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‘Alice in Wonderland’ sequel in production Agence France-Presse

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LOS ANGELES - Production begins this week on the highly anticipated sequel to Tim Burton’s blockbuster reinvention of “Alice in Wonderland” -- with the same A-list cast as the 2010 Oscar-winning film.

Burton is co-producing but not directing “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass,” in which Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska (Alice) will all reprise their roles.

Joining the film version of the whimsical world created by author Lewis Carroll is British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who has the difficult task of

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bringing Time to the big screen, the film’s producers Disney said Monday.

Another British actor, Rhys Ifans, will step into the role of Zanik Hightopp, the father of Depp’s Mad Hatter.

The film -- which is directed by James Bobin, and is being shot both on location and at Britain’s Shepperton Studios -- is set for release in May 2016.

The 2010 film, which won two Oscars for best costume design and best art direction, cost a whopping $200 million to make, according to industry website IMDB. But it raked in an estimated $1 billion worldwide.

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Man United rally for 3-1 friendly win over Liverpool

Death toll from Ebola in W. Africa hits 887: WHO

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Sandra Bullock tops list of Hollywood’s best paid actresses Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning movie star Sandra Bullock was the best paid actress in Hollywood over the past year, Forbes magazine reported on Monday, putting her estimated earnings at some $51 million.

Bullock, 50, won an Academy Award in 2010 for her turn in the football drama “The Blind Side.”

Her big payday over the past 12 months is largely thank to her work in the hit film “Gravity,” for which she received

a best actress Oscar nomination.

The film, a festival of special effects, is about an astronaut’s struggle to survive in orbit after the space shuttle is destroyed.

The blockbuster movie earned seven

Oscars and $716 million.

“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence was the second highest paid actress over the past year, with $34 million.

Third place went to Jennifer Aniston, with $31 million, followed by Gwyneth Paltrow, who earned $19 million over the past year.

Tied for fifth place were Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz, each of whom earned $18 million dollars from June 2013 to June 2014.

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People rallied to reject reclamation plan on Benoa Bay. The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, affirmed that his party had addressed the Benoa Bay reclamation plans normatively in appropriate with the rules, namely the Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Regional Spatial Plan of Badung County.

Badung Regent: Benoa Bay belongs to conservation area

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MANGUPURA - The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, affirmed that his party had addressed the Benoa Bay reclamation plans normatively in appropriate with the rules, namely the Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Regional Spatial Plan of Badung County. Based on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan, the Benoa Bay area belonging to Badung territory was included in the conservation area whose landscape could not be tampered with.

The wax figure of actress Sandra Bullock is pictured after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York in midtown Manhattan, July 23, 2014.

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“We in Badung refer to normative aspects. Based on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan, it has been clearly stated if the Benoa Bay belongs to conservation area. It is already declared as conservation

area,” said Gde Agung.

According to him, reference to Regional Bylaw on the Regional Spatial Plan was very appropriate because before it was passed the Badung Regional Bylaw on Spatial

Plan had gone through an evaluation process at provincial and central government. Based on the evaluation, the Benoa Bay belonging to Badung County territory was still included as a conservation area. With reference to

the rules, Gde Agung also claimed to have a plan of his own to the conservation area in Badung.

“Conservation area means the landscape should not be changed.

Even, so far there are some fairly dense mangroves in Badung that have not been included in conservation area. In my first letter, I have already proposed it to be included in conservation area so that conservation area will increase. With the increasing area, we do hope the mangrove areas can become a man-

grove tourist attraction. Between the mangroves and settlement area, we will make a jogging track corridor so that mangrove forest encroachment by residents can be muted. It is integrated with the normalization program of Mati River.

It’s my obsession,” he said.

Does this mean his party rejects the Benoa Bay reclamation plan?

When faced with such question, Gde Agung did not give a definitive answer.

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Increase of electricity tariff for industry Bali Post

The ceremony which was held in Besakih Temple few months ago.

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Besakih must be secured from investors

DENPASAR - Government ascertained the electricity tariff increase (TTL) this year would not burden the community. The increase here meant that the government invoked the electricity subsidy provided for large industries and businesses.

General Manager of PLN Bali, Syamsul Huda, said the government’s efforts to reduce electricity subsidies by raising the electricity tariff because it considered people to have been able to pay for the electricity as required.

“However, people do not need to worry as the increase only occurred to consumers using electricity of more than 900 VA where the percentage is just 10 percent. The remaining 90 percent poses the customers using the electricity of 450 VA-900 VA and will not experience the tariff increase,” said Huda in Denpasar, Monday (Aug 4).

All this time, he added, the government subsidy fund worth IDR 115 trillion was used to serve the electricity needs of the people of Indonesia. But in reality, the government could only subsidize as much as IDR 107 trillion per year. To that end, the increase of electricity tariff was imposed in May 2014.

“Of the 37 groups of tariff, only 12 groups are no longer subsidized

by the government. Gradual tariff increase will be implemented every two months,” he said.

He explained the increase in electricity tariff this month was not the decision of the PLN. Rather, it was the decision of the government with the Parliament. “PLN only runs the decision. After the tariff increase, the PLN considered to get a great benefit is not entirely true. Income of the PLN remains the same. In other words, formerly the PLN was subsidized by the government, but now the subsidy has been reduced, so that customers pay more,” he said.

Commercial Manager and Customer Service of PLN Bali, Leo Basuki, said of the 1,044,883 customers in Bali, the number of customers experiencing the increase in electricity tariff only reached 38 percent, or as much as 394,285 customers. This tariff increase occurred to group R3 amounting to 11,116 customers, B2 (22,431 customers), B3 (360 customers), P1 (1,102 customers), I3 (72 customers), P3 (3,818 customers), P2 (17 customers), R2 (48,561 customers), R1 2200 V (89,805 customers) as well as the R1 1300 V (217,003 customers). “The increase predominantly occurred to industrial and business tariff,” he said. (kmb27)

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DENPASAR - Secretary of the Assessment Team of the 11 Strategic Areas of National Tourism (KSPN) Bali, I Putu Anom, said the sacred zones especially Kahyangan Jagat or universal temples becoming tourist attraction were very necessary to be secured and preserved. According to him, it should not be any development of tourism facilities around the area because it could diminish the temple sanctity as that would happen to Besakih Temple area having been designated as the strategic area of national tourism. Moreover, the land area above the Penataran Agung Temple of Besakih to Gelap Temple is privately owned or owned by local residents. This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, worried if the investors would target the lands any time.

“We cannot just blame on local community as the owner of the land at the sacred zones. Then, we need to find a solution. One of the ways needed is the role of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), Customary Village General Assembly (MUDP) to make coordination with the main temple supporting devotees, chiefly the local communities around the temple,” he said.

Further he said the PHDI and MUDP in cooperation with provincial government, county / municipality and government agencies as the extension of central government

and private companies could also invite the Hindus to donate. Afterward, the donation, said Anom, could be used to purchase the land around the sacred zones so as not to become the property of investors.

“The Hindus both civil servants and employees of private companies must be invited to give sincere donation through salary deduction approximately worth IDR 10,000 per month. Later on, the funds are collected by the PHDI so there would be funds to purchase land in the sacred zones to be included in temple property. As a result, the area can be preserved,” he explained.

Anom added the funds having been collected could also be used to finance religious ceremonies, help high priests and temple priests, training cost of oblation makers and high priests, and temple priest candidates, Hindu foundation to improve human resource development in the face of global competition, scholarships for Hindu underprivileged students, including the Hindus entrepreneurial development. “Most importantly, these funds should be managed professionally, honestly and transparently as well as can be accounted for,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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Kuta Station Hotel & Spa IBP

KUTA - Kuta area develops and has an interest in the economic activities so it requires the provision of hotel accommodation capable of serving them carefully. The market is remarkably competitive and every hotel offers affordable rates and services that are virtually the same.

The difference lies in our commitment of converting promise into reality with the presence of Kuta Station Hotel & Spa. The advantage of our hotel is the strategic location and no other hotels in Kuta offer the more complete lifestyle facilities, both for travelers and business professionals entailing a hotel with multifunctional facilities.

Concept of the Kuta Station Hotel & Spa had been specially designed to become a 3-star hotel serving a growing tourism business in the oasis of Kuta tourist resort, including for the circle of the government, private companies and the MICE both for domestic and foreign markets. Located right in the heart of Kuta and Bali’s busiest tourist destination, it is just 50 meters from the amazing white sandy Kuta Beach and very close to Kuta Square shopping center.

Of course, it is within easy reach to all major attractions in the area of Kuta.

This comfortable hotel has 132 rooms consisting of Superior, Deluxe and Family room with standard amenities including a large swimming pool that stretches throughout the hotel grounds, kids pool, playground, meeting room, pool bar, Railway Bar & Restaurant, restaurant with the open air concept graced with nightly live music entertainment, Jalanidi Spa, Gym, Paradiso Bowling & Billiard and Dee Jay Club.

Paradiso Hotel Group currently operates the Kuta Paradiso Hotel, Legian Paradiso Hotel, Seminyak Paradiso Hotel and its parent company also operates a shopping complex named Kuta Center and Kuta Square as well as several other properties. With the existing track of record, it is evident that the Paradiso Hotel Group has a definite future vision --to be recognized as the best hotel management company in Indonesia.

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

The electrical officers are working on the pole. Government ascertained the electricity tariff increase (TTL) this year would not burden the community.

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14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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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Computers still vulnerable to hackers of start-up codes

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

Xiaomi beats Samsung in Chinese smartphone market Associated Press

SEOUL — Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. to become China’s top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter, a market research company said Tuesday.

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei.

During the April-June period, Samsung’s China smartphone sales decreased to 13.2 million units from 15.5 million a year earlier.

Lenovo trailed Samsung by a margin of 2 million units.

Xiaomi is little known in Europe or in North America because it sells nearly all of its smartphones in mainland China. But strong growth in China alone was enough to vault Xiaomi to a top five position among the world’s smartphone makers from nowhere the previous year.

Last week, another market research firm Strategy Analytics said Xiaomi became the world’s fifth-largest smartphone vendor for the first time in the second quarter, surpassing LG Electronics Inc. Canalys said China was the world’s largest smartphone market during the second quarter, with nearly four in every 10 smartphones sold there.

Jingwen Wang, an analyst at Canalys, said Xiaomi’s rise was thanks to its competitive prices and focus on its own mobile software known as MIUI. Samsung reported last week its lowest quarterly profit in two years for the second quarter, partly blaming a slowdown of cheap smartphone sales in China. Samsung said it faced higher competition from local brands and weaker demand for its 3G handsets as Chinese consumers shifted to 4G smartphones.

Samsung and Apple Inc. were the only non-Chinese vendors among the top 10 smartphone brands in China. Apple sold 6.8 million iPhones in the second quarter, up 58 percent from over a year earlier, Canalys said.

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Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

DENPASAR - Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

“Manufactured goods and products of cottage industry accounted for 75 percent of the export income,” head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said on Tuesday.

Around 50 percent of the exports were made via ports in other Indonesian provinces with the rest via the Benoa port of Denpasar.

The provincial administration needs to expand the Benoa port to become an international ports to be able to handle all shipments of all exports from Bali, Siregar said. “Expansion of the Benoa port would help reduce congestion over land transport and increase the regional income,” he said.

In June alone exports from Bali were valued at US$47.05 million, up 7.49 percent from the same period last year or an increase of 15.90 percent from May this year.

The main export commodities of Bali are fish and shrimps, jewelry, garments, wood products and furniture.

The export destinations include the United States, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and Thailand.

SAN FRANCISCO - A multi-year effort to prevent hackers from altering computers while they boot up has largely failed because of lax application of preventive steps, researchers say, despite disclosures that flaws are being exploited. boot,” which checks for digital signatures before running code.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system has embraced UEFI and secure boot, bringing the hardened approach to more than 60 million new computers.

Even as that rollout was accelerating, though, evidence accumulated that attacks similar to those theorized by researchers were actually under way.

In 2011, several research firms identified one such piece of malicious software, called Mebromi, that primarily attacked Chinese computers with a type of BIOS from leading supplier Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Early last year, Reuters saw a catalogue from a U.S. defense contractor that included a product, offered at more than $100,000, for incapacitating target computers by attacking BIOS and other critical elements.

And in December, Der Spiegel reported that a leaked internal NSA catalogue described a tool called DeityBounce that attacked the BIOS of Dell Inc servers.

That came months after a presentation at last year’s Black Hat security conference in which MITRE researchers including Corey Kallenberg and Xeno Kovah broke into Dell’s boot-up process.

In a joint interview, Kallenberg and Kovah said that in the year since that talk, they had deployed sensors to about 10,000 computers to determine whether boot-ups were still vulnerable to that flaw or related issues. As of last month, 55 percent of them still were.

But the actual percentage of vulnerable machines in the world is even higher, because the MITRE group has not been checking for flaws stemming from the issues it found more recently with Intel’s old UEFI guidelines, which permitted an attack through memory corruption.

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In the latest sign that the problem persists, researchers at the federally funded MITRE lab said this week that many customers of Intel Corp still had not adopted revised security designs Intel distributed in March after the MITRE team found new vulnerabilities in the start-up process.

That could mean many newer Windows computers remain exposed, the MITRE team told Reuters ahead of a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas next week. Intel’s point person on the issue, Bruce Monroe, said he did not know how many suppliers and computer makers had followed Intel’s recommendations. “We’re not privy to whether they’ve fixed it or not,” Monroe said. “We asked them to let us know.”

Long before Edward Snowden’s documents began appearing the media, professional technicians and U.S. officials were concerned about the vulnerabilities that left computers severely exposed as they are turned on.

Years ago, then-U.S. National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander privately urged the chief executives of major American technology companies to do something about the boot-up procedure known as the Basic Input/Output System, or BIOS. BIOS relies on firmware, or permanent software that ships with computers.

Because the start-up code is given more authority than the operating system, hackers who break into that code can make major changes to programs and hide evidence of their presence. Lodging there also all but guarantees what the security industry calls persistence - the ability to remain inside even after a computer is turned off and rebooted.

Intel, Microsoft Corp and other companies promoted a successor system known as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface that includes a feature called “secure

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PPATK restricts possibility of money laundering in Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Various methods are used by corrupters to launder the money obtained from their corruption. Some are made through commercial banks or through various other instruments. Even, the money launderers begin to glance at rural bank (BPR) as the next potential target. On that account, the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK) required the BPRs throughout Indonesia, including Bali, to report each financial transaction.

