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Kristen Stewart says coming out is worthwhile if she can help others

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (L), Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner and Kit Harrington of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” pose backstage with their award for Oustanding Drama Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California U.S., September 18, 2016.

War comes to Westeros as ‘Game of Thrones’ unveils July return

LOS ANGELES - The premiere date of HBO’s medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones” was announced with fiery fanfare on Thursday, as a block of ice was melted live online to reveal the July 16 start of the new season.

More than 100,000 people watched the hour-long Facebook Live stream of a block of ice being melted slowly by blasts of fire. It was interrupted by a few technical difficulties when the stream cut to black.

The highly anticipated seventh season of “Game of Thrones,” taglined “The Great War is Here,” has been moved to summer from its usual spring air date this year as filming of the show was delayed to capture scenes of winter for the show’s fictional realm of

Westeros.

Emmy-winning “Game of Thrones,” based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, follows the epic fantasy of a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne seat of the Seven Kingdoms.

A teaser trailer released by HBO on Thursday shows the crests of the warring families crumbling to ash, with voices of key characters heard speaking phrases from past seasons in a timeline of events that have led to the battle.

At the very end, the voice of resurrected Night Watch leader Jon Snow says, “The same thing coming for all of us. There’s only one war that matters. The great war. And it is here.”

“Game of Thrones” is the most-watched show on Time Warner Inc’s premium cable network

HBO, averaging around 25 million viewers for its sixth season.

The saga will conclude with its eighth season next year. (rtr)

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NEW YORK - Sporting a bleached-blond buzz cut, American actress Kristen Stewart hit the red carpet in New York to promote her new film “Personal Shopper”, saying she hoped to help others by going public about her sexual orientation.

The 26-year-old, who used to date her co-star from the “Twilight” film series, Robert Pattinson, made headlines in February when she announced she was gay while hosting the U.S. late night sketch show “Saturday Night Live”.

“I always wanted to keep what was mine in private, mine. And then I thought like you know, you open it up a little bit and you can help one or two people, it’s absolutely worth it,” she said on Thursday.

“Personal Shopper”, directed by Olivier Assayas, tells the story of Maureen (Stewart), an American woman working in Paris, who is trying to connect with the spirit of her dead brother Lewis. The film has been described as a seductive, mysterious ghost-story, but Assayas said it was simply a coming of age tale.

“It’s a character who is in a moment in her life where she has to somehow become herself because she’s just lost her twin brother.

So it’s really like a character who is one half of herself and she will gradually rebuild her life and become someone,” Assayas said.

The film, which also stars Nora Von Waldstatten and Sigrid Bouaziz, first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016 and will be released in U.S. theatres today. (rtr)

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European Union heads of state and government gather for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, March 10, 2017. EU leaders are debating the future of their bloc as Britain eyes the exit door and far-right parties look to get strong results in upcoming elections.

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Actress Kristen Stewart poses as she arrives for the premiere of her new film “Personal Shopper” in New York, U.S., March 9, 2017.

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EU leaders seek unity as Britain heads for the exit BRUSSELS - Leaders of the European Union agreed the outlines on Friday of a common accord to rally popular and political support for a bloc wracked with division and self-doubt in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave.

At a summit in Brussels, diplomats said the 27 leaders tried to put behind them a furious row with Poland that had disrupted proceedings the previous day and handed guidelines to their staffs to prepare a solemn declaration of unity which they will all sign in Rome on the bloc’s 60th birthday in two weeks time.

Poland’s vain lone battle to block a second term for summit chair Donald Tusk, a former Polish premier and arch-foe of the current ruling party leader, was symptomatic of growing friction between the west and poorer, ex-communist east as Brexit leaves a

hole in EU subsidy budgets.

But people in the room said Prime Minister Beata Szydlo took pains to be polite and cooperative after Thursday’s sharp exchanges with the likes of French President Francois Hollande, who had effectively accused her of ingratitude for EU grants to Poland. “She was a different person today,” one diplomat said.

Tusk, who promised to try and heal his personal rift with his successors in Warsaw, said: “The attitude was much more constructive.” The atmosphere was, he said, even “optimistic”.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who

dismissed accusations from a Polish minister that the EU was run by “German diktat”, was more measured but concluded: “We are united in diversity.”

Merkel faces a eurosceptic challenge at a September election, and Hollande will step down after an election next month where far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to make a strong showing.

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Public and pecalang advised not to take selfies on streets during Nyepi

MANGUPURA - During the asceticism of Nyepi (Day of Silence), the people of Kuta are being asked to set a good example and not take selfies in the middle of the empty strees. Hinuds should be setting a good example and not taking advantae of the situation, said Kuta community leader, I Gusti Anom Gumanti.

After a coordinatin meeting held bewteen Kuta leadership and and relevant agencies, regarding security for Nyepi of

Caka Year 1939 (2017) on Friday (Mar. 10), Gumanti urged people to be wise about using camera devices and thus bring benefit to the environment and to themlselves. “Hopefully, things will naturally run solemnly, safely and smoothly. Right now, everyone has a smartphone with a camera, so we are saking people not to go out and take selfies, but to respect Nyepi”, he said.

This appeal was not just directed to the public at large but also to pecalang (customary security guard) who are in charge of securing the catur bratha penyepian or four

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The Nyepi celebration in Bali

abstinences of the celebration. Gusmanti said that hopes they will take selfies as this can provide a negative image of pecalang officers. “If making snapshoot of the surroundings and delivering the course and lessons learned from Nyepi, it does not matter,” he said.

Last year guests were found scattered in the streets during Nyepi. Allegedly this was because their hotels had failed to inform them about the prohibitions. Hotel managers are therefore being asked to ensure that information about customary rules regarding Nyepi are conveyed to their guets well in advance. This way, visitors can appreciate and care for the solemn unfolding of Nyepi Day “Nyepi not only bring in an exceptional vibration to the local population, but also to people from outside Bali who enjoy Nyepi. Please search for hotels that have a clear name and address so as to enjoy the vibration. Visitors should not arrive without a clear objective and place to stay as this could result in being caught by pecalang”, he concluded.

Undeniably, the atmospehre of Nyepi atmosphere has become one that is sought after by by travellers wanting to enjoy Bali in silence. Religiously speaking, Gusmanti siad that he disagrees with hotels that sel “Nyepi packages”, that allow guests to break the four abstinences. However, since there is a demand for such packages, hotels should be mindful not to comercialise Nyepi.

In general, last year’s celebration of Nyepi took place in an orderly fashioin in Kuta. The night before Nyepi involves the ogoh-ogoh (papier mache demons) parade which has become synonymous woth partying. However he asked that each hamlet hall hold a party saying: “ “we must begin to instill in the younger generation the idea that the hamlet hall is the center of the community whre all sorts of activities, from educaiton to chatting and even partying takes place”, he said.

Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, invited the youth of kuta not engage in road side dringking after the ogohogoh parades. All members of the community are invited to participate in maintaining the security and comfort of Kuta. “We hope that all components will care for general comfort and orderliness during Nyepi. Likewise, the melis and ngerupuk activities on the eve of Nyepi shold also take place smoothly”, he said with hope. (kmb32)

entrance and operated the mobile x-ray device. The device inside the police vehicle functions to scan and oversee vehicles and people along with their luggage as they enter the main entrance. “All vehicles can be scanned, but we focus on the box trucks”, he said.

Joko added that the ZBV with four detectors and monitor can scan the entire human body from head to toe, including clothing as well as the contents of vehicles. Other than being able to penetrate steel, the device is also able to detect organic and non-organic materials such as drugs and explosives. With such super-sophisticated capabilities, this device is very useful in improving security. “It is very appropriate

that this device be used secure the visit of King Salman and his entourage in Bali”, he said.

Besides, Bali police also scanned vehicles using a parcel X-ray inspection (X-ray bag) at the southern entrance of the BTDC area. The US-made mobile X-ray bag is a new type of x-ray that yields better images.

The vehicle operated by four police personnel has to back up in case the x-ray bag owned by the hotel where the King stayed, were to malfunction. Such advance devices are expected to prevent any harzadous goods such as bombs, weapons or quesiontalble liquids form entering the hotel. (kmb36)

Gracie Kelly’s Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day

This 17th of March, don’t miss the biggest Irish party in town and

meet the Gracie Kelly’s Leprechauns! Celebrating St. Patrick’s

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS EVERY SATURDAY Meditation class by Mangku Budi Dharma 14-16:30 Bona, Blahbatuh meet at Ubud Cocomarket at 13:00 Saturday Market Oldman’s Cafe Canggu, Batu Bolong Beach, pottery fresh produce, clothing Sand Beach Club and Restaurant, Sanur Every second Saturday Biasa Art Space, Jl. Raya Seminyak 24, Seminyak, Fresh produce, potted plants, meat pie, sshie, coffee and more.

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur

Detecting explosives, Bali police use ZBV

MANGUPURA - In addition to deploying about a thousand personnel, for the security of the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and his entourage, Bali police also used X-ray devices at every entrance into the area of ??ITDC, Nusa Dua. Meanwhile, at the main entrance, police usitlized a Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) that is capable of detecting hazardous goods, -particularly explosives, in a vehicle.

On the sidelines of performing their tasks, a member of subdetachment III, bomb squad of Bali police mobile brigade, Joko Santoso, said on Friday (Mar. 10) that there were eight personnel assigned to oversee the ITDC main

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10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

Day, Gracie Kelly’s will host a special party from 7 PM onwards.

Entertainment includes live Irish band who won’t take a second thought to entertain the crowd with beautiful and lively rendition of Irish songs, together with Irish Dance Show to get you in the mood to join the fun Irish dancing competition.

You can also win great prizes by participating in the Best Green Costume and Beer Pong Competition.

Join also our Roulette and two up charity as we raise money to help the disadvantaged with Solemen.

Special beverage promotions are available throughout the night, such as green beer, green cocktails and Irish whisky. Guinness is also available on tap. See you at Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub, Bali’s first and only original Irish pub!

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Sleepy Colorado town comes alive during ‘Frozen Dead Guy Days’

COLORADO - Every March the cryogenically frozen corpse of a Norwegian man breathes fresh life into sleepy Nederland, Colorado, where throngs of fun-lovers fill the streets for “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” a festival in honor of the town’s most famous resident.

The annual three-day festival is the brainchild of a local businesswoman who came up with the whimsical idea 16 years ago as a way to attract visitors to Nederland, where the man’s body has laid in repose in a shed since 1993.

The event topped her wildest expectations: From a modest crowd of about 1,000 the first year, the festival now draws about 20,000 visitors. Many of them dress in

Halloween costumes as they revel in such quirky events as a polar plunge, a frozen salmon toss, musical acts and a costume ball.

“We never imagined it would be so wellreceived and grow so large – you could say I created a monster,” said Teresa CrushWarren, credited with hatching the idea when she was president of the local chamber of commerce.

This year’s festivities began with a parade of a dozen hearses, followed by a “coffin race” through the streets of the Rocky Mountain town, where temperatures hovered just above the freezing mark.

Sam Baggall, 20, a student at the University of Colorado, stood next to the makeshift

coffin she and her five teammates fashioned out of cardboard.

“Our plan is to get out quick and be agile,” she said.

The annual bash honors Bredo Morstoel, who died and was cryogenically frozen in his native Norway in 1989 with the hope that low temperatures will allow him to be resuscitated sometime in the future. After a four-year stint at a California facility, his grandson moved him in 1993 to his property outside of Nederland, 17 miles (27 km) west of Boulder.

Six years ago, the chamber sold the festival to Amanda MacDonald, an event planner for the chamber.

The festival itself is a break-even en-

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deavor, MacDonald said by telephone, but it is a boon for local businesses in the hamlet of about 1,500 full-time residents.

Morstoel’s grandson no longer lives in Nederland and the family has no connection to the celebrations other than paying for his upkeep.

Once the festival ends, 59-year-old Brad Wickham will resume his job as Morstoel’s caretaker, every two weeks hauling 1,000 pounds (454 kg) of dry ice – carbon dioxide in solid form – to the sarcophagus and packing it around the corpse.

“There are a lot of scientists studying cryogenics, but I’m just a guy with a truck and a strong back,” he said. (rtr) IBP/ant

King Salman and his entourage left Bali Sunday (Mar. 12).

Responding to King Salman’s visit

Bali needs to arrange destinations ergonomically

THE King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud’s visit to Bali is good for promotinig tourism in Indonesia, including Bali.

Moreover, King Salman is a very much honored figure in Middle Eastern countries.

Saudi Arabia is ranked 13th in terms of Indonesia’s tourism market. Each year, the number of tourists from Saudi Arabia continues to increase. King Salman’s visit to Indoneisa in 2017, should be used as an opportunity to boost the number of visitors form the middle east by about 50 percent.

“Bali needs to arrange its destinations ergonomically. Why? Bsed on the experience of receiveing a super VIP such as King Salman, we have found that Bali needs to improve the ergonomics of the siland as a tourist destination. In other words, we must provide comfort form visitors” said tourism analyst, Dr. Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, on

Tuesday (Mar. 7).

Excellent handling of visitors, said Mahadewi, does not only involve smiling and hospitality. Bali needs to consider the condition of services by preparing venues, facilities and tourism- supproting infrastructure. This is one of Bali’s shortcomings in terms of being a tourist destination – we cannot meet all the needs of guests in terms of quality. Bali should now focus on developing the quality of destinations so that we can attractquality visitors who will have an increseingly positive impact on our economy.

“One of the ways to increae the quality of destinations in thorugh ergonomic design” added Deputy Director I of STP Nusa Dua Bali.

Indeed Bali’s tourism sector in Bali is ready, however some detaisl need to be improve upon by managing waulity destinations well. Many special guests have visited and holidayed on this island, but King Salman is categorized as a quality visitor based on his

special (super deluxe) needs.

“Nothing is wrong. It is expected of Bali, isn’t it? Bali attracts visitors in large wuantities and quality. Surely this needs to be backed up with wuality service as well”, she added.

Destination indeed signifies the provider of location. In economic term, this means providing goods and services. The obstacles faced today are related to preparedness of destinations in terms of providing for the special needs of visitors. King Salman for example is a VVIP and has standard requrements related to his privacy.

“We have not been able to provide for all of these needs, like special elevators and flat stairs for wheelchairs. Also qualified human ressources that can meet certain standards in terms of height, nice looks, cleaniness and who have good work ethics are also lacking.

Although Bali does have such equipment and services, there needs to be better handling” said Mahadewi.

A quality destination is one that is ready to meet the needs of visitors and is able to pay attention to the needs of disabled people, people in wheelchairs, or whose use a cain or other such needs. Small things that need to be prepared are the provision of chairs, special foods and ergonomic toilets.

Made Suardana, a hotel of manager in Kuta, said that King Salman’s holiday in Bali will have a positive impact in the long term related to social matters. Bali, as a beautiful island with friendly people who respect all guests, also upholds the concept of tolerance in the life of the nation. The number of visitors to Bali from the Middle East can therefore increase.

