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Northern Irish writer Anna Burns wins Booker Prize

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LONDON - Author Anna Burns on Tuesday became the first Northern Irish writer, and the first woman since 2013, to win Britain’s renowned Man Booker Prize for her novel “Milkman”.

Judges of the annual award praised the work, an exploration of Northern Ireland’s three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a young woman, as “utterly distinctive”.

“None of us has ever read anything like this before,” said Kwame Anthony Ap-

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Spanish stars Veronica Sanchez (R) and Irene Arcos (L) are at the heart of the new series “The Pier”, with actor Alvaro Morte (C) from “Money Heist” playing the errant husband.

‘Money Heist’ makers give sneak peak of new thriller

CANNES - The makers of “Money Heist”, the most-watched non-English language series in Netflix history, premiered their new show “The Pier” Tuesday, a romantic thriller also set in Spain.

Its creators Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato told reporters that the new series was equally gripping -- but in a “much more emotional way” -- as they gave a sneak preview of the first episode at MIPCOM, the world’s top entertainment market in Cannes.

But while “Money Heist” (called “La Casa de Papel” in Spanish) takes place over 11 nail-biting days inside the Spanish Royal Mint as a crack team of crooks try to pull off the biggest robbery in history, “The Pier” is mostly shot outside in one of Spain’s most beautiful national parks.

Pina, who is now working on a third series of “Money Heist”, described it as an “emotional thriller and a big jump outside our comfort zone -- because it’s a story with no guns”.

Instead, “the guns and bombs” of the new show are its love triangle and the high-wire relationship between the two main female characters, said Martinez Lobato.

The eight-hour drama, which screens in Spain in January, turns on a high-flying Valencian architect who has to identify her husband’s body after he is found dead on a pier in nearby rural Albufera after an apparent suicide. (afp)

piah, chair of the 2018 judges, in announcing the winner.

“Anna Burns’ utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose.”

The 56-year-old is the first woman in five years to land the most prestigious English-language literary prize, after Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner, at the age of 28, in 2013.

Burns trumped English debut novelist and British bookmakers’ late favourite Daisy Johnson -- at 27, the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker -- for her novel “Everything Under”.

She also triumphed over longtime frontrunner Richard Powers, who had been tipped to make it three successive wins for US writers with his treethemed n o v e l “ T h e Overstory”. (afp)

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Saudi consul’s residance is cordoned off by Turkish police as officers wait for forensic and investigation delegation at the residence of the Saudi consul in Istanbul, on October 16, 2018, the day after Turkish police and prosecutors searched the Saudi embassy after Riyadh gave the green-light amid global uproar over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi since October 2.

Turkish daily says audio tapes indicate Saudi journalist ‘decapitated’

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured before being decapitated inside Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, pro-government daily Yeni Safak reported Wednesday, saying it had heard audio recordings of the incident. Khashoggi’s alleged killers tortured the journalist during interrogation by cutting his fingers off, Yeni Safak said, claiming it had heard multiple recordings.

The newspaper said Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor, was then decapitated. Khashoggi vanished after entering the consulate for official documents ahead of his upcoming wedding to his Turkish fiancee. While Turkish police believe he was killed by a special team of 15 Saudi officials, Riyadh has dismissed such claims as “baseless”.

One of the members of the Saudi team has been reported to be Salah Muhammed Al-Tubaigy, a lieutenant-colonel in the Saudi fo-

rensic department. The Washington Post has previously cited unnamed US and Turkish officials pointing to audio and video recordings that supposedly prove Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate and was then dismembered.

But this is the first time Turkish media have claimed to hear the tapes. Pro-government newspaper Sabah reported at the weekend that Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recorded his interrogation, torture and killing, although some experts have

said it is not likely that the watch could have recorded the events in the manner described.

According to Yeni Safak, Saudi Arabia’s consul to Istanbul, Mohammed al-Otaibi, can be heard on one tape saying during Khashoggi’s torture: “Do this outside. You are going to get me in trouble.” The daily reported that in another tape, an unknown individual tells Otaibi: “If you want to live when you come to Saudi Arabia, be quiet!”

Yeni Safak did not say how the

tapes came into existence or how it obtained them. But the Middle East Eye website quoted a Turkish source saying that there was “no attempt to interrogate” Khashoggi but the Saudi team had “come to kill him”. The source told the English-language site that his death took seven minutes with Tubaigy beginning to cut the body “while Khashoggi was still alive”.

Tubaigy then reportedly listened to music during the killing. Consul Otaibi left Istanbul on Tuesday for Riyadh ahead of a planned search of his residence as part of the official Turkish investigation into Khashoggi’s disappearance.

On Monday, CNN cited two

sources as saying the Saudis are preparing a report that Khashoggi’s death resulted from a botched interrogation. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday arrived in Ankara from Riyadh for talks with the Turkish leadership saying Saudi Arabia had promised a full investigation into the case.(afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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According to him, so far there has been no specific research in Bali related to the potential of the liquefaction. However, he said that Bali region has such a potential. He said that liquefaction can occur in several places. However, from the existing data, the presence of sand layers having the potential to cause liquefaction is in the Bedugul area.

He explained it is usually like a special layer of sand. If the sand

layer is triggered by movement, it can cause sand to move like a landslide in the soil affecting the movement above. Commonly it is triggered by a fault. “In South Bali, there are no data about it,” he said.

Geomorphologically, Indonesia has the potential for liquefaction or dislocation to happen. However, Suyarto stated this has not yet been known by the public. When the incident happened in Aceh, people

began to understand the term of plate.

Likewise, after the incidents in Jogja, Lombok and Palu, people began to get educated, even against the incidence of liquefaction. “As happened in Central Sulawesi, there is indeed the influence of mud. Soil layer runs.

Possibly it was triggered by faults,” he concluded.

He revealed that based on the data in Bali there has been no liquefaction, but the earthquake often happened.

The triggers of the earthquake are usually the result of faults. The most potential, other than the fault in the North, the fault in South Bali is the fault limiting Bali and the Bukit Jimbaran. As a result of the fault, cliff and hill appear in Jimbaran. “This indicates a fault, but is now inactive,” he added.

Bali indeed has great potential for the earthquakes because there is a fault going up in the north and joining the southern plate. However, most of those in the North, including the Situbondo, are also close to North Bali.

“Bali is the same as Lombok and Central Sulawesi. For Bali, chiefly North Bali has very large potential

for the earthquake because based on the earthquake data, the most common cause lies in the North,” he said.

He mentioned that all regions in Bali have the potential of tsunami.

Usually a large tsunami occurs in the deep sea. The sea in North Bali is more dangerous than in the South because the sea from the beach is directly deep, especially in East and North Bali. “If an earthquake happens followed by a tsunami, the arrival will be faster. Meanwhile, the southern coast is more sloping.

In the event of an earthquake, the tsunami appears a little longer than in the East and North Bali,” he explained. (kmb23)

As for Bali sold cheaply in China

Badung parliament soon cracks down on Chinese travel agencies MANGUPURA - The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives. This problem has a great impact on the regionally generated revenue of Badung district as highly relying on the tourism sector.

Chairman of Commission II of

the Badung House of Representatives, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, admitted that cheap tourism sales will have a negative impact on local tax revenues. On that account, he wanted this should be supervised and inspected by relevant agencies and stakeholders. “It must be inspected starting from licensing matters, travel agencies, tour

guides, restaurants, their accommodation and others. This must be followed up so that it will not result in a problem in the future,” said Luwir Wiana on Tuesday (Oct. 16).

According to him, if proven to have no license and violated, they must be dealt with firmly and imposed with sanctions and even deported. If Bali is sold cheaply, surely

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Cau chocolates receives an award from Jembrana district govt

Sand layer in Bedugul indicates the potential to liquefaction

MANGUPURA - The phenomenon of soil liquefaction when saturated land loses its power actually never happened in Bali before. However, this potential is likely to exist. The most potential location in Bali is on Bedugul highlands. This was said by the geomorphology subject lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, R Suyarto, on Tuesday (Oct.16).

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the region will not get any benefits because all the transactions ranging from hotel, restaurant and others have been completed in their country.

“Of course, this will affect the regionally generated revenue, we get nothing from them while these guests make traffic jams and create problems in Badung,” he said. On that account, Badung legislators

strongly disagreed with the cheap sales of Bali tourism in China.

Tourism players and the government wanted quality tourists visiting Badung and Bali. “I hope that all components must go down. If necessary, we should make a raid all at once,” he said.

As reported previously, a num (kmb27)

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CAU Chocolates Bali Factory & Agro-tourism spreading across the area of 10,000 square meters consists of restaurants, chocolate workshops, paddy fields and cacao gardens. At Cau Chocolates, we can get to know about agriculture more closely both regarding the agriculture (rice) and cacao processed into chocolate being ready for consumption.

Kadek Surya Prasetya Wiguna, a young entrepreneur behind the success of this business, conveyed the history on the establishment of Cau Chocolates Bali Factory & Agro-tourism. It was established in 2014 as a company dedicated to improving the welfare of farmers by buying agricultural products, especially cacao bean at more expensive price than the market’s price. It is intended to make cacao farmers want to improve the quality and quantity of their products.

The company has a mission to introduce cacao farming to general public as well as develop and love the agrarian culture, especially the cacao and subak culture in Bali.

To expand the marketing network of its chocolate products, he opened the Cau Chocolates Food and Gift Restaurant, a modern and homey restaurant at Jalan Kartika Plaza No. 1 Kuta on February 14, 2018. The restaurant offers various types of cuisine with Asian, European, pastry and coffee menus. Uniqueness of this restaurant lies in the delicious food and drinks. Besides, this restaurant offers a wide selection of processed foods from 100 percent organic chocolate and cocoa powder designed in attractive packaging and affordable prices with different flavors such as vanilla, coffee, original, mocha and other unique flavors processed by themselves at the local factory at Cau village, Tabanan.

In accordance with the vision and mission, Cau Chocolates received an award from the Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, for the consistency of buying cacao beans from local farmers on Thursday (Sep. 6) in Jembrana. The event was opened by the Regent of Jembrana at the Ir. Soekarno Cultural Hall, Jembrana. The event was attended by Chief of Jembrana Police, Budi P. Saragih, together with the Regent and Deputy Regent of Jembrana and all elements of the regional agencies of Jembrana to witness the release of fermented cacao beans to the global market, both export and local needs.

Director General from the Ministry of Estate and Agriculture attended and gave a speech that cacao beans are very useful and beneficial in terms of food.

Besides, the fermented cacao beans dropped into the global market will be useful and beneficial for the community and be able to improve the regional economy.

Meanwhile, Chief of Jembrana Police said that he would support the distribution of these cacao beans because this business is very useful especially for the Jembrana district. Besides, Jembrana has been well known as the exporter of fermented cacao beans in the global market and the world as he expressed at the end of the agenda.

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A dietary supplement that promises to make consumers skinny, without dieting or exercise.

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Hidden dangers found in dietary supplements CALIFORNIA - Everyone has seen the ads or the products on the shelves.

A dietary supplement that promises to make consumers skinny, without dieting or exercise. Or the one that will bulk them up and turn them into the envy of other weightlifters at the gym. Not to mention the one to make them perform better in the bedroom.

Their labels say they are safe and all-natural. But are they?

Many of these products contain unapproved and unregulated pharmaceutically active ingredients, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open. The authors wrote that the substances represent “a serious public health concern.”

Researchers from the California Department of Public Health found that from 2007 to 2016, 776 products marketed as dietary supplements contained hidden active ingredients that are unsafe or unstudied. Among them, dapoxetine, an antidepressant that is not approved in the United States, and sibutramine, which was included in some weight-loss supplements but was banned from the U.S. market in 2010 because of cardiovascular risks.

“It’s mind-boggling to imagine what’s happening here,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts. Cohen wasn’t involved in the study but wrote a commentary published alongside the research.

The California researchers based their findings on an analysis of a Food and Drug Administration database that identifies “tainted” supplements.

“The study lays a foundation for ongoing enforcement work in this area, by the FDA and other partner agencies, to curb the illegal manufacture, importation, distribution and sales of adulterated dietary supplements,” department spokesman Corey Egel said in an email.

Being tainted or adulterated means that the product contains active ingredients not listed on the label that fly under the FDA’s radar.

Dietary supplements aren’t classified by the FDA as drugs. They are instead considered foods. They include vitamins, minerals and botanicals.

They are not intended to treat or prevent disease and are not subject to premarket safety and efficacy testing that drugs undergo.

The FDA database tracked problems that emerged during “post-market surveillance” — for instance, adverse-events reports and consumer complaints — when bottles were already in consumers’ medicine cabinets.

These issues generally draw FDA warning letters and agency requests for voluntary recalls by the manufacturer.

With an estimated 50 percent of Americans consuming some type of supplement, researchers note that the $35 billion industry is a big business.

But Duffy MacKay, senior vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the supplement industry’s Council for Responsible Nutrition, noted that with between 50,000 and 80,000 supplement labels on the market, 776 tainted products is serious but not widespread.

Of the adulterated products, nearly 46 percent were for sexual performance, 41 percent were for weight loss and 12 percent were for building muscle. Ingredients like sildenafil, the active drug in Viagra, and ephedrine, a stimulant banned from diet pills since 2004, were found in supplements. Anabolic steroids, or ingredients like them, were in 73 of the muscle-building supplements. (IBP/net)

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Police ask for public awareness

GIANYAR — Traffic violation in the tourist area of Ubud becomes a never-ending problem.

Parking prohibition signs having been installed at tourism villages have only become a display.

Parking violation committed by car and motorcycle remains high.

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Condoms are a great way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis and the HIV virus that causes AIDS. They also prevent pregnancy. Plus they are cheap.

Scientists design self-lubricating condom BOSTON - Condoms are a great way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis and the HIV virus that causes AIDS. They also prevent pregnancy. Plus they are cheap.

The trouble is, people often don’t like to use them.

A team at Boston University has come up with a possible solution: a self-lubricating condom.

They developed a compound that sticks to the latex of a condom, and that also holds a thin layer of water. The result is a condom that stays dry until it is touched with a few drops of fluid – either water or bodily fluids. Then it becomes slippery, and holds that slippery texture for a long time.

“Maybe this can have a chance to increase condom use and prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases,” Mark Grinstaff, a bioengineering professor at Boston University who led the study team, told NBC News.

The team had 33 people feel the condom, although they couldn’t test it in real-life action without permission from the Food and Drug Administration.

