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Berlin film fest opens with Clooney -- and eye on refugees
BERLIN - George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when “Hail, Caesar!” opens the annual Berlin Film Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned showcase hopes to attract refugees as well as film fans this year. The festival that began in 1951 when Germany -- and Europe -- was recovering from a war that had uprooted millions of people is making an extra effort to welcome the latest wave of refugees who have fled war in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Refugees will be taken behind the scenes of the festival, some accompanied by NGO workers who are helping them to adjust to life in Germany, and there will be a refugee-staffed food truck serving up Mediterranean fare with the aid of a celebrity chef, the festival said in a statement. Dieter Kosslick, the festival’s director, told Reuters in an interview that without losing sight of its primary goal of presenting the best of world cinema, this year’s Berlinale is programmed in part to show why people become refugees. “If you lose your homeland you don’t lose it because you want to leave your house, you want to leave your garden, your flowers, your family,” Kosslick said. “You want
to be happy, and you are leaving because you are not happy and this is the way you can see the whole Berlinale.” Germany has taken in more than a million refugees over the past year, the largest number of any European country. One of the competition films, “Fuocoamare” (Fire at Sea) by director Gianfranco Rosi, whose “Sacro GRA” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, is a documentary about refugees piling up on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. “La Route d’Istanbul” (Road to Istanbul), in the festival’s Panorama programme, is a drama about a mother trying to rescue her daughter from Islamic State militants in Syria.
willing to marry her if the opportunity arose. His lawyers called him to testify in his own defense in the felony stalking case. He sent Paltrow 66 messages and packages between 2009 and 2015, but none of the recent correspondence included pornography. A judge has said the earlier messages could be important to understanding Paltrow’s fear of Soiu. Paltrow testified Monday she was afraid of Soiu and began crying when she expressed fears about her children’s safety. Deputy District Attorney Wendy Segall questioned why Paltrow would want to marry him after he had sent her so many lewd messages and she had to testify against him. “I was
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Jay Weissberg, a Europe-based critic for trade publication Variety, said it was no surprise that the Berlin festival would make refugees a theme at a time when Europe is wrestling with how to deal with the millions fleeing to its shores. “My problem with it basically ... is it just smacks a little bit too much of the Berlinale showing off its political correctness,” Weissberg said in an interview. “At the same time I want to say, ‘Why not?’Aren’t we acknowledging Syrians in Syria went to film festivals and now that they’re in Germany why aren’t we also trying to normalise their lives -and perhaps this is a way to do it.” Weissberg was more enthusiastic about the breakthrough this year for Arabic language films. Competition film “Inhebbek Hedi” (Hedi) is about a young Tunisian man about to be married who falls in love with a tourist guide. “Barakah yoqabil Barakah” (Barakah Meets Barakah), in the Forum strand, is described as a Saudi romantic comedy. (rtr)
trying to show I had changed and I had become a different person,” Soiu said. “I wanted to show a new face towards her.” Soiu said he didn’t want to scare the actress, but he was intent on her responding to him. “I wanted her to say flat out, ‘I don’t want to marry you,’ “ he said. “That way I would have a definite response from her.” He said he wrote to many public figures, including President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin offering counsel on world affairs and solutions to problems. He conceded that his notes to Paltrow were the only ones that expressed an interest in marriage. “Oh, no, I don’t want to marry
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After Galungan
Garbage Pile Up in Denpasar
Denpasar – The garbage on the street of Denpasar was piling up after Galungan Day. On Thursday, February 11, Denpasar Cleanliness and Gardening Department (DKP) stated that the garbage was around 3,000 cubic meters. The high number of garbage made it pilling up on the side of the street such as on A. Yani Utara, Seroja, Antasura and Hayam Wuruk Street.
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The members of the international jury for the upcoming 66th Berlinale International Film Festival pose during a photocall in Berlin, Germany, February 10, 2016. The members are (L-R): Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, British author Nick James, German actor Lars Eidinger, Jury President U.S. actress Meryl Streep, British actor Clive Owen, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska. The festival runs from February 11 until February 21 in the German capital.
Accused Paltrow stalker discusses desire to marry actress
LOS ANGELES — An Ohio man charged with stalking Gwyneth Paltrow testified Wednesday that he sent her dozens of messages in the hope she might want to marry him despite her testifying against him in a previous stalking case. Dante Soiu testified that he wanted his messages to show her unconditional love and friendship and that he had no animosity toward her over the earlier case, which sent him to a mental institution for several years. That case involved 500 messages, including sex toys and pornography, Soiu sent Paltrow in 1999 and 2000. Soiu told jurors he wanted to let Paltrow know he was available and
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Putin,” Soiu said. Soiu was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 in the previous case involving pornographic messages he sent to Paltrow. He was re-arrested last year after sending the actress new correspondence. He said he was addicted to pornography at the time but said he is now on medication and considers himself healed. The recent batch of letters described Soiu’s intention to marry the actress as well as a pair of earrings he sent her in 2009 as a Christmas gift, some secondhand clothes and a Weight Watchers cookbook. He has also sent her religious books, and forwarded her letters he has sent to President Barack Obama and actress
Angelina Jolie. One letter described Paltrow “bowing to death,” a reference the actress said she found disturbing. Soiu, a self-described born again Christian from Columbus, Ohio, said he was referencing spiritual, not physical death, in his letters. He said he hoped the Oscar winner would write him back if she wanted him to stop. “I wanted her to at least be a pen pal or at least say something,” Soiu said. Soiu testified he believed he had an understanding with Paltrow’s lawyer that he could write to the actress until he was told to stop. He conceded that he never spoke or corresponded with the lawyer to reach that agreement. (ap)
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A man is trying to find something that can be sold in the pile of garbage in Sudirman Street, Denpasar. The garbage is pilling up after Galungan Day
Most of the garbage was the left over from the ceremony on Galungan. The Head of DKP Denpasar, I Ketut Wisada said that the problem faced by his department was the increasing garbage during the holiday was also followed by the lack of personnel. Many of the DKLP personnel were asking a day off to celebrate Galungan. This condition made the garbage was taken to the final disposal place one step at a time. “There are also some problems with the trucks because 10 of them are being repaired. It makes us work longer,” he added. Wisada said that currently, they have 30 trucks to carry the garbage throughout the city. The number of garbage was increasing dramatically because the Hindus in Denpasar was celebrating Galungan and the leftover of the ceremony made it pilling up. Wisada explain that on daily basis, the garbage produces by the inhabitant of Denpasar are 2,500 through 2,700 cubic meter but during Galungan, it can increase up to 3,000 meter cubic.(kmb12)
Responding to Benoa Bay reclamation
Bugbug firmly rejects, Jasri still hesitates
Amlapur a — Vi l lages on the east coast of the Island of Bali begin to react against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. Other than the customary village of Ujung Hyang, Karangasem, similar rejection came from the Bugbug customary village. As one of the old villages in Karangasem, it expressly rejects
the Benoa Bay reclamation, while the people of Jasri still hesitate to determine their attitude. Chief of Bugbug customary village, Jero Wayan Mas Suyasa, said on Monday that God has created the island as a whole complete with its natural potential. He asked that investors should not try to change the Bali mainland with reclamation. Bali cannot be equated with advanced regions with reclamation
area. Balinese people are known to honor the sea, so that its sustainability should be maintained and not even covering up to 800 hectares. “God has created the Island of Bali in complete condition. Never make the nature of Bali unbalanced with reclamation,” said Mas Suyasa. He considered the rejection by the majority of Balinese people is a form of natural reaction that the nature of Bali rejects against such
a plan. Reclamation is very horrible for Bali, not only for the location of the reclamation, but also for the other parts, especially in the coastal territories due to disruption of natural balance of Bali. Abrasion will obviously threaten the eastern coast of Bali, especially Karangasem that has been damaged due to the impact of previous abrasion. Mas Suyasa admitted to be very concerned with the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. By
thinking more about the negative impact on the natural balance of Bali, the plan should be undone. “Obviously, our coastal residents are worried. But this is just a matter of process. Seeing the rejection of Balinese people, I have confidence that the reclamation cannot be realized,” he said. Bugbug Continued on page 2...
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He requested all parties to jointly maintain the sanctity of Bali. Development without direction indeed has become a challenge to Bali and it is difficult to be prevented when the leaders can no longer be trusted to maintain the integrity of Bali. He hoped there are leaders of Bali that can really listen to the aspirations of Balinese people, especially the customary people having started expressing their rejection. Previously, the rejection against the reclamation plan was expressed by chief of Ujung Hyang customary village, I Gusti Bagus Suteja. He said the damage to coastline at local village has been very severe. It has nearly exhausted, if it has not been immediately protected with revetment. Abrasion has eroded the land area along two kilometers, submerged the local Segara Temple, eliminated parking space of traditional boats as well as eliminated the venue of melasti and cremation
for the Hindu society. He said the in local government. ters, along the 33.3 kilometers are in meters), Seraya (5,000 meters), Buimpact of abrasion has occurred Both villages belong to the abra- damaged condition due to abrasion. nutan (7,500 meters), Amed (3,500 after the reclamation of Serangan sion-prone areas in Karangasem. It occurred in the entire coastline meters), Tulamben (2,500 meters) Island. Data on the coastal condition in the starting from Yeh Malet along 500 and Kubu (5,000 meters). As noted, Different from Bugbug village Karangasem Public Works Agency meters, Padangbai (1,000 meters), the most serious abrasion occurred and Ujung Hyang village, the show that the coastline of Karan- Ulakan (1,300 meters), Sengkidu at Bunutan village, Abang. Of the other coastal villages such as Jasri gasem reaches 85.017 kilometers (1,500 meters), Candidasa (2,000 total length of 12,232 meters, 7,500 chose to be undecided. Headman divided into 13 beaches. From the meters), Bugbug (1,379 meters), meters have experienced abrasion of Jasri, Nyoman Sutirtayasa, said coastline of about 85.017 kilome- Jasri (1,400 meters), Ujung (800 for years. (kmb31) on Monday (Feb. 8) his institution entirely handed over the process to local government. If the results of the environmental impact analysis has declared infeasible, the project is appropriately rejected. But, if feasible and having no effect for other coastal areas, then there is no reason for rejecting. When asked if the results of the environmental impact analysis made by the Udayana University have declared if this project has been unfit, Sutirtayasa did not dare to expressly reject it. He admitted that customary village assembly such as the MUDP (in the province), MMDP (district) and MADP (subdistrict) overshadowing the customary issues have not deterIBP/Budana mined their stance. Thus, he temporarily chose the ongoing process The fisherman in Bugbug, Karangasem is ready to go to the sea
Buleleng Museum dormant without development
Singaraja - A historian and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FIS) of the Undiksha Singaraja, Made Pageh, assessed that fostering the love and concern for historic heritages in Buleleng needs serious attention from various circles. Management of historical objects is considered to have not been maximal. Actually, many historical values are stored in it and they can educate young generations.
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Geopark Museum located in Kintamani, Bangli. As one of the museum, it is not properly manage so it cannot develop
“Not many people are indeed interested in the existence of the museum, unless the museum is maximally arranged and interesting to study,” said Pageh, Monday (Feb. 8). He said that the existence of the museum is now hampered by management factor between the North Bali Cultural Preservation Foundation (YPBBU) and the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency. He considered it need greater efforts to make sure the management of the museum and its contents. Activating the museum includes the writing of the history and the program involving the young generation. He hoped the Buleleng Museum will not be dormant too long. “I cannot speak too much if the museum is ignored like that, so that it is matter of time. Actually in terms of the potential of the museum, it has spacious land and can certainly be managed creatively. There is no breakthrough or development program, including historical writings. Environment of the Buleleng Museum can be made more attractive by taking advantage of it as educational center, venue of competition, provision of Wi-Fi internet access and shopping center and a variety of other textbooks,” said Pageh. (kmb34)
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Balinese Temple Ceremony
Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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out to fulfil their shopping desires accompanied by their own personal shopping Concierge, aka one of the resort’s Leisure Concierge team. This extravagant shopping trip comes with a fully stocked mini-bar on board the Kombi for those essential shopping breaks with the best music to groove to your beat. As the sun goes down, Seminyak’s cool factor inches up. Make a date for Twilight to Midnight, a memorable night on the town including dinner, drinks and clubbing at Seminyak’s trendiest nightspots. After a night of indulgence, there’s no better way to recalibrate than with Divine Healing, featuring a private session of yoga on the beach with the resort’s own yogi, followed by a private Balinese healing session performed at a nearby
temple. Alila Seminyak is also a great base for exploring the lush landscapes and cultural gems of this region, from Uluwatu Temple in the south and Tanah Lot Temple to the north, to the beautiful rice terraces that stretch as far as the eye can see. Guests can experience temple traditions hands-on at the 15th century Pura Petitenget sea temple that is situated next to the resort, learning to make offerings and experiencing the unique Balinese Melukat purification ritual. Adventurous spirits can hop on a bicycle and explore the surrounding countryside and villages. In Spice It Up, culinary traditions are uncovered at the local market with the Executive Chef, followed by time in the resort’s organic garden and a Balinese cooking class. Meanwhile, in Shaken & Stirred, guests get to practise the art of mixology in the resort’s groundbreaking Cocktail Lab. Through uniquely crafted experiences such as these, Alila Seminyak invites you to discover the many surprising sides to Seminyak while luxuriating within its oasis of sophistication and style... in true Alila fashion.
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International designers to explore ‘fashion utopia’ during LFW
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FILE New York Fashion Week Spring 2015. New York Fashion Week opens on Thursday with chilly weather and perhaps an even chillier prospect: defining the purpose of the shows as brands begin trying fresh ways to engage customers.
New York’s Fashion Week opens amid questions about shows’ future
NEW YORK - New York Fashion Week opens on Thursday with chilly weather and perhaps an even chillier prospect: defining the purpose of the shows as brands begin trying fresh ways to engage customers. This season, the once-exclusive event will occupy a middle ground between invitation-only and fashion-for-all, with a mix of shows open solely to the well-connected as well as opportunities for the public to witness the spectacle, if only by smartphone live-stream. “The traditional structure of Fashion Week, particularly in New York, has been shifting for the past few seasons,” said Alexandra Ilyashov, a fashion editor at the lifestyle website Refinery29. The industry has begun to “seriously reevaluate the future of the fashion show” in an increasingly digital world, she said. More than 230,000 people attend the New York events in February to see the designs for the coming fall and in September,
for spring fashion. In recent years, the fashion shows, big-spending celebrity clients and lavish parties have brought $887 million annually to the local economy, according to the New York City Economic Development Corp. But Fashion Week may be transitioning from an exclusive fete for critics and buyers to a weeklong gathering for designers to engage consumers directly. “Who is Fashion Week for?” queried a Vogue article this week, positing that the bi-annual ritual now has two audiences. One is fashion editors and buyers planning ahead for their spreads and inventories. The other is consumers, who want in on the cultural theater and do not want to wait the fashion
calendar’s six months to get the new styles they see in Instagram and Twitter captures of catwalks. “That’s what’s on everyone’s minds,” said Rickie De Sole, W magazine’s fashion market and accessories director. “Each brand is figuring out what works for them.” Designer Tom Ford canceled his February show last week to display his fall collection in September, when it will be seasonally appropriate and available immediately for purchase. Designer Rebecca Minkoff has said she will show her spring line now. This season’s Fashion Week also features the debut of Kanye West’s “Waves” music album and Yeezee Season Three fashion line, and Rihanna’s designs for active wear maker Puma, a first for the pop star. Fashion Week stalwarts Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein will close the event on Feb. 18. (rtr)
LONDON-London Fashion Week will be shining the spotlight on international designers this month with an exhibition titled “Fashion Utopias.” The show will see emerging fashion designers from 24 countries create fashion installations at the city’s Somerset House. The building’s west wing will be transformed into a Utopian terrain, designed by Hatty Ellis Coward, where an emerging generation of international designers and curators will present their vision of the future. Over 14 galleries, 13 of which will represent a country, designers will unveil creations on a theme that honors the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s inspirational text, “Utopia.” There will be one group installation, “Next in Line”, which will feature designers from 11 more nations. It is the fifth annual edition of the British Council and the British Fashion Council’s International Fashion Showcase (IFS) initiative, which explores the link between fashion and contemporary culture. Nationalities represented in the
2016 exhibition include Austria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia, Lebanon, Korea, Portugal, Philippines, Nigeria, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Argentina, Bahrain, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates will feature in the Next in Line installation. Highlights are set to include Guatemala’s installation, where each designer will create miniature versions of their designs as traditional worry dolls, and Indonesia, where each designer will represent an essential element -- earth, fire, water and wind. Each designer from Lebanon will create a customized piece for IFS in the unifying shade of blue, while Lagos Fashion and Design Week will curate an installation of Nigerian menswear and womenswear that imagines the creative energy of designers as a cosmic bang. Fashion Utopias will run February 19 - 23. A winning Country and Designer, as well as a “Curator Award” sponsored by mannequin creator Bonaveri, will be announced on February 21 during London Fashion Week. (IBP/net)
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Musicians Beck (L), Justin Bieber (C) and Joan Jett watch the Saint Laurent fall collection during a fashion show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2016.
