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French star Isabelle Huppert glad women are speaking up about harassment

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BERLIN - French actress Isabelle Huppert said on Saturday she was pleased that women were speaking up about their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment after staying silent for so long.

Huppert, who has starred in more than 100 films, was speaking at the Berlin film festival, where a movie called “Eva” in which she plays a high-class prostitute is premiering.

There is a growing debate on sexual harassment driven by the #MeToo movement on social media and Time’s Up, launched by more than 300 Hollywood industry figures in January in response to sexual assault and harassment allegations against powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields.

“I have looked on everything that has happened with this movement with a lot of sympathy and hope because it’s so long that all this stuff should have been said and it finally has been said for the last few months,” Huppert said.

“And that’s been one of the reasons why I’ve been doing cinema - to speak of women in a certain way - and personally speaking I’m very happy that some things have finally been brought out into the open, definitively I hope,” she added.

French actress Catherine Deneuve and 99 other French women signed a column in Le Monde in January saying the #MeToo campaign had gone too far and was fuelled by a “hatred of men”.

But the movement is in the limelight at this year’s Berlinale - several discussion events are being held, guests can visit a counselling corner, and festival director Dieter Kosslick has said some films were cut from the programme due to sexual abuse allegations against people involved.

On Saturday, European film industry workers launched a campaign called “Speak Up!” to try to put an end to sexual harassment and abuse being tolerated in workplaces.

It encourages people to point out incidents of sexism, harassment and abuse of power and wants to ensure businesses know what inappropriate behaviour and sexual misconduct is.

“Eva” is one of 19 films competing for the Berlinale’s Golden and Silver Bears to be handed out on Feb. 24.

Directed by Benoit Jacquot, it tells the story of young man called Bertrand who shoots to fame with a manuscript he stole from a dead writer.

Bertrand is under pressure to write a second piece that will enjoy the same kind of success so when he meets the attractive yet distant Eva he begins transcribing their conversations to form the basis of his next literary work. (rtr)

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Actors Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel and Julia Roy arrive for the screening of the movie Eva at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin,Germany, February 17, 2018.

British actor Robert Pattinson says he does not believe in true love

BERLIN - British actor Robert Pattinson does not believe in true love, he said at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, in contrast to the lovestruck pioneer he portrays

in the western comedy period film “Damsel”.

Directed by David and Nathan Zellner, “Damsel” stars Pattinson as the wealthy Samuel Alabaster who

Actors Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska arrive for the screening of the movie Damsel at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin,Germany, February 16, 2018.

traverses the Wild West in search of his love Penelope, played by Australian actress Mia Wasikowska.

“Do I believe in true, pure love?

No. No, I think it’s, yeah, I mean it’s obviously more complicated,” he said at a news conference after the screening.

“Damsel” is one of 19 films competing for the festival’s Golden Bear award. (rtr)

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The destroyed plane of Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines is seen on the picture.

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All 66 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash Iran plane crash All 66 passengers and crew were believed to have been killed in a plane crash in central Iran on Feb. 18, an airline spokesman said. The domestic flight departed Tehran for the city of Yasuj but came down in bad weather.

200 miles Caspian Sea

Tehran

IRAN

IRAK Dena mountain The ATR plane, operated

by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines, crashed near the town of Semirom.

Sources: Maps4News; Reuters.

G. Cabrera, 18/2/2018

Semirom Yasuj KUWAIT S. ARABIA

Persian Gulf

200 km

DUBAI - All 66 passengers and crew were believed to have been killed in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday, an airline spokesman said, after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. Operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines, the plane crashed near the town of Semirom after taking off from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, news agency ISNA quoted emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying.

The ATR-made plane was on a flight to the southwestern city of Yasuj and a spokesman for the airline said there were 60 passengers and six crew aboard. “All... on board were unfortunately killed,” Aseman spokesman Mohammad Taqi Tabatabai told state television.

Rescue helicopters were unable to land at the probable crash site because of heavy fog and emergency workers were searching the mountainous area

by land, the television report said.

“Heavy snow is making it difficult for rescuers to find the site of the crash,” a television reporter accompanying rescue teams told state television. Media reports said the twin-engined turboprop ATR 72 disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Mehrabad airport.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan

Rouhani issued messages of condolences and the president asked the transport minister to lead an investigation into the crash.

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Opposition to reclamation of Benoa Bay

Economic goals must not sacrifice nature

DENPASAR - During a protest against the planned reclamation of Benao Bay that was held outside the gubernatorial office on Saturday (Feb.17), rock band Navicula played their song entitled law mafia: “The entrepreneurs have conspired with the authorities. They may be rich but they are lacking.

The laws are engineered for the rich. The commoners become victims”. This protest was the latest in a series of innumerable others like it that included art and culture organized by ForBALI and the Association of Customary Villages (Pasubayan) Rejecting Benoa Bay Reclamation.

Navicula’s song Law Mafia is found on their compilation album entitle “Bali Gerak” which translates as “Bali Moves” but means something like Bali stands together. This album was released as a form of protest against the plan to backfill some 700 hectares in Benoa Bay.. “Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 was engineered to allow a conservation zone to

be rezoned for utilization”, said Navicula’s vocalist Robi.

According to Robi, protesting against the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay is a struggle of conscience and does not violate the law because it is in line with the 1945 Constitution. Basic principles of the state have mandated three things related to development in Indonesia (including Bali): development projects must be based on the benefits, independence and sustainability.

“Development in Indonesia must be based on the principle of benefit. This means that many people benefit, that their live;s benefit not just a few rulers, corporations or groups”, he explained. The principle of independence, continued Robi, in this case relates the coast as one of the Indonesia’s greatest assets because of the vast sea. The nation must protect all its assets – not only the sea but also the forest, its local policies as well as indigenous people.

“The third guiding principle of development is sustainability, which of course includes preserving the environment”, he added. The most primary need that must be met in order to achieve prosperity according to the economic goal, is

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The rally held outside the gubernatorial office on Saturday (Feb.17) to reject the reclamation plan.

food, explained Robi . And all food comes from nature, he continued, which is why all parties should understand that nature is at the core of the economy. “How can economic goals sacrifice nature? It’s total non sense. In my opinion, it does not make any sense”, he said.

Thousands of people took part in the protest against the reclamation of Benoa Bay under the banner “Tolak Reklamasi”. The mass of peaceful protestors walked from the East Parking Lot of Renon Square, Denpasar to the gubernatorial office where a giant 150 meter long cloth was unfurled.

“On the long cloth we wrote ‘The fire of our rejection the Benoa Bay Reclamation’ indicating that the passion to oppose the reclamation plan is alive and well and we believe it strongly”, said coordinator of ForBALI, I Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana.

Gendo explained that August 25, 2018 is the deadline for the extension of the location permit issued by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries to the investors of the reclamation project. If by August 25, the impact analysis of PT. TWBI has not been approved by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the location permit expires and the investors can no longer continue their planned reclamation of Benoa Bay. So far, PT. TWBI’s impact analysis has still not been approved because the socio-cultural impact criteria has not been met given that the local community and adjacent customary villages of Benoa Bay have clearly stated their disapproval of the proposed plan.

“Legally, it should end (on August 25, 2018—Ed), but we do not know what other maneuvers might be played because base on our experience for the past 5 years there always seem to be ways for the ruler to provide an opportunities for the reclamation project”, he said.

Gendo gave the example of Presidential Regulation No.45/2011declaring Benoa Bay as a conservation area having been revised with Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

This can serve a a political lesson for the people. People can see for themselves the behavior of their leaders in the face of investment -whether the ruler will be defeated by owners of capital or not.

“If there are such maneuvers again, I am confident this will become a bad precedent in coastal and marine governance.

Certainly, people will keep making their mark on history and will keep fighting”, he said. (kmb32)

Farmers at Subak Bekutel present banten pejati to reduce pest attack

Many paddy farmers today prefer to use chemically-based pesticides to repel pests from their crops. However, there are subak (irrigation cooperative) groups that still use traditional methods to prevent the spreads of pest that attack their paddy plants, including presenting banten pejati offerings at the temple adjacent to their farmlands.

Chief of Subak Bekutel, Apuan

village, Susut, Bangli, I Wayan Tata, explained that in Subak Bekutal, the farmers conducted a notification ritual at Dugul and Masceta Temples that are located near their paddy fields. He said this tradition is a legacy that has been passed down from generation to generation.

“When a pest attack hits the paddy fields, all our farmers present offerings in the notification ritual

at the two temples. We use banten pejati offerings. This ceremony is only held when there is a pest attack in the fields. Otherwise, we do not hold this ceremony”, he explained. According to Tata, the ceremony is meant to appeal to God whose manifestation abides in the temples asking that the pest attacks be reduced.

Every new moon in December (tilem keenem) the farmers also

carry out the nangluk merana ceremony which serves a similar purpose of asking that the pest attacks be reduced so that the farmer’s paddy plant scan grow well.

“Naturally pest will attack paddy fileds, however if we do the notification ritual and the nangluk merana ceremonies, there are less pests. We saw this just a few days ago, in Subak Bekutel where the paddy plants were being attacked

by mice and such. After doing the notification ritual at Dugul and Masceti Temples, there was a marled reduction on the amount of pest compared to before the ritual”, he said.

Admittedly, many farmers in Bali prefer to use chemical pesticides as there are more practical and faster. Traditional ways of expelling pests are being abandoned. (nan)

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Finns Fresh Sushi - Sake It To Me!

So you fancy a bit of sushi eh?

Well splash out the sake because Finns Beach Club has just opened their new Sushi Bar and the food is fab! Now you might wonder why a popular Bali beach club would incorporate a sushi bar into their already successful mix? Well, what could be better than to tuck into a dish of the freshest fish while having the benefit of a beachfront view and a sake or two!

Maybe the idea of eating raw fish did not appeal to as many several years ago, but with the raw food movement in full swing and the masses making a change toward clean and healthy eating, sushi is indeed in vogue and Finns Beach

Club have just the crew to make the most of the island’s freshest seafood and transform it into a mix of amazing flavours.

With experience in Japanese cuisine for over 15 years, the team of chefs come well versed in the delicate art of sushi. Training under the expert guide of a Japanese chef for a number of years then spending considerable time honing their culinary skills in 5 star hotels in the Cayman Islands and Ritz Carlton, Nusa Dua, these guys are no strangers to sashimi, sushi or tempura and it shows!

Finns Sushi Bar’s dedicated menu is comprehensive without being overwhelming. Unlike many

sushi restaurants, it does not offer pages and pages of options to pour over, but a succinct selection of flavoursome and fresh food done well.

Starters include light and fresh favourites for sharing such as edamame, gyoza and yakitori, as well as the must try menu item for fresh fish lovers - the Uzusukuri.

Carpaccio style white fish is sliced impossibly thin, with flavours of the star ingredient accentuated by a delicately infused, truffle ponzu sauce. Ask the waitstaff about the possibility of adding some fresh wasabi (the real stuff mind you, not the grass green, horseradish paste we are all familiar with) and you are in for a visual feast

as well as a chance to treat your tastebuds and spare the sinuses!

The wasabi (a root imported from Japan) is actually grated at your table using a traditional shark skin board. A bamboo brush carefully collects the residue of fresh paste and, after waiting five minutes for the complete kick of the wasabi to develop, just add it to your fish and experience the flavour sensation.

Fresh wasabi still packs a punch.

It’s strong and hot but without the lasting burn of horseradish and thankfully, minus an assault on your sinuses! But you need to indulge quickly, as the full, somewhat herbaceous flavours of this fresh condiment disappear after twenty minutes!

The Signature Rolls at Finns Sushi Bar are almost too pretty to eat.

Whether you’re a slave to social media or not, you’ll want to snap a pic of this before you sample it, however, one taste of their Dragon Roll and you’ll soon forgo any artistic appreciation for the sake of a screaming tummy! Portions are generous and prices reasonable but freshness and flavour are the real winners of each dish.

It gets even better! The food menu is complemented by a beverage list that includes a Sake selection comprehensive enough to make any serious souse stand up and say “Kanpai!” Having a distinctive style, sake may not be to everyone’s taste but I’ll bet my bento box you’ll really love Finns sake inspired cocktails! If you like your martinis, why not try their Saketini - a mix of chilled vodka, sake and cucumber. Cool as! All sakes are available by the bottle, with a decent selection also available by the glass.

Open for lunch and dinner, drop in and get your Finns sushi fix day or night. If you’d prefer to soak up some sun at the same time, simply grab a day bed and kick back with one of their Bento Boxes. Filled with a variety of tasters, these are a great way to sample some of the Sushi Bar menu from your beach towel. Take away options are also available. Even if your skills with a set of chopsticks is a little suspect, be sure to stop by soon and try Finns sushi, where fresh seafood is certainly the order of the day!

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Many spa businesses in South Kuta alleged to be unlicensed

MANGUPURA — Many spa businesses in the area of South Kuta are alleged to have not owned the permit. Such condition was revealed after municipal police team of South Kuta carried out a raid for several times.

Meanwhile, the ‘getting up in the morning’ operation held on Monday (Feb. 12) found there are 13 spa businesses that cannot present their permission. In the meantime, the businesses are only given coaching so as to immediately submit their respective permit. They are given tolerance for one month. Otherwise, they will be imposed with sanctions and will be on trial with misdemeanor claim.

Squad Commander of South Kuta Municipal Police, Wayan Suharyana, when asked for his confirmation on Tuesday (Feb. 13) said that from the raid against the spa business carried out so far, the operation is estimated not to have reached 40 percent of the existing spa businesses in South Kuta area. From the spa business having been recorded, most of the licensed spa businesses are located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai. Suharyana asserted that all businesses should have licensing documents. Without such licensing, the business concerned can be categorized to be illegal, and must be disciplined. His office hoped the related businesses to immediately submit their permission if they do not want to be disciplined. “We have boosted data collection and coaching for tourism supporting businesses since about a week ago. This data collection will continuously be done,” he said. (kmb23)

Many spa businesses in the area of South Kuta are alleged to have not owned the permit.

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Building Unit V of Bali’s governor office on fire

Incident occurs after drawing serial number of candidate pairs

Nice Carnival NICE - Founded in 1873, Nice Carnival is Europe’s answer to Rio and certainly the biggest in France.

The capital of the French Riviera will be awash with colour, as noisy as a carnival can be with women wearing outrageous costumes and headgear.

The theme in 2018 is King of Space. Get into the groove with 1000 dancers and join the Niçois as they turn their streets into places of wonderment and during the Battle of Flowers, pretty girls will hurl out

around 80,000 blooms by the end of the carnival.

If you’re looking for an excuse to come here, February is Carnival time.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to discover Nice’s mild climate, luminous skies and the art of luxury living on the French Riviera.

Stunning floats bedecked with flowers offer family-friendly fun, there are heaps of free activities for little ones.

Nice’s Carnival welcomes its

gay visitors just as warmly as it greets any romantic couple or group of singles seeking exuberant entertainment after winter gloom.

