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Pop star Katy Perry to join ABC’s ‘American Idol’ reboot LOS ANGELES - Pop star Katy Perry will join reality singing competition “American Idol” on ABC, the network said on Tuesday, adding a big name with legions of young fans for its revival of the show.
Singer Katy Perry performs during the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, California, U.S., on March 5, 2017.
Perry, 32, is the first major name to come aboard the reboot of the show, which was canceled by Fox Broadcasting last year after 15 seasons amid declining viewership ratings. The new “American Idol” will air in 2018. “I’m always listening to new music, and love discovering diamonds in the rough - from mentoring young artists on my label, or highlighting new artists on my tours, I want to bring it back to the music,” Perry said in a statement from ABC, which is owned by Walt Disney Co. No other judges have been named yet. Grammy-nominated Perry has been a pop powerhouse since her breakthrough single “I Kissed a Girl” in 2008, and is known for upbeat songs such as “California Gurls” and “Firework,” gimmicky
outfits and vibrant, colorful performances geared toward a young audience. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. “American Idol,” a competition open to the public, launched the careers of singers such as Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and Adam Lambert, aided by celebrity judges who alternately feuded and fawned over discovering new talent. At its peak from 2005 to 2007, the show was watched by more than 30 million viewers, but by 2014 only 10.6 million viewers tuned into the “Idol” season finale. Overall television consumption has declined in recent years, hurting live shows as more home viewers watch on-demand content. NBC’s rival singing competition “The Voice,” which features a panel of four celebrity judges, has grown in popularity. Its season 11 finale in December drew 12.1 million viewers. (rtr)
Hashtag facepalm: Emoji Movie star makes inelegant splash at Cannes CANNES - It’s an annual staple at Cannes: a brash American movie stages a publicity stunt ahead of the film festival. But for the star of “The Emoji Movie”, things did not quite go as planned. Parasailing onto a speedboat off the beach, actor T.J. Miller made a safe landing, only then to fall into the sea and perform the rest of the media event soaked. “I think it’s perfect, it’s so funny. It’s exactly what I should be doing here at Cannes,” Miller told Reuters TV. “You know, I’m not going to
be in a Woody Allen film or something, like, Iraqi drama, this is the reason I should be on the French Riviera - it’s The Emoji Movie!” Most of the publicity so far for the Sony Pictures film has been for casting Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart as the voice of a “poop” emoji. Miller, who appeared in superhero film “Deadpool” and the HBO sitcom “Silicon Valley”, voices Gene, who, according to the online movie guide IMDb, is “a multi-expressional emoji, (who) sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji”.
Enjoying the incongruity of promoting a film based on text message characters at the world’s foremost high-brow cinema festival, Miller, clad in a dripping-wet yellow tuxedo, whooped as he pressed a giant button that set off an explosion of confetti. “Confetti canon?” he shouted. “I mean, Sony’s gone all out – hashtag Emoji Movie!” “The Emoji Movie” is not showing in Cannes, which runs from May 17 to May 28. It is set to be released in the United States on July 28. (rtr)
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Relatives sit next to a sick man waiting to be admitted to a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2017. Picture taken May 6, 2017.
Spread of combat, cholera wreaks misery, collapse in Yemen REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Actor T. J. Miller poses during a photocall for the film “The Emoji Movie”.
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DUBAI/CAIRO - Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias. The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, pushing Yemen’s war-pummelled society ever nearer to collapse. Cholera - a diarrhoeal disease spread by food or water tainted with human faeces - has killed 180 people in less than three weeks, according to the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Samira Ali, a worried mother, expressed shock at the scene at Sabaeen Hospital in Sanaa, the ancient capital in the north held by the armed Houthi movement since late 2015. “My young son suddenly start-
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Future leaders of Bali, Must have holistic vision for the island
UNDERSTANDING the geographical Northsouth division of Bali, the new leader of Bali in 2018 has the opportunity to lead the island as a whole. A Balinese leader characterized by such a holistic vision will not implement policies that discriminate against one area over another. Empirical facts indicate that political attitudes and political orientations lately tend to be identified with parochial and sectarian political symbolism, which are do not lend themselves to acting as agents for change. Once elected, such leaders tend to fall right back into sectarian polarization and regionalization that obscure the rights of the electorate. Reflecting on such facts, the democratic process of Bali’s gubernatorial election in 2018 should not be polarized by the representation of public figures nor regional biases. Instead substantive commitments and effective programs that truly support the interests of the Balinese people as a whole as it is the people who hold democratic sovereignty. Deputy Rector II of Ganesha Education University (Undiksha) Singaraja, Prof. Dr I Wayan Lasmawan, said on Tuesday (May 16) that the representation of democracy is fundamental in determining the attitude and political orientation of society, and getting representation as a feed back to political discourse. This required new orientations, principles and a stronger bargaining position for Balinese people as the holders of authority in the upcoming political election. Related to the great desire to balance and equalize economic development in South Bali and North Bali, it is ncessary for whichever candidate is elected as the leader of Bali to be aware of this act of democratization and to act with
political independence. “Such action can only be successful if the development of the islands democracy is done in a communal manner integrating the entire community of Bali” said Dr. Lasmawan. According to Lasmawan, a few basic issues need to be address by Bali’s leaders in order for the North and South of the island to be balanced. The first thing is that people need to educated and given role models so that can truly practice democracy, uphold fairness and set aside regionalization that should be fettered by rules of fair game for leadership. The leaders of Bali need to develop polite and committed political communication and apply the principles of ‘learning by doing’ that prioritizes loyalty in all development policies, especially those regarding tourism and macroeconomics that build on the strengths of each region. The second thing that needs to be dealt with in order to make development in the North more equal to that of the south is to do away with regional political biases by adhering to democratic consensus when determining micro and macro scale policies that affect the majority and the minority, so that the majority does not become a tyranny to the minority especially with regards to development as this directly affects people’s lives and sovereignty. Thirdly, the future leaders of Bali can no longer afford to be ‘learning about how to resolve various economic development issues’ but need to instead take direct actions that lead to more balanced economic strength between the north and south of the island. Policies that have direct impact on improving the economical welfare need to implemented, particularly with regards to those who feel they have been marginalised.
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“I think it would be ridiculous if Bali’s next leaders still take the stand that ‘studies and mapping’ are needed in order to implement an equitable distribution of development between the north and south of Bali because, so many studies have already been conducted but have yet to be accompanied by policies based on the harmonious fulfillment of justice and equity” concluded Dr. Lasmawan. (kmb38)
Farmers reluctant to use organic fertilizer
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SINGARAJA - Farmers in Buleleng district, one of them at Sudaji village, Sawan, mostly still choose to use chemical fertilizers. They are reluctant to use organic fertilizer frequently disbursed by the government because it triggers the growth of weed in paddy plants. Paddy fields at the village with cool air remain quite extensive. Most are still planted with rice. Several people remain to make it as the main source of income. In order to boost production every season, the use of chemical fertilizers is still very dominant. It has quite bad impact on soil conditions. “Since two years ago, we have been directed to utilize organic fertilizers. However, until now it has not succeeded,” said Chief of Subak Gede Sudaji, Ketut Sandiasa, on Tuesday (May 16). The use of organic fertilizer, he added, is considered to have triggered the growth of weeds so that it has an impact on paddy growth. Such condition causes the maintenance cost incurred by farmers to become more expensive. Unlike the case with chemical fertilizers, in addition to providing more rapid impact on the growth of paddy plants, it does not trigger the emergence of weeds. This gives farmers more freedoms to work in other sector to increase income. “Actually, the harvest time between the use of organic and chemical fertilizer is the same. Farmers tend not to use organic fertilizer because it is considered to have triggered the emergence of weeds,” he said. He added that the minimal use of this eco-friendly fertilizer is visible from the assistance that is not absorbed by farmers. The organic fertilizers are left dormant until the packaging becomes damaged. “Many of the fertilizer packaging is broken, while some others are forced to be brought to the garden,” he said. (kmb45)
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Even with free sunscreen, most people don’t use enough
MINNESOTA - Offering free sunscreen to people at public events might not be enough to motivate them to properly protect themselves from harmful rays, a recent experiment suggests.
Researchers set up complimentary sunscreen dispensers at 10 information booths at the Minnesota State Fair, which typically draws more than 1.7 million attendees each August. About 17,000 people used the free sunscreen. The researchers observed 2,187 sunscreen users and found just 33 percent of them applied it to all sun-exposed areas of their skin. “Unfortunately, for many people, sun protection is not a priority,” said senior study author Dr. Ingrid Polcari of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “All exposed skin should be protected from the sun, either with clothes or with sunscreen,” Polcari said by email. When people at the fair didn’t use enough sunscreen, about half of them covered their upper arms and roughly 42 percent applied it to their face, researchers report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Very few of them applied sunscreen on their chest or legs. Among people observed using at least some sun-
screen, 38 percent didn’t have any additional protection like a hat, sunglasses or long-sleeved clothing, the study also found. Women did better than men: they made up 51 percent of people at the fair but accounted for 57 percent of sunscreen users at the free sunscreen stations. Fairgoers were more likely to use sunscreen when it was sunnier outside than when it was cloudy, and sunscreen use declined dramatically on completely overcast days. “Many people believe that sunscreen is only for when you are at the beach and that it’s not needed as part of their everyday lives,” said Dr. Elizabeth Martin, president of Pure Dermatology and Aesthetics in Hoover, Alabama. “Many people also mistakenly believe that they do not need sunscreen on cloudy days, but even then, up to about 80 percent of the sun’s harmful UV rays can reach the skin,” Martin, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. One limitation of the study is that sunscreen habits in Minnesota might not necessarily reflect what people would do in places where the weather is generally warmer and sunnier. It also didn’t look at individual characteristics that might influence whether people used sunscreen or how much they applied. (rtr)
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All exposed skin should be protected from the sun, either with clothes or with sunscreen.
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This public transport service designed to be convenient has proven to be undesired by the public as is on fact adding to traffic congestion.
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More than half of world’s deaths still have no recorded cause -WHO
LONDON - More than half of all deaths have no recorded cause, making effective health monitoring and policymaking far more difficult, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. However, improved collection of statistics meant that 27 million of the world’s 56 million estimated deaths in 2015 were registered with a cause compared with only about a third in 2005, the U.N. health agency’s latest global health report said. The WHO said several countries, including China and Turkey, had made “significant strides” in data collection. In Iran, it said, 90 percent of deaths are now recorded with details of the causes, compared with 5 percent in 1999. While things have improved significantly in recent years, many countries still do not routinely collect high-quality health data, Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO’s assistant director-general for health systems and innovation, said in a statement. “If countries don’t know what makes people get sick and die, it’s a lot harder to know what to do about it,” she said. The WHO is working with countries to strengthen health information systems and improve data quality, she said. This year’s WHO report focused on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of internationally agreed targets adopted in 2015 which track issues such as health, climate, sanitation and economic inequality. It found that while maternal and newborn death rates are declining, the 2015 global neonatal mortality rate was 19 per 1,000 live births and the under-five death rate was 43 per 1,000 live births. About 830 women died every day due to complications of pregnancy or childbirth in 2015, it said. Looking at infectious diseases, it found that an estimated 2.1 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2015, 35 percent fewer than in 2000. There were an estimated 212 million malaria cases globally in 2015, the report found, and about 60 percent of the population at risk of the mosquito-borne disease had access to an insecticide-treated net 2015, compared to 34 percent in 2010. (rtr)
Lack of passengers, Trans Sarbagita needs to be reassessed
MANGUPURA - Feeder transportation of Trans Sarbagita public transportation and the ‘feeder’ buses are still not being used by many passengers. This public transport service designed to be convenient has proven to be undesired by the public as is on fact adding to traffic congestion. The government therefor needs to conduct a comprehensive and detailed review of the service so that it can become truly effective. “I do not understand why the public has remained hesitant to use this service. Probably the routes are not suitable or are inconvenient and other such issues are preventing the service from being utilized. I do understand
that the fact that so few people are using it means that the service needs to be thoroughly re-evaluated and more promotion needs to be done” said Kuta tourist leader, Made Rudika on Monday (May 15). Made Rudika added that the rapid development of Kuta and South Kuta means that some sort of mass transit is needed to help deal with traffic congestion. Transportaion in tourism areas like Kuta, South Kuta and North Kuta neds to be addressed, he said. “ If something is not done in the very near futur, big problems are bound to arise” he said. I Wayan Budi Astawan, Postal inspection officer of Trans Sarbagita at the Kelan feeder, explained that there are only
ever a maximum of 10 people using the service on a given route. Most days there are even less than that. “ When there are seven people that is already considered to be way more than usual. Usually there are three to five passengers or less per vehicle”, he said. Sometimes there are no passengers at all. Usually people will only use the service if they cannot find a taxi that is willing to give them a good price. Of the seven feeder vehicles at eh Kelan post, most of the passengers are are vendors transporting their wares from GWK to Kelan. “Most of them (merchants) use the service early in the morning on their way to set up shop. In the afternoon there are rarely more than one or two people” he explained. (kmb23)
Bali police receive no reports related to malware virus
DENPASAR — The WannaCrypt ransomware virus that has been attacking computers in different areas has apparently not been a problem in Bali as the Bali Police have received to reports related to this virus. They are however continuiing to let the public know that a threat exists in order to prevent any related problems. “We have ben coordinating with the cyber ??crime investigation unit and there have been no reports related to the virus yet. Computers and internet facilities at the Bali police are also safe”, said Spokesperson for Bali Police,
Hengky Widjaja, on Tuesday (May 5). Bali Police spokesperson Widjaja also explained that the cyber investigation unit has been providing information to the public thorugh the mass media and though social media about preventitive measures. For example: before turnign on a computer or server, all hotspots or Wifi networks should be turned off and LAN/internet cable connections should be unplugged. Data should then be transferred to to non-Windows operating systems such as Linux or Mac, or copied as a backup to other
harddrives/usb keys. It is important to make sure that all data has been backed up to a separate storage medium. Only then should users activate Wifi connections and LAN/internet connections. Antivirus updates should also be performed routinely. Security on Windows OS should also be updated. Users should aslo disable the macros and SMB v 1 functions as well as block 139/445 and 3389 ports. “Hopefully, the users of computers and internet devices will remain safe from the threat of this virus” concluded Hengky. (kmb36)
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Missile crisis builds
S.Korea’s Moon says “high possibility” of conflict with North
SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday there was a “high possibility” of conflict with North Korea, which is pressing ahead with nuclear and missile programmes it says it needs to counter U.S. aggression.