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Well in operation
Paksebali’s water crisis overcome by villagers
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Hundreds of roasted suckling pig filled in the courtyard of the Dalem Temple of Timbrah, Pertima, Karangasem, on Monday (Feb. 8).
Usaba Dalem, residents deliver hundreds of roasted suckling pigs
AMLAPURA- Hundreds of roasted suckling pig filled in the courtyard of the Dalem Temple of Timbrah, Pertima, Karangasem, on Monday (Feb. 8). This unusual sight occurred after all the residents presented their offerings of roasted suckling pig for the occasion of a usaba dalem ritual, a local tradition that is still practiced to this day. preserved until now. Local community leader, I Nengah Sudarsa, said on Monday (Feb. 8) that the usaba dalem ritual is held every year, precisely on the new moon of the eighth month in Balinese calendar. ìUsaba dalem is essentially a delivering of young animal sacrifices, in order to neutralize evil spirits and achieve peace, explained Sudarsa. This particular form of animal sacrifice (caru) is Timrah village’s way to balance the microcosm and the macrocosm and bring prosperity and well-being to the people of Timrha. The ritual is derived from the story of Shiva Purana wherein the chapter entitled It has Dhurga Mahisasura Mardhini Goddess Durga is victorious in her fight against an ogre who has taken the form of a cow or buffalo. today this historic event seres as a reminder to humankind to avoid owning animals. The Usaba dalem ritual held in the old village of Timrah is distinct from other such rituals held in other villages in Bali. the tradition of this village, which has taken place since long ago, requires every family to prepare a roasted suckling pig or roasted duck as well as banuyan as
an offering. With about 800 families in the village, this means that the Dalem Temple becomes filled with hundreds of roasted suckling pig offerings. Sudarsa who is also a legislator in the Karangasem House of Representatives, confirmed that local people believe that the offerings in the form of roasted suckling pig symbolize fertility and prosperity. Apart from conducting the ritual for the sake of maintain gin tradition alone, this annual ritual is also held in order to maintain harmony, fertility and welfare. The Usaba dalem ritual expresses sincerity and reminds people to always loving one another. If there are people who cannot deliver such offerings -whether because they are in cuntaka (temporarily spiritually impure) or for other reasons, the other villages will share their roasted suckling pig meat with them. ìThese qualities continue to grow among our residents for generations,î said this former Regional Secretary of Karangasem. Not only is the meat shared with neighbors, but it is also distributed to relatives in neighbouring villages or in other areas. Sudarsa hopes that the harmony of every ritual at Timbrah customary village can be maintained and developed in the direction of positive things. Behind the usaba dalem ritual, he said, there are religious teachings, values of sincerity, compassion and the spirit of helping others in social life. (kmb31)
SEMARAPURA - A testing well and its equipment worth IDR 900 million, that was allocated through the Klungkung regional budget, is finally in operation. The well project, that began in September 2015, can now provide water to some 600 residents of Paksebali village, who had previously had no access to clean water in the dry season. Headman of Paksebali, Putu Ariadi, explained that the 600 members of his community used to rely on water from the village well that could only be pumped up every four days in rotation because the well does not have enough water to meet the needs of all the villagers at once. Now that this village-owned waterworks well is operational, the people of Paksebali can have access to water everyday. After the well testing, the village-owned waterworks is now able to distribute as much as 10 litters of water per second, said Ariadi. ìNow, with the completion and consecration of this project, the village
waterworks is ready to operate and will pump water every day,î said Ariadi on Monday (Feb. 8), adding that the water tariff has been set at IDR 1,200 per cubic meter. Coinciding with the new moon in the eighth month of Balinese calendar (Feb. 7), village authorities held mecaru, melaspas, mendem pedagingan and mendak toya rituals as expressions of gratitude for the gift of water that has has come to the community. These rituals were attended by the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, accompanied by legislator of Dawan, constituency representative Anak Agung Sayang and were witnessed
by local residents. Regent Suwirta had a taste of the water from the artesian well that was built with assistance from the Klunkung district government. The regent asked the headman and residents of Paksebali to take full advantage of the village waterworks and to manage it together through the village-owned enterprise (BUMDES). The regent also conveyed his appreciation for the efforts of headman Putu Ariadi in managing and building-up Paksebali village, that has already started to show good results. ìI would like to acknowledge Paksebali’s that our headman has been able to build-up and organize the appearance of his village. Besides, he has also been diligent in communicating with me about his programs and ideas. Hopefully, others can follow his footsteps,î said Regent Suwirta. (dwa)
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A testing well and its equipment worth IDR 900 million, that was allocated through the Klungkung regional budget, is finally in operation.
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Bali starling to become export commodity
NEGARA - Bali starlings (Leucopsar rothschildi) are starting to be bred in captivity with the goal of exporting this rare bird, declared the Bambang Dahono Aji, Directorate General of Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems (KSDAE) for the Ministry of Forestry and the Environment, during a discussion held for the empowerment of breeders whose currently amount to hundred or so people. Dahono Aji, when met recently, said that 2013 Minister of Forestry regulations on wildlife breeding make it easier for breeders to raise these birds in captivity. According to the Directorate General records, there are some 300 Bali starling breeders outside of Bali, that serve to curb the poaching of Bali starlings from their native land. The sale of Bali starlings must be down in compliance with procedures that involve official certificates of captive breeding. There are some Bali starling breeders in Bali as well, including breeders in Jembrana West Bali the natural habitat of this beautiful bird. In oder to improve the economic prospects these breeders, the directorate general is fighting to have Bali starlings - bred in captivity, pierce the international export market. The condition of the wold birds however poses an obstacle to this endeavour. the Bali starling - that is Bali’s mascot, is already considered as a rare bird whose natural habitat (the West Bali National Park or TNBB) is now only home to some 57 bali starlings. it is said that the declingin number of birds is due to the wild predators. Directorate general explained that they are designing large breeding cages for two locations; Tegal Bunder and Brumbun Bay. ìPeople can come and see the birds first hand. Nowadays is hard to catch sight of these birds in the wild because there are so few of them left,î he added. According of Bali Post notes, hundreds of birds have been released into their native habitat since 2009. According to head of the TNBB, Tedi Sutedi, the national park has been focusing on maintaining the bird population -by releasing birds into their native habitat since 2013. Of the 57 birds wild birds, Suteji said that some of have been successful at reproducing but most of TNBB’s forest area has extreme climate conditions, especially int eh seasonal forest, so when the dry season comes, birds will naturally forage outside this territory. (kmb26)
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UN warns of hunger in Homs as Syrian offensive strands 120,000
GENEVA - A military offensive by Syrian government and allied forces has cut off 120,000 people in the northern Homs governorate since mid-January, worsening hunger and killing patients unable to get to medical care, a U.N. report said on Thursday. “There are reports of increasingly acute shortages of food, basic commodities, medical items and fuel in the area. With the irregular supply routes used until mid-January now cut off, food items that are still available are now being sold at much higher prices,” said the report by the U.N. humanitarian office.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been declared endemic in the regency of Badung as of early 2016.
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Dengue fever: endemic in Badung
MANGUPURA- Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been declared endemic in the regency of Badung as of early 2016. The epidemic has continued to increase sharply since January, with 92 cases of dengue reported so far. Just three months ago there were only 40 reported cases (October saw 38 cases, August saw 36 and in DEcember there were also 36 reported cases. Of the six subdistricts in Badung, the largest number of dengue cases occurred in South Kuta subdistrict where Badung tourism recorded 44 cases of dengue, followed by Mengwi with 28 cases, Abiansemal with 10 cases, 5 cases in North Kuta, 4 in Petang and one in Kuta. South Kuta subdistrict head, Wayan Wirya, said the high incidence dengue cases in South Kuta is due to the many new housing complexes that have gone up recently ìIn South Kuta there are many housing complexes. However, not all
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housing complexes subscribe to have their domestic waste disposed of,î said Wayan Wirya, on Monday (Feb. 8). According to Wirya, the lack of awareness about the need to keep up environmental sanitation standards is one of the causes of dengue fever spreading. ìWeíve often given out information of the matter to hamlet chiefs and headmenî he said. Wirya added that throughout the rainy season until the end of Febuary), there is the risk of the number of dengue cases rising sharply. ìEssentially, we must keep
ourselves safe and be more vigilant,î he said. Chief of the Badung Health Agency, Gede Putra Suteja, agreed that lack of hygiene is the main cause and added that the number of cases of dengue in Badung is likely to go up given that the rainy season has only just started. ìAs we reach the peak of the rainy season, the number of dengue cases tends to shoot up into the hundreds. The largest number of dengue cases tend to be reported in April and May,î he said. Nevertheless, he could not confirm whether an serious outbreak will occur depite the rising figures. An outbreak is determined based on a significant increase in the number of cases for the same period of the previous year.(kmb27)
Govt to build a circuit for minimizing reckless speeding in Buleleng
SINGARAJA - Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, planned to minimize reckless speeding among younger generations by building a motor racing circuit. He did it because he is concerned with the minimal creativity space for younger generations to express their hobby. “Originally we want to build it, but because it lies in the block of the airport area, we then delay it beforehand. I personally agree to develop the circuit so as to avoid them from reckless speeding on the streets,” said the regent from Banyuatis
village, recently. He hoped the circuit development plan will be capable of suppressing juvenile delinquency using motorcycle as a means of speeding. Lately, he noticed that a lot of motorcycles are overhauled for speeding on public roads at Saturday night. “Hopefully, next year we can build it because the funds will be adequately available. However, we cannot ascertain yet the land area so far,” he said. After the Bali provincial games in Buleleng, the government plans
to allocate budget for maintenance of equipment and sports facilities through funds taken from the Buleleng Education Agency. Next fund will be further coordinated by government. “We are still financing the management this year from the Education Agency because it needs large amount of fund. In the future, we will manage it well because this land status is still borrowing to use where it can later sell admission ticket or be leased for training athletes,” he concluded. (kmb34)
Bread prices are already 10 times higher than in the city of Homs, and unaffordable for most families. Northern Homs governorate is mostly farming land, but the fields yield little in winter and hunger is
expected to spike in the next two weeks, the report said. Basic medical supplies are also in short supply, the report said, noting dialysis patients in rural Homs were unable to access lifesaving treatment and
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Still image taken from aerial footage released by Russia’s Defence Ministry on February 11, 2016, shows airstrikes, carried out by the country’s air force and hitting what the Defence Ministry says were Islamic State oil storage facilities, at an unknown location in Syria.
14 out of 34 cancer patients in the area had reportedly died due to lack of medical care. The last U.N. aid convoy reached rural northern Homs in October 2015. The U.N. has been trying to send additional supplies since then, but has been unable to get approval. The two enclaves are controlled by opposition groups and lie between the cities of Homs and Hama in a pocket of land close to Syria’s north-south highway -- which links most of its main cities -- and the Mediterranean provinces that are the homeland of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority. There are 90,000 people in one enclave around the towns of Rastan and Talbiseh and a further 30,000 in another around Houla. The severing of the supply lines has stopped U.N. food supplies reaching the enclaves, where 12.7 percent of children and 25 percent of pregnant women are suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, much higher than the national average of 4.9 percent, the U.N. said. The area has been targeted by airstrikes and shelling since the end of October. There has been no electricity since then, and no pumped drinking water in Rastan and Talbiseh. (rtr)
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China warns on South China Sea as U.S., India consider patrols
BEIJING - China on Thursday responded to a Reuters report that the U.S. and India are discussing joint naval patrols in the disputed South China Sea, warning that interference from countries outside the region threatens peace and stability. “No cooperation between any countries should be directed at a third party,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an emailed statement to Reuters, in response to a request for comment on the report published on Wednesday. “Countries from outside the area must stop pushing forward the militarisation of the South China Sea, cease endangering the sovereignty and national security of littoral countries in the name of ‘freedom of navigation’ and harming the peace and stability of the region.” The United States wants its regional allies and other Asian nations to adopt a more united stance against China over the South China Sea, where tension has spiked since China’s construction of seven islands in the Spratly archipelago. China lays claim to most of the South China Sea, while Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims. A U.S. defence official told Reuters this week the United States and India had held talks about joint naval patrols that could include the South China Sea. The Indian navy has never carried out joint patrols with another country and a navy spokesman told Reuters there was no change in the government’s policy of only joining an international military effort under the U.N. flag. Neither the United States nor India have claims to the area, but the United States says it is concerned about shipping lanes running through the South China Sea, which carry an estimated $5 trillion of trade every year. Hong urged caution. “We hope that the relevant parties speak and act with caution, refrain from intervening in the South China Sea issue, and especially avoid being manipulated by certain countries and ultimately harming their own interests.” China illustrates its claim to almost the entire South China Sea with a “nine-dashed line” on maps, that loops far to the south, with sections far closer to the coasts of countries like the Philippines and Vietnam than to its shores. China’s more assertive claim has included dredging to build up islands and the construction of air fields and shipping facilities on some reefs. It recently launched flights to one artificial island. The United States has responded by sending navy ships close to the islands China claims. China has condemned that as provocative. India has a long-running land border dispute with China, and has stepped up its naval presence far beyond the Indian Ocean in recent years, deploying a ship to the South China Sea almost constantly, an Indian navy commander said. (rtr)
Auschwitz guard, 94, goes on trial in Germany
DETMOLD - A 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz lowered his eyes as he arrived at a German court on Thursday to be tried as an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people in what is likely to be one of the last few Nazi war crimes trials. Reinhold Hanning was 20 years old in 1942 when he started serving as a Waffen SS guard at the death camp in occupied Poland, where more than 1.1 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. There was a heavy police presence around the court in the western town of Detmold as Hanning walked in, wearing glasses and a dark brown
tweed jacket and looking at the ground, for a session limited to just two hours due to his age. Prosecutors said Hanning had joined the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the Nazi party, voluntarily at the age of 18 and fought in eastern Europe during the early stages of World War Two before being transferred to Auschwitz in January 1942. Accused by the prosecutor’s office in Dortmund as well as by 38 joint plaintiffs from Hungary, Israel, Canada, Britain, the United States and Germany, Hanning will hear the testimony of former camp inmates in court.
One of them is Erna de Vries, who was deported to Auschwitz along with her mother in 1943, at the age of 23. Considered a “Jewish crossbreed” as her father was Protestant, she was saved from the gas chamber and transferred to a labour camp. “I survived, but to this day I don’t know exactly how my mother was killed,” she told Reuters ahead of the trial. “The last thing she said to me was: ‘You will survive and explain what happened to us.’ “I am not hateful but it somehow feels like justice to see this man, who was working there when my mother died, on trial.” (rtr)
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A USS Boxer LHD travels at an offshore location in Goa in this October 29, 2006 file photo. The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a U.S. defence official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger Beijing, which claims most of the waterway.
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PAJU - North Korea said it was kicking out all South Koreans from the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone on Thursday, calling the South’s move to suspend operations, in retaliation for Sunday’s rocket launch by the North, a “declaration of war”. ate voted unanimously in favour of tougher sanctions. North Korea ordered South Koreans out of the zone by late afternoon, forbidding them to take anything other than personal belongings, KCNA said. South Korea said after the North’s announcement that its top priority was the safe return of all of its people. Halting activity at the park, where 124 South Korean companies employed about 55,000 North Koreans, cuts the last significant vestige of North-South cooperation - a rare opportunity for Koreans divided by the 1950-53 war to interact on a daily basis. North Korean workers were given a taste of life in the South at the complex, about 54 km (34 miles) northwest of Seoul, including snack foods like Choco Pies and toiletries that were resold as luxury items in the North. They also rubbed shoulders with their managers from South Korea. Supporters of the project said that kind of contact was important in promoting inter-Korean understanding, despite concerns that Pyongyang might have used proceeds from Kaesong to help fund its nuclear and missile programmes. RISKS AND REWARDS Except for Kaesong, both countries
forbid their citizens from communicating with each other across the world’s most fortified frontier. “We piled up instant noodles, bread and drinks in our warehouse so North Korean workers could come here and eat freely,” said Lee Jong-ku, who runs a firm that installs electrical equipment for apparel factories in Kaesong. “We don’t mind them eating our food, because we only care about them working hard.” For the North, the revenue opportunity from Kaesong - $110 million in wages and fees in 2015 - was deemed worth the risk of exposing its workers to influences from the prosperous South. In recent years, North Koreans have had increasing access to contraband media, exposing them to life in the South and China. Still, Pyongyang took precautions to ensure the workers it hand-picked for the complex had minimal contact with their South Korean managers that could be potentially subversive. “These North Korean workers are strongly armed ideologically,” said Koo Ja-ick, who was waiting on the south side of the border on his way to Kaesong, where he has worked at an apparel company for the past four years. “They never act individually. They always work and move in a group of
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The Ngesanga desa or ngesanga ketipat was held on Monday (Feb. 8) at Subagan customary village, Karangasem.