Almost all of them agreed it was better than a normal, non-lubricated condom and many of those who said they never used condoms agreed they would at least try it out.

“Those individuals who don’t regularly use a condom because it is uncomfortable or because they don’t like it say they would be likely to use a product like this,” Grinstaff said.

Grinstaff’s lab specializes in making interesting material coatings and they started work on the condom idea when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for ideas to encourage condom use.

“We had this idea that if one could take a latex condom put a coating on it and in the presence of water that condom would become slippery, maybe we would have a self-lubricating condom,” Grinstaff

said.

The Boston team got funding from the Gates Foundation to start the project.

They came up with a compound that both adhered to latex, and held a thin layer of water. Regular lubricants wear off fairly quickly, leaving the condom dry and uncomfortable, but this compound kept the condom slippery for 1,000 back-and-forth cycles, the team reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

“The strategy renders fluid lubricants unnecessary for delivering a feeling of lubrication, as the latex surface itself is rendered slippery by the surface treatment,” the team wrote.

It should work in real-life use, Grinstaff said.

“During sex there is bodily fluid that gets generated. That is sufficient to wet the surface of the condom. It takes very, very little water.”

The condom also held up with the new compound on its surface. Tests showed that latex condoms stayed just as strong and supple and non-coated condoms, the team reported.

This won’t work for polyurethane condoms, Grinstaff said. “That will take new chemistry to figure out,” he said.

One of the graduate students working in Grinstaff’s lab, Stacy Chin, has helped found a company to commercialize the product. The company, called Hydroglyde Coatings, plans to start human testing of the new condoms late this year or early next year, Grinstaff said.

They hope their product is a little less messier and simpler to use than standard condoms with a lubricant.

“Condom-associated discomfort is a common ‘turn-off’ and a highly cited reason for persuading one’s partner to forgo using condoms, so many individuals choose to use lubricants to decrease this discomfort,” the team wrote. (IBP/net)

Traffic violation in the tourist area of Ubud becomes a neverending problem.

As observations, parking violations stay to occur in almost every street containing parking prohibition signs as seen on Jalan Raya Ubud in front of the royal palace to the north. Violations are not only committed by motorbikes, but many private cars are also parked carelessly.

Chief of Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs, Gusti Udayani Addi, when asked for her confirmation on Tuesday (Oct. 16) stated that

police had been deployed to patrol in the Ubud area. Well, when finding parking vehicles, they were immediately reprimanded through a loudspeaker. “So, a highway patrol car is deployed to look around Ubud every day,” she said.

If the violators did not pay attention to the reprimand through loudspeaker, they will be immediately ticketed. Regarding the remaining rampant violations, Udayani requested the community participa-

tion to maintain traffic order in Ubud. “We ask public awareness to be orderly,” she pleaded.

In accordance with the agreement of several parties having been made in the declaration, the vehicle parking is directed to the nearest parking center. For Ubud tourism area, the parking is directed to Monkey Forest parking lot. After that, tourists and employees are transported by shuttle buses according to their specified route. (kmb35)

Hundreds of buildings in Jembrana damaged as hit by earthquake

NEGARA - The recent Situbondo earthquake disaster with the magnitude of 6.3 SR also affected to Jembrana. From the data in the Jembrana Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) until Tuesday (Oct. 16), a total of 122 buildings consisting of houses or public facilities are damaged while ten victims were injured.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, I Ketut Eko Susilo Artha Permana, stated on Tuesday afternoon that when updating the data, there were 122 houses or public facilities having been declared to be damaged and suffered material losses. Due to the earthquake, residents suffered losses of up to a total of IDR 250 million.

Eko said that in addition to material losses, there were also victims as the impact of the earthquake. Ten people were injured while some other suffered from broken bones.

Eko revealed that regarding the repair of people’s houses and public facilities, they will be helped by district government. There will be a rehabilitation team and be

coordinated with relevant agencies, namely the Public Works and Settlement Agency.

According to him, in responding to disaster mitigation, there are synergies of three sectors, namely the community itself, the government and the business sector. With regard to assistance from business sector, the business community will

assist in providing assistance when the district government lacks heavy equipment.

On that account, the entrepreneurs can be asked for heavy equipment to help the development.

Then, their CSR will be taken advantage in helping citizens. “So, dealing with disasters need synergy,” he explained. (kmb)

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From the data in the Jembrana Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) until Tuesday (Oct. 16), a total of 122 buildings consisting of houses or public facilities are damaged while ten victims were injured.

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Heavily damaged, villagers must repair road independently AMLAPURA - Dozens of Otan hamlet residents, Batumadeg, Besakih, were forced to repair their damaged roads independently. The road patching carried out on Tuesday (Oct. 16) by using concrete was done directly by local residents in mutual cooperation.

One of the local residents, Jro Mangku Jati, said the road damage indeed already happened long time ago. Beforehand, he said the road had got asphalt assistance, but right now the conditions have been very alarming. The road began to bump and the cobblestones began to come off. “This is a road access to Besakih Temple. Every ceremony at Penataran Agung and Dalem Puri Temple, many pilgrims pass through this road because of traffic jams,” he said.

He said that seeing such conditions, finally he and the other residents took the initiative to carry out the road patching by using concrete. Thus, the road conditions can be better after patching the potholes by means of concrete rebates with self-held funds. Having collected the funds from residents, it was bought cement, sand and water.

“People independently worked on

the road construction. As citizens, we only hope the road can be repaired because this belongs to the district,” he hoped.

Meanwhile, hamlet chief of Batumadeg, I Putu Eka Januarta, stated the road repaired with concrete rebates by local residents is indeed categorized into district road. As hamlet apparatus, he has proposed the repair to local government including the dirt road leading to the main terminal of Ulun Setra Besakih proposed to get paving block. However, until now there is no clear certainty when it will be assisted. “We have submitted the proposal. Unfortunately, so far there has been no follow-up. We hope the road will soon be paved,” he hoped.

Division Head of Road Development at the Karangasem Public Works and Settlement, I Ketut Prama Budarta, acknowledged if the road is not known whether it belongs to the district or village road.

“We’ll check the document first to make sure whether it belongs to the district or village road. However, we haven’t found it. Later, if there is information, we’ll further let you know,” he said. (kmb41)

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Lifespan 2040: US down, China up, Spain on top

PARIS - Life expectancy in 2040 is set to rise at least a little in all nations but the rankings will change dramatically, with Spain taking the top spot while China and the United States trade places, researchers said Wednesday.

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The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives.

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Badung parliament soon cracks down on Chinese travel agencies

MANGUPURA - The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives. This problem has a great impact on the regionally generated revenue of Badung district as highly relying on the tourism sector.

Dozens of Otan hamlet residents, Batumadeg, Besakih, were forced to repair their damaged roads independently.

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Chairman of Commission II of the Badung House of Representatives, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, admitted that cheap tourism sales will have a negative impact on local tax revenues. On that account, he wanted this should be supervised and inspected by relevant agencies and stakeholders.

“It must be inspected starting from licensing matters, travel agencies, tour guides, restaurants, their accommodation and others.

This must be followed up so that it will not result in a problem in the future,” said Luwir Wiana on Tuesday (Oct. 16).

According to him, if proven to have no license and violated, they must be dealt with firmly and imposed with sanctions and even deported. If Bali is sold cheaply, surely the region will not get any benefits because all the transactions ranging from hotel, restaurant and others have been completed in their

country.

“Of course, this will affect the regionally generated revenue, we get nothing from them while these guests make traffic jams and create problems in Badung,” he said.

On that account, Badung legislators strongly disagreed with the cheap sales of Bali tourism in China. Tourism players and the government wanted quality tourists visiting Badung and Bali. “I hope that all components must go down.

If necessary, we should make a raid all at once,” he said.

As reported previously, a number of tourism figures having been specially handling Chinese tourists all this time revealed that Bali is sold cheaply in China. “Roughly, yes, Bali has been sold very cheaply in China by certain agencies. It’s very cheap and even more competing for cheaper prices,” said the Head of Bali Liang Division (Mandarin

Market Share) of ASITA Bali, Elsye Deliana.

She stated the practice of selling cheap has been going on since the past 2-3 years. She suspected there is a mafia game being certainly very detrimental to Bali.

Based on the data for the past year, Bali was only “sold” for CYN 999 or around IDR 2 million. This discounted price includes return flight ticket, meals and accommodation at hotel for 5 days and 4 nights.

Later, the price has even dropped to CYN 777 or around IDR 1.5 million. Then, it drops again to CYN 499 or around IDR 1 million and the latest is CYN 299 or around IDR 600,000.

“Just think about that with IDR 600,000 Chinese tourists can get a return ticket to Bali including meals and accommodation at hotel for 5 days 4 nights. So, what about the quality?” she questioned. (kmb27)

With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain -- formerly in 4th place -- will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 years, and will drop to 2nd place in 2040.

In a shift that will be seen by some to reflect a superpower changing-of-the-guard, the world’s two largest economies effectively swap positions compared to 2016: in 2040 the US drops from 43rd to 64th (79.8 years), while China rises from 68th to 39th (81.9 years).

The researchers found other nations set to lose ground in the race towards longevity include Canada (from 17th to 27th), Norway (12th to 20th), Australia (5th to 10th), Mexico (69th to 87th), Taiwan (35th to 42nd) and North Korea 125th to 153rd).

Moving up the ranking are Indonesia (117th to 100th), Nigeria (157th to 123rd), Portugal (23rd to 5th), Poland (48th to 34th), Turkey (40th to 26th), Saudi Arabia (61st to 43rd).

Assuming its interminable and devastating war comes to an end, Syria is set to rise from 137th in 2016 to 80th in 2040.

For the world as a whole, the researchers’ study projected a fiveyear gain in lifespan, from 73.8 in 2016 to 77.7 in 2040.

They also forecast more optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, in which life expectancy increases to 81 years in the first case, and essentially stagnates in the second.

“The future of the world’s health is not pre-ordained,” said lead author Kyle Foreman, head of data science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

“But whether we see signficant progress or stagnation depends on how well or poorly health systems address key health drivers.”

- Smoking and poor diet The top five “drivers”, or determinants, of average lifespans two decades from now are all related to so-called “lifestyle” diseases: high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood sugar, along with alcohol and tobacco use.

More generally, the world will see an acceleration of the shift already under way from communicable to non-communicable diseases, along with injuries, as the top cause of premature death.

Ranking a close sixth is air pollution, which scientists estimate claims a million lives a year in China alone.

The world’s poorest countries in 2018 will continue to fair poorly when it comes to life expectancy,

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With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain -- formerly in 4th place -- will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 years, and will drop to 2nd place in 2040. according to the study, published in The Lancet.

With the exception of Afghanistan, the bottom 30 countries in 2040 -- with projected lifespans between 57 and 69 years -- are either in sub-Saharan Africa or small island states in the Pacific.

Lesotho, the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Swaziland are in the basement of the rankings.

“Inequalities will continue to be large,” said IHME Director Christopher Murray.

“In a substantial number of countries, too many people will continue earning relatively low incomes, remain poorly educated, and die prematurely.”

“But nations could make faster progress by helping people tackle the major risks, especially smoking and poor diet,” he added in a

statement.

Tobacco consumption alone claims about seven million lives each year, according to the World Health Organization.

In 2016, four of the top-ten causes of premature mortality were non-communicable diseases or injuries. In 2040, that figure is expected to rise to eight-out-of-ten.

The study is available at www. healthdata.org. (afp)

Police clear protesters as Indian temple prepares to accept women

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Indian Hindu devotees and activist shout slogans praising the Hindu God Ayyapa during a protest against the Supreme Court verdict revoking a ban on women’s entry to Sabarimala’s Ayyappa Hindu temple, in Nilackal in the southern Kerala state on October 17, 2018.

NILACKAL - Indian police on Wednesday cleared protesters trying to stop women accessing one of Hinduism’s most sacred sites, a hilltop temple forced by judges to open its doors to all female pilgrims for the first time.

The Supreme Court in September overturned a ban on women of menstruating age, between 10 and 50, entering and praying at the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala.

This enraged traditionalists, including supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with protests by thousands of people ahead of the scheduled opening on Wednesday afternoon.

In recent days groups of chant-

ing women opposed to the court’s decision have stopped vehicles along the route and at Nilackal, the base camp below the temple, preventing other women from proceeding.

But early Wednesday police broke up the protests at Nilackal to allow hundreds of devotees, male and female, to proceed in buses towards the temple. The final seven kilometres (4.3 miles) will then be made by pilgrims on foot.

“We arrested seven people,” said police chief Manoj Abraham, in charge of 500 officers at Nilackal.

“Anyone who wants to go to the temple will be able to do so without hindrance.”

“Stern action will be taken against anyone who prevents devo-

tees from going to Sabarimala,” Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday.

But traditionalist demonstrators remained defiant, including Biju S. Pillai, a local man in his 30s who said he returned from working in Dubai to “protect the sanctity of the temple” with his mother and young son.

“No one should be able to change the way this temple has functioned for centuries,” he told AFP. “If any change is made they will have to kill us and go over our bodies.”

“I am here to protest the Supreme Court decision,” said engineer Anisha S., 23, one of a group chanting religious slogans. “We want to save our traditions. Ayyappa needs to be respected.” (afp)

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BUSINESS Japan company admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbers

A company supplying equipment to protect major buildings in Japan from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Wednesday, stressing there was no immediate safety risk.

Tokyo-based parts maker KYB and its unit Kayaba System Machinery falsified data linked to so-called “oil dampers”, which are used in nearly 1,000 buildings across Japan, the land ministry said.

The ministry declined to name buildings affected but local media reported may they include the Tokyo Skytree -- one of the world’s tallest buildings at 634 metres (2,080 feet) -- as well as the Tokyo local government’s headquarters.

The ministry has instructed the companies involved to change affected parts as soon as possible and to investigate why the data manipulation happened.

But it insisted that buildings using the parts would still withstand even a quake at the top end of the Japanese seismic intensity scale -- in which “it is impossible to remain standing” and “people may be thrown through the air”.

The shock absorbers are part of a complex system fitted in many Japanese buildings as part of the country’s earthquake preparedness.

They are meant to function in tandem with systems built into the foundations to isolate the effects of quakes.

The earthquake systems allow big buildings to sway slightly as

they absorb some seismic waves, but if they sway too much or too little, they could suffer damage.

