommon for thousands of migrants to be rescued over a

day or two.

The relentless flood of migrants is continuing this year after 170,000 were rescued at sea by Italy in 2014 — a 277 percent increase over the numbers in 2013. Italy has pressed the European Union to do more to help it save the migrants, especially since many of those plucked to safety are asylum seekers hoping to reach relatives in northern Europe.

An estimated 800 migrants drowned last month when their boat capsized off Libya with hundreds of them locked in the hold by smugglers. After that, European Union officials at an emergency meeting agreed to beef up the Triton rescue mission with boats and patrol aircraft contributed by several countries. Italy, often pressing nearby cargo ships into service, coordinates the rescue operations.

Overall, a record 280,000 illegal border crossings were detected in the 28-nation EU last year, according to Frontex, Europe’s border agency.(ap)

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S. Korea confirms college student held in N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea confirmed on Sunday that North Korea detained a South Korean student of New York University, but said it was still unclear whether the 21-year-old New Jersey resident attempted to enter the North illegally. An official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles affairs with North Korea, said his department was still trying to gather information on Won Moon Joo’s travels and the circumstances of his arrest.

“Our judgment is that Joo is being held in North Korea, but we are still trying to confirm the details of how he got arrested,” he said on condition of anonymity, citing office rules. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Joo was arrested on April 22 after trying to illegally enter North Korea by crossing the Amnok River from the Chinese border town of Dandong.

A spokesman for New York University, John Beckman, confirmed that Joo was a junior at NYU’s Stern School of Business, but that he was not taking classes this semester and the university was unaware of his travels. He said the university was in touch with the U.S. State Department and the South Korean Embassy.

North Korea has occasionally detained South Koreans, Americans and other foreigners, often on accusations of spying, in what analysts say are attempts to wrest outside concessions.

In March, North Korea announced that it had detained two South Korean citizens over alleged espionage. It has been holding another South Korean man since late 2013 on suspicion of spying and allegedly trying to set up underground churches in the North. He was sentenced last year to life in prison with hard labor.

Also last year, the North released three Americans — two of whom entered the country on tourist visas — and Kenneth Bae, a KoreanAmerican missionary who was convicted of “anti-state” crimes.(ap)

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South Korean Prime Minister Lee Wan Koo walks on the terrace of his residence in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

Lee has offered to resign amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country’s No. 2 post, officials said Tuesday, in the latest political crisis to hit President Park Geun-hye.

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Inspired by Scotland, golf course in Atlantic Canada

INVERNESS, Nova Scotia — Ribbons of manicured turf weave through dunes land, connecting the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the higher elevation of town in this remote corner of Cape Breton Island. Here, a 21st century golf destination has been conceived, inspired by the venerable links courses of Scotland. There is an adjacent pub with samplings of single-malt Scotch, but no motorized golf carts or beer wagons on the course itself.

It’s not cheap - up to almost $200 a round during the summer - and the drive from the airport in Nova Scotia’s provincial capital of Halifax is almost 200 miles (320 kilometers). Even so, Cabot Links has been ranked among the world’s top 50 courses since opening in 2012, and it could be surpassed by a second 18 holes next door - Cabot Cliffs - that is scheduled to debut later this year.

“Some of the best experiences and some of the best properties are off the beaten track,” says Andrew Alkenbrack, Cabot’s general manager and veteran of international tourism. “Good things are worth the effort.”

If a late summer afternoon last season is an indication, that’s true. A squall stays offshore and gives way to a freshening breeze and sunshine,

creating a silvery mosaic on the surf. Soon, Bryan Sutherland, the local school’s physical education director who moonlights as a caddy, arrives on his bicycle. The temperature hovers in the high 60s F (20 C), and the first tee is open.

What we proceed to do next is claimed to be one of the few true links golf opportunities in North America. Though many courses bill themselves as “links-style” - rolling terrain without tree cover and perhaps next to a body of water - purists believe the land must be waves of sandy hillocks that connect, or “link,” a beach to more tillable areas farther inland. In this, Cabot Links complies, just as do its older cousins across the Atlantic.

Level lies are few. Off the fairway, knee-high brush, Queen Anne’s lace and colorful JoePye weed are not. Though rain is plentiful, the grass drains quickly, rewarding low running shots. The wind confounds and confuses, but the patient advice of caddy Sutherland succeeds if followed. The pace of play is steady but not strenuous.

The sky, the distant bluffs and the rhapsodic sound of the sea merge in the background.

