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Pokemon Go’s Niantic taps ‘Harry Potter’ magic for new AR game LOS ANGELES - Fantastic beasts, wizard adventures and magic spells will come to life in a new “Harry Potter” augmented reality mobile game from Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, the companies said on Wednesday.

“Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” will bring author J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World to mobile phones and use augmented reality (AR) to create a real-world scavenger hunt, allow players to cast spells, find artifacts, team up and encounter magical beasts and characters from the popular book series.

The game’s use of real locations is similar to Niantic and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Pokemon Go, which became the first mass market adoption of AR in July 2016 and allows players to “catch” animated characters that appeared in their real surroundings.

No release date was given for the “Harry Potter” game, but Niantic and Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros said more details would be available next year.

Warner Bros Pictures, which produced the $7.7 billion-grossing “Harry Potter” film franchise, will release “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2” in November 2018, the second installment in a new series of films that expand the world Rowling created in her Potter franchise. (rtr)

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Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe attend the WSJ. Magazine 2017 Innovator Awards at MOMA on November 1, 2017 in New York City.

Apple orders Witherspoon, Aniston drama in TV push

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc has ordered two seasons of a dramatic series that stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and looks at the lives of people working on a morning television show, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

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Fans dressed as Harry Potter participate in an event attempting to beat the previous Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter, in Monterrey, Mexico November 5, 2017.

The series is among the first projects the iPhone maker has acquired for its plunge into original television programming, where it aims to compete with established players such as Netflix Inc and Time Warner Inc’s HBO. The untitled project taps top-level Hollywood talent at a time when deep-pocketed technology companies are jockeying with traditional networks to land A-list stars.

It marks Aniston’s first TV show since her famous role on the hit

comedy “Friends” ended in 2004.

Witherspoon, who appeared on “Friends” as Aniston’s younger sister, recently starred in and served as a producer of the Emmy-winning HBO series “Big Little Lies.”

Apple spokeswoman Rita Cooper Lee also confirmed the company had ordered a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s science fiction anthology series “Amazing Stories.” News of a potential deal for the Spielberg show had emerged in October.

It is unclear when the shows will be released or where viewers will be able to see them. Apple has not divulged if it will put its own TV series in the iTunes Store, where it sells shows made by other companies, or on another platform.

Aniston and Witherspoon will among be the show’s executive producers. It will be produced by Media Res, a studio founded by former HBO executive Michael Ellenberg. (rtr)

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Stop exploiting Mount Agung for tourism local leader speaks out on sanctity

AMLAPURA - Mount Agung’s volcanic activity has begun to calm down. Many people however feel that the almost two months of level IV warning status for the great volcano was a sign that something is wrong with the way people have been treating the highest mountain in Bali- particularly with regards to tourism. Increasing numbers of people are calling for Mount Agung to be closed to tourism. One of Karangasem’s community leaders, Jro Wayan Mas Suyasa, said on Wednesday (Nov. 8) that Bali’s Mount Agung is not the same as other volcanoes in Indonesia. As the name Mount Agung (majestic mountain), with an altitude of 3,142 meters above sea level is deservedly exalted. “Do not think that Mount Agung is just made of stone, Mount Agung has a soul”, said Jro Wayan Mas Suyasa.

According to Jro Suyasa and others, because Mount Agung is a sacred mountain, it should be treated as such. We should not let just anyone climb to the summit, especially if they do come with inappropriate purposes or intentions.

The local government must be wise in how they look at Mount Agung and its sacredness must be well-maintained. It must not just be used to increase the regionally gen-

erated revenue (PAD). “If people are visiting the mountain for the sake of rituals, I don’t’ think it is a problem, but if it for tourism, I think it should be stopped” he said.

Suyasa said that he has disagreed with Mount Agung being used for tourism climbing activities for a ling time as has asked Balinese people to be aware of and practice the concept Tri Hita Karana (harmonious relations with fellow

humans, the environment and with the divine) especially harmonious relations between humans and the natural surroundings. He admitted that geologically speaking a volcano is bound to erupt sometimes, but added that in fact nobody wants such a disaster to occur.

Therefore is also asked that Balinese people keep praying for the people that live around Mount Agung be spared of such a disaster. Accord-

ing to Jro Suyasa, the threat of Mount Agung erupting is a way for God to show off greatness, omnipotence and majesty. God’s majesty is unpredictable even to man-made technology.

“Many (climbers) are proud of conquering Mount Agung, but what are they conquering?”, he asked. The term ‘conquering, he said, is not appropriate. A mountain is not be conquered but to be preserved – both its sacredness and its eco-system, he emphasized.

Gumang shold not become a tourist attraction Mount Agung is not the only place in Bali that Jro Suyasa thinks should be closed to tourism. He explained that every sacred place on the island – including Besakih temple, should be off limits to tourism. Jro Suyasa who is also chief of

Bugbug Customary Village also believes that Gumang Temple should remain tourism-free. Although it was almost included in a list of tourist attractions in Karangasem, he and others opposed the idea.

Chief Jro Suyasa and the residents of his village openly rejected the proposition when related agencies came to Bugbug to inform the villagers about how to set up a Pokdarwis (local tourism management group) recently.

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Kadin optimistic that Bali’s economy can improve

Everyone must work together though

DENPASAR - IN the face of the difficult current economic situation, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Bali invited everyone to remain optimistic as there is still over a month let in the year to improve Bali’s economic growth. “If we work together, we can improve the economy. Kadin is optimistic because we are working together with all tourism stakeholders and others to develop the economy”, said A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, Chairman of Kadin Bali, on Wednesday (Nov. 8).

Kadin is focused on boosting Small Medium Enterprise (UKM) and Small Medium Industry (IKM) to drive Bali’s economy. “Our SMEs have to be revived.

This is a great opportunity for Kadin to work with the government to boost SME businesses” he emphasized.

Kadin is therefor also looking for new export markets.

“We are looking for export markets that are softer, easier and more varied”, he said.

The business sector will automatically be strengthened with the rolling out of credit. “If there is a business project it will be financed by the banks, but without such projects there is no need for this, what is there to finance? Every entrepreneur in Bali will be financed by the bank and if they have to guarantor, we will ask Bali Mandara (Jamkrida) to play this role”, he explained.

Wiraputra said that he is optimistic because without such optimism nothing will move, the economy will remain dormant and the business sector will face more difficulties. Along with people’s weakened spending power, several retail outlets across the country have shut down. This however has not had a huge impact on Bali, he said. Shopping malls in Bali remain crowded as consumers here still prefer to buy their goods in person rather than order them online. This is evidenced by the crowds of people who gather outside malls in Denpasar even before they open. Kadin will also encourage the 70- 80 percent of the budget by yearend. “ By work together, I think that the tenders for budgets

can be absorbed in the next week or month”, he said.

Economic observer, Viraguna Bagoes Oka, assess Bali’s economic slowdown to be due to several factors including global, national and regional economic conditions related to unprecedented shifts in consumer spending from goods to leisure activities. In addition, the economic slowdown is also influenced by the price of property and fixed assets in Bali that have been marked by over-pricing for the last 3-4 years. Oka added that this has been caused by the oversupply generated by speculative fever.

Currently, with the tightening of liquidity (money) in the sluggish national economy, Bali is seeing opposite conditions with oversupplies in the property sector as a result of the drop in people spending power.

Businesses are therefor are taking strategic measures to maintain sufficient liquidity. “ Entrepreneurs are keeping an eye on things as they look to the future”, he said.

Many businesses are also consolidating their assets and focusing on efficiency so that their performance can remain optimal . Sure measures include delaying expansion and keeping a close eye on exports.

Business players in the banking/finance sector as the spearhead in of Bali’s economic growth are also intensively re-arranging their loan or credit portfolios in order to avoid risks and increases in non-performance loans (NPL). This also contributes to the slow down in Bali’s economic growth, he explained. (kmb42)

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MANGUPURA - Currently, Bali has enormous potential as a cargo transit lane. The amount of cargo running through Singapore is on the decline as increasing amounts of cargo are shipped through Ngurah Rai airport. Bali therfore needs to prepare industrial refrigeration so that goods being shipped around the world can more easily utilize Ngurah Rai airport, said the Head Airport Authority, Herson, on Wednesday (Nov. 8).

Currently cargo transit at Ngurah Rai Airport has limited capacity, however, Herson hopes that international cargo shipments will be facilitated by relevant authorities. For the time being there are for example of cargo shipments from Australia to Saudi Arabia. As there are currently no direct flights between these two countries, cargo shipments transit through Bali. “ This is an opportunity for us that requires the preparation of a cargo warehouse for such transits” said Herson.

General Manager of PT. Angkasa Pura I, Ngurah Rai International Airport, Yanus Suprayogi, said that the construction of such cargo warehouse is scehduled to start next year.

The warehouse will utilize Air Paradise’s former cargo building. “Obviously, we will take advantage of the existing building and see how things develop. If need be will will create a larger warehouse”, said Yanus during celebrations on Wednesday (Nov. 8) for Ngurah Rai Airport having been awarded ‘Third Best Airport in the World’ by the Airport Council International (ACI) in the category of 15-25 million passenger per year airports. Ngurah Rai Airport scored 4.93 out of 5 for

Airport Service Quality (ASQ).

“ACI assessed the quality of services at Ngurah Rai Airport for one year. There are 33 assessment indicators, ranging from airport facilities, accessibility both inside and outside the airport, airport security, arrival processes, checkin processes, shopping facilities and many to other criteria”, said Yanus.

Other planned changes to the airport include the expansion to the apron, the removal of the VIP building and the addition of 40 check-in counters. Gradually, PT. Angkasa Pura I, also plans to gradually develop the concept of ‘airport city’ so that Ngurah Rai airport can meet all the needs of passengers within the airport.

Yanus explained that the nearly 10 percent increase in the number of passengers flying through Ngruah Rai Airport serves to drive PT. Angkasa Pura to continuously improve their facilities and services.. “As of October, the number of passengers this year had reached 18.16 million -who were mostly international passengers. This means that profiling and passengers’ needs are increasingly diverse” said Yanus.

The concept of ‘airport’ is currently undergoing rapid changes.

“In the past, airports were simply a place for aircrafts to depart and land, but in the past few years they have become very public service oriented. Airpot operators have to focus on the quality of services offered. We are continuously to do this”, said Yanus, adding that airports around the world -Indonesia included, are now equipped with supporting facilities such as exclusive shopping areas, hotels or inns, as well as business areas and entertainment facilities. (kmb23)

Docking site at PPN Pengambengan area taken over project. During a recent meeting with the Bali and Jembrana chapters of the Indonesian Fishermen’s Association, they expressed their dilemma. “We are forced to look for shallow waters to repair our boats, where else are we suppose to go?”, queried a local boat owner named Sakirin.

The repairing of the fishermen’s boats is considered to be disruptive to the port but the fishermen were also asked to learn

special boat repair skills here and the only place to do that is near where the construction projects are underway. The fishermen find themselves sandwiched between the construction of a cold storage project worth IDR 7 billion and and Ice Flake Machine project worth IDR 29 billion. There is also a groin being installed and the the nearby pond is being dredged.

Similar complaints were also

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Bali could potentially become major cargo transit lane

Fishermen complain NEGARA - Fishermen who dock their boats at the Nusantara Fishery Port (PPN) at Pengambengan are feeling squeezed out by the the current construction projects taking place there and recently complained about the lack of space for them to make repairs to their boats.

Even though many fishermen’s boats were still being repaired, they were asked to move their boats away form the PPN expansion

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delivered by Dikin, another fisherman at Pengambengan. The fishermen, he said have been asked to move because of the project activities but there is nowhere else for them to repair their boats. The location currently being used by the fishermen is the most strategic for improvement because the water there is shallow. He added that the fishermen expect the harbour to provide an alternative place for them if they

want them to move.

In response to such complaints, representative of PPN Pengambengan, Ni Ketut Erlina E, said the request that fishermen move is for the safety of the fishermen as there is a project in progress around the location. Furthermore the port is meant to function a a place for loading and unloading not for docking. “ We have asked them to move for the sake of their own safety”, she said. (kmb26)

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Feelin’Festive at Beachwalk Shopping Center

HOLIDAY STARTS HERE! This November Beachwalk Shopping Center is still presenting “FEELIN’ FESTIVE” by highlighting the holiday as well as festive vibes and as usual Beachwalk Shopping Center has bunch of events and promo. YOUR REWARDS, YOUR WAY! Not to be missed is Beachwalk “CORNER’S CLUB” – has just launched this year, a special loyalty card programme for Beachwalk Shopping Center’s loyal customers that lets them collect and redeem points with countless special gifts and fantastic vouchers. All you have to do to become a “CORNER’S Friday, November 10 19:30-22:00 Jazz Live & Open Mic Sayuri Healing Food No2 Jalan Sukma, Ubud 19:30-22:30 Friday Live Music by Dr. Ashrii & Friends Bar Luna Ubud

CLUB” member is just simply do a single purchase of a minimum IDR 50,000 in a single receipt and redeem it at our Customer Service, level 1. Another advantage of having “CORNER’S CLUB” is, Customers are eligible to have it’s benefits not only in Beachwalk Shopping Center but also at all the Cornerstone malls, those are: fx Sudirman, Jakarta & 23Paskal, Bandung. In addition to customers who already posses “CORNER’S CLUB” can have the opportunity to win a lucky draw to 1 night stay at The ONE Legian Bali Hotel.

Don’t miss our festive events during November 2017. “BANTCasa Luna Basement Jalan Raya UBud Saturday, November 11 19:00-21:00 Table Quiz Blue Earth Village Amed, Karangasem 20:00-23:00

EN TOURISM WEEK 2017” event on 17th-19th November 2017 & “PEACE, LOVE & HARMONY” event on 27th November – 3rd December 2017, Customers can very well informed and learn the experience of the rich of Indonesian traditions and culture. Moreover, there is “BALI ARCH FEST” event on 20th – 26th November 2017, that’s about creative sharing & architecture exhibition. All those events will be held at Beachwalk Fountain Stage, Level 1.

Bali Starts Here. Regularly, visitors always have a chance to be interactively relish the experience and learn more about Balinese Log Sankrit meets Rizal (Classical indian meets Local folk star) BetelNut Bali Jalan Raya UBud 19:00-23:59 KupuKupu FunRaiser The onion CO. Jalan Raya Pengosekan, Ubud

culture exclusively from Ubud regency. Every Thursday at our Fountain Stage, level 1 Beachwalk has some variant performances, like Balinese Drama Musical, Bali traditional comedy, making the offerings and the making of Balinese traditional dessert called Jaja Bali. In addition to entertain our Customers, Beachwalk will also have regular “ACOUSTIC EVE” every Wednesday at 7PM . Moreover, there’s also another interactive event called “MEET THE BIRD STARS” will be held on 19th November 2017 at Deck Stage Beachwalk level 1. Customers can meet and experience the

Sunday, November 12 10:00-17:00 Sanur Inspiring Project VOl. 1 Toko Concept Store Jalan Danau Poso no 51A, Sanur 18:00-21:00 Fase Inkubasi Statup digital:

interaction with the exotic birds by Bali Bird Park.

Check out Beachwalk Shopping Center new website with a fresh design and totally brand new concept. Several new features added to ease the Customer in accessing our website, such as an interactive floor map feature. Please access our website at www.beachwalkbali.com.

Beachwalk Shopping Center always presents the unique experiences for tourists and shoppers.

The various monthly programs offer more attractions in Kuta and emphasizing the Beachwalk Shopping Center’s tagline, “Bali Starts Here”.

teman and project management Kumpul Coworking Space Jl, Danau Poso 51 A, Sanur 18:00-21:00 Rooftop Accoustic Vibes by Putu Paris Cat Jazz Club jl. Petitenget no. 5, 2nd floor,Kuta

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Burberry CEO to take label upmarket, focus on bags, fashion

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LONDON - British luxury brand Burberry will shift further up-market by focusing on leather goods and fashion and cutting sales to non-luxury stores, initially in the United States, under a plan by new Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti.

