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‘Spectre’ shoots to $73 million, misses ‘Skyfall’s’ mark

LOS ANGELES — It took the combination of James Bond and Charlie Brown to save the box office after a disastrous few weekends of flops. Both “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” reinvigorated moviegoers who turned out in droves to check out the new fare, including buzzy limited-release titles like “Spotlight.”

“Spectre” took an easy firstplace spot with an estimated $73 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday, to become the second-biggest Bond opening of all time. The 24th film in the 53-yearold series stars Daniel Craig as the dapper spy and cost a reported $250 million to produce.

Domestically, “Spectre” failed to live up to the record-breaking standard set by “Skyfall,” which debuted to $88.4 million in 2012 and went on to become the first film in the franchise to earn over $1 billion worldwide.

“We never expected it to open to the level of ‘Skyfall.’ It was a very dif-

ferent scenario. The competition was different, the weekend was different,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution. “One thing I am certain of is that the Bond franchise is as healthy and strong as ever.”

Distributor Sony, who co-produced the film with Eon Productions and MGM, tried to manage expectations going into the weekend, predicting an opening in the $60 million range.

“It’s still a great number,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst. “For a franchise that’s over 50 years old, it’s really an astounding achievement.”

“Spectre’s” worldwide take is a

different story. The film opened No. 1 in all 71 territories and earned a total of $117.8 million. It has earned a whopping $300 million worldwide in less than two weeks and still has yet to open in a few major markets, including China.

Stateside, though, reviews have been mixed, and “Spectre,” unlike “Skyfall,” had competition in its first weekend in theaters with another beloved set of characters — Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

“The Peanuts Movie” provided a family-friendly alternative to James Bond’s guns and martinis and took second place with a strong $45 million. The film cost around $100 million to make.

Audiences, 70 percent of whom were families, gave “The Peanuts Movie” a strong A CinemaScore, suggesting that word of mouth will be strong for the animated pic. (ap)

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Forest succumb to pressure of development

Life in Bali under threat

BALI currently has 130,686 hectares of forested area, approximately 20 percent of the land area of the island whereas legislation mandates that at least 30 percent of the island remain forest. The rapid development of building projects is in large part to blame for the degradation of Bali’s forests.

“Examples of projects built on previously forested lands included the geothermal plant built in the protected forests of Bedugul, villa development in the Dasong forest and accommodation development in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park.

The two latter projects have fragmented the forest in terms of both quality and quantity,” said environmentalist, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, in Denpasar recently.

The Bali Mandara Toll road is another example of encroachment on forested land, added Gendo. Reduction in the amount of forested land also affects the quality of existing forests as zoning laws are changed, which is allegedly due to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“Such examples would indicate that the Government of Bali does not have a clear system for forest management or if it does, it is clearly not running properly,” said Gendo.

Jonathan Olley

In this image released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, Monica Bellucci, left, and Daniel Craig appear in a scene from the James Bond film, “Spectre.”

The movie releases in U.S. theaters on Nov. 6, 2015.

Justin Bieber says ‘Sorry’ again - in Spanish

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NEW YORK - Pop idol Justin Bieber is finding a new way to say “Sorry” -- in Spanish. Two weeks after releasing the hit single, Bieber on Friday put out a new “Latino remix” of “Sorry” that features the Colombian reggaeton star J. Balvin.

Bieber, a prolific social media user, announced the bilingual mix with a video on Instagram showing him on the phone with Balvin.

The two ran into each other in July at the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Los Angeles, where Balvin was seen on camera teaching Bieber the word “parcero” -- Colombian Spanish slang for “dude.”

“What’s up, ‘parcero’?” Balvin asks Bieber in Spanish on the new video, adding, “Hey, I love the new song ‘Sorry.’ It’s brutal and the women love it.”

Bieber, sporting a baseball cap in what appears to be a hotel room, replies in English, “Yeah,

Latina girls are gonna go crazy.”

The remix starts off as the original version of “Sorry,” with a smooth tropical-house beat as the 21-year-old Canadian superstar sings in English, “I know that I let you down / Is it too late to say I’m sorry now?”

Balvin then sings and raps his own original verses in Spanish. The theme goes along the same lines, with Balvin saying: “I just want you to forgive me / If you and I can’t be / Forget everything, I’m going to fail.”

Since its release, “Sorry” has drawn speculation that Bieber is singing about his past relationship with fellow former teen star Selena Gomez or more generally about his personal travails that have kept him in the tabloids.

“Sorry” was the second single off Bieber’s first album in three years, “Purpose,” which comes out on November 13. (afp)

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The local tourism industry has incurred losses worth around Rp45 billion due to the impact of Mount Barujari’s eruption in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara Province, according to the Bali tourism office.

Bali tourism suffers IDR45 billion losses due to volcanic eruption

KUTA - The local tourism industry has incurred losses worth around Rp45 billion due to the impact of Mount Barujari’s eruption in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara Province, according to the Bali tourism office. “(Frequent) closures of the airport caused losses amounting to some Rp45 billion,” Head of the Bali tourism office Agung Yuniartha stated on Monday.

Until the morning of Nov. 9, some 25 thousand foreign tourists had cancelled their visit to Bali as the airport had been frequently closed since Nov. 3.

The Bali tourism industry was significantly affected since the tourists had to cancel their hotel bookings.

“Overall, the tourism industry has suffered losses in revenue.

There were cancellations of hotel room reservations. The loss is estimated to reach US$1.5 thousand on a daily basis,” he affirmed.

A total of at least 700 flights were cancelled due to the airport being closed several times.

Re-opened State-owned airport operator PT Angkas Pura I has reopened the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, after it was closed on Sunday due to volcanic ash from the erupting Mount Barujari in neighboring Lombok, West Nusa Tenngara.

“The airport has resumed operations starting 6:45 a.m. Central Indonesian Standard Time because the Barujari volcanic ash has blown away from Bali according to the meteorology office,” Co-General Manager of PT Angkasa Pusa I of the Ngurah Rai airport I Gusti Ngurah Ardita said.

The airport operator and regulator, the meteorology office and other concerned institutions will make an hourly evaluation to see the weather pattern, according to him.

The airport authorities have issued a notice to airmen (Notam) No. C-2527/15 regarding the airport’s reopening.

The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali was closed again from 09.45 p.m. on Sunday as

volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Barujari moved in the direction of the resort island.

The closure has been notified to all flight personnel, Sherly Yunita, spokesperson of state owned company PT Angkasa Pura I which operates the airport, said on Sunday.

“Notam number A2524/15 has been issued,” Yunita said.

In its website on Sunday, the airport also announced the closure.

“Because of the matter, all flights from and to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport have been cancelled until further notice,” she said.

Earlier, the Bali airport authorities closed down the airport on Tuesday and decided to extend its closure period until Friday morning.

However, the airport resumed operations on Thursday afternoon after it was declared normal to operate. The decision to reopen the airport was also based on the fact that the airport was clear of any volcanic ash.

Despite being reopened on Thursday at 02.30 p.m. local time, the airport has not been operating fully, with 19 international flights being cancelled on Friday. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Gendo went on to explain that forest management were in fact under the jurisdiction of customary villages who manage their fresh independently based on local values.

“For examples, Bangli has bamboo forests, while there are bamboo forest in Bangli, while Tenganan Pegringsingan village and Sangeh village have village forests, Padangtegal has a monkey forest etc. Ironically, the government that has taken charge of Bali’s forests is relatively ignorant about forest preservation compared to these villagers,” he said.

Gendo also explained that when the amount of forested areas in Bali falls under 30 percent, environmental balance is threatened and forests cannot function as they should, and that water sources are therefor also threatened. We are seeing the consequences now as 50 of Bali’s watersheds have been severly damaged, some have even been destroyed he said while emphasizing that damage to watersheds is directly related to the condition of Bali’s forests.

“Although excessive water consumption is certainly another contributing factor, there is no doubt that the poor condition of Bali’s forests is also a major cause for the water crisis that Bali now faces. Considering the ever-increasing amount of human activity and global warming, we cannot afford to have the amount of forested areas in Bali fall under the minimum requirements,” he said.

Manager of International Conservation for the region of Bali, I Made Iwan Dewantama, confirmed that that the fact of Bali’s forested areas having fallen short of minimum standards has caused an increase in the number of areas in Bali that are considered to be in critical condition. Land in critical condition is caused by a reduction in forest

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KUTA - As one of Accorhotels brand that appreciates art in every aspect, Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana is proud to present the Pullman Exhibition “Lifetime”, collaboration with international contemporary artist, Mickael Obrenovitch. Mickael is a French artist who is passionate about wood, essentially in the artistic movement of organic sculpture.

After the success of his Human Roots collection, Mickael continued his quest for the meaning of life, focusing his work on the effect of time on wooden surfaces as a mirror of life. The result is a beautiful mix of smooth carved lines in symbiosis with the natural effect of erosion. According to Mickael Obrenovitch, Lifetime is, “The period of time during which someone is alive or something exists.” The collection consists of 16 magnificent artworks. It is a silent discussion with kemboja (frangipani) wood dried for more than 20 years on the ground and enhanced usuing Balinese carving techniques. This unique collection was created in 2015, and it is the artist’s latest

production.

These wooden sculptures are ready to welcome loyalty guests and partners in the lobby, garden, and in our public area corridors. They are open to all to admire and are also available for purchase for those who love art. The exhibition will run from 8 December 2015 to 6 March 2016. Offering both avant garde art and unsurpassed hospitality, Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana invites you to experience Mickael Obrenovitch’s magnificent creations.

Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana is excited to be a part of the inspiration for hotel guests, the artist, and also the art itself. We encourage you to come, see, and bring the art into your sanctuary.

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tourists visited Monkey Forest at Gianyar, Bali Island. Bali currently has 130,686 hectares of forested area, approximately 20 percent of the land area of the island whereas legislation mandates that at least 30 percent of the island remain forest.

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Established in green belt

Butterfly Park threatened with closure Chairman of Commission III, A.A. Gede Agung Wiramantara agreed with Artawa adding that other than the issue of the violating green belt regulations, this newly opened business has not paid their taxes. The House of Representatives will also recommend the closure of other businesses committing similar violations. The recommendation of the parliament related to this matter will be delivered through a common view of each faction in the next plenary session.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

“Lifetime” by Mickael Obrenovitch

as forests plays a vital function in sustaining the people of the island of the gods.

“Forests ensure that rain water seeps into the ground instead of washing directly into the ocean and thus work in tandem with natural reservoirs like lakes. It is therefor imperative that the government makes sure that eh remaining 20 percent of forests not be jeopardized,” said Dewantama.

Issues related to forests and issues related to water are interrelated and official data has already shown that the condition of Bali’s water supplies is very worrying. Dewantama’s own research on subaks (Balinese irrigation cooperatives) also showed that nearly 50 percent of Bali’s subak are already facing water shortages despite their having been named a world cultural heritage that must be protected.

“The government must be able to convey the extent of forests that are really covered by trees at this time, both inside and outside of forest areas. I see more and more land outside of forested that is in critical condition.

In other words, many community gardens that are planted with large trees such as durian are then converted into coffee plantation or planted with vegetables,” he said.

Dewantama also said that the government needs to begin to pay attention to these community gardens even though they are on privately owned land. Moreover, the provincial government has now been given full authority to manage forest area under regional government Law No. 23/2014. (kmb32)

GIANYAR - In a recent meeting of the Gianyar House of Representatives concerning the licensing of the Butterfly Park at Kemenuh came under fire.

According to Chairman of the Commission I, Nyoman Artawa, the Butterfly Park clearly violates the spatial regulations that forbid licenses to be issued for projects within a green belt. Strangely an license was apparently issued, because this tourist attraction is in operation within a green belt. “Therefore the government has no choice but to close down this business that has already received a reprimand from the Municipal Police,” he added.

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Interestingly, Deputy Chairman of the Gianyar House of Representatives, Made Togog expressed a different point of view. He denied that there will be recommendations made by each faction regarding the Butterfly Park. He argued that the meeting only discussed the general budgetary policy (KUA) and priority of provisional budgetary limit (PPAS) 2016. “We only discussed the general budgetary policy and priority of provisional budgetary limit. As for the

Butterfly Park only Commission I has made any recommendations, not the other factions of the House. The matter should be discussed first,” he said.

When asked about the green belt licensing violation at the Butterfly Park, Togog said that the matter needs further study and the regent and related agencies need to be summoned to obtain more detailed information.

“It still needs clarification,” he said. (kmb25)

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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.

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Roots of shade trees disrupting sidewalks and drainage

DENPASAR - Shade giving trees are a must in urban areas and Denpasar is no exeption. Unfortunately, some shade trees have caused damages to infrastructure such as sidewalks as seen on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar.

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A surfer walks along the shore in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Large swathes of Shanghai, Mumbai, New York and other cities will slip under the waves even if an upcoming climate summit limits global warming to two degrees Celsius, scientists reported Sunday.

Megacities hit hard by surging sea levels even at 2C rise

PARIS - Large swathes of Shanghai, Mumbai, New York and other cities will slip under the waves even if an upcoming climate summit limits global warming to two degrees Celsius, scientists reported Sunday.

A 2 C (3.6 Fahrenheit) spike in Earth’s temperature would submerge land currently occupied by 280 million people, while an increase of 4 C (7.2 F) -- humanity’s current trajectory -- would cover areas lived on by more than 600 million, the study said.

“Two degrees Celsius warming will pose a long-term, existential danger to many great coastal cities and regions,” said lead author Ben Strauss, vice president for sea level and climate impacts at Climate Central, a US-based research group.

Sea level rises corresponding to these 2 C or 4 C scenarios could unfold in two hundred years, but would more likely happen over many centuries, perhaps as long as 2,000 years, according to the

research, published by Climate Central.

Capping the rise in Earth’s temperatures to 2 C above preindustrial levels is the core goal of the 195-nation UN climate summit in Paris from November 30 to December 11.

The most effective way to slow global warming is to slash the output of the greenhouse gases which drive it.

But even if emissions reduction pledges -- many of them conditioned on financial aid -- submitted by 150 nations ahead of the Paris summit are fulfilled, it would still put us on a pathway for a 3 C (4.8 F) world, the United Nations has warned.

Achieving the two-degree goal

remains a serious challenge.

Strauss and colleagues apply on a global scale the same methodology they used for a recent study that focused on temperature-linked sea level rise in the United States, published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That study concluded that both Miami and New Orleans are doomed to crippling impacts.

In the new report, the country hit hardest by sea level rise under a 4 C scenario is China.

Today, some 145 million people live in Chinese cities and coastal areas that would eventually become ocean were temperatures to climb that high.

Four of the 10 most devastated megacities would be Chinese: land occupied today by 44 million people in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong and Taizhou would be underwater.

India, Vietnam and Bangladesh

do not fare much better. All told, Asia is home to 75 percent of the populations that today reside in zones that would no longer be classified as land in a climate-altered future.

Thirty-four million people in Japan, 25 million the United States, 20 million in the Philippines, 19 million Egypt and 16 million in Brazil are also in future 4 C seascapes.

While the 2 C scenario is also grim, limiting warming to that extent would spare China and other nations much misery, said Strauss.

