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Bob Geldof calls Aung San Suu Kyi “handmaiden to genocide”

DUBLIN - Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “a hand maiden to genocide” on Monday as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims.

“I don’t want to be on a very select roll of wonderful people with a killer,” Geldof told state broadcaster RTE. “Someone who is at best a handmaiden to genocide and an accomplice to murder.”

More than 600,000 Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh after military operations described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Their plight has drawn outrage around the world. But Suu Kyi, long seen as a champion of human rights, has been criticsed for failing to speak out against violence. There have been calls for her to be stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991.

Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of Dublin in 1999 while she was held under house arrest by Mayanmar’s then military government. She received her award at a reception in Ireland in 2012, two years after her release.

“Her association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default. We honoured her, now she appals and shames us,” Geldof said in a statement.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Micheal Mac Donncha, said the city council had discussed taking away the honour and the matter was still under review.

Last month she was stripped of a similar honour by the British university city of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate.

But Mac Donncha, a councillor for the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, also criticised Geldof’s gesture, saying it was ironic as Geldof held a British knighthood despite “the shameful record of British imperialism across the globe”.

The former Boomtown Rats singer was given an honorary knighted in 1986 in recognition of his charity work, including organising the 1985 Live Aid concert to help those suffering from starvation and disease in Ethiopia.

Other foreign recipients of the Freedom of Dublin include John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev. (rtr)

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Director and star James Franco (C) and cast members (L to R) Nathan Fielder, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Ari Graynor and Josh Hutcherson, arrive for the gala presentation of “The Disaster Artist” at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 12, 2017.

Franco hopes ‘Disaster Artist’ conveys passion of worst film ever made

LOS ANGELES - When James Franco set out to direct “The Disaster Artist,” a faux behindthe-scenes look at the making of 2003’s “The Room,” often called one of the worst films ever made, he said it was not to poke fun at the “Room” creator Tommy Wiseau.

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Bob Geldof arrives to return his ‘Freedom of the City of Dublin’ with local councillor Mannix Flynn and Oonagh Casey of Dublin’s City Manager’s office, after saying he could not continue to hold the honour with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Dublin, Ireland, November 13, 2107.

Franco, who also stars as the eccentric, strangely accented Wiseau in “The Disaster Artist,” said he believed the film conveyed Wiseau’s passion for the medium, despite “The Room” being critically panned.

“He is an artist in that sense, so (‘The Room’) is a disaster and it’s a piece of art,” Franco said in an interview at Sunday’s premiere of “The Disaster Artist” at the American Film Institute (AFI) festival in Los Angeles.

Franco recruited his brother Dave Franco to star as Wiseau’s co-star

and friend Greg Sestero, who cowrote the book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made,” which Franco’s film is based on.

“We never wanted to make fun of ‘The Room’ or Tommy Wiseau,” said Dave Franco.

“On the contrary, we wanted to celebrate Tommy and we wanted to celebrate this movie and celebrate people who have dreams and don’t take no for an answer,” he added.

In “The Disaster Artist,” rolling out in U.S. theaters from Dec. 1, Wiseau and Sestero become

disillusioned with Hollywood and decide to make their own film, which Wiseau funded, directed and starred in.

The film shows that even now, nobody knows Wiseau’s age, where he is originally from and how he had $6 million to create the “worst film ever made.”

“People would make fun of ‘The Room’ but 15 years later it’s still selling out cinemas across the world,” Sestero said.

“At this point, how can you call it the worst movie? It’s a success, you know.” (rtr)

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Smog chokes Indian capital as emergency measures fail to bring relief NEW DELHI - A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is well into its second week. A U.S. embassy measure showed levels of poisonous airborne particles, known as PM 2.5, had reached 498 on Monday afternoon, compared with the upper limit of “good” quality air at 50.

India’s weather office said rain was forecast over the next three days which could help clear the smog. “Light rainfall is likely in states surrounding Delhi and in Delhi over the next three days, and this could result in a change in wind pattern in the region,” Charan Singh, a scientist at India Meteorological Department, told Reuters.

