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NEW YORK - Former England soccer captain David Beckham said he was surprised and proud that his 11-yearold son, Cruz, had taken it upon himself to raise money for charity by releasing a Christmas single.

Cruz Beckham followed in the musical footsteps of his mum, fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria, by releasing “If Everyday Was Christmas” last week, with all proceeds from the single going to British children’s charity, Make Some Noise.

“He’s been listening to his dad and his mum and saying how important it is to help others,” David Beckham, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ambassador, said in New York on Monday at a 70th anniversary celebration for the charity.

“I was quite amazed by that because he’s 11 years old and to realise how important it is to give back at that age is something special.”

David Beckham was joined at the UNICEF celebration, held at the United Nations headquarters, by actors Jackie Chan, Orlando Bloom and Priyanka Chopra. (rtr) David Beckham attends the UNICEF 70th anniversary event at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 12, 2016.

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Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as “Ahok”, sits on the defendant’s chair at the start of his trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.

Indonesia transfixed as tearful Jakarta governor appears at blasphemy trial

JAKARTA - A tearful governor of Jakarta denied on Tuesday he had intended to insult the Koran at the start of his blasphemy trial in the Indonesian capital, which is seen as a test of religious freedom in the world largest Muslim-majority nation. Around 100 Muslim protesters calling for the jailing of Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, chanted “God is great” outside the court.

Authorities have pledged tight security for the trial after tens of thousands of Muslims, led by hardliners, took to the streets in December and November, to call for Purnama’s arrest and to urge voters not to re-elect him in February. The rallies, with over 150,000 participants each, were the biggest Jakarta has seen in nearly two decades.

Purnama told the court that he had not intended any insult when he made comments about his opponents’ use of the Koran in political campaigning. He denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the remarks. “It is clear what I said in the Thousand Islands was not intended to interpret the (Koran), let alone to insult Islam or the ulema,”

said the governor, who was dressed in a batik shirt.

Purnama said that his comments were targeted at rival politicians trying to get an unfair advantage in the election by saying that voters should not support a non-Muslim.

Purnama is running for re-election against two Muslim candidates.

The trial was aired live on television and there were also supporters of the governor, whose nickname is Ahok, outside the court. “He is absolutely suited to be governor. The city has come a long way in terms of development...,” said Charles Simanjuntak, 46, a supporter of the governor who does not believe he committed blasphemy. Among the protesters opposed to the governor,

one group held a placard reading “Jailing Ahok = fair government” President Joko Widodo, seen as an ally to Purnama, has blamed “political actors” for fuelling the protests, but declined to elaborate.

Widodo has faced widespread criticism for not doing enough to protect the country’s religious minorities.

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Human resource issues remain toughest challenge

Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) for 2011 indicates that 10, 528 households were clasified as pour. Verification based on village meetings in 2015, placed this number at 11,055 households consisting of 36, 821 people. This represents a 0.92 percent of poverty over 4 years. This reality is a challenge that the district givernment needs to resolve. In the mid-term development plan (RPJMD) they aim to reduce the poverty rate to 3.5 percent between 2016 and 2021, said Sedana Arta before the headmen from throughout Bangli.

The Deputy Regent explained that the alleviation of poverty is still hampered by the same classic and difficult problem of human ressource skills. The is still a relatively large number of people who marry young and bad habits such as gambling, smoking and overconsumption are increasingly problematic as well. “The solution to these issues requires a crosssectoral approach. The district and

The picture of poverty in Bali

village governments must work together and people need to become more educated”, he said.

In order to alleviate poverty, continued this PDI-P politician, the people concerned must be commitment to working hard. One way to increase people’s income is to develop the non-formal employment sectors such an agriculture, which shows a lot of potential. Unforntunately many people still consider farming hard work and not worth pursuing. “IN reality, farming can provide a larger income that the district’s minimum wage”, said Arta.

Village governments are also beeing asked to be serious about collecting date related to poverty rates. Such data collection should be done accurately and honestly in accordance with the fourteen criteria that have been laid out.

Likewise, relief funds should be shared evenly by everyone in the community. “I have received information to the effect that several villages that received aid for the

pour, divided the funds equally amongst all the members of the community. This must not happen again. Such aid is meant for those who are suffering from poverty and must not be tampered with and political interests should be set aside. Data on poverty must be real”, he added.

Meanwhile, Head of the Bangli Social and Manpower Agency, I Nengah Sukarta, said that poverty in Bangli remains entrenched and inter-generational and that related to government aid, a number of people claimed to be poor in order to receive aid. “ In fact these people belong to well-to-do families and just claimed to be poor so they cold receive the aid money.. Such conditions must be closely observed by the village governments before they submit data to the district givernment”, he said.

Poverty alleviation efforts this year include the disbursement of funds for the the construction of 287 houses, 37 house refurbishments, and joint rural venture funds (KUBE) to 20 groups. “House construction are paid for with the assistance of the district and provincial government as well as CSR funds. Addition units will be worked on next year”, he concluded. (kmb45)

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The lime maker is working.

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Lime makers at Nyalian dissapearing over time

LIME or what the Balinese call pamor that is used for betel nut chewing was once a leading craft product made by residents in Nyalian hamlet, in Kawan, Bangli.

In fact Nyalian hmalet was once known as pepamoran or limeproducing hamlet as there were so many people here that produced this lime.

However, in harmony with the development of time and the reduction in the number of people who take part in the tradition of chewing betel leaf, has left the pepamoran hamlet nothing more than a name.

Over the past twenty years, nearly eveyone has abandoned this craft.

Wayan Dana is now the only surviving lime craftsman in Nyalian hamlet. Already in his seventies, he still continues to produce line that he sells to the traditinoal markets in Bangli, including Kidul Market.

When met at his home on Tuesday (Dec. 13), Dana said thatha been passed down in his family since the time of his great-grandfather. Formerly, the lime business was pursued by almost all residents at Nyalian hamlet who sold their product to traditiona markets in all the subdisticts. “Since so many people were producing lime in our hamlet, it was nicknamed pepamoran hamlet”, he said.

Dana added that in keeping with the decline in the betel nut chewing that started to seriously caused declines in demand to start around 1995, lime making in Nyalian also declined. “Now, people only buy lime for ritual oblations. Apparently the need for chewing betel nut has become quite rare”, he said.

This man who also dedicates himself as a priest for the Prajapati temple said that due to diminishing demands for lime, he only processes raw material limestone into about 25 kilograms of chewable lime per day. He still buys his raw lime from Perasi in Karangase, for about IDR 60,000 per 25kg sac.

To make lime from lime powder, explained Dana, requires several stages including solaking and filtration. The sediment generated by the soaking of lime powder is then molded into lime that is ready to be packaged for sale. “One 25kg bag of limestone is processed into about hald that amount, because there is a lot of sand in the limestone powder that is purchased”, he said.

Today, although the demand for lime has diminished, Dana said that he will continue this heritage business. “Rather than sitting idle at home, I prefer to make and sell lime, even though I only sell a few”, he added. (kmb40)

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Many people don’t know what makes smoking dangerous

NORTH CAROLINA - Most Americans don’t grasp that the chemicals produced by burning a cigarette are more harmful than the manufacturer’s additives that cigarette also contains, and many mistakenly believe filters can protect them from breathing toxic fumes, a recent study suggests.

“We already knew that many people, especially smokers, think smoking might be dangerous for other people but not for themselves,” said lead study author Dr. Noel Brewer, a public health researcher at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

“All cigarettes create smoke that has toxic and deadly chemicals,” Dr. Brewer added by email. “Additives don’t change tobacco smoke and make it dangerous -- tobacco is inherently dangerous.”

To see how the general public perceives the harms associated with smoking, researchers examined data from three surveys done online and by phone that included a total of more than 9,000 adults and 1,000 teens.

Among other things, respon-

dents were asked if they had ever heard of 24 different chemicals found in tobacco smoke; how harmful they considered them to be; and how much the presence of a particular substance would prompt them to quit smoking.

Among adults, 61% surveyed by phone and 72% quizzed online mistakenly thought most of the toxins in cigarettes came from chemicals added by manufacturers to enhance the flavor or performance of the products, the study found.

Just 31% of adults contacted by phone and 24% surveyed online correctly believed harmful toxins in smoke come from the act of burning a cigarette or even tobacco alone, researchers report December 6 in Tobacco Control.

Smokers were more likely to have the facts wrong than nonsmokers.

Teens were evenly split on the perceived source of harmful substances, with 43% opting for additives and 46% for the burning of the cigarette itself. For adolescents, there wasn’t much difference in their perceptions based on whether or not they actually smoked themselves.

Up to about one in three adults and roughly one in four teens also wrongly believed that filters successfully trap harmful chemicals from cigarette smoke. Once again, this belief tended to be more common among the smokers.

Nearly all of the survey participants had heard of nicotine, and many of them were familiar with carbon monoxide. A small proportion also said they were aware of toxins in cigarette smoke such as ammonia, arsenic and formaldehyde. (rtr)

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Beyond prediction

Participant of Literary Festival exceeds target

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The at-home treatment scores for depression were not as good at three months, but by six months they were similar to the scores of the group treated in the clinic.

Telemedicine for PTSD no less effective than in-person therapy

SOUTH CAROLINA - Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who have difficulties making it to in-person therapy sessions may be able to get treatment that’s just as good by videoconference.

Researchers compared homedelivered prolonged exposure therapy – which helps patients confront memories and situations that trigger their symptoms – to the same treatment given in U.S. Veterans Affairs clinics, and found no difference in effectiveness.

“The best treatment for PTSD, with the most empirical support, can be delivered at no loss of effectiveness, directly into a veteran’s home, rather than having the veteran come into clinic,” lead study author Ron Acierno told Reuters Health by email.

“We can now save the travel time and bring the treatment right to them” if a veteran lives too far away to attend 12 to 15 weekly sessions, can’t take off work or feels stigmatized coming into the clinic, said Acierno, a psychologist and researcher with the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

For the study, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, Acierno and colleagues recruited 132 veterans who had been diagnosed with PTSD, 127 of them men.

All the participants were assessed with standard PTSD scales designed to measure symptom severity and depression. They were then randomly assigned to two groups – each would receive 10 to 12 prolonged exposure therapy sessions, but one group would attend sessions at a VA medical center while the other would have sessions at home by video conference.

The participants who got treatment at home were provided with videoconferencing software to use on their own computers, tablets or smartphones. Videophones or tablets were provided to participants who didn’t own the proper equipment.

The researchers repeated the PTSD scales after three months of treatment and again three months later. They found that at both time points, the vets who were treated at home showed similar improvements in PTSD symptom severity as those treated in the clinic.

The at-home treatment scores for depression were not as good at three months, but by six months they were similar to the scores of the group treated in the clinic.

“Our effects with PTSD were just as good in person vs. home based telehealth,” Acierno said, “however, people doing the treatment via home-based telehealth did report more difficulty.”

About 33 percent of the at-home group did not complete the program compared to 19 percent of the clinic group.

Acierno said participants who dropped out reported difficulties such as feeling worried about losing control during exposures, the feeling they couldn’t tolerate assignments to go out in public and that imagined exposures made them feel bad.

Acierno said he and his collaborator Dr. Melba Hernandez-Tejada are exploring the idea of pairing peers who have been through prolonged exposure therapy and no longer meet criteria for PTSD with veterans currently receiving the treatment via telehealth to help them through the difficult parts of the therapy. (rtr)

BANGLI - Festival Nyastra or Literary Festival held by the association of Balinese language extension of Bangli on Sunday (Dec. 11) was enthusiastically attended by elementary school students who participated in learning to write Balinese letters. The number of participants was greate than the number targetted by the organising committee.