A “putt” of 100 feet (30 meters) or more is not uncommon, given the lack of demarcation between fairway and green. Bunkers seem

to be sculpted by nature, not a bulldozer. Dunes remain as they might have been when there was no golf, even if that produces a blind shot to a landing area behind them.

The par-4 finishing hole is downwind and fast, dictating a 130-yard (118-meter) “chip” that bounces the entire length before barely trickling just beyond the green’s back edge.

Sutherland is pleased.

Cabot Links sets atop what was once a coal mine, which attracted 19th century immigrants to Inverness. When the coal business disappeared, the village’s future dimmed. That changed when a young entrepreneur from Toronto named Ben Cowan-Dewar began building support in 2005 for a golf destination in Inverness after other such visions failed. Students of golf development will recognize the similarity of Cabot Links to the coastal Bandon Dunes resort in the United States, an even longer drive from the Portland, Oregon, airport than Cabot Links is from Halifax.

That is no coincidence. Bandon Dunes’ creator, Mike Keiser, who became a partner in Cabot Links, now is a driving force for the second 18 holes at Cabot Cliffs, along with Masters’ champion Ben Crenshaw - who perhaps is without peer as a traditionalist in golf architecture.

Like Cabot, Bandon Dunes is

walking-only.

“I think Cabot has brought a new positive atmosphere to our community,” says Sutherland, a sixth-generation Cape Breton native of Scottish descent. “It is such a pleasure to enter the Cabot premises and see the smiling, welcoming faces of our young people.” About 200 residents are employed for golf operations, three restaurants and a well-appointed lodge with minimalist exteriors that blend into the landscape.

Guests of the lodge benefit from reduced green fees and the new golf option of Cabot Cliffs may encourage longer stays. The lodge has expanded during the off-season and bookings for 2015 are brisk, given the buzz created by The Golf

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Channel and others about the Cliffs.

The formal opening of Cabot Cliffs will be in 2016, but it will be playable on a “preview” basis by July this summer.

Will the Cliffs eventually overshadow Cabot Links?

“I believe the two courses will complement each other,” says Joe Robinson, the resort’s director of golf. “Cabot Links will never be an ‘ugly sister.’”

He describes the new course as “two courses in one.” The front nine has a “true links feel” near the beach like the older course, but the back nine “will be wild in the wind as it winds its way up the hillside culminating with the drama of the closing holes along the cliffs” - hence, the new course’s name. (ap)

TABANAN - Although Jatiluwih has already been officially recognized by the U.N as world cultural heritage site, its boundaries have yet to be defined. The local government is therefore setting out to delineate the boundaries of the World Cultural Heritage (WCH) with three entrance points. However, so far the plan is still hampered by a funding problems. The plan includes erecting a jineng (rice granary) and rice statue with a budget estimation at about IDR 142 million at one of the entrances.

The planned construction of the boundary points was conformed by the subdistrict head of Penebel, IPA Hendra Manik on Sunday.

“This plan still needs to be finalized especially regarding the kind of buildings to be established at the entrances of the three entrances or boundaries of the Jatiluwih WCH,” he explained.

He said that he also plans to summon community leaders in the area of Jatiluwih to discuss what kinds of structures would be appropriate for the Jatiluwih entrances. “So far, there are only two proposed structures; a rice granary or jineng and a rice statue. But, the plan is far from being finalized,” he explained.

The cost for these two structures and a welcome sign, has been estimated at about IDR 142 million for which the subdistrict has approached Penebel legislator I Wayan Tamba.

Penebel PDI-P member, I Wayan Tamba, said that so far the plan still has many obstacles to overcome, including land rights, deciding what kind of structures will be built and how big of a budget is required. “This plan still requires lengthy discussions,” he explained.

He also said that he hopes the construction of the entrances to the Jatiluwih world heritage area can be realized this year. “Hopefully, everything will go well and our target can be reached this year,” he said.

The three markers of the boundaries of the world heritage will be located between Ngis hamlet, Jegu village, Penebel subdistrict and Timpag, Kerambitan subdistrict (in the west), between Senganan village and Baturiti subdistrict (in the east) and between Buruan village, Penebel subdistrict and Wanasari village, Tabanan subdistrict (in the south). (kmb28)

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This 2013 photo shows the Cabot Links golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada, along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

This Aug. 10, 2014, photo shows a threesome of golfers on the Cabot Links golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a portion of the village of Inverness on the hillside beyond.

