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Sinatra auction fetches $9.2m in New York NEW YORK - It was definitely “All” rather than “Nothing at All” at a Frank Sinatra auction in New York, where items owned by the late icon and his fourth wife fetched $9.2 million, Sotheby’s said Friday.

And 99 percent of the lots, spread out this week in the US financial and entertainment capital, and online, were snapped up, attracting 300 bidders from more than 30 countries, the auction house announced.

Up for grabs was furniture, art and personal effects dating back to the couple’s 22-year marriage -- art and furniture from their homes in Palm Springs, Los Angeles and Malibu -- as well as scripts and screenplays. The top lot was Barbara Sinatra’s 20-carat diamond engagement ring, given to her in the bottom of a champagne glass, which went for $1.7 million.

Many of the items fetched substantially more than their pre-sale estimates. They included a Norman Rockwell portrait of Sinatra, which the singer commissioned, sold for $687,000 and a script for “From Here to Eternity,” the movie for which he won an Oscar, went for $35,000.

The USA Drinking Team jacket marked “Coach” that Sinatra wore for nights on the town with his friends sold for $35,000 -- 70 times its $500 estimate.

A police badge given to Sinatra

by Essex County New Jersey and inscribed “chairman of the board, Frank Sinatra” went for a whopping $18,750 and a hand-crocheted yarmulke emblazoned with Frank’s name fetched $9,375.

Of the memorabilia tracing Sinatra’s friendship with every US president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, a color photograph inscribed by Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan sold for $68,750.

The son of Italian immigrants and born in New Jersey in 1915, Sinatra was one of the best loved entertainers of the 20th century with hits such as “Strangers in the Night,” “My Way” and “All or Nothing at All.” He first married teenage sweetheart Nancy Barbato (19391949), with whom he had three children, then Hollywood stars Ava Gardner (195157) and Mia Farrow (1966-68). He married Barbara in 1976. She died last year. (afp)

Mexican volunteer crowned Miss World

Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, has a degree in international business, volunteers for “Migrantes en el Camino” and is on the board of directors of a rehab centre for girls, according to the Miss World website.

She was crowned as the 68th Miss World by last year’s winner, Manushi Chhillar of India, in the coastal city of Sanya.

The colourful ceremony included US group Sister Sledge performing their 1979 disco anthem “We Are Family.”

First runner up was Thailand’s Nicolene Pichapa Limsnukan, a 20-year-old studying business administration.

Miss Belarus Maria Vasilevich, Miss Jamaica Kadijah Robinson and Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo were also among the final five.

It is the eighth time the Miss World final has been held in Sanya, which first hosted the pageant in 2003.

At the finals three years ago controversy erupted as officials in Hong Kong stopped Miss Canada, Anastasia Lin, from boarding a plane bound for Sanya, telling her she would not receive a visa. The 25-year old actress claimed the decision was due to her stance on China’s human rights record, including its persecution of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual group of which she is a practitioner. (afp) Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon waves after winning the 68th Miss World contest final in Sanya, on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan on December 8, 2018.

In this file photo taken on November 30, 2018 a Sotheby’s employee tags Sinatra memorabilia at Sotheby’s in New York.

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A sub-Saharan migrant shows injuries he sustained while trying to scale the Ceuta fence, at Ouled Ziane camp in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Hunger, lice, filth: Moroccan camp shows migrant challenges

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CASABLANCA - As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a Casablanca camp rife with hunger, misery, lice and filth.

These sub-Saharan Africans who dream of going to Europe are a symbol of the problems world dignitaries are trying to address with the U.N.’s first migration compact, being finalized at a conference in Marrakech on Monday and Tuesday.

Rising numbers of migrants live in the makeshift camp that sprung up on a soccer field near a busy Casablanca bus station, where they are bedded down under tents or shacks built from plastic and wood.

Scant food, a lack of heat and no sanitation are the main worries at

the Oulad Ziane camp, as lice and respiratory infections are becoming endemic.

Morocco embodies multiple dilemmas facing the countries meeting in Marrakech: It’s a major source of Europe’s migrants but is also a transit country as well as a migrant host for other Africans fleeing poverty and persecution.

The 34-page U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is to be formally approved in Marrakech, Morocco, on Dec. 10-11. But the United States and several European countries have said they won’t sign on.

The Oulad Ziane camp houses African migrants seeking to reach Europe via the western Mediterranean route to Spain after crackdowns by Italy and Malta have slowed smuggling traffic in the eastern Mediterranean. Many of the migrants have already tried the journey north to Morocco’s border with Spain, only to be pushed away

by Moroccan police, sometimes violently.

In the meantime they look for work in Casablanca, hoping to earn enough to pay smugglers to try once again.

New arrivals at the Casablanca camp came after clashing violently with Moroccan border agents as they tried to scale the fence separating Morocco from Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

“I am only here to recover. I come and go,” said 19-year-old Guinean Ibrahim Bah, who arrived days ago with open wounds on his wrists, arms and back.

“Moroccan forces caught us and beat us. They broke one of my friend’s arms, handcuffed us and crammed us on a bus. This time they dropped us in Casablanca but usually they take us far to the south,” he said.

Government officials didn’t respond to requests for comment on inhumane treatment of migrants or the Casablanca camp, but Morocco’s government describes the country’s migration policy as “exemplary.” That mostly refers to reforms launched in 2014, largely funded by the EU, to encourage migrants to stay in Morocco.

More than 23,096 migrants have been given Moroccan residency since 2014 and the authorities are currently processing about 25,000 other applications.

Still, more than 6,500 SubSaharan migrants and refugees were arrested and pushed back on buses to southern Morocco or toward Algeria between July and September 2018, according to an anti-racist group Gadem.

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To support coastal culinary merchant association

ITDC holds a cooking class MANGUPURA - As a measure to support the coastal merchant community in the Nusa Dua area to continuously improve their capabilities in culinary matters, the Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) returned to provide training and guidance through the Community Development Partnership program on Friday (Dec. 7). They were gathered to take part in the cooking class provided by Indonesia Chef Association.

According to the Operational Division Head of ITDC Nusa Dua, Made Pariwijaya, the traders are expected to be able to increase their capacity and capability in providing food and beverage. Through this cooking class, they are trained

to improve service standards and quality standards presented by merchant associations.

Pariwijaya said the training is very important to create a balance, equality and equal distribution of income in the Nusa Dua region.

Thus, it is creating complementary relationships because it is realized ITDC will not progress without the support of the supporting community. “Through this training, in the future the menu of local cuisine in Nusa Dua will be standardized,

whoever serves the traders is expected to be able to maintain the present standards,” he concluded.

He planned to create a special menu specifically for Nusa Dua featured in accordance with regional characteristics and potential. By that way, people will remember when they come to Nusa Dua and they must know their typical menus. “For this time, we have trained about 30 people from three communities, each of which has 10 people, namely

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The opening of the cooking class held by ITDC

the Sekar Sari association, Peninsula and Yasa Segara,” he said.

He admitted the training and coaching will be carried out continuously because in the future the traders would be made a kind of street food festival or Balinese festival. They will also be involved more in the Nusa Dua Heritage Food Festival, Nusa Dua Fiesta and other events in Nusa Dua. “We are confident it will increasingly make the Peninsula Island more attractive, which will have an impact on regional occupancy,” he assured.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the LPM Benoa, Wayan Ambara Putra, who was present at the opening, hoped the beach merchant community will later be able to improve food and service standards. The training is expected to further enrich the food variants presented. Do not let all the merchants have the same food menus, so as to make them less attractive to prospective buyers.

“Hopefully, it does not only train western food, but also traditional or local food, which of course has been modified better,” he hoped.

He hoped to provide a plus value for tourists and traders themselves, as well as increase the motivation of merchants. In addition to the quality, hygiene, quality of food presentation and variety of food are certainly very important without leaving the tradition of the Nusa Dua. (kmb23)

Breaking coastal borderline

Nengah Suma’s stall asked to be soon dismantled AMLAPURA - The stall owned by I Nengah Suma on Amed Beach, Abang sub-district, was ordered to be dismantled by the Head of the Karangasem Municipal Police.

Demolition of the stall was carried out based on the demolition warrant filed by the Chief of Karangasem Municipal Police due to violating the coastal borderline.

Secretary of the Karangasem Municipal Police, I Made Subagia Wijaya, confirmed on Friday (Dec. 7) that his office already issued a warrant signed directly by the Chief of Municipal Police, Ketut Wage Saputra. He said the stall owner, Ketut Suma, actually had been repeatedly fostered.

In addition, three reprimand letters have been given to him.

Since they were ignored, finally it was issued the third reprimand letter. However, the reprimand letter in order to build the business premise violating the regulations concerning the costal borderline was ignored as well.

Wijaya said the Municipal Police finally sent a demolition warrant of No.3314/575/bid. Trantib/Satpol PP/2018.

The warrant ordered the owner of jutting stall towards the beach to dismantle the building itself as violating the coastal borderline. Moreover, the demolition warrant was not heeded within a period of seven days from the issuance of the letter, so that it will be demolished by the Municipal Police and the

judicial team of legal products of the Karangasem district on Monday (Dec. 10).

“We hope the owner Nengah Suma to dismantle the building by himself. Otherwise, his institution from the Karangasem district has requested assistance from police authority to carry out demolition on Monday three days later.

This measure is meant to arrange the beach and avoid clutter so the tourism runs sustainably. The government has a duty to regulate it, so that it does not become chaotic,” he said.

The measure of Municipal Police refers to the Law No.23/2014 concerning Regional Government, Government Regulation No.16/2018 concerning Municipal Police and a number of regional rules to Regional Regulation No.17/2012 concerning Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW), Regional Bylaw No.4/2013 concerning Public Order as amendment to Karangasem Regulation No. 4/2010 concerning Public Order as well as the regulation of the Regent of Karangasem No.45/2015 concerning the standard operating procedures of the Karangasem Municipal Police.

On the other hand, Nengah Suma admitted to have received a demolition warrant from the Karangasem Municipal Police on Monday (Dec. 3). He said the location declaring to have violated the coastal borderline by the Municipal Police

is not a stall but salt farming hut. “I really have a business premise in the form of a stall almost near the mainland.

However, the building to sell drinks for tourists or local tourists stands on my private certified property. Meanwhile, the property on the sand is salt farming container. I place the traditional salt drying platform because the results are better if it is dried on the sand. If Municipal Police want to dismantle, it is okay,” he said.

Suma said he will not carry out the demolition by himself but is waiting for the Municipal Police. He also questioned why he was ordered to dismantle his own property because there are also many other violating buildings in the coastal borderline. Suma, among others, mentioned three businesses such as a stall and place to sell drinks and bars. Suma admitted that initially the Municipal Police had visited the location of his stall and the salt farming hut after receiving a report from fishermen. Actually, the salt drying place is located 50 meters if the seawater recedes.

But when high tide occurs the distance is 10 to 15 meters.

“My location is in the middle. When drying sand for salt farming, I prefer doing it to mainland and adjacent place to get sunligh, because my place is flanked by other businesses,” he explained. (kmb41)

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Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa Resort receives Super Platinum III Tri Hita Karana Award 2018 Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa receives Super Platinum III, the highest category of Bali’s prestigious Tri Hita Karana Awards.

The resort was recognized for its continuous commitment & achievements in sustainable tourism.

Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa was recognized based on strict evaluation in the practice of harmonious living, culture and operational concept.

“The award is a source of great pride to our hotel, and it reflects our dedication in creating the best possible environment for employees and guests. We will continue to maintain the philosophy of Tri Hita

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Disagreeing with riverside house purchase of Ade

Sumiarna had his house sold

DENPASAR — Komang Sumiarna, cousin’s grandfather of I Made Oktora Dwi Palguna, 30, had ordered Made Oktora (victim) to sell the house affected by the landslide. He sees the location of the house owned by Ade, his nickname, is at the edge of the river and under Ade’s house stands a beji (holy baths) and temple.

Shooting wildlife with a camera on a Botswana Safari

BOTSWANA - These days many people’s experience of photography is limited to snapping selfies on their phones. Imagine if you’re given a full sized professional camera and taught how to use it.

He tells me to never switch off the camera, always give the subject enough room in the frame and remember to leave space for hidden legs of animals in water. His one bush survival tip is “Never panic!”

Even better, set out on an African safari and get so close to the animals that you can’t fail to get good shots. Of course it also helps that there’s always a tutor on hand to prevent you pressing the wrong buttons.

Shooting an elephant

Pangolin Photo Safari, Okavango Delta

I start my Pangolin Photo Safari in the Okavango Delta.

Getting there involves flying from Johannesburg to Maun, then transferring to a smaller 12 seater plane and crossing the Delta to land on a makeshift airstrip near the village of Khwai.

It’s then a bumpy ride in a bush vehicle to Pangolin’s lodge.

This really is the middle of nowhere where villagers still risk life and limb, venturing out into the bush, to cut the grasses. They sell them for thatch, earning money to buy school books and uniforms for their children. I bump into two of them as I set out in the late afternoon. They’re on their way home, but sometimes they don’t make it.

This is lion country and I’m whisked off to see a big male and smaller female waking from their afternoon nap. They’re hungry so we watch them stealthily stalking an impala.

Unfortunately, night is falling and when it gets too dark to see anything we return to camp. That night my fitful slumber is disturbed by the roaring of lions, braying of hyenas and the chomping of hippos.

Don’t panic

Next day, I’m given my camera with its 150-600mm zoom lens and Dan, my instructor takes me through the basics of safari photography.

Later, I’m put to the test when I’m about to enter a hide to observe elephants at a water hole. There’s a solitary bull who I think will make a good shot so I point my camera. He’s not pleased, trumpets loudly and starts to charge and of course I jump straight into the safety of the hide.

Dan is amused. He tells me that it was only a mock charge – if the elephant holds his head high and has his ears forward, there’s nothing to worry about. I prefer watching from safety and the elephants come so close to the hide that the dust thrown up by their huge feet sullies my lens.

My other indispensable companion is Wax, the spotter driver. Over the next few days he tracks leopard and lions in a landscape with no roads and no discernible features. He fords deep rivers and bludgeons through intractable parts of the bush in pursuit of his quarry. Along with the big cats we stumble across a huge herd of around 150 elephants, complete with babies and wait to catch hippos throwing their heads out of water in that classic hippo yawn.

Kasane

After three glorious days I take a small plane to Kasane, on the Chobe River which has game in abundance. I’m staying at the Pangolin Hotel on a hill above the river, a brand new facility specially designed for budding photographers. The guides are all professionals and their captivating wildlife pictures adorn the walls of the hotel. As in Khwai, each guest gets a camera on loan and goes out morning and afternoon, learning the craft of wildlife photography.

They also have purpose built boats equipped with 360 degree camera mounts. Morning finds hippos munching on grass on the bank, and huge crocs sunning themselves with their jaws wide open. Baboons play by the water and waterbucks come to drink. There’s time to linger, observe all, and also to get those special shots. Afternoon sees large herds of elephants playing in the mud, and a sighting of an elusive leopard in a tree.

There are also game drives through the National Park twice a day. One memorable morning I get to see four of the big five – lions, leopards, buffalo, elephants, all close enough to almost touch. In the evening we run across three lionesses with 6 month old cubs, all out to play, just having fun.

