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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Brad Pitt leads sing-along at film-awards gala

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PALM SPRINGS, California — The first star-studded film-award ceremony of the new year was literally something to sing about.

While not an honoree himself, actorproducer Brad Pitt stole the spotlight with a sing-along for a few moments Saturday night at the annual black-tie gala for the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Pitt traveled some 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Los Angeles to the desert town of Palm Springs, California, to introduce British actor David Oyelowo, an honoree at the gala whose profile is only now on the rise in the U.S. Pitt is a producer of director Ava DuVernay’s historical epic “Selma,” in which Oyelowo portrays civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The festival honored Oyelowo with its Breakthrough Performance Award for an actor.

In his introduction, Pitt professed his admiration for Oyelowo — both as a col-

league and friend — and, at one point, Pitt led the audience in a sing-along with lyrics spinning around Oyelowo’s oftenmispronounced last name. (It sounds like “oh-yellow-oh,” by the way.)

The gala, which attracts numerous locally based Academy voters who now have ballots in hand, traditionally is the first of each calendar year’s award-season ceremonies, which include approximately two-dozen events significant enough to

attract major movie stars between now and the Oscars, set for Feb. 22 in Hollywood.

“This is the first time I am a part of (the two-month award season),” said Morton Tyldum, director of the Golden Globe-nominated drama “The Imitation Game” earlier in the evening while doing red carpet interviews. “When I saw the schedule,” Tyldum continued, “I was in shock,” (ap)

List of 2015 Palm Spring FIF Award : 1. Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress - Rosamund Pike (“Gone Girl”) 2. Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor - David Oyelowo (“Selma”) 3. Chairman’s Award - Reese Witherspoon (“Wild”) 4. Desert Palm Achievement Award - Actor - Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) 5. Desert Palm Achievement Award - Actress - Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) 6. Director of the Year Award -- Alejandro G. Inarritu (“Birdman”) 7. Ensemble Performance Award - “The Imitation Game” 8. Spotlight Award - J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) 9. Sonny Bono Visionary Award - Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”) 10. Icon Award -- Robert Duvall (“The Judge”)

‘The Hobbit’ tops box office for 3rd weekend NEW YORK — Hollywood kicked off the New Year on a positive note, with three films vying closely for the weekend box-office title that nevertheless remained with “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” for the third straight week.

Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth finale took in $21.9 million for Warner Bros. in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, narrowly edging out the Disney musical “Into the Woods” ($19.1 million) and Angelina Jolie’s World War II survival tale “Unbroken” ($18.4 million) from Universal.

The weekend’s lone new widerelease, the Relativity Media horror sequel “The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death,” landed in fourth place with $15.1 million.

The first weekend of 2015 gave

Hollywood the chance to begin turning the page on a rough 2014 in which box-office revenue slid 5 percent and attendance dropped to its lowest level in nearly 20 years. With a closely contested weekend at the multiplexes, overall business was strong, up 5.5 percent from the same weekend last year, according to box-office firm Rentrak.

In its second week of limited release, Sony Pictures’ controversial “The Interview,” depicting the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, earned an estimated $1.1 million theatrically. A representative for Sony said digital figures likely wouldn’t be announced Sunday.

In its first four days of online streaming and sale, the comedy made $15 million, Sony said last week. Since then, the film has

expanded to video-on-demand via cable operators and on more digital platforms like Apple’s iTunes.

Several Oscar contenders began to attract larger numbers of moviegoers, as Hollywood’s awards season picks up stream. The Golden Globes are Sunday, Jan. 11.

Playing at 754 theaters, “The Imitation Game,” the Weinstein Co.’s code-breaker thriller about World War II hero Alan Turing took in $8.1 million in its sixth week. (By comparison, “The Hobbit” played at more than 3,800 theaters.) The Reese Witherspoon drama “Wild” also added $4.5 million for a fiveweek $25.8 million total for Fox Searchlight.

Opening in limited release at four locations, J.C. Chandor’s New York thriller “A Most Violent Year” debuted with a theater average of $47,000. (ap)

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Australian wildfire razes 26 homes, 29 people seek treatment

Real’s record run ends as Barca also lose

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Bali destroyed, Indonesia destroyed as well

DENPASAR - The first and second Bali bomb has demolished Bali. It has been noted by the world community as an extraordinary crime, while Bali interprets the incident by introspection. Even, after the Bali bomb blast all the components were expected to re-arrange themselves in all aspects of life either in relation to human resources, environment and culture or tourism development. So far, the development of Bali has already considered deviating from the initial concept, namely the Tri Hita Karana agreed upon.

Time span of 12 years since the first Bali bombing on October 12, 2002, is apparently not used as a moment to reorganize Bali.

During that period, the development of Bali increasingly goes

wilder. Even, it is believed to have caused damages to the environment of Bali, moral degradation of Balinese people and a shift from agrarian culture to modern materialistic culture.

It is the beginning of destruction of Bali and Indonesia as well.

Why? Do you still remember after Kuta was bombed by the group of Amrozy and Imam Samudra?

At that time, the economy was stagnant and even decreasing.

Foreign tourist visit was also sluggish. They no longer made Bali a comfortable and secure destination. What happened to Bali had an impact on the national economy.

That is why an argument emerges that the destruction of Bali is also the beginning of the destruction of Indonesia, particularly in the

tourism sector.

Many policies issued by local and central government are believed to have caused Bali to slump. Throughout this year (2014), many policies of central government resulted in pros and cons. It started from the issuance of the Presidential Regulation

No.51/2014. The regulation has been considered to threaten Bali from sea side. The Presidential Regulation signed by the president on May 30, 2014 allowed the revitalization and reclamation of Benoa Bay area for maximally 700 hectares.

Continued on page 6

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This photo provided by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Luke Evans, center, as Bard in the fantasy adventure “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), releases by Warner Bros.

Pictures and MGM.

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Traditional boats belong to fishermen parked at Benoa Beach recently. The development of Bali increasingly goes wilder. Even, it is believed to have caused damages to the environment of Bali, moral degradation of Balinese people and a shift from agrarian culture to modern materialistic culture.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Bali News BANGLI - School building construction of the SDN 9 Songan elementary school at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, has now been completed. In the near future, dozens of the students belonging to distance class of the SDN 6 Songan are ascertained to occupy new building of the SDN 9 Songan. The certainty was conveyed by the Head of Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Sumantra, when contacted on Sunday (Jan 4). weeks it has been submitted,” he explained.

He added the number of students to be removed to the SDN 9 Songan would include two distance classes namely grade 1 (33 students) and grade 2 (34 students). The number of teachers assigned at the school would also be adjusted to the number of existing distance class namely two teachers and a principal. “I can make sure that distance class of the SDN 6 Songan can be removed to SDN 9 Songan,” said Sumantra.

As reported so far, children of Serongga hamlet, Songan village, attended different school at neighboring hamlets such as the SDN 6 Songan at

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Students in plastic sack-walled classroom soon removed

He explained the construction of school building financed by fund of central government worth IDR 1,174 billion was already completed at the end of last November. So far, the school had also received the Regent Decree. However, since the school construction committee had not submitted it to county government, for the time being it could not be used.

Later after the school had been submitted, the students who had been studying at the Serongga hamlet hall walled with plastic sack sheet denoting the distance class of the SDN 6 Songan would be moved to the new SDN 9 Songan. “Hopefully, it can be used as soon as possible. Perhaps within these

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Favehotel opens in Lombok DENPASAR – Archipelago International’s popular select service hotel brand, favehotel, is making its debut on the flourishing island of Lombok. Opening its doors in early of 2015 for travelers seeking a modern, comfortable, professional and well-managed hotel, favehotel Langko Mataram – Lombok will be ideally situated in the heart of Lombok’s thriving capital, Mataram.

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The students of SDN 9 Songan elementary school at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani are studying in a temporary place Dalem hamlet and SDN 3 Songan at Kayupadi hamlet, Songan village. Since the capacity of the SDN 6 Songan was inadequate to ac-

commodate all the students, from the past few years the school was forced to make distance class at Serongga hamlet hall walled with

plastic sack sheet. Sumantra hoped the construction of the new school could meet the existing demand at villages in Kintamani. (ina)

85 percent of blood at Red Cross got from voluntary donors

The blood donor activities done by a hospital in the area

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DENPASAR - Blood supply owned

by Red Cross (PMI) of Bali Province was considered to have no problem. It was revealed by Deputy Secretary of Bali Red Cross, I Gede Sudiartha, Wednesday (Dec 31).

The blood obtained by Red Cross was the result of voluntary blood donation amounting to 85 percent, while the remaining 15 percent was replacement blood of donor. In terms of blood availability, he admitted that his party was ready with blood throughout the year for people in need.

He continued that considering Bali as an international tourist destination, where many foreign travelers making a visit, his party had also prepared blood donor of negative rhesus. “We have 170 blood donors of negative rhesus who are ready to be on call in case of emergency,” he explained to media. And it was said that the donors had been coalesced into the Blood Donor

Association of Indonesia (PDDI).

His party paid attention to voluntary blood donors such as by giving awards to donors performing donation for 100 times in the form of a gold pin and certificate.

In addition, their health was also considered. “Do not let the donors fall sick,” he said. After donating, they were also given nutritious food package for immediate restoration. Joint activities such as fun walk were also done to give attention to the donors. Promoting and dissemination were continuously done to encourage more people to do a blood donation.

People donating their blood never died. He explained that people who donated their blood to others, their blood was automatically in other person and when having children it would continue to live in the next descent. “So people becoming blood donor will never die,” he concluded. (may)

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Situated on the western side of Lombok, Mataram is the capital and largest city in the West Nusa Tenggara Province, making it a popular staging point before travelers explore the undiscovered splendors of Lombok and neighboring Sumbawa Island.

With Mataram being the center for government administration, the hotel will be a haven for the island’s business travelers. The hotel is conveniently less than 45 minutes from Lombok International Airport and within easy walking distance to the mayor’s office, governor’s office and other key governmental

departments.

Its complete range of facilities including 4 modern conference rooms, an eclectic restaurant and ample parking space as well as convenient amenities such as complimentary high speed WiFi throughout the entire hotel, means business guests will be well catered to no matter the occasion. favehotel Langko Mataram – Lombok will also be a prime choice for leisure travelers, with the beautiful Senggigi Beach just 20 minutes away.

Almost all of Indonesia’s tourists are familiar with Bali, renowned throughout

the world as a tropical paradise with a fascinating and unique culture, however, many are yet to discover Lombok, Bali’s neighbor, whose beaches are uncrowded and where tourism areas are not marred by high-density development.

Set to cater to the island’s growing number of tourists learning of Lombok’s undiscovered beauty, favehotel Langko Mataram – Lombok will consist of 117 rooms, all non-smoking and decked out in faves hallmark edgy design. Unlike most budget choices, each room will be equipped with high-end amenities, such as LED TVs and 100% knot-count

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Nugroho Widiharso

Live to make others happy

Working in tourism industry since 1994 make the man who was born in Kudus June 4, 1974 receives many benefit. Nugroho Widiharso is just been appointed as the General Manger of Santika Siligita Hotel Nusa Dua. Nugroho was the alumni of Alumni Atami Internasional Tourism School and has vast international experiences.

He visited many countries throughout the world such as Germany, France, Holland, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Philippine, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and some others. It makes him get the opportunity to know many people and develop his skills in culture and tourism.

In his new place, Nugroho will make a great atmosphere to work. All employees must feel like siblings and increasing the solidarity by doing fun activities together like outing. “I want to make the employee work happily so I will develop the facilities for them such as parking space and food for them will be better. I believe that if the staffs are happy then they will

work very hard to make the guest happy as well,” he added.

Nugroho explained that Santika Siligita is a unique hotel. The food in the restaurant has local taste which combined with Balinese traditional ingredients. The guest will be very comfortable because the staffs serve them with great service.

The excellent image will be maintained by personal approach among the staffs and also giving training regularly to give the values of Santika Siligita to all staffs. Lastly is making the company vision and mission as the glue to stick everyone together. In the future, Nugroho will develop the positive image of the hotel by carrying out the corporate social responsibility (CSR), working with the people in the area doing beneficiary activities such as cleaning, blood donor and praying. The hotel also will be actively involved in the activities done by the local village. Nugroho also urged the staffs to give the best service during Santika Siligita’s events. “Life is about making the people around us happy,” he said. (ocha)

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linens, bringing the signature favehotel experience to yet another paradise island.

“Our favehotel brand has gone from strength to strength over the years, so we at Archipelago International are delighted to be marking yet another impressive milestone, this time celebrating two significant achievements with one opening. Not only will favehotel Langko Mataram – Lombok be our first fave on Lombok, it will also be our 32nd property in Indonesia, a milestone we are very proud to be commemorating.” Said Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing. (r)

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Arctic air to put America on ice WASHINGTON — Much of America is about to get the Arctic shivers. Meteorologists are forecasting frigid polar air will plunge much of the central and eastern U.S. into sub-freezing temperatures next week.

National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the Rockies. He said it will rival last year’s January Arctic outbreak that introduced the phrase “polar vortex” to America.

“This is going to be a big cold outbreak, pretty windy as well,” Kocin said. “It’s going to drive all the way down south.”

Kocin predicts a small Midwestern band of intense snow along with the cold, with some also in parts of the Northeast.

Even though it is several days in advance, meteorologists are pretty sure about this forecast. Kocin said many of the best computer models are saying the same thing.

This is all coming from cold air escaping from the Arctic.

The center of the cold air will be around Quebec, Canada. (ap)

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Around 60 cruises schedule to arrive in Bali

DENPASAR - The Indonesia Port Corporation, or Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo III), is scheduling 60 cruise ships to arrive at Benoa Port, Bali, General Manager of Pelindo III Ali Sodikin remarked on Monday.

AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File

In this Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago. Meteorologists are confidently forecasting frigid polar air will plunge south into the northern plains, Midwest and then the East Coast from next Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, through Thursday.

Scientists find first frog Tomb of previously that gives birth to tadpoles unknown pharaonic MIAMI - In the depths of an Indonesian rainforest, scientists have identified the first known frog that gives birth to tadpoles instead of laying eggs, according to research published Wednesday.

Known as Limnonectes larvaepartus, this member of the Asian group of fanged frogs was first discovered decades ago by Indonesian researcher Djoko Iskandar.

Scientists have long thought these particular frogs likely gave birth to tadpoles, but they had never seen the creatures mate or spawn firsthand.

But they found new evidence of the frogs’ reproductive behavior recently when University of California, Berkeley herpetologist Jim McGuire, who was exploring the Sulawesi Island rain forests one night, grabbed one that he thought was a male and found instead it was a female that had about a dozen slippery, newborn tadpoles with her.

“Almost all frogs in the world -- more than 6,000 species -- have external fertilization, where the male grips the female in amplexus (the frog mating embrace) and releases sperm

as the eggs are released by the female,” said McGuire, whose study appears in the journal PLOS ONE. “This new frog is one of only 10 or 12 species that has evolved internal fertilization, and of those, it is the only one that gives birth to tadpoles as opposed to froglets or laying fertilized eggs.”

There is plenty of other unusual behavior in the frog world when it comes to creating offspring.

Some frogs in Africa that also engage in internal fertilization are known to give birth to froglets that never go through the tadpole stage.

Others “carry eggs in pouches on their back, brood tadpoles in their vocal sac or mouth, or transport tadpoles in pits on their back,” according to a statement from UC Berkeley.

Two known species of female gastric brooding frogs, both of which are now extinct, were “famous for swallowing their fertilized eggs, brooding them in their stomach, and giving birth out of their mouths to froglets,” it added.

