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Caitlyn Jenner sued again after deadly car crash

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Britain’s Prince Harry, right, backstage with Tony Bennett, left, and Lady Gaga, centre, pose for photographs after Bennett and Lady Gaga’s performance as part of the Cheek to Cheek Tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Monday, June 8, 2015.

Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett perform at Prince Harry charity fest

LOS ANGELES - Olympic champion turned transgender reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner has been sued again in connection with a February car crash in Malibu in which a 69-year-old woman died.

Talent agent Jessica Marie Steindorff filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking unspecified damages related to the four-car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in the Los Angeles metro area.

Jenner, 65, walked away from the accident uninjured, but in addition to the woman who died, four others were injured, including Steindorff.

The former Olympic decathlete then still known as Bruce Jenner was driving a large SUV that collided with a smaller white car that then swerved into oncoming traffic.

The stepchildren of the dead woman, Kim Howe, also have filed suit seeking unspecified compensation over the crash. She died on impact when her car was struck.

Jenner was pictured at the scene in sunglasses and a baseball cap standing upright with no obvious injuries and was driven away in

a police cruiser following the accident.

Jenner became an American sports setting a world record with his Montreal decathlon victory in 1976.

But it was through his marriage to the former Kris Kardashian that he once again became a household name with the reality TV series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” in which he appeared as the sometimes bemused stepfather of her flamboyant daughters.

The couple wed in 1991 and have two daughters together, Kendall and Kylie. Bruce and Kris Jenner are recently divorced. He has said he struggled with gender issues throughout his life.

Jenner’s photo on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July issue by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz set off a media sensation when it was released last week, making him an instant cultural icon.

The Olympian will follow up on her public coming-out as a transgender woman with a docu-series on E! television next month about her transition. (afp)

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Forestry Agency denies they are re-protecting conservation area

DENPASAR - The Bali Forestry Agency has apparently issued a mediocre response to a letter of protest that WALHI filed some time ago. The letter of protest was sent in regards to the Bali Forestry Agency’s plan to change the status of the Grand Forest Park -Tahura on May 27, 2015. WALHI Bali alleges that the change in status is simply a ruse on the part of the government to pave the way for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

The Forestry Agency plans to swap Pudut Island and surrounding area (which belongs to the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park -Tahura) with an area outside of Tahura. If that were to happen, Pudut Island and surrounding areas will automatically fall under L3/P zoning, which would mean that it could be reclaimed according to Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

“We don’t have a problem with the letter. We have simply explained that everything is being done in accordance to regulations,” said the Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranatha, who added that he has already responded to the letter of protest sent by WALHI. Wiranatha recognizes that Pudut Island (and surrounding areas) as well as the area outside Tahura

is part of the conservation areas.

However, Pudut Island and the surrounding area cannot be planted with mangroves, while the area outside the Tahura can be, so that it thereby can qualify as a forest area. He denied that the swap is being done to protect an already protected area.

“Both areas are requiring conservation; the difference is that one area is located inside the forest while the other is located outside (the forest). Since the area in question has plants, it becomes the domain of forestry and will be better -more strictly protected if it is designated as forest, except for those areas where there are no plants which will not be (the

domain of the Forestry Agency— Ed),” he explained.

Once again, Wiranatha denied that the plan was an attempt to pave the way for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He argued that he has known that the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park was long before the plan for Benoa Bay reclamation.

“Grand Forest Park has its own rules that are very specific. Long before people were talking about reclamation, we already knew that the Grand Forest Park was damaged. Our vision has to do with technical matters, there are no other aspects,” he emphasized.

Earlier, the Executive Director of WALHI Bali, Suriadi Darmoko, assessed that the plan to swap Pudut

Island and surrounding areas with the area outside the forest area is just a way to change the status of Pudut Island and surrounding areas which together cover some 169.95 hectares of forest. If Pudut Island and surrounding areas are designated a “P Zone” or cultivated area as set forth in the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014, then this area could be reclaimed.

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LONDON — Hundreds gathered outside Britain’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday, hoping for a glimpse of Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett — and another notable personality, Prince Harry.

The pop stars came to support a charity backed by Harry that helps seriously ill British children receive quality medical care. Bennett and Lady Gaga, who collaborated on the jazz album “Cheek To Cheek,” lavished praise on the prince.

“Your mum was a good friend of mine,” Bennett said of Harry’s late

mother, Princess Diana. “I did many benefits with her.”

“That’s fantastic,” Harry replied.

Harry, patron of the WellChild charity, hosted a reception for its supporters and for nurses and families. They were given seats in the Royal Box for the performance.

Harry, who is winding down a decade-long military career, will be devoting more time and energy to his charitable activities. The royal, who is fifth in line to the throne, plans to spend the summer working with animal conservation groups in Africa, which he has described as a long-held dream. (ap)

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This 2015 image provided by courtesy of E! shows Caitlyn Jenner in the first official promotional trailer for the new documentary series, “I Am Cait,” in Southern California. Jenner has been sued again in connection with a February car crash in Malibu in which a 69-year-old woman died.

Boats busy taking passengers to Pudut Island.

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Cocktails and adulterated liquor not the same thing

DENPASAR - The Directorate of the Bali Police Narcotics Division, searched the Sky Garden discotheque and secured hundreds of litres of alcohol. The Sky Garden staff said that the alcohol in question is made into cocktails with clear proportions of the ingredients and not adulterated liquor which is mixed in random dosages of ingredients that can includes things such as methanol.

“We’re still waiting for the results from the forensics laboratory. If no violations are found, the evidence can be returned. Its alcohol content is still being examined,” said Spokesperson for Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, on Monday (Jun. 8) when asked for his confirmation about developments of the case.

Hery said that the measure of police enforcement must be accompanied with the results of investigation and complete evidence. “It should be done according to clear procedures.

There must be no parties that are harmed,” he said.

A member of the Indonesian Bartenders Association, Aulia Dahlan, revealed that adulterated liquor is clearly different from cocktails. “A cocktail has clear recipe for its mixtures. Besides the bartender must know about the content of alcohol and does not mix the drink arbitrarily,” said Aulia.

There are standard benchmarks used by all the bars and club and every bartender has leaned them and implements them at work. “These standards are meant to avoid ingredients from clashing with the type of alcohol. All bartenders know the cocktails and understand the proportion when mixing, so it is not done haphazardly,” said the Food and Beverage Manager of Swiss-Belhotel Kuta.

“Adulterated liquor is blended without particular recipes or doses and may include inappropriate ingredients,” he said.

Aulia pointed out that the beverage known as a long island ice tea is a mixture of whiskey with sweet tea. “It has a warranty because every bar has its own permission from the government. The blending is done at the bar so that customers feels comfortable and safe. Besides, while the drink is being blended it is sometimes accompanied with an attraction to draw the interest of consumers,” he said.

A similar explanation was given by academic, I Gusti Agung Nyoman Winda: “a cocktail is a beverage with a particular name and has a specific dose and method of manufacturing and preparation,” he said.

Winda confirmed that cocktails, which are served in glasses, are mixed according to particular provisions including the dosage according to the order. “Thus, it is clear that cocktails and adulterated beverages are very different,” said the lecturer from the International Bali Tourism Institute (STPBI).

As reported, members of the joint personnel of the Directorate of Bali Police Narcotics, Mobile Brigade and Public Service searched the Sky Garden Discotheque on Jalan Legian, Kuta, on Tuesday (Jun. 2). As a result, the team secured hundreds of litres of liquor. In addition, three employees in charge of blending the liquor were arrested. (rah)

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The liquors confiscated in Sky Garden Discotheque in Kuta

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In Badung, price of foodstuff increases

MANGUPURA - Price of several foodstuffs begins to soar in Bali ranging from IDR 800 to IDR 2,000. The surge in prices ahead of Galungan coinciding with the celebration of the Eid happens to some commodities like onion, eggs and sugar.

The increase in prices of the basic necessities has been seen from the monitoring made by the Badung Cooperatives, Trade, Industry and SMEs Agency during April 3 through May 26, 2015.

“Indeed, the price of some basic necessities is increasing, but not

so significant. The price hike only happens to domestic sugar, chicken, eggs, carrots, onions and large chili,” said the Head of Badung Industry and Trade Agency, Ketut Karpiana, Monday (Jun. 8).

The Agency noted that the price of onion rose as much as IDR 2,000, from IDR 36,375 to IDR 38,375; large chili rose by IDR 1,500 from IDR 18,125 to IDR 19, 625. Domestic sugar is sold for IDR 11,000 to IDR 11,875. Chicken meat cost IDR 32,500 to IDR 33,000, broiler egg at IDR 1,213 to IDR 1,500; and carrot at IDR 6,750 to IDR 7,375

per kilogram. “Every Tuesday, we will continue to monitor this price increase so that we can detect what causes it,” he said.

By that way, it is expected that ahead of the feast the prices of foodstuff will not go up drastically, despite showing an increase. It will be coordinated with relevant authorities in order to be resolved together. “We estimate there will be an increase in the price of fruit ahead of Galungan and Kuningan. But we remain to monitor the price of goods so that there will be no hoarding of goods,” he said. (kmb27)

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KUTA - Eden Hotel Kuta Bali, Nature at your doors! announced that it has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award. In its fifth year, the award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve great traveler reviews on TripAdvisor. Certificate of Excellence winners include accommodations, eateries and attractions located all over the world that have continually delivered a superior customer experience.

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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 “umbul-umbul”, 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. sor for at least 12 months.

“Winning the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence is a true source of pride for the entire team at EDEN Hotel Kuta Bali and we’d like to thank all of our past guests who took the time to complete a review on TripAdvisor,” said Mr. Chamkhia Mohamed Ali, General Manager at EDEN Hotel Kuta Bali. “There is no greater seal of approval than being recognized by one’s customers.

With the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence based on customer reviews, the accolade is a remarkable vote of confidence to our business

and our continued commitment to excellence.”

“TripAdvisor is pleased to honor exceptional hospitality businesses that have received consistent praise and recognition by travelers on the site,” said Marc Charron President, TripAdvisor for Business. “By putting a spotlight on businesses that are focused on delivering great service to customers, TripAdvisor not only helps drive increasing hospitality standards around the world, it also gives businesses both large and small the ability to shine and stand out from the competition.”

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Apple wants a lead role in streaming music

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads. Now the maker of iPods and iPhones wants to carve out a leading role in a revolution well underway, with a new, paid streaming-music service set to launch this summer.

With millions of listeners already tuning in to streaming outlets like Pandora and Spotify, analysts and music-industry sources say Apple has been gearing up to launch its own service, aimed at winning back some of those customers and nudging longtime iTunes users into a new mode of listening.

Apple is expected to announce the service at its annual conference for software developers, which kicks off Monday in San Francisco. In a keynote session, CEO Tim Cook and other executives are also expected to show off new features in Apple’s operating software for iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers, as well as tools for building new apps for the Apple Watch. Analysts also expect enhancements to the mobile-payment service known as Apple Pay. The world’s biggest tech company makes most of its money from selling handheld gadgets, like the popular iPhone, and other computer hardware. But Apple uses its annual World Wide Developers Conference to highlight the software, online services and apps that make those devices indispensable to consumers around the world.

Along with a new music service, industry experts had been expecting Apple to announce a new streamingvideo package and upgrades for its Apple TV service. But that may be delayed, according to reports by the New York Times and the tech blog Re/code, which said Apple is still negotiating with broadcasters and isn’t ready to announce the video service.

That puts the spotlight on Apple’s music initiative. Analysts say the company needs to build a robust streaming business if it wants to maintain its central role in the popular-music ecosystem. Most recordings today are still sold through digital stores like iTunes, which opened in 2003. But those sales have declined, while streaming services are rapidly gaining subscribers and revenue.

“Streaming media is increasingly important to the computer-using experience, so it’s important for Apple to have a role there,” said Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin.

About 41 million people globally now pay for streaming music from Spotify, Deezer and other outlets, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which says subscription revenue grew 39 percent last year to $1.6 billion. Overall download sales fell 8 percent to $3.6 billion.

Apple Inc. bought the Beats

headphone maker and music streaming service for $3 billion last year, but publishers’ data confirmed by royalty tracking company Audiam shows Beats Music had just 303,000 U.S. subscribers as of December, compared to 4.7 million in the U.S. for market leader Spotify.

While Apple wouldn’t comment last week, a person familiar with its plans said Apple has an ambitious goal to sign up 100 million subscribers for a new streaming service that will cost $10 a month and compete with other on-demand services such as Spotify and Rhapsody. Beats users will be migrated over before

eventually closing down, and buyers of songs and albums on iTunes will also be presented with the option to purchase a subscription instead.

Along with a lengthy three-month free trial period for the paid service, the company also plans to bolster its free offering, iTunes Radio, with a live online radio station featuring DJs like former BBC host Zane Lowe and artists Pharell, Drake, Muse and David Guetta.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations between the company and record labels were private.

“They are very late to the game on

streaming,” said analyst Van Baker at the Gartner research firm. But he said Apple can still catch up by making it easy for iPhone owners to use the new service. That’s a huge pool of potential customers: Apple sold 61 million iPhones in the last quarter alone.

Aside from music, analysts expect Apple will tout improvements to other services like Apple Pay and Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant for iPhones and iPads. Apple has also hinted it will release programming tools for its new smartwatch.

Most apps available for the Apple Watch are extensions of apps that run on the iPhone. Independent appbuilders like Jordan Edelson, CEO of Appetizer Mobile, are hoping Apple will release the code to build apps that interact directly with sensors and controls on the watch.

“That would let us build some really cool experiences,” added Edelson, who said it could make the watch more appealing to consumers who aren’t sure now if they need one.

Edelson also predicted Apple will introduce software that ties other products more closely together, such as apps that make the iPhone into a controller for television sets and other appliances.

That’s a smart strategy, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.

“Once you start organizing your life around Apple products, you’re less likely to ditch your iPhone and go over to Android,” he said, referring to the competing technology from Apple’s rival, Google. (ap)apps specifically for the watch and interact directly with the watch’s sensors and controls, such as the dial.

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Kevin Lynch, Apple vice president of Technology, speaks about the Apple Watch at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. Apple says app developers will be able to make

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Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, speaks about music at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and iPhones announced Apple Music, an app that combines Beats 1, a 24-hour, seven-day live radio station, with an on-demand music streaming service.

Indian consulate general to organize mass yoga

DENPASAR - The Indian Consulate General in Bali Amarieet Singh Takhi said a mass yoga would held in this capital city of Bali to coincide with the Wold Yoga Day on June 21, 2015.