“There is a world of difference between 2 C and 4 C, which threatens more than double the damage,” he told AFP. “We have a very large choice ahead of us.”

The sea level rise corresponding to 2 C would eventually be 4.7 metres, and for 4 C almost double that, the study found.

The projections are based on climate models taking into account the expansion of ocean water as it warms, the melting of glaciers, and the decay of both the Greenland and West Antarctic icesheets.

Timing is harder to predict, Strauss said: “It is easier to estimate how much ice will eventually melt from a certain amount of warming than how quickly it will melt.”

Normally a study of this nature would be published by a peerreviewed journal, as was the earlier research on the US. In this case, however, Strauss felt that the new results should be taken into account ahead of the crucial climate summit in Paris.

“These findings seemed too relevant to COP21” -- the 21st Conference of the Parties, the official name for the UN climate meeting -- “to risk that they be published afterwards,” he said. (afp)

In response to this condition, member of Hanura Faction, I Made Gede Arya Jembawan, revealed that the matter needs to be handled immediately suggesting that the shade giving trees be replaced.

He said that the proposal has also been presented in the report of the recess to the leadership so that it can be followed up by relevant agencies. During his recess with the members of parliament from the Hanura faction in the Denpasar House of Representatives a few days ago, a number of communities at Tainsiat, North Denpasar, expressed their desire to have the trees replaced.

According to Jembawan, the shade giving trees are not only damaging sidewalks but also causing damage to drainage systems which will be a major problem in the rainy season as flooding is sure to occur.

“Therefore, we expect this issue can be followed up on,” he said.

The Hanura faction also hopes that the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency will water

urban parks during the dry season.

If possible, the volume of water designated for watering these plants should be increased because the plants are suffering bur to the prolongs dry season.

Member of the Golkar Faction, I.B. Mayun Komala Putra, hopes that the damages to the sidewalks on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar can be repaired immediately because the damage is very dangerous for pedestrian. “At some points I see the sidewalks are no longer suitable for pedestrians.

They should be immediately repaired,” he said. (kmb12) Shade giving trees are a must in urban areas and Denpasar is no exeption.

Unfortunately, some shade trees have caused damages to infrastructure such as sidewalks as seen on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar.

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HIV/AIDS cases in Bali

Productive age people the worst hit

DENPASAR - Cases of both HIV/AIDS and drug drug addiction in Bali are becoming more common and more complicated. Based on the data of the Bali Health Agency, HIV and AIDS case was first discovered in Bali in 1987. Since then there have been a total of 12, 667 recorded cases on the island - that’s an average of 120 new cases a month.

“Transmission of the disease does not only happen amonst high-risk groups such as sex workers, IDU (injecting drug users—Ed), homosexuals, prostitutes or customers, but also to housewives, teenagers, children and toddler,” said Deputy Governor of Bali, Ketut Sudikerta.

Based on their data, Sudikerta said that more than 80 percent of HIV/AIDS cases strike productive age people and sexually active people between the ages of 14-49 years old. Junior and high school students and the labor force fall into this age range. Modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS are risky or unprotected sex, sharing use of needles contaminated with the HIV virus and by mother to baby.

“HIV is not transmitted by shaking hands, hugging, or by living or working with people who are infected with HIV and AIDS,” he explained.

The government of Bali has a policy of coordinating meetinsg with the regents and mayors across Bali so as to improve and promote the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN) at schools and AIDS village cadres (KDPA) throughout Bali’s villages.

Chief of the Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, said that 4,974 of the 12,667 HIV/AIDS cases in Bali are found in the city of Denpasar. And 38 percent of the cases occur with people between the ages of 20-29 years. HIV transmission is therefore taking place with school age people because the incubation period of the disease is five to ten years.

IBP/File Photo “To reduce the transmission rate of HIV/AIDS amongst young people, the The file photo shows young people held peaceful demonstration during World AIDS Day. government has to take concrete measures such as by the establishing KSPAN in Cases of both HIV/AIDS and drug drug addiction in Bali are becoming more common junior high, high schools and vocational schools. This KSPAN can provide complete and more complicated. Based on the data of the Bali Health Agency, HIV and AIDS case information to the younger generation about how to prevent the transmission of was first discovered in Bali in 1987.

HIV/AIDS and the hazards of drugs,” he said. (kmb32)

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Jembrana contributes to national program

YANGON, Myanmar — Voices rang out in unison Monday, as hundreds of jubilant people gathered outside the opposition party headquarters where images of Aung San Suu Kyi were being shown on large-screen TVs. Results from Myanmar’s historic election were still not final, but opposition leaders were convinced of success and their supporters were celebrating.

NEGARA - Nawa Cita AKA the nine goals initiated by President Joko Widodo are a strong foundation for improving people’s welfare. One of the national goals is to realize economic independence by supporting strategic sectors of the domestic economy. One of these is the agricultural sector whose products- especially rice, are absolutely necessary. national program successful.

Although Jembrana, produces a surplus of rice, they are still trying to increase production.

Wiratma hopes that the agricultural tools delivered to the subak will be used well. Artha also warned subaks about land conversion. “Do not just say that you will refuse land conversion but in practice, if land is still productive, recommendations for issue permits to convert the land should not be given. We need to be consistent about this,” said Artha.

Apart from providing agricultural tools, the government of Jembrana had also previously implemented a development program to optimize 1,500 hectares of land in 20 subak areas, developed intensive rice growing on 200 hectares in four subak areas, repaired irrigation channels at 40 subaks bult trenches in 21 subaks, rehabilited farm pathways at 12 subaks and dug shallow land irrigation at 14 subaks.

Farmer, Komang Suartama from Baluk admitted that he was

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A farmer is showing the paddy that is just being harvest. very pleased with the help that has been extended. He himself received assistance in the form of a rice transplanter. “With the help of

this tool we can work more easily and hopefully draw the interest of the younger generation in farming with more sophisticated tools that

make the job easier. Up until now the younger generation has been reluctant to farm,” said Suartama. (kmb26)

Taman Ayun Temple at Central Badung As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi

Taman AyunPura Taman Ayun is a beautifully apointed temple, with its own surrounding moat, in the village at Mengwi, Badung Regency, 18 Km. West of Denpasar. The history of this temple is closely associated with the begining of the Rajadom of Mengwi, in 1627 B.C. it was built in 163-1AD. at the time at the rule of the first Raja of Mengwi. I Gusti Agung Ngurah Made Agung, who later become known as Ida Cokorda Sakti Belambangan.

As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi. This temple is a place to worship the Royal ancestors, who find their rest in a special shrine known as the “Gedong Paibon”.

Following the Pattern of most Balinese temples, Pura Taman Ayun has three connecting temple yards. The innermost sanctum is knows- as “Utama Mandala” (the highest circle), the middle yard as. “Madia

Mandala” (the circle in between) and the outer as “Nista Mandala” (the humblest circle). The enter the main sanctum one must pass through a raised Gate- way, known as the Kori Agung (Paduraksa), and the gate- way between the outer and middle connect in a split gate, known as “Candi Bentar”.

Apart from the “Gedong Paibon”, dedicated to one ancestor, the middle courtyard are other shrines dedicated to the various main temples of Bali. These shrines were built by the 5 Raja to ensure that his Kingdom and people would be able to share in the prosperity and fertility of the nation, and also to enable all the people at Mengwi; to conduct the religious ceremonies at the temple, such as “meajar-ajar”, memendak sang Pitara” and to request holy water to protect the rice fields from pestilence, etc.

There is also another shrine on the middle courtyard dedicated to the “Pasek Badak” famous here of by gone days from the Raja’s troops. The extensive temple grounds of Taman Ayun also function as a resting place for the Royal family. Covering 4 Hectares of land. The temple is surrounded by a large most, which used to be full of loins and lily flowers of all color, and around the edges of the moat can be found frangipani, cempaka, kenanga & other pcrftiined flowering trees, as well as mango stein, durian, manggo rambutan fruit trees.

The temple has always been strongly influenced by the ups and downs at the Raja dom of Mengwi. ln l890 here was a war between the Rajas of Badung and Mengwi, and the I0 th. Raja Mengwi “I Gusti Made Agung” lost the battle, and had to retreat to escape with life in to the bordering eastern

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An ecstatic nation awaits Suu Kyi’s historic election win

Prevent land conversion, optimize rice production In line with this goal, the government of Jembrana is working through the subak (Balinese irrigation cooperatives) in order to prevent the conversion of productive land and to optimize rice production. To help reach this goal, the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha gave out agricultural tools to irrigated subaks, on Friday (Nov. 6), at the Bung Karno Cultural Hall (GKBK) Jembrana. The tool included: 33 two-wheeled tractors, ten water pumps and four rice transplanters.

The handing out of equipment was witnessed by Commander of the 1617/Jembrana Military District Sansan Iskandar, Regional Secretary of Jembrana Gede Gunadnya and a number of agency heads in Jembrana. Head of the Jembrana Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, said that these agricultural tools are tailored to the needs of this subak. According to Regent Artha, the agricultural implements given out by the government, are meant to contribute to optimizing rice production in Jembrana and help make the

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district. During the rule of the victorious Raja of Badung the temple was never looked after properly, and the temple buildings deteriorated due to lack of care. ln the year 1911 AD, part of the Royal Family returned to their family seat at Mengwi, and Pura Taman Ayun was restored. However on 20 th, January 1917 a violent earth-quake damaged many of the existing buildings. Repairs have been done in stages to return the temple to its original condition.

The odalan at Pura Taman Ayun falls every 2l0 days on a day known as “Selasa Kliwon Wuku Mendangsia”. Many tourists used to visit the temple, even, before the Second world War. The family of Puri Gede Mengwi still maintain the temple. Assisted by a committee made up of the lokal traditional leaders, such as the village officials from the Mengwi District.(btn)

Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party holding banner cheer as they watch the result of general election on an LED screen outside the party’s headquarters Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar.

“She’s the people’s leader who the whole world knows,” the crowds sang. “Write your own history in your hearts for our future so the dictatorship will end. Go, go, go away dictatorship.”

From street vendors to intellectuals to former political prisoners who suffered torture and imprisonment, pro-democracy supporters were jubilant at the idea of a Suu Kyi victory, and the weakening of a

military-backed regime in a country where iron-fisted generals have held sway for half a century.

Even some pro-government voters hailed Sunday’s general election, if only in hopes that a

new government would bring improvement to their lives in one of the world’s most impoverished nations. Celebrations were occurring across the country, but enthusiasm probably ran highest around the headquarters of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in Yangon, where her spokesmen said the party was headed for a landslide victory. Final official results are not expected until Tuesday at the earliest.

Even some foreign tourists got caught up in the atmosphere, posing for photographs after donning T-shirts and headbands with the NLD’s “fighting peacock” logo.

“I think Mother Suu will win.

She must win,” said Thet Paing Oo, a 24-year-old fruit seller, referring to the leader with an affectionate term that many people here use.

“There will be more freedom in our country if the NLD wins. Our country will be better. Our lives will be better.”

While not without problems, the election appeared to have passed generally freely. “This election has given the people an opportunity to voice their will, and the groundswell of people’s support provides some sense of solace for the people who have suffered and made sacrifices for the past 30 years,” said Ko Ko Gyi, a former student leader and one of thousands of people imprisoned during the military’s rule.

Journalists and monitors were even given access to voting on a

vast military base in Naypyitaw, the capital city that is home to most military leaders and top civil servants. Even in Naypyitaw, some supporters of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party said they hoped the election would bring change and a better future.

A soldier’s wife, 31-year-old Lu Ti, said she liked both current President Thein Sein and Suu Kyi, who was “also good in her own way.”

Political analyst Yan Myo Thein said he was “very happy with the election outcome,” adding that he now hoped for a smooth transfer of power. The junta annulled the results after Suu Kyi swept the polls in 1990.

The military relinquished formal power in 2011 when Thein Sein, who chairs the USDP, began some tentative reforms. But many in Myanmar view him as a puppet of the still-powerful generals.

Even with a commanding victory, the NLD will have its work cut out in Parliament, where 25 percent of seats are reserved for the military. Suu Kyi herself cannot become president since a constitutional amendment bars anyone with a foreign spouse or husband from holding the position. Suu Kyi’s late husband was British, as are her two sons.

Suu Kyi has insisted, though, that the constitution will not keep her down if the NLD wins, saying she will “be above the president.”(ap)

Outrage builds as dozens of Iraqis electrocuted in floods BAGHDAD — Mohammed al-Qurayshi’s only son, Hassan, searched back and forth through CCTV footage to find the 12:30 p.m. mark on Oct. 31.

The video showed grainy images of two of his older sisters carrying bags of garbage through the garden and across the street. Fatima, 14, was dressed in deep blue and Rosul, 15, wore turquoise. It was then, just around the corner from their home, as they waded through a flooded street, that they were both electrocuted and killed — Fatima first, then Rosul, as she reached out to help her sister.

“These are their death certificates,” the elder al-Qurayshi said, holding out a pair of thin pink slips, noting the written cause of death was electrocution but that “the true cause of death is the Ministry of Electricity and the municipality.”

The Iraqi Ministry of Health said

69 people have died across the country over the past two weeks, due to a combination of the country’s dilapidated electrical grid and heavy rains that overwhelmed sewer systems.

Many died in their homes as they waded through flooded first-floor rooms. Others, like the al-Qurayshi sisters, were electrocuted in the city streets where electrical lines are haphazard and jerry-rigged, connecting homes to the municipal grid and a network of generators. Most homes in Baghdad only receive nine to 14 hours of electricity a day from the government. While the rainy Iraqi winter has only just begun, this year’s death toll is already higher than last year’s, when fewer than 60 were killed by electrocution amid widespread floods.

“We don’t expect there to be more killed by electrocution,” said a Baghdad municipality official, speaking on condition of anonymity because

he was not authorized to speak to the media. “We’re taking the needed measures to control the rain and improve infrastructure.”

Inadequate infrastructure was one of the rallying cries behind countrywide protests over the summer that succeeded in pressuring Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to propose sweeping reforms. But in the months that followed, many of the government shake-ups have languished in parliament and while protests have dropped off, public anger has not.

As news of Fatima and Rosul’s death circulated on social media, an outpouring of sympathy and anger followed. One comment from a fellow Baghdad resident read in ironic frustration: “When people are suffering in the summer heat, the government doesn’t give us electricity and then when it does give us electricity, it kills.” (ap)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 photo, a relative points at CCTV footage of Fatima Mohammed, left and her sister Rosul before their death by electric shock outside their house in Baghdad. Iraqi.

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Dollar rallies on US jobs as China IPOs trump trade data

HONG KONG - A forecast-busting surge in US jobs last month sent the dollar surging against emerging market currencies Monday while more weak trade data out of China compounded fears about the struggling Asian economic giant.

However, Shanghai was at an 11week high on news China will restart initial public offerings this month, indicating authorities are becoming more confident in the market after a summer rout that wiped trillions off valuations.

And Japan’s Nikkei rallied two percent -- adding to a three-day winning run that has seen it hit a twomonth high -- as the yen retreated

against the dollar.

The chances of the Federal Reserve hiking US interest rates shot up after Friday’s employment report, fuelling worries of a flight of capital from Asia to the United States as well as higher borrowing costs strangling investment.