“In the short-term, the King’s visit only increases the value of tourist visits in the area of Nusa Dua, while it has a little impacts on tourism in Kuta and other tourist destinations”, said the lecturer of tourist destinations. (rah)

No certainty about King Salman investing in Bali

MANGUPURA - After Sausi Arabia’s King Salman and his entourage extended their holiday in Bali, security measures have intensified. In addition to holidaying, the kingdom reportedly is interested in investing in Bali, particularly in Badung.

Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Cok Raka Darmawan, said that his office has not received any information related to King Salman’s interest in investing in Bali.

Nevertheless the extneison of his holiday

until March 12 has certained raised some questions. “King Salman wanted to extend his holiday in Bali, however I really do not know about pans to invest. This matter is quite private”, he said.

When asked about the security protocol for King Salman and whether it could interfere with other guests, Darmawan said the King Salman does not want his visit to disturb other visitors holidaying in Bali.

However inevitably, given the standard

operating proceedures for security there is the potential for other guests to be disrupted. “We understand that these are standard security measures” explained Darmawan.

So far King Salman has not visited many tourist attactions so tourism activities are nto considered to have been disturbed. The holiday that the Arabian Kingdom’s entourage has been taking in Bali is in fact beneficial for promoting tourism here. “Other that King

Salman himself, we hope that his people will also com espend holidays in Bali” added Darmawan.

When contacted seperatee;y about King Salman’S plan to invest in Badung, Head of the Badung investment and integrated services (PTSP), I Made Sutama, revealed that so far they have received no information about this. Nevertheless, such an opportunity remains open as long as all existing rules and regulations are complied with. (kmb23)

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South Korea’s ousted Park leaves Blue House in disgrace

Leaders should promote happiness

DENPASAR - Contemporary leaders should not be doing things for their own benefit but rather should be able to create happy conditions for the people they are leading. Furthermore, they should not claim the happiness of the people as their own but rather transmit happiness to the people.

“On that account, future leader should be smart.

Through an intelligent and happy leadership, we hope to see those who enjoy happiness transmitting this to the people that they lead. They should not take away the happiness of the people they lead, but do just the opposite”, said founder of The Ary Suta Center, Dr. I Putu Gede Ary Suta, during the national leadership education forum (Pakemnas) IX of the Indonesian Hindu Youth Association (Peradah) that took place in Denpasar on Friday (Mar. 10).

Ary Suta added that in order to become a leader, core competencies should be developed. Leadership can be learned from the success of others, through the failure of particular leaders or learned from a mentor. Aspiring leaders should choose role models who have the appropirate knowledge.

“So, mentoring is important and the existing leadership must really love those whom they lead. Leaders must truly embody and struggle for the interests of the people they led”, said Suta who was head of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency when he was just 36 years old.

According to Ary Suta, leaders must be able to create a vision and mission as well as strategies based on the direction of that which is growing. They need to understand what people want, he said, and pass on tricks or strategies.

“So that happiness can be the end result”, he concluded.

Chairman of Bali Post Media Group, Satria Naradha, presented material entitled “Hindu Leadership, Sustainable Bali and the Press” during the IX pEradah (national leadershop forum) . Satria Naradha chose the life of a journalist, even though his parents wanted him to become a doctor. He became involved in the field of communications in high school when he wrote and created a school magazine. Later in life, on May 26, 2002, he established BaliTV and then several other local TV stations outside Bali such as, SurabayaTV, BandungTV, JogjaTV, SriwijayaTV as well as AcehTV. “All of this just me playing my role according to svadharma (one’s own duties), without having to belong to a party, without having to become a governor, without having to become a minister or without having to be regent”, he said.

According to Naradha, Bali still survives despite recent problems and systems of modern leadership, mastery of information technology, mental strategies to bypass through process of elimination and other basic shifts, though he added that according to the analysis by the press Balinessness will disapear within just one generation.

Peradah national leadership education is a strategic step towards saving the succeeding generations of the island from becoming victims to these changes.

“Our generation will not be meer spectators to these changes and simply be proude to work on a crusie ship overseas. Balinese people are loosing the economic competition, not just in Bali but everywhere. Balinese people are truly great, but we are in crisis”, explained Satria Naradha.

Chairman of Peradah Indonesia, D. Suresh Kumar said that national leadership education is meant to educate and train the cadres of Peradah Indonesia and to increase their knowledge about Peradah, Hinduism as well as national insights. He added that he hopes that members can respond quickly to social dynamics.

“We are therefor putting together social analysis material to be used to map out and critique social problmes in the larger community and then look for solutions. We are have also prepared the next generation of Paradah cadres, so that they can be empowered in whatever position they may hold ,m wherever that may be”, he said. (kmb32)

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SEOUL - Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail.

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Around 60 square meters of the 3 hectares of land are exposed to sewage that spread down to end of the river.

Holding sewage for decades

Badung parliament asks DLHK to take action ASAP

MANGUPURA - Residents who own the vacant land behind the Global Village Housing in Mumbul hamlet, South Kuta, have complained about sewage flowing onto their vacant land. Their complaints were eventually submitted to the Badung House of Representatives in which it became apparent that the land spread across 3 hectares has been used to hold domestic sewage for 20 years.

A representative of the landowners named I Made Arta, said that the domestic sewage from Global Bali Hill and several other residences was already discussed in a meeting in 2011. Village and sub-distric authorities were also made aware of the isseu and subdistrict official even wnet to inspect the vacant land. However, as of yet none of this has not been followed up on. “Around 60 square meters of the 3 hectares of land are exposed to sewage that spread down to end of the river”, he said.

Arta said that he hopes that relevant agencies will take action immediately so that the environment will be no longer bepolluted by the wastewater.

“We want this issue to be followed up on ASAP so that the environment can be clean. As owners of this land, we demand that our rights be respected”, he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung House of Representatives, I Nyoman Kariana, who went to investigate con-

ditions on this polt of land himself on Friday (Mar. 10) said complaints by the public about the domestic sewage have been expressed for decades and will be responded to immediately.

According to Kariana, that had been mediation on the issue previsouly but no common ground had been found as evidenced by the waste that has yet to be addressed. Kariana who wnet ot the site with the Commission II of the Badung House of Representatives said that the entreprenuers who have been disposing of their sewage here, along with related parites were immediately summoned to resolve the problem.

“We hope the entrepreneurs who claim to be concerned about the environment do not continue to damge the enviro=nment” said Karana.

Chief of Commission II, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, who also joined the site inspection, confirmed that the sewage waste is still contaminating the vacant lot owned by local residents. He emphasized that this should be the last

time that this problem is spoken of as it should be dealt with immediately.

Luwir Wiyana also asked the subdistrict head of South Kuta to summon those who are disposing waste here so that the issue can be resolved and the environmental pollution does not become more widespread. Although the land is vacant the problem still needs to be addressed, it would be much worse if there were buidings here. We will summon relevant agencies such as the environment and sanitation agency (DLHK) in order to resolve this problem that has been left unresolved for 2 decades.

“Not only here, but all waste pollutino by hotels and restaurants in the distirct of Badung will be cracked down on and supervised in accordance with the basic duties of Commission II”, he said.

South Kuta subdistrict head, Wayan Wirya, added that previous mediation and communication regarding a solution had taken place. A total of five residences dispose of their domestic waste to the vacant land owned by residents, such as the Global Village, Putra Bali Hill, De Paras and two other residences. “They suggested that the owner of the land create a drain to the river”, he explained (kmb23)

Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said. She was heading for her home in the Gangnam district of the capital, Seoul, where hundreds of flag-waving supporters waited.

“President Park Geun-hye has just now departed the Blue House and headed for her private home,”

a Blue House official said by text message.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday to uphold a parliamentary vote to impeach Park, dismissing her from office over an influencepeddling scandal that has shaken the country’s political and business elite.

A snap presidential election will be held by May 9.

Park, 65, is South Korea’s first

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South Korea’s ousted leader Park Geun-hye arrives at her private house in Seoul, South Korea, March 12, 2017.

democratically elected leader to be forced from office.

Her dismissal followed months of political paralysis and turmoil over the graft scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in jail and facing trial.

The crisis has coincided with rising tension with North Korea and anger from China over the deployment in South Korea of a U.S. missile-defence system.

Park did not appear in court on Friday and she has not made any comment since. She remained in the Blue House, prompting some grumbling from critics keen to see her stripped of the privileges of power.

Her dismissal marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea’s first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee.

It was not the first time she has had to leave the Blue House compound of traditional-style buildings at the foot of a hill in central Seoul.

In 1979, after a nine-day funeral following the assassination of her father, the young Park left the Blue House with her siblings for a family home. She had been acting first lady after her mother was shot and killed in an earlier failed assassination attempt on her father.

Now, having lost presidential immunity, she could face criminal charges over bribery, extortion and abuse of power in connection with allegations of conspiring with her friend, Choi Soon-sil. Both women denied wrongdoing. (rtr)

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents an award to a “sarpanch” woman (village head) for her efforts towards the Clean India campaign, to mark the International Women’s Day in Gandhinagar, India, March 8, 2017. Dave

Modi wins landslide election victory in India’s biggest state

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party won a landslide victory in India’s most important battleground state on Saturday, in a personal triumph that will strengthen his claim to a second term as national leader.

Wresting control of Uttar Pradesh is a ringing endorsement of Modi’s stewardship of Asia’s third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes to rein in corruption.

The Election Commission of India said Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won a clear majority. With the tally of results almost complete, the BJP had collected as many as 312 of 403 seats in the state assembly, the biggest majority for any party in the state since 1977.

Almost four in ten voters backed Modi’s party, the election commission said, close to the party’s vote share in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 general election when it won the biggest national majority in three decades.

“I give my heartfelt thanks to the people of Uttar Pradesh. This is a historic victory for the BJP; a victory for development and good governance,” Modi told his 28 million followers on Twitter.

Investors hope victory will embolden Modi to embark on more reforms, including the launch of a national sales tax, to boost economic growth.

“The outcome of this election will enable Modi to sharpen his winning anti-corruption and improved governance policies as he begins to position himself for the 2019 general election,” wrote analysts Shailesh Kumar and Sasha Riser-Kositsky of macro advisory firm Eurasia Group.

Modi threw himself into the Uttar Pradesh campaign after his party started slowly, addressing dozens of rallies and turning the contest into a test of his personal popularity and his radical move to abolish big banknotes worth 86 percent of the cash in circulation.

Celebrations erupted outside BJP offices in state capital Lucknow and Delhi, with party workers dancing and splashing each other with paint in keeping with the Holi festival of colours that Hindus are celebrating this weekend. Modi’s campaign manager, Amit Shah, credited the BJP victory to a corruption free and pro-poor administration. The BJP will discuss who will become the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, Shah told reporters. (rtr)

Defiant U.S. prosecutor fired by Trump administration

WASHINGTON - A prominent U.S. prosecutor said the Trump administration fired him on Saturday after he refused to step down, adding a discordant note to what is normally a routine changing of top attorneys when a new president takes office.

New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s defiant exit, first announced on Twitter, raised questions about President Donald Trump’s ability to fill top jobs throughout his government.

Trump has yet to put forward any candidates to serve as the nation’s 93 district attorneys even as his Justice

Department asked the 46 who have not yet quit to hand in their resignations on Friday. Key positions at agencies like the State Department and the Defense Department also remain unfilled.

As the federal prosecutor for Manhattan and surrounding areas since 2009, Bharara secured insidertrading settlements from Wall Street firms and won criminal convictions in high-profile corruption and terrorism cases.

He told reporters in November that Trump had asked him to stay in his post, and he refused to resign

when asked to do so by the Justice Department on Friday. He said he was fired on Saturday afternoon.

“Serving my country as U.S. Attorney here for the past seven years will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life, no matter what else I do or how long I live,” Bharara said in a press statement.

The Justice Department confirmed that Bharara was no longer serving in the position and declined further comment.

Like all U.S. attorneys, Bharara is a political appointee who can be replaced when a new president takes

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office. Previous presidents have often asked outgoing U.S. attorneys to stay on the job until their replacements win confirmation in the U.S. Senate.

The Washington Post, citing two people close to Trump, said the president’s adviser Stephen Bannon and Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted a clean slate of federal prosecutors to assert the administration’s power.

But the decision to replace so many sitting attorneys at once has raised questions about whether the Trump administration’s ability to enforce the nation’s laws would be

hindered.

“President Trump’s abrupt and unexplained decision to summarily remove over 40 U.S. attorneys has once again caused chaos in the federal government,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said.

Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the firings showed “the independence of the Justice Department is at risk under this administration” and that lawmakers had to carefully evaluate Trump’s replacements. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Despite poaching, South Africa plans for rhino horn trade

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A foreigner who takes rhino horns out of the country must do so through O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and cannot carry them in hand luggage, according to the draft provisions. They say authorized freight agents must provide authorities with DNA data and other information related to exported horns.

Skeptics believe the system would be open to corruption.

Some consumers in Asia believe rhino horn in powder form can cure illnesses, although there is no evidence that the horn, made of the same substance as human fingernails, has any medicinal value.

Critics say legalization will spur poaching as illegally obtained horns are laundered into the legal market, similar to the exploitation of elephant ivory. Rhino breeders, however, believe poaching would be undercut by a regulated trade, which likely would allow the sale of horn stockpiles and the harvesting of horns from living rhinos.

The poaching is not confined to South Africa. This month, a 5-yearold white rhinoceros was shot three times in the head by poachers who broke into the Thoiry Zoo near Paris and used a chain saw to remove the rhino’s horn.

“Banning the trade in horn has made the horn more and more and more valuable. Had we never banned

it, the price of horn would never have got to where it is now,” said John Hume, a rhino breeder in South Africa. “And that Parisian rhino would have been safe in its zoo because its horn would have been worth a fraction of what it is.” Hume described South Africa’s draft legislation on the domestic rhino horn trade as “a step in the right direction.”

But Allison Thomson, a South African campaigner against legalization, said putting rhino horns on the

market would increase demand and that South Africa is sending “conflicting messages” about how to deal with poaching, jeopardizing its lucrative wildlife tourism.

“The risk we run at the moment is that if we open up trade and poaching escalates we will have no rhinos in the wild. We will only have rhinos on farms, being farmed like cows,” Thomson said.

Poachers killed 1,054 rhinos in South Africa last year, a 10 percent

drop from 2015, according to the government. While authorities attributed the decrease to increased security and other anti-poaching measures, some conservationists speculate that there are fewer rhinos to kill. Drought also killed some rhinos in the past year.

By some estimates, South Africa has nearly 20,000 rhinos, or 80 percent of Africa’s population. Asia has several rhino species, including two that are critically endangered.(ap)

China’s economy is set for steady growth - state research centre

BEIJING - The risk of a steep slide in China’s economy has reduced, the head of a government research centre said on Sunday, adding the country had moved through an “L-shaped” pattern of slowing to now “horizontal” growth. China’s economy grew 6.7 percent last year, according to the government, the slowest pace in 26 years. The country met its growth target with support from record bank loans, a speculative housing boom and billions in GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT. But as Beijing moves to cool the housing market, slow new credit and

tighten its purse strings, China will have to depend more on domestic consumption and private investment.

The government last week trimmed its economic growth target to about 6.5 percent for this year.