Chairman of the festival committee, I Dewa Made Sukartika, said that according to the initial plan, they aimed to have about 900 people participate in the literary activities that took place on the Bangli campus of the IHDN Denpasar. Unexpectedly, a total of 1,080 students form 156 differtn elementary schools took part.

“In fact, the number of participant is beyond our prediction. It is booming”, said Sukartika. He admitted that committee was a little overwhelmed as they did not have the facilities ot accommodate eveyone, especially because teachers and parents were also eager to watch their children take part in the festival.

“In response to the large turnout, the meeting hall and the lecture hall were also used to accommodate everyone”, he said.

Despite the large number of participants, busgetary constraints reamin an issue and Sukartika said that he hopes that the distorct and provincial govenrment will assiste in futur events. “For this activity, each language extension officer is obliged to donate. But this only provides limited funds, we hope the government can provide more supports”. he added.

Meanwhile, Balinese language extension officer coordinator of Bangli, Ni Ketut Sudastrini, said that the massive turn-out was proof that the younger generation is interested in preserving the Balinese language, script and literatuer as important parts of their culture. “It shows that children sare very much onterested in learning about Balinese culture”, she said.

Before participating in the festival, this woman from Sidembunut hamlet, Cempaga, Bangli, said that all the students had joined in study groups in their own villages. “There was no contest, all participants received a certificate. They were still very interested in participating.”, she added.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, during opening the festival said that Balinese language, script and literature are an important part of Balinese culture. On that account, there should be measures taken to preservepreservation measures hsould be taken, one of which is this festival. “It is deeply rooted in Balinese culture.

Everyone has a duty to preserve it”, he said.

When asked about government support for future implementation, he said that it is difficult to provide financial support because the district government has quite a lot of activities. “It is difficult to chance the budget because it has already been diceided on. Probably, the festival can be coupled with other activities held by the district government, such as the district anniversary. The extension officer can open a stand during the event” he concluded. (kmb45)

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The number of participants was greate than the number targetted by the organising committee.

After receiving verdict of Supreme Court

Agustay asks about Margriet’s verdict and ready for 10-year penalty DENPASAR - The judges of Supreme Court chaired by Dr. H. Andi Samsan Nganro with judge members consisting of H. Eddy Army and Dr. H. Margono who examined the cassation of murder case of Engeline already made a decision. In essence, the judges rejected the appeal of Agustay Hamda May and Margriet CH Megawe, so they will remain to be punished pursuant to the verdict of the Denpasar District Court.

As confirmed on Monday (Dec. 12), the legal counsel of Agustay Hamda May, Haposan Sihombing,

admitted that he had coordinated with Agustay. “He had asked about the verdict of Supreme Court for Margriet. I told him that it remains a sentence for life,” affirmed Haposan.

On hearing the explanation, Agustay who was asked about his comment on the verdict of Supreme Court did not give a lot of comments. “He just said that he is ready to undergo the 10 years in prison,” said Haposan.

Does it mean that he will submit a judicial review? Haposan said no. He continued there is no new

evidence owned by Agustay. In addition, Haposan already made coordination with his senior, Hotman Paris Hutapea, who is also the legal counsel of Agustay. Thus, the murder case of Engeline with the defendant Agustay will have a permanent legal force. On the other hand, Agustay said that he was so grateful to Haposan Sihombing and his team for being persistent in defending him up to the level of appeal without being paid a penny.

In the meantime, the party of Margriet could not be confirmed re-

garding the verdict of the Supreme Court, whether she will submit a judicial review or other measures.

As reported earlier, the attempt to be free from the bondage of the law carried out by Margriet CH Megawe over the murder of Engeline with cassation has failed. The judges of Supreme Court rejected the cassation of the convicted person and it is precisely upheld the verdict of District Court and High Court. With the verdict, Margriet is still sentenced to life. Likewise, Supreme Court judges also rejected the cassation of Agustay and he was

sentenced to 10 years in prison. The verdict was received by Denpasar District Court that has judged since the beginning of this case.

The verdict was made on October 26, 2016 for the convicted Agustay. The judge examining the cassation file was chaired by Dr. H. Andi Samsan Nganro together with judges H. Eddy Army and Dr. H. Margono. It is the verdict of these judges that rejected the cassation of first cassation applicant (prosecutor) and rejected the cassation of the second applicant (Agustay Handa May). (kmb37)

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Parking crackdown, car towed and padlocked

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DENPASAR - The Denpasar Transportation Agency held a disciplining operation against vehicles on Tuesday (Dec. 13) along Jalan Kamboja in Denpasar.

A joint venture team consisting of police and military padlocked three carsand another was towed away for having parked illegally.

Six other cars were given warnings with violation stickers affixed to theier windshields, and several others were ticketed for violating traffic signs.

During the policing, one car owner approached the police officers who were about to tow her car. She looked confused and when asked to present her documents, she could only present her vehicle registration but not her dirvers license.

In the end, the violator, who is a student at one of the schools located around Jalan Kamboja, was ticketed for parkking violations and for not having her drivers’ license.

Meanwhile, a car that was parked on the street corner disrupting traffic was eventually towed away by the police.

Division Head of Control and Operations for the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Ketut Sriawan, said that the policing of vehicles should be carried out for the sake of traffic order. Such activities are regularly carried out with the involvement of Denpasar’s traffic policing team that is composed of police and military personnel as well as related parties. The policing operations are expected to resolve congestion on Jalan Kamboja.

“This is an effort to resolve safety, orderliness and smooth traffic. In addition, it is also meant to show respect for pedestrians

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Guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) operates in the South China Sea as part of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) in the South China Sea on October 13, 2016.

U.S. ready to confront Beijing on South China Sea: admiral

SYDNEY - The United States is ready to confront China should it continue its overreaching maritime claims in the South China Sea, the head of the U.S. Pacific fleet said on Wednesday, comments that threaten to escalate tensions between the two global rivals.

The policing operations are expected to resolve congestion on Jalan Kamboja. and cyclists that have the same rights as the other road users” said Sriawan.

Sriawan claimed to take firm action against vehicles parked on pavement or otherwise haphazardly parked. During the policing, the officers also affixed stickers to cars that were illegally

parked so that the owners could understand that they have violated the law. “Vehicles parked haphazardly -like on sidewalks, will have very serious actino taken against them because such behaviour has a negative impact on the comofrt and safety of road transportaion and the safety of

road traffic and pedestrians”, he said.

Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Ruli Agus Susanto, said that his institution will continue to conduct surveillance, particularly with regard to traffic order and haphazard parking that disturbs road users. The policing of

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illegal parking is very important in terms of providing convenience to pedestrians and other road users.

By provinding supervision and by appealing to parking attendants and other related parties, it is expected that that safe and convenient traffic for motorists and pedestrians alike will be created. (kmb12)

China claims most of the resourcerich South China Sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

The United States has called on China to respect the findings of the arbitration court in The Hague earlier

this year which invalidated its vast territorial claims in the strategic waterway.

But Beijing continues to act in an “aggressive” manner, to which the United States stands ready to respond, Admiral Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, said in a speech in Sydney.

District govt asked to promptly move roadside market at Penelokan ment to immediately move the merchants to a new location.

As seen on Sunday (Dec. 11), the roadside transactions went on until 10:30am, when both foregin and domestic travellers were already numerous. While trying to enjoy the beuatiful panorama, the visitors were faced with piles of trash and the stalls that had not been dismantled. Some visitors had a visibley hard time passing by, hampered as they were by tall

the merchandise.

Wisnawa said on Monday (Dec. 12) that if such conditions persist, travelrs will certainly become less interested in visiting Penelokan and preffer instead to go to other more comfortabel destinations. The government of Bangli needs to improve the situation in order to avoide such an putcome. The vendors should be immediately moved to behind the Geopark art market, he said.

“A new location has been pre-

pared, if it is not ready to have the vendors move there, then the area tshould be immediately made ready for them, he stressed.

Similar thing was also delivered

by Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Komang Carles agreed saying that efforts on the part of the district government to make the are of Penelokan a vendor free area, have been erratic. “Now, we have to work fast. The regent should give a target date for when

they need to move. This must not gdrage on any longer”, he said.

When contacted separately, Head of the Bangli Industry and Commerce Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, revealed that the merchants have not been moved because construction of new location is not finished yet.. “The new place (behind the geopark art market— Ed) has not is still being worked on so they cannot be moved yet” he explained. (kmb45)

from Beijing.

Asked about Harris’s remarks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the situation in the South China Sea was currently stable, thanks to the hard work of China and others in the region.

“We hope the United States can abide by its promises on not taking sides on the sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea, respect the efforts of countries in the region to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea region and do more

to promote peace and stability there,” he told a daily news briefing.

The United States estimates Beijing has added more than 3,200 acres (1,300 hectares) of land on seven features in the South China Sea over the past three years, building runways, ports, aircraft hangars and communications equipment.

In response, the United States has conducted a series of freedom-ofnavigation operations in the South China Sea, the latest of which came in October. (rtr)

Philippines’ Duterte says he may not “be around” till end of term

Resulting in vile impression BANGLI - Roadside markets are set up in the area of the Penelokan tourist destination every three days. The considerable numebr of merchants, welling a wide range of products, howver give a vile impression to this area that is being developed to become the prie of Bangli, especailly as the high season for tourism sets in. Banlgi legislator, member of Commission II, I Nyoman Gelgel Wisnawa, has therefor asked the district govern-

“We will not allow a shared domain to be closed down unilaterally no matter how many bases are built on artificial features in the South China Sea,” he said. “We will cooperate when we can but we will be ready to confront when we must.”

The comments threaten to stoke tensions between the United States and China, already heightened by President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to accept a telephone call from Taiwan’s president on Dec. 2 that prompted a diplomatic protest

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte toasts during a signing ceremony between Cambodia-Philippine at the Prime Minister’s office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia December 14, 2016.

PHNOM PENH - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he might not “be around” until the end of his term, and that, after winning the presidency at 71, he had found out late in the day that “I don’t need it at my age”.

The previous day he had told a gathering of business leaders in the Philippines that he suffered from back pains, migraines and Buerger’s disease, a cause of blockages in the blood vessels, associated with smoking during his youth.

On Tuesday, Duterte told a cheering crowd of a few thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh: “I am old ... This is my last hurrah -- after this, 77 -- I am not sure if I will still be around by the end of my term.”

Duterte, who will be 77 at the end of his six-year term in 2022, is the oldest person to be elected president

in the Philippines since the post-war period.

He added that he had “found out very late” that he did not need the presidency at his age.

“It’s not a question of having regrets, none at all, because I entered into it,” he said, before adding: “I realize now - I do not need it at this time of my life. But I tell you, I take pleasure at the end of the day, that’s the only consolation, I have a job, I am doing something right.”

Duterte had told the business leaders on Monday that he had no fear of being removed from power or assassinated because of opposition to the rising death toll in his anti-drugs campaign.

Since July 1, about 5,000 people have died in his crackdown, a key plank of his May election campaign.

Police say 2,004 have been killed by officers in self-defence, with another

3,060 killings “under investigation”.

“Oust me - good; assassinate me better; I have this migraine every day,” he said. “I have a lot of issues with my spine. What I have is really Buerger’s disease. It’s an acquired thing that you get from smoking, because of nicotine.”

Doctors had advised surgery on his spine, he said, but his wife, a nurse who used to work in the United States, did not agree because “a lot of operations for the spine went wrong”.

He added: “If you guys see me always in a sad mood, I am actually pushing a nerve here to relieve the pain,” and touched the right side of his face.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the health issues had not affected Duterte’s work, dismissing the remarks as “Nothing serious”.

Duterte no longer smokes or drinks alcohol. (rtr)

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Chicago man pleads guilty to advising killers in Bali suitcase murder

S.Korea pairs state utility

Private tech giants in $37 bln bid to seize global green energy lead

SEOUL - South Korea aims to vault from laggard to leader in the renewable energy industry, as Seoul prepares to hook the country’s tech giants up to nearly $40 billion in public funds in a bold plan to become a new global leader in green power.