“We don’t know how and why data were falsified and so we have ordered (the companies) to investigate the cause and submit a report on it,” a ministry official told AFP. The ministry said thousands of oil dampers, manufactured between March 2000 and last month, were involved in the scandal.

The company separately said Tuesday that products made between January 2003 and last month had “high possibility of data falsification” while products made since March 2000 may also have the same problem.

“I apologise deeply and sincerely,” KYB’s president Yasusuke Nakajima said in a news conference held on Tuesday, when the companies announced the wrongdoing.

Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences a number of relatively violent quakes every year. Rigid building codes and strict enforcement mean even strong tremors often do little damage.

But dozens of people died after a powerful 6.6-magnitude quake hit northern region of Hokkaido early last month, triggering landslides and collapsing houses. The

data fraud is the latest in a string of quality-control and governance scandals to hit major Japanese businesses in recent years.

In July, Nissan admitted data on exhaust emissions and fuel economy had been deliberately altered, after it was forced to recall some

1.2 million vehicles over a separate data control problem.

An affiliate of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has admitted falsifying data for 60,000 industrial batteries, while the head of Kobe Steel was forced to resign after the steelmaker submitted

false strength and quality data for products shipped to hundreds of clients.

Similar quality-control scandals have hit numerous other industrial titans ranging from top carbon-fibre maker Toray to Mitsubishi Materials. (afp)

Danone said Wednesday its sales slid 4.4 percent in the third quarter due to the plunge in the value of emerging market currencies, although the French food giant confirmed its annual target of double-digit earnings growth.

The sales figure of 6.2 billion euros ($7.2 billion) was impacted by the appreciation of the euro compared to Argentina’s peso, Turkey’s lira and Brazil’s real, all of which fell by more than 20 percent.

When sales in those countries were converted into euros for global accounting, they were considerably lower than in the same quarter last year, dragging down the

figure by an estimated 5.2 percentage points.

When the sales were restated at constant exchange rates, they grew by 1.4 percent.

Only the dairy and plant-based unit in North America saw sales growth at current exchange rates, rising 1.4 percent to nearly 1.3 billion euros. Elsewhere, they fell by 8.1 percent.

On a like-for-like basis, the waters unit showed 6.4 percent growth, but its specialised nutrition unit still recorded a 1.5 percent contraction.

However, chief executive Emmanuel Faber said in a statement

the company has “the foundations in place to navigate current emerging market volatility and currency headwinds, which will enable us to continue to deliver sustainable profitable growth.

The company reaffirmed its guidance for the full year, which is double-digit recurring earnings per share using constant exchange rates.

The company’s share price dropped 2.0 percent in early morning trading in Paris, the worst performer on the CAC 40, which was up nearly 0.3 percent overall. (afp)

Exchange rates sour Danone’s sales, but not target

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Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot: Performing After Enjoying Sunset

Sightseeing Tanah Lot, Bali, is one of the famous tourist attraction with beautiful sunset. Usually tourists will come to Tanah Lot Temple in the afternoon before sunset. While waiting for the sunset of the tourists can do various activities such as capture the moment with photos, tour around the park, or just sitting around enjoying the wind blowing around Enjung Galuh or Sunset Terrace.

After sunset ended, there was a show that can be enjoyed by tourists in Tanah Lot that is the Kecak Dance Show. Kecak dance is played mainly by men, where the number of players in the tens or more dancers who sit in line and a circle with a certain rhythm voices calling for “cak”, raising his hands.

This kecak dance created in the 1930s

by Wayan Limbak and with a German painter Walter Spies. They create a dance based on ancient traditions and take sanghyang from parts Ramayana story.

This dance became popular when Wayan Limbak the Balinese dancer with her tour around the world to introduce the Kecak dance. Until now become a dance Kecak Balinese art fame.

Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot take from Ramayana Epic as the theme of their dance, especially the episode of Prince Rama and his wife Princess Shinta and his brother Laksamana as the legal heirs of the throne were exiling themselves to the forest to give his brother Bharata to sit on the throne.

This exile has brought the situation become fatal for them when Princess Shinta was abducted by the king of Demon of Alengka Pura. The abduction of Princess Shinta is the start of the big war called Bharata Yudha between Prince Rama assisted by the fleet of monkeys soldiers and the demon fleet of

Rahwana of Alengka Pura.

Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot is also equipped with a dance that uses a means of fire. This was demonstrated when Hanuman rescue Dewi Shinta. Ravana who know their arrival, finally ordered his men to burn Ramadewa and Lakshmana. By the time they are having

difficulty, Hanuman came to save them from the terrible fire that followed. After that Hanuman and the other monkey troops, destroy fire that created by Ravana.

If you come to the Tanah Lot at Sunset afternoon, try to watch this Kecak dance performance. Kecak Dance is held at the Surya

Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. This place is located on the west Batu Bolong temple or adjacent to the restaurant Melasti. Kecak Dance is held every day at 06.30pm. For tickets can be found at the Information office near the beach or can be obtained directly at the Surya Mandala Cultural Park. (kmb)

Bedulu Develops Village Hall Tourism

Village Hall of Bedulu, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, usually used as activity center of local villagers is now taken advantage for tourist purposes. Tourists coming to the

village hall can see and learn various activities related to Balinese customs. This tourist attraction is operated in cooperation with one of the travel agencies in Bali to bring

in dozens of foreign tourists to the village hall.

This activity is attended by tourists from various countries in Europe and Asia. They see directly people’s activities related to Balinese culture and customs. They are starting from learning to prepare Balinese food (mebat), make offerings (mejejahitan), plait bamboo platform (klakat), and play gamelan music (megambel). In the evening, Balinese arts such as dances are staged while enjoying a prepared dinner (mebat) of local residents as well as tourists.

To introduce the village environment, tourists are also invited to have village tour by visiting people’s homes to see in person the life of rural communities. Moreover, there are some tourists choosing to stay at people’s homes in order

to be able to mingle with local community. “We have developed the concept of the village hall for community economic empowerment,” explained chief of Tengah customary village, I Ketut John, amid receiving tourists at local village hall on Monday (Oct. 8).

Besides, continued Ketut John, this activity is also to awaken the potential of Bedulu which had long been known as a tourism village.

“The activities usually carried out at the village hall by residents will become an extraordinary attraction to tourists,” said Ketut John, who is also a tourism player.

Ketut John is optimistic the concept of village hall tourism will draw the interest of tourists, especially at Bedulu as supported by some other tourist attractions such as the Yeh Pulu, Goa Gajah,

Samuan Tiga Temple and other historical and ancient heritages like sarcophagi remaining to be stored in one of the people’s home. Moreover, the pottery handicrafts formerly debuted in Bedulu are now being introduced and raised again.

“This should not just be looked at in terms of commercial aspect, but how the tourism of Bedulu village can revive with the concept of village hall,” added Ketut John.

Jessy, one of the visiting tourists, claimed to be happy to mingle with Bedulu residents while learning to cook Balinese cuisines, playing gamelan and making offering or canang. “Hospitality of the population makes us happy and all come to see and learn directly about the customs that do not exist in our country. This is what we want,” she said. (kmb)

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Israel pounds Gaza after first rocket fire in weeks

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the first rocket fire from the Palestinian territory in weeks hit an Israeli city, in a blow to efforts to avert a new war.

Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas disavowed the rocket fire saying they rejected “all irresponsible attempts” to undermine Egyptian efforts to broker a new long-term truce.

But Israel, which holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from the territory regardless of who launches it, struck 20 targets in Gaza, killing one Palestinian, according to the Hamasrun health ministry.

Israel also closed both its border crossings with Gaza in reprisal, further isolating the blockaded enclave where deteriorating living conditions have stoked violent protests along the border. Gaza militants fired two rockets before dawn, one of which caused damage to the garden of a family home in the southern city of Beersheba, 40 kilometres (25 miles) away, the Israeli army said.

The family of three children escaped injury but were treated for shock at the scene, Israeli media reported. “At 4 am (0100 GMT), Israelis in the city of Beersheba were running to bomb shelters after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel,” the army tweeted.

“We will defend Israeli civilians,” it added. The other rocket came down in the sea off Tel Aviv, 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Gaza, the army said.

- ‘Full responsibility’ Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus was dismissive of the disavowal

of the rocket fire by Hamas and its allies, saying the group bears “full responsibility” for the medium-range rockets fired.

“Only two organisations in Gaza have these specific types of rockets...

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” he said, referring to a group closely allied to Hamas. “Which of the organisations (fired) is not relevant from our point of view.”

In response, Conricus said they struck 20 targets in Gaza including a Hamas attack tunnel and an “advanced weapons manufacturing site.”

One Palestinian the army said was preparing a rocket launch was killed in northern Gaza.

The Gaza health ministry identified him as Naji al-Za’aneen, 25. It did not give further details. The army produced a video showing a man near the border preparing a rocket for launch before being hit by a missile strike.

- Border crossings closed Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the closure of both of Israel’s border crossings with Gaza, making the heavily restricted Rafah crossing with Egypt the enclave’s sole gateway to the outside world.

Lieberman also ordered the the reduction of the permitted fishing zone along the Gaza coast to three nautical miles, the defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civil affairs, COGAT, said.

Lieberman already suspended deliveries of fuel that had been trucked daily into Gaza under a deal brokered by the United Nations.

It had seen thousands of litres (gallons) of fuel paid for by gas-rich Gulf state Qatar delivered to boost power generation in the impoverished territory. The United Nations says Israel’s 11-year blockade has resulted in a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation.

Gaza’s two million residents endure routine power cuts and a chronic shortage of safe drinking water, and more than two-thirds are dependent on international aid.

Egyptian and UN mediators have been trying to broker a deal that would see Israel ease the blockade in exchange for a long-term truce with Hamas.The latest flare-up comes after months of Palestinian protests along the Gaza border that have drawn a deadly response from Israeli troops.

At least 207 Palestinians have been killed since the protests began on March 30. One Israeli soldier has been killed by Palestinian sniper fire over the same period.

The protesters have been demanding an end to Israel’s crippling blockade and the right of return to land now inside Israel, from which their families were expelled or fled during the 1948 war that accompanied its creation.

Lieberman said Tuesday that the protests could not be allowed to go on. (afp)

An Indonesia man wades through floodwaters following heavy rains in Teunom in Aceh province on October 16, 2018.

SAID KHATIB / AFP

Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza strip today in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused damage in a southern city, the Israeli army said.

58 Australian fairy penguins slaughtered in suspected dog attack

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Dogs have the capacity to do a lot of damage to little penguin colonies in a short period of time.

SYDNEY - Wildlife officials in the southern Australia on Wednesday announced an investigation into the mass death of 58 penguins they believe were killed in a dog attack.

The carcases of the fairy penguins -- the world’s smallest penguin species -- were found strewn across a beach in Tasmania, a island-state off the mainland.

“We would like to remind dog owners of the need to take responsibility for their animals at all times as dogs have the capacity to do a lot of damage to penguin colonies in a short period of time,” Tasmania’s department of parks, water and environment said in a statement.

The latest grisly find comes just months after a dozen birds were found dead on a nearby beach, they too are believed to have been killed in a dog attack.

“All reports of alleged unlawful harming of wildlife are regarded extremely seriously by the department,” the government department said.

Fairy penguins -- who grow to around just over a foot (30 centimetres) and can live for up to 24 years -- are only found in southern Australia and New Zealand, with Tasmania supporting around half of the global population.

Fairy penguin colonies remain under threat from increasing urbanisation, traffic and domestic animals. (afp)

CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP

Hundreds of homes inundated in Aceh Jaya

CALANG - Floods, triggered by incessant heavy rains, have inundated hundreds of homes in seven sub-districts, Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province, since Monday.

Downpours caused four rivers - Teunon, Suak Beukah, Panga and Krueng Oen, to spill over their banks, T Irvan TB, district head of Aceh Jaya, said here on Wednesday, while visiting floodhit Gampong Blank Baro, Teunom sub-district, since Monday.

The seven sub-districts affected by floodwaters reaching a height of up to 1.5 meters, are Teunom, Panga, Pasie Raya, Darul Kamal, Setia Bakti, Krueng Sabe and Sampoiniet.

The flooding has affected a total of 1,410 families or 4,204 people.

Inhabitants of Tuwi Kareung,

Lhok Guci and Tuwi Peuriya villages in Pasie Raya sub-districts were evacuated to higher grounds, he said. Meanwhile, 29 villages in seven sub-districts in South Aceh Districts, were also flooded.

The flooding had hit South Aceh since Monday and submerged at

Rupiah regains some of its lost value against US dollar

JAKARTA - The country`s currency rupiah regained some of its lost value, trading at the level of 15,175 per US dollar in interbank transaction on Wednesday morning, strengthening from earlier level of 15,181.

Economist of Samuel Sekuritas Ahmad Mikail said the US dollar tended to weaken facing a number of other world`s major currencies on speculation that investors began to react positively to the performance of stock markets in developing economies.

“Increases recorded by stock market in a number of developing economies have positive impact on rupiah and the sentiment strengthened capital inflow to the share and bond

markets in Indonesia,” Mikail said.

The US bond yield which is stable at the level of 3.16 percent indicated that investors became more positive on financial reports of listed companies in stock market, he added.

Meanwhile, a senior analyst of CSA Research Institute, Reza Priyambada, said the approval of the assumption over the rupiah exchange rate at 15,000 per dollar in the draft state budget 2019 was responded positively by the market players.

In addition, the Asian Games, which contributed 0.05 percentage point to the country`s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) also gave positive sentiment that strengthened rupiah.(ant)

least three schools in Central Trumon sub-district, Junaiti, a resident of Cot Bayu village, Central Trumon, said.

Floods hit four villages in Central Trumon, three in Kota Bahagia sub-district, two in Central Kluet sub-district, seven in Pasie Raya, seven in Tapaktuan sub-district, two in East Kluet sub-district, and four villages in North Kluet sub-district.

Landslides also hit Gampong

Panjupian village in Tapaktuan, as well Gampong Lawe Sawah and Buloh Didi in East Kluet.

Flood waters reaching a height of up to two meters also forced local inhabitants to evacuate themselves to safer places.

Six families were evacuated to a local hall in Central Trumon, and 17 people took refuge in a fire brigade office in Tapaktuan.(afp)

Disaster refugees in Central Sulawesi need 18 thousand tents: BNPB

PALU - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) announced that some 18 thousand tents were needed to shelter the disasterhit refugees in the city of Palu as well as districts of Sigi and Donggala, Central Sulawesi Province.