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A North Korean employee works in a factory of a South Korean company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North Korea from the heavily fortified border in this December 19, 2013 file photo. two, even manager-level people do so. They never go to the bathroom by themselves - always in groups,” he said. The average wage for North Korean workers at Kaesong was roughly $160 a month, paid to a state management company. The workers received about 20 percent of that in coupons and North Korean currency, said Cho Bong-hyun, who heads research on North Korea’s economy at IBK Bank in Seoul. A South Korean government official involved in North Korea policy
said it was difficult to see how operations could be resumed anytime soon at Kaesong, which opened in 2005. Shares of several leading companies in the Kaesong zone plunged in Thursday trading, falling by nearly 10 percent or more. Defence shares, on the other hand, performed strongly. Despite volatile North-South relations over the years, Kaesong had been shut only once before, for five months in 2013, amid heightened tensions following its third nuclear test. Its future had often seemed uncertain over the past decade.(rtr)
IMF chief warns Ukraine over slow pace of reform
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Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) attends the session “The Global Economic Outlook” during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 23, 2016.
MOSCOW — The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Ukraine on Wednesday that the organization would be unable to keep supporting the country financially if it doesn’t step up its reform efforts. Ukraine relies on funding from the IMF and international donors as it battles deep economic problems, in large part resulting from the conflict in the country’s east, which has meant the loss of much industrial capacity. The economy shrank by more than 10 percent last year. “Without a substantial new effort to invigorate governance reforms and fight corruption, it is hard to see how the IMF-supported program can continue and be successful,” Christine Lagarde said in a statement. “Ukraine risks a return to the pattern of failed economic policies that has plagued
its recent history.” Lagarde also called on the government to cut “the influence of vested interests in policymaking.” Ukraine is still waiting for the IMF to provide an installment of funding that has been delayed since October amid disputes over the budget. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke to Lagarde by telephone on Wednesday and promised that Ukraine would continue reforms despite current tensions between his government and the parliament, according to a statement from his office. Poroshenko and Lagarde “agreed to elaborate a roadmap of the toppriority reforms that will give a boost to Ukraine-IMF relations,” the statement said. Last week, Ukrainian Economy
Minister Aivaras Abromavicius resigned, saying his reform efforts had been blocked by government colleagues and that corrupt figures were trying to gain control of state funds. The Lithuania-born former investment banker, who was a leading voice for reforms, told The Associated Press recently that he hoped his departure would serve as a “cold shower” for the government. “We are either two steps away from a break-through or we are two steps away from a breakdown,” he added. The IMF last year agreed to provide a total of $17.5 billion in loans to Ukraine to prop up its fragile economy, as part of a total $40 billion package from various international sources and debt renegotiation. The conditions for the IMF aid include sharp spending cuts.(ap)
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North Korea says South’s pulling out of industrial zone “declaration of war” The North declared the industrial park, run by the rivals as a symbol of cooperation for more than a decade, a military control zone, the agency that handles its ties with Seoul said, according to the official KCNA news agency. Dozens of South Korean trucks were already returning across the border earlier in the day, laden with goods and equipment, after the South said it was pulling out. “Unpardonable is the puppet group’s act of totally suspending the operation in (Kaesong), finding fault with the DPRK’s H-bomb test and launch of a satellite,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to South Korea. Isolated North Korea regularly dismisses the South as a puppet of the United States and just as regularly accuses both of acts of war against it. DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. North Korea tested what it said was a hydrogen bomb on Jan. 6 and on Sunday launched a rocket, putting a satellite into orbit. The United States, Japan and South Korea said Sunday’s launch was a ballistic missile test, and like last month’s nuclear test, a violation of U.N. resolutions. The U.S. Sen-
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Nyabung and Ngesanga Ketipat held at Subagan
Amlapura —Ngesanga desa or ngesanga ketipat was held on Monday (Feb. 8) at Subagan customary village, Karangasem. The peak of the Tawur Sasih Kawulu (animal sacrifice) was held on the day before, Sunday (Feb. 7). The tawur ritual is characterized by ngaturang pecaruan aiming to neutralize bhutakala or evil spirits before organizing the ngesanga desa sasih kawulu. Before saying prayers to ancestral spirits and deities, the bhutakala is neutralized in order to maintain the balance so they are not interfere with and the rural areas are safe. “Peak of the ngesanga desa is held on Monday afternoon marked with joint worship at Bale Agung Temple,” said Putu Toya, local chief of customary village. Aside from taking place solemnly, Putu Toya said the ngesanga ketipat at the village is quite unique where generally the offerings are in the form of ketipat (rice bag). Worship by means of offerings is made in each shrine at the Desa Temple or merajan shrine by means of rice bag, fried grated coconut, bean, anchovies, eggs and others. After praying at each shrine, each household still having a family member who died but has not been cremated also puts food offerings at eastern pavilion. After that, every resident worships in front of the rice bag offerings pursuant to the number of each
urip (day of birth). For example, people who were born in the panca wara (five-day week) of Umanis, it has urip 5 and the offerings in use contains five rice bags, while those born on Paing will have urip 9 and the rice bag offerings will consist of nine pieces. Chief of Subagan customary village, Putu Toya, conveyed that pacifying pecaruan or animal sacrifice is held at catus pata (central intersection) officiated over by priest of the Desa Temple. Earlier, on Sunday morning (Feb. 7) villagers came to pay devotional work or ngayah started by cutting the meat of sacrificial animal. The largest animal in use is castrated bull. In addition, it also used flawless dogs, black piglet, chicken and duck of various colors. People are not allowed to do cockfighting (tajen) and slaughter animals for 14 days starting from Monday (Jan. 25). Castrated bull used for the need of caru, said Putu Toya, has been prepared from the beginning. In the past, he said, it was very difficult to find castrated cattle and people even once looked for to Jimbaran
in South Kuta. Currently, due to increasingly difficult to find the castrated bull, local village must prepare itself. It is then maintained on village land and bathed as prepared for the animal sacrifice. “In the past, there was a cow for sacrifice but not maintained properly put into a less decent cowshed, so that it escaped. It was eventually found in front of a temple near the intersection of Subagan,” he said. After that, cows and other animals used for caru are always treated well. Then, nyabung is the activity where the village youths tie their head with checkered fabrics and chase the animal at the southern and northern edge of the village area. The animals are raised freely without being tied or put into cage by residents in the region. Then, the animals caught like a chicken is then slaughtered and its blood is spilled. Putu Toya added that the meaning of nyabung is to demonstrate a genuine animal sacrifice of residents having been raised freely. It is said the tradition has existed from time immemorial inherited through generations of the local village. When the period of ngempet rah-rah ends, it is marked by the collapse of cattle as a caru means to be slaughtered. (013)
Mangupura —Bali becomes a destination for Chinese travelers on Lunar New Year in February 2016. Garuda Indonesia has received 65 charter flights carrying 23,000 Chinese travelers to Bali from 11 cities. Other than Garuda Indonesia, many other airlines are also carrying Chinese travelers. Bali has becomes a favorite destination of the country because there are approximately 1.14 million Chinese travelers coming to Bali every year. Considering on the celebration of the Chinese New Year, the weather in Beijing and Heilongjiang Province is still cold at minus 15 degrees Celsius, they prefer to celebrate the New Year in warmer regions. “Indonesia, especially Bali, is the most ideal destination to celebrate the Lunar New Year,” said Hari Untoro, the expert staff of the minister in the field of multiculture, Sunday (Feb. 7), in the celebration of the Lunar Festival at Harris Hotel Sunset Road. It can be seen from the largest number of tourist visit which is from Heilongjiang Province reaching 1,000 travelers followed by Beijing with 500 travelers. “We expect these days there are 400 foreign travelers and on February 9 there will be around 1,400 in Hong Kong Garden,” he said. Minister of Tourism targeted 1.7 million travelers to come to Indonesia in 2016, while the target until the end of 2019 reaches 2 million Chinese travelers. “And
this February should reach 200,000 visits,” he affirmed. Of course, Bali will become the target of Chinese travelers considering they love white sandy beaches and clear blue skies. Although the Australian travelers are the highest number of visits to Bali and Chinese travelers are ranked second, the Ministry of Tourism is targeting Chinese travelers to Indonesia can beat the number of Chinese tourist visit to neighboring countries. “We expect it can be in the first place later on,” he said. He dismissed the length of stay of foreign travelers from China is under three days. “There are some, I think they are staying for quite a long time,” he said. According to him, Chinese travelers can stay longer than three days even a week. Besides, their spending can reach USD 1,200 each. “We need to improve this,” he said. In addition to setting up various events during holidays, Ministry of Tourism also provides visa-free facility to smoothen the Chinese travelers to Indonesia and set up 6,000 souvenirs for foreign travelers. “They can be ambassadors of Indonesian tourism for their community in the country. They will tell about Balinese hospitality due to the beauty of the Island of the Gods and the warmth of Balinese culture. These will be positive viral reverberating throughout China,” he said. (kmb24)
Surfing, one of the activities attract tourist in Bali
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German train crash investigators focus on signal controller -source
BERLIN - German prosecutors and police investigating a head-on train crash in Bavaria that killed ten people are focusing on the actions of a signal controller, a source involved in the inquiry told Reuters on Wednesday. However, investigators said it was too early to speculate on the cause and that they have recovered two of three black boxes from the two passenger trains that collided at peak commuter time on Tuesday morning. “The investigations are focusing on the controller,” said the source, who declined to be named. The single track stretch was opened for both trains, the source said. The source did not name the controller. Reuters was unable to determine the identity of the controller or what actions were under scrutiny. In addition, Reuters could not deter-
mine if other individuals were also under scrutiny. A spokeswoman at state-run railway, Deutsche Bahn, which is responsible for the track, said the company was working with investigating authorities. “We do not want to pre-empt the results of the investigation,” she said. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, echoing statements from investigators, said that it was too early to identify the cause. “We have no knowledge whether this was down to human failure or a technical problem,”
he said. Cooperating closely with investigators, salvage workers and criminal police were combing the site on Wednesday and working to recover the carriages that were lying on their side in the wooded area with a river on one side of the track. The trains, carrying about 100 people in all, crashed at high speed on a 6 km (four-mile) stretch of track between the spa town of Bad Aibling and Kolbermoor, near the Austrian border. The trains and track were fitted with an automatic brake system that was introduced across Germany after 10 people died near the eastern city of Magdeburg in 2011 when a train driver drove through two red signals. (rtr)
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Two crashed trains are light up by spotlights near Bad Aibling in southwestern Germany, February 9, 2016. Several people died after two trains collided in the southern German state of Bavaria on Tuesday, a police spokesman said, adding about 100 people were also injured.
Drunk Chinese man kicks elevator doors in and falls down its shaft
CHINA-What was supposed to be a fun karaoke night out turned into a harrowing tumble for a 24-year-old man from Hangzhou, China, when he accidentally fell down an elevator shaft after kicking its doors in. Identified only as Yang, the inebriated man was caught on security cam footage getting into a tussle with a friend outside of a KTV lounge before launching into
an airborne flying kick towards the elevator’s metal doors. As a result, one of the doors broke off its hinge and came loose, reported Sina. While turning back to survey the damage he had caused, Yang took a step forward and to the horror of onlookers, fell through the broken door and down the elevator shaft. Four floors down to be exact. Following the incident, staff
from the KTV lounge immediately called the police and Yang was rushed to a nearby hospital. Fortunately for Yang, he survived the fall and is now recovering from a broken left leg. Chinese reports quoted Yang’s uncle, who said he works at a local restaurant and had patronised the KTV lounge with his colleagues after work to celebrate the Lunar New Year. (IBP/net)
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Narcotics agency to charge illegal drug traffickers with money laundering
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A boat used by refugees and migrants to travel across the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast in the Greek island of Lesbos is seen at a beach in this November 21, 2015 file photo. NATO has agreed to start a mission in the Aegean Sea to help slow refugee flows and to stop people smugglers, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on February 11, 2016.
Turkey’s Erdogan warns patience will run out on Syria
ANKARA - Turkey’s patience may run out over the crisis in Syria and it could be forced to take action, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, calling on the United Nations to do more to prevent what he said was “ethnic cleansing” in the country. Erdogan accused the United Nations of insincerity in calling on Turkey to do more to help Syrian refugees instead of taking action to prevent the bloodshed in its southern neighbour. Russian war planes have been bombing around the Syrian city of Aleppo in support of a Syrian government offensive to recapture the city, sending tens of thousands of people fleeing to the Turkish border. “There is a chance the new wave of refugees will reach 600,000 if air strikes continue. We are making preparations for it,” Erdogan said in a speech to a business forum in Ankara. “We will show patience up to a point and then we’ll do what’s necessary. Our buses and planes are not waiting there in vain,” he said, adding that Turkey had information that Iran-backed forces in Syria were carrying out “merciless massacres”. Turkey, already home to more than 2.6 million Syrian refugees, has long pushed for the
creation of a safe zone in northern Syria to protect displaced civilians without bringing them over the border into Turkey. The proposal has so far gained little traction with Washington or NATO allies who fear it would require an internationally patrolled no-fly zone which could put them in direct confrontation with Assad and his allies. Erdogan said the Syrian crisis could not be resolved without safe zones, and said that ways of keeping Syrians in their country needed to be sought. He also said he had previously told the European Union’s two top officials, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, that the time could come when Turkey would open the gates for migrants to travel to Europe. “In the past we have stopped people at the gates to Europe, in Edirne we stopped their buses. This happens once or twice, and then we’ll open the gates and wish them a safe journey, that’s what I said,” he said on Thursday. A Greek news website said on Monday that Erdogan, in a meeting in November with Juncker and Tusk, had threatened to flood Europe with migrants if EU leaders did not offer a better deal to help Turkey manage the refugee crisis. (rtr)
TANGGERANG - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said it will use the money laundering law to charge drug trafficking suspects. “All drug trafficking suspects would be charged with money laundering,” BNN Chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said here on Wednesday. Budi said the use of the money laundering law against drug traffickers is in a bid to stamp out drug trafficking from the country. All drug traffickers are members of international syndicates, and they still could control illegal drug trade even from their prison cells as they
have a lot of money, he said. Therefore, the money laundering law is needed to charge drug suspects, he added. “All their assets should be confiscated that they have no power to control trade outside their prison cells,” he said. Meanwhile, a woman suspect, identified, as SL, told her investigators that she received an order from a drug convict, a Nigerian, who is serving jail term in a Jakarta prison to commit the illicit trade. SL and two friends were arrested in Pinang, Kota Tangerang in possession of 13.7 kilograms of methamphetamine. (ant)
Ten Indonesians injured in Taiwan`s earthquake: Minister
JAKARTA - At least ten Indonesian nationals were injured in Taiwan when a powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale shook southern Taiwan early Saturday morning (Feb 6). “Representatives from the Indonesian Trade and Economic Office (KDEI) in Taipei have gone to the quake-hit area in Tainan district to record the number of Indonesian victims. The KDEI continues to coordinate with relevant ministries about the number of victims,” Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi said here on Wednesday. The minister will be receiving updates on the number of victims four times a day. The KDEI has opened a command post, located at Hua Street No 42-2, North District, Tainan City. Its telephone number is:
+886973947516. At least 14 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in the quake. Some 230 thousand Indonesian nationals are estimated to be living in Taiwan, including 17 thousand migrant workers and many students. Xinhua news agency reported that the death toll in the powerful earthquake had reached 18 by Sunday morning. A total of 356 people were rescued in Tainan. At least 132 people are still waiting for rescue, a local rescue command center said. The 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Kaohsiung on Saturday at a depth of 15 kilometers, the China Earthquake Networks Center said. Local monitoring authorities put the scale of the quake at 6.4 magnitude. (ant)
LANGKAT - Floods have submerged rice fields, covering a total area of 120 hectares in Karya Maju village, Tanjungpura Sub-district, Langkat District, North Sumatra Province, since Monday, according to an official.
“Now, the floodwaters in the rice fields have begun to subside, but hopefully, the water level in Wampu River would not rise,” Mariono of the Tanjungpura agriculture office stated on Wednesday.
The wreckage from Super Tucano plane which crash in Malang.