“Mass Yoga activities would be held at the Bajra Sandhi Renon square in Denpasar, expected to involve around 8,000 participants,” Amarieet Singh Takhi said on Tuesday.

He said similar activities would also be held in other cities in the country such as Jakarta, Medan and Surabaya, to involve thousands of lovers of the Indian religious sport.

The mass yoga would be held at the same time not only in a number

of cities in Indonesia but also all over the world under the auspice of the United Nations, he said.

Amarieet Singh Takhi said the mass yoga would involve various circles, from the government institutions to schools, and leading universities in Bali.

“I was just told that the planned activities are welcome enthusiastically by those regularly practice yoga in Bali, therefore, we believe the number of participants would exceed our

earlier estimate,” he said.

Yoga is a religious sport widely practiced not only Hindus but also people of other faiths, he said.

Yoga has become a universal activity to create physical and spiritual harmony.

“Yoga is not just a sport but it serves more to maintain balance in mind toward creation of peace spiritually and physically a dream of everybody in the world,” Amarieet Singh Takhi said. (ant)

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US citizen facing jail term for drug abuse

DENPASAR - A U.S. visitor to Bali Scott Wikoff Odowd (31) is facing jail term for drug abuse in the tourist island.

Prosecutor Ni Wayan Yusmawati in a trial on Monday demanded a 12 months jail term for Odowd, who was found in possession of 3.10 grams of marijuana.

Odowd, who was nabbed in his hotel room in February, 2015 told the court he bought the drug from someone identified as I Wawayan Janu, who was still at large.

Presiding judge Indria Miryani said the accused failed to appreciate the government’s endeavor to eradicate drug crime. (ant)

Pandanus war tradition is not a ‘fighting’ arena AMLAPURA - Tenganan Pegringsingan village in Karangasem was thronged by thousands of visitors, Monday (Jun. 8). They were busy witnessing the mageret pandan or pandanus war tradition. This annual event always attracts public attention, although the implementation of this tradition has much shifted from the essence of the actual ritual held at the village. Why can this deviation happen amid the implementation of pandanus war of Tenganan Pegringsingan having been well known to foreign countries?

At first glance, implementation of the pandanus war is so exciting and thrilling. Just imagine that the so sharp thorns of pandanus leaf are rubbed on the facial skin, neck to back to get torn and be bloody. Originating in a ritual, this pandanus war tradition has also become a spectacle so that it is eagerly awaited by the community from outside Tenganan Pegringsingan having come from the morning. However, the local community leader, Nyoman Sadra, feels apprehensive about the implementation of the tradition through the years. Met on the sidelines of the event, this former legislator of Karangasem considers that implementation of the pandanus war tradition has far deviated from the original.

Sadra added that such deviation has occurred since the past ten years. He recalled that in the past the tradition was not implemented like the current one.

It was always preceded by a dance in a joyful atmosphere. Formerly, the implementation of pandanus war was filled with attack techniques to minimize injuries due to pandanus scratch. “The pandanus war was difficult to hurt the opponent. When getting injured at first, it would result in extraordinary shame,” he said. Thus, the implementation was much more exciting and thrilling.

In addition, the shield on left hand, he said, may not be released when being attacked or attacking. One thing

making him most upsetting is that the pandanus war in the past did not generate emotional impression on the two fighters. However, the current pandanus war even impresses an emotion in the eyes just like fighting man.

Further it is exacerbated by the implementation of the tradition under the influence of liquor. Actually, the pandanus war is essentially not an expression of emotion but a ritual in honor of Lord Indra, the god of war.

He sees that the pandanus war today is just like wrestling that promotes muscular strength, not the cunning of brain. It no longer pays attention to the techniques as early implementation of this tradition established at Tenganan Pegringsingan village.

He acknowledged that this situation will be increasingly difficult

to be changed. So, he hands it over entirely to each individual in order to get back to the original tradition. In the meantime, one of the six chiefs of Tenganan Pegringsingan customary village, Wayan Yasa, said that as a Hindu sect specifically adhering to Lord Indra, this tradition poses a manifestation of the teachings of Lord Indra better known as the god of war.

Pandanus war, he said, is a kind of the most sincere yajña or holy sacrifice at the expense of human blood.

“If we do not carry out this tradition, according to local belief, something bad will happen to our village.

On that account, this tradition remains to be preserved so far,” he said.

Pandanus war is carried out in a series of the aci usaba sambah at Tenganan Pegringsingan. The war is

carried out twice, namely on Monday (Jun. 8) at Bale Patemu Kaja and on Tuesday (Jun. 9) at Bale Patemu Tengah with the addition of a stage performance. The second day of the pandanus war is also known locally as pengrame sambah. Yasa estimated that the event on the second day (Tuesday) will be attended by more people. Crowded spectators watching the pandanus war tradition this year are inseparable from the atmosphere of school holidays. Unfortunately, among the crowded spectators some fell unconscious because of shortness of breath. One of the victims is Komang Krisna Maharani who was fainted while watching the pandanus war tradition with her family. This student of the SMPN 2 Amlapura junior high school already got first aid from local

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Balinese fighters combat with sticks wrapped in thorny pandanus leaves during a village festival ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, June 8, 2015. Once a year, during the ritual tournament festival, men of the village fight each other with wads of thorny pandanus leaves as part of a sacrifice to placate the evil spirits.

medical team before she ultimately got her consciousness.

In the meantime, a number of residents participating in the pandanus war tradition said that they are so happy to take action. Putu Kurniawan and Putu Ariada, for instance, said that even though their body is full of thorn scars of pandanus leaves, they claimed not to feel painful. Later on each injury will be treated with sanctified drugs. It has been prepared a month before the pandanus war tradition by local girls.

Many residents wanted to get involved in this tradition because they believe if it can cure various diseases, where the mala or impurities will go out with their blood. (kmb31)

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VAR stock still limited, people asked to avoid wild dog bites

SINGARAJA - Prevention of rabies victim in the community is intensified by the government of Buleleng through the increase in the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) stock. A number of people flock to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency after they are bitten by a wild dog or their pet dog. Communities worried about rabies that can threaten their life after previously hearing a young man that died at Pacung village alleged to be caused by rabies due to dog bite.

A total of seven residents of Buleleng came to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency, Monday (Jun. 8) to get an injection of antirabies vaccine. One of them is Sukra Dewi from Celuk Buluh hamlet, Kalibukbuk, Buleleng, who escorted her son Putu Andrean Pratama, 7, after being bitten by a stray dog.

“I have been going around looking for VAR at pharmacies but I could get nothing. My son was bitten by a wild dog when playing on the beach.

The bite happened today and he is directly injected with anti-rabies vaccine,” said Sukra Dewi.

Chief of the Buleleng Health Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Mahapra-

mana, explained that the last antirabies vaccine stock in Buleleng remains 59 vials. Recently the agency has distributed a total of 80 vials to Pacung village, and seven others to patients coming to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency. “This year we have 5,600 vials of vaccine for human, included in the main re-

gional budget through three times of deliveries to the Buleleng Hospital.

The first delivery amounted to 1,500 vials, the second delivery to 2,000 vials and in the next two weeks will be resumed with the third delivery.

During the period of a year, we usually require 12,000 vials. They are entirely subsidized as much as 50 percent by provincial budget, and the remaining by county budget,” said Mahapramana.

Other than centered at the Buleleng Hospital, delivery of the vaccine also targets a number of health centers in the subdistricts. It is meant

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A child is injected with VAR after bitten by a dog.

to make people have closer access.

The vaccine is given through a system of injection in right and left arm and then continues as directed by treating doctor. In the meantime, poor people from outside Buleleng remain to be considered to get the vaccine injection. “Should there be any poor people from outside Buleleng, we still provide them with the vaccine. Vaccine administration has been available at the Banjar and Seririt health center as well as at the office of the Buleleng Health Agency through the Buleleng Emergency Service (BEC),” he said.

Mahaprama urged the public not to be panicky against dog bites considering that not all bites are given antirabies vaccine. It happens because pet dogs have a high level of sanitation, and better care than wild dogs. Virus of dog bites will quickly die by soap and antiseptic treatment. “We remain to make epidemic investigation on rabies in the community,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Buleleng Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, asserted that synergy of the rabies eradication through mass vaccination has been conducted from May to July this year. The target is stray dogs amounting to 56,000 heads with the number of vaccine reaching 36,000 vials for dogs. “We have just noted that 9,500 dogs have got mass vaccination. It is in appropriate with the stages through coordination process in rural areas and seeing the zonation map with red categories being infected with rabies,” he said.

The red zone of rabies in Buleleng lies in the area of Banjar subdistrict such as Munduk, Gobleg and Gesing to Tejakula (Tejakula subdistrict). If the vaccination has been completed, it will be resumed to green zone. “The rabies vaccine for dogs is entirely free. Out team members in the field will work based on priority schedule. We urge people to avoid dog bites, and must be careful while playing with dogs,” said Swatantra. (kmb34)

SMEs participating in BAF drops by 50 percent

TABANAN - Hampered by rental price considered being expensive and being unable to submit the requirements on time, many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tabanan are disqualified to participate in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). The active SMEs from Tabanan or those renting a booth decreases by 50 percent compared to last year.

It was presented by the Head of the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Wiryawan, Monday

(Jun. 8). Actually Tabanan gets the allocation for 15 active SMEs, but most of the proposed SMEs have disqualified and resigned. It happens because they do not dare to take risk and fear of suffering losses considering the rental price of booth at the BAF has doubled compared to last year’s price. Some participants are disqualified because they submit requirements too late. As a result, of the 15 allotments for active SMEs, Tabanan is only able to send five SMEs consisting of two

kebaya fashions, two blacksmiths and one silversmith.

Wiryawan admitted that active SME representatives showed a decline at least by 50 percent compared to last year, where in 2014 Tabanan sent eight SMEs. “In the past, we were not rationed, but we proposed as much as possible,” said Wiryawan.

In addition to active SMEs, Tabanan also sends passive SMEs. In other words, the SMEs obtain funds from Regional Craft Council

(Dekranasda). “They get funds to hire a booth as well as the institution helps organize the booth and provide the attendant,” said Wiryawan.

For passive SMEs, they do not require any selection process due to having been appointed directly by the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency. The passive SMEs include the ones getting assistance from the Industry and Trade Agency and newly developing entrepreneurs.

“The five passive SMEs include a shirt painting, kris maker, black-

smith producing machete and shell crafts,” said Wiryawan He continued that participation in the BAF is not just to gain an advantage but also to get longterm effects, where the orders of products to the SMEs will continue and get additional customers from the event. “There will be an impact on the SMEs participating in the BAF. By all means, there is an increase in the orders after participating in the BAF,” he said. (kmb24)

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11 weeks after Germanwings crash, victims’ remains head home

PARIS — The first victims’ remains from the Germanwings crash will be flown from France to Germany on Tuesday, about 11 weeks after the disaster that killed all 150 people onboard.

Dozens of victims’ relatives from the March 24 crash in the French Alps have been awaiting the return of the remains. In the first repatriation, 44 coffins were expected to be flown from Marseille to Duesseldorf, Germany.

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South Korean elementary school students wear masks as a precaution against the MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus as they attend a lesson at an elementary school in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

South Korea says its deadly MERS outbreak may have peaked SEOUL — South Korea believes its MERS virus outbreak may have peaked, and experts say the next several days will be critical to determining whether the government’s belated efforts have successfully stymied a disease that has killed seven people and infected nearly 100 in the country.

The biggest outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outside the region where it was first seen in 2012 was introduced to South Korea last month by a 68-year-old man who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and other nearby countries.

When he got sick after his return to South Korea, he visited several hospitals and clinics, where dozens of other patients and hospital workers were infected before officials found he had MERS. Gradually, the government began isolating victims and quarantining those who’d had contact with them.

There has been widespread fear here of the poorly understood disease, which has no vaccine and as much as a 40 percent mortality rate. There also had been growing criticism over failures by health workers and the government to initially recognize and quickly contain the disease.

Nearly 3,000 people have been placed in isolation and 2,200 schools closed in South Korea. Although MERS spreads through close contact with sick people, not through the air, many people here have avoided going to crowded places like baseball parks and movie theaters. Travel agencies report a sharp increase in the number of foreigners canceling plans to visit South Korea.

The outbreak, however, has so far been contained in hospitals and there’s no evidence, the U.N. health agency says, of “sustained transmission in the community.”

Authorities say the first MERS patient didn’t reveal his Saudi Arabia trip to doctors until he arrived at the Seoul-based Samsung Medical Center after being treated at three other hospitals, including St. Mary’s Hospital in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul. Samsung and St. Mary’s have seen most of the country’s infections.

The initial patient’s wife, who was the country’s second MERS case and is now out of the hospital, recently told a local TV station that her husband didn’t intend to hide information about his travels, but simply had trouble talking to doctors because of his high fever.

Because the virus’ incubation period is estimated at five to six days on average, extending up to about two weeks, experts believe there won’t be any more cases directly infected by the first patient.

The Health Ministry said that no more MERS cases have originated from St. Mary’s Hospital.

There are still concerns about Samsung Medical Center, where at least 37 people have been infected, although fewer cases have been reported there in recent days. (ap)

Germanwings’ parent company Lufthansa has chartered a plane to bring the coffins to Germany, and has said that other remains will be repatriated by month’s end.

Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for families of 34 victims, said many relatives “don’t want to realize that their children are dead. It will be brutal when they see the coffins tomorrow, but it is necessary, because they need closure.”

Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of depression, intentionally crashed the A320 flying from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf.

The office of Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, who is leading a French investigation into the crash, said that he will hold a news conference on Thursday after meeting in Paris with victims’ relatives. The victims had 19 different nationalities. Nearly half were German, and 47 were Spanish.

Robin’s office said he was expecting 300 to 400 people to attend the closed-door meeting at a Foreign Ministry conference center in southwest Paris, including relatives and officials representing families who weren’t traveling to Paris.

The family of two Australian

victims, Carol Friday and her son Greig, won’t be attending, said her brother, Malcolm Coram. Coram visited the crash site about a month ago, and told The Associated Press it was simply too far to return again so soon.

Coram said he wasn’t sure when Carol and Greig’s remains will be returned to Australia, but he expects it would be sometime before August. He said the family has been happy with the way that Germanwings and authorities have been communicating with them. “We get treated very well,” he said. “What’s done is done for us — we just sort of want it to end.” (ap)

AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File

FILE - In this March 26, 2015 file photo, rescue workers work on debris of the Germanwings jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. Dozens of relatives of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps are awaiting the return of remains of their loved ones, roughly 2-1/2 months after the disaster killed all 150 people on board.

