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Kesha drops sex abuse lawsuit against Dr. Luke to focus on music

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Kesha has dropped her sexual abuse lawsuit in California against record producer Dr. Luke, saying she wants to focus on getting back to her music.

The “Tik Tok” singer, who has not released an album for four years, will continue her fight in the New York courts to get out of a multi-album recording deal with Sony Music and Dr. Luke, her attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said in a statement.

“Kesha has dismissed her California action without prejudice while she pursues her appeal and other legal claims in the New York courts,” he said. “Kesha is focused on getting back to work and has delivered 28 new songs to the record label.”

The 29-year old singer filed a lawsuit in California in 2014 accusing Dr. Luke, one of the music industry’s most successful producers, of rape and emotional abuse during the early stages of her career.

Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, has repeatedly denied the claims and has countersued for defamation. But the denial earlier this year by a New York judge of Kesha’s bid to extricate herself from her recording contract sparked an emotional #FreeKesha campaign on social media that earned support from leading stars such as Taylor Swift, Adele and Lady Gaga.

Kesha is appealing the New York ruling and in April she released her

first single in three years. Last week, she started a U.S. tour.

On Monday she thanked fans for their support.

“My fight continues. I need to get my music out,” she wrote on her Instagram account. “I have so much

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to say. This lawsuit is so heavy on my once free spirit, and I can only pray to one day feel that happiness again.”

Dr. Luke’s attorney, Christine Lepera, said in a statement the accusations against him were “false and meritless” and that Kesha’s decision to dismiss the sex abuse claims in California came “because she has no chance of winning them.” (rtr)

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Singer Kesha arrives at the 2016 Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., May 22, 2016.

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DENPASAR - So far the area of rice planting in Bali has not reached the target even though the target of the rise in the acreage, productivity and production has been set in two planting seasons.

In the first planting season from October 2015 through March 2016, it could only reach 73,056 hectares of the target set at 79,751 hectares or 91.6 percent with productivity rate of 6.2 tons of milled rice. In the meantime, the second growing season in April 2016 until September 2016 only reached 47.05 percent.

“For the growing season of April to September 2016, the rice planting area is targeted to reach 80,374 hectares. As of July 20, 2016 it only reached 37,818 hectares or 47.05 percent. So, Bali is still shortage of 42,556 hectares,” said the Head of the Bali Agriculture Agency, Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana, in Denpasar.

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3 Indonesian volcanoes erupt, disrupting some flights

JAKARTA — Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts of the archipelago and disrupted some flights. Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island near Bali, the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island and Mount Gamalama in the Moluccas chain of islands have all erupted in the past couple of days.

No one has been injured, but flights at two airports have been disrupted. Sultan Babullah airport in Ternate, the capital of North Maluku province, was

closed Wednesday and Lombok’s international airport was closed for several hours on Tuesday.

The three mountains are among about 130 active volca-

noes in Indonesia. The archipelago of 250 million people is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, said that Gamalama and Sinabung erupted again late Tuesday,

blasting debris high into the air. Hot ash tumbled down the Sinabung slopes as far as 2,000 meters (yards) southward into a river.

Nugroho said that farms and trees around the three volcanoes were covered in gray ash, but nearby towns and villages were not in danger.

More than 13,000 people have been evacuated due to volcanic

eruptions since last year, mostly from around the slopes of Sinabung.(ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Wisnuardhana added that the average additional area of rice planting each day should reach 655 hectares by the end of next September. The attempt made to reach is with the acceleration of land cultivation, planting and harvest by various helps of agricultural machines having been allocated. It includes the utilization of the current La Nina climate condition that brings in high rainfall.

“To anticipate the risk of crop failure due to pests, especially plant diseases, it has been prepared rice farming insurance scheme in cooperation with PT Jasindo Denpasar that only costs IDR 36,000 per hectare because 80 percent of the premium is subsidized by the government,” he added.

Wisnuardhana added that fulfillment of rice planting area is related

to the implementation of the special self-sufficiency effort of rice, corn and soybean (UPSUS Pajale). That is why the measure to increase the rice planting area is also accompanied with the provision of assistance for farmers. Among them, there are 411 units of equipment and pre-harvest agricultural machinery, 139 units of post-harvest machinery as well as grants and subsidies of seed and fertilizer for 80,063 hectares of planting area. However, Bali is still facing obstacles to change the cropping patterns at some subak areas.

“There are subak areas switching to plant non-rice commodities such as vegetables and flowers.

Another obstacle is the temporary closure of water flow due to repair against the main irrigation channel by the Bali-Penida River Agency and Public Works Agency,” said Coordination Team Leader of the

UPSUS Bali Province.

Wisnuardhana estimated that the paddy field affected by the irriga-

tion system repair reached 18,083 hectares. So far, it has been coordinated with relevant agencies so that

Farmer is working in his ricefield

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if possible it will not close the water flow in total. Thus, the planting area will not reduce. (kmb32)

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Clekontong Mas gag preserves Balinese culture

AMLAPURA - The artists coalesced into the members of Bondres Clekontong Mas troupe are increasingly familiar among the people of Bali. Emergence of the artists seems to cure the longing for golden periods of Bali’s entertainment ever raised the two icons, namely Petruk and the late Dolar. They are always consistent in the path of this entertainment because of a strong impetus to help preserve Balinese culture.

The Clekontong Mas Group

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This was submitted by one of the artists, Sengap, when making performance to entertain the public of Timbrah village, Karangasem, in a series of the aci usaba sumbu, Monday night (Aug. 1). The Clekontong Mas troupe consists of five artists. In addition to Sengap, there are also other personnel, such as Sokir, Tompel, Luh Kembung and Luh Cablek.

They appear alternately at the meeting hall of the Timbrah customary youth drawing thousands of spectators from the afternoon.

Coordinator of the entertainment event, Made Sudarma, said that local customary village deliberately invited Sengap and friends to jazz up the aci usaba sumbu taking place this year for a full week. The entertainment was held due to the participation of the local youth giving a donation to finance the entertainment. “After getting tired with the customary routines, people need entertainment. We think Sengap and friends is the right troupe to be invited,” said Sudarma.

Their jokes were quite entertaining that could make the audience linger at the meeting hall until midnight. People quite missed the Balinese joking in combination with the dance and typical geguritan song of the arja operetta. After the popularity of drama gong faded in Bali, it is increasingly difficult to find an artist remaining consistent in the field of comedy. In the meantime, Sengap and friends still survive and rebuild the golden era of the Balinese comedy. “Let’s make devotional work together in preserving Balinese culture,” urged Sengap. (kmb31)

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CushCush Gallery Makes New Space for Contemporary Design + Art in Bali

CushCush Gallery, a space for the intersection of contemporary design + art, opened in Denpasar with crucible on the 15th of July 2016. Its inaugural exhibition featured sculptural objects made in collaboration between Ross McLeod, designer, educator and academic based in Melbourne, and CushCush. Through thoughtful detailing, careful sourcing of unique materials and artisanal craftsmanship, CushCush is the partner of choice for architects, designers and artists.

CushCush Gallery will present a year-round program of curated exhibitions, and will continue to grow its residency and collaboration programs, facilitating exchanges between an international community of artists and creatives and Bali.

CushCush started from the idea of making unique things with unique materials!

Having worked in design based architectural firms in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, Founding partners of CushCush understand the need to encourage and facilitate designers and architects to create more interesting pieces of artwork, be it furniture, objects or accessories to complement the spaces they create.

The prominent shift of trend in the design industry further fuelled CushCush‘s direction. With clients becoming more sophisticated and are looking for unique furnishings that represent their individuality, it becomes a necessity for designers and architects to provide custom-made pieces for them.

CushCush specialises in offering a creative range of rare materials and combines them with high quality manufacturing. We can either work to the designer‘s brief, or design a specific range for a specific project. Our strength lies in our broad understanding of Asian cultures and exceptional Western design philosophies and we offer this Unique and Synergistic combination exclusive to our Clients.

Having a design studio and production based in Bali, CushCush is able to provide flexibility, quality, well-designed fine crafted furnishings at a very good value. Within few years of its set up, we have supplied to distinguished hotel and residential projects worldwide.

On top of our highly sought after custom-made products, CushCush also offer a selected Collections of uniquely designed, contemporary and Asian inspired furnishings, which include: Rare Inlay Materials, Furniture (Indoor & Outdoor), Accessories, Decorative Lightings, and Artworks & Objects.

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Florida to begin aerial spraying of insecticides to control Zika

CHICAGO - Florida will conduct an aerial insecticide spraying campaign at dawn on Wednesday in an effort to kill mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County said.

The campaign will cover a 10-mile area that includes the one-mile-square area just north of downtown Miami that health officials have identified as the hub of Zika transmission in the state, the officials said on Tuesday.

On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unprecedented travel warning, urging pregnant women to avoid travel to the Miami neighborhood at the center of the investigation.

The Zika outbreak was first detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that

can lead to severe developmental problems in babies. The virus has spread rapidly through the Americas and Caribbean and its arrival in the continental United States has been widely anticipated.

Florida health officials announced another non-travel related case of Zika on Tuesday, bringing the total to 15.

The aerial spraying campaign was recommended by the CDC in conjunction with the Florida Health Department to reduce adult mosquito populations that might be capable of carrying the Zika virus.

In a conference call on Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Thomas

Frieden expressed concern that vector control efforts so far have not been as effective as hoped. A CDC expert is currently conducting tests in Miami to see if mosquitoes in the area have developed insecticide resistance.

Florida had been using two products in the pyrethroid class of insecticides. In its aerial campaign, the state will use a chemical called Naled that has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Joseph Conlon, a spokesman for the American Mosquito Control Association.

Naled is from a different class of insecticides known as organophosphates. According to the CDC, the chemical has been widely used to control mosquito populations in the United States, including in Miami, Tampa and New Orleans. (rtr)

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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil, February 2, 2016.

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Schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and lowincome students receiving free and reduced-price lunch were more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants within a ten-minute walk.

Tobacco, fast food in easier reach of minority and lowincome students

NORTH CAROLINA - Compared to schools with mostly white students, schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and lowincome students are more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants in easy reach, researchers say.

“Schools are places where we expect to be healthy, supportive environments for kids, but right outside the door (students) could be exposed to unhealthy influences,” lead author Heather D’Angelo of Westat in Rockville, Maryland told Reuters Health in a phone interview.

“I was surprised that there were so many tobacco outlets near schools,” said D’Angelo, who at the time of the study was at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

D’Angelo and her colleagues randomly selected more than 18,000 public schools in 97 U.S. counties, then analyzed their proximity to retailers within an 800meter radius – roughly equivalent to a 10-minute walk.

