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Thursday, September 15, 2016 Actor Ryan Gosling greets fans as he arrives on the red carpet for the film “La La Land” during the 41st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), in Toronto, Canada, September 12, 2016.

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Gosling, Stone spin modern twist on old Hollywood in ‘La La Land’

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TORONTO - While intense dramas and true life stories have dominated this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a vibrant love story inspired by the golden age of Hollywood musicals has found a warm welcome.

“La La Land,” a musical contemporary tale of star-crossed lovers chasing their dreams in Hollywood and starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, received a standing ovation at its premiere Tuesday night.

“It’s a great story and they’re great engaging characters and the music kind of aids in that,” Gosling, who plays a tortured jazz pianist, told Reuters on the red carpet. He added that he didn’t think viewers had to like musicals to enjoy the

film.

Stone, who plays an aspiring actress, said “I learned to tap and ballroom dance and sing live on camera, which was pretty insane.”

“La La Land” is the second feature film from writer-director Damien Chazelle, 31. His first film “Whiplash,” an intense study of a jazz drummer’s quest to perfection, won three Oscars.

“I love the old Hollywood musicals, as you can see, but I really have

a fondness for the French answers to those musicals,” Chazelle told the audience and a short question-andanswer session after the screening.

“I wanted to do a musical, but really ground it in real life and invest it with stuff that felt messier and real,” Chazelle said.

“La La Land” has already been drumming up awards buzz. Critics have praised the performances and the intricate, colorful, love letter to a bygone era of movies.

The film follows the two leads as their lives converge in poetic chaos while they try to make their respective dreams come true, even as they fall in love. (rtr)

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DENPASAR - Branding of Bali tourism is still being discussed. Bali Tourism Office continues to seek input from tourism, cultural, academic and community stakeholders. Actually the office wanted to just use the name of ‘Bali’ for the branding of tourism on the Island of the Gods because the name of Bali has been already very, very well known in the world.

“Bali has become a branding and it is not need to be added with other words. If we make ‘Peaceful Bali, but when an unrest explodes, who will be responsible for it? Or ‘Bali the Island of Paradise’ but there is a lot of garbage or traffic jams, can it be called a paradise?” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar.

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Newly elected UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin (front) leaves after a news conference following his election in Athens, Greece September 14, 2016.

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New UEFA chief Ceferin promises to stand up to big clubs

ATHENS - Aleksander Ceferin, a little-known Slovenian soccer official, was elected as the head of European soccer’s governing body UEFA on Wednesday and promised to stand up to the big clubs.

The 48-year-old will replace disgraced Frenchman Michel Platini after comfortably beating experienced Dutch football administrator Michael van Praag by 42 votes to 13. “I am not a showman, I have no ego issues and I am not a man of unrealistic promises,” said Ceferin after the poll amongst Europe’s 55 national football associations.

“My small and beautiful Slovenia is very proud about it and I hope

that one day you will also be very proud about it.”

Ceferin said his first task would be tackling widespread dissatisfaction at controversial changes to the Champions League agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association, which has 220 members from 53 FAs, in favour of the big clubs.

UEFA increased the number of places allocated to clubs from Spain, England, Germany and Italy

in the lucrative group stage and cut the slots for the smaller countries.

The move came amid threats that the big clubs could form a breakaway Super League.

“Whether I want it or not, I will have to deal with that and that will be the first thing to deal with,” Ceferin told reporters.

“UEFA is a very good and very strong organisation, it was without leadership for some time and I think that in a way was a problem in dealing with those things.

“We should show we are the ones who are the governing body with our 55 national associations, and at the same time we have to have

dialogue with the clubs and I think the situation can be solved.”

PLATINI ADDRESS Former France international Platini had governed UEFA since 2007 and been re-elected twice until he was banned by FIFA’s ethics committee last October for ethics violations. He finally announced his resignation in May after exhausting all possibilities of appeal within the sporting tribunal system, allowing UEFA to call Wednesday’s election.

Despite his four-year ban, Platini was given permission by FIFA’s ethics committee to address

the Congress as a “gesture of humanity”, and made a seven-minute speech. “Thank you for these nine years. I think we did a great job...

Friends of football, farewell,” said Platini, who was given a round of applause but not a standing ovation.

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Nevertheless, added Yuniartha, his office does not preclude the other input, especially the branding that has a strong foundation or argument. The new branding will be used to replace the unpopular old branding ‘Shanti, Shanti, Shanti’.

“We target to have a branding this year,” he added. According to Yuniartha, the presence of branding is also related to tourism promotion activities. All this time, the tourism promotion of Bali is helped by the Ministry of Tourism. Moreover, the tourism promotion activities are just budgeted at IDR 600 million. The budget is mostly used for promotion in the country like to Bandung and Surabaya as well as some ASEAN countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.

“The rest is helped by the Min-

istry of Tourism like the direct promotion in Shanghai (China) and Berlin (Germany) and on some televisions around the world. So, the ministry does not dare leave Bali. Promotion of the ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ overseas entirely uses the pictures of Bali. Like a kite, the body is Bali, while the tail is other regions,” he explained.

In the meantime, a member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, Tjok Asmara Putra Sukawati, said that tourism branding of Bali in the future should prioritize local genius as well as customs and culture of Bali. Something taken advantage into the branding should make travelers immediately understand that it means for Bali.

“It needs to be sought and made.

A nice branding is not just a slogan and sounds interesting but it does not mean anything to do with our customs and culture,” he said. On

the other hand, Tjok Asmara admitted that Bali has been already very well known throughout the world.

But innovation and promotion must still be done. Indeed the promotion does not have immediate impact, but it will show the results in the next five to ten years.

“For instance, it has been performed by my grandfather pioneering the Bali tourism, Tjok Gede Raka Sukawati. At that time, Bali did not rely on tourism but he always promoted Bali or Ubud to foreign guests so that they got to know about our customs and culture, so that Bali has attained the current condition,” he added.

Tjok Asmara emphasized that Bali tourism should still refer to the customs and cultures. These two elements have made Bali different and special when compared to other tourist destinations in the country. (kmb32)

The tourists are enjoying the view of Tamblingan Lake

MANGPURA - The rain flushing Badung and surrounding areas on Tuesday (Sep. 13) caused the heap of rubbish at the estuary of Tukad Mati in the area of Pata Sari. The debris predominantly consisting of plastic bottles and styrofoam also causes odor.

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Estuary of Tukad Mati flooded with debris

The garbage is pilling up on Tukad Mati

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The Division Head of Irrigation at the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency (BMP), A.A. Gede Dalem, admitted to frequently find debris after heavy rain. “Indeed, when it rains, the debris will occupy the estuary of Tukad Mati. We usually clean it up when the rain has stopped,” he said.

Local government, said Gung Dalem, has attempted to banish the debris in the upstream of Tukad Mati by replacing the trash rack on the Jalan Sunset Road. This project is estimated to be operated in next December.

“We are building a trash rack in the bridge of Jalan Sunset Road located in the upstream of Tukad Mati. When this device has been already installed, at least the rubbish from the upstream area can be captured there,” he said.

The device working automatically ranging from filtration, extraction, and transportation of the rubbish to the dump truck is carried out by machine in the process of construction. “This project is under construction and has reached 50 percent of completion. The components are still being made in the factory,” he said.

Related to waste management at downstream area of Tukad Mati estuary, Gung Dalem said it is still being done manually by using amphibians. “We clean up the rubbish at downstream area with the existing device namely amphibians. However, there is small possibility for people to throw rubbish in the downstream area because in the surrounding areas sit some villa buildings,” he said.

According to him, the construction of trash rack at the downstream area of Tukad Mati is likely to be carried out after the central government continues the development of long storage. “Maybe after the long storage is resumed by central government, the trash rack can be built in the downstream,” he said while adding that the total budget prepared by the BMP Badung for the construction of trash rack rotary reaches IDR 16 billion more. (kmb27)

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Beachwalk National Pride 2016

Beachwalk Shopping Center always presents the unique experiences for tourists and shoppers. The various monthly programs offer more attractions in Kuta and emphasizing the Beachwalk Shopping Center’s tagline, “Bali Starts Here”.

Beachwalk presents the theme

of patriotism which is called “National Pride” on this September 2016. Beachwalk Shopping center is offering a bunch of events and promo.

Beachwalk partnership with TheEvent81 presents: ‘Sunset Culinary’ every weekend in September 2016. In this event, Customers can

ONGOING EVENTS March 2- August 31th A Love Affair With Asia: Bridges Cafe, Jalan Campuhan, Ubud www.bridges.com FREE Every Tuesday Ecstastic Tuesday Morning Dance 9AM-12Noon Guided improvised movement Paradiso, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud www.paradisoubud.com 100K Every Thursday African Drum Class with Catur Sang Klang Wijaya 4PM-6PM Experience the healing power of drumming. all levels welcome Ashram Satya Graha, Nyuh Kining, Ubud

BY DONATION Every Friday Exploration in Motion 6:30PM-8PM The art of exploration in movement Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang Linjong 38, Echo Beach, Canggu www.samadibali.com 130K Every Sunday Batu Jimbar Cafe Sunday Market 10AM-1PM Organic produce, Bali honey, homemade jams, european specialties Batu jimbar Cafe, Jalan Danau Tambligan No75, Sanur www,batujimbarcafe.com Samadi Bali Sunday Organic Market Organic food, handmade creative clothes and jewellery, yoga for kids, music Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang, Linjong 39, Kuta www.samadibali.com

enjoy various culinary and snack while see Kuta Beach Sunset and live band from the famous and different band in every week. All these activities will be held in Garden POD, Beachwalk level 2.

This August Beachwalk occur DMC DJ Battle & Street Workshop (Bali Has Talents). The event is on 5th – 11th September 2016 at the Fountain Stage level 1. In that event Customer can enjoy the DJ Battle, Street art and dance competition.

In addition Beachwalk also became a part of Bali Tourism Week that held along Kuta Beach. Various event and activities such as cooking demo, Balinese dance performance, Balinese handicraft etc. All these activities will be held in Fountain Stage, Beachwalk level 1 from 18th – 23rd September 2016.

Every Thursday International and Domestic customers can enjoy ‘Bali Cultural Experience’. Customers can enjoy the experience and learn more about Balinese culture like learn traditional Balinese dance, create Balinese offering (Canang) and learn Balinese music instrumental. Moreover there’s event Meet the Bird Stars held on 25th September 2016 at Fountain Stage Beachwalk level 1. Customers can meet and interaction with the exotic birds by Bali Bird Park.

There’s a new store at Beachwalk Shopping Center that waiting for the Customer. Surprise in this September, H&M will be opening at Beachwalk Shopping Center in the end of September 2016 .

H&M will be occupying 2 level in Beachwalk, level 1 near Fountain Stage and level 2 near Cinema

XXI. H&M offer collections that are wide-ranging and varied for women, men and children.

Beachwalk has launched the Lucky Seven Reward program for all Residential ID holders.

Dedicated to those customers with Residential ID and spend a minimum purchase of IDR 100,000 in a day, you can collect a stamp and redeem the shopping receipt at our Customer Service, level 1 with Instant Rewards which are restaurant vouchers or free 2-hour parking at Beachwalk. If customers collect 4 stamps on weekdays and 3 stamps on weekends, customers will get Special Gifts from Beachwalk.

The opportunity to win for customer Beachwalk with various September’s SHOP & WIN program Instant Rewards and Lucky Draw Prizes. By spending at a minimum purchase of IDR 500,000 (single receipt), customers can get instant rewards such as beauty products, shopping vouchers, restaurant vouchers, and many more. By spending at a minimum purchase of IDR 2,000,000 (max. 2 receipts), customers will get the chance to win special prize and get shopping vouchers, restaurant vouchers and have a chance to win lucky draw prize 1 night stay at Club Bali Suites Hotel.

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About 200 Zika cases recorded in Thailand - ministry

BANGKOK - Thailand has recorded about 200 cases of Zika since January, the health ministry said on Tuesday, making it a country with one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases in the region.

