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Katie Price arrested on suspicion of drink-driving LOS ANGELES - Met Police say they arrested a 40-year-old woman after finding a car with signs of damage in Woolwich, southeast London, at 2am.

TV personality and former glamour model Katie Price has been arrested on suspicion of drinkdriving.

Police say a woman arrested in the early hours has since been released pending further investigation.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “At approximately 2am, British Transport Police officers came across a car showing signs of damage stationary at the roadside in

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“A 40-year-old woman who was inside the car was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. She was taken to a south London police station where she remains.

“Officers from the Met investigate. Inquiries continue.”

The woman was held at a station in south London for several hours.

The police spokesman said a breath test had been administered but that the force would not discuss the results. Price, who has five children, split from her third husband, Kieran Hayler, earlier this year.

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US-Canadian actress Pamela Anderson (R) and her dancing partner Maxime Dereymez stand in a cage displaying placards against the caging of animals during an event organized by the NGO Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) in Paris on October 10, 2018.

Pamela Anderson gets behind bars in Paris protest against farm animal abuse

PARIS - Actress Pamela Anderson joined animal rights campaigners in Paris Wednesday, posing inside a cage to protest the caging of animals in European farming.

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The former Baywatch star was backing a campaign by Compassion in World Farming to get a million signatures in seven EU countries in support of their bid to end the practice.

“I don’t think any animal belongs in a cage for entertainment or for what we wear or what we eat,” she told reporters.

“All of our choices are important and we have to be more conscious of our decisions,” she added. “Animal welfare has come a long way, but we have a long way to go.”

The petition is part of the European Citizens’ Initiative, which means that if they can raise a million signatures within a year the

European Commission will have to consider the issue.

The organisers say they have the support of 140 organisations, including in France the Brigitte Bardot Foundation and PETA. Anderson is currently taking part in the French edition of the television programme Dancing with the Stars. (afp)

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Southeast Asian leaders pose for a family photo for the ASEAN Leaders Gathering at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 11, 2018. Pictured L-R: ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and Myanmar’s U Win Myint. Finance ministers and central bankers from 180 nations are among 32,000 attendees in Bali for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from October 9 to 14, which takes place every three years outside of Washington.

Bali batik: IMF meets in Indonesia

The world’s financial elite are gathering in the Indonesian holiday island Bali for talks with trade spats and emerging markets crises topping the agenda. Here are some facts and figures about the high-level gathering: - Quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes Disaster-prone Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as the sprawling archipelago sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the world’s most seismically active region.

Some 32,000 delegates at this week’s meeting got a taste of that volatility early Thursday morning when a shallow quake off the coast of Bali and Java island killed at least three people and triggered panic. Thousands of people staying in hotels near the meetings were jolted awake by the strong shake that sent many running outside.

It came after the city of Palu, more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from Bali, was flattened last month

in a quake-tsunami disaster that has killed more than 2,000 people.

Bali’s neighbouring Lombok island was also hammered by a series of quakes this summer that killed over 500, while the island’s Mt Agung erupted earlier in the year -- leading to thousands of cancelled flights and even more grumbling tourists.

Indonesian organisers have advised participants to stay in the IMF conference centre in case of a quake because it’s built to withstand such tremors. In case of a tsunami warning, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building.

- Global gabfest Finance ministers and central

bankers from 180 nations are among the attendees in Bali for the annual meetings of the US-based International Monetary Fund and World Bank, held every three years outside of Washington. Talks run from Tuesday through Sunday.

Local hotels are packed and taxis can be hard to come by as attendees speed by Bali’s world-famous beaches to spend a few days in air-conditioned venues in Nusa Dua, home to a string of luxury hotels -- and a safe distance from the island’s booze-fuelled tourist party spot Kuta.

- Tight security Thousands of security staff have fanned out across key venues, and are confiscating certain items as

attendees pass through metal detectors, including cigarette lighters in a country with one of the world’s highest smoking rates.

At least one coconut-brandishing participant got his fruit through the scanners unharmed, however.

The machine was later taken out of service for unexplained reasons.

Muslim-majority Indonesia, a huge nation of 260 million people, has been on high alert after suicide bombings this year in its secondbiggest city Surabaya underlined its long battle with Islamist militancy.

About 15 minutes’ drive from the meeting venues stands a monument to more than 200 people -- mostly tourists -- who were killed in the 2002 Bali bombing terror attack.

The majority of Bali’s residents practice Hinduism while Christians also make up a sizeable minority group.

- Business batik Organisers have advised against heavy suits in the sweltering tropical heat and many participants, including foreign delegates, are donning batik shirts -- a local staple for business or pleasure.

Batik uses a dyeing process that results in a dizzying array of intricate patterns in all colours of the rainbow.

Shirts can cost upwards of several hundred US dollars for top-quality fabric and original designs. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Activists slam police for blocking anti-IMF event in Bali backed policies that critics say aggravate income inequality, abuse labour rights and hurt the environment.

Organisers said police intelligence personnel had infiltrated the event planning team as volunteers, subjecting them to intimidation and constant surveillance.

Hoax banners of the event carrying logos of terror-linked organisations as co-sponsors also appeared around the planned venue in Dangin Puri Kangin village, near the island’s capital Denpasar, the organisers said.

“They are trying to intimidate and even ban our democratic activity in relation to the World Bank and IMF,” Kurniawan Sabar, an organiser from the Peoples’ Global Conference, told AFP. “We were

having the conference to discuss how IMF and World Bank projects affect people.” Indonesia’s national police could not immediately be reached for comment.

Thousands of security personnel have fanned out around key venues in Nusa Dua, just south of Bali’s main international airport, with some 32,000 delegates, including finance ministers and central bankers, attending the IMF-World Bank meetings.

Delegates are focused on maintaining global growth amid increasing protectionist sentiment and escalating trade tensions between China and US. Sabar said the Peoples’ Global Conference was looking for an alternate venue and was in negotiations with police in Bali. (afp)

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The Delegates of IMF-WB visit Ulundanu Batur Temple

IMF-WB delegates visit Ulundanu Batur Temple

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A small group of anti-IMF demonstrators shout and hold up placards saying “Stop the attacks” in one of the main venues at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 11, 2018.

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INTERCONTINENTAL BALI RESORT CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

An anti-globalisation conference on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s annual meeting this week in Indonesia has been cancelled due to pressure from national police, activists said Thursday.

The planned event set to kick off Thursday -- the “Peoples’ Global Conference against IMF-WB” -- has had its approval yanked by police, and the venue organiser cancelled, organisers said.

“While the local police has already issued a recommendation in favour of holding the conference, the national police is now using the local village leadership and paramilitary saying that no event can be held without its permission,” organisers of the Peoples’ Global Conference said in a statement.

The alternative conference, which had attracted around 300 registrants from Indonesia and around the world, was to bring together dozens of civil society groups to draw attention to the impact of free trade and IMF-WB

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BANGLI - Charm of the beauty exuded by the Ulundanu Batur Temple in Kintamani has been able to attract many tourists to visit Bangli. No exception is for the delegates of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018. On Wednesday (Oct. 10), an IMF-WB delegate, Adolfo Armiento, Director General of the Central Bank as Representative of the State Finance Minister of Uruguay, visited the Ulundanu Batur Temple to have a look at and take pictures with the background of the beauty of building shrine of the temple.

Spokesperson of Bangli Police, Sulhadi, said the delegate of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting arrived at Ulundanu Batur Temple around 11:15. The arrival of the delegate at Ulundanu Batur Temple was welcomed and guided by the local temple chief, I Wayan Adnyana.

At Ulundanu Batur Temple, Adolfo accompanied by a liaison officer looked at the beauty of the local shrine buildings. He took photographs in the temple area. After getting satisfied to look around the temple area, approximately at 11:45, the delegate continued their visit to Lake View Kintamani Restaurant. The visit was to have lunch while seeing the panoramic view of the Mount and Lake Batur.

Sulhadi stated that in order to secure the visit of the IMF delegates, the Bangli Police deployed 15 personnel. Obviously, the security was led directly by the Subdivision Head of the Bangli Police Operations, Ngakan Putu Anom, accompanied by the Kintamani Police Chief and the Head of the Bangli Police Mobile Detective Unit. (kmb40)

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I n t e r C o n t i n e n ta l Bali Resort celebrated its 25th anniversary this October with a series of special events and activities for both hotel guests and associates.

Opened its doors to public since 4th October 1993, the resort has retained its place as one of the top five-star resorts in Jimbaran Bay, it proudly continues its tradition of offering the most luxurious experience while highlighting the island’s rich heritage and culture.

Throughout the years, the resort has been awarded numerous accolades and recognitions, both international and local.

InterContinental Bali Resort’s restaurants have long been the most favorites in the area, featuring with an exquisite array of local and global cuisines such as Italian cuisine at Bella Cucina, Japanese flavours at KO Restaurant or authentic local Balinese at Jimbaran Gardens.

The anniversary commenced with a traditional Tumpeng Ceremony in Taman Gita restaurant during breakfast. Acone-shaped tower of yellow rice, Nasi Tumpeng symbolizes the mountains and volcanoes as the abode of the gods, with the signature yellow color represents gold, or abundance. The Tumpeng was carried in as part of a ceremonial parade by staff and management who were dressed in traditional attire and accompanied by rousing beleganjur music.

The entire resort took on a festive air with plenty adornments of

ceremonial flags and special offerings. The celebration continues into the evening with the management team hosting guests for cocktails in the gardens accompanied by a live Balinese dance performance. The Resort’s General Manager, Michael Koth, thanked business partners and stakeholders for their trust and continual support with the following statement: “We are thrilled to be celebrating our 25th anniversary here on the magical island of Bali.

It is quite a milestone, 25 years of creating unforgettable holiday experiences for our guests, as well as providing valuable support for the local community which we are so grateful and honoured to be a part of. It has been a fantastic journey to everyone involved and associated with us and we look forward to an even more glittering future” InterContinental Bali Resort 25th Year Anniversary is not just about celebrating resort, but also about giving back to the community. Together with its sister properties in Bali, the resort participated in Giving for Good month with a series of community-based activities to raise donation fund for earthquake victims in the neighbouring island of Lombok.

Throughout the birthday month, InterContinental Bali Resort offers a special accommodation promotion to celebrate its silver anniversary.

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Geo Dipa Energi

Target to reduce 6 million carbon emissions in 2035

MANGUPURA — PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero), as the only geothermal state-owned enterprise (SOE), does not only focus on project development, but also on the environment. Geo Dipa has a target to reduce carbon (CO2) emissions by at least 1-2 million tons in 2023 and 6 million tons in 2035.

President Director of PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero), Riki Ibrahim, stated this commitment is reflected in the short-term and long-term plans for developing the business of PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero) in accordance with Indonesia’s Commitment to climate change contained in the Law No. 16/2016 concerning the Paris Agreement to the United Nations.

In order to fulfill the commitment to reducing carbon emissions massively, at present Geo Dipa carries out the mandate of the Geothermal Law No.21/2014 chiefly

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the Article 28 namely getting an assignment from the government to carry out exploration, exploitation and / or utilization of geothermal renewable energy.

Geo Dipa is committed to increasing quantity and making it easier for people to obtain ecofriendly electricity needs. In addition, it opens and expands job opportunities in the regions where the project is carried out and helps the government as a price setter in meeting the geothermal ecofriendly electricity.

Geo Dipa currently has a 10 MW Small Scale Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP) development project, Binary 10 MW, Candradimuka 60 MW Area Development, 5 × 55 MW Dieng and Patuha Extension units, Arjuno Welirang Field development with the capacity of 180 MW and Umbul Telomoyo Temple field with the capacity of 90 MW. (kmb12)

Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster

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Centered at Besakih

Official opening of customary attires and Balinese language use

Millennials Can’t Stop Spending Money on These 2 Cult Brands

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Furthermore, the survey explained just how much spending power millennials hold right now: “Eighteen to 35 year olds have contributed 85 percent to growth in the luxury market last year and will represent 45 percent of total high-end spending by 2025, according to the report published Friday,” BoF writes. For context, the survey included shoppers all around the world, including China, Europe, and the U.S. Are you surprised? Scroll down to shop our favorite under-$500 buys from the brands du jour. (IBP/net)

DENPASAR — The official opening of the use of Balinese customary attires and language for provincial level will be centered at Besakih Temple on October 11, 2018. The inauguration is held simultaneously throughout Bali at 08:00 local time.

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Geo Dipa is committed to increasing quantity and making it easier for people to obtain eco-friendly electricity needs.

This is set forth in Letter No.430/7023/DISBUD signed by the Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster.

The letter addressed to the regents/ mayor throughout Bali also carries the composition of the inauguration of the Balinese customary attires and Balinese language use. At the district/municipality level, the inauguration is centered at Dang Kahyangan or Kahyangan Jagat Temple.

