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Oscars best picture suspense crowns tumultuous Hollywood year LOS ANGELES - The red carpet has been rolled out and the champagne is on ice for an Oscars ceremony on Sunday filled with suspense over the movie industry’s biggest prize — and whether Hollywood’s campaign against sexual harassment will steal the spotlight. Unlike previous years, the best picture contest this time is anyone’s guess.

Fox Searchlight fantasy romance “The Shape of Water” with a leading 13 nominations, Fox Searchlight dark comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and Universal Pictures racial satire “Get Out” all have a fighting chance, awards pundits say.

“I think ‘Get Out’ seems to have the momentum right now,” said Dave Karger, special correspondent for entertainment website IMDB.com.

“Get Out,” a bold horror movie that became a talking point around modern day race relations in America, won best picture at Saturday’s independent Spirit Awards.

But Hollywood also has other issues on its mind, including the sexual misconduct scandal that has brought down dozens of once powerful men, and lingering questions over racial and

gender fairness in the movie business.

The Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace, spearheaded by celebrities including Reese Witherspoon and Ava DuVernay, will be recognized in some form in Sunday’s ceremony, organizers say.

History could be made on Sunday.

“Get Out” director and writer Jordan Peele could be the first black man in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 90-year history to win a directing Oscar.

“Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig could become only the second female to take home that prize when the decision of the 8,000 Academy members is announced.

“Every year, the discussion around the awards is less and less who will win, but how many women are nominated, or how many blacks and Asians lost,” said Tom O’Neil, founder of awards website GoldDerby.com.

Host Jimmy Kimmel has the task of navigating the wider political themes with the celebrations. He is also expected to turn into a running joke last year’s embarrassing best picture envelope mix-up that saw musical “La La Land” being declared winner

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Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle attend the first annual Royal Foundation Forum held at Aviva in London, February 28, 2018.

Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan to invite public to wedding celebrations

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife-to-be Meghan Markle will invite more than 2,500 members of the public to take part in their wedding day celebrations in May, his office said on Friday.

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Kazuhiro Tsuji (L), Lucy Sibbick, and David Malinowski arrive to an event celebrating hair and makeup artists nominated for an Academy Award for their work in the film “Darkest Hour” in the lead up to the 90th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 3, 2018.

Harry and U.S. actress Markle are tying the knot at his grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on May 19 in a ceremony expected to attract attention from around the world.

“Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle will invite 2,640 members of the public to Windsor Castle on their wedding day to watch the arrivals of the bride and groom

and their guests and the carriage procession as it departs from the castle,” Kensington Palace said in a statement.

The 2,640 invited guests will be made up of people from charities associated with the couple, local school pupils and members of the local community, and 1,200 people from across the country, chosen from a broad range of backgrounds and ages.

“Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle have said they want their wedding day to be shaped so as to allow members of the public to feel part of the celebrations too,” the statement said.

“This wedding, like all weddings, will be a moment of fun and joy that will reflect the characters and values of the bride and groom.” (rtr)

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A man walks through Times Square during a winter nor’easter in New York City, U.S., March 2, 2018.

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U.S. Northeast still facing flooding, outages after killer storm

PRINCETON. - More than 1.5 million customers remained without power throughout the eastern United States early on Sunday, and communities on the New England coast faced more flooding two days after a powerful storm snapped trees, downed wires and killed at least nine people.

The remnants of the storm, known as a nor’easter, lingered on Sunday with flood watches and wind advisories in effect until 1 p.m. in northeastern United States even as it moved hundreds of miles out to sea, hampering efforts to restore power.

The governors of both Massachusetts and New York declared a state of emergency on Saturday afternoon, following similar announcements by the governors of Virginia and Maryland on Friday.

The moves give those states access

to federal resources.

The storm carried hurricane-force winds in excess of 90 miles per hour (145 kph), sending seawater churning into streets in Boston and nearby shore towns - the second time the area has been flooded this year.

The National Weather Service (NWS) said that while winds have weakened on Sunday and most of the rain and snow has moved offshore, flooding and extreme high tides could still affect the coastal areas from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, N.Y.

“We’re definitely not out of the woods yet,” said meteorologist David Roth at the weather service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Falling trees killed seven people - including two boys who died when trees struck their homes - in Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, according to local media and police. Two others died in the storm, according to media reports, including a 41-year-old man in Andover, New Jersey, who came

in contact with power lines.

Private forecasting service AccuWeather said the storm dumped as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of snow on parts of New York state and Pennsylvania. The Massachusetts town of East Bridgewater received nearly 6 inches of rain, the NWS said.

The storm also snarled transportation from the Middle Atlantic into New England, with more than a quarter of flights into and out of New York’s three major airports and Boston’s airport canceled on Friday, tracking service FlightAware.com reported.

The problems carried over into Saturday, with hundreds of flights can-

celed into and out of New York and Boston, according to the website.

One flight landing at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Friday experienced turbulence so rough that most passengers became sick and the pilots were on the verge of becoming ill, the Federal Aviation Administration said. (rtr) 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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Foreign tourist visit to Bali decreases

BPPD invites travel agencies, media and foreign bloggers DENPASAR - The arrival of foreign tourists in Bali during January 2018 was recorded to reach 358,065 visits. A total of 345,191 came through the airport and 12,874 others through seaports. This arrival rate indicated a decline of 22.30 percent when compared to January 2017. When compared to the previous month, the number of foreign tourist visit to Bali recorded an increase of 13.34 percent.

The tourists visited Tirta Gangga in Karangasem.

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Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Adi Nugroho, revealed that by nationality, the most recorded tourists coming to Bali in January 2018 were Australian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and English tourists with respective percentage of 24.20 percent each, 13.15 percent, 8.10 percent, 3.97 percent, and 3.92 percent.

Australian tourists coming to Bali increased 9.39 percent from January 2018. However, when compared to January 2017, it decreased 5.31 percent. Chinese tourists increased significantly 308.41 percent from the previous month, but decreased 68.17 percent compared to January 2017.

Indian tourists decreased 0.37 percent compared to the previous month and increased 65.62 percent compared to January 2017. Meanwhile, Japanese tourist decreased 7.23 percent from the previous month and also decreased 17.38 percent compared to January 2017.

Head of Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD) of Badung district, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Surya Wijaya, said that one of the efforts made by the BPPD Badung to achieve the target of 17 million foreign tourists visit to Indonesia and 7 million foreign tourists to Bali is by holding a familiarization trip and table top.

On March 1-4, the BPPD worked with the airline companies and IHGMA to invite foreign travel agencies, media and bloggers. “They are from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. We need this kind of model so they focus on selling Bali,” he said. They come to Bali to make an agreement with the tourism industry in Bali. He considered this kind of activity is potential for Bali in the future.

At the same time, such activities are also meant for Bali tourism recovery effort because previously Bali had ‘been sick’ and just recovered 60 percent.

“It can still be treated by ‘outpatient’ but by promoting either by familiarization trip to Bali, holding event or festival in Bali to attract tourists come or doing promotion,” he explained.

Like two days before, he made a visit to America namely LA, New York, Manhattan, Washington DC et cetera. Last February, he also did promotion to Australia namely Perth, Melbourne and Sidney.

Next week, he will go to Europe especially Germany. “This is certainly to convince the potential tourists coming from Germany that Bali remains safe, and the industry and government guarantee that they are safe,” he said. (kmb42)

Having capital of natural beauty and cultural uniqueness

Bali remains weak in sanitation

DENPASAR - Sanitation or garbage issue becomes one of the threats faced by Bali tourism such as the sanitation of toilets in tourist destinations. Actually, sanitation is one of the seven important points contained in the Sapta Pesona (seven charms) for tourists in order to feel comfortable, stay longer, satisfied with their visit as well as provide beautiful memories for their life.

“We have been coordinating every 3 months with colleagues in the districts / municipality because they have the region and destinations. We always recommend Sapta Pesona,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Bali governor’s interactive dialog at Wantilan Hall of the Bali House of Representatives on Saturday (Mar. 3).

According to Yuniartha, Sapta Pesona consists of seven elements namely safety, orderliness, sanita-

tion, coolness, beauty, hospitality and memories. Hopefully, tourists will not only come once but for many times. Regarding the sanitation, he claimed to have coordinated and provided direct coaching for tourist destinations in Bali.

“The problem lies in the toilet. It only looks clean after being made and the problem appears in the maintenance because it is not cleaned up every day. We always give directions so that the toilet is clean,” he explained.

Similarly related to garbage, Yuniartha said to have asked every destination management to prepare trash bin. However, the garbage problem to date remains one of the sanitation issues in the tourist destinations. This is also recognized by Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika. “It is our weakness in Bali so that people are not comfortable in the matter of sanitation. The complaint is about sanitation. Re-

garding the uniqueness, it is indeed unique. Sanitation is less secured such as toilets as well as garbage around the object. We are less sensitive to things like these,” he said.

Pastika added that tourists are not comfortable to travel if they are frequently mocked up by street vendors. Therefore, the arrangement of merchants needs to be done other than sanitation issues considering that Bali already has the capital of natural beauty and cultural uniqueness.

“Toilet is the most difficult in Indonesia, especially in Bali. If available, it is located so far away and not well maintained. It is never flushed and looks entirely black. I think this becomes our future challenge. This really concerns with our mindset, our culture. We always look more beautiful in the matter of ‘fence’ than the content inside,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Sydney’s gay pride street parade celebrates same-sex marriage, honours early activists

By Alison Bevege

SYDNEY - About half a million people are expected to line Sydney’s streets on Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the first time the annual parade has taken place since Australia legalised same-sex marriage.

The event started in 1978 as a protest march for gay rights and the decriminalisation of homosexuality but has since grown into a major tourist

spectacle featuring leather, sequins, glitter, lasers and dance music. It is now Sydney’s biggest street party and a major focal point for Australia’s gay and lesbian community.

This year’s procession includes 200 floats and groups of street dancers and will be headed by Dykes on Bikes, a motorcycle club.

Pop superstar Cher will headline the parade’s official party, the first since Australia in December

became the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage.

Australians overwhelmingly endorsed legalising same-sex marriage in a postal survey in a country where sodomy laws were still in place in some states until as recently as the 1990s.

This year’s Mardi Gras will honour the 78ers, a group of people involved in the original protest, which took place on June 24, 1978 as a peaceful march for gay rights

that sparked the annual parade.

That protest was marred by police brutality with 53 people arrested in subsequent scuffles.

Police have since apologised for the events of 1978 and now march each year in the parade alongside other emergency services.

Bruce Pollack, a Mardi Gras volunteer since 1984, said the parade has played a major role in changing attitudes toward the LGBT com-

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Bali Art Carnival II marked with sound of okokan

BALI Art Carnival II was officially released by the Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, in front of Jayasabha Building, Denpasar, on Saturday afternoon (Mar. 3). The release was marked by sounding okokan (large cowbell) as a typical musical instrument of Tabanan. Bali Art Carnival II is one of the opening series of the Bali Mandara Nawanatya III weekend art extravaganza started on Saturday (Mar. 3) and will last until the end of 2018 at Denpasar Art Center.

munity over the decades.

“I was involved in the gay and lesbian counseling service ... you would always hear young gays, and older gays, and much older gays say ‘it’s OK to come out because I saw people like me in the parade enjoying themselves - and there were spectators’,” Pollack told Reuters. “It was Mardi Gras that made it OK to be gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgender.” (rtr)

the price of sand experienced a fairly high spike.

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Sand price soars due to Mt. Agung eruption

Quarry activities had switched to Kintamani

BANGLI — The closure of quarry activities in Karangasem following the eruption of Mount Agung some time ago had an impact on the scarcity of sand material supplies in Bali. As the impact, the price of sand experienced a fairly high spike. During the quarry activities in Karangasem were closed, the activities were switched to Kintamani. Almost thousands of trucks each day pass by Kintamani to transport sand from the foot of Mount Batur.

In Kintamani, all this time there are two locations of quarry activities namely at Batur and Songan village. The quarry activities look for materials such as sand and stone at both locations have been lasting long enough. Although being prohibited, the sand mining activities in Kintamani still take place by utilizing heavy equipment.

Around October until the end of 2017, the quarry activities in Kintamani increased from usual condition. It happened as the impact of closing quarry activities in Karangasem due to increasing activities of Mount Agung. Almost every day the Culali line in Kintamani is passed through by many quarry trucks causing congestion. Indeed, the number of trucks transporting sand to Kintamani increased sharply from the previous number.

Hamlet chief of Tabu, Songan, I Komang Kertia, acknowledged

the increased quarry in Kintamani occurred when the Mount Agung erupted. Previously, there were only 40-50 trucks taking sand to one of the quarrying locations, but when the eruption of Gunung Agung occurred, the number of trucks to quarry location increased up to 90 trucks per day. He mentioned at Songan village there are about 12 points of quarrying activities. If calculated entirely, the number of trucks taking sand at Songan at that time reached hundreds of unit per day. “However, I do not know the number in Batur,” he said.

He revealed the trucks taking sand to Kintamani are mostly trucks usually taking sand in Karangasem.

Since the sand material at that time was rare, the price of sand was soaring. Kertia added the selling price of sand at the quarrying location is IDR 250,000 per truck, while at consumer level the price of sand reached IDR 1.2 million. “Now, the price is down. When taking directly to the location, the price is below IDR 200,000 per truck, “he said.

According to Kertia, the decline in sand price at the location of quarry activities in Kintamani is influenced by the decreasing demand of sand as quarry location in Karangasem has been re-operated.