“We require the BPR as Financial Service Providers (PJK) to report their financial transaction regularly through an integrated service user information system to facilitate the tracking of the transactions suspected to have been committed by the perpetrators of money laundering,” said the officer of the Center for Information Technology of the PPATK, Nyoman Jendrika.

According to him, the utilization of the integrated service user information system or Sipesat would facilitate the implementation of the tasks of the PPTAK. This system posed an electronic and integrated management of the service user specific information on the Financial Service Providers.

“The PPATK has the authority to request and receive reports from the Financial Service Provider, including from the BPR. Indeed, it is difficult and takes a long time to track the assets denoting the proceeds of crime in the banking and other financial institutions,” he explained.

He described that without any clear system would be difficult for law enforcement to know the value and in which bank account the culprit saved the money alleged to have been obtained from the proceeds of crimes. Therefore, the role of the PPATK was to give confirmation on the participation of customers or service users of the Financial Service Providers in other financial services.

“Without the presence of Sipesat, to obtain information about a suspect’s account the PPATK should send a confidential letter to many financial institutions, both bank and non-bank,” he said.

He said that to get information through such mechanism opened up the opportunities for information leakage. By means of Sipesat, the PPATK could request information regarding the investigation or prosecution of money laundering which had been reported to investigator or public prosecutor. The PPATK could also conduct an audit to the Financial Service Provider regarding the compliance with the obligations in accordance with the provisions of the Law. Legal basis of the Sipesat application by the

PPATK was set forth in the Law No.8/2010 on the prevention and eradication of money laundering as well as Presidential Regulation No.50/2011 on the procedures of the authority implementation of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis.

Besides, it was also set forth in the Regulation of the Head of the PPATK No.PER-02/1:02/ PPATK/02/2014 on the integrated service user information system (Statute Book of 2014 the Republic of Indonesia No.258) and Circular of the Head of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis No.SE-02/1:02/ PPATK/03/2014 regarding the procedures of delivering the integrated services user information system.

Chairman of the Perbarindo Bali Regional Executive, Ketut Wiratjana, said that as the Financial Service Providers (PJK), started in 2014 the rural banks were required to report any financial transactions on quarterly basis. It was especially intended for transactions

deemed suspicious, even financial transactions related to foreign clients. Rural banks belonging to the members of Perbarindo in Indonesia, including Bali, were required to provide a report to the PPATK. “For the application of Sipesat of Perbarindo, his party specifically invites the PPATK officer to disseminate the procedures of regular reporting by the members of Perbarindo Bali in appropriate with the expectation of the PPATK,” he said.

As mentioned, the financial reporting should be made on quarterly basis, in which the reportable transaction was between IDR 100 million and IDR 500 million and above. “In Bali, especially in the rural banks, I think there are no any suspicious transactions because averagely I know the customers making the transactions.

However, in case there are suspicious transaction, our colleagues in rural banks will surely report it,” he said. (kmb27)

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Difficulty to get clean water

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BANGLI - Difficulty to get clean water is not only experienced by residents in Kintamani, but also by Landih residents in Bangli. To meet the water needs, all this time the poor residents in particular only relied on the water discharge from springs. Every day, they must be willing to queue in order to get one or two jerrycans of water.

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The residents of Landih Village in Bangli is very difficult in finding clean water.

East monsoon, fishermen in Buleleng take day off

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - The activity of catching fish by fishermen in Buleleng was suddenly broken off. It happened because the eastern monsoon started to hit the waters in North Bali. Aside from high winds, the wave height also reached up to three meters. Due to these conditions, fishermen preferred to stop fishing until the weather returned to normal.

As observation of Bali Post at fishing village in Buleleng on Monday (Aug 4), a number of small fishing boats looked to have been moored at seaside. In addition, large fishing boats remained to be parked at the verge of the sea and tied on an anchor. To kill their spare time, fishermen decided to repair their damaged or broken fishing tools or fix their nets. The east monsoon was estimated to last up to three days ahead.

Dodik, a fisherman from Pemaron village, Buleleng subdistrict, when met last Monday afternoon said the wind began to blow strongly from last Sunday (Aug 3) and lasted until Monday afternoon. The high winds began to come around 10:00 a.m. Until the afternoon, the breeze quickened and the condition was accompanied by the increasing wave height. He estimated the wave height could reach three meters. “Now, it is the season of east monsoon and this usually happens when entering August and lasts maximally until three days to come,” he said.

Against such condition, Dodik and other fishermen chose not to go to sea.

Even, some of his colleagues imposed themselves to catch fish with a small boat at sea. But due to bad weather condition, they were forced to return home without getting any fish. Other than fishermen with small boat, those with larger fishing boats also decided to wait for better weather. “Rather than taking risk, we’d better take day off and the leisure time can be taken advantage to rest the boats while repairing the damaged equipment. Hopefully, the weather is back to normal soon,” he added.

Similar opinion was also disclosed by another fisherman, Mangku Rena, from Tukad Mungga village, Buleleng subdistrict. He said the east monsoon was accompanied by the increasing height of waves up to three meters. From mainland, the marine weather did look calm and only the wind blew hard. However, in the middle of high seas, the weather was ascertained not to support the fishing activity. Other than disturbing voyage to fishing location, Rena added that east monsoon made the fishing difficult. The hull would be shaken around by waves.

Even, in bad weather the boat could be crashed by the waves.

“The wind blows from the east, while the sea current is moving from the west.

Well, this condition will trigger the waves to rise, so it is not convenient to make a voyage or catch fish at the IBP/Mudiarta fishing aggregating device,” he said. The fishermen of Buleleng are not going to the sea because the big waves which happen in most (kmb38) of the sea in Bali

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Landih villagers rely on springs Such condition was recognized by one of the Landih residents, Putu Sedan, Monday (Aug 4). He said the village better known as coffee producer faced difficulty to get clean water.

To meet their daily clean water needs, some residents had to purchase it. For a tank truck with the capacity of about 3,000 liters, they should purchase at IDR 160,000. Averagely local residents spent water as much as two trucks each month.

Meanwhile, poor people typically utilized the existing springs at local village. However, since the water discharge was quite small, residents had to wait in line to get one to two jerrycans of water. Quite often the attempt to get clean water should be performed till the evening. “Thankfully, there are some springs here. So, the residents can still enjoy clean water,” he said.

He said there were at least four springs at Landih village that could be utilized by residents. Unfortunately, the water discharge was quite small. Therefore, people should be willing to queue in order to get it. (ina)

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Nigeria health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.

Death toll from Ebola in W. Africa hits 887: WHO

TOKYO — Japan has formally approved additional sanctions against Russia over the unrest in Ukraine.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday the sanctions include the freezing of assets held in Japan by 40 individuals and two groups supporting the separation of Crimea from Ukraine, and a ban on Crimean imports. He said the steps are in line with measures taken

by European Union and Group of Seven nations.

He said financial institutions operating in Japan will follow the decision under the foreign exchange law.

Despite the sanctions, Japan is still open to dialogue with Russia, and hopes to assist in a peaceful settlement of the problem by cooperating with the international community, Suga said.

Japan introduced the plans last week after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The U.S. and Ukraine accuse pro-Russia rebels of firing a missile that brought the plane down, killing all 298 people on board.

Washington and EU have debated imposing tougher sanctions against Moscow over its support for the rebels.

Japan had previously only suspended bilateral talks with Russia on some issues, and imposed an entry visa ban on 23 individuals whom it hasn’t publicly named.

Relations between Japan and Russia have suffered for decades due to a territorial dispute that has prevented the signing of a peace treaty after World War II. Tokyo has been seen as reluctant to ramp up sanctions due to concerns that they could threaten to derail Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s moves toward rapprochement with Moscow.

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ABUJA, Nigeria — The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa’s most populous nation as the regional toll for the outbreak grew to 887 dead.

As Nigerian health authorities rushed to quarantine others who had been exposed, a special plane left Liberia to evacuate the second American missionary who fell ill with Ebola. Nancy Writebol, 59, is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday, where she will be treated at a special isolation ward.

The second confirmed case in Nigeria is a doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who died July 25 days after arriving in Nigeria from Liberia, said Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu.

Three others who also treated Sawyer now show symptoms of Ebola and their test results are pending, he said. Authorities are trying to trace and quarantine others in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city of 21 million people.

“This cluster of cases in Lagos, Nigeria is very concerning,” said

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention, which is dispatching 50 experienced disease control specialists to West Africa.

“It shows what happens if meticulous infection control, contact tracing, and proper isolation of patients with suspected Ebola is not done. Stopping the spread in Lagos will be difficult but it can be done,” he said.

The World Health Organization announced Monday that the death toll has increased from 729 to 887 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

Cases in Liberia jumped from 156 to 255, WHO said, as the government ordered that all Ebola victims must now be cremated because of rising opposition to burials in neighborhoods around the capital. Over the weekend, police were called in amid a standoff over

whether health authorities could bury nearly two dozen victims in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital, Monrovia.

Sierra Leone marked a national stay-at-home day Monday in an effort to halt the disease’s spread.

A documentary film of the first outbreak of the Ebola disease in Congo was being shown intermittently throughout the day by the national broadcaster.

The emergence of a second case in Nigeria raises serious concerns about the infection control practices there, and also raises the specter that more cases could emerge. It can take up to 21 days after exposure to the virus for symptoms to appear.

They include fever, sore throat, muscle pains and headaches. Often nausea, vomiting and diarrhea follow, along with severe internal and external bleeding in advanced stages of the disease.

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Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, July 11, 2014.

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NEW DELHI - India has defended its decision to scuttle a landmark worldwide trade deal, saying its farmers faced suicide and starvation if the government had backed down on its tough stand at the WTO. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the new right-wing government could not agree to the deal to streamline global customs rules unless the World Trade Organization adequately addressed its demand on stockpiling food.

“The fact of the matter is there have been many instances in history where India has been forced to raise its voice against the powerful

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nations,” Jaitley told the NDTV network late on Monday.

Jaitley is the most senior Indian minister to comment on the issue since India refused to ratify the long-sought deal at the WTO by the July 31 deadline.

The deal, which needs the agreement of the WTO’s 160 members, would add $1 trillion and 21 million jobs to the world economy, accord-

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ing to some estimates.

US Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during talks last week that India’s position on the deal sent the wrong message on opening up the country’s economy. India is unhappy with progress on negotiations to give the green light on both stockpiling food and farm subsidies.

India’s nationalist government, which came to power in May, insists that a permanent agreement on food stockpiling must be agreed swiftly.

India, which has sought since independence to eradicate hunger, buys grain at above-market prices from

farmers and sells the food at subsidised prices to some of the hundreds of millions of poor.

The stockpiling is popular with poor voters in the world’s largest democracy, but wealthy nations say that the policy distorts global markets.

Jaitley said India must be allowed to continue the measures without fear of challenge at the WTO to feed its poor and protect its impoverished farmers from ruination.

“Our farmers will be reduced to starvation and suicide. We can’t be a party to that,” he told the network.

“If we did not have the (measures) this few hundred suicides

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that you hear of would be in lakhs (hundreds of thousands).”

The WTO’s members gathered in Geneva last week for what was envisioned as a rubber-stamp approval of the customs deal called the Trade Facilitation Agreement which was reached in Bali last year.

When the Bali deal was struck, WTO members agreed on a “peace clause” to allow India’s food stockpiling with no penalties until a “permanent” solution by 2017.

But Jaitley said the lack of progress on negotiations meant it was unclear when a permanent solution would be found.

US airfares on the rise, outpacing inflation

NEW YORK — Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight. The average roundtrip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year. Domestic airfare continues to outpace inflation, rising 2.7 percent compared to the 2.1 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index.

Airfare has gone up 10.7 percent in the past five years — after adjusting for inflation — according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz.

The formula for rising fares seems simple, but it eluded the airlines for years: Match the supply of seats to passenger demand.

“Airlines have reduced the number of seats while more people want to fly because of the economic recovery. All this leads to higher airfares,” says Chuck Thackston, managing director of data and analytics at Airlines Reporting Corp. “This trend in airfares is likely to continue for the near future, as the economy continues to grow.”

These days, fares only capture part of the cost of flying. Many passengers pay extra to check their luggage, typically $50 roundtrip for the first bag and $70 for the second one.

But bag fees haven’t changed much in the past few years. Now, the airlines are increasingly enticing passengers to pay for fast-track security lines, early boarding, additional legroom and other extras that can add from $9 to $299 to the cost of a flight.

So, for example, a $300 ticket can balloon to $450 on some airlines if you check two bags and pay $30 for a little more room to

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stretch your legs.

And travelers aren’t finding much relief after landing. The average nightly price of a hotel room in the U.S. during the first half of this year was $113.80, according travel research company STR. That’s up $4.47, or 4 percent, from the same period in 2013.

Most people are traveling for work. And when the economy is strong, they do more flying. Data released by the government last week shows that economic growth bounced back after a brutal winter, businesses are creating jobs at a steady pace and consumer spending is on the rise.

The Global Business Travel Association predicts that worldwide business travel will grow 6.9 percent this year to a record $1.18 trillion. The United States is the business largest travel market, with travelers spending $274 billion last year, a 4.5-percent increase over 2012.

Baggage fees and some others were introduced in 2008 to offset losses from rising fuel prices. However, this year airlines are actually paying less for fuel — $2.96 a gallon so far, 7.2 percent less than last year, when adjusted for inflation.

Passengers aren’t seeing any of those savings. One reason is that airlines no longer need to entice fliers with lower fares. There are simply fewer choices today.

A wave of consolidation that started in 2008 has left four U.S. airlines — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines — controlling more than 80 percent of the domestic air-travel market.

Discount airlines such as Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines have grown at breakneck speed but still carry a tiny fraction of overall passengers.

That control of the market has enabled

the bigger airlines to charge more for tickets and not worry about being undercut by the competition. In addition, the airlines are taking in about $3.3 billion a year in fees. The result: record profits.

In April, May and June, the four largest U.S. airlines earned a combined $2.9 billion.

Airlines are earning so much money that they are starting to pay investors dividends — something unheard of in an industry that just a decade ago was struggling with a wave of bankruptcies.

Airlines for America, the industry’s U.S.

trade and lobbying group, says passengers should blame the government, not the carriers, for higher fares. Last month, increased fees linked to the Transportation Security Administration took effect. Fliers will now pay a flat fee of $5.60 each way, up from $2.50 each way for nonstop flights and $5 for trips with connections.

But taxes and government fees still remain a small portion of what passengers pay. On a $500 roundtrip ticket between New York and Seattle, they make up 12 percent of the price.

GILIMANUK - Peak of the Eid backflow to Bali occurred on Saturday (Aug 2) and Sunday (Aug 3). Thousands of vehicles previously leaving Bali had come back to Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor. During the people backflow to Bali, 32 migrants without identity card and expired identity card were repatriated by the officers at Gilimanuk identity card checkpoint.

