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Lorenzo unsure about Yamaha’s new engine

More body parts found in Canada as suspect faces German court

US ends funding for Pakistan’s ‘Sesame Street’

MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo, from Spain, on his way to win the Spanish Motorcycling MotoGP Grand Prix at the Montmelo racetrack near of Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 3, 2012.

“We tried a new engine spec yesterday that in theory is more powerful,” said Lorenzo. “Until now we didn’t find any big improvement, some little advantages and some little disadvantages.”

Lorenzo’s team-mate Ben Spies, who was second-fastest, was also slightly underwhelmed. “The engine spec was a little improvement but

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you know riders, we always want at least 10km/h faster on the straights...” he joked.

Yamaha will resume testing at Aragon on Wednesday, when Lorenzo reckons changing the electronics setup might help the new engine’s performance. “In Aragon we will try some modifications to the electronics to see if we can gain something,” he said.

we can enjoy our own special results in the races to come.”

Although Force India is currently only eighth in the standings, Mallya says its current score and its tally of seven points finishes in the opening six rounds between drivers Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg is respectable.

“Six races into the season and we have 28 points - a very strong start to the year,” said

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Mallya. “Both drivers are delivering what we expect of them and we’re gaining some momentum, just as we did last year. Our car is clearly competitive and so are the drivers.

“I’m very pleased with the way things went in Monaco with both cars in the points. It was our second double points finish of the season and the result brings us much closer to our nearest competitors, Sauber and Williams.

Tourists flocked at Kuta Beach during holiday season. Bali tourism was ascertained to be flooded by domestic tourists before the school holidays this June 2012.

Bali flooded by domestic tourists

Force India sure it give surprise too

Force India is adamant that there is no reason why it cannot emulate the likes of Lotus, Sauber and Williams by challenging at the front in Formula 1 this year - even though it only has one top-six finish to show from 2012 so far.

The wildly unpredictable 2012 F1 season has seen a host of surprise names at the front of the field, with Pastor Maldonado giving Williams victory in Spain, Sauber coming close to a Sepang triumph with Sergio Perez, and Lotus in contention for wins at Sakhir and Catalunya.

Force India has been unable to emulate its regular upper-midfield peers’ underdog shocks to date, but team boss Vijay Mallya believes the squad’s package is no worse than its usual rivals’ and is sure that Force India can be at the front too when it hits on the Pirelli tyres’ ‘sweet spot’ as others have.

“I believe this unpredictability has crept in largely because of the tyres and it’s making for some entertaining races. That’s why we’re working especially hard to understand the tyres better to make sure we get the best out of them,” said Mallya.

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MotoGP championship leader Jorge Lorenzo admitted that the new engine Yamaha provided for Monday’s Barcelona test did not deliver much.

Assessing the revised engine was one of the priorities for the Catalunya Grand Prix-winning team, but after going eighth quickest Lorenzo conceded he had hoped for a bigger step.

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DENPASAR - Bali tourism was ascertained to be flooded by domestic tourists before the school holidays this June 2012. It was revealed by Deputy Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya. Surging of domestic tourist visit was estimated to occur until August.

“Normally, this moment is spent by making a visit to tourist destinations. Bali as a world tourist destination will surely get the

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children. However, the increase in domestic tourist visits would only affect the room occupancy among the budget hotels up to three star hotels with the occupancy rate averagely reaching 65 percent.

Related to tourist attractions becoming the target of school children, he added, would be the tourist destinations like Kintamani, Bedugul, Kuta and Tanah Lot, Tabanan.

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splashes of school holiday season this year,” said Rai Suryawijaya on Tuesday (Jun 5).

Nevertheless, the man also

doubling as Chairman of the PHRI Badung had not dared to make sure the surge of domestic tourist visit during the next school holidays. “There have been no valid data but I estimate there will be a trend of increasing domestic tourist visits up to six percent with the length of stay reaching over four days,” he said.

According to him, the increase in tourist visits in the previous years was dominated by school

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Wednesday that revelations Australia had granted asylum to alleged people-smugglers were “disappointing and difficult for the Indonesian government”.

An investigation by Aus-

tralia’s ABC Television aired Monday claimed an Iraqi-born people-smuggler known as Captain Emad had travelled to Australia from Indonesia on a refugee boat in January 2010 under a false name and was granted asylum.

“Surely this matter is very disappointing and difficult for

the Indonesian government to accept,” Natalegawa told reporters.

“If somebody is suspected of being the brains behind peoplesmuggling crimes and then given permission to live in Australia while others who become their victims are detained, this is difficult to accept,” he said.

“We have communicated with Australia. We know they are investigating,” he added.

Australia said Tuesday it may revoke the visas of the alleged people-smuggling kingpin and six of his associates after reports they continued arranging boat trips after obtaining asylum.

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Bridge collapsed, Badung-Tanah Lot route halted

Tabanan (Bali Post) –

The supervisor of the project from Bali Province Public Works Agency, Putra Susila, clarified that his side needs one day time to repair the collapsing bridge by putting bok culvert concrete drainage also digging using a heavy vehicle. The part that could take time is to tar the road which takes minimal 5 days even so it is assured that by Thursday (7/6) the route will open again. Besides Nyanyi’s bridge, there is another bridge that has to be repaired in the same area with the same condition. The repair will also take place in the next day. (kmb30) The broken bridge which is located in Banjar Nyanyi, Beraban.

Gas fraud captured by police Denpasar (Bali Post) –

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The gas which is suspected to be fraud by the suspect

Bali Police Criminal Research Directorate managed to capture one elpiji illegalizing last Monday (4/6) and it is not for the first time. This time he was captured while stopped as police suspected he was bringing illegalized Elpiji Gas tubes instead of caught him in the act illegalizing it. Bali Police stated last Tuesday (5/6) that accused named Bambang Prayogo (25) was stopped while passing

by Sentanu Street, Denpasa around 3 pm local time. Accused was driving a Suzuki Carry Pick-Up DK 9671 FF that did not have a company name on its surface like other agents and was bringing some gas tubes. From the checking done, accused did not show any documents and so the 11 50 kg gas tubes were confiscated moreover the tubes don’t have any sealing. It is admitted that those gas tubes were sold to customers and an illegalized one. From further investigation, accused admitted that this illegal business have been going on the past 2 years where one 50 kg gas tube sold for IDR 260,000. Head of the Directorate, GPC Eldi Azwar, confirmed this case and accused has violated Section 53 b Law No 22 Year 2001 on oil and gas with possible punishment 3 years jail. (kmb21)

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Denpasar shorten of hotel rooms

Denpasar- Denpasar city is still graded to have a shortage on middle to high class hotel rooms especially for the coming long holidays which could reach up to 20-30 percent increase as stated by Denpasar Tourism Agency, Putu Budiasa, at Denpasar last Tuesday (5/6).

He predicts that there will be a shortage of 1,200 rooms from the total of good representative hotel rooms.

In Denpasar right now there are 8,797 hotel rooms which are from 194 budget hotels there are 4,426 rooms, from 28 one starred hotel’s 4,041 rooms while others from small inns. For that there is still an opened opportunity for investors to build a hotel at Denpasar area yet still contributing to the aesthetics, lessening roadsides parking and opening a new working field.

Government suggests for tourist accommodation in Denpasar to prepare in giving the best service for tourists in the coming long holiday. Usually long holidays hotel guests in Denpasar reached 87 to 90 percent. (ant)

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Celtics take control of East, beat Heat 94-90 Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — A week ago, the Boston Celtics were too old. Three games later, they’re one win away from the NBA finals. And Miami — the team that was constructed with hopes of supplanting Boston as the power in the Eastern Conference — is suddenly in big trouble.

Kevin Garnett finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds, Paul Pierce scored 19 — including a huge 3-pointer over LeBron James’ outstretched arm with 52.9 seconds left — and the Celtics beat the Heat 94-90 on Tuesday night, taking a 3-2 lead in the East finals that now shift to Boston for Game 6 on Thursday night.

“We’ve done nothing,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “We’re playing a heck of a basketball team. So just because we’re going to Boston, I told them, we have to play. They’re not going to give it to us. We have to go get it.” James finished with 30 points and 13 rebounds for Miami, though he went 8 minutes without scoring in the final quarter. Dwyane Wade scored 27 for the Heat, who got no more than nine from anyone else.

“We wouldn’t want to be in this situation but we never get too high or too low in a series,” James said. “We had an opportunity to come home and take a lead, but we didn’t. So we have to go

The tourist way from Canggu Village, Badung towards Tanah Lot, Kediri got cut last Tuesday (5/6) as a bridge at Banjar Nyanyi, Beraban that connects the two regency collapsed and puts vehicles to danger which then the route was diverted. Head of Beraban Village, Wayan Sumawa, stated the damage has been going on yet only yesterday it stated its repair and so as its permit letter, the route will be closed for two days (Monday-Tuesday).

It was stated that the bridge was only layered with plat and small drainage so it easily collapsed and making water route stuck. The bridge was owned by the Province as it is on the province route.

It is hoped the repair will soon finish as it affects the touristic route. The closure start from the crossroad of Nyanyi and diverted through Pandak, Badung. For tourism buses they were diverted through Kapal, Mengwi and go in from Kediri, Tabanan.

Many motorbikes that avoided the warning had to go back at Nyanyi crossroad as they saw the project going on.

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up to Boston and win a game.”

Pierce’s 3 put Boston up 90-86.

Miami got within two points twice, and argued that it should have had a steal with 8.8 seconds left. Instead, a foul was called on Udonis Haslem, Garnett made two free throws, and the Celtics knew they had just stolen one on Miami’s home floor.

Now all they need is one home win of their own to clinch a trip to either Oklahoma City or San Antonio for Game 1 of the NBA finals. The title series starts June 12. “Right now,” Celtics guard Ray Allen said, “the next game is Game 7.” The Celtics were down by 13 points in the second quarter, then down nine in the third, and answered both times — prevailing on a night where they shot just 41 percent, and got outrebounded 49-39.

“We stayed with it,” Garnett said.

“We had a rough first quarter, first half. We got our stops and made our run ourselves. And when we had to,

we had stops.”

Allen and Mickael Pietrus scored 13 apiece for the Celtics, who got 10 from Brandon Bass. Pietrus hit two huge 3-pointers in the fourth quarter for Boston, which remained perfect with this core when facing maybe the most pivotal situation a best-ofseven can offer — a Game 5 with a series tied 2-2. Pierce, Garnett, Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen are now 9-0 in that scenario.

“We came in with the right focus,” Pierce said. “That was key for us.”

So Game 5s are magical for Boston.

Sometimes, they are for James as well.

And sometimes — this one included — they’re not.

James’ most memorable moments have come in Game 5s, like the epic 48 points where he just carried Cleveland on every possession down the stretch at Detroit in 2007, and the 120-88 loss to the Celtics in 2010, his last home game with the Cavaliers.

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Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce (34) drives to the basket surrounded by Miami Heat’s Shane Battier (31), Mike Miller (13) and LeBron James (6) during the first half of Game 5 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoffs series, Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in Miami.

Djokovic, Federer come back, set French rematch Associated Press Writer

PARIS — As the chilly evening air swirled, and raindrops fell, and the thousands of spectators pulling for his opponent hushed, Novak Djokovic stood a single point from exiting the French Open. A single point from losing to France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros.

A single point from losing the chance to pursue a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title, something no man has done in 43 years. Steeling himself with so much at stake, Djokovic came through, taking that crucial point thanks to an overhead that skimmed off the baseline to set up a putaway volley. Seconds later, he faced the same predicament — one point from defeat — and came through again, this time with a leaping forehand that barely landed in. All told, Djokovic faced four match points against Tsonga and won each one, extending the contest until seizing control for good.

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Novak Djokovic

Djokovic won his 26th Grand Slam match in a row Tuesday, coming back and beating the fifth-seeded Tsonga 6-1, 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-1 to set up a French Open rematch against 16-time major champion Roger Federer. A year ago in the semifinals at Roland Garros, Federer ended Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak, the last time the Serb lost at one of tennis’ four most important tournaments.

“Tennis is very mental. Lots of emotions,” said the No. 1-ranked Djokovic, who won Wimbledon last July, the U.S. Open last September, and the Australian Open in January.

“If you’re playing a top player, a home favorite, and you have a crowd that’s supporting him, you have to face these things. Physically, we’re all fit, all hitting the ball well. But mentally, it’s just a matter of a point here, a point there.

That’s sport. The one that mentally pushes more in some moments — and gets a bit lucky — gets the win.”

Federer also fashioned a come-from-behind victory, and while he never was confronted with a match point, he did drop the first two sets before getting past No. 9 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-0, 6-3.

After taking that big lead, del Potro — who upset Federer in the 2009 U.S. Open final — appeared to be hampered increasingly by a left knee that was heavily wrapped in white tape, although he refused to place any blame there afterward.

“He called the trainer, but he didn’t take a timeout, so I didn’t know what they were talking about, if he got painkillers, or what happened. So I was just trying to focus on me, really, because I was in trouble. He wasn’t,” said Federer, who won his only French Open title in 2009.

“Maybe his knee was (a problem). I don’t know,” Federer continued. “But doesn’t matter how bad that knee is. Maybe he can just sit on it and just say, ‘OK, here, take the two next sets ... and then I’ll come back in the fifth set and I will destroy you.’”

Manchester United agree terms for Dortmund’s Kagawa Reuters

Manchester United have agreed terms with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of midfielder Shinji Kagawa, the English Premier League club said on Tuesday, with the Japan international needing to pass a medical and obtain a work permit to complete the deal.

United said in a statement they expected the transfer to be completed by the end of June and have already agreed terms with the attacking midfielder, who has been a revelation in Germany over the past two seasons.

No details of the fee were released but German media reported that Kagawa, who has a contract with Dortmund until 2013, would cost United 17 million Euros ($21.24 million).“We would like to thank Shinji for his effort and his large contribution in two extraordinarily successful years,” Borussia sports director Michael Zorc, who was responsible for bringing the player to Dortmund in 2010, said in a statement.

The 23-year-old attracted few headlines when he joined Dortmund for 350,000 euros from then Japanese second division club Cerezo Osaka but he surprised many by notching 21 goals in 49 league games in Germany.

He won two consecutive Bundesliga titles as well as the German Cup last season, helping Borussia establish themselves as the new force in German football.

His creativity and darting runs from the middle of the field will bring an added dimension to a United side that brought 37year-old Paul Scholes out of retirement last season to help their Premier League title challenge.

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Star player profile Steven Gerrard (32) 1st kit

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FIFA ranking: 7/5 (World/Europe)

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Midfielder (captain) 90 19 (Internationals) Liverpool FC (England)

Euro 2012 qualifying Finished top of Group G

Euro 2008 finals

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Star player profile Karim Benzema (24) 1st kit

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FIFA ranking: 16/11 (World/Europe)

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FIFA ranking: 17/12 (World/Europe)

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Euro 2012 qualifying Finished top of Group D

Euro 2008 finals

Knocked out at group stage

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Star player profile Andriy Shevchenko (35)

Star player profile Zlatan Ibrahimovic (30)

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Forward 75 29 (Internationals) AC Milan (Italy)

Euro 2012 qualifying Finished second in Group E

Euro 2008 finals

Knocked out at group stage

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FIFA ranking: 50/28 (World/Europe)

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Forward 105 46 (Internationals) Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)

Euro 2012 qualifying Automatically qualified as co-host

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France’s forward Karim Benzema, left, faces Serbian’s goalkeeper Zeljko Brkic, right, as he tries to score during his friendly international soccer match against Serbia, in Reims, eastern France, Thursday May 31, 2012.