Amid questions over the future of clean energy in the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, as well as China’s appetite for cutting fossil fuel reliance, Seoul is accelerating into battery and ‘smart’ grid technology - vital to store and transmit power whose generation changes with the weather.

Fresh from unveiling a 42 trillion won ($37 billion) support package, Seoul said last month it now aims to double the amount of green energy it produces by 2025 - 10 years ahead of previous plans. As well as cutting overwhelming reliance on coal and nuclear power, the plan aims to tap into the prowess of Korean tech leaders like Samsung - previously focused on consumer electronics - to build a major new export industry.

“South Korea definitely has the potential when it comes to clean tech because of government incentives but also the already established companies there,” said Vishal Sapru, Program Manager, Power Quality/Power Supplies at consultancy Frost & Sullivan. “They are strong contenders when it comes to utility-scale storage...They have the bandwidth to meet aggressive demand.”

The push by Asia’s 4th-largest economy comes as global climate

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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (L) shakes hands with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India December 12, 2016.

CHICAGO - A Chicago man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to his long-distance role in the 2014 murder of Sheila von WieseMack, who was killed in Bali, Indonesia by her daughter’s boyfriend and stuffed into a suitcase, prosecutors said.

Robert Bibbs, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit the foreign murder of a U.S. national, according to a statement from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

Under terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors and Bibbs’ legal counsel have agreed the maximum sentence will be no more than 20 years, but U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer will impose the sentence on March 23, 2017, prosecutors said.

Bibbs’ attorney, Donna Hickstein-Foley, declined to comment on Tuesday.

Bibbs advised his cousin, Tommy Schaefer, and Schaefer’s girlfriend, Heather Mack, by text message on how to kill von Wiese-Mack, 62, in the hope of sharing in an inheritance, prosecutors said. Von Wiese-Mack was bludgeoned to death in her hotel room.

Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for premeditated murder. Mack, who has had a baby girl in prison, is serving 10 years for being an accessory

to murder.

Bibbs acknowledged in his plea agreement that he was aware of the plot to commit the murder and counseled Schaefer on how to get away with it, prosecutors said.

The idea was Schaefer would gain access to the estate through Mack, and share that with Bibbs.

Mack and her mother, who had a troubled relationship, had traveled together to Bali in August 2014 and were staying at a luxury hotel, the St. Regis Bali resort.

Schaefer joined them, surprising von Wiese-Mack, who did not know he was coming to Indonesia.

Schaefer subsequently sent a text message to Bibbs in the United States and the two discussed killing the mother, with Bibbs suggesting drowning her or sitting on her face with a pillow to suffocate her, prosecutors said.

Later in the day, Schaefer bludgeoned von Wiese-Mack to death, and Schaefer and Mack stuffed her body in a suitcase and placed it in a taxi cab.

Schaefer and Mack were arrested the following day and convicted in April 2015 in Indonesia for their roles in the murder.

Bibbs was arrested in the United States in September 2015.(rtr)

Arrested Indonesian woman says IS militant ordered bombing

3D-printed Samsung and Apple logos are seen in this picture illustration on January 26, 2016. change treaty commitments dovetail with a race among the world’s tech firms for new revenue streams while growth in goods like smartphones slows. The International Energy Agency now sees 28 percent of the world’s power being generated from renewable sources by 2021, up from

23 percent in 2015.

THE KEPCO CONNECTION Firms from General Electric to Europe’s ABB are eyeing growth in smart grids and batteries - and have a head start. But by combining the power transmission know-how of its state utilities with private sector expertise in batteries and power controls, South Korea is well placed to gain ground, industry executives say.

“One of Korea’s strengths is IT technology, particularly semiconductors and battery,” said Lee Jeong-min, a senior manager of energy storage systems sales team at Hyosung Corp . “If we link them together with new energy business, we can catch up.”

Hyosung is among several private firms partnering with state utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) to develop smart grid and

energy storage systems at home and in international markets.

KEPCO is now working on some 40 overseas energy and power distribution projects. It agreed in November with the U.S. state of Virginia to develop 10 energy projects, echoing similar deals it has agreed with Canada’s Ontario state as well as Dubai.

“We play our role in operating the power grid and leading new businesses, while private sector partners do their part by making products and supplying them,” Hwang Woohyun, vice president of KEPCO, told Reuters in an interview.

BOOST FOR SAMSUNG SDI To help extend Korean companies’ global reach, KEPCO plans to invest 8.3 trillion won in collaborative programmes by 2020.

Meanwhile partner Samsung SDI is eying 3 trillion won in investments

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on battery development by 2020.

LG Chem is also bullish on energy storage as solar panel costs drop and government support rises.

“This year energy storage system revenue is expected to grow over 60 percent to 270 billion won and to increase further next year, about 80 percent to more than 500 billion won,” Kang Chang-Beom, LG Chem vice president said in a recent conference call.

For SDI, part of the Samsung empire and the world’s top maker of handset batteries, the government push offers a way to help it further expand into energy storage systems.

That could help SDI not only sidestep slowing smartphone growth: as the supplier of batteries to Samsung Electronics Co’s fireprone Galaxy Note 7 handset, it has been hit hard by the scrapping of the device.(rtr)

JAKARTA — A female would-be suicide bomber arrested last week one day before her planned attack in Indonesia’s capital said she took orders from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State group in Syria accused of orchestrating several attacks in the past year.

Dian Yulia Novi and her husband Nur Solihin were among four suspected militants arrested Saturday after police detected their plot to bomb a guard-changing ceremony at the presidential palace. A neighborhood on the outskirts of Jakarta was evacuated after a bomb was found.

Police suspect the four were part of a militant network responsible for a bomb-making lab in West Java province that was operating under the direction of Naim.

Novi, a former migrant worker in Singapore and Taiwan, said in a TVOne interview broadcast Wednesday that she learned about jihad on social media such as Facebook. She said she was influenced by articles from an Islamic website on upholding monotheism and defending the caliphate and Aman Abdurrahman, a radical cleric serving a nineyear prison sentence in Indonesia.

The active involvement of a woman in the plot is a new development for violent radicalism in socially conservative Indonesia, where women married to or associated with militants have typically stayed in the background.

The 3-kilogram bomb that Novi was to

detonate would have exploded as crowds of people gathered to watch the presidential guard changing ceremony, a popular family attraction in Jakarta. In the interview, she revealed a chilling disregard for her fellow Indonesians.

“The target is not ordinary people, not hawkers, not babies. The target is the enforcers of man-made laws,” Novi said.

Naim “himself has explained that there are spectators,” she said. “I would mingle with them ... then I would run toward the presidential guard and explode myself. That will be far from the spectators so they would not be hit directly.”

Naim has been linked by police to several attacks in Indonesia this year including a January attack in Jakarta that killed eight people including the attackers.

Muslim-majority Indonesia has carried out a sustained crackdown on militants since the 2002 bombings on the tourist island of Bali by al-Qaida-affiliated radicals that killed 202 people. But a new threat has emerged in the past several years from IS sympathizers.

Several hundred Indonesians have traveled to Syria to join IS.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File

FILE - In this May 3, 2013 file photo, police officers are deployed outside the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, to anticipate a planned Muslim hardliner protest and to provide extra security after the police revealed a plot of a terror attack on the premise on the Facebook page of a suspected militant.

Novi said she communicated with Naim on three occasions through the encrypted chat app Telegram and said it was he who decided the target of the attack.

Her husband, Solihin, also interviewed by the TV station, said he married Novi to facilitate her desire to be a suicide bomber.

Solihin said he was ordered by Naim to drop his wife at Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, where she would walk for about 500 meters (yards) to the target.

“I did not know what the target was. Only after police revealed the bomb plot, then I realized that the target was the presidential palace,” he said.(ap)

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Islamic State claims Cairo cathedral bombing

CAIRO - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bombing at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed at least 25 people.

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Relatives of Nabiel Habieb, a Christian man who was killed in the bombing at Cairo’s Coptic cathedral, carry his body to bury it at the Mokattam Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt December 12, 2016.

The militant group said in a statement carried by its news agency Amaq that a suicide bomber whom it identified as Abu Abdallah al-Masri had detonated his explosive belt inside the church.

“Every infidel and apostate in Egypt and everywhere should know that our war ... continues,” it said.

The Interior Ministry identified the bomber on Monday as 22-year-old student Mahmoud Shafik Mohammed Mostafa, and said he was a supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood political movement who had joined a militant cell while on the run from police.

In an interview with Reuters, Mostafa’s mother said he had been sexually abused in police custody in 2014, but that she had seen no sign that he had been radicalised.

In addition to the dead, at least 49 people were wounded when the bomb went off in a chapel adjoining St Mark’s Cathedral, Cairo’s largest church and seat of the Coptic Christian papacy.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said four people had been detained and two were on the run. Sisi took power in 2013, deposing the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, and has since outlawed the Islamist movement as part of a crackdown in which hundreds of its supporters have been killed and thousands jailed.

The Interior Ministry said Mahmoud had been arrested in March 2014 for carrying arms during a protest, and freed on bail after two months. It said he had joined a cell led

by Mohab Mostafa Sayyed Qassem, a militant with links to Islamic State fighters in Northern Sinai and exiled Brotherhood officials in Qatar, and was wanted in two other cases.

His mother, Umm Bilal, said Mahmoud had fled to Sudan shortly after being released.

“Mahmoud would not do this ... he would not kill anyone,” she shouted as she listened to a news report on the bombing.

She said Mahmoud’s father had died two years ago, and that Mahmoud called her regularly from abroad, most recently about a week ago. “He said he would not return because security forces would detain him again ... He was asking after me and his sisters ...

I didn’t notice any change in his voice or anything to suggest he would blow himself up.” (rtr)

International

Iran to work on nuclearpowered vessels after US “violation” of deal

BEIRUT - Iran ordered its scientists on Tuesday to start developing systems for nuclear-powered marine vessels in response to what it calls a U.S. violation of its landmark 2015 atomic deal with world powers.

Nuclear experts said that President Hassan Rouhani’s move, if carried out, would probably require Iran to enrich uranium to a fissile purity above the maximum level set in the nuclear deal to allay fears of Tehran building an atomic bomb.

Rouhani’s announcement marked Tehran’s first concrete reaction to a decision by the U.S. Congress last month to extend some sanctions on Tehran that would also make it easier to reimpose others lifted under the nuclear pact.

The White House said it was aware of Iran’s order and noted that Rouhani had said any such work on the vessels would be done within the framework of Iran’s commitments.

“The announcement from the Iranians today does not run counter to the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a news briefing.

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was confident the International Atomic Energy Agency, which inspects Iran’s nuclear sites, would be able to analyze Iran’s compliance with the deal.

“There’s a lot we don’t know about it, what it means,” Kirby said, referring to Rouhani’s announcement, at a

news briefing on Tuesday. A marine nuclear propulsion program is a “massive undertaking for any nation” and would likely take decades to realize, he added.

Rouhani described the technology as a “nuclear propeller to be used in marine transportation,” but did not say whether that meant just ships or possibly also submarines. Iran said in 2012 that it was working on its first nuclear-powered sub. (http://reut. rs/2gVr80g) Rouhani’s words could stoke tensions with Washington, already heightened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to scrap the deal, under which Iran curbed its nuclear fuel production activities in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Rouhani also ordered planning for production of fuel for nuclearpowered marine vessels “in line with the development of a peaceful nuclear programme of Iran.”

But under the nuclear settlement Iran reached with the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China, it is not allowed to enrich uranium above a 3.67 percent purity for 15 years, a level unlikely to be enough to run such vessels.

