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“Harry Potter” triumphs with magical sweep at Olivier Awards

LONDON - “Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”, a stage adaptation of J.K Rowling’s fantastical world of witches and wizards, cast a magical spell at the Olivier Awards on Sunday, scooping nine wins at Britain’s big night for theatre.

The critically-acclaimed production, which opened last year in London’s West End, went in with 11 nominations. Its victorious haul made it “the most decorated production in the ceremony’s history”, awards organisers said.

The eighth story in the “Harry Potter” series, the play follows Rowling’s young boy wizard and friends Ron and Hermione into adulthood.

It took best new play, best actor, best actor and actress in a supporting role as well as best director.

“The power of imagination is infinite,” director John Tiffany said in his acceptance speech. “We need it now more than ever.”

Jamie Parker, who portrays the older Harry, won best actor, beating off competition from the likes of Ian McKellen and Ed Harris.

Anthony Boyle, who plays Scorpius Malfoy, took best actor in a supporting role while best actress in a supporting role went to Noma Dumezweni, who plays an adult Hermione.

“Thank you J.K. Rowling for

creating Hermione and...the privilege of being able to play Hermione is overwhelming and humbling,” Dumezweni said.

The play also won best lighting design, best sound design, best costume design and best set design.

Other winners at the glitzy ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall included children playing instruments in “School of Rock”, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of the 2003 comedy film, who won in the outstanding achievement in music category.

“Groundhog Day”, an adaptation of the famed 1993 film starring Bill Murray, won best new musical as well as best actor in a musical for Andy Karl.

“Glee” actress Amber Riley scooped the best actress in a musical award for “Dreamgirls” while fellow cast member Adam J Bernard won best actor in a supporting role in a musical.

Billie Piper won best actress for “Yerma”, an adaptation of the play

by Federico Garcia Lorca, which won best revival.

“Jesus Christ Superstar” won best musical revival. “Our ladies of Perpetual Succour” won best new comedy while “Akhnaten” took the prize for best new opera production. (rtr)

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file

In this Thursday, July 28, 2016 file photo, the Palace Theatre in London shows advertising for Harry Potter play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Families gather after Egypt church attack, state of emergency approved

ALEXANDRIA - Families of victims of Sunday’s bombing at Alexandria’s Coptic cathedral gathered at the Monastery of Saint Mina under heavy security on Monday as Egypt’s cabinet approved a three-month state of emergency ahead of a scheduled trip by Pope Francis.

Coffins of the 17 killed were lined up on the tiled square outside the monastery ahead of the funeral. Police checked cars as they entered the grounds, with hundreds of people gathered outside, and dozens of tanks lined parts of the road from Cairo. The blast in Egypt’s second largest city came hours after a bomb struck a Coptic church in Tanta, a nearby city in the Nile Delta, killing 27 and wounding nearly 80.

Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State, which has waged a campaign against Egypt’s Christian minority, the largest in the Middle East.

The Copts, whose presence in Egypt dates to the Roman era, have long complained of religious persecution and accused the state of not doing enough to protect them.

Coming on Palm Sunday, when Christians mark the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, the bombings appeared designed to spread fear among Copts, who make up 10 percent of Egypt’s population.

They also raised security

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This image released by DreamWorks Animation shows characters Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, and Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin in a scene from the animated film, “The Boss Baby.”

‘Boss Baby,’ ‘Beauty’ outshine ‘Smurfs 3’ at box office

LOS ANGELES — The Smurfs are feeling a little blue this weekend. The third installment in Sony’s animated series, “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” made its box-office debut in third place, with $14 million — far behind family-friendly holdovers “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast,” according to studio estimates Sunday.

Featuring the voices of Demi Lovato and Joe Manganiello, “Smurfs,” which reportedly cost $60 million to make, has not charmed critics either. Its earnings were worse than the 2013 opening of “Smurfs 2,” which went on to gross $347.5 million worldwide despite a $17.5 million debut and a heftier $105 million price tag.

But the fate of the third “Smurfs” is not necessarily sealed, says ComScore’s senior media analyst, Paul Dergarabedian.

“There are other revenue streams for films like this,” Dergarabedian said, noting international profits and home video potential that could recoup production costs.

In first place, “The Boss Baby” added $26.3 million in its second weekend in theaters, bringing its North American total to $89.4 million. Sufficient buzz and the benefit of voice star Alec Baldwin’s popular portrayal of President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” likely helped the film succeed, Dergarabedian said.

Meanwhile, “Beauty and the Beast” earned $25 million to take second place at the box office. In four weeks, Disney’s live-action fairy tale has brought in $432.3 million domestically.

While the family films dominated, moviegoers had other options on a relatively quiet weekend. The

tepidly reviewed buddy comedy “Going in Style,” starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, opened in fourth place, with $12.5 million.

The faith-based drama “The Case for Christ” also launched with $3.9 million from 1,174 theaters.

In limited release, the Chris Evans drama “Gifted” took in $476,000 from 56 theaters, while the World War II drama “Their Finest” grossed $77,000 from four screens in New York and Los Angeles.

The relative quiet at the box office is ending soon. “The Fate of the Furious,” the eighth installment in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise, speeds into theaters next weekend, followed by “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” a few weeks later.

“There are a lot of box-office heavyweights looming on the horizon,” Dergarabedian said. (ap)

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SOFTER CHRISTIAN TARGET In Tanta, where many families buried their dead on Sunday, members of the Coptic community expressed anger at

Bombings of Egyptian Coptic churches

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks at a church north of Cairo and the cathedral of the Coptic Pope in Alexandria on Palm Sunday, prompting anger and fear among Christians and leading to troop deployments and the declaration of a three-month state of emergency.

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by Roman Catholic Pope Francis planned for April 28-29.

Coptic Pope Tawadros, who was leading the mass in Alexandria’s Saint Mark’s Cathedral when the bomb exploded, was not harmed, the Interior Ministry said. The nationwide state of emergency declared by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and agreed by the cabinet on Monday is expected to be approved by parliament within seven days in order to remain in place.

“The armed forces and police will do what is necessary to confront the threats of terrorism and its financing,” the cabinet said in a statement.

Measures would be taken to “maintain security across the country, protect public and private property and the lives of citizens,” it said.

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Egyptians attend the funerals of victims of the Palm Sunday bombings at St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Monastery “Deir Mar Mina” in Alexandria, Egypt April 10, 2017.

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Source: Reuters J. Wang, 10/04/2017

the lack of security, saying that despite warnings of an attack, police had not stepped up efforts to protect them. A senior police official told Reuters a bomb was discovered and disabled near the Tanta church about a week ago.

“That should have been an alarm or a warning that this place is targeted,” said 38-year-old Amira Maher.

“Especially Palm Sunday, a day when many people gather, more than any other time in the year... I don’t know how this happened.”

At Tanta University hospital morgue, desperate families were trying to get inside to search for loved ones. Security forces held them back to stop overcrowding, enraging the crowd.

“Why are you preventing us from entering now? Where were you when all this happened?” shouted one women looking for a relative. Some appeared in total shock, their faces pale and unmoving.

Others wept openly as women wailed in mourning.

Though Islamic State has long waged a low-level war against soldiers and police in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula for years, its stepped up assault on Christians in the mainland could turn a provincial insurgency into wider sectarian conflict.

On Sunday, the group warned of more attacks and boasted it had killed 80 people in three church bombings since December.

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To avoid congestion during Ngusaba ritual at Ulun Danu Batur

Traffic Affairs divert traffic

BANGLI — Bangli Police Traffic Affairs will divert traffic in the region of Batur, Kintamani, during the implementation of Ngusaba Kedasa ritual at Ulun Danu Batur Temple. Such traffic diversion is meant to avoid long traffic jams along the path to the universal temple.

The tourists are visiting Penglipuran Village.

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Chief of Bangli Police Traffic Affairs, I Gusti Ayu Udayani Addi, said on Friday (Apr. 7) that the traffic diversion started on April 9 until the end of the Ngusaba Kedasa ritual on April 24. All road users will be diverted to several alternative paths determined.

Udayani described that according to the plan, the traffic during the ritual in progress will be applied in one direction. All the pilgrims from the north after saying prayers are not allowed to move southward passing the three-way intersection of Katung. They must turn right through Pedulu southward to the three-way intersection of North Petung. Vehicles from the south to the three-way intersection of Katung are not allowed to move northward, but turn left and park at Tunon except

for penganyar and VIP vehicles.

Vehicles that will go to Singaraja are diverted to pass through the Mount Kunyit, and then pass through the cooperatives, while the vehicles coming from the north (non-pilgrims) are directed to the intersection of Blancan to the right to get to the four-way intersection of Pedulu to go further southward or eastward.

“Traffic diversion remains the same as last year. However, on the road section of Mount Kunyit (Jalan Gunung Sati) currently there is a broken road shoulder so that it inhibits the traffic. Related to this matter, we have sent a letter to the Public Works Agency,” she said.

In anticipation of worsening collapsed road in the path of Mount Kunyit, especially with the current rainy condition, she hoped it could only be passed through by small

cars. “It is still drivable. If passed through by many large vehicles, the damage is feared to be getting worse,” she said. She admitted to have set police line as a warning sign to motorists in order that they can be careful when crossing the road.

As for parking lot, Udayani stated that it has been provided in front of the Batur Temple (higher priests and VIP), Kintamani Market, Kintamani Square, Katung Terminal, and in front of the Maharaja Restaurant. Udayani asked motorists not to go up against the traffic that has been determined.

They are advised to follow the instructions so as to reduce congestion. In addition, when parking vehicles, pilgrims are also asked to always be careful of the luggage and make sure that vehicle has been locked properly. (kmb40)

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Tourism becomes leading sector of national development

MANGUPURA —The programs of central government in the next five years will be focused on infrastructural sector, maritime, energy, food and tourism. Among these five sectors, tourism has been designated as the leading sector for the short, medium and long term as it shows positive growth. This was expressed by the Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism, Ukus Kuswara, in Kuta.

According to him, the world’s tourism plays important role in contributing to the global gross domestic product (GDP) amounting to 9.8 percent. Then, contribution to world’s export totally amounts to USD 7.58 trillion, foreign exchange earnings of tourism sector grow by 25.1 percent, and tourism provides wide job opportunity namely 1 of the 11 existing jobs opportunities in tourism sector. “The world’s tourism growth has a positive impact on tourism of Indonesia,” he said.

Therefore, the government targets the growth of national tourism to double in 2019. “This (tourism) sector is targeted to generate IDR 280 trillion of foreign exchange; tourism job opportunity for 13 million people; 20 million foreign tourist visits and movement of 275 million domestic tourist visits; as well as the Indonesia’s tourism competitiveness index ranked the 30th in the world,” he said.

In order to achieve the target of tourism in 2019, his ministry implemented the policy and program priorities that will be implemented this year namely digital tourism, homestay, and the air accessibility as three top programs.

Related to Bali tourism, Ukus Kuswara said that Bali has a privilege in the eyes of the world. Bali also becomes the most complete example of destinations with 3 A consisting of attraction, access and amenities.

“We will strengthen the communication and closeness to pentahelix stakeholders of the Island of the Gods,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Stone Age cannibals: Hunting each other not worth the hassle NEW YORK — You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.

Neanderthals and prehistoric members of our own species occasionally practiced cannibalism and explaining that is a scientific challenge. Generally, it has been attributed to factors like starvation, violence between groups or ceremonial practices following a death.

Now a new study suggests they were probably not hunting each other just for food.

That’s because “we are not very nutritious, on a calorie level,” compared to large game animals, says James Cole of the University of Brighton in England. Next to a mammoth, even a dozen burly Neanderthals would be slim pickings.

Cole presented his argument Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports .

He focused on nine previously reported fossil sites where researchers have found evidence of cannibalism, like marks on the bones that indicated butchery. The sites were dated to between roughly 14,000 years ago to more than 900,000

years ago, which falls within the Paleolithic period the study focused on. Five involved our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals, two involved our own species, and the rest were other extinct members of the human evolutionary branch.

His question: How many calories would the bodies at each site provide? To estimate that, he first used previously published data to conclude that eating an averagesized modern-day man could yield up to about 144,000 calories. He then adapted that to the age ranges of the bodies.

Even if all the bodies at a site were consumed in a single episode, he concluded, the energy payoff would be no more than what a hunter could get from a single large animal like a mammoth, a woolly rhino or a bear. So why bother with the hassle of hunting your own kind?

“You’re dealing with an animal that is as smart as you are, as resourceful as you are, and can fight back in the way you fight them,”

Cole said.

Maybe in some cases, our ancestors ate companions who had died for an easy meal, Cole said. But his main point is that usually, the cannibalism was probably driven by some social or cultural factors rather than just nutrition. For example, it may have followed episodes of violence, as in defending territory, he said.

Cole’s paper seems unlikely to revolutionize the field. Two experts, Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, and Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Museum in Boulder, said they don’t know of anybody who has credibly proposed the idea that Cole takes aim at, that our ancestors hunted each other simply as food.

The new work “does not change our general understanding of human cannibalism,” Villa said in an email.

But Palmira Saladie, of the Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution near Barcelona, Spain, said Cole’s

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

This Friday, March 20, 2009 file photo shows reconstructions of a Neanderthal man named “N”, left, and woman called “Wilma”, right, at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. Trying to explain cases of ancient cannibalism among our evolutionary forerunners is a vexing scientific challenge.

A new study released Thursday, April 6, 2017 in the Journal Scientific Reports suggests that whatever the reasons, they were probably not hunting each other just for food. study “will undoubtedly be key in the interpretation of new sites (and) the re-evaluation of old interpretations.”

To understand why our forerunners sometimes ate each other, she wrote in an email, “We still have a long way to go.” (ap)

DNA dating: How molecular clocks are refining human evolution’s timeline

(THE CONVERSATION) DNA holds the story of our ancestry – how we’re related to the familiar faces at family reunions as well as more ancient affairs: how we’re related to our closest nonhuman relatives, chimpanzees; how Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals; and how people migrated out of Africa, adapting to new environments and lifestyles along the way. And our DNA also holds clues about the timing of these key events in human evolution.

When scientists say that modern humans emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago and began their global spread about 60,000 years ago, how do they come up with those dates? Traditionally researchers built timelines of human prehistory based on fossils and artifacts, which can be directly dated with methods such as radiocarbon dating and Potassium-argon dating. However, these methods require ancient remains to have certain elements or preservation conditions, and that is not always the case. Moreover,

relevant fossils or artifacts have not been discovered for all milestones in human evolution.

Analyzing DNA from presentday and ancient genomes provides a complementary approach for dating evolutionary events. Because certain genetic changes occur at a steady rate per generation, they provide an estimate of the time elapsed. These changes accrue like the ticks on a stopwatch, providing a “molecular clock.” By comparing DNA sequences, geneticists can not only reconstruct relationships between different populations or species but also infer evolutionary history over deep timescales.

Molecular clocks are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to improved DNA sequencing, analytical tools and a better understanding of the biological processes behind genetic changes. By applying these methods to the ever-growing database of DNA from diverse populations (both present-day and ancient), geneticists are helping to build a more refined timeline of

human evolution. es

How DNA accumulates chang-

Molecular clocks are based on two key biological processes that are the source of all heritable variation: mutation and recombination.

Mutations are changes to the letters of DNA’s genetic code – for instance, a nucleotide Guanine (G) becomes a Thymine (T). These changes will be inherited by future generations if they occur in eggs, sperm or their cellular precursors (the germline). Most result from mistakes when DNA copies itself during cell division, although other types of mutations occur spontaneously or from exposure to hazards like radiation and chemicals.

In a single human genome, there are about 70 nucleotide changes per generation – minuscule in a genome made up of six billion letters. But in aggregate, over many generations, these changes lead to substantial evolutionary variation.

Scientists can use mutations to

estimate the timing of branches in our evolutionary tree. First they compare the DNA sequences of two individuals or species, counting the neutral differences that don’t alter one’s chances of survival and reproduction. Then, knowing the rate of these changes, they can calculate the time needed to accumulate that many differences. This tells them how long it’s been since the individuals shared ancestors.