After the Eid, the number of passengers passing through Gilimanuk Harbor reached 167,490 people. Meanwhile, the number of motorcycle reached 25,318 units and 19,102 units of car. The number continued to grow until Sunday night. Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, told reporters on Sunday the backflow had increased quite dramatically. Even, the harbor authority should deploy a number of passenger motor vessels used to ferry motorcycles like the KMP Dharma Ferry I. Previously on Saturday to Sunday morning, the number passenger reached 46,075 people, 5,271 units of car and 7,777 units of motorcycles.

Meanwhile, the backflow made the inspection of vehicles and people coming to Bali very bustling. Both checkpoint II and identity card checkpoint were thronged by motorcycles. At identity card checkpoint, the officers repatriated tens of migrants.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk identity card checkpoint, Putu Karmayasa, said during this week there were totally 51 violations, including 20 people bringing along with IBP/Olo expired identity card and 31 people without Peak of the Eid backflow to Bali occurred on Saturday (Aug 2) and Sunday (Aug 3). Thousands of vehicles previously leaving Bali identity card. A total of 32 migrants were had come back to Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor. repatriated. (kmb26)

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In this Dec. 21, 2013 file photo, a traveler walks through Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight. The average roundtrip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year.

Tirta Empul Temple implements smoking ban

GIANYAR - Even though the Regional Bylaw on the smoke-free zone (KTR) has not been enforced as being under verification after the establishment a few months ago, the places of worship such as Tirta Empul Temple in Sukawati subdistrict has implemented the smoking ban in the main temple area. It is evident from a number of warning notices posted on the temple wall.

As observation, there were two smoking bans at Tirta Empul Temple. They were written in the form of notice resembling a small billboard, affixed to the wall of the main entrance into the innermost courtyard of the Tirta Empul Temple.

The notice said it was not allowed to smoke in the sacred zone of the Tirta Empul Temple frequented by travelers.

Amidst serving the visiting pilgrims, the priest of Tirta Empul Temple affirmed that smoking was indeed prohibited in the temple area, let alone in the innermost courtyard (utama mandala). The ban had already existed and was installed by local apparatus some time ago. It was intended to prevent undesirable things,

especially keeping the coolness of the temple compound.

Earlier, the Gianyar House had passed the regulation draft on smoke-free zone into regional bylaw. One of the provisions set the ban of smoking in the sanctum such as temple. Previously, this regulation had drawn worries if the regional bylaw would only become the display of legal product. Considering, there were some points in the draft of smoke-free zone would be difficult to be implemented at temple.

Temple as a sacred area including in the category of smoke-free zone would find difficulty in the implementation as hampered by the adaptability condition of society. Other constraints included the matter of fine and enforcement of the regulation. Smoke-free zone at place of worship went through a slow discussion. Nevertheless, the special committee finally formulated that it would only be applied especially in the innermost courtyard. Enforcement of this rule would be inseparable from the policy of customary apparatus existing at each temple. Example of the firmness by customary apparatus had been implemented at Tirta Empul Temple, Sukawati. (kmb16)

Even though the Regional Bylaw on the smoke-free zone (KTR) has not been enforced as being under verification after the establishment a few months ago, the places of worship such as Tirta Empul Temple in Sukawati subdistrict has implemented the smoking ban in the main temple area.

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Palestinians sit next to their destroyed house after returning to the Shejaia neighbourhood, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City August 5, 2014.

Cease-fire takes effect to end Gaza war

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israel-Hamas cease-fire, meant to last three days, went into effect on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, setting the stage for talks in Cairo aimed at reaching a broader deal on a sustainable truce and the rebuilding of the battered coastal territory.

The temporary truce, agreed to by both sides, started at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) and halted almost a month of fighting.

Israeli ground troops withdrew from the strip’s border areas, the shelling stopped and in Gaza City, where streets had been deserted during the war, traffic picked up and shops started opening doors.

If the calm holds, Egypt plans to start shuttling between Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Cairo to work out new arrangements for Gaza.

The territory has been virtually cut off from the world since a violent Hamas takeover in 2007 prompted a closure of the territory’s borders

by Egypt and Israel. But wide gaps remain and previous international attempts to broker a temporary halt in the fighting have failed.

The Palestinian delegation, which includes Hamas representatives, demands an end to the closure and calls for rebuilding Gaza with international funds. However, Israel is reluctant to open Gaza’s borders unless the Islamic militants are disarmed. Earlier

cease-fire attempts have collapsed and the situation remained volatile on Tuesday.

Just minutes ahead of the start of the truce, shelling still echoed across Gaza and Israel said Hamas fired a heavy barrage of rockets at southern and central Israel. By mid-morning, traumatized residents began returning to the southern Gaza town of Rafah, hard-hit by Israeli shell fire after an attempt at cease-fire broke down last Friday.

“I never saw anything like this in my life,” Tawfiq Barbakh, a 67year-old father of 12, said of the Israeli shelling over the weekend as he surveyed his badly damaged home. “I don’t know how many shells landed every minute but it felt like 20 or 30.” The war broke out on July 8 when Israel launched airstrikes it said were in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire out of Hamas-controlled Gaza. It expanded the operation on July 17 by sending in ground forces in what it described as a mission to destroy a network of tunnels used to stage attacks.

The fighting has claimed nearly 1,900 Palestinian lives — most of them civilians. The war has also left 67 dead on the Israeli side, all but three of them soldiers.

Talks in Cairo will be crucial in the coming days. Ending the Gaza conflict without a sustainable truce raises the probability of more cross-border fighting in the future. Ahead of the cease-fire, there were also signs that tensions created by the Gaza fighting were spreading to Jerusalem and the West Bank, with two attacks there.

The police said they were carried out

by Palestinian militants. As part of the cease-fire, the Israeli military said it was withdrawing all ground troops from Gaza.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the withdrawal was going forward after Israel neutralized cross-border tunnels that were built for Islamic militant attacks inside Israel.

“Overnight, we completed the destruction of 32 tunnels in the Gaza Strip,” Lerner said. “They were part of a strategic Hamas plan to carry out attacks against southern Israel.”

KUNMING, China — Rescuers raced Tuesday to evacuate villages near rising lakes formed by landslides, complicating relief efforts following a strong earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and has left thousands homeless.

Rescue teams have freed scores of trapped survivors as they dig through the thousands of homes that collapsed when the tremor struck impoverished Ludian county in Yunnan province on Sunday.

A 5-year-old boy freed by hand-digging Monday was among the dozens rescued in the first two days, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Landslides have created barrier lakes where water levels were rising Tuesday to pose a new threat to about 800 residents and seven power stations downstream, where sudden flooding could prompt widespread power outages, Xinhua reported.

A main road into the worst-hit areas of Ludian was clogged Tuesday with bulldozers, backhoes and civilian and military vehicles carrying supplies including water and instant noodles.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers and police had entered the quake-stricken areas, the Defense Ministry said.

Further into the quake zone, survivors, including some halfnaked, were sitting along muddy roads in the rain waiting for food and medication, Xinhua said. Medics were reporting severe shortages of medicine and an inability to perform operations on the severely injured, while rescuers said their work had been hampered by continuous downpours and quake-triggered landslides, Xinhua said.

The quake struck about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday about 370 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of the Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming. Overhead footage of the quake zone shot by state broadcaster CCTV showed older houses flattened but newer multistory buildings still standing.

Ma Yaoqi, an 18-year-old volunteer in the quake zone, said by phone that at least half of the buildings had collapsed on the road from the city of Zhaotong to the hardest-hit town of Longtou. The rest of the buildings were damaged, she said.

“I saw dead bodies being wrapped in quilts and carried away,” said Ma, who arrived with 20 other volunteers Monday. “Some were wrapped with small quilts. Those must be kids.”

The magnitude-6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. China’s earthquake monitoring agency put the magnitude at 6.5.

Badung Regent From page 1 He reasoned that he was a bureaucratic apparatus which ethically should not express any support or rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, but was subject to the rule of law. In this regard, he reiterated that his party was not only committed to the level of discourse, but had actually secured the conservation area as mandated

by Regional Bylaw on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan.

Gde Agung also touched on Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 on the revision of Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on the Spatial Planning of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) Area. According to him, his party had never made any proposal to change the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011. Without detailing, Gde Agung even mentioned the need for improvements to the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Badung House, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, claimed to also agree to what was conveyed by Regent Gde Agung.

He even claimed to be ready to escort the implementation of Regional Bylaw on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan whose one of the points set that Benoa Bay belonged to conservation area. (kmb25)

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INDONESIA Growth slowest since 2009 in second quarter

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JAKARTA - Indonesian growth slipped to its slowest pace for almost five years in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, highlighting the huge economic challenges facing the president-elect Joko Widodo.

Southeast Asia’s top economy expanded 5.12 percent on-year in the three months to the end of June, the national statistics agency said, the slowest annual rate since the last quarter of 2009 and below economists’ forecasts of 5.3 percent.

A key contributor to the slowdown was a controversial ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals,which was introduced in January and hit the vital mining sector, the agency said.

The Indonesian economy has expanded at around six percent in recent years but it has been easing in the past 12 months due to slowing demand for commodity exports, and interest rate hikes in 2013 during emerging market turmoil.

The disappointing data underscores the tough task ahead for new leader Widodo, the reform-minded governor of Jakarta who has pledged to revive the G20 economy when he takes office in October.

Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, has vowed to lift growth to seven percent within two years, but many economists consider the target ambitious.

Growth for 2013 came in at 5.78 percent, the slowest pace of expansion for four years.

Gareth Leather from Capital Economics said Tuesday’s growth data showed the “scale of the challenge” facing Widodo.

“Hopes for a recovery largely rest

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bureaucracy and introduce muchneeded economic reform to address big fuel subsidies, cooling investment and creaky infrastructure.

But concern persists that the former small-city mayor, who is relatively inexperienced on the national stage, may be beholden to his political party and its chief, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, for key appointments and policy advice.

The transition team will be headed

by Rini Soemarno, a close aide of Megawati. Soemarno, an influential, U.S.-educated businesswoman, served during Megawati’s presidency as trade and industry minister and is a former head of PT Astra International , Indonesia’s biggest automobile distributor.

Another member of the team of advisers, Hasto Kristiyanto, is vice secretary general of Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P).

Other figures include Anies Baswedan, a respected academic and education specialist, a military expert and a senior member of a coalition partner.

Widodo, a former furniture businessman, last month invited the public to participate in an online poll to choose cabinet ministers, but it was unclear how the survey would affect the final line-up.

The new cabinet will be announced after Widodo takes office on Oct 20.

The team will also draw up a list of potential cabinet ministers and

on the new government,” he said.

“Joko Widodo has certainly raised hopes that he could usher in a wave of reforms. However, it is far from clear if the new president will be able to live up to investors’ lofty expectations.”

Foreign companies operating in Indonesia have long complained of nationalistic policies, particularly in the resources sector, rampant corruption, and creaking infrastructure.

The second quarter growth was down from 5.2 percent expansion in the first quarter.

As well as the mining sector, growth in the manufacturing sector -such as the production of textiles and leather goods -- also slowed, said statistics chief Suryamin, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

However household consumption, a key driver of the economy, remained robust, growing 5.6 percent in the second quarter, the data showed.

People gather around the Indonesia stock exchange screen on this file photo. Indonesian growth slipped to its slowest pace for almost five years in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, highlighting the huge economic challenges facing the president-elect Joko Widodo.

review strategies to handle “major legal liabilities” facing the incoming administration like international arbitration cases involving mining giants

Newmont Mining Corp and Churchill Mining, two of Widodo’s aides told Reuters.

Newmont last month filed for inter-

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President-elect unveils high-powered transition team

JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo on Monday announced a high-powered advisory team to handle his transition to power as he prepares to take over the top job in the world’s third-largest democracy later this year.

The five-member “transition office” will lead a team of several advisers who will be responsible for drawing up a policy roadmap to fulfil major campaign promises and address pressing issues facing Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

“This transition office is needed to prepare the implementation of our vision and programmes,” Widodo and vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla said in a statement, adding the team would prioritise universal access to healthcare and education.

Widodo, commonly known by his nickname Jokowi, beat rival Prabowo Subianto in last month’s presidential election, the closest in the history of the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

Prabowo, an ex-general, has challenged the election result in the Constitutional Court, which will start hearing the case this week and is expected to deliver a verdict by Aug. 21. Its decision will be final with no right of appeal.

Widodo has promised to form a cabinet that is dominated by technocrats in order to overhaul a sleepy

national arbitration over Indonesia’s mineral export tax, while Churchill has been battling the government for years over lost rights to a coal project.

Militant cleric backs Islamic State as government cracks down Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Jailed Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has pledged allegiance to jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq and claimed leadership of the world’s Muslims, a radical group said Tuesday.

The news came as authorities in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, announced measures aimed at curbing growing support for the Islamic State (IS) group, including the blocking of websites that support them.

Indonesia has for years struggled with Islamist radical groups and has been hit by numerous militant attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

A successful crackdown over the past decade has weakened many groups but authorities believe dozens of Indonesian radicals have

headed to fight in Syria and Iraq, and fear they could revive networks on their return.

Authorities had already voiced suspicions that Bashir, regarded as the spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia, was funding IS, which in June declared an “Islamic caliphate” in territory it controls across Iraq and Syria.

On Tuesday Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), a radical group founded by Bashir, confirmed that the frail, bespectacled cleric had sworn allegiance to IS in a maximum-security prison on an island off Indonesia’s Java several weeks ago.

The 75-year-old “has led a pledge of allegiance with other prisoners soon after the declaration of the new caliph,” Afief Abdul Madjid, the group’s acting leader, told AFP, adding the cleric had urged his followers to do the same.

Reports said the ceremony to swear allegiance took place in a

prayer room.

Bashir, a vocal supporter of Al-Qaeda style jihad, has been in and out of prison for years and is currently serving a 15-year term for funding terrorism.

Authorities on Monday announced the move to block websites and said efforts would be made to stop would-be jihadists heading to the Middle East, including by working with religious figures to highlight the dangers.

“Any efforts to spread (IS’s) teaching must be prevented,” said Security Minister Djoko Suyanto.

Bashir was one of the alleged founders and chief ideologue of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, which was blamed for the Bali bombings.

There have been no major terror attacks in Indonesia for several years. Recent attacks have mostly been low-level and have targeted domestic security forces.

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Bukit Sari Sangeh

MANGUPURA - Sangeh is a natural attraction relying on the wildlife and forest as the main tourist attraction. Sangeh tourist object is located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung Regency.