In the evening the tutors will patiently view your pictures in a custom editing room in the hotel and give you useful tips. Some of my fellow guests have only used their phones for pictures before and I see their joy as they get acquainted with their new toys. They come away with shots of animals of a quality they could only dream of. And of course it’s all down to the patience of the tutors and the skill of the trackers.

On my last day, in the late afternoon, I have the big zoom lens of my Canon 80D focussed on an old battered Buffalo, busy chomping away by the water. He’s seemingly unaware of the two young lions, perhaps brother and sister, behind him.

They’re gradually creeping forward, keeping low in the grass. It can only be a matter of time, but the light is disappearing fast.

Suddenly one of them moves to attack, but the buffalo stands his ground, lowering his horns, ready to charge. This is enough to send his attacker back to his twin and we wonder if there’s going to be a concerted effort. But no, they’re too inexperienced and hold back, unsure of further action. We drop our cameras and the old buffalo wanders off into the sunset. This is the one that got away. (IBP/net)

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Aside from residential areas and schools, the market did not escape from the brunt of the flood.

310 merchants at Kumbasari Market inundated

DENPASAR — Heavy rains flushing Denpasar and surrounding areas on Saturday (Dec. 8) caused a number of locations to be flooded.

Aside from residential areas and schools, the market did not escape from the brunt of the flood. As what happened to merchants at Kumbasari Market on Jalan Gajah Mada, this market was submerged to as high as 1.25 meters due to the overflowing water of Badung River. At least, 310 kiosks of local merchants on the first floor were submerged since 2:45 and just receded at 5:30 local time.

One of the kiosk assistants, Ayung, said that similar incident had occurred for four times. However, this time’s incident is fairly fast receding. Previously, the water passed through the shelf where the merchandise was displayed.

“Floods like this often occur when the rainy season arrives,” said this shopkeeper of Eka Jaya.

Meanwhile, Director of PD Pasar Denpasar, A.A. Yuliarta, when met on the sidelines of monitoring the merchants stated that of around 730 merchants at Kumbasari Market, at least 310 merchants were affected by the flood. As a result, the losses suffered reached around IDR 95 million. “Gold leaf clothes ex-

posed to water certainly can no longer be used. Surely, this causes merchants to lose,” said Yuliarta.

He told the water entered the merchant’s kiosks through channels in the drainage. Because of its lower position, the river water went inside. By and large, the channel functioned to dispose of the water inside. The river water cannot enter into the courtyard because the walls are quite high.

Responding to this condition, a member of Commission III of the Denpasar House of Representatives, A.A. Sushrusa Ngurah Putra, who immediately monitored the floods in the market, said that last Saturday, it is needed to restructure the market. For example, it can be done by making the first floor into parking lot, so that merchants do not continue to experience disasters like this.

In addition to Kumbasari Market, floods also hit a number of locations. From observation made last Saturday, the flood returned to hit the residential area on Jalan Pura Demak. The water level reached more than one meter. The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) officers and Center for Operations Control have carried out evacuation handling for residents trapped in the flood. (kmb)

“I really did not agree when Ade purchased the house there. I told him to immediately sell it. Moreover, I have scared Ade if he would be sought after by woman ghost or kuntilanak. I mean that it is not appropriate to have a house directly behind the river.

Moreover, there are temples in the area,” he said on Saturday (Dec. 8).

He had no feeling whatsoever before his grandson’s family experienced such a disaster. Ade is working at the BRI on Jalan Gajah Mada Office. With Ade’s family, Komang Sumiarna is very familiar, chiefly with the second son of the victim. That’s why he really feels lost.

Similarly, he is very close to Komang Sumiarna because he feels to be in the same boat as Ade. Since childhood, Ade used to live independently. “Whatever I told him, he might comply with, and always consulted with me,” he said.

However, regarding the matter of home, Ade did not consult with his grandfather. “When he bought the house, he didn’t tell me,” he said. He was shocked when invited to attend the Melaspas or inauguration ritual and made a new shrine, he saw the house is next to the river and leaned directly against the ground wall.

The house with two bedrooms is not very spacious and spreading across 80 square meters. Ade applied for a mortgage to buy the house. Only two years ago, the house was occupied by Ade. Sumiarna had disagreed with Ade living in that house because before being occupied there were three houses in the area having been hit by landslides for several times.

“When the house was empty, it had been hit by a landslide for several times. Two houses were repaired

by the owner. Only the last house, occupied by Ade, seemed to have not been repaired. I was angry about the iron materials.

Previously, Ade had contracted a house near the house of Komang Sumiarna. Close relationship between Komang Sumiarna and the homeowner made Ade get a discounted price, from IDR 25 million to IDR 11 million per year. However, when deciding to buy this avalanched house Ade did not consult.

Ade was born and grew up in Lombok. Moreover, his mother, Hartini, is still on duty at BBPOM Lombok.

Meanwhile, Ade’s father, Komang Rudi, is sick and living in Singaraja, Jawa hamlet, as his hometown. Ade moved to Bali and continued his junior high school until he attended college education in Bali.

Komang Sumiarna said when participating in the evacuation of the body of his great grandsons and grandson, he had predicted the victims could not be saved especially his great grandson. A two-year old child buried under landslide for about 3 hours, according to him, will not be able to survive.

The bodies of one family buried by landslides were found one by one. Made Oktara is a survivor among the five victims buried by the landslides. The five victims belong to one family, namely Ade’s wife, Lintang Ayu Widi Merti, 33, and three children namely Putu Delta Larasati, 6, Made Dian Aditya Palguna, 4, and Nyoman Adi Anggara Palguna, 2. Made Oktara is the father and husband of the deceased victims. Currently Made Oktara is being treated at Sanglah Hospital.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Dewa Ketut Kresna stated the victims were received at 10:20. They were referred from Dharma Yadnya Hospital at Tohpati, Denpasar.

The victim has an abdominal injury and a fracture (broken) on the arm. “Currently the patient is being operated on for treatment of abdominal wounds. In addition, there is a fracture in the arm but the fracture will be dealt with after getting treatment in operation chamber,” he said. As scheduled, the bodies of all the victims will be cremated at the Pasek Foundation of Cekomaria considering they were families of diaspora. (kmb42)

The bodies of one family buried by landslides were found one by one.

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Loss of water absorption, River borderline used for building

DENPASAR - Landslide disaster afflicting to a home at Sasih hamlet, Batubulan, claiming some casualties really touched us together. It was not the fault of heavy rain of last Friday night until Saturday morning, but posed a human error.

A Bali spatial observer who is also the Chairperson of the Alumni Association of the Sepuluh November Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS), I Wayan Mahardika, shook his head responding to such incident. Similar disasters will even threaten other Balinese people living in the riverbanks. All of these happened due to human greed as used up the land areas allocated for water absorption. Clearly, the

river borderline area is now taken advantage for settlements.

Wayan Mahardika assessed that government must be present to organize all the areas in Bali. Do not ever think that as long as the land is sold out, the problem is over and the government gets taxes from it.

This Deputy Chairperson of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry assessed that so far there has been no synchronization be-

tween the district government and the National Land Agency (BPN) related to the riverbank.

Moreover, the Bali Water Region Agency claimed to have sent a letter to relevant parties, but no one was paying attention. For Mahardika, there should be firmness of all components. The BPN has seen the field conditions that the resident’s land has become a riverbank (even though it was privately owned).

Meanwhile, the regional government must take strict action where building permit cannot be issued if it violates the river borderline provisions. Furthermore, if there are buildings on riverbank, local government must strictly take action against it. This strict action, said this owner of the Sinar Group from Klungkung, is also to save other owners and residents from disasters that may occur any time.

Thirdly, residents and land brokers can also minimize not to sell land in the water absorption area or river borderline area.

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Japan’s empress-in-waiting ‘insecure’ but vows to serve

TOKYO - Japan’s Crown Princess Masako on Sunday pledged to do her best despite feeling ‘insecure’ about becoming empress in mere months, in a candid statement released on her 55th birthday.

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Emperor Akihito will step down on April 30, 2019 -- the first abdication in the Japanese imperial family in more than two centuries.

His eldest son and Masako’s husband Naruhito will ascend to the throne the next day.

“Even though I feel insecure about how helpful I will be when I think about the days ahead... I want to devote myself to the happiness of the people so I will make an effort to that end,” said the crown princess.

The Harvard- and Oxford-educated Masako left a promising career as a diplomat to marry into the imperial family in 1993.

She gave birth to Princess Aiko in 2001 but continued to face pressure to produce a son as only male heirs can take the throne under

Japanese law.

The pressure eased in 2006, however, when her sister-in-law gave birth to Prince Hisahito, now 12. She has made few public appearance since 2003 and has struggled with adjustment disorder.

In her birthday statement, Masako revealed she was recuperating from a stress-induced illness ahead of the imperial succession.

“I am delighted at the fact that I can perform more duties than before as I have tried to improve my physical condition,” she said.

But her doctors warned in a separate statement that it is important for the crown princess to continue treatment as she remains vulnerable to fatigue, especially after a large ceremony or successive duties. (afp)

This handout picture taken on December 4, 2018 and provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan on December 7, 2018 shows Japan’s Crown Princess Masako (R) and her husband Crown Prince Naruhito (L) posing for a photograph with their pet dog Yuri at Togu Palace in Tokyo. Crown princess Masako celebrated her 55th birthday on December 9, 2018.

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Over 1,700 arrested in latest ‘yellow vest’ protests in France

School buses previously used by students in Jembrana district will be re-activated.

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School bus reactivated

Services limited to junior high school students downtown

NEGARA - School buses previously used by students in Jembrana district will be re-activated. However, its operations are only limited to the Negara town area and for junior high school students. Only a unit of bus will be operated posing the assistance from the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation.

Head of the Jembrana Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Agency, I Made Dwi Maharimbawa, said on Friday (Dec. 7) the school bus assistance was a proposal from the PKP Jembrana service in 2018 with the specifications of Isuzu NQR having 26 seats. However, he admitted, the operations are still being studied, whether it will be charged or free. “This bus is only operated in the town. Besides, it is also related to the zoning, maybe

for SMPN 1, SMPN 2 and SMP 3 Negara,” said Maharimbawa.

Technically, there will be twice trips in a single transfer or pickup.

After that, the route will be determined around the three junior high schools downtown. Its main function is to familiarize the students with the use of public transportation mode. According to him, this school bus is also a solution for parents that

cannot transfer their children and break down congestion. Besides, it includes avoiding the use of motorcycles by underage students.

The dominantly yellow colored bus was tested last Saturday around the town of Negara. Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, along with a number of agency heads took part in the bus ride. Regent Artha hoped the school bus can be utilized properly,

especially to help transport facilities for students in Jembrana.

According to him, the aspect of transportation services is the responsibility of the government.

“This is part of our support from the government so that students needing school buses can be facilitated, as well as the transportation services care more about children’s rights,” he said. (kmb26)

PARIS - More than 1,700 people were arrested across France during the latest “yellow vest” protests as demonstrators clashing with riot police caused more damage in Paris than a week ago, officials said on Sunday.

Clashes broke out in the French capital and other several cities, including Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse, during a fourth weekend of nationwide protests against rising living costs and President Emmanuel Macron in general.

The embattled president -- whose name rang out across the Champs-Elysees as protesters shouted “Macron, resign” -- is expected to address the demonstrations in a much-anticipated speech in the coming days. A total 1,220 of the 1,723 detained were ordered held in custody, the ministry said.

Police in Paris said they made 1,082 arrests on Saturday, up sharply from 412 in the previous round. The interior ministry said some 136,000 people took part in Saturday’s protests across France, around the same number as on December 1.

But it was Paris which again bore the brunt of the violence and destruction. Protesters in the capital set fire to cars, burned barricades and smashed windows in pockets of violence, clad in their emblematic luminous safety jackets, as armoured vehicles rolled through the streets.

City authorities said the ‘yellow vests’ had caused “much more damage” than on December 1 protests.

“The sector concerned by the incidents was much larger...

With fewer barricades, there was much more dispersion, so many more places were impacted by violence,” Paris deputy Eric FEFERBERG / AFP mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told France Inter radio.

Protestors wearing “yellow vest” (gilet jaune) gesture on December 8, 2018 near the Arc de Triomphe “There was much more damage yesterday than there was a week ago.” (afp) in Paris during a protest against rising costs of living they blame on high taxes.

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US hiring pullback could signal mild slowdown in growth

WASHINGTON - U.S. job growth declined modestly in November, a move that could signal a slower but still steady pace of hiring and growth next year.

The potential for a more anemic economy contributed to a sharp drop in the stock market Friday, sending the Dow Jones average down 560 points, or 2.2%, by market close.

Yet most economists said last month’s job gain of 155,000 is more sustainable than some of the larger increases posted earlier this year. And hiring at last month’s pace would make it easier for the Federal Reserve to slow its interest rate increases, which investors worry are weighing on the economy.

“This is the new Goldilocks,” said Josh Wright, chief economist at iCIMS, a recruiting software company. “Still strong-enough job growth, but a more cautious Fed.” The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7 percent, a nearly five-decade low, for the third straight month, the Labor Department said Friday in its monthly jobs report. Still, the panicky financial markets illustrate how the views of Wall Street and most of the rest of the U.S. can differ.

For most Americans, jobs and incomes are the most important

economic measures. Average hourly earnings increased 3.1% in November from a year earlier, Friday’s report said, only the second time they have climbed that much since the recession ended nine years ago. That’s boosting consumer confidence to nearly 18year highs, spurring more spending, and bolstering winter holiday shopping. Americans lifted their spending in October by the most in seven months.

“We’re still a little surprised to see such a growing panic in markets develop quite so soon given the relatively benign economic backdrop,” Paul Ashworh, an economist at Capital Economics, said in a research note.

Yet for Wall Street, higher pay can crimp corporate profit margins.

Many large, publicly-traded companies are hit by slower growth in places such as Europe and Japan.

They are also more directly affected by tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on a range of imports.

“There is a disconnect between the gloom and doom environ-

ment in financial markets and real economic conditions,” said Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Conference Board, a research group.

Most analysts do expect economic growth to decelerate next year. The boost from the Trump administration’s tax cuts, implemented late last year, is expected to fade. The Fed’s rate hikes could send borrowing costs higher. And the Trump administration has imposed tariffs on almost half of all imports from China, which will remain in place during a 90day window for negotiations announced last weekend.

Those concerns have roiled financial markets, sending major stock indexes down more than 4% this week. That’s the worst weekly decline since March.

Growth is forecast to slow to a still-solid 2% to 2.5% percent, analysts say, down from roughly 3% this year. Hiring will likely decline to about 150,000 a month from just above 200,000 this year, through November.

“The economy continues to churn out new jobs and reflects the strong underlying business conditions that point to steady, albeit slower job growth and eco-

nomic activity in 2019,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at consulting firm RSM. Fed policymakers are still likely to raise short-term interest rates at its meeting later this month, Brusuelas said. But Friday’s report suggests the Fed may not hike rates next year as rapidly as many investors have feared.

The ongoing job gains are pushing down unemployment rates to historically low levels for a variety of groups. The unemployment rate for men aged 20 and above fell last month to 3.3%, the lowest in 18 years. And the rate for Americans with just high school diplomas dropped to 3.5%, the lowest since December 2000. The AfricanAmerican jobless rate declined to 5.9%, matching May’s figure as the lowest on record.