Comparison of DNA between you and your sibling would show relatively few mutational differences because you share ancestors – mom and dad – just one generation ago. However, there are millions of differences between humans and chimpanzees; our last common ancestor lived over six million years ago.

Recombination, also known as crossing-over, is the other main way DNA accumulates changes over time. It leads to shuffling of the two copies of the genome (one from each parent), which are bundled into chromosomes. During

recombination, the corresponding (homologous) chromosomes line up and exchange segments, so the genome you pass on to your children is a mosaic of your parents’ DNA. In humans, about 36 recombination events occur per generation, one or two per chromosome. As this happens every generation, segments inherited from a particular individual get broken into smaller and smaller chunks. Based on the size of these chunks and frequency of crossovers, geneticists can estimate how long ago that individual was your ancestor.

Building timelines based on changes Genetic changes from mutation and recombination provide two distinct clocks, each suited for dating different evolutionary events and timescales.

Because mutations accumulate so slowly, this clock works better for very ancient events, like evolutionary splits between species.(ap)

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Bali Transport Agency not specify upper and lower tariff

DENPASAR — Bali Transport Agency has not specified the upper and lower limit rate for online rental transport. In the meantime, it still refers to the tariff having been in force namely taxi tariff at IDR 7,000 when opening taxi door, and then IDR 6,500 per next km, with a waiting rate of IDR 45,000 and IDR 6,500 for rental transport, including special rental services.

“Later, we will inform if the new tariff has been available,” said the Head of Bali Transport Agency, I Gusti Agung Sudarsana, when confirmed on Friday (Apr. 4). According to him, the adoption of the existing rate was his idea. The idea was put forward in the meeting with transportation experts, the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI), Organda Bali, police authority, representatives of rental transport and other stakeholders some time ago. Though having been agreed so, it will last temporarily.

“The tariff needs to have a study and is not determined by us, but by central government. However, we present the results of meeting and deliver the number met and agreed,” he stated.

He added that the review on the appropriate tariff is still carried out by his agency together with relevant agencies such as the infocom and statistics agency, licensing office, Organda and the MTI. Results of the study may be cheaper or even more expensive than the tariff applied today.

“For the time being, our colleagues in the meeting agreed that (applicable tariff –Ed). If there are parties that do not agree, it must be studied. For example, we will try to apply pursuant to the existing data and theory. However, perhaps it can be cheaper or more expensive,” he explained.

Related to transportation quota, Sudarsana added that there are indeed 20,085 quotas in 2017. With the current conditions, there are about 7,500 remaining permits of transport quota that can be issued.

Corresponding to the results of meeting, there are two options of quota. The first option is providing 50:50 for conventional transport and rental transport, while the second option is giving freedom until achieving the total quota available.

When confirmed separately, Secretary of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, asked the transportation agency to determine the lower limit tariff only, while the upper limit tariff is unnecessary to be specified. “If people are willing to pay a premium tariff due to the service is good, it is okay and no problem. Conversely, the lower limit tariff must be determined so as not to be sold cheaply,” he said.

Kariyasa admitted that he would invite the transport agency to discuss the supporting rules in the Regulation of the Minister of Transport No.26/2017 that has revised the regulation No. 32/2016. His agency will involve conventional taxi and online taxi to get a meeting point in the discussion scheduled to be held after the celebration of Kuningan.

Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Tama Tenaya, said the tariff issue is not specifically regulated in Bali because it potentially causes friction in the field. In this case, it can happen between the drivers of online-based transport and conventional transport. On that account, there should be a comprehensive study regarding the transport tariff.

“Then, regarding the permit, taxis in Bali should submit permission to central government. But in reality, they have been operating in the respective territory. Therefore, it is necessary to make technical studies, especially the studies concerning the application to be used,” he added. (kmb32)

The hotels in Kuta seen from above.

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To increase tax revenue, Badung ‘takes’ all possible ways

MANGUPURA - Application of tapping box incorporating with web service is considered inadequate to increase the revenue of Badung from the hotel and restaurant tax (PHR). This richest district in Bali will take advantage of any means to increase revenues in the tourism sector.

Head of the Regional Revenue Services and Property Tax, Made Sutama, claimed that he will strengthen the existing technology by utilizing human resources to increase hotel and restaurant tax revenue. According to him, this policy complies with the instruction of the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta.

“Well ... the instruction of the regent is good and firm. To follow up the instruction of our leadership, we will optimize existing human resources while evaluating the tasks having been implemented over the years,” said Made Sutama on Thursday (Apr. 6).

According to Sutama, direct control against taxpayers is meant to maximize revenues of Badung from hotel and restaurant taxes. Thus, the target of Badung regional budget 2018 valued at

IDR 6 trillion to IDR 7 trillion can be realized.

“Tapping box and web services have been proved to boost the hotel and restaurant taxes of Badung. To further maximize, it will be backed up by human resources to oversee the taxpayers,” he explained.

This official from Pecatu is optimistic that the target of increasing local revenues could be achieved. His agency will try to reach the target.

“We will make coordination with the heads of relevant agencies in Badung because we cannot work alone and need the coordination with other agencies. However, we remain optimistic that the target could be achieved,” he said.

Earlier, in 2016 the Badung regional budget only valued at IDR 4.1 trillion and in 2017 increased to IDR 5.4 trillion. The increase of regional budget is inseparable from the regionally generated revenue (PAD) that largely sources from hotel and restaurant taxes.

“Internal team should be solid.

If the team is solid in the regional agencies we lead, hopefully the target could be able to be

achieved,” he said.

He mentioned that the increase in the budget is needed to empower rural communities, education and health. Every village in Badung assisted through the 10-percent allowance of hotel and restaurant tax, where each village can receive funding of up to IDR 14 billion. For education, the government has allocated as much as IDR 1 trillion. Likewise, the health sector also gets disbursement of budget worth almost identical to the education sector.

Regent Giri Prasta, in the inauguration of the IIb echelon, instructed the regional development planning board (Bappeda) to prepare taxpayer inspectors.

“We should not rely solely on tools, we also need the presence of tax inspectors,” he said.

The assigned inspecting personnel, according to this official from Pelaga, Petang, will oversee all the taxpayers in the region.

Moreover, the regent wanted that no taxpayers will escape from supervision.

“The number of taxpayers is divided by the number of inspectors, so they do not mess around, and should be checked every time,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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‘Dollars and euros’: How a Malaysian firm helped fund N.Korea’s leadership

Wayang wong dance staged at Maksan Temple of Tejakula

WAYANG wong sacred dance that only exists at Tejakula village, Tejakula subdistrict, was presented at Maksan Temple of local village. The location is chosen because the masks of the wayang wong characters are stored at the local temple. They are even believed to have been four centuries old.

Based on reference at hand, this art is also known as sacred dance.

First establishment of the dance happened approximately four centuries ago. From this location, the art then spread to some regions in Bali. Though having widely spread, this art has taksu (divine vibration) and is made sacred. This sacredness has been approved by the UNESCO. Besides, the wayang wong dance has also been recognized as intangible cultural heritage in 2015.

In the performance, the dancers repeated the storyline from the beginning. The artists performing the Ramayana storyline started staging the first episode of the Bala Kanda in the Ramayana epic. In the staging, the storyline presented by the players is entitled “Sander Sita.”

By and large, when featuring the storyline of the kanda (book—Ed) from the first through the seventh one will take approximately 4.5 years to 5 years.

It tells about the duke Marica disguising as a golden deer to attract the attention of Sita. On seeing the deer, Sita then asked Rama to chase the deer. Rama went away from Sita and tried to shoot the disguising deer. Marica cleverly cried out for help, and his voice was similar to Rama’s. Again, Sita

asked Laksamana to look for Rama that was told to be facing problems.

When Laksamana followed Rama, Sita was abducted by Ravana.

Chairman of the Tejakukus Foundation, Gede Komang, amid the staging told that as sacred dance it is mandatory to be performed as devotional services or ngayah at Maksan Temple of Tejakula. As usual, the performance is done twice every year precisely on Wraspati Dungulan or the day after Galungan. Since it is sacred, the wayang wong must still perform the episodes of Ramayana epic sequentially. “It has become the tasks of the wayang wong players to perform devotional service at the temple because the masks are stored at this Maksan temple,” said Komang Gede when met on Friday afternoon.

According to Komang Gede, even though it is classified into sacred dance, currently this wayang wong is also staged as entertainment art. For several times, the character of wayang wong is presented in the art collaboration.

However, the masks staged in the entertainment are not the sacred ones as those stored at the Maksan Temple, but the duplicates that are kept by the foundation. (mud)

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China Coast Guard vessels patrol past Philippine fishing boats at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017.

At strategic shoal, China asserts power through control, and concessions

SCARBOROUGH SHOAL - Far out in the South China Sea, where dark blue meets bright turquoise, a miles-long row of fishing boats anchor near Scarborough Shoal, backed by a small armada of coastguard projecting China’s power in Asia’s most disputed waters.

The Wayang Wong Performance

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Berawa Beach Becomes Playground of Surfing Lovers

Berawa Beach in Canggu area has developed quite well because the surrounding locations are possible to be developed into tourist destination if managed properly.

Many villas are growing like mushrooms in rainy season. Since the development of tourism industry in Bali is quite well, sometimes travelers are also looking for an

alternative to Kuta and Legian, so that Canggu located next to them also gets the impact. More travelers in need of peace will enjoy natural atmosphere as well as stay in the Canggu area.

Talking about coastal tourist attraction in Bali seems neverending. Although the island is fairly small, it has numerous hidden pearls. Berawa Beach, for instance, located in the same coastline as Petitenget, Batubelig and Canggu, is located at Berawa hamlet, Canggu.

Local high waves become an attractive place for surfers. It can be taken approximately 20 minutes by car or motorcycle from Kuta and turn left on the road section to Tanah Lot. Lately, Berawa Beach sufficiently develops because the beach is actually not too far from the

glamour of Kuta or Canggu tourist destination earlier known by travelers coming on holidays to Bali.

Road access to Berawa Beach can pass through Batubelig, but, and the best is through the access adjacent to the Villa Legong Keraton precisely located on the Berawa Beach.

An interesting point offered by Berawa Beach is the extreme wave because it is located in the South of the Bali Island directly getting in touch with the Indian Ocean.

For surfing lovers, here is the right playground. Atmosphere of this coastal area is quieter and emptier of visitors. Local residents commonly spend time and relieve fatigue during holidays or weekends, so that travelers can more freely enjoy this beautiful nature. Ocean view on the Berawa Beach can adequately make every visitor feel at home. When

wishing to enjoy the beauty of Berawa Beach maximally, simply stay for a few days in this area. There are many types of villa rentals, resorts and homestays.

Superiority of Berawa Beach lies in the beautiful coast and proximity to various tourist facilities, airport and tranquility. So, Berawa Beach is worth choosing as destination considering there are many objects around the Berawa Beach such as Tanah Lot, horseback safari, Canggu Club and pilgrimage destination on Seseh Beach.

Apart from having good and enchanting waves, Berawa Beach also presents a beautiful natural scenery, especially during sunset time. The atmosphere is very quiet, giving better privacy than its neighboring beaches like Legian and Petitenget. (kmb)

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China still calls the shots at the prime fishing spot and has boosted its fleet there, nine months after an international panel ruled its blockade of the lagoon was illegal.

Beijing rejected that ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which invalidated China’s claim of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea. But the presence of Philippine boats dotted between Chinese vessels shows a degree of compliance with the ruling. Overtures from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is negotiating billions of dollars worth of loans, investments and trade deals with China, may have helped.

China stopped repelling Filipino boats in October and allowed them to fish on the edges of the rocky outcrop, 200 km (124 miles) from the Philippines. Now it appears to be easing restrictions further.

Reuters journalists last week entered the Scarborough Shoal itself - the first access by foreign media since China seized it in 2012 - and witnessed dozens of small boats shuttling day and night into the lagoon to capitalise on its rich fish stocks.

“It’s good that we’re now al-

lowed inside, it helps me to support my family’s needs,” said Vicente Palawan, treading water inside the lagoon, a dive mask on his head and fishing spear in hand.

“I don’t want the Chinese here, because there’s so many, it’s affecting the way we fish... but I’m willing to share, I don’t want to be thrown out. At least I can fish.”

The coral outcrop is synonymous with the struggle for regional power, and a strategic tinder box.

Along with China and the Philippines, Scarborough is claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.

Despite its concessions, China’s presence here is growing, with a larger contingent of coastguard and fishing boats than was indicated in satellite imagery late last year.

That fuels concerns by Manila that Beijing may have ambitions for the Scarborough Shoal similar to the artificial islands it built and fortified in the Spratly archipelago, inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE For now, there is a cordial coexistence between the Filipinos and Chinese who anchor side by

side less than 100 metres (yards) from the 46-km (28-mile) triangle of rock that barely pokes above the water.

Chinese in straw hats zig-zag from boat to boat, using hand signals to barter with Filipinos for cigarettes, liquor and fish.

Small boats hum as they move in and out of the lagoon, through a buffering line of coral that has for centuries provided fishermen with bountiful catches and haven from storms.

In crowded, rickety boats, Filipinos are outnumbered about tento-one and complain of competition from the beefed-up Chinese contingent.

“We used to fish for a few days, now it’s a few weeks, but at least we have something,” said Ramil Rosal, a boat captain and fisherman for 20 years.

“China is fishing more, and Filipinos have to share with them.

But they don’t bother us. Some are helpful.”

A half-dozen vessels from the China Marine Surveillance enforce their rules in an area the arbitration court in The Hague declared a traditional fishing site for all countries.

It did not rule on sovereignty of the shoal.

Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo said the improved access was “certainly in line with the arbitral ruling”. (rtr)

KUALA LUMPUR - Over the past two decades, North Koreanborn Han Hun Il, the founding chief executive of a Malaysian conglomerate, funnelled money to the leadership in Pyongyang, a North Korean defector, speaking out for the first time, told Reuters.

Han’s conglomerate, Malaysia Korea Partners (MKP), worked in partnership with Jang Song Thaek, according to Lee Chol Ho, who worked as a trader for Han for nine years until he defected to Seoul in 2010. Jang, the uncle of North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un, was considered one of North Korea’s most powerful men until he was executed for treason in 2013.

Reuters was unable to independently confirm Lee’s account of Han’s relationship with North Korea’s leadership, including his assertion that money was funnelled to North Korea’s leadership body, the central committee of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Reuters also couldn’t determine how the central committee, which controls North Korea’s highly sanctioned nuclear and weapons programme, used the funds from Han or if the payments are continuing.

The new disclosures come at a time when United Nations sanctions monitors are intensifying scrutiny of both Han and MKP. A February report by experts monitoring U.N. sanctions on North Korea says MKP’s bank subsidiary in Pyongyang is a particular focus.

A 2013 U.N. resolution bars foreign companies or foreign joint ventures with a North Korean company from having a financial subsidiary in North Korea.

The U.N. report says the bank, called International Consortium

Bank, was established as a joint venture between MKP and Jang’s Sungri Economic Group. The bank is licensed by North Korea’s central bank and registered with the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Committee, it said.

If the U.N. experts find sanctions have been violated, they could recommend the U.N. Security Council blacklist MKP, its executives or one or more of its subsidiaries, subjecting them to a global travel ban and asset freeze.

STRAINED TIES Han, also known as Dr. Edward Hahn, hung up the phone and blocked a Reuters reporter on his messaging app when contacted for comment.

MKP did not respond to requests for comment on Lee’s assertions.

The company issued a statement dated March 23 saying MKP had “no reason to hide the fact” that Han is North Korean. It denied owning ICB or any other North Korean bank and said nobody from the United Nations has contacted the company.

The U.N. said it does not comment on its ongoing investigations.

Lee’s description of how MKP operated appears to shed fresh light on the close ties between Malaysia and North Korea, which have come under strain following the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the elder half-brother of North Korea’s ruler, with the highly toxic VX nerve agent in February.

Reuters reported in February that North Korea’s spy agency was running an arms export operation out of Malaysia.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. (rtr)

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Global politics hit emerging stocks, currencies

LONDON - Tensions around the Middle East and the Korean peninsula weighed on emerging markets on Monday, with stocks extending losses for a third day and currencies weakening against the dollar.