They report in the American Journal of Public Health that 40 percent of the schools were near at least one fast food restaurant, 77 percent were close to at least one retailer likely to sell tobacco products, and 38 percent of schools were close to both.

Schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and low-income students receiving free and reduced-price lunch were more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants within a tenminute walk.

More than 50 percent of schools

with a majority of Hispanic students were within 800 meters of both a tobacco outlet and a fast food outlet, compared to 21 percent of schools with a majority of white students.

When researchers took population density into account, they found that every 10 percent increase in the proportion of a school’s Hispanic students was associated with a five percent higher likelihood the school was within walking distance of places to buy both tobacco and fast food.

A 10 percent increase in lowincome students was associated with a three percent higher likelihood a school was near both kinds of stores.

The researchers also report that fast food and tobacco were more easily accessible for older kids, suggesting “that retailers may be well aware of and ready to take advantage of the autonomy and purchasing power of older youths.”

“High schools had 40 percent more fast food restaurants and 24 percent more tobacco outlets within 800 meters than did primary schools and high schools had nearly 1.5 times greater odds of having both” nearby, they wrote.

The researchers say theirs is the first study to consider the availability of both tobacco and fast food on the basis of students’ socioeconomic and racial characteristics.

The study did not analyze how students get to school, whether they leave campus during lunchtime, or where they live. Nor did the researchers have data on students’ eating habits, or their weight or health status. (rtr)

This natural hot springs is not only convenient for bathing but also believed to reduce health complaints of visitors.

Banyuwedang hot springs can heal skin diseases

SINGARAJA — The richness owned by the nature of Buleleng has a positive impact if it can be developed in an organized manner. A number of tourist attractions offer panoramic advantages and their own functions. Natural hot springs, for example, can be found at Banyuwedang, Pejarakan Gerokgak.

It is not only convenient for bathing but also believed to reduce health complaints of visitors.

Efficacy of the Banyuwedang hot spring comes from underground has geothermal power with sulfur content. Inevitably, communities come one after the other including in holiday season. It is said that since 1984 the Banyuwedang hot

spring has been widely known to various regions of the country. “The hot spring is believed to contain sulfur and comfortable for bathing, sir,” said Komang Asiawati from Jinengdalem, recently.

It is not much different from

the hot spring at Banjar village.

The sulfur contained in the Banyuwedang hot spring is claimed to have temperature of 48o Celsius.

Practically the water temperature becomes higher. Nevertheless, it remains safe to be used for soaking by the public. “This hot spring is also convenient for regular therapy and believed to provide healing for skin diseases, itching, stroke and others,” he added.

Visitors have separate bathing place for men and women.

Moreover, it also offers reason-

able admission ticket price at IDR 5,000 per person. Banyuwedang hot spring is equipped with openair bath for visitors to draw water and other simple shower. “Many visitors take advantage of the hot spring shower and open-air bathing place. Visitors are encouraged to always maintain the sanitation in the area of the bathing place,” said Wayan Pageh, the operator of the hot spring attraction.

Pageh told that many people had recovered from illnesses after soaking in the Banyuwedang hot spring.

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Moreover, a paralyzed person could get recovered by regular bathing. “A visitor from Tabanan was paralyzed. He was carried into the pool for therapy. Slowly he could recover,” he said.

The current problem of hot spring bathing place is especially regarding the arrangement of the place of visitors. Pejarakan village was then given a mandate to manage it from1986. In the near future, the re-arrangement is needed to maintain the attraction and increase the tourist visits. (kmb34)

To increase nationalism

Tabanan students put on red and white headdress as one

TABANAN - The nationalism among the students is assessed to have increasingly diminished. As evidence, many criminal cases are involving students. For instance, there are motorcycle gang, fights and drug cases. Currently many students are recruited by the organization leading to radicalism.

Related to these phenomena, the 1619/Tabanan Military District Command invited students to love their Homeland packaged in the Bali Red-White highlight.

Over the next ten days, the students from elementary to high school in Tabanan are putting on red and white headdress and headband in the flag ceremony as seen at the SMAN 2 Tabanan high school, Monday (Aug. 1). Hundreds of students put on red and white attributes on the head. Male students put on headdress (udeng), while female students put on red and white ribbon. Commander of the 1619/Tabanan Military District, Herwin Gunawan, said that the

Bali-Nusra Red-White Highlight aims at building nationalism because the foundation of our country lies in young generation.

“A lot of negative things have been affecting the younger generation. For example, drugs are now targeting at students. They should be fortified by strengthening their mental, moral and good character,” he said.

This activity is also in a series of welcoming the celebration of the Independence Day on August

17. “Essentially it strengthens the students’ mentality, so that the splendor is not only showed off during the UEFA Euro 2016 by raising large-sized foreign flag, while on the Independence Day of the RI is less festive,” he said.

Principal of the SMAN 2 Tabanan, I Gede Wayan Samba, admitted that his school strongly appreciated to the program initiated by the Indonesian Military (TNI).

According to him, this activity is one of the forms of character educa-

tion. “Teachers have the duties to provide theory in classroom, while this is the reality, so that we greatly support this activity,” he said.

Even though this activity only takes place for 10 days ahead, his school plans to implement it sustainably. “We will implement it continuously because the benefits are very positive for students. So far, most students begin to be contaminated by negative things due to the advances of technology,” he said. (kmb28)

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Raided, a tourist produces drugs at hotel

DENPASAR — Normally the addict will consume crystal meth by means of suction. However, a British tourist with the initials KH alias John, 56, has his own way namely by mixing the crystal meth to turn liquid and is then injected into his hand. The suspect was raided at a hotel on Jalan Sriwijaya, Legian, Kuta, Monday (Jul. 25).

According to Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police, Nyoman Artana, accompanied by Chief of Narcotic Investigation Unit, Gede Ganefo, said on Tuesday (Aug. 2) that disclosure of the case was based on information obtained from communities that often see the suspect carrying a syringe.

“The investigation is carried out for a week. The suspect applies visa on arrival and is estimated to have overstayed for 11 months,” he said.

Last Monday, the suspect was seen by the officers eating at a restaurant in Kuta. After that, the suspect continued to go to hotel and was then followed by the officers. Fear of losing the trails, the officers immediately intercepted and conducted a search. In the motorcycle of the suspect was found a syringe. When questioned, the suspect admitted to have frequently consumed crystal meth.

Police then raided the hotel room where the suspect was staying. As a result, it was found four packages of crystal meth in the safety box; four syringe containing liquid crystal meth; five pipettes; 76 empty syringes; alcohol and tape. “The suspect admitted to purchase the drug from someone with the initial K on Kuta Beach for IDR 4 million. He purchased the drugs two days before arrested,” said Artana.

The suspect has been living in Bali and regularly consumes these illicit goods. Initially the suspect admitted to have been staying at the hotel for four months. After checked to the Denpasar Immigration Office, in fact, the suspect came to Bali on July 17, 2015.

Chief Ganefo added the way how the suspect uses the crystal meth is indeed different from the other addicts. The suspect refined the crystal met by means of crushing and then mixed it with water. After that, it is input into syringe and then injected into her right hand. “The effect is similar to the way of sucking,” he said. (kmb36)

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SEOUL - North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Wednesday that landed in or near Japanese-controlled waters for the first time, the latest in a series of launches by the isolated country in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

The main body of the missile landed in Japan’s economic exclusion zone, a Japanese defence official said, escalating regional tensions that were already high after a series of missile launches this year and the decision by the United States to place a sophisticated anti-missile system in South Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the launch as a “grave threat” to Japan and said Tokyo “strongly protested”.

Japan also said its self-defence force would remain on alert in case of further launches.

A U.S. State Department spokesman condemned the launch, and said it would “only increase the international community’s resolve to counter” North Korea’s actions.

The U.S. Strategic Command said it had detected two missiles, one of which it said exploded immediately after launch.

The missile that landed in the Sea of Japan was launched at about 7:50 a.m. Seoul time (2250 GMT Tuesday) from a region in South Hwanghae province to the southwest of North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, South Korea’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The launch showed North Korea’s ambition to “directly and broadly attack neighbouring countries and target several places in the Republic of Korea such as ports and airfields”, the South Korean office said, referring to South Korea by its official title.

The missile appeared to be a Rodong-type medium-range missile that flew about 1,000 km (620 miles), it said. (rtr)

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Farmers in Jembrana recently complained because the price of their rice slumped far enough when compared to the previous harvest.

Price of rice slumps, farmers complain

NEGARA — Farmers in Jembrana recently complained because the price of their rice slumped far enough when compared to the previous harvest.

Damiri, a farmer from Pulukan village, Pekutatan, said on Monday (Aug. 1) that previously he got IDR 15 million for 0.60 hectare of paddy field. But currently with the same area he could only get harvest worth IDR10 million.

According to him, the decline in the price of rice is experienced by all farmers. Allegedly it happened because the supply of rice from Java to Bali is too much.

Farmers are said to be unable to reject the price of rice offered by contractor because it is the average price as well as consideration of the age of the rice. When left longer, he

said the ready-to-harvest rice can be damaged. “That price will be even lower. We were forced to accept it although the price is not as expensive as in the previous harvest,” he said.

If calculated, his income from the sales of the rice is considered to still suffer losses in terms of the resources released starting from the preparation of the land, seedling planting to maintenance of the rice.

The capital for the purchase of seeds and pesticides, he said, has returned despite the price is only that much. However, when calculated in terms of the cultivating cost, it is still considered to lose.

In the meantime, the Head of the Jembrana Agriculture, Plantation and Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, when asked for his confirmation he promised to check the slump

in the price of the rice of farmers.

He said that to stabilize the price of rice harvest, his agency has been cooperating with the Union of the Indonesia Rice Milling Entrepreneurs (Perpadi) that gets funding. His agency will check it to Perpadi of Pekutatan subdistrict. “There are many factors causing the price of rice to slump, but this is really too much,” he said.

According to him, in addition to the abundant supplies of rice due to massive harvest, the decline in the price of rice can also be caused by the incomplete rice ears as the influence of adverse weather condition.

If this happens due to massive harvest, it usually occurs between May and June.

However, this has already entered August, so that he suspected there may be other factors affecting the slump of the price. (kmb)

Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (C) speaks to the media regarding North Korea’s missile launch, in Tokyo, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 3, 2016.

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Suu Kyi tackles military land grabs in test of new Myanmar government

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Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi attends a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Vientiane, Laos July 25, 2016.