Although each year has its own unique elements, some traditional aspects have grown over more than a century: Carnival Parades by day and by night; Flower Battles; fireworks and the burning of an enormous King.

The Carnival King leads his Carnival Procession through the streets, with around twenty floats taking the theme of the year.

The King is accompanied by more than fifty giant-headed puppets, the Grosses Tetes.

Making the papier-mache fig-

ures uses centuries-old techniques, and the painting is done by specialist craftspeople.

Costumes are created to dress each character, the more flamboyant the better.

Just one puppet can weigh over two tons and tower over the watching crowds at twelve meters high.

A king must have a queen, and she is selected from a bevy of local beauties for the honour.

Her duties range from posing for Carnival photos to throwing posies of flowers from a float for the Flower Parade.

So she needs to be able to keep that lovely smile all day and into the night’s revelries.

Parades take place on three or four afternoons or evenings a week during the Carnival period, and most are free, so you can save your cash for some luxury shopping or a more upmarket hotel. There’s always an admission charge for the Bataille des Fleurs, but it’s well worth shelling out for.

The final weekend of the Carnival in Nice includes a popular Bartenders Race, and the year’s Carnival King is burned in the sea on the last night, followed by a fantastic firework display. The parade route changes slightly each year but usually follows part of the Promenade des Anglais. (net)

DENPASAR — A fire incident occurred in the Building Unit V of the Bali’s governor office on Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 13). The incident was known around 17:30 local time exactly after the Open Plenary Meeting related to the drawing of the candidate pair for governor and deputy governor in a series of the Bali gubernatorial election 2018 held by Bali Electoral Commission (KPUD) in Wiswa Sabha Utama Building of gubernatorial office. Location of the building on fire is behind the Wiswa Sabha Building.

Unit V consists of three floors. On the first floor sits the Press Room, Public Relations Bureau and BPD Bali Office.

Then, on the second floor are the Legal and Human Rights Bureau, and the Government Bureau on the third floor. As seen on Tuesday, a thin white smoke came out of the building, especially from the third floor. Over time, the intensity of smoke was getting thicker and closed visibility. The color was changed into black, before finally emerging flames from the west side of the building.

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A fire truck just arrived few minutes after the incident.

When the smoke remained thin, some employees were seen standing outside Unit V with a panic face. One of the employees admitted that he just completed the work on the third floor before he finally went down and saw the fire on the second floor. On the third floor, he thought there was no fire source.

Some of the employees from the first floor also seemed to save valuables such as cameras, computers, photo and video servers, as well as some photos. An employee of the Public Relations Bureau said that he had just started the computer in his office when he heard an employee shouting from upstairs. Before that, he already smelled something scorched.

However, he did not find a source of fire on the first floor.

When he wanted to bring a hydrant tube to extinguish the fire upstairs, his steps stopped on the second floor because the fire already enlarged.

A fire truck just arrived few minutes after the incident.

After that, a row of other fire trucks came along with water cannon. In total, there are about seven fire trucks from Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Denpasar, six from BPBD Badung district and two water cannon from Bali Police Mobile Brigade which were going back and forth to extinguish the fire. Until around 19:00 local time, they still looked to extinguish the fire on the third floor.

Around 19:45, two fire trucks came from Klungkung district. So, as a whole there were 15 units of fire trucks and two units of water cannon involved in extinguishing the fire.

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, looked to visit the location when the officials tried to extinguish the fire.

He guaranteed there are only a handful of archives in Unit V. The archives are said to be in a safe place at the Archives and Library of Bali Province. “The archives have been saved.

They also have backup in the form of soft copy. Now, there is no longer in the form of a lot of paper,” he said.

Pastika admitted that this incident was known late because most employees had already returned home. On the other

hand, the age of Building Unit V is also old enough because it was built around 1978 in the era of Governor Prof. Ida Bagus Mantra. He suspected the fire occurred due to electrical short circuit. It is not caused by other things such as sabotage because there was a drawing of serial number for the candidate pair of Bali gubernatorial election.

“Do not think too far away, fire incident can happen everywhere. Similarly, our home can be on fire. Probably, it’s time to build a new building,” he explained.

In addition to the governor, a number of officials in the Bali provincial government also visited the scene, ranging from the head of the agencies, regional secretary to the Deputy Governor I Ketut Sudikerta. Such incident also attracted the surrounding communities to watch closely the fire fighting process.

Around 20:00 local time, the fire was no longer visible.

From outside the building, it could be seen a pretty severe damage on the third floor.

Head of the BPBD Denpasar, I.B. Joni Ariwibawa, said the fire could be totally extinguished around 20:30. His agency together with BPBD Badung also did the cooling and checking into the building. It just needed the checking by police authority to know the causes and losses experienced by the Bali provincial government.

“If we look from outside, the most severe damages occurred on the third floor. The source of fire is still investigated by police, we do not know whether it was from the first, second or third floor,” he said.

Strange

In addition to the fire incident in Unit V, one of the shrine buildings located in the northeast of the gubernatorial office was also on fire. It is unknown yet what caused, although there are allegations it was exposed to sparks. However, Unit V itself is located at the western end of the gubernatorial office or quite far from shrine building location. (kmb32)

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Two buildings of elementary schools break down

Legislators deplore low commitment to advance education

NEGARA - Commission A of the Jembrana House of Representatives led by Secretary of Commission A, Ketut Sadwi Darmawan, together with the members consisting of Made Artini, Komang Adiyasa and Siti Ulfa, held a raid on Tuesday (Feb. 13) to elementary schools of SDN 7 Yehembang and SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, Mendoyo subdistrict.

At the two schools the legislators found the buildings are collapsed on the roof due to porous lightweight steel. The legislators regretted the lack of commitment to advance education in Jembrana. “Related agencies should take quick response and do not just wait. Be proactive and all elements must be involved as the development must be done together,” said Sadwi Darmawan.

Principal of SDN 7 Yehembang, Gusti Ayu Nilawati, accompanied by a number of teachers said the building made in 2008 has started to break down since a year ago. Moreover, it has been inspected by deputy regent of Jembrana. “It was broken last January 31, right on the full moon and when the students were praying. Until now, there has been indeed no handling,” added Gusti Ketut Cakra, another teacher.

The building accommodates the fifth and sixth grade classrooms. It is prone to be broken down so that students are now studying in school health unit (UKS) room because the damaged building is emptied. Meanwhile, in SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, the roof of the building also collapsed comprising that of the principal as well as the fourth and fifth grade classroom.

Principal of SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, Gusti Ngurah Suardana, said the roof of the building collapsed in December

2017. It has also been proposed to get school improvement. “However, we are told to wait as there will be a team to come down, but only the supervisory officer that came down.

Our students are evacuated to the KKG meeting room,” he said.

This school is said to be categorized into a core school. On that account, the KKG temporarily moved to SDN 5 Yehembang.

Sadwi Darmawan accompanied by other legislators also said that all this time the district government of Jembrana declares the commitment to improve the quality of education.

“However, in reality there are still damaged and broken school buildings.

Moreover, there are even proposals that have not been addressed,” he said.

In the future, it is necessary to study the use of lightweight steel hood for the construction of roof of the building because it easily becomes porous. “It has been porous before 6 or 10 years old. This must be well considered whether it is appropriate to be used in Jembrana or not. I think it is better to use wood again,” he explained.

He regretted such lack of commitment. The partners also ignored retention and warranty. That’s why this problem, he said, should get the attention in the future. (kmb)

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The legislators found the buildings are collapsed on the roof due to porous lightweight steel.

Threatened and vilified, but Philippine lawyer says he wants “death squad president” in court

MANILA - Philippine attorney Jude Sabio says he hasn’t been home for a year, steers clear of public events and is forever looking over his shoulder after accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of crimes against humanity.

Sabio, a stocky 51 year-old, says he lives in constant fear of reprisals after filing a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the wildly popular Duterte, whose administration Filipinos rate as the best performing since opinion polls started in the 1980s.

A little-known lawyer until he filed the complaint last April, Sabio argues that the deaths of thousands of Filipinos in a brutal war on drugs is Duterte’s method of controlling crime, and that he used the tactic effectively during his 22 years as the mayor of Davao City in the south of the country.

Duterte has repeatedly denied ordering extra-judicial killings while mayor or president and reiterated this month that he would “gladly” go before the ICC. Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had earlier said her office had started a preliminary examination into whether any crimes against humanity had been committed and if ICC had jurisdiction.

The step is the first in a process that could take years to complete, if at all. Since it was set up in 2002, the ICC has received more than 12,000 complaints or communications, just nine of which have gone to trial.

Sabio’s move is unpopular in a country where, despite the bloodshed, Duterte enjoys a cult-like status and has a loyal online following which hounds and harasses his opponents.

The Social Weather Station’s (SWS) latest quarterly poll shows Duterte’s trust rating

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Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio poses for a picture in Metro Manila, Philippines February 10, 2018. Picture taken February 10, 2018. bounced back to “excellent” in December from “very high” three months before. Another SWS poll gave his government the best rating so far for a Philippine administration “When I went to The Hague I received so many threats,” Sabio told Reuters. “The

Culprits raided at hotel

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This gang of thieves from Palembang, South Sumatra, was raided at one of the hotels on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

3) at 15:30 local time indicated if the victim went out with his son and domestic assistant to Pika Boo games arena on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur. Around 19:00 they arrived home and found the padlock of the gate missing.

After coming further into the house, the victim found the door of his house having been grubbed up.

He immediately checked his room and it was disheveled. When reporting the case, the victim admitted to have lost CCTV modem, IndiHome Wi-Fi modem, Lenovo notebook, two pieces of 14-carat diamond ring worth IDR 50 million, one gold earlobes, pearl gold ring, golden pearl necklace, two gold rose rings, one golden necklace

weighing 80 grams, eight 24-carat gold rings for children, two 18carat gold necklaces for children and two 18-carat gold bracelets for children. “The victim admitted to suffer losses of IDR 100 million,” he said.

After receiving the report, the Chief of South Denpasar Police Operations Team conducted an investigation. Four hours after the case was reported, police managed to track down the whereabouts of the culprits, namely at a hotel on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

After that, police raided the hotel room and arrested the two culprits.

In addition, police also confiscated evidence stolen at the victim’s home. (kmb36)

(latest) announcement from the ICC, I’m also receiving threats. It’s many, I don’t want to read them.”

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque says “domestic enemies of the state” are behind Sabio’s complaint. Asked about Sabio’s

safety, Roque said he should report threats to the police.

“We have no ill will against him,” he added. “We know it (the complaint) will not proceed beyond preliminary examination.” (rtr)

Three held as $1.8 bln fraud ripples through Indian banks

A House of Korean citizen burgled by thief DENPASAR — South Denpasar police officers revealed a burglary case at the home of Chang Suk Cho, 27, from Korea on Jalan Tukad Balian, Maja Huma Residence, Renon, Denpasar, last Saturday (Feb. 3). The culprits consist of Gatot Wijaya, 40, and Alexander, 26. This gang of thieves from Palembang, South Sumatra, was raided at one of the hotels on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit of South Denpasar Police, Bangkit Dananjaya, with permission from Chief of South Denpasar Police, Putu Indrajaya, said on Tuesday (Feb. 13) the results of investigation on Saturday (Feb.

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Police escort a man suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, at a court in Mumbai, India, February 17, 2018.

NEW DELHI - India’s federal police detained two employees of Punjab National Bank, the staterun lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77 billion fraud, in the first arrests in a fast-widening probe into the country’s biggestever bank scam.

Gokulnath Shetty and Manoj Kharat are suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and entities tied to jewellery retailer Gitanjali, which is led by Modi’s uncle, Mehul Choksi.

India’s Income Tax department warned in an internal note seen

by Reuters that domestic banks could take a hit of more than $3 billion from loans and corporate

guarantees provided to Modi and Choksi.

The arrests, late on Friday, came two days after India’s secondlargest state-run lender said it had been hit by massive fraud, sending its share price tumbling.

The accusations against the two relatively junior PNB officials were detailed in the lender’s disclosure, and also contained in a preliminary police report.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested a third person, Hemant Bhat, whom a source described as the “authorised signatory” of the companies tied to Nirav Modi.

All three appeared before a hot, packed courtroom in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, where they

were ordered to remain under police custody until March 3 to allow the CBI to continue its investigation. No charges have yet been laid.

“CBI must get fair chance to investigate this very serious offence, which has consequences for the country’s economy,” said judge S R Tamboli, as PNB employee Shetty shifted nervously and blinked frequently. The other two stood passively.

Family members of the accused present at the court defended them, saying they were innocent.

Kharat’s uncle told Reuters the PNB employee was “just following orders of superiors” and added “he wasn’t aware of what he is doing”. (rtr)

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Tunisia phosphate exports halted by job protests

‘WE HAVE NOTHING’ “We suffer from pollution from the phosphate production, such as ground water contamination, but don’t benefit from exports,” 40-year-old Essam said. “In the capital you have a nice life, but we have nothing.” The government has been trying to negotiate an end to the protests to no avail. With little coordination between groups of protestors it is difficult to reach a deal. Whenever new hires are announced, as happened three

weeks ago, other unemployed men show up to take their place.

“The (CPG) company cannot occupy everyone,” Khaled Kadour, minister of energy, told state radio. CPG, which employs more than 30,000 people, produced 4.15 million tonnes of phosphate last year versus 3.3 million tonnes in 2016, its data showed. Once one of the world’s largest phosphate makers, Tunisia’s production has halved since 2010 because of repeated protests and a fall in foreign buyers.

Still, the industry remains a key hard currency earner. Tourism, another big source of income, nearly collapsed after two militant attacks in 2015. The number of foreign visitors rose by 23 percent in 2017 but is still below pre-2011 levels. The economy has deteriorated further in recent weeks, with hard currency reserves falling to a 15-year low and less than three months’ worth.

DIVIDE The mining conflict highlights a divide in Tunisia, where wealth is concentrated in the capital Tunis and its coastline. In these areas you find highways, railways and what foreign investment the country has managed to attract. In the hinterland and south it’s a different story. It takes six hours to drive to the phosphate mine from Tunis because roads are so poor on the 400km (249 miles) route.

The south has only one major private investor, Delice , a food maker co-owned by France’s Danone. That has left the phosphate industry as the focal point of the growing anger. Most protestors have high school or even university degrees but can’t find work.

In Gasfa province unemployment is almost 30 percent, double the national average.”I have been jobless since graduation in 2006,” said 23-year-old Fawzi Mohseen, one of the

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mine occupiers.

The public service has long been the main employer in Tunisia, part of Ben Ali’s system to buy loyalty, but the government has been trying to change this as part of efforts to bolster empty coffers. Local lawmaker Adnen Hajji agreed that the public service could not hire everyone but that corruption at state companies made matters worse.

“There are some who take a salary but don’t produce anything,” he said. “There is corruption, there is no transparency about hirings, that’s why there are protests and chaos. Now the company is closed.” Ali Houchati, a company spokesman, said “talking about corruption is a populist discourse” but declined to comment further.