It is precisely about 21 km north of Denpasar. Sangeh does not only attract foreign tourists, but also domestic tourists and even the locals of Bali. When you want to make a visit, take the Denpasar–Plaga route or Jalan A. Yani to the north. After some 21 km, on the left side you will encounter a small forest filled with large tropical trees.

Approximately 20 attendants are on duty to maintain the sanitation, safety of tourists, as well as the orderliness of merchants and photographers. Those attendants are spread within the neighborhood of Sangeh forest area.

On the whole, this tourist attraction spreads across 13.969 hectares of land bordering with rice fields in the north, Yeh Penet River in the west, and Batursari settlement in the south and east. Sangeh forest has a variety of plant species. There are approximately 6,443 nutmeg trees, 27 species of other trees consisting of gliricidia, silk plant, milkwood pine, banyan tree and others. In addition, there are also 22 types of shrubs such sea pearl, shoebutton and others.

Aside from becoming the na-

tive home to apes, this forest area of 10.8 hectares is also inhabited by two species of mammals such as monkeys and raccoons, 8 bird species such as Java sparrow and turtledoves, three kinds of reptile such as snakes and 2 types of amphibians.

The long-tailed gray ape (Macaca fascicularis) has become the prominent attraction for tourist to visit Sangeh.

This tourist attraction also has 4 temples, such as the Bukitsari Temple located in west part of the forest, Melanting Temple (middle), Tirta Temple (front) and Anyar Temple at the entrance to the forest. The four temples are venerated by customary village of Sangeh, except for the Anyar Temple is only venerated by Batursari residents.

In the Southwest corner is built an isolation cage for the rogue apes. Additionally, it also serves a laboratory to treat the sick monkeys. In front of the entrance lie two small buildings used as ticket booth and a post of the Natural Resources Conservation (KSDA).

Recently, the management carried out a reforestation

and forest area expansion of around 3.169 hectares.

It is said the forest originated from the forest of Mount Agung scheduled to travel to Mengwi.

At that time, it moved slowly in the evening. Unfortunately, a man came across the forest and shouted at it, so that the forest suddenly stopped. This belief is supported

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by the existence of nutmeg trees in the forest area that cannot be found in any other areas. Even, one or two can be found, but it surely grows at haunted temple area.

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Ivan Dodig (CRO) returns against John Isner (USA) in the 1st round of The Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre.

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Dodig enjoys upset win over Isner on return from injury Reuters

TORONTO - Ivan Dodig made a triumphant return from injury with a 6-4 6-7 (4) 6-3 upset victory over 10th seeded American John Isner in the opening round of Rogers Cup on Monday after the Croat missed nearly three months with a broken rib. Dodig, back on court for the first time since retiring in the opening round of the French Open, showed no sign of rust as he consigned Isner to a second consecutive first round loss.

Twice a winner this season, Isner got his North American hard court campaign off to a confident start by picking up a ninth career title two weeks ago in Atlanta. However, the big-serving American has been misfiring ever since, suffering an early exit to compatriot Steve Johnson last week in Washington, followed by another shock loss in Toronto.

“I was really happy to play again and to beat Isner is a great win for me for sure,” said Dodig, who has watched his world ranking dip to number 62. “I hope I can continue.

I’m just really happy to be again on the court this is most important to me. “He is the guy who can beat anybody and a great player for many years. Today was tough match for both of us and I was a little bit more lucky this time.”

Isner was not the only big name to falter and he was joined in the departure lounge by 14th seeded

Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who was dispatched 7-6 (7) 6-3 by compatriot Feliciano Lopez.

The tournament got off to a stuttering start with morning and afternoon matches interrupted by rain but despite the stormy weather, the two other seeds in action on Day One, Marin Cilic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, progressed into the second round.

Tsonga Content Croatian 15th seed Cilic, another two-time winner on the ATP Tour this season, continued his domination of Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin taking a 6-2 4-6 7-5 decision to improve his record to 5-1. In an allFrench battle 13th seeded Tsonga survived an early challenge from Eduard Roger-Vasselin before easing to a 7-6 (3) 6-1 win.

“It’s always difficult when you didn’t play for a few weeks but it was

my choice and I practiced a lot during those weeks,” said Tsonga, after playing his first match since a fourth round loss to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon. “Of course, you know, when you come on the court for the first time again, you want to be good.

You want to see if your practice was good or not. “So I was a little bit more stressful but in the second set I played well. So it’s good.”

Australian former world number one Lleyton Hewitt, twice a winner this season, never found his footing on the Canadian hard court falling 6-1 6-2 to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, playing his 242nd ATP Tour event and still searching for a first title.

The Canadian stop is considered one of the key warmup events ahead of the U.S. Open starting later this month and has again attracted a top flight field that includes world number one Djokovic and 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer.

There is an added buzz surrounding this year’s event in the hockey-mad country after local players Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil clashed at the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday, facing off in a first ever all-Canadian ATP Tour final.

Sergio Perez says his difficult season at McLaren came at “the worst possible moment”, because the dip in the Formula 1 team’s fortunes meant he couldn’t realise his full potential. The Mexican joined the Woking-based squad off the back of an excellent sophomore campaign with Sauber in 2012, during which he scored three podiums.

But McLaren went on to endure its first winless year since 2006 with the recalcitrant MP428, and Perez was replaced by rookie Kevin Magnussen for this season having been well-beaten in the drivers’ championship by team-mate Jenson Button. Perez has since gone on to add a fourth podium to his career tally for Force India, and deputy teamprincipal Bob Fernley suggested McLaren had underrated Perez during his year at Woking.

Perez stopped short of agreeing with Fernley’s comments, but reckons the VJM07 he is driving this season is allowing him to better harness his abilities than the McLaren he drove last year. “I think that’s a question for them,” said Perez, when asked by AUTOSPORT if he felt McLaren had underrated him. “I’m very happy here [at Force India], very comfortable, very motivated as

well.

“When you have a car in which you can show your potential weekend after weekend, it just puts you on another level as a driver. “I didn’t find that at McLaren, because of the difficult season we had. “I probably arrived at the worst possible moment.”

Change Behaviour Perez also admits he initially took the wrong attitude to the Woking team’s struggles because he was convinced McLaren would make him a regular frontrunner. “I didn’t act in the best possible way because I was really frustrated,” Perez said. “One of the mistakes I made was frustrating myself rather than taking the best out of the situation.

“When I went into McLaren I was expecting to fight for the title and was really, really hungry.

“Then, I realised that I was doing even worse than when I was at Sauber. “The car was so difficult to drive in the first half the year; it wasn’t just a bad car, it was a really inconsistent car - definitely the most inconsistent car I’ve had in my career in Formula 1. “It was difficult for me at McLaren, it hurt me a lot, but I learnt a lot [and] I’m sure that it will help me a lot in my [future] career.”

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Force India Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico reacts after a crash during the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit, near Budapest July 27, 2014.

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Sp rt Manchester United’s Darren Fletcher, left and Wayne Rooney hold the 2014 Guinness International Champions Cup after they defeated Liverpool, on Monday, August 4, 2014 in Miami Gardens, FL.

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Man United rally for 3-1 friendly win over Liverpool

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MIAMI - Second-half strikes from Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard earned Manchester United a morale boosting 3-1 win over Premier League rivals Liverpool in the final of the pre-season International Champions Cup in Miami on Monday. United end their U.S. tour unbeaten under new manager Louis van Gaal and a victory over their old rivals was perhaps the sweetest way to sign off. They will now return to England to finish off preparations for the new Premier League season, which starts on Aug. 16.

Despite the win, Dutchman Van Gaal was in no mood to go overboard about his team’s preseason, which also included a 3-1 victory over European champions Real Madrid on Saturday. Asked what the value of the tournament win was, Van Gaal said: “Nothing. It’s nice, nice for the fans in the U.S. and also at home, that we have beaten Liverpool, not our favourite opponents for United fans, and I think we have given a lot of pleasure to these fans and that is

important.

“Of course it is better to win preparation games than to lose but the most important game is against Swansea City, our first game, at home, in the Premier League - that we have to win,” he added.

Both managers went with their strongest possible teams for the game, played in front of 51,000 fans at a rainy Sun Life stadium in Miami. Liverpool began brightly and took the lead in the 14th minute when the lively Raheem Sterling

was brought down in the area by United defender Phil Jones and skipper Steven Gerrard drilled home the penalty. The Merseyside team should have doubled their advantage shortly after half-time but Rickie Lambert fluffed his shot after finding space inside the area.

United equalised in the 55th minute when Mexican forward Javier Hernandez delivered a cross deep to the back post and Rooney coolly side-footed home a cushioned volley from a tight angle. Two minutes

later, Mata’s well-struck effort from the edge of the box took a slight deflection off Mamadou Sakho and beat Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.

Manchester United had the ball in the net again after a high cross from Ashley Young looped over Mignolet and appeared to bounce back off the woodwork to Rooney, who side-footed home. American referee Mark Geiger signalled a goal but images on the stadium’s giant screen showed the ball had gone over the bar and bounced back off the stanchion. After consulting with his linesman, Geiger changed his decision and ruled out the goal.

United did get a third two minutes from time, substitute Lingard blasting home from 18 yards to seal the win and wrap up the eight-team tournament victory.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers felt the scoreline was unfair on his team, who could have had a second penalty in the first half after Ander Herrera’s challenge on Sterling.

“Overall I am delighted with the whole tournament what it has done for us,” he added. “We have been away a long time, we have worked very, very hard ... we have some positives and we look forward to the new season.” United start their league campaign against Swansea on Aug. 16 at Old Trafford while Liverpool face Southampton at Anfield the following day.

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Trophies beckon for Arsenal after lean years - Usmanov Reuters

LONDON - Arsenal can challenge for the Premier League title again after being hamstrung for a decade by repaying the debt on their Emirates Stadium, according to Alisher Usmanov, the club’s second largest shareholder.

“I think we begin a new era for Arsenal where we win trophies,” the Russian billionaire, who owns 30 percent of the club’s shares and has invested 200 million pounds ($337.70 million),

said in a Daily Telegraph interview on Tuesday.

Arsenal ended a nine-year trophy drought when they lifted the FA Cup last season, a barren spell Usmanov believes was caused by loading the club with debt to finance a move from the old Highbury site to the 390 million pounds Emirates Stadium in 2006.

“The acquisition was financed with debt, which would be repaid through match-day revenues among other sources,” Usmanov said. “There is another way of doing it: when shareholders buy all of the assets and contribute them to the club.

“As a result, these debt-free assets

may generate income for the club.

The board and the main shareholders chose the debt option at the time, which led to Arsenal going almost 10 years without winning a domestic title or the Champions League.

“As a result of this choice, they were selling player and were unable to buy top players. These difficulties have now been overcome and the team is in a good state.”

The likes of Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri and Thierry Henry have all been sold by Arsenal since the move to the Emirates although annual qualification for the Champions League and 60,000 home crowds have helped the club wipe off a huge chunk of the stadium debt.

New Ivory Coast coach to discuss Drogba future

Associated Press

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — New Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard said Monday he will make a decision about Didier Drogba’s international playing future after speaking with the veteran striker this month.

The 36-year-old Drogba was mainly used off the bench in Ivory Coast’s last two major tournaments but has made no indication he wants to retire from the national team.

Drogba re-joined Premier League club Chelsea last month on a season-long deal.

With Renard’s appointment last week, the Ivorian federation emphasized the need to develop the next generation of players after the team’s disappointing group-stage exit at the World Cup under former coach Sabri Lamouchi.

Renard told

reporters on Monday at his first news conference as Ivory Coast coach: “You will know his (Drogba’s) future with the national team” by Aug. 20, when the Frenchman is expected to name his first Ivory Coast squad for the final round of qualifiers for next year’s African Cup. Renard also said “we need to ask” why Ivory Coast’s so-called golden generation of Drogba, Yaya and Kolo Toure and Didier Zokora hasn’t won a major trophy.

The country still has not added to its lone African Cup victory in 1992 and has not reached the second round of the World Cup in three attempts. Ivory Coast also lost its No. 1 ranking in Africa to Algeria just before the World Cup. “There are positions that need a change,” Renard said. “They asked me to build a new team. But not everything has to be thrown away.”

“Let me discuss with players. Some might have some wishes. I have to listen to them. After that, I will take my decisions.”

Renard is partly responsible for Ivory Coast’s long wait for a title after he coached Zambia to a penalty-shootout win over the Ivorians in the African Cup final in 2012.

Renard arrived in Abidjan on Friday to take up a four-year contract until after the next World Cup in Russia in 2018. He also confirmed that Patrice Beaumelle, Renard’s assistant coach with Zambia, would become his assistant with Ivory Coast.

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FILE -- In this file photo taken on Nov. 17 2013, Mexico’s captain Rafa Marquez smiles while training, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mexico captain Marquez signs for Hellas Verona Associated Press

VERONA, Italy — Mexico captain Rafa Marquez has signed for Serie A side Hellas Verona.

Marquez’s former Mexican club Leon announced the move Monday, with a statement saying “we wish him the best of success in his new club, in the Italian league, Hellas Verona.”

Marquez spent a season at Leon, returning to Mexico following 13 years abroad. In Brazil, the 35-year-old defender became the first player to captain his national side in four consecutive World Cups.

Marquez writes on Twitter: “Thank you Leon for all the joys and challenges. I’ll keep you forever in my heart.”

Italian media reports Marquez has penned a one-year deal at Verona, with a second-year option. It is a return to Europe for Marquez, who spent seven years at Barcelona.

Badung Regent Reuters

PARIS - Corinne Diacre received a bouquet of flowers from her opposite number but ended up on the losing side when she became the first woman to coach a men’s soccer team in a competitive professional match in France on Monday.

Diacre, celebrating her 40th birthday, also became the first woman to coach in a game in the top two divisions of European soccer as she made her debut with Clermont Foot in their Ligue 2 match away to Brest. Despite taking an early lead, her side conceded two second half goals to lose 2-1.

“We made two mistakes on the goals that we conceded, but we did some good things which are promising for the future,” Diacre told reporters. “Brest were in charge of the game and we had to chase the ball too much.

“I’m still happy with my players because they gave so much,” added Diacre, who was presented with flowers by Brest coach Alex Dupont before the game.

“I’m proud of their performance tonight. Clermont will have to be taken seriously this season.”

Souleymane Sawadogo gave Clermont an eighth minute lead before Brest replied with goals from Bruno Grougi and Alexandre Alphonse after halftime.

Diacre, former captain of the France women’s team, took over at the end of June following the surprise resignation of Portugal’s Helena Costa.

