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Cannes gets red carpet nursery

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CANNES - In a sunny corner overlooking the yacht-filled harbour, a handful of Cannes’ youngest visitors are bouncing around a vibrant-coloured carpet in the first-ever creche at the world’s biggest film festival.

The brainchild of three film industry mothers struggling to juggle being a parent with the gruelling annual run of festivals, Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon), is a light, airy room “where children are the new VIPs”.

Kids had previously been a very rare sight at the annual celebrityfilled festival, which thrives on glitz and glamour but has done little to meet the practical needs of movers and shakers with babies or toddlers in tow.

But for the first time this year, the festival has opened the special day care centre to lend a hand to parents in the film industry.

It follows a similar nursery, “playhouse and nap room” set up at the Sundance film festival last year by the US-based Moms-in-Film group, which had railed at the lack of childfriendly facilities at Cannes.

- ‘Takes women to make this happen’ It’s the morning of the opening of the Cannes creche and a handful of youngsters are playing with soft toys, while others try to nap in a space which also has fenced-off outdoor

areas shaded by parasols.

Three young nannies and a nurse from the Paris-based service “Nanny Please” are on hand to sing, colour, draw and make lunch, helped by two local volunteers, with the children housed in a pavilion by the harbour.

Coming from Los Angeles for her first visit to the Cannes festival, Gail Greaves said she had been planning on hiring someone to watch her twoyear-old daughter Arabella.

But with the festival running for 12 days, going private can quickly get expensive.

“You can’t really do much when they’re crying,” she said.

“I was going to bring a nanny or get one locally but you’re looking at 20 to 30 euros ($22-34) an hour.”

But searching online she found Le Ballon Rouge and quickly booked a place. Accredited festival-goers can obtain special passes for their children to use the day care service which is open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and costs 50 euros per day.

“This is amazing! They have all of this -- and other kids to play with,” Greaves smiled.

“It takes women coming together to make something happen.”

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US actor and comedian Bill Murray (R) salutes a municipal police officer (L) as he arrives for the screening of the film “The Dead Don’t Die” during the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2019.

Three film industry professionals with young children came up with the idea a few months ago while sharing tips about how to handle the worklife balance. Together they founded “Parenting at Film Festivals”.

“We were just comparing notes on how hard it was to be a parent at a festival,” said Michelle Carey, an Australian film programmer and one of the three women who founded the group.

During last year’s festival, she had to dash back to her hotel room some 20 minutes away just to feed her infant son, which was both difficult and impractical. And she wasn’t alone. (afp)

Elton John’s ‘Rocketman’ gets Cannes film festival liftoff

LONDON - After the near billion-dollar smash that was “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the Elton John biopic “Rocketman” will touch down Thursday at the Cannes film for a premiere at which the star himself is primed to play.

Sir Elton, 72, rocketed to stardom through a combination of virtuoso musical talent, flamboyant performances and unforgettable

pop songs, using his platform to promote gay rights and AIDS causes.

One of the world’s best-selling artists, the gay star’s career has spanned nearly five decades, much of it lived in a hazy whirl of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

Which gives plenty of material for Dexter Fletcher -- the British director drafted in at the last minute

to save the Freddie Mercury film -- to play with.

The movie explores the singer’s long and successful songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin, the result of a random pairing by a London record company, which produced seven consecutive US number one albums in the three years between 1972-75.

Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight

in northwest London, John has sold over 300 million records worldwide, won five Grammys, a Tony and an Oscar.

He also went down in British royal history when he performed his song “Candle in the Wind” with reworked lyrics at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

She had been a personal friend.

The song was later re-released

and sold more than 33 million copies, making it the best-selling single of all time after Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”.

John has given more than 3,500 concerts worldwide and early in his career became known for outlandish stage costumes, glasses that spelled his name in lights and doing handstands on his keyboards. (afp)

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‘Extreme drought’ in North Korea: KCNA

North Korea’s average rain and snowfall this year fell to the lowest level in 37 years, Pyongyang’s state media said Wednesday, just days after the UN expressed “grave concerns” about food shortages.

The isolated, impoverished nation -- which is under several sets of sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes -has long struggled to feed itself and suffers chronic food shortages.

A number of international organisations, including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have said minor disasters, including drought, can significantly worsen and hamper food production in the country.

From January to early May this year, North Korea only received 54.4 millimetres of rain or snow, the smallest amount since the same period in 1982, the state-run KCNA said, describing the situation as “an extreme drought”.

Last month, the WFP and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a joint report that North Korea’s crop output last year hit the lowest level since 2008, and that an estimated 10 million people

-- 40 percent of the entire population -- are in urgent need of food.

“The situation could further deteriorate during the lean season from May to September, if no proper and urgent humanitarian actions are taken,” the report said.

The WFP executive director David Beasley was in Seoul earlier this week, and said he is “very concerned” about food situation in the North during his meeting with the South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul.

A Unification Ministry official said Tuesday it is “necessary” to send food aid to the North sometime between May and September

as recommended by the WFP report. Seoul in 2017 had aimed to send $4.5 million worth of nutritional products to North Korea through the WFP, but that never happened partially due to Pyongyang’s nuclear tests that year.

The South’s presidential Blue House has said US President Donald Trump supports Seoul’s plan to provide humanitarian food aid to the North.

Early seasonal drought in the North this year could exacerbate “hunger, malnutrition and health problems” for “thousands of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women” in North Korea, the Inter-

national Federation of Red Cross said last week.

“Even before this drought, one in five children under five years old was stunted because of poor nutrition. We are concerned that these children will not be able to cope with further stress on their bodies.” (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Reduction of airline ticket upper limit rates

Hoped to increase domestic tourist visits to Bali

MANGUPURA - The government, through the Ministry of Transportation, finally adopted a policy to reduce the upper limit of airline ticket prices for all airlines. This decline ranges from 12 to 16 percent that will take effect after May 15, 2019.

Deputy Chairman II of Indonesia Hotel General Managers Association (IHGMA) of Bali Chapter, Made Ramia Adnyana, hoped that with this policy, the mobility of domestic tourists can return to being excited for a vacation to Bali. He said that so far ticket prices have become one of the most important causes on the decrease in the level of visits to Bali.

The moment ahead of this Eid holiday, according to him, is the right moment to prove the impact of decreasing the tariff limit on airline tickets. In general when approaching the Eid, hotel occupancy rate is usually full as dominated by domestic tourists. However, at this time he admitted the hotel occupancy rate had begun to rise, although it had not been too drastic. “Indeed, we have not seen any significant impact, but with a decline of 16-20 percent will provide stimulus for domestic tourists for holidays,” he explained when contacted on Wednesday (May 15).

He said that during this Eid period, hotel occupancy rates began to rise above 60-70 percent where previously the condition was always below that number. He added, the decline in domestic tourists to Bali is also in line with the decline in visits of Chinese tourists to Bali as the impact of the case of the Chinese mafia. According to him, the two tourist visits have contributed to a-30 percent decrease in hotel occupancy rates.

For this reason, the government is expected to be able to design strategic measures to return the trust of traditional markets that are loyal to Bali either by providing promotions or special packages, so that condition of Bali tourism will soon recover.

Meanwhile, according to a member of ASITA Bali who has a business operating at the airport, Nyoman Suharta, hoped the impact of the reduction of the airline’s upper limit tariff will immediately be felt. All this time, the conditions of tourists, mainly domestic tourists, still tend to be quiet. Moreover, this is aggravated by the effects of fasting month where people indeed tend to spend more of their free time at home.

“We want the ticket prices can immediately return to normal as before and the baggage rates are not like it is today. If this continues to be dragged on for a long time Bali tourism can die, the travel agent can also die in the future,” he hoped. (kmb23)

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To anticipate the entry of monkeypox

Passengers from Singapore monitored by thermo-scanner

MANGUPURA - Regarding the anticipation of the entry of the monkeypox virus through Ngurah Rai Airport, all passengers arriving from Singapore will be scanned at the arrival terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to the Head of Airport

Authority for Region IV, Elfi Amir, when confirmed on Wednesday (May 15) said that as a precautionary measure, this has been jointly agreed with the First Class Airport Health Office (KKP) of Denpasar.

Her authority requested the KKP to be more intensive in checking

passengers coming from Singapore area. In this case, she prepared a scanner at the arrival terminal.

Indeed, she said, regarding the scanning of passengers, currently it is only carried out to passengers coming from Singapore.

She revealed that technical

handling is specifically assigned to passengers from Singapore suspected of having or affected

by Monkeypox symptoms monitored through thermo-scanner.

If there is a detected passenger at temperature of 38 degrees, it will be evaluated and taken to the

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The patient will be evaluated and observed every day. (kmb23)

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Bali’s First Food & Wine Festival at Rumah Luwih Beach Resort

Rumah Luwih presents Bali’s first ever Food & Wine Festival, which will be held in Lebih, Gianyar at Rumah Luwih, a beautiful colonial-style beachfront resort on the 18th of May 2019, along the resort’s stunning infinity pool and lush tropical garden.

Guests will be served with exquisite foods and wines while

enjoying the wonderful sounds of musicians playing the very best of jazz, funk, reggae and R &B music.

Get ready for Bali’s young and talented musicians, such as Marapu and the Hydrant, DJs spinning cool tunes on the deck, wine and chocolate tasting by Bali-based companies such as Hatten Wine, Sababay, Isola,

Plaga, Pod Chocolate, and more.

This event is also an opportunity for Rumah Luwih to showcase Lebih beach, Gianyar as another fun and exciting destination on the island offering energy, fun, fantastic music, wonderful people, delicious food and true culture. Rumah Luwih Beach Resort is the very first hotel in this area to be hosting

such an event.

Sole Men and the Bali Children’s Foundation, will also be present in order to raise money for the underprivileged and orphaned children of Bali.

A truly memorable day of love, music, food, and wine. A day you will always remember at a resort that will always be there to bring you the very best in

entertainment. A day for family and friends to come together and enjoy their time with one another at a resort that is all about the love for Bali.

For bookings and reservation, please call Rumah Luwih at +62 857 9252 4561 (Mira) or +62 818 0555 7512 (Diah). Don’t forget to follow @rumahluwih for more updates.

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Rihanna teams up with LVMH to launch luxury fashion brand

PARIS - Pop idol Rihanna said Friday that she will team up with French luxury giant LVMH to launch her own luxury fashion brand in spring, becoming the first black women to head up a house for the firm.

The new luxury house will be called Fenty after Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the full name of the Barbados-born superstar, who already has her own highly successful Fenty sportswear and Savage lingerie labels.

The world’s biggest fashion conglomerate LVMH, which is owned by the industry titan Bernard Arnault, said the brand will be based in Paris and make ready-to-wear clothes, shoes and accessories.

“Mr Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits,” Rihanna said.

“I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise, and I’m ready for the world to see what we have built together.”

Rumours have been rife for months that LVMH, which owns such iconic brands as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Givenchy, was assembling a group of top designers for the project.

On Friday Arnault confirmed the rumours, saying that LVMH had built up a “talented and multicultural” team to support Rihanna’s newest brand.

- ‘True entrepreneur’ -

With her huge fan base and nearly 170 million social media followers, Rihanna is one of the most powerful style influencers

on the planet.

A new large-scale luxury label -- especially one led by a black woman -- is a huge development in the fashion world.

The top end of the market has been traditionally hogged by historic French and Italian houses.

Despite its dominance, LVMH has not started a luxury brand from scratch since Christian Lacroix in 1987.

Fashion insiders say the first creations for Rihanna’s new line are likely to be unveiled later this month.

Fashion analyst Serge Carreira said the “relatively novel move (to set up the luxury house) makes complete sense.

“It is millennials who are driving growth in the luxury market,” he told AFP. And Rihanna personifies their values and the “battle for diversity, women’s rights and a vision of the future,” he added.

A regular on the front row of fashion shows, and particularly at Dior in Paris, the singer has also proved herself to be a canny creator.

As well as her existing Fenty sportswear line, Rihanna upped sales at Puma when she became its creative director, and has also dipped her toe into lingerie.

Her Fenty Beauty operation -- which is also involved a hook-up with LVMH -- racked up sales of more than $100 million within weeks of its 2016 launch.

“Everybody knows Rihanna as a wonderful singer, but through our partnership at Fenty Beauty, I discovered a true entrepreneur, a real CEO and a terrific leader,” LVMH’s Arnault said in a statement.

- New album also imminent -

Rihanna is not the only pop icon to have become a fashion industry player. Beyonce, who has her own Ivy Park and House of Dereon labels, last month signed a deal with German sportswear giant Adidas.

It already has a deal with rapper Kanye West, who has his own Yeezy brand and has made no secret of his ambition to lead a major Paris fashion house.

The fashion industry bible Women’s Wear Daily has speculated that Rihanna’s luxury brand could be launched alongside her ninth album.

The singer has been teasing the release of her long-awaited follow-up to her double-platinum 2016 album “ANTI” for months.

She told a BBC television chatshow last June that she was in the studio working on it and her best friend Jennifer Rosales said in March that the album was finished.

Black designers have been making dramatic inroads into the fashion industry of late, with the American Virgil Abloh the most talked about designer at recent Paris fashion weeks.

Abloh, whose parents come from Ghana, now heads LVMH’s treasured Louis Vuitton menswear line as well as his own hugely cool Off-White Label.

Rihanna, who shot to fame with her “Music of the Sun” and “Good Girl Gone Bad” albums, is locked in a legal battle with her father over the use of the Fenty name.

Rihanna is suing her father Ronald Fenty over the use of the family name in his company, Fenty Entertainment.

Forbes magazine put the singer’s net worth last year at $210 million. (afp)

Beckhams take full control of brand business: report LONDON - Ex-England international footballer David Beckham and his fashion-designer wife Victoria have taken full control of his brand company after snapping up shares they did not already own, The Financial Times said Friday.

Citing people familiar with

the matter, the business daily reported that David and former Spice Girls member Victoria paid $50 million for a 33-percent stake held by XIX Entertainment, owned by the band’s ex-manager Simon Fuller.

