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Liam Neeson admits carrying weapon ‘hoping to kill black person’

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CALIFORNIA - Hollywood actor Liam Neeson has admitted for the first time that he used to have violent thoughts about killing a black person.

The Irish star said the thoughts were sparked after a female friend of his was raped.

Neeson said he used to be armed with a cosh weapon on the streets hoping someone “would have a go” at him “about something” so he could kill them.

The 66-year-old made his comments during an interview for his new film Cold Pursuit where he talked about how his character turns to anger.

Neeson told the Independent: “There’s something primal - God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions.

“I’ll tell you a story. This is true.”

He said the rape happened a while ago and he found out about it after coming back from a trip abroad.

“She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way.

“But my immediate reaction was... I asked, did she

know who it was? No. What colour were they?

She said it was a black person.

“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody - I’m ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some black b*****d would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.” The Taken star, told the publication it took him over a week to process what had happened to his friend. He continued: “It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid. (net)

Neeson with late wife Natasha Richardson in 2001.

Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher up for auction

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The former Conservative prime minister was a prominent target for the show.

LONDON - A Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most famous characters from the satirical series, has been put up for auction.

The former Conservative prime minister was a prominent target for the show, which ran for 18 series from 1984 to 1996.

Famous for lampooning political and cultural figures, Spitting Image also parodied public figures including John Major, Paul Gascoigne and the Queen, and portrayed Baroness Thatcher as a dominant and abusive leader.

Her puppet, alongside about 40

others from the show - including novelist Salman Rushdie, actor Tom Hanks, singer Boy George and Thatcher’s husband, Denis - could now fetch thousands at auction after being acquired by collectors Prop Store.

Prop Store chief executive Stephen Lane said: “We’re thrilled to be offering such a fantastic selection of puppets from the legendary British television series Spitting Image.

“Over 40 puppets and puppet heads are to be sold... including the iconic Margaret Thatcher puppet and many other famous faces,

including Tom Hanks and Robbie Coltrane.”

Spitting Image attracted huge viewing figures and won a BAFTA during its 12-year run on ITV. Chris Barrie, best known for Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire, and Alan Patridge creator Steve Coogan were among the talents to voice the puppets, with the likes of comedian and author Ben Elton, director Richard Curtis and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop among the writers for the show. Baroness Thatcher’s puppet is expected to sell for about £3,000, with the others expected to fetch between £400 and £800. (afp)

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A supporter stands in front of flowers placed in front of a giant portrait of Argentinian former Nantes’ forward Emilianio Sala outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French Cup football match between FC Nantes and Toulouse FC in Nantes on February 5, 2019.

UK rescuers launch bid to recover body from Sala’s plane

British crash investigators on Tuesday launched an underwater operation to recover a body from the wreckage of the plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in the Channel.

“We are attempting to recover the body. If we are successful, we will consider the feasibility of recovering the aircraft wreckage,” an Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) spokesperson said in a statement.

The light aircraft carrying the 28-year-old footballer and pilot David Ibbotson to his new Premier League team Cardiff City disappeared near the British island of Guernsey on January 21.

The shipwreck hunter hired

by Sala’s family with the help of funds donated by football stars such as Lionel Messi found the plane wreckage on Sunday. The AAIB has since taken over operations. It revealed on Monday that an unidentified body had been found at the site. But it warned on Tuesday that strong tides “mean we can only use the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for limited periods each day”.

“Regardless of the results, we will not be making a further state-

ment until the families have been informed,” it said.

- ‘Technically possible’ Shipwreck hunter David Mearns had earlier warned that “time is of the essence” in an underwater operation like the one being launched by Britain off France’s northern coast.

“As tragic as the loss is, it’s made much, much worse if the body is never recovered or (the family) never get an answer to what happened,” Mearns said.

“Finding it is just the starting point. The AAIB has got to investigate it.” Sala was flying to join up with Cardiff from his old French team Nantes.

His signing was the most expensive in the Welsh club’s history and marked what fans had hoped would be a turning point in its bid to avoid relegation from England’s top division.

“There’s no longer any hope,” Horacio Sala, Emiliano’s father, told Fox Sports, acknowledging there was no longer any prospect of finding his son alive.

“We hope the two bodies are

inside (the plane). It’s over, the only thing I hope now is that they find them.”

Mearns said his discovery of two seat cushions on the French coast last week revealed that the plane had broken up.

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Claiming to be policeman

Two Iranian citizens grab Chinese tourist’s wallet

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Auj-e Taqaddas of British, center, walks as she is escorted by investigators after her trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison.

Indonesia sentences Briton to 6 months for slapping official DENPASAR - A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison.

Video showing Auj-e Taqaddas cursing and hitting an officer at Bali’s international airport in July was widely shared on social media last year.

The video shows the 43-year-old throwing a lengthy tantrum after being asked to pay a fine of $4,000 for overstaying her visa, which had expired in February.

After being sentenced in Denpasar District Court, Taqaddas said the court was corrupt and she had been tortured

by police three times including on Wednesday.

She was arrested Wednesday morning in a shopping mall after failing to appear in court several times.

“This is a sham court who was only listening to the dirty prosecutor who did not bring me to the court for six months,” said Taqaddas, who is seeking an appeal.

During the trial that began in December, Taqaddas pleaded not guilty

and said the video had been edited.

She was charged with violent behavior against a government official and prosecutors had sought a sentence of one year in prison.

“Indonesia is a criminal country.

Indonesian law is corrupt. Indonesian judges are corrupt,” Taqaddas shouted as two officials escorted her from the court. “No lawyer was provided.

Indonesian immigration is corrupt,” she said. (ap)

MANGUPURA - Two Iranian citizens were arrested at Kuta Police Station. Both Iranians on behalf of Shiraziniya Azad and Shirazi Nia Hossein were arrested because they were involved in a theft case with a mode of claiming to be a member of police personnel.

According to Chief of Denpasar Police, Ruddi Setiawan, it happened on Wednesday (Jan. 30) at 20:50 in front of the Kuta Center Park Hotel on Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta. The victim on behalf of Long Zhihong from China together with his family walked to the Kuta Center Hotel after finishing their shopping. When arriving in front of the hotel, a white car was passing. Suddenly, from inside the car the perpetrator lowered the glass on the left door that later claimed to be a policeman that will conduct an examination against the victims and family.

Initially, the victim’s child was asked to get closeer to the car. Next, the perpetrator examined the body of victim’s child from inside the car. After completion, the victim was asked to approach the car and the victim’s body was examined while touching his pants. “Suddenly the perpetrator took the victim’s wallet kept inside the back pants,” explained Ruddi accompanied by the Chief of Kuta Police, Teuku Ricki Fadlianshah, while giving a statement at Kuta Police Station, on Monday (Feb. 4).

He revealed that since the perpetrator claimed to be a police officer, the victim was not suspicious and allowed the examination. Afterward, the perpetrator examined the wallet in the car and not long after

the perpetrator returned the wallet into the pocket of the victim’s back pants. Finally, the perpetrator left.

After the perpetrators went away, the victim saw his wallet. In fact, the fourteen pieces of USD 100 denomination disappeared.

Due to this incident, the victim suffered a loss of USD 1,400 or IDR 19,000,000. “Responding to the incident, the victim immediately reported to the Kuta Police Station for further processing,” he concluded.

Over this report, the Operational Team of Kuta Police under the first unit chief came to the crime scene to get information. Based on the results and information from witnesses, the operational team then carried out further analysis and investigation at the scene. Based on the results of inspection at the scene and CCTV footage, characteristics of the car used by the perpetrator are clearly identified and license plate is visible as well.

Based on the CCTV footage, on Friday (Feb. 2) around 10:30 when an official team was carrying out a regional patrol, it saw a car with features resembling those recorded on CCTV. The Operational Team pursued and managed to arrest the two perpetrators.

From the perpetrators, police seized the evidence such as three banknotes of USD 100, a piece of blue shirt and a unit of Agya car with license plate DK-1249-DW. For this case, the perpetrators are subject to article 363 of the Criminal Code, with the threat of a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. (kmb23)

Tabanan allocates IDR 1 billion of funds for fogging and abate purchase

TABANAN - In dealing with Dengue Fever (DHF), every year Tabanan allocates the budget for fogging and abate provision. This year’s budget for handling DHF is allocated at least IDR 1 billion.

“This amount of fund is for the purchase of pesticides, fogging operations and abate purchases,” said the Head of the Tabanan Health Office, Nyoman Suratmika, on Tuesday (Feb. 5).

In the matter of fogging activities, he continued that the Health Office does not perform it in rotation at each village. However, it is only performed at villages or regions

declared to be positive to DHF, in this case there are positive DHF patients. “So, if the patient is tested positive for dengue through laboratory examination and statement of an internist, it will be reported to the Health Office for scheduled implementation of fogging in the area or village where the patient originates from,” explained Suratmika.

For 2019, the implementation of fogging was already carried out in the Sanggulan area, Tabanan, on Saturday (Feb. 2). In the region, there have been recorded positive dengue patients. According to Suratmika, the Health Office is selec-

tive in implementing fogging, because it is not an effective measure in handling DHF. Fogging is only for eliminating adult mosquitoes.

“So, if there is a patient declared to be positive, it means there are virus-carrying mosquitoes in the area where the patient lives. Thus, we need fogging to eradicate adult mosquitoes,” explained Suratmika.

Fogging must be done selectively. If frequently implemented, it can be dangerous for health.

According to Suratmika, fogging is a technique used to kill insects which involves the use of pure pesticide sprays directed by an air

pump. “So, if fogging is done frequently, people will breathe smoke containing pesticides. Certainly, it is harmful to health. Moreover, fogging does not only kill mosquitoes but also other insects, which is dangerous for the environment,” explained Suratmika.

On that account, he emphasized the application of Eradication of Mosquito Nest (PSN) to the community. With such measure, the community is expected to be more vigilant in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment and applying PSN in the neighborhood.

By eradicating mosquito nests,

the community has taken steps to prevent dengue directly to the root by eradicating the mosquito larvae.

“If ignored, the larvae will become an adult mosquito. So, if only the adult mosquito is eradicated while the larvae are not, the mosquito will still survive. This is the importance of doing the PSN regularly,” explained Suratmika.

In February, according to Suratmika, there is no report on positive dengue case. However in January, Tabanan had recorded at least six positive dengue cases. The number of these cases has decreased compared to previous years. (kmb24)

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Nyepi - The Day of Silence at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa

Experience your “Nyepi, The Day of Silence” at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa This is one of the most sacred days of the Balinese calendar, indicating the beginning of a new year.

The Resort welcomes travellers to step into the mystical beauty of the Silent Day in Bali. This unique Balinese custom is a one of its kind experience.

During Nyepi, activities are very

limited on the island. No traffic on the roads, no TV and / or Radio, all shopping centres are closed, no Tours or excursions, and there are no flights in or out of Bali on this day.

Starting from 6:00am 7 March 2019 to 6:00am the next day, local residents stay at home with their families to meditate, fast and reflect on the past year. In the evenings, curtains are drawn so that lights

do not show out. The Balinese and other residents avoid loud noises and the Island becomes eerily quiet.

To commemorate such a momentous occasion, Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa offers an enticing Nyepi room package with extensive complimentary benefits such as a dinner on the day of Nyepi, access to Gecko kid’s club, access to the Gym Centre and Spa facilities and other in-house activities.

Indoor activities within the hotel building remain unaffected.

The Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa is the pioneer of luxury accommodation within the Nusa Dua area. This 5-star diamond resort, has been welcoming kings, queens, presidents and other dignitaries since its grand opening. Nestled within beautifully landscaped gardens, the resort, with its 382 guestrooms and suites, features all

the elegance of a Balinese palace, while offering modern amenities.

The Nusa Dua Spa is designed to highlight its rich Balinese tradition with a variety of indigenous treatments. Dining at Nusa Dua Hotel & Spa is an epicurean journey with a choice of five restaurants and four bars under the close watch of an award-winning culinary team.

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How to turn around unhealthy habits after 60

WEST VIRGINIA - It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one — particularly for folks over 60.

Most baby boomers approach retirement age unwilling to follow basic healthy lifestyle goals established by the American Heart Association, said Dr. Dana King, professor and chairman of the department of family medicine at West Virginia University, referencing his university’s 2017 study comparing the healthy lifestyle rates of retired late-middle-aged adults with rates among those still working.

Kaiser Health News interviewed three other prominent experts on aging and health about how seniors can find the will to adopt healthier habits.

“People do financial planning for retirement, but what about retirement health planning?” King said.

Motivated seniors can begin by following KHN’s 10-step program:

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A sign at the Vancouver Clinic in Washington warns visitors of a measles outbreak in Clark County.

Measles outbreak grows in anti-vaccination hot spot

WASHINGTON - An outbreak of measles in southwestern Washington is growing worse by the day, with the number of cases soaring to 50 as of Monday, according to state health officials.

Clark County health officials have confirmed 49 cases there since Jan. 1. On Jan. 23, one case was confirmed in King County, home to the state’s largest city, Seattle. It is not clear where the King County patient became infected, but he did report having traveled to Vancouver, the seat of Clark County, before his diagnosis, health officials have said.

As with a similar outbreak among Orthodox Jews in New York state, nearly all of the infected were unvaccinated. Clark County reported that 42 of the 49 patients had not been vaccinated against measles. One patient had received only one of the two recommended doses of the vaccine, and the vaccination status of six others was unknown, the county department of health said.

People may have been exposed to the dangerous disease at more than three dozen locations, many in neighboring Oregon, such as Portland International Airport and the Moda Center, home to the Portland Trail Blazers. Other possible infection sites in Portland include an Amazon Locker location and stores such as Costco and Ikea.

On Jan. 22, Clark County health officials declared a public health emergency.

Dr. Scott Lindquist, a Washington state epidemiologist, said the state health department is seeing new cases every day. “This is entirely preventable,” he said in a statement to NBC News.

He advised families to check their immunization records. “If you are concerned your child may be developing measles, call your provider before going to a medical facility in an effort to prevent the spread of measles to vulnerable people within these facilities,” he added. Anti-vaccination hot spots have been developing for several years. Along with Washington and New York, at least seven other states — Hawaii, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Colorado, California and Georgia — have reported measles cases this year.

Reports that some people are self-medicating with vitamin A have also surfaced, leading the Washington State Department of Health to warn in a tweet that vitamin A has no effect on measles and that “the only way to avoid getting measles is to be vaccinated against it.

Children who are deficient in vitamin A are at higher risk for severe complications from measles if they get the disease, but most children in the U.S. receive sufficient amounts in their diet. In the rare case of

deficiency, vitamin A can be used to prevent severe complications of measles, including blindness and death.

Vitamin A is found in many foods, such as spinach, dairy products and liver. It is used as an oral supplement in people with poor or severely limited diets or in those who have a condition that increases the need for vitamin A, such as pancreatic or eye disease. It is also used in topical creams to reduce fine wrinkles, splotches and roughness and to treat acne.

The recommended daily amount of vitamin A is 900 micrograms for men and 700 for women. Taking too much at one time — over 200,000 micrograms — can cause nausea, vomiting, vertigo or blurry vision. More than 10,000 micrograms per day can cause long-term damage, such as bone thinning and liver damage. Pregnant women are especially cautioned against taking vitamin A, as it has been shown to cause birth defects.

The ongoing outbreak and the perceived need for home remedies is a reminder that herd immunity — the indirect protection of nonvaccinated people that occurs when a large percentage of the population has been vaccinated — has broken down. (net)

1. Buy great sneakers. Purchase a pair of top-quality sneakers specifically designed for walking, said Carolyn Rosenblatt, founder of AgingParents.com, who started participating in triathlons at age 63 and continues to do them at age 70. Start by walking around the block. Expand that to 30-minute walks at least three times weekly — or set a goal to increase your walking distance 10 percent each week. And leave your sneakers by the front door.