The US Labor Department said the world’s biggest economy created 271,000 net new jobs in October,

almost twice as many as September, while the unemployment rate fell to a seven-and-a-half year low of 5.0 percent.

The figure easily outstripped expectations and tempered fears that a slowdown in the world economy, particularly in China, had spread to the US. Investors immediately jumped on the figures to bet on a Fed rate hike next month. Talk of the so-called liftoff by the US central bank had been tempered in recent months following a string of weak data from Washington and in light of China’s ongoing

malaise.

But Shane Oliver, Sydney-based strategist at AMP Capital Investor, said the latest report “supports the case for a December Fed rate hike”.

Fed chief Janet Yellen earlier this year said she expected a rise before 2016, albeit incremental, as the US economy get back on track.

And Oliver told Bloomberg News: “The Fed is unlikely to do anything to threaten global growth and this in turn should help see the global economic recovery continue.”

The news sent the dollar surging in New York on Friday, hitting 123.16

yen against 121.66 earlier in the day in Asia, while the euro plunged to a sixmonth low $1.0707 from $1.0886.

On Monday in Asia it was at 123.35 yen while the single currency was up at $1.0768.

The weaker yen helped Japanese exporters, pushing the Nikkei index up 2.0 percent by the close.

And against emerging currencies the greenback rallied on expectations dealers will shift their investment focus out of developing countries, with Indonesia’s rupiah, Malaysia’s ringgit and South Korea’s won particularly hurt. (afp)

World Bank: Climate change could result in 100 million poor

STOCKHOLM — Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.

Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming is borne unevenly, with the world’s poor woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts.

“They have fewer resources and receive less support from family, community, the financial system, and even social safety nets to prevent, cope and adapt,” the Washingtonbased World Bank said.

How to help poor countries — and poor communities within countries — deal with climate change is one of the crunch issues in talks on a global climate accord that’s supposed to be adopted next month in Paris.

Those who say that rich countries aren’t doing enough to help the poor said the report added emphasis to demands for billions of dollars in so-called climate finance to developing countries.

“The statistics in the World Bank report are suitably shocking and I hope they force world leaders to sit up and take notice,” said Mohamed Adow of Christian Aid. “The Paris deal needs to support the poor and vulnerable communities to cope with unavoidable climate crises better, and to be more resilient to a changed climate.”

Despite pledges to rein in emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases, climate change isn’t likely to stop anytime soon. Carbon emissions are expected to rise for many years as China, India and other developing countries expand the use of fossil fuels to power their economies.

But efforts to protect the poor, such as

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The Hindus are parading during a ceremony. The Balinese treathen to be marginalized by external forces so precautions must be taken.

DENPASAR - A traveler from Perth, Australia named Christine, was bitten by a monkey during her visit to Monkey Forest Ubud, on Thursday (Nov. 5).

While looking for an anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) at Sanglah Hospital, on Sunday (Nov. 8), she recounted that the incident occurred when she was about to take a drink of water, and a monkey snatched at her. An attendant tried to seize the monkey which made the animal nervous and he so he bit the Australian’s ankle. Although the management of the tourist attraction di not tell her to get vaccinated, after a few days of having been bitten some told her that it would be best if she got vaccinated.

“Yes, this is the first injection of the anti-rabies vaccine that I have received,” she said. It is not known whether the monkey that bit her is still alive or not. Christine is asking the management of the Monkey Forest tourist attraction to provide better information to all who visit. (kmb42)

Balinese people becoming marginalized

Team IX of PHDI must make appropriate decisions

TABANAN - According to Bali spiritualist, Brahmana Guna Awatara Dasa, the nature and people of Bali have become marginalized by external forces. Without immediate handling, Balinese people will could become severly marginalized and mear spectators in their homeland.

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In this file photo dated Thursday, April 23, 2015, an Indian worker dismantles an old car amid heaps of scrap in Bangalore, India. Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday Nov. 8, 2015. generally improving access to health care and social safety nets, and targeted measures to upgrade flood defenses and deploy more heat-tolerant crops could prevent most of the negative consequences of climate change on poverty, the bank said.

“Absent such good development, climate change could result in an additional 100 million people living in extreme poverty by 2030,” the report said.

Stephane Hallegatte, one of the authors,

told The Associated Press that one of the unique features of the report was that instead of analyzing the macro-economic impact of climate change it was based in part on surveys of 1.4 million people in 92 countries.

“When we ask people why they fall into poverty there are three major factors,” he said. “Agricultural shocks, including an increase in food prices; natural disasters such as floods, droughts, storms; and health issues,

including malaria, diarrhea.”

The report referred to studies showing climate change could result in global crop yield losses as large as 5 percent by 2030 and 30 percent by 2080. It also referenced studies showing warming temperatures could increase the number of people at risk for malaria by 150 million.

Hallegatte said the “hotspots” for climate impacts on poor people were sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. (ap)

Indications of marginalization have already started to appear. For instance, only very few Balinese people are engaged in the tourism centers that have become the pride of Bali. A similar situation has also occurred in the agricultural sector.

Currently, many paddy field labourers are not Balinese. “A lot of agricultural land has been sold and nature has started to break down.

If this continues the destruction of Bali is certain,” he said.

Therefore, this spiritualist and environmentalist said that the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) as the highest assembly of the Hindu organization in Indonesia governing religious and social matters, has to think seriously about taking measures to prevent damage from continuing to be inflicted on Bali’s natural environment.

“At the moment, the PHDI is forming a Team IX, to address this phenomenon. The decisions that this team of nine people formulates

should not be arbitrary,” he said, adding that if they make the wrong decisions, the Hindu community’s trust in the PHDI will certainly weaken.

The cohesiveness of the people of Bali also needs to be well maintained in order to be able to work together to preserve Bali’s natural environment. We must all work together. “If every Balinese person rejected the offers of investors that want to harm Bali, then these investors would have no power,” said the former member of the sabha pandita (advisory council of the Central PHDI).

Awatara Dasa admitted that this challenge that Bali is facing today is in part caused by the fact that Balinese people are too friendly and permissive allowing anyone who wants to invest here to do so without going though a sorting process.

“We should be looking at the track record of anyone wanting to invest here to determine whether

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The locals is using the water from the rice field for their daily needs. Due to the long period of drought, many villages in Bali is suffering from the lack of water. they are just looking to turn a profit without any care for nature or without providing any contribution to the local communities. Obviously if this is the case, then their investment should be rejected,” he explained.

Another challenge to preserving

the natural environment of Bali is the consumerism that has taken a hold amongst the Balinese as a result of global tendencies in this direction. Awatara Dasa invites all people to not indulge themselves in worldly things. “As humans, we should be content with what we

have and not be greedy. We should live a simple and modest life. I believe that there are still many people in Bali that have a conscience that tells them to work together to maintain the natural environment of Bali so that that it is not destroyed,” he concluded. (kmb24)

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Croatian opposition conservatives win general election

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia’s conservative opposition has won the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013, but without enough votes to rule alone and with tough government negotiations looming.

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Opposition leader Tomislav Karamarko celebrates his coalition’s winning of majority of votes, in Zagreb, Croatia, early Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Croatia’s conservative opposition is leading in an official preliminary vote count against the ruling center-left coalition in the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013.

The state electoral commission said Monday that with 99 percent of the vote counted, the conservatives, led by former intelligence chief Tomislav Karamarko, won 59 seats in the 151-seat parliament.

The ruling Social Democrats, led by incumbent Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, got 56 seats.

The result means both blocs have failed to win an outright majority and the forming of a new government will depend on several small parties that entered parliament.

The kingmaker will be the thirdplaced party, Most, or Bridge, with 19 seats. Milanovic called on Most leaders to start negotiations on the forming of a new government.

Before the election, Most lead-

ers pledged they wouldn’t enter a coalition government with any of the big parties, but may give them support in parliament if they offer to carry out radical political, social and economic reforms.

“I don’t believe that either of the big parties will agree with our reform proposals,” Most leader Bozo Petrov said.

Zarko Puhovski, a political science professor, said that if Most sticks to its pre-election pledges, it “heralds minority government or new elections.”

According to the constitution, Croatia’s president must consult parliamentary parties and nominate a prime minister-designate who gains the support of the majority of lawmakers. If the prime minister-

designate fails to form a new government within two months, new elections are called.

“I believe that we will have a new prime minister-designate soon,” said President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, a conservative.

The election Sunday was held amid a huge migrant surge through Croatia and deep economic woes facing the country.

The vote represented a revival for Karamarko’s conservative Croatian Democratic Union party, which led Croatia during its war for independence from the Serb-led Yugoslavia in the 1990s and then dominated its political scene for years. Its popularity plummeted after a series of corruption trials against top officials.

Grabar-Kitarovic’s presidential election victory earlier this year was a clear sign that Croatia was shifting to the right after the center-left bloc’s four-year rule. (ap)

PARIS — UNESCO’s General Conference has begun debating whether to admit Kosovo as a member in the U.N. cultural agency in a heated vote that’s dividing countries along old battle lines.

Kosovo has been recognized by 111 countries since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Russia, Serbia’s close ally, has blocked Kosovo from becoming a full U.N. member.

To win UNESCO membership, Kosovo must get at least two-thirds of all votes cast after Monday’s debate, excluding abstentions.

Kosovo has promised to protect cultural heritage of Serbs. But Serbia has warned that allowing Kosovo into UNESCO would fuel tensions and hurt a U.N.-brokered dialogue aimed at normalizing ties between the former war foes.

The U.S. delegation supports Kosovo’s bid but no longer has voting rights in UNESCO over a funding flap. (ap)

COLOMBO — The foreign minister of the Maldives said Monday that a monthlong state of emergency declared by the president last week may be lifted early.

Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said by phone from the Maldives’ capital, Male, that the emergency was declared in the face of an unprecedented security threat, but that information from defense officials gives hope that it could be reviewed in the coming days.

The decree last Wednesday came after a Sept. 28 blast aboard President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s boat that authorities called an assassination attempt. The explosion was followed by reports that an arms cache and a homemade bomb apparently targeting the president had been found.

“I am quite confident it would be less than one month,” Maumoon said. “I think from the information I have from the defense and others, we hopefully will be able to attend to this very quickly in the coming days and we hope to see the revoking of the situation.”

The state of emergency, which has given vast powers to security forces and police to search and arrest suspects and suspended important citizens’ rights, has brought widespread local and international criticism.

Maldivian lawmakers voted Vice President Ahmed Adeeb out of office using the emergency regulations. Authorities suspect that Adeeb was behind the alleged attempts on Gayoom’s life, and he has been arrested and detained.

The Maldives, known for its many luxury island resorts, has had a difficult transition to democracy since holding its first multiparty election in 2008. (ap)

Lino testifies as witness in alleged graft case

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Mary Jane Veloso (C), a Filipino on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking is seen at Wirogunan Prison in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on November 09, 2015. Mary Jane was given a temporary reprieve just hours before she was due to be executed in April 29, so she could act as a witness during the trial of her alleged human trafficker. Eight men were killed by firing squad that day.

Indonesia hopes Myanmar’s elections would support ongoing reconciliation process

UNESCO Maldives says state begins divisive of emergency may debate on be lifted early Kosovo membership

JAKARTA - The government and people of Indonesia are optimistic that Myanmar’s elections on Sunday (November 8) will support the ongoing process of reform and reconciliation in the country, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson stated.

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Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon sepals with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015.

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“We hope the election results will be accepted by all sides and can serve as a platform for the ongoing process of reform and reconciliation in Myanmar,” Foreign Affairs Ministry’s spokesperson, Arrmanatha Nasir, remarked on Monday.

Nasir noted that Sunday’s elections, which ran smoothly and had a high voter turnout, reflected the same spirit for reformation in both the government and the people.

“Therefore, we laud this democratic process,” he affirmed.

More than 30 million people voted on Sunday, in what is expected to be the most free and fair general elections in the country’s history.

As many as six thousand candidates from 93 political parties, who are running for 1,142 seats in the national, regional, and state parliaments of Myanmar, took part in the elections.

The two largest parties --- the military-backed ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the opposition National League for

Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi --- competed for votes alongside a multitude of smaller parties.

Myanmar’s Election Commission is expected to announce the results six times a day from November 9, and the Commission Chair to hold daily news conferences on November 9-15 in Nay Pyi Taw. Although the elections had been lauded as a free and fair event, but some concerns were also raised by NGOs regarding the disenfranchisement of up to 80 thousand Rohingya residents in Rakhine state.

According to state media, five of the country’s 330 townships did not also hold elections due to security concerns. (ant)

JAKARTA - PT Pelindo II President Director R.J. Lino honored the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) investigators’ summons on Monday for questioning as witness in a graft case involving fixed crane-type loading and unloading equipment’s purchase.

“Later, I should come in,” Lino stated when questioned by several journalists at the Bareskrim office on Monday.

Lino expressed his readiness to undergo interrogation.

“I am ready to testify as a witness,” he noted.

Earlier, during a two-month-long investigation, the police had uncovered irregularities in the procurement of 10 cranes in 2012 worth Rp45 billion.

The cranes were scheduled to be sent to eight seaports across the country by this year, but none had arrived.

The investigators discovered that most of the seaports did not need any new cranes.

Meanwhile, the investigators have questioned 24 witnesses in connection with suspected corruption in the procurement of 10 mobile cranes by PT Pelindo II. The investigators also seized documents in relation to the purchase of the 10 cranes and a notebook.

Earlier, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli had criticized Lino during a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Special Committee (Pansus), which is probing alleged corruption in the state-owned port operator.

Rizal criticized the system of management and financial performance of the company under Lino.

He pointed out that Lino had bragged about profits recorded by Pelindo II when the company was not even included in the list of 20 state companies recording the largest profits.

“He (Lino) claimed to have chalked up the largest profits, which is not true. Pelindo II is not among the 20 state companies reporting high profits,” Rizal informed members of Pansus.

He clarified that Pelindo II ranked behind PT KAI (state railway company), which posted Rp591 billion in net profit and pawnshop Pegadaian, with a profit of Rp1.6 trillion, and Pelindo III, which posted Rp640 billion in net profit.

“How come Pelindo II is bragging (good performance),” he questioned.

He said Pelindo II, which has a much larger market share, should not be lagging behind Pelindo III. Rizal said the system of management in Pelindo II did not follow the right order and described the system as disorganized.

Citing an example, he explained that container ships were not served based on the principle of “first come, first served.”

“Lino said Pelindo II has its own system to suit clients.

It is downright foolish, very bad, and highly inconceivable. It would force several ships to wait for as long as seven days,” he emphasized.

The system contributed to the lengthy storage time at Tanjung Priok, he affirmed.

Rizal also raised criticism over the extension of contract with Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT), saying the contract’s extension was against several regulations, including the Law on shipping.

He said the extension was granted before the termination of the old contract. (ant)

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Knicks beat Lakers in Bryant’s likely farewell to the Garden

DENPASAR - There are two main bird markets in Denpasar; Pasar Burung Satria and Pasar Burung Sanglah. Pasar Burung Satria (near the Pasar Satria traditional market) is located in the city centre, at Veteran Sreet, approximately 300 meters north of Catur Muka (four face) statue. Pasar Burung Sanglah is about 200 meters to the easts of Denpasar’s central hospital (RSUP Sanglah).