Beckham Brand Company, which manages the former Man-

chester United star’s partnerships and brands, has a stake in new US Major League Soccer franchise Inter Miami.

Friday’s report comes one day after David was handed a sixmonth disqualification from driving in Britain after using a phone while behind the wheel. (afp)

DENPASAR — The Singapore government has confirmed about the presence of monkeypox virus in the country. The virus was carried by a Nigerian visiting Singapore on April 28 and tested positive for monkeypox on May 8.

Director of Bali Mandara Hospital (RSBM), Bagus Darmayasa, explained the monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a virus. This disease is transmitted to humans through animals, such as rats or other rodents, especially in Central and Western Africa.

Someone can be exposed to the monkeypox virus through contact with blood, body fluids or mucosa (mucous membranes—Ed) of infected animals. Quoted from the World Health Organization (WHO), the symptoms of new monkeypox appear 14 to 21 days from the time the virus first infects. Before the symptoms appear, monkeypox usually begins with an incubation period of six to 16 days.

Based on a circular from the Ministry of Health of the RI regarding the alertness of importation of monkeypox disease, it is mentioned that Central and West Africa are endemic areas of the monkeypox. Monkeypox is transmitted by animals, especially rodents that contain monkeypox viruses. Transmission occurs through bites, scratches as well as direct contact with blood, body fluids or lesions on the skin or mucosa of animals and consumption of improperly cooked meat. Human-to-human transmission can be possible but very limited, through respiratory secretions or lesions on the skin.

Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox (chickenpox) but are lighter. Incubation period lasts for 5 to 21 days and symptoms that arise include fever, severe headache, lymphadenopathy (enlarged lymph nodes), back pain, muscle aches and weakness. This rash develops from red spots such as smallpox (maculopapula) blisters filled with clear fluid (vesicles), pus-filled blisters (pustules) and then hardens. It usually takes up to three weeks for the rash to disappear.

Monkeypox is usually a disease that can recover itself with symptoms

that last for 14-21 days. Severe cases are more common in children and are associated with levels of exposure to the virus, patient health status and severity of complications. Death cases vary but less than 10 percent of the cases reported, where most of them are in children. In general, younger age groups appear to be more susceptible to monkeypox disease.

Based on data from SINKARKES from January to May 10, most ship arrivals were from Singapore (18,176 ships) and flights from Singapore were relatively large so that the possibility of the spread of monkeypox disease in Indonesia can occur, although according to the Singapore Ministry of Health the risk of spread is low in Singapore. Meanwhile, the arrivals from Singapore to Bali are also quite large or ranked eighth in international arrivals, reaching 14,606 people by air and 7 people through seaport in March 2019.

To anticipate and be aware of the importation of monkeypox disease, it is instructed to the Health Agencies throughout Indonesia, the Harbor Health Office, hospitals and health centers to disseminate information about monkeypox to the public and health care facilities in the region.

If getting a report on suspected monkeypox case, immediately make initial control efforts and report to the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control through PHEOC within 1 x 24 hours via email. Indonesian Ministry of Health also asked the CTF to conduct more intensive supervision against crews and travelers from Singapore, western and central African countries, conduct health checks on crews and travelers detected with fever or illness suspected of being associated with monkeypox, improve monitoring and inspection of transportation means to ensure rodent free, as well as improve monitoring and inspection of transportation equipment health document. At hospitals and health centers, the Ministry of Health requests that health officers when provided health services should always use personal protective equipment (at least masks and gloves). (kmb42)

Bagus Darmayasa

Tourists visited Lembongan-Jungut Batu, Nusa Penida.

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Tourists often misS

Guides requested to strictly supervise

SEMARAPURA — The number of tourists who died while on vacation in LembonganJungut Batu, Nusa Penida, is regretted by many parties. Necessarily, this case did not happen if the tourists concerned heeded the directions and warnings of their guides having been familiar to escort and direct guests.

Learning from these cases, the guides are asked to give their full attention when escorting guests and a little more resolute to guests against the prohibition of areas or places considered dangerous.

This was conveyed by headman of Jungut Batu, Nusa Penida, Gede Made Suryawan, on Wednesday (May 15). Learning from the case of Kausal Aditya, 23, an Indian tourist who was swept away when he was determined to stand and take photograph on Devil’s Tear cliff, last week and previous cases, tourists often disappeared while diving outside the designated locations. “Our guides here (Lembongan-Jungut Batu) always warn tourists about dangerous areas and restrictions that must be followed. However, sometimes the direction of guides is not followed. The Indian citizen has been reminded, warning board has been installed and fences have been installed, but he insisted on going there, too,” he affirmed.

Unlike Lembongan, the area of Jungut Batu is said

to have no such areas. However, guests usually disappeared while on vacation, especially when diving beyond the usual place. Or they do diving when the weather is bad. “At Jungut Batu, we always remind the guides. Pay special attention to guests where they go down. Sometimes when guests go down in the east, they usually appear in the west,” said Suryawan.

As headman, he hoped the locals or foreign tourists to always listen to the guide’s direction. Similarly, all guests should follow and keep watch their tourists when going down and where they will go. He also hoped the role of lifeguard as an effort to monitor tourists that are active in the sea as well as make synergy with guides.

Previously, after a 7-day search and coordination efforts with relevant parties including the families of the victim, it was agreed that SAR Operation of Kausal Aditya was closed on May 13. However, the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office continued to monitor, coordinate and explain if there are any possible indications on the existence of the victim. So, that it can be immediately followed up.

“If there are people commonly passing in the area and then find out the whereabouts of the victim, please inform us immediately. Of course, we will follow up. We remain open to that,” said Surya Wiryawan, Section Head of Operations and Alert and Denpasar Search and Rescue Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan. (kmb31)

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Standardization of childcare center must be supervised

DENPASAR - Following the incident of a baby dying in the Princess House Childcare, Regional Child Protection Commission (KPAD) of Bali reminded the government to re-make data collection on its existence. Aside from data collection, supervision and guidance are important things that must be carried out in the future so that similar incidents will not happen again.

At present, the existence of childcare center in Bali is growing rapidly because it is needed by the community and there are regulations supporting it. However, supervision of the childcare center standardization needs to be considered in the future by related institutions, said Ni Luh Gede Yastini, a member of the Bali Regional Child Protection Commission (KPPAD), on Wednesday (May 25).

This woman who is in charge of Law and Advocacy Division at the KPPAD Bali stated the childcare center is governed in the Regulation of the Minister of Education No.137/2014 concerning the standard of early child education that also sets forth the early age education (PAUD) service units also including childcare center. Previously, in 2011 Director General of Early Age Education Development at the Ministry of National Education issued technical guidelines for childcare center implementation where therein has been clearly specified the standards to be complied with by childcare center operators including the caregiver’s competency.

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In the technical guidelines, there is also a mechanism for evaluation, reporting and guidance that must be carried out by relevant agencies, in this case the Education Agency.

However, related to the case of infant death at this childcare center, the absence of permit is certainly very much deplored.

Yastini admitted that based on the results of the investigations she followed, indeed the childcare center where the baby died is not registered and has not been licensed. So, the Education Agency in the future should make data collection for the existing childcare center. When having no license and having not complied with the standards, there should be actions taken, at least the childcare center does not operate until the permits and standards are met so as to minimize things having a negative impact on children.

“Other than making data collection, it also develops so that the childcare center meets the standards specified by the government.

If not registered, it should not be ignored but fostered so as to meet the standards and certification that must be carried out in the future by the relevant agencies,” he said.

In the previous edition of Bali Post, it was published that baby Elora Nathania died at the Princess House Childcare at Jalan Badak Sari I No. 2A Denpasar. Currently, the case is being handled

by Denpasar Police. Caregivers and childcare center owner that only operates with the permission of foundation have been detained. (kmb16)

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supervision of the childcare center standardization needs to be considered in the future by related institutions.

NEW DELHI - India’s election watchdog says it has forced Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down hundreds of posts during the country’s election but experts say it is just a drop in an ocean of misinformation that has engulfed voters.

Both are still undergoing examinations to account for their actions.

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Alleged to commit skimming

Two Bulgarian citizens arrested by police in Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - People in the Nusa Penida archipelago are starting to be wary of crime at ATMs where two foreigners from Bulgaria could be successfully secured by police officers. They are alleged to have committed skimming (theft of bank’s customer data) in ATM at Kampong Toyapakeh, Nusa Penida. Right now, both are still undergoing examinations to account for their actions.

Chief of Nusa Penida Police, Nyoman Reka Sanjaya, stated on Wednesday (May 15) the two Bulgarian citizens are Konstantin Zlatkov Ivanov, 24, and Georgi Zhivkov Ivanop, 25. The disclosure of the case originated from a report from resident, Ahmad Fahrozi, 24, who reported the alleged crime to the Nusa Penida Police according to the Report No. Pol. LP-B / 11 / IV / 2019 / Bali / Seknusapenida on May 14, 2019. At that time, there was allegation that Bulgarian tourists were taking action to steal bank’s data. “The reporter and witness had been peeping for three days at the two foreigners’ movement from his office, which happened to be 10 meters away from the ATM,” said Reka Sanjaya.

The ATM at Kampong Toyapakeh became their targets. Local residents were suspicious of their movements, so they continued to carry out surveillance. Their suspicion increased after within the past few days they saw some

of the foreigners put something on the ATM located at Kampong Toyapakeh, just at the location before heading for the harbor.

Precisely on Monday (May 13), around 23:40, the reporter and witness saw the ATM’s light going out. Immediately, the reporter and another friend, Sahabudin, 31, approached the ATM. They were shocked after finding the two reported person were installing cables on the ATM. Both foreigners who had been caught off red-handed immediately panicked.

Moreover, they tried to bribe with some money and negotiated so that their act is not to be informed to other citizens or police officers.

However, the residents refused and chose to drag both foreigners to the Nusa Penida Police Station. Nusa Penida police officers rushed to the location and then secured the two Bulgarian citizens with this passport number 386005415 and 38515034.

“Learning from this case, we do

hope the community will increase its vigilance. Report it immediately when seeing suspicious foreigners’ actions, so that no one of our citizens becomes the victims,” he said.

After undergoing an examination at the Nusa Penida Police Station, Nyoman Reka Sanjaya said the case had now been transferred to the Klungkung Police Station. Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal Investigation Agency, Mirza Gunawan, when contacted on Wednesday, could not provide information. Several times, he was contacted via his cellphone, but he did not give an answer.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Klungkung Police, I Putu Gede Ardana, emphasized the case is under investigation by Klungkung Police officers after receiving a case delegation from the Nusa Penida Police Station. In particular, there are allegations of involvement of other parties behind the reckless actions committed by the two Bulgarian citizens. (kmb31)

The ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Congress party have thrown armies of “cyber warriors” into a bitter social media war for the six weeks of voting that ends Sunday.

The arch-rivals accuse each other of deploying social media dark arts such as automated bots and trolls to bombard voters with messages, fake and real.

No blow has been too low in the war of words and videos between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

Real-life insults traded by the two -- Gandhi calling Modi a “thief”, Modi deriding his opponent as “pappu”, or fool -- get shared thousands of times on WhatsApp and Twitter within minutes.

But so do photoshopped images of longtime foe Pakistan’s flag at Gandhi rallies, or Modi eating with Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan.

The origin of these images is unknown, but both have been debunked by AFP factcheckers during this campaign. And experts say the fake news on a host of apps is swaying votes.

- Tainted votes The 2019 poll has been “an app-based election where along with the positive voter engagement drives, WhatsApp, ShareChat, Helo, TikTok, Instagram are being used for propaganda and misinformation campaigns,” said Asia politics researcher Sangeeta Mahapatra.

Senior Congress politician Shashi Tharoor said in a recent editorial that there was a “danger” that “many votes will be cast on the basis of disinformation.”

Both the BJP and Congress have each spent tens of millions of dollars to reach the 900 million electorate who have become huge consumers of phone content.

Some 500 million Indians have internet access -- with 300 million on Facebook and more than 250 million using Whatsapp.

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This photo taken on April 5, 2019, shows Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers for the social media team working in the “war room” ahead of the national elections at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

The BJP, the bigger and richer of the two parties, and Congress have hundreds of fulltime social media workers. Tens of thousands of volunteers back them up by circulating the parties’ messages on Whatsapp and other platforms.

Congress social media head Divya Spandana told AFP the party has 300,000 Whatsapp groups and can get messages to up to 20 million people each day.

Spandana said her party only aims to be heard rather than attack. “We do social media trends organically, unlike the BJP who use bots,” she said.

BJP social media head Amit Malviya hit back. “Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account has been called out for using bots from Indonesia, Russia, Uzbekistan for powering his Twitter presence,” he told AFP. The BJP has not given details on its network, but media reports say it has many more full-time workers and Whatsapp groups than Congress. BJP president Amit Shah calls the workers his “cyber warriors”.

- Fake news police Mahapatra, Asia specialist at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, said up to one sixth of chat groups on Whatsapp in India are started by political parties.

This “shows parties are complicit in the misinformation malaise India is suffering from,” she said.

“Obviously, their messages are not going to be hamstrung by ethics of objective reporting. It is an open secret that the IT wings of most parties are peddlers of misinformation.”

Access to Whatsapp, the main weapon in the election war, is virtually impossible for law enforcement and fact checkers, as it is encrypted.

Messages spread en masse on Whatsapp were blamed for lynchings in India last year.

The Facebook-owned company has since restricted to five the number of times a message can be forwarded.

Backstreet stores sell software that can get around the restrictions however.

India’s election commission said that as of Monday, 637 Facebook posts, 145 Twitter posts, five YouTube videos and 31 forwarded Whatsapp messages have been taken down following approaches to the tech giants.

One police case has also been registered.

Police have set up their own teams in different states and say they have had misleading videos taken off YouTube.

Authorities have not named any party, even though experts say it is inevitable that the big two, and their rivals, have a hand in the misinformation.

“There is desire and a lot of great people looking at this problem, but the technology is not mature enough to handle such misinformation, involving images, video and local language text,” said Kiran Garimella, a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology monitoring fake news in India and other countries facing crunch elections.