Stability in Tunisia is of concern for Western countries as locals have joined a trail of illegal migrants to Europe or to Libya, Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State. (rtr)

Representing the Village of Tejakula, community leader and wayang wong perfromer Gede Komang was recived the certificate from the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana. Komang said that communities in the region are very much dedicated to protecting the sacred value of the wayang wong masks. The clan Temple of Tejakula Village houses some 75 masks, but only some of these masks can be displayed in “The original mask may not be taken out of the temple grounds and should only be used in performances at the clan temple of Tejakula village. The temple’s supporting devotee are dedicated to maintaining the sanctity of the wayang wong mask” he said.

Actually, continued Gede Komang, there are quite a lot of travelers who are attracted to visit Tejakula village and see the wayang wong show. However, since the wayang wong mask the temple cannot be taken outside the temple grounds, tejakula’s community leader finally decided to create replicas of the mask so that the wayang wong could be perfromed elsewhere. “The duplicates are allowed to be taken out of the village. In the 1970s, the wayang wong mask duplicates were used in performances at home and overseas making the wayang wong more widely known in

Asian and European countries”, he added.

Gede Komang said that wayang wong becomae known in many countries thanks to the efforst of famous leaders like Nyoman Tusan and Made Bandem, Jero Bendesa and Santika. Gede Komang himself participated in devotional work by dancing at Tejakula village. He was then appointed as advisor to the Teja Murti wayang wong troupe –the only one in his village.

So far there have been no difficulties in

rity guards on a 2 million bolivar monthly salary - $10 at the black market rate - plus a “motivational” bonus of eggs.

To qualify for the weekly box of 36 eggs, worth around $2 at the black market rate, staff have to arrive on time, not miss shifts and dress smartly.

“Many weren’t complying with

these basic rules, that’s why we’ve done this,” human resources manager Cindy Fuenmayor told Reuters. “We’ve had lots of applications since we published the ad.

We’re being innovative. It’s a good incentive.”

Food and transport bonuses have become crucial for Venezuelan workers. The currency has

collapsed to such an extent that the minimum wage is currently around $1 per month at the black market rate.

Venezuela is also undergoing hyperinflation, and has one of the world’s highest murder rates - with security guards often victims of crime.

President Nicolas Maduro

blames the problems on an “economic war” waged by the opposition with a helping hand from Washington, while critics say his socialist government has wrecked the economy via incompetence and corruption.

Around 200 positions are available at Atlas, said Fuenmayor, mainly to guard farms. (rtr)

dancing the wayang wong. “Indeed, our friends have no difficulty dancing the wayang wong. However, they do have some trouble chanting the kekawin or kidung songs of the Ramayana storyline because these Balinese songs use the Old Javanese language that they do not understand. The wayang wong of Tejakula was originally devellpoed in the seventeenth century and had to be perfromed on Umanis Galungan”, explained Gede Komang.

According to Gede Komang, the wayang wong players receive divine revelations through generations allwoign the dance to be preserved into the next generation. It is said that if any residents does not comply with the faith or are not willing to perform it, they would often experience pain or difficulty in life. “People who are not descendants of wayang wong dancers are also given the opportunity to learn to dance the wayang wong” added he said. (kmb)

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Salary + 144 eggs: Venezuelan firm offers unusual monthly compensation

CARACAS - A Venezuelan security firm is looking to attract personnel with a “motivational” bonus of 144 eggs for good presentation and time-keeping - alongside a $10 per month salary.

Aware of food scarcities and soaring prices in the crisis-hit economy, Atlas Security, in western Zulia state, is seeking secu-

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The Wayang Wong or human puppet of Tejakula, that takes its storyline form the Ramayana epic and is perfromed in Old Javanese, is becoming incresingly well-known internationally. During the opening of the fourth annual Buleleng Festival, the Director General of Culture for the Ministry of Education and Culture -through the government of Buleleng, awarded the the wayang wong troupe with a certificate of appreciation for the establishment Tejakula’s wayang wong as world intangible cultural heritage

by UNESCO. The younger geneation is now expected to help preserve this art form in the face of the challenges of globilization.

UMM AL-ARAIS - Young men block the entrance of a Tunisian phosphate mine, halting exports as they demand jobs in a conflict that is exacerbating an economic crisis in the North African country. Hundreds have occupied the mines of state-run Gafsa Phosphate (CPG), the main employer in the country’s poor southern region, depriving Tunisia of badly needed hard currency and drawing a warning from a local MP that continued protests would hit the company.

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The conflict symbolises the struggle the government faces as it tries to cut a public wage bill that is among the world’s highest at almost 15 percent of GDP, and its deficit as agreed with foreign donors, all while trying to tame dissent.

Protests broke out across the country in January, with many angry at being worse off than before a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The subsequent turmoil has scared off tourists and investors while fuelling unemployment and inflation as the dinar’s value slid by 40 percent.

Those demonstrations have stopped, but youths have switched tactics to blocking all the phosphate mines and hitting the state where it hurts most. While there have been protests before, this is the first time all mines are shut.

“We will not end our protest unless the government hires us all,” said Ahmed Essam, camping out in a makeshift tent at a mine in the southern town of Umm al-Arais.

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Kendang Mebarung or drum competition as one of the arts originating in Jembrana should still be preserved to the posterity. In each performance, the art troupe is expected to play in compliance with the existing pattern.

On that account, this art can be maintained through generations.

It is emphasized to a number of sacred art troupes during the recent coaching held by the office of the Jembrana Religious Affairs, Sunday (Jun. 5) at meeting hall of Dangin Tukadaya village. This village has a Kendang Mebarung

art troupe with the member of 25 people.

The opening of the coaching was attended the Head of the Bali Ministry of Religious Affairs A.A. Gede Muliawan and the Head of Jembrana Religious Office I Gusti Komang Sumberjana. Hindu Section Head at the Jembrana Religious Affairs Ida Bagus Ketut Rimbawan said that the guidance was also meant to disseminate the distinctive arts of Jembrana to prevent it from extinction.

Other than the Kendang Me-

barung art troupes, the coaching was attended by the art troupes of Wayang Wong, Sudamala Puppet and mask dancers. The coaching was emphasized to restore the pattern especially the Kendang Mebarung art, so that the typical art of Jembrana will not go extinct in harmony with the time changes.

The coaching includes the technique of beating, creating sounds, drinking carakan water and mebetenan (foot toss). Guidance for the art troupes is routinely held every year as an effort to preserve the sacred art. (kmb)

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Florida school massacre suspect on authorities’ radar in 2016 -media

PARKLAND - A teenager accused of fatally shooting 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving sufficient support, newspapers said on Saturday.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, is charged with committing multiple murders on Wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. More than a dozen people also were wounded in the deadliest shooting at a U.S. high school.

The charges can bring the death penalty, but prosecutors have not yet said if they will seek capital punishment. Days after the killings, a somber series of vigils and funerals were being held in and around Parkland, a Fort Lauderdale suburb of about 32,000 people.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel first reported that a video of Cruz cutting his arm posted to the social media network Snapchat in September 2016 raised concerns among law enforcement and at the Florida Department of Children and Families.

“Mr. Cruz stated he plans to go out and buy a gun.

It is unknown what he is buying the gun for,” said a

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report written by department officials after investigators interviewed the teenager, the Sun Sentinel said.

The newspaper reported investigators ultimately decided that Cruz, then 18, was receiving enough support from mental health professionals and from his school, and any risk in his case was low.

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has asked a court to release the records for transparency, adding it has reviewed the circumstances surrounding the 2016 case.

“Mental health services and supports were in place when this investigation closed,” DCF Secretary Mike Carroll said in a statement.

The long-simmering U.S. debate about gun rights played out on Saturday at events in the area.

Hundreds of people attended a rally in Fort Lauderdale where students from the school demanded new gun control measures to tighten what they saw as easy access to firearms in the state. They also accused some politicians of being more concerned about protecting the firearms lobby than children.

“Because of these (current) gun laws, people that I know, people that I love, have died,” Delaney Tarr, a senior at the school, told the rally.

At a nearby gunshow, attendees said new laws would not have prevented the massacre, adding gun rights are protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. (rtr)

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Indonesian court indicts cleric accused of masterminding attacks

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A soldier stands guard next to a military helicopter, carrying Mexico’s interior minister and the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land in Santiago Jamiltepec, Mexico February 17, 2018.

Mexico helicopter crash kills 13 on ground in wake of earthquake

SANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

The helicopter, which was carrying Mexico’s interior minister and the state governor, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land at night in Santiago Jamiltepec after a tour of damage from Friday’s powerful quake.

The senior officials survived but 12 people at the scene were killed and another died later in a hospital, Oaxaca’s attorney general’s office said in a statement. Another 15 people were injured.

Luis Cabrera, a civil protection official at the scene, said authorities were still investigating the cause of the crash.

The 7.2 magnitude quake knocked out electricity in Santiago Jamiltepec, about 28 miles (45 km) from the tremor’s epicenter, leaving the town in darkness Friday night.

A journalist on board the flight told local TV that the helicopter had flown in over a clearing next to homes, raising a huge dust cloud before it crash landed.

At a home near the accident site, family members gathered to mourn their loved ones after officials returned their bodies. Many lashed out in anger at authorities.

“The governor was supposedly coming to help, but what was the help, the aid, we received? This was the aid,” said Eduardo Juarez, a relative of one victim.

Mexico’s defense minister, General Salvador Cienfuegos, arrived at the scene on Saturday and spoke with locals, offering apologies and taking responsibility for the accident.

“We will take care of what we have to do and we will do everything in our power to try to remedy this misfortune,” Cienfuegos told reporters.

He blamed the late hour and the heavy dust for “disorienting” the pilot, but he said he did not think there had been any “recklessness” by the helicopters’ crew.

The earthquake left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in Mexico City and the south and damaged at least 50 homes in Oaxaca.

The state, along with Mexico City, is still reeling from earthquakes in September that killed at least 471 people and caused widespread damage. (rtr)

All 66 passengers...

aircraft or spare parts from the West. The crashed ATR was 25 years old, officials said. Based in the southern French city of Toulouse, ATR is a joint venture between Airbus and Italy’s Leonardo One of Iran’s worst air accidents happened in February 2003 when an Iranian Ilyushin-76 troop carrier crashed in southeast Iran, killing all 276 Revolutionary Guard soldiers and crew aboard. (rtr)

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A student protester chants at a rally calling for more gun control three days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 17, 2018.

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Mehrabad is located in western Tehran and mainly functions as a domestic airport, although it also serves some international routes.

Iran has suffered several plane crashes in the past few decades.

Tehran says U.S. sanctions have long prevented it from buying new

JAKARTA - An Indonesian court indicted radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman on Thursday over allegations he masterminded from his jail cell a series of attacks in the Muslim-majority nation, including a deadly 2016 gun and suicide bomb assault in Jakarta. Abdurrahman arrived in a Jakarta courtroom under police escort and at least a dozen heavily armed officers stood guard outside as prosecutors read out allegations against him.

According to the indictment document, he was on trial for “planning and/or mobilizing others to carry out terrorist acts ... to create an atmosphere of terror among the public”.

Prosecutor Anita Dewayani told the court Abdurrahman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group in 2014 and then urged others to undertake a series of attacks. She cited one alleged plot for a “Paris-style attack” targeting foreigners, particularly French and Russian citizens.

Dewayani read out the names of the victims of some of the attacks Abdurrahman is accused of masterminding, including one in January 2016 in which eight people were killed, including four attackers, after suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the heart of the Indonesian capital.

She also alleged he was behind

a suicide attack last year that killed three police officers at a Jakarta bus station and the bombing of a church in Samarinda on Borneo island that wounded four children.

Abdurrahman, who wore orange prison clothes with a checkered scarf tied around his head, told the court he understood the charges and did not object to the indictment. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

The cleric and ideologue is the founder of Islamic State-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a militant group in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that the United States has designated as a “terrorist organisation”. He was immediately re-arrested by police last year after serving time in prison for setting up a militant training camp in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Abdurrahman had reportedly also managed to keep spreading his jihadist message on social media from jail. “To put it generally, he is the mastermind behind many of the terrorist acts in Indonesia,” prosecutor Dewayani later told reporters. The maximum penalty for such charges is the death sentence, she said. Prosecutors have asked for the trial to be adjourned until Feb. 23, when they plan to present witnesses. (rtr)

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A plain clothes policeman guards Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman as he walks to the courtroom for his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia February 15, 2018.

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Women walk in front of decoration for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year of the Dog at Ciputra shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 14, 2018.

Chinese New Year reflects our pride in diversity: House speaker

JAKARTA - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bambang Soesatyo, has said the Chinese New Year celebrations held significant meaning for Indonesia as they showed the nation`s pride in diversity. “Diversity is not only a national treasure but also the spirit of our nation,” Soesatyo said in a written statement released in Jakarta on Friday. He hoped this year`s Chinese New Year (Imlek) celebration would bring wisdom regarding the importance of diversity.

Soesatyo said the celebration of the Lunar New Year belonged not only to Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent but also to all people of ethnic Indonesia. “In this year`s celebration, I appeal that we especially pray for nation`s teacher KH Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur,” he said.

The House Speaker, who is also a Golkar Party politician, said Gus Dur had set an example for being grateful for the diversity as a blessing and a gift from God Almighty.

He further hoped that through the celebration of Imlek, the nation and the state of Indonesia will continue

to advance into a civilised nation, respecting cultural diversity and loving the nation`s sons.

Meanwhile, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) tweeted a message to congratulate those celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year and to wish them prosperity this year. The congratulatory message was posted on the president`s Twitter account @jokowi on Friday.

“Wishing Chinese New Year 2569 to those celebrating it. Healthy body, peaceful heart, and always happy.

Prosperity is always with all of us,” the president wrote on his account at 10.43 am, local time. Some 3,000 people liked the president`s tweet and 1,800 others re-tweeted the message.

The first day of the Chinese New Year 2569 falls on Friday, February 16, marking the start of the Year of Dog. Celebrations generally begin on the first day of the Chinese calendar and end on the 15th, which is often referred to as Cap Go Meh. The Lunar New Year, otherwise known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated around the world but the main festivities are organised in China as well as other Asian countries. According to the Chinese 12-animal zodiac system, 2018 is the Year of the Dog, succeeding the Year of the Rooster and preceding the Year of the Pig. (rtr)

Police name five people as suspects in killing of orangutan SAMARINDA - The police in Kutai Timur, East Kalimantan, have named five people as suspects behind the death of an orangutan by shooting in the Kutai National Park. Chief of the Kutai Timur police resort Senior Adjunct Commissioner Teddy Ristiawan stated here on Saturday that all suspects living near the location where the orangutan’s body was found were arrested on Thursday.

“After intensively questioning them, they were declared as suspects on Friday,” he noted. The arrests of the five suspects were made eight days after the police conducted an investigation into the death of the primate found with some 130 air gun bullets in its body.