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A model presents a creation at the Burberry Spring/Summer 2018 show at London Fashion Week in London, Britain September 16, 2017.

WEARING a pair is akin to walking on marshmallows. Their slinky appearance has drawn comparisons to scuba shoes.

But these aren’t part of Aqualung’s current stock on Deepbluedive.com. We’re talking about Balenciaga’s Speed trainers – slapping their way down pavements near you this autumn.

Is this the world’s most popular trainer?

The Speed debuted in November 2016 and quickly became a hit, in part thanks to serious plugs from a clutch of KardashianJenners and a swagger of rappers (Gucci Mane, Bryson Tiller, Future). It’s limited

Meet the shoe of 2017

edition, endlessly echt iterations with stores such as Colette certainly helped fuel buzz for a brand that’s currently at the top of its game. But ultimately: normal dudes are wearing these trainers because – whisper it – they’re insanely comfortable. Twelve months on, and retailing for £495, the ribbed double-knit jersey socks with a terry towelling lining and a wavy rubber sole have sold out worldwide. We’re calling it.

2017 is the year of the Speed.

Retailers can’t keep them in stock. “The Speed trainer has been an incredible success for us,” a spokesperson from Matches-

fashion.com reports. “During our second restock, in the summer, we completely sold out in one hour to a high volume of customers who had signed up to put them on their wish lists [this features alerts the customer when the item is back in stock].

Every time we upload further stock of this style, it sells out immediately. Our next delivery is due between now and January, and for spring/summer 2018, we don’t see the demand falling.” It’s a similarly explosive story at Mytheresa.com. “It doesn’t matter what size or colour, these sneakers sell out within a day. Everybody wants them. At the

The company said last week that Christopher Bailey, the designer who turned Burberry into a global label, would leave next year.

“By re-energising our product and customer experience to establish our position firmly in luxury, we will play in the most rewarding, enduring segment of the market,” Gobbetti said.

Gobbetti unveiled the plan alongside Burberry’s first-half results, which saw revenue rise by an underlying 4 percent to 1.26 billion pounds ($1.66 billion), with comparable sales also up a better-than-expected 4 percent.

Adjusted operating profit rose 17 percent to 185 million pounds, it said, beating the market forecast of 167 million pounds. (rtr)

moment this is the fastest-selling sneaker,” its buying team reports. Ditto Stylebop.

“We’ve released stock of the black Speed trainers twice in the past few months, and both times it sold out on the day of release,” a Stylebop representative said over email.

“The burgundy style sold out in 48 hours and the white colour way tends to sell out, but at a slower pace. It’s been the fastestselling shoe for us this season – although it’s facing stiff competition from the Balenciaga Triple S trainers, which sold out in 30 minutes when we released them last week.”

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To minimize congestion at Jimbaran-Udayana University Campus intersection, the government through the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII will do widening.

To minimize congestion, Jimbaran intersection to be expanded

MANGUPURA — Traffic condition along Jimbaran intersection to Nusa Dua and Udayana University campus is always crowded. Moreover, at certain hours, long queues are always visible at the location.

To minimize congestion at Jimbaran-Udayana University Campus intersection, the government through the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII will do widening.

According to the Commitment Making Official (PPK) of the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII, I Nyoman Yasmara, the road widening at Jimbaran intersection is indeed in a single package with the Ngurah Rai underpass project.

For Jimbaran intersection, it is expected to be commenced in February next year.

“This is in a single package with the workmanship of the Ngurah Rai monument underpass, with a total contract value of IDR 168 billion,” he said on Monday (Nov. 6).

He said that from Denpasar direction to Nusa Dua formerly having two lanes will be added one more. So, the access of vehicles from Denpasar to Nusa Dua is not hindered by vehicles stopping at the traffic light to Udayana University. “For the workmanship, the widening will be done on the right side of approximately two meters, so when the new lane is being created the road median will also be shifted,” he said.

Yasmara confessed there will be land acquisition owned by residents covering 4,900 square meters for the widening located on the right side from Denpasar direction, precisely near Pizza Hut. There sit some lands and houses belonging to four owners that will be given compensation. Thus, the total width will become 2 meters with a length of 200 meters.

“Hopefully, the entire land acquisition along with the Ngurah Rai monument intersection can be completed by the end of November,” he hoped.

He disclosed that other than the land properties of community, there are also some utilities owned by PLN getting affected. To that end, PLN is ready to relocate the utility position simultaneously with the project workmanship. (kmb23)

Being drunk, departure of a Russian passenger canceled MANGUPURA — Departure of a passenger flying Qatar Airways with flight number QR-965 to Doha was forced to be cancelled on Tuesday (Nov. 7). Such cancellation happened because the passenger on behalf of Pavel Plakhutin from Russia was in drunken condition while in boarding Gate 2 of International Departure Terminal.

Chronology of the cancellation is as follows: at 10:00, Pavel Plakhutin posing a Qatar Airways passenger was taken by the staff and security guard of Gapura Angkasa due to drunkenness.

This prospective passenger was taken out of boarding Gate 2 via

Screening Check Point (SCP-2) of International Departure Terminal to the second floor of Qatar Airways Office for further flight ticket reservation. After that, the prospective passenger was taken out from Ngurah Rai Airport by using taxi.

A day earlier, an Indian citizen was also secured by the aviation security of Ngurah Rai Airport on Monday (Nov. 6). At the same location, at the Screening Check Point 2 of International Departure Terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport, the passenger said “She looks bomb.” As a result, the aviation security officer, who at that time heard the remark, immediately reported the incident

to the squad leader of aviation security of the Angkasa Pura 1.

When confirmed on Tuesday (Nov. 7), Herson as the Head of Airport Authority for Region IV, First Class Ngurah Rai Denpasar, said the passenger on behalf of Shyamsukha Aditya from India was scheduled to travel by AirAsia aircraft with flight number QZ510. Then, at the time for luggage checking for Indian passenger entourage, at the Screening Check Points (SCP 2) of International Departure Terminal, one of the entourages said vaguely about bomb.

Herson continued that aviation security officer, Gede Wedanta

Brahmadwija, who heard the saying, asked again, what was the contents of his friend’s bag. Apparently, the passenger repeated the words “She Looks Bomb” while pointing to one of the female passengers. “As a result of the passenger’s remarks, the aviation security officers immediately secured and took him to the Security Team Leader on third floor of the International Departure Terminal for further details,” he said.

He revealed that Shyamsukha has got assistance from Consul General of India and is still being deepened. According to Herson, in principle, he was just joking.

Currently, he is still in deepening

process, if indeed there is an indication to actually do that, he will continue to be examined. “Currently, he is still being accompanied

by Consulate General of India. If it is only a joke, he will be released on the guarantee from the Indian Consulate General,” he said.

Nevertheless, with this security measure, his institution would like to give certainty and comfort to other passengers. Although joking, it can result in worries for other passengers. On that account, if there are passengers committing such an act, it should be followed up immediately so as not to repeat similar things. (kmb32)

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Dewi arrested, Bali Police warn Mang Jangol DENPASAR — Having been hunted for three days and put into wanted list, police finally managed to arrest the wife of Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol, Ni Luh Ratna Dewi, 37. The arrest was delivered by Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Peter Reinhard Golose, on Tuesday (Nov. 7). However, he was reluctant to specify the location of the arrest of Mang Jangol’s first wife.

“Simply ask directly to Chief of Denpasar Police. Right now, there are only two wanted suspect we are hunting,” he said.

According to him, Mang Jangol is dangerous because he has illegal firearm. Moreover, he has been a drug dealer. “I frequently affirm if it is dangerous and resists, it must be cracked down on firmly, no more compromises,” said Golose.

To track the whereabouts of Mang Jangol and his elder brother, Wayan Kembar, Golose asked for help of all headmen when gathered in Lembah Pujian, Denpasar. “I ask for their assistance if they know the location of the hunted suspect and immediately inform us,” he said.

Until now, the special team is still hunting the two brothers put into wanted list, Wayan Sunada aka Wayan Kembar and Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol. Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, has issued the second warning in order they can immediately surrender.

“If they come well, they will be treated well. If they bring firearm, we will take firm action against them. I have ordered all the members not to hesitate,” said this police chief from Manado.

The crime scene investigation at the home of Mang Jangol on Jalan Pulau Batanta, Denpasar, found illegal firearm and narcotics belonging to crystal meth. “Moreover,

the perpetrators are affected by the addictive substances contained in the narcotics. I have urged to immediately surrender. Otherwise, they will face us,” said Golose.

In the meantime, Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, said that Dewi was arrested at Poh Santen village area, Jembrana, on Friday morning. Furthermore, this Mang Jangol’s first wife was taken to Denpasar Police. “So far, it is still under investigation and development. We are asking for 3x24 hours,” he said.

According to a source, the suspect Dewi was arrested at her home. Until Tuesday afternoon, Dewi was still undergoing examination and confronted in the room of Chief of Denpasar Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Wayan Arta Ariawan.

Previously, various attempts had been made to arrest Deputy Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives, Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol by Denpasar Police. Moreover, Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, has established a special team made up of members of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Directorate of Narcotic Investigation of Bali Police and CTOC Taskforce of Bali Police.

He ordered to take firm action in measurable steps namely by shooting if resisting. Moreover, the perpetrator has a firearm. His institution has made coordination with Ngurah Rai Airport authorities to do the blocking.

Komang Swastika has been put into the wanted list since November 4, including his first wife Ni Luh Ratna Dewi and his elder brother Wayan Sunada aka Wayan Kembar.

In addition, Mang Jangol is also blocked because he has ever gone abroad. (kmb36)

Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Peter Reinhard Golose

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This handout picture taken and received on October 31, 2017 by Nick McKim, Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania, shows refugees gesturing inside the Manus detention camp in Papua New Guinea on the day of the camp’s expected closure.

Hundreds of “scared” refugees are refusing to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea that is due to close on October 31, with fears they could be forcibly removed by authorities.

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Fearing that the refugee camps are being abused, local residents have asked for the tents to be dismantled.

Fear of being used for immoral acts, refugee tents should be dismantled

AMLAPURA — Refugees in Ulakan Square, Manggis subdistrict, have returned home. All the refugee tents are already empty. Fearing that the refugee camps are being abused, local residents have asked for the tents to be dismantled.

Headman of Ulakan, Nengah Dipta, when contacted on Wednesday (Nov. 8) said that after being left by refugees he is confused whether the tents should be dismantled or not. There has been no notice or follow-up instruction from the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) or Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in the taskforce.

“I am alone still confused,” said Nengah Dipta.

Now, he is making coordination with related parties whether it is dismantled or not because the volcanic activity of Mount Agung is also still fluctuating. However, according to him, the refugee tents should be dismantled. He is worried if the refugee camp will be abused by male strippers or teenagers in love. When having been left by refugees, it is impossible to do surveillance again in the location at night. “Indeed it does not happen

yet, but we just anticipate it. Hopefully, the tents will not be used for immoral acts,” he said.

Ulakan Square itself is not longer occupied by refugees because all the refugees have gone home.

Moreover, a group of refugee consisting of 31 families from Bhuana Giri village has also asked to return home by force on November 6.

Actually, most areas of Bhuana Giri belong to disaster-prone areas (KRB) III as located in the radius of 6 km and sectoral expansion of 7.5 km. They hurried home by riding truck. Actually, the truck was booked to transport residents from outside the radius of 6 km and sectoral radius 7.5 km.

As a headman, Nengah Dipta together with his own village apparatus admitted to be unable to prohibit them. Moreover, they returned home without saying goodbye. Seeing this situation, he with chief of Mangosteen police took

the initiative to meet the headman of Bhuana Giri, Nengah Mudu. He wanted to clarify that Bhuana Giri villagers returned home by force, not under direction of Ulakan village apparatus. This will be made a statement, so that in the future the Ulakan village will not be blamed as recipient of the refugees.

Currently, there remain 65 villagers of Bhuana Giri surviving at Ulakan village and are directed to the office of local headman in order to facilitate the guarding and services of volunteers. Logistics are also available and enough for the next two weeks.

Earlier, Ulakan village accommodated about 1,424 refugees. A total of 465 people formerly occupied the Ulakan Square, while the rest is directed to some local hamlet halls. Since the alert level of Gunung Agung was decreased to watch, they returned home in some departures. (kmb31)

SYDNEY - Papua New Guinea began dismantling a shuttered Australian-run immigration detention centre on Thursday and warned it will use force if necessary to evict nearly 600 men if they refuse to leave within two days, according to a notice posted at the camp.

The asylum seekers have barricaded themselves inside the Manus island centre for the past nine days, defying attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp in a standoff the United Nations describes as a “looming humanitarian crisis”.

The men fear violent reprisals from the Manus island community if they move from the camp to three transit centres, pending possible resettlement to the United States.

The camp was closed on Oct. 31 and water and power have been cut off.

“You may become very sick under these conditions of overflowing sewerage, heaps of rubbish, no clean running water, no electricity and no food,” Papua New Guinea’s Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority said in a two-page notice reviewed by Reuters.

“You are therefore instructed to vacate this compound immediately...if necessary, force may be used to relocate those who refuse to move voluntarily for your own sake.”

The men inside the camp, who include asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Paki-

stan, Sri Lanka, and Syria, said they will continue to defy attempts to shut the camp.

They said they had exhausted their food supplies and were relying on rainwater to drink. Several of the men told Reuters that nearly 100 of them had fallen sick.

The notice added that demolition of fences would begin on Thursday.

Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran who has been detained on Manus island for more than four years, said on Twitter that workers had begun that task.

“The refugees are watching them fearfully...(they) are extremely scared by immigration threat but still saying we will not leave this prison camp for another prison camp,” he said.

“Using force against ppl who’ve been suffering nearly 5yrs is no solution. If you’re going to solve this problem send us to safe third country.”

Australia has used the Manus island centre, and another on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, to detain asylum seekers who try to reach its shores by boat. It says boat arrivals will never enter Aus-

tralia, even if they are found to be refugees, as this would encourage people smugglers in Asia.

Papua New Guinea’s High Court ruled last year that the Manus centre, first opened in 2001, was illegal and the camp closed on Oct. 31, when Australian-funded security staff withdrew.

Thursday’s PNG government notice said the camp will soon revert to the control of the nation’s military and anyone there unlawfully will be liable for arrest. Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on Wednesday said “appropriate means” would be used to apprehend those responsible for “disruption”.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Thursday that the situation was “unacceptable...but the government won’t be backing down”.

The PNG Supreme Court rejected an application by one of the men to restore services on Tuesday, despite pleas from the United Nations to make food, water, medical supplies and power available. Lawyers for the asylum seekers are due to lodge an appeal against later on Thursday. (rtr)

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In Beijing, Trump presses China on North Korea and trade

BEIJING - U.S. President Donald Trump pressed China to do more on the North Korean nuclear issue on Thursday and said bilateral trade had been unfair to the United States, but praised President Xi Jinping’s pledge that China would be more open to foreign firms.

On North Korea, Trump said “China can fix this problem quickly and easily”, urging Beijing to cut financial links with North Korea and also calling on Russia to help.

Trump was speaking alongside Xi in the Chinese capital to announce the signing of about $250 billion in commercial deals between U.S. and Chinese firms, a display that some in the U.S. business community worry detracts from tackling deep-seated complaints about market access in China. Xi said the Chinese economy would become increasingly open and transparent to foreign firms, including those from the United States, and welcomed U.S. companies to participate in his ambitious “Belt and Road” infrastructure-led initiative.