Meanwhile, at administrative and customary village level is centered at local village temple.

Interestingly, the inauguration will also be graced with perfor-

mances of some sacred arts such as Rejang Dance, Baris Dance or other dances. This was justified by the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, when confirmed on Tuesday (Oct. 9).

“Well, (graced with the performance of sacred art—Ed) because the location of the inauguration is at the innermost temple courtyard or main mandala,” he said.

Beratha added the inauguration of the use of Balinese customary attires and language is marked with the use of headdress to representatives of the officials and community

leaders. After that, it is resumed with joint prayers led by Brahmin or temple priests.

“The whole series of the events uses Balinese language which marks the commencement of the simultaneous use of Balinese language throughout Bali,” he added.

Regarding the financing, it is carried out independently or mutual cooperation as a form of implementation of self-reliance and serious commitment to supporting the promotion of Balinese customs, religion, tradition, arts and culture. (kmb32)

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Beautiful woman sentenced to a year in prison DENPASAR - Beautiful woman from the neighboring country, Malaysia, defendant Nor Faraniza bin Nor Azam, 34, was sentenced to one year in prison. In the hearing in Denpasar District Court on Wednesday (Oct. 10), Prosecutor Wayan Sutarta before the panel of judges led by Ni Made Purnami stated the defendant is found guilty in the fourth alternative charge of violating Article 131 in conjunction with Article 127 paragraph (1) letter of the Law No. 35/2009 concerning Narcotics. The article regulates every person who does not report on the existence of Narcotics crime.

The demand remains lighter compared to the claim against her husband Mohd Akmar Firdaus bin

Ishak, 35, who was sentenced to two years 6 months (2.5 years) in the same case on Tuesday (Oct. 9).

This couple is dragged along by the case of Sharizal bin Md Salleh, 41, and Indonesian citizen on behalf of Rosida Mardani Tarigan, 43, after they were arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport for carrying narcotics.

Hearing such a demand, the defendant accompanied by his attorney, M Husein and Suroso, immediately gave a verbal defense.

The defendant himself was given the opportunity to defend himself.

In essence, the defendant asked for a relief of sentence because she must still take care of two young children currently living in Malaysia. (kmb37)

Cyclone Titli batters eastern India, 300,000 evacuated

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At the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua, Vice President Jusuf Kalla (3rd L) held a meeting with the World Bank to discuss about post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu on Wednesday (Oct. 10) in Nusa Dua.

World Bank ready to assist post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu

MANGUPURA - At the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua, Vice President Jusuf Kalla held a meeting with the World Bank to discuss about post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu on Wednesday (Oct. 10) in Nusa Dua. From the discussion, it is planned that there will be fund assistance and long-term loans.

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Defendant Nor Faraniza bin Nor Azam, 34, was sentenced to one year in prison.

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According to him, the meeting discussed the assistance that would be provided by the World Bank.

In this case, the World Bank is ready to help Indonesia in terms of funding for post-disaster recovery.

“Later on, there will be assistance and long-term loans up to 35 years.

The amount is being discussed and will be released later,” he concluded.

“So, just now we already talked to Kristalina. We talked about the programs starting from infrastructure development, tourism, structure and health. This disaster insurance is very important. We have to work immediately. They have discussed and we will immediately realize this,” said Vice President Jusuf Kalla in the press conference at the BICC Nusa Dua. CEO of World Bank, Kristalina

Georgieva, said that her party is very saddened by the occurrence of the earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi. She understood that Indonesia lies in the zone that regularly experiences earthquakes.

For post-disaster recovery, her institution will support infrastructure improvements like repairing schools, buildings and hospitals.

Thus, if later on another disaster occurs again, it will be able to be overcome quickly. “This is possible because the prevention is given the first priority,” she said.

She added that so far it had worked in several countries such as Chile which faced a stronger nature than Indonesia. With such experience, she can improve building standards and ensure the community to have a preventive mindset, and has preparedness in dealing

with disasters. “It is necessary to reduce the impact and the damage caused,” she said.

Indonesia located in the ring of fire must also think about it.

“I shared the experience in Chile how the building standards there can be strong when there is a big earthquake. What they find is the building is very strong but can reduce destruction,” she said.

Meanwhile, the funding of postdisaster condition will still be discussed because it needs adjustment.

What to do urgently is how serious the damages are and together with the government it will record the fund required and the government needs to inform. “We will be ready to support. It is the authority of the Indonesian government but we are ready to help finance it,” she concluded. (kmb23)

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Finalist of the Faso Don dancing contest, Mohamed Kassogue, performs on stage during the filming of the TV show on October 6, 2018, in the Malian capital Bamako.

In fractured Mali, dance contest offers a sense of unity

NEW DELHI - A cyclone packing winds of up to 150 kilometres (95 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early Thursday, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas and two men reported killed.

Officials in neighbouring Bangladesh said they were on alert in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, home to around one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in tarpaulin and bamboo shelters.

Cyclone Titli, which intensified into a “very severe cyclonic storm” over the Bay of Bengal, made landfall on India’s eastern coast early Thursday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.

Wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour were reported, with gusts of up to 165 kph.

One man died in a house collapse while another was killed by a falling tree, an emergency services official was quoted as saying by PTI. The Odisha state government evacuated more than 300,000

people from five coastal districts on Wednesday while local schools, colleges and childcare centres were ordered closed and fishermen advised not to go out to sea.

“We have already evacuated three lakh (300,000) people and more may be shifted to safer places in view of the very severe cyclone,” PTI quoted Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as saying.

They were accommodated in more than 1,100 cyclone shelters.

Officials have also shifted 123 pregnant women to hospitals.

Trees and electricity poles were uprooted, officials told PTI, with roads and houses also damaged.

The Bangladeshi government’s Rohingya commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam said the cyclone had brought rain to Cox’s Bazar over the last three days.

“We’re on alert. We’ve taken adequate cautionary measures for the cyclone,” Kalam told AFP, adding Dhaka had held meetings with agencies operating in the camps in preparation for the storm. (afp)

BAMAKO - All 3,000 seats in the cavernous Palace of Culture in Bamako had been snapped up, and the mood was at fever pitch as the TV dance competition reached its climax.

The three finalists took to the floor one by one, dancing alongside a celebrity -- a format familiar to viewers of talent shows around the world.

But here’s the difference: the three hopefuls each had to perform a traditional dance from a region of Mali that was not their own.

To outsiders, the format may seem odd -- rather as if, in France, one asked a Corsican to don Breton folk clothing and do a jig.

But in the landlocked Sahel state of Mali, the show has been a raging success.

And it has bred a desperatelyneeded sense of unity in a country burdened by jihadist violence and ethnic tensions.

- ‘Cultural wealth’ The competition is the brainchild of dancer and choreographer Sekou Keita.

Just six years ago, he was wondering how he could reverse the decline of traditional dance in Mali, a country whose music is now achieving global fame.

“Our dances are so varied, we

have a number of ethnic groups -- we’re very lucky to have such cultural wealth,” he told AFP. But the sad thing is that all of Mali’s dancers have one thing in common, he said.

“If you ask them to do the coupe-decale, a modern dance from Ivory Coast -- which I have nothing against, by the way -- they all know how to do it.

“If they go to (Senegal’s capital) Dakar, they all know how to dance the sabar,” he said.

“But they don’t know the traditional dances of their own country.”

- Exploring ancient roots From this came his idea for a programme that explored ancient cultural roots and built bridges across ethnic divides -- “Faso Don” or “Dances of the Country” in the Bambara language.

Over six weeks, TV audiences shared the fate of eight young men and women from different regions, who shared a house “Big Brotherstyle” in Bamako, the capital.

Each week they performed

before an audience and the TV cameras, their numbers progressively falling as a competitor was eliminated by a vote by the public and the jury -- a device familiar to lovers of Britain’s “Strictly Come Dancing” or its US spin-off, “Dancing with the Stars.”

The final took place last weekend before an audience exhilarated by the ground-breaking, crosscultural performances.

Dressed in traditional costumes, the finalists performed one dance from their region and one from another region, accompanied by Malian stars such as musician Bassekou Kouyate and singers Habib Koite and Oumou Sangare.

Among the finalists was Mohamed Kassogue, a member of the Dogon group who hails from the central region of Mopti.

His dream of dancing initially sparked a sceptical response from his family but in the end, Billy Elliot-style, their resistance crumbled and they became a source of “huge support and pride in me,” he said. (afp)

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Indian men cut through a fallen tree to clear the road between Gopalpur and Berhampura after heavy winds brought by Cyclone Titli struck the area, near Gopalpur in eastern Odisha state on October 11, 2018. A cyclone packing winds of up to 150 kilometres (95 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early October 11, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas and two men reported killed.

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IMF, Pakistan to meet as Islamabad seeks bailout

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said she would meet with Pakistani officials on Thursday, with expectations that Islamabad will request a bailout of its shaky economy.

Pakistani Finance minister Asad Umar, who is attending the fund’s annual meeting in Bali, announced earlier this week that the government would seek talks with the IMF on a “stabilisation recovery programme”.

Lagarde said the IMF was yet to receive anything formal from Islamabad but that she and other IMF officials would meet with the Pakistani delegation in Bali on Thursday afternoon.

“I’m assuming that there might be a programme request on their part, but that has not been discussed and we will explore that this afternoon,” she told a press briefing.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday vowed to steer the country out of a looming balance-of-payments crisis, saying it needs $10-12 billion. “We will get out of this. I will take (the country) out of this,” he said.

Khan’s new administration took office in August vowing to weigh up whether to seek an IMF bailout as it sought other avenues of financing.

He has sought loans from friendly countries, promised to recover funds stolen by corrupt officials, and embarked on a series of populist austerity measures. But help has been in short supply and economists’ warnings have grown increasingly urgent.

Pakistan has gone to the IMF several times since the late 1980s. The most recent was in 2013, when Islamabad got a $6.6 billion loan to tackle a similar crisis. (afp)

Art exhibitions in Bali revealing tremendous contemporary talent

Contemporary art flourishing in Bali 5 exhibitions reveal the tip of the tropical iceberg

Along with the monumental Art Bali that opened this week in Nusa Dua featuring some of Indonesia’s greatest contemporary artists, brought together for the first time on such a large scale on the Islands of the Gods, four other impressive exhibitions opened in Ubud this week with more specific focus but equally powerful contemporary art works.

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Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde, left, leaves after a press conference ahead of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Bali, Indonesia Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.

Malaysia plans new taxes to help pay off snowballing debt

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said Tuesday the government plans to introduce new tax measures to help raise funds to pay off national debt that has snowballed due to corruption under the previous government.

Lim said it will take the government three years to resolve its fiscal woes due to more than 1 trillion ringgit ($240.5 billion) in debt and another 35 billion ringgit ($8.4 billion) in newly discovered unpaid tax refunds that were not disclosed by the previous government.

“Fiscal consolidation will not be achieved easily, and we must be willing to expect some pain and

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even offer some sacrifice. We would need 3 years to resolve the fiscal issues,” Lim told an economic forum.

He didn’t give details of the tax measures but said these will be announced in the 2019 federal budget that will be unveiled Nov.2.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the forum the fiscal problems have turned Malaysia from an Asian tiger into a “small kitten.”

“It is going to be tough for the government because it inherited a country that is completely disoriented,” said Mahathir, who was elected a second time to become the world’s oldest leader at 93. “We may have to devise new taxes in

order to have the money to pay our debts. Of course the other thing we can do is to sell our assets.”

Anger over massive corruption at the 1MDB state investment fund prompted Mahathir — who led Malaysia for 22 years until 2003 — to make a political comeback and turn on his former party.

Mahathir’s alliance won a stunning victory in May 9 elections to oust scandal-tainted former Prime Minister Najib Razak, ushering in the country’s first change of power since independence from Britain in 1957.

The country’s huge debt is partly due to losses from the 1MDB fund set up by Najib that led voters to

abandon him, and sparked investigations in the U.S. and several other countries. U.S. investigators say Najib’s associates stole and laundered at least $4.5 billion from the fund.

Najib and his wife Rosmah have been charged with multiple counts of corruption and money laundering linked to 1MDB, after Mahathir reopened investigations into the fund that were suppressed during Najib’s rule. The couple have both pled not guilty and Najib has accused the government of seeking political vengeance against his family.

The new government has reviewed large infrastructure proj-

ects, including Chinese investment, to cut costs. It also is seeking ways to bolster revenues to pay off debts and plug deficits expected after it scrapped an unpopular goods and services tax.

Lim said the government may sell its equity in state-owned companies to raise funds but will aim to strike a balance between fiscal consolidation and ensuring productive spending and investment.