Benzema, Ribery shine as France thrash Estonia 4-0 Reuters

Karim Benzema and Franck Ribery were a class apart as France put the finishing touches on their Euro 2012 preparations with a 4-0 home win against Estonia in Le Mans on Tuesday.

Benzema netted either side of halftime after Ribery had opened the scoring following a fine onetwo with the striker as Les Bleus stretched their unbeaten run to 21 matches.

Winger Jeremy Menez completed the rout in stoppage time. With Samir Nasri and Ribery on the flanks and Benzema up front, France played some nice one-touch football although they sometimes looked shaky at the back.

After fullback Patrice Evra produced a miserable performance in a 3-2 win against Iceland in their first of three Euro warm-up games, it was Philippe

Mexes’s turn to raise concerns.

Estonia almost caught France cold twice in the opening 15 minutes, with a poor first touch from Mexes allowing midfielder Henrik Ojamaa to shoot narrowly wide across goal.

Ojamaa then got ahead of Mexes to meet a left wing cross but, off balance, could only volley wide.

CROSS SHOT

Laurent Blanc’s side, who start their Euro 2012 campaign against England on Monday in Donetsk, Ukraine, went ahead in the 25th minute when Ribery chested down a Benzema pass just inside

the box before firing past Sergei Pareiko with a cross shot.

Seven minutes before the break, Benzema sent a curling shot into the far corner of the net to double the tally and scored his 15th goal for France by latchig onto Ribery’s cross from the right.

Second-half substitute Menez added the fourth one minute into added time when he collected a fine backheel pass from Olivier Giroud to score from close range.

France travel to Ukraine on Wednesday before taking on England followed by cohosts Ukraine and Sweden in Group D.

LONDON - One month on from his appointment as England’s manager even some of his more hostile media critics are beginning to accept the FA chose the right man for the job following two steady wins in his opening two matches. Judging by some of the negative reaction to the FA’s decision to select him as manager and not the popular Harry Redknapp, anyone would have thought he was an inexperienced beginner who had no right to be considered for the job.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as a look at the 64-year-old’s impressive CV shows and although not too much can be read into two relatively low key wins against Norway and Belgium, the first glimpses of Hodgson’s organisational capabilities were clearly there to be seen.

And by taking charge of a side that, for once, no-one in the normally hysterical English media expects to do well, might just work in his favour. With the pressure off, he might get England to do better than they usually do in major tournaments.

By his own admission Hodgson was an average player with Maidstone United, Tonbridge Angels and Crystal Palace reserves in the 1960s but he is far from being an average manager.

The England job is his fourth international appointment after stints with Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates and he has coached in eight countries in all. Hodgson has not been successful everywhere - he was sacked at Blackburn Rovers in 1998 and at Liverpool last season after a sixmonth spell at Anfield.

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On the plus side he took unfashionable Fulham to the final of the Europa League in 2010, Inter Milan to the UEFA Cup final in 1997 and has won league wins in Denmark and Sweden. Much of the negative reaction to Hodgson’s appointment came from the media, baying for weeks that Tottenham Hotspur manager Redknapp was a certainty for the job.

ANGRY PUNDITS

The pundits were angry to be proved wrong, vented their spleen on Hodgson, but now that petty spat is out the way, they seem prepared to give him a chance, and at last a sense of reality may be in the air at last. England being England of course a major scandal is only around the corner and Hodgson came under fire in certain quarters for not calling Rio Ferdinand back into the squad following the injury that ruled out Gary Cahill.

Instead he turned to Liverpool rookie Martin Kelly with Ferdinand’s representatives accusing him of “a total lack of respect” in ignoring the former skipper.

Hodgson has weathered bigger storms and once this one blows over, the general airm of calm, somewhat lacking under his predeccsor Fabio Capello, should return to the squad.

Capello’s resignation as manager in February, despite an unbeaten qualifying campaign, a series of injuries ruling out key players, striker Wayne Rooney’s two-match ban which rules him out of the first two matches and a lack of flair in the team have all played a part in watering down optimism among the fans.

Endek Trade Center in Denpasar shifts to Klungkung Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Kumbasari Market was once the famous sales center of endek fabric in Bali. Few crafters also sell some of their products to consumers loving traditional woven clothes.

However, such condition is now experiencing a shift where all the traders have shifted to Klungkung Market. On that account, many consumers tend to do shopping to the town of serombotan or spicy assorted salads.

Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, requested to take back the past glory of Kumbasari Market that had been famous for sales centers of endek clothes.

To achieve such condition, Denpasar Municipality had been preparing some facilities such as central parking lot, business incubators and hall of fashion for crafters.

“Development of Kumbasari Imperium is an attempt to revive the presence of endek textile products and to further synergize the creative economic development in the city of Denpasar,” said Rai Mantra in Denpasar, Tuesday (Jun 5).

According to him, Kumbasari Imperium was a place to develop the creative economy in the field of fashion that provided a means to empower people in the field of production, innovation and marketing of the SME sector, especially the endek and songket weaving clothes. “We will accelerate the development of Kumbasari Market Imperium,” he said.

He said that to restore the existence of endek in Denpasar City in particular, his party would not just organize an annual event, but also socialized the endek cloth among the government officials, enterprises and other agencies. It did not only aim to socialize the endek

cloth, but also to encourage the crafters to continue creating because the potential of Balinese endek and songket had a quality that was not inferior to other textiles throughout Indonesia.

Meanwhile, Deputy Director of Bank Mandiri of Denpasar Branch, Anga Erlangga Hanafie, said the building of Kumbasari Market had been well arranged. Nevertheless, it was still required a branding development for Kumbasari Market into Kumbasari Imperium.

“We are now focusing the CSR program on Kumbasari Market and have conducted a survey to the management of Kumbasari Market and traders that did selling in the Kumbasari Market,” he explained.

The program would be worked on through several stages by establishing few representative booths as well as fashion show event that would be organized each month. To promote the Kumbasari Market Imperium, his party had prepared flyers and other powerful media to promote the program in years to come.

“To make people easier when making a visit to Kumbasari Market, we will also prepare shuttle bus operated by the management of the market,” he said. (kmb27)

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The member of Bali Youth Caring for Environment (PPLB) give brochur to socialize the danger of plastic waste.

Socialization on plastic waste hazards Singaraja (Bali Post)—

A number of Buleleng youth coalesced into the Bali Youth Caring for Environment (PPLB) Tuesday (May 5) organized socialization on the hazards of plastic waste to residents of Singaraja town. The activity was carried out in conjunction with the celebration of the World Environment Day. The activities were carried out at different three locations namely the intersection of Jalan Diponegoro—

Jalan Pramuka, intersection of Jalan Ngurah Rai and the intersection of Penimbangan Beach. Interestingly, the activity of disseminating the brochures on the environmental preservation was performed by the youth while putting on bebondresan mask.

Chairman of PPLB, Nyoman Ardiasa, said that socialization on the environmental preservation to protect the earth from the hazards of plastic waste deliberately targeted the general public especially

road users. They were expected to understand about the hazards of plastic waste that could threaten the planet without an immediate rescue. Other than polluting the soil, the plastic could interfere with the porosity and water flow; reduce soil fertility; cause air pollution if burned; and some other effects.

“We are targeting the general public and road users so that they can understand about the hazards of plastic waste,” he said. (kmb)

Mental disorders rate in Bali increases each year Gianyar (Bali Post)—

Other than in Gianyar, the mental disorder rate in Bali tends to increase each year. By all means, it is truly apprehensive. Behind the increasingly crowded activities of tourism industry and rapid economic growth of Bali, there is a reality on the growing rates of insane people and suicide where one of which is kindled by entanglement of economic problems.

Chairperson of the Suryani Institute for Mental Health Foundation revealed the matter in front of the volunteers of mental illness prevention in Gianyar Regency held at Kerta Kertya Mandala Memorial Park of Gianyar, Tuesday (Jun 5).

Suryani explained that based on

the result of research conducted by her foundation in Bali during 2000 it was found that 100 people died from suicide and the rate increased to 180 people in 2004. The rate excluded the failed suicidal attempt.

The main cause of those suicides was depression or insane, less harmonious relationship to partner or family, chronic illness for years, as well as economic factors.

Besides, the rate of mental disorder in Bali also increased each year. Based on her records, Karangasem Regency had 850 insane people of 440,000 populations, Buleleng Regency had 1,000 people of 600,000 populations, and Denpasar City had 120 insane people of 120,000 populations,

explained Suryani.

Having previously succeeded in curing some insane people in Karangasem and Buleleng Regency, now the Suryani Foundations teaming up with Gianyar Regency and Suka Cita Foundation managed by a Dutch tourist would record and try to do the same endeavor to insane people in Gianyar Regency.

“It is carried out voluntarily and purely kindled by the call of the heart because the patients with mental disorders can actually be cured,” explained Suryani.

The Head of Gianyar Social Agency, Kadek Wisnu Wijaya, expected the partnership could help people with mental disorders existing in the Gianyar Regency. (kmb16)

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Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan Reuters

WASHINGTON/PESHAWAR - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed one of al Qaeda’s most powerful figures, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the militant group since the raid that killed founder Osama bin Laden last year.

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List of al-Qaeda leaders captured, killed or at large. Abu Yahya al-Libi, one of the group’s top strategists may have been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, local intelligence officials said on Tuesday. RNGS.

Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group’s operations, and who survived previous U.S. attacks, was killed in the drone strike early Monday morning on a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan’s tribal areas, officials said.

The White House called Libi’s death a “major blow” to al Qaeda, and claimed that it will be hard for the group to find someone of similar stature to replace him. Some private analysts agreed, saying that the group that launched the September 11 attacks in the United States in

2001 now faces a crisis over its future.

But even as al Qaeda’s core group, now led by Ayman alZawahri, reels from mounting losses, its affiliates elsewhere - particularly in Yemen - have continued planning attacks on U.S. and other Western targets. The drone strikes, which have escalated in number over the last two weeks, have deeply angered Pakistan’s government and contributed to unrelenting tensions between Washington and Islamabad.

Pakistan summoned the U.S.

charge d’affaires to its foreign ministry to convey “serious concerns” over the drone strikes, a ministry statement said. For the United States, Libi had been one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous figures.

Recently released letters written by bin Laden and captured during the U.S. raid in which he was killed last year show Libi was one of a handful of al Qaeda officials bin Laden relied on to argue al Qaeda’s case to a worldwide audience of militants, in particular to the young.

Libi, a cleric whose real name was Mohamed Hassan Qaid, escaped from U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2005 and on at least one previous occasion was prematurely reported to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike.

Parade and palace wave finale for UK Queen’s jubilee Reuters

LONDON - Four days of celebrations in which millions have turned out to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne reach a finale on Tuesday with a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, a procession through London and a wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

For once, the 86-year-old British monarch will not be accompanied to a grand state occasion by her husband of 64 years, Prince Philip, who was taken to hospital on Monday with a bladder infection as her Diamond Jubilee drew to a close.

The 90-year-old royal consort will be kept under observation for a few days in a move the palace said was “precautionary”, but it takes some of the gloss of what is widely seen as a triumphant jubilee that has cemented the queen’s popularity.

A million people gathered for a spectacular 1,000-vessel pageant on the River Thames on Sunday and hundreds of thousands more packed the wide, red road leading to Buckingham Palace on Monday for a concert featuring Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Millions more attended street parties up and down the country despite generally inclement weather, and massing crowds once again began turning the famous Mall avenue towards Buckingham Palace into a sea of red, white and blue for the culmination of celebrations.

In a tribute to his mother delivered from a concert stage surrounding a statue of Queen Victoria the only other British monarch to have reigned for 60 years, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles sought to sum up affection for a monarch who is a symbol of stability amid economic gloom and political disillusionment.

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Mali Tuareg, Islamists still deadlocked over breakaway state

REUTERS/Steve Parsons/POOL

Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) published a statement on their website saying a merger deal signed on May 26 was being studied by each camp.

“A commission will be established to deal with the differences on the pending issues,” read the statement signed by MNLA secretary general Bilal Ag Acherif.

The statement did not outline the disagreements but both parties have said they do not agree on the implementation of sha-

ria, which caused a brief merger between the two groups to fall apart. “With the help of experts, the two delegations are continuing talks in (the northern city) Gao to discuss elements such as sharia,” a member of the Islamist Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) Moussa Ag Cherif, told AFP. The rival groups, who seized main cities in northern Mali after a March 22 coup in the southern capital Bamako, hold separate ideologies and objectives and the relationship has been an uneasy one.

Mossa Ag Attaher, a Paris-based MNLA spokesman, told AFP Friday they had “accepted the idea of an Islamic State but it should have been written that we will practise a moderate and tolerant Islam, with no mention of sharia.

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Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU — None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again. From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won’t be for another 105 years.

“If you can see the mole on Cindy Crawford’s face, you can see Venus,” Van Webster, a member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, told anyone who stopped by his telescope for a peek on Mount Hollywood.

For astronomers, the transit wasn’t just a rare planetary spectacle. It was also one of those events they hoped would spark curiosity about the universe and our place in it. Sul Ah Chim, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea, said he hoped people see life from a larger perspective, and “not get caught up in their small, everyday problems.”

“When you think about it from the context of the universe, 105 years is a very short period of time and the Earth is only a small, pale blue spot,” he said.

The transit was happening during a 6-hour, 40-minute span that began just after 6 p.m. EDT in the United States. What observers could see and for how long depended on

their region’s exposure to the sun during that exact window of time, and the weather.

Those in most areas of North and Central America saw the start of the transit until sunset, while those in western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and most of Europe could catch the transit’s end once the sun came up.

Hawaii, Alaska, eastern Australia and eastern Asia including Japan, North and South Korea and eastern China get the whole show since the entire transit happens during daylight in those regions.

While astronomers used the latest technology to document the transit, American astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station was planning to take photos of the event and post them online. Online streams with footage from telescopes around the world proved popular for NASA and other observatories. A NASA stream midway through the transit had nearly 2 million total views and was getting roughly 90,000 viewers at any given moment.

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An Islamist rebel mans a gun near Timbuktu. A north Malian Arab militia broke away from a meeting of fellow Arabs from their country in Mauritania, declaring they would fight for independence of Mali’s troubled north.

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Eyes turn skyward as Venus travels across the sun

Disney to ban junkfood ads on TV channels, websites

Agence France Presse Police form a line as crowds watch Queen Elizabeth and the Royal family from the Mall during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London June 5, 2012.

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The Walt Disney Company, in a first for a US media giant, said Tuesday it will ban junk-food advertising on its TV channels and websites from 2015 to help fight obesity among US children.