Egypt court sentences 11 to death over 2012 soccer riot

CAIRO — A criminal court in Egypt’s coastal city of Port Said has sentenced 11 people to death over a 2012 soccer riot that left more than 70 dead and several hundreds injured.

Tuesday’s verdict came at the end of the retrial of 73 defendants

in a case that sparked deadly riots in 2013 in Port Said, prompting then-President Mohammed Morsi to declare a state of emergency in the city.

Also Tuesday, the court sentenced 40 defendants to up to 15 years in prison and acquitted the

rest. The verdicts can be appealed.

The February 2012 riot began at the end of a league match in Port Said between Cairo’s al-Ahly, Egypt’s most successful club, and home side el-Masry. It was Egypt’s worst soccer disaster and among the world’s deadliest. (ap)

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BUSINESS G7 climate vision requires gargantuan economic shift

already vehicles running on electricity or biofuels. But fuels made from oil still dominate and it will probably be a long time before they can be substituted at a large scale in aviation and shipping, though experiments with biofuels and even solar power are underway.

Also, replacing fossil fuels to generate the intense heat required for some industrial processes like steel production isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.

That’s why many scientists and economists say demands by some environmental activists for a complete phase-out of fossil fuels are unrealistic. Instead, they say the fight against climate change will have to include efforts to capture CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and bury them deep underground where they don’t affect the climate.

The U.N. climate science panel projected last year that such technologies, which already exist at a small scale, may have to be applied to achieve negative emissions in the future, because the world isn’t expected to bring down its emissions fast enough in the near term. That could entail, for example, using biofuels for power generation and then capturing their emissions.

But even that is not without problems: large-scale biofuel crops could end up replacing food crops or threatening biodiversity.

The G-7 leaders didn’t address in detail how to resolve all these issues. In U.N. climate talks on an envisioned pact in Paris later this year, countries have a hard time agreeing on much smaller things, like whether to renew their individual climate targets every five or 10 years.

Still, the message from the leaders of the world’s most powerful developed countries is important because it’s the first time they acknowledge what needs to happen to keep global temperatures from reaching dangerous levels, said Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist and U.N. special adviser.

“It does mean in practice an enormous shift from a fossil fuel-based energy system to near-zero carbon energy sources. It’s a big deal,” he said. “Not unlike the Apollo mission.” (ap)

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BANDA ACEH — The capital of Indonesia’s devout Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory.

STOCKHOLM — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy, they’re talking about a shift so dramatic that one analyst described it as a new Apollo mission.

Like putting a man on the moon, it would require overcoming major hurdles related to technology and money and the political will — so far in short supply — to make it happen.

Despite gains by renewable energy sources in recent years, the world is still hooked on fossil fuels that are powering our homes and businesses and fueling our cars, trucks, airplanes and ships.

The resulting release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere keeps rising, primarily because of fast growth in China, India and other emerging economies.

CO2 emissions from fossil fuels now exceed 30 billion tons a year, according to the International Energy Agency.

What President Barack Obama and other G-7 leaders envisioned in Germany on Monday is a world where those emissions would be phased out by the end of the century.

Above all that would entail a major shift in how the world produces electricity, about two-thirds of which comes from the burning of fossil fuels, mainly coal and gas.

Scaling up solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, hydro-power and perhaps other renewable sources still to be developed is possible, but that requires policies, such as carbon taxes, that make them more competitive compared to coal or natural gas.

“We have to be honest: coal is a very, very cheap energy carrier. Therefore we need a carbon price,” said Ottmar Edenhofer, a prominent member of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate science.

Putting a price on carbon is highly contentious politically in many countries. The U.S. Senate turned down such a proposal in 2010.

Australia’s current government repealed a carbon tax introduced by the previous government.

Making renewables that depend on the weather such as wind and solar power more competitive would also require technological advances, primarily how to store energy more efficiently.

Decarbonizing the transportation sector is even more complicated. There are of course

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In this Feb. 11, 2015 file photo the logo of the HSBC Private Bank is pictured in Geneva, Switzerland. HSBC Holdings Ltd. plans to expand operations in China and the ASEAN region but intends to sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil in a restructuring and cost-cutting drive which includes a 10 percent cut in staffing, the company said Tuesday.

HSBC cutting staff by 10 percent, more emphasis on Asia

LONDON — HSBC Holdings Ltd. plans to expand operations in China and the ASEAN region but intends to sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil in a restructuring and costcutting drive which includes a 10 percent cut in staffing, the company said Tuesday.

It aims to cut costs for up to $5 billion by the end of 2017 and reduce the number of full-time employees by 22,000.

HSBC says a review on whether to move its headquarters out of London will be completed this year.

Although planning to dispose of its operation in Brazil, HSBC says it plans to maintain a presence in that country to serve large corporate clients in their international dealings.

HSBC said it plans to accelerate its investments in Asia by expanding asset management and insurance businesses in a bid to earn more profits from the region’s rapidly expanding class of newly wealthy.

In particular, the bank is planning to develop business in southern China’s Pearl River Delta manufacturing heartland in southern Guangdong province, which is next door to Hong Kong and one of the wealthiest regions in the world’s No. 2 economy. It’s also planning a similar expansion in Southeast Asia, where booming economic growth in countries like Indonesia is swelling the ranks of the middle classes.

Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital in London, said the investor update filled in some details on previously announced initiatives.

“The only piece of material new information appears to be the announcement that the company aims to reduce its risk weighted asset base by one quarter or $290 billion,” Greenwood said.

“We question whether management will be able to achieve this and deliver on its commitment to grow revenue,” he added. (ap)

Banda Aceh Mayor Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal ordered venues including restaurants, sport centers, Internet cafes and tourist attractions to not serve women after 11 p.m. unless accompanied by their husbands or other male family members.

The directive, dated June 4, also prohibits women from working in such establishments after 11 p.m.

Aceh hews to fundamentalism more so than other areas in the Muslim-majority nation, and Indonesia’s secular central government granted it the right to implement a version of Shariah law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist war. A religious police and court system have been established and the new restrictions on women are a further strengthening of Sharia in the province.

Last year, Aceh lawmakers passed a law that punishes gay sex by public caning and subjects nonMuslims to strict interpretation of

Sharia. People convicted of gambling, adultery and drinking alcohol already face caning, as do women wearing tight jeans and people who skip Friday prayers.

Ninik Rahayu from the Indonesian Institute for Empowerment of Women and Children said Tuesday that the directive is discriminatory and contrary to Indonesia’s constitution. She said the policy shows the inability of the local government to provide adequate protection for residents.

The directive also prohibits children from being at public places unaccompanied after 10 p.m.

Djamal said employing women until late at night constitutes exploitation and makes them vulnerable to sexual harassment.

“We have studied the matter thoroughly and this is in line with the labor laws,” Djamal said. “Our aim is to protect women employees, especially those working at entertainment spots.” (ap)

JAKARTA - The government will focus attention to food security ahead of the fasting month and Idul Fitri, a top security official said.

Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Marciano Noorman said roughly the security condition is favorable though attention is necessary to be focused on the security of essential good supply ahead of the fasting month and Idul Fitri.

“I reported to the president that generally the situation is under control, but things like the availability of essential goods need special

attention,” Marciano said after meeting President Joko Widodo here on Tuesday.

He said in addition to food security, transport facility need to be ready.

Every year big masses of Muslims leave Jakarta to celebrate Idul Fitri with relatives in the regions necessitating mass transport facility.

Marciano said the security apparatuses have been ordered to prevent and crack down on foodstuff speculation. (ant)

Food security in focus of government attention

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A worker mops the floor in front a billboard ad at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia Tuesday, June, 9, 2015.

Group plans challenge to bid to scrap $20 bln in fuel subsidies

PALEMBANG - Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim group plans to file a lawsuit challenging a decision by President Joko Widodo to scrap $20 billion worth of government fuel subsidies in his most radical reform since taking office last October.

The action by Muhammadiyah, a nationalist movement with about 30 million members, is the next step in what it calls a “constitutional jihad” that has successfully dealt legal blows to private participation in the oil, gas and water sectors.

The group’s “jihad” may seem outlandish and doomed to fail in a country where few question the free-market economy, yet its citizen activism has already overturned two laws.

The situation underscores the balance Widodo needs to strike in trying to attract much-needed foreign investment, while satisfying an electorate demanding more populist policies.

“There are so many economic policies in Indonesia going in the wrong direction,” Syafruddin An-

har, head of the group’s economic committee, told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in Palembang, in South Sumatra.

“Some policies are too friendly to foreign investors, giving them a chance to take everything in Indonesia.”

He gave the examples of the mining and energy industries, but did not identify specific companies.

Muhammadiyah plans to file a lawsuit in the next few months in the Constitutional Court, which is empowered to carry out constitutional reviews of legislation, challenging Widodo’s decision to abandon costly gasoline subsidies for rates based on the global market price.

Widodo took the unprecedented step on subsidies at the beginning of this year, aiming to free up funds for infrastructure and farm projects.

Government officials defended their policies, but warned that the prospect of a lawsuit could alarm investors.

“It may scare investors. It may create uncertainty,” the vice presi-

dent’s economic adviser, Wijayanto Samirin, said on the sidelines of the conference.

Last week, Muhammadiyah officials met the president and vice president to discuss the group’s concerns.

Muhammadiyah, which runs thousands of schools, hospitals, and small businesses, has identified more than 100 laws it believes violate a constitutional tenet for the state to control natural resources for the benefit of all Indonesians.

In two previous campaigns, the group has shown it can force changes in government policy.

In 2012, Muhammadiyah succeeded in crimping the government’s ability to sign contracts with private companies in the energy industry.

This year, in a case brought by Muhammadiyah, the constitutional court axed a rule allowing water permits to the private sector. That decision plunged into uncertainty businesses from textiles to beverage bottling. (rtr)

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Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Parliament buildings on the Stormont estate in Belfast in this October 24, 2013 file photo. Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military government whose fighting with rebels along China’s border has angered Beijing.

Irritated with Myanmar, China to woo opposition leader Suu Kyi

BEIJING - Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military government whose fighting with rebels along China’s border has angered Beijing. But the visit will also be awkward for China’s ruling Communist Party which has invited Suu Kyi, as her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in jail and Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping crackdown on dissent.

Activists are putting pressure on Suu Kyi to make some reference to Liu’s detention during the visit, and if she does, it will be a huge embarrassment for Beijing. Suu Kyi will meet Xi and Premier Li Keqiang on the June 10-14 trip, according to her National League for Democracy (NLD), although China has kept details under wraps and it is not known if she will make any public appearances.

Since taking power in March 2011, Myanmar’s reformist government has sought to decrease the heavy dependence on China that grew when Myanmar was a pariah state under military rule. Beijing has watched nervously as the United States lifted some sanctions and engaged with the semi-civilian government.

But China has been keen to reach out to Suu Kyi. The NLD is expected to do well in a general election in November, the first free vote in the country for 25 years.

Suu Kyi is excluded from the presidency under a military-drafted constitution, but her power and influence will grow if the NLD performs as well as expected. The China-Myanmar relationship has

been strained this year as stray army shells from fighting between the Myanmar government and ethnic Chinese rebels killed at least five people in China’s southwestern Yunnan province in March.

Lin Xixing, a Myanmar expert at Guangzhou’s Jinan University, said China was fed up with the government ignoring their protests on the border violence. “Perhaps Aung San Suu Kyi can bring her influence to bear on ending the conflict,” Lin said, adding it was highly unusual for Xi to meet any kind of foreign opposition figure. “In any case, it will be good to have her here to get to know her and explain our policy towards Myanmar.”

Chinese state media has praised Suu Kyi ahead of her arrival, saying that with Myanmar’s democratisation the old certainties about the reliability of Sino-Myanmar ties were no longer there.

“We believe that Aung San Suu Kyi will become a good friend of China’s,” the Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, wrote in an editorial.

The official Xinhua news agency added in its own commentary that it was important Suu Kyi develop “a very thorough understanding of the special bond between the two countries”. Suu Kyi led the NLD to a sweeping victory in general elections in 1990, but the military government refused to recognize the results.

She became an international icon after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and spent most of the next two decades under house arrest where she continued to resist Myanmar’s military rulers. She was freed in 2010.

Phyo Zayar Thaw, one of the two MPs travelling with Suu Kyi, said that he did not know if issues of human rights would be raised.

Hu Jia, a Chinese prominent dissident and close friend of Liu Xiaobo, told Reuters that if Suu Kyi does not call for Liu’s release, “it will bring some degree of regret”.

“Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and in Chinese prison, there sits another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,” he said. “This is an unavoidable topic for the Chinese Communist Party and is extremely embarrassing.” (rtr)

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India says state law minister arrested for fake law degree

NEW DELHI — Police said they arrested the New Delhi state law minister Tuesday for allegedly holding a fake degree in law and registering as an attorney in the Indian capital, a move strongly condemned by the minister’s party.

Jitendra Singh Tomar faces charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forging documents, said police spokesman Rajan Bhagat. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to seven years.

According to Bhagat, Tomar said he obtained a law degree from a university in Bihar state, but police found it to be fake.

The Bar Association of New Delhi registered a police complaint against Tomar on Tuesday.

Several Indian politicians, including some in the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, face similar charges.

Tomar belongs to the Aam Admi Party, or Common Man Party, formed by anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal. The AAP won a massive victory in elections in New Delhi earlier this year, defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP. Tomar’s arrest was strongly condemned by his party leaders, including Manish Sisodia, who said police should have waited for a verdict by the New Delhi High Court, which is hearing a petition against him and has summoned university records. (ap)

Man sues Chinese actress over her intense stare in TV show

BEIJING — Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to a new concern over frivolous ones, including a man who is suing actress Zhao Wei for staring at him too intensely through his TV set.

The new regulations making it more difficult for courts to reject lawsuits took effect May 1, leading to an increase in cases nationwide last month.

The Shanghai Pudong New District Court’s litigation service hotline confirmed it had received a case against Zhao, one of China’s biggest and richest movie stars.

Reports say the lawsuit filed by a Shanghai man involves the prime-time TV show “Tiger Mom,” in which Zhao plays a bigeyed mother who relentlessly pushes her daughter. The Legal Daily said the plaintiff alleges that her staring caused him “spiritual damage.” (ap)

Forestry...

From page 1 “This indicates that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan also overlaps with the forest areas. Even though Presidential Regulation No. 51 is in effect, they would in fact still be in violation of other regulations. There for it seems clear that the attempt to swap 169.95 hectares of forested area with an area outside the park, is part of an effort to streamline the agenda of the investors who want to reclaim Benoa Bay,” he said.