Costa became the first female to be named coach of a men’s team in the top two divisions of European soccer but quit before taking charge of a game, saying the club had hired players without her knowledge. Clermont finished 14th in the 20-team table last season.

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Sp rt Manchester United’s Darren Fletcher, left and Wayne Rooney hold the 2014 Guinness International Champions Cup after they defeated Liverpool, on Monday, August 4, 2014 in Miami Gardens, FL.

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Man United rally for 3-1 friendly win over Liverpool

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MIAMI - Second-half strikes from Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard earned Manchester United a morale boosting 3-1 win over Premier League rivals Liverpool in the final of the pre-season International Champions Cup in Miami on Monday. United end their U.S. tour unbeaten under new manager Louis van Gaal and a victory over their old rivals was perhaps the sweetest way to sign off. They will now return to England to finish off preparations for the new Premier League season, which starts on Aug. 16.

Despite the win, Dutchman Van Gaal was in no mood to go overboard about his team’s preseason, which also included a 3-1 victory over European champions Real Madrid on Saturday. Asked what the value of the tournament win was, Van Gaal said: “Nothing. It’s nice, nice for the fans in the U.S. and also at home, that we have beaten Liverpool, not our favourite opponents for United fans, and I think we have given a lot of pleasure to these fans and that is

important.

“Of course it is better to win preparation games than to lose but the most important game is against Swansea City, our first game, at home, in the Premier League - that we have to win,” he added.

Both managers went with their strongest possible teams for the game, played in front of 51,000 fans at a rainy Sun Life stadium in Miami. Liverpool began brightly and took the lead in the 14th minute when the lively Raheem Sterling

was brought down in the area by United defender Phil Jones and skipper Steven Gerrard drilled home the penalty. The Merseyside team should have doubled their advantage shortly after half-time but Rickie Lambert fluffed his shot after finding space inside the area.

United equalised in the 55th minute when Mexican forward Javier Hernandez delivered a cross deep to the back post and Rooney coolly side-footed home a cushioned volley from a tight angle. Two minutes

later, Mata’s well-struck effort from the edge of the box took a slight deflection off Mamadou Sakho and beat Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.

Manchester United had the ball in the net again after a high cross from Ashley Young looped over Mignolet and appeared to bounce back off the woodwork to Rooney, who side-footed home. American referee Mark Geiger signalled a goal but images on the stadium’s giant screen showed the ball had gone over the bar and bounced back off the stanchion. After consulting with his linesman, Geiger changed his decision and ruled out the goal.

United did get a third two minutes from time, substitute Lingard blasting home from 18 yards to seal the win and wrap up the eight-team tournament victory.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers felt the scoreline was unfair on his team, who could have had a second penalty in the first half after Ander Herrera’s challenge on Sterling.

“Overall I am delighted with the whole tournament what it has done for us,” he added. “We have been away a long time, we have worked very, very hard ... we have some positives and we look forward to the new season.” United start their league campaign against Swansea on Aug. 16 at Old Trafford while Liverpool face Southampton at Anfield the following day.

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Trophies beckon for Arsenal after lean years - Usmanov Reuters

LONDON - Arsenal can challenge for the Premier League title again after being hamstrung for a decade by repaying the debt on their Emirates Stadium, according to Alisher Usmanov, the club’s second largest shareholder.

“I think we begin a new era for Arsenal where we win trophies,” the Russian billionaire, who owns 30 percent of the club’s shares and has invested 200 million pounds ($337.70 million),

said in a Daily Telegraph interview on Tuesday.

Arsenal ended a nine-year trophy drought when they lifted the FA Cup last season, a barren spell Usmanov believes was caused by loading the club with debt to finance a move from the old Highbury site to the 390 million pounds Emirates Stadium in 2006.

“The acquisition was financed with debt, which would be repaid through match-day revenues among other sources,” Usmanov said. “There is another way of doing it: when shareholders buy all of the assets and contribute them to the club.

“As a result, these debt-free assets

may generate income for the club.

The board and the main shareholders chose the debt option at the time, which led to Arsenal going almost 10 years without winning a domestic title or the Champions League.

“As a result of this choice, they were selling player and were unable to buy top players. These difficulties have now been overcome and the team is in a good state.”

The likes of Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri and Thierry Henry have all been sold by Arsenal since the move to the Emirates although annual qualification for the Champions League and 60,000 home crowds have helped the club wipe off a huge chunk of the stadium debt.

New Ivory Coast coach to discuss Drogba future

Associated Press

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — New Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard said Monday he will make a decision about Didier Drogba’s international playing future after speaking with the veteran striker this month.

The 36-year-old Drogba was mainly used off the bench in Ivory Coast’s last two major tournaments but has made no indication he wants to retire from the national team.

Drogba re-joined Premier League club Chelsea last month on a season-long deal.

With Renard’s appointment last week, the Ivorian federation emphasized the need to develop the next generation of players after the team’s disappointing group-stage exit at the World Cup under former coach Sabri Lamouchi.

Renard told

reporters on Monday at his first news conference as Ivory Coast coach: “You will know his (Drogba’s) future with the national team” by Aug. 20, when the Frenchman is expected to name his first Ivory Coast squad for the final round of qualifiers for next year’s African Cup. Renard also said “we need to ask” why Ivory Coast’s so-called golden generation of Drogba, Yaya and Kolo Toure and Didier Zokora hasn’t won a major trophy.

The country still has not added to its lone African Cup victory in 1992 and has not reached the second round of the World Cup in three attempts. Ivory Coast also lost its No. 1 ranking in Africa to Algeria just before the World Cup. “There are positions that need a change,” Renard said. “They asked me to build a new team. But not everything has to be thrown away.”

“Let me discuss with players. Some might have some wishes. I have to listen to them. After that, I will take my decisions.”

Renard is partly responsible for Ivory Coast’s long wait for a title after he coached Zambia to a penalty-shootout win over the Ivorians in the African Cup final in 2012.

Renard arrived in Abidjan on Friday to take up a four-year contract until after the next World Cup in Russia in 2018. He also confirmed that Patrice Beaumelle, Renard’s assistant coach with Zambia, would become his assistant with Ivory Coast.

AP Photo/SNPA, Ross Setford

FILE -- In this file photo taken on Nov. 17 2013, Mexico’s captain Rafa Marquez smiles while training, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mexico captain Marquez signs for Hellas Verona Associated Press

VERONA, Italy — Mexico captain Rafa Marquez has signed for Serie A side Hellas Verona.

Marquez’s former Mexican club Leon announced the move Monday, with a statement saying “we wish him the best of success in his new club, in the Italian league, Hellas Verona.”

Marquez spent a season at Leon, returning to Mexico following 13 years abroad. In Brazil, the 35-year-old defender became the first player to captain his national side in four consecutive World Cups.

Marquez writes on Twitter: “Thank you Leon for all the joys and challenges. I’ll keep you forever in my heart.”

Italian media reports Marquez has penned a one-year deal at Verona, with a second-year option. It is a return to Europe for Marquez, who spent seven years at Barcelona.

Badung Regent Reuters

PARIS - Corinne Diacre received a bouquet of flowers from her opposite number but ended up on the losing side when she became the first woman to coach a men’s soccer team in a competitive professional match in France on Monday.

Diacre, celebrating her 40th birthday, also became the first woman to coach in a game in the top two divisions of European soccer as she made her debut with Clermont Foot in their Ligue 2 match away to Brest. Despite taking an early lead, her side conceded two second half goals to lose 2-1.

“We made two mistakes on the goals that we conceded, but we did some good things which are promising for the future,” Diacre told reporters. “Brest were in charge of the game and we had to chase the ball too much.

“I’m still happy with my players because they gave so much,” added Diacre, who was presented with flowers by Brest coach Alex Dupont before the game.

“I’m proud of their performance tonight. Clermont will have to be taken seriously this season.”

Souleymane Sawadogo gave Clermont an eighth minute lead before Brest replied with goals from Bruno Grougi and Alexandre Alphonse after halftime.

Diacre, former captain of the France women’s team, took over at the end of June following the surprise resignation of Portugal’s Helena Costa.

Costa became the first female to be named coach of a men’s team in the top two divisions of European soccer but quit before taking charge of a game, saying the club had hired players without her knowledge. Clermont finished 14th in the 20-team table last season.

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Bukit Sari Sangeh

MANGUPURA - Sangeh is a natural attraction relying on the wildlife and forest as the main tourist attraction. Sangeh tourist object is located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung Regency.

It is precisely about 21 km north of Denpasar. Sangeh does not only attract foreign tourists, but also domestic tourists and even the locals of Bali. When you want to make a visit, take the Denpasar–Plaga route or Jalan A. Yani to the north. After some 21 km, on the left side you will encounter a small forest filled with large tropical trees.

Approximately 20 attendants are on duty to maintain the sanitation, safety of tourists, as well as the orderliness of merchants and photographers. Those attendants are spread within the neighborhood of Sangeh forest area.

On the whole, this tourist attraction spreads across 13.969 hectares of land bordering with rice fields in the north, Yeh Penet River in the west, and Batursari settlement in the south and east. Sangeh forest has a variety of plant species. There are approximately 6,443 nutmeg trees, 27 species of other trees consisting of gliricidia, silk plant, milkwood pine, banyan tree and others. In addition, there are also 22 types of shrubs such sea pearl, shoebutton and others.

Aside from becoming the na-

tive home to apes, this forest area of 10.8 hectares is also inhabited by two species of mammals such as monkeys and raccoons, 8 bird species such as Java sparrow and turtledoves, three kinds of reptile such as snakes and 2 types of amphibians.

The long-tailed gray ape (Macaca fascicularis) has become the prominent attraction for tourist to visit Sangeh.

This tourist attraction also has 4 temples, such as the Bukitsari Temple located in west part of the forest, Melanting Temple (middle), Tirta Temple (front) and Anyar Temple at the entrance to the forest. The four temples are venerated by customary village of Sangeh, except for the Anyar Temple is only venerated by Batursari residents.

In the Southwest corner is built an isolation cage for the rogue apes. Additionally, it also serves a laboratory to treat the sick monkeys. In front of the entrance lie two small buildings used as ticket booth and a post of the Natural Resources Conservation (KSDA).

Recently, the management carried out a reforestation

and forest area expansion of around 3.169 hectares.

It is said the forest originated from the forest of Mount Agung scheduled to travel to Mengwi.

At that time, it moved slowly in the evening. Unfortunately, a man came across the forest and shouted at it, so that the forest suddenly stopped. This belief is supported

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by the existence of nutmeg trees in the forest area that cannot be found in any other areas. Even, one or two can be found, but it surely grows at haunted temple area.

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Ivan Dodig (CRO) returns against John Isner (USA) in the 1st round of The Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre.

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Dodig enjoys upset win over Isner on return from injury Reuters

TORONTO - Ivan Dodig made a triumphant return from injury with a 6-4 6-7 (4) 6-3 upset victory over 10th seeded American John Isner in the opening round of Rogers Cup on Monday after the Croat missed nearly three months with a broken rib. Dodig, back on court for the first time since retiring in the opening round of the French Open, showed no sign of rust as he consigned Isner to a second consecutive first round loss.

Twice a winner this season, Isner got his North American hard court campaign off to a confident start by picking up a ninth career title two weeks ago in Atlanta. However, the big-serving American has been misfiring ever since, suffering an early exit to compatriot Steve Johnson last week in Washington, followed by another shock loss in Toronto.

“I was really happy to play again and to beat Isner is a great win for me for sure,” said Dodig, who has watched his world ranking dip to number 62. “I hope I can continue.

I’m just really happy to be again on the court this is most important to me. “He is the guy who can beat anybody and a great player for many years. Today was tough match for both of us and I was a little bit more lucky this time.”

Isner was not the only big name to falter and he was joined in the departure lounge by 14th seeded

Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who was dispatched 7-6 (7) 6-3 by compatriot Feliciano Lopez.

The tournament got off to a stuttering start with morning and afternoon matches interrupted by rain but despite the stormy weather, the two other seeds in action on Day One, Marin Cilic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, progressed into the second round.

Tsonga Content Croatian 15th seed Cilic, another two-time winner on the ATP Tour this season, continued his domination of Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin taking a 6-2 4-6 7-5 decision to improve his record to 5-1. In an allFrench battle 13th seeded Tsonga survived an early challenge from Eduard Roger-Vasselin before easing to a 7-6 (3) 6-1 win.

“It’s always difficult when you didn’t play for a few weeks but it was

my choice and I practiced a lot during those weeks,” said Tsonga, after playing his first match since a fourth round loss to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon. “Of course, you know, when you come on the court for the first time again, you want to be good.

You want to see if your practice was good or not. “So I was a little bit more stressful but in the second set I played well. So it’s good.”

Australian former world number one Lleyton Hewitt, twice a winner this season, never found his footing on the Canadian hard court falling 6-1 6-2 to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, playing his 242nd ATP Tour event and still searching for a first title.

The Canadian stop is considered one of the key warmup events ahead of the U.S. Open starting later this month and has again attracted a top flight field that includes world number one Djokovic and 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer.

There is an added buzz surrounding this year’s event in the hockey-mad country after local players Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil clashed at the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday, facing off in a first ever all-Canadian ATP Tour final.

Sergio Perez says his difficult season at McLaren came at “the worst possible moment”, because the dip in the Formula 1 team’s fortunes meant he couldn’t realise his full potential. The Mexican joined the Woking-based squad off the back of an excellent sophomore campaign with Sauber in 2012, during which he scored three podiums.

But McLaren went on to endure its first winless year since 2006 with the recalcitrant MP428, and Perez was replaced by rookie Kevin Magnussen for this season having been well-beaten in the drivers’ championship by team-mate Jenson Button. Perez has since gone on to add a fourth podium to his career tally for Force India, and deputy teamprincipal Bob Fernley suggested McLaren had underrated Perez during his year at Woking.

Perez stopped short of agreeing with Fernley’s comments, but reckons the VJM07 he is driving this season is allowing him to better harness his abilities than the McLaren he drove last year. “I think that’s a question for them,” said Perez, when asked by AUTOSPORT if he felt McLaren had underrated him. “I’m very happy here [at Force India], very comfortable, very motivated as

well.

“When you have a car in which you can show your potential weekend after weekend, it just puts you on another level as a driver. “I didn’t find that at McLaren, because of the difficult season we had. “I probably arrived at the worst possible moment.”

Change Behaviour Perez also admits he initially took the wrong attitude to the Woking team’s struggles because he was convinced McLaren would make him a regular frontrunner. “I didn’t act in the best possible way because I was really frustrated,” Perez said. “One of the mistakes I made was frustrating myself rather than taking the best out of the situation.