“Besides, many projects have not been worked on yet, so the demand for sand remains low,” he added. (kmb40)

“We hope that in the future more participants will participate so as to give meaning to the Bali Mandara Nawanatya because this event is earmarked for the young people,” said Pastika on the sidelines of the Bali Art Carnival II parade on Saturday (Mar. 3).

Pastika appreciated to the carnival participants having utilized used items such as newspapers, plastics, bottles and palm leaves into beautiful and unique carnival costumes. “Using these bottles is actually our idea of recycling, so our waste problem becomes a little bit tackled,” he said that it is in line with the Bali Clean and Green program launched by the Bali government.

In the meantime, Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, said the implementation of the Bali Art Carnival for the second time is expected to become a new tourist attraction. Hopefully, the Bali Art Carnival activities in the future can be a worldwide art event like the parade of the Bali Arts Festival followed by participants from overseas.

“Now, Banyuwangi is participating in this event.

In the future, we hope to become a worldwide event so that can be followed not only by young artists of Bali and the archipelago, but also by those from other countries,” he hoped.

In the cultural parade can be seen that a number of representatives of high school and vocational school in Bali displaying carnival costumes that symbolize the gods and animals taking advantage of used items such as used bottles, plastics, palm leaves, newspapers waste and so on.

The carnival featuring the theme of Tri Bhuana Kerthi or the harmony of three layers of the universe was not only followed by young artists from Bali, but also enlivened by the honorary participant from the Banyuwangi Ethno Carnival.

A number of envoys and artists from Bali participating in the carnival are those from Penggak Men Mersi Foundation, Bali Mandara High School, Kisrama Production-Singaraja, Fortuna Management-Singaraja, and Pancer Langiit Art Community.

Meanwhile, the accompanying music was presented by about 100 people from Brahma Diva Kencana Okokan Troupe of Tabanan, Marching Band of SMANSA Denpasar, and Babaiswara Baleganjur art troupe of Pancer Langiit Art Community.

After making demonstration in front of the governor of Bali, the parade participants and the honorary invitees then walked along Jalan Surapati to Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Denpasar, and ended the parade route in front of Denpasar Art Center on Jalan Nusa Indah, Denpasar. (win)

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Bali Art Carnival II is one of the opening series of the Bali Mandara Nawanatya III weekend art extravaganza started on Saturday (Mar. 3) and will last until the end of 2018 at Denpasar Art Center.

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A journey on a caravan of misery

CARACAS - Just after dawn, dozens of Venezuelans gathered at the dark bus station in Caracas. They lugged one big suitcase each, as well as blankets, toilet paper, cheap bread and jugs of water. Weeping wives, confused children and elderly parents hugged them over and over until it was time to check tickets and weigh bags, then hung back, waiting hours for the bus to leave. When it finally pulled out, the passengers looked down at their loved ones, pounding on the windows and blowing kisses as they speeded out of this crumbling capital city.

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Wahyudi, makes a mosaic wall from bamboo.

Mosaic wall made from bamboo

DENPASAR — Many people think that mosaic design can only use ceramics and glass. However, a businessman from Batu, East Java, Wahyudi, makes a mosaic wall from bamboo. Bamboo is diced and made into various sizes for mosaic walls.

The owner of Java Green Indonesia, Wahyudi, tries to make a tropical house design with tropical materials such as bamboo. He started business in 2016. “Bamboo used to be booming, so that I want to make creative product from

bamboo. Previously, I’ve got an idea of making a wall from mosaic ceramic. However, I just have an idea to make a mosaic of different materials,” said this graduate of architecture. The mosaic motif consists of rafts, weaves, screens

and blends.

The bamboo raw material is taken from Malang. He does not need to have doubt for the lack of raw materials because, according to him, bamboo is still widely planted.

To make durable, the bamboo raw materials should be boiled first to remove the content of its starch.

After that, it is soaked with liquid so that it is resistant from insect and fungus. He ensured that the

quality of bamboo mosaic is well maintained. He even guaranteed for four years. “I put it in a humid place but it is not even eaten by termites and beetles,” he said.

According to him, many advanced technologies can be applied to bamboo. Previously, bamboo gave impression that it is easily damaged. However, the current technology and certain treatments can make bamboo durable.

Bamboo mosaic wall is usually used for house walls, ceilings, doors, cabinets and couch. “More mosaic walls are installed to give an accent of wall. For example, at hotel it is installed at the lobby or interior of the building,” he said when met at the IBT Expo 2018, Friday (Mar. 2).

Since two years ago, the sales have been pretty good where the orders come from Surabaya, Bali and Bandung. (kmb42)

Buleleng airport rejected by central govt

Governor: there’s still opportunity in private sector

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika.

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DENPASAR - Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, admitted that he has not known yet about the cancellation of the airport development plan in Buleleng. The cancellation was delivered directly by the Coordinating Minister for Marine Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, referring to the study results of the World Bank and Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (PT SMI).

“I do not know whether this is really canceled or not because we are indeed dependent on the government budget,” he said after holding

interactive dialog at Wantilan Hall of the Bali House of Representatives on Saturday (Mar. 3).

Pastika realized that Bali is currently quite advanced with the presence of Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to this former Bali Police chief, the beauty of the international airport is nothing to match in Indonesia. Nevertheless, his authority will still seek direct clarity from Minister Luhut related to the cancellation of the airport development plan in Buleleng.

“Definitely (we’ll discuss with

Luhut—Ed). It (airport in Buleleng) is our dream and has been specified in the Regional Regulation (Perda) No.16/2009 about Provincial Spatial Layout (RTRWP).

In other words, the legal standing is clear and that is what we all want,” he explained.

If it is indeed ‘rejected’ by central government, Pastika mentioned the construction of the airport in Buleleng remains to have a chance to be worked on by private sector.

“There are still opportunities in the private sector,” he said. (kmb32)

On board the bus, web developer Tony Alonzo had sold his childhood guitar to help pay for his ticket to Chile. For months he had been going to bed hungry so that his 5-yearold brother could have something for dinner. Natacha Rodriguez, a machine operator, had been robbed at gunpoint three times in the past year. She was headed for Chile, too, hoping to give her baseball-loving son a better life. Roger Chirinos was leaving his wife and two young children behind to search for work in Ecuador. His outdoor advertising company had come to a bitter end: Protesters tore down his billboards to use as barricades during violent rallies against authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.

Their bus tells the story of a oncewealthy nation in stomach-dropping free fall, as hundreds of people flee daily from a land where fear and want are the new normal.

By the time dawn rises over Caracas, hungry people are already picking through garbage while kids beg in front of bakeries. Come dusk, many Venezuelans shut themselves inside their homes to avoid muggings and kidnappings. In a country with the world’s largest proven crude reserves, some families now cook with firewood because they cannot find propane. Hospitals lack supplies as basic as disinfectant.

Food is so scarce and pricey that the average Venezuelan lost 24 pounds last year.

“I feel Venezuela has succumbed to an irreversible evil,” Chirinos said.

Many blame the country’s precipitous decline on the government of Maduro, who has tightened his grip on power, holding fast to statist policies that have throttled the economy. His government says it is facing a U.S.-led conspiracy to sabotage leftism in Latin America by hoarding goods and stoking inflation.

Poorer by the day, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have concluded that escape is their only option. With the country’s currency virtually worthless and air travel beyond the reach of all but elites, buses have become Venezuela’s caravans of misery, rolling day and night to its borders and returning largely empty to begin the process all over again.

The 37 Venezuelans leaving on

this day had hocked everything – motorbikes, TVs, even wedding rings – to pay for their escape. Most had never been outside the country before.

For nine days, a reporter and a photographer from Reuters accompanied the migrants as they headed for what they hoped were better days in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. For nearly 5,000 miles, they rolled through some of South America’s most spectacular landscapes, including the vertiginous Andean mountain range and the world’s driest desert in Chile. But even though the Venezuelans were awed by the views whizzing by their window, their minds were mostly on the land they had left behind – and the uncertainty facing them in the lands ahead.

FROM CARACAS TO CONCON A heavy silence fell over the bus after it pulled out of the Rutas de America terminal. Passengers glumly texted family members or stared out the window as the packed vehicle rolled by mango trees, shuttered factories and crumbling murals of the late President Hugo Chavez.

Natacha Rodriguez, the machine operator, had been running on adrenaline in the mad rush to pack, sell her television and washing machine, and endure long lines to get her documents in order. Now, on this day in November, she was near exhaustion as she tried to get comfortable in her seat.

The 29-year-old single mom was traveling with her 12-year-old son, David, her sister Alejandra and a family friend, Adrian Naveda, to what she dreamed would be a quiet life. The group was bound for Concon, Chile, a beach resort where Venezuelan expat friends assured them there was plenty of work.

Rodriguez said she had hoped Venezuela’s youth could bring about change. Like millions of her countrymen, she took to the streets to protest the unpopular Maduro last year, only to despair when he responded by consolidating his authority.

Fear added to Rodriguez’s hopelessness: Her story of three robberies at gunpoint is a familiar one in a country awash with drugs and gangs. And with inflation fast out-

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Alejandra Rodriguez, who travelled by bus from Venezuela to Chile, uses her cellphone to speak with her boyfriend who lives in Venezuela, as she sits at a bench of a shopping mall near her house to take advantage of a free internet connection in Concon, Chile, November 20, 2017.

Alejandra walked several blocks during the night to a shopping mall and sat for hours in front of the closed stores, to use the free internet network and chat with her loved ones in Venezuela. running her paycheck, the already petite woman had lost 13 pounds as she cut fruit and soft drinks from her diet so that David would not go hungry. She knew she had to act.

“In Venezuela you go to sleep thinking about what you’re going to eat the next day,” Rodriguez said. “I never wanted to leave, but the situation is forcing me to.”

She had never left the country, and the enormity of what she was attempting was sinking in. In the days ahead she would visit four new countries, cross the equator and see the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

But she couldn’t stop thinking of how far she had traveled from the home she still loved.

‘FIGHTING AGAINST THE TIDE’ Venezuelans elected Chavez, the late leftist firebrand, in 1998 with a mandate to fight inequality. A charismatic former lieutenant colonel, Chavez transformed the country during his 14-year rule, pouring oil revenue into wildly popular welfare programs. But he also nationalized large swaths of the economy and implemented strict currency controls, state meddling that economists say is the root of the current crisis.

Once a magnet for European and Middle Eastern immigrants during its 1970s oil boom, Venezuela now exports its people along with petroleum.

Spooked by Chavez, a first wave of engineers, doctors and other professionals began fleeing for the

United States, Canada and Europe in the early 2000s. Most arrived to warm welcomes in their adopted homes, many with their savings intact.

Now, financially ravaged Venezuelans with fewer skills are pouring across South America in a frantic search for work in restaurants, stores, call centers and construction sites. Some travel only as far as their savings will stretch: A one-way bus ticket to neighboring Colombia from Caracas costs the U.S. equivalent of around $15; the fare for a trip to Chile or Argentina can run as high as $350, a small fortune for many. The plunging currency and rocketing inflation make financing the voyage more expensive with each passing day.

Sociologist Tomas Paez, an immigration specialist at the Central University of Venezuela, estimates that almost 3 million people have fled Venezuela over the past two decades. He believes nearly half of them have left in the last two years alone, in one of the largest mass migrations the continent has ever seen. The socialist government does not release emigration statistics, but Maduro says his enemies have exaggerated the extent of the exodus.

Neighboring Colombia has taken in the bulk of migrants in Latin America, although Argentina, Chile and Peru are also seeing a big influx.

In contrast to refugees fleeing Syria, Myanmar and North Africa who have met with violence and

resistance, Venezuelans are moving easily across land borders on tourist visas. But tensions are increasing as their numbers strain the resources of South America’s developing countries, which have their own problems with poverty and crime.

Carmen Larrea has a front-row seat to the migration. She is the owner of Rutas de America, a small Caracas-based bus company founded nearly 50 years ago to ferry Peruvians and Ecuadoreans to Venezuela in search of work.

At 75, she has lived long enough to see the world turned upside down.

She now survives on Venezuelans heading in the other direction. Her customers included the 37 migrants whom Reuters followed.

Larrea’s terminal sees dozens queue up daily to purchase tickets.

Many must return repeatedly to pay in installments. Daily withdrawal limits on debit cards no longer keep up with inflation-fueled prices. Card readers frequently crash.

Requests for tickets abroad had roughly doubled in the last six months, Larrea said. Around 800 Venezuelans leave the country every month on her company’s handful of Caracas-based buses alone.

But skyrocketing prices for spare parts and the plunging bolivar have hammered her profits, Larrea said.

And while Rutas de America buses leave Caracas jam-packed, they often return empty, further denting business.

“We’re fighting against the tide,” she said. (rtr)

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The S&P 500 ended another turbulent week on an upbeat note Friday but major indexes posted their worst week of losses since early February as Trump’s threat to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum rattled investors.

The dollar fell against most currencies, dropping to its lowest in more than two years against the yen, as Trump’s tariffs proposal raised prospects of a damaging trade war.

Trump said on Thursday that a plan for tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum products would be formally announced next week.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump said on Twitter on Friday.

In a later social media post, the Republican president said his aim was to protect U.S. jobs in the face of cheaper foreign products, a familiar theme in the “America First” credo he campaigned on for the 2016 election. “We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!” he wrote.

Trump earned some bipartisan support from lawmakers, mainly from America’s rust belt states.

“This welcome action is long overdue for shuttered steel plants across Ohio and steelworkers who live in fear that their jobs will be the next victims of Chinese cheat-

ing,” said Senator Sherrod Brown, a liberal and populist Democrat from Ohio.

However, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a fellow Republican, urged Trump to rethink the tariffs.

“If the president wants to protect good-paying, family-supporting jobs in America, especially here in Wisconsin, then he should reconsider the administration’s position on these tariffs, particularly on ultra-thin aluminum,” Walker said in a statement.

Many economists say that instead of increasing employment, price increases for consumers of steel and aluminum such as the auto and oil industries will destroy more U.S. jobs than they create.

RETALIATION LIKELY Major U.S. trade partners are likely to hit back. Europe has drawn up a list of U.S. products on which to apply tariffs if Trump follows through on his plan. “We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans Levi’s,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told German television.

Trump’s threats to unleash a

trade war over steel crushed any hopes of substantial progress in current talks with Canada and Mexico to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, heightening fears for the trade deal’s future.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum would be “absolutely unacceptable” and vowed to continue to engage with U.S. officials on the issue. The International Monetary Fund also expressed concern, saying the proposed tariffs would likely damage the U.S. economy and those of other nations.

Trump’s announcement came after what one person with direct knowledge described as a night of “chaos” in the White House due to frequent switching of positions in the administration.

While Trump often lays out stark policy positions which he later rolls back as part of a negotiating tactic, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the levels of the planned tariffs were not expected to change. Capital Alpha Partners, a policy research group in Washington, said a quick reversal by Trump was highly unlikely.

“We also don’t see a chance for fine tuning, exceptions, carve outs, or a country-by-country policy” in the short term, the group said in a research note. “We would be hopeful that the policy could be modified in time.” The United States is the world’s biggest steel importer, buying 35.6 million tonnes in 2017. Peter Navarro, a White House adviser with largely protectionist views on trade and author of a book entitled “Death

By China,” brushed off the negative effects of tariffs on U.S. industry.

He said a 10 percent tariff on aluminum would add one cent to the cost of a can of beer, $45 to a car and $20,000 to a Boeing 727 Dreamliner. “Big price effects?

Negligible price effects,” he told Fox News.

But home appliance maker Electrolux said it was delaying a $250 million expansion of its plant in Tennessee as it was worried U.S. steel prices would rise and make manufacturing there less competitive. Trump’s administration has imposed a series of trade duties on a range of goods from solar panels to washing machines.

It is even studying whether America’s rubber band makers

need protection as Trump seeks to boost domestic manufacturing and employment. The decision on steel and aluminum was the most wide ranging and provocative to date and there is the prospect of more to come, with the government holding an investigation into alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by China. Trump made his tariff announcement as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser, Liu He, was visiting Washington.

Liu held a second day of talks at the White House with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and the U.S. officials stressed concerns about the U.S. trade deficit with China, market access and unfair treatment of U.S. companies. “We held frank conversations,” a White House spokeswoman said. We continue to be open to an exchange of ideas on how to resolve these concerns.”

White House officials said Trump himself did not stop by the meeting with Liu as he sometimes does when senior foreign dignitaries, including Chinese officials, are visiting. (rtr)

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Piling Kawan Hot Spring, New Tourist Attraction in Tabanan

Trade wars are good,’ Trump says, defying global concern over tariffs

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on Friday, saying trade wars were good and easy to win, after his plan to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imports triggered threats of retaliation from trading partners and a slide in stock markets. The European Union raised the possibility of taking countermeasures, France said the duties would be unacceptable, and China urged Trump to show restraint. Canada, the biggest supplier of steel and aluminum to the United States, said it would retaliate if hit by U.S. tariffs.

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Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive

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Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar. Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center for the plantation supplying a wide range of cut heliconia flowers.

There are more than 200 types of flowers, including torch bananas, lime banana, the Caribbean and yellow dancer with a variety of colors. “Sekar Bumi supplies a wide variety of cut flowers and cut leaves demand as well as decorative plant for tourism industry,” said Ketut Subagia, the SBFF owner.

12 Wow.... Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive-E_1 Aside from being the cultivation of flowers, this object also offers outbound and agro-tourism as a suitable destination for family.

For travelers wishing to get challenge, they can take advantage of a variety of games available such as flying fox, fine ball, trekking, cycling and outdoor games that can accommodate a large number of participants.

The flying fox here may be the longest in Bali. Length of the rope

reaches 500 meters to 700 meters.

Its track is also unique as passing over a cliff, hanging bridge and five points with very stressful moment.

In the meantime, fine ball is gutchallenging game with a range of 10 meters. The bullets are made of organic materials so that the waste will not harm nature.

Other than being good for relaxation, this beautiful tourist spot is also a place of education for children. Through the garden tour program, visitors can get lessons on the environment such as arranging cut flowers, learning about farming, planting, fertilizing, picking crops, visiting rare trees and making compost.

Visitors liking to live with nature, they can do camping here.

Although located on a plateau, the SBFF has prepared ready-todrink fresh water. This water flows through a tunnel formerly used by

local community to irrigate their paddy fields. There is also a stage intended for visitors wishing to celebrate their happiness here.

Native irrigation system to Bali, namely subak, is completely available here. Visitors can also experience the activity of farmers in Bali like plowing paddy fields by cows, rice farming, looking for eels and fish. The soil here is so fertile, and at the edge of it sits an old house and spacious parking lot.

The presence of the SBFF can promote Kerta village with panoramic views to the people outside the region and overseas. Moreover after the SBFF received numerous awards, this object is increasingly visited by many travelers from around the world. “There are travelers coming here specifically to arrange flowers in addition to enjoying a variety of exciting games,” said Subagia. (kmb)

When talking about hot springs (yeh panes), Tabanan district has many to consider. There have been a number of host spring objects in operation such as ESPA Yeh Panes Natural Hot Springs Spa & Resort at Penatahan village, Yeh Panes Belulang at Belulang village, Yeh Panes Angsri at Angsri village as well as Yeh Panes Piling at Piling Kawan village, precisely at Subak Uma Desa, Taman Sari, Piling Kawan village, Penebel subdistrict.

Yeh Panes Piling is relatively new as it is newly introduced to the general public, although it has existed from a long time ago. This spiritual object was discovered in 1972 by local society located on the land owned by Nyoman Sutana, the land inherited from his parents.

“This hot spring continues to flow.

After arriving at downstream, it is utilized to irrigate paddy fields.

Now, many people take advantage it to bathe,” said Nyoman Sutana.

In the beginning, the hot spring was only known to local people for bathing. However, after the story of word to mouth, the Piling hot spring becomes a spiritual tourist attraction, a place for skin medication in addition to cleaning the body from dirt. “We then arrange it into a good, safe and comfortable bathing place including the management.

It is meant to become a tourist attraction and brings in visitors,” he said.

Arrangement and management

of the new tourist attraction is entrusted to his son, Wayan Mediastra, in accordance with tourism management. Piling hot spring now has a pentagon-shaped pond sizing 5 x 5 meters and a depth of 120 cm. In addition, there are five showers having natural materials and atmosphere. “People who usually bathe at this location can calm down the mind and soak to treat skin diseases,” he explained.

This supporting facilities available include three spacious bathrooms (include changing room).

Meanwhile, the management of this hot spring pool was just established three months ago. This area continues to be arranged, so that it looks more beautiful. Cool nature and clean area is embellished with beautiful plants. “Most visitors bathing in this place are local people, but there are also foreign tourists. Visitors are crowded on weekend and other public holidays,” he said.

To use the existing facilities, visitors are subject to sincere donation. As located in the subak area, visitors wishing to shower must be ready to go through a muddy and slippery subak pathway. Visitors must walk along 100 meters from the parking lot. However, visitors will not feel tired because in every leaps of the journey can see beautiful panorama of paddy fields, while being entertained by the sounds of nature and greeted by native animals to paddy fields. (kmb)

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Indonesia aims to banish toxic waste from lifeline river

MAJALAYA - Indonesia’s Citarum river burbles past terraced rice paddies and quiet farming villages in the highlands of West Java, as it begins to wind its way hundreds of kilometres towards the sea. But the charm evaporates swiftly as the river, often labelled the world’s most polluted, descends past crowded zones of factories and homes that dump a pungent stew of garbage, waste and sewage into its 300-km (190-mile) stretch.

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Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni casts his vote at a polling station in Rome, Italy March 4, 2018.

Italy heads to polls with centreright ahead but stalemate looms ROME - Italians went to the polls on Sunday in a vote that could bring political gridlock after an election campaign marked by anger over the listless economy, high unemployment and immigration.

Pollsters have predicted that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party and his far-right allies will emerge as the largest bloc in parliament but fall short of a majority.

The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement looks set to be the biggest single party, feeding off discontent over entrenched corruption and growing poverty, while the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) is seen limping home in third place.

Heavily indebted Italy is the third-largest economy in the 19-member euro zone and, though investors have been

sanguine ahead of the ballot, prolonged political stalemate could reawaken the threat of market instability.

“I’d like to see the parties work together more for the good of the country ... there was too much mud-slinging during the campaign,” said 20-year-old Luca Hammad while leaving a polling station in Rome.

“I hope these elections bring change for young people.

Even if you find a job, wages are so low that it is hardly worth working.”

In the latest sign of the divisive climate ahead of the vote, some homes in Pavia, near Milan, were marked overnight with stickers that said “Here lives an anti-fascist”.

Neo-fascist movements have been gaining ground in Italy, where a Nazi sympathiser last month injured six Africans in a shooting incident.

Polling stations close at 2300 (2200 GMT), with exit polls

due immediately afterwards. The vote is being held under a complex new electoral law that could mean the final result will not be clear until late on Monday.

Confusion over the new law led to mistakes in 200,000 ballots that had to reprinted overnight in Palermo, where some polling stations delayed opening amid protests from voters.

The campaign has marked the return to frontline politics of 81-year-old Berlusconi, who was forced to quit as prime minister in 2011 at the height of a sovereign debt crisis and was widely written off after sex scandals, legal woes and ill health.

A 2013 conviction for tax fraud means he cannot hold public office and he has put forward Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, as his candidate for prime minister. (rtr)

“The water looks like it has been mixed with the waste, and sometimes it smells like ointment,” said Nurhayati, who lives in the riverside town of Majalaya, 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Jakarta, the capital. (Click http://reut. rs/2t5IUbY to see a picture package about the Citarum river) Among the river’s worst polluters are dozens of textile factories in Majalaya that dump chemical waste, said Arif Havas Oegroseno, a deputy minister who coordinates maritime affairs.

“They throw the dyed water into the smaller rivers that flow into the Citarum,” Oegroseno told Reuters.

“The small branches, sometimes they’re white, sometimes black,

red, blue or yellow.” His ministry is spearheading a new campaign to achieve President Joko Widodo’s ambition of making the water in Indonesia’s most strategic river basin drinkable by 2025.

Long before it hits the sea on the eastern shores of Jakarta Bay, the river turns into a toxic cocktail the colour of coffee. Children fly kites and play beside piles of floating trash in some parts of the river, but others avoid it as being a mere garbage dump. Yet further downstream, women in conical hats work in fields irrigated by the river.

They are among the 28 million people who depend on the river waters, which supply Jakarta, support 400,000 hectares (988,422 acres) of

rice paddies, sustain fish farms and fill reservoirs that generate about 2 gigawatts of hydropower.

The key to keeping the river clean will be educating people and toughening enforcement of environmental controls, said Oegroseno, who vowed to shut polluting factories and make them fund clean-ups. “Right now we are giving them warnings,” he said. Hundreds of soldiers were recently posted along the river to retrieve garbage, which gets burned as part of the ambitious programme backed by more than 10 ministries, local government, community groups, the police and the military.

Activists and green groups blame the failure of the government’s previous clean-up efforts on a lack of monitoring and diffi-

culties enforcing regulations. Last May, Greenpeace and several community bodies won a long court battle to revoke the permits of polluting factories in Rancaekek, on the outskirts of Bandung, where the group says pollution caused losses of 11.4 trillion rupiah ($831 million).

“We found that waste water permits were handed out from year to year, but no one was evaluating the impact on the environment,” said Ahmad Ashov, one Greenpeace campaigner. “There was no monitoring.”

In response, Anang Sudarna, head of the West Java Environment Agency, said several government departments issued permits based on environmental impact assessments and community consultation.

“We do supervise, but the man-

power we have is not enough,” Sudarna told Reuters, adding that equipment also fell short. “We are fixing this.” Deni Riswandani, an activist who demands tighter pollution measures, estimates 1,500 industries dump 280 tonnes of chemical waste in the river each day, but said that even with evidence, it was tough to enforce environmental rules. “It’s a long process, it’s expensive and they play games.”

Majalaya resident Nurhayati said she played in the river when she was younger and continued to use its water for washing and drinking, even after the factories and pollution arrived. Her two children have had skin problems, she said, adding, “I’m worried, but what else can I do? There’s no other water.”(rtr)

Thai efforts to protect location for DiCaprio film The Beach from tourist damage

Tourist boats could be banned from entering the world famous bay where the blockbuster film The Beach was set. Thai officials are considering enforcing the restriction in Maya Bay between June and September to protect the reef.

Up to 5,000 people a day visit the small stretch of sand on the island of Koh Phi Phi Leh, arriving on hundreds of boats which have damaged the delicate coral.

Tour guide Adam Gardener has lived and worked in the area for three years and says some tourists

and operators don’t respect the environment. He told Sky News: “They throw full on trash bags off the boats here sometimes, they bring the boats right in regardless if the boats are knocking corals and destroying everything. There’s just not a lot of respect for Koh Phi Phi anymore.”