Investors have grown increasingly nervous after last week’s U.S. attack on a Syrian air base which Russia and Iran said had crossed a “red line”, though top aides of President Donald Trump aired differing views on where Washington’s policy was heading.

Meanwhile, Washington also looks likely to flex its muscles over North Korea’s advancing weapons program, moving a U.S. Navy strike group toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula.

Emerging stocks fell 0.5 percent to hit a near-four-week low in their third straight day of losses. The index was dragged lower by hefty losses in Russia, where dollardenominated stocks tumbled 1.7 percent, while South Korea’s KOSPI index shed nearly 1 percent.

“The concern is of escalated

tensions regarding North Korea and a possible conflict there, and what the relations between the U.S. and China would be in such an event -that’s going to be negative for risk sentiment including risky assets like emerging markets,” said Jakob Christensen at Danske Bank.

With the dollar trading at its strongest level since mid-March, emerging currencies and bonds also suffered.

South Africa’s rand racked up the steepest losses, weakening 1 percent against the dollar while the country’s dollar- and localbonds fell across the curve. The country’s assets are reeling from a second downgrade to ‘junk’ by ratings agency Fitch on Friday in the wake of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan being fired.

The downgrades triggered the

ejection of South Africa from some major debt indexes, which will push up its borrowing costs. Meanwhile on Friday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in major cities to demanding President Jacob Zuma to step down.

“You don’t see really yet what the political endgame will be -- you still don’t know how much Zuma can and will fight against this pressure that is on him,” Christensen said.

Russia’s rouble weakened 0.2 percent despite soaring oil prices as investors lost faith that sanctions slapped onto Moscow over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine could be eased amid the latest stand-off.

In central and eastern Europe, currencies traded mixed against the euro but volatility gauges of the region’s currencies against the dollar spiked to the highest since last June’s Brexit vote as traders took out bets ahead of France’s upcoming election and increasing nervousness about right-wing can-

farmers in Britain will have to fight for a slice of government funds with departments such as health and education once Brussels hands over the purse strings for farming budgets to London.

Britain’s exit also spells trouble for EU farmers as the country puts

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Farmer David Sowray drives a combine harvester through a field on the family’s 600 acre farm in Humberton, Britain, August 2, 2013.

more into the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) than it takes out, meaning subsides for farmers on the continent could also fall unless the funding gap is plugged.

British farmers have been shielded by a powerful farming lobby within Europe and benefit from EU subsidies, preferential trade deals and access to cheap seasonal labour, but they fear they will be losers on all three fronts in a post-Brexit world.

“The bloody-mindedness of the French or the Irish in standing up for agriculture was not just standing up for their farmers but actually brought a good deal for us as well. Without them we are more vulnerable,” said Nigel Miller, who has a sheep and cattle farm near Galashiels in Scotland’s Borders region.

“The reality is, as a farmer, I don’t see the UK government expending a lot of negotiating capital to protect agriculture. Their main issue when they look for trade deals will be financial services, banking, etc,” Miller said.

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Unique, Magoak-goakan Tradition in Kintamani

Kintamani customary village held magoak-goakan tradition.

The tradition was attended by approximately 4,000 people ranging from children, adolescents, adults to the elderly. The tradition was organized in a series of Nyepi Desa at the local customary village. From the morning, thousands of people putting on middle traditional attires have thronged the village square or sacred land to implement magoak-goakan tradition.

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Light is cast on a U.S. one-hundred dollar bill next to a Japanese 10,000 yen note in this picture illustration shot February 28, 2013. didate Marine Le Pen’s prospects.

In Ukraine, Central Bank Governor Valeria Gontereva has resigned -- depriving the country of a tough reformer praised by investors and

the International Monetary Fund -- and seen as capable of taking on vested interests at a time when the economy is recovering from a steep recession. (rtr)

Brexit to trigger UK farm policy overhaul and EU funding gap

LONDON - Britain is expected to radically overhaul agricultural policy after it leaves the European Union and the bloc may have to make changes too when it loses Britain’s net contributions to the region’s farming budget.

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nation EU in a referendum in June last year. It has two years to sort out the terms of the divorce before it comes into effect in March 2019.

In 2015, British farmers received 3.25 billion euros ($3.5 billion) from the EU’s agriculture fund in direct payments based chiefly on the amount of land they farm, essentially a form of income support that does not take individual needs into account.

The government has guaranteed payments will be maintained until 2020 but farming and environment minister Andrea Leadsom said in February there would be a major policy overhaul when the EU subsidies stop.

WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS On average, British farmers get about 15,000 pounds ($18,700) a year from direct payments and an EU rural development fund. For some, direct payments account for 70 percent of their income.

But a significant chunk goes to wealthy individuals who are large landowners. An investigation by environmental lobby group Greenpeace showed that in 2015

the top 100 recipients of EU direct payments in Britain received more in total than the bottom 55,119 recipients combined. Berkeley Hill, professor of policy analysis at Imperial College London, said any overhaul should ensure funds go to farmers making decisions that benefit the environment, or help them cope with disasters such as flooding or foot-and-mouth disease.

“It has the potential to be quite radical. What is the taxpayer getting in return for all this money?

Most of it does not go to poor farmers,” said Hill.

Greenpeace campaigner Hannah Martin hopes the government will reshape Britain’s food and farming policy so payments are for the “common good”, rather than just rewarding landowners for owning land.

“That means, landowners getting the money are doing positive things like boosting rural economies, ensuring food production is genuinely sustainable, reducing flood-risk, maintaining healthy soils and protecting biodiversity,” she said.(rtr)

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The sellers which are using cars are waiting their customers on Gunung Raung Street.

The crowded situation often made the traffic jam worse.

Siyat Sampian Held at Penataran Sasih Temple

Hundreds of devotional pilgrims, namely sutri (female) and juru sirat (male), performed siyat sampian (sampian war) tradition in the area of Penataran Sasih Temple, Pejeng. This activity was held for three days after the peak of padudusan ritual at the local temple when the deities of Samuan Tiga Temple and ratu manca-manca would like

to leave their sanctum.

The siyat sampian ritual has been prepared from the morning, commenced with nampyog where the sutri and juru sirat danced around the area of Penataran Sasih.

Subsequently, it was followed by mabete-betean and wave dance.

The entire procession was conducted by surrounding the area of

Penataran Sasih for three times.

After the procession, the sutri and juru sirat took a short break.

Furthermore, they said prayers in front of the pengaruman and the shrine of Ratu Sanghyang. After saying prayers and being sprinkled with holy water, some participants began to shout loudly. Immediately, they took sampian having been previously provided in the courtyard of the temple. While this tradition took place, they looked to hit each other by using the sampian.

“No one feels sore while undertaking this tradition. Instead, I personally feel proud and happy after going through this tradition.

Moreover, the whole series of piodalan or temple anniversary has been running smoothly,” said Oyis, one of the juru sirat participating in the tradition of siyat sampian.

Committee of the Padudusan Ritual of the Penataran Sasih, Dewa Nyoman Ngakan Suardita, asserted that siat sampian tradition is a regular agenda held every piodalan at the Penataran Sasih. “This tradition must always be carried out every piodalan padudusan at Penataran Sasih every year,” he said. (kmb)

Not infrequently, the participants should turn upside down due to the sloping arena. In addition, a number of participants, especially women, were crushed by the other participants. Nevertheless, it did not reduce the enthusiasm of residents to follow the tradition.

Amid the activities, chief of Kintamani customary village, Nyoman Sukadia, said that magoak-goakan tradition has been started at 8:00 until midnight. This activity is routinely held every year considering this tradition is the legacy of ancestors that must continue to be preserved.

“The magoak-goakan tradition has something to do with religious ceremonies of Nyepi Desa of Kintamani village. This event has been organized since the full moon of Balinese ninth month (Mar. 12) and the ceremony ended at 00:00 on Wednesday,” he said.

Sukadia explained that the magoak-goakan tradition aims to more establish relationship among the residents of Kintamani customary village. Moreover, this tradition is intended for preservation of the natural environment and wildlife.

The ceremony takes place on the full moon of the Balinese ninth month and during which is also held Jagra and Miasa.

“From there, we’ve been required to preserve and honor our

fellow beings. At that time, we should not slaughter chicken nor sell it. In addition, residents are not allowed to speech words that may offend others and may not do negative things. They may only be allowed to do positive things,” he explained.

READ Pejaten Village a Home to Ceramic Arts He disclosed that when the magoak-goakan tradition was held, all Kintamani customary villagers were dissolved together in joy. They should not conduct any activities like work. “So, for today (Thursday—Ed), residents absolutely do no activities, but focus on following this activity so that they all can have fun in this tradition,” he said.

After magoak-goakan activities, it was resumed with the search for firewood. Residents are required to find a dead tree or dried tree branches without carrying tools such as axes and so forth. They should not cut down trees that are still alive.

“Meanwhile, the day after tomorrow is the preservation that has something to do with land and the earth. All residents should not dig because it is the nature conservation and preservation. Essentially what has become a tradition should be followed by all residents of Kintamani,” said Sukadia. (kmb)

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Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing TANTA - Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer protect them from neighbours bent on their murder.

Forty-four people were killed in the attacks on Palm Sunday, a joyous festival a week before Easter when Christians celebrate the triumphant arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem.

At Tanta University hospital morgue, desperate families were trying to get inside to search for loved ones. Security forces held them back to stop overcrowding, enraging the crowd.

“Why are you preventing us from entering now? Where were you when all this happened?” shouted one women looking for a relative. Some appeared in total shock, their faces pale and unmoving. Others wept openly as women wailed in mourning.

A middle-aged man who had just stepped out of the morgue after seeing his dead brother stood with his face buried in his hands weeping.

“You sons of bitches,” he shouted as his family tried to calm him.

Hours after the attack, Kerols Paheg and other young Coptic Christians were already digging graves in the basement of the devastated St. George Church in the

northern Nile Delta city, where the first of the bombs exploded, killing 27 and wounding around 80.

He showed photos on his phone of the carnage: human remains, blood and shattered glass strewn across the floor of the church on one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar. “Today was supposed to be a day of festivity,” he said.

From now on, Christians will have to protect their churches themselves, rather than rely on the police, “because what’s happening is too much. It’s unacceptable,” he said.

SECTARIAN BLOODSHED Copts make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 92 million people, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. Yet despite a presence dating back to the Roman era, the community feels increasingly ostracised and has repeatedly been targeted in attacks, including by Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombings.

Hours after the blast in Tanta, the second bomb blew up at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral

in Alexandria, the historic seat of the Coptic pope, killing 17 people including three police officers and wounding 48.

Pope Tawadros had been leading the mass at the time of the blast but escaped unharmed, the Interior Ministry said.

Though Islamic State has long waged a low-level war against soldiers and police in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, its stepped up assault on Christian civilians in the mainland could turn a provincial insurgency into wider sectarian conflict.

On Sunday, the group warned of more attacks and boasted of the number of people killed by three church bombings it says it has carried out since December: 80.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised to protect the Christian minority as part of a campaign against extremism. But Copts in Tanta said security was almost nonexistent on Sunday despite repeated warnings in recent weeks.

A senior police official told Reuters a bomb was discovered and disabled near the Tanta church about a week ago. (rtr)

Assad allies say U.S. attack on Syria air base crosses “red lines” AMMAN - A joint command centre made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base on Friday crossed “red lines” and it would respond to any new aggression and increase its support for its ally.

The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian air base on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched earlier in the week, escalating the U.S. role in Syria and drawing criticism from Assad’s allies including Russia and Iran.

“What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well,” said the statement published by the group on media outlet Ilam al Harbi (War Media).

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, blamed Russian inaction for helping fuel the chemical weapons attack it had reacted to, saying Moscow had failed to carry out a 2013 agreement to secure and destroy chemical weapons in Syria.

He said the United States expected Russia to take a tougher stance against Syria by rethinking its alliance with Assad because “every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws Russia closer into some level of responsibility.”

Rebels and residents in northwestern Idlib province said jets believed to be Russian conducted eight raids on Sunday on the town of Khan Sheikhoun where the chemical attack took place but no casualties were reported. Raids hit several other rebel-held towns including Saraqeb and Sarmin in the province, where the rebels and activists said incendiary bombs were dropped.

The death toll from an air strike on Saturday on the rebel-held town of Urum al-Joz in Idlib province rose to 19 people, including six children, activists and residents said.

In the southern city of Daraa, jets believed to be Russian escalated strikes on Free Syrian Army (FSA) and jihadist groups on Saturday and Sunday in an attempt to roll back their gains in the Manshiya district where battles have been raging for nearly two months.

PUTIN, ROUHANI SPEAK Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani said in a phone call that aggressive U.S. actions against Syria were not permissible and violated international law, the Kremlin said on Sunday.

The two leaders also called for an objective investigation into an incident involving chemical weapons in Syria’s Idlib and said they were ready to deepen cooperation to fight terrorism, the Kremlin said in a statement on its website.

Syrian army forces had been losing ground across the country until Russia intervened militarily in September 2015, propping up Assad and protecting its own interests in the region.(rtr)

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Army soldiers patrol on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road before the funeral of victims of the Palm Sunday bombings of Egyptian Coptic churches, in Cairo, Egypt April 10, 2017.

Security analysts said it appeared that Islamic State, under pressure in Iraq and Syria, was trying to widen its threat and had identified Christian communities as an easier target.

“ISIS are deeply sectarian, that’s nothing new, but they have decided

to re-emphasize that aspect in Egypt over the past few months,” said H.A. Hellyer, senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute.

“Christian targets are easier -churches are far more difficult to fortify than say an army barracks or a police station. It’s a disturbing development because it indicates we have the possibility of repeated and continued attacks against soft targets.”(rtr)

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Jakarta reclamation project would continue whoever is the governor : Expert

JAKARTA - Jakartas reclamation project could not be politically stopped by whoever is the next governor of Jakarta, an expert has said.

“Whoever is to be elected to be the next governor would not dare to stop the project,” Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, from the Jakarta State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, said here on Saturday.

The project has been decided long time earlier and it is needed by the city, Pangi said, referring to a number of man made islands being built and to be built in the Jakarta Bay. He said the issue of reclamation has been politically driven, adding barring the election there would be no issue of reclamation.

He said furor over the project is more politically motivated rather than by rationale ahead of the Jakarta gubernatorial election.

The Jakarta gubernatorial election to be contested by incumbent pair of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) and Djarot Sjaiful Hidayat and Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno would held on April 19.

Ahok is for continuing the project, but Anies/Sandi accused the project of benefiting only the rich investors and harming the fishermen.

Pangi said the fact is there are 17 islands to be built under the reclamation program involving nine developers including state companies and ones owned by the city administration, he said.

He pointed out the Jakarta beach resort of Ancol Tourism Park and the New Tanjung Priok port are results of reclamation. Ancol is managed by PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol Tbk, which is owned by the Jakarta city administration. Ancol is a public company listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The New Tanjung Priok port is owned by the state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II. There was no furor when the beach resort area and the new port were built. In fact the Jakarta people take pride in the Ancol recreation center.

“Reclamation is already rolling. The implication would be extensive if it was stopped. The brisk protest against the project is only because of the gubernatorial election. I believe the issue would disappear by itself after the election,” Pangi said.

The decision to stop reclamation would set the Jakarta city administration against the central government, he said.

In addition, the Jakarta city administration would be made busy dealing with floods of lawsuits filed by the developers charging the city with unilateral decision.

They would demand compensation for what they already spent on the project licensed by the city administration itself, he added.

Citing an example, he said developers already invested heavily in the development of the islands of C, D and G. Meanwhile the legal process would take a long time until it was final, he said.

While the issue is in the legal process, the reclamation would be in status quo and the condition would put both sides of political rivals in limbo, he said.

“If that is to happen it would be bad for everybody and a big blow to the reputation of the city and the country in the eye of investors,” he said.

The city administration relied on big investors to finance the giant embankment project. Stopping the project would mean rejecting large investment while the country is working hard to attract investors.