“They are crop farmers and know that hurting orangutans is against the law. They shot the animal, as it had damaged their crops,” he noted.

Nasir, 55; Andi, 37, Nasir’s in-law; Rustam, 37, Nasir’s son; Hendri, 13, Andi’s younger brother; and Muis, 36, Nasir’s neighbor, are currently being held at the Kutai Timur police station. “We have confiscated four guns from them as evidence. We held the adults but not the underage child,” he noted.

The suspects have allegedly violated Law Number 5 of 1990 on the conservation of natural resources

and the ecosystem. “They face a maximum jail term of five years and a fine of Rp100 million,” he noted.

The primate, aged around five to seven years, was discovered in a wounded state by villagers on Saturday (Feb 3) at the Kutai National Park area in Teluk Pandan Village, Kutai Timur District.

The park rangers immediately evacuated the animal after receiving a report about it for treatment.

However, the orangutan succumbed to serious injuries on Tuesday (Feb 2) at around 1:55 a.m. local time.

A team of doctors was only able to remove 48 out of around 130 bullets found lodged mostly in the head of the animal during an operation that lasted from Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.

Doctors also discovered at least 19 old and new sharp object wounds on the body of the animal. (rtr)

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Federer downs Seppi to reach Rotterdam final

ROTTERDAM - New world number one Roger Federer delivered another polished performance to beat Andreas Seppi 6-3 7-6(3) in the semi-final of the ABN AMRO World Tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday.

Pangsan tourism village offers unique traditions MANGUPURA - Pangsan Village located 45 km from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, can be reached by public transport for 1 hour. Tracking activity, walking surround the village, is a favorite for foreign tourist. Almost every day, there are tourist groups utilizing the tourism product of the village.

There are two lanes of tracking offered, “hard tracking” with a distance of 5 km and “soft tracking” with a distance of 2 km. All of these pathways offer the beauty of rice fields with attraction service of plowing fields traditionally. For travelers who have an adventure spirit, feel the rush of the village river by rafting game through the village with the distance of 2.5 hours.

Certainly every inch of the village area has its own custom, tradition and culture and so does the Pangsan village, Petang, North Badung. Local community has distinctive rites. At this tourism village you can see, learn and feel how people perform the ceremony;

Ngenar ceremony Cooking porridge ceremony at Pangsan village is called making endar. The ceremony is performed by children aged 9 to 10 years old at Puseh Pingit Temple. It is performed 15 days before Galungan.

Daha Teruna ceremony Daha Teruna ceremony is the procession of preparing lawar, spices, decoration and others prepared by men. Meanwhile, teenage

The Swiss will play world number five Grigor Dimitrov in Sunday’s final.

Federer, who has won the title twice before, was not at his fluent best but was seldom troubled after breaking the Italian early in the first set and proved too good on all the big points.

The 36-year-old guaranteed his return to the top of the world rankings on Friday after more

than five years, becoming the oldest man ever to reach the summit.

In the other semi-final, Belgium’s David Goffin was forced to retire against Dimitrov after suffering a freak eye injury.

The 27-year-old was trailing 6-3 0-1 when he framed an attempted volley directly into his left eye and was unable to continue. It was not clear how serious the injury was. (rtr)

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Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

girls prepare various vegetables of sad rasa (six flavors) used for Lampadan ceremony.

Nyerahane Saye Tradition It is a handover ceremony of the assistant to the customary village chief performed at local Puseh Pingit Temple. It is accompanied with Malang ceremony - namely the procedure of boiling chicken with seasoning such as shredded coconut, chopped complete seasoning, plus Balinese palm sugar.

Urak tradition It is a tradition of handing over diverse seasonings at Pucak Manik Temple and Catus Pata (central intersection) by a number of community members (family member) set in rotation every day. (kmb)

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GANGNEUNG - American jumping ace Nathan Chen lived up to his reputation on Saturday, redeeming himself with quadruple jumps after a pair of disastrous skates in Pyeongchang and making Olympic history into the bargain with a brilliant free skate.

Even though he ended out of the medals, Chen’s clean landing of an unprecedented six quads - the first time anybody has done so in the Olympics - helped him vault from 17th to fifth place on the weight of the free skate.

Mao Asada of Japan, who won silver in Vancouver 2010, had a similar experience in Sochi in 2014, following

a terrible short skate with a stellar free programme that lifted her from far down the ranks up to sixth place and left her in tears.

Chen said that his fall and the other mistakes of Friday’s short programme proved strangely freeing.

“Honestly, I wasn’t nervous at all,” the 18-year-old told reporters after his performance, saying that doing so badly led to his decision to add another quad to his programme.

“I sort of planned it yesterday after I had such a bad short. I might as well just go for everything right now, I have literally nothing to lose so I might as well just

go for it.”

After repeatedly saying that the Olympics were just another competition for him prior to his short skate on Friday, Chen taking part in his first Olympics - ruefully admitted that the expectations and the occasion got the best of him.

“As much as I tried to deny it I guess I really did feel the pressure a lot, from especially before the short programme, thinking about medals and all that, things that were completely out of my control,” he said.

“That just tightened me up and made me really cautious out on the ice, and that’s not the right way to skate.”

Chen said earlier this week that after his

poor skate in the team competition he had gone straight to the rink for 20 minutes of practice that had helped settle his head.

But Friday was different.

“There was no ice time, or I totally would have (practiced),” he said. “I went home and lay in bed and tried to relax a bit.”

In the end, he was philosophical.

“I was glad I was able to show myself and everyone else that I can bounce back from a bad performance. I’m human, I make mistakes, and unfortunately I had a really bad time,” he said.

“I’m really happy with what I did here and tomorrow is another day.” (rtr)

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Inter Milan’s Antonio Candreva reacts

VAR in the firing line again as United beat Huddersfield

REUTERS/Alberto Lingria

Bizarre own goal costs Inter dearly

MILAN - One of the most bizarre own goals of the Serie A season set Inter Milan on their way to a 2-0 defeat at Genoa which cost them third place on Saturday. Veteran Macedonia striker Goran Pandev scored the second against his old club as Inter slipped below AS Roma, who earlier won 2-0 at Udinese after Cengiz Under scored his fourth goal in three games.

Inter ended an eight-match winless run in the league by beating Bologna 2-1 at San Siro last Sunday but if they thought it signalled a change in fortune, they were mistaken.

On the stroke of halftime, Ervin Zukanovic swung in a cross, which Milan Skriniar hooked away. But his clearance ricocheted off Andrea Ranocchia and flew into the net, leaving goalkeeper Samir Handanovic stranded. Handanovic had previously had a let-off when he misjudged Pandev’s cross and the ball bounced over him, hit the crossbar and fell back into his arms.

Inter fell further behind just before the hour as Diego Laxalt’s shot from the edge of the penalty area

was intercepted by Pandev, who controlled it superbly with one touch and placed his shot past Handanovic.

Roma, who travel to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Wednesday, scored twice in the last 20 minutes at Udinese to clock up their third successive win.

Under set them on the way, the Turk scoring with a 20-metre shot which swerved away from Albano Bizarri, and Diego Perotti sealed the win after capitalising on a mistake in the last minute.

Roma have 50 points from 25 games although there is a 12-point gap between themselves and secondplaced Juventus, who visit Torino on Sunday. Leaders Napoli, a further point ahead, host lowly SPAL. Chievo ended a 10-match winless run by beating Cagliari 2-1 to move away from the drop zone.

Former Juventus and Sunderland forward Emanuele Giaccherini, on loan from Napoli, curled in a free kick for the Flying Donkeys in the 74th minute and Roberto Inglese finished off a counterattack for the second two minutes later. Leonardo Pavoletti reduced the arrears for the Sardinians.

Both teams have 25 points, eight clear of the relegation zone. (rtr)

The VAR system faced criticism again as Manchester United had a goal contentiously ruled out for offside by the video assistant in their 2-0 FA Cup fifth-round victory over Huddersfield Town on Saturday. United midfielder Juan Mata put the ball in the net on the stroke of halftime with his side already leading 1-0 but his effort was eventually ruled out following a lengthy stoppage.

The goal had initially been given after the linesman had kept his flag down, but after long-winded deliberations with the video assistant, referee Kevin Friend scrapped his original decision.

Replays suggested that if Mata was offside, it was only by the tiniest fraction and not a clear mistake by the officials. Despite having the goal chalked off, Spaniard Mata said he was in favour of the VAR system, but Huddersfield manager David Wagner, whose team benefited from the decision, said it was “killing the emotion of the game”.

“I think the line was very tight,” Mata told the BBC after two goals from Romelu Lukaku sent United into the quarter-finals. “I did what I had to do which was to score and celebrated. Then after I saw the referee speaking to someone and you look silly when the goal is denied.

“I’m up for VAR and I think it is good for football especially to make important decisions and make

it a little bit fairer but it seems like today it was not a very clear the decision against us and me.”

Wagner was less enthusiastic about VAR even though it kept Huddersfield in the match before Lukaku, who gave United a thirdminute lead, sealed their victory with another clinical finish following a defence-splitting pass by Alexis Sanchez. “Yes, the decision went in our favour but this VAR for me kills the emotion of the game,” he said. “This is why I don’t like it but I am not the person who makes the decision.”

With one eye on Wednesday’s Champions League last 16 first leg away to Sevilla, United manager Jose Mourinho rested several starters and was happy after his makeshift side, also missing the ill Paul Pogba, cruised into the last eight.

“It was hard but we started really well,” said the Portuguese coach, who denied reports earlier in the week that he was at loggerheads with the out-of-form Pogba.

“With that second goal in the second half I think we killed the game and from that moment we were in control. “Good counterattacks, twice attacking the space well. Twice cold in front of the keeper, good decisions, good shots, good goals, important goals from us.” United will host Brighton and Hove Albion in the quarter-final. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Manchester United’s Juan Mata scores a goal that is disallowed due to offside after VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is consulted

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Suarez and Alba give Barca win, Valencia stage late comeback EIBAR - Barcelona got back to winning ways on Saturday after two consecutive draws, earning a 2-0 victory at Eibar thanks to goals from Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba to move 10 points clear at the top of the Liga standings. Suarez latched on to a pass from Lionel Messi to dribble round the home side’s goalkeeper and slot into an empty net in the 16th minute, while Messi hit the woodwork later in the game, as did Eibar’s Fabian Orellana, who was sent off with 25 minutes remaining for a second booking.

Eibar coach Jose Luis Mendilibar was also dismissed later for angry protests against referee Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez. Elsewhere in La Liga Valencia produced a quick-fire turnaround to win 2-1 at basement club Malaga and ensure they will end the weekend in third place, while Sevilla warmed up for their Champions League game with Manchester United next week by beating Las Palmas 2-1.

At Eibar Messi’s incisive ball to Suarez put him level with Real Madrid great Michel as the joint-top assist provider in the history of La Liga, with 147 goal-creating passes.

Messi was also involved when Barca finally made the most of their extra man in the 88th minute, running towards goal and into Eibar goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic, allowing Alba to sidefoot the loose ball into the near corner with his weaker right foot.

Alba’s goal, which he celebrated by sucking his thumb in dedication to his new-born son, sealed Barca’s first win in three games after surprise successive draws against Espanyol and Getafe, which had cut their lead at the top of the league from 11 to seven points.

The hard-fought win takes Barca on to 62 points for the season, 10 above nearest challengers Atletico Madrid, who play Athletic Bilbao at home on Sunday. Champions Real visit Real Betis the same day.

Barca’s victory also stretched their unbeaten run in the league to 31 games across two seasons, matching a club record set by Pep Guardiola’s side in April 2011.

“It was very important for us to win today after the two draws,” said Barca coach Ernesto Valverde.

“They (Eibar) pushed us very hard and played at a very high level. We

struggled in the second half and took a long time to get into their area but it was easier once they went a man down.”

Valverde fielded a full-strength starting 11 despite the fact his side face a vital Champions League last-16 first-leg game at Chelsea on Tuesday, and he started veteran midfielder Andres Iniesta over record signing Philippe Coutinho, even though the Brazilian is cup-tied from European games.

100 percent, there is still more to come.”

He has reached the 30-goal mark quicker than any other Liverpool player since George Allan 121 years ago and he has more than two months left to add to this season’s total before heading off to the World Cup with Egypt. Few expected such a prolific strike rate when Salah joined in a 36.9 million pounds ($51.8 million) deal from AS Roma last year.

But he is already being compared with the club’s most celebrated goalscorers and, with 22 Premier League goals from 26 games, is second only to Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane in Europe’s top five leagues this season.

Yet while Kane is an out-and-out striker, Salah is a winger, who has

second straight defeat under Clarence Seedorf, the Dutch coach’s side losing 1-0 at Alaves to a scorching strike from former Barcelona loanee Munir El Haddadi. Deportivo remain second-bottom of the standings on 17 points while Alaves move 10 clear of the relegation zone.

Malaga remain rooted to the bottom of the table on 13. (rtr)

SLICE OF FORTUNE

Nigerian forward Brown Ideye gave struggling Malaga a surprise lead in the 27th minute against Marcelino’s side and they looked on course for a first league win since Dec. 10 but Francis Coquelin equalised in the 80th minute and captain Dani Parejo netted the winner from the penalty spot in the 85th.

Sevilla warmed up for Wednesday’s clash with Manchester United by winning 2-1 away to relegationfighting Las Palmas to go fifth, provisionally, in the standings.

Vincenzo Montella’s side marched into a two-goal lead through strikes from Wissam Ben

My goal rush is far from over, predicts Liverpool’s Salah LONDON - Mohamed Salah predicts there will be no let-up in his goalscoring after netting his 30th for Liverpool in a prolific season.

The 25-year-old took 36 games in all competitions to become just the 13th Liverpool player to notch up the landmark in a single season and the first to do so since Uruguay striker Luis Suarez four years ago.

“It is a great feeling to have scored 30 goals in a first season at a club like Liverpool,” he told the club’s website while attending Liverpool’s training camp in Spain.

“It’s something huge, so I am very happy about it - but I have to carry on and keep looking forward to score many more goals. I feel good, and that’s the most important thing – and

Yedder and Pablo Sarabia either side of halftime. The home team pulled a goal back through Jonathan Calleri’s converted penalty and Sevilla enjoyed a huge slice of fortune when Alejandro Galvez scored for Las Palmas in injury time but his chipped goal was incorrectly ruled offside.

Deportivo La Coruna suffered a

also created chances, particularly for Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane in what has become one of Europe’s deadliest strike forces.

Wednesday’s 5-0 win over Porto established Liverpool as the Champions League’s top scorers this season with 28. With such a first-leg advantage, they are seemingly certain of a place in the quarter-finals.