2. Practice your balance. The best way to avoid falls is to retain a good sense of balance, said Rosenblatt. Practice standing on one leg with your eyes closed for at least 30 seconds.

3. Improve your breakfast. Stop eating the sweet roll with coffee.

Consider substituting a home-blended smoothie with a banana, seasonal fruits, almond milk and protein powder or a protein patty without sugar.

And cut out excess sugar in all your meals, said Rosenblatt. Replace soda with seltzer water.

4. De-stress wisely. Find ways to manage your stress that don’t involve food, alcohol or smoking. There are lots of meditation programs you can download on your phone and listen to for even 10 minutes, said Rosenblatt.

5. Practice resistance training. To keep your muscle mass from disappearing, do resistance training by lifting dumbbells or barbells or using weight machines, said Kay Van Norman, owner of Brilliant Aging, a consulting firm for healthier aging. “Your muscles are amazing, but if you don’t use them, you lose them,” she said.

6. Hit the floor. Aging adults need to regularly practice getting down on the floor and standing back up again. “If you don’t get down on the floor and back up, you won’t be able to do it after a while,” said Van Norman.

7. Challenge your speed. While it might not seem as if folks over 60 need to worry about exercise that involves speed and intensity, they do, said Van Norman. “Most people don’t even think about speed in order to stay healthy. But tennis players are doing that all the time. You need to do something to challenge your speed, not just your power.” That’s why sports like tennis can be terrific as you age, she said.

8. Believe in yourself. Faced with self-doubt and depression after several tragic, challenging events, Sharon Sultan Cutler, 71, turned to therapy to help her feel better about herself. “The first person you have to believe in is yourself,” said Sultan Cutler, an author. “People like to be around other people who believe in themselves.”

9. Tackle a project. Pick a project that has meaning to you. Sultan Cutler opted to co-author (with two other writers) her first book, “Bandstand Diaries: The Philadelphia Years, 1956-1963,” an inside look at her once favorite TV show, Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.” Never mind that she’d never written a book before. Now she’s on her third book, “Your New You After 65: Valuable Advice to Inspire Your Awesome Aging.”

“It’s like having a daydream that you can actually make happen,” she said.

10. Embrace self-improvement. Some call this lifelong learning. Living a healthier lifestyle requires constant learning and self-improvement, said Sultan Cutler. Seek out local learning resources like community colleges, where classes are often steeply discounted for seniors, she said. “Selfimprovement isn’t just physical. It’s mental, too.” (net)

Senior lifting dumbbells

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Economic factor dominantly causes mental disorder in Tabanan

TABANAN — Economic factor became the main trigger for people with mental disorders (ODGJ) in Tabanan district. In 2019, the number of ODGJ reached 590 patients. This number decreased when compared to 2018 reaching 602 patients. They have been handled and sent to Bangli Mental Hospital.

This decrease happened because some patients died while others are declared to have recovered. This was stated by the Division Head of Social Services and Rehabilitation at the Tabanan Social Service, Driana Roka Rina.

Driana explained that other than economic factor the mental disorder happens due to heredity, depression, and drug withdrawal. “However, of all the sufferers, the main cause is economic factor,” she explained.

According to Driana, actually the number may still be scattered because the families of the mental disorder patients are reluctant to report to the Social Service. “Many patients are still scattered because the data from the village authority have not all been entered,” he said.

Rika continued that of the 590 people with mental disorder, 9 of them are treated at Panti Laras of Wanasara hamlet, Bongan, Tabanan. The building used for the Panti Laras treatment house is part of the uninhabited official residence of the Tabanan district government. In this institution, the ex-mental disorders will be empowered through guidance by the Tabanan Social Service in order to provide maximum care so that they are not prone to relapse. “They still have families, and they have given permission to us to treat theirs. Besides, if there are displaced ex-mental disorder patients, they will be taken to Panti Laras to be empowered,” she explained.

Meanwhile, for the patients of mental disorder (ODGJ) in family care, Rika expected the family to always pay attention

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Economic factor became the main trigger for people with mental disorders (ODGJ) in Tabanan district. to them and they are not let run out of medication.

According to her, the patients with mental disorders really need a comprehensive treatment. It happens because they are facing social challenges in the community that are no less severe for the mental, such as rejection, exclusion and discrimination.

“They need sustainability after undergoing a series of

treatments, so that they can be at least independent and accepted in the community again. One of them is by providing them with skills as well as healing therapy,” she said.

The skills provided can be gardening, incense making or other skills. “Family and environment attention becomes the main and first factor for healing of the patients with mental disorder so that they don’t recur,” she concluded. (kmb28)

Related to the beating and villa deprivation

A man alleged to be SO branch chief arrested

TABANAN — Apparently police ranks do not fool around in response to the members of any societal organization (ormas) or SO committing illegal activities. Evidently, Gusti MA known as the chief of the societal organization of Tabanan chapter was arrested by the Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation Unit. However, the information about the arrest of one of the societal organization leaders cannot be confirmed. Either Chief of the Tabanan Police Made Sinar Subawa or Chief of Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Decky Hendra Wijaya, could not be asked for their information about it. Even though having tried to contact both, they are difficult to be questioned.

Nevertheless, a number of information obtained from a source in the police institution justifying if there is safeguard against the societal organization chief on Saturday night (Feb. 2) around 23:00. Currently there is still a further investigation in the first unit of the Tabanan Police.

However, there is not much more to say regarding the reasons for arresting Gusti MA. As the information at issue, the concerned was arrested because he is alleged to have beaten staff and committed seizures at the Botanical Resort Villa at Pandak Gede, Kediri.

Similar thing happened when Bali Post tried to confirm the matter to headman of Pandak Gede, I Gede Putu Suciartha.

Although he did not want to comment much, Suciartha confirmed there is indeed a case related to the villa in his area.

Unfortunately, he did not know the case in details. “Regarding the villa, perhaps there is misunderstanding. Actually the incident already took place long time ago. Previously there

was also a report to the Bali Police and has been followed up, but for more information, please ask to police,” he advised.

Meanwhile, another information source told if the case originated from a resident named Paulus Santoso who bought a plot of land at Pangkung hamlet, Pandak Gede, Kediri, in 2012. The land certificate was then split into six certificates in 2013. Four villas were built at the end of 2013 and completed in early 2015.

Since the operation began, the villa owner claimed to often get pressures from a member of societal organization claiming itself from the Pandak Gede Youth Leader, NB. He demanded various charges such monthly levies, security levies, staffing as well as other threats such as in the form of closing road access to the villa. However, the demand was never fulfilled by the reporting party, considering he had paid monthly levies to local hamlet and garbage disposal charges to the hamlet in accordance with the agreement with the headman.

Likewise, the demands to employ local villagers have also been met, in addition to recruiting some from neighboring villages. Finally, an internal problem of employees emerged with the reasons due to different customary village. Then, employees from neighboring villages resigned, so the remaining employees are those from the local village. Having been traced, they are the members of the NB group.

As a result, the villa’s condition became messy and not properly maintained. There were losses of villa inventory items and damages to the building. To change the extremely detrimental condition, the villa owner then handed over the villa operations to the Premier Hospitality Asia management in 2017.

From here, the societal organization came to the villa, and was then followed up by the villa management by reporting this case to Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Profession and Security of Bali Police and arrested two members of the societal organization. Because a lot of pressures arose after the arrest, finally the villa owner was introduced to Gusti MA (Chief of Societal Organization) in Tabanan, by one of the villagers of Pandak Gede. At that time, the reported party confirmed the pressure from the village side and the ‘village gangster.’

The reported party did not respond to the reporting party’s explanation that he never reported to the authorities regarding the existence of the members of the societal organization at his villa. The reported party only emphasized that situation at the village is not very conducive and I will face with ‘village gangster’ that can endanger me and especially the villa buildings at the village.

After that, Gusti MA conveyed his plans and strategies to help protect from the threats of ‘village parties’ and ‘village gangsters.’ Contents of the strategy are: the reported party will announce at the village that he is a business partner and participates in owning the villas at Pandak Gede village, so that he will feel free to come to the villa to look after the villas from any pressure of villagers and village gangsters.

For this reason, I was required to write a letter addressed to the headman of Pandak Gede stating that I, as the owner, had terminated employment with villa management, dismissed all the employees of the villa management as well as cooperated the villa management with the reported party.

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Buleleng proposes exceptions for hospital and school buildings

SINGARAJA - The discussion on the revisions to the Regional Regulation (Perda) of Bali Provincial Spatial Planning (RTRWP) remains under progress in the Bali House of Representatives. Amid the discussion, Buleleng proposed the matters related to the rules of building height. Based on the regulation, the local government proposed to exclude building height rules for hospital and educational facility buildings. Meanwhile, for tourist accommodation or other interests, Buleleng agreed to provide certain restrictions.

This was stated by Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS), last week after handing over non-cash assistance of Family Hope Program (PKH) at the Wanita Laksmi Graha building, Singaraja.

The regent proposed the hospital and educational facility building to get an exception in building height constraints because in urban areas it is difficult to develop hospital facilities. Hospital facilities are not only oriented towards treatment buildings and other related units, but also the supporting facilities especially parking lot. In harmony with the population growth, it will certainly require readiness of hospital parking.

“We ask for hospital and school buildings to be exempted from the building’s height limit. The reason is that being in one building will facilitate services and parking lots also require adequate land, so that with multi-storey buildings will be able to deal with land difficulties in urban areas,” he said.

Likewise for educational facilities, the regent assessed they are still in need of additional infrastructure buildings. Meanwhile, in urban areas the problem is the land for school development or building new schools. For this reason, the solution is to build a multilevel pattern, so that the land difficulties can be handled permanently. “Gradually, if the hospital is now given,

maybe later on it will be followed by schools to build so because this is the only solution in overcoming land difficulties,” he said.

To note, during the discussion of the RTRWP Bali, the House of Representatives and the government changed the rules on building heights in Bali. Now, it is arranged that the maximum building height is 15 meters or equal to the height of a coconut tree. Revision of the provisions is planned to apply to certain areas only, such as hospital buildings, government offices, and schools. (kmb38) Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana.

High accident rate, police do traffic compliance campaign

GIANYAR - The number of traffic accidents in Gianyar district

is quite high. Throughout 2018, dozens of victims even died in

this region. Reflecting on the data, the police ranks campaigned for

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Police ranks campaigned for the slogan “Stop Violations, Stop Accidents, Safety for Humanity” during the roadshow of Millennial Road Safety Festival on Sunday (Feb. 3).

the slogan “Stop Violations, Stop Accidents, Safety for Humanity” during the roadshow of Millennial Road Safety Festival on Sunday (Feb. 3).

Based on the data from the Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs, the traffic accident in this region was recorded to reach 563. Ironically, of that number, 64 people died.

“Meanwhile, 30 people of them belong to millennial group or youngsters,” said Chief of Gianyar Police, Priyanto Priyo Hutomo, last Sunday.

He explained that Gianyar Police organized the Millennial Road Safety Festival in the Gianyar Car Free Day (CFD) area as warming up before the peak of the event to be held on February 17 at Renon Square. “We provide education in the form of Road Safety Training during this Millennial Road Safety Festival,” he explained.

Thousands of millennial youngsters enlivened the free program filled with fun walk, safety ridding, orderly traffic declaration and drawing of door prizes in the CFD area. Chief of Gianyar Police added that all motorists must be vigilant when taking to the streets. “On the road, everything is an enemy to watch out for to prevent accidents,” he said.

To improve the prevention, the

ranks of Gianyar Police also provided education for schools in Gianyar district. “Student education at schools has also been routinely scheduled with the hope that they will recognize traffic signs early on,” he affirmed.

In the last Sunday’s event, a traffic accident victim named Made Widjana who had a leg fracture some time ago got assistance in the form of wheelchair handed over by Deputy Chief of Gianyar Police, Adnan Pandibu.

Meanwhile, Chairperson of the National Committee of Indonesian Youth (KNPI) of Gianyar Chapter, Bramana Tri Wibawa, said the Millennial Road Safety Festival activity made the younger generation know more about how to drive well and properly.

“Police’s efforts are now better than before, so the impression of young people who are reluctant or afraid to see policemen actually can feel that police are our friends,” he said.

This young man familiarly addressed as Bram also conveyed a message to younger generation in Gianyar district to jointly maintain the order and remain vigilant when driving. “We young people remain stylish in our style but always prioritize safety,” he ordered. (kmb35)

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Chinese hunger for ‘world’s smelliest fruit’ threatens Malaysian forests

RAUB - Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of jungle is being cleared to make way for massive plantations of the spiky, pungent fruit.

Grown across tropical Southeast Asia, the durian is hailed as the “king of fruits” by fans, who liken its creamy texture and intense aroma to blue cheese.

But detractors say durians stink of sewage and stale vomit. The strong smell means many hotels across the region have banned guests from bringing them to rooms, while Singapore does not allow the fruit on its subway system.

Nevertheless, they are a hit in China, and the increase in demand has prompted exporters to vye for a bigger share of the burgeoning market.

Growers in Malaysia are increasingly shifting from small orchards to industrial-scale operations -- a trend that environmentalists warn presents a new threat to rainforests already challenged by loggers and palm oil plantations.

“Right now durians are gaining a lot of attention from the Chinese market,” said Sophine Tann, from environmental protection group PEKA, which has studied land clearances to make way for the fruit.

“This deforestation for planting of durians is in preparation to meet that demand.”

In the jungle-clad district of

Raub in central Malaysia, swathes of rainforest have recently been chopped down to make way for a new plantation, with durian seedlings protected by netting planted across bare hillsides.

The plantation is next to an area of protected forest, which is home to a kaleidescope of animals from monkeys to exotic birds.

A river, now murky and filled with trunks and branches from logging, runs close by.

A sign outside the plantation said it was run by Ample Harvest Produce but company staff refused to comment when contacted about the loss of trees in the area.

PEKA said the land’s status was changed by the local government to allow logging, but local authorities did not respond to requests for comment.

- Love at first bite In a Beijing mall some 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) away, a stall named “Little Fruit Captain” is doing a brisk trade selling Malaysian durians.

Shop manager Wang Tao said his customers “fall in love” with durians from Malaysia due to their particularly sweet taste, often preferring them to those from rival exporters, such as Thailand.

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This picture taken on January 18, 2019 shows the meat of a durian being removed at an eatery stall specialising in the fruit, in Beijing.

He imports frozen durians from a facility in Malaysia and sells them in plastic containers or in other forms -- a kind of baked dessert, in ice cream or fried up as crisps.

Customers are kept up to date about the shop’s stock via the WeChat messaging app.

“I first tried durian as a child

and acquired a taste for it,” said university student Liu Zelun, who visits the shop once a week for her durian fix.

“Thai durians have a stronger flavour and you tend to get sick of it after a while, but not the ones that I buy from here.”

The most popular variety -- and

one of the most expensive -- is Musang King, known for its thick, golden flesh. A single Musang King was on sale at the Beijing stall for 800 yuan ($120), several times more expensive than in Malaysia.

“Our customers aren’t concerned about the prices, they just want the best,” said Wang. (afp)

Bangladesh protests to Myanmar over new arrivals from troubled state

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Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on February 4, 2019.

DHAKA - Bangladesh has protested to Myanmar over a new influx of refugees fleeing troubled Rakhine state after clashes between security forces and an insurgent group, an official said Wednesday.

Bangladesh’s foreign ministry summoned Myanmar’s ambassador late Tuesday to protest over the arrivals from Rakhine, already notorious following a military clampdown on Muslim Rohingya in August 2017 which sent more than 700,000 people across the border.

The new arrivals are from Rakhine Buddhist and other tribal groups, a senior foreign ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity, without giving a figure.

“The number is increasing.

Some people are already waiting on the border and they may also enter.

We have asked them (Myanmar) to take effective and urgent steps so that violence is stopped,” the official said.

A Bangladesh border guard official said the refugees had crossed in a remote hill area of Bandarban district in the southeast of the country.