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Indonesian Air Force Chief to inspect Super Tocano crash site
Jakarta - Air Force Chief Marshal Agus Supriatna traveled to Malang to inspect a Super Tucano single-turboprop aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force, which crashed in the East Java city on Wednesday. “I am aboard a flight to go there,” he stated. The Air Force chief affirmed that he was unaware of the exact cause of the crash. Commander of the Abdurrahman Saleh Air Base in Malang Commodore Djoko Senoputro noted that the aircraft, piloted by Major Ifi and co-piloted by Saiful, crashed in a densely populated area in the city
at 10:15 a.m. local time. “The plane crashed into Mr Mujiantos house,” he revealed. The fate of the pilot and co-pilot was still unknown, while a local resident, who fell victim to the plane crash, has been rushed to a hospital. “Officers of the Abdurrahman Saleh Air Base in Malang are in the
process of clearing the wreckage of the aircraft,” he stated. The jet fighter crashed in a thickly populated area of L.A. Sucipto Blimbing Road in Malang on Wednesday at 10:40 a.m. local time, according to a witness. Ananda, who lives close to the crash site, admitted to have spotted the aircraft hovering and making loud sounds before crashing to the ground. Several ambulances and fire trucks were sent to the crash site. (ant)
Yusfik Helmi, another local agriculture official, remarked that rice fields in the village are often flooded as they are located near the banks of Wampu River. In the meantime, incessant heavy rains over the past week
had caused flooding and led to two rivers overflowing their banks in Binjai District, North Sumatra. Several sub-districts in Binjai were inundated, Yusrizal, head of the Binjai disaster mitigation of-
fice, stated recently. The Mencirim and Bingei rivers overflowed and flooded the city following downpours, he remarked. The local authorities have deployed officers to help the flood victims. (ant)
Floods submerge 120 hectares rice fields in langkat, North Sumatra
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Uluwatu Temple
Uluwatu Temple is a Hindu temple set on the cliff bank in south part of Bali Peninsula. It is one of Sad Kahyangan Temple in Bali (six big groups of Bali Temples), located in Pecatu Village, Sub district of South Kuta, and Badung Regency or about 25 Km southerly part of Denpasar town. It is situated on the coral reef sordid to sea about 80 meters above the sea level. It is featured by a small dry forest which is mostly called by Alas Kekeran (interdict forest) which is belong to the temple and dwelt by a lot of monkeys and other animal. Name of Uluwatu was come from the word Ulu meaning the head and Watu
meaning stone. Therefore Uluwatu Temple mean the temple built in tip of coral reef. Because of its unique location, visitors to the temple have to take a long stone stairway to reach it. The temple heads east, unlike other Balinese temples which face west or south. There are hundreds of monkeys roaming along the path outside the temple. Although the monkeys look tame, visitors find them a nuisance as they often grab food off a visitor’s hand and snatch visitors’ belongings. There are two doors at the end of the path, the north door and the south one, through which visitors enter the temple complex. (IBP/net)
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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic poses with the men’s singles trophy, a day after winning his final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Government Hill in Melbourne, Australia, February 1, 2016.
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MUMBAI - Novak Djokovic’s domination of 2016 is not as inevitable as it might appear, former British number one Tim Henman believes, even if the other members of the “Big Four” will have to raise their game and hope the Serbian falters.
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Djokovic won 11 titles including three of the four majors last year and has a 12-0 record this season, having thrashed Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray to win the title in Doha and a record-equalling sixth Australian Open crown. So impressive was the 28-year-old at Melbourne Park that many pundits believe a first calendar year grand slam in the men’s game since Rod Laver in 1969 is on the cards. Henman, while conceding there is now a gap between Djokovic and the other top players, does not think it has become a gulf. “They can definitely challenge. Murray is at highest ranking in his career, he’s number two in the world. He’s playing great tennis,” the 41-year-old Henman told Reuters in an interview. “But obviously Djokovic is playing a little bit better at the moment. “Roger was in the final of U.S. Open last year and he was in the
final of the Wimbledon last year. Djokovic stopped him in his quest to win more grand slams. “They are still very, very close.” Henman thinks Federer, who won the last of his 17 major titles in 2012, and Murray look most likely to prevent a Djokovic grand slam sweep this year as Stan Wawrinka did at the French Open last year. Nadal, who was knocked out of Australian Open in the first round, may not be the same player that won nine French Open titles but can still pose a serious threat on the clay courts at Roland Garros. “The challenge for all those other players is to try and raise their levels and probably hope that Djokovic doesn’t play quite as consistently,” the former world number four and a four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist said. “There’s no doubt right now that Djokovic is the player to beat.” Tennis is reeling from revelations in a
report by the BBC and BuzzFeed in January that 16 players who have been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over concerns they had thrown matches. Henman, who was in the city as the brand ambassador of HSBC Road to Wimbledon programme, a joint initiative by the All England Lawn Tennis Club and India’s tennis body, said his first reaction to the allegations was one of “surprise” and called for more proof and not just speculation. “If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it’s erased from our sport because it’s a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis,” he said. “It’s also important to educate the young players so they appreciate this is something very, very serious if it has happened and make sure it never happens again.” “We have a tennis integrity unit and if they need to invest more money in that then we must do that. We must find out the facts and we then can move on from that.” (rtr)
CLEVELAND- Kevin Love departure in the final minute of the second quarter with a left shoulder injury marred the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 120111 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. Guard Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 35 points and LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the Cavaliers, who enter the All-Star break on a three-game winning streak and focused on the health of their power forward. Bryant’s arm seemed to catch Love’s shoulder when Love was backing him down on a shot in the post. Love yelled in pain and headed for the bench with 45 seconds left in the second quarter, then walked immediately to the locker room with the left arm dangling. It is the same shoulder Love had surgically repaired last spring after he dislocated it in a playoff series against the Boston Celtics. Love needed six months to recover from his last shoulder surgery, returning late in the preseason, although one source with knowledge of this injury said the team was being overly cautious and it doesn’t appear to be as serious. James and Irving have said at various points this season they wanted Love to be the focal point of the offense and coach Tyronn Lue has gone to great lengths since taking over making Love feel more comfortable in the Cavaliers’ system. Love’s exit overshadowed Bryant’s final appearance in Cleveland. He had 17 points and six rebounds while shooting just 5 of 16. The Lakers fell behind by 17 early in the first quarter before rallying, although they never took the lead. The Cavaliers pushed the lead to 22 in the third and still maintained a 19-point lead entering the fourth. Bryant’s four-point play cut the Cavaliers’ lead to 104-95. The Lakers pulled within eight in the final minutes, but a 3-pointer from J.R. Smith with 3:19 left put the game away. Lou Williams scored 28 points and guard Jordan Clarkson had 22 for the Lakers. Rookie guard D’Angelo Russell scored 15 points off the bench. Forward Tristan Thompson had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Cavaliers. There is a mutual respect between Bryant and James, who shared a hug when Bryant checked out of the game in the final minute to a standing ovation from the visiting crowd. Bryant reiterated Wednesday he doesn’t consider James a rival because the two stars weren’t really in the same generation, but Bryant seems to be more receptive than he was earlier in his career when he appeared chilly on the court toward James. Bryant insists, however, the two have always had a better relationship than what was perceived. “We’ve been close. We talk on the phone probably more than people know,” Bryant said. “We talk about the game, we talk about different strategies that center around the game. “We talk about different things off the court. Business related, players association related. We speak, there is much more communication than people want to (believe).” There will only be one meeting left between James and Bryant -- next month at Staples Center. The two legends have combined to appear in each of the last nine NBA Finals, yet somehow never met to play for one. “Just the ebb and flows of each season,” Bryant said. “It didn’t matter to me. “I just wanted to win the (darn) thing. I didn’t care who we played. For the fans, it probably stinks because it would have been a great matchup, but from a player’s perspective, it doesn’t matter who you play. Just want to win the championship.” (rtr)
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Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson (13) reaches for a pass between Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant (24) and center Roy Hibbert (17) in the first quarter at Quicken Loans Arena.
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Sp rt Serie A leadership, winning runs at stake in Juve-Napoli clash
MILAN - It is hard to believe that when they met for the first time this season, Napoli were 12th in Serie A and Juventus 13th with only a win apiece in their first five matches. On Saturday, they meet again with Serie A leadership at stake and both teams looking unstoppable. Leaders Napoli, aiming to win their first Serie A title since the Diego Maradona-inspired team in 1990, visit the Juventus stadium with a two-point advantage over the defending champions, who are chasing a fifth successive scudetto. After a slow start, Juventus have won their 14 league matches, a club record, and Napoli their last eight. The match also pits the best attack in the league, with Napoli having scored 53 goals in 24 games, against the best defence, with Juventus have only conceded 15. There is now an eight-point gap
between Juventus and Fiorentina, who host Inter Milan in a thirdversus-fourth clash on Sunday. Juventus have managed to rebuild their team after a turbulent close season in which they lost playmaker Andrea Pirlo, box-tobox midfielder Arturo Vidal and leading scorer Carlos Tevez. Meanwhile, at Napoli, coach Maurizio Sarri, a former banking consultant who uses drones to film his team’s training sessions, has revitalised an expensive side which struggled to fulfill their potential under predecessor Rafael Benitez. The match also pits Napoli’s
prolific striker Gonzalo Higuain against his fellow Argentine Paulo Dybala, the latest off the South Americans’ extraordinary production line of world class forwards. Although he often stomps grumpily around the pitch looking as if he is carrying the world on the shoulders, Higuain has blasted 24 goals while Dybala is second highest scorer with 13. “Higuain is at a more advanced stage of his career and a true finisher, a real number nine,” said Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. “Paulo on the other hand likes to play between the lines and link with the midfield. Either way, he is an immense talent who frighteningly will only improve the older he gets.” Buffon predicted that Juve’s defensive strength, rather than their opponents’ attacking prow-
ess, could be the key to the title race. “In 90 per cent of cases, conceding the fewest goals wins you the title, particularly in Italy,” he said. “We are in the other 10 per cent at the moment seeing as we are still in second place behind Napoli but there are 14 matches to remedy that and give credence to the statistics. “After our tough start to the campaign, a good number of critics had written us off, and with good reason from their point of view,” added the 38-year-old, who is in his 15th season at the club. “What they did not reckon with however was the spirit and resilience of this team, which has been such a key part in our sustained success of the last few years.” (rtr)
US opens Olympic qualifying with 5-0 victory over Costa Rica FRISCO, Texas — The U.S. women’s opening set piece finally paid off. Alex Morgan scored off
it 12 seconds in and added another goal in the 62nd minute and the U.S. opened CONCACAF quali-
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Costa Rica midfielder Cristin Granados (15) gives chase as United States midfielder Carli Lloyd (10) controls the ball during the second half of a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament soccer match Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in Frisco, Texas. The United States won 5-0.
fying for the Rio Olympics with a 5-0 victory over Costa Rica on Wednesday night. Morgan’s goal was the fastest in CONCACAF Olympic qualifying history, and the team said it is believed to be the fastest in U.S. history. It came on a designed play that the team uses off most opening kickoffs. “We always see it coming,” Morgan said. “It always starts off right, then something goes wrong. This time, nothing went wrong.” The match was the Americans’ first competitive game since winning the World Cup. They have won three straight Olympic titles and four of the five in women’s soccer. The U.S. roster features only 13 of the 20 players who were on the World Cup team. Christie Rampone and Megan Rapinoe are injured, and Amy Rodriguez and Sydney Leroux are pregnant and will miss the Olympics. Carli Lloyd and Crystal Dunn also scored first-half goals, and substitute Christen Press scored in the 83rd minute. “For me, it’s almost a perfect start,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. “We were able to check off a lot of boxes.” In Wednesday’s other Group
A opener at Toyota Stadium, Maribel Dominguez scored a hat trick as Mexico routed Puerto Rico 6-0. Morgan’s first goal was a rightfooted volley to the left of goalkeeper Dinnia Diaz from about 13 yards out while being tightly marked on her left side. Lloyd assisted with a jumping header after collecting a long cross lofted in by Lindsey Horan from beyond midfield seconds after the opening kickoff. Costa Rica coach Amelia Valverde said through an interpreter that her team was prepared for a U.S. attack right off the opening kick yet couldn’t prevent the early goal. That disrupted not only the defense, Valverde said, but the whole team. Morgan’s second-half goal, her 59th career score, was a header just inside the 6-yard box off a chipped cross from Lloyd. Lloyd noted her on-field teaming with Morgan is different from what Morgan shared with recently retired star Abby Wambach. But this pairing is getting better with familiarity, she said. “What she does great is get in behind the back line,” Lloyd said of Morgan. “Tonight was great. We had a good connection.”
Lloyd’s goal came on a penalty kick after Dunn was tripped just inside the 18-yard box. It was her 83rd career score and 20th in her last 15 matches. She nearly scored again in the 59th minute on a point-blank header right at Diaz. Dunn scored her fifth career goal in the 15th minute, standing at the goal line as she followed her own saved shot. U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo was never seriously challenged. She made two saves during the first half on long free kicks. The United States has never lost a qualifying match and is 13-0 against Costa Rica. The U.S. team will face Mexico on Saturday and close group play against Puerto Rico on Monday night. The two top teams in Group A will join the two survivors from Group B, which is being played in Houston. The two semifinal winners in Houston on Feb. 19 will qualify for Rio. Mexico’s Dominguez, known internationally as “Marigol,” opened the scoring in the opening match in the 18th minute and added her other goals in the second half. The 37year-old Dominguez is Mexico’s leader in career qualifying goals with 14. (ap)
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Leicester and Barca salvage 1-1 King’s Cup Tottenham draw against improved Valencia face huge title tests
LONDON - Leicester City will be wary of a reality check when the Premier League front-runners visit Arsenal on Sunday before Tottenham Hotspur’s burgeoning title ambitions come under scrutiny at Manchester City. A quirk of the fixture list has pitted the top four against each other and although there are still 13 matches to go, this weekend could prove pivotal. Against all the odds, Leicester have sustained their push for a first-ever English top-flight title, and their magnificent 3-1 win at Manchester City last time out finally convinced bookmakers to install them as favourites. Tottenham’s odds for a first English title since 1961 also shortened after they eased into second spot, five points behind Leicester, with a narrow victory over Watford last weekend. While Arsenal and Manchester City, third and fourth respectively, are familiar with the home stretch of a title chase, once described by former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as “squeaky bum time”, Leicester and Tottenham are entering unfamiliar territory. Leicester spent most of the past decade outside the Premier League, while Tottenham’s target is usually a top-four finish, something they have achieved only twice since 1992. With the pressure mounting,
Arsenal, who are also five points behind the leaders, will probe for mental cracks having inflicted one of only two league defeats this season on Leicester. That was a 5-2 hammering at the King Power Stadium in September -- a result many expected would precipitate a return to the lower regions of the table. Instead, it sparked a 10-match unbeaten run that was halted by Liverpool in December, since when Leicester have scaled the summit on the back of another seven-game stretch without defeat. Arsenal are chasing a first title since 2005 but have stuttered since the turn of the year and victory at Bournemouth last week was their first in five games. With a huge Champions League tie looming against Barcelona, beating Leicester would give Arsene Wenger’s side momentum with which to attack the final months of the season. Manchester City, six points adrift of Leicester, plundered 10 goals in Tottenham’s last two league visits to the Etihad Stadium with Sergio Aguero scoring six of them. They also won 5-1 at Tottenham in 2014, but have already experienced Tottenham’s rapid improvement this season, going down 4-1 at White Hart lane in September. While it looks likely the title will be contested by the current top four, Manchester United are lurking in fifth place, six behind City, and are still eyeing a Champions League spot. They visit struggling Sunderland on Saturday. (rtr)
Cameroonian teenager Wilfrid Kaptoum scored a late equaliser to give Barcelona a 1-1 draw at Valencia that wrapped up an 8-1 aggregate success in their King’s Cup semi-final on Wednesday. The second leg result, which denied home coach Gary Neville a craved first win in four matches, was academic after Barcelona had crushed Valencia 7-0 in the first leg at the Nou Camp last week. Barca, who went through to their sixth final in eight seasons, will face either Celta Vigo or Sevilla in the final. The draw was Barcelona’s 29th match unbeaten with coach Luis Enrique’s side surpassing the previous best set by former boss Pep Guardiola in the 2010/11 season. Alvaro Negredo put Valencia in front in the 39th minute after goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen had parried his first effort but the ball fell nicely back to the striker to tap home. It was Valencia’s first goal in four games since Rodrigo scored in the second leg of their Cup quarter-final win over Las Palmas on Jan. 28. Kaptoum found the net two minutes after coming on as a substitute eight minutes from time. Luis Enrique rested almost a full first-choice team, making eight changes from the first leg with the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Javier Mascherano and Gerard Pique all staying at home. Neville, his eye on Saturday’s critical La Liga match at home to Espanyol when he will be looking for a first win in 10 league games in charge, also rested a number of first-choice players. The former England defender will have been pleased, however, with his team’s attitude and commitment in a half empty Mestalla stadium, the result of home fans’ disappointment and anger with their struggling team. (rtr)
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Valencia’s headcoach Gary Neville gestures, during a semifinal, second leg, Copa del Rey soccer match between Valencia and Barcelona, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Wednesday Feb. 10, 2016.
West Brom beats 3rd tier Peterborough in FA Cup on penalties
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Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy applauds the fans at the end of the game
PETERBOROUGH — West Bromwich Albion survived a scare to edge past third-tier Peterborough on penalties in an FA Cup replay to reach the fifth round on Wednesday.