Although Salah was upstaged by three-goal Mane on the night, he said he is constantly working on improving his game. “In my mind I am always trying to improve and I’m doing it every single day. Every day I look at myself and try to improve myself all the time,” he said. Liverpool next play West Ham United at Anfield on Feb. 24. (rtr)

REUTERS/Vincent West

Barcelona’s Aleix Vidal in action with Eibar’s Jose Angel

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Inter Milan’s Antonio Candreva reacts

VAR in the firing line again as United beat Huddersfield

REUTERS/Alberto Lingria

Bizarre own goal costs Inter dearly

MILAN - One of the most bizarre own goals of the Serie A season set Inter Milan on their way to a 2-0 defeat at Genoa which cost them third place on Saturday. Veteran Macedonia striker Goran Pandev scored the second against his old club as Inter slipped below AS Roma, who earlier won 2-0 at Udinese after Cengiz Under scored his fourth goal in three games.

Inter ended an eight-match winless run in the league by beating Bologna 2-1 at San Siro last Sunday but if they thought it signalled a change in fortune, they were mistaken.

On the stroke of halftime, Ervin Zukanovic swung in a cross, which Milan Skriniar hooked away. But his clearance ricocheted off Andrea Ranocchia and flew into the net, leaving goalkeeper Samir Handanovic stranded. Handanovic had previously had a let-off when he misjudged Pandev’s cross and the ball bounced over him, hit the crossbar and fell back into his arms.

Inter fell further behind just before the hour as Diego Laxalt’s shot from the edge of the penalty area

was intercepted by Pandev, who controlled it superbly with one touch and placed his shot past Handanovic.

Roma, who travel to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Wednesday, scored twice in the last 20 minutes at Udinese to clock up their third successive win.

Under set them on the way, the Turk scoring with a 20-metre shot which swerved away from Albano Bizarri, and Diego Perotti sealed the win after capitalising on a mistake in the last minute.

Roma have 50 points from 25 games although there is a 12-point gap between themselves and secondplaced Juventus, who visit Torino on Sunday. Leaders Napoli, a further point ahead, host lowly SPAL. Chievo ended a 10-match winless run by beating Cagliari 2-1 to move away from the drop zone.

Former Juventus and Sunderland forward Emanuele Giaccherini, on loan from Napoli, curled in a free kick for the Flying Donkeys in the 74th minute and Roberto Inglese finished off a counterattack for the second two minutes later. Leonardo Pavoletti reduced the arrears for the Sardinians.

Both teams have 25 points, eight clear of the relegation zone. (rtr)

The VAR system faced criticism again as Manchester United had a goal contentiously ruled out for offside by the video assistant in their 2-0 FA Cup fifth-round victory over Huddersfield Town on Saturday. United midfielder Juan Mata put the ball in the net on the stroke of halftime with his side already leading 1-0 but his effort was eventually ruled out following a lengthy stoppage.

The goal had initially been given after the linesman had kept his flag down, but after long-winded deliberations with the video assistant, referee Kevin Friend scrapped his original decision.

Replays suggested that if Mata was offside, it was only by the tiniest fraction and not a clear mistake by the officials. Despite having the goal chalked off, Spaniard Mata said he was in favour of the VAR system, but Huddersfield manager David Wagner, whose team benefited from the decision, said it was “killing the emotion of the game”.

“I think the line was very tight,” Mata told the BBC after two goals from Romelu Lukaku sent United into the quarter-finals. “I did what I had to do which was to score and celebrated. Then after I saw the referee speaking to someone and you look silly when the goal is denied.

“I’m up for VAR and I think it is good for football especially to make important decisions and make

it a little bit fairer but it seems like today it was not a very clear the decision against us and me.”

Wagner was less enthusiastic about VAR even though it kept Huddersfield in the match before Lukaku, who gave United a thirdminute lead, sealed their victory with another clinical finish following a defence-splitting pass by Alexis Sanchez. “Yes, the decision went in our favour but this VAR for me kills the emotion of the game,” he said. “This is why I don’t like it but I am not the person who makes the decision.”

With one eye on Wednesday’s Champions League last 16 first leg away to Sevilla, United manager Jose Mourinho rested several starters and was happy after his makeshift side, also missing the ill Paul Pogba, cruised into the last eight.

“It was hard but we started really well,” said the Portuguese coach, who denied reports earlier in the week that he was at loggerheads with the out-of-form Pogba.

“With that second goal in the second half I think we killed the game and from that moment we were in control. “Good counterattacks, twice attacking the space well. Twice cold in front of the keeper, good decisions, good shots, good goals, important goals from us.” United will host Brighton and Hove Albion in the quarter-final. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Manchester United’s Juan Mata scores a goal that is disallowed due to offside after VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is consulted

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Suarez and Alba give Barca win, Valencia stage late comeback EIBAR - Barcelona got back to winning ways on Saturday after two consecutive draws, earning a 2-0 victory at Eibar thanks to goals from Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba to move 10 points clear at the top of the Liga standings. Suarez latched on to a pass from Lionel Messi to dribble round the home side’s goalkeeper and slot into an empty net in the 16th minute, while Messi hit the woodwork later in the game, as did Eibar’s Fabian Orellana, who was sent off with 25 minutes remaining for a second booking.

Eibar coach Jose Luis Mendilibar was also dismissed later for angry protests against referee Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez. Elsewhere in La Liga Valencia produced a quick-fire turnaround to win 2-1 at basement club Malaga and ensure they will end the weekend in third place, while Sevilla warmed up for their Champions League game with Manchester United next week by beating Las Palmas 2-1.

At Eibar Messi’s incisive ball to Suarez put him level with Real Madrid great Michel as the joint-top assist provider in the history of La Liga, with 147 goal-creating passes.

Messi was also involved when Barca finally made the most of their extra man in the 88th minute, running towards goal and into Eibar goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic, allowing Alba to sidefoot the loose ball into the near corner with his weaker right foot.

Alba’s goal, which he celebrated by sucking his thumb in dedication to his new-born son, sealed Barca’s first win in three games after surprise successive draws against Espanyol and Getafe, which had cut their lead at the top of the league from 11 to seven points.

The hard-fought win takes Barca on to 62 points for the season, 10 above nearest challengers Atletico Madrid, who play Athletic Bilbao at home on Sunday. Champions Real visit Real Betis the same day.

Barca’s victory also stretched their unbeaten run in the league to 31 games across two seasons, matching a club record set by Pep Guardiola’s side in April 2011.

“It was very important for us to win today after the two draws,” said Barca coach Ernesto Valverde.

“They (Eibar) pushed us very hard and played at a very high level. We

struggled in the second half and took a long time to get into their area but it was easier once they went a man down.”

Valverde fielded a full-strength starting 11 despite the fact his side face a vital Champions League last-16 first-leg game at Chelsea on Tuesday, and he started veteran midfielder Andres Iniesta over record signing Philippe Coutinho, even though the Brazilian is cup-tied from European games.

100 percent, there is still more to come.”

He has reached the 30-goal mark quicker than any other Liverpool player since George Allan 121 years ago and he has more than two months left to add to this season’s total before heading off to the World Cup with Egypt. Few expected such a prolific strike rate when Salah joined in a 36.9 million pounds ($51.8 million) deal from AS Roma last year.

But he is already being compared with the club’s most celebrated goalscorers and, with 22 Premier League goals from 26 games, is second only to Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane in Europe’s top five leagues this season.

Yet while Kane is an out-and-out striker, Salah is a winger, who has

second straight defeat under Clarence Seedorf, the Dutch coach’s side losing 1-0 at Alaves to a scorching strike from former Barcelona loanee Munir El Haddadi. Deportivo remain second-bottom of the standings on 17 points while Alaves move 10 clear of the relegation zone.

Malaga remain rooted to the bottom of the table on 13. (rtr)

SLICE OF FORTUNE

Nigerian forward Brown Ideye gave struggling Malaga a surprise lead in the 27th minute against Marcelino’s side and they looked on course for a first league win since Dec. 10 but Francis Coquelin equalised in the 80th minute and captain Dani Parejo netted the winner from the penalty spot in the 85th.

Sevilla warmed up for Wednesday’s clash with Manchester United by winning 2-1 away to relegationfighting Las Palmas to go fifth, provisionally, in the standings.

Vincenzo Montella’s side marched into a two-goal lead through strikes from Wissam Ben

My goal rush is far from over, predicts Liverpool’s Salah LONDON - Mohamed Salah predicts there will be no let-up in his goalscoring after netting his 30th for Liverpool in a prolific season.

The 25-year-old took 36 games in all competitions to become just the 13th Liverpool player to notch up the landmark in a single season and the first to do so since Uruguay striker Luis Suarez four years ago.

“It is a great feeling to have scored 30 goals in a first season at a club like Liverpool,” he told the club’s website while attending Liverpool’s training camp in Spain.

“It’s something huge, so I am very happy about it - but I have to carry on and keep looking forward to score many more goals. I feel good, and that’s the most important thing – and

Yedder and Pablo Sarabia either side of halftime. The home team pulled a goal back through Jonathan Calleri’s converted penalty and Sevilla enjoyed a huge slice of fortune when Alejandro Galvez scored for Las Palmas in injury time but his chipped goal was incorrectly ruled offside.

Deportivo La Coruna suffered a

also created chances, particularly for Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane in what has become one of Europe’s deadliest strike forces.

Wednesday’s 5-0 win over Porto established Liverpool as the Champions League’s top scorers this season with 28. With such a first-leg advantage, they are seemingly certain of a place in the quarter-finals.

Although Salah was upstaged by three-goal Mane on the night, he said he is constantly working on improving his game. “In my mind I am always trying to improve and I’m doing it every single day. Every day I look at myself and try to improve myself all the time,” he said. Liverpool next play West Ham United at Anfield on Feb. 24. (rtr)

REUTERS/Vincent West

Barcelona’s Aleix Vidal in action with Eibar’s Jose Angel

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Federer downs Seppi to reach Rotterdam final

ROTTERDAM - New world number one Roger Federer delivered another polished performance to beat Andreas Seppi 6-3 7-6(3) in the semi-final of the ABN AMRO World Tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday.

Pangsan tourism village offers unique traditions MANGUPURA - Pangsan Village located 45 km from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, can be reached by public transport for 1 hour. Tracking activity, walking surround the village, is a favorite for foreign tourist. Almost every day, there are tourist groups utilizing the tourism product of the village.

There are two lanes of tracking offered, “hard tracking” with a distance of 5 km and “soft tracking” with a distance of 2 km. All of these pathways offer the beauty of rice fields with attraction service of plowing fields traditionally. For travelers who have an adventure spirit, feel the rush of the village river by rafting game through the village with the distance of 2.5 hours.

Certainly every inch of the village area has its own custom, tradition and culture and so does the Pangsan village, Petang, North Badung. Local community has distinctive rites. At this tourism village you can see, learn and feel how people perform the ceremony;

Ngenar ceremony Cooking porridge ceremony at Pangsan village is called making endar. The ceremony is performed by children aged 9 to 10 years old at Puseh Pingit Temple. It is performed 15 days before Galungan.

Daha Teruna ceremony Daha Teruna ceremony is the procession of preparing lawar, spices, decoration and others prepared by men. Meanwhile, teenage

The Swiss will play world number five Grigor Dimitrov in Sunday’s final.

Federer, who has won the title twice before, was not at his fluent best but was seldom troubled after breaking the Italian early in the first set and proved too good on all the big points.

The 36-year-old guaranteed his return to the top of the world rankings on Friday after more

than five years, becoming the oldest man ever to reach the summit.

In the other semi-final, Belgium’s David Goffin was forced to retire against Dimitrov after suffering a freak eye injury.

The 27-year-old was trailing 6-3 0-1 when he framed an attempted volley directly into his left eye and was unable to continue. It was not clear how serious the injury was. (rtr)

REUTERS/Michael Kooren

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

girls prepare various vegetables of sad rasa (six flavors) used for Lampadan ceremony.

Nyerahane Saye Tradition It is a handover ceremony of the assistant to the customary village chief performed at local Puseh Pingit Temple. It is accompanied with Malang ceremony - namely the procedure of boiling chicken with seasoning such as shredded coconut, chopped complete seasoning, plus Balinese palm sugar.

Urak tradition It is a tradition of handing over diverse seasonings at Pucak Manik Temple and Catus Pata (central intersection) by a number of community members (family member) set in rotation every day. (kmb)

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GANGNEUNG - American jumping ace Nathan Chen lived up to his reputation on Saturday, redeeming himself with quadruple jumps after a pair of disastrous skates in Pyeongchang and making Olympic history into the bargain with a brilliant free skate.

Even though he ended out of the medals, Chen’s clean landing of an unprecedented six quads - the first time anybody has done so in the Olympics - helped him vault from 17th to fifth place on the weight of the free skate.

Mao Asada of Japan, who won silver in Vancouver 2010, had a similar experience in Sochi in 2014, following

a terrible short skate with a stellar free programme that lifted her from far down the ranks up to sixth place and left her in tears.

Chen said that his fall and the other mistakes of Friday’s short programme proved strangely freeing.

“Honestly, I wasn’t nervous at all,” the 18-year-old told reporters after his performance, saying that doing so badly led to his decision to add another quad to his programme.

“I sort of planned it yesterday after I had such a bad short. I might as well just go for everything right now, I have literally nothing to lose so I might as well just

go for it.”

After repeatedly saying that the Olympics were just another competition for him prior to his short skate on Friday, Chen taking part in his first Olympics - ruefully admitted that the expectations and the occasion got the best of him.

“As much as I tried to deny it I guess I really did feel the pressure a lot, from especially before the short programme, thinking about medals and all that, things that were completely out of my control,” he said.

“That just tightened me up and made me really cautious out on the ice, and that’s not the right way to skate.”

Chen said earlier this week that after his

poor skate in the team competition he had gone straight to the rink for 20 minutes of practice that had helped settle his head.

But Friday was different.

“There was no ice time, or I totally would have (practiced),” he said. “I went home and lay in bed and tried to relax a bit.”

In the end, he was philosophical.

“I was glad I was able to show myself and everyone else that I can bounce back from a bad performance. I’m human, I make mistakes, and unfortunately I had a really bad time,” he said.

“I’m really happy with what I did here and tomorrow is another day.” (rtr)

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Florida school massacre suspect on authorities’ radar in 2016 -media

PARKLAND - A teenager accused of fatally shooting 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving sufficient support, newspapers said on Saturday.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, is charged with committing multiple murders on Wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. More than a dozen people also were wounded in the deadliest shooting at a U.S. high school.

The charges can bring the death penalty, but prosecutors have not yet said if they will seek capital punishment. Days after the killings, a somber series of vigils and funerals were being held in and around Parkland, a Fort Lauderdale suburb of about 32,000 people.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel first reported that a video of Cruz cutting his arm posted to the social media network Snapchat in September 2016 raised concerns among law enforcement and at the Florida Department of Children and Families.

“Mr. Cruz stated he plans to go out and buy a gun.

It is unknown what he is buying the gun for,” said a

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report written by department officials after investigators interviewed the teenager, the Sun Sentinel said.

The newspaper reported investigators ultimately decided that Cruz, then 18, was receiving enough support from mental health professionals and from his school, and any risk in his case was low.