It was the first time Thailand’s health ministry has confirmed the

number of Zika cases this year.

The announcement comes a

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A city worker fumigates the area to control the spread of mosquitoes at a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, September 14, 2016.

day after health experts called on Thailand to be more transparent in reporting the Zika threat to the public after health officials played down risks from rising infections of the mosquito-borne virus.

Health officials have expressed concern that disclosing information on Zika, which is linked to serious birth defects, would damage Thailand’s lucrative tourism industry.

“Since January, we have recorded about 200 cases and over the past three weeks, we have confirmed an average of 20 new cases per week,” Ministry of Public Health spokesman Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai told Reuters.

“The number of cases is stable,” he said, without giving further details.

Island city-state Singapore reported its first locally infected Zika patient on Aug. 27 and since then, the number of reported infections has soared to more than 300.

Malaysia and the Philippines have also reported cases.

The virus, which is affecting large parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been circulating in Asia for years.

The lineage of the virus circulating in Asia is different to the one in the Americas, researchers say.

The level of population immunity to the lineage of Zika in Asia remains unknown, according to the World Health Organization.

Suwannachai urged the public not to panic and reiterated a message aimed at reassuring tourists.

“People shouldn’t be scared to visit provinces affected by the Zika virus,” Suwannachai said.

Provincial and central govt urged to promptly intervene

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly - a severe birth defect in which the head and brain are undersized - as well as other brain abnormalities.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last year in Brazil, which has since confirmed more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly.

Thailand has found no cases of microcephaly linked to Zika and it is monitoring about two dozen pregnant woman and about six who have given birth with no complications, the health ministry said. (rtr)

sex, presenting sex as a problem to be solved rather than acknowledging pleasure and desire. Women were often depicted as passive, men as predatory and there was little or no discussion of gay, bisexual or transgender sex.

Many programs did not address the availability of community health services, what young people should do if they got pregnant, the pros and cons of different methods of contraception or the emotions that might accompany sexual relationships, according to the study results reported in BMJ Open.

There is evidence from other studies that sex education varies by school, but in this study student responses were generally consistent even in different countries, Pound told Reuters Health by email.

“Young people’s feedback indicates that when sex education is negative, heterosexist - or in any other way seems irrelevant to their experiences, or judgmental - they switch off,” she said. “If young people aren’t engaged with their sex and relationship education then valuable opportunities for learning and discussion are lost.”

Properly training and assigning sex educators would help address at least some of the gaps in sex education, she said.

“The content of (sex and relationship) programs needs to be improved, but in addition these programs need to be delivered by trained experts who enjoy and are confident about their work, and crucially - are able to maintain clear boundaries with students,” Pound said. (rtr)

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Handling issues of Lake Batur

BANGLI - As a source of livelihood for the majority of Balinese people, condition of Lake Batur is adequately alarming. The silting up to water quality deterioration is inevitable.

Handling measures have been taken by district government.

However, it could not resolve all the problems. In order that condition of the largest lake in Bali is not even ‘more critical’ provincial and central governments are urged to immediately intervene.

Students often find school sex education negative and out of touch

LONDON - Many students say the sex and relationship education in their schools can be negative and “heterosexist,” and the way teachers approach the subject is ineffective, according to a review of international research.

“What is surprising is the consistency of the findings across different countries and over the 25 years that the study spans,” said lead author Pandora Pound of the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol in the U.K. The researchers reviewed 48 studies of students, young adults or adults age 25 and younger recalling their experiences of school-based sex and relationship education.

They included studies conducted between 1990 and 2015 in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Iran, Brazil and Sweden.

In general, people recalled their schools as reluctant to acknowledge that sex is potentially embarrassing, instead treating it like any other subject. Young people said the lessons made them feel vulnerable, with young men afraid to appear inexperienced and young women risking sexual harassment if they participated.

Schools often did not accept that students were already sexually active, according to some students.

Having their teachers deliver information about sex blurred boundaries in their relationships, they said, and some teachers seemed embarrassed or poorly trained.

Some young people criticized the overly scientific approach to

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Management of Alas Kedaton waits for regulatory certainty

TABANAN - Admission ticket price hike to Tanah Lot tourist attraction ascertained to apply starting from October 1 seems to be followed by Alas Kedaton tourist attraction. However, the management itself still requires coordination on certain regulation regarding who has the authority to raise the ticket price.

Operations Manager of Alas Kedaton tourist attraction, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Puja Yasa, said on Monday (Sep. 12) that the management gets information if the ticket price hike can be carried out by the management. “However, this still needs a further cross-check. If there are supporting rules, of course the price hike will be discussed,” he said.

According to Puja Yasa, the current ticket price has not been increased since ten years ago where foreign adult traveler is charged at IDR 15,000 and IDR 10,000 for domestic. With these prices, the profit obtained by the management is not so much as it should be deducted with operating cost for animal care and forest maintenance as well as

the salaries of employees.

Puja Yasa said that forest maintenance indeed does not need high costs. But the highest cost is allocated for maintenance of monkey whose population reaches approximately 1,000 heads. Every week, the management has to buy two tons of sweet potatoes to feed the monkeys. “At 10:00 in the morning, we feed them with sweet potato and supplementary food in the form of grain and corn at early evening when coinciding with harvest time.

There are also refreshment in the form grass and bread,” he said.

However, with the current ticket price the management can still manage the expenditure and can get income to be distributed according to percentage. Preservation of forest posing the animal habitat such as monkeys and flying foxes, according to him, can be well maintained due to the presence of awig-awig or customary bylaw. “From long time ago, the forest area never reduces because the bylaw does not allow cutting trees in the forest areas,” said Puja Yasa. (kmb24)

Secretary of the Bangli Environment Agency (BLH), I Made Kawen, explained that silting in Lake Batur is not only caused by silt sourced from farming activities in the surrounding areas. The use of fish feed seeming uncontrollable is also capable of being one of the triggers. This condition is exacerbated by the presence of water hyacinth and weeds. Another issue that is also very difficult to be resolved is the degradation of water quality. It happens due to the contamination by domestic waste and the agricultural sector in the form of pesticides.

“Indeed the quality of water shows a decline. However, it remains on the threshold of toler-

ance,” he explained, Tuesday (Sep. 13).

Rescue effort for the lake supporting of the geopark has been carried out by district government.

Due to budget constraints, the program can be done is merely cleansing the hyacinth, plastic waste and weeds. This measure has already involved the local community and relevant agencies. In the meantime, to minimize waste disposal, public education has been continued.

Likewise, the procurement of floating net is requested not to be widespread. “Cleaning up of the rubbish and others are often made and so does the dissemination on the activity. Unfortunately, some people still do not understand about

the significance of the lake,” said Kawen.

Indeed, the management authority of Lake Batur lies in the hands of provincial and central government.

However, there are no enough budgets to handle the problem.

Previously, it has been rumored that the lake adjacent to the Mount Batur is one of the fifteen lakes in Indonesia included in the rescue program. In reality, there was no follow-up. “Formerly, it has been included in the program of central government. But so far, there has been no continuity,” he said.

He affirmed if the provincial and central government seriously resolve the issue, they should immediately intervene by designing a handling program. If it is fully relying on local government, the budget definitely becomes an obstacle.

“The ability of local government finance is not so great. So, the rescue of the lake, especially the silting needs to get a touch from provincial and central government,” he said. (kmb45)

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Condition of Lake Batur is adequately alarming. The silting up to water quality deterioration is inevitable.

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Tourist visit to Bali imbalanced with massive accommodation development

MANGUPURA - The number of foreign tourist visit to Bali last year reached 4 to 4.5 million. On the other hand, the average hotel occupancy rate in Bali in 2015 only reached about 45 percent.

Ironically, behind the decline in the occupancy rates, the increase in the number of tourist accommodation development on the island still happens, even takes place quite massively. This was stated

by Chairman by of the Indonesia Employers Association (APINDO) of Bali, in Kuta, Panudiana Kuhn, Monday (Sep. 12).

He said that based on the data of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali currently there are 130,000 hotel rooms in Bali. It is just the official number. He added that the unofficial is quite a lot because there are villas, elite boarding houses and homes converted into tourist accommodation.

Amid the many hotel rooms available in Bali, the hotel occupancy rate automatically slumps.

The data of the PHRI also indicate that the average hotel occupancy rate reaches 45 percent, while the performance of 4- and 5-star hotels remains much better, about 55 percent. “The number of rooms available is not balanced with the number of tourist visit to Bali,” he said.

Seeing from the data on the number of rooms available, he estimated that Bali needs 18 million to 20 million domestic and foreign travelers. However, he doubted whether the infrastructure of Bali can accommodate such number of tourist visits. “The problem now is whether the infrastructure in Bali has been adequate. We need infrastructure to support this number of tourist visits. Do not just focus on South Bali,” said Kuhn.

This time, he continued, with the number of tourist visits in the range of 4.5 million people, Bali has been already too crowded. Congestion becomes a regular problem when holiday arrives. “At least, we have to make a toll road that can connect South Bali, North Bali, East Bali and West Bali so that the equalization can happen,” he said.

He realized that currently the provincial government of Bali and the regents and mayor do not have enough funds to overcome the infrastructure issues because the investment reaches trillions of rupiahs. “Maybe this could be an input for the candidate of Bali governor and the regents to find the solution. So, lest the programs offered are always at the level of ideas without any real efforts to overcome the problems of Bali increasingly getting more complex,” said Kuhn. (kmb18)

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Suu Kyi to meet Obama in Washington for first time as Myanmar leader

WASHINGTON - Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Barack Obama on Wednesday in her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader.

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Visitors heading for Nusa Penida did not only enjoy the beach and nature, but also performed spiritual tourism by visiting a number of temples.

Long holiday, Nusa Penida visited by many travelers

SEMARAPURA - Long holidays from Galungan to Eid alAdha made Nusa Penida visited by numerous domestic travelers. This also caused the surge of passengers that will cross to Nusa Penida. Visitors heading for Nusa Penida did not only enjoy the beach and nature, but also performed spiritual tourism by visiting a number of temples.

The number of foreign tourist visit to Bali last year reached 4 to 4.5 million.

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The attendant of Tribuana crossing office at Kusamba, Ni Made Desi Ernawati, said that the surge in passengers occurred due to the Galungan and Eid al-Adha holiday.

Most passengers crossing through the traditional harbor took advantage of the moment to visit places of interest in Nusa Penida. To anticipate the surge in passengers, the operators of crossing services also increased their trip from typically three times to seven times. “Passengers are crowded due to holidays,” she explained.

A tour guide at Nusa Lembongan, Wayan Bagiayasa, expressed there is a surge of visitors as seen at a number of tour-

ist attractions. They were mostly domestic travelers wishing to enjoy the charm of the Devil’s Tear water blow. At the location, visitors can see the attraction of water vapor from a cliff knocked down by waves.

One of the visitors, Dewa Ayu Yusadi, claimed to have visited the interesting and challenging place on Atuh Beach. “In short, the location is quite amazing, so that it is not disappointing when making a visit to Nusa Penida,” she said.

In the meantime, the Nusa Gede Island is mostly visited by Balinese people wishing to perform pilgrimage to sad kahyangan temple like the Puncak Mundi, Goa Giri Putri

and Penataran Ped. Paluang Temple having car-shaped shrine is also thronged by pilgrims. Indeed the Nusa Gede has been well known as a destination of spiritual tourism so that many pilgrims are flocking to visit Nusa Penida.

The no less interesting destinations are the Crystal Bay, Pasih Uug, Angel’s Billabong and Atuh Beach that must be visited when traveling to Nusa Penida.

Moreover, the emergence of new tourist attraction like the Malibu Sunrise Beach at Semaya hamlet has increased the number of tourist attraction in Nusa Penida. Now, the government of Klungkung is developing spiritual tourism and marine tourism into the potential of Nusa Penida. In addition to promoting it by organizing the Nusa Penida Festival, the government of Klungkung also constantly works to improve road access to smooth the traffic. (dwa)

With Suu Kyi no longer an opposition figure, the United States is weighing a further easing of sanctions against Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, as Obama looks to normalize relations with a country Washington shunned when it was ruled by a military junta.