“We can also see that political parties are clearly invested in this, as we observe from special Whatsapp strategies by the IT cells of various parties,” he added. (afp)

Lights out! Japan city to shut red-light zone during G20

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Tobita Shinchi was once known as the largest neighbourhood of licenced brothels in Japan.

TOKYO - Sex workers in Osaka will be shown the red light as the city seeks to clean up its image before hosting world leaders for the G20 summit in June.

All 159 members of the Tobita Shinchi association, which represents businesses in the red-light district, will close their doors during the Group of 20 meeting to avoid causing “disruption,” an association official told AFP. “Because the summit is a huge event, we thought that even a

minor bit of trouble between our customers could be a source of disruption, and have decided to close our operations voluntarily,” he said.

Trouble between customers tends to break out in part because of alcohol consumption in the district, he added.

Tobita Shinchi was once known as the largest neighbourhood of licenced brothels in Japan, but to circumvent anti-prostitution laws, many establishments now operate

as ‘Japanese-style restaurants’.

The association took a similar measure in 1995, when Osaka hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, with some but not all neighbourhood businesses closing during the meeting, the official said.

Japan will host the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28-29, with US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping among the world leaders expected to attend. (afp)

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BUSINESS Alibaba results beat analyst estimates Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba on Wednesday announced revenue for the latest quarter that beat analyst estimates, indicating that the Sino-US trade tiff and a slowing domestic economy were having little impact on the bottom line.

Revenue for the January-March period rose 51 percent year on year to 93.5 billion yuan ($13.6 billion), a company statement said, outpacing an average analyst estimate of 91.7 billion yuan compiled by Bloomberg News.

Net profit was 25.8 billion yuan, up more than three-fold compared to the same period a year earlier.

Revenue in the Hangzhou-based company’s core e-commerce segment, which accounts for the vast majority of its business, jumped 54 percent, while the smaller but fast-growing cloud computing unit surged 76 percent.

“Our cloud and data technology and tremendous traction in new retail have enabled us to continuously transform the way businesses operate in China and other emerging markets, which will contribute to our long-term growth,” Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang said in the statement.

Alibaba has been pouring money into what it calls “new retail”, which optimises in-store sales and service using data culled online.

Alibaba dominates China’s rapidly expanding consumer culture and its corporate results are typically closely watched for any signs that a Chinese economic deceleration and the US-China trade tensions were turning off shoppers.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hong Kong-listed Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent announced that its quarterly profit also beat expectations.

Tencent said its commercialpayment services and digital content business lines helped offset a government crackdown on its cash-cow gaming segment.

Alibaba was on Tuesday named the world’s most valuable retail brand outside the US, according to rankings by global marketing and communications group WPP and research and consulting firm Kantar.

Their report put Alibaba ahead of McDonald’s, Home Depot, Nike and Louis Vuitton, and it was the only Asian brand in the top 10. It put Alibaba’s brand value at $131.2 billion in 2018, up 48 percent on the previous year.

Companies like Alibaba are at the nexus of a national economic strategy to encourage more domestic consumer spending and thereby lessen the reliance on fickle foreign demand for Chinese exports. (afp)

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Still in doubt about the superiority of local products?

Just look at when the small businessmen and women are exploring their works in the Sunday Market at Samanera Bowl Ubud, Sunday (Apr. 28). Various types of local products with unique styles and designs are in demand by tourists. Foreign tourists staying at hotels or those traveling in the tourist area of ??Ubud village stopped by to buy it. So naturally, the Sunday Market held by Socialista was closed earlier because the product being sold had been sold out.

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Cruise ships are seen on the river Main during sun set in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, May 7, 2019.

Consumers help German economy to rebound in Q1

BERLIN - The German economy returned to growth in the first quarter on the back of solid consumer spending and a construction boom, official figures showed Wednesday.

A courier from TMall, one of the online shopping platforms owned by Alibaba, drives his delivery vehicle along a street in the central business district in Beijing on May 13, 2019.

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Europe’s biggest economy grew by 0.4% during the January-March period compared with the previous quarter, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

That was in line with economists’ expectations and a big improvement from the previous two quarters. The economy contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter of 2018 and flat-lined in the final three months, narrowly avoiding a recession, usually defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Over recent months economists and officials have downgraded their forecasts for the German

economy as a result of global trade tensions, uncertainty over Britain’s exit from the European Union and after-effects of last year’s economic wobble, a result largely of new car emissions standards.

The government’s full-year growth forecast currently stands at 0.5%, compared with 1.8% late last year. It sees growth accelerating to 1.5% in 2020.

ING economist Carsten Brzeski said the rebound suggests any panic about the state of German economy was overblown but that there is no room for complacency.

“Some of last year’s one-off fac-

tors have turned around,” he said.

“The German automotive industry might have seen better times but should not be written off and private consumption remains solid.”

UniCredit economist Andreas Rees cautioned that “the German economy is not out of the woods yet.”

“Less dynamic growth or even stagnation seems to be unavoidable in the second quarter,” he said. “Furthermore, an outright trade war between the U.S. and China and U.S. car tariffs would put German exports under strong pressure.” (ap)

The Sunday Market held at Rooftop Samanera Bowl Ubud presented a total of 16 entrepreneurs.

They served a variety of unique and high quality local products.

Uniquely, each product is more directed towards the green concept.

“It is purely from their awareness to present products that are antiplastic waste. Moreover, Bali has a Governor Regulation against plastic waste, so we must support it,” said Marina Mouaren, Founder & Owner of Socialista.

Marina Mouaren said the Sunday Market aims to provide opportunities for local entrepreneurs to promote and market their products.

Local entrepreneurs do not have to be the second person in their own area to do business. Through the Sunday Market, she hoped the local business of the local products will become more effective. “This activity is to help the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

introduce their products through digital, so that they can get income and become more famous,” she explained.

In this case, all the products are introduced through digital marketing, so that they were known to the wider community. They are local

businesses, working with several local partners, but targeting the international community. “In this activity, all kinds of product can be marketed as long as they are local products. The products presented are also simple, the ingredients are natural and unique. Local

entrepreneurs are very creative, there is a straw for drinking from bamboo looking very classic,” she added.

Sunday Market is held from one place to another so as to get closer to the market. The schedule is made every Sunday at the end

Nasi Tekor Served for Travelers Have you ever enjoyed nasi tekor or rice served in banana leaf food basket? In the past, getting a nasi tekor was an extraordinary gift. People tasting it did not only avoid hunger, but also got respect of brotherhood. If people organized prayers and piodalan or festival at family temple, they will cook in large amount and then ngejot or sharing food to neighbors containing of rice, lawar, vegetables, pepes and condiment.

The nasi tekor can also usually enjoyed after ngayah or devotional work at temple before piodalan.

Even though it only contains vegetables, all the menus taste good.

Indeed, in the past it was very rare for people to use plate as a place to eat. Tekor is a container made

from banana leaf whose ends are folded. It is indeed very traditional, so that eating with such a way as if bringing us back to the past, a time which will bring back memories once existing in the past.

In line with the rapid development of tourism, nasi tekor is also served at hotel restaurants having been creatively packed. One of them is menu of Warunk Cuci Mata located right in front of the Grand Istana Rama. The nasi tekor is served with bamboo woven mat with the philosophy related to the origin of life that every birth or life exists because of the merits of a father and mother.

Nasi tekor at Warunk Cuci Mata is served like Balinese mixed rice containing white rice, fried eel,

of the month. In disseminating information, it always uses media, bloggers, Facebook, Instagram and others. “We are very in love with local products, so that we take the initiative to help introduce them,” she concluded. (kmb)

eel in shrimp paste, kaffir lime and chili sauce, garlic and aromatic ginger spice, taro meat ball, chicken skin, and chicken penyon. Eating at Warunk Cuci Mata can be another way to enjoy the beauty of Kuta Beach. Aside from tasting delights of various halal archipelagic menus provided, of course visitors can get refreshed.

Nasi tekor menu is very appropriate to be presented at this warunk or food stall because it is located right in front of the Grand Istana Rama with a traditional market concept. This place is currently one of the favorite hangouts on Kuta Beach. Besides being serving unique and delicious Indonesian food, the price is also very affordable. (kmb)

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Masters of puppets: Indonesia’s ‘Ondel-Ondel’ kids

Peeking through a slit in her giant puppet costume, Indonesian teen Juniarti is drenched in sweat as she moves stiffly under the blistering sun.

In this file photo taken on May 9, 2019, JR East’s new test bullet train “ALFA-X” is seen in Rifu, Miyagi prefecture.

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Japan tests next-generation Shinkansen bullet train

TOKYO - A prototype of Japan’s next-generation Shinkansen bullet train, set to be the fastest train on wheels when it enters service, reached speeds of 320 kilometres (198 miles) per hour on a test run Thursday.

The train, code-named ALFA-X, will eventually hit 360 kilometres per hour when it begins to take passengers in about a decade, according to East Japan Railway.

Production of the 10-car train with a long nose-shaped head

finished in early May at a cost of 10 billion yen ($91 million).

Thursday’s trial run between Sendai and Morioka, two cities in northern Japan, was the first open to the media since tests started last week.

“We successfully conducted the test run today and will continue testing the train for about three years,” a company spokesman said.

The firm plans to introduce the train in 2030-31 when Shinkansen services will be extended to Sapporo, the biggest city on the nation’s northern island of Hokkaido.

“We will try to shorten travelling time with the nextgeneration Shinkansen,” said Kazunori Koyama, an official in charge of the testing.

Japan is a pioneer in high-speed rail networks, hailed for their punctuality and safety measures, including the emergency stop system, which can automatically slow down speeds before a major earthquake strikes.

The ALFA-X will reach the world’s fastest commercial speed for a wheeled bullet train, according to the company. (afp)

US stealth fighter suffers millions in damage from bird strike An Israeli F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show, over the beach in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, on May 9, 2019.

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WASHINGTON - A US F-35 stealth bomber suffered millions of dollars in damage after colliding with a bird during take-off from an air base in Japan, the US Marine Corps said in a statement Wednesday.

“On May 7, 2019 an F-35B with Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing aborted take-off due to a bird strike at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and safely taxied off the runway,” the statement said.

The pilot was not hurt in the incident, it said.

Photographs circulating on social media showed what appeared to a kind of falcon stuck beneath

the plane.

A damage assessment report has not yet been completed but the Marine Corps classified the incident as category “A,” meaning the damage is expected to exceed $2 million.

The F-35 program was launched in the 1990s and has cost almost $400 billion, making it the most expensive weapons system ever developed by the Pentagon.

The defense department plans to build some 2,500 of the warplanes in the decades to come.

The F-35B is a short take-off and landing variant of the plane, developed for the Marine Corps.

Each plane costs $115 million to build. (afp)

The 15-year-old and a motley crew of other children -- some as young as nine -- make a living by strapping on two-metre (6.5 foot) brightly coloured folk effigies known as Ondel-Ondel.

The giant-headed puppets are a staple on the streets of Indonesia’s bustling capital and often appear in celebrations to help ward off evil spirits.

Wobbling from side the side as they move, the puppets’ face used to be made from papier mache although a fibreglass or plastic resin mold is more common these days. Usually Ondel-Ondel come in a male version with a thick moustache and red face while the female’s white face is punctuated by bright-red lipstick -- with coconut leaves for hair.

Juniarti and her puppet-wearing friends collect change from passers-by with some jerky dance steps and selfie poses for entertainment.

Nearby, the teen girl’s four-year-old cousin Hassan wiggles and bops to mobile phone music while holding a bucket for change.

With the fasting month of Ramadan underway in Muslim-majority Indonesia, the kids are hoping that calls to give to the less fortunate will put more rupiah in their pockets.

But while they can pocket as much as $20 a day, it’s not easy money. OndelOndel wearers balance a bamboo frame on their shoulders to carry the oversized costume, which weighs up to 30 kilograms (66 pounds).

“Of course it’s tiring,” Juniarti told AFP during a break behind a luxury shopping mall. “It is so hot inside that my clothes are all drenched.”

Bastian, who has been busking for three years, has permanent reminders of his difficult work.

“The Ondel is really heavy -- look at my scar,” the 11-year-old said as he pulled his t-shirt to reveal red marks and scratches on his shoulder. Many adults don the costumes too, but children are increasingly picking up the practice.

That has alarmed youth protection advocates who fear that they’re vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. But Juniarti and Bastian insist they’ve suffered little harassment -- apart from being shooed away by security guards. Their path to this job tugs at the heart, however.

Juniarti dropped out of school in the third grade and went to work to help her family after their father passed away.

Residents in her Jakarta neighbourhood, where the hand-painted dolls are traditionally made from scratch, asked if she wanted to join the Ondel-Ondel ranks. It is a common way for people in the poor district to earn money. And having the chance to blend work with play means some of puppet kids think they’ve got a pretty good deal.

“I can have fun with my friends and work at the same time,” said 13-yearold Yogi Susanto. (afp)

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This picture taken on May 3, 2019 shows a resident walking by brightly coloured folk effigies known as Ondel-ondel in a neighbourhood where the hand-painted dolls are traditionally made from scratch in Jakarta. Ondel-ondel have long been a part of the Jakarta native group Betawi culture and the massive dolls used to be utlilized for traditional ceremonies and weddings and is believed to be able to ward off evil spirits.

Tanjungpinang offers isolation room to prevent spread of monkeypox

TANJUNGPINANG - Tanjungpinang Health, Birth Control, and Family Planning Office is offering an isolation room at Raja Ahmad Thabib Hospital for monkeypox virus patients as a precautionary measure to fight its spread, a local government official stated.

Hence, the Tanjungpinang health authorities had established coordination with their colleagues in the Riau Islands provincial government to select Raja Ahmad Thabib Hospital, Rustam stated on Thursday.

All concerned agencies should also intensify their prevention and

detection mechanism at Sri Bintan Pura Port, Rustam, head of the Tanjungpinang Health, Birth Control, and Family Planning Office, remarked.

Steps to increase prevention and identification system at the seaport was deemed necessary, as it was the main entry gate for the arrival and departure of Singaporean and Malaysian visitors to Tanjungpinang, he pointed out.