Trump made clear that he blamed his predecessors, not China, for the trade imbalance, and repeatedly praised Xi, calling him “a very special man”.

“But we will make it fair and it will be tremendous for both of us,” Trump said.

Xi smiled widely when Trump said he does not blame China for the deficit and also when Trump said Xi gets things done.

“Of course there are some frictions, but on the basis of win-win cooperation and fair competition we hope we can solve all these issues in a frank and consultative way,” Xi said.

“Keeping opening up is our longterm strategy. We will never narrow or close our doors. We will further widen them,” he said. China would

also offer a more fair and transparent environment for foreign firms, including U.S. ones, Xi said.

MODEST PROGRESS Trump is pressing China to tighten the screws further on North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons. At least modest progress is hoped for, although there are no immediate signs of a major breakthrough, a U.S. official said earlier.

Referring to Xi, Trump said: “I do believe there’s a solution to that, as do you.”

Xi reiterated that China would strive for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula but offered no hint that China would change tack on North Korea, with which it fought side-by-side in the 1950-53 Korean war against U.S.-led forces.

“We are devoted to reaching a resolution to the Korean peninsula issue through dialogue and consultations,” Xi said.

In a show of the importance China puts on Trump’s first official visit, Thursday’s welcoming ceremony outside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People overlooking Tiananmen Square was broadcast live on state television - unprecedented treatment for a visiting leader.

Earlier on Thursday, Xi said he had a deep exchange of views with Trump and reached consensus on numerous issues of mutual concern.

“For China, cooperation is the only real choice, only win-win can lead to an even better future,” he said.

Xi said China and the United States strengthened high-level dialogue on all fronts over the past year and boosted coordination on major international issues, such as the Korean peninsula and Afghanistan.

“Relations between China and the United States are now on a new historical starting point,” Xi said. (rtr)

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U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Li Keqiang meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.

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Rise of the machines: Philippine outsourcing industry braces for AI MANILA - The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centres in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23 billion sector. AI-powered translators could dilute the biggest advantage the Philippines has, the wide use of English, an industry meeting was told this week. Other AI applications could take over process-driven jobs.

The Philippines’ business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is an economic lifeline for the Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people.

It employs about 1.15 million people and, along with remittances from overseas workers, remains one of the top two earners of foreign exchange.

“I don’t think our excellent command of spoken English is going to really be a protection five, 10 years from now. It really will not matter,” said Rajneesh Tiwary, chief delivery officer at Sutherland Global Services.

The Philippines, which was an American colony in the first half of the 20th century, overtook India in 2011 with the largest number of voice-based BPO services in the world. “There’s definitely reasons to be concerned because technology may be able to replace some of what could happen in voice,” Eric Simonson, managing partner of research at Everest Group, a management consulting and research firm, told Reuters.AI, which combs through large troves of raw data to predict outcomes and recognise patterns, is expected to replace 40,000 to 50,000 “low-skilled” or process-driven BPO jobs in the next five years, said Rey Untal, president and chief executive officer of the IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP).

Contact centres make up four-fifths of the Philippines’ total BPO industry, which accounts for 12.6 percent of the

global market for BPO, according to IBPAP. BPO firms in the Philippines list Citibank, JPMorgan, Verizon, Convergys and Genpact <G. n> among their clients. While the United States remain the biggest customers for the industry, demand for BPO services from Europe, Australia and New Zealand is also growing.

The Philippines’ share of the global outsourcing pie, estimated to reach about $250 billion by 2022, is forecast by the industry to reach 15 percent by that year. To get there however, the Southeast Asian nation must prove to the world it has more to offer than just a pool of English-speaking talent.

BPO executives said the country has to take on high-value outsourcing jobs in research and analytics and turn the headwinds from Artificial Intelligence into an opportunity.

The key to stay relevant and ahead of the competition, they said, is to ensure workers are trained in areas like data analytics, machine learning and data mining. “You will see in the next few years more automation coming in the way we do things in IT and BPO industry, robotic processing, the use of chat bots,” Luis Pineda, president of IBM Philippines, told Reuters.

“If we are ahead of the game, we will be at an advantage where people will give us more work, because we are cheaper and productive,” Pineda said. IBM Philippines divested its voice business in 2013.

IBPAP has projected a rise in the number of mid- and high-skilled jobs or those that require abstract thinking and specialised expertise which should bring overall headcount in the BPO sector to 1.8 million by 2022. Augmenting the English language skills of the Philippines with technology will be a “game changer,” said Untal, the head of the association. “Who else can compete with us?”(rtr)

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Call center agents wait for calls from their United States clients as they work overnight in Manila’s Makati financial district February 6, 2012.

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Kuningan Feast, Descent of Deities to Increase Prosperity Graces

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European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici presents the EU executive’s autumn economic forecasts during a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium November 9, 2017.

Tropical fruit trade set to reach new peak in 2017 - UN FAO

ROME - Global trade in avocados, mangos, pineapple and papaya is set to reach a new peak in 2017 though climate change threatens the output of tropical fruit in many growing regions, the United Nations food agency (FAO) said on Thursday.

Exports of the four main tropical fruits have been growing faster than all other internationally traded food commodities, as consumers in the United States, Europe and now parts of Asia have developed a taste for crops that are still mainly grown for subsistence in developing countries.

Rising incomes and perceived health benefits are fuelling demand for “super fruits”, which are now among the priciest food commodities, FAO said in a biannual report on global food markets.

In 2017, producers including Mexico, Costa Rica and India are set to ship some 7 million tonnes, 5.2 percent more than last year, with a global export value of around $10 billion.

“Trade prospects overall would have been higher, had it not been for adverse weather conditions in the leading exporting countries,” FAO analyst Sabine Altendorf said in the report.

Over the past two years, drought

has disrupted harvests of mangoes in Asia, South America and Africa, papaya in some regions of South America, and avocados in southern Africa.

Hurricanes have battered the Dominican Republic, up until now the world’s second-largest avocado producer, prompting FAO to predict a 35 percent drop in this year’s harvest from 2016.

The Mexican avocado trade, already facing uncertainty in light of treaty re-negotiation with the United States, was hit further by bad weather. Output growth in the world’s largest producer is projected to fall to 1 percent this year, versus 5.5 percent average annual growth between 2007 and 2016.

“The threat of climate change and associated extreme weather events looms heavily over the sector, given that tropical zones have acute vulnerability to the phenomenon,” Altendorf said.

Most of the world’s tropical fruit is grown on farms measuring less

than five hectares. Only 5 percent of what is grown is exported, with most of it representing a vital source of nutrition and income generated locally.

But FAO said shifts in consumption as people get richer are likely to boost the traded share, underpinned by freer trade, better market access and technological advances which could lead to lower prices and wider distribution.

Affluent consumers in China are particularly keen on the novelty and exclusiveness associated with tropical fruits. This has led demand for pineapples to outstrip domestic production, and shipments of avocados to grow an estimated 124 percent annually since 2013, with some 44,000 tonnes arriving this year.

Lured by high market prices, Chinese growers have also started to grow more avocados for consumption at home, FAO said. The first harvest on the new plantations is due in autumn 2017.(rtr)

After celebrating the Galungan Day, the victory of dharma against adharma or the victory of Jayatiga against Kalatiga, the Hindu community in Bali then celebrates Kuningan falling on the Saniscara Kliwon Kuningan or Saturday (Nov. 11). The Kuningan festival begins with a ritual ceremony by slaughtering animals for offerings.

Dr. Ketut Sumadi, a lecturer at the IHDN Denpasar, said that before celebrating Kuningan, the Hindu community in Bali holds a ceremony named Pemacekan Agung on Monday after Galungan and before Kuningan. This holy day of pemacekan agung means that devotees may not be careless, must always attempt that jaya tiga is always strong within. Pemacekan Agung means that human should be really a strong person in order to be able to carry out activities, according to the tasks and obligation.

The day before Kuningan, Hindus celebrate Penampahan Kuningan whose procession is the same as Galungan, namely starting to do self-purification, so that it is symbolized with animal (pigs or chickens) slaughtering. “It means to increase again self-awareness so as not to be tease by the kala tiga.

Therefore, one needs to strengthen

himself to overcome the temptations of life. Philosophically, when doing self-contemplation we increase self-consciousness by denuding ourselves. Sadripu as the six internal enemies can sometimes make us forget,” he explained.

Sumadi asserted that on Kuningan Day the ancestors and deities come down to earth as well as bestow prosperity for humanity.

On that account, the characteristic offerings presented are yellow rice coming with tamiang, ter (arrow) and endongan. They symbolize the weapons as self-protection for the next life based on the holy and useful knowledge.

On Kuningan, all worships must be completed before midday because it is the culmination of understanding that means never to stop before reaching the peak. After that, it just continues. It is the reason why the Hindus offer yellow obla-

tions symbolizing the summit of happiness, the struggle of life that must be successful. Meanwhile, the worship is dedicated to Mahadev as the god of happiness.

On the feast of Kuningan, explained Dr. Sumadi, mankind has achieved happiness and always increases the creativity and innovation. Moreover, Bali as a world’s tourist destination makes people more creative. “During the festivities, we seem to rejoice, marked with cultural performance such as ngelawang or street show.

That’s why, in the past each hamlet had barong bangkung art troupe as well as other arts,” he said.

The next day, Sunday (Nov. 12) is usually celebrated with tirtayatra or pilgrimage the increase faith and devotion to God Almighty. On that account, Hindu devotees do worship to temples. It is also resumed with social visit to relatives and friends. (kmb)

Sometimes living in the city is hard to find jogging track. However, if you happen to stay and spend holiday in Denpasar, simply come to Lumintang City Park located on Jalan Mulawarman, Dauh Puri Kaja village, Denpasar. Jogging activity cannot only be done in the morning, but also at night. The green and shady square has been equipped with decorative lights for people wishing to exercise at night.

The park area is surrounded by footpath as a place for jogging. The atmosphere of exercise will be more comfortable because while nourishing the body, you can also enjoy the beauty and cleanliness of the night air downtown. You can also refresh your mind by watching the beauty of dancing fountain. When coming with children, you can take advantage of various games available in the middle of the square.

Lumintang City Park is a relaxing place commonly used by residents of Denpasar to exercise and play. Every corner of the path or under shady tree has been equipped with a casual seat accompanied by hundreds of friendly pigeons during the day. Visitors can take advantage of the benches as a place to read a book or just to chat. “We are often having an exercise here,” said Agus, a resident of Denpasar originating from Tabanan.

Especially for children, there are various game facilities, such as

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slide, swing, seesaw and others in the east park area. Various games are usually crowded in the afternoon, while special sport games for adults are situated in the northern part of the park. In the middle of the park, there is a well-known pond with lights and fountain show. The space next to the pool is often used to have yoga exercise.

This dancing fountain can be enjoyed every day from 19:00 to 21:00. The fountain will be turned on after the nightfall. Meanwhile, on the corner (southeast) of the park, there is a stage to make cultural performance every Saturday and Sunday. The activity will be filled by pre-school, kindergarten to elementary school students in the city of Denpasar.

Well, in the south of the park there is wide acreage equipped with Denpasar Traffic Park. Here, visitors can know and learn various traffic signs in the city of Denpasar.

“In nourishing people, Denpasar municipality has brought many new innovations in this city, like providing this free sport facility,” explained Ayu Suandewi with her children when exercising at this park.

So, she continued that when people having no time to exercise in the morning because of busy works can do it by jogging at night. Moreover, on particular days there will be cultural performances. (kmb)

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In new test for British PM, British aid minister resigns

LONDON - British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit.

Patel, a Brexit campaigner who is popular in the ruling Conservative Party, had to abandon a trip to Africa earlier on Wednesday after being summoned

by May to answer questions on more unsanctioned meetings that breached diplomatic protocol.

After a hastily arranged meeting not long after Patel landed in London, May’s office released her minister’s letter of resignation, in which Patel said her conduct in Israel had fallen “below the high standards” required of her post.

“While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated,” Patel wrote in the letter to May. “I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the government for what has happened and offer my resignation.”

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May responded in a letter, saying: “Now that further details have come to light, it is right that you have decided to resign and adhere to the high standards of transparency and openness that you have advocated.”

It was not clear who would replace Patel, who held the meetings during a holiday in Israel earlier this year.

Under British protocol, a cabinet minister would normally organise meetings through the foreign office and be accompanied by officials, and visits with Israelis would typically be balanced with meetings with Palestinians.

It is the second resignation in May’s top team in a week, underlining her weakness at a time when she faces the complicated task of unravelling more than 40 years of ties with the European Union and holding a deeply divided party together.

Patel’s meetings with Israeli officials, which May’s office said they were not aware of, and a reported visit to an Israeli army field hospital in the Golan Heights, have increased the pressure on the prime minister, who depends on a Northern Irish party in parliament to pass legislation. (rtr)

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Chancelle, 17, pictured in Danamaja returnees site, southern Chad, where girls as young as 12 are forced into the sex trade in order to survive. September 27, 2017.

Sell sex or starve?

Grim choices for Chad’s ‘ghost’ girls DANAMAJA - Wearing a pastel-coloured dress embroidered with a tatty trim and speaking almost in a whisper, 17-year-old Chancelle looks like she should be in school.

But, since the age of 15, she has instead been going into isolated huts or simply to the fields to sell sex for money.

“Each week, I would meet with three or four men,” the teenager, who declined to give her real name, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Chancelle fled north to Chad in 2014 after her father was killed by armed militants in her native Central African Republic (CAR), where Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian and animist “anti-balaka” militias have been fighting since 2013.

A spike in violence in CAR over the last year has forced a fresh wave of refugees into Chad, the world’s third least-developed country, which is also weighed down by drought, floods and conflict with the militant group Boko Haram.

The teenage girl imagined life would be easier in the vast central African country where her parents were born.

But she has gone from trading goods at a market in CAR to selling her body in Chad for as little as 250 CFA francs ($0.44) to men who sometimes beat her.

She does not even insist on condoms.

“I don’t want to risk it, in case he goes to another girl,” she said. “Some days, I don’t eat at all. Some days, I have only 50 CFA, 100 CFA to put something in my belly.”

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Earthquakes hit several regions in Indonesia

JAKARTA - A series of earthquakes with different intensities hits the Indonesian provinces of North Maluku, Bali, and Lampung on Thursday. West Halmahera district in North Maluku was jolted by an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale at 1.11 am local time on Thursday, according to Manado Geophysics station spokesman Nurfitriani.

But she said there was no further information about material damage from the earthquake with the epicenter located at 1.89 degrees

Northern Latitude and 127.06 degrees Eastern Longitude, some 83 kilometers northwest of West Halmahera. The earthquake was

strong enough and felt by the residents of Manado, Bitung, Tondano, and Siau-Tagulandang in North Sulawesi.

Before dawn on Thursday, an earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale rocked Karangasem district, Bali province, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 04.54 West Indonesia Time was located 11 kilometers

northeast of Karangasem at a depth of 10 kilometers, the agency said in its official website. The quake which lasted for 5 to 10 seconds was felt by people living not only in Karangasem but also in other parts of Bali including Gianyar, Denpasar, Klungkung, Bangli and Badung The quake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, and there was no immediate report of casualties or material damage.

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“From the beginning, I have disagreed with the concept of spiritual tourism in Karangasem.

Tourism has the purpose of leisure, while spirituality has the purpose of worship. This is the result of my contemplation at Gumang Temple.

Tourism in Bali had become increasingly outrageous. If we do not

seriously maintain our sanctums, it will result in serious problems. A lot of evidence of this has already emerged and we are well aware of it”, stressed Jro Suyasa.