This bird market shares its location with Pasar Sanglah, which is one of Denpasar’s traditional markets.

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks spoiled what might have been Kobe Bryant’s last game at Madison Square Garden by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 99-95 on Sunday.

Bryant finished with 18 points, far off the 30.7 per game he had been averaging at the venue and fewer than half the 40 or more he managed on three occasions during a series of highlights in the arena.

The man who replaced Bryant as the standout star of the league, LeBron James, overcame injury to lead Cleveland past Indiana.

Among other results, Detroit rallied in the fourth quarter to win an entertaining contest at Portland, and Miami was too strong for Toronto in the second half.

The 37-year-old Bryant, who hasn’t said if he will retire after this season, missed two shots and twice fouled Carmelo Anthony during New York’s 11-0 run that turned a three-point deficit into a 98-90 lead.

Anthony had 24 points while Jose Calderon, Robin Lopez and Langston Galloway all scored 14 points for the Knicks, who belatedly notched their first home win of the season. Cleveland beat Indiana

101-97, with James scoring 29 points while playing with a bruised quadriceps.

James took a knee to the leg Friday and said he would get roundthe-clock treatment so he could play against the Pacers. The treatment paid off as James hit seven late free throws and found Kevin Love for two key baskets in the final 27 seconds.

Love scored 22 points and had 19 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who haven’t lost since the season opener against Chicago. Paul George scored 32 points for Indiana, which went scoreless for nearly four minutes after taking a 90-88 lead.

Detroit’s Andre Drummond had 29 points and an impressive 27 rebounds while Reggie Jackson scored a career-high 40 points as the Pistons beat Portland 120-103.

Jackson had 26 points in the fourth quarter alone and the Pistons outscored the Blazers 41-11 in the final period. It was the Pistons’ first win in Portland since 2007 and

snapped a six-game overall losing streak to the Blazers.

Damian Lillard had 26 points and 11 rebounds for Portland, which had led by 18 points in the third quarter.

Miami dominated the second half to beat Toronto 96-76.

Chris Bosh scored 23 points and Hassan Whiteside added 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Heat, who outscored the Raptors 30-16 in the third and then put the game away with an 18-3 run in the fourth.

Jonas Valanciunas scored 17 for Toronto.

Oklahoma City ended a run of three straight losses by beating Phoenix 124-103, with Kevin Durant contributing 32 points and 11 rebounds.(ap) Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant (24) passes around New York Knicks forward Lance Thomas (42) in the second half of an NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. The Knicks defeated the Lakers 99-95.

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World number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with the trophy after beating Britain’s Andy Murray in their men’s singles final tennis match at the Paris Masters tennis tournament November 8, 2015.

PARIS - A long year has taken its toll on some of the world’s best tennis players but the relentless Novak Djokovic gives no indication that he is about to slacken the pace as he heads to the season-ending ATP World Tour finals in London.

The world number one impressed in a 6-2 6-4 defeat of second seed Andy Murray to clinch his fourth Paris Masters on Sunday, becoming the first man with four titles at Bercy and also the first to win six Masters titles in a season.

While Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal faltered in the third round and quarter-finals respectively a few days after playing the final in Basel, Djokovic cantered through the rounds on the banks of the River Seine, being tested only by Stan Wawrinka in the semis.

“I will continue to do what I’m doing so far. There is no reason for me to decrease the pace of the training and preparations and performances,” Djokovic told a news conference.

“It’s the last tournament of the year, a very big tournament where I have done very well in the past.”

Djokovic has won the last three editions of the season’s finale that features the year’s eight best players and Sunday’s performance suggested it will take an exceptional performance to topple him at the O2 Arena in London.

Yet the Serb insisted: “I try to take nothing for granted... the only way I’m managing to stay successful is by continuing to improve. “I’m not trying to keep the status quo, because for me that’s a regression.”

Right now, all stars are aligned for Djokovic, a happy man and obviously a happy player who won three of the four grand slams, losing only in the French Open final. “I’m a married man, and I’m a father, as well,” he said.

“I think I have a nice balance and serenity in private life that reflects on the professional life, and vice versa. I have this belief that the holistic approach will definitely get the best out of yourself.”(rtr)

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Sp rt Madrid loses 1st game at Sevilla, Barca takes lead with win

BARCELONA — Real Madrid lost the Spanish league lead and its first game of the season as Sevilla mounted a 3-2 comeback on Sunday, letting Barcelona take over top spot in the standings before the title rivals meet next round.

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Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (L) and Sevilla’s goalkeeper Sergio Rico fall during their Spanish first division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, southern Spain, October 8, 2015.

Ciro Immobile scored his first goal for Sevilla before Ever Banega and Fernando Llorente added strikes to complete the rally after Sergio Ramos put Madrid ahead. James Rodriguez scored a consolation goal with the match’s final kick, but otherwise Rafa Benitez’s side had no answers in Seville.

“Sevilla played a great match and we played poorly,” Ramos said. “It’s at grounds like this that leagues are won.” Hours before, Neymar helped Barcelona take the league lead by continuing his scoring streak by netting a brace— with Luis Suarez scoring another— in a 3-0 win at home over Villarreal.

Despite missing the injured Lionel Messi for five rounds, Barcelona will take a three-point advantage to Madrid for the season’s first “clasico” match on Nov. 21. Benitez said he expected to see a different Madrid against Barcelona.

“A game of the caliber of the ‘clasico’ is different and I hope that the team will respond after this defeat,” Benitez said. Madrid could not have asked for a better start when Ramos scored an acrobatic kick from a corner kick in the 22nd. But the goal cost him and his team dearly as he re-injured his left shoulder on falling after the strike.

He tried to continue but was replaced

by Raphael Varane in the 31st.

The captain’s absence was felt in defense as Sevilla slowly tilted the

match in its favor, and then simply overran the visitors in the second half to end their 14-game unbeaten run to start the season. Immobile shattered Madrid’s apparent control by leveling from a corner after the ball reached him at the far post in the 36th, and the Italian striker wasted another great chance four minutes later.

But Banega put the hosts in front in the 61st when he finished off an electrifying run through the area by Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka after he combined with Immobile.

With Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale oddly subdued, Benitez sent on Rodriguez for his first action in two months.

The midfielder’s last-gasp goal only reduced the final losing margin after Madrid left substitute Llorente unmarked to easily head Sevilla’s third past goalie Kiko Casilla in the 74th. Sevilla, which also dealt Barcelona its only loss without Messi last month, rose into 10th.

At Camp Nou, fifth-place Villarreal neutralized Barcelona’s superior possession in the first half, but it couldn’t keep up as Barcelona poured forward. Barcelona needed an hour of insistent attacks until Neymar broke through before Suarez added a penalty in the 70th after Munir El Haddadi was fouled in the area.

Neymar put a fancy finish to the match with an exquisite second goal in the 85th when he used a sublime

touch to flip the ball over a defender before spinning and driving it home for his league-leading 11 goal of the season.

“I thought about the move before I did it, and I pulled it off,” Neymar said. “I’m happy with what I am giving the team, but I think I can improve.”

With the league lead and their goals, Neymar and Suarez are giving Barcelona’s fans hope that they won’t need Messi to get a good result at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The two stars lead Barcelona with 13 goals each this season and have scored 20 of Barcelona’s 23 goals since Messi tore a ligament in his left knee on Sept. 26. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique left open the possibility of Messi being fit for the big match.

“He is recovering and recovering well,” Luis Enrique said. In the capital, Antoine Griezmann scored a header three minutes into stoppage time from a ball flicked on by Diego Godin to give Atletico Madrid a 1-0 victory over Sporting Gijon that lifted it into third place.

At four points off Barcelona’s lead and one point behind Madrid, the 2014 champions are positioned to close on the front-runners after the clash in two weeks. Elsewhere, Athletic Bilbao forward Inaki Williams scored his fifth goal in eight days to help beat Espanyol 2-1.(rtr)

Crystal Palace beats Liverpool 2-1 to hand Klopp 1st loss

LIVERPOOL — Crystal Palace beat Liverpool 2-1 Sunday in the Premier League to hand new Reds manager Juergen Klopp his first loss in his seventh game in charge. Center back Scott Dann scored the winner at Anfield in the 82nd minute, heading in from close range after a corner.

Under Klopp, Liverpool has three wins, three draws and one defeat. The loss also ended Liverpool’s longest unbeaten run — 12 matches — since September 2013.

Palace went ahead in the 21st through Yannick Bolasie after slack defending allowed the visitors their first shot on target. Philippe Coutinho equalized for Liverpool three minutes before the break

— with his third goal in two games — after an assist from Adam Lallana.

Palace climbed above Liverpool to go eighth with 19 points. It was Palace’s third successive league victory over Liverpool in a game of end-to-end attacking.

Liverpool’s defense was at fault for the opening goal as Alberto Moreno’s initial weak tackle allowed Wilfried Zaha to get the ball on the right and his cross was virtually teed up for Bolasie

by Emre Can. The hosts’ right flank had looked their best avenue of attack and that is where the equalizer came from. Lallana’s backheel of Nathaniel Clyne’s cross did just enough to divert the ball away from Palace’s

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp as fans leave before the end of the match Action Images via

Dortmund beats Schalke 3-2 in Bundesliga’s 87th Ruhr derby

BERLIN — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s 14th goal of the season gave Borussia Dortmund a 3-2 win over bitter rival Schalke in the Bundesliga’s 87th Ruhr derby on Sunday. “The win is more than deserved,” said Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc, whose side remained five points behind leader Bayern Munich.

“With 29 points we’d be table leaders in Spain and Italy but Bayern Munich don’t play there,” Zorc said. Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa broke the deadlock in the 30th with a header off Dortmund defender Matthias Ginter’s cross.

Klaas Jan Huntelaar equalized three minutes later after Mats Hummels gave the ball away.

Leon Goretzka chipped forward for the impressive Leroy Sane, who headed the ball past Sokratis and gave Huntelaar a tap-in.

Ginter restored Dortmund’s lead in the 43rd with a header from Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s corner and Aubameyang made it 3-1

in the 48th. Mkhitaryan sent a loose ball forward and Gonzalo Castro timed his pass perfectly for Aubameyang to score inside the far post.

The Gabon striker, who has 22 goals in 20 competitive games for Dortmund this season, celebrated by taking off his jersey to reveal a Batman logo and the words “Do you remember” referring to the last Ruhr derby where he celebrated scoring with a Batman mask. Aubameyang was booked for Sunday’s gesture.

Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Faehrmann kept his team in the game with saves from Ilkay Gundogan and Mkhitaryan before Huntelaar claimed his second with a classy chip in the 70th to set up a tense finale. “You could see we were perhaps lacking a little experience, that we conceded so soon after the break,” Schalke coach Andre Breitenreiter said. “But we showed great morale to come back.”

Roman Buerki made a fingertip save to push Schalke substitute

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s shot onto the post as the visitors finished strongly. “We played well, unfortunately lost. But we did all we could,” Huntelaar said. Tempers became frayed toward the end of the game before Faehrmann made another huge save to deny Gundogan in injury time.

“It would have been our own fault if we didn’t take all three points,” Ginter said. Claudio Pizarro’s first goal in his third stint for Werder Bremen helped the side to a 2-1 win at bottom club Augsburg in the late game. (ap)

Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates his goal wearing a batman shirt during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015.

Sao Paulo club Corinthians on cusp of Brazil title SAO PAULO — Corinthians will have to wait a few more days to celebrate its championship in Brazil’s top league.Corinthians defeated Coritiba 2-1 on Saturday as fans in a stadium packed with 43,000 fans chanted “Champions, Champions.”

Almost, but not quite.

Corinthians needed second-place club Atletico-MG to draw or lose on Sunday to claim the title. Instead, Atletico rallied with a late goal from Datolo for a 1-0 victory over Figueirense.

Corinthians still have an overwhelming edge with 76 points in 34

matches, 11 clear of Atletico. Four rounds of matches remain.

The Sao Paulo club can claim the title against Vasco in Rio de Janeiro in its next match in 10 days following a break for World Cup qualifiers. Jadson and Lucca scored for Corinthians in Saturday’s victory.(ap)

Giroud right to be angry at himself, says Wenger

defenders and into the path of Coutinho, who bent in a shot at the far post.

The last half-hour felt like a cup tie with both sides going for the win as Klopp sent on the attack-minded Roberto Firmino for Can and switched to a 4-14-1 formation.

Jason Puncheon tested Simon Mignolet from distance and Palace’s winner came when Dann’s first header from Yohan Cabaye’s corner was parried by the goalkeeper and the defender nodded in the rebound.(ap)

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Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud missed a flurry of chances in Sunday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur but manager Arsene Wenger was satisfied to see the striker’s frustration with his own performance. Giroud, who had scored seven in his last eight games for club and country, struck the crossbar with a header in the 55th minute and missed a sitter from close range five minutes later.

Harry Kane put Spurs ahead in the first half and the visitors looked set for victory until Arsenal substitute Kieran Gibbs equalised with 13 minutes to go. Wenger said he was happy with Giroud’s reaction.

“He is very angry. I’m pleased,” Wenger told reporters after the game.

“When you see players happy to miss chances you can worry. He is a real goalscorer, he did try. “In the last two games, he worked extremely hard and maybe he wanted too much to score in the end, and especially the opportunity he had in the six-yard box, but that can happen.”

Arsenal missed the chance to go above leaders Manchester City, who were held to a 0-0 draw by basement side Aston Villa in Sunday’s early kick off. Gibbs said his side would come back stronger after the international break.

“It was important not to lose this

game but now (with) the international break, we can recover a few players and they can come back fit,” added Gibbs. Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are expected back when the league resumes on Nov. 21.

Wenger said he moved Gibbs into a more attacking role out of necessity.

“I had very limited offensive options on the bench. Overall it worked,” the manager said. “We have 10 players out. I hope during the international break we do not lose more, but we should get some back ... just after the break,” he added. Arsenal travel to face West Brom when the league resumes.(rtr)

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A ‘dynasty’ is born as Jeonbuk claim another title SEOUL - South Korea hailed the emergence of the ‘Jeonbuk Dynasty’ on Monday after the Motors wrapped up their second consecutive league championship at the weekend and gave coach Choi Kang-hee a record fourth title.

Jeonbuk’s 1-0 win at Jeju United gave them an unassailable 72 points from 36 games, nine points clear of Pohang in second with two games left to play. Lee Jae-sung grabbed the winner in first-half stoppage time at Jeju World Cup Stadium to seal the points. After leading Jeonbuk to their fourth title since 2009, local media said Choi had earned his place among the top Korean coaches.

“Choi has demonstrated steadfast leadership and by winning a record fourth K League title joins the ranks of Korea’s great commanders,” said broadcaster KBS. “A dynasty is born”, said the daily Hankook Ilbo, while Sports Hankook said match-winner Lee had been the “driving force” behind the club’s recent success.

Jeonbuk, who sealed the 2014 title by winning 3-0 in Jeju exactly a year ago, became the first time to retain the Korean crown since Seongnam won three successive titles from 20012003. Veteran striker Lee Dong-guk, who started his career in Pohang in 1998 and had unsuccessful stints in Germany and England, said he had been revitalised after joining Jeonbuk for the 2009 season.

