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Cast member Ayelet Zurer poses at the premiere for the movie “Ben-Hur” at TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California U.S., August 16, 2016.

Southern California wildfire rages unchecked after evacuations Page 6

Barca beats Sevilla 3-0 to win Spanish Super Cup

Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers Page 13

New innovation still faces budgetary constraints

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Hollywood classic “Ben-Hur” gets modern remake

LOS ANGELES - “Ben-Hur”, the 1959 movie epic that won 11 Oscars, has received a Hollywood revamp -- but its makers say the famed chariot race still relies on humans and horses, not special effects.

“Boardwalk Empire” actor Jack Huston takes on the role for which the late Charlton Heston was named Best Actor, playing the young Jewish noble Judah Ben-Hur, who is sent into slavery by Roman occupiers but returns to take his revenge.

“If you think about the climate of the world today -- and this movie is

set 2,000 years ago -- you realise the world hasn’t changed that much,” Huston said at the film’s Tuesday premiere.

“Being a beautiful action movie with all of the thrills and excitement, it’s still a very serious movie for our time.”

Producer Mark Burnett said that

for the chariot-racing sequence -- nine minutes long in the original -- special effects had been used only for crash scenes. “The actual horses were ridden and driven by the actors.

It was 32 horses, eight chariots round and around that arena at full speed, sometimes on one wheel,” he said.

“When the horses have crashes, that’s all special effects -- but the rest of the racing is all the real horses with the actors.”

“Ben-Hur” hits cinemas worldwide from Wednesday. (rtr)

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M A N GUPURA - The year 2016 has been declared as the Year of Innovation on the 21st celebration of the National Technology Awakening Day a few days ago.

Innovation is a process where one of them is determined by the success rate of research and higher education.

Higher education plays an important role in preparing the next generation to become innovators. In the meantime, research institution has a role in giving the opportunity to young generations of the nation to make innovative works.

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Gold medallists Tontowi Ahmad (INA) of Indonesia and Liliyana Natsir (INA) of Indonesia pose as if biting their medals.

Golden independence day for Indonesians

RIO DE JANEIRO - Ahmad Tontowi and Liliyana Natsir celebrated Indonesia’s national day with a “gift” of a gold medal to their country after hammering Malaysia’s Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the badminton mixed doubles final on Wednesday.

Roared to the title by dozens of feverish home fans, the world number three pairing pounced all over the Malaysians from the first point at the Riocentro and never dropped the pressure in the 21-14 21-12 win.

Tontowi and Natsir’s triumph secured Indonesia’s seventh Olympic title in badminton and first since Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan won the men’s doubles in 2008. “I

feel speechless. I cannot say anything. I’m overwhelmed,” said an elated Tontowi.

“The supporters were amazing because today is also Indonesia’s independence day, so this is our gift to Indonesia.”

Malaysia have waited 52 years for an Olympic champion but their hopes of breaking the drought were extinguished in just 44 minutes by the rampant Indonesians, who

stormed to a 10-3 lead in the opening game before Goh and Chan could settle.

Backed by more than 100 Indonesian fans clad in red and white and banging noisemaker sticks with abandon, the hyper-aggressive Tontowi repeatedly smashed through Goh and Chan’s defences, with Natsir almost impregnable at the net.

After wrapping up the opening game in a flash, the Indonesians made another fast start in the second before Goh and Chan battled back to 10-9. But Tontowi and Natsir just ratcheted up the pressure again, allowing the Malaysians only three extra points in a rollicking charge

to the podium.

The Malaysians surrendered meekly, with Goh netting on the final point, triggering frenetic celebrations around the arena. Chan and Goh were philosophical about the loss, having enjoyed an excellent tournament in which they upset the reigning Chinese champions in the semi-finals.

“I feel this is tremendous for our country because for Malaysia not one single pair has won any medal in this mixed double event, so we have already made history,” said Goh. Malaysia have further medal chances in the men’s singles and doubles.

Goh V. Shem and Tan Wee

Kiong will vie for gold against China’s formidable Zhang Nan and Fu Haifeng on Friday, with world number one and twice silver medallist Lee Chong Wei playing a semifinal against China’s Lin Dan on the same day. China’s Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei won the bronze medal playoff on Tuesday.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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“It’s a process, in the sense that the government has just mentioned in the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan. So, at least in the mid-term, the direction of human resources development is like that,” said the Rector of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, responding to the declaration of the Year of Innovation when met at the Udayana University, at the Bukit Jimbaran Campus, Badung.

Suastika added that research is indeed one of the ways to make innovation. Research is further divided into the one having something to do with basic and applied sciences.

Results of the applied sciences in particular can be immediately utilized for community. Furthermore, they are also important for the future

competitiveness of this nation.

“One of the measures for the innovation is the patent rights or intellectual property rights. Indonesia is still very small and when even compared to Singapore with the population of only 3 million. It has far more patent rights, whereas the population of Indonesia has the population amounting to 250 million,” he explained.

According to Suastika, the more patent rights in Indonesia, the more new innovations will be created in this country. On that account, it is important for Indonesia to pursue patents through innovative researches. But so far, budget issues are most frequently faced in the implementation of research.

“Indeed it will be back again.

Actually it is not always like that but people will think if the budge is insufficient. If declared insuf-

ficient, it’s always insufficient, no matter how much will be given. But most importantly, the atmosphere, academic atmosphere and research atmosphere should be developed in the institutions (university—Ed),” he added.

In the Udayana University itself, said Suastika, his authority continues to increase the research funding or the research from the university earnings.

From only 5 percent, it rises to 10 percent and will rise again to 15 percent next year. This is done to encourage lecturers and students to produce innovative research, particularly in the field of applied sciences.

In the meantime, Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Mohammad Nasir, said that the declaration of the Year of Innovation is expected to immedi-

ately realize the knowledge-based economy. This nation can no longer rely on natural resources that will be exhausted if taken continuously.

But it should be able to make a breakthrough where technology and innovation become the driving force of development.

“The number and quality of researchers and innovators in universities and research institutions need to be improved, in addition to the quality of research, scientific publications and the number of patents obtained as well as the innovations produced,” he said in a speech written on the 71st celebration of the Independence Day. According to Nasir, the government’s commitment to improving the performance of research and innovation will continue to be improved. It is especially in terms of rules and regulations, financing and

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investment enhancement, quality improvement and rejuvenation of laboratory as well as scholarships for researchers. He hoped that the innovative products produced can provide answers to a variety of challenges faced by this nation such as forest fires, traffic congestion, climate change, reform of the bureaucracy, infrastructural development and so on.

“In the current globalization era, Indonesia is faced with the challenge on the emergence of free competition in trade among the nations. This free competition will cause Indonesia to be invaded by a wide range of new products and technologies from other countries.

With innovation, Indonesia is not only self-sufficient but also able to meet the demand of market and even other countries,” he said. (kmb32)

Pemuteran, An ancient and unique village having nine Dalem Temples

PEMUTERAN customary village, Rendang, Karangasem, is classified as one of the ancient villages in Karangasem. This village has a number of unique traditions. Traditions at the village remain to be preserved and implemented up to these days.

The village having fertile areas has nine Dalem Temples. When a ceremony or pujawali is held at the temple, said one of local village leaders, I Ketut Rasta, no higher priests or sulinggih are involved to officiate over the rituals. Residents organizing the ritual are just enough to invoke holy water at Bujangga Temple located in the upstream area of the village. With the sprinkles of holy water invoked at the Tirta Bujangga Temple, it is unnecessary to perform worship and invoke holy water to higher priests. The ritual is only officiated over by priest of local temple by means of the holy water sprinkles of the Tirta Bujangga Temple.

Other than such uniqueness, added Rasta, the tradition remaining to be preserved until now is the tradition of marriage. Process of the marriage ceremony includes a tradition named the maserah sampi.

Series of the wedding ceremony is started with proposing where the party of bridegroom proposes the bride to her parents accompa-

nied by his families. As usual in the proposing, the bridegroom is accompanied by his parents and family. After the proposing, the bride is invited to the house of the bridegroom and resumed with mekala-kalaan (purificatory rite) of the couple prior to starting their household life.

After the core ceremony of the wedding, the couple is allowed to enter into the Pura Desa temple area when they have performed the maserah sampi. It is a procession where the groom party hands over a bull with the horns of reaching around 12 cm. The bull is handed over to the village accompanied with pejati oblation. By the village consisting of 104 households, the bull is then slaughtered and the meat is distributed to local villagers.

On certain ceremonies, there are times for the couple to perform makandal procession at Pura Desa temple. At that time, should there be some newly married couples having not performed the makandal procession, they can do it

simultaneously. When holding the makandal, the couples are hanging in the pejahitan pavilion at Penataran village. The next procession is megat balai agung. Rasta and local headman I Wayan Suana said that hanging on pejahitan pavilion (a pavilion used to arrange oblations) where the new couples are expected to be ready take socio-religious responsibility of the village after getting married by doing selfpurificatory rite.

Pemuteran customary village at Pempatan administrative village is the westernmost village in Karangasem district. Pemuteran village is bordered with forest area of Kintamani, Bangli. Pemuteran village is classified into a village of struggle. This village, precisely located at Linjong Temple, right in the middle of the forest, was once used as hideaway of the young warriors led by I Gusti Ngurah Rai when holding a long march to East Bali so as to give self-confidence to all Balinese people that the RI has got the independence and owned its troops.

However, when arriving at Pemuteran the colonial troops coming with the well-armed Netherlands Indies Civil Administration (NICA)

pursued our fighters. Residents of Pemuteran in June 1946 concealed the troops of Ngurah Rai. No people opened their mouth where the troops were hiding.

Ultimately the Pemuteran village was ransacked by the NICA and a number of youths remaining visible at the village were arrested

and tortured. The young men, including I Gatera and his younger sister I Rahat, were tortured so that they were willing to show the hiding place of the Ngurah Rai’s troops. I Rahat remained to keep silent. She was immune to be tortured and shot; but finally she was pierced with a sword to die. (bud)

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Stylewatch: Guy Bourdin’s glamorous girls inspire Christian Louboutin

THE shoe brand’s latest adverts pay tribute to the sex and edge of the French fashion photographer.

But are they too retro? Throughout the 70s and 80s, Guy Bourdin took pictures of women and, sometimes, parts of women. These images were surreal, glamorous, ghostly, graphic (in both senses), witty and sexy. The women were anonymous, and often dressed in swimsuits, occasionally with tights as well. They had props:

telephones, teddy bears, beds, dolphins, bus stops. More often than not, their shoes were at the centre of the images. This is because Bourdin, who took pictures for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, was also employed by shoe brand Charles Jourdan from the mid60s, and he produced their ad campaigns until the early 80s. It is these images, understandably, that Christian Louboutin pays homage to with the images for

his own advertising campaign this season. In one, we see a girl crouching in green tights and blue platforms, with the image cropped at her waist in a Bourdinian manner. In another, one girl – wearing a leopard print leotard and glitter tights – lies back, with a fish-netted leg, complete with platform, across her in the foreground. Yet another sees the same girl again on her back with her legs folded up to her chest and her face

obscured, but a set of striped ankle boots plain for all to see.

In a route one way, this influence makes a lot of sense – the purpose of both sets of images is to create striking pictures that put shoes in the centre.

Louboutin has always veered on the

side of showgirl style – he even dabbles with the trapeze – so Bourdin’s glossy, scantily clad aesthetic was always going to appeal. The photographer’s work, particularly since last year’s exhibition at Somerset House, is a reference that appeals in a wider fashion moment that is all about the 70s and 80s party girl. This season’s Louboutin designs, called Oh You Pretty Things, have a 70s feel. (IBP/net)

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Expert describes characteristics of pedophile

Perpetrator looks bountiful to make victims happy

DENPASAR — The case regarding to pedophilia with the defendant Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was on trial Tuesday (Aug. 16). The defendant was about to present alleviating witness, but the witness known as the defendant’s host did not come to the Denpasar District Court.