“When I went into McLaren I was expecting to fight for the title and was really, really hungry.

“Then, I realised that I was doing even worse than when I was at Sauber. “The car was so difficult to drive in the first half the year; it wasn’t just a bad car, it was a really inconsistent car - definitely the most inconsistent car I’ve had in my career in Formula 1. “It was difficult for me at McLaren, it hurt me a lot, but I learnt a lot [and] I’m sure that it will help me a lot in my [future] career.”

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Force India Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico reacts after a crash during the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit, near Budapest July 27, 2014.

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Palestinians sit next to their destroyed house after returning to the Shejaia neighbourhood, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City August 5, 2014.

Cease-fire takes effect to end Gaza war

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israel-Hamas cease-fire, meant to last three days, went into effect on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, setting the stage for talks in Cairo aimed at reaching a broader deal on a sustainable truce and the rebuilding of the battered coastal territory.

The temporary truce, agreed to by both sides, started at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) and halted almost a month of fighting.

Israeli ground troops withdrew from the strip’s border areas, the shelling stopped and in Gaza City, where streets had been deserted during the war, traffic picked up and shops started opening doors.

If the calm holds, Egypt plans to start shuttling between Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Cairo to work out new arrangements for Gaza.

The territory has been virtually cut off from the world since a violent Hamas takeover in 2007 prompted a closure of the territory’s borders

by Egypt and Israel. But wide gaps remain and previous international attempts to broker a temporary halt in the fighting have failed.

The Palestinian delegation, which includes Hamas representatives, demands an end to the closure and calls for rebuilding Gaza with international funds. However, Israel is reluctant to open Gaza’s borders unless the Islamic militants are disarmed. Earlier

cease-fire attempts have collapsed and the situation remained volatile on Tuesday.

Just minutes ahead of the start of the truce, shelling still echoed across Gaza and Israel said Hamas fired a heavy barrage of rockets at southern and central Israel. By mid-morning, traumatized residents began returning to the southern Gaza town of Rafah, hard-hit by Israeli shell fire after an attempt at cease-fire broke down last Friday.

“I never saw anything like this in my life,” Tawfiq Barbakh, a 67year-old father of 12, said of the Israeli shelling over the weekend as he surveyed his badly damaged home. “I don’t know how many shells landed every minute but it felt like 20 or 30.” The war broke out on July 8 when Israel launched airstrikes it said were in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire out of Hamas-controlled Gaza. It expanded the operation on July 17 by sending in ground forces in what it described as a mission to destroy a network of tunnels used to stage attacks.

The fighting has claimed nearly 1,900 Palestinian lives — most of them civilians. The war has also left 67 dead on the Israeli side, all but three of them soldiers.

Talks in Cairo will be crucial in the coming days. Ending the Gaza conflict without a sustainable truce raises the probability of more cross-border fighting in the future. Ahead of the cease-fire, there were also signs that tensions created by the Gaza fighting were spreading to Jerusalem and the West Bank, with two attacks there.

The police said they were carried out

by Palestinian militants. As part of the cease-fire, the Israeli military said it was withdrawing all ground troops from Gaza.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the withdrawal was going forward after Israel neutralized cross-border tunnels that were built for Islamic militant attacks inside Israel.

“Overnight, we completed the destruction of 32 tunnels in the Gaza Strip,” Lerner said. “They were part of a strategic Hamas plan to carry out attacks against southern Israel.”

KUNMING, China — Rescuers raced Tuesday to evacuate villages near rising lakes formed by landslides, complicating relief efforts following a strong earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and has left thousands homeless.

Rescue teams have freed scores of trapped survivors as they dig through the thousands of homes that collapsed when the tremor struck impoverished Ludian county in Yunnan province on Sunday.

A 5-year-old boy freed by hand-digging Monday was among the dozens rescued in the first two days, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Landslides have created barrier lakes where water levels were rising Tuesday to pose a new threat to about 800 residents and seven power stations downstream, where sudden flooding could prompt widespread power outages, Xinhua reported.

A main road into the worst-hit areas of Ludian was clogged Tuesday with bulldozers, backhoes and civilian and military vehicles carrying supplies including water and instant noodles.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers and police had entered the quake-stricken areas, the Defense Ministry said.

Further into the quake zone, survivors, including some halfnaked, were sitting along muddy roads in the rain waiting for food and medication, Xinhua said. Medics were reporting severe shortages of medicine and an inability to perform operations on the severely injured, while rescuers said their work had been hampered by continuous downpours and quake-triggered landslides, Xinhua said.

The quake struck about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday about 370 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of the Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming. Overhead footage of the quake zone shot by state broadcaster CCTV showed older houses flattened but newer multistory buildings still standing.

Ma Yaoqi, an 18-year-old volunteer in the quake zone, said by phone that at least half of the buildings had collapsed on the road from the city of Zhaotong to the hardest-hit town of Longtou. The rest of the buildings were damaged, she said.

“I saw dead bodies being wrapped in quilts and carried away,” said Ma, who arrived with 20 other volunteers Monday. “Some were wrapped with small quilts. Those must be kids.”

The magnitude-6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. China’s earthquake monitoring agency put the magnitude at 6.5.

Badung Regent From page 1 He reasoned that he was a bureaucratic apparatus which ethically should not express any support or rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, but was subject to the rule of law. In this regard, he reiterated that his party was not only committed to the level of discourse, but had actually secured the conservation area as mandated

by Regional Bylaw on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan.

Gde Agung also touched on Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 on the revision of Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on the Spatial Planning of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) Area. According to him, his party had never made any proposal to change the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011. Without detailing, Gde Agung even mentioned the need for improvements to the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Badung House, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, claimed to also agree to what was conveyed by Regent Gde Agung.

He even claimed to be ready to escort the implementation of Regional Bylaw on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan whose one of the points set that Benoa Bay belonged to conservation area. (kmb25)

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INDONESIA Growth slowest since 2009 in second quarter

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JAKARTA - Indonesian growth slipped to its slowest pace for almost five years in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, highlighting the huge economic challenges facing the president-elect Joko Widodo.

Southeast Asia’s top economy expanded 5.12 percent on-year in the three months to the end of June, the national statistics agency said, the slowest annual rate since the last quarter of 2009 and below economists’ forecasts of 5.3 percent.

A key contributor to the slowdown was a controversial ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals,which was introduced in January and hit the vital mining sector, the agency said.

The Indonesian economy has expanded at around six percent in recent years but it has been easing in the past 12 months due to slowing demand for commodity exports, and interest rate hikes in 2013 during emerging market turmoil.

The disappointing data underscores the tough task ahead for new leader Widodo, the reform-minded governor of Jakarta who has pledged to revive the G20 economy when he takes office in October.

Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, has vowed to lift growth to seven percent within two years, but many economists consider the target ambitious.

Growth for 2013 came in at 5.78 percent, the slowest pace of expansion for four years.

Gareth Leather from Capital Economics said Tuesday’s growth data showed the “scale of the challenge” facing Widodo.

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bureaucracy and introduce muchneeded economic reform to address big fuel subsidies, cooling investment and creaky infrastructure.

But concern persists that the former small-city mayor, who is relatively inexperienced on the national stage, may be beholden to his political party and its chief, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, for key appointments and policy advice.

The transition team will be headed

by Rini Soemarno, a close aide of Megawati. Soemarno, an influential, U.S.-educated businesswoman, served during Megawati’s presidency as trade and industry minister and is a former head of PT Astra International , Indonesia’s biggest automobile distributor.

Another member of the team of advisers, Hasto Kristiyanto, is vice secretary general of Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P).

Other figures include Anies Baswedan, a respected academic and education specialist, a military expert and a senior member of a coalition partner.

Widodo, a former furniture businessman, last month invited the public to participate in an online poll to choose cabinet ministers, but it was unclear how the survey would affect the final line-up.

The new cabinet will be announced after Widodo takes office on Oct 20.

The team will also draw up a list of potential cabinet ministers and

on the new government,” he said.

“Joko Widodo has certainly raised hopes that he could usher in a wave of reforms. However, it is far from clear if the new president will be able to live up to investors’ lofty expectations.”

Foreign companies operating in Indonesia have long complained of nationalistic policies, particularly in the resources sector, rampant corruption, and creaking infrastructure.

The second quarter growth was down from 5.2 percent expansion in the first quarter.

As well as the mining sector, growth in the manufacturing sector -such as the production of textiles and leather goods -- also slowed, said statistics chief Suryamin, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

However household consumption, a key driver of the economy, remained robust, growing 5.6 percent in the second quarter, the data showed.

People gather around the Indonesia stock exchange screen on this file photo. Indonesian growth slipped to its slowest pace for almost five years in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, highlighting the huge economic challenges facing the president-elect Joko Widodo.

review strategies to handle “major legal liabilities” facing the incoming administration like international arbitration cases involving mining giants

Newmont Mining Corp and Churchill Mining, two of Widodo’s aides told Reuters.

Newmont last month filed for inter-

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President-elect unveils high-powered transition team

JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo on Monday announced a high-powered advisory team to handle his transition to power as he prepares to take over the top job in the world’s third-largest democracy later this year.

The five-member “transition office” will lead a team of several advisers who will be responsible for drawing up a policy roadmap to fulfil major campaign promises and address pressing issues facing Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

“This transition office is needed to prepare the implementation of our vision and programmes,” Widodo and vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla said in a statement, adding the team would prioritise universal access to healthcare and education.

Widodo, commonly known by his nickname Jokowi, beat rival Prabowo Subianto in last month’s presidential election, the closest in the history of the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

Prabowo, an ex-general, has challenged the election result in the Constitutional Court, which will start hearing the case this week and is expected to deliver a verdict by Aug. 21. Its decision will be final with no right of appeal.

Widodo has promised to form a cabinet that is dominated by technocrats in order to overhaul a sleepy

national arbitration over Indonesia’s mineral export tax, while Churchill has been battling the government for years over lost rights to a coal project.

Militant cleric backs Islamic State as government cracks down Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Jailed Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has pledged allegiance to jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq and claimed leadership of the world’s Muslims, a radical group said Tuesday.

The news came as authorities in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, announced measures aimed at curbing growing support for the Islamic State (IS) group, including the blocking of websites that support them.

Indonesia has for years struggled with Islamist radical groups and has been hit by numerous militant attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

A successful crackdown over the past decade has weakened many groups but authorities believe dozens of Indonesian radicals have

headed to fight in Syria and Iraq, and fear they could revive networks on their return.

Authorities had already voiced suspicions that Bashir, regarded as the spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia, was funding IS, which in June declared an “Islamic caliphate” in territory it controls across Iraq and Syria.

On Tuesday Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), a radical group founded by Bashir, confirmed that the frail, bespectacled cleric had sworn allegiance to IS in a maximum-security prison on an island off Indonesia’s Java several weeks ago.

The 75-year-old “has led a pledge of allegiance with other prisoners soon after the declaration of the new caliph,” Afief Abdul Madjid, the group’s acting leader, told AFP, adding the cleric had urged his followers to do the same.

Reports said the ceremony to swear allegiance took place in a

prayer room.

Bashir, a vocal supporter of Al-Qaeda style jihad, has been in and out of prison for years and is currently serving a 15-year term for funding terrorism.

Authorities on Monday announced the move to block websites and said efforts would be made to stop would-be jihadists heading to the Middle East, including by working with religious figures to highlight the dangers.

“Any efforts to spread (IS’s) teaching must be prevented,” said Security Minister Djoko Suyanto.

Bashir was one of the alleged founders and chief ideologue of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, which was blamed for the Bali bombings.

There have been no major terror attacks in Indonesia for several years. Recent attacks have mostly been low-level and have targeted domestic security forces.

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NEW DELHI - India has defended its decision to scuttle a landmark worldwide trade deal, saying its farmers faced suicide and starvation if the government had backed down on its tough stand at the WTO. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the new right-wing government could not agree to the deal to streamline global customs rules unless the World Trade Organization adequately addressed its demand on stockpiling food.

“The fact of the matter is there have been many instances in history where India has been forced to raise its voice against the powerful

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nations,” Jaitley told the NDTV network late on Monday.

Jaitley is the most senior Indian minister to comment on the issue since India refused to ratify the long-sought deal at the WTO by the July 31 deadline.

The deal, which needs the agreement of the WTO’s 160 members, would add $1 trillion and 21 million jobs to the world economy, accord-

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US Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during talks last week that India’s position on the deal sent the wrong message on opening up the country’s economy. India is unhappy with progress on negotiations to give the green light on both stockpiling food and farm subsidies.

India’s nationalist government, which came to power in May, insists that a permanent agreement on food stockpiling must be agreed swiftly.

India, which has sought since independence to eradicate hunger, buys grain at above-market prices from

farmers and sells the food at subsidised prices to some of the hundreds of millions of poor.

The stockpiling is popular with poor voters in the world’s largest democracy, but wealthy nations say that the policy distorts global markets.

Jaitley said India must be allowed to continue the measures without fear of challenge at the WTO to feed its poor and protect its impoverished farmers from ruination.

“Our farmers will be reduced to starvation and suicide. We can’t be a party to that,” he told the network.

“If we did not have the (measures) this few hundred suicides

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that you hear of would be in lakhs (hundreds of thousands).”

The WTO’s members gathered in Geneva last week for what was envisioned as a rubber-stamp approval of the customs deal called the Trade Facilitation Agreement which was reached in Bali last year.

When the Bali deal was struck, WTO members agreed on a “peace clause” to allow India’s food stockpiling with no penalties until a “permanent” solution by 2017.

But Jaitley said the lack of progress on negotiations meant it was unclear when a permanent solution would be found.

US airfares on the rise, outpacing inflation

NEW YORK — Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight. The average roundtrip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year. Domestic airfare continues to outpace inflation, rising 2.7 percent compared to the 2.1 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index.

Airfare has gone up 10.7 percent in the past five years — after adjusting for inflation — according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz.

The formula for rising fares seems simple, but it eluded the airlines for years: Match the supply of seats to passenger demand.

“Airlines have reduced the number of seats while more people want to fly because of the economic recovery. All this leads to higher airfares,” says Chuck Thackston, managing director of data and analytics at Airlines Reporting Corp. “This trend in airfares is likely to continue for the near future, as the economy continues to grow.”

These days, fares only capture part of the cost of flying. Many passengers pay extra to check their luggage, typically $50 roundtrip for the first bag and $70 for the second one.

But bag fees haven’t changed much in the past few years. Now, the airlines are increasingly enticing passengers to pay for fast-track security lines, early boarding, additional legroom and other extras that can add from $9 to $299 to the cost of a flight.