Deputy Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Artha Dipa recently responded to this polemic by saying that the local government can certainly not make any immediate decisions on the matter. There needs to be coordination with relevant agencies. For the time being Bali’s

spatial regulations still regards Besakih Temple and Mount Agung as tourist attractions.

If this debate is to be seriously considered then there is the possibility that the regional regulations governing Besakih Temple as a tourist attraction will have to be reviewed. In order to appease all parties, said Deputy Regent Dipta, there needs to be clearer guidelines about what can and cannot be done in the area of Besakih Temple and Mount Agung. (kmb31)

Chancelle is one of thousands of so-called returnees living in Danamaja, a muddy site in southern Chad that hosts displaced people who claim to have family roots in the country but lack paperwork to prove their nationality.

For centuries, trading and cattle herding families freely criss-crossed the international border drawn up by European colonialists, which was little more than a line on a map.

When the war erupted in CAR, widespread violence and ethnic killings made life there impossible for many.

Chad responded by sending planes in 2013 to rescue fleeing Muslim returnees from CAR - which has produced at least seven waves of mass exodus since 2003.

About 70,000 officially recognised refugees from CAR live in 20plus villages and six camps across southern Chad, often complaining of shortages of food and medicine.

There are a similar number of returnees, the United Nations (U.N.) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says.

Most do not have any papers to prove their existence. This means they are not entitled to the same basic assistance as refugees who fled the same war, sometimes even the same town.

Chancelle, who has never been to school, said even her food ration card was washed away by the rains months ago, and getting a replacement has proven impossible.

The young mother has no one to support her or her 2-year-old child, whose father left Danamaja - a remote strip of land some 600 km south of the Chadian capital - without a trace.

“I stay because I don’t have a choice,” she said. “I’ll put up with it until I can’t take it anymore.” (rtr)

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 is considered moderate and capable of causing considerable damage.

At 02.17 a.m. local time on Thursda, another earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale rocked Pesawaran district, Lampun province. The epicenter of the quakee was in the sea some 150 kilometers southwest of Pesawaran at a depth of 10 kilometers, the agency said in its official website. (ant)

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Indonesia plans automated system to flag contentious Internet material

JAKARTA - Indonesia plans to launch in January a new automated system using 44 servers to help block websites displaying content such as pornography or extremist ideology, a communications ministry official said on Wednesday.

The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation has stepped up scrutiny of online content following a surge of hoax stories and hate speech, as well as a controversial anti-pornography law pushed by Islamist parties.

The so-called “crawling system” searches internet content and issues alerts when inappropriate material is found, Semuel Pangerapan, a director general at the communications and informatics ministry, told reporters.

The ministry would immediately block foreign-owned sites carrying such content, but applications such as messaging services would receive warnings first, he added.

This week, Indonesia threatened to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service because of obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images provided by third parties on the service. Tenor Inc, one of the GIF providers for WhatsApp, has been blocked in Indonesia.

The company has “implemented a fix” for the issue, a Tenor spokeswoman said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Pangerapan said the ministry would monitor Tenor’s filter for the next few days before it lifts the ban.

Next week, the communications ministry will summon executives from other internet-based companies, such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and social media operator Twitter , he added. The ministry would discuss content Indonesia does not allow to be circulated, he said.

Ministry data showed that Indonesia had blocked around 780,000 websites by the end of September, mostly those with pornographic content. Other blocked sites displayed material featuring violence, gambling and radicalism. The government has also asked the public to report obscene online content.

“People need to be active to flag inappropriate content, not only on WhatsApp but also on Facebook and Twitter,” Pangerapan said. (rtr)

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Gambur Anglayang Temple

NEGARA - Not many sanctums physically and spiritually reflect the principles of democracy and tolerance in the life of the nation. Among the few numbers, there is the Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple sitting at Kubutambahan Customary Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict, Buleleng. If state officials often herald a multicultural spirit in establishing the archipelagic sustainability, the Negara Gambur Anglayang actually has showed a kind of past representation about how people in Bali maintained the multicultural spirit until now. In the temple area, there are a number of shrines reflecting the diversity elements in peaceful space. The eight shrines in the temple reflecting the diversity and tolerance are still maintained until now. They consist of the shrine of Ratu Bagus Sundawan representing Sunda ethnic; Ratu Bagus Melayu representing Malays; Ratu Ayu Syahbandar and Ratu Manik Mas representing Chinese and Buddhism element; Ratu Pasek, Goddess Sri and Ratu Gede Shiwa representing Hinduism; and the most unique is the shrine of Ratu Dalem Mekah (Mecca) representing the elements of Islam. Until now, the Kubutambahan customary village remains to maintain this important sanctum properly. Local residents believe that peace will be sustained if those shrines are constantly given the breath and spirit by maintaining and venerating

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Nadal will be fit for London, says coach Moya

them well.

As happened on Saturday (Oct 29), the people of Kubutambahan customary village with customary leaders, including the Chief Jero Warkadea, performed the ceremony preparations vigorously. They welcomed the pujawali or temple anniversary falling on Buda Wage Cemeng Klawu, Wednesday (Nov 2). All shrines were embellished with sacred paraphernalia such as clothes, pennants, penjor pole and others. Devotees also waved red-and-white flag in the temple area, including on the road section leading to the temple. Installation of the red-and-white flag seemingly told people that nationalism with high tolerance to sustain the archipelago could be constructed from the Gambur Anglayang Temple.

Jero Warkadea said the temple was actually had three names. Other than Negara Gambur Anglayang, it was also called Pula Negara and Kerta Negara Loka. The three names equally contained the word negara. This could mean that the temple had always been a passion to build and unify the nation. Especially for the name Pula Negara, this phrase was actually derived from the word Pulau Negara (literally, island of the country). In the long run, the word pulau was shortened to pula. If the phrase of Pulau Negara described further, it could have a very broad meaning. “In other words, from an island, a country with diverse ethnic groups can be built very well,” he said.

Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple is located on the edge of Tabaning Beach, Kubutambahan. The word Tabaning here is derived from Kuta and Baneng. Kuta means fort and baning means brick. Formerly, about in the thirteenth century, Kubutambahan was a fortress on a large lagoon or lake.

Jero Warkadea said the origin of Negara Gambur Anglayang could not be clearly revealed because of limited supporting resources. However, the history could be estimated by looking at the epigraph data and existing manuscripts. It was estimated the temple had been established in ancient Bali times or circa 1250 AD. At that time, Kubutambahan was a place where sea converged with a lake. Right on the meeting point of sea and lake was now the location of Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple. It was formerly a trading port called Kuta Baning. The trading port was fortified for security reason because it was the center of trading activities for throughout the archipelago.

As a trade center, the area was visited by various kinds of people from different tribes, religions and races.

Since the location was believed to have given them life, a variety of different people from different faiths then established a temple. The temple posed a symbol in which religion was believed to be the humans’ goal, from wherever they originated. (kmb)

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MILAN - World number one Rafael Nadal will be fit for the ATP Finals in London next week despite concerns over the state of the Spaniard’s knee, coach Carlos Moya said.

Nadal, 31, pulled out of the Paris Masters before his quarter-final match last week after experiencing discomfort in his right knee during his thirdround win over Pablo Cuevas. It raised fears the 16-time grand slam champion would join a lengthy list of leading names, including 2016 champion Andy Murray and three-times London winner Novak Djokovic, who are already sidelined for the season-ender. Moya had better news though.

“Rafa is fine, the knee is okay,” the former world number one said in Milan after taking part in a coaching workshop at the Next Gen ATP Finals.

“He stopped just to take no risks. Rafa will be competitive in London because it’s the only big tournament he hasn’t won.”

Nadal silenced the naysayers this year by returning from an injuryplagued 2016 to win the French Open for a 10th time before taking the U.S. Open crown. It helped him secure the year-end number one ranking for the fourth time, nearly a decade after he first achieved it.

Moya, who began working with his fellow Mallorcan a year ago, said Nadal’s feats this year had not surprised him.

“I expected Rafa to be number one again,” he said. “I’m not surprised because I’ve seen him training as usual with lots of passion.

His tennis and his mind has taken him to number one.”

Nadal is due to start his ATP Finals challenge on Monday against Belgium’s David Goffin and also faces Bulgarian debutant Grigor Dimitrov and Austrian Dominic Thiem in his group. (rtr)

Joshua the target as heavyweight hype packs a new punch

LONDON - Anthony Joshua woke up on Wednesday to find himself more of a wanted man than ever in boxing’s entertaining new era of old-fashioned heavyweight hoopla and intrigue.

The Briton is at the heart of a long-overdue heavyweight revival, the money-spinning focus for three other unbeaten champions who, like him, believe they can unify the division and become undisputed owner of the sport’s most presti-

gious title.

Joshua, who holds the WBA and IBF versions of the crown, was called out by both America’s WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and New Zealand’s Joseph Parker, the WBO holder, on Wednesday as the hype really began to take hold.

The pair both see a fight with Britain’s 2012 Olympic champion as their passport to global superstardom while in the background

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Anthony Joshua in action against Carlos Takam

another Briton, Tyson Fury, the unbeaten former three-belt holder, still keeps trumpeting his claims too.

Between them the quartet have had more than 100 professional fights and not lost one. So something has to give once, as seems inevitable in 2018, boxing sees the first punches thrown in a bid to find the first undisputed champ since the WBO was founded in 1988.

It is all a far cry from the fairly stagnant decade during which Wladimir Klitschko ruled the division with mechanical efficiency.

Once beaten by Fury and Joshua, though, the Ukrainian’s era was consigned to history.

The chiselled Joshua’s perfect 20-fight, 20-knock-out record, allied to a personality that has turned him into the poster boy of the division, has given him a profile that puts his camp in the driving seat for big fight negotiations.

Yet his potential challengers, encouraged by how Joshua made hard work in disposing of tough late replacement Carlos Takam in his last defence, are now ramping up the noise as they jostle for position

to face the 28-year-old.

POTENTIAL FIGHTS Wilder, whose one-round demolition of Bermane Stiverne in New York on Saturday took his blemishfree record to 38 knock-outs in 39 wins, delivered a taunting message on social media, declaring he would beat Joshua in his British “safe haven”.

“You know I’m coming for you... 2018 is what you should be worried about. The people want it.

Do you want it? Or do you have some hidden agendas? Are you hiding anything? We’re on it so you either fight or shut up,” boomed the 32-year-old in classic trash-talking fashion.

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn had proposed Wilder should face another Briton, Dillian Whyte, a former Joshua victim, before any potential match, leaving the American to growl: “A king doesn’t chase the peasants, a king takes on kings.”

On Wednesday, though, Hearn told Sky Sports that negotiations with Wilder’s representatives over a potential fight with the American

would now begin this week.

Meanwhile, New Zealander Parker, widely portrayed as the least threatening option for Joshua despite being unbeaten in 24 contests, appeared to have believed he had moved into pole position for a bout in March or April of next year.

“Eddie Hearn (Joshua’s promoter) and I have exchanged emails,” David Higgins, Parker’s promoter, told reporters in Auckland.

“My message was Joe would fight Joshua next and Hearn’s message was that Joshua would fight Parker next. It’s now a question of the deal and money.”

Shouting the odds a long way from the current negotiations is Fury, the controversial figure who has not fought since beating Klitschko in November 2015 and had his licence revoked in October last year after allegations of doping.

Adamant that he will resolve the issues and return to the ring next year, he claimed in a tweet that he could still beat Wilder and Joshua “even at 25 stone and after being out almost 2 years!” (rtr)

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England’s Southgate welcomes new faces against Germany, Brazil

Cannavaro returns as Guangzhou head coach

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HONG KONG - Fabio Cannavaro has been tasked with building an all-Chinese team that can maintain Guangzhou Evergrande’s domestic dominance after being appointed their new head coach on Thursday. The Italian was handed a five-year deal at the same club that fired him in 2015 and replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari, who left following the completion of his contract having guided Evergrande to the last three league titles and the 2015 Asian Champions League crown.

Cannavaro had a seven-month stint at Guangzhou when he took over from Marcello Lippi in late 2014, only to be fired in June the following year and replaced

by Scolari. “I’m very honoured and happy to be back here,” Cannavaro said at a news conference. “Before leaving here last time I had said that I would come back one day.

“Fortunately I have gathered some very good experience in the Chinese leagues since then and I am so happy to be back. “Evergrande’s plan for the upcoming years excites me very much and strongly motivates me to work with club. We will need to bring as many Chinese talents through as possible while keeping winning as always.”

The 44-year-old World Cup-winning defender rebuilt his coaching career with a stint at Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia before returning to China to steer Tianjin Quanjian to the second division title in 2016. Cannavaro led Tianjin to third place in the just-completed Chinese Super League season, guiding them to the

England manager Gareth Southgate put a positive spin on preparations for friendlies against Germany and Brazil after a spate of withdrawals due to injury, saying he relished the chance to introduce new faces ahead of next year’s World Cup. Tottenham Hotspur trio Dele Alli, Harry Kane and Harry Winks were ruled out of the initial 25-man squad for the coming days’ fixtures, and Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling and Jordan Henderson have since also pulled out. England host world champions Germany at Wembley on Friday and Brazil four days later.

The depleted squad allows Southgate to field a lineup from a pool of youngsters including Tammy Abraham, Joe Gomez and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who received their first call-ups to the senior squad.

“This period between qualification and the finals has to have an element of experimentation,” Southgate told a news conference on Thursday.

“If we don’t try things in these games, when are we going to try things? Germany took a really

Russian ex-official admits to Cup venue fraud -investigators

MOSCOW - The former deputy governor of Saint Petersburg has admitted to his involvement in a fraud scheme related to the construction of the city’s World Cup stadium, investigators said on Wednesday.

Marat Oganesyan, who served as deputy governor of Russia’s second largest city from 2013 to 2015, was detained last year on suspicion of orchestrating a fraudulent deal worth 50.4 million roubles ($849,915) that was meant to provide the venue with a video display screen. Investigators said that Oganesyan had admitted guilt as part of a pretrial agreement.

“He fully acknowledged his guilt in the act for which he was incriminated, gave exhaustive evidence and took steps to repay the damage caused,” the local branch of Russia’s

young team to the Confederations Cup - I thought it was brilliant what they did.

“I’ve really enjoyed the week.

New players coming in and two great games to look forward to.

We’ll take more from these games than any of the qualification games.” Southgate dismissed any talk of a club-versus-country row over players’ fitness.

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino said on Wednesday his top scorer Kane would be fit for Premier League trip to Arsenal on Nov. 18.

Asked if he was satisfied that all players who had pulled out were genuinely injured, Southgate replied: “Yeah, absolutely.

“I hear this talk of club v country -- it’s nonsense. They are injured and they can’t play. Harry Kane -- I knew he was in trouble because he stayed down -- Kane doesn’t stay down. “...Spurs might risk (him and Winks) them for the Arsenal game, that’s a different matter.” England host world champions Germany at Wembley on Friday and Brazil four days later. (rtr)

Asian Champions League for the first time, before resigning earlier this week.

LOCAL TALENT

Guangzhou have won the league in each of the seven seasons since gaining promotion to the top flight at the end of 2010 as second division champions. Their upturn in fortunes came after the Evergrande corporation bought the club at the start of 2010. Evergrande owner Xu Jiayin said the goal was to have a successful team made up of entirely of local talent.

“We will look to gradually reduce our need for foreign players and we hope to maintain the team’s quality by 2020, but with a fully Chinese squad,” said Xu. “But we don’t want an all-Chinese team and have our standards drop. “The coach has signed a five-year contract with us, so that means he will be part of the process through to 2020. “He is quite confident, too, that Evergrande will be a strong team even when it is all-Chinese.”

Guangzhou’s desire to transition to an all-Chinese team comes at a time when clubs have been spending huge sums on foreign talent while the national team continues to struggle.