In the meantime, the expert of the prosecutor described a number of characteristics and behaviors of a person leading to pedophilia. One of the fundamental characteristics of the perpetrator is targeting the poor area and behaves like a generous person so that he is positioned as a ‘hero’ and tries to approach the family (especially parents of the victims) and makes them happy.

Indeed, one of the experts originally presented by the prosecutor did not attend the trial, but his statement was read. Another expert was Luh Suryani. The report was read out by prosecutor Purwanti Murtiasih et al. According to the expert, explained Purwanti, the characteristics of a pedophile lies in the defendant Robert. Prosecutor said, for example, the perpetrator provides something for potential victims and their families. “The perpetrator also comes to the pockets of the poor,” said Purwanti.

Other characteristic, added Purwanti, a pedophile is trying to make the victim happy. In the eyes of the victims, pedophile is consid-

ered as a kind of generous person.

Therefore, the kids will like the perpetrator. Prosecutor stated that almost all of the characteristics of pedophile can be found in the figure of Robert. “Children are screened some films. In short, they are made happy,” said the prosecutor of the Bali Prosecutor’s Office.

This prosecutor having a striking Javanese accent added that pedophile does not commit any violence against the victims. When the victims feel pain, she continued, the action will be discontinued.

Sometimes a pedophile has been satisfied when seeing just a naked child.

The defendant’s attorney, Yanuar Nahak, claimed to work extra so as to get alleviating witness for his client. “The alleviating witness canceled its attendance due to fear.

He said that someone has terrorized so that he is afraid to come here,” said Yanuar.

Related to testimony of the expert witness of the prosecutor, Yanuar stated if the expert witness is not in accordance with the material of laws. According to Yanuar, the expert witness is only describing the figure of pedophile scientifically, but is not based on the evidence of medical report.

“Almost all the results of medical report do not reveal any signs of sexual abuse and promiscuity,” said Yanuar. (kmb37)

DENPASAR - Right on the Independence Day (Aug. 17), I Wayan Sudarsa, 53, a police officer in charge of traffic affairs became the victim of irresponsible people, Wednesday morning (Aug. 17). The victim being on duty was found lifeless on Kuta Beach.

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One of the fundamental characteristics of the perpetrator is targeting the poor area and behaves like a generous person so that he is positioned as a ‘hero’.

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Again, police officer falls as another victim

The crime scene examination by the police on Kuta Beach.

Ardhana, the victim’ brother-inlaw (brother of the victim’s wife) stated that at the time of incident the victim was indeed on duty. His family did not have any feelings regarding the accident.

“There were no unusual expressions, too, because he (the victim) said goodbye as usual,” said Ardhana who also works as a policeman in the Denpasar Police, equally having been serving for 35 years.

At the time of incident, the victim asked for permission to purchase food due to being hungry while on duty. He did not think if such incident would occur.

This man from Kelan, Jimbaran,

left two sons. The first son of the victim has been working while the second son is still attending higher education at Undiksha. “Immediately he will be graduating,” he added.

Family is worried about performing an autopsy. “We’re not going to do an autopsy. Probably it will turn useless, let the police handle it,” he said. Since there are ceremonies taking place at Kelan for two days, his body can only be sent to the funeral home after two days.

Ni Ketut Arsini, 54, the victim’s wife, said that she had no feelings before her husband died.

“He goes home from workplace

as usual and it’s just like his daily routine. So, I think there is nothing strange,” said Arsini from Singaraja.

In the meantime, the results of external examination by Sanglah Hospital Forensic Medicine indicate there are some open wounds on the face and head. “There are some bruises on the face and head,” said Dudut Rustyadi, the Head of Forensic Medicine Department of Sanglah Hospital.

External examination conducted at 06:15 also found bruises on the victim’s arms and abrasions on the face. From the injuries found, he concluded if the victim suffered violence due to blunt object, while no injuries by sharp object were found. Overall there are 39 points of injuries scattered on the head and hands. “More injuries are found in the head,” he added. (kmb42)

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Asylum seekers look at the media from behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre, Papua New Guinea in this picture taken March 21, 2014. This is image is supplied from source with faces digitally blurred.

The ceremony was held in customary attires accompanied with gamelan music accompaniment.

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In Ubud, flag raising ceremony held in cultural nuance

GIANYAR — Different atmosphere was strikingly seen during the celebration of the Independence Day of the RI at Ubud tourism village, Wednesday (Aug. 17).

The ceremony was held in customary attires accompanied with gamelan music accompaniment. As a result, this culture-nuanced ceremony drew the attention of hundreds of visitors.

As observation, no marching band was found in the ceremony held at the Ubud Public Square using the entire gamelan accompaniment. Thus, the flag raising ceremony with chanting of the Indonesia Raya anthem took place with Balinese gamelan music.

Additionally, podium of the ceremony inspector and reading of the proclamation and Pancasila text was decorated in such a way with Balinese umbrellas. “We want the local potential is also featured to take part in this historic day,” said Cokorda Ngurah Suyadnya.

As a result, the red and white flag ceremony coming with cultural nuances successfully drew the attention of hundreds of foreign travelers. At the end of the ceremony, all the participants and spectators were entertained with national songs accompanied

by Balinese gamelan music as well.

Subdistrict head of Ubud, I.B. Suamba, said that the commemoration of the seconds of the Independence Day is indeed necessary to preserve the culture and give a good contribution to the nation and state. “This is indeed a new idea accompanied with cultural treasures in welcoming the 71st celebration of the Independence Day,” he said.

In a series of enlivening the 71st anniversary of the Independence Day of the RI this time, he also held a number of activities, such as the torch parade, various competitions and cultural performances. Especially for the flag lowering ceremony, we present traditional dances of the regions of the country,” he said. (kmb35)

Collecting data of farmers’ family DENPASAR as urban area still has enough agricultural land potential to be cultivated. Rice production of farmers in Denpasar is not inferior to that of farmers in other districts in Bali. Responding to this, the Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra does not set aside this sector. Rai Mantra has even designed a program of inclusive services for farmers. One of them is making data collection on the number of farming families in Denpasar.

This matter was confirmed by the Mayor of Denpasar, Rai Mantra, when met after the regional mid-term development plan meeting (RPJMD) of Denpasar City for the period of 2016-2021, not long ago.

He said that the agricultural sector remains to have few issues in need of serious attention. For example, they are related to conservation as well as other subsequent issues. To relieve the anxiety of farmers, Denpasar municipality has rolled out a program to protect farmers in the form of agricultural insurance. It is intended for farmers experiencing crop failure. Besides, there is provision of seeds for farmers as well as other policies.

In addition, there is a problem in increasing the capacity of farmers and data collection on farming families. Looking ahead, the Denpasar municipality will make data collection to know clearly about the number of farming families in Denpasar. “This has something to do with other programs, such as education and health,” he said.

If there are farming families that have not been able to improve their children’s education and health, they will be registered in this inclusive program. It is meant to touch the interest of people in grass root. (kmb12)

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I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra

Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers

SYDNEY - The premier of Western Australia state, a member of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal Party, has offered to accept refugees from Australian-funded detention centres amid growing concern about conditions for the 1,350 people held in the camps.

Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to asylum seeker camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea. They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia. Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday that they would close the Manus Island facility, but gave no timeline, and did not say where the people held there would be sent.

“We would certainly accommodate a number of them in Western Australia and we’d certainly support them as a state government,” Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Wednesday night.

Barnett has taken a similar position in the past, and his stand demonstrated a rare public split in the conservative Liberal Party over the government’s controversial detention policy.

A spokeswoman for New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on

Thursday said that an offer made in 2013 to accept 150 refugees, which Canberra has rebuffed, still stood.

Harsh conditions and reports of rampant abuse at the camps have drawn wide criticism at home and abroad. Australia says its hardline policy is needed to stop deaths at sea during the dangerous boat journey from Indonesia to Australia.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday stood by the government’s policy ruling out settling the detainees in a third country, casting doubt over the fate of the remaining 850 refugees on Manus and 500 in Nauru.

“It’s never been about tearing down the fences, it’s about what to do with the people trapped behind them,” Daniel Webb, director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, told Reuters.

“There’s absolute clarity about what should happen but no clarity whatsoever about what will happen.”

There are no plans to close the

Nauru camp, which is under renewed scrutiny after a newspaper published leaked documents detailing reports of more than 2,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, many involving children.

News of the closure of the Manus Island facility did not immediately generate much hope amongst the refugees there, many of whom have spent years in detention and suffer from mental health issues.

“Everybody is tired, people think this news will make us happy but everyone is same like before,” Kurdish Iranian refugee Benham Satah told Reuters from Manus Island.

“I want to believe there is something good happening but I can’t. I just focus on seeing tomorrow.”

The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruled in April that the detention centre at Manus was illegal and ordered it closed. Next week it will hold a hearing into what progress has been made.

Webb, the lawyer, said that Australia may have announced the closure of Manus Island as a means of deflecting the court’s attention from the lack of progress it has made in implementing the ruling. (rtr)

HANOI - Vietnam has banned players of the game Pokemon Go from the offices of its government and ruling Communist Party, besides defense locations, as thousands of its citizens get swept up in the frenzy to capture virtual cartoon characters.

Hundreds of thousands of players have downloaded the game since its Aug. 6 launch in Vietnam, with many annotating the Google version of the country’s map to aid their quest, the Information and Communications Ministry said in a statement.

The game is not licensed, however, and people should not play it “near or inside the areas of offices of the Communist Party, the state, the military and national defense sites and other restricted areas”, the ministry said late on Wednesday.

Players engrossed in the game may run into trouble in spots such as railways, highways, airports, rivers, lakes and mountains, apart from the risk of losing personal information, the ministry added.

“Playing Pokemon Go while in traffic causes more bad than good influence on people,” Captain Nguyen Minh Duc of the Hanoi traffic police told an online forum on Thursday.

“Traffic rule breakers do not only cause harm to themselves but also affect others.”

Pokemon Go uses augmented reality and Google mapping to make animated characters appear in the real world, overlaid on the nearby landscape viewed through players’ mobile phone cameras.

The game has prompted safety warnings after players glued to their phones stumbled, were robbed or wandered into dangerous places.

Last week neighboring Cambodia banned the game from a former Khmer Rouge torture center and prison after players showed up at the site, now a genocide museum, hunting for Pokemon characters.

Thailand also plans to place spots such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals out of bounds for Pokemon Go players. Vietnam and Thailand have the fastest growing smartphone markets in Southeast Asia, along with the Philippines. (rtr)

REUTERS/Sait Serkan Gurbuz

People play “Pokemon Go”in the small town of Occoquan, Virginia, U.S. August 14, 2016.

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A government doctor checks Indonesian hostage Mohammad Safyan after he escaped from Abu Sayyaf captors, in Jolo, Sulu in southern Philippines August 17, 2016.

Currency volatility wanes, boding well for risk-taking

LONDON - A flood of central bank cash and the prospect of more to come has crushed volatility in the foreign exchange market, prompting investors to seek higher returns in riskier currencies.

The drop in market measures of how sharp exchange rate swings will be has emboldened investors and encouraged appetite for emerging country currencies and, in developed markets, the Australian and New Zealand dollars.

A key driver of this collapse has been expectations that monetary policy will remains loose for a while yet. The Bank of England and the Australian and New Zealand central banks have cut interest rates in recent weeks and, despite warnings from officials, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems in no hurry to hike.

“Investors who go by macro-economic fundamentals are on the sidelines because there is an expectation that the Federal Reserve will probably not raise until December,” said Manuel Oliveri, currency strategist at Credit Agricole.