“Singapore has recently confirmed a reported case of monkeypox virus. The city state is located in proximity to Tanjungpinang,”

he remarked.

Hence, in spite of local health centers, hospitals, and community members reporting no cases of monkeypox in Tanjungpinang, all parties must stay alert, Rustam pointed out.

According to the United Nations World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) fact sheet, monkeypox as a rare viral zoonosis, or a virus spread to humans from animals, that is found chiefly in the remote areas of central and west Africa, near tropical rainforests.

The monkeypox virus causes

a viral disease with symptoms in humans similar but milder to those seen in smallpox patients. Nonetheless, monkeypox can be potentially deadly.

Monkeypox virus belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus in the family poxviridae and largely spread from various wild animals, such as rodents and primates, to people, but has limited secondary spread through human-to-human transmission.

No particular treatment or vaccination is presently available, though prior smallpox inoculation

was found to be increasingly effective in also preventing monkeypox.

According to the WHO, monkeypox was first detected in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, earlier known as Zaire, in a nine-year-old boy in a region where smallpox had been eradicated in 1968.

Thereafter, most cases were reported in rural and rainforest regions of the Congo Basin and western Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is viewed as being endemic. (ant)

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Lopez to rescue as Bucks down Raptors in opener

LOS ANGELES - Brook Lopez scored 29 points as the Milwaukee Bucks staged a late rally to defeat the Toronto Raptors 108-100 in the opening game of their NBA Eastern Conference finals clash on Wednesday.

Batu Kelebit AMLAPURA - A 15 min. jukung (local outrigger) ride east from Tulamben Bay will take you to Batu Kelebit these two large rocks that lie just offshore. The dive site is quite dramatic and consists of three steep ridges encrusted with an incredible diversity of hard corals, beautiful sea fans, fire corals and sponges and between these ridges are channels of white sand. In fact, it is not only the colour of the sand that differs from Tulamben Bay, the species of even the most common reef fish are different too.

Batu Kelebit is basically two large rocks that lie just offshore. As you follow the sloping reef deeper, the dive site becomes more dramatic. You’ll see three steep ridges encrusted with a wonderful diversity of hard and soft corals, fire and table corals, many beautiful sea fans, and sponges.

Between the ridges are channels of grey and white sand that run 25-40m in depth.

Here we often see schools of Big-eyed trevallys, while on the sand are Fire dartfish, Gold-specs jawfish, Starry puffers and cuttlefish.

The marine life varies from the tiny up to the very large: the steepness of the site combined with the structure of the ridges (and plankton-rich water) means you also have much more chance to see pelagics in-

cluding barracuda, tuna, manta and white tip reef shark here than you do within the Bay. The diving here is colder than within Tulamben Bay and not only because the diving here is generally deeper: there’s a cold water eddy that comes up from the depths. Visibility is generally as low as 15-20M due to the amount of plankton in the water. The current can be quite strong at times but the channels are wellprotected.

In fact, it is not only the colour of the sand that differs from Tulamben Bay. The species of even the most common reef fish are different too. The steepness of the site combined with the structure of the ridges, and plankton-rich water, means you have more chance to see pelagics here than within Tulamben Bay itself. These include barracuda, tuna, Manta rays, White-tip reef sharks, turtles, Dogtooth tuna and sometimes Mola-Mola (Ocean sunfish).

The water is cooler here (26°C is not unusual) due to a cold upwelling from the depths. Visibility can be as low as 15-20m due to plankton but is usually better.

Although the channels are well-protected, as the (north west) current varies from mild to quite strong with occasional deceptive down currents, you need to watch your depth and stay near your guide.

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Lopez helped spark a run of 10 unanswered points in the final three minutes as the Bucks fought back from 100-98 down to claim a crucial victory in front of their home fans at the Fiserv Forum.

Two free throws from Kawhi Leonard had nudged Toronto into a 100-98 lead as the clock wound down on a pulsating opening instalment of the best-of-seven series.

But a Lopez dunk gave the Bucks a 101100 lead and then a three-pointer from the towering 31-year-old took Milwaukee four points clear.

Two free throws apiece from Eric Bledsoe and Khris Middleton completed the scoring as the Bucks pulled away to win.

“It was a complete team effort,” said Lopez, who finished with 11 rebounds and two assists. “We’d been playing with good energy the whole game but shots weren’t going down for us. So we knew we just had to keep grinding, which is what we’ve been doing all season long,” Lopez added.

“We’ve learned never to hang our heads, never give up, and we haven’t all season.

They hit us, but we stuck with it and stuck together as a team.”

Lopez was backed by 24 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who also hauled down 14 rebounds with six assists.

Middleton had 11 points with 11 rebounds while Malcolm Brogdon delivered a vital 15 points from the bench.

Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer praised the overall contribution of the team but singled out Lopez for special praise.

“Big game from Brook on both ends of the court,” Budenholzer said. “In the first half we were struggling but Brook was able to manufacture a couple of things.

“And several times in the fourth quarter he was out there making big-time plays -- blocks, rebounds, contests. Certainly in a

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Brook Lopez #11 of the Milwaukee Bucks shoots the ball against the Toronto Raptors during Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2019 NBA Playoffs on May 15, 2019 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. big moment, that was a great Brook Lopez tonight.”

The Raptors meanwhile will take positives from the form of Kawhi Leonard, who once again looked poised to single-handedly drag Toronto over the line.

Leonard finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and two assists while point guard Kyle Lowry was similarly impressive with 30 points and eight rebounds.

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we’ve got to learn from it.”

Raptors ace Danny Green was similarly frustrated.

“When you’ve got a team down like that you’ve got to be mature enough and professional enough to try to keep them there,” Green said. “This is one win I thought we could have gotten. I felt like we kind of let it slip away.”

Game two in the series takes place on Friday. (afp)

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Marc Gasol delivered another impressive defensive display with 12 rebounds and two blocks. However Lowry was left ruing the Raptors inability to make a 13-point early lead count. Toronto also paid the price for being outscored 32-17 in the fourth quarter.

“Fourth quarter killed us,” Lowry said.

“They outplayed us in that fourth quarter.

They were a little bit more aggressive. Made some big shots, made some big plays. It sucks to lose like that. But we had our chance and

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Maria Sharapova attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City.

PARIS - Maria Sharapova has pulled out of this year’s French Open with a shoulder injury, the two-time former Roland Garros winner announced on Wednesday.

Sharapova, 32, a five-time Grand Slam champion, has not played since pulling out of a tournament in her native Russia at the end of January.

“Sometimes the right decisions aren’t always the easiest ones,”

she said in a post on her Instagram account.

“In better news, I have returned to the practice court, and slowly building the strength back in my shoulder,” she added with a picture of her lifting the Roland Garros trophy in 2014.

In February the world number 35 said she had undergone a small procedure to fix a long-standing shoulder problem.

The former world number one

had missed out on a place in the Australian Open quarter-finals in January.

Sharapova has been struggling back to top fitness since watching from the sidelines during her 15-month doping ban that ended in 2017.

This year’s French Open will run from May 26 until June 9, with Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep as defending champions. (afp)

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PSG and United eyeing Lewandowski transfer -- report Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski has received offers from both Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, according to a report in German football magazine Kicker on Thursday.

Kicker reported that Lewandowski, whose current deal at Bayern runs until 2021, was unhappy with the club’s plan to extend his contract by a single year, suggesting the player wanted a longer deal.

“At the moment, he has requests from Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain,” the magazine wrote.

The 30-year-old Polish striker

has scored 189 goals in 240 games for Bayern since joining in 2014, and has consistently been linked to Europe’s biggest clubs.

He openly flirted with a move to Real Madrid last summer, before ultimately staying in Munich.

In an interview with Kicker in March, Lewandowski said he was open to extending his contract at Bayern.

“We have had early discussions, but it will take some time because at the moment, my focus is on the end of the season,” he said. “But yes, I can very much imagine staying longer.” (afp)

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Lazio’s Serbian midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic celebrates after scoring a goal during the Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) final match between Lazio and Atalanta, on May 15, 2019 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

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Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany lifts the English Premier League trophy after the English Premier League soccer match between Brighton and Manchester City at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton, England, Sunday, May 12, 2019. Manchester City defeated Brighton 4-1 to win the championship.

Lazio end Atalanta’s dream run to win Coppa Italia amid tensions in Rome

Man City facing 1-season ban from Champions League Manchester City has not been cooperating with investigators and is facing a one-season ban from the Champions League for violating financial monitoring rules, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press.

City released a statement Tuesday saying the club has provided “comprehensive proof” that it did not break financial regulations, but the person said the Champions League ban is being pursued by UEFA financial investigators, confirming a New York Times report. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is confidential and ongoing.

The person also said the Premier League champions have not been cooperating with the investigation when they have

been asked about information in leaked documents.

An independent club finance panel has been examining evidence published in the Football Leaks series. The AP reported in December that UEFA believed it had been misled by City over income.

In its statement , City said “the accusation of financial irregularities (is) entirely false, and comprehensive proof of this fact has been provided.” City also said the club’s “published accounts are full and complete and a matter of legal and regulatory record.”

City added it was “extremely concerning” that details about the process of the investigation has been leaked to a newspaper, saying that implies the club’s “good faith” in the independent panel is “misplaced” or that the “process is being misrepresented by individuals intent on damaging

the club’s reputation and its commercial interests. Or both.”

Key to the investigation is whether City deceived UEFA for several years, including by disguising the source of revenue from sponsorship deals tied to the club’s owners in Abu Dhabi.

UEFA rules limit cash injections from wealthy owners, and commercial deals such as shirt sponsorship that are suspected of being inflated are assessed for the fair market rate.

UEFA said it does not comment on ongoing Financial Fair Play investigations. The governing body’s next scheduled public statement will likely be to announce if the file on City has been transferred to the judges, or closed.

City won the Premier League title on Sunday for the fourth time in eight seasons. The team has never won the Champions League. (ap)

China to host 2023 Asian Cup after Korea withdraw bid South Korea have abandoned their bid to stage football’s Asian Cup in 2023, authorities said, leaving the sole other bidders China with a free run to become hosts.

The Korea Football Association (KFA) said in a statement it had pulled out to “strategically focus” on a joint bid with North Korea to host the Women’s World Cup in the same year.

The KFA announced the joint bid in March, but diplomatic contacts between Pyongyang and Seoul have since dwindled with North Korea-US nuclear talks deadlocked.

“For the Women’s World Cup, FIFA and the South Korean government will provide active support so that the joint hosting

by South and North Koreas can be materialised,” the KFA’s head Chun Han-jin said in the statement late Wednesday.

Seoul’s Asian Cup withdrawal means that China should on June 4 be confirmed by the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) as hosts of the nations championship finals for the second time.

China staged the tournament in 2004 when the hosts lost 3-1 to Japan in the Beijing final.

The KFA announced Seoul’s bid to host the 24-nation 2023 edition two years ago, saying it hoped to “host the most prestigious football tournament in Asia” 63 years after holding it for the first time in 1960.

Thailand and Indonesia had also previously expressed interest in hosting the 2023 event, but dropped their bids earlier.

This year’s tournament in the UAE was expanded to 24 nations for the first time with Qatar winning the final 3-1 against Japan. (afp)

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Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski controls the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match RB Leipzig vs FC Bayern Munich in Leipzig, eastern Germany on May 11, 2019.

Lazio lifted the Coppa Italia for the seventh time on Wednesday after late goals from Sergej MilinkovicSavic and Joaquin Correa guided them to a 2-0 final win over Atalanta on a night in Rome dogged by fan violence.

Milinkovic-Savic’s fine header set Lazio on their way with eight minutes left at the Stadio Olimpico, seconds after coming on as a substitute, before Correa sealed victory in the closing moments of the match.

The victory books Lazio a ticket to next season’s Europa League, much-needed for Simone Inzaghi’s side as they are eighth in Serie A, four points off the European berths with two games left to play. “We really wanted this Cup,” said Inzaghi.

“It’s a great satisfaction, we deserve it because we’ve come a long way.” However his side’s win was marred by clashes outside the stadium between Lazio’s hardcore ‘ultra’ supporters and police before the game.

Fans threw projectiles at officers as a police car was burned near the Ponte Milvio bridge not far from the Stadio Olimpico.

According to Italian media, two policemen were injured, one in an ear by a projectile, and five fans were arrested.

Atalanta had eliminated holders Juventus in the quarter-finals and been bidding to win their second Coppa Italia, which would have been their first major honour since they last won the competition in 1963.

For the side from Bergamo -- who are still in the running for a first-ever qualification to the Champions League -- it is their third defeat in the final after also missing out in 1987 and 1996.

- Nervy affair -

Gian Piero Gasperini’s side head to league champions Juve on Sunday looking to keep hold of fourth place in Serie A, which is being chased by AC Milan and Roma, both three points back.

“It’s a pity, but finals are like that,” said Gasperini.

“The decisive moment of the match arrived in the second half and we lost on a corner kick.

“We now head to Sunday, because there is a place in the next Champions League to defend. We’ll overcome this disappointment, even if our run in the tournament was a great experience.”

Atalanta had arrived in Rome on a 12-match unbeaten run, having not lost since the end of February, and having beaten Lazio in both of their Serie A games this season.

But they could not find a way past their solid opponents after failing to take their chances in a nervy game, with Papu Gomez denied by Thomas Strakosha in the Lazio goal within the first minute.

Atalanta’s top scorer Duvan Zapata and midfielder Marten De Roon also squandered two quickfire efforts on 26 minutes, before with Gomez hit the post with 14 minutes left.

Seconds afterwards Savic made an almost immediate impact after coming on to replace Luis Alberto, who himself had just missed a chance for Lazio.

The Serb broke through leaving Pierluigi Gollini powerless, and Correa finished off a counter attack minutes later to end the discussion and award Inzaghi with his first major honour since winnning the competition as a Lazio player in 2009. (afp)

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PSG and United eyeing Lewandowski transfer -- report Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski has received offers from both Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, according to a report in German football magazine Kicker on Thursday.