Li Wei, the director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, China’s cabinet, said many positive economic signs were emerging domestically and internationally, and the risk of a large slide in economic growth had “clearly lowered”.

China’s economic development has gone from a “downward stroke

A total of ten couples will bring along their own photographers and makeup artists. They choose the location in accordance with the direction of their photographer.

Though all locations can be used as a prewedding photo background, the photographers usually choose four places having become favorites. Like making a movie, they also come with director of photography that will direct their poses.

Photographers or directors of photography commonly have prepared the scene in particular composition adjusted to its location. Photographers often wait for the right time to get a silhouette or sunlight penetrating through the trees. “Silhouette view is the most sought after by photographers. There are also photographers taking advantage of large wood and dried leaves under the forest,” said Sumohon.

Sumohon said there are also a pre-wedding photo shoot on the following day. Auspicious day according to Hinduism for Balinese wedding ceremony makes Sangeh crowded with pre-wedding photo shoots. Moreover, Chinese travelers also make Sangeh as regular venue for their photo session.

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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a dehorned rhino stands at a rhino breeding farm near Klerksdorp, South Africa. South Africa’s government is moving ahead with plans to allow a domestic trade and limited export of rhino horns, alarming many international conservationists who believe rhinos will be more vulnerable to poachers who have killed record numbers in the past decade.

in the L-shape to the horizontal stroke”, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing Li’s comments on the sidelines of China’s annual session of parliament.

The horizontal trend points to long-term steady development, but does not eliminate the possibility of short-term fluctuations, or mean the economic transformation is complete, Li said. “Our economy still has many difficulties to resolve, so we must prepare to respond to the emergence of possibly relatively large risks,” Li said.

Earlier on Sunday, a vice chair-

man of the state economic planner said China’s industrial output grew more than 6 percent in January and February, and that the survey-based unemployment rate in 31 major cities was about 5 percent for the two months.

National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Ning Jizhe gave the approximations, which were in line with expectations for official data set to be issued on Tuesday. Fixed asset investment growth kept pace with the final few months of last year, Ning said.

“China’s economic growth still

mainly relies on domestic demand,” he said. January and February data will be released together in a bid to smooth out seasonal factors caused by the timing of the long Lunar New Year holidays, which began in late January this year but fell in February last year.

China unexpectedly posted its first trade gap in three years in February as a construction boom pushed imports much higher than expected. That upbeat import reading reinforced the growing view that economic activity in China picked up in the first two months of the year.(rtr)

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Bukit Sari Sangeh attraction is virtually never quite from pre-wedding shoots. This cultural activity in combination with technology is always held every day. On Sunday (Mar. 5), for instance, the pre-wedding shoots were made for 10 couples. “Tomorrow and the next day, there are reservations of photographers to make photo shoots,” said Operations Manager of Sangeh Attraction, I Made Sumohon.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s government is moving ahead with plans to allow a domestic trade and limited export of rhino horns, alarming many international conservationists who believe rhinos will be more vulnerable to poachers after a record slaughter in the past decade.

Draft regulations would allow a foreigner with permits to export “for personal purposes” a maximum of two rhino horns. Critics argue that any exported horns would be hard to monitor and likely would end up on the commercial market, defying global agreements to protect threatened rhino populations.

Most of the world’s rhinos live in South Africa. An international ban on trade in rhino horns has been in place since 1977, and South Africa imposed a moratorium on the domestic trade in 2009, when rhino poaching was accelerating to meet growing demand for horns in parts of Asia, especially Vietnam.

South Africa’s government has lost court battles to preserve the 2009 ban, which was challenged by rhino breeders, and has leaned toward trade, backing a failed proposal by neighboring Swaziland at a U.N. wildlife conference in Johannesburg last year to legalize the international sale of rhino horn. A 30-day period during which the public was invited to express opinions about the draft legislation on rhino horn trade ended Friday, the Department of Environmental Affairs said.

“The comments will be evaluated, the draft regulatory provisions will be revised based on the comments received, and the process for approval of the final legislation will be set in motion,” the department said in an

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According to him, there are four places becoming favorites namely the front entrance gates to the woods is commonly used as the background. The gates are unique and old where behind it sits a temple and green forests. Secondly, front side of Bukit Sari Temple is also chosen as having cool atmosphere with temple background accompanied with lush and beautiful forests.

The forest located in the left side of the temple is also good for photo shooting.

Other than filled with large trees, the location also looks like a circle and having no small plants. There are only dried leaves of nutmeg tree. “It is said that this area was a graveyard of monkeys. Nevertheless, we never see any monkey’s corpse here,” he explained.

Another interesting location is under the banyan tree in the west forest. There grow two large banyan trees exuding positive aura. “In general, the photographers are very satisfied with the existing locations.

The pre-wedding photo shoot is usually charged at IDR 200,000 for sanitation levies,” he concluded. (kmb)

Tamba Waras Temple, a Sanctum to Invoke Recovery

It is said that King of Tabanan, Cokorda Tabanan, was in serious illness. None of the royal healers could heal him. Medicine has been sought after everywhere, but nothing worked. One upon a time, there were hints in the form of revelation that there would be a medicine that could cure the king.

The servants were assigned to go to all directions. After getting tired of wondering here and there, eventually they saw a cloud of smoke from the Batukaru forest. After being approached, the smoke came out from coconut shell. Ultimately the servants asked for further guidance. In short, the medicine looked for has been obtained. At the end, Cokorda Tabanan got his recovery.

Then, on the command of the king, a sanctum named Tamba Waras is established at the location. Tamba means ‘medicine’ while waras means ‘gets recovered’ as ever before. It is believed that whoever saying prayers at the temple will obtain a healing.

This belief keeps growing and growing until now.

The temple belongs to one of the Catur Angga temples with the

status as the sad kahyangan jagat of Bali. The Tamba Waras temple is included in the jajar kemiri. Those belonging to this temple group are the Muncaksari and the underneath Tamba Waras located at the right side of the Batukaru Temple.

Geographically, the Tamba Waras Temple is located on the south slope of Mount Batukaru, precisely at Sangketan, Penebel, Tabanan. The temple located on the same line as the Batukaru Temple sits on the altitude of about 725 meters above sea level. To get to this temple, pilgrims have to cover a distance of about 22 km from the town of Tabanan. In terms of the temple structure, the Tamba Waras Temple is also nicknamed as the warehouse of universal medicine.

It is estimated to have been established in the twelfth century. Before saying prayers, all the pilgrims should first do self-purificatory rite or melukat at the sapta Ganges shower. Other than melukat at the shower, it is also resumed with the ivory coconut water. After that, the pilgrimage can continue to the main temple. (kmb)

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Turkey promises harsh retaliation after Netherlands bars ministers

ANKARA - Turkey told the Netherlands on Sunday that it would retaliate in the “harshest ways” after Turkish ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam, as a row over Ankara’s political campaigning among Turkish immigrants escalated.

President Tayyip Erdogan labeled the Netherlands a “Nazi remnant” after it became the latest European country worried about political tensions inside Turkey spilling beyond its borders to prevent Turkish politicians from holding rallies.

The Dutch government on Saturday first barred Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from flying to Rotterdam and later stopped Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the Turkish consulate in the port city, before escorting her out of the country to Germany.

Dutch police used dogs and water canon early on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters outside the consulate in Rotterdam who were waving Turkish flags and throwing bottles and stones.

Several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said. Officers carried out charges on horseback.

The Dutch government, which stands to lose heavily to the anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders in elections next week, said the ministers’ visits were undesirable and that it would not cooperate in the political campaigning of Turkish ministers in the Netherlands.

In a statement issued early on Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey would retaliate in the “harshest ways” and “respond in kind to this unacceptable behaviour”.

Protesters also gathered outside the Dutch embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul, throwing eggs and stones at the buildings. Turkish authorities had earlier sealed off the premises in apparent retaliation.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he would do everything to “de-escalate” the diplomatic confrontation, which he described as the worst the Netherlands had experienced in years.

For a short period, the Turkish flag flew outside the Dutch consulate in Istanbul. Sources inside the Turkish presidency said the flags had been changed by Dutch consulate officials and that there had been no outside interference.

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Ahead of his planned trip, Cavusoglu had threatened tough economic and political sanctions against the Netherlands if it refused him entry.

Supporting Rutte’s decision to ban the visits, the Dutch government said there was a risk of Turkish political divisions flowing over into its own Turkish minority, which has both pro- and anti-Erdogan camps.

It cited public order and security worries in withdrawing landing rights for Cavusoglu’s flight.

Turkey fired back saying the Dutch ambassador to Ankara should not return from leave “for some time”.

Erdogan is looking to the large number of Turks living in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands, to help secure victory next month in a referendum that would give the presidency sweeping new powers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will do all she can to prevent Turkey’s domestic tensions spreading onto German territory. Austria and Switzerland have also cancelled Turkish rallies due to the escalating dispute.

The diplomatic row comes in the run-up to the coming week’s Dutch election in which the mainstream parties are under strong pressure from the far-right party of Geert Wilders. (rtr)

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Riot police clash with demonstrators in the streets near the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, Netherlands March 12, 2017.

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Man faces 10-year sentence after scaling White House fence

WASHINGTON - An intruder carrying a backpack was arrested after scaling a fence around the White House and entering the grounds, the U.S. Secret Service said on Saturday, in the latest breach of security at the president’s official residence.

President Donald Trump was inside the White House when the male suspect climbed over the fence on the complex’s South Grounds at 11:38 p.m. on Friday, and uniformed officers arrested him, the Secret Service said in a statement.

The suspect, identified in court documents as California resident Jonathan Tran, 26, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday after a judge on Saturday ordered him held without bond, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said.

Trump earlier thanked the Secret Service and commended the agents for apprehending the intruder.

“Secret Service did a fantastic job,” Trump told reporters at the start of a working lunch on Saturday afternoon with several Cabinet members at his golf course outside Washington. “It was a troubled person.”

Tran was charged with entering or remaining in restricted grounds while using or carrying a dangerous weapon, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, said Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

The incident unfolded despite a series of recommendations to tighten security after a 2014 intrusion that led to the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.

In 2015, a row of sharp spikes was bolted to the top of the black iron fence around the 18-acre property, making it more difficult to scale.

In the latest incident, Tran was apprehended near the south portico entrance, where presidents often address the public, U.S. authorities said in court documents released on Saturday. The entrance is near the part of the White House where the president resides.

Tran told agents he was a friend of the president and had an appointment with him, according to the documents.

He was carrying two cans of mace as well as a U.S. passport, a computer and one of the president’s books, authorities said.

He also carried a letter he had written to Trump that mentioned “Russian hackers,” and said he had relevant information, U.S. authorities said in the documents.

Representatives for Tran could not be immediately reached for comment.

According to the Secret Service, the suspect had no arrest record or history with the agency charged with protecting the president, his family and other elected officials. (rtr)

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text and that this would be balanced by assurances of equal treatment for all countries.

Among priorities for closer cooperation for Germany, France and others is defence, prompted in part by concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump may scale back Washington’s support for Europeans in the face of Russian ambitions. Differences between Paris and Berlin have held back closer integration on the euro.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who will host the summit marking 60 years of the Treaty of Rome, said officials would now work on a short draft text reflecting four priorities for the Union to serve its members better for the next decade: security; economy; social welfare; and defence.

The trickiest issues to reconcile, diplomats said, could be finding common language on social issues and the possibility of extending membership to other eastern states in the Balkans.

Britain’s vote last year to leave the Union has encouraged nationalists elsewhere. Juncker, the European Commission president, said, however, that polling evidence suggested that it had also bolstered public support for the EU: “Brexit is not the end,” he said. “I regret it. We continue.”(rtr)

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Spooked by Brexit, a process the absent British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger this month, Paris and Berlin see faster EU integration as the way to security and prosperity, thereby counteracting the rise of anti-EU nationalists. But Poland and others enjoying a sovereignty they secured only after the Cold War are suspicious of that and of a push by westerners to move ahead in a “multispeed Europe”.

Szydlo, who admitted to an emotional exchange with Hollande over subsidies, told reporters Warsaw would not accept a Rome Declaration that divided Europe into two speeds.

Hollande and Merkel, as well as EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker, all stressed, however, that a repetition of existing possibilities for some countries to cooperate more in certain areas -- such as the euro currency -- should not mean the creation of permanent divisions to exclude some states.

Several diplomats from former communist states, of which Poland is by far the biggest in the bloc, said that their leaders were happy with proposals to include elements of “multispeed” language in the Rome

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Saudi King Leaves Bali For Japan

KUTA - Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud left Bali for Japan on Sunday after enjoying an eight-day vacation in one of the worlds most famous tourist resort.

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The King was seen off by among others Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno LP Marsudi, Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifudin, and Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. The Kings Boeing 747 plane took off at 11:45 a.m. local time.

The Bali airport was closed for 45 minutes during the departure of the King. Five international flights and

13 domestic flights were affected due to the temporary closure. On the previous day, a Saudi plane carrying 16.6-ton cargo had left Bali for Japan.

The Saudi King was holidaying in Bali from March 4 to 12, after paying a state visit to Jakarta on March 1-3, which is considered to be historical as a Saudi king had lasted visited Indonesia 47 years ago.

The Saudi King and his entourage comprising among others princes and ministers, booked five luxury HOTELS LOCATED on the beaches lining the Indian Ocean.

The hotels included St Regis, Mulia, and Lagoon located in Nusa Dua, Badung District, and Bulgari in Uluwatu, also in Badung District. (ant)

Indonesia politicians caught up in $170 million graft case

JAKARTA — Indonesian politicians with key roles in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s governing coalition have been caught up in a corruption scandal in which officials allegedly pilfered more than $170 million of government money.

The justice minister, a former interior minister, the current speaker of parliament and provincial governors are among those named in an indictment presented to a special corruption court on Thursday at the start of a trial of two Interior Ministry officials.

The case could turn into a test of Jokowi’s ability to take a hard line against corruption, which is at epidemic levels in Indonesia and holds back development of the nation of more than 250 million people.

Indonesia’s anti-corruption police allege that a network of about 80 conspirators and several companies used the introduction of a $440 million electronic identity card system in 2011 and 2012 to steal more than a third of the funds. Local media reported that parliament’s speaker and the justice minister denied involvement.

Irman and Sugiharto, the two officials currently on trial, are charged with receiving $4.4 million. Prosecutors say the rest of the stolen $172 million was distributed among the dozens of other people involved.

The justice minister and parliament’s speaker are from political parties that have thrown their support behind Jokowi’s government, which initially did not

command a parliamentary majority following the election of the maverick candidate in 2014.

Transparency International in 2016 gave Indonesia a corruption score of 37 on a 1 to 100 scale, where 100 is completely free of corruption. Out of the 176 countries ranked, Indonesia was 90th, far from its goal of reaching 50th place by 2016. (ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesian police arrested nine suspected militants on the island of Sulawesi, a police spokesman said on Saturday, in an operation that media reported had targeted a group with affiliations to Islamic State.

With investigations continuing, police spokesman Martinus Sitompul declined to give further details, but media reported police had also seized bomb-making materials meant for use in attacks on police and official buildings.