HTA NI - By the standards of her village in Myanmar’s swampy Ayeyarwady Delta, Than Shin was a prosperous woman. She had 20 acres of farmland on which her family grew rice. But her fortunes changed in 2000 when the military government informed her it was taking possession of her land. Over the next year, Than Shin watched as the fields that for decades had provided her family with a living were cleared to make way for fish farms.

Today, Than Shin and her family live in a thatched shack along the main road leading to Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon. Her 67-year-old husband goes door to door on his bicycle selling soybeans. “We depended on that land our whole lives.

When they grabbed it, we had nothing, no income. We had to eat curry made from leaves,” she told Reuters.

Than Shin’s story is just one example of what the ruling party of Aung San Suu Kyi says was the systematic confiscation of land from farmers by the army and the placing of that land in the hands of crony companies close to the military junta that ruled Myanmar for half a century. The fish farms that were built on her land were owned by

a company linked to then regional military commander Shwe Mann, who is now one of Myanmar’s most powerful political figures, according to a Reuters review of corporate filings.

When Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) stormed to power in elections last November, its victory was fuelled in part by rural anger over land seizures and the party’s pledge to provide redress. Just days after the NLD formed the first government since 1962 that is not backed by the military, the new deputy agriculture minister told local media that returning land to its rightful owners was the duty of the government.

Now the NLD is moving to make good on that promise. The parliament member overseeing the effort, Sein Win, told Reuters the party aims to solve all land-grab cases within one year.

That’s an ambitious timeframe. In untangling land disputes, the new government will have to contend with powerful business interests, many linked to the military. That could put Suu Kyi on a collision course with the generals and threaten Myanmar’s fragile transition to democracy. (rtr)

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Indonesia, Sri Lanka discuss counterterrorism cooperation: Minister

BUSINESS Indian parliament to vote on new sales tax, rate in focus

NEW DELHI - India’s upper house of parliament kicked off a debate on a major tax reform on Wednesday that lawmakers were expected to back in a vote later on, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faced a call from the opposition not to overtax businesses and consumers.

The proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been held up for years by political in-fighting, and its passage would mark a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he eyes an economic boost for Asia’s third-largest economy.

“GST is one of the most significant tax reforms in the history of India,” Jaitley told lawmakers.

India is already the world’s fastest growing large economy, expanding by 7.9 percent year-onyear in the March quarter. Economists at HSBC forecast the GST would produce a boost of 0.8 percentage points within three to five years.

Yet while the finance minister vowed to roll out the new sales tax as soon as possible, he refrained from committing to a firm date.

The vote on Wednesday involves a key constitutional amendment, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass. That will kick off a legislative marathon in which both the federal and state parliaments will need to pass further laws setting the rate and scope of the GST. It’s been a long time coming for the Modi government’s most ambitious reform. The Indian leader had wanted the GST to come into effect this April and hoped to reap its economic dividends in time for his expected re-election bid in 2019.

Although the measure enjoyed broad political support, its passage was blocked by differences over its design, now riddled with compromises, that risk diluting its impact.

The two-year-old deadlock was broken only after the government offered concessions to the opposition Congress party, which originally proposed the GST while in power but has opposed what it termed as a “flawed” tax. P. Chidambaram, Jaitley’s predecessor and a senior Congress leader, blamed the government for the deadlock.

“It could have been resolved in five minutes,” he said. “But the government was rather stubborn.”

Chidambaram warned of the risk of “creeping taxation” and urged capping the GST rate by law at 18 percent to ensure it is “non-inflationary, acceptable to public and an efficient way of taxing without tax evasion”.

He also asked for safeguards to prevent any tinkering in the rate without the approval from both houses of parliament.

Tax experts say that passing further legislation, training tax collectors, setting up IT systems and preparing companies for the new tax regime makes launching the GST by next April, the start of the next financial year, very challenging. If all goes well, they say, a July or October 2017 start date looks more probable.(rtr)

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JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe discussed counterterrorism cooperation during a bilateral meeting at the State Palace on Wednesday, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

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A woman shops at a market in Seoul, South Korea, July 26, 2016. Picture taken on July 26, 2016.

Beef sets, lavish free meals off limits in South Korea graft crackdown

SEOUL - Lavish free meals, rounds of golf and expensive gifts of beef and ginseng will soon be off-limits for civil servants, teachers and journalists in South Korea under a law aimed at clamping down on graft that has long been pervasive in professional life.

The anti-corruption law that takes effect next month imposes spending limits on entertainment and gifts, curbing a tradition of hospitality that many restaurants, retailers and farmers worry will deal a blow to business. “It’s making it illegal for those who have the money and are willing to pay more.

This is nonsense,” Yoo Byoung-hee, 45, a cattle breeder in Jecheon, south of Seoul, told Reuters by telephone.

Yoo was among farmers who protested against the law last month in front of parliament. Boxed sets of beef, especially the prized domestic hanwoo variety, can cost hundreds of dollars and are a staple of giftgiving during the Chuseok holiday next month, as well as during Lunar New Year.

Less-expensive gift sets feature items ranging from apples and Spam to shampoo.

The anti-corruption law had been debated since 2011 and has been welcomed as a tool to clean up professional life in a country that ranks 37th out of 168 on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index.

But many worry about its impact on a sputtering economy.

The law could wipe out 11.6 trillion won ($10.43 billion) in revenue for sectors including food, golf, consumer and retail goods, the Korea Economic Research Institute said in June. Some groups, including the agricultural ministry, have called for an easing of the rules, which limit the value of gifts to people in the targeted categories to 50,000 won ($45) and meals to 30,000 won ($27).

Gifts, meals and entertainment that are paid for in a personal capacity are not covered by the law. It does not apply to members of parliament or much of the private sector.

SCANDALS President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday it was important to mitigate the negative impact of the law while maintaining its core purpose. “Once the law is implemented and transparency and fairness in our society are improved, the effectiveness of our economy will increase and South Korea’s potential

growth may be improved,” she told a cabinet meeting.

According to a survey by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year, 59.2 percent of South Koreans believed the country was corrupt. Graft scandals are common.

Last year, former Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo was convicted after receiving 30 million won ($27,000) in a shopping bag during a parliamentary election in 2013, according to prosecutors. He is appealing.

Since the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the law last month, many restaurants and retailers have been scrambling to adjust, tweaking meal offerings and downsizing gift sets.

Dave Yoon, head of Haewoori, the country’s biggest seafood restaurant chain, said it would introduce a 30,000 won multi-course meal once the law takes effect. “Revenue is probably going to go down but we made this decision because we feel like we have no other choice,” he said.

“We’ve had so many customers come to us worrying about the law because many of our clients come to Haewoori for business.

You have to do what you can to keep customers coming.”(rtr)

(L-R) Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister Jawad Al Anani, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, Bangladesh Minister of Planning Mustafa Kamal and Cambodia’s Labour Minister Datuk Othsman Hassan sit during the opening ceremony of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2, 2016.

Haris Azhar not yet named a suspect: Police

JAKARTA - Police deny that the Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Haris Azhar has been named a suspect over alleged libel. “Not yet. It is too quick to name someone a suspect,” Director of General Crimes of the Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) Brig.

Gen. Agus Andrianto said here on Wednesday.

Agus did confirm that Haris has been reported to police over alleged libel, saying reports were received on Tuesday. Bareskrim is still studying the reports, he said.

Meanwhile Haris Azhar said he was not aware of the report naming him a suspect, but said he did know that the military (TNI) and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) have reported him to Bareskrim over his articles. “I was reported to police by TNI and BNN,” he said.

Haris Azhar earlier wrote an article “Rotten Story from a Bandit: Testimony from a Meeting with Freddy Budiman at Nusa Kambangan Prison (2014)”.

The article by Haris said notorious leader of drug dealer Freddy, who was among the four drug convicts executed last Friday, claimed to have bribed law enforcement officers with hundreds of billions of rupiahs to protect his illicit business in the country.

“Based on my calculation in the years of work to smuggle narcotics , I have given Rp450 billion to BNN officials. I have given Rp90 billion to certain officials of the police headquarters. I even drive using the car of a two star TNI general,” Freddy was quoted as saying in 2014.

Haris Azhar admitted to have written the short article and he also said he had given a copy of the

article to presidential spokesman Johan Budi.

“I decided to publish the article to send a message that if the government executed this man (Freddy Budiman), it has eliminate a man with significant information to unveil crimes involving officials of state institutions and about hundreds of billions of rupiahs of bribe,” Haris said in a news conference at Kontras.

In a regular weekly program of TV ONE television on Tuesday night, a former BNN leader and TNI spokesman regretted that Haris made public his story just after Freddy was dead.

They questioned the authenticity of Freddys statement as written

by Haris , saying if Haris came up with the story when Freddy was still alive , Haris would be a hero, with big contribution to unveiling a big case.(ant)

“With regard to countering radicalism, extremism, and terrorism, Indonesia is always on the forefront to work together,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marsudi stated after escorting President Widodo during the bilateral meeting here on Wednesday.

Marsudi said Sri Lanka believes that Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, had succeeded in spreading the message of tolerance and promoting moderate Islam among its people.

Prime Minister Ranil hoped Sri

Lanka and Indonesia will strengthen cooperation in the fields of extremism, terrorism, and counterradicalism.

Before the meeting, President Widodo held a face-to-face discussion with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickramasinghe in the north side of the State Palace.

Foreign Minister Marsudi, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumardi, and Secretary of State Pratikno accompanied Widodo in the bilateral meeting.(ant)

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Maithree Wickramasinghe, (L) the wife of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (2nd L) signs the guest book as Indonesian President Joko Widodo (2nd R) and his wife Iriana (R) look on before their meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia August 3, 2016.

Police foil attempts to circulate 1.2 kg of methamphetamine

PALEMBANG - The South Sumatra police have foiled an attempt to circulate 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine in the province. Director of anti drug detectives of the regional police Sr. Comr. Irawan David Syah said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday before they succeeded in distribut-

ing the drug.

There were five suspects arrested after intensive investigations in two days. The suspects included a Acehnese pair of DS (32) and his wife SA (22) both nabbed on Friday at the parking place of the International Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II airport.

The husband and wife just arrived from Medan carrying 700 grams of methamphetamine stashed in their shoes.

The other three were arrested on Saturday including Nofran Haryadi, SN and Feri with 500 grams of the drug . They were from Tulung Selapan, the district of

OKI. Police also confiscated a number of hand phones and the shoes that were used to hide the drug.