“On the basis of international experience, were Iran to go ahead with such a (nuclear propulsion) project, it would have to increase its enrichment level,” said Mark Hibbs, nuclear expert and senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (rtr)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits in a ceremony as his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stands at right at the Saadabad palace in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s president on Tuesday ordered officials to draw up plans to build nuclear-powered ships and to show how the United States violated last year’s nuclear deal, a response to a vote by the U.S. Congress to extend some sanctions on the country.

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Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, but the country of 250 million also has sizeable Christian, Hindu and Buddhist communities and dozens of groups that adhere to traditional beliefs.

Purnama, if found guilty, faces up to five years in prison. Almost all blasphemy cases in recent years have ended in conviction.

As Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese

governor, Purnama won kudos for shaking up the city’s sleepy bureaucracy and for taking steps to ease the city’s notorious traffic. But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing the city’s slums has alienated many voters.

Recent opinion polls showed Purnama, once the frontrunner in the race to lead Jakarta, has now slipped to second place, behind Agus Yudhoyono, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (rtr)

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Murray, Kerber named ITF players of the year

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LONDON - Briton Andy Murray and Germany’s Angelique Kerber were named ITF World Champions on Tuesday, capping stellar years for the men’s and women’s world number ones.

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Murray, whose brother Jamie was named doubles World Champion along with Brazil’s Bruno Soares, won Wimbledon in July before becoming the first player to win two Olympic singles gold medals when he retained his crown in Rio de Janeiro in August.

He won nine titles in a milestone year that ended with him beating rival Novak Djokovic to win the ATP Tour Finals and seal the year-end rankings top spot.

“It means a lot to me to be named ITF World Champion. I have had such a memorable year,” Murray said in a statement.

Kerber enjoyed an equally impressive season, winning the Australian and U.S. Open titles as well as an Olympic silver medal in Rio. She becomes the first German to win the award since Steffi Graf claimed the last of her seven in 1996. (rtr) Great Britain’s Andy Murray celebrates winning the final against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic with the ATP World Tour Finals trophy.

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Tiger Woods waits to hit on the 14th green during the final round at the Hero World Challenge golf tournament, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Nassau, Bahamas.

FLORIDA - Tiger Woods, who has not competed on the PGA Tour since August 2015, will return to the U.S. circuit at next year’s Genesis Open in Pacific Palisades, California, the former world number one announced on Tuesday.

Woods, who competed earlier this month at the limited-field Hero World Challenge after a lengthy absence caused by chronic back problems, is a native of California and will be teeing it up in the event that marked his PGA Tour debut in 1992.

The Genesis Open, which will be played at Riviera Country Club from Feb. 13-19, benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation.

“I’m very excited to come back to Riviera and compete in the Genesis Open,” Woods, a 14-time major champion, said in a statement. “This is where

it all started for me. It was my first PGA Tour event, I was 16 years old, I weighed about 105 pounds, and it was a life-changing moment for me.”

Woods, the greatest player of his generation and arguably of all time, made his PGA Tour debut at Riviera at the age of 16. Now aged 40, he has not competed in the Los Angeles event since 2006 when he withdrew after the second round.

Woods has not won a tournament anywhere since 2013 and his title drought in the major championships dates back to 2008.

After being sidelined for nearly 16 months due to a chronic back injury, he returned to competition this month at the Hero World Challenge which he hosts in the Bahamas and produced mixed form to finish 15th in an elite field of 17. (rtr)

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Sp rt Arsenal struggled to deal with Everton’s physical game - Wenger

Arsenal’s 14-match unbeaten Premier League run might have convinced manager Arsene Wenger that they had developed the resolve needed sustain a title challenge but there was little sign of that quality in Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat at Everton.

Wenger said his side had struggled to deal with Everton’s physical approach as the Merseysiders fought back to win 2-1 thanks to Ashley Williams’ late header at Goodison Park.

It had all been going so smoothly for Arsenal when the in-form Alexis Sanchez had put them ahead with his 12th league goal of the season from a deflected free kick

after 20 minutes.

But Everton upped the intensity levels and clawed their way back into the game through fullback Seamus Coleman’s header just before halftime and Williams won it in the 86th minute. “...we faced many physical challenges and that disturbed our game but we were a bit unlucky to lose as well,” Wenger told BT Sport

television in a familiar refrain for Arsenal fans who have become used to seeing successive title challenges fall away.

“They (Everton) were a bit scared at first but they got their confidence. We did fight, I cannot fault that... Maybe we made it easy for them when they became more physical.”

The defeat was Arsenal’s first in the league since their opening day loss at home to Liverpool, but it left them three points adrift of pacesetters Chelsea, whose game in hand is against bottom club Sunderland on Wednesday.

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Everton’s Enner Valencia in action with Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka

When Arsenal visit Manchester City on Sunday, they could conceivably be nine points behind Antonio Conte’s league leaders, who travel to Crystal Palace the day before.

Having drawn Bayern Munich in the Champions League’s round of 16, Arsenal, whose last Premier League title was back in 2004, will need to be careful to ensure another season that has has begun with such promise does not peter out.

That is likely to depend on whether the team’s previously free-scoring forwards can maintain their early season form. Having scored 12 goals in their previous three games in all competitions, Arsenal, the Premier League’s joint top scorers with 37, were largely blunted by a resolute Everton.

The London side’s glittering attacking talents Mesut Ozil and Sanchez were starved of service and looked short on energy in a laboured display. Wenger, however, felt that was down to how resolute Everton were defensively.

“They defended well even when we controlled the game,” Wenger added. “We created chances but not too many were clear-cut. We battled hard. We put everything in and the players are very disappointed.” (rtr)

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Real’s Zidane predicts tough semi-final against America

YOKOHAMA - Mexican team America will be fired up by the thought of marking their centenary year by beating Real Madrid and becoming the first team from the CONCACAF region to reach the Club World Cup final, Real manager Zinedine Zidane has said.

America, the CONCACAF Champions League holders, beat South Korean side Jeonbuk Motors 2-1 to set up a semi-final clash with Real in Yokohama on Thursday and Zidane said the prospect of facing the Spanish giants would motivate the Mexicans.

“I think Club America are very

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Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer, left, hugs team captain Osvaldo Alonso as they hold the MLS Cup during a fan rally at the King County Airport in Seattle, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, after the MLS soccer team returned from Toronto, where they beat Toronto FC Saturday to win the MLS Cup.

Thousands celebrate Sounders’ MLS Cup victory

SEATTLE — Brian Schmetzer hopped off the trolley carrying the MLS champions along their celebration route, and joined fans carrying banners and following the procession.

Schmetzer grew up a fan of the original Seattle Sounders, played for the earlier incarnation of the Sounders and now as coach has led them to their first MLS Cup championship. It felt only right to be with the fans.

“It’s just the way I am,” Schmetzer said. “I like being with the fans. I’m a fan, I was a fan for a long time. So it was just natural.”

Seattle feted the new MLS champions on Tuesday with a jubilant march through downtown Seattle, concluding with a rally at Seattle Center, just steps from where the first incarnation of the Sounders debuted in 1974 at Memorial Stadium as part of the NASL. After eight years of regularly being regarded as the most successful expansion franchise in MLS history, the Sounders finally reached the pinnacle of the league by defeating Toronto 5-4 on penalty kicks last Saturday night in Canada.

Three days later, the scope of what the Sounders accomplished was driven home by the thousands of blue- and rave green-clad fans

that lined the streets. Fans chanted, clapped and showed appreciation for the club that brought the city just its fifth championship in a major professional sport in the past half century, joining the Seahawks, two titles by the WNBA Seattle Storm and the SuperSonics.

“It was way more than I imagined. Our fans continue to surprise me,” Seattle’s Jordan Morris said.

“We couldn’t have done this without them this whole season. There were a lot of downs in a tough season and they stuck by us through it all and that ended with a championship.”

It was the second straight year the MLS champions were paraded through the streets of a Northwest city, with Seattle following up on the title won a year ago by Cascadia rival Portland. While Seattle has won four U.S. Open Cup titles and a Supporters’ Shield in its history, the Timbers took great joy in claiming an MLS Cup before their rivals to the north.

Seattle’s championship completed the most remarkable midseason turnaround in league history. The Sounders were in ninth place in the Western Conference standings in July when Schmetzer stepped in as the interim coach after Sigi Schmid, the winningest coach in MLS history, was let go. (ap)

motivated because they want to celebrate their centenary,” Zidane was quoted as saying by Kyodo.

“Some clubs only have a once in a lifetime chance to play against Real Madrid and I think it is a very good opportunity for them.”

Zidane denied that Real were favourites to win the game, saying his players would have to work hard to reach Sunday’s final against Atletico Nacional or Kashima Antlers.

“I never think that we have a better opportunity to win than our opponents. We have to play football and many people expect

Real Madrid to win the game very easily but that is not what I think,” he added.

“We will be playing against great opponents and I am sure we will have a tough time during that match and that is what I will be telling my players.

The Real manager is unlikely to risk captain Sergio Ramos for Thursday’s game, with the defender not having trained for the past two days, and would not be drawn on whether talisman Cristiano Ronaldo would feature.

“I have to think about the starting XI and I will disclose who

will be playing tomorrow,” Zidane said. “Of course, he (Ronaldo) is as motivated as always. He is always motivated regardless of who the opponents are or whether it is a friendly or even training.”

Ronaldo won his fourth Ballon d’Or award on Monday, and Zidane paid tribute to the Portugal

forward’s achievement.

“It is very rare that one player wins so many awards,” he said.

“His fourth Ballon d’Or is a great achievement and not something that can easily be achieved. What he’s doing now is very wonderful.

Maybe he deserves a fifth Ballon d’Or as well.” (rtr)

‘It’s a dream’: Afghan boy finally meets idol Lionel Messi

It was an image that touched the hearts of millions: A 5-year-old Afghan boy wearing an improvised Lionel Messi jersey made from a plastic bag. Now, nearly a year later, Murtaza Ahmadi has finally met his idol.

Murtaza made a special trip from Afghanistan to Qatar, where Messi was with his Barcelona teammates to play a friendly match against Al Ahli on Tuesday.

In a meeting arranged by the organizing committee of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Messi held

hands with Murtaza at the team hotel before picking up the boy and posing for photographs. Murtaza was wearing a Barcelona jersey.

“I’m very happy to have met my hero. It is a dream for me,” said Murtaza, in quotes supplied by the World Cup organizing committee.

Murtaza, who is now aged 6, will walk out onto the field with the five-time world player of the year before Tuesday’s match.

The boy became an internet sensation early this year when pictures of him playing near his home

AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File

FILE - A Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 photo from files of Murtaza Ahmadi, a five-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan playing with a soccer ball during a photo opportunity as he wears a shirt signed by Messi, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

in eastern Ghazni province were widely circulated. They showed him wearing a plastic bag — in blue-and-white stripes, like the Argentina national team jersey — with Messi and the No. 10 written in black marker. A few weeks later, Messi sent signed Barcelona and Argentina jerseys to Murtaza.

Murtaza’s father, Mohammad Arif Ahmadi, said in May that the family was forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats and fears that Murtaza would be kidnapped because of his sudden notoriety.

“Life became a misery for us,” said the father at the time, speaking to The Associated Press over the telephone from the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the family had settled.

The meeting between Messi and Murtaza comes at a time when Qatar is introducing long-expected reforms to policies governing its vast foreign-labor force, who labor and human rights activists say are open to abuse by the current system.

Qatar says it is abolishing the “kafala” sponsorship system that binds workers to their employer.

Rights groups say the changes fall far short of what is needed to protect the multitudes of mostly Asian low-wage workers transforming the tiny country. (ap)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Madrid, Spain - 7/12/16 Real Madrid’s coach Zinedine Zidane gestures during the match.