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This 2013 photo shows the No. 2 green of the world-ranked 18-hole Cabot Links golf course, which opened in 2012 in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. The remote coastal location hasn’t deterred visitors from experiencing links golf rarely found elsewhere than Great Britain and Ireland.

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Although Jatiluwih has already been officially recognized by the U.N as world cultural heritage site, its boundaries have yet to be defined.

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Bandung County is a favourite destination for domestic and foreign tourist. Apparently it is also a favourite destination for hotel investors, because the the number of hotel rooms available in Badung has mushroomed to 61, 206 in just four years.

Hotels Far Outnumber Tourists in Badung

Bandung County is a favourite destination for domestic and foreign tourist. Apparently it is also a favourite destination for hotel investors, because the the number of hotel rooms available in Badung has mushroomed to 61,206 rooms in just four years. The number of star hotels has however remained stable at about 98 hotels with 16,360 rooms. However, non-star hotels, of which there were 505 (11,463 rooms) in 2009 has dramatically increased to 855 hotels with 34,815 hotel rooms (2014).

“The construction of hotels in Badung is very widespread, and it needs to be controlled. We even hope that a temporary moratorium will be issued,” said Chairman of the Badung Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD), I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya, recently.

The over abundance of non star hotels is seen by Suryawijaya, who is also Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), Badung Chapter and others involved in tourism, as being problematic. The number of accommodations far exceeds the number of tourists so there is a negative impact on the tourism industry.

“Massive incase in the number of tourist accommodations has resulted in a decrease in the quality of Badung as a tourist destination, as has caused constant price battles between hotels,” he said.

Based on the data of the Government of Bali Tourism Office (Disparda), foreign tourist arrivals to Bali in 2014 amounted to 1,766,638 people - a 14 percent increase from the previous year. However, this increase is not proportional to the rapid growth of hotel room construction.

“This means that the 14.89-percent increase in tourists still does not mean the expectations of hoteliers.

Last year, star hotels had an average

occupancy rate somewhere in the range of 50 to 59 percent,” he said.

Suryawijaya acknowledged that the regent of Badung had issued a policy, by way of a Regent Regulation, concerning minimum requirements for the construction of new hotels, but this regulation does not address the excessive rate of construction of new tourist accommodations, at best it just slows it down. “The regent’s policy (by issuing a regulation—Ed) is good. However, it would be better if he issues a moratorium. At present all that is required for a new hotel to be built is that they perform a new study - if need be, and a permit will be issued,” said Suryawijaya.

Permits for new hotels, said the bespectacled man, should only be issued when existing hotels have a better occupancy rate, so that room rates will be more stable and conditions can improve, unlike the present situation in which hotels are frequently engaged in tariff wars.

“When hotel occupancy rates are good - running at approximately 80 percent, permits for the construction of new hotels can start to be issued again. That way the number of tourist arrivals will better match the number of hotel rooms,” he said.

According to the Chairman of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Badung, the current growth

rate for hotel construction still excessive and causes unfair competition. “We do not want Badung to become a cheap destination. When the room occupancy rates average less than 60 percent, it is hazardous for everyone,” he explained while adding that Bali relies heavily on tourism as its main source of revenue. (kmb27)

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BANGLI - Trunyan village in Kintamani, Bangli, is one of the villages in Bali, that remains firm in maintaining its ancestral traditions. One example of their unique traditions, is their ancestral funerary practice that involves not burying their dead but leaving them on the ground. Trunyan residents also have particular taboos that they adhere to, including the prohibition of women entering the cemetery area.

Headman of Trunyan, Wayan Arjana, explained that the graves in Trunyan village are divided into three types: sema wayah, sema nguda and sema bantas.

Sema wayah is intended specifically for the bodies of public figures and ordinary people, whose body is intact and who died naturally. Sema nguda is intended for babies and adults who are not married, while the sema bantas is intended specifically for deformed bodies and those who die of unnatural causes (such as accidents or suicide). The three kinds of graves are in different locations that are far from one and other.

Arjana went on to explaine the sema wayah graveyard is located at the edge of the lake, about 500

meters from the village center, and is the burial site that is most often visited by foreigners who come to see the corpses that are laid to rest in a hole just 20 cm deep.

The bodies are only covered in fabric and are fenced in by pieces of bamboo blades called ancak saji. When a burial takes place, women abstain form entering the sema wayah area, though they can come close to the boundary.