The stage was built in 1994 by the government of Gianyar on land owned by Sidan Kelod and Sidan hamlet.
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Sidan’s Barong stage dormant
GIANYAR - The performance stage at Sidan Kelod hamlet, in Sidan, Gianyar, has been in suspended animation for the last few years. When the stage was first built it was a very popular venue for dance performances that many tourists came to watch. However, such tourist attractions, managed by the Gianyar tourism office have been suspended for some time. Headman of Sidan, I Made Sukra Suyasa, when met at his office on Tuesday (May 16) said that the stage was built in 1994 by the government of Gianyar on land owned by Sidan Kelod and Sidan hamlet. Once construction was completed and the space in-
augurated, performances started to be held here. “For a few years after the Sidan stage was opened, it remained a popular attraction. Residents of Sidan who acted as both dancers and gamelan players for the Barong dance, were empowered by these performances”, he said.
Suyasa then explained that in harmony with the passage of time, the Sidan stage was uesed less and less often for stagings of the Barong Dance and now stands empty. As of May of this year, there has not been a single performance at this venue. “In previous years, the stage was still occasionally used for presenting the baring dance when travel agencies would book a performance. Most of the tourists who came to watch were cruise ship passengers from boats anchored at Tanah Ampo, Manggis, Karangasem”, explained the headman
of Sidan. The Sidan stage still has a gamelan set and a secretariat for the Loka Semari Santi dance studio where the children of Sidan and surrounding villages come to learn dance and gamelan. However, due to the lack of visitors, the stage has been rented out to the government who use it for parties or community meetings. When asked about the Sidan Barong stage’s lack of visitors, headman Suyasa said that he suspects that it is because the stage is not located along the path that
tourists who are visiting Gianyar generally frequent. The other Barong stages Batubulan, Sukawati; Waribang, Denpasar and Suwung, South Denpasar have more people passing by. “Groups of tourists do not usually pass by the Sidan satage”, he said. Headman Suyasa however added that Sidan village is currently working on other tourist attractions including a trekking trail and a yoga classes including one at Taman Nusa. “ Hopefully these efforts can help to revive the Sidan Barong stage” he said. (kmb35)
The comments came hours after the South, which hosts 28,500 U.S. troops, said it wanted to reopen a channel of dialogue with North Korea as Moon seeks a two-track policy, involving sanctions and dialogue, to try to rein in its neighbour. North Korea has made no secret of the fact that it is working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland and has ignored calls to halt its nuclear and missile programmes, even from China, its lone major ally. It conducted its latest ballistic missile launch, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, on Sunday which it said was a test of its capability to carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead”, drawing Security Council condemnation. “The reality is that there is a high possibility of a military conflict at the NLL (Northern Limit Line) and military demarcation line,” Moon was quoted as saying by the presidential Blue House. He also said the North’s nuclear and missile capabilities seem to have advanced rapidly recently but that the South was ready and capable of striking back should the North attack.
Moon won an election last week campaigning on a more moderate approach towards the North and said after taking office that he wants to pursue dialogue as well as pressure. But he has said the North must change its attitude of insisting on pressing ahead with its arms development before dialogue is possible. South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Lee Duk-haeng told reporters the government’s most basic stance is that communication lines between South and North Korea should reopen. “The Unification Ministry has considered options on this internally but nothing has been decided yet,” said Lee. NO WORD YET ON THAAD Communications were severed by the North last year, Lee said, in the wake of new sanctions following North Korea’s fifth nuclear test and Pyongyang’s decision to shut down a joint industrial zone operated inside the North. North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The North defends its weapons pro-
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in carries a food tray as he has lunch with technical staff of the Presidential Blue House at an employee cafeteria of the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea May 12, 2017. grammes as necessary to counter U.S. hostility and regularly threatens to destroy the United States. Moon’s envoy to the United States, South Korean media mogul Hong Seok-hyun, left for Washington on Wednesday. Hong said South Korea had not yet received
was taking a really long time, so they told the security guards. The guards then asked for their help to break down the bathroom door and found the room empty except for the ventilation grid lying on the floor. Apparently, after crawling through the ventilation system, the detainee jumped over the barrier that separates the Denpasar district court from the Denpasar military court next door. Soldiers from the military court had in fact seen a man wearing a blue shirt jump over the wall and head for the stairs of the Padmasana Temple. However the officers were not aware that this man was a
detainee. These witnesses thought that there had been an earthquake because they also saw another person running away. “I thought there was an earthquake as I saw people running in the opposite direction of where I was going” he said. The backyard of the Denpasar military court had no other people in it at the time which made it easier for the perpetrator to escape. Security guards and prosecutors immediately chased after the detainee who headed towards the nearby Ramayana Supermarket. Unfortunately the prosecutors who had been escorting the prisoner did not find any traces of Jose Salzar
Ortiz. The officers asked a number of taxi drivers who were hanging out near the Ramayana Supermarket if they had seen the escapee. Some local residents mentioned that they had seen Jose get into a taxi with a driver named Caca. “We are still investigating the veracity of these witness reports”, said Spokesperson for the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, I Ketut Maha Agung, on Tuesday (May 16). The prosecutor’s office then coordinated with the West Denpasar police and the criminal investigation unit of Denpasar police in order to track the runaway. Meanwhile, the detainee’s legal adviser, Edward
Pangkahila et al., said that his client should undergo his trial according to the agenda of the demands of the prosecutor, Bela Putra Atmaja. “While awaiting trial, he ran away which makes things more difficult” complained Edward. Spokesperson for the Denpasar District Court, Ni Made Sukereni, said that security at the district court is also being re-evaluted and improved. “ The ventilation system had a trellis installed to ensure that all the detention rooms and custody rooms are in accordance with procedures. Nevertheless, a man like him will always try to find a way to escape”, she explained. (kmb37)
anti-missile system which detected Sunday’s test launch. China has strongly opposed THAAD, saying it can spy into its territory, and South Korean companies have been hit in China by a nationalist backlash over the deployment. (rtr)
Islamic State claims attack on state-run TV station in Afghanistan
Peruvian detainee escapes from Denpasar district court through ventilation DENPASAR - Legal defendants try various methods of trying to escape the law including trying to make a break for it when they go to trial at the Denpasar District court. The 37 year old Peruvian defendant named Jose Salazar Ortiz was successful in escaping detention by breaking through the ventilation grid in the bathroom and crawling through the pipes. His actions were discovered on Tuesday (May 16) at around 15:20. The defendant who was arrested from involvement in an ATM breakin case, went to use the bathroom in the Denpasar District court detention room. Other detainees wanting to use the bathroom noticed that he
official word from the United States on whether Seoul should pay for an anti-missile U.S. radar system that has been deployed outside Seoul. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants South Korea to pay for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
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Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack in Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan May 17, 2017.
JALALABAD - Militant group Islamic State on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a television station in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar that killed a security guard as well as all three attackers and wounded at least 17 people. Islamic State, or Daesh as it is generally known in Afghanistan, has established a stronghold in the province bordering Pakistan, where it fights both the Taliban and Afghan government forces. As the attack unfolded, heavy gunfire could be heard from around the building of RTA, Afghanistan’s national broadcaster, located close to the governor’s compound in the provincial capital, Jalalabad. “Islamic State fighters are currently carrying out an attack inside the state broadcasting building in the city of Jalalabad,” the movement’s AMAQ newsagency said in a statement on
instant messaging service Telegram. The Taliban, which also has a strong presence in the region, denied responsibility. Two of the attackers blew themselves up at the start of the operation but a third engaged security forces in a heavy gunbattle before being killed, said Attaullah Khughyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Nine of the 17 wounded were discharged from a hospital after being treated, he added. Islamic State has recently been hit hard by U.S. air strikes and special forces operations. The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hassib, was reported this month to have been killed in a joint Afghan-U.S. operation in Nangarhar at the end of April. Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for a series of high-profile attacks in the capital, Kabul, including one in March on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital. (rtr)
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BUSINESS India cool on Beijing summit as “Silk Road” stirs unease
NEW DELHI - India is likely to be represented by local embassy staff or academics this weekend at a major gathering of leaders and ministers on China’s “Silk Road” initiative, reflecting deep unease in New Delhi about the far-reaching project. India’s main objection to China’s plan to build ports, railways and power links across Asia and on to Europe is that the $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key part of the plan, runs through disputed Kashmir. The broader worry for India is that the “Belt and Road” initiative involving hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades will cement China’s dominance over Asia, including India’s neighbourhood. Leaders of 29 countries plus senior delegates from other nations gather in Beijing for a two-day summit starting on Sunday to map out a project that is seen as broad on ambition but short on specifics. Even Vietnam, which has had rocky ties with China, will be represented by its president, while Japan,
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Residents of East Duda Hold Tugof-War in Muddy Field
Exciting activity like this will intrigue everyone. Residents of East Duda, Selat, Karangasem, held tug-of-war in the mud so that it became a very special attraction. Unsurprisingly, this traditional sport drew appreciation and extraordinary adrenaline. It is more challenging and needs prime energy and carefulness in thinking of beating their rivals. Obviously, the challenge is far more different from the tug-of-war on grass.
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The tourists from China are visiting the People Struggle Monument in Renon, Denpasar. The monument is one of the favorite tourism destination in Denpasar. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
Villagers raise their drinks at lunchtime during the harvest in the village of Stok in Ladakh, India on Sept. 27, 2016. Locals have survived by herding goats and tending to wheat fields ringed by 6,000-meter (19,685 ft) mountains. driving its own infrastructure push across Asia, is sending a deputy trade minister and the secretary-general of the ruling party. India, meanwhile, is expected to send representatives from its embassy
in Beijing, two Indian officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that, as far as he knew, Indian academics would be participating in “relevant activities” at the Belt and Road Forum. He gave no other details and offered no further comment. Indian foreign ministry spokesman Gopal Baglay said no decision had been taken on whether an Indian government delegation would attend the meeting. “The matter is under consideration,” he said, a position the government has maintained since March when China extended an invitation. Since then it has stepped up efforts to get India to attend. Baglay said India supported connectivity across the region, but there was a problem with the Pakistan end of “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) - a term widely used to describe the project. “As far as OBOR is concerned, you know that our position is that since the so-called CPEC forms a part of OBOR, that is where our difficulty is. “It passes or proposes to pass through what is sovereign Indian territory and we have made our views in this regard very, very clear to the Chinese side.”