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Sp rt Arsenal struggled to deal with Everton’s physical game - Wenger

Arsenal’s 14-match unbeaten Premier League run might have convinced manager Arsene Wenger that they had developed the resolve needed sustain a title challenge but there was little sign of that quality in Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat at Everton.

Wenger said his side had struggled to deal with Everton’s physical approach as the Merseysiders fought back to win 2-1 thanks to Ashley Williams’ late header at Goodison Park.

It had all been going so smoothly for Arsenal when the in-form Alexis Sanchez had put them ahead with his 12th league goal of the season from a deflected free kick

after 20 minutes.

But Everton upped the intensity levels and clawed their way back into the game through fullback Seamus Coleman’s header just before halftime and Williams won it in the 86th minute. “...we faced many physical challenges and that disturbed our game but we were a bit unlucky to lose as well,” Wenger told BT Sport

television in a familiar refrain for Arsenal fans who have become used to seeing successive title challenges fall away.

“They (Everton) were a bit scared at first but they got their confidence. We did fight, I cannot fault that... Maybe we made it easy for them when they became more physical.”

The defeat was Arsenal’s first in the league since their opening day loss at home to Liverpool, but it left them three points adrift of pacesetters Chelsea, whose game in hand is against bottom club Sunderland on Wednesday.

EARLY FORM

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine Livepic

Everton’s Enner Valencia in action with Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka

When Arsenal visit Manchester City on Sunday, they could conceivably be nine points behind Antonio Conte’s league leaders, who travel to Crystal Palace the day before.

Having drawn Bayern Munich in the Champions League’s round of 16, Arsenal, whose last Premier League title was back in 2004, will need to be careful to ensure another season that has has begun with such promise does not peter out.

That is likely to depend on whether the team’s previously free-scoring forwards can maintain their early season form. Having scored 12 goals in their previous three games in all competitions, Arsenal, the Premier League’s joint top scorers with 37, were largely blunted by a resolute Everton.

The London side’s glittering attacking talents Mesut Ozil and Sanchez were starved of service and looked short on energy in a laboured display. Wenger, however, felt that was down to how resolute Everton were defensively.

“They defended well even when we controlled the game,” Wenger added. “We created chances but not too many were clear-cut. We battled hard. We put everything in and the players are very disappointed.” (rtr)

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Real’s Zidane predicts tough semi-final against America

YOKOHAMA - Mexican team America will be fired up by the thought of marking their centenary year by beating Real Madrid and becoming the first team from the CONCACAF region to reach the Club World Cup final, Real manager Zinedine Zidane has said.

America, the CONCACAF Champions League holders, beat South Korean side Jeonbuk Motors 2-1 to set up a semi-final clash with Real in Yokohama on Thursday and Zidane said the prospect of facing the Spanish giants would motivate the Mexicans.

“I think Club America are very

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer, left, hugs team captain Osvaldo Alonso as they hold the MLS Cup during a fan rally at the King County Airport in Seattle, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, after the MLS soccer team returned from Toronto, where they beat Toronto FC Saturday to win the MLS Cup.

Thousands celebrate Sounders’ MLS Cup victory

SEATTLE — Brian Schmetzer hopped off the trolley carrying the MLS champions along their celebration route, and joined fans carrying banners and following the procession.

Schmetzer grew up a fan of the original Seattle Sounders, played for the earlier incarnation of the Sounders and now as coach has led them to their first MLS Cup championship. It felt only right to be with the fans.

“It’s just the way I am,” Schmetzer said. “I like being with the fans. I’m a fan, I was a fan for a long time. So it was just natural.”

Seattle feted the new MLS champions on Tuesday with a jubilant march through downtown Seattle, concluding with a rally at Seattle Center, just steps from where the first incarnation of the Sounders debuted in 1974 at Memorial Stadium as part of the NASL. After eight years of regularly being regarded as the most successful expansion franchise in MLS history, the Sounders finally reached the pinnacle of the league by defeating Toronto 5-4 on penalty kicks last Saturday night in Canada.

Three days later, the scope of what the Sounders accomplished was driven home by the thousands of blue- and rave green-clad fans

that lined the streets. Fans chanted, clapped and showed appreciation for the club that brought the city just its fifth championship in a major professional sport in the past half century, joining the Seahawks, two titles by the WNBA Seattle Storm and the SuperSonics.

“It was way more than I imagined. Our fans continue to surprise me,” Seattle’s Jordan Morris said.

“We couldn’t have done this without them this whole season. There were a lot of downs in a tough season and they stuck by us through it all and that ended with a championship.”

It was the second straight year the MLS champions were paraded through the streets of a Northwest city, with Seattle following up on the title won a year ago by Cascadia rival Portland. While Seattle has won four U.S. Open Cup titles and a Supporters’ Shield in its history, the Timbers took great joy in claiming an MLS Cup before their rivals to the north.

Seattle’s championship completed the most remarkable midseason turnaround in league history. The Sounders were in ninth place in the Western Conference standings in July when Schmetzer stepped in as the interim coach after Sigi Schmid, the winningest coach in MLS history, was let go. (ap)

motivated because they want to celebrate their centenary,” Zidane was quoted as saying by Kyodo.

“Some clubs only have a once in a lifetime chance to play against Real Madrid and I think it is a very good opportunity for them.”

Zidane denied that Real were favourites to win the game, saying his players would have to work hard to reach Sunday’s final against Atletico Nacional or Kashima Antlers.

“I never think that we have a better opportunity to win than our opponents. We have to play football and many people expect

Real Madrid to win the game very easily but that is not what I think,” he added.

“We will be playing against great opponents and I am sure we will have a tough time during that match and that is what I will be telling my players.

The Real manager is unlikely to risk captain Sergio Ramos for Thursday’s game, with the defender not having trained for the past two days, and would not be drawn on whether talisman Cristiano Ronaldo would feature.

“I have to think about the starting XI and I will disclose who

will be playing tomorrow,” Zidane said. “Of course, he (Ronaldo) is as motivated as always. He is always motivated regardless of who the opponents are or whether it is a friendly or even training.”

Ronaldo won his fourth Ballon d’Or award on Monday, and Zidane paid tribute to the Portugal

forward’s achievement.

“It is very rare that one player wins so many awards,” he said.

“His fourth Ballon d’Or is a great achievement and not something that can easily be achieved. What he’s doing now is very wonderful.

Maybe he deserves a fifth Ballon d’Or as well.” (rtr)

‘It’s a dream’: Afghan boy finally meets idol Lionel Messi

It was an image that touched the hearts of millions: A 5-year-old Afghan boy wearing an improvised Lionel Messi jersey made from a plastic bag. Now, nearly a year later, Murtaza Ahmadi has finally met his idol.

Murtaza made a special trip from Afghanistan to Qatar, where Messi was with his Barcelona teammates to play a friendly match against Al Ahli on Tuesday.

In a meeting arranged by the organizing committee of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Messi held

hands with Murtaza at the team hotel before picking up the boy and posing for photographs. Murtaza was wearing a Barcelona jersey.

“I’m very happy to have met my hero. It is a dream for me,” said Murtaza, in quotes supplied by the World Cup organizing committee.

Murtaza, who is now aged 6, will walk out onto the field with the five-time world player of the year before Tuesday’s match.

The boy became an internet sensation early this year when pictures of him playing near his home

AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File

FILE - A Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 photo from files of Murtaza Ahmadi, a five-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan playing with a soccer ball during a photo opportunity as he wears a shirt signed by Messi, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

in eastern Ghazni province were widely circulated. They showed him wearing a plastic bag — in blue-and-white stripes, like the Argentina national team jersey — with Messi and the No. 10 written in black marker. A few weeks later, Messi sent signed Barcelona and Argentina jerseys to Murtaza.

Murtaza’s father, Mohammad Arif Ahmadi, said in May that the family was forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats and fears that Murtaza would be kidnapped because of his sudden notoriety.

“Life became a misery for us,” said the father at the time, speaking to The Associated Press over the telephone from the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the family had settled.

The meeting between Messi and Murtaza comes at a time when Qatar is introducing long-expected reforms to policies governing its vast foreign-labor force, who labor and human rights activists say are open to abuse by the current system.

Qatar says it is abolishing the “kafala” sponsorship system that binds workers to their employer.

Rights groups say the changes fall far short of what is needed to protect the multitudes of mostly Asian low-wage workers transforming the tiny country. (ap)

REUTERS/Juan Medina

Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Madrid, Spain - 7/12/16 Real Madrid’s coach Zinedine Zidane gestures during the match.

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Murray, Kerber named ITF players of the year

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LONDON - Briton Andy Murray and Germany’s Angelique Kerber were named ITF World Champions on Tuesday, capping stellar years for the men’s and women’s world number ones.

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Murray, whose brother Jamie was named doubles World Champion along with Brazil’s Bruno Soares, won Wimbledon in July before becoming the first player to win two Olympic singles gold medals when he retained his crown in Rio de Janeiro in August.

He won nine titles in a milestone year that ended with him beating rival Novak Djokovic to win the ATP Tour Finals and seal the year-end rankings top spot.

“It means a lot to me to be named ITF World Champion. I have had such a memorable year,” Murray said in a statement.

Kerber enjoyed an equally impressive season, winning the Australian and U.S. Open titles as well as an Olympic silver medal in Rio. She becomes the first German to win the award since Steffi Graf claimed the last of her seven in 1996. (rtr) Great Britain’s Andy Murray celebrates winning the final against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic with the ATP World Tour Finals trophy.

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Tiger Woods waits to hit on the 14th green during the final round at the Hero World Challenge golf tournament, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Nassau, Bahamas.

FLORIDA - Tiger Woods, who has not competed on the PGA Tour since August 2015, will return to the U.S. circuit at next year’s Genesis Open in Pacific Palisades, California, the former world number one announced on Tuesday.

Woods, who competed earlier this month at the limited-field Hero World Challenge after a lengthy absence caused by chronic back problems, is a native of California and will be teeing it up in the event that marked his PGA Tour debut in 1992.

The Genesis Open, which will be played at Riviera Country Club from Feb. 13-19, benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation.

“I’m very excited to come back to Riviera and compete in the Genesis Open,” Woods, a 14-time major champion, said in a statement. “This is where

it all started for me. It was my first PGA Tour event, I was 16 years old, I weighed about 105 pounds, and it was a life-changing moment for me.”

Woods, the greatest player of his generation and arguably of all time, made his PGA Tour debut at Riviera at the age of 16. Now aged 40, he has not competed in the Los Angeles event since 2006 when he withdrew after the second round.

Woods has not won a tournament anywhere since 2013 and his title drought in the major championships dates back to 2008.

After being sidelined for nearly 16 months due to a chronic back injury, he returned to competition this month at the Hero World Challenge which he hosts in the Bahamas and produced mixed form to finish 15th in an elite field of 17. (rtr)

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Islamic State claims Cairo cathedral bombing

CAIRO - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bombing at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed at least 25 people.

REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Relatives of Nabiel Habieb, a Christian man who was killed in the bombing at Cairo’s Coptic cathedral, carry his body to bury it at the Mokattam Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt December 12, 2016.

The militant group said in a statement carried by its news agency Amaq that a suicide bomber whom it identified as Abu Abdallah al-Masri had detonated his explosive belt inside the church.

“Every infidel and apostate in Egypt and everywhere should know that our war ... continues,” it said.

The Interior Ministry identified the bomber on Monday as 22-year-old student Mahmoud Shafik Mohammed Mostafa, and said he was a supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood political movement who had joined a militant cell while on the run from police.

In an interview with Reuters, Mostafa’s mother said he had been sexually abused in police custody in 2014, but that she had seen no sign that he had been radicalised.