The entire funeral process is carried by male residents. If any women goes into the graveyard area, it is believed that they will be struck by disaster. “Thus, so far our women have never known about the conditions in the cemetery here,” he explained.

Another unique feature the

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sema wayah cemetery is that there are only seven graves, that are laid side by side. The graves at the easternmost end are intended for public figures, while the remaining graves are for ordinary residents. The number of graves at sema wayah never increase or decrease because whenever there is a new body to be buried, the old one will be removed and replaced with the new one. The bones of the old bodies are then placed in a special area, not far from the row of graves. Considering that this unique burial tradition has been pracitced by local people since time immemorial, it is no wonder that there are quite a number of skulls and bones accumulated at the sema wayah site. (ina)

TABANAN - Many people do not realize that having a green space in ones yard has a significant impact on water absorption and is an effective way to sustain water resources and to avoide flooding. However, especially in urban areas, most people’s yards have been paved over and/or converted into a place of business such as a shops or stalls that are built using permanent materials (concrete). Given how important it is that the ground be able to absorb water, it is necessary for the urban community in particular to create biopores, or water absorbing holes in their yards.

Head of the Executive Agency of Agricultural Extension, Fisheries and Forestry of Tabanan, Nyoman Sunarta expressed this necessity after the many recent recent floods. As stated by Sunarta, during the rainy season, rainwater must be managed properly and one way of doing this is by allowing green spaces to flourish, because plants naturally absorb water and store it in their roots and allow the soil to absorb it.

Currently most peoples yards are covered in concrete and have no trees, so the next best option is to create bio-

pores through which water can drain back into the soil. “Making biopores in home yards is very important because they allow rain water to get reabsorbed by the earth,” he said.

Sunarta added that biopores do not require a lot of spaces and can easily be made by anyone. Biopores, especially in urban areas, are very helpful because they allow water to be absorbed by the ground much faster than concrete. “We made biopores at our office located at Dangin Carik and the uptake of water during the rainy season is very much faster than it was and greatly reduces flooding,” he said.

He admitted that in order to make urban people aware of the need to make bipods in their yards, everyone needs to cooperate in disseminating information on the topic and for people to take action. “We also put emphasis in counseling people about the benefits of biopores,” he said.

Apart form the creation of biopores, it is also encouraged that the general public reforest unplanted areas, especially in the highlands. “We especially appeal to the community to plant bamboos in ravines,” he said. (kmb24)

Trial for murder of Mr. Bob

Sobbing defendant admits she killed husband due to being annoyed

DENPASAR - The trial for the murder of Robert Kevin Ellis aka Mr. Bob by with victim’s wife, defendant Julaikah Noor Aini alias Noor Ellis, Thursday (Apr. 30) starting the process of the examination of the defendant.

Before the panel of judges led by A.A. Anom Wirakanta, the defendant admitted that she asked to have her husband killed because she was annoyed. Noor Ellis was in tears as she was questioned by the judges at times sobbing and occasionally adjusting her glasses.

She also said that murder should not have been an option, but that there was nothing she could do now as there was no use crying over spilt milk. Noor Elis said that she can only regret her actions.

However, there are a number of reasons underlying her regreted act, such a divorce which the victim did not want to grant. “For eleven years, I have not been treated like a wife,” she said.

Since the woman called Mrs. Nur kept on crying, a member of the judge panel, Beslin Sihombing, asked her not to cry because she was always crying in each session. Beslin who is also judge

for corruption cases then asked whether the defendant has a child. “Yes, I do,” replied the defendant. And she said that her son was also shocked by the incident, but added that her son was annoyed, too.

In the examination of the defendant, Mrs. Nur also revealed details about the abusive behavior of the victim. “He even kicked the offerings (ritual paraphernalia) during a temple ceremony,” and said Nur, then Bob grumbled that it generated a lot of rubbish. Due to frequent misunderstandings, Nur was often annoyed at being insulted. Nur allegedly asked Martin -the man who would kill Mr. Bob, to do so without causing injury.

Nur said that she did not know how the victim was killed, but she did know that the victim was wrapped up so that his blood would not leave a trail. The victim’s blood was cleaned up by the two maids (defendants in a separate case). Besides, Nur also admitted that during the execution of the victim, Nur was still angry with the victim. (kmb37)

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Ideal balance at Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa

SEMINYAK - As part of Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas worldwide new Balance wellness concept, Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali is proud to launch a range of holistic yoga, spa and energy healing experiences, as well as a raw juice menu, in a revitalising setting for health and wellbeing.