“It is not impossible that the five belonged to the same drug ring . Police are still doing investigations. Another suspect is still at large,” Irawan said.(ant)

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Republican rift widens as Trump declines to endorse Ryan, McCain

WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his party on Tuesday by denying two leading figures, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, support in their re-election bids.

Trump told The Washington Post in an interview that he could endorse neither Ryan, the top U.S. elected Republican, nor McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona and a former Republican presidential nominee, as they face challenges in their states’ primary contests ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.

Both Ryan and McCain had criticized Trump’s feud with the family of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who died in the line of duty in Iraq in 2004 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for bravery after his death.

The discord comes just two weeks after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that formally nominated Trump for president.

It is the latest rift in a party already frayed by internal dissent over its standard bearer, seen in stark relief at the conven-

tion where McCain was among high-level party members who essentially snubbed Trump by choosing not to attend. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, and former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush also did not attend the convention.

Trump has had a running dispute with Khizr and Ghazala Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic convention to cite their son’s sacrifice and criticize Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.

The uproar has led many Republicans to distance themselves from Trump and voice support for the Khan family.

Trump, mirroring the language Ryan used about supporting the nominee before his eventual endorsement, told the newspaper he was “not quite there yet” on en-

dorsing Ryan in next Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, and that he had “never been there” with McCain, who will be on the ballot in primary elections in Arizona later this month.

McCain had a “very friendly” meeting with Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, on Tuesday in Arizona, where Pence was visiting, a McCain spokeswoman said.

Trump said Ryan had sought his endorsement, but that as of now he is only “giving it very serious consideration.”

Ry a n ’s c a m p a i g n o f f i c e quickly responded that “neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement.”

“And we are confident in a victory next week regardless,” campaign spokesman Zack Roday said in a statement.

Ryan is favored to win against primary challenger Paul Nehlen, who Trump praised as running “a very good campaign.” In a midJuly survey by Harper Polling, Ryan was ahead of Nehlen by nearly 50 points. (rtr)

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Republican U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a Purple Heart given to him during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., August 2, 2016.

Bitcoin worth $72 mln stolen from Bitfinex exchange in Hong Kong

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A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015.

HONG KONG - Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the global bitcoin community in the secondbiggest security breach ever of such an exchange.

Bitfinex is the world’s largest dollar-based exchange for bitcoin, and is known in the digital currency community for having deep liquidity in the U.S. dollar/ bitcoin currency pair.

Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex, told Reuters on Wednesday that 119,756 bitcoin had been stolen from users’ accounts and that the exchange had not yet decided how to address customer losses.

“The bitcoin was stolen from users’ segregated wallets,” he said.

The company said it had reported the theft to law enforcement and was cooperating with top blockchain analytic compa-

nies to track the stolen coins.

Last year, Bitfinex announced a tie-up with Palo Alto-based BitGo, which uses multiplesignature security to store user deposits online, allowing for faster withdrawals.

“Our investigation has found no evidence of a breach to any BitGo servers,” BitGo said in a Tweet.

“With users’ funds secured using multi-signature technology in partnership with BitGo, a lot more is at stake for the backbone of the bitcoin industry, with its stalwarts and prided tech under fire,” said Charles Hayter, chief executive and founder of digital currency website CryptoCompare.

The security breach comes two months after Bitfinex was ordered to pay a $75,000 fine by the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission in part for offering illegal off-exchange financed commodity transactions in bitcoin and other digital currencies. (rtr)

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Jagaraga Temple

SINGARAJA - The uniqueness of Jagaraga Temple in Bali makes this temple famous. This Pura Dalem is full with ornaments and has delightful sculptured panels along its front wall. Depicts of aircraft fights, dogfights, bicycle, boat, Kamasutra and old-fashioned car.

This temple’s carving shows the life of Balinese people before and after the Dutch come to Indonesia.

This temple located 15 km from Singaraja, Bali. Exact place is in a small village called Sawan, 8 km from Sangsit.

Dalem Jagaraga Temple belongs to “Pura Kahyangan Tiga” (Three main village Temples) of the traditional village of Jagaraga. Like the other “Pura Dalem” in Bali in general, according to its function as the temple of the dead. “Dalem Jagaraga” Temple is also located close to the village-cemetery; one of them is “Betara Duga” sculpture. There is also some relics that shows about Balinese myths, such as; Rangda, the mean witch. In this temple, you can see a relic about Puputan War that happened on 1848 against The Dutch, under command of Prince Anak Agung Jelantik. (IBP/net)

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Brazil to deploy military to tourist sites, stadium security lax

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil said on Tuesday it was deploying the military to patrol the emblematic tourist sites in Rio de Janeiro to guard against the “minimal” chance of an attack, though security at the Olympic stadium appeared slack three days before the Games.

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Workers do some last minute details on the Engenhao Olympic Stadium a day before the opening soccer match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro August 2, 2016.

Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said deploying the military to the Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugarloaf Mountain would free up police to patrol other areas of the city during the Games, which run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 21.

Speaking at the inauguration of the center for international police cooperation, which allows countries competing in the Games to share information on security threats, Moraes said agents with handheld metal detectors would check visitors to the Christ the Redeemer statue, which sits atop the Corcovado mountain at the center of the city.

“The two (tourist) points where we’ll deploy the armed forces are Corcovado and the Sugarloaf Mountain,” Moraes told reporters.

The military will also patrol strategic points in Rio such as energy, water and telcommunications installations, airports and tram stations.

Concerns over possible attacks at the Games jumped last month after Brazil detained 12 people on suspicion of links to the Islamic State militant group. Police said they were monitoring some 100 suspected Islamist militants, particularly in the porous southern border region with Paraguay and Argentina.

However, the minister said that the chances of any attack were “minimal.”

The security operation for the Games will include a total of 85,000 police and soldiers.

However, at the main Olympic stadium on Tuesday, an X-ray machine to scan visitors was not connected and there was no bar code scanner to check Olympic accreditation.

Organizers last week canceled the contract of the relatively unknown security firm, Artel, which was supposed to check credentials and bags at the entrance to stadiums, replacing them with military police reservists. (rtr)

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RIO DE JANEIRO - Despite lingering issues with plumbing and laundry, athletes and training staff say the Olympic Village is much improved, nine days after blocked toilets and exposed wiring forced the Australian team to move.

Organisers hired around 600 people to work on repairing the 31-building complex housing more than 17,000 participants at the Rio de Janeiro Games and within days they had coaxed the Aussies back.

“At first we had some problems but they were fixed and we’re happy with the place.

The rooms are even bigger than in London (2012),” said Australian canoe coach Mike Druce on Tuesday.

Not everything is perfect though.

The Argentines are complaining about weak

water pressure in the bathrooms while Brazilian handballer Jose Toledo said the laundry service was less than perfect.

Several Olympians also noted a film of dust in most rooms from the recently finished construction.

However, conditions are a far cry from those on July 24 that the Australians called “not safe or ready” for the Games which start on Friday.

Rio officials called the issues “teething troubles.”

Most athletes had high praise for the Village kitchens with the exception of Portuguese gymnast Felipa Martins.

“I thought the food was so-so but maybe that’s because we eat so well in Portugal,” she said. (rtr)

REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Argentinian athletes play soccer near Olympic Village.

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Sp rt Arce gets second chance in charge of Paraguay

ASUNCION - Paraguay have named Francisco Arce as their new coach, giving a second chance to the 45-year-old who failed to set them on course for a place at the 2014 World Cup. “Francisco Arce, new coach of the Paraguayan national football team, welcome Chiqui,” the team announced on its official Twitter account.

Arce replaces Argentine Ramon Diaz, who resigned after Paraguay’s group stage elimination at the Copa America Centenario in the United States in June.

The former Paraguay right back, who played at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, will be looking to see the team through to the 2018 finals in Russia.

Paraguay, who reached four successive World Cups between 1998 and 2010 where they progressed to the quarter-finals for the first time, are a lowly seventh in the South American qualifying group after six matches.

They picked up nine points under Diaz and are four points

behind leading pair Uruguay and Ecuador before their next matches at home to Chile and away to Uruguay in the first week of September.

The top four teams after 18 matches qualify for the finals while the fifth goes into an intercontinental playoff for one more berth.

“I accept that our first time was not good,” Arce told a local radio station about his first spell in charge. “We have acquired more solidity in the five years that have passed.”

Arce, who had barely hung up his boots when he took the job in 2011, has since being sacked a year later won the Paraguayan league title with Cerro Porteno in 2013 and Olimpia in 2015.

As a player Arce, nicknamed “Chiqui” (little one) for his slight build, won the South American Copa Libertadores with Brazilian sides Gremio in 1995 and Palmeiras in 1999 having won three Paraguayan league crowns with his first club Cerro Porteno. (ap)

Arce smiles during a Guarani soccer team practice session in Asuncion August 2, 2016. According to local media, Arce is expected to be named as the new coach of the Paraguayan national soccer team on Wednesday.

Hungary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly retiring from national team BUDAPEST — Hungary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly says he is retiring from the national team after 18 years and a record 107 matches.

Kiraly, known for playing in gray sweatpants in all weather conditions, led Hungary to the round of 16 at the Euro 2016 championships

in June.

The 40-year-old Kiraly said on his website that he will continue playing with hometown team Szombathelyi Haladas, but that playing on the national squad was now beyond him physically.

Kiraly said that the lack of rest between the Hungarian champion-

ship and the month-long preparations for Euro 2016 and then the tournament tired him.

Kiraly said that “I gave it my all but, in the meantime, my body signaled that this is the limit.”

Kiraly broke Jozsef Boszik’s record of 101 matches for Hungary in May. (ap)

Manchester City new signing Leroy Sane is confident he would evolve into a complete player under manager Pep Guardiola but the 20-year-old has urged patience as he adjusts to life in the Premier League.

The German winger scored eight league goals and set up another six in the Bundesliga last season before he joined City from Schalke 04 on

a five-year deal on Tuesday.

“One of the reasons I decided to join City was Pep Guardiola; he convinced me to come here and that I can continue to progress. I know I will learn a lot under him and now I can take the next step in my career,” Sane told the club website (www. mancity.com).

“I followed Pep at Barcelona and at Bayern (Munich) where he

achieved a lot and worked really well with young players. I think he can make me a more complete player,” “I will need a bit of time to start with because it’s another league and there’s a different style of play, but I think I can adapt quickly.”

City kick off the new season on Aug. 13, when they host Sunderland. (rtr)

Sane hopes to become complete player under Guardiola

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the match

Man City boss Guardiola faces biggest challenge in England - Klopp

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The Premier League will offer a tougher challenge to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola despite his success in the La Liga and Bundesliga, Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp said.