So, for example, a $300 ticket can balloon to $450 on some airlines if you check two bags and pay $30 for a little more room to

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stretch your legs.

And travelers aren’t finding much relief after landing. The average nightly price of a hotel room in the U.S. during the first half of this year was $113.80, according travel research company STR. That’s up $4.47, or 4 percent, from the same period in 2013.

Most people are traveling for work. And when the economy is strong, they do more flying. Data released by the government last week shows that economic growth bounced back after a brutal winter, businesses are creating jobs at a steady pace and consumer spending is on the rise.

The Global Business Travel Association predicts that worldwide business travel will grow 6.9 percent this year to a record $1.18 trillion. The United States is the business largest travel market, with travelers spending $274 billion last year, a 4.5-percent increase over 2012.

Baggage fees and some others were introduced in 2008 to offset losses from rising fuel prices. However, this year airlines are actually paying less for fuel — $2.96 a gallon so far, 7.2 percent less than last year, when adjusted for inflation.

Passengers aren’t seeing any of those savings. One reason is that airlines no longer need to entice fliers with lower fares. There are simply fewer choices today.

A wave of consolidation that started in 2008 has left four U.S. airlines — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines — controlling more than 80 percent of the domestic air-travel market.

Discount airlines such as Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines have grown at breakneck speed but still carry a tiny fraction of overall passengers.

That control of the market has enabled

the bigger airlines to charge more for tickets and not worry about being undercut by the competition. In addition, the airlines are taking in about $3.3 billion a year in fees. The result: record profits.

In April, May and June, the four largest U.S. airlines earned a combined $2.9 billion.

Airlines are earning so much money that they are starting to pay investors dividends — something unheard of in an industry that just a decade ago was struggling with a wave of bankruptcies.

Airlines for America, the industry’s U.S.

trade and lobbying group, says passengers should blame the government, not the carriers, for higher fares. Last month, increased fees linked to the Transportation Security Administration took effect. Fliers will now pay a flat fee of $5.60 each way, up from $2.50 each way for nonstop flights and $5 for trips with connections.

But taxes and government fees still remain a small portion of what passengers pay. On a $500 roundtrip ticket between New York and Seattle, they make up 12 percent of the price.

GILIMANUK - Peak of the Eid backflow to Bali occurred on Saturday (Aug 2) and Sunday (Aug 3). Thousands of vehicles previously leaving Bali had come back to Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor. During the people backflow to Bali, 32 migrants without identity card and expired identity card were repatriated by the officers at Gilimanuk identity card checkpoint.

After the Eid, the number of passengers passing through Gilimanuk Harbor reached 167,490 people. Meanwhile, the number of motorcycle reached 25,318 units and 19,102 units of car. The number continued to grow until Sunday night. Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, told reporters on Sunday the backflow had increased quite dramatically. Even, the harbor authority should deploy a number of passenger motor vessels used to ferry motorcycles like the KMP Dharma Ferry I. Previously on Saturday to Sunday morning, the number passenger reached 46,075 people, 5,271 units of car and 7,777 units of motorcycles.

Meanwhile, the backflow made the inspection of vehicles and people coming to Bali very bustling. Both checkpoint II and identity card checkpoint were thronged by motorcycles. At identity card checkpoint, the officers repatriated tens of migrants.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk identity card checkpoint, Putu Karmayasa, said during this week there were totally 51 violations, including 20 people bringing along with IBP/Olo expired identity card and 31 people without Peak of the Eid backflow to Bali occurred on Saturday (Aug 2) and Sunday (Aug 3). Thousands of vehicles previously leaving Bali identity card. A total of 32 migrants were had come back to Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor. repatriated. (kmb26)

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In this Dec. 21, 2013 file photo, a traveler walks through Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight. The average roundtrip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year.

Tirta Empul Temple implements smoking ban

GIANYAR - Even though the Regional Bylaw on the smoke-free zone (KTR) has not been enforced as being under verification after the establishment a few months ago, the places of worship such as Tirta Empul Temple in Sukawati subdistrict has implemented the smoking ban in the main temple area. It is evident from a number of warning notices posted on the temple wall.

As observation, there were two smoking bans at Tirta Empul Temple. They were written in the form of notice resembling a small billboard, affixed to the wall of the main entrance into the innermost courtyard of the Tirta Empul Temple.

The notice said it was not allowed to smoke in the sacred zone of the Tirta Empul Temple frequented by travelers.

Amidst serving the visiting pilgrims, the priest of Tirta Empul Temple affirmed that smoking was indeed prohibited in the temple area, let alone in the innermost courtyard (utama mandala). The ban had already existed and was installed by local apparatus some time ago. It was intended to prevent undesirable things,

especially keeping the coolness of the temple compound.

Earlier, the Gianyar House had passed the regulation draft on smoke-free zone into regional bylaw. One of the provisions set the ban of smoking in the sanctum such as temple. Previously, this regulation had drawn worries if the regional bylaw would only become the display of legal product. Considering, there were some points in the draft of smoke-free zone would be difficult to be implemented at temple.

Temple as a sacred area including in the category of smoke-free zone would find difficulty in the implementation as hampered by the adaptability condition of society. Other constraints included the matter of fine and enforcement of the regulation. Smoke-free zone at place of worship went through a slow discussion. Nevertheless, the special committee finally formulated that it would only be applied especially in the innermost courtyard. Enforcement of this rule would be inseparable from the policy of customary apparatus existing at each temple. Example of the firmness by customary apparatus had been implemented at Tirta Empul Temple, Sukawati. (kmb16)

Even though the Regional Bylaw on the smoke-free zone (KTR) has not been enforced as being under verification after the establishment a few months ago, the places of worship such as Tirta Empul Temple in Sukawati subdistrict has implemented the smoking ban in the main temple area.

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BANGLI - Difficulty to get clean water is not only experienced by residents in Kintamani, but also by Landih residents in Bangli. To meet the water needs, all this time the poor residents in particular only relied on the water discharge from springs. Every day, they must be willing to queue in order to get one or two jerrycans of water.

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The residents of Landih Village in Bangli is very difficult in finding clean water.

East monsoon, fishermen in Buleleng take day off

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SINGARAJA - The activity of catching fish by fishermen in Buleleng was suddenly broken off. It happened because the eastern monsoon started to hit the waters in North Bali. Aside from high winds, the wave height also reached up to three meters. Due to these conditions, fishermen preferred to stop fishing until the weather returned to normal.

As observation of Bali Post at fishing village in Buleleng on Monday (Aug 4), a number of small fishing boats looked to have been moored at seaside. In addition, large fishing boats remained to be parked at the verge of the sea and tied on an anchor. To kill their spare time, fishermen decided to repair their damaged or broken fishing tools or fix their nets. The east monsoon was estimated to last up to three days ahead.

Dodik, a fisherman from Pemaron village, Buleleng subdistrict, when met last Monday afternoon said the wind began to blow strongly from last Sunday (Aug 3) and lasted until Monday afternoon. The high winds began to come around 10:00 a.m. Until the afternoon, the breeze quickened and the condition was accompanied by the increasing wave height. He estimated the wave height could reach three meters. “Now, it is the season of east monsoon and this usually happens when entering August and lasts maximally until three days to come,” he said.

Against such condition, Dodik and other fishermen chose not to go to sea.

Even, some of his colleagues imposed themselves to catch fish with a small boat at sea. But due to bad weather condition, they were forced to return home without getting any fish. Other than fishermen with small boat, those with larger fishing boats also decided to wait for better weather. “Rather than taking risk, we’d better take day off and the leisure time can be taken advantage to rest the boats while repairing the damaged equipment. Hopefully, the weather is back to normal soon,” he added.

Similar opinion was also disclosed by another fisherman, Mangku Rena, from Tukad Mungga village, Buleleng subdistrict. He said the east monsoon was accompanied by the increasing height of waves up to three meters. From mainland, the marine weather did look calm and only the wind blew hard. However, in the middle of high seas, the weather was ascertained not to support the fishing activity. Other than disturbing voyage to fishing location, Rena added that east monsoon made the fishing difficult. The hull would be shaken around by waves.

Even, in bad weather the boat could be crashed by the waves.

“The wind blows from the east, while the sea current is moving from the west.

Well, this condition will trigger the waves to rise, so it is not convenient to make a voyage or catch fish at the IBP/Mudiarta fishing aggregating device,” he said. The fishermen of Buleleng are not going to the sea because the big waves which happen in most (kmb38) of the sea in Bali

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Landih villagers rely on springs Such condition was recognized by one of the Landih residents, Putu Sedan, Monday (Aug 4). He said the village better known as coffee producer faced difficulty to get clean water.

To meet their daily clean water needs, some residents had to purchase it. For a tank truck with the capacity of about 3,000 liters, they should purchase at IDR 160,000. Averagely local residents spent water as much as two trucks each month.

Meanwhile, poor people typically utilized the existing springs at local village. However, since the water discharge was quite small, residents had to wait in line to get one to two jerrycans of water. Quite often the attempt to get clean water should be performed till the evening. “Thankfully, there are some springs here. So, the residents can still enjoy clean water,” he said.

He said there were at least four springs at Landih village that could be utilized by residents. Unfortunately, the water discharge was quite small. Therefore, people should be willing to queue in order to get it. (ina)

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Nigeria health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.

Death toll from Ebola in W. Africa hits 887: WHO

TOKYO — Japan has formally approved additional sanctions against Russia over the unrest in Ukraine.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday the sanctions include the freezing of assets held in Japan by 40 individuals and two groups supporting the separation of Crimea from Ukraine, and a ban on Crimean imports. He said the steps are in line with measures taken

by European Union and Group of Seven nations.

He said financial institutions operating in Japan will follow the decision under the foreign exchange law.

Despite the sanctions, Japan is still open to dialogue with Russia, and hopes to assist in a peaceful settlement of the problem by cooperating with the international community, Suga said.

Japan introduced the plans last week after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The U.S. and Ukraine accuse pro-Russia rebels of firing a missile that brought the plane down, killing all 298 people on board.

Washington and EU have debated imposing tougher sanctions against Moscow over its support for the rebels.

Japan had previously only suspended bilateral talks with Russia on some issues, and imposed an entry visa ban on 23 individuals whom it hasn’t publicly named.

Relations between Japan and Russia have suffered for decades due to a territorial dispute that has prevented the signing of a peace treaty after World War II. Tokyo has been seen as reluctant to ramp up sanctions due to concerns that they could threaten to derail Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s moves toward rapprochement with Moscow.

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ABUJA, Nigeria — The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa’s most populous nation as the regional toll for the outbreak grew to 887 dead.

As Nigerian health authorities rushed to quarantine others who had been exposed, a special plane left Liberia to evacuate the second American missionary who fell ill with Ebola. Nancy Writebol, 59, is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday, where she will be treated at a special isolation ward.

The second confirmed case in Nigeria is a doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who died July 25 days after arriving in Nigeria from Liberia, said Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu.

Three others who also treated Sawyer now show symptoms of Ebola and their test results are pending, he said. Authorities are trying to trace and quarantine others in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city of 21 million people.

“This cluster of cases in Lagos, Nigeria is very concerning,” said

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention, which is dispatching 50 experienced disease control specialists to West Africa.

“It shows what happens if meticulous infection control, contact tracing, and proper isolation of patients with suspected Ebola is not done. Stopping the spread in Lagos will be difficult but it can be done,” he said.

The World Health Organization announced Monday that the death toll has increased from 729 to 887 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

Cases in Liberia jumped from 156 to 255, WHO said, as the government ordered that all Ebola victims must now be cremated because of rising opposition to burials in neighborhoods around the capital. Over the weekend, police were called in amid a standoff over

whether health authorities could bury nearly two dozen victims in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital, Monrovia.

Sierra Leone marked a national stay-at-home day Monday in an effort to halt the disease’s spread.

A documentary film of the first outbreak of the Ebola disease in Congo was being shown intermittently throughout the day by the national broadcaster.

The emergence of a second case in Nigeria raises serious concerns about the infection control practices there, and also raises the specter that more cases could emerge. It can take up to 21 days after exposure to the virus for symptoms to appear.

They include fever, sore throat, muscle pains and headaches. Often nausea, vomiting and diarrhea follow, along with severe internal and external bleeding in advanced stages of the disease.

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Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, July 11, 2014.

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

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SEOUL — Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. to become China’s top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter, a market research company said Tuesday.

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei.

During the April-June period, Samsung’s China smartphone sales decreased to 13.2 million units from 15.5 million a year earlier.

Lenovo trailed Samsung by a margin of 2 million units.

Xiaomi is little known in Europe or in North America because it sells nearly all of its smartphones in mainland China. But strong growth in China alone was enough to vault Xiaomi to a top five position among the world’s smartphone makers from nowhere the previous year.

Last week, another market research firm Strategy Analytics said Xiaomi became the world’s fifth-largest smartphone vendor for the first time in the second quarter, surpassing LG Electronics Inc. Canalys said China was the world’s largest smartphone market during the second quarter, with nearly four in every 10 smartphones sold there.

Jingwen Wang, an analyst at Canalys, said Xiaomi’s rise was thanks to its competitive prices and focus on its own mobile software known as MIUI. Samsung reported last week its lowest quarterly profit in two years for the second quarter, partly blaming a slowdown of cheap smartphone sales in China. Samsung said it faced higher competition from local brands and weaker demand for its 3G handsets as Chinese consumers shifted to 4G smartphones.

Samsung and Apple Inc. were the only non-Chinese vendors among the top 10 smartphone brands in China. Apple sold 6.8 million iPhones in the second quarter, up 58 percent from over a year earlier, Canalys said.

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Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

DENPASAR - Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

“Manufactured goods and products of cottage industry accounted for 75 percent of the export income,” head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said on Tuesday.

Around 50 percent of the exports were made via ports in other Indonesian provinces with the rest via the Benoa port of Denpasar.

The provincial administration needs to expand the Benoa port to become an international ports to be able to handle all shipments of all exports from Bali, Siregar said. “Expansion of the Benoa port would help reduce congestion over land transport and increase the regional income,” he said.

In June alone exports from Bali were valued at US$47.05 million, up 7.49 percent from the same period last year or an increase of 15.90 percent from May this year.

The main export commodities of Bali are fish and shrimps, jewelry, garments, wood products and furniture.

The export destinations include the United States, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and Thailand.

SAN FRANCISCO - A multi-year effort to prevent hackers from altering computers while they boot up has largely failed because of lax application of preventive steps, researchers say, despite disclosures that flaws are being exploited. boot,” which checks for digital signatures before running code.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system has embraced UEFI and secure boot, bringing the hardened approach to more than 60 million new computers.