Anantara’s Balance concept offers a range of specialist wellness experiences which guests can book individually or as part of a programme that is tailored to suit their needs. This uniquely flexible approach means that guests can choose the ideal balance for them, perhaps trying a one off experience for the first time to see if they like it and what the benefits are, splitting their holiday time between a healthy recharge and a few days of splurging and indulgence, or signing up for a comprehensive wellness retreat to reap maximum results, supported and cared for by Anantara’s profes-

sional team of spa and wellness experts.

Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali now offers three new holistic Balance experiences. Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga are available in private and group classes, with qualified instructors guiding students through a series of breathing techniques and gentle asana postures, all performed slowly and consciously with a focus on inner awareness to develop strength, flexibility and balance, release energy blockages, clear the mind and relieve stress.

The Balinese Spa Detox treatment is the ideal tonic to address the effects of a hectic modern lifestyle, pollution and unhealthy consumption of food and drinks which can cause toxicity and cellulite. This specialist therapy purifies from the inside out by applying a blend of fresh organic herbs to the body using anti-cellulite massage techniques to stimulate detoxification and break-

down cellulite, accompanied by a complimentary slimming spice mask to further enhance body revitalisation and skin rejuvenation.

Offering a form of powerful yet relaxing energy healing, in the Reiki Treatment the practitioner channels universal life force energy to activate the body’s innate healing ability, with a wide range of benefits including stress reduction, feelings of profound peace and promotion of general wellbeing.

Helping guests to gain a healthy boost in a delicious way, the new Raw Juice Menu offers a selection of freshly blended raw fruit and vegetable recipes that are packed with essential nutrients, such as the “pick me up” Cleansing Booster of carrot, green apple, beetroot, cucumber, celery and lemon, which purifies and fortifies the body with ingredients that are renowned for their powerful antioxidants and anticancer compounds, to help reduce

cholesterol, lower blood pressure, promote healthy skin and improve digestion.

Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali offers the perfect setting for these new Balance experiences.

Seminyak Beach and Indian Ocean waves allow guests to sunbathe or stroll along pristine sands, enjoy a revitalising swim, as well the thrill of surfing, windsurfing and kite flying.

The gym offers well-rounded workouts and personal training sessions.

Relaxation is a tropical pleasure at the beachfront pool and sundeck.

While the tranquil rooftop sanctuary of Anantara Spa invites guests to leave behind worldly cares with an extensive menu of pampering eastern and western treatments, as well as carefully crafted spa packages for ultimate wellbeing.

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon.

The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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TAIPEI - The intricacies of cross-strait diplomacy may not have been uppermost on her mind but Katy Perry caused a stir in both Taiwan and China with her politically tinged attire at a Taipei concert this week.

Singer-songwriter Perry moved fans to tears Tuesday, according to local media, after she appeared on stage draped in a Taiwanese flag at Taipei Arena, while donning a glittering gold dress adorned with sunflowers -- the symbol of anti-China student protests in Taiwan last year.

Photos and messages that read “I am so moved”, “awesome” and “I love you” were posted on the Internet after the stunt, though it is still unclear whether she meant to make a political statement with her attire. The flag was reportedly given to her by a member of the audience.

“Beautiful. Taiwan loves you,” read a message left by Chien Yi-ting on a fan page on Facebook, where many fans posted photos of flag-clad Perry.

But some Taiwanese fans voiced concerns for Perry, fearing a possible backlash from China, which still claims In this Feb. 1. 2015, file photo, singer Katy Perry performs during halftime of NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game in Glendale, Ariz.

sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan after the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war.

“She will have trouble holding concerts in China,” warned a Facebook message posted by Tsai Chen Wang.

Perry, 30, known as “fruit sister” in China because of her colourful costumes, also managed to upset some fans.

“I’m so disappointed with fruit sister’s behaviour!” said one.

Others pointed out the move may have been an opportunistic one by pro-independence Taiwanese aware that Perry had worn the sunflower outfit on previous occasions.

“I think maybe some Taiwanese people have found the connection between her costumes and the flag and then brought a flag intentionally to the scene. It’s just terrible,” read a message on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

Perry’s US publicist was not immediately available for comment, but an official from the Taiwanese event organiser said the costume choice was not meant to be a political statement.