If the U.S. rate outlook were to change or political or economic risks jangled investors’ nerves, volatility would quickly return. Until then, they are happy to take risks.

“Sure, political and geo-political risks are lurking, but volatility is lower and that is positive for higher-yielding currencies like the Australian dollar and will keep the dollar capped,” Oliveri added.

The dollar index hit its lowest in seven weeks on Tuesday, while the high-yielding Australian dollar trades near its highest in four months.

Even the New Zealand dollar hit a one-year high despite the Reserve Bank’s rate cut last week, highlighting investors’ search for higher yields.

With policy rates in most developed economies like Japan, the euro zone and Britain are close to zero, Australia on 1.5 percent and New Zealand on 2 percent are attractive.

HUNT FOR HIGH-YIELDERS Analysts say riskier assets and currencies have been performing well since the U.S. payrolls data

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2nd Indonesia sailor flees Abu Sayyaf captors in Philippines

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Customers withdraw money from National Australia Bank (NAB) Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in central Sydney, Australia, July 24, 2015. released earlier this month showed that while the number of jobs indicated the economy was robust, productivity and inflation were subdued.

“The market simply does not believe in the Fed hiking before the November (Presidential) elections,” said Alan Ruskin, strategist at Deutsche Bank, one of the largest currency traders.

Stocks have hit highs while dollar debt issued by companies from riskier and less developed countries have been among the year’s best performing assets. In the past six weeks, investors have pumped $18 billion into emerging debt funds, a record run, Bank of America Merrill

Lynch data shows.

For the $5-trillion-a-day currency market, analysts said the low volatility environment would encourage investors to borrow in lowyielding currencies to buy higher yielders - the so-called carry trade favoured by asset managers who follow macro trends, speculators and hedge funds.

“We expect carry to perform well in the coming months,” HSBC analysts said in a note, adding emerging market currencies would do rather well.

Carry trades have generated 5 percent annual returns in the past three decades, according to a

study by the Cass Business School released in late 2012.

Amongst emerging market currencies, investors are buying the Mexican peso, South Korean won, the South African rand and the Brazilian real. The rand hit its highest since October 2015 this week, while the Brazilian real is trading near one-year highs.

“The status quo of rising asset prices, low volatility and dovish central banks continues,” said Stewart Richardson, chief investment officer at RMG Wealth Management. “So long as prices are benign and volatility is low, investors will be encouraged to keep on taking risk.”(rtr)

China July home prices showing signs of fatigue

BEIJING - China home prices rose 0.8 percent in July nationwide, but stalled or fell in more cities than in June, adding to concerns that one of the economy’s key growth drivers is losing steam but offering some relief for policymakers worried about property bubbles.

A robust recovery in home prices and sales gave a strongerthan-expected boost to the world’s second-largest economy in the first

half of the year, helping to offset stubbornly weak exports.

However, some analysts say slowing price growth and weakening property investment suggest the rebound may have peaked, as more local governments tighten restrictions on home purchases in a bid to keep fast-rising prices in check.

Average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities rose 7.9

percent in July from a year earlier, an official survey showed on Thursday, accelerating from a 7.3 percent increase in June.

Monthly trends, however, painted a somewhat weaker picture. July home prices rose at the same pace as in June, which was the slowest since April, according to a Reuters calculation based on data issued by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

And, out of the 70 cities surveyed, prices stalled or fell on a monthly basis in 19 cities in July, compared to 15 in June.

Home prices in first- and secondtier cities continued to see eye-popping annual gains, with southern boomtown Shenzhen and coastal Xiamen rising the most at 40.9 percent and 39.2 percent, respectively from a year earlier.

Worried by sharp price rises, a

growing number of more affluent cities have tightened home purchasing restrictions in recent months most recently Nanjing and Suzhou - including introducing measures to raise the down-payment ratio for second mortgages.

Cities that have seen the biggest drop in prices include Dandong and Mudanjiang, situated respectively in China’s rustbelt Liaoning and Heilongjiang province.(rtr)

MANILA — A second Indonesian sailor escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines on the same day his colleague swam to freedom after almost two months in captivity, officials said Thursday. Ismail, the chief officer of a tugboat whose seven crewmen were abducted near Philippine waters in June, was recovered by troops Wednesday along a road in southern Jolo Island’s Luuk town, said Maj. Filemon Tan, a regional military spokesman.

“Military troops were scouring the area looking for other Indonesian hostages when they found Ismail, who identified himself to the military as a kidnap victim,” Tan said.

Mohammad Safyan, another sailor from the same tugboat named Charles, ran and swam to freedom earlier Wednesday after the militants threatened to behead him, Tan said. Villagers in Luuk found him floating and trapped in fishnets along shore in a mangrove area.

Tan said the men escaped together,

but fled in separate ways as their captors chased them. It is not uncommon for hostages to try to escape, but very few succeed in such daring missions because they are unfamiliar with terrain and don’t speak the local language.

Sixteen other foreign hostages — nine Indonesians, five Malaysians, one Norwegian, and a Dutchman — are still held by the violent Muslim extremist group that has become notorious for ransom kidnappings and beheadings of hostages in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation. At least five Filipinos

are also being held captive.

Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed in May to carry out coordinated patrols following a series of kidnappings of Indonesian sailors and piracy attacks that have undermined commerce in the region.

A total of 24 Indonesian crewmen of tugboats and barges have been kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf this year, highlighting weak security in the Celebes Sea that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Ten of the hostages were freed after ransoms were reportedly paid.

The Philippines says it has stepped up a military offensive against the militants, who earlier this year beheaded two Canadian hostages. Washington and Manila list the Abu Sayyaf, which has more than 400 fighters, as a terrorist organization.(ap)

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Australia, Indonesia partners since RI`s independence: Ambassador

JAKARTA - The Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson, has said Australia has been Indonesias partner since it represented the Republic of Indonesia (RI) at the Committee of Good Offices for Indonesia.

The statement came in response to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)s state speech on August 16, 2016 marking the 71st commemoration of Indonesia’s Independence Day on August 17, 2016.

“The relationship between Australia and Indonesia has had its ups and downs, but the foundation will always be strong,” the ambassador stated.

This strong foundation, Grigson reminded, was established when Indonesia chose Australia as its representative at the Committee, together with Belgium (representing the Netherlands) and the United States (the neutral side).

The Committee was formed by the United Nations to mediate the dispute between Indonesia and the Netherlands after the Dutch colonial masters carried out Military Aggression I in 1947. “Since the beginning, Indonesia chose to have a dialogue to resolve the conflicts,” the ambassador added.

Yet, the Committee was considered a failure because the Dutch launched a second military aggression on December 19-20, 1948 that led to the UN establishing the United Nations Commission for Indonesia (UNCI).

Since then, Grigson underlined, Australia always supported Indonesia in every negotiation to defend its independence, including at the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference on August 22-November 2, 1949 in which Australia was the mediator, representing the UNCI. The conference became a stepping stone to Indonesias success in achieving independence as the Netherlands agreed to cede sovereignty to Indonesia by the end of December 1949.

Today, after 71 years of independence, Grigson noted that the relationship between Indonesia and Australia is even stronger through cooperation in various fields, including people-to-people contact.

“The networking between the Indonesians and the Australians will make our relationship stronger,” he stressed.

In the multilateral arena, Indonesia and Australia are the co-chairs at the Bali Process, a continuing dialogue to address issues of human trafficking and illegal migration. Indonesia and Australia, together with South Africa, form the troika in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).

At the international level, Indonesia and Australia are actively sending their peacekeeping forces for accomplishing the UN peace missions in conflict areas.

“Indonesia is a great country and I believe it will become greater and greater in the future,” Ambassador Grigson hoped.(ant)

Suspected foreign terrorist killed in Poso

PALU - A suspected foreign terrorist, believed to be of Chinese origin, was shot dead by the Tinombala Operation task force in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Wednesday morning.

“Based on initial checks, the alleged individual, who was on the wanted list and killed in the operation, has been identified as Ibrahim, and he is not an Indonesian,” Briga-

dier General Pol. Rudy Sufahriadi, chief of the provinces police command, stated after a ceremony to mark Independence Day at the governors office compound.

The body of Ibrahim, who is believed to have come from Uighur in China, is now still in Poso Pesisir but will soon be moved to Poso.

Sufahriadi noted that four foreigners were earlier on the wanted list,

and with Ibrahims death, there were no others left.

He said Ibrahim was killed following a shootout at 3:35 a.m. local time in the hilly region of Padopi, which is located in proximity to a village in Poso Pesisir.

The two wanted individuals, including Ibrahim, were involved in a gunfight, but the other managed to escape, he added.

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Sufahriadi declined to reveal further details on the group of individuals owing to fears that it would disrupt the operation.

“I would not disclose (further information), but regardless of how many they are, I will continue to chase them,” he remarked.

He said following the gunfight, the team involved in the operation secured a self-made bomb, which

had been hurled at security personnel but failed to explode. “The guns were taken away by the person who managed to flee,” he revealed.

He said the gunfight broke out after intelligence information was received on the whereabouts of the persons.

“The information was true, but the men immediately launched an attack by throwing a bomb,” he added.(ant)

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Southern California wildfire rages unchecked after evacuations LOS ANGELES - A Southern California wildfire raged virtually unchecked in thick brush on Wednesday after destroying dozens of houses near a highway corridor between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and forcing as many as 80,000 residents to flee their homes, officials said.

The so-called Blue Cut Fire ignited on Tuesday in the mountainous Cajon Pass and has exploded to cover 25,626 acres (10,370 hectares). Firefighters had carved containment lines around only four percent of the blaze by Wednesday night, fire officials said.

They described the blaze as unusually fierce, even for a year of intense wildfires in the U.S. West, where years of drought have placed a heavy burden on firefighting resources.

“In my 40 years of fighting fire, I’ve never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday,” Michael Wakoski, the incident commander on the fire, told a news conference on Wednesday.

As many as eight wildland fires

were burning in California on Wednesday, three of them scorching thousands of acres as firefighters sought help from emergency responders from other states and the California National Guard.

U.S. government forecasters have said Southern California faces a potential threat from major wildfires until December, given the dryness and warm weather.

Santa Ana winds, which sweep desert air to California’s coast while driving the fires, are due to kick up next month, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal-Fire) spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff said by phone. September and October are often the peak of the state’s wildfire season.

The Blue Cut Fire, named for a

narrow gorge north of San Bernardino where it started, threatened the town of Wrightwood near a ski resort and other communities in a partly rural area, authorities said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Authorities said they were forced to close part of Interstate 15, which runs through the Cajon Pass between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, and to order about 80,000 residents to evacuate.

Thick columns of smoke blocked out the sky above mountain peaks as the fire overran a number of properties, leaving behind barren lots with blackened appliances and vehicles stripped of nearly everything but metal.

Louis Penna, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said in an email an official damage estimate was not available but that dozens of destroyed structures were clearly visible. (rtr)

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A helicopter drops water while battling the Blue Cut fire burning near Wrightwood, California U.S., August 17, 2016.

REUTERS/David Becker

Robert Ensler, a Donald Trump impersonator, gestures as Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate Mike Pence speaks during a town hall at the Henderson Convention Center in Henderson, Nevada August 17, 2016.

Trump hires ‘street fighter’ in new shakeup of White House campaign

NEVADA - U.S. Republican Donald Trump overhauled his presidential campaign team on Wednesday for the second time in less than two months, hiring the head of a conservative news website to bolster his combative image and try to reverse poor opinion poll numbers.

Trump named Steve Bannon, head of the Breitbart News website, as campaign chief executive officer, a new position. He also promoted senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to the post of campaign manager.