Shanghai SIPG broke the Asian transfer record in January when they signed Oscar from Chelsea for 60 million euros before a crackdown by the Chinese Football Association later in the year reduced the number of foreign signings to a trickle. National team coach Lippi has complained about a lack of Chinese strikers in a league where the forward positions are dominated by foreigners. SIPG’s Wu Lei was the only Chinese player this season to score more than 10 league goals. (rtr)

Advocaat to step down as Netherlands coach

AMSTERDAM – Dick Advocaat is stepping down as Netherlands coach after his team’s two friendly internationals this month, he said on Wednesday.

The 70-year-old took over from Danny Blind in mid-year but, in his third spell in charge, proved unable to turn around Dutch fortunes as they failed to qualify for next year’s

Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine

England’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek during training

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World Cup. “These are my last two games, after this I’m stopping,” he said on Wednesday after arriving in Aberdeen for Thursday’s match against Scotland.

The Netherlands, World Cup runners-up in South Africa in 2010 and third in Brazil in 2014, also play Romania in Bucharest on

IBP/net

Tuesday. Advocaat was guarded about his future.

“I haven’t said what I’m going to do therefore clubs do not know that I’m available or not. Let’s get these two games out of the way and then we’ll see what comes into my path.

I’m doing the same as Louis van Gaal and never saying ‘never’,” he told Dutch broadcaster NOS. (rtr)

Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The decade-long construction of the Saint Petersburg stadium, which will host a World Cup semi-final next summer, has been plagued with spiralling costs and delays.

The pitch at the venue had to be hastily re-laid after it was cut up during the inaugural match there in April, raising questions about the venue’s suitability to host Confederations Cup matches.

Prior to the problems with the grass, issues with the stadium’s retractable pitch technology also caused the playing surface to vibrate, rendering it unfit for matches.

The venue, home to Russian soccer powerhouse Zenit St Petersburg, has also experienced issues with a leaking roof. (rtr)

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Sp rt

England’s Southgate welcomes new faces against Germany, Brazil

Cannavaro returns as Guangzhou head coach

IBP/net

HONG KONG - Fabio Cannavaro has been tasked with building an all-Chinese team that can maintain Guangzhou Evergrande’s domestic dominance after being appointed their new head coach on Thursday. The Italian was handed a five-year deal at the same club that fired him in 2015 and replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari, who left following the completion of his contract having guided Evergrande to the last three league titles and the 2015 Asian Champions League crown.

Cannavaro had a seven-month stint at Guangzhou when he took over from Marcello Lippi in late 2014, only to be fired in June the following year and replaced

by Scolari. “I’m very honoured and happy to be back here,” Cannavaro said at a news conference. “Before leaving here last time I had said that I would come back one day.

“Fortunately I have gathered some very good experience in the Chinese leagues since then and I am so happy to be back. “Evergrande’s plan for the upcoming years excites me very much and strongly motivates me to work with club. We will need to bring as many Chinese talents through as possible while keeping winning as always.”

The 44-year-old World Cup-winning defender rebuilt his coaching career with a stint at Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia before returning to China to steer Tianjin Quanjian to the second division title in 2016. Cannavaro led Tianjin to third place in the just-completed Chinese Super League season, guiding them to the

England manager Gareth Southgate put a positive spin on preparations for friendlies against Germany and Brazil after a spate of withdrawals due to injury, saying he relished the chance to introduce new faces ahead of next year’s World Cup. Tottenham Hotspur trio Dele Alli, Harry Kane and Harry Winks were ruled out of the initial 25-man squad for the coming days’ fixtures, and Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling and Jordan Henderson have since also pulled out. England host world champions Germany at Wembley on Friday and Brazil four days later.

The depleted squad allows Southgate to field a lineup from a pool of youngsters including Tammy Abraham, Joe Gomez and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who received their first call-ups to the senior squad.

“This period between qualification and the finals has to have an element of experimentation,” Southgate told a news conference on Thursday.

“If we don’t try things in these games, when are we going to try things? Germany took a really

Russian ex-official admits to Cup venue fraud -investigators

MOSCOW - The former deputy governor of Saint Petersburg has admitted to his involvement in a fraud scheme related to the construction of the city’s World Cup stadium, investigators said on Wednesday.

Marat Oganesyan, who served as deputy governor of Russia’s second largest city from 2013 to 2015, was detained last year on suspicion of orchestrating a fraudulent deal worth 50.4 million roubles ($849,915) that was meant to provide the venue with a video display screen. Investigators said that Oganesyan had admitted guilt as part of a pretrial agreement.

“He fully acknowledged his guilt in the act for which he was incriminated, gave exhaustive evidence and took steps to repay the damage caused,” the local branch of Russia’s

young team to the Confederations Cup - I thought it was brilliant what they did.

“I’ve really enjoyed the week.

New players coming in and two great games to look forward to.

We’ll take more from these games than any of the qualification games.” Southgate dismissed any talk of a club-versus-country row over players’ fitness.

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino said on Wednesday his top scorer Kane would be fit for Premier League trip to Arsenal on Nov. 18.

Asked if he was satisfied that all players who had pulled out were genuinely injured, Southgate replied: “Yeah, absolutely.

“I hear this talk of club v country -- it’s nonsense. They are injured and they can’t play. Harry Kane -- I knew he was in trouble because he stayed down -- Kane doesn’t stay down. “...Spurs might risk (him and Winks) them for the Arsenal game, that’s a different matter.” England host world champions Germany at Wembley on Friday and Brazil four days later. (rtr)

Asian Champions League for the first time, before resigning earlier this week.

LOCAL TALENT

Guangzhou have won the league in each of the seven seasons since gaining promotion to the top flight at the end of 2010 as second division champions. Their upturn in fortunes came after the Evergrande corporation bought the club at the start of 2010. Evergrande owner Xu Jiayin said the goal was to have a successful team made up of entirely of local talent.

“We will look to gradually reduce our need for foreign players and we hope to maintain the team’s quality by 2020, but with a fully Chinese squad,” said Xu. “But we don’t want an all-Chinese team and have our standards drop. “The coach has signed a five-year contract with us, so that means he will be part of the process through to 2020. “He is quite confident, too, that Evergrande will be a strong team even when it is all-Chinese.”

Guangzhou’s desire to transition to an all-Chinese team comes at a time when clubs have been spending huge sums on foreign talent while the national team continues to struggle.

Shanghai SIPG broke the Asian transfer record in January when they signed Oscar from Chelsea for 60 million euros before a crackdown by the Chinese Football Association later in the year reduced the number of foreign signings to a trickle. National team coach Lippi has complained about a lack of Chinese strikers in a league where the forward positions are dominated by foreigners. SIPG’s Wu Lei was the only Chinese player this season to score more than 10 league goals. (rtr)

Advocaat to step down as Netherlands coach

AMSTERDAM – Dick Advocaat is stepping down as Netherlands coach after his team’s two friendly internationals this month, he said on Wednesday.

The 70-year-old took over from Danny Blind in mid-year but, in his third spell in charge, proved unable to turn around Dutch fortunes as they failed to qualify for next year’s

Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine

England’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek during training

9

World Cup. “These are my last two games, after this I’m stopping,” he said on Wednesday after arriving in Aberdeen for Thursday’s match against Scotland.

The Netherlands, World Cup runners-up in South Africa in 2010 and third in Brazil in 2014, also play Romania in Bucharest on

IBP/net

Tuesday. Advocaat was guarded about his future.

“I haven’t said what I’m going to do therefore clubs do not know that I’m available or not. Let’s get these two games out of the way and then we’ll see what comes into my path.

I’m doing the same as Louis van Gaal and never saying ‘never’,” he told Dutch broadcaster NOS. (rtr)

Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The decade-long construction of the Saint Petersburg stadium, which will host a World Cup semi-final next summer, has been plagued with spiralling costs and delays.

The pitch at the venue had to be hastily re-laid after it was cut up during the inaugural match there in April, raising questions about the venue’s suitability to host Confederations Cup matches.

Prior to the problems with the grass, issues with the stadium’s retractable pitch technology also caused the playing surface to vibrate, rendering it unfit for matches.

The venue, home to Russian soccer powerhouse Zenit St Petersburg, has also experienced issues with a leaking roof. (rtr)

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Friday, November 10, 2017

International

Gambur Anglayang Temple

NEGARA - Not many sanctums physically and spiritually reflect the principles of democracy and tolerance in the life of the nation. Among the few numbers, there is the Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple sitting at Kubutambahan Customary Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict, Buleleng. If state officials often herald a multicultural spirit in establishing the archipelagic sustainability, the Negara Gambur Anglayang actually has showed a kind of past representation about how people in Bali maintained the multicultural spirit until now. In the temple area, there are a number of shrines reflecting the diversity elements in peaceful space. The eight shrines in the temple reflecting the diversity and tolerance are still maintained until now. They consist of the shrine of Ratu Bagus Sundawan representing Sunda ethnic; Ratu Bagus Melayu representing Malays; Ratu Ayu Syahbandar and Ratu Manik Mas representing Chinese and Buddhism element; Ratu Pasek, Goddess Sri and Ratu Gede Shiwa representing Hinduism; and the most unique is the shrine of Ratu Dalem Mekah (Mecca) representing the elements of Islam. Until now, the Kubutambahan customary village remains to maintain this important sanctum properly. Local residents believe that peace will be sustained if those shrines are constantly given the breath and spirit by maintaining and venerating

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Nadal will be fit for London, says coach Moya

them well.

As happened on Saturday (Oct 29), the people of Kubutambahan customary village with customary leaders, including the Chief Jero Warkadea, performed the ceremony preparations vigorously. They welcomed the pujawali or temple anniversary falling on Buda Wage Cemeng Klawu, Wednesday (Nov 2). All shrines were embellished with sacred paraphernalia such as clothes, pennants, penjor pole and others. Devotees also waved red-and-white flag in the temple area, including on the road section leading to the temple. Installation of the red-and-white flag seemingly told people that nationalism with high tolerance to sustain the archipelago could be constructed from the Gambur Anglayang Temple.

Jero Warkadea said the temple was actually had three names. Other than Negara Gambur Anglayang, it was also called Pula Negara and Kerta Negara Loka. The three names equally contained the word negara. This could mean that the temple had always been a passion to build and unify the nation. Especially for the name Pula Negara, this phrase was actually derived from the word Pulau Negara (literally, island of the country). In the long run, the word pulau was shortened to pula. If the phrase of Pulau Negara described further, it could have a very broad meaning. “In other words, from an island, a country with diverse ethnic groups can be built very well,” he said.

Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple is located on the edge of Tabaning Beach, Kubutambahan. The word Tabaning here is derived from Kuta and Baneng. Kuta means fort and baning means brick. Formerly, about in the thirteenth century, Kubutambahan was a fortress on a large lagoon or lake.

Jero Warkadea said the origin of Negara Gambur Anglayang could not be clearly revealed because of limited supporting resources. However, the history could be estimated by looking at the epigraph data and existing manuscripts. It was estimated the temple had been established in ancient Bali times or circa 1250 AD. At that time, Kubutambahan was a place where sea converged with a lake. Right on the meeting point of sea and lake was now the location of Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple. It was formerly a trading port called Kuta Baning. The trading port was fortified for security reason because it was the center of trading activities for throughout the archipelago.

As a trade center, the area was visited by various kinds of people from different tribes, religions and races.

Since the location was believed to have given them life, a variety of different people from different faiths then established a temple. The temple posed a symbol in which religion was believed to be the humans’ goal, from wherever they originated. (kmb)

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Friday, November 10, 2017

International

MILAN - World number one Rafael Nadal will be fit for the ATP Finals in London next week despite concerns over the state of the Spaniard’s knee, coach Carlos Moya said.

Nadal, 31, pulled out of the Paris Masters before his quarter-final match last week after experiencing discomfort in his right knee during his thirdround win over Pablo Cuevas. It raised fears the 16-time grand slam champion would join a lengthy list of leading names, including 2016 champion Andy Murray and three-times London winner Novak Djokovic, who are already sidelined for the season-ender. Moya had better news though.

“Rafa is fine, the knee is okay,” the former world number one said in Milan after taking part in a coaching workshop at the Next Gen ATP Finals.

“He stopped just to take no risks. Rafa will be competitive in London because it’s the only big tournament he hasn’t won.”

Nadal silenced the naysayers this year by returning from an injuryplagued 2016 to win the French Open for a 10th time before taking the U.S. Open crown. It helped him secure the year-end number one ranking for the fourth time, nearly a decade after he first achieved it.

Moya, who began working with his fellow Mallorcan a year ago, said Nadal’s feats this year had not surprised him.

“I expected Rafa to be number one again,” he said. “I’m not surprised because I’ve seen him training as usual with lots of passion.

His tennis and his mind has taken him to number one.”

Nadal is due to start his ATP Finals challenge on Monday against Belgium’s David Goffin and also faces Bulgarian debutant Grigor Dimitrov and Austrian Dominic Thiem in his group. (rtr)

Joshua the target as heavyweight hype packs a new punch

LONDON - Anthony Joshua woke up on Wednesday to find himself more of a wanted man than ever in boxing’s entertaining new era of old-fashioned heavyweight hoopla and intrigue.

The Briton is at the heart of a long-overdue heavyweight revival, the money-spinning focus for three other unbeaten champions who, like him, believe they can unify the division and become undisputed owner of the sport’s most presti-

gious title.

Joshua, who holds the WBA and IBF versions of the crown, was called out by both America’s WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and New Zealand’s Joseph Parker, the WBO holder, on Wednesday as the hype really began to take hold.

The pair both see a fight with Britain’s 2012 Olympic champion as their passport to global superstardom while in the background

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Anthony Joshua in action against Carlos Takam

another Briton, Tyson Fury, the unbeaten former three-belt holder, still keeps trumpeting his claims too.

Between them the quartet have had more than 100 professional fights and not lost one. So something has to give once, as seems inevitable in 2018, boxing sees the first punches thrown in a bid to find the first undisputed champ since the WBO was founded in 1988.

It is all a far cry from the fairly stagnant decade during which Wladimir Klitschko ruled the division with mechanical efficiency.

Once beaten by Fury and Joshua, though, the Ukrainian’s era was consigned to history.

The chiselled Joshua’s perfect 20-fight, 20-knock-out record, allied to a personality that has turned him into the poster boy of the division, has given him a profile that puts his camp in the driving seat for big fight negotiations.

Yet his potential challengers, encouraged by how Joshua made hard work in disposing of tough late replacement Carlos Takam in his last defence, are now ramping up the noise as they jostle for position

to face the 28-year-old.

POTENTIAL FIGHTS Wilder, whose one-round demolition of Bermane Stiverne in New York on Saturday took his blemishfree record to 38 knock-outs in 39 wins, delivered a taunting message on social media, declaring he would beat Joshua in his British “safe haven”.

“You know I’m coming for you... 2018 is what you should be worried about. The people want it.

Do you want it? Or do you have some hidden agendas? Are you hiding anything? We’re on it so you either fight or shut up,” boomed the 32-year-old in classic trash-talking fashion.

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn had proposed Wilder should face another Briton, Dillian Whyte, a former Joshua victim, before any potential match, leaving the American to growl: “A king doesn’t chase the peasants, a king takes on kings.”

On Wednesday, though, Hearn told Sky Sports that negotiations with Wilder’s representatives over a potential fight with the American

would now begin this week.

Meanwhile, New Zealander Parker, widely portrayed as the least threatening option for Joshua despite being unbeaten in 24 contests, appeared to have believed he had moved into pole position for a bout in March or April of next year.

“Eddie Hearn (Joshua’s promoter) and I have exchanged emails,” David Higgins, Parker’s promoter, told reporters in Auckland.