Kicker reported that Lewandowski, whose current deal at Bayern runs until 2021, was unhappy with the club’s plan to extend his contract by a single year, suggesting the player wanted a longer deal.

“At the moment, he has requests from Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain,” the magazine wrote.

The 30-year-old Polish striker

has scored 189 goals in 240 games for Bayern since joining in 2014, and has consistently been linked to Europe’s biggest clubs.

He openly flirted with a move to Real Madrid last summer, before ultimately staying in Munich.

In an interview with Kicker in March, Lewandowski said he was open to extending his contract at Bayern.

“We have had early discussions, but it will take some time because at the moment, my focus is on the end of the season,” he said. “But yes, I can very much imagine staying longer.” (afp)

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Lazio’s Serbian midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic celebrates after scoring a goal during the Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) final match between Lazio and Atalanta, on May 15, 2019 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany lifts the English Premier League trophy after the English Premier League soccer match between Brighton and Manchester City at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton, England, Sunday, May 12, 2019. Manchester City defeated Brighton 4-1 to win the championship.

Lazio end Atalanta’s dream run to win Coppa Italia amid tensions in Rome

Man City facing 1-season ban from Champions League Manchester City has not been cooperating with investigators and is facing a one-season ban from the Champions League for violating financial monitoring rules, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press.

City released a statement Tuesday saying the club has provided “comprehensive proof” that it did not break financial regulations, but the person said the Champions League ban is being pursued by UEFA financial investigators, confirming a New York Times report. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is confidential and ongoing.

The person also said the Premier League champions have not been cooperating with the investigation when they have

been asked about information in leaked documents.

An independent club finance panel has been examining evidence published in the Football Leaks series. The AP reported in December that UEFA believed it had been misled by City over income.

In its statement , City said “the accusation of financial irregularities (is) entirely false, and comprehensive proof of this fact has been provided.” City also said the club’s “published accounts are full and complete and a matter of legal and regulatory record.”

City added it was “extremely concerning” that details about the process of the investigation has been leaked to a newspaper, saying that implies the club’s “good faith” in the independent panel is “misplaced” or that the “process is being misrepresented by individuals intent on damaging

the club’s reputation and its commercial interests. Or both.”

Key to the investigation is whether City deceived UEFA for several years, including by disguising the source of revenue from sponsorship deals tied to the club’s owners in Abu Dhabi.

UEFA rules limit cash injections from wealthy owners, and commercial deals such as shirt sponsorship that are suspected of being inflated are assessed for the fair market rate.

UEFA said it does not comment on ongoing Financial Fair Play investigations. The governing body’s next scheduled public statement will likely be to announce if the file on City has been transferred to the judges, or closed.

City won the Premier League title on Sunday for the fourth time in eight seasons. The team has never won the Champions League. (ap)

China to host 2023 Asian Cup after Korea withdraw bid South Korea have abandoned their bid to stage football’s Asian Cup in 2023, authorities said, leaving the sole other bidders China with a free run to become hosts.

The Korea Football Association (KFA) said in a statement it had pulled out to “strategically focus” on a joint bid with North Korea to host the Women’s World Cup in the same year.

The KFA announced the joint bid in March, but diplomatic contacts between Pyongyang and Seoul have since dwindled with North Korea-US nuclear talks deadlocked.

“For the Women’s World Cup, FIFA and the South Korean government will provide active support so that the joint hosting

by South and North Koreas can be materialised,” the KFA’s head Chun Han-jin said in the statement late Wednesday.

Seoul’s Asian Cup withdrawal means that China should on June 4 be confirmed by the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) as hosts of the nations championship finals for the second time.

China staged the tournament in 2004 when the hosts lost 3-1 to Japan in the Beijing final.

The KFA announced Seoul’s bid to host the 24-nation 2023 edition two years ago, saying it hoped to “host the most prestigious football tournament in Asia” 63 years after holding it for the first time in 1960.

Thailand and Indonesia had also previously expressed interest in hosting the 2023 event, but dropped their bids earlier.

This year’s tournament in the UAE was expanded to 24 nations for the first time with Qatar winning the final 3-1 against Japan. (afp)

Odd ANDERSEN / AFP

Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski controls the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match RB Leipzig vs FC Bayern Munich in Leipzig, eastern Germany on May 11, 2019.

Lazio lifted the Coppa Italia for the seventh time on Wednesday after late goals from Sergej MilinkovicSavic and Joaquin Correa guided them to a 2-0 final win over Atalanta on a night in Rome dogged by fan violence.

Milinkovic-Savic’s fine header set Lazio on their way with eight minutes left at the Stadio Olimpico, seconds after coming on as a substitute, before Correa sealed victory in the closing moments of the match.

The victory books Lazio a ticket to next season’s Europa League, much-needed for Simone Inzaghi’s side as they are eighth in Serie A, four points off the European berths with two games left to play. “We really wanted this Cup,” said Inzaghi.

“It’s a great satisfaction, we deserve it because we’ve come a long way.” However his side’s win was marred by clashes outside the stadium between Lazio’s hardcore ‘ultra’ supporters and police before the game.

Fans threw projectiles at officers as a police car was burned near the Ponte Milvio bridge not far from the Stadio Olimpico.

According to Italian media, two policemen were injured, one in an ear by a projectile, and five fans were arrested.

Atalanta had eliminated holders Juventus in the quarter-finals and been bidding to win their second Coppa Italia, which would have been their first major honour since they last won the competition in 1963.

For the side from Bergamo -- who are still in the running for a first-ever qualification to the Champions League -- it is their third defeat in the final after also missing out in 1987 and 1996.

- Nervy affair -

Gian Piero Gasperini’s side head to league champions Juve on Sunday looking to keep hold of fourth place in Serie A, which is being chased by AC Milan and Roma, both three points back.

“It’s a pity, but finals are like that,” said Gasperini.

“The decisive moment of the match arrived in the second half and we lost on a corner kick.

“We now head to Sunday, because there is a place in the next Champions League to defend. We’ll overcome this disappointment, even if our run in the tournament was a great experience.”

Atalanta had arrived in Rome on a 12-match unbeaten run, having not lost since the end of February, and having beaten Lazio in both of their Serie A games this season.

But they could not find a way past their solid opponents after failing to take their chances in a nervy game, with Papu Gomez denied by Thomas Strakosha in the Lazio goal within the first minute.

Atalanta’s top scorer Duvan Zapata and midfielder Marten De Roon also squandered two quickfire efforts on 26 minutes, before with Gomez hit the post with 14 minutes left.

Seconds afterwards Savic made an almost immediate impact after coming on to replace Luis Alberto, who himself had just missed a chance for Lazio.

The Serb broke through leaving Pierluigi Gollini powerless, and Correa finished off a counter attack minutes later to end the discussion and award Inzaghi with his first major honour since winnning the competition as a Lazio player in 2009. (afp)

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Lopez to rescue as Bucks down Raptors in opener

LOS ANGELES - Brook Lopez scored 29 points as the Milwaukee Bucks staged a late rally to defeat the Toronto Raptors 108-100 in the opening game of their NBA Eastern Conference finals clash on Wednesday.

Batu Kelebit AMLAPURA - A 15 min. jukung (local outrigger) ride east from Tulamben Bay will take you to Batu Kelebit these two large rocks that lie just offshore. The dive site is quite dramatic and consists of three steep ridges encrusted with an incredible diversity of hard corals, beautiful sea fans, fire corals and sponges and between these ridges are channels of white sand. In fact, it is not only the colour of the sand that differs from Tulamben Bay, the species of even the most common reef fish are different too.

Batu Kelebit is basically two large rocks that lie just offshore. As you follow the sloping reef deeper, the dive site becomes more dramatic. You’ll see three steep ridges encrusted with a wonderful diversity of hard and soft corals, fire and table corals, many beautiful sea fans, and sponges.

Between the ridges are channels of grey and white sand that run 25-40m in depth.

Here we often see schools of Big-eyed trevallys, while on the sand are Fire dartfish, Gold-specs jawfish, Starry puffers and cuttlefish.

The marine life varies from the tiny up to the very large: the steepness of the site combined with the structure of the ridges (and plankton-rich water) means you also have much more chance to see pelagics in-

cluding barracuda, tuna, manta and white tip reef shark here than you do within the Bay. The diving here is colder than within Tulamben Bay and not only because the diving here is generally deeper: there’s a cold water eddy that comes up from the depths. Visibility is generally as low as 15-20M due to the amount of plankton in the water. The current can be quite strong at times but the channels are wellprotected.

In fact, it is not only the colour of the sand that differs from Tulamben Bay. The species of even the most common reef fish are different too. The steepness of the site combined with the structure of the ridges, and plankton-rich water, means you have more chance to see pelagics here than within Tulamben Bay itself. These include barracuda, tuna, Manta rays, White-tip reef sharks, turtles, Dogtooth tuna and sometimes Mola-Mola (Ocean sunfish).

The water is cooler here (26°C is not unusual) due to a cold upwelling from the depths. Visibility can be as low as 15-20m due to plankton but is usually better.

Although the channels are well-protected, as the (north west) current varies from mild to quite strong with occasional deceptive down currents, you need to watch your depth and stay near your guide.

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Lopez helped spark a run of 10 unanswered points in the final three minutes as the Bucks fought back from 100-98 down to claim a crucial victory in front of their home fans at the Fiserv Forum.

Two free throws from Kawhi Leonard had nudged Toronto into a 100-98 lead as the clock wound down on a pulsating opening instalment of the best-of-seven series.

But a Lopez dunk gave the Bucks a 101100 lead and then a three-pointer from the towering 31-year-old took Milwaukee four points clear.

Two free throws apiece from Eric Bledsoe and Khris Middleton completed the scoring as the Bucks pulled away to win.

“It was a complete team effort,” said Lopez, who finished with 11 rebounds and two assists. “We’d been playing with good energy the whole game but shots weren’t going down for us. So we knew we just had to keep grinding, which is what we’ve been doing all season long,” Lopez added.

“We’ve learned never to hang our heads, never give up, and we haven’t all season.

They hit us, but we stuck with it and stuck together as a team.”

Lopez was backed by 24 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who also hauled down 14 rebounds with six assists.

Middleton had 11 points with 11 rebounds while Malcolm Brogdon delivered a vital 15 points from the bench.

Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer praised the overall contribution of the team but singled out Lopez for special praise.

“Big game from Brook on both ends of the court,” Budenholzer said. “In the first half we were struggling but Brook was able to manufacture a couple of things.

“And several times in the fourth quarter he was out there making big-time plays -- blocks, rebounds, contests. Certainly in a

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Brook Lopez #11 of the Milwaukee Bucks shoots the ball against the Toronto Raptors during Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2019 NBA Playoffs on May 15, 2019 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. big moment, that was a great Brook Lopez tonight.”

The Raptors meanwhile will take positives from the form of Kawhi Leonard, who once again looked poised to single-handedly drag Toronto over the line.

Leonard finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and two assists while point guard Kyle Lowry was similarly impressive with 30 points and eight rebounds.

Pascal Siakam added 15 points while

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we’ve got to learn from it.”

Raptors ace Danny Green was similarly frustrated.

“When you’ve got a team down like that you’ve got to be mature enough and professional enough to try to keep them there,” Green said. “This is one win I thought we could have gotten. I felt like we kind of let it slip away.”

Game two in the series takes place on Friday. (afp)

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Marc Gasol delivered another impressive defensive display with 12 rebounds and two blocks. However Lowry was left ruing the Raptors inability to make a 13-point early lead count. Toronto also paid the price for being outscored 32-17 in the fourth quarter.

“Fourth quarter killed us,” Lowry said.

“They outplayed us in that fourth quarter.

They were a little bit more aggressive. Made some big shots, made some big plays. It sucks to lose like that. But we had our chance and

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Maria Sharapova attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City.

PARIS - Maria Sharapova has pulled out of this year’s French Open with a shoulder injury, the two-time former Roland Garros winner announced on Wednesday.

Sharapova, 32, a five-time Grand Slam champion, has not played since pulling out of a tournament in her native Russia at the end of January.

“Sometimes the right decisions aren’t always the easiest ones,”

she said in a post on her Instagram account.

“In better news, I have returned to the practice court, and slowly building the strength back in my shoulder,” she added with a picture of her lifting the Roland Garros trophy in 2014.

In February the world number 35 said she had undergone a small procedure to fix a long-standing shoulder problem.

The former world number one

had missed out on a place in the Australian Open quarter-finals in January.

Sharapova has been struggling back to top fitness since watching from the sidelines during her 15-month doping ban that ended in 2017.

This year’s French Open will run from May 26 until June 9, with Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep as defending champions. (afp)

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Masters of puppets: Indonesia’s ‘Ondel-Ondel’ kids

Peeking through a slit in her giant puppet costume, Indonesian teen Juniarti is drenched in sweat as she moves stiffly under the blistering sun.

In this file photo taken on May 9, 2019, JR East’s new test bullet train “ALFA-X” is seen in Rifu, Miyagi prefecture.

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Japan tests next-generation Shinkansen bullet train

TOKYO - A prototype of Japan’s next-generation Shinkansen bullet train, set to be the fastest train on wheels when it enters service, reached speeds of 320 kilometres (198 miles) per hour on a test run Thursday.

The train, code-named ALFA-X, will eventually hit 360 kilometres per hour when it begins to take passengers in about a decade, according to East Japan Railway.

Production of the 10-car train with a long nose-shaped head

finished in early May at a cost of 10 billion yen ($91 million).

Thursday’s trial run between Sendai and Morioka, two cities in northern Japan, was the first open to the media since tests started last week.

“We successfully conducted the test run today and will continue testing the train for about three years,” a company spokesman said.

The firm plans to introduce the train in 2030-31 when Shinkansen services will be extended to Sapporo, the biggest city on the nation’s northern island of Hokkaido.

“We will try to shorten travelling time with the nextgeneration Shinkansen,” said Kazunori Koyama, an official in charge of the testing.

Japan is a pioneer in high-speed rail networks, hailed for their punctuality and safety measures, including the emergency stop system, which can automatically slow down speeds before a major earthquake strikes.