“My soccer life can be divided into two periods - before and after Jeonbuk,” the 36-year-old, who scored 13 goals this season, told local media. “Looking back, the period I became a real soccer player again was when I became part of Jeonbuk.”(rtr)

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Sp rt Madrid loses 1st game at Sevilla, Barca takes lead with win

BARCELONA — Real Madrid lost the Spanish league lead and its first game of the season as Sevilla mounted a 3-2 comeback on Sunday, letting Barcelona take over top spot in the standings before the title rivals meet next round.

REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (L) and Sevilla’s goalkeeper Sergio Rico fall during their Spanish first division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, southern Spain, October 8, 2015.

Ciro Immobile scored his first goal for Sevilla before Ever Banega and Fernando Llorente added strikes to complete the rally after Sergio Ramos put Madrid ahead. James Rodriguez scored a consolation goal with the match’s final kick, but otherwise Rafa Benitez’s side had no answers in Seville.

“Sevilla played a great match and we played poorly,” Ramos said. “It’s at grounds like this that leagues are won.” Hours before, Neymar helped Barcelona take the league lead by continuing his scoring streak by netting a brace— with Luis Suarez scoring another— in a 3-0 win at home over Villarreal.

Despite missing the injured Lionel Messi for five rounds, Barcelona will take a three-point advantage to Madrid for the season’s first “clasico” match on Nov. 21. Benitez said he expected to see a different Madrid against Barcelona.

“A game of the caliber of the ‘clasico’ is different and I hope that the team will respond after this defeat,” Benitez said. Madrid could not have asked for a better start when Ramos scored an acrobatic kick from a corner kick in the 22nd. But the goal cost him and his team dearly as he re-injured his left shoulder on falling after the strike.

He tried to continue but was replaced

by Raphael Varane in the 31st.

The captain’s absence was felt in defense as Sevilla slowly tilted the

match in its favor, and then simply overran the visitors in the second half to end their 14-game unbeaten run to start the season. Immobile shattered Madrid’s apparent control by leveling from a corner after the ball reached him at the far post in the 36th, and the Italian striker wasted another great chance four minutes later.

But Banega put the hosts in front in the 61st when he finished off an electrifying run through the area by Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka after he combined with Immobile.

With Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale oddly subdued, Benitez sent on Rodriguez for his first action in two months.

The midfielder’s last-gasp goal only reduced the final losing margin after Madrid left substitute Llorente unmarked to easily head Sevilla’s third past goalie Kiko Casilla in the 74th. Sevilla, which also dealt Barcelona its only loss without Messi last month, rose into 10th.

At Camp Nou, fifth-place Villarreal neutralized Barcelona’s superior possession in the first half, but it couldn’t keep up as Barcelona poured forward. Barcelona needed an hour of insistent attacks until Neymar broke through before Suarez added a penalty in the 70th after Munir El Haddadi was fouled in the area.

Neymar put a fancy finish to the match with an exquisite second goal in the 85th when he used a sublime

touch to flip the ball over a defender before spinning and driving it home for his league-leading 11 goal of the season.

“I thought about the move before I did it, and I pulled it off,” Neymar said. “I’m happy with what I am giving the team, but I think I can improve.”

With the league lead and their goals, Neymar and Suarez are giving Barcelona’s fans hope that they won’t need Messi to get a good result at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The two stars lead Barcelona with 13 goals each this season and have scored 20 of Barcelona’s 23 goals since Messi tore a ligament in his left knee on Sept. 26. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique left open the possibility of Messi being fit for the big match.

“He is recovering and recovering well,” Luis Enrique said. In the capital, Antoine Griezmann scored a header three minutes into stoppage time from a ball flicked on by Diego Godin to give Atletico Madrid a 1-0 victory over Sporting Gijon that lifted it into third place.

At four points off Barcelona’s lead and one point behind Madrid, the 2014 champions are positioned to close on the front-runners after the clash in two weeks. Elsewhere, Athletic Bilbao forward Inaki Williams scored his fifth goal in eight days to help beat Espanyol 2-1.(rtr)

Crystal Palace beats Liverpool 2-1 to hand Klopp 1st loss

LIVERPOOL — Crystal Palace beat Liverpool 2-1 Sunday in the Premier League to hand new Reds manager Juergen Klopp his first loss in his seventh game in charge. Center back Scott Dann scored the winner at Anfield in the 82nd minute, heading in from close range after a corner.

Under Klopp, Liverpool has three wins, three draws and one defeat. The loss also ended Liverpool’s longest unbeaten run — 12 matches — since September 2013.

Palace went ahead in the 21st through Yannick Bolasie after slack defending allowed the visitors their first shot on target. Philippe Coutinho equalized for Liverpool three minutes before the break

— with his third goal in two games — after an assist from Adam Lallana.

Palace climbed above Liverpool to go eighth with 19 points. It was Palace’s third successive league victory over Liverpool in a game of end-to-end attacking.

Liverpool’s defense was at fault for the opening goal as Alberto Moreno’s initial weak tackle allowed Wilfried Zaha to get the ball on the right and his cross was virtually teed up for Bolasie

by Emre Can. The hosts’ right flank had looked their best avenue of attack and that is where the equalizer came from. Lallana’s backheel of Nathaniel Clyne’s cross did just enough to divert the ball away from Palace’s

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp as fans leave before the end of the match Action Images via

Dortmund beats Schalke 3-2 in Bundesliga’s 87th Ruhr derby

BERLIN — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s 14th goal of the season gave Borussia Dortmund a 3-2 win over bitter rival Schalke in the Bundesliga’s 87th Ruhr derby on Sunday. “The win is more than deserved,” said Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc, whose side remained five points behind leader Bayern Munich.

“With 29 points we’d be table leaders in Spain and Italy but Bayern Munich don’t play there,” Zorc said. Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa broke the deadlock in the 30th with a header off Dortmund defender Matthias Ginter’s cross.

Klaas Jan Huntelaar equalized three minutes later after Mats Hummels gave the ball away.

Leon Goretzka chipped forward for the impressive Leroy Sane, who headed the ball past Sokratis and gave Huntelaar a tap-in.

Ginter restored Dortmund’s lead in the 43rd with a header from Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s corner and Aubameyang made it 3-1

in the 48th. Mkhitaryan sent a loose ball forward and Gonzalo Castro timed his pass perfectly for Aubameyang to score inside the far post.

The Gabon striker, who has 22 goals in 20 competitive games for Dortmund this season, celebrated by taking off his jersey to reveal a Batman logo and the words “Do you remember” referring to the last Ruhr derby where he celebrated scoring with a Batman mask. Aubameyang was booked for Sunday’s gesture.

Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Faehrmann kept his team in the game with saves from Ilkay Gundogan and Mkhitaryan before Huntelaar claimed his second with a classy chip in the 70th to set up a tense finale. “You could see we were perhaps lacking a little experience, that we conceded so soon after the break,” Schalke coach Andre Breitenreiter said. “But we showed great morale to come back.”

Roman Buerki made a fingertip save to push Schalke substitute

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s shot onto the post as the visitors finished strongly. “We played well, unfortunately lost. But we did all we could,” Huntelaar said. Tempers became frayed toward the end of the game before Faehrmann made another huge save to deny Gundogan in injury time.

“It would have been our own fault if we didn’t take all three points,” Ginter said. Claudio Pizarro’s first goal in his third stint for Werder Bremen helped the side to a 2-1 win at bottom club Augsburg in the late game. (ap)

Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates his goal wearing a batman shirt during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015.

Sao Paulo club Corinthians on cusp of Brazil title SAO PAULO — Corinthians will have to wait a few more days to celebrate its championship in Brazil’s top league.Corinthians defeated Coritiba 2-1 on Saturday as fans in a stadium packed with 43,000 fans chanted “Champions, Champions.”

Almost, but not quite.

Corinthians needed second-place club Atletico-MG to draw or lose on Sunday to claim the title. Instead, Atletico rallied with a late goal from Datolo for a 1-0 victory over Figueirense.

Corinthians still have an overwhelming edge with 76 points in 34

matches, 11 clear of Atletico. Four rounds of matches remain.

The Sao Paulo club can claim the title against Vasco in Rio de Janeiro in its next match in 10 days following a break for World Cup qualifiers. Jadson and Lucca scored for Corinthians in Saturday’s victory.(ap)

Giroud right to be angry at himself, says Wenger

defenders and into the path of Coutinho, who bent in a shot at the far post.

The last half-hour felt like a cup tie with both sides going for the win as Klopp sent on the attack-minded Roberto Firmino for Can and switched to a 4-14-1 formation.

Jason Puncheon tested Simon Mignolet from distance and Palace’s winner came when Dann’s first header from Yohan Cabaye’s corner was parried by the goalkeeper and the defender nodded in the rebound.(ap)

Reuters / Lee Smith

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Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud missed a flurry of chances in Sunday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur but manager Arsene Wenger was satisfied to see the striker’s frustration with his own performance. Giroud, who had scored seven in his last eight games for club and country, struck the crossbar with a header in the 55th minute and missed a sitter from close range five minutes later.

Harry Kane put Spurs ahead in the first half and the visitors looked set for victory until Arsenal substitute Kieran Gibbs equalised with 13 minutes to go. Wenger said he was happy with Giroud’s reaction.

“He is very angry. I’m pleased,” Wenger told reporters after the game.

“When you see players happy to miss chances you can worry. He is a real goalscorer, he did try. “In the last two games, he worked extremely hard and maybe he wanted too much to score in the end, and especially the opportunity he had in the six-yard box, but that can happen.”

Arsenal missed the chance to go above leaders Manchester City, who were held to a 0-0 draw by basement side Aston Villa in Sunday’s early kick off. Gibbs said his side would come back stronger after the international break.

“It was important not to lose this

game but now (with) the international break, we can recover a few players and they can come back fit,” added Gibbs. Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are expected back when the league resumes on Nov. 21.

Wenger said he moved Gibbs into a more attacking role out of necessity.

“I had very limited offensive options on the bench. Overall it worked,” the manager said. “We have 10 players out. I hope during the international break we do not lose more, but we should get some back ... just after the break,” he added. Arsenal travel to face West Brom when the league resumes.(rtr)

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

A ‘dynasty’ is born as Jeonbuk claim another title SEOUL - South Korea hailed the emergence of the ‘Jeonbuk Dynasty’ on Monday after the Motors wrapped up their second consecutive league championship at the weekend and gave coach Choi Kang-hee a record fourth title.

Jeonbuk’s 1-0 win at Jeju United gave them an unassailable 72 points from 36 games, nine points clear of Pohang in second with two games left to play. Lee Jae-sung grabbed the winner in first-half stoppage time at Jeju World Cup Stadium to seal the points. After leading Jeonbuk to their fourth title since 2009, local media said Choi had earned his place among the top Korean coaches.

“Choi has demonstrated steadfast leadership and by winning a record fourth K League title joins the ranks of Korea’s great commanders,” said broadcaster KBS. “A dynasty is born”, said the daily Hankook Ilbo, while Sports Hankook said match-winner Lee had been the “driving force” behind the club’s recent success.

Jeonbuk, who sealed the 2014 title by winning 3-0 in Jeju exactly a year ago, became the first time to retain the Korean crown since Seongnam won three successive titles from 20012003. Veteran striker Lee Dong-guk, who started his career in Pohang in 1998 and had unsuccessful stints in Germany and England, said he had been revitalised after joining Jeonbuk for the 2009 season.

“My soccer life can be divided into two periods - before and after Jeonbuk,” the 36-year-old, who scored 13 goals this season, told local media. “Looking back, the period I became a real soccer player again was when I became part of Jeonbuk.”(rtr)

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Denpasar Bird Market

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Knicks beat Lakers in Bryant’s likely farewell to the Garden

DENPASAR - There are two main bird markets in Denpasar; Pasar Burung Satria and Pasar Burung Sanglah. Pasar Burung Satria (near the Pasar Satria traditional market) is located in the city centre, at Veteran Sreet, approximately 300 meters north of Catur Muka (four face) statue. Pasar Burung Sanglah is about 200 meters to the easts of Denpasar’s central hospital (RSUP Sanglah).

This bird market shares its location with Pasar Sanglah, which is one of Denpasar’s traditional markets.

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks spoiled what might have been Kobe Bryant’s last game at Madison Square Garden by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 99-95 on Sunday.

Bryant finished with 18 points, far off the 30.7 per game he had been averaging at the venue and fewer than half the 40 or more he managed on three occasions during a series of highlights in the arena.

The man who replaced Bryant as the standout star of the league, LeBron James, overcame injury to lead Cleveland past Indiana.

Among other results, Detroit rallied in the fourth quarter to win an entertaining contest at Portland, and Miami was too strong for Toronto in the second half.

The 37-year-old Bryant, who hasn’t said if he will retire after this season, missed two shots and twice fouled Carmelo Anthony during New York’s 11-0 run that turned a three-point deficit into a 98-90 lead.

Anthony had 24 points while Jose Calderon, Robin Lopez and Langston Galloway all scored 14 points for the Knicks, who belatedly notched their first home win of the season. Cleveland beat Indiana

101-97, with James scoring 29 points while playing with a bruised quadriceps.

James took a knee to the leg Friday and said he would get roundthe-clock treatment so he could play against the Pacers. The treatment paid off as James hit seven late free throws and found Kevin Love for two key baskets in the final 27 seconds.

Love scored 22 points and had 19 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who haven’t lost since the season opener against Chicago. Paul George scored 32 points for Indiana, which went scoreless for nearly four minutes after taking a 90-88 lead.

Detroit’s Andre Drummond had 29 points and an impressive 27 rebounds while Reggie Jackson scored a career-high 40 points as the Pistons beat Portland 120-103.

Jackson had 26 points in the fourth quarter alone and the Pistons outscored the Blazers 41-11 in the final period. It was the Pistons’ first win in Portland since 2007 and

snapped a six-game overall losing streak to the Blazers.

Damian Lillard had 26 points and 11 rebounds for Portland, which had led by 18 points in the third quarter.

Miami dominated the second half to beat Toronto 96-76.

Chris Bosh scored 23 points and Hassan Whiteside added 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Heat, who outscored the Raptors 30-16 in the third and then put the game away with an 18-3 run in the fourth.

Jonas Valanciunas scored 17 for Toronto.

Oklahoma City ended a run of three straight losses by beating Phoenix 124-103, with Kevin Durant contributing 32 points and 11 rebounds.(ap) Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant (24) passes around New York Knicks forward Lance Thomas (42) in the second half of an NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. The Knicks defeated the Lakers 99-95.

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World number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with the trophy after beating Britain’s Andy Murray in their men’s singles final tennis match at the Paris Masters tennis tournament November 8, 2015.

PARIS - A long year has taken its toll on some of the world’s best tennis players but the relentless Novak Djokovic gives no indication that he is about to slacken the pace as he heads to the season-ending ATP World Tour finals in London.

The world number one impressed in a 6-2 6-4 defeat of second seed Andy Murray to clinch his fourth Paris Masters on Sunday, becoming the first man with four titles at Bercy and also the first to win six Masters titles in a season.

While Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal faltered in the third round and quarter-finals respectively a few days after playing the final in Basel, Djokovic cantered through the rounds on the banks of the River Seine, being tested only by Stan Wawrinka in the semis.