“This year, we will welcome 60 cruise ships. On January 1, a cruise ship named ‘Sapphire Princess’ with 2.6 thousand tourists has arrived in Benoa.

This is a positive indication for tourism in Bali,” he noted.

The cruise ship departed from Singapore to Klang Port, Malaysia, and arrived in Benoa. It will later depart for Australia.

According to Ali, the foreign tourists aboard the cruise ship, which anchored in Denpasar, are scheduled to visit several tourist attractions such as Sanur, Kuta, Uluwatu, Gianyar, and Tanah Lot. “The tourists on board the cruise liners visit Bali, and their numbers keep increasing from year to year. In 2013, there were 43 cruise ships, and their number increased to 50 in 2014. In 2015, their number is expected to increase further,” Ali pointed out.

He stated that each cruise liner has more than a thousand tourists on board. Therefore, the estimated number of tourist arrivals to Benoa Port reached fifty thousand in 2014.

“In addition to boarding cruise ships, the tourists also use yachts. So, the number of foreign tourists visiting Denpasar via the Benoa Port is more than fifty thousand,” Ali claimed. (ant)

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Passengers departed from cruise ship at Benoa Port, recently. The Indonesia Port Corporation, or Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo III), is scheduling 60 cruise ships to arrive at Benoa Port, Bali, General Manager of Pelindo III Ali Sodikin remarked on Monday.

Bad weather

Activities at traditional ports sluggish

queen found in Egypt

CAIRO - Czech archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown queen believed to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago, officials in Egypt said Sunday.

The tomb was discovered in Abu Sir, an Old Kingdom necropolis southwest of Cairo where there are several pyramids dedicated to pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty, including Neferefre.

The name of his wife had not been known before the find, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement.

He identified her as Khentakawess, saying that for the “first time we have discovered the name of this queen who had been unknown before the discovery of her tomb”.

That would make her Khentakawess III, as two previous queens with the same

name have already been identified.

Her name and rank had been inscribed on the inner walls of the tomb, probably by the builders, Damaty said.

“This discovery will help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids,” he added.

Miroslav Barta, who heads the Czech Institute of Egyptology mission who made the discovery, said the tomb was found in Neferefre’s funeral complex.

“This makes us believe that the queen was his wife,” Barta said, according to the statement.

An official at the antiquities ministry said the tomb dated from the middle of the Fifth Dynasty (2994-2345 BC).

Archaeologists also found around 30 utensils, 24 made of limestone and four of copper, the statement added. (afp)

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Bad weather afflicting the region of Klungkung lately in fact had an impact on the traditional crossing in the area of Kusamba, Dawan. Situation of the three traditional ports at Kusamba started to be sluggish due to extreme weather happening in the middle of the sea.

SEMARAPURA - Bad weather afflicting the region of Klungkung lately in fact had an impact on the traditional crossing in the area of Kusamba, Dawan. Situation of the three traditional ports at Kusamba started to be sluggish due to extreme weather happening in the middle of the sea.

Even, boat owners did not dare to transport passengers to the area of Nusa Penida because the presence of big waves coming in repeatedly. Similarly, such big wave conditions also occurred in the area of Nusa Penida, Klungkung.

Based on field observation, the waves at Tri Buana port, Kusamba, were quite large. However, the crossing to Nusa Penida was still taking place. However, the crossing activities on Saturday seemed sluggish. Besides, the port condition also looked deserted due to some few passengers crossing to Nusa Penida.

“The crossing was only made once trip this afternoon,” said one of the officers at the Tri Buana Port, Sedana Yoga, Sunday.

Similar condition also happened to transportation of freight.

Boat owners also reduced the volume of freight due to everchanging weather condition. Moreover, the situation of wave was quite big in the waters of Kusamba and Nusa Penida. Even, due to erratic weather condition, the crossing of freight was also only done once in the morning. “The crossing of freight is also made once. But, it seemed less optimal,” he said.

Crossing services in Nusa Penida from Nusa Gede to Nusa Lembongan was also hampered by bad weather. Sea waves reached the average height of 1 to 1.5 meters. Nevertheless, the crossing by traditional boat could still be carried out very carefully. Even, a traditional boat cancelled its voyage to Nusa Penida due to bad weather. “We have stopped a boat from crossing due to bad weather condition. Then, we asked it to wait further until the weather is getting fine,” he said. (119)

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Australian wildfire razes 26 homes, 29 people seek treatment

Damaged, 49 percent of roads in Bangli BANGLI – The Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, I.B. Wediatmika, on Sunday (Jan 4) revealed that: “49 percent of rural roads in Bangli are damaged”.

The type of damage suffered ranges from severe to minor. Wediatmika added that among the four subdistricts, Kintamani subdistrict which has the most roads of all the existing subdistricts, also has a high percentage of damaged roads.

In terms of damage rate, the county road condition in Bangli suffering moderate damage covers 10.17 km or 12.154 percent of 83.707 km of road, while rural road are dominated by minor damage reaching about 22.04 km or 42.17 percent of the 52.269 km length of road. Kintamani subdistrict had the highest damage rate categorized into moderate damage, namely 116.49 km or 28.05 percent of the total road length reaching 415.35 km, while rural roads mostly experienced severe damage, namely 446.143 km or 52.46 percent of the road length of 850.40 km.

Meanwhile, Susut subdistrict with 100.972 km of county road has the highest damage rate. Moderatly damaged road runs along 28.32 km or 28.05 percent, while rural roads along 51.99 km, mostly suffer severe damage along 14.441 km or 27.78 percent. Then, Tembuku subdistrict had 133.245 km of county road with 29.98 km or 22.50 percent of the road being suffers moderate damage, while rural roads along 71.20 km mostly consist of severly damaged road, running along 38.125 km or 53.55 percent.

The high percentage of road damage in Bangli County makes it a priority for repair The budget allocated for road repair is considerable, reaching IDR 350 billion.

Wediatmika also said that to avoid the road from becoming severely damaged, his party has previously carried out maintenance on a regular basis including patching badly damaged roads. However, the results of such maintenance cannot not last long especially when exacerbated by heavy rainfall that causes the patches to flake off. “We’ve been trying to do repairs and maintain the roads, but cannot cover the entire section of road because of the extent of the area,” he said.

He said that the road repairs would be carried out as soon as possible.

For rural road repair, he would not only involve relevant agencies but also local villagers. By that way, the road repairs could be more quickly resolved. (sos)

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ADELAIDE, Australia — More than two dozen homes have been destroyed or badly damaged and almost 30 people have sought medical treatment as a result of a massive wildfire that has raged out of control for days across farms and woodland in southern Australia, officials said Monday.

The victims of food poisoning in Singaraja

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After savoring small tuna

Dozens of residents suspected of poisoning SINGARAJA - After hundreds of employees of the Buleleng Hospital were poisoned due to take away rice a few weeks ago, another food poisoning case was experienced by dozens of residents of Tinga-Tinga village, Gerokgak subdistrict. A total of 13 people had indications of poisoning after consuming smal tuna purchased from a fishmonger named Indrawan.

According to information compiled on Sunday (Jan 4), out of the 13 residents who underwent medical treatment at the Gerokgak Public Health Center 1, six of the victims had to be hospitalized due to symptoms of serious poisoning. Most of the patients, who were expereincing symptoms of poisoning, came to the Public Health Center on Saturday (Jan 3) around 8:30 p.m.

Originally, seven residents of Juntal hamlet, Tinga-Tinga village, came to the Public Health Center to check their condition. They complained to the local doctor, of symptoms similar to poisoning, including; nausea, accompanied by headaches and heart palpitions. Of the seven victims, four had to be hospitalized.

On Sunday morning (Jan 4), six residents of Kembang Udaya also went to the Public Health Center. Having been examined, these people showed symptoms of poisoning. Two of them had to be hospitalized, including a

one-year-old baby.

Dewa Putu Widiadnyana, one of the victims said on Sunday, that before feeling ill, he had consumed small tuna, that he had purchased from a fishmonger named Indrawan as he usually did While eating the tuna, he didn’t notice anything unusual but hour later, he suddenly felt nauseous and dizzy. Having been checked and provided with drugs by the physician on duty at the Public Health Center, he vomitted.

“I really do not know for sure about the cause.

All I know is that I got headache, nausea and heart pounding after consuming the fish. Then, I consulted a doctor and was given a drug, to make me vomit,” he said.

Meanwhile, the physician on duty at the PHC Gerokgak 1, Ketut Arining, when asked for her confirmation said the condition of all the hospitalized victims was stable. Nevertheless, the victims were not allowed to go home yet because they were still undergoing observation over next few hours. If their

condition returns to normal, then they will be released on Monday morning (Jan 5). This case has been reported to the Buleleng Health Agency who will conduct further investigations as to the exact cause of the poisoning.

“The condition of the victims remains stable but we still need observations how thing progress for the next few hours Depending on the outcome, we may refer them to hospital if for example their clinical symptoms get worse,” she said.

When contacted separately, the Chief of Celukan Bawang Police, Nengah Sukadnya, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Kuniadi, said that to investigate the case his party had secured the remaining small tuna consumed by all the victims. In addition, the fishmonger named Indrawan and other witnesses had also been questioned.

The fishmonger, Indrawan, told the police that he had got the tuna from a fisherman in Gerokgak. In order to keep the fish fresh, Indrawan had stored it in ice cubes. “We’ve secured the rest of the evidence and ttaken the statement of the fishmonger We are still developing the case to find out the exact cause of the poisoning,” he said. (kmb38)

Hundreds of fire fighters have taken advantage of milder conditions in recent days to attempt to contain the fire which has razed 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) of countryside in hills northwest of the South Australia state capital Adelaide, State Premier Jay Weatherill said. Since the fire started on Friday, 29 people had been injured or hospitalized with conditions such a severe asthma, he said.

The only serious injury was a farmer who suffered suspected spinal injuries protecting his property, Network Ten television news reported. Recovery teams had found 26 houses destroyed or badly damaged as well as more than more 40 scorched barns and sheds, Weatherill said.

The Country Fire Service said in a statement the fire had not grown significantly Monday, but added

conditions were forecast to worsen with higher temperatures and stronger winds later in the week.

Hot and windy conditions that had fanned the flames on Friday and Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes, have eased since Sunday when officials lowered the fire’s danger rating from the highest level.

Destructive wildfires are common across much of Australia during the summer months. In 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state. (ap)

In this Friday, Jan. 2, 2015 photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, heavy smoke billow in the Adelaide Hills, Australia.

AP Photo/Xinhua, Hewitt Wang

Meth seizures at US-Mexico border soar in 2014

SAN DIEGO — Seizures of methamphetamine soared at the US-Mexico border during fiscal year 2014, accelerating a trend that began several years ago as new laws that limited access to the drug’s chemical ingredients made it

harder to manufacture it in the U.S. Meth seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s San Diego field office accounted for nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — of all the meth seized at all ports of entry nationwide in the fiscal year

ending Sept. 30, the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper reported Sunday.

Almost all of the meth consumed in the U.S. was once manufactured domestically, with San Diego as a known production hub. But a

crackdown in the U.S. on the precursor chemicals used to make the synthetic drug has pushed its manufacture south of the border, where drug cartels now find it cheaper and easier to produce and smuggle over the border than cocaine from South America, the paper reported.

With the California border as their main smuggling route, “the Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. marketplace with their cheap methamphetamine,” said Gary Hill, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s assistant special agent in charge in San Diego.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show a 300 percent increase in meth seizures at California ports of entry from fiscal 2009 to 2014.

Agents find the drug, often in smaller quantities, strapped to pedestrians crossing the border, in gas tanks, mixed in with clothing or hidden in food cans emptied of their original contents. In some instances, smugglers are liquefying the drug and trying to conceal it as

windshield washer fluid.

Undercover agents are buying the stuff in San Diego for about $3,500 a pound — about a third the cost of a pound of cocaine — and prices have been decreasing since 2008, Hill said. He added that, unlike with cocaine, drug cartels can eliminate the middleman by directly overseeing meth manufacturing and the smaller overhead means a cheaper street price in the U.S. Joe Garcia, interim special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego, said much of the meth coming into San Diego is headed north.

Los Angeles has emerged as an important hub for shipments headed elsewhere, he said.

“Our investigations take us through all corners of the country,” he said. “It’s going into Canada as well.” Locally, authorities in San Diego have seen the consequences of more meth coming across the border. (ap)

In this undated photo from the U.S. Border Patrol, Crystal A. Diaz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent with the Tucson Sector in Arizona, rides her ATV while on patrol. The Border Patrol is on a hiring spree for a very specific type of agent: a female one.

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Bali News

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Abrasion threatens Cucukan Beach

BUSINESS

Global tech spending sputters amid economic woes

LAS VEGAS - The outlook for global technology spending is uncertain after nearly flat growth in the past year, with turbulent economic conditions making a forecast difficult, an industry gathering was told Sunday.

At the media preview for the massive and Latin America, and it remains unInternational Consumer Electronics clear whether the rest of the world will Show in Las Vegas, data presented pick up the slack. showed just one percent growth in Koenig said smartphone and tablet 2014 to bring spending on technology sales are growing at a healthy pace in to $1.024 trillion.

China and other developing economies, But analyst Steve Koenig of the Con- and demand for new televisions is being sumer Electronics Association, which driven by a “robust upgrade cycle” to organizes the event, said economic the “ultra” high-definition displays. conditions around the world forced the At the same time, spending is being group to defer its forecast for 2015. capped by the decreasing price for new “We have a very mixed spending mobile devices. picture,” Koenig said.

“A flood of low-cost devices is The market is being driven by strong coming into the marketplace,” he said, demand for new products like tablets noting the prominence of phone makand smartphones in emerging econo- ers in China such as Xiaomi, which mies in Asia, and by modest economic has pushed into the top ranks of manugrowth in North America. facturers.

The picture is clouded by economic CEA forecast smartphone unit sales stagnation in the eurozone and Japan growing 19 percent this year to 1.5 biland “weak expectations” in big emerg- lion units, but revenue is expected to ing economies such as Brazil, Koenig grow just nine percent to $406.7 billion explained. as prices fall.

Russia, another large emerging econIn tablets, unit growth is expected at omy, is being hit by economic sanctions 20 percent in 2015, but revenues will that could dent tech spending. decline some eight percent to $61.9 The association predicted a drop in billion, Koenig said as he unveiled the tech spending of five percent in Europe forecast. (afp)

GIANYAR - Magnitude and strength of ocean current cause the beaches along Gianyar County to continually be threatened by abrasion. Although the government has anticipated by installing breakwater dam, not all of the beaches can be covered by concrete wall of four meters high, such as Cucukan Beach which now continues to be hit by abrasion as has not been protected by breakwater.

The breach spreads across 15.94 km from the border with Denpasar to the border of Gianyar with Klungkung County. From the beach length, every day the buildings near the beach begin to be broken down and abandoned as a result of the abrasion.

Cucukan Beach, for instance, in Blahbatuh subdistrict, located between Lebih Beach and Masceti Beach continues to be eroded by strong waves. At the eastern corner of the beach, about 10 meters, seems to have been built a breakwater dam, but some of its part has collapsed because the waves continue to hit, while the boulders used as foundation of the breakwater have also started to be swept away.

“Meanwhile, the area on Lebih and Masceti Beach has been already fortified with breakwater dam, but on the Cucukan Beach with the coastline of approximately 400 meters has not been built,” said Wayan Ari, a fisherman from Blahbatuh.