“This new initiative is truly a game changer for the health of our children,” said First Lady Michelle Obama, a champion of better eating for young people who attended Disney’s landmark announcement in Washington.

“This is a major American company, a global brand, that is literally changing the way it does business so that our kids can lead healthier lives,” she said.

In a statement, Disney said all food and drinks advertised on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Radio Disney, and Disney-owned children’s websites would, from 2015, be required to meet its own nutrition guidelines.

The rules will also apply during Saturday morning cartoons on the ABC stations owned by Disney, which reach one in four American households from New York to Los Angeles.

“The nutrition guidelines are aligned to federal standards, promote fruit and vegetable consumption and call for limiting calories and reducing saturated fat, sodium, and sugar,” it said.

Breakfast cereals, for instance, would have to contain less than 10 grams of sugar per serving in order to be advertised on Disney outlets.

Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes, squarely targeted at youngsters, now come in at 11 grams.

Besides the new advertising standards, Disney said it would roll out a “Mickey Check” check-mark icon this year to identify nutritious food and menu items at its retail shops and theme parks.

Seventeen percent of US children are obese, a figure that has tripled in 30 years, according to a report last month from the Institute of Medicine that warned of a “catastrophic” impact on national health care and productivity.

REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

The planet Venus makes its transit across the Sun as seen from Kathmandu June 6, 2012.

Venus made a slow transit across the face of the sun on Tuesday, the last such passing that will be visible from Earth for 105 years.

‘NintendoLand,’ ‘Mario Bros.’ coming to Wii U

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Nintendo is relying on a famous plumber, zombies and a virtual theme park to build buzz for the Wii U. The Japanese gaming giant unleashed 23 games for its upcoming console featuring a touchscreen controller during a news conference Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry’s annual trade show.

Among the titles announced were the cooperative platform game “New Super Mario Bros. U” and the amusement-park-themed mini-game collection “NintendoLand.” Nintendo also demonstrated the fantastical strategy sequel “Pikmin 3” and first-person undead-fighting game “ZombiU” from Ubisoft Entertainment.

The titles employed what the company is dubbing “asymmetric gameplay,” which gives players using the 6.2-inch touchscreen controller called the Wii U GamePad a different experience than those armed with traditional Wii controllers. The Wii U will be compatible with previous Wii controllers, including the Wii Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board.

“When we launched the Wii at the press conference in 2006, people were still wondering what this thing is all about,” said Reggie Fils-Aime,

president of Nintendo of America, backstage after the press conference.

“To make a comparison of where we are with the Wii U vs. the Wii, I think we’re actually much further along. I say that because here at this press conference, we’re able to show off over 20 games, and we’ve got fantastic third-party support.”

Nintendo illustrated that “New Super Mario Bros. U” could be played on either a TV or the touchscreen controller, and that the latest installment in the brick-smashing, coin-collecting franchise would allow up to four players to play simultaneously with traditional controllers, while another

could join in with the touchscreen controller to jab enemies and build platforms from afar.

“With the Wii U GamePad, we have the first dedicated personal screen in the long history of game machines,” Shigeru Miyamoto, who created “Super Mario Bros.” and “Legend of Zelda,” said at the news conference through a translator.

Other games announced for the successor to the popular Wii console included the fitness title “Wii Fit U,” a sing-and-dance-along game called “SiNG” and the word-filled puzzler “Scribblenauts Unlimited” from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

An attendee plays a video game using Nintendo’s Wii U controller at E3 2012 in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 5, 2012.

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International FILE - In a Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, a Pakistani artist, left, gives final touches to characters of Pakistani Sesame Street in Lahore, Pakistan.

US ends funding for Pakistan’s ‘Sesame Street’

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Furama Vilas & Spa IBP

The Furama Vilas & Spa, Bali is nestled amidst padi fields in the Banjar Bindu district in mountainous Ubud, covering over 2000m2 verdant lands. Accessible to the popular Ubud market via the resort’s free shuttle service, the Concierge can also arrange for transportation to other tourist attractions based on guest’s needs.

19 Deluxe Pool Villas (265m) exude an idyllic appeal in the tranquil surroundings. Soft furnishings in a simple yet tasteful style create an atmosphere of warmth and cosines. The private plunge pool and gazebo for in-villa massage treatments are added luxuries for guests’ daily indulgence.

The 5 Royal Pool Villa are fashioned like the Deluxe Pool Villas and the 480m compound houses two villas instead of one. A common patio area encourages relaxing evening chats and in-villa dining.

All villas are well equipped with modern conveniences, ideal for discerning executive types and vacationing couples to lounge around and unwind in maximum comfort, inviting you into a memorable holiday experience.

AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary, file

Associated Press Writer

Sheryl Crow has a benign brain tumor

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” in response to alleged corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The organization in question is the Rafi Peer Theater Workshop, a group based in the city of Lahore that jointly developed the show with Sesame Workshop, the creator of the American series.

NEW YORK — Sheryl Crow revealed that she has a benign brain tumor, but her rep says it’s nothing to be alarmed about.

The 50-year-old told an audience about her condition at a recent concert, but her representative, Christine Wolff, said it’s very common.

The tumor is a meningioma (men-in-GEE-oh-mah), and it’s typically benign and develops from the protective linings of the brain and spinal cord. Wolff said that Crow is doing great and is healthy and happy.

Crow battled breast cancer several years back. She’s currently on a nationwide tour.

The show, which includes Elmo and a host of new Pakistani characters, first aired at the end of last year and was supposed to run for at least three seasons. The U.S. hoped it would improve education in a country where one-third of primary schoolage children are not in class. It was also meant to increase tolerance at a time when the influence of radical views is growing.

The U.S. cut off funding for the project and launched an investigation

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after receiving what it deemed to be credible allegations of fraud and abuse on a telephone hotline set up by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Pakistan, said U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner.

“So rather than to continue to throw good money after bad, we thought it was prudent to cut off this program and wait for the results of the investigation,” Toner told reporters in Washington. A total of $6.7 million had been spent on the show so far out of a total

of $20 million that was planned, he said. The U.S. did not provide details about the alleged corruption.

The Pakistan Today newspaper reported Tuesday that the graft included using the U.S. money to pay off old debts and awarding lucrative contracts to relatives, citing unnamed sources close to the project.

Faizaan Peerzada, the chief operating officer of Rafi Peer and one of several family members who run the organization, denied the corruption allegations. He claimed the U.S. ended its participation because of the lack of additional available funds.

“Rafi Peer is proud of its association with the project and of the quality of children’s educational television programming created within Pakistan as a result,” the group said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.

Paris Jackson talks to Oprah for Sunday interview Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, talks about her late father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday.

Paris Jackson, 14, will be featured on “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” the channel said Tuesday. She and Winfrey

AP Photo/Harpo Inc., George Burns

This undated image released by Harpo, Inc. shows host Oprah Winfrey posing with Paris Jackson, daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson in Los Angeles.

discuss how the teenager is faring three years after the 2009 death of her pop star father.

“It never gets easier,” Paris says in a promotional spot aired by OWN, which also shows Winfrey asking if Michael Jackson wanted her to have “a quote ‘normal’ life.”

Paris and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, were closely sheltered during Jackson’s life but have been in the public eye since, appearing onstage at Grammy Awards and on other TV shows.

“Oprah’s Next Chapter,” which also will include an interview with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, will air at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on OWN.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012 26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Odalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk Sukawati Odalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Betara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.

Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung Pengatepan Pura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.

Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu.

Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Desa Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.

Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan Kuta Pura Goa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Pejeng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Songan Merajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan Sidemen Merajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.

Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.

Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun Sulahan Merajan Pasek Padang Rata Padang Pura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar 16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagatkarana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.

Pura Giri Jaya Natha Balikpapan Pura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek.

Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batugaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya 20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar Timur Pura Jogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Pura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja Tabanan Pura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

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

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

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

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

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

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Russian parliament approves harsh bill on protests

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BUSINESS Coca-Cola, Ford, others back plant-based packaging

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Luka Rocco Magnotta appears on Interpol’s website on June 5, 2012.

More body parts found in Canada as suspect faces German court Reuters

VANCOUVER/BERLIN - Packages containing a human hand and foot were delivered to schools in western Canada on Tuesday as the suspect in a cannibalistic murder and dismemberment told German police he would not fight a Canadian extradition request. There was no immediate evidence to link the two parcels sent to the Pacific port city of Vancouver to Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is wanted in Canada on charges of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, then posting a video of the crime online.

But Vancouver police investigator Warren Lemcke said local police were in contact with the authorities in Montreal, where police say a foot and a hand are among the body parts still missing after the gruesome murder of Jun Lin, 32. One foot and one hand were received by mail at the headquarters of political parties in Ottawa last week, while Lin’s torso was found in an abandoned suitcase in a garbage strewn alley behind Magnotta’s Montreal apartment.

“The investigation is only a few hours old so I cannot link it to anything right now,” Lemcke said.

A Vancouver police statement said the “human remains” were discovered in separate packages received in the mail at two local schools in the afternoon. “There is no indication of an identity at this stage in the investigation,” the statement said.

Magnotta, 29, who has a bi-

zarre internet trail as a gay escort, a bisexual porn star and alleged kitten killer, was arrested in a Berlin Internet cafe on Monday after an international manhunt. He had been reading articles online about the hunt for the killer.

WON’T FIGHT EXTRADITION

German authorities said on Tuesday Magnotta had told them he would not fight extradition to Canada, where he faces charges of first-degree murder, indignities to a body, publishing and mailing obscene matter, and harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament.

“He made no objections to being extradited to Canada,” Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin city prosecutor, referring to Magnotta’s appearance before a judge. Steltner said the extradition order could be completed in the next few days

and Magnotta, born as Eric Clinton Newman in Scarborough, Ontario, could be put on a plane to Canada after German government approval of the order.

Montreal police said the video posted online after Lin’s death the video showed the killer eating part of the body. But they gave no details, saying they first had to establish without doubt the footage was of Lin’s murder.

“We have to confirm the authenticity of the footage we have. We believe it is (authentic), but now we’ve got to prove it,” Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreiniere told a news conference. Police say the video shows a man stabbing his victim repeatedly and then cutting off the arms, legs and head.

“I encourage nobody to watch this video. It is a video that was extremely sordid,” Montreal organized crime squad chief Denis Mainville told reporters.

MOSCOW — The Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament on Tuesday rammed through a harsh bill that raises fines 150-fold for people taking part in unsanctioned rallies, a move aimed at discouraging the opposition from challenging President Vladimir Putin.

The bill would jack up fines from the current 2,000 rubles to 300,000 rubles ($9,000), and comes after a series of massive protests that have reflected growing public frustration with Putin’s 12-year rule. The potential punishment is more severe than for many other crimes, including even violations in the storage of nuclear materials.

The opposition factions in the lower house, the State Duma, put forward several hundred amendments in an unprecedented attempt to stymie the bill’s passage, reflecting a new willingness to stand up to the Kremlin.

But members of the Kremlin’s majority United Russia party voted the amendments down one by one during a marathon session that lasted nearly six extra hours and ended just before midnight.

United Russia then used its majority in the 450 seat parliament to approve the bill in the second and third readings. The final vote was 241-147.

Australia...

From page 1 Emad was described as the “head of the smugglers, the head of the snake” by an informant who linked him to a powerful Indonesian ring behind two ill-fated boats which sank before reaching Australia, killing almost 150 people.

Indonesia is a key staging post for people-smugglers who take Afghans, Sri Lankans and others on the dangerous sea journey to Australia, where many seek asylum.

Jakarta has long claimed that hundreds of its citizens detained in Australia on people smuggling charges are innocent victims, poor fishermen conned by ringleaders into sailing on the boats.

Bali...

From page 1 “In the school holidays, those destinations will be in great demand among the domestic tourists,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said his party had not dared to make sure the domestic tourist visit to Denpasar in conjunction with the next school holidays. “We have not dared to make sure the number of tourist visit to Denpasar. Because, the school holiday season this year will coincide with the fasting month that will have an impact on their visits,” he said.

According to Budiasa, the arrival of domestic tourists during the school holidays last year was quite high. Even, based on the hotel occupancy, the tourist visit to Denpasar reached 87 percent. Today, this capital of Bali Province had 8,787 hotel rooms consisting of 4,426 budget hotel rooms, 4,041 five-star hotel rooms and 320 tourist lodge rooms.

“Last year, many hotels were overbooked. Hopefully, this year the room occupancy rate can reach the same condition as last year though coinciding with fasting month,” he hoped.

He said that Denpasar had a number of objects becoming the main attraction for domestic tourists such as Sanur Beach, the charm of Serangan Island, Bali Museum and other attractions.

“By and large, the domestic tourists enjoying school holidays in Denpasar are dominantly from Surabaya, Bandung, Jakarta and several other provinces,” he added. (kmb27)

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AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

People walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Australia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate for a second consecutive month, lowering it a quarter percentage point to 3.5 percent.

Australia grows at fastest rate since 2008 crisis Associated Press

CANBERRA — Australia’s economy rocketed to 4.3 percent growth for the year through March, its fastest expansion since the global financial crisis as Chinese demand for iron ore and other commodities masked difficulties outside the mining industry.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday that the economy grew 1.3 percent in the January-March quarter from the previous quarter, which was double what economists had expected.

A major driver was a 19.7 percent surge in engineering construction, mainly in mining.

Planned investment in the resources sector reached 500 billion Australian dollars ($500 billion).

Increased spending by households also made a significant contribution to growth. But manufacturing continued to contract as the mining boom drives up the Australian dollar, making the country’s manufactured exports less competitive.

The January-March growth figures predate the latest deterioration in the Europeans debt crisis but could still make Australia’s central bank less willing to cut interest rates aggressively. The central bank on Tuesday cut its benchmark rate for a second consecutive month, to 3.5 percent, as Europe’s economy weakens and growth in China moderates.

Treasurer Wayne Swan said the strong

growth was achieved despite a cyclone disrupting iron ore exports from Western Australia state and some sectors outside the mining industry struggling against a high Australian dollar.

Mineral-rich Western Australia’s economy grew by 13.6 percent for the year.

“There have been headwinds as well, which is also why this is such a remarkable result,” Swan told reporters.

The government’s critics argue that the AU$23 tax that polluters will have to pay for every metric ton of carbon gases that they produce would cost jobs.

“The fact is with a carbon price, our economy will continue to grow,” Swan said.

The government forecast in May that the mining boom would lift economic growth from 3 percent in the current fiscal year ending June 30 to 3.25 percent next year.

It also forecast that the carbon tax which will take effect from July 1 would dampen economic and employment growth by less than a quarter of a percentage point during the next fiscal year.

WASHINGTON - Five leading US global companies, including Coca-Cola and Ford, unveiled Tuesday a joint effort to develop 100 percent plant-based plastics in their products, cutting the use of fossil fuels.

Coca-Cola, Ford, Heinz, Nike and Procter & Gamble said they were launching a working group focused on speeding up the development and use of 100 percent plant-based PET plastic.