“We have counted that there are some 70 thousand refugees here, so we need some 18 thousand tents to accommodate them,” BNPB Deputy for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bernardus Wisnu Widjaja stated here on Tuesday.

Widjaja noted that the BNPB had received some tents from several civil society and non-governmental

organizations and distributed them to the disaster-affected areas in Central Sulawesi.

“We have, so far, received five thousand tents, and the Indonesian Red Cross has provided 1,300 tents.

Other NGOs have also prepared some additional tents for refugees,” he noted.

Widjaja further remarked that as many as 800 emergency tents are required to build temporary classes for children in Palu, Sigi, and Donggala.

The UNICEF had earlier sent 200 tents to serve as temporary classes for children in the three main areas affected by disaster in Central Sulawesi.(ant)

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Kyrgios ‘surprised’ by Russian love

MOSCOW - Nick Kyrgios said he was “surprised” to be cheered by the home crowd as he beat Russian youngster Andrey Rublev 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Kremlin Cup first round on Tuesday.

Jagat Natha Temple

DENPASAR - The state temple, built in 1953, is dedicated to the supreme god, Sanghyang Widi.

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The padmasana (temple shrine) is made of white coral and consists of an empty throne (symbolic of heaven) on top of the cosmic turtle and two naga (mythical snakelike creatures), which symbolise the foundation of the world. The walls are decorated with carvings of scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Two major festivals are held here every month, during the full moon and new moon, and feature wayang kulit (leather shadow puppet) performances.

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Name of Jagat Natha Temple is taken from special name which is not similar with other familiar temples in Bali taken from the location where the temple is situated such as Besakih Temple, Ulundanu

Batur Temple, Lempuyang Luhur Temple, Luhur Andakasa Temple, Puncak Mangu Temple, etc. Among other famous Hindu Temple in Bali, the first ceremony held at Jagat natha Temple is also similar with other temples by conducting small ceremony procession. The unique of this temple is not having the Pengemong (the group of people/ organization/team who support, keep, maintains the temple) like other temples in Bali, but it is only own the small volunteers and people who worship at this temple.

At the beginning, this temple is managed by temple development committee of Jagat natha Temple and afterward managed by The Hindu Holiday Committee which is institutionally stipulated Badung Regency Government decree. But nowadays, Jagat natha Temple has been taken over by the government of Denpasar City. (IBP/net)

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Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts after a point against Bradley Klahn of the US during their men’s single round of 64 match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament on October 8, 2018.

The temperamental Australian, seeded fifth in Moscow, fired 24 aces to win his first-ever meeting with the 20-year-old Rubvlev.

“I love to play indoors and we played a lot with Andrey in juniors. He’s going to have a great career,” Kyrgios said.

“I was surprised that the public cheered me here. It’s nice. Normally when I’m not at home I’m not the most loved person but it was nice to hear some cheering. I felt almost at home here.”

The 23-year-old Kyrgios, who has slumped to 37th in the world rankings after struggling for form and fitness this year, will meet Mirza Basic in the last 16, after the Bosnian saw off Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri 7-6 (7/4), 6-2.

Reigning champion Damir Dzumhur saw his title defence come to an abrupt halt with a first-round loss to Belarusian qualifier Egor Gerasimov.

The Bosnian, who won both the St Petersburg and Moscow tournaments last year, slumped to a 6-1 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 loss to the world number 217.

Gerasimov will next face charismatic Frenchman Benoit Paire for a place in the last eight.

Paire, who has not reached a quarter-final since February, beat Mischa Zverev 7-6 (8/6), 2-6, 6-1.

“It was a good match. I wasn’t doing well at the beginning but then I got much better,” Paire said.

In the women’s draw, former world number two Vera Zvonareva set up a second-round meeting with second seed Karolina Pliskova.

The 34-year-old Zvonareva, a two-time Grand Slam finalist, saw off fellow Russian qualifier Irina Khromacheva 6-3, 6-3.

Top seed Simona Halep, who secured the year-end world-number-one ranking on Monday, pulled out of the tournament earlier on Tuesday to rest a troublesome back injury.

“While it’s disappointing to withdraw, I know it’s important to put my health first,” she said. (afp)

Warriors raise title banner, silence Thunder in NBA opener

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant accepted their championship rings Tuesday for leading Golden State to a third NBA title in four campaigns, then powered the Warriors over Oklahoma City 108-100 in their 201819 season opener.

Curry scored 32 points with nine assists and eight rebounds while Durant had 27 points, eight rebounds and six assists as the Warriors held off a fourth-quarter fightback to make a triumphant launch to their quest for a third consecutive crown.

“The first game could go either way with timing and overall execution,” Curry said. “We had a terrible third quarter but we withstood the run and were able to get the job done.

“We’ve got to take care of the ball better. That will come with more possessions as we get through the season.

“We know what’s at stake.

Winning three in a row would put us in some very select company.

We’re not shy talking about it.

But you have to do the little things throughout the season. I think we’re ready for it.”

The first game of the NBA season was in Boston, where Jayson Tatum scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds while reserve Marcus Morris added 16 points and 10 rebounds as the host Celtics ripped Philadelphia 105-87.

But the night’s highlight came when NBA commissioner Adam Silver handed out championship jewelry -- Golden State’s Steve Kerr taking his fourth as a coach to go with four he won as a player -- and praised the Warriors dynasty for far more than on-court skills.

“The Warriors have a tradition of excellence based on universal values like teamwork, respect and unity,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said.

“They continue a long legacy of NBA players and teams who compete for something bigger than a game by embracing the power of sport to build bridges and make

better people’s lives.”

- ‘Unbelievable journey’ Then came the final championship banner raising at Oracle Arena, the NBA’s oldest arena, built in 1966. The Warriors will move to a new arena in San Francisco next season.

“Last year was an unbelievable journey,” Curry told the crowd.

“We do all this for you guys. So let’s enjoy this all to the fullest.”

Curry scored 19 points in the first half, helping the Warriors seize a 57-47 half-time edge, but the Thunder opened the third quarter with a 22-9 run to seize their first lead at 69-66, German guard Dennis Schroder sinking the go-ahead 3-pointer for Oklahoma City.

The Thunder battled Golden State to the finish, a free throw by New Zealand’s Steven Adams pulling Oklahoma City within 99-97 with 1:57 remaining.

Curry answered with a 3-point play and Kevon Looney added a layup for a 104-99 Warriors edge.

Durant followed with an inside jumper with 24 seconds remaining to seal his former club’s fate.

The Thunder were without star guard Russell Westbrook, who has not been cleared to return after

undergoing arthroscopic right knee surgery last month.

Paul George led Oklahoma City with 27 points while Schroder added 21 and Adams had 17 points and 11 rebounds. (afp)

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Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against the Oklahoma City Thunder during a game on October 16, 2018 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

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Loew defiant as Griezmann double sinks ‘very good’ Germany

Koeman’s Netherlands claim friendly draw in Belgium

A defiant Joachim Loew praised Germany’s display in Tuesday’s 2-1 UEFA Nations League defeat by world champions France as he lamented “a totally unjust penalty” awarded to the hosts.

Antoine Griezmann hit a pair of second-half goals, including the winner from the spot, as France recovered from falling behind to a Toni Kroos penalty to inflict a sixth defeat on Germany in their past 10 matches.

The result eliminated Germany from Nations League title contention, and left them needing to beat the Netherlands in their final group match on November 19 if they are to avoid relegation from the top tier.

However, Loew insisted he was “very pleased” with the performance as Germany were much improved compared to the team that lost 3-0 against the Netherlands in Amsterdam.

“I’m disappointed with the result, although though I must say the defeat is different to Saturday’s,” said Loew.

“Not because of the result but because of the performance. I’m very pleased with the performance.

“I think we were on an even level with what is probably the best team in the world. “But France has a lot of individual quality, and if you’re not careful you’ll get punished straight away.”

A first defeat to the neighbouring Dutch in 16 years prompted Loew to make five changes for the trip to Paris, as he injected additional pace into the attack with the inclusions of Leroy Sane and Serge Gnabry.

The Germans deservedly led through a Kroos penalty after a sliding Presnel Kimpembe handled a Sane cross, but Loew’s youthful frontline was unable to capitalise on further opportunities.

“The negative point is the converting of our chances. We were unable to put the ball in the goal,” said Loew. “I think we deserved to win because we were the best team but that’s not how things work.

“We lacked a bit of intelligence and sangfroid. If we’d been able to score a second we could have played in a calmer manner and won the match.”

Griezmann equalised with a magnificent glancing header from a Lucas Hernandez cross on the hour, and the Atletico Madrid striker

won the game for France with a penalty 10 minutes from time.

- ‘Something to build on’ Loew was particularly unhappy with referee Milorad Mazic’s decision to award France a spot-kick after Blaise Matuidi went to ground after a tangle with Mats Hummels.

“The penalty was totally unjust,” said Loew.

“I’ve watched it back on the replay. Mats didn’t touch Matuidi. He stepped on Mats’ foot and then slipped.”

That grievance aside, Loew singled out the positive contributions of Bayern Munich winger Gnabry, who made his first Germany appearance since November 2016, as well as Paris Saint-Germain defender Thilo Kehrer.

“It was a really good display from the young players,” said Loew. “Gnabry played well and Kehrer too, it was first time he has started. “It was a very, very good performance and something to build on for the future.”

Didier Deschamps’ France can clinch top spot in the group with a draw in their final game away to the Netherlands in Rotterdam next month.

“It’s a good thing in terms of our aim of finishing top of the group but we were up against a very good German side today,” said Deschamps.

“Hugo (Lloris) ensured it was only 1-0 to them at the break and that we were still in it.”

Griezmann admitted Germany’s revamped set-up had knocked France off track initially, but he said a series of “calm” exchanges at half-time allowed them to regain their rhythm.

“We played poorly in the first half. I think we were disrupted by them playing three at the back, so we had to calmly speak a bit in the dressing and change two or three things tactically,” Griezmann told French television.

“It was better afterwards. It’s more than tactical, we weren’t making the effort for one another. “We became world champions by working for each other and that’s the only way you will win matches.”(afp)

France’s forward Antoine Griezmann celebrates after scoring during the UEFA Nations League football match between France and Germany at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris on October 16, 2018.

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Netherlands’ head coach Ronald Koeman looks on during the friendly football match between Belgium and the Netherlands, at the King Baudouin Stadium, on October 16, 2018 in Brussels.

The Netherlands continued their resurgence under Ronald Koeman as youngster Arnaut Groeneveld’s first international goal secured a 1-1 friendly draw with Belgium in Brussels on Tuesday.

Dries Mertens fired the World Cup semi-finalists into a sixth-minute lead, but Groeneveld marked his full debut for the Dutch by equalising before the half-hour mark.

This was another strong performance for the Oranje after Saturday’s stunning 3-0 Nations League victory over Germany, while Roberto Martinez’s Belgium remain unbeaten at home since a loss to Spain in September 2016.

“I think there is still a lot of work to do, but we’ve shown that we’ve made good progress lately and at the end of the match we tried to play more offensively to try to win,” said Koeman. “We had the best chances and overall we can be very happy with the last 10 days.”

Brazil’s Miranda silences Argentina with last-gasp winner Brazil snatched a dramatic 1-0 win over Argentina with an injury-time header from Miranda in their friendly match in front of a sell-out crowd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

The Inter Milan centre-back was left all alone to thump in a 93rd-minute effort from Neymar’s corner when the match between the fierce South American rivals seemed destined for a stalemate.

The lapse spoiled an otherwise strong defensive performance from Argentina, who contained Brazil for long periods. He may be 34, but Miranda, whose career has also seen him play in France and Spain, says he is far from done in the yellow shirt of Brazil.

“Despite my age I’ve been able to show that I’m in good physical shape and, of course, I want to keep playing for the national team because I still have a lot to show in this jersey,” he said.

With Neymar to the fore, Brazil

exerted late pressure and could have scored in the few minutes before Miranda struck.

Casemiro came close with a 25yard free-kick manufactured by Neymar that flew past goalkeeper Sergio Romero’s left post. Then Nicolas Otamendi stuck out a boot to deflect a diverted shot from Richarlison in the last minute.

Argentina’s best chance came during a period of pressure around the hour mark, when Leandro Paredes hit a swerving, dipping drive that had Brazil keeper Alisson beaten.

But while Brazil named a strong team including Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus, Philippe Coutinho of Barcelona and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino alongside Neymar in attack, Argentina were without a host of top stars, including Lionel Messi.

“It’s always difficult, but our team is better than theirs because we’ve had the same foundations for many

years while they’re in the process of a drastic renovation,” Brazil’s full-back Felipe Luis told TV Globo.

Missing from the Argentina line-up were also Manchester City’s in-form forward Sergio Aguero, Paris SaintGermain winger Angel Di Maria and AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain.

Messi has sat out Argentina’s last four matches, all friendlies, since the country’s disappointing last-16 elimination from the World Cup in Russia.

He is believed to have asked for some time off from international duty ahead of next year’s Copa America in Brazil.

It was the 105th time the South American arch-rivals have faced each other in an official match, with Brazil marginally ahead on 41 wins to 38, with 26 draws. The two sides last met in June 2017 in a friendly in Australia, won 1-0 by Argentina, but Brazil romped to a 3-0 success in their last competitive fixture, a World Cup qualifier in November 2016.(afp)

The hosts struck early through a fantastic goal from Mertens, as the Napoli winger pounced after some slack Dutch defending, curling the ball past goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and two men on the line, and into the top corner.

The 31-year-old continued to run the visitors ragged, stretching to dig out an excellent cross which Romelu Lukaku could only head over from less than six yards out.

The Netherlands almost levelled after a quick counter-attack, but Memphis Depay failed to get a clean connection on his shot and was denied by the legs of Simon Mignolet, making his first appearance in the Belgian goal since March.

But the Lyon forward cut open the home defence in the 27th minute, sending through a perfect pass for Nigerian-born winger Groeneveld to slide home on just his second international appearance after coming on as a substitute against Germany.

The visitors continued to slice through the Belgium defence with ease, and Quincy Promes saw a fierce long-range strike bounce back off the post with Mignolet scrambling.

Eden Hazard, who has already scored 10 goals this season for club and country, should have restored the Belgian advantage before half-time, but shot wide with the goal gaping after Lukaku’s clever lay-off.