Bangladesh is already struggling to cope with the 740,000 Rohingya Muslims who arrived after August 2017 adding to 300,000 who had fled earlier violence in Rakhine.

Now Rakhine’s ethnic majority, who are Buddhist, are in conflict with the army they helped to drive out the Rohingya just 18 months ago.

On January 4 the Arakan Army (AA), a militant group calling for greater autonomy for Rakhine, killed 13 people in raids on police border posts.

The army says 13 militants have

been killed in reprisal attacks while the United Nations says at least 5,200 people have been displaced by the violence.

An accurate death toll has been impossible to ascertain because the zone is under a near-blanket lockdown.

The fighting has added a new, complex dimension to the troubles in Rakhine that since 2012 have seen religious and communal riots, the mass exodus of Rohingya and killings across all ethnic lines.

The Bangladesh protest came after Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie said Tuesday that Myanmar must “show genuine commitment” to end violence that has driven the Rohingya into Bangladesh.

The UN is preparing to launch a new international appeal for nearly one billion dollars to look after the Rohingya. (afp)

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BUSINESS Apple agrees 500-mln-euro tax settlement with France

Apple said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with French authorities to settle 10 years of back taxes, becoming the latest US company to reach a deal with France which has led a European push for higher taxes on tech giants.

French news weekly L’Express reported that Apple had paid nearly 500 million euros ($570 million) to resolve the case in a confidential settlement reached in December.

Apple declined to disclose the amount paid, but a source familiar with the case confirmed the figure to AFP. “The French tax administration recently concluded a multi-year audit on the company’s French accounts and an adjustment will be published in our public accounts,” Apple said in a statement.

“We know the important role taxes play in society and we pay our taxes in all the countries where we operate, in complete conformity with laws and practices in force at the local level,” added the company.

French authorities declined to comment further, citing the confidentiality of tax matters.

- French tech tax looms Apple is one of several American technology giants in the line of fire in Europe over their tax strategies, which see them route their income through low-tax nations such as Ireland or Luxembourg.

In 2016, it was ordered by the European Commission to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland. The European Commission said Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of just 0.005 per cent on its European profits in 2014 -- equivalent to just 50 euros for every million.

The deal in France comes as the govern-

ment prepares to push ahead with its own unilateral “GAFA tax” -- named after Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -- faced with the failure of EU members to agree on how to get technology companies to pay more tax on their European operations.

The tax, to be put to parliament in a bill later this month, would affect companies with global sales of more than 750 million euros

and 25 million euros in France, according to the government.

It would be retroactive to January 1 and is expected to raise 500 million euros this year. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has called the question of how and where global companies pay their taxes “a major issue in the 21st century”. But an agreement among EU members has

proved elusive.

Ireland, Denmark and Sweden have all blocked plans for a levy for fear of dissuading investment and Germany has proved lukewarm on the issue, fearing US retaliation against its car industry.

The issue has been referred to the OECD, which aims to come up with an international tax by 2020. (ap)

Minister floats German industry strategy, ‘champions’

BERLIN - Germany’s economy minister is floating the possibility of the government temporarily taking stakes in technology companies to head off foreign takeovers as he proposes a “national industry strategy.”

Peter Altmaier backed the idea of “national and European champions” in a fast-changing business world as he presented his strategy on Tuesday. His proposal proclaimed that “size matters!”

Altmaier said his proposal is

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier presents the “National Industry Strategy 2030,” measures to secure the economic and technological leadership of Germany and the European Union in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb.5, 2019.

meant to kick off a discussion in Germany and then in Europe on industrial strategy in the face of tough global competition. Germany has seen a decade of economic growth, but he argued that that doesn’t guarantee it will continue.

The most eye-catching idea is the concept of setting up an “investment fund” that could in limited cases protect companies that make key technologies from being taken over. (ap)

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Enjoy Beautiful Bali through Underwater Cultural Park on Samuh Beach

Nusa Dua area is famous for its prestigious five-star hotel facilities.

This area is really managed professionally by the government of Badung.

Other than offering luxurious hotels, this area also has a beach resort that is not less beautiful, namely the Segara Samuh Beach. It is located right behind of Hotel Bali Tropic Resort till Club Med.

Visitors often call it by the name of Nusa Dua Beach because the beach lies in Nusa Dua area. Samuh Beach presents nature attraction in the form of beautiful sunrise like that on Sanur Beach area.

This beach is very friendly to children because it has little waves. Sometimes there are no waves at all, so that many tourists allow their kids to play freely on this beach.

If the sea water is receding, we can have a promenade as far as 100 m to the middle of the sea. Seeing the marine animals trapped in the puddles of seawater will add to the sensation of visitors to this Samuh Beach.

From this Segara Samuh Beach, we can see the green Island of Nusa Dharma. On this island, visitors can explore the track on foot or by cycling. For those who like surfing can go in as far as 200 meters from the beach to get suitable waves. Those who like diving or snorkeling can try it on this beach. There is an underwater park named the Bali Underwater Cultural Park (BUCP) located about 500 meters from the Samuh Beach at a depth of 11 meters from sea level.

BUCP contains a collection of artificial reefs in the form of statues of dancer such as statues of Kecak Dance performance and characters of the Ramayana epic like Rama and Sita. The BUCP is intended to do conservation for the sake of marine biodiversity and Balinese culture. In addition to increasing the value of the arts, the statue also serves

as a medium to grow new natural coral, so that the conservation of coral reef will be well preserved.

Other than for the growth of coral reef, this statue also becomes the home to various fish, a new attraction of marine tourism objects as well as tourist destination promotion caring about the preservation of culture and environment. If visitors want to enjoy the beauty of

the underwater, the submarine or snorkeling facilities. Fishing boats are available to take to the middle of the sea. They can be rented on Mengiat Beach whose location is not far from the Samuh Beach.

Not far from Segara Samuh Beach, there is a small island named the Peninsula Island which is famous for its water blow object (the waves hits the rocks and create the towering

sparks). On this island, there is also jogging track like that in Nusa Dharma Island. Aside from enjoying the beautiful water blow, visitors can also try this track that directly leads to water blow. The Samuh Beach tourism object has been equipped with spacious parking area, boat rental, bathroom / toilet, resting place and restaurant offering various menus. (kmb)

Papuan Stone Burning at Anjangsana of Taman Nusa Festive and truly entertaining atmosphere imbued Taman Nusa so that visitors got a unique presentation in the Anjangsana area on Sunday (Dec. 2). The regular activities held every weekend started at 17:00 through 19:00 featured 10 bands of ethnic and Indie music by singing their best works. While enjoying Indonesian unique regional songs, visitors can also see the beauty of nature, the terrace above the Melangit River.

Admission for visitors is free of charge to enter the Anjangsana area. This is a means to raise and increase the potential of the art from the community and schools in Bali. Apart from ethnic music and Indie Bands, the Anjangsana also displays the Papua Body Dance with a message ‘Nature is my body

and the soul is my nature. Rivers, canoes and sago are single entity that cannot be separated from my life.’

Every region in Indonesia has its own uniqueness, such as regional languages, traditional clothing, special foods, and traditions and can now be found in Tama Nusa.

“At the moment it remains about Papua. Probably, only few people know that Papua has a unique cooking tradition known as Bakar Batu (burning stone),” said General Manager of Taman Nusa, I Nyoman Murjana.

Bakar Batu is a traditional cooking method in the daily life of the Papuans. Aside from serving as gratefulness, this method also welcomes the happiness of birth, death, and as an expression of together-

ness. “Anjangsana visitors can discuss directly with our friends from Papua. A very interesting and impressive experience is to witness the process of Bakar Batu directly at Anjangsana of Taman Nusa,” said Murjana.

While watching the art of music and performances as well as the tradition of burning stones, visitors can try traditional culinary delights served at the culinary booth. The price is very affordable. There are snacks, market snacks, a variety of fritter, meatballs, chicken satay, various crackers, chips, salad, jingo rice and traditional fresh drinks and drinks. “In the future, we will collaborate with the archipelagic culinary activists and traditional crafts in Bali,” added Murjana. (kmb)

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Crisis has Venezuela’s Portuguese returning to roots

ESTARREJA - Dihara Ramirez worked as a doctor in Venezuela, but now she makes her living at a Portuguese supermarket after leaving her crippled homeland.

The 27-year-old is one of thousands of Venezuelans with ties to Portugal to have crossed the Atlantic in search of a new life since trouble flared in the beleaguered South American nation in 2016.

In recent weeks Dihara’s country has been plunged into further crisis as President Nicolas Maduro’s authority was challenged by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself acting head of state -- a claim now recognised by many governments, including Lisbon.

Describing the impact Venezuela’s economic problems had on the medical supplies crucial to her former job, Dihara told AFP: “It was very painful to find myself unable to get hold of medicine to bring relief to people.”

Around a third of the 10,000 Venezuelan emigrants to have arrived in Portugal have settled in the northern municipality of Estarreja -- 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Porto -- including Dihara, whose husband’s family hail from the area.

Since leaving her home in Maracaibo, the main city in western Venezuela, Dihara has been living with her parents-in-law in their flat, where she has their “unconditional support”.

“The idea was for my husband to come to Estarreja as well but he doesn’t want to lose the bakery we have over there,” said Dihara, who made the 7,000-kilometre (4,400-mile) voyage with her fiveyear-old son.

“With the arrival of Guaido he wants to hang on all the more to see how the situation evolves.”

- Help at hand -

Since 2015, some 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled their oilrich homeland, where food and

UK rescuers...

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“It’s in one area (on the seabed), it’s all one mass, but some bits may not be connected. So what you don’t want to do is to disturb the body in a way that you lose it,” he said.

Sala’s family raised more than 370,000 euros ($422,000) in an online campaign to pay for the private search.

medicine shortages have become the norm.

As many as 400,000 ethnic Portuguese live in the South American country, but the political crisis is increasingly persuading them to return to their roots.

After Madeira island, Estarreja is the second-largest area in Portugal originally home to Venezuela’s Lusophone community.

For those who make the journey to Estarreja, local business association SEMA, which helps new arrivals from an imposing oval table at its headquarters, is the first port of call.

A bakery named Venezuela and a shop named Caracas testify to the close link between the two countries, yet taking in the influx of arrivals has been a considerable test for a town of just 27,000.

“Our main difficulty concerns getting identity papers. That is a stage which takes time but is strictly necessary to integrate these people into our companies,” says SEMA chairman Jose Valente.

Nevertheless Valente praised the Portuguese government for setting up in recent days an aid committee to speed up the process of getting the immigrants through border formalities.

Last year, SEMA found work for 513 of the arrivals. January saw another 100 or so join the local payroll in a region which is experiencing labour shortages, notably in industry, as well as restaurants, hotels and retail.

- Long road to recovery -

Crispim Rodrigues, who himself came back to Portugal around 20 years ago, is on hand at SEMA to lend support to the incoming diaspora.

“The people we extend a hand to are in a bad way. They can no

“Had that not happened, I don’t think anybody would have searched for the plane,” Mearns said. “We were told by the AAIB that they didn’t feel that there was much to be gained,” he said.

The AAIB ended up chartering a ship to join Mearns on Sunday. He said recovery was now “technically possible -- the water depth isn’t an issue really, and the weather can be managed with the right ship”. (afp)

longer live (in Venezuela) and have no option other than exile,” says Rodrigues, a moustachioed 67-year-old who helps with administrative formalities on how to make a fresh start.

“Currently, the minimum

wage in Venezuela (around $50 a month) is no longer sufficient to buy a chicken and a few vegetables for the whole month,” he told AFP. Joachim Tavares, a second generation Portuguese emigre, is one of the few to have managed to bring over his entire family.

“I asked for help in finding

work. Not necessarily in my field but a job that can meet my needs,” said the 55-year-old engineer.

He says he is pleased to see Guaido’s emergence but does not intend to return to Venezuela for the time being as “the scale of the task to get the country back on its feet will be huge”. (afp)

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Venezuelans cross the Simon Bolivar International Bridge into the Colombian border city of Cucuta on January 10, 2019.

Trump seeks to ‘eliminate HIV’ in US within 10 years

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call for a bipartisan commitment to eradicate AIDS in the United States within a decade.

“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach,” Trump said in his annual address to Congress.

“My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” he said.

“Together, we will defeat AIDS

in America and beyond.”

Some 38,000 people were infected with HIV in the United States in 2017, according to government statistics.

This number has shrunk over the years, but in some communities there has been no let-up, especially among gays, blacks and Hispanics.

The Trump administration proposed last year to cut the budget for AIDS prevention, but Congress refused.

“No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American freedom,”

Trump said.

“In recent years we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS.” Trump’s mastery of the issue has been called into question, however, most notably by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who said last year that at two meetings, Trump needed help distinguishing HIV from HPV, another sexually transmitted disease.

“Both times, he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other,” Gates said. (afp)

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Indonesia economy posts 5.17% growth in 2018

Indonesia posted slightly stronger economic growth in 2018, data showed Wednesday, but it still fell well short of President Joko Widodo’s seven percent target as elections draw closer.

Southeast Asia’s biggest economy expanded 5.17 percent on-year, ticking up from 5.10 percent in 2017 and beating most analyst forecasts.

Domestic spending was a key driver, the statistics agency said, as the commodities-driven economy weathered rocky global demand.

“This growth is quite an accomplishment...given uncertainty in the global economy and fluctuating commodity prices,” said statistics agency head Suhariyanto, who goes by one name.

However, Indonesia has reported a widening trade deficit in recent months while its manufacturing sector shrank in January, the first contraction in a year which underlined a slowdown in production.

“This kind of growth is not sustainable because it is driven by consumption instead of production,” said Enny Sri Hartati, executive director of Jakarta-based Institute for Development of Economics and Finance.

Lacklustre prices for key commodities, including palm oil and coal, were likely to weigh on Indonesia’s economy, according to research house Capital Economics.

“Activity will weaken a little further over the coming year. A key drag is likely to be the export sector,” it said in a report after the growth figures were published.

“Our forecast is for global growth to slow gradually over the coming quarters, which will weigh on export volumes.”

The latest data come a few months before Widodo seeks re-election with his economic record topping the agenda.

When he first took office in 2014, Widodo pledged to boost growth to seven percent annually. But his administration has fallen short of that with the figure hovering around five percent a year, despite a huge infrastructure building push and stimulus packages.

The country has also been wrestling with a weak rupiah, dented by a selloff in emerging-market currencies that saw the unit slump to levels last seen during the Asian financial crisis 20 years ago.

However, it has recovered some ground in recent months, supported by the central bank hiking interest rates repeatedly through 2018. (afp)

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Indonesian men work at a bag workshop in Jakarta on February 6, 2019. Indonesia posted slightly stronger economic growth in 2018, but it still fell well short of President Joko Widodo’s seven percent target as elections draw closer.

Russia rejects Indonesia election ‘propaganda’ accusations

Moscow on Monday denied any involvement in Indonesia’s upcoming elections after President Joko Widodo claimed his opponents have used “Russian propaganda” to distort facts and spread fake news.

“As we know, the term ‘Russian Propaganda’ was coined in

2016 in the United States during the presidential election. This term has no basis in reality,” the Russian embassy in Jakarta tweeted.

“We underline the principal position of Russia is not to intervene in domestic affairs and electoral processes of foreign countries, including Indonesia, our close friend

and important partner.”

Widodo, who is running for a second term, did not elaborate on what he meant by the term “Russian propaganda”, and did not directly accuse Moscow of interfering in the election.

“There’s a campaign team that has been preparing... ‘Russian

Propaganda’, which constantly spews... slander, sins and hoaxes,” he said during a campaign event in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday.

Widodo also did not identify the opponents involved in the alleged campaign.

He will be running against

Prabowo Subianto in the election, scheduled for April 17. Both ran for president in 2014.

Russia has been repeatedly accused of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election in a bid to influence the result in favour of Donald Trump. Moscow has denied the allegations. (afp)

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Pacers thump Lakers in James’s most lopsided loss

Beji Langon Temple

BADUNG - Beji Langon Temple is situated at Kapal Village, Mengwi Subdistrict, Badung Regency. As a matter of fact, there are many Beji (springs) temples in Bali.