West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster saved from Martin Samuelsen and Lee Angol in the shootout as the English Premier League club won 4-3 following a 1-1 draw after extra time. Tony Pulis’ side will next play
second-tier Reading. Jon Taylor gave Peterborough the lead, only for Darren Fletcher to level for West Brom, who couldn’t settle the match in regular time. (ap)
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MILAN - It is hard to believe that when they met for the first time this season, Napoli were 12th in Serie A and Juventus 13th with only a win apiece in their first five matches. On Saturday, they meet again with Serie A leadership at stake and both teams looking unstoppable. Leaders Napoli, aiming to win their first Serie A title since the Diego Maradona-inspired team in 1990, visit the Juventus stadium with a two-point advantage over the defending champions, who are chasing a fifth successive scudetto. After a slow start, Juventus have won their 14 league matches, a club record, and Napoli their last eight. The match also pits the best attack in the league, with Napoli having scored 53 goals in 24 games, against the best defence, with Juventus have only conceded 15. There is now an eight-point gap
between Juventus and Fiorentina, who host Inter Milan in a thirdversus-fourth clash on Sunday. Juventus have managed to rebuild their team after a turbulent close season in which they lost playmaker Andrea Pirlo, box-tobox midfielder Arturo Vidal and leading scorer Carlos Tevez. Meanwhile, at Napoli, coach Maurizio Sarri, a former banking consultant who uses drones to film his team’s training sessions, has revitalised an expensive side which struggled to fulfill their potential under predecessor Rafael Benitez. The match also pits Napoli’s
prolific striker Gonzalo Higuain against his fellow Argentine Paulo Dybala, the latest off the South Americans’ extraordinary production line of world class forwards. Although he often stomps grumpily around the pitch looking as if he is carrying the world on the shoulders, Higuain has blasted 24 goals while Dybala is second highest scorer with 13. “Higuain is at a more advanced stage of his career and a true finisher, a real number nine,” said Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. “Paulo on the other hand likes to play between the lines and link with the midfield. Either way, he is an immense talent who frighteningly will only improve the older he gets.” Buffon predicted that Juve’s defensive strength, rather than their opponents’ attacking prow-
ess, could be the key to the title race. “In 90 per cent of cases, conceding the fewest goals wins you the title, particularly in Italy,” he said. “We are in the other 10 per cent at the moment seeing as we are still in second place behind Napoli but there are 14 matches to remedy that and give credence to the statistics. “After our tough start to the campaign, a good number of critics had written us off, and with good reason from their point of view,” added the 38-year-old, who is in his 15th season at the club. “What they did not reckon with however was the spirit and resilience of this team, which has been such a key part in our sustained success of the last few years.” (rtr)
US opens Olympic qualifying with 5-0 victory over Costa Rica FRISCO, Texas — The U.S. women’s opening set piece finally paid off. Alex Morgan scored off
it 12 seconds in and added another goal in the 62nd minute and the U.S. opened CONCACAF quali-
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Costa Rica midfielder Cristin Granados (15) gives chase as United States midfielder Carli Lloyd (10) controls the ball during the second half of a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament soccer match Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in Frisco, Texas. The United States won 5-0.
fying for the Rio Olympics with a 5-0 victory over Costa Rica on Wednesday night. Morgan’s goal was the fastest in CONCACAF Olympic qualifying history, and the team said it is believed to be the fastest in U.S. history. It came on a designed play that the team uses off most opening kickoffs. “We always see it coming,” Morgan said. “It always starts off right, then something goes wrong. This time, nothing went wrong.” The match was the Americans’ first competitive game since winning the World Cup. They have won three straight Olympic titles and four of the five in women’s soccer. The U.S. roster features only 13 of the 20 players who were on the World Cup team. Christie Rampone and Megan Rapinoe are injured, and Amy Rodriguez and Sydney Leroux are pregnant and will miss the Olympics. Carli Lloyd and Crystal Dunn also scored first-half goals, and substitute Christen Press scored in the 83rd minute. “For me, it’s almost a perfect start,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. “We were able to check off a lot of boxes.” In Wednesday’s other Group
A opener at Toyota Stadium, Maribel Dominguez scored a hat trick as Mexico routed Puerto Rico 6-0. Morgan’s first goal was a rightfooted volley to the left of goalkeeper Dinnia Diaz from about 13 yards out while being tightly marked on her left side. Lloyd assisted with a jumping header after collecting a long cross lofted in by Lindsey Horan from beyond midfield seconds after the opening kickoff. Costa Rica coach Amelia Valverde said through an interpreter that her team was prepared for a U.S. attack right off the opening kick yet couldn’t prevent the early goal. That disrupted not only the defense, Valverde said, but the whole team. Morgan’s second-half goal, her 59th career score, was a header just inside the 6-yard box off a chipped cross from Lloyd. Lloyd noted her on-field teaming with Morgan is different from what Morgan shared with recently retired star Abby Wambach. But this pairing is getting better with familiarity, she said. “What she does great is get in behind the back line,” Lloyd said of Morgan. “Tonight was great. We had a good connection.”
Lloyd’s goal came on a penalty kick after Dunn was tripped just inside the 18-yard box. It was her 83rd career score and 20th in her last 15 matches. She nearly scored again in the 59th minute on a point-blank header right at Diaz. Dunn scored her fifth career goal in the 15th minute, standing at the goal line as she followed her own saved shot. U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo was never seriously challenged. She made two saves during the first half on long free kicks. The United States has never lost a qualifying match and is 13-0 against Costa Rica. The U.S. team will face Mexico on Saturday and close group play against Puerto Rico on Monday night. The two top teams in Group A will join the two survivors from Group B, which is being played in Houston. The two semifinal winners in Houston on Feb. 19 will qualify for Rio. Mexico’s Dominguez, known internationally as “Marigol,” opened the scoring in the opening match in the 18th minute and added her other goals in the second half. The 37year-old Dominguez is Mexico’s leader in career qualifying goals with 14. (ap)
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Leicester and Barca salvage 1-1 King’s Cup Tottenham draw against improved Valencia face huge title tests
LONDON - Leicester City will be wary of a reality check when the Premier League front-runners visit Arsenal on Sunday before Tottenham Hotspur’s burgeoning title ambitions come under scrutiny at Manchester City. A quirk of the fixture list has pitted the top four against each other and although there are still 13 matches to go, this weekend could prove pivotal. Against all the odds, Leicester have sustained their push for a first-ever English top-flight title, and their magnificent 3-1 win at Manchester City last time out finally convinced bookmakers to install them as favourites. Tottenham’s odds for a first English title since 1961 also shortened after they eased into second spot, five points behind Leicester, with a narrow victory over Watford last weekend. While Arsenal and Manchester City, third and fourth respectively, are familiar with the home stretch of a title chase, once described by former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as “squeaky bum time”, Leicester and Tottenham are entering unfamiliar territory. Leicester spent most of the past decade outside the Premier League, while Tottenham’s target is usually a top-four finish, something they have achieved only twice since 1992. With the pressure mounting,
Arsenal, who are also five points behind the leaders, will probe for mental cracks having inflicted one of only two league defeats this season on Leicester. That was a 5-2 hammering at the King Power Stadium in September -- a result many expected would precipitate a return to the lower regions of the table. Instead, it sparked a 10-match unbeaten run that was halted by Liverpool in December, since when Leicester have scaled the summit on the back of another seven-game stretch without defeat. Arsenal are chasing a first title since 2005 but have stuttered since the turn of the year and victory at Bournemouth last week was their first in five games. With a huge Champions League tie looming against Barcelona, beating Leicester would give Arsene Wenger’s side momentum with which to attack the final months of the season. Manchester City, six points adrift of Leicester, plundered 10 goals in Tottenham’s last two league visits to the Etihad Stadium with Sergio Aguero scoring six of them. They also won 5-1 at Tottenham in 2014, but have already experienced Tottenham’s rapid improvement this season, going down 4-1 at White Hart lane in September. While it looks likely the title will be contested by the current top four, Manchester United are lurking in fifth place, six behind City, and are still eyeing a Champions League spot. They visit struggling Sunderland on Saturday. (rtr)
Cameroonian teenager Wilfrid Kaptoum scored a late equaliser to give Barcelona a 1-1 draw at Valencia that wrapped up an 8-1 aggregate success in their King’s Cup semi-final on Wednesday. The second leg result, which denied home coach Gary Neville a craved first win in four matches, was academic after Barcelona had crushed Valencia 7-0 in the first leg at the Nou Camp last week. Barca, who went through to their sixth final in eight seasons, will face either Celta Vigo or Sevilla in the final. The draw was Barcelona’s 29th match unbeaten with coach Luis Enrique’s side surpassing the previous best set by former boss Pep Guardiola in the 2010/11 season. Alvaro Negredo put Valencia in front in the 39th minute after goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen had parried his first effort but the ball fell nicely back to the striker to tap home. It was Valencia’s first goal in four games since Rodrigo scored in the second leg of their Cup quarter-final win over Las Palmas on Jan. 28. Kaptoum found the net two minutes after coming on as a substitute eight minutes from time. Luis Enrique rested almost a full first-choice team, making eight changes from the first leg with the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Javier Mascherano and Gerard Pique all staying at home. Neville, his eye on Saturday’s critical La Liga match at home to Espanyol when he will be looking for a first win in 10 league games in charge, also rested a number of first-choice players. The former England defender will have been pleased, however, with his team’s attitude and commitment in a half empty Mestalla stadium, the result of home fans’ disappointment and anger with their struggling team. (rtr)
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Valencia’s headcoach Gary Neville gestures, during a semifinal, second leg, Copa del Rey soccer match between Valencia and Barcelona, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Wednesday Feb. 10, 2016.
West Brom beats 3rd tier Peterborough in FA Cup on penalties
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Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy applauds the fans at the end of the game
PETERBOROUGH — West Bromwich Albion survived a scare to edge past third-tier Peterborough on penalties in an FA Cup replay to reach the fifth round on Wednesday.
West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster saved from Martin Samuelsen and Lee Angol in the shootout as the English Premier League club won 4-3 following a 1-1 draw after extra time. Tony Pulis’ side will next play
second-tier Reading. Jon Taylor gave Peterborough the lead, only for Darren Fletcher to level for West Brom, who couldn’t settle the match in regular time. (ap)
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Uluwatu Temple
Uluwatu Temple is a Hindu temple set on the cliff bank in south part of Bali Peninsula. It is one of Sad Kahyangan Temple in Bali (six big groups of Bali Temples), located in Pecatu Village, Sub district of South Kuta, and Badung Regency or about 25 Km southerly part of Denpasar town. It is situated on the coral reef sordid to sea about 80 meters above the sea level. It is featured by a small dry forest which is mostly called by Alas Kekeran (interdict forest) which is belong to the temple and dwelt by a lot of monkeys and other animal. Name of Uluwatu was come from the word Ulu meaning the head and Watu
meaning stone. Therefore Uluwatu Temple mean the temple built in tip of coral reef. Because of its unique location, visitors to the temple have to take a long stone stairway to reach it. The temple heads east, unlike other Balinese temples which face west or south. There are hundreds of monkeys roaming along the path outside the temple. Although the monkeys look tame, visitors find them a nuisance as they often grab food off a visitor’s hand and snatch visitors’ belongings. There are two doors at the end of the path, the north door and the south one, through which visitors enter the temple complex. (IBP/net)
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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic poses with the men’s singles trophy, a day after winning his final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Government Hill in Melbourne, Australia, February 1, 2016.
Djokovic dominant but it’s still tight at the top
MUMBAI - Novak Djokovic’s domination of 2016 is not as inevitable as it might appear, former British number one Tim Henman believes, even if the other members of the “Big Four” will have to raise their game and hope the Serbian falters.
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Djokovic won 11 titles including three of the four majors last year and has a 12-0 record this season, having thrashed Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray to win the title in Doha and a record-equalling sixth Australian Open crown. So impressive was the 28-year-old at Melbourne Park that many pundits believe a first calendar year grand slam in the men’s game since Rod Laver in 1969 is on the cards. Henman, while conceding there is now a gap between Djokovic and the other top players, does not think it has become a gulf. “They can definitely challenge. Murray is at highest ranking in his career, he’s number two in the world. He’s playing great tennis,” the 41-year-old Henman told Reuters in an interview. “But obviously Djokovic is playing a little bit better at the moment. “Roger was in the final of U.S. Open last year and he was in the
final of the Wimbledon last year. Djokovic stopped him in his quest to win more grand slams. “They are still very, very close.” Henman thinks Federer, who won the last of his 17 major titles in 2012, and Murray look most likely to prevent a Djokovic grand slam sweep this year as Stan Wawrinka did at the French Open last year. Nadal, who was knocked out of Australian Open in the first round, may not be the same player that won nine French Open titles but can still pose a serious threat on the clay courts at Roland Garros. “The challenge for all those other players is to try and raise their levels and probably hope that Djokovic doesn’t play quite as consistently,” the former world number four and a four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist said. “There’s no doubt right now that Djokovic is the player to beat.” Tennis is reeling from revelations in a
report by the BBC and BuzzFeed in January that 16 players who have been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over concerns they had thrown matches. Henman, who was in the city as the brand ambassador of HSBC Road to Wimbledon programme, a joint initiative by the All England Lawn Tennis Club and India’s tennis body, said his first reaction to the allegations was one of “surprise” and called for more proof and not just speculation. “If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it’s erased from our sport because it’s a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis,” he said. “It’s also important to educate the young players so they appreciate this is something very, very serious if it has happened and make sure it never happens again.” “We have a tennis integrity unit and if they need to invest more money in that then we must do that. We must find out the facts and we then can move on from that.” (rtr)
CLEVELAND- Kevin Love departure in the final minute of the second quarter with a left shoulder injury marred the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 120111 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. Guard Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 35 points and LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the Cavaliers, who enter the All-Star break on a three-game winning streak and focused on the health of their power forward. Bryant’s arm seemed to catch Love’s shoulder when Love was backing him down on a shot in the post. Love yelled in pain and headed for the bench with 45 seconds left in the second quarter, then walked immediately to the locker room with the left arm dangling. It is the same shoulder Love had surgically repaired last spring after he dislocated it in a playoff series against the Boston Celtics. Love needed six months to recover from his last shoulder surgery, returning late in the preseason, although one source with knowledge of this injury said the team was being overly cautious and it doesn’t appear to be as serious. James and Irving have said at various points this season they wanted Love to be the focal point of the offense and coach Tyronn Lue has gone to great lengths since taking over making Love feel more comfortable in the Cavaliers’ system. Love’s exit overshadowed Bryant’s final appearance in Cleveland. He had 17 points and six rebounds while shooting just 5 of 16. The Lakers fell behind by 17 early in the first quarter before rallying, although they never took the lead. The Cavaliers pushed the lead to 22 in the third and still maintained a 19-point lead entering the fourth. Bryant’s four-point play cut the Cavaliers’ lead to 104-95. The Lakers pulled within eight in the final minutes, but a 3-pointer from J.R. Smith with 3:19 left put the game away. Lou Williams scored 28 points and guard Jordan Clarkson had 22 for the Lakers. Rookie guard D’Angelo Russell scored 15 points off the bench. Forward Tristan Thompson had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Cavaliers. There is a mutual respect between Bryant and James, who shared a hug when Bryant checked out of the game in the final minute to a standing ovation from the visiting crowd. Bryant reiterated Wednesday he doesn’t consider James a rival because the two stars weren’t really in the same generation, but Bryant seems to be more receptive than he was earlier in his career when he appeared chilly on the court toward James. Bryant insists, however, the two have always had a better relationship than what was perceived. “We’ve been close. We talk on the phone probably more than people know,” Bryant said. “We talk about the game, we talk about different strategies that center around the game. “We talk about different things off the court. Business related, players association related. We speak, there is much more communication than people want to (believe).” There will only be one meeting left between James and Bryant -- next month at Staples Center. The two legends have combined to appear in each of the last nine NBA Finals, yet somehow never met to play for one. “Just the ebb and flows of each season,” Bryant said. “It didn’t matter to me. “I just wanted to win the (darn) thing. I didn’t care who we played. For the fans, it probably stinks because it would have been a great matchup, but from a player’s perspective, it doesn’t matter who you play. Just want to win the championship.” (rtr)
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Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson (13) reaches for a pass between Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant (24) and center Roy Hibbert (17) in the first quarter at Quicken Loans Arena.
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German train crash investigators focus on signal controller -source
BERLIN - German prosecutors and police investigating a head-on train crash in Bavaria that killed ten people are focusing on the actions of a signal controller, a source involved in the inquiry told Reuters on Wednesday. However, investigators said it was too early to speculate on the cause and that they have recovered two of three black boxes from the two passenger trains that collided at peak commuter time on Tuesday morning. “The investigations are focusing on the controller,” said the source, who declined to be named. The single track stretch was opened for both trains, the source said. The source did not name the controller. Reuters was unable to determine the identity of the controller or what actions were under scrutiny. In addition, Reuters could not deter-
mine if other individuals were also under scrutiny. A spokeswoman at state-run railway, Deutsche Bahn, which is responsible for the track, said the company was working with investigating authorities. “We do not want to pre-empt the results of the investigation,” she said. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, echoing statements from investigators, said that it was too early to identify the cause. “We have no knowledge whether this was down to human failure or a technical problem,”
he said. Cooperating closely with investigators, salvage workers and criminal police were combing the site on Wednesday and working to recover the carriages that were lying on their side in the wooded area with a river on one side of the track. The trains, carrying about 100 people in all, crashed at high speed on a 6 km (four-mile) stretch of track between the spa town of Bad Aibling and Kolbermoor, near the Austrian border. The trains and track were fitted with an automatic brake system that was introduced across Germany after 10 people died near the eastern city of Magdeburg in 2011 when a train driver drove through two red signals. (rtr)
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Two crashed trains are light up by spotlights near Bad Aibling in southwestern Germany, February 9, 2016. Several people died after two trains collided in the southern German state of Bavaria on Tuesday, a police spokesman said, adding about 100 people were also injured.