The latest shake-up combines Bannon, a conservative flamethrower, with Conway, a measured, data-driven analyst who might be able to broaden Trump’s appeal to women and independent voters.

It offers Trump’s team a chance to return to the “let Trump be Trump” style practiced by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski that helped Trump, who has never held elective office, win the Republican presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election.

Lewandowski, ousted in the last campaign reorganization in June, said on CNN that Bannon was “a street fighter” like himself. A Trump campaign statement announcing the changes touted a Bloomberg Politics article that branded Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.”

Whether that style will work in the fight against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is unclear.

Trump, a New York real estate developer and former reality TV host, has largely been unable to extend

his reach beyond white middleclass voters who pack his rallies.

Trump trails Clinton in national opinion polls and in many battleground states, potentially facing a big defeat that could also cost Republicans congressional races.

Trump, who relishes revving up crowds with off-the-cuff remarks, drew criticism for comments insulting women, Muslims and Mexican immigrants during the primary campaign for the Republican nomination.

He has since faced a barrage of criticism from Republicans over his campaign style and his refusal to stick to a policy message. In particular, he has been rebuked for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war.

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump received his first intelligence briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a Trump adviser who attended the briefing at the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the officials who conducted the two-hour session were “absolutely professional” and that it was “a great conversation.”

Intelligence officials brief the major-party U.S. presidential candidates on foreign policy and national security issues but do not disclose ultra-sensitive information about ongoing U.S. undercover operations, methods or the identities of intelligence sources. (rtr)

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Dalem Balingkang Temple

BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur an on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles. Reaching the parking area, then, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple. The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.

Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date. Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date. (IBP/net)

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Brazil police pull U.S. swimmers from flight amid robbery probe

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police stopped two U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home on Wednesday to question them about how they and two team mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, after a judge raised doubts over their accounts.

A third swimmer, James Feigen, is in contact with Brazilian authorities and plans to make further statements to them on Thursday, said a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC).

Federal police also want to question U.S. gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte, one of swimming’s most decorated Olympians, but he had already flown home to the United States on Monday, a police spokesman said.

The four swimmers have said they were robbed by gunmen while returning to the Athletes’ Village in a taxi in the early hours of Sunday after a party - an incident that stoked fears for the safety of athletes and visitors at South America’s first Games.

The Rio Olympics have been dogged by a series of security scares, including the robbery of two visiting government ministers, a mugger being shot dead outside the opening ceremony and stray bullets being fired into the equestrian centre.

On Wednesday, The Guardian newspaper reported that a British team member had been held up at gunpoint while enjoying a night out in Rio in the early hours of Tuesday. The person was not seriously hurt, the newspaper added.

However, in the case of the four swimmers, police sources have said investigators have not found any evidence so far to back up their accounts.

Television images showed U.S. Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger

GLOBO TV/via REUTERS

U.S. Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger walk to the airport police station office at Rio’s international airport in this still frame taken from video dated August 17, 2016, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. walking into a police office at the airport to give testimony. A spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) confirmed the two men were taken from their flight.

“We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities,” said Patrick Sandusky, the USOC spokesperson.

“They were released by local authorities with the understanding that they would continue their discussions about the incident on

Thursday.”

Earlier on Wednesday, a judge had ordered police to seize the passports of Lochte and Feigen to prevent them leaving the country, apparently unaware that Lochte had already left.

None of the swimmers face charges, the source said.

Police have taken the passports of Bentz and Conger pending their testimony, O Globo newspaper said on its web site.

People magazine reported that Lochte

was spotted at an airport in North Carolina on Wednesday with his girlfriend, Kayla Rae Reid, a Playboy model. Reuters could not verify this.

Lochte’s attorney did not return calls for comment.

Judicial sources said the judge would consider whether to ask Lochte to return to Brazil to give testimony or allow him to do so in the United States. He had already given testimony to Brazilian police before leaving the country. (rtr)

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Mo Farah (GBR) of Britain runs as Mead Hassan (USA) of USA falls after they nealy collided.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Mo Farah survived another stumble to battle through to the final of the 5,000 metres on Wednesday as the Briton remained on course for a prized Olympic distance ‘double-double’.

Farah recovered from a fall to win the 10,000 gold last weekend and almost went down again on the last lap of his heat in the shorter race after being clipped by American Hassan Mead, who did fall and missed out on qualification.

An initial appeal by the Americans was rejected but a second plea, offering new video evidence, was accepted and Mead was installed in the field for Saturday’s final.

Farah is seeking to become the second man after Finland’s Lasse Viren in 1976 to retain both the

5,000m and 10,000m titles but said he still felt the strain of the longer race in his legs during Wednesday’s run in 32 degrees Celsius heat.

“It’s hot, I’ve just got to recover... I haven’t recovered (from the 10,000m) as well as I’d wanted,” Farah said.

“I got clipped, I just had to stay on my feet. But now I just have to recover, chill in my room.”

Farah just about retained his balance after his stumble to qualify safely in a heat won by Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet, who is likely to be one of his chief rivals in the final.

Gebrhiwet, 22, missed the 10,000m to concentrate his efforts on the shorter race after taking silver and bronze behind Farah over 5,000 in the last two world

championships.

Dejen Gebremeskel, who took silver to Farah’s gold in the London Olympics and also skipped the 10,000 in Rio, is also likely to challenge in the final, and qualified safely from the second heat.

Paul Chelimo, who switched allegiance from Kenya after joining the U.S. army, was the fastest qualifier, running a personal best 13 minutes 19.54 seconds, while another Kenyan-turned-American Bernard Lagat, appearing in his fifth Olympics, also advanced.

The 41-year-old Lagat won a bronze for Kenya in the 1500m at Sydney in 2000 and a silver in the same event in Athens four years later before he became an American citizen in 2005. (rtr)

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Brazil’s Neymar nets fastest Olympic goal at 15 seconds

Barcelona’s soccer team pose with the Spanish SuperCup trophy.

REUTERS/Albert Gea

Barca beats Sevilla 3-0 to win Spanish Super Cup

BARCELONA — Arda Turan scored two goals before Lionel Messi added a third as Barcelona beat Sevilla 3-0 on Wednesday to win the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-0 victory on aggregate.

Turan, who struggled to find his stride last season, continued to fill in successfully for Neymar while the Brazil star plays at the Rio Olympics.

The Turkey midfielder scored from Messi’s pass in the 10th minute before striking from long range two minutes after halftime. His goals at Camp Nou followed his excellent assist for Luis Suarez in the 2-0 first-leg win. Messi headed Barcelona’s third in the 55th, his first goal this season.

Barcelona finished with 10 men after Javier Mascherano asked to be substituted with 10 minutes left and after coach Luis Enrique had made all three changes.

Messi, sporting his new diedblond hairdo, raised the trophy after the final whistle. Barcelona added the minor title to last season’s Spanish league and Copa del Rey titles to complete its haul for 2016.

It was Barcelona’s eighth title of a possible ten under Luis Enrique.

“I feel very fortunate to have these players, they don’t stop surprising me,” Luis Enrique said.

“We like winning all the trophies we can. You saw that in the intensity my players displayed.”

Sevilla, meanwhile, lost its second final in as many weeks, after also falling to Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup. The visitors threatened Barcelona sporadically in the first half, before being overwhelmed in the second. Turan slotted in the opening goal after Messi played him clear following a passing combination with Andre Gomes, who was making his club debut along with central defender Samuel Umtiti Jorge Sampaoli’s Sevilla had a chance from the penalty spot after Umtiti was whistled for a handball

in the box after half an hour, but goalkeeper Claudio Bravo saved Vicente Iborra’s try.

Sevilla defender Gabriel Mercado also headed the ball onto the bar just before halftime. But it was all Barcelona otherwise, as it geared up to start its Spanish league title defense against Real Betis on Saturday, when Sevilla plays Espanyol.

“We are in very difficult moment,” Sampaoli said. “We had to play two finals that were like Champions League finals against the best teams in the world in Real Madrid and Barcelona. But we now have one single day of practice to prepare for Espanyol. We have to face the match in the best manner possible.”

Turan got his double with an audacious, first-touch strike to curl a bad Sevilla pass he had pounced on over goalie Sergio Rico.

Messi then sent Rico flailing in vain to keep out his lofted header from a cross by summer signing Lucas Digne. (ap)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s Neymar has not yet won his country a gold medal, but on Wednesday he at least pocketed an Olympic record - the fastest goal, at a dazzling 15 seconds into the game against overwhelmed Honduras.

The men’s semi-final had barely kicked off when Barcelona forward Neymar intercepted the ball, charged towards the Honduran side, challenged the goalie and bundled the ball into the net, sending the Maracana stadium into a frenzy of cheers.

“It was amazing to just arrive in the stadium and watch a beautiful goal,” said Filipe Deliza, a 19 year-old law student from Rio at the packed Rio venue.

“I was expecting Brazil to win but I was not expecting it would be so easy,” added Deliza, wearing a yellow Brazilian shirt. Hurt Honduras were shaken by the goal and never recovered, going on to lose 6-0.

“We didn’t expect this,” Honduran keeper Luis Lopez told Reuters

about Neymar’s goal. “Honestly, it hurts.”

But soccer-mad Brazilians were delighted, chanting “Neymar!” during much of the match - including when he netted a penalty at 90 minutes to put the icing on the cake.

Neymar will have to keep the magic going to allow Brazil to finally hoist the only international title that has so far eluded it. The South American powerhouse has lost three Olympic finals, including at London 2012.

If he can lead his squad to triumph in Saturday’s final, the team captain would cement his status as one of Brazil’s greatest ever players. He has already drawn lighthearted comparisons to other Olympic greats.

“Neymar’s goal, 15 seconds in, is the fastest in the history of Olympic football, 5.42 seconds more than Usain Bolt,” the Rio 2016 Spanish-language account tweeted in reference to the Jamaican sprinter. (rtr)

Wolfsburg signs Germany striker Mario Gomez from Fiorentina

WOLFSBURG — Wolfsburg says it has signed Germany striker Mario Gomez from Italian side

Fiorentina.

The Bundesliga club gave no details of the transfer fee or

the contract, but German media reported that Wolfsburg is paying around seven million euros

Sterling recovery at Man City draws praise from Guardiola Raheem Sterling has got his season off to an impressive start at Manchester City — and new manager Pep Guardiola may be the reason why.

Guardiola called the midfielder a “fantastic player” after Man City’s 5-0 thrashing of Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League playoff first-leg match on Tuesday, when Sterling set up two goals and looked dangerous both on and off the ball.

“He’s fast, has a good work ethic, can play right or left, go out to the line or go in the middle,” Guardiola said.

That display came just three days after Sterling also impressed in City’s 2-1 home win against Sunderland in the English Premier League. Sterling won a penalty kick for his side with Guardiola praising his “amazing” efforts.

Sterling’s performances have been in stark contrast to his disappointing displays for England in this year’s European Championship in France, where he was criticized for poor finishing and inconsistency.

But Sterling, who moved from Liverpool in 2015 for 49 million

pounds ($64 million), is flourishing under Guardiola, whose style of management appears to suit the player.

But the timing of Guardiola’s arrival may be coincidental with the 21-year-old Sterling naturally improving anyway. Former Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry defended the winger during Euro 2016, saying he has “a great future but he is not the finished article — people are treating him like he is the finished article.”

City fans will be hoping that Guardiola can provide that finishing touch. (ap)

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Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling, right, fights for the ball against Sunderland’s Donald Love during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday Aug. 13, 2016.

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Neymar (BRA) of Brazil kisses the ball before scoring a penalty goal against Honduras.

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($7.9 million) for the 31-yearold’s services. Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs says, “he and his ambitions go perfectly with us.”

Gomez, who has scored 29 goals in 68 appearances for Germany, played last season on loan at Turkish side Besiktas but said he didn’t

want to continue with the side due to the political situation in the country.