That’s making it more challenging for businesses to find the workers they need. Employers have posted 7 million open jobs, outnumbering the ranks of the unemployed, which fell last month to just under 6 million.

Michael Mabry, chief operating officer at Mooyah, a fast-causal burger chain mostly located in the South, says his company has had to raise pay and offer more flexible

scheduling to attract new workers.

The company plans to open 15 locations next year, which could create up to 450 new jobs.

Applications have fallen “to an all-time low,” Mabry said.

“We’ve had to get competitive on work-life balance,” Mabry said.

Nearly all employees make at least $10 an hour, and management salaries have risen 5 to 10 percent in the past year, he added.

Nationwide, hiring in November was led by health care firms, which added 40,100 jobs, and manufacturing companies, which hired 27,000 new workers, the most in seven months and a sign that trade tensions have yet to weaken factory hiring.

Strong holiday shopping helped lift retailer hiring by 18,200 in November, the most in six months.

Online spending likely boosted shipping and warehousing jobs, which grew 25,400, the largest in 14 months.

Construction firms added just 5,000 jobs, the fewest in eight months. A weakening housing market, held back by higher mortgage rates, contributed to that decline.

New home building fell 2.6 percent in October from a year earlier. (ap)

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Moment of the Emperor’s Birthday Strengthens Bali-Japan Relations

Mutual understanding is one of the important basic capitals for building a relationship. Moreover, it engages in ‘heart to heart’ relationship. That is why the existence of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood established in 1977 in Fukuoka has remained lasting until now. “Well, I think so.

It’s very simple, as simple as we interpret the life. Devote to God, love others and devote life for the interests of others and done as well as possible.

Do it voluntarily and sincerely,” said senior figure of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, I Gusti Kompyang Pujawan, at a dinner program on Monday night (Dec. 3).

The event attended by the members of brotherhood and Japanese citizens in Bali took place very intimately. It is meant to celebrate the

birthday of the Japanese Emperor. In addition, it surely strengthens brotherhood between the two countries.

One of the concrete manifestations of the brotherhood is the construction of the Mataken Gakko Japanese Language Course. For decades, this free course has done a lot of positive things other than language teaching such as social action on mangrove greening, beach cleanup, Japan-Bali student exchange and others.

“I am a volunteer and very hap-

py to see this friendship continuing to develop into a better and better one,” said Matsumoto Noriyoshi, 87. Although no longer be young, this retired garment entrepreneur is very happy to volunteer at Mataken Gakko. Similar things were expressed by other colleagues such as Sinichi Araki, Asahi Uno, Yuiko Uno and Tatsuya Fukuda.

“I’ve been here for one and a half months. Twice a year, I come to Bali,” said Sinichi Araki.

Atmosphere of Bali makes them feel at home in addition to the commitment to being closer friends.

“Bali is similar to Japan which relies on agriculture. Other than Ceking Terrace at Tegallalang, I haven’t seen all the agricultural areas in Bali,” said Tatsuya Fukuda, a student of the Faculty of Agriculture at Tottori University. When tourism is growing rapidly with all its consequences, of course negative things need to be addressed together.

“Denpasar is crowded and surely there are lots of traffic jams. Similarly, we need to reduce plastic waste,” suggested Yuiko Uno who has been

in Bali for over a year. However, they agreed that Bali is in their heart. Now, it just needs to optimize in order to have a wider impact.

Chairman of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, Anak Agung Gde Widiada, appreciated to the involvement of Japanese citizens in intensely developing the human resources of Bali, especially through the presence of Mataken Gakko. “We continue to reverberate this moment. You can’t back down, let alone go out. Always keep the spirit for the interests of Bali and humanity in general, “he added. (kmb)

Jaja Laklak Also Preferred by Tourists

Jaja laklak (cake) is served with grated coconut together with brown sugar topping. When biting carefully, this cake feels soft and delicious. It is made by Balinese people utilizing rice flour. This cake has circular shape with a diameter of 3 cm and is made with clay mold.

It tastes good and is perfect for sitting in the morning, moreover, if coupled with warm Balinese coffee or tea. Laklak is white because it is not using food coloring, there is also a green one coming from the extract water of suji leaves. Jaja laklak is very easy to carry everywhere, so it’s good for food gift.

This cake is usually sold at food stalls at villages in the morning.

This traditional cake is also sold in traditional markets and cake shops as well as has been taken advantage as appetizer at hotels. At the same time, it is often adopted as menu of option

for citizens at wedding receptions or opening menu for participants of meetings, seminars and other gathering events at hotels or restaurants.

In cake shops, jaja laklak has been packed in plastic boxes with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce. But lately, the plastic packaging has begun to be abandoned because it causes a lot of plastic waste which is difficult to decompose. Unlike the cake traders at villagers, they use banana leaves to wrap the cakes.

This jaja laklak is usually sold for IDR 5,000 per wrap containing 5 or 4 pieces. The top appearance of this cake is usually added with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce. In addition to local people, this cake is also favored by domestic and foreign tourists. So naturally, it has become a hotel cake commonly served as an appetizer or

welcome cake.

The ingredients of jaja laklak consist of rice flour, coconut (to be made into coconut milk), suji leaves, salt, brown sugar, granulated sugar and water. Preparation: put rice flour into a container and then pour hot water little by little while stirring until finely blended. Then, pour the coconut milk little by little as well, while continuing to stir. Then, added suji leaf water to create a distinctive aroma, add salt to taste and then stir until all the ingredients are evenly mixed.

Ultimately, prepare the mold and preheat it first. After that, pour the batter of laklak with a spoon in accordance with the mold hole. Cover the mold and then wait for it to get cooked. Next, make brown sugar sauce by dissolving brown sugar and granulated sugar in boiled

water. Simultaneously, stir it until boiling and then lifted and filtered.

Boil it back until it thickens. Coconut is shredded and mixed with salt according to taste.

How to present? First of all, put

some pieces of jaja laklak on a plate or banana leaf in such away so as to look nice. Then, sprinkle them with grated coconut and pour the brown sugar sauce on top. Now, it is ready to taste! (kmb)

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Fight to end rape in war must begin in peacetime: Mukwege OSLO - Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege may have won his Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war, but the crusading surgeon said the groundwork for equality must be laid in peacetime, as he praised movements like #MeToo. Mukwege, whose work has made him a global expert on gang rape in conflict, will on Monday be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize that he shares with Yazidi activist Nadia Murad.

The 63-year-old has seen a lifetime’s worth of horrors at his Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east, which he set up in 1999 and has treated the wounds of tens of thousands of women and girls, even babies.

“When one does not fight against an evil, it is like a cancer, it spreads and destroys the whole society,” he said, noting that few perpetrators are ever brought to justice.

While atrocities against women are often committed in conflict, Mukwege said that even countries like Norway -- which often tops equality rankings -- and France still have work to do, because “it is in peacetime that men forge a negative, disrespectful” view of women.

“We must change masculinity, moving from toxic masculinity, domineering masculinity to positive masculinity that promises gender equality,” he said, calling for schools and families to play a greater role in encouraging respect at a young age.

Mukwege said he had been heartened by the #MeToo movement, which has spread across the globe after sparking in the United States over a year ago in response to accusations of sexual abuse and harassment by powerful men in the entertainment industry and other sectors.

“If our society wants to change things, there are steps to be taken, changes to be made and I am very happy today to see the silence broken. It is an ultimate step to break the taboo in relation to rape,” he said.

Fellow laureate Murad has become a tireless campaigner for justice for Yazidis since surviving captivity, gang Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Congolese gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor Denis Mukwege is pictured during an AFP interview in Oslo, Norw a y, o n December 8, 2018.

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rape and forced marriage under the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria where it targeted her Kurdishspeaking community.

Mukwege said while the Nobel prize itself will not have a “magical effect” on behaviour, he still hoped it could help improve the lives of women, not just in DR Congo, but also those in other conflicts like Syria, or threatened by Boko Haram.

“The world must do more,” he said.

- ‘Tip of the iceberg’ The Nobel laureate lives under armed guard at his hospital after an attack in 2012.

He does not like to talk of his work in terms of statistics, because “each woman raped is one woman too many” and he fears people have become desensitised to the swelling toll.

But he said more than 50,000 women and girls had been treated at the hospital for injuries from sexual violence, though he stresses this is “just the tip of the iceberg”, accounting only for those able to get to his hospital. Many are not able to make the journey.

Mukwege has emerged as an excoriating critic of President Joseph Kabila, set to be replaced in December 23 elections in a nation that has not had a peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.

But he said he was not tempted by politics at the moment.

His focus will stay on his work at the hospital, he said, despite the publicity of the Nobel award.

“The Nobel Prize found me in the operating room. I will try to stay there as much as possible,” he said. (afp)

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Other migrants in the Oulad Ziane camp had just walked over 100 hours from Tiznit, a town in Morocco’s far south where they had been deported to.

“The precarious journey is never over. It’s constant fear.

You walk in the street, you get arrested. You go to the mosque, you are arrested. We feel like criminals,” said Jiane Jbrahima, a 22-year-old from Senegal.

Jbrahima lived for five years in Tangiers before undergoing, along with thousands of migrants, what Amnesty International describes as a “large-scale crackdown on thousands of subSaharan migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees” by Morocco.

Migrants arrested in the north are at times held for several days in two Tangiers police stations before buses bring them back to the south. These detentions are “wholly arbitrary and legally unsubstantiated,” as “no one was brought before a judge at any stage,” says Gadem.

A Spanish activist working in Morocco, Helena Maleno, says the EU-supported Moroccan regularization policy would work if it brought about real change in terms of providing migrants work and access to health care.

“The initiative is good on itself, but it does so little to change the hard reality of mi-

grants, mostly because it’s not really targeted to provide assistance for them but rather to please the EU and keep migrants from reaching Europe,” she said.

Rising numbers of migrants taking the Morocco-Spain route to Europe have turned Morocco into the main entry point for sub-Saharan African migrants, putting border pressures on the North African kingdom.

The EU agreed this summer to give Morocco $275 million to halt flows of illegal migrants, “pushing the country to take a more violent approach in stopping migrants from reaching Europe,” says Maleno.

This year, Morocco stopped 68,000 illegal migration attempts, according to government spokesman Mustapha El Khelfi.

Concerned by rumors of an upcoming deportation campaign, migrants in Casablanca camp spend most of their time in their ragged tents, smoking cannabis and talking about the psychological scars from years of uncertainty.

“I listen to the radio and the news says that it’s good for us here. I wonder if they’re oblivious to what is going on or simply they think we’re idiots,” said Mohamed Rafiou Barry, 22, from Guinea. “Even if 40 years pass, I’ll never forget being taken from one bus to another, beaten, eating from garbage. You don’t forget those things.” (ap)

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Papua massacre shines light on forgotten conflict

The recent massacre of civilian workers by separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province has cast a spotlight on one of the world’s longestrunning insurgencies, with no end to the bloody conflict in sight.

The killings are a marked escalation from decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised guerrillas and a powerful Indonesian military accused of gross human rights abuses against civilians.

Some 16 employees of a state-owned contractor were murdered at a remote jungle work camp on Sunday with at least three more workers still missing.

They were building bridges and roads in a major infrastructure push for Indonesia’s most impoverished region, but rebels claimed they were legitimate targets, raising concerns that the independence struggle has taken a dangerous new turn.

“There has never been an attack of this type of scale by separatist guerrillas,” said Damien Kingsbury, professor of international politics at Australia’s Deakin University.

“The outbreaks of mass violence to date have been perpetrated by the Indonesian military.”

- ‘Act of Free Choice’ -

The conflict in mineral-rich Papua traces its roots to

Dutch de-colonisation in the early 1960s, with more recent grievances fanned by marginalisation of the ethnic Melanesian population and widespread rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings.

Papua, which shares a border with island nation Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia, remained a Dutch colony for more than a decade after the Netherlands relinquished its former East Indies territories to a newly independent Indonesia in 1949.

Despite laying the groundwork for Papuan self-government, the Netherlands came under pressure from a White House fearful about communism spreading across Southeast Asia.

So it agreed in 1962 to place Papua under temporary UN administration before it was ceded to Indonesia a year later, on the condition it hold an independence referendum.

The vote -- called the Act of Free Choice -- is widely viewed as a sham. About 1,000 handpicked Papuans unanimously chose to remain part of Indonesia, allegedly under the threat of violence.

Jakarta cites the referendum as proof its control is legitimate. But for some Papuans, who are ethnically different and share almost no cultural ties with the rest of the sprawling archipelago, it was the start of another colonial occupation that has seen them dispossessed of land where their ancestors lived for centuries.

Much of the insurgency has centred around a huge gold and copper mine operated by US-based firm Freeport McMoRan, seen locally as a symbol of environmental devastation and exploitation of Papua’s enormous mineral wealth.

Since his 2014 election, President Joko Widodo has overseen an unprecedented development push, including the ambitious 4,300-kilometre (2,700-mile) Trans-Papua highway. But analysts say it may be too little, too late.

“If Papua is part of Indonesia, it should’ve been built up in the same way as other regions,” said Adriana Elisabeth, a Papua expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

The depth of discontent was underscored last year when 1.8 million Papuans signed a ultimately unsuccessful petition asking the UN to recognise a self-determination vote. significant international actor with many differing friends,” Kingsbury said.

The rag-tag armed movement poses little threat to a country of some 260 million people, but Jakarta has had little success stamping out the insurgency.

The rebels say they remain committed to fighting for independence, while Indonesia has shown no interest in coming to the bargaining table.

“If you tell the government it should hold talks about Papua’s independence, they don’t want do that,” Elisabeth of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences told AFP. “They have invested too much in Papua.” (afp)

Sexual harassment in the sky: Hong Kong flight attendants fight back

HONG KONG - Immaculatelooking flight attendants who appear unruffled by the demands of a life spent in the air are part of the slick image sold by carriers -- but Hong Kong-based workers are increasingly hitting back against sexual harassment.

Female cabin crew told AFP of how they had been harassed by not only passengers but also other airline staff.

While they say carriers have made some steps in the right direction, they argue airlines still lag far behind in the #MeToo era.

Venus Fung, whose experiences drove her to join and lead the Cabin Attendants Union of Hong Kong, says airlines must teach workers on how to deal with harassment.

Fung, 29, said the issue was never raised in her company training.

The Hong Kong-based attendant told AFP she had been physi-

cally picked up by a pilot who touched her chest, waist and bottom, commenting she had a nice body, when she was new to the job more than two years ago.

“At that moment I was really angry, but I was mostly also panicking and afraid. My mind went completely blank -- I had no idea what to do or how to react,” said Fung, who works for a European airline which she did not want to identify for fear of recrimination.

The cabin manager who witnessed the incident did not intervene, Fung added, instead threatening to report her for wearing a skirt that was “too tight”.

As a result Fung stopped wearing skirts at work for more than a year, opting for trousers instead.

She has since been training colleagues on how to report sexual harassment and seek help, but said long-term cultural changes are needed.(afp)

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Santi Sirait (C), whose son was killed in a massacre by suspected separatist rebels, grieves following the arrival of his coffin in Sei Belutu village in Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatra province on December 8, 2018.

