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Monday, January 18, 2016

Revenant’ leads Celine Dion cancels ‘The Oscar nominations Vegas concerts over husband’s death

Rene Angelil, who discovered the LOS ANGELES - Canadian singer Celine Dion has cancelled her weekend concerts in Las Vegas following the death Canadian pop diva and managed her of her husband, with a stage return set for next month, her career, died Thursday at age 73 after a struggle with cancer. official website said.

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In this March 26, 2002 file photo, singer Celine Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, arrive for press interviews to promote her new album “A New Day Has Come” in New York.

Dion had been scheduled to perform on Saturday and Sunday at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

“With heavy hearts, we regret to inform you that Celine performances... have been cancelled,” her website celineinvegas.com said Thursday.

“Celine will return to The Colosseum on February 23 to resume performances.”

Dion and Angelil were married in 1994, when she was 26 and he was twice her age.

The two first met in 1980 when Dion was just 12 and had recorded a demo tape with her mother, which they sent to Angelil. The talent agent was so struck by her voice that he signed her to an exclusive management contract, mortgaging his house to finance her debut album.

By the 1990s, Dion was one of the English-speaking world’s biggest divas. The couple have three children: Rene-Charles born in 2001 and twins Nelson and Eddy born in 2010.

LOS ANGELES - “The Revenant,” a harrowing survival thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a 19th century fur trapper, topped the Oscars nominations list Thursday with 12 nods, including for best picture, actor and director.

In second place was dystopian action film “Mad Max: Fury Road,” with 10 nominations, followed by space blockbuster “The Martian,” about an astronaut stranded on the Red Planet, with seven.

The nominations, announced at a pre-dawn ceremony in Beverly Hills organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sent Hollywood’s annual awards season into high gear.

The race is now on for the coveted Oscars, to be handed out on February 28 at a star-studded ceremony hosted by comedian Chris Rock.

For the second year in a row, no minorities were nominated in the acting categories, which prompted the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite -which first cropped up last year to criticize the lack of diversity -- to trend on Twitter.

“The Revenant” was directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who also helmed last year’s big Oscars winner “Birdman,” which earned four golden statuettes including for best picture and director.

“We gave it our all on this film

and this appreciation from the Academy means a lot to me and my colleagues who made it possible,” Inarritu said in a statement following the nominations.

Should the Mexican director win next month, he will be joining just two other directors -- Joseph Mankiewicz and John Ford -- who won the award for two consecutive years.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs described “The Revenant” as a “cinematic masterpiece” in comments to AFP. “It takes you back in time to a space where we had no idea what were the challenges of these people -- the trappers,” she said.

Beyond the top three films on the nominations list, the other contenders for best picture are “The Big Short,” “Bridge of Spies,” “Brooklyn,” “Room” and “Spotlight.

Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies,” lesbian romance “Carol” and “Spotlight” -- about journalists from The Boston Globe who uncovered sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, each earned six nominations.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the latest installment in the space saga that has been setting box office records, was nominated for five Oscars, but missed the cut in the top categories including for best picture. (afp)

Cher donates thousands of bottles of water to troubled Flint NEW YORK — Cher is donating water to the residents of Flint, Michigan, as the city struggles with a drinking water crisis linked to lead contamination. More than 180,000 bottles will be shipped to the city starting Monday, according to a statement Cher released to The Associated Press on Saturday.

“This is a tragedy of staggering proportion and shocking that it’s

happening in the middle of our country,” the Oscar winner said.

The city’s 100,000 residents haven’t had safe water to drink since 2014, when officials began drawing water from the Flint River as a cost-saving measure. However, the city did not treat corrosive water properly, which led to metal leaching from old pipes.

The crisis prompted President

Barack Obama to sign an emergency declaration Saturday clearing the way for federal aid.

Cher said she reached out to her friend Brad Horwitz, who is an investor in the water company Icelandic Glacial. He contacted company leaders who agreed to double Cher’s donation. The 181,440 bottles are expected to reach the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan starting Wednesday. (ap)

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Poverty rate in Bali increases

THE CENTRAL Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali recorded an increase in poverty throughout 2015. In March, the poverty rate remained 4.47 percent but after that jumped to 5.25 percent in September.

“Allegedly it is caused by the unemployment rate soaring as much as 1.37 percent in March to 1.99 percent in September 2015,” said the Head of the BPS Bali Region, Panusunan Siregar, when describing about the “Portrait of Bali Macro Development Indicators 2015 and Anticipation 2016”.

Panusunan added that another cause is the business decrease in the agricultural and industrial sector. Actually this sector is the most easily cultivated. “Declining welfare level of farmers makes the sector becomes no longer attractive, especially among the young people,” he continued.

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, admitted to be apprehensive with the increase in the poverty rate in Bali.

As a result, the Island of the Gods must get shifted from second position to fourth position in terms of the lowest poverty in Indonesia.

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Indonesian policemen patrol outside a Starbucks cafe where Thursday’s attack took place, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday.

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘The Revenant’ in London, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016.

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Jakarta attack toll rises to 8: police

JAKARTA - The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday.

Police had earlier put the toll of victims from Thursday’s assault at two, but raised it with the latest death and confirmation that an Indonesian man originally suspected of being a militant was actually a civilian.

The coordinated bomb and gun attack along the capital’s central thoroughfare has been claimed by

the Islamic State (IS) group.

Indonesian authorities blame it on an IS faction made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians involved in the extremist group’s ruthless fight for a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

The Jakarta attack also left two dozen people injured -- including

some foreigners -- several of them in serious condition.

“Another victim who was in a coma since the beginning died last night,” Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal told AFP, confirming the latest death.

He named him as Rais Karna, 37, an Indonesian who worked at a nearby bank and who died from severe gunshot wounds to the head.

The fourth victim, who was initially thought to be an attacker, was identified as Sugito. Many Indonesians go by a single name.

Police previously confirmed a Canadian citizen was among the dead. All the others were Indonesian.

Authorities in Southeast Asian countries with significant Muslim populations say hundreds of their citizens have gone to join the IS jihad in the Middle East, and have repeatedly warned that extremist violence could boomerang back home. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

Police said Saturday they had

arrested 12 people in raids across Indonesia, including a man they believe handled financing for the Jakarta attacks, money that authorities allege came from the Islamic State group. (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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COVER STORY Alleviation ...

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In terms of poverty alleviation, Bali is still defeated by Jakarta, South Kalimantan and Bangka Belitung.

“We must find out what causes our position to decline and accomplish it straightforwardly.

We have got shifted to the fourth position whereas this year we have an ambition to be number one,” he said.

Pastika asked relevant agencies to immediately identify the problems regarding the increase in the number of poverty. It should be done even though must invite an expert to find the solution, and if needed, we must come down to villages in order to see the real problems occurred. “If it happened due to education, build schools there. If hampered by budgetary problem, hold long distance education and it can combine the elementary and senior high school as well,” he advised.

Pastika also deplored the persistence of the six underdeveloped villages in Bali whereas so

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much aid has been distributed to the villages. The six villages are Tembuku village, Binyan village, Mengani village, Abuan village, Ulian village and Langgahan village in Kintamani subdistrict, Bangli and Sepang Kelod village, Busungbiu, Buleleng.

“So, this year we will disburse more aids for the six villages,” he added. He hoped this year the problem of poverty can be resolved considering the exposure of the BPS is revealed at the beginning of the year. “There is still enough time until the yearend in order to be in accordance with the program of central government, the Nawacita, namely starting to build from the outskirts,” he said. (rin)

Poor people live in semipermanent house in Karangasem Regency. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali recorded an increase in poverty throughout 2015. In March, the poverty rate remained 4.47 percent but after that jumped to 5.25 percent in September.

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Bali has to improve real sector

The lecturer of Faculty of Economics and Business of the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said that the government should increase the real sector to reduce poverty.

The government should be able to create job opportunities, whether in the field of production or services, including the development of agricultural sector in the broader sense. ability of entrepreneurship, the government should provide them with the opportunities. Otherwise, how can they build an entrepreneurship? Here, we need a creative and innovative leader as well as the one being able to create a real sector,” he said.

El Nino

El Nino disaster is touted to affect the increase in poverty rate in Bali as the data released by the Central Statistics agency (BPS) in September 2015 when the disaster occurred. As reported, the El Nino widely influenced the agricultural sector. Consequently the basic sector becoming the mainstay of Balinese people are abandoned so that it results in unemployment.

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As for increasing poverty rate

“If the poverty alleviation program is to refurbish people’s house, it is nonsense to reduce poverty.

Now, we must develop agricultural sector. Simantri is okay, but must be productive. So far, it mostly goes bankrupt and fails,” he said.

Rahyuda added that the agricultural sector in broader sense also includes the maritime potential. The government can encourage fish catch by providing a boat or fishing gear. Thus, the people with low education level will have a job opportunity. When being idle, they will not be able to meet the basic needs and health as a benchmark index of a good development.

“If they have knowledge and skills such as a computer or the

Activities

“People’s purchasing power also decreases due to unemployment problem, so that influenced the data collection of the BPS,” said the Head of the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Putu Astawa. Similar opinion was also delivered by the Head of the Bali Manpower and Transmigration Agency, IGA Sudarsana. According to him, the increase in unemployment is inseparable from the scourge of El Nino, primarily in the informal sector.

“Now, it should have rained, but in fact have not. It also has a great impact on the informal labor. Just imagine if there is no water, people will be unable to do farming so that they have no job,” he said.

A member of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyoman Parta, saw that the government has allocated a lot of poverty alleviation programs. For instance, there are Bali Mandara Health Insurance (JKBM), scholarships for poor students, house

refurbishment, integrated rural development and integrated agricultural program.

“However, the problem is that a lot of the programs are misdirected because the executive does not have the data pertaining to poor people and their activities.

As a result, poor people actually needing working tools for carpenter but they are even given a cow. Finally, the program is not successful,” he said.

Parta justified that poverty is prevalent among the farmers, especially those living at villages.

On that account, the government should increase the exchange rate of farmers by subsidizing the results.

So far, the government gives more subsidies in the production process in the form of fertilizer, cattle assistance, paddy production tools and agricultural tools.

But when the crops slumped, farmers even did not get anything, not to mention the lowest retail price of grain has been determined

by the government. As a result, farmers are unable to sell their crops at expensive price.

“When they harvest, they are even unable to sell expensively.

So, if this happens who wants to become a farmer, who is comfortable being a farmer? At the level of production, the farmers in Bali are actually productive, but at the level of harvest yield they do not get protection,” he explained.

If there are subsidies of results, continued Parta, farmers will have more certainties in harvest and obtain a good price. Even if the crop fails, farmers will still be able to earn enough money.

Subsidies of crops can be in the form of tax exemption of their farmland, the government should buy farmers’ crops at the price exceeding the market price, insuring and then making post-harvest technology. “The best is to buy the farmers’ agricultural product at the price exceeding the market price,” he said. (rin)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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TUBAN - In order to enliven the celebration of the first anniversary, the H Sovereign Bali carried out several activities with the theme ‘Inspiring First’ include: Care & Green—briefing on the hazards of plastic waste at the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary school, cycling as well as cooperation with the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to hold Corporate Social Responsibility in the form of blood donation.

Peak of the ‘Inspiring First’ anniversary event sponsored by Citilink and Air Asia was held on December 16, 2015. It was attended by the management and staff of the H Sovereign Bali. It commenced at 16:30 and specifically held for internal circle. In addition to cutting cone by Herman Sudarta as the owner accompanied by Ramia Adnyana as the General Manager and other department heads, the event was also enlivened by HSB Band & Kembang Girang Dance as the opening session.

The activities also supported

by Transcorp, Cathay Pacific, Booking.com, Bali Adventure Tours and MG Holiday displayed some surprises including vivacious performances by each department and were warmly welcomed by the whole audience. Besides, the organizer also provided street food such as meatballs, chicken satay, tipat cantok, fruit salads, es cendol and various other natural snacks directly on push chart.

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Cruises 2016: Big new ships, submarine trips, ‘voluntourism’

NEW YORK — Underwater sightseeing in a glass submarine, shopping with a chef for dinner ingredients and volunteering with locals: These are some of the new options this season for cruise passengers.

Also in 2016 from the cruise industry, Royal Caribbean launches the world’s largest ship, and a new ship from Carnival features a biking track suspended high above the water. And for cruisers with deep pockets, luxuries range from round-the-clock personal assistants to long-term leases for residences at sea.

Crystal Cruises has just launched Crystal Esprit, a 62-guest yacht that offers among its excursions a ride in a submersible vessel. The underwater excursions take place near the Seychelles islands in winter and on the Adriatic Coast in spring and summer. The glass capsule holds two people and a captain. Thirty-minute rides are $599 per person.

Later this year, Crystal launches a yacht for river cruising in Europe, Crystal Mozart, with four more river yachts in 2017. Crystal is also getting into the airplane business with charter flights on four jets connecting to trips by ship and on land. And later this year Crystal launches residences at sea, with long-term leases for staterooms on three new ocean vessels, prices to be determined.

Omar Vega/Invision/AP, File Fathom, a new brand from Carnival Corp., offers “voluntourism” trips to the DoIn this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo, Pitbull performs during the Norwegian Escape christening ceremony in Miami. The vessel is one of a number of new ships introduced minican Republic in April and to Cuba in May. Carnival is still negotiating details on the Cuba trips with the Cuban government but tickets are on sale. Passengers will work by the cruise industry this season. with locals on everything from learning English to reforestation, while immersing themselves in the culture.

New from Celebrity Cruises: Passengers on certain sailings in the Caribbean and Europe are participating in the Chef Market Discoveries program, in which they shop with chefs in local markets for ingredients used in the meals they’ll eat onboard that night.

New from Princess Cruises: Chocolate Journeys with chocolate-infused menus and other treats designed by chocolatier Norman Love, plus menus by celebrity chef Curtis Stone, on-deck stargazing in a partnership with Discovery Channel, and a magic show and musical revue, “Magic to Do,” with music by Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz of “Wicked” and “Godspell” fame.

Disney Cruise Line features a “Star Wars” day on each of eight Disney Fantasy ship sailings in the Western Caribbean beginning this month, with “Star Wars” characters, activities and themed celebrations. In June, the Disney Magic ship will sail its first British Isles itinerary, to Scotland, England and Ireland.

Biking in the sky

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This undated rendering provided by Carnival Cruise Line shows SkyRide, a new attraction that will be onboard the Carnival Vista ship when the new vessel launches this spring.

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This December 2015 image supplied by Crystal Cruises shows a submersible sightseeing capsule in waters off the Seychelles islands, an excursion offered to passengers aboard the Crystal Cruises yacht Crystal Esprit.

In June, Royal Caribbean launches what will be the world’s largest ship, Harmony of the Seas, with a capacity of 5,479 passengers. Harmony will feature the “neighborhood” areas already found on other Royal Caribbean ships, including Central Park and Boardwalk. Harmony will also have robot bartenders, a mini-golf course, surfing on a FlowRider machine, waterslides, a zip line and, for guests who need their every whim catered to, round-the-clock personal assistants called Royal Genies.