PET, also known as polyethylene terephthalate, is a durable, lightweight plastic. All five companies use PET based on fossil fuels like oil in bottles, apparel, footwear and automotive fabric and carpet.

The companies pledged in a joint statement “to champion and support research, expand knowledge and accelerate technology development to enable commercially viable, more sustainably sourced, 100 percent plant-based PET plastic while reducing the use of fossil fuels.”

The jump on the green bandwagon came after PepsiCo, Coke’s arch-rival, announced in March 2011 it had developed the world’s first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plants.

It also came after months of rising oil prices that have squeezed company profit margins.

The companies said their new working group, the Plant PET Technology Col-

laborative, would build upon the success of Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle packaging technology, “which is partially made from plants and has demonstrated a lower environmental impact when compared to traditional PET plastic bottles.”

Currently, Heinz licenses the Coke bottle technology for select Heinz ketchup bottles in the United States and Canada.

According to the National Association for PET Container Resources, PET is the most widely recycled plastic in the world.

But critics argue the move to plantbased plastics is not a greener solution to reducing plastic pollution. Whether made from petroleum or renewable plants, the molecular structure of PET is the same: the plastic takes an extremely long time to degrade and it pollutes landfills and oceans.

However, Erin Simon at the World Wildlife Fund welcomed Tuesday’s announcement of a new effort to reduce the use of fossil fuels, citing their significant impacts to the planet’s biodiversity, climate and other natural systems.

“Sustainably managing our natural resources and finding alternatives to fossil fuels are both business and environmental imperatives. It’s encouraging to see these leading companies use their market influence to reduce dependence on petroleum-based plastics,” said Simon, a senior packaging expert, in the companies’ statement.

Buffett sees little chance of US recession Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Despite recent signs of weakness, the U.S. economy isn’t likely to slip back into a recession, Warren Buffett said Tuesday. He also said both political parties deserve blame for the federal government’s failure to reduce the deficit.

Speaking at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Economic Club of Washington, the billionaire investor said he sees the odds of a renewed recession as “very low.”

But he warned that could change if the effects of Europe’s financial crisis were to “spill over in a big way.”

European leaders need to reconcile the “half-in, half-out,” nature of the euro zone, Buffett said. The 17 nations that use the euro share the same central bank and interest rate policies, but follow wildly different national tax and budget policies.

Buffett, who is the CEO of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,

also reaffirmed his support for the socalled “Buffett Rule.” The proposal would require Americans with incomes above $1 million to pay a 30 percent tax rate.

“I couldn’t get a disease named after me, so I settled for a tax,” he said.

When asked how he would reduce the U.S. government’s budget deficit, which is on track to top $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row, Buffett recommended raising taxes and cutting spending.

“The problem is the Democrats don’t want to talk about what expenditures they would cut and the Republicans don’t want to talk about raising revenues,” he said.

“You’ve got to get specific about it,” he added. “Just talking about reform won’t work.”

That echoed the criticism many Democrats have leveled against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. They say his budget-cutting proposals consist mainly of broad targets and don’t include enough details about actual cuts.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Destinations

Sukawati Art Market IBP

Spending time on the island of Paradise is full of endless experience. The island that has nickname Island of Gods offers many experiences and adventures. An activity you will enjoy is hunting souvenirs and the like in the art markets.

One of art markets that are already popular among visitors is Sukawati art market. Sukawati

road-facing market located in the Gianyar Regency has a strategic position as it is passed through during the tour to some destinations to the east. Sukawati art market is close to the village of Celuk, the center of gold & silversmiths. You can drop in after watching barong and kris dance performance in the morning. It can be accessed through bemo transport, tour bus or taxi.

It is just like a myriad of art shops that offers wide range of products. Simply one stop-shopping. Many items sold in Kuta or other areas originate from here and are considerably cheaper if bought here. One outlet may provide more than one item, like garments, souvenirs, paintings (unframed), basketry, colorful kites and so on.

Buying giveaways to commemo-

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rate the holiday has to be a must.

So take advantage the holiday time to find out something memorable on the art market of Sukawati.

This market is very unique as it is already open in the early morning and visited by both domestic and foreign visitors. It is very close to other destinations in the Gianyar Regency.

A good place to explore the shopping experience in a natural way, get in touch with common people and see how the locals go about the art of negotiation. Yes, shopping is also an art of experience. On the one hand, you may enjoy many kinds of art products all in one spot. It reflects the diversity of local art and crafts and the creativity of its people.

Indonesia Today

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

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5.6magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia

You will get a new experience in the ‘art of buying’. You must bargain the price eventhough the vendor offers you a “morning price.” Meaning especially low, to start off the trading day with a few sales already and make the day a successful one.

It does not mean you have to accept it as it is, it’s not a fixed price.

If you are good at bargaining you will get the best price you can afford and the vendor keeps “smiling and thanking you”. If they don’t smile anymore, you know his cost is higher than your offer. Good at bargaining is a bit more than insisting on a price. You need to provide a logical reason why your offer is so low and still should be accepted.

Agence France-Presse

AP Photo/Trisnadi

U.S. Marines take their position during a joint amphibious assault exercise with their Indonesian counterparts on Banongan beach in Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. The landing operation was part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), a series of annual bilateral military exercises conducted by U.S. Pacific Fleet with several ASEAN countries.

BANDA ACEH - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The quake struck 75 kilometres (47 miles) west of Banda Aceh just after 6:00 pm (1100 GMT) at a depth of more than 35 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.

An AFP correspondent in Banda Aceh said people ran from their homes as the ground shook for about 30 seconds.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where continental plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated Indonesia, where 170,000 people were killed, mostly in Aceh province.

Construction worker arrested over duct tape murder Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police on Tuesday arrested a construction worker suspected of suffocating a Japanese-born woman because he was “annoyed” at being scolded over his work on renovations at her home.

Toni Hidayat, 39, suffocated 67year-old Setsuko Itawa with duct tape at her Jakarta home on Sunday,

East Jakarta police chief Saidal Mursalin told reporters.

He said Hidayat was beaten in

the face and tied up before being dragged to the bathroom and suffocated with duct tape plastered over her mouth and nose.

“She was weak but conscious (after the beating) and then he decided to kill her by plastering duct tape over her nose and mouth,” Mursalin said.

448 buildings damaged in Sukabumi earthquake Antara

SUKABUMI - The 6.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Sukabumi on Monday has damaged 448 buildings, reported an official of the Sukabumi disaster mitigation office (BPBD).

“The worst-affected sub-district is Cidolog. Until now, 12 sub-districts have reported that the earthquake has damaged a number of buildings in their region,” the secretary of Sukabumi BPBD, Tatang, Wednesday.

He said that of the 448 affected buildings, 272 are slightly damaged, 153 are moderately damaged, and 19 others - in addition to a grand mosque, an Islamic boarding school and two small mosques - are seriously damaged.

“The figure is tentative, because we are

still unable to calculate the material losses; the number of damaged buildings could increase later,” he added.

The 12 affected sub-districts are Cidolog, Tegalbuleud, Nyalindung, Surade, Warungkiara, Cidadap, Parungkuda, Palabuhanratu, Ciemas, Simpenan, Sagaranten and Pabuaran.

Sukabumi district contains 47 sub-districts in all.

The Sukabumi and West Java authorities have distributed relief aid to the earthquake victims. Two village children - Imaliah (6) and Fitri (12) - from Pabuaran sub-district were wounded after they were hit by falling beams during the quake.

Indonesia is prone to tectonic and volcanic earthquakes because the world’s largest archipelago is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire - an arc comprising volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

Antara

“He hanged her from the bathroom shower and then took her mobile phone and bank card before escaping,” he added.

He said Hidayat was doing renovation work on the victim’s house.

“He told us he had murdered the victim because he was annoyed at being scolded by her many times

for no apparent reason,” Mursalin said.

The Japanese embassy in Jakarta where Itawa worked part-time at the consular section said she had given up her Japanese citizenship after marrying an Indonesian. The embassy said it did not know when she had changed her nationality.

Garuda considering Papua-China flights

BEIJING - National airline company Garuda Indonesia has been exploring possibilities of Papua-China flights to support the Master Plan for Acceleration and Expansion of Economic Development (MP3EI).

General Manager of Garuda Timika Office Nano Setiawan said in Beijing Wednesday that besides the MP3EI plan for the PapuaChina flights, there is also a plan to accelerate the development of Papua and West Papua as the East is an important hub.

“Garuda will facilitate the traffic movements between the two countries in the development of the economy and tourism,” Setiawan said. Garuda Timika and Biak offices and several travel agents are making trips to Beijing and Guangzhou.

With regard to Garuda’s strategy for in-

creasing the comfort of Chinese tourists to Papua in the long trip, he said the long hauls to Papua will be combined with other destinations, such as the package from Jakarta, Jogya, Denpasar and then Papua.

The flights to China by Garuda Indonesia have always been via Jakarta.

Beijing General Manager of Garuda Asa Perkasa said the Jakarta-Beijing flights will be five times a week, Jakarta-Guangzhou and Jakarta-Shanghai flights every day.

On the flights to Papua he said Garuda flies on the Jayapura-Biak-Makassar-Jakarta or Jayapura-Timika-Denpasar-Jakarta routes.

“With the route from Papua there will be a connection to Australia, Korea and Japan via Denpasar,” he said.

He added that with the route, flights from Papua can also reach Europe, China and Asean via Jakarta,”.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Bali Today in Bali has caused the flow of incoming goods from outside Bali to exceed the outgoing goods.

This condition makes the land traffic density more serious so that it can disrupt the tourism image.

Bali sets to be crowded by trailer transport services IBP/File

DENPASAR - Increasing consumption in Bali has caused the flow of incoming goods from outside Bali to exceed the outgoing goods. This condition makes the land traffic density more serious so that it can disrupt the tourism image.

General Manager of Pelindo III Benoa, Iwan Sabatini, said the freight transportation by land was estimated to increase. This happened because the shipping company had put into effect the non-subsidized industrial diesel fuel since February 2012, while the land transport could still enjoy the fuel subsidies.

“Freight transport from and to Bali is indeed allowed by sea and land. The exporters and importers will surely choose the cheaper and faster service to diminish the costs,” said Iwan in Denpasar.

Based on latest data of Pelindo

III, the cargo trailers with containers by land transport during the period April 2012 reached 587 trailers. Such amount increased every month, namely 445 trailers in January, February (504 trailers) and March (561 trailers).

The containers transported by trailer had increased the traffic congestions and triggered the high number of accidents along the Gilimanuk-Denpasar road section because the whole commercial lines in Bali remained to be carried out through Tanjung Perak Harbor in Surabaya.

“Today, a new model cargo transport is emerging, namely by using a

Wing-Box cargo transport with the size equivalent to the cargo containers on the chassis. It can be removed from the truck head,” he explained.

According to him, the number of Wing-Box was even much more.

Ironically, such land transport services were not operated by Bali entrepreneurs. They had been entirely filled by the transport company in Surabaya in East Java and would be brought back in empty condition.

He said in terms of the total freight, the difference between sea and land transport was not so significant where the average of land transport reached

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Balinese Culture Increasing consumption

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IDR 4.1 million while the sea transport reached IDR 4.5 million. At the moment, the cargo transport by PT Pelayaran Nasional Meratus diminished, so the frequency of ship freight reduced to once in four days from twice a week. “It is an attempt to minimize the inevitable cost of freight transport by shipping line,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Forwarders Association (Gafeksi) of Bali, Bagus John Sujayana, rated if such condition was allowed it would result in a negative spiral effect where the land freight forwarders would be getting more and more, while the volume of sea freight declined. Loss margin of the service provider would also increase, so that it potentially closed the route of ship to Benoa Harbor.

“All the freight forwarders by land will be doubled. Density of land routes will be getting worse and worse while the road conditions remain as at the present,” he said.

As a result of the crowded density due to trailer transport, Bali would face more severe congestion and the road access would be more easily damaged. Ultimately, it would reduce the Bali regional budget. In addition, the value of goods from Bali would also increasingly turn uncompetitive.

“If the freight forwarders by sea can be optimized with the appropriate regulatory support, then the price of products or goods in Bali will be cheaper and the subsidized fuel can be used by the means of mass transportation in appropriate with the feasibility of subsidy provision,” he said. (kmb27)

BASE SATAY (Satay Sauce)

Spiritual Farming:

From one green to some other greens

Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts.

On the one had, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the implementation of chemical fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured up the rice production. In short term, it became an efficacious medicine to resolve the famine in tropical countries.

Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and others. Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the rise of some new cancers.

Realizing these facts, now Bali has an initiative to become a green province and implement the integrated farming system. Hopefully, implementation of the system could realize the Bali Organic plan and consequently minimize the environmental destruction. Green province campaign includes some aspects, namely green culture, green economy and Bali green and clean. Green culture is intended to change the societal behavior in managing their waste management and environment. Green economy hints

that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

One of the aspects is applied in the agricultural field. Socialization has been intensified while establishing farmer groups. Through breeding local cows, for instance, farmers are expected to get maximal benefits. Other than increasing the number of cows, they will be able to take advantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertilizers.

In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Of course, this endeavor will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also take advantage of their cow dung. It was spread out onto the rice field and its efficacy could last for at least for two planting seasons. In terraced rice field, it could uniquely be managed by establishing a cowshed in the upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was channeled to rice field through the water gutter.

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice production, farmers left the method.

Introduction of hand tractor and chemical fertilizers gradually replaced

the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family saving’ for farmers.

Simple eco-friendly pest control actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript entitled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.” It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual aspect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically. For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of ketupat sidayu together with oblation and side dish of yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have developed the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided human with everything required to grow plants.

So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide means to oppose God and will result in bad impact to human. Cow dung and urine as well as compost are three beneficial ingredients being enough for farming both on irrigated and non-irrigated land. By doing so, he claims it is a ‘zero budget of natural farming’ as in his trilogy book entitled Philosophy of Spiritual Farming. (BTN/punia)

INGREDIENTS: 500 gr raw peanuts, deep fried (2 min.)

5 cloves garlic, peeled 8 – 10 bird’s-eye chilies 50 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped 50 gr palm sugar, chopped 2 ltr fresh coconut milk 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce 2 ea lime leaves 1 tbsp fresh limejuice, squeezed 1 tbsp shallots, fried PREPARATION: 1. Combine peanuts, garlic, chilies and kencur in a food processor and puree, or grind coarsely in a stone mortar.

2. Place in heavy sauce pan with coconut milk, sweet soy sauce and lime leaves. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered, stirring frequently to prevent the sauce from sticking, for 15 minutes.

3. Add limejuice and sprinkle with shallots just before serving as a dipping sauce for satay. Season to taste with salt.

IKAN LELE (Catfish)

OVERVIEW: The whiskered catfish, though not an attractive looking creature, tastes excellent when cooked in this fashion.

INGREDIENTS: 1 catfish weighing 350g 1 tsp salt 1tsp black peppercorn crushed 2 tbsp freshly squeezed limejuice 1-cup spice paste for seafood 2 cups coconut milk 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Season catfish with salt, pepper and limejuice and marinate for 30 minutes. Deep fry fish over medium heat for 10 minutes until crispy.