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Belimbing Rice Terrace

TABANAN - Belimbing Village is one of the traditional Balinese villages situated about 600 meter above sea level surrounded by good temperature located in Tabanan Regency, west part of Bali Island. It is about 30 km from Denpasar Town or 2 hours drives by car. The village is well featured by the wonderful natures with panorama view in particular with rice terrace. Belimbing Village own the fertile land with some of tropical plantation thrive in this area includes durian, coffee, clove, rambutan, mangosteen and much more. The magnificent view of rice terrace with Batukaru Mount as a backdrop has captivated the tourist to come and enjoy this panorama. Rice Paddy Trekking is one of the tourist attractions can be done at this site by exploring the pure natures, rice field and see the local farmer who working in the field. It is strategically located beside of the main road from Ta-

banan to Pupuan town by passing Antasari Village.

This village own the fertile land with some of tropical plantation.

Those are included Durian, coffee, clove, rambutan, mangosteen and much more. Meanwhile, the magnificent view of Belimbing rice terrace with Batukaru Mount as a backdrop has captivated the tourist to come and enjoy this panorama.

Rice Paddy Trekking is one of the tourist attractions at this site.

It explores the pure natures, rice field and see the local farmer who working in the field.

Magnificent View The majority of the population at Belimbing Village is working as a farmer while remaining as a trader, employees and labors. The farmers have two type of job that first they can work at the rice field and the second at garden. This village is located on the sightseeing area in particular Singa-

raja Tour where in return to Denpasar then we can visit Belimbing rice terrace. The location of Belimbing rice terrace on 500-600 meters above sea level. Hence, the temperature is bit cool and average 25ºC. And also, Belimbing Village has eight hamlets scattered along the village including: Banjar Beniti, Belimbing Anyar, Belimbing Tegal, Belimbing village, Pemudungan, Suradadi, Belantibah, and Duren Taluh.

Bemben and Singsing Sade are tourist attractions at this village.

The best time to visit Belimbing Rice Terrace is the early morning or in the late afternoon on a clear day. The fogs can cover the village in the afternoon especially during

What to see Belimbing Rice Terrace is secluded situated in the tranquility of Tabanan Regency right on main road at Belimbing Village. It offers the magnificent view of rice terrace unfolding until the slope of Batukaru Mount. And also, there are group of monkeys living in this village in particular at Mekori Forest. Moreover, there are two beautiful waterfalls such as Singsing

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raining season. There is a unique attraction can be seen when the planting time at this village. We can see the local farmers start to plow their rice fields by continuing to plant the rice at the couple of days forward. (IBP/net)

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Japan’s Rika Kihira won gold for her performance in the Ladies Free program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2018-19 on December 8, 2018, in Vancouver, Canada.

Japan’s Kihira upsets Oly champ Zagitova to win Grand Prix gold

LOS ANGELES - Japan’s rising star Rika Kihira won the battle of the 16-year olds, upsetting reigning Olympic champ Alina Zagitova to claim ladies’ gold at the ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating Final on Saturday.

Skating her free programme ‘Beautiful Storm’ by Jennifer Thomas, Kihira missed her first triple Axel but skated clean the rest of the way, including nailing her triple Lutz-toeloop.

“I made a mistake early but got to go out there and finish. I am really happy to perform that way on this stage,” said Kihira.

Kihira, who also won the short programme, finished with a personal best total score of 233.12 points to beat runner-up Zagitova by more than six points.

European champion Zagitova, skating to “Carmen” in her free programme, earned a total of 226.53 points while her Russian compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva grabbed the third spot on the podium with 215.32 points.

The women’s competition was a Japan-Russia affair as Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto placed fourth, Russia’s Sofia Samodurova finished fifth and Japan’s Satoko Miyahara

was sixth. Kihira earned $25,000 for finishing first while Zagitova collected $18,000.

Kihira’s victory continued a breakthrough season in 2018. She won two prior grand prix events -- the Internationaux de France in Grenoble and the NHK Trophy in Hiroshima where she posted her previous best score of 224.31.

She is the first women to land a triple Axel-triple toeloop in competition when she did it at the junior grand prix finals last year.

Zagitova started the 2018 season several centimetres taller after going through a growth spurt over the summer. But she adapted almost immediately to the added height, winning grand prix series events in Helsinki and Moscow.

Zagitova burst onto the scene last year winning gold at the European Championships. She says she is feeling the pressure more this season.

“The first season is easier than

the second one. Because you go out the first time there are no expectations and you can just skate,” she said.

Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue continued the US domination of ice dance by winning the gold medal with a free dance total score of 205.03.

The duo won the sixth ice dance gold medal for the US in the history of the Grand Prix Final. The US has also won a medal in ice dance at every final since 2006.

In the pairs, France’s Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres rallied from a fourth place finish in the short program to capture gold with 219.88 points.

James and Cipres scored 148.37 points in the free skate to beat out runners-up Peng Cheng and Jin Yang of China.

Twenty-four skaters and couples qualified from the half dozen competitions of the ISU grand prix series. (afp)

NEW YORK - Vasiliy Lomachenko added the World Boxing Organization lightweight world title to his World Boxing Association belt with a unanimous 12round decision over Jose Pedraza on Saturday.

Ukraine’s Lomachenko, a threeweight world champion who had never before unified two titles in the same class, knocked down Pedraza twice in an explosive 11th round.

Two judges saw it 117-109 for Lomachenko while a third made it 119-107 for the 30-year-old who was fighting for the first time since having shoulder surgery in the wake of his 10th-round technical knockout of Jorge Linares on May 12.

“Everything is good -- I’m healthy 100 percent,” Lomachenko declared after wrapping up the victory to improve to 12-1 with nine wins inside the distance.

“I am happy,” he said. “I (moved) a little closer to my dream, to my goal.”

That’s to unify all of the major lightweight belts.

“Two more belts, and maybe we can make in the next year a fight with Mikey Garcia,” he said.

Garcia is the unbeaten World Boxing Council 135-pound champion.

Pedraza, making his first defense of the WBO title he won with a unanimous decision over Ray Beltran on August 25, was the first fighter to go the distance against Lomachenko since Suriya Tatakhun in a featherweight world title bout in 2014.

Lomachenko had stopped eight fighters inside the distance since then.

“He did a very good job,” Lo-

machenko said of Pedraza’s staying power. “I respect Pedraza, the Pedraza team -- very good job.”

On the undercard, Mexico’s Emanuel Navarrete battered previously unbeaten Isaac Dogboe to seize Dogboe’s World Boxing Organization super bantamweight world title.

Navarrete rocked Dogboe in the 10th round and dominated the rest of the way with two judges awarding him the fight by scores of 116-112 and a third making it 115-113.

Navarrete, an underdog against the London-based Ghanaian champion, made the most of his height and reach advantage.

Dogboe, his face bloodied and swollen, had to dig deep to avoid a knockout over the final two rounds.

“It was a great fight, and Emanuel Navarrete fought like a true Mexican warrior,” said Dogboe, who fell to 20-1 with 14 knockouts.

He was making the second defense of the title he won with an 11th-round knockout of Jessie Magdaleno on April 28. On August 25 in Arizona he stopped Japan’s Hidenori Otake.

Navarrete, 23, improved to 26-1 with 22 knockouts.

He hasn’t lost since dropping a four-round unanimous decision to Daniel Argueta in his fourth pro bout six years ago.

“Hearing those words was the culmination of a dream,” Navarrete said of hearing his name announced as world champion. “This world championship represents every day that I was working away from my family. This title represents sacrifice.” (afp)

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Lomachenko punches Jose Pedraza during their WBA/WBO lightweight unification bout.

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Messi’s free-kick magic keeps Barca top

Lionel Messi stole the show with two free-kick goals in a blistering display as Barcelona maintained their lead at the top of La Liga with a thumping 4-0 derby win over Catalan rivals Espanyol.

The Argentine superstar curled home two sensational set-pieces and set up another goal as he and his teammates romped to victory at the RCDE Stadium and made sure Barca kept chasing Atletico Madrid and Sevilla at bay.

Atleti and Sevilla had moved level on 28 points with Barca on Saturday after Diego Simeone’s side defeated Alaves 3-0 and the Andalusians drew 1-1 at Valencia.

However Messi made sure that Ernesto Valverde’s team kept their place at the top of the pile with a mesmerising display alongside front-three partners Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele that left Espanyol dead and buried by half-time.

“He is extraordinary,” said Valverde. “The free-kicks, the chances on goal that he creates, what he brings us and what he take from the opponent...

“It is still very early, La Liga is very tight, but the idea is to be solid away from home, knowing that winning is very difficult against every team.”

Liverpool top after Chelsea inflict Man City’s first league defeat Chelsea inflicted champions Manchester City’s first Premier League defeat of the season with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge that allowed Liverpool to go top of the table on Saturday.

N’Golo Kante and David Luiz were on target for Maurizio Sarri’s men as City paid for failing to take advantage of their first-half dominance. “I am very happy with the win because it is not very easy to win against Manchester City or Pep Guardiola,” said Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri.

Liverpool now lead City by a point after Mohamed Salah’s hattrick secured an impressive 4-0 win at Bournemouth.

City had looked imperious in recent weeks, winning their previous seven Premier League games, and started in the same vein. However, Pep Guardiola’s men missed the injured Sergio Aguero up front as Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane wasted early chances.

“Chelsea are a good team, good players but in the first half it was incredible, we were exceptional,” said Guardiola.

“In general we were fantastic.

I don’t have any regrets, we came and showed we wanted to win.

“We created chances. They had one in 44 minutes and we conceded a goal, sometimes that happens.”

Chelsea had barely been in the City half before taking the lead approaching the break, when Eden Hazard teed up Kante to fire into the roof of the net.

However, it was the hosts who enjoyed the better of the second period and sealed a huge victory 12 minutes from time when Luiz’s looping header from Hazard’s corner dipped in via the crossbar.

“It is difficult for us to find motivation but when we are (motivated), we are a very strong team,” added Sarri. “Today we played with a very good level of application,

determination and the right level of aggressiveness.”

- Salah back to his best -

Salah had been rested from the start for Wednesday’s 3-1 win at Burnley that kept Jurgen Klopp’s men on City’s coat-tails, and the Egyptian looked to have benefited from a break as he looked more like the player who netted 44 goals in an incredible debut season at Anfield.

The visitors were slightly fortunate to take the lead on 25 minutes when Asmir Begovic fumbled Roberto Firmino’s long-range shot and Salah’s follow-up effort was allowed to stand despite him appearing to be marginally offside.

Salah made the game safe by showing determination to stay on his feet despite being fouled before finding the bottom corner early in the second half.

Steve Cook’s own goal then made it 3-0 before Salah sealed his hat-trick by remaining remarkably

- Magical Messi -

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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi scores during the Spanish league football match RCD Espanyol against FC Barcelona at the RCDE Stadium in Cornella de Llobregat on December 8, 2018.

Messi began the rout in the 17th minute with a perfectly placed freekick that arched past a desperate Diego Lopez, and followed that up by keeping possession under intense pressure before providing the pass for Dembele from which the French attacker curled in a fine second.

It was then Dembele’s turn to become provider a minute before the break, slipping in a super through ball that Suarez somehow took on and squeezed home from near the byline.

Messi capped a dominant team and individual display with his second free-kick of the night, which this time whipped past Lopez which such venom the Spanish goalkeeper could barely move towards it.

Nikola Kalinic opened his league account for Atletico Madrid with the opener against Alaves earlier on Saturday, before Antoine Griezmann and midfielder Rodri sealed all three points at the Wanda Metropolitano with goals in the final 10 minutes.

The only negative note for Simeone was World Cup winner Lucas Hernandez leaving the field with a knee injury in the first half.

Mouctar Diakhaby’s header in second half stoppage time for Valencia meant Sevilla missed the opportunity to stay just a point behind Barca.

Pablo Sarabia had put the visitors into the lead nine minutes into the second half and Sevilla had chances to seal the points at the Mestalla with Ever Banega and Andre Silva hitting the post. (afp)

England, Scotland, Japan to meet at women’s World Cup as Paris stages draw England and Scotland will meet each other in their opening game at the 2019 women’s World Cup in France after being placed in the same group in Saturday’s draw alongside former winners Japan as well as Argentina.

The ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, just outside Paris, also set reigning champions the United States up for

a clash with Thailand to begin their defence of the title.

Meanwhile, hosts France were given a meeting with South Korea in the opening game of the 24-team tournament at the Parc des Princes in Paris on June 7 as Les Bleues hope to match their male counterparts, who won this year’s World Cup in Russia.

The final will be played on July 7 in Lyon, the 58,000-seat stadium

in the city that is home to the women’s Champions League holders.

For England, the draw co-hosted by their former star Alex Scott handed them the tantalising prospect of an opening game in Group D against old rivals Scotland in Nice on June 9.

They also met in their opening group game at Euro 2017 in the Netherlands, with England romp-

ing to a 6-0 victory on their way to a semi-final defeat against the hosts.

“I think it’s a great group,” said England manager Phil Neville, who labelled the Scotland clash as a standout but also highlighted the matches that will follow.

“England against Argentina is historically always a feisty occasion and then England against Japan is two of the top five or six

teams in the world, so we could not have asked for a better group.”

Phil Neville’s side were also semifinalists at the 2015 World Cup in Canada, losing to Japan, while Scotland will be making their tournament debut.

Japan lost 5-2 to the United States in the 2015 final, and the reigning champions were drawn in Group F with Sweden, Thailand and tournament newcomers Chile. (afp)

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Liverpool’s Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his and Liverpool’s second goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on December 8, 2018.

cool to dribble past Begovic twice before prodding home.

“What Mo did around his two goals in the second half was just exceptional,” said Klopp. “I don’t know at the moment a lot of players who would have scored these two goals.”

- Man Utd up to sixth -

United ended a four-game winless run in the league with a comfortable victory over bottom club Fulham.

Jose Mourinho left Paul Pogba on the bench again as he rang the changes, and three of those brought in -- Ashley Young, Juan Mata and Romelu Lukaku -- scored in the first half.

“We were strong, aggressive and intense,” said a happy Mourinho.

“At times it was beautiful football.

The first half was perfect.”

Aboubakar Kamara’s penalty pulled a goal back for Fulham, but any hope of a fightback from the visitors was ended by a red card for Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Marcus Rashford added a fourth

for the hosts.

Tottenham remain ahead of Chelsea and Arsenal in third courtesy of a 2-0 win at Leicester.

Mauricio Pochettino could even afford the luxury of leaving Harry Kane on the bench ahead of Tuesday’s crucial Champions League visit to Barcelona as Son Heungmin and Dele Alli struck for Spurs either side of half-time.

Arsenal extended their unbeaten run to 21 games but left it late to beat lowly Huddersfield 1-0 thanks to Lucas Torreira’s bicycle kick seven minutes from time.

Ralph Hasenhuttl got off to a terrible start as Southampton manager as Callum Paterson scored the only goal in a 1-0 win to move Cardiff three points clear of the bottom three and leave Saints level on nine points with Fulham.

Burnley also moved out of the drop zone by beating Brighton 1-0 to win for the first time in nine games, while West Ham’s third straight win -- 3-2 over Crystal Palace -- moved them into the top half. (afp)

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Messi’s free-kick magic keeps Barca top

Lionel Messi stole the show with two free-kick goals in a blistering display as Barcelona maintained their lead at the top of La Liga with a thumping 4-0 derby win over Catalan rivals Espanyol.