Another new Royal Caribbean ship, Ovation of the Seas, debuts in April, designed primarily for service in China.

Carnival Cruise Line launches its largest ship in May, Carnival Vista, which can carry 3,954 people based on two per cabin. Vista’s showcase attraction, SkyRide, lets guests cycle on bikes suspended from an 800-foot long track, 20 feet above the top deck and 150 feet above the water. Vista will also have an onboard brewery and a 455-foot-long tube slide.

Holland America Line debuts the Koningsdam in April, with staterooms for families and for singles; a theater with two-story-high, 270-degree LED screens, and music options ranging from B.B. King’s Blues Club to nightly chamber music. HAL is also collaborating with a travel planning service called Utrip so guests can go online and create customized shore itineraries.

Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship, Escape, debuted in the fall of 2015 with an urban craft beer hall, Mondavi wine bar, a Margaritaville and a tapas bar. Norwegian is also introducing a new “Free at Sea” promotion inviting guests to pick a free amenity from four options: a beverage package, specialty dining package, excursion credits or WiFi package.

Regent Seven Seas Explorer launches in July with the $10,000-a-night super-luxurious Regent Suite, complete with private spa and grand piano. Despite the price tag, the suite is already sold out for its entire first season.

Viking, once known just for river cruises, is launching the second of its ocean-going ships, Viking Sea, in April, a sister ship to Viking Star, launched last year.

Seabourn expects its first new ship in five years, Seabourn Encore, to be delivered in December for a January 2017 launch. The ship will have all-suite staterooms and a Thomas Keller restaurant.

And Cunard is renovating the Queen Mary 2, adding staterooms for solo travelers and expanding the number of onboard kennels where guests are permitted to keep their dogs.

The QM2 will be out of service for the redo from May 27 to June 21. Looking ahead to 2017, the Queen Victoria will become the largest ship to ever navigate the Amazon, on Cunard’s first voyage to that part of the world. (ap)

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DENPASAR - Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, evoked the vivacity of his personnel after the bomb blast incident Jakarta. He instructed his personnel to solidify the ranks when confronting against the terrorists.

“So, let us solidify our ranks and increase our vigilance. To face terrorist attacks, do not need to fear and worry. Terrorist acts can happen anytime and anywhere. The president told that the state should not be defeated by terrorists,” said the Bali police chief.

According to police chief, it is not impossible for similar incident in Jakarta to happen in Bali. If it happens, he ordered all the personnel not to be afraid. “There is no single region that is really free from terrorist attack. Nevertheless, it’s no need to feel inferior and discouraged. In other words, terrorist attack can happen anywhere,” he said.

In Bali there are many foreign tourists gathering, continued Sugeng, so do not be spoofed that they are the target of terrorist. Although in an open threat the terrorist plot mentioned that they will target the officials, police officers, police headquarters and hangout place of foreigners. “Once again, do not be spoofed. Many foreigners are also living in other cities,” said Sugeng.

He added although they claimed a few victims, they expected the news on the incident can spread worldwide. Actually they wanted to result in fear.

“Therefore, I command all the ranks to constantly alert and increase security for the self, the environment, workplace, home and the others. There should be no fear. After hearing the terrorist threat, never pretend to be sick so that the officers play truant or may be absent from night duty. Let be back to our professionalism,” he said.

As reported, the bomb blasts at the police station on Jalan MH Thamrin in the area of Sarinah Dept.

Store in Central Jakarta on Thursday (Jal. 14) makes the security forces directly exert its force to secure Bali. Related to the terrorist acts, the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort declared the first alert status. While the Bali Police deployed its mobile brigade to patrol and require its personnel in the field to use bulletproof vest. In addition, the police chief ordered to increase patrol in public areas, vital locations, gathering places of people and foreign travelers as well as increase security at police station. It also includes the increase of self-security of the personnel by using a bulletproof vest. (kmb36)

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Tourists visit Ground Zero at Legian, Kuta, during their holiday in Bali Island. Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, evoked the vivacity of his personnel after the bomb blast incident Jakarta. He instructed his personnel to solidify the ranks when confronting against the terrorists.

Bali to cooperate with Australia in tackling emergency situation

DENPASAR - The Bali provincial government has expressed its intention to cooperate with the Australian government in tackling any emergency situation in anticipation of any terrorist acts, an official has said.

Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika made the remarks during

a meeting with Australian Consul General Helena Studdert, adding that it was important to be prepared to tackle any emergency situation.

This is all the more important as is the ability to anticipate an attack, particularly after the terrorist attack that occurred in Jakarta on Thursday.

Pastika stated that quick response teams and trained security personnel and medical workers were badly needed to deal with any eventuality, quickly bring back the situation to normal, help the victims as well as handle those in trauma.

“We wish to send security per-

sonnel, medical practitioners and nurses to Australia to be trained at Darwin,” he said.

According to him, Darwin is an appropriate location for training because the Australian city is not only home to the high quality emergency handling system, but also it is not too far from Indonesia.

In addition, Pastika also wished to step up cooperation in intelligence sharing.

The governor pointed out that the Bali government also wished to enhance cooperation with the Darwin government in the field of education, in particular. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali will host the Bali Clean Energy Forum (BCEF).

The forum that will be held for the first time is planned to take place at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC) on the upcoming February 11-12. If there is no impediment, President Joko Widodo is scheduled to open the BCEF. “This forum will be a meeting

of about 45 ministers of energy in the world and involving 1,000 participants from industrial sector and the youth from 80 countries,” said Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Teguh Pamuji.

Teguh said that Bali was chosen to host the event because the region is the only one having been stipu-

lated as a national region of clean energy. It is hoped the spirit of Bali in developing new clean energy and renewable energy can be transmitted to other provinces. Later, the forum will consist of five pillars.

“The first pillar is that it becomes an inter-ministerial forum to discuss about the continuation of the new energy policy. The second pillar

serves as a place for the meeting of the experts of the world, so that they are expected to provide input to the government in developing clean energy,” he explained.

Teguh added that the third pillar is that the meeting for industrial sector. The committee attempted to invite industrial sector reaching 70 percent from Indonesia and 30

percent from foreign countries. The fourth pillar is the meeting of the community, so that there is a deep understanding on clean energy.

“The last pillar is a meeting place for young people. Younger generation is expected to provide input and even contributes their innovations in this forum,” he affirmed. (kmb32)

Bali to host Clean Energy Forum

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Joint patrols to prevent terror acts thru waters of Buleleng

Burkina Faso begins 3 days mourning after al-Qaida attack OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso is beginning three days of national mourning after an attack by al-Qaida militants left at least 28 people dead. In a message broadcast to the nation, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said the people of Burkina Faso must unite in the fight against terrorism.

He also announced that security forces will be stepping up security checks at entrances to the capital, Ouagadougou, and other major towns, as well as along the country’s borders.

The period of national mourning began Sunday, a day after Burkinabe and French forces ended a more than 12-siege at an upscale hotel in downtown Ouagadougou. When the gunfire and explosions finally stopped, authorities said 18 were killed in the hotel and 10 killed at a nearby cafe. The four attackers were also killed.(ap)

SINGARAJA - To anticipate terrorist acts from entering by sea, the surveillance level is intensified by water police of the Buleleng Police. Buleleng has the most extensive length of shoreline in Bali and not all can be supervised by police for 24 hours.

After the bomb blast incident and shootout on Jalan MH Thamrin in the area of Sarinah Building, Jakarta, a similar level of anticipation is back tightened.

Traditional harbor at some points of Buleleng waters starts to be monitored by police through a joint patrol. The personnel involved consist of five police officers, an officer of Sawan Police and a navy. The joint operations in the form of patrols in the waters took place smoothly, although they did not find any suspicious objects or persons.

Police could conduct initial inspection to a vessel and its crews from Sapeken. The vessel was carrying at least 700 kilograms of live groupers. The inspection was targeted to captain named Jupri and five crews consisting of Mohammad Erpan, Ridwan, Rauf, Kahar and Nurul. They were all examined and declared to have brought complete documents and identity card.

“The joint operation is carried out to prevent the smuggling of hazardous goods, including migrants without personal identity. They take advantage of water areas and land through traditional port in the waters of North Bali. At the same time, it is also meant to prevent the acts of terror as occurred in Jakarta, so that we increase our routine patrol,” said Gelgel with permission from Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi, Friday (Jan. 15).

He added that the joint operation and patrol are regularly carried out by water police unit of the Buleleng Police, especially to oversee the actions of the crime such as fish bombing, coral reef bombing and the smuggling of goods through the waters of Buleleng. Vessels or boats without permission are examined in terms of their destination and identity. Now, there are at least five water police checkpoints namely at Sumberkima, Sangsit, Penarukan, Kampung Baru and Celukan Bawang. “Water Police unit of the Buleleng Police and personnel of the joint operation involved subdistrict police station and navy mutually help for safeguarding the marine waters in Buleleng,” he added. (kmb34)

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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014 file picture German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a press conference after a cabinet meeting at the Meseberg palace near Berlin, Germany.

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The joint force carry out patrol on the water of Buleleng

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Padangbai traditional harbor not managed by operator

AMLAPURA - Padangbai traditional harbor has not been managed by an operator. Consequently, there is no clarity about the party responsible for the safety of passengers. Besides, it has high potential income if it is managed due to high traffic of foreign travelers crossing to a number of small islands in NTB, such as Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air. This was submitted by the acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda.

All this time, he got information that the traditional harbor still belongs to the asset of central government and has not been submitted to Karangasem district.

The traditional harbor is located in the north of Padangbai Harbor managed by PT ASDP Lembar-

Padangbai.

So far, the traditional harbor has no operator, so that it is not managed in accordance with the existing rules. “Until now, there is no operator managing the traditional harbor,” said Ngurah Arda accompanied by the Head of the Karangasem Transportation Agency, Wayan Sutapa.

He appreciated to the residents of Padangbai that collect levies from the presence of the traditional harbor. However, the levies do not have something to do with the harbor management. “Residents at Padangbai manage the parking service or the others,” said Sutapa.

As a government official, he hoped that everything related to the harbor management should comply with government regula-

tions. “If there are any things not in conformity with the rules, surely other institution is authorized to handle it,” he said without explaining whatever aspects are associated with the traditional harbor.

Responding to the finding of the acting regent that the traditional harbor has not been managed by an operator, he ordered his staff to take measures in accordance with the laws. Before there is a harbor operator nobody can manage it.

Harbor operator must be in the form of business entity. Actually, added Sutapa, Karangasem district has filed regional bylaw draft about the PT. Karangasem Sejahtera (PT KS) prepared to manage the harbor, one of which is the Padangbai traditional harbor. However, the draft on PT KS was rejected by

the Karangasem House of Representative because there has been no regulation and the company has no initial capital.

According to Sutapa, the traditional harbor is urgently managed by an operator. It is important because it needs a responsible authority for safety. So far, the traffic of passengers mostly consisting of foreign tourists traveling to a number of small islands in NTB is very high. The traffic of crossing reaches 700-1,500 people. “The average traveler crossing through the traditional harbor by boat reaches 800 people per day. Most of them are foreign travelers, while local people are just a few,” added the Spokesperson of Regional Secretariat of Karangasem, Made Suparta, accompanying the visit of

the acting regent.

Chairman of the Karangasem House of Representatives, Nengah Sumardi, not long ago justified that the potential revenue of the government of Karangasem is huge if the Padangbai traditional harbor management is handed over to government of Karangasem.

From the information obtained, the ticket collection at Padangbai traditional harbor can obtain revenue as much as IDR 4 billion each year. Unfortunately, so far local government cannot manage it because the asset still belongs to central government and has not been submitted to the government of Karangasem district. Actually if PT KS has owned a legal instrument, it is potential to be given the authority to manage. (013)

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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migrant troubles have reignited in the new year but the German leader is sticking to her guns, insisting her country will manage the challenge and that diplomacy can bring solutions.

Germany registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year, and 2,000 to 3,000 are still arriving daily even in mid-winter.

A surge of robberies and sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne — and the fact that some of the suspects were asylum-seekers — have highlighted the difficulty of integrating so many newcomers. With pressure mounting for the government to manage the influx, Merkel’s Bavarian allies are once again pushing for a cap on asylumseekers.

Public opinion toward refugees has been souring for months i n G e r m a n y, a l t h o u g h p o l l s suggest political support for Merkel’s conservatives is down only slightly. While Germany doesn’t hold a national election until late 2017, smaller votes this year — starting with three state elections in March — will offer a test of the mood.

“The events of New Year’s Eve have again shone a spotlight

on the challenges we face, made them clear from a new side we had not viewed so far,” Merkel acknowledged. Within days, her government proposed legislation to make it easier to deport criminal foreigners.

On the refugee influx itself, however, Merkel is standing firm — sticking to her much-criticized mantra that “we will manage it.”

The woman chosen as Time’s person of the year insists that the solution is not to unilaterally close borders, but to work with reluctant European partners, Turkey and others to secure Europe’s frontiers and share the burden of hosting refugees. That has been the central plank of her approach even as the government has tightened policy at home — taking steps to make it easier to send migrants from Balkan nations home and making clear that not all Afghans will be allowed to stay. Whether Merkel will have any more success in Europe in 2016 than last year is questionable.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, an outspoken opponent of compulsory refugee quotas, said after the Cologne assaults that migrants can’t be integrated and “we don’t want what happened in Germany to happen here.”

Merkel has pledged to reduce the influx but resisted calls to set a specific limit on the number of refugees Germany can take. She rallied her conservative party behind her stance a month ago, heading off calls for a cap by conceding that an unabated influx would “overburden” the country in the long run.

But after a few weeks’ peace, her allies in the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union — her most prominent domestic critics over recent months — renewed their drive for tougher border controls and for a cap. The party’s leader, governor Horst Seehofer, suggested an annual figure of 200,000 asylum-seekers, and grumbling has resurfaced in Merkel’s own party. Yet Merkel isn’t budging and won’t say by when she aims to get the numbers down. “It wouldn’t be right to name the exact day,” she said. “We are working at high pressure on a sustainable reduction.” (ap)

Iraq sends troops south to rein in crime, tribal disputes

BASRA, Iraq — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has sent security reinforcements to the southern Basra province to rein in violent crime and tribal disputes that have surged in recent months as troops have been off battling the Islamic State group in the country’s northwest.

An army division and a police battalion were redeployed from southern Iraq in late 2014, creating a security vacuum in the oil-rich and overwhelmingly Shiite region, which is home to some 3 million people.

The deputy head of Basra’s provincial council, Walid Gytan, said Sunday that the forces “are essential to maintain security in the province,” without elaborating.

A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief reporters, says the reinforcements include a tank regiment and a commando battalion.(ap)

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In this Dec. 18, 2015 photo security forces deploy in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.

Local officials blame the lack of security forces, many of them have been dispatched to front lines, for the soaring thefts, armed robberies, kidnapping for ransom, bloody tribal disputes and drug trafficking.