Besides, on Cucukan Beach also occurs several food stalls, having a distance of about five meters away from the brunt of sea waves. When tidal waves take place, part of the food stall floor is filled with seawater. “Some stalls almost collapsed yesterday, but they have been fixed,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Gianyar Public Works Agency, I.B. Sudewa, said the abrasion occurred due to high waves along the beach in Gianyar. In addition, the basic character of sandy beaches caused the damage rate suffered to be getting worse. When asked about the making of breakwater construction along the shore of Gianyar, he said it was beyond the authority of the Gianyar government. “Building breakwater is the authority of the Bali River and Coast Agency. If the Cucukan Beach has indeed been threatened, we will try to make coordination with the agency,” he said. (kmb35)

IBP/Manik

Magnitude and strength of ocean current cause the beaches along Gianyar County to continually be threatened by abrasion. Although the government has anticipated by installing breakwater dam, not all of the beaches can be covered by concrete wall of four meters high, such as Cucukan Beach which now continues to be hit by abrasion as has not been protected by breakwater.

Harvest time, price slumps

AP Photo/John Locher

In this Dec. 29, 2014, photo, people use a charging station at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The outlook for global technology spending is uncertain after nearly flat growth in the past year, with turbulent economic conditions making a forecast difficult, an industry gathering was told Sunday.

DENPASAR - Price drop during harvest season has become a common situation for farmers. In Karangasem, for example, a number of snakefruit farmers cut down tens of hectares of snakefruit plantation and shifted them to grow rice and sweet potatoes.

The Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Nyoman Rai, observed the prices of snakefruit in Karangasem indeed dropped during harvest season due to lack of government attention to farmers. On the other hand, farmers were also too dependent on the government assistance so that their entrepreneurial spirit never grew.

He said the government should not just disburse fund without providing ongoing assistance to farmers. This assistance could involve college, Institute of Agricultural Technology and NGOs. The most important was during post-harvest and processing.

Udayana University, for example, had made cooperation with one of the farmers’ groups

Smartphone maker Xiaomi says 2014 sales doubled BEIJING — The chairman of Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi, a rising star of the consumer technology industry, says sales more than doubled last year to $12.2 billion and the company plans to expand further into global markets.

The 5-year-old company sold 61.1 million handsets, a 227 percent increase over 2013. Revenue rose 135 percent to 74.3 billion yuan ($12.2 billion), Jun Lei said on his company blog.

Xiaomi overtook South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the second quarter of last year to become China’s biggest selling smartphone brand by number of handsets sold.

The privately held company, based

REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee/Files

in Beijing, recently completed a round of fundraising from investors that Lei said valued Xiaomi at $45 billion, making it one of the world’s most-valuable technology brands.

Xiaomi plans to expand further abroad after selling 1 million handsets last year in India, its biggest foreign market, Lei said, though he gave no indication which markets it might target.

Xiaomi ran into legal trouble in India in December after a court blocked sales of some handsets while it hears a complaint by Sweden’s LM Ericcson that the Chinese company violated its patents.

Lei called the case a “rite of passage” for a young company. (ap)

Three models of China’s Xiaomi Mi phones are pictured during their launch in New Delhi in this July 15, 2014 file photo.

IBP/Budana

Price drop during harvest season has become a common situation for farmers.

In Karangasem, for example, a number of snakefruit farmers cut down tens of hectares of snakefruit plantation and shifted them to grow rice and sweet potatoes.

in Selat subdistrict to process snakefruit into wine, chips and so on. Furthermore, the government was also asked to find a market in distributing the crops of farmers such as by inviting leading hotels and restaurants in Bali.

“It must be attempted so that the fruits produced in Karangasem can be connected to hotels and restaurants. If the regent, for instance, would like to take the solution, it is actually so easy because it can made into a kind of welcome fruit or welcome drink.

There must be a sort of preliminary contract between snakefruit farmers and the hotel,” he said not long ago.

Meanwhile, a lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Prof. Dr Wayan Windia, argued the drop in prices during harvest season happened due to the lack of government attention to agricultural sector. Supposedly, the government directed so that the employers could help the agricultural sector by buying the products of farmers or providing them with capital for farming.

“Later, the products of farmers will be paid at profitable price for farmers. Besides, it is necessary to change the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into Corporate Support Agriculture (CSA). Farmers are already sick, so that do not expect it again.

The government has an obligation to help the weak and wedged community,” he explained. (kmb32)

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AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File

FILE - In thus Dec. 16, 2014 file photo, North Koreans gather at the Mansu Hill where the statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il tower over them, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

3 things to know about new US sanctions on North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — Here are three things to know about new U.S. sanctions against North Korea over a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, whose movie depicting the fictional assassination of North Korea’s leader has infuriated Pyongyang, which denies responsibility for the cyberattack: NORTH’S REACTION AIMED AT DOMESTIC AUDIENCE AS WELL AS U.S.

says are needed to defend against Washington.

Pyongyang’s rhetoric over the weekend criticizing the sanctions, which included a vow that the new measures and America’s “inveterate repugnancy and hostility” would not weaken the North’s 1.2-millionstrong military, is probably directed as much at a domestic audience as it is at Washington.

Some North Korea watchers believe that sanctions help to insulate Pyongyang from taking responsibility for its failures, and allow Kim Jong Un, the 30-something leader who took power in late 2011 after his father’s death, to better solidify his power and bolster his domestic image as a strong leader.

Pyongyang, the argument goes, uses tension with the outside world, in general, and sanctions, in particular, to whip up always high anti-U.S. sentiment. This, in turn, allows the leadership to justify its inability to feed many of its people and the continuing push to develop nuclear bombs it

NEW SANCTIONS UNLIKELY TO AFFECT NORTH KOREA VERY MUCH

The new measures are unlikely to make much of a difference in North Korea, which has been bombarded by sanctions for decades and has woven an obsession with self-reliance into its national psyche.

Some analysts say Washington and others have the ability, should they choose, to apply more severe financial measures to hurt the North’s leadership.

But many others point out that a raft of multilateral penalties from the United Nations, as well as national sanctions from Washington, Tokyo and others meant to punish the government and sidetrack its nuclear ambitions, have done nothing to derail Pyongyang’s pursuit of a nuclear tipped missile that could reach America’s mainland.

The new sanctions, which target 10 North Korean government officials and three organizations, including Pyongyang’s primary intelligence

agency and state-run arms dealer, will have a limited impact because North Korea will likely assign other people or organizations to take over the work of those targeted, analysts say.

RECENT EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NORTH-SOUTH TIES SEEM SAFE

The measures probably won’t hurt recent efforts to improve ties between the rival Koreas. North and South Korea have been at each other’s throats since the Korean Peninsula was divided at the end of World War II into a U.S.-backed capitalist south and a Soviet-backed communist north.

In the decades since they were founded in 1948, the Koreas have established elaborate patterns of communicating their intentions toward each other, even as they trade bombastic rhetoric and threats.

The North’s comments over the weekend blasting the new sanctions have been largely viewed in Seoul as leaving the door open for warming ties as they didn’t specifically criticize South Korea.(ap)

International

8 crew presumed dead after cargo ship sinks off Scotland LONDON — Eight crew members are presumed dead after a cargo ship capsized and sank north of Scotland.

Rescuers have called off the search for the crew of the Cyprus-registered cement carrier Cemfjord, whose upturned hull was spotted by a passing ferry Saturday in the Pentland Firth.

The vessel’s management company says bad weather was likely a factor in its sinking. The ship, which carried

seven Polish crew members and one Filipino, did not send a distress signal.

Tony Redding of the German shipping company Brise said investigators would “look for abnormalities. And at the moment we don’t have any, apart from the fact that there was severe weather at the time.”

A ship was to scan the seabed Monday using sonar to assess how the Cemfjord is lying. (ap)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have launched a new wave of raids and detained 15 more police officers suspected of conducting illegal wiretaps.

The Anadolu Agency said the officers were detained Monday in raids at their homes in eight Turkish cities.

Dozens of other policemen were arrested in 2014 for allegedly illegally wiretapping President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials.

The government says the officers

are associated with a moderate Islamic movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which it accuses of attempting to topple the government. It says the movement is behind a corruption probe against four former government ministers and a series of leaked recordings suggesting corruption by Erdogan and family members. Last month, police raided media outlets close to Gulen, increasing concerns over media freedoms.(ap)

International

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

INDONESIA AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, Pool

Crewmembers of Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter look out of the windows during a search operation for the victims and wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 over the Java Sea, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015.

Turkey: more policemen detained for illegal eavesdropping

Bali destroyed...

From page 1 Badung and Denpasar have expressed a stand regarding the plan.

Denpasar City firmly rejected the reclamation as it was worried to kindle tidal flooding in the region.

Meanwhile, the viewpoint of Badung is reflected in the Regional Spatial Planning where the Benoa Bay belongs to a conservation area. In other words, no development is allowed in the region, especially reclaiming the sea.

It is just the threat at sea. Another law worried to destroy the aspect of Balinese belief is the Government Regulation No. 50/2011. One of them is the inclusion of the Besakih area and Mount Agung area into the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN). With the enactment of the upstream of Bali in the KSPN, the area will be eventually overrun by investors.

They will build a variety of tourism facilities such as hotels, restaurants, pubs, golf courses and other entertainment venues. All of these facilities indeed have been regulated in the KSPN and do not violate the rules and it is obligatory for the head of the region to support it.

The latter is the Law No.6/2014 on the village administration. For the application of this law Bali should choose between customary village and

administrative village to be registered to central government. As compensation, each qualified village (with population of 5,000 people) will receive the assistance of IDR 1.4 billion.

Many parties welcome this law because it is considered to be able to maintain the indigenous wisdom. So, they agree to register the customary village. Meanwhile, some others worry. They consider the law is just like a double-edged knife, which one to be chosen will have an impact on the order of Bali. For that reason, they suggest not to choose.

Other than the policy of central government, the policy of Bali government involving in cooperation the 102 hectares of mangrove forest in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) also raised the pros and cons. It is considered contrary to the concept of Bali Green announced by Governor Pastika. In addition, the development in the area of Grand Forest Park is also worried to disrupt the ecosystem as well as the presence of mangroves in the area.

The four issues got public highlight.

One of them was from Chairman of ForBali environmental NGO, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana. He stated that all activities that destroyed the nature of Bali would become a time bomb for the destruction of Bali. (019)

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Naval captain says may have located missing plane’s tail section PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia - An Indonesian naval patrol vessel found on Monday what the captain said could be the tail of a missing AirAsia jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located.

Ships and aircraft seeking debris and bodies from the Airbus A320200 widened their search area to allow for currents eight days after Flight QZ8501 plunged into the water en route from Indonesia’s secondbiggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

“We found what has a high probability of being the tail of the plane,” Yayan Sofyan, captain of the patrol vessel, told reporters. However, the Indonesian search and rescue agency is yet to confirm the discovery.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency has said seasonal tropical storms probably contributed to the Dec. 28 crash and the weather has persistently hampered efforts to recover bodies and find the cockpit voice and flight data recorders that should explain why the plane crashed into the sea.

The main focus of the search is about 90 nautical miles off the coast of Borneo island, where five large objects believed to be parts of the plane - the largest about 18 metres (59 feet) long - have been pinpointed in shallow waters by ships using sonar.

Peter Marosszeky, a senior aviation research fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said

the weather was squarely to blame for the delay in finding the black box recorders, which are designed to emit pings that can be detected by sonar for a month after a crash.

“The seas haven’t been very friendly, but the black boxes have a 30-day life and they will be able to find them, particularly in the shallow waters,” he said. “It’s the weather that is causing the delay.”

Indonesia AirAsia, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia, has come under pressure from authorities who have suspended its SurabayaSingapore licence, saying the carrier only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday.

It was not immediately clear what difference, if any, the day of the week had on the Dec. 28 flight, and Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation, made clear that the investigations of the route and the crash were separate.

“Please differentiate between the probe into flight licenses and the air crash investigation,” he said, adding, however, that any other airline that flew on a day it did not have

permission to do so would have its licence frozen.

“AirAsia is clearly wrong because they didn’t fly at a time and schedule that was already determined,” Murjatmodjo told reporters. “...we hope to finish investigation soon on whether anything went wrong.”

A joint statement from Singapore’s civil aviation authority and Changi Airport Group said that AirAsia had the necessary approvals to operate a daily flight between Surabaya and Singapore.

Nine ships from four countries have converged on the crash site area, with teams of divers including seven Russian experts standing ready, but strong winds and four-metre high waves have kept progress agonisingly slow.

Thirty-four bodies of the mostly Indonesian passengers and crew have so far been recovered, including some still strapped in their seats.

Many more may be still trapped in the body of the aircraft.

The crash was the first fatal accident suffered by the AirAsia budget group, whose Indonesian affiliate flies from at least 15 destinations across the sprawling archipelago. (rtr)

Central Java continues to develop tourism clusters SEMARANG - The Central Java Culture and Tourism Office (Dinbudpar) will continue to develop tourism clusters in the province to attract more tourists, according to Dinbudpar Chief Prasetyo Aribowo.

“We will continue to develop tourism clusters to attract as many tourists as possible to visit Central Java this year,” Aribowo noted on Monday.

He pointed out that the local government is currently developing six tourism clusters in the province: Nusakambangan-Baturaden, Borobudur-Dieng, Solo-Sangiran, Tegal-Pekalongan, Semarang-Karimunjawa, and Rembang-Blora.

According to him, each cluster has its own specific characteristics and uniqueness, which are believed to attract numerous foreign and domestic tourists.

“At the national level, Central

Java has a lot of tourist attractions that have drawn many tourists year after year,” Aribowo remarked.

He said that Central Java also has four national tourism clusters: Borobudur-Yogyakarta, SemarangKarimunjawa, Solo-Sangiran, and Nusakambangan-Pangandaran.

In a bid to promote these tourism attractions, he emphasized that the local government will continue to develop the local cultural attractions through the tourism villages and MICE, particularly in Semarang, Solo, Magelang, and Purwokerto.

“We are also making every effort to develop the tourism potential of Jateng Park,” Aribowo stated, adding that with proper management and development of these tourism clusters, 29.2 million domestic tourists and 400 thousand foreign tourists are projected to visit Central Java this year. (ant)

SURABAYA - AirAsia downplayed Sunday an incident that saw one of its planes turned back before takeoff in Indonesia, a week after another of its jets crashed into the Java Sea with 162 on board.

Indonesia AirAsia flight 7633 was taxiing in preparation for takeoff Saturday at Surabaya airport -- where last week’s doomed flight also took off -- when a power unit used to start the plane shut down, an airline official said.

As a result, the pilot turned back to the gate, Raden Achmad Sadikin, director of Safety and Security at Indonesia AirAsia, told reporters.

Local media in Indonesia and Malaysia had reported the Bandung-bound plane’s engine had cut out after emitting a loud bang that terrified passengers, but AirAsia stressed it was a minor incident.

“It’s not that the engine failed.

The plane wanted to take off but the APU (auxiliary power unit), which is the equipment that helped to start the engine, suddenly shut

down,” Sadikin said.

The plane later landed safely at its destination in West Java after undergoing a check, Indonesia AirAsia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko was quoted by local media as saying.

Meanwhile, AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes lashed out at the initial media reports, calling the headlines “sensational” and “silly”.

“Silly headlines in Malaysia.

Airasia Indonesia aircraft did not have a stalled engine. An Apu (auxiliary power unit) which is ground power had to be restarted.”

Fernandes urged staff to remain strong.