Similarly, Suriadi considers it improper of the Forest Agency to want to swap the area between the forest area on Pudut Island and surrounding areas that are not overgrown with mangrove forest for an area outside the area overgrown with mangroves.

Meanwhile, the area outside of the Grand Forest Park that covers an area of 238.79 hectares has been designated as a marine conservation area based on Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 and Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014.

“Why is the protected area being protected again? It must be assumed that the swap is just a strategy to exclude Pudut Island and surrounding areas from being part of the Grand Forest Park so that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will no longer be hampered by the areas status as forest,” explained Suriadi. (kmb32)

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GIANYAR - Kemenuh village is an attractive tourism village in Bali. The village with the population of 1,056 people has been commonly visited by tourists. Handicraft products like sculpture, Tegenungan Waterfall attraction and local culture have become the appeals. Beautiful village with rice field view also has accommodation like hotel and villas.

Interestingly, the property is owned and managed by local people.

Kemenuh village is located in Sukawati subdistrict, Gianyar. It is

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very close to tourist area of Ubud and Sukawati Art Market as well as can be reached from Gianyar Beach tourist area. From Denpasar, it is only approximately 17 km. To get there, people can also take advantage of public transportation of the Denpasar – Gianyar route.

Kemenuh had pledged itself as a cultural tourist destination since November 11, 2011. Nevertheless, the village with 11 administrative hamlets and 5 customary hamlets had been frequently visited by

tourists. The village had a tourist market in the form of 50 galleries.

Ida Bagus Marka Gallery is the largest and has a diverse collection of sculpture.

Exotic natural potential makes the Kemenuh village a center of tracking. Guests of hotels existing in Ubud area often take advantage of the tourist attraction located at the edge of the Petanu River. In later development, it is followed by the construction of accommodation such as The Chedi Club and Banus-

wari Hotel. Besides, there are also villas and houses of expatriates having profession as environmentalist and health practitioner.

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LAUSANNE — Seeking to cut into Beijing’s status as favorite, leaders of the Kazakh bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics told the IOC on Tuesday that Almaty presents the ideal choice for a “real” winter setting with plenty of natural snow.

With the vote less than two months away, Almaty leaders also portrayed their bid as being perfectly in tune with the IOC’s “Olympic Agenda 2020” reform program that calls for affordable games and maximum use of existing venues.

Almaty and Beijing made presentations at a “technical briefing” at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne attended by 85 of the International Olympic Committee’s 101 members. The closed-door presentations could be vital in swaying opinion ahead of the secret IOC ballot in Kuala Lumpur on July 31.

Each city was given 45 minutes to explain their bid plans, with another 45 minutes allotted for questions and answers. Almaty went first, followed by Beijing. Almaty’s presentation seemed to hit the right notes with IOC members, suggesting the race could become much tighter than many expected.

“I was very, very agreeably surprised,” Canadian IOC member Dick Pound said. “I think they attracted the attention of people who may not have been convinced before. It looks to me like they figured out all of the weaknesses of the competitors and they just nailed the differences — snow, water, air, experience.

“It will be interesting to see how (the Chinese) respond. Clearly Beijing must know what they are

facing. I am looking forward to the riposte.” IOC members said the Almaty presentation included many photos featuring deep snow.

Swiss IOC member Gian Franco Kasper, president of the international ski federation, said it was much better than he expected. “A year ago we said the Kazakhs are not really organized,” Kasper said.

“They really did something now.

They did a good job. They were very prepared. It’s too early to say but it’s going to be close.”

Beijing, which hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and is backed

by China’s political and economic might, has long been considered the favorite. Underdog Almaty has countered with the slogan “Keeping it Real” to set itself apart as the bid offering true winter sports tradition, setting and conditions.

The IOC released a technical evaluation report last week that cited serious challenges facing both bids, including Beijing’s lack of natural snow and heavy reliance on water reserves for snow making.

The report noted financial risks and limited experience in hosting major events for Almaty.

Almaty’s delegation on Tuesday was led by Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who said the bid is a national priority and one-in-alifetime chance to open the Central Asian country — a former Soviet republic — to the world.

“To put it simply: Kazakhstan not only wants the Winter Games, we need the Winter Games,” Massimov told the gathering, according to members inside the meeting. (ap)

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Track workers remove the car of McLaren driver Jenson Button of Great Britain during the final practice session at the F1 Canadian Grand Prix auto race in Montreal on Saturday, June 6, 2015.

Button urges Formula 1 critics to give McLarenHonda a break

Jenson Button has called on McLaren-Honda’s critics to give the team a break following its wretched start to the Formula 1 season, amplified by a Canadian Grand Prix to forget. The weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve included two engine changes, and a new MGU-H and turbo charger for Button’s car before a double retirement with unrelated exhaust issues.

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A general view shows the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics bid delegation as Liu Yandong, right, Vice Premier of the State Council of China delivers her speech, during at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

A swathe of criticism has naturally followed, with many questioning whether the Woking-based team will return to the front of the grid at all this season.

Button can understand the flak in part, given McLaren’s history and heritage, but also feels it is unfounded as the reunited McLaren-Honda partnership attempts to get on top of its issues.

“The problem is when you are a team that has won grands prix and world championships you are massively under pressure, and nobody gives this team a break,” said Button.

“But when you look at the improvements we’ve made, it’s been massive.

“This is such a competitive sport and that is why we want to take part in it, and the reason why manufacturers take part in it.

“To come in two years younger than the rest of the manufacturers is a big deal, and I personally feel that we have done a great job.

“Confidence is high in the team, and Honda understands that help from McLaren is always positive and vice versa, so it’s a good partnership.

“I feel we have the package to achieve great things in the future.”

Immediately after the race, Button described the weekend as “painful” as the team appeared to take backward steps - rather than forwards as expected, on the basis of Honda using tokens to upgrade the power unit.

But as the team discovered, the car was again lacking in not only speed, but also reliability. Teammate Fernando Alonso went so far

as to say he believed he was made to look like “an amateur driver” during the race. Button, McLaren, Canada”It’s always a tricky balance; we all want to perform. We’re also pressurised to perform. You feel it,” added Button.

“It’s very difficult, especially for the young guys in the team.

Everyone is asking, ‘when are you going to win?’, so you push the boundaries.

“But we were weak in both reliability and outright pace. Hopefully in a few weeks we can solve those issues. “What happened, though, won’t hurt this team. We scored points in Monaco, which no one expected. “So we have to take the rough with the smooth and look at the season as a whole, and know we’ve improved every race.” (net)

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Mandatory Credit: Bruce Fedyck-USA TODAY Sports

United States midfielder Megan Rapinoe (15) celebrates scoring against Australia with forward Sydney Leroux (2) and midfielder Lauren Holiday (12) and forward Abby Wambach (20) in a Group D soccer match in the 2015 women’s World Cup at Winnipeg Stadium.

Rapinoe leads U.S. past Australia in World Cup

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Megan Rapinoe scored twice to lead the United States to a 3-1 win over Australia in their Women’s World Cup opener on Monday, extending their unbeaten run against the Matildas to 25 games. Rapinoe’s two strikes, on either side of halftime and another from Christen Press in the 61st minute powered the Americans to the top of Group D after Sweden and Nigeria had earlier battled to a 1-1 draw. in their 24 previous meetings against the U.S., Australia came out looking determined to end their frustration when Emily Van Egmond unleashed a thunderbolt from just inside the penalty area that forced a diving save from Hope Solo.

The U.S., however, drew first blood in the 12th minute when Rapinoe’s long range shot deflected off an Aus-

tralian defender leaving a flat-footed Melissa Barbieri no chance. The goal did nothing to deflate the Matildas as Australia continued to push forward with Lisa De Vanna celebrating her 100th international appearance with her 36th goal to leave the sides level 1-1 at halftime.

The U.S. broke the deadlock in the 61st minute when Sydney Leroux

made a deep run down the wing and fed an unmarked Press in the box before Rapinoe sealed victory in the 78th minute.

“Obviously very disappointed in the result, I felt the performance was quite good for large patches of the game,” said Australian coach Alen Stajcic, whose side meet Nigeria on Friday. “I thought we had plenty of chances, especially in the first 30 minutes, I guess a couple of bits of class in the end from Rapinoe changed the game. “There are no easy games in this group and a long way to go.”

No nation will face a tougher road

to the final than those in Group D, which features three teams ranked in the top 10, the U.S. (2), Sweden (5), Australia (10) and the top African nation Nigeria (33).

The U.S. will next meet Sweden where they face an intriguing showdown with former coach Pia Sundhage, who had been in charge of the Americans for five years and led them to two Olympic gold medals and a runner-up finish in the 2011 World Cup. “It’s another opportunity to try and get some points,” said U.S. coach Jill Ellis. “It’s going to be two teams that know each other very well.” (rtr)

The bidding process for 2022 is among a number of World Cups under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for bribery allegations.

National police are probing Australia’s 2022 bid which was criticised

by FIFA’s own ethics committee last year in a summary of a major investigation into all bidders for the tournament and the 2018 finals awarded to Russia.

Local lawmaker Nick Xenophon has also called for a parliamentary

inquiry into Australia’s bid. FFA president Frank Lowy has been under pressure from local media to step down until Australia’s bid is cleared but insists the country’s bid was clean.

Australia’s sports minister Sussan Ley said last week the government could not consider committing public money toward any future bid overseen by FIFA until major reform of the governance of global soccer. (rtr)

because I still wish I was playing,” he said in a BBC radio interview.

“I cannot handle watching players getting lots of money and not putting 100 per cent in. The fans paid for my house, my car, my holidays - but I’ve seen players score a goal, even for England, and just walk back.

“There are young kids there seeing that and thinking it means nothing to score goals. I don’t like that.”

He took up that theme in an interview with the Daily Mail, saying of England’s widely criticised goalless draw with Ireland

on Sunday, “Where was the intensity? Where were the characters in this England team? Nowhere.

“I would be in the England dressing-room with Bryan Robson and Terry Butcher and they would be screaming ‘nobody comes into my house and takes anything’.”

Another England player of that era, Kenny Sansom, was reported on Sunday to be a homeless alcoholic.

Gascoigne said he tried to assist his former team-mate but added: “I can’t help him, no-one in the world can help unless he puts his hand up and says he needs help.” (rtr)

Mexican soccer star Blanco apparent winner of mayoral race Vlaar fit again for Dutch qualifier Ron Vlaar

MEXICO CITY — Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco has apparently been elected mayor of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City. Preliminary counts published Monday show the former star forward won 25.7 percent of the votes cast in Sunday’s election, well ahead of his nearest rival, who had 21.2 percent.

Blanco ran on the ticket of the tiny Social Democrat Party. The 42-year-old former national team star jumped into the campaign after retiring on April 21. He had played limited minutes off the bench for the first-division Puebla team this year, and was earlier with the Chicago Fire in the MLS.

His lack of political experience had raised doubts among some.

Known for his pugilistic playing style, Blanco was equally combative at a victory news conference.

“Now I’ve screwed them,” he said of his rivals.

Another soccer figure also got involved in Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday. National team coach Miguel Herrera, best known for his emotional sideline celebrations in the last World Cup, drew criticism for tweeting slogans supporting the Green Party.

Herrera on Sunday tweeted “don’t forget to vote, let’s go with the Greens,” and “The Greens fulfill” their promises. Green was

traditionally the Mexican national team’s color, but the “The Greens Fulfill” was a party campaign slogan.

Electoral law forbids campaigning by parties on election day, but Green Party officials say they had nothing to do with Herrera’s tweets.

Herrera was prickly and defensive about the tweets at a news conference Sunday, after the national team lost 2-0 in a friendly match with Brazil.

“I’m a human being, I’m a normal Mexican citizen, with statements that I can make in social media,” Herrera said. “It’s simply a personal situation.” (ap)

media executives for corruption.

“In the current volatile environment, FFA can give no consideration to bidding for any FIFA tournament,” the FFA said in a statement on Tuesday. “FFA has made it clear that major reform is needed. FIFA’s problems are deeprooted and tangled in a culture that has developed over decades.

“Until such time that the existing governance model is overhauled, it’s hard to imagine the circum-

stances in which FFA would put Australia forward as a bidding nation.” The FFA declined to provide further comment when contacted

by Reuters.

Australia successfully bid for and hosted the Asian Cup in January but garnered just one vote for the 2022 World Cup which was controversially awarded to Qatar, a tiny Middle Eastern country with scorching hot summers and no tradition of soccer.

IBP/net

AMSTERDAM - Fit-again defender Ron Vlaar will be available for Netherlands’ key EURO 2016 qualifier against Latvia in Riga on Friday, team officials said on Tuesday.

Vlaar trained with the Dutch team on Monday and showed no signs of any discomfort from a knee injury that kept him out of Friday’s friendly loss to the United States in Amsterdam.

His progress has been keenly followed in the wake of the 4-3 loss to the Americans which exposed deficiencies in the Dutch defence.

Vlaar is expected to start in centre defence alongside Stefan de Vrij, who also did not play in last week’s friendly. “I have had a

complete session and it went well.

I feel fine,” Vlaar told reporters.

“We want to put a line behind the loss to the Americans and turn our focus fully to the match against Latvia, where he have to win.”

The Dutch, who reached the semifinals of last year’s World Cup in Brazil, are third in Group A, with seven points from five matches. The Czech Republic lead with 13 points, one more than Iceland.

The top two finishers in each group qualify for France next year. The best third place finisher from the nine groups also qualifies while the other third place finishers play off for the remaining four slots at the finals. (rtr)

NICE, France — Six months after his transfer was blocked by French soccer authorities, Hatem Ben Arfa has finally completed his move to Nice.

The former France midfielder joined the Riviera club in January but the French league did not allow him to play because of FIFA’s rules stipulating that a player cannot appear for more than two clubs in the same season. At the time, Ben

Arfa had already played for English clubs Newcastle and Hull.

Nice said Tuesday that Ben Arfa’s move is now “official” without giving any details on his contract.

Ben Arfa, a member of the socalled “Generation 87,” a group of promising players born in 1987 that included Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri, failed to live up to expectations after leaving Lyon in 2008. (ap)

Former France player Ben Arfa signs with French club Nice

Australia will not bid for FIFA events until change MELBOURNE - Australia has shelved its bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup pending an “overhaul” of FIFA as the global soccer governing body reels from a corruption scandal.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) declared its intention to bid for the women’s global showpiece a month ago, but its failed bid for the 2022 men’s tournament has come under renewed scrutiny since the arrests of more than a dozen soccer and

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England lack passion and character, says Gascoigne

LONDON - Former England hero Paul Gascoigne has said the current team under Roy Hodgson lack the passion he was famous for, and that he cannot bear to watch much football these days because he misses playing so much.