“I will continue to do what I’m doing so far. There is no reason for me to decrease the pace of the training and preparations and performances,” Djokovic told a news conference.

“It’s the last tournament of the year, a very big tournament where I have done very well in the past.”

Djokovic has won the last three editions of the season’s finale that features the year’s eight best players and Sunday’s performance suggested it will take an exceptional performance to topple him at the O2 Arena in London.

Yet the Serb insisted: “I try to take nothing for granted... the only way I’m managing to stay successful is by continuing to improve. “I’m not trying to keep the status quo, because for me that’s a regression.”

Right now, all stars are aligned for Djokovic, a happy man and obviously a happy player who won three of the four grand slams, losing only in the French Open final. “I’m a married man, and I’m a father, as well,” he said.

“I think I have a nice balance and serenity in private life that reflects on the professional life, and vice versa. I have this belief that the holistic approach will definitely get the best out of yourself.”(rtr)

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Croatian opposition conservatives win general election

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia’s conservative opposition has won the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013, but without enough votes to rule alone and with tough government negotiations looming.

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Opposition leader Tomislav Karamarko celebrates his coalition’s winning of majority of votes, in Zagreb, Croatia, early Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Croatia’s conservative opposition is leading in an official preliminary vote count against the ruling center-left coalition in the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013.

The state electoral commission said Monday that with 99 percent of the vote counted, the conservatives, led by former intelligence chief Tomislav Karamarko, won 59 seats in the 151-seat parliament.

The ruling Social Democrats, led by incumbent Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, got 56 seats.

The result means both blocs have failed to win an outright majority and the forming of a new government will depend on several small parties that entered parliament.

The kingmaker will be the thirdplaced party, Most, or Bridge, with 19 seats. Milanovic called on Most leaders to start negotiations on the forming of a new government.

Before the election, Most lead-

ers pledged they wouldn’t enter a coalition government with any of the big parties, but may give them support in parliament if they offer to carry out radical political, social and economic reforms.

“I don’t believe that either of the big parties will agree with our reform proposals,” Most leader Bozo Petrov said.

Zarko Puhovski, a political science professor, said that if Most sticks to its pre-election pledges, it “heralds minority government or new elections.”

According to the constitution, Croatia’s president must consult parliamentary parties and nominate a prime minister-designate who gains the support of the majority of lawmakers. If the prime minister-

designate fails to form a new government within two months, new elections are called.

“I believe that we will have a new prime minister-designate soon,” said President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, a conservative.

The election Sunday was held amid a huge migrant surge through Croatia and deep economic woes facing the country.

The vote represented a revival for Karamarko’s conservative Croatian Democratic Union party, which led Croatia during its war for independence from the Serb-led Yugoslavia in the 1990s and then dominated its political scene for years. Its popularity plummeted after a series of corruption trials against top officials.

Grabar-Kitarovic’s presidential election victory earlier this year was a clear sign that Croatia was shifting to the right after the center-left bloc’s four-year rule. (ap)

PARIS — UNESCO’s General Conference has begun debating whether to admit Kosovo as a member in the U.N. cultural agency in a heated vote that’s dividing countries along old battle lines.

Kosovo has been recognized by 111 countries since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Russia, Serbia’s close ally, has blocked Kosovo from becoming a full U.N. member.

To win UNESCO membership, Kosovo must get at least two-thirds of all votes cast after Monday’s debate, excluding abstentions.

Kosovo has promised to protect cultural heritage of Serbs. But Serbia has warned that allowing Kosovo into UNESCO would fuel tensions and hurt a U.N.-brokered dialogue aimed at normalizing ties between the former war foes.

The U.S. delegation supports Kosovo’s bid but no longer has voting rights in UNESCO over a funding flap. (ap)

COLOMBO — The foreign minister of the Maldives said Monday that a monthlong state of emergency declared by the president last week may be lifted early.

Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said by phone from the Maldives’ capital, Male, that the emergency was declared in the face of an unprecedented security threat, but that information from defense officials gives hope that it could be reviewed in the coming days.

The decree last Wednesday came after a Sept. 28 blast aboard President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s boat that authorities called an assassination attempt. The explosion was followed by reports that an arms cache and a homemade bomb apparently targeting the president had been found.

“I am quite confident it would be less than one month,” Maumoon said. “I think from the information I have from the defense and others, we hopefully will be able to attend to this very quickly in the coming days and we hope to see the revoking of the situation.”

The state of emergency, which has given vast powers to security forces and police to search and arrest suspects and suspended important citizens’ rights, has brought widespread local and international criticism.

Maldivian lawmakers voted Vice President Ahmed Adeeb out of office using the emergency regulations. Authorities suspect that Adeeb was behind the alleged attempts on Gayoom’s life, and he has been arrested and detained.

The Maldives, known for its many luxury island resorts, has had a difficult transition to democracy since holding its first multiparty election in 2008. (ap)

Lino testifies as witness in alleged graft case

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Mary Jane Veloso (C), a Filipino on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking is seen at Wirogunan Prison in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on November 09, 2015. Mary Jane was given a temporary reprieve just hours before she was due to be executed in April 29, so she could act as a witness during the trial of her alleged human trafficker. Eight men were killed by firing squad that day.

Indonesia hopes Myanmar’s elections would support ongoing reconciliation process

UNESCO Maldives says state begins divisive of emergency may debate on be lifted early Kosovo membership

JAKARTA - The government and people of Indonesia are optimistic that Myanmar’s elections on Sunday (November 8) will support the ongoing process of reform and reconciliation in the country, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson stated.

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Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon sepals with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015.

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“We hope the election results will be accepted by all sides and can serve as a platform for the ongoing process of reform and reconciliation in Myanmar,” Foreign Affairs Ministry’s spokesperson, Arrmanatha Nasir, remarked on Monday.

Nasir noted that Sunday’s elections, which ran smoothly and had a high voter turnout, reflected the same spirit for reformation in both the government and the people.

“Therefore, we laud this democratic process,” he affirmed.

More than 30 million people voted on Sunday, in what is expected to be the most free and fair general elections in the country’s history.

As many as six thousand candidates from 93 political parties, who are running for 1,142 seats in the national, regional, and state parliaments of Myanmar, took part in the elections.

The two largest parties --- the military-backed ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the opposition National League for

Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi --- competed for votes alongside a multitude of smaller parties.

Myanmar’s Election Commission is expected to announce the results six times a day from November 9, and the Commission Chair to hold daily news conferences on November 9-15 in Nay Pyi Taw. Although the elections had been lauded as a free and fair event, but some concerns were also raised by NGOs regarding the disenfranchisement of up to 80 thousand Rohingya residents in Rakhine state.

According to state media, five of the country’s 330 townships did not also hold elections due to security concerns. (ant)

JAKARTA - PT Pelindo II President Director R.J. Lino honored the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) investigators’ summons on Monday for questioning as witness in a graft case involving fixed crane-type loading and unloading equipment’s purchase.

“Later, I should come in,” Lino stated when questioned by several journalists at the Bareskrim office on Monday.

Lino expressed his readiness to undergo interrogation.

“I am ready to testify as a witness,” he noted.

Earlier, during a two-month-long investigation, the police had uncovered irregularities in the procurement of 10 cranes in 2012 worth Rp45 billion.

The cranes were scheduled to be sent to eight seaports across the country by this year, but none had arrived.

The investigators discovered that most of the seaports did not need any new cranes.

Meanwhile, the investigators have questioned 24 witnesses in connection with suspected corruption in the procurement of 10 mobile cranes by PT Pelindo II. The investigators also seized documents in relation to the purchase of the 10 cranes and a notebook.

Earlier, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli had criticized Lino during a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Special Committee (Pansus), which is probing alleged corruption in the state-owned port operator.

Rizal criticized the system of management and financial performance of the company under Lino.

He pointed out that Lino had bragged about profits recorded by Pelindo II when the company was not even included in the list of 20 state companies recording the largest profits.

“He (Lino) claimed to have chalked up the largest profits, which is not true. Pelindo II is not among the 20 state companies reporting high profits,” Rizal informed members of Pansus.

He clarified that Pelindo II ranked behind PT KAI (state railway company), which posted Rp591 billion in net profit and pawnshop Pegadaian, with a profit of Rp1.6 trillion, and Pelindo III, which posted Rp640 billion in net profit.

“How come Pelindo II is bragging (good performance),” he questioned.

He said Pelindo II, which has a much larger market share, should not be lagging behind Pelindo III. Rizal said the system of management in Pelindo II did not follow the right order and described the system as disorganized.

Citing an example, he explained that container ships were not served based on the principle of “first come, first served.”

“Lino said Pelindo II has its own system to suit clients.

It is downright foolish, very bad, and highly inconceivable. It would force several ships to wait for as long as seven days,” he emphasized.

The system contributed to the lengthy storage time at Tanjung Priok, he affirmed.

Rizal also raised criticism over the extension of contract with Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT), saying the contract’s extension was against several regulations, including the Law on shipping.

He said the extension was granted before the termination of the old contract. (ant)

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Bitten by monkey, traveler from Perth looks for anti-rabies vaccine

Dollar rallies on US jobs as China IPOs trump trade data

HONG KONG - A forecast-busting surge in US jobs last month sent the dollar surging against emerging market currencies Monday while more weak trade data out of China compounded fears about the struggling Asian economic giant.

However, Shanghai was at an 11week high on news China will restart initial public offerings this month, indicating authorities are becoming more confident in the market after a summer rout that wiped trillions off valuations.

And Japan’s Nikkei rallied two percent -- adding to a three-day winning run that has seen it hit a twomonth high -- as the yen retreated

against the dollar.

The chances of the Federal Reserve hiking US interest rates shot up after Friday’s employment report, fuelling worries of a flight of capital from Asia to the United States as well as higher borrowing costs strangling investment.

The US Labor Department said the world’s biggest economy created 271,000 net new jobs in October,

almost twice as many as September, while the unemployment rate fell to a seven-and-a-half year low of 5.0 percent.

The figure easily outstripped expectations and tempered fears that a slowdown in the world economy, particularly in China, had spread to the US. Investors immediately jumped on the figures to bet on a Fed rate hike next month. Talk of the so-called liftoff by the US central bank had been tempered in recent months following a string of weak data from Washington and in light of China’s ongoing

malaise.

But Shane Oliver, Sydney-based strategist at AMP Capital Investor, said the latest report “supports the case for a December Fed rate hike”.

Fed chief Janet Yellen earlier this year said she expected a rise before 2016, albeit incremental, as the US economy get back on track.

And Oliver told Bloomberg News: “The Fed is unlikely to do anything to threaten global growth and this in turn should help see the global economic recovery continue.”

The news sent the dollar surging in New York on Friday, hitting 123.16

yen against 121.66 earlier in the day in Asia, while the euro plunged to a sixmonth low $1.0707 from $1.0886.

On Monday in Asia it was at 123.35 yen while the single currency was up at $1.0768.

The weaker yen helped Japanese exporters, pushing the Nikkei index up 2.0 percent by the close.

And against emerging currencies the greenback rallied on expectations dealers will shift their investment focus out of developing countries, with Indonesia’s rupiah, Malaysia’s ringgit and South Korea’s won particularly hurt. (afp)

World Bank: Climate change could result in 100 million poor

STOCKHOLM — Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.

Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming is borne unevenly, with the world’s poor woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts.

“They have fewer resources and receive less support from family, community, the financial system, and even social safety nets to prevent, cope and adapt,” the Washingtonbased World Bank said.

How to help poor countries — and poor communities within countries — deal with climate change is one of the crunch issues in talks on a global climate accord that’s supposed to be adopted next month in Paris.

Those who say that rich countries aren’t doing enough to help the poor said the report added emphasis to demands for billions of dollars in so-called climate finance to developing countries.

“The statistics in the World Bank report are suitably shocking and I hope they force world leaders to sit up and take notice,” said Mohamed Adow of Christian Aid. “The Paris deal needs to support the poor and vulnerable communities to cope with unavoidable climate crises better, and to be more resilient to a changed climate.”

Despite pledges to rein in emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases, climate change isn’t likely to stop anytime soon. Carbon emissions are expected to rise for many years as China, India and other developing countries expand the use of fossil fuels to power their economies.

But efforts to protect the poor, such as

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The Hindus are parading during a ceremony. The Balinese treathen to be marginalized by external forces so precautions must be taken.

DENPASAR - A traveler from Perth, Australia named Christine, was bitten by a monkey during her visit to Monkey Forest Ubud, on Thursday (Nov. 5).

While looking for an anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) at Sanglah Hospital, on Sunday (Nov. 8), she recounted that the incident occurred when she was about to take a drink of water, and a monkey snatched at her. An attendant tried to seize the monkey which made the animal nervous and he so he bit the Australian’s ankle. Although the management of the tourist attraction di not tell her to get vaccinated, after a few days of having been bitten some told her that it would be best if she got vaccinated.

“Yes, this is the first injection of the anti-rabies vaccine that I have received,” she said. It is not known whether the monkey that bit her is still alive or not. Christine is asking the management of the Monkey Forest tourist attraction to provide better information to all who visit. (kmb42)

Balinese people becoming marginalized

Team IX of PHDI must make appropriate decisions

TABANAN - According to Bali spiritualist, Brahmana Guna Awatara Dasa, the nature and people of Bali have become marginalized by external forces. Without immediate handling, Balinese people will could become severly marginalized and mear spectators in their homeland.

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In this file photo dated Thursday, April 23, 2015, an Indian worker dismantles an old car amid heaps of scrap in Bangalore, India. Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday Nov. 8, 2015. generally improving access to health care and social safety nets, and targeted measures to upgrade flood defenses and deploy more heat-tolerant crops could prevent most of the negative consequences of climate change on poverty, the bank said.

“Absent such good development, climate change could result in an additional 100 million people living in extreme poverty by 2030,” the report said.

Stephane Hallegatte, one of the authors,

told The Associated Press that one of the unique features of the report was that instead of analyzing the macro-economic impact of climate change it was based in part on surveys of 1.4 million people in 92 countries.

“When we ask people why they fall into poverty there are three major factors,” he said. “Agricultural shocks, including an increase in food prices; natural disasters such as floods, droughts, storms; and health issues,

including malaria, diarrhea.”

The report referred to studies showing climate change could result in global crop yield losses as large as 5 percent by 2030 and 30 percent by 2080. It also referenced studies showing warming temperatures could increase the number of people at risk for malaria by 150 million.

Hallegatte said the “hotspots” for climate impacts on poor people were sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. (ap)

Indications of marginalization have already started to appear. For instance, only very few Balinese people are engaged in the tourism centers that have become the pride of Bali. A similar situation has also occurred in the agricultural sector.

Currently, many paddy field labourers are not Balinese. “A lot of agricultural land has been sold and nature has started to break down.

If this continues the destruction of Bali is certain,” he said.

Therefore, this spiritualist and environmentalist said that the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) as the highest assembly of the Hindu organization in Indonesia governing religious and social matters, has to think seriously about taking measures to prevent damage from continuing to be inflicted on Bali’s natural environment.

“At the moment, the PHDI is forming a Team IX, to address this phenomenon. The decisions that this team of nine people formulates

should not be arbitrary,” he said, adding that if they make the wrong decisions, the Hindu community’s trust in the PHDI will certainly weaken.