While the fish is marinating, combine all remaining ingredients in saucepan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, until coconut milk breaks apart and sauce becomes oily and clear rather than creamy.

Pour the sauce over the fried fish and serve.

Helpful hint: If catfish is not available, replace with any fresh whole fish or follow the same method with any boneless fish fillet.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Bali Today in Bali has caused the flow of incoming goods from outside Bali to exceed the outgoing goods.

This condition makes the land traffic density more serious so that it can disrupt the tourism image.

Bali sets to be crowded by trailer transport services IBP/File

DENPASAR - Increasing consumption in Bali has caused the flow of incoming goods from outside Bali to exceed the outgoing goods. This condition makes the land traffic density more serious so that it can disrupt the tourism image.

General Manager of Pelindo III Benoa, Iwan Sabatini, said the freight transportation by land was estimated to increase. This happened because the shipping company had put into effect the non-subsidized industrial diesel fuel since February 2012, while the land transport could still enjoy the fuel subsidies.

“Freight transport from and to Bali is indeed allowed by sea and land. The exporters and importers will surely choose the cheaper and faster service to diminish the costs,” said Iwan in Denpasar.

Based on latest data of Pelindo

III, the cargo trailers with containers by land transport during the period April 2012 reached 587 trailers. Such amount increased every month, namely 445 trailers in January, February (504 trailers) and March (561 trailers).

The containers transported by trailer had increased the traffic congestions and triggered the high number of accidents along the Gilimanuk-Denpasar road section because the whole commercial lines in Bali remained to be carried out through Tanjung Perak Harbor in Surabaya.

“Today, a new model cargo transport is emerging, namely by using a

Wing-Box cargo transport with the size equivalent to the cargo containers on the chassis. It can be removed from the truck head,” he explained.

According to him, the number of Wing-Box was even much more.

Ironically, such land transport services were not operated by Bali entrepreneurs. They had been entirely filled by the transport company in Surabaya in East Java and would be brought back in empty condition.

He said in terms of the total freight, the difference between sea and land transport was not so significant where the average of land transport reached

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Balinese Culture Increasing consumption

Bali Post

International

IDR 4.1 million while the sea transport reached IDR 4.5 million. At the moment, the cargo transport by PT Pelayaran Nasional Meratus diminished, so the frequency of ship freight reduced to once in four days from twice a week. “It is an attempt to minimize the inevitable cost of freight transport by shipping line,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Forwarders Association (Gafeksi) of Bali, Bagus John Sujayana, rated if such condition was allowed it would result in a negative spiral effect where the land freight forwarders would be getting more and more, while the volume of sea freight declined. Loss margin of the service provider would also increase, so that it potentially closed the route of ship to Benoa Harbor.

“All the freight forwarders by land will be doubled. Density of land routes will be getting worse and worse while the road conditions remain as at the present,” he said.

As a result of the crowded density due to trailer transport, Bali would face more severe congestion and the road access would be more easily damaged. Ultimately, it would reduce the Bali regional budget. In addition, the value of goods from Bali would also increasingly turn uncompetitive.

“If the freight forwarders by sea can be optimized with the appropriate regulatory support, then the price of products or goods in Bali will be cheaper and the subsidized fuel can be used by the means of mass transportation in appropriate with the feasibility of subsidy provision,” he said. (kmb27)

BASE SATAY (Satay Sauce)

Spiritual Farming:

From one green to some other greens

Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts.

On the one had, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the implementation of chemical fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured up the rice production. In short term, it became an efficacious medicine to resolve the famine in tropical countries.

Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and others. Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the rise of some new cancers.

Realizing these facts, now Bali has an initiative to become a green province and implement the integrated farming system. Hopefully, implementation of the system could realize the Bali Organic plan and consequently minimize the environmental destruction. Green province campaign includes some aspects, namely green culture, green economy and Bali green and clean. Green culture is intended to change the societal behavior in managing their waste management and environment. Green economy hints

that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

One of the aspects is applied in the agricultural field. Socialization has been intensified while establishing farmer groups. Through breeding local cows, for instance, farmers are expected to get maximal benefits. Other than increasing the number of cows, they will be able to take advantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertilizers.

In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Of course, this endeavor will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also take advantage of their cow dung. It was spread out onto the rice field and its efficacy could last for at least for two planting seasons. In terraced rice field, it could uniquely be managed by establishing a cowshed in the upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was channeled to rice field through the water gutter.

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice production, farmers left the method.

Introduction of hand tractor and chemical fertilizers gradually replaced

the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family saving’ for farmers.

Simple eco-friendly pest control actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript entitled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.” It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual aspect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically. For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of ketupat sidayu together with oblation and side dish of yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have developed the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided human with everything required to grow plants.

So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide means to oppose God and will result in bad impact to human. Cow dung and urine as well as compost are three beneficial ingredients being enough for farming both on irrigated and non-irrigated land. By doing so, he claims it is a ‘zero budget of natural farming’ as in his trilogy book entitled Philosophy of Spiritual Farming. (BTN/punia)

INGREDIENTS: 500 gr raw peanuts, deep fried (2 min.)

5 cloves garlic, peeled 8 – 10 bird’s-eye chilies 50 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped 50 gr palm sugar, chopped 2 ltr fresh coconut milk 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce 2 ea lime leaves 1 tbsp fresh limejuice, squeezed 1 tbsp shallots, fried PREPARATION: 1. Combine peanuts, garlic, chilies and kencur in a food processor and puree, or grind coarsely in a stone mortar.

2. Place in heavy sauce pan with coconut milk, sweet soy sauce and lime leaves. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered, stirring frequently to prevent the sauce from sticking, for 15 minutes.

3. Add limejuice and sprinkle with shallots just before serving as a dipping sauce for satay. Season to taste with salt.

IKAN LELE (Catfish)

OVERVIEW: The whiskered catfish, though not an attractive looking creature, tastes excellent when cooked in this fashion.

INGREDIENTS: 1 catfish weighing 350g 1 tsp salt 1tsp black peppercorn crushed 2 tbsp freshly squeezed limejuice 1-cup spice paste for seafood 2 cups coconut milk 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Season catfish with salt, pepper and limejuice and marinate for 30 minutes. Deep fry fish over medium heat for 10 minutes until crispy.

While the fish is marinating, combine all remaining ingredients in saucepan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, until coconut milk breaks apart and sauce becomes oily and clear rather than creamy.

Pour the sauce over the fried fish and serve.

Helpful hint: If catfish is not available, replace with any fresh whole fish or follow the same method with any boneless fish fillet.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Destinations

Sukawati Art Market IBP

Spending time on the island of Paradise is full of endless experience. The island that has nickname Island of Gods offers many experiences and adventures. An activity you will enjoy is hunting souvenirs and the like in the art markets.

One of art markets that are already popular among visitors is Sukawati art market. Sukawati

road-facing market located in the Gianyar Regency has a strategic position as it is passed through during the tour to some destinations to the east. Sukawati art market is close to the village of Celuk, the center of gold & silversmiths. You can drop in after watching barong and kris dance performance in the morning. It can be accessed through bemo transport, tour bus or taxi.

It is just like a myriad of art shops that offers wide range of products. Simply one stop-shopping. Many items sold in Kuta or other areas originate from here and are considerably cheaper if bought here. One outlet may provide more than one item, like garments, souvenirs, paintings (unframed), basketry, colorful kites and so on.

Buying giveaways to commemo-

International

rate the holiday has to be a must.

So take advantage the holiday time to find out something memorable on the art market of Sukawati.

This market is very unique as it is already open in the early morning and visited by both domestic and foreign visitors. It is very close to other destinations in the Gianyar Regency.

A good place to explore the shopping experience in a natural way, get in touch with common people and see how the locals go about the art of negotiation. Yes, shopping is also an art of experience. On the one hand, you may enjoy many kinds of art products all in one spot. It reflects the diversity of local art and crafts and the creativity of its people.

Indonesia Today

International

Thursday, June 7, 2012

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5.6magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia

You will get a new experience in the ‘art of buying’. You must bargain the price eventhough the vendor offers you a “morning price.” Meaning especially low, to start off the trading day with a few sales already and make the day a successful one.

It does not mean you have to accept it as it is, it’s not a fixed price.

If you are good at bargaining you will get the best price you can afford and the vendor keeps “smiling and thanking you”. If they don’t smile anymore, you know his cost is higher than your offer. Good at bargaining is a bit more than insisting on a price. You need to provide a logical reason why your offer is so low and still should be accepted.

Agence France-Presse

AP Photo/Trisnadi

U.S. Marines take their position during a joint amphibious assault exercise with their Indonesian counterparts on Banongan beach in Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. The landing operation was part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), a series of annual bilateral military exercises conducted by U.S. Pacific Fleet with several ASEAN countries.

BANDA ACEH - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The quake struck 75 kilometres (47 miles) west of Banda Aceh just after 6:00 pm (1100 GMT) at a depth of more than 35 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.

An AFP correspondent in Banda Aceh said people ran from their homes as the ground shook for about 30 seconds.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where continental plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated Indonesia, where 170,000 people were killed, mostly in Aceh province.

Construction worker arrested over duct tape murder Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police on Tuesday arrested a construction worker suspected of suffocating a Japanese-born woman because he was “annoyed” at being scolded over his work on renovations at her home.

Toni Hidayat, 39, suffocated 67year-old Setsuko Itawa with duct tape at her Jakarta home on Sunday,

East Jakarta police chief Saidal Mursalin told reporters.

He said Hidayat was beaten in

the face and tied up before being dragged to the bathroom and suffocated with duct tape plastered over her mouth and nose.

“She was weak but conscious (after the beating) and then he decided to kill her by plastering duct tape over her nose and mouth,” Mursalin said.

448 buildings damaged in Sukabumi earthquake Antara

SUKABUMI - The 6.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Sukabumi on Monday has damaged 448 buildings, reported an official of the Sukabumi disaster mitigation office (BPBD).

“The worst-affected sub-district is Cidolog. Until now, 12 sub-districts have reported that the earthquake has damaged a number of buildings in their region,” the secretary of Sukabumi BPBD, Tatang, Wednesday.

He said that of the 448 affected buildings, 272 are slightly damaged, 153 are moderately damaged, and 19 others - in addition to a grand mosque, an Islamic boarding school and two small mosques - are seriously damaged.

“The figure is tentative, because we are

still unable to calculate the material losses; the number of damaged buildings could increase later,” he added.

The 12 affected sub-districts are Cidolog, Tegalbuleud, Nyalindung, Surade, Warungkiara, Cidadap, Parungkuda, Palabuhanratu, Ciemas, Simpenan, Sagaranten and Pabuaran.

Sukabumi district contains 47 sub-districts in all.

The Sukabumi and West Java authorities have distributed relief aid to the earthquake victims. Two village children - Imaliah (6) and Fitri (12) - from Pabuaran sub-district were wounded after they were hit by falling beams during the quake.

Indonesia is prone to tectonic and volcanic earthquakes because the world’s largest archipelago is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire - an arc comprising volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

Antara

“He hanged her from the bathroom shower and then took her mobile phone and bank card before escaping,” he added.

He said Hidayat was doing renovation work on the victim’s house.

“He told us he had murdered the victim because he was annoyed at being scolded by her many times

for no apparent reason,” Mursalin said.

The Japanese embassy in Jakarta where Itawa worked part-time at the consular section said she had given up her Japanese citizenship after marrying an Indonesian. The embassy said it did not know when she had changed her nationality.

Garuda considering Papua-China flights

BEIJING - National airline company Garuda Indonesia has been exploring possibilities of Papua-China flights to support the Master Plan for Acceleration and Expansion of Economic Development (MP3EI).

General Manager of Garuda Timika Office Nano Setiawan said in Beijing Wednesday that besides the MP3EI plan for the PapuaChina flights, there is also a plan to accelerate the development of Papua and West Papua as the East is an important hub.

“Garuda will facilitate the traffic movements between the two countries in the development of the economy and tourism,” Setiawan said. Garuda Timika and Biak offices and several travel agents are making trips to Beijing and Guangzhou.

With regard to Garuda’s strategy for in-

creasing the comfort of Chinese tourists to Papua in the long trip, he said the long hauls to Papua will be combined with other destinations, such as the package from Jakarta, Jogya, Denpasar and then Papua.

The flights to China by Garuda Indonesia have always been via Jakarta.

Beijing General Manager of Garuda Asa Perkasa said the Jakarta-Beijing flights will be five times a week, Jakarta-Guangzhou and Jakarta-Shanghai flights every day.

On the flights to Papua he said Garuda flies on the Jayapura-Biak-Makassar-Jakarta or Jayapura-Timika-Denpasar-Jakarta routes.

“With the route from Papua there will be a connection to Australia, Korea and Japan via Denpasar,” he said.

He added that with the route, flights from Papua can also reach Europe, China and Asean via Jakarta,”.

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Russian parliament approves harsh bill on protests

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BUSINESS Coca-Cola, Ford, others back plant-based packaging

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REUTERS/Interpol/Handout

Luka Rocco Magnotta appears on Interpol’s website on June 5, 2012.

More body parts found in Canada as suspect faces German court Reuters

VANCOUVER/BERLIN - Packages containing a human hand and foot were delivered to schools in western Canada on Tuesday as the suspect in a cannibalistic murder and dismemberment told German police he would not fight a Canadian extradition request. There was no immediate evidence to link the two parcels sent to the Pacific port city of Vancouver to Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is wanted in Canada on charges of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, then posting a video of the crime online.

But Vancouver police investigator Warren Lemcke said local police were in contact with the authorities in Montreal, where police say a foot and a hand are among the body parts still missing after the gruesome murder of Jun Lin, 32. One foot and one hand were received by mail at the headquarters of political parties in Ottawa last week, while Lin’s torso was found in an abandoned suitcase in a garbage strewn alley behind Magnotta’s Montreal apartment.

“The investigation is only a few hours old so I cannot link it to anything right now,” Lemcke said.

A Vancouver police statement said the “human remains” were discovered in separate packages received in the mail at two local schools in the afternoon. “There is no indication of an identity at this stage in the investigation,” the statement said.

Magnotta, 29, who has a bi-

zarre internet trail as a gay escort, a bisexual porn star and alleged kitten killer, was arrested in a Berlin Internet cafe on Monday after an international manhunt. He had been reading articles online about the hunt for the killer.

WON’T FIGHT EXTRADITION

German authorities said on Tuesday Magnotta had told them he would not fight extradition to Canada, where he faces charges of first-degree murder, indignities to a body, publishing and mailing obscene matter, and harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament.

“He made no objections to being extradited to Canada,” Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin city prosecutor, referring to Magnotta’s appearance before a judge. Steltner said the extradition order could be completed in the next few days

and Magnotta, born as Eric Clinton Newman in Scarborough, Ontario, could be put on a plane to Canada after German government approval of the order.

Montreal police said the video posted online after Lin’s death the video showed the killer eating part of the body. But they gave no details, saying they first had to establish without doubt the footage was of Lin’s murder.