Gomez previously played 236 Bundesliga games for Stuttgart and Bayern Munich, scoring 138 goals.

Wolfsburg said the forward would train with the side for the first time on Thursday. (ap)

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Brazil’s Neymar nets fastest Olympic goal at 15 seconds

Barcelona’s soccer team pose with the Spanish SuperCup trophy.

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Barca beats Sevilla 3-0 to win Spanish Super Cup

BARCELONA — Arda Turan scored two goals before Lionel Messi added a third as Barcelona beat Sevilla 3-0 on Wednesday to win the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-0 victory on aggregate.

Turan, who struggled to find his stride last season, continued to fill in successfully for Neymar while the Brazil star plays at the Rio Olympics.

The Turkey midfielder scored from Messi’s pass in the 10th minute before striking from long range two minutes after halftime. His goals at Camp Nou followed his excellent assist for Luis Suarez in the 2-0 first-leg win. Messi headed Barcelona’s third in the 55th, his first goal this season.

Barcelona finished with 10 men after Javier Mascherano asked to be substituted with 10 minutes left and after coach Luis Enrique had made all three changes.

Messi, sporting his new diedblond hairdo, raised the trophy after the final whistle. Barcelona added the minor title to last season’s Spanish league and Copa del Rey titles to complete its haul for 2016.

It was Barcelona’s eighth title of a possible ten under Luis Enrique.

“I feel very fortunate to have these players, they don’t stop surprising me,” Luis Enrique said.

“We like winning all the trophies we can. You saw that in the intensity my players displayed.”

Sevilla, meanwhile, lost its second final in as many weeks, after also falling to Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup. The visitors threatened Barcelona sporadically in the first half, before being overwhelmed in the second. Turan slotted in the opening goal after Messi played him clear following a passing combination with Andre Gomes, who was making his club debut along with central defender Samuel Umtiti Jorge Sampaoli’s Sevilla had a chance from the penalty spot after Umtiti was whistled for a handball

in the box after half an hour, but goalkeeper Claudio Bravo saved Vicente Iborra’s try.

Sevilla defender Gabriel Mercado also headed the ball onto the bar just before halftime. But it was all Barcelona otherwise, as it geared up to start its Spanish league title defense against Real Betis on Saturday, when Sevilla plays Espanyol.

“We are in very difficult moment,” Sampaoli said. “We had to play two finals that were like Champions League finals against the best teams in the world in Real Madrid and Barcelona. But we now have one single day of practice to prepare for Espanyol. We have to face the match in the best manner possible.”

Turan got his double with an audacious, first-touch strike to curl a bad Sevilla pass he had pounced on over goalie Sergio Rico.

Messi then sent Rico flailing in vain to keep out his lofted header from a cross by summer signing Lucas Digne. (ap)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s Neymar has not yet won his country a gold medal, but on Wednesday he at least pocketed an Olympic record - the fastest goal, at a dazzling 15 seconds into the game against overwhelmed Honduras.

The men’s semi-final had barely kicked off when Barcelona forward Neymar intercepted the ball, charged towards the Honduran side, challenged the goalie and bundled the ball into the net, sending the Maracana stadium into a frenzy of cheers.

“It was amazing to just arrive in the stadium and watch a beautiful goal,” said Filipe Deliza, a 19 year-old law student from Rio at the packed Rio venue.

“I was expecting Brazil to win but I was not expecting it would be so easy,” added Deliza, wearing a yellow Brazilian shirt. Hurt Honduras were shaken by the goal and never recovered, going on to lose 6-0.

“We didn’t expect this,” Honduran keeper Luis Lopez told Reuters

about Neymar’s goal. “Honestly, it hurts.”

But soccer-mad Brazilians were delighted, chanting “Neymar!” during much of the match - including when he netted a penalty at 90 minutes to put the icing on the cake.

Neymar will have to keep the magic going to allow Brazil to finally hoist the only international title that has so far eluded it. The South American powerhouse has lost three Olympic finals, including at London 2012.

If he can lead his squad to triumph in Saturday’s final, the team captain would cement his status as one of Brazil’s greatest ever players. He has already drawn lighthearted comparisons to other Olympic greats.

“Neymar’s goal, 15 seconds in, is the fastest in the history of Olympic football, 5.42 seconds more than Usain Bolt,” the Rio 2016 Spanish-language account tweeted in reference to the Jamaican sprinter. (rtr)

Wolfsburg signs Germany striker Mario Gomez from Fiorentina

WOLFSBURG — Wolfsburg says it has signed Germany striker Mario Gomez from Italian side

Fiorentina.

The Bundesliga club gave no details of the transfer fee or

the contract, but German media reported that Wolfsburg is paying around seven million euros

Sterling recovery at Man City draws praise from Guardiola Raheem Sterling has got his season off to an impressive start at Manchester City — and new manager Pep Guardiola may be the reason why.

Guardiola called the midfielder a “fantastic player” after Man City’s 5-0 thrashing of Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League playoff first-leg match on Tuesday, when Sterling set up two goals and looked dangerous both on and off the ball.

“He’s fast, has a good work ethic, can play right or left, go out to the line or go in the middle,” Guardiola said.

That display came just three days after Sterling also impressed in City’s 2-1 home win against Sunderland in the English Premier League. Sterling won a penalty kick for his side with Guardiola praising his “amazing” efforts.

Sterling’s performances have been in stark contrast to his disappointing displays for England in this year’s European Championship in France, where he was criticized for poor finishing and inconsistency.

But Sterling, who moved from Liverpool in 2015 for 49 million

pounds ($64 million), is flourishing under Guardiola, whose style of management appears to suit the player.

But the timing of Guardiola’s arrival may be coincidental with the 21-year-old Sterling naturally improving anyway. Former Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry defended the winger during Euro 2016, saying he has “a great future but he is not the finished article — people are treating him like he is the finished article.”

City fans will be hoping that Guardiola can provide that finishing touch. (ap)

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Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling, right, fights for the ball against Sunderland’s Donald Love during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday Aug. 13, 2016.

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Neymar (BRA) of Brazil kisses the ball before scoring a penalty goal against Honduras.

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($7.9 million) for the 31-yearold’s services. Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs says, “he and his ambitions go perfectly with us.”

Gomez, who has scored 29 goals in 68 appearances for Germany, played last season on loan at Turkish side Besiktas but said he didn’t

want to continue with the side due to the political situation in the country.

Gomez previously played 236 Bundesliga games for Stuttgart and Bayern Munich, scoring 138 goals.

Wolfsburg said the forward would train with the side for the first time on Thursday. (ap)

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Dalem Balingkang Temple

BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur an on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles. Reaching the parking area, then, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple. The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.

Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date. Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date. (IBP/net)

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Brazil police pull U.S. swimmers from flight amid robbery probe

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police stopped two U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home on Wednesday to question them about how they and two team mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, after a judge raised doubts over their accounts.

A third swimmer, James Feigen, is in contact with Brazilian authorities and plans to make further statements to them on Thursday, said a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC).

Federal police also want to question U.S. gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte, one of swimming’s most decorated Olympians, but he had already flown home to the United States on Monday, a police spokesman said.

The four swimmers have said they were robbed by gunmen while returning to the Athletes’ Village in a taxi in the early hours of Sunday after a party - an incident that stoked fears for the safety of athletes and visitors at South America’s first Games.

The Rio Olympics have been dogged by a series of security scares, including the robbery of two visiting government ministers, a mugger being shot dead outside the opening ceremony and stray bullets being fired into the equestrian centre.

On Wednesday, The Guardian newspaper reported that a British team member had been held up at gunpoint while enjoying a night out in Rio in the early hours of Tuesday. The person was not seriously hurt, the newspaper added.

However, in the case of the four swimmers, police sources have said investigators have not found any evidence so far to back up their accounts.

Television images showed U.S. Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger

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U.S. Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger walk to the airport police station office at Rio’s international airport in this still frame taken from video dated August 17, 2016, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. walking into a police office at the airport to give testimony. A spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) confirmed the two men were taken from their flight.

“We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities,” said Patrick Sandusky, the USOC spokesperson.

“They were released by local authorities with the understanding that they would continue their discussions about the incident on

Thursday.”

Earlier on Wednesday, a judge had ordered police to seize the passports of Lochte and Feigen to prevent them leaving the country, apparently unaware that Lochte had already left.

None of the swimmers face charges, the source said.

Police have taken the passports of Bentz and Conger pending their testimony, O Globo newspaper said on its web site.

People magazine reported that Lochte

was spotted at an airport in North Carolina on Wednesday with his girlfriend, Kayla Rae Reid, a Playboy model. Reuters could not verify this.

Lochte’s attorney did not return calls for comment.

Judicial sources said the judge would consider whether to ask Lochte to return to Brazil to give testimony or allow him to do so in the United States. He had already given testimony to Brazilian police before leaving the country. (rtr)

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Mo Farah (GBR) of Britain runs as Mead Hassan (USA) of USA falls after they nealy collided.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Mo Farah survived another stumble to battle through to the final of the 5,000 metres on Wednesday as the Briton remained on course for a prized Olympic distance ‘double-double’.

Farah recovered from a fall to win the 10,000 gold last weekend and almost went down again on the last lap of his heat in the shorter race after being clipped by American Hassan Mead, who did fall and missed out on qualification.

An initial appeal by the Americans was rejected but a second plea, offering new video evidence, was accepted and Mead was installed in the field for Saturday’s final.

Farah is seeking to become the second man after Finland’s Lasse Viren in 1976 to retain both the

5,000m and 10,000m titles but said he still felt the strain of the longer race in his legs during Wednesday’s run in 32 degrees Celsius heat.

“It’s hot, I’ve just got to recover... I haven’t recovered (from the 10,000m) as well as I’d wanted,” Farah said.

“I got clipped, I just had to stay on my feet. But now I just have to recover, chill in my room.”

Farah just about retained his balance after his stumble to qualify safely in a heat won by Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet, who is likely to be one of his chief rivals in the final.

Gebrhiwet, 22, missed the 10,000m to concentrate his efforts on the shorter race after taking silver and bronze behind Farah over 5,000 in the last two world

championships.

Dejen Gebremeskel, who took silver to Farah’s gold in the London Olympics and also skipped the 10,000 in Rio, is also likely to challenge in the final, and qualified safely from the second heat.

Paul Chelimo, who switched allegiance from Kenya after joining the U.S. army, was the fastest qualifier, running a personal best 13 minutes 19.54 seconds, while another Kenyan-turned-American Bernard Lagat, appearing in his fifth Olympics, also advanced.

The 41-year-old Lagat won a bronze for Kenya in the 1500m at Sydney in 2000 and a silver in the same event in Athens four years later before he became an American citizen in 2005. (rtr)

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Southern California wildfire rages unchecked after evacuations LOS ANGELES - A Southern California wildfire raged virtually unchecked in thick brush on Wednesday after destroying dozens of houses near a highway corridor between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and forcing as many as 80,000 residents to flee their homes, officials said.

The so-called Blue Cut Fire ignited on Tuesday in the mountainous Cajon Pass and has exploded to cover 25,626 acres (10,370 hectares). Firefighters had carved containment lines around only four percent of the blaze by Wednesday night, fire officials said.

They described the blaze as unusually fierce, even for a year of intense wildfires in the U.S. West, where years of drought have placed a heavy burden on firefighting resources.

“In my 40 years of fighting fire, I’ve never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday,” Michael Wakoski, the incident commander on the fire, told a news conference on Wednesday.

As many as eight wildland fires

were burning in California on Wednesday, three of them scorching thousands of acres as firefighters sought help from emergency responders from other states and the California National Guard.

U.S. government forecasters have said Southern California faces a potential threat from major wildfires until December, given the dryness and warm weather.