“My message was Joe would fight Joshua next and Hearn’s message was that Joshua would fight Parker next. It’s now a question of the deal and money.”

Shouting the odds a long way from the current negotiations is Fury, the controversial figure who has not fought since beating Klitschko in November 2015 and had his licence revoked in October last year after allegations of doping.

Adamant that he will resolve the issues and return to the ring next year, he claimed in a tweet that he could still beat Wilder and Joshua “even at 25 stone and after being out almost 2 years!” (rtr)

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In new test for British PM, British aid minister resigns

LONDON - British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit.

Patel, a Brexit campaigner who is popular in the ruling Conservative Party, had to abandon a trip to Africa earlier on Wednesday after being summoned

by May to answer questions on more unsanctioned meetings that breached diplomatic protocol.

After a hastily arranged meeting not long after Patel landed in London, May’s office released her minister’s letter of resignation, in which Patel said her conduct in Israel had fallen “below the high standards” required of her post.

“While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated,” Patel wrote in the letter to May. “I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the government for what has happened and offer my resignation.”

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May responded in a letter, saying: “Now that further details have come to light, it is right that you have decided to resign and adhere to the high standards of transparency and openness that you have advocated.”

It was not clear who would replace Patel, who held the meetings during a holiday in Israel earlier this year.

Under British protocol, a cabinet minister would normally organise meetings through the foreign office and be accompanied by officials, and visits with Israelis would typically be balanced with meetings with Palestinians.

It is the second resignation in May’s top team in a week, underlining her weakness at a time when she faces the complicated task of unravelling more than 40 years of ties with the European Union and holding a deeply divided party together.

Patel’s meetings with Israeli officials, which May’s office said they were not aware of, and a reported visit to an Israeli army field hospital in the Golan Heights, have increased the pressure on the prime minister, who depends on a Northern Irish party in parliament to pass legislation. (rtr)

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Chancelle, 17, pictured in Danamaja returnees site, southern Chad, where girls as young as 12 are forced into the sex trade in order to survive. September 27, 2017.

Sell sex or starve?

Grim choices for Chad’s ‘ghost’ girls DANAMAJA - Wearing a pastel-coloured dress embroidered with a tatty trim and speaking almost in a whisper, 17-year-old Chancelle looks like she should be in school.

But, since the age of 15, she has instead been going into isolated huts or simply to the fields to sell sex for money.

“Each week, I would meet with three or four men,” the teenager, who declined to give her real name, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Chancelle fled north to Chad in 2014 after her father was killed by armed militants in her native Central African Republic (CAR), where Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian and animist “anti-balaka” militias have been fighting since 2013.

A spike in violence in CAR over the last year has forced a fresh wave of refugees into Chad, the world’s third least-developed country, which is also weighed down by drought, floods and conflict with the militant group Boko Haram.

The teenage girl imagined life would be easier in the vast central African country where her parents were born.

But she has gone from trading goods at a market in CAR to selling her body in Chad for as little as 250 CFA francs ($0.44) to men who sometimes beat her.

She does not even insist on condoms.

“I don’t want to risk it, in case he goes to another girl,” she said. “Some days, I don’t eat at all. Some days, I have only 50 CFA, 100 CFA to put something in my belly.”

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Earthquakes hit several regions in Indonesia

JAKARTA - A series of earthquakes with different intensities hits the Indonesian provinces of North Maluku, Bali, and Lampung on Thursday. West Halmahera district in North Maluku was jolted by an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale at 1.11 am local time on Thursday, according to Manado Geophysics station spokesman Nurfitriani.

But she said there was no further information about material damage from the earthquake with the epicenter located at 1.89 degrees

Northern Latitude and 127.06 degrees Eastern Longitude, some 83 kilometers northwest of West Halmahera. The earthquake was

strong enough and felt by the residents of Manado, Bitung, Tondano, and Siau-Tagulandang in North Sulawesi.

Before dawn on Thursday, an earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale rocked Karangasem district, Bali province, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 04.54 West Indonesia Time was located 11 kilometers

northeast of Karangasem at a depth of 10 kilometers, the agency said in its official website. The quake which lasted for 5 to 10 seconds was felt by people living not only in Karangasem but also in other parts of Bali including Gianyar, Denpasar, Klungkung, Bangli and Badung The quake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, and there was no immediate report of casualties or material damage.

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“From the beginning, I have disagreed with the concept of spiritual tourism in Karangasem.

Tourism has the purpose of leisure, while spirituality has the purpose of worship. This is the result of my contemplation at Gumang Temple.

Tourism in Bali had become increasingly outrageous. If we do not

seriously maintain our sanctums, it will result in serious problems. A lot of evidence of this has already emerged and we are well aware of it”, stressed Jro Suyasa.

Deputy Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Artha Dipa recently responded to this polemic by saying that the local government can certainly not make any immediate decisions on the matter. There needs to be coordination with relevant agencies. For the time being Bali’s

spatial regulations still regards Besakih Temple and Mount Agung as tourist attractions.

If this debate is to be seriously considered then there is the possibility that the regional regulations governing Besakih Temple as a tourist attraction will have to be reviewed. In order to appease all parties, said Deputy Regent Dipta, there needs to be clearer guidelines about what can and cannot be done in the area of Besakih Temple and Mount Agung. (kmb31)

Chancelle is one of thousands of so-called returnees living in Danamaja, a muddy site in southern Chad that hosts displaced people who claim to have family roots in the country but lack paperwork to prove their nationality.

For centuries, trading and cattle herding families freely criss-crossed the international border drawn up by European colonialists, which was little more than a line on a map.

When the war erupted in CAR, widespread violence and ethnic killings made life there impossible for many.

Chad responded by sending planes in 2013 to rescue fleeing Muslim returnees from CAR - which has produced at least seven waves of mass exodus since 2003.

About 70,000 officially recognised refugees from CAR live in 20plus villages and six camps across southern Chad, often complaining of shortages of food and medicine.

There are a similar number of returnees, the United Nations (U.N.) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says.

Most do not have any papers to prove their existence. This means they are not entitled to the same basic assistance as refugees who fled the same war, sometimes even the same town.

Chancelle, who has never been to school, said even her food ration card was washed away by the rains months ago, and getting a replacement has proven impossible.

The young mother has no one to support her or her 2-year-old child, whose father left Danamaja - a remote strip of land some 600 km south of the Chadian capital - without a trace.

“I stay because I don’t have a choice,” she said. “I’ll put up with it until I can’t take it anymore.” (rtr)

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 is considered moderate and capable of causing considerable damage.

At 02.17 a.m. local time on Thursda, another earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale rocked Pesawaran district, Lampun province. The epicenter of the quakee was in the sea some 150 kilometers southwest of Pesawaran at a depth of 10 kilometers, the agency said in its official website. (ant)

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Indonesia plans automated system to flag contentious Internet material

JAKARTA - Indonesia plans to launch in January a new automated system using 44 servers to help block websites displaying content such as pornography or extremist ideology, a communications ministry official said on Wednesday.

The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation has stepped up scrutiny of online content following a surge of hoax stories and hate speech, as well as a controversial anti-pornography law pushed by Islamist parties.

The so-called “crawling system” searches internet content and issues alerts when inappropriate material is found, Semuel Pangerapan, a director general at the communications and informatics ministry, told reporters.

The ministry would immediately block foreign-owned sites carrying such content, but applications such as messaging services would receive warnings first, he added.

This week, Indonesia threatened to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service because of obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images provided by third parties on the service. Tenor Inc, one of the GIF providers for WhatsApp, has been blocked in Indonesia.

The company has “implemented a fix” for the issue, a Tenor spokeswoman said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Pangerapan said the ministry would monitor Tenor’s filter for the next few days before it lifts the ban.

Next week, the communications ministry will summon executives from other internet-based companies, such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and social media operator Twitter , he added. The ministry would discuss content Indonesia does not allow to be circulated, he said.

Ministry data showed that Indonesia had blocked around 780,000 websites by the end of September, mostly those with pornographic content. Other blocked sites displayed material featuring violence, gambling and radicalism. The government has also asked the public to report obscene online content.

“People need to be active to flag inappropriate content, not only on WhatsApp but also on Facebook and Twitter,” Pangerapan said. (rtr)

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Rise of the machines: Philippine outsourcing industry braces for AI MANILA - The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centres in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23 billion sector. AI-powered translators could dilute the biggest advantage the Philippines has, the wide use of English, an industry meeting was told this week. Other AI applications could take over process-driven jobs.

The Philippines’ business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is an economic lifeline for the Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people.

It employs about 1.15 million people and, along with remittances from overseas workers, remains one of the top two earners of foreign exchange.

“I don’t think our excellent command of spoken English is going to really be a protection five, 10 years from now. It really will not matter,” said Rajneesh Tiwary, chief delivery officer at Sutherland Global Services.

The Philippines, which was an American colony in the first half of the 20th century, overtook India in 2011 with the largest number of voice-based BPO services in the world. “There’s definitely reasons to be concerned because technology may be able to replace some of what could happen in voice,” Eric Simonson, managing partner of research at Everest Group, a management consulting and research firm, told Reuters.AI, which combs through large troves of raw data to predict outcomes and recognise patterns, is expected to replace 40,000 to 50,000 “low-skilled” or process-driven BPO jobs in the next five years, said Rey Untal, president and chief executive officer of the IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP).

Contact centres make up four-fifths of the Philippines’ total BPO industry, which accounts for 12.6 percent of the

global market for BPO, according to IBPAP. BPO firms in the Philippines list Citibank, JPMorgan, Verizon, Convergys and Genpact <G. n> among their clients. While the United States remain the biggest customers for the industry, demand for BPO services from Europe, Australia and New Zealand is also growing.

The Philippines’ share of the global outsourcing pie, estimated to reach about $250 billion by 2022, is forecast by the industry to reach 15 percent by that year. To get there however, the Southeast Asian nation must prove to the world it has more to offer than just a pool of English-speaking talent.

BPO executives said the country has to take on high-value outsourcing jobs in research and analytics and turn the headwinds from Artificial Intelligence into an opportunity.

The key to stay relevant and ahead of the competition, they said, is to ensure workers are trained in areas like data analytics, machine learning and data mining. “You will see in the next few years more automation coming in the way we do things in IT and BPO industry, robotic processing, the use of chat bots,” Luis Pineda, president of IBM Philippines, told Reuters.

“If we are ahead of the game, we will be at an advantage where people will give us more work, because we are cheaper and productive,” Pineda said. IBM Philippines divested its voice business in 2013.

IBPAP has projected a rise in the number of mid- and high-skilled jobs or those that require abstract thinking and specialised expertise which should bring overall headcount in the BPO sector to 1.8 million by 2022. Augmenting the English language skills of the Philippines with technology will be a “game changer,” said Untal, the head of the association. “Who else can compete with us?”(rtr)

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Tropical fruit trade set to reach new peak in 2017 - UN FAO

ROME - Global trade in avocados, mangos, pineapple and papaya is set to reach a new peak in 2017 though climate change threatens the output of tropical fruit in many growing regions, the United Nations food agency (FAO) said on Thursday.

Exports of the four main tropical fruits have been growing faster than all other internationally traded food commodities, as consumers in the United States, Europe and now parts of Asia have developed a taste for crops that are still mainly grown for subsistence in developing countries.

Rising incomes and perceived health benefits are fuelling demand for “super fruits”, which are now among the priciest food commodities, FAO said in a biannual report on global food markets.

In 2017, producers including Mexico, Costa Rica and India are set to ship some 7 million tonnes, 5.2 percent more than last year, with a global export value of around $10 billion.

“Trade prospects overall would have been higher, had it not been for adverse weather conditions in the leading exporting countries,” FAO analyst Sabine Altendorf said in the report.

Over the past two years, drought

has disrupted harvests of mangoes in Asia, South America and Africa, papaya in some regions of South America, and avocados in southern Africa.

Hurricanes have battered the Dominican Republic, up until now the world’s second-largest avocado producer, prompting FAO to predict a 35 percent drop in this year’s harvest from 2016.

The Mexican avocado trade, already facing uncertainty in light of treaty re-negotiation with the United States, was hit further by bad weather. Output growth in the world’s largest producer is projected to fall to 1 percent this year, versus 5.5 percent average annual growth between 2007 and 2016.

“The threat of climate change and associated extreme weather events looms heavily over the sector, given that tropical zones have acute vulnerability to the phenomenon,” Altendorf said.

Most of the world’s tropical fruit is grown on farms measuring less

than five hectares. Only 5 percent of what is grown is exported, with most of it representing a vital source of nutrition and income generated locally.

But FAO said shifts in consumption as people get richer are likely to boost the traded share, underpinned by freer trade, better market access and technological advances which could lead to lower prices and wider distribution.

Affluent consumers in China are particularly keen on the novelty and exclusiveness associated with tropical fruits. This has led demand for pineapples to outstrip domestic production, and shipments of avocados to grow an estimated 124 percent annually since 2013, with some 44,000 tonnes arriving this year.

Lured by high market prices, Chinese growers have also started to grow more avocados for consumption at home, FAO said. The first harvest on the new plantations is due in autumn 2017.(rtr)

After celebrating the Galungan Day, the victory of dharma against adharma or the victory of Jayatiga against Kalatiga, the Hindu community in Bali then celebrates Kuningan falling on the Saniscara Kliwon Kuningan or Saturday (Nov. 11). The Kuningan festival begins with a ritual ceremony by slaughtering animals for offerings.

Dr. Ketut Sumadi, a lecturer at the IHDN Denpasar, said that before celebrating Kuningan, the Hindu community in Bali holds a ceremony named Pemacekan Agung on Monday after Galungan and before Kuningan. This holy day of pemacekan agung means that devotees may not be careless, must always attempt that jaya tiga is always strong within. Pemacekan Agung means that human should be really a strong person in order to be able to carry out activities, according to the tasks and obligation.

The day before Kuningan, Hindus celebrate Penampahan Kuningan whose procession is the same as Galungan, namely starting to do self-purification, so that it is symbolized with animal (pigs or chickens) slaughtering. “It means to increase again self-awareness so as not to be tease by the kala tiga.

Therefore, one needs to strengthen

himself to overcome the temptations of life. Philosophically, when doing self-contemplation we increase self-consciousness by denuding ourselves. Sadripu as the six internal enemies can sometimes make us forget,” he explained.

Sumadi asserted that on Kuningan Day the ancestors and deities come down to earth as well as bestow prosperity for humanity.

On that account, the characteristic offerings presented are yellow rice coming with tamiang, ter (arrow) and endongan. They symbolize the weapons as self-protection for the next life based on the holy and useful knowledge.

On Kuningan, all worships must be completed before midday because it is the culmination of understanding that means never to stop before reaching the peak. After that, it just continues. It is the reason why the Hindus offer yellow obla-

tions symbolizing the summit of happiness, the struggle of life that must be successful. Meanwhile, the worship is dedicated to Mahadev as the god of happiness.

On the feast of Kuningan, explained Dr. Sumadi, mankind has achieved happiness and always increases the creativity and innovation. Moreover, Bali as a world’s tourist destination makes people more creative. “During the festivities, we seem to rejoice, marked with cultural performance such as ngelawang or street show.

That’s why, in the past each hamlet had barong bangkung art troupe as well as other arts,” he said.

The next day, Sunday (Nov. 12) is usually celebrated with tirtayatra or pilgrimage the increase faith and devotion to God Almighty. On that account, Hindu devotees do worship to temples. It is also resumed with social visit to relatives and friends. (kmb)

Sometimes living in the city is hard to find jogging track. However, if you happen to stay and spend holiday in Denpasar, simply come to Lumintang City Park located on Jalan Mulawarman, Dauh Puri Kaja village, Denpasar. Jogging activity cannot only be done in the morning, but also at night. The green and shady square has been equipped with decorative lights for people wishing to exercise at night.