DOWNTURN IN TIES For Asia’s third largest economy behind China and Japan, which sits near one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean, not to be part of the continent-wide project presents a headache for China and India. China’s ambassador to India, Luo Zhaohui, told an Indian military think-tank in Delhi last week that the Belt and Road initiative was good for both countries and fitted into India’s “Look East” policy of strengthening ties with southeast and northeast Asia. Luo also said that while India had reservations about the ChinaPakistan corridor, Beijing had no wish to get involved in territorial disputes between India and Pakistan, according to remarks released by the Chinese embassy. India’s indecision over China’s biggest summit of the year comes at a time of a sharp downturn in ties. New Delhi is smarting over China’s refusal to allow it entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a global cartel that controls nuclear trade, and over Beijing blocking a request at the UN to sanction a Pakistan-based militant blamed for attacks on India. Beijing is angry at India’s increasingly public engagement of the
Dalai Lama, including hosting the Tibetan spiritual leader in a territory controlled by India but claimed by China in April. It has also grown wary of India’s military cooperation with the United States, as well as with Japan in recent months. Jayadeva Ranade, a former China specialist on the Indian government’s National Security Advisory Board, said India saw the Silk Road as a strategic Chinese initiative, and that the Pakistan corridor was particularly worrying because it raised fears of encirclement. “It has already begun to squeeze the strategic space of China’s neighbours as well as bend borders.” But some Indian officials and experts have urged India not to miss out on opportunities presented by the initiative to boost transport and trade links. Mehbooba Mufti, chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, said the troubled region could benefit from the Chinese project as it would boost economic activity. China’s economy is nearly five times the size of India’s. “So at this stage, it’s absurd for India to pick a confrontational path, they need to first grow their economy and then come up with all these strategies to confront China,” said Kai Xue, a Beijing-based lawyer at DeHeng Law Offices.(rtr)
Jaje Lempog, a Cheap Dish with Rich Taste
Have you ever try Lempog? It is one of Balinese traditional food is reraly found in the stores and supermaket. Lempog is usually being sold in thetraditional market or small stores in the village. It is understandable because it is not an exclusive dish, lempog is usualy
being enjoyed by the farmers. Lempog is a cheap dish because it is using a simple material such as Balinese sugar and cassava. The food is great to accompany us in drinkingtea or coffee. In Java, Lempog is also known as Getuk. Before, Lempog is not only en-
joyed by farmers but also served on Hindus ceremonies such as wedding and Ngaben. Not only that, when the locals work together in building house or a kitchen, Lempog always becomea snack, just like when the farmer work in the field. In addition to use very easy materials, the process of making it is also very simple. It doesn’t need a big machine or factory. Everything can be done at home. To make it, first the cassava must be pealed and cut into smaller pieces and then boiled. The red sugar chopped into smaller pieces so it can dissolved with the cassava. The sugar can also bolied along with the cassava to make a better taste. After finish, the cassava is crushed using traditional tool called Luhu which is a big stick made from wood. During the process, the sugar is put so it can blend perfectly. Salt is also added in the process. After it is smooth enough, the dough is cut into small pieces and ready to be served. In serving Lempog, coconut which is already puured on top of it. Enjoy (kmb)
The atmosphere became more interesting when the whole body of the players was covered in mud. Their hair, face to other parts of the body was filled with mud. For newcomers, it is really a very interesting attraction when taking action to drag the rope and avoid the sprinkle of mud. The participants consisted of representatives from nine hamlets throughout East Duda village where each delegated one men’s team and one women’s team. Each team has ten personnel. At that time, the contest was followed by the women’s team of Pesangkan Anyar hamlet against the women’s team of Batu Gede hamlet. Though the participants were women, the contest became more exciting than the tug-of-war on the grass. If they already got dragged, it would be difficult to hold because it was quite slippery and heavy. Even though being flushed by heavy rains, it did not dampen the vivacity of the residents to play or to watch the contest. “The event is aimed at encouraging young people into farming. This tug-of-war in the mud actually has become an
annual event held every Christmas or December 25,” said headman of East Duda, I Gede Pawana. Such an event is also associated with the anniversary of East Duda village. It is intended for entertainment, inspiring and motivating young people so that they want to get involved in the paddy field activity as farmers. “Contest of the tug-of-war in the mud is held in one of the paddy fields at Subak Pesangkan. Formerly, the field was converted into a snakefruit orchard. This activity is also to welcome the arrival of harvest season,” he explained. Tug-of-war activity in the mud got appreciation from the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri. According to her, the tug-of-war in the mud is not only able to increase togetherness, but also proves that village government is able to implement its work program and get appreciation from its residents. “Actually this tug-of-war activity serves as a medium to build civilizations and closer friendship as the indicator if the work program of the village has run relatively well,” she said. (kmb)
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JERUSALEM - Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may have compromised an Israeli agent, but don’t expect any long-term consequences for intelligence cooperation.
Trump has confirmed via Twitter that during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House last week he shared information related to a potential airline plot by Islamic State, thought to involve a laptop bomb. The New York Times, citing a current and a former U.S. official, reported on Tuesday that the information Trump divulged came from an Israeli intelligence asset based in Islamic State-held territory in Syria. Israeli officials have declined to confirm whether they were the source of the information Trump shared, but have been quick to say counter-terrorism coordination with the United States is strong. “The security relationship between Israel & our greatest ally the United States is deep, significant & unprecedented in volume,” Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Twitter, remarks that were echoed by the intelligence minister. Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, issued a similar statement, saying: “Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship
with the United States and looks forward to deepening that relationship in the years ahead under President Trump.” Israeli intelligence experts said they could not confirm whether an Israeli asset was the source. But they said Israel had developed a deep network of human and signal intelligence across the region and it was plausible that it had managed to infiltrate Islamic State as part of that long-running effort. “Israeli intelligence agencies have shown that they can have such human sources,” said Aviv Oreg, former head of the Al Qaeda and global jihad desk in the army’s military intelligence department, who now runs a counter-terrorism consultancy. “It would take a lot to put someone inside ISIS. If there is an agent, I’m sure it’s the only one. If we have really lost a human source over there, it’s a major loss and it will take years to regenerate another one,” he said. “Israel will be furious about it,” he added, highlighting that it was likely to have implications for how Israel operates its human intelligence assets more broadly, and may make others unwilling to cooperate with it in the future. At the same time, he said Israel understood that Trump, as president and commander-in-chief, had the authority to divulge the information, even if in doing so he had shown that he “has no experience in how to deal with intelligence.” (rtr)
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Already one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen was engulfed in 2015 by civil war pitting the Houthis against the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States intervened on Hadi’s side and has carried out thousands of air strikes targeting the Houthis, though U.N. officials said last year these had killed more than 2,000 civilians as well. The alliance believes the Houthis, who hold most of Yemen’s main population centres, are a proxy for their arch-foe Iran. The
Houthis deny this and say they are defending Yemen from domineering neighbours and U.S. hegemony. The war has been largely stalemated for 18 months since the coalition retook swathes of the south and east. Over 10,000 people in all have died, but the last serious peace talks lapsed almost a year ago. As U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first visit abroad with a stop in Riyadh this week, advancing the shared U.S.-Saudi struggle with Iran may prove the priority despite the humanitarian disaster next door. HANGING BY A THREAD
More than ever before in the war, state institutions are losing their ability to withstand the spread of pestilence and the mounting
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A combination of file photos showing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) attending a news conference in Moscow, Russia, November 18, 2015, U.S. President Donald Trump posing for a photo in New York City, U.S., May 17, 2016 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 14, 2017. death toll. A battle for control of the central bank has left salaries in Houthi-held lands in and around Sanaa largely unpaid for six months, ruining the lives of hospital and sanitation workers. Pumps to sanitise the water supply sit idle for lack of fuel, while maintenance agencies tasked with chlorinating aquifers go without salaries and supplies. Doctors treating the cholera outbreak fare little better. “The health system has been hanging by a thread,” UNICEF’s spokesman in Yemen, Rajat Madhok, said. “Wages haven’t come in, humanitarian workers and doctors are trying their best but some leave their work to seek jobs where they can get paid. Declining value of the currency hurts and all this has a
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Two men sail in a wooden boat next to moored ferries during a 48-hour nationwide strike of Greek seamen at the Port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece May 16, 2017.
No more austerity, Greeks demand in nationwide strike
ATHENS - Thousands of Greeks walked off their jobs and marched through central Athens on Wednesday protesting against additional austerity measures being demanded by international lenders in exchange for disbursing scheduled bailout funds. The strike was called by the country’s main public and private sector unions a day before Greece’s parliament is due to vote on reforms that would help unlock the funds from the 86-billion-euro bailout, the country’s third in seven years. New austerity attached to the funds release include the 13th cut in pensions since 2010 and a reduction in tax-free allowances on income. They come after years of cuts that for a time threw the country into deep recession. Unemployment is running at close to one in four and there is a 48 percent jobless rates among the youth. Pensioners, teachers, doctors and lawyers stopped work while public transport was disrupted throughout the capital Athens. At least 14,000 took to the streets in protest marches, according to initial police estimates. Protesters held banners reading “No to austerity, yes to debt relief!” and “Bring back the conquered rights that you stole from us!”. They chanted “They talk about losses and gains and we talks about human lives”. Some expressed anger at the coalition government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose leftist Syriza party one election promising to stop the cuts. “They told us they would end austerity and tear apart the bailouts,” said Paraskevi Tsouparopoulou, 62. “Instead they brought us disaster.” Greece has agreed to the further spending cuts to end a logjam in talks with its foreign lenders over its bailout progress. Once the new measures are approved by Greek lawmakers -- as is expected -- euro zone finance ministers will then discuss the disbursement of the loans at the next scheduled Eurogroup meeting on May 22. Athens needs the funds urgently to repay 7.5 billion euro ($8.18 billion) in debt maturing in July. (rtr) cascading effect that is badly hurting the sector.” A streak of misery runs the length of Yemen’s western Red Sea coast - from fighting in the north along the border with Saudi Arabia to a new coalition-backed offensive working its way up to the main port of Hodeidah from the south. The campaign has forced around 50,000 to flee for safety from the area this year, according to the United Nations, many of whom had already escaped homes affected by fighting there. Clutching her young son on Hodeidah’s streets, 19-year-old Saleha Ahmed Ali recounted her weary trek down the coast from the northwest. “We’re from Haradh, but because of the war we fled to Bajel to be safe there. But when the
air strikes got worse in Bajel, we fled to Hodeidah,” she said. “There’s no food or milk for our children. We can’t even find a mat to sleep on or a bucket to wash our children. They haven’t given us tents and it rained yesterday. We don’t know where to hide. We’ve lost our homes. This war has dragged us from place to place.” Speaking to Reuters by phone from Sanaa, Shabia Mantoo of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR wondered why the scale of the suffering had not spurred more peacemaking efforts. “It was already catastrophic, how much worse can it get? Nineteen million people are going through real suffering. Yemen now is an inventory of misery - what more will it take to get the world’s attention?”(rtr)
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Behind China’s Silk Road vision: cheap funds, heavy debt, growing risk
BEIJING - Behind China’s trillion-dollar effort to build a modern Silk Road is a lending programme of unprecedented breadth, one that will help build ports, roads and rail links, but could also leave some banks and many countries with quite a hangover. At the heart of that splurge are China’s two policy lenders, China Development Bank (CDB) and Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM), which have between them already provided $200 billion in loans throughout Asia, the Middle East and even Africa. They are due to extend at least $55 billion more, according to announcements made during a lavish two-day Belt and Road summit in Beijing, which ends on Monday. Thanks to cheaper funding, CDB and EXIM have helped to unblock what Chinese president Xi Jinping on Sunday called a ‘prominent challenge’ to the Silk Road: the funding bottleneck. But as the Belt and Road project grows, so do the risks to policy banks, commercial lenders and borrowers, all of whom are tangled in projects with questionable business logic, bankers and analysts say. EXIM, seeking to contain risk, says it has imposed a debt ceiling for each country. CDB says it has applied strict limits on sovereign borrowers’ credit lines and controls the concentration of loans. “For some countries, if we give them too many loans, too much debt, then the sustainability of its debt is questionable,” Sun Ping, vice governor of EXIM, told reporters last week. For now, funds are cheap and plentiful, thanks to Beijing. Belt and Road infrastructure loans so far have been primarily negotiated government to government, with interest rates below those offered by commercial banks and extended repayment schedules, bankers and analysts said. Massive government capital injections, bonds priced as sovereign debt and access to the central bank’s pledged supplementary lending programme keep CDB and EXIM funding costs at rock bottom. In Indonesia, CDB has offered a 40-year concessionary loan, without asking for government debt guarantees, to finance 75 percent of the $5.29 billion Jakarta-Bandung Railway, Indonesia’s first high-speed railway and a model infrastructure project for China’s Belt and Road effort. The loans carry a 10-year grace period. A 60 percent portion is denominated in U.S. dollars carrying a 2 percent interest rate, and the remaining 40 percent calculated in Chinese yuan, carrying a 3.4 percent rate, according to a note by Bank of China International. CDB, the world’s biggest development financing institution, says it is not seeking to “maximize profits”, Vice President Ding Xiangqun told reporters last week.
government statistics. China Communications Construction Group alone has notched up $40 billion of contracts and built 10,320 kilometres of road, 95 deepwater ports, 10 airports, 152 bridges and 2,080 railways in Belt and Road countries. China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan is among those to warn that this reliance on cheap loans raises “risks and problems”, starting with moral hazard and unsustainability. China has been caught out before; it is owed $65 billion by Venezuela, now torn by crisis. “The jurisdictions where many of these loans are going are places that would have difficulty getting loans from Western commercial banks – their credit ratings are not very good, or the projects in question often are not commercially viable,” said Jack Yuan, a bank analyst at Fitch Ratings in Shanghai. “The broader concern is that capital continues to be mis-allocated by Chinese banks.” China’s state-owned commercial banks are being pushed to support the government initiative. Top lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China participated in 212 Belt and Road projects, providing $67.4 billion in credit in total, Chairman Yi Huiman said on Monday. Bank of China plans to offer $100 billion in credit to
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such projects by year-end. “Actually, commercial banks are not very motivated,” said a senior banker at a large Chinese commercial lender. “We don’t provide concessionary loans, and we really don’t want those countries to think that all Belt and Road loans are discounted.” The biggest hangover may yet be for the borrowers. For Laos, one of Asia’s poorest countries, the $7 billion cost for the China-Laos railway was more than half its 2015 gross domestic product. Its concessionary loan from EXIM was set below 3 percent interest. In Pakistan, where China has pledged to invest up to $56 billion in rail, road and energy infrastructure, its debt and other repayments on Belt and Road will peak at around $5 billion in 2022, according to the Pakistan government’s chief economist. Ding, from CDB, said loans to heavily indebted, poor countries were within the limit set by the International Monetary Fund, including interest rates and loan periods. But borrower nations say there is also little choice as China presses its first international development push. “It’s almost a no-brainer,” said Sima Kamil, CEO designate of Pakistan’s United Bank. “It’s very easy to say there will be all of this debt, but if we don’t get this, where are we going to go?” (rtr)
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ROME - World number one Andy Murray is unsure what caused his recent slump after his Italian Open title defence ended with a 6-2 6-4 defeat by home favourite Fabio Fognini in the second round.