“Smog will start to abate starting tomorrow.” But Skymet, India’s only private weather forecaster, said dense smog would continue over Delhi and the surrounding area for at least the next two days.

The Supreme Court is due to hear a petition filed by a New Delhi lawyer to direct government authorities to

tackle the “intolerable and unbearable air pollution”.

The Delhi state government declared a public health emergency last week after pollution levels spiked, a yearly phenomenon blamed on a combination of illegal crop burning in northern states, vehicle exhaust and dust. Over the weekend, authorities began using fire trucks to spray water in parts of the capital to keep the dust and other air particles down, but it has had little effect.

A senior federal government official said there was little more that could be done. “We can only do this much, and now we will have to wait for rains to clean the atmosphere,”

said Prashant Gargava, an official at the Central Pollution Control Board.

Gargava, who is in charge of monitoring air quality, said Delhi’s air has been consistently in the “hazardous” zone, despite measures such as a halt to construction and increasing car parking charges four-fold to encourage people to use public transport.

EVERY BREATH The PM 2.5 airborne particles are about 30 times finer than a human hair. The particles can be inhaled deep into the lungs, causing respiratory diseases and other ailments. Hospitals have seen a surge of patients coming in with respiratory complaints, according

to media reports. “Every second we are damaging our lungs, but we cannot stop breathing,” said Arvind Kumar, the head of the chest and lung surgery department at the Sir Ganga Ram hospital.

United Airlines said it had resumed flights from Newark, New Jersey, to New Delhi on Sunday, after suspending the service temporarily over concern about the bad air. Authorities decided to reopen schools on Monday after closing them temporarily for a few days last week, but the decision is likely to add more vehicles on the road. Enforcement agencies said they were unable to impose a blanket ban on the movement of commercial trucks.

Primary school teacher Aarti Menon said her family had been wearing face masks, even when indoors.

“Not everyone can afford an air purifier or air-conditioned car. We are all living in hell,” said Menon,

a mother of two teenage daughters.

The National Green Tribunal, an environment court, has directed the city government and neighbouring states to stop farmers from burning crop stubble. But the governments have not been able to do so.

New Delhi-based non-government group TARA Homes for Children, which supports 60 poor children, said it was seeking donations to buy at least five air purifiers. “Some of the children have breathing issues and couldn’t go to school,” said a volunteer at the group.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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PVMBG to fly drone to mountain top

Devy Syahbana added the drone flight will still be done in the north or in Kubu because in Kubu there is a long enough runway to fly the drone. “To fly a drone indeed takes a long runway. If the land area is not sufficient, the drone cannot fly,” she said.

She said the drone flight will be done to know the latest development occurred at the bottom of Mount Agung after the alert level was lowered on October 29. Results of the monitoring through the drone will be used as reference to determine the status of Mount Agung whether it will remain at watch alert level or

Mount Agung

lowered to advisory.

“To reduce to advisory alert level, we will obviously observe first the development of the mountain after the monitoring through the air or other supporting equipment installed to monitor Mount Agung. If the magmatic gas and seismicity stays high as well as other activities have not showed a decline, the alert level will remains on watch. If all the parameters have decreased, we will possibly lower the alert level.

Before decreasing, we will definitely do evaluation again,” said Devy Syahbana.

When asked about the latest development of Mount Agung, Syahbana stated the seismicity is still high that can be seen from the smoke coming out this morning (Monday—Ed) that remained quite high.

Moreover, it was accompanied with a fairly large gas secretion. Considering the magmatic gas stays high, it means there are still activities in the volcano.

Likewise, the mountain expansion reaches 6 cm and has not experienced deflation. So far, the deflation is still the same.

“Until now, the magma has not frozen and the energy supply remains in the magma chamber as evidenced by the outflow of smoke to the surface. These indicate there remains a warming in the volcano. If there is no heating, there is no smoke coming out of the cracks at the bottom of the crater,” added Devy Syahbana. (kmb41)

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To monitor crater of Mt. Agung

AMLAPURA - After the alert level of Mount Agung was lowered from level IV (warning) to level III (watch), the Center for Volcanology Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) will fly a drone again to monitor the latest development at the bottom of the crater. The drone flight is scheduled to be held on November 18.