The park area is surrounded by footpath as a place for jogging. The atmosphere of exercise will be more comfortable because while nourishing the body, you can also enjoy the beauty and cleanliness of the night air downtown. You can also refresh your mind by watching the beauty of dancing fountain. When coming with children, you can take advantage of various games available in the middle of the square.

Lumintang City Park is a relaxing place commonly used by residents of Denpasar to exercise and play. Every corner of the path or under shady tree has been equipped with a casual seat accompanied by hundreds of friendly pigeons during the day. Visitors can take advantage of the benches as a place to read a book or just to chat. “We are often having an exercise here,” said Agus, a resident of Denpasar originating from Tabanan.

Especially for children, there are various game facilities, such as

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slide, swing, seesaw and others in the east park area. Various games are usually crowded in the afternoon, while special sport games for adults are situated in the northern part of the park. In the middle of the park, there is a well-known pond with lights and fountain show. The space next to the pool is often used to have yoga exercise.

This dancing fountain can be enjoyed every day from 19:00 to 21:00. The fountain will be turned on after the nightfall. Meanwhile, on the corner (southeast) of the park, there is a stage to make cultural performance every Saturday and Sunday. The activity will be filled by pre-school, kindergarten to elementary school students in the city of Denpasar.

Well, in the south of the park there is wide acreage equipped with Denpasar Traffic Park. Here, visitors can know and learn various traffic signs in the city of Denpasar.

“In nourishing people, Denpasar municipality has brought many new innovations in this city, like providing this free sport facility,” explained Ayu Suandewi with her children when exercising at this park.

So, she continued that when people having no time to exercise in the morning because of busy works can do it by jogging at night. Moreover, on particular days there will be cultural performances. (kmb)

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Dewi arrested, Bali Police warn Mang Jangol DENPASAR — Having been hunted for three days and put into wanted list, police finally managed to arrest the wife of Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol, Ni Luh Ratna Dewi, 37. The arrest was delivered by Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Peter Reinhard Golose, on Tuesday (Nov. 7). However, he was reluctant to specify the location of the arrest of Mang Jangol’s first wife.

“Simply ask directly to Chief of Denpasar Police. Right now, there are only two wanted suspect we are hunting,” he said.

According to him, Mang Jangol is dangerous because he has illegal firearm. Moreover, he has been a drug dealer. “I frequently affirm if it is dangerous and resists, it must be cracked down on firmly, no more compromises,” said Golose.

To track the whereabouts of Mang Jangol and his elder brother, Wayan Kembar, Golose asked for help of all headmen when gathered in Lembah Pujian, Denpasar. “I ask for their assistance if they know the location of the hunted suspect and immediately inform us,” he said.

Until now, the special team is still hunting the two brothers put into wanted list, Wayan Sunada aka Wayan Kembar and Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol. Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, has issued the second warning in order they can immediately surrender.

“If they come well, they will be treated well. If they bring firearm, we will take firm action against them. I have ordered all the members not to hesitate,” said this police chief from Manado.

The crime scene investigation at the home of Mang Jangol on Jalan Pulau Batanta, Denpasar, found illegal firearm and narcotics belonging to crystal meth. “Moreover,

the perpetrators are affected by the addictive substances contained in the narcotics. I have urged to immediately surrender. Otherwise, they will face us,” said Golose.

In the meantime, Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, said that Dewi was arrested at Poh Santen village area, Jembrana, on Friday morning. Furthermore, this Mang Jangol’s first wife was taken to Denpasar Police. “So far, it is still under investigation and development. We are asking for 3x24 hours,” he said.

According to a source, the suspect Dewi was arrested at her home. Until Tuesday afternoon, Dewi was still undergoing examination and confronted in the room of Chief of Denpasar Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Wayan Arta Ariawan.

Previously, various attempts had been made to arrest Deputy Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives, Jro Gede Komang Swastika aka Mang Jangol by Denpasar Police. Moreover, Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, has established a special team made up of members of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Investigation Unit, Directorate of Narcotic Investigation of Bali Police and CTOC Taskforce of Bali Police.

He ordered to take firm action in measurable steps namely by shooting if resisting. Moreover, the perpetrator has a firearm. His institution has made coordination with Ngurah Rai Airport authorities to do the blocking.

Komang Swastika has been put into the wanted list since November 4, including his first wife Ni Luh Ratna Dewi and his elder brother Wayan Sunada aka Wayan Kembar.

In addition, Mang Jangol is also blocked because he has ever gone abroad. (kmb36)

Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Peter Reinhard Golose

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This handout picture taken and received on October 31, 2017 by Nick McKim, Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania, shows refugees gesturing inside the Manus detention camp in Papua New Guinea on the day of the camp’s expected closure.

Hundreds of “scared” refugees are refusing to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea that is due to close on October 31, with fears they could be forcibly removed by authorities.

Papua New Guinea starts dismantling detention camp, threatens forcible evict of asylum seekers Nick McKim / AFP

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Fearing that the refugee camps are being abused, local residents have asked for the tents to be dismantled.

Fear of being used for immoral acts, refugee tents should be dismantled

AMLAPURA — Refugees in Ulakan Square, Manggis subdistrict, have returned home. All the refugee tents are already empty. Fearing that the refugee camps are being abused, local residents have asked for the tents to be dismantled.

Headman of Ulakan, Nengah Dipta, when contacted on Wednesday (Nov. 8) said that after being left by refugees he is confused whether the tents should be dismantled or not. There has been no notice or follow-up instruction from the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) or Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in the taskforce.

“I am alone still confused,” said Nengah Dipta.

Now, he is making coordination with related parties whether it is dismantled or not because the volcanic activity of Mount Agung is also still fluctuating. However, according to him, the refugee tents should be dismantled. He is worried if the refugee camp will be abused by male strippers or teenagers in love. When having been left by refugees, it is impossible to do surveillance again in the location at night. “Indeed it does not happen

yet, but we just anticipate it. Hopefully, the tents will not be used for immoral acts,” he said.

Ulakan Square itself is not longer occupied by refugees because all the refugees have gone home.

Moreover, a group of refugee consisting of 31 families from Bhuana Giri village has also asked to return home by force on November 6.

Actually, most areas of Bhuana Giri belong to disaster-prone areas (KRB) III as located in the radius of 6 km and sectoral expansion of 7.5 km. They hurried home by riding truck. Actually, the truck was booked to transport residents from outside the radius of 6 km and sectoral radius 7.5 km.

As a headman, Nengah Dipta together with his own village apparatus admitted to be unable to prohibit them. Moreover, they returned home without saying goodbye. Seeing this situation, he with chief of Mangosteen police took

the initiative to meet the headman of Bhuana Giri, Nengah Mudu. He wanted to clarify that Bhuana Giri villagers returned home by force, not under direction of Ulakan village apparatus. This will be made a statement, so that in the future the Ulakan village will not be blamed as recipient of the refugees.

Currently, there remain 65 villagers of Bhuana Giri surviving at Ulakan village and are directed to the office of local headman in order to facilitate the guarding and services of volunteers. Logistics are also available and enough for the next two weeks.

Earlier, Ulakan village accommodated about 1,424 refugees. A total of 465 people formerly occupied the Ulakan Square, while the rest is directed to some local hamlet halls. Since the alert level of Gunung Agung was decreased to watch, they returned home in some departures. (kmb31)

SYDNEY - Papua New Guinea began dismantling a shuttered Australian-run immigration detention centre on Thursday and warned it will use force if necessary to evict nearly 600 men if they refuse to leave within two days, according to a notice posted at the camp.

The asylum seekers have barricaded themselves inside the Manus island centre for the past nine days, defying attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp in a standoff the United Nations describes as a “looming humanitarian crisis”.

The men fear violent reprisals from the Manus island community if they move from the camp to three transit centres, pending possible resettlement to the United States.

The camp was closed on Oct. 31 and water and power have been cut off.

“You may become very sick under these conditions of overflowing sewerage, heaps of rubbish, no clean running water, no electricity and no food,” Papua New Guinea’s Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority said in a two-page notice reviewed by Reuters.

“You are therefore instructed to vacate this compound immediately...if necessary, force may be used to relocate those who refuse to move voluntarily for your own sake.”

The men inside the camp, who include asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Paki-

stan, Sri Lanka, and Syria, said they will continue to defy attempts to shut the camp.

They said they had exhausted their food supplies and were relying on rainwater to drink. Several of the men told Reuters that nearly 100 of them had fallen sick.

The notice added that demolition of fences would begin on Thursday.

Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran who has been detained on Manus island for more than four years, said on Twitter that workers had begun that task.

“The refugees are watching them fearfully...(they) are extremely scared by immigration threat but still saying we will not leave this prison camp for another prison camp,” he said.

“Using force against ppl who’ve been suffering nearly 5yrs is no solution. If you’re going to solve this problem send us to safe third country.”

Australia has used the Manus island centre, and another on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, to detain asylum seekers who try to reach its shores by boat. It says boat arrivals will never enter Aus-

tralia, even if they are found to be refugees, as this would encourage people smugglers in Asia.

Papua New Guinea’s High Court ruled last year that the Manus centre, first opened in 2001, was illegal and the camp closed on Oct. 31, when Australian-funded security staff withdrew.

Thursday’s PNG government notice said the camp will soon revert to the control of the nation’s military and anyone there unlawfully will be liable for arrest. Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on Wednesday said “appropriate means” would be used to apprehend those responsible for “disruption”.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Thursday that the situation was “unacceptable...but the government won’t be backing down”.

The PNG Supreme Court rejected an application by one of the men to restore services on Tuesday, despite pleas from the United Nations to make food, water, medical supplies and power available. Lawyers for the asylum seekers are due to lodge an appeal against later on Thursday. (rtr)

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In Beijing, Trump presses China on North Korea and trade

BEIJING - U.S. President Donald Trump pressed China to do more on the North Korean nuclear issue on Thursday and said bilateral trade had been unfair to the United States, but praised President Xi Jinping’s pledge that China would be more open to foreign firms.

On North Korea, Trump said “China can fix this problem quickly and easily”, urging Beijing to cut financial links with North Korea and also calling on Russia to help.

Trump was speaking alongside Xi in the Chinese capital to announce the signing of about $250 billion in commercial deals between U.S. and Chinese firms, a display that some in the U.S. business community worry detracts from tackling deep-seated complaints about market access in China. Xi said the Chinese economy would become increasingly open and transparent to foreign firms, including those from the United States, and welcomed U.S. companies to participate in his ambitious “Belt and Road” infrastructure-led initiative.

Trump made clear that he blamed his predecessors, not China, for the trade imbalance, and repeatedly praised Xi, calling him “a very special man”.

“But we will make it fair and it will be tremendous for both of us,” Trump said.

Xi smiled widely when Trump said he does not blame China for the deficit and also when Trump said Xi gets things done.

“Of course there are some frictions, but on the basis of win-win cooperation and fair competition we hope we can solve all these issues in a frank and consultative way,” Xi said.

“Keeping opening up is our longterm strategy. We will never narrow or close our doors. We will further widen them,” he said. China would

also offer a more fair and transparent environment for foreign firms, including U.S. ones, Xi said.

MODEST PROGRESS Trump is pressing China to tighten the screws further on North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons. At least modest progress is hoped for, although there are no immediate signs of a major breakthrough, a U.S. official said earlier.

Referring to Xi, Trump said: “I do believe there’s a solution to that, as do you.”

Xi reiterated that China would strive for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula but offered no hint that China would change tack on North Korea, with which it fought side-by-side in the 1950-53 Korean war against U.S.-led forces.

“We are devoted to reaching a resolution to the Korean peninsula issue through dialogue and consultations,” Xi said.

In a show of the importance China puts on Trump’s first official visit, Thursday’s welcoming ceremony outside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People overlooking Tiananmen Square was broadcast live on state television - unprecedented treatment for a visiting leader.

Earlier on Thursday, Xi said he had a deep exchange of views with Trump and reached consensus on numerous issues of mutual concern.

“For China, cooperation is the only real choice, only win-win can lead to an even better future,” he said.

Xi said China and the United States strengthened high-level dialogue on all fronts over the past year and boosted coordination on major international issues, such as the Korean peninsula and Afghanistan.

“Relations between China and the United States are now on a new historical starting point,” Xi said. (rtr)

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U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Li Keqiang meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.

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LONDON - British luxury brand Burberry will shift further up-market by focusing on leather goods and fashion and cutting sales to non-luxury stores, initially in the United States, under a plan by new Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti.

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A model presents a creation at the Burberry Spring/Summer 2018 show at London Fashion Week in London, Britain September 16, 2017.

WEARING a pair is akin to walking on marshmallows. Their slinky appearance has drawn comparisons to scuba shoes.

But these aren’t part of Aqualung’s current stock on Deepbluedive.com. We’re talking about Balenciaga’s Speed trainers – slapping their way down pavements near you this autumn.

Is this the world’s most popular trainer?

The Speed debuted in November 2016 and quickly became a hit, in part thanks to serious plugs from a clutch of KardashianJenners and a swagger of rappers (Gucci Mane, Bryson Tiller, Future). It’s limited

Meet the shoe of 2017

edition, endlessly echt iterations with stores such as Colette certainly helped fuel buzz for a brand that’s currently at the top of its game. But ultimately: normal dudes are wearing these trainers because – whisper it – they’re insanely comfortable. Twelve months on, and retailing for £495, the ribbed double-knit jersey socks with a terry towelling lining and a wavy rubber sole have sold out worldwide. We’re calling it.

2017 is the year of the Speed.

Retailers can’t keep them in stock. “The Speed trainer has been an incredible success for us,” a spokesperson from Matches-

fashion.com reports. “During our second restock, in the summer, we completely sold out in one hour to a high volume of customers who had signed up to put them on their wish lists [this features alerts the customer when the item is back in stock].

Every time we upload further stock of this style, it sells out immediately. Our next delivery is due between now and January, and for spring/summer 2018, we don’t see the demand falling.” It’s a similarly explosive story at Mytheresa.com. “It doesn’t matter what size or colour, these sneakers sell out within a day. Everybody wants them. At the

The company said last week that Christopher Bailey, the designer who turned Burberry into a global label, would leave next year.

“By re-energising our product and customer experience to establish our position firmly in luxury, we will play in the most rewarding, enduring segment of the market,” Gobbetti said.

Gobbetti unveiled the plan alongside Burberry’s first-half results, which saw revenue rise by an underlying 4 percent to 1.26 billion pounds ($1.66 billion), with comparable sales also up a better-than-expected 4 percent.

Adjusted operating profit rose 17 percent to 185 million pounds, it said, beating the market forecast of 167 million pounds. (rtr)

moment this is the fastest-selling sneaker,” its buying team reports. Ditto Stylebop.

“We’ve released stock of the black Speed trainers twice in the past few months, and both times it sold out on the day of release,” a Stylebop representative said over email.

“The burgundy style sold out in 48 hours and the white colour way tends to sell out, but at a slower pace. It’s been the fastestselling shoe for us this season – although it’s facing stiff competition from the Balenciaga Triple S trainers, which sold out in 30 minutes when we released them last week.”

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To minimize congestion at Jimbaran-Udayana University Campus intersection, the government through the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII will do widening.

To minimize congestion, Jimbaran intersection to be expanded

MANGUPURA — Traffic condition along Jimbaran intersection to Nusa Dua and Udayana University campus is always crowded. Moreover, at certain hours, long queues are always visible at the location.

To minimize congestion at Jimbaran-Udayana University Campus intersection, the government through the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII will do widening.

According to the Commitment Making Official (PPK) of the National Road Authority (BBPJN) VIII, I Nyoman Yasmara, the road widening at Jimbaran intersection is indeed in a single package with the Ngurah Rai underpass project.