music compositions and youth competitions that fill the festival agenda. Hundreds of artisans from the Denpasar municipality, Bali’s eight provinces, other neighbouring islands and even art troupes from abroad participate and showcase their talents. Now in its 39th year, the Bali Arts Festival returns June 10 to July 8. The Bali Arts Festival traditionally kicks off with an opening parade in front of the Bajra Sandhi monument in Denpasar. At the Ardha Chandra stage of the Bali Arts Centre, witness a series of stage performances by the Indonesia Arts Institute (ISI) of Denpasar. On the following days up to July 8, the various stages and different venues come to life with the wide and colourful variety of performances from different art groups from all over the island and Indonesia. The month-long festival offers you the best showcase of Balinese and Indonesian arts and culture in the entire year! Enjoy traditional music and gamelan recitals at the Ayodya and Angsoka stages, as well as evening Balinese documentary film screenings at the Ksirarnawa auditorium. Balinese children’s Gong Kebyar gamelan jam sessions at the Ardha Candra amphithe-
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DENPASAR - The Bali Arts Festival is a cultural treat for lucky visitors who are in Bali until mid July. The festival traditionally starts on the second Saturday of June and runs through the month of July. It is the perfect moment to witness Bali’s wealth of performing arts together with various cultural highlights from other islands in Indonesia. As one of the main highlights in Bali’s calendar of events, the annual celebration features various artworks and cultural achievements, inviting locals and international visitors to the Taman Werdhi Budaya Arts Centre in Denpasar where most of the daily exhibitions and art performances are focused. On regular days, a visit to the Denpasar Art Centre is a small tour to admire magnificent sculptures and Balinese architectural features as well as a venue of choice for photo shoots with exotic backdrops. But throughout the Bali Arts Festival in June and July, the complex becomes alive with colourful traditional bamboo and coconut leaf decorations and banners. Crowds gather in front of its open stages, auditoriums and outdoor pavilions to witness a variety of traditional and contemporary dances, shadow puppetry,
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featuring favourite Balinese dishes. The Bali Arts Festival customarily closes with a lively ceremony with an evening traditional ballet known as ‘sendratari’, held at the Ardha Candra open stage from 20:00. (IBP/net)
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CALIFORNIA - Slovakia’s Peter Sagan turned on the jets during the final uphill stretch to clinch the third stage of the Tour of California on Tuesday. Sagan, a two-times world road race champion, clinched the relatively flat 192.5km stage into Morro Bay, but his Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Rafal Majka retained the yellow jersey he won on Monday’s hilly ride through Northern California. Majka leads Lotto NL-Jumbo’s George Bennett with Team Sky’s Ian Boswell third in the overall standings. Daniel Jaramillo of UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling is leading the King of the Mountain competition. Monday’s stage included a violent crash by Latvian rider Toms Skujins, who suffered a concussion, a broken collarbone and grazing that forced him to withdraw from the race. The seven-day race continues on Wednesday with a 159.5-km ride from Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita. It is the first time the race has been staged as part of the World Tour, a designation that organizers hope will draw more top names in the sport from Europe. However this year it also being held at the same time as the Giro d’Italia, with many of the sport’s biggest names competing there rather than in California. The race finishes in Pasadena on May 20. (rtr)
Murray had his most successful season on clay last year, winning one out of three finals, but has seen his fortunes on the surface reverse with the loss to Fognini marking three unsuccessful clay tournaments in a row. “I wasn’t creating enough chances on my own,” Murray was quoted by the ATP website (www.atpworldtour. com). “Normally during matches your opponent might give you a few opportunities with some errors, and obviously you hope to create a few yourself. That certainly wasn’t the case today. The only chance I really got was when he was making errors.” Murray has won one out of seven tournaments this season, exiting in the Round of 16 or earlier in four of
those. He was eliminated in the semifinals at the Barcelona Open and his only title win was at the Dubai Open in March. The 30-year-old was particularly unhappy with his movement on the court. “Movement the last two weeks has not been good,” Murray said. “My movement has been a big help, the last couple of years, but certainly the last couple of weeks, that’s been a problem. So I need to address that.” The Briton also said his number one ranking had nothing to do with his performances. “I’m just not playing well and I don’t think it’s to do with my ranking,” Murray added. Next up for Murray is the French Open that starts next week. (rtr)
Alonso hits Indy Happy Hour INDIANA - Fernando Alonso survived his first Brickyard “Happy Hour” on Tuesday, the twice Formula One world champion getting a taste of what he can expect when he lines up for the Indianapolis 500 later this month. The practice session was just the third at the track for Alonso, who will miss the Monaco Grand Prix to race the Indy 500. Alonso completed 117 laps in his McLaren Honda Andretti Autosport around the sprawling 2.5 mile oval and also got a feel for what it might be like on race day, participating in what is known as “Happy Hour”. The final 60 minutes of the day-long practise session saw most of the 33 cars attempting to qualify for the May 28 classic simulating race conditions. “It was good, very positive and productive day,” said Alonso, who has put learning to drive in the traffic and turbulence as his biggest challenge. “We did a lot of laps, a lot of learning, some group running, finally with some traffic. “So, it is information I will sleep on and be a better oval driver tomorrow.” Alonso produced the 24th best effort of the 33 cars on the track on Tuesday with a top speed of 221.029 mph. As part of the Andretti Autosport stable that will field six cars for the race, Alonso is benefiting from the experience of his team mates that include last year’s winner Alexander Rossi and 2014 winner
Ryan Hunter-Reay. “I’m on the best team for that; we are six cars and we were running together,” explained Alonso. “My teammates were amazing helping me. “I was learning every lap, when I follow them, learning what they do, how they attack the next corner or the next lap, how they prepare the overtaking,
so, it was very useful and a very productive day.” Powerhouse Penske Racing dominated Day Two with Australian Will Power at the top of timing charts, posting the fastest lap of 224.656 mph followed by team mate Brazilian Helio Castroneves, who is chasing a record equalling fourth Indy 500 win. (rtr)
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Verizon IndyCar Series driver Fernando Alonso gets in the car during practice for the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 15, 2017.
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Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero gestures during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England,Thursday, April 27, 2017.
Remodeled Aguero finally gets Guardiola’s seal of approval
MANCHESTER — For a player who has excelled for years as a penalty-box poacher, Sergio Aguero found himself doing some unusual things in Manchester City’s final home game of the season. When he wasn’t dropping deep to link up play with flicks and one-twos, he was drifting out to the wing to leave space in the middle.
He even took the option to pass instead of shoot on occasions. This is a remodeled version of Aguero — and City manager Pep Guardiola wouldn’t want it any other way. Aguero didn’t score for City in its 3-1 win over West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Tuesday, but that’s no longer what he is being judged on. At least not by Guardiola. “An amazing performance,” the Spanish coach said. Guardiola stunned reporters and City fans alike at the start of his first season in English soccer by publicly calling out Aguero, saying he expected more from a player who has long been widely regarded as the best striker in the Premier League. Guardiola wanted to see a better pressing game from Aguero, more teamwork and link-up play, a better work ethic. Aguero was even dropped for a Champions League game at Barcelona in mid-October, a decision many could not understand. Was this the end for Aguero at City, the club for whom he famously won the league with that 94th-minute goal on the final day of the 2011-12 season? If Aguero wasn’t prepared to change his game, it likely would have been, particularly with Gabriel Jesus arriving at City in January and immediately displaying the kind of attributes Guardiola liked in a striker. On the evidence of the West Brom game, Aguero has finally mastered how to perform the striker role that Guardiola wants. “What I saw from outside when I coached against him, he was a guy in the box to score
a goal,” Guardiola said. “I tried to get him involved in our game, to be involved defensively and especially to help us because I think he has a quality not just to score a goal but to be involved in the process. “Get out from the central defenders, create space behind central defenders if they decide to follow him. He has the quality to give that and make the pass. It’s necessary to feel that your teammates and manager and staff and the club are happy whether you score or don’t score.” For the first goal against West Brom, whose ultradefensive tactics were starting to frustrate City, Aguero came short to receive a pass and carved open the visitors and produced a back-heel flick to play in Kevin de Bruyne, running through from midfield. De Bruyne crossed and Gabriel Jesus tapped in at the far post. For the second goal less than two minutes later, Aguero again started from deep, running through and passing to another midfield runner in Leroy Sane. The ball dropped for De Bruyne to side-foot home from the edge of the area. The third goal from Yaya Toure particularly pleased Guardiola, who reacted to the ball hitting the net by spinning on his heels and punching the air with both fists — as much for the build-up as for the goal itself. Again dropping deep and dragging two defenders with him, Aguero played a 1-2 with Toure with a deft reverse pass with his left foot. Toure charged into open space and finished between the goalkeeper’s legs. “I like strikers to not be there like a post,” Guardiola said, straightening up his body. “I like when we arrive at the line for them to be there. I like strikers to arrive to the positions, not stay in the positions. I think Sergio does that amazing.” That didn’t used to be the case. Aguero has scored 31 goals in all competitions and is enjoying one of his most prolific seasons at City. But Guardiola appears to be getting much more out of the Argentina striker. Maybe Aguero will be staying at City after all. (ap)
Outcast Benzema has not given up on France return
PARIS - Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has not given up hope of a return to the French national team despite being frozen out by coach Didier Deschamps in the wake of a sextape scandal 18 months ago. Benzema was suspended indefinitely in December 2015 after being charged with conspiracy to blackmail team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a sextape, but French federation president Noel Le Graet said last October Deschamps was free to call him up again. The 29-year-old, who has not been picked since a 4-0 win over Armenia in October 2015, said he had still not received an explanation from Deschamps as to why he continues to ignore him. “Others say I can be called up, not him. If the coach tells me to my face that it is only because of football, fine, I’ll continue to work,” Benzema told French sports daily L’Equipe on Wednesday. “If there is another reason, he just had to tell it to my face and I’m done with him. “I asked the coach for an explanation. An explanation can be just two minutes long. It’s not complicated ... But I am still at the coach’s disposal. The coach knows this.” France do not seem to have missed Benzema, impressing at Euro 2016 with Antoine Griezmann and Dimitri Payet shining up front. The hosts lost to Portugal after extra time in the final. However, Benzema said he was being left out for non-sporting reasons. “A lot of people (in France) don’t want me to succeed,” he said. “I have the feeling that my name is being manipulated for reasons that have nothing to do with football.” (rtr)
Reading’s playoff final among my best achievements -Stam
Reading manager Jaap Stam considers his team’s progression into the Championship playoff final as one of the biggest achievements of his career, he said after Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Fulham (2-1 on aggregate) in the semi-finals. Stam, 44, who joined Reading before the start of the season, previously captured numerous trophies as a player at PSV, Ajax and Manchester United, as well as two while an assistant coach at Ajax in the 2013-14 season. Reading finished 17th in the Championship last season but an impressive home record of just two league losses under Stam helped them come in third in the regular season to book a playoff spot.
“It’s one of the top ones,” Stam told reporters after the game. “It’s great to come here to work at a club with a lot of potential - the players are prepared to work really hard. “We needed to defend, we needed to dig in and we got that win which is very important.” Reading announced on Tuesday that Chinese investors and siblings, Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li, had become majority shareowners at the club after the league’s governing body approved the takeover. Reading join a growing list of European teams to be controlled by Chinese investors, with Premier League side West Bromwich Albion, Serie A’s AC Milan and Inter Milan along with Ligue 1’s Nice being sold in the last year.
“The club have gained EFL approval for the change in majority shareholder and our new Chinese shareholders have taken up their position at Reading Football Club,” a statement on Reading’s official website read. (www.readingfc. co.uk) “We would like to thank every one of our loyal fans for their patience and continued support over recent months whilst the new ownership structure has been finalised – a structure which ensures the future financial stability of the club and will enable the club to move to the next level.” Reading will face either Sheffield on Wednesday or Huddersfield Town in the Wembley final on May 29. (rtr)
After missile tests, NKorea’s Asian Cup qualifier postponed KUALA LUMPUR — North Korea’s match against Malaysia in 2019 Asian Cup qualifying has been postponed a second time amid new missile tests by the host nation. The Asian Football Confederation says the June 8 game, itself postponed from March 28, could be played on Oct. 5. Still, the AFC did not commit to playing in Pyongyang. A neutral venue could be ordered. The Asian soccer body cited security risks caused by
“geo-political tension on the Korean Peninsula” for the latest postponement. The first delay followed rising diplomatic tensions between North Korea and Malaysia during an investigation into the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur. The teams are in a four-nation Asian Cup qualifying group that also includes Lebanon and Hong Kong. (ap)
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Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero gestures during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England,Thursday, April 27, 2017.