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has asked a court to release the records for transparency, adding it has reviewed the circumstances surrounding the 2016 case.

“Mental health services and supports were in place when this investigation closed,” DCF Secretary Mike Carroll said in a statement.

The long-simmering U.S. debate about gun rights played out on Saturday at events in the area.

Hundreds of people attended a rally in Fort Lauderdale where students from the school demanded new gun control measures to tighten what they saw as easy access to firearms in the state. They also accused some politicians of being more concerned about protecting the firearms lobby than children.

“Because of these (current) gun laws, people that I know, people that I love, have died,” Delaney Tarr, a senior at the school, told the rally.

At a nearby gunshow, attendees said new laws would not have prevented the massacre, adding gun rights are protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. (rtr)

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A soldier stands guard next to a military helicopter, carrying Mexico’s interior minister and the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land in Santiago Jamiltepec, Mexico February 17, 2018.

Mexico helicopter crash kills 13 on ground in wake of earthquake

SANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

The helicopter, which was carrying Mexico’s interior minister and the state governor, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land at night in Santiago Jamiltepec after a tour of damage from Friday’s powerful quake.

The senior officials survived but 12 people at the scene were killed and another died later in a hospital, Oaxaca’s attorney general’s office said in a statement. Another 15 people were injured.

Luis Cabrera, a civil protection official at the scene, said authorities were still investigating the cause of the crash.

The 7.2 magnitude quake knocked out electricity in Santiago Jamiltepec, about 28 miles (45 km) from the tremor’s epicenter, leaving the town in darkness Friday night.

A journalist on board the flight told local TV that the helicopter had flown in over a clearing next to homes, raising a huge dust cloud before it crash landed.

At a home near the accident site, family members gathered to mourn their loved ones after officials returned their bodies. Many lashed out in anger at authorities.

“The governor was supposedly coming to help, but what was the help, the aid, we received? This was the aid,” said Eduardo Juarez, a relative of one victim.

Mexico’s defense minister, General Salvador Cienfuegos, arrived at the scene on Saturday and spoke with locals, offering apologies and taking responsibility for the accident.

“We will take care of what we have to do and we will do everything in our power to try to remedy this misfortune,” Cienfuegos told reporters.

He blamed the late hour and the heavy dust for “disorienting” the pilot, but he said he did not think there had been any “recklessness” by the helicopters’ crew.

The earthquake left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in Mexico City and the south and damaged at least 50 homes in Oaxaca.

The state, along with Mexico City, is still reeling from earthquakes in September that killed at least 471 people and caused widespread damage. (rtr)

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aircraft or spare parts from the West. The crashed ATR was 25 years old, officials said. Based in the southern French city of Toulouse, ATR is a joint venture between Airbus and Italy’s Leonardo One of Iran’s worst air accidents happened in February 2003 when an Iranian Ilyushin-76 troop carrier crashed in southeast Iran, killing all 276 Revolutionary Guard soldiers and crew aboard. (rtr)

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A student protester chants at a rally calling for more gun control three days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 17, 2018.

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Mehrabad is located in western Tehran and mainly functions as a domestic airport, although it also serves some international routes.

Iran has suffered several plane crashes in the past few decades.

Tehran says U.S. sanctions have long prevented it from buying new

JAKARTA - An Indonesian court indicted radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman on Thursday over allegations he masterminded from his jail cell a series of attacks in the Muslim-majority nation, including a deadly 2016 gun and suicide bomb assault in Jakarta. Abdurrahman arrived in a Jakarta courtroom under police escort and at least a dozen heavily armed officers stood guard outside as prosecutors read out allegations against him.

According to the indictment document, he was on trial for “planning and/or mobilizing others to carry out terrorist acts ... to create an atmosphere of terror among the public”.

Prosecutor Anita Dewayani told the court Abdurrahman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group in 2014 and then urged others to undertake a series of attacks. She cited one alleged plot for a “Paris-style attack” targeting foreigners, particularly French and Russian citizens.

Dewayani read out the names of the victims of some of the attacks Abdurrahman is accused of masterminding, including one in January 2016 in which eight people were killed, including four attackers, after suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the heart of the Indonesian capital.

She also alleged he was behind

a suicide attack last year that killed three police officers at a Jakarta bus station and the bombing of a church in Samarinda on Borneo island that wounded four children.

Abdurrahman, who wore orange prison clothes with a checkered scarf tied around his head, told the court he understood the charges and did not object to the indictment. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

The cleric and ideologue is the founder of Islamic State-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a militant group in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that the United States has designated as a “terrorist organisation”. He was immediately re-arrested by police last year after serving time in prison for setting up a militant training camp in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Abdurrahman had reportedly also managed to keep spreading his jihadist message on social media from jail. “To put it generally, he is the mastermind behind many of the terrorist acts in Indonesia,” prosecutor Dewayani later told reporters. The maximum penalty for such charges is the death sentence, she said. Prosecutors have asked for the trial to be adjourned until Feb. 23, when they plan to present witnesses. (rtr)

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A plain clothes policeman guards Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman as he walks to the courtroom for his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia February 15, 2018.

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Women walk in front of decoration for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year of the Dog at Ciputra shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 14, 2018.

Chinese New Year reflects our pride in diversity: House speaker

JAKARTA - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bambang Soesatyo, has said the Chinese New Year celebrations held significant meaning for Indonesia as they showed the nation`s pride in diversity. “Diversity is not only a national treasure but also the spirit of our nation,” Soesatyo said in a written statement released in Jakarta on Friday. He hoped this year`s Chinese New Year (Imlek) celebration would bring wisdom regarding the importance of diversity.

Soesatyo said the celebration of the Lunar New Year belonged not only to Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent but also to all people of ethnic Indonesia. “In this year`s celebration, I appeal that we especially pray for nation`s teacher KH Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur,” he said.

The House Speaker, who is also a Golkar Party politician, said Gus Dur had set an example for being grateful for the diversity as a blessing and a gift from God Almighty.

He further hoped that through the celebration of Imlek, the nation and the state of Indonesia will continue

to advance into a civilised nation, respecting cultural diversity and loving the nation`s sons.

Meanwhile, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) tweeted a message to congratulate those celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year and to wish them prosperity this year. The congratulatory message was posted on the president`s Twitter account @jokowi on Friday.

“Wishing Chinese New Year 2569 to those celebrating it. Healthy body, peaceful heart, and always happy.

Prosperity is always with all of us,” the president wrote on his account at 10.43 am, local time. Some 3,000 people liked the president`s tweet and 1,800 others re-tweeted the message.

The first day of the Chinese New Year 2569 falls on Friday, February 16, marking the start of the Year of Dog. Celebrations generally begin on the first day of the Chinese calendar and end on the 15th, which is often referred to as Cap Go Meh. The Lunar New Year, otherwise known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated around the world but the main festivities are organised in China as well as other Asian countries. According to the Chinese 12-animal zodiac system, 2018 is the Year of the Dog, succeeding the Year of the Rooster and preceding the Year of the Pig. (rtr)

Police name five people as suspects in killing of orangutan SAMARINDA - The police in Kutai Timur, East Kalimantan, have named five people as suspects behind the death of an orangutan by shooting in the Kutai National Park. Chief of the Kutai Timur police resort Senior Adjunct Commissioner Teddy Ristiawan stated here on Saturday that all suspects living near the location where the orangutan’s body was found were arrested on Thursday.

“After intensively questioning them, they were declared as suspects on Friday,” he noted. The arrests of the five suspects were made eight days after the police conducted an investigation into the death of the primate found with some 130 air gun bullets in its body.

“They are crop farmers and know that hurting orangutans is against the law. They shot the animal, as it had damaged their crops,” he noted.

Nasir, 55; Andi, 37, Nasir’s in-law; Rustam, 37, Nasir’s son; Hendri, 13, Andi’s younger brother; and Muis, 36, Nasir’s neighbor, are currently being held at the Kutai Timur police station. “We have confiscated four guns from them as evidence. We held the adults but not the underage child,” he noted.

The suspects have allegedly violated Law Number 5 of 1990 on the conservation of natural resources

and the ecosystem. “They face a maximum jail term of five years and a fine of Rp100 million,” he noted.

The primate, aged around five to seven years, was discovered in a wounded state by villagers on Saturday (Feb 3) at the Kutai National Park area in Teluk Pandan Village, Kutai Timur District.

The park rangers immediately evacuated the animal after receiving a report about it for treatment.

However, the orangutan succumbed to serious injuries on Tuesday (Feb 2) at around 1:55 a.m. local time.

A team of doctors was only able to remove 48 out of around 130 bullets found lodged mostly in the head of the animal during an operation that lasted from Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.

Doctors also discovered at least 19 old and new sharp object wounds on the body of the animal. (rtr)

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Tunisia phosphate exports halted by job protests

‘WE HAVE NOTHING’ “We suffer from pollution from the phosphate production, such as ground water contamination, but don’t benefit from exports,” 40-year-old Essam said. “In the capital you have a nice life, but we have nothing.” The government has been trying to negotiate an end to the protests to no avail. With little coordination between groups of protestors it is difficult to reach a deal. Whenever new hires are announced, as happened three

weeks ago, other unemployed men show up to take their place.

“The (CPG) company cannot occupy everyone,” Khaled Kadour, minister of energy, told state radio. CPG, which employs more than 30,000 people, produced 4.15 million tonnes of phosphate last year versus 3.3 million tonnes in 2016, its data showed. Once one of the world’s largest phosphate makers, Tunisia’s production has halved since 2010 because of repeated protests and a fall in foreign buyers.

Still, the industry remains a key hard currency earner. Tourism, another big source of income, nearly collapsed after two militant attacks in 2015. The number of foreign visitors rose by 23 percent in 2017 but is still below pre-2011 levels. The economy has deteriorated further in recent weeks, with hard currency reserves falling to a 15-year low and less than three months’ worth.

DIVIDE The mining conflict highlights a divide in Tunisia, where wealth is concentrated in the capital Tunis and its coastline. In these areas you find highways, railways and what foreign investment the country has managed to attract. In the hinterland and south it’s a different story. It takes six hours to drive to the phosphate mine from Tunis because roads are so poor on the 400km (249 miles) route.

The south has only one major private investor, Delice , a food maker co-owned by France’s Danone. That has left the phosphate industry as the focal point of the growing anger. Most protestors have high school or even university degrees but can’t find work.

In Gasfa province unemployment is almost 30 percent, double the national average.”I have been jobless since graduation in 2006,” said 23-year-old Fawzi Mohseen, one of the

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mine occupiers.

The public service has long been the main employer in Tunisia, part of Ben Ali’s system to buy loyalty, but the government has been trying to change this as part of efforts to bolster empty coffers. Local lawmaker Adnen Hajji agreed that the public service could not hire everyone but that corruption at state companies made matters worse.

“There are some who take a salary but don’t produce anything,” he said. “There is corruption, there is no transparency about hirings, that’s why there are protests and chaos. Now the company is closed.” Ali Houchati, a company spokesman, said “talking about corruption is a populist discourse” but declined to comment further.

Stability in Tunisia is of concern for Western countries as locals have joined a trail of illegal migrants to Europe or to Libya, Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State. (rtr)

Representing the Village of Tejakula, community leader and wayang wong perfromer Gede Komang was recived the certificate from the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana. Komang said that communities in the region are very much dedicated to protecting the sacred value of the wayang wong masks. The clan Temple of Tejakula Village houses some 75 masks, but only some of these masks can be displayed in “The original mask may not be taken out of the temple grounds and should only be used in performances at the clan temple of Tejakula village. The temple’s supporting devotee are dedicated to maintaining the sanctity of the wayang wong mask” he said.

Actually, continued Gede Komang, there are quite a lot of travelers who are attracted to visit Tejakula village and see the wayang wong show. However, since the wayang wong mask the temple cannot be taken outside the temple grounds, tejakula’s community leader finally decided to create replicas of the mask so that the wayang wong could be perfromed elsewhere. “The duplicates are allowed to be taken out of the village. In the 1970s, the wayang wong mask duplicates were used in performances at home and overseas making the wayang wong more widely known in

Asian and European countries”, he added.

Gede Komang said that wayang wong becomae known in many countries thanks to the efforst of famous leaders like Nyoman Tusan and Made Bandem, Jero Bendesa and Santika. Gede Komang himself participated in devotional work by dancing at Tejakula village. He was then appointed as advisor to the Teja Murti wayang wong troupe –the only one in his village.

So far there have been no difficulties in

rity guards on a 2 million bolivar monthly salary - $10 at the black market rate - plus a “motivational” bonus of eggs.

To qualify for the weekly box of 36 eggs, worth around $2 at the black market rate, staff have to arrive on time, not miss shifts and dress smartly.

“Many weren’t complying with

these basic rules, that’s why we’ve done this,” human resources manager Cindy Fuenmayor told Reuters. “We’ve had lots of applications since we published the ad.

We’re being innovative. It’s a good incentive.”

Food and transport bonuses have become crucial for Venezuelan workers. The currency has

collapsed to such an extent that the minimum wage is currently around $1 per month at the black market rate.

Venezuela is also undergoing hyperinflation, and has one of the world’s highest murder rates - with security guards often victims of crime.

President Nicolas Maduro

blames the problems on an “economic war” waged by the opposition with a helping hand from Washington, while critics say his socialist government has wrecked the economy via incompetence and corruption.

Around 200 positions are available at Atlas, said Fuenmayor, mainly to guard farms. (rtr)

dancing the wayang wong. “Indeed, our friends have no difficulty dancing the wayang wong. However, they do have some trouble chanting the kekawin or kidung songs of the Ramayana storyline because these Balinese songs use the Old Javanese language that they do not understand. The wayang wong of Tejakula was originally devellpoed in the seventeenth century and had to be perfromed on Umanis Galungan”, explained Gede Komang.

According to Gede Komang, the wayang wong players receive divine revelations through generations allwoign the dance to be preserved into the next generation. It is said that if any residents does not comply with the faith or are not willing to perform it, they would often experience pain or difficulty in life. “People who are not descendants of wayang wong dancers are also given the opportunity to learn to dance the wayang wong” added he said. (kmb)

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Salary + 144 eggs: Venezuelan firm offers unusual monthly compensation

CARACAS - A Venezuelan security firm is looking to attract personnel with a “motivational” bonus of 144 eggs for good presentation and time-keeping - alongside a $10 per month salary.

Aware of food scarcities and soaring prices in the crisis-hit economy, Atlas Security, in western Zulia state, is seeking secu-

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The Wayang Wong or human puppet of Tejakula, that takes its storyline form the Ramayana epic and is perfromed in Old Javanese, is becoming incresingly well-known internationally. During the opening of the fourth annual Buleleng Festival, the Director General of Culture for the Ministry of Education and Culture -through the government of Buleleng, awarded the the wayang wong troupe with a certificate of appreciation for the establishment Tejakula’s wayang wong as world intangible cultural heritage

by UNESCO. The younger geneation is now expected to help preserve this art form in the face of the challenges of globilization.