The Argentine superstar curled home two sensational set-pieces and set up another goal as he and his teammates romped to victory at the RCDE Stadium and made sure Barca kept chasing Atletico Madrid and Sevilla at bay.

Atleti and Sevilla had moved level on 28 points with Barca on Saturday after Diego Simeone’s side defeated Alaves 3-0 and the Andalusians drew 1-1 at Valencia.

However Messi made sure that Ernesto Valverde’s team kept their place at the top of the pile with a mesmerising display alongside front-three partners Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele that left Espanyol dead and buried by half-time.

“He is extraordinary,” said Valverde. “The free-kicks, the chances on goal that he creates, what he brings us and what he take from the opponent...

“It is still very early, La Liga is very tight, but the idea is to be solid away from home, knowing that winning is very difficult against every team.”

Liverpool top after Chelsea inflict Man City’s first league defeat Chelsea inflicted champions Manchester City’s first Premier League defeat of the season with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge that allowed Liverpool to go top of the table on Saturday.

N’Golo Kante and David Luiz were on target for Maurizio Sarri’s men as City paid for failing to take advantage of their first-half dominance. “I am very happy with the win because it is not very easy to win against Manchester City or Pep Guardiola,” said Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri.

Liverpool now lead City by a point after Mohamed Salah’s hattrick secured an impressive 4-0 win at Bournemouth.

City had looked imperious in recent weeks, winning their previous seven Premier League games, and started in the same vein. However, Pep Guardiola’s men missed the injured Sergio Aguero up front as Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane wasted early chances.

“Chelsea are a good team, good players but in the first half it was incredible, we were exceptional,” said Guardiola.

“In general we were fantastic.

I don’t have any regrets, we came and showed we wanted to win.

“We created chances. They had one in 44 minutes and we conceded a goal, sometimes that happens.”

Chelsea had barely been in the City half before taking the lead approaching the break, when Eden Hazard teed up Kante to fire into the roof of the net.

However, it was the hosts who enjoyed the better of the second period and sealed a huge victory 12 minutes from time when Luiz’s looping header from Hazard’s corner dipped in via the crossbar.

“It is difficult for us to find motivation but when we are (motivated), we are a very strong team,” added Sarri. “Today we played with a very good level of application,

determination and the right level of aggressiveness.”

- Salah back to his best -

Salah had been rested from the start for Wednesday’s 3-1 win at Burnley that kept Jurgen Klopp’s men on City’s coat-tails, and the Egyptian looked to have benefited from a break as he looked more like the player who netted 44 goals in an incredible debut season at Anfield.

The visitors were slightly fortunate to take the lead on 25 minutes when Asmir Begovic fumbled Roberto Firmino’s long-range shot and Salah’s follow-up effort was allowed to stand despite him appearing to be marginally offside.

Salah made the game safe by showing determination to stay on his feet despite being fouled before finding the bottom corner early in the second half.

Steve Cook’s own goal then made it 3-0 before Salah sealed his hat-trick by remaining remarkably

- Magical Messi -

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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi scores during the Spanish league football match RCD Espanyol against FC Barcelona at the RCDE Stadium in Cornella de Llobregat on December 8, 2018.

Messi began the rout in the 17th minute with a perfectly placed freekick that arched past a desperate Diego Lopez, and followed that up by keeping possession under intense pressure before providing the pass for Dembele from which the French attacker curled in a fine second.

It was then Dembele’s turn to become provider a minute before the break, slipping in a super through ball that Suarez somehow took on and squeezed home from near the byline.

Messi capped a dominant team and individual display with his second free-kick of the night, which this time whipped past Lopez which such venom the Spanish goalkeeper could barely move towards it.

Nikola Kalinic opened his league account for Atletico Madrid with the opener against Alaves earlier on Saturday, before Antoine Griezmann and midfielder Rodri sealed all three points at the Wanda Metropolitano with goals in the final 10 minutes.

The only negative note for Simeone was World Cup winner Lucas Hernandez leaving the field with a knee injury in the first half.

Mouctar Diakhaby’s header in second half stoppage time for Valencia meant Sevilla missed the opportunity to stay just a point behind Barca.

Pablo Sarabia had put the visitors into the lead nine minutes into the second half and Sevilla had chances to seal the points at the Mestalla with Ever Banega and Andre Silva hitting the post. (afp)

England, Scotland, Japan to meet at women’s World Cup as Paris stages draw England and Scotland will meet each other in their opening game at the 2019 women’s World Cup in France after being placed in the same group in Saturday’s draw alongside former winners Japan as well as Argentina.

The ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, just outside Paris, also set reigning champions the United States up for

a clash with Thailand to begin their defence of the title.

Meanwhile, hosts France were given a meeting with South Korea in the opening game of the 24-team tournament at the Parc des Princes in Paris on June 7 as Les Bleues hope to match their male counterparts, who won this year’s World Cup in Russia.

The final will be played on July 7 in Lyon, the 58,000-seat stadium

in the city that is home to the women’s Champions League holders.

For England, the draw co-hosted by their former star Alex Scott handed them the tantalising prospect of an opening game in Group D against old rivals Scotland in Nice on June 9.

They also met in their opening group game at Euro 2017 in the Netherlands, with England romp-

ing to a 6-0 victory on their way to a semi-final defeat against the hosts.

“I think it’s a great group,” said England manager Phil Neville, who labelled the Scotland clash as a standout but also highlighted the matches that will follow.

“England against Argentina is historically always a feisty occasion and then England against Japan is two of the top five or six

teams in the world, so we could not have asked for a better group.”

Phil Neville’s side were also semifinalists at the 2015 World Cup in Canada, losing to Japan, while Scotland will be making their tournament debut.

Japan lost 5-2 to the United States in the 2015 final, and the reigning champions were drawn in Group F with Sweden, Thailand and tournament newcomers Chile. (afp)

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Liverpool’s Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his and Liverpool’s second goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on December 8, 2018.

cool to dribble past Begovic twice before prodding home.

“What Mo did around his two goals in the second half was just exceptional,” said Klopp. “I don’t know at the moment a lot of players who would have scored these two goals.”

- Man Utd up to sixth -

United ended a four-game winless run in the league with a comfortable victory over bottom club Fulham.

Jose Mourinho left Paul Pogba on the bench again as he rang the changes, and three of those brought in -- Ashley Young, Juan Mata and Romelu Lukaku -- scored in the first half.

“We were strong, aggressive and intense,” said a happy Mourinho.

“At times it was beautiful football.

The first half was perfect.”

Aboubakar Kamara’s penalty pulled a goal back for Fulham, but any hope of a fightback from the visitors was ended by a red card for Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Marcus Rashford added a fourth

for the hosts.

Tottenham remain ahead of Chelsea and Arsenal in third courtesy of a 2-0 win at Leicester.

Mauricio Pochettino could even afford the luxury of leaving Harry Kane on the bench ahead of Tuesday’s crucial Champions League visit to Barcelona as Son Heungmin and Dele Alli struck for Spurs either side of half-time.

Arsenal extended their unbeaten run to 21 games but left it late to beat lowly Huddersfield 1-0 thanks to Lucas Torreira’s bicycle kick seven minutes from time.

Ralph Hasenhuttl got off to a terrible start as Southampton manager as Callum Paterson scored the only goal in a 1-0 win to move Cardiff three points clear of the bottom three and leave Saints level on nine points with Fulham.

Burnley also moved out of the drop zone by beating Brighton 1-0 to win for the first time in nine games, while West Ham’s third straight win -- 3-2 over Crystal Palace -- moved them into the top half. (afp)

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Lomachenko beats Pedraza to unify lightweight belts

Belimbing Rice Terrace

TABANAN - Belimbing Village is one of the traditional Balinese villages situated about 600 meter above sea level surrounded by good temperature located in Tabanan Regency, west part of Bali Island. It is about 30 km from Denpasar Town or 2 hours drives by car. The village is well featured by the wonderful natures with panorama view in particular with rice terrace. Belimbing Village own the fertile land with some of tropical plantation thrive in this area includes durian, coffee, clove, rambutan, mangosteen and much more. The magnificent view of rice terrace with Batukaru Mount as a backdrop has captivated the tourist to come and enjoy this panorama. Rice Paddy Trekking is one of the tourist attractions can be done at this site by exploring the pure natures, rice field and see the local farmer who working in the field. It is strategically located beside of the main road from Ta-

banan to Pupuan town by passing Antasari Village.

This village own the fertile land with some of tropical plantation.

Those are included Durian, coffee, clove, rambutan, mangosteen and much more. Meanwhile, the magnificent view of Belimbing rice terrace with Batukaru Mount as a backdrop has captivated the tourist to come and enjoy this panorama.

Rice Paddy Trekking is one of the tourist attractions at this site.

It explores the pure natures, rice field and see the local farmer who working in the field.

Magnificent View The majority of the population at Belimbing Village is working as a farmer while remaining as a trader, employees and labors. The farmers have two type of job that first they can work at the rice field and the second at garden. This village is located on the sightseeing area in particular Singa-

raja Tour where in return to Denpasar then we can visit Belimbing rice terrace. The location of Belimbing rice terrace on 500-600 meters above sea level. Hence, the temperature is bit cool and average 25ºC. And also, Belimbing Village has eight hamlets scattered along the village including: Banjar Beniti, Belimbing Anyar, Belimbing Tegal, Belimbing village, Pemudungan, Suradadi, Belantibah, and Duren Taluh.

Bemben and Singsing Sade are tourist attractions at this village.

The best time to visit Belimbing Rice Terrace is the early morning or in the late afternoon on a clear day. The fogs can cover the village in the afternoon especially during

What to see Belimbing Rice Terrace is secluded situated in the tranquility of Tabanan Regency right on main road at Belimbing Village. It offers the magnificent view of rice terrace unfolding until the slope of Batukaru Mount. And also, there are group of monkeys living in this village in particular at Mekori Forest. Moreover, there are two beautiful waterfalls such as Singsing

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raining season. There is a unique attraction can be seen when the planting time at this village. We can see the local farmers start to plow their rice fields by continuing to plant the rice at the couple of days forward. (IBP/net)

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Japan’s Rika Kihira won gold for her performance in the Ladies Free program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2018-19 on December 8, 2018, in Vancouver, Canada.

Japan’s Kihira upsets Oly champ Zagitova to win Grand Prix gold

LOS ANGELES - Japan’s rising star Rika Kihira won the battle of the 16-year olds, upsetting reigning Olympic champ Alina Zagitova to claim ladies’ gold at the ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating Final on Saturday.

Skating her free programme ‘Beautiful Storm’ by Jennifer Thomas, Kihira missed her first triple Axel but skated clean the rest of the way, including nailing her triple Lutz-toeloop.

“I made a mistake early but got to go out there and finish. I am really happy to perform that way on this stage,” said Kihira.

Kihira, who also won the short programme, finished with a personal best total score of 233.12 points to beat runner-up Zagitova by more than six points.

European champion Zagitova, skating to “Carmen” in her free programme, earned a total of 226.53 points while her Russian compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva grabbed the third spot on the podium with 215.32 points.

The women’s competition was a Japan-Russia affair as Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto placed fourth, Russia’s Sofia Samodurova finished fifth and Japan’s Satoko Miyahara

was sixth. Kihira earned $25,000 for finishing first while Zagitova collected $18,000.

Kihira’s victory continued a breakthrough season in 2018. She won two prior grand prix events -- the Internationaux de France in Grenoble and the NHK Trophy in Hiroshima where she posted her previous best score of 224.31.

She is the first women to land a triple Axel-triple toeloop in competition when she did it at the junior grand prix finals last year.

Zagitova started the 2018 season several centimetres taller after going through a growth spurt over the summer. But she adapted almost immediately to the added height, winning grand prix series events in Helsinki and Moscow.

Zagitova burst onto the scene last year winning gold at the European Championships. She says she is feeling the pressure more this season.

“The first season is easier than

the second one. Because you go out the first time there are no expectations and you can just skate,” she said.

Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue continued the US domination of ice dance by winning the gold medal with a free dance total score of 205.03.

The duo won the sixth ice dance gold medal for the US in the history of the Grand Prix Final. The US has also won a medal in ice dance at every final since 2006.

In the pairs, France’s Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres rallied from a fourth place finish in the short program to capture gold with 219.88 points.

James and Cipres scored 148.37 points in the free skate to beat out runners-up Peng Cheng and Jin Yang of China.

Twenty-four skaters and couples qualified from the half dozen competitions of the ISU grand prix series. (afp)

NEW YORK - Vasiliy Lomachenko added the World Boxing Organization lightweight world title to his World Boxing Association belt with a unanimous 12round decision over Jose Pedraza on Saturday.

Ukraine’s Lomachenko, a threeweight world champion who had never before unified two titles in the same class, knocked down Pedraza twice in an explosive 11th round.

Two judges saw it 117-109 for Lomachenko while a third made it 119-107 for the 30-year-old who was fighting for the first time since having shoulder surgery in the wake of his 10th-round technical knockout of Jorge Linares on May 12.

“Everything is good -- I’m healthy 100 percent,” Lomachenko declared after wrapping up the victory to improve to 12-1 with nine wins inside the distance.

“I am happy,” he said. “I (moved) a little closer to my dream, to my goal.”

That’s to unify all of the major lightweight belts.

“Two more belts, and maybe we can make in the next year a fight with Mikey Garcia,” he said.

Garcia is the unbeaten World Boxing Council 135-pound champion.

Pedraza, making his first defense of the WBO title he won with a unanimous decision over Ray Beltran on August 25, was the first fighter to go the distance against Lomachenko since Suriya Tatakhun in a featherweight world title bout in 2014.

Lomachenko had stopped eight fighters inside the distance since then.

“He did a very good job,” Lo-

machenko said of Pedraza’s staying power. “I respect Pedraza, the Pedraza team -- very good job.”

On the undercard, Mexico’s Emanuel Navarrete battered previously unbeaten Isaac Dogboe to seize Dogboe’s World Boxing Organization super bantamweight world title.

Navarrete rocked Dogboe in the 10th round and dominated the rest of the way with two judges awarding him the fight by scores of 116-112 and a third making it 115-113.

Navarrete, an underdog against the London-based Ghanaian champion, made the most of his height and reach advantage.

Dogboe, his face bloodied and swollen, had to dig deep to avoid a knockout over the final two rounds.

“It was a great fight, and Emanuel Navarrete fought like a true Mexican warrior,” said Dogboe, who fell to 20-1 with 14 knockouts.

He was making the second defense of the title he won with an 11th-round knockout of Jessie Magdaleno on April 28. On August 25 in Arizona he stopped Japan’s Hidenori Otake.

Navarrete, 23, improved to 26-1 with 22 knockouts.

He hasn’t lost since dropping a four-round unanimous decision to Daniel Argueta in his fourth pro bout six years ago.

“Hearing those words was the culmination of a dream,” Navarrete said of hearing his name announced as world champion. “This world championship represents every day that I was working away from my family. This title represents sacrifice.” (afp)

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Fight to end rape in war must begin in peacetime: Mukwege OSLO - Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege may have won his Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war, but the crusading surgeon said the groundwork for equality must be laid in peacetime, as he praised movements like #MeToo. Mukwege, whose work has made him a global expert on gang rape in conflict, will on Monday be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize that he shares with Yazidi activist Nadia Murad.