Martinez rang the changes at the break, bringing on Michy Batshuayi for Lukaku and Dennis Praet for Mertens, while Thorgan Hazard replaced his older brother.

Batshuayi twice almost scored early in the second period, shooting narrowly wide and seeing a twisting header clutched by a diving Cillessen.

The striker, on loan at Valencia from Chelsea, went close to a winner again late on, as Barcelona ‘keeper Cillessen palmed away his closerange volley.(afp)

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Loew defiant as Griezmann double sinks ‘very good’ Germany

Koeman’s Netherlands claim friendly draw in Belgium

A defiant Joachim Loew praised Germany’s display in Tuesday’s 2-1 UEFA Nations League defeat by world champions France as he lamented “a totally unjust penalty” awarded to the hosts.

Antoine Griezmann hit a pair of second-half goals, including the winner from the spot, as France recovered from falling behind to a Toni Kroos penalty to inflict a sixth defeat on Germany in their past 10 matches.

The result eliminated Germany from Nations League title contention, and left them needing to beat the Netherlands in their final group match on November 19 if they are to avoid relegation from the top tier.

However, Loew insisted he was “very pleased” with the performance as Germany were much improved compared to the team that lost 3-0 against the Netherlands in Amsterdam.

“I’m disappointed with the result, although though I must say the defeat is different to Saturday’s,” said Loew.

“Not because of the result but because of the performance. I’m very pleased with the performance.

“I think we were on an even level with what is probably the best team in the world. “But France has a lot of individual quality, and if you’re not careful you’ll get punished straight away.”

A first defeat to the neighbouring Dutch in 16 years prompted Loew to make five changes for the trip to Paris, as he injected additional pace into the attack with the inclusions of Leroy Sane and Serge Gnabry.

The Germans deservedly led through a Kroos penalty after a sliding Presnel Kimpembe handled a Sane cross, but Loew’s youthful frontline was unable to capitalise on further opportunities.

“The negative point is the converting of our chances. We were unable to put the ball in the goal,” said Loew. “I think we deserved to win because we were the best team but that’s not how things work.

“We lacked a bit of intelligence and sangfroid. If we’d been able to score a second we could have played in a calmer manner and won the match.”

Griezmann equalised with a magnificent glancing header from a Lucas Hernandez cross on the hour, and the Atletico Madrid striker

won the game for France with a penalty 10 minutes from time.

- ‘Something to build on’ Loew was particularly unhappy with referee Milorad Mazic’s decision to award France a spot-kick after Blaise Matuidi went to ground after a tangle with Mats Hummels.

“The penalty was totally unjust,” said Loew.

“I’ve watched it back on the replay. Mats didn’t touch Matuidi. He stepped on Mats’ foot and then slipped.”

That grievance aside, Loew singled out the positive contributions of Bayern Munich winger Gnabry, who made his first Germany appearance since November 2016, as well as Paris Saint-Germain defender Thilo Kehrer.

“It was a really good display from the young players,” said Loew. “Gnabry played well and Kehrer too, it was first time he has started. “It was a very, very good performance and something to build on for the future.”

Didier Deschamps’ France can clinch top spot in the group with a draw in their final game away to the Netherlands in Rotterdam next month.

“It’s a good thing in terms of our aim of finishing top of the group but we were up against a very good German side today,” said Deschamps.

“Hugo (Lloris) ensured it was only 1-0 to them at the break and that we were still in it.”

Griezmann admitted Germany’s revamped set-up had knocked France off track initially, but he said a series of “calm” exchanges at half-time allowed them to regain their rhythm.

“We played poorly in the first half. I think we were disrupted by them playing three at the back, so we had to calmly speak a bit in the dressing and change two or three things tactically,” Griezmann told French television.

“It was better afterwards. It’s more than tactical, we weren’t making the effort for one another. “We became world champions by working for each other and that’s the only way you will win matches.”(afp)

France’s forward Antoine Griezmann celebrates after scoring during the UEFA Nations League football match between France and Germany at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris on October 16, 2018.

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Netherlands’ head coach Ronald Koeman looks on during the friendly football match between Belgium and the Netherlands, at the King Baudouin Stadium, on October 16, 2018 in Brussels.

The Netherlands continued their resurgence under Ronald Koeman as youngster Arnaut Groeneveld’s first international goal secured a 1-1 friendly draw with Belgium in Brussels on Tuesday.

Dries Mertens fired the World Cup semi-finalists into a sixth-minute lead, but Groeneveld marked his full debut for the Dutch by equalising before the half-hour mark.

This was another strong performance for the Oranje after Saturday’s stunning 3-0 Nations League victory over Germany, while Roberto Martinez’s Belgium remain unbeaten at home since a loss to Spain in September 2016.

“I think there is still a lot of work to do, but we’ve shown that we’ve made good progress lately and at the end of the match we tried to play more offensively to try to win,” said Koeman. “We had the best chances and overall we can be very happy with the last 10 days.”

Brazil’s Miranda silences Argentina with last-gasp winner Brazil snatched a dramatic 1-0 win over Argentina with an injury-time header from Miranda in their friendly match in front of a sell-out crowd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

The Inter Milan centre-back was left all alone to thump in a 93rd-minute effort from Neymar’s corner when the match between the fierce South American rivals seemed destined for a stalemate.

The lapse spoiled an otherwise strong defensive performance from Argentina, who contained Brazil for long periods. He may be 34, but Miranda, whose career has also seen him play in France and Spain, says he is far from done in the yellow shirt of Brazil.

“Despite my age I’ve been able to show that I’m in good physical shape and, of course, I want to keep playing for the national team because I still have a lot to show in this jersey,” he said.

With Neymar to the fore, Brazil

exerted late pressure and could have scored in the few minutes before Miranda struck.

Casemiro came close with a 25yard free-kick manufactured by Neymar that flew past goalkeeper Sergio Romero’s left post. Then Nicolas Otamendi stuck out a boot to deflect a diverted shot from Richarlison in the last minute.

Argentina’s best chance came during a period of pressure around the hour mark, when Leandro Paredes hit a swerving, dipping drive that had Brazil keeper Alisson beaten.

But while Brazil named a strong team including Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus, Philippe Coutinho of Barcelona and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino alongside Neymar in attack, Argentina were without a host of top stars, including Lionel Messi.

“It’s always difficult, but our team is better than theirs because we’ve had the same foundations for many

years while they’re in the process of a drastic renovation,” Brazil’s full-back Felipe Luis told TV Globo.

Missing from the Argentina line-up were also Manchester City’s in-form forward Sergio Aguero, Paris SaintGermain winger Angel Di Maria and AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain.

Messi has sat out Argentina’s last four matches, all friendlies, since the country’s disappointing last-16 elimination from the World Cup in Russia.

He is believed to have asked for some time off from international duty ahead of next year’s Copa America in Brazil.

It was the 105th time the South American arch-rivals have faced each other in an official match, with Brazil marginally ahead on 41 wins to 38, with 26 draws. The two sides last met in June 2017 in a friendly in Australia, won 1-0 by Argentina, but Brazil romped to a 3-0 success in their last competitive fixture, a World Cup qualifier in November 2016.(afp)

The hosts struck early through a fantastic goal from Mertens, as the Napoli winger pounced after some slack Dutch defending, curling the ball past goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and two men on the line, and into the top corner.

The 31-year-old continued to run the visitors ragged, stretching to dig out an excellent cross which Romelu Lukaku could only head over from less than six yards out.

The Netherlands almost levelled after a quick counter-attack, but Memphis Depay failed to get a clean connection on his shot and was denied by the legs of Simon Mignolet, making his first appearance in the Belgian goal since March.

But the Lyon forward cut open the home defence in the 27th minute, sending through a perfect pass for Nigerian-born winger Groeneveld to slide home on just his second international appearance after coming on as a substitute against Germany.

The visitors continued to slice through the Belgium defence with ease, and Quincy Promes saw a fierce long-range strike bounce back off the post with Mignolet scrambling.

Eden Hazard, who has already scored 10 goals this season for club and country, should have restored the Belgian advantage before half-time, but shot wide with the goal gaping after Lukaku’s clever lay-off.

Martinez rang the changes at the break, bringing on Michy Batshuayi for Lukaku and Dennis Praet for Mertens, while Thorgan Hazard replaced his older brother.

Batshuayi twice almost scored early in the second period, shooting narrowly wide and seeing a twisting header clutched by a diving Cillessen.

The striker, on loan at Valencia from Chelsea, went close to a winner again late on, as Barcelona ‘keeper Cillessen palmed away his closerange volley.(afp)

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Batur Temple, Lempuyang Luhur Temple, Luhur Andakasa Temple, Puncak Mangu Temple, etc. Among other famous Hindu Temple in Bali, the first ceremony held at Jagat natha Temple is also similar with other temples by conducting small ceremony procession. The unique of this temple is not having the Pengemong (the group of people/ organization/team who support, keep, maintains the temple) like other temples in Bali, but it is only own the small volunteers and people who worship at this temple.

At the beginning, this temple is managed by temple development committee of Jagat natha Temple and afterward managed by The Hindu Holiday Committee which is institutionally stipulated Badung Regency Government decree. But nowadays, Jagat natha Temple has been taken over by the government of Denpasar City. (IBP/net)

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Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts after a point against Bradley Klahn of the US during their men’s single round of 64 match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament on October 8, 2018.

The temperamental Australian, seeded fifth in Moscow, fired 24 aces to win his first-ever meeting with the 20-year-old Rubvlev.

“I love to play indoors and we played a lot with Andrey in juniors. He’s going to have a great career,” Kyrgios said.

“I was surprised that the public cheered me here. It’s nice. Normally when I’m not at home I’m not the most loved person but it was nice to hear some cheering. I felt almost at home here.”

The 23-year-old Kyrgios, who has slumped to 37th in the world rankings after struggling for form and fitness this year, will meet Mirza Basic in the last 16, after the Bosnian saw off Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri 7-6 (7/4), 6-2.

Reigning champion Damir Dzumhur saw his title defence come to an abrupt halt with a first-round loss to Belarusian qualifier Egor Gerasimov.

The Bosnian, who won both the St Petersburg and Moscow tournaments last year, slumped to a 6-1 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 loss to the world number 217.

Gerasimov will next face charismatic Frenchman Benoit Paire for a place in the last eight.

Paire, who has not reached a quarter-final since February, beat Mischa Zverev 7-6 (8/6), 2-6, 6-1.

“It was a good match. I wasn’t doing well at the beginning but then I got much better,” Paire said.

In the women’s draw, former world number two Vera Zvonareva set up a second-round meeting with second seed Karolina Pliskova.

The 34-year-old Zvonareva, a two-time Grand Slam finalist, saw off fellow Russian qualifier Irina Khromacheva 6-3, 6-3.

Top seed Simona Halep, who secured the year-end world-number-one ranking on Monday, pulled out of the tournament earlier on Tuesday to rest a troublesome back injury.

“While it’s disappointing to withdraw, I know it’s important to put my health first,” she said. (afp)

Warriors raise title banner, silence Thunder in NBA opener

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant accepted their championship rings Tuesday for leading Golden State to a third NBA title in four campaigns, then powered the Warriors over Oklahoma City 108-100 in their 201819 season opener.

Curry scored 32 points with nine assists and eight rebounds while Durant had 27 points, eight rebounds and six assists as the Warriors held off a fourth-quarter fightback to make a triumphant launch to their quest for a third consecutive crown.

“The first game could go either way with timing and overall execution,” Curry said. “We had a terrible third quarter but we withstood the run and were able to get the job done.

“We’ve got to take care of the ball better. That will come with more possessions as we get through the season.

“We know what’s at stake.

Winning three in a row would put us in some very select company.

We’re not shy talking about it.

But you have to do the little things throughout the season. I think we’re ready for it.”

The first game of the NBA season was in Boston, where Jayson Tatum scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds while reserve Marcus Morris added 16 points and 10 rebounds as the host Celtics ripped Philadelphia 105-87.

But the night’s highlight came when NBA commissioner Adam Silver handed out championship jewelry -- Golden State’s Steve Kerr taking his fourth as a coach to go with four he won as a player -- and praised the Warriors dynasty for far more than on-court skills.

“The Warriors have a tradition of excellence based on universal values like teamwork, respect and unity,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said.

“They continue a long legacy of NBA players and teams who compete for something bigger than a game by embracing the power of sport to build bridges and make

better people’s lives.”

- ‘Unbelievable journey’ Then came the final championship banner raising at Oracle Arena, the NBA’s oldest arena, built in 1966. The Warriors will move to a new arena in San Francisco next season.

“Last year was an unbelievable journey,” Curry told the crowd.

“We do all this for you guys. So let’s enjoy this all to the fullest.”

Curry scored 19 points in the first half, helping the Warriors seize a 57-47 half-time edge, but the Thunder opened the third quarter with a 22-9 run to seize their first lead at 69-66, German guard Dennis Schroder sinking the go-ahead 3-pointer for Oklahoma City.

The Thunder battled Golden State to the finish, a free throw by New Zealand’s Steven Adams pulling Oklahoma City within 99-97 with 1:57 remaining.

Curry answered with a 3-point play and Kevon Looney added a layup for a 104-99 Warriors edge.

Durant followed with an inside jumper with 24 seconds remaining to seal his former club’s fate.

The Thunder were without star guard Russell Westbrook, who has not been cleared to return after

undergoing arthroscopic right knee surgery last month.

Paul George led Oklahoma City with 27 points while Schroder added 21 and Adams had 17 points and 11 rebounds. (afp)

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Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against the Oklahoma City Thunder during a game on October 16, 2018 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

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Israel pounds Gaza after first rocket fire in weeks

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the first rocket fire from the Palestinian territory in weeks hit an Israeli city, in a blow to efforts to avert a new war.

Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas disavowed the rocket fire saying they rejected “all irresponsible attempts” to undermine Egyptian efforts to broker a new long-term truce.

But Israel, which holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from the territory regardless of who launches it, struck 20 targets in Gaza, killing one Palestinian, according to the Hamasrun health ministry.

Israel also closed both its border crossings with Gaza in reprisal, further isolating the blockaded enclave where deteriorating living conditions have stoked violent protests along the border. Gaza militants fired two rockets before dawn, one of which caused damage to the garden of a family home in the southern city of Beersheba, 40 kilometres (25 miles) away, the Israeli army said.