Guardiola, who succeed Manuel Pellegrini as City coach after spending three years as Bayern Munich boss, won 14 trophies at Barca before leading Bayern to three straight Bundesliga titles and two German Cups before his move to England.

“The competition makes it really interesting. Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all,” Klopp told British media.

“If you are three times in a row Spanish champions, three times in a row Bundesliga champions, then you think okay, let’s try something else. If you are looking for the big-

gest challenge, then you need to go to England.”

City have boosted their squad by adding five players to their ranks, including wingers Leroy Sane and Nolito and German midfielder Ilkay Guendogan after the club stumbled to a fourth-place finish last season.

“It’s not easy in Germany. If you want to be in front of Bayern Munich, you have to win all the other games and then a minimum of one against Bayern. They don’t lose,” the former Borussia Dortmund boss added.

“In this country it’s a very different kind of difficulty. Here you have a number of clubs who think they should be No 1.”

Guardiola, 45, will start his managerial career in England with a home game against David Moyes’ Sunderland on Aug. 13. (rtr)

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Sp rt Arce gets second chance in charge of Paraguay

ASUNCION - Paraguay have named Francisco Arce as their new coach, giving a second chance to the 45-year-old who failed to set them on course for a place at the 2014 World Cup. “Francisco Arce, new coach of the Paraguayan national football team, welcome Chiqui,” the team announced on its official Twitter account.

Arce replaces Argentine Ramon Diaz, who resigned after Paraguay’s group stage elimination at the Copa America Centenario in the United States in June.

The former Paraguay right back, who played at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, will be looking to see the team through to the 2018 finals in Russia.

Paraguay, who reached four successive World Cups between 1998 and 2010 where they progressed to the quarter-finals for the first time, are a lowly seventh in the South American qualifying group after six matches.

They picked up nine points under Diaz and are four points

behind leading pair Uruguay and Ecuador before their next matches at home to Chile and away to Uruguay in the first week of September.

The top four teams after 18 matches qualify for the finals while the fifth goes into an intercontinental playoff for one more berth.

“I accept that our first time was not good,” Arce told a local radio station about his first spell in charge. “We have acquired more solidity in the five years that have passed.”

Arce, who had barely hung up his boots when he took the job in 2011, has since being sacked a year later won the Paraguayan league title with Cerro Porteno in 2013 and Olimpia in 2015.

As a player Arce, nicknamed “Chiqui” (little one) for his slight build, won the South American Copa Libertadores with Brazilian sides Gremio in 1995 and Palmeiras in 1999 having won three Paraguayan league crowns with his first club Cerro Porteno. (ap)

Arce smiles during a Guarani soccer team practice session in Asuncion August 2, 2016. According to local media, Arce is expected to be named as the new coach of the Paraguayan national soccer team on Wednesday.

Hungary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly retiring from national team BUDAPEST — Hungary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly says he is retiring from the national team after 18 years and a record 107 matches.

Kiraly, known for playing in gray sweatpants in all weather conditions, led Hungary to the round of 16 at the Euro 2016 championships

in June.

The 40-year-old Kiraly said on his website that he will continue playing with hometown team Szombathelyi Haladas, but that playing on the national squad was now beyond him physically.

Kiraly said that the lack of rest between the Hungarian champion-

ship and the month-long preparations for Euro 2016 and then the tournament tired him.

Kiraly said that “I gave it my all but, in the meantime, my body signaled that this is the limit.”

Kiraly broke Jozsef Boszik’s record of 101 matches for Hungary in May. (ap)

Manchester City new signing Leroy Sane is confident he would evolve into a complete player under manager Pep Guardiola but the 20-year-old has urged patience as he adjusts to life in the Premier League.

The German winger scored eight league goals and set up another six in the Bundesliga last season before he joined City from Schalke 04 on

a five-year deal on Tuesday.

“One of the reasons I decided to join City was Pep Guardiola; he convinced me to come here and that I can continue to progress. I know I will learn a lot under him and now I can take the next step in my career,” Sane told the club website (www. mancity.com).

“I followed Pep at Barcelona and at Bayern (Munich) where he

achieved a lot and worked really well with young players. I think he can make me a more complete player,” “I will need a bit of time to start with because it’s another league and there’s a different style of play, but I think I can adapt quickly.”

City kick off the new season on Aug. 13, when they host Sunderland. (rtr)

Sane hopes to become complete player under Guardiola

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the match

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The Premier League will offer a tougher challenge to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola despite his success in the La Liga and Bundesliga, Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp said.

Guardiola, who succeed Manuel Pellegrini as City coach after spending three years as Bayern Munich boss, won 14 trophies at Barca before leading Bayern to three straight Bundesliga titles and two German Cups before his move to England.

“The competition makes it really interesting. Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all,” Klopp told British media.

“If you are three times in a row Spanish champions, three times in a row Bundesliga champions, then you think okay, let’s try something else. If you are looking for the big-

gest challenge, then you need to go to England.”

City have boosted their squad by adding five players to their ranks, including wingers Leroy Sane and Nolito and German midfielder Ilkay Guendogan after the club stumbled to a fourth-place finish last season.

“It’s not easy in Germany. If you want to be in front of Bayern Munich, you have to win all the other games and then a minimum of one against Bayern. They don’t lose,” the former Borussia Dortmund boss added.

“In this country it’s a very different kind of difficulty. Here you have a number of clubs who think they should be No 1.”

Guardiola, 45, will start his managerial career in England with a home game against David Moyes’ Sunderland on Aug. 13. (rtr)

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Jagaraga Temple

SINGARAJA - The uniqueness of Jagaraga Temple in Bali makes this temple famous. This Pura Dalem is full with ornaments and has delightful sculptured panels along its front wall. Depicts of aircraft fights, dogfights, bicycle, boat, Kamasutra and old-fashioned car.

This temple’s carving shows the life of Balinese people before and after the Dutch come to Indonesia.

This temple located 15 km from Singaraja, Bali. Exact place is in a small village called Sawan, 8 km from Sangsit.

Dalem Jagaraga Temple belongs to “Pura Kahyangan Tiga” (Three main village Temples) of the traditional village of Jagaraga. Like the other “Pura Dalem” in Bali in general, according to its function as the temple of the dead. “Dalem Jagaraga” Temple is also located close to the village-cemetery; one of them is “Betara Duga” sculpture. There is also some relics that shows about Balinese myths, such as; Rangda, the mean witch. In this temple, you can see a relic about Puputan War that happened on 1848 against The Dutch, under command of Prince Anak Agung Jelantik. (IBP/net)

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Brazil to deploy military to tourist sites, stadium security lax

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil said on Tuesday it was deploying the military to patrol the emblematic tourist sites in Rio de Janeiro to guard against the “minimal” chance of an attack, though security at the Olympic stadium appeared slack three days before the Games.

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Workers do some last minute details on the Engenhao Olympic Stadium a day before the opening soccer match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro August 2, 2016.

Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said deploying the military to the Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugarloaf Mountain would free up police to patrol other areas of the city during the Games, which run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 21.

Speaking at the inauguration of the center for international police cooperation, which allows countries competing in the Games to share information on security threats, Moraes said agents with handheld metal detectors would check visitors to the Christ the Redeemer statue, which sits atop the Corcovado mountain at the center of the city.

“The two (tourist) points where we’ll deploy the armed forces are Corcovado and the Sugarloaf Mountain,” Moraes told reporters.

The military will also patrol strategic points in Rio such as energy, water and telcommunications installations, airports and tram stations.

Concerns over possible attacks at the Games jumped last month after Brazil detained 12 people on suspicion of links to the Islamic State militant group. Police said they were monitoring some 100 suspected Islamist militants, particularly in the porous southern border region with Paraguay and Argentina.

However, the minister said that the chances of any attack were “minimal.”

The security operation for the Games will include a total of 85,000 police and soldiers.

However, at the main Olympic stadium on Tuesday, an X-ray machine to scan visitors was not connected and there was no bar code scanner to check Olympic accreditation.

Organizers last week canceled the contract of the relatively unknown security firm, Artel, which was supposed to check credentials and bags at the entrance to stadiums, replacing them with military police reservists. (rtr)

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RIO DE JANEIRO - Despite lingering issues with plumbing and laundry, athletes and training staff say the Olympic Village is much improved, nine days after blocked toilets and exposed wiring forced the Australian team to move.

Organisers hired around 600 people to work on repairing the 31-building complex housing more than 17,000 participants at the Rio de Janeiro Games and within days they had coaxed the Aussies back.

“At first we had some problems but they were fixed and we’re happy with the place.

The rooms are even bigger than in London (2012),” said Australian canoe coach Mike Druce on Tuesday.

Not everything is perfect though.

The Argentines are complaining about weak

water pressure in the bathrooms while Brazilian handballer Jose Toledo said the laundry service was less than perfect.

Several Olympians also noted a film of dust in most rooms from the recently finished construction.

However, conditions are a far cry from those on July 24 that the Australians called “not safe or ready” for the Games which start on Friday.

Rio officials called the issues “teething troubles.”

Most athletes had high praise for the Village kitchens with the exception of Portuguese gymnast Felipa Martins.

“I thought the food was so-so but maybe that’s because we eat so well in Portugal,” she said. (rtr)

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Argentinian athletes play soccer near Olympic Village.

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Republican rift widens as Trump declines to endorse Ryan, McCain

WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his party on Tuesday by denying two leading figures, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, support in their re-election bids.

Trump told The Washington Post in an interview that he could endorse neither Ryan, the top U.S. elected Republican, nor McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona and a former Republican presidential nominee, as they face challenges in their states’ primary contests ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.

Both Ryan and McCain had criticized Trump’s feud with the family of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who died in the line of duty in Iraq in 2004 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for bravery after his death.

The discord comes just two weeks after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that formally nominated Trump for president.

It is the latest rift in a party already frayed by internal dissent over its standard bearer, seen in stark relief at the conven-

tion where McCain was among high-level party members who essentially snubbed Trump by choosing not to attend. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, and former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush also did not attend the convention.

Trump has had a running dispute with Khizr and Ghazala Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic convention to cite their son’s sacrifice and criticize Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.

The uproar has led many Republicans to distance themselves from Trump and voice support for the Khan family.

Trump, mirroring the language Ryan used about supporting the nominee before his eventual endorsement, told the newspaper he was “not quite there yet” on en-

dorsing Ryan in next Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, and that he had “never been there” with McCain, who will be on the ballot in primary elections in Arizona later this month.

McCain had a “very friendly” meeting with Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, on Tuesday in Arizona, where Pence was visiting, a McCain spokeswoman said.