The 63-year-old has seen a lifetime’s worth of horrors at his Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east, which he set up in 1999 and has treated the wounds of tens of thousands of women and girls, even babies.

“When one does not fight against an evil, it is like a cancer, it spreads and destroys the whole society,” he said, noting that few perpetrators are ever brought to justice.

While atrocities against women are often committed in conflict, Mukwege said that even countries like Norway -- which often tops equality rankings -- and France still have work to do, because “it is in peacetime that men forge a negative, disrespectful” view of women.

“We must change masculinity, moving from toxic masculinity, domineering masculinity to positive masculinity that promises gender equality,” he said, calling for schools and families to play a greater role in encouraging respect at a young age.

Mukwege said he had been heartened by the #MeToo movement, which has spread across the globe after sparking in the United States over a year ago in response to accusations of sexual abuse and harassment by powerful men in the entertainment industry and other sectors.

“If our society wants to change things, there are steps to be taken, changes to be made and I am very happy today to see the silence broken. It is an ultimate step to break the taboo in relation to rape,” he said.

Fellow laureate Murad has become a tireless campaigner for justice for Yazidis since surviving captivity, gang Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Congolese gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor Denis Mukwege is pictured during an AFP interview in Oslo, Norw a y, o n December 8, 2018.

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rape and forced marriage under the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria where it targeted her Kurdishspeaking community.

Mukwege said while the Nobel prize itself will not have a “magical effect” on behaviour, he still hoped it could help improve the lives of women, not just in DR Congo, but also those in other conflicts like Syria, or threatened by Boko Haram.

“The world must do more,” he said.

- ‘Tip of the iceberg’ The Nobel laureate lives under armed guard at his hospital after an attack in 2012.

He does not like to talk of his work in terms of statistics, because “each woman raped is one woman too many” and he fears people have become desensitised to the swelling toll.

But he said more than 50,000 women and girls had been treated at the hospital for injuries from sexual violence, though he stresses this is “just the tip of the iceberg”, accounting only for those able to get to his hospital. Many are not able to make the journey.

Mukwege has emerged as an excoriating critic of President Joseph Kabila, set to be replaced in December 23 elections in a nation that has not had a peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.

But he said he was not tempted by politics at the moment.

His focus will stay on his work at the hospital, he said, despite the publicity of the Nobel award.

“The Nobel Prize found me in the operating room. I will try to stay there as much as possible,” he said. (afp)

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Other migrants in the Oulad Ziane camp had just walked over 100 hours from Tiznit, a town in Morocco’s far south where they had been deported to.

“The precarious journey is never over. It’s constant fear.

You walk in the street, you get arrested. You go to the mosque, you are arrested. We feel like criminals,” said Jiane Jbrahima, a 22-year-old from Senegal.

Jbrahima lived for five years in Tangiers before undergoing, along with thousands of migrants, what Amnesty International describes as a “large-scale crackdown on thousands of subSaharan migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees” by Morocco.

Migrants arrested in the north are at times held for several days in two Tangiers police stations before buses bring them back to the south. These detentions are “wholly arbitrary and legally unsubstantiated,” as “no one was brought before a judge at any stage,” says Gadem.

A Spanish activist working in Morocco, Helena Maleno, says the EU-supported Moroccan regularization policy would work if it brought about real change in terms of providing migrants work and access to health care.

“The initiative is good on itself, but it does so little to change the hard reality of mi-

grants, mostly because it’s not really targeted to provide assistance for them but rather to please the EU and keep migrants from reaching Europe,” she said.

Rising numbers of migrants taking the Morocco-Spain route to Europe have turned Morocco into the main entry point for sub-Saharan African migrants, putting border pressures on the North African kingdom.

The EU agreed this summer to give Morocco $275 million to halt flows of illegal migrants, “pushing the country to take a more violent approach in stopping migrants from reaching Europe,” says Maleno.

This year, Morocco stopped 68,000 illegal migration attempts, according to government spokesman Mustapha El Khelfi.

Concerned by rumors of an upcoming deportation campaign, migrants in Casablanca camp spend most of their time in their ragged tents, smoking cannabis and talking about the psychological scars from years of uncertainty.

“I listen to the radio and the news says that it’s good for us here. I wonder if they’re oblivious to what is going on or simply they think we’re idiots,” said Mohamed Rafiou Barry, 22, from Guinea. “Even if 40 years pass, I’ll never forget being taken from one bus to another, beaten, eating from garbage. You don’t forget those things.” (ap)

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Papua massacre shines light on forgotten conflict

The recent massacre of civilian workers by separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province has cast a spotlight on one of the world’s longestrunning insurgencies, with no end to the bloody conflict in sight.

The killings are a marked escalation from decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised guerrillas and a powerful Indonesian military accused of gross human rights abuses against civilians.

Some 16 employees of a state-owned contractor were murdered at a remote jungle work camp on Sunday with at least three more workers still missing.

They were building bridges and roads in a major infrastructure push for Indonesia’s most impoverished region, but rebels claimed they were legitimate targets, raising concerns that the independence struggle has taken a dangerous new turn.

“There has never been an attack of this type of scale by separatist guerrillas,” said Damien Kingsbury, professor of international politics at Australia’s Deakin University.

“The outbreaks of mass violence to date have been perpetrated by the Indonesian military.”

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The conflict in mineral-rich Papua traces its roots to

Dutch de-colonisation in the early 1960s, with more recent grievances fanned by marginalisation of the ethnic Melanesian population and widespread rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings.

Papua, which shares a border with island nation Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia, remained a Dutch colony for more than a decade after the Netherlands relinquished its former East Indies territories to a newly independent Indonesia in 1949.

Despite laying the groundwork for Papuan self-government, the Netherlands came under pressure from a White House fearful about communism spreading across Southeast Asia.

So it agreed in 1962 to place Papua under temporary UN administration before it was ceded to Indonesia a year later, on the condition it hold an independence referendum.

The vote -- called the Act of Free Choice -- is widely viewed as a sham. About 1,000 handpicked Papuans unanimously chose to remain part of Indonesia, allegedly under the threat of violence.

Jakarta cites the referendum as proof its control is legitimate. But for some Papuans, who are ethnically different and share almost no cultural ties with the rest of the sprawling archipelago, it was the start of another colonial occupation that has seen them dispossessed of land where their ancestors lived for centuries.

Much of the insurgency has centred around a huge gold and copper mine operated by US-based firm Freeport McMoRan, seen locally as a symbol of environmental devastation and exploitation of Papua’s enormous mineral wealth.

Since his 2014 election, President Joko Widodo has overseen an unprecedented development push, including the ambitious 4,300-kilometre (2,700-mile) Trans-Papua highway. But analysts say it may be too little, too late.

“If Papua is part of Indonesia, it should’ve been built up in the same way as other regions,” said Adriana Elisabeth, a Papua expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

The depth of discontent was underscored last year when 1.8 million Papuans signed a ultimately unsuccessful petition asking the UN to recognise a self-determination vote. significant international actor with many differing friends,” Kingsbury said.

The rag-tag armed movement poses little threat to a country of some 260 million people, but Jakarta has had little success stamping out the insurgency.

The rebels say they remain committed to fighting for independence, while Indonesia has shown no interest in coming to the bargaining table.

“If you tell the government it should hold talks about Papua’s independence, they don’t want do that,” Elisabeth of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences told AFP. “They have invested too much in Papua.” (afp)

Sexual harassment in the sky: Hong Kong flight attendants fight back

HONG KONG - Immaculatelooking flight attendants who appear unruffled by the demands of a life spent in the air are part of the slick image sold by carriers -- but Hong Kong-based workers are increasingly hitting back against sexual harassment.

Female cabin crew told AFP of how they had been harassed by not only passengers but also other airline staff.

While they say carriers have made some steps in the right direction, they argue airlines still lag far behind in the #MeToo era.

Venus Fung, whose experiences drove her to join and lead the Cabin Attendants Union of Hong Kong, says airlines must teach workers on how to deal with harassment.

Fung, 29, said the issue was never raised in her company training.

The Hong Kong-based attendant told AFP she had been physi-

cally picked up by a pilot who touched her chest, waist and bottom, commenting she had a nice body, when she was new to the job more than two years ago.

“At that moment I was really angry, but I was mostly also panicking and afraid. My mind went completely blank -- I had no idea what to do or how to react,” said Fung, who works for a European airline which she did not want to identify for fear of recrimination.

The cabin manager who witnessed the incident did not intervene, Fung added, instead threatening to report her for wearing a skirt that was “too tight”.

As a result Fung stopped wearing skirts at work for more than a year, opting for trousers instead.

She has since been training colleagues on how to report sexual harassment and seek help, but said long-term cultural changes are needed.(afp)

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Santi Sirait (C), whose son was killed in a massacre by suspected separatist rebels, grieves following the arrival of his coffin in Sei Belutu village in Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatra province on December 8, 2018.

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US hiring pullback could signal mild slowdown in growth

WASHINGTON - U.S. job growth declined modestly in November, a move that could signal a slower but still steady pace of hiring and growth next year.

The potential for a more anemic economy contributed to a sharp drop in the stock market Friday, sending the Dow Jones average down 560 points, or 2.2%, by market close.

Yet most economists said last month’s job gain of 155,000 is more sustainable than some of the larger increases posted earlier this year. And hiring at last month’s pace would make it easier for the Federal Reserve to slow its interest rate increases, which investors worry are weighing on the economy.

“This is the new Goldilocks,” said Josh Wright, chief economist at iCIMS, a recruiting software company. “Still strong-enough job growth, but a more cautious Fed.” The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7 percent, a nearly five-decade low, for the third straight month, the Labor Department said Friday in its monthly jobs report. Still, the panicky financial markets illustrate how the views of Wall Street and most of the rest of the U.S. can differ.

For most Americans, jobs and incomes are the most important

economic measures. Average hourly earnings increased 3.1% in November from a year earlier, Friday’s report said, only the second time they have climbed that much since the recession ended nine years ago. That’s boosting consumer confidence to nearly 18year highs, spurring more spending, and bolstering winter holiday shopping. Americans lifted their spending in October by the most in seven months.

“We’re still a little surprised to see such a growing panic in markets develop quite so soon given the relatively benign economic backdrop,” Paul Ashworh, an economist at Capital Economics, said in a research note.

Yet for Wall Street, higher pay can crimp corporate profit margins.

Many large, publicly-traded companies are hit by slower growth in places such as Europe and Japan.

They are also more directly affected by tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on a range of imports.

“There is a disconnect between the gloom and doom environ-

ment in financial markets and real economic conditions,” said Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Conference Board, a research group.

Most analysts do expect economic growth to decelerate next year. The boost from the Trump administration’s tax cuts, implemented late last year, is expected to fade. The Fed’s rate hikes could send borrowing costs higher. And the Trump administration has imposed tariffs on almost half of all imports from China, which will remain in place during a 90day window for negotiations announced last weekend.

Those concerns have roiled financial markets, sending major stock indexes down more than 4% this week. That’s the worst weekly decline since March.

Growth is forecast to slow to a still-solid 2% to 2.5% percent, analysts say, down from roughly 3% this year. Hiring will likely decline to about 150,000 a month from just above 200,000 this year, through November.

“The economy continues to churn out new jobs and reflects the strong underlying business conditions that point to steady, albeit slower job growth and eco-

nomic activity in 2019,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at consulting firm RSM. Fed policymakers are still likely to raise short-term interest rates at its meeting later this month, Brusuelas said. But Friday’s report suggests the Fed may not hike rates next year as rapidly as many investors have feared.

The ongoing job gains are pushing down unemployment rates to historically low levels for a variety of groups. The unemployment rate for men aged 20 and above fell last month to 3.3%, the lowest in 18 years. And the rate for Americans with just high school diplomas dropped to 3.5%, the lowest since December 2000. The AfricanAmerican jobless rate declined to 5.9%, matching May’s figure as the lowest on record.

That’s making it more challenging for businesses to find the workers they need. Employers have posted 7 million open jobs, outnumbering the ranks of the unemployed, which fell last month to just under 6 million.

Michael Mabry, chief operating officer at Mooyah, a fast-causal burger chain mostly located in the South, says his company has had to raise pay and offer more flexible

scheduling to attract new workers.

The company plans to open 15 locations next year, which could create up to 450 new jobs.

Applications have fallen “to an all-time low,” Mabry said.

“We’ve had to get competitive on work-life balance,” Mabry said.

Nearly all employees make at least $10 an hour, and management salaries have risen 5 to 10 percent in the past year, he added.

Nationwide, hiring in November was led by health care firms, which added 40,100 jobs, and manufacturing companies, which hired 27,000 new workers, the most in seven months and a sign that trade tensions have yet to weaken factory hiring.

Strong holiday shopping helped lift retailer hiring by 18,200 in November, the most in six months.

Online spending likely boosted shipping and warehousing jobs, which grew 25,400, the largest in 14 months.

Construction firms added just 5,000 jobs, the fewest in eight months. A weakening housing market, held back by higher mortgage rates, contributed to that decline.

New home building fell 2.6 percent in October from a year earlier. (ap)

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Moment of the Emperor’s Birthday Strengthens Bali-Japan Relations

Mutual understanding is one of the important basic capitals for building a relationship. Moreover, it engages in ‘heart to heart’ relationship. That is why the existence of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood established in 1977 in Fukuoka has remained lasting until now. “Well, I think so.

It’s very simple, as simple as we interpret the life. Devote to God, love others and devote life for the interests of others and done as well as possible.

Do it voluntarily and sincerely,” said senior figure of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, I Gusti Kompyang Pujawan, at a dinner program on Monday night (Dec. 3).

The event attended by the members of brotherhood and Japanese citizens in Bali took place very intimately. It is meant to celebrate the

birthday of the Japanese Emperor. In addition, it surely strengthens brotherhood between the two countries.

One of the concrete manifestations of the brotherhood is the construction of the Mataken Gakko Japanese Language Course. For decades, this free course has done a lot of positive things other than language teaching such as social action on mangrove greening, beach cleanup, Japan-Bali student exchange and others.

“I am a volunteer and very hap-

py to see this friendship continuing to develop into a better and better one,” said Matsumoto Noriyoshi, 87. Although no longer be young, this retired garment entrepreneur is very happy to volunteer at Mataken Gakko. Similar things were expressed by other colleagues such as Sinichi Araki, Asahi Uno, Yuiko Uno and Tatsuya Fukuda.

“I’ve been here for one and a half months. Twice a year, I come to Bali,” said Sinichi Araki.

Atmosphere of Bali makes them feel at home in addition to the commitment to being closer friends.

“Bali is similar to Japan which relies on agriculture. Other than Ceking Terrace at Tegallalang, I haven’t seen all the agricultural areas in Bali,” said Tatsuya Fukuda, a student of the Faculty of Agriculture at Tottori University. When tourism is growing rapidly with all its consequences, of course negative things need to be addressed together.

“Denpasar is crowded and surely there are lots of traffic jams. Similarly, we need to reduce plastic waste,” suggested Yuiko Uno who has been

in Bali for over a year. However, they agreed that Bali is in their heart. Now, it just needs to optimize in order to have a wider impact.