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BUSINESS China-led Asian infrastructure bank opens for business

BEIJING — A Chinese-led bank intended to finance railways and other cargo links throughout Asia opened for business at a ceremony led by President Xi Jinping.

Representatives of 57 member countries of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank attended the ceremony Saturday, at which China pledged $50 million to a special fund to prepare less developed countries for infrastructure projects.

The United States and Japan are not members of the AIIB, which some see as a potential rival to the Western-led World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Washington has said it welcomes the additional financing for development but had expressed concern looser lending standards might undercut efforts by existing institutions to promote environmental and other safeguards. Chinese officials have said the bank will complement existing institutions and promised to adhere to international lending standards.

The AIIB is intended to finance railways, cargo ports and other trade links. Its launch comes as Beijing is trying to extend its trade links with its Asian neighbors.

Beijing has pledged to put up most of the bank’s initial $50 billion in capital and says that total will rise to $100 billion.

A Chinese official, Jin Liqun, has been named the bank’s first president. (ap)

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German businesses put on brave face amid China’s economic slowdown countries, Garant-Moebel opened an office in Hong Kong two years ago where it employs a dozen people.

However, the strong fluctuations in the Chinese currency, the yuan, resulting from the country’s recent financial woes, are leading Chinese furniture retailers to roll back business, Hampel said.

Garant-Moebel is not alone in watching economic developments in People’s Republic with a wary eye.

“It seems obvious that the period of double-digit growth is behind us,” said Jan-Christoph Block, head of international sales at drive systems specialist Getriebebau Nord in Bargteheide, north

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Man accused of financing Jakarta attacks with IS funds arrested

JAKARTA - Indonesian police announced Saturday they had arrested a man they believe financed the deadly Jakarta attacks, alleging the suspect received the funds from the Islamic State group (IS).

National police chief Badrodin Haiti said 12 suspects had been detained in nationwide raids since Thursday’s attacks, including one accused of bankrolling the suicide bombings and shootings that left seven dead.

“One of the people detained had received financial transfers from ISIS to fund the operation,” he told reporters, using another acronym for IS. Police had suspected a broader extremist network helped carry out the attacks, warning a larger team of planners, financiers and bomb assemblers was likely still at large.

The attack has been claimed by

IS, which has ruthlessly carved out a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and Indonesian police have more specifically blamed a Southeast Asian affiliate of the group known as Katibah Nusantara.

Haiti said the amounts transferred were “quite large” and channelled through Indonesian extremist Bahrun Naim, believed to be the founding member of Katibah Nusantara and who police say orchestrated the Jakarta attacks from Syria.

The twelve arrested in the sweep across Java and Indonesia’s half of Borneo were associates of Naim, the police chief said. Pistols, bullet

clips and mobile phones were also seized in the raids, along with plans detailing future attacks.

Amid the raids more details have emerged about the brazen assault, with police confirming a suicide bomber struck a Starbucks cafe and officially releasing the identities of the attackers and their victims.

The dual Algerian-Canadian citizen shot by militants was named as Tahar Amer-Ouali, while the sole Indonesian killed, Rico Hermawan, was being fined by the police when the attackers blew up a traffic post.

Twenty-six others were injured during the 21-minute assault, including six police officers and a security guard who remains in a coma.

However other details remain unclear, with authorities still strug-

gling to provide concrete information on the shock attack that unfurled in broad daylight on a busy street.

Police left open the possibility that one of the five alleged militants responsible for the rampage might have been a civilian caught in the cross hairs, stressing their investigation into his identity was incomplete.

Claims that dual suicide bombers were responsible for the grisly carnage at a police post have also come into doubt, with investigators now speculating hand-held explosives could have been used.

More certain was the identification of Afif, the attacker in blue jeans, black t-shirt and a black hat pictured preparing to raise his handgun in a photo that rippled across Indonesia’s hyperactive social media universe.

He was released from prison last year after serving a seven-year sentence for involvement in an Islamic paramilitary camp, and had been recruited to IS by Naim, the believed ringleader of Katibah Nusantara.

Another of the militants identified was also a former convict, police said, with little known about the other two confirmed attackers.

If confirmed to be the work of Katibah Nusantara, which is made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians, it would mark the first violence in Southeast Asia by the group.

Authorities across the region with significant Muslim populations have repeatedly warned of the potential for their citizens to return from fighting alongside IS in the Middle East and carry out violence at home. (afp)

Unfazed Jakartans resume life as normal after attacks

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds after unveiling a sculpture during the opening ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.

FRANKFURT - German companies are trying not to let themselves be spooked by the economic slowdown in China, even if they concede they are currently seeing a drop in demand for their products there.

“Of course we’re experiencing a fall-off in demand in China at the moment,” said Franz Hampel, head of Garant-Moebel, a furniture wholesaler.

“Our Chinese partners have become jumpy. Business has been good for them the past few years.

But they’re now asking themselves what the future will bring,” Hampel said.

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Germany.

“It’s still possible to achieve growth, but it’s become more difficult,” he said.

Both companies can be seen as representative of the mostly family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) that form the backbone of the German economy and were quick to establish a foothold in China.

It is not just big companies like Volkswagen, BMW and BASF that are suffering from China’s woes, the SMEs are feeling the pinch too.

China’s economic growth is projected to slow to 6.7 percent in 2016 -- its lowest growth rate since 1990 -- from 6.9 percent in 2015,

according to the latest forecasts from the World Bank.

The slowdown is worrying for German exporters, since China is their most important market after Europe and the United States.

In 2014, Germany exported a total 74 billion euros ($81 billion) worth of goods to China, not including the sales generated by companies’ local subsidiaries in China.

According to the specialist consultancy firm EAC, some of the major players listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange generated combined turnover in China of 131 billion euros in 2014, an increase of nearly 10 percent over the previous year.

So it hardly comes as a surprise that the market turbulence in China has left its mark on Germany’s blue-chip DAX 30 index, too. It has lost more then seven percent since January 1.

Nevertheless, China’s “enormous growth potential remains,” said Block of Getriebebau Nord.

“Currently, more than 5,200 German companies are active in the People’s Republic, employing a combined workforce of more than one million there,” said Alexandra Voss, head of the German Chamber of Commerce in China.

“The economic slowdown in China will certainly not be painless. But the huge growth potential remains,” Voss told AFP. (afp)

JAKARTA - A day after deadly gun and bomb attacks rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta’s food peddlers, taxi drivers and shopkeepers returned to life as normal, more concerned with making a dollar than the Islamist assault.

Thursday’s bloody violence left two people and the five attackers dead, but the bigger concern for many residents remained the daily struggle to get ahead.

The smoke had barely cleared after the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State group, before Jakarta’s heaving metropolis quickly returned to its bustling self -- with ubiquitous food vendors re-emerging at the site just a couple hours later to sell afternoon snacks.

Motorbike taxi driver Asrul, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said he was nearly hit in the crossfire of the shootout between attackers and police in a busy area of shopping malls and embassies, but didn’t stopped seeking fares in the area.

“I could not make any money yesterday because of the attack, if I don’t work today how will I feed my family?” he said.

Social media-mad Indonesia is estimated to have one of the world’s largest populations of Twitter users, who were quick to post about the attack.

Tweeters denounced terrorism, with hashtags such as “We Are Not Afraid” surging to the top of global trending lists in a symbol of defiance.

But Indonesian attention has proven easily diverted by lighter subjects, such as viral photos of a hunky gun-wielding Jakarta policeman involved in the response to the crisis and who has become a national heartthrob.

Another widely posted image was of a satay peddler who stubbornly kept fanning his coal fire just 300 feet (91 metres) from the attack site, later saying he was afraid his cart might be stolen.

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Indonesian dancers perform during a rally for solidarity after Thursday’s attacks outside a Starbucks cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. A day after deadly gun and bomb attacks rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta’s food peddlers, taxi drivers and shopkeepers returned to life as normal, more concerned with making a dollar than the Islamist assault.

Jakarta-based terrorism analyst Rakyan Adibrata said the public response points to an Indonesian skin thickened by a history of political and economic crises, natural disasters and persistent corruption.

“Indonesians are sick of horrible things happening to them, so when something even

more horrible happens, they collectively fight that by turning to the inane,” he said.

The attacks actually became a business opportunity for Dodi Setiawan, a bottled drinks vendor who rushed to the site shortly after the carnage, expecting crowds of thirsty gawkers.

He sold out in minutes, and returned again and again with fresh stock, staying until dawn Friday.

“I always chase the crowd, so if there’s a massive demonstration or an unrest, I’ll be there,” he declared.

“I’m afraid of God, not terrorists.” (afp)

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark nuclear deal has satisfied all parties except radical extremists, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that Israel would remain vigilant to ensure that Iran was not violating its commitments.

Speaking before the parliament in comments broadcast live on state television, Rouhani said, “In (implementing) the deal, all are happy except Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the U.S. The rest are happy.” Rouhani said the deal has “opened new windows for engagement with the world.”

A strong supporter of the agreement, Rouhani sent out a celebratory tweet calling it a “glorious victory” late Saturday night while the speeches in Vienna were still taking place.

Rouhani also said the deal was a win for all negotiating parties and all factions inside Iran. “Nobody has been defeated in the deal neither inside the country nor the countries that were negotiating with us,” he said, referring to the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

Netanyahu meanwhile maintained his strong opposition to the deal. Speaking at his weekly Cabinet meeting, he said, “The Israel policy remains as it was — not

to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”

Netanyahu was a strong public opponent of the negotiations and drew the ire of the Obama administration last year by speaking in front of the U.S. Congress in an attempt to prevent the agreement. On Sunday he repeated his contention that the deal will strengthen and embolden Tehran, leading to greater regional instability.

“What is clear is that Iran will now have more resources to dedicate to their terrorism and aggression in the region and in the world, and Israel is prepared to deal with any threat,” he said.

Rouhani said Iran should use the expected influx of money and investments to spark the “economic mutation” of the country, creating jobs and enhancing quality-of-life for Iranian citizens. Iran has been suffering double-digit inflation and unemployment rates for years.

He also said Iran now needs political tranquility to best benefit from the new economic reality.

“All should prevent any domestic

and foreign trivialities that thwart us,” he said. “Any irrelevant and diverting dispute is against national expedience.”

Rouhani said his country needs up to $50 billion in foreign investment per year to reach its goal of eight-percent annual growth. For Iran, long out in the economic cold over its contested atomic program, implementing the nuclear deal will be a welcome thaw.

More than $30 billion in assets overseas will become immediately available to the Islamic Republic.

Official Iranian reports have set the total amount of frozen Iranian assets overseas at $100 billion.

A European oil embargo on Iran will end. Already, some 38 million barrels of oil are in Iran’s floating reserves, ready to enter the market, according to the International Energy Agency.

Celebrations in Tehran were relatively muted at first, because the Vienna implementation announcement came well after midnight. But on Sunday, many Tehran residents expressed optimism about Iran’s future economic prospects.

“Unbelievable! This is a day without sanction after years,” said taxi driver Reza Khoei. “I lost my technical job in a petrochemical complex in south of Iran because of the damn sanctions.” (ap)

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses lawmakers in an open session of parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark deal reached between Tehran and six world powers has satisfied all parties except radical extremists.

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Orthodox Jews look at an ambulance as it evacuate the body of a Palestinian assailant form a stabbing attack site outside Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.

Israeli police: Graffiti sprayed on Jerusalem church

JERUSALEM — Israeli police discovered Hebrew graffiti Sunday on the walls of a famous Jerusalem church, in what appears to be the latest vandalism attack by extremist Jews.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said anti-Christian slogans were found on the outer walls of the Dormition Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located just outside Jerusalem’s Old City and where Christian tradition says the Virgin Mary died.

The graffiti included threats of violence, messages degrading Jesus and a call for Christians to “go to hell.”

Nikodemus Schnabel, the Dormition Abbey spokesman, said the graffiti bore “very radical messages.”

Police are investigating but suspicion immediately fell on Jewish extremists who have for years vandalized Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The socalled “price tag” attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as

favoring the Palestinians.

That attacks have prompted widespread condemnation and pledges by Israel’s government to get tougher on Jewish vigilantes.

Israel’s Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, said he has instructed police to give the vandalism case top priority.

“We will not allow anyone to undermine the coexistence between religions in Israel. We will show zero tolerance to whomever harms the democratic foundations of Israel and its freedom of religion and we will apprehend those who carried out this heinous act,” he said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also condemned the vandalism.

The Benedictine abbey is a popular site for pilgrims and tourists. It has been damaged several times in recent years. The vandals are believed to be from the same group of Jewish extremists who have carried out a spate of similar attacks in recent years in retaliation for Palestinian attacks or to protest what they perceive as pro-Palestinian policies by the government. (ap)

At least 28 people died last week in the attack by al-Qaida-linked extremists on a hotel and cafe in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouaga-

dougou. Eight others perished in a suicide bombing and gunfire attacks

by Muslim militants in Jakarta, Indonesia. (ap)

Pope prays for victims of attacks in Burkina Faso, Indonesia

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is praying for the victims of attacks by extremists in Burkina Faso and Indonesia.

Francis led a prayer for the dead Sunday when he greeted a crowd of faithful in St. Peter’s Square. He says he is also praying that the inter-

national community’s efforts toward building peace find support. The pope says of the victims: “May the Lord welcome them into his house.”

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Banjar Hot Springs BULELENG - Banjar hot spring has become annual family’s favorite tourist attraction while unwinding the mind after passing through a long day of work.

Operations Manager of the Banjar hot spring, Ida Bagus Kade Satwika, said that crowded visitors come during school holidays. Aside from local travelers, there are also foreign travelers coming to only feel the sensation of hot spring bath. It is believed

to have the efficacy to heal health problems.

“Banjar hot spring has become one of the best attractions in Buleleng. Visitors throng the pool and soak in hot spring containing sulfur and having many benefits. They are very happy to come with family,” he said.

Natural tourist destinations in North Bali become superior when compared to other tourist destinations developed by the government of Buleleng and community-based

management. Domestic and foreign travelers make a visit after wandering over the nature of Bali. Every holiday season, the Banjar hot spring always becomes travelers’ dream to visit with family and closest relatives. “Making a visit to the hot spring is not too far away and easily accessed. Visitors can come by riding motorcycle or car located 12 kilometers from Singaraja,” he said.

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pens in July and August coinciding with holiday season of travelers from European countries. “Crowded visit happens on Saturdays and Sundays,” he said.

In the future, Banjar hot spring bath will continue to be organized. This includes the arrangement of the location of the park, repair of the seat and expansion of the sulphury pools.

Outside the bathing areas, such as merchants and parking space also get particular concern.

Pistons deny Warriors share of NBA win-loss record

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan — The Golden State Warriors double figures and trailed by 11 failed to match the best mid-season win-loss record in NBA points at one stage during the sechistory when they lost 113-95 at Detroit on Saturday, suffering ond quarter.

John Wall scored a season-high their second loss in three games.

The Warriors had been aiming to match the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and 1995-96 Chicago Bulls in reaching the midway point of the season at 38-3, but fell short.