The powder white sands and crystal waters are some of the most famous in the world after being used as the backdrop for Danny Boyle’s 2000 film The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Its popularity over the last 18 years has

taken its toll on the environment with reports up to 80% of the coral in the bay has died.

Some has been destroyed by anchors being dropped on it, people standing on it and pollution from sun cream and gasoline. Tourism is vital to the local economy, more than two million people visited the Koh Phi Phi National Park last year generating millions of pounds.

Every visitor who steps on the beach is charged an entrance fee of 400 Thai baht (£10).

The President of Phi Phi Tourist

Association, Watrapol Jantharo, rejected reports that the beach will be totally closed, instead telling Sky News that tourists would have to access it from the other side of the island.

Local conservationist and diver Andrew Hewett supports the plan to restrict access but said the area would need regular breaks if it was to recover.

His team have been growing and replanting coral a few minutes from Maya Bay where the water is now teaming with life. He warned

it was important to ensure the environment at the alternative entrance wasn’t also damaged.

“My concern is with the amount of boats in Maya Bay right now is whether there’s going to be enough room in this particular bay for that many the boats,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Thai authorities have restricted access to areas being damaged by tourism.

In 2016, Koh Tachai, an island in the famous Similan national park in southwest Thailand, was closed for an “indefinite period”. (ap)

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Farmers walk over a stream near Cisanti Lake, the main source of the Citarum river, in the mountains south of Bandung, in Tarumajaya village, West Java province, Indonesia, February 24, 2018.

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Pura Dalem Sidan GIANYAR - Pura Dalem Sidan is a temple that is referred to as the “Temple of Death Rites” and is known to be the spookiest temple on the island. The temple was built in honour of Siva, one of the most significant Hindu Gods, and his goddess wife Druga.

The temple is home to a large bell tower which shows the fate of those who do not live a pleasant life on earth. For those who live an unholy life, they will be punished by having their heads sawn off.

The inside of the temple is even darker with the presence of ghoulish artefacts ranging from witches, smashed infants and other relics. The daring traveller keen to explore the dark side of this temple may catch a glimpse of several carvings that

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Depending on the time of your visit to the temple, you may come across Balinese locals honouring the memories of their departed loved ones by throwing the ash to the sea.

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Christian Coleman of the U.S. celebrates winning the Men’s 60m Final with runner up China’s Bingtian Su and third place Ronnie Baker of the U.S.

Coleman and Dibaba steal show at dramatic world indoors

BIRMINGHAM - Christian Coleman looked every inch the natural successor to Usain Bolt as the fastest man in athletics, sweeping in a blur to a majestic 60 metres victory at the world indoor championships on Saturday.

A night of remarkable drama at Arena Birmingham saw the great Genzebe Dibaba win her second gold in three days in the 1,500 metres while Czech Pavel Maslak won his third 400 metres crown after a sensational double disqualification.

Yet it was the 21-year-old American Coleman, winner of two silvers at last year’s world outdoor championships in London, who hogged centre stage, following up his world record of 6.34 seconds set last month with an emphatic win in 6.37 seconds.

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(6.44) to the big prize.

The peerless Ethiopian Dibaba, who had lifted the 3,000 metres title on Thursday, had her work cut out to achieve the double in the metric mile but produced another solo tour de force.

Stretching her pursuers to breaking point by powering for home with almost a kilometre left, the 27-year-old kept Britain’s silver medallist Laura Muir and Dutch defending champion Sifan Hassan

at bay to win convincingly in four minutes 05.27 seconds.

It made her only the fourth athlete ever to win five individual gold medals in the championships.

“Last year I was sick (when finishing out of the medals at the world outdoor championships in London) but this time I was ready to run for my country,” she said.

“This is a gold for all the people of Ethiopia.” (rtr)

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Bautista Agut of Spain poses with the trophy after defeating Lucas Pouille of France.

DUBAI - Third-seed Roberto Bautista Agut defeated France’s Lucas Pouille 6-3 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday to secure his first ATP 500 title.

Bautista Agut, who won the Auckland Classic title in January, controlled the match from the start and took a 3-1 lead and the 29-yearold held on to capture the first set.

The Spaniard, who dropped just one set on his way to the final, maintained his momentum in the second to outclass Pouille and win his eighth career title.

“This tournament is very special. It is for sure going to be (always) in my heart and I am so happy I have won a 500 event,” Bautista Agut said.

“Lucas is a really great player, he has a great future and is play-

ing unbelievable tennis in the last month. I want to wish him good luck for the rest of the season.”

Second-seed Pouille, competing in his third ATP final in four events, also lost a chance to move into the top 10 for the first time.

Bautista Agut is expected to climb to world number 16 when the updated rankings are released on Monday. (rtr)

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Sp rt Dybala gives Juve dramatic win while Napoli collapse

MILAN - Serie A leaders Napoli’s title hopes suffered a setback when they collapsed to a 4-2 defeat at home to AS Roma on Saturday, while Paulo Dybala scored from a seemingly hopeless position in stoppage time to give rivals Juventus a 1-0 win at Lazio. Dybala’s goal gave Juve their 10th successive league win, while Napoli saw their own 10-match winning run in Serie A ended by two goals from Edin Dzeko and one apiece from Cengiz Under and Diego Perotti.

Napoli, beaten for only the second time this season in the league, lead with 69 points from 27 games but Juve are only one behind and, crucially, have a game in hand at home to Atalanta on March 14, the fixture having been snowed off last Sunday.

Roma were helped by another outstanding performance from Brazil goalkeeper Alisson who made a series of saves at important moments with Lorenzo Insigne his chief victim. Napoli, playing after the Juventus game had finished, got off to a flying start when Insigne put them ahead after six minutes but Under levelled one minute later with a deflected shot which flew over Pepe Reina.

Dzeko put Roma ahead with a looping header from Alessandro Florenzi’s cross in the 26th minute and the Bosnia forward added the third in the 73rd minute when he cut inside his marker and curled a shot beyond Reina’s reach.

In doing so, he become the first player to score at least 50 goals in three of the top-five leagues in Europe -- 66 in the Bundesliga, 50 in the Premier League and 50 in Serie A. It became a rout when Perotti fired home six minutes later, taking full advantage of a poor clearance by Mario Rui, although Dries Mertens made the score more respectable in stoppage time, finding the net with a low drive from outside the area.

Lazio had the better of their game against Juventus until the titleholders, in typical style, snatched all three points at the death with their third shot on target.

Surrounded by three defenders, Dybala collected the ball outside the Lazio area with his back to goal, turned and flicked the ball through an opponent’s legs, fell under a challenge from another and still managed to fire past Thomas Strakosha from on the ground. Juve kept a clean sheet for the seventh consecutive time in the league and the only team to have scored against them in any competition this year are Tottenham Hotspur, who host the Turin side on Wednesday in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

“A draw would also have been fair but these are three very important points,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. The defeat completed a tough week for Lazio who lost their Coppa Italia semi-final on penalties to AC Milan on Wednesday.

“That’s football, there were 20 seconds to go,” said Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi. “We played well, we conceded nothing to Juve and we are disappointed at the way it finished.” (rtr)

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring their first goal in front of fans

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is substituted off

Ronaldo double and Bale strike give Real win over Getafe MADRID - La Liga champions Real Madrid beat Getafe 3-1 on Saturday with a goal from Gareth Bale and two strikes from Cristiano Ronaldo to go 12 points behind leaders Barcelona and warm up for next week’s Champions League game at Paris St Germain.

Bale lashed in the opener in the 24th minute from inside the area at a sparsely attended Santiago Bernabeu, while Ronaldo stretched Zinedine Zidane’s side’s advantage in injury time of the first half after a through ball from Karim Benzema, scoring his 300th Liga goal.

The Portuguese moved on to 16 league goals for the season by heading in a cross from Marcelo in the 78th minute to restore Real’s two-goal cushion after Francisco Portillo had pulled back a goal from the penalty spot for Getafe.

Former Chelsea forward Loic Remy was sent off for Getafe two minutes into the second half for a second yellow card after striking Real defender Nacho Fernandez in the face.

Bale overtook David Beckham as the British player with the most appearances in La Liga by playing his 117th game for Real but missed a clear chance in injury time after being played in by a stunning pass

by Marco Asensio.

Real are third in the Liga standings on 54 points after 27 games.

Barcelona, who have 66, host second-placed Atletico Madrid in a top-of-the-table clash on Sunday, when Diego Simeone’s side can reduce the gap behind the leaders

to two points with a victory.

After Real’s five-game winning streak in all competitions was snapped by a surprise defeat at Espanyol on Tuesday, the coach said it was vital his side returned to winning ways ahead of their trip to Paris for the second leg of their last-16 tie.

“We had the PSG game in our heads and perhaps that’s why we eased up a bit in the second half and had a few difficulties but once they went down to 10 men it was easier for us,” Zidane told reporters.

“With a game like Tuesday’s coming up it was very important to be in a good mood for the next three days as when you lose you’re in a bad way, so it was very important for us to win.”

Sevilla secured a second straight victory by seeing off Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at home to tighten their hold on fifth place, moving four points ahead of Villarreal, who were beaten 2-0 at home by Girona.

Top flight debutants Girona moved up to seventh in the standings and in to the Europa League qualification spots as well as becoming the first team in their maiden season in La Liga to reach 40 points after 27 games.

Basement side Malaga suffered a sixth consecutive defeat by losing 2-0 at Leganes while Deportivo La Coruna scored their first goal in their fifth game under coach Clarence Seedorf but could only draw 1-1 at home to Eibar and remain 19th. (rtr)

LONDON - Liverpool moved into second place in the Premier League as Egyptian international Mohamed Salah continued his remarkable scoring run in a 2-0 victory at home to Newcastle United on Saturday. Salah scored for the seventh match running, taking his Liverpool total for the season to 32, when he put the home side ahead after 40 minutes.

Sadio Mane’s goal in the second half ensured there was no joy for Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez, whose Liverpool team won the Champions League in 2005. Manchester United will start next Saturday’s game at home to the Merseysiders back in second place if they win at Crystal Palace on Monday.

“I thought the boys did brilliantly,” said manager Juergen Klopp.

“Two wonderful goals and a few more possible. I’m happy.”

Tottenham Hotspur, apparently affected early in the season by playing home games at Wembley, achieved a sixth straight win there by beating Huddersfield Town 2-0 with a double

by Son Heung-min. It was their 17th game unbeaten in all competitions and briefly moved them ahead of Liverpool.

“We feel comfortable at Wembley, we enjoy playing here,” Son said after scoring four times this week at the national stadium where Tottenham are playing while they build a new home ground.

Spurs, who did not win in their first three league games there, are fourth, a point behind United and five ahead of fifth-placed Chelsea, who visit runaway leaders Manchester City on Sunday. Defeat pushed Huddersfield right back into the relegation mix, only three points above the bottom three, after winning their two previous games.

Swansea City were the big winners at the bottom, moving above five teams to 13th, including West Ham United who they beat 4-1. Ki Sung-yeung scored the first after nine minutes and the unmarked Mike van der Hoorn added a second in the 32nd. Andy King’s goal and Jordan Ayew’s penalty ensured vic-

Dutch midfielder Sneijder calls time on international career AMSTERDAM - Midfielder Wesley Sneijder ended his recordbreaking career with the Netherlands by announcing his retirement from international football on Sunday.

The decision follows discussions with new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, who went to see him in Qatar, the Dutch football association KNVB said in a statement.

“Wesley is one of the best Dutch internationals in recent years, an amazing player with a great attitude.

But I want to build a new team and

therefore have to make choices,” Koeman said in the statement.

The 33-year-old Sneijder said he knew his international career would be in jeopardy when he left Nice in January to play at Al Gharafa in Qatar.

“On top of that I understand that Koeman wants to start a new era with newer, younger players.

We spoke about this openly in a friendly discussion and I respect his decision,” Sneijder said.

The KNVB said they would now

discuss with Sneijder a possible role for him in the national team structures once he stopped playing and had achieved the necessary coaching qualifications.

Sneijder last June set a new record for most caps by a Dutch international when he played for a 131st time and his 133rd and last cap came in November’s 3-0 away win against Romania in a friendly.

He made his debut in 2003 and was a World Cup runner-up in South Africa in 2010. (rtr)

tory before a consolation by Michail Antonio.

West Ham manager David Moyes, whose team travelled seven hours by coach to reach Swansea from London on Friday after their flight was cancelled, was bitterly disappointed with the performance, one of their worst since he took over in November.

“I’m embarrassed,” he told reporters. “We played so bad. I couldn’t assess it, it was that poor. The fans travelled through the snow to get here and we let them down badly. That was the poorest performance since I came here.”

Victory continued Swansea’s improved form under Portuguese manager Carlos Carvalhal. Since he joined the club at the end of December with Swansea bottom, they have won five league games and lost only two.

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In contrast, West Bromwich Albion’s change of manager in the same month has not paid off. Alan Pardew’s job appears to be under

greater threat than ever after a 1-0 defeat at Watford. Albion have now won one of 15 league games since Pardew took over at the start of December and are seven points adrift at the bottom of the table.

Watford captain Troy Deeney was sent clear by Will Hughes to score the only goal. “The players gave me everything today and I cannot ask for more than that,” Pardew said. “It is tough but it isn’t about me, it’s about West Brom and it is tough for the fans and the players.” Stoke City stayed second-bottom but earned a valuable point in a 0-0 draw at Southampton.