“While it is imperative for the government to be prudent with our expenditure, we are equally cognizant that we must not fall into the austerity trap. What we want is merely to get a bigger bang for the buck,” Lim said at the forum. (ap)

“The Challenge of Contemporaneity” which opened on October 6th at Arma Museum and Resort is showing art works by artists from Java and Bali who explore various contemporary issues – whether they be aesthetic, cultural, political or personal with great power and distinctly local perspectives. As the title of the exhibition suggests each of the art works represents a specific aspect of the current time and place in which the artists work.

Each artist has their own unique focus, manner and means of expression that speaks of today’s contemporary context (or time) -one in which boundaries between different places are being collapsed thanks to digital technologies and wider access to transportation. So today’s contemporaneity tends to include an awareness of other ways of seeing things, an awareness of one’s particular locality and how this shapes our own perspectives as well as how this fits into the

global context. This could be seen in the art works in this show –some of which drew on distinctly local symbols and references, and others that drew on less obvious indicators of locality such as line and color to express more general themes from a locally influenced perspectives.

Bringing artists specifically from Yogyakarta and Bali together for this show in itself speaks to both the long history of relations between these two places – a relationship that dates back many hundreds of years, as well as the contemporary context in which these two places are hotbeds of artistic talent and cutting edge creativity. There is indeed an ongoing interaction between artists from Yogyakarta and artists Bali that is at times contentious but always inspiring and tends to bear exceptionally delicious fruit.

While Yogyakarta is known for yielding arts works that lean heav-

ily towards the conceptual, and Bali known for yielding art works that lean more heavily towards the artisanal, the greatest artists of both these places manage to combine both these two aspects in their works with varied and stunning results.

“Inner Gazing” opened at Komaneka Gallery on October 7th and although smaller in scope with just 4 Balinese artists being featured, the exhibition is no less powerful than the two previous ones mentioned above and in a similar vein.

These four artists are also distinctly contemporary in their approach and treatment of their art, with keen awareness of the context in which they work and creative exploration of both themes, subjects and materials. Although they each come to art making from different angles and produce works with equally divergent aesthetic styles, they each bring something new to

the table.

This newness however is not based on a desire to push the envelop of art making per se, but rather arises naturally out of their honestly in expressing their inner most perspective. A perspective that is most certainly informed by their personal visions – visions that are also certainly shaped by their particular cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. However, as with other great contemporary artists, their contemporaneity includes an awareness of the crumbling boundaries between localities. So although their works emerge from the distinctly Balinese context in which they work, this context is in itself informed by more global perspectives.

“Legacy” which opened on October 8th at Monkey Forest Gallery features the works of an artist collective from the village of Batuan who work in a style known as Traditional Batuan Style Painting. Although these works are not contemporary in the sense of expanding the visual vocabulary of art, or drawing on specifically contemporary perspectives of art

making, they most certainly reflect contemporaneity in their choice of subjects and approach to traditional themes. The title of the show refers to traditional heritage being carried on, but opens up the question of whether traditional art can also be contemporary.

These works are referred to as traditional for their adherence to specific techniques and compositional style, however, unlike traditional painting in other parts of Bali, many of these artists of Batuan certainly express their contemporaneity in their works.

Where the boundary between traditional ends and contemporary begins is up for debate, as the exhibition currently on at Museum Puri Lukisan entitled “A Budding Talent”, clearly speaks to. This solo exhibition features works by a young artist who distinctly draws on traditional techniques and compositional style, yet introduces distinctly contemporary approaches in her choice of subjects and themes as well as aesthetics to such an extend that she is not considered to be a traditional artist by most.

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Now boarding: Passengers ready for world’s longest flight “Research has shown that hydration and food intake are important factors (to consider), such as avoiding foods that cause gas or bloating as well as excessive alcohol,” Rhenu Bhuller, a healthcare expert at consultancy Frost & Sullivan, told AFP. “The biggest concern is Deep Vein Thrombosis from a combination of sitting for too long and also from dehydration,” said Gail Cross, an associate consultant at the National University Hospital in Singapore.

- ‘Race between airlines’ -

The twin-engine plane that will make the journey uses a modified system that burns 25 percent less fuel than other aircraft of a similar size, Airbus said.

The flight from the city-state to Newark Airport can take up to 18 hours and 45 minutes under normal weather conditions, but the pilots will have something in reserve in an aircraft capable of flying more than 20 hours non-stop.

Singapore Airlines originally flew the route for nine years using the gasguzzling, four-engine A340-500 before abandoning it in 2013 because high oil prices made the service unprofitable.

But the carrier is hoping that the introduction of more fuel-efficient planes will set cash registers ringing

even as crude prices soar above $80.

Thursday’s flight will top the current longest direct link between cities -- Qatar Airways Flight 921 from Auckland to Doha, which takes 17 hours 40 minutes.

“It’s turning out to be a race between a few airlines eyeing the longest routes inter-continentally,” said Shukor Yusof of aviation consultancy Endau Analytics.

“They are hoping to capitalise and exploit a very niche market,” he told AFP. Facing increasingly strong competition in recent years, Singapore Airlines has consolidated its low-fare subsidiaries and is strengthening its premium segment.

“Ultra-long haul services comprise an important component of that strategy,” an airline spokesman told AFP. The company is the first airline in the world to operate the A350900ULR plane. It received the first aircraft in September. Six more are due for delivery by the end of the year.

“We are optimistic about the demand for non-stop services to the US,” the spokesman said.

Analyst Shukor, however, said it remained to be seen whether the airline and other operators of marathon flights can withstand the pressure from rising oil prices. (afp)

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This undated handout picture released by Singapore Airlines on October 9, 2018 shows an A350-900ULR Airbus in flight. A new Singapore Airlines route connecting the city-state to the New York area goes into operation on October 11, 2018 becoming the longest commercial plane ride in the world.

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Three dead, IMF summit shaken as strong quake hits Indonesia

An earthquake Thursday killed three people in Indonesia and rattled hotels where IMF delegates are attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 elsewhere in the archipelago.

SINGAPORE - Passengers were getting ready to board the world’s longest flight on Thursday -- a marathon 19 hours in the air between Singapore and New York.

Two pilots, a special “wellness” menu and more than seven weeks’ worth of film and television entertainment were expected to accompany travellers on the 16,700-kilometre (10,400-mile) journey to the Big Apple.

Singapore Airlines will use the long-range Airbus A350-900ULR, configured to carry 161 passengers -- 67 in business class and 94 in premium economy, with no regular economy seats available.

For the flight crew -- which also includes two first officers and a 13-strong cabin contingent -- the work load will be broken up, the airline said, with each pilot having a minimum eight hours’ rest during the flight.

But for passengers, the challenge will be what to do with all that down time when they’re up in the air.

For those not packing a weighty novel (or two), there will be 1,200 hours of audio-visual entertainment to choose from.

Dining options will include dishes the airline says have been selected to promote well-being in the skies, with organic dishes on the menu.

The cabin has higher-than-normal ceilings, larger windows and lighting designed to reduce jet lag -- all part of an effort to lessen the stresses that can accompany almost a day on a plane.

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This image obtained from the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Edmund Zagorski, 63.

US halts injection execution of inmate who wants electric chair WASHINGTON - A Tennessee man sentenced to death for a double murder won a last-minute appeal Wednesday to stop his execution by lethal injection, after insisting the state should use the electric chair.

Edmund Zagorski, 63, was sentenced to death in 1984 after slitting the throats of two men who had reneged on a promise to sell him drugs.

He asked to be put to death via the electric chair, but Tennessee’s prison authorities rejected the request.

Zagorski’s lawyers then launched an emergency appeal in federal court to demand the chair be used for the execution, which was scheduled for Thursday in Nashville.

But the appeals court on Wednesday said the execution must be stayed while his appeal is considered.

In Tennessee, people condemned to death before 1999 have the right to choose between the two methods of capital punishment.

But they must do so at least two months before the execution, according to the state department of corrections.

According to one of his lawyers, Kelley Henry, Zagorski was late in making his choice known because he

was awaiting the results of a motion to bar the use of a three-drug cocktail, including the powerful but controversial sedative midazolam, in Tennessee executions.

The state supreme court only rejected that suit on Monday, forcing Zagorski to “choose between two absolutely barbaric methods of death,” Henry said.

“The state’s three-drug protocol is certain torture,” she charged.

“Mr Zagorski’s lungs would fill with fluid as the lining is burned away by acid. He would be paralyzed, then burned alive chemically from within,” she added, noting the procedure would cause pain for 10-18 minutes.

Tennessee is one of nine US states that still uses the electric chair for executions.

It has only been used nationwide for 14 executions out of nearly 900 since 2000, and has not been used at all since 2013.

The southeastern state had not carried out an execution since 2009 until this past August, when it used the three-drug combination to put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering a child in 1986. (afp)

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Bali and Java islands in the early hours, jolting residents awake and sending them rushing into the streets.

Some attendees in Bali for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings this week evacuated their hotels as the quake shook the island.

“I felt the quake for at least 30 seconds and I panicked. At first I didn’t want to go out but then I decided to leave,” Katharina Sudiyono, an Indonesian attendee at the summit, told AFP. Peter Jacobs, head of the Indonesian Central Bank’s IMF-World Bank taskforce, said delegates in Bali’s Nusa Dua district for the summit were quickly informed of the situation.

“Many summit participants woke up and asked questions, but we immediately sent out information to them that there had been an earthquake and the impact in Nusa Dua,” he told AFP. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in Bali and the summit proceeded Thursday uninterrupted.

“We send our condolences to those affected by the earthquake.

Here in Bali, the earthquake has not caused significant damage nor any disruption to the meetings,” an IMF

spokesman said. The conference centre was designed to withstand seismic events, and participants had been told to remain there in the event of a quake.

In case of tsunami risk, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building. Holidayers in the island’s popular tourist districts also rushed into the streets as buildings swayed.

“Wow, that was really strong and it lasted a long time,” said one woman who took refuge in a hotel parking lot in Nusa Dua, a few kilometres from where the IMF and World Bank are holding their meetings.

Others in Nusa Dua, south of Bali’s main international airport, also panicked. “The quake was very big. I immediately woke up and took my little kids out of the house,” Ni Komang Sudiani told AFP. “All my neighbours were also running, said the mother of two.

- Volatile archipelago -

Dwikorita Karnawati, the head of Indonesia’s geophysics agency who was also in Nusa Dua for the IMF summit, said no tsunami warning was issued. “I felt the quake too,” she told AFP. “We are also still gathering data from our team in East Java.’

In East Java, three people were crushed to death in their sleep when the quake brought down buildings

in Sumenep district and sent people fleeing their homes.

“Everybody panicked and the entire village ran outside. We have never experienced an earthquake as strong as last night,” Zainurrohman, a 21-year-old from the district told AFP. “We stayed outside until dawn,” he said. Many Indonesians go by one name.

The tremor’s epicentre was in the Bali Sea around 40 kilometres (25 miles) off the eastern end of Java island, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The tremor comes after a 7.5-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last month -- around 1,000 kilometres northeast of the latest quake’s epicentre -- killing more than 2,000 people.

Thousands more remain missing since the twin disaster ravaged the city of Palu and surrounding areas. The search for the dead is expected to end Thursday. A string of earthquakes in Lombok in eastern Indonesia killed more than 550 people over the summer.

Indonesia, one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. (afp)

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In this photo taken on October 10, 2018, Indonesian villagers carry aid provisions delivered by boat to isolated Lambonga village in Donggala, following the September 28 earthquake and tsunami. The search for those killed in Indonesia’s quake-tsunami disaster was called off on October 11, despite there being around 5,000 people still missing.

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Kohli shields India’s ‘boy wonder’ from Tendulkar shadow

HYDERABAD - Virat Kohli sought to protect prolific teenager Prithvi Shaw Thursday from the weight of comparisons with India legend Sachin Tendulkar after the young batsman’s Test debut century last week.

Another century in the second match against the West Indies which begins on Friday in Hyderabad would see Shaw join a small group of greats including Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly and Rohit Sharma who all hit tons in their first two Tests.

The 18-year-old became India’s youngest player to score a debut century and his country’s second youngest in all Tests after Tendulkar -- who was 17 when he made an unbeaten 119 against England in his ninth Test.

Shaw’s sparkling 134 in the first Test rout in Rajkot had some commentators dubbing him India’s “boy wonder” ahead of the tour of Australia next month.

But captain Kohli warned India’s notoriously demanding fans

Goa Lawah Temple Bali Bat Temple

KLUNGKUNG - Goa Lawah is one of Bali’s most important temples. It features a complex built around a cave opening that is inhabited by hordes of bats, and its name translates to ‘Bat Cave’. This temple was established in the 11th century by Mpu Kuturan, one of early priests who laid the foundations of Hinduism on the island. Goa Lawah is located in the village of Pesinggahan, Dawan district, bordering the Klungkung and Karangasem regencies. This landmark is one of the first stops on tours to Candidasa and further eastern regions within the Karangasem regency. The Goa Lawah Temple is a large complex on the north side of the Jalan Raya Goa Lawah main road. It is a stopover for holidaying locals who come in with offerings and do short prayers before continuing with their journey.