The suspects were all members of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, a group that had been controlled until last year by one of the first Indonesian militants to pledge loyalty to Islamic State.

Santoso had been the country’s most-wanted men before he was killed in a gunbattle with police and military forces last July, and security officials have been expecting reprisal attacks. Some members of his group were believed to be still hiding in Sulawesi’s dense jungles.

Security experts say that Indonesia, an officially secular state with the world’s largest Muslim population, faces a growing threat from supporters of Islamic State.

Last month, police killed a militant after he detonated a small bomb in the city of Bandung. Authorities said they were investigating whether he had links to a radical network sympathetic to Islamic State. (rtr)

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Indonesian President, Joko Widodo (L) views an honour guard with visiting South African President, Jacob Zuma (R) at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 8, 2017.

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Mayweather wants McGregor fight in June

CALIFORNIA - Floyd Mayweather has declared himself “out of retirement” to fight Conor McGregor and demanded the Irish mixed martial arts champion commit to a crossover bout in June.

Kemenuh Butterfly Park

GIANYAR - Kemenuh Butterfly Park is Bali’s latest attraction that lets you freely roam through flowering garden enclosures to admire nature’s artistry. The park opened at the turn of 2016, becoming Bali’s second butterfly park after the Bali Butterfly Park in Tabanan. The park is a great stopover on tour itineraries to the Sukawati area, with its art market, the Tegenungan Waterfall, and the Celuk and Mas silver and goldsmith villages all within a near kilometre’s radius.

The park offers an educational and recreational tour. Paved pathways meander through expansive flowering garden enclosures that are covered by netted canopies. Inside, over 500 butterfly specimens flutter with ease, siphoning nectar from flower to flower.

Local businessman and nature lover, Ida Bagus Witara, found an affinity in butterflies and set out to create Kemenuh Butterfly Park as the largest conservation park of its kind on the is-

land. Tickets are IDR 100,000 (around USD 7.60) for adults and half the price for kids, which includes a welcome drink upon arrival. At the lobby, you can learn about butterflies and their relatively short life stages through large diagrams on the walls. Inside, among the most prominent species you’ll see include the vivid Papilio peranthus, the bright orange Common Cruiser and the giant Atticus Atlas moth. Mini nurseries also show pearlescent cocoons of various species.

The park keeps and breeds 14 species including the large Attacus atlas (atlas moth), locally called kup-kupu barong, which have been recorded as having a wingspan of up to 262 millimetres. For you lepidopterists out there (others skip this paragraph) the list includes: Idea stolli (common tree nymph), Vindula erota (common cruiser), Ideopsis juventa (grey glassy tiger / wood nymph), Cethosia hypsea (Malay lacewing), Euploea phaena-

rete (milkweed butterfly), Euploea corinna (common crow), Graphium agamemnon (tailed jay), Papilio demoleus (lime butterfly), Papilio polytes (common mormon), Papilio peranthus (swallowtail), Papilio helenus (red helen), Papilio memnon (great mormon), and Troides helena (common birdwing).

Within the enclosure, the Pupa Room, is where the magic happens.

Staff collect the butterfly eggs and watch carefully as they turn into (very hungry) wiggly caterpillars, mostly camouflaged amongst the leaves.

When they are ready, they spin a cocoon or chrysalis. The collection here is fascinating and mostly look like small gilt peanuts although the larger atlas moth pupas are more “leafy”.

Interestingly, the shinny pupas are poisonous to predators such as birds, mice, lizards and ants — isn’t nature clever? When they’re ready (ten days to one month, depending on the spe-

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Staff are on hand to answer any questions and explained to us that the parks core purpose was for conservation, education and recreation, all worthy values. Kemenuh Butterfly

Park’s facilities include a gift shop full of all things butterfly, and a restaurant overlooking the rice fields with clean toilets. The best time to visit is early in the morning or late afternoon as you are more likely to see the butterflies at those times. If it’s raining give the park a miss, they don’t like the rain.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr during the press conference.

“I’m not ducking or dodging anyone,” American Mayweather told British media.

“I’m only coming out of retirement for one person and that’s Conor McGregor.

“We don’t need to waste no time. We need to make this ... happen quickly. Let’s get it on in June.”

McGregor has been challenging Mayweather, who retired in 2015 with a 49-0 record, to a fight for months.

The two sides have yet to reach terms and have a number of major hurdles to overcome.

Mayweather has asked for a guaranteed $100 million to make the fight happen, with $15 million going to McGregor, while UFC president Dana White has talked of $25 million to each plus pay-per-view money.

McGregor, the biggest pay-per-view draw in mixed martial arts, is contracted to UFC and the organisation would have to approve any fight.

The pair will also have to agree to a format which Mayweather insisted would be straight boxing.

“We cannot mix up the rules and regulations because I’m the A side,” he said.

“He called me out. You call me out, then, we have to go by my rules.

“If I called you out then we’d have to go by your rules.

“It’s always boxing.”

The pair have done their part to drum up interest, exchanging a number of verbal barbs at public appearances.

Mayweather reiterated his claim that McGregor was all talk and no action.

“Conor McGregor, stop ducking and diving Floyd Mayweather. Tell the UFC to let’s make this fight happen. I don’t want the UFC to look bad.” (rtr)

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CALIFORNIA - World number one Andy Murray was sent packing from the second round of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday after losing 6-4 7-6(5) to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil.

Pospisil delivered the knockout punch in style, whipping a crosscourt winner on his fourth match point in front of the near capacity crowd at Indian Wells that included former boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Pospisil, ranked 129th in the world, was rewarded for his aggressive approach, rushing the net whenever the opportunity arose and pouncing on Murray’s second serve.

“I knew I was a long shot. I’ve played Andy four times and didn’t win a set,” the 26-year-old told Tennis Channel.

“I felt like I had the ability to (win) but to actually go through is a whole new thing. I tried to bring different tactics ... versus the other times I played him.

“I didn’t want to give him the same look each time. I wanted

to put pressure coming into the net, using my strength, which is my ability at the net and serving well.”

Pospisil joked that his lowly current world ranking was due to a “mid-life crisis” that saw him endure a lean 2016, after he had made the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2015.

Earlier, Italian Fabi Fognini won a battle of expectant fathers when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4.

Unseeded Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded Frenchman in a match that stretched nearly two hours and 30 minutes in the blazing afternoon sun.

“I am happy about my performance. It’s a good victory for sure,” Fognini told Tennis Channel after beating Tsonga for the first time in five career meetings.

“Today was really hot so the ball was bouncing a lot. I love playing with sun and good weather.”

Fognini considered himself fortunate even to make it to the

second round.

The Italian dropped the first set to love and was down 5-2 in the second set of his first-round encounter with Russian Konstantin Kravchuk, before roaring back to win 0-6 7-5 6-4.

“It is a crazy sport,” Fognini said.

Fognini’s wife, 2015 U.S. Open champion Flavia Pennetta, is expecting a child in late May, while Tsonga is also set to become a father next month.

In another upset on Saturday, Japanese world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka beat Croatian veteran Ivo Karlovic 6-4 6-3, but seeds Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Tomas Berdych won their matches to advance. (rtr)

Vasek Pospisil (CAN) celebrates as he defeated Andy Murray (not pictured) in his 2nd round match in BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Pospisil won 6-4, 7-6.

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Arsenal fans protest against manager Arsene Wenger after the match

Wenger adamant his “preference” is to stay at Arsenal

The protests against Arsene Wenger’s reign at Arsenal show no signs of abating but after booking another FA CUP date at Wembley on Saturday, the manager at the eye of the storm was adamant that his “preference” was still to stay at the club. Wenger reckoned he did not want to be the main talking point after his players had coasted into the FA Cup semi-final by swatting away the challenge of minor league Lincoln City 5-0.

Yet, inevitably, after another traumatic week in which ARSENAL had been humiliated 5-1 a second time by Bayern Munich and departed the Champions League yet again at the last-16 stage, the 67-year-old Frenchman and his future were still the main focus of attention at the Emirates Stadium.

Those fans who feel Wenger should step down now that Arsenal’s European and PREMIER LEAGUE ambitions look lost for another year made their feelings known outside, holding banners with messages like “Wexit” and “Time for Change”. Some supporters, though, countered with banners of support for Wenger before his side’s wholly predictable dismissal of Lincoln also softened the grumbling mood.

It clearly did Wenger no harm either that his team should make another step towards a potential record

13th FA CUP triumph, even if to some fans winning silverware in that competition should not be enough to spare him. “Let’s not talk about me too much because that has happened a lot recently,” Wenger protested as he talked to BT Sport.

“I have shown in my life that I try to serve this club with complete commitment and I will do that as long as I am here. How long? I don’t know at the moment. I have shown a lot of loyalty and my preference is here.”

That observation was significant in light of Wenger’s recent assertion that he intended to stay as a manager next season, whether it is at ARSENAL or not.

Maybe another Cup-winning campaign, a record seventh for him, could yet appease some disenchanted fans. “Recently we have disappointed our fans. We want to go again to Wembley to win,” Wenger said.

“I focus on my job. I always do that. I let other people judge my performances. I am not too much worried about the rest. I am just focused on the next game.” Wenger admitted there had been “a level of anxiety” about taking on the National League side in what amounted to a no-win situation for him after the Bayern drubbing.

“Lincoln knocked out Burnley, Ipswich and Brighton, so we have to respect them,” he said. “It was all us in the second half but you have to congratulate Lincoln for what they have achieved in the FA CUP.” (rtr)

MADRID — Sevilla stumbled again in the Spanish league, held 1-1 at home by relegation-threatened Leganes Saturday to miss the chance to move closer to front-runners Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It was the second straight draw for Sevilla, which could see its gap to leader Barcelona increase to six points by the end of the weekend.

Barcelona plays at Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday, while secondplaced Madrid hosts Real Betis.

Madrid is two points in front of Sevilla. “I’m worried about the team’s behavior,” Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli said. “The team is too anxious when it can’t create scoring chances, and well-organized opponents can take advantage of that.”

Leganes, looking to avoid the drop in its first season in the top flight, scored three minutes in with a back-heel flick by striker Gabriel Pires. “We know how difficult it is to play in this stadium,” Pires said.

“We played a great match, just like we had planned.”

Stevan Jovetic equalized after getting past goalkeeper Iago Herrerin in a breakaway in the 43rd, but the hosts were unable to create many more significant chances at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in Seville. Sevilla was coming off a 1-1 draw at Alaves. Sampaoli’s team is trying to win its first league title since 1946.

The coach fielded many of the

team’s regular starters despite a decisive game at Leicester on Tuesday in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Sevilla won the first leg 2-1. “We didn’t play well, we all know it,” Jovetic said.

“We have to recover as soon as possible because we have a crucial match on Tuesday. We have to reverse this situation.”

GRANADA 0, ATLETICO MADRID 1

Antoine Griezmann scored an 84th-minute winner to move Atletico Madrid closer to Sevilla in the standings. Griezmann netted his fourth goal in the last three matches with a diving header off a cross by Koke. The result reduced third-placed Sevilla’s advantage to five points. Atletico is four points in front of fifth-placed Real Sociedad, which hosts Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.

“It wouldn’t be good to only look at Sevilla,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. “We need to secure fourth-place because Real Sociedad has been playing well.”

The top three teams automatically qualify for the Champions League, while the fourth-placed club has to go through a playoff.

“We know that all of our matches are like finals now,” Koke said.

“We had to win this one.” Granada stayed in 18th place, inside the relegation zone. (ap)

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, Sevilla’s players celebrate after winning their La Liga soccer match against Real Madrid at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain.

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Mbappe and Moutinho on target as Monaco beats Bordeaux 2-1

PA R I S — F r e n c h l e a g u e leader Monaco prepared for its Champions League showdown with Manchester City by beating Bordeaux 2-1, a win overshadowed by an injury to top scorer Radamel Falcao on Saturday.

Falcao, who has 24 goals this season, went to ground clutching his ribs late on after a heavy challenge from Bordeaux defender Nicolas Pallois.

The striker got back up, only to go straight down to his knees again. Although he did not need the stretcher that went on for him, preferring to hobble off, it was unclear if the injury will rule him out of Wednesday’s last-16 return leg. “He received a violent blow to his right side,” coach Leonardo Jardim said. “I hope it’s not serious.”

Monaco’s win moved it five points clear of Nice and — although Monaco’s formidable goal tally reached 123 this season — it was a labored win against a resilient side chasing a place in the Europa

League. Teenage striker Kylian Mbappe pounced midway through the second half with his fourth goal in three games and midfielder Joao Moutinho scored a brilliant curling shot.

After good work from Falcao, the 18-year-old Mbappe finished with a crisp low shot from just inside the penalty area in the 68th minute for his 16th goal of the season. Six minutes later, Moutinho collected a pass from Portuguese compatriot Bernardo Silva some 25 meters out to the right of the penalty area and curled a superb first-time shot into the top left without breaking stride.

“I saw it coming, but it was magnificent. The ball dipped at the last moment,” Bordeaux goalkeeper Cedric Carrasso said. “Sometimes you just have to appreciate a great goal.” Moutinho’s goals for Monaco are as rare as they are for Portugal, and this was only his eighth in 117 league games.

Next week in the Champions League, Monaco has to overturn

a 5-3 deficit from the first leg to advance, and will need goalkeeper Danijel Subasic to start concentrating again.

He let in a sloppy goal against City three weeks ago and an even worse one on Saturday — gifting Bordeaux a lifeline with six minutes left.

After a Monaco attack broke down, Bordeaux hopefully lofted the ball forward. There was no immediate danger as defender Jemerson collected the ball near the halfway line. But his hurried back pass was under-hit and forced Subasic to come out of the area to clear it.

But the goalkeeper waited too long. When he did clear, the ball struck Bordeaux striker Diego Rolan and then bounced back off Subasic’s face into the path of Rolan, who ran through and tapped into an empty net. Jardim refused to criticize him. “I said to Suba: ‘How many important saves have you made for us?’” Jardim said. “A lot, so stop thinking about it.” (ap)

Lewandowski reaches 100 Bayern goals as league lead grows BERLIN — Robert Lewandowski reached a century of Bayern Munich goals to help his team extend its Bundesliga lead to 10 points. In his third season with the German champions, the Poland striker reached the goal landmark with a double in a 3-0 victory over injury-hit Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.

Bayern, which stretched its unbeaten run to 18 games across all competitions, capitalized on secondplaced Leipzig’s 1-0 defeat at home to Wolfsburg to stretch its alreadycommanding lead with 10 games remaining.

“A good day for us with good results also in other stadiums,” said Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti, whose side is going for an unprecedented fifth straight title.

Good work from Thomas Mueller on the right allowed Lewandowski to score a tap-in. Mueller, who scored 32

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Robert Lewandowski

goals in all competitions for Bayern last season, has only one league goal so far but this was his 10th assist.

Playing on the other side of the pitch, David Alaba sprinted clear to set up Douglas Costa for Bayern’s second minutes later. Frankfurt had three big chances in the first half but couldn’t make them count.

“They didn’t deserve to be 2-0

down at the break,” Ancelotti said.

“We were better in the second half, controlled the game.”

Arjen Robben crossed for Lewandowski’s second goal 10 minutes after the interval, taking the striker’s league tally to 21.