“We are going to fly two drones to monitor the bottom of Mount Agung crater. They are our newly purchased drones. One will be used specifically for thermal and visual monitoring.

Another drone is used to monitor the gases in Mount Agung,” said Subdivision Head of Eastern Region Volcanic Mitigation, Devy Kamil Syahbana, on Monday (Nov. 13).

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Karangasem tourism remains sluggish

AMLAPURA - Alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch for two weeks, but the activities of this highest volcano in Bali stays to seriously affect the tourism industry of Karangasem. Only a few tourist attractions look active. Chairman of Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem, I Wayan Tama, revealed this on Monday (Nov. 13). “Since the announcement of the warning alert level until now, there are 3,000 cancellations of hotel reservation,” he said.

Cancellation of the planned tourist visits to Karangasem is certainly more than this number because 3,000 cancellations are just obtained from the three safe areas namely Candidasa, Padangbai and Sidemen. As for the area of Amed to Tulamben in Kubu and Abang subdistrict it is practically zero since the announcement of warning alert level. In Kubu and Abang areas, according to Tama, there are at least 1,500 rooms ranging from starrated to jasmine category hotel.

This member of Karangasem parliament did not dismiss that until now only Candidasa, Padangbai and Sidemen remain to survive. Meanwhile, the other tourist areas are still very sluggish. Several hotels in Tulamben and Amed areas offering underwater tourism have started to operate. However, tourist visits are still very minimal.

“Amed belonging to safe area has not recovered. A number of hotels and restaurants are open again but the level of occupancy remains very minimal,” he said while adding that tourist visit to Karangasem stays to be dominated

by European tourists. A businessman from Amed, I Ketut Dayuh, acknowledged that Amed tourism remains sluggish. This owner of Arya Amed Beach Resort admitted that November

belongs to a low season.

However, the current conditions are very severe even though Amed actually belongs to a safe zone because it is about 25 kilometers from the summit of Mount Agung. “Last year, it was much more crowded. Only two of totally 24 rooms at my hotel were occupied,” he explained.

Dayuh himself is said to be an optimistic person. He is confident that Amed can still survive despite the increased volcanic activities of Mount Agung. However, to realize it, he hoped the district government in particular could take advantage of this situation to do improvement.

Other than improvement to infrastructure such as roads leading to and in Amed region, it should also do arrangements in transportation sector.

According to him, all this time Amed and other tourist attractions in Kubu and Abang subdistrict areas become the second choice for foreign tourists due to transportation constraints. To reach Kubu or Abang, tourists must spend at least IDR 500,000 for return transportation. “Tourists coming with a small budget will become reluctant to make a visit. The money as much as IDR 500,000 at least can be spent for a one-night stay at jasmine hotel in Kuta area,” he explained.

The hope to district government of Karangasem to make the current condition of Mount Agung into a moment of improving the supporting tourism facilities was also revealed by Wayan Tama. At the same time, the government must also promote that many attractions in Karangasem remain safe to be visited. “One of which can be realized by inviting foreign travel agencies. Through them, indirectly we can fight the fake news about Karangasem,” he concluded. (117)

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Meet the Company That’s Using Face Recognition to Reshape China’s Tech Scene

BEIJING - In China, you can use your face to get into your office, get on a train, or get a loan. in China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.

Employees at e-commerce giant Alibaba in Shenzhen can show their faces to enter their office building instead of swiping ID cards. A train station in western Beijing matches passengers’ tickets to their government-issued IDs by scanning their faces. If their face matches their ID card photo, the system deems their tickets valid and the station gate will open. The subway system in Hangzhou, a city about 125 miles southwest of Shanghai, employs surveillance cameras capable of recognizing faces to spot suspected criminals.