For general visitors, it is an included itinerary on temple tours for photo opportunities together with refreshment breaks at the kiosks across the

road on Goa Lawah Beach. You can see the outline of Nusa Penida Island on the horizon from here.

Two large banyan trees stand tall at the main entrance of Goa Lawah.

Upon entering the temple’s central courtyard, you will see three bale pavilions in three corners of the complex. These bale are usually where fruit offerings are placed and where gamelan bands play during major ceremonies. At the centrepiece are age-old shrines which have withstood the hordes of nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) chirping in a frenzied din around and behind the shrines at the cave opening. Here is also a Shivaite shrine which has stood for thousands of years, together with a bale adorned with the motifs of Naga Basuki, the mythical dragon who is believed to keep the cosmos at a balance. Once a place for deep meditation for priests, despite seeming impossible to do so amid the chirping, with the hollow cave opening amplifying the noise.

Yet, people believe the constant natural high pitches aided in their focus of thoughts.

Good to Know The tale goes that a prince from the Mengwi kingdom hid away from enemies inside the cave and subsequently followed through, eventually emerging at Besakih Temple on the foot of Mount Agung, which is northeast from this location. No one has attempted to prove or bring light to this interesting tale. According to the locals and the temple community, the cave leads to three different locations, Mount Agung (Besakih), Talibeng and Tangkid Bangbang. There are various accounts that when Mount Agung erupted in 1963, ash emerged from Goa Lawah.

The best time to visit is in the mornings when most of the locals living in the nearby villages come for their daily prayers. However, afternoons are also pleasant, as

not to expect too much too soon from Shaw, who was earmarked as a future star when as a 14-year-old he hit a record 546 off 330 balls in a Mumbai school game in 2013.

“We are all very happy for him but I don’t think we should compare him to anyone yet or we should put him in a space where he starts feeling pressure,” Kohli told reporters.

“He should be left to enjoy his cricket and slowly grow into the cricketer that we all believe he can be,” said Kohli who hailed the diminutive right hander as “supremely talented”.

“He has shown that in the first Test already and we believe he can keep repeating that because he is a very keen learner, he is a very sharp guy and he understands situations really well.”

Kohli said Shaw, 21-year-old wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant and batsman Hanuma Vihari, 24, had learned to handle the stress of top competition by playing in the Indian Premier League. (afp)

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a return against Marco Cecchinato of Italy during their men’s singles third round match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament on October 11, 2018.

the large trees provide a balance of shade to cool the sultry southern beach breezes from across the road.

Goa Lawah’s piodalan or grand temple anniversary takes place every 210 days on the Balinese Pawukon calendar cycle of an Anggara Kasih Medangsia Tuesday, the same anniversary day as Uluwatu Temple’s. With its constant flow of pilgrims and visitors, the temple is well-managed and maintained.

Goa Lawah has undergone a series of renovations around its walls and gates in the outer perimeters over the years. Expect a denser flock of pilgrims up to the Nyepi holiday, when rituals of Melasti take place on the Saka New Year Eve. Long pilgrimages from various temples including Goa Lawah towards the coastlines take place when sacred heirlooms and temple items are blessed near the sea. (IBP/net)

Impressive Djokovic gets revenge to make Shanghai quarters

SHANGHAI - Novak Djokovic enjoyed a measure of revenge as he booked his spot in the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-0 demolition of Marco Cecchinato on Thursday.

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The Serbian second seed was stunned by the Italian -- ranked 72 in the world at the time -- in the French Open quarter-finals earlier this year.

It was part of the wretched run of form Djokovic suffered in the first half of the year after elbow surgery in February.

But the world number three exploded back to life in the northern hemisphere summer, winning Wimbledon, the Cincinnati Masters and US Open.

The 31-year-old, who is now gunning for Rafael Nadal’s number one ranking, says he is back

close to the kind of blistering form that has brought him 14 Grand Slams.

And he proved it against Cecchinato, bustling past the 16th seed in just under 70 minutes.

Djokovic will play South Africa’s Kevin Anderson or the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals.

Rising star Alexander Zverev was similarly emphatic as he brushed aside Australia’s new number one, teenager Alex de Minaur, 6-1, 6-4.

The German fourth seed will face 11th seed Kyle Edmund in the

last eight.

The 21-year-old Zverev was ruthless as he took the first set in just 29 minutes, although his 19year-old opponent showed more fight in the second.

Zverev has been suffering with a cold but ratcheted up the pressure to grab the all-important break of serve in the ninth game before closing out the match against de Minaur, who this week replaced Nick Kyrgios as Australia’s topranked player.

Edmund, Britain’s number one, defeated Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. (afp)

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Indian captain Virat Kohli walks to the nets to bat during a training session ahead of the second Test cricket match between India and West Indies at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on October 11, 2018.

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Match fixing, the curse of planet football

The anti-fraud operation that shook Belgian football on Wednesday is a reminder that the manipulation of matches, linked to betting or not, spares no country. Here is a brief tour of the global match-fixing scandals.

- The Italian miniseries -

Italian football has had a series of scandals.”Totonero”, a play on the Italian for football pools, in 1980, resulted in the relegation of AC Milan and Lazio and bans for

several players, including Paolo Rossi, who returned just in time to win the World Cup for Italy and the subsequent Ballon d’Or. There was a sequel, “Totonero B”, in 1986.

The “Calciopoli” scandal, in

2006, did not involve gambling and only indirectly match rigging as big clubs influenced the selection of referees. Juventus were stripped of two league titles and demoted.

The scandal that appears to contain most elements in common with Belgium was the “Calcioscommesse”, or “football bet,” affair which ended with several players and coaches in prison.

The match-rigging apparatus, was, according to Interpol, run from Singapore by businessman Dan Tan who worked with Eastern European criminals to bribe, or in one case drug, Italian players.

After close to 100,000 telephone taps, dozens of arrests and searches, the Cremona prosecutor found that during the 2010-2011 season, at least 50 matches, including 20 in Serie A, were fixed.

Tan is wanted in Italy and also Hungary, where he is alleged to have rigged matches, but Singapore does not have an extradition agreement with the European Union.

- Belgium, the prequel -

In 2014, after a long investigation, the authorities ruled that 18 matches had been sold by players for sums between 5,000 euros and 40,000 euros from 2004 and 2006.

Chinese businessman Zheyun Ye, who had invested in the Lierse club, was sentenced, in absentia, to five years in prison.

Paul Put, manager of 2013 Africa Cup of Nations finalists Burkina Faso, Pietro Allata, a businessman and self-proclaimed gambler and former Belgian international goalkeeper Gilbert Bodart were also found guilty of corruption.Zheyun Ye has disappeared. Put is now managing in the Chinese second division.

- Marseille and the buried cash -

The most famous scandal in France, surrounding Marseille’s Ligue 1 game at Valenciennes in May 1993, was not related to betting.

Six days away from a European Cup final against AC Milan, Marseille wanted to collect the points, and clinch the French title, without wasting energy. Even though one home player reportedly confessed to his coach at half time, Marseille won 1-0.

Later, 250,000 francs were discovered in the garden of Valenciennes player Christophe Robert.

Marseille were stripped of their French title and Valenciennes relegated.

- Fixing on the menu in Berlin cafe DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP

Referee Anderson Daronco gestures during the 2018 Brazil Cup first leg final football match between Cruzeiro and Corinthians at the Mineirao stadium, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on October 10, 2018.

In 2011, Ante Sapina, a Croatian national already been sentenced to 36 months in jail for his role in a betting scandal involving German referee Robert Hoyzer,

was sentenced to five and a half years for manipulating games in nine countries, including Europa League and World Cup matches, by paying money to players, referees and officials. German prosecutors focused on 47 matches but said up to 300 were involved.

Operating out of a Berlin cafe, Sapina bet on the matches in the unsupervised Asian markets and made an estimated profit of 2.4 million euros.

- Fake friendlies -

Not content with rigging matches in existing competitions, fixers have taken to staging their own games.

Several seem to have been created by a Singaporean, Wilson Raj Perumal who has served jail time in Finland for match fixing and now assists Hungarian investigators, says he worked for Dan Tan. As many as 80 Zimbabwean footballers as well as officials and administrators, were suspended for their part in the “Asiagate” scandal, involving a series of friendlies, mostly in Asia. Many were never played, but in three that were, in 2009, the Zimbawean teams lost.

FIFA investigated a pair of friendlies -- Bulgaria against Estonia and Latvia against Bolivia -- played in Antalya, Turkey, in February 2011. All seven goals in the matches came from penalty kicks.

Most bizarre was Bahrain’s home friendly against a Togo team containing none of the advertised players, in 2010. Despite having five goals disallowed, Bahrain beat visibly unfit opponents, 3-0. After the game Togo’s football federation said it had not sent a team.

- Birthplace of football -

In 1915, with the English league on the point of being suspended because of World War I, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-0, in a first-division game in which Liverpool missed a penalty.

After the match flyers began to appear alleging that large amounts of money had been bet at attractive odds on just that result. Seven players, three from United and four from Liverpool, were banned for life. Six, including one who had died serving in the war, were reinstated in 1919. (afp)

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Paul Pogba back to friendly environment with France PARIS — Far away seem the days when Paul Pogba was praised for the mature displays that helped France win the World Cup. For the Manchester United midfielder, the euphoria that engulfed French players following their title lasted only a few weeks as he fell out with coach Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.

Pogba’s relationship with Mourinho has been complicated since his return to United in 2016.

But it reached its nadir last month when Pogba was stripped of the vice-captaincy at the club and then appeared to have a spat with Mourinho at practice.

Following a poor start to the season, United is under pressure and Pogba’s future there seems uncertain amid reports he could leave.

Such concerns are irrelevant when Pogba plays with his national

team, and the international break is likely to provide solace to a player regarded as indispensable by France coach Didier Deschamps.

Pogba joined his teammates at France’s training ground ahead of Thursday’s friendly game against Iceland. France, which beat Croatia in the World Cup final in July, hosts Germany in the UEFA Nations League on Oct. 16 at Stade de France.

“I don’t want to interfere with the relationship that he, or any other player, could have with his coach,” Deschamps said. “But given the situation of some (players) in their clubs, the breath of fresh air brought by the France team can do them good.”

Often criticized for his laidback approach, Pogba took more responsibilities in France during the World Cup and is now regarded

as a proper team leader. Pogba is crediting Deschamps, who uses him on the pitch in a less restricted role than Mourinho, for his positive influence.

“I have a very good relationship with the coach, he speaks straight to me,” Pogba said.

Here is a look at other talking points ahead of this week’s international matches:

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The last time Croatia played England was in the packed Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in a World Cup semifinal match. When they meet in the Croatian coastal city of Rijeka on Friday, there will be no fans.

Croatia is completing a stadium ban imposed by UEFA in 2015 when a swastika was painted on its field ahead of a game. (ap)

Ronaldo insists sex was “completely consensual” Cristiano Ronaldo insisted again Wednesday that he did not rape a woman he met in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and that their sexual encounter was “completely consensual”, said his lawyer.

“Ronaldo is forced to break his silence,” said the Juventus and Portuguese star’s lawyer Peter Christiansen in a statement released through Gestifute, the company which manages the player’s affairs. “Once again, for the avoidance of doubt, Cristiano Ronaldo’s position has always been, and continues to be, that what happened in 2009 in Las Vegas was completely consensual.”

Police in Las Vegas announced last week that they were reopening an investigation into allegations made by a former model, Kathryn Mayorga, relating to an incident in 2009. Ronaldo has vehemently denied the rape accusations.

“I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me,” the 33-year-old said in a statement. “Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.”

Mayorga claims she was pressured into signing a nondisclosure agreement in 2010 to keep the alleged rape secret and is seeking at least $200,000 in penalties and damages.

“Cristiano Ronaldo does not deny that he agreed to conclude an agreement,” added Christiansen.

“This agreement is by no means a confession of guilt.

What happened was simply that Cristiano Ronaldo merely followed the advice of his advisers in order to put an end to the insulting accusations made against him in order to avoid attempts, such as those now witnessed, to destroy a reputation built thanks to intense work, great athleticism and ethically impeccable behaviour.”

Christiansen added “documents that allegedly contain statements by Cristiano Ronaldo and were reproduced in the media are pure invention”. (afp)

Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP

A passerby watches an advertising poster for an underwear brand, showing a picture of Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo in a shop window, on October 9, 2018 in downtown Rome. Cristiano Ronaldo faces rape allegations after US police on October 1, 2018 re-opened an investigation into claims by former American model Kathryn Mayorga that the five-time Ballon d’Or winner raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in June 2009.