Frankfurt’s troubles were compounded when captain Makoto Hasebe, the league’s most capped Japanese player with 236 appearances, was taken to hospital for stitches to a cut on his shin. Marco Russ went on for his second appearance since returning from treatment for testicular cancer.

Bayern defender Jerome Boateng came on for the final 25 minutes to make his return from injury.

“It was an unbelievable feeling to be back on the pitch again,” said Boateng, who hadn’t played since November and had surgery on his right pectoral muscle before Christmas. (ap)

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Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe, right, celebrates with Radamel Falcao after scoring his side’s second goal during the Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match between Manchester City and Monaco at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017.

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Arsenal fans protest against manager Arsene Wenger after the match

Wenger adamant his “preference” is to stay at Arsenal

The protests against Arsene Wenger’s reign at Arsenal show no signs of abating but after booking another FA CUP date at Wembley on Saturday, the manager at the eye of the storm was adamant that his “preference” was still to stay at the club. Wenger reckoned he did not want to be the main talking point after his players had coasted into the FA Cup semi-final by swatting away the challenge of minor league Lincoln City 5-0.

Yet, inevitably, after another traumatic week in which ARSENAL had been humiliated 5-1 a second time by Bayern Munich and departed the Champions League yet again at the last-16 stage, the 67-year-old Frenchman and his future were still the main focus of attention at the Emirates Stadium.

Those fans who feel Wenger should step down now that Arsenal’s European and PREMIER LEAGUE ambitions look lost for another year made their feelings known outside, holding banners with messages like “Wexit” and “Time for Change”. Some supporters, though, countered with banners of support for Wenger before his side’s wholly predictable dismissal of Lincoln also softened the grumbling mood.

It clearly did Wenger no harm either that his team should make another step towards a potential record

13th FA CUP triumph, even if to some fans winning silverware in that competition should not be enough to spare him. “Let’s not talk about me too much because that has happened a lot recently,” Wenger protested as he talked to BT Sport.

“I have shown in my life that I try to serve this club with complete commitment and I will do that as long as I am here. How long? I don’t know at the moment. I have shown a lot of loyalty and my preference is here.”

That observation was significant in light of Wenger’s recent assertion that he intended to stay as a manager next season, whether it is at ARSENAL or not.

Maybe another Cup-winning campaign, a record seventh for him, could yet appease some disenchanted fans. “Recently we have disappointed our fans. We want to go again to Wembley to win,” Wenger said.

“I focus on my job. I always do that. I let other people judge my performances. I am not too much worried about the rest. I am just focused on the next game.” Wenger admitted there had been “a level of anxiety” about taking on the National League side in what amounted to a no-win situation for him after the Bayern drubbing.

“Lincoln knocked out Burnley, Ipswich and Brighton, so we have to respect them,” he said. “It was all us in the second half but you have to congratulate Lincoln for what they have achieved in the FA CUP.” (rtr)

MADRID — Sevilla stumbled again in the Spanish league, held 1-1 at home by relegation-threatened Leganes Saturday to miss the chance to move closer to front-runners Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It was the second straight draw for Sevilla, which could see its gap to leader Barcelona increase to six points by the end of the weekend.

Barcelona plays at Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday, while secondplaced Madrid hosts Real Betis.

Madrid is two points in front of Sevilla. “I’m worried about the team’s behavior,” Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli said. “The team is too anxious when it can’t create scoring chances, and well-organized opponents can take advantage of that.”

Leganes, looking to avoid the drop in its first season in the top flight, scored three minutes in with a back-heel flick by striker Gabriel Pires. “We know how difficult it is to play in this stadium,” Pires said.

“We played a great match, just like we had planned.”

Stevan Jovetic equalized after getting past goalkeeper Iago Herrerin in a breakaway in the 43rd, but the hosts were unable to create many more significant chances at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in Seville. Sevilla was coming off a 1-1 draw at Alaves. Sampaoli’s team is trying to win its first league title since 1946.

The coach fielded many of the

team’s regular starters despite a decisive game at Leicester on Tuesday in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Sevilla won the first leg 2-1. “We didn’t play well, we all know it,” Jovetic said.

“We have to recover as soon as possible because we have a crucial match on Tuesday. We have to reverse this situation.”

GRANADA 0, ATLETICO MADRID 1

Antoine Griezmann scored an 84th-minute winner to move Atletico Madrid closer to Sevilla in the standings. Griezmann netted his fourth goal in the last three matches with a diving header off a cross by Koke. The result reduced third-placed Sevilla’s advantage to five points. Atletico is four points in front of fifth-placed Real Sociedad, which hosts Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.

“It wouldn’t be good to only look at Sevilla,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. “We need to secure fourth-place because Real Sociedad has been playing well.”

The top three teams automatically qualify for the Champions League, while the fourth-placed club has to go through a playoff.

“We know that all of our matches are like finals now,” Koke said.

“We had to win this one.” Granada stayed in 18th place, inside the relegation zone. (ap)

AP Photo/Angel Fernandez, File

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, Sevilla’s players celebrate after winning their La Liga soccer match against Real Madrid at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain.

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Mbappe and Moutinho on target as Monaco beats Bordeaux 2-1

PA R I S — F r e n c h l e a g u e leader Monaco prepared for its Champions League showdown with Manchester City by beating Bordeaux 2-1, a win overshadowed by an injury to top scorer Radamel Falcao on Saturday.

Falcao, who has 24 goals this season, went to ground clutching his ribs late on after a heavy challenge from Bordeaux defender Nicolas Pallois.

The striker got back up, only to go straight down to his knees again. Although he did not need the stretcher that went on for him, preferring to hobble off, it was unclear if the injury will rule him out of Wednesday’s last-16 return leg. “He received a violent blow to his right side,” coach Leonardo Jardim said. “I hope it’s not serious.”

Monaco’s win moved it five points clear of Nice and — although Monaco’s formidable goal tally reached 123 this season — it was a labored win against a resilient side chasing a place in the Europa

League. Teenage striker Kylian Mbappe pounced midway through the second half with his fourth goal in three games and midfielder Joao Moutinho scored a brilliant curling shot.

After good work from Falcao, the 18-year-old Mbappe finished with a crisp low shot from just inside the penalty area in the 68th minute for his 16th goal of the season. Six minutes later, Moutinho collected a pass from Portuguese compatriot Bernardo Silva some 25 meters out to the right of the penalty area and curled a superb first-time shot into the top left without breaking stride.

“I saw it coming, but it was magnificent. The ball dipped at the last moment,” Bordeaux goalkeeper Cedric Carrasso said. “Sometimes you just have to appreciate a great goal.” Moutinho’s goals for Monaco are as rare as they are for Portugal, and this was only his eighth in 117 league games.

Next week in the Champions League, Monaco has to overturn

a 5-3 deficit from the first leg to advance, and will need goalkeeper Danijel Subasic to start concentrating again.

He let in a sloppy goal against City three weeks ago and an even worse one on Saturday — gifting Bordeaux a lifeline with six minutes left.

After a Monaco attack broke down, Bordeaux hopefully lofted the ball forward. There was no immediate danger as defender Jemerson collected the ball near the halfway line. But his hurried back pass was under-hit and forced Subasic to come out of the area to clear it.

But the goalkeeper waited too long. When he did clear, the ball struck Bordeaux striker Diego Rolan and then bounced back off Subasic’s face into the path of Rolan, who ran through and tapped into an empty net. Jardim refused to criticize him. “I said to Suba: ‘How many important saves have you made for us?’” Jardim said. “A lot, so stop thinking about it.” (ap)

Lewandowski reaches 100 Bayern goals as league lead grows BERLIN — Robert Lewandowski reached a century of Bayern Munich goals to help his team extend its Bundesliga lead to 10 points. In his third season with the German champions, the Poland striker reached the goal landmark with a double in a 3-0 victory over injury-hit Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.

Bayern, which stretched its unbeaten run to 18 games across all competitions, capitalized on secondplaced Leipzig’s 1-0 defeat at home to Wolfsburg to stretch its alreadycommanding lead with 10 games remaining.

“A good day for us with good results also in other stadiums,” said Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti, whose side is going for an unprecedented fifth straight title.

Good work from Thomas Mueller on the right allowed Lewandowski to score a tap-in. Mueller, who scored 32

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Robert Lewandowski

goals in all competitions for Bayern last season, has only one league goal so far but this was his 10th assist.

Playing on the other side of the pitch, David Alaba sprinted clear to set up Douglas Costa for Bayern’s second minutes later. Frankfurt had three big chances in the first half but couldn’t make them count.

“They didn’t deserve to be 2-0

down at the break,” Ancelotti said.

“We were better in the second half, controlled the game.”

Arjen Robben crossed for Lewandowski’s second goal 10 minutes after the interval, taking the striker’s league tally to 21.

Frankfurt’s troubles were compounded when captain Makoto Hasebe, the league’s most capped Japanese player with 236 appearances, was taken to hospital for stitches to a cut on his shin. Marco Russ went on for his second appearance since returning from treatment for testicular cancer.

Bayern defender Jerome Boateng came on for the final 25 minutes to make his return from injury.

“It was an unbelievable feeling to be back on the pitch again,” said Boateng, who hadn’t played since November and had surgery on his right pectoral muscle before Christmas. (ap)

AP Photo/Dave Thompson

Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe, right, celebrates with Radamel Falcao after scoring his side’s second goal during the Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match between Manchester City and Monaco at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017.

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GIANYAR - Kemenuh Butterfly Park is Bali’s latest attraction that lets you freely roam through flowering garden enclosures to admire nature’s artistry. The park opened at the turn of 2016, becoming Bali’s second butterfly park after the Bali Butterfly Park in Tabanan. The park is a great stopover on tour itineraries to the Sukawati area, with its art market, the Tegenungan Waterfall, and the Celuk and Mas silver and goldsmith villages all within a near kilometre’s radius.

The park offers an educational and recreational tour. Paved pathways meander through expansive flowering garden enclosures that are covered by netted canopies. Inside, over 500 butterfly specimens flutter with ease, siphoning nectar from flower to flower.

Local businessman and nature lover, Ida Bagus Witara, found an affinity in butterflies and set out to create Kemenuh Butterfly Park as the largest conservation park of its kind on the is-

land. Tickets are IDR 100,000 (around USD 7.60) for adults and half the price for kids, which includes a welcome drink upon arrival. At the lobby, you can learn about butterflies and their relatively short life stages through large diagrams on the walls. Inside, among the most prominent species you’ll see include the vivid Papilio peranthus, the bright orange Common Cruiser and the giant Atticus Atlas moth. Mini nurseries also show pearlescent cocoons of various species.

The park keeps and breeds 14 species including the large Attacus atlas (atlas moth), locally called kup-kupu barong, which have been recorded as having a wingspan of up to 262 millimetres. For you lepidopterists out there (others skip this paragraph) the list includes: Idea stolli (common tree nymph), Vindula erota (common cruiser), Ideopsis juventa (grey glassy tiger / wood nymph), Cethosia hypsea (Malay lacewing), Euploea phaena-

rete (milkweed butterfly), Euploea corinna (common crow), Graphium agamemnon (tailed jay), Papilio demoleus (lime butterfly), Papilio polytes (common mormon), Papilio peranthus (swallowtail), Papilio helenus (red helen), Papilio memnon (great mormon), and Troides helena (common birdwing).

Within the enclosure, the Pupa Room, is where the magic happens.

Staff collect the butterfly eggs and watch carefully as they turn into (very hungry) wiggly caterpillars, mostly camouflaged amongst the leaves.

When they are ready, they spin a cocoon or chrysalis. The collection here is fascinating and mostly look like small gilt peanuts although the larger atlas moth pupas are more “leafy”.

Interestingly, the shinny pupas are poisonous to predators such as birds, mice, lizards and ants — isn’t nature clever? When they’re ready (ten days to one month, depending on the spe-

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cies), they emerge into butterflies for a very short life (5-14 days) when they flit around the park, lay eggs, and start all over again.

Staff are on hand to answer any questions and explained to us that the parks core purpose was for conservation, education and recreation, all worthy values. Kemenuh Butterfly

Park’s facilities include a gift shop full of all things butterfly, and a restaurant overlooking the rice fields with clean toilets. The best time to visit is early in the morning or late afternoon as you are more likely to see the butterflies at those times. If it’s raining give the park a miss, they don’t like the rain.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr during the press conference.

“I’m not ducking or dodging anyone,” American Mayweather told British media.

“I’m only coming out of retirement for one person and that’s Conor McGregor.

“We don’t need to waste no time. We need to make this ... happen quickly. Let’s get it on in June.”

McGregor has been challenging Mayweather, who retired in 2015 with a 49-0 record, to a fight for months.

The two sides have yet to reach terms and have a number of major hurdles to overcome.

Mayweather has asked for a guaranteed $100 million to make the fight happen, with $15 million going to McGregor, while UFC president Dana White has talked of $25 million to each plus pay-per-view money.

McGregor, the biggest pay-per-view draw in mixed martial arts, is contracted to UFC and the organisation would have to approve any fight.

The pair will also have to agree to a format which Mayweather insisted would be straight boxing.

“We cannot mix up the rules and regulations because I’m the A side,” he said.

“He called me out. You call me out, then, we have to go by my rules.

“If I called you out then we’d have to go by your rules.

“It’s always boxing.”

The pair have done their part to drum up interest, exchanging a number of verbal barbs at public appearances.

Mayweather reiterated his claim that McGregor was all talk and no action.

“Conor McGregor, stop ducking and diving Floyd Mayweather. Tell the UFC to let’s make this fight happen. I don’t want the UFC to look bad.” (rtr)

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CALIFORNIA - World number one Andy Murray was sent packing from the second round of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday after losing 6-4 7-6(5) to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil.

Pospisil delivered the knockout punch in style, whipping a crosscourt winner on his fourth match point in front of the near capacity crowd at Indian Wells that included former boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Pospisil, ranked 129th in the world, was rewarded for his aggressive approach, rushing the net whenever the opportunity arose and pouncing on Murray’s second serve.

“I knew I was a long shot. I’ve played Andy four times and didn’t win a set,” the 26-year-old told Tennis Channel.

“I felt like I had the ability to (win) but to actually go through is a whole new thing. I tried to bring different tactics ... versus the other times I played him.

“I didn’t want to give him the same look each time. I wanted

to put pressure coming into the net, using my strength, which is my ability at the net and serving well.”

Pospisil joked that his lowly current world ranking was due to a “mid-life crisis” that saw him endure a lean 2016, after he had made the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2015.

Earlier, Italian Fabi Fognini won a battle of expectant fathers when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4.

Unseeded Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded Frenchman in a match that stretched nearly two hours and 30 minutes in the blazing afternoon sun.

“I am happy about my performance. It’s a good victory for sure,” Fognini told Tennis Channel after beating Tsonga for the first time in five career meetings.

“Today was really hot so the ball was bouncing a lot. I love playing with sun and good weather.”

Fognini considered himself fortunate even to make it to the

second round.

The Italian dropped the first set to love and was down 5-2 in the second set of his first-round encounter with Russian Konstantin Kravchuk, before roaring back to win 0-6 7-5 6-4.