The family of three children escaped injury but were treated for shock at the scene, Israeli media reported. “At 4 am (0100 GMT), Israelis in the city of Beersheba were running to bomb shelters after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel,” the army tweeted.

“We will defend Israeli civilians,” it added. The other rocket came down in the sea off Tel Aviv, 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Gaza, the army said.

- ‘Full responsibility’ Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus was dismissive of the disavowal

of the rocket fire by Hamas and its allies, saying the group bears “full responsibility” for the medium-range rockets fired.

“Only two organisations in Gaza have these specific types of rockets...

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” he said, referring to a group closely allied to Hamas. “Which of the organisations (fired) is not relevant from our point of view.”

In response, Conricus said they struck 20 targets in Gaza including a Hamas attack tunnel and an “advanced weapons manufacturing site.”

One Palestinian the army said was preparing a rocket launch was killed in northern Gaza.

The Gaza health ministry identified him as Naji al-Za’aneen, 25. It did not give further details. The army produced a video showing a man near the border preparing a rocket for launch before being hit by a missile strike.

- Border crossings closed Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the closure of both of Israel’s border crossings with Gaza, making the heavily restricted Rafah crossing with Egypt the enclave’s sole gateway to the outside world.

Lieberman also ordered the the reduction of the permitted fishing zone along the Gaza coast to three nautical miles, the defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civil affairs, COGAT, said.

Lieberman already suspended deliveries of fuel that had been trucked daily into Gaza under a deal brokered by the United Nations.

It had seen thousands of litres (gallons) of fuel paid for by gas-rich Gulf state Qatar delivered to boost power generation in the impoverished territory. The United Nations says Israel’s 11-year blockade has resulted in a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation.

Gaza’s two million residents endure routine power cuts and a chronic shortage of safe drinking water, and more than two-thirds are dependent on international aid.

Egyptian and UN mediators have been trying to broker a deal that would see Israel ease the blockade in exchange for a long-term truce with Hamas.The latest flare-up comes after months of Palestinian protests along the Gaza border that have drawn a deadly response from Israeli troops.

At least 207 Palestinians have been killed since the protests began on March 30. One Israeli soldier has been killed by Palestinian sniper fire over the same period.

The protesters have been demanding an end to Israel’s crippling blockade and the right of return to land now inside Israel, from which their families were expelled or fled during the 1948 war that accompanied its creation.

Lieberman said Tuesday that the protests could not be allowed to go on. (afp)

An Indonesia man wades through floodwaters following heavy rains in Teunom in Aceh province on October 16, 2018.

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Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza strip today in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused damage in a southern city, the Israeli army said.

58 Australian fairy penguins slaughtered in suspected dog attack

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Dogs have the capacity to do a lot of damage to little penguin colonies in a short period of time.

SYDNEY - Wildlife officials in the southern Australia on Wednesday announced an investigation into the mass death of 58 penguins they believe were killed in a dog attack.

The carcases of the fairy penguins -- the world’s smallest penguin species -- were found strewn across a beach in Tasmania, a island-state off the mainland.

“We would like to remind dog owners of the need to take responsibility for their animals at all times as dogs have the capacity to do a lot of damage to penguin colonies in a short period of time,” Tasmania’s department of parks, water and environment said in a statement.

The latest grisly find comes just months after a dozen birds were found dead on a nearby beach, they too are believed to have been killed in a dog attack.

“All reports of alleged unlawful harming of wildlife are regarded extremely seriously by the department,” the government department said.

Fairy penguins -- who grow to around just over a foot (30 centimetres) and can live for up to 24 years -- are only found in southern Australia and New Zealand, with Tasmania supporting around half of the global population.

Fairy penguin colonies remain under threat from increasing urbanisation, traffic and domestic animals. (afp)

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Hundreds of homes inundated in Aceh Jaya

CALANG - Floods, triggered by incessant heavy rains, have inundated hundreds of homes in seven sub-districts, Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province, since Monday.

Downpours caused four rivers - Teunon, Suak Beukah, Panga and Krueng Oen, to spill over their banks, T Irvan TB, district head of Aceh Jaya, said here on Wednesday, while visiting floodhit Gampong Blank Baro, Teunom sub-district, since Monday.

The seven sub-districts affected by floodwaters reaching a height of up to 1.5 meters, are Teunom, Panga, Pasie Raya, Darul Kamal, Setia Bakti, Krueng Sabe and Sampoiniet.

The flooding has affected a total of 1,410 families or 4,204 people.

Inhabitants of Tuwi Kareung,

Lhok Guci and Tuwi Peuriya villages in Pasie Raya sub-districts were evacuated to higher grounds, he said. Meanwhile, 29 villages in seven sub-districts in South Aceh Districts, were also flooded.

The flooding had hit South Aceh since Monday and submerged at

Rupiah regains some of its lost value against US dollar

JAKARTA - The country`s currency rupiah regained some of its lost value, trading at the level of 15,175 per US dollar in interbank transaction on Wednesday morning, strengthening from earlier level of 15,181.

Economist of Samuel Sekuritas Ahmad Mikail said the US dollar tended to weaken facing a number of other world`s major currencies on speculation that investors began to react positively to the performance of stock markets in developing economies.

“Increases recorded by stock market in a number of developing economies have positive impact on rupiah and the sentiment strengthened capital inflow to the share and bond

markets in Indonesia,” Mikail said.

The US bond yield which is stable at the level of 3.16 percent indicated that investors became more positive on financial reports of listed companies in stock market, he added.

Meanwhile, a senior analyst of CSA Research Institute, Reza Priyambada, said the approval of the assumption over the rupiah exchange rate at 15,000 per dollar in the draft state budget 2019 was responded positively by the market players.

In addition, the Asian Games, which contributed 0.05 percentage point to the country`s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) also gave positive sentiment that strengthened rupiah.(ant)

least three schools in Central Trumon sub-district, Junaiti, a resident of Cot Bayu village, Central Trumon, said.

Floods hit four villages in Central Trumon, three in Kota Bahagia sub-district, two in Central Kluet sub-district, seven in Pasie Raya, seven in Tapaktuan sub-district, two in East Kluet sub-district, and four villages in North Kluet sub-district.

Landslides also hit Gampong

Panjupian village in Tapaktuan, as well Gampong Lawe Sawah and Buloh Didi in East Kluet.

Flood waters reaching a height of up to two meters also forced local inhabitants to evacuate themselves to safer places.

Six families were evacuated to a local hall in Central Trumon, and 17 people took refuge in a fire brigade office in Tapaktuan.(afp)

Disaster refugees in Central Sulawesi need 18 thousand tents: BNPB

PALU - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) announced that some 18 thousand tents were needed to shelter the disasterhit refugees in the city of Palu as well as districts of Sigi and Donggala, Central Sulawesi Province.

“We have counted that there are some 70 thousand refugees here, so we need some 18 thousand tents to accommodate them,” BNPB Deputy for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bernardus Wisnu Widjaja stated here on Tuesday.

Widjaja noted that the BNPB had received some tents from several civil society and non-governmental

organizations and distributed them to the disaster-affected areas in Central Sulawesi.

“We have, so far, received five thousand tents, and the Indonesian Red Cross has provided 1,300 tents.

Other NGOs have also prepared some additional tents for refugees,” he noted.

Widjaja further remarked that as many as 800 emergency tents are required to build temporary classes for children in Palu, Sigi, and Donggala.

The UNICEF had earlier sent 200 tents to serve as temporary classes for children in the three main areas affected by disaster in Central Sulawesi.(ant)

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BUSINESS Japan company admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbers

A company supplying equipment to protect major buildings in Japan from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Wednesday, stressing there was no immediate safety risk.

Tokyo-based parts maker KYB and its unit Kayaba System Machinery falsified data linked to so-called “oil dampers”, which are used in nearly 1,000 buildings across Japan, the land ministry said.

The ministry declined to name buildings affected but local media reported may they include the Tokyo Skytree -- one of the world’s tallest buildings at 634 metres (2,080 feet) -- as well as the Tokyo local government’s headquarters.

The ministry has instructed the companies involved to change affected parts as soon as possible and to investigate why the data manipulation happened.

But it insisted that buildings using the parts would still withstand even a quake at the top end of the Japanese seismic intensity scale -- in which “it is impossible to remain standing” and “people may be thrown through the air”.

The shock absorbers are part of a complex system fitted in many Japanese buildings as part of the country’s earthquake preparedness.

They are meant to function in tandem with systems built into the foundations to isolate the effects of quakes.

The earthquake systems allow big buildings to sway slightly as

they absorb some seismic waves, but if they sway too much or too little, they could suffer damage.

“We don’t know how and why data were falsified and so we have ordered (the companies) to investigate the cause and submit a report on it,” a ministry official told AFP. The ministry said thousands of oil dampers, manufactured between March 2000 and last month, were involved in the scandal.

The company separately said Tuesday that products made between January 2003 and last month had “high possibility of data falsification” while products made since March 2000 may also have the same problem.

“I apologise deeply and sincerely,” KYB’s president Yasusuke Nakajima said in a news conference held on Tuesday, when the companies announced the wrongdoing.

Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences a number of relatively violent quakes every year. Rigid building codes and strict enforcement mean even strong tremors often do little damage.

But dozens of people died after a powerful 6.6-magnitude quake hit northern region of Hokkaido early last month, triggering landslides and collapsing houses. The

data fraud is the latest in a string of quality-control and governance scandals to hit major Japanese businesses in recent years.

In July, Nissan admitted data on exhaust emissions and fuel economy had been deliberately altered, after it was forced to recall some

1.2 million vehicles over a separate data control problem.

An affiliate of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has admitted falsifying data for 60,000 industrial batteries, while the head of Kobe Steel was forced to resign after the steelmaker submitted

false strength and quality data for products shipped to hundreds of clients.

Similar quality-control scandals have hit numerous other industrial titans ranging from top carbon-fibre maker Toray to Mitsubishi Materials. (afp)

Danone said Wednesday its sales slid 4.4 percent in the third quarter due to the plunge in the value of emerging market currencies, although the French food giant confirmed its annual target of double-digit earnings growth.

The sales figure of 6.2 billion euros ($7.2 billion) was impacted by the appreciation of the euro compared to Argentina’s peso, Turkey’s lira and Brazil’s real, all of which fell by more than 20 percent.

When sales in those countries were converted into euros for global accounting, they were considerably lower than in the same quarter last year, dragging down the

figure by an estimated 5.2 percentage points.

When the sales were restated at constant exchange rates, they grew by 1.4 percent.

Only the dairy and plant-based unit in North America saw sales growth at current exchange rates, rising 1.4 percent to nearly 1.3 billion euros. Elsewhere, they fell by 8.1 percent.

On a like-for-like basis, the waters unit showed 6.4 percent growth, but its specialised nutrition unit still recorded a 1.5 percent contraction.

However, chief executive Emmanuel Faber said in a statement

the company has “the foundations in place to navigate current emerging market volatility and currency headwinds, which will enable us to continue to deliver sustainable profitable growth.

The company reaffirmed its guidance for the full year, which is double-digit recurring earnings per share using constant exchange rates.

The company’s share price dropped 2.0 percent in early morning trading in Paris, the worst performer on the CAC 40, which was up nearly 0.3 percent overall. (afp)

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Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot: Performing After Enjoying Sunset

Sightseeing Tanah Lot, Bali, is one of the famous tourist attraction with beautiful sunset. Usually tourists will come to Tanah Lot Temple in the afternoon before sunset. While waiting for the sunset of the tourists can do various activities such as capture the moment with photos, tour around the park, or just sitting around enjoying the wind blowing around Enjung Galuh or Sunset Terrace.

After sunset ended, there was a show that can be enjoyed by tourists in Tanah Lot that is the Kecak Dance Show. Kecak dance is played mainly by men, where the number of players in the tens or more dancers who sit in line and a circle with a certain rhythm voices calling for “cak”, raising his hands.

This kecak dance created in the 1930s

by Wayan Limbak and with a German painter Walter Spies. They create a dance based on ancient traditions and take sanghyang from parts Ramayana story.

This dance became popular when Wayan Limbak the Balinese dancer with her tour around the world to introduce the Kecak dance. Until now become a dance Kecak Balinese art fame.

Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot take from Ramayana Epic as the theme of their dance, especially the episode of Prince Rama and his wife Princess Shinta and his brother Laksamana as the legal heirs of the throne were exiling themselves to the forest to give his brother Bharata to sit on the throne.

This exile has brought the situation become fatal for them when Princess Shinta was abducted by the king of Demon of Alengka Pura. The abduction of Princess Shinta is the start of the big war called Bharata Yudha between Prince Rama assisted by the fleet of monkeys soldiers and the demon fleet of

Rahwana of Alengka Pura.

Kecak Dance in Tanah Lot is also equipped with a dance that uses a means of fire. This was demonstrated when Hanuman rescue Dewi Shinta. Ravana who know their arrival, finally ordered his men to burn Ramadewa and Lakshmana. By the time they are having

difficulty, Hanuman came to save them from the terrible fire that followed. After that Hanuman and the other monkey troops, destroy fire that created by Ravana.

If you come to the Tanah Lot at Sunset afternoon, try to watch this Kecak dance performance. Kecak Dance is held at the Surya

Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. This place is located on the west Batu Bolong temple or adjacent to the restaurant Melasti. Kecak Dance is held every day at 06.30pm. For tickets can be found at the Information office near the beach or can be obtained directly at the Surya Mandala Cultural Park. (kmb)

Bedulu Develops Village Hall Tourism

Village Hall of Bedulu, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, usually used as activity center of local villagers is now taken advantage for tourist purposes. Tourists coming to the

village hall can see and learn various activities related to Balinese customs. This tourist attraction is operated in cooperation with one of the travel agencies in Bali to bring

in dozens of foreign tourists to the village hall.

This activity is attended by tourists from various countries in Europe and Asia. They see directly people’s activities related to Balinese culture and customs. They are starting from learning to prepare Balinese food (mebat), make offerings (mejejahitan), plait bamboo platform (klakat), and play gamelan music (megambel). In the evening, Balinese arts such as dances are staged while enjoying a prepared dinner (mebat) of local residents as well as tourists.

To introduce the village environment, tourists are also invited to have village tour by visiting people’s homes to see in person the life of rural communities. Moreover, there are some tourists choosing to stay at people’s homes in order

to be able to mingle with local community. “We have developed the concept of the village hall for community economic empowerment,” explained chief of Tengah customary village, I Ketut John, amid receiving tourists at local village hall on Monday (Oct. 8).