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France’s midfielder Paul Pogba warms up during a training session in Guingamp, western France on October 10, 2018, on the eve of their friendly football match France vs Iceland.

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Match fixing, the curse of planet football

The anti-fraud operation that shook Belgian football on Wednesday is a reminder that the manipulation of matches, linked to betting or not, spares no country. Here is a brief tour of the global match-fixing scandals.

- The Italian miniseries -

Italian football has had a series of scandals.”Totonero”, a play on the Italian for football pools, in 1980, resulted in the relegation of AC Milan and Lazio and bans for

several players, including Paolo Rossi, who returned just in time to win the World Cup for Italy and the subsequent Ballon d’Or. There was a sequel, “Totonero B”, in 1986.

The “Calciopoli” scandal, in

2006, did not involve gambling and only indirectly match rigging as big clubs influenced the selection of referees. Juventus were stripped of two league titles and demoted.

The scandal that appears to contain most elements in common with Belgium was the “Calcioscommesse”, or “football bet,” affair which ended with several players and coaches in prison.

The match-rigging apparatus, was, according to Interpol, run from Singapore by businessman Dan Tan who worked with Eastern European criminals to bribe, or in one case drug, Italian players.

After close to 100,000 telephone taps, dozens of arrests and searches, the Cremona prosecutor found that during the 2010-2011 season, at least 50 matches, including 20 in Serie A, were fixed.

Tan is wanted in Italy and also Hungary, where he is alleged to have rigged matches, but Singapore does not have an extradition agreement with the European Union.

- Belgium, the prequel -

In 2014, after a long investigation, the authorities ruled that 18 matches had been sold by players for sums between 5,000 euros and 40,000 euros from 2004 and 2006.

Chinese businessman Zheyun Ye, who had invested in the Lierse club, was sentenced, in absentia, to five years in prison.

Paul Put, manager of 2013 Africa Cup of Nations finalists Burkina Faso, Pietro Allata, a businessman and self-proclaimed gambler and former Belgian international goalkeeper Gilbert Bodart were also found guilty of corruption.Zheyun Ye has disappeared. Put is now managing in the Chinese second division.

- Marseille and the buried cash -

The most famous scandal in France, surrounding Marseille’s Ligue 1 game at Valenciennes in May 1993, was not related to betting.

Six days away from a European Cup final against AC Milan, Marseille wanted to collect the points, and clinch the French title, without wasting energy. Even though one home player reportedly confessed to his coach at half time, Marseille won 1-0.

Later, 250,000 francs were discovered in the garden of Valenciennes player Christophe Robert.

Marseille were stripped of their French title and Valenciennes relegated.

- Fixing on the menu in Berlin cafe DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP

Referee Anderson Daronco gestures during the 2018 Brazil Cup first leg final football match between Cruzeiro and Corinthians at the Mineirao stadium, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on October 10, 2018.

In 2011, Ante Sapina, a Croatian national already been sentenced to 36 months in jail for his role in a betting scandal involving German referee Robert Hoyzer,

was sentenced to five and a half years for manipulating games in nine countries, including Europa League and World Cup matches, by paying money to players, referees and officials. German prosecutors focused on 47 matches but said up to 300 were involved.

Operating out of a Berlin cafe, Sapina bet on the matches in the unsupervised Asian markets and made an estimated profit of 2.4 million euros.

- Fake friendlies -

Not content with rigging matches in existing competitions, fixers have taken to staging their own games.

Several seem to have been created by a Singaporean, Wilson Raj Perumal who has served jail time in Finland for match fixing and now assists Hungarian investigators, says he worked for Dan Tan. As many as 80 Zimbabwean footballers as well as officials and administrators, were suspended for their part in the “Asiagate” scandal, involving a series of friendlies, mostly in Asia. Many were never played, but in three that were, in 2009, the Zimbawean teams lost.

FIFA investigated a pair of friendlies -- Bulgaria against Estonia and Latvia against Bolivia -- played in Antalya, Turkey, in February 2011. All seven goals in the matches came from penalty kicks.

Most bizarre was Bahrain’s home friendly against a Togo team containing none of the advertised players, in 2010. Despite having five goals disallowed, Bahrain beat visibly unfit opponents, 3-0. After the game Togo’s football federation said it had not sent a team.

- Birthplace of football -

In 1915, with the English league on the point of being suspended because of World War I, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-0, in a first-division game in which Liverpool missed a penalty.

After the match flyers began to appear alleging that large amounts of money had been bet at attractive odds on just that result. Seven players, three from United and four from Liverpool, were banned for life. Six, including one who had died serving in the war, were reinstated in 1919. (afp)

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Paul Pogba back to friendly environment with France PARIS — Far away seem the days when Paul Pogba was praised for the mature displays that helped France win the World Cup. For the Manchester United midfielder, the euphoria that engulfed French players following their title lasted only a few weeks as he fell out with coach Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.

Pogba’s relationship with Mourinho has been complicated since his return to United in 2016.

But it reached its nadir last month when Pogba was stripped of the vice-captaincy at the club and then appeared to have a spat with Mourinho at practice.

Following a poor start to the season, United is under pressure and Pogba’s future there seems uncertain amid reports he could leave.

Such concerns are irrelevant when Pogba plays with his national

team, and the international break is likely to provide solace to a player regarded as indispensable by France coach Didier Deschamps.

Pogba joined his teammates at France’s training ground ahead of Thursday’s friendly game against Iceland. France, which beat Croatia in the World Cup final in July, hosts Germany in the UEFA Nations League on Oct. 16 at Stade de France.

“I don’t want to interfere with the relationship that he, or any other player, could have with his coach,” Deschamps said. “But given the situation of some (players) in their clubs, the breath of fresh air brought by the France team can do them good.”

Often criticized for his laidback approach, Pogba took more responsibilities in France during the World Cup and is now regarded

as a proper team leader. Pogba is crediting Deschamps, who uses him on the pitch in a less restricted role than Mourinho, for his positive influence.

“I have a very good relationship with the coach, he speaks straight to me,” Pogba said.

Here is a look at other talking points ahead of this week’s international matches:

EMPTY STADIUM

The last time Croatia played England was in the packed Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in a World Cup semifinal match. When they meet in the Croatian coastal city of Rijeka on Friday, there will be no fans.

Croatia is completing a stadium ban imposed by UEFA in 2015 when a swastika was painted on its field ahead of a game. (ap)

Ronaldo insists sex was “completely consensual” Cristiano Ronaldo insisted again Wednesday that he did not rape a woman he met in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and that their sexual encounter was “completely consensual”, said his lawyer.

“Ronaldo is forced to break his silence,” said the Juventus and Portuguese star’s lawyer Peter Christiansen in a statement released through Gestifute, the company which manages the player’s affairs. “Once again, for the avoidance of doubt, Cristiano Ronaldo’s position has always been, and continues to be, that what happened in 2009 in Las Vegas was completely consensual.”

Police in Las Vegas announced last week that they were reopening an investigation into allegations made by a former model, Kathryn Mayorga, relating to an incident in 2009. Ronaldo has vehemently denied the rape accusations.

“I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me,” the 33-year-old said in a statement. “Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.”

Mayorga claims she was pressured into signing a nondisclosure agreement in 2010 to keep the alleged rape secret and is seeking at least $200,000 in penalties and damages.

“Cristiano Ronaldo does not deny that he agreed to conclude an agreement,” added Christiansen.

“This agreement is by no means a confession of guilt.

What happened was simply that Cristiano Ronaldo merely followed the advice of his advisers in order to put an end to the insulting accusations made against him in order to avoid attempts, such as those now witnessed, to destroy a reputation built thanks to intense work, great athleticism and ethically impeccable behaviour.”

Christiansen added “documents that allegedly contain statements by Cristiano Ronaldo and were reproduced in the media are pure invention”. (afp)

Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP

A passerby watches an advertising poster for an underwear brand, showing a picture of Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo in a shop window, on October 9, 2018 in downtown Rome. Cristiano Ronaldo faces rape allegations after US police on October 1, 2018 re-opened an investigation into claims by former American model Kathryn Mayorga that the five-time Ballon d’Or winner raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in June 2009.

LOIC VENANCE / AFP

France’s midfielder Paul Pogba warms up during a training session in Guingamp, western France on October 10, 2018, on the eve of their friendly football match France vs Iceland.

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Kohli shields India’s ‘boy wonder’ from Tendulkar shadow

HYDERABAD - Virat Kohli sought to protect prolific teenager Prithvi Shaw Thursday from the weight of comparisons with India legend Sachin Tendulkar after the young batsman’s Test debut century last week.

Another century in the second match against the West Indies which begins on Friday in Hyderabad would see Shaw join a small group of greats including Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly and Rohit Sharma who all hit tons in their first two Tests.

The 18-year-old became India’s youngest player to score a debut century and his country’s second youngest in all Tests after Tendulkar -- who was 17 when he made an unbeaten 119 against England in his ninth Test.

Shaw’s sparkling 134 in the first Test rout in Rajkot had some commentators dubbing him India’s “boy wonder” ahead of the tour of Australia next month.

But captain Kohli warned India’s notoriously demanding fans

Goa Lawah Temple Bali Bat Temple

KLUNGKUNG - Goa Lawah is one of Bali’s most important temples. It features a complex built around a cave opening that is inhabited by hordes of bats, and its name translates to ‘Bat Cave’. This temple was established in the 11th century by Mpu Kuturan, one of early priests who laid the foundations of Hinduism on the island. Goa Lawah is located in the village of Pesinggahan, Dawan district, bordering the Klungkung and Karangasem regencies. This landmark is one of the first stops on tours to Candidasa and further eastern regions within the Karangasem regency. The Goa Lawah Temple is a large complex on the north side of the Jalan Raya Goa Lawah main road. It is a stopover for holidaying locals who come in with offerings and do short prayers before continuing with their journey.

For general visitors, it is an included itinerary on temple tours for photo opportunities together with refreshment breaks at the kiosks across the

road on Goa Lawah Beach. You can see the outline of Nusa Penida Island on the horizon from here.

Two large banyan trees stand tall at the main entrance of Goa Lawah.

Upon entering the temple’s central courtyard, you will see three bale pavilions in three corners of the complex. These bale are usually where fruit offerings are placed and where gamelan bands play during major ceremonies. At the centrepiece are age-old shrines which have withstood the hordes of nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) chirping in a frenzied din around and behind the shrines at the cave opening. Here is also a Shivaite shrine which has stood for thousands of years, together with a bale adorned with the motifs of Naga Basuki, the mythical dragon who is believed to keep the cosmos at a balance. Once a place for deep meditation for priests, despite seeming impossible to do so amid the chirping, with the hollow cave opening amplifying the noise.

Yet, people believe the constant natural high pitches aided in their focus of thoughts.

Good to Know The tale goes that a prince from the Mengwi kingdom hid away from enemies inside the cave and subsequently followed through, eventually emerging at Besakih Temple on the foot of Mount Agung, which is northeast from this location. No one has attempted to prove or bring light to this interesting tale. According to the locals and the temple community, the cave leads to three different locations, Mount Agung (Besakih), Talibeng and Tangkid Bangbang. There are various accounts that when Mount Agung erupted in 1963, ash emerged from Goa Lawah.

The best time to visit is in the mornings when most of the locals living in the nearby villages come for their daily prayers. However, afternoons are also pleasant, as

not to expect too much too soon from Shaw, who was earmarked as a future star when as a 14-year-old he hit a record 546 off 330 balls in a Mumbai school game in 2013.

“We are all very happy for him but I don’t think we should compare him to anyone yet or we should put him in a space where he starts feeling pressure,” Kohli told reporters.

“He should be left to enjoy his cricket and slowly grow into the cricketer that we all believe he can be,” said Kohli who hailed the diminutive right hander as “supremely talented”.

“He has shown that in the first Test already and we believe he can keep repeating that because he is a very keen learner, he is a very sharp guy and he understands situations really well.”

Kohli said Shaw, 21-year-old wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant and batsman Hanuma Vihari, 24, had learned to handle the stress of top competition by playing in the Indian Premier League. (afp)

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a return against Marco Cecchinato of Italy during their men’s singles third round match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament on October 11, 2018.

the large trees provide a balance of shade to cool the sultry southern beach breezes from across the road.

Goa Lawah’s piodalan or grand temple anniversary takes place every 210 days on the Balinese Pawukon calendar cycle of an Anggara Kasih Medangsia Tuesday, the same anniversary day as Uluwatu Temple’s. With its constant flow of pilgrims and visitors, the temple is well-managed and maintained.