“It is a crazy sport,” Fognini said.

Fognini’s wife, 2015 U.S. Open champion Flavia Pennetta, is expecting a child in late May, while Tsonga is also set to become a father next month.

In another upset on Saturday, Japanese world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka beat Croatian veteran Ivo Karlovic 6-4 6-3, but seeds Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Tomas Berdych won their matches to advance. (rtr)

Vasek Pospisil (CAN) celebrates as he defeated Andy Murray (not pictured) in his 2nd round match in BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Pospisil won 6-4, 7-6.

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ANKARA - Turkey told the Netherlands on Sunday that it would retaliate in the “harshest ways” after Turkish ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam, as a row over Ankara’s political campaigning among Turkish immigrants escalated.

President Tayyip Erdogan labeled the Netherlands a “Nazi remnant” after it became the latest European country worried about political tensions inside Turkey spilling beyond its borders to prevent Turkish politicians from holding rallies.

The Dutch government on Saturday first barred Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from flying to Rotterdam and later stopped Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the Turkish consulate in the port city, before escorting her out of the country to Germany.

Dutch police used dogs and water canon early on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters outside the consulate in Rotterdam who were waving Turkish flags and throwing bottles and stones.

Several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said. Officers carried out charges on horseback.

The Dutch government, which stands to lose heavily to the anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders in elections next week, said the ministers’ visits were undesirable and that it would not cooperate in the political campaigning of Turkish ministers in the Netherlands.

In a statement issued early on Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey would retaliate in the “harshest ways” and “respond in kind to this unacceptable behaviour”.

Protesters also gathered outside the Dutch embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul, throwing eggs and stones at the buildings. Turkish authorities had earlier sealed off the premises in apparent retaliation.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he would do everything to “de-escalate” the diplomatic confrontation, which he described as the worst the Netherlands had experienced in years.

For a short period, the Turkish flag flew outside the Dutch consulate in Istanbul. Sources inside the Turkish presidency said the flags had been changed by Dutch consulate officials and that there had been no outside interference.

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Ahead of his planned trip, Cavusoglu had threatened tough economic and political sanctions against the Netherlands if it refused him entry.

Supporting Rutte’s decision to ban the visits, the Dutch government said there was a risk of Turkish political divisions flowing over into its own Turkish minority, which has both pro- and anti-Erdogan camps.

It cited public order and security worries in withdrawing landing rights for Cavusoglu’s flight.

Turkey fired back saying the Dutch ambassador to Ankara should not return from leave “for some time”.

Erdogan is looking to the large number of Turks living in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands, to help secure victory next month in a referendum that would give the presidency sweeping new powers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will do all she can to prevent Turkey’s domestic tensions spreading onto German territory. Austria and Switzerland have also cancelled Turkish rallies due to the escalating dispute.

The diplomatic row comes in the run-up to the coming week’s Dutch election in which the mainstream parties are under strong pressure from the far-right party of Geert Wilders. (rtr)

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Riot police clash with demonstrators in the streets near the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, Netherlands March 12, 2017.

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Man faces 10-year sentence after scaling White House fence

WASHINGTON - An intruder carrying a backpack was arrested after scaling a fence around the White House and entering the grounds, the U.S. Secret Service said on Saturday, in the latest breach of security at the president’s official residence.

President Donald Trump was inside the White House when the male suspect climbed over the fence on the complex’s South Grounds at 11:38 p.m. on Friday, and uniformed officers arrested him, the Secret Service said in a statement.

The suspect, identified in court documents as California resident Jonathan Tran, 26, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday after a judge on Saturday ordered him held without bond, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said.

Trump earlier thanked the Secret Service and commended the agents for apprehending the intruder.

“Secret Service did a fantastic job,” Trump told reporters at the start of a working lunch on Saturday afternoon with several Cabinet members at his golf course outside Washington. “It was a troubled person.”

Tran was charged with entering or remaining in restricted grounds while using or carrying a dangerous weapon, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, said Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

The incident unfolded despite a series of recommendations to tighten security after a 2014 intrusion that led to the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.

In 2015, a row of sharp spikes was bolted to the top of the black iron fence around the 18-acre property, making it more difficult to scale.

In the latest incident, Tran was apprehended near the south portico entrance, where presidents often address the public, U.S. authorities said in court documents released on Saturday. The entrance is near the part of the White House where the president resides.

Tran told agents he was a friend of the president and had an appointment with him, according to the documents.

He was carrying two cans of mace as well as a U.S. passport, a computer and one of the president’s books, authorities said.

He also carried a letter he had written to Trump that mentioned “Russian hackers,” and said he had relevant information, U.S. authorities said in the documents.

Representatives for Tran could not be immediately reached for comment.

According to the Secret Service, the suspect had no arrest record or history with the agency charged with protecting the president, his family and other elected officials. (rtr)

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text and that this would be balanced by assurances of equal treatment for all countries.

Among priorities for closer cooperation for Germany, France and others is defence, prompted in part by concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump may scale back Washington’s support for Europeans in the face of Russian ambitions. Differences between Paris and Berlin have held back closer integration on the euro.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who will host the summit marking 60 years of the Treaty of Rome, said officials would now work on a short draft text reflecting four priorities for the Union to serve its members better for the next decade: security; economy; social welfare; and defence.

The trickiest issues to reconcile, diplomats said, could be finding common language on social issues and the possibility of extending membership to other eastern states in the Balkans.

Britain’s vote last year to leave the Union has encouraged nationalists elsewhere. Juncker, the European Commission president, said, however, that polling evidence suggested that it had also bolstered public support for the EU: “Brexit is not the end,” he said. “I regret it. We continue.”(rtr)

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Spooked by Brexit, a process the absent British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger this month, Paris and Berlin see faster EU integration as the way to security and prosperity, thereby counteracting the rise of anti-EU nationalists. But Poland and others enjoying a sovereignty they secured only after the Cold War are suspicious of that and of a push by westerners to move ahead in a “multispeed Europe”.

Szydlo, who admitted to an emotional exchange with Hollande over subsidies, told reporters Warsaw would not accept a Rome Declaration that divided Europe into two speeds.

Hollande and Merkel, as well as EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker, all stressed, however, that a repetition of existing possibilities for some countries to cooperate more in certain areas -- such as the euro currency -- should not mean the creation of permanent divisions to exclude some states.

Several diplomats from former communist states, of which Poland is by far the biggest in the bloc, said that their leaders were happy with proposals to include elements of “multispeed” language in the Rome

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Saudi King Leaves Bali For Japan

KUTA - Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud left Bali for Japan on Sunday after enjoying an eight-day vacation in one of the worlds most famous tourist resort.

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The King was seen off by among others Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno LP Marsudi, Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifudin, and Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. The Kings Boeing 747 plane took off at 11:45 a.m. local time.

The Bali airport was closed for 45 minutes during the departure of the King. Five international flights and

13 domestic flights were affected due to the temporary closure. On the previous day, a Saudi plane carrying 16.6-ton cargo had left Bali for Japan.

The Saudi King was holidaying in Bali from March 4 to 12, after paying a state visit to Jakarta on March 1-3, which is considered to be historical as a Saudi king had lasted visited Indonesia 47 years ago.

The Saudi King and his entourage comprising among others princes and ministers, booked five luxury HOTELS LOCATED on the beaches lining the Indian Ocean.

The hotels included St Regis, Mulia, and Lagoon located in Nusa Dua, Badung District, and Bulgari in Uluwatu, also in Badung District. (ant)

Indonesia politicians caught up in $170 million graft case

JAKARTA — Indonesian politicians with key roles in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s governing coalition have been caught up in a corruption scandal in which officials allegedly pilfered more than $170 million of government money.

The justice minister, a former interior minister, the current speaker of parliament and provincial governors are among those named in an indictment presented to a special corruption court on Thursday at the start of a trial of two Interior Ministry officials.

The case could turn into a test of Jokowi’s ability to take a hard line against corruption, which is at epidemic levels in Indonesia and holds back development of the nation of more than 250 million people.

Indonesia’s anti-corruption police allege that a network of about 80 conspirators and several companies used the introduction of a $440 million electronic identity card system in 2011 and 2012 to steal more than a third of the funds. Local media reported that parliament’s speaker and the justice minister denied involvement.

Irman and Sugiharto, the two officials currently on trial, are charged with receiving $4.4 million. Prosecutors say the rest of the stolen $172 million was distributed among the dozens of other people involved.

The justice minister and parliament’s speaker are from political parties that have thrown their support behind Jokowi’s government, which initially did not

command a parliamentary majority following the election of the maverick candidate in 2014.

Transparency International in 2016 gave Indonesia a corruption score of 37 on a 1 to 100 scale, where 100 is completely free of corruption. Out of the 176 countries ranked, Indonesia was 90th, far from its goal of reaching 50th place by 2016. (ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesian police arrested nine suspected militants on the island of Sulawesi, a police spokesman said on Saturday, in an operation that media reported had targeted a group with affiliations to Islamic State.

With investigations continuing, police spokesman Martinus Sitompul declined to give further details, but media reported police had also seized bomb-making materials meant for use in attacks on police and official buildings.

The suspects were all members of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, a group that had been controlled until last year by one of the first Indonesian militants to pledge loyalty to Islamic State.

Santoso had been the country’s most-wanted men before he was killed in a gunbattle with police and military forces last July, and security officials have been expecting reprisal attacks. Some members of his group were believed to be still hiding in Sulawesi’s dense jungles.

Security experts say that Indonesia, an officially secular state with the world’s largest Muslim population, faces a growing threat from supporters of Islamic State.

Last month, police killed a militant after he detonated a small bomb in the city of Bandung. Authorities said they were investigating whether he had links to a radical network sympathetic to Islamic State. (rtr)

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Indonesian President, Joko Widodo (L) views an honour guard with visiting South African President, Jacob Zuma (R) at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 8, 2017.

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BUSINESS Despite poaching, South Africa plans for rhino horn trade

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A foreigner who takes rhino horns out of the country must do so through O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and cannot carry them in hand luggage, according to the draft provisions. They say authorized freight agents must provide authorities with DNA data and other information related to exported horns.

Skeptics believe the system would be open to corruption.

Some consumers in Asia believe rhino horn in powder form can cure illnesses, although there is no evidence that the horn, made of the same substance as human fingernails, has any medicinal value.

Critics say legalization will spur poaching as illegally obtained horns are laundered into the legal market, similar to the exploitation of elephant ivory. Rhino breeders, however, believe poaching would be undercut by a regulated trade, which likely would allow the sale of horn stockpiles and the harvesting of horns from living rhinos.

The poaching is not confined to South Africa. This month, a 5-yearold white rhinoceros was shot three times in the head by poachers who broke into the Thoiry Zoo near Paris and used a chain saw to remove the rhino’s horn.

“Banning the trade in horn has made the horn more and more and more valuable. Had we never banned

it, the price of horn would never have got to where it is now,” said John Hume, a rhino breeder in South Africa. “And that Parisian rhino would have been safe in its zoo because its horn would have been worth a fraction of what it is.” Hume described South Africa’s draft legislation on the domestic rhino horn trade as “a step in the right direction.”

But Allison Thomson, a South African campaigner against legalization, said putting rhino horns on the

market would increase demand and that South Africa is sending “conflicting messages” about how to deal with poaching, jeopardizing its lucrative wildlife tourism.

“The risk we run at the moment is that if we open up trade and poaching escalates we will have no rhinos in the wild. We will only have rhinos on farms, being farmed like cows,” Thomson said.

Poachers killed 1,054 rhinos in South Africa last year, a 10 percent

drop from 2015, according to the government. While authorities attributed the decrease to increased security and other anti-poaching measures, some conservationists speculate that there are fewer rhinos to kill. Drought also killed some rhinos in the past year.

By some estimates, South Africa has nearly 20,000 rhinos, or 80 percent of Africa’s population. Asia has several rhino species, including two that are critically endangered.(ap)

China’s economy is set for steady growth - state research centre

BEIJING - The risk of a steep slide in China’s economy has reduced, the head of a government research centre said on Sunday, adding the country had moved through an “L-shaped” pattern of slowing to now “horizontal” growth. China’s economy grew 6.7 percent last year, according to the government, the slowest pace in 26 years. The country met its growth target with support from record bank loans, a speculative housing boom and billions in GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT. But as Beijing moves to cool the housing market, slow new credit and

tighten its purse strings, China will have to depend more on domestic consumption and private investment.

The government last week trimmed its economic growth target to about 6.5 percent for this year.

Li Wei, the director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, China’s cabinet, said many positive economic signs were emerging domestically and internationally, and the risk of a large slide in economic growth had “clearly lowered”.

China’s economic development has gone from a “downward stroke

A total of ten couples will bring along their own photographers and makeup artists. They choose the location in accordance with the direction of their photographer.

Though all locations can be used as a prewedding photo background, the photographers usually choose four places having become favorites. Like making a movie, they also come with director of photography that will direct their poses.

Photographers or directors of photography commonly have prepared the scene in particular composition adjusted to its location. Photographers often wait for the right time to get a silhouette or sunlight penetrating through the trees. “Silhouette view is the most sought after by photographers. There are also photographers taking advantage of large wood and dried leaves under the forest,” said Sumohon.

Sumohon said there are also a pre-wedding photo shoot on the following day. Auspicious day according to Hinduism for Balinese wedding ceremony makes Sangeh crowded with pre-wedding photo shoots. Moreover, Chinese travelers also make Sangeh as regular venue for their photo session.

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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a dehorned rhino stands at a rhino breeding farm near Klerksdorp, South Africa. South Africa’s government is moving ahead with plans to allow a domestic trade and limited export of rhino horns, alarming many international conservationists who believe rhinos will be more vulnerable to poachers who have killed record numbers in the past decade.

in the L-shape to the horizontal stroke”, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing Li’s comments on the sidelines of China’s annual session of parliament.

The horizontal trend points to long-term steady development, but does not eliminate the possibility of short-term fluctuations, or mean the economic transformation is complete, Li said. “Our economy still has many difficulties to resolve, so we must prepare to respond to the emergence of possibly relatively large risks,” Li said.

Earlier on Sunday, a vice chair-

man of the state economic planner said China’s industrial output grew more than 6 percent in January and February, and that the survey-based unemployment rate in 31 major cities was about 5 percent for the two months.

National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Ning Jizhe gave the approximations, which were in line with expectations for official data set to be issued on Tuesday. Fixed asset investment growth kept pace with the final few months of last year, Ning said.

“China’s economic growth still

mainly relies on domestic demand,” he said. January and February data will be released together in a bid to smooth out seasonal factors caused by the timing of the long Lunar New Year holidays, which began in late January this year but fell in February last year.

China unexpectedly posted its first trade gap in three years in February as a construction boom pushed imports much higher than expected. That upbeat import reading reinforced the growing view that economic activity in China picked up in the first two months of the year.(rtr)

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Bukit Sari Sangeh attraction is virtually never quite from pre-wedding shoots. This cultural activity in combination with technology is always held every day. On Sunday (Mar. 5), for instance, the pre-wedding shoots were made for 10 couples. “Tomorrow and the next day, there are reservations of photographers to make photo shoots,” said Operations Manager of Sangeh Attraction, I Made Sumohon.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s government is moving ahead with plans to allow a domestic trade and limited export of rhino horns, alarming many international conservationists who believe rhinos will be more vulnerable to poachers after a record slaughter in the past decade.