The technology powering many of these applications? Face++, the world’s largest face-recognition technology platform, currently used by more than 300,000 developers in 150 countries to identify faces, as well as images, text, and various kinds of government-issued IDs. Other Chinese companies, such as Baidu and the startup SenseTime, also provide face-recognition technology to developers, but Face++’s popularity has been a boon for Megvii, the Beijing-based company that created and runs the platform. Founded in 2011 by three Tsinghua University graduates, Megvii is now valued at roughly a billion dollars and boasts approximately 530 employees, up from about 30 employees in 2014.

Megvii believes that as the Internet takes over more and more

commercial and social functions, face recognition will become part of the Web’s infrastructure as a means of identification, though only for activities that require real identities. Other tech companies seem to be betting on this scenario, too; Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones support face recognition (for unlocking the devices), and Apple is rumored to be equipping its upcoming iPhone 8 with the technology.

Face ID, Megvii’s online identity authentication platform, is one way Face++ is being integrated into the Internet’s infrastructure.

(Face ID’s face-comparison API interface utilizes Face++ technology.) Nearly 90 percent of China’s roughly 200 top Internet companies use Face ID, according to Yin. It’s particularly popular with online financial services since they need to authenticate user identities remotely. (To avoid people tricking them with a photograph, these apps usually perform a “liveness test” that requires users to speak or move their heads.)

Xiaohua, which operates a virtual bank that grants loans and offers payments by installments through a mobile app called Xiaohua Qianbao (“Little Flower Wallet”), is a typical Face ID customer.

Users scan their face using the app to get approved for loans and to ensure that nobody can authorize actions in the app if their phone is lost or stolen. “Xiaohua Qianbao is a purely online borrowing and lending product, so our first need is fraud prevention,” says Lingpeng

Huang, a cofounder of Xiaohua.

“Face recognition has eliminated the risk of fake identities.”

Megvii trains the algorithms that power Face++ and Face ID by feeding large data sets into a deeplearning engine called Brain++.

(Deep learning involves feeding examples into a large, many-layered neural network, and tweaking its parameters until it accurately recognizes the desired features, such as a particular person’s face.)

To amass huge amounts of training data, Megvii let most developers use Face++ for free during the platform’s first two years of availability in 2012 and 2013. Megvii also purchases photos from data-collection companies to aid its training. The company built Brain++ in 2015 and says having a self-developed deep-learning engine helps it train its algorithms more efficiently. “[It] translates into more competitiveness for our products,” says Jian Sun, Megvii’s chief scientist.

Another advantage of having its own deep-learning platform: Megvii can customize its facerecognition technology for different customers easily. That matters because a police department, for example, will value accuracy above everything else, but a company looking to use face recognition in a mobile app needs to ensure that the software is small enough to fit inside the app—without sacrificing too much accuracy.

When CEO Qi Yin launched Megvii, he wanted to gain traction in a few key areas. “An AI com-

pany has to be No. 1 in one or two core industries first [to succeed],” he says.

Now that Face++ is entrenched in banking and finance, Megvii’s cofounders have plans to integrate its face recognition and other computer-vision technologies into more industries, such as retail and

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Homecoming story of a refugee from Tianyar village

House found blazing, now sleeps under tarp

self-driving cars. For that to happen, the company needs to show those industries how they will benefit, such as how much fraud its technology can reduce every year, says Jiansheng Chen, an associate professor at Tsinghua University who studies computer vision. (IBP/ net)

DECREASE in the alert level to watch of Mount Agung makes refugees relieved. They rushed home after getting confidence if the situation is already improving. However, the couple refugees namely Made Astawa and Ni Luh Suami experienced a disaster when returning home. Their simple house was on fire coinciding with Kuningan feast day or Saturday morning (Nov. 11). Now, this small family with single child is forced to sleep under tarpaulin around their burned building.

Head of DLHK Badung, Putu Eka Merthawan

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Badung in first alert to face marine debris MANGUPURA — To anticipate rainy season that already commenced, various preparations have been made by the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK). In addition to be on mainland, waste problem has started to haunt coastal areas.