Beji is identical to bathing place but not for general public. It is consecrated or made sacred by Hindu community because the natural water existing in the Beji area is taken advantage for the benefit of religious and traditional ceremonies.

In the middle courtyard of the temple occurs a public bathing place having seven showers. One shower is made sacred, namely that located under the elephant statue. While its outermost courtyard is utilized as resting place and a place where to put clothes for villagers who would like to take a bath. Around 1980s, a partition wall was established within the bathing place to separating the men and women. Before that year, men, women and children took a bath together at the same place without dividing wall. “In 1950s, I took bath jointly with women, nakedly. However, there were never raping cases,” says Wayan Beratha Yasa, a villager from Langon Hamlet.

Most villagers of Langon Hamlet take advantage of the water to shower and bathing and for the needs of cooking or drinking. Also many villagers from outside the Kapal Village

utilize the Beji Langon for bathing or ritual needs. Concern of Badung Government and Bali Province is sufficiently attentive to such bathing place. Even the Beji Temple has been frequently renovated. Some shrines and pavement leading to the bathing place has been widened and reinforced. So has the parapet along 27 meters with the depth of 15 meters has been reinforced with concrete. A tower to contain water was also installed at the upper street side that will make easier for the villager to take water without stepping down the stairs to the water resource at the valley.

Adjacent to the Beji Langon Temple can be found a number of showers taking out water (as seen on photo) used for bathing place by the surrounding community. Its crystal clear water can be directly drunk without the necessity to boil.

Allegedly, the Beji Langon was established in the eleventh century. The Beji situated about 10 km north of Denpasar is a tourist object at Kapal Village. Not long ago, Badung Government indeed had established several tourism villages such as the village of Kapal, Baha, Mengwi, Bongkasa and some others.

These villages keep a unique and at-

tractive potential that are worth visiting by tourists. Beji Langon itself stretches in a cool environment with the backdrop of verdant trees remaining eternal within the vicinity of Penet River that is suitable for rafting. Its springs come from a natural cave beneath a rock cliff. Then, on the rock cliffs visitors can observe some reliefs and deity statues, while the greatest is the elephant statue (as seen on photo). Those sculptures and relief remind us of the artistic reliefs found in Goa Gajah and Gunung Kawi tourist object.

(IBP/net)

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Kelly Sildaru of Estonia practices during a training session for the Ski Slopestyle competition at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships on February 03, 2019 at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah.

Estonian kid Kelly Sildaru ready to light up freestyle ski worlds

LOS ANGELES - The Indiana Pacers humbled the Los Angeles Lakers 136-94 on Tuesday, handing Lakers superstar LeBron James the biggest margin of defeat of his NBA career.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 24 points for the Pacers, who tied a franchise record with 19 threepointers.

Myles Turner added 22 points and Thaddeus Young chipped in 12 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for an Indian team that notched a third straight victory.

James, playing his second game since suffering a groin injury in a Christmas Day win over Golden State, led the Lakers with 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

JaVale McGee added 16 points for the Lakers and was singled out

by Lakers coach Luke Walton as a bright spot on an otherwise dismal night.

The other thing Walton was pleased to see was a driving dunk from James in the second quarter.

“It was good to see LeBron take off and go dunk one and kind of trust his body,” Walton said, but otherwise there was little positive to find in a game that saw 19 Lakers turnovers lead to 33 Pacers points.

“Bottom line, we have to be better,” said Walton, who said he didn’t know if some of the Lakers

players had been adversely affected by trade talk swirling around the team.

Reports this week indicated the Lakers had offered as many as six players in a bid to land New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis.

“It affects everyone differently,” Walton said of the speculation.

Fans in Indianapolis rubbed in the rumors, yelling “LeBron’s going to trade you” at Lakers guard Brandon Ingram as he went to the free throw line.

“That’s just fans being fans,” James said. “If you let that bother you, you’re in the wrong sport.”

James had returned from injury to play 40 minutes in an overtime victory over the Los Angeles Clippers last Thursday.

The heavy minutes left him sore enough that the Lakers rested him for Saturday’s loss at Golden State.

James said he felt “all right” on Tuesday, although still not 100 percent.

“I’m on my way to being myself again,” said James, who connected on seven of 12 shots from the field and became the fifth player in NBA history to pass 32,000 points for his career.

That milestone notwithstanding, James endured the most lopsided defeat of his career, having previously twice lost by 36 points. (afp)

PARK CITY - Fresh from winning three medals at the Winter X-Games, Estonia’s 16-year-old freestyle ski sensation Kelly Sildaru is looking to take the World Championships by storm this week.

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The Tallinn native became the first person to leave the X-Games in Colorado in January having won three medals in one weekend in events where the slightest slip generally means you miss the podium.

Apart from missing her mum, the waif-like wunderkid told AFP she is confident and focused at the Freestyle World Championships in Utah running to February 10, saying the organisation suits her temperament.

“At the X-Games, the schedule was really tight. It won’t be that tight here,” she said.

“I’m skiing seven days in a row or something. At the X-Games, I did four or five days.

“It takes more time here, but it’s not so tight. It will be easier for my body.”

Competing on skis, rather than in the equivalent events for snowboard, Sildaru is down for the

slopestyle, where a string of obstacles such as handrails and bumps are negotiated and awarded marks by judges, and the half-pipe, notable for its aerial acrobatics.

Sildaru’s father Tonis is both her coach and manager and accompanies his daughter everywhere. He pulled her out of Saturday’s big air, complaining that the ramp was too slow and the landing area dangerous. That decision follows on from concern about her safety after Sildaru missed her Winter Olympic debut in Pyeongchang, South Korea, last year, because of a knee injury.

“I was really sad about that, but I tried to keep a positive vibe. I knew that if I worked hard I’d get back on skis faster,” she said.

Sildaru tried out skis for the first time when she was two years old and it was not long before evidence of aptitude began to emerge.

“We didn’t have a huge goal at

the beginning,” said Tonis.

“Maybe when she was eight or nine, we saw that she has some potential. It was quite early.”

If her life has sped up since then, the gifted teen says her family keeps her grounded.

“Everything is pretty much still the same,” she says appearing to take things in her stride.

“I’ve been travelling more, doing more different competitions.

It’s always hard to be away from home for a really long time.

“For sure, I miss my mum and my friends. But I’m pretty used to it.”

At the Aspen X-Games Sildaru thumped Olympic champion Sarah Hofflin to storm to gold in slopestyle. In the half-pipe Canada’s Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe went all in with a risk-laden routine that edged the Estonian into second.

Her third medal, a bronze, came in the big air. (afp)

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Bojan Bogdanovic #44 of the Indiana Pacers shoots the ball during the game against the Orlando Magic on January 31, 2019 at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Flu-hit Dortmund crash out of German Cup on penalties to Bremen

Flu-hit Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund crashed out of the German Cup on Tuesday, losing a penalty shoot-out at home to Werder Bremen following a 3-3 draw after extra time.

man Burki and his back-up, Swiss international Marwin Hitz.

tough.”

Peru veteran Pizarro, who turns 41 in October, was delighted with his 56th German Cup goal.

“That will have done us good - we deserved to go through,” beamed the former Chelsea and Bayern Munich striker.

Flu meant Dortmund were without England winger Jadon Sancho and defender Lukasz Piszczek, as well as first-choice goalkeeper Ro-

- Leverkusen also knocked out -

Goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka was Bremen’s hero in the shoot-out as he saved Dortmund’s opening attempts from Paco Alcacer and Maximilian Philipp as Bremen won the last-16 tie 4-2 on penalties.

It finished 1-1 over 90 minutes after Dortmund captain Marco Reus rifled home a direct free-kick to cancel out an early goal by Bremen’s Milot Rashica.

The game exploded into life

with four goals in extra time as Bremen twice equalised, through substitutes Claudio Pizarro and Martin Harnik, to force penalties after Chelsea-bound Christian Pulisic and Achraf Hakimi had scored for Dortmund. “It’s a bitter defeat,” admitted Dortmund striker Mario Goetze.

“We shouldn’t have conceded two equalisers in extra time and then to lose on penalties is really

It meant third-choice keeper Eric Oelschlaegel made his Dortmund debut against Bremen, the club he left last June after six years. The 23-year-old was beaten after just five minutes when Rashica stabbed home a Max Kruse free-kick to stun the sell-out crowd of 80,500.

Dortmund equalised just before the half-time break when Reus fired home a superb direct free-kick for

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Bremen’s Player celebrates after the German Cup (DFB Pokal) last 16 football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Werder Bremen in Dortmund, western Germany on Februarz 5, 2019. Dortmund lost the penalty shoot-out after extra-time to be knocked out of the competition.

his 17th goal of the season.

Both sides had chances late in the second half as Oelschlaegel made a superb one-handed save from a Kruse free-kick.

Dortmund midfielder Thomas Delaney then hit the crossbar with the 90 minutes up.

Pulisic looked to have settled the matter by netting just before the end of the first period of extra time after dribbling through the away defence.

Bremen came back with Pizarro knocking the ball home at the second attempt in a goal-mouth scramble to make it 2-2 on 108 minutes.

Dortmund regained the lead when defender Achraf Hakimi finished off a move he started on 113 minutes, but Harnik levelled the score in the 119th minute before Pavlenka’s heroics in the shoot-out.

Bayern Munich face Hertha Berlin away on Wednesday having lost their last two games at the Olympic Stadium -- crashing 2-0 in the Bundesliga last September and losing May’s German Cup final 3-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is expected to be back in the Bayern goal wearing a plastic cast after suffering a thumb injury last week.

Earlier on Tuesday Bayer Leverkusen, who pulled off a shock 3-1 win over Bayern last Saturday, were another big name casualty as they slumped to a 2-1 defeat at second-division Heidenheim.

Germany winger Julian Brandt gave Leverkusen the lead, but after Heidenheim striker Nikola Dovedan equalised, midfielder Maurice Multhaup hit the winner 18 minutes from time after previously hitting the bar.

Hamburg were another seconddivision club to boot a Bundesliga club out of the last 16 when 20-year-old Turkey international Berkay Ozcan scored their secondhalf winner in a 1-0 victory over Nuremberg. (afp)

League Two Newport land FA Cup meeting with Man City

Fourth-tier Newport County will take on Premier League champions Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cup after shocking Championship high-flyers Middlesbrough 2-0 on Tuesday.

Robbie Willmott and Padraig Amond scored brilliant second-half goals for the Welsh side to secure a plum tie at home to Pep Guardiola’s side on February 16.

Newport were more than worthy of their win as they dominated from start to finish under torrential rain at Rodney Parade and on a mudbath of a pitch that City will not relish.

“It’s nothing more than we deserved tonight, we were absolutely outstanding,” said Newport boss Mike Flynn.

“They can match Championship players. I don’t know what it is with them. We can play like that but not every week in League Two.” A penalty appeal for handball by Middlesbrough midfielder Adam Clayton was waved away and 40-year-old Greek goalkeeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos made a string of saves to keep Tony Pulis’s side level at the break.

However, Konstantopoulos could not keep out Willmott’s strike from outside the box two minutes into the second period and Amond fired

a well-worked corner into the top corner 23 minutes from time to send Newport into the last 16 for the first time in 70 years.

“They were the better team, they ran all over us. It was men against boys. Forget the conditions, you have to match people and that’s the real disappointment,” said Pulis. “Give them credit, they were fantastic tonight and they deserve their win.”

Wolves survived another scare from League One Shrewsbury to set up a fifth round visit to Bristol City with a 3-2 win at Molineux.

But for Matt Doherty’s stoppagetime equaliser, Shrewsbury would have knocked out the side that sit seventh in the Premier League when they first met in a 2-2 draw 10 days ago.

The Irish wing-back opened the scoring for Nuno Espirito Santo’s men and then levelled just before half-time after goals from James Bolton and Josh Laurent had put the Shrews 2-1 in front.

Ivan Cavaleiro then completed the Wolves comeback in the second half.

Brentford will travel to Swansea for an all-Championship tie after seeing off non-league outfit Barnet 3-1.

And Steve McClaren’s Queen’s Park Rangers will host Watford next after goals from Nahki Wells and Matt Smith beat Portsmouth 2-0. (afp)

2012 when he coached Spanish giants Real Madrid. According to the agreement seen by AFP, Mourinho accepted a one-year jail sentence immediately commuted to a fine of 182,500 euros.

The Portuguese coach will also have to pay an additional penalty

of 1.98 million euros ($2.3 million).

Mourinho, sacked by Manchester United in December following a string of disappointing performances, is the latest high-profile football figure to be judged over his tax affairs in Spain.

Spanish prosecutors accuse

Mourinho, who coached Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013, of failing to declare income of 1.6 million euros in 2011 and 1.7 million euros in 2012.

The grounds for the case, as with a series of football stars based in Spain, is how income from

Mourinho’s image rights was managed and declared.

Prosecutors believe by ceding his image rights to a series of companies based in tax havens, Mourinho committed fraud by not declaring the income those companies made from his image rights. (afp)

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Marseille’s French defender Boubacar Kamara celebrates after scoring a goal during the French L1 football match between Olympique de Marseille and FC Girondins de Bordeaux at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille onFebruary 5, 2019.

Marseille earn first home win in three months at empty Velodrome

Mourinho avoids jail but hit by fine for tax fraud in Spain

Ex-Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has avoided jail for tax fraud as part of a deal with Spanish prosecutors revealed Tuesday but will pay a fine of close to two million euros.

The 56-year-old is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and

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Newport County’s Jamaican striker Jamille Matt (L) vies with Middlesbrough’s English defender Aden Flint during the English FA Cup fourth round replay football match between Newport County and Middlesbrough at Rodney Parade in Newport, south Wales on February 5, 2019.

Marseille won for the first time at home since November as they beat Bordeaux 1-0 behind closed doors in Ligue 1 on Tuesday.

The fixture was played at an empty Stade Velodrome as the hosts were punished by the French football league (LFP) for crowd trouble during the January defeat to Lille.

T h e h o m e s i d e ’s E u r o p a League tie against Eintracht Frankfurt in September was also played in an empty Velodrome due to supporter behaviour.

Coach Rudi Garcia was absent from the touchline after he was suspended for two matches by the LFP for his behaviour towards the referee after the Lille clash.

Garcia complained about the lack of fans in the 60,000 capacity ground.

“It’s bad, these matches behind closed doors are horrible. I said it the first time and it was horrible again this time,” he said.

“It’s not football without supporters in the stadium. My suspension is also difficult but the most important thing was the absence of the fans.”

Garcia was without six of his first-choice players including transfer window signing Mario Balotelli and had to rely on Boubacar Kamara’s goal for a first home win since beating Dijon on November 11.

Bordeaux played with 10 men for more than an hour of play as Samuel Kalu was shown a red card for a reckless tackle on Lucas Ocampos. The Nigerian dived in with both feet and caught Ocampos on his shin with a badly-timed tackle.

The clearest opportunity in the opening half-hour for Marseille came as Hiroki Sakai’s header was tipped over the bar by Benoit Costil. Sakai was making his first Marseille appearance since returning as a runner-up in the Asian Cup.

Teenager Kamara’s first league goal of his career came three minutes before the break.

Valere Germain deflected Bouna Sarr’s corner across goal and Kamara was free to head in an easy finish at the back post with the players’ celebrations echoing around the empty Velodrome.

In the second half, Jimmy Briand went close for Bordeaux on 56 minutes with a powerful halfvolley which Steve Mandanda guided away from danger with their most promising opportunity of the match.

Germain wasted a chance to double the lead with a quarter of an hour of play remaining as his glancing header flew past Costil’s post following Nemanja Radonjic’s low cross from the right.