“Facts will come out. As I have said we are calm, will take the hits now as our focus is families. But time will show what AirAsia is all about,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Indonesian officials said weather was the “triggering factor” in last week’s crash of AirAsia flight 8501, with icing likely causing engine damage after it flew into a storm. (afp)

AirAsia boss says latest flight incident ‘not stalled engine’

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International

Pejeng Village Revitalizes Past Greatness

GIANYAR - Pejeng village continues to innovate in order to maintain the existence of cultural tourism. It is undertaken by featuring a few points of its uniqueness.

Among them, it highlights the architecture, design and fashion, cuisine, handicraft, agriculture and performing arts. This can be done because Pejeng retains a lot of uniqueness in historical and cultural aspects.

In terms of historical aspect, Pejeng has already been well known as the center of ancient Balinese kingdom. The kingdom was the Soma Negare Grand Palace of Pejeng. The word Pejeng is probably derived from the word pajeng meaning ‘umbrella.’ Pajeng has the meaning that the king of the ancient Balinese served as the umbrella and protector of his people.

Since the year 1705, the existence of Pejeng increasingly developed when the philosopher GE Rumphius wrote a book entitled Bulan Pejeng or the Moon of Pejeng, a bronze kettle drum. Other archaeological sites can be seen at the Penataran Sasih, Pusering Jagat and Bukit Penulisan Temple including the ancient statues at the Kelebutan, Kebo Edan, Arjuna Metapa and Ukur-Ukuran Temple.

While in terms of cultural aspect, Pejeng is known for the arts and natural resources such as rice fields and plantations. The richness is just like a magnet that has drawn

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Mavericks top Cavaliers 109-90 for fifth straight win CLEVELAND — Monta Ellis scored 20 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 15 as the Dallas Mavericks won their fifth straight game Sunday, a 109-90 victory over the slumping Cleveland Cavaliers.

LeBron James, who is out with knee and back soreness, missed his fourth in a row and fifth of the season. The Cavaliers are 1-4 when the four-time Most Valuable Player doesn’t play and have dropped five of seven games overall.

Kevin Love scored a seasonhigh 30 points, but the Cavaliers couldn’t stay with the Mavericks.

Kyrie Irving left in the third quarter with lower back tightness and didn’t return. He was 2 of 9 from the field and scored a season-low six points.

In other games, Miami held off Brooklyn 88-84 to end a fourgame losing streak, Detroit beat Sacramento 114-95 for their fifth straight win and Kobe Bryant hit the go-ahead jumper with 12.4 seconds to play to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to an 88-87 comeback victory over Indiana. In Miami, Chris Bosh scored 26 points and Dwyane Wade scored 10 of his 25 points in the final minutes to lead the Heat.

Hassan Whiteside had 11 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks off the bench for Miami, which won

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for only the seventh time in 19 home games. Joe Johnson scored 19 and Brook Lopez added 16 for Brooklyn, which had won six of seven and was seeking to get back over .500 for the first time since Nov. 12.

Detroit improved to 5-0 since releasing Josh Smith in December and is now 10-23 overall. Brandon Jennings scored 35 points and Andre Drummond had 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Pistons. Bryant scored 20 points, including nine in the final 2:32 to rally the Lakers past the Pacers, who blew a 13point lead in the second half.

Roy Hibbert missed a difficult jumper as time expired to give the Lakers their third win in 10 games.

Elsewhere, Phoenix handed Toronto its second straight blowout loss, 125-109, and Milwaukee topped the New York Knicks 95-82. (ap)

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Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love, right, tries to get past Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki, from Germany, during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in Cleveland.

Orlando Terranova leads after Serena Williams perks Nasser Al-Attiyah penalised up after a coffee break at Hopman Cup

Orlando Terranova was elevated into the Dakar Rally lead on Sunday evening after a penalty for his X-raid Mini team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah.

Al-Attiyah had won Sunday’s Buenos Aires to Villa Carlos Paz opener by 22 seconds over Terranova, but was clocked at 68km/h in a section where a 50km/h limit applied.

The Qatari driver was given a two-minute penalty, dropping him to seventh overall. That means Terranova starts Monday’s 322-mile stage to San Juan with a 42-second lead over Robby

Gordon’s HST Gordini, which has Giniel de Villiers’ Toyota, Krzysztof Holowczyc’s Mini and Emiliano Spataro’s Renault close behind.

The best of the new Peugeots is Carlos Sainz’s example in eighth place, 1m44s behind Terranova. Last year’s winner Nani Roma is currently classified last, six and a half hours behind the leaders, having hit early mechanical problems that could not be rectified. The Spaniard’s Mini had to be towed by X-raid’s assistance truck for the majority of the opening stage. (net)

PERTH, Australia — Lethargic and jetlagged, Serena Williams decided a coffee might perk her up after losing her first set 6-0 at the Hopman Cup. It did the trick.

Williams recovered to beat Flavia Pennetta 0-6, 6-3, 6-0 on a scorching day in Perth and John Isner followed up with a 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over Fabio Fognini to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Italy in their Group A match at the mixed team tournament.

The Americans won the doubles to complete a 3-0 win on Monday.

Williams later joked it was “miracle coffee.” “I was just feeling it, so I just had to get some coffee into me,” Williams said. “I just asked them to get me a shot of espresso — I asked them if it was legal, because I’ve never done it before. I needed to wake up.”

The top-ranked Williams said the round-robin nature of the Hopman Cup took some pressure off her ahead of the Australian Open later this month, and she was also heeding some advice from her father, Richard.

“My dad says, ‘Serena, you’ve done

everything, enjoy yourself, I promise you’ll play better,’” Williams was quoted as saying after the match. “So I’m like, ‘OK’. I’m trying to relax a bit more and play how I know I can play.”

The roof was closed to cool the venue in Perth, where temperatures topped 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the city’s hottest day since 1991. Isner was thankful for the relief from the heat, saying “You could fry an egg on that court if the roof was open.”

It was raining on the other side of the country in Brisbane, where American teenager Madison Keys had a 7-5, 6-2 first-round win over fourth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, breaking the 2014 Australian Open finalist’s serve three times in a second set that was briefly interrupted by rain at the semi-enclosed arena.

Third-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany beat Caroline Garcia of France 6-4, 6-3 and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 6-2. (ap)

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Real’s record run ends as Barca also lose BARCELONA - Real Madrid’s Spanish record 22-match winning streak ended in a 2-1 defeat at Valencia but they remained top of La Liga after a depleted Barcelona crashed 1-0 away to Real Sociedad on Sunday. Real, who last dropped points against champions Atletico Madrid in mid-September, remain a point clear of Barcelona and have a game in hand.

Jordi Alba headed into his own net in the second minute to give Sociedad the lead against a Barca side with Lionel Messi and Neymar on the bench having only returned on Friday from their Christmas break.

Barca failed to link up well in attack and it was David Moyes’ side that carried the greater threat on the counter for much of the game.

In the final stages, with Messi and Neymar on, Barca did begin to press but the San Sebastian hosts were resolute at the back.

“There is no point in saying what might have happened if they (Messi and Neymar) had started the game,” Barca coach Luis Enrique told a news conference.

“I thought it was the right decision as I didn’t want to take a risk with the players who had just returned from holiday and a long trip less than two days before. I

decided to put them on in the second half. “I don’t think the result was just as we didn’t deserve to lose but this is football and it can happen that you don’t get the luck when you need it.”

It was a memorable victory for former Manchester United manager Moyes, who has been Sociedad coach for less than two months and now sees his team move up to 13th with 18 points.

Real Madrid took the lead against Valencia after Alvaro Negredo handled a Toni Kroos free kick in the penalty area and Cristiano Ronaldo coolly placed the spot kick into the corner with 14 minutes played. An Andres Gomes shot deflected off Dani Carvajal and hit a post in first-half stoppage time as Valencia battled back and Antonio Barragan then saw a shot deflect in off Pepe in the 52nd

before Nicolas Otamendi nodded home a corner after 65 minutes.

“We have to give credit to Valencia. It’s sad that we have dropped three points and our run has come to an end but the league is long,” Real defender Sergio Ramos told reporters. “Before we didn’t say that we had it won and in no way are we now going to say we have lost the league.

“Valencia played their way and did very well. They packed players in the middle of the pitch and took the points.” It all looked good for Real early on with their lethal counter-attacking putting them ahead. Gareth Bale was brought down by Lucas Orban and from the resulting free kick, Real won the penalty.

The game, though, became feisty with plenty of chances for both sides and it was Valencia’s greater

Marseille in shock loss to four-tier Grenoble in French Cup

PARIS — Fourth-tier Grenoble came from behind three times before producing the first “giant killing” of the French Cup with a 5-4 win on penalties over league leader Marseille on Sunday. Other top-flight favorites avoided falling at the first hurdle as Lyon, Monaco and Bordeaux all progressed to the round of 32.

France forward Andre-Pierre Gignac scored a first-half brace but the 10-time winners failed to hold on to their lead on a very poor surface at the Stade des Alpes, with the teams locked 3-3 after extra time Mourad Nasrallah and Fares Hachi canceled out Gignac’ goals before Ghana winger Andre Ayew

looked to have scored the winner in extra time with a tap-in from close range. But Grenoble captain Selim Bengriba then headed home a last-second equalizer to take Marcelo Bielsa’s side to a penalty shootout.

“I don’t have the technical qualities of the best players but I have strong mental abilities,” Bengriba said. “I’m not used to score goals and I scratched my knees afterward (while celebrating)” Former Grenoble player Florian Thauvin missed from the spot during the shootout and Nasrallah sent Brice Samba the wrong way to knock out Marseille.

“There is no point analyzing this

match,” Bielsa said. “This is an unacceptable result and I’m mainly responsible for it.”

After a strong first half to the season that saw it climb to second in the league standings, Lyon picked up where it left off before the Christmas break and quickly built a 3-0 lead before resisting a late charge from Lens to win 3-2.

Monaco was in control from the start against second-division side Nimes and won 2-0 with goals from Bernardo Silva and Valere Germain, while Bordeaux defeated Toulouse 2-1.

drive that allowed them to turn the game around in the second half.

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Benfica win again, Andre hits Guimaraes hat-trick LISBON - Primeira Liga leaders and titleholders Benfica beat 10-man Penafiel 3-0 with three Brazilian goals on Sunday as they notched their seventh league win in a row and kept a sixth successive clean sheet.

Midfielder Andre Andre scored a hat-trick to give surprise package Vitoria Guimaraes a 4-0 win over Nacional which kept them third.

Anderson Talisca put Benfica in front eight minutes before halftime, side-footing into an empty net after fellow Brazilian Lima had opened

up the Penafiel defence.

Rabiola had a goal disallowed for Penafiel just after the re-start when he was caught fractionally offside and the hosts suffered another blow when Tony was harshly given a second yellow card and sent off. Benfica cantered home with two goals in the last 15 minutes as Brazilian Jonas turned in Maxi Pereira’s cross and compatriot Jardel headed in from a corner.

The Eagles, who have taken 40 points from a possible 45, stayed

six points clear of Porto, who won 5-1 at bottom club Gil Vicente on Saturday, with Vitoria a further three behind in third.

Ricardo Gomes blasted Vitoria ahead with a thunderous long-range shot in the 28th minute, before Andre scored two quickfire goals, the first from a harshly-awarded penalty and the second from a rebound, before halftime. He completed his hat-trick with a low shot from the edge of the area in the 81st minute.(rtr)

Manchester clubs through Australia, SKorea in FA Cup, QPR stunned under pressure to perform at Asian Cup

the f o r picked fourth silverin 2014 t h e y the Club Cup last month.(rtr)

Manchester City and Manchester United left it late to avoid embarrassment at the hands of lower-league opposition in the FA Cup on Sunday, leaving third-tier Sheffield United to deliver the biggest shock of the third round. On the day England’s top teams entered the fray in world football’s most famous domestic cup competition, there were a slew of close calls for Premier League sides but only Queens Park Rangers fell at the first hurdle.

QPR lost 3-0 to Sheffield United, which is making a habit of producing so-called “giant-killings” in cup competitions. The team belied its lowly league placing to reach the semifinals of the FA Cup last season and has advanced to the same stage of the League Cup this season, where it takes on Tottenham over two legs this month.

“I don’t think people will take us lightly,” United coach Chris Morgan

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Barcelona’s Luis Suarez of Uruguay, leves the pitch at the end of the match during their La Liga soccer match against Real Sociedad, at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. Barcelona lose the match 1-0.

said. “In the last calendar year, we’ve beaten five Premier League clubs.”

Man City looked like going the same way as QPR, only for James Milner — a midfielder playing as a makeshift striker — to score in the 66th minute and again in injury time in a 2-1 win over second-tier Sheffield Wednesday. City, the joint leader in the Premier League with Chelsea, beat the same opposition 7-0 in the League Cup this season.

“I am relieved,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. “We play very badly, except the last 20 minutes.”

Man United was also unconvincing against Yeovil, which is bottom of the third tier, and needed goals in the final 26 minutes from midfielders Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria for a 2-0 win. Herrera’s strike was a brilliant volley on the turn from 25 meters, a goal that lit up a poor-quality match at Huish Park.

“We battled for 60, 70 minutes and then Ander scored a spectacular goal,” United midfielder Darren Fletcher said. “Sometimes that’s what it takes.”

Stoke avoided what would have been one of the biggest shocks in the cup’s 144-year history, scoring three times in the final 10 minutes to beat non-league Wrexham 3-1.

Chelsea also relied on a secondhalf revival, scoring three goals in a 14-minute burst through Willian, Loic Remy and Kurt Zouma for a 3-0 win over Watford. In another late show from a Premier League club, Christian Benteke’s 88th-minute strike earned Aston Villa a 1-0 victory over Blackpool, which plays in the second tier.

Arsenal had it more comfortable, with the defending champions beating Hull 2-0 in a repeat of last season’s final thanks to goals by Per Mertesacker and the superb Alexis Sanchez.(ap) AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Guingamp began its title defense with a 3-0 victory at fifth-tier side Dinan Lehon and Franck Tabanou scored the winner seven minutes into extra time with a half-volley into the top corner as Saint-Etienne scrapped to a 1-0 win over Nancy.

Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, the leading goal scorer in the

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In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013 photo, Australia’s Tim Cahill listens to the national anthem before their Asian zone Group B qualifying soccer match for the 2014 World Cup in Saitama, near Tokyo. Australia, featuring World Cup veterans Tim Cahill and captain Mile Jedinak, and Bayer Leverkusen forward Robbie Kruse, plays Kuwait on Friday in a litmus test for both team’s prospects in the group.

league with 17 goals, netted a penalty after Nabil Fekir opened the scoring and Mouhamadou Dabo then extended the visitors’ lead to 3-0 after only 30 minutes. Alharbi El Jadeyaoui pulled one back 14 minutes from time and Adamo Coulibaly ensured a nervy finish after heading home in the 90th minute.

Manchester United’s Ander Herrera celebrates after scoring the opening goal during their English FA Cup third round soccer match between Yeovil Town and Manchester United at Huish Park stadium in Yeovil, England, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015 .

MELBOURNE, Australia — Ange Postecoglou’s Australia squad will carry a home-field advantage and plenty of pressure to perform when the Asian Cup kicks off on Friday.

Australia surprised football critics by closely challenging Chile and the Netherlands in the group stage at the World Cup in Brazil, with veteran Tim Cahill scoring one of the most acrobatic goals of the tournament before a youthful and untested team lost comprehensively to 2010 champion Spain.