When confirmed on Monday (Nov. 13), the Head of DLHK Badung, Putu Eka Merthawan, said that at this time his agency already began to deal with natural conditions coinciding with the arrival of sea breezes and conditions on mainland. For mainland, it began to be surrounded by rain that results in flooding phenomenon.

Then for the sea, his agency will be surely faced with marine debris.

“On mainland, the rain will result in flooding phenomenon that will cause waste, while for the sea, we will be definitely faced with marine debris,” he said.

Eka Merthawan said that his agency is ready to face such phenomenon. Firstly, for the sea his

agency had prepared quick response officers, while on mainland he will optimize the officers in charge of sweeping road side.

“Our employee almost reaches 700 people. They are ready to work all out in resolving waste problem,” he concluded.

To overcome the waste from the sea, now his agency has received an additional loader. Thus, his agency has owned totally four units of loader. In addition, he has alerted trucks. Although the number is still lacking, he claimed to be optimizing them.

The loaders will be operated in crucial locations. Certainly, it will be adjusted to condition in the field. Obviously, his agency kept on making preparation. Moreover, he already announced that Badung is currently in the first alert to face garbage. “Currently, the condition remains normal, but we are in alert condition. Hopefully, the waste conditions will not the same as three years ago,” he hoped. (kmb23)

This resident of Darmawinangun administrative hamlet, Tianyar village, Kubu, finally came home to celebrate Kuningan after the condition is considered safe. His area belongs to a safe zone after Mount Agung is declared to be in the watch alert level as their area belongs to disaster-prone area (KRB) II. After getting happy as they are able to go home, around 04:00, this family was prepared to say prayers. After that, they put offerings as usual around the house. Upon completion at home, the family planed to continue praying to the location where they fled around the Peradi area, Songan village, Bangli.

After leaving home, around 07:30, the surrounding residents saw flaming fire and burned out the whole simple house. A blast of strong winds around this area made the fire quickly spread to all this family’s prop-

erty to the ground. Moreover, his house is walled with plaited bamboo and roofed with used zinc. “Apparently, it was triggered by incense smoke,” said a member of Karangasem House of Representatives from local village, Komang Musna Antara, who had seen the last condition of the victim’s house at Darmawinangun administrative hamlet, on Sunday (Nov. 12).

He admitted to be concerned about the condition of the family. They have nothing else left. Moreover, his simple house was built on other’s land or they are just sharecroppers. In order to survive, the victim’s possession left is only a piece of tarpaulin. To shelter from rain and the sun, this family spreads the tarpaulin next to the burned simple building.

“Temporarily, they sleep on the tarpaulin first, while waiting for emergency assistance from the village or the Social Service of Karangasem,” said Musna Antara, a politician of Golkar Party.

He hoped the village authority, Social Service or the private sectors can immediately help this family.

At least, there are emergency assistances like kitchen utensils, bedding and groceries, before this family can support themselves because they have long been unemployed while evacuating. He himself has contacted directly the Head of Karangasem Social Services, Puspa Kumari. As planned, Musna Antara will facilitate this family to get the home refurbishment program. He hoped this plan can be realized in 2018. (kmb31)

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This small family with single child is forced to sleep under tarpaulin around their burned building.

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Besakih tourist object reopened

Defecting N.Korean soldier critical after escape in hail of bullets

Hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan return home

Canada’s Trudeau raises rights issues as Asia summit winds down

SEOUL - A North Korean soldier is expected to survive critical wounds he received when his old comrades fired a hail of bullets at him as he made a defection dash to South Korea, the South’s government and military said on Tuesday.

The soldier had on Monday sped towards the border in a “peace village” in the heavily guarded demilitarised zone, in a four-wheel drive vehicle.

But when a wheel came loose, he fled on foot as four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at him, said Suh Wook, chief director of operations at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefing lawmakers.

“Until this morning, we heard he had no consciousness and was unable to breathe on his own but his life can be saved,” Suh said.