Marseille climb to seventh place in the table ahead of travelling to Dijon on Friday, and Bordeaux stay in 12th before heading to champions Paris SaintGermain on Saturday. (afp)

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Flu-hit Dortmund crash out of German Cup on penalties to Bremen

Flu-hit Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund crashed out of the German Cup on Tuesday, losing a penalty shoot-out at home to Werder Bremen following a 3-3 draw after extra time.

man Burki and his back-up, Swiss international Marwin Hitz.

tough.”

Peru veteran Pizarro, who turns 41 in October, was delighted with his 56th German Cup goal.

“That will have done us good - we deserved to go through,” beamed the former Chelsea and Bayern Munich striker.

Flu meant Dortmund were without England winger Jadon Sancho and defender Lukasz Piszczek, as well as first-choice goalkeeper Ro-

- Leverkusen also knocked out -

Goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka was Bremen’s hero in the shoot-out as he saved Dortmund’s opening attempts from Paco Alcacer and Maximilian Philipp as Bremen won the last-16 tie 4-2 on penalties.

It finished 1-1 over 90 minutes after Dortmund captain Marco Reus rifled home a direct free-kick to cancel out an early goal by Bremen’s Milot Rashica.

The game exploded into life

with four goals in extra time as Bremen twice equalised, through substitutes Claudio Pizarro and Martin Harnik, to force penalties after Chelsea-bound Christian Pulisic and Achraf Hakimi had scored for Dortmund. “It’s a bitter defeat,” admitted Dortmund striker Mario Goetze.

“We shouldn’t have conceded two equalisers in extra time and then to lose on penalties is really

It meant third-choice keeper Eric Oelschlaegel made his Dortmund debut against Bremen, the club he left last June after six years. The 23-year-old was beaten after just five minutes when Rashica stabbed home a Max Kruse free-kick to stun the sell-out crowd of 80,500.

Dortmund equalised just before the half-time break when Reus fired home a superb direct free-kick for

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Bremen’s Player celebrates after the German Cup (DFB Pokal) last 16 football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Werder Bremen in Dortmund, western Germany on Februarz 5, 2019. Dortmund lost the penalty shoot-out after extra-time to be knocked out of the competition.

his 17th goal of the season.

Both sides had chances late in the second half as Oelschlaegel made a superb one-handed save from a Kruse free-kick.

Dortmund midfielder Thomas Delaney then hit the crossbar with the 90 minutes up.

Pulisic looked to have settled the matter by netting just before the end of the first period of extra time after dribbling through the away defence.

Bremen came back with Pizarro knocking the ball home at the second attempt in a goal-mouth scramble to make it 2-2 on 108 minutes.

Dortmund regained the lead when defender Achraf Hakimi finished off a move he started on 113 minutes, but Harnik levelled the score in the 119th minute before Pavlenka’s heroics in the shoot-out.

Bayern Munich face Hertha Berlin away on Wednesday having lost their last two games at the Olympic Stadium -- crashing 2-0 in the Bundesliga last September and losing May’s German Cup final 3-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is expected to be back in the Bayern goal wearing a plastic cast after suffering a thumb injury last week.

Earlier on Tuesday Bayer Leverkusen, who pulled off a shock 3-1 win over Bayern last Saturday, were another big name casualty as they slumped to a 2-1 defeat at second-division Heidenheim.

Germany winger Julian Brandt gave Leverkusen the lead, but after Heidenheim striker Nikola Dovedan equalised, midfielder Maurice Multhaup hit the winner 18 minutes from time after previously hitting the bar.

Hamburg were another seconddivision club to boot a Bundesliga club out of the last 16 when 20-year-old Turkey international Berkay Ozcan scored their secondhalf winner in a 1-0 victory over Nuremberg. (afp)

League Two Newport land FA Cup meeting with Man City

Fourth-tier Newport County will take on Premier League champions Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cup after shocking Championship high-flyers Middlesbrough 2-0 on Tuesday.

Robbie Willmott and Padraig Amond scored brilliant second-half goals for the Welsh side to secure a plum tie at home to Pep Guardiola’s side on February 16.

Newport were more than worthy of their win as they dominated from start to finish under torrential rain at Rodney Parade and on a mudbath of a pitch that City will not relish.

“It’s nothing more than we deserved tonight, we were absolutely outstanding,” said Newport boss Mike Flynn.

“They can match Championship players. I don’t know what it is with them. We can play like that but not every week in League Two.” A penalty appeal for handball by Middlesbrough midfielder Adam Clayton was waved away and 40-year-old Greek goalkeeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos made a string of saves to keep Tony Pulis’s side level at the break.

However, Konstantopoulos could not keep out Willmott’s strike from outside the box two minutes into the second period and Amond fired

a well-worked corner into the top corner 23 minutes from time to send Newport into the last 16 for the first time in 70 years.

“They were the better team, they ran all over us. It was men against boys. Forget the conditions, you have to match people and that’s the real disappointment,” said Pulis. “Give them credit, they were fantastic tonight and they deserve their win.”

Wolves survived another scare from League One Shrewsbury to set up a fifth round visit to Bristol City with a 3-2 win at Molineux.

But for Matt Doherty’s stoppagetime equaliser, Shrewsbury would have knocked out the side that sit seventh in the Premier League when they first met in a 2-2 draw 10 days ago.

The Irish wing-back opened the scoring for Nuno Espirito Santo’s men and then levelled just before half-time after goals from James Bolton and Josh Laurent had put the Shrews 2-1 in front.

Ivan Cavaleiro then completed the Wolves comeback in the second half.

Brentford will travel to Swansea for an all-Championship tie after seeing off non-league outfit Barnet 3-1.

And Steve McClaren’s Queen’s Park Rangers will host Watford next after goals from Nahki Wells and Matt Smith beat Portsmouth 2-0. (afp)

2012 when he coached Spanish giants Real Madrid. According to the agreement seen by AFP, Mourinho accepted a one-year jail sentence immediately commuted to a fine of 182,500 euros.

The Portuguese coach will also have to pay an additional penalty

of 1.98 million euros ($2.3 million).

Mourinho, sacked by Manchester United in December following a string of disappointing performances, is the latest high-profile football figure to be judged over his tax affairs in Spain.

Spanish prosecutors accuse

Mourinho, who coached Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013, of failing to declare income of 1.6 million euros in 2011 and 1.7 million euros in 2012.

The grounds for the case, as with a series of football stars based in Spain, is how income from

Mourinho’s image rights was managed and declared.

Prosecutors believe by ceding his image rights to a series of companies based in tax havens, Mourinho committed fraud by not declaring the income those companies made from his image rights. (afp)

GERARD JULIEN / AFP

Marseille’s French defender Boubacar Kamara celebrates after scoring a goal during the French L1 football match between Olympique de Marseille and FC Girondins de Bordeaux at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille onFebruary 5, 2019.

Marseille earn first home win in three months at empty Velodrome

Mourinho avoids jail but hit by fine for tax fraud in Spain

Ex-Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has avoided jail for tax fraud as part of a deal with Spanish prosecutors revealed Tuesday but will pay a fine of close to two million euros.

The 56-year-old is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and

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Newport County’s Jamaican striker Jamille Matt (L) vies with Middlesbrough’s English defender Aden Flint during the English FA Cup fourth round replay football match between Newport County and Middlesbrough at Rodney Parade in Newport, south Wales on February 5, 2019.

Marseille won for the first time at home since November as they beat Bordeaux 1-0 behind closed doors in Ligue 1 on Tuesday.

The fixture was played at an empty Stade Velodrome as the hosts were punished by the French football league (LFP) for crowd trouble during the January defeat to Lille.

T h e h o m e s i d e ’s E u r o p a League tie against Eintracht Frankfurt in September was also played in an empty Velodrome due to supporter behaviour.

Coach Rudi Garcia was absent from the touchline after he was suspended for two matches by the LFP for his behaviour towards the referee after the Lille clash.

Garcia complained about the lack of fans in the 60,000 capacity ground.

“It’s bad, these matches behind closed doors are horrible. I said it the first time and it was horrible again this time,” he said.

“It’s not football without supporters in the stadium. My suspension is also difficult but the most important thing was the absence of the fans.”

Garcia was without six of his first-choice players including transfer window signing Mario Balotelli and had to rely on Boubacar Kamara’s goal for a first home win since beating Dijon on November 11.

Bordeaux played with 10 men for more than an hour of play as Samuel Kalu was shown a red card for a reckless tackle on Lucas Ocampos. The Nigerian dived in with both feet and caught Ocampos on his shin with a badly-timed tackle.

The clearest opportunity in the opening half-hour for Marseille came as Hiroki Sakai’s header was tipped over the bar by Benoit Costil. Sakai was making his first Marseille appearance since returning as a runner-up in the Asian Cup.

Teenager Kamara’s first league goal of his career came three minutes before the break.

Valere Germain deflected Bouna Sarr’s corner across goal and Kamara was free to head in an easy finish at the back post with the players’ celebrations echoing around the empty Velodrome.

In the second half, Jimmy Briand went close for Bordeaux on 56 minutes with a powerful halfvolley which Steve Mandanda guided away from danger with their most promising opportunity of the match.

Germain wasted a chance to double the lead with a quarter of an hour of play remaining as his glancing header flew past Costil’s post following Nemanja Radonjic’s low cross from the right.

Marseille climb to seventh place in the table ahead of travelling to Dijon on Friday, and Bordeaux stay in 12th before heading to champions Paris SaintGermain on Saturday. (afp)

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International

Pacers thump Lakers in James’s most lopsided loss

Beji Langon Temple

BADUNG - Beji Langon Temple is situated at Kapal Village, Mengwi Subdistrict, Badung Regency. As a matter of fact, there are many Beji (springs) temples in Bali.

Beji is identical to bathing place but not for general public. It is consecrated or made sacred by Hindu community because the natural water existing in the Beji area is taken advantage for the benefit of religious and traditional ceremonies.

In the middle courtyard of the temple occurs a public bathing place having seven showers. One shower is made sacred, namely that located under the elephant statue. While its outermost courtyard is utilized as resting place and a place where to put clothes for villagers who would like to take a bath. Around 1980s, a partition wall was established within the bathing place to separating the men and women. Before that year, men, women and children took a bath together at the same place without dividing wall. “In 1950s, I took bath jointly with women, nakedly. However, there were never raping cases,” says Wayan Beratha Yasa, a villager from Langon Hamlet.

Most villagers of Langon Hamlet take advantage of the water to shower and bathing and for the needs of cooking or drinking. Also many villagers from outside the Kapal Village

utilize the Beji Langon for bathing or ritual needs. Concern of Badung Government and Bali Province is sufficiently attentive to such bathing place. Even the Beji Temple has been frequently renovated. Some shrines and pavement leading to the bathing place has been widened and reinforced. So has the parapet along 27 meters with the depth of 15 meters has been reinforced with concrete. A tower to contain water was also installed at the upper street side that will make easier for the villager to take water without stepping down the stairs to the water resource at the valley.

Adjacent to the Beji Langon Temple can be found a number of showers taking out water (as seen on photo) used for bathing place by the surrounding community. Its crystal clear water can be directly drunk without the necessity to boil.

Allegedly, the Beji Langon was established in the eleventh century. The Beji situated about 10 km north of Denpasar is a tourist object at Kapal Village. Not long ago, Badung Government indeed had established several tourism villages such as the village of Kapal, Baha, Mengwi, Bongkasa and some others.

These villages keep a unique and at-

tractive potential that are worth visiting by tourists. Beji Langon itself stretches in a cool environment with the backdrop of verdant trees remaining eternal within the vicinity of Penet River that is suitable for rafting. Its springs come from a natural cave beneath a rock cliff. Then, on the rock cliffs visitors can observe some reliefs and deity statues, while the greatest is the elephant statue (as seen on photo). Those sculptures and relief remind us of the artistic reliefs found in Goa Gajah and Gunung Kawi tourist object.

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Kelly Sildaru of Estonia practices during a training session for the Ski Slopestyle competition at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships on February 03, 2019 at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah.

Estonian kid Kelly Sildaru ready to light up freestyle ski worlds

LOS ANGELES - The Indiana Pacers humbled the Los Angeles Lakers 136-94 on Tuesday, handing Lakers superstar LeBron James the biggest margin of defeat of his NBA career.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 24 points for the Pacers, who tied a franchise record with 19 threepointers.

Myles Turner added 22 points and Thaddeus Young chipped in 12 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for an Indian team that notched a third straight victory.

James, playing his second game since suffering a groin injury in a Christmas Day win over Golden State, led the Lakers with 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

JaVale McGee added 16 points for the Lakers and was singled out

by Lakers coach Luke Walton as a bright spot on an otherwise dismal night.

The other thing Walton was pleased to see was a driving dunk from James in the second quarter.

“It was good to see LeBron take off and go dunk one and kind of trust his body,” Walton said, but otherwise there was little positive to find in a game that saw 19 Lakers turnovers lead to 33 Pacers points.

“Bottom line, we have to be better,” said Walton, who said he didn’t know if some of the Lakers

players had been adversely affected by trade talk swirling around the team.

Reports this week indicated the Lakers had offered as many as six players in a bid to land New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis.

“It affects everyone differently,” Walton said of the speculation.

Fans in Indianapolis rubbed in the rumors, yelling “LeBron’s going to trade you” at Lakers guard Brandon Ingram as he went to the free throw line.

“That’s just fans being fans,” James said. “If you let that bother you, you’re in the wrong sport.”

James had returned from injury to play 40 minutes in an overtime victory over the Los Angeles Clippers last Thursday.

The heavy minutes left him sore enough that the Lakers rested him for Saturday’s loss at Golden State.

James said he felt “all right” on Tuesday, although still not 100 percent.

“I’m on my way to being myself again,” said James, who connected on seven of 12 shots from the field and became the fifth player in NBA history to pass 32,000 points for his career.

That milestone notwithstanding, James endured the most lopsided defeat of his career, having previously twice lost by 36 points. (afp)

PARK CITY - Fresh from winning three medals at the Winter X-Games, Estonia’s 16-year-old freestyle ski sensation Kelly Sildaru is looking to take the World Championships by storm this week.

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The Tallinn native became the first person to leave the X-Games in Colorado in January having won three medals in one weekend in events where the slightest slip generally means you miss the podium.

Apart from missing her mum, the waif-like wunderkid told AFP she is confident and focused at the Freestyle World Championships in Utah running to February 10, saying the organisation suits her temperament.

“At the X-Games, the schedule was really tight. It won’t be that tight here,” she said.

“I’m skiing seven days in a row or something. At the X-Games, I did four or five days.

“It takes more time here, but it’s not so tight. It will be easier for my body.”

Competing on skis, rather than in the equivalent events for snowboard, Sildaru is down for the

slopestyle, where a string of obstacles such as handrails and bumps are negotiated and awarded marks by judges, and the half-pipe, notable for its aerial acrobatics.

Sildaru’s father Tonis is both her coach and manager and accompanies his daughter everywhere. He pulled her out of Saturday’s big air, complaining that the ramp was too slow and the landing area dangerous. That decision follows on from concern about her safety after Sildaru missed her Winter Olympic debut in Pyeongchang, South Korea, last year, because of a knee injury.

“I was really sad about that, but I tried to keep a positive vibe. I knew that if I worked hard I’d get back on skis faster,” she said.

Sildaru tried out skis for the first time when she was two years old and it was not long before evidence of aptitude began to emerge.

“We didn’t have a huge goal at

the beginning,” said Tonis.

“Maybe when she was eight or nine, we saw that she has some potential. It was quite early.”

If her life has sped up since then, the gifted teen says her family keeps her grounded.

“Everything is pretty much still the same,” she says appearing to take things in her stride.

“I’ve been travelling more, doing more different competitions.

It’s always hard to be away from home for a really long time.

“For sure, I miss my mum and my friends. But I’m pretty used to it.”

At the Aspen X-Games Sildaru thumped Olympic champion Sarah Hofflin to storm to gold in slopestyle. In the half-pipe Canada’s Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe went all in with a risk-laden routine that edged the Estonian into second.