In addition to the dead, at least 49 people were wounded when the bomb went off in a chapel adjoining St Mark’s Cathedral, Cairo’s largest church and seat of the Coptic Christian papacy.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said four people had been detained and two were on the run. Sisi took power in 2013, deposing the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, and has since outlawed the Islamist movement as part of a crackdown in which hundreds of its supporters have been killed and thousands jailed.

The Interior Ministry said Mahmoud had been arrested in March 2014 for carrying arms during a protest, and freed on bail after two months. It said he had joined a cell led

by Mohab Mostafa Sayyed Qassem, a militant with links to Islamic State fighters in Northern Sinai and exiled Brotherhood officials in Qatar, and was wanted in two other cases.

His mother, Umm Bilal, said Mahmoud had fled to Sudan shortly after being released.

“Mahmoud would not do this ... he would not kill anyone,” she shouted as she listened to a news report on the bombing.

She said Mahmoud’s father had died two years ago, and that Mahmoud called her regularly from abroad, most recently about a week ago. “He said he would not return because security forces would detain him again ... He was asking after me and his sisters ...

I didn’t notice any change in his voice or anything to suggest he would blow himself up.” (rtr)

International

Iran to work on nuclearpowered vessels after US “violation” of deal

BEIRUT - Iran ordered its scientists on Tuesday to start developing systems for nuclear-powered marine vessels in response to what it calls a U.S. violation of its landmark 2015 atomic deal with world powers.

Nuclear experts said that President Hassan Rouhani’s move, if carried out, would probably require Iran to enrich uranium to a fissile purity above the maximum level set in the nuclear deal to allay fears of Tehran building an atomic bomb.

Rouhani’s announcement marked Tehran’s first concrete reaction to a decision by the U.S. Congress last month to extend some sanctions on Tehran that would also make it easier to reimpose others lifted under the nuclear pact.

The White House said it was aware of Iran’s order and noted that Rouhani had said any such work on the vessels would be done within the framework of Iran’s commitments.

“The announcement from the Iranians today does not run counter to the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a news briefing.

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was confident the International Atomic Energy Agency, which inspects Iran’s nuclear sites, would be able to analyze Iran’s compliance with the deal.

“There’s a lot we don’t know about it, what it means,” Kirby said, referring to Rouhani’s announcement, at a

news briefing on Tuesday. A marine nuclear propulsion program is a “massive undertaking for any nation” and would likely take decades to realize, he added.

Rouhani described the technology as a “nuclear propeller to be used in marine transportation,” but did not say whether that meant just ships or possibly also submarines. Iran said in 2012 that it was working on its first nuclear-powered sub. (http://reut. rs/2gVr80g) Rouhani’s words could stoke tensions with Washington, already heightened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to scrap the deal, under which Iran curbed its nuclear fuel production activities in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Rouhani also ordered planning for production of fuel for nuclearpowered marine vessels “in line with the development of a peaceful nuclear programme of Iran.”

But under the nuclear settlement Iran reached with the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China, it is not allowed to enrich uranium above a 3.67 percent purity for 15 years, a level unlikely to be enough to run such vessels.

“On the basis of international experience, were Iran to go ahead with such a (nuclear propulsion) project, it would have to increase its enrichment level,” said Mark Hibbs, nuclear expert and senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (rtr)

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits in a ceremony as his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stands at right at the Saadabad palace in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s president on Tuesday ordered officials to draw up plans to build nuclear-powered ships and to show how the United States violated last year’s nuclear deal, a response to a vote by the U.S. Congress to extend some sanctions on the country.

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Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, but the country of 250 million also has sizeable Christian, Hindu and Buddhist communities and dozens of groups that adhere to traditional beliefs.

Purnama, if found guilty, faces up to five years in prison. Almost all blasphemy cases in recent years have ended in conviction.

As Jakarta’s first ethnic Chinese

governor, Purnama won kudos for shaking up the city’s sleepy bureaucracy and for taking steps to ease the city’s notorious traffic. But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing the city’s slums has alienated many voters.

Recent opinion polls showed Purnama, once the frontrunner in the race to lead Jakarta, has now slipped to second place, behind Agus Yudhoyono, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (rtr)

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Chicago man pleads guilty to advising killers in Bali suitcase murder

S.Korea pairs state utility

Private tech giants in $37 bln bid to seize global green energy lead

SEOUL - South Korea aims to vault from laggard to leader in the renewable energy industry, as Seoul prepares to hook the country’s tech giants up to nearly $40 billion in public funds in a bold plan to become a new global leader in green power.

Amid questions over the future of clean energy in the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, as well as China’s appetite for cutting fossil fuel reliance, Seoul is accelerating into battery and ‘smart’ grid technology - vital to store and transmit power whose generation changes with the weather.

Fresh from unveiling a 42 trillion won ($37 billion) support package, Seoul said last month it now aims to double the amount of green energy it produces by 2025 - 10 years ahead of previous plans. As well as cutting overwhelming reliance on coal and nuclear power, the plan aims to tap into the prowess of Korean tech leaders like Samsung - previously focused on consumer electronics - to build a major new export industry.

“South Korea definitely has the potential when it comes to clean tech because of government incentives but also the already established companies there,” said Vishal Sapru, Program Manager, Power Quality/Power Supplies at consultancy Frost & Sullivan. “They are strong contenders when it comes to utility-scale storage...They have the bandwidth to meet aggressive demand.”

The push by Asia’s 4th-largest economy comes as global climate

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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (L) shakes hands with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India December 12, 2016.

CHICAGO - A Chicago man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to his long-distance role in the 2014 murder of Sheila von WieseMack, who was killed in Bali, Indonesia by her daughter’s boyfriend and stuffed into a suitcase, prosecutors said.

Robert Bibbs, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit the foreign murder of a U.S. national, according to a statement from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

Under terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors and Bibbs’ legal counsel have agreed the maximum sentence will be no more than 20 years, but U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer will impose the sentence on March 23, 2017, prosecutors said.

Bibbs’ attorney, Donna Hickstein-Foley, declined to comment on Tuesday.

Bibbs advised his cousin, Tommy Schaefer, and Schaefer’s girlfriend, Heather Mack, by text message on how to kill von Wiese-Mack, 62, in the hope of sharing in an inheritance, prosecutors said. Von Wiese-Mack was bludgeoned to death in her hotel room.

Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for premeditated murder. Mack, who has had a baby girl in prison, is serving 10 years for being an accessory

to murder.

Bibbs acknowledged in his plea agreement that he was aware of the plot to commit the murder and counseled Schaefer on how to get away with it, prosecutors said.

The idea was Schaefer would gain access to the estate through Mack, and share that with Bibbs.

Mack and her mother, who had a troubled relationship, had traveled together to Bali in August 2014 and were staying at a luxury hotel, the St. Regis Bali resort.

Schaefer joined them, surprising von Wiese-Mack, who did not know he was coming to Indonesia.

Schaefer subsequently sent a text message to Bibbs in the United States and the two discussed killing the mother, with Bibbs suggesting drowning her or sitting on her face with a pillow to suffocate her, prosecutors said.

Later in the day, Schaefer bludgeoned von Wiese-Mack to death, and Schaefer and Mack stuffed her body in a suitcase and placed it in a taxi cab.

Schaefer and Mack were arrested the following day and convicted in April 2015 in Indonesia for their roles in the murder.

Bibbs was arrested in the United States in September 2015.(rtr)

Arrested Indonesian woman says IS militant ordered bombing

3D-printed Samsung and Apple logos are seen in this picture illustration on January 26, 2016. change treaty commitments dovetail with a race among the world’s tech firms for new revenue streams while growth in goods like smartphones slows. The International Energy Agency now sees 28 percent of the world’s power being generated from renewable sources by 2021, up from

23 percent in 2015.

THE KEPCO CONNECTION Firms from General Electric to Europe’s ABB are eyeing growth in smart grids and batteries - and have a head start. But by combining the power transmission know-how of its state utilities with private sector expertise in batteries and power controls, South Korea is well placed to gain ground, industry executives say.

“One of Korea’s strengths is IT technology, particularly semiconductors and battery,” said Lee Jeong-min, a senior manager of energy storage systems sales team at Hyosung Corp . “If we link them together with new energy business, we can catch up.”

Hyosung is among several private firms partnering with state utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) to develop smart grid and

energy storage systems at home and in international markets.

KEPCO is now working on some 40 overseas energy and power distribution projects. It agreed in November with the U.S. state of Virginia to develop 10 energy projects, echoing similar deals it has agreed with Canada’s Ontario state as well as Dubai.

“We play our role in operating the power grid and leading new businesses, while private sector partners do their part by making products and supplying them,” Hwang Woohyun, vice president of KEPCO, told Reuters in an interview.

BOOST FOR SAMSUNG SDI To help extend Korean companies’ global reach, KEPCO plans to invest 8.3 trillion won in collaborative programmes by 2020.

Meanwhile partner Samsung SDI is eying 3 trillion won in investments

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on battery development by 2020.

LG Chem is also bullish on energy storage as solar panel costs drop and government support rises.

“This year energy storage system revenue is expected to grow over 60 percent to 270 billion won and to increase further next year, about 80 percent to more than 500 billion won,” Kang Chang-Beom, LG Chem vice president said in a recent conference call.

For SDI, part of the Samsung empire and the world’s top maker of handset batteries, the government push offers a way to help it further expand into energy storage systems.

That could help SDI not only sidestep slowing smartphone growth: as the supplier of batteries to Samsung Electronics Co’s fireprone Galaxy Note 7 handset, it has been hit hard by the scrapping of the device.(rtr)

JAKARTA — A female would-be suicide bomber arrested last week one day before her planned attack in Indonesia’s capital said she took orders from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State group in Syria accused of orchestrating several attacks in the past year.

Dian Yulia Novi and her husband Nur Solihin were among four suspected militants arrested Saturday after police detected their plot to bomb a guard-changing ceremony at the presidential palace. A neighborhood on the outskirts of Jakarta was evacuated after a bomb was found.

Police suspect the four were part of a militant network responsible for a bomb-making lab in West Java province that was operating under the direction of Naim.

Novi, a former migrant worker in Singapore and Taiwan, said in a TVOne interview broadcast Wednesday that she learned about jihad on social media such as Facebook. She said she was influenced by articles from an Islamic website on upholding monotheism and defending the caliphate and Aman Abdurrahman, a radical cleric serving a nineyear prison sentence in Indonesia.

The active involvement of a woman in the plot is a new development for violent radicalism in socially conservative Indonesia, where women married to or associated with militants have typically stayed in the background.

The 3-kilogram bomb that Novi was to

detonate would have exploded as crowds of people gathered to watch the presidential guard changing ceremony, a popular family attraction in Jakarta. In the interview, she revealed a chilling disregard for her fellow Indonesians.

“The target is not ordinary people, not hawkers, not babies. The target is the enforcers of man-made laws,” Novi said.

Naim “himself has explained that there are spectators,” she said. “I would mingle with them ... then I would run toward the presidential guard and explode myself. That will be far from the spectators so they would not be hit directly.”

Naim has been linked by police to several attacks in Indonesia this year including a January attack in Jakarta that killed eight people including the attackers.

Muslim-majority Indonesia has carried out a sustained crackdown on militants since the 2002 bombings on the tourist island of Bali by al-Qaida-affiliated radicals that killed 202 people. But a new threat has emerged in the past several years from IS sympathizers.

Several hundred Indonesians have traveled to Syria to join IS.

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FILE - In this May 3, 2013 file photo, police officers are deployed outside the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, to anticipate a planned Muslim hardliner protest and to provide extra security after the police revealed a plot of a terror attack on the premise on the Facebook page of a suspected militant.

Novi said she communicated with Naim on three occasions through the encrypted chat app Telegram and said it was he who decided the target of the attack.

Her husband, Solihin, also interviewed by the TV station, said he married Novi to facilitate her desire to be a suicide bomber.