UMM AL-ARAIS - Young men block the entrance of a Tunisian phosphate mine, halting exports as they demand jobs in a conflict that is exacerbating an economic crisis in the North African country. Hundreds have occupied the mines of state-run Gafsa Phosphate (CPG), the main employer in the country’s poor southern region, depriving Tunisia of badly needed hard currency and drawing a warning from a local MP that continued protests would hit the company.

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The conflict symbolises the struggle the government faces as it tries to cut a public wage bill that is among the world’s highest at almost 15 percent of GDP, and its deficit as agreed with foreign donors, all while trying to tame dissent.

Protests broke out across the country in January, with many angry at being worse off than before a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The subsequent turmoil has scared off tourists and investors while fuelling unemployment and inflation as the dinar’s value slid by 40 percent.

Those demonstrations have stopped, but youths have switched tactics to blocking all the phosphate mines and hitting the state where it hurts most. While there have been protests before, this is the first time all mines are shut.

“We will not end our protest unless the government hires us all,” said Ahmed Essam, camping out in a makeshift tent at a mine in the southern town of Umm al-Arais.

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Kendang Mebarung or drum competition as one of the arts originating in Jembrana should still be preserved to the posterity. In each performance, the art troupe is expected to play in compliance with the existing pattern.

On that account, this art can be maintained through generations.

It is emphasized to a number of sacred art troupes during the recent coaching held by the office of the Jembrana Religious Affairs, Sunday (Jun. 5) at meeting hall of Dangin Tukadaya village. This village has a Kendang Mebarung

art troupe with the member of 25 people.

The opening of the coaching was attended the Head of the Bali Ministry of Religious Affairs A.A. Gede Muliawan and the Head of Jembrana Religious Office I Gusti Komang Sumberjana. Hindu Section Head at the Jembrana Religious Affairs Ida Bagus Ketut Rimbawan said that the guidance was also meant to disseminate the distinctive arts of Jembrana to prevent it from extinction.

Other than the Kendang Me-

barung art troupes, the coaching was attended by the art troupes of Wayang Wong, Sudamala Puppet and mask dancers. The coaching was emphasized to restore the pattern especially the Kendang Mebarung art, so that the typical art of Jembrana will not go extinct in harmony with the time changes.

The coaching includes the technique of beating, creating sounds, drinking carakan water and mebetenan (foot toss). Guidance for the art troupes is routinely held every year as an effort to preserve the sacred art. (kmb)

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Two buildings of elementary schools break down

Legislators deplore low commitment to advance education

NEGARA - Commission A of the Jembrana House of Representatives led by Secretary of Commission A, Ketut Sadwi Darmawan, together with the members consisting of Made Artini, Komang Adiyasa and Siti Ulfa, held a raid on Tuesday (Feb. 13) to elementary schools of SDN 7 Yehembang and SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, Mendoyo subdistrict.

At the two schools the legislators found the buildings are collapsed on the roof due to porous lightweight steel. The legislators regretted the lack of commitment to advance education in Jembrana. “Related agencies should take quick response and do not just wait. Be proactive and all elements must be involved as the development must be done together,” said Sadwi Darmawan.

Principal of SDN 7 Yehembang, Gusti Ayu Nilawati, accompanied by a number of teachers said the building made in 2008 has started to break down since a year ago. Moreover, it has been inspected by deputy regent of Jembrana. “It was broken last January 31, right on the full moon and when the students were praying. Until now, there has been indeed no handling,” added Gusti Ketut Cakra, another teacher.

The building accommodates the fifth and sixth grade classrooms. It is prone to be broken down so that students are now studying in school health unit (UKS) room because the damaged building is emptied. Meanwhile, in SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, the roof of the building also collapsed comprising that of the principal as well as the fourth and fifth grade classroom.

Principal of SDN 2 Tegalcangkring, Gusti Ngurah Suardana, said the roof of the building collapsed in December

2017. It has also been proposed to get school improvement. “However, we are told to wait as there will be a team to come down, but only the supervisory officer that came down.

Our students are evacuated to the KKG meeting room,” he said.

This school is said to be categorized into a core school. On that account, the KKG temporarily moved to SDN 5 Yehembang.

Sadwi Darmawan accompanied by other legislators also said that all this time the district government of Jembrana declares the commitment to improve the quality of education.

“However, in reality there are still damaged and broken school buildings.

Moreover, there are even proposals that have not been addressed,” he said.

In the future, it is necessary to study the use of lightweight steel hood for the construction of roof of the building because it easily becomes porous. “It has been porous before 6 or 10 years old. This must be well considered whether it is appropriate to be used in Jembrana or not. I think it is better to use wood again,” he explained.

He regretted such lack of commitment. The partners also ignored retention and warranty. That’s why this problem, he said, should get the attention in the future. (kmb)

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The legislators found the buildings are collapsed on the roof due to porous lightweight steel.

Threatened and vilified, but Philippine lawyer says he wants “death squad president” in court

MANILA - Philippine attorney Jude Sabio says he hasn’t been home for a year, steers clear of public events and is forever looking over his shoulder after accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of crimes against humanity.

Sabio, a stocky 51 year-old, says he lives in constant fear of reprisals after filing a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the wildly popular Duterte, whose administration Filipinos rate as the best performing since opinion polls started in the 1980s.

A little-known lawyer until he filed the complaint last April, Sabio argues that the deaths of thousands of Filipinos in a brutal war on drugs is Duterte’s method of controlling crime, and that he used the tactic effectively during his 22 years as the mayor of Davao City in the south of the country.

Duterte has repeatedly denied ordering extra-judicial killings while mayor or president and reiterated this month that he would “gladly” go before the ICC. Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had earlier said her office had started a preliminary examination into whether any crimes against humanity had been committed and if ICC had jurisdiction.

The step is the first in a process that could take years to complete, if at all. Since it was set up in 2002, the ICC has received more than 12,000 complaints or communications, just nine of which have gone to trial.

Sabio’s move is unpopular in a country where, despite the bloodshed, Duterte enjoys a cult-like status and has a loyal online following which hounds and harasses his opponents.

The Social Weather Station’s (SWS) latest quarterly poll shows Duterte’s trust rating

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Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio poses for a picture in Metro Manila, Philippines February 10, 2018. Picture taken February 10, 2018. bounced back to “excellent” in December from “very high” three months before. Another SWS poll gave his government the best rating so far for a Philippine administration “When I went to The Hague I received so many threats,” Sabio told Reuters. “The

Culprits raided at hotel

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This gang of thieves from Palembang, South Sumatra, was raided at one of the hotels on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

3) at 15:30 local time indicated if the victim went out with his son and domestic assistant to Pika Boo games arena on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur. Around 19:00 they arrived home and found the padlock of the gate missing.

After coming further into the house, the victim found the door of his house having been grubbed up.

He immediately checked his room and it was disheveled. When reporting the case, the victim admitted to have lost CCTV modem, IndiHome Wi-Fi modem, Lenovo notebook, two pieces of 14-carat diamond ring worth IDR 50 million, one gold earlobes, pearl gold ring, golden pearl necklace, two gold rose rings, one golden necklace

weighing 80 grams, eight 24-carat gold rings for children, two 18carat gold necklaces for children and two 18-carat gold bracelets for children. “The victim admitted to suffer losses of IDR 100 million,” he said.

After receiving the report, the Chief of South Denpasar Police Operations Team conducted an investigation. Four hours after the case was reported, police managed to track down the whereabouts of the culprits, namely at a hotel on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

After that, police raided the hotel room and arrested the two culprits.

In addition, police also confiscated evidence stolen at the victim’s home. (kmb36)

(latest) announcement from the ICC, I’m also receiving threats. It’s many, I don’t want to read them.”

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque says “domestic enemies of the state” are behind Sabio’s complaint. Asked about Sabio’s

safety, Roque said he should report threats to the police.

“We have no ill will against him,” he added. “We know it (the complaint) will not proceed beyond preliminary examination.” (rtr)

Three held as $1.8 bln fraud ripples through Indian banks

A House of Korean citizen burgled by thief DENPASAR — South Denpasar police officers revealed a burglary case at the home of Chang Suk Cho, 27, from Korea on Jalan Tukad Balian, Maja Huma Residence, Renon, Denpasar, last Saturday (Feb. 3). The culprits consist of Gatot Wijaya, 40, and Alexander, 26. This gang of thieves from Palembang, South Sumatra, was raided at one of the hotels on Jalan Poppies I Gang Sorga, Kuta.

Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit of South Denpasar Police, Bangkit Dananjaya, with permission from Chief of South Denpasar Police, Putu Indrajaya, said on Tuesday (Feb. 13) the results of investigation on Saturday (Feb.

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Police escort a man suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, at a court in Mumbai, India, February 17, 2018.

NEW DELHI - India’s federal police detained two employees of Punjab National Bank, the staterun lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77 billion fraud, in the first arrests in a fast-widening probe into the country’s biggestever bank scam.

Gokulnath Shetty and Manoj Kharat are suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and entities tied to jewellery retailer Gitanjali, which is led by Modi’s uncle, Mehul Choksi.

India’s Income Tax department warned in an internal note seen

by Reuters that domestic banks could take a hit of more than $3 billion from loans and corporate

guarantees provided to Modi and Choksi.

The arrests, late on Friday, came two days after India’s secondlargest state-run lender said it had been hit by massive fraud, sending its share price tumbling.

The accusations against the two relatively junior PNB officials were detailed in the lender’s disclosure, and also contained in a preliminary police report.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested a third person, Hemant Bhat, whom a source described as the “authorised signatory” of the companies tied to Nirav Modi.

All three appeared before a hot, packed courtroom in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, where they

were ordered to remain under police custody until March 3 to allow the CBI to continue its investigation. No charges have yet been laid.

“CBI must get fair chance to investigate this very serious offence, which has consequences for the country’s economy,” said judge S R Tamboli, as PNB employee Shetty shifted nervously and blinked frequently. The other two stood passively.

Family members of the accused present at the court defended them, saying they were innocent.

Kharat’s uncle told Reuters the PNB employee was “just following orders of superiors” and added “he wasn’t aware of what he is doing”. (rtr)

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Many spa businesses in South Kuta alleged to be unlicensed

MANGUPURA — Many spa businesses in the area of South Kuta are alleged to have not owned the permit. Such condition was revealed after municipal police team of South Kuta carried out a raid for several times.

Meanwhile, the ‘getting up in the morning’ operation held on Monday (Feb. 12) found there are 13 spa businesses that cannot present their permission. In the meantime, the businesses are only given coaching so as to immediately submit their respective permit. They are given tolerance for one month. Otherwise, they will be imposed with sanctions and will be on trial with misdemeanor claim.

Squad Commander of South Kuta Municipal Police, Wayan Suharyana, when asked for his confirmation on Tuesday (Feb. 13) said that from the raid against the spa business carried out so far, the operation is estimated not to have reached 40 percent of the existing spa businesses in South Kuta area. From the spa business having been recorded, most of the licensed spa businesses are located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai. Suharyana asserted that all businesses should have licensing documents. Without such licensing, the business concerned can be categorized to be illegal, and must be disciplined. His office hoped the related businesses to immediately submit their permission if they do not want to be disciplined. “We have boosted data collection and coaching for tourism supporting businesses since about a week ago. This data collection will continuously be done,” he said. (kmb23)

Many spa businesses in the area of South Kuta are alleged to have not owned the permit.

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Building Unit V of Bali’s governor office on fire

Incident occurs after drawing serial number of candidate pairs

Nice Carnival NICE - Founded in 1873, Nice Carnival is Europe’s answer to Rio and certainly the biggest in France.

The capital of the French Riviera will be awash with colour, as noisy as a carnival can be with women wearing outrageous costumes and headgear.

The theme in 2018 is King of Space. Get into the groove with 1000 dancers and join the Niçois as they turn their streets into places of wonderment and during the Battle of Flowers, pretty girls will hurl out

around 80,000 blooms by the end of the carnival.

If you’re looking for an excuse to come here, February is Carnival time.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to discover Nice’s mild climate, luminous skies and the art of luxury living on the French Riviera.

Stunning floats bedecked with flowers offer family-friendly fun, there are heaps of free activities for little ones.

Nice’s Carnival welcomes its

gay visitors just as warmly as it greets any romantic couple or group of singles seeking exuberant entertainment after winter gloom.

Although each year has its own unique elements, some traditional aspects have grown over more than a century: Carnival Parades by day and by night; Flower Battles; fireworks and the burning of an enormous King.

The Carnival King leads his Carnival Procession through the streets, with around twenty floats taking the theme of the year.

The King is accompanied by more than fifty giant-headed puppets, the Grosses Tetes.

Making the papier-mache fig-

ures uses centuries-old techniques, and the painting is done by specialist craftspeople.

Costumes are created to dress each character, the more flamboyant the better.

Just one puppet can weigh over two tons and tower over the watching crowds at twelve meters high.

A king must have a queen, and she is selected from a bevy of local beauties for the honour.

Her duties range from posing for Carnival photos to throwing posies of flowers from a float for the Flower Parade.

So she needs to be able to keep that lovely smile all day and into the night’s revelries.

Parades take place on three or four afternoons or evenings a week during the Carnival period, and most are free, so you can save your cash for some luxury shopping or a more upmarket hotel. There’s always an admission charge for the Bataille des Fleurs, but it’s well worth shelling out for.

The final weekend of the Carnival in Nice includes a popular Bartenders Race, and the year’s Carnival King is burned in the sea on the last night, followed by a fantastic firework display. The parade route changes slightly each year but usually follows part of the Promenade des Anglais. (net)

DENPASAR — A fire incident occurred in the Building Unit V of the Bali’s governor office on Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 13). The incident was known around 17:30 local time exactly after the Open Plenary Meeting related to the drawing of the candidate pair for governor and deputy governor in a series of the Bali gubernatorial election 2018 held by Bali Electoral Commission (KPUD) in Wiswa Sabha Utama Building of gubernatorial office. Location of the building on fire is behind the Wiswa Sabha Building.

Unit V consists of three floors. On the first floor sits the Press Room, Public Relations Bureau and BPD Bali Office.

Then, on the second floor are the Legal and Human Rights Bureau, and the Government Bureau on the third floor. As seen on Tuesday, a thin white smoke came out of the building, especially from the third floor. Over time, the intensity of smoke was getting thicker and closed visibility. The color was changed into black, before finally emerging flames from the west side of the building.

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A fire truck just arrived few minutes after the incident.

When the smoke remained thin, some employees were seen standing outside Unit V with a panic face. One of the employees admitted that he just completed the work on the third floor before he finally went down and saw the fire on the second floor. On the third floor, he thought there was no fire source.

Some of the employees from the first floor also seemed to save valuables such as cameras, computers, photo and video servers, as well as some photos. An employee of the Public Relations Bureau said that he had just started the computer in his office when he heard an employee shouting from upstairs. Before that, he already smelled something scorched.

However, he did not find a source of fire on the first floor.