They did retain a 10-1/2 game lead in the Pacific Division as their nearest rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, lost at home against Sacramento to end a 10-game winning streak.

Elsewhere, Memphis defeated New York in a grudge match, and a Jae Crowder lay-up with four seconds left gave Boston victory at Washington.

Much of the pregame talk around the Pistons-Warriors clash centered on how well Kentavious CaldwellPope might be able to restrict Golden State ace Stephen Curry.

The Warriors star scored 38 points, but Caldwell-Pope gave the Pistons a boost offensively with 20 points of his own.

Detroit retired Ben Wallace’s No. 3 jersey at halftime, and by that time the Pistons led 65-49 on a raucous night at the Palace. Andre Drummond had 14 points and 21 rebounds, and Reggie Jackson scored 20 points for Detroit, which had six

players in double figures.

The Clippers trailed throughout the second half in losing 110-103 to Sacramento. DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 13 rebounds and Omri Casspi added 17 points for the Kings. Casspi went 5 for 8 from 3-point range.

J.J. Redick scored 22 points, hitting five 3-pointers, for the Clippers, who had been tied with San Antonio for the longest active win streak in the NBA. Memphis beat New York 103-95 in the first game between the teams since the NBA suspended Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes for two games for his fight with Knicks coach Derek Fisher in October. Despite the buildup, there were no incidents between Barnes and Fisher.

Marc Gasol had 37 points and eight rebounds for the Grizzlies while Kristaps Porzingis led the Knicks with 17 points. Boston’s Crowder sank the go-ahead layup with 3.9 seconds left off a pass from Marcus Smart, lifting the Celtics to a 119-117 win at Washington.

Isaiah Thomas scored 32 points while Crowder added 22 points for Boston, which had five players in

36 points for Washington, but missed a potential tying runner at the buzzer. He also had 13 assists.

Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton scored 24 points on 11-of-16 shooting, leading the Bucks to a 105-92 win at Charlotte. Atlanta’s Paul Millsap scored 21 points and went past 10,000 for his career, leading the Hawks in a dominant second half that secured a 114-86 victory over Brooklyn.

Utah took control in the first quarter and strolled to a 109-82 win against the Los Angeles Lakers, with Rudy Gobert contributing 18 points and 18 rebounds.

Philadelphia had a rare comfortable victory, and notched only their fifth win of the season, as the 76ers beat Portland 114-89.(ap)

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond hangs from the rim after a dunk during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Warriors 113-95.

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With Hewitt retiring, Australia looks to new generation

MELBOURNE - With the retiring Lleyton Hewitt set for a bitter-sweet farewell from the Australian Open, the burden of home expectations will land heavily on the shoulders of talented but tempestuous duo Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic.

Australia’s yearning for a home men’s champion runs deep after 40 years of frustration but the pair will be under the microscope for their behaviour as much as their tennis.

Both have spoken of their love for home crowds but that love has, at times, not entirely been reciprocated.

Australia’s number one Tomic, seeded 17th at Melbourne Park, was jeered by the centre court crowd when he retired hurt early in his opening match of the 2014 tournament against Rafa Nadal.

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Australia’s Nick Kyrgios reacts during a news conference at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 16, 2016. The Australian Open tennis tournament starts January 18.

The mercurial Kyrgios lit up last year’s tournament with a dizzying run to the quarter-finals but was lashed in mainstream and social media for yelling expletives and smashing racquets.

He remains under huge scrutiny and a suspended ban from the ATP after a lewd remark aimed at Stan Wawrinka during a match last year.

The 20-year-old has steered clear of controversy leading up to this year’s tournament but Tomic has been under fire for retiring midway through his quarterfinal match at the Sydney International, citing sickness.

Having once earned the nickname ‘Tomic the Tank Engine’ after being accused of giving up in a U.S. Open match, the 23-year-old was sensitive to the criticism, given a swathe of withdrawals that hit the tournament.

“Other players did pull out that week, were also ill,” Tomic told reporters at Melbourne Park on Sunday. “Unfortunately with me, given my bad reputation in the past, things have happened. I think (the attention) always gets a little

too big.

“I think ... just being sick, maybe a little bit disappointing the way that you guys sort of ... went about it.”

With Kyrgios seeded 29th, Australia have two seeds in the men’s draw for the first time in over a decade.

Former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur is the lone local seed in the women’s draw at a tournament where she has often battled crippling nerves.

With two-times grand slam champion Hewitt bowing out, Kyrgios was feeling renewed pressure to perform on the biggest stage but also spoke of a greater level of comfort with it. “I feel as if I’m more relaxed this year,” he said.

“Coming around, I’ve got a lot more confidence in my game. I feel a lot more comfortable playing in front of the crowd this year. I’m definitely playing a lot better. “The crowd definitely expects any Aussie to play their best tennis here.

That’s fair enough.

“I think every Aussie should step up here and try their absolute hardest to bring the best out of themselves.”(rtr)

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Sp rt Dramatic draw for Chelsea as title-chasing Leicester held

LONDON — In an English Premier League campaign about restoring pride at Chelsea, the fallen champions still ensure their games cannot be ignored. It’s not just fascination with watching a wealthy team in decline.

On Saturday, a dreary opening 45 minutes against Everton made way for a thrilling second half that started with John Terry’s own goal and ended with the captain scoring in the right net in the eighth minute of stoppage time to clinch a 3-3 draw.

Even Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink — unbeaten since replacing the fired

Jose Mourinho last month — accepted Terry was offside when he flicked the ball past goalkeeper Tim Howard in stoppage time.

Everton manager Roberto Martinez was aggrieved that the referee played an additional minute of injury time when seven had been indicated on the fourth official’s board just after Ramiro Funes Mori made it

Reuters / Stefan Wermuth

Chelsea’s John Terry in action with Everton’s Romelu Lukaku

3-2 in the 90th minute. Everton led through Terry’s own goal and Kevin Mirallas’ strike on the turn before Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas scored for Chelsea.

“There is an understandable feeling of disappointment in having to drop two points in a game that we had to play seven minutes of injury time with the last action happening in seven minutes and 51 seconds,” Martinez said.

The result has no impact on the title race or relegation. There is no realistic prospect of Chelsea — six points above the drop zone in 14th place — being sucked into danger, while Everton is 11th.

The surprise leader once again was Leicester, the team that was battling relegation a year ago.

And yet Saturday represented a missed opportunity for the team led by former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri. By drawing 1-1 with bottom-place Aston Villa after Shinji Okazaki’s opener was canceled out by Rudy Gestede, Leicester is only on top by a point.

Arsenal can reclaim top spot by just drawing at Stoke on Sunday. Between Leicester and Arsenal is ever-present Manchester City.

Sergio Aguero, twice, and Fabian Delph and David Sivla scored to power City to a 4-0 rout of Crystal Palace. For the first time in 28 years, Palace is without a win, or goal, in its last five league games. There was a pair of significant wins, however, for struggling teams.

Bournemouth halted a four-match winless run with a 3-0 victory over Norwich that was completed by $17 million record signing Benik Afobe, a recent recruit for the newcomers, after goals from Dan Gosling and Charlie Daniels. The win lifted Bournemouth a place above Norwich into 15th — only a point behind Chelsea.

Newcastle climbed out of the relegation zone to move two points behind Norwich by beating West Ham 2-1 through first-half goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum.

With fifth-place West Ham losing, it was an even better day for Tottenham, which moved fourth points ahead of its London rival by coming from behind to beat Sunderland 4-1.

Christian Eriksen inspired Tottenham’s recovery with a double, after losing to Leicester on Wednesday, while Mousa Dembele also netted, and Harry Kane’s penalty wrapped up the three points.

Even though it was match day, Southampton managed to complete a signing, bolstering its attacking options by enticing Charlie Austin from Queens Park Rangers. The England striker watched from the stands as James Ward-Prowse scored twice and Dusan Tadic rounded off a 3-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion. (ap)

Higuain extends Napoli’s lead, Inter stutter again

Villarreal draws to pull level with Real Madrid in Liga

BARCELONA, Spain — Villarreal’s scoreless draw with Real Betis was good enough for it to provisionally pull level on points with third-place Real Madrid in the Spanish league on Saturday.

Villarreal’s best scoring opportunity came just moments after kickoff of the evenly contested match at El Madrigal Stadium, when Roberto Soldado sent the ball off the far upright.

Fourth-place Villarreal’s winning streak ended at six straight rounds, but it equaled Madrid on points, and moved within four points of leader Atletico Madrid and two points of Barcelona before all three title rivals play on Sunday.

“Those were a lot of victories, but they covered up how we were playing. We need to rest our minds and then get back to training,” Villarreal coach Marcelino Garcia said. “This can help us to improve.”

Elsewhere, Celta Vigo got two goals from John Guidetti to earn a 4-3 win after weathering bottom-side Levante’s spirited second-half rally, while Sevilla downed Malaga 2-1. Guidetti turned in Iago Aspas’ back pass to break through in the first half, and five minutes later the striker chipped home his second.

Aspas added a third from a solo effort, but Celta staggered after Levante’s Deyverson and Pedro Lopez scored twice in a three-minute span with 20 minutes left.

Fabian Orellana’s goal appeared to have finished Levante off, until Jose Morales added drama to the end after scoring in the 88th. “We played more with heart than with good football, now we must start winning games,” Levante goalie Diego Marino said.

Manuel “Nolito” Agudo watched from the stands amid speculation of a transfer to Barcelona, as his Celta broke a three-game losing streak to remain in fifth place.

Sevilla stayed in sixth after striker Kevin Gameiro scored two goals just before halftime to help beat Malaga for its ninth consecutive home win. Gameiro ran onto a long free kick by Adil Rami and lifted the ball over goalkeeper Carlos Kameni to open for the hosts before halftime.

He made it 11 league goals this season just two minutes later when Sevilla struck on the break, this time using a deft flick with the inside of his boot to beat Kameni. Charles scored in the second half for Malaga, which had its first defeat in eight rounds.

“This team needs confidence and Kevin showed that today,” Sevilla manager Unai Emery said. “He has a knack for scoring and it’s our job to create chances for him.” Sevilla’s Vicente Iborra and Malaga’s Arthur Boka were sent off for two yellow cards each.

Also, Real Sociedad midfielder Xabi Prieto earned and converted a penalty in the 75th to salvage a 1-1 draw at home with Deportivo La Coruna, after Luis Alberto put the visitors in front. Sociedad hit the crossbar twice in the final minutes, and settled for a point. (ap)

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FILE - In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 file photo, Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa leaves the AFC Congress in Manama, Bahrain. FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa says a complaint by rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein about his election conduct is “entirely inaccurate” in a statement on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.

Sheikh Salman contests FIFA rival’s complaint about conduct

LONDON — FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa dismissed a rival’s complaint about his election conduct as “entirely inaccurate” and warned on Saturday against public squabbling.

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein has accused Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman of a “blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote” by signing a pact between the Asian Football Confederation he leads and its counterpart in Africa. Jordanian federation president Prince Ali on Friday asked FIFA’s election watchdog to investigate whether election rules were broken.

But in a statement on Saturday, titled “An unnecessary spat between FIFA candidates,” Sheikh Salman insisted the AsiaAfrica pact was being worked on months before he decided to run in the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter. “I am astonished about my friend’s comments, which are wholly dismissed and entirely inaccurate,” Sheikh Salman said.

The Bahraini royal said that talks

about the “memorandum of understanding” started when the general secretaries of the Asia and African governing bodies met in May. He noted that the AFC has similar cooperation agreements with FIFA and two other regional bodies: UEFA and CONCACAF. “As AFC president, one of my duties is to seek development-knowhow sharing opportunities for the AFC around the world and to establish solid ties with like-minded football professionals,” the sheikh said.

Sheikh Salman and Prince Ali are competing against UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino, former FIFA official Jerome Champagne, and South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale in a five-man election field.

Prince Ali was beaten in May’s presidential election by Blatter, who announced resignation plans the following week in the wake of criminal investigations into FIFA officials, and was later banished from world soccer for eight years by the ethics judge. (ap)

Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as Napoli extended their lead at the top of Serie A by coming from behind to defeat Sassuolo 3-1 at home on Saturday, while Inter Milan’s title challenge faltered with a 1-1 draw at Atalanta.

Jose Callejon cancelled out Diego Falcinelli’s early penalty in the 19th minute before Higuain scored twice to extend Napoli’s lead at the top to four points. Inter are second on 40 points, one ahead of Juventus who are away at Udinese on Sunday.

Maurizio Sarri’s side fell behind in the third minute when Nicola Sansone was brought down by Raul Albiol, with Falcinelli slamming the spot kick past Pepe Reina.

But the league leaders drew level when Callejon ended his 26-game wait for a Serie A goal by leaping to head home Lorenzo Insigne’s curling cross.

Higuain scored his 19th league

goal of the season in the 42nd minute when he smashed Marek Hamsik’s cross past Andrea Consigli, and made it 20 goals in 20 league matches by finding the back of the net in injury time.

Inter headed to Atalanta having lost two of their last three league fixtures, including a surprise 1-0 loss at Sassuolo last weekend.

They fell behind again on Saturday when Murillo sent the impressive Boukary Drame’s cross past Handanovic but Inter equalised eight minutes later when the off-balance Toloi mishit Mauro Icardi’s cross into the roof of the Atalanta goal.

In the second half, Atalanta had the better chances but Handanovic kept the scores level with a series of outstanding saves, notably from Luca Cigarini in the 59th minute.

“The goalkeeper is there to make saves and Handanovic had two or three occasions where he was excellent,” Inter manager

Roberto Mancini said to Mediaset Premium. “I am not happy.

Someone has to do more because these are games we should be winning.”

Ciro Immobile marked his Torino comeback with a goal to end their four-game winless streak with a 4-2 home victory over Frosinone.

The striker returned on loan from Sevilla on Thursday after a disappointing spell away from Serie A, and converted a penalty after only nine minutes to the delight of the home fans.

Paolo Sammarco equalised, but two goals from Andrea Belotti gave Torino control. A 74th-minute Danilo Avelar own goal had threatened a Frosinone revival but Marco Benassi rounded off Torino’s win in the 82nd minute.

Torino move up to 11th on 25 points, level with Atalanta, while Frosinone are 18th on 15 points.(rtr)

Bayern Munich loses to 2nd division team in warmup

KARLSRUHE, Germany — Bayern Munich’s only warmup match before the Bundesliga restarts ended in a 2-1 defeat at second-division Karlsruhe and the expulsion of defender Jerome Boateng on Saturday.

The runaway Bundesliga leader fell behind before Arturo Vidal tied the friendly midway through the first half.

But Karlsruhe sealed the win from the spot after Boateng was sent off for a

foul in the 73rd.

Bayern is seeking an unprecedented fourth straight Bundesliga title before coach Pep Guardiola leaves at the end of the season. Bayern is also still in the chase for the Champions League title and the German Cup. Bayern kicks off the second half of the season on Friday against Hamburger SV. The Bundesliga has been on its winter break for nearly four weeks. (ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain in action.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

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Sp rt Dramatic draw for Chelsea as title-chasing Leicester held

LONDON — In an English Premier League campaign about restoring pride at Chelsea, the fallen champions still ensure their games cannot be ignored. It’s not just fascination with watching a wealthy team in decline.