Surgeons had removed five bullets from the soldier’s body, leaving two inside, Suh added, to murmurs from lawmakers who said the soldier’s escape was “right out of a movie”.

The soldier took cover behind a South Korean structure in a Joint Security Area (JSA) inside the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas.

South Korean and U.S. soldiers, fearing more North Korean fire, later crawled to him to rescue him, the United Nations Command said in a separate statement.

North Korea has not said anything about the soldier. Its military had not given any indication of unusual movements on Tuesday, the South’s military said.

While on average more than 1,000 North Koreans defect to the South every year, most travel via China and it is unusual for a North Korean to cross the land border dividing the two Koreas, which have been in a technical state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

The U.N. Command, in place since the end of the war, said an investigation into the incident was being conducted.

South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said it was the first time North Korean soldiers had fired towards the South’s side of the JSA, prompting complaints from some lawmakers that the South’s military should have returned fire.

Moon Sang-gyun, the South’s defence ministry spokesman, said military operations at the JSA were usually conducted under the orders of the U.N. Command, which is in turn under orders from the U.S. military. (rtr)

There was no pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump over the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs during a meeting on Monday with President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of the summit.

A joint statement after the meeting said the two sides “underscored that human rights and the dignity of human life are essential, and agreed to continue mainstreaming the human rights agenda in their national programmes.”

However, Trudeau said that during his conversation with Duterte in Manila, he “mentioned human rights, rule of law and specifically extrajudicial killings as being an issue that Canada is concerned with.”

“The president was receptive to my comments and it was throughout a very cordial and positive exchange,” Trudeau told a news conference.

More than 3,900 pushers and users have been killed in the war on drugs that Duterte declared when he took office last year. His government says the police act in self-defence, but

South Korean soldiers walk past birds as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the demilitarized zone (DMZ), which separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, March 11, 2013.

BANGLI — Hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan hamlet, Besakih, Rendang, that all this time have been occupying the Nakula Building at the Kubu Bangli evacuation post decided to go home. They begin to leave the evacuation post following the re-opening of schools and Besakih tourist object since the alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch in the past two weeks.

The information compiled at the Mount Agung Disaster Relief Post in Bangli on Monday (Nov. 13) mentioned that hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan began to leave the evacuation post around 10:00. In addition, the refugees from Besakih Kangin were also reported to have returned home.

One of the officers when met at the post said the homecoming of several refugees from Besakih Kawan had come to the post and asked for permission to go home.

They went home with personal belongings by vehicle. “They also ask for permission to return to the post if the eruption happens later on,” he said.

The officer added the refugees chose to go home even though their village is included in the disaster-prone area (KRB) III because the village area is considered safe. Moreover, since

the decrease in the alert level of Mount Agung from warning to watch, some schools and Besakih tourist attraction have been reopened. “Some refugees have profession as merchant so they choose to go home after the Besakih attraction was re-opened,” he said.

Other than refugees returning home, on the other hand, there are also Karangasem residents evacuating to Bangli. Approximately they consist of five people originating from Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih. Before evacuating to Bangli, they had to evacuate at Rendang village. At Kubu Refugee Post, they currently occupy the Bima Building.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Disaster Emergency Response Post, Wayan Karmawan, through Section Head of Emergency of the BPBD, Ketut Agus Sutapa, said the total refugees that have returned home

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Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte holds hands with Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a family photo during the ASEAN-Canada 40th anniversary commerative summit in metro Manila, Philippines November 14, 2017.

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Hundreds of refugees begin to leave the evacuation post following the re-opening of schools and Besakih tourist object since the alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch in the past two weeks. reached 144 people, where 33 families (118 people) of whom come from Besakih Kawan, while six other families (26 people) come from Besakih Kangin.

Agus Sutapa added that currently the refugees remaining to survive in Bangli region amount to approximately 300 people. A total of 241 people are accommo-

dated in Kubu and Gurukula, and 72 of them occupy the SKB posts.