Trump said Ryan had sought his endorsement, but that as of now he is only “giving it very serious consideration.”

Ry a n ’s c a m p a i g n o f f i c e quickly responded that “neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement.”

“And we are confident in a victory next week regardless,” campaign spokesman Zack Roday said in a statement.

Ryan is favored to win against primary challenger Paul Nehlen, who Trump praised as running “a very good campaign.” In a midJuly survey by Harper Polling, Ryan was ahead of Nehlen by nearly 50 points. (rtr)

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Republican U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a Purple Heart given to him during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., August 2, 2016.

Bitcoin worth $72 mln stolen from Bitfinex exchange in Hong Kong

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A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015.

HONG KONG - Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the global bitcoin community in the secondbiggest security breach ever of such an exchange.

Bitfinex is the world’s largest dollar-based exchange for bitcoin, and is known in the digital currency community for having deep liquidity in the U.S. dollar/ bitcoin currency pair.

Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex, told Reuters on Wednesday that 119,756 bitcoin had been stolen from users’ accounts and that the exchange had not yet decided how to address customer losses.

“The bitcoin was stolen from users’ segregated wallets,” he said.

The company said it had reported the theft to law enforcement and was cooperating with top blockchain analytic compa-

nies to track the stolen coins.

Last year, Bitfinex announced a tie-up with Palo Alto-based BitGo, which uses multiplesignature security to store user deposits online, allowing for faster withdrawals.

“Our investigation has found no evidence of a breach to any BitGo servers,” BitGo said in a Tweet.

“With users’ funds secured using multi-signature technology in partnership with BitGo, a lot more is at stake for the backbone of the bitcoin industry, with its stalwarts and prided tech under fire,” said Charles Hayter, chief executive and founder of digital currency website CryptoCompare.

The security breach comes two months after Bitfinex was ordered to pay a $75,000 fine by the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission in part for offering illegal off-exchange financed commodity transactions in bitcoin and other digital currencies. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Indian parliament to vote on new sales tax, rate in focus

NEW DELHI - India’s upper house of parliament kicked off a debate on a major tax reform on Wednesday that lawmakers were expected to back in a vote later on, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faced a call from the opposition not to overtax businesses and consumers.

The proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been held up for years by political in-fighting, and its passage would mark a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he eyes an economic boost for Asia’s third-largest economy.

“GST is one of the most significant tax reforms in the history of India,” Jaitley told lawmakers.

India is already the world’s fastest growing large economy, expanding by 7.9 percent year-onyear in the March quarter. Economists at HSBC forecast the GST would produce a boost of 0.8 percentage points within three to five years.

Yet while the finance minister vowed to roll out the new sales tax as soon as possible, he refrained from committing to a firm date.

The vote on Wednesday involves a key constitutional amendment, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass. That will kick off a legislative marathon in which both the federal and state parliaments will need to pass further laws setting the rate and scope of the GST. It’s been a long time coming for the Modi government’s most ambitious reform. The Indian leader had wanted the GST to come into effect this April and hoped to reap its economic dividends in time for his expected re-election bid in 2019.

Although the measure enjoyed broad political support, its passage was blocked by differences over its design, now riddled with compromises, that risk diluting its impact.

The two-year-old deadlock was broken only after the government offered concessions to the opposition Congress party, which originally proposed the GST while in power but has opposed what it termed as a “flawed” tax. P. Chidambaram, Jaitley’s predecessor and a senior Congress leader, blamed the government for the deadlock.

“It could have been resolved in five minutes,” he said. “But the government was rather stubborn.”

Chidambaram warned of the risk of “creeping taxation” and urged capping the GST rate by law at 18 percent to ensure it is “non-inflationary, acceptable to public and an efficient way of taxing without tax evasion”.

He also asked for safeguards to prevent any tinkering in the rate without the approval from both houses of parliament.

Tax experts say that passing further legislation, training tax collectors, setting up IT systems and preparing companies for the new tax regime makes launching the GST by next April, the start of the next financial year, very challenging. If all goes well, they say, a July or October 2017 start date looks more probable.(rtr)

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JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe discussed counterterrorism cooperation during a bilateral meeting at the State Palace on Wednesday, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

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A woman shops at a market in Seoul, South Korea, July 26, 2016. Picture taken on July 26, 2016.

Beef sets, lavish free meals off limits in South Korea graft crackdown

SEOUL - Lavish free meals, rounds of golf and expensive gifts of beef and ginseng will soon be off-limits for civil servants, teachers and journalists in South Korea under a law aimed at clamping down on graft that has long been pervasive in professional life.

The anti-corruption law that takes effect next month imposes spending limits on entertainment and gifts, curbing a tradition of hospitality that many restaurants, retailers and farmers worry will deal a blow to business. “It’s making it illegal for those who have the money and are willing to pay more.

This is nonsense,” Yoo Byoung-hee, 45, a cattle breeder in Jecheon, south of Seoul, told Reuters by telephone.

Yoo was among farmers who protested against the law last month in front of parliament. Boxed sets of beef, especially the prized domestic hanwoo variety, can cost hundreds of dollars and are a staple of giftgiving during the Chuseok holiday next month, as well as during Lunar New Year.

Less-expensive gift sets feature items ranging from apples and Spam to shampoo.

The anti-corruption law had been debated since 2011 and has been welcomed as a tool to clean up professional life in a country that ranks 37th out of 168 on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index.

But many worry about its impact on a sputtering economy.

The law could wipe out 11.6 trillion won ($10.43 billion) in revenue for sectors including food, golf, consumer and retail goods, the Korea Economic Research Institute said in June. Some groups, including the agricultural ministry, have called for an easing of the rules, which limit the value of gifts to people in the targeted categories to 50,000 won ($45) and meals to 30,000 won ($27).

Gifts, meals and entertainment that are paid for in a personal capacity are not covered by the law. It does not apply to members of parliament or much of the private sector.

SCANDALS President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday it was important to mitigate the negative impact of the law while maintaining its core purpose. “Once the law is implemented and transparency and fairness in our society are improved, the effectiveness of our economy will increase and South Korea’s potential

growth may be improved,” she told a cabinet meeting.

According to a survey by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year, 59.2 percent of South Koreans believed the country was corrupt. Graft scandals are common.

Last year, former Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo was convicted after receiving 30 million won ($27,000) in a shopping bag during a parliamentary election in 2013, according to prosecutors. He is appealing.

Since the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the law last month, many restaurants and retailers have been scrambling to adjust, tweaking meal offerings and downsizing gift sets.

Dave Yoon, head of Haewoori, the country’s biggest seafood restaurant chain, said it would introduce a 30,000 won multi-course meal once the law takes effect. “Revenue is probably going to go down but we made this decision because we feel like we have no other choice,” he said.

“We’ve had so many customers come to us worrying about the law because many of our clients come to Haewoori for business.

You have to do what you can to keep customers coming.”(rtr)

(L-R) Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister Jawad Al Anani, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, Bangladesh Minister of Planning Mustafa Kamal and Cambodia’s Labour Minister Datuk Othsman Hassan sit during the opening ceremony of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2, 2016.

Haris Azhar not yet named a suspect: Police

JAKARTA - Police deny that the Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Haris Azhar has been named a suspect over alleged libel. “Not yet. It is too quick to name someone a suspect,” Director of General Crimes of the Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) Brig.

Gen. Agus Andrianto said here on Wednesday.

Agus did confirm that Haris has been reported to police over alleged libel, saying reports were received on Tuesday. Bareskrim is still studying the reports, he said.

Meanwhile Haris Azhar said he was not aware of the report naming him a suspect, but said he did know that the military (TNI) and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) have reported him to Bareskrim over his articles. “I was reported to police by TNI and BNN,” he said.

Haris Azhar earlier wrote an article “Rotten Story from a Bandit: Testimony from a Meeting with Freddy Budiman at Nusa Kambangan Prison (2014)”.

The article by Haris said notorious leader of drug dealer Freddy, who was among the four drug convicts executed last Friday, claimed to have bribed law enforcement officers with hundreds of billions of rupiahs to protect his illicit business in the country.

“Based on my calculation in the years of work to smuggle narcotics , I have given Rp450 billion to BNN officials. I have given Rp90 billion to certain officials of the police headquarters. I even drive using the car of a two star TNI general,” Freddy was quoted as saying in 2014.

Haris Azhar admitted to have written the short article and he also said he had given a copy of the

article to presidential spokesman Johan Budi.

“I decided to publish the article to send a message that if the government executed this man (Freddy Budiman), it has eliminate a man with significant information to unveil crimes involving officials of state institutions and about hundreds of billions of rupiahs of bribe,” Haris said in a news conference at Kontras.

In a regular weekly program of TV ONE television on Tuesday night, a former BNN leader and TNI spokesman regretted that Haris made public his story just after Freddy was dead.

They questioned the authenticity of Freddys statement as written

by Haris , saying if Haris came up with the story when Freddy was still alive , Haris would be a hero, with big contribution to unveiling a big case.(ant)

“With regard to countering radicalism, extremism, and terrorism, Indonesia is always on the forefront to work together,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marsudi stated after escorting President Widodo during the bilateral meeting here on Wednesday.

Marsudi said Sri Lanka believes that Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, had succeeded in spreading the message of tolerance and promoting moderate Islam among its people.

Prime Minister Ranil hoped Sri

Lanka and Indonesia will strengthen cooperation in the fields of extremism, terrorism, and counterradicalism.

Before the meeting, President Widodo held a face-to-face discussion with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickramasinghe in the north side of the State Palace.

Foreign Minister Marsudi, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumardi, and Secretary of State Pratikno accompanied Widodo in the bilateral meeting.(ant)

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Maithree Wickramasinghe, (L) the wife of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (2nd L) signs the guest book as Indonesian President Joko Widodo (2nd R) and his wife Iriana (R) look on before their meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia August 3, 2016.

Police foil attempts to circulate 1.2 kg of methamphetamine

PALEMBANG - The South Sumatra police have foiled an attempt to circulate 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine in the province. Director of anti drug detectives of the regional police Sr. Comr. Irawan David Syah said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday before they succeeded in distribut-

ing the drug.

There were five suspects arrested after intensive investigations in two days. The suspects included a Acehnese pair of DS (32) and his wife SA (22) both nabbed on Friday at the parking place of the International Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II airport.

The husband and wife just arrived from Medan carrying 700 grams of methamphetamine stashed in their shoes.