On Saturday, a dreary opening 45 minutes against Everton made way for a thrilling second half that started with John Terry’s own goal and ended with the captain scoring in the right net in the eighth minute of stoppage time to clinch a 3-3 draw.

Even Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink — unbeaten since replacing the fired

Jose Mourinho last month — accepted Terry was offside when he flicked the ball past goalkeeper Tim Howard in stoppage time.

Everton manager Roberto Martinez was aggrieved that the referee played an additional minute of injury time when seven had been indicated on the fourth official’s board just after Ramiro Funes Mori made it

Reuters / Stefan Wermuth

Chelsea’s John Terry in action with Everton’s Romelu Lukaku

3-2 in the 90th minute. Everton led through Terry’s own goal and Kevin Mirallas’ strike on the turn before Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas scored for Chelsea.

“There is an understandable feeling of disappointment in having to drop two points in a game that we had to play seven minutes of injury time with the last action happening in seven minutes and 51 seconds,” Martinez said.

The result has no impact on the title race or relegation. There is no realistic prospect of Chelsea — six points above the drop zone in 14th place — being sucked into danger, while Everton is 11th.

The surprise leader once again was Leicester, the team that was battling relegation a year ago.

And yet Saturday represented a missed opportunity for the team led by former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri. By drawing 1-1 with bottom-place Aston Villa after Shinji Okazaki’s opener was canceled out by Rudy Gestede, Leicester is only on top by a point.

Arsenal can reclaim top spot by just drawing at Stoke on Sunday. Between Leicester and Arsenal is ever-present Manchester City.

Sergio Aguero, twice, and Fabian Delph and David Sivla scored to power City to a 4-0 rout of Crystal Palace. For the first time in 28 years, Palace is without a win, or goal, in its last five league games. There was a pair of significant wins, however, for struggling teams.

Bournemouth halted a four-match winless run with a 3-0 victory over Norwich that was completed by $17 million record signing Benik Afobe, a recent recruit for the newcomers, after goals from Dan Gosling and Charlie Daniels. The win lifted Bournemouth a place above Norwich into 15th — only a point behind Chelsea.

Newcastle climbed out of the relegation zone to move two points behind Norwich by beating West Ham 2-1 through first-half goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum.

With fifth-place West Ham losing, it was an even better day for Tottenham, which moved fourth points ahead of its London rival by coming from behind to beat Sunderland 4-1.

Christian Eriksen inspired Tottenham’s recovery with a double, after losing to Leicester on Wednesday, while Mousa Dembele also netted, and Harry Kane’s penalty wrapped up the three points.

Even though it was match day, Southampton managed to complete a signing, bolstering its attacking options by enticing Charlie Austin from Queens Park Rangers. The England striker watched from the stands as James Ward-Prowse scored twice and Dusan Tadic rounded off a 3-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion. (ap)

Higuain extends Napoli’s lead, Inter stutter again

Villarreal draws to pull level with Real Madrid in Liga

BARCELONA, Spain — Villarreal’s scoreless draw with Real Betis was good enough for it to provisionally pull level on points with third-place Real Madrid in the Spanish league on Saturday.

Villarreal’s best scoring opportunity came just moments after kickoff of the evenly contested match at El Madrigal Stadium, when Roberto Soldado sent the ball off the far upright.

Fourth-place Villarreal’s winning streak ended at six straight rounds, but it equaled Madrid on points, and moved within four points of leader Atletico Madrid and two points of Barcelona before all three title rivals play on Sunday.

“Those were a lot of victories, but they covered up how we were playing. We need to rest our minds and then get back to training,” Villarreal coach Marcelino Garcia said. “This can help us to improve.”

Elsewhere, Celta Vigo got two goals from John Guidetti to earn a 4-3 win after weathering bottom-side Levante’s spirited second-half rally, while Sevilla downed Malaga 2-1. Guidetti turned in Iago Aspas’ back pass to break through in the first half, and five minutes later the striker chipped home his second.

Aspas added a third from a solo effort, but Celta staggered after Levante’s Deyverson and Pedro Lopez scored twice in a three-minute span with 20 minutes left.

Fabian Orellana’s goal appeared to have finished Levante off, until Jose Morales added drama to the end after scoring in the 88th. “We played more with heart than with good football, now we must start winning games,” Levante goalie Diego Marino said.

Manuel “Nolito” Agudo watched from the stands amid speculation of a transfer to Barcelona, as his Celta broke a three-game losing streak to remain in fifth place.

Sevilla stayed in sixth after striker Kevin Gameiro scored two goals just before halftime to help beat Malaga for its ninth consecutive home win. Gameiro ran onto a long free kick by Adil Rami and lifted the ball over goalkeeper Carlos Kameni to open for the hosts before halftime.

He made it 11 league goals this season just two minutes later when Sevilla struck on the break, this time using a deft flick with the inside of his boot to beat Kameni. Charles scored in the second half for Malaga, which had its first defeat in eight rounds.

“This team needs confidence and Kevin showed that today,” Sevilla manager Unai Emery said. “He has a knack for scoring and it’s our job to create chances for him.” Sevilla’s Vicente Iborra and Malaga’s Arthur Boka were sent off for two yellow cards each.

Also, Real Sociedad midfielder Xabi Prieto earned and converted a penalty in the 75th to salvage a 1-1 draw at home with Deportivo La Coruna, after Luis Alberto put the visitors in front. Sociedad hit the crossbar twice in the final minutes, and settled for a point. (ap)

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AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, file

FILE - In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 file photo, Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa leaves the AFC Congress in Manama, Bahrain. FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa says a complaint by rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein about his election conduct is “entirely inaccurate” in a statement on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.

Sheikh Salman contests FIFA rival’s complaint about conduct

LONDON — FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa dismissed a rival’s complaint about his election conduct as “entirely inaccurate” and warned on Saturday against public squabbling.

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein has accused Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman of a “blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote” by signing a pact between the Asian Football Confederation he leads and its counterpart in Africa. Jordanian federation president Prince Ali on Friday asked FIFA’s election watchdog to investigate whether election rules were broken.

But in a statement on Saturday, titled “An unnecessary spat between FIFA candidates,” Sheikh Salman insisted the AsiaAfrica pact was being worked on months before he decided to run in the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter. “I am astonished about my friend’s comments, which are wholly dismissed and entirely inaccurate,” Sheikh Salman said.

The Bahraini royal said that talks

about the “memorandum of understanding” started when the general secretaries of the Asia and African governing bodies met in May. He noted that the AFC has similar cooperation agreements with FIFA and two other regional bodies: UEFA and CONCACAF. “As AFC president, one of my duties is to seek development-knowhow sharing opportunities for the AFC around the world and to establish solid ties with like-minded football professionals,” the sheikh said.

Sheikh Salman and Prince Ali are competing against UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino, former FIFA official Jerome Champagne, and South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale in a five-man election field.

Prince Ali was beaten in May’s presidential election by Blatter, who announced resignation plans the following week in the wake of criminal investigations into FIFA officials, and was later banished from world soccer for eight years by the ethics judge. (ap)

Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as Napoli extended their lead at the top of Serie A by coming from behind to defeat Sassuolo 3-1 at home on Saturday, while Inter Milan’s title challenge faltered with a 1-1 draw at Atalanta.

Jose Callejon cancelled out Diego Falcinelli’s early penalty in the 19th minute before Higuain scored twice to extend Napoli’s lead at the top to four points. Inter are second on 40 points, one ahead of Juventus who are away at Udinese on Sunday.

Maurizio Sarri’s side fell behind in the third minute when Nicola Sansone was brought down by Raul Albiol, with Falcinelli slamming the spot kick past Pepe Reina.

But the league leaders drew level when Callejon ended his 26-game wait for a Serie A goal by leaping to head home Lorenzo Insigne’s curling cross.

Higuain scored his 19th league

goal of the season in the 42nd minute when he smashed Marek Hamsik’s cross past Andrea Consigli, and made it 20 goals in 20 league matches by finding the back of the net in injury time.

Inter headed to Atalanta having lost two of their last three league fixtures, including a surprise 1-0 loss at Sassuolo last weekend.

They fell behind again on Saturday when Murillo sent the impressive Boukary Drame’s cross past Handanovic but Inter equalised eight minutes later when the off-balance Toloi mishit Mauro Icardi’s cross into the roof of the Atalanta goal.

In the second half, Atalanta had the better chances but Handanovic kept the scores level with a series of outstanding saves, notably from Luca Cigarini in the 59th minute.

“The goalkeeper is there to make saves and Handanovic had two or three occasions where he was excellent,” Inter manager

Roberto Mancini said to Mediaset Premium. “I am not happy.

Someone has to do more because these are games we should be winning.”

Ciro Immobile marked his Torino comeback with a goal to end their four-game winless streak with a 4-2 home victory over Frosinone.

The striker returned on loan from Sevilla on Thursday after a disappointing spell away from Serie A, and converted a penalty after only nine minutes to the delight of the home fans.

Paolo Sammarco equalised, but two goals from Andrea Belotti gave Torino control. A 74th-minute Danilo Avelar own goal had threatened a Frosinone revival but Marco Benassi rounded off Torino’s win in the 82nd minute.

Torino move up to 11th on 25 points, level with Atalanta, while Frosinone are 18th on 15 points.(rtr)

Bayern Munich loses to 2nd division team in warmup

KARLSRUHE, Germany — Bayern Munich’s only warmup match before the Bundesliga restarts ended in a 2-1 defeat at second-division Karlsruhe and the expulsion of defender Jerome Boateng on Saturday.

The runaway Bundesliga leader fell behind before Arturo Vidal tied the friendly midway through the first half.

But Karlsruhe sealed the win from the spot after Boateng was sent off for a

foul in the 73rd.

Bayern is seeking an unprecedented fourth straight Bundesliga title before coach Pep Guardiola leaves at the end of the season. Bayern is also still in the chase for the Champions League title and the German Cup. Bayern kicks off the second half of the season on Friday against Hamburger SV. The Bundesliga has been on its winter break for nearly four weeks. (ap)

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain in action.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

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International

Banjar Hot Springs BULELENG - Banjar hot spring has become annual family’s favorite tourist attraction while unwinding the mind after passing through a long day of work.

Operations Manager of the Banjar hot spring, Ida Bagus Kade Satwika, said that crowded visitors come during school holidays. Aside from local travelers, there are also foreign travelers coming to only feel the sensation of hot spring bath. It is believed

to have the efficacy to heal health problems.

“Banjar hot spring has become one of the best attractions in Buleleng. Visitors throng the pool and soak in hot spring containing sulfur and having many benefits. They are very happy to come with family,” he said.

Natural tourist destinations in North Bali become superior when compared to other tourist destinations developed by the government of Buleleng and community-based

management. Domestic and foreign travelers make a visit after wandering over the nature of Bali. Every holiday season, the Banjar hot spring always becomes travelers’ dream to visit with family and closest relatives. “Making a visit to the hot spring is not too far away and easily accessed. Visitors can come by riding motorcycle or car located 12 kilometers from Singaraja,” he said.

Peak of tourist visit, said Satwika, hap-

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pens in July and August coinciding with holiday season of travelers from European countries. “Crowded visit happens on Saturdays and Sundays,” he said.

In the future, Banjar hot spring bath will continue to be organized. This includes the arrangement of the location of the park, repair of the seat and expansion of the sulphury pools.

Outside the bathing areas, such as merchants and parking space also get particular concern.

Pistons deny Warriors share of NBA win-loss record

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan — The Golden State Warriors double figures and trailed by 11 failed to match the best mid-season win-loss record in NBA points at one stage during the sechistory when they lost 113-95 at Detroit on Saturday, suffering ond quarter.

John Wall scored a season-high their second loss in three games.

The Warriors had been aiming to match the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and 1995-96 Chicago Bulls in reaching the midway point of the season at 38-3, but fell short.

They did retain a 10-1/2 game lead in the Pacific Division as their nearest rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, lost at home against Sacramento to end a 10-game winning streak.

Elsewhere, Memphis defeated New York in a grudge match, and a Jae Crowder lay-up with four seconds left gave Boston victory at Washington.

Much of the pregame talk around the Pistons-Warriors clash centered on how well Kentavious CaldwellPope might be able to restrict Golden State ace Stephen Curry.

The Warriors star scored 38 points, but Caldwell-Pope gave the Pistons a boost offensively with 20 points of his own.

Detroit retired Ben Wallace’s No. 3 jersey at halftime, and by that time the Pistons led 65-49 on a raucous night at the Palace. Andre Drummond had 14 points and 21 rebounds, and Reggie Jackson scored 20 points for Detroit, which had six

players in double figures.

The Clippers trailed throughout the second half in losing 110-103 to Sacramento. DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 13 rebounds and Omri Casspi added 17 points for the Kings. Casspi went 5 for 8 from 3-point range.

J.J. Redick scored 22 points, hitting five 3-pointers, for the Clippers, who had been tied with San Antonio for the longest active win streak in the NBA. Memphis beat New York 103-95 in the first game between the teams since the NBA suspended Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes for two games for his fight with Knicks coach Derek Fisher in October. Despite the buildup, there were no incidents between Barnes and Fisher.

Marc Gasol had 37 points and eight rebounds for the Grizzlies while Kristaps Porzingis led the Knicks with 17 points. Boston’s Crowder sank the go-ahead layup with 3.9 seconds left off a pass from Marcus Smart, lifting the Celtics to a 119-117 win at Washington.

Isaiah Thomas scored 32 points while Crowder added 22 points for Boston, which had five players in

36 points for Washington, but missed a potential tying runner at the buzzer. He also had 13 assists.

Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton scored 24 points on 11-of-16 shooting, leading the Bucks to a 105-92 win at Charlotte. Atlanta’s Paul Millsap scored 21 points and went past 10,000 for his career, leading the Hawks in a dominant second half that secured a 114-86 victory over Brooklyn.

Utah took control in the first quarter and strolled to a 109-82 win against the Los Angeles Lakers, with Rudy Gobert contributing 18 points and 18 rebounds.

Philadelphia had a rare comfortable victory, and notched only their fifth win of the season, as the 76ers beat Portland 114-89.(ap)

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond hangs from the rim after a dunk during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Warriors 113-95.

AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

With Hewitt retiring, Australia looks to new generation

MELBOURNE - With the retiring Lleyton Hewitt set for a bitter-sweet farewell from the Australian Open, the burden of home expectations will land heavily on the shoulders of talented but tempestuous duo Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic.

Australia’s yearning for a home men’s champion runs deep after 40 years of frustration but the pair will be under the microscope for their behaviour as much as their tennis.

Both have spoken of their love for home crowds but that love has, at times, not entirely been reciprocated.