Goa Lawah has undergone a series of renovations around its walls and gates in the outer perimeters over the years. Expect a denser flock of pilgrims up to the Nyepi holiday, when rituals of Melasti take place on the Saka New Year Eve. Long pilgrimages from various temples including Goa Lawah towards the coastlines take place when sacred heirlooms and temple items are blessed near the sea. (IBP/net)

Impressive Djokovic gets revenge to make Shanghai quarters

SHANGHAI - Novak Djokovic enjoyed a measure of revenge as he booked his spot in the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-0 demolition of Marco Cecchinato on Thursday.

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The Serbian second seed was stunned by the Italian -- ranked 72 in the world at the time -- in the French Open quarter-finals earlier this year.

It was part of the wretched run of form Djokovic suffered in the first half of the year after elbow surgery in February.

But the world number three exploded back to life in the northern hemisphere summer, winning Wimbledon, the Cincinnati Masters and US Open.

The 31-year-old, who is now gunning for Rafael Nadal’s number one ranking, says he is back

close to the kind of blistering form that has brought him 14 Grand Slams.

And he proved it against Cecchinato, bustling past the 16th seed in just under 70 minutes.

Djokovic will play South Africa’s Kevin Anderson or the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals.

Rising star Alexander Zverev was similarly emphatic as he brushed aside Australia’s new number one, teenager Alex de Minaur, 6-1, 6-4.

The German fourth seed will face 11th seed Kyle Edmund in the

last eight.

The 21-year-old Zverev was ruthless as he took the first set in just 29 minutes, although his 19year-old opponent showed more fight in the second.

Zverev has been suffering with a cold but ratcheted up the pressure to grab the all-important break of serve in the ninth game before closing out the match against de Minaur, who this week replaced Nick Kyrgios as Australia’s topranked player.

Edmund, Britain’s number one, defeated Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. (afp)

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Indian captain Virat Kohli walks to the nets to bat during a training session ahead of the second Test cricket match between India and West Indies at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on October 11, 2018.

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Now boarding: Passengers ready for world’s longest flight “Research has shown that hydration and food intake are important factors (to consider), such as avoiding foods that cause gas or bloating as well as excessive alcohol,” Rhenu Bhuller, a healthcare expert at consultancy Frost & Sullivan, told AFP. “The biggest concern is Deep Vein Thrombosis from a combination of sitting for too long and also from dehydration,” said Gail Cross, an associate consultant at the National University Hospital in Singapore.

- ‘Race between airlines’ -

The twin-engine plane that will make the journey uses a modified system that burns 25 percent less fuel than other aircraft of a similar size, Airbus said.

The flight from the city-state to Newark Airport can take up to 18 hours and 45 minutes under normal weather conditions, but the pilots will have something in reserve in an aircraft capable of flying more than 20 hours non-stop.

Singapore Airlines originally flew the route for nine years using the gasguzzling, four-engine A340-500 before abandoning it in 2013 because high oil prices made the service unprofitable.

But the carrier is hoping that the introduction of more fuel-efficient planes will set cash registers ringing

even as crude prices soar above $80.

Thursday’s flight will top the current longest direct link between cities -- Qatar Airways Flight 921 from Auckland to Doha, which takes 17 hours 40 minutes.

“It’s turning out to be a race between a few airlines eyeing the longest routes inter-continentally,” said Shukor Yusof of aviation consultancy Endau Analytics.

“They are hoping to capitalise and exploit a very niche market,” he told AFP. Facing increasingly strong competition in recent years, Singapore Airlines has consolidated its low-fare subsidiaries and is strengthening its premium segment.

“Ultra-long haul services comprise an important component of that strategy,” an airline spokesman told AFP. The company is the first airline in the world to operate the A350900ULR plane. It received the first aircraft in September. Six more are due for delivery by the end of the year.

“We are optimistic about the demand for non-stop services to the US,” the spokesman said.

Analyst Shukor, however, said it remained to be seen whether the airline and other operators of marathon flights can withstand the pressure from rising oil prices. (afp)

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This undated handout picture released by Singapore Airlines on October 9, 2018 shows an A350-900ULR Airbus in flight. A new Singapore Airlines route connecting the city-state to the New York area goes into operation on October 11, 2018 becoming the longest commercial plane ride in the world.

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Three dead, IMF summit shaken as strong quake hits Indonesia

An earthquake Thursday killed three people in Indonesia and rattled hotels where IMF delegates are attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 elsewhere in the archipelago.

SINGAPORE - Passengers were getting ready to board the world’s longest flight on Thursday -- a marathon 19 hours in the air between Singapore and New York.

Two pilots, a special “wellness” menu and more than seven weeks’ worth of film and television entertainment were expected to accompany travellers on the 16,700-kilometre (10,400-mile) journey to the Big Apple.

Singapore Airlines will use the long-range Airbus A350-900ULR, configured to carry 161 passengers -- 67 in business class and 94 in premium economy, with no regular economy seats available.

For the flight crew -- which also includes two first officers and a 13-strong cabin contingent -- the work load will be broken up, the airline said, with each pilot having a minimum eight hours’ rest during the flight.

But for passengers, the challenge will be what to do with all that down time when they’re up in the air.

For those not packing a weighty novel (or two), there will be 1,200 hours of audio-visual entertainment to choose from.

Dining options will include dishes the airline says have been selected to promote well-being in the skies, with organic dishes on the menu.

The cabin has higher-than-normal ceilings, larger windows and lighting designed to reduce jet lag -- all part of an effort to lessen the stresses that can accompany almost a day on a plane.

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This image obtained from the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Edmund Zagorski, 63.

US halts injection execution of inmate who wants electric chair WASHINGTON - A Tennessee man sentenced to death for a double murder won a last-minute appeal Wednesday to stop his execution by lethal injection, after insisting the state should use the electric chair.

Edmund Zagorski, 63, was sentenced to death in 1984 after slitting the throats of two men who had reneged on a promise to sell him drugs.

He asked to be put to death via the electric chair, but Tennessee’s prison authorities rejected the request.

Zagorski’s lawyers then launched an emergency appeal in federal court to demand the chair be used for the execution, which was scheduled for Thursday in Nashville.

But the appeals court on Wednesday said the execution must be stayed while his appeal is considered.

In Tennessee, people condemned to death before 1999 have the right to choose between the two methods of capital punishment.

But they must do so at least two months before the execution, according to the state department of corrections.

According to one of his lawyers, Kelley Henry, Zagorski was late in making his choice known because he

was awaiting the results of a motion to bar the use of a three-drug cocktail, including the powerful but controversial sedative midazolam, in Tennessee executions.

The state supreme court only rejected that suit on Monday, forcing Zagorski to “choose between two absolutely barbaric methods of death,” Henry said.

“The state’s three-drug protocol is certain torture,” she charged.

“Mr Zagorski’s lungs would fill with fluid as the lining is burned away by acid. He would be paralyzed, then burned alive chemically from within,” she added, noting the procedure would cause pain for 10-18 minutes.

Tennessee is one of nine US states that still uses the electric chair for executions.

It has only been used nationwide for 14 executions out of nearly 900 since 2000, and has not been used at all since 2013.

The southeastern state had not carried out an execution since 2009 until this past August, when it used the three-drug combination to put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering a child in 1986. (afp)

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Bali and Java islands in the early hours, jolting residents awake and sending them rushing into the streets.

Some attendees in Bali for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings this week evacuated their hotels as the quake shook the island.

“I felt the quake for at least 30 seconds and I panicked. At first I didn’t want to go out but then I decided to leave,” Katharina Sudiyono, an Indonesian attendee at the summit, told AFP. Peter Jacobs, head of the Indonesian Central Bank’s IMF-World Bank taskforce, said delegates in Bali’s Nusa Dua district for the summit were quickly informed of the situation.

“Many summit participants woke up and asked questions, but we immediately sent out information to them that there had been an earthquake and the impact in Nusa Dua,” he told AFP. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in Bali and the summit proceeded Thursday uninterrupted.

“We send our condolences to those affected by the earthquake.

Here in Bali, the earthquake has not caused significant damage nor any disruption to the meetings,” an IMF

spokesman said. The conference centre was designed to withstand seismic events, and participants had been told to remain there in the event of a quake.

In case of tsunami risk, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building. Holidayers in the island’s popular tourist districts also rushed into the streets as buildings swayed.

“Wow, that was really strong and it lasted a long time,” said one woman who took refuge in a hotel parking lot in Nusa Dua, a few kilometres from where the IMF and World Bank are holding their meetings.

Others in Nusa Dua, south of Bali’s main international airport, also panicked. “The quake was very big. I immediately woke up and took my little kids out of the house,” Ni Komang Sudiani told AFP. “All my neighbours were also running, said the mother of two.

- Volatile archipelago -

Dwikorita Karnawati, the head of Indonesia’s geophysics agency who was also in Nusa Dua for the IMF summit, said no tsunami warning was issued. “I felt the quake too,” she told AFP. “We are also still gathering data from our team in East Java.’

In East Java, three people were crushed to death in their sleep when the quake brought down buildings

in Sumenep district and sent people fleeing their homes.

“Everybody panicked and the entire village ran outside. We have never experienced an earthquake as strong as last night,” Zainurrohman, a 21-year-old from the district told AFP. “We stayed outside until dawn,” he said. Many Indonesians go by one name.

The tremor’s epicentre was in the Bali Sea around 40 kilometres (25 miles) off the eastern end of Java island, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The tremor comes after a 7.5-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last month -- around 1,000 kilometres northeast of the latest quake’s epicentre -- killing more than 2,000 people.

Thousands more remain missing since the twin disaster ravaged the city of Palu and surrounding areas. The search for the dead is expected to end Thursday. A string of earthquakes in Lombok in eastern Indonesia killed more than 550 people over the summer.

Indonesia, one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. (afp)

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In this photo taken on October 10, 2018, Indonesian villagers carry aid provisions delivered by boat to isolated Lambonga village in Donggala, following the September 28 earthquake and tsunami. The search for those killed in Indonesia’s quake-tsunami disaster was called off on October 11, despite there being around 5,000 people still missing.

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IMF, Pakistan to meet as Islamabad seeks bailout

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said she would meet with Pakistani officials on Thursday, with expectations that Islamabad will request a bailout of its shaky economy.

Pakistani Finance minister Asad Umar, who is attending the fund’s annual meeting in Bali, announced earlier this week that the government would seek talks with the IMF on a “stabilisation recovery programme”.

Lagarde said the IMF was yet to receive anything formal from Islamabad but that she and other IMF officials would meet with the Pakistani delegation in Bali on Thursday afternoon.

“I’m assuming that there might be a programme request on their part, but that has not been discussed and we will explore that this afternoon,” she told a press briefing.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday vowed to steer the country out of a looming balance-of-payments crisis, saying it needs $10-12 billion. “We will get out of this. I will take (the country) out of this,” he said.

Khan’s new administration took office in August vowing to weigh up whether to seek an IMF bailout as it sought other avenues of financing.

He has sought loans from friendly countries, promised to recover funds stolen by corrupt officials, and embarked on a series of populist austerity measures. But help has been in short supply and economists’ warnings have grown increasingly urgent.

Pakistan has gone to the IMF several times since the late 1980s. The most recent was in 2013, when Islamabad got a $6.6 billion loan to tackle a similar crisis. (afp)

Art exhibitions in Bali revealing tremendous contemporary talent

Contemporary art flourishing in Bali 5 exhibitions reveal the tip of the tropical iceberg

Along with the monumental Art Bali that opened this week in Nusa Dua featuring some of Indonesia’s greatest contemporary artists, brought together for the first time on such a large scale on the Islands of the Gods, four other impressive exhibitions opened in Ubud this week with more specific focus but equally powerful contemporary art works.

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Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde, left, leaves after a press conference ahead of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Bali, Indonesia Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.

Malaysia plans new taxes to help pay off snowballing debt

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said Tuesday the government plans to introduce new tax measures to help raise funds to pay off national debt that has snowballed due to corruption under the previous government.

Lim said it will take the government three years to resolve its fiscal woes due to more than 1 trillion ringgit ($240.5 billion) in debt and another 35 billion ringgit ($8.4 billion) in newly discovered unpaid tax refunds that were not disclosed by the previous government.

“Fiscal consolidation will not be achieved easily, and we must be willing to expect some pain and

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even offer some sacrifice. We would need 3 years to resolve the fiscal issues,” Lim told an economic forum.

He didn’t give details of the tax measures but said these will be announced in the 2019 federal budget that will be unveiled Nov.2.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the forum the fiscal problems have turned Malaysia from an Asian tiger into a “small kitten.”

“It is going to be tough for the government because it inherited a country that is completely disoriented,” said Mahathir, who was elected a second time to become the world’s oldest leader at 93. “We may have to devise new taxes in

order to have the money to pay our debts. Of course the other thing we can do is to sell our assets.”

Anger over massive corruption at the 1MDB state investment fund prompted Mahathir — who led Malaysia for 22 years until 2003 — to make a political comeback and turn on his former party.