Postecoglou said his team is aiming to build on the fluid formation it used at the World Cup, with attacking players moving into non-traditional positions at times to confuse opposing defenses. “You can see it out on the pitch that we are still moving forward with the type of football we want to play,” he said. “We have tried to add more fluency into the front third and have been evolving since the World Cup.” Australia lost the 2011 Asian Cup final to Japan and was among the four Asian teams that qualified for Brazil 2014, but the squad has slid down the world rankings recently, something Postecoglou wants to rectify with another strong run at the continental tournament.

Australia’s chief rival in Group A is South Korea, which has been working to rebuild its team and confidence following a disappointing World Cup, where it finished last in its group and prompted coach Hong Myung-bo to resign.

Now under the stewardship of former West Germany and Real Madrid

midfielder Uli Stielike, South Korea — with the likes of Swansea City’s Ki Sung-yueng, Bayer Leverkusen winger Son Heung-min and TSG Hoffenheim defender Kim Jin-su — will be aiming to regain the form that saw it reach the 2002 World Cup semifinals.

Kim, who is yet to play under Stielike, said he’s still learning his new coach’s style of play. “I am trying to figure out his strategic styles,” Kim said. “I am trying to make quick adjustments to his system.” Kuwait and Oman are also in the group, determined to push West Asia’s interests into the knock-out rounds.

At the recent Gulf Cup, Oman reached the semifinals and Kuwait had a surprising win over Iraq and drew with the United Arab Emirates in the group stage.

Australia, which features World Cup veterans Tim Cahill and captain Mile Jedinak, and Bayer Leverkusen forward Robbie Kruse, plays Kuwait on Friday in a litmus test for both team’s prospects in the group. Assuming Australia lives up to expectations, the highlight of Group A will be its last preliminary round match on Jan. 17 against the South Koreans in Brisbane.

“We have to be ruthless. I don’t care how we win, as long as we win,” Cahill told the domestic media.

South Korea last won the tournament in 1960, and Stielike seems to have modest expectations in Australia after recently being quoted as saying third place would be a good showing.

An increasingly impatient South Korean public may disagree.(ap)

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Real’s record run ends as Barca also lose BARCELONA - Real Madrid’s Spanish record 22-match winning streak ended in a 2-1 defeat at Valencia but they remained top of La Liga after a depleted Barcelona crashed 1-0 away to Real Sociedad on Sunday. Real, who last dropped points against champions Atletico Madrid in mid-September, remain a point clear of Barcelona and have a game in hand.

Jordi Alba headed into his own net in the second minute to give Sociedad the lead against a Barca side with Lionel Messi and Neymar on the bench having only returned on Friday from their Christmas break.

Barca failed to link up well in attack and it was David Moyes’ side that carried the greater threat on the counter for much of the game.

In the final stages, with Messi and Neymar on, Barca did begin to press but the San Sebastian hosts were resolute at the back.

“There is no point in saying what might have happened if they (Messi and Neymar) had started the game,” Barca coach Luis Enrique told a news conference.

“I thought it was the right decision as I didn’t want to take a risk with the players who had just returned from holiday and a long trip less than two days before. I

decided to put them on in the second half. “I don’t think the result was just as we didn’t deserve to lose but this is football and it can happen that you don’t get the luck when you need it.”

It was a memorable victory for former Manchester United manager Moyes, who has been Sociedad coach for less than two months and now sees his team move up to 13th with 18 points.

Real Madrid took the lead against Valencia after Alvaro Negredo handled a Toni Kroos free kick in the penalty area and Cristiano Ronaldo coolly placed the spot kick into the corner with 14 minutes played. An Andres Gomes shot deflected off Dani Carvajal and hit a post in first-half stoppage time as Valencia battled back and Antonio Barragan then saw a shot deflect in off Pepe in the 52nd

before Nicolas Otamendi nodded home a corner after 65 minutes.

“We have to give credit to Valencia. It’s sad that we have dropped three points and our run has come to an end but the league is long,” Real defender Sergio Ramos told reporters. “Before we didn’t say that we had it won and in no way are we now going to say we have lost the league.

“Valencia played their way and did very well. They packed players in the middle of the pitch and took the points.” It all looked good for Real early on with their lethal counter-attacking putting them ahead. Gareth Bale was brought down by Lucas Orban and from the resulting free kick, Real won the penalty.

The game, though, became feisty with plenty of chances for both sides and it was Valencia’s greater

Marseille in shock loss to four-tier Grenoble in French Cup

PARIS — Fourth-tier Grenoble came from behind three times before producing the first “giant killing” of the French Cup with a 5-4 win on penalties over league leader Marseille on Sunday. Other top-flight favorites avoided falling at the first hurdle as Lyon, Monaco and Bordeaux all progressed to the round of 32.

France forward Andre-Pierre Gignac scored a first-half brace but the 10-time winners failed to hold on to their lead on a very poor surface at the Stade des Alpes, with the teams locked 3-3 after extra time Mourad Nasrallah and Fares Hachi canceled out Gignac’ goals before Ghana winger Andre Ayew

looked to have scored the winner in extra time with a tap-in from close range. But Grenoble captain Selim Bengriba then headed home a last-second equalizer to take Marcelo Bielsa’s side to a penalty shootout.

“I don’t have the technical qualities of the best players but I have strong mental abilities,” Bengriba said. “I’m not used to score goals and I scratched my knees afterward (while celebrating)” Former Grenoble player Florian Thauvin missed from the spot during the shootout and Nasrallah sent Brice Samba the wrong way to knock out Marseille.

“There is no point analyzing this

match,” Bielsa said. “This is an unacceptable result and I’m mainly responsible for it.”

After a strong first half to the season that saw it climb to second in the league standings, Lyon picked up where it left off before the Christmas break and quickly built a 3-0 lead before resisting a late charge from Lens to win 3-2.

Monaco was in control from the start against second-division side Nimes and won 2-0 with goals from Bernardo Silva and Valere Germain, while Bordeaux defeated Toulouse 2-1.

drive that allowed them to turn the game around in the second half.

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Benfica win again, Andre hits Guimaraes hat-trick LISBON - Primeira Liga leaders and titleholders Benfica beat 10-man Penafiel 3-0 with three Brazilian goals on Sunday as they notched their seventh league win in a row and kept a sixth successive clean sheet.

Midfielder Andre Andre scored a hat-trick to give surprise package Vitoria Guimaraes a 4-0 win over Nacional which kept them third.

Anderson Talisca put Benfica in front eight minutes before halftime, side-footing into an empty net after fellow Brazilian Lima had opened

up the Penafiel defence.

Rabiola had a goal disallowed for Penafiel just after the re-start when he was caught fractionally offside and the hosts suffered another blow when Tony was harshly given a second yellow card and sent off. Benfica cantered home with two goals in the last 15 minutes as Brazilian Jonas turned in Maxi Pereira’s cross and compatriot Jardel headed in from a corner.

The Eagles, who have taken 40 points from a possible 45, stayed

six points clear of Porto, who won 5-1 at bottom club Gil Vicente on Saturday, with Vitoria a further three behind in third.

Ricardo Gomes blasted Vitoria ahead with a thunderous long-range shot in the 28th minute, before Andre scored two quickfire goals, the first from a harshly-awarded penalty and the second from a rebound, before halftime. He completed his hat-trick with a low shot from the edge of the area in the 81st minute.(rtr)

Manchester clubs through Australia, SKorea in FA Cup, QPR stunned under pressure to perform at Asian Cup

the f o r picked fourth silverin 2014 t h e y the Club Cup last month.(rtr)

Manchester City and Manchester United left it late to avoid embarrassment at the hands of lower-league opposition in the FA Cup on Sunday, leaving third-tier Sheffield United to deliver the biggest shock of the third round. On the day England’s top teams entered the fray in world football’s most famous domestic cup competition, there were a slew of close calls for Premier League sides but only Queens Park Rangers fell at the first hurdle.

QPR lost 3-0 to Sheffield United, which is making a habit of producing so-called “giant-killings” in cup competitions. The team belied its lowly league placing to reach the semifinals of the FA Cup last season and has advanced to the same stage of the League Cup this season, where it takes on Tottenham over two legs this month.

“I don’t think people will take us lightly,” United coach Chris Morgan

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Barcelona’s Luis Suarez of Uruguay, leves the pitch at the end of the match during their La Liga soccer match against Real Sociedad, at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. Barcelona lose the match 1-0.

said. “In the last calendar year, we’ve beaten five Premier League clubs.”

Man City looked like going the same way as QPR, only for James Milner — a midfielder playing as a makeshift striker — to score in the 66th minute and again in injury time in a 2-1 win over second-tier Sheffield Wednesday. City, the joint leader in the Premier League with Chelsea, beat the same opposition 7-0 in the League Cup this season.

“I am relieved,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. “We play very badly, except the last 20 minutes.”

Man United was also unconvincing against Yeovil, which is bottom of the third tier, and needed goals in the final 26 minutes from midfielders Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria for a 2-0 win. Herrera’s strike was a brilliant volley on the turn from 25 meters, a goal that lit up a poor-quality match at Huish Park.

“We battled for 60, 70 minutes and then Ander scored a spectacular goal,” United midfielder Darren Fletcher said. “Sometimes that’s what it takes.”

Stoke avoided what would have been one of the biggest shocks in the cup’s 144-year history, scoring three times in the final 10 minutes to beat non-league Wrexham 3-1.

Chelsea also relied on a secondhalf revival, scoring three goals in a 14-minute burst through Willian, Loic Remy and Kurt Zouma for a 3-0 win over Watford. In another late show from a Premier League club, Christian Benteke’s 88th-minute strike earned Aston Villa a 1-0 victory over Blackpool, which plays in the second tier.

Arsenal had it more comfortable, with the defending champions beating Hull 2-0 in a repeat of last season’s final thanks to goals by Per Mertesacker and the superb Alexis Sanchez.(ap) AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Guingamp began its title defense with a 3-0 victory at fifth-tier side Dinan Lehon and Franck Tabanou scored the winner seven minutes into extra time with a half-volley into the top corner as Saint-Etienne scrapped to a 1-0 win over Nancy.

Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, the leading goal scorer in the

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In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013 photo, Australia’s Tim Cahill listens to the national anthem before their Asian zone Group B qualifying soccer match for the 2014 World Cup in Saitama, near Tokyo. Australia, featuring World Cup veterans Tim Cahill and captain Mile Jedinak, and Bayer Leverkusen forward Robbie Kruse, plays Kuwait on Friday in a litmus test for both team’s prospects in the group.

league with 17 goals, netted a penalty after Nabil Fekir opened the scoring and Mouhamadou Dabo then extended the visitors’ lead to 3-0 after only 30 minutes. Alharbi El Jadeyaoui pulled one back 14 minutes from time and Adamo Coulibaly ensured a nervy finish after heading home in the 90th minute.

Manchester United’s Ander Herrera celebrates after scoring the opening goal during their English FA Cup third round soccer match between Yeovil Town and Manchester United at Huish Park stadium in Yeovil, England, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015 .

MELBOURNE, Australia — Ange Postecoglou’s Australia squad will carry a home-field advantage and plenty of pressure to perform when the Asian Cup kicks off on Friday.

Australia surprised football critics by closely challenging Chile and the Netherlands in the group stage at the World Cup in Brazil, with veteran Tim Cahill scoring one of the most acrobatic goals of the tournament before a youthful and untested team lost comprehensively to 2010 champion Spain.

Postecoglou said his team is aiming to build on the fluid formation it used at the World Cup, with attacking players moving into non-traditional positions at times to confuse opposing defenses. “You can see it out on the pitch that we are still moving forward with the type of football we want to play,” he said. “We have tried to add more fluency into the front third and have been evolving since the World Cup.” Australia lost the 2011 Asian Cup final to Japan and was among the four Asian teams that qualified for Brazil 2014, but the squad has slid down the world rankings recently, something Postecoglou wants to rectify with another strong run at the continental tournament.

Australia’s chief rival in Group A is South Korea, which has been working to rebuild its team and confidence following a disappointing World Cup, where it finished last in its group and prompted coach Hong Myung-bo to resign.

Now under the stewardship of former West Germany and Real Madrid

midfielder Uli Stielike, South Korea — with the likes of Swansea City’s Ki Sung-yueng, Bayer Leverkusen winger Son Heung-min and TSG Hoffenheim defender Kim Jin-su — will be aiming to regain the form that saw it reach the 2002 World Cup semifinals.

Kim, who is yet to play under Stielike, said he’s still learning his new coach’s style of play. “I am trying to figure out his strategic styles,” Kim said. “I am trying to make quick adjustments to his system.” Kuwait and Oman are also in the group, determined to push West Asia’s interests into the knock-out rounds.

At the recent Gulf Cup, Oman reached the semifinals and Kuwait had a surprising win over Iraq and drew with the United Arab Emirates in the group stage.

Australia, which features World Cup veterans Tim Cahill and captain Mile Jedinak, and Bayer Leverkusen forward Robbie Kruse, plays Kuwait on Friday in a litmus test for both team’s prospects in the group. Assuming Australia lives up to expectations, the highlight of Group A will be its last preliminary round match on Jan. 17 against the South Koreans in Brisbane.

“We have to be ruthless. I don’t care how we win, as long as we win,” Cahill told the domestic media.

South Korea last won the tournament in 1960, and Stielike seems to have modest expectations in Australia after recently being quoted as saying third place would be a good showing.

An increasingly impatient South Korean public may disagree.(ap)

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Mavericks top Cavaliers 109-90 for fifth straight win CLEVELAND — Monta Ellis scored 20 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 15 as the Dallas Mavericks won their fifth straight game Sunday, a 109-90 victory over the slumping Cleveland Cavaliers.

LeBron James, who is out with knee and back soreness, missed his fourth in a row and fifth of the season. The Cavaliers are 1-4 when the four-time Most Valuable Player doesn’t play and have dropped five of seven games overall.

Kevin Love scored a seasonhigh 30 points, but the Cavaliers couldn’t stay with the Mavericks.

Kyrie Irving left in the third quarter with lower back tightness and didn’t return. He was 2 of 9 from the field and scored a season-low six points.

In other games, Miami held off Brooklyn 88-84 to end a fourgame losing streak, Detroit beat Sacramento 114-95 for their fifth straight win and Kobe Bryant hit the go-ahead jumper with 12.4 seconds to play to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to an 88-87 comeback victory over Indiana. In Miami, Chris Bosh scored 26 points and Dwyane Wade scored 10 of his 25 points in the final minutes to lead the Heat.

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for only the seventh time in 19 home games. Joe Johnson scored 19 and Brook Lopez added 16 for Brooklyn, which had won six of seven and was seeking to get back over .500 for the first time since Nov. 12.

Detroit improved to 5-0 since releasing Josh Smith in December and is now 10-23 overall. Brandon Jennings scored 35 points and Andre Drummond had 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Pistons. Bryant scored 20 points, including nine in the final 2:32 to rally the Lakers past the Pacers, who blew a 13point lead in the second half.

Roy Hibbert missed a difficult jumper as time expired to give the Lakers their third win in 10 games.

Elsewhere, Phoenix handed Toronto its second straight blowout loss, 125-109, and Milwaukee topped the New York Knicks 95-82. (ap)

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Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love, right, tries to get past Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki, from Germany, during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in Cleveland.

Orlando Terranova leads after Serena Williams perks Nasser Al-Attiyah penalised up after a coffee break at Hopman Cup

Orlando Terranova was elevated into the Dakar Rally lead on Sunday evening after a penalty for his X-raid Mini team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah.

Al-Attiyah had won Sunday’s Buenos Aires to Villa Carlos Paz opener by 22 seconds over Terranova, but was clocked at 68km/h in a section where a 50km/h limit applied.