Without the embankment North Jakarta would continue to risk floods of sea water at tidal waves every full moon. (ant)

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President Joko Widodo here on Sunday congratulated the Air Force on its 71st anniversary from the cockpit of aircraft which was parked at south terminal of Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma air base.

President congratulates Air Force on its 71st anniversary from cockpit

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo here on Sunday congratulated the Air Force on its 71st anniversary from the cockpit of Sukhoi Flanker 27/30 aircraft which was parked at south terminal of Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma air base.

The president directly headed to south terminal of the Jakartas Halim Perdanakusuma air base, soon after arriving at the air base following his working visit to Central Java Province.

The head of state who was accompanied by First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo took pictures along with 152 pilots of the Air Force fighters.

On the occasion, Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi also em-

barked several fighters parked at the airbase, one of them is Sukhoi, belonging to the Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU).

The president in the cockpit of the Sukhoi Flanker 27/30, offered anniversary greeting to the Air Force.

“Happy 71st birthday of the Air Force. Thank you for keeping the sovereignty and territorial (air) integrity of the Republic of Indonesia,” he said as an appreciation

to the Air Force.

In his advice, Jokowi also asked the Air Force soldiers to keep professional and loved the people.

Before leaving the air base, the president and the first lady Iriana Joko Widodo shook hand with the fighter pilots who were singinging spiritly.

During the visit, the president was also flanked by the Air Force Chief, Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto. (ant)

Indonesia urges UN to settle Syrian conflict

IBP/net

Indonesian Foreign Ministry Arrmanatha Nasir

JAKARTA - Indonesia has urged the United Nations to settle the Syrian conflict, including the impact of the recent “toxic gas” attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province.

Indonesia condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria and urged the UN

to settle the conflict soon, spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry Arrmanatha Nasir said here on Sunday.

“Indonesia urges the UN to settle the Syrian conflict,” he said.

He added that Indonesia also encouraged dialogs and inclusive political process to

settle the Syrian crisis.

In principle, Indonesia has never supported unilateral action in any form, including the US attack, which did not receive support from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), he said.

“In fact, we encourage peaceful solution in keeping

with the statement of the UN secretary general,” he said.

He said Indonesia did not side with one of the conflicting camps in Syria, Instead, it joins the camp encouraging the UN to take prompt decision which takes into account humanitarian reasons and good solution..(ant)

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by Pavlyuchenkova in Monterrey final

GIANYAR - Museum Rudana is one of the more contemporary art galleries that you can visit around Ubud. Established in 1995 by avid art collector Nyoman Rudana and his wife, the museum now houses a vast collection of works by famous Balinese, Indonesian and international painters.

Most of his personal favourites in-

Museum Rudana

clude pieces in the classical Ubud and Batuan styles, with depictions of rural life, natural landscapes and cultural activities. Visitors to Museum Rudana are welcomed to expansive green gardens and private rice fields that are a pleasure to ramble through. Even the lawns are home to installations comprising elephant sculptures.

Inside, exhibits are spread over three levels, with the first and second floors showcasing the works of famous names such as the late Indonesian expressionist Affandi, and prolific contemporary Balinese artists Wayan Gunarsa and Made Wianta. Also inside are collections featuring some of the great artworks of late Don

Antonio Blanco, who has his own grand gallery near Campuhan, together with a dedicated gallery displaying the works of young and emerging artists. Regular exhibitions are held throughout the year, featuring new artists, in a mission to further boost the already thriving local art scene.

Tune in around August - coincid-

ing with the nation’s Independence Day - for commemorative art events, as well as The Ksatria Seni Awards in recognition of artists for their contribution towards the development of Indonesian arts. Admission is IDR 100,000 (USD 8) for adults. Some of the paintings are for sale at negotiable prices. (IBP/net)

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utensils, farming tools to groceries. Its transformation into the famous night market scene starts in the late afternoon around 16:00, when food stalls and carts wheel in. The food stalls at the southern border of the market grounds are open during the day and late into the night, comprising the delicious and Bali-famous dish of ‘nasi babi guling’, alongside various Javanese cuisine of mixed rice ‘nasi campur’. Kids’ toys such as balloons and simple toys like dandy propellers and bubble blowers are also sold. (IBP/net)

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MONTERREY - Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova did it again, winning her fourth Abierto GNP Seguros title by beating top-seeded world number one Angelique Kerber 6-4 2-6 6-1 in Monterrey, Mexico on Sunday.

Germany’s Kerber, who lost the Monterrey final to Pavlyuchenkova in 2013, was denied her first tournament title of the year in a see-saw victory by the Russian in stifling heat.

“I’m really overwhelmed and don’t think I realised that I just won my fourth Monterrey trophy,” second seed Pavlyuchenkova told reporters. “It’s very special and it’s a special place in my heart.

“Playing against the number one player in the world is already very special because everyone wants to compete against the number one. You don’t get so many chances to do it, so it was one opportunity for me today. Beating her feels amazing.”

Pavlyuchenkova seized the early advantage in the match, taking the only break of the first set on her third set point.

Kerber won a long third game to break serve in the second set and rode that momentum to level the match.

Pavyluchenkova, who reached quarters at both the Australian Open and BNP Paribas Open this year, raced to a 5-0 lead in the final set and served out to claim her ninth career title in just under two hours.

The Russian was the clear aggressor, cracking 49 winners to 31 unforced errors while Kerber registered only 14 outright winners in the final. (rtr)

Spraying sparkling wine over each other, Spain’s Maverick Vinales, right, celebrates at the podium his first place win, with second place winner and teammate Italy’s Valentino Rossi.

Vinales wins in Argentina after Marquez crashes out

TERMAS DE RIO HONDO - Spaniard Maverick Vinales continued his perfect start to the MotoGP season on Sunday with a victory in Argentina after compatriot and reigning champion Marc Marquez crashed while leading from pole.

The 22-year-old Vinales, who switched from Suzuki at the end of last year, became the first Yamaha rider since U.S. great Wayne Rainey in 1990 to win the first two races of a season in the premier class.

Italian Valentino Rossi celebrated becoming the first rider to make 350 grand prix starts across all categories by finishing second behind his team mate, 2.915 seconds behind, at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit.

Britain’s Cal Crutchlow had to save fuel towards the end but was third on a non-works LCR Honda.

Vinales, who won in Qatar last month, started sixth on the grid but was third by the end of the first lap. He passed Crutchlow for second on lap three and took the

lead a lap later when Marquez fell at turn two.

Vinales has 50 points with Rossi second on 36.

“It was a difficult race because I started quite good but already Marc was pushing so hard,” said Vinales.

“So I was trying from the first lap to make my own pace, then I saw that he crashed and I was just thinking to bring all the points I can home because it was very important to achieve the maximum points today.”

Marquez, on pole in Argentina for the fourth year in a row, had a lead of more than two seconds over the opening laps before the bike went from under him and dumped him in the gravel.

The Spaniard is now eighth in

the championship with 13 points.

“I was feeling amazing with the bike, I was riding really good and I don’t know why... sure I did some mistake but this kind of mistakes make me quite disappointed,” he said with some understatement.

His team mate Dani Pedrosa later crashed out at the same place while Ducati riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso fell after tangles with other riders.

Nine-times world champion Rossi made a strong start from seventh place and shadowed Crutchlow before passing the Briton six laps from the end and then pulling away.

“On the grid my mechanic said to me: ‘This is the 350, make a good race,” grinned the 38-year-old.

Argentina was the 888th grand prix since the championship started in 1949, and the Italian has ridden in 39.4 percent of them. Of Rossi’s total, 289 starts have been in the top category. (rtr)

Angelique Kerber

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Neymar will be seeking Genoa fire Mandorlini after redemption in Champions League six games, rehire Juric

Facing Monaco, Dortmund anxiously awaits Marco Reus’ return

BERLIN — Marco Reus can’t return soon enough for Borussia Dortmund. The speedy forward’s absence was painfully evident in Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Bayern Munich and his presence would significantly boost Dortmund’s chances of getting past Monaco in the Champions League quarterfinals.

Dortmund hosts the French league leaders in the first leg on Tuesday, with Reus again unlikely to play as he struggles to make his way back from a hamstring injury. Reus’ importance to Dortmund has been highlighted by the team’s patchy form in the Bundesliga in the five weeks since he injured his right thigh against Bayer Leverkusen.

Two losses, a draw against Schalke in the Ruhr derby and only two wins over relegation-threatened clubs have seen the side slip from third place with a two-point lead over Hoffenheim to fourth, one point behind. Third guarantees Champions League participation, fourth only a playoff.

“No one can imagine what it means for us to do without him for so long,” Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said of Reus last week. “He makes all the players around him better. We miss his influence and his intensity. But we’re worried about how we get him back. We’re optimistic but we’re also concerned about follow-up injuries.”

Reus, who returned to Dortmund from league rival Borussia Moenchengladbach in 2012, has been plagued by injury in his time at the club. He has only played in 11 of the team’s 28 Bundesliga games this season, alongside three Champions League appearances and one in the German Cup. Reus’ frequent ailments have seen him being dubbed a “Pechvogel” among German media - literally a bad luck bird - as one setback has followed another.

An ankle injury just before the 2014 World Cup ruled Reus out of Germany’s triumph in Brazil, while a groin injury ruled him out of the European Championship in France.

But Dortmund’s problems have been exacerbated by injuries to others. Mario Goetze is out indefinitely with metabolic disturbances causing his recurring muscular problems, while Andre Schuerrle, Sven Bender, Julian Weigl, Shinji Kagawa, Erik Durm and Lukasz Piszczek all missed Saturday’s game against Bayern. Gonzalo Castro went off with a knock.

“We have hopes for Julian Weigl and Shinji Kagawa. And I think that Lukasz Piszczek, who we rested today, can play. There’s little point in counting on any of the others,” Tuchel said Saturday.

Tuchel will be hoping Dortmund’s strength at home - the team has only lost once its last 12 games in UEFA competition at the at its Westfalenstadion - will help his side reach the semifinals for the first time since 2013. Bayern, which Dortmund again faces in the German Cup semifinals on April 26, triumphed in the final at Wembley Stadium.

April, Tuchel said, is the “most complicated and deciding month of the season,” and the Dortmund coach is anxiously looking to his injured players. “If it wasn’t April I’d say, go slow,” Tuchel said. “We have a huge, huge balancing act to manage.”(ap)

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Everton’s Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring their fourth goal

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Lukaku and Barkley give Koeman another contract reminder

LIVERPOOL - Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley showed their central importance to Everton’s rise towards the top six in the Premier League in the 4-2 win over LEICESTER CITY on Sunday but their contract situations remain a concern for manager Ronald Koeman.

Belgian forward Lukaku, the league’s top scorer, scored twice to take his tally to 23 this season and he has now scored in the Toffees’ last seven home games, which have all ended in victory.

It was Barkley who helped Lukaku bring EVERTON level at 2-2 in the 23rd minute with a brilliant cross from the right flank which the striker confidently headed home.

That highlighted the contribution the pair have made to the progress of Koeman’s team, who currently lie seventh in the table, but the Dutch coach found himself having to talk about contracts as much as goals and assists. Barkley’s contract runs out at the end

of next season and he has yet to put pen to paper on a new deal.

“We offer him a new contract and then there are two possibilities. One is sign that contract (but) if he doesn’t sign the contract, then we need to sell the player.

It is simple,” Koeman told reporters.

There was a different tone taken by the Dutchman, however, when asked about Lukaku, who has rejected a deal to extend his contract beyond 2019 and is reported to be interested in testing his position in the market at the end of this campaign.

“Everyone knows he is a key player for Everton and we will try to do everything to keep Rom

at Everton but always the final decision is by the player,” Koeman said.

“Of course we talk a lot about Ross and Rom because they are really important...they can be the difference between us and the opponents, like today. I thought they played really well.

“We know Rom is a great finisher. Ross played really well in between the lines...you want to see your best players performing like they showed this afternoon.

“They were outstanding but the whole team was outstanding.

You need those kind of players on the top level because they make difference and that is what we like.”(rtr)

BARCELONA — One month after leading the most improbable of comebacks, Neymar earned himself the scorn of Barcelona’s fans with a pair of senseless bookings. He’ll get a chance to redeem himself on Tuesday when his team faces Juventus in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

Neymar picked up a pair of senseless yellow cards on Saturday and got sent off with 25 minutes left and his team trailing by a goal at Malaga. Without him, the undermanned side lost 2-0 and squandered an opportunity to close in on Spanish league leader Real Madrid, which was held to a 1-1 draw by Atletico Madrid.

Neymar’s infractions bordered on the absurd. Or tragicomic. The Brazilian got his first yellow card for bending over to tie his boot laces and not giving space for a Malaga player to cleanly take a free kick. Then, knowing he was one false step from leaving his team with 10 men, Neymar charged into a Malaga player with no real chance to win back the ball.

As if he hadn’t hurt his team enough already, Neymar may have made matters worse by sarcastically applauding the assistant referee as he exited the field.

The sending-off meant Neymar will be suspended for the

next match against Real Sociedad, but his added dose of bad attitude could earn him an extended suspension, putting in danger his availability for the match at Madrid on April 23 that will go a long way to deciding the domestic title.

Referee Gil Manzano included Neymar’s sarcastic applause in his report to the Spanish federation’s competition committee, which will meet on Wednesday to decide the length of his suspension.

The front page of Barcelona-based sports daily Sport on Sunday summed up the incredulity of Barcelona’s supporters by splashing the headline “UNFORGIVABLE” over a photo of Manzano showing Neymar his well-deserved red card. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique tried to deflect criticism of Neymar by pointing at Manzano’s decisions.

“There were nasty tackles from behind that didn’t earn bookings, while other fouls committed by us were,” Luis Enrique said. “The rules are to be interpreted, but they should be the same for all.” Excuses aside, what a month is has been for the Brazil striker.

His two goals and last-gasp pass for the winner in the dying minutes of Barcelona’s historic 6-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain on March 8 earned him praise.

The result sent Barcelona through 6-5 on aggregate, making it the first team to overturn a 4-0 firstleg loss in the competition.

Neymar’s performance, which he rightly called the “best of my career,” appeared to mark a watershed moment for the 25year-old Brazilian. Suddenly, he wasn’t just Lionel Messi’s flashy sidekick; he had willed Barcelona to victory as only a true leader can.

Now, with his reputation tarnished, Neymar heads to Turin for the first of two legs against a Juventus side he helped beat two years ago in the Champions League final to give Barcelona its fifth European Cup. Europe has suited Neymar again this season.

While Messi leads the Champions League with 11 goals, Neymar tops the competition with eight assists, to go along with four goals of his own.

Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta insisted on the need to regroup for the Juventus match.

“There isn’t long to go and mistakes are most costly as we reach the end,” Iniesta said. “Now we have to switch focus and concentrate on the Champions League, a competition that is very enticing.

What we have to do is go there and play a great game.” A great game without any tantrums from Messi’s heir apparent.(ap)

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, left, and Neymar da Silva from Brazil, right, gesture during their match against CF Malaga in a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Malaga and Barcelona in Malaga, Spain, Saturday April 8, 2017.

MILAN - Genoa fired coach Andrea Mandorlini after just six games on Monday, the struggling Serie A side opting to rehire his predecessor Ivan Juric, who was sacked by the club in February.

Mandorlini was dismissed after his side lost their last four games without scoring. That run included a 5-0 home defeat to Atalanta on April 2, followed by a 3-0 loss at Udinese on Sunday that left them mired in 16th place in the 20-team table.

“Genoa Cricket and Football Club announces that coach Andrea Mandorlini has been relieved of his duties along with his closest assistants,” the club said in a statement, before announcing that Juric was returning to his former role.

The Croatian was initially appointed in June after winning promotion from Serie B with modest Crotone last season but dismissed on Feb. 19 following a 5-0 defeat to bottom-of-the-table Pescara.

Genoa made a promising start to the season, beating AC Milan 3-0 and leaders Juventus 3-1 at home but have fallen away badly since selling midfielder Tomas Rincon to Juve in the January transfer window.

The team’s home games have been marked by fan protests, with supporters turning their backs to the pitch during the second half of the Atalanta loss.