Solihin said he was ordered by Naim to drop his wife at Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, where she would walk for about 500 meters (yards) to the target.

“I did not know what the target was. Only after police revealed the bomb plot, then I realized that the target was the presidential palace,” he said.(ap)

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DENPASAR - The Denpasar Transportation Agency held a disciplining operation against vehicles on Tuesday (Dec. 13) along Jalan Kamboja in Denpasar.

A joint venture team consisting of police and military padlocked three carsand another was towed away for having parked illegally.

Six other cars were given warnings with violation stickers affixed to theier windshields, and several others were ticketed for violating traffic signs.

During the policing, one car owner approached the police officers who were about to tow her car. She looked confused and when asked to present her documents, she could only present her vehicle registration but not her dirvers license.

In the end, the violator, who is a student at one of the schools located around Jalan Kamboja, was ticketed for parkking violations and for not having her drivers’ license.

Meanwhile, a car that was parked on the street corner disrupting traffic was eventually towed away by the police.

Division Head of Control and Operations for the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Ketut Sriawan, said that the policing of vehicles should be carried out for the sake of traffic order. Such activities are regularly carried out with the involvement of Denpasar’s traffic policing team that is composed of police and military personnel as well as related parties. The policing operations are expected to resolve congestion on Jalan Kamboja.

“This is an effort to resolve safety, orderliness and smooth traffic. In addition, it is also meant to show respect for pedestrians

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Guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) operates in the South China Sea as part of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) in the South China Sea on October 13, 2016.

U.S. ready to confront Beijing on South China Sea: admiral

SYDNEY - The United States is ready to confront China should it continue its overreaching maritime claims in the South China Sea, the head of the U.S. Pacific fleet said on Wednesday, comments that threaten to escalate tensions between the two global rivals.

The policing operations are expected to resolve congestion on Jalan Kamboja. and cyclists that have the same rights as the other road users” said Sriawan.

Sriawan claimed to take firm action against vehicles parked on pavement or otherwise haphazardly parked. During the policing, the officers also affixed stickers to cars that were illegally

parked so that the owners could understand that they have violated the law. “Vehicles parked haphazardly -like on sidewalks, will have very serious actino taken against them because such behaviour has a negative impact on the comofrt and safety of road transportaion and the safety of

road traffic and pedestrians”, he said.

Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Ruli Agus Susanto, said that his institution will continue to conduct surveillance, particularly with regard to traffic order and haphazard parking that disturbs road users. The policing of

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illegal parking is very important in terms of providing convenience to pedestrians and other road users.

By provinding supervision and by appealing to parking attendants and other related parties, it is expected that that safe and convenient traffic for motorists and pedestrians alike will be created. (kmb12)

China claims most of the resourcerich South China Sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

The United States has called on China to respect the findings of the arbitration court in The Hague earlier

this year which invalidated its vast territorial claims in the strategic waterway.

But Beijing continues to act in an “aggressive” manner, to which the United States stands ready to respond, Admiral Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, said in a speech in Sydney.

District govt asked to promptly move roadside market at Penelokan ment to immediately move the merchants to a new location.

As seen on Sunday (Dec. 11), the roadside transactions went on until 10:30am, when both foregin and domestic travellers were already numerous. While trying to enjoy the beuatiful panorama, the visitors were faced with piles of trash and the stalls that had not been dismantled. Some visitors had a visibley hard time passing by, hampered as they were by tall

the merchandise.

Wisnawa said on Monday (Dec. 12) that if such conditions persist, travelrs will certainly become less interested in visiting Penelokan and preffer instead to go to other more comfortabel destinations. The government of Bangli needs to improve the situation in order to avoide such an putcome. The vendors should be immediately moved to behind the Geopark art market, he said.

“A new location has been pre-

pared, if it is not ready to have the vendors move there, then the area tshould be immediately made ready for them, he stressed.

Similar thing was also delivered

by Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Komang Carles agreed saying that efforts on the part of the district government to make the are of Penelokan a vendor free area, have been erratic. “Now, we have to work fast. The regent should give a target date for when

they need to move. This must not gdrage on any longer”, he said.

When contacted separately, Head of the Bangli Industry and Commerce Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, revealed that the merchants have not been moved because construction of new location is not finished yet.. “The new place (behind the geopark art market— Ed) has not is still being worked on so they cannot be moved yet” he explained. (kmb45)

from Beijing.

Asked about Harris’s remarks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the situation in the South China Sea was currently stable, thanks to the hard work of China and others in the region.

“We hope the United States can abide by its promises on not taking sides on the sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea, respect the efforts of countries in the region to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea region and do more

to promote peace and stability there,” he told a daily news briefing.

The United States estimates Beijing has added more than 3,200 acres (1,300 hectares) of land on seven features in the South China Sea over the past three years, building runways, ports, aircraft hangars and communications equipment.

In response, the United States has conducted a series of freedom-ofnavigation operations in the South China Sea, the latest of which came in October. (rtr)

Philippines’ Duterte says he may not “be around” till end of term

Resulting in vile impression BANGLI - Roadside markets are set up in the area of the Penelokan tourist destination every three days. The considerable numebr of merchants, welling a wide range of products, howver give a vile impression to this area that is being developed to become the prie of Bangli, especailly as the high season for tourism sets in. Banlgi legislator, member of Commission II, I Nyoman Gelgel Wisnawa, has therefor asked the district govern-

“We will not allow a shared domain to be closed down unilaterally no matter how many bases are built on artificial features in the South China Sea,” he said. “We will cooperate when we can but we will be ready to confront when we must.”

The comments threaten to stoke tensions between the United States and China, already heightened by President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to accept a telephone call from Taiwan’s president on Dec. 2 that prompted a diplomatic protest

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte toasts during a signing ceremony between Cambodia-Philippine at the Prime Minister’s office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia December 14, 2016.

PHNOM PENH - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he might not “be around” until the end of his term, and that, after winning the presidency at 71, he had found out late in the day that “I don’t need it at my age”.

The previous day he had told a gathering of business leaders in the Philippines that he suffered from back pains, migraines and Buerger’s disease, a cause of blockages in the blood vessels, associated with smoking during his youth.

On Tuesday, Duterte told a cheering crowd of a few thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh: “I am old ... This is my last hurrah -- after this, 77 -- I am not sure if I will still be around by the end of my term.”

Duterte, who will be 77 at the end of his six-year term in 2022, is the oldest person to be elected president

in the Philippines since the post-war period.

He added that he had “found out very late” that he did not need the presidency at his age.

“It’s not a question of having regrets, none at all, because I entered into it,” he said, before adding: “I realize now - I do not need it at this time of my life. But I tell you, I take pleasure at the end of the day, that’s the only consolation, I have a job, I am doing something right.”

Duterte had told the business leaders on Monday that he had no fear of being removed from power or assassinated because of opposition to the rising death toll in his anti-drugs campaign.

Since July 1, about 5,000 people have died in his crackdown, a key plank of his May election campaign.

Police say 2,004 have been killed by officers in self-defence, with another

3,060 killings “under investigation”.

“Oust me - good; assassinate me better; I have this migraine every day,” he said. “I have a lot of issues with my spine. What I have is really Buerger’s disease. It’s an acquired thing that you get from smoking, because of nicotine.”

Doctors had advised surgery on his spine, he said, but his wife, a nurse who used to work in the United States, did not agree because “a lot of operations for the spine went wrong”.

He added: “If you guys see me always in a sad mood, I am actually pushing a nerve here to relieve the pain,” and touched the right side of his face.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the health issues had not affected Duterte’s work, dismissing the remarks as “Nothing serious”.

Duterte no longer smokes or drinks alcohol. (rtr)

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Many people don’t know what makes smoking dangerous

NORTH CAROLINA - Most Americans don’t grasp that the chemicals produced by burning a cigarette are more harmful than the manufacturer’s additives that cigarette also contains, and many mistakenly believe filters can protect them from breathing toxic fumes, a recent study suggests.

“We already knew that many people, especially smokers, think smoking might be dangerous for other people but not for themselves,” said lead study author Dr. Noel Brewer, a public health researcher at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

“All cigarettes create smoke that has toxic and deadly chemicals,” Dr. Brewer added by email. “Additives don’t change tobacco smoke and make it dangerous -- tobacco is inherently dangerous.”

To see how the general public perceives the harms associated with smoking, researchers examined data from three surveys done online and by phone that included a total of more than 9,000 adults and 1,000 teens.

Among other things, respon-

dents were asked if they had ever heard of 24 different chemicals found in tobacco smoke; how harmful they considered them to be; and how much the presence of a particular substance would prompt them to quit smoking.

Among adults, 61% surveyed by phone and 72% quizzed online mistakenly thought most of the toxins in cigarettes came from chemicals added by manufacturers to enhance the flavor or performance of the products, the study found.

Just 31% of adults contacted by phone and 24% surveyed online correctly believed harmful toxins in smoke come from the act of burning a cigarette or even tobacco alone, researchers report December 6 in Tobacco Control.

Smokers were more likely to have the facts wrong than nonsmokers.

Teens were evenly split on the perceived source of harmful substances, with 43% opting for additives and 46% for the burning of the cigarette itself. For adolescents, there wasn’t much difference in their perceptions based on whether or not they actually smoked themselves.

Up to about one in three adults and roughly one in four teens also wrongly believed that filters successfully trap harmful chemicals from cigarette smoke. Once again, this belief tended to be more common among the smokers.

Nearly all of the survey participants had heard of nicotine, and many of them were familiar with carbon monoxide. A small proportion also said they were aware of toxins in cigarette smoke such as ammonia, arsenic and formaldehyde. (rtr)

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A customer smokes a cigarette in a cafe in Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2016.

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Participant of Literary Festival exceeds target

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The at-home treatment scores for depression were not as good at three months, but by six months they were similar to the scores of the group treated in the clinic.

Telemedicine for PTSD no less effective than in-person therapy

SOUTH CAROLINA - Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who have difficulties making it to in-person therapy sessions may be able to get treatment that’s just as good by videoconference.

Researchers compared homedelivered prolonged exposure therapy – which helps patients confront memories and situations that trigger their symptoms – to the same treatment given in U.S. Veterans Affairs clinics, and found no difference in effectiveness.

“The best treatment for PTSD, with the most empirical support, can be delivered at no loss of effectiveness, directly into a veteran’s home, rather than having the veteran come into clinic,” lead study author Ron Acierno told Reuters Health by email.

“We can now save the travel time and bring the treatment right to them” if a veteran lives too far away to attend 12 to 15 weekly sessions, can’t take off work or feels stigmatized coming into the clinic, said Acierno, a psychologist and researcher with the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

For the study, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, Acierno and colleagues recruited 132 veterans who had been diagnosed with PTSD, 127 of them men.

All the participants were assessed with standard PTSD scales designed to measure symptom severity and depression. They were then randomly assigned to two groups – each would receive 10 to 12 prolonged exposure therapy sessions, but one group would attend sessions at a VA medical center while the other would have sessions at home by video conference.

The participants who got treatment at home were provided with videoconferencing software to use on their own computers, tablets or smartphones. Videophones or tablets were provided to participants who didn’t own the proper equipment.

The researchers repeated the PTSD scales after three months of treatment and again three months later. They found that at both time points, the vets who were treated at home showed similar improvements in PTSD symptom severity as those treated in the clinic.

The at-home treatment scores for depression were not as good at three months, but by six months they were similar to the scores of the group treated in the clinic.

“Our effects with PTSD were just as good in person vs. home based telehealth,” Acierno said, “however, people doing the treatment via home-based telehealth did report more difficulty.”

About 33 percent of the at-home group did not complete the program compared to 19 percent of the clinic group.

Acierno said participants who dropped out reported difficulties such as feeling worried about losing control during exposures, the feeling they couldn’t tolerate assignments to go out in public and that imagined exposures made them feel bad.