When he wanted to bring a hydrant tube to extinguish the fire upstairs, his steps stopped on the second floor because the fire already enlarged.

A fire truck just arrived few minutes after the incident.

After that, a row of other fire trucks came along with water cannon. In total, there are about seven fire trucks from Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Denpasar, six from BPBD Badung district and two water cannon from Bali Police Mobile Brigade which were going back and forth to extinguish the fire. Until around 19:00 local time, they still looked to extinguish the fire on the third floor.

Around 19:45, two fire trucks came from Klungkung district. So, as a whole there were 15 units of fire trucks and two units of water cannon involved in extinguishing the fire.

Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, looked to visit the location when the officials tried to extinguish the fire.

He guaranteed there are only a handful of archives in Unit V. The archives are said to be in a safe place at the Archives and Library of Bali Province. “The archives have been saved.

They also have backup in the form of soft copy. Now, there is no longer in the form of a lot of paper,” he said.

Pastika admitted that this incident was known late because most employees had already returned home. On the other

hand, the age of Building Unit V is also old enough because it was built around 1978 in the era of Governor Prof. Ida Bagus Mantra. He suspected the fire occurred due to electrical short circuit. It is not caused by other things such as sabotage because there was a drawing of serial number for the candidate pair of Bali gubernatorial election.

“Do not think too far away, fire incident can happen everywhere. Similarly, our home can be on fire. Probably, it’s time to build a new building,” he explained.

In addition to the governor, a number of officials in the Bali provincial government also visited the scene, ranging from the head of the agencies, regional secretary to the Deputy Governor I Ketut Sudikerta. Such incident also attracted the surrounding communities to watch closely the fire fighting process.

Around 20:00 local time, the fire was no longer visible.

From outside the building, it could be seen a pretty severe damage on the third floor.

Head of the BPBD Denpasar, I.B. Joni Ariwibawa, said the fire could be totally extinguished around 20:30. His agency together with BPBD Badung also did the cooling and checking into the building. It just needed the checking by police authority to know the causes and losses experienced by the Bali provincial government.

“If we look from outside, the most severe damages occurred on the third floor. The source of fire is still investigated by police, we do not know whether it was from the first, second or third floor,” he said.

Strange

In addition to the fire incident in Unit V, one of the shrine buildings located in the northeast of the gubernatorial office was also on fire. It is unknown yet what caused, although there are allegations it was exposed to sparks. However, Unit V itself is located at the western end of the gubernatorial office or quite far from shrine building location. (kmb32)

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Opposition to reclamation of Benoa Bay

Economic goals must not sacrifice nature

DENPASAR - During a protest against the planned reclamation of Benao Bay that was held outside the gubernatorial office on Saturday (Feb.17), rock band Navicula played their song entitled law mafia: “The entrepreneurs have conspired with the authorities. They may be rich but they are lacking.

The laws are engineered for the rich. The commoners become victims”. This protest was the latest in a series of innumerable others like it that included art and culture organized by ForBALI and the Association of Customary Villages (Pasubayan) Rejecting Benoa Bay Reclamation.

Navicula’s song Law Mafia is found on their compilation album entitle “Bali Gerak” which translates as “Bali Moves” but means something like Bali stands together. This album was released as a form of protest against the plan to backfill some 700 hectares in Benoa Bay.. “Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 was engineered to allow a conservation zone to

be rezoned for utilization”, said Navicula’s vocalist Robi.

According to Robi, protesting against the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay is a struggle of conscience and does not violate the law because it is in line with the 1945 Constitution. Basic principles of the state have mandated three things related to development in Indonesia (including Bali): development projects must be based on the benefits, independence and sustainability.

“Development in Indonesia must be based on the principle of benefit. This means that many people benefit, that their live;s benefit not just a few rulers, corporations or groups”, he explained. The principle of independence, continued Robi, in this case relates the coast as one of the Indonesia’s greatest assets because of the vast sea. The nation must protect all its assets – not only the sea but also the forest, its local policies as well as indigenous people.

“The third guiding principle of development is sustainability, which of course includes preserving the environment”, he added. The most primary need that must be met in order to achieve prosperity according to the economic goal, is

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The rally held outside the gubernatorial office on Saturday (Feb.17) to reject the reclamation plan.

food, explained Robi . And all food comes from nature, he continued, which is why all parties should understand that nature is at the core of the economy. “How can economic goals sacrifice nature? It’s total non sense. In my opinion, it does not make any sense”, he said.

Thousands of people took part in the protest against the reclamation of Benoa Bay under the banner “Tolak Reklamasi”. The mass of peaceful protestors walked from the East Parking Lot of Renon Square, Denpasar to the gubernatorial office where a giant 150 meter long cloth was unfurled.

“On the long cloth we wrote ‘The fire of our rejection the Benoa Bay Reclamation’ indicating that the passion to oppose the reclamation plan is alive and well and we believe it strongly”, said coordinator of ForBALI, I Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana.

Gendo explained that August 25, 2018 is the deadline for the extension of the location permit issued by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries to the investors of the reclamation project. If by August 25, the impact analysis of PT. TWBI has not been approved by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the location permit expires and the investors can no longer continue their planned reclamation of Benoa Bay. So far, PT. TWBI’s impact analysis has still not been approved because the socio-cultural impact criteria has not been met given that the local community and adjacent customary villages of Benoa Bay have clearly stated their disapproval of the proposed plan.

“Legally, it should end (on August 25, 2018—Ed), but we do not know what other maneuvers might be played because base on our experience for the past 5 years there always seem to be ways for the ruler to provide an opportunities for the reclamation project”, he said.

Gendo gave the example of Presidential Regulation No.45/2011declaring Benoa Bay as a conservation area having been revised with Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

This can serve a a political lesson for the people. People can see for themselves the behavior of their leaders in the face of investment -whether the ruler will be defeated by owners of capital or not.

“If there are such maneuvers again, I am confident this will become a bad precedent in coastal and marine governance.

Certainly, people will keep making their mark on history and will keep fighting”, he said. (kmb32)

Farmers at Subak Bekutel present banten pejati to reduce pest attack

Many paddy farmers today prefer to use chemically-based pesticides to repel pests from their crops. However, there are subak (irrigation cooperative) groups that still use traditional methods to prevent the spreads of pest that attack their paddy plants, including presenting banten pejati offerings at the temple adjacent to their farmlands.

Chief of Subak Bekutel, Apuan

village, Susut, Bangli, I Wayan Tata, explained that in Subak Bekutal, the farmers conducted a notification ritual at Dugul and Masceta Temples that are located near their paddy fields. He said this tradition is a legacy that has been passed down from generation to generation.

“When a pest attack hits the paddy fields, all our farmers present offerings in the notification ritual

at the two temples. We use banten pejati offerings. This ceremony is only held when there is a pest attack in the fields. Otherwise, we do not hold this ceremony”, he explained. According to Tata, the ceremony is meant to appeal to God whose manifestation abides in the temples asking that the pest attacks be reduced.

Every new moon in December (tilem keenem) the farmers also

carry out the nangluk merana ceremony which serves a similar purpose of asking that the pest attacks be reduced so that the farmer’s paddy plant scan grow well.

“Naturally pest will attack paddy fileds, however if we do the notification ritual and the nangluk merana ceremonies, there are less pests. We saw this just a few days ago, in Subak Bekutel where the paddy plants were being attacked

by mice and such. After doing the notification ritual at Dugul and Masceti Temples, there was a marled reduction on the amount of pest compared to before the ritual”, he said.

Admittedly, many farmers in Bali prefer to use chemical pesticides as there are more practical and faster. Traditional ways of expelling pests are being abandoned. (nan)

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Finns Fresh Sushi - Sake It To Me!

So you fancy a bit of sushi eh?

Well splash out the sake because Finns Beach Club has just opened their new Sushi Bar and the food is fab! Now you might wonder why a popular Bali beach club would incorporate a sushi bar into their already successful mix? Well, what could be better than to tuck into a dish of the freshest fish while having the benefit of a beachfront view and a sake or two!

Maybe the idea of eating raw fish did not appeal to as many several years ago, but with the raw food movement in full swing and the masses making a change toward clean and healthy eating, sushi is indeed in vogue and Finns Beach

Club have just the crew to make the most of the island’s freshest seafood and transform it into a mix of amazing flavours.

With experience in Japanese cuisine for over 15 years, the team of chefs come well versed in the delicate art of sushi. Training under the expert guide of a Japanese chef for a number of years then spending considerable time honing their culinary skills in 5 star hotels in the Cayman Islands and Ritz Carlton, Nusa Dua, these guys are no strangers to sashimi, sushi or tempura and it shows!

Finns Sushi Bar’s dedicated menu is comprehensive without being overwhelming. Unlike many

sushi restaurants, it does not offer pages and pages of options to pour over, but a succinct selection of flavoursome and fresh food done well.

Starters include light and fresh favourites for sharing such as edamame, gyoza and yakitori, as well as the must try menu item for fresh fish lovers - the Uzusukuri.

Carpaccio style white fish is sliced impossibly thin, with flavours of the star ingredient accentuated by a delicately infused, truffle ponzu sauce. Ask the waitstaff about the possibility of adding some fresh wasabi (the real stuff mind you, not the grass green, horseradish paste we are all familiar with) and you are in for a visual feast

as well as a chance to treat your tastebuds and spare the sinuses!

The wasabi (a root imported from Japan) is actually grated at your table using a traditional shark skin board. A bamboo brush carefully collects the residue of fresh paste and, after waiting five minutes for the complete kick of the wasabi to develop, just add it to your fish and experience the flavour sensation.

Fresh wasabi still packs a punch.

It’s strong and hot but without the lasting burn of horseradish and thankfully, minus an assault on your sinuses! But you need to indulge quickly, as the full, somewhat herbaceous flavours of this fresh condiment disappear after twenty minutes!

The Signature Rolls at Finns Sushi Bar are almost too pretty to eat.

Whether you’re a slave to social media or not, you’ll want to snap a pic of this before you sample it, however, one taste of their Dragon Roll and you’ll soon forgo any artistic appreciation for the sake of a screaming tummy! Portions are generous and prices reasonable but freshness and flavour are the real winners of each dish.

It gets even better! The food menu is complemented by a beverage list that includes a Sake selection comprehensive enough to make any serious souse stand up and say “Kanpai!” Having a distinctive style, sake may not be to everyone’s taste but I’ll bet my bento box you’ll really love Finns sake inspired cocktails! If you like your martinis, why not try their Saketini - a mix of chilled vodka, sake and cucumber. Cool as! All sakes are available by the bottle, with a decent selection also available by the glass.

Open for lunch and dinner, drop in and get your Finns sushi fix day or night. If you’d prefer to soak up some sun at the same time, simply grab a day bed and kick back with one of their Bento Boxes. Filled with a variety of tasters, these are a great way to sample some of the Sushi Bar menu from your beach towel. Take away options are also available. Even if your skills with a set of chopsticks is a little suspect, be sure to stop by soon and try Finns sushi, where fresh seafood is certainly the order of the day!

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BERLIN - French actress Isabelle Huppert said on Saturday she was pleased that women were speaking up about their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment after staying silent for so long.

Huppert, who has starred in more than 100 films, was speaking at the Berlin film festival, where a movie called “Eva” in which she plays a high-class prostitute is premiering.

There is a growing debate on sexual harassment driven by the #MeToo movement on social media and Time’s Up, launched by more than 300 Hollywood industry figures in January in response to sexual assault and harassment allegations against powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields.

“I have looked on everything that has happened with this movement with a lot of sympathy and hope because it’s so long that all this stuff should have been said and it finally has been said for the last few months,” Huppert said.

“And that’s been one of the reasons why I’ve been doing cinema - to speak of women in a certain way - and personally speaking I’m very happy that some things have finally been brought out into the open, definitively I hope,” she added.

French actress Catherine Deneuve and 99 other French women signed a column in Le Monde in January saying the #MeToo campaign had gone too far and was fuelled by a “hatred of men”.

But the movement is in the limelight at this year’s Berlinale - several discussion events are being held, guests can visit a counselling corner, and festival director Dieter Kosslick has said some films were cut from the programme due to sexual abuse allegations against people involved.

On Saturday, European film industry workers launched a campaign called “Speak Up!” to try to put an end to sexual harassment and abuse being tolerated in workplaces.

It encourages people to point out incidents of sexism, harassment and abuse of power and wants to ensure businesses know what inappropriate behaviour and sexual misconduct is.

“Eva” is one of 19 films competing for the Berlinale’s Golden and Silver Bears to be handed out on Feb. 24.

Directed by Benoit Jacquot, it tells the story of young man called Bertrand who shoots to fame with a manuscript he stole from a dead writer.

Bertrand is under pressure to write a second piece that will enjoy the same kind of success so when he meets the attractive yet distant Eva he begins transcribing their conversations to form the basis of his next literary work. (rtr)

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Actors Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel and Julia Roy arrive for the screening of the movie Eva at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin,Germany, February 17, 2018.

British actor Robert Pattinson says he does not believe in true love

BERLIN - British actor Robert Pattinson does not believe in true love, he said at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, in contrast to the lovestruck pioneer he portrays

in the western comedy period film “Damsel”.

Directed by David and Nathan Zellner, “Damsel” stars Pattinson as the wealthy Samuel Alabaster who

Actors Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska arrive for the screening of the movie Damsel at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin,Germany, February 16, 2018.

traverses the Wild West in search of his love Penelope, played by Australian actress Mia Wasikowska.

“Do I believe in true, pure love?

No. No, I think it’s, yeah, I mean it’s obviously more complicated,” he said at a news conference after the screening.

“Damsel” is one of 19 films competing for the festival’s Golden Bear award. (rtr)

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All 66 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash Iran plane crash All 66 passengers and crew were believed to have been killed in a plane crash in central Iran on Feb. 18, an airline spokesman said. The domestic flight departed Tehran for the city of Yasuj but came down in bad weather.

200 miles Caspian Sea

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IRAN

IRAK Dena mountain The ATR plane, operated

by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines, crashed near the town of Semirom.

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Semirom Yasuj KUWAIT S. ARABIA

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DUBAI - All 66 passengers and crew were believed to have been killed in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday, an airline spokesman said, after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. Operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines, the plane crashed near the town of Semirom after taking off from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, news agency ISNA quoted emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying.

The ATR-made plane was on a flight to the southwestern city of Yasuj and a spokesman for the airline said there were 60 passengers and six crew aboard. “All... on board were unfortunately killed,” Aseman spokesman Mohammad Taqi Tabatabai told state television.

Rescue helicopters were unable to land at the probable crash site because of heavy fog and emergency workers were searching the mountainous area

by land, the television report said.

“Heavy snow is making it difficult for rescuers to find the site of the crash,” a television reporter accompanying rescue teams told state television. Media reports said the twin-engined turboprop ATR 72 disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Mehrabad airport.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan

Rouhani issued messages of condolences and the president asked the transport minister to lead an investigation into the crash.

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