The other three were arrested on Saturday including Nofran Haryadi, SN and Feri with 500 grams of the drug . They were from Tulung Selapan, the district of

OKI. Police also confiscated a number of hand phones and the shoes that were used to hide the drug.

“It is not impossible that the five belonged to the same drug ring . Police are still doing investigations. Another suspect is still at large,” Irawan said.(ant)

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Bali News

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Raided, a tourist produces drugs at hotel

DENPASAR — Normally the addict will consume crystal meth by means of suction. However, a British tourist with the initials KH alias John, 56, has his own way namely by mixing the crystal meth to turn liquid and is then injected into his hand. The suspect was raided at a hotel on Jalan Sriwijaya, Legian, Kuta, Monday (Jul. 25).

According to Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police, Nyoman Artana, accompanied by Chief of Narcotic Investigation Unit, Gede Ganefo, said on Tuesday (Aug. 2) that disclosure of the case was based on information obtained from communities that often see the suspect carrying a syringe.

“The investigation is carried out for a week. The suspect applies visa on arrival and is estimated to have overstayed for 11 months,” he said.

Last Monday, the suspect was seen by the officers eating at a restaurant in Kuta. After that, the suspect continued to go to hotel and was then followed by the officers. Fear of losing the trails, the officers immediately intercepted and conducted a search. In the motorcycle of the suspect was found a syringe. When questioned, the suspect admitted to have frequently consumed crystal meth.

Police then raided the hotel room where the suspect was staying. As a result, it was found four packages of crystal meth in the safety box; four syringe containing liquid crystal meth; five pipettes; 76 empty syringes; alcohol and tape. “The suspect admitted to purchase the drug from someone with the initial K on Kuta Beach for IDR 4 million. He purchased the drugs two days before arrested,” said Artana.

The suspect has been living in Bali and regularly consumes these illicit goods. Initially the suspect admitted to have been staying at the hotel for four months. After checked to the Denpasar Immigration Office, in fact, the suspect came to Bali on July 17, 2015.

Chief Ganefo added the way how the suspect uses the crystal meth is indeed different from the other addicts. The suspect refined the crystal met by means of crushing and then mixed it with water. After that, it is input into syringe and then injected into her right hand. “The effect is similar to the way of sucking,” he said. (kmb36)

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SEOUL - North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Wednesday that landed in or near Japanese-controlled waters for the first time, the latest in a series of launches by the isolated country in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

The main body of the missile landed in Japan’s economic exclusion zone, a Japanese defence official said, escalating regional tensions that were already high after a series of missile launches this year and the decision by the United States to place a sophisticated anti-missile system in South Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the launch as a “grave threat” to Japan and said Tokyo “strongly protested”.

Japan also said its self-defence force would remain on alert in case of further launches.

A U.S. State Department spokesman condemned the launch, and said it would “only increase the international community’s resolve to counter” North Korea’s actions.

The U.S. Strategic Command said it had detected two missiles, one of which it said exploded immediately after launch.

The missile that landed in the Sea of Japan was launched at about 7:50 a.m. Seoul time (2250 GMT Tuesday) from a region in South Hwanghae province to the southwest of North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, South Korea’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The launch showed North Korea’s ambition to “directly and broadly attack neighbouring countries and target several places in the Republic of Korea such as ports and airfields”, the South Korean office said, referring to South Korea by its official title.

The missile appeared to be a Rodong-type medium-range missile that flew about 1,000 km (620 miles), it said. (rtr)

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Farmers in Jembrana recently complained because the price of their rice slumped far enough when compared to the previous harvest.

Price of rice slumps, farmers complain

NEGARA — Farmers in Jembrana recently complained because the price of their rice slumped far enough when compared to the previous harvest.

Damiri, a farmer from Pulukan village, Pekutatan, said on Monday (Aug. 1) that previously he got IDR 15 million for 0.60 hectare of paddy field. But currently with the same area he could only get harvest worth IDR10 million.

According to him, the decline in the price of rice is experienced by all farmers. Allegedly it happened because the supply of rice from Java to Bali is too much.

Farmers are said to be unable to reject the price of rice offered by contractor because it is the average price as well as consideration of the age of the rice. When left longer, he

said the ready-to-harvest rice can be damaged. “That price will be even lower. We were forced to accept it although the price is not as expensive as in the previous harvest,” he said.

If calculated, his income from the sales of the rice is considered to still suffer losses in terms of the resources released starting from the preparation of the land, seedling planting to maintenance of the rice.

The capital for the purchase of seeds and pesticides, he said, has returned despite the price is only that much. However, when calculated in terms of the cultivating cost, it is still considered to lose.

In the meantime, the Head of the Jembrana Agriculture, Plantation and Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, when asked for his confirmation he promised to check the slump

in the price of the rice of farmers.

He said that to stabilize the price of rice harvest, his agency has been cooperating with the Union of the Indonesia Rice Milling Entrepreneurs (Perpadi) that gets funding. His agency will check it to Perpadi of Pekutatan subdistrict. “There are many factors causing the price of rice to slump, but this is really too much,” he said.

According to him, in addition to the abundant supplies of rice due to massive harvest, the decline in the price of rice can also be caused by the incomplete rice ears as the influence of adverse weather condition.

If this happens due to massive harvest, it usually occurs between May and June.

However, this has already entered August, so that he suspected there may be other factors affecting the slump of the price. (kmb)

Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (C) speaks to the media regarding North Korea’s missile launch, in Tokyo, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 3, 2016.

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Suu Kyi tackles military land grabs in test of new Myanmar government

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Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi attends a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Vientiane, Laos July 25, 2016.

HTA NI - By the standards of her village in Myanmar’s swampy Ayeyarwady Delta, Than Shin was a prosperous woman. She had 20 acres of farmland on which her family grew rice. But her fortunes changed in 2000 when the military government informed her it was taking possession of her land. Over the next year, Than Shin watched as the fields that for decades had provided her family with a living were cleared to make way for fish farms.

Today, Than Shin and her family live in a thatched shack along the main road leading to Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon. Her 67-year-old husband goes door to door on his bicycle selling soybeans. “We depended on that land our whole lives.

When they grabbed it, we had nothing, no income. We had to eat curry made from leaves,” she told Reuters.

Than Shin’s story is just one example of what the ruling party of Aung San Suu Kyi says was the systematic confiscation of land from farmers by the army and the placing of that land in the hands of crony companies close to the military junta that ruled Myanmar for half a century. The fish farms that were built on her land were owned by

a company linked to then regional military commander Shwe Mann, who is now one of Myanmar’s most powerful political figures, according to a Reuters review of corporate filings.

When Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) stormed to power in elections last November, its victory was fuelled in part by rural anger over land seizures and the party’s pledge to provide redress. Just days after the NLD formed the first government since 1962 that is not backed by the military, the new deputy agriculture minister told local media that returning land to its rightful owners was the duty of the government.

Now the NLD is moving to make good on that promise. The parliament member overseeing the effort, Sein Win, told Reuters the party aims to solve all land-grab cases within one year.

That’s an ambitious timeframe. In untangling land disputes, the new government will have to contend with powerful business interests, many linked to the military. That could put Suu Kyi on a collision course with the generals and threaten Myanmar’s fragile transition to democracy. (rtr)

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Health

Florida to begin aerial spraying of insecticides to control Zika

CHICAGO - Florida will conduct an aerial insecticide spraying campaign at dawn on Wednesday in an effort to kill mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County said.

The campaign will cover a 10-mile area that includes the one-mile-square area just north of downtown Miami that health officials have identified as the hub of Zika transmission in the state, the officials said on Tuesday.

On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unprecedented travel warning, urging pregnant women to avoid travel to the Miami neighborhood at the center of the investigation.

The Zika outbreak was first detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that

can lead to severe developmental problems in babies. The virus has spread rapidly through the Americas and Caribbean and its arrival in the continental United States has been widely anticipated.

Florida health officials announced another non-travel related case of Zika on Tuesday, bringing the total to 15.

The aerial spraying campaign was recommended by the CDC in conjunction with the Florida Health Department to reduce adult mosquito populations that might be capable of carrying the Zika virus.

In a conference call on Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Thomas

Frieden expressed concern that vector control efforts so far have not been as effective as hoped. A CDC expert is currently conducting tests in Miami to see if mosquitoes in the area have developed insecticide resistance.

Florida had been using two products in the pyrethroid class of insecticides. In its aerial campaign, the state will use a chemical called Naled that has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Joseph Conlon, a spokesman for the American Mosquito Control Association.

Naled is from a different class of insecticides known as organophosphates. According to the CDC, the chemical has been widely used to control mosquito populations in the United States, including in Miami, Tampa and New Orleans. (rtr)

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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil, February 2, 2016.

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Schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and lowincome students receiving free and reduced-price lunch were more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants within a ten-minute walk.

Tobacco, fast food in easier reach of minority and lowincome students

NORTH CAROLINA - Compared to schools with mostly white students, schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and lowincome students are more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants in easy reach, researchers say.

“Schools are places where we expect to be healthy, supportive environments for kids, but right outside the door (students) could be exposed to unhealthy influences,” lead author Heather D’Angelo of Westat in Rockville, Maryland told Reuters Health in a phone interview.

“I was surprised that there were so many tobacco outlets near schools,” said D’Angelo, who at the time of the study was at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

D’Angelo and her colleagues randomly selected more than 18,000 public schools in 97 U.S. counties, then analyzed their proximity to retailers within an 800meter radius – roughly equivalent to a 10-minute walk.

They report in the American Journal of Public Health that 40 percent of the schools were near at least one fast food restaurant, 77 percent were close to at least one retailer likely to sell tobacco products, and 38 percent of schools were close to both.

Schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and low-income students receiving free and reduced-price lunch were more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants within a tenminute walk.

More than 50 percent of schools

with a majority of Hispanic students were within 800 meters of both a tobacco outlet and a fast food outlet, compared to 21 percent of schools with a majority of white students.

When researchers took population density into account, they found that every 10 percent increase in the proportion of a school’s Hispanic students was associated with a five percent higher likelihood the school was within walking distance of places to buy both tobacco and fast food.

A 10 percent increase in lowincome students was associated with a three percent higher likelihood a school was near both kinds of stores.

The researchers also report that fast food and tobacco were more easily accessible for older kids, suggesting “that retailers may be well aware of and ready to take advantage of the autonomy and purchasing power of older youths.”

“High schools had 40 percent more fast food restaurants and 24 percent more tobacco outlets within 800 meters than did primary schools and high schools had nearly 1.5 times greater odds of having both” nearby, they wrote.

The researchers say theirs is the first study to consider the availability of both tobacco and fast food on the basis of students’ socioeconomic and racial characteristics.