Remodeled Aguero finally gets Guardiola’s seal of approval
MANCHESTER — For a player who has excelled for years as a penalty-box poacher, Sergio Aguero found himself doing some unusual things in Manchester City’s final home game of the season. When he wasn’t dropping deep to link up play with flicks and one-twos, he was drifting out to the wing to leave space in the middle.
He even took the option to pass instead of shoot on occasions. This is a remodeled version of Aguero — and City manager Pep Guardiola wouldn’t want it any other way. Aguero didn’t score for City in its 3-1 win over West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Tuesday, but that’s no longer what he is being judged on. At least not by Guardiola. “An amazing performance,” the Spanish coach said. Guardiola stunned reporters and City fans alike at the start of his first season in English soccer by publicly calling out Aguero, saying he expected more from a player who has long been widely regarded as the best striker in the Premier League. Guardiola wanted to see a better pressing game from Aguero, more teamwork and link-up play, a better work ethic. Aguero was even dropped for a Champions League game at Barcelona in mid-October, a decision many could not understand. Was this the end for Aguero at City, the club for whom he famously won the league with that 94th-minute goal on the final day of the 2011-12 season? If Aguero wasn’t prepared to change his game, it likely would have been, particularly with Gabriel Jesus arriving at City in January and immediately displaying the kind of attributes Guardiola liked in a striker. On the evidence of the West Brom game, Aguero has finally mastered how to perform the striker role that Guardiola wants. “What I saw from outside when I coached against him, he was a guy in the box to score
a goal,” Guardiola said. “I tried to get him involved in our game, to be involved defensively and especially to help us because I think he has a quality not just to score a goal but to be involved in the process. “Get out from the central defenders, create space behind central defenders if they decide to follow him. He has the quality to give that and make the pass. It’s necessary to feel that your teammates and manager and staff and the club are happy whether you score or don’t score.” For the first goal against West Brom, whose ultradefensive tactics were starting to frustrate City, Aguero came short to receive a pass and carved open the visitors and produced a back-heel flick to play in Kevin de Bruyne, running through from midfield. De Bruyne crossed and Gabriel Jesus tapped in at the far post. For the second goal less than two minutes later, Aguero again started from deep, running through and passing to another midfield runner in Leroy Sane. The ball dropped for De Bruyne to side-foot home from the edge of the area. The third goal from Yaya Toure particularly pleased Guardiola, who reacted to the ball hitting the net by spinning on his heels and punching the air with both fists — as much for the build-up as for the goal itself. Again dropping deep and dragging two defenders with him, Aguero played a 1-2 with Toure with a deft reverse pass with his left foot. Toure charged into open space and finished between the goalkeeper’s legs. “I like strikers to not be there like a post,” Guardiola said, straightening up his body. “I like when we arrive at the line for them to be there. I like strikers to arrive to the positions, not stay in the positions. I think Sergio does that amazing.” That didn’t used to be the case. Aguero has scored 31 goals in all competitions and is enjoying one of his most prolific seasons at City. But Guardiola appears to be getting much more out of the Argentina striker. Maybe Aguero will be staying at City after all. (ap)
Outcast Benzema has not given up on France return
PARIS - Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has not given up hope of a return to the French national team despite being frozen out by coach Didier Deschamps in the wake of a sextape scandal 18 months ago. Benzema was suspended indefinitely in December 2015 after being charged with conspiracy to blackmail team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a sextape, but French federation president Noel Le Graet said last October Deschamps was free to call him up again. The 29-year-old, who has not been picked since a 4-0 win over Armenia in October 2015, said he had still not received an explanation from Deschamps as to why he continues to ignore him. “Others say I can be called up, not him. If the coach tells me to my face that it is only because of football, fine, I’ll continue to work,” Benzema told French sports daily L’Equipe on Wednesday. “If there is another reason, he just had to tell it to my face and I’m done with him. “I asked the coach for an explanation. An explanation can be just two minutes long. It’s not complicated ... But I am still at the coach’s disposal. The coach knows this.” France do not seem to have missed Benzema, impressing at Euro 2016 with Antoine Griezmann and Dimitri Payet shining up front. The hosts lost to Portugal after extra time in the final. However, Benzema said he was being left out for non-sporting reasons. “A lot of people (in France) don’t want me to succeed,” he said. “I have the feeling that my name is being manipulated for reasons that have nothing to do with football.” (rtr)
Reading’s playoff final among my best achievements -Stam
Reading manager Jaap Stam considers his team’s progression into the Championship playoff final as one of the biggest achievements of his career, he said after Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Fulham (2-1 on aggregate) in the semi-finals. Stam, 44, who joined Reading before the start of the season, previously captured numerous trophies as a player at PSV, Ajax and Manchester United, as well as two while an assistant coach at Ajax in the 2013-14 season. Reading finished 17th in the Championship last season but an impressive home record of just two league losses under Stam helped them come in third in the regular season to book a playoff spot.
“It’s one of the top ones,” Stam told reporters after the game. “It’s great to come here to work at a club with a lot of potential - the players are prepared to work really hard. “We needed to defend, we needed to dig in and we got that win which is very important.” Reading announced on Tuesday that Chinese investors and siblings, Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li, had become majority shareowners at the club after the league’s governing body approved the takeover. Reading join a growing list of European teams to be controlled by Chinese investors, with Premier League side West Bromwich Albion, Serie A’s AC Milan and Inter Milan along with Ligue 1’s Nice being sold in the last year.
“The club have gained EFL approval for the change in majority shareholder and our new Chinese shareholders have taken up their position at Reading Football Club,” a statement on Reading’s official website read. (www.readingfc. co.uk) “We would like to thank every one of our loyal fans for their patience and continued support over recent months whilst the new ownership structure has been finalised – a structure which ensures the future financial stability of the club and will enable the club to move to the next level.” Reading will face either Sheffield on Wednesday or Huddersfield Town in the Wembley final on May 29. (rtr)
After missile tests, NKorea’s Asian Cup qualifier postponed KUALA LUMPUR — North Korea’s match against Malaysia in 2019 Asian Cup qualifying has been postponed a second time amid new missile tests by the host nation. The Asian Football Confederation says the June 8 game, itself postponed from March 28, could be played on Oct. 5. Still, the AFC did not commit to playing in Pyongyang. A neutral venue could be ordered. The Asian soccer body cited security risks caused by
“geo-political tension on the Korean Peninsula” for the latest postponement. The first delay followed rising diplomatic tensions between North Korea and Malaysia during an investigation into the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur. The teams are in a four-nation Asian Cup qualifying group that also includes Lebanon and Hong Kong. (ap)
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ROME - World number one Andy Murray is unsure what caused his recent slump after his Italian Open title defence ended with a 6-2 6-4 defeat by home favourite Fabio Fognini in the second round.
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DENPASAR - The Bali Arts Festival is a cultural treat for lucky visitors who are in Bali until mid July. The festival traditionally starts on the second Saturday of June and runs through the month of July. It is the perfect moment to witness Bali’s wealth of performing arts together with various cultural highlights from other islands in Indonesia. As one of the main highlights in Bali’s calendar of events, the annual celebration features various artworks and cultural achievements, inviting locals and international visitors to the Taman Werdhi Budaya Arts Centre in Denpasar where most of the daily exhibitions and art performances are focused. On regular days, a visit to the Denpasar Art Centre is a small tour to admire magnificent sculptures and Balinese architectural features as well as a venue of choice for photo shoots with exotic backdrops. But throughout the Bali Arts Festival in June and July, the complex becomes alive with colourful traditional bamboo and coconut leaf decorations and banners. Crowds gather in front of its open stages, auditoriums and outdoor pavilions to witness a variety of traditional and contemporary dances, shadow puppetry,
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CALIFORNIA - Slovakia’s Peter Sagan turned on the jets during the final uphill stretch to clinch the third stage of the Tour of California on Tuesday. Sagan, a two-times world road race champion, clinched the relatively flat 192.5km stage into Morro Bay, but his Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Rafal Majka retained the yellow jersey he won on Monday’s hilly ride through Northern California. Majka leads Lotto NL-Jumbo’s George Bennett with Team Sky’s Ian Boswell third in the overall standings. Daniel Jaramillo of UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling is leading the King of the Mountain competition. Monday’s stage included a violent crash by Latvian rider Toms Skujins, who suffered a concussion, a broken collarbone and grazing that forced him to withdraw from the race. The seven-day race continues on Wednesday with a 159.5-km ride from Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita. It is the first time the race has been staged as part of the World Tour, a designation that organizers hope will draw more top names in the sport from Europe. However this year it also being held at the same time as the Giro d’Italia, with many of the sport’s biggest names competing there rather than in California. The race finishes in Pasadena on May 20. (rtr)
Murray had his most successful season on clay last year, winning one out of three finals, but has seen his fortunes on the surface reverse with the loss to Fognini marking three unsuccessful clay tournaments in a row. “I wasn’t creating enough chances on my own,” Murray was quoted by the ATP website (www.atpworldtour. com). “Normally during matches your opponent might give you a few opportunities with some errors, and obviously you hope to create a few yourself. That certainly wasn’t the case today. The only chance I really got was when he was making errors.” Murray has won one out of seven tournaments this season, exiting in the Round of 16 or earlier in four of
those. He was eliminated in the semifinals at the Barcelona Open and his only title win was at the Dubai Open in March. The 30-year-old was particularly unhappy with his movement on the court. “Movement the last two weeks has not been good,” Murray said. “My movement has been a big help, the last couple of years, but certainly the last couple of weeks, that’s been a problem. So I need to address that.” The Briton also said his number one ranking had nothing to do with his performances. “I’m just not playing well and I don’t think it’s to do with my ranking,” Murray added. Next up for Murray is the French Open that starts next week. (rtr)
Alonso hits Indy Happy Hour INDIANA - Fernando Alonso survived his first Brickyard “Happy Hour” on Tuesday, the twice Formula One world champion getting a taste of what he can expect when he lines up for the Indianapolis 500 later this month. The practice session was just the third at the track for Alonso, who will miss the Monaco Grand Prix to race the Indy 500. Alonso completed 117 laps in his McLaren Honda Andretti Autosport around the sprawling 2.5 mile oval and also got a feel for what it might be like on race day, participating in what is known as “Happy Hour”. The final 60 minutes of the day-long practise session saw most of the 33 cars attempting to qualify for the May 28 classic simulating race conditions. “It was good, very positive and productive day,” said Alonso, who has put learning to drive in the traffic and turbulence as his biggest challenge. “We did a lot of laps, a lot of learning, some group running, finally with some traffic. “So, it is information I will sleep on and be a better oval driver tomorrow.” Alonso produced the 24th best effort of the 33 cars on the track on Tuesday with a top speed of 221.029 mph. As part of the Andretti Autosport stable that will field six cars for the race, Alonso is benefiting from the experience of his team mates that include last year’s winner Alexander Rossi and 2014 winner
Ryan Hunter-Reay. “I’m on the best team for that; we are six cars and we were running together,” explained Alonso. “My teammates were amazing helping me. “I was learning every lap, when I follow them, learning what they do, how they attack the next corner or the next lap, how they prepare the overtaking,
so, it was very useful and a very productive day.” Powerhouse Penske Racing dominated Day Two with Australian Will Power at the top of timing charts, posting the fastest lap of 224.656 mph followed by team mate Brazilian Helio Castroneves, who is chasing a record equalling fourth Indy 500 win. (rtr)
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Israeli intel experts alarmed by Trump leak but play down any damage
JERUSALEM - Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may have compromised an Israeli agent, but don’t expect any long-term consequences for intelligence cooperation.