Santa Ana winds, which sweep desert air to California’s coast while driving the fires, are due to kick up next month, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal-Fire) spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff said by phone. September and October are often the peak of the state’s wildfire season.

The Blue Cut Fire, named for a

narrow gorge north of San Bernardino where it started, threatened the town of Wrightwood near a ski resort and other communities in a partly rural area, authorities said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Authorities said they were forced to close part of Interstate 15, which runs through the Cajon Pass between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, and to order about 80,000 residents to evacuate.

Thick columns of smoke blocked out the sky above mountain peaks as the fire overran a number of properties, leaving behind barren lots with blackened appliances and vehicles stripped of nearly everything but metal.

Louis Penna, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said in an email an official damage estimate was not available but that dozens of destroyed structures were clearly visible. (rtr)

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A helicopter drops water while battling the Blue Cut fire burning near Wrightwood, California U.S., August 17, 2016.

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Robert Ensler, a Donald Trump impersonator, gestures as Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate Mike Pence speaks during a town hall at the Henderson Convention Center in Henderson, Nevada August 17, 2016.

Trump hires ‘street fighter’ in new shakeup of White House campaign

NEVADA - U.S. Republican Donald Trump overhauled his presidential campaign team on Wednesday for the second time in less than two months, hiring the head of a conservative news website to bolster his combative image and try to reverse poor opinion poll numbers.

Trump named Steve Bannon, head of the Breitbart News website, as campaign chief executive officer, a new position. He also promoted senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to the post of campaign manager.

The latest shake-up combines Bannon, a conservative flamethrower, with Conway, a measured, data-driven analyst who might be able to broaden Trump’s appeal to women and independent voters.

It offers Trump’s team a chance to return to the “let Trump be Trump” style practiced by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski that helped Trump, who has never held elective office, win the Republican presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election.

Lewandowski, ousted in the last campaign reorganization in June, said on CNN that Bannon was “a street fighter” like himself. A Trump campaign statement announcing the changes touted a Bloomberg Politics article that branded Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.”

Whether that style will work in the fight against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is unclear.

Trump, a New York real estate developer and former reality TV host, has largely been unable to extend

his reach beyond white middleclass voters who pack his rallies.

Trump trails Clinton in national opinion polls and in many battleground states, potentially facing a big defeat that could also cost Republicans congressional races.

Trump, who relishes revving up crowds with off-the-cuff remarks, drew criticism for comments insulting women, Muslims and Mexican immigrants during the primary campaign for the Republican nomination.

He has since faced a barrage of criticism from Republicans over his campaign style and his refusal to stick to a policy message. In particular, he has been rebuked for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war.

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump received his first intelligence briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a Trump adviser who attended the briefing at the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the officials who conducted the two-hour session were “absolutely professional” and that it was “a great conversation.”

Intelligence officials brief the major-party U.S. presidential candidates on foreign policy and national security issues but do not disclose ultra-sensitive information about ongoing U.S. undercover operations, methods or the identities of intelligence sources. (rtr)

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A government doctor checks Indonesian hostage Mohammad Safyan after he escaped from Abu Sayyaf captors, in Jolo, Sulu in southern Philippines August 17, 2016.

Currency volatility wanes, boding well for risk-taking

LONDON - A flood of central bank cash and the prospect of more to come has crushed volatility in the foreign exchange market, prompting investors to seek higher returns in riskier currencies.

The drop in market measures of how sharp exchange rate swings will be has emboldened investors and encouraged appetite for emerging country currencies and, in developed markets, the Australian and New Zealand dollars.

A key driver of this collapse has been expectations that monetary policy will remains loose for a while yet. The Bank of England and the Australian and New Zealand central banks have cut interest rates in recent weeks and, despite warnings from officials, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems in no hurry to hike.

“Investors who go by macro-economic fundamentals are on the sidelines because there is an expectation that the Federal Reserve will probably not raise until December,” said Manuel Oliveri, currency strategist at Credit Agricole.

If the U.S. rate outlook were to change or political or economic risks jangled investors’ nerves, volatility would quickly return. Until then, they are happy to take risks.

“Sure, political and geo-political risks are lurking, but volatility is lower and that is positive for higher-yielding currencies like the Australian dollar and will keep the dollar capped,” Oliveri added.

The dollar index hit its lowest in seven weeks on Tuesday, while the high-yielding Australian dollar trades near its highest in four months.

Even the New Zealand dollar hit a one-year high despite the Reserve Bank’s rate cut last week, highlighting investors’ search for higher yields.

With policy rates in most developed economies like Japan, the euro zone and Britain are close to zero, Australia on 1.5 percent and New Zealand on 2 percent are attractive.

HUNT FOR HIGH-YIELDERS Analysts say riskier assets and currencies have been performing well since the U.S. payrolls data

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2nd Indonesia sailor flees Abu Sayyaf captors in Philippines

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Customers withdraw money from National Australia Bank (NAB) Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in central Sydney, Australia, July 24, 2015. released earlier this month showed that while the number of jobs indicated the economy was robust, productivity and inflation were subdued.

“The market simply does not believe in the Fed hiking before the November (Presidential) elections,” said Alan Ruskin, strategist at Deutsche Bank, one of the largest currency traders.

Stocks have hit highs while dollar debt issued by companies from riskier and less developed countries have been among the year’s best performing assets. In the past six weeks, investors have pumped $18 billion into emerging debt funds, a record run, Bank of America Merrill

Lynch data shows.

For the $5-trillion-a-day currency market, analysts said the low volatility environment would encourage investors to borrow in lowyielding currencies to buy higher yielders - the so-called carry trade favoured by asset managers who follow macro trends, speculators and hedge funds.

“We expect carry to perform well in the coming months,” HSBC analysts said in a note, adding emerging market currencies would do rather well.

Carry trades have generated 5 percent annual returns in the past three decades, according to a

study by the Cass Business School released in late 2012.

Amongst emerging market currencies, investors are buying the Mexican peso, South Korean won, the South African rand and the Brazilian real. The rand hit its highest since October 2015 this week, while the Brazilian real is trading near one-year highs.

“The status quo of rising asset prices, low volatility and dovish central banks continues,” said Stewart Richardson, chief investment officer at RMG Wealth Management. “So long as prices are benign and volatility is low, investors will be encouraged to keep on taking risk.”(rtr)

China July home prices showing signs of fatigue

BEIJING - China home prices rose 0.8 percent in July nationwide, but stalled or fell in more cities than in June, adding to concerns that one of the economy’s key growth drivers is losing steam but offering some relief for policymakers worried about property bubbles.

A robust recovery in home prices and sales gave a strongerthan-expected boost to the world’s second-largest economy in the first

half of the year, helping to offset stubbornly weak exports.

However, some analysts say slowing price growth and weakening property investment suggest the rebound may have peaked, as more local governments tighten restrictions on home purchases in a bid to keep fast-rising prices in check.

Average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities rose 7.9

percent in July from a year earlier, an official survey showed on Thursday, accelerating from a 7.3 percent increase in June.

Monthly trends, however, painted a somewhat weaker picture. July home prices rose at the same pace as in June, which was the slowest since April, according to a Reuters calculation based on data issued by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

And, out of the 70 cities surveyed, prices stalled or fell on a monthly basis in 19 cities in July, compared to 15 in June.

Home prices in first- and secondtier cities continued to see eye-popping annual gains, with southern boomtown Shenzhen and coastal Xiamen rising the most at 40.9 percent and 39.2 percent, respectively from a year earlier.

Worried by sharp price rises, a

growing number of more affluent cities have tightened home purchasing restrictions in recent months most recently Nanjing and Suzhou - including introducing measures to raise the down-payment ratio for second mortgages.

Cities that have seen the biggest drop in prices include Dandong and Mudanjiang, situated respectively in China’s rustbelt Liaoning and Heilongjiang province.(rtr)

MANILA — A second Indonesian sailor escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines on the same day his colleague swam to freedom after almost two months in captivity, officials said Thursday. Ismail, the chief officer of a tugboat whose seven crewmen were abducted near Philippine waters in June, was recovered by troops Wednesday along a road in southern Jolo Island’s Luuk town, said Maj. Filemon Tan, a regional military spokesman.

“Military troops were scouring the area looking for other Indonesian hostages when they found Ismail, who identified himself to the military as a kidnap victim,” Tan said.

Mohammad Safyan, another sailor from the same tugboat named Charles, ran and swam to freedom earlier Wednesday after the militants threatened to behead him, Tan said. Villagers in Luuk found him floating and trapped in fishnets along shore in a mangrove area.

Tan said the men escaped together,

but fled in separate ways as their captors chased them. It is not uncommon for hostages to try to escape, but very few succeed in such daring missions because they are unfamiliar with terrain and don’t speak the local language.

Sixteen other foreign hostages — nine Indonesians, five Malaysians, one Norwegian, and a Dutchman — are still held by the violent Muslim extremist group that has become notorious for ransom kidnappings and beheadings of hostages in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation. At least five Filipinos

are also being held captive.

Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed in May to carry out coordinated patrols following a series of kidnappings of Indonesian sailors and piracy attacks that have undermined commerce in the region.

A total of 24 Indonesian crewmen of tugboats and barges have been kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf this year, highlighting weak security in the Celebes Sea that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Ten of the hostages were freed after ransoms were reportedly paid.

The Philippines says it has stepped up a military offensive against the militants, who earlier this year beheaded two Canadian hostages. Washington and Manila list the Abu Sayyaf, which has more than 400 fighters, as a terrorist organization.(ap)

Friday, August 19, 2016

Australia, Indonesia partners since RI`s independence: Ambassador

JAKARTA - The Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson, has said Australia has been Indonesias partner since it represented the Republic of Indonesia (RI) at the Committee of Good Offices for Indonesia.

The statement came in response to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)s state speech on August 16, 2016 marking the 71st commemoration of Indonesia’s Independence Day on August 17, 2016.

“The relationship between Australia and Indonesia has had its ups and downs, but the foundation will always be strong,” the ambassador stated.

This strong foundation, Grigson reminded, was established when Indonesia chose Australia as its representative at the Committee, together with Belgium (representing the Netherlands) and the United States (the neutral side).

The Committee was formed by the United Nations to mediate the dispute between Indonesia and the Netherlands after the Dutch colonial masters carried out Military Aggression I in 1947. “Since the beginning, Indonesia chose to have a dialogue to resolve the conflicts,” the ambassador added.

Yet, the Committee was considered a failure because the Dutch launched a second military aggression on December 19-20, 1948 that led to the UN establishing the United Nations Commission for Indonesia (UNCI).

Since then, Grigson underlined, Australia always supported Indonesia in every negotiation to defend its independence, including at the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference on August 22-November 2, 1949 in which Australia was the mediator, representing the UNCI. The conference became a stepping stone to Indonesias success in achieving independence as the Netherlands agreed to cede sovereignty to Indonesia by the end of December 1949.

Today, after 71 years of independence, Grigson noted that the relationship between Indonesia and Australia is even stronger through cooperation in various fields, including people-to-people contact.

“The networking between the Indonesians and the Australians will make our relationship stronger,” he stressed.

In the multilateral arena, Indonesia and Australia are the co-chairs at the Bali Process, a continuing dialogue to address issues of human trafficking and illegal migration. Indonesia and Australia, together with South Africa, form the troika in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).

At the international level, Indonesia and Australia are actively sending their peacekeeping forces for accomplishing the UN peace missions in conflict areas.

“Indonesia is a great country and I believe it will become greater and greater in the future,” Ambassador Grigson hoped.(ant)

Suspected foreign terrorist killed in Poso

PALU - A suspected foreign terrorist, believed to be of Chinese origin, was shot dead by the Tinombala Operation task force in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Wednesday morning.