Her third medal, a bronze, came in the big air. (afp)

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Bojan Bogdanovic #44 of the Indiana Pacers shoots the ball during the game against the Orlando Magic on January 31, 2019 at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Crisis has Venezuela’s Portuguese returning to roots

ESTARREJA - Dihara Ramirez worked as a doctor in Venezuela, but now she makes her living at a Portuguese supermarket after leaving her crippled homeland.

The 27-year-old is one of thousands of Venezuelans with ties to Portugal to have crossed the Atlantic in search of a new life since trouble flared in the beleaguered South American nation in 2016.

In recent weeks Dihara’s country has been plunged into further crisis as President Nicolas Maduro’s authority was challenged by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself acting head of state -- a claim now recognised by many governments, including Lisbon.

Describing the impact Venezuela’s economic problems had on the medical supplies crucial to her former job, Dihara told AFP: “It was very painful to find myself unable to get hold of medicine to bring relief to people.”

Around a third of the 10,000 Venezuelan emigrants to have arrived in Portugal have settled in the northern municipality of Estarreja -- 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Porto -- including Dihara, whose husband’s family hail from the area.

Since leaving her home in Maracaibo, the main city in western Venezuela, Dihara has been living with her parents-in-law in their flat, where she has their “unconditional support”.

“The idea was for my husband to come to Estarreja as well but he doesn’t want to lose the bakery we have over there,” said Dihara, who made the 7,000-kilometre (4,400-mile) voyage with her fiveyear-old son.

“With the arrival of Guaido he wants to hang on all the more to see how the situation evolves.”

- Help at hand -

Since 2015, some 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled their oilrich homeland, where food and

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“It’s in one area (on the seabed), it’s all one mass, but some bits may not be connected. So what you don’t want to do is to disturb the body in a way that you lose it,” he said.

Sala’s family raised more than 370,000 euros ($422,000) in an online campaign to pay for the private search.

medicine shortages have become the norm.

As many as 400,000 ethnic Portuguese live in the South American country, but the political crisis is increasingly persuading them to return to their roots.

After Madeira island, Estarreja is the second-largest area in Portugal originally home to Venezuela’s Lusophone community.

For those who make the journey to Estarreja, local business association SEMA, which helps new arrivals from an imposing oval table at its headquarters, is the first port of call.

A bakery named Venezuela and a shop named Caracas testify to the close link between the two countries, yet taking in the influx of arrivals has been a considerable test for a town of just 27,000.

“Our main difficulty concerns getting identity papers. That is a stage which takes time but is strictly necessary to integrate these people into our companies,” says SEMA chairman Jose Valente.

Nevertheless Valente praised the Portuguese government for setting up in recent days an aid committee to speed up the process of getting the immigrants through border formalities.

Last year, SEMA found work for 513 of the arrivals. January saw another 100 or so join the local payroll in a region which is experiencing labour shortages, notably in industry, as well as restaurants, hotels and retail.

- Long road to recovery -

Crispim Rodrigues, who himself came back to Portugal around 20 years ago, is on hand at SEMA to lend support to the incoming diaspora.

“The people we extend a hand to are in a bad way. They can no

“Had that not happened, I don’t think anybody would have searched for the plane,” Mearns said. “We were told by the AAIB that they didn’t feel that there was much to be gained,” he said.

The AAIB ended up chartering a ship to join Mearns on Sunday. He said recovery was now “technically possible -- the water depth isn’t an issue really, and the weather can be managed with the right ship”. (afp)

longer live (in Venezuela) and have no option other than exile,” says Rodrigues, a moustachioed 67-year-old who helps with administrative formalities on how to make a fresh start.

“Currently, the minimum

wage in Venezuela (around $50 a month) is no longer sufficient to buy a chicken and a few vegetables for the whole month,” he told AFP. Joachim Tavares, a second generation Portuguese emigre, is one of the few to have managed to bring over his entire family.

“I asked for help in finding

work. Not necessarily in my field but a job that can meet my needs,” said the 55-year-old engineer.

He says he is pleased to see Guaido’s emergence but does not intend to return to Venezuela for the time being as “the scale of the task to get the country back on its feet will be huge”. (afp)

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Venezuelans cross the Simon Bolivar International Bridge into the Colombian border city of Cucuta on January 10, 2019.

Trump seeks to ‘eliminate HIV’ in US within 10 years

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call for a bipartisan commitment to eradicate AIDS in the United States within a decade.

“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach,” Trump said in his annual address to Congress.

“My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” he said.

“Together, we will defeat AIDS

in America and beyond.”

Some 38,000 people were infected with HIV in the United States in 2017, according to government statistics.

This number has shrunk over the years, but in some communities there has been no let-up, especially among gays, blacks and Hispanics.

The Trump administration proposed last year to cut the budget for AIDS prevention, but Congress refused.

“No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American freedom,”

Trump said.

“In recent years we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS.” Trump’s mastery of the issue has been called into question, however, most notably by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who said last year that at two meetings, Trump needed help distinguishing HIV from HPV, another sexually transmitted disease.

“Both times, he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other,” Gates said. (afp)

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Indonesia economy posts 5.17% growth in 2018

Indonesia posted slightly stronger economic growth in 2018, data showed Wednesday, but it still fell well short of President Joko Widodo’s seven percent target as elections draw closer.

Southeast Asia’s biggest economy expanded 5.17 percent on-year, ticking up from 5.10 percent in 2017 and beating most analyst forecasts.

Domestic spending was a key driver, the statistics agency said, as the commodities-driven economy weathered rocky global demand.

“This growth is quite an accomplishment...given uncertainty in the global economy and fluctuating commodity prices,” said statistics agency head Suhariyanto, who goes by one name.

However, Indonesia has reported a widening trade deficit in recent months while its manufacturing sector shrank in January, the first contraction in a year which underlined a slowdown in production.

“This kind of growth is not sustainable because it is driven by consumption instead of production,” said Enny Sri Hartati, executive director of Jakarta-based Institute for Development of Economics and Finance.

Lacklustre prices for key commodities, including palm oil and coal, were likely to weigh on Indonesia’s economy, according to research house Capital Economics.

“Activity will weaken a little further over the coming year. A key drag is likely to be the export sector,” it said in a report after the growth figures were published.

“Our forecast is for global growth to slow gradually over the coming quarters, which will weigh on export volumes.”

The latest data come a few months before Widodo seeks re-election with his economic record topping the agenda.

When he first took office in 2014, Widodo pledged to boost growth to seven percent annually. But his administration has fallen short of that with the figure hovering around five percent a year, despite a huge infrastructure building push and stimulus packages.

The country has also been wrestling with a weak rupiah, dented by a selloff in emerging-market currencies that saw the unit slump to levels last seen during the Asian financial crisis 20 years ago.

However, it has recovered some ground in recent months, supported by the central bank hiking interest rates repeatedly through 2018. (afp)

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Indonesian men work at a bag workshop in Jakarta on February 6, 2019. Indonesia posted slightly stronger economic growth in 2018, but it still fell well short of President Joko Widodo’s seven percent target as elections draw closer.

Russia rejects Indonesia election ‘propaganda’ accusations

Moscow on Monday denied any involvement in Indonesia’s upcoming elections after President Joko Widodo claimed his opponents have used “Russian propaganda” to distort facts and spread fake news.

“As we know, the term ‘Russian Propaganda’ was coined in

2016 in the United States during the presidential election. This term has no basis in reality,” the Russian embassy in Jakarta tweeted.

“We underline the principal position of Russia is not to intervene in domestic affairs and electoral processes of foreign countries, including Indonesia, our close friend

and important partner.”

Widodo, who is running for a second term, did not elaborate on what he meant by the term “Russian propaganda”, and did not directly accuse Moscow of interfering in the election.

“There’s a campaign team that has been preparing... ‘Russian

Propaganda’, which constantly spews... slander, sins and hoaxes,” he said during a campaign event in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday.

Widodo also did not identify the opponents involved in the alleged campaign.

He will be running against

Prabowo Subianto in the election, scheduled for April 17. Both ran for president in 2014.

Russia has been repeatedly accused of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election in a bid to influence the result in favour of Donald Trump. Moscow has denied the allegations. (afp)

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BUSINESS Apple agrees 500-mln-euro tax settlement with France

Apple said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with French authorities to settle 10 years of back taxes, becoming the latest US company to reach a deal with France which has led a European push for higher taxes on tech giants.

French news weekly L’Express reported that Apple had paid nearly 500 million euros ($570 million) to resolve the case in a confidential settlement reached in December.

Apple declined to disclose the amount paid, but a source familiar with the case confirmed the figure to AFP. “The French tax administration recently concluded a multi-year audit on the company’s French accounts and an adjustment will be published in our public accounts,” Apple said in a statement.

“We know the important role taxes play in society and we pay our taxes in all the countries where we operate, in complete conformity with laws and practices in force at the local level,” added the company.

French authorities declined to comment further, citing the confidentiality of tax matters.

- French tech tax looms Apple is one of several American technology giants in the line of fire in Europe over their tax strategies, which see them route their income through low-tax nations such as Ireland or Luxembourg.

In 2016, it was ordered by the European Commission to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland. The European Commission said Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of just 0.005 per cent on its European profits in 2014 -- equivalent to just 50 euros for every million.

The deal in France comes as the govern-

ment prepares to push ahead with its own unilateral “GAFA tax” -- named after Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -- faced with the failure of EU members to agree on how to get technology companies to pay more tax on their European operations.

The tax, to be put to parliament in a bill later this month, would affect companies with global sales of more than 750 million euros

and 25 million euros in France, according to the government.

It would be retroactive to January 1 and is expected to raise 500 million euros this year. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has called the question of how and where global companies pay their taxes “a major issue in the 21st century”. But an agreement among EU members has

proved elusive.

Ireland, Denmark and Sweden have all blocked plans for a levy for fear of dissuading investment and Germany has proved lukewarm on the issue, fearing US retaliation against its car industry.

The issue has been referred to the OECD, which aims to come up with an international tax by 2020. (ap)

Minister floats German industry strategy, ‘champions’

BERLIN - Germany’s economy minister is floating the possibility of the government temporarily taking stakes in technology companies to head off foreign takeovers as he proposes a “national industry strategy.”

Peter Altmaier backed the idea of “national and European champions” in a fast-changing business world as he presented his strategy on Tuesday. His proposal proclaimed that “size matters!”

Altmaier said his proposal is

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier presents the “National Industry Strategy 2030,” measures to secure the economic and technological leadership of Germany and the European Union in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb.5, 2019.

meant to kick off a discussion in Germany and then in Europe on industrial strategy in the face of tough global competition. Germany has seen a decade of economic growth, but he argued that that doesn’t guarantee it will continue.

The most eye-catching idea is the concept of setting up an “investment fund” that could in limited cases protect companies that make key technologies from being taken over. (ap)

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Bali News

Thursday, February 7, 2019

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Enjoy Beautiful Bali through Underwater Cultural Park on Samuh Beach

Nusa Dua area is famous for its prestigious five-star hotel facilities.

This area is really managed professionally by the government of Badung.

Other than offering luxurious hotels, this area also has a beach resort that is not less beautiful, namely the Segara Samuh Beach. It is located right behind of Hotel Bali Tropic Resort till Club Med.

Visitors often call it by the name of Nusa Dua Beach because the beach lies in Nusa Dua area. Samuh Beach presents nature attraction in the form of beautiful sunrise like that on Sanur Beach area.

This beach is very friendly to children because it has little waves. Sometimes there are no waves at all, so that many tourists allow their kids to play freely on this beach.

If the sea water is receding, we can have a promenade as far as 100 m to the middle of the sea. Seeing the marine animals trapped in the puddles of seawater will add to the sensation of visitors to this Samuh Beach.

From this Segara Samuh Beach, we can see the green Island of Nusa Dharma. On this island, visitors can explore the track on foot or by cycling. For those who like surfing can go in as far as 200 meters from the beach to get suitable waves. Those who like diving or snorkeling can try it on this beach. There is an underwater park named the Bali Underwater Cultural Park (BUCP) located about 500 meters from the Samuh Beach at a depth of 11 meters from sea level.

BUCP contains a collection of artificial reefs in the form of statues of dancer such as statues of Kecak Dance performance and characters of the Ramayana epic like Rama and Sita. The BUCP is intended to do conservation for the sake of marine biodiversity and Balinese culture. In addition to increasing the value of the arts, the statue also serves

as a medium to grow new natural coral, so that the conservation of coral reef will be well preserved.

Other than for the growth of coral reef, this statue also becomes the home to various fish, a new attraction of marine tourism objects as well as tourist destination promotion caring about the preservation of culture and environment. If visitors want to enjoy the beauty of

the underwater, the submarine or snorkeling facilities. Fishing boats are available to take to the middle of the sea. They can be rented on Mengiat Beach whose location is not far from the Samuh Beach.

Not far from Segara Samuh Beach, there is a small island named the Peninsula Island which is famous for its water blow object (the waves hits the rocks and create the towering

sparks). On this island, there is also jogging track like that in Nusa Dharma Island. Aside from enjoying the beautiful water blow, visitors can also try this track that directly leads to water blow. The Samuh Beach tourism object has been equipped with spacious parking area, boat rental, bathroom / toilet, resting place and restaurant offering various menus. (kmb)

Papuan Stone Burning at Anjangsana of Taman Nusa Festive and truly entertaining atmosphere imbued Taman Nusa so that visitors got a unique presentation in the Anjangsana area on Sunday (Dec. 2). The regular activities held every weekend started at 17:00 through 19:00 featured 10 bands of ethnic and Indie music by singing their best works. While enjoying Indonesian unique regional songs, visitors can also see the beauty of nature, the terrace above the Melangit River.

Admission for visitors is free of charge to enter the Anjangsana area. This is a means to raise and increase the potential of the art from the community and schools in Bali. Apart from ethnic music and Indie Bands, the Anjangsana also displays the Papua Body Dance with a message ‘Nature is my body

and the soul is my nature. Rivers, canoes and sago are single entity that cannot be separated from my life.’

Every region in Indonesia has its own uniqueness, such as regional languages, traditional clothing, special foods, and traditions and can now be found in Tama Nusa.

“At the moment it remains about Papua. Probably, only few people know that Papua has a unique cooking tradition known as Bakar Batu (burning stone),” said General Manager of Taman Nusa, I Nyoman Murjana.

Bakar Batu is a traditional cooking method in the daily life of the Papuans. Aside from serving as gratefulness, this method also welcomes the happiness of birth, death, and as an expression of together-

ness. “Anjangsana visitors can discuss directly with our friends from Papua. A very interesting and impressive experience is to witness the process of Bakar Batu directly at Anjangsana of Taman Nusa,” said Murjana.

While watching the art of music and performances as well as the tradition of burning stones, visitors can try traditional culinary delights served at the culinary booth. The price is very affordable. There are snacks, market snacks, a variety of fritter, meatballs, chicken satay, various crackers, chips, salad, jingo rice and traditional fresh drinks and drinks. “In the future, we will collaborate with the archipelagic culinary activists and traditional crafts in Bali,” added Murjana. (kmb)

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Related to building height

Buleleng proposes exceptions for hospital and school buildings

SINGARAJA - The discussion on the revisions to the Regional Regulation (Perda) of Bali Provincial Spatial Planning (RTRWP) remains under progress in the Bali House of Representatives. Amid the discussion, Buleleng proposed the matters related to the rules of building height. Based on the regulation, the local government proposed to exclude building height rules for hospital and educational facility buildings. Meanwhile, for tourist accommodation or other interests, Buleleng agreed to provide certain restrictions.

This was stated by Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS), last week after handing over non-cash assistance of Family Hope Program (PKH) at the Wanita Laksmi Graha building, Singaraja.

The regent proposed the hospital and educational facility building to get an exception in building height constraints because in urban areas it is difficult to develop hospital facilities. Hospital facilities are not only oriented towards treatment buildings and other related units, but also the supporting facilities especially parking lot. In harmony with the population growth, it will certainly require readiness of hospital parking.