Trump has confirmed via Twitter that during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House last week he shared information related to a potential airline plot by Islamic State, thought to involve a laptop bomb. The New York Times, citing a current and a former U.S. official, reported on Tuesday that the information Trump divulged came from an Israeli intelligence asset based in Islamic State-held territory in Syria. Israeli officials have declined to confirm whether they were the source of the information Trump shared, but have been quick to say counter-terrorism coordination with the United States is strong. “The security relationship between Israel & our greatest ally the United States is deep, significant & unprecedented in volume,” Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Twitter, remarks that were echoed by the intelligence minister. Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, issued a similar statement, saying: “Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship
with the United States and looks forward to deepening that relationship in the years ahead under President Trump.” Israeli intelligence experts said they could not confirm whether an Israeli asset was the source. But they said Israel had developed a deep network of human and signal intelligence across the region and it was plausible that it had managed to infiltrate Islamic State as part of that long-running effort. “Israeli intelligence agencies have shown that they can have such human sources,” said Aviv Oreg, former head of the Al Qaeda and global jihad desk in the army’s military intelligence department, who now runs a counter-terrorism consultancy. “It would take a lot to put someone inside ISIS. If there is an agent, I’m sure it’s the only one. If we have really lost a human source over there, it’s a major loss and it will take years to regenerate another one,” he said. “Israel will be furious about it,” he added, highlighting that it was likely to have implications for how Israel operates its human intelligence assets more broadly, and may make others unwilling to cooperate with it in the future. At the same time, he said Israel understood that Trump, as president and commander-in-chief, had the authority to divulge the information, even if in doing so he had shown that he “has no experience in how to deal with intelligence.” (rtr)
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Already one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen was engulfed in 2015 by civil war pitting the Houthis against the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States intervened on Hadi’s side and has carried out thousands of air strikes targeting the Houthis, though U.N. officials said last year these had killed more than 2,000 civilians as well. The alliance believes the Houthis, who hold most of Yemen’s main population centres, are a proxy for their arch-foe Iran. The
Houthis deny this and say they are defending Yemen from domineering neighbours and U.S. hegemony. The war has been largely stalemated for 18 months since the coalition retook swathes of the south and east. Over 10,000 people in all have died, but the last serious peace talks lapsed almost a year ago. As U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first visit abroad with a stop in Riyadh this week, advancing the shared U.S.-Saudi struggle with Iran may prove the priority despite the humanitarian disaster next door. HANGING BY A THREAD
More than ever before in the war, state institutions are losing their ability to withstand the spread of pestilence and the mounting
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A combination of file photos showing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) attending a news conference in Moscow, Russia, November 18, 2015, U.S. President Donald Trump posing for a photo in New York City, U.S., May 17, 2016 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 14, 2017. death toll. A battle for control of the central bank has left salaries in Houthi-held lands in and around Sanaa largely unpaid for six months, ruining the lives of hospital and sanitation workers. Pumps to sanitise the water supply sit idle for lack of fuel, while maintenance agencies tasked with chlorinating aquifers go without salaries and supplies. Doctors treating the cholera outbreak fare little better. “The health system has been hanging by a thread,” UNICEF’s spokesman in Yemen, Rajat Madhok, said. “Wages haven’t come in, humanitarian workers and doctors are trying their best but some leave their work to seek jobs where they can get paid. Declining value of the currency hurts and all this has a
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Two men sail in a wooden boat next to moored ferries during a 48-hour nationwide strike of Greek seamen at the Port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece May 16, 2017.
No more austerity, Greeks demand in nationwide strike
ATHENS - Thousands of Greeks walked off their jobs and marched through central Athens on Wednesday protesting against additional austerity measures being demanded by international lenders in exchange for disbursing scheduled bailout funds. The strike was called by the country’s main public and private sector unions a day before Greece’s parliament is due to vote on reforms that would help unlock the funds from the 86-billion-euro bailout, the country’s third in seven years. New austerity attached to the funds release include the 13th cut in pensions since 2010 and a reduction in tax-free allowances on income. They come after years of cuts that for a time threw the country into deep recession. Unemployment is running at close to one in four and there is a 48 percent jobless rates among the youth. Pensioners, teachers, doctors and lawyers stopped work while public transport was disrupted throughout the capital Athens. At least 14,000 took to the streets in protest marches, according to initial police estimates. Protesters held banners reading “No to austerity, yes to debt relief!” and “Bring back the conquered rights that you stole from us!”. They chanted “They talk about losses and gains and we talks about human lives”. Some expressed anger at the coalition government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose leftist Syriza party one election promising to stop the cuts. “They told us they would end austerity and tear apart the bailouts,” said Paraskevi Tsouparopoulou, 62. “Instead they brought us disaster.” Greece has agreed to the further spending cuts to end a logjam in talks with its foreign lenders over its bailout progress. Once the new measures are approved by Greek lawmakers -- as is expected -- euro zone finance ministers will then discuss the disbursement of the loans at the next scheduled Eurogroup meeting on May 22. Athens needs the funds urgently to repay 7.5 billion euro ($8.18 billion) in debt maturing in July. (rtr) cascading effect that is badly hurting the sector.” A streak of misery runs the length of Yemen’s western Red Sea coast - from fighting in the north along the border with Saudi Arabia to a new coalition-backed offensive working its way up to the main port of Hodeidah from the south. The campaign has forced around 50,000 to flee for safety from the area this year, according to the United Nations, many of whom had already escaped homes affected by fighting there. Clutching her young son on Hodeidah’s streets, 19-year-old Saleha Ahmed Ali recounted her weary trek down the coast from the northwest. “We’re from Haradh, but because of the war we fled to Bajel to be safe there. But when the
air strikes got worse in Bajel, we fled to Hodeidah,” she said. “There’s no food or milk for our children. We can’t even find a mat to sleep on or a bucket to wash our children. They haven’t given us tents and it rained yesterday. We don’t know where to hide. We’ve lost our homes. This war has dragged us from place to place.” Speaking to Reuters by phone from Sanaa, Shabia Mantoo of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR wondered why the scale of the suffering had not spurred more peacemaking efforts. “It was already catastrophic, how much worse can it get? Nineteen million people are going through real suffering. Yemen now is an inventory of misery - what more will it take to get the world’s attention?”(rtr)
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Behind China’s Silk Road vision: cheap funds, heavy debt, growing risk
BEIJING - Behind China’s trillion-dollar effort to build a modern Silk Road is a lending programme of unprecedented breadth, one that will help build ports, roads and rail links, but could also leave some banks and many countries with quite a hangover. At the heart of that splurge are China’s two policy lenders, China Development Bank (CDB) and Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM), which have between them already provided $200 billion in loans throughout Asia, the Middle East and even Africa. They are due to extend at least $55 billion more, according to announcements made during a lavish two-day Belt and Road summit in Beijing, which ends on Monday. Thanks to cheaper funding, CDB and EXIM have helped to unblock what Chinese president Xi Jinping on Sunday called a ‘prominent challenge’ to the Silk Road: the funding bottleneck. But as the Belt and Road project grows, so do the risks to policy banks, commercial lenders and borrowers, all of whom are tangled in projects with questionable business logic, bankers and analysts say. EXIM, seeking to contain risk, says it has imposed a debt ceiling for each country. CDB says it has applied strict limits on sovereign borrowers’ credit lines and controls the concentration of loans. “For some countries, if we give them too many loans, too much debt, then the sustainability of its debt is questionable,” Sun Ping, vice governor of EXIM, told reporters last week. For now, funds are cheap and plentiful, thanks to Beijing. Belt and Road infrastructure loans so far have been primarily negotiated government to government, with interest rates below those offered by commercial banks and extended repayment schedules, bankers and analysts said. Massive government capital injections, bonds priced as sovereign debt and access to the central bank’s pledged supplementary lending programme keep CDB and EXIM funding costs at rock bottom. In Indonesia, CDB has offered a 40-year concessionary loan, without asking for government debt guarantees, to finance 75 percent of the $5.29 billion Jakarta-Bandung Railway, Indonesia’s first high-speed railway and a model infrastructure project for China’s Belt and Road effort. The loans carry a 10-year grace period. A 60 percent portion is denominated in U.S. dollars carrying a 2 percent interest rate, and the remaining 40 percent calculated in Chinese yuan, carrying a 3.4 percent rate, according to a note by Bank of China International. CDB, the world’s biggest development financing institution, says it is not seeking to “maximize profits”, Vice President Ding Xiangqun told reporters last week.
government statistics. China Communications Construction Group alone has notched up $40 billion of contracts and built 10,320 kilometres of road, 95 deepwater ports, 10 airports, 152 bridges and 2,080 railways in Belt and Road countries. China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan is among those to warn that this reliance on cheap loans raises “risks and problems”, starting with moral hazard and unsustainability. China has been caught out before; it is owed $65 billion by Venezuela, now torn by crisis. “The jurisdictions where many of these loans are going are places that would have difficulty getting loans from Western commercial banks – their credit ratings are not very good, or the projects in question often are not commercially viable,” said Jack Yuan, a bank analyst at Fitch Ratings in Shanghai. “The broader concern is that capital continues to be mis-allocated by Chinese banks.” China’s state-owned commercial banks are being pushed to support the government initiative. Top lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China participated in 212 Belt and Road projects, providing $67.4 billion in credit in total, Chairman Yi Huiman said on Monday. Bank of China plans to offer $100 billion in credit to
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The concessionary financing has allowed China’s big state-owned manufacturers and infrastructure developers to compete aggressively against foreign bidders. Forty-seven of China’s 102 central-government-owned conglomerates participated in 1,676 Belt and Road projects, according to
such projects by year-end. “Actually, commercial banks are not very motivated,” said a senior banker at a large Chinese commercial lender. “We don’t provide concessionary loans, and we really don’t want those countries to think that all Belt and Road loans are discounted.” The biggest hangover may yet be for the borrowers. For Laos, one of Asia’s poorest countries, the $7 billion cost for the China-Laos railway was more than half its 2015 gross domestic product. Its concessionary loan from EXIM was set below 3 percent interest. In Pakistan, where China has pledged to invest up to $56 billion in rail, road and energy infrastructure, its debt and other repayments on Belt and Road will peak at around $5 billion in 2022, according to the Pakistan government’s chief economist. Ding, from CDB, said loans to heavily indebted, poor countries were within the limit set by the International Monetary Fund, including interest rates and loan periods. But borrower nations say there is also little choice as China presses its first international development push. “It’s almost a no-brainer,” said Sima Kamil, CEO designate of Pakistan’s United Bank. “It’s very easy to say there will be all of this debt, but if we don’t get this, where are we going to go?” (rtr)
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BUSINESS India cool on Beijing summit as “Silk Road” stirs unease
NEW DELHI - India is likely to be represented by local embassy staff or academics this weekend at a major gathering of leaders and ministers on China’s “Silk Road” initiative, reflecting deep unease in New Delhi about the far-reaching project. India’s main objection to China’s plan to build ports, railways and power links across Asia and on to Europe is that the $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key part of the plan, runs through disputed Kashmir. The broader worry for India is that the “Belt and Road” initiative involving hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades will cement China’s dominance over Asia, including India’s neighbourhood. Leaders of 29 countries plus senior delegates from other nations gather in Beijing for a two-day summit starting on Sunday to map out a project that is seen as broad on ambition but short on specifics. Even Vietnam, which has had rocky ties with China, will be represented by its president, while Japan,
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Residents of East Duda Hold Tugof-War in Muddy Field
Exciting activity like this will intrigue everyone. Residents of East Duda, Selat, Karangasem, held tug-of-war in the mud so that it became a very special attraction. Unsurprisingly, this traditional sport drew appreciation and extraordinary adrenaline. It is more challenging and needs prime energy and carefulness in thinking of beating their rivals. Obviously, the challenge is far more different from the tug-of-war on grass.
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The tourists from China are visiting the People Struggle Monument in Renon, Denpasar. The monument is one of the favorite tourism destination in Denpasar. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
Villagers raise their drinks at lunchtime during the harvest in the village of Stok in Ladakh, India on Sept. 27, 2016. Locals have survived by herding goats and tending to wheat fields ringed by 6,000-meter (19,685 ft) mountains. driving its own infrastructure push across Asia, is sending a deputy trade minister and the secretary-general of the ruling party. India, meanwhile, is expected to send representatives from its embassy
in Beijing, two Indian officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that, as far as he knew, Indian academics would be participating in “relevant activities” at the Belt and Road Forum. He gave no other details and offered no further comment. Indian foreign ministry spokesman Gopal Baglay said no decision had been taken on whether an Indian government delegation would attend the meeting. “The matter is under consideration,” he said, a position the government has maintained since March when China extended an invitation. Since then it has stepped up efforts to get India to attend. Baglay said India supported connectivity across the region, but there was a problem with the Pakistan end of “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) - a term widely used to describe the project. “As far as OBOR is concerned, you know that our position is that since the so-called CPEC forms a part of OBOR, that is where our difficulty is. “It passes or proposes to pass through what is sovereign Indian territory and we have made our views in this regard very, very clear to the Chinese side.”