“We have to confirm the authenticity of the footage we have. We believe it is (authentic), but now we’ve got to prove it,” Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreiniere told a news conference. Police say the video shows a man stabbing his victim repeatedly and then cutting off the arms, legs and head.

“I encourage nobody to watch this video. It is a video that was extremely sordid,” Montreal organized crime squad chief Denis Mainville told reporters.

MOSCOW — The Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament on Tuesday rammed through a harsh bill that raises fines 150-fold for people taking part in unsanctioned rallies, a move aimed at discouraging the opposition from challenging President Vladimir Putin.

The bill would jack up fines from the current 2,000 rubles to 300,000 rubles ($9,000), and comes after a series of massive protests that have reflected growing public frustration with Putin’s 12-year rule. The potential punishment is more severe than for many other crimes, including even violations in the storage of nuclear materials.

The opposition factions in the lower house, the State Duma, put forward several hundred amendments in an unprecedented attempt to stymie the bill’s passage, reflecting a new willingness to stand up to the Kremlin.

But members of the Kremlin’s majority United Russia party voted the amendments down one by one during a marathon session that lasted nearly six extra hours and ended just before midnight.

United Russia then used its majority in the 450 seat parliament to approve the bill in the second and third readings. The final vote was 241-147.

Australia...

From page 1 Emad was described as the “head of the smugglers, the head of the snake” by an informant who linked him to a powerful Indonesian ring behind two ill-fated boats which sank before reaching Australia, killing almost 150 people.

Indonesia is a key staging post for people-smugglers who take Afghans, Sri Lankans and others on the dangerous sea journey to Australia, where many seek asylum.

Jakarta has long claimed that hundreds of its citizens detained in Australia on people smuggling charges are innocent victims, poor fishermen conned by ringleaders into sailing on the boats.

Bali...

From page 1 “In the school holidays, those destinations will be in great demand among the domestic tourists,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said his party had not dared to make sure the domestic tourist visit to Denpasar in conjunction with the next school holidays. “We have not dared to make sure the number of tourist visit to Denpasar. Because, the school holiday season this year will coincide with the fasting month that will have an impact on their visits,” he said.

According to Budiasa, the arrival of domestic tourists during the school holidays last year was quite high. Even, based on the hotel occupancy, the tourist visit to Denpasar reached 87 percent. Today, this capital of Bali Province had 8,787 hotel rooms consisting of 4,426 budget hotel rooms, 4,041 five-star hotel rooms and 320 tourist lodge rooms.

“Last year, many hotels were overbooked. Hopefully, this year the room occupancy rate can reach the same condition as last year though coinciding with fasting month,” he hoped.

He said that Denpasar had a number of objects becoming the main attraction for domestic tourists such as Sanur Beach, the charm of Serangan Island, Bali Museum and other attractions.

“By and large, the domestic tourists enjoying school holidays in Denpasar are dominantly from Surabaya, Bandung, Jakarta and several other provinces,” he added. (kmb27)

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People walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Australia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate for a second consecutive month, lowering it a quarter percentage point to 3.5 percent.

Australia grows at fastest rate since 2008 crisis Associated Press

CANBERRA — Australia’s economy rocketed to 4.3 percent growth for the year through March, its fastest expansion since the global financial crisis as Chinese demand for iron ore and other commodities masked difficulties outside the mining industry.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday that the economy grew 1.3 percent in the January-March quarter from the previous quarter, which was double what economists had expected.

A major driver was a 19.7 percent surge in engineering construction, mainly in mining.

Planned investment in the resources sector reached 500 billion Australian dollars ($500 billion).

Increased spending by households also made a significant contribution to growth. But manufacturing continued to contract as the mining boom drives up the Australian dollar, making the country’s manufactured exports less competitive.

The January-March growth figures predate the latest deterioration in the Europeans debt crisis but could still make Australia’s central bank less willing to cut interest rates aggressively. The central bank on Tuesday cut its benchmark rate for a second consecutive month, to 3.5 percent, as Europe’s economy weakens and growth in China moderates.

Treasurer Wayne Swan said the strong

growth was achieved despite a cyclone disrupting iron ore exports from Western Australia state and some sectors outside the mining industry struggling against a high Australian dollar.

Mineral-rich Western Australia’s economy grew by 13.6 percent for the year.

“There have been headwinds as well, which is also why this is such a remarkable result,” Swan told reporters.

The government’s critics argue that the AU$23 tax that polluters will have to pay for every metric ton of carbon gases that they produce would cost jobs.

“The fact is with a carbon price, our economy will continue to grow,” Swan said.

The government forecast in May that the mining boom would lift economic growth from 3 percent in the current fiscal year ending June 30 to 3.25 percent next year.

It also forecast that the carbon tax which will take effect from July 1 would dampen economic and employment growth by less than a quarter of a percentage point during the next fiscal year.

WASHINGTON - Five leading US global companies, including Coca-Cola and Ford, unveiled Tuesday a joint effort to develop 100 percent plant-based plastics in their products, cutting the use of fossil fuels.

Coca-Cola, Ford, Heinz, Nike and Procter & Gamble said they were launching a working group focused on speeding up the development and use of 100 percent plant-based PET plastic.

PET, also known as polyethylene terephthalate, is a durable, lightweight plastic. All five companies use PET based on fossil fuels like oil in bottles, apparel, footwear and automotive fabric and carpet.

The companies pledged in a joint statement “to champion and support research, expand knowledge and accelerate technology development to enable commercially viable, more sustainably sourced, 100 percent plant-based PET plastic while reducing the use of fossil fuels.”

The jump on the green bandwagon came after PepsiCo, Coke’s arch-rival, announced in March 2011 it had developed the world’s first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plants.

It also came after months of rising oil prices that have squeezed company profit margins.

The companies said their new working group, the Plant PET Technology Col-

laborative, would build upon the success of Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle packaging technology, “which is partially made from plants and has demonstrated a lower environmental impact when compared to traditional PET plastic bottles.”

Currently, Heinz licenses the Coke bottle technology for select Heinz ketchup bottles in the United States and Canada.

According to the National Association for PET Container Resources, PET is the most widely recycled plastic in the world.

But critics argue the move to plantbased plastics is not a greener solution to reducing plastic pollution. Whether made from petroleum or renewable plants, the molecular structure of PET is the same: the plastic takes an extremely long time to degrade and it pollutes landfills and oceans.

However, Erin Simon at the World Wildlife Fund welcomed Tuesday’s announcement of a new effort to reduce the use of fossil fuels, citing their significant impacts to the planet’s biodiversity, climate and other natural systems.

“Sustainably managing our natural resources and finding alternatives to fossil fuels are both business and environmental imperatives. It’s encouraging to see these leading companies use their market influence to reduce dependence on petroleum-based plastics,” said Simon, a senior packaging expert, in the companies’ statement.

Buffett sees little chance of US recession Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Despite recent signs of weakness, the U.S. economy isn’t likely to slip back into a recession, Warren Buffett said Tuesday. He also said both political parties deserve blame for the federal government’s failure to reduce the deficit.

Speaking at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Economic Club of Washington, the billionaire investor said he sees the odds of a renewed recession as “very low.”

But he warned that could change if the effects of Europe’s financial crisis were to “spill over in a big way.”

European leaders need to reconcile the “half-in, half-out,” nature of the euro zone, Buffett said. The 17 nations that use the euro share the same central bank and interest rate policies, but follow wildly different national tax and budget policies.

Buffett, who is the CEO of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,

also reaffirmed his support for the socalled “Buffett Rule.” The proposal would require Americans with incomes above $1 million to pay a 30 percent tax rate.

“I couldn’t get a disease named after me, so I settled for a tax,” he said.

When asked how he would reduce the U.S. government’s budget deficit, which is on track to top $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row, Buffett recommended raising taxes and cutting spending.

“The problem is the Democrats don’t want to talk about what expenditures they would cut and the Republicans don’t want to talk about raising revenues,” he said.

“You’ve got to get specific about it,” he added. “Just talking about reform won’t work.”

That echoed the criticism many Democrats have leveled against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. They say his budget-cutting proposals consist mainly of broad targets and don’t include enough details about actual cuts.

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International FILE - In a Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, a Pakistani artist, left, gives final touches to characters of Pakistani Sesame Street in Lahore, Pakistan.

US ends funding for Pakistan’s ‘Sesame Street’

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Furama Vilas & Spa IBP

The Furama Vilas & Spa, Bali is nestled amidst padi fields in the Banjar Bindu district in mountainous Ubud, covering over 2000m2 verdant lands. Accessible to the popular Ubud market via the resort’s free shuttle service, the Concierge can also arrange for transportation to other tourist attractions based on guest’s needs.

19 Deluxe Pool Villas (265m) exude an idyllic appeal in the tranquil surroundings. Soft furnishings in a simple yet tasteful style create an atmosphere of warmth and cosines. The private plunge pool and gazebo for in-villa massage treatments are added luxuries for guests’ daily indulgence.

The 5 Royal Pool Villa are fashioned like the Deluxe Pool Villas and the 480m compound houses two villas instead of one. A common patio area encourages relaxing evening chats and in-villa dining.

All villas are well equipped with modern conveniences, ideal for discerning executive types and vacationing couples to lounge around and unwind in maximum comfort, inviting you into a memorable holiday experience.

AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary, file

Associated Press Writer

Sheryl Crow has a benign brain tumor

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” in response to alleged corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The organization in question is the Rafi Peer Theater Workshop, a group based in the city of Lahore that jointly developed the show with Sesame Workshop, the creator of the American series.

NEW YORK — Sheryl Crow revealed that she has a benign brain tumor, but her rep says it’s nothing to be alarmed about.

The 50-year-old told an audience about her condition at a recent concert, but her representative, Christine Wolff, said it’s very common.

The tumor is a meningioma (men-in-GEE-oh-mah), and it’s typically benign and develops from the protective linings of the brain and spinal cord. Wolff said that Crow is doing great and is healthy and happy.

Crow battled breast cancer several years back. She’s currently on a nationwide tour.

The show, which includes Elmo and a host of new Pakistani characters, first aired at the end of last year and was supposed to run for at least three seasons. The U.S. hoped it would improve education in a country where one-third of primary schoolage children are not in class. It was also meant to increase tolerance at a time when the influence of radical views is growing.

The U.S. cut off funding for the project and launched an investigation

Associated Press Writer

after receiving what it deemed to be credible allegations of fraud and abuse on a telephone hotline set up by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Pakistan, said U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner.

“So rather than to continue to throw good money after bad, we thought it was prudent to cut off this program and wait for the results of the investigation,” Toner told reporters in Washington. A total of $6.7 million had been spent on the show so far out of a total

of $20 million that was planned, he said. The U.S. did not provide details about the alleged corruption.

The Pakistan Today newspaper reported Tuesday that the graft included using the U.S. money to pay off old debts and awarding lucrative contracts to relatives, citing unnamed sources close to the project.

Faizaan Peerzada, the chief operating officer of Rafi Peer and one of several family members who run the organization, denied the corruption allegations. He claimed the U.S. ended its participation because of the lack of additional available funds.

“Rafi Peer is proud of its association with the project and of the quality of children’s educational television programming created within Pakistan as a result,” the group said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.

Paris Jackson talks to Oprah for Sunday interview Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, talks about her late father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday.

Paris Jackson, 14, will be featured on “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” the channel said Tuesday. She and Winfrey

AP Photo/Harpo Inc., George Burns

This undated image released by Harpo, Inc. shows host Oprah Winfrey posing with Paris Jackson, daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson in Los Angeles.

discuss how the teenager is faring three years after the 2009 death of her pop star father.

“It never gets easier,” Paris says in a promotional spot aired by OWN, which also shows Winfrey asking if Michael Jackson wanted her to have “a quote ‘normal’ life.”

Paris and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, were closely sheltered during Jackson’s life but have been in the public eye since, appearing onstage at Grammy Awards and on other TV shows.

“Oprah’s Next Chapter,” which also will include an interview with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, will air at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on OWN.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012 26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Odalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk Sukawati Odalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Betara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.

Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung Pengatepan Pura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.

Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu.

Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Desa Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.

Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan Kuta Pura Goa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Pejeng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Songan Merajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan Sidemen Merajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.

Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.

Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun Sulahan Merajan Pasek Padang Rata Padang Pura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar 16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagatkarana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.

Pura Giri Jaya Natha Balikpapan Pura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek.

Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batugaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya 20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar Timur Pura Jogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Pura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja Tabanan Pura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

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

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

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

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

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

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Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan Reuters

WASHINGTON/PESHAWAR - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed one of al Qaeda’s most powerful figures, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the militant group since the raid that killed founder Osama bin Laden last year.

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List of al-Qaeda leaders captured, killed or at large. Abu Yahya al-Libi, one of the group’s top strategists may have been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, local intelligence officials said on Tuesday. RNGS.

Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group’s operations, and who survived previous U.S. attacks, was killed in the drone strike early Monday morning on a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan’s tribal areas, officials said.

The White House called Libi’s death a “major blow” to al Qaeda, and claimed that it will be hard for the group to find someone of similar stature to replace him. Some private analysts agreed, saying that the group that launched the September 11 attacks in the United States in

2001 now faces a crisis over its future.

But even as al Qaeda’s core group, now led by Ayman alZawahri, reels from mounting losses, its affiliates elsewhere - particularly in Yemen - have continued planning attacks on U.S. and other Western targets. The drone strikes, which have escalated in number over the last two weeks, have deeply angered Pakistan’s government and contributed to unrelenting tensions between Washington and Islamabad.

Pakistan summoned the U.S.

charge d’affaires to its foreign ministry to convey “serious concerns” over the drone strikes, a ministry statement said. For the United States, Libi had been one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous figures.

Recently released letters written by bin Laden and captured during the U.S. raid in which he was killed last year show Libi was one of a handful of al Qaeda officials bin Laden relied on to argue al Qaeda’s case to a worldwide audience of militants, in particular to the young.

Libi, a cleric whose real name was Mohamed Hassan Qaid, escaped from U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2005 and on at least one previous occasion was prematurely reported to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike.

Parade and palace wave finale for UK Queen’s jubilee Reuters

LONDON - Four days of celebrations in which millions have turned out to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne reach a finale on Tuesday with a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, a procession through London and a wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

For once, the 86-year-old British monarch will not be accompanied to a grand state occasion by her husband of 64 years, Prince Philip, who was taken to hospital on Monday with a bladder infection as her Diamond Jubilee drew to a close.

The 90-year-old royal consort will be kept under observation for a few days in a move the palace said was “precautionary”, but it takes some of the gloss of what is widely seen as a triumphant jubilee that has cemented the queen’s popularity.

A million people gathered for a spectacular 1,000-vessel pageant on the River Thames on Sunday and hundreds of thousands more packed the wide, red road leading to Buckingham Palace on Monday for a concert featuring Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Millions more attended street parties up and down the country despite generally inclement weather, and massing crowds once again began turning the famous Mall avenue towards Buckingham Palace into a sea of red, white and blue for the culmination of celebrations.

