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Celine Dion to speak but won’t sing at Rene Angelil memorial
LAS VEGAS — Celine Dion will address the audience, but she isn’t expected to sing at the memorial in Las Vegas for Rene Angelil, her husband and manager credited launching with her career. Angelil died on Jan. 14 after a long battle with throat cancer in the suburban Las Vegas home that he shared with Dion and their three children. He was 73. The Wednesday memorial will be held at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace starting at 7 p.m., with a livestream available online for the two-hour broadcast. Event organizers said the singer with one of the most popular voices in the world will speak at the event celebrating Angelil’s life. The widow didn’t speak publicly at his Jan. 22 funeral at the Notre-Dame Basilica, the site of their wedding 21 years ago. Their eldest son, René-Charles, gave the
eulogy to a crowd of nearly 700 people before Angelil was buried at the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in a private graveside ceremony. The family on the previous day had spent nearly seven hours greeting fans and mourners at a public visitation at the same Montreal church. At the Las Vegas memorial, the mother and son will be joined by Angelil’s children from previous marriages and his brother, Dion’s publicist Kim Jakwerth said. There will also be music and speeches from guests ranging from Dion’s longtime agent and friends in the music business to Caesars executives and a Las Vegas charity.
Born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and Syrian father, Angelil was a former singer-turned-manager who discovered a 12-year-old Dion and mortgaged his house to finance her first album. He guided her career most of her life, most critically as she learned a new language to sing in English to become a widespread international success. By the late 1990s and 2000s, her soaring voice had become dominant on the radio. The theme from “Titanic,” the smash “My Heart Will Go On,” has been her defining hit, and she has had other hits that have sold millions of copies around the world. Angelil was constantly seen by her side. He is also credited with launching Dion’s residency at Caesars in 2002, which helped shaped the current entertainment landscape on the Las Vegas Strip. (ap)
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back together broken plates. Audience participation is key: One exhibit features a white telephone at the center of a labyrinth that Ono will call. Other parts of the exhibit describe the effects of violence against women. (ap)
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Denpasar and Badung hit by floods Some trees topple in Bali
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This July 26, 2013, file photo shows Canadian music star Celine Dion, right, and husband Rene Angelil posing for photos after being decorated with the Order of Canada in Quebec City.
Yoko Ono brings ‘Land of Hope’ Painterly ‘The Assassin’ leads nominees at Asian Film Awards peace exhibit to Mexico MEXICO CITY — Yoko Ono has brought an anti-violence message to Mexico City with the opening of a participativeperformance exhibit dubbed “Tierra de Esperanza,” or “Land of Hope.” The 82-year-old Ono told a crowd Tuesday at the city’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance that “I have come here to bring world peace.” Visitors to the exhibit can place stamps calling for peace on maps of Mexico or the world. Since 2006, Mexico has been awash in drugfueled violence that has left more than 100,000 people dead or missing. Museum-goers can also try to put
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HONG KONG — Hou Hsiao-hsien’s cinematic kung fu masterpiece “The Assassin” may have missed out on an Oscar nod, but it tops nominees at the Asian Film Awards. The nine nominations include best film, best director, best cinematography, and best actress for Shu Qi. Hou won best director at Cannes last year for his painterly dramatic film. Indian period drama, “Bajirao Mastani” earned five of the nominations announced Wednesday, as did Hong Kong cop thriller “Port of Call,” which received 13 nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards last week. “Port of Call” was absent from the best film category, where “The Assassin” competes with “Bajirao Mastani,” ‘’Mountains May Depart,” ‘’Three Stories Of Love,” ‘’Mr. Six” and “Veteran.” The Asian Film Awards marks its 10th anniversary this year. The Asian Film Awards Academy hands out the awards as part of an effort to promote budding
filmmakers in the region and enhance collaboration among regional film industries. The academy said it received 1,600 submissions from 32 countries, narrowed to 36 films from nine Asian countries competing for the top honors. Hong Kong director Jonnie To leads the jury. Jury member Sean Lau Ching-wan said he’s most looking forward to watching great performances. “I think I’ll be mainly looking at actor’s performances and watch who bring the characters to life,” he said. Donnie Yen’s performance in “Ip Man 3” was nominated in the best actor category alongside Nagase Masatoshi, Feng Xiaogang, Lee Byung-hun and John Arcilla from the Philippines. For best actress, Shu Qi faces competition from Zhao Tao, Haruka Ayase, Kim Hye-soo and Karena Lam. In the directing category, Hou faces off with Jia Zhangke, Koreeda Hirokazu, Guan Hu and Ryoo Seung-wan. The awards will be handed out in Macau on March 17. (ap)
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TORRENTIAL rains throughout most of Bali on Wednesday (Feb. 3) caused flooding and fallen trees in a number of areas in Denpasar and Badung and other parts of Bali. Trees fell in Kintamani Bangli, and Klungkung) on Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra in Gelgel village and the compound wall of Dalem Temple at Timbrah, Karangasem was toppled by an avalanche. The Ketapang-Gilmanul boat crossing was also disrupted. Several parts of Badung were flooded including: Kuta, Jalan Tangkuban Perahu and Kerobokan Kelod. Denpasar was the worst hit by the heavy rains, with flood prone areas such as the housing complex on Jalan Gunung Payung, Jalan Tangkuban Perahu, Kerta Dalem hamlet, Sidakarya, Jalan Imam Bonjol, Gang Air Mancur and Gang Nyobrida, SDN 9 Sesetan elementary school and several other places all becoming submerged. The elementary school had to move their computers and other materials to higher ground to avoid being destroyed by the flood waters.
Torrential rains flushing most areas of Bali on Wednesday (Feb. 3) caused a number of areas in Denpasar and Badung to be hit by floods. The extreme weather also led a number of fallen trees in Bali.
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Bali’s economic growth projected to go up 6.53 percent in 2016
DENPASAR - Chief Representative Officer of the Bank Indonesia (BI) for the region of Bali, Dewi Setyowati, predicted that Bali’S economic growth will increase by 6.53 percent. In terms of demand, things like household and government consumption, investment and overseas exports are expected to increase. Foreing imports on the other hand are expected to slowdown due to the influence of the continued strengthening of the US dollar agains beth Indonesian rupiah. Household consumption, she said, has the potential to increase in line with the increase of minimum
wage (UMP) earlier this year as well as the decline in fuel prices, LPG and electricity tariffs. Government consumption is also expected to increase due to development plans initiated in 2014-2015 that will be continued in 2016. Dewi Setyowati explained that the performance of foreign exports show improvements due to the strengthening of the economies of
Bali’s trading partners including China, Australia, Japan, Korea and the United States as well as some European countries. “Their economic conditions are improving so our exports are also increasing,” she said on Wednesday (Feb. 3). In terms of supply, several business sectors are also predicted to grow, such as accommodations, agriculture, construction, trade and transport. The industrial economy however is expected to decline. “So, in 2016, overall economic growth is expected to reach 6.53 give or take
0.5 percent,” she explained. The growth of Bali’s economy in 2016 will become visible in the near future (Chinese New Year Celebrations - ED), when Bali will be visited by some 20,000 tourists from China. “So, these 20,000 visitors will be transported on 200 direct flights from China to Bali. In terms of accommodations alone this represents substantial revenue,” said Dewi Setyowati. Bali’s inflation rate for 2016, she added, is also estimated to increase slightly compared to last year - in the range of 4 percent give or take
1 percent. The driving force of inflation is the supply and demand of food commodities for celebrations like Galungan and Kuningan (that will occur twice this year) Nyepi celebrations and other. (kmb21) 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.