“We did not prepare the flag for Katy Perry. The sunflower dress is part of her regular concert attire and there is no political implication for it,” the official at Fanta Integrated Marketing Co. told AFP. (afp)

Britney Spears cancels shows after onstage fall LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears has canceled two shows in Las Vegas this weekend after injuring her ankle in an embarrassing onstage fall, her publicist said Thursday.

“Britney injured her ankle during her performance Wednesday evening and her doctor has advised her not to perform Friday and Saturday evening so that she may heal,” said a statement.

A video posted by the TMZ celebrity website showed her tumble while surrounded by backing dancers, clutching her ankle before being helped back to her feet.

“Sorry about that,” she told the audi-

ence, before apparently resuming her performance for the next song, albeit with a slight limp.

She later tweeted: “Thank you for all of the sweet wishes! Had a little scare on stage tonight with my ankle but I’m ok!”

The former enfant terrible of US pop opened a two-year sojourn at Sin City’s Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in December 2013. The Grammy winner was hired to perform her show, “Piece of Me,” 50 times a year in 2014 and 2015.

Spears was on the front pages of celebrity magazines -- and eventually scandal supermarket tabloids -- during

much of her career.

Those scandals are in the past, although her future as the Princess of Pop was thrown into fresh doubt when her last album, “Britney Jean,” received only lukewarm reviews.

Spears has joined a panoply of music stars who have taken time out for temporary residence in Las Vegas, including Elton John, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart and Celine Dion.

Ticket holders can get refunds or exchanges. “Britney Spears, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and Live Nation apologize for any inconvenience this causes ticket holders,” it added. (afp)

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Cheers as sleeping princess welcomed into the world

LONDON - Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.

It was both a traditional and very 21stcentury moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from the Lindo Wing doors at St Mary’s Hospital in London.

Several hundred cheering well-wishers crammed behind barricades on the streets around the private hospital wing, screaming with delight as the beaming couple emerged.

Wearing a lemon and white floral summery dress, a smiling Kate cradled her daughter in her right arm, the baby wrapped in a white blan-

ket and wearing a white bonnet. The princess, less than 12 hours old, was sound asleep despite the rousing cheers and camera lens clicks from more than 100 news photographers.

William, wearing a white shirt, blue pullover and navy trousers, held his wife’s hand as he gently helped her down the hospital steps.

“It was an absolutely fantastic moment. I’m touched by it,” said royal “superfan” John Loughrey, who had camped out for 12 days to get a glimpse of the new princess.

“It is a treasure I shall remember forever,” he told AFP, dressed top to toe in Union Flag attire.

“I got tireder and tireder. It was hard!

But at the end of it, it’s worth it,” he said.

The new baby is fourth in line to the throne of 16 realms, including Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Sarah Schlederer,

28, from Sydney, was there with her family who had just arrived from Australia on holiday.

“All the hands went up with the cheers and the cameras so I saw it through my iPhone,” she said.

“It was exciting. There was screaming and cheering because people have been waiting so long and it’s a moment in history that’s never going to come again, so to be here and be a part of it is great.”

Wily Sheila Riordan, 86, bagged herself an excellent window-side view from a hospital waiting area opposite the Lindo Wing doors, defying 11 hours of hospital staff clearing out other loitering royal-watchers.

“It was worth the wait, every bit of it,” she said.

William emerged mid-afternoon to drive home to nearby Kensington Palace and fetch his son Prince George, giving the one-year-old a first glimpse of his new

baby sister.

Himself born in the Lindo Wing in July 2013, George has rarely been seen since in Britain -- another rare treat for royal watchers.

William put George down on his feet but the toddler wanted to be picked up again, so William carried him along, saying “wave to everybody”, which the young prince duly did.

William planted a kiss on his son’s temple as the two future kings headed inside, George looking back over his father’s shoulder at the tightly-packed bank of news photographers.

George later left through a back door but William and Kate emerged with their new princess at 6:11pm.

“I saw William and Kate and the baby on the steps!” said an enthused Doreen Hyde, who was wearing her beloved “jubilee raincoat” of miniature British flags.

“It was a real party atmosphere. We had a bit of champagne and sweets and cake,” said the 69-year-old from Liverpool, northwest England.

“It was electric, everyone was full of excitement, trying to get pictures of the baby.”

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went back inside for five minutes before William emerged with his daughter in a car seat, putting her safely in the back alongside her mum.

With one last wave, William drove them home himself to start their new life as a family of four. (afp) Britain’s Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, hold their newborn daughter as they pose for the media outside St. Mary’s Hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing, London, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

The Duchess gave birth to the Princess on Saturday morning.

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