Club president Enrico Preziosi, the head of Italy’s largest toy manufacturer, said last month that he intended to sell Genoa after more than 14 years at the helm. Mandorlini is the 11th coach to leave a Serie A club since the start of July.

Marcelo Bielsa had the shortest stint, quitting Lazio after just two days and without taking charge of a match, while Palermo have been the most prolific club, changing coaches three times.(rtr)

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Facing Monaco, Dortmund anxiously awaits Marco Reus’ return

BERLIN — Marco Reus can’t return soon enough for Borussia Dortmund. The speedy forward’s absence was painfully evident in Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Bayern Munich and his presence would significantly boost Dortmund’s chances of getting past Monaco in the Champions League quarterfinals.

Dortmund hosts the French league leaders in the first leg on Tuesday, with Reus again unlikely to play as he struggles to make his way back from a hamstring injury. Reus’ importance to Dortmund has been highlighted by the team’s patchy form in the Bundesliga in the five weeks since he injured his right thigh against Bayer Leverkusen.

Two losses, a draw against Schalke in the Ruhr derby and only two wins over relegation-threatened clubs have seen the side slip from third place with a two-point lead over Hoffenheim to fourth, one point behind. Third guarantees Champions League participation, fourth only a playoff.

“No one can imagine what it means for us to do without him for so long,” Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said of Reus last week. “He makes all the players around him better. We miss his influence and his intensity. But we’re worried about how we get him back. We’re optimistic but we’re also concerned about follow-up injuries.”

Reus, who returned to Dortmund from league rival Borussia Moenchengladbach in 2012, has been plagued by injury in his time at the club. He has only played in 11 of the team’s 28 Bundesliga games this season, alongside three Champions League appearances and one in the German Cup. Reus’ frequent ailments have seen him being dubbed a “Pechvogel” among German media - literally a bad luck bird - as one setback has followed another.

An ankle injury just before the 2014 World Cup ruled Reus out of Germany’s triumph in Brazil, while a groin injury ruled him out of the European Championship in France.

But Dortmund’s problems have been exacerbated by injuries to others. Mario Goetze is out indefinitely with metabolic disturbances causing his recurring muscular problems, while Andre Schuerrle, Sven Bender, Julian Weigl, Shinji Kagawa, Erik Durm and Lukasz Piszczek all missed Saturday’s game against Bayern. Gonzalo Castro went off with a knock.

“We have hopes for Julian Weigl and Shinji Kagawa. And I think that Lukasz Piszczek, who we rested today, can play. There’s little point in counting on any of the others,” Tuchel said Saturday.

Tuchel will be hoping Dortmund’s strength at home - the team has only lost once its last 12 games in UEFA competition at the at its Westfalenstadion - will help his side reach the semifinals for the first time since 2013. Bayern, which Dortmund again faces in the German Cup semifinals on April 26, triumphed in the final at Wembley Stadium.

April, Tuchel said, is the “most complicated and deciding month of the season,” and the Dortmund coach is anxiously looking to his injured players. “If it wasn’t April I’d say, go slow,” Tuchel said. “We have a huge, huge balancing act to manage.”(ap)

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Everton’s Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring their fourth goal

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Lukaku and Barkley give Koeman another contract reminder

LIVERPOOL - Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley showed their central importance to Everton’s rise towards the top six in the Premier League in the 4-2 win over LEICESTER CITY on Sunday but their contract situations remain a concern for manager Ronald Koeman.

Belgian forward Lukaku, the league’s top scorer, scored twice to take his tally to 23 this season and he has now scored in the Toffees’ last seven home games, which have all ended in victory.

It was Barkley who helped Lukaku bring EVERTON level at 2-2 in the 23rd minute with a brilliant cross from the right flank which the striker confidently headed home.

That highlighted the contribution the pair have made to the progress of Koeman’s team, who currently lie seventh in the table, but the Dutch coach found himself having to talk about contracts as much as goals and assists. Barkley’s contract runs out at the end

of next season and he has yet to put pen to paper on a new deal.

“We offer him a new contract and then there are two possibilities. One is sign that contract (but) if he doesn’t sign the contract, then we need to sell the player.

It is simple,” Koeman told reporters.

There was a different tone taken by the Dutchman, however, when asked about Lukaku, who has rejected a deal to extend his contract beyond 2019 and is reported to be interested in testing his position in the market at the end of this campaign.

“Everyone knows he is a key player for Everton and we will try to do everything to keep Rom

at Everton but always the final decision is by the player,” Koeman said.

“Of course we talk a lot about Ross and Rom because they are really important...they can be the difference between us and the opponents, like today. I thought they played really well.

“We know Rom is a great finisher. Ross played really well in between the lines...you want to see your best players performing like they showed this afternoon.

“They were outstanding but the whole team was outstanding.

You need those kind of players on the top level because they make difference and that is what we like.”(rtr)

BARCELONA — One month after leading the most improbable of comebacks, Neymar earned himself the scorn of Barcelona’s fans with a pair of senseless bookings. He’ll get a chance to redeem himself on Tuesday when his team faces Juventus in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

Neymar picked up a pair of senseless yellow cards on Saturday and got sent off with 25 minutes left and his team trailing by a goal at Malaga. Without him, the undermanned side lost 2-0 and squandered an opportunity to close in on Spanish league leader Real Madrid, which was held to a 1-1 draw by Atletico Madrid.

Neymar’s infractions bordered on the absurd. Or tragicomic. The Brazilian got his first yellow card for bending over to tie his boot laces and not giving space for a Malaga player to cleanly take a free kick. Then, knowing he was one false step from leaving his team with 10 men, Neymar charged into a Malaga player with no real chance to win back the ball.

As if he hadn’t hurt his team enough already, Neymar may have made matters worse by sarcastically applauding the assistant referee as he exited the field.

The sending-off meant Neymar will be suspended for the

next match against Real Sociedad, but his added dose of bad attitude could earn him an extended suspension, putting in danger his availability for the match at Madrid on April 23 that will go a long way to deciding the domestic title.

Referee Gil Manzano included Neymar’s sarcastic applause in his report to the Spanish federation’s competition committee, which will meet on Wednesday to decide the length of his suspension.

The front page of Barcelona-based sports daily Sport on Sunday summed up the incredulity of Barcelona’s supporters by splashing the headline “UNFORGIVABLE” over a photo of Manzano showing Neymar his well-deserved red card. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique tried to deflect criticism of Neymar by pointing at Manzano’s decisions.

“There were nasty tackles from behind that didn’t earn bookings, while other fouls committed by us were,” Luis Enrique said. “The rules are to be interpreted, but they should be the same for all.” Excuses aside, what a month is has been for the Brazil striker.

His two goals and last-gasp pass for the winner in the dying minutes of Barcelona’s historic 6-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain on March 8 earned him praise.

The result sent Barcelona through 6-5 on aggregate, making it the first team to overturn a 4-0 firstleg loss in the competition.

Neymar’s performance, which he rightly called the “best of my career,” appeared to mark a watershed moment for the 25year-old Brazilian. Suddenly, he wasn’t just Lionel Messi’s flashy sidekick; he had willed Barcelona to victory as only a true leader can.

Now, with his reputation tarnished, Neymar heads to Turin for the first of two legs against a Juventus side he helped beat two years ago in the Champions League final to give Barcelona its fifth European Cup. Europe has suited Neymar again this season.

While Messi leads the Champions League with 11 goals, Neymar tops the competition with eight assists, to go along with four goals of his own.

Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta insisted on the need to regroup for the Juventus match.

“There isn’t long to go and mistakes are most costly as we reach the end,” Iniesta said. “Now we have to switch focus and concentrate on the Champions League, a competition that is very enticing.

What we have to do is go there and play a great game.” A great game without any tantrums from Messi’s heir apparent.(ap)

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, left, and Neymar da Silva from Brazil, right, gesture during their match against CF Malaga in a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Malaga and Barcelona in Malaga, Spain, Saturday April 8, 2017.

MILAN - Genoa fired coach Andrea Mandorlini after just six games on Monday, the struggling Serie A side opting to rehire his predecessor Ivan Juric, who was sacked by the club in February.

Mandorlini was dismissed after his side lost their last four games without scoring. That run included a 5-0 home defeat to Atalanta on April 2, followed by a 3-0 loss at Udinese on Sunday that left them mired in 16th place in the 20-team table.

“Genoa Cricket and Football Club announces that coach Andrea Mandorlini has been relieved of his duties along with his closest assistants,” the club said in a statement, before announcing that Juric was returning to his former role.

The Croatian was initially appointed in June after winning promotion from Serie B with modest Crotone last season but dismissed on Feb. 19 following a 5-0 defeat to bottom-of-the-table Pescara.

Genoa made a promising start to the season, beating AC Milan 3-0 and leaders Juventus 3-1 at home but have fallen away badly since selling midfielder Tomas Rincon to Juve in the January transfer window.

The team’s home games have been marked by fan protests, with supporters turning their backs to the pitch during the second half of the Atalanta loss.

Club president Enrico Preziosi, the head of Italy’s largest toy manufacturer, said last month that he intended to sell Genoa after more than 14 years at the helm. Mandorlini is the 11th coach to leave a Serie A club since the start of July.

Marcelo Bielsa had the shortest stint, quitting Lazio after just two days and without taking charge of a match, while Palermo have been the most prolific club, changing coaches three times.(rtr)

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by Pavlyuchenkova in Monterrey final

GIANYAR - Museum Rudana is one of the more contemporary art galleries that you can visit around Ubud. Established in 1995 by avid art collector Nyoman Rudana and his wife, the museum now houses a vast collection of works by famous Balinese, Indonesian and international painters.

Most of his personal favourites in-

Museum Rudana

clude pieces in the classical Ubud and Batuan styles, with depictions of rural life, natural landscapes and cultural activities. Visitors to Museum Rudana are welcomed to expansive green gardens and private rice fields that are a pleasure to ramble through. Even the lawns are home to installations comprising elephant sculptures.

Inside, exhibits are spread over three levels, with the first and second floors showcasing the works of famous names such as the late Indonesian expressionist Affandi, and prolific contemporary Balinese artists Wayan Gunarsa and Made Wianta. Also inside are collections featuring some of the great artworks of late Don

Antonio Blanco, who has his own grand gallery near Campuhan, together with a dedicated gallery displaying the works of young and emerging artists. Regular exhibitions are held throughout the year, featuring new artists, in a mission to further boost the already thriving local art scene.

Tune in around August - coincid-

ing with the nation’s Independence Day - for commemorative art events, as well as The Ksatria Seni Awards in recognition of artists for their contribution towards the development of Indonesian arts. Admission is IDR 100,000 (USD 8) for adults. Some of the paintings are for sale at negotiable prices. (IBP/net)

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MONTERREY - Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova did it again, winning her fourth Abierto GNP Seguros title by beating top-seeded world number one Angelique Kerber 6-4 2-6 6-1 in Monterrey, Mexico on Sunday.

Germany’s Kerber, who lost the Monterrey final to Pavlyuchenkova in 2013, was denied her first tournament title of the year in a see-saw victory by the Russian in stifling heat.

“I’m really overwhelmed and don’t think I realised that I just won my fourth Monterrey trophy,” second seed Pavlyuchenkova told reporters. “It’s very special and it’s a special place in my heart.

“Playing against the number one player in the world is already very special because everyone wants to compete against the number one. You don’t get so many chances to do it, so it was one opportunity for me today. Beating her feels amazing.”

Pavlyuchenkova seized the early advantage in the match, taking the only break of the first set on her third set point.

Kerber won a long third game to break serve in the second set and rode that momentum to level the match.

Pavyluchenkova, who reached quarters at both the Australian Open and BNP Paribas Open this year, raced to a 5-0 lead in the final set and served out to claim her ninth career title in just under two hours.

The Russian was the clear aggressor, cracking 49 winners to 31 unforced errors while Kerber registered only 14 outright winners in the final. (rtr)

Spraying sparkling wine over each other, Spain’s Maverick Vinales, right, celebrates at the podium his first place win, with second place winner and teammate Italy’s Valentino Rossi.

Vinales wins in Argentina after Marquez crashes out

TERMAS DE RIO HONDO - Spaniard Maverick Vinales continued his perfect start to the MotoGP season on Sunday with a victory in Argentina after compatriot and reigning champion Marc Marquez crashed while leading from pole.

The 22-year-old Vinales, who switched from Suzuki at the end of last year, became the first Yamaha rider since U.S. great Wayne Rainey in 1990 to win the first two races of a season in the premier class.

Italian Valentino Rossi celebrated becoming the first rider to make 350 grand prix starts across all categories by finishing second behind his team mate, 2.915 seconds behind, at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit.

Britain’s Cal Crutchlow had to save fuel towards the end but was third on a non-works LCR Honda.

Vinales, who won in Qatar last month, started sixth on the grid but was third by the end of the first lap. He passed Crutchlow for second on lap three and took the

lead a lap later when Marquez fell at turn two.

Vinales has 50 points with Rossi second on 36.

“It was a difficult race because I started quite good but already Marc was pushing so hard,” said Vinales.

“So I was trying from the first lap to make my own pace, then I saw that he crashed and I was just thinking to bring all the points I can home because it was very important to achieve the maximum points today.”

Marquez, on pole in Argentina for the fourth year in a row, had a lead of more than two seconds over the opening laps before the bike went from under him and dumped him in the gravel.

The Spaniard is now eighth in

the championship with 13 points.

“I was feeling amazing with the bike, I was riding really good and I don’t know why... sure I did some mistake but this kind of mistakes make me quite disappointed,” he said with some understatement.

His team mate Dani Pedrosa later crashed out at the same place while Ducati riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso fell after tangles with other riders.

Nine-times world champion Rossi made a strong start from seventh place and shadowed Crutchlow before passing the Briton six laps from the end and then pulling away.

“On the grid my mechanic said to me: ‘This is the 350, make a good race,” grinned the 38-year-old.

Argentina was the 888th grand prix since the championship started in 1949, and the Italian has ridden in 39.4 percent of them. Of Rossi’s total, 289 starts have been in the top category. (rtr)

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Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing TANTA - Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer protect them from neighbours bent on their murder.

Forty-four people were killed in the attacks on Palm Sunday, a joyous festival a week before Easter when Christians celebrate the triumphant arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem.

At Tanta University hospital morgue, desperate families were trying to get inside to search for loved ones. Security forces held them back to stop overcrowding, enraging the crowd.

“Why are you preventing us from entering now? Where were you when all this happened?” shouted one women looking for a relative. Some appeared in total shock, their faces pale and unmoving. Others wept openly as women wailed in mourning.

A middle-aged man who had just stepped out of the morgue after seeing his dead brother stood with his face buried in his hands weeping.

“You sons of bitches,” he shouted as his family tried to calm him.

Hours after the attack, Kerols Paheg and other young Coptic Christians were already digging graves in the basement of the devastated St. George Church in the

northern Nile Delta city, where the first of the bombs exploded, killing 27 and wounding around 80.

He showed photos on his phone of the carnage: human remains, blood and shattered glass strewn across the floor of the church on one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar. “Today was supposed to be a day of festivity,” he said.

From now on, Christians will have to protect their churches themselves, rather than rely on the police, “because what’s happening is too much. It’s unacceptable,” he said.

SECTARIAN BLOODSHED Copts make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 92 million people, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. Yet despite a presence dating back to the Roman era, the community feels increasingly ostracised and has repeatedly been targeted in attacks, including by Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombings.

Hours after the blast in Tanta, the second bomb blew up at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral

in Alexandria, the historic seat of the Coptic pope, killing 17 people including three police officers and wounding 48.

Pope Tawadros had been leading the mass at the time of the blast but escaped unharmed, the Interior Ministry said.

Though Islamic State has long waged a low-level war against soldiers and police in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, its stepped up assault on Christian civilians in the mainland could turn a provincial insurgency into wider sectarian conflict.

On Sunday, the group warned of more attacks and boasted of the number of people killed by three church bombings it says it has carried out since December: 80.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised to protect the Christian minority as part of a campaign against extremism. But Copts in Tanta said security was almost nonexistent on Sunday despite repeated warnings in recent weeks.