Suu Kyi is also expected to meet with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and senior members of Congress.

“Before it was very much encouraging her (Suu Kyi) and supporting her in her role as someone pushing for increased democracy. Now they (U.S. officials) are meeting someone in charge of the government,” said Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asia expert at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Obama is expected to consult with Suu Kyi on whether to further ease U.S. sanctions to help investment and democratic transition in her country, the White House said.

The United States eased some sanctions against Myanmar earlier this year to support political reform but maintained most of its economic restrictions with an eye toward penalizing those it views as hampering the democratically elected government.

The military stepped back from direct control of the country in 2011 after 49 years in power, but maintains a commanding role in politics, controlling 25 percent of seats in parliament and leading three key ministries.

Suu Kyi is barred from being president under the military-drafted constitution because her sons are not Myanmar citizens. She serves instead as the country’s de facto leader by holding the positions of foreign minister and state counselor. She faces the challenge of guiding Myanmar’s relationship with the United States and neighboring power China, which enjoyed a preferential relationship with the military government. (rtr)

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Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the ASEAN-India Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 8, 2016.

Australia’s far-right leader denounces China investment in comeback speech

SYDNEY - Pauline Hanson, founder of Australia’s far-right One Nation party, used her first speech in parliament in almost two decades on Wednesday to denounce Chinese ownership of assets and warn that the country is in danger of “being swamped

by Muslims”.

Hanson is one of four One Nation senators elected in a July 2 general election, creating an important voting bloc when the two main parties - the governing centreright coalition and opposition Labour party - disagree on legislation.

“Any foreign ownership is regrettable, but why are we allowing the Chinese government, an oppressive communist regime ,to own our assets?” Hanson said in the Senate.

“Why are we allowing our ports, utilities, services, agricultural land and industries to be acquired by foreigners of any nationality? Our land and assets are not for sale.”

Australia’s relations with its biggest trading partner are already on edge after Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked Chinese and Hong Kong bids for major energy grid Ausgrid on unspecified security grounds soon after stopping the sale of cattle AAP/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS company Kidman & Co to a China-led Australia’s One Nation party leader Senator Pauline Hanson makes her maiden consortium.

In response, China accused Australia of speech in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, September 14, being protectionist.

2016.

Helen Sawczak, chief executive of the Australia China Business Council, told Reuters after the speech that there had been a “few speed bumps” in relations with China and the focus needed to shift to the opportunities Asia provided Australian business.

Hanson’s speech was delivered 20 years after she first entered parliament and gained international notoriety by warning that Australia was being “swamped by Asians”.

Her political fortunes soured within a couple of years of that 1996 speech.

But she won significant support in this year’s election with a high-profile campaign that included a call to ban new mosques and Muslim immigration and implement protectionist trade policies.

“Civil tension is on the rise across the country led by Australians feeling the impact of Islam in their lives and distaste for their beliefs,” she said on Wednesday.

Some lawmakers walked out during the speech in protest.

Hanson’s anti-Islam stance has gained some traction, and sparked tension in race relations.

Veteran political analyst David Black said the same protectionist sentiment that help unseat former British Prime Minister David Cameron and lift up Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump had come to Australia. (rtr)

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BUSINESS China August new loans well above expectations on mortgage boom

BEIJING - China’s bank lending in August more than doubled from the previous month, but analysts said much of the gain was due to strong mortgage demand, adding to evidence that Chinese companies are increasingly reluctant to make new investments.

The figures, along with other data this week, paint a picture of an economy that is improving slowly but increasingly reliant on a housing boom and government spending for growth.

Chinese banks extended 948.7 billion yuan ($142.23 billion) in net new yuan loans in August, well above expectations, while broad M2 money supply (M2) also grew by a more-than-expected 11.4 percent from a year earlier, according to central bank data on Wednesday.

New bank lending rebounded sharply from July’s 463.6 billion yuan, which was the lowest in two years, while M2 quickened from July’s 10.2 percent rise, which was the weakest in 15 months.

The central bank has pledged to keep policy slightly loose, but sources say it is reluctant to cut interest rates or bank reserves again in the near term amid evidence that companies and banks are hoarding cash instead of investing it.

“A renewed pick-up in credit growth last month will add to the growing sense among investors that the near-term outlook for China’s economy is fairly bright,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics.

“Credit growth is still likely to slow over coming months as the PBOC refrains from further easing and focuses more on credit risks.

But with recent activity data also strengthening, we expect economic growth to strengthen over the remainder of the year.”

Data on Tuesday showed China’s factory output and retail sales also grew faster than expected in August as a strong housing market and a government infrastructure spending spree underpinned growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

But August readings also highlighted imbalances in the economy, with private investment growth at record lows and exports still

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.

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An officer assists a tax amnesty participant at a help desk inside the country’s tax headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia September 8, 2016. Picture taken September 8, 2016.

Indonesia captures top militant in new blow to Santoso group

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A staff member is seen at Alibaba Group’s new data centre in Zhangbei, Hebei province, China September 11, 2016. Picture taken September 11, 2016. sluggish.

China’s increasingly dependence on the property market is also a major concern, as more cities impose restrictions on home purchases in the face of sharply rising house prices, threatening to end a near one-year rally.

A sharp price correction would add to strains on banks which are already wrestling with growing numbers of bad loans. Household loans, mostly mortgages, accounted for 71 percent of total new bank loans in August, though they were down from more than 90 percent in July, data showed.

“Mortgage loans remain the major driver of loan growth, based on booming housing market and weak

loan demand from corporates,” David Qu and Raymond Yeung at ANZ said in a note. Outstanding yuan loans grew at 13 percent by month-end on an annual basis.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected new lending of 750 billion yuan, with outstanding loans seen rising 12.9 percent, and money supply seen up 10.4 percent.

“LIQUIDITY TRAP” Total social financing (TSF), a broad measure of credit and liquidity in the economy, jumped to 1.47 trillion yuan in August from 487.9 billion yuan in July. TSF includes off-balance sheet forms of financing that exist outside the conventional bank lending system, such as initial

public offers, loans from trust companies and bond sales.

M1 money supply, which includes cash and short-term deposits, rose 25.3 percent in August from a year earlier. The widening gap between M1 and M2 growth has fuelled concerns about a “liquidity trap” in the economy where companies remain wary of investing regardless of how much stimulus money policymakers pump into the system.

“The rapid growth of M1 money supply indicates corporates’ preference of holding cash rather than investment. This is consistent with the slowing trend in fixed asset investment by the private sector,” ANZ said.

Chester Liaw, an economist at

Forecast Pte Ltd in Singapore, said the spread between M1 and M2 growth narrowed to 13.9 percentage points from 15.2 last month but “remains at elevated levels.”

The PBOC is aiming for annual M2 growth of around 13 percent this year, pointing to continued accommodative policy as Beijing pledges to embark on painful economic restructuring involving state-owned enterprises in key industrial sectors.

Policy insiders have said that evidence companies and banks are hoarding cash, alongside concerns about property market and the yuan’s stability, has reinforced policymakers’ view there is no major benefit in easing policy further.(rtr)

JAKARTA — A senior figure from the East Indonesia Mujahideen militant group has been captured and one of the group’s members killed in a joint operation with the military, Indonesian police said.

The capture of Muhammad Basri on Wednesday is another blow to the militant group, based in the jungles of Central Sulawesi province. The group’s leader, Santoso, who was Indonesia’s most wanted Islamic radical, was killed by security forces in a shootout in July.

Basri was Santoso’s deputy and may have assumed leadership of the group’s dwindling ranks following Santoso’s death. It claims allegiance

to the Islamic State group.

The capacity of Indonesia’s militant groups to carry out deadly attacks has been significantly weakened by a sustained crackdown following the Bali bombings in 2002 that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.

But Indonesians who traveled to Syria to fight with IS have directed and funded attacks from abroad, including a suicide bombing and gun attack in Jakarta in January that killed eight people, including four militants.

National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said the man shot dead Wednesday near Poso Pesisir village in Poso district of Sulawesi was Andika Eka Putra. He said police

and military forces are still searching for the remaining 13 members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen group, including Ali Kalora, who is believed to have a key role.

“We are grateful that Basri, our important target after Santoso, was captured alive,” said National Police Chief Tito Karnavian. “This arrest will improve security in Poso.” Karnavian said that Basri will be flown to Jakarta for further questioning.

About 2,500 security personnel, including elite army troops, intensified operations this year in Poso, a mountainous district of Central Sulawesi province considered an extremist hotbed, to try and capture Santoso and his followers.(ap)

The fatwa is not legally binding but is aimed at discouraging plantation companies and farmers from clearing land using slash-and-burn methods in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

“There was a meeting between the environment minister and the Indonesian Clerics’ Council, which issued fatwa no 30/2016 about forest and land burning law,” said ministry spokesman Novrizal Tahar.

“The point is that an act (of burning) that causes environmental damage, according to (the council) decision, is illegitimate.”

The council was not immediately available for comment and it was unclear why it had waited so long to make the ruling.

Every year, Indonesia faces criticism from its neighbours Singapore and Malaysia over the smog, euphemistically known as “haze”, and its failure to stop the fires from being lit.

Last year’s fires were among the worst in the region’s history, with billions of dollars worth of environmental damage, weeks of flight and school disruptions and thousands suffering from respiratory disease.(rtr)

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Aerial view shows the destruction caused by a forest fire at a palm oil plantation in Rokan Hulu, Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia September 2, 2016. Picture taken September 2, 2016.

Jakarta to build flats for fishermen: Governor

JAKARTA - The local Jakarta government will build flats for fishermen displaced by the reclamation project in North Jakarta, Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, said.

“We are ready to build the flats and a fishing port for the displaced fishermen in North Jakarta,” the Jakarta governor remarked at

the Energy and Mineral Resources building here on Tuesday night. “We will build embankments along the coast and flats for the fishermen,” he added.

Ahok did not specify the number of flats to be built, but said that it would be enough for tens of thousands of fishermen.

“All the flats will be subsidized for the fishermen but we will not sell it to them, because if we do, they may later sell it to someone else,” he said.

Meanwhile, the government has ensured that a total of 12 thousand fishermen in the northern coast of Jakarta will be well taken care of, following the resumption of G

Island reclamation project, Co-ordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan stated.

“There are 12 thousand fishermen and all will be well taken care of. They will get flats, in addition to assistance for their children to remain in school,” Panjaitan said.(ant)

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Brexit not the end of European Union, Juncker says

STRASBOURG - The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, sought on Wednesday to rally support for the European Union, saying the bloc battered by the UK Brexit referendum was not about to break up despite its existential crisis.

In setting out the Commission’s plans for the first time since the UK voted to exit the EU on June 23, Juncker highlighted the British referendum as a warning that the EU faces a battle for survival against nationalism in Europe.

“The European Union doesn’t have enough union,” Juncker told the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “There are splits out there and often fragmentation exists ...

That is leaving scope for galloping populism,” he said.

But he underlined he believed the world’s biggest trade bloc was

still an important force. “The EU as such is not at risk,” he said.

Proof of that, Juncker said, was the success of a new European investment fund that the former Luxembourg premier proposed to double to 630 billion euros ($707 billion) by 2022 to help with a sharp fall in spending since the global financial crisis, helping projects from airports to broadband networks.

“Our European investment fund will provide a total of at least 500 billion of investment by 2020, and will work to reach 630 billion by

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker addresses the European Parliament during a debate on The State of the European Union in Strasbourg, France, September 14, 2016.

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“I have a clear conscience, I am certain not to have made any mistake and will continue to fight this in the courts.”

Ceferin, who has crossed the Sahara desert four times by car and once on a motorbike, was elected president of Slovenia’s football federation in 2011 but was not internationally known until he announced he intended to

stand in June.

“I was never behind the scenes but obviously, as I said, people trust me and nobody behind the scenes can have 42 votes,” he said.