Burnley supporters must have despaired when their team went a goal down at home to Everton. Sean Dyche’s team have never won a Premier League game after falling behind.

This time they did, however, celebrating Dyche’s 250th game as manager by winning 2-1 with goals from Ashley Barnes and substitute Chris Wood. Everton captain Ashley Williams was sent off four minutes from the end for a wild swipe at Barnes. (rtr)

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Sp rt Dybala gives Juve dramatic win while Napoli collapse

MILAN - Serie A leaders Napoli’s title hopes suffered a setback when they collapsed to a 4-2 defeat at home to AS Roma on Saturday, while Paulo Dybala scored from a seemingly hopeless position in stoppage time to give rivals Juventus a 1-0 win at Lazio. Dybala’s goal gave Juve their 10th successive league win, while Napoli saw their own 10-match winning run in Serie A ended by two goals from Edin Dzeko and one apiece from Cengiz Under and Diego Perotti.

Napoli, beaten for only the second time this season in the league, lead with 69 points from 27 games but Juve are only one behind and, crucially, have a game in hand at home to Atalanta on March 14, the fixture having been snowed off last Sunday.

Roma were helped by another outstanding performance from Brazil goalkeeper Alisson who made a series of saves at important moments with Lorenzo Insigne his chief victim. Napoli, playing after the Juventus game had finished, got off to a flying start when Insigne put them ahead after six minutes but Under levelled one minute later with a deflected shot which flew over Pepe Reina.

Dzeko put Roma ahead with a looping header from Alessandro Florenzi’s cross in the 26th minute and the Bosnia forward added the third in the 73rd minute when he cut inside his marker and curled a shot beyond Reina’s reach.

In doing so, he become the first player to score at least 50 goals in three of the top-five leagues in Europe -- 66 in the Bundesliga, 50 in the Premier League and 50 in Serie A. It became a rout when Perotti fired home six minutes later, taking full advantage of a poor clearance by Mario Rui, although Dries Mertens made the score more respectable in stoppage time, finding the net with a low drive from outside the area.

Lazio had the better of their game against Juventus until the titleholders, in typical style, snatched all three points at the death with their third shot on target.

Surrounded by three defenders, Dybala collected the ball outside the Lazio area with his back to goal, turned and flicked the ball through an opponent’s legs, fell under a challenge from another and still managed to fire past Thomas Strakosha from on the ground. Juve kept a clean sheet for the seventh consecutive time in the league and the only team to have scored against them in any competition this year are Tottenham Hotspur, who host the Turin side on Wednesday in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

“A draw would also have been fair but these are three very important points,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. The defeat completed a tough week for Lazio who lost their Coppa Italia semi-final on penalties to AC Milan on Wednesday.

“That’s football, there were 20 seconds to go,” said Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi. “We played well, we conceded nothing to Juve and we are disappointed at the way it finished.” (rtr)

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring their first goal in front of fans

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is substituted off

Ronaldo double and Bale strike give Real win over Getafe MADRID - La Liga champions Real Madrid beat Getafe 3-1 on Saturday with a goal from Gareth Bale and two strikes from Cristiano Ronaldo to go 12 points behind leaders Barcelona and warm up for next week’s Champions League game at Paris St Germain.

Bale lashed in the opener in the 24th minute from inside the area at a sparsely attended Santiago Bernabeu, while Ronaldo stretched Zinedine Zidane’s side’s advantage in injury time of the first half after a through ball from Karim Benzema, scoring his 300th Liga goal.

The Portuguese moved on to 16 league goals for the season by heading in a cross from Marcelo in the 78th minute to restore Real’s two-goal cushion after Francisco Portillo had pulled back a goal from the penalty spot for Getafe.

Former Chelsea forward Loic Remy was sent off for Getafe two minutes into the second half for a second yellow card after striking Real defender Nacho Fernandez in the face.

Bale overtook David Beckham as the British player with the most appearances in La Liga by playing his 117th game for Real but missed a clear chance in injury time after being played in by a stunning pass

by Marco Asensio.

Real are third in the Liga standings on 54 points after 27 games.

Barcelona, who have 66, host second-placed Atletico Madrid in a top-of-the-table clash on Sunday, when Diego Simeone’s side can reduce the gap behind the leaders

to two points with a victory.

After Real’s five-game winning streak in all competitions was snapped by a surprise defeat at Espanyol on Tuesday, the coach said it was vital his side returned to winning ways ahead of their trip to Paris for the second leg of their last-16 tie.

“We had the PSG game in our heads and perhaps that’s why we eased up a bit in the second half and had a few difficulties but once they went down to 10 men it was easier for us,” Zidane told reporters.

“With a game like Tuesday’s coming up it was very important to be in a good mood for the next three days as when you lose you’re in a bad way, so it was very important for us to win.”

Sevilla secured a second straight victory by seeing off Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at home to tighten their hold on fifth place, moving four points ahead of Villarreal, who were beaten 2-0 at home by Girona.

Top flight debutants Girona moved up to seventh in the standings and in to the Europa League qualification spots as well as becoming the first team in their maiden season in La Liga to reach 40 points after 27 games.

Basement side Malaga suffered a sixth consecutive defeat by losing 2-0 at Leganes while Deportivo La Coruna scored their first goal in their fifth game under coach Clarence Seedorf but could only draw 1-1 at home to Eibar and remain 19th. (rtr)

LONDON - Liverpool moved into second place in the Premier League as Egyptian international Mohamed Salah continued his remarkable scoring run in a 2-0 victory at home to Newcastle United on Saturday. Salah scored for the seventh match running, taking his Liverpool total for the season to 32, when he put the home side ahead after 40 minutes.

Sadio Mane’s goal in the second half ensured there was no joy for Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez, whose Liverpool team won the Champions League in 2005. Manchester United will start next Saturday’s game at home to the Merseysiders back in second place if they win at Crystal Palace on Monday.

“I thought the boys did brilliantly,” said manager Juergen Klopp.

“Two wonderful goals and a few more possible. I’m happy.”

Tottenham Hotspur, apparently affected early in the season by playing home games at Wembley, achieved a sixth straight win there by beating Huddersfield Town 2-0 with a double

by Son Heung-min. It was their 17th game unbeaten in all competitions and briefly moved them ahead of Liverpool.

“We feel comfortable at Wembley, we enjoy playing here,” Son said after scoring four times this week at the national stadium where Tottenham are playing while they build a new home ground.

Spurs, who did not win in their first three league games there, are fourth, a point behind United and five ahead of fifth-placed Chelsea, who visit runaway leaders Manchester City on Sunday. Defeat pushed Huddersfield right back into the relegation mix, only three points above the bottom three, after winning their two previous games.

Swansea City were the big winners at the bottom, moving above five teams to 13th, including West Ham United who they beat 4-1. Ki Sung-yeung scored the first after nine minutes and the unmarked Mike van der Hoorn added a second in the 32nd. Andy King’s goal and Jordan Ayew’s penalty ensured vic-

Dutch midfielder Sneijder calls time on international career AMSTERDAM - Midfielder Wesley Sneijder ended his recordbreaking career with the Netherlands by announcing his retirement from international football on Sunday.

The decision follows discussions with new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, who went to see him in Qatar, the Dutch football association KNVB said in a statement.

“Wesley is one of the best Dutch internationals in recent years, an amazing player with a great attitude.

But I want to build a new team and

therefore have to make choices,” Koeman said in the statement.

The 33-year-old Sneijder said he knew his international career would be in jeopardy when he left Nice in January to play at Al Gharafa in Qatar.

“On top of that I understand that Koeman wants to start a new era with newer, younger players.

We spoke about this openly in a friendly discussion and I respect his decision,” Sneijder said.

The KNVB said they would now

discuss with Sneijder a possible role for him in the national team structures once he stopped playing and had achieved the necessary coaching qualifications.

Sneijder last June set a new record for most caps by a Dutch international when he played for a 131st time and his 133rd and last cap came in November’s 3-0 away win against Romania in a friendly.

He made his debut in 2003 and was a World Cup runner-up in South Africa in 2010. (rtr)

tory before a consolation by Michail Antonio.

West Ham manager David Moyes, whose team travelled seven hours by coach to reach Swansea from London on Friday after their flight was cancelled, was bitterly disappointed with the performance, one of their worst since he took over in November.

“I’m embarrassed,” he told reporters. “We played so bad. I couldn’t assess it, it was that poor. The fans travelled through the snow to get here and we let them down badly. That was the poorest performance since I came here.”

Victory continued Swansea’s improved form under Portuguese manager Carlos Carvalhal. Since he joined the club at the end of December with Swansea bottom, they have won five league games and lost only two.

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In contrast, West Bromwich Albion’s change of manager in the same month has not paid off. Alan Pardew’s job appears to be under

greater threat than ever after a 1-0 defeat at Watford. Albion have now won one of 15 league games since Pardew took over at the start of December and are seven points adrift at the bottom of the table.

Watford captain Troy Deeney was sent clear by Will Hughes to score the only goal. “The players gave me everything today and I cannot ask for more than that,” Pardew said. “It is tough but it isn’t about me, it’s about West Brom and it is tough for the fans and the players.” Stoke City stayed second-bottom but earned a valuable point in a 0-0 draw at Southampton.

Burnley supporters must have despaired when their team went a goal down at home to Everton. Sean Dyche’s team have never won a Premier League game after falling behind.

This time they did, however, celebrating Dyche’s 250th game as manager by winning 2-1 with goals from Ashley Barnes and substitute Chris Wood. Everton captain Ashley Williams was sent off four minutes from the end for a wild swipe at Barnes. (rtr)

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The temple is home to a large bell tower which shows the fate of those who do not live a pleasant life on earth. For those who live an unholy life, they will be punished by having their heads sawn off.

The inside of the temple is even darker with the presence of ghoulish artefacts ranging from witches, smashed infants and other relics. The daring traveller keen to explore the dark side of this temple may catch a glimpse of several carvings that

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Christian Coleman of the U.S. celebrates winning the Men’s 60m Final with runner up China’s Bingtian Su and third place Ronnie Baker of the U.S.

Coleman and Dibaba steal show at dramatic world indoors

BIRMINGHAM - Christian Coleman looked every inch the natural successor to Usain Bolt as the fastest man in athletics, sweeping in a blur to a majestic 60 metres victory at the world indoor championships on Saturday.

A night of remarkable drama at Arena Birmingham saw the great Genzebe Dibaba win her second gold in three days in the 1,500 metres while Czech Pavel Maslak won his third 400 metres crown after a sensational double disqualification.

Yet it was the 21-year-old American Coleman, winner of two silvers at last year’s world outdoor championships in London, who hogged centre stage, following up his world record of 6.34 seconds set last month with an emphatic win in 6.37 seconds.

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(6.44) to the big prize.

The peerless Ethiopian Dibaba, who had lifted the 3,000 metres title on Thursday, had her work cut out to achieve the double in the metric mile but produced another solo tour de force.

Stretching her pursuers to breaking point by powering for home with almost a kilometre left, the 27-year-old kept Britain’s silver medallist Laura Muir and Dutch defending champion Sifan Hassan

at bay to win convincingly in four minutes 05.27 seconds.

It made her only the fourth athlete ever to win five individual gold medals in the championships.

“Last year I was sick (when finishing out of the medals at the world outdoor championships in London) but this time I was ready to run for my country,” she said.

“This is a gold for all the people of Ethiopia.” (rtr)

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Bautista Agut of Spain poses with the trophy after defeating Lucas Pouille of France.

DUBAI - Third-seed Roberto Bautista Agut defeated France’s Lucas Pouille 6-3 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday to secure his first ATP 500 title.

Bautista Agut, who won the Auckland Classic title in January, controlled the match from the start and took a 3-1 lead and the 29-yearold held on to capture the first set.

The Spaniard, who dropped just one set on his way to the final, maintained his momentum in the second to outclass Pouille and win his eighth career title.

“This tournament is very special. It is for sure going to be (always) in my heart and I am so happy I have won a 500 event,” Bautista Agut said.

“Lucas is a really great player, he has a great future and is play-

ing unbelievable tennis in the last month. I want to wish him good luck for the rest of the season.”

Second-seed Pouille, competing in his third ATP final in four events, also lost a chance to move into the top 10 for the first time.

Bautista Agut is expected to climb to world number 16 when the updated rankings are released on Monday. (rtr)

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Indonesia aims to banish toxic waste from lifeline river

MAJALAYA - Indonesia’s Citarum river burbles past terraced rice paddies and quiet farming villages in the highlands of West Java, as it begins to wind its way hundreds of kilometres towards the sea. But the charm evaporates swiftly as the river, often labelled the world’s most polluted, descends past crowded zones of factories and homes that dump a pungent stew of garbage, waste and sewage into its 300-km (190-mile) stretch.

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Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni casts his vote at a polling station in Rome, Italy March 4, 2018.

Italy heads to polls with centreright ahead but stalemate looms ROME - Italians went to the polls on Sunday in a vote that could bring political gridlock after an election campaign marked by anger over the listless economy, high unemployment and immigration.

Pollsters have predicted that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party and his far-right allies will emerge as the largest bloc in parliament but fall short of a majority.

The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement looks set to be the biggest single party, feeding off discontent over entrenched corruption and growing poverty, while the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) is seen limping home in third place.

Heavily indebted Italy is the third-largest economy in the 19-member euro zone and, though investors have been

sanguine ahead of the ballot, prolonged political stalemate could reawaken the threat of market instability.

“I’d like to see the parties work together more for the good of the country ... there was too much mud-slinging during the campaign,” said 20-year-old Luca Hammad while leaving a polling station in Rome.