“Based on initial checks, the alleged individual, who was on the wanted list and killed in the operation, has been identified as Ibrahim, and he is not an Indonesian,” Briga-

dier General Pol. Rudy Sufahriadi, chief of the provinces police command, stated after a ceremony to mark Independence Day at the governors office compound.

The body of Ibrahim, who is believed to have come from Uighur in China, is now still in Poso Pesisir but will soon be moved to Poso.

Sufahriadi noted that four foreigners were earlier on the wanted list,

and with Ibrahims death, there were no others left.

He said Ibrahim was killed following a shootout at 3:35 a.m. local time in the hilly region of Padopi, which is located in proximity to a village in Poso Pesisir.

The two wanted individuals, including Ibrahim, were involved in a gunfight, but the other managed to escape, he added.

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Sufahriadi declined to reveal further details on the group of individuals owing to fears that it would disrupt the operation.

“I would not disclose (further information), but regardless of how many they are, I will continue to chase them,” he remarked.

He said following the gunfight, the team involved in the operation secured a self-made bomb, which

had been hurled at security personnel but failed to explode. “The guns were taken away by the person who managed to flee,” he revealed.

He said the gunfight broke out after intelligence information was received on the whereabouts of the persons.

“The information was true, but the men immediately launched an attack by throwing a bomb,” he added.(ant)

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Asylum seekers look at the media from behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre, Papua New Guinea in this picture taken March 21, 2014. This is image is supplied from source with faces digitally blurred.

The ceremony was held in customary attires accompanied with gamelan music accompaniment.

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In Ubud, flag raising ceremony held in cultural nuance

GIANYAR — Different atmosphere was strikingly seen during the celebration of the Independence Day of the RI at Ubud tourism village, Wednesday (Aug. 17).

The ceremony was held in customary attires accompanied with gamelan music accompaniment. As a result, this culture-nuanced ceremony drew the attention of hundreds of visitors.

As observation, no marching band was found in the ceremony held at the Ubud Public Square using the entire gamelan accompaniment. Thus, the flag raising ceremony with chanting of the Indonesia Raya anthem took place with Balinese gamelan music.

Additionally, podium of the ceremony inspector and reading of the proclamation and Pancasila text was decorated in such a way with Balinese umbrellas. “We want the local potential is also featured to take part in this historic day,” said Cokorda Ngurah Suyadnya.

As a result, the red and white flag ceremony coming with cultural nuances successfully drew the attention of hundreds of foreign travelers. At the end of the ceremony, all the participants and spectators were entertained with national songs accompanied

by Balinese gamelan music as well.

Subdistrict head of Ubud, I.B. Suamba, said that the commemoration of the seconds of the Independence Day is indeed necessary to preserve the culture and give a good contribution to the nation and state. “This is indeed a new idea accompanied with cultural treasures in welcoming the 71st celebration of the Independence Day,” he said.

In a series of enlivening the 71st anniversary of the Independence Day of the RI this time, he also held a number of activities, such as the torch parade, various competitions and cultural performances. Especially for the flag lowering ceremony, we present traditional dances of the regions of the country,” he said. (kmb35)

Collecting data of farmers’ family DENPASAR as urban area still has enough agricultural land potential to be cultivated. Rice production of farmers in Denpasar is not inferior to that of farmers in other districts in Bali. Responding to this, the Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra does not set aside this sector. Rai Mantra has even designed a program of inclusive services for farmers. One of them is making data collection on the number of farming families in Denpasar.

This matter was confirmed by the Mayor of Denpasar, Rai Mantra, when met after the regional mid-term development plan meeting (RPJMD) of Denpasar City for the period of 2016-2021, not long ago.

He said that the agricultural sector remains to have few issues in need of serious attention. For example, they are related to conservation as well as other subsequent issues. To relieve the anxiety of farmers, Denpasar municipality has rolled out a program to protect farmers in the form of agricultural insurance. It is intended for farmers experiencing crop failure. Besides, there is provision of seeds for farmers as well as other policies.

In addition, there is a problem in increasing the capacity of farmers and data collection on farming families. Looking ahead, the Denpasar municipality will make data collection to know clearly about the number of farming families in Denpasar. “This has something to do with other programs, such as education and health,” he said.

If there are farming families that have not been able to improve their children’s education and health, they will be registered in this inclusive program. It is meant to touch the interest of people in grass root. (kmb12)

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I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra

Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers

SYDNEY - The premier of Western Australia state, a member of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal Party, has offered to accept refugees from Australian-funded detention centres amid growing concern about conditions for the 1,350 people held in the camps.

Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to asylum seeker camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea. They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia. Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday that they would close the Manus Island facility, but gave no timeline, and did not say where the people held there would be sent.

“We would certainly accommodate a number of them in Western Australia and we’d certainly support them as a state government,” Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Wednesday night.

Barnett has taken a similar position in the past, and his stand demonstrated a rare public split in the conservative Liberal Party over the government’s controversial detention policy.

A spokeswoman for New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on

Thursday said that an offer made in 2013 to accept 150 refugees, which Canberra has rebuffed, still stood.

Harsh conditions and reports of rampant abuse at the camps have drawn wide criticism at home and abroad. Australia says its hardline policy is needed to stop deaths at sea during the dangerous boat journey from Indonesia to Australia.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday stood by the government’s policy ruling out settling the detainees in a third country, casting doubt over the fate of the remaining 850 refugees on Manus and 500 in Nauru.

“It’s never been about tearing down the fences, it’s about what to do with the people trapped behind them,” Daniel Webb, director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, told Reuters.

“There’s absolute clarity about what should happen but no clarity whatsoever about what will happen.”

There are no plans to close the

Nauru camp, which is under renewed scrutiny after a newspaper published leaked documents detailing reports of more than 2,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, many involving children.

News of the closure of the Manus Island facility did not immediately generate much hope amongst the refugees there, many of whom have spent years in detention and suffer from mental health issues.

“Everybody is tired, people think this news will make us happy but everyone is same like before,” Kurdish Iranian refugee Benham Satah told Reuters from Manus Island.

“I want to believe there is something good happening but I can’t. I just focus on seeing tomorrow.”

The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruled in April that the detention centre at Manus was illegal and ordered it closed. Next week it will hold a hearing into what progress has been made.

Webb, the lawyer, said that Australia may have announced the closure of Manus Island as a means of deflecting the court’s attention from the lack of progress it has made in implementing the ruling. (rtr)

HANOI - Vietnam has banned players of the game Pokemon Go from the offices of its government and ruling Communist Party, besides defense locations, as thousands of its citizens get swept up in the frenzy to capture virtual cartoon characters.

Hundreds of thousands of players have downloaded the game since its Aug. 6 launch in Vietnam, with many annotating the Google version of the country’s map to aid their quest, the Information and Communications Ministry said in a statement.

The game is not licensed, however, and people should not play it “near or inside the areas of offices of the Communist Party, the state, the military and national defense sites and other restricted areas”, the ministry said late on Wednesday.

Players engrossed in the game may run into trouble in spots such as railways, highways, airports, rivers, lakes and mountains, apart from the risk of losing personal information, the ministry added.

“Playing Pokemon Go while in traffic causes more bad than good influence on people,” Captain Nguyen Minh Duc of the Hanoi traffic police told an online forum on Thursday.

“Traffic rule breakers do not only cause harm to themselves but also affect others.”

Pokemon Go uses augmented reality and Google mapping to make animated characters appear in the real world, overlaid on the nearby landscape viewed through players’ mobile phone cameras.

The game has prompted safety warnings after players glued to their phones stumbled, were robbed or wandered into dangerous places.

Last week neighboring Cambodia banned the game from a former Khmer Rouge torture center and prison after players showed up at the site, now a genocide museum, hunting for Pokemon characters.

Thailand also plans to place spots such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals out of bounds for Pokemon Go players. Vietnam and Thailand have the fastest growing smartphone markets in Southeast Asia, along with the Philippines. (rtr)

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People play “Pokemon Go”in the small town of Occoquan, Virginia, U.S. August 14, 2016.

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Stylewatch: Guy Bourdin’s glamorous girls inspire Christian Louboutin

THE shoe brand’s latest adverts pay tribute to the sex and edge of the French fashion photographer.

But are they too retro? Throughout the 70s and 80s, Guy Bourdin took pictures of women and, sometimes, parts of women. These images were surreal, glamorous, ghostly, graphic (in both senses), witty and sexy. The women were anonymous, and often dressed in swimsuits, occasionally with tights as well. They had props:

telephones, teddy bears, beds, dolphins, bus stops. More often than not, their shoes were at the centre of the images. This is because Bourdin, who took pictures for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, was also employed by shoe brand Charles Jourdan from the mid60s, and he produced their ad campaigns until the early 80s. It is these images, understandably, that Christian Louboutin pays homage to with the images for

his own advertising campaign this season. In one, we see a girl crouching in green tights and blue platforms, with the image cropped at her waist in a Bourdinian manner. In another, one girl – wearing a leopard print leotard and glitter tights – lies back, with a fish-netted leg, complete with platform, across her in the foreground. Yet another sees the same girl again on her back with her legs folded up to her chest and her face

obscured, but a set of striped ankle boots plain for all to see.

In a route one way, this influence makes a lot of sense – the purpose of both sets of images is to create striking pictures that put shoes in the centre.

Louboutin has always veered on the

side of showgirl style – he even dabbles with the trapeze – so Bourdin’s glossy, scantily clad aesthetic was always going to appeal. The photographer’s work, particularly since last year’s exhibition at Somerset House, is a reference that appeals in a wider fashion moment that is all about the 70s and 80s party girl. This season’s Louboutin designs, called Oh You Pretty Things, have a 70s feel. (IBP/net)

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Expert describes characteristics of pedophile

Perpetrator looks bountiful to make victims happy

DENPASAR — The case regarding to pedophilia with the defendant Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was on trial Tuesday (Aug. 16). The defendant was about to present alleviating witness, but the witness known as the defendant’s host did not come to the Denpasar District Court.

In the meantime, the expert of the prosecutor described a number of characteristics and behaviors of a person leading to pedophilia. One of the fundamental characteristics of the perpetrator is targeting the poor area and behaves like a generous person so that he is positioned as a ‘hero’ and tries to approach the family (especially parents of the victims) and makes them happy.

Indeed, one of the experts originally presented by the prosecutor did not attend the trial, but his statement was read. Another expert was Luh Suryani. The report was read out by prosecutor Purwanti Murtiasih et al. According to the expert, explained Purwanti, the characteristics of a pedophile lies in the defendant Robert. Prosecutor said, for example, the perpetrator provides something for potential victims and their families. “The perpetrator also comes to the pockets of the poor,” said Purwanti.

Other characteristic, added Purwanti, a pedophile is trying to make the victim happy. In the eyes of the victims, pedophile is consid-

ered as a kind of generous person.

Therefore, the kids will like the perpetrator. Prosecutor stated that almost all of the characteristics of pedophile can be found in the figure of Robert. “Children are screened some films. In short, they are made happy,” said the prosecutor of the Bali Prosecutor’s Office.

This prosecutor having a striking Javanese accent added that pedophile does not commit any violence against the victims. When the victims feel pain, she continued, the action will be discontinued.

Sometimes a pedophile has been satisfied when seeing just a naked child.

The defendant’s attorney, Yanuar Nahak, claimed to work extra so as to get alleviating witness for his client. “The alleviating witness canceled its attendance due to fear.

He said that someone has terrorized so that he is afraid to come here,” said Yanuar.

Related to testimony of the expert witness of the prosecutor, Yanuar stated if the expert witness is not in accordance with the material of laws. According to Yanuar, the expert witness is only describing the figure of pedophile scientifically, but is not based on the evidence of medical report.