A senior police official told Reuters a bomb was discovered and disabled near the Tanta church about a week ago. (rtr)

Assad allies say U.S. attack on Syria air base crosses “red lines” AMMAN - A joint command centre made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base on Friday crossed “red lines” and it would respond to any new aggression and increase its support for its ally.

The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian air base on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched earlier in the week, escalating the U.S. role in Syria and drawing criticism from Assad’s allies including Russia and Iran.

“What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well,” said the statement published by the group on media outlet Ilam al Harbi (War Media).

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, blamed Russian inaction for helping fuel the chemical weapons attack it had reacted to, saying Moscow had failed to carry out a 2013 agreement to secure and destroy chemical weapons in Syria.

He said the United States expected Russia to take a tougher stance against Syria by rethinking its alliance with Assad because “every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws Russia closer into some level of responsibility.”

Rebels and residents in northwestern Idlib province said jets believed to be Russian conducted eight raids on Sunday on the town of Khan Sheikhoun where the chemical attack took place but no casualties were reported. Raids hit several other rebel-held towns including Saraqeb and Sarmin in the province, where the rebels and activists said incendiary bombs were dropped.

The death toll from an air strike on Saturday on the rebel-held town of Urum al-Joz in Idlib province rose to 19 people, including six children, activists and residents said.

In the southern city of Daraa, jets believed to be Russian escalated strikes on Free Syrian Army (FSA) and jihadist groups on Saturday and Sunday in an attempt to roll back their gains in the Manshiya district where battles have been raging for nearly two months.

PUTIN, ROUHANI SPEAK Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani said in a phone call that aggressive U.S. actions against Syria were not permissible and violated international law, the Kremlin said on Sunday.

The two leaders also called for an objective investigation into an incident involving chemical weapons in Syria’s Idlib and said they were ready to deepen cooperation to fight terrorism, the Kremlin said in a statement on its website.

Syrian army forces had been losing ground across the country until Russia intervened militarily in September 2015, propping up Assad and protecting its own interests in the region.(rtr)

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Army soldiers patrol on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road before the funeral of victims of the Palm Sunday bombings of Egyptian Coptic churches, in Cairo, Egypt April 10, 2017.

Security analysts said it appeared that Islamic State, under pressure in Iraq and Syria, was trying to widen its threat and had identified Christian communities as an easier target.

“ISIS are deeply sectarian, that’s nothing new, but they have decided

to re-emphasize that aspect in Egypt over the past few months,” said H.A. Hellyer, senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute.

“Christian targets are easier -churches are far more difficult to fortify than say an army barracks or a police station. It’s a disturbing development because it indicates we have the possibility of repeated and continued attacks against soft targets.”(rtr)

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Jakarta reclamation project would continue whoever is the governor : Expert

JAKARTA - Jakartas reclamation project could not be politically stopped by whoever is the next governor of Jakarta, an expert has said.

“Whoever is to be elected to be the next governor would not dare to stop the project,” Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, from the Jakarta State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, said here on Saturday.

The project has been decided long time earlier and it is needed by the city, Pangi said, referring to a number of man made islands being built and to be built in the Jakarta Bay. He said the issue of reclamation has been politically driven, adding barring the election there would be no issue of reclamation.

He said furor over the project is more politically motivated rather than by rationale ahead of the Jakarta gubernatorial election.

The Jakarta gubernatorial election to be contested by incumbent pair of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) and Djarot Sjaiful Hidayat and Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno would held on April 19.

Ahok is for continuing the project, but Anies/Sandi accused the project of benefiting only the rich investors and harming the fishermen.

Pangi said the fact is there are 17 islands to be built under the reclamation program involving nine developers including state companies and ones owned by the city administration, he said.

He pointed out the Jakarta beach resort of Ancol Tourism Park and the New Tanjung Priok port are results of reclamation. Ancol is managed by PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol Tbk, which is owned by the Jakarta city administration. Ancol is a public company listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The New Tanjung Priok port is owned by the state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II. There was no furor when the beach resort area and the new port were built. In fact the Jakarta people take pride in the Ancol recreation center.

“Reclamation is already rolling. The implication would be extensive if it was stopped. The brisk protest against the project is only because of the gubernatorial election. I believe the issue would disappear by itself after the election,” Pangi said.

The decision to stop reclamation would set the Jakarta city administration against the central government, he said.

In addition, the Jakarta city administration would be made busy dealing with floods of lawsuits filed by the developers charging the city with unilateral decision.

They would demand compensation for what they already spent on the project licensed by the city administration itself, he added.

Citing an example, he said developers already invested heavily in the development of the islands of C, D and G. Meanwhile the legal process would take a long time until it was final, he said.

While the issue is in the legal process, the reclamation would be in status quo and the condition would put both sides of political rivals in limbo, he said.

“If that is to happen it would be bad for everybody and a big blow to the reputation of the city and the country in the eye of investors,” he said.

The city administration relied on big investors to finance the giant embankment project. Stopping the project would mean rejecting large investment while the country is working hard to attract investors.

Without the embankment North Jakarta would continue to risk floods of sea water at tidal waves every full moon. (ant)

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President Joko Widodo here on Sunday congratulated the Air Force on its 71st anniversary from the cockpit of aircraft which was parked at south terminal of Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma air base.

President congratulates Air Force on its 71st anniversary from cockpit

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo here on Sunday congratulated the Air Force on its 71st anniversary from the cockpit of Sukhoi Flanker 27/30 aircraft which was parked at south terminal of Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma air base.

The president directly headed to south terminal of the Jakartas Halim Perdanakusuma air base, soon after arriving at the air base following his working visit to Central Java Province.

The head of state who was accompanied by First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo took pictures along with 152 pilots of the Air Force fighters.

On the occasion, Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi also em-

barked several fighters parked at the airbase, one of them is Sukhoi, belonging to the Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU).

The president in the cockpit of the Sukhoi Flanker 27/30, offered anniversary greeting to the Air Force.

“Happy 71st birthday of the Air Force. Thank you for keeping the sovereignty and territorial (air) integrity of the Republic of Indonesia,” he said as an appreciation

to the Air Force.

In his advice, Jokowi also asked the Air Force soldiers to keep professional and loved the people.

Before leaving the air base, the president and the first lady Iriana Joko Widodo shook hand with the fighter pilots who were singinging spiritly.

During the visit, the president was also flanked by the Air Force Chief, Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto. (ant)

Indonesia urges UN to settle Syrian conflict

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Indonesian Foreign Ministry Arrmanatha Nasir

JAKARTA - Indonesia has urged the United Nations to settle the Syrian conflict, including the impact of the recent “toxic gas” attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province.

Indonesia condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria and urged the UN

to settle the conflict soon, spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry Arrmanatha Nasir said here on Sunday.

“Indonesia urges the UN to settle the Syrian conflict,” he said.

He added that Indonesia also encouraged dialogs and inclusive political process to

settle the Syrian crisis.

In principle, Indonesia has never supported unilateral action in any form, including the US attack, which did not receive support from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), he said.

“In fact, we encourage peaceful solution in keeping

with the statement of the UN secretary general,” he said.

He said Indonesia did not side with one of the conflicting camps in Syria, Instead, it joins the camp encouraging the UN to take prompt decision which takes into account humanitarian reasons and good solution..(ant)

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Global politics hit emerging stocks, currencies

LONDON - Tensions around the Middle East and the Korean peninsula weighed on emerging markets on Monday, with stocks extending losses for a third day and currencies weakening against the dollar.

Investors have grown increasingly nervous after last week’s U.S. attack on a Syrian air base which Russia and Iran said had crossed a “red line”, though top aides of President Donald Trump aired differing views on where Washington’s policy was heading.

Meanwhile, Washington also looks likely to flex its muscles over North Korea’s advancing weapons program, moving a U.S. Navy strike group toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula.

Emerging stocks fell 0.5 percent to hit a near-four-week low in their third straight day of losses. The index was dragged lower by hefty losses in Russia, where dollardenominated stocks tumbled 1.7 percent, while South Korea’s KOSPI index shed nearly 1 percent.

“The concern is of escalated

tensions regarding North Korea and a possible conflict there, and what the relations between the U.S. and China would be in such an event -that’s going to be negative for risk sentiment including risky assets like emerging markets,” said Jakob Christensen at Danske Bank.

With the dollar trading at its strongest level since mid-March, emerging currencies and bonds also suffered.

South Africa’s rand racked up the steepest losses, weakening 1 percent against the dollar while the country’s dollar- and localbonds fell across the curve. The country’s assets are reeling from a second downgrade to ‘junk’ by ratings agency Fitch on Friday in the wake of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan being fired.

The downgrades triggered the

ejection of South Africa from some major debt indexes, which will push up its borrowing costs. Meanwhile on Friday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in major cities to demanding President Jacob Zuma to step down.

“You don’t see really yet what the political endgame will be -- you still don’t know how much Zuma can and will fight against this pressure that is on him,” Christensen said.

Russia’s rouble weakened 0.2 percent despite soaring oil prices as investors lost faith that sanctions slapped onto Moscow over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine could be eased amid the latest stand-off.

In central and eastern Europe, currencies traded mixed against the euro but volatility gauges of the region’s currencies against the dollar spiked to the highest since last June’s Brexit vote as traders took out bets ahead of France’s upcoming election and increasing nervousness about right-wing can-

farmers in Britain will have to fight for a slice of government funds with departments such as health and education once Brussels hands over the purse strings for farming budgets to London.

Britain’s exit also spells trouble for EU farmers as the country puts

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Farmer David Sowray drives a combine harvester through a field on the family’s 600 acre farm in Humberton, Britain, August 2, 2013.

more into the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) than it takes out, meaning subsides for farmers on the continent could also fall unless the funding gap is plugged.

British farmers have been shielded by a powerful farming lobby within Europe and benefit from EU subsidies, preferential trade deals and access to cheap seasonal labour, but they fear they will be losers on all three fronts in a post-Brexit world.

“The bloody-mindedness of the French or the Irish in standing up for agriculture was not just standing up for their farmers but actually brought a good deal for us as well. Without them we are more vulnerable,” said Nigel Miller, who has a sheep and cattle farm near Galashiels in Scotland’s Borders region.

“The reality is, as a farmer, I don’t see the UK government expending a lot of negotiating capital to protect agriculture. Their main issue when they look for trade deals will be financial services, banking, etc,” Miller said.

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Unique, Magoak-goakan Tradition in Kintamani

Kintamani customary village held magoak-goakan tradition.

The tradition was attended by approximately 4,000 people ranging from children, adolescents, adults to the elderly. The tradition was organized in a series of Nyepi Desa at the local customary village. From the morning, thousands of people putting on middle traditional attires have thronged the village square or sacred land to implement magoak-goakan tradition.

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Light is cast on a U.S. one-hundred dollar bill next to a Japanese 10,000 yen note in this picture illustration shot February 28, 2013. didate Marine Le Pen’s prospects.

In Ukraine, Central Bank Governor Valeria Gontereva has resigned -- depriving the country of a tough reformer praised by investors and

the International Monetary Fund -- and seen as capable of taking on vested interests at a time when the economy is recovering from a steep recession. (rtr)

Brexit to trigger UK farm policy overhaul and EU funding gap

LONDON - Britain is expected to radically overhaul agricultural policy after it leaves the European Union and the bloc may have to make changes too when it loses Britain’s net contributions to the region’s farming budget.

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nation EU in a referendum in June last year. It has two years to sort out the terms of the divorce before it comes into effect in March 2019.

In 2015, British farmers received 3.25 billion euros ($3.5 billion) from the EU’s agriculture fund in direct payments based chiefly on the amount of land they farm, essentially a form of income support that does not take individual needs into account.

The government has guaranteed payments will be maintained until 2020 but farming and environment minister Andrea Leadsom said in February there would be a major policy overhaul when the EU subsidies stop.

WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS On average, British farmers get about 15,000 pounds ($18,700) a year from direct payments and an EU rural development fund. For some, direct payments account for 70 percent of their income.

But a significant chunk goes to wealthy individuals who are large landowners. An investigation by environmental lobby group Greenpeace showed that in 2015

the top 100 recipients of EU direct payments in Britain received more in total than the bottom 55,119 recipients combined. Berkeley Hill, professor of policy analysis at Imperial College London, said any overhaul should ensure funds go to farmers making decisions that benefit the environment, or help them cope with disasters such as flooding or foot-and-mouth disease.

“It has the potential to be quite radical. What is the taxpayer getting in return for all this money?

Most of it does not go to poor farmers,” said Hill.

Greenpeace campaigner Hannah Martin hopes the government will reshape Britain’s food and farming policy so payments are for the “common good”, rather than just rewarding landowners for owning land.

“That means, landowners getting the money are doing positive things like boosting rural economies, ensuring food production is genuinely sustainable, reducing flood-risk, maintaining healthy soils and protecting biodiversity,” she said.(rtr)

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The sellers which are using cars are waiting their customers on Gunung Raung Street.

The crowded situation often made the traffic jam worse.

Siyat Sampian Held at Penataran Sasih Temple

Hundreds of devotional pilgrims, namely sutri (female) and juru sirat (male), performed siyat sampian (sampian war) tradition in the area of Penataran Sasih Temple, Pejeng. This activity was held for three days after the peak of padudusan ritual at the local temple when the deities of Samuan Tiga Temple and ratu manca-manca would like

to leave their sanctum.

The siyat sampian ritual has been prepared from the morning, commenced with nampyog where the sutri and juru sirat danced around the area of Penataran Sasih.

Subsequently, it was followed by mabete-betean and wave dance.

The entire procession was conducted by surrounding the area of

Penataran Sasih for three times.

After the procession, the sutri and juru sirat took a short break.

Furthermore, they said prayers in front of the pengaruman and the shrine of Ratu Sanghyang. After saying prayers and being sprinkled with holy water, some participants began to shout loudly. Immediately, they took sampian having been previously provided in the courtyard of the temple. While this tradition took place, they looked to hit each other by using the sampian.

“No one feels sore while undertaking this tradition. Instead, I personally feel proud and happy after going through this tradition.

Moreover, the whole series of piodalan or temple anniversary has been running smoothly,” said Oyis, one of the juru sirat participating in the tradition of siyat sampian.

Committee of the Padudusan Ritual of the Penataran Sasih, Dewa Nyoman Ngakan Suardita, asserted that siat sampian tradition is a regular agenda held every piodalan at the Penataran Sasih. “This tradition must always be carried out every piodalan padudusan at Penataran Sasih every year,” he said. (kmb)

Not infrequently, the participants should turn upside down due to the sloping arena. In addition, a number of participants, especially women, were crushed by the other participants. Nevertheless, it did not reduce the enthusiasm of residents to follow the tradition.

Amid the activities, chief of Kintamani customary village, Nyoman Sukadia, said that magoak-goakan tradition has been started at 8:00 until midnight. This activity is routinely held every year considering this tradition is the legacy of ancestors that must continue to be preserved.

“The magoak-goakan tradition has something to do with religious ceremonies of Nyepi Desa of Kintamani village. This event has been organized since the full moon of Balinese ninth month (Mar. 12) and the ceremony ended at 00:00 on Wednesday,” he said.

Sukadia explained that the magoak-goakan tradition aims to more establish relationship among the residents of Kintamani customary village. Moreover, this tradition is intended for preservation of the natural environment and wildlife.

The ceremony takes place on the full moon of the Balinese ninth month and during which is also held Jagra and Miasa.

“From there, we’ve been required to preserve and honor our

fellow beings. At that time, we should not slaughter chicken nor sell it. In addition, residents are not allowed to speech words that may offend others and may not do negative things. They may only be allowed to do positive things,” he explained.

READ Pejaten Village a Home to Ceramic Arts He disclosed that when the magoak-goakan tradition was held, all Kintamani customary villagers were dissolved together in joy. They should not conduct any activities like work. “So, for today (Thursday—Ed), residents absolutely do no activities, but focus on following this activity so that they all can have fun in this tradition,” he said.

After magoak-goakan activities, it was resumed with the search for firewood. Residents are required to find a dead tree or dried tree branches without carrying tools such as axes and so forth. They should not cut down trees that are still alive.