“I hope these elections bring change for young people.

Even if you find a job, wages are so low that it is hardly worth working.”

In the latest sign of the divisive climate ahead of the vote, some homes in Pavia, near Milan, were marked overnight with stickers that said “Here lives an anti-fascist”.

Neo-fascist movements have been gaining ground in Italy, where a Nazi sympathiser last month injured six Africans in a shooting incident.

Polling stations close at 2300 (2200 GMT), with exit polls

due immediately afterwards. The vote is being held under a complex new electoral law that could mean the final result will not be clear until late on Monday.

Confusion over the new law led to mistakes in 200,000 ballots that had to reprinted overnight in Palermo, where some polling stations delayed opening amid protests from voters.

The campaign has marked the return to frontline politics of 81-year-old Berlusconi, who was forced to quit as prime minister in 2011 at the height of a sovereign debt crisis and was widely written off after sex scandals, legal woes and ill health.

A 2013 conviction for tax fraud means he cannot hold public office and he has put forward Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, as his candidate for prime minister. (rtr)

“The water looks like it has been mixed with the waste, and sometimes it smells like ointment,” said Nurhayati, who lives in the riverside town of Majalaya, 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Jakarta, the capital. (Click http://reut. rs/2t5IUbY to see a picture package about the Citarum river) Among the river’s worst polluters are dozens of textile factories in Majalaya that dump chemical waste, said Arif Havas Oegroseno, a deputy minister who coordinates maritime affairs.

“They throw the dyed water into the smaller rivers that flow into the Citarum,” Oegroseno told Reuters.

“The small branches, sometimes they’re white, sometimes black,

red, blue or yellow.” His ministry is spearheading a new campaign to achieve President Joko Widodo’s ambition of making the water in Indonesia’s most strategic river basin drinkable by 2025.

Long before it hits the sea on the eastern shores of Jakarta Bay, the river turns into a toxic cocktail the colour of coffee. Children fly kites and play beside piles of floating trash in some parts of the river, but others avoid it as being a mere garbage dump. Yet further downstream, women in conical hats work in fields irrigated by the river.

They are among the 28 million people who depend on the river waters, which supply Jakarta, support 400,000 hectares (988,422 acres) of

rice paddies, sustain fish farms and fill reservoirs that generate about 2 gigawatts of hydropower.

The key to keeping the river clean will be educating people and toughening enforcement of environmental controls, said Oegroseno, who vowed to shut polluting factories and make them fund clean-ups. “Right now we are giving them warnings,” he said. Hundreds of soldiers were recently posted along the river to retrieve garbage, which gets burned as part of the ambitious programme backed by more than 10 ministries, local government, community groups, the police and the military.

Activists and green groups blame the failure of the government’s previous clean-up efforts on a lack of monitoring and diffi-

culties enforcing regulations. Last May, Greenpeace and several community bodies won a long court battle to revoke the permits of polluting factories in Rancaekek, on the outskirts of Bandung, where the group says pollution caused losses of 11.4 trillion rupiah ($831 million).

“We found that waste water permits were handed out from year to year, but no one was evaluating the impact on the environment,” said Ahmad Ashov, one Greenpeace campaigner. “There was no monitoring.”

In response, Anang Sudarna, head of the West Java Environment Agency, said several government departments issued permits based on environmental impact assessments and community consultation.

“We do supervise, but the man-

power we have is not enough,” Sudarna told Reuters, adding that equipment also fell short. “We are fixing this.” Deni Riswandani, an activist who demands tighter pollution measures, estimates 1,500 industries dump 280 tonnes of chemical waste in the river each day, but said that even with evidence, it was tough to enforce environmental rules. “It’s a long process, it’s expensive and they play games.”

Majalaya resident Nurhayati said she played in the river when she was younger and continued to use its water for washing and drinking, even after the factories and pollution arrived. Her two children have had skin problems, she said, adding, “I’m worried, but what else can I do? There’s no other water.”(rtr)

Thai efforts to protect location for DiCaprio film The Beach from tourist damage

Tourist boats could be banned from entering the world famous bay where the blockbuster film The Beach was set. Thai officials are considering enforcing the restriction in Maya Bay between June and September to protect the reef.

Up to 5,000 people a day visit the small stretch of sand on the island of Koh Phi Phi Leh, arriving on hundreds of boats which have damaged the delicate coral.

Tour guide Adam Gardener has lived and worked in the area for three years and says some tourists

and operators don’t respect the environment. He told Sky News: “They throw full on trash bags off the boats here sometimes, they bring the boats right in regardless if the boats are knocking corals and destroying everything. There’s just not a lot of respect for Koh Phi Phi anymore.”

The powder white sands and crystal waters are some of the most famous in the world after being used as the backdrop for Danny Boyle’s 2000 film The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Its popularity over the last 18 years has

taken its toll on the environment with reports up to 80% of the coral in the bay has died.

Some has been destroyed by anchors being dropped on it, people standing on it and pollution from sun cream and gasoline. Tourism is vital to the local economy, more than two million people visited the Koh Phi Phi National Park last year generating millions of pounds.

Every visitor who steps on the beach is charged an entrance fee of 400 Thai baht (£10).

The President of Phi Phi Tourist

Association, Watrapol Jantharo, rejected reports that the beach will be totally closed, instead telling Sky News that tourists would have to access it from the other side of the island.

Local conservationist and diver Andrew Hewett supports the plan to restrict access but said the area would need regular breaks if it was to recover.

His team have been growing and replanting coral a few minutes from Maya Bay where the water is now teaming with life. He warned

it was important to ensure the environment at the alternative entrance wasn’t also damaged.

“My concern is with the amount of boats in Maya Bay right now is whether there’s going to be enough room in this particular bay for that many the boats,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Thai authorities have restricted access to areas being damaged by tourism.

In 2016, Koh Tachai, an island in the famous Similan national park in southwest Thailand, was closed for an “indefinite period”. (ap)

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Farmers walk over a stream near Cisanti Lake, the main source of the Citarum river, in the mountains south of Bandung, in Tarumajaya village, West Java province, Indonesia, February 24, 2018.

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The S&P 500 ended another turbulent week on an upbeat note Friday but major indexes posted their worst week of losses since early February as Trump’s threat to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum rattled investors.

The dollar fell against most currencies, dropping to its lowest in more than two years against the yen, as Trump’s tariffs proposal raised prospects of a damaging trade war.

Trump said on Thursday that a plan for tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum products would be formally announced next week.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump said on Twitter on Friday.

In a later social media post, the Republican president said his aim was to protect U.S. jobs in the face of cheaper foreign products, a familiar theme in the “America First” credo he campaigned on for the 2016 election. “We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!” he wrote.

Trump earned some bipartisan support from lawmakers, mainly from America’s rust belt states.

“This welcome action is long overdue for shuttered steel plants across Ohio and steelworkers who live in fear that their jobs will be the next victims of Chinese cheat-

ing,” said Senator Sherrod Brown, a liberal and populist Democrat from Ohio.

However, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a fellow Republican, urged Trump to rethink the tariffs.

“If the president wants to protect good-paying, family-supporting jobs in America, especially here in Wisconsin, then he should reconsider the administration’s position on these tariffs, particularly on ultra-thin aluminum,” Walker said in a statement.

Many economists say that instead of increasing employment, price increases for consumers of steel and aluminum such as the auto and oil industries will destroy more U.S. jobs than they create.

RETALIATION LIKELY Major U.S. trade partners are likely to hit back. Europe has drawn up a list of U.S. products on which to apply tariffs if Trump follows through on his plan. “We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans Levi’s,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told German television.

Trump’s threats to unleash a

trade war over steel crushed any hopes of substantial progress in current talks with Canada and Mexico to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, heightening fears for the trade deal’s future.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum would be “absolutely unacceptable” and vowed to continue to engage with U.S. officials on the issue. The International Monetary Fund also expressed concern, saying the proposed tariffs would likely damage the U.S. economy and those of other nations.

Trump’s announcement came after what one person with direct knowledge described as a night of “chaos” in the White House due to frequent switching of positions in the administration.

While Trump often lays out stark policy positions which he later rolls back as part of a negotiating tactic, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the levels of the planned tariffs were not expected to change. Capital Alpha Partners, a policy research group in Washington, said a quick reversal by Trump was highly unlikely.

“We also don’t see a chance for fine tuning, exceptions, carve outs, or a country-by-country policy” in the short term, the group said in a research note. “We would be hopeful that the policy could be modified in time.” The United States is the world’s biggest steel importer, buying 35.6 million tonnes in 2017. Peter Navarro, a White House adviser with largely protectionist views on trade and author of a book entitled “Death

By China,” brushed off the negative effects of tariffs on U.S. industry.

He said a 10 percent tariff on aluminum would add one cent to the cost of a can of beer, $45 to a car and $20,000 to a Boeing 727 Dreamliner. “Big price effects?

Negligible price effects,” he told Fox News.

But home appliance maker Electrolux said it was delaying a $250 million expansion of its plant in Tennessee as it was worried U.S. steel prices would rise and make manufacturing there less competitive. Trump’s administration has imposed a series of trade duties on a range of goods from solar panels to washing machines.

It is even studying whether America’s rubber band makers

need protection as Trump seeks to boost domestic manufacturing and employment. The decision on steel and aluminum was the most wide ranging and provocative to date and there is the prospect of more to come, with the government holding an investigation into alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by China. Trump made his tariff announcement as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser, Liu He, was visiting Washington.

Liu held a second day of talks at the White House with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and the U.S. officials stressed concerns about the U.S. trade deficit with China, market access and unfair treatment of U.S. companies. “We held frank conversations,” a White House spokeswoman said. We continue to be open to an exchange of ideas on how to resolve these concerns.”

White House officials said Trump himself did not stop by the meeting with Liu as he sometimes does when senior foreign dignitaries, including Chinese officials, are visiting. (rtr)

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Piling Kawan Hot Spring, New Tourist Attraction in Tabanan

Trade wars are good,’ Trump says, defying global concern over tariffs

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on Friday, saying trade wars were good and easy to win, after his plan to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imports triggered threats of retaliation from trading partners and a slide in stock markets. The European Union raised the possibility of taking countermeasures, France said the duties would be unacceptable, and China urged Trump to show restraint. Canada, the biggest supplier of steel and aluminum to the United States, said it would retaliate if hit by U.S. tariffs.

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Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive

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Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar. Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center for the plantation supplying a wide range of cut heliconia flowers.

There are more than 200 types of flowers, including torch bananas, lime banana, the Caribbean and yellow dancer with a variety of colors. “Sekar Bumi supplies a wide variety of cut flowers and cut leaves demand as well as decorative plant for tourism industry,” said Ketut Subagia, the SBFF owner.

12 Wow.... Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive-E_1 Aside from being the cultivation of flowers, this object also offers outbound and agro-tourism as a suitable destination for family.

For travelers wishing to get challenge, they can take advantage of a variety of games available such as flying fox, fine ball, trekking, cycling and outdoor games that can accommodate a large number of participants.

The flying fox here may be the longest in Bali. Length of the rope

reaches 500 meters to 700 meters.

Its track is also unique as passing over a cliff, hanging bridge and five points with very stressful moment.

In the meantime, fine ball is gutchallenging game with a range of 10 meters. The bullets are made of organic materials so that the waste will not harm nature.

Other than being good for relaxation, this beautiful tourist spot is also a place of education for children. Through the garden tour program, visitors can get lessons on the environment such as arranging cut flowers, learning about farming, planting, fertilizing, picking crops, visiting rare trees and making compost.

Visitors liking to live with nature, they can do camping here.

Although located on a plateau, the SBFF has prepared ready-todrink fresh water. This water flows through a tunnel formerly used by

local community to irrigate their paddy fields. There is also a stage intended for visitors wishing to celebrate their happiness here.

Native irrigation system to Bali, namely subak, is completely available here. Visitors can also experience the activity of farmers in Bali like plowing paddy fields by cows, rice farming, looking for eels and fish. The soil here is so fertile, and at the edge of it sits an old house and spacious parking lot.

The presence of the SBFF can promote Kerta village with panoramic views to the people outside the region and overseas. Moreover after the SBFF received numerous awards, this object is increasingly visited by many travelers from around the world. “There are travelers coming here specifically to arrange flowers in addition to enjoying a variety of exciting games,” said Subagia. (kmb)

When talking about hot springs (yeh panes), Tabanan district has many to consider. There have been a number of host spring objects in operation such as ESPA Yeh Panes Natural Hot Springs Spa & Resort at Penatahan village, Yeh Panes Belulang at Belulang village, Yeh Panes Angsri at Angsri village as well as Yeh Panes Piling at Piling Kawan village, precisely at Subak Uma Desa, Taman Sari, Piling Kawan village, Penebel subdistrict.

Yeh Panes Piling is relatively new as it is newly introduced to the general public, although it has existed from a long time ago. This spiritual object was discovered in 1972 by local society located on the land owned by Nyoman Sutana, the land inherited from his parents.

“This hot spring continues to flow.

After arriving at downstream, it is utilized to irrigate paddy fields.

Now, many people take advantage it to bathe,” said Nyoman Sutana.

In the beginning, the hot spring was only known to local people for bathing. However, after the story of word to mouth, the Piling hot spring becomes a spiritual tourist attraction, a place for skin medication in addition to cleaning the body from dirt. “We then arrange it into a good, safe and comfortable bathing place including the management.

It is meant to become a tourist attraction and brings in visitors,” he said.