“Almost all the results of medical report do not reveal any signs of sexual abuse and promiscuity,” said Yanuar. (kmb37)

DENPASAR - Right on the Independence Day (Aug. 17), I Wayan Sudarsa, 53, a police officer in charge of traffic affairs became the victim of irresponsible people, Wednesday morning (Aug. 17). The victim being on duty was found lifeless on Kuta Beach.

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One of the fundamental characteristics of the perpetrator is targeting the poor area and behaves like a generous person so that he is positioned as a ‘hero’.

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Again, police officer falls as another victim

The crime scene examination by the police on Kuta Beach.

Ardhana, the victim’ brother-inlaw (brother of the victim’s wife) stated that at the time of incident the victim was indeed on duty. His family did not have any feelings regarding the accident.

“There were no unusual expressions, too, because he (the victim) said goodbye as usual,” said Ardhana who also works as a policeman in the Denpasar Police, equally having been serving for 35 years.

At the time of incident, the victim asked for permission to purchase food due to being hungry while on duty. He did not think if such incident would occur.

This man from Kelan, Jimbaran,

left two sons. The first son of the victim has been working while the second son is still attending higher education at Undiksha. “Immediately he will be graduating,” he added.

Family is worried about performing an autopsy. “We’re not going to do an autopsy. Probably it will turn useless, let the police handle it,” he said. Since there are ceremonies taking place at Kelan for two days, his body can only be sent to the funeral home after two days.

Ni Ketut Arsini, 54, the victim’s wife, said that she had no feelings before her husband died.

“He goes home from workplace

as usual and it’s just like his daily routine. So, I think there is nothing strange,” said Arsini from Singaraja.

In the meantime, the results of external examination by Sanglah Hospital Forensic Medicine indicate there are some open wounds on the face and head. “There are some bruises on the face and head,” said Dudut Rustyadi, the Head of Forensic Medicine Department of Sanglah Hospital.

External examination conducted at 06:15 also found bruises on the victim’s arms and abrasions on the face. From the injuries found, he concluded if the victim suffered violence due to blunt object, while no injuries by sharp object were found. Overall there are 39 points of injuries scattered on the head and hands. “More injuries are found in the head,” he added. (kmb42)

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“It’s a process, in the sense that the government has just mentioned in the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan. So, at least in the mid-term, the direction of human resources development is like that,” said the Rector of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, responding to the declaration of the Year of Innovation when met at the Udayana University, at the Bukit Jimbaran Campus, Badung.

Suastika added that research is indeed one of the ways to make innovation. Research is further divided into the one having something to do with basic and applied sciences.

Results of the applied sciences in particular can be immediately utilized for community. Furthermore, they are also important for the future

competitiveness of this nation.

“One of the measures for the innovation is the patent rights or intellectual property rights. Indonesia is still very small and when even compared to Singapore with the population of only 3 million. It has far more patent rights, whereas the population of Indonesia has the population amounting to 250 million,” he explained.

According to Suastika, the more patent rights in Indonesia, the more new innovations will be created in this country. On that account, it is important for Indonesia to pursue patents through innovative researches. But so far, budget issues are most frequently faced in the implementation of research.

“Indeed it will be back again.

Actually it is not always like that but people will think if the budge is insufficient. If declared insuf-

ficient, it’s always insufficient, no matter how much will be given. But most importantly, the atmosphere, academic atmosphere and research atmosphere should be developed in the institutions (university—Ed),” he added.

In the Udayana University itself, said Suastika, his authority continues to increase the research funding or the research from the university earnings.

From only 5 percent, it rises to 10 percent and will rise again to 15 percent next year. This is done to encourage lecturers and students to produce innovative research, particularly in the field of applied sciences.

In the meantime, Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Mohammad Nasir, said that the declaration of the Year of Innovation is expected to immedi-

ately realize the knowledge-based economy. This nation can no longer rely on natural resources that will be exhausted if taken continuously.

But it should be able to make a breakthrough where technology and innovation become the driving force of development.

“The number and quality of researchers and innovators in universities and research institutions need to be improved, in addition to the quality of research, scientific publications and the number of patents obtained as well as the innovations produced,” he said in a speech written on the 71st celebration of the Independence Day. According to Nasir, the government’s commitment to improving the performance of research and innovation will continue to be improved. It is especially in terms of rules and regulations, financing and

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investment enhancement, quality improvement and rejuvenation of laboratory as well as scholarships for researchers. He hoped that the innovative products produced can provide answers to a variety of challenges faced by this nation such as forest fires, traffic congestion, climate change, reform of the bureaucracy, infrastructural development and so on.

“In the current globalization era, Indonesia is faced with the challenge on the emergence of free competition in trade among the nations. This free competition will cause Indonesia to be invaded by a wide range of new products and technologies from other countries.

With innovation, Indonesia is not only self-sufficient but also able to meet the demand of market and even other countries,” he said. (kmb32)

Pemuteran, An ancient and unique village having nine Dalem Temples

PEMUTERAN customary village, Rendang, Karangasem, is classified as one of the ancient villages in Karangasem. This village has a number of unique traditions. Traditions at the village remain to be preserved and implemented up to these days.

The village having fertile areas has nine Dalem Temples. When a ceremony or pujawali is held at the temple, said one of local village leaders, I Ketut Rasta, no higher priests or sulinggih are involved to officiate over the rituals. Residents organizing the ritual are just enough to invoke holy water at Bujangga Temple located in the upstream area of the village. With the sprinkles of holy water invoked at the Tirta Bujangga Temple, it is unnecessary to perform worship and invoke holy water to higher priests. The ritual is only officiated over by priest of local temple by means of the holy water sprinkles of the Tirta Bujangga Temple.

Other than such uniqueness, added Rasta, the tradition remaining to be preserved until now is the tradition of marriage. Process of the marriage ceremony includes a tradition named the maserah sampi.

Series of the wedding ceremony is started with proposing where the party of bridegroom proposes the bride to her parents accompa-

nied by his families. As usual in the proposing, the bridegroom is accompanied by his parents and family. After the proposing, the bride is invited to the house of the bridegroom and resumed with mekala-kalaan (purificatory rite) of the couple prior to starting their household life.

After the core ceremony of the wedding, the couple is allowed to enter into the Pura Desa temple area when they have performed the maserah sampi. It is a procession where the groom party hands over a bull with the horns of reaching around 12 cm. The bull is handed over to the village accompanied with pejati oblation. By the village consisting of 104 households, the bull is then slaughtered and the meat is distributed to local villagers.

On certain ceremonies, there are times for the couple to perform makandal procession at Pura Desa temple. At that time, should there be some newly married couples having not performed the makandal procession, they can do it

simultaneously. When holding the makandal, the couples are hanging in the pejahitan pavilion at Penataran village. The next procession is megat balai agung. Rasta and local headman I Wayan Suana said that hanging on pejahitan pavilion (a pavilion used to arrange oblations) where the new couples are expected to be ready take socio-religious responsibility of the village after getting married by doing selfpurificatory rite.

Pemuteran customary village at Pempatan administrative village is the westernmost village in Karangasem district. Pemuteran village is bordered with forest area of Kintamani, Bangli. Pemuteran village is classified into a village of struggle. This village, precisely located at Linjong Temple, right in the middle of the forest, was once used as hideaway of the young warriors led by I Gusti Ngurah Rai when holding a long march to East Bali so as to give self-confidence to all Balinese people that the RI has got the independence and owned its troops.

However, when arriving at Pemuteran the colonial troops coming with the well-armed Netherlands Indies Civil Administration (NICA)

pursued our fighters. Residents of Pemuteran in June 1946 concealed the troops of Ngurah Rai. No people opened their mouth where the troops were hiding.

Ultimately the Pemuteran village was ransacked by the NICA and a number of youths remaining visible at the village were arrested

and tortured. The young men, including I Gatera and his younger sister I Rahat, were tortured so that they were willing to show the hiding place of the Ngurah Rai’s troops. I Rahat remained to keep silent. She was immune to be tortured and shot; but finally she was pierced with a sword to die. (bud)

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Hollywood classic “Ben-Hur” gets modern remake

LOS ANGELES - “Ben-Hur”, the 1959 movie epic that won 11 Oscars, has received a Hollywood revamp -- but its makers say the famed chariot race still relies on humans and horses, not special effects.

“Boardwalk Empire” actor Jack Huston takes on the role for which the late Charlton Heston was named Best Actor, playing the young Jewish noble Judah Ben-Hur, who is sent into slavery by Roman occupiers but returns to take his revenge.

“If you think about the climate of the world today -- and this movie is

set 2,000 years ago -- you realise the world hasn’t changed that much,” Huston said at the film’s Tuesday premiere.

“Being a beautiful action movie with all of the thrills and excitement, it’s still a very serious movie for our time.”

Producer Mark Burnett said that

for the chariot-racing sequence -- nine minutes long in the original -- special effects had been used only for crash scenes. “The actual horses were ridden and driven by the actors.

It was 32 horses, eight chariots round and around that arena at full speed, sometimes on one wheel,” he said.

“When the horses have crashes, that’s all special effects -- but the rest of the racing is all the real horses with the actors.”

“Ben-Hur” hits cinemas worldwide from Wednesday. (rtr)

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M A N GUPURA - The year 2016 has been declared as the Year of Innovation on the 21st celebration of the National Technology Awakening Day a few days ago.

Innovation is a process where one of them is determined by the success rate of research and higher education.

Higher education plays an important role in preparing the next generation to become innovators. In the meantime, research institution has a role in giving the opportunity to young generations of the nation to make innovative works.

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Gold medallists Tontowi Ahmad (INA) of Indonesia and Liliyana Natsir (INA) of Indonesia pose as if biting their medals.

Golden independence day for Indonesians

RIO DE JANEIRO - Ahmad Tontowi and Liliyana Natsir celebrated Indonesia’s national day with a “gift” of a gold medal to their country after hammering Malaysia’s Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the badminton mixed doubles final on Wednesday.

Roared to the title by dozens of feverish home fans, the world number three pairing pounced all over the Malaysians from the first point at the Riocentro and never dropped the pressure in the 21-14 21-12 win.

Tontowi and Natsir’s triumph secured Indonesia’s seventh Olympic title in badminton and first since Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan won the men’s doubles in 2008. “I

feel speechless. I cannot say anything. I’m overwhelmed,” said an elated Tontowi.

“The supporters were amazing because today is also Indonesia’s independence day, so this is our gift to Indonesia.”

Malaysia have waited 52 years for an Olympic champion but their hopes of breaking the drought were extinguished in just 44 minutes by the rampant Indonesians, who

stormed to a 10-3 lead in the opening game before Goh and Chan could settle.

Backed by more than 100 Indonesian fans clad in red and white and banging noisemaker sticks with abandon, the hyper-aggressive Tontowi repeatedly smashed through Goh and Chan’s defences, with Natsir almost impregnable at the net.

After wrapping up the opening game in a flash, the Indonesians made another fast start in the second before Goh and Chan battled back to 10-9. But Tontowi and Natsir just ratcheted up the pressure again, allowing the Malaysians only three extra points in a rollicking charge

to the podium.

The Malaysians surrendered meekly, with Goh netting on the final point, triggering frenetic celebrations around the arena. Chan and Goh were philosophical about the loss, having enjoyed an excellent tournament in which they upset the reigning Chinese champions in the semi-finals.

“I feel this is tremendous for our country because for Malaysia not one single pair has won any medal in this mixed double event, so we have already made history,” said Goh. Malaysia have further medal chances in the men’s singles and doubles.

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Kiong will vie for gold against China’s formidable Zhang Nan and Fu Haifeng on Friday, with world number one and twice silver medallist Lee Chong Wei playing a semifinal against China’s Lin Dan on the same day. China’s Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei won the bronze medal playoff on Tuesday.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.