In a tribute to his mother delivered from a concert stage surrounding a statue of Queen Victoria the only other British monarch to have reigned for 60 years, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles sought to sum up affection for a monarch who is a symbol of stability amid economic gloom and political disillusionment.

AFP Photo/Romaric Ollo Hien

Mali Tuareg, Islamists still deadlocked over breakaway state

REUTERS/Steve Parsons/POOL

Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) published a statement on their website saying a merger deal signed on May 26 was being studied by each camp.

“A commission will be established to deal with the differences on the pending issues,” read the statement signed by MNLA secretary general Bilal Ag Acherif.

The statement did not outline the disagreements but both parties have said they do not agree on the implementation of sha-

ria, which caused a brief merger between the two groups to fall apart. “With the help of experts, the two delegations are continuing talks in (the northern city) Gao to discuss elements such as sharia,” a member of the Islamist Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) Moussa Ag Cherif, told AFP. The rival groups, who seized main cities in northern Mali after a March 22 coup in the southern capital Bamako, hold separate ideologies and objectives and the relationship has been an uneasy one.

Mossa Ag Attaher, a Paris-based MNLA spokesman, told AFP Friday they had “accepted the idea of an Islamic State but it should have been written that we will practise a moderate and tolerant Islam, with no mention of sharia.

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Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU — None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again. From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won’t be for another 105 years.

“If you can see the mole on Cindy Crawford’s face, you can see Venus,” Van Webster, a member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, told anyone who stopped by his telescope for a peek on Mount Hollywood.

For astronomers, the transit wasn’t just a rare planetary spectacle. It was also one of those events they hoped would spark curiosity about the universe and our place in it. Sul Ah Chim, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea, said he hoped people see life from a larger perspective, and “not get caught up in their small, everyday problems.”

“When you think about it from the context of the universe, 105 years is a very short period of time and the Earth is only a small, pale blue spot,” he said.

The transit was happening during a 6-hour, 40-minute span that began just after 6 p.m. EDT in the United States. What observers could see and for how long depended on

their region’s exposure to the sun during that exact window of time, and the weather.

Those in most areas of North and Central America saw the start of the transit until sunset, while those in western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and most of Europe could catch the transit’s end once the sun came up.

Hawaii, Alaska, eastern Australia and eastern Asia including Japan, North and South Korea and eastern China get the whole show since the entire transit happens during daylight in those regions.

While astronomers used the latest technology to document the transit, American astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station was planning to take photos of the event and post them online. Online streams with footage from telescopes around the world proved popular for NASA and other observatories. A NASA stream midway through the transit had nearly 2 million total views and was getting roughly 90,000 viewers at any given moment.

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An Islamist rebel mans a gun near Timbuktu. A north Malian Arab militia broke away from a meeting of fellow Arabs from their country in Mauritania, declaring they would fight for independence of Mali’s troubled north.

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Eyes turn skyward as Venus travels across the sun

Disney to ban junkfood ads on TV channels, websites

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The Walt Disney Company, in a first for a US media giant, said Tuesday it will ban junk-food advertising on its TV channels and websites from 2015 to help fight obesity among US children.

“This new initiative is truly a game changer for the health of our children,” said First Lady Michelle Obama, a champion of better eating for young people who attended Disney’s landmark announcement in Washington.

“This is a major American company, a global brand, that is literally changing the way it does business so that our kids can lead healthier lives,” she said.

In a statement, Disney said all food and drinks advertised on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Radio Disney, and Disney-owned children’s websites would, from 2015, be required to meet its own nutrition guidelines.

The rules will also apply during Saturday morning cartoons on the ABC stations owned by Disney, which reach one in four American households from New York to Los Angeles.

“The nutrition guidelines are aligned to federal standards, promote fruit and vegetable consumption and call for limiting calories and reducing saturated fat, sodium, and sugar,” it said.

Breakfast cereals, for instance, would have to contain less than 10 grams of sugar per serving in order to be advertised on Disney outlets.

Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes, squarely targeted at youngsters, now come in at 11 grams.

Besides the new advertising standards, Disney said it would roll out a “Mickey Check” check-mark icon this year to identify nutritious food and menu items at its retail shops and theme parks.

Seventeen percent of US children are obese, a figure that has tripled in 30 years, according to a report last month from the Institute of Medicine that warned of a “catastrophic” impact on national health care and productivity.

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The planet Venus makes its transit across the Sun as seen from Kathmandu June 6, 2012.

Venus made a slow transit across the face of the sun on Tuesday, the last such passing that will be visible from Earth for 105 years.

‘NintendoLand,’ ‘Mario Bros.’ coming to Wii U

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LOS ANGELES — Nintendo is relying on a famous plumber, zombies and a virtual theme park to build buzz for the Wii U. The Japanese gaming giant unleashed 23 games for its upcoming console featuring a touchscreen controller during a news conference Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry’s annual trade show.

Among the titles announced were the cooperative platform game “New Super Mario Bros. U” and the amusement-park-themed mini-game collection “NintendoLand.” Nintendo also demonstrated the fantastical strategy sequel “Pikmin 3” and first-person undead-fighting game “ZombiU” from Ubisoft Entertainment.

The titles employed what the company is dubbing “asymmetric gameplay,” which gives players using the 6.2-inch touchscreen controller called the Wii U GamePad a different experience than those armed with traditional Wii controllers. The Wii U will be compatible with previous Wii controllers, including the Wii Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board.

“When we launched the Wii at the press conference in 2006, people were still wondering what this thing is all about,” said Reggie Fils-Aime,

president of Nintendo of America, backstage after the press conference.

“To make a comparison of where we are with the Wii U vs. the Wii, I think we’re actually much further along. I say that because here at this press conference, we’re able to show off over 20 games, and we’ve got fantastic third-party support.”

Nintendo illustrated that “New Super Mario Bros. U” could be played on either a TV or the touchscreen controller, and that the latest installment in the brick-smashing, coin-collecting franchise would allow up to four players to play simultaneously with traditional controllers, while another

could join in with the touchscreen controller to jab enemies and build platforms from afar.

“With the Wii U GamePad, we have the first dedicated personal screen in the long history of game machines,” Shigeru Miyamoto, who created “Super Mario Bros.” and “Legend of Zelda,” said at the news conference through a translator.

Other games announced for the successor to the popular Wii console included the fitness title “Wii Fit U,” a sing-and-dance-along game called “SiNG” and the word-filled puzzler “Scribblenauts Unlimited” from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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An attendee plays a video game using Nintendo’s Wii U controller at E3 2012 in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 5, 2012.

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Star player profile Steven Gerrard (32) 1st kit

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FIFA ranking: 7/5 (World/Europe)

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Midfielder (captain) 90 19 (Internationals) Liverpool FC (England)

Euro 2012 qualifying Finished top of Group G

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Euro 2012 qualifying Finished top of Group D

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France’s forward Karim Benzema, left, faces Serbian’s goalkeeper Zeljko Brkic, right, as he tries to score during his friendly international soccer match against Serbia, in Reims, eastern France, Thursday May 31, 2012.

Benzema, Ribery shine as France thrash Estonia 4-0 Reuters

Karim Benzema and Franck Ribery were a class apart as France put the finishing touches on their Euro 2012 preparations with a 4-0 home win against Estonia in Le Mans on Tuesday.

Benzema netted either side of halftime after Ribery had opened the scoring following a fine onetwo with the striker as Les Bleus stretched their unbeaten run to 21 matches.

Winger Jeremy Menez completed the rout in stoppage time. With Samir Nasri and Ribery on the flanks and Benzema up front, France played some nice one-touch football although they sometimes looked shaky at the back.

After fullback Patrice Evra produced a miserable performance in a 3-2 win against Iceland in their first of three Euro warm-up games, it was Philippe

Mexes’s turn to raise concerns.

Estonia almost caught France cold twice in the opening 15 minutes, with a poor first touch from Mexes allowing midfielder Henrik Ojamaa to shoot narrowly wide across goal.

Ojamaa then got ahead of Mexes to meet a left wing cross but, off balance, could only volley wide.

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Laurent Blanc’s side, who start their Euro 2012 campaign against England on Monday in Donetsk, Ukraine, went ahead in the 25th minute when Ribery chested down a Benzema pass just inside

the box before firing past Sergei Pareiko with a cross shot.

Seven minutes before the break, Benzema sent a curling shot into the far corner of the net to double the tally and scored his 15th goal for France by latchig onto Ribery’s cross from the right.

Second-half substitute Menez added the fourth one minute into added time when he collected a fine backheel pass from Olivier Giroud to score from close range.

France travel to Ukraine on Wednesday before taking on England followed by cohosts Ukraine and Sweden in Group D.

LONDON - One month on from his appointment as England’s manager even some of his more hostile media critics are beginning to accept the FA chose the right man for the job following two steady wins in his opening two matches. Judging by some of the negative reaction to the FA’s decision to select him as manager and not the popular Harry Redknapp, anyone would have thought he was an inexperienced beginner who had no right to be considered for the job.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as a look at the 64-year-old’s impressive CV shows and although not too much can be read into two relatively low key wins against Norway and Belgium, the first glimpses of Hodgson’s organisational capabilities were clearly there to be seen.

And by taking charge of a side that, for once, no-one in the normally hysterical English media expects to do well, might just work in his favour. With the pressure off, he might get England to do better than they usually do in major tournaments.

By his own admission Hodgson was an average player with Maidstone United, Tonbridge Angels and Crystal Palace reserves in the 1960s but he is far from being an average manager.

The England job is his fourth international appointment after stints with Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates and he has coached in eight countries in all. Hodgson has not been successful everywhere - he was sacked at Blackburn Rovers in 1998 and at Liverpool last season after a sixmonth spell at Anfield.

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On the plus side he took unfashionable Fulham to the final of the Europa League in 2010, Inter Milan to the UEFA Cup final in 1997 and has won league wins in Denmark and Sweden. Much of the negative reaction to Hodgson’s appointment came from the media, baying for weeks that Tottenham Hotspur manager Redknapp was a certainty for the job.

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The pundits were angry to be proved wrong, vented their spleen on Hodgson, but now that petty spat is out the way, they seem prepared to give him a chance, and at last a sense of reality may be in the air at last. England being England of course a major scandal is only around the corner and Hodgson came under fire in certain quarters for not calling Rio Ferdinand back into the squad following the injury that ruled out Gary Cahill.

Instead he turned to Liverpool rookie Martin Kelly with Ferdinand’s representatives accusing him of “a total lack of respect” in ignoring the former skipper.

Hodgson has weathered bigger storms and once this one blows over, the general airm of calm, somewhat lacking under his predeccsor Fabio Capello, should return to the squad.

Capello’s resignation as manager in February, despite an unbeaten qualifying campaign, a series of injuries ruling out key players, striker Wayne Rooney’s two-match ban which rules him out of the first two matches and a lack of flair in the team have all played a part in watering down optimism among the fans.

Endek Trade Center in Denpasar shifts to Klungkung Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Kumbasari Market was once the famous sales center of endek fabric in Bali. Few crafters also sell some of their products to consumers loving traditional woven clothes.

However, such condition is now experiencing a shift where all the traders have shifted to Klungkung Market. On that account, many consumers tend to do shopping to the town of serombotan or spicy assorted salads.

Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, requested to take back the past glory of Kumbasari Market that had been famous for sales centers of endek clothes.

To achieve such condition, Denpasar Municipality had been preparing some facilities such as central parking lot, business incubators and hall of fashion for crafters.

“Development of Kumbasari Imperium is an attempt to revive the presence of endek textile products and to further synergize the creative economic development in the city of Denpasar,” said Rai Mantra in Denpasar, Tuesday (Jun 5).

According to him, Kumbasari Imperium was a place to develop the creative economy in the field of fashion that provided a means to empower people in the field of production, innovation and marketing of the SME sector, especially the endek and songket weaving clothes. “We will accelerate the development of Kumbasari Market Imperium,” he said.

He said that to restore the existence of endek in Denpasar City in particular, his party would not just organize an annual event, but also socialized the endek cloth among the government officials, enterprises and other agencies. It did not only aim to socialize the endek

cloth, but also to encourage the crafters to continue creating because the potential of Balinese endek and songket had a quality that was not inferior to other textiles throughout Indonesia.

Meanwhile, Deputy Director of Bank Mandiri of Denpasar Branch, Anga Erlangga Hanafie, said the building of Kumbasari Market had been well arranged. Nevertheless, it was still required a branding development for Kumbasari Market into Kumbasari Imperium.

“We are now focusing the CSR program on Kumbasari Market and have conducted a survey to the management of Kumbasari Market and traders that did selling in the Kumbasari Market,” he explained.

The program would be worked on through several stages by establishing few representative booths as well as fashion show event that would be organized each month. To promote the Kumbasari Market Imperium, his party had prepared flyers and other powerful media to promote the program in years to come.

“To make people easier when making a visit to Kumbasari Market, we will also prepare shuttle bus operated by the management of the market,” he said. (kmb27)

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The member of Bali Youth Caring for Environment (PPLB) give brochur to socialize the danger of plastic waste.

Socialization on plastic waste hazards Singaraja (Bali Post)—

A number of Buleleng youth coalesced into the Bali Youth Caring for Environment (PPLB) Tuesday (May 5) organized socialization on the hazards of plastic waste to residents of Singaraja town. The activity was carried out in conjunction with the celebration of the World Environment Day. The activities were carried out at different three locations namely the intersection of Jalan Diponegoro—

Jalan Pramuka, intersection of Jalan Ngurah Rai and the intersection of Penimbangan Beach. Interestingly, the activity of disseminating the brochures on the environmental preservation was performed by the youth while putting on bebondresan mask.

Chairman of PPLB, Nyoman Ardiasa, said that socialization on the environmental preservation to protect the earth from the hazards of plastic waste deliberately targeted the general public especially

road users. They were expected to understand about the hazards of plastic waste that could threaten the planet without an immediate rescue. Other than polluting the soil, the plastic could interfere with the porosity and water flow; reduce soil fertility; cause air pollution if burned; and some other effects.

“We are targeting the general public and road users so that they can understand about the hazards of plastic waste,” he said. (kmb)

Mental disorders rate in Bali increases each year Gianyar (Bali Post)—

Other than in Gianyar, the mental disorder rate in Bali tends to increase each year. By all means, it is truly apprehensive. Behind the increasingly crowded activities of tourism industry and rapid economic growth of Bali, there is a reality on the growing rates of insane people and suicide where one of which is kindled by entanglement of economic problems.

Chairperson of the Suryani Institute for Mental Health Foundation revealed the matter in front of the volunteers of mental illness prevention in Gianyar Regency held at Kerta Kertya Mandala Memorial Park of Gianyar, Tuesday (Jun 5).

Suryani explained that based on

the result of research conducted by her foundation in Bali during 2000 it was found that 100 people died from suicide and the rate increased to 180 people in 2004. The rate excluded the failed suicidal attempt.

The main cause of those suicides was depression or insane, less harmonious relationship to partner or family, chronic illness for years, as well as economic factors.