“We ask for hospital and school buildings to be exempted from the building’s height limit. The reason is that being in one building will facilitate services and parking lots also require adequate land, so that with multi-storey buildings will be able to deal with land difficulties in urban areas,” he said.

Likewise for educational facilities, the regent assessed they are still in need of additional infrastructure buildings. Meanwhile, in urban areas the problem is the land for school development or building new schools. For this reason, the solution is to build a multilevel pattern, so that the land difficulties can be handled permanently. “Gradually, if the hospital is now given,

maybe later on it will be followed by schools to build so because this is the only solution in overcoming land difficulties,” he said.

To note, during the discussion of the RTRWP Bali, the House of Representatives and the government changed the rules on building heights in Bali. Now, it is arranged that the maximum building height is 15 meters or equal to the height of a coconut tree. Revision of the provisions is planned to apply to certain areas only, such as hospital buildings, government offices, and schools. (kmb38) Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana.

High accident rate, police do traffic compliance campaign

GIANYAR - The number of traffic accidents in Gianyar district

is quite high. Throughout 2018, dozens of victims even died in

this region. Reflecting on the data, the police ranks campaigned for

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Police ranks campaigned for the slogan “Stop Violations, Stop Accidents, Safety for Humanity” during the roadshow of Millennial Road Safety Festival on Sunday (Feb. 3).

the slogan “Stop Violations, Stop Accidents, Safety for Humanity” during the roadshow of Millennial Road Safety Festival on Sunday (Feb. 3).

Based on the data from the Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs, the traffic accident in this region was recorded to reach 563. Ironically, of that number, 64 people died.

“Meanwhile, 30 people of them belong to millennial group or youngsters,” said Chief of Gianyar Police, Priyanto Priyo Hutomo, last Sunday.

He explained that Gianyar Police organized the Millennial Road Safety Festival in the Gianyar Car Free Day (CFD) area as warming up before the peak of the event to be held on February 17 at Renon Square. “We provide education in the form of Road Safety Training during this Millennial Road Safety Festival,” he explained.

Thousands of millennial youngsters enlivened the free program filled with fun walk, safety ridding, orderly traffic declaration and drawing of door prizes in the CFD area. Chief of Gianyar Police added that all motorists must be vigilant when taking to the streets. “On the road, everything is an enemy to watch out for to prevent accidents,” he said.

To improve the prevention, the

ranks of Gianyar Police also provided education for schools in Gianyar district. “Student education at schools has also been routinely scheduled with the hope that they will recognize traffic signs early on,” he affirmed.

In the last Sunday’s event, a traffic accident victim named Made Widjana who had a leg fracture some time ago got assistance in the form of wheelchair handed over by Deputy Chief of Gianyar Police, Adnan Pandibu.

Meanwhile, Chairperson of the National Committee of Indonesian Youth (KNPI) of Gianyar Chapter, Bramana Tri Wibawa, said the Millennial Road Safety Festival activity made the younger generation know more about how to drive well and properly.

“Police’s efforts are now better than before, so the impression of young people who are reluctant or afraid to see policemen actually can feel that police are our friends,” he said.

This young man familiarly addressed as Bram also conveyed a message to younger generation in Gianyar district to jointly maintain the order and remain vigilant when driving. “We young people remain stylish in our style but always prioritize safety,” he ordered. (kmb35)

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Chinese hunger for ‘world’s smelliest fruit’ threatens Malaysian forests

RAUB - Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of jungle is being cleared to make way for massive plantations of the spiky, pungent fruit.

Grown across tropical Southeast Asia, the durian is hailed as the “king of fruits” by fans, who liken its creamy texture and intense aroma to blue cheese.

But detractors say durians stink of sewage and stale vomit. The strong smell means many hotels across the region have banned guests from bringing them to rooms, while Singapore does not allow the fruit on its subway system.

Nevertheless, they are a hit in China, and the increase in demand has prompted exporters to vye for a bigger share of the burgeoning market.

Growers in Malaysia are increasingly shifting from small orchards to industrial-scale operations -- a trend that environmentalists warn presents a new threat to rainforests already challenged by loggers and palm oil plantations.

“Right now durians are gaining a lot of attention from the Chinese market,” said Sophine Tann, from environmental protection group PEKA, which has studied land clearances to make way for the fruit.

“This deforestation for planting of durians is in preparation to meet that demand.”

In the jungle-clad district of

Raub in central Malaysia, swathes of rainforest have recently been chopped down to make way for a new plantation, with durian seedlings protected by netting planted across bare hillsides.

The plantation is next to an area of protected forest, which is home to a kaleidescope of animals from monkeys to exotic birds.

A river, now murky and filled with trunks and branches from logging, runs close by.

A sign outside the plantation said it was run by Ample Harvest Produce but company staff refused to comment when contacted about the loss of trees in the area.

PEKA said the land’s status was changed by the local government to allow logging, but local authorities did not respond to requests for comment.

- Love at first bite In a Beijing mall some 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) away, a stall named “Little Fruit Captain” is doing a brisk trade selling Malaysian durians.

Shop manager Wang Tao said his customers “fall in love” with durians from Malaysia due to their particularly sweet taste, often preferring them to those from rival exporters, such as Thailand.

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This picture taken on January 18, 2019 shows the meat of a durian being removed at an eatery stall specialising in the fruit, in Beijing.

He imports frozen durians from a facility in Malaysia and sells them in plastic containers or in other forms -- a kind of baked dessert, in ice cream or fried up as crisps.

Customers are kept up to date about the shop’s stock via the WeChat messaging app.

“I first tried durian as a child

and acquired a taste for it,” said university student Liu Zelun, who visits the shop once a week for her durian fix.

“Thai durians have a stronger flavour and you tend to get sick of it after a while, but not the ones that I buy from here.”

The most popular variety -- and

one of the most expensive -- is Musang King, known for its thick, golden flesh. A single Musang King was on sale at the Beijing stall for 800 yuan ($120), several times more expensive than in Malaysia.

“Our customers aren’t concerned about the prices, they just want the best,” said Wang. (afp)

Bangladesh protests to Myanmar over new arrivals from troubled state

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Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on February 4, 2019.

DHAKA - Bangladesh has protested to Myanmar over a new influx of refugees fleeing troubled Rakhine state after clashes between security forces and an insurgent group, an official said Wednesday.

Bangladesh’s foreign ministry summoned Myanmar’s ambassador late Tuesday to protest over the arrivals from Rakhine, already notorious following a military clampdown on Muslim Rohingya in August 2017 which sent more than 700,000 people across the border.

The new arrivals are from Rakhine Buddhist and other tribal groups, a senior foreign ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity, without giving a figure.

“The number is increasing.

Some people are already waiting on the border and they may also enter.

We have asked them (Myanmar) to take effective and urgent steps so that violence is stopped,” the official said.

A Bangladesh border guard official said the refugees had crossed in a remote hill area of Bandarban district in the southeast of the country.

Bangladesh is already struggling to cope with the 740,000 Rohingya Muslims who arrived after August 2017 adding to 300,000 who had fled earlier violence in Rakhine.

Now Rakhine’s ethnic majority, who are Buddhist, are in conflict with the army they helped to drive out the Rohingya just 18 months ago.

On January 4 the Arakan Army (AA), a militant group calling for greater autonomy for Rakhine, killed 13 people in raids on police border posts.

The army says 13 militants have

been killed in reprisal attacks while the United Nations says at least 5,200 people have been displaced by the violence.

An accurate death toll has been impossible to ascertain because the zone is under a near-blanket lockdown.

The fighting has added a new, complex dimension to the troubles in Rakhine that since 2012 have seen religious and communal riots, the mass exodus of Rohingya and killings across all ethnic lines.

The Bangladesh protest came after Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie said Tuesday that Myanmar must “show genuine commitment” to end violence that has driven the Rohingya into Bangladesh.

The UN is preparing to launch a new international appeal for nearly one billion dollars to look after the Rohingya. (afp)

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How to turn around unhealthy habits after 60

WEST VIRGINIA - It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one — particularly for folks over 60.

Most baby boomers approach retirement age unwilling to follow basic healthy lifestyle goals established by the American Heart Association, said Dr. Dana King, professor and chairman of the department of family medicine at West Virginia University, referencing his university’s 2017 study comparing the healthy lifestyle rates of retired late-middle-aged adults with rates among those still working.

Kaiser Health News interviewed three other prominent experts on aging and health about how seniors can find the will to adopt healthier habits.

“People do financial planning for retirement, but what about retirement health planning?” King said.

Motivated seniors can begin by following KHN’s 10-step program:

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A sign at the Vancouver Clinic in Washington warns visitors of a measles outbreak in Clark County.

Measles outbreak grows in anti-vaccination hot spot

WASHINGTON - An outbreak of measles in southwestern Washington is growing worse by the day, with the number of cases soaring to 50 as of Monday, according to state health officials.

Clark County health officials have confirmed 49 cases there since Jan. 1. On Jan. 23, one case was confirmed in King County, home to the state’s largest city, Seattle. It is not clear where the King County patient became infected, but he did report having traveled to Vancouver, the seat of Clark County, before his diagnosis, health officials have said.

As with a similar outbreak among Orthodox Jews in New York state, nearly all of the infected were unvaccinated. Clark County reported that 42 of the 49 patients had not been vaccinated against measles. One patient had received only one of the two recommended doses of the vaccine, and the vaccination status of six others was unknown, the county department of health said.

People may have been exposed to the dangerous disease at more than three dozen locations, many in neighboring Oregon, such as Portland International Airport and the Moda Center, home to the Portland Trail Blazers. Other possible infection sites in Portland include an Amazon Locker location and stores such as Costco and Ikea.

On Jan. 22, Clark County health officials declared a public health emergency.

Dr. Scott Lindquist, a Washington state epidemiologist, said the state health department is seeing new cases every day. “This is entirely preventable,” he said in a statement to NBC News.

He advised families to check their immunization records. “If you are concerned your child may be developing measles, call your provider before going to a medical facility in an effort to prevent the spread of measles to vulnerable people within these facilities,” he added. Anti-vaccination hot spots have been developing for several years. Along with Washington and New York, at least seven other states — Hawaii, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Colorado, California and Georgia — have reported measles cases this year.

Reports that some people are self-medicating with vitamin A have also surfaced, leading the Washington State Department of Health to warn in a tweet that vitamin A has no effect on measles and that “the only way to avoid getting measles is to be vaccinated against it.

Children who are deficient in vitamin A are at higher risk for severe complications from measles if they get the disease, but most children in the U.S. receive sufficient amounts in their diet. In the rare case of

deficiency, vitamin A can be used to prevent severe complications of measles, including blindness and death.

Vitamin A is found in many foods, such as spinach, dairy products and liver. It is used as an oral supplement in people with poor or severely limited diets or in those who have a condition that increases the need for vitamin A, such as pancreatic or eye disease. It is also used in topical creams to reduce fine wrinkles, splotches and roughness and to treat acne.

The recommended daily amount of vitamin A is 900 micrograms for men and 700 for women. Taking too much at one time — over 200,000 micrograms — can cause nausea, vomiting, vertigo or blurry vision. More than 10,000 micrograms per day can cause long-term damage, such as bone thinning and liver damage. Pregnant women are especially cautioned against taking vitamin A, as it has been shown to cause birth defects.

The ongoing outbreak and the perceived need for home remedies is a reminder that herd immunity — the indirect protection of nonvaccinated people that occurs when a large percentage of the population has been vaccinated — has broken down. (net)

1. Buy great sneakers. Purchase a pair of top-quality sneakers specifically designed for walking, said Carolyn Rosenblatt, founder of AgingParents.com, who started participating in triathlons at age 63 and continues to do them at age 70. Start by walking around the block. Expand that to 30-minute walks at least three times weekly — or set a goal to increase your walking distance 10 percent each week. And leave your sneakers by the front door.

2. Practice your balance. The best way to avoid falls is to retain a good sense of balance, said Rosenblatt. Practice standing on one leg with your eyes closed for at least 30 seconds.

3. Improve your breakfast. Stop eating the sweet roll with coffee.

Consider substituting a home-blended smoothie with a banana, seasonal fruits, almond milk and protein powder or a protein patty without sugar.

And cut out excess sugar in all your meals, said Rosenblatt. Replace soda with seltzer water.

4. De-stress wisely. Find ways to manage your stress that don’t involve food, alcohol or smoking. There are lots of meditation programs you can download on your phone and listen to for even 10 minutes, said Rosenblatt.

5. Practice resistance training. To keep your muscle mass from disappearing, do resistance training by lifting dumbbells or barbells or using weight machines, said Kay Van Norman, owner of Brilliant Aging, a consulting firm for healthier aging. “Your muscles are amazing, but if you don’t use them, you lose them,” she said.

6. Hit the floor. Aging adults need to regularly practice getting down on the floor and standing back up again. “If you don’t get down on the floor and back up, you won’t be able to do it after a while,” said Van Norman.

7. Challenge your speed. While it might not seem as if folks over 60 need to worry about exercise that involves speed and intensity, they do, said Van Norman. “Most people don’t even think about speed in order to stay healthy. But tennis players are doing that all the time. You need to do something to challenge your speed, not just your power.” That’s why sports like tennis can be terrific as you age, she said.

8. Believe in yourself. Faced with self-doubt and depression after several tragic, challenging events, Sharon Sultan Cutler, 71, turned to therapy to help her feel better about herself. “The first person you have to believe in is yourself,” said Sultan Cutler, an author. “People like to be around other people who believe in themselves.”

9. Tackle a project. Pick a project that has meaning to you. Sultan Cutler opted to co-author (with two other writers) her first book, “Bandstand Diaries: The Philadelphia Years, 1956-1963,” an inside look at her once favorite TV show, Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.” Never mind that she’d never written a book before. Now she’s on her third book, “Your New You After 65: Valuable Advice to Inspire Your Awesome Aging.”

“It’s like having a daydream that you can actually make happen,” she said.

10. Embrace self-improvement. Some call this lifelong learning. Living a healthier lifestyle requires constant learning and self-improvement, said Sultan Cutler. Seek out local learning resources like community colleges, where classes are often steeply discounted for seniors, she said. “Selfimprovement isn’t just physical. It’s mental, too.” (net)

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Economic factor dominantly causes mental disorder in Tabanan

TABANAN — Economic factor became the main trigger for people with mental disorders (ODGJ) in Tabanan district. In 2019, the number of ODGJ reached 590 patients. This number decreased when compared to 2018 reaching 602 patients. They have been handled and sent to Bangli Mental Hospital.

This decrease happened because some patients died while others are declared to have recovered. This was stated by the Division Head of Social Services and Rehabilitation at the Tabanan Social Service, Driana Roka Rina.

Driana explained that other than economic factor the mental disorder happens due to heredity, depression, and drug withdrawal. “However, of all the sufferers, the main cause is economic factor,” she explained.

According to Driana, actually the number may still be scattered because the families of the mental disorder patients are reluctant to report to the Social Service. “Many patients are still scattered because the data from the village authority have not all been entered,” he said.

Rika continued that of the 590 people with mental disorder, 9 of them are treated at Panti Laras of Wanasara hamlet, Bongan, Tabanan. The building used for the Panti Laras treatment house is part of the uninhabited official residence of the Tabanan district government. In this institution, the ex-mental disorders will be empowered through guidance by the Tabanan Social Service in order to provide maximum care so that they are not prone to relapse. “They still have families, and they have given permission to us to treat theirs. Besides, if there are displaced ex-mental disorder patients, they will be taken to Panti Laras to be empowered,” she explained.

Meanwhile, for the patients of mental disorder (ODGJ) in family care, Rika expected the family to always pay attention

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Economic factor became the main trigger for people with mental disorders (ODGJ) in Tabanan district. to them and they are not let run out of medication.