The ALFA-X will reach the world’s fastest commercial speed for a wheeled bullet train, according to the company. (afp)

US stealth fighter suffers millions in damage from bird strike An Israeli F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show, over the beach in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, on May 9, 2019.

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WASHINGTON - A US F-35 stealth bomber suffered millions of dollars in damage after colliding with a bird during take-off from an air base in Japan, the US Marine Corps said in a statement Wednesday.

“On May 7, 2019 an F-35B with Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing aborted take-off due to a bird strike at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and safely taxied off the runway,” the statement said.

The pilot was not hurt in the incident, it said.

Photographs circulating on social media showed what appeared to a kind of falcon stuck beneath

the plane.

A damage assessment report has not yet been completed but the Marine Corps classified the incident as category “A,” meaning the damage is expected to exceed $2 million.

The F-35 program was launched in the 1990s and has cost almost $400 billion, making it the most expensive weapons system ever developed by the Pentagon.

The defense department plans to build some 2,500 of the warplanes in the decades to come.

The F-35B is a short take-off and landing variant of the plane, developed for the Marine Corps.

Each plane costs $115 million to build. (afp)

The 15-year-old and a motley crew of other children -- some as young as nine -- make a living by strapping on two-metre (6.5 foot) brightly coloured folk effigies known as Ondel-Ondel.

The giant-headed puppets are a staple on the streets of Indonesia’s bustling capital and often appear in celebrations to help ward off evil spirits.

Wobbling from side the side as they move, the puppets’ face used to be made from papier mache although a fibreglass or plastic resin mold is more common these days. Usually Ondel-Ondel come in a male version with a thick moustache and red face while the female’s white face is punctuated by bright-red lipstick -- with coconut leaves for hair.

Juniarti and her puppet-wearing friends collect change from passers-by with some jerky dance steps and selfie poses for entertainment.

Nearby, the teen girl’s four-year-old cousin Hassan wiggles and bops to mobile phone music while holding a bucket for change.

With the fasting month of Ramadan underway in Muslim-majority Indonesia, the kids are hoping that calls to give to the less fortunate will put more rupiah in their pockets.

But while they can pocket as much as $20 a day, it’s not easy money. OndelOndel wearers balance a bamboo frame on their shoulders to carry the oversized costume, which weighs up to 30 kilograms (66 pounds).

“Of course it’s tiring,” Juniarti told AFP during a break behind a luxury shopping mall. “It is so hot inside that my clothes are all drenched.”

Bastian, who has been busking for three years, has permanent reminders of his difficult work.

“The Ondel is really heavy -- look at my scar,” the 11-year-old said as he pulled his t-shirt to reveal red marks and scratches on his shoulder. Many adults don the costumes too, but children are increasingly picking up the practice.

That has alarmed youth protection advocates who fear that they’re vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. But Juniarti and Bastian insist they’ve suffered little harassment -- apart from being shooed away by security guards. Their path to this job tugs at the heart, however.

Juniarti dropped out of school in the third grade and went to work to help her family after their father passed away.

Residents in her Jakarta neighbourhood, where the hand-painted dolls are traditionally made from scratch, asked if she wanted to join the Ondel-Ondel ranks. It is a common way for people in the poor district to earn money. And having the chance to blend work with play means some of puppet kids think they’ve got a pretty good deal.

“I can have fun with my friends and work at the same time,” said 13-yearold Yogi Susanto. (afp)

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This picture taken on May 3, 2019 shows a resident walking by brightly coloured folk effigies known as Ondel-ondel in a neighbourhood where the hand-painted dolls are traditionally made from scratch in Jakarta. Ondel-ondel have long been a part of the Jakarta native group Betawi culture and the massive dolls used to be utlilized for traditional ceremonies and weddings and is believed to be able to ward off evil spirits.

Tanjungpinang offers isolation room to prevent spread of monkeypox

TANJUNGPINANG - Tanjungpinang Health, Birth Control, and Family Planning Office is offering an isolation room at Raja Ahmad Thabib Hospital for monkeypox virus patients as a precautionary measure to fight its spread, a local government official stated.

Hence, the Tanjungpinang health authorities had established coordination with their colleagues in the Riau Islands provincial government to select Raja Ahmad Thabib Hospital, Rustam stated on Thursday.

All concerned agencies should also intensify their prevention and

detection mechanism at Sri Bintan Pura Port, Rustam, head of the Tanjungpinang Health, Birth Control, and Family Planning Office, remarked.

Steps to increase prevention and identification system at the seaport was deemed necessary, as it was the main entry gate for the arrival and departure of Singaporean and Malaysian visitors to Tanjungpinang, he pointed out.

“Singapore has recently confirmed a reported case of monkeypox virus. The city state is located in proximity to Tanjungpinang,”

he remarked.

Hence, in spite of local health centers, hospitals, and community members reporting no cases of monkeypox in Tanjungpinang, all parties must stay alert, Rustam pointed out.

According to the United Nations World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) fact sheet, monkeypox as a rare viral zoonosis, or a virus spread to humans from animals, that is found chiefly in the remote areas of central and west Africa, near tropical rainforests.

The monkeypox virus causes

a viral disease with symptoms in humans similar but milder to those seen in smallpox patients. Nonetheless, monkeypox can be potentially deadly.

Monkeypox virus belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus in the family poxviridae and largely spread from various wild animals, such as rodents and primates, to people, but has limited secondary spread through human-to-human transmission.

No particular treatment or vaccination is presently available, though prior smallpox inoculation

was found to be increasingly effective in also preventing monkeypox.

According to the WHO, monkeypox was first detected in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, earlier known as Zaire, in a nine-year-old boy in a region where smallpox had been eradicated in 1968.

Thereafter, most cases were reported in rural and rainforest regions of the Congo Basin and western Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is viewed as being endemic. (ant)

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BUSINESS Alibaba results beat analyst estimates Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba on Wednesday announced revenue for the latest quarter that beat analyst estimates, indicating that the Sino-US trade tiff and a slowing domestic economy were having little impact on the bottom line.

Revenue for the January-March period rose 51 percent year on year to 93.5 billion yuan ($13.6 billion), a company statement said, outpacing an average analyst estimate of 91.7 billion yuan compiled by Bloomberg News.

Net profit was 25.8 billion yuan, up more than three-fold compared to the same period a year earlier.

Revenue in the Hangzhou-based company’s core e-commerce segment, which accounts for the vast majority of its business, jumped 54 percent, while the smaller but fast-growing cloud computing unit surged 76 percent.

“Our cloud and data technology and tremendous traction in new retail have enabled us to continuously transform the way businesses operate in China and other emerging markets, which will contribute to our long-term growth,” Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang said in the statement.

Alibaba has been pouring money into what it calls “new retail”, which optimises in-store sales and service using data culled online.

Alibaba dominates China’s rapidly expanding consumer culture and its corporate results are typically closely watched for any signs that a Chinese economic deceleration and the US-China trade tensions were turning off shoppers.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hong Kong-listed Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent announced that its quarterly profit also beat expectations.

Tencent said its commercialpayment services and digital content business lines helped offset a government crackdown on its cash-cow gaming segment.

Alibaba was on Tuesday named the world’s most valuable retail brand outside the US, according to rankings by global marketing and communications group WPP and research and consulting firm Kantar.

Their report put Alibaba ahead of McDonald’s, Home Depot, Nike and Louis Vuitton, and it was the only Asian brand in the top 10. It put Alibaba’s brand value at $131.2 billion in 2018, up 48 percent on the previous year.

Companies like Alibaba are at the nexus of a national economic strategy to encourage more domestic consumer spending and thereby lessen the reliance on fickle foreign demand for Chinese exports. (afp)

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Still in doubt about the superiority of local products?

Just look at when the small businessmen and women are exploring their works in the Sunday Market at Samanera Bowl Ubud, Sunday (Apr. 28). Various types of local products with unique styles and designs are in demand by tourists. Foreign tourists staying at hotels or those traveling in the tourist area of ??Ubud village stopped by to buy it. So naturally, the Sunday Market held by Socialista was closed earlier because the product being sold had been sold out.

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Cruise ships are seen on the river Main during sun set in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, May 7, 2019.

Consumers help German economy to rebound in Q1

BERLIN - The German economy returned to growth in the first quarter on the back of solid consumer spending and a construction boom, official figures showed Wednesday.

A courier from TMall, one of the online shopping platforms owned by Alibaba, drives his delivery vehicle along a street in the central business district in Beijing on May 13, 2019.

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Europe’s biggest economy grew by 0.4% during the January-March period compared with the previous quarter, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

That was in line with economists’ expectations and a big improvement from the previous two quarters. The economy contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter of 2018 and flat-lined in the final three months, narrowly avoiding a recession, usually defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Over recent months economists and officials have downgraded their forecasts for the German

economy as a result of global trade tensions, uncertainty over Britain’s exit from the European Union and after-effects of last year’s economic wobble, a result largely of new car emissions standards.

The government’s full-year growth forecast currently stands at 0.5%, compared with 1.8% late last year. It sees growth accelerating to 1.5% in 2020.

ING economist Carsten Brzeski said the rebound suggests any panic about the state of German economy was overblown but that there is no room for complacency.

“Some of last year’s one-off fac-

tors have turned around,” he said.

“The German automotive industry might have seen better times but should not be written off and private consumption remains solid.”

UniCredit economist Andreas Rees cautioned that “the German economy is not out of the woods yet.”

“Less dynamic growth or even stagnation seems to be unavoidable in the second quarter,” he said. “Furthermore, an outright trade war between the U.S. and China and U.S. car tariffs would put German exports under strong pressure.” (ap)

The Sunday Market held at Rooftop Samanera Bowl Ubud presented a total of 16 entrepreneurs.

They served a variety of unique and high quality local products.

Uniquely, each product is more directed towards the green concept.

“It is purely from their awareness to present products that are antiplastic waste. Moreover, Bali has a Governor Regulation against plastic waste, so we must support it,” said Marina Mouaren, Founder & Owner of Socialista.

Marina Mouaren said the Sunday Market aims to provide opportunities for local entrepreneurs to promote and market their products.

Local entrepreneurs do not have to be the second person in their own area to do business. Through the Sunday Market, she hoped the local business of the local products will become more effective. “This activity is to help the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

introduce their products through digital, so that they can get income and become more famous,” she explained.

In this case, all the products are introduced through digital marketing, so that they were known to the wider community. They are local

businesses, working with several local partners, but targeting the international community. “In this activity, all kinds of product can be marketed as long as they are local products. The products presented are also simple, the ingredients are natural and unique. Local

entrepreneurs are very creative, there is a straw for drinking from bamboo looking very classic,” she added.

Sunday Market is held from one place to another so as to get closer to the market. The schedule is made every Sunday at the end

Nasi Tekor Served for Travelers Have you ever enjoyed nasi tekor or rice served in banana leaf food basket? In the past, getting a nasi tekor was an extraordinary gift. People tasting it did not only avoid hunger, but also got respect of brotherhood. If people organized prayers and piodalan or festival at family temple, they will cook in large amount and then ngejot or sharing food to neighbors containing of rice, lawar, vegetables, pepes and condiment.

The nasi tekor can also usually enjoyed after ngayah or devotional work at temple before piodalan.

Even though it only contains vegetables, all the menus taste good.

Indeed, in the past it was very rare for people to use plate as a place to eat. Tekor is a container made

from banana leaf whose ends are folded. It is indeed very traditional, so that eating with such a way as if bringing us back to the past, a time which will bring back memories once existing in the past.

In line with the rapid development of tourism, nasi tekor is also served at hotel restaurants having been creatively packed. One of them is menu of Warunk Cuci Mata located right in front of the Grand Istana Rama. The nasi tekor is served with bamboo woven mat with the philosophy related to the origin of life that every birth or life exists because of the merits of a father and mother.

Nasi tekor at Warunk Cuci Mata is served like Balinese mixed rice containing white rice, fried eel,

of the month. In disseminating information, it always uses media, bloggers, Facebook, Instagram and others. “We are very in love with local products, so that we take the initiative to help introduce them,” she concluded. (kmb)

eel in shrimp paste, kaffir lime and chili sauce, garlic and aromatic ginger spice, taro meat ball, chicken skin, and chicken penyon. Eating at Warunk Cuci Mata can be another way to enjoy the beauty of Kuta Beach. Aside from tasting delights of various halal archipelagic menus provided, of course visitors can get refreshed.

Nasi tekor menu is very appropriate to be presented at this warunk or food stall because it is located right in front of the Grand Istana Rama with a traditional market concept. This place is currently one of the favorite hangouts on Kuta Beach. Besides being serving unique and delicious Indonesian food, the price is also very affordable. (kmb)

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Standardization of childcare center must be supervised

DENPASAR - Following the incident of a baby dying in the Princess House Childcare, Regional Child Protection Commission (KPAD) of Bali reminded the government to re-make data collection on its existence. Aside from data collection, supervision and guidance are important things that must be carried out in the future so that similar incidents will not happen again.

At present, the existence of childcare center in Bali is growing rapidly because it is needed by the community and there are regulations supporting it. However, supervision of the childcare center standardization needs to be considered in the future by related institutions, said Ni Luh Gede Yastini, a member of the Bali Regional Child Protection Commission (KPPAD), on Wednesday (May 25).

This woman who is in charge of Law and Advocacy Division at the KPPAD Bali stated the childcare center is governed in the Regulation of the Minister of Education No.137/2014 concerning the standard of early child education that also sets forth the early age education (PAUD) service units also including childcare center. Previously, in 2011 Director General of Early Age Education Development at the Ministry of National Education issued technical guidelines for childcare center implementation where therein has been clearly specified the standards to be complied with by childcare center operators including the caregiver’s competency.

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‘Cyber warriors’ sway Indian election

In the technical guidelines, there is also a mechanism for evaluation, reporting and guidance that must be carried out by relevant agencies, in this case the Education Agency.

However, related to the case of infant death at this childcare center, the absence of permit is certainly very much deplored.