Gascoigne, 48, appeared 57 times for England and more than 400 times for clubs such as Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio and Rangers. He retired in 2004, struggling with alcoholism and personal problems, and is promoting this week a new documentary film “Gascoigne” about his life and career.

“I hardly try and watch games

“That was a little bit of shaky game for us, especially the first 30 minutes, Hope (Solo) came up absolutely huge for us, I think she made three saves that I don’t think anyone else in the world can make,” Rapinoe told reporters. “Three points. That’s what is most important, especially in this group that is shaping up a little weird.”

Having achieved just two draws

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

AP Photo/Tony Rivera

Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco casts his vote during mid-term elections in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Sunday, June 7, 2015. Blanco has apparently been elected mayor of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City.

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Mandatory Credit: Bruce Fedyck-USA TODAY Sports

United States midfielder Megan Rapinoe (15) celebrates scoring against Australia with forward Sydney Leroux (2) and midfielder Lauren Holiday (12) and forward Abby Wambach (20) in a Group D soccer match in the 2015 women’s World Cup at Winnipeg Stadium.

Rapinoe leads U.S. past Australia in World Cup

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Megan Rapinoe scored twice to lead the United States to a 3-1 win over Australia in their Women’s World Cup opener on Monday, extending their unbeaten run against the Matildas to 25 games. Rapinoe’s two strikes, on either side of halftime and another from Christen Press in the 61st minute powered the Americans to the top of Group D after Sweden and Nigeria had earlier battled to a 1-1 draw. in their 24 previous meetings against the U.S., Australia came out looking determined to end their frustration when Emily Van Egmond unleashed a thunderbolt from just inside the penalty area that forced a diving save from Hope Solo.

The U.S., however, drew first blood in the 12th minute when Rapinoe’s long range shot deflected off an Aus-

tralian defender leaving a flat-footed Melissa Barbieri no chance. The goal did nothing to deflate the Matildas as Australia continued to push forward with Lisa De Vanna celebrating her 100th international appearance with her 36th goal to leave the sides level 1-1 at halftime.

The U.S. broke the deadlock in the 61st minute when Sydney Leroux

made a deep run down the wing and fed an unmarked Press in the box before Rapinoe sealed victory in the 78th minute.

“Obviously very disappointed in the result, I felt the performance was quite good for large patches of the game,” said Australian coach Alen Stajcic, whose side meet Nigeria on Friday. “I thought we had plenty of chances, especially in the first 30 minutes, I guess a couple of bits of class in the end from Rapinoe changed the game. “There are no easy games in this group and a long way to go.”

No nation will face a tougher road

to the final than those in Group D, which features three teams ranked in the top 10, the U.S. (2), Sweden (5), Australia (10) and the top African nation Nigeria (33).

The U.S. will next meet Sweden where they face an intriguing showdown with former coach Pia Sundhage, who had been in charge of the Americans for five years and led them to two Olympic gold medals and a runner-up finish in the 2011 World Cup. “It’s another opportunity to try and get some points,” said U.S. coach Jill Ellis. “It’s going to be two teams that know each other very well.” (rtr)

The bidding process for 2022 is among a number of World Cups under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for bribery allegations.

National police are probing Australia’s 2022 bid which was criticised

by FIFA’s own ethics committee last year in a summary of a major investigation into all bidders for the tournament and the 2018 finals awarded to Russia.

Local lawmaker Nick Xenophon has also called for a parliamentary

inquiry into Australia’s bid. FFA president Frank Lowy has been under pressure from local media to step down until Australia’s bid is cleared but insists the country’s bid was clean.

Australia’s sports minister Sussan Ley said last week the government could not consider committing public money toward any future bid overseen by FIFA until major reform of the governance of global soccer. (rtr)

because I still wish I was playing,” he said in a BBC radio interview.

“I cannot handle watching players getting lots of money and not putting 100 per cent in. The fans paid for my house, my car, my holidays - but I’ve seen players score a goal, even for England, and just walk back.

“There are young kids there seeing that and thinking it means nothing to score goals. I don’t like that.”

He took up that theme in an interview with the Daily Mail, saying of England’s widely criticised goalless draw with Ireland

on Sunday, “Where was the intensity? Where were the characters in this England team? Nowhere.

“I would be in the England dressing-room with Bryan Robson and Terry Butcher and they would be screaming ‘nobody comes into my house and takes anything’.”

Another England player of that era, Kenny Sansom, was reported on Sunday to be a homeless alcoholic.

Gascoigne said he tried to assist his former team-mate but added: “I can’t help him, no-one in the world can help unless he puts his hand up and says he needs help.” (rtr)

Mexican soccer star Blanco apparent winner of mayoral race Vlaar fit again for Dutch qualifier Ron Vlaar

MEXICO CITY — Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco has apparently been elected mayor of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City. Preliminary counts published Monday show the former star forward won 25.7 percent of the votes cast in Sunday’s election, well ahead of his nearest rival, who had 21.2 percent.

Blanco ran on the ticket of the tiny Social Democrat Party. The 42-year-old former national team star jumped into the campaign after retiring on April 21. He had played limited minutes off the bench for the first-division Puebla team this year, and was earlier with the Chicago Fire in the MLS.

His lack of political experience had raised doubts among some.

Known for his pugilistic playing style, Blanco was equally combative at a victory news conference.

“Now I’ve screwed them,” he said of his rivals.

Another soccer figure also got involved in Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday. National team coach Miguel Herrera, best known for his emotional sideline celebrations in the last World Cup, drew criticism for tweeting slogans supporting the Green Party.

Herrera on Sunday tweeted “don’t forget to vote, let’s go with the Greens,” and “The Greens fulfill” their promises. Green was

traditionally the Mexican national team’s color, but the “The Greens Fulfill” was a party campaign slogan.

Electoral law forbids campaigning by parties on election day, but Green Party officials say they had nothing to do with Herrera’s tweets.

Herrera was prickly and defensive about the tweets at a news conference Sunday, after the national team lost 2-0 in a friendly match with Brazil.

“I’m a human being, I’m a normal Mexican citizen, with statements that I can make in social media,” Herrera said. “It’s simply a personal situation.” (ap)

media executives for corruption.

“In the current volatile environment, FFA can give no consideration to bidding for any FIFA tournament,” the FFA said in a statement on Tuesday. “FFA has made it clear that major reform is needed. FIFA’s problems are deeprooted and tangled in a culture that has developed over decades.

“Until such time that the existing governance model is overhauled, it’s hard to imagine the circum-

stances in which FFA would put Australia forward as a bidding nation.” The FFA declined to provide further comment when contacted

by Reuters.

Australia successfully bid for and hosted the Asian Cup in January but garnered just one vote for the 2022 World Cup which was controversially awarded to Qatar, a tiny Middle Eastern country with scorching hot summers and no tradition of soccer.

IBP/net

AMSTERDAM - Fit-again defender Ron Vlaar will be available for Netherlands’ key EURO 2016 qualifier against Latvia in Riga on Friday, team officials said on Tuesday.

Vlaar trained with the Dutch team on Monday and showed no signs of any discomfort from a knee injury that kept him out of Friday’s friendly loss to the United States in Amsterdam.

His progress has been keenly followed in the wake of the 4-3 loss to the Americans which exposed deficiencies in the Dutch defence.

Vlaar is expected to start in centre defence alongside Stefan de Vrij, who also did not play in last week’s friendly. “I have had a

complete session and it went well.

I feel fine,” Vlaar told reporters.

“We want to put a line behind the loss to the Americans and turn our focus fully to the match against Latvia, where he have to win.”

The Dutch, who reached the semifinals of last year’s World Cup in Brazil, are third in Group A, with seven points from five matches. The Czech Republic lead with 13 points, one more than Iceland.

The top two finishers in each group qualify for France next year. The best third place finisher from the nine groups also qualifies while the other third place finishers play off for the remaining four slots at the finals. (rtr)

NICE, France — Six months after his transfer was blocked by French soccer authorities, Hatem Ben Arfa has finally completed his move to Nice.

The former France midfielder joined the Riviera club in January but the French league did not allow him to play because of FIFA’s rules stipulating that a player cannot appear for more than two clubs in the same season. At the time, Ben

Arfa had already played for English clubs Newcastle and Hull.

Nice said Tuesday that Ben Arfa’s move is now “official” without giving any details on his contract.

Ben Arfa, a member of the socalled “Generation 87,” a group of promising players born in 1987 that included Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri, failed to live up to expectations after leaving Lyon in 2008. (ap)

Former France player Ben Arfa signs with French club Nice

Australia will not bid for FIFA events until change MELBOURNE - Australia has shelved its bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup pending an “overhaul” of FIFA as the global soccer governing body reels from a corruption scandal.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) declared its intention to bid for the women’s global showpiece a month ago, but its failed bid for the 2022 men’s tournament has come under renewed scrutiny since the arrests of more than a dozen soccer and

9

England lack passion and character, says Gascoigne

LONDON - Former England hero Paul Gascoigne has said the current team under Roy Hodgson lack the passion he was famous for, and that he cannot bear to watch much football these days because he misses playing so much.

Gascoigne, 48, appeared 57 times for England and more than 400 times for clubs such as Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio and Rangers. He retired in 2004, struggling with alcoholism and personal problems, and is promoting this week a new documentary film “Gascoigne” about his life and career.

“I hardly try and watch games

“That was a little bit of shaky game for us, especially the first 30 minutes, Hope (Solo) came up absolutely huge for us, I think she made three saves that I don’t think anyone else in the world can make,” Rapinoe told reporters. “Three points. That’s what is most important, especially in this group that is shaping up a little weird.”

Having achieved just two draws

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

AP Photo/Tony Rivera

Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco casts his vote during mid-term elections in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Sunday, June 7, 2015. Blanco has apparently been elected mayor of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City.

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Interestingly, the property is owned and managed by local people.

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LAUSANNE — Seeking to cut into Beijing’s status as favorite, leaders of the Kazakh bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics told the IOC on Tuesday that Almaty presents the ideal choice for a “real” winter setting with plenty of natural snow.

With the vote less than two months away, Almaty leaders also portrayed their bid as being perfectly in tune with the IOC’s “Olympic Agenda 2020” reform program that calls for affordable games and maximum use of existing venues.

Almaty and Beijing made presentations at a “technical briefing” at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne attended by 85 of the International Olympic Committee’s 101 members. The closed-door presentations could be vital in swaying opinion ahead of the secret IOC ballot in Kuala Lumpur on July 31.

Each city was given 45 minutes to explain their bid plans, with another 45 minutes allotted for questions and answers. Almaty went first, followed by Beijing. Almaty’s presentation seemed to hit the right notes with IOC members, suggesting the race could become much tighter than many expected.

“I was very, very agreeably surprised,” Canadian IOC member Dick Pound said. “I think they attracted the attention of people who may not have been convinced before. It looks to me like they figured out all of the weaknesses of the competitors and they just nailed the differences — snow, water, air, experience.

“It will be interesting to see how (the Chinese) respond. Clearly Beijing must know what they are

facing. I am looking forward to the riposte.” IOC members said the Almaty presentation included many photos featuring deep snow.

Swiss IOC member Gian Franco Kasper, president of the international ski federation, said it was much better than he expected. “A year ago we said the Kazakhs are not really organized,” Kasper said.

“They really did something now.

They did a good job. They were very prepared. It’s too early to say but it’s going to be close.”

Beijing, which hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and is backed

by China’s political and economic might, has long been considered the favorite. Underdog Almaty has countered with the slogan “Keeping it Real” to set itself apart as the bid offering true winter sports tradition, setting and conditions.

The IOC released a technical evaluation report last week that cited serious challenges facing both bids, including Beijing’s lack of natural snow and heavy reliance on water reserves for snow making.

The report noted financial risks and limited experience in hosting major events for Almaty.

Almaty’s delegation on Tuesday was led by Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who said the bid is a national priority and one-in-alifetime chance to open the Central Asian country — a former Soviet republic — to the world.

“To put it simply: Kazakhstan not only wants the Winter Games, we need the Winter Games,” Massimov told the gathering, according to members inside the meeting. (ap)

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Track workers remove the car of McLaren driver Jenson Button of Great Britain during the final practice session at the F1 Canadian Grand Prix auto race in Montreal on Saturday, June 6, 2015.

Button urges Formula 1 critics to give McLarenHonda a break

Jenson Button has called on McLaren-Honda’s critics to give the team a break following its wretched start to the Formula 1 season, amplified by a Canadian Grand Prix to forget. The weekend at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve included two engine changes, and a new MGU-H and turbo charger for Button’s car before a double retirement with unrelated exhaust issues.

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A general view shows the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics bid delegation as Liu Yandong, right, Vice Premier of the State Council of China delivers her speech, during at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

A swathe of criticism has naturally followed, with many questioning whether the Woking-based team will return to the front of the grid at all this season.

Button can understand the flak in part, given McLaren’s history and heritage, but also feels it is unfounded as the reunited McLaren-Honda partnership attempts to get on top of its issues.

“The problem is when you are a team that has won grands prix and world championships you are massively under pressure, and nobody gives this team a break,” said Button.

“But when you look at the improvements we’ve made, it’s been massive.

“This is such a competitive sport and that is why we want to take part in it, and the reason why manufacturers take part in it.

“To come in two years younger than the rest of the manufacturers is a big deal, and I personally feel that we have done a great job.

“Confidence is high in the team, and Honda understands that help from McLaren is always positive and vice versa, so it’s a good partnership.

“I feel we have the package to achieve great things in the future.”

Immediately after the race, Button described the weekend as “painful” as the team appeared to take backward steps - rather than forwards as expected, on the basis of Honda using tokens to upgrade the power unit.

But as the team discovered, the car was again lacking in not only speed, but also reliability. Teammate Fernando Alonso went so far

as to say he believed he was made to look like “an amateur driver” during the race. Button, McLaren, Canada”It’s always a tricky balance; we all want to perform. We’re also pressurised to perform. You feel it,” added Button.

“It’s very difficult, especially for the young guys in the team.

Everyone is asking, ‘when are you going to win?’, so you push the boundaries.

“But we were weak in both reliability and outright pace. Hopefully in a few weeks we can solve those issues. “What happened, though, won’t hurt this team. We scored points in Monaco, which no one expected. “So we have to take the rough with the smooth and look at the season as a whole, and know we’ve improved every race.” (net)

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Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Parliament buildings on the Stormont estate in Belfast in this October 24, 2013 file photo. Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military government whose fighting with rebels along China’s border has angered Beijing.