Arrangement and management

of the new tourist attraction is entrusted to his son, Wayan Mediastra, in accordance with tourism management. Piling hot spring now has a pentagon-shaped pond sizing 5 x 5 meters and a depth of 120 cm. In addition, there are five showers having natural materials and atmosphere. “People who usually bathe at this location can calm down the mind and soak to treat skin diseases,” he explained.

This supporting facilities available include three spacious bathrooms (include changing room).

Meanwhile, the management of this hot spring pool was just established three months ago. This area continues to be arranged, so that it looks more beautiful. Cool nature and clean area is embellished with beautiful plants. “Most visitors bathing in this place are local people, but there are also foreign tourists. Visitors are crowded on weekend and other public holidays,” he said.

To use the existing facilities, visitors are subject to sincere donation. As located in the subak area, visitors wishing to shower must be ready to go through a muddy and slippery subak pathway. Visitors must walk along 100 meters from the parking lot. However, visitors will not feel tired because in every leaps of the journey can see beautiful panorama of paddy fields, while being entertained by the sounds of nature and greeted by native animals to paddy fields. (kmb)

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A journey on a caravan of misery

CARACAS - Just after dawn, dozens of Venezuelans gathered at the dark bus station in Caracas. They lugged one big suitcase each, as well as blankets, toilet paper, cheap bread and jugs of water. Weeping wives, confused children and elderly parents hugged them over and over until it was time to check tickets and weigh bags, then hung back, waiting hours for the bus to leave. When it finally pulled out, the passengers looked down at their loved ones, pounding on the windows and blowing kisses as they speeded out of this crumbling capital city.

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Wahyudi, makes a mosaic wall from bamboo.

Mosaic wall made from bamboo

DENPASAR — Many people think that mosaic design can only use ceramics and glass. However, a businessman from Batu, East Java, Wahyudi, makes a mosaic wall from bamboo. Bamboo is diced and made into various sizes for mosaic walls.

The owner of Java Green Indonesia, Wahyudi, tries to make a tropical house design with tropical materials such as bamboo. He started business in 2016. “Bamboo used to be booming, so that I want to make creative product from

bamboo. Previously, I’ve got an idea of making a wall from mosaic ceramic. However, I just have an idea to make a mosaic of different materials,” said this graduate of architecture. The mosaic motif consists of rafts, weaves, screens

and blends.

The bamboo raw material is taken from Malang. He does not need to have doubt for the lack of raw materials because, according to him, bamboo is still widely planted.

To make durable, the bamboo raw materials should be boiled first to remove the content of its starch.

After that, it is soaked with liquid so that it is resistant from insect and fungus. He ensured that the

quality of bamboo mosaic is well maintained. He even guaranteed for four years. “I put it in a humid place but it is not even eaten by termites and beetles,” he said.

According to him, many advanced technologies can be applied to bamboo. Previously, bamboo gave impression that it is easily damaged. However, the current technology and certain treatments can make bamboo durable.

Bamboo mosaic wall is usually used for house walls, ceilings, doors, cabinets and couch. “More mosaic walls are installed to give an accent of wall. For example, at hotel it is installed at the lobby or interior of the building,” he said when met at the IBT Expo 2018, Friday (Mar. 2).

Since two years ago, the sales have been pretty good where the orders come from Surabaya, Bali and Bandung. (kmb42)

Buleleng airport rejected by central govt

Governor: there’s still opportunity in private sector

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika.

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DENPASAR - Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, admitted that he has not known yet about the cancellation of the airport development plan in Buleleng. The cancellation was delivered directly by the Coordinating Minister for Marine Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, referring to the study results of the World Bank and Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (PT SMI).

“I do not know whether this is really canceled or not because we are indeed dependent on the government budget,” he said after holding

interactive dialog at Wantilan Hall of the Bali House of Representatives on Saturday (Mar. 3).

Pastika realized that Bali is currently quite advanced with the presence of Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to this former Bali Police chief, the beauty of the international airport is nothing to match in Indonesia. Nevertheless, his authority will still seek direct clarity from Minister Luhut related to the cancellation of the airport development plan in Buleleng.

“Definitely (we’ll discuss with

Luhut—Ed). It (airport in Buleleng) is our dream and has been specified in the Regional Regulation (Perda) No.16/2009 about Provincial Spatial Layout (RTRWP).

In other words, the legal standing is clear and that is what we all want,” he explained.

If it is indeed ‘rejected’ by central government, Pastika mentioned the construction of the airport in Buleleng remains to have a chance to be worked on by private sector.

“There are still opportunities in the private sector,” he said. (kmb32)

On board the bus, web developer Tony Alonzo had sold his childhood guitar to help pay for his ticket to Chile. For months he had been going to bed hungry so that his 5-yearold brother could have something for dinner. Natacha Rodriguez, a machine operator, had been robbed at gunpoint three times in the past year. She was headed for Chile, too, hoping to give her baseball-loving son a better life. Roger Chirinos was leaving his wife and two young children behind to search for work in Ecuador. His outdoor advertising company had come to a bitter end: Protesters tore down his billboards to use as barricades during violent rallies against authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.

Their bus tells the story of a oncewealthy nation in stomach-dropping free fall, as hundreds of people flee daily from a land where fear and want are the new normal.

By the time dawn rises over Caracas, hungry people are already picking through garbage while kids beg in front of bakeries. Come dusk, many Venezuelans shut themselves inside their homes to avoid muggings and kidnappings. In a country with the world’s largest proven crude reserves, some families now cook with firewood because they cannot find propane. Hospitals lack supplies as basic as disinfectant.

Food is so scarce and pricey that the average Venezuelan lost 24 pounds last year.

“I feel Venezuela has succumbed to an irreversible evil,” Chirinos said.

Many blame the country’s precipitous decline on the government of Maduro, who has tightened his grip on power, holding fast to statist policies that have throttled the economy. His government says it is facing a U.S.-led conspiracy to sabotage leftism in Latin America by hoarding goods and stoking inflation.

Poorer by the day, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have concluded that escape is their only option. With the country’s currency virtually worthless and air travel beyond the reach of all but elites, buses have become Venezuela’s caravans of misery, rolling day and night to its borders and returning largely empty to begin the process all over again.

The 37 Venezuelans leaving on

this day had hocked everything – motorbikes, TVs, even wedding rings – to pay for their escape. Most had never been outside the country before.

For nine days, a reporter and a photographer from Reuters accompanied the migrants as they headed for what they hoped were better days in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. For nearly 5,000 miles, they rolled through some of South America’s most spectacular landscapes, including the vertiginous Andean mountain range and the world’s driest desert in Chile. But even though the Venezuelans were awed by the views whizzing by their window, their minds were mostly on the land they had left behind – and the uncertainty facing them in the lands ahead.

FROM CARACAS TO CONCON A heavy silence fell over the bus after it pulled out of the Rutas de America terminal. Passengers glumly texted family members or stared out the window as the packed vehicle rolled by mango trees, shuttered factories and crumbling murals of the late President Hugo Chavez.

Natacha Rodriguez, the machine operator, had been running on adrenaline in the mad rush to pack, sell her television and washing machine, and endure long lines to get her documents in order. Now, on this day in November, she was near exhaustion as she tried to get comfortable in her seat.

The 29-year-old single mom was traveling with her 12-year-old son, David, her sister Alejandra and a family friend, Adrian Naveda, to what she dreamed would be a quiet life. The group was bound for Concon, Chile, a beach resort where Venezuelan expat friends assured them there was plenty of work.

Rodriguez said she had hoped Venezuela’s youth could bring about change. Like millions of her countrymen, she took to the streets to protest the unpopular Maduro last year, only to despair when he responded by consolidating his authority.

Fear added to Rodriguez’s hopelessness: Her story of three robberies at gunpoint is a familiar one in a country awash with drugs and gangs. And with inflation fast out-

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Alejandra Rodriguez, who travelled by bus from Venezuela to Chile, uses her cellphone to speak with her boyfriend who lives in Venezuela, as she sits at a bench of a shopping mall near her house to take advantage of a free internet connection in Concon, Chile, November 20, 2017.

Alejandra walked several blocks during the night to a shopping mall and sat for hours in front of the closed stores, to use the free internet network and chat with her loved ones in Venezuela. running her paycheck, the already petite woman had lost 13 pounds as she cut fruit and soft drinks from her diet so that David would not go hungry. She knew she had to act.

“In Venezuela you go to sleep thinking about what you’re going to eat the next day,” Rodriguez said. “I never wanted to leave, but the situation is forcing me to.”

She had never left the country, and the enormity of what she was attempting was sinking in. In the days ahead she would visit four new countries, cross the equator and see the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

But she couldn’t stop thinking of how far she had traveled from the home she still loved.

‘FIGHTING AGAINST THE TIDE’ Venezuelans elected Chavez, the late leftist firebrand, in 1998 with a mandate to fight inequality. A charismatic former lieutenant colonel, Chavez transformed the country during his 14-year rule, pouring oil revenue into wildly popular welfare programs. But he also nationalized large swaths of the economy and implemented strict currency controls, state meddling that economists say is the root of the current crisis.

Once a magnet for European and Middle Eastern immigrants during its 1970s oil boom, Venezuela now exports its people along with petroleum.

Spooked by Chavez, a first wave of engineers, doctors and other professionals began fleeing for the

United States, Canada and Europe in the early 2000s. Most arrived to warm welcomes in their adopted homes, many with their savings intact.

Now, financially ravaged Venezuelans with fewer skills are pouring across South America in a frantic search for work in restaurants, stores, call centers and construction sites. Some travel only as far as their savings will stretch: A one-way bus ticket to neighboring Colombia from Caracas costs the U.S. equivalent of around $15; the fare for a trip to Chile or Argentina can run as high as $350, a small fortune for many. The plunging currency and rocketing inflation make financing the voyage more expensive with each passing day.

Sociologist Tomas Paez, an immigration specialist at the Central University of Venezuela, estimates that almost 3 million people have fled Venezuela over the past two decades. He believes nearly half of them have left in the last two years alone, in one of the largest mass migrations the continent has ever seen. The socialist government does not release emigration statistics, but Maduro says his enemies have exaggerated the extent of the exodus.

Neighboring Colombia has taken in the bulk of migrants in Latin America, although Argentina, Chile and Peru are also seeing a big influx.

In contrast to refugees fleeing Syria, Myanmar and North Africa who have met with violence and

resistance, Venezuelans are moving easily across land borders on tourist visas. But tensions are increasing as their numbers strain the resources of South America’s developing countries, which have their own problems with poverty and crime.

Carmen Larrea has a front-row seat to the migration. She is the owner of Rutas de America, a small Caracas-based bus company founded nearly 50 years ago to ferry Peruvians and Ecuadoreans to Venezuela in search of work.

At 75, she has lived long enough to see the world turned upside down.

She now survives on Venezuelans heading in the other direction. Her customers included the 37 migrants whom Reuters followed.

Larrea’s terminal sees dozens queue up daily to purchase tickets.

Many must return repeatedly to pay in installments. Daily withdrawal limits on debit cards no longer keep up with inflation-fueled prices. Card readers frequently crash.

Requests for tickets abroad had roughly doubled in the last six months, Larrea said. Around 800 Venezuelans leave the country every month on her company’s handful of Caracas-based buses alone.

But skyrocketing prices for spare parts and the plunging bolivar have hammered her profits, Larrea said.

And while Rutas de America buses leave Caracas jam-packed, they often return empty, further denting business.

“We’re fighting against the tide,” she said. (rtr)

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Sydney’s gay pride street parade celebrates same-sex marriage, honours early activists

By Alison Bevege

SYDNEY - About half a million people are expected to line Sydney’s streets on Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the first time the annual parade has taken place since Australia legalised same-sex marriage.

The event started in 1978 as a protest march for gay rights and the decriminalisation of homosexuality but has since grown into a major tourist

spectacle featuring leather, sequins, glitter, lasers and dance music. It is now Sydney’s biggest street party and a major focal point for Australia’s gay and lesbian community.

This year’s procession includes 200 floats and groups of street dancers and will be headed by Dykes on Bikes, a motorcycle club.

Pop superstar Cher will headline the parade’s official party, the first since Australia in December

became the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage.

Australians overwhelmingly endorsed legalising same-sex marriage in a postal survey in a country where sodomy laws were still in place in some states until as recently as the 1990s.

This year’s Mardi Gras will honour the 78ers, a group of people involved in the original protest, which took place on June 24, 1978 as a peaceful march for gay rights

that sparked the annual parade.

That protest was marred by police brutality with 53 people arrested in subsequent scuffles.

Police have since apologised for the events of 1978 and now march each year in the parade alongside other emergency services.

Bruce Pollack, a Mardi Gras volunteer since 1984, said the parade has played a major role in changing attitudes toward the LGBT com-

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Bali Art Carnival II marked with sound of okokan

BALI Art Carnival II was officially released by the Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, in front of Jayasabha Building, Denpasar, on Saturday afternoon (Mar. 3). The release was marked by sounding okokan (large cowbell) as a typical musical instrument of Tabanan. Bali Art Carnival II is one of the opening series of the Bali Mandara Nawanatya III weekend art extravaganza started on Saturday (Mar. 3) and will last until the end of 2018 at Denpasar Art Center.

munity over the decades.

“I was involved in the gay and lesbian counseling service ... you would always hear young gays, and older gays, and much older gays say ‘it’s OK to come out because I saw people like me in the parade enjoying themselves - and there were spectators’,” Pollack told Reuters. “It was Mardi Gras that made it OK to be gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgender.” (rtr)

the price of sand experienced a fairly high spike.