Chairman of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, Anak Agung Gde Widiada, appreciated to the involvement of Japanese citizens in intensely developing the human resources of Bali, especially through the presence of Mataken Gakko. “We continue to reverberate this moment. You can’t back down, let alone go out. Always keep the spirit for the interests of Bali and humanity in general, “he added. (kmb)

Jaja Laklak Also Preferred by Tourists

Jaja laklak (cake) is served with grated coconut together with brown sugar topping. When biting carefully, this cake feels soft and delicious. It is made by Balinese people utilizing rice flour. This cake has circular shape with a diameter of 3 cm and is made with clay mold.

It tastes good and is perfect for sitting in the morning, moreover, if coupled with warm Balinese coffee or tea. Laklak is white because it is not using food coloring, there is also a green one coming from the extract water of suji leaves. Jaja laklak is very easy to carry everywhere, so it’s good for food gift.

This cake is usually sold at food stalls at villages in the morning.

This traditional cake is also sold in traditional markets and cake shops as well as has been taken advantage as appetizer at hotels. At the same time, it is often adopted as menu of option

for citizens at wedding receptions or opening menu for participants of meetings, seminars and other gathering events at hotels or restaurants.

In cake shops, jaja laklak has been packed in plastic boxes with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce. But lately, the plastic packaging has begun to be abandoned because it causes a lot of plastic waste which is difficult to decompose. Unlike the cake traders at villagers, they use banana leaves to wrap the cakes.

This jaja laklak is usually sold for IDR 5,000 per wrap containing 5 or 4 pieces. The top appearance of this cake is usually added with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce. In addition to local people, this cake is also favored by domestic and foreign tourists. So naturally, it has become a hotel cake commonly served as an appetizer or

welcome cake.

The ingredients of jaja laklak consist of rice flour, coconut (to be made into coconut milk), suji leaves, salt, brown sugar, granulated sugar and water. Preparation: put rice flour into a container and then pour hot water little by little while stirring until finely blended. Then, pour the coconut milk little by little as well, while continuing to stir. Then, added suji leaf water to create a distinctive aroma, add salt to taste and then stir until all the ingredients are evenly mixed.

Ultimately, prepare the mold and preheat it first. After that, pour the batter of laklak with a spoon in accordance with the mold hole. Cover the mold and then wait for it to get cooked. Next, make brown sugar sauce by dissolving brown sugar and granulated sugar in boiled

water. Simultaneously, stir it until boiling and then lifted and filtered.

Boil it back until it thickens. Coconut is shredded and mixed with salt according to taste.

How to present? First of all, put

some pieces of jaja laklak on a plate or banana leaf in such away so as to look nice. Then, sprinkle them with grated coconut and pour the brown sugar sauce on top. Now, it is ready to taste! (kmb)

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Loss of water absorption, River borderline used for building

DENPASAR - Landslide disaster afflicting to a home at Sasih hamlet, Batubulan, claiming some casualties really touched us together. It was not the fault of heavy rain of last Friday night until Saturday morning, but posed a human error.

A Bali spatial observer who is also the Chairperson of the Alumni Association of the Sepuluh November Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS), I Wayan Mahardika, shook his head responding to such incident. Similar disasters will even threaten other Balinese people living in the riverbanks. All of these happened due to human greed as used up the land areas allocated for water absorption. Clearly, the

river borderline area is now taken advantage for settlements.

Wayan Mahardika assessed that government must be present to organize all the areas in Bali. Do not ever think that as long as the land is sold out, the problem is over and the government gets taxes from it.

This Deputy Chairperson of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry assessed that so far there has been no synchronization be-

tween the district government and the National Land Agency (BPN) related to the riverbank.

Moreover, the Bali Water Region Agency claimed to have sent a letter to relevant parties, but no one was paying attention. For Mahardika, there should be firmness of all components. The BPN has seen the field conditions that the resident’s land has become a riverbank (even though it was privately owned).

Meanwhile, the regional government must take strict action where building permit cannot be issued if it violates the river borderline provisions. Furthermore, if there are buildings on riverbank, local government must strictly take action against it. This strict action, said this owner of the Sinar Group from Klungkung, is also to save other owners and residents from disasters that may occur any time.

Thirdly, residents and land brokers can also minimize not to sell land in the water absorption area or river borderline area.

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Japan’s empress-in-waiting ‘insecure’ but vows to serve

TOKYO - Japan’s Crown Princess Masako on Sunday pledged to do her best despite feeling ‘insecure’ about becoming empress in mere months, in a candid statement released on her 55th birthday.

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I Wayan Mahardika

Emperor Akihito will step down on April 30, 2019 -- the first abdication in the Japanese imperial family in more than two centuries.

His eldest son and Masako’s husband Naruhito will ascend to the throne the next day.

“Even though I feel insecure about how helpful I will be when I think about the days ahead... I want to devote myself to the happiness of the people so I will make an effort to that end,” said the crown princess.

The Harvard- and Oxford-educated Masako left a promising career as a diplomat to marry into the imperial family in 1993.

She gave birth to Princess Aiko in 2001 but continued to face pressure to produce a son as only male heirs can take the throne under

Japanese law.

The pressure eased in 2006, however, when her sister-in-law gave birth to Prince Hisahito, now 12. She has made few public appearance since 2003 and has struggled with adjustment disorder.

In her birthday statement, Masako revealed she was recuperating from a stress-induced illness ahead of the imperial succession.

“I am delighted at the fact that I can perform more duties than before as I have tried to improve my physical condition,” she said.

But her doctors warned in a separate statement that it is important for the crown princess to continue treatment as she remains vulnerable to fatigue, especially after a large ceremony or successive duties. (afp)

This handout picture taken on December 4, 2018 and provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan on December 7, 2018 shows Japan’s Crown Princess Masako (R) and her husband Crown Prince Naruhito (L) posing for a photograph with their pet dog Yuri at Togu Palace in Tokyo. Crown princess Masako celebrated her 55th birthday on December 9, 2018.

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Over 1,700 arrested in latest ‘yellow vest’ protests in France

School buses previously used by students in Jembrana district will be re-activated.

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School bus reactivated

Services limited to junior high school students downtown

NEGARA - School buses previously used by students in Jembrana district will be re-activated. However, its operations are only limited to the Negara town area and for junior high school students. Only a unit of bus will be operated posing the assistance from the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation.

Head of the Jembrana Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Agency, I Made Dwi Maharimbawa, said on Friday (Dec. 7) the school bus assistance was a proposal from the PKP Jembrana service in 2018 with the specifications of Isuzu NQR having 26 seats. However, he admitted, the operations are still being studied, whether it will be charged or free. “This bus is only operated in the town. Besides, it is also related to the zoning, maybe

for SMPN 1, SMPN 2 and SMP 3 Negara,” said Maharimbawa.

Technically, there will be twice trips in a single transfer or pickup.

After that, the route will be determined around the three junior high schools downtown. Its main function is to familiarize the students with the use of public transportation mode. According to him, this school bus is also a solution for parents that

cannot transfer their children and break down congestion. Besides, it includes avoiding the use of motorcycles by underage students.

The dominantly yellow colored bus was tested last Saturday around the town of Negara. Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, along with a number of agency heads took part in the bus ride. Regent Artha hoped the school bus can be utilized properly,

especially to help transport facilities for students in Jembrana.

According to him, the aspect of transportation services is the responsibility of the government.

“This is part of our support from the government so that students needing school buses can be facilitated, as well as the transportation services care more about children’s rights,” he said. (kmb26)

PARIS - More than 1,700 people were arrested across France during the latest “yellow vest” protests as demonstrators clashing with riot police caused more damage in Paris than a week ago, officials said on Sunday.

Clashes broke out in the French capital and other several cities, including Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse, during a fourth weekend of nationwide protests against rising living costs and President Emmanuel Macron in general.

The embattled president -- whose name rang out across the Champs-Elysees as protesters shouted “Macron, resign” -- is expected to address the demonstrations in a much-anticipated speech in the coming days. A total 1,220 of the 1,723 detained were ordered held in custody, the ministry said.

Police in Paris said they made 1,082 arrests on Saturday, up sharply from 412 in the previous round. The interior ministry said some 136,000 people took part in Saturday’s protests across France, around the same number as on December 1.

But it was Paris which again bore the brunt of the violence and destruction. Protesters in the capital set fire to cars, burned barricades and smashed windows in pockets of violence, clad in their emblematic luminous safety jackets, as armoured vehicles rolled through the streets.

City authorities said the ‘yellow vests’ had caused “much more damage” than on December 1 protests.

“The sector concerned by the incidents was much larger...

With fewer barricades, there was much more dispersion, so many more places were impacted by violence,” Paris deputy Eric FEFERBERG / AFP mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told France Inter radio.

Protestors wearing “yellow vest” (gilet jaune) gesture on December 8, 2018 near the Arc de Triomphe “There was much more damage yesterday than there was a week ago.” (afp) in Paris during a protest against rising costs of living they blame on high taxes.

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Disagreeing with riverside house purchase of Ade

Sumiarna had his house sold

DENPASAR — Komang Sumiarna, cousin’s grandfather of I Made Oktora Dwi Palguna, 30, had ordered Made Oktora (victim) to sell the house affected by the landslide. He sees the location of the house owned by Ade, his nickname, is at the edge of the river and under Ade’s house stands a beji (holy baths) and temple.

Shooting wildlife with a camera on a Botswana Safari

BOTSWANA - These days many people’s experience of photography is limited to snapping selfies on their phones. Imagine if you’re given a full sized professional camera and taught how to use it.

He tells me to never switch off the camera, always give the subject enough room in the frame and remember to leave space for hidden legs of animals in water. His one bush survival tip is “Never panic!”

Even better, set out on an African safari and get so close to the animals that you can’t fail to get good shots. Of course it also helps that there’s always a tutor on hand to prevent you pressing the wrong buttons.

Shooting an elephant

Pangolin Photo Safari, Okavango Delta

I start my Pangolin Photo Safari in the Okavango Delta.

Getting there involves flying from Johannesburg to Maun, then transferring to a smaller 12 seater plane and crossing the Delta to land on a makeshift airstrip near the village of Khwai.

It’s then a bumpy ride in a bush vehicle to Pangolin’s lodge.

This really is the middle of nowhere where villagers still risk life and limb, venturing out into the bush, to cut the grasses. They sell them for thatch, earning money to buy school books and uniforms for their children. I bump into two of them as I set out in the late afternoon. They’re on their way home, but sometimes they don’t make it.

This is lion country and I’m whisked off to see a big male and smaller female waking from their afternoon nap. They’re hungry so we watch them stealthily stalking an impala.

Unfortunately, night is falling and when it gets too dark to see anything we return to camp. That night my fitful slumber is disturbed by the roaring of lions, braying of hyenas and the chomping of hippos.

Don’t panic

Next day, I’m given my camera with its 150-600mm zoom lens and Dan, my instructor takes me through the basics of safari photography.

Later, I’m put to the test when I’m about to enter a hide to observe elephants at a water hole. There’s a solitary bull who I think will make a good shot so I point my camera. He’s not pleased, trumpets loudly and starts to charge and of course I jump straight into the safety of the hide.

Dan is amused. He tells me that it was only a mock charge – if the elephant holds his head high and has his ears forward, there’s nothing to worry about. I prefer watching from safety and the elephants come so close to the hide that the dust thrown up by their huge feet sullies my lens.

My other indispensable companion is Wax, the spotter driver. Over the next few days he tracks leopard and lions in a landscape with no roads and no discernible features. He fords deep rivers and bludgeons through intractable parts of the bush in pursuit of his quarry. Along with the big cats we stumble across a huge herd of around 150 elephants, complete with babies and wait to catch hippos throwing their heads out of water in that classic hippo yawn.

Kasane

After three glorious days I take a small plane to Kasane, on the Chobe River which has game in abundance. I’m staying at the Pangolin Hotel on a hill above the river, a brand new facility specially designed for budding photographers. The guides are all professionals and their captivating wildlife pictures adorn the walls of the hotel. As in Khwai, each guest gets a camera on loan and goes out morning and afternoon, learning the craft of wildlife photography.

They also have purpose built boats equipped with 360 degree camera mounts. Morning finds hippos munching on grass on the bank, and huge crocs sunning themselves with their jaws wide open. Baboons play by the water and waterbucks come to drink. There’s time to linger, observe all, and also to get those special shots. Afternoon sees large herds of elephants playing in the mud, and a sighting of an elusive leopard in a tree.

There are also game drives through the National Park twice a day. One memorable morning I get to see four of the big five – lions, leopards, buffalo, elephants, all close enough to almost touch. In the evening we run across three lionesses with 6 month old cubs, all out to play, just having fun.

In the evening the tutors will patiently view your pictures in a custom editing room in the hotel and give you useful tips. Some of my fellow guests have only used their phones for pictures before and I see their joy as they get acquainted with their new toys. They come away with shots of animals of a quality they could only dream of. And of course it’s all down to the patience of the tutors and the skill of the trackers.

On my last day, in the late afternoon, I have the big zoom lens of my Canon 80D focussed on an old battered Buffalo, busy chomping away by the water. He’s seemingly unaware of the two young lions, perhaps brother and sister, behind him.

They’re gradually creeping forward, keeping low in the grass. It can only be a matter of time, but the light is disappearing fast.

Suddenly one of them moves to attack, but the buffalo stands his ground, lowering his horns, ready to charge. This is enough to send his attacker back to his twin and we wonder if there’s going to be a concerted effort. But no, they’re too inexperienced and hold back, unsure of further action. We drop our cameras and the old buffalo wanders off into the sunset. This is the one that got away. (IBP/net)

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Aside from residential areas and schools, the market did not escape from the brunt of the flood.

310 merchants at Kumbasari Market inundated

DENPASAR — Heavy rains flushing Denpasar and surrounding areas on Saturday (Dec. 8) caused a number of locations to be flooded.

Aside from residential areas and schools, the market did not escape from the brunt of the flood. As what happened to merchants at Kumbasari Market on Jalan Gajah Mada, this market was submerged to as high as 1.25 meters due to the overflowing water of Badung River. At least, 310 kiosks of local merchants on the first floor were submerged since 2:45 and just receded at 5:30 local time.

One of the kiosk assistants, Ayung, said that similar incident had occurred for four times. However, this time’s incident is fairly fast receding. Previously, the water passed through the shelf where the merchandise was displayed.

“Floods like this often occur when the rainy season arrives,” said this shopkeeper of Eka Jaya.

Meanwhile, Director of PD Pasar Denpasar, A.A. Yuliarta, when met on the sidelines of monitoring the merchants stated that of around 730 merchants at Kumbasari Market, at least 310 merchants were affected by the flood. As a result, the losses suffered reached around IDR 95 million. “Gold leaf clothes ex-

posed to water certainly can no longer be used. Surely, this causes merchants to lose,” said Yuliarta.

He told the water entered the merchant’s kiosks through channels in the drainage. Because of its lower position, the river water went inside. By and large, the channel functioned to dispose of the water inside. The river water cannot enter into the courtyard because the walls are quite high.

Responding to this condition, a member of Commission III of the Denpasar House of Representatives, A.A. Sushrusa Ngurah Putra, who immediately monitored the floods in the market, said that last Saturday, it is needed to restructure the market. For example, it can be done by making the first floor into parking lot, so that merchants do not continue to experience disasters like this.