Australia’s number one Tomic, seeded 17th at Melbourne Park, was jeered by the centre court crowd when he retired hurt early in his opening match of the 2014 tournament against Rafa Nadal.

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Australia’s Nick Kyrgios reacts during a news conference at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 16, 2016. The Australian Open tennis tournament starts January 18.

The mercurial Kyrgios lit up last year’s tournament with a dizzying run to the quarter-finals but was lashed in mainstream and social media for yelling expletives and smashing racquets.

He remains under huge scrutiny and a suspended ban from the ATP after a lewd remark aimed at Stan Wawrinka during a match last year.

The 20-year-old has steered clear of controversy leading up to this year’s tournament but Tomic has been under fire for retiring midway through his quarterfinal match at the Sydney International, citing sickness.

Having once earned the nickname ‘Tomic the Tank Engine’ after being accused of giving up in a U.S. Open match, the 23-year-old was sensitive to the criticism, given a swathe of withdrawals that hit the tournament.

“Other players did pull out that week, were also ill,” Tomic told reporters at Melbourne Park on Sunday. “Unfortunately with me, given my bad reputation in the past, things have happened. I think (the attention) always gets a little

too big.

“I think ... just being sick, maybe a little bit disappointing the way that you guys sort of ... went about it.”

With Kyrgios seeded 29th, Australia have two seeds in the men’s draw for the first time in over a decade.

Former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur is the lone local seed in the women’s draw at a tournament where she has often battled crippling nerves.

With two-times grand slam champion Hewitt bowing out, Kyrgios was feeling renewed pressure to perform on the biggest stage but also spoke of a greater level of comfort with it. “I feel as if I’m more relaxed this year,” he said.

“Coming around, I’ve got a lot more confidence in my game. I feel a lot more comfortable playing in front of the crowd this year. I’m definitely playing a lot better. “The crowd definitely expects any Aussie to play their best tennis here.

That’s fair enough.

“I think every Aussie should step up here and try their absolute hardest to bring the best out of themselves.”(rtr)

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Rouhani: All happy about deal except Israel, US hard-liners

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark nuclear deal has satisfied all parties except radical extremists, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that Israel would remain vigilant to ensure that Iran was not violating its commitments.

Speaking before the parliament in comments broadcast live on state television, Rouhani said, “In (implementing) the deal, all are happy except Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the U.S. The rest are happy.” Rouhani said the deal has “opened new windows for engagement with the world.”

A strong supporter of the agreement, Rouhani sent out a celebratory tweet calling it a “glorious victory” late Saturday night while the speeches in Vienna were still taking place.

Rouhani also said the deal was a win for all negotiating parties and all factions inside Iran. “Nobody has been defeated in the deal neither inside the country nor the countries that were negotiating with us,” he said, referring to the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

Netanyahu meanwhile maintained his strong opposition to the deal. Speaking at his weekly Cabinet meeting, he said, “The Israel policy remains as it was — not

to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”

Netanyahu was a strong public opponent of the negotiations and drew the ire of the Obama administration last year by speaking in front of the U.S. Congress in an attempt to prevent the agreement. On Sunday he repeated his contention that the deal will strengthen and embolden Tehran, leading to greater regional instability.

“What is clear is that Iran will now have more resources to dedicate to their terrorism and aggression in the region and in the world, and Israel is prepared to deal with any threat,” he said.

Rouhani said Iran should use the expected influx of money and investments to spark the “economic mutation” of the country, creating jobs and enhancing quality-of-life for Iranian citizens. Iran has been suffering double-digit inflation and unemployment rates for years.

He also said Iran now needs political tranquility to best benefit from the new economic reality.

“All should prevent any domestic

and foreign trivialities that thwart us,” he said. “Any irrelevant and diverting dispute is against national expedience.”

Rouhani said his country needs up to $50 billion in foreign investment per year to reach its goal of eight-percent annual growth. For Iran, long out in the economic cold over its contested atomic program, implementing the nuclear deal will be a welcome thaw.

More than $30 billion in assets overseas will become immediately available to the Islamic Republic.

Official Iranian reports have set the total amount of frozen Iranian assets overseas at $100 billion.

A European oil embargo on Iran will end. Already, some 38 million barrels of oil are in Iran’s floating reserves, ready to enter the market, according to the International Energy Agency.

Celebrations in Tehran were relatively muted at first, because the Vienna implementation announcement came well after midnight. But on Sunday, many Tehran residents expressed optimism about Iran’s future economic prospects.

“Unbelievable! This is a day without sanction after years,” said taxi driver Reza Khoei. “I lost my technical job in a petrochemical complex in south of Iran because of the damn sanctions.” (ap)

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses lawmakers in an open session of parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark deal reached between Tehran and six world powers has satisfied all parties except radical extremists.

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Orthodox Jews look at an ambulance as it evacuate the body of a Palestinian assailant form a stabbing attack site outside Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.

Israeli police: Graffiti sprayed on Jerusalem church

JERUSALEM — Israeli police discovered Hebrew graffiti Sunday on the walls of a famous Jerusalem church, in what appears to be the latest vandalism attack by extremist Jews.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said anti-Christian slogans were found on the outer walls of the Dormition Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located just outside Jerusalem’s Old City and where Christian tradition says the Virgin Mary died.

The graffiti included threats of violence, messages degrading Jesus and a call for Christians to “go to hell.”

Nikodemus Schnabel, the Dormition Abbey spokesman, said the graffiti bore “very radical messages.”

Police are investigating but suspicion immediately fell on Jewish extremists who have for years vandalized Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The socalled “price tag” attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as

favoring the Palestinians.

That attacks have prompted widespread condemnation and pledges by Israel’s government to get tougher on Jewish vigilantes.

Israel’s Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, said he has instructed police to give the vandalism case top priority.

“We will not allow anyone to undermine the coexistence between religions in Israel. We will show zero tolerance to whomever harms the democratic foundations of Israel and its freedom of religion and we will apprehend those who carried out this heinous act,” he said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also condemned the vandalism.

The Benedictine abbey is a popular site for pilgrims and tourists. It has been damaged several times in recent years. The vandals are believed to be from the same group of Jewish extremists who have carried out a spate of similar attacks in recent years in retaliation for Palestinian attacks or to protest what they perceive as pro-Palestinian policies by the government. (ap)

At least 28 people died last week in the attack by al-Qaida-linked extremists on a hotel and cafe in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouaga-

dougou. Eight others perished in a suicide bombing and gunfire attacks

by Muslim militants in Jakarta, Indonesia. (ap)

Pope prays for victims of attacks in Burkina Faso, Indonesia

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is praying for the victims of attacks by extremists in Burkina Faso and Indonesia.

Francis led a prayer for the dead Sunday when he greeted a crowd of faithful in St. Peter’s Square. He says he is also praying that the inter-

national community’s efforts toward building peace find support. The pope says of the victims: “May the Lord welcome them into his house.”

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BUSINESS China-led Asian infrastructure bank opens for business

BEIJING — A Chinese-led bank intended to finance railways and other cargo links throughout Asia opened for business at a ceremony led by President Xi Jinping.

Representatives of 57 member countries of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank attended the ceremony Saturday, at which China pledged $50 million to a special fund to prepare less developed countries for infrastructure projects.

The United States and Japan are not members of the AIIB, which some see as a potential rival to the Western-led World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Washington has said it welcomes the additional financing for development but had expressed concern looser lending standards might undercut efforts by existing institutions to promote environmental and other safeguards. Chinese officials have said the bank will complement existing institutions and promised to adhere to international lending standards.

The AIIB is intended to finance railways, cargo ports and other trade links. Its launch comes as Beijing is trying to extend its trade links with its Asian neighbors.

Beijing has pledged to put up most of the bank’s initial $50 billion in capital and says that total will rise to $100 billion.

A Chinese official, Jin Liqun, has been named the bank’s first president. (ap)

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German businesses put on brave face amid China’s economic slowdown countries, Garant-Moebel opened an office in Hong Kong two years ago where it employs a dozen people.

However, the strong fluctuations in the Chinese currency, the yuan, resulting from the country’s recent financial woes, are leading Chinese furniture retailers to roll back business, Hampel said.

Garant-Moebel is not alone in watching economic developments in People’s Republic with a wary eye.

“It seems obvious that the period of double-digit growth is behind us,” said Jan-Christoph Block, head of international sales at drive systems specialist Getriebebau Nord in Bargteheide, north

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Man accused of financing Jakarta attacks with IS funds arrested

JAKARTA - Indonesian police announced Saturday they had arrested a man they believe financed the deadly Jakarta attacks, alleging the suspect received the funds from the Islamic State group (IS).

National police chief Badrodin Haiti said 12 suspects had been detained in nationwide raids since Thursday’s attacks, including one accused of bankrolling the suicide bombings and shootings that left seven dead.

“One of the people detained had received financial transfers from ISIS to fund the operation,” he told reporters, using another acronym for IS. Police had suspected a broader extremist network helped carry out the attacks, warning a larger team of planners, financiers and bomb assemblers was likely still at large.

The attack has been claimed by

IS, which has ruthlessly carved out a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and Indonesian police have more specifically blamed a Southeast Asian affiliate of the group known as Katibah Nusantara.

Haiti said the amounts transferred were “quite large” and channelled through Indonesian extremist Bahrun Naim, believed to be the founding member of Katibah Nusantara and who police say orchestrated the Jakarta attacks from Syria.

The twelve arrested in the sweep across Java and Indonesia’s half of Borneo were associates of Naim, the police chief said. Pistols, bullet

clips and mobile phones were also seized in the raids, along with plans detailing future attacks.

Amid the raids more details have emerged about the brazen assault, with police confirming a suicide bomber struck a Starbucks cafe and officially releasing the identities of the attackers and their victims.

The dual Algerian-Canadian citizen shot by militants was named as Tahar Amer-Ouali, while the sole Indonesian killed, Rico Hermawan, was being fined by the police when the attackers blew up a traffic post.

Twenty-six others were injured during the 21-minute assault, including six police officers and a security guard who remains in a coma.

However other details remain unclear, with authorities still strug-

gling to provide concrete information on the shock attack that unfurled in broad daylight on a busy street.

Police left open the possibility that one of the five alleged militants responsible for the rampage might have been a civilian caught in the cross hairs, stressing their investigation into his identity was incomplete.

Claims that dual suicide bombers were responsible for the grisly carnage at a police post have also come into doubt, with investigators now speculating hand-held explosives could have been used.

More certain was the identification of Afif, the attacker in blue jeans, black t-shirt and a black hat pictured preparing to raise his handgun in a photo that rippled across Indonesia’s hyperactive social media universe.

He was released from prison last year after serving a seven-year sentence for involvement in an Islamic paramilitary camp, and had been recruited to IS by Naim, the believed ringleader of Katibah Nusantara.

Another of the militants identified was also a former convict, police said, with little known about the other two confirmed attackers.

If confirmed to be the work of Katibah Nusantara, which is made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians, it would mark the first violence in Southeast Asia by the group.

Authorities across the region with significant Muslim populations have repeatedly warned of the potential for their citizens to return from fighting alongside IS in the Middle East and carry out violence at home. (afp)

Unfazed Jakartans resume life as normal after attacks

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds after unveiling a sculpture during the opening ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.

FRANKFURT - German companies are trying not to let themselves be spooked by the economic slowdown in China, even if they concede they are currently seeing a drop in demand for their products there.

“Of course we’re experiencing a fall-off in demand in China at the moment,” said Franz Hampel, head of Garant-Moebel, a furniture wholesaler.

“Our Chinese partners have become jumpy. Business has been good for them the past few years.

But they’re now asking themselves what the future will bring,” Hampel said.

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“It’s still possible to achieve growth, but it’s become more difficult,” he said.

Both companies can be seen as representative of the mostly family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) that form the backbone of the German economy and were quick to establish a foothold in China.

It is not just big companies like Volkswagen, BMW and BASF that are suffering from China’s woes, the SMEs are feeling the pinch too.

China’s economic growth is projected to slow to 6.7 percent in 2016 -- its lowest growth rate since 1990 -- from 6.9 percent in 2015,

according to the latest forecasts from the World Bank.

The slowdown is worrying for German exporters, since China is their most important market after Europe and the United States.

In 2014, Germany exported a total 74 billion euros ($81 billion) worth of goods to China, not including the sales generated by companies’ local subsidiaries in China.

According to the specialist consultancy firm EAC, some of the major players listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange generated combined turnover in China of 131 billion euros in 2014, an increase of nearly 10 percent over the previous year.

So it hardly comes as a surprise that the market turbulence in China has left its mark on Germany’s blue-chip DAX 30 index, too. It has lost more then seven percent since January 1.

Nevertheless, China’s “enormous growth potential remains,” said Block of Getriebebau Nord.

“Currently, more than 5,200 German companies are active in the People’s Republic, employing a combined workforce of more than one million there,” said Alexandra Voss, head of the German Chamber of Commerce in China.

“The economic slowdown in China will certainly not be painless. But the huge growth potential remains,” Voss told AFP. (afp)

JAKARTA - A day after deadly gun and bomb attacks rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta’s food peddlers, taxi drivers and shopkeepers returned to life as normal, more concerned with making a dollar than the Islamist assault.

Thursday’s bloody violence left two people and the five attackers dead, but the bigger concern for many residents remained the daily struggle to get ahead.

The smoke had barely cleared after the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State group, before Jakarta’s heaving metropolis quickly returned to its bustling self -- with ubiquitous food vendors re-emerging at the site just a couple hours later to sell afternoon snacks.

Motorbike taxi driver Asrul, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said he was nearly hit in the crossfire of the shootout between attackers and police in a busy area of shopping malls and embassies, but didn’t stopped seeking fares in the area.

“I could not make any money yesterday because of the attack, if I don’t work today how will I feed my family?” he said.

Social media-mad Indonesia is estimated to have one of the world’s largest populations of Twitter users, who were quick to post about the attack.

Tweeters denounced terrorism, with hashtags such as “We Are Not Afraid” surging to the top of global trending lists in a symbol of defiance.

But Indonesian attention has proven easily diverted by lighter subjects, such as viral photos of a hunky gun-wielding Jakarta policeman involved in the response to the crisis and who has become a national heartthrob.

Another widely posted image was of a satay peddler who stubbornly kept fanning his coal fire just 300 feet (91 metres) from the attack site, later saying he was afraid his cart might be stolen.

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Indonesian dancers perform during a rally for solidarity after Thursday’s attacks outside a Starbucks cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. A day after deadly gun and bomb attacks rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta’s food peddlers, taxi drivers and shopkeepers returned to life as normal, more concerned with making a dollar than the Islamist assault.

Jakarta-based terrorism analyst Rakyan Adibrata said the public response points to an Indonesian skin thickened by a history of political and economic crises, natural disasters and persistent corruption.

“Indonesians are sick of horrible things happening to them, so when something even

more horrible happens, they collectively fight that by turning to the inane,” he said.

The attacks actually became a business opportunity for Dodi Setiawan, a bottled drinks vendor who rushed to the site shortly after the carnage, expecting crowds of thirsty gawkers.