“The surviving refugees are from Ban village and several other red zones,” he said. (kmb40)

Tabanan Fiesta 1 held in Marga

Village declares to stop defecate carelessly

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The event was graced with various art performances presented by local artists and youths.

TABANAN — Tabanan Fiesta 1 event was held on Sunday night (Nov. 12). This time, the event in the form of roadshow was meant to jazz up the commemoration of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town held in Marga subdistrict.

The event was also filled with declaration of Open-Defecation Free (ODF) or stop to defecate carelessly by Peken village, Belayu. The declaration aims at raising public awareness to live cleanly by defecating in its place and increase the ownership of toilet in the community.

This activity was officially opened by Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Komang Gede Sanjaya.

Apart from the declaration of the ODF, the event was graced with various art performances presented by local artists and youths. They included music and Sekar Pelangi ethnic dance by Selem Bawak, gender gamelan

music from Ole village, Bumbung Gebyok from Pinge village and Janger Dance by Geluntung village which is rarely performed.

“In this event, we should appreciate to some innovations such as the Sekar Pelangi Ethnic Dance that looks different from other dances. This makes Tabanan have many dance artists from various studios,” he said.

According to him, the innovation marked the excitement of the community, especially the young men, in running and developing the tradition inherited from the ancestors. In addition, Deputy Regent Sanjaya also appreciated to Janger Dance presented by Geluntung village, Marga. This dance is very rarely performed by people in the community events, and this time appeared in a series of roadshow related to the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town in

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Marga subdistrict.

Deputy Regent Sanjaya hoped the moment of commemorating the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town could be an opportunity to develop all the potentials owned by each subdistrict in Tabanan in all areas such as the art, culture and economy.

Chairman of the Committee who is also subdistrict head of Marga, I Gusti Agung Alit Adiatmika, in his speech said that he would like to develop people’s creativity in Marga subdistrict for the Tabanan Fiesta 1, so that people can enjoy the art performance from various villages in Marga subdistrict. Besides, it is also a good moment for people to get entertainment as well as foster their love and preserve Balinese culture for next generation, especially in Marga subdistrict to realize sustainable Bali,” he affirmed. (kmb24)

MANILA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the plight of Rohingya refugees and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at a summit of Asian and Western leaders on Tuesday, sensitive human rights issues skirted by almost all the others. critics say executions are taking place with no accountability.

Duterte cursed Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, last year for raising concerns about the war on drugs and he subsequently declared that he was breaking with the United States, a close ally of the Philippines since World War Two. Trump, by contrast, said on Monday he had a “great relationship” with Duterte.

ROHINGYA CRISIS Trudeau said he also met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and raised the plight of Rohingya refugees, although he did not mention the Muslim minority by name.

“This is a tremendous concern to Canada and to many, many countries around the world,” he said.

The government in mostly-Buddhist Myanmar regards the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and does not recognise the term.

Over 600,000 Rohingya have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh since military clearance operations were

launched in response to attacks by Rohingya militants on Aug. 25.

The plight of the Rohingya has brought outrage from around the world and there have been calls for democracy champion Suu Kyi to be stripped of the Nobel peace prize she won in 1991 because she has not condemned the military’s actions.

Some countries in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly Muslimmajority Malaysia, have voiced strong concern over the issue recently.

However, in keeping with ASEAN’s principle of non-interference in each others’ internal affairs, it appeared to have been put aside at the summit, which brought Southeast Asian nations together with the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia and Canada.

The summit ends later on Tuesday, also bringing to a close Trump’s marathon trip to Asia that took him to Japan, South Korea, China and Vietnam as well as the Philippines. (rtr)

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BUSINESS German economy powers on with trade, investments driving growth

BERLIN - Germany’s economy shifted into an even higher gear in the third quarter, propelled by buoyant exports and rising company investments in equipment, data showed on Tuesday.

In a further positive sign for Europe’s biggest economy, the ZEW institute said investor morale improved in November and prospects for the economy remained “encouragingly positive” thanks to high levels of growth across Europe.

Germany is enjoying a consumerled upswing, helped by record-high employment, moderate