Besides, continued Ketut John, this activity is also to awaken the potential of Bedulu which had long been known as a tourism village.

“The activities usually carried out at the village hall by residents will become an extraordinary attraction to tourists,” said Ketut John, who is also a tourism player.

Ketut John is optimistic the concept of village hall tourism will draw the interest of tourists, especially at Bedulu as supported by some other tourist attractions such as the Yeh Pulu, Goa Gajah,

Samuan Tiga Temple and other historical and ancient heritages like sarcophagi remaining to be stored in one of the people’s home. Moreover, the pottery handicrafts formerly debuted in Bedulu are now being introduced and raised again.

“This should not just be looked at in terms of commercial aspect, but how the tourism of Bedulu village can revive with the concept of village hall,” added Ketut John.

Jessy, one of the visiting tourists, claimed to be happy to mingle with Bedulu residents while learning to cook Balinese cuisines, playing gamelan and making offering or canang. “Hospitality of the population makes us happy and all come to see and learn directly about the customs that do not exist in our country. This is what we want,” she said. (kmb)

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Heavily damaged, villagers must repair road independently AMLAPURA - Dozens of Otan hamlet residents, Batumadeg, Besakih, were forced to repair their damaged roads independently. The road patching carried out on Tuesday (Oct. 16) by using concrete was done directly by local residents in mutual cooperation.

One of the local residents, Jro Mangku Jati, said the road damage indeed already happened long time ago. Beforehand, he said the road had got asphalt assistance, but right now the conditions have been very alarming. The road began to bump and the cobblestones began to come off. “This is a road access to Besakih Temple. Every ceremony at Penataran Agung and Dalem Puri Temple, many pilgrims pass through this road because of traffic jams,” he said.

He said that seeing such conditions, finally he and the other residents took the initiative to carry out the road patching by using concrete. Thus, the road conditions can be better after patching the potholes by means of concrete rebates with self-held funds. Having collected the funds from residents, it was bought cement, sand and water.

“People independently worked on

the road construction. As citizens, we only hope the road can be repaired because this belongs to the district,” he hoped.

Meanwhile, hamlet chief of Batumadeg, I Putu Eka Januarta, stated the road repaired with concrete rebates by local residents is indeed categorized into district road. As hamlet apparatus, he has proposed the repair to local government including the dirt road leading to the main terminal of Ulun Setra Besakih proposed to get paving block. However, until now there is no clear certainty when it will be assisted. “We have submitted the proposal. Unfortunately, so far there has been no follow-up. We hope the road will soon be paved,” he hoped.

Division Head of Road Development at the Karangasem Public Works and Settlement, I Ketut Prama Budarta, acknowledged if the road is not known whether it belongs to the district or village road.

“We’ll check the document first to make sure whether it belongs to the district or village road. However, we haven’t found it. Later, if there is information, we’ll further let you know,” he said. (kmb41)

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Lifespan 2040: US down, China up, Spain on top

PARIS - Life expectancy in 2040 is set to rise at least a little in all nations but the rankings will change dramatically, with Spain taking the top spot while China and the United States trade places, researchers said Wednesday.

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The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives.

As for Bali sold cheaply in China

Badung parliament soon cracks down on Chinese travel agencies

MANGUPURA - The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives. This problem has a great impact on the regionally generated revenue of Badung district as highly relying on the tourism sector.

Dozens of Otan hamlet residents, Batumadeg, Besakih, were forced to repair their damaged roads independently.

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Chairman of Commission II of the Badung House of Representatives, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, admitted that cheap tourism sales will have a negative impact on local tax revenues. On that account, he wanted this should be supervised and inspected by relevant agencies and stakeholders.

“It must be inspected starting from licensing matters, travel agencies, tour guides, restaurants, their accommodation and others.

This must be followed up so that it will not result in a problem in the future,” said Luwir Wiana on Tuesday (Oct. 16).

According to him, if proven to have no license and violated, they must be dealt with firmly and imposed with sanctions and even deported. If Bali is sold cheaply, surely the region will not get any benefits because all the transactions ranging from hotel, restaurant and others have been completed in their

country.

“Of course, this will affect the regionally generated revenue, we get nothing from them while these guests make traffic jams and create problems in Badung,” he said.

On that account, Badung legislators strongly disagreed with the cheap sales of Bali tourism in China. Tourism players and the government wanted quality tourists visiting Badung and Bali. “I hope that all components must go down.

If necessary, we should make a raid all at once,” he said.

As reported previously, a number of tourism figures having been specially handling Chinese tourists all this time revealed that Bali is sold cheaply in China. “Roughly, yes, Bali has been sold very cheaply in China by certain agencies. It’s very cheap and even more competing for cheaper prices,” said the Head of Bali Liang Division (Mandarin

Market Share) of ASITA Bali, Elsye Deliana.

She stated the practice of selling cheap has been going on since the past 2-3 years. She suspected there is a mafia game being certainly very detrimental to Bali.

Based on the data for the past year, Bali was only “sold” for CYN 999 or around IDR 2 million. This discounted price includes return flight ticket, meals and accommodation at hotel for 5 days and 4 nights.

Later, the price has even dropped to CYN 777 or around IDR 1.5 million. Then, it drops again to CYN 499 or around IDR 1 million and the latest is CYN 299 or around IDR 600,000.

“Just think about that with IDR 600,000 Chinese tourists can get a return ticket to Bali including meals and accommodation at hotel for 5 days 4 nights. So, what about the quality?” she questioned. (kmb27)

With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain -- formerly in 4th place -- will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 years, and will drop to 2nd place in 2040.

In a shift that will be seen by some to reflect a superpower changing-of-the-guard, the world’s two largest economies effectively swap positions compared to 2016: in 2040 the US drops from 43rd to 64th (79.8 years), while China rises from 68th to 39th (81.9 years).

The researchers found other nations set to lose ground in the race towards longevity include Canada (from 17th to 27th), Norway (12th to 20th), Australia (5th to 10th), Mexico (69th to 87th), Taiwan (35th to 42nd) and North Korea 125th to 153rd).

Moving up the ranking are Indonesia (117th to 100th), Nigeria (157th to 123rd), Portugal (23rd to 5th), Poland (48th to 34th), Turkey (40th to 26th), Saudi Arabia (61st to 43rd).

Assuming its interminable and devastating war comes to an end, Syria is set to rise from 137th in 2016 to 80th in 2040.

For the world as a whole, the researchers’ study projected a fiveyear gain in lifespan, from 73.8 in 2016 to 77.7 in 2040.

They also forecast more optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, in which life expectancy increases to 81 years in the first case, and essentially stagnates in the second.

“The future of the world’s health is not pre-ordained,” said lead author Kyle Foreman, head of data science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

“But whether we see signficant progress or stagnation depends on how well or poorly health systems address key health drivers.”

- Smoking and poor diet The top five “drivers”, or determinants, of average lifespans two decades from now are all related to so-called “lifestyle” diseases: high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood sugar, along with alcohol and tobacco use.

More generally, the world will see an acceleration of the shift already under way from communicable to non-communicable diseases, along with injuries, as the top cause of premature death.

Ranking a close sixth is air pollution, which scientists estimate claims a million lives a year in China alone.

The world’s poorest countries in 2018 will continue to fair poorly when it comes to life expectancy,

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With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain -- formerly in 4th place -- will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 years, and will drop to 2nd place in 2040. according to the study, published in The Lancet.

With the exception of Afghanistan, the bottom 30 countries in 2040 -- with projected lifespans between 57 and 69 years -- are either in sub-Saharan Africa or small island states in the Pacific.

Lesotho, the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Swaziland are in the basement of the rankings.

“Inequalities will continue to be large,” said IHME Director Christopher Murray.

“In a substantial number of countries, too many people will continue earning relatively low incomes, remain poorly educated, and die prematurely.”

“But nations could make faster progress by helping people tackle the major risks, especially smoking and poor diet,” he added in a

statement.

Tobacco consumption alone claims about seven million lives each year, according to the World Health Organization.

In 2016, four of the top-ten causes of premature mortality were non-communicable diseases or injuries. In 2040, that figure is expected to rise to eight-out-of-ten.

The study is available at www. healthdata.org. (afp)

Police clear protesters as Indian temple prepares to accept women

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Indian Hindu devotees and activist shout slogans praising the Hindu God Ayyapa during a protest against the Supreme Court verdict revoking a ban on women’s entry to Sabarimala’s Ayyappa Hindu temple, in Nilackal in the southern Kerala state on October 17, 2018.

NILACKAL - Indian police on Wednesday cleared protesters trying to stop women accessing one of Hinduism’s most sacred sites, a hilltop temple forced by judges to open its doors to all female pilgrims for the first time.

The Supreme Court in September overturned a ban on women of menstruating age, between 10 and 50, entering and praying at the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala.

This enraged traditionalists, including supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with protests by thousands of people ahead of the scheduled opening on Wednesday afternoon.

In recent days groups of chant-

ing women opposed to the court’s decision have stopped vehicles along the route and at Nilackal, the base camp below the temple, preventing other women from proceeding.

But early Wednesday police broke up the protests at Nilackal to allow hundreds of devotees, male and female, to proceed in buses towards the temple. The final seven kilometres (4.3 miles) will then be made by pilgrims on foot.

“We arrested seven people,” said police chief Manoj Abraham, in charge of 500 officers at Nilackal.

“Anyone who wants to go to the temple will be able to do so without hindrance.”

“Stern action will be taken against anyone who prevents devo-

tees from going to Sabarimala,” Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday.

But traditionalist demonstrators remained defiant, including Biju S. Pillai, a local man in his 30s who said he returned from working in Dubai to “protect the sanctity of the temple” with his mother and young son.

“No one should be able to change the way this temple has functioned for centuries,” he told AFP. “If any change is made they will have to kill us and go over our bodies.”

“I am here to protest the Supreme Court decision,” said engineer Anisha S., 23, one of a group chanting religious slogans. “We want to save our traditions. Ayyappa needs to be respected.” (afp)

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A dietary supplement that promises to make consumers skinny, without dieting or exercise.

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Hidden dangers found in dietary supplements CALIFORNIA - Everyone has seen the ads or the products on the shelves.

A dietary supplement that promises to make consumers skinny, without dieting or exercise. Or the one that will bulk them up and turn them into the envy of other weightlifters at the gym. Not to mention the one to make them perform better in the bedroom.

Their labels say they are safe and all-natural. But are they?

Many of these products contain unapproved and unregulated pharmaceutically active ingredients, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open. The authors wrote that the substances represent “a serious public health concern.”

Researchers from the California Department of Public Health found that from 2007 to 2016, 776 products marketed as dietary supplements contained hidden active ingredients that are unsafe or unstudied. Among them, dapoxetine, an antidepressant that is not approved in the United States, and sibutramine, which was included in some weight-loss supplements but was banned from the U.S. market in 2010 because of cardiovascular risks.

“It’s mind-boggling to imagine what’s happening here,” said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts. Cohen wasn’t involved in the study but wrote a commentary published alongside the research.

The California researchers based their findings on an analysis of a Food and Drug Administration database that identifies “tainted” supplements.

“The study lays a foundation for ongoing enforcement work in this area, by the FDA and other partner agencies, to curb the illegal manufacture, importation, distribution and sales of adulterated dietary supplements,” department spokesman Corey Egel said in an email.

Being tainted or adulterated means that the product contains active ingredients not listed on the label that fly under the FDA’s radar.

Dietary supplements aren’t classified by the FDA as drugs. They are instead considered foods. They include vitamins, minerals and botanicals.

They are not intended to treat or prevent disease and are not subject to premarket safety and efficacy testing that drugs undergo.

The FDA database tracked problems that emerged during “post-market surveillance” — for instance, adverse-events reports and consumer complaints — when bottles were already in consumers’ medicine cabinets.

These issues generally draw FDA warning letters and agency requests for voluntary recalls by the manufacturer.

With an estimated 50 percent of Americans consuming some type of supplement, researchers note that the $35 billion industry is a big business.

But Duffy MacKay, senior vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the supplement industry’s Council for Responsible Nutrition, noted that with between 50,000 and 80,000 supplement labels on the market, 776 tainted products is serious but not widespread.

Of the adulterated products, nearly 46 percent were for sexual performance, 41 percent were for weight loss and 12 percent were for building muscle. Ingredients like sildenafil, the active drug in Viagra, and ephedrine, a stimulant banned from diet pills since 2004, were found in supplements. Anabolic steroids, or ingredients like them, were in 73 of the muscle-building supplements. (IBP/net)

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Police ask for public awareness

GIANYAR — Traffic violation in the tourist area of Ubud becomes a never-ending problem.

Parking prohibition signs having been installed at tourism villages have only become a display.

Parking violation committed by car and motorcycle remains high.

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Condoms are a great way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis and the HIV virus that causes AIDS. They also prevent pregnancy. Plus they are cheap.

Scientists design self-lubricating condom BOSTON - Condoms are a great way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis and the HIV virus that causes AIDS. They also prevent pregnancy. Plus they are cheap.

The trouble is, people often don’t like to use them.

A team at Boston University has come up with a possible solution: a self-lubricating condom.

They developed a compound that sticks to the latex of a condom, and that also holds a thin layer of water. The result is a condom that stays dry until it is touched with a few drops of fluid – either water or bodily fluids. Then it becomes slippery, and holds that slippery texture for a long time.

“Maybe this can have a chance to increase condom use and prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases,” Mark Grinstaff, a bioengineering professor at Boston University who led the study team, told NBC News.

The team had 33 people feel the condom, although they couldn’t test it in real-life action without permission from the Food and Drug Administration.

Almost all of them agreed it was better than a normal, non-lubricated condom and many of those who said they never used condoms agreed they would at least try it out.

“Those individuals who don’t regularly use a condom because it is uncomfortable or because they don’t like it say they would be likely to use a product like this,” Grinstaff said.

Grinstaff’s lab specializes in making interesting material coatings and they started work on the condom idea when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for ideas to encourage condom use.

“We had this idea that if one could take a latex condom put a coating on it and in the presence of water that condom would become slippery, maybe we would have a self-lubricating condom,” Grinstaff

said.

The Boston team got funding from the Gates Foundation to start the project.