Irritated with Myanmar, China to woo opposition leader Suu Kyi

BEIJING - Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military government whose fighting with rebels along China’s border has angered Beijing. But the visit will also be awkward for China’s ruling Communist Party which has invited Suu Kyi, as her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in jail and Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping crackdown on dissent.

Activists are putting pressure on Suu Kyi to make some reference to Liu’s detention during the visit, and if she does, it will be a huge embarrassment for Beijing. Suu Kyi will meet Xi and Premier Li Keqiang on the June 10-14 trip, according to her National League for Democracy (NLD), although China has kept details under wraps and it is not known if she will make any public appearances.

Since taking power in March 2011, Myanmar’s reformist government has sought to decrease the heavy dependence on China that grew when Myanmar was a pariah state under military rule. Beijing has watched nervously as the United States lifted some sanctions and engaged with the semi-civilian government.

But China has been keen to reach out to Suu Kyi. The NLD is expected to do well in a general election in November, the first free vote in the country for 25 years.

Suu Kyi is excluded from the presidency under a military-drafted constitution, but her power and influence will grow if the NLD performs as well as expected. The China-Myanmar relationship has

been strained this year as stray army shells from fighting between the Myanmar government and ethnic Chinese rebels killed at least five people in China’s southwestern Yunnan province in March.

Lin Xixing, a Myanmar expert at Guangzhou’s Jinan University, said China was fed up with the government ignoring their protests on the border violence. “Perhaps Aung San Suu Kyi can bring her influence to bear on ending the conflict,” Lin said, adding it was highly unusual for Xi to meet any kind of foreign opposition figure. “In any case, it will be good to have her here to get to know her and explain our policy towards Myanmar.”

Chinese state media has praised Suu Kyi ahead of her arrival, saying that with Myanmar’s democratisation the old certainties about the reliability of Sino-Myanmar ties were no longer there.

“We believe that Aung San Suu Kyi will become a good friend of China’s,” the Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, wrote in an editorial.

The official Xinhua news agency added in its own commentary that it was important Suu Kyi develop “a very thorough understanding of the special bond between the two countries”. Suu Kyi led the NLD to a sweeping victory in general elections in 1990, but the military government refused to recognize the results.

She became an international icon after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and spent most of the next two decades under house arrest where she continued to resist Myanmar’s military rulers. She was freed in 2010.

Phyo Zayar Thaw, one of the two MPs travelling with Suu Kyi, said that he did not know if issues of human rights would be raised.

Hu Jia, a Chinese prominent dissident and close friend of Liu Xiaobo, told Reuters that if Suu Kyi does not call for Liu’s release, “it will bring some degree of regret”.

“Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and in Chinese prison, there sits another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,” he said. “This is an unavoidable topic for the Chinese Communist Party and is extremely embarrassing.” (rtr)

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India says state law minister arrested for fake law degree

NEW DELHI — Police said they arrested the New Delhi state law minister Tuesday for allegedly holding a fake degree in law and registering as an attorney in the Indian capital, a move strongly condemned by the minister’s party.

Jitendra Singh Tomar faces charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forging documents, said police spokesman Rajan Bhagat. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to seven years.

According to Bhagat, Tomar said he obtained a law degree from a university in Bihar state, but police found it to be fake.

The Bar Association of New Delhi registered a police complaint against Tomar on Tuesday.

Several Indian politicians, including some in the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, face similar charges.

Tomar belongs to the Aam Admi Party, or Common Man Party, formed by anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal. The AAP won a massive victory in elections in New Delhi earlier this year, defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP. Tomar’s arrest was strongly condemned by his party leaders, including Manish Sisodia, who said police should have waited for a verdict by the New Delhi High Court, which is hearing a petition against him and has summoned university records. (ap)

Man sues Chinese actress over her intense stare in TV show

BEIJING — Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to a new concern over frivolous ones, including a man who is suing actress Zhao Wei for staring at him too intensely through his TV set.

The new regulations making it more difficult for courts to reject lawsuits took effect May 1, leading to an increase in cases nationwide last month.

The Shanghai Pudong New District Court’s litigation service hotline confirmed it had received a case against Zhao, one of China’s biggest and richest movie stars.

Reports say the lawsuit filed by a Shanghai man involves the prime-time TV show “Tiger Mom,” in which Zhao plays a bigeyed mother who relentlessly pushes her daughter. The Legal Daily said the plaintiff alleges that her staring caused him “spiritual damage.” (ap)

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From page 1 “This indicates that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan also overlaps with the forest areas. Even though Presidential Regulation No. 51 is in effect, they would in fact still be in violation of other regulations. There for it seems clear that the attempt to swap 169.95 hectares of forested area with an area outside the park, is part of an effort to streamline the agenda of the investors who want to reclaim Benoa Bay,” he said.

Similarly, Suriadi considers it improper of the Forest Agency to want to swap the area between the forest area on Pudut Island and surrounding areas that are not overgrown with mangrove forest for an area outside the area overgrown with mangroves.

Meanwhile, the area outside of the Grand Forest Park that covers an area of 238.79 hectares has been designated as a marine conservation area based on Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 and Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014.

“Why is the protected area being protected again? It must be assumed that the swap is just a strategy to exclude Pudut Island and surrounding areas from being part of the Grand Forest Park so that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will no longer be hampered by the areas status as forest,” explained Suriadi. (kmb32)

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BUSINESS G7 climate vision requires gargantuan economic shift

already vehicles running on electricity or biofuels. But fuels made from oil still dominate and it will probably be a long time before they can be substituted at a large scale in aviation and shipping, though experiments with biofuels and even solar power are underway.

Also, replacing fossil fuels to generate the intense heat required for some industrial processes like steel production isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.

That’s why many scientists and economists say demands by some environmental activists for a complete phase-out of fossil fuels are unrealistic. Instead, they say the fight against climate change will have to include efforts to capture CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and bury them deep underground where they don’t affect the climate.

The U.N. climate science panel projected last year that such technologies, which already exist at a small scale, may have to be applied to achieve negative emissions in the future, because the world isn’t expected to bring down its emissions fast enough in the near term. That could entail, for example, using biofuels for power generation and then capturing their emissions.

But even that is not without problems: large-scale biofuel crops could end up replacing food crops or threatening biodiversity.

The G-7 leaders didn’t address in detail how to resolve all these issues. In U.N. climate talks on an envisioned pact in Paris later this year, countries have a hard time agreeing on much smaller things, like whether to renew their individual climate targets every five or 10 years.

Still, the message from the leaders of the world’s most powerful developed countries is important because it’s the first time they acknowledge what needs to happen to keep global temperatures from reaching dangerous levels, said Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist and U.N. special adviser.

“It does mean in practice an enormous shift from a fossil fuel-based energy system to near-zero carbon energy sources. It’s a big deal,” he said. “Not unlike the Apollo mission.” (ap)

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Mayor orders curfew for women in Aceh’s capital

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BANDA ACEH — The capital of Indonesia’s devout Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory.

STOCKHOLM — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy, they’re talking about a shift so dramatic that one analyst described it as a new Apollo mission.

Like putting a man on the moon, it would require overcoming major hurdles related to technology and money and the political will — so far in short supply — to make it happen.

Despite gains by renewable energy sources in recent years, the world is still hooked on fossil fuels that are powering our homes and businesses and fueling our cars, trucks, airplanes and ships.

The resulting release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere keeps rising, primarily because of fast growth in China, India and other emerging economies.

CO2 emissions from fossil fuels now exceed 30 billion tons a year, according to the International Energy Agency.

What President Barack Obama and other G-7 leaders envisioned in Germany on Monday is a world where those emissions would be phased out by the end of the century.

Above all that would entail a major shift in how the world produces electricity, about two-thirds of which comes from the burning of fossil fuels, mainly coal and gas.

Scaling up solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, hydro-power and perhaps other renewable sources still to be developed is possible, but that requires policies, such as carbon taxes, that make them more competitive compared to coal or natural gas.

“We have to be honest: coal is a very, very cheap energy carrier. Therefore we need a carbon price,” said Ottmar Edenhofer, a prominent member of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate science.

Putting a price on carbon is highly contentious politically in many countries. The U.S. Senate turned down such a proposal in 2010.

Australia’s current government repealed a carbon tax introduced by the previous government.

Making renewables that depend on the weather such as wind and solar power more competitive would also require technological advances, primarily how to store energy more efficiently.

Decarbonizing the transportation sector is even more complicated. There are of course

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In this Feb. 11, 2015 file photo the logo of the HSBC Private Bank is pictured in Geneva, Switzerland. HSBC Holdings Ltd. plans to expand operations in China and the ASEAN region but intends to sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil in a restructuring and cost-cutting drive which includes a 10 percent cut in staffing, the company said Tuesday.

HSBC cutting staff by 10 percent, more emphasis on Asia

LONDON — HSBC Holdings Ltd. plans to expand operations in China and the ASEAN region but intends to sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil in a restructuring and costcutting drive which includes a 10 percent cut in staffing, the company said Tuesday.

It aims to cut costs for up to $5 billion by the end of 2017 and reduce the number of full-time employees by 22,000.

HSBC says a review on whether to move its headquarters out of London will be completed this year.

Although planning to dispose of its operation in Brazil, HSBC says it plans to maintain a presence in that country to serve large corporate clients in their international dealings.

HSBC said it plans to accelerate its investments in Asia by expanding asset management and insurance businesses in a bid to earn more profits from the region’s rapidly expanding class of newly wealthy.

In particular, the bank is planning to develop business in southern China’s Pearl River Delta manufacturing heartland in southern Guangdong province, which is next door to Hong Kong and one of the wealthiest regions in the world’s No. 2 economy. It’s also planning a similar expansion in Southeast Asia, where booming economic growth in countries like Indonesia is swelling the ranks of the middle classes.

Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital in London, said the investor update filled in some details on previously announced initiatives.

“The only piece of material new information appears to be the announcement that the company aims to reduce its risk weighted asset base by one quarter or $290 billion,” Greenwood said.

“We question whether management will be able to achieve this and deliver on its commitment to grow revenue,” he added. (ap)

Banda Aceh Mayor Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal ordered venues including restaurants, sport centers, Internet cafes and tourist attractions to not serve women after 11 p.m. unless accompanied by their husbands or other male family members.

The directive, dated June 4, also prohibits women from working in such establishments after 11 p.m.

Aceh hews to fundamentalism more so than other areas in the Muslim-majority nation, and Indonesia’s secular central government granted it the right to implement a version of Shariah law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist war. A religious police and court system have been established and the new restrictions on women are a further strengthening of Sharia in the province.

Last year, Aceh lawmakers passed a law that punishes gay sex by public caning and subjects nonMuslims to strict interpretation of

Sharia. People convicted of gambling, adultery and drinking alcohol already face caning, as do women wearing tight jeans and people who skip Friday prayers.

Ninik Rahayu from the Indonesian Institute for Empowerment of Women and Children said Tuesday that the directive is discriminatory and contrary to Indonesia’s constitution. She said the policy shows the inability of the local government to provide adequate protection for residents.

The directive also prohibits children from being at public places unaccompanied after 10 p.m.

Djamal said employing women until late at night constitutes exploitation and makes them vulnerable to sexual harassment.

“We have studied the matter thoroughly and this is in line with the labor laws,” Djamal said. “Our aim is to protect women employees, especially those working at entertainment spots.” (ap)

JAKARTA - The government will focus attention to food security ahead of the fasting month and Idul Fitri, a top security official said.

Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Marciano Noorman said roughly the security condition is favorable though attention is necessary to be focused on the security of essential good supply ahead of the fasting month and Idul Fitri.

“I reported to the president that generally the situation is under control, but things like the availability of essential goods need special

attention,” Marciano said after meeting President Joko Widodo here on Tuesday.

He said in addition to food security, transport facility need to be ready.

Every year big masses of Muslims leave Jakarta to celebrate Idul Fitri with relatives in the regions necessitating mass transport facility.

Marciano said the security apparatuses have been ordered to prevent and crack down on foodstuff speculation. (ant)

Food security in focus of government attention

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A worker mops the floor in front a billboard ad at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia Tuesday, June, 9, 2015.

Group plans challenge to bid to scrap $20 bln in fuel subsidies

PALEMBANG - Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim group plans to file a lawsuit challenging a decision by President Joko Widodo to scrap $20 billion worth of government fuel subsidies in his most radical reform since taking office last October.

The action by Muhammadiyah, a nationalist movement with about 30 million members, is the next step in what it calls a “constitutional jihad” that has successfully dealt legal blows to private participation in the oil, gas and water sectors.

The group’s “jihad” may seem outlandish and doomed to fail in a country where few question the free-market economy, yet its citizen activism has already overturned two laws.

The situation underscores the balance Widodo needs to strike in trying to attract much-needed foreign investment, while satisfying an electorate demanding more populist policies.

“There are so many economic policies in Indonesia going in the wrong direction,” Syafruddin An-

har, head of the group’s economic committee, told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in Palembang, in South Sumatra.

“Some policies are too friendly to foreign investors, giving them a chance to take everything in Indonesia.”

He gave the examples of the mining and energy industries, but did not identify specific companies.

Muhammadiyah plans to file a lawsuit in the next few months in the Constitutional Court, which is empowered to carry out constitutional reviews of legislation, challenging Widodo’s decision to abandon costly gasoline subsidies for rates based on the global market price.

Widodo took the unprecedented step on subsidies at the beginning of this year, aiming to free up funds for infrastructure and farm projects.

Government officials defended their policies, but warned that the prospect of a lawsuit could alarm investors.

“It may scare investors. It may create uncertainty,” the vice presi-

dent’s economic adviser, Wijayanto Samirin, said on the sidelines of the conference.

Last week, Muhammadiyah officials met the president and vice president to discuss the group’s concerns.

Muhammadiyah, which runs thousands of schools, hospitals, and small businesses, has identified more than 100 laws it believes violate a constitutional tenet for the state to control natural resources for the benefit of all Indonesians.

In two previous campaigns, the group has shown it can force changes in government policy.

In 2012, Muhammadiyah succeeded in crimping the government’s ability to sign contracts with private companies in the energy industry.

This year, in a case brought by Muhammadiyah, the constitutional court axed a rule allowing water permits to the private sector. That decision plunged into uncertainty businesses from textiles to beverage bottling. (rtr)

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VAR stock still limited, people asked to avoid wild dog bites

SINGARAJA - Prevention of rabies victim in the community is intensified by the government of Buleleng through the increase in the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) stock. A number of people flock to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency after they are bitten by a wild dog or their pet dog. Communities worried about rabies that can threaten their life after previously hearing a young man that died at Pacung village alleged to be caused by rabies due to dog bite.