Both candidates campaigned to help UEFA’s middle-sized and smaller members and said it was necessary to close the gap between big and small clubs, although Van Praag was more outspoken in Wednesday’s pre-vote speeches.

“I guarantee you, on my watch I will not allow the clubs to put

2022,” he said. “If with member states contribute we can get there even faster.”

Juncker also wanted to extend the fund to the private sector in Africa to help curb emigration to Europe, starting with a pot of 44 million euros that could also be doubled later on.

An Africa fund was part of Juncker’s efforts to stress a more positive agenda, particularly over the migration crisis that has deeply divided the European Union. He also had veiled criticism of eastern European countries unwilling to take in refugees from North Africa and the Middle East.

“Solidarity must come from the heart. It cannot be forced,” Juncker said.

But the Juncker address offered few clues to the negotiations with London that the EU insists cannot start until Prime Minister Theresa May formally sets starts a two-year countdown to British departure. Juncker urged that to be done quickly. A summit of the 27 EU leaders in Bratislava on Friday is also unlikely to shed much light on the Brexit issue.

Instead, Juncker warned that the remaining EU governments should narrow their differences on addressing many problems facing their economies and societies, although he had no plans for “United States of Europe.” Aides say he believes the divisions are as great as he has known them in three decades at the heart of EU politics.

“What are we instilling in terms of values in our children. Is this a union that has forgotten its past, has no vision for the future? Our children deserve better,” Juncker said, speaking of his father, who fought in World War Two. (rtr) the gun to our head again,” he had said.

“For many years, the million dollar deals have been restricted to the big clubs alone. I believe that top football is played by too few clubs in too few competitions in limited areas.”

After the result, Van Praag added: “Alex and myself have the same goal, look at our programmes. He wanted to do it his way and I wanted to do it my way and today democracy has spoken.”(rtr)

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he departs a campaign rally in Clive, Iowa, U.S., September 13, 2016.

New York attorney general opens probe of Trump Foundation

WASHINGTON - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Tuesday he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation to ensure the Republican presidential nominee’s charity was complying with state laws governing nonprofits.

Schneiderman, a supporter of Trump’s Democratic rival in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton, sued the real estate mogul and his now defunct Trump University for fraud in 2013, seeking $40 million in restitution plus penalties and other costs.

In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Schneiderman said his office had now brought Trump’s charitable foundation under scrutiny.

“My interest in this issue really is in my capacity as regulator of nonprofits in New York state.

And we have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view,” the elected Democratic official said.

He added: “We have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it’s complying with the laws that govern charities in New York.” He did not elaborate on what wrongdoing Trump’s nonprofit might have committed.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed Schneiderman’s assertions as entirely motivated by presidential politics, calling the attorney general a “partisan hack who has turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for

years.”

Cheung called Schneiderman’s comments “nothing more than another left-wing hit job designed to distract” attention from Clinton’s recent missteps on the campaign trail.

Trump has accused Clinton of being corrupted by donors to the Clinton Foundation global charity founded by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, while she was U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton has dismissed Trump’s allegation as a political smear.

There has been no evidence that foreign donors to the foundation obtained favors from the State Department while Clinton headed the agency.

Schneiderman made his remarks when asked on CNN about calls from Democrats in Congress for a federal investigation of a $25,000 donation in 2013 from the Trump Foundation to a political committee supporting Florida’s Republican attorney general, Pam Bondi.

Democrats have cited an Associated Press report that Bondi solicited the donation personally, around the time her office was debating whether to join New York state’s investigation into Trump’s real estate training school in Florida.

According to the AP, Bondi, who was seeking re-election at the time, broke off the lawsuit deliberations after the check arrived.

Bondi, who has endorsed Trump, has called the AP report misleading. (rtr)

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Penyaringan Village

JEMBRANA - Penyaringan Village is one of the villages in Jembrana Regency having the most hamlets, namely 13 units. The village inhabited by 9,848 populations is divided into three customary villages, namely, the Penyaringan, Giri Amerta and Giri Utama. Most residents rely their livelihood on agriculture both irrigated and non-irrigated farming. Actually, the name of Penyaringan itself is taken from the habit of local predecessors who opened the land and called the village area.

Around the river basin currently lies the Penyaringan Hamlet that formerly was often used as location to hunt fish.

Originally in 1814, there were four brothers from Pengastulan, Buleleng, dwelling temporarily at Tegal Cangkring.

They were I Made Loka, I Nyoman Manggis, I Ketut Lancing and Ketut Naning. From their temporary settlement at Tegal Cangkring, these four men frequently hunted to the northeast (Penyaringan Hamlet). They hunted while bringing along with some nets (jaring). Then, they cornered the animals to a place surrounded by Bilukpoh River in the north, east and south.

Each time the four men went hunting, they always mentioned to go to Penyaringan, namely the location of setting up the nets. Until now, the place is called Penyaringan.

Later, they opened up the land for settlement and paddy field. The hamlet and subak was then called Penyaringan.

Opening of the farmland was carried out around 1850 and I Made Loka alias Gurun Pon was appointed the leader known as Kelihan. In harmony with the population growth, the village also developed. Penyaringan Hamlet is the central of the hamlet until it increased to the West, known as the hamlet of Sembung, Anyar, Pangkung Kwa, Tibu Beleng (Central, South and North) and in 1934 it expanded to Yeh Mecebur Hamlet in the south of Tibu Tanggang. It was called Yeh Mecebur because around the village could be found many waterfalls.

Village Chief of Penyaringan, I Ketut Winarya, explained that village development put emphasis on the education sector.

In the art sphere, this village had a woman gamelan troupe that could achieve the third winner in the women gong kebyar competition in the local regency recently, Jegog Troupe and Kendang Mebarung. Currently, we are intensely developing the genggong musical instrument that has nearly come to extinction. Therefore, we give it an opportunity to develop, explained Winarya accompanied by Secretary of the Penyaringan Village, Gede Sudendia. When asked about the village’s logo showing a white horse with black tail, he described it symbolized the dynamism and strong spirit. Meanwhile, the black color on the horse’s tail represented an imperfection.

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Bolt leaves door open to 2017 sprint double at worlds KINGSTON - Usain Bolt has left the door open to running in both the 100 and 200 metres at next year’s world championships where he said he will be more focused on protecting his legacy than topping his world records.

The Jamaican, who last month drew down the curtain on his Olympic career by securing a sweep of the sprint titles for a third successive Games, said his plan was to only contest the 100m in London but that his coach has other ideas.

“That’s the plan, but I still have to discuss it with my coach,” Bolt told Television Jamaica on Tuesday. “(Glen Mills) still wants me to do the double, but I’ve told him I would really like to just do the 100m, so at the start of the season we’ll decide exactly what (to focus on), but that’s what’s on my mind.”

Bolt has wild card entries for both the 100 and 200 metres at the Aug. 5-13 world championships by virtue of winning both events at last year’s worlds in Beijing.

But Bolt, who set the 100 and 200 world records of 9.58 and 19.19 seconds in 2009, said he is not planning to top either of those times.

“No (world records), it’s all beyond me now, right now it is just for me to go out there and leave with a big bang as much as possible,” said Bolt.

“I just want to go to the world championships, do my best as always and stay on a certain level and that’s the plan.” (rtr)

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In this July 31, 2015, file photo, Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 13th hole during the second round of the Quicken Loans National golf tournament, in Gainesville, Va.

LONDON - Former world number one Martin Kaymer believes back injury victim Tiger Woods can add to his haul of 14 major championship wins as long as he returns to golf with a clean bill of health.

Woods said last week that he hoped to make his comeback at next month’s Safeway Open in California after spending more than a year on the sidelines.

The 40-year-old American has a long-standing ambition to eclipse Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major victories and Kaymer told Reuters in a telephone interview that he would not rule anything out for one of the greatest players of all time.

“At the end of the day it all comes down to Tiger’s health,” the German said. “If he can practice the way he wants to practice, as hard as he wants, then I think he can win any golf tournament in

the world.

“He’s proved it before so I don’t see why he can’t do it again. The competition now is obviously a lot harder but I think it would be very disrespectful to take him out of consideration for winning any tournament in the world.”

Woods, who has undergone multiple back operations, last played competitively at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina in August 2015.

If all goes well at the Safeway Open, the former world number one also plans to feature at the Turkish Airlines Open in November and the Tiger Woods Foundation-run Hero World Challenge in December.

Double major champion Kaymer, who spent eight weeks at the top of the rankings in 2011, said the American must take things step by step. (rtr)

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Sp rt Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit seven

BARCELONA - Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar combined to devastating effect as Barcelona swatted Celtic aside 7-0 at the Nou Camp to lay down a marker in Champions League Group C on Tuesday.

in recovering the ball after losing it. We were intense and it’s a great night for the fans, rounded off by the record.”

Messi produced a stunning display, hitting a record sixth hat-trick in the competition to hand the 1967 winners their heaviest European Cup defeat.

He smashed home a pass from Neymar in the third minute and the Argentine maestro struck again in the 27th after Celtic’s Moussa Dembele had a penalty saved by goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Neymar curled in a free kick to stretch Barca’s lead in the 50th minute before crossing for Andres Iniesta to volley the fourth.

Messi then grabbed his third

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goal, overtaking Real Madrid greats Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas to reach six European Cup trebles. Neymar laid on the sixth for Suarez and the Uruguayan completed the rout with his second strike in stoppage time, capping Barca’s biggest win in the competition.

“It was a spectacle from start to finish, the team enjoyed themselves and so did the supporters. It’s a great welcome back to the Champions League,” coach Luis Enrique told a news conference.

“We did so many things well.

We were great in our pressing and

Luis Enrique reverted to an almost full-strength team after his rotation policy backfired in Saturday’s shock 2-1 La Liga defeat at home to Alaves. The hosts quickly asserted themselves as Neymar slid the ball into Messi’s path following a short corner and the Argentine took a touch in the area before scoring.

Barca continued to exert early pressure but were almost undone when Ter Stegen tripped visiting striker Scott Sinclair.

Despite scoring a hat-trick against arch-rivals Rangers at the

weekend, the 20-year-old Dembele looked short of confidence when he took the penalty and Ter Stegen dived to his right to beat his shot away.

The German international has now saved three out of four penalties in the Champions League for Barca.

Luis Enrique’s men showed no mercy with their next attack, Neymar and Messi cutting Celtic’s defence to ribbons. Neymar played a one-two with Messi before cutting the ball back for the Argentine to score.

Neymar got the goal his superb display warranted early in the second half, fizzing a free kick beyond Celtic’s helpless goalkeeper Dorus de Vries. (rtr)

City-Moenchengladbach game in Champions League postponed

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A match official kicks a ball that makes a splash as heavy rain falls during a pitch inspection prior to the Champions League group C soccer match at the Etihad Stadium between Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Manchester, England, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

MANCHESTER — The Champions League match between Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach was called off 20 minutes before kickoff on Tuesday following heavy rain in Manchester. The match was rescheduled at 7.45 p.m. local time (1845 GMT) on Wednesday.

“Torrential rainfall across Manchester throughout the evening led to flooding in the areas around the ground, which forced the decision on safety and security grounds,” City said in a statement.

There had been heavy rain, thunder and lightning in the hours leading up to the Group C game at Etihad Stadium, and UEFA officials and match officials inspected the sodden playing surface about an hour before the game. Neither set of players had been out to warm up.

Roads in Manchester city center were flooded and trams getting fans to the stadium were not in use.

Moenchengladbach fans that had gathered inside the stadium for the game booed and jeered when the announcement was made over the speaker system. The German team came onto the field to applaud the away supporters and performed the “Thunderclap,” made famous by Iceland at the European Championship. (ap)

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Milik double helps Napoli beat Dynamo Kiev 2-1

KIEV — Arkadiusz Milik scored with two headers as Napoli came from behind to beat Dynamo Kiev 2-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Denys Garmash had put Kiev in front in the 26th minute in the Group B match in the Ukrainian capital. The hosts finished with 10 men after Serhiy Sydorchuk

received his second yellow card in the 68th minute for diving.