“Meanwhile, the day after tomorrow is the preservation that has something to do with land and the earth. All residents should not dig because it is the nature conservation and preservation. Essentially what has become a tradition should be followed by all residents of Kintamani,” said Sukadia. (kmb)

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Wayang wong dance staged at Maksan Temple of Tejakula

WAYANG wong sacred dance that only exists at Tejakula village, Tejakula subdistrict, was presented at Maksan Temple of local village. The location is chosen because the masks of the wayang wong characters are stored at the local temple. They are even believed to have been four centuries old.

Based on reference at hand, this art is also known as sacred dance.

First establishment of the dance happened approximately four centuries ago. From this location, the art then spread to some regions in Bali. Though having widely spread, this art has taksu (divine vibration) and is made sacred. This sacredness has been approved by the UNESCO. Besides, the wayang wong dance has also been recognized as intangible cultural heritage in 2015.

In the performance, the dancers repeated the storyline from the beginning. The artists performing the Ramayana storyline started staging the first episode of the Bala Kanda in the Ramayana epic. In the staging, the storyline presented by the players is entitled “Sander Sita.”

By and large, when featuring the storyline of the kanda (book—Ed) from the first through the seventh one will take approximately 4.5 years to 5 years.

It tells about the duke Marica disguising as a golden deer to attract the attention of Sita. On seeing the deer, Sita then asked Rama to chase the deer. Rama went away from Sita and tried to shoot the disguising deer. Marica cleverly cried out for help, and his voice was similar to Rama’s. Again, Sita

asked Laksamana to look for Rama that was told to be facing problems.

When Laksamana followed Rama, Sita was abducted by Ravana.

Chairman of the Tejakukus Foundation, Gede Komang, amid the staging told that as sacred dance it is mandatory to be performed as devotional services or ngayah at Maksan Temple of Tejakula. As usual, the performance is done twice every year precisely on Wraspati Dungulan or the day after Galungan. Since it is sacred, the wayang wong must still perform the episodes of Ramayana epic sequentially. “It has become the tasks of the wayang wong players to perform devotional service at the temple because the masks are stored at this Maksan temple,” said Komang Gede when met on Friday afternoon.

According to Komang Gede, even though it is classified into sacred dance, currently this wayang wong is also staged as entertainment art. For several times, the character of wayang wong is presented in the art collaboration.

However, the masks staged in the entertainment are not the sacred ones as those stored at the Maksan Temple, but the duplicates that are kept by the foundation. (mud)

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China Coast Guard vessels patrol past Philippine fishing boats at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017.

At strategic shoal, China asserts power through control, and concessions

SCARBOROUGH SHOAL - Far out in the South China Sea, where dark blue meets bright turquoise, a miles-long row of fishing boats anchor near Scarborough Shoal, backed by a small armada of coastguard projecting China’s power in Asia’s most disputed waters.

The Wayang Wong Performance

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Berawa Beach Becomes Playground of Surfing Lovers

Berawa Beach in Canggu area has developed quite well because the surrounding locations are possible to be developed into tourist destination if managed properly.

Many villas are growing like mushrooms in rainy season. Since the development of tourism industry in Bali is quite well, sometimes travelers are also looking for an

alternative to Kuta and Legian, so that Canggu located next to them also gets the impact. More travelers in need of peace will enjoy natural atmosphere as well as stay in the Canggu area.

Talking about coastal tourist attraction in Bali seems neverending. Although the island is fairly small, it has numerous hidden pearls. Berawa Beach, for instance, located in the same coastline as Petitenget, Batubelig and Canggu, is located at Berawa hamlet, Canggu.

Local high waves become an attractive place for surfers. It can be taken approximately 20 minutes by car or motorcycle from Kuta and turn left on the road section to Tanah Lot. Lately, Berawa Beach sufficiently develops because the beach is actually not too far from the

glamour of Kuta or Canggu tourist destination earlier known by travelers coming on holidays to Bali.

Road access to Berawa Beach can pass through Batubelig, but, and the best is through the access adjacent to the Villa Legong Keraton precisely located on the Berawa Beach.

An interesting point offered by Berawa Beach is the extreme wave because it is located in the South of the Bali Island directly getting in touch with the Indian Ocean.

For surfing lovers, here is the right playground. Atmosphere of this coastal area is quieter and emptier of visitors. Local residents commonly spend time and relieve fatigue during holidays or weekends, so that travelers can more freely enjoy this beautiful nature. Ocean view on the Berawa Beach can adequately make every visitor feel at home. When

wishing to enjoy the beauty of Berawa Beach maximally, simply stay for a few days in this area. There are many types of villa rentals, resorts and homestays.

Superiority of Berawa Beach lies in the beautiful coast and proximity to various tourist facilities, airport and tranquility. So, Berawa Beach is worth choosing as destination considering there are many objects around the Berawa Beach such as Tanah Lot, horseback safari, Canggu Club and pilgrimage destination on Seseh Beach.

Apart from having good and enchanting waves, Berawa Beach also presents a beautiful natural scenery, especially during sunset time. The atmosphere is very quiet, giving better privacy than its neighboring beaches like Legian and Petitenget. (kmb)

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China still calls the shots at the prime fishing spot and has boosted its fleet there, nine months after an international panel ruled its blockade of the lagoon was illegal.

Beijing rejected that ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which invalidated China’s claim of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea. But the presence of Philippine boats dotted between Chinese vessels shows a degree of compliance with the ruling. Overtures from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is negotiating billions of dollars worth of loans, investments and trade deals with China, may have helped.

China stopped repelling Filipino boats in October and allowed them to fish on the edges of the rocky outcrop, 200 km (124 miles) from the Philippines. Now it appears to be easing restrictions further.

Reuters journalists last week entered the Scarborough Shoal itself - the first access by foreign media since China seized it in 2012 - and witnessed dozens of small boats shuttling day and night into the lagoon to capitalise on its rich fish stocks.

“It’s good that we’re now al-

lowed inside, it helps me to support my family’s needs,” said Vicente Palawan, treading water inside the lagoon, a dive mask on his head and fishing spear in hand.

“I don’t want the Chinese here, because there’s so many, it’s affecting the way we fish... but I’m willing to share, I don’t want to be thrown out. At least I can fish.”

The coral outcrop is synonymous with the struggle for regional power, and a strategic tinder box.

Along with China and the Philippines, Scarborough is claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.

Despite its concessions, China’s presence here is growing, with a larger contingent of coastguard and fishing boats than was indicated in satellite imagery late last year.

That fuels concerns by Manila that Beijing may have ambitions for the Scarborough Shoal similar to the artificial islands it built and fortified in the Spratly archipelago, inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE For now, there is a cordial coexistence between the Filipinos and Chinese who anchor side by

side less than 100 metres (yards) from the 46-km (28-mile) triangle of rock that barely pokes above the water.

Chinese in straw hats zig-zag from boat to boat, using hand signals to barter with Filipinos for cigarettes, liquor and fish.

Small boats hum as they move in and out of the lagoon, through a buffering line of coral that has for centuries provided fishermen with bountiful catches and haven from storms.

In crowded, rickety boats, Filipinos are outnumbered about tento-one and complain of competition from the beefed-up Chinese contingent.

“We used to fish for a few days, now it’s a few weeks, but at least we have something,” said Ramil Rosal, a boat captain and fisherman for 20 years.

“China is fishing more, and Filipinos have to share with them.

But they don’t bother us. Some are helpful.”

A half-dozen vessels from the China Marine Surveillance enforce their rules in an area the arbitration court in The Hague declared a traditional fishing site for all countries.

It did not rule on sovereignty of the shoal.

Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo said the improved access was “certainly in line with the arbitral ruling”. (rtr)

KUALA LUMPUR - Over the past two decades, North Koreanborn Han Hun Il, the founding chief executive of a Malaysian conglomerate, funnelled money to the leadership in Pyongyang, a North Korean defector, speaking out for the first time, told Reuters.

Han’s conglomerate, Malaysia Korea Partners (MKP), worked in partnership with Jang Song Thaek, according to Lee Chol Ho, who worked as a trader for Han for nine years until he defected to Seoul in 2010. Jang, the uncle of North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un, was considered one of North Korea’s most powerful men until he was executed for treason in 2013.

Reuters was unable to independently confirm Lee’s account of Han’s relationship with North Korea’s leadership, including his assertion that money was funnelled to North Korea’s leadership body, the central committee of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Reuters also couldn’t determine how the central committee, which controls North Korea’s highly sanctioned nuclear and weapons programme, used the funds from Han or if the payments are continuing.

The new disclosures come at a time when United Nations sanctions monitors are intensifying scrutiny of both Han and MKP. A February report by experts monitoring U.N. sanctions on North Korea says MKP’s bank subsidiary in Pyongyang is a particular focus.

A 2013 U.N. resolution bars foreign companies or foreign joint ventures with a North Korean company from having a financial subsidiary in North Korea.

The U.N. report says the bank, called International Consortium

Bank, was established as a joint venture between MKP and Jang’s Sungri Economic Group. The bank is licensed by North Korea’s central bank and registered with the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Committee, it said.

If the U.N. experts find sanctions have been violated, they could recommend the U.N. Security Council blacklist MKP, its executives or one or more of its subsidiaries, subjecting them to a global travel ban and asset freeze.

STRAINED TIES Han, also known as Dr. Edward Hahn, hung up the phone and blocked a Reuters reporter on his messaging app when contacted for comment.

MKP did not respond to requests for comment on Lee’s assertions.

The company issued a statement dated March 23 saying MKP had “no reason to hide the fact” that Han is North Korean. It denied owning ICB or any other North Korean bank and said nobody from the United Nations has contacted the company.

The U.N. said it does not comment on its ongoing investigations.

Lee’s description of how MKP operated appears to shed fresh light on the close ties between Malaysia and North Korea, which have come under strain following the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the elder half-brother of North Korea’s ruler, with the highly toxic VX nerve agent in February.

Reuters reported in February that North Korea’s spy agency was running an arms export operation out of Malaysia.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. (rtr)

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Edward Han Hun Il

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Stone Age cannibals: Hunting each other not worth the hassle NEW YORK — You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.

Neanderthals and prehistoric members of our own species occasionally practiced cannibalism and explaining that is a scientific challenge. Generally, it has been attributed to factors like starvation, violence between groups or ceremonial practices following a death.

Now a new study suggests they were probably not hunting each other just for food.

That’s because “we are not very nutritious, on a calorie level,” compared to large game animals, says James Cole of the University of Brighton in England. Next to a mammoth, even a dozen burly Neanderthals would be slim pickings.

Cole presented his argument Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports .

He focused on nine previously reported fossil sites where researchers have found evidence of cannibalism, like marks on the bones that indicated butchery. The sites were dated to between roughly 14,000 years ago to more than 900,000

years ago, which falls within the Paleolithic period the study focused on. Five involved our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals, two involved our own species, and the rest were other extinct members of the human evolutionary branch.

His question: How many calories would the bodies at each site provide? To estimate that, he first used previously published data to conclude that eating an averagesized modern-day man could yield up to about 144,000 calories. He then adapted that to the age ranges of the bodies.

Even if all the bodies at a site were consumed in a single episode, he concluded, the energy payoff would be no more than what a hunter could get from a single large animal like a mammoth, a woolly rhino or a bear. So why bother with the hassle of hunting your own kind?

“You’re dealing with an animal that is as smart as you are, as resourceful as you are, and can fight back in the way you fight them,”

Cole said.

Maybe in some cases, our ancestors ate companions who had died for an easy meal, Cole said. But his main point is that usually, the cannibalism was probably driven by some social or cultural factors rather than just nutrition. For example, it may have followed episodes of violence, as in defending territory, he said.

Cole’s paper seems unlikely to revolutionize the field. Two experts, Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, and Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Museum in Boulder, said they don’t know of anybody who has credibly proposed the idea that Cole takes aim at, that our ancestors hunted each other simply as food.

The new work “does not change our general understanding of human cannibalism,” Villa said in an email.

But Palmira Saladie, of the Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution near Barcelona, Spain, said Cole’s

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

This Friday, March 20, 2009 file photo shows reconstructions of a Neanderthal man named “N”, left, and woman called “Wilma”, right, at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. Trying to explain cases of ancient cannibalism among our evolutionary forerunners is a vexing scientific challenge.

A new study released Thursday, April 6, 2017 in the Journal Scientific Reports suggests that whatever the reasons, they were probably not hunting each other just for food. study “will undoubtedly be key in the interpretation of new sites (and) the re-evaluation of old interpretations.”

To understand why our forerunners sometimes ate each other, she wrote in an email, “We still have a long way to go.” (ap)

DNA dating: How molecular clocks are refining human evolution’s timeline

(THE CONVERSATION) DNA holds the story of our ancestry – how we’re related to the familiar faces at family reunions as well as more ancient affairs: how we’re related to our closest nonhuman relatives, chimpanzees; how Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals; and how people migrated out of Africa, adapting to new environments and lifestyles along the way. And our DNA also holds clues about the timing of these key events in human evolution.

When scientists say that modern humans emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago and began their global spread about 60,000 years ago, how do they come up with those dates? Traditionally researchers built timelines of human prehistory based on fossils and artifacts, which can be directly dated with methods such as radiocarbon dating and Potassium-argon dating. However, these methods require ancient remains to have certain elements or preservation conditions, and that is not always the case. Moreover,

relevant fossils or artifacts have not been discovered for all milestones in human evolution.

Analyzing DNA from presentday and ancient genomes provides a complementary approach for dating evolutionary events. Because certain genetic changes occur at a steady rate per generation, they provide an estimate of the time elapsed. These changes accrue like the ticks on a stopwatch, providing a “molecular clock.” By comparing DNA sequences, geneticists can not only reconstruct relationships between different populations or species but also infer evolutionary history over deep timescales.

Molecular clocks are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to improved DNA sequencing, analytical tools and a better understanding of the biological processes behind genetic changes. By applying these methods to the ever-growing database of DNA from diverse populations (both present-day and ancient), geneticists are helping to build a more refined timeline of

human evolution. es

How DNA accumulates chang-

Molecular clocks are based on two key biological processes that are the source of all heritable variation: mutation and recombination.

Mutations are changes to the letters of DNA’s genetic code – for instance, a nucleotide Guanine (G) becomes a Thymine (T). These changes will be inherited by future generations if they occur in eggs, sperm or their cellular precursors (the germline). Most result from mistakes when DNA copies itself during cell division, although other types of mutations occur spontaneously or from exposure to hazards like radiation and chemicals.

In a single human genome, there are about 70 nucleotide changes per generation – minuscule in a genome made up of six billion letters. But in aggregate, over many generations, these changes lead to substantial evolutionary variation.

Scientists can use mutations to

estimate the timing of branches in our evolutionary tree. First they compare the DNA sequences of two individuals or species, counting the neutral differences that don’t alter one’s chances of survival and reproduction. Then, knowing the rate of these changes, they can calculate the time needed to accumulate that many differences. This tells them how long it’s been since the individuals shared ancestors.

Comparison of DNA between you and your sibling would show relatively few mutational differences because you share ancestors – mom and dad – just one generation ago. However, there are millions of differences between humans and chimpanzees; our last common ancestor lived over six million years ago.

Recombination, also known as crossing-over, is the other main way DNA accumulates changes over time. It leads to shuffling of the two copies of the genome (one from each parent), which are bundled into chromosomes. During

recombination, the corresponding (homologous) chromosomes line up and exchange segments, so the genome you pass on to your children is a mosaic of your parents’ DNA. In humans, about 36 recombination events occur per generation, one or two per chromosome. As this happens every generation, segments inherited from a particular individual get broken into smaller and smaller chunks. Based on the size of these chunks and frequency of crossovers, geneticists can estimate how long ago that individual was your ancestor.

Building timelines based on changes Genetic changes from mutation and recombination provide two distinct clocks, each suited for dating different evolutionary events and timescales.