The Qatari driver was given a two-minute penalty, dropping him to seventh overall. That means Terranova starts Monday’s 322-mile stage to San Juan with a 42-second lead over Robby

Gordon’s HST Gordini, which has Giniel de Villiers’ Toyota, Krzysztof Holowczyc’s Mini and Emiliano Spataro’s Renault close behind.

The best of the new Peugeots is Carlos Sainz’s example in eighth place, 1m44s behind Terranova. Last year’s winner Nani Roma is currently classified last, six and a half hours behind the leaders, having hit early mechanical problems that could not be rectified. The Spaniard’s Mini had to be towed by X-raid’s assistance truck for the majority of the opening stage. (net)

PERTH, Australia — Lethargic and jetlagged, Serena Williams decided a coffee might perk her up after losing her first set 6-0 at the Hopman Cup. It did the trick.

Williams recovered to beat Flavia Pennetta 0-6, 6-3, 6-0 on a scorching day in Perth and John Isner followed up with a 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over Fabio Fognini to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Italy in their Group A match at the mixed team tournament.

The Americans won the doubles to complete a 3-0 win on Monday.

Williams later joked it was “miracle coffee.” “I was just feeling it, so I just had to get some coffee into me,” Williams said. “I just asked them to get me a shot of espresso — I asked them if it was legal, because I’ve never done it before. I needed to wake up.”

The top-ranked Williams said the round-robin nature of the Hopman Cup took some pressure off her ahead of the Australian Open later this month, and she was also heeding some advice from her father, Richard.

“My dad says, ‘Serena, you’ve done

everything, enjoy yourself, I promise you’ll play better,’” Williams was quoted as saying after the match. “So I’m like, ‘OK’. I’m trying to relax a bit more and play how I know I can play.”

The roof was closed to cool the venue in Perth, where temperatures topped 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the city’s hottest day since 1991. Isner was thankful for the relief from the heat, saying “You could fry an egg on that court if the roof was open.”

It was raining on the other side of the country in Brisbane, where American teenager Madison Keys had a 7-5, 6-2 first-round win over fourth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, breaking the 2014 Australian Open finalist’s serve three times in a second set that was briefly interrupted by rain at the semi-enclosed arena.

Third-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany beat Caroline Garcia of France 6-4, 6-3 and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 6-2. (ap)

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FILE - In thus Dec. 16, 2014 file photo, North Koreans gather at the Mansu Hill where the statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il tower over them, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

3 things to know about new US sanctions on North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — Here are three things to know about new U.S. sanctions against North Korea over a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, whose movie depicting the fictional assassination of North Korea’s leader has infuriated Pyongyang, which denies responsibility for the cyberattack: NORTH’S REACTION AIMED AT DOMESTIC AUDIENCE AS WELL AS U.S.

says are needed to defend against Washington.

Pyongyang’s rhetoric over the weekend criticizing the sanctions, which included a vow that the new measures and America’s “inveterate repugnancy and hostility” would not weaken the North’s 1.2-millionstrong military, is probably directed as much at a domestic audience as it is at Washington.

Some North Korea watchers believe that sanctions help to insulate Pyongyang from taking responsibility for its failures, and allow Kim Jong Un, the 30-something leader who took power in late 2011 after his father’s death, to better solidify his power and bolster his domestic image as a strong leader.

Pyongyang, the argument goes, uses tension with the outside world, in general, and sanctions, in particular, to whip up always high anti-U.S. sentiment. This, in turn, allows the leadership to justify its inability to feed many of its people and the continuing push to develop nuclear bombs it

NEW SANCTIONS UNLIKELY TO AFFECT NORTH KOREA VERY MUCH

The new measures are unlikely to make much of a difference in North Korea, which has been bombarded by sanctions for decades and has woven an obsession with self-reliance into its national psyche.

Some analysts say Washington and others have the ability, should they choose, to apply more severe financial measures to hurt the North’s leadership.

But many others point out that a raft of multilateral penalties from the United Nations, as well as national sanctions from Washington, Tokyo and others meant to punish the government and sidetrack its nuclear ambitions, have done nothing to derail Pyongyang’s pursuit of a nuclear tipped missile that could reach America’s mainland.

The new sanctions, which target 10 North Korean government officials and three organizations, including Pyongyang’s primary intelligence

agency and state-run arms dealer, will have a limited impact because North Korea will likely assign other people or organizations to take over the work of those targeted, analysts say.

RECENT EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NORTH-SOUTH TIES SEEM SAFE

The measures probably won’t hurt recent efforts to improve ties between the rival Koreas. North and South Korea have been at each other’s throats since the Korean Peninsula was divided at the end of World War II into a U.S.-backed capitalist south and a Soviet-backed communist north.

In the decades since they were founded in 1948, the Koreas have established elaborate patterns of communicating their intentions toward each other, even as they trade bombastic rhetoric and threats.

The North’s comments over the weekend blasting the new sanctions have been largely viewed in Seoul as leaving the door open for warming ties as they didn’t specifically criticize South Korea.(ap)

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8 crew presumed dead after cargo ship sinks off Scotland LONDON — Eight crew members are presumed dead after a cargo ship capsized and sank north of Scotland.

Rescuers have called off the search for the crew of the Cyprus-registered cement carrier Cemfjord, whose upturned hull was spotted by a passing ferry Saturday in the Pentland Firth.

The vessel’s management company says bad weather was likely a factor in its sinking. The ship, which carried

seven Polish crew members and one Filipino, did not send a distress signal.

Tony Redding of the German shipping company Brise said investigators would “look for abnormalities. And at the moment we don’t have any, apart from the fact that there was severe weather at the time.”

A ship was to scan the seabed Monday using sonar to assess how the Cemfjord is lying. (ap)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have launched a new wave of raids and detained 15 more police officers suspected of conducting illegal wiretaps.

The Anadolu Agency said the officers were detained Monday in raids at their homes in eight Turkish cities.

Dozens of other policemen were arrested in 2014 for allegedly illegally wiretapping President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials.

The government says the officers

are associated with a moderate Islamic movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which it accuses of attempting to topple the government. It says the movement is behind a corruption probe against four former government ministers and a series of leaked recordings suggesting corruption by Erdogan and family members. Last month, police raided media outlets close to Gulen, increasing concerns over media freedoms.(ap)

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Crewmembers of Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter look out of the windows during a search operation for the victims and wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 over the Java Sea, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015.

Turkey: more policemen detained for illegal eavesdropping

Bali destroyed...

From page 1 Badung and Denpasar have expressed a stand regarding the plan.

Denpasar City firmly rejected the reclamation as it was worried to kindle tidal flooding in the region.

Meanwhile, the viewpoint of Badung is reflected in the Regional Spatial Planning where the Benoa Bay belongs to a conservation area. In other words, no development is allowed in the region, especially reclaiming the sea.

It is just the threat at sea. Another law worried to destroy the aspect of Balinese belief is the Government Regulation No. 50/2011. One of them is the inclusion of the Besakih area and Mount Agung area into the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN). With the enactment of the upstream of Bali in the KSPN, the area will be eventually overrun by investors.

They will build a variety of tourism facilities such as hotels, restaurants, pubs, golf courses and other entertainment venues. All of these facilities indeed have been regulated in the KSPN and do not violate the rules and it is obligatory for the head of the region to support it.

The latter is the Law No.6/2014 on the village administration. For the application of this law Bali should choose between customary village and

administrative village to be registered to central government. As compensation, each qualified village (with population of 5,000 people) will receive the assistance of IDR 1.4 billion.

Many parties welcome this law because it is considered to be able to maintain the indigenous wisdom. So, they agree to register the customary village. Meanwhile, some others worry. They consider the law is just like a double-edged knife, which one to be chosen will have an impact on the order of Bali. For that reason, they suggest not to choose.

Other than the policy of central government, the policy of Bali government involving in cooperation the 102 hectares of mangrove forest in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) also raised the pros and cons. It is considered contrary to the concept of Bali Green announced by Governor Pastika. In addition, the development in the area of Grand Forest Park is also worried to disrupt the ecosystem as well as the presence of mangroves in the area.

The four issues got public highlight.

One of them was from Chairman of ForBali environmental NGO, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana. He stated that all activities that destroyed the nature of Bali would become a time bomb for the destruction of Bali. (019)

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Naval captain says may have located missing plane’s tail section PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia - An Indonesian naval patrol vessel found on Monday what the captain said could be the tail of a missing AirAsia jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located.

Ships and aircraft seeking debris and bodies from the Airbus A320200 widened their search area to allow for currents eight days after Flight QZ8501 plunged into the water en route from Indonesia’s secondbiggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

“We found what has a high probability of being the tail of the plane,” Yayan Sofyan, captain of the patrol vessel, told reporters. However, the Indonesian search and rescue agency is yet to confirm the discovery.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency has said seasonal tropical storms probably contributed to the Dec. 28 crash and the weather has persistently hampered efforts to recover bodies and find the cockpit voice and flight data recorders that should explain why the plane crashed into the sea.

The main focus of the search is about 90 nautical miles off the coast of Borneo island, where five large objects believed to be parts of the plane - the largest about 18 metres (59 feet) long - have been pinpointed in shallow waters by ships using sonar.

Peter Marosszeky, a senior aviation research fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said

the weather was squarely to blame for the delay in finding the black box recorders, which are designed to emit pings that can be detected by sonar for a month after a crash.

“The seas haven’t been very friendly, but the black boxes have a 30-day life and they will be able to find them, particularly in the shallow waters,” he said. “It’s the weather that is causing the delay.”

Indonesia AirAsia, which is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia, has come under pressure from authorities who have suspended its SurabayaSingapore licence, saying the carrier only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday.

It was not immediately clear what difference, if any, the day of the week had on the Dec. 28 flight, and Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation, made clear that the investigations of the route and the crash were separate.

“Please differentiate between the probe into flight licenses and the air crash investigation,” he said, adding, however, that any other airline that flew on a day it did not have

permission to do so would have its licence frozen.

“AirAsia is clearly wrong because they didn’t fly at a time and schedule that was already determined,” Murjatmodjo told reporters. “...we hope to finish investigation soon on whether anything went wrong.”

A joint statement from Singapore’s civil aviation authority and Changi Airport Group said that AirAsia had the necessary approvals to operate a daily flight between Surabaya and Singapore.

Nine ships from four countries have converged on the crash site area, with teams of divers including seven Russian experts standing ready, but strong winds and four-metre high waves have kept progress agonisingly slow.

Thirty-four bodies of the mostly Indonesian passengers and crew have so far been recovered, including some still strapped in their seats.

Many more may be still trapped in the body of the aircraft.

The crash was the first fatal accident suffered by the AirAsia budget group, whose Indonesian affiliate flies from at least 15 destinations across the sprawling archipelago. (rtr)

Central Java continues to develop tourism clusters SEMARANG - The Central Java Culture and Tourism Office (Dinbudpar) will continue to develop tourism clusters in the province to attract more tourists, according to Dinbudpar Chief Prasetyo Aribowo.

“We will continue to develop tourism clusters to attract as many tourists as possible to visit Central Java this year,” Aribowo noted on Monday.

He pointed out that the local government is currently developing six tourism clusters in the province: Nusakambangan-Baturaden, Borobudur-Dieng, Solo-Sangiran, Tegal-Pekalongan, Semarang-Karimunjawa, and Rembang-Blora.

According to him, each cluster has its own specific characteristics and uniqueness, which are believed to attract numerous foreign and domestic tourists.

“At the national level, Central

Java has a lot of tourist attractions that have drawn many tourists year after year,” Aribowo remarked.

He said that Central Java also has four national tourism clusters: Borobudur-Yogyakarta, SemarangKarimunjawa, Solo-Sangiran, and Nusakambangan-Pangandaran.

In a bid to promote these tourism attractions, he emphasized that the local government will continue to develop the local cultural attractions through the tourism villages and MICE, particularly in Semarang, Solo, Magelang, and Purwokerto.

“We are also making every effort to develop the tourism potential of Jateng Park,” Aribowo stated, adding that with proper management and development of these tourism clusters, 29.2 million domestic tourists and 400 thousand foreign tourists are projected to visit Central Java this year. (ant)

SURABAYA - AirAsia downplayed Sunday an incident that saw one of its planes turned back before takeoff in Indonesia, a week after another of its jets crashed into the Java Sea with 162 on board.

Indonesia AirAsia flight 7633 was taxiing in preparation for takeoff Saturday at Surabaya airport -- where last week’s doomed flight also took off -- when a power unit used to start the plane shut down, an airline official said.

As a result, the pilot turned back to the gate, Raden Achmad Sadikin, director of Safety and Security at Indonesia AirAsia, told reporters.

Local media in Indonesia and Malaysia had reported the Bandung-bound plane’s engine had cut out after emitting a loud bang that terrified passengers, but AirAsia stressed it was a minor incident.

“It’s not that the engine failed.

The plane wanted to take off but the APU (auxiliary power unit), which is the equipment that helped to start the engine, suddenly shut

down,” Sadikin said.

The plane later landed safely at its destination in West Java after undergoing a check, Indonesia AirAsia chief executive Sunu Widyatmoko was quoted by local media as saying.

Meanwhile, AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes lashed out at the initial media reports, calling the headlines “sensational” and “silly”.

“Silly headlines in Malaysia.

Airasia Indonesia aircraft did not have a stalled engine. An Apu (auxiliary power unit) which is ground power had to be restarted.”

Fernandes urged staff to remain strong.

“Facts will come out. As I have said we are calm, will take the hits now as our focus is families. But time will show what AirAsia is all about,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Indonesian officials said weather was the “triggering factor” in last week’s crash of AirAsia flight 8501, with icing likely causing engine damage after it flew into a storm. (afp)

AirAsia boss says latest flight incident ‘not stalled engine’

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Global tech spending sputters amid economic woes

LAS VEGAS - The outlook for global technology spending is uncertain after nearly flat growth in the past year, with turbulent economic conditions making a forecast difficult, an industry gathering was told Sunday.

At the media preview for the massive and Latin America, and it remains unInternational Consumer Electronics clear whether the rest of the world will Show in Las Vegas, data presented pick up the slack. showed just one percent growth in Koenig said smartphone and tablet 2014 to bring spending on technology sales are growing at a healthy pace in to $1.024 trillion.

China and other developing economies, But analyst Steve Koenig of the Con- and demand for new televisions is being sumer Electronics Association, which driven by a “robust upgrade cycle” to organizes the event, said economic the “ultra” high-definition displays. conditions around the world forced the At the same time, spending is being group to defer its forecast for 2015. capped by the decreasing price for new “We have a very mixed spending mobile devices. picture,” Koenig said.

“A flood of low-cost devices is The market is being driven by strong coming into the marketplace,” he said, demand for new products like tablets noting the prominence of phone makand smartphones in emerging econo- ers in China such as Xiaomi, which mies in Asia, and by modest economic has pushed into the top ranks of manugrowth in North America. facturers.

The picture is clouded by economic CEA forecast smartphone unit sales stagnation in the eurozone and Japan growing 19 percent this year to 1.5 biland “weak expectations” in big emerg- lion units, but revenue is expected to ing economies such as Brazil, Koenig grow just nine percent to $406.7 billion explained. as prices fall.

Russia, another large emerging econIn tablets, unit growth is expected at omy, is being hit by economic sanctions 20 percent in 2015, but revenues will that could dent tech spending. decline some eight percent to $61.9 The association predicted a drop in billion, Koenig said as he unveiled the tech spending of five percent in Europe forecast. (afp)

GIANYAR - Magnitude and strength of ocean current cause the beaches along Gianyar County to continually be threatened by abrasion. Although the government has anticipated by installing breakwater dam, not all of the beaches can be covered by concrete wall of four meters high, such as Cucukan Beach which now continues to be hit by abrasion as has not been protected by breakwater.