Milik, a Poland striker who joined Napoli in the offseason as a replacement for the departed Gonzalo Higuain, equalized in the 36th minute when he headed a left-wing cross from Faouzi Ghoulam back across goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy.

Milik’s second came in injury

time after Dries Mertens’ header from Jose Callejon’s cross was cleared off the line. Milik was there to head the loose ball into an empty net.

Kiev has now won just twice in 21 matches against Italian opposition. Napoli is back in the Champions League after exiting in the group stage two seasons ago. (ap)

Arsenal’s Giroud blames Verratti for sending off in PSG draw

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud has blamed Paris St Germain midfielder Marco Verratti for tricking the referee after they were both sent off in Tuesday’s 1-1 Champions League draw. Giroud, who was a second-half substitute, and Verratti were each shown a second yellow card by Hungarian official Viktor Kassai following an off-the-ball incident in stoppage time.

The Frenchman also said PSG

defender Marquinhos pushed him during the incident at the Parc des Princes.

“I’d already been booked so didn’t want to make trouble. I made a small challenge on Verratti but he threw himself on to the ground,” Giroud said.

“I didn’t understand, so I asked him: ‘What are you doing? Then he got up quickly and Marquinhos pushed me from behind. I don’t know how Verratti fell over a sec-

ond time.”

“I didn’t go looking for trouble so it’s frustrating. I think that the referee was tricked. Verratti was also on a yellow, so I was surprised by his behaviour,” Giroud added.

The France striker will miss Arsenal’s next Group A game at home to FC Basel on Sept. 28, while Verratti will be sidelined for PSG’s match away to Bulgarian champions Ludogorets. (rtr)

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud is shown a red card by referee Viktor Kassai

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AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Napoli’s Arkadiusz Milik celebrates after scoring his second goal over Dynamo Kiev’s Domagoj Vida during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Dynamo Kiev and Napoli at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

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Sp rt Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit seven

BARCELONA - Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar combined to devastating effect as Barcelona swatted Celtic aside 7-0 at the Nou Camp to lay down a marker in Champions League Group C on Tuesday.

in recovering the ball after losing it. We were intense and it’s a great night for the fans, rounded off by the record.”

Messi produced a stunning display, hitting a record sixth hat-trick in the competition to hand the 1967 winners their heaviest European Cup defeat.

He smashed home a pass from Neymar in the third minute and the Argentine maestro struck again in the 27th after Celtic’s Moussa Dembele had a penalty saved by goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Neymar curled in a free kick to stretch Barca’s lead in the 50th minute before crossing for Andres Iniesta to volley the fourth.

Messi then grabbed his third

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goal, overtaking Real Madrid greats Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas to reach six European Cup trebles. Neymar laid on the sixth for Suarez and the Uruguayan completed the rout with his second strike in stoppage time, capping Barca’s biggest win in the competition.

“It was a spectacle from start to finish, the team enjoyed themselves and so did the supporters. It’s a great welcome back to the Champions League,” coach Luis Enrique told a news conference.

“We did so many things well.

We were great in our pressing and

Luis Enrique reverted to an almost full-strength team after his rotation policy backfired in Saturday’s shock 2-1 La Liga defeat at home to Alaves. The hosts quickly asserted themselves as Neymar slid the ball into Messi’s path following a short corner and the Argentine took a touch in the area before scoring.

Barca continued to exert early pressure but were almost undone when Ter Stegen tripped visiting striker Scott Sinclair.

Despite scoring a hat-trick against arch-rivals Rangers at the

weekend, the 20-year-old Dembele looked short of confidence when he took the penalty and Ter Stegen dived to his right to beat his shot away.

The German international has now saved three out of four penalties in the Champions League for Barca.

Luis Enrique’s men showed no mercy with their next attack, Neymar and Messi cutting Celtic’s defence to ribbons. Neymar played a one-two with Messi before cutting the ball back for the Argentine to score.

Neymar got the goal his superb display warranted early in the second half, fizzing a free kick beyond Celtic’s helpless goalkeeper Dorus de Vries. (rtr)

City-Moenchengladbach game in Champions League postponed

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A match official kicks a ball that makes a splash as heavy rain falls during a pitch inspection prior to the Champions League group C soccer match at the Etihad Stadium between Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Manchester, England, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

MANCHESTER — The Champions League match between Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach was called off 20 minutes before kickoff on Tuesday following heavy rain in Manchester. The match was rescheduled at 7.45 p.m. local time (1845 GMT) on Wednesday.

“Torrential rainfall across Manchester throughout the evening led to flooding in the areas around the ground, which forced the decision on safety and security grounds,” City said in a statement.

There had been heavy rain, thunder and lightning in the hours leading up to the Group C game at Etihad Stadium, and UEFA officials and match officials inspected the sodden playing surface about an hour before the game. Neither set of players had been out to warm up.

Roads in Manchester city center were flooded and trams getting fans to the stadium were not in use.

Moenchengladbach fans that had gathered inside the stadium for the game booed and jeered when the announcement was made over the speaker system. The German team came onto the field to applaud the away supporters and performed the “Thunderclap,” made famous by Iceland at the European Championship. (ap)

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Milik double helps Napoli beat Dynamo Kiev 2-1

KIEV — Arkadiusz Milik scored with two headers as Napoli came from behind to beat Dynamo Kiev 2-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Denys Garmash had put Kiev in front in the 26th minute in the Group B match in the Ukrainian capital. The hosts finished with 10 men after Serhiy Sydorchuk

received his second yellow card in the 68th minute for diving.

Milik, a Poland striker who joined Napoli in the offseason as a replacement for the departed Gonzalo Higuain, equalized in the 36th minute when he headed a left-wing cross from Faouzi Ghoulam back across goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy.

Milik’s second came in injury

time after Dries Mertens’ header from Jose Callejon’s cross was cleared off the line. Milik was there to head the loose ball into an empty net.

Kiev has now won just twice in 21 matches against Italian opposition. Napoli is back in the Champions League after exiting in the group stage two seasons ago. (ap)

Arsenal’s Giroud blames Verratti for sending off in PSG draw

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud has blamed Paris St Germain midfielder Marco Verratti for tricking the referee after they were both sent off in Tuesday’s 1-1 Champions League draw. Giroud, who was a second-half substitute, and Verratti were each shown a second yellow card by Hungarian official Viktor Kassai following an off-the-ball incident in stoppage time.

The Frenchman also said PSG

defender Marquinhos pushed him during the incident at the Parc des Princes.

“I’d already been booked so didn’t want to make trouble. I made a small challenge on Verratti but he threw himself on to the ground,” Giroud said.

“I didn’t understand, so I asked him: ‘What are you doing? Then he got up quickly and Marquinhos pushed me from behind. I don’t know how Verratti fell over a sec-

ond time.”

“I didn’t go looking for trouble so it’s frustrating. I think that the referee was tricked. Verratti was also on a yellow, so I was surprised by his behaviour,” Giroud added.

The France striker will miss Arsenal’s next Group A game at home to FC Basel on Sept. 28, while Verratti will be sidelined for PSG’s match away to Bulgarian champions Ludogorets. (rtr)

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud is shown a red card by referee Viktor Kassai

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AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Napoli’s Arkadiusz Milik celebrates after scoring his second goal over Dynamo Kiev’s Domagoj Vida during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Dynamo Kiev and Napoli at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

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Penyaringan Village

JEMBRANA - Penyaringan Village is one of the villages in Jembrana Regency having the most hamlets, namely 13 units. The village inhabited by 9,848 populations is divided into three customary villages, namely, the Penyaringan, Giri Amerta and Giri Utama. Most residents rely their livelihood on agriculture both irrigated and non-irrigated farming. Actually, the name of Penyaringan itself is taken from the habit of local predecessors who opened the land and called the village area.

Around the river basin currently lies the Penyaringan Hamlet that formerly was often used as location to hunt fish.

Originally in 1814, there were four brothers from Pengastulan, Buleleng, dwelling temporarily at Tegal Cangkring.

They were I Made Loka, I Nyoman Manggis, I Ketut Lancing and Ketut Naning. From their temporary settlement at Tegal Cangkring, these four men frequently hunted to the northeast (Penyaringan Hamlet). They hunted while bringing along with some nets (jaring). Then, they cornered the animals to a place surrounded by Bilukpoh River in the north, east and south.

Each time the four men went hunting, they always mentioned to go to Penyaringan, namely the location of setting up the nets. Until now, the place is called Penyaringan.

Later, they opened up the land for settlement and paddy field. The hamlet and subak was then called Penyaringan.

Opening of the farmland was carried out around 1850 and I Made Loka alias Gurun Pon was appointed the leader known as Kelihan. In harmony with the population growth, the village also developed. Penyaringan Hamlet is the central of the hamlet until it increased to the West, known as the hamlet of Sembung, Anyar, Pangkung Kwa, Tibu Beleng (Central, South and North) and in 1934 it expanded to Yeh Mecebur Hamlet in the south of Tibu Tanggang. It was called Yeh Mecebur because around the village could be found many waterfalls.

Village Chief of Penyaringan, I Ketut Winarya, explained that village development put emphasis on the education sector.

In the art sphere, this village had a woman gamelan troupe that could achieve the third winner in the women gong kebyar competition in the local regency recently, Jegog Troupe and Kendang Mebarung. Currently, we are intensely developing the genggong musical instrument that has nearly come to extinction. Therefore, we give it an opportunity to develop, explained Winarya accompanied by Secretary of the Penyaringan Village, Gede Sudendia. When asked about the village’s logo showing a white horse with black tail, he described it symbolized the dynamism and strong spirit. Meanwhile, the black color on the horse’s tail represented an imperfection.

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Bolt leaves door open to 2017 sprint double at worlds KINGSTON - Usain Bolt has left the door open to running in both the 100 and 200 metres at next year’s world championships where he said he will be more focused on protecting his legacy than topping his world records.

The Jamaican, who last month drew down the curtain on his Olympic career by securing a sweep of the sprint titles for a third successive Games, said his plan was to only contest the 100m in London but that his coach has other ideas.

“That’s the plan, but I still have to discuss it with my coach,” Bolt told Television Jamaica on Tuesday. “(Glen Mills) still wants me to do the double, but I’ve told him I would really like to just do the 100m, so at the start of the season we’ll decide exactly what (to focus on), but that’s what’s on my mind.”

Bolt has wild card entries for both the 100 and 200 metres at the Aug. 5-13 world championships by virtue of winning both events at last year’s worlds in Beijing.

But Bolt, who set the 100 and 200 world records of 9.58 and 19.19 seconds in 2009, said he is not planning to top either of those times.

“No (world records), it’s all beyond me now, right now it is just for me to go out there and leave with a big bang as much as possible,” said Bolt.

“I just want to go to the world championships, do my best as always and stay on a certain level and that’s the plan.” (rtr)

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Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica looks at Andre De Grasse (CAN) of Canada as they compete.

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In this July 31, 2015, file photo, Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 13th hole during the second round of the Quicken Loans National golf tournament, in Gainesville, Va.

LONDON - Former world number one Martin Kaymer believes back injury victim Tiger Woods can add to his haul of 14 major championship wins as long as he returns to golf with a clean bill of health.

Woods said last week that he hoped to make his comeback at next month’s Safeway Open in California after spending more than a year on the sidelines.

The 40-year-old American has a long-standing ambition to eclipse Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major victories and Kaymer told Reuters in a telephone interview that he would not rule anything out for one of the greatest players of all time.

“At the end of the day it all comes down to Tiger’s health,” the German said. “If he can practice the way he wants to practice, as hard as he wants, then I think he can win any golf tournament in

the world.

“He’s proved it before so I don’t see why he can’t do it again. The competition now is obviously a lot harder but I think it would be very disrespectful to take him out of consideration for winning any tournament in the world.”

Woods, who has undergone multiple back operations, last played competitively at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina in August 2015.