Because mutations accumulate so slowly, this clock works better for very ancient events, like evolutionary splits between species.(ap)

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Bali Transport Agency not specify upper and lower tariff

DENPASAR — Bali Transport Agency has not specified the upper and lower limit rate for online rental transport. In the meantime, it still refers to the tariff having been in force namely taxi tariff at IDR 7,000 when opening taxi door, and then IDR 6,500 per next km, with a waiting rate of IDR 45,000 and IDR 6,500 for rental transport, including special rental services.

“Later, we will inform if the new tariff has been available,” said the Head of Bali Transport Agency, I Gusti Agung Sudarsana, when confirmed on Friday (Apr. 4). According to him, the adoption of the existing rate was his idea. The idea was put forward in the meeting with transportation experts, the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI), Organda Bali, police authority, representatives of rental transport and other stakeholders some time ago. Though having been agreed so, it will last temporarily.

“The tariff needs to have a study and is not determined by us, but by central government. However, we present the results of meeting and deliver the number met and agreed,” he stated.

He added that the review on the appropriate tariff is still carried out by his agency together with relevant agencies such as the infocom and statistics agency, licensing office, Organda and the MTI. Results of the study may be cheaper or even more expensive than the tariff applied today.

“For the time being, our colleagues in the meeting agreed that (applicable tariff –Ed). If there are parties that do not agree, it must be studied. For example, we will try to apply pursuant to the existing data and theory. However, perhaps it can be cheaper or more expensive,” he explained.

Related to transportation quota, Sudarsana added that there are indeed 20,085 quotas in 2017. With the current conditions, there are about 7,500 remaining permits of transport quota that can be issued.

Corresponding to the results of meeting, there are two options of quota. The first option is providing 50:50 for conventional transport and rental transport, while the second option is giving freedom until achieving the total quota available.

When confirmed separately, Secretary of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, asked the transportation agency to determine the lower limit tariff only, while the upper limit tariff is unnecessary to be specified. “If people are willing to pay a premium tariff due to the service is good, it is okay and no problem. Conversely, the lower limit tariff must be determined so as not to be sold cheaply,” he said.

Kariyasa admitted that he would invite the transport agency to discuss the supporting rules in the Regulation of the Minister of Transport No.26/2017 that has revised the regulation No. 32/2016. His agency will involve conventional taxi and online taxi to get a meeting point in the discussion scheduled to be held after the celebration of Kuningan.

Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Tama Tenaya, said the tariff issue is not specifically regulated in Bali because it potentially causes friction in the field. In this case, it can happen between the drivers of online-based transport and conventional transport. On that account, there should be a comprehensive study regarding the transport tariff.

“Then, regarding the permit, taxis in Bali should submit permission to central government. But in reality, they have been operating in the respective territory. Therefore, it is necessary to make technical studies, especially the studies concerning the application to be used,” he added. (kmb32)

The hotels in Kuta seen from above.

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To increase tax revenue, Badung ‘takes’ all possible ways

MANGUPURA - Application of tapping box incorporating with web service is considered inadequate to increase the revenue of Badung from the hotel and restaurant tax (PHR). This richest district in Bali will take advantage of any means to increase revenues in the tourism sector.

Head of the Regional Revenue Services and Property Tax, Made Sutama, claimed that he will strengthen the existing technology by utilizing human resources to increase hotel and restaurant tax revenue. According to him, this policy complies with the instruction of the Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta.

“Well ... the instruction of the regent is good and firm. To follow up the instruction of our leadership, we will optimize existing human resources while evaluating the tasks having been implemented over the years,” said Made Sutama on Thursday (Apr. 6).

According to Sutama, direct control against taxpayers is meant to maximize revenues of Badung from hotel and restaurant taxes. Thus, the target of Badung regional budget 2018 valued at

IDR 6 trillion to IDR 7 trillion can be realized.

“Tapping box and web services have been proved to boost the hotel and restaurant taxes of Badung. To further maximize, it will be backed up by human resources to oversee the taxpayers,” he explained.

This official from Pecatu is optimistic that the target of increasing local revenues could be achieved. His agency will try to reach the target.

“We will make coordination with the heads of relevant agencies in Badung because we cannot work alone and need the coordination with other agencies. However, we remain optimistic that the target could be achieved,” he said.

Earlier, in 2016 the Badung regional budget only valued at IDR 4.1 trillion and in 2017 increased to IDR 5.4 trillion. The increase of regional budget is inseparable from the regionally generated revenue (PAD) that largely sources from hotel and restaurant taxes.

“Internal team should be solid.

If the team is solid in the regional agencies we lead, hopefully the target could be able to be

achieved,” he said.

He mentioned that the increase in the budget is needed to empower rural communities, education and health. Every village in Badung assisted through the 10-percent allowance of hotel and restaurant tax, where each village can receive funding of up to IDR 14 billion. For education, the government has allocated as much as IDR 1 trillion. Likewise, the health sector also gets disbursement of budget worth almost identical to the education sector.

Regent Giri Prasta, in the inauguration of the IIb echelon, instructed the regional development planning board (Bappeda) to prepare taxpayer inspectors.

“We should not rely solely on tools, we also need the presence of tax inspectors,” he said.

The assigned inspecting personnel, according to this official from Pelaga, Petang, will oversee all the taxpayers in the region.

Moreover, the regent wanted that no taxpayers will escape from supervision.

“The number of taxpayers is divided by the number of inspectors, so they do not mess around, and should be checked every time,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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To avoid congestion during Ngusaba ritual at Ulun Danu Batur

Traffic Affairs divert traffic

BANGLI — Bangli Police Traffic Affairs will divert traffic in the region of Batur, Kintamani, during the implementation of Ngusaba Kedasa ritual at Ulun Danu Batur Temple. Such traffic diversion is meant to avoid long traffic jams along the path to the universal temple.

The tourists are visiting Penglipuran Village.

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Chief of Bangli Police Traffic Affairs, I Gusti Ayu Udayani Addi, said on Friday (Apr. 7) that the traffic diversion started on April 9 until the end of the Ngusaba Kedasa ritual on April 24. All road users will be diverted to several alternative paths determined.

Udayani described that according to the plan, the traffic during the ritual in progress will be applied in one direction. All the pilgrims from the north after saying prayers are not allowed to move southward passing the three-way intersection of Katung. They must turn right through Pedulu southward to the three-way intersection of North Petung. Vehicles from the south to the three-way intersection of Katung are not allowed to move northward, but turn left and park at Tunon except

for penganyar and VIP vehicles.

Vehicles that will go to Singaraja are diverted to pass through the Mount Kunyit, and then pass through the cooperatives, while the vehicles coming from the north (non-pilgrims) are directed to the intersection of Blancan to the right to get to the four-way intersection of Pedulu to go further southward or eastward.

“Traffic diversion remains the same as last year. However, on the road section of Mount Kunyit (Jalan Gunung Sati) currently there is a broken road shoulder so that it inhibits the traffic. Related to this matter, we have sent a letter to the Public Works Agency,” she said.

In anticipation of worsening collapsed road in the path of Mount Kunyit, especially with the current rainy condition, she hoped it could only be passed through by small

cars. “It is still drivable. If passed through by many large vehicles, the damage is feared to be getting worse,” she said. She admitted to have set police line as a warning sign to motorists in order that they can be careful when crossing the road.

As for parking lot, Udayani stated that it has been provided in front of the Batur Temple (higher priests and VIP), Kintamani Market, Kintamani Square, Katung Terminal, and in front of the Maharaja Restaurant. Udayani asked motorists not to go up against the traffic that has been determined.

They are advised to follow the instructions so as to reduce congestion. In addition, when parking vehicles, pilgrims are also asked to always be careful of the luggage and make sure that vehicle has been locked properly. (kmb40)

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Tourism becomes leading sector of national development

MANGUPURA —The programs of central government in the next five years will be focused on infrastructural sector, maritime, energy, food and tourism. Among these five sectors, tourism has been designated as the leading sector for the short, medium and long term as it shows positive growth. This was expressed by the Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism, Ukus Kuswara, in Kuta.

According to him, the world’s tourism plays important role in contributing to the global gross domestic product (GDP) amounting to 9.8 percent. Then, contribution to world’s export totally amounts to USD 7.58 trillion, foreign exchange earnings of tourism sector grow by 25.1 percent, and tourism provides wide job opportunity namely 1 of the 11 existing jobs opportunities in tourism sector. “The world’s tourism growth has a positive impact on tourism of Indonesia,” he said.

Therefore, the government targets the growth of national tourism to double in 2019. “This (tourism) sector is targeted to generate IDR 280 trillion of foreign exchange; tourism job opportunity for 13 million people; 20 million foreign tourist visits and movement of 275 million domestic tourist visits; as well as the Indonesia’s tourism competitiveness index ranked the 30th in the world,” he said.

In order to achieve the target of tourism in 2019, his ministry implemented the policy and program priorities that will be implemented this year namely digital tourism, homestay, and the air accessibility as three top programs.

Related to Bali tourism, Ukus Kuswara said that Bali has a privilege in the eyes of the world. Bali also becomes the most complete example of destinations with 3 A consisting of attraction, access and amenities.

“We will strengthen the communication and closeness to pentahelix stakeholders of the Island of the Gods,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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“Harry Potter” triumphs with magical sweep at Olivier Awards

LONDON - “Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”, a stage adaptation of J.K Rowling’s fantastical world of witches and wizards, cast a magical spell at the Olivier Awards on Sunday, scooping nine wins at Britain’s big night for theatre.

The critically-acclaimed production, which opened last year in London’s West End, went in with 11 nominations. Its victorious haul made it “the most decorated production in the ceremony’s history”, awards organisers said.

The eighth story in the “Harry Potter” series, the play follows Rowling’s young boy wizard and friends Ron and Hermione into adulthood.

It took best new play, best actor, best actor and actress in a supporting role as well as best director.

“The power of imagination is infinite,” director John Tiffany said in his acceptance speech. “We need it now more than ever.”

Jamie Parker, who portrays the older Harry, won best actor, beating off competition from the likes of Ian McKellen and Ed Harris.

Anthony Boyle, who plays Scorpius Malfoy, took best actor in a supporting role while best actress in a supporting role went to Noma Dumezweni, who plays an adult Hermione.

“Thank you J.K. Rowling for

creating Hermione and...the privilege of being able to play Hermione is overwhelming and humbling,” Dumezweni said.

The play also won best lighting design, best sound design, best costume design and best set design.

Other winners at the glitzy ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall included children playing instruments in “School of Rock”, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of the 2003 comedy film, who won in the outstanding achievement in music category.

“Groundhog Day”, an adaptation of the famed 1993 film starring Bill Murray, won best new musical as well as best actor in a musical for Andy Karl.

“Glee” actress Amber Riley scooped the best actress in a musical award for “Dreamgirls” while fellow cast member Adam J Bernard won best actor in a supporting role in a musical.

Billie Piper won best actress for “Yerma”, an adaptation of the play

by Federico Garcia Lorca, which won best revival.

“Jesus Christ Superstar” won best musical revival. “Our ladies of Perpetual Succour” won best new comedy while “Akhnaten” took the prize for best new opera production. (rtr)

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Families gather after Egypt church attack, state of emergency approved

ALEXANDRIA - Families of victims of Sunday’s bombing at Alexandria’s Coptic cathedral gathered at the Monastery of Saint Mina under heavy security on Monday as Egypt’s cabinet approved a three-month state of emergency ahead of a scheduled trip by Pope Francis.

Coffins of the 17 killed were lined up on the tiled square outside the monastery ahead of the funeral. Police checked cars as they entered the grounds, with hundreds of people gathered outside, and dozens of tanks lined parts of the road from Cairo. The blast in Egypt’s second largest city came hours after a bomb struck a Coptic church in Tanta, a nearby city in the Nile Delta, killing 27 and wounding nearly 80.

Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State, which has waged a campaign against Egypt’s Christian minority, the largest in the Middle East.

The Copts, whose presence in Egypt dates to the Roman era, have long complained of religious persecution and accused the state of not doing enough to protect them.

Coming on Palm Sunday, when Christians mark the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, the bombings appeared designed to spread fear among Copts, who make up 10 percent of Egypt’s population.

They also raised security

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This image released by DreamWorks Animation shows characters Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, and Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin in a scene from the animated film, “The Boss Baby.”

‘Boss Baby,’ ‘Beauty’ outshine ‘Smurfs 3’ at box office

LOS ANGELES — The Smurfs are feeling a little blue this weekend. The third installment in Sony’s animated series, “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” made its box-office debut in third place, with $14 million — far behind family-friendly holdovers “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast,” according to studio estimates Sunday.

Featuring the voices of Demi Lovato and Joe Manganiello, “Smurfs,” which reportedly cost $60 million to make, has not charmed critics either. Its earnings were worse than the 2013 opening of “Smurfs 2,” which went on to gross $347.5 million worldwide despite a $17.5 million debut and a heftier $105 million price tag.

But the fate of the third “Smurfs” is not necessarily sealed, says ComScore’s senior media analyst, Paul Dergarabedian.

“There are other revenue streams for films like this,” Dergarabedian said, noting international profits and home video potential that could recoup production costs.

In first place, “The Boss Baby” added $26.3 million in its second weekend in theaters, bringing its North American total to $89.4 million. Sufficient buzz and the benefit of voice star Alec Baldwin’s popular portrayal of President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” likely helped the film succeed, Dergarabedian said.

Meanwhile, “Beauty and the Beast” earned $25 million to take second place at the box office. In four weeks, Disney’s live-action fairy tale has brought in $432.3 million domestically.

While the family films dominated, moviegoers had other options on a relatively quiet weekend. The

tepidly reviewed buddy comedy “Going in Style,” starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, opened in fourth place, with $12.5 million.

The faith-based drama “The Case for Christ” also launched with $3.9 million from 1,174 theaters.

In limited release, the Chris Evans drama “Gifted” took in $476,000 from 56 theaters, while the World War II drama “Their Finest” grossed $77,000 from four screens in New York and Los Angeles.

The relative quiet at the box office is ending soon. “The Fate of the Furious,” the eighth installment in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise, speeds into theaters next weekend, followed by “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” a few weeks later.

“There are a lot of box-office heavyweights looming on the horizon,” Dergarabedian said. (ap)

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SOFTER CHRISTIAN TARGET In Tanta, where many families buried their dead on Sunday, members of the Coptic community expressed anger at

Bombings of Egyptian Coptic churches

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks at a church north of Cairo and the cathedral of the Coptic Pope in Alexandria on Palm Sunday, prompting anger and fear among Christians and leading to troop deployments and the declaration of a three-month state of emergency.

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fears ahead of a visit to Cairo

by Roman Catholic Pope Francis planned for April 28-29.

Coptic Pope Tawadros, who was leading the mass in Alexandria’s Saint Mark’s Cathedral when the bomb exploded, was not harmed, the Interior Ministry said. The nationwide state of emergency declared by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and agreed by the cabinet on Monday is expected to be approved by parliament within seven days in order to remain in place.

“The armed forces and police will do what is necessary to confront the threats of terrorism and its financing,” the cabinet said in a statement.

Measures would be taken to “maintain security across the country, protect public and private property and the lives of citizens,” it said.

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Egyptians attend the funerals of victims of the Palm Sunday bombings at St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Monastery “Deir Mar Mina” in Alexandria, Egypt April 10, 2017.

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the lack of security, saying that despite warnings of an attack, police had not stepped up efforts to protect them. A senior police official told Reuters a bomb was discovered and disabled near the Tanta church about a week ago.

“That should have been an alarm or a warning that this place is targeted,” said 38-year-old Amira Maher.

“Especially Palm Sunday, a day when many people gather, more than any other time in the year... I don’t know how this happened.”

At Tanta University hospital morgue, desperate families were trying to get inside to search for loved ones. Security forces held them back to stop overcrowding, enraging the crowd.

“Why are you preventing us from entering now? Where were you when all this happened?” shouted one women looking for a relative. Some appeared in total shock, their faces pale and unmoving.

Others wept openly as women wailed in mourning.

Though Islamic State has long waged a low-level war against soldiers and police in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula for years, its stepped up assault on Christians in the mainland could turn a provincial insurgency into wider sectarian conflict.

On Sunday, the group warned of more attacks and boasted it had killed 80 people in three church bombings since December.

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