For Jimbaran intersection, it is expected to be commenced in February next year.

“This is in a single package with the workmanship of the Ngurah Rai monument underpass, with a total contract value of IDR 168 billion,” he said on Monday (Nov. 6).

He said that from Denpasar direction to Nusa Dua formerly having two lanes will be added one more. So, the access of vehicles from Denpasar to Nusa Dua is not hindered by vehicles stopping at the traffic light to Udayana University. “For the workmanship, the widening will be done on the right side of approximately two meters, so when the new lane is being created the road median will also be shifted,” he said.

Yasmara confessed there will be land acquisition owned by residents covering 4,900 square meters for the widening located on the right side from Denpasar direction, precisely near Pizza Hut. There sit some lands and houses belonging to four owners that will be given compensation. Thus, the total width will become 2 meters with a length of 200 meters.

“Hopefully, the entire land acquisition along with the Ngurah Rai monument intersection can be completed by the end of November,” he hoped.

He disclosed that other than the land properties of community, there are also some utilities owned by PLN getting affected. To that end, PLN is ready to relocate the utility position simultaneously with the project workmanship. (kmb23)

Being drunk, departure of a Russian passenger canceled MANGUPURA — Departure of a passenger flying Qatar Airways with flight number QR-965 to Doha was forced to be cancelled on Tuesday (Nov. 7). Such cancellation happened because the passenger on behalf of Pavel Plakhutin from Russia was in drunken condition while in boarding Gate 2 of International Departure Terminal.

Chronology of the cancellation is as follows: at 10:00, Pavel Plakhutin posing a Qatar Airways passenger was taken by the staff and security guard of Gapura Angkasa due to drunkenness.

This prospective passenger was taken out of boarding Gate 2 via

Screening Check Point (SCP-2) of International Departure Terminal to the second floor of Qatar Airways Office for further flight ticket reservation. After that, the prospective passenger was taken out from Ngurah Rai Airport by using taxi.

A day earlier, an Indian citizen was also secured by the aviation security of Ngurah Rai Airport on Monday (Nov. 6). At the same location, at the Screening Check Point 2 of International Departure Terminal of Ngurah Rai Airport, the passenger said “She looks bomb.” As a result, the aviation security officer, who at that time heard the remark, immediately reported the incident

to the squad leader of aviation security of the Angkasa Pura 1.

When confirmed on Tuesday (Nov. 7), Herson as the Head of Airport Authority for Region IV, First Class Ngurah Rai Denpasar, said the passenger on behalf of Shyamsukha Aditya from India was scheduled to travel by AirAsia aircraft with flight number QZ510. Then, at the time for luggage checking for Indian passenger entourage, at the Screening Check Points (SCP 2) of International Departure Terminal, one of the entourages said vaguely about bomb.

Herson continued that aviation security officer, Gede Wedanta

Brahmadwija, who heard the saying, asked again, what was the contents of his friend’s bag. Apparently, the passenger repeated the words “She Looks Bomb” while pointing to one of the female passengers. “As a result of the passenger’s remarks, the aviation security officers immediately secured and took him to the Security Team Leader on third floor of the International Departure Terminal for further details,” he said.

He revealed that Shyamsukha has got assistance from Consul General of India and is still being deepened. According to Herson, in principle, he was just joking.

Currently, he is still in deepening

process, if indeed there is an indication to actually do that, he will continue to be examined. “Currently, he is still being accompanied

by Consulate General of India. If it is only a joke, he will be released on the guarantee from the Indian Consulate General,” he said.

Nevertheless, with this security measure, his institution would like to give certainty and comfort to other passengers. Although joking, it can result in worries for other passengers. On that account, if there are passengers committing such an act, it should be followed up immediately so as not to repeat similar things. (kmb32)

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Kadin optimistic that Bali’s economy can improve

Everyone must work together though

DENPASAR - IN the face of the difficult current economic situation, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Bali invited everyone to remain optimistic as there is still over a month let in the year to improve Bali’s economic growth. “If we work together, we can improve the economy. Kadin is optimistic because we are working together with all tourism stakeholders and others to develop the economy”, said A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, Chairman of Kadin Bali, on Wednesday (Nov. 8).

Kadin is focused on boosting Small Medium Enterprise (UKM) and Small Medium Industry (IKM) to drive Bali’s economy. “Our SMEs have to be revived.

This is a great opportunity for Kadin to work with the government to boost SME businesses” he emphasized.

Kadin is therefor also looking for new export markets.

“We are looking for export markets that are softer, easier and more varied”, he said.

The business sector will automatically be strengthened with the rolling out of credit. “If there is a business project it will be financed by the banks, but without such projects there is no need for this, what is there to finance? Every entrepreneur in Bali will be financed by the bank and if they have to guarantor, we will ask Bali Mandara (Jamkrida) to play this role”, he explained.

Wiraputra said that he is optimistic because without such optimism nothing will move, the economy will remain dormant and the business sector will face more difficulties. Along with people’s weakened spending power, several retail outlets across the country have shut down. This however has not had a huge impact on Bali, he said. Shopping malls in Bali remain crowded as consumers here still prefer to buy their goods in person rather than order them online. This is evidenced by the crowds of people who gather outside malls in Denpasar even before they open. Kadin will also encourage the 70- 80 percent of the budget by yearend. “ By work together, I think that the tenders for budgets

can be absorbed in the next week or month”, he said.

Economic observer, Viraguna Bagoes Oka, assess Bali’s economic slowdown to be due to several factors including global, national and regional economic conditions related to unprecedented shifts in consumer spending from goods to leisure activities. In addition, the economic slowdown is also influenced by the price of property and fixed assets in Bali that have been marked by over-pricing for the last 3-4 years. Oka added that this has been caused by the oversupply generated by speculative fever.

Currently, with the tightening of liquidity (money) in the sluggish national economy, Bali is seeing opposite conditions with oversupplies in the property sector as a result of the drop in people spending power.

Businesses are therefor are taking strategic measures to maintain sufficient liquidity. “ Entrepreneurs are keeping an eye on things as they look to the future”, he said.

Many businesses are also consolidating their assets and focusing on efficiency so that their performance can remain optimal . Sure measures include delaying expansion and keeping a close eye on exports.

Business players in the banking/finance sector as the spearhead in of Bali’s economic growth are also intensively re-arranging their loan or credit portfolios in order to avoid risks and increases in non-performance loans (NPL). This also contributes to the slow down in Bali’s economic growth, he explained. (kmb42)

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MANGUPURA - Currently, Bali has enormous potential as a cargo transit lane. The amount of cargo running through Singapore is on the decline as increasing amounts of cargo are shipped through Ngurah Rai airport. Bali therfore needs to prepare industrial refrigeration so that goods being shipped around the world can more easily utilize Ngurah Rai airport, said the Head Airport Authority, Herson, on Wednesday (Nov. 8).

Currently cargo transit at Ngurah Rai Airport has limited capacity, however, Herson hopes that international cargo shipments will be facilitated by relevant authorities. For the time being there are for example of cargo shipments from Australia to Saudi Arabia. As there are currently no direct flights between these two countries, cargo shipments transit through Bali. “ This is an opportunity for us that requires the preparation of a cargo warehouse for such transits” said Herson.

General Manager of PT. Angkasa Pura I, Ngurah Rai International Airport, Yanus Suprayogi, said that the construction of such cargo warehouse is scehduled to start next year.

The warehouse will utilize Air Paradise’s former cargo building. “Obviously, we will take advantage of the existing building and see how things develop. If need be will will create a larger warehouse”, said Yanus during celebrations on Wednesday (Nov. 8) for Ngurah Rai Airport having been awarded ‘Third Best Airport in the World’ by the Airport Council International (ACI) in the category of 15-25 million passenger per year airports. Ngurah Rai Airport scored 4.93 out of 5 for

Airport Service Quality (ASQ).

“ACI assessed the quality of services at Ngurah Rai Airport for one year. There are 33 assessment indicators, ranging from airport facilities, accessibility both inside and outside the airport, airport security, arrival processes, checkin processes, shopping facilities and many to other criteria”, said Yanus.

Other planned changes to the airport include the expansion to the apron, the removal of the VIP building and the addition of 40 check-in counters. Gradually, PT. Angkasa Pura I, also plans to gradually develop the concept of ‘airport city’ so that Ngurah Rai airport can meet all the needs of passengers within the airport.

Yanus explained that the nearly 10 percent increase in the number of passengers flying through Ngruah Rai Airport serves to drive PT. Angkasa Pura to continuously improve their facilities and services.. “As of October, the number of passengers this year had reached 18.16 million -who were mostly international passengers. This means that profiling and passengers’ needs are increasingly diverse” said Yanus.

The concept of ‘airport’ is currently undergoing rapid changes.

“In the past, airports were simply a place for aircrafts to depart and land, but in the past few years they have become very public service oriented. Airpot operators have to focus on the quality of services offered. We are continuously to do this”, said Yanus, adding that airports around the world -Indonesia included, are now equipped with supporting facilities such as exclusive shopping areas, hotels or inns, as well as business areas and entertainment facilities. (kmb23)

Docking site at PPN Pengambengan area taken over project. During a recent meeting with the Bali and Jembrana chapters of the Indonesian Fishermen’s Association, they expressed their dilemma. “We are forced to look for shallow waters to repair our boats, where else are we suppose to go?”, queried a local boat owner named Sakirin.

The repairing of the fishermen’s boats is considered to be disruptive to the port but the fishermen were also asked to learn

special boat repair skills here and the only place to do that is near where the construction projects are underway. The fishermen find themselves sandwiched between the construction of a cold storage project worth IDR 7 billion and and Ice Flake Machine project worth IDR 29 billion. There is also a groin being installed and the the nearby pond is being dredged.

Similar complaints were also

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Bali could potentially become major cargo transit lane

Fishermen complain NEGARA - Fishermen who dock their boats at the Nusantara Fishery Port (PPN) at Pengambengan are feeling squeezed out by the the current construction projects taking place there and recently complained about the lack of space for them to make repairs to their boats.

Even though many fishermen’s boats were still being repaired, they were asked to move their boats away form the PPN expansion

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delivered by Dikin, another fisherman at Pengambengan. The fishermen, he said have been asked to move because of the project activities but there is nowhere else for them to repair their boats. The location currently being used by the fishermen is the most strategic for improvement because the water there is shallow. He added that the fishermen expect the harbour to provide an alternative place for them if they

want them to move.

In response to such complaints, representative of PPN Pengambengan, Ni Ketut Erlina E, said the request that fishermen move is for the safety of the fishermen as there is a project in progress around the location. Furthermore the port is meant to function a a place for loading and unloading not for docking. “ We have asked them to move for the sake of their own safety”, she said. (kmb26)

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Pokemon Go’s Niantic taps ‘Harry Potter’ magic for new AR game LOS ANGELES - Fantastic beasts, wizard adventures and magic spells will come to life in a new “Harry Potter” augmented reality mobile game from Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, the companies said on Wednesday.

“Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” will bring author J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World to mobile phones and use augmented reality (AR) to create a real-world scavenger hunt, allow players to cast spells, find artifacts, team up and encounter magical beasts and characters from the popular book series.

The game’s use of real locations is similar to Niantic and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Pokemon Go, which became the first mass market adoption of AR in July 2016 and allows players to “catch” animated characters that appeared in their real surroundings.

No release date was given for the “Harry Potter” game, but Niantic and Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros said more details would be available next year.

Warner Bros Pictures, which produced the $7.7 billion-grossing “Harry Potter” film franchise, will release “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2” in November 2018, the second installment in a new series of films that expand the world Rowling created in her Potter franchise. (rtr)

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Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe attend the WSJ. Magazine 2017 Innovator Awards at MOMA on November 1, 2017 in New York City.

Apple orders Witherspoon, Aniston drama in TV push

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc has ordered two seasons of a dramatic series that stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and looks at the lives of people working on a morning television show, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

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Fans dressed as Harry Potter participate in an event attempting to beat the previous Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter, in Monterrey, Mexico November 5, 2017.

The series is among the first projects the iPhone maker has acquired for its plunge into original television programming, where it aims to compete with established players such as Netflix Inc and Time Warner Inc’s HBO. The untitled project taps top-level Hollywood talent at a time when deep-pocketed technology companies are jockeying with traditional networks to land A-list stars.

It marks Aniston’s first TV show since her famous role on the hit

comedy “Friends” ended in 2004.

Witherspoon, who appeared on “Friends” as Aniston’s younger sister, recently starred in and served as a producer of the Emmy-winning HBO series “Big Little Lies.”

Apple spokeswoman Rita Cooper Lee also confirmed the company had ordered a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s science fiction anthology series “Amazing Stories.” News of a potential deal for the Spielberg show had emerged in October.

It is unclear when the shows will be released or where viewers will be able to see them. Apple has not divulged if it will put its own TV series in the iTunes Store, where it sells shows made by other companies, or on another platform.

Aniston and Witherspoon will among be the show’s executive producers. It will be produced by Media Res, a studio founded by former HBO executive Michael Ellenberg. (rtr)

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Stop exploiting Mount Agung for tourism local leader speaks out on sanctity

AMLAPURA - Mount Agung’s volcanic activity has begun to calm down. Many people however feel that the almost two months of level IV warning status for the great volcano was a sign that something is wrong with the way people have been treating the highest mountain in Bali- particularly with regards to tourism. Increasing numbers of people are calling for Mount Agung to be closed to tourism. One of Karangasem’s community leaders, Jro Wayan Mas Suyasa, said on Wednesday (Nov. 8) that Bali’s Mount Agung is not the same as other volcanoes in Indonesia. As the name Mount Agung (majestic mountain), with an altitude of 3,142 meters above sea level is deservedly exalted. “Do not think that Mount Agung is just made of stone, Mount Agung has a soul”, said Jro Wayan Mas Suyasa.

According to Jro Suyasa and others, because Mount Agung is a sacred mountain, it should be treated as such. We should not let just anyone climb to the summit, especially if they do come with inappropriate purposes or intentions.

The local government must be wise in how they look at Mount Agung and its sacredness must be well-maintained. It must not just be used to increase the regionally gen-

erated revenue (PAD). “If people are visiting the mountain for the sake of rituals, I don’t’ think it is a problem, but if it for tourism, I think it should be stopped” he said.

Suyasa said that he has disagreed with Mount Agung being used for tourism climbing activities for a ling time as has asked Balinese people to be aware of and practice the concept Tri Hita Karana (harmonious relations with fellow

humans, the environment and with the divine) especially harmonious relations between humans and the natural surroundings. He admitted that geologically speaking a volcano is bound to erupt sometimes, but added that in fact nobody wants such a disaster to occur.

Therefore is also asked that Balinese people keep praying for the people that live around Mount Agung be spared of such a disaster. Accord-

ing to Jro Suyasa, the threat of Mount Agung erupting is a way for God to show off greatness, omnipotence and majesty. God’s majesty is unpredictable even to man-made technology.

“Many (climbers) are proud of conquering Mount Agung, but what are they conquering?”, he asked. The term ‘conquering, he said, is not appropriate. A mountain is not be conquered but to be preserved – both its sacredness and its eco-system, he emphasized.

Gumang shold not become a tourist attraction Mount Agung is not the only place in Bali that Jro Suyasa thinks should be closed to tourism. He explained that every sacred place on the island – including Besakih temple, should be off limits to tourism. Jro Suyasa who is also chief of

Bugbug Customary Village also believes that Gumang Temple should remain tourism-free. Although it was almost included in a list of tourist attractions in Karangasem, he and others opposed the idea.

Chief Jro Suyasa and the residents of his village openly rejected the proposition when related agencies came to Bugbug to inform the villagers about how to set up a Pokdarwis (local tourism management group) recently.

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