A total of seven residents of Buleleng came to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency, Monday (Jun. 8) to get an injection of antirabies vaccine. One of them is Sukra Dewi from Celuk Buluh hamlet, Kalibukbuk, Buleleng, who escorted her son Putu Andrean Pratama, 7, after being bitten by a stray dog.

“I have been going around looking for VAR at pharmacies but I could get nothing. My son was bitten by a wild dog when playing on the beach.

The bite happened today and he is directly injected with anti-rabies vaccine,” said Sukra Dewi.

Chief of the Buleleng Health Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Mahapra-

mana, explained that the last antirabies vaccine stock in Buleleng remains 59 vials. Recently the agency has distributed a total of 80 vials to Pacung village, and seven others to patients coming to the office of the Buleleng Health Agency. “This year we have 5,600 vials of vaccine for human, included in the main re-

gional budget through three times of deliveries to the Buleleng Hospital.

The first delivery amounted to 1,500 vials, the second delivery to 2,000 vials and in the next two weeks will be resumed with the third delivery.

During the period of a year, we usually require 12,000 vials. They are entirely subsidized as much as 50 percent by provincial budget, and the remaining by county budget,” said Mahapramana.

Other than centered at the Buleleng Hospital, delivery of the vaccine also targets a number of health centers in the subdistricts. It is meant

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A child is injected with VAR after bitten by a dog.

to make people have closer access.

The vaccine is given through a system of injection in right and left arm and then continues as directed by treating doctor. In the meantime, poor people from outside Buleleng remain to be considered to get the vaccine injection. “Should there be any poor people from outside Buleleng, we still provide them with the vaccine. Vaccine administration has been available at the Banjar and Seririt health center as well as at the office of the Buleleng Health Agency through the Buleleng Emergency Service (BEC),” he said.

Mahaprama urged the public not to be panicky against dog bites considering that not all bites are given antirabies vaccine. It happens because pet dogs have a high level of sanitation, and better care than wild dogs. Virus of dog bites will quickly die by soap and antiseptic treatment. “We remain to make epidemic investigation on rabies in the community,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Buleleng Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, asserted that synergy of the rabies eradication through mass vaccination has been conducted from May to July this year. The target is stray dogs amounting to 56,000 heads with the number of vaccine reaching 36,000 vials for dogs. “We have just noted that 9,500 dogs have got mass vaccination. It is in appropriate with the stages through coordination process in rural areas and seeing the zonation map with red categories being infected with rabies,” he said.

The red zone of rabies in Buleleng lies in the area of Banjar subdistrict such as Munduk, Gobleg and Gesing to Tejakula (Tejakula subdistrict). If the vaccination has been completed, it will be resumed to green zone. “The rabies vaccine for dogs is entirely free. Out team members in the field will work based on priority schedule. We urge people to avoid dog bites, and must be careful while playing with dogs,” said Swatantra. (kmb34)

SMEs participating in BAF drops by 50 percent

TABANAN - Hampered by rental price considered being expensive and being unable to submit the requirements on time, many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tabanan are disqualified to participate in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). The active SMEs from Tabanan or those renting a booth decreases by 50 percent compared to last year.

It was presented by the Head of the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Wiryawan, Monday

(Jun. 8). Actually Tabanan gets the allocation for 15 active SMEs, but most of the proposed SMEs have disqualified and resigned. It happens because they do not dare to take risk and fear of suffering losses considering the rental price of booth at the BAF has doubled compared to last year’s price. Some participants are disqualified because they submit requirements too late. As a result, of the 15 allotments for active SMEs, Tabanan is only able to send five SMEs consisting of two

kebaya fashions, two blacksmiths and one silversmith.

Wiryawan admitted that active SME representatives showed a decline at least by 50 percent compared to last year, where in 2014 Tabanan sent eight SMEs. “In the past, we were not rationed, but we proposed as much as possible,” said Wiryawan.

In addition to active SMEs, Tabanan also sends passive SMEs. In other words, the SMEs obtain funds from Regional Craft Council

(Dekranasda). “They get funds to hire a booth as well as the institution helps organize the booth and provide the attendant,” said Wiryawan.

For passive SMEs, they do not require any selection process due to having been appointed directly by the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency. The passive SMEs include the ones getting assistance from the Industry and Trade Agency and newly developing entrepreneurs.

“The five passive SMEs include a shirt painting, kris maker, black-

smith producing machete and shell crafts,” said Wiryawan He continued that participation in the BAF is not just to gain an advantage but also to get longterm effects, where the orders of products to the SMEs will continue and get additional customers from the event. “There will be an impact on the SMEs participating in the BAF. By all means, there is an increase in the orders after participating in the BAF,” he said. (kmb24)

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11 weeks after Germanwings crash, victims’ remains head home

PARIS — The first victims’ remains from the Germanwings crash will be flown from France to Germany on Tuesday, about 11 weeks after the disaster that killed all 150 people onboard.

Dozens of victims’ relatives from the March 24 crash in the French Alps have been awaiting the return of the remains. In the first repatriation, 44 coffins were expected to be flown from Marseille to Duesseldorf, Germany.

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South Korean elementary school students wear masks as a precaution against the MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus as they attend a lesson at an elementary school in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

South Korea says its deadly MERS outbreak may have peaked SEOUL — South Korea believes its MERS virus outbreak may have peaked, and experts say the next several days will be critical to determining whether the government’s belated efforts have successfully stymied a disease that has killed seven people and infected nearly 100 in the country.

The biggest outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outside the region where it was first seen in 2012 was introduced to South Korea last month by a 68-year-old man who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and other nearby countries.

When he got sick after his return to South Korea, he visited several hospitals and clinics, where dozens of other patients and hospital workers were infected before officials found he had MERS. Gradually, the government began isolating victims and quarantining those who’d had contact with them.

There has been widespread fear here of the poorly understood disease, which has no vaccine and as much as a 40 percent mortality rate. There also had been growing criticism over failures by health workers and the government to initially recognize and quickly contain the disease.

Nearly 3,000 people have been placed in isolation and 2,200 schools closed in South Korea. Although MERS spreads through close contact with sick people, not through the air, many people here have avoided going to crowded places like baseball parks and movie theaters. Travel agencies report a sharp increase in the number of foreigners canceling plans to visit South Korea.

The outbreak, however, has so far been contained in hospitals and there’s no evidence, the U.N. health agency says, of “sustained transmission in the community.”

Authorities say the first MERS patient didn’t reveal his Saudi Arabia trip to doctors until he arrived at the Seoul-based Samsung Medical Center after being treated at three other hospitals, including St. Mary’s Hospital in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul. Samsung and St. Mary’s have seen most of the country’s infections.

The initial patient’s wife, who was the country’s second MERS case and is now out of the hospital, recently told a local TV station that her husband didn’t intend to hide information about his travels, but simply had trouble talking to doctors because of his high fever.

Because the virus’ incubation period is estimated at five to six days on average, extending up to about two weeks, experts believe there won’t be any more cases directly infected by the first patient.

The Health Ministry said that no more MERS cases have originated from St. Mary’s Hospital.

There are still concerns about Samsung Medical Center, where at least 37 people have been infected, although fewer cases have been reported there in recent days. (ap)

Germanwings’ parent company Lufthansa has chartered a plane to bring the coffins to Germany, and has said that other remains will be repatriated by month’s end.

Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for families of 34 victims, said many relatives “don’t want to realize that their children are dead. It will be brutal when they see the coffins tomorrow, but it is necessary, because they need closure.”

Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of depression, intentionally crashed the A320 flying from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf.

The office of Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, who is leading a French investigation into the crash, said that he will hold a news conference on Thursday after meeting in Paris with victims’ relatives. The victims had 19 different nationalities. Nearly half were German, and 47 were Spanish.

Robin’s office said he was expecting 300 to 400 people to attend the closed-door meeting at a Foreign Ministry conference center in southwest Paris, including relatives and officials representing families who weren’t traveling to Paris.

The family of two Australian

victims, Carol Friday and her son Greig, won’t be attending, said her brother, Malcolm Coram. Coram visited the crash site about a month ago, and told The Associated Press it was simply too far to return again so soon.

Coram said he wasn’t sure when Carol and Greig’s remains will be returned to Australia, but he expects it would be sometime before August. He said the family has been happy with the way that Germanwings and authorities have been communicating with them. “We get treated very well,” he said. “What’s done is done for us — we just sort of want it to end.” (ap)

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FILE - In this March 26, 2015 file photo, rescue workers work on debris of the Germanwings jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. Dozens of relatives of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps are awaiting the return of remains of their loved ones, roughly 2-1/2 months after the disaster killed all 150 people on board.

Egypt court sentences 11 to death over 2012 soccer riot

CAIRO — A criminal court in Egypt’s coastal city of Port Said has sentenced 11 people to death over a 2012 soccer riot that left more than 70 dead and several hundreds injured.

Tuesday’s verdict came at the end of the retrial of 73 defendants

in a case that sparked deadly riots in 2013 in Port Said, prompting then-President Mohammed Morsi to declare a state of emergency in the city.

Also Tuesday, the court sentenced 40 defendants to up to 15 years in prison and acquitted the

rest. The verdicts can be appealed.

The February 2012 riot began at the end of a league match in Port Said between Cairo’s al-Ahly, Egypt’s most successful club, and home side el-Masry. It was Egypt’s worst soccer disaster and among the world’s deadliest. (ap)

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Apple wants a lead role in streaming music

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads. Now the maker of iPods and iPhones wants to carve out a leading role in a revolution well underway, with a new, paid streaming-music service set to launch this summer.

With millions of listeners already tuning in to streaming outlets like Pandora and Spotify, analysts and music-industry sources say Apple has been gearing up to launch its own service, aimed at winning back some of those customers and nudging longtime iTunes users into a new mode of listening.

Apple is expected to announce the service at its annual conference for software developers, which kicks off Monday in San Francisco. In a keynote session, CEO Tim Cook and other executives are also expected to show off new features in Apple’s operating software for iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers, as well as tools for building new apps for the Apple Watch. Analysts also expect enhancements to the mobile-payment service known as Apple Pay. The world’s biggest tech company makes most of its money from selling handheld gadgets, like the popular iPhone, and other computer hardware. But Apple uses its annual World Wide Developers Conference to highlight the software, online services and apps that make those devices indispensable to consumers around the world.

Along with a new music service, industry experts had been expecting Apple to announce a new streamingvideo package and upgrades for its Apple TV service. But that may be delayed, according to reports by the New York Times and the tech blog Re/code, which said Apple is still negotiating with broadcasters and isn’t ready to announce the video service.

That puts the spotlight on Apple’s music initiative. Analysts say the company needs to build a robust streaming business if it wants to maintain its central role in the popular-music ecosystem. Most recordings today are still sold through digital stores like iTunes, which opened in 2003. But those sales have declined, while streaming services are rapidly gaining subscribers and revenue.

“Streaming media is increasingly important to the computer-using experience, so it’s important for Apple to have a role there,” said Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin.

About 41 million people globally now pay for streaming music from Spotify, Deezer and other outlets, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which says subscription revenue grew 39 percent last year to $1.6 billion. Overall download sales fell 8 percent to $3.6 billion.

Apple Inc. bought the Beats

headphone maker and music streaming service for $3 billion last year, but publishers’ data confirmed by royalty tracking company Audiam shows Beats Music had just 303,000 U.S. subscribers as of December, compared to 4.7 million in the U.S. for market leader Spotify.

While Apple wouldn’t comment last week, a person familiar with its plans said Apple has an ambitious goal to sign up 100 million subscribers for a new streaming service that will cost $10 a month and compete with other on-demand services such as Spotify and Rhapsody. Beats users will be migrated over before

eventually closing down, and buyers of songs and albums on iTunes will also be presented with the option to purchase a subscription instead.

Along with a lengthy three-month free trial period for the paid service, the company also plans to bolster its free offering, iTunes Radio, with a live online radio station featuring DJs like former BBC host Zane Lowe and artists Pharell, Drake, Muse and David Guetta.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations between the company and record labels were private.

“They are very late to the game on

streaming,” said analyst Van Baker at the Gartner research firm. But he said Apple can still catch up by making it easy for iPhone owners to use the new service. That’s a huge pool of potential customers: Apple sold 61 million iPhones in the last quarter alone.

Aside from music, analysts expect Apple will tout improvements to other services like Apple Pay and Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant for iPhones and iPads. Apple has also hinted it will release programming tools for its new smartwatch.

Most apps available for the Apple Watch are extensions of apps that run on the iPhone. Independent appbuilders like Jordan Edelson, CEO of Appetizer Mobile, are hoping Apple will release the code to build apps that interact directly with sensors and controls on the watch.

“That would let us build some really cool experiences,” added Edelson, who said it could make the watch more appealing to consumers who aren’t sure now if they need one.

Edelson also predicted Apple will introduce software that ties other products more closely together, such as apps that make the iPhone into a controller for television sets and other appliances.

That’s a smart strategy, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.

“Once you start organizing your life around Apple products, you’re less likely to ditch your iPhone and go over to Android,” he said, referring to the competing technology from Apple’s rival, Google. (ap)apps specifically for the watch and interact directly with the watch’s sensors and controls, such as the dial.

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Kevin Lynch, Apple vice president of Technology, speaks about the Apple Watch at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. Apple says app developers will be able to make

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Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, speaks about music at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and iPhones announced Apple Music, an app that combines Beats 1, a 24-hour, seven-day live radio station, with an on-demand music streaming service.

Indian consulate general to organize mass yoga

DENPASAR - The Indian Consulate General in Bali Amarieet Singh Takhi said a mass yoga would held in this capital city of Bali to coincide with the Wold Yoga Day on June 21, 2015.

“Mass Yoga activities would be held at the Bajra Sandhi Renon square in Denpasar, expected to involve around 8,000 participants,” Amarieet Singh Takhi said on Tuesday.

He said similar activities would also be held in other cities in the country such as Jakarta, Medan and Surabaya, to involve thousands of lovers of the Indian religious sport.

The mass yoga would be held at the same time not only in a number

of cities in Indonesia but also all over the world under the auspice of the United Nations, he said.

Amarieet Singh Takhi said the mass yoga would involve various circles, from the government institutions to schools, and leading universities in Bali.