According to her, the patients with mental disorders really need a comprehensive treatment. It happens because they are facing social challenges in the community that are no less severe for the mental, such as rejection, exclusion and discrimination.

“They need sustainability after undergoing a series of

treatments, so that they can be at least independent and accepted in the community again. One of them is by providing them with skills as well as healing therapy,” she said.

The skills provided can be gardening, incense making or other skills. “Family and environment attention becomes the main and first factor for healing of the patients with mental disorder so that they don’t recur,” she concluded. (kmb28)

Related to the beating and villa deprivation

A man alleged to be SO branch chief arrested

TABANAN — Apparently police ranks do not fool around in response to the members of any societal organization (ormas) or SO committing illegal activities. Evidently, Gusti MA known as the chief of the societal organization of Tabanan chapter was arrested by the Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation Unit. However, the information about the arrest of one of the societal organization leaders cannot be confirmed. Either Chief of the Tabanan Police Made Sinar Subawa or Chief of Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Decky Hendra Wijaya, could not be asked for their information about it. Even though having tried to contact both, they are difficult to be questioned.

Nevertheless, a number of information obtained from a source in the police institution justifying if there is safeguard against the societal organization chief on Saturday night (Feb. 2) around 23:00. Currently there is still a further investigation in the first unit of the Tabanan Police.

However, there is not much more to say regarding the reasons for arresting Gusti MA. As the information at issue, the concerned was arrested because he is alleged to have beaten staff and committed seizures at the Botanical Resort Villa at Pandak Gede, Kediri.

Similar thing happened when Bali Post tried to confirm the matter to headman of Pandak Gede, I Gede Putu Suciartha.

Although he did not want to comment much, Suciartha confirmed there is indeed a case related to the villa in his area.

Unfortunately, he did not know the case in details. “Regarding the villa, perhaps there is misunderstanding. Actually the incident already took place long time ago. Previously there

was also a report to the Bali Police and has been followed up, but for more information, please ask to police,” he advised.

Meanwhile, another information source told if the case originated from a resident named Paulus Santoso who bought a plot of land at Pangkung hamlet, Pandak Gede, Kediri, in 2012. The land certificate was then split into six certificates in 2013. Four villas were built at the end of 2013 and completed in early 2015.

Since the operation began, the villa owner claimed to often get pressures from a member of societal organization claiming itself from the Pandak Gede Youth Leader, NB. He demanded various charges such monthly levies, security levies, staffing as well as other threats such as in the form of closing road access to the villa. However, the demand was never fulfilled by the reporting party, considering he had paid monthly levies to local hamlet and garbage disposal charges to the hamlet in accordance with the agreement with the headman.

Likewise, the demands to employ local villagers have also been met, in addition to recruiting some from neighboring villages. Finally, an internal problem of employees emerged with the reasons due to different customary village. Then, employees from neighboring villages resigned, so the remaining employees are those from the local village. Having been traced, they are the members of the NB group.

As a result, the villa’s condition became messy and not properly maintained. There were losses of villa inventory items and damages to the building. To change the extremely detrimental condition, the villa owner then handed over the villa operations to the Premier Hospitality Asia management in 2017.

From here, the societal organization came to the villa, and was then followed up by the villa management by reporting this case to Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Profession and Security of Bali Police and arrested two members of the societal organization. Because a lot of pressures arose after the arrest, finally the villa owner was introduced to Gusti MA (Chief of Societal Organization) in Tabanan, by one of the villagers of Pandak Gede. At that time, the reported party confirmed the pressure from the village side and the ‘village gangster.’

The reported party did not respond to the reporting party’s explanation that he never reported to the authorities regarding the existence of the members of the societal organization at his villa. The reported party only emphasized that situation at the village is not very conducive and I will face with ‘village gangster’ that can endanger me and especially the villa buildings at the village.

After that, Gusti MA conveyed his plans and strategies to help protect from the threats of ‘village parties’ and ‘village gangsters.’ Contents of the strategy are: the reported party will announce at the village that he is a business partner and participates in owning the villas at Pandak Gede village, so that he will feel free to come to the villa to look after the villas from any pressure of villagers and village gangsters.

For this reason, I was required to write a letter addressed to the headman of Pandak Gede stating that I, as the owner, had terminated employment with villa management, dismissed all the employees of the villa management as well as cooperated the villa management with the reported party.

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Two Iranian citizens grab Chinese tourist’s wallet

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Auj-e Taqaddas of British, center, walks as she is escorted by investigators after her trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison.

Indonesia sentences Briton to 6 months for slapping official DENPASAR - A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison.

Video showing Auj-e Taqaddas cursing and hitting an officer at Bali’s international airport in July was widely shared on social media last year.

The video shows the 43-year-old throwing a lengthy tantrum after being asked to pay a fine of $4,000 for overstaying her visa, which had expired in February.

After being sentenced in Denpasar District Court, Taqaddas said the court was corrupt and she had been tortured

by police three times including on Wednesday.

She was arrested Wednesday morning in a shopping mall after failing to appear in court several times.

“This is a sham court who was only listening to the dirty prosecutor who did not bring me to the court for six months,” said Taqaddas, who is seeking an appeal.

During the trial that began in December, Taqaddas pleaded not guilty

and said the video had been edited.

She was charged with violent behavior against a government official and prosecutors had sought a sentence of one year in prison.

“Indonesia is a criminal country.

Indonesian law is corrupt. Indonesian judges are corrupt,” Taqaddas shouted as two officials escorted her from the court. “No lawyer was provided.

Indonesian immigration is corrupt,” she said. (ap)

MANGUPURA - Two Iranian citizens were arrested at Kuta Police Station. Both Iranians on behalf of Shiraziniya Azad and Shirazi Nia Hossein were arrested because they were involved in a theft case with a mode of claiming to be a member of police personnel.

According to Chief of Denpasar Police, Ruddi Setiawan, it happened on Wednesday (Jan. 30) at 20:50 in front of the Kuta Center Park Hotel on Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta. The victim on behalf of Long Zhihong from China together with his family walked to the Kuta Center Hotel after finishing their shopping. When arriving in front of the hotel, a white car was passing. Suddenly, from inside the car the perpetrator lowered the glass on the left door that later claimed to be a policeman that will conduct an examination against the victims and family.

Initially, the victim’s child was asked to get closeer to the car. Next, the perpetrator examined the body of victim’s child from inside the car. After completion, the victim was asked to approach the car and the victim’s body was examined while touching his pants. “Suddenly the perpetrator took the victim’s wallet kept inside the back pants,” explained Ruddi accompanied by the Chief of Kuta Police, Teuku Ricki Fadlianshah, while giving a statement at Kuta Police Station, on Monday (Feb. 4).

He revealed that since the perpetrator claimed to be a police officer, the victim was not suspicious and allowed the examination. Afterward, the perpetrator examined the wallet in the car and not long after

the perpetrator returned the wallet into the pocket of the victim’s back pants. Finally, the perpetrator left.

After the perpetrators went away, the victim saw his wallet. In fact, the fourteen pieces of USD 100 denomination disappeared.

Due to this incident, the victim suffered a loss of USD 1,400 or IDR 19,000,000. “Responding to the incident, the victim immediately reported to the Kuta Police Station for further processing,” he concluded.

Over this report, the Operational Team of Kuta Police under the first unit chief came to the crime scene to get information. Based on the results and information from witnesses, the operational team then carried out further analysis and investigation at the scene. Based on the results of inspection at the scene and CCTV footage, characteristics of the car used by the perpetrator are clearly identified and license plate is visible as well.

Based on the CCTV footage, on Friday (Feb. 2) around 10:30 when an official team was carrying out a regional patrol, it saw a car with features resembling those recorded on CCTV. The Operational Team pursued and managed to arrest the two perpetrators.

From the perpetrators, police seized the evidence such as three banknotes of USD 100, a piece of blue shirt and a unit of Agya car with license plate DK-1249-DW. For this case, the perpetrators are subject to article 363 of the Criminal Code, with the threat of a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. (kmb23)

Tabanan allocates IDR 1 billion of funds for fogging and abate purchase

TABANAN - In dealing with Dengue Fever (DHF), every year Tabanan allocates the budget for fogging and abate provision. This year’s budget for handling DHF is allocated at least IDR 1 billion.

“This amount of fund is for the purchase of pesticides, fogging operations and abate purchases,” said the Head of the Tabanan Health Office, Nyoman Suratmika, on Tuesday (Feb. 5).

In the matter of fogging activities, he continued that the Health Office does not perform it in rotation at each village. However, it is only performed at villages or regions

declared to be positive to DHF, in this case there are positive DHF patients. “So, if the patient is tested positive for dengue through laboratory examination and statement of an internist, it will be reported to the Health Office for scheduled implementation of fogging in the area or village where the patient originates from,” explained Suratmika.

For 2019, the implementation of fogging was already carried out in the Sanggulan area, Tabanan, on Saturday (Feb. 2). In the region, there have been recorded positive dengue patients. According to Suratmika, the Health Office is selec-

tive in implementing fogging, because it is not an effective measure in handling DHF. Fogging is only for eliminating adult mosquitoes.

“So, if there is a patient declared to be positive, it means there are virus-carrying mosquitoes in the area where the patient lives. Thus, we need fogging to eradicate adult mosquitoes,” explained Suratmika.

Fogging must be done selectively. If frequently implemented, it can be dangerous for health.

According to Suratmika, fogging is a technique used to kill insects which involves the use of pure pesticide sprays directed by an air

pump. “So, if fogging is done frequently, people will breathe smoke containing pesticides. Certainly, it is harmful to health. Moreover, fogging does not only kill mosquitoes but also other insects, which is dangerous for the environment,” explained Suratmika.

On that account, he emphasized the application of Eradication of Mosquito Nest (PSN) to the community. With such measure, the community is expected to be more vigilant in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment and applying PSN in the neighborhood.

By eradicating mosquito nests,

the community has taken steps to prevent dengue directly to the root by eradicating the mosquito larvae.

“If ignored, the larvae will become an adult mosquito. So, if only the adult mosquito is eradicated while the larvae are not, the mosquito will still survive. This is the importance of doing the PSN regularly,” explained Suratmika.

In February, according to Suratmika, there is no report on positive dengue case. However in January, Tabanan had recorded at least six positive dengue cases. The number of these cases has decreased compared to previous years. (kmb24)

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Nyepi - The Day of Silence at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa

Experience your “Nyepi, The Day of Silence” at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa This is one of the most sacred days of the Balinese calendar, indicating the beginning of a new year.

The Resort welcomes travellers to step into the mystical beauty of the Silent Day in Bali. This unique Balinese custom is a one of its kind experience.

During Nyepi, activities are very

limited on the island. No traffic on the roads, no TV and / or Radio, all shopping centres are closed, no Tours or excursions, and there are no flights in or out of Bali on this day.

Starting from 6:00am 7 March 2019 to 6:00am the next day, local residents stay at home with their families to meditate, fast and reflect on the past year. In the evenings, curtains are drawn so that lights

do not show out. The Balinese and other residents avoid loud noises and the Island becomes eerily quiet.

To commemorate such a momentous occasion, Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa offers an enticing Nyepi room package with extensive complimentary benefits such as a dinner on the day of Nyepi, access to Gecko kid’s club, access to the Gym Centre and Spa facilities and other in-house activities.

Indoor activities within the hotel building remain unaffected.

The Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa is the pioneer of luxury accommodation within the Nusa Dua area. This 5-star diamond resort, has been welcoming kings, queens, presidents and other dignitaries since its grand opening. Nestled within beautifully landscaped gardens, the resort, with its 382 guestrooms and suites, features all

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The Nusa Dua Spa is designed to highlight its rich Balinese tradition with a variety of indigenous treatments. Dining at Nusa Dua Hotel & Spa is an epicurean journey with a choice of five restaurants and four bars under the close watch of an award-winning culinary team.

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CALIFORNIA - Hollywood actor Liam Neeson has admitted for the first time that he used to have violent thoughts about killing a black person.

The Irish star said the thoughts were sparked after a female friend of his was raped.

Neeson said he used to be armed with a cosh weapon on the streets hoping someone “would have a go” at him “about something” so he could kill them.

The 66-year-old made his comments during an interview for his new film Cold Pursuit where he talked about how his character turns to anger.

Neeson told the Independent: “There’s something primal - God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions.

“I’ll tell you a story. This is true.”

He said the rape happened a while ago and he found out about it after coming back from a trip abroad.

“She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way.

“But my immediate reaction was... I asked, did she

know who it was? No. What colour were they?

She said it was a black person.

“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody - I’m ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some black b*****d would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.” The Taken star, told the publication it took him over a week to process what had happened to his friend. He continued: “It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid. (net)

Neeson with late wife Natasha Richardson in 2001.

Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher up for auction

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The former Conservative prime minister was a prominent target for the show.

LONDON - A Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most famous characters from the satirical series, has been put up for auction.

The former Conservative prime minister was a prominent target for the show, which ran for 18 series from 1984 to 1996.

Famous for lampooning political and cultural figures, Spitting Image also parodied public figures including John Major, Paul Gascoigne and the Queen, and portrayed Baroness Thatcher as a dominant and abusive leader.

Her puppet, alongside about 40

others from the show - including novelist Salman Rushdie, actor Tom Hanks, singer Boy George and Thatcher’s husband, Denis - could now fetch thousands at auction after being acquired by collectors Prop Store.

Prop Store chief executive Stephen Lane said: “We’re thrilled to be offering such a fantastic selection of puppets from the legendary British television series Spitting Image.

“Over 40 puppets and puppet heads are to be sold... including the iconic Margaret Thatcher puppet and many other famous faces,

including Tom Hanks and Robbie Coltrane.”

Spitting Image attracted huge viewing figures and won a BAFTA during its 12-year run on ITV. Chris Barrie, best known for Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire, and Alan Patridge creator Steve Coogan were among the talents to voice the puppets, with the likes of comedian and author Ben Elton, director Richard Curtis and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop among the writers for the show. Baroness Thatcher’s puppet is expected to sell for about £3,000, with the others expected to fetch between £400 and £800. (afp)

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A supporter stands in front of flowers placed in front of a giant portrait of Argentinian former Nantes’ forward Emilianio Sala outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French Cup football match between FC Nantes and Toulouse FC in Nantes on February 5, 2019.

UK rescuers launch bid to recover body from Sala’s plane

British crash investigators on Tuesday launched an underwater operation to recover a body from the wreckage of the plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in the Channel.

“We are attempting to recover the body. If we are successful, we will consider the feasibility of recovering the aircraft wreckage,” an Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) spokesperson said in a statement.

The light aircraft carrying the 28-year-old footballer and pilot David Ibbotson to his new Premier League team Cardiff City disappeared near the British island of Guernsey on January 21.

The shipwreck hunter hired

by Sala’s family with the help of funds donated by football stars such as Lionel Messi found the plane wreckage on Sunday. The AAIB has since taken over operations. It revealed on Monday that an unidentified body had been found at the site. But it warned on Tuesday that strong tides “mean we can only use the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for limited periods each day”.

“Regardless of the results, we will not be making a further state-

ment until the families have been informed,” it said.

- ‘Technically possible’ Shipwreck hunter David Mearns had earlier warned that “time is of the essence” in an underwater operation like the one being launched by Britain off France’s northern coast.

“As tragic as the loss is, it’s made much, much worse if the body is never recovered or (the family) never get an answer to what happened,” Mearns said.

“Finding it is just the starting point. The AAIB has got to investigate it.” Sala was flying to join up with Cardiff from his old French team Nantes.

His signing was the most expensive in the Welsh club’s history and marked what fans had hoped would be a turning point in its bid to avoid relegation from England’s top division.

“There’s no longer any hope,” Horacio Sala, Emiliano’s father, told Fox Sports, acknowledging there was no longer any prospect of finding his son alive.

“We hope the two bodies are

inside (the plane). It’s over, the only thing I hope now is that they find them.”

Mearns said his discovery of two seat cushions on the French coast last week revealed that the plane had broken up.

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