Besides, the rate of mental disorder in Bali also increased each year. Based on her records, Karangasem Regency had 850 insane people of 440,000 populations, Buleleng Regency had 1,000 people of 600,000 populations, and Denpasar City had 120 insane people of 120,000 populations,

explained Suryani.

Having previously succeeded in curing some insane people in Karangasem and Buleleng Regency, now the Suryani Foundations teaming up with Gianyar Regency and Suka Cita Foundation managed by a Dutch tourist would record and try to do the same endeavor to insane people in Gianyar Regency.

“It is carried out voluntarily and purely kindled by the call of the heart because the patients with mental disorders can actually be cured,” explained Suryani.

The Head of Gianyar Social Agency, Kadek Wisnu Wijaya, expected the partnership could help people with mental disorders existing in the Gianyar Regency. (kmb16)

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Bridge collapsed, Badung-Tanah Lot route halted

Tabanan (Bali Post) –

The supervisor of the project from Bali Province Public Works Agency, Putra Susila, clarified that his side needs one day time to repair the collapsing bridge by putting bok culvert concrete drainage also digging using a heavy vehicle. The part that could take time is to tar the road which takes minimal 5 days even so it is assured that by Thursday (7/6) the route will open again. Besides Nyanyi’s bridge, there is another bridge that has to be repaired in the same area with the same condition. The repair will also take place in the next day. (kmb30) The broken bridge which is located in Banjar Nyanyi, Beraban.

Gas fraud captured by police Denpasar (Bali Post) –

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The gas which is suspected to be fraud by the suspect

Bali Police Criminal Research Directorate managed to capture one elpiji illegalizing last Monday (4/6) and it is not for the first time. This time he was captured while stopped as police suspected he was bringing illegalized Elpiji Gas tubes instead of caught him in the act illegalizing it. Bali Police stated last Tuesday (5/6) that accused named Bambang Prayogo (25) was stopped while passing

by Sentanu Street, Denpasa around 3 pm local time. Accused was driving a Suzuki Carry Pick-Up DK 9671 FF that did not have a company name on its surface like other agents and was bringing some gas tubes. From the checking done, accused did not show any documents and so the 11 50 kg gas tubes were confiscated moreover the tubes don’t have any sealing. It is admitted that those gas tubes were sold to customers and an illegalized one. From further investigation, accused admitted that this illegal business have been going on the past 2 years where one 50 kg gas tube sold for IDR 260,000. Head of the Directorate, GPC Eldi Azwar, confirmed this case and accused has violated Section 53 b Law No 22 Year 2001 on oil and gas with possible punishment 3 years jail. (kmb21)

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Denpasar shorten of hotel rooms

Denpasar- Denpasar city is still graded to have a shortage on middle to high class hotel rooms especially for the coming long holidays which could reach up to 20-30 percent increase as stated by Denpasar Tourism Agency, Putu Budiasa, at Denpasar last Tuesday (5/6).

He predicts that there will be a shortage of 1,200 rooms from the total of good representative hotel rooms.

In Denpasar right now there are 8,797 hotel rooms which are from 194 budget hotels there are 4,426 rooms, from 28 one starred hotel’s 4,041 rooms while others from small inns. For that there is still an opened opportunity for investors to build a hotel at Denpasar area yet still contributing to the aesthetics, lessening roadsides parking and opening a new working field.

Government suggests for tourist accommodation in Denpasar to prepare in giving the best service for tourists in the coming long holiday. Usually long holidays hotel guests in Denpasar reached 87 to 90 percent. (ant)

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Celtics take control of East, beat Heat 94-90 Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — A week ago, the Boston Celtics were too old. Three games later, they’re one win away from the NBA finals. And Miami — the team that was constructed with hopes of supplanting Boston as the power in the Eastern Conference — is suddenly in big trouble.

Kevin Garnett finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds, Paul Pierce scored 19 — including a huge 3-pointer over LeBron James’ outstretched arm with 52.9 seconds left — and the Celtics beat the Heat 94-90 on Tuesday night, taking a 3-2 lead in the East finals that now shift to Boston for Game 6 on Thursday night.

“We’ve done nothing,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “We’re playing a heck of a basketball team. So just because we’re going to Boston, I told them, we have to play. They’re not going to give it to us. We have to go get it.” James finished with 30 points and 13 rebounds for Miami, though he went 8 minutes without scoring in the final quarter. Dwyane Wade scored 27 for the Heat, who got no more than nine from anyone else.

“We wouldn’t want to be in this situation but we never get too high or too low in a series,” James said. “We had an opportunity to come home and take a lead, but we didn’t. So we have to go

The tourist way from Canggu Village, Badung towards Tanah Lot, Kediri got cut last Tuesday (5/6) as a bridge at Banjar Nyanyi, Beraban that connects the two regency collapsed and puts vehicles to danger which then the route was diverted. Head of Beraban Village, Wayan Sumawa, stated the damage has been going on yet only yesterday it stated its repair and so as its permit letter, the route will be closed for two days (Monday-Tuesday).

It was stated that the bridge was only layered with plat and small drainage so it easily collapsed and making water route stuck. The bridge was owned by the Province as it is on the province route.

It is hoped the repair will soon finish as it affects the touristic route. The closure start from the crossroad of Nyanyi and diverted through Pandak, Badung. For tourism buses they were diverted through Kapal, Mengwi and go in from Kediri, Tabanan.

Many motorbikes that avoided the warning had to go back at Nyanyi crossroad as they saw the project going on.

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up to Boston and win a game.”

Pierce’s 3 put Boston up 90-86.

Miami got within two points twice, and argued that it should have had a steal with 8.8 seconds left. Instead, a foul was called on Udonis Haslem, Garnett made two free throws, and the Celtics knew they had just stolen one on Miami’s home floor.

Now all they need is one home win of their own to clinch a trip to either Oklahoma City or San Antonio for Game 1 of the NBA finals. The title series starts June 12. “Right now,” Celtics guard Ray Allen said, “the next game is Game 7.” The Celtics were down by 13 points in the second quarter, then down nine in the third, and answered both times — prevailing on a night where they shot just 41 percent, and got outrebounded 49-39.

“We stayed with it,” Garnett said.

“We had a rough first quarter, first half. We got our stops and made our run ourselves. And when we had to,

we had stops.”

Allen and Mickael Pietrus scored 13 apiece for the Celtics, who got 10 from Brandon Bass. Pietrus hit two huge 3-pointers in the fourth quarter for Boston, which remained perfect with this core when facing maybe the most pivotal situation a best-ofseven can offer — a Game 5 with a series tied 2-2. Pierce, Garnett, Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen are now 9-0 in that scenario.

“We came in with the right focus,” Pierce said. “That was key for us.”

So Game 5s are magical for Boston.

Sometimes, they are for James as well.

And sometimes — this one included — they’re not.

James’ most memorable moments have come in Game 5s, like the epic 48 points where he just carried Cleveland on every possession down the stretch at Detroit in 2007, and the 120-88 loss to the Celtics in 2010, his last home game with the Cavaliers.

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Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce (34) drives to the basket surrounded by Miami Heat’s Shane Battier (31), Mike Miller (13) and LeBron James (6) during the first half of Game 5 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoffs series, Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in Miami.

Djokovic, Federer come back, set French rematch Associated Press Writer

PARIS — As the chilly evening air swirled, and raindrops fell, and the thousands of spectators pulling for his opponent hushed, Novak Djokovic stood a single point from exiting the French Open. A single point from losing to France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros.

A single point from losing the chance to pursue a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title, something no man has done in 43 years. Steeling himself with so much at stake, Djokovic came through, taking that crucial point thanks to an overhead that skimmed off the baseline to set up a putaway volley. Seconds later, he faced the same predicament — one point from defeat — and came through again, this time with a leaping forehand that barely landed in. All told, Djokovic faced four match points against Tsonga and won each one, extending the contest until seizing control for good.

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Novak Djokovic

Djokovic won his 26th Grand Slam match in a row Tuesday, coming back and beating the fifth-seeded Tsonga 6-1, 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-1 to set up a French Open rematch against 16-time major champion Roger Federer. A year ago in the semifinals at Roland Garros, Federer ended Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak, the last time the Serb lost at one of tennis’ four most important tournaments.

“Tennis is very mental. Lots of emotions,” said the No. 1-ranked Djokovic, who won Wimbledon last July, the U.S. Open last September, and the Australian Open in January.

“If you’re playing a top player, a home favorite, and you have a crowd that’s supporting him, you have to face these things. Physically, we’re all fit, all hitting the ball well. But mentally, it’s just a matter of a point here, a point there.

That’s sport. The one that mentally pushes more in some moments — and gets a bit lucky — gets the win.”

Federer also fashioned a come-from-behind victory, and while he never was confronted with a match point, he did drop the first two sets before getting past No. 9 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-0, 6-3.

After taking that big lead, del Potro — who upset Federer in the 2009 U.S. Open final — appeared to be hampered increasingly by a left knee that was heavily wrapped in white tape, although he refused to place any blame there afterward.

“He called the trainer, but he didn’t take a timeout, so I didn’t know what they were talking about, if he got painkillers, or what happened. So I was just trying to focus on me, really, because I was in trouble. He wasn’t,” said Federer, who won his only French Open title in 2009.

“Maybe his knee was (a problem). I don’t know,” Federer continued. “But doesn’t matter how bad that knee is. Maybe he can just sit on it and just say, ‘OK, here, take the two next sets ... and then I’ll come back in the fifth set and I will destroy you.’”

Manchester United agree terms for Dortmund’s Kagawa Reuters

Manchester United have agreed terms with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of midfielder Shinji Kagawa, the English Premier League club said on Tuesday, with the Japan international needing to pass a medical and obtain a work permit to complete the deal.

United said in a statement they expected the transfer to be completed by the end of June and have already agreed terms with the attacking midfielder, who has been a revelation in Germany over the past two seasons.

No details of the fee were released but German media reported that Kagawa, who has a contract with Dortmund until 2013, would cost United 17 million Euros ($21.24 million).“We would like to thank Shinji for his effort and his large contribution in two extraordinarily successful years,” Borussia sports director Michael Zorc, who was responsible for bringing the player to Dortmund in 2010, said in a statement.

The 23-year-old attracted few headlines when he joined Dortmund for 350,000 euros from then Japanese second division club Cerezo Osaka but he surprised many by notching 21 goals in 49 league games in Germany.

He won two consecutive Bundesliga titles as well as the German Cup last season, helping Borussia establish themselves as the new force in German football.

His creativity and darting runs from the middle of the field will bring an added dimension to a United side that brought 37year-old Paul Scholes out of retirement last season to help their Premier League title challenge.

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MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo, from Spain, on his way to win the Spanish Motorcycling MotoGP Grand Prix at the Montmelo racetrack near of Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 3, 2012.

“We tried a new engine spec yesterday that in theory is more powerful,” said Lorenzo. “Until now we didn’t find any big improvement, some little advantages and some little disadvantages.”

Lorenzo’s team-mate Ben Spies, who was second-fastest, was also slightly underwhelmed. “The engine spec was a little improvement but

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you know riders, we always want at least 10km/h faster on the straights...” he joked.

Yamaha will resume testing at Aragon on Wednesday, when Lorenzo reckons changing the electronics setup might help the new engine’s performance. “In Aragon we will try some modifications to the electronics to see if we can gain something,” he said.

we can enjoy our own special results in the races to come.”

Although Force India is currently only eighth in the standings, Mallya says its current score and its tally of seven points finishes in the opening six rounds between drivers Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg is respectable.

“Six races into the season and we have 28 points - a very strong start to the year,” said

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Mallya. “Both drivers are delivering what we expect of them and we’re gaining some momentum, just as we did last year. Our car is clearly competitive and so are the drivers.

“I’m very pleased with the way things went in Monaco with both cars in the points. It was our second double points finish of the season and the result brings us much closer to our nearest competitors, Sauber and Williams.

Tourists flocked at Kuta Beach during holiday season. Bali tourism was ascertained to be flooded by domestic tourists before the school holidays this June 2012.

Bali flooded by domestic tourists

Force India sure it give surprise too

Force India is adamant that there is no reason why it cannot emulate the likes of Lotus, Sauber and Williams by challenging at the front in Formula 1 this year - even though it only has one top-six finish to show from 2012 so far.

The wildly unpredictable 2012 F1 season has seen a host of surprise names at the front of the field, with Pastor Maldonado giving Williams victory in Spain, Sauber coming close to a Sepang triumph with Sergio Perez, and Lotus in contention for wins at Sakhir and Catalunya.

Force India has been unable to emulate its regular upper-midfield peers’ underdog shocks to date, but team boss Vijay Mallya believes the squad’s package is no worse than its usual rivals’ and is sure that Force India can be at the front too when it hits on the Pirelli tyres’ ‘sweet spot’ as others have.

“I believe this unpredictability has crept in largely because of the tyres and it’s making for some entertaining races. That’s why we’re working especially hard to understand the tyres better to make sure we get the best out of them,” said Mallya.

“If we can find the sweet spot I hope

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MotoGP championship leader Jorge Lorenzo admitted that the new engine Yamaha provided for Monday’s Barcelona test did not deliver much.

Assessing the revised engine was one of the priorities for the Catalunya Grand Prix-winning team, but after going eighth quickest Lorenzo conceded he had hoped for a bigger step.

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DENPASAR - Bali tourism was ascertained to be flooded by domestic tourists before the school holidays this June 2012. It was revealed by Deputy Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya. Surging of domestic tourist visit was estimated to occur until August.

“Normally, this moment is spent by making a visit to tourist destinations. Bali as a world tourist destination will surely get the

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children. However, the increase in domestic tourist visits would only affect the room occupancy among the budget hotels up to three star hotels with the occupancy rate averagely reaching 65 percent.

Related to tourist attractions becoming the target of school children, he added, would be the tourist destinations like Kintamani, Bedugul, Kuta and Tanah Lot, Tabanan.

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splashes of school holiday season this year,” said Rai Suryawijaya on Tuesday (Jun 5).

Nevertheless, the man also

doubling as Chairman of the PHRI Badung had not dared to make sure the surge of domestic tourist visit during the next school holidays. “There have been no valid data but I estimate there will be a trend of increasing domestic tourist visits up to six percent with the length of stay reaching over four days,” he said.

According to him, the increase in tourist visits in the previous years was dominated by school

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Wednesday that revelations Australia had granted asylum to alleged people-smugglers were “disappointing and difficult for the Indonesian government”.

An investigation by Aus-

tralia’s ABC Television aired Monday claimed an Iraqi-born people-smuggler known as Captain Emad had travelled to Australia from Indonesia on a refugee boat in January 2010 under a false name and was granted asylum.

“Surely this matter is very disappointing and difficult for

the Indonesian government to accept,” Natalegawa told reporters.

“If somebody is suspected of being the brains behind peoplesmuggling crimes and then given permission to live in Australia while others who become their victims are detained, this is difficult to accept,” he said.

“We have communicated with Australia. We know they are investigating,” he added.

Australia said Tuesday it may revoke the visas of the alleged people-smuggling kingpin and six of his associates after reports they continued arranging boat trips after obtaining asylum.

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