Drunk Chinese man kicks elevator doors in and falls down its shaft
CHINA-What was supposed to be a fun karaoke night out turned into a harrowing tumble for a 24-year-old man from Hangzhou, China, when he accidentally fell down an elevator shaft after kicking its doors in. Identified only as Yang, the inebriated man was caught on security cam footage getting into a tussle with a friend outside of a KTV lounge before launching into
an airborne flying kick towards the elevator’s metal doors. As a result, one of the doors broke off its hinge and came loose, reported Sina. While turning back to survey the damage he had caused, Yang took a step forward and to the horror of onlookers, fell through the broken door and down the elevator shaft. Four floors down to be exact. Following the incident, staff
from the KTV lounge immediately called the police and Yang was rushed to a nearby hospital. Fortunately for Yang, he survived the fall and is now recovering from a broken left leg. Chinese reports quoted Yang’s uncle, who said he works at a local restaurant and had patronised the KTV lounge with his colleagues after work to celebrate the Lunar New Year. (IBP/net)
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A boat used by refugees and migrants to travel across the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast in the Greek island of Lesbos is seen at a beach in this November 21, 2015 file photo. NATO has agreed to start a mission in the Aegean Sea to help slow refugee flows and to stop people smugglers, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on February 11, 2016.
Turkey’s Erdogan warns patience will run out on Syria
ANKARA - Turkey’s patience may run out over the crisis in Syria and it could be forced to take action, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, calling on the United Nations to do more to prevent what he said was “ethnic cleansing” in the country. Erdogan accused the United Nations of insincerity in calling on Turkey to do more to help Syrian refugees instead of taking action to prevent the bloodshed in its southern neighbour. Russian war planes have been bombing around the Syrian city of Aleppo in support of a Syrian government offensive to recapture the city, sending tens of thousands of people fleeing to the Turkish border. “There is a chance the new wave of refugees will reach 600,000 if air strikes continue. We are making preparations for it,” Erdogan said in a speech to a business forum in Ankara. “We will show patience up to a point and then we’ll do what’s necessary. Our buses and planes are not waiting there in vain,” he said, adding that Turkey had information that Iran-backed forces in Syria were carrying out “merciless massacres”. Turkey, already home to more than 2.6 million Syrian refugees, has long pushed for the
creation of a safe zone in northern Syria to protect displaced civilians without bringing them over the border into Turkey. The proposal has so far gained little traction with Washington or NATO allies who fear it would require an internationally patrolled no-fly zone which could put them in direct confrontation with Assad and his allies. Erdogan said the Syrian crisis could not be resolved without safe zones, and said that ways of keeping Syrians in their country needed to be sought. He also said he had previously told the European Union’s two top officials, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, that the time could come when Turkey would open the gates for migrants to travel to Europe. “In the past we have stopped people at the gates to Europe, in Edirne we stopped their buses. This happens once or twice, and then we’ll open the gates and wish them a safe journey, that’s what I said,” he said on Thursday. A Greek news website said on Monday that Erdogan, in a meeting in November with Juncker and Tusk, had threatened to flood Europe with migrants if EU leaders did not offer a better deal to help Turkey manage the refugee crisis. (rtr)
TANGGERANG - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said it will use the money laundering law to charge drug trafficking suspects. “All drug trafficking suspects would be charged with money laundering,” BNN Chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said here on Wednesday. Budi said the use of the money laundering law against drug traffickers is in a bid to stamp out drug trafficking from the country. All drug traffickers are members of international syndicates, and they still could control illegal drug trade even from their prison cells as they
have a lot of money, he said. Therefore, the money laundering law is needed to charge drug suspects, he added. “All their assets should be confiscated that they have no power to control trade outside their prison cells,” he said. Meanwhile, a woman suspect, identified, as SL, told her investigators that she received an order from a drug convict, a Nigerian, who is serving jail term in a Jakarta prison to commit the illicit trade. SL and two friends were arrested in Pinang, Kota Tangerang in possession of 13.7 kilograms of methamphetamine. (ant)
Ten Indonesians injured in Taiwan`s earthquake: Minister
JAKARTA - At least ten Indonesian nationals were injured in Taiwan when a powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale shook southern Taiwan early Saturday morning (Feb 6). “Representatives from the Indonesian Trade and Economic Office (KDEI) in Taipei have gone to the quake-hit area in Tainan district to record the number of Indonesian victims. The KDEI continues to coordinate with relevant ministries about the number of victims,” Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi said here on Wednesday. The minister will be receiving updates on the number of victims four times a day. The KDEI has opened a command post, located at Hua Street No 42-2, North District, Tainan City. Its telephone number is:
+886973947516. At least 14 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in the quake. Some 230 thousand Indonesian nationals are estimated to be living in Taiwan, including 17 thousand migrant workers and many students. Xinhua news agency reported that the death toll in the powerful earthquake had reached 18 by Sunday morning. A total of 356 people were rescued in Tainan. At least 132 people are still waiting for rescue, a local rescue command center said. The 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Kaohsiung on Saturday at a depth of 15 kilometers, the China Earthquake Networks Center said. Local monitoring authorities put the scale of the quake at 6.4 magnitude. (ant)
LANGKAT - Floods have submerged rice fields, covering a total area of 120 hectares in Karya Maju village, Tanjungpura Sub-district, Langkat District, North Sumatra Province, since Monday, according to an official.
“Now, the floodwaters in the rice fields have begun to subside, but hopefully, the water level in Wampu River would not rise,” Mariono of the Tanjungpura agriculture office stated on Wednesday.
The wreckage from Super Tucano plane which crash in Malang.
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Indonesian Air Force Chief to inspect Super Tocano crash site
Jakarta - Air Force Chief Marshal Agus Supriatna traveled to Malang to inspect a Super Tucano single-turboprop aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force, which crashed in the East Java city on Wednesday. “I am aboard a flight to go there,” he stated. The Air Force chief affirmed that he was unaware of the exact cause of the crash. Commander of the Abdurrahman Saleh Air Base in Malang Commodore Djoko Senoputro noted that the aircraft, piloted by Major Ifi and co-piloted by Saiful, crashed in a densely populated area in the city
at 10:15 a.m. local time. “The plane crashed into Mr Mujiantos house,” he revealed. The fate of the pilot and co-pilot was still unknown, while a local resident, who fell victim to the plane crash, has been rushed to a hospital. “Officers of the Abdurrahman Saleh Air Base in Malang are in the
process of clearing the wreckage of the aircraft,” he stated. The jet fighter crashed in a thickly populated area of L.A. Sucipto Blimbing Road in Malang on Wednesday at 10:40 a.m. local time, according to a witness. Ananda, who lives close to the crash site, admitted to have spotted the aircraft hovering and making loud sounds before crashing to the ground. Several ambulances and fire trucks were sent to the crash site. (ant)
Yusfik Helmi, another local agriculture official, remarked that rice fields in the village are often flooded as they are located near the banks of Wampu River. In the meantime, incessant heavy rains over the past week
had caused flooding and led to two rivers overflowing their banks in Binjai District, North Sumatra. Several sub-districts in Binjai were inundated, Yusrizal, head of the Binjai disaster mitigation of-
fice, stated recently. The Mencirim and Bingei rivers overflowed and flooded the city following downpours, he remarked. The local authorities have deployed officers to help the flood victims. (ant)
Floods submerge 120 hectares rice fields in langkat, North Sumatra
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PAJU - North Korea said it was kicking out all South Koreans from the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone on Thursday, calling the South’s move to suspend operations, in retaliation for Sunday’s rocket launch by the North, a “declaration of war”. ate voted unanimously in favour of tougher sanctions. North Korea ordered South Koreans out of the zone by late afternoon, forbidding them to take anything other than personal belongings, KCNA said. South Korea said after the North’s announcement that its top priority was the safe return of all of its people. Halting activity at the park, where 124 South Korean companies employed about 55,000 North Koreans, cuts the last significant vestige of North-South cooperation - a rare opportunity for Koreans divided by the 1950-53 war to interact on a daily basis. North Korean workers were given a taste of life in the South at the complex, about 54 km (34 miles) northwest of Seoul, including snack foods like Choco Pies and toiletries that were resold as luxury items in the North. They also rubbed shoulders with their managers from South Korea. Supporters of the project said that kind of contact was important in promoting inter-Korean understanding, despite concerns that Pyongyang might have used proceeds from Kaesong to help fund its nuclear and missile programmes. RISKS AND REWARDS Except for Kaesong, both countries
forbid their citizens from communicating with each other across the world’s most fortified frontier. “We piled up instant noodles, bread and drinks in our warehouse so North Korean workers could come here and eat freely,” said Lee Jong-ku, who runs a firm that installs electrical equipment for apparel factories in Kaesong. “We don’t mind them eating our food, because we only care about them working hard.” For the North, the revenue opportunity from Kaesong - $110 million in wages and fees in 2015 - was deemed worth the risk of exposing its workers to influences from the prosperous South. In recent years, North Koreans have had increasing access to contraband media, exposing them to life in the South and China. Still, Pyongyang took precautions to ensure the workers it hand-picked for the complex had minimal contact with their South Korean managers that could be potentially subversive. “These North Korean workers are strongly armed ideologically,” said Koo Ja-ick, who was waiting on the south side of the border on his way to Kaesong, where he has worked at an apparel company for the past four years. “They never act individually. They always work and move in a group of
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The Ngesanga desa or ngesanga ketipat was held on Monday (Feb. 8) at Subagan customary village, Karangasem.
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A North Korean employee works in a factory of a South Korean company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North Korea from the heavily fortified border in this December 19, 2013 file photo. two, even manager-level people do so. They never go to the bathroom by themselves - always in groups,” he said. The average wage for North Korean workers at Kaesong was roughly $160 a month, paid to a state management company. The workers received about 20 percent of that in coupons and North Korean currency, said Cho Bong-hyun, who heads research on North Korea’s economy at IBK Bank in Seoul. A South Korean government official involved in North Korea policy
said it was difficult to see how operations could be resumed anytime soon at Kaesong, which opened in 2005. Shares of several leading companies in the Kaesong zone plunged in Thursday trading, falling by nearly 10 percent or more. Defence shares, on the other hand, performed strongly. Despite volatile North-South relations over the years, Kaesong had been shut only once before, for five months in 2013, amid heightened tensions following its third nuclear test. Its future had often seemed uncertain over the past decade.(rtr)
IMF chief warns Ukraine over slow pace of reform
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Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) attends the session “The Global Economic Outlook” during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 23, 2016.
MOSCOW — The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Ukraine on Wednesday that the organization would be unable to keep supporting the country financially if it doesn’t step up its reform efforts. Ukraine relies on funding from the IMF and international donors as it battles deep economic problems, in large part resulting from the conflict in the country’s east, which has meant the loss of much industrial capacity. The economy shrank by more than 10 percent last year. “Without a substantial new effort to invigorate governance reforms and fight corruption, it is hard to see how the IMF-supported program can continue and be successful,” Christine Lagarde said in a statement. “Ukraine risks a return to the pattern of failed economic policies that has plagued
its recent history.” Lagarde also called on the government to cut “the influence of vested interests in policymaking.” Ukraine is still waiting for the IMF to provide an installment of funding that has been delayed since October amid disputes over the budget. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke to Lagarde by telephone on Wednesday and promised that Ukraine would continue reforms despite current tensions between his government and the parliament, according to a statement from his office. Poroshenko and Lagarde “agreed to elaborate a roadmap of the toppriority reforms that will give a boost to Ukraine-IMF relations,” the statement said. Last week, Ukrainian Economy
Minister Aivaras Abromavicius resigned, saying his reform efforts had been blocked by government colleagues and that corrupt figures were trying to gain control of state funds. The Lithuania-born former investment banker, who was a leading voice for reforms, told The Associated Press recently that he hoped his departure would serve as a “cold shower” for the government. “We are either two steps away from a break-through or we are two steps away from a breakdown,” he added. The IMF last year agreed to provide a total of $17.5 billion in loans to Ukraine to prop up its fragile economy, as part of a total $40 billion package from various international sources and debt renegotiation. The conditions for the IMF aid include sharp spending cuts.(ap)
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North Korea says South’s pulling out of industrial zone “declaration of war” The North declared the industrial park, run by the rivals as a symbol of cooperation for more than a decade, a military control zone, the agency that handles its ties with Seoul said, according to the official KCNA news agency. Dozens of South Korean trucks were already returning across the border earlier in the day, laden with goods and equipment, after the South said it was pulling out. “Unpardonable is the puppet group’s act of totally suspending the operation in (Kaesong), finding fault with the DPRK’s H-bomb test and launch of a satellite,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to South Korea. Isolated North Korea regularly dismisses the South as a puppet of the United States and just as regularly accuses both of acts of war against it. DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. North Korea tested what it said was a hydrogen bomb on Jan. 6 and on Sunday launched a rocket, putting a satellite into orbit. The United States, Japan and South Korea said Sunday’s launch was a ballistic missile test, and like last month’s nuclear test, a violation of U.N. resolutions. The U.S. Sen-
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Nyabung and Ngesanga Ketipat held at Subagan
Amlapura —Ngesanga desa or ngesanga ketipat was held on Monday (Feb. 8) at Subagan customary village, Karangasem. The peak of the Tawur Sasih Kawulu (animal sacrifice) was held on the day before, Sunday (Feb. 7). The tawur ritual is characterized by ngaturang pecaruan aiming to neutralize bhutakala or evil spirits before organizing the ngesanga desa sasih kawulu. Before saying prayers to ancestral spirits and deities, the bhutakala is neutralized in order to maintain the balance so they are not interfere with and the rural areas are safe. “Peak of the ngesanga desa is held on Monday afternoon marked with joint worship at Bale Agung Temple,” said Putu Toya, local chief of customary village. Aside from taking place solemnly, Putu Toya said the ngesanga ketipat at the village is quite unique where generally the offerings are in the form of ketipat (rice bag). Worship by means of offerings is made in each shrine at the Desa Temple or merajan shrine by means of rice bag, fried grated coconut, bean, anchovies, eggs and others. After praying at each shrine, each household still having a family member who died but has not been cremated also puts food offerings at eastern pavilion. After that, every resident worships in front of the rice bag offerings pursuant to the number of each
urip (day of birth). For example, people who were born in the panca wara (five-day week) of Umanis, it has urip 5 and the offerings in use contains five rice bags, while those born on Paing will have urip 9 and the rice bag offerings will consist of nine pieces. Chief of Subagan customary village, Putu Toya, conveyed that pacifying pecaruan or animal sacrifice is held at catus pata (central intersection) officiated over by priest of the Desa Temple. Earlier, on Sunday morning (Feb. 7) villagers came to pay devotional work or ngayah started by cutting the meat of sacrificial animal. The largest animal in use is castrated bull. In addition, it also used flawless dogs, black piglet, chicken and duck of various colors. People are not allowed to do cockfighting (tajen) and slaughter animals for 14 days starting from Monday (Jan. 25). Castrated bull used for the need of caru, said Putu Toya, has been prepared from the beginning. In the past, he said, it was very difficult to find castrated cattle and people even once looked for to Jimbaran
in South Kuta. Currently, due to increasingly difficult to find the castrated bull, local village must prepare itself. It is then maintained on village land and bathed as prepared for the animal sacrifice. “In the past, there was a cow for sacrifice but not maintained properly put into a less decent cowshed, so that it escaped. It was eventually found in front of a temple near the intersection of Subagan,” he said. After that, cows and other animals used for caru are always treated well. Then, nyabung is the activity where the village youths tie their head with checkered fabrics and chase the animal at the southern and northern edge of the village area. The animals are raised freely without being tied or put into cage by residents in the region. Then, the animals caught like a chicken is then slaughtered and its blood is spilled. Putu Toya added that the meaning of nyabung is to demonstrate a genuine animal sacrifice of residents having been raised freely. It is said the tradition has existed from time immemorial inherited through generations of the local village. When the period of ngempet rah-rah ends, it is marked by the collapse of cattle as a caru means to be slaughtered. (013)
Mangupura —Bali becomes a destination for Chinese travelers on Lunar New Year in February 2016. Garuda Indonesia has received 65 charter flights carrying 23,000 Chinese travelers to Bali from 11 cities. Other than Garuda Indonesia, many other airlines are also carrying Chinese travelers. Bali has becomes a favorite destination of the country because there are approximately 1.14 million Chinese travelers coming to Bali every year. Considering on the celebration of the Chinese New Year, the weather in Beijing and Heilongjiang Province is still cold at minus 15 degrees Celsius, they prefer to celebrate the New Year in warmer regions. “Indonesia, especially Bali, is the most ideal destination to celebrate the Lunar New Year,” said Hari Untoro, the expert staff of the minister in the field of multiculture, Sunday (Feb. 7), in the celebration of the Lunar Festival at Harris Hotel Sunset Road. It can be seen from the largest number of tourist visit which is from Heilongjiang Province reaching 1,000 travelers followed by Beijing with 500 travelers. “We expect these days there are 400 foreign travelers and on February 9 there will be around 1,400 in Hong Kong Garden,” he said. Minister of Tourism targeted 1.7 million travelers to come to Indonesia in 2016, while the target until the end of 2019 reaches 2 million Chinese travelers. “And
this February should reach 200,000 visits,” he affirmed. Of course, Bali will become the target of Chinese travelers considering they love white sandy beaches and clear blue skies. Although the Australian travelers are the highest number of visits to Bali and Chinese travelers are ranked second, the Ministry of Tourism is targeting Chinese travelers to Indonesia can beat the number of Chinese tourist visit to neighboring countries. “We expect it can be in the first place later on,” he said. He dismissed the length of stay of foreign travelers from China is under three days. “There are some, I think they are staying for quite a long time,” he said. According to him, Chinese travelers can stay longer than three days even a week. Besides, their spending can reach USD 1,200 each. “We need to improve this,” he said. In addition to setting up various events during holidays, Ministry of Tourism also provides visa-free facility to smoothen the Chinese travelers to Indonesia and set up 6,000 souvenirs for foreign travelers. “They can be ambassadors of Indonesian tourism for their community in the country. They will tell about Balinese hospitality due to the beauty of the Island of the Gods and the warmth of Balinese culture. These will be positive viral reverberating throughout China,” he said. (kmb24)
Surfing, one of the activities attract tourist in Bali
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Bali starling to become export commodity
NEGARA - Bali starlings (Leucopsar rothschildi) are starting to be bred in captivity with the goal of exporting this rare bird, declared the Bambang Dahono Aji, Directorate General of Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems (KSDAE) for the Ministry of Forestry and the Environment, during a discussion held for the empowerment of breeders whose currently amount to hundred or so people. Dahono Aji, when met recently, said that 2013 Minister of Forestry regulations on wildlife breeding make it easier for breeders to raise these birds in captivity. According to the Directorate General records, there are some 300 Bali starling breeders outside of Bali, that serve to curb the poaching of Bali starlings from their native land. The sale of Bali starlings must be down in compliance with procedures that involve official certificates of captive breeding. There are some Bali starling breeders in Bali as well, including breeders in Jembrana West Bali the natural habitat of this beautiful bird. In oder to improve the economic prospects these breeders, the directorate general is fighting to have Bali starlings - bred in captivity, pierce the international export market. The condition of the wold birds however poses an obstacle to this endeavour. the Bali starling - that is Bali’s mascot, is already considered as a rare bird whose natural habitat (the West Bali National Park or TNBB) is now only home to some 57 bali starlings. it is said that the declingin number of birds is due to the wild predators. Directorate general explained that they are designing large breeding cages for two locations; Tegal Bunder and Brumbun Bay. ìPeople can come and see the birds first hand. Nowadays is hard to catch sight of these birds in the wild because there are so few of them left,î he added. According of Bali Post notes, hundreds of birds have been released into their native habitat since 2009. According to head of the TNBB, Tedi Sutedi, the national park has been focusing on maintaining the bird population -by releasing birds into their native habitat since 2013. Of the 57 birds wild birds, Suteji said that some of have been successful at reproducing but most of TNBB’s forest area has extreme climate conditions, especially int eh seasonal forest, so when the dry season comes, birds will naturally forage outside this territory. (kmb26)
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UN warns of hunger in Homs as Syrian offensive strands 120,000
GENEVA - A military offensive by Syrian government and allied forces has cut off 120,000 people in the northern Homs governorate since mid-January, worsening hunger and killing patients unable to get to medical care, a U.N. report said on Thursday. “There are reports of increasingly acute shortages of food, basic commodities, medical items and fuel in the area. With the irregular supply routes used until mid-January now cut off, food items that are still available are now being sold at much higher prices,” said the report by the U.N. humanitarian office.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been declared endemic in the regency of Badung as of early 2016.