In addition to Kumbasari Market, floods also hit a number of locations. From observation made last Saturday, the flood returned to hit the residential area on Jalan Pura Demak. The water level reached more than one meter. The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) officers and Center for Operations Control have carried out evacuation handling for residents trapped in the flood. (kmb)

“I really did not agree when Ade purchased the house there. I told him to immediately sell it. Moreover, I have scared Ade if he would be sought after by woman ghost or kuntilanak. I mean that it is not appropriate to have a house directly behind the river.

Moreover, there are temples in the area,” he said on Saturday (Dec. 8).

He had no feeling whatsoever before his grandson’s family experienced such a disaster. Ade is working at the BRI on Jalan Gajah Mada Office. With Ade’s family, Komang Sumiarna is very familiar, chiefly with the second son of the victim. That’s why he really feels lost.

Similarly, he is very close to Komang Sumiarna because he feels to be in the same boat as Ade. Since childhood, Ade used to live independently. “Whatever I told him, he might comply with, and always consulted with me,” he said.

However, regarding the matter of home, Ade did not consult with his grandfather. “When he bought the house, he didn’t tell me,” he said. He was shocked when invited to attend the Melaspas or inauguration ritual and made a new shrine, he saw the house is next to the river and leaned directly against the ground wall.

The house with two bedrooms is not very spacious and spreading across 80 square meters. Ade applied for a mortgage to buy the house. Only two years ago, the house was occupied by Ade. Sumiarna had disagreed with Ade living in that house because before being occupied there were three houses in the area having been hit by landslides for several times.

“When the house was empty, it had been hit by a landslide for several times. Two houses were repaired

by the owner. Only the last house, occupied by Ade, seemed to have not been repaired. I was angry about the iron materials.

Previously, Ade had contracted a house near the house of Komang Sumiarna. Close relationship between Komang Sumiarna and the homeowner made Ade get a discounted price, from IDR 25 million to IDR 11 million per year. However, when deciding to buy this avalanched house Ade did not consult.

Ade was born and grew up in Lombok. Moreover, his mother, Hartini, is still on duty at BBPOM Lombok.

Meanwhile, Ade’s father, Komang Rudi, is sick and living in Singaraja, Jawa hamlet, as his hometown. Ade moved to Bali and continued his junior high school until he attended college education in Bali.

Komang Sumiarna said when participating in the evacuation of the body of his great grandsons and grandson, he had predicted the victims could not be saved especially his great grandson. A two-year old child buried under landslide for about 3 hours, according to him, will not be able to survive.

The bodies of one family buried by landslides were found one by one. Made Oktara is a survivor among the five victims buried by the landslides. The five victims belong to one family, namely Ade’s wife, Lintang Ayu Widi Merti, 33, and three children namely Putu Delta Larasati, 6, Made Dian Aditya Palguna, 4, and Nyoman Adi Anggara Palguna, 2. Made Oktara is the father and husband of the deceased victims. Currently Made Oktara is being treated at Sanglah Hospital.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Dewa Ketut Kresna stated the victims were received at 10:20. They were referred from Dharma Yadnya Hospital at Tohpati, Denpasar.

The victim has an abdominal injury and a fracture (broken) on the arm. “Currently the patient is being operated on for treatment of abdominal wounds. In addition, there is a fracture in the arm but the fracture will be dealt with after getting treatment in operation chamber,” he said. As scheduled, the bodies of all the victims will be cremated at the Pasek Foundation of Cekomaria considering they were families of diaspora. (kmb42)

The bodies of one family buried by landslides were found one by one.

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To support coastal culinary merchant association

ITDC holds a cooking class MANGUPURA - As a measure to support the coastal merchant community in the Nusa Dua area to continuously improve their capabilities in culinary matters, the Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) returned to provide training and guidance through the Community Development Partnership program on Friday (Dec. 7). They were gathered to take part in the cooking class provided by Indonesia Chef Association.

According to the Operational Division Head of ITDC Nusa Dua, Made Pariwijaya, the traders are expected to be able to increase their capacity and capability in providing food and beverage. Through this cooking class, they are trained

to improve service standards and quality standards presented by merchant associations.

Pariwijaya said the training is very important to create a balance, equality and equal distribution of income in the Nusa Dua region.

Thus, it is creating complementary relationships because it is realized ITDC will not progress without the support of the supporting community. “Through this training, in the future the menu of local cuisine in Nusa Dua will be standardized,

whoever serves the traders is expected to be able to maintain the present standards,” he concluded.

He planned to create a special menu specifically for Nusa Dua featured in accordance with regional characteristics and potential. By that way, people will remember when they come to Nusa Dua and they must know their typical menus. “For this time, we have trained about 30 people from three communities, each of which has 10 people, namely

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The opening of the cooking class held by ITDC

the Sekar Sari association, Peninsula and Yasa Segara,” he said.

He admitted the training and coaching will be carried out continuously because in the future the traders would be made a kind of street food festival or Balinese festival. They will also be involved more in the Nusa Dua Heritage Food Festival, Nusa Dua Fiesta and other events in Nusa Dua. “We are confident it will increasingly make the Peninsula Island more attractive, which will have an impact on regional occupancy,” he assured.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the LPM Benoa, Wayan Ambara Putra, who was present at the opening, hoped the beach merchant community will later be able to improve food and service standards. The training is expected to further enrich the food variants presented. Do not let all the merchants have the same food menus, so as to make them less attractive to prospective buyers.

“Hopefully, it does not only train western food, but also traditional or local food, which of course has been modified better,” he hoped.

He hoped to provide a plus value for tourists and traders themselves, as well as increase the motivation of merchants. In addition to the quality, hygiene, quality of food presentation and variety of food are certainly very important without leaving the tradition of the Nusa Dua. (kmb23)

Breaking coastal borderline

Nengah Suma’s stall asked to be soon dismantled AMLAPURA - The stall owned by I Nengah Suma on Amed Beach, Abang sub-district, was ordered to be dismantled by the Head of the Karangasem Municipal Police.

Demolition of the stall was carried out based on the demolition warrant filed by the Chief of Karangasem Municipal Police due to violating the coastal borderline.

Secretary of the Karangasem Municipal Police, I Made Subagia Wijaya, confirmed on Friday (Dec. 7) that his office already issued a warrant signed directly by the Chief of Municipal Police, Ketut Wage Saputra. He said the stall owner, Ketut Suma, actually had been repeatedly fostered.

In addition, three reprimand letters have been given to him.

Since they were ignored, finally it was issued the third reprimand letter. However, the reprimand letter in order to build the business premise violating the regulations concerning the costal borderline was ignored as well.

Wijaya said the Municipal Police finally sent a demolition warrant of No.3314/575/bid. Trantib/Satpol PP/2018.

The warrant ordered the owner of jutting stall towards the beach to dismantle the building itself as violating the coastal borderline. Moreover, the demolition warrant was not heeded within a period of seven days from the issuance of the letter, so that it will be demolished by the Municipal Police and the

judicial team of legal products of the Karangasem district on Monday (Dec. 10).

“We hope the owner Nengah Suma to dismantle the building by himself. Otherwise, his institution from the Karangasem district has requested assistance from police authority to carry out demolition on Monday three days later.

This measure is meant to arrange the beach and avoid clutter so the tourism runs sustainably. The government has a duty to regulate it, so that it does not become chaotic,” he said.

The measure of Municipal Police refers to the Law No.23/2014 concerning Regional Government, Government Regulation No.16/2018 concerning Municipal Police and a number of regional rules to Regional Regulation No.17/2012 concerning Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW), Regional Bylaw No.4/2013 concerning Public Order as amendment to Karangasem Regulation No. 4/2010 concerning Public Order as well as the regulation of the Regent of Karangasem No.45/2015 concerning the standard operating procedures of the Karangasem Municipal Police.

On the other hand, Nengah Suma admitted to have received a demolition warrant from the Karangasem Municipal Police on Monday (Dec. 3). He said the location declaring to have violated the coastal borderline by the Municipal Police

is not a stall but salt farming hut. “I really have a business premise in the form of a stall almost near the mainland.

However, the building to sell drinks for tourists or local tourists stands on my private certified property. Meanwhile, the property on the sand is salt farming container. I place the traditional salt drying platform because the results are better if it is dried on the sand. If Municipal Police want to dismantle, it is okay,” he said.

Suma said he will not carry out the demolition by himself but is waiting for the Municipal Police. He also questioned why he was ordered to dismantle his own property because there are also many other violating buildings in the coastal borderline. Suma, among others, mentioned three businesses such as a stall and place to sell drinks and bars. Suma admitted that initially the Municipal Police had visited the location of his stall and the salt farming hut after receiving a report from fishermen. Actually, the salt drying place is located 50 meters if the seawater recedes.

But when high tide occurs the distance is 10 to 15 meters.

“My location is in the middle. When drying sand for salt farming, I prefer doing it to mainland and adjacent place to get sunligh, because my place is flanked by other businesses,” he explained. (kmb41)

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Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa Resort receives Super Platinum III Tri Hita Karana Award 2018 Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa receives Super Platinum III, the highest category of Bali’s prestigious Tri Hita Karana Awards.

The resort was recognized for its continuous commitment & achievements in sustainable tourism.

Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa was recognized based on strict evaluation in the practice of harmonious living, culture and operational concept.

“The award is a source of great pride to our hotel, and it reflects our dedication in creating the best possible environment for employees and guests. We will continue to maintain the philosophy of Tri Hita

Karana in our daily business,” said Jamal Hussain, General Manager of Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa. The Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa is the pioneer of luxury accommodation within the Nusa Dua area. This 5-star diamond resort, has been welcoming kings, queens, presidents and other dignitaries since its grand opening. Nestled within beautifully landscaped gardens, the resort, with its 382 guestrooms and suites, features all the elegance of a Balinese palace, while offering modern amenities.

The Nusa Dua Spa is designed to highlight its rich Balinese tradition with a variety of indigenous treatments. Dining at Nusa Dua Hotel

& Spa is an epicurean journey with a choice of five restaurants and

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Sinatra auction fetches $9.2m in New York NEW YORK - It was definitely “All” rather than “Nothing at All” at a Frank Sinatra auction in New York, where items owned by the late icon and his fourth wife fetched $9.2 million, Sotheby’s said Friday.

And 99 percent of the lots, spread out this week in the US financial and entertainment capital, and online, were snapped up, attracting 300 bidders from more than 30 countries, the auction house announced.

Up for grabs was furniture, art and personal effects dating back to the couple’s 22-year marriage -- art and furniture from their homes in Palm Springs, Los Angeles and Malibu -- as well as scripts and screenplays. The top lot was Barbara Sinatra’s 20-carat diamond engagement ring, given to her in the bottom of a champagne glass, which went for $1.7 million.

Many of the items fetched substantially more than their pre-sale estimates. They included a Norman Rockwell portrait of Sinatra, which the singer commissioned, sold for $687,000 and a script for “From Here to Eternity,” the movie for which he won an Oscar, went for $35,000.

The USA Drinking Team jacket marked “Coach” that Sinatra wore for nights on the town with his friends sold for $35,000 -- 70 times its $500 estimate.

A police badge given to Sinatra

by Essex County New Jersey and inscribed “chairman of the board, Frank Sinatra” went for a whopping $18,750 and a hand-crocheted yarmulke emblazoned with Frank’s name fetched $9,375.

Of the memorabilia tracing Sinatra’s friendship with every US president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, a color photograph inscribed by Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan sold for $68,750.

The son of Italian immigrants and born in New Jersey in 1915, Sinatra was one of the best loved entertainers of the 20th century with hits such as “Strangers in the Night,” “My Way” and “All or Nothing at All.” He first married teenage sweetheart Nancy Barbato (19391949), with whom he had three children, then Hollywood stars Ava Gardner (195157) and Mia Farrow (1966-68). He married Barbara in 1976. She died last year. (afp)

Mexican volunteer crowned Miss World

Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, has a degree in international business, volunteers for “Migrantes en el Camino” and is on the board of directors of a rehab centre for girls, according to the Miss World website.

She was crowned as the 68th Miss World by last year’s winner, Manushi Chhillar of India, in the coastal city of Sanya.

The colourful ceremony included US group Sister Sledge performing their 1979 disco anthem “We Are Family.”

First runner up was Thailand’s Nicolene Pichapa Limsnukan, a 20-year-old studying business administration.

Miss Belarus Maria Vasilevich, Miss Jamaica Kadijah Robinson and Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo were also among the final five.

It is the eighth time the Miss World final has been held in Sanya, which first hosted the pageant in 2003.

At the finals three years ago controversy erupted as officials in Hong Kong stopped Miss Canada, Anastasia Lin, from boarding a plane bound for Sanya, telling her she would not receive a visa. The 25-year old actress claimed the decision was due to her stance on China’s human rights record, including its persecution of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual group of which she is a practitioner. (afp) Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon waves after winning the 68th Miss World contest final in Sanya, on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan on December 8, 2018.

In this file photo taken on November 30, 2018 a Sotheby’s employee tags Sinatra memorabilia at Sotheby’s in New York.

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A sub-Saharan migrant shows injuries he sustained while trying to scale the Ceuta fence, at Ouled Ziane camp in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Hunger, lice, filth: Moroccan camp shows migrant challenges

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CASABLANCA - As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a Casablanca camp rife with hunger, misery, lice and filth.

These sub-Saharan Africans who dream of going to Europe are a symbol of the problems world dignitaries are trying to address with the U.N.’s first migration compact, being finalized at a conference in Marrakech on Monday and Tuesday.

Rising numbers of migrants live in the makeshift camp that sprung up on a soccer field near a busy Casablanca bus station, where they are bedded down under tents or shacks built from plastic and wood.

Scant food, a lack of heat and no sanitation are the main worries at

the Oulad Ziane camp, as lice and respiratory infections are becoming endemic.

Morocco embodies multiple dilemmas facing the countries meeting in Marrakech: It’s a major source of Europe’s migrants but is also a transit country as well as a migrant host for other Africans fleeing poverty and persecution.

The 34-page U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is to be formally approved in Marrakech, Morocco, on Dec. 10-11. But the United States and several European countries have said they won’t sign on.

The Oulad Ziane camp houses African migrants seeking to reach Europe via the western Mediterranean route to Spain after crackdowns by Italy and Malta have slowed smuggling traffic in the eastern Mediterranean. Many of the migrants have already tried the journey north to Morocco’s border with Spain, only to be pushed away

by Moroccan police, sometimes violently.

In the meantime they look for work in Casablanca, hoping to earn enough to pay smugglers to try once again.

New arrivals at the Casablanca camp came after clashing violently with Moroccan border agents as they tried to scale the fence separating Morocco from Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

“I am only here to recover. I come and go,” said 19-year-old Guinean Ibrahim Bah, who arrived days ago with open wounds on his wrists, arms and back.

“Moroccan forces caught us and beat us. They broke one of my friend’s arms, handcuffed us and crammed us on a bus. This time they dropped us in Casablanca but usually they take us far to the south,” he said.

Government officials didn’t respond to requests for comment on inhumane treatment of migrants or the Casablanca camp, but Morocco’s government describes the country’s migration policy as “exemplary.” That mostly refers to reforms launched in 2014, largely funded by the EU, to encourage migrants to stay in Morocco.

More than 23,096 migrants have been given Moroccan residency since 2014 and the authorities are currently processing about 25,000 other applications.

Still, more than 6,500 SubSaharan migrants and refugees were arrested and pushed back on buses to southern Morocco or toward Algeria between July and September 2018, according to an anti-racist group Gadem.

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