He sold out in minutes, and returned again and again with fresh stock, staying until dawn Friday.

“I always chase the crowd, so if there’s a massive demonstration or an unrest, I’ll be there,” he declared.

“I’m afraid of God, not terrorists.” (afp)

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Joint patrols to prevent terror acts thru waters of Buleleng

Burkina Faso begins 3 days mourning after al-Qaida attack OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso is beginning three days of national mourning after an attack by al-Qaida militants left at least 28 people dead. In a message broadcast to the nation, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said the people of Burkina Faso must unite in the fight against terrorism.

He also announced that security forces will be stepping up security checks at entrances to the capital, Ouagadougou, and other major towns, as well as along the country’s borders.

The period of national mourning began Sunday, a day after Burkinabe and French forces ended a more than 12-siege at an upscale hotel in downtown Ouagadougou. When the gunfire and explosions finally stopped, authorities said 18 were killed in the hotel and 10 killed at a nearby cafe. The four attackers were also killed.(ap)

SINGARAJA - To anticipate terrorist acts from entering by sea, the surveillance level is intensified by water police of the Buleleng Police. Buleleng has the most extensive length of shoreline in Bali and not all can be supervised by police for 24 hours.

After the bomb blast incident and shootout on Jalan MH Thamrin in the area of Sarinah Building, Jakarta, a similar level of anticipation is back tightened.

Traditional harbor at some points of Buleleng waters starts to be monitored by police through a joint patrol. The personnel involved consist of five police officers, an officer of Sawan Police and a navy. The joint operations in the form of patrols in the waters took place smoothly, although they did not find any suspicious objects or persons.

Police could conduct initial inspection to a vessel and its crews from Sapeken. The vessel was carrying at least 700 kilograms of live groupers. The inspection was targeted to captain named Jupri and five crews consisting of Mohammad Erpan, Ridwan, Rauf, Kahar and Nurul. They were all examined and declared to have brought complete documents and identity card.

“The joint operation is carried out to prevent the smuggling of hazardous goods, including migrants without personal identity. They take advantage of water areas and land through traditional port in the waters of North Bali. At the same time, it is also meant to prevent the acts of terror as occurred in Jakarta, so that we increase our routine patrol,” said Gelgel with permission from Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi, Friday (Jan. 15).

He added that the joint operation and patrol are regularly carried out by water police unit of the Buleleng Police, especially to oversee the actions of the crime such as fish bombing, coral reef bombing and the smuggling of goods through the waters of Buleleng. Vessels or boats without permission are examined in terms of their destination and identity. Now, there are at least five water police checkpoints namely at Sumberkima, Sangsit, Penarukan, Kampung Baru and Celukan Bawang. “Water Police unit of the Buleleng Police and personnel of the joint operation involved subdistrict police station and navy mutually help for safeguarding the marine waters in Buleleng,” he added. (kmb34)

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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014 file picture German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a press conference after a cabinet meeting at the Meseberg palace near Berlin, Germany.

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Padangbai traditional harbor not managed by operator

AMLAPURA - Padangbai traditional harbor has not been managed by an operator. Consequently, there is no clarity about the party responsible for the safety of passengers. Besides, it has high potential income if it is managed due to high traffic of foreign travelers crossing to a number of small islands in NTB, such as Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air. This was submitted by the acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda.

All this time, he got information that the traditional harbor still belongs to the asset of central government and has not been submitted to Karangasem district.

The traditional harbor is located in the north of Padangbai Harbor managed by PT ASDP Lembar-

Padangbai.

So far, the traditional harbor has no operator, so that it is not managed in accordance with the existing rules. “Until now, there is no operator managing the traditional harbor,” said Ngurah Arda accompanied by the Head of the Karangasem Transportation Agency, Wayan Sutapa.

He appreciated to the residents of Padangbai that collect levies from the presence of the traditional harbor. However, the levies do not have something to do with the harbor management. “Residents at Padangbai manage the parking service or the others,” said Sutapa.

As a government official, he hoped that everything related to the harbor management should comply with government regula-

tions. “If there are any things not in conformity with the rules, surely other institution is authorized to handle it,” he said without explaining whatever aspects are associated with the traditional harbor.

Responding to the finding of the acting regent that the traditional harbor has not been managed by an operator, he ordered his staff to take measures in accordance with the laws. Before there is a harbor operator nobody can manage it.

Harbor operator must be in the form of business entity. Actually, added Sutapa, Karangasem district has filed regional bylaw draft about the PT. Karangasem Sejahtera (PT KS) prepared to manage the harbor, one of which is the Padangbai traditional harbor. However, the draft on PT KS was rejected by

the Karangasem House of Representative because there has been no regulation and the company has no initial capital.

According to Sutapa, the traditional harbor is urgently managed by an operator. It is important because it needs a responsible authority for safety. So far, the traffic of passengers mostly consisting of foreign tourists traveling to a number of small islands in NTB is very high. The traffic of crossing reaches 700-1,500 people. “The average traveler crossing through the traditional harbor by boat reaches 800 people per day. Most of them are foreign travelers, while local people are just a few,” added the Spokesperson of Regional Secretariat of Karangasem, Made Suparta, accompanying the visit of

the acting regent.

Chairman of the Karangasem House of Representatives, Nengah Sumardi, not long ago justified that the potential revenue of the government of Karangasem is huge if the Padangbai traditional harbor management is handed over to government of Karangasem.

From the information obtained, the ticket collection at Padangbai traditional harbor can obtain revenue as much as IDR 4 billion each year. Unfortunately, so far local government cannot manage it because the asset still belongs to central government and has not been submitted to the government of Karangasem district. Actually if PT KS has owned a legal instrument, it is potential to be given the authority to manage. (013)

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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migrant troubles have reignited in the new year but the German leader is sticking to her guns, insisting her country will manage the challenge and that diplomacy can bring solutions.

Germany registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year, and 2,000 to 3,000 are still arriving daily even in mid-winter.

A surge of robberies and sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne — and the fact that some of the suspects were asylum-seekers — have highlighted the difficulty of integrating so many newcomers. With pressure mounting for the government to manage the influx, Merkel’s Bavarian allies are once again pushing for a cap on asylumseekers.

Public opinion toward refugees has been souring for months i n G e r m a n y, a l t h o u g h p o l l s suggest political support for Merkel’s conservatives is down only slightly. While Germany doesn’t hold a national election until late 2017, smaller votes this year — starting with three state elections in March — will offer a test of the mood.

“The events of New Year’s Eve have again shone a spotlight

on the challenges we face, made them clear from a new side we had not viewed so far,” Merkel acknowledged. Within days, her government proposed legislation to make it easier to deport criminal foreigners.

On the refugee influx itself, however, Merkel is standing firm — sticking to her much-criticized mantra that “we will manage it.”

The woman chosen as Time’s person of the year insists that the solution is not to unilaterally close borders, but to work with reluctant European partners, Turkey and others to secure Europe’s frontiers and share the burden of hosting refugees. That has been the central plank of her approach even as the government has tightened policy at home — taking steps to make it easier to send migrants from Balkan nations home and making clear that not all Afghans will be allowed to stay. Whether Merkel will have any more success in Europe in 2016 than last year is questionable.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, an outspoken opponent of compulsory refugee quotas, said after the Cologne assaults that migrants can’t be integrated and “we don’t want what happened in Germany to happen here.”

Merkel has pledged to reduce the influx but resisted calls to set a specific limit on the number of refugees Germany can take. She rallied her conservative party behind her stance a month ago, heading off calls for a cap by conceding that an unabated influx would “overburden” the country in the long run.

But after a few weeks’ peace, her allies in the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union — her most prominent domestic critics over recent months — renewed their drive for tougher border controls and for a cap. The party’s leader, governor Horst Seehofer, suggested an annual figure of 200,000 asylum-seekers, and grumbling has resurfaced in Merkel’s own party. Yet Merkel isn’t budging and won’t say by when she aims to get the numbers down. “It wouldn’t be right to name the exact day,” she said. “We are working at high pressure on a sustainable reduction.” (ap)

Iraq sends troops south to rein in crime, tribal disputes

BASRA, Iraq — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has sent security reinforcements to the southern Basra province to rein in violent crime and tribal disputes that have surged in recent months as troops have been off battling the Islamic State group in the country’s northwest.

An army division and a police battalion were redeployed from southern Iraq in late 2014, creating a security vacuum in the oil-rich and overwhelmingly Shiite region, which is home to some 3 million people.

The deputy head of Basra’s provincial council, Walid Gytan, said Sunday that the forces “are essential to maintain security in the province,” without elaborating.

A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief reporters, says the reinforcements include a tank regiment and a commando battalion.(ap)

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In this Dec. 18, 2015 photo security forces deploy in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.

Local officials blame the lack of security forces, many of them have been dispatched to front lines, for the soaring thefts, armed robberies, kidnapping for ransom, bloody tribal disputes and drug trafficking.

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NEW YORK — Underwater sightseeing in a glass submarine, shopping with a chef for dinner ingredients and volunteering with locals: These are some of the new options this season for cruise passengers.

Also in 2016 from the cruise industry, Royal Caribbean launches the world’s largest ship, and a new ship from Carnival features a biking track suspended high above the water. And for cruisers with deep pockets, luxuries range from round-the-clock personal assistants to long-term leases for residences at sea.

Crystal Cruises has just launched Crystal Esprit, a 62-guest yacht that offers among its excursions a ride in a submersible vessel. The underwater excursions take place near the Seychelles islands in winter and on the Adriatic Coast in spring and summer. The glass capsule holds two people and a captain. Thirty-minute rides are $599 per person.

Later this year, Crystal launches a yacht for river cruising in Europe, Crystal Mozart, with four more river yachts in 2017. Crystal is also getting into the airplane business with charter flights on four jets connecting to trips by ship and on land. And later this year Crystal launches residences at sea, with long-term leases for staterooms on three new ocean vessels, prices to be determined.

Omar Vega/Invision/AP, File Fathom, a new brand from Carnival Corp., offers “voluntourism” trips to the DoIn this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo, Pitbull performs during the Norwegian Escape christening ceremony in Miami. The vessel is one of a number of new ships introduced minican Republic in April and to Cuba in May. Carnival is still negotiating details on the Cuba trips with the Cuban government but tickets are on sale. Passengers will work by the cruise industry this season. with locals on everything from learning English to reforestation, while immersing themselves in the culture.

New from Celebrity Cruises: Passengers on certain sailings in the Caribbean and Europe are participating in the Chef Market Discoveries program, in which they shop with chefs in local markets for ingredients used in the meals they’ll eat onboard that night.

New from Princess Cruises: Chocolate Journeys with chocolate-infused menus and other treats designed by chocolatier Norman Love, plus menus by celebrity chef Curtis Stone, on-deck stargazing in a partnership with Discovery Channel, and a magic show and musical revue, “Magic to Do,” with music by Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz of “Wicked” and “Godspell” fame.

Disney Cruise Line features a “Star Wars” day on each of eight Disney Fantasy ship sailings in the Western Caribbean beginning this month, with “Star Wars” characters, activities and themed celebrations. In June, the Disney Magic ship will sail its first British Isles itinerary, to Scotland, England and Ireland.

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This undated rendering provided by Carnival Cruise Line shows SkyRide, a new attraction that will be onboard the Carnival Vista ship when the new vessel launches this spring.

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This December 2015 image supplied by Crystal Cruises shows a submersible sightseeing capsule in waters off the Seychelles islands, an excursion offered to passengers aboard the Crystal Cruises yacht Crystal Esprit.

In June, Royal Caribbean launches what will be the world’s largest ship, Harmony of the Seas, with a capacity of 5,479 passengers. Harmony will feature the “neighborhood” areas already found on other Royal Caribbean ships, including Central Park and Boardwalk. Harmony will also have robot bartenders, a mini-golf course, surfing on a FlowRider machine, waterslides, a zip line and, for guests who need their every whim catered to, round-the-clock personal assistants called Royal Genies.

Another new Royal Caribbean ship, Ovation of the Seas, debuts in April, designed primarily for service in China.

Carnival Cruise Line launches its largest ship in May, Carnival Vista, which can carry 3,954 people based on two per cabin. Vista’s showcase attraction, SkyRide, lets guests cycle on bikes suspended from an 800-foot long track, 20 feet above the top deck and 150 feet above the water. Vista will also have an onboard brewery and a 455-foot-long tube slide.

Holland America Line debuts the Koningsdam in April, with staterooms for families and for singles; a theater with two-story-high, 270-degree LED screens, and music options ranging from B.B. King’s Blues Club to nightly chamber music. HAL is also collaborating with a travel planning service called Utrip so guests can go online and create customized shore itineraries.

Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship, Escape, debuted in the fall of 2015 with an urban craft beer hall, Mondavi wine bar, a Margaritaville and a tapas bar. Norwegian is also introducing a new “Free at Sea” promotion inviting guests to pick a free amenity from four options: a beverage package, specialty dining package, excursion credits or WiFi package.

Regent Seven Seas Explorer launches in July with the $10,000-a-night super-luxurious Regent Suite, complete with private spa and grand piano. Despite the price tag, the suite is already sold out for its entire first season.

Viking, once known just for river cruises, is launching the second of its ocean-going ships, Viking Sea, in April, a sister ship to Viking Star, launched last year.

Seabourn expects its first new ship in five years, Seabourn Encore, to be delivered in December for a January 2017 launch. The ship will have all-suite staterooms and a Thomas Keller restaurant.

And Cunard is renovating the Queen Mary 2, adding staterooms for solo travelers and expanding the number of onboard kennels where guests are permitted to keep their dogs.

The QM2 will be out of service for the redo from May 27 to June 21. Looking ahead to 2017, the Queen Victoria will become the largest ship to ever navigate the Amazon, on Cunard’s first voyage to that part of the world. (ap)

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DENPASAR - Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, evoked the vivacity of his personnel after the bomb blast incident Jakarta. He instructed his personnel to solidify the ranks when confronting against the terrorists.

“So, let us solidify our ranks and increase our vigilance. To face terrorist attacks, do not need to fear and worry. Terrorist acts can happen anytime and anywhere. The president told that the state should not be defeated by terrorists,” said the Bali police chief.

According to police chief, it is not impossible for similar incident in Jakarta to happen in Bali. If it happens, he ordered all the personnel not to be afraid. “There is no single region that is really free from terrorist attack. Nevertheless, it’s no need to feel inferior and discouraged. In other words, terrorist attack can happen anywhere,” he said.

In Bali there are many foreign tourists gathering, continued Sugeng, so do not be spoofed that they are the target of terrorist. Although in an open threat the terrorist plot mentioned that they will target the officials, police officers, police headquarters and hangout place of foreigners. “Once again, do not be spoofed. Many foreigners are also living in other cities,” said Sugeng.

He added although they claimed a few victims, they expected the news on the incident can spread worldwide. Actually they wanted to result in fear.

“Therefore, I command all the ranks to constantly alert and increase security for the self, the environment, workplace, home and the others. There should be no fear. After hearing the terrorist threat, never pretend to be sick so that the officers play truant or may be absent from night duty. Let be back to our professionalism,” he said.