If all goes well at the Safeway Open, the former world number one also plans to feature at the Turkish Airlines Open in November and the Tiger Woods Foundation-run Hero World Challenge in December.

Double major champion Kaymer, who spent eight weeks at the top of the rankings in 2011, said the American must take things step by step. (rtr)

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Brexit not the end of European Union, Juncker says

STRASBOURG - The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, sought on Wednesday to rally support for the European Union, saying the bloc battered by the UK Brexit referendum was not about to break up despite its existential crisis.

In setting out the Commission’s plans for the first time since the UK voted to exit the EU on June 23, Juncker highlighted the British referendum as a warning that the EU faces a battle for survival against nationalism in Europe.

“The European Union doesn’t have enough union,” Juncker told the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “There are splits out there and often fragmentation exists ...

That is leaving scope for galloping populism,” he said.

But he underlined he believed the world’s biggest trade bloc was

still an important force. “The EU as such is not at risk,” he said.

Proof of that, Juncker said, was the success of a new European investment fund that the former Luxembourg premier proposed to double to 630 billion euros ($707 billion) by 2022 to help with a sharp fall in spending since the global financial crisis, helping projects from airports to broadband networks.

“Our European investment fund will provide a total of at least 500 billion of investment by 2020, and will work to reach 630 billion by

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker addresses the European Parliament during a debate on The State of the European Union in Strasbourg, France, September 14, 2016.

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“I have a clear conscience, I am certain not to have made any mistake and will continue to fight this in the courts.”

Ceferin, who has crossed the Sahara desert four times by car and once on a motorbike, was elected president of Slovenia’s football federation in 2011 but was not internationally known until he announced he intended to

stand in June.

“I was never behind the scenes but obviously, as I said, people trust me and nobody behind the scenes can have 42 votes,” he said.

Both candidates campaigned to help UEFA’s middle-sized and smaller members and said it was necessary to close the gap between big and small clubs, although Van Praag was more outspoken in Wednesday’s pre-vote speeches.

“I guarantee you, on my watch I will not allow the clubs to put

2022,” he said. “If with member states contribute we can get there even faster.”

Juncker also wanted to extend the fund to the private sector in Africa to help curb emigration to Europe, starting with a pot of 44 million euros that could also be doubled later on.

An Africa fund was part of Juncker’s efforts to stress a more positive agenda, particularly over the migration crisis that has deeply divided the European Union. He also had veiled criticism of eastern European countries unwilling to take in refugees from North Africa and the Middle East.

“Solidarity must come from the heart. It cannot be forced,” Juncker said.

But the Juncker address offered few clues to the negotiations with London that the EU insists cannot start until Prime Minister Theresa May formally sets starts a two-year countdown to British departure. Juncker urged that to be done quickly. A summit of the 27 EU leaders in Bratislava on Friday is also unlikely to shed much light on the Brexit issue.

Instead, Juncker warned that the remaining EU governments should narrow their differences on addressing many problems facing their economies and societies, although he had no plans for “United States of Europe.” Aides say he believes the divisions are as great as he has known them in three decades at the heart of EU politics.

“What are we instilling in terms of values in our children. Is this a union that has forgotten its past, has no vision for the future? Our children deserve better,” Juncker said, speaking of his father, who fought in World War Two. (rtr) the gun to our head again,” he had said.

“For many years, the million dollar deals have been restricted to the big clubs alone. I believe that top football is played by too few clubs in too few competitions in limited areas.”

After the result, Van Praag added: “Alex and myself have the same goal, look at our programmes. He wanted to do it his way and I wanted to do it my way and today democracy has spoken.”(rtr)

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he departs a campaign rally in Clive, Iowa, U.S., September 13, 2016.

New York attorney general opens probe of Trump Foundation

WASHINGTON - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Tuesday he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation to ensure the Republican presidential nominee’s charity was complying with state laws governing nonprofits.

Schneiderman, a supporter of Trump’s Democratic rival in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton, sued the real estate mogul and his now defunct Trump University for fraud in 2013, seeking $40 million in restitution plus penalties and other costs.

In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Schneiderman said his office had now brought Trump’s charitable foundation under scrutiny.

“My interest in this issue really is in my capacity as regulator of nonprofits in New York state.

And we have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view,” the elected Democratic official said.

He added: “We have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it’s complying with the laws that govern charities in New York.” He did not elaborate on what wrongdoing Trump’s nonprofit might have committed.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed Schneiderman’s assertions as entirely motivated by presidential politics, calling the attorney general a “partisan hack who has turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for

years.”

Cheung called Schneiderman’s comments “nothing more than another left-wing hit job designed to distract” attention from Clinton’s recent missteps on the campaign trail.

Trump has accused Clinton of being corrupted by donors to the Clinton Foundation global charity founded by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, while she was U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton has dismissed Trump’s allegation as a political smear.

There has been no evidence that foreign donors to the foundation obtained favors from the State Department while Clinton headed the agency.

Schneiderman made his remarks when asked on CNN about calls from Democrats in Congress for a federal investigation of a $25,000 donation in 2013 from the Trump Foundation to a political committee supporting Florida’s Republican attorney general, Pam Bondi.

Democrats have cited an Associated Press report that Bondi solicited the donation personally, around the time her office was debating whether to join New York state’s investigation into Trump’s real estate training school in Florida.

According to the AP, Bondi, who was seeking re-election at the time, broke off the lawsuit deliberations after the check arrived.

Bondi, who has endorsed Trump, has called the AP report misleading. (rtr)

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Indonesian Islamic council issues fatwa on forest fires

BUSINESS China August new loans well above expectations on mortgage boom

BEIJING - China’s bank lending in August more than doubled from the previous month, but analysts said much of the gain was due to strong mortgage demand, adding to evidence that Chinese companies are increasingly reluctant to make new investments.

The figures, along with other data this week, paint a picture of an economy that is improving slowly but increasingly reliant on a housing boom and government spending for growth.

Chinese banks extended 948.7 billion yuan ($142.23 billion) in net new yuan loans in August, well above expectations, while broad M2 money supply (M2) also grew by a more-than-expected 11.4 percent from a year earlier, according to central bank data on Wednesday.

New bank lending rebounded sharply from July’s 463.6 billion yuan, which was the lowest in two years, while M2 quickened from July’s 10.2 percent rise, which was the weakest in 15 months.

The central bank has pledged to keep policy slightly loose, but sources say it is reluctant to cut interest rates or bank reserves again in the near term amid evidence that companies and banks are hoarding cash instead of investing it.

“A renewed pick-up in credit growth last month will add to the growing sense among investors that the near-term outlook for China’s economy is fairly bright,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics.

“Credit growth is still likely to slow over coming months as the PBOC refrains from further easing and focuses more on credit risks.

But with recent activity data also strengthening, we expect economic growth to strengthen over the remainder of the year.”

Data on Tuesday showed China’s factory output and retail sales also grew faster than expected in August as a strong housing market and a government infrastructure spending spree underpinned growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

But August readings also highlighted imbalances in the economy, with private investment growth at record lows and exports still

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

An officer assists a tax amnesty participant at a help desk inside the country’s tax headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia September 8, 2016. Picture taken September 8, 2016.

Indonesia captures top militant in new blow to Santoso group

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A staff member is seen at Alibaba Group’s new data centre in Zhangbei, Hebei province, China September 11, 2016. Picture taken September 11, 2016. sluggish.

China’s increasingly dependence on the property market is also a major concern, as more cities impose restrictions on home purchases in the face of sharply rising house prices, threatening to end a near one-year rally.

A sharp price correction would add to strains on banks which are already wrestling with growing numbers of bad loans. Household loans, mostly mortgages, accounted for 71 percent of total new bank loans in August, though they were down from more than 90 percent in July, data showed.

“Mortgage loans remain the major driver of loan growth, based on booming housing market and weak

loan demand from corporates,” David Qu and Raymond Yeung at ANZ said in a note. Outstanding yuan loans grew at 13 percent by month-end on an annual basis.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected new lending of 750 billion yuan, with outstanding loans seen rising 12.9 percent, and money supply seen up 10.4 percent.

“LIQUIDITY TRAP” Total social financing (TSF), a broad measure of credit and liquidity in the economy, jumped to 1.47 trillion yuan in August from 487.9 billion yuan in July. TSF includes off-balance sheet forms of financing that exist outside the conventional bank lending system, such as initial

public offers, loans from trust companies and bond sales.

M1 money supply, which includes cash and short-term deposits, rose 25.3 percent in August from a year earlier. The widening gap between M1 and M2 growth has fuelled concerns about a “liquidity trap” in the economy where companies remain wary of investing regardless of how much stimulus money policymakers pump into the system.

“The rapid growth of M1 money supply indicates corporates’ preference of holding cash rather than investment. This is consistent with the slowing trend in fixed asset investment by the private sector,” ANZ said.

Chester Liaw, an economist at

Forecast Pte Ltd in Singapore, said the spread between M1 and M2 growth narrowed to 13.9 percentage points from 15.2 last month but “remains at elevated levels.”

The PBOC is aiming for annual M2 growth of around 13 percent this year, pointing to continued accommodative policy as Beijing pledges to embark on painful economic restructuring involving state-owned enterprises in key industrial sectors.

Policy insiders have said that evidence companies and banks are hoarding cash, alongside concerns about property market and the yuan’s stability, has reinforced policymakers’ view there is no major benefit in easing policy further.(rtr)

JAKARTA — A senior figure from the East Indonesia Mujahideen militant group has been captured and one of the group’s members killed in a joint operation with the military, Indonesian police said.

The capture of Muhammad Basri on Wednesday is another blow to the militant group, based in the jungles of Central Sulawesi province. The group’s leader, Santoso, who was Indonesia’s most wanted Islamic radical, was killed by security forces in a shootout in July.

Basri was Santoso’s deputy and may have assumed leadership of the group’s dwindling ranks following Santoso’s death. It claims allegiance

to the Islamic State group.

The capacity of Indonesia’s militant groups to carry out deadly attacks has been significantly weakened by a sustained crackdown following the Bali bombings in 2002 that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.

But Indonesians who traveled to Syria to fight with IS have directed and funded attacks from abroad, including a suicide bombing and gun attack in Jakarta in January that killed eight people, including four militants.

National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said the man shot dead Wednesday near Poso Pesisir village in Poso district of Sulawesi was Andika Eka Putra. He said police

and military forces are still searching for the remaining 13 members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen group, including Ali Kalora, who is believed to have a key role.

“We are grateful that Basri, our important target after Santoso, was captured alive,” said National Police Chief Tito Karnavian. “This arrest will improve security in Poso.” Karnavian said that Basri will be flown to Jakarta for further questioning.

About 2,500 security personnel, including elite army troops, intensified operations this year in Poso, a mountainous district of Central Sulawesi province considered an extremist hotbed, to try and capture Santoso and his followers.(ap)

The fatwa is not legally binding but is aimed at discouraging plantation companies and farmers from clearing land using slash-and-burn methods in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

“There was a meeting between the environment minister and the Indonesian Clerics’ Council, which issued fatwa no 30/2016 about forest and land burning law,” said ministry spokesman Novrizal Tahar.

“The point is that an act (of burning) that causes environmental damage, according to (the council) decision, is illegitimate.”

The council was not immediately available for comment and it was unclear why it had waited so long to make the ruling.

Every year, Indonesia faces criticism from its neighbours Singapore and Malaysia over the smog, euphemistically known as “haze”, and its failure to stop the fires from being lit.

Last year’s fires were among the worst in the region’s history, with billions of dollars worth of environmental damage, weeks of flight and school disruptions and thousands suffering from respiratory disease.(rtr)

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Aerial view shows the destruction caused by a forest fire at a palm oil plantation in Rokan Hulu, Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia September 2, 2016. Picture taken September 2, 2016.

Jakarta to build flats for fishermen: Governor

JAKARTA - The local Jakarta government will build flats for fishermen displaced by the reclamation project in North Jakarta, Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, said.