Mahathir’s alliance won a stunning victory in May 9 elections to oust scandal-tainted former Prime Minister Najib Razak, ushering in the country’s first change of power since independence from Britain in 1957.

The country’s huge debt is partly due to losses from the 1MDB fund set up by Najib that led voters to

abandon him, and sparked investigations in the U.S. and several other countries. U.S. investigators say Najib’s associates stole and laundered at least $4.5 billion from the fund.

Najib and his wife Rosmah have been charged with multiple counts of corruption and money laundering linked to 1MDB, after Mahathir reopened investigations into the fund that were suppressed during Najib’s rule. The couple have both pled not guilty and Najib has accused the government of seeking political vengeance against his family.

The new government has reviewed large infrastructure proj-

ects, including Chinese investment, to cut costs. It also is seeking ways to bolster revenues to pay off debts and plug deficits expected after it scrapped an unpopular goods and services tax.

Lim said the government may sell its equity in state-owned companies to raise funds but will aim to strike a balance between fiscal consolidation and ensuring productive spending and investment.

“While it is imperative for the government to be prudent with our expenditure, we are equally cognizant that we must not fall into the austerity trap. What we want is merely to get a bigger bang for the buck,” Lim said at the forum. (ap)

“The Challenge of Contemporaneity” which opened on October 6th at Arma Museum and Resort is showing art works by artists from Java and Bali who explore various contemporary issues – whether they be aesthetic, cultural, political or personal with great power and distinctly local perspectives. As the title of the exhibition suggests each of the art works represents a specific aspect of the current time and place in which the artists work.

Each artist has their own unique focus, manner and means of expression that speaks of today’s contemporary context (or time) -one in which boundaries between different places are being collapsed thanks to digital technologies and wider access to transportation. So today’s contemporaneity tends to include an awareness of other ways of seeing things, an awareness of one’s particular locality and how this shapes our own perspectives as well as how this fits into the

global context. This could be seen in the art works in this show –some of which drew on distinctly local symbols and references, and others that drew on less obvious indicators of locality such as line and color to express more general themes from a locally influenced perspectives.

Bringing artists specifically from Yogyakarta and Bali together for this show in itself speaks to both the long history of relations between these two places – a relationship that dates back many hundreds of years, as well as the contemporary context in which these two places are hotbeds of artistic talent and cutting edge creativity. There is indeed an ongoing interaction between artists from Yogyakarta and artists Bali that is at times contentious but always inspiring and tends to bear exceptionally delicious fruit.

While Yogyakarta is known for yielding arts works that lean heav-

ily towards the conceptual, and Bali known for yielding art works that lean more heavily towards the artisanal, the greatest artists of both these places manage to combine both these two aspects in their works with varied and stunning results.

“Inner Gazing” opened at Komaneka Gallery on October 7th and although smaller in scope with just 4 Balinese artists being featured, the exhibition is no less powerful than the two previous ones mentioned above and in a similar vein.

These four artists are also distinctly contemporary in their approach and treatment of their art, with keen awareness of the context in which they work and creative exploration of both themes, subjects and materials. Although they each come to art making from different angles and produce works with equally divergent aesthetic styles, they each bring something new to

the table.

This newness however is not based on a desire to push the envelop of art making per se, but rather arises naturally out of their honestly in expressing their inner most perspective. A perspective that is most certainly informed by their personal visions – visions that are also certainly shaped by their particular cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. However, as with other great contemporary artists, their contemporaneity includes an awareness of the crumbling boundaries between localities. So although their works emerge from the distinctly Balinese context in which they work, this context is in itself informed by more global perspectives.

“Legacy” which opened on October 8th at Monkey Forest Gallery features the works of an artist collective from the village of Batuan who work in a style known as Traditional Batuan Style Painting. Although these works are not contemporary in the sense of expanding the visual vocabulary of art, or drawing on specifically contemporary perspectives of art

making, they most certainly reflect contemporaneity in their choice of subjects and approach to traditional themes. The title of the show refers to traditional heritage being carried on, but opens up the question of whether traditional art can also be contemporary.

These works are referred to as traditional for their adherence to specific techniques and compositional style, however, unlike traditional painting in other parts of Bali, many of these artists of Batuan certainly express their contemporaneity in their works.

Where the boundary between traditional ends and contemporary begins is up for debate, as the exhibition currently on at Museum Puri Lukisan entitled “A Budding Talent”, clearly speaks to. This solo exhibition features works by a young artist who distinctly draws on traditional techniques and compositional style, yet introduces distinctly contemporary approaches in her choice of subjects and themes as well as aesthetics to such an extend that she is not considered to be a traditional artist by most.

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Beautiful woman sentenced to a year in prison DENPASAR - Beautiful woman from the neighboring country, Malaysia, defendant Nor Faraniza bin Nor Azam, 34, was sentenced to one year in prison. In the hearing in Denpasar District Court on Wednesday (Oct. 10), Prosecutor Wayan Sutarta before the panel of judges led by Ni Made Purnami stated the defendant is found guilty in the fourth alternative charge of violating Article 131 in conjunction with Article 127 paragraph (1) letter of the Law No. 35/2009 concerning Narcotics. The article regulates every person who does not report on the existence of Narcotics crime.

The demand remains lighter compared to the claim against her husband Mohd Akmar Firdaus bin

Ishak, 35, who was sentenced to two years 6 months (2.5 years) in the same case on Tuesday (Oct. 9).

This couple is dragged along by the case of Sharizal bin Md Salleh, 41, and Indonesian citizen on behalf of Rosida Mardani Tarigan, 43, after they were arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport for carrying narcotics.

Hearing such a demand, the defendant accompanied by his attorney, M Husein and Suroso, immediately gave a verbal defense.

The defendant himself was given the opportunity to defend himself.

In essence, the defendant asked for a relief of sentence because she must still take care of two young children currently living in Malaysia. (kmb37)

Cyclone Titli batters eastern India, 300,000 evacuated

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At the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua, Vice President Jusuf Kalla (3rd L) held a meeting with the World Bank to discuss about post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu on Wednesday (Oct. 10) in Nusa Dua.

World Bank ready to assist post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu

MANGUPURA - At the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua, Vice President Jusuf Kalla held a meeting with the World Bank to discuss about post-disaster rehabilitation in Lombok and Palu on Wednesday (Oct. 10) in Nusa Dua. From the discussion, it is planned that there will be fund assistance and long-term loans.

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Defendant Nor Faraniza bin Nor Azam, 34, was sentenced to one year in prison.

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According to him, the meeting discussed the assistance that would be provided by the World Bank.

In this case, the World Bank is ready to help Indonesia in terms of funding for post-disaster recovery.

“Later on, there will be assistance and long-term loans up to 35 years.

The amount is being discussed and will be released later,” he concluded.

“So, just now we already talked to Kristalina. We talked about the programs starting from infrastructure development, tourism, structure and health. This disaster insurance is very important. We have to work immediately. They have discussed and we will immediately realize this,” said Vice President Jusuf Kalla in the press conference at the BICC Nusa Dua. CEO of World Bank, Kristalina

Georgieva, said that her party is very saddened by the occurrence of the earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi. She understood that Indonesia lies in the zone that regularly experiences earthquakes.

For post-disaster recovery, her institution will support infrastructure improvements like repairing schools, buildings and hospitals.

Thus, if later on another disaster occurs again, it will be able to be overcome quickly. “This is possible because the prevention is given the first priority,” she said.

She added that so far it had worked in several countries such as Chile which faced a stronger nature than Indonesia. With such experience, she can improve building standards and ensure the community to have a preventive mindset, and has preparedness in dealing

with disasters. “It is necessary to reduce the impact and the damage caused,” she said.

Indonesia located in the ring of fire must also think about it.

“I shared the experience in Chile how the building standards there can be strong when there is a big earthquake. What they find is the building is very strong but can reduce destruction,” she said.

Meanwhile, the funding of postdisaster condition will still be discussed because it needs adjustment.

What to do urgently is how serious the damages are and together with the government it will record the fund required and the government needs to inform. “We will be ready to support. It is the authority of the Indonesian government but we are ready to help finance it,” she concluded. (kmb23)

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Finalist of the Faso Don dancing contest, Mohamed Kassogue, performs on stage during the filming of the TV show on October 6, 2018, in the Malian capital Bamako.

In fractured Mali, dance contest offers a sense of unity

NEW DELHI - A cyclone packing winds of up to 150 kilometres (95 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early Thursday, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas and two men reported killed.

Officials in neighbouring Bangladesh said they were on alert in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, home to around one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in tarpaulin and bamboo shelters.

Cyclone Titli, which intensified into a “very severe cyclonic storm” over the Bay of Bengal, made landfall on India’s eastern coast early Thursday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.

Wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour were reported, with gusts of up to 165 kph.

One man died in a house collapse while another was killed by a falling tree, an emergency services official was quoted as saying by PTI. The Odisha state government evacuated more than 300,000

people from five coastal districts on Wednesday while local schools, colleges and childcare centres were ordered closed and fishermen advised not to go out to sea.

“We have already evacuated three lakh (300,000) people and more may be shifted to safer places in view of the very severe cyclone,” PTI quoted Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as saying.

They were accommodated in more than 1,100 cyclone shelters.

Officials have also shifted 123 pregnant women to hospitals.

Trees and electricity poles were uprooted, officials told PTI, with roads and houses also damaged.

The Bangladeshi government’s Rohingya commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam said the cyclone had brought rain to Cox’s Bazar over the last three days.

“We’re on alert. We’ve taken adequate cautionary measures for the cyclone,” Kalam told AFP, adding Dhaka had held meetings with agencies operating in the camps in preparation for the storm. (afp)

BAMAKO - All 3,000 seats in the cavernous Palace of Culture in Bamako had been snapped up, and the mood was at fever pitch as the TV dance competition reached its climax.

The three finalists took to the floor one by one, dancing alongside a celebrity -- a format familiar to viewers of talent shows around the world.

But here’s the difference: the three hopefuls each had to perform a traditional dance from a region of Mali that was not their own.

To outsiders, the format may seem odd -- rather as if, in France, one asked a Corsican to don Breton folk clothing and do a jig.

But in the landlocked Sahel state of Mali, the show has been a raging success.

And it has bred a desperatelyneeded sense of unity in a country burdened by jihadist violence and ethnic tensions.

- ‘Cultural wealth’ The competition is the brainchild of dancer and choreographer Sekou Keita.

Just six years ago, he was wondering how he could reverse the decline of traditional dance in Mali, a country whose music is now achieving global fame.

“Our dances are so varied, we

have a number of ethnic groups -- we’re very lucky to have such cultural wealth,” he told AFP. But the sad thing is that all of Mali’s dancers have one thing in common, he said.

“If you ask them to do the coupe-decale, a modern dance from Ivory Coast -- which I have nothing against, by the way -- they all know how to do it.

“If they go to (Senegal’s capital) Dakar, they all know how to dance the sabar,” he said.

“But they don’t know the traditional dances of their own country.”

- Exploring ancient roots From this came his idea for a programme that explored ancient cultural roots and built bridges across ethnic divides -- “Faso Don” or “Dances of the Country” in the Bambara language.

Over six weeks, TV audiences shared the fate of eight young men and women from different regions, who shared a house “Big Brotherstyle” in Bamako, the capital.

Each week they performed

before an audience and the TV cameras, their numbers progressively falling as a competitor was eliminated by a vote by the public and the jury -- a device familiar to lovers of Britain’s “Strictly Come Dancing” or its US spin-off, “Dancing with the Stars.”

The final took place last weekend before an audience exhilarated by the ground-breaking, crosscultural performances.

Dressed in traditional costumes, the finalists performed one dance from their region and one from another region, accompanied by Malian stars such as musician Bassekou Kouyate and singers Habib Koite and Oumou Sangare.

Among the finalists was Mohamed Kassogue, a member of the Dogon group who hails from the central region of Mopti.

His dream of dancing initially sparked a sceptical response from his family but in the end, Billy Elliot-style, their resistance crumbled and they became a source of “huge support and pride in me,” he said. (afp)

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Indian men cut through a fallen tree to clear the road between Gopalpur and Berhampura after heavy winds brought by Cyclone Titli struck the area, near Gopalpur in eastern Odisha state on October 11, 2018. A cyclone packing winds of up to 150 kilometres (95 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early October 11, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas and two men reported killed.

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Geo Dipa Energi

Target to reduce 6 million carbon emissions in 2035

MANGUPURA — PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero), as the only geothermal state-owned enterprise (SOE), does not only focus on project development, but also on the environment. Geo Dipa has a target to reduce carbon (CO2) emissions by at least 1-2 million tons in 2023 and 6 million tons in 2035.

President Director of PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero), Riki Ibrahim, stated this commitment is reflected in the short-term and long-term plans for developing the business of PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero) in accordance with Indonesia’s Commitment to climate change contained in the Law No. 16/2016 concerning the Paris Agreement to the United Nations.