Draft regulations would allow a foreigner with permits to export “for personal purposes” a maximum of two rhino horns. Critics argue that any exported horns would be hard to monitor and likely would end up on the commercial market, defying global agreements to protect threatened rhino populations.

Most of the world’s rhinos live in South Africa. An international ban on trade in rhino horns has been in place since 1977, and South Africa imposed a moratorium on the domestic trade in 2009, when rhino poaching was accelerating to meet growing demand for horns in parts of Asia, especially Vietnam.

South Africa’s government has lost court battles to preserve the 2009 ban, which was challenged by rhino breeders, and has leaned toward trade, backing a failed proposal by neighboring Swaziland at a U.N. wildlife conference in Johannesburg last year to legalize the international sale of rhino horn. A 30-day period during which the public was invited to express opinions about the draft legislation on rhino horn trade ended Friday, the Department of Environmental Affairs said.

“The comments will be evaluated, the draft regulatory provisions will be revised based on the comments received, and the process for approval of the final legislation will be set in motion,” the department said in an

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According to him, there are four places becoming favorites namely the front entrance gates to the woods is commonly used as the background. The gates are unique and old where behind it sits a temple and green forests. Secondly, front side of Bukit Sari Temple is also chosen as having cool atmosphere with temple background accompanied with lush and beautiful forests.

The forest located in the left side of the temple is also good for photo shooting.

Other than filled with large trees, the location also looks like a circle and having no small plants. There are only dried leaves of nutmeg tree. “It is said that this area was a graveyard of monkeys. Nevertheless, we never see any monkey’s corpse here,” he explained.

Another interesting location is under the banyan tree in the west forest. There grow two large banyan trees exuding positive aura. “In general, the photographers are very satisfied with the existing locations.

The pre-wedding photo shoot is usually charged at IDR 200,000 for sanitation levies,” he concluded. (kmb)

Tamba Waras Temple, a Sanctum to Invoke Recovery

It is said that King of Tabanan, Cokorda Tabanan, was in serious illness. None of the royal healers could heal him. Medicine has been sought after everywhere, but nothing worked. One upon a time, there were hints in the form of revelation that there would be a medicine that could cure the king.

The servants were assigned to go to all directions. After getting tired of wondering here and there, eventually they saw a cloud of smoke from the Batukaru forest. After being approached, the smoke came out from coconut shell. Ultimately the servants asked for further guidance. In short, the medicine looked for has been obtained. At the end, Cokorda Tabanan got his recovery.

Then, on the command of the king, a sanctum named Tamba Waras is established at the location. Tamba means ‘medicine’ while waras means ‘gets recovered’ as ever before. It is believed that whoever saying prayers at the temple will obtain a healing.

This belief keeps growing and growing until now.

The temple belongs to one of the Catur Angga temples with the

status as the sad kahyangan jagat of Bali. The Tamba Waras temple is included in the jajar kemiri. Those belonging to this temple group are the Muncaksari and the underneath Tamba Waras located at the right side of the Batukaru Temple.

Geographically, the Tamba Waras Temple is located on the south slope of Mount Batukaru, precisely at Sangketan, Penebel, Tabanan. The temple located on the same line as the Batukaru Temple sits on the altitude of about 725 meters above sea level. To get to this temple, pilgrims have to cover a distance of about 22 km from the town of Tabanan. In terms of the temple structure, the Tamba Waras Temple is also nicknamed as the warehouse of universal medicine.

It is estimated to have been established in the twelfth century. Before saying prayers, all the pilgrims should first do self-purificatory rite or melukat at the sapta Ganges shower. Other than melukat at the shower, it is also resumed with the ivory coconut water. After that, the pilgrimage can continue to the main temple. (kmb)

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Leaders should promote happiness

DENPASAR - Contemporary leaders should not be doing things for their own benefit but rather should be able to create happy conditions for the people they are leading. Furthermore, they should not claim the happiness of the people as their own but rather transmit happiness to the people.

“On that account, future leader should be smart.

Through an intelligent and happy leadership, we hope to see those who enjoy happiness transmitting this to the people that they lead. They should not take away the happiness of the people they lead, but do just the opposite”, said founder of The Ary Suta Center, Dr. I Putu Gede Ary Suta, during the national leadership education forum (Pakemnas) IX of the Indonesian Hindu Youth Association (Peradah) that took place in Denpasar on Friday (Mar. 10).

Ary Suta added that in order to become a leader, core competencies should be developed. Leadership can be learned from the success of others, through the failure of particular leaders or learned from a mentor. Aspiring leaders should choose role models who have the appropirate knowledge.

“So, mentoring is important and the existing leadership must really love those whom they lead. Leaders must truly embody and struggle for the interests of the people they led”, said Suta who was head of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency when he was just 36 years old.

According to Ary Suta, leaders must be able to create a vision and mission as well as strategies based on the direction of that which is growing. They need to understand what people want, he said, and pass on tricks or strategies.

“So that happiness can be the end result”, he concluded.

Chairman of Bali Post Media Group, Satria Naradha, presented material entitled “Hindu Leadership, Sustainable Bali and the Press” during the IX pEradah (national leadershop forum) . Satria Naradha chose the life of a journalist, even though his parents wanted him to become a doctor. He became involved in the field of communications in high school when he wrote and created a school magazine. Later in life, on May 26, 2002, he established BaliTV and then several other local TV stations outside Bali such as, SurabayaTV, BandungTV, JogjaTV, SriwijayaTV as well as AcehTV. “All of this just me playing my role according to svadharma (one’s own duties), without having to belong to a party, without having to become a governor, without having to become a minister or without having to be regent”, he said.

According to Naradha, Bali still survives despite recent problems and systems of modern leadership, mastery of information technology, mental strategies to bypass through process of elimination and other basic shifts, though he added that according to the analysis by the press Balinessness will disapear within just one generation.

Peradah national leadership education is a strategic step towards saving the succeeding generations of the island from becoming victims to these changes.

“Our generation will not be meer spectators to these changes and simply be proude to work on a crusie ship overseas. Balinese people are loosing the economic competition, not just in Bali but everywhere. Balinese people are truly great, but we are in crisis”, explained Satria Naradha.

Chairman of Peradah Indonesia, D. Suresh Kumar said that national leadership education is meant to educate and train the cadres of Peradah Indonesia and to increase their knowledge about Peradah, Hinduism as well as national insights. He added that he hopes that members can respond quickly to social dynamics.

“We are therefor putting together social analysis material to be used to map out and critique social problmes in the larger community and then look for solutions. We are have also prepared the next generation of Paradah cadres, so that they can be empowered in whatever position they may hold ,m wherever that may be”, he said. (kmb32)

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SEOUL - Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail.

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Around 60 square meters of the 3 hectares of land are exposed to sewage that spread down to end of the river.

Holding sewage for decades

Badung parliament asks DLHK to take action ASAP

MANGUPURA - Residents who own the vacant land behind the Global Village Housing in Mumbul hamlet, South Kuta, have complained about sewage flowing onto their vacant land. Their complaints were eventually submitted to the Badung House of Representatives in which it became apparent that the land spread across 3 hectares has been used to hold domestic sewage for 20 years.

A representative of the landowners named I Made Arta, said that the domestic sewage from Global Bali Hill and several other residences was already discussed in a meeting in 2011. Village and sub-distric authorities were also made aware of the isseu and subdistrict official even wnet to inspect the vacant land. However, as of yet none of this has not been followed up on. “Around 60 square meters of the 3 hectares of land are exposed to sewage that spread down to end of the river”, he said.

Arta said that he hopes that relevant agencies will take action immediately so that the environment will be no longer bepolluted by the wastewater.

“We want this issue to be followed up on ASAP so that the environment can be clean. As owners of this land, we demand that our rights be respected”, he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung House of Representatives, I Nyoman Kariana, who went to investigate con-

ditions on this polt of land himself on Friday (Mar. 10) said complaints by the public about the domestic sewage have been expressed for decades and will be responded to immediately.

According to Kariana, that had been mediation on the issue previsouly but no common ground had been found as evidenced by the waste that has yet to be addressed. Kariana who wnet ot the site with the Commission II of the Badung House of Representatives said that the entreprenuers who have been disposing of their sewage here, along with related parites were immediately summoned to resolve the problem.

“We hope the entrepreneurs who claim to be concerned about the environment do not continue to damge the enviro=nment” said Karana.

Chief of Commission II, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, who also joined the site inspection, confirmed that the sewage waste is still contaminating the vacant lot owned by local residents. He emphasized that this should be the last

time that this problem is spoken of as it should be dealt with immediately.

Luwir Wiyana also asked the subdistrict head of South Kuta to summon those who are disposing waste here so that the issue can be resolved and the environmental pollution does not become more widespread. Although the land is vacant the problem still needs to be addressed, it would be much worse if there were buidings here. We will summon relevant agencies such as the environment and sanitation agency (DLHK) in order to resolve this problem that has been left unresolved for 2 decades.

“Not only here, but all waste pollutino by hotels and restaurants in the distirct of Badung will be cracked down on and supervised in accordance with the basic duties of Commission II”, he said.

South Kuta subdistrict head, Wayan Wirya, added that previous mediation and communication regarding a solution had taken place. A total of five residences dispose of their domestic waste to the vacant land owned by residents, such as the Global Village, Putra Bali Hill, De Paras and two other residences. “They suggested that the owner of the land create a drain to the river”, he explained (kmb23)

Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell to staff, an official said. She was heading for her home in the Gangnam district of the capital, Seoul, where hundreds of flag-waving supporters waited.

“President Park Geun-hye has just now departed the Blue House and headed for her private home,”

a Blue House official said by text message.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday to uphold a parliamentary vote to impeach Park, dismissing her from office over an influencepeddling scandal that has shaken the country’s political and business elite.

A snap presidential election will be held by May 9.

Park, 65, is South Korea’s first

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South Korea’s ousted leader Park Geun-hye arrives at her private house in Seoul, South Korea, March 12, 2017.

democratically elected leader to be forced from office.

Her dismissal followed months of political paralysis and turmoil over the graft scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in jail and facing trial.

The crisis has coincided with rising tension with North Korea and anger from China over the deployment in South Korea of a U.S. missile-defence system.

Park did not appear in court on Friday and she has not made any comment since. She remained in the Blue House, prompting some grumbling from critics keen to see her stripped of the privileges of power.

Her dismissal marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea’s first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee.

It was not the first time she has had to leave the Blue House compound of traditional-style buildings at the foot of a hill in central Seoul.

In 1979, after a nine-day funeral following the assassination of her father, the young Park left the Blue House with her siblings for a family home. She had been acting first lady after her mother was shot and killed in an earlier failed assassination attempt on her father.

Now, having lost presidential immunity, she could face criminal charges over bribery, extortion and abuse of power in connection with allegations of conspiring with her friend, Choi Soon-sil. Both women denied wrongdoing. (rtr)

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents an award to a “sarpanch” woman (village head) for her efforts towards the Clean India campaign, to mark the International Women’s Day in Gandhinagar, India, March 8, 2017. Dave

Modi wins landslide election victory in India’s biggest state

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party won a landslide victory in India’s most important battleground state on Saturday, in a personal triumph that will strengthen his claim to a second term as national leader.

Wresting control of Uttar Pradesh is a ringing endorsement of Modi’s stewardship of Asia’s third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes to rein in corruption.

The Election Commission of India said Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won a clear majority. With the tally of results almost complete, the BJP had collected as many as 312 of 403 seats in the state assembly, the biggest majority for any party in the state since 1977.

Almost four in ten voters backed Modi’s party, the election commission said, close to the party’s vote share in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 general election when it won the biggest national majority in three decades.

“I give my heartfelt thanks to the people of Uttar Pradesh. This is a historic victory for the BJP; a victory for development and good governance,” Modi told his 28 million followers on Twitter.

Investors hope victory will embolden Modi to embark on more reforms, including the launch of a national sales tax, to boost economic growth.

“The outcome of this election will enable Modi to sharpen his winning anti-corruption and improved governance policies as he begins to position himself for the 2019 general election,” wrote analysts Shailesh Kumar and Sasha Riser-Kositsky of macro advisory firm Eurasia Group.

Modi threw himself into the Uttar Pradesh campaign after his party started slowly, addressing dozens of rallies and turning the contest into a test of his personal popularity and his radical move to abolish big banknotes worth 86 percent of the cash in circulation.

Celebrations erupted outside BJP offices in state capital Lucknow and Delhi, with party workers dancing and splashing each other with paint in keeping with the Holi festival of colours that Hindus are celebrating this weekend. Modi’s campaign manager, Amit Shah, credited the BJP victory to a corruption free and pro-poor administration. The BJP will discuss who will become the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, Shah told reporters. (rtr)

Defiant U.S. prosecutor fired by Trump administration

WASHINGTON - A prominent U.S. prosecutor said the Trump administration fired him on Saturday after he refused to step down, adding a discordant note to what is normally a routine changing of top attorneys when a new president takes office.

New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s defiant exit, first announced on Twitter, raised questions about President Donald Trump’s ability to fill top jobs throughout his government.

Trump has yet to put forward any candidates to serve as the nation’s 93 district attorneys even as his Justice

Department asked the 46 who have not yet quit to hand in their resignations on Friday. Key positions at agencies like the State Department and the Defense Department also remain unfilled.

As the federal prosecutor for Manhattan and surrounding areas since 2009, Bharara secured insidertrading settlements from Wall Street firms and won criminal convictions in high-profile corruption and terrorism cases.

He told reporters in November that Trump had asked him to stay in his post, and he refused to resign

when asked to do so by the Justice Department on Friday. He said he was fired on Saturday afternoon.

“Serving my country as U.S. Attorney here for the past seven years will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life, no matter what else I do or how long I live,” Bharara said in a press statement.

The Justice Department confirmed that Bharara was no longer serving in the position and declined further comment.

Like all U.S. attorneys, Bharara is a political appointee who can be replaced when a new president takes

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office. Previous presidents have often asked outgoing U.S. attorneys to stay on the job until their replacements win confirmation in the U.S. Senate.

The Washington Post, citing two people close to Trump, said the president’s adviser Stephen Bannon and Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted a clean slate of federal prosecutors to assert the administration’s power.

But the decision to replace so many sitting attorneys at once has raised questions about whether the Trump administration’s ability to enforce the nation’s laws would be

hindered.

“President Trump’s abrupt and unexplained decision to summarily remove over 40 U.S. attorneys has once again caused chaos in the federal government,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said.

Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the firings showed “the independence of the Justice Department is at risk under this administration” and that lawmakers had to carefully evaluate Trump’s replacements. (rtr)

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Sleepy Colorado town comes alive during ‘Frozen Dead Guy Days’

COLORADO - Every March the cryogenically frozen corpse of a Norwegian man breathes fresh life into sleepy Nederland, Colorado, where throngs of fun-lovers fill the streets for “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” a festival in honor of the town’s most famous resident.