“We are ready to build the flats and a fishing port for the displaced fishermen in North Jakarta,” the Jakarta governor remarked at

the Energy and Mineral Resources building here on Tuesday night. “We will build embankments along the coast and flats for the fishermen,” he added.

Ahok did not specify the number of flats to be built, but said that it would be enough for tens of thousands of fishermen.

“All the flats will be subsidized for the fishermen but we will not sell it to them, because if we do, they may later sell it to someone else,” he said.

Meanwhile, the government has ensured that a total of 12 thousand fishermen in the northern coast of Jakarta will be well taken care of, following the resumption of G

Island reclamation project, Co-ordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan stated.

“There are 12 thousand fishermen and all will be well taken care of. They will get flats, in addition to assistance for their children to remain in school,” Panjaitan said.(ant)

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Tourist visit to Bali imbalanced with massive accommodation development

MANGUPURA - The number of foreign tourist visit to Bali last year reached 4 to 4.5 million. On the other hand, the average hotel occupancy rate in Bali in 2015 only reached about 45 percent.

Ironically, behind the decline in the occupancy rates, the increase in the number of tourist accommodation development on the island still happens, even takes place quite massively. This was stated

by Chairman by of the Indonesia Employers Association (APINDO) of Bali, in Kuta, Panudiana Kuhn, Monday (Sep. 12).

He said that based on the data of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali currently there are 130,000 hotel rooms in Bali. It is just the official number. He added that the unofficial is quite a lot because there are villas, elite boarding houses and homes converted into tourist accommodation.

Amid the many hotel rooms available in Bali, the hotel occupancy rate automatically slumps.

The data of the PHRI also indicate that the average hotel occupancy rate reaches 45 percent, while the performance of 4- and 5-star hotels remains much better, about 55 percent. “The number of rooms available is not balanced with the number of tourist visit to Bali,” he said.

Seeing from the data on the number of rooms available, he estimated that Bali needs 18 million to 20 million domestic and foreign travelers. However, he doubted whether the infrastructure of Bali can accommodate such number of tourist visits. “The problem now is whether the infrastructure in Bali has been adequate. We need infrastructure to support this number of tourist visits. Do not just focus on South Bali,” said Kuhn.

This time, he continued, with the number of tourist visits in the range of 4.5 million people, Bali has been already too crowded. Congestion becomes a regular problem when holiday arrives. “At least, we have to make a toll road that can connect South Bali, North Bali, East Bali and West Bali so that the equalization can happen,” he said.

He realized that currently the provincial government of Bali and the regents and mayor do not have enough funds to overcome the infrastructure issues because the investment reaches trillions of rupiahs. “Maybe this could be an input for the candidate of Bali governor and the regents to find the solution. So, lest the programs offered are always at the level of ideas without any real efforts to overcome the problems of Bali increasingly getting more complex,” said Kuhn. (kmb18)

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Suu Kyi to meet Obama in Washington for first time as Myanmar leader

WASHINGTON - Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Barack Obama on Wednesday in her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader.

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Visitors heading for Nusa Penida did not only enjoy the beach and nature, but also performed spiritual tourism by visiting a number of temples.

Long holiday, Nusa Penida visited by many travelers

SEMARAPURA - Long holidays from Galungan to Eid alAdha made Nusa Penida visited by numerous domestic travelers. This also caused the surge of passengers that will cross to Nusa Penida. Visitors heading for Nusa Penida did not only enjoy the beach and nature, but also performed spiritual tourism by visiting a number of temples.

The number of foreign tourist visit to Bali last year reached 4 to 4.5 million.

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The attendant of Tribuana crossing office at Kusamba, Ni Made Desi Ernawati, said that the surge in passengers occurred due to the Galungan and Eid al-Adha holiday.

Most passengers crossing through the traditional harbor took advantage of the moment to visit places of interest in Nusa Penida. To anticipate the surge in passengers, the operators of crossing services also increased their trip from typically three times to seven times. “Passengers are crowded due to holidays,” she explained.

A tour guide at Nusa Lembongan, Wayan Bagiayasa, expressed there is a surge of visitors as seen at a number of tour-

ist attractions. They were mostly domestic travelers wishing to enjoy the charm of the Devil’s Tear water blow. At the location, visitors can see the attraction of water vapor from a cliff knocked down by waves.

One of the visitors, Dewa Ayu Yusadi, claimed to have visited the interesting and challenging place on Atuh Beach. “In short, the location is quite amazing, so that it is not disappointing when making a visit to Nusa Penida,” she said.

In the meantime, the Nusa Gede Island is mostly visited by Balinese people wishing to perform pilgrimage to sad kahyangan temple like the Puncak Mundi, Goa Giri Putri

and Penataran Ped. Paluang Temple having car-shaped shrine is also thronged by pilgrims. Indeed the Nusa Gede has been well known as a destination of spiritual tourism so that many pilgrims are flocking to visit Nusa Penida.

The no less interesting destinations are the Crystal Bay, Pasih Uug, Angel’s Billabong and Atuh Beach that must be visited when traveling to Nusa Penida.

Moreover, the emergence of new tourist attraction like the Malibu Sunrise Beach at Semaya hamlet has increased the number of tourist attraction in Nusa Penida. Now, the government of Klungkung is developing spiritual tourism and marine tourism into the potential of Nusa Penida. In addition to promoting it by organizing the Nusa Penida Festival, the government of Klungkung also constantly works to improve road access to smooth the traffic. (dwa)

With Suu Kyi no longer an opposition figure, the United States is weighing a further easing of sanctions against Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, as Obama looks to normalize relations with a country Washington shunned when it was ruled by a military junta.

Suu Kyi is also expected to meet with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and senior members of Congress.

“Before it was very much encouraging her (Suu Kyi) and supporting her in her role as someone pushing for increased democracy. Now they (U.S. officials) are meeting someone in charge of the government,” said Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asia expert at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Obama is expected to consult with Suu Kyi on whether to further ease U.S. sanctions to help investment and democratic transition in her country, the White House said.

The United States eased some sanctions against Myanmar earlier this year to support political reform but maintained most of its economic restrictions with an eye toward penalizing those it views as hampering the democratically elected government.

The military stepped back from direct control of the country in 2011 after 49 years in power, but maintains a commanding role in politics, controlling 25 percent of seats in parliament and leading three key ministries.

Suu Kyi is barred from being president under the military-drafted constitution because her sons are not Myanmar citizens. She serves instead as the country’s de facto leader by holding the positions of foreign minister and state counselor. She faces the challenge of guiding Myanmar’s relationship with the United States and neighboring power China, which enjoyed a preferential relationship with the military government. (rtr)

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Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the ASEAN-India Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 8, 2016.

Australia’s far-right leader denounces China investment in comeback speech

SYDNEY - Pauline Hanson, founder of Australia’s far-right One Nation party, used her first speech in parliament in almost two decades on Wednesday to denounce Chinese ownership of assets and warn that the country is in danger of “being swamped

by Muslims”.

Hanson is one of four One Nation senators elected in a July 2 general election, creating an important voting bloc when the two main parties - the governing centreright coalition and opposition Labour party - disagree on legislation.

“Any foreign ownership is regrettable, but why are we allowing the Chinese government, an oppressive communist regime ,to own our assets?” Hanson said in the Senate.

“Why are we allowing our ports, utilities, services, agricultural land and industries to be acquired by foreigners of any nationality? Our land and assets are not for sale.”

Australia’s relations with its biggest trading partner are already on edge after Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked Chinese and Hong Kong bids for major energy grid Ausgrid on unspecified security grounds soon after stopping the sale of cattle AAP/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS company Kidman & Co to a China-led Australia’s One Nation party leader Senator Pauline Hanson makes her maiden consortium.

In response, China accused Australia of speech in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, September 14, being protectionist.

2016.

Helen Sawczak, chief executive of the Australia China Business Council, told Reuters after the speech that there had been a “few speed bumps” in relations with China and the focus needed to shift to the opportunities Asia provided Australian business.

Hanson’s speech was delivered 20 years after she first entered parliament and gained international notoriety by warning that Australia was being “swamped by Asians”.

Her political fortunes soured within a couple of years of that 1996 speech.

But she won significant support in this year’s election with a high-profile campaign that included a call to ban new mosques and Muslim immigration and implement protectionist trade policies.

“Civil tension is on the rise across the country led by Australians feeling the impact of Islam in their lives and distaste for their beliefs,” she said on Wednesday.

Some lawmakers walked out during the speech in protest.

Hanson’s anti-Islam stance has gained some traction, and sparked tension in race relations.

Veteran political analyst David Black said the same protectionist sentiment that help unseat former British Prime Minister David Cameron and lift up Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump had come to Australia. (rtr)

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About 200 Zika cases recorded in Thailand - ministry

BANGKOK - Thailand has recorded about 200 cases of Zika since January, the health ministry said on Tuesday, making it a country with one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases in the region.

It was the first time Thailand’s health ministry has confirmed the

number of Zika cases this year.

The announcement comes a

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A city worker fumigates the area to control the spread of mosquitoes at a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, September 14, 2016.

day after health experts called on Thailand to be more transparent in reporting the Zika threat to the public after health officials played down risks from rising infections of the mosquito-borne virus.

Health officials have expressed concern that disclosing information on Zika, which is linked to serious birth defects, would damage Thailand’s lucrative tourism industry.

“Since January, we have recorded about 200 cases and over the past three weeks, we have confirmed an average of 20 new cases per week,” Ministry of Public Health spokesman Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai told Reuters.

“The number of cases is stable,” he said, without giving further details.

Island city-state Singapore reported its first locally infected Zika patient on Aug. 27 and since then, the number of reported infections has soared to more than 300.

Malaysia and the Philippines have also reported cases.

The virus, which is affecting large parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been circulating in Asia for years.

The lineage of the virus circulating in Asia is different to the one in the Americas, researchers say.

The level of population immunity to the lineage of Zika in Asia remains unknown, according to the World Health Organization.

Suwannachai urged the public not to panic and reiterated a message aimed at reassuring tourists.

“People shouldn’t be scared to visit provinces affected by the Zika virus,” Suwannachai said.

Provincial and central govt urged to promptly intervene

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly - a severe birth defect in which the head and brain are undersized - as well as other brain abnormalities.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last year in Brazil, which has since confirmed more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly.

Thailand has found no cases of microcephaly linked to Zika and it is monitoring about two dozen pregnant woman and about six who have given birth with no complications, the health ministry said. (rtr)

sex, presenting sex as a problem to be solved rather than acknowledging pleasure and desire. Women were often depicted as passive, men as predatory and there was little or no discussion of gay, bisexual or transgender sex.

Many programs did not address the availability of community health services, what young people should do if they got pregnant, the pros and cons of different methods of contraception or the emotions that might accompany sexual relationships, according to the study results reported in BMJ Open.

There is evidence from other studies that sex education varies by school, but in this study student responses were generally consistent even in different countries, Pound told Reuters Health by email.

“Young people’s feedback indicates that when sex education is negative, heterosexist - or in any other way seems irrelevant to their experiences, or judgmental - they switch off,” she said. “If young people aren’t engaged with their sex and relationship education then valuable opportunities for learning and discussion are lost.”

Properly training and assigning sex educators would help address at least some of the gaps in sex education, she said.

“The content of (sex and relationship) programs needs to be improved, but in addition these programs need to be delivered by trained experts who enjoy and are confident about their work, and crucially - are able to maintain clear boundaries with students,” Pound said. (rtr)

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Handling issues of Lake Batur

BANGLI - As a source of livelihood for the majority of Balinese people, condition of Lake Batur is adequately alarming. The silting up to water quality deterioration is inevitable.

Handling measures have been taken by district government.

However, it could not resolve all the problems. In order that condition of the largest lake in Bali is not even ‘more critical’ provincial and central governments are urged to immediately intervene.

Students often find school sex education negative and out of touch

LONDON - Many students say the sex and relationship education in their schools can be negative and “heterosexist,” and the way teachers approach the subject is ineffective, according to a review of international research.