Yastini admitted that based on the results of the investigations she followed, indeed the childcare center where the baby died is not registered and has not been licensed. So, the Education Agency in the future should make data collection for the existing childcare center. When having no license and having not complied with the standards, there should be actions taken, at least the childcare center does not operate until the permits and standards are met so as to minimize things having a negative impact on children.

“Other than making data collection, it also develops so that the childcare center meets the standards specified by the government.

If not registered, it should not be ignored but fostered so as to meet the standards and certification that must be carried out in the future by the relevant agencies,” he said.

In the previous edition of Bali Post, it was published that baby Elora Nathania died at the Princess House Childcare at Jalan Badak Sari I No. 2A Denpasar. Currently, the case is being handled

by Denpasar Police. Caregivers and childcare center owner that only operates with the permission of foundation have been detained. (kmb16)

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supervision of the childcare center standardization needs to be considered in the future by related institutions.

NEW DELHI - India’s election watchdog says it has forced Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down hundreds of posts during the country’s election but experts say it is just a drop in an ocean of misinformation that has engulfed voters.

Both are still undergoing examinations to account for their actions.

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Alleged to commit skimming

Two Bulgarian citizens arrested by police in Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - People in the Nusa Penida archipelago are starting to be wary of crime at ATMs where two foreigners from Bulgaria could be successfully secured by police officers. They are alleged to have committed skimming (theft of bank’s customer data) in ATM at Kampong Toyapakeh, Nusa Penida. Right now, both are still undergoing examinations to account for their actions.

Chief of Nusa Penida Police, Nyoman Reka Sanjaya, stated on Wednesday (May 15) the two Bulgarian citizens are Konstantin Zlatkov Ivanov, 24, and Georgi Zhivkov Ivanop, 25. The disclosure of the case originated from a report from resident, Ahmad Fahrozi, 24, who reported the alleged crime to the Nusa Penida Police according to the Report No. Pol. LP-B / 11 / IV / 2019 / Bali / Seknusapenida on May 14, 2019. At that time, there was allegation that Bulgarian tourists were taking action to steal bank’s data. “The reporter and witness had been peeping for three days at the two foreigners’ movement from his office, which happened to be 10 meters away from the ATM,” said Reka Sanjaya.

The ATM at Kampong Toyapakeh became their targets. Local residents were suspicious of their movements, so they continued to carry out surveillance. Their suspicion increased after within the past few days they saw some

of the foreigners put something on the ATM located at Kampong Toyapakeh, just at the location before heading for the harbor.

Precisely on Monday (May 13), around 23:40, the reporter and witness saw the ATM’s light going out. Immediately, the reporter and another friend, Sahabudin, 31, approached the ATM. They were shocked after finding the two reported person were installing cables on the ATM. Both foreigners who had been caught off red-handed immediately panicked.

Moreover, they tried to bribe with some money and negotiated so that their act is not to be informed to other citizens or police officers.

However, the residents refused and chose to drag both foreigners to the Nusa Penida Police Station. Nusa Penida police officers rushed to the location and then secured the two Bulgarian citizens with this passport number 386005415 and 38515034.

“Learning from this case, we do

hope the community will increase its vigilance. Report it immediately when seeing suspicious foreigners’ actions, so that no one of our citizens becomes the victims,” he said.

After undergoing an examination at the Nusa Penida Police Station, Nyoman Reka Sanjaya said the case had now been transferred to the Klungkung Police Station. Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal Investigation Agency, Mirza Gunawan, when contacted on Wednesday, could not provide information. Several times, he was contacted via his cellphone, but he did not give an answer.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Klungkung Police, I Putu Gede Ardana, emphasized the case is under investigation by Klungkung Police officers after receiving a case delegation from the Nusa Penida Police Station. In particular, there are allegations of involvement of other parties behind the reckless actions committed by the two Bulgarian citizens. (kmb31)

The ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Congress party have thrown armies of “cyber warriors” into a bitter social media war for the six weeks of voting that ends Sunday.

The arch-rivals accuse each other of deploying social media dark arts such as automated bots and trolls to bombard voters with messages, fake and real.

No blow has been too low in the war of words and videos between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

Real-life insults traded by the two -- Gandhi calling Modi a “thief”, Modi deriding his opponent as “pappu”, or fool -- get shared thousands of times on WhatsApp and Twitter within minutes.

But so do photoshopped images of longtime foe Pakistan’s flag at Gandhi rallies, or Modi eating with Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan.

The origin of these images is unknown, but both have been debunked by AFP factcheckers during this campaign. And experts say the fake news on a host of apps is swaying votes.

- Tainted votes The 2019 poll has been “an app-based election where along with the positive voter engagement drives, WhatsApp, ShareChat, Helo, TikTok, Instagram are being used for propaganda and misinformation campaigns,” said Asia politics researcher Sangeeta Mahapatra.

Senior Congress politician Shashi Tharoor said in a recent editorial that there was a “danger” that “many votes will be cast on the basis of disinformation.”

Both the BJP and Congress have each spent tens of millions of dollars to reach the 900 million electorate who have become huge consumers of phone content.

Some 500 million Indians have internet access -- with 300 million on Facebook and more than 250 million using Whatsapp.

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This photo taken on April 5, 2019, shows Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers for the social media team working in the “war room” ahead of the national elections at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

The BJP, the bigger and richer of the two parties, and Congress have hundreds of fulltime social media workers. Tens of thousands of volunteers back them up by circulating the parties’ messages on Whatsapp and other platforms.

Congress social media head Divya Spandana told AFP the party has 300,000 Whatsapp groups and can get messages to up to 20 million people each day.

Spandana said her party only aims to be heard rather than attack. “We do social media trends organically, unlike the BJP who use bots,” she said.

BJP social media head Amit Malviya hit back. “Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account has been called out for using bots from Indonesia, Russia, Uzbekistan for powering his Twitter presence,” he told AFP. The BJP has not given details on its network, but media reports say it has many more full-time workers and Whatsapp groups than Congress. BJP president Amit Shah calls the workers his “cyber warriors”.

- Fake news police Mahapatra, Asia specialist at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, said up to one sixth of chat groups on Whatsapp in India are started by political parties.

This “shows parties are complicit in the misinformation malaise India is suffering from,” she said.

“Obviously, their messages are not going to be hamstrung by ethics of objective reporting. It is an open secret that the IT wings of most parties are peddlers of misinformation.”

Access to Whatsapp, the main weapon in the election war, is virtually impossible for law enforcement and fact checkers, as it is encrypted.

Messages spread en masse on Whatsapp were blamed for lynchings in India last year.

The Facebook-owned company has since restricted to five the number of times a message can be forwarded.

Backstreet stores sell software that can get around the restrictions however.

India’s election commission said that as of Monday, 637 Facebook posts, 145 Twitter posts, five YouTube videos and 31 forwarded Whatsapp messages have been taken down following approaches to the tech giants.

One police case has also been registered.

Police have set up their own teams in different states and say they have had misleading videos taken off YouTube.

Authorities have not named any party, even though experts say it is inevitable that the big two, and their rivals, have a hand in the misinformation.

“There is desire and a lot of great people looking at this problem, but the technology is not mature enough to handle such misinformation, involving images, video and local language text,” said Kiran Garimella, a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology monitoring fake news in India and other countries facing crunch elections.

“We can also see that political parties are clearly invested in this, as we observe from special Whatsapp strategies by the IT cells of various parties,” he added. (afp)

Lights out! Japan city to shut red-light zone during G20

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Tobita Shinchi was once known as the largest neighbourhood of licenced brothels in Japan.

TOKYO - Sex workers in Osaka will be shown the red light as the city seeks to clean up its image before hosting world leaders for the G20 summit in June.

All 159 members of the Tobita Shinchi association, which represents businesses in the red-light district, will close their doors during the Group of 20 meeting to avoid causing “disruption,” an association official told AFP. “Because the summit is a huge event, we thought that even a

minor bit of trouble between our customers could be a source of disruption, and have decided to close our operations voluntarily,” he said.

Trouble between customers tends to break out in part because of alcohol consumption in the district, he added.

Tobita Shinchi was once known as the largest neighbourhood of licenced brothels in Japan, but to circumvent anti-prostitution laws, many establishments now operate

as ‘Japanese-style restaurants’.

The association took a similar measure in 1995, when Osaka hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, with some but not all neighbourhood businesses closing during the meeting, the official said.

Japan will host the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28-29, with US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping among the world leaders expected to attend. (afp)

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Rihanna teams up with LVMH to launch luxury fashion brand

PARIS - Pop idol Rihanna said Friday that she will team up with French luxury giant LVMH to launch her own luxury fashion brand in spring, becoming the first black women to head up a house for the firm.

The new luxury house will be called Fenty after Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the full name of the Barbados-born superstar, who already has her own highly successful Fenty sportswear and Savage lingerie labels.

The world’s biggest fashion conglomerate LVMH, which is owned by the industry titan Bernard Arnault, said the brand will be based in Paris and make ready-to-wear clothes, shoes and accessories.

“Mr Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits,” Rihanna said.

“I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise, and I’m ready for the world to see what we have built together.”

Rumours have been rife for months that LVMH, which owns such iconic brands as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Givenchy, was assembling a group of top designers for the project.

On Friday Arnault confirmed the rumours, saying that LVMH had built up a “talented and multicultural” team to support Rihanna’s newest brand.

- ‘True entrepreneur’ -

With her huge fan base and nearly 170 million social media followers, Rihanna is one of the most powerful style influencers

on the planet.

A new large-scale luxury label -- especially one led by a black woman -- is a huge development in the fashion world.

The top end of the market has been traditionally hogged by historic French and Italian houses.

Despite its dominance, LVMH has not started a luxury brand from scratch since Christian Lacroix in 1987.

Fashion insiders say the first creations for Rihanna’s new line are likely to be unveiled later this month.

Fashion analyst Serge Carreira said the “relatively novel move (to set up the luxury house) makes complete sense.

“It is millennials who are driving growth in the luxury market,” he told AFP. And Rihanna personifies their values and the “battle for diversity, women’s rights and a vision of the future,” he added.

A regular on the front row of fashion shows, and particularly at Dior in Paris, the singer has also proved herself to be a canny creator.

As well as her existing Fenty sportswear line, Rihanna upped sales at Puma when she became its creative director, and has also dipped her toe into lingerie.

Her Fenty Beauty operation -- which is also involved a hook-up with LVMH -- racked up sales of more than $100 million within weeks of its 2016 launch.

“Everybody knows Rihanna as a wonderful singer, but through our partnership at Fenty Beauty, I discovered a true entrepreneur, a real CEO and a terrific leader,” LVMH’s Arnault said in a statement.

- New album also imminent -

Rihanna is not the only pop icon to have become a fashion industry player. Beyonce, who has her own Ivy Park and House of Dereon labels, last month signed a deal with German sportswear giant Adidas.

It already has a deal with rapper Kanye West, who has his own Yeezy brand and has made no secret of his ambition to lead a major Paris fashion house.

The fashion industry bible Women’s Wear Daily has speculated that Rihanna’s luxury brand could be launched alongside her ninth album.

The singer has been teasing the release of her long-awaited follow-up to her double-platinum 2016 album “ANTI” for months.

She told a BBC television chatshow last June that she was in the studio working on it and her best friend Jennifer Rosales said in March that the album was finished.

Black designers have been making dramatic inroads into the fashion industry of late, with the American Virgil Abloh the most talked about designer at recent Paris fashion weeks.

Abloh, whose parents come from Ghana, now heads LVMH’s treasured Louis Vuitton menswear line as well as his own hugely cool Off-White Label.

Rihanna, who shot to fame with her “Music of the Sun” and “Good Girl Gone Bad” albums, is locked in a legal battle with her father over the use of the Fenty name.

Rihanna is suing her father Ronald Fenty over the use of the family name in his company, Fenty Entertainment.

Forbes magazine put the singer’s net worth last year at $210 million. (afp)

Beckhams take full control of brand business: report LONDON - Ex-England international footballer David Beckham and his fashion-designer wife Victoria have taken full control of his brand company after snapping up shares they did not already own, The Financial Times said Friday.

Citing people familiar with

the matter, the business daily reported that David and former Spice Girls member Victoria paid $50 million for a 33-percent stake held by XIX Entertainment, owned by the band’s ex-manager Simon Fuller.

Beckham Brand Company, which manages the former Man-

chester United star’s partnerships and brands, has a stake in new US Major League Soccer franchise Inter Miami.

Friday’s report comes one day after David was handed a sixmonth disqualification from driving in Britain after using a phone while behind the wheel. (afp)

DENPASAR — The Singapore government has confirmed about the presence of monkeypox virus in the country. The virus was carried by a Nigerian visiting Singapore on April 28 and tested positive for monkeypox on May 8.

Director of Bali Mandara Hospital (RSBM), Bagus Darmayasa, explained the monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a virus. This disease is transmitted to humans through animals, such as rats or other rodents, especially in Central and Western Africa.

Someone can be exposed to the monkeypox virus through contact with blood, body fluids or mucosa (mucous membranes—Ed) of infected animals. Quoted from the World Health Organization (WHO), the symptoms of new monkeypox appear 14 to 21 days from the time the virus first infects. Before the symptoms appear, monkeypox usually begins with an incubation period of six to 16 days.

Based on a circular from the Ministry of Health of the RI regarding the alertness of importation of monkeypox disease, it is mentioned that Central and West Africa are endemic areas of the monkeypox. Monkeypox is transmitted by animals, especially rodents that contain monkeypox viruses. Transmission occurs through bites, scratches as well as direct contact with blood, body fluids or lesions on the skin or mucosa of animals and consumption of improperly cooked meat. Human-to-human transmission can be possible but very limited, through respiratory secretions or lesions on the skin.

Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox (chickenpox) but are lighter. Incubation period lasts for 5 to 21 days and symptoms that arise include fever, severe headache, lymphadenopathy (enlarged lymph nodes), back pain, muscle aches and weakness. This rash develops from red spots such as smallpox (maculopapula) blisters filled with clear fluid (vesicles), pus-filled blisters (pustules) and then hardens. It usually takes up to three weeks for the rash to disappear.