The breach spreads across 15.94 km from the border with Denpasar to the border of Gianyar with Klungkung County. From the beach length, every day the buildings near the beach begin to be broken down and abandoned as a result of the abrasion.

Cucukan Beach, for instance, in Blahbatuh subdistrict, located between Lebih Beach and Masceti Beach continues to be eroded by strong waves. At the eastern corner of the beach, about 10 meters, seems to have been built a breakwater dam, but some of its part has collapsed because the waves continue to hit, while the boulders used as foundation of the breakwater have also started to be swept away.

“Meanwhile, the area on Lebih and Masceti Beach has been already fortified with breakwater dam, but on the Cucukan Beach with the coastline of approximately 400 meters has not been built,” said Wayan Ari, a fisherman from Blahbatuh.

Besides, on Cucukan Beach also occurs several food stalls, having a distance of about five meters away from the brunt of sea waves. When tidal waves take place, part of the food stall floor is filled with seawater. “Some stalls almost collapsed yesterday, but they have been fixed,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Gianyar Public Works Agency, I.B. Sudewa, said the abrasion occurred due to high waves along the beach in Gianyar. In addition, the basic character of sandy beaches caused the damage rate suffered to be getting worse. When asked about the making of breakwater construction along the shore of Gianyar, he said it was beyond the authority of the Gianyar government. “Building breakwater is the authority of the Bali River and Coast Agency. If the Cucukan Beach has indeed been threatened, we will try to make coordination with the agency,” he said. (kmb35)

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Magnitude and strength of ocean current cause the beaches along Gianyar County to continually be threatened by abrasion. Although the government has anticipated by installing breakwater dam, not all of the beaches can be covered by concrete wall of four meters high, such as Cucukan Beach which now continues to be hit by abrasion as has not been protected by breakwater.

Harvest time, price slumps

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In this Dec. 29, 2014, photo, people use a charging station at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The outlook for global technology spending is uncertain after nearly flat growth in the past year, with turbulent economic conditions making a forecast difficult, an industry gathering was told Sunday.

DENPASAR - Price drop during harvest season has become a common situation for farmers. In Karangasem, for example, a number of snakefruit farmers cut down tens of hectares of snakefruit plantation and shifted them to grow rice and sweet potatoes.

The Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Nyoman Rai, observed the prices of snakefruit in Karangasem indeed dropped during harvest season due to lack of government attention to farmers. On the other hand, farmers were also too dependent on the government assistance so that their entrepreneurial spirit never grew.

He said the government should not just disburse fund without providing ongoing assistance to farmers. This assistance could involve college, Institute of Agricultural Technology and NGOs. The most important was during post-harvest and processing.

Udayana University, for example, had made cooperation with one of the farmers’ groups

Smartphone maker Xiaomi says 2014 sales doubled BEIJING — The chairman of Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi, a rising star of the consumer technology industry, says sales more than doubled last year to $12.2 billion and the company plans to expand further into global markets.

The 5-year-old company sold 61.1 million handsets, a 227 percent increase over 2013. Revenue rose 135 percent to 74.3 billion yuan ($12.2 billion), Jun Lei said on his company blog.

Xiaomi overtook South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the second quarter of last year to become China’s biggest selling smartphone brand by number of handsets sold.

The privately held company, based

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in Beijing, recently completed a round of fundraising from investors that Lei said valued Xiaomi at $45 billion, making it one of the world’s most-valuable technology brands.

Xiaomi plans to expand further abroad after selling 1 million handsets last year in India, its biggest foreign market, Lei said, though he gave no indication which markets it might target.

Xiaomi ran into legal trouble in India in December after a court blocked sales of some handsets while it hears a complaint by Sweden’s LM Ericcson that the Chinese company violated its patents.

Lei called the case a “rite of passage” for a young company. (ap)

Three models of China’s Xiaomi Mi phones are pictured during their launch in New Delhi in this July 15, 2014 file photo.

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Price drop during harvest season has become a common situation for farmers.

In Karangasem, for example, a number of snakefruit farmers cut down tens of hectares of snakefruit plantation and shifted them to grow rice and sweet potatoes.

in Selat subdistrict to process snakefruit into wine, chips and so on. Furthermore, the government was also asked to find a market in distributing the crops of farmers such as by inviting leading hotels and restaurants in Bali.

“It must be attempted so that the fruits produced in Karangasem can be connected to hotels and restaurants. If the regent, for instance, would like to take the solution, it is actually so easy because it can made into a kind of welcome fruit or welcome drink.

There must be a sort of preliminary contract between snakefruit farmers and the hotel,” he said not long ago.

Meanwhile, a lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Prof. Dr Wayan Windia, argued the drop in prices during harvest season happened due to the lack of government attention to agricultural sector. Supposedly, the government directed so that the employers could help the agricultural sector by buying the products of farmers or providing them with capital for farming.

“Later, the products of farmers will be paid at profitable price for farmers. Besides, it is necessary to change the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into Corporate Support Agriculture (CSA). Farmers are already sick, so that do not expect it again.

The government has an obligation to help the weak and wedged community,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Australian wildfire razes 26 homes, 29 people seek treatment

Damaged, 49 percent of roads in Bangli BANGLI – The Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, I.B. Wediatmika, on Sunday (Jan 4) revealed that: “49 percent of rural roads in Bangli are damaged”.

The type of damage suffered ranges from severe to minor. Wediatmika added that among the four subdistricts, Kintamani subdistrict which has the most roads of all the existing subdistricts, also has a high percentage of damaged roads.

In terms of damage rate, the county road condition in Bangli suffering moderate damage covers 10.17 km or 12.154 percent of 83.707 km of road, while rural road are dominated by minor damage reaching about 22.04 km or 42.17 percent of the 52.269 km length of road. Kintamani subdistrict had the highest damage rate categorized into moderate damage, namely 116.49 km or 28.05 percent of the total road length reaching 415.35 km, while rural roads mostly experienced severe damage, namely 446.143 km or 52.46 percent of the road length of 850.40 km.

Meanwhile, Susut subdistrict with 100.972 km of county road has the highest damage rate. Moderatly damaged road runs along 28.32 km or 28.05 percent, while rural roads along 51.99 km, mostly suffer severe damage along 14.441 km or 27.78 percent. Then, Tembuku subdistrict had 133.245 km of county road with 29.98 km or 22.50 percent of the road being suffers moderate damage, while rural roads along 71.20 km mostly consist of severly damaged road, running along 38.125 km or 53.55 percent.

The high percentage of road damage in Bangli County makes it a priority for repair The budget allocated for road repair is considerable, reaching IDR 350 billion.

Wediatmika also said that to avoid the road from becoming severely damaged, his party has previously carried out maintenance on a regular basis including patching badly damaged roads. However, the results of such maintenance cannot not last long especially when exacerbated by heavy rainfall that causes the patches to flake off. “We’ve been trying to do repairs and maintain the roads, but cannot cover the entire section of road because of the extent of the area,” he said.

He said that the road repairs would be carried out as soon as possible.

For rural road repair, he would not only involve relevant agencies but also local villagers. By that way, the road repairs could be more quickly resolved. (sos)

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ADELAIDE, Australia — More than two dozen homes have been destroyed or badly damaged and almost 30 people have sought medical treatment as a result of a massive wildfire that has raged out of control for days across farms and woodland in southern Australia, officials said Monday.

The victims of food poisoning in Singaraja

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Dozens of residents suspected of poisoning SINGARAJA - After hundreds of employees of the Buleleng Hospital were poisoned due to take away rice a few weeks ago, another food poisoning case was experienced by dozens of residents of Tinga-Tinga village, Gerokgak subdistrict. A total of 13 people had indications of poisoning after consuming smal tuna purchased from a fishmonger named Indrawan.

According to information compiled on Sunday (Jan 4), out of the 13 residents who underwent medical treatment at the Gerokgak Public Health Center 1, six of the victims had to be hospitalized due to symptoms of serious poisoning. Most of the patients, who were expereincing symptoms of poisoning, came to the Public Health Center on Saturday (Jan 3) around 8:30 p.m.

Originally, seven residents of Juntal hamlet, Tinga-Tinga village, came to the Public Health Center to check their condition. They complained to the local doctor, of symptoms similar to poisoning, including; nausea, accompanied by headaches and heart palpitions. Of the seven victims, four had to be hospitalized.

On Sunday morning (Jan 4), six residents of Kembang Udaya also went to the Public Health Center. Having been examined, these people showed symptoms of poisoning. Two of them had to be hospitalized, including a

one-year-old baby.

Dewa Putu Widiadnyana, one of the victims said on Sunday, that before feeling ill, he had consumed small tuna, that he had purchased from a fishmonger named Indrawan as he usually did While eating the tuna, he didn’t notice anything unusual but hour later, he suddenly felt nauseous and dizzy. Having been checked and provided with drugs by the physician on duty at the Public Health Center, he vomitted.

“I really do not know for sure about the cause.

All I know is that I got headache, nausea and heart pounding after consuming the fish. Then, I consulted a doctor and was given a drug, to make me vomit,” he said.

Meanwhile, the physician on duty at the PHC Gerokgak 1, Ketut Arining, when asked for her confirmation said the condition of all the hospitalized victims was stable. Nevertheless, the victims were not allowed to go home yet because they were still undergoing observation over next few hours. If their

condition returns to normal, then they will be released on Monday morning (Jan 5). This case has been reported to the Buleleng Health Agency who will conduct further investigations as to the exact cause of the poisoning.

“The condition of the victims remains stable but we still need observations how thing progress for the next few hours Depending on the outcome, we may refer them to hospital if for example their clinical symptoms get worse,” she said.

When contacted separately, the Chief of Celukan Bawang Police, Nengah Sukadnya, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Kuniadi, said that to investigate the case his party had secured the remaining small tuna consumed by all the victims. In addition, the fishmonger named Indrawan and other witnesses had also been questioned.

The fishmonger, Indrawan, told the police that he had got the tuna from a fisherman in Gerokgak. In order to keep the fish fresh, Indrawan had stored it in ice cubes. “We’ve secured the rest of the evidence and ttaken the statement of the fishmonger We are still developing the case to find out the exact cause of the poisoning,” he said. (kmb38)

Hundreds of fire fighters have taken advantage of milder conditions in recent days to attempt to contain the fire which has razed 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) of countryside in hills northwest of the South Australia state capital Adelaide, State Premier Jay Weatherill said. Since the fire started on Friday, 29 people had been injured or hospitalized with conditions such a severe asthma, he said.

The only serious injury was a farmer who suffered suspected spinal injuries protecting his property, Network Ten television news reported. Recovery teams had found 26 houses destroyed or badly damaged as well as more than more 40 scorched barns and sheds, Weatherill said.

The Country Fire Service said in a statement the fire had not grown significantly Monday, but added

conditions were forecast to worsen with higher temperatures and stronger winds later in the week.

Hot and windy conditions that had fanned the flames on Friday and Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes, have eased since Sunday when officials lowered the fire’s danger rating from the highest level.

Destructive wildfires are common across much of Australia during the summer months. In 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state. (ap)

In this Friday, Jan. 2, 2015 photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, heavy smoke billow in the Adelaide Hills, Australia.

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Meth seizures at US-Mexico border soar in 2014

SAN DIEGO — Seizures of methamphetamine soared at the US-Mexico border during fiscal year 2014, accelerating a trend that began several years ago as new laws that limited access to the drug’s chemical ingredients made it

harder to manufacture it in the U.S. Meth seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s San Diego field office accounted for nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — of all the meth seized at all ports of entry nationwide in the fiscal year

ending Sept. 30, the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper reported Sunday.

Almost all of the meth consumed in the U.S. was once manufactured domestically, with San Diego as a known production hub. But a

crackdown in the U.S. on the precursor chemicals used to make the synthetic drug has pushed its manufacture south of the border, where drug cartels now find it cheaper and easier to produce and smuggle over the border than cocaine from South America, the paper reported.

With the California border as their main smuggling route, “the Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. marketplace with their cheap methamphetamine,” said Gary Hill, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s assistant special agent in charge in San Diego.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show a 300 percent increase in meth seizures at California ports of entry from fiscal 2009 to 2014.

Agents find the drug, often in smaller quantities, strapped to pedestrians crossing the border, in gas tanks, mixed in with clothing or hidden in food cans emptied of their original contents. In some instances, smugglers are liquefying the drug and trying to conceal it as

windshield washer fluid.

Undercover agents are buying the stuff in San Diego for about $3,500 a pound — about a third the cost of a pound of cocaine — and prices have been decreasing since 2008, Hill said. He added that, unlike with cocaine, drug cartels can eliminate the middleman by directly overseeing meth manufacturing and the smaller overhead means a cheaper street price in the U.S. Joe Garcia, interim special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego, said much of the meth coming into San Diego is headed north.

Los Angeles has emerged as an important hub for shipments headed elsewhere, he said.

“Our investigations take us through all corners of the country,” he said. “It’s going into Canada as well.” Locally, authorities in San Diego have seen the consequences of more meth coming across the border. (ap)

In this undated photo from the U.S. Border Patrol, Crystal A. Diaz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent with the Tucson Sector in Arizona, rides her ATV while on patrol. The Border Patrol is on a hiring spree for a very specific type of agent: a female one.

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Arctic air to put America on ice WASHINGTON — Much of America is about to get the Arctic shivers. Meteorologists are forecasting frigid polar air will plunge much of the central and eastern U.S. into sub-freezing temperatures next week.

National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the Rockies. He said it will rival last year’s January Arctic outbreak that introduced the phrase “polar vortex” to America.

“This is going to be a big cold outbreak, pretty windy as well,” Kocin said. “It’s going to drive all the way down south.”

Kocin predicts a small Midwestern band of intense snow along with the cold, with some also in parts of the Northeast.

Even though it is several days in advance, meteorologists are pretty sure about this forecast. Kocin said many of the best computer models are saying the same thing.

This is all coming from cold air escaping from the Arctic.

The center of the cold air will be around Quebec, Canada. (ap)

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Around 60 cruises schedule to arrive in Bali

DENPASAR - The Indonesia Port Corporation, or Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo III), is scheduling 60 cruise ships to arrive at Benoa Port, Bali, General Manager of Pelindo III Ali Sodikin remarked on Monday.

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In this Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago. Meteorologists are confidently forecasting frigid polar air will plunge south into the northern plains, Midwest and then the East Coast from next Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, through Thursday.

Scientists find first frog Tomb of previously that gives birth to tadpoles unknown pharaonic MIAMI - In the depths of an Indonesian rainforest, scientists have identified the first known frog that gives birth to tadpoles instead of laying eggs, according to research published Wednesday.

Known as Limnonectes larvaepartus, this member of the Asian group of fanged frogs was first discovered decades ago by Indonesian researcher Djoko Iskandar.

Scientists have long thought these particular frogs likely gave birth to tadpoles, but they had never seen the creatures mate or spawn firsthand.

But they found new evidence of the frogs’ reproductive behavior recently when University of California, Berkeley herpetologist Jim McGuire, who was exploring the Sulawesi Island rain forests one night, grabbed one that he thought was a male and found instead it was a female that had about a dozen slippery, newborn tadpoles with her.

“Almost all frogs in the world -- more than 6,000 species -- have external fertilization, where the male grips the female in amplexus (the frog mating embrace) and releases sperm

as the eggs are released by the female,” said McGuire, whose study appears in the journal PLOS ONE. “This new frog is one of only 10 or 12 species that has evolved internal fertilization, and of those, it is the only one that gives birth to tadpoles as opposed to froglets or laying fertilized eggs.”