“I was just told that the planned activities are welcome enthusiastically by those regularly practice yoga in Bali, therefore, we believe the number of participants would exceed our

earlier estimate,” he said.

Yoga is a religious sport widely practiced not only Hindus but also people of other faiths, he said.

Yoga has become a universal activity to create physical and spiritual harmony.

“Yoga is not just a sport but it serves more to maintain balance in mind toward creation of peace spiritually and physically a dream of everybody in the world,” Amarieet Singh Takhi said. (ant)

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US citizen facing jail term for drug abuse

DENPASAR - A U.S. visitor to Bali Scott Wikoff Odowd (31) is facing jail term for drug abuse in the tourist island.

Prosecutor Ni Wayan Yusmawati in a trial on Monday demanded a 12 months jail term for Odowd, who was found in possession of 3.10 grams of marijuana.

Odowd, who was nabbed in his hotel room in February, 2015 told the court he bought the drug from someone identified as I Wawayan Janu, who was still at large.

Presiding judge Indria Miryani said the accused failed to appreciate the government’s endeavor to eradicate drug crime. (ant)

Pandanus war tradition is not a ‘fighting’ arena AMLAPURA - Tenganan Pegringsingan village in Karangasem was thronged by thousands of visitors, Monday (Jun. 8). They were busy witnessing the mageret pandan or pandanus war tradition. This annual event always attracts public attention, although the implementation of this tradition has much shifted from the essence of the actual ritual held at the village. Why can this deviation happen amid the implementation of pandanus war of Tenganan Pegringsingan having been well known to foreign countries?

At first glance, implementation of the pandanus war is so exciting and thrilling. Just imagine that the so sharp thorns of pandanus leaf are rubbed on the facial skin, neck to back to get torn and be bloody. Originating in a ritual, this pandanus war tradition has also become a spectacle so that it is eagerly awaited by the community from outside Tenganan Pegringsingan having come from the morning. However, the local community leader, Nyoman Sadra, feels apprehensive about the implementation of the tradition through the years. Met on the sidelines of the event, this former legislator of Karangasem considers that implementation of the pandanus war tradition has far deviated from the original.

Sadra added that such deviation has occurred since the past ten years. He recalled that in the past the tradition was not implemented like the current one.

It was always preceded by a dance in a joyful atmosphere. Formerly, the implementation of pandanus war was filled with attack techniques to minimize injuries due to pandanus scratch. “The pandanus war was difficult to hurt the opponent. When getting injured at first, it would result in extraordinary shame,” he said. Thus, the implementation was much more exciting and thrilling.

In addition, the shield on left hand, he said, may not be released when being attacked or attacking. One thing

making him most upsetting is that the pandanus war in the past did not generate emotional impression on the two fighters. However, the current pandanus war even impresses an emotion in the eyes just like fighting man.

Further it is exacerbated by the implementation of the tradition under the influence of liquor. Actually, the pandanus war is essentially not an expression of emotion but a ritual in honor of Lord Indra, the god of war.

He sees that the pandanus war today is just like wrestling that promotes muscular strength, not the cunning of brain. It no longer pays attention to the techniques as early implementation of this tradition established at Tenganan Pegringsingan village.

He acknowledged that this situation will be increasingly difficult

to be changed. So, he hands it over entirely to each individual in order to get back to the original tradition. In the meantime, one of the six chiefs of Tenganan Pegringsingan customary village, Wayan Yasa, said that as a Hindu sect specifically adhering to Lord Indra, this tradition poses a manifestation of the teachings of Lord Indra better known as the god of war.

Pandanus war, he said, is a kind of the most sincere yajña or holy sacrifice at the expense of human blood.

“If we do not carry out this tradition, according to local belief, something bad will happen to our village.

On that account, this tradition remains to be preserved so far,” he said.

Pandanus war is carried out in a series of the aci usaba sambah at Tenganan Pegringsingan. The war is

carried out twice, namely on Monday (Jun. 8) at Bale Patemu Kaja and on Tuesday (Jun. 9) at Bale Patemu Tengah with the addition of a stage performance. The second day of the pandanus war is also known locally as pengrame sambah. Yasa estimated that the event on the second day (Tuesday) will be attended by more people. Crowded spectators watching the pandanus war tradition this year are inseparable from the atmosphere of school holidays. Unfortunately, among the crowded spectators some fell unconscious because of shortness of breath. One of the victims is Komang Krisna Maharani who was fainted while watching the pandanus war tradition with her family. This student of the SMPN 2 Amlapura junior high school already got first aid from local

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Balinese fighters combat with sticks wrapped in thorny pandanus leaves during a village festival ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, June 8, 2015. Once a year, during the ritual tournament festival, men of the village fight each other with wads of thorny pandanus leaves as part of a sacrifice to placate the evil spirits.

medical team before she ultimately got her consciousness.

In the meantime, a number of residents participating in the pandanus war tradition said that they are so happy to take action. Putu Kurniawan and Putu Ariada, for instance, said that even though their body is full of thorn scars of pandanus leaves, they claimed not to feel painful. Later on each injury will be treated with sanctified drugs. It has been prepared a month before the pandanus war tradition by local girls.

Many residents wanted to get involved in this tradition because they believe if it can cure various diseases, where the mala or impurities will go out with their blood. (kmb31)

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Cocktails and adulterated liquor not the same thing

DENPASAR - The Directorate of the Bali Police Narcotics Division, searched the Sky Garden discotheque and secured hundreds of litres of alcohol. The Sky Garden staff said that the alcohol in question is made into cocktails with clear proportions of the ingredients and not adulterated liquor which is mixed in random dosages of ingredients that can includes things such as methanol.

“We’re still waiting for the results from the forensics laboratory. If no violations are found, the evidence can be returned. Its alcohol content is still being examined,” said Spokesperson for Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, on Monday (Jun. 8) when asked for his confirmation about developments of the case.

Hery said that the measure of police enforcement must be accompanied with the results of investigation and complete evidence. “It should be done according to clear procedures.

There must be no parties that are harmed,” he said.

A member of the Indonesian Bartenders Association, Aulia Dahlan, revealed that adulterated liquor is clearly different from cocktails. “A cocktail has clear recipe for its mixtures. Besides the bartender must know about the content of alcohol and does not mix the drink arbitrarily,” said Aulia.

There are standard benchmarks used by all the bars and club and every bartender has leaned them and implements them at work. “These standards are meant to avoid ingredients from clashing with the type of alcohol. All bartenders know the cocktails and understand the proportion when mixing, so it is not done haphazardly,” said the Food and Beverage Manager of Swiss-Belhotel Kuta.

“Adulterated liquor is blended without particular recipes or doses and may include inappropriate ingredients,” he said.

Aulia pointed out that the beverage known as a long island ice tea is a mixture of whiskey with sweet tea. “It has a warranty because every bar has its own permission from the government. The blending is done at the bar so that customers feels comfortable and safe. Besides, while the drink is being blended it is sometimes accompanied with an attraction to draw the interest of consumers,” he said.

A similar explanation was given by academic, I Gusti Agung Nyoman Winda: “a cocktail is a beverage with a particular name and has a specific dose and method of manufacturing and preparation,” he said.

Winda confirmed that cocktails, which are served in glasses, are mixed according to particular provisions including the dosage according to the order. “Thus, it is clear that cocktails and adulterated beverages are very different,” said the lecturer from the International Bali Tourism Institute (STPBI).

As reported, members of the joint personnel of the Directorate of Bali Police Narcotics, Mobile Brigade and Public Service searched the Sky Garden Discotheque on Jalan Legian, Kuta, on Tuesday (Jun. 2). As a result, the team secured hundreds of litres of liquor. In addition, three employees in charge of blending the liquor were arrested. (rah)

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In Badung, price of foodstuff increases

MANGUPURA - Price of several foodstuffs begins to soar in Bali ranging from IDR 800 to IDR 2,000. The surge in prices ahead of Galungan coinciding with the celebration of the Eid happens to some commodities like onion, eggs and sugar.

The increase in prices of the basic necessities has been seen from the monitoring made by the Badung Cooperatives, Trade, Industry and SMEs Agency during April 3 through May 26, 2015.

“Indeed, the price of some basic necessities is increasing, but not

so significant. The price hike only happens to domestic sugar, chicken, eggs, carrots, onions and large chili,” said the Head of Badung Industry and Trade Agency, Ketut Karpiana, Monday (Jun. 8).

The Agency noted that the price of onion rose as much as IDR 2,000, from IDR 36,375 to IDR 38,375; large chili rose by IDR 1,500 from IDR 18,125 to IDR 19, 625. Domestic sugar is sold for IDR 11,000 to IDR 11,875. Chicken meat cost IDR 32,500 to IDR 33,000, broiler egg at IDR 1,213 to IDR 1,500; and carrot at IDR 6,750 to IDR 7,375

per kilogram. “Every Tuesday, we will continue to monitor this price increase so that we can detect what causes it,” he said.

By that way, it is expected that ahead of the feast the prices of foodstuff will not go up drastically, despite showing an increase. It will be coordinated with relevant authorities in order to be resolved together. “We estimate there will be an increase in the price of fruit ahead of Galungan and Kuningan. But we remain to monitor the price of goods so that there will be no hoarding of goods,” he said. (kmb27)

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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 “umbul-umbul”, 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. sor for at least 12 months.

“Winning the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence is a true source of pride for the entire team at EDEN Hotel Kuta Bali and we’d like to thank all of our past guests who took the time to complete a review on TripAdvisor,” said Mr. Chamkhia Mohamed Ali, General Manager at EDEN Hotel Kuta Bali. “There is no greater seal of approval than being recognized by one’s customers.

With the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence based on customer reviews, the accolade is a remarkable vote of confidence to our business

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Caitlyn Jenner sued again after deadly car crash

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Britain’s Prince Harry, right, backstage with Tony Bennett, left, and Lady Gaga, centre, pose for photographs after Bennett and Lady Gaga’s performance as part of the Cheek to Cheek Tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Monday, June 8, 2015.

Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett perform at Prince Harry charity fest

LOS ANGELES - Olympic champion turned transgender reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner has been sued again in connection with a February car crash in Malibu in which a 69-year-old woman died.

Talent agent Jessica Marie Steindorff filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking unspecified damages related to the four-car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in the Los Angeles metro area.

Jenner, 65, walked away from the accident uninjured, but in addition to the woman who died, four others were injured, including Steindorff.

The former Olympic decathlete then still known as Bruce Jenner was driving a large SUV that collided with a smaller white car that then swerved into oncoming traffic.

The stepchildren of the dead woman, Kim Howe, also have filed suit seeking unspecified compensation over the crash. She died on impact when her car was struck.

Jenner was pictured at the scene in sunglasses and a baseball cap standing upright with no obvious injuries and was driven away in

a police cruiser following the accident.

Jenner became an American sports setting a world record with his Montreal decathlon victory in 1976.

But it was through his marriage to the former Kris Kardashian that he once again became a household name with the reality TV series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” in which he appeared as the sometimes bemused stepfather of her flamboyant daughters.

The couple wed in 1991 and have two daughters together, Kendall and Kylie. Bruce and Kris Jenner are recently divorced. He has said he struggled with gender issues throughout his life.

Jenner’s photo on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July issue by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz set off a media sensation when it was released last week, making him an instant cultural icon.

The Olympian will follow up on her public coming-out as a transgender woman with a docu-series on E! television next month about her transition. (afp)

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Forestry Agency denies they are re-protecting conservation area

DENPASAR - The Bali Forestry Agency has apparently issued a mediocre response to a letter of protest that WALHI filed some time ago. The letter of protest was sent in regards to the Bali Forestry Agency’s plan to change the status of the Grand Forest Park -Tahura on May 27, 2015. WALHI Bali alleges that the change in status is simply a ruse on the part of the government to pave the way for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

The Forestry Agency plans to swap Pudut Island and surrounding area (which belongs to the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park -Tahura) with an area outside of Tahura. If that were to happen, Pudut Island and surrounding areas will automatically fall under L3/P zoning, which would mean that it could be reclaimed according to Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

“We don’t have a problem with the letter. We have simply explained that everything is being done in accordance to regulations,” said the Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranatha, who added that he has already responded to the letter of protest sent by WALHI. Wiranatha recognizes that Pudut Island (and surrounding areas) as well as the area outside Tahura

is part of the conservation areas.

However, Pudut Island and the surrounding area cannot be planted with mangroves, while the area outside the Tahura can be, so that it thereby can qualify as a forest area. He denied that the swap is being done to protect an already protected area.

“Both areas are requiring conservation; the difference is that one area is located inside the forest while the other is located outside (the forest). Since the area in question has plants, it becomes the domain of forestry and will be better -more strictly protected if it is designated as forest, except for those areas where there are no plants which will not be (the

domain of the Forestry Agency— Ed),” he explained.

Once again, Wiranatha denied that the plan was an attempt to pave the way for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He argued that he has known that the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park was long before the plan for Benoa Bay reclamation.

“Grand Forest Park has its own rules that are very specific. Long before people were talking about reclamation, we already knew that the Grand Forest Park was damaged. Our vision has to do with technical matters, there are no other aspects,” he emphasized.

Earlier, the Executive Director of WALHI Bali, Suriadi Darmoko, assessed that the plan to swap Pudut

Island and surrounding areas with the area outside the forest area is just a way to change the status of Pudut Island and surrounding areas which together cover some 169.95 hectares of forest. If Pudut Island and surrounding areas are designated a “P Zone” or cultivated area as set forth in the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014, then this area could be reclaimed.

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LONDON — Hundreds gathered outside Britain’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday, hoping for a glimpse of Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett — and another notable personality, Prince Harry.

The pop stars came to support a charity backed by Harry that helps seriously ill British children receive quality medical care. Bennett and Lady Gaga, who collaborated on the jazz album “Cheek To Cheek,” lavished praise on the prince.

“Your mum was a good friend of mine,” Bennett said of Harry’s late

mother, Princess Diana. “I did many benefits with her.”

“That’s fantastic,” Harry replied.

Harry, patron of the WellChild charity, hosted a reception for its supporters and for nurses and families. They were given seats in the Royal Box for the performance.

Harry, who is winding down a decade-long military career, will be devoting more time and energy to his charitable activities. The royal, who is fifth in line to the throne, plans to spend the summer working with animal conservation groups in Africa, which he has described as a long-held dream. (ap)

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This 2015 image provided by courtesy of E! shows Caitlyn Jenner in the first official promotional trailer for the new documentary series, “I Am Cait,” in Southern California. Jenner has been sued again in connection with a February car crash in Malibu in which a 69-year-old woman died.

Boats busy taking passengers to Pudut Island.

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