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Dengue fever: endemic in Badung
MANGUPURA- Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been declared endemic in the regency of Badung as of early 2016. The epidemic has continued to increase sharply since January, with 92 cases of dengue reported so far. Just three months ago there were only 40 reported cases (October saw 38 cases, August saw 36 and in DEcember there were also 36 reported cases. Of the six subdistricts in Badung, the largest number of dengue cases occurred in South Kuta subdistrict where Badung tourism recorded 44 cases of dengue, followed by Mengwi with 28 cases, Abiansemal with 10 cases, 5 cases in North Kuta, 4 in Petang and one in Kuta. South Kuta subdistrict head, Wayan Wirya, said the high incidence dengue cases in South Kuta is due to the many new housing complexes that have gone up recently ìIn South Kuta there are many housing complexes. However, not all
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housing complexes subscribe to have their domestic waste disposed of,î said Wayan Wirya, on Monday (Feb. 8). According to Wirya, the lack of awareness about the need to keep up environmental sanitation standards is one of the causes of dengue fever spreading. ìWeíve often given out information of the matter to hamlet chiefs and headmenî he said. Wirya added that throughout the rainy season until the end of Febuary), there is the risk of the number of dengue cases rising sharply. ìEssentially, we must keep
ourselves safe and be more vigilant,î he said. Chief of the Badung Health Agency, Gede Putra Suteja, agreed that lack of hygiene is the main cause and added that the number of cases of dengue in Badung is likely to go up given that the rainy season has only just started. ìAs we reach the peak of the rainy season, the number of dengue cases tends to shoot up into the hundreds. The largest number of dengue cases tend to be reported in April and May,î he said. Nevertheless, he could not confirm whether an serious outbreak will occur depite the rising figures. An outbreak is determined based on a significant increase in the number of cases for the same period of the previous year.(kmb27)
Govt to build a circuit for minimizing reckless speeding in Buleleng
SINGARAJA - Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, planned to minimize reckless speeding among younger generations by building a motor racing circuit. He did it because he is concerned with the minimal creativity space for younger generations to express their hobby. “Originally we want to build it, but because it lies in the block of the airport area, we then delay it beforehand. I personally agree to develop the circuit so as to avoid them from reckless speeding on the streets,” said the regent from Banyuatis
village, recently. He hoped the circuit development plan will be capable of suppressing juvenile delinquency using motorcycle as a means of speeding. Lately, he noticed that a lot of motorcycles are overhauled for speeding on public roads at Saturday night. “Hopefully, next year we can build it because the funds will be adequately available. However, we cannot ascertain yet the land area so far,” he said. After the Bali provincial games in Buleleng, the government plans
to allocate budget for maintenance of equipment and sports facilities through funds taken from the Buleleng Education Agency. Next fund will be further coordinated by government. “We are still financing the management this year from the Education Agency because it needs large amount of fund. In the future, we will manage it well because this land status is still borrowing to use where it can later sell admission ticket or be leased for training athletes,” he concluded. (kmb34)
Bread prices are already 10 times higher than in the city of Homs, and unaffordable for most families. Northern Homs governorate is mostly farming land, but the fields yield little in winter and hunger is
expected to spike in the next two weeks, the report said. Basic medical supplies are also in short supply, the report said, noting dialysis patients in rural Homs were unable to access lifesaving treatment and
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Still image taken from aerial footage released by Russia’s Defence Ministry on February 11, 2016, shows airstrikes, carried out by the country’s air force and hitting what the Defence Ministry says were Islamic State oil storage facilities, at an unknown location in Syria.
14 out of 34 cancer patients in the area had reportedly died due to lack of medical care. The last U.N. aid convoy reached rural northern Homs in October 2015. The U.N. has been trying to send additional supplies since then, but has been unable to get approval. The two enclaves are controlled by opposition groups and lie between the cities of Homs and Hama in a pocket of land close to Syria’s north-south highway -- which links most of its main cities -- and the Mediterranean provinces that are the homeland of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority. There are 90,000 people in one enclave around the towns of Rastan and Talbiseh and a further 30,000 in another around Houla. The severing of the supply lines has stopped U.N. food supplies reaching the enclaves, where 12.7 percent of children and 25 percent of pregnant women are suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, much higher than the national average of 4.9 percent, the U.N. said. The area has been targeted by airstrikes and shelling since the end of October. There has been no electricity since then, and no pumped drinking water in Rastan and Talbiseh. (rtr)
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China warns on South China Sea as U.S., India consider patrols
BEIJING - China on Thursday responded to a Reuters report that the U.S. and India are discussing joint naval patrols in the disputed South China Sea, warning that interference from countries outside the region threatens peace and stability. “No cooperation between any countries should be directed at a third party,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an emailed statement to Reuters, in response to a request for comment on the report published on Wednesday. “Countries from outside the area must stop pushing forward the militarisation of the South China Sea, cease endangering the sovereignty and national security of littoral countries in the name of ‘freedom of navigation’ and harming the peace and stability of the region.” The United States wants its regional allies and other Asian nations to adopt a more united stance against China over the South China Sea, where tension has spiked since China’s construction of seven islands in the Spratly archipelago. China lays claim to most of the South China Sea, while Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims. A U.S. defence official told Reuters this week the United States and India had held talks about joint naval patrols that could include the South China Sea. The Indian navy has never carried out joint patrols with another country and a navy spokesman told Reuters there was no change in the government’s policy of only joining an international military effort under the U.N. flag. Neither the United States nor India have claims to the area, but the United States says it is concerned about shipping lanes running through the South China Sea, which carry an estimated $5 trillion of trade every year. Hong urged caution. “We hope that the relevant parties speak and act with caution, refrain from intervening in the South China Sea issue, and especially avoid being manipulated by certain countries and ultimately harming their own interests.” China illustrates its claim to almost the entire South China Sea with a “nine-dashed line” on maps, that loops far to the south, with sections far closer to the coasts of countries like the Philippines and Vietnam than to its shores. China’s more assertive claim has included dredging to build up islands and the construction of air fields and shipping facilities on some reefs. It recently launched flights to one artificial island. The United States has responded by sending navy ships close to the islands China claims. China has condemned that as provocative. India has a long-running land border dispute with China, and has stepped up its naval presence far beyond the Indian Ocean in recent years, deploying a ship to the South China Sea almost constantly, an Indian navy commander said. (rtr)
Auschwitz guard, 94, goes on trial in Germany
DETMOLD - A 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz lowered his eyes as he arrived at a German court on Thursday to be tried as an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people in what is likely to be one of the last few Nazi war crimes trials. Reinhold Hanning was 20 years old in 1942 when he started serving as a Waffen SS guard at the death camp in occupied Poland, where more than 1.1 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. There was a heavy police presence around the court in the western town of Detmold as Hanning walked in, wearing glasses and a dark brown
tweed jacket and looking at the ground, for a session limited to just two hours due to his age. Prosecutors said Hanning had joined the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the Nazi party, voluntarily at the age of 18 and fought in eastern Europe during the early stages of World War Two before being transferred to Auschwitz in January 1942. Accused by the prosecutor’s office in Dortmund as well as by 38 joint plaintiffs from Hungary, Israel, Canada, Britain, the United States and Germany, Hanning will hear the testimony of former camp inmates in court.
One of them is Erna de Vries, who was deported to Auschwitz along with her mother in 1943, at the age of 23. Considered a “Jewish crossbreed” as her father was Protestant, she was saved from the gas chamber and transferred to a labour camp. “I survived, but to this day I don’t know exactly how my mother was killed,” she told Reuters ahead of the trial. “The last thing she said to me was: ‘You will survive and explain what happened to us.’ “I am not hateful but it somehow feels like justice to see this man, who was working there when my mother died, on trial.” (rtr)
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A USS Boxer LHD travels at an offshore location in Goa in this October 29, 2006 file photo. The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a U.S. defence official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger Beijing, which claims most of the waterway.
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International designers to explore ‘fashion utopia’ during LFW
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FILE New York Fashion Week Spring 2015. New York Fashion Week opens on Thursday with chilly weather and perhaps an even chillier prospect: defining the purpose of the shows as brands begin trying fresh ways to engage customers.
New York’s Fashion Week opens amid questions about shows’ future
NEW YORK - New York Fashion Week opens on Thursday with chilly weather and perhaps an even chillier prospect: defining the purpose of the shows as brands begin trying fresh ways to engage customers. This season, the once-exclusive event will occupy a middle ground between invitation-only and fashion-for-all, with a mix of shows open solely to the well-connected as well as opportunities for the public to witness the spectacle, if only by smartphone live-stream. “The traditional structure of Fashion Week, particularly in New York, has been shifting for the past few seasons,” said Alexandra Ilyashov, a fashion editor at the lifestyle website Refinery29. The industry has begun to “seriously reevaluate the future of the fashion show” in an increasingly digital world, she said. More than 230,000 people attend the New York events in February to see the designs for the coming fall and in September,
for spring fashion. In recent years, the fashion shows, big-spending celebrity clients and lavish parties have brought $887 million annually to the local economy, according to the New York City Economic Development Corp. But Fashion Week may be transitioning from an exclusive fete for critics and buyers to a weeklong gathering for designers to engage consumers directly. “Who is Fashion Week for?” queried a Vogue article this week, positing that the bi-annual ritual now has two audiences. One is fashion editors and buyers planning ahead for their spreads and inventories. The other is consumers, who want in on the cultural theater and do not want to wait the fashion
calendar’s six months to get the new styles they see in Instagram and Twitter captures of catwalks. “That’s what’s on everyone’s minds,” said Rickie De Sole, W magazine’s fashion market and accessories director. “Each brand is figuring out what works for them.” Designer Tom Ford canceled his February show last week to display his fall collection in September, when it will be seasonally appropriate and available immediately for purchase. Designer Rebecca Minkoff has said she will show her spring line now. This season’s Fashion Week also features the debut of Kanye West’s “Waves” music album and Yeezee Season Three fashion line, and Rihanna’s designs for active wear maker Puma, a first for the pop star. Fashion Week stalwarts Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein will close the event on Feb. 18. (rtr)
LONDON-London Fashion Week will be shining the spotlight on international designers this month with an exhibition titled “Fashion Utopias.” The show will see emerging fashion designers from 24 countries create fashion installations at the city’s Somerset House. The building’s west wing will be transformed into a Utopian terrain, designed by Hatty Ellis Coward, where an emerging generation of international designers and curators will present their vision of the future. Over 14 galleries, 13 of which will represent a country, designers will unveil creations on a theme that honors the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s inspirational text, “Utopia.” There will be one group installation, “Next in Line”, which will feature designers from 11 more nations. It is the fifth annual edition of the British Council and the British Fashion Council’s International Fashion Showcase (IFS) initiative, which explores the link between fashion and contemporary culture. Nationalities represented in the
2016 exhibition include Austria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia, Lebanon, Korea, Portugal, Philippines, Nigeria, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Argentina, Bahrain, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates will feature in the Next in Line installation. Highlights are set to include Guatemala’s installation, where each designer will create miniature versions of their designs as traditional worry dolls, and Indonesia, where each designer will represent an essential element -- earth, fire, water and wind. Each designer from Lebanon will create a customized piece for IFS in the unifying shade of blue, while Lagos Fashion and Design Week will curate an installation of Nigerian menswear and womenswear that imagines the creative energy of designers as a cosmic bang. Fashion Utopias will run February 19 - 23. A winning Country and Designer, as well as a “Curator Award” sponsored by mannequin creator Bonaveri, will be announced on February 21 during London Fashion Week. (IBP/net)
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Musicians Beck (L), Justin Bieber (C) and Joan Jett watch the Saint Laurent fall collection during a fashion show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2016.
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Well in operation
Paksebali’s water crisis overcome by villagers
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Hundreds of roasted suckling pig filled in the courtyard of the Dalem Temple of Timbrah, Pertima, Karangasem, on Monday (Feb. 8).