“What is surprising is the consistency of the findings across different countries and over the 25 years that the study spans,” said lead author Pandora Pound of the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol in the U.K. The researchers reviewed 48 studies of students, young adults or adults age 25 and younger recalling their experiences of school-based sex and relationship education.

They included studies conducted between 1990 and 2015 in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Iran, Brazil and Sweden.

In general, people recalled their schools as reluctant to acknowledge that sex is potentially embarrassing, instead treating it like any other subject. Young people said the lessons made them feel vulnerable, with young men afraid to appear inexperienced and young women risking sexual harassment if they participated.

Schools often did not accept that students were already sexually active, according to some students.

Having their teachers deliver information about sex blurred boundaries in their relationships, they said, and some teachers seemed embarrassed or poorly trained.

Some young people criticized the overly scientific approach to

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Alas Kedaton

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Want to raise ticket price

Management of Alas Kedaton waits for regulatory certainty

TABANAN - Admission ticket price hike to Tanah Lot tourist attraction ascertained to apply starting from October 1 seems to be followed by Alas Kedaton tourist attraction. However, the management itself still requires coordination on certain regulation regarding who has the authority to raise the ticket price.

Operations Manager of Alas Kedaton tourist attraction, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Puja Yasa, said on Monday (Sep. 12) that the management gets information if the ticket price hike can be carried out by the management. “However, this still needs a further cross-check. If there are supporting rules, of course the price hike will be discussed,” he said.

According to Puja Yasa, the current ticket price has not been increased since ten years ago where foreign adult traveler is charged at IDR 15,000 and IDR 10,000 for domestic. With these prices, the profit obtained by the management is not so much as it should be deducted with operating cost for animal care and forest maintenance as well as

the salaries of employees.

Puja Yasa said that forest maintenance indeed does not need high costs. But the highest cost is allocated for maintenance of monkey whose population reaches approximately 1,000 heads. Every week, the management has to buy two tons of sweet potatoes to feed the monkeys. “At 10:00 in the morning, we feed them with sweet potato and supplementary food in the form of grain and corn at early evening when coinciding with harvest time.

There are also refreshment in the form grass and bread,” he said.

However, with the current ticket price the management can still manage the expenditure and can get income to be distributed according to percentage. Preservation of forest posing the animal habitat such as monkeys and flying foxes, according to him, can be well maintained due to the presence of awig-awig or customary bylaw. “From long time ago, the forest area never reduces because the bylaw does not allow cutting trees in the forest areas,” said Puja Yasa. (kmb24)

Secretary of the Bangli Environment Agency (BLH), I Made Kawen, explained that silting in Lake Batur is not only caused by silt sourced from farming activities in the surrounding areas. The use of fish feed seeming uncontrollable is also capable of being one of the triggers. This condition is exacerbated by the presence of water hyacinth and weeds. Another issue that is also very difficult to be resolved is the degradation of water quality. It happens due to the contamination by domestic waste and the agricultural sector in the form of pesticides.

“Indeed the quality of water shows a decline. However, it remains on the threshold of toler-

ance,” he explained, Tuesday (Sep. 13).

Rescue effort for the lake supporting of the geopark has been carried out by district government.

Due to budget constraints, the program can be done is merely cleansing the hyacinth, plastic waste and weeds. This measure has already involved the local community and relevant agencies. In the meantime, to minimize waste disposal, public education has been continued.

Likewise, the procurement of floating net is requested not to be widespread. “Cleaning up of the rubbish and others are often made and so does the dissemination on the activity. Unfortunately, some people still do not understand about

the significance of the lake,” said Kawen.

Indeed, the management authority of Lake Batur lies in the hands of provincial and central government.

However, there are no enough budgets to handle the problem.

Previously, it has been rumored that the lake adjacent to the Mount Batur is one of the fifteen lakes in Indonesia included in the rescue program. In reality, there was no follow-up. “Formerly, it has been included in the program of central government. But so far, there has been no continuity,” he said.

He affirmed if the provincial and central government seriously resolve the issue, they should immediately intervene by designing a handling program. If it is fully relying on local government, the budget definitely becomes an obstacle.

“The ability of local government finance is not so great. So, the rescue of the lake, especially the silting needs to get a touch from provincial and central government,” he said. (kmb45)

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Condition of Lake Batur is adequately alarming. The silting up to water quality deterioration is inevitable.

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

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Nevertheless, added Yuniartha, his office does not preclude the other input, especially the branding that has a strong foundation or argument. The new branding will be used to replace the unpopular old branding ‘Shanti, Shanti, Shanti’.

“We target to have a branding this year,” he added. According to Yuniartha, the presence of branding is also related to tourism promotion activities. All this time, the tourism promotion of Bali is helped by the Ministry of Tourism. Moreover, the tourism promotion activities are just budgeted at IDR 600 million. The budget is mostly used for promotion in the country like to Bandung and Surabaya as well as some ASEAN countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.

“The rest is helped by the Min-

istry of Tourism like the direct promotion in Shanghai (China) and Berlin (Germany) and on some televisions around the world. So, the ministry does not dare leave Bali. Promotion of the ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ overseas entirely uses the pictures of Bali. Like a kite, the body is Bali, while the tail is other regions,” he explained.

In the meantime, a member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, Tjok Asmara Putra Sukawati, said that tourism branding of Bali in the future should prioritize local genius as well as customs and culture of Bali. Something taken advantage into the branding should make travelers immediately understand that it means for Bali.

“It needs to be sought and made.

A nice branding is not just a slogan and sounds interesting but it does not mean anything to do with our customs and culture,” he said. On

the other hand, Tjok Asmara admitted that Bali has been already very well known throughout the world.

But innovation and promotion must still be done. Indeed the promotion does not have immediate impact, but it will show the results in the next five to ten years.

“For instance, it has been performed by my grandfather pioneering the Bali tourism, Tjok Gede Raka Sukawati. At that time, Bali did not rely on tourism but he always promoted Bali or Ubud to foreign guests so that they got to know about our customs and culture, so that Bali has attained the current condition,” he added.

Tjok Asmara emphasized that Bali tourism should still refer to the customs and cultures. These two elements have made Bali different and special when compared to other tourist destinations in the country. (kmb32)

The tourists are enjoying the view of Tamblingan Lake

MANGPURA - The rain flushing Badung and surrounding areas on Tuesday (Sep. 13) caused the heap of rubbish at the estuary of Tukad Mati in the area of Pata Sari. The debris predominantly consisting of plastic bottles and styrofoam also causes odor.

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Estuary of Tukad Mati flooded with debris

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The Division Head of Irrigation at the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency (BMP), A.A. Gede Dalem, admitted to frequently find debris after heavy rain. “Indeed, when it rains, the debris will occupy the estuary of Tukad Mati. We usually clean it up when the rain has stopped,” he said.

Local government, said Gung Dalem, has attempted to banish the debris in the upstream of Tukad Mati by replacing the trash rack on the Jalan Sunset Road. This project is estimated to be operated in next December.

“We are building a trash rack in the bridge of Jalan Sunset Road located in the upstream of Tukad Mati. When this device has been already installed, at least the rubbish from the upstream area can be captured there,” he said.

The device working automatically ranging from filtration, extraction, and transportation of the rubbish to the dump truck is carried out by machine in the process of construction. “This project is under construction and has reached 50 percent of completion. The components are still being made in the factory,” he said.

Related to waste management at downstream area of Tukad Mati estuary, Gung Dalem said it is still being done manually by using amphibians. “We clean up the rubbish at downstream area with the existing device namely amphibians. However, there is small possibility for people to throw rubbish in the downstream area because in the surrounding areas sit some villa buildings,” he said.

According to him, the construction of trash rack at the downstream area of Tukad Mati is likely to be carried out after the central government continues the development of long storage. “Maybe after the long storage is resumed by central government, the trash rack can be built in the downstream,” he said while adding that the total budget prepared by the BMP Badung for the construction of trash rack rotary reaches IDR 16 billion more. (kmb27)

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Thursday, September 15, 2016 Actor Ryan Gosling greets fans as he arrives on the red carpet for the film “La La Land” during the 41st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), in Toronto, Canada, September 12, 2016.

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Gosling, Stone spin modern twist on old Hollywood in ‘La La Land’

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TORONTO - While intense dramas and true life stories have dominated this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a vibrant love story inspired by the golden age of Hollywood musicals has found a warm welcome.

“La La Land,” a musical contemporary tale of star-crossed lovers chasing their dreams in Hollywood and starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, received a standing ovation at its premiere Tuesday night.

“It’s a great story and they’re great engaging characters and the music kind of aids in that,” Gosling, who plays a tortured jazz pianist, told Reuters on the red carpet. He added that he didn’t think viewers had to like musicals to enjoy the

film.

Stone, who plays an aspiring actress, said “I learned to tap and ballroom dance and sing live on camera, which was pretty insane.”

“La La Land” is the second feature film from writer-director Damien Chazelle, 31. His first film “Whiplash,” an intense study of a jazz drummer’s quest to perfection, won three Oscars.

“I love the old Hollywood musicals, as you can see, but I really have

a fondness for the French answers to those musicals,” Chazelle told the audience and a short question-andanswer session after the screening.

“I wanted to do a musical, but really ground it in real life and invest it with stuff that felt messier and real,” Chazelle said.

“La La Land” has already been drumming up awards buzz. Critics have praised the performances and the intricate, colorful, love letter to a bygone era of movies.

The film follows the two leads as their lives converge in poetic chaos while they try to make their respective dreams come true, even as they fall in love. (rtr)

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DENPASAR - Branding of Bali tourism is still being discussed. Bali Tourism Office continues to seek input from tourism, cultural, academic and community stakeholders. Actually the office wanted to just use the name of ‘Bali’ for the branding of tourism on the Island of the Gods because the name of Bali has been already very, very well known in the world.

“Bali has become a branding and it is not need to be added with other words. If we make ‘Peaceful Bali, but when an unrest explodes, who will be responsible for it? Or ‘Bali the Island of Paradise’ but there is a lot of garbage or traffic jams, can it be called a paradise?” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar.

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Newly elected UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin (front) leaves after a news conference following his election in Athens, Greece September 14, 2016.

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New UEFA chief Ceferin promises to stand up to big clubs

ATHENS - Aleksander Ceferin, a little-known Slovenian soccer official, was elected as the head of European soccer’s governing body UEFA on Wednesday and promised to stand up to the big clubs.

The 48-year-old will replace disgraced Frenchman Michel Platini after comfortably beating experienced Dutch football administrator Michael van Praag by 42 votes to 13. “I am not a showman, I have no ego issues and I am not a man of unrealistic promises,” said Ceferin after the poll amongst Europe’s 55 national football associations.

“My small and beautiful Slovenia is very proud about it and I hope

that one day you will also be very proud about it.”

Ceferin said his first task would be tackling widespread dissatisfaction at controversial changes to the Champions League agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association, which has 220 members from 53 FAs, in favour of the big clubs.

UEFA increased the number of places allocated to clubs from Spain, England, Germany and Italy

in the lucrative group stage and cut the slots for the smaller countries.

The move came amid threats that the big clubs could form a breakaway Super League.

“Whether I want it or not, I will have to deal with that and that will be the first thing to deal with,” Ceferin told reporters.

“UEFA is a very good and very strong organisation, it was without leadership for some time and I think that in a way was a problem in dealing with those things.

“We should show we are the ones who are the governing body with our 55 national associations, and at the same time we have to have

dialogue with the clubs and I think the situation can be solved.”

PLATINI ADDRESS Former France international Platini had governed UEFA since 2007 and been re-elected twice until he was banned by FIFA’s ethics committee last October for ethics violations. He finally announced his resignation in May after exhausting all possibilities of appeal within the sporting tribunal system, allowing UEFA to call Wednesday’s election.

Despite his four-year ban, Platini was given permission by FIFA’s ethics committee to address

the Congress as a “gesture of humanity”, and made a seven-minute speech. “Thank you for these nine years. I think we did a great job...

Friends of football, farewell,” said Platini, who was given a round of applause but not a standing ovation.

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