In order to fulfill the commitment to reducing carbon emissions massively, at present Geo Dipa carries out the mandate of the Geothermal Law No.21/2014 chiefly

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the Article 28 namely getting an assignment from the government to carry out exploration, exploitation and / or utilization of geothermal renewable energy.

Geo Dipa is committed to increasing quantity and making it easier for people to obtain ecofriendly electricity needs. In addition, it opens and expands job opportunities in the regions where the project is carried out and helps the government as a price setter in meeting the geothermal ecofriendly electricity.

Geo Dipa currently has a 10 MW Small Scale Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP) development project, Binary 10 MW, Candradimuka 60 MW Area Development, 5 × 55 MW Dieng and Patuha Extension units, Arjuno Welirang Field development with the capacity of 180 MW and Umbul Telomoyo Temple field with the capacity of 90 MW. (kmb12)

Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster

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Centered at Besakih

Official opening of customary attires and Balinese language use

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DENPASAR — The official opening of the use of Balinese customary attires and language for provincial level will be centered at Besakih Temple on October 11, 2018. The inauguration is held simultaneously throughout Bali at 08:00 local time.

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Geo Dipa is committed to increasing quantity and making it easier for people to obtain eco-friendly electricity needs.

This is set forth in Letter No.430/7023/DISBUD signed by the Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster.

The letter addressed to the regents/ mayor throughout Bali also carries the composition of the inauguration of the Balinese customary attires and Balinese language use. At the district/municipality level, the inauguration is centered at Dang Kahyangan or Kahyangan Jagat Temple.

Meanwhile, at administrative and customary village level is centered at local village temple.

Interestingly, the inauguration will also be graced with perfor-

mances of some sacred arts such as Rejang Dance, Baris Dance or other dances. This was justified by the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, when confirmed on Tuesday (Oct. 9).

“Well, (graced with the performance of sacred art—Ed) because the location of the inauguration is at the innermost temple courtyard or main mandala,” he said.

Beratha added the inauguration of the use of Balinese customary attires and language is marked with the use of headdress to representatives of the officials and community

leaders. After that, it is resumed with joint prayers led by Brahmin or temple priests.

“The whole series of the events uses Balinese language which marks the commencement of the simultaneous use of Balinese language throughout Bali,” he added.

Regarding the financing, it is carried out independently or mutual cooperation as a form of implementation of self-reliance and serious commitment to supporting the promotion of Balinese customs, religion, tradition, arts and culture. (kmb32)

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Activists slam police for blocking anti-IMF event in Bali backed policies that critics say aggravate income inequality, abuse labour rights and hurt the environment.

Organisers said police intelligence personnel had infiltrated the event planning team as volunteers, subjecting them to intimidation and constant surveillance.

Hoax banners of the event carrying logos of terror-linked organisations as co-sponsors also appeared around the planned venue in Dangin Puri Kangin village, near the island’s capital Denpasar, the organisers said.

“They are trying to intimidate and even ban our democratic activity in relation to the World Bank and IMF,” Kurniawan Sabar, an organiser from the Peoples’ Global Conference, told AFP. “We were

having the conference to discuss how IMF and World Bank projects affect people.” Indonesia’s national police could not immediately be reached for comment.

Thousands of security personnel have fanned out around key venues in Nusa Dua, just south of Bali’s main international airport, with some 32,000 delegates, including finance ministers and central bankers, attending the IMF-World Bank meetings.

Delegates are focused on maintaining global growth amid increasing protectionist sentiment and escalating trade tensions between China and US. Sabar said the Peoples’ Global Conference was looking for an alternate venue and was in negotiations with police in Bali. (afp)

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The Delegates of IMF-WB visit Ulundanu Batur Temple

IMF-WB delegates visit Ulundanu Batur Temple

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A small group of anti-IMF demonstrators shout and hold up placards saying “Stop the attacks” in one of the main venues at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 11, 2018.

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INTERCONTINENTAL BALI RESORT CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

An anti-globalisation conference on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s annual meeting this week in Indonesia has been cancelled due to pressure from national police, activists said Thursday.

The planned event set to kick off Thursday -- the “Peoples’ Global Conference against IMF-WB” -- has had its approval yanked by police, and the venue organiser cancelled, organisers said.

“While the local police has already issued a recommendation in favour of holding the conference, the national police is now using the local village leadership and paramilitary saying that no event can be held without its permission,” organisers of the Peoples’ Global Conference said in a statement.

The alternative conference, which had attracted around 300 registrants from Indonesia and around the world, was to bring together dozens of civil society groups to draw attention to the impact of free trade and IMF-WB

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BANGLI - Charm of the beauty exuded by the Ulundanu Batur Temple in Kintamani has been able to attract many tourists to visit Bangli. No exception is for the delegates of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018. On Wednesday (Oct. 10), an IMF-WB delegate, Adolfo Armiento, Director General of the Central Bank as Representative of the State Finance Minister of Uruguay, visited the Ulundanu Batur Temple to have a look at and take pictures with the background of the beauty of building shrine of the temple.

Spokesperson of Bangli Police, Sulhadi, said the delegate of the IMF-WB Annual Meeting arrived at Ulundanu Batur Temple around 11:15. The arrival of the delegate at Ulundanu Batur Temple was welcomed and guided by the local temple chief, I Wayan Adnyana.

At Ulundanu Batur Temple, Adolfo accompanied by a liaison officer looked at the beauty of the local shrine buildings. He took photographs in the temple area. After getting satisfied to look around the temple area, approximately at 11:45, the delegate continued their visit to Lake View Kintamani Restaurant. The visit was to have lunch while seeing the panoramic view of the Mount and Lake Batur.

Sulhadi stated that in order to secure the visit of the IMF delegates, the Bangli Police deployed 15 personnel. Obviously, the security was led directly by the Subdivision Head of the Bangli Police Operations, Ngakan Putu Anom, accompanied by the Kintamani Police Chief and the Head of the Bangli Police Mobile Detective Unit. (kmb40)

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I n t e r C o n t i n e n ta l Bali Resort celebrated its 25th anniversary this October with a series of special events and activities for both hotel guests and associates.

Opened its doors to public since 4th October 1993, the resort has retained its place as one of the top five-star resorts in Jimbaran Bay, it proudly continues its tradition of offering the most luxurious experience while highlighting the island’s rich heritage and culture.

Throughout the years, the resort has been awarded numerous accolades and recognitions, both international and local.

InterContinental Bali Resort’s restaurants have long been the most favorites in the area, featuring with an exquisite array of local and global cuisines such as Italian cuisine at Bella Cucina, Japanese flavours at KO Restaurant or authentic local Balinese at Jimbaran Gardens.

The anniversary commenced with a traditional Tumpeng Ceremony in Taman Gita restaurant during breakfast. Acone-shaped tower of yellow rice, Nasi Tumpeng symbolizes the mountains and volcanoes as the abode of the gods, with the signature yellow color represents gold, or abundance. The Tumpeng was carried in as part of a ceremonial parade by staff and management who were dressed in traditional attire and accompanied by rousing beleganjur music.

The entire resort took on a festive air with plenty adornments of

ceremonial flags and special offerings. The celebration continues into the evening with the management team hosting guests for cocktails in the gardens accompanied by a live Balinese dance performance. The Resort’s General Manager, Michael Koth, thanked business partners and stakeholders for their trust and continual support with the following statement: “We are thrilled to be celebrating our 25th anniversary here on the magical island of Bali.

It is quite a milestone, 25 years of creating unforgettable holiday experiences for our guests, as well as providing valuable support for the local community which we are so grateful and honoured to be a part of. It has been a fantastic journey to everyone involved and associated with us and we look forward to an even more glittering future” InterContinental Bali Resort 25th Year Anniversary is not just about celebrating resort, but also about giving back to the community. Together with its sister properties in Bali, the resort participated in Giving for Good month with a series of community-based activities to raise donation fund for earthquake victims in the neighbouring island of Lombok.

Throughout the birthday month, InterContinental Bali Resort offers a special accommodation promotion to celebrate its silver anniversary.

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Katie Price arrested on suspicion of drink-driving LOS ANGELES - Met Police say they arrested a 40-year-old woman after finding a car with signs of damage in Woolwich, southeast London, at 2am.

TV personality and former glamour model Katie Price has been arrested on suspicion of drinkdriving.

Police say a woman arrested in the early hours has since been released pending further investigation.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “At approximately 2am, British Transport Police officers came across a car showing signs of damage stationary at the roadside in

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“A 40-year-old woman who was inside the car was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. She was taken to a south London police station where she remains.

“Officers from the Met investigate. Inquiries continue.”

The woman was held at a station in south London for several hours.

The police spokesman said a breath test had been administered but that the force would not discuss the results. Price, who has five children, split from her third husband, Kieran Hayler, earlier this year.

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US-Canadian actress Pamela Anderson (R) and her dancing partner Maxime Dereymez stand in a cage displaying placards against the caging of animals during an event organized by the NGO Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) in Paris on October 10, 2018.

Pamela Anderson gets behind bars in Paris protest against farm animal abuse

PARIS - Actress Pamela Anderson joined animal rights campaigners in Paris Wednesday, posing inside a cage to protest the caging of animals in European farming.

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The former Baywatch star was backing a campaign by Compassion in World Farming to get a million signatures in seven EU countries in support of their bid to end the practice.

“I don’t think any animal belongs in a cage for entertainment or for what we wear or what we eat,” she told reporters.

“All of our choices are important and we have to be more conscious of our decisions,” she added. “Animal welfare has come a long way, but we have a long way to go.”

The petition is part of the European Citizens’ Initiative, which means that if they can raise a million signatures within a year the

European Commission will have to consider the issue.

The organisers say they have the support of 140 organisations, including in France the Brigitte Bardot Foundation and PETA. Anderson is currently taking part in the French edition of the television programme Dancing with the Stars. (afp)

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Southeast Asian leaders pose for a family photo for the ASEAN Leaders Gathering at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 11, 2018. Pictured L-R: ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and Myanmar’s U Win Myint. Finance ministers and central bankers from 180 nations are among 32,000 attendees in Bali for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from October 9 to 14, which takes place every three years outside of Washington.

Bali batik: IMF meets in Indonesia

The world’s financial elite are gathering in the Indonesian holiday island Bali for talks with trade spats and emerging markets crises topping the agenda. Here are some facts and figures about the high-level gathering: - Quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes Disaster-prone Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as the sprawling archipelago sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the world’s most seismically active region.

Some 32,000 delegates at this week’s meeting got a taste of that volatility early Thursday morning when a shallow quake off the coast of Bali and Java island killed at least three people and triggered panic. Thousands of people staying in hotels near the meetings were jolted awake by the strong shake that sent many running outside.

It came after the city of Palu, more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from Bali, was flattened last month

in a quake-tsunami disaster that has killed more than 2,000 people.

Bali’s neighbouring Lombok island was also hammered by a series of quakes this summer that killed over 500, while the island’s Mt Agung erupted earlier in the year -- leading to thousands of cancelled flights and even more grumbling tourists.

Indonesian organisers have advised participants to stay in the IMF conference centre in case of a quake because it’s built to withstand such tremors. In case of a tsunami warning, attendees would be evacuated to a nearby building.

- Global gabfest Finance ministers and central

bankers from 180 nations are among the attendees in Bali for the annual meetings of the US-based International Monetary Fund and World Bank, held every three years outside of Washington. Talks run from Tuesday through Sunday.

Local hotels are packed and taxis can be hard to come by as attendees speed by Bali’s world-famous beaches to spend a few days in air-conditioned venues in Nusa Dua, home to a string of luxury hotels -- and a safe distance from the island’s booze-fuelled tourist party spot Kuta.

- Tight security Thousands of security staff have fanned out across key venues, and are confiscating certain items as

attendees pass through metal detectors, including cigarette lighters in a country with one of the world’s highest smoking rates.

At least one coconut-brandishing participant got his fruit through the scanners unharmed, however.

The machine was later taken out of service for unexplained reasons.

Muslim-majority Indonesia, a huge nation of 260 million people, has been on high alert after suicide bombings this year in its secondbiggest city Surabaya underlined its long battle with Islamist militancy.

About 15 minutes’ drive from the meeting venues stands a monument to more than 200 people -- mostly tourists -- who were killed in the 2002 Bali bombing terror attack.

The majority of Bali’s residents practice Hinduism while Christians also make up a sizeable minority group.

- Business batik Organisers have advised against heavy suits in the sweltering tropical heat and many participants, including foreign delegates, are donning batik shirts -- a local staple for business or pleasure.

Batik uses a dyeing process that results in a dizzying array of intricate patterns in all colours of the rainbow.

Shirts can cost upwards of several hundred US dollars for top-quality fabric and original designs. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.