Usaba Dalem, residents deliver hundreds of roasted suckling pigs
AMLAPURA- Hundreds of roasted suckling pig filled in the courtyard of the Dalem Temple of Timbrah, Pertima, Karangasem, on Monday (Feb. 8). This unusual sight occurred after all the residents presented their offerings of roasted suckling pig for the occasion of a usaba dalem ritual, a local tradition that is still practiced to this day. preserved until now. Local community leader, I Nengah Sudarsa, said on Monday (Feb. 8) that the usaba dalem ritual is held every year, precisely on the new moon of the eighth month in Balinese calendar. ìUsaba dalem is essentially a delivering of young animal sacrifices, in order to neutralize evil spirits and achieve peace, explained Sudarsa. This particular form of animal sacrifice (caru) is Timrah village’s way to balance the microcosm and the macrocosm and bring prosperity and well-being to the people of Timrha. The ritual is derived from the story of Shiva Purana wherein the chapter entitled It has Dhurga Mahisasura Mardhini Goddess Durga is victorious in her fight against an ogre who has taken the form of a cow or buffalo. today this historic event seres as a reminder to humankind to avoid owning animals. The Usaba dalem ritual held in the old village of Timrah is distinct from other such rituals held in other villages in Bali. the tradition of this village, which has taken place since long ago, requires every family to prepare a roasted suckling pig or roasted duck as well as banuyan as
an offering. With about 800 families in the village, this means that the Dalem Temple becomes filled with hundreds of roasted suckling pig offerings. Sudarsa who is also a legislator in the Karangasem House of Representatives, confirmed that local people believe that the offerings in the form of roasted suckling pig symbolize fertility and prosperity. Apart from conducting the ritual for the sake of maintain gin tradition alone, this annual ritual is also held in order to maintain harmony, fertility and welfare. The Usaba dalem ritual expresses sincerity and reminds people to always loving one another. If there are people who cannot deliver such offerings -whether because they are in cuntaka (temporarily spiritually impure) or for other reasons, the other villages will share their roasted suckling pig meat with them. ìThese qualities continue to grow among our residents for generations,î said this former Regional Secretary of Karangasem. Not only is the meat shared with neighbors, but it is also distributed to relatives in neighbouring villages or in other areas. Sudarsa hopes that the harmony of every ritual at Timbrah customary village can be maintained and developed in the direction of positive things. Behind the usaba dalem ritual, he said, there are religious teachings, values of sincerity, compassion and the spirit of helping others in social life. (kmb31)
SEMARAPURA - A testing well and its equipment worth IDR 900 million, that was allocated through the Klungkung regional budget, is finally in operation. The well project, that began in September 2015, can now provide water to some 600 residents of Paksebali village, who had previously had no access to clean water in the dry season. Headman of Paksebali, Putu Ariadi, explained that the 600 members of his community used to rely on water from the village well that could only be pumped up every four days in rotation because the well does not have enough water to meet the needs of all the villagers at once. Now that this village-owned waterworks well is operational, the people of Paksebali can have access to water everyday. After the well testing, the village-owned waterworks is now able to distribute as much as 10 litters of water per second, said Ariadi. ìNow, with the completion and consecration of this project, the village
waterworks is ready to operate and will pump water every day,î said Ariadi on Monday (Feb. 8), adding that the water tariff has been set at IDR 1,200 per cubic meter. Coinciding with the new moon in the eighth month of Balinese calendar (Feb. 7), village authorities held mecaru, melaspas, mendem pedagingan and mendak toya rituals as expressions of gratitude for the gift of water that has has come to the community. These rituals were attended by the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, accompanied by legislator of Dawan, constituency representative Anak Agung Sayang and were witnessed
by local residents. Regent Suwirta had a taste of the water from the artesian well that was built with assistance from the Klunkung district government. The regent asked the headman and residents of Paksebali to take full advantage of the village waterworks and to manage it together through the village-owned enterprise (BUMDES). The regent also conveyed his appreciation for the efforts of headman Putu Ariadi in managing and building-up Paksebali village, that has already started to show good results. ìI would like to acknowledge Paksebali’s that our headman has been able to build-up and organize the appearance of his village. Besides, he has also been diligent in communicating with me about his programs and ideas. Hopefully, others can follow his footsteps,î said Regent Suwirta. (dwa)
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A testing well and its equipment worth IDR 900 million, that was allocated through the Klungkung regional budget, is finally in operation.
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COVER STORY Bugbug ... From page 1
He requested all parties to jointly maintain the sanctity of Bali. Development without direction indeed has become a challenge to Bali and it is difficult to be prevented when the leaders can no longer be trusted to maintain the integrity of Bali. He hoped there are leaders of Bali that can really listen to the aspirations of Balinese people, especially the customary people having started expressing their rejection. Previously, the rejection against the reclamation plan was expressed by chief of Ujung Hyang customary village, I Gusti Bagus Suteja. He said the damage to coastline at local village has been very severe. It has nearly exhausted, if it has not been immediately protected with revetment. Abrasion has eroded the land area along two kilometers, submerged the local Segara Temple, eliminated parking space of traditional boats as well as eliminated the venue of melasti and cremation
for the Hindu society. He said the in local government. ters, along the 33.3 kilometers are in meters), Seraya (5,000 meters), Buimpact of abrasion has occurred Both villages belong to the abra- damaged condition due to abrasion. nutan (7,500 meters), Amed (3,500 after the reclamation of Serangan sion-prone areas in Karangasem. It occurred in the entire coastline meters), Tulamben (2,500 meters) Island. Data on the coastal condition in the starting from Yeh Malet along 500 and Kubu (5,000 meters). As noted, Different from Bugbug village Karangasem Public Works Agency meters, Padangbai (1,000 meters), the most serious abrasion occurred and Ujung Hyang village, the show that the coastline of Karan- Ulakan (1,300 meters), Sengkidu at Bunutan village, Abang. Of the other coastal villages such as Jasri gasem reaches 85.017 kilometers (1,500 meters), Candidasa (2,000 total length of 12,232 meters, 7,500 chose to be undecided. Headman divided into 13 beaches. From the meters), Bugbug (1,379 meters), meters have experienced abrasion of Jasri, Nyoman Sutirtayasa, said coastline of about 85.017 kilome- Jasri (1,400 meters), Ujung (800 for years. (kmb31) on Monday (Feb. 8) his institution entirely handed over the process to local government. If the results of the environmental impact analysis has declared infeasible, the project is appropriately rejected. But, if feasible and having no effect for other coastal areas, then there is no reason for rejecting. When asked if the results of the environmental impact analysis made by the Udayana University have declared if this project has been unfit, Sutirtayasa did not dare to expressly reject it. He admitted that customary village assembly such as the MUDP (in the province), MMDP (district) and MADP (subdistrict) overshadowing the customary issues have not deterIBP/Budana mined their stance. Thus, he temporarily chose the ongoing process The fisherman in Bugbug, Karangasem is ready to go to the sea
Buleleng Museum dormant without development
Singaraja - A historian and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FIS) of the Undiksha Singaraja, Made Pageh, assessed that fostering the love and concern for historic heritages in Buleleng needs serious attention from various circles. Management of historical objects is considered to have not been maximal. Actually, many historical values are stored in it and they can educate young generations.
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Geopark Museum located in Kintamani, Bangli. As one of the museum, it is not properly manage so it cannot develop
“Not many people are indeed interested in the existence of the museum, unless the museum is maximally arranged and interesting to study,” said Pageh, Monday (Feb. 8). He said that the existence of the museum is now hampered by management factor between the North Bali Cultural Preservation Foundation (YPBBU) and the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency. He considered it need greater efforts to make sure the management of the museum and its contents. Activating the museum includes the writing of the history and the program involving the young generation. He hoped the Buleleng Museum will not be dormant too long. “I cannot speak too much if the museum is ignored like that, so that it is matter of time. Actually in terms of the potential of the museum, it has spacious land and can certainly be managed creatively. There is no breakthrough or development program, including historical writings. Environment of the Buleleng Museum can be made more attractive by taking advantage of it as educational center, venue of competition, provision of Wi-Fi internet access and shopping center and a variety of other textbooks,” said Pageh. (kmb34)
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Balinese Temple Ceremony
Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Alila Seminyak Your Key to Bali’s surprisingly different southwest coast
Located less than 30 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport, this latest addition to Alila Hotels & Resorts’ Bali collection enjoys an unrivalled beachfront setting along the sophisticated shores of Seminyak, Bali’s upscale resort destination. Renowned for great surfing, legendary sunsets, and the buzz of glamorous beach clubs such as Ku De Ta and Potato Head, Alila Seminyak is just a few minutes’ walk to Seminyak town, home to an eclectic mix of chic boutiques, galleries, restaurants, cafes and nightspots, making it the hippest location in Bali. If guests can tear themselves away from the beach and the many luscious chill-out spots within the resort, Alila Seminyak has put together its unique Alila Experiences, leading to discovery of the local surroundings, culture, traditions and cuisine that’s ever-surprisingly different. Guests can explore this southwestern stretch of coastline on the Rom-antique Roadshow, jaunting along in the retro comfort of a fully restored vintage 1980 Volkswagen Kombi to different beach venues and beach clubs in the area, where they can party with friends and make pit stops for cocktails and canapés. The VW Kombi is also the chariot of choice for the Sensational Retail Therapy experience, whisking guests off on a fun day
out to fulfil their shopping desires accompanied by their own personal shopping Concierge, aka one of the resort’s Leisure Concierge team. This extravagant shopping trip comes with a fully stocked mini-bar on board the Kombi for those essential shopping breaks with the best music to groove to your beat. As the sun goes down, Seminyak’s cool factor inches up. Make a date for Twilight to Midnight, a memorable night on the town including dinner, drinks and clubbing at Seminyak’s trendiest nightspots. After a night of indulgence, there’s no better way to recalibrate than with Divine Healing, featuring a private session of yoga on the beach with the resort’s own yogi, followed by a private Balinese healing session performed at a nearby
temple. Alila Seminyak is also a great base for exploring the lush landscapes and cultural gems of this region, from Uluwatu Temple in the south and Tanah Lot Temple to the north, to the beautiful rice terraces that stretch as far as the eye can see. Guests can experience temple traditions hands-on at the 15th century Pura Petitenget sea temple that is situated next to the resort, learning to make offerings and experiencing the unique Balinese Melukat purification ritual. Adventurous spirits can hop on a bicycle and explore the surrounding countryside and villages. In Spice It Up, culinary traditions are uncovered at the local market with the Executive Chef, followed by time in the resort’s organic garden and a Balinese cooking class. Meanwhile, in Shaken & Stirred, guests get to practise the art of mixology in the resort’s groundbreaking Cocktail Lab. Through uniquely crafted experiences such as these, Alila Seminyak invites you to discover the many surprising sides to Seminyak while luxuriating within its oasis of sophistication and style... in true Alila fashion.
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Berlin film fest opens with Clooney -- and eye on refugees
BERLIN - George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when “Hail, Caesar!” opens the annual Berlin Film Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned showcase hopes to attract refugees as well as film fans this year. The festival that began in 1951 when Germany -- and Europe -- was recovering from a war that had uprooted millions of people is making an extra effort to welcome the latest wave of refugees who have fled war in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Refugees will be taken behind the scenes of the festival, some accompanied by NGO workers who are helping them to adjust to life in Germany, and there will be a refugee-staffed food truck serving up Mediterranean fare with the aid of a celebrity chef, the festival said in a statement. Dieter Kosslick, the festival’s director, told Reuters in an interview that without losing sight of its primary goal of presenting the best of world cinema, this year’s Berlinale is programmed in part to show why people become refugees. “If you lose your homeland you don’t lose it because you want to leave your house, you want to leave your garden, your flowers, your family,” Kosslick said. “You want
to be happy, and you are leaving because you are not happy and this is the way you can see the whole Berlinale.” Germany has taken in more than a million refugees over the past year, the largest number of any European country. One of the competition films, “Fuocoamare” (Fire at Sea) by director Gianfranco Rosi, whose “Sacro GRA” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, is a documentary about refugees piling up on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. “La Route d’Istanbul” (Road to Istanbul), in the festival’s Panorama programme, is a drama about a mother trying to rescue her daughter from Islamic State militants in Syria.
willing to marry her if the opportunity arose. His lawyers called him to testify in his own defense in the felony stalking case. He sent Paltrow 66 messages and packages between 2009 and 2015, but none of the recent correspondence included pornography. A judge has said the earlier messages could be important to understanding Paltrow’s fear of Soiu. Paltrow testified Monday she was afraid of Soiu and began crying when she expressed fears about her children’s safety. Deputy District Attorney Wendy Segall questioned why Paltrow would want to marry him after he had sent her so many lewd messages and she had to testify against him. “I was
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Jay Weissberg, a Europe-based critic for trade publication Variety, said it was no surprise that the Berlin festival would make refugees a theme at a time when Europe is wrestling with how to deal with the millions fleeing to its shores. “My problem with it basically ... is it just smacks a little bit too much of the Berlinale showing off its political correctness,” Weissberg said in an interview. “At the same time I want to say, ‘Why not?’Aren’t we acknowledging Syrians in Syria went to film festivals and now that they’re in Germany why aren’t we also trying to normalise their lives -and perhaps this is a way to do it.” Weissberg was more enthusiastic about the breakthrough this year for Arabic language films. Competition film “Inhebbek Hedi” (Hedi) is about a young Tunisian man about to be married who falls in love with a tourist guide. “Barakah yoqabil Barakah” (Barakah Meets Barakah), in the Forum strand, is described as a Saudi romantic comedy. (rtr)
trying to show I had changed and I had become a different person,” Soiu said. “I wanted to show a new face towards her.” Soiu said he didn’t want to scare the actress, but he was intent on her responding to him. “I wanted her to say flat out, ‘I don’t want to marry you,’ “ he said. “That way I would have a definite response from her.” He said he wrote to many public figures, including President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin offering counsel on world affairs and solutions to problems. He conceded that his notes to Paltrow were the only ones that expressed an interest in marriage. “Oh, no, I don’t want to marry
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After Galungan
Garbage Pile Up in Denpasar
Denpasar – The garbage on the street of Denpasar was piling up after Galungan Day. On Thursday, February 11, Denpasar Cleanliness and Gardening Department (DKP) stated that the garbage was around 3,000 cubic meters. The high number of garbage made it pilling up on the side of the street such as on A. Yani Utara, Seroja, Antasura and Hayam Wuruk Street.
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The members of the international jury for the upcoming 66th Berlinale International Film Festival pose during a photocall in Berlin, Germany, February 10, 2016. The members are (L-R): Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, British author Nick James, German actor Lars Eidinger, Jury President U.S. actress Meryl Streep, British actor Clive Owen, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska. The festival runs from February 11 until February 21 in the German capital.
Accused Paltrow stalker discusses desire to marry actress
LOS ANGELES — An Ohio man charged with stalking Gwyneth Paltrow testified Wednesday that he sent her dozens of messages in the hope she might want to marry him despite her testifying against him in a previous stalking case. Dante Soiu testified that he wanted his messages to show her unconditional love and friendship and that he had no animosity toward her over the earlier case, which sent him to a mental institution for several years. That case involved 500 messages, including sex toys and pornography, Soiu sent Paltrow in 1999 and 2000. Soiu told jurors he wanted to let Paltrow know he was available and
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Putin,” Soiu said. Soiu was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 in the previous case involving pornographic messages he sent to Paltrow. He was re-arrested last year after sending the actress new correspondence. He said he was addicted to pornography at the time but said he is now on medication and considers himself healed. The recent batch of letters described Soiu’s intention to marry the actress as well as a pair of earrings he sent her in 2009 as a Christmas gift, some secondhand clothes and a Weight Watchers cookbook. He has also sent her religious books, and forwarded her letters he has sent to President Barack Obama and actress
Angelina Jolie. One letter described Paltrow “bowing to death,” a reference the actress said she found disturbing. Soiu, a self-described born again Christian from Columbus, Ohio, said he was referencing spiritual, not physical death, in his letters. He said he hoped the Oscar winner would write him back if she wanted him to stop. “I wanted her to at least be a pen pal or at least say something,” Soiu said. Soiu testified he believed he had an understanding with Paltrow’s lawyer that he could write to the actress until he was told to stop. He conceded that he never spoke or corresponded with the lawyer to reach that agreement. (ap)
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A man is trying to find something that can be sold in the pile of garbage in Sudirman Street, Denpasar. The garbage is pilling up after Galungan Day
Most of the garbage was the left over from the ceremony on Galungan. The Head of DKP Denpasar, I Ketut Wisada said that the problem faced by his department was the increasing garbage during the holiday was also followed by the lack of personnel. Many of the DKLP personnel were asking a day off to celebrate Galungan. This condition made the garbage was taken to the final disposal place one step at a time. “There are also some problems with the trucks because 10 of them are being repaired. It makes us work longer,” he added. Wisada said that currently, they have 30 trucks to carry the garbage throughout the city. The number of garbage was increasing dramatically because the Hindus in Denpasar was celebrating Galungan and the leftover of the ceremony made it pilling up. Wisada explain that on daily basis, the garbage produces by the inhabitant of Denpasar are 2,500 through 2,700 cubic meter but during Galungan, it can increase up to 3,000 meter cubic.(kmb12)
Responding to Benoa Bay reclamation
Bugbug firmly rejects, Jasri still hesitates
Amlapur a — Vi l lages on the east coast of the Island of Bali begin to react against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. Other than the customary village of Ujung Hyang, Karangasem, similar rejection came from the Bugbug customary village. As one of the old villages in Karangasem, it expressly rejects
the Benoa Bay reclamation, while the people of Jasri still hesitate to determine their attitude. Chief of Bugbug customary village, Jero Wayan Mas Suyasa, said on Monday that God has created the island as a whole complete with its natural potential. He asked that investors should not try to change the Bali mainland with reclamation. Bali cannot be equated with advanced regions with reclamation
area. Balinese people are known to honor the sea, so that its sustainability should be maintained and not even covering up to 800 hectares. “God has created the Island of Bali in complete condition. Never make the nature of Bali unbalanced with reclamation,” said Mas Suyasa. He considered the rejection by the majority of Balinese people is a form of natural reaction that the nature of Bali rejects against such
a plan. Reclamation is very horrible for Bali, not only for the location of the reclamation, but also for the other parts, especially in the coastal territories due to disruption of natural balance of Bali. Abrasion will obviously threaten the eastern coast of Bali, especially Karangasem that has been damaged due to the impact of previous abrasion. Mas Suyasa admitted to be very concerned with the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. By
thinking more about the negative impact on the natural balance of Bali, the plan should be undone. “Obviously, our coastal residents are worried. But this is just a matter of process. Seeing the rejection of Balinese people, I have confidence that the reclamation cannot be realized,” he said. Bugbug Continued on page 2...