DOWNTURN IN TIES For Asia’s third largest economy behind China and Japan, which sits near one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean, not to be part of the continent-wide project presents a headache for China and India. China’s ambassador to India, Luo Zhaohui, told an Indian military think-tank in Delhi last week that the Belt and Road initiative was good for both countries and fitted into India’s “Look East” policy of strengthening ties with southeast and northeast Asia. Luo also said that while India had reservations about the ChinaPakistan corridor, Beijing had no wish to get involved in territorial disputes between India and Pakistan, according to remarks released by the Chinese embassy. India’s indecision over China’s biggest summit of the year comes at a time of a sharp downturn in ties. New Delhi is smarting over China’s refusal to allow it entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a global cartel that controls nuclear trade, and over Beijing blocking a request at the UN to sanction a Pakistan-based militant blamed for attacks on India. Beijing is angry at India’s increasingly public engagement of the
Dalai Lama, including hosting the Tibetan spiritual leader in a territory controlled by India but claimed by China in April. It has also grown wary of India’s military cooperation with the United States, as well as with Japan in recent months. Jayadeva Ranade, a former China specialist on the Indian government’s National Security Advisory Board, said India saw the Silk Road as a strategic Chinese initiative, and that the Pakistan corridor was particularly worrying because it raised fears of encirclement. “It has already begun to squeeze the strategic space of China’s neighbours as well as bend borders.” But some Indian officials and experts have urged India not to miss out on opportunities presented by the initiative to boost transport and trade links. Mehbooba Mufti, chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, said the troubled region could benefit from the Chinese project as it would boost economic activity. China’s economy is nearly five times the size of India’s. “So at this stage, it’s absurd for India to pick a confrontational path, they need to first grow their economy and then come up with all these strategies to confront China,” said Kai Xue, a Beijing-based lawyer at DeHeng Law Offices.(rtr)
Jaje Lempog, a Cheap Dish with Rich Taste
Have you ever try Lempog? It is one of Balinese traditional food is reraly found in the stores and supermaket. Lempog is usually being sold in thetraditional market or small stores in the village. It is understandable because it is not an exclusive dish, lempog is usualy
being enjoyed by the farmers. Lempog is a cheap dish because it is using a simple material such as Balinese sugar and cassava. The food is great to accompany us in drinkingtea or coffee. In Java, Lempog is also known as Getuk. Before, Lempog is not only en-
joyed by farmers but also served on Hindus ceremonies such as wedding and Ngaben. Not only that, when the locals work together in building house or a kitchen, Lempog always becomea snack, just like when the farmer work in the field. In addition to use very easy materials, the process of making it is also very simple. It doesn’t need a big machine or factory. Everything can be done at home. To make it, first the cassava must be pealed and cut into smaller pieces and then boiled. The red sugar chopped into smaller pieces so it can dissolved with the cassava. The sugar can also bolied along with the cassava to make a better taste. After finish, the cassava is crushed using traditional tool called Luhu which is a big stick made from wood. During the process, the sugar is put so it can blend perfectly. Salt is also added in the process. After it is smooth enough, the dough is cut into small pieces and ready to be served. In serving Lempog, coconut which is already puured on top of it. Enjoy (kmb)
The atmosphere became more interesting when the whole body of the players was covered in mud. Their hair, face to other parts of the body was filled with mud. For newcomers, it is really a very interesting attraction when taking action to drag the rope and avoid the sprinkle of mud. The participants consisted of representatives from nine hamlets throughout East Duda village where each delegated one men’s team and one women’s team. Each team has ten personnel. At that time, the contest was followed by the women’s team of Pesangkan Anyar hamlet against the women’s team of Batu Gede hamlet. Though the participants were women, the contest became more exciting than the tug-of-war on the grass. If they already got dragged, it would be difficult to hold because it was quite slippery and heavy. Even though being flushed by heavy rains, it did not dampen the vivacity of the residents to play or to watch the contest. “The event is aimed at encouraging young people into farming. This tug-of-war in the mud actually has become an
annual event held every Christmas or December 25,” said headman of East Duda, I Gede Pawana. Such an event is also associated with the anniversary of East Duda village. It is intended for entertainment, inspiring and motivating young people so that they want to get involved in the paddy field activity as farmers. “Contest of the tug-of-war in the mud is held in one of the paddy fields at Subak Pesangkan. Formerly, the field was converted into a snakefruit orchard. This activity is also to welcome the arrival of harvest season,” he explained. Tug-of-war activity in the mud got appreciation from the Regent of Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumatri. According to her, the tug-of-war in the mud is not only able to increase togetherness, but also proves that village government is able to implement its work program and get appreciation from its residents. “Actually this tug-of-war activity serves as a medium to build civilizations and closer friendship as the indicator if the work program of the village has run relatively well,” she said. (kmb)
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Missile crisis builds
S.Korea’s Moon says “high possibility” of conflict with North
SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday there was a “high possibility” of conflict with North Korea, which is pressing ahead with nuclear and missile programmes it says it needs to counter U.S. aggression.
The stage was built in 1994 by the government of Gianyar on land owned by Sidan Kelod and Sidan hamlet.
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Sidan’s Barong stage dormant
GIANYAR - The performance stage at Sidan Kelod hamlet, in Sidan, Gianyar, has been in suspended animation for the last few years. When the stage was first built it was a very popular venue for dance performances that many tourists came to watch. However, such tourist attractions, managed by the Gianyar tourism office have been suspended for some time. Headman of Sidan, I Made Sukra Suyasa, when met at his office on Tuesday (May 16) said that the stage was built in 1994 by the government of Gianyar on land owned by Sidan Kelod and Sidan hamlet. Once construction was completed and the space in-
augurated, performances started to be held here. “For a few years after the Sidan stage was opened, it remained a popular attraction. Residents of Sidan who acted as both dancers and gamelan players for the Barong dance, were empowered by these performances”, he said.
Suyasa then explained that in harmony with the passage of time, the Sidan stage was uesed less and less often for stagings of the Barong Dance and now stands empty. As of May of this year, there has not been a single performance at this venue. “In previous years, the stage was still occasionally used for presenting the baring dance when travel agencies would book a performance. Most of the tourists who came to watch were cruise ship passengers from boats anchored at Tanah Ampo, Manggis, Karangasem”, explained the headman
of Sidan. The Sidan stage still has a gamelan set and a secretariat for the Loka Semari Santi dance studio where the children of Sidan and surrounding villages come to learn dance and gamelan. However, due to the lack of visitors, the stage has been rented out to the government who use it for parties or community meetings. When asked about the Sidan Barong stage’s lack of visitors, headman Suyasa said that he suspects that it is because the stage is not located along the path that
tourists who are visiting Gianyar generally frequent. The other Barong stages Batubulan, Sukawati; Waribang, Denpasar and Suwung, South Denpasar have more people passing by. “Groups of tourists do not usually pass by the Sidan satage”, he said. Headman Suyasa however added that Sidan village is currently working on other tourist attractions including a trekking trail and a yoga classes including one at Taman Nusa. “ Hopefully these efforts can help to revive the Sidan Barong stage” he said. (kmb35)
The comments came hours after the South, which hosts 28,500 U.S. troops, said it wanted to reopen a channel of dialogue with North Korea as Moon seeks a two-track policy, involving sanctions and dialogue, to try to rein in its neighbour. North Korea has made no secret of the fact that it is working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland and has ignored calls to halt its nuclear and missile programmes, even from China, its lone major ally. It conducted its latest ballistic missile launch, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, on Sunday which it said was a test of its capability to carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead”, drawing Security Council condemnation. “The reality is that there is a high possibility of a military conflict at the NLL (Northern Limit Line) and military demarcation line,” Moon was quoted as saying by the presidential Blue House. He also said the North’s nuclear and missile capabilities seem to have advanced rapidly recently but that the South was ready and capable of striking back should the North attack.
Moon won an election last week campaigning on a more moderate approach towards the North and said after taking office that he wants to pursue dialogue as well as pressure. But he has said the North must change its attitude of insisting on pressing ahead with its arms development before dialogue is possible. South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Lee Duk-haeng told reporters the government’s most basic stance is that communication lines between South and North Korea should reopen. “The Unification Ministry has considered options on this internally but nothing has been decided yet,” said Lee. NO WORD YET ON THAAD Communications were severed by the North last year, Lee said, in the wake of new sanctions following North Korea’s fifth nuclear test and Pyongyang’s decision to shut down a joint industrial zone operated inside the North. North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The North defends its weapons pro-
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in carries a food tray as he has lunch with technical staff of the Presidential Blue House at an employee cafeteria of the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea May 12, 2017. grammes as necessary to counter U.S. hostility and regularly threatens to destroy the United States. Moon’s envoy to the United States, South Korean media mogul Hong Seok-hyun, left for Washington on Wednesday. Hong said South Korea had not yet received
was taking a really long time, so they told the security guards. The guards then asked for their help to break down the bathroom door and found the room empty except for the ventilation grid lying on the floor. Apparently, after crawling through the ventilation system, the detainee jumped over the barrier that separates the Denpasar district court from the Denpasar military court next door. Soldiers from the military court had in fact seen a man wearing a blue shirt jump over the wall and head for the stairs of the Padmasana Temple. However the officers were not aware that this man was a
detainee. These witnesses thought that there had been an earthquake because they also saw another person running away. “I thought there was an earthquake as I saw people running in the opposite direction of where I was going” he said. The backyard of the Denpasar military court had no other people in it at the time which made it easier for the perpetrator to escape. Security guards and prosecutors immediately chased after the detainee who headed towards the nearby Ramayana Supermarket. Unfortunately the prosecutors who had been escorting the prisoner did not find any traces of Jose Salzar
Ortiz. The officers asked a number of taxi drivers who were hanging out near the Ramayana Supermarket if they had seen the escapee. Some local residents mentioned that they had seen Jose get into a taxi with a driver named Caca. “We are still investigating the veracity of these witness reports”, said Spokesperson for the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, I Ketut Maha Agung, on Tuesday (May 16). The prosecutor’s office then coordinated with the West Denpasar police and the criminal investigation unit of Denpasar police in order to track the runaway. Meanwhile, the detainee’s legal adviser, Edward
Pangkahila et al., said that his client should undergo his trial according to the agenda of the demands of the prosecutor, Bela Putra Atmaja. “While awaiting trial, he ran away which makes things more difficult” complained Edward. Spokesperson for the Denpasar District Court, Ni Made Sukereni, said that security at the district court is also being re-evaluted and improved. “ The ventilation system had a trellis installed to ensure that all the detention rooms and custody rooms are in accordance with procedures. Nevertheless, a man like him will always try to find a way to escape”, she explained. (kmb37)
anti-missile system which detected Sunday’s test launch. China has strongly opposed THAAD, saying it can spy into its territory, and South Korean companies have been hit in China by a nationalist backlash over the deployment. (rtr)
Islamic State claims attack on state-run TV station in Afghanistan
Peruvian detainee escapes from Denpasar district court through ventilation DENPASAR - Legal defendants try various methods of trying to escape the law including trying to make a break for it when they go to trial at the Denpasar District court. The 37 year old Peruvian defendant named Jose Salazar Ortiz was successful in escaping detention by breaking through the ventilation grid in the bathroom and crawling through the pipes. His actions were discovered on Tuesday (May 16) at around 15:20. The defendant who was arrested from involvement in an ATM breakin case, went to use the bathroom in the Denpasar District court detention room. Other detainees wanting to use the bathroom noticed that he
official word from the United States on whether Seoul should pay for an anti-missile U.S. radar system that has been deployed outside Seoul. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants South Korea to pay for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
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Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack in Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan May 17, 2017.
JALALABAD - Militant group Islamic State on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a television station in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar that killed a security guard as well as all three attackers and wounded at least 17 people. Islamic State, or Daesh as it is generally known in Afghanistan, has established a stronghold in the province bordering Pakistan, where it fights both the Taliban and Afghan government forces. As the attack unfolded, heavy gunfire could be heard from around the building of RTA, Afghanistan’s national broadcaster, located close to the governor’s compound in the provincial capital, Jalalabad. “Islamic State fighters are currently carrying out an attack inside the state broadcasting building in the city of Jalalabad,” the movement’s AMAQ newsagency said in a statement on
instant messaging service Telegram. The Taliban, which also has a strong presence in the region, denied responsibility. Two of the attackers blew themselves up at the start of the operation but a third engaged security forces in a heavy gunbattle before being killed, said Attaullah Khughyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Nine of the 17 wounded were discharged from a hospital after being treated, he added. Islamic State has recently been hit hard by U.S. air strikes and special forces operations. The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hassib, was reported this month to have been killed in a joint Afghan-U.S. operation in Nangarhar at the end of April. Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for a series of high-profile attacks in the capital, Kabul, including one in March on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital. (rtr)
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Even with free sunscreen, most people don’t use enough
MINNESOTA - Offering free sunscreen to people at public events might not be enough to motivate them to properly protect themselves from harmful rays, a recent experiment suggests.
Researchers set up complimentary sunscreen dispensers at 10 information booths at the Minnesota State Fair, which typically draws more than 1.7 million attendees each August. About 17,000 people used the free sunscreen. The researchers observed 2,187 sunscreen users and found just 33 percent of them applied it to all sun-exposed areas of their skin. “Unfortunately, for many people, sun protection is not a priority,” said senior study author Dr. Ingrid Polcari of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “All exposed skin should be protected from the sun, either with clothes or with sunscreen,” Polcari said by email. When people at the fair didn’t use enough sunscreen, about half of them covered their upper arms and roughly 42 percent applied it to their face, researchers report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Very few of them applied sunscreen on their chest or legs. Among people observed using at least some sun-
screen, 38 percent didn’t have any additional protection like a hat, sunglasses or long-sleeved clothing, the study also found. Women did better than men: they made up 51 percent of people at the fair but accounted for 57 percent of sunscreen users at the free sunscreen stations. Fairgoers were more likely to use sunscreen when it was sunnier outside than when it was cloudy, and sunscreen use declined dramatically on completely overcast days. “Many people believe that sunscreen is only for when you are at the beach and that it’s not needed as part of their everyday lives,” said Dr. Elizabeth Martin, president of Pure Dermatology and Aesthetics in Hoover, Alabama. “Many people also mistakenly believe that they do not need sunscreen on cloudy days, but even then, up to about 80 percent of the sun’s harmful UV rays can reach the skin,” Martin, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. One limitation of the study is that sunscreen habits in Minnesota might not necessarily reflect what people would do in places where the weather is generally warmer and sunnier. It also didn’t look at individual characteristics that might influence whether people used sunscreen or how much they applied. (rtr)
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This public transport service designed to be convenient has proven to be undesired by the public as is on fact adding to traffic congestion.