The cohesiveness of the people of Bali also needs to be well maintained in order to be able to work together to preserve Bali’s natural environment. We must all work together. “If every Balinese person rejected the offers of investors that want to harm Bali, then these investors would have no power,” said the former member of the sabha pandita (advisory council of the Central PHDI).

Awatara Dasa admitted that this challenge that Bali is facing today is in part caused by the fact that Balinese people are too friendly and permissive allowing anyone who wants to invest here to do so without going though a sorting process.

“We should be looking at the track record of anyone wanting to invest here to determine whether

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The locals is using the water from the rice field for their daily needs. Due to the long period of drought, many villages in Bali is suffering from the lack of water. they are just looking to turn a profit without any care for nature or without providing any contribution to the local communities. Obviously if this is the case, then their investment should be rejected,” he explained.

Another challenge to preserving

the natural environment of Bali is the consumerism that has taken a hold amongst the Balinese as a result of global tendencies in this direction. Awatara Dasa invites all people to not indulge themselves in worldly things. “As humans, we should be content with what we

have and not be greedy. We should live a simple and modest life. I believe that there are still many people in Bali that have a conscience that tells them to work together to maintain the natural environment of Bali so that that it is not destroyed,” he concluded. (kmb24)

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Jembrana contributes to national program

YANGON, Myanmar — Voices rang out in unison Monday, as hundreds of jubilant people gathered outside the opposition party headquarters where images of Aung San Suu Kyi were being shown on large-screen TVs. Results from Myanmar’s historic election were still not final, but opposition leaders were convinced of success and their supporters were celebrating.

NEGARA - Nawa Cita AKA the nine goals initiated by President Joko Widodo are a strong foundation for improving people’s welfare. One of the national goals is to realize economic independence by supporting strategic sectors of the domestic economy. One of these is the agricultural sector whose products- especially rice, are absolutely necessary. national program successful.

Although Jembrana, produces a surplus of rice, they are still trying to increase production.

Wiratma hopes that the agricultural tools delivered to the subak will be used well. Artha also warned subaks about land conversion. “Do not just say that you will refuse land conversion but in practice, if land is still productive, recommendations for issue permits to convert the land should not be given. We need to be consistent about this,” said Artha.

Apart from providing agricultural tools, the government of Jembrana had also previously implemented a development program to optimize 1,500 hectares of land in 20 subak areas, developed intensive rice growing on 200 hectares in four subak areas, repaired irrigation channels at 40 subaks bult trenches in 21 subaks, rehabilited farm pathways at 12 subaks and dug shallow land irrigation at 14 subaks.

Farmer, Komang Suartama from Baluk admitted that he was

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A farmer is showing the paddy that is just being harvest. very pleased with the help that has been extended. He himself received assistance in the form of a rice transplanter. “With the help of

this tool we can work more easily and hopefully draw the interest of the younger generation in farming with more sophisticated tools that

make the job easier. Up until now the younger generation has been reluctant to farm,” said Suartama. (kmb26)

Taman Ayun Temple at Central Badung As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi

Taman AyunPura Taman Ayun is a beautifully apointed temple, with its own surrounding moat, in the village at Mengwi, Badung Regency, 18 Km. West of Denpasar. The history of this temple is closely associated with the begining of the Rajadom of Mengwi, in 1627 B.C. it was built in 163-1AD. at the time at the rule of the first Raja of Mengwi. I Gusti Agung Ngurah Made Agung, who later become known as Ida Cokorda Sakti Belambangan.

As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi. This temple is a place to worship the Royal ancestors, who find their rest in a special shrine known as the “Gedong Paibon”.

Following the Pattern of most Balinese temples, Pura Taman Ayun has three connecting temple yards. The innermost sanctum is knows- as “Utama Mandala” (the highest circle), the middle yard as. “Madia

Mandala” (the circle in between) and the outer as “Nista Mandala” (the humblest circle). The enter the main sanctum one must pass through a raised Gate- way, known as the Kori Agung (Paduraksa), and the gate- way between the outer and middle connect in a split gate, known as “Candi Bentar”.

Apart from the “Gedong Paibon”, dedicated to one ancestor, the middle courtyard are other shrines dedicated to the various main temples of Bali. These shrines were built by the 5 Raja to ensure that his Kingdom and people would be able to share in the prosperity and fertility of the nation, and also to enable all the people at Mengwi; to conduct the religious ceremonies at the temple, such as “meajar-ajar”, memendak sang Pitara” and to request holy water to protect the rice fields from pestilence, etc.

There is also another shrine on the middle courtyard dedicated to the “Pasek Badak” famous here of by gone days from the Raja’s troops. The extensive temple grounds of Taman Ayun also function as a resting place for the Royal family. Covering 4 Hectares of land. The temple is surrounded by a large most, which used to be full of loins and lily flowers of all color, and around the edges of the moat can be found frangipani, cempaka, kenanga & other pcrftiined flowering trees, as well as mango stein, durian, manggo rambutan fruit trees.

The temple has always been strongly influenced by the ups and downs at the Raja dom of Mengwi. ln l890 here was a war between the Rajas of Badung and Mengwi, and the I0 th. Raja Mengwi “I Gusti Made Agung” lost the battle, and had to retreat to escape with life in to the bordering eastern

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Prevent land conversion, optimize rice production In line with this goal, the government of Jembrana is working through the subak (Balinese irrigation cooperatives) in order to prevent the conversion of productive land and to optimize rice production. To help reach this goal, the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha gave out agricultural tools to irrigated subaks, on Friday (Nov. 6), at the Bung Karno Cultural Hall (GKBK) Jembrana. The tool included: 33 two-wheeled tractors, ten water pumps and four rice transplanters.

The handing out of equipment was witnessed by Commander of the 1617/Jembrana Military District Sansan Iskandar, Regional Secretary of Jembrana Gede Gunadnya and a number of agency heads in Jembrana. Head of the Jembrana Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, said that these agricultural tools are tailored to the needs of this subak. According to Regent Artha, the agricultural implements given out by the government, are meant to contribute to optimizing rice production in Jembrana and help make the

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district. During the rule of the victorious Raja of Badung the temple was never looked after properly, and the temple buildings deteriorated due to lack of care. ln the year 1911 AD, part of the Royal Family returned to their family seat at Mengwi, and Pura Taman Ayun was restored. However on 20 th, January 1917 a violent earth-quake damaged many of the existing buildings. Repairs have been done in stages to return the temple to its original condition.

The odalan at Pura Taman Ayun falls every 2l0 days on a day known as “Selasa Kliwon Wuku Mendangsia”. Many tourists used to visit the temple, even, before the Second world War. The family of Puri Gede Mengwi still maintain the temple. Assisted by a committee made up of the lokal traditional leaders, such as the village officials from the Mengwi District.(btn)

Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party holding banner cheer as they watch the result of general election on an LED screen outside the party’s headquarters Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar.

“She’s the people’s leader who the whole world knows,” the crowds sang. “Write your own history in your hearts for our future so the dictatorship will end. Go, go, go away dictatorship.”

From street vendors to intellectuals to former political prisoners who suffered torture and imprisonment, pro-democracy supporters were jubilant at the idea of a Suu Kyi victory, and the weakening of a

military-backed regime in a country where iron-fisted generals have held sway for half a century.

Even some pro-government voters hailed Sunday’s general election, if only in hopes that a

new government would bring improvement to their lives in one of the world’s most impoverished nations. Celebrations were occurring across the country, but enthusiasm probably ran highest around the headquarters of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in Yangon, where her spokesmen said the party was headed for a landslide victory. Final official results are not expected until Tuesday at the earliest.

Even some foreign tourists got caught up in the atmosphere, posing for photographs after donning T-shirts and headbands with the NLD’s “fighting peacock” logo.

“I think Mother Suu will win.

She must win,” said Thet Paing Oo, a 24-year-old fruit seller, referring to the leader with an affectionate term that many people here use.

“There will be more freedom in our country if the NLD wins. Our country will be better. Our lives will be better.”

While not without problems, the election appeared to have passed generally freely. “This election has given the people an opportunity to voice their will, and the groundswell of people’s support provides some sense of solace for the people who have suffered and made sacrifices for the past 30 years,” said Ko Ko Gyi, a former student leader and one of thousands of people imprisoned during the military’s rule.

Journalists and monitors were even given access to voting on a

vast military base in Naypyitaw, the capital city that is home to most military leaders and top civil servants. Even in Naypyitaw, some supporters of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party said they hoped the election would bring change and a better future.

A soldier’s wife, 31-year-old Lu Ti, said she liked both current President Thein Sein and Suu Kyi, who was “also good in her own way.”

Political analyst Yan Myo Thein said he was “very happy with the election outcome,” adding that he now hoped for a smooth transfer of power. The junta annulled the results after Suu Kyi swept the polls in 1990.

The military relinquished formal power in 2011 when Thein Sein, who chairs the USDP, began some tentative reforms. But many in Myanmar view him as a puppet of the still-powerful generals.

Even with a commanding victory, the NLD will have its work cut out in Parliament, where 25 percent of seats are reserved for the military. Suu Kyi herself cannot become president since a constitutional amendment bars anyone with a foreign spouse or husband from holding the position. Suu Kyi’s late husband was British, as are her two sons.

Suu Kyi has insisted, though, that the constitution will not keep her down if the NLD wins, saying she will “be above the president.”(ap)

Outrage builds as dozens of Iraqis electrocuted in floods BAGHDAD — Mohammed al-Qurayshi’s only son, Hassan, searched back and forth through CCTV footage to find the 12:30 p.m. mark on Oct. 31.

The video showed grainy images of two of his older sisters carrying bags of garbage through the garden and across the street. Fatima, 14, was dressed in deep blue and Rosul, 15, wore turquoise. It was then, just around the corner from their home, as they waded through a flooded street, that they were both electrocuted and killed — Fatima first, then Rosul, as she reached out to help her sister.

“These are their death certificates,” the elder al-Qurayshi said, holding out a pair of thin pink slips, noting the written cause of death was electrocution but that “the true cause of death is the Ministry of Electricity and the municipality.”

The Iraqi Ministry of Health said

69 people have died across the country over the past two weeks, due to a combination of the country’s dilapidated electrical grid and heavy rains that overwhelmed sewer systems.

Many died in their homes as they waded through flooded first-floor rooms. Others, like the al-Qurayshi sisters, were electrocuted in the city streets where electrical lines are haphazard and jerry-rigged, connecting homes to the municipal grid and a network of generators. Most homes in Baghdad only receive nine to 14 hours of electricity a day from the government. While the rainy Iraqi winter has only just begun, this year’s death toll is already higher than last year’s, when fewer than 60 were killed by electrocution amid widespread floods.

“We don’t expect there to be more killed by electrocution,” said a Baghdad municipality official, speaking on condition of anonymity because

he was not authorized to speak to the media. “We’re taking the needed measures to control the rain and improve infrastructure.”

Inadequate infrastructure was one of the rallying cries behind countrywide protests over the summer that succeeded in pressuring Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to propose sweeping reforms. But in the months that followed, many of the government shake-ups have languished in parliament and while protests have dropped off, public anger has not.

As news of Fatima and Rosul’s death circulated on social media, an outpouring of sympathy and anger followed. One comment from a fellow Baghdad resident read in ironic frustration: “When people are suffering in the summer heat, the government doesn’t give us electricity and then when it does give us electricity, it kills.” (ap)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 photo, a relative points at CCTV footage of Fatima Mohammed, left and her sister Rosul before their death by electric shock outside their house in Baghdad. Iraqi.

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Roots of shade trees disrupting sidewalks and drainage

DENPASAR - Shade giving trees are a must in urban areas and Denpasar is no exeption. Unfortunately, some shade trees have caused damages to infrastructure such as sidewalks as seen on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar.

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A surfer walks along the shore in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Large swathes of Shanghai, Mumbai, New York and other cities will slip under the waves even if an upcoming climate summit limits global warming to two degrees Celsius, scientists reported Sunday.

Megacities hit hard by surging sea levels even at 2C rise

PARIS - Large swathes of Shanghai, Mumbai, New York and other cities will slip under the waves even if an upcoming climate summit limits global warming to two degrees Celsius, scientists reported Sunday.

A 2 C (3.6 Fahrenheit) spike in Earth’s temperature would submerge land currently occupied by 280 million people, while an increase of 4 C (7.2 F) -- humanity’s current trajectory -- would cover areas lived on by more than 600 million, the study said.

“Two degrees Celsius warming will pose a long-term, existential danger to many great coastal cities and regions,” said lead author Ben Strauss, vice president for sea level and climate impacts at Climate Central, a US-based research group.

Sea level rises corresponding to these 2 C or 4 C scenarios could unfold in two hundred years, but would more likely happen over many centuries, perhaps as long as 2,000 years, according to the

research, published by Climate Central.

Capping the rise in Earth’s temperatures to 2 C above preindustrial levels is the core goal of the 195-nation UN climate summit in Paris from November 30 to December 11.

The most effective way to slow global warming is to slash the output of the greenhouse gases which drive it.

But even if emissions reduction pledges -- many of them conditioned on financial aid -- submitted by 150 nations ahead of the Paris summit are fulfilled, it would still put us on a pathway for a 3 C (4.8 F) world, the United Nations has warned.

Achieving the two-degree goal

remains a serious challenge.

Strauss and colleagues apply on a global scale the same methodology they used for a recent study that focused on temperature-linked sea level rise in the United States, published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That study concluded that both Miami and New Orleans are doomed to crippling impacts.

In the new report, the country hit hardest by sea level rise under a 4 C scenario is China.

Today, some 145 million people live in Chinese cities and coastal areas that would eventually become ocean were temperatures to climb that high.

Four of the 10 most devastated megacities would be Chinese: land occupied today by 44 million people in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong and Taizhou would be underwater.

India, Vietnam and Bangladesh

do not fare much better. All told, Asia is home to 75 percent of the populations that today reside in zones that would no longer be classified as land in a climate-altered future.

Thirty-four million people in Japan, 25 million the United States, 20 million in the Philippines, 19 million Egypt and 16 million in Brazil are also in future 4 C seascapes.

While the 2 C scenario is also grim, limiting warming to that extent would spare China and other nations much misery, said Strauss.

“There is a world of difference between 2 C and 4 C, which threatens more than double the damage,” he told AFP. “We have a very large choice ahead of us.”

The sea level rise corresponding to 2 C would eventually be 4.7 metres, and for 4 C almost double that, the study found.

The projections are based on climate models taking into account the expansion of ocean water as it warms, the melting of glaciers, and the decay of both the Greenland and West Antarctic icesheets.

Timing is harder to predict, Strauss said: “It is easier to estimate how much ice will eventually melt from a certain amount of warming than how quickly it will melt.”

Normally a study of this nature would be published by a peerreviewed journal, as was the earlier research on the US. In this case, however, Strauss felt that the new results should be taken into account ahead of the crucial climate summit in Paris.

“These findings seemed too relevant to COP21” -- the 21st Conference of the Parties, the official name for the UN climate meeting -- “to risk that they be published afterwards,” he said. (afp)

In response to this condition, member of Hanura Faction, I Made Gede Arya Jembawan, revealed that the matter needs to be handled immediately suggesting that the shade giving trees be replaced.