The annual three-day festival is the brainchild of a local businesswoman who came up with the whimsical idea 16 years ago as a way to attract visitors to Nederland, where the man’s body has laid in repose in a shed since 1993.

The event topped her wildest expectations: From a modest crowd of about 1,000 the first year, the festival now draws about 20,000 visitors. Many of them dress in

Halloween costumes as they revel in such quirky events as a polar plunge, a frozen salmon toss, musical acts and a costume ball.

“We never imagined it would be so wellreceived and grow so large – you could say I created a monster,” said Teresa CrushWarren, credited with hatching the idea when she was president of the local chamber of commerce.

This year’s festivities began with a parade of a dozen hearses, followed by a “coffin race” through the streets of the Rocky Mountain town, where temperatures hovered just above the freezing mark.

Sam Baggall, 20, a student at the University of Colorado, stood next to the makeshift

coffin she and her five teammates fashioned out of cardboard.

“Our plan is to get out quick and be agile,” she said.

The annual bash honors Bredo Morstoel, who died and was cryogenically frozen in his native Norway in 1989 with the hope that low temperatures will allow him to be resuscitated sometime in the future. After a four-year stint at a California facility, his grandson moved him in 1993 to his property outside of Nederland, 17 miles (27 km) west of Boulder.

Six years ago, the chamber sold the festival to Amanda MacDonald, an event planner for the chamber.

The festival itself is a break-even en-

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deavor, MacDonald said by telephone, but it is a boon for local businesses in the hamlet of about 1,500 full-time residents.

Morstoel’s grandson no longer lives in Nederland and the family has no connection to the celebrations other than paying for his upkeep.

Once the festival ends, 59-year-old Brad Wickham will resume his job as Morstoel’s caretaker, every two weeks hauling 1,000 pounds (454 kg) of dry ice – carbon dioxide in solid form – to the sarcophagus and packing it around the corpse.

“There are a lot of scientists studying cryogenics, but I’m just a guy with a truck and a strong back,” he said. (rtr) IBP/ant

King Salman and his entourage left Bali Sunday (Mar. 12).

Responding to King Salman’s visit

Bali needs to arrange destinations ergonomically

THE King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud’s visit to Bali is good for promotinig tourism in Indonesia, including Bali.

Moreover, King Salman is a very much honored figure in Middle Eastern countries.

Saudi Arabia is ranked 13th in terms of Indonesia’s tourism market. Each year, the number of tourists from Saudi Arabia continues to increase. King Salman’s visit to Indoneisa in 2017, should be used as an opportunity to boost the number of visitors form the middle east by about 50 percent.

“Bali needs to arrange its destinations ergonomically. Why? Bsed on the experience of receiveing a super VIP such as King Salman, we have found that Bali needs to improve the ergonomics of the siland as a tourist destination. In other words, we must provide comfort form visitors” said tourism analyst, Dr. Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, on

Tuesday (Mar. 7).

Excellent handling of visitors, said Mahadewi, does not only involve smiling and hospitality. Bali needs to consider the condition of services by preparing venues, facilities and tourism- supproting infrastructure. This is one of Bali’s shortcomings in terms of being a tourist destination – we cannot meet all the needs of guests in terms of quality. Bali should now focus on developing the quality of destinations so that we can attractquality visitors who will have an increseingly positive impact on our economy.

“One of the ways to increae the quality of destinations in thorugh ergonomic design” added Deputy Director I of STP Nusa Dua Bali.

Indeed Bali’s tourism sector in Bali is ready, however some detaisl need to be improve upon by managing waulity destinations well. Many special guests have visited and holidayed on this island, but King Salman is categorized as a quality visitor based on his

special (super deluxe) needs.

“Nothing is wrong. It is expected of Bali, isn’t it? Bali attracts visitors in large wuantities and quality. Surely this needs to be backed up with wuality service as well”, she added.

Destination indeed signifies the provider of location. In economic term, this means providing goods and services. The obstacles faced today are related to preparedness of destinations in terms of providing for the special needs of visitors. King Salman for example is a VVIP and has standard requrements related to his privacy.

“We have not been able to provide for all of these needs, like special elevators and flat stairs for wheelchairs. Also qualified human ressources that can meet certain standards in terms of height, nice looks, cleaniness and who have good work ethics are also lacking.

Although Bali does have such equipment and services, there needs to be better handling” said Mahadewi.

A quality destination is one that is ready to meet the needs of visitors and is able to pay attention to the needs of disabled people, people in wheelchairs, or whose use a cain or other such needs. Small things that need to be prepared are the provision of chairs, special foods and ergonomic toilets.

Made Suardana, a hotel of manager in Kuta, said that King Salman’s holiday in Bali will have a positive impact in the long term related to social matters. Bali, as a beautiful island with friendly people who respect all guests, also upholds the concept of tolerance in the life of the nation. The number of visitors to Bali from the Middle East can therefore increase.

“In the short-term, the King’s visit only increases the value of tourist visits in the area of Nusa Dua, while it has a little impacts on tourism in Kuta and other tourist destinations”, said the lecturer of tourist destinations. (rah)

No certainty about King Salman investing in Bali

MANGUPURA - After Sausi Arabia’s King Salman and his entourage extended their holiday in Bali, security measures have intensified. In addition to holidaying, the kingdom reportedly is interested in investing in Bali, particularly in Badung.

Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Cok Raka Darmawan, said that his office has not received any information related to King Salman’s interest in investing in Bali.

Nevertheless the extneison of his holiday

until March 12 has certained raised some questions. “King Salman wanted to extend his holiday in Bali, however I really do not know about pans to invest. This matter is quite private”, he said.

When asked about the security protocol for King Salman and whether it could interfere with other guests, Darmawan said the King Salman does not want his visit to disturb other visitors holidaying in Bali.

However inevitably, given the standard

operating proceedures for security there is the potential for other guests to be disrupted. “We understand that these are standard security measures” explained Darmawan.

So far King Salman has not visited many tourist attactions so tourism activities are nto considered to have been disturbed. The holiday that the Arabian Kingdom’s entourage has been taking in Bali is in fact beneficial for promoting tourism here. “Other that King

Salman himself, we hope that his people will also com espend holidays in Bali” added Darmawan.

When contacted seperatee;y about King Salman’S plan to invest in Badung, Head of the Badung investment and integrated services (PTSP), I Made Sutama, revealed that so far they have received no information about this. Nevertheless, such an opportunity remains open as long as all existing rules and regulations are complied with. (kmb23)

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Public and pecalang advised not to take selfies on streets during Nyepi

MANGUPURA - During the asceticism of Nyepi (Day of Silence), the people of Kuta are being asked to set a good example and not take selfies in the middle of the empty strees. Hinuds should be setting a good example and not taking advantae of the situation, said Kuta community leader, I Gusti Anom Gumanti.

After a coordinatin meeting held bewteen Kuta leadership and and relevant agencies, regarding security for Nyepi of

Caka Year 1939 (2017) on Friday (Mar. 10), Gumanti urged people to be wise about using camera devices and thus bring benefit to the environment and to themlselves. “Hopefully, things will naturally run solemnly, safely and smoothly. Right now, everyone has a smartphone with a camera, so we are saking people not to go out and take selfies, but to respect Nyepi”, he said.

This appeal was not just directed to the public at large but also to pecalang (customary security guard) who are in charge of securing the catur bratha penyepian or four

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The Nyepi celebration in Bali

abstinences of the celebration. Gusmanti said that hopes they will take selfies as this can provide a negative image of pecalang officers. “If making snapshoot of the surroundings and delivering the course and lessons learned from Nyepi, it does not matter,” he said.

Last year guests were found scattered in the streets during Nyepi. Allegedly this was because their hotels had failed to inform them about the prohibitions. Hotel managers are therefore being asked to ensure that information about customary rules regarding Nyepi are conveyed to their guets well in advance. This way, visitors can appreciate and care for the solemn unfolding of Nyepi Day “Nyepi not only bring in an exceptional vibration to the local population, but also to people from outside Bali who enjoy Nyepi. Please search for hotels that have a clear name and address so as to enjoy the vibration. Visitors should not arrive without a clear objective and place to stay as this could result in being caught by pecalang”, he concluded.

Undeniably, the atmospehre of Nyepi atmosphere has become one that is sought after by by travellers wanting to enjoy Bali in silence. Religiously speaking, Gusmanti siad that he disagrees with hotels that sel “Nyepi packages”, that allow guests to break the four abstinences. However, since there is a demand for such packages, hotels should be mindful not to comercialise Nyepi.

In general, last year’s celebration of Nyepi took place in an orderly fashioin in Kuta. The night before Nyepi involves the ogoh-ogoh (papier mache demons) parade which has become synonymous woth partying. However he asked that each hamlet hall hold a party saying: “ “we must begin to instill in the younger generation the idea that the hamlet hall is the center of the community whre all sorts of activities, from educaiton to chatting and even partying takes place”, he said.

Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, invited the youth of kuta not engage in road side dringking after the ogohogoh parades. All members of the community are invited to participate in maintaining the security and comfort of Kuta. “We hope that all components will care for general comfort and orderliness during Nyepi. Likewise, the melis and ngerupuk activities on the eve of Nyepi shold also take place smoothly”, he said with hope. (kmb32)

entrance and operated the mobile x-ray device. The device inside the police vehicle functions to scan and oversee vehicles and people along with their luggage as they enter the main entrance. “All vehicles can be scanned, but we focus on the box trucks”, he said.

Joko added that the ZBV with four detectors and monitor can scan the entire human body from head to toe, including clothing as well as the contents of vehicles. Other than being able to penetrate steel, the device is also able to detect organic and non-organic materials such as drugs and explosives. With such super-sophisticated capabilities, this device is very useful in improving security. “It is very appropriate

that this device be used secure the visit of King Salman and his entourage in Bali”, he said.

Besides, Bali police also scanned vehicles using a parcel X-ray inspection (X-ray bag) at the southern entrance of the BTDC area. The US-made mobile X-ray bag is a new type of x-ray that yields better images.

The vehicle operated by four police personnel has to back up in case the x-ray bag owned by the hotel where the King stayed, were to malfunction. Such advance devices are expected to prevent any harzadous goods such as bombs, weapons or quesiontalble liquids form entering the hotel. (kmb36)

Gracie Kelly’s Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day

This 17th of March, don’t miss the biggest Irish party in town and

meet the Gracie Kelly’s Leprechauns! Celebrating St. Patrick’s

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Detecting explosives, Bali police use ZBV

MANGUPURA - In addition to deploying about a thousand personnel, for the security of the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and his entourage, Bali police also used X-ray devices at every entrance into the area of ??ITDC, Nusa Dua. Meanwhile, at the main entrance, police usitlized a Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) that is capable of detecting hazardous goods, -particularly explosives, in a vehicle.

On the sidelines of performing their tasks, a member of subdetachment III, bomb squad of Bali police mobile brigade, Joko Santoso, said on Friday (Mar. 10) that there were eight personnel assigned to oversee the ITDC main

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (L), Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner and Kit Harrington of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” pose backstage with their award for Oustanding Drama Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California U.S., September 18, 2016.

War comes to Westeros as ‘Game of Thrones’ unveils July return

LOS ANGELES - The premiere date of HBO’s medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones” was announced with fiery fanfare on Thursday, as a block of ice was melted live online to reveal the July 16 start of the new season.

More than 100,000 people watched the hour-long Facebook Live stream of a block of ice being melted slowly by blasts of fire. It was interrupted by a few technical difficulties when the stream cut to black.

The highly anticipated seventh season of “Game of Thrones,” taglined “The Great War is Here,” has been moved to summer from its usual spring air date this year as filming of the show was delayed to capture scenes of winter for the show’s fictional realm of

Westeros.

Emmy-winning “Game of Thrones,” based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, follows the epic fantasy of a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne seat of the Seven Kingdoms.

A teaser trailer released by HBO on Thursday shows the crests of the warring families crumbling to ash, with voices of key characters heard speaking phrases from past seasons in a timeline of events that have led to the battle.

At the very end, the voice of resurrected Night Watch leader Jon Snow says, “The same thing coming for all of us. There’s only one war that matters. The great war. And it is here.”

“Game of Thrones” is the most-watched show on Time Warner Inc’s premium cable network

HBO, averaging around 25 million viewers for its sixth season.

The saga will conclude with its eighth season next year. (rtr)

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NEW YORK - Sporting a bleached-blond buzz cut, American actress Kristen Stewart hit the red carpet in New York to promote her new film “Personal Shopper”, saying she hoped to help others by going public about her sexual orientation.

The 26-year-old, who used to date her co-star from the “Twilight” film series, Robert Pattinson, made headlines in February when she announced she was gay while hosting the U.S. late night sketch show “Saturday Night Live”.

“I always wanted to keep what was mine in private, mine. And then I thought like you know, you open it up a little bit and you can help one or two people, it’s absolutely worth it,” she said on Thursday.

“Personal Shopper”, directed by Olivier Assayas, tells the story of Maureen (Stewart), an American woman working in Paris, who is trying to connect with the spirit of her dead brother Lewis. The film has been described as a seductive, mysterious ghost-story, but Assayas said it was simply a coming of age tale.

“It’s a character who is in a moment in her life where she has to somehow become herself because she’s just lost her twin brother.

So it’s really like a character who is one half of herself and she will gradually rebuild her life and become someone,” Assayas said.

The film, which also stars Nora Von Waldstatten and Sigrid Bouaziz, first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016 and will be released in U.S. theatres today. (rtr)

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European Union heads of state and government gather for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, March 10, 2017. EU leaders are debating the future of their bloc as Britain eyes the exit door and far-right parties look to get strong results in upcoming elections.

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Actress Kristen Stewart poses as she arrives for the premiere of her new film “Personal Shopper” in New York, U.S., March 9, 2017.

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EU leaders seek unity as Britain heads for the exit BRUSSELS - Leaders of the European Union agreed the outlines on Friday of a common accord to rally popular and political support for a bloc wracked with division and self-doubt in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave.

At a summit in Brussels, diplomats said the 27 leaders tried to put behind them a furious row with Poland that had disrupted proceedings the previous day and handed guidelines to their staffs to prepare a solemn declaration of unity which they will all sign in Rome on the bloc’s 60th birthday in two weeks time.

Poland’s vain lone battle to block a second term for summit chair Donald Tusk, a former Polish premier and arch-foe of the current ruling party leader, was symptomatic of growing friction between the west and poorer, ex-communist east as Brexit leaves a

hole in EU subsidy budgets.

But people in the room said Prime Minister Beata Szydlo took pains to be polite and cooperative after Thursday’s sharp exchanges with the likes of French President Francois Hollande, who had effectively accused her of ingratitude for EU grants to Poland. “She was a different person today,” one diplomat said.

Tusk, who promised to try and heal his personal rift with his successors in Warsaw, said: “The attitude was much more constructive.” The atmosphere was, he said, even “optimistic”.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who

dismissed accusations from a Polish minister that the EU was run by “German diktat”, was more measured but concluded: “We are united in diversity.”

Merkel faces a eurosceptic challenge at a September election, and Hollande will step down after an election next month where far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to make a strong showing.

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