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More than half of world’s deaths still have no recorded cause -WHO
LONDON - More than half of all deaths have no recorded cause, making effective health monitoring and policymaking far more difficult, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. However, improved collection of statistics meant that 27 million of the world’s 56 million estimated deaths in 2015 were registered with a cause compared with only about a third in 2005, the U.N. health agency’s latest global health report said. The WHO said several countries, including China and Turkey, had made “significant strides” in data collection. In Iran, it said, 90 percent of deaths are now recorded with details of the causes, compared with 5 percent in 1999. While things have improved significantly in recent years, many countries still do not routinely collect high-quality health data, Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO’s assistant director-general for health systems and innovation, said in a statement. “If countries don’t know what makes people get sick and die, it’s a lot harder to know what to do about it,” she said. The WHO is working with countries to strengthen health information systems and improve data quality, she said. This year’s WHO report focused on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of internationally agreed targets adopted in 2015 which track issues such as health, climate, sanitation and economic inequality. It found that while maternal and newborn death rates are declining, the 2015 global neonatal mortality rate was 19 per 1,000 live births and the under-five death rate was 43 per 1,000 live births. About 830 women died every day due to complications of pregnancy or childbirth in 2015, it said. Looking at infectious diseases, it found that an estimated 2.1 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2015, 35 percent fewer than in 2000. There were an estimated 212 million malaria cases globally in 2015, the report found, and about 60 percent of the population at risk of the mosquito-borne disease had access to an insecticide-treated net 2015, compared to 34 percent in 2010. (rtr)
Lack of passengers, Trans Sarbagita needs to be reassessed
MANGUPURA - Feeder transportation of Trans Sarbagita public transportation and the ‘feeder’ buses are still not being used by many passengers. This public transport service designed to be convenient has proven to be undesired by the public as is on fact adding to traffic congestion. The government therefor needs to conduct a comprehensive and detailed review of the service so that it can become truly effective. “I do not understand why the public has remained hesitant to use this service. Probably the routes are not suitable or are inconvenient and other such issues are preventing the service from being utilized. I do understand
that the fact that so few people are using it means that the service needs to be thoroughly re-evaluated and more promotion needs to be done” said Kuta tourist leader, Made Rudika on Monday (May 15). Made Rudika added that the rapid development of Kuta and South Kuta means that some sort of mass transit is needed to help deal with traffic congestion. Transportaion in tourism areas like Kuta, South Kuta and North Kuta neds to be addressed, he said. “ If something is not done in the very near futur, big problems are bound to arise” he said. I Wayan Budi Astawan, Postal inspection officer of Trans Sarbagita at the Kelan feeder, explained that there are only
ever a maximum of 10 people using the service on a given route. Most days there are even less than that. “ When there are seven people that is already considered to be way more than usual. Usually there are three to five passengers or less per vehicle”, he said. Sometimes there are no passengers at all. Usually people will only use the service if they cannot find a taxi that is willing to give them a good price. Of the seven feeder vehicles at eh Kelan post, most of the passengers are are vendors transporting their wares from GWK to Kelan. “Most of them (merchants) use the service early in the morning on their way to set up shop. In the afternoon there are rarely more than one or two people” he explained. (kmb23)
Bali police receive no reports related to malware virus
DENPASAR — The WannaCrypt ransomware virus that has been attacking computers in different areas has apparently not been a problem in Bali as the Bali Police have received to reports related to this virus. They are however continuiing to let the public know that a threat exists in order to prevent any related problems. “We have ben coordinating with the cyber ??crime investigation unit and there have been no reports related to the virus yet. Computers and internet facilities at the Bali police are also safe”, said Spokesperson for Bali Police,
Hengky Widjaja, on Tuesday (May 5). Bali Police spokesperson Widjaja also explained that the cyber investigation unit has been providing information to the public thorugh the mass media and though social media about preventitive measures. For example: before turnign on a computer or server, all hotspots or Wifi networks should be turned off and LAN/internet cable connections should be unplugged. Data should then be transferred to to non-Windows operating systems such as Linux or Mac, or copied as a backup to other
harddrives/usb keys. It is important to make sure that all data has been backed up to a separate storage medium. Only then should users activate Wifi connections and LAN/internet connections. Antivirus updates should also be performed routinely. Security on Windows OS should also be updated. Users should aslo disable the macros and SMB v 1 functions as well as block 139/445 and 3389 ports. “Hopefully, the users of computers and internet devices will remain safe from the threat of this virus” concluded Hengky. (kmb36)
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Future leaders of Bali, Must have holistic vision for the island
UNDERSTANDING the geographical Northsouth division of Bali, the new leader of Bali in 2018 has the opportunity to lead the island as a whole. A Balinese leader characterized by such a holistic vision will not implement policies that discriminate against one area over another. Empirical facts indicate that political attitudes and political orientations lately tend to be identified with parochial and sectarian political symbolism, which are do not lend themselves to acting as agents for change. Once elected, such leaders tend to fall right back into sectarian polarization and regionalization that obscure the rights of the electorate. Reflecting on such facts, the democratic process of Bali’s gubernatorial election in 2018 should not be polarized by the representation of public figures nor regional biases. Instead substantive commitments and effective programs that truly support the interests of the Balinese people as a whole as it is the people who hold democratic sovereignty. Deputy Rector II of Ganesha Education University (Undiksha) Singaraja, Prof. Dr I Wayan Lasmawan, said on Tuesday (May 16) that the representation of democracy is fundamental in determining the attitude and political orientation of society, and getting representation as a feed back to political discourse. This required new orientations, principles and a stronger bargaining position for Balinese people as the holders of authority in the upcoming political election. Related to the great desire to balance and equalize economic development in South Bali and North Bali, it is ncessary for whichever candidate is elected as the leader of Bali to be aware of this act of democratization and to act with
political independence. “Such action can only be successful if the development of the islands democracy is done in a communal manner integrating the entire community of Bali” said Dr. Lasmawan. According to Lasmawan, a few basic issues need to be address by Bali’s leaders in order for the North and South of the island to be balanced. The first thing is that people need to educated and given role models so that can truly practice democracy, uphold fairness and set aside regionalization that should be fettered by rules of fair game for leadership. The leaders of Bali need to develop polite and committed political communication and apply the principles of ‘learning by doing’ that prioritizes loyalty in all development policies, especially those regarding tourism and macroeconomics that build on the strengths of each region. The second thing that needs to be dealt with in order to make development in the North more equal to that of the south is to do away with regional political biases by adhering to democratic consensus when determining micro and macro scale policies that affect the majority and the minority, so that the majority does not become a tyranny to the minority especially with regards to development as this directly affects people’s lives and sovereignty. Thirdly, the future leaders of Bali can no longer afford to be ‘learning about how to resolve various economic development issues’ but need to instead take direct actions that lead to more balanced economic strength between the north and south of the island. Policies that have direct impact on improving the economical welfare need to implemented, particularly with regards to those who feel they have been marginalised.
Prof. Dr I Wayan Lasmawan, M.pd.
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“I think it would be ridiculous if Bali’s next leaders still take the stand that ‘studies and mapping’ are needed in order to implement an equitable distribution of development between the north and south of Bali because, so many studies have already been conducted but have yet to be accompanied by policies based on the harmonious fulfillment of justice and equity” concluded Dr. Lasmawan. (kmb38)
Farmers reluctant to use organic fertilizer
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SINGARAJA - Farmers in Buleleng district, one of them at Sudaji village, Sawan, mostly still choose to use chemical fertilizers. They are reluctant to use organic fertilizer frequently disbursed by the government because it triggers the growth of weed in paddy plants. Paddy fields at the village with cool air remain quite extensive. Most are still planted with rice. Several people remain to make it as the main source of income. In order to boost production every season, the use of chemical fertilizers is still very dominant. It has quite bad impact on soil conditions. “Since two years ago, we have been directed to utilize organic fertilizers. However, until now it has not succeeded,” said Chief of Subak Gede Sudaji, Ketut Sandiasa, on Tuesday (May 16). The use of organic fertilizer, he added, is considered to have triggered the growth of weeds so that it has an impact on paddy growth. Such condition causes the maintenance cost incurred by farmers to become more expensive. Unlike the case with chemical fertilizers, in addition to providing more rapid impact on the growth of paddy plants, it does not trigger the emergence of weeds. This gives farmers more freedoms to work in other sector to increase income. “Actually, the harvest time between the use of organic and chemical fertilizer is the same. Farmers tend not to use organic fertilizer because it is considered to have triggered the emergence of weeds,” he said. He added that the minimal use of this eco-friendly fertilizer is visible from the assistance that is not absorbed by farmers. The organic fertilizers are left dormant until the packaging becomes damaged. “Many of the fertilizer packaging is broken, while some others are forced to be brought to the garden,” he said. (kmb45)
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Pop star Katy Perry to join ABC’s ‘American Idol’ reboot LOS ANGELES - Pop star Katy Perry will join reality singing competition “American Idol” on ABC, the network said on Tuesday, adding a big name with legions of young fans for its revival of the show.
Singer Katy Perry performs during the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, California, U.S., on March 5, 2017.
Perry, 32, is the first major name to come aboard the reboot of the show, which was canceled by Fox Broadcasting last year after 15 seasons amid declining viewership ratings. The new “American Idol” will air in 2018. “I’m always listening to new music, and love discovering diamonds in the rough - from mentoring young artists on my label, or highlighting new artists on my tours, I want to bring it back to the music,” Perry said in a statement from ABC, which is owned by Walt Disney Co. No other judges have been named yet. Grammy-nominated Perry has been a pop powerhouse since her breakthrough single “I Kissed a Girl” in 2008, and is known for upbeat songs such as “California Gurls” and “Firework,” gimmicky
outfits and vibrant, colorful performances geared toward a young audience. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. “American Idol,” a competition open to the public, launched the careers of singers such as Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and Adam Lambert, aided by celebrity judges who alternately feuded and fawned over discovering new talent. At its peak from 2005 to 2007, the show was watched by more than 30 million viewers, but by 2014 only 10.6 million viewers tuned into the “Idol” season finale. Overall television consumption has declined in recent years, hurting live shows as more home viewers watch on-demand content. NBC’s rival singing competition “The Voice,” which features a panel of four celebrity judges, has grown in popularity. Its season 11 finale in December drew 12.1 million viewers. (rtr)
Hashtag facepalm: Emoji Movie star makes inelegant splash at Cannes CANNES - It’s an annual staple at Cannes: a brash American movie stages a publicity stunt ahead of the film festival. But for the star of “The Emoji Movie”, things did not quite go as planned. Parasailing onto a speedboat off the beach, actor T.J. Miller made a safe landing, only then to fall into the sea and perform the rest of the media event soaked. “I think it’s perfect, it’s so funny. It’s exactly what I should be doing here at Cannes,” Miller told Reuters TV. “You know, I’m not going to
be in a Woody Allen film or something, like, Iraqi drama, this is the reason I should be on the French Riviera - it’s The Emoji Movie!” Most of the publicity so far for the Sony Pictures film has been for casting Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart as the voice of a “poop” emoji. Miller, who appeared in superhero film “Deadpool” and the HBO sitcom “Silicon Valley”, voices Gene, who, according to the online movie guide IMDb, is “a multi-expressional emoji, (who) sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji”.
Enjoying the incongruity of promoting a film based on text message characters at the world’s foremost high-brow cinema festival, Miller, clad in a dripping-wet yellow tuxedo, whooped as he pressed a giant button that set off an explosion of confetti. “Confetti canon?” he shouted. “I mean, Sony’s gone all out – hashtag Emoji Movie!” “The Emoji Movie” is not showing in Cannes, which runs from May 17 to May 28. It is set to be released in the United States on July 28. (rtr)
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Relatives sit next to a sick man waiting to be admitted to a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2017. Picture taken May 6, 2017.
Spread of combat, cholera wreaks misery, collapse in Yemen REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Actor T. J. Miller poses during a photocall for the film “The Emoji Movie”.
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DUBAI/CAIRO - Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias. The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, pushing Yemen’s war-pummelled society ever nearer to collapse. Cholera - a diarrhoeal disease spread by food or water tainted with human faeces - has killed 180 people in less than three weeks, according to the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Samira Ali, a worried mother, expressed shock at the scene at Sabaeen Hospital in Sanaa, the ancient capital in the north held by the armed Houthi movement since late 2015. “My young son suddenly start-
ed suffering from severe diarrhoea. We went to the hospital and found it full, we couldn’t find a place,” said Ali, a teacher. “Only with difficulty were the doctors able to give him the medicines which saved his life. This situation is tragic.” The United Nations now estimates that in Yemen a child under the age of five dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes, two million people have fled fighting
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