The study did not analyze how students get to school, whether they leave campus during lunchtime, or where they live. Nor did the researchers have data on students’ eating habits, or their weight or health status. (rtr)

This natural hot springs is not only convenient for bathing but also believed to reduce health complaints of visitors.

Banyuwedang hot springs can heal skin diseases

SINGARAJA — The richness owned by the nature of Buleleng has a positive impact if it can be developed in an organized manner. A number of tourist attractions offer panoramic advantages and their own functions. Natural hot springs, for example, can be found at Banyuwedang, Pejarakan Gerokgak.

It is not only convenient for bathing but also believed to reduce health complaints of visitors.

Efficacy of the Banyuwedang hot spring comes from underground has geothermal power with sulfur content. Inevitably, communities come one after the other including in holiday season. It is said that since 1984 the Banyuwedang hot

spring has been widely known to various regions of the country. “The hot spring is believed to contain sulfur and comfortable for bathing, sir,” said Komang Asiawati from Jinengdalem, recently.

It is not much different from

the hot spring at Banjar village.

The sulfur contained in the Banyuwedang hot spring is claimed to have temperature of 48o Celsius.

Practically the water temperature becomes higher. Nevertheless, it remains safe to be used for soaking by the public. “This hot spring is also convenient for regular therapy and believed to provide healing for skin diseases, itching, stroke and others,” he added.

Visitors have separate bathing place for men and women.

Moreover, it also offers reason-

able admission ticket price at IDR 5,000 per person. Banyuwedang hot spring is equipped with openair bath for visitors to draw water and other simple shower. “Many visitors take advantage of the hot spring shower and open-air bathing place. Visitors are encouraged to always maintain the sanitation in the area of the bathing place,” said Wayan Pageh, the operator of the hot spring attraction.

Pageh told that many people had recovered from illnesses after soaking in the Banyuwedang hot spring.

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Moreover, a paralyzed person could get recovered by regular bathing. “A visitor from Tabanan was paralyzed. He was carried into the pool for therapy. Slowly he could recover,” he said.

The current problem of hot spring bathing place is especially regarding the arrangement of the place of visitors. Pejarakan village was then given a mandate to manage it from1986. In the near future, the re-arrangement is needed to maintain the attraction and increase the tourist visits. (kmb34)

To increase nationalism

Tabanan students put on red and white headdress as one

TABANAN - The nationalism among the students is assessed to have increasingly diminished. As evidence, many criminal cases are involving students. For instance, there are motorcycle gang, fights and drug cases. Currently many students are recruited by the organization leading to radicalism.

Related to these phenomena, the 1619/Tabanan Military District Command invited students to love their Homeland packaged in the Bali Red-White highlight.

Over the next ten days, the students from elementary to high school in Tabanan are putting on red and white headdress and headband in the flag ceremony as seen at the SMAN 2 Tabanan high school, Monday (Aug. 1). Hundreds of students put on red and white attributes on the head. Male students put on headdress (udeng), while female students put on red and white ribbon. Commander of the 1619/Tabanan Military District, Herwin Gunawan, said that the

Bali-Nusra Red-White Highlight aims at building nationalism because the foundation of our country lies in young generation.

“A lot of negative things have been affecting the younger generation. For example, drugs are now targeting at students. They should be fortified by strengthening their mental, moral and good character,” he said.

This activity is also in a series of welcoming the celebration of the Independence Day on August

17. “Essentially it strengthens the students’ mentality, so that the splendor is not only showed off during the UEFA Euro 2016 by raising large-sized foreign flag, while on the Independence Day of the RI is less festive,” he said.

Principal of the SMAN 2 Tabanan, I Gede Wayan Samba, admitted that his school strongly appreciated to the program initiated by the Indonesian Military (TNI).

According to him, this activity is one of the forms of character educa-

tion. “Teachers have the duties to provide theory in classroom, while this is the reality, so that we greatly support this activity,” he said.

Even though this activity only takes place for 10 days ahead, his school plans to implement it sustainably. “We will implement it continuously because the benefits are very positive for students. So far, most students begin to be contaminated by negative things due to the advances of technology,” he said. (kmb28)

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Wisnuardhana added that the average additional area of rice planting each day should reach 655 hectares by the end of next September. The attempt made to reach is with the acceleration of land cultivation, planting and harvest by various helps of agricultural machines having been allocated. It includes the utilization of the current La Nina climate condition that brings in high rainfall.

“To anticipate the risk of crop failure due to pests, especially plant diseases, it has been prepared rice farming insurance scheme in cooperation with PT Jasindo Denpasar that only costs IDR 36,000 per hectare because 80 percent of the premium is subsidized by the government,” he added.

Wisnuardhana added that fulfillment of rice planting area is related

to the implementation of the special self-sufficiency effort of rice, corn and soybean (UPSUS Pajale). That is why the measure to increase the rice planting area is also accompanied with the provision of assistance for farmers. Among them, there are 411 units of equipment and pre-harvest agricultural machinery, 139 units of post-harvest machinery as well as grants and subsidies of seed and fertilizer for 80,063 hectares of planting area. However, Bali is still facing obstacles to change the cropping patterns at some subak areas.

“There are subak areas switching to plant non-rice commodities such as vegetables and flowers.

Another obstacle is the temporary closure of water flow due to repair against the main irrigation channel by the Bali-Penida River Agency and Public Works Agency,” said Coordination Team Leader of the

UPSUS Bali Province.

Wisnuardhana estimated that the paddy field affected by the irriga-

tion system repair reached 18,083 hectares. So far, it has been coordinated with relevant agencies so that

Farmer is working in his ricefield

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if possible it will not close the water flow in total. Thus, the planting area will not reduce. (kmb32)

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Clekontong Mas gag preserves Balinese culture

AMLAPURA - The artists coalesced into the members of Bondres Clekontong Mas troupe are increasingly familiar among the people of Bali. Emergence of the artists seems to cure the longing for golden periods of Bali’s entertainment ever raised the two icons, namely Petruk and the late Dolar. They are always consistent in the path of this entertainment because of a strong impetus to help preserve Balinese culture.

The Clekontong Mas Group

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This was submitted by one of the artists, Sengap, when making performance to entertain the public of Timbrah village, Karangasem, in a series of the aci usaba sumbu, Monday night (Aug. 1). The Clekontong Mas troupe consists of five artists. In addition to Sengap, there are also other personnel, such as Sokir, Tompel, Luh Kembung and Luh Cablek.

They appear alternately at the meeting hall of the Timbrah customary youth drawing thousands of spectators from the afternoon.

Coordinator of the entertainment event, Made Sudarma, said that local customary village deliberately invited Sengap and friends to jazz up the aci usaba sumbu taking place this year for a full week. The entertainment was held due to the participation of the local youth giving a donation to finance the entertainment. “After getting tired with the customary routines, people need entertainment. We think Sengap and friends is the right troupe to be invited,” said Sudarma.

Their jokes were quite entertaining that could make the audience linger at the meeting hall until midnight. People quite missed the Balinese joking in combination with the dance and typical geguritan song of the arja operetta. After the popularity of drama gong faded in Bali, it is increasingly difficult to find an artist remaining consistent in the field of comedy. In the meantime, Sengap and friends still survive and rebuild the golden era of the Balinese comedy. “Let’s make devotional work together in preserving Balinese culture,” urged Sengap. (kmb31)

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Kesha drops sex abuse lawsuit against Dr. Luke to focus on music

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Kesha has dropped her sexual abuse lawsuit in California against record producer Dr. Luke, saying she wants to focus on getting back to her music.

The “Tik Tok” singer, who has not released an album for four years, will continue her fight in the New York courts to get out of a multi-album recording deal with Sony Music and Dr. Luke, her attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said in a statement.

“Kesha has dismissed her California action without prejudice while she pursues her appeal and other legal claims in the New York courts,” he said. “Kesha is focused on getting back to work and has delivered 28 new songs to the record label.”

The 29-year old singer filed a lawsuit in California in 2014 accusing Dr. Luke, one of the music industry’s most successful producers, of rape and emotional abuse during the early stages of her career.

Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, has repeatedly denied the claims and has countersued for defamation. But the denial earlier this year by a New York judge of Kesha’s bid to extricate herself from her recording contract sparked an emotional #FreeKesha campaign on social media that earned support from leading stars such as Taylor Swift, Adele and Lady Gaga.

Kesha is appealing the New York ruling and in April she released her

first single in three years. Last week, she started a U.S. tour.

On Monday she thanked fans for their support.

“My fight continues. I need to get my music out,” she wrote on her Instagram account. “I have so much

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to say. This lawsuit is so heavy on my once free spirit, and I can only pray to one day feel that happiness again.”

Dr. Luke’s attorney, Christine Lepera, said in a statement the accusations against him were “false and meritless” and that Kesha’s decision to dismiss the sex abuse claims in California came “because she has no chance of winning them.” (rtr)

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Singer Kesha arrives at the 2016 Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., May 22, 2016.

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DENPASAR - So far the area of rice planting in Bali has not reached the target even though the target of the rise in the acreage, productivity and production has been set in two planting seasons.

In the first planting season from October 2015 through March 2016, it could only reach 73,056 hectares of the target set at 79,751 hectares or 91.6 percent with productivity rate of 6.2 tons of milled rice. In the meantime, the second growing season in April 2016 until September 2016 only reached 47.05 percent.

“For the growing season of April to September 2016, the rice planting area is targeted to reach 80,374 hectares. As of July 20, 2016 it only reached 37,818 hectares or 47.05 percent. So, Bali is still shortage of 42,556 hectares,” said the Head of the Bali Agriculture Agency, Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana, in Denpasar.

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3 Indonesian volcanoes erupt, disrupting some flights

JAKARTA — Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts of the archipelago and disrupted some flights. Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island near Bali, the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island and Mount Gamalama in the Moluccas chain of islands have all erupted in the past couple of days.

No one has been injured, but flights at two airports have been disrupted. Sultan Babullah airport in Ternate, the capital of North Maluku province, was

closed Wednesday and Lombok’s international airport was closed for several hours on Tuesday.

The three mountains are among about 130 active volca-

noes in Indonesia. The archipelago of 250 million people is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, said that Gamalama and Sinabung erupted again late Tuesday,

blasting debris high into the air. Hot ash tumbled down the Sinabung slopes as far as 2,000 meters (yards) southward into a river.

Nugroho said that farms and trees around the three volcanoes were covered in gray ash, but nearby towns and villages were not in danger.

More than 13,000 people have been evacuated due to volcanic

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