There is plenty of other unusual behavior in the frog world when it comes to creating offspring.

Some frogs in Africa that also engage in internal fertilization are known to give birth to froglets that never go through the tadpole stage.

Others “carry eggs in pouches on their back, brood tadpoles in their vocal sac or mouth, or transport tadpoles in pits on their back,” according to a statement from UC Berkeley.

Two known species of female gastric brooding frogs, both of which are now extinct, were “famous for swallowing their fertilized eggs, brooding them in their stomach, and giving birth out of their mouths to froglets,” it added.

“This year, we will welcome 60 cruise ships. On January 1, a cruise ship named ‘Sapphire Princess’ with 2.6 thousand tourists has arrived in Benoa.

This is a positive indication for tourism in Bali,” he noted.

The cruise ship departed from Singapore to Klang Port, Malaysia, and arrived in Benoa. It will later depart for Australia.

According to Ali, the foreign tourists aboard the cruise ship, which anchored in Denpasar, are scheduled to visit several tourist attractions such as Sanur, Kuta, Uluwatu, Gianyar, and Tanah Lot. “The tourists on board the cruise liners visit Bali, and their numbers keep increasing from year to year. In 2013, there were 43 cruise ships, and their number increased to 50 in 2014. In 2015, their number is expected to increase further,” Ali pointed out.

He stated that each cruise liner has more than a thousand tourists on board. Therefore, the estimated number of tourist arrivals to Benoa Port reached fifty thousand in 2014.

“In addition to boarding cruise ships, the tourists also use yachts. So, the number of foreign tourists visiting Denpasar via the Benoa Port is more than fifty thousand,” Ali claimed. (ant)

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Passengers departed from cruise ship at Benoa Port, recently. The Indonesia Port Corporation, or Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo III), is scheduling 60 cruise ships to arrive at Benoa Port, Bali, General Manager of Pelindo III Ali Sodikin remarked on Monday.

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Activities at traditional ports sluggish

queen found in Egypt

CAIRO - Czech archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown queen believed to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago, officials in Egypt said Sunday.

The tomb was discovered in Abu Sir, an Old Kingdom necropolis southwest of Cairo where there are several pyramids dedicated to pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty, including Neferefre.

The name of his wife had not been known before the find, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement.

He identified her as Khentakawess, saying that for the “first time we have discovered the name of this queen who had been unknown before the discovery of her tomb”.

That would make her Khentakawess III, as two previous queens with the same

name have already been identified.

Her name and rank had been inscribed on the inner walls of the tomb, probably by the builders, Damaty said.

“This discovery will help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids,” he added.

Miroslav Barta, who heads the Czech Institute of Egyptology mission who made the discovery, said the tomb was found in Neferefre’s funeral complex.

“This makes us believe that the queen was his wife,” Barta said, according to the statement.

An official at the antiquities ministry said the tomb dated from the middle of the Fifth Dynasty (2994-2345 BC).

Archaeologists also found around 30 utensils, 24 made of limestone and four of copper, the statement added. (afp)

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Bad weather afflicting the region of Klungkung lately in fact had an impact on the traditional crossing in the area of Kusamba, Dawan. Situation of the three traditional ports at Kusamba started to be sluggish due to extreme weather happening in the middle of the sea.

SEMARAPURA - Bad weather afflicting the region of Klungkung lately in fact had an impact on the traditional crossing in the area of Kusamba, Dawan. Situation of the three traditional ports at Kusamba started to be sluggish due to extreme weather happening in the middle of the sea.

Even, boat owners did not dare to transport passengers to the area of Nusa Penida because the presence of big waves coming in repeatedly. Similarly, such big wave conditions also occurred in the area of Nusa Penida, Klungkung.

Based on field observation, the waves at Tri Buana port, Kusamba, were quite large. However, the crossing to Nusa Penida was still taking place. However, the crossing activities on Saturday seemed sluggish. Besides, the port condition also looked deserted due to some few passengers crossing to Nusa Penida.

“The crossing was only made once trip this afternoon,” said one of the officers at the Tri Buana Port, Sedana Yoga, Sunday.

Similar condition also happened to transportation of freight.

Boat owners also reduced the volume of freight due to everchanging weather condition. Moreover, the situation of wave was quite big in the waters of Kusamba and Nusa Penida. Even, due to erratic weather condition, the crossing of freight was also only done once in the morning. “The crossing of freight is also made once. But, it seemed less optimal,” he said.

Crossing services in Nusa Penida from Nusa Gede to Nusa Lembongan was also hampered by bad weather. Sea waves reached the average height of 1 to 1.5 meters. Nevertheless, the crossing by traditional boat could still be carried out very carefully. Even, a traditional boat cancelled its voyage to Nusa Penida due to bad weather. “We have stopped a boat from crossing due to bad weather condition. Then, we asked it to wait further until the weather is getting fine,” he said. (119)

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Bali News BANGLI - School building construction of the SDN 9 Songan elementary school at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, has now been completed. In the near future, dozens of the students belonging to distance class of the SDN 6 Songan are ascertained to occupy new building of the SDN 9 Songan. The certainty was conveyed by the Head of Bangli Education Agency, Nyoman Sumantra, when contacted on Sunday (Jan 4). weeks it has been submitted,” he explained.

He added the number of students to be removed to the SDN 9 Songan would include two distance classes namely grade 1 (33 students) and grade 2 (34 students). The number of teachers assigned at the school would also be adjusted to the number of existing distance class namely two teachers and a principal. “I can make sure that distance class of the SDN 6 Songan can be removed to SDN 9 Songan,” said Sumantra.

As reported so far, children of Serongga hamlet, Songan village, attended different school at neighboring hamlets such as the SDN 6 Songan at

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Students in plastic sack-walled classroom soon removed

He explained the construction of school building financed by fund of central government worth IDR 1,174 billion was already completed at the end of last November. So far, the school had also received the Regent Decree. However, since the school construction committee had not submitted it to county government, for the time being it could not be used.

Later after the school had been submitted, the students who had been studying at the Serongga hamlet hall walled with plastic sack sheet denoting the distance class of the SDN 6 Songan would be moved to the new SDN 9 Songan. “Hopefully, it can be used as soon as possible. Perhaps within these

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The students of SDN 9 Songan elementary school at Serongga hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani are studying in a temporary place Dalem hamlet and SDN 3 Songan at Kayupadi hamlet, Songan village. Since the capacity of the SDN 6 Songan was inadequate to ac-

commodate all the students, from the past few years the school was forced to make distance class at Serongga hamlet hall walled with

plastic sack sheet. Sumantra hoped the construction of the new school could meet the existing demand at villages in Kintamani. (ina)

85 percent of blood at Red Cross got from voluntary donors

The blood donor activities done by a hospital in the area

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DENPASAR - Blood supply owned

by Red Cross (PMI) of Bali Province was considered to have no problem. It was revealed by Deputy Secretary of Bali Red Cross, I Gede Sudiartha, Wednesday (Dec 31).

The blood obtained by Red Cross was the result of voluntary blood donation amounting to 85 percent, while the remaining 15 percent was replacement blood of donor. In terms of blood availability, he admitted that his party was ready with blood throughout the year for people in need.

He continued that considering Bali as an international tourist destination, where many foreign travelers making a visit, his party had also prepared blood donor of negative rhesus. “We have 170 blood donors of negative rhesus who are ready to be on call in case of emergency,” he explained to media. And it was said that the donors had been coalesced into the Blood Donor

Association of Indonesia (PDDI).

His party paid attention to voluntary blood donors such as by giving awards to donors performing donation for 100 times in the form of a gold pin and certificate.

In addition, their health was also considered. “Do not let the donors fall sick,” he said. After donating, they were also given nutritious food package for immediate restoration. Joint activities such as fun walk were also done to give attention to the donors. Promoting and dissemination were continuously done to encourage more people to do a blood donation.

People donating their blood never died. He explained that people who donated their blood to others, their blood was automatically in other person and when having children it would continue to live in the next descent. “So people becoming blood donor will never die,” he concluded. (may)

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Working in tourism industry since 1994 make the man who was born in Kudus June 4, 1974 receives many benefit. Nugroho Widiharso is just been appointed as the General Manger of Santika Siligita Hotel Nusa Dua. Nugroho was the alumni of Alumni Atami Internasional Tourism School and has vast international experiences.

He visited many countries throughout the world such as Germany, France, Holland, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Philippine, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and some others. It makes him get the opportunity to know many people and develop his skills in culture and tourism.

In his new place, Nugroho will make a great atmosphere to work. All employees must feel like siblings and increasing the solidarity by doing fun activities together like outing. “I want to make the employee work happily so I will develop the facilities for them such as parking space and food for them will be better. I believe that if the staffs are happy then they will

work very hard to make the guest happy as well,” he added.

Nugroho explained that Santika Siligita is a unique hotel. The food in the restaurant has local taste which combined with Balinese traditional ingredients. The guest will be very comfortable because the staffs serve them with great service.

The excellent image will be maintained by personal approach among the staffs and also giving training regularly to give the values of Santika Siligita to all staffs. Lastly is making the company vision and mission as the glue to stick everyone together. In the future, Nugroho will develop the positive image of the hotel by carrying out the corporate social responsibility (CSR), working with the people in the area doing beneficiary activities such as cleaning, blood donor and praying. The hotel also will be actively involved in the activities done by the local village. Nugroho also urged the staffs to give the best service during Santika Siligita’s events. “Life is about making the people around us happy,” he said. (ocha)

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linens, bringing the signature favehotel experience to yet another paradise island.

“Our favehotel brand has gone from strength to strength over the years, so we at Archipelago International are delighted to be marking yet another impressive milestone, this time celebrating two significant achievements with one opening. Not only will favehotel Langko Mataram – Lombok be our first fave on Lombok, it will also be our 32nd property in Indonesia, a milestone we are very proud to be commemorating.” Said Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing. (r)

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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PALM SPRINGS, California — The first star-studded film-award ceremony of the new year was literally something to sing about.

While not an honoree himself, actorproducer Brad Pitt stole the spotlight with a sing-along for a few moments Saturday night at the annual black-tie gala for the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Pitt traveled some 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Los Angeles to the desert town of Palm Springs, California, to introduce British actor David Oyelowo, an honoree at the gala whose profile is only now on the rise in the U.S. Pitt is a producer of director Ava DuVernay’s historical epic “Selma,” in which Oyelowo portrays civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The festival honored Oyelowo with its Breakthrough Performance Award for an actor.

In his introduction, Pitt professed his admiration for Oyelowo — both as a col-

league and friend — and, at one point, Pitt led the audience in a sing-along with lyrics spinning around Oyelowo’s oftenmispronounced last name. (It sounds like “oh-yellow-oh,” by the way.)

The gala, which attracts numerous locally based Academy voters who now have ballots in hand, traditionally is the first of each calendar year’s award-season ceremonies, which include approximately two-dozen events significant enough to

attract major movie stars between now and the Oscars, set for Feb. 22 in Hollywood.

“This is the first time I am a part of (the two-month award season),” said Morton Tyldum, director of the Golden Globe-nominated drama “The Imitation Game” earlier in the evening while doing red carpet interviews. “When I saw the schedule,” Tyldum continued, “I was in shock,” (ap)

List of 2015 Palm Spring FIF Award : 1. Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress - Rosamund Pike (“Gone Girl”) 2. Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor - David Oyelowo (“Selma”) 3. Chairman’s Award - Reese Witherspoon (“Wild”) 4. Desert Palm Achievement Award - Actor - Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) 5. Desert Palm Achievement Award - Actress - Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) 6. Director of the Year Award -- Alejandro G. Inarritu (“Birdman”) 7. Ensemble Performance Award - “The Imitation Game” 8. Spotlight Award - J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) 9. Sonny Bono Visionary Award - Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”) 10. Icon Award -- Robert Duvall (“The Judge”)

‘The Hobbit’ tops box office for 3rd weekend NEW YORK — Hollywood kicked off the New Year on a positive note, with three films vying closely for the weekend box-office title that nevertheless remained with “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” for the third straight week.

Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth finale took in $21.9 million for Warner Bros. in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, narrowly edging out the Disney musical “Into the Woods” ($19.1 million) and Angelina Jolie’s World War II survival tale “Unbroken” ($18.4 million) from Universal.

The weekend’s lone new widerelease, the Relativity Media horror sequel “The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death,” landed in fourth place with $15.1 million.

The first weekend of 2015 gave

Hollywood the chance to begin turning the page on a rough 2014 in which box-office revenue slid 5 percent and attendance dropped to its lowest level in nearly 20 years. With a closely contested weekend at the multiplexes, overall business was strong, up 5.5 percent from the same weekend last year, according to box-office firm Rentrak.

In its second week of limited release, Sony Pictures’ controversial “The Interview,” depicting the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, earned an estimated $1.1 million theatrically. A representative for Sony said digital figures likely wouldn’t be announced Sunday.

In its first four days of online streaming and sale, the comedy made $15 million, Sony said last week. Since then, the film has

expanded to video-on-demand via cable operators and on more digital platforms like Apple’s iTunes.

Several Oscar contenders began to attract larger numbers of moviegoers, as Hollywood’s awards season picks up stream. The Golden Globes are Sunday, Jan. 11.

Playing at 754 theaters, “The Imitation Game,” the Weinstein Co.’s code-breaker thriller about World War II hero Alan Turing took in $8.1 million in its sixth week. (By comparison, “The Hobbit” played at more than 3,800 theaters.) The Reese Witherspoon drama “Wild” also added $4.5 million for a fiveweek $25.8 million total for Fox Searchlight.

Opening in limited release at four locations, J.C. Chandor’s New York thriller “A Most Violent Year” debuted with a theater average of $47,000. (ap)

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Bali destroyed, Indonesia destroyed as well

DENPASAR - The first and second Bali bomb has demolished Bali. It has been noted by the world community as an extraordinary crime, while Bali interprets the incident by introspection. Even, after the Bali bomb blast all the components were expected to re-arrange themselves in all aspects of life either in relation to human resources, environment and culture or tourism development. So far, the development of Bali has already considered deviating from the initial concept, namely the Tri Hita Karana agreed upon.

Time span of 12 years since the first Bali bombing on October 12, 2002, is apparently not used as a moment to reorganize Bali.

During that period, the development of Bali increasingly goes

wilder. Even, it is believed to have caused damages to the environment of Bali, moral degradation of Balinese people and a shift from agrarian culture to modern materialistic culture.

It is the beginning of destruction of Bali and Indonesia as well.

Why? Do you still remember after Kuta was bombed by the group of Amrozy and Imam Samudra?

At that time, the economy was stagnant and even decreasing.

Foreign tourist visit was also sluggish. They no longer made Bali a comfortable and secure destination. What happened to Bali had an impact on the national economy.

That is why an argument emerges that the destruction of Bali is also the beginning of the destruction of Indonesia, particularly in the

tourism sector.

Many policies issued by local and central government are believed to have caused Bali to slump. Throughout this year (2014), many policies of central government resulted in pros and cons. It started from the issuance of the Presidential Regulation

No.51/2014. The regulation has been considered to threaten Bali from sea side. The Presidential Regulation signed by the president on May 30, 2014 allowed the revitalization and reclamation of Benoa Bay area for maximally 700 hectares.

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Traditional boats belong to fishermen parked at Benoa Beach recently. The development of Bali increasingly goes wilder. Even, it is believed to have caused damages to the environment of Bali, moral degradation of Balinese people and a shift from agrarian culture to modern materialistic culture.