As reported, the bomb blasts at the police station on Jalan MH Thamrin in the area of Sarinah Dept.

Store in Central Jakarta on Thursday (Jal. 14) makes the security forces directly exert its force to secure Bali. Related to the terrorist acts, the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort declared the first alert status. While the Bali Police deployed its mobile brigade to patrol and require its personnel in the field to use bulletproof vest. In addition, the police chief ordered to increase patrol in public areas, vital locations, gathering places of people and foreign travelers as well as increase security at police station. It also includes the increase of self-security of the personnel by using a bulletproof vest. (kmb36)

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Tourists visit Ground Zero at Legian, Kuta, during their holiday in Bali Island. Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, evoked the vivacity of his personnel after the bomb blast incident Jakarta. He instructed his personnel to solidify the ranks when confronting against the terrorists.

Bali to cooperate with Australia in tackling emergency situation

DENPASAR - The Bali provincial government has expressed its intention to cooperate with the Australian government in tackling any emergency situation in anticipation of any terrorist acts, an official has said.

Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika made the remarks during

a meeting with Australian Consul General Helena Studdert, adding that it was important to be prepared to tackle any emergency situation.

This is all the more important as is the ability to anticipate an attack, particularly after the terrorist attack that occurred in Jakarta on Thursday.

Pastika stated that quick response teams and trained security personnel and medical workers were badly needed to deal with any eventuality, quickly bring back the situation to normal, help the victims as well as handle those in trauma.

“We wish to send security per-

sonnel, medical practitioners and nurses to Australia to be trained at Darwin,” he said.

According to him, Darwin is an appropriate location for training because the Australian city is not only home to the high quality emergency handling system, but also it is not too far from Indonesia.

In addition, Pastika also wished to step up cooperation in intelligence sharing.

The governor pointed out that the Bali government also wished to enhance cooperation with the Darwin government in the field of education, in particular. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali will host the Bali Clean Energy Forum (BCEF).

The forum that will be held for the first time is planned to take place at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC) on the upcoming February 11-12. If there is no impediment, President Joko Widodo is scheduled to open the BCEF. “This forum will be a meeting

of about 45 ministers of energy in the world and involving 1,000 participants from industrial sector and the youth from 80 countries,” said Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Teguh Pamuji.

Teguh said that Bali was chosen to host the event because the region is the only one having been stipu-

lated as a national region of clean energy. It is hoped the spirit of Bali in developing new clean energy and renewable energy can be transmitted to other provinces. Later, the forum will consist of five pillars.

“The first pillar is that it becomes an inter-ministerial forum to discuss about the continuation of the new energy policy. The second pillar

serves as a place for the meeting of the experts of the world, so that they are expected to provide input to the government in developing clean energy,” he explained.

Teguh added that the third pillar is that the meeting for industrial sector. The committee attempted to invite industrial sector reaching 70 percent from Indonesia and 30

percent from foreign countries. The fourth pillar is the meeting of the community, so that there is a deep understanding on clean energy.

“The last pillar is a meeting place for young people. Younger generation is expected to provide input and even contributes their innovations in this forum,” he affirmed. (kmb32)

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In terms of poverty alleviation, Bali is still defeated by Jakarta, South Kalimantan and Bangka Belitung.

“We must find out what causes our position to decline and accomplish it straightforwardly.

We have got shifted to the fourth position whereas this year we have an ambition to be number one,” he said.

Pastika asked relevant agencies to immediately identify the problems regarding the increase in the number of poverty. It should be done even though must invite an expert to find the solution, and if needed, we must come down to villages in order to see the real problems occurred. “If it happened due to education, build schools there. If hampered by budgetary problem, hold long distance education and it can combine the elementary and senior high school as well,” he advised.

Pastika also deplored the persistence of the six underdeveloped villages in Bali whereas so

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much aid has been distributed to the villages. The six villages are Tembuku village, Binyan village, Mengani village, Abuan village, Ulian village and Langgahan village in Kintamani subdistrict, Bangli and Sepang Kelod village, Busungbiu, Buleleng.

“So, this year we will disburse more aids for the six villages,” he added. He hoped this year the problem of poverty can be resolved considering the exposure of the BPS is revealed at the beginning of the year. “There is still enough time until the yearend in order to be in accordance with the program of central government, the Nawacita, namely starting to build from the outskirts,” he said. (rin)

Poor people live in semipermanent house in Karangasem Regency. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali recorded an increase in poverty throughout 2015. In March, the poverty rate remained 4.47 percent but after that jumped to 5.25 percent in September.

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Bali has to improve real sector

The lecturer of Faculty of Economics and Business of the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said that the government should increase the real sector to reduce poverty.

The government should be able to create job opportunities, whether in the field of production or services, including the development of agricultural sector in the broader sense. ability of entrepreneurship, the government should provide them with the opportunities. Otherwise, how can they build an entrepreneurship? Here, we need a creative and innovative leader as well as the one being able to create a real sector,” he said.

El Nino

El Nino disaster is touted to affect the increase in poverty rate in Bali as the data released by the Central Statistics agency (BPS) in September 2015 when the disaster occurred. As reported, the El Nino widely influenced the agricultural sector. Consequently the basic sector becoming the mainstay of Balinese people are abandoned so that it results in unemployment.

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As for increasing poverty rate

“If the poverty alleviation program is to refurbish people’s house, it is nonsense to reduce poverty.

Now, we must develop agricultural sector. Simantri is okay, but must be productive. So far, it mostly goes bankrupt and fails,” he said.

Rahyuda added that the agricultural sector in broader sense also includes the maritime potential. The government can encourage fish catch by providing a boat or fishing gear. Thus, the people with low education level will have a job opportunity. When being idle, they will not be able to meet the basic needs and health as a benchmark index of a good development.

“If they have knowledge and skills such as a computer or the

Activities

“People’s purchasing power also decreases due to unemployment problem, so that influenced the data collection of the BPS,” said the Head of the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Putu Astawa. Similar opinion was also delivered by the Head of the Bali Manpower and Transmigration Agency, IGA Sudarsana. According to him, the increase in unemployment is inseparable from the scourge of El Nino, primarily in the informal sector.

“Now, it should have rained, but in fact have not. It also has a great impact on the informal labor. Just imagine if there is no water, people will be unable to do farming so that they have no job,” he said.

A member of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyoman Parta, saw that the government has allocated a lot of poverty alleviation programs. For instance, there are Bali Mandara Health Insurance (JKBM), scholarships for poor students, house

refurbishment, integrated rural development and integrated agricultural program.

“However, the problem is that a lot of the programs are misdirected because the executive does not have the data pertaining to poor people and their activities.

As a result, poor people actually needing working tools for carpenter but they are even given a cow. Finally, the program is not successful,” he said.

Parta justified that poverty is prevalent among the farmers, especially those living at villages.

On that account, the government should increase the exchange rate of farmers by subsidizing the results.

So far, the government gives more subsidies in the production process in the form of fertilizer, cattle assistance, paddy production tools and agricultural tools.

But when the crops slumped, farmers even did not get anything, not to mention the lowest retail price of grain has been determined

by the government. As a result, farmers are unable to sell their crops at expensive price.

“When they harvest, they are even unable to sell expensively.

So, if this happens who wants to become a farmer, who is comfortable being a farmer? At the level of production, the farmers in Bali are actually productive, but at the level of harvest yield they do not get protection,” he explained.

If there are subsidies of results, continued Parta, farmers will have more certainties in harvest and obtain a good price. Even if the crop fails, farmers will still be able to earn enough money.

Subsidies of crops can be in the form of tax exemption of their farmland, the government should buy farmers’ crops at the price exceeding the market price, insuring and then making post-harvest technology. “The best is to buy the farmers’ agricultural product at the price exceeding the market price,” he said. (rin)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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TUBAN - In order to enliven the celebration of the first anniversary, the H Sovereign Bali carried out several activities with the theme ‘Inspiring First’ include: Care & Green—briefing on the hazards of plastic waste at the SDN 1 Tuban and SDN 4 Tuban elementary school, cycling as well as cooperation with the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to hold Corporate Social Responsibility in the form of blood donation.

Peak of the ‘Inspiring First’ anniversary event sponsored by Citilink and Air Asia was held on December 16, 2015. It was attended by the management and staff of the H Sovereign Bali. It commenced at 16:30 and specifically held for internal circle. In addition to cutting cone by Herman Sudarta as the owner accompanied by Ramia Adnyana as the General Manager and other department heads, the event was also enlivened by HSB Band & Kembang Girang Dance as the opening session.

The activities also supported

by Transcorp, Cathay Pacific, Booking.com, Bali Adventure Tours and MG Holiday displayed some surprises including vivacious performances by each department and were warmly welcomed by the whole audience. Besides, the organizer also provided street food such as meatballs, chicken satay, tipat cantok, fruit salads, es cendol and various other natural snacks directly on push chart.

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Revenant’ leads Celine Dion cancels ‘The Oscar nominations Vegas concerts over husband’s death

Rene Angelil, who discovered the LOS ANGELES - Canadian singer Celine Dion has cancelled her weekend concerts in Las Vegas following the death Canadian pop diva and managed her of her husband, with a stage return set for next month, her career, died Thursday at age 73 after a struggle with cancer. official website said.

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In this March 26, 2002 file photo, singer Celine Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, arrive for press interviews to promote her new album “A New Day Has Come” in New York.

Dion had been scheduled to perform on Saturday and Sunday at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

“With heavy hearts, we regret to inform you that Celine performances... have been cancelled,” her website celineinvegas.com said Thursday.

“Celine will return to The Colosseum on February 23 to resume performances.”

Dion and Angelil were married in 1994, when she was 26 and he was twice her age.

The two first met in 1980 when Dion was just 12 and had recorded a demo tape with her mother, which they sent to Angelil. The talent agent was so struck by her voice that he signed her to an exclusive management contract, mortgaging his house to finance her debut album.

By the 1990s, Dion was one of the English-speaking world’s biggest divas. The couple have three children: Rene-Charles born in 2001 and twins Nelson and Eddy born in 2010.

LOS ANGELES - “The Revenant,” a harrowing survival thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a 19th century fur trapper, topped the Oscars nominations list Thursday with 12 nods, including for best picture, actor and director.

In second place was dystopian action film “Mad Max: Fury Road,” with 10 nominations, followed by space blockbuster “The Martian,” about an astronaut stranded on the Red Planet, with seven.

The nominations, announced at a pre-dawn ceremony in Beverly Hills organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sent Hollywood’s annual awards season into high gear.

The race is now on for the coveted Oscars, to be handed out on February 28 at a star-studded ceremony hosted by comedian Chris Rock.

For the second year in a row, no minorities were nominated in the acting categories, which prompted the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite -which first cropped up last year to criticize the lack of diversity -- to trend on Twitter.

“The Revenant” was directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who also helmed last year’s big Oscars winner “Birdman,” which earned four golden statuettes including for best picture and director.

“We gave it our all on this film

and this appreciation from the Academy means a lot to me and my colleagues who made it possible,” Inarritu said in a statement following the nominations.

Should the Mexican director win next month, he will be joining just two other directors -- Joseph Mankiewicz and John Ford -- who won the award for two consecutive years.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs described “The Revenant” as a “cinematic masterpiece” in comments to AFP. “It takes you back in time to a space where we had no idea what were the challenges of these people -- the trappers,” she said.

Beyond the top three films on the nominations list, the other contenders for best picture are “The Big Short,” “Bridge of Spies,” “Brooklyn,” “Room” and “Spotlight.

Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies,” lesbian romance “Carol” and “Spotlight” -- about journalists from The Boston Globe who uncovered sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, each earned six nominations.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the latest installment in the space saga that has been setting box office records, was nominated for five Oscars, but missed the cut in the top categories including for best picture. (afp)

Cher donates thousands of bottles of water to troubled Flint NEW YORK — Cher is donating water to the residents of Flint, Michigan, as the city struggles with a drinking water crisis linked to lead contamination. More than 180,000 bottles will be shipped to the city starting Monday, according to a statement Cher released to The Associated Press on Saturday.

“This is a tragedy of staggering proportion and shocking that it’s

happening in the middle of our country,” the Oscar winner said.

The city’s 100,000 residents haven’t had safe water to drink since 2014, when officials began drawing water from the Flint River as a cost-saving measure. However, the city did not treat corrosive water properly, which led to metal leaching from old pipes.

The crisis prompted President

Barack Obama to sign an emergency declaration Saturday clearing the way for federal aid.

Cher said she reached out to her friend Brad Horwitz, who is an investor in the water company Icelandic Glacial. He contacted company leaders who agreed to double Cher’s donation. The 181,440 bottles are expected to reach the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan starting Wednesday. (ap)

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Poverty rate in Bali increases

THE CENTRAL Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali recorded an increase in poverty throughout 2015. In March, the poverty rate remained 4.47 percent but after that jumped to 5.25 percent in September.

“Allegedly it is caused by the unemployment rate soaring as much as 1.37 percent in March to 1.99 percent in September 2015,” said the Head of the BPS Bali Region, Panusunan Siregar, when describing about the “Portrait of Bali Macro Development Indicators 2015 and Anticipation 2016”.

Panusunan added that another cause is the business decrease in the agricultural and industrial sector. Actually this sector is the most easily cultivated. “Declining welfare level of farmers makes the sector becomes no longer attractive, especially among the young people,” he continued.

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, admitted to be apprehensive with the increase in the poverty rate in Bali.

As a result, the Island of the Gods must get shifted from second position to fourth position in terms of the lowest poverty in Indonesia.

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Indonesian policemen patrol outside a Starbucks cafe where Thursday’s attack took place, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday.

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘The Revenant’ in London, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016.

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Jakarta attack toll rises to 8: police

JAKARTA - The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday.

Police had earlier put the toll of victims from Thursday’s assault at two, but raised it with the latest death and confirmation that an Indonesian man originally suspected of being a militant was actually a civilian.

The coordinated bomb and gun attack along the capital’s central thoroughfare has been claimed by

the Islamic State (IS) group.

Indonesian authorities blame it on an IS faction made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians involved in the extremist group’s ruthless fight for a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

The Jakarta attack also left two dozen people injured -- including

some foreigners -- several of them in serious condition.

“Another victim who was in a coma since the beginning died last night,” Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal told AFP, confirming the latest death.

He named him as Rais Karna, 37, an Indonesian who worked at a nearby bank and who died from severe gunshot wounds to the head.

The fourth victim, who was initially thought to be an attacker, was identified as Sugito. Many Indonesians go by a single name.

Police previously confirmed a Canadian citizen was among the dead. All the others were Indonesian.

Authorities in Southeast Asian countries with significant Muslim populations say hundreds of their citizens have gone to join the IS jihad in the Middle East, and have repeatedly warned that extremist violence could boomerang back home. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

Police said Saturday they had

arrested 12 people in raids across Indonesia, including a man they believe handled financing for the Jakarta attacks, money that authorities allege came from the Islamic State group. (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.