Even as that rollout was accelerating, though, evidence accumulated that attacks similar to those theorized by researchers were actually under way.

In 2011, several research firms identified one such piece of malicious software, called Mebromi, that primarily attacked Chinese computers with a type of BIOS from leading supplier Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Early last year, Reuters saw a catalogue from a U.S. defense contractor that included a product, offered at more than $100,000, for incapacitating target computers by attacking BIOS and other critical elements.

And in December, Der Spiegel reported that a leaked internal NSA catalogue described a tool called DeityBounce that attacked the BIOS of Dell Inc servers.

That came months after a presentation at last year’s Black Hat security conference in which MITRE researchers including Corey Kallenberg and Xeno Kovah broke into Dell’s boot-up process.

In a joint interview, Kallenberg and Kovah said that in the year since that talk, they had deployed sensors to about 10,000 computers to determine whether boot-ups were still vulnerable to that flaw or related issues. As of last month, 55 percent of them still were.

But the actual percentage of vulnerable machines in the world is even higher, because the MITRE group has not been checking for flaws stemming from the issues it found more recently with Intel’s old UEFI guidelines, which permitted an attack through memory corruption.

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In the latest sign that the problem persists, researchers at the federally funded MITRE lab said this week that many customers of Intel Corp still had not adopted revised security designs Intel distributed in March after the MITRE team found new vulnerabilities in the start-up process.

That could mean many newer Windows computers remain exposed, the MITRE team told Reuters ahead of a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas next week. Intel’s point person on the issue, Bruce Monroe, said he did not know how many suppliers and computer makers had followed Intel’s recommendations. “We’re not privy to whether they’ve fixed it or not,” Monroe said. “We asked them to let us know.”

Long before Edward Snowden’s documents began appearing the media, professional technicians and U.S. officials were concerned about the vulnerabilities that left computers severely exposed as they are turned on.

Years ago, then-U.S. National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander privately urged the chief executives of major American technology companies to do something about the boot-up procedure known as the Basic Input/Output System, or BIOS. BIOS relies on firmware, or permanent software that ships with computers.

Because the start-up code is given more authority than the operating system, hackers who break into that code can make major changes to programs and hide evidence of their presence. Lodging there also all but guarantees what the security industry calls persistence - the ability to remain inside even after a computer is turned off and rebooted.

Intel, Microsoft Corp and other companies promoted a successor system known as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface that includes a feature called “secure

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PPATK restricts possibility of money laundering in Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Various methods are used by corrupters to launder the money obtained from their corruption. Some are made through commercial banks or through various other instruments. Even, the money launderers begin to glance at rural bank (BPR) as the next potential target. On that account, the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK) required the BPRs throughout Indonesia, including Bali, to report each financial transaction.

“We require the BPR as Financial Service Providers (PJK) to report their financial transaction regularly through an integrated service user information system to facilitate the tracking of the transactions suspected to have been committed by the perpetrators of money laundering,” said the officer of the Center for Information Technology of the PPATK, Nyoman Jendrika.

According to him, the utilization of the integrated service user information system or Sipesat would facilitate the implementation of the tasks of the PPTAK. This system posed an electronic and integrated management of the service user specific information on the Financial Service Providers.

“The PPATK has the authority to request and receive reports from the Financial Service Provider, including from the BPR. Indeed, it is difficult and takes a long time to track the assets denoting the proceeds of crime in the banking and other financial institutions,” he explained.

He described that without any clear system would be difficult for law enforcement to know the value and in which bank account the culprit saved the money alleged to have been obtained from the proceeds of crimes. Therefore, the role of the PPATK was to give confirmation on the participation of customers or service users of the Financial Service Providers in other financial services.

“Without the presence of Sipesat, to obtain information about a suspect’s account the PPATK should send a confidential letter to many financial institutions, both bank and non-bank,” he said.

He said that to get information through such mechanism opened up the opportunities for information leakage. By means of Sipesat, the PPATK could request information regarding the investigation or prosecution of money laundering which had been reported to investigator or public prosecutor. The PPATK could also conduct an audit to the Financial Service Provider regarding the compliance with the obligations in accordance with the provisions of the Law. Legal basis of the Sipesat application by the

PPATK was set forth in the Law No.8/2010 on the prevention and eradication of money laundering as well as Presidential Regulation No.50/2011 on the procedures of the authority implementation of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis.

Besides, it was also set forth in the Regulation of the Head of the PPATK No.PER-02/1:02/ PPATK/02/2014 on the integrated service user information system (Statute Book of 2014 the Republic of Indonesia No.258) and Circular of the Head of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis No.SE-02/1:02/ PPATK/03/2014 regarding the procedures of delivering the integrated services user information system.

Chairman of the Perbarindo Bali Regional Executive, Ketut Wiratjana, said that as the Financial Service Providers (PJK), started in 2014 the rural banks were required to report any financial transactions on quarterly basis. It was especially intended for transactions

deemed suspicious, even financial transactions related to foreign clients. Rural banks belonging to the members of Perbarindo in Indonesia, including Bali, were required to provide a report to the PPATK. “For the application of Sipesat of Perbarindo, his party specifically invites the PPATK officer to disseminate the procedures of regular reporting by the members of Perbarindo Bali in appropriate with the expectation of the PPATK,” he said.

As mentioned, the financial reporting should be made on quarterly basis, in which the reportable transaction was between IDR 100 million and IDR 500 million and above. “In Bali, especially in the rural banks, I think there are no any suspicious transactions because averagely I know the customers making the transactions.

However, in case there are suspicious transaction, our colleagues in rural banks will surely report it,” he said. (kmb27)

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Increase of electricity tariff for industry Bali Post

The ceremony which was held in Besakih Temple few months ago.

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DENPASAR - Government ascertained the electricity tariff increase (TTL) this year would not burden the community. The increase here meant that the government invoked the electricity subsidy provided for large industries and businesses.

General Manager of PLN Bali, Syamsul Huda, said the government’s efforts to reduce electricity subsidies by raising the electricity tariff because it considered people to have been able to pay for the electricity as required.

“However, people do not need to worry as the increase only occurred to consumers using electricity of more than 900 VA where the percentage is just 10 percent. The remaining 90 percent poses the customers using the electricity of 450 VA-900 VA and will not experience the tariff increase,” said Huda in Denpasar, Monday (Aug 4).

All this time, he added, the government subsidy fund worth IDR 115 trillion was used to serve the electricity needs of the people of Indonesia. But in reality, the government could only subsidize as much as IDR 107 trillion per year. To that end, the increase of electricity tariff was imposed in May 2014.

“Of the 37 groups of tariff, only 12 groups are no longer subsidized

by the government. Gradual tariff increase will be implemented every two months,” he said.

He explained the increase in electricity tariff this month was not the decision of the PLN. Rather, it was the decision of the government with the Parliament. “PLN only runs the decision. After the tariff increase, the PLN considered to get a great benefit is not entirely true. Income of the PLN remains the same. In other words, formerly the PLN was subsidized by the government, but now the subsidy has been reduced, so that customers pay more,” he said.

Commercial Manager and Customer Service of PLN Bali, Leo Basuki, said of the 1,044,883 customers in Bali, the number of customers experiencing the increase in electricity tariff only reached 38 percent, or as much as 394,285 customers. This tariff increase occurred to group R3 amounting to 11,116 customers, B2 (22,431 customers), B3 (360 customers), P1 (1,102 customers), I3 (72 customers), P3 (3,818 customers), P2 (17 customers), R2 (48,561 customers), R1 2200 V (89,805 customers) as well as the R1 1300 V (217,003 customers). “The increase predominantly occurred to industrial and business tariff,” he said. (kmb27)

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DENPASAR - Secretary of the Assessment Team of the 11 Strategic Areas of National Tourism (KSPN) Bali, I Putu Anom, said the sacred zones especially Kahyangan Jagat or universal temples becoming tourist attraction were very necessary to be secured and preserved. According to him, it should not be any development of tourism facilities around the area because it could diminish the temple sanctity as that would happen to Besakih Temple area having been designated as the strategic area of national tourism. Moreover, the land area above the Penataran Agung Temple of Besakih to Gelap Temple is privately owned or owned by local residents. This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, worried if the investors would target the lands any time.

“We cannot just blame on local community as the owner of the land at the sacred zones. Then, we need to find a solution. One of the ways needed is the role of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), Customary Village General Assembly (MUDP) to make coordination with the main temple supporting devotees, chiefly the local communities around the temple,” he said.

Further he said the PHDI and MUDP in cooperation with provincial government, county / municipality and government agencies as the extension of central government

and private companies could also invite the Hindus to donate. Afterward, the donation, said Anom, could be used to purchase the land around the sacred zones so as not to become the property of investors.

“The Hindus both civil servants and employees of private companies must be invited to give sincere donation through salary deduction approximately worth IDR 10,000 per month. Later on, the funds are collected by the PHDI so there would be funds to purchase land in the sacred zones to be included in temple property. As a result, the area can be preserved,” he explained.

Anom added the funds having been collected could also be used to finance religious ceremonies, help high priests and temple priests, training cost of oblation makers and high priests, and temple priest candidates, Hindu foundation to improve human resource development in the face of global competition, scholarships for Hindu underprivileged students, including the Hindus entrepreneurial development. “Most importantly, these funds should be managed professionally, honestly and transparently as well as can be accounted for,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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KUTA - Kuta area develops and has an interest in the economic activities so it requires the provision of hotel accommodation capable of serving them carefully. The market is remarkably competitive and every hotel offers affordable rates and services that are virtually the same.

The difference lies in our commitment of converting promise into reality with the presence of Kuta Station Hotel & Spa. The advantage of our hotel is the strategic location and no other hotels in Kuta offer the more complete lifestyle facilities, both for travelers and business professionals entailing a hotel with multifunctional facilities.

Concept of the Kuta Station Hotel & Spa had been specially designed to become a 3-star hotel serving a growing tourism business in the oasis of Kuta tourist resort, including for the circle of the government, private companies and the MICE both for domestic and foreign markets. Located right in the heart of Kuta and Bali’s busiest tourist destination, it is just 50 meters from the amazing white sandy Kuta Beach and very close to Kuta Square shopping center.

Of course, it is within easy reach to all major attractions in the area of Kuta.

This comfortable hotel has 132 rooms consisting of Superior, Deluxe and Family room with standard amenities including a large swimming pool that stretches throughout the hotel grounds, kids pool, playground, meeting room, pool bar, Railway Bar & Restaurant, restaurant with the open air concept graced with nightly live music entertainment, Jalanidi Spa, Gym, Paradiso Bowling & Billiard and Dee Jay Club.

Paradiso Hotel Group currently operates the Kuta Paradiso Hotel, Legian Paradiso Hotel, Seminyak Paradiso Hotel and its parent company also operates a shopping complex named Kuta Center and Kuta Square as well as several other properties. With the existing track of record, it is evident that the Paradiso Hotel Group has a definite future vision --to be recognized as the best hotel management company in Indonesia.

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

The electrical officers are working on the pole. Government ascertained the electricity tariff increase (TTL) this year would not burden the community.

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15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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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LOS ANGELES - Production begins this week on the highly anticipated sequel to Tim Burton’s blockbuster reinvention of “Alice in Wonderland” -- with the same A-list cast as the 2010 Oscar-winning film.

Burton is co-producing but not directing “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass,” in which Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska (Alice) will all reprise their roles.

Joining the film version of the whimsical world created by author Lewis Carroll is British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who has the difficult task of

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bringing Time to the big screen, the film’s producers Disney said Monday.

Another British actor, Rhys Ifans, will step into the role of Zanik Hightopp, the father of Depp’s Mad Hatter.

The film -- which is directed by James Bobin, and is being shot both on location and at Britain’s Shepperton Studios -- is set for release in May 2016.

The 2010 film, which won two Oscars for best costume design and best art direction, cost a whopping $200 million to make, according to industry website IMDB. But it raked in an estimated $1 billion worldwide.

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Sandra Bullock tops list of Hollywood’s best paid actresses Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning movie star Sandra Bullock was the best paid actress in Hollywood over the past year, Forbes magazine reported on Monday, putting her estimated earnings at some $51 million.

Bullock, 50, won an Academy Award in 2010 for her turn in the football drama “The Blind Side.”

Her big payday over the past 12 months is largely thank to her work in the hit film “Gravity,” for which she received

a best actress Oscar nomination.

The film, a festival of special effects, is about an astronaut’s struggle to survive in orbit after the space shuttle is destroyed.

The blockbuster movie earned seven

Oscars and $716 million.

“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence was the second highest paid actress over the past year, with $34 million.

Third place went to Jennifer Aniston, with $31 million, followed by Gwyneth Paltrow, who earned $19 million over the past year.

Tied for fifth place were Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz, each of whom earned $18 million dollars from June 2013 to June 2014.

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People rallied to reject reclamation plan on Benoa Bay. The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, affirmed that his party had addressed the Benoa Bay reclamation plans normatively in appropriate with the rules, namely the Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Regional Spatial Plan of Badung County.

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MANGUPURA - The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, affirmed that his party had addressed the Benoa Bay reclamation plans normatively in appropriate with the rules, namely the Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Regional Spatial Plan of Badung County. Based on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan, the Benoa Bay area belonging to Badung territory was included in the conservation area whose landscape could not be tampered with.

The wax figure of actress Sandra Bullock is pictured after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York in midtown Manhattan, July 23, 2014.

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“We in Badung refer to normative aspects. Based on the Badung Regional Spatial Plan, it has been clearly stated if the Benoa Bay belongs to conservation area. It is already declared as conservation

area,” said Gde Agung.

According to him, reference to Regional Bylaw on the Regional Spatial Plan was very appropriate because before it was passed the Badung Regional Bylaw on Spatial

Plan had gone through an evaluation process at provincial and central government. Based on the evaluation, the Benoa Bay belonging to Badung County territory was still included as a conservation area. With reference to

the rules, Gde Agung also claimed to have a plan of his own to the conservation area in Badung.

“Conservation area means the landscape should not be changed.

Even, so far there are some fairly dense mangroves in Badung that have not been included in conservation area. In my first letter, I have already proposed it to be included in conservation area so that conservation area will increase. With the increasing area, we do hope the mangrove areas can become a man-

grove tourist attraction. Between the mangroves and settlement area, we will make a jogging track corridor so that mangrove forest encroachment by residents can be muted. It is integrated with the normalization program of Mati River.

It’s my obsession,” he said.

Does this mean his party rejects the Benoa Bay reclamation plan?

When faced with such question, Gde Agung did not give a definitive answer.

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