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Sand price soars due to Mt. Agung eruption

Quarry activities had switched to Kintamani

BANGLI — The closure of quarry activities in Karangasem following the eruption of Mount Agung some time ago had an impact on the scarcity of sand material supplies in Bali. As the impact, the price of sand experienced a fairly high spike. During the quarry activities in Karangasem were closed, the activities were switched to Kintamani. Almost thousands of trucks each day pass by Kintamani to transport sand from the foot of Mount Batur.

In Kintamani, all this time there are two locations of quarry activities namely at Batur and Songan village. The quarry activities look for materials such as sand and stone at both locations have been lasting long enough. Although being prohibited, the sand mining activities in Kintamani still take place by utilizing heavy equipment.

Around October until the end of 2017, the quarry activities in Kintamani increased from usual condition. It happened as the impact of closing quarry activities in Karangasem due to increasing activities of Mount Agung. Almost every day the Culali line in Kintamani is passed through by many quarry trucks causing congestion. Indeed, the number of trucks transporting sand to Kintamani increased sharply from the previous number.

Hamlet chief of Tabu, Songan, I Komang Kertia, acknowledged

the increased quarry in Kintamani occurred when the Mount Agung erupted. Previously, there were only 40-50 trucks taking sand to one of the quarrying locations, but when the eruption of Gunung Agung occurred, the number of trucks to quarry location increased up to 90 trucks per day. He mentioned at Songan village there are about 12 points of quarrying activities. If calculated entirely, the number of trucks taking sand at Songan at that time reached hundreds of unit per day. “However, I do not know the number in Batur,” he said.

He revealed the trucks taking sand to Kintamani are mostly trucks usually taking sand in Karangasem.

Since the sand material at that time was rare, the price of sand was soaring. Kertia added the selling price of sand at the quarrying location is IDR 250,000 per truck, while at consumer level the price of sand reached IDR 1.2 million. “Now, the price is down. When taking directly to the location, the price is below IDR 200,000 per truck, “he said.

According to Kertia, the decline in sand price at the location of quarry activities in Kintamani is influenced by the decreasing demand of sand as quarry location in Karangasem has been re-operated.

“Besides, many projects have not been worked on yet, so the demand for sand remains low,” he added. (kmb40)

“We hope that in the future more participants will participate so as to give meaning to the Bali Mandara Nawanatya because this event is earmarked for the young people,” said Pastika on the sidelines of the Bali Art Carnival II parade on Saturday (Mar. 3).

Pastika appreciated to the carnival participants having utilized used items such as newspapers, plastics, bottles and palm leaves into beautiful and unique carnival costumes. “Using these bottles is actually our idea of recycling, so our waste problem becomes a little bit tackled,” he said that it is in line with the Bali Clean and Green program launched by the Bali government.

In the meantime, Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, said the implementation of the Bali Art Carnival for the second time is expected to become a new tourist attraction. Hopefully, the Bali Art Carnival activities in the future can be a worldwide art event like the parade of the Bali Arts Festival followed by participants from overseas.

“Now, Banyuwangi is participating in this event.

In the future, we hope to become a worldwide event so that can be followed not only by young artists of Bali and the archipelago, but also by those from other countries,” he hoped.

In the cultural parade can be seen that a number of representatives of high school and vocational school in Bali displaying carnival costumes that symbolize the gods and animals taking advantage of used items such as used bottles, plastics, palm leaves, newspapers waste and so on.

The carnival featuring the theme of Tri Bhuana Kerthi or the harmony of three layers of the universe was not only followed by young artists from Bali, but also enlivened by the honorary participant from the Banyuwangi Ethno Carnival.

A number of envoys and artists from Bali participating in the carnival are those from Penggak Men Mersi Foundation, Bali Mandara High School, Kisrama Production-Singaraja, Fortuna Management-Singaraja, and Pancer Langiit Art Community.

Meanwhile, the accompanying music was presented by about 100 people from Brahma Diva Kencana Okokan Troupe of Tabanan, Marching Band of SMANSA Denpasar, and Babaiswara Baleganjur art troupe of Pancer Langiit Art Community.

After making demonstration in front of the governor of Bali, the parade participants and the honorary invitees then walked along Jalan Surapati to Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Denpasar, and ended the parade route in front of Denpasar Art Center on Jalan Nusa Indah, Denpasar. (win)

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Bali Art Carnival II is one of the opening series of the Bali Mandara Nawanatya III weekend art extravaganza started on Saturday (Mar. 3) and will last until the end of 2018 at Denpasar Art Center.

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Foreign tourist visit to Bali decreases

BPPD invites travel agencies, media and foreign bloggers DENPASAR - The arrival of foreign tourists in Bali during January 2018 was recorded to reach 358,065 visits. A total of 345,191 came through the airport and 12,874 others through seaports. This arrival rate indicated a decline of 22.30 percent when compared to January 2017. When compared to the previous month, the number of foreign tourist visit to Bali recorded an increase of 13.34 percent.

The tourists visited Tirta Gangga in Karangasem.

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Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Adi Nugroho, revealed that by nationality, the most recorded tourists coming to Bali in January 2018 were Australian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and English tourists with respective percentage of 24.20 percent each, 13.15 percent, 8.10 percent, 3.97 percent, and 3.92 percent.

Australian tourists coming to Bali increased 9.39 percent from January 2018. However, when compared to January 2017, it decreased 5.31 percent. Chinese tourists increased significantly 308.41 percent from the previous month, but decreased 68.17 percent compared to January 2017.

Indian tourists decreased 0.37 percent compared to the previous month and increased 65.62 percent compared to January 2017. Meanwhile, Japanese tourist decreased 7.23 percent from the previous month and also decreased 17.38 percent compared to January 2017.

Head of Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD) of Badung district, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Surya Wijaya, said that one of the efforts made by the BPPD Badung to achieve the target of 17 million foreign tourists visit to Indonesia and 7 million foreign tourists to Bali is by holding a familiarization trip and table top.

On March 1-4, the BPPD worked with the airline companies and IHGMA to invite foreign travel agencies, media and bloggers. “They are from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. We need this kind of model so they focus on selling Bali,” he said. They come to Bali to make an agreement with the tourism industry in Bali. He considered this kind of activity is potential for Bali in the future.

At the same time, such activities are also meant for Bali tourism recovery effort because previously Bali had ‘been sick’ and just recovered 60 percent.

“It can still be treated by ‘outpatient’ but by promoting either by familiarization trip to Bali, holding event or festival in Bali to attract tourists come or doing promotion,” he explained.

Like two days before, he made a visit to America namely LA, New York, Manhattan, Washington DC et cetera. Last February, he also did promotion to Australia namely Perth, Melbourne and Sidney.

Next week, he will go to Europe especially Germany. “This is certainly to convince the potential tourists coming from Germany that Bali remains safe, and the industry and government guarantee that they are safe,” he said. (kmb42)

Having capital of natural beauty and cultural uniqueness

Bali remains weak in sanitation

DENPASAR - Sanitation or garbage issue becomes one of the threats faced by Bali tourism such as the sanitation of toilets in tourist destinations. Actually, sanitation is one of the seven important points contained in the Sapta Pesona (seven charms) for tourists in order to feel comfortable, stay longer, satisfied with their visit as well as provide beautiful memories for their life.

“We have been coordinating every 3 months with colleagues in the districts / municipality because they have the region and destinations. We always recommend Sapta Pesona,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Bali governor’s interactive dialog at Wantilan Hall of the Bali House of Representatives on Saturday (Mar. 3).

According to Yuniartha, Sapta Pesona consists of seven elements namely safety, orderliness, sanita-

tion, coolness, beauty, hospitality and memories. Hopefully, tourists will not only come once but for many times. Regarding the sanitation, he claimed to have coordinated and provided direct coaching for tourist destinations in Bali.

“The problem lies in the toilet. It only looks clean after being made and the problem appears in the maintenance because it is not cleaned up every day. We always give directions so that the toilet is clean,” he explained.

Similarly related to garbage, Yuniartha said to have asked every destination management to prepare trash bin. However, the garbage problem to date remains one of the sanitation issues in the tourist destinations. This is also recognized by Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika. “It is our weakness in Bali so that people are not comfortable in the matter of sanitation. The complaint is about sanitation. Re-

garding the uniqueness, it is indeed unique. Sanitation is less secured such as toilets as well as garbage around the object. We are less sensitive to things like these,” he said.

Pastika added that tourists are not comfortable to travel if they are frequently mocked up by street vendors. Therefore, the arrangement of merchants needs to be done other than sanitation issues considering that Bali already has the capital of natural beauty and cultural uniqueness.

“Toilet is the most difficult in Indonesia, especially in Bali. If available, it is located so far away and not well maintained. It is never flushed and looks entirely black. I think this becomes our future challenge. This really concerns with our mindset, our culture. We always look more beautiful in the matter of ‘fence’ than the content inside,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Oscars best picture suspense crowns tumultuous Hollywood year LOS ANGELES - The red carpet has been rolled out and the champagne is on ice for an Oscars ceremony on Sunday filled with suspense over the movie industry’s biggest prize — and whether Hollywood’s campaign against sexual harassment will steal the spotlight. Unlike previous years, the best picture contest this time is anyone’s guess.

Fox Searchlight fantasy romance “The Shape of Water” with a leading 13 nominations, Fox Searchlight dark comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and Universal Pictures racial satire “Get Out” all have a fighting chance, awards pundits say.

“I think ‘Get Out’ seems to have the momentum right now,” said Dave Karger, special correspondent for entertainment website IMDB.com.

“Get Out,” a bold horror movie that became a talking point around modern day race relations in America, won best picture at Saturday’s independent Spirit Awards.

But Hollywood also has other issues on its mind, including the sexual misconduct scandal that has brought down dozens of once powerful men, and lingering questions over racial and

gender fairness in the movie business.

The Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace, spearheaded by celebrities including Reese Witherspoon and Ava DuVernay, will be recognized in some form in Sunday’s ceremony, organizers say.

History could be made on Sunday.

“Get Out” director and writer Jordan Peele could be the first black man in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 90-year history to win a directing Oscar.

“Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig could become only the second female to take home that prize when the decision of the 8,000 Academy members is announced.

“Every year, the discussion around the awards is less and less who will win, but how many women are nominated, or how many blacks and Asians lost,” said Tom O’Neil, founder of awards website GoldDerby.com.

Host Jimmy Kimmel has the task of navigating the wider political themes with the celebrations. He is also expected to turn into a running joke last year’s embarrassing best picture envelope mix-up that saw musical “La La Land” being declared winner

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Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle attend the first annual Royal Foundation Forum held at Aviva in London, February 28, 2018.

Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan to invite public to wedding celebrations

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife-to-be Meghan Markle will invite more than 2,500 members of the public to take part in their wedding day celebrations in May, his office said on Friday.

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Kazuhiro Tsuji (L), Lucy Sibbick, and David Malinowski arrive to an event celebrating hair and makeup artists nominated for an Academy Award for their work in the film “Darkest Hour” in the lead up to the 90th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 3, 2018.

Harry and U.S. actress Markle are tying the knot at his grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on May 19 in a ceremony expected to attract attention from around the world.

“Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle will invite 2,640 members of the public to Windsor Castle on their wedding day to watch the arrivals of the bride and groom

and their guests and the carriage procession as it departs from the castle,” Kensington Palace said in a statement.

The 2,640 invited guests will be made up of people from charities associated with the couple, local school pupils and members of the local community, and 1,200 people from across the country, chosen from a broad range of backgrounds and ages.

“Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle have said they want their wedding day to be shaped so as to allow members of the public to feel part of the celebrations too,” the statement said.

“This wedding, like all weddings, will be a moment of fun and joy that will reflect the characters and values of the bride and groom.” (rtr)

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A man walks through Times Square during a winter nor’easter in New York City, U.S., March 2, 2018.

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U.S. Northeast still facing flooding, outages after killer storm

PRINCETON. - More than 1.5 million customers remained without power throughout the eastern United States early on Sunday, and communities on the New England coast faced more flooding two days after a powerful storm snapped trees, downed wires and killed at least nine people.

The remnants of the storm, known as a nor’easter, lingered on Sunday with flood watches and wind advisories in effect until 1 p.m. in northeastern United States even as it moved hundreds of miles out to sea, hampering efforts to restore power.

The governors of both Massachusetts and New York declared a state of emergency on Saturday afternoon, following similar announcements by the governors of Virginia and Maryland on Friday.

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to federal resources.

The storm carried hurricane-force winds in excess of 90 miles per hour (145 kph), sending seawater churning into streets in Boston and nearby shore towns - the second time the area has been flooded this year.

The National Weather Service (NWS) said that while winds have weakened on Sunday and most of the rain and snow has moved offshore, flooding and extreme high tides could still affect the coastal areas from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, N.Y.

“We’re definitely not out of the woods yet,” said meteorologist David Roth at the weather service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Falling trees killed seven people - including two boys who died when trees struck their homes - in Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, according to local media and police. Two others died in the storm, according to media reports, including a 41-year-old man in Andover, New Jersey, who came

in contact with power lines.

Private forecasting service AccuWeather said the storm dumped as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of snow on parts of New York state and Pennsylvania. The Massachusetts town of East Bridgewater received nearly 6 inches of rain, the NWS said.

The storm also snarled transportation from the Middle Atlantic into New England, with more than a quarter of flights into and out of New York’s three major airports and Boston’s airport canceled on Friday, tracking service FlightAware.com reported.

The problems carried over into Saturday, with hundreds of flights can-

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