Acierno said he and his collaborator Dr. Melba Hernandez-Tejada are exploring the idea of pairing peers who have been through prolonged exposure therapy and no longer meet criteria for PTSD with veterans currently receiving the treatment via telehealth to help them through the difficult parts of the therapy. (rtr)

BANGLI - Festival Nyastra or Literary Festival held by the association of Balinese language extension of Bangli on Sunday (Dec. 11) was enthusiastically attended by elementary school students who participated in learning to write Balinese letters. The number of participants was greate than the number targetted by the organising committee.

Chairman of the festival committee, I Dewa Made Sukartika, said that according to the initial plan, they aimed to have about 900 people participate in the literary activities that took place on the Bangli campus of the IHDN Denpasar. Unexpectedly, a total of 1,080 students form 156 differtn elementary schools took part.

“In fact, the number of participant is beyond our prediction. It is booming”, said Sukartika. He admitted that committee was a little overwhelmed as they did not have the facilities ot accommodate eveyone, especially because teachers and parents were also eager to watch their children take part in the festival.

“In response to the large turnout, the meeting hall and the lecture hall were also used to accommodate everyone”, he said.

Despite the large number of participants, busgetary constraints reamin an issue and Sukartika said that he hopes that the distorct and provincial govenrment will assiste in futur events. “For this activity, each language extension officer is obliged to donate. But this only provides limited funds, we hope the government can provide more supports”. he added.

Meanwhile, Balinese language extension officer coordinator of Bangli, Ni Ketut Sudastrini, said that the massive turn-out was proof that the younger generation is interested in preserving the Balinese language, script and literatuer as important parts of their culture. “It shows that children sare very much onterested in learning about Balinese culture”, she said.

Before participating in the festival, this woman from Sidembunut hamlet, Cempaga, Bangli, said that all the students had joined in study groups in their own villages. “There was no contest, all participants received a certificate. They were still very interested in participating.”, she added.

Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, during opening the festival said that Balinese language, script and literature are an important part of Balinese culture. On that account, there should be measures taken to preservepreservation measures hsould be taken, one of which is this festival. “It is deeply rooted in Balinese culture.

Everyone has a duty to preserve it”, he said.

When asked about government support for future implementation, he said that it is difficult to provide financial support because the district government has quite a lot of activities. “It is difficult to chance the budget because it has already been diceided on. Probably, the festival can be coupled with other activities held by the district government, such as the district anniversary. The extension officer can open a stand during the event” he concluded. (kmb45)

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The number of participants was greate than the number targetted by the organising committee.

After receiving verdict of Supreme Court

Agustay asks about Margriet’s verdict and ready for 10-year penalty DENPASAR - The judges of Supreme Court chaired by Dr. H. Andi Samsan Nganro with judge members consisting of H. Eddy Army and Dr. H. Margono who examined the cassation of murder case of Engeline already made a decision. In essence, the judges rejected the appeal of Agustay Hamda May and Margriet CH Megawe, so they will remain to be punished pursuant to the verdict of the Denpasar District Court.

As confirmed on Monday (Dec. 12), the legal counsel of Agustay Hamda May, Haposan Sihombing,

admitted that he had coordinated with Agustay. “He had asked about the verdict of Supreme Court for Margriet. I told him that it remains a sentence for life,” affirmed Haposan.

On hearing the explanation, Agustay who was asked about his comment on the verdict of Supreme Court did not give a lot of comments. “He just said that he is ready to undergo the 10 years in prison,” said Haposan.

Does it mean that he will submit a judicial review? Haposan said no. He continued there is no new

evidence owned by Agustay. In addition, Haposan already made coordination with his senior, Hotman Paris Hutapea, who is also the legal counsel of Agustay. Thus, the murder case of Engeline with the defendant Agustay will have a permanent legal force. On the other hand, Agustay said that he was so grateful to Haposan Sihombing and his team for being persistent in defending him up to the level of appeal without being paid a penny.

In the meantime, the party of Margriet could not be confirmed re-

garding the verdict of the Supreme Court, whether she will submit a judicial review or other measures.

As reported earlier, the attempt to be free from the bondage of the law carried out by Margriet CH Megawe over the murder of Engeline with cassation has failed. The judges of Supreme Court rejected the cassation of the convicted person and it is precisely upheld the verdict of District Court and High Court. With the verdict, Margriet is still sentenced to life. Likewise, Supreme Court judges also rejected the cassation of Agustay and he was

sentenced to 10 years in prison. The verdict was received by Denpasar District Court that has judged since the beginning of this case.

The verdict was made on October 26, 2016 for the convicted Agustay. The judge examining the cassation file was chaired by Dr. H. Andi Samsan Nganro together with judges H. Eddy Army and Dr. H. Margono. It is the verdict of these judges that rejected the cassation of first cassation applicant (prosecutor) and rejected the cassation of the second applicant (Agustay Handa May). (kmb37)

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Human resource issues remain toughest challenge

Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) for 2011 indicates that 10, 528 households were clasified as pour. Verification based on village meetings in 2015, placed this number at 11,055 households consisting of 36, 821 people. This represents a 0.92 percent of poverty over 4 years. This reality is a challenge that the district givernment needs to resolve. In the mid-term development plan (RPJMD) they aim to reduce the poverty rate to 3.5 percent between 2016 and 2021, said Sedana Arta before the headmen from throughout Bangli.

The Deputy Regent explained that the alleviation of poverty is still hampered by the same classic and difficult problem of human ressource skills. The is still a relatively large number of people who marry young and bad habits such as gambling, smoking and overconsumption are increasingly problematic as well. “The solution to these issues requires a crosssectoral approach. The district and

The picture of poverty in Bali

village governments must work together and people need to become more educated”, he said.

In order to alleviate poverty, continued this PDI-P politician, the people concerned must be commitment to working hard. One way to increase people’s income is to develop the non-formal employment sectors such an agriculture, which shows a lot of potential. Unforntunately many people still consider farming hard work and not worth pursuing. “IN reality, farming can provide a larger income that the district’s minimum wage”, said Arta.

Village governments are also beeing asked to be serious about collecting date related to poverty rates. Such data collection should be done accurately and honestly in accordance with the fourteen criteria that have been laid out.

Likewise, relief funds should be shared evenly by everyone in the community. “I have received information to the effect that several villages that received aid for the

pour, divided the funds equally amongst all the members of the community. This must not happen again. Such aid is meant for those who are suffering from poverty and must not be tampered with and political interests should be set aside. Data on poverty must be real”, he added.

Meanwhile, Head of the Bangli Social and Manpower Agency, I Nengah Sukarta, said that poverty in Bangli remains entrenched and inter-generational and that related to government aid, a number of people claimed to be poor in order to receive aid. “ In fact these people belong to well-to-do families and just claimed to be poor so they cold receive the aid money.. Such conditions must be closely observed by the village governments before they submit data to the district givernment”, he said.

Poverty alleviation efforts this year include the disbursement of funds for the the construction of 287 houses, 37 house refurbishments, and joint rural venture funds (KUBE) to 20 groups. “House construction are paid for with the assistance of the district and provincial government as well as CSR funds. Addition units will be worked on next year”, he concluded. (kmb45)

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The lime maker is working.

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Lime makers at Nyalian dissapearing over time

LIME or what the Balinese call pamor that is used for betel nut chewing was once a leading craft product made by residents in Nyalian hamlet, in Kawan, Bangli.

In fact Nyalian hmalet was once known as pepamoran or limeproducing hamlet as there were so many people here that produced this lime.

However, in harmony with the development of time and the reduction in the number of people who take part in the tradition of chewing betel leaf, has left the pepamoran hamlet nothing more than a name.

Over the past twenty years, nearly eveyone has abandoned this craft.

Wayan Dana is now the only surviving lime craftsman in Nyalian hamlet. Already in his seventies, he still continues to produce line that he sells to the traditinoal markets in Bangli, including Kidul Market.

When met at his home on Tuesday (Dec. 13), Dana said thatha been passed down in his family since the time of his great-grandfather. Formerly, the lime business was pursued by almost all residents at Nyalian hamlet who sold their product to traditiona markets in all the subdisticts. “Since so many people were producing lime in our hamlet, it was nicknamed pepamoran hamlet”, he said.

Dana added that in keeping with the decline in the betel nut chewing that started to seriously caused declines in demand to start around 1995, lime making in Nyalian also declined. “Now, people only buy lime for ritual oblations. Apparently the need for chewing betel nut has become quite rare”, he said.

This man who also dedicates himself as a priest for the Prajapati temple said that due to diminishing demands for lime, he only processes raw material limestone into about 25 kilograms of chewable lime per day. He still buys his raw lime from Perasi in Karangase, for about IDR 60,000 per 25kg sac.

To make lime from lime powder, explained Dana, requires several stages including solaking and filtration. The sediment generated by the soaking of lime powder is then molded into lime that is ready to be packaged for sale. “One 25kg bag of limestone is processed into about hald that amount, because there is a lot of sand in the limestone powder that is purchased”, he said.

Today, although the demand for lime has diminished, Dana said that he will continue this heritage business. “Rather than sitting idle at home, I prefer to make and sell lime, even though I only sell a few”, he added. (kmb40)

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NEW YORK - Former England soccer captain David Beckham said he was surprised and proud that his 11-yearold son, Cruz, had taken it upon himself to raise money for charity by releasing a Christmas single.

Cruz Beckham followed in the musical footsteps of his mum, fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria, by releasing “If Everyday Was Christmas” last week, with all proceeds from the single going to British children’s charity, Make Some Noise.

“He’s been listening to his dad and his mum and saying how important it is to help others,” David Beckham, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ambassador, said in New York on Monday at a 70th anniversary celebration for the charity.

“I was quite amazed by that because he’s 11 years old and to realise how important it is to give back at that age is something special.”

David Beckham was joined at the UNICEF celebration, held at the United Nations headquarters, by actors Jackie Chan, Orlando Bloom and Priyanka Chopra. (rtr) David Beckham attends the UNICEF 70th anniversary event at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 12, 2016.

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Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as “Ahok”, sits on the defendant’s chair at the start of his trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.

Indonesia transfixed as tearful Jakarta governor appears at blasphemy trial

JAKARTA - A tearful governor of Jakarta denied on Tuesday he had intended to insult the Koran at the start of his blasphemy trial in the Indonesian capital, which is seen as a test of religious freedom in the world largest Muslim-majority nation. Around 100 Muslim protesters calling for the jailing of Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, chanted “God is great” outside the court.

Authorities have pledged tight security for the trial after tens of thousands of Muslims, led by hardliners, took to the streets in December and November, to call for Purnama’s arrest and to urge voters not to re-elect him in February. The rallies, with over 150,000 participants each, were the biggest Jakarta has seen in nearly two decades.

Purnama told the court that he had not intended any insult when he made comments about his opponents’ use of the Koran in political campaigning. He denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the remarks. “It is clear what I said in the Thousand Islands was not intended to interpret the (Koran), let alone to insult Islam or the ulema,”

said the governor, who was dressed in a batik shirt.

Purnama said that his comments were targeted at rival politicians trying to get an unfair advantage in the election by saying that voters should not support a non-Muslim.

Purnama is running for re-election against two Muslim candidates.

The trial was aired live on television and there were also supporters of the governor, whose nickname is Ahok, outside the court. “He is absolutely suited to be governor. The city has come a long way in terms of development...,” said Charles Simanjuntak, 46, a supporter of the governor who does not believe he committed blasphemy. Among the protesters opposed to the governor,

one group held a placard reading “Jailing Ahok = fair government” President Joko Widodo, seen as an ally to Purnama, has blamed “political actors” for fuelling the protests, but declined to elaborate.

Widodo has faced widespread criticism for not doing enough to protect the country’s religious minorities.

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