They came up with a compound that both adhered to latex, and held a thin layer of water. Regular lubricants wear off fairly quickly, leaving the condom dry and uncomfortable, but this compound kept the condom slippery for 1,000 back-and-forth cycles, the team reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

“The strategy renders fluid lubricants unnecessary for delivering a feeling of lubrication, as the latex surface itself is rendered slippery by the surface treatment,” the team wrote.

It should work in real-life use, Grinstaff said.

“During sex there is bodily fluid that gets generated. That is sufficient to wet the surface of the condom. It takes very, very little water.”

The condom also held up with the new compound on its surface. Tests showed that latex condoms stayed just as strong and supple and non-coated condoms, the team reported.

This won’t work for polyurethane condoms, Grinstaff said. “That will take new chemistry to figure out,” he said.

One of the graduate students working in Grinstaff’s lab, Stacy Chin, has helped found a company to commercialize the product. The company, called Hydroglyde Coatings, plans to start human testing of the new condoms late this year or early next year, Grinstaff said.

They hope their product is a little less messier and simpler to use than standard condoms with a lubricant.

“Condom-associated discomfort is a common ‘turn-off’ and a highly cited reason for persuading one’s partner to forgo using condoms, so many individuals choose to use lubricants to decrease this discomfort,” the team wrote. (IBP/net)

Traffic violation in the tourist area of Ubud becomes a neverending problem.

As observations, parking violations stay to occur in almost every street containing parking prohibition signs as seen on Jalan Raya Ubud in front of the royal palace to the north. Violations are not only committed by motorbikes, but many private cars are also parked carelessly.

Chief of Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs, Gusti Udayani Addi, when asked for her confirmation on Tuesday (Oct. 16) stated that

police had been deployed to patrol in the Ubud area. Well, when finding parking vehicles, they were immediately reprimanded through a loudspeaker. “So, a highway patrol car is deployed to look around Ubud every day,” she said.

If the violators did not pay attention to the reprimand through loudspeaker, they will be immediately ticketed. Regarding the remaining rampant violations, Udayani requested the community participa-

tion to maintain traffic order in Ubud. “We ask public awareness to be orderly,” she pleaded.

In accordance with the agreement of several parties having been made in the declaration, the vehicle parking is directed to the nearest parking center. For Ubud tourism area, the parking is directed to Monkey Forest parking lot. After that, tourists and employees are transported by shuttle buses according to their specified route. (kmb35)

Hundreds of buildings in Jembrana damaged as hit by earthquake

NEGARA - The recent Situbondo earthquake disaster with the magnitude of 6.3 SR also affected to Jembrana. From the data in the Jembrana Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) until Tuesday (Oct. 16), a total of 122 buildings consisting of houses or public facilities are damaged while ten victims were injured.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, I Ketut Eko Susilo Artha Permana, stated on Tuesday afternoon that when updating the data, there were 122 houses or public facilities having been declared to be damaged and suffered material losses. Due to the earthquake, residents suffered losses of up to a total of IDR 250 million.

Eko said that in addition to material losses, there were also victims as the impact of the earthquake. Ten people were injured while some other suffered from broken bones.

Eko revealed that regarding the repair of people’s houses and public facilities, they will be helped by district government. There will be a rehabilitation team and be

coordinated with relevant agencies, namely the Public Works and Settlement Agency.

According to him, in responding to disaster mitigation, there are synergies of three sectors, namely the community itself, the government and the business sector. With regard to assistance from business sector, the business community will

assist in providing assistance when the district government lacks heavy equipment.

On that account, the entrepreneurs can be asked for heavy equipment to help the development.

Then, their CSR will be taken advantage in helping citizens. “So, dealing with disasters need synergy,” he explained. (kmb)

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From the data in the Jembrana Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) until Tuesday (Oct. 16), a total of 122 buildings consisting of houses or public facilities are damaged while ten victims were injured.

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According to him, so far there has been no specific research in Bali related to the potential of the liquefaction. However, he said that Bali region has such a potential. He said that liquefaction can occur in several places. However, from the existing data, the presence of sand layers having the potential to cause liquefaction is in the Bedugul area.

He explained it is usually like a special layer of sand. If the sand

layer is triggered by movement, it can cause sand to move like a landslide in the soil affecting the movement above. Commonly it is triggered by a fault. “In South Bali, there are no data about it,” he said.

Geomorphologically, Indonesia has the potential for liquefaction or dislocation to happen. However, Suyarto stated this has not yet been known by the public. When the incident happened in Aceh, people

began to understand the term of plate.

Likewise, after the incidents in Jogja, Lombok and Palu, people began to get educated, even against the incidence of liquefaction. “As happened in Central Sulawesi, there is indeed the influence of mud. Soil layer runs.

Possibly it was triggered by faults,” he concluded.

He revealed that based on the data in Bali there has been no liquefaction, but the earthquake often happened.

The triggers of the earthquake are usually the result of faults. The most potential, other than the fault in the North, the fault in South Bali is the fault limiting Bali and the Bukit Jimbaran. As a result of the fault, cliff and hill appear in Jimbaran. “This indicates a fault, but is now inactive,” he added.

Bali indeed has great potential for the earthquakes because there is a fault going up in the north and joining the southern plate. However, most of those in the North, including the Situbondo, are also close to North Bali.

“Bali is the same as Lombok and Central Sulawesi. For Bali, chiefly North Bali has very large potential

for the earthquake because based on the earthquake data, the most common cause lies in the North,” he said.

He mentioned that all regions in Bali have the potential of tsunami.

Usually a large tsunami occurs in the deep sea. The sea in North Bali is more dangerous than in the South because the sea from the beach is directly deep, especially in East and North Bali. “If an earthquake happens followed by a tsunami, the arrival will be faster. Meanwhile, the southern coast is more sloping.

In the event of an earthquake, the tsunami appears a little longer than in the East and North Bali,” he explained. (kmb23)

As for Bali sold cheaply in China

Badung parliament soon cracks down on Chinese travel agencies MANGUPURA - The issue of Bali tourism is sold cheaply by travel agencies in China is seriously addressed by the Badung House of Representatives. This problem has a great impact on the regionally generated revenue of Badung district as highly relying on the tourism sector.

Chairman of Commission II of

the Badung House of Representatives, I Wayan Luwir Wiana, admitted that cheap tourism sales will have a negative impact on local tax revenues. On that account, he wanted this should be supervised and inspected by relevant agencies and stakeholders. “It must be inspected starting from licensing matters, travel agencies, tour

guides, restaurants, their accommodation and others. This must be followed up so that it will not result in a problem in the future,” said Luwir Wiana on Tuesday (Oct. 16).

According to him, if proven to have no license and violated, they must be dealt with firmly and imposed with sanctions and even deported. If Bali is sold cheaply, surely

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Cau chocolates receives an award from Jembrana district govt

Sand layer in Bedugul indicates the potential to liquefaction

MANGUPURA - The phenomenon of soil liquefaction when saturated land loses its power actually never happened in Bali before. However, this potential is likely to exist. The most potential location in Bali is on Bedugul highlands. This was said by the geomorphology subject lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, R Suyarto, on Tuesday (Oct.16).

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the region will not get any benefits because all the transactions ranging from hotel, restaurant and others have been completed in their country.

“Of course, this will affect the regionally generated revenue, we get nothing from them while these guests make traffic jams and create problems in Badung,” he said. On that account, Badung legislators

strongly disagreed with the cheap sales of Bali tourism in China.

Tourism players and the government wanted quality tourists visiting Badung and Bali. “I hope that all components must go down. If necessary, we should make a raid all at once,” he said.

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CAU Chocolates Bali Factory & Agro-tourism spreading across the area of 10,000 square meters consists of restaurants, chocolate workshops, paddy fields and cacao gardens. At Cau Chocolates, we can get to know about agriculture more closely both regarding the agriculture (rice) and cacao processed into chocolate being ready for consumption.

Kadek Surya Prasetya Wiguna, a young entrepreneur behind the success of this business, conveyed the history on the establishment of Cau Chocolates Bali Factory & Agro-tourism. It was established in 2014 as a company dedicated to improving the welfare of farmers by buying agricultural products, especially cacao bean at more expensive price than the market’s price. It is intended to make cacao farmers want to improve the quality and quantity of their products.

The company has a mission to introduce cacao farming to general public as well as develop and love the agrarian culture, especially the cacao and subak culture in Bali.

To expand the marketing network of its chocolate products, he opened the Cau Chocolates Food and Gift Restaurant, a modern and homey restaurant at Jalan Kartika Plaza No. 1 Kuta on February 14, 2018. The restaurant offers various types of cuisine with Asian, European, pastry and coffee menus. Uniqueness of this restaurant lies in the delicious food and drinks. Besides, this restaurant offers a wide selection of processed foods from 100 percent organic chocolate and cocoa powder designed in attractive packaging and affordable prices with different flavors such as vanilla, coffee, original, mocha and other unique flavors processed by themselves at the local factory at Cau village, Tabanan.

In accordance with the vision and mission, Cau Chocolates received an award from the Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha, for the consistency of buying cacao beans from local farmers on Thursday (Sep. 6) in Jembrana. The event was opened by the Regent of Jembrana at the Ir. Soekarno Cultural Hall, Jembrana. The event was attended by Chief of Jembrana Police, Budi P. Saragih, together with the Regent and Deputy Regent of Jembrana and all elements of the regional agencies of Jembrana to witness the release of fermented cacao beans to the global market, both export and local needs.

Director General from the Ministry of Estate and Agriculture attended and gave a speech that cacao beans are very useful and beneficial in terms of food.

Besides, the fermented cacao beans dropped into the global market will be useful and beneficial for the community and be able to improve the regional economy.

Meanwhile, Chief of Jembrana Police said that he would support the distribution of these cacao beans because this business is very useful especially for the Jembrana district. Besides, Jembrana has been well known as the exporter of fermented cacao beans in the global market and the world as he expressed at the end of the agenda.

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LONDON - Author Anna Burns on Tuesday became the first Northern Irish writer, and the first woman since 2013, to win Britain’s renowned Man Booker Prize for her novel “Milkman”.

Judges of the annual award praised the work, an exploration of Northern Ireland’s three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a young woman, as “utterly distinctive”.

“None of us has ever read anything like this before,” said Kwame Anthony Ap-

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Spanish stars Veronica Sanchez (R) and Irene Arcos (L) are at the heart of the new series “The Pier”, with actor Alvaro Morte (C) from “Money Heist” playing the errant husband.

‘Money Heist’ makers give sneak peak of new thriller

CANNES - The makers of “Money Heist”, the most-watched non-English language series in Netflix history, premiered their new show “The Pier” Tuesday, a romantic thriller also set in Spain.

Its creators Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato told reporters that the new series was equally gripping -- but in a “much more emotional way” -- as they gave a sneak preview of the first episode at MIPCOM, the world’s top entertainment market in Cannes.

But while “Money Heist” (called “La Casa de Papel” in Spanish) takes place over 11 nail-biting days inside the Spanish Royal Mint as a crack team of crooks try to pull off the biggest robbery in history, “The Pier” is mostly shot outside in one of Spain’s most beautiful national parks.

Pina, who is now working on a third series of “Money Heist”, described it as an “emotional thriller and a big jump outside our comfort zone -- because it’s a story with no guns”.

Instead, “the guns and bombs” of the new show are its love triangle and the high-wire relationship between the two main female characters, said Martinez Lobato.

The eight-hour drama, which screens in Spain in January, turns on a high-flying Valencian architect who has to identify her husband’s body after he is found dead on a pier in nearby rural Albufera after an apparent suicide. (afp)

piah, chair of the 2018 judges, in announcing the winner.

“Anna Burns’ utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose.”

The 56-year-old is the first woman in five years to land the most prestigious English-language literary prize, after Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner, at the age of 28, in 2013.

Burns trumped English debut novelist and British bookmakers’ late favourite Daisy Johnson -- at 27, the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker -- for her novel “Everything Under”.

She also triumphed over longtime frontrunner Richard Powers, who had been tipped to make it three successive wins for US writers with his treethemed n o v e l “ T h e Overstory”. (afp)

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Saudi consul’s residance is cordoned off by Turkish police as officers wait for forensic and investigation delegation at the residence of the Saudi consul in Istanbul, on October 16, 2018, the day after Turkish police and prosecutors searched the Saudi embassy after Riyadh gave the green-light amid global uproar over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi since October 2.

Turkish daily says audio tapes indicate Saudi journalist ‘decapitated’

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured before being decapitated inside Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, pro-government daily Yeni Safak reported Wednesday, saying it had heard audio recordings of the incident. Khashoggi’s alleged killers tortured the journalist during interrogation by cutting his fingers off, Yeni Safak said, claiming it had heard multiple recordings.

The newspaper said Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor, was then decapitated. Khashoggi vanished after entering the consulate for official documents ahead of his upcoming wedding to his Turkish fiancee. While Turkish police believe he was killed by a special team of 15 Saudi officials, Riyadh has dismissed such claims as “baseless”.

One of the members of the Saudi team has been reported to be Salah Muhammed Al-Tubaigy, a lieutenant-colonel in the Saudi fo-

rensic department. The Washington Post has previously cited unnamed US and Turkish officials pointing to audio and video recordings that supposedly prove Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate and was then dismembered.

But this is the first time Turkish media have claimed to hear the tapes. Pro-government newspaper Sabah reported at the weekend that Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recorded his interrogation, torture and killing, although some experts have

said it is not likely that the watch could have recorded the events in the manner described.

According to Yeni Safak, Saudi Arabia’s consul to Istanbul, Mohammed al-Otaibi, can be heard on one tape saying during Khashoggi’s torture: “Do this outside. You are going to get me in trouble.” The daily reported that in another tape, an unknown individual tells Otaibi: “If you want to live when you come to Saudi Arabia, be quiet!”

Yeni Safak did not say how the

tapes came into existence or how it obtained them. But the Middle East Eye website quoted a Turkish source saying that there was “no attempt to interrogate” Khashoggi but the Saudi team had “come to kill him”. The source told the English-language site that his death took seven minutes with Tubaigy beginning to cut the body “while Khashoggi was still alive”.

Tubaigy then reportedly listened to music during the killing. Consul Otaibi left Istanbul on Tuesday for Riyadh ahead of a planned search of his residence as part of the official Turkish investigation into Khashoggi’s disappearance.

On Monday, CNN cited two

sources as saying the Saudis are preparing a report that Khashoggi’s death resulted from a botched interrogation. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday arrived in Ankara from Riyadh for talks with the Turkish leadership saying Saudi Arabia had promised a full investigation into the case.(afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.