Monkeypox is usually a disease that can recover itself with symptoms

that last for 14-21 days. Severe cases are more common in children and are associated with levels of exposure to the virus, patient health status and severity of complications. Death cases vary but less than 10 percent of the cases reported, where most of them are in children. In general, younger age groups appear to be more susceptible to monkeypox disease.

Based on data from SINKARKES from January to May 10, most ship arrivals were from Singapore (18,176 ships) and flights from Singapore were relatively large so that the possibility of the spread of monkeypox disease in Indonesia can occur, although according to the Singapore Ministry of Health the risk of spread is low in Singapore. Meanwhile, the arrivals from Singapore to Bali are also quite large or ranked eighth in international arrivals, reaching 14,606 people by air and 7 people through seaport in March 2019.

To anticipate and be aware of the importation of monkeypox disease, it is instructed to the Health Agencies throughout Indonesia, the Harbor Health Office, hospitals and health centers to disseminate information about monkeypox to the public and health care facilities in the region.

If getting a report on suspected monkeypox case, immediately make initial control efforts and report to the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control through PHEOC within 1 x 24 hours via email. Indonesian Ministry of Health also asked the CTF to conduct more intensive supervision against crews and travelers from Singapore, western and central African countries, conduct health checks on crews and travelers detected with fever or illness suspected of being associated with monkeypox, improve monitoring and inspection of transportation means to ensure rodent free, as well as improve monitoring and inspection of transportation equipment health document. At hospitals and health centers, the Ministry of Health requests that health officers when provided health services should always use personal protective equipment (at least masks and gloves). (kmb42)

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Tourists visited Lembongan-Jungut Batu, Nusa Penida.

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Guides requested to strictly supervise

SEMARAPURA — The number of tourists who died while on vacation in LembonganJungut Batu, Nusa Penida, is regretted by many parties. Necessarily, this case did not happen if the tourists concerned heeded the directions and warnings of their guides having been familiar to escort and direct guests.

Learning from these cases, the guides are asked to give their full attention when escorting guests and a little more resolute to guests against the prohibition of areas or places considered dangerous.

This was conveyed by headman of Jungut Batu, Nusa Penida, Gede Made Suryawan, on Wednesday (May 15). Learning from the case of Kausal Aditya, 23, an Indian tourist who was swept away when he was determined to stand and take photograph on Devil’s Tear cliff, last week and previous cases, tourists often disappeared while diving outside the designated locations. “Our guides here (Lembongan-Jungut Batu) always warn tourists about dangerous areas and restrictions that must be followed. However, sometimes the direction of guides is not followed. The Indian citizen has been reminded, warning board has been installed and fences have been installed, but he insisted on going there, too,” he affirmed.

Unlike Lembongan, the area of Jungut Batu is said

to have no such areas. However, guests usually disappeared while on vacation, especially when diving beyond the usual place. Or they do diving when the weather is bad. “At Jungut Batu, we always remind the guides. Pay special attention to guests where they go down. Sometimes when guests go down in the east, they usually appear in the west,” said Suryawan.

As headman, he hoped the locals or foreign tourists to always listen to the guide’s direction. Similarly, all guests should follow and keep watch their tourists when going down and where they will go. He also hoped the role of lifeguard as an effort to monitor tourists that are active in the sea as well as make synergy with guides.

Previously, after a 7-day search and coordination efforts with relevant parties including the families of the victim, it was agreed that SAR Operation of Kausal Aditya was closed on May 13. However, the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office continued to monitor, coordinate and explain if there are any possible indications on the existence of the victim. So, that it can be immediately followed up.

“If there are people commonly passing in the area and then find out the whereabouts of the victim, please inform us immediately. Of course, we will follow up. We remain open to that,” said Surya Wiryawan, Section Head of Operations and Alert and Denpasar Search and Rescue Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan. (kmb31)

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Reduction of airline ticket upper limit rates

Hoped to increase domestic tourist visits to Bali

MANGUPURA - The government, through the Ministry of Transportation, finally adopted a policy to reduce the upper limit of airline ticket prices for all airlines. This decline ranges from 12 to 16 percent that will take effect after May 15, 2019.

Deputy Chairman II of Indonesia Hotel General Managers Association (IHGMA) of Bali Chapter, Made Ramia Adnyana, hoped that with this policy, the mobility of domestic tourists can return to being excited for a vacation to Bali. He said that so far ticket prices have become one of the most important causes on the decrease in the level of visits to Bali.

The moment ahead of this Eid holiday, according to him, is the right moment to prove the impact of decreasing the tariff limit on airline tickets. In general when approaching the Eid, hotel occupancy rate is usually full as dominated by domestic tourists. However, at this time he admitted the hotel occupancy rate had begun to rise, although it had not been too drastic. “Indeed, we have not seen any significant impact, but with a decline of 16-20 percent will provide stimulus for domestic tourists for holidays,” he explained when contacted on Wednesday (May 15).

He said that during this Eid period, hotel occupancy rates began to rise above 60-70 percent where previously the condition was always below that number. He added, the decline in domestic tourists to Bali is also in line with the decline in visits of Chinese tourists to Bali as the impact of the case of the Chinese mafia. According to him, the two tourist visits have contributed to a-30 percent decrease in hotel occupancy rates.

For this reason, the government is expected to be able to design strategic measures to return the trust of traditional markets that are loyal to Bali either by providing promotions or special packages, so that condition of Bali tourism will soon recover.

Meanwhile, according to a member of ASITA Bali who has a business operating at the airport, Nyoman Suharta, hoped the impact of the reduction of the airline’s upper limit tariff will immediately be felt. All this time, the conditions of tourists, mainly domestic tourists, still tend to be quiet. Moreover, this is aggravated by the effects of fasting month where people indeed tend to spend more of their free time at home.

“We want the ticket prices can immediately return to normal as before and the baggage rates are not like it is today. If this continues to be dragged on for a long time Bali tourism can die, the travel agent can also die in the future,” he hoped. (kmb23)

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To anticipate the entry of monkeypox

Passengers from Singapore monitored by thermo-scanner

MANGUPURA - Regarding the anticipation of the entry of the monkeypox virus through Ngurah Rai Airport, all passengers arriving from Singapore will be scanned at the arrival terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport.

According to the Head of Airport

Authority for Region IV, Elfi Amir, when confirmed on Wednesday (May 15) said that as a precautionary measure, this has been jointly agreed with the First Class Airport Health Office (KKP) of Denpasar.

Her authority requested the KKP to be more intensive in checking

passengers coming from Singapore area. In this case, she prepared a scanner at the arrival terminal.

Indeed, she said, regarding the scanning of passengers, currently it is only carried out to passengers coming from Singapore.

She revealed that technical

handling is specifically assigned to passengers from Singapore suspected of having or affected

by Monkeypox symptoms monitored through thermo-scanner.

If there is a detected passenger at temperature of 38 degrees, it will be evaluated and taken to the

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Bali’s First Food & Wine Festival at Rumah Luwih Beach Resort

Rumah Luwih presents Bali’s first ever Food & Wine Festival, which will be held in Lebih, Gianyar at Rumah Luwih, a beautiful colonial-style beachfront resort on the 18th of May 2019, along the resort’s stunning infinity pool and lush tropical garden.

Guests will be served with exquisite foods and wines while

enjoying the wonderful sounds of musicians playing the very best of jazz, funk, reggae and R &B music.

Get ready for Bali’s young and talented musicians, such as Marapu and the Hydrant, DJs spinning cool tunes on the deck, wine and chocolate tasting by Bali-based companies such as Hatten Wine, Sababay, Isola,

Plaga, Pod Chocolate, and more.

This event is also an opportunity for Rumah Luwih to showcase Lebih beach, Gianyar as another fun and exciting destination on the island offering energy, fun, fantastic music, wonderful people, delicious food and true culture. Rumah Luwih Beach Resort is the very first hotel in this area to be hosting

such an event.

Sole Men and the Bali Children’s Foundation, will also be present in order to raise money for the underprivileged and orphaned children of Bali.

A truly memorable day of love, music, food, and wine. A day you will always remember at a resort that will always be there to bring you the very best in

entertainment. A day for family and friends to come together and enjoy their time with one another at a resort that is all about the love for Bali.

For bookings and reservation, please call Rumah Luwih at +62 857 9252 4561 (Mira) or +62 818 0555 7512 (Diah). Don’t forget to follow @rumahluwih for more updates.

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Lights, camera... creche!

Cannes gets red carpet nursery

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CANNES - In a sunny corner overlooking the yacht-filled harbour, a handful of Cannes’ youngest visitors are bouncing around a vibrant-coloured carpet in the first-ever creche at the world’s biggest film festival.

The brainchild of three film industry mothers struggling to juggle being a parent with the gruelling annual run of festivals, Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon), is a light, airy room “where children are the new VIPs”.

Kids had previously been a very rare sight at the annual celebrityfilled festival, which thrives on glitz and glamour but has done little to meet the practical needs of movers and shakers with babies or toddlers in tow.

But for the first time this year, the festival has opened the special day care centre to lend a hand to parents in the film industry.

It follows a similar nursery, “playhouse and nap room” set up at the Sundance film festival last year by the US-based Moms-in-Film group, which had railed at the lack of childfriendly facilities at Cannes.

- ‘Takes women to make this happen’ It’s the morning of the opening of the Cannes creche and a handful of youngsters are playing with soft toys, while others try to nap in a space which also has fenced-off outdoor

areas shaded by parasols.

Three young nannies and a nurse from the Paris-based service “Nanny Please” are on hand to sing, colour, draw and make lunch, helped by two local volunteers, with the children housed in a pavilion by the harbour.

Coming from Los Angeles for her first visit to the Cannes festival, Gail Greaves said she had been planning on hiring someone to watch her twoyear-old daughter Arabella.

But with the festival running for 12 days, going private can quickly get expensive.

“You can’t really do much when they’re crying,” she said.

“I was going to bring a nanny or get one locally but you’re looking at 20 to 30 euros ($22-34) an hour.”

But searching online she found Le Ballon Rouge and quickly booked a place. Accredited festival-goers can obtain special passes for their children to use the day care service which is open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and costs 50 euros per day.

“This is amazing! They have all of this -- and other kids to play with,” Greaves smiled.

“It takes women coming together to make something happen.”

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US actor and comedian Bill Murray (R) salutes a municipal police officer (L) as he arrives for the screening of the film “The Dead Don’t Die” during the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2019.

Three film industry professionals with young children came up with the idea a few months ago while sharing tips about how to handle the worklife balance. Together they founded “Parenting at Film Festivals”.

“We were just comparing notes on how hard it was to be a parent at a festival,” said Michelle Carey, an Australian film programmer and one of the three women who founded the group.

During last year’s festival, she had to dash back to her hotel room some 20 minutes away just to feed her infant son, which was both difficult and impractical. And she wasn’t alone. (afp)

Elton John’s ‘Rocketman’ gets Cannes film festival liftoff

LONDON - After the near billion-dollar smash that was “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the Elton John biopic “Rocketman” will touch down Thursday at the Cannes film for a premiere at which the star himself is primed to play.

Sir Elton, 72, rocketed to stardom through a combination of virtuoso musical talent, flamboyant performances and unforgettable

pop songs, using his platform to promote gay rights and AIDS causes.

One of the world’s best-selling artists, the gay star’s career has spanned nearly five decades, much of it lived in a hazy whirl of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

Which gives plenty of material for Dexter Fletcher -- the British director drafted in at the last minute

to save the Freddie Mercury film -- to play with.

The movie explores the singer’s long and successful songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin, the result of a random pairing by a London record company, which produced seven consecutive US number one albums in the three years between 1972-75.

Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight

in northwest London, John has sold over 300 million records worldwide, won five Grammys, a Tony and an Oscar.

He also went down in British royal history when he performed his song “Candle in the Wind” with reworked lyrics at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

She had been a personal friend.

The song was later re-released

and sold more than 33 million copies, making it the best-selling single of all time after Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”.

John has given more than 3,500 concerts worldwide and early in his career became known for outlandish stage costumes, glasses that spelled his name in lights and doing handstands on his keyboards. (afp)

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People take part in an annual rice planting event in Nampho City in Chongsan-ri, near Nampho on May 12, 2019. The event takes place every May 12 to mark the occasion in 1971 when late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il planted rice in the area.

‘Extreme drought’ in North Korea: KCNA

North Korea’s average rain and snowfall this year fell to the lowest level in 37 years, Pyongyang’s state media said Wednesday, just days after the UN expressed “grave concerns” about food shortages.

The isolated, impoverished nation -- which is under several sets of sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes -has long struggled to feed itself and suffers chronic food shortages.

A number of international organisations, including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have said minor disasters, including drought, can significantly worsen and hamper food production in the country.

From January to early May this year, North Korea only received 54.4 millimetres of rain or snow, the smallest amount since the same period in 1982, the state-run KCNA said, describing the situation as “an extreme drought”.

Last month, the WFP and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a joint report that North Korea’s crop output last year hit the lowest level since 2008, and that an estimated 10 million people

-- 40 percent of the entire population -- are in urgent need of food.

“The situation could further deteriorate during the lean season from May to September, if no proper and urgent humanitarian actions are taken,” the report said.

The WFP executive director David Beasley was in Seoul earlier this week, and said he is “very concerned” about food situation in the North during his meeting with the South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul.

A Unification Ministry official said Tuesday it is “necessary” to send food aid to the North sometime between May and September

as recommended by the WFP report. Seoul in 2017 had aimed to send $4.5 million worth of nutritional products to North Korea through the WFP, but that never happened partially due to Pyongyang’s nuclear tests that year.

The South’s presidential Blue House has said US President Donald Trump supports Seoul’s plan to provide humanitarian food aid to the North.

Early seasonal drought in the North this year could exacerbate “hunger, malnutrition and health problems” for “thousands of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women” in North Korea, the Inter-

national Federation of Red Cross said last week.

“Even before this drought, one in five children under five years old was stunted because of poor nutrition. We are concerned that these children will not be able to cope with further stress on their bodies.” (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.