He said that the proposal has also been presented in the report of the recess to the leadership so that it can be followed up by relevant agencies. During his recess with the members of parliament from the Hanura faction in the Denpasar House of Representatives a few days ago, a number of communities at Tainsiat, North Denpasar, expressed their desire to have the trees replaced.

According to Jembawan, the shade giving trees are not only damaging sidewalks but also causing damage to drainage systems which will be a major problem in the rainy season as flooding is sure to occur.

“Therefore, we expect this issue can be followed up on,” he said.

The Hanura faction also hopes that the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency will water

urban parks during the dry season.

If possible, the volume of water designated for watering these plants should be increased because the plants are suffering bur to the prolongs dry season.

Member of the Golkar Faction, I.B. Mayun Komala Putra, hopes that the damages to the sidewalks on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar can be repaired immediately because the damage is very dangerous for pedestrian. “At some points I see the sidewalks are no longer suitable for pedestrians.

They should be immediately repaired,” he said. (kmb12) Shade giving trees are a must in urban areas and Denpasar is no exeption.

Unfortunately, some shade trees have caused damages to infrastructure such as sidewalks as seen on Jalan Pattimura and several other roads in Denpasar.

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HIV/AIDS cases in Bali

Productive age people the worst hit

DENPASAR - Cases of both HIV/AIDS and drug drug addiction in Bali are becoming more common and more complicated. Based on the data of the Bali Health Agency, HIV and AIDS case was first discovered in Bali in 1987. Since then there have been a total of 12, 667 recorded cases on the island - that’s an average of 120 new cases a month.

“Transmission of the disease does not only happen amonst high-risk groups such as sex workers, IDU (injecting drug users—Ed), homosexuals, prostitutes or customers, but also to housewives, teenagers, children and toddler,” said Deputy Governor of Bali, Ketut Sudikerta.

Based on their data, Sudikerta said that more than 80 percent of HIV/AIDS cases strike productive age people and sexually active people between the ages of 14-49 years old. Junior and high school students and the labor force fall into this age range. Modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS are risky or unprotected sex, sharing use of needles contaminated with the HIV virus and by mother to baby.

“HIV is not transmitted by shaking hands, hugging, or by living or working with people who are infected with HIV and AIDS,” he explained.

The government of Bali has a policy of coordinating meetinsg with the regents and mayors across Bali so as to improve and promote the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN) at schools and AIDS village cadres (KDPA) throughout Bali’s villages.

Chief of the Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, said that 4,974 of the 12,667 HIV/AIDS cases in Bali are found in the city of Denpasar. And 38 percent of the cases occur with people between the ages of 20-29 years. HIV transmission is therefore taking place with school age people because the incubation period of the disease is five to ten years.

IBP/File Photo “To reduce the transmission rate of HIV/AIDS amongst young people, the The file photo shows young people held peaceful demonstration during World AIDS Day. government has to take concrete measures such as by the establishing KSPAN in Cases of both HIV/AIDS and drug drug addiction in Bali are becoming more common junior high, high schools and vocational schools. This KSPAN can provide complete and more complicated. Based on the data of the Bali Health Agency, HIV and AIDS case information to the younger generation about how to prevent the transmission of was first discovered in Bali in 1987.

HIV/AIDS and the hazards of drugs,” he said. (kmb32)

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Gendo went on to explain that forest management were in fact under the jurisdiction of customary villages who manage their fresh independently based on local values.

“For examples, Bangli has bamboo forests, while there are bamboo forest in Bangli, while Tenganan Pegringsingan village and Sangeh village have village forests, Padangtegal has a monkey forest etc. Ironically, the government that has taken charge of Bali’s forests is relatively ignorant about forest preservation compared to these villagers,” he said.

Gendo also explained that when the amount of forested areas in Bali falls under 30 percent, environmental balance is threatened and forests cannot function as they should, and that water sources are therefor also threatened. We are seeing the consequences now as 50 of Bali’s watersheds have been severly damaged, some have even been destroyed he said while emphasizing that damage to watersheds is directly related to the condition of Bali’s forests.

“Although excessive water consumption is certainly another contributing factor, there is no doubt that the poor condition of Bali’s forests is also a major cause for the water crisis that Bali now faces. Considering the ever-increasing amount of human activity and global warming, we cannot afford to have the amount of forested areas in Bali fall under the minimum requirements,” he said.

Manager of International Conservation for the region of Bali, I Made Iwan Dewantama, confirmed that that the fact of Bali’s forested areas having fallen short of minimum standards has caused an increase in the number of areas in Bali that are considered to be in critical condition. Land in critical condition is caused by a reduction in forest

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After the success of his Human Roots collection, Mickael continued his quest for the meaning of life, focusing his work on the effect of time on wooden surfaces as a mirror of life. The result is a beautiful mix of smooth carved lines in symbiosis with the natural effect of erosion. According to Mickael Obrenovitch, Lifetime is, “The period of time during which someone is alive or something exists.” The collection consists of 16 magnificent artworks. It is a silent discussion with kemboja (frangipani) wood dried for more than 20 years on the ground and enhanced usuing Balinese carving techniques. This unique collection was created in 2015, and it is the artist’s latest

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These wooden sculptures are ready to welcome loyalty guests and partners in the lobby, garden, and in our public area corridors. They are open to all to admire and are also available for purchase for those who love art. The exhibition will run from 8 December 2015 to 6 March 2016. Offering both avant garde art and unsurpassed hospitality, Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana invites you to experience Mickael Obrenovitch’s magnificent creations.

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tourists visited Monkey Forest at Gianyar, Bali Island. Bali currently has 130,686 hectares of forested area, approximately 20 percent of the land area of the island whereas legislation mandates that at least 30 percent of the island remain forest.

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Established in green belt

Butterfly Park threatened with closure Chairman of Commission III, A.A. Gede Agung Wiramantara agreed with Artawa adding that other than the issue of the violating green belt regulations, this newly opened business has not paid their taxes. The House of Representatives will also recommend the closure of other businesses committing similar violations. The recommendation of the parliament related to this matter will be delivered through a common view of each faction in the next plenary session.

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as forests plays a vital function in sustaining the people of the island of the gods.

“Forests ensure that rain water seeps into the ground instead of washing directly into the ocean and thus work in tandem with natural reservoirs like lakes. It is therefor imperative that the government makes sure that eh remaining 20 percent of forests not be jeopardized,” said Dewantama.

Issues related to forests and issues related to water are interrelated and official data has already shown that the condition of Bali’s water supplies is very worrying. Dewantama’s own research on subaks (Balinese irrigation cooperatives) also showed that nearly 50 percent of Bali’s subak are already facing water shortages despite their having been named a world cultural heritage that must be protected.

“The government must be able to convey the extent of forests that are really covered by trees at this time, both inside and outside of forest areas. I see more and more land outside of forested that is in critical condition.

In other words, many community gardens that are planted with large trees such as durian are then converted into coffee plantation or planted with vegetables,” he said.

Dewantama also said that the government needs to begin to pay attention to these community gardens even though they are on privately owned land. Moreover, the provincial government has now been given full authority to manage forest area under regional government Law No. 23/2014. (kmb32)

GIANYAR - In a recent meeting of the Gianyar House of Representatives concerning the licensing of the Butterfly Park at Kemenuh came under fire.

According to Chairman of the Commission I, Nyoman Artawa, the Butterfly Park clearly violates the spatial regulations that forbid licenses to be issued for projects within a green belt. Strangely an license was apparently issued, because this tourist attraction is in operation within a green belt. “Therefore the government has no choice but to close down this business that has already received a reprimand from the Municipal Police,” he added.

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Interestingly, Deputy Chairman of the Gianyar House of Representatives, Made Togog expressed a different point of view. He denied that there will be recommendations made by each faction regarding the Butterfly Park. He argued that the meeting only discussed the general budgetary policy (KUA) and priority of provisional budgetary limit (PPAS) 2016. “We only discussed the general budgetary policy and priority of provisional budgetary limit. As for the

Butterfly Park only Commission I has made any recommendations, not the other factions of the House. The matter should be discussed first,” he said.

When asked about the green belt licensing violation at the Butterfly Park, Togog said that the matter needs further study and the regent and related agencies need to be summoned to obtain more detailed information.

“It still needs clarification,” he said. (kmb25)

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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.

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‘Spectre’ shoots to $73 million, misses ‘Skyfall’s’ mark

LOS ANGELES — It took the combination of James Bond and Charlie Brown to save the box office after a disastrous few weekends of flops. Both “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” reinvigorated moviegoers who turned out in droves to check out the new fare, including buzzy limited-release titles like “Spotlight.”

“Spectre” took an easy firstplace spot with an estimated $73 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday, to become the second-biggest Bond opening of all time. The 24th film in the 53-yearold series stars Daniel Craig as the dapper spy and cost a reported $250 million to produce.

Domestically, “Spectre” failed to live up to the record-breaking standard set by “Skyfall,” which debuted to $88.4 million in 2012 and went on to become the first film in the franchise to earn over $1 billion worldwide.

“We never expected it to open to the level of ‘Skyfall.’ It was a very dif-

ferent scenario. The competition was different, the weekend was different,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution. “One thing I am certain of is that the Bond franchise is as healthy and strong as ever.”

Distributor Sony, who co-produced the film with Eon Productions and MGM, tried to manage expectations going into the weekend, predicting an opening in the $60 million range.

“It’s still a great number,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst. “For a franchise that’s over 50 years old, it’s really an astounding achievement.”

“Spectre’s” worldwide take is a

different story. The film opened No. 1 in all 71 territories and earned a total of $117.8 million. It has earned a whopping $300 million worldwide in less than two weeks and still has yet to open in a few major markets, including China.

Stateside, though, reviews have been mixed, and “Spectre,” unlike “Skyfall,” had competition in its first weekend in theaters with another beloved set of characters — Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

“The Peanuts Movie” provided a family-friendly alternative to James Bond’s guns and martinis and took second place with a strong $45 million. The film cost around $100 million to make.

Audiences, 70 percent of whom were families, gave “The Peanuts Movie” a strong A CinemaScore, suggesting that word of mouth will be strong for the animated pic. (ap)

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Forest succumb to pressure of development

Life in Bali under threat

BALI currently has 130,686 hectares of forested area, approximately 20 percent of the land area of the island whereas legislation mandates that at least 30 percent of the island remain forest. The rapid development of building projects is in large part to blame for the degradation of Bali’s forests.

“Examples of projects built on previously forested lands included the geothermal plant built in the protected forests of Bedugul, villa development in the Dasong forest and accommodation development in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park.

The two latter projects have fragmented the forest in terms of both quality and quantity,” said environmentalist, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, in Denpasar recently.

The Bali Mandara Toll road is another example of encroachment on forested land, added Gendo. Reduction in the amount of forested land also affects the quality of existing forests as zoning laws are changed, which is allegedly due to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“Such examples would indicate that the Government of Bali does not have a clear system for forest management or if it does, it is clearly not running properly,” said Gendo.

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In this image released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, Monica Bellucci, left, and Daniel Craig appear in a scene from the James Bond film, “Spectre.”

The movie releases in U.S. theaters on Nov. 6, 2015.

Justin Bieber says ‘Sorry’ again - in Spanish

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NEW YORK - Pop idol Justin Bieber is finding a new way to say “Sorry” -- in Spanish. Two weeks after releasing the hit single, Bieber on Friday put out a new “Latino remix” of “Sorry” that features the Colombian reggaeton star J. Balvin.

Bieber, a prolific social media user, announced the bilingual mix with a video on Instagram showing him on the phone with Balvin.

The two ran into each other in July at the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Los Angeles, where Balvin was seen on camera teaching Bieber the word “parcero” -- Colombian Spanish slang for “dude.”

“What’s up, ‘parcero’?” Balvin asks Bieber in Spanish on the new video, adding, “Hey, I love the new song ‘Sorry.’ It’s brutal and the women love it.”

Bieber, sporting a baseball cap in what appears to be a hotel room, replies in English, “Yeah,

Latina girls are gonna go crazy.”

The remix starts off as the original version of “Sorry,” with a smooth tropical-house beat as the 21-year-old Canadian superstar sings in English, “I know that I let you down / Is it too late to say I’m sorry now?”

Balvin then sings and raps his own original verses in Spanish. The theme goes along the same lines, with Balvin saying: “I just want you to forgive me / If you and I can’t be / Forget everything, I’m going to fail.”

Since its release, “Sorry” has drawn speculation that Bieber is singing about his past relationship with fellow former teen star Selena Gomez or more generally about his personal travails that have kept him in the tabloids.

“Sorry” was the second single off Bieber’s first album in three years, “Purpose,” which comes out on November 13. (afp)

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The local tourism industry has incurred losses worth around Rp45 billion due to the impact of Mount Barujari’s eruption in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara Province, according to the Bali tourism office.

Bali tourism suffers IDR45 billion losses due to volcanic eruption

KUTA - The local tourism industry has incurred losses worth around Rp45 billion due to the impact of Mount Barujari’s eruption in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara Province, according to the Bali tourism office. “(Frequent) closures of the airport caused losses amounting to some Rp45 billion,” Head of the Bali tourism office Agung Yuniartha stated on Monday.

Until the morning of Nov. 9, some 25 thousand foreign tourists had cancelled their visit to Bali as the airport had been frequently closed since Nov. 3.

The Bali tourism industry was significantly affected since the tourists had to cancel their hotel bookings.

“Overall, the tourism industry has suffered losses in revenue.

There were cancellations of hotel room reservations. The loss is estimated to reach US$1.5 thousand on a daily basis,” he affirmed.

A total of at least 700 flights were cancelled due to the airport being closed several times.

Re-opened State-owned airport operator PT Angkas Pura I has reopened the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, after it was closed on Sunday due to volcanic ash from the erupting Mount Barujari in neighboring Lombok, West Nusa Tenngara.

“The airport has resumed operations starting 6:45 a.m. Central Indonesian Standard Time because the Barujari volcanic ash has blown away from Bali according to the meteorology office,” Co-General Manager of PT Angkasa Pusa I of the Ngurah Rai airport I Gusti Ngurah Ardita said.

The airport operator and regulator, the meteorology office and other concerned institutions will make an hourly evaluation to see the weather pattern, according to him.

The airport authorities have issued a notice to airmen (Notam) No. C-2527/15 regarding the airport’s reopening.

The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali was closed again from 09.45 p.m. on Sunday as

volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Barujari moved in the direction of the resort island.

The closure has been notified to all flight personnel, Sherly Yunita, spokesperson of state owned company PT Angkasa Pura I which operates the airport, said on Sunday.

“Notam number A2524/15 has been issued,” Yunita said.

In its website on Sunday, the airport also announced the closure.

“Because of the matter, all flights from and to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport have been cancelled until further notice,” she said.

Earlier, the Bali airport authorities closed down the airport on Tuesday and decided to extend its closure period until Friday morning.

However, the airport resumed operations on Thursday afternoon after it was declared normal to operate. The decision to reopen the airport was also based on the fact that the airport was clear of any volcanic ash.

Despite being reopened on Thursday at 02.30 p.m. local time, the airport has not been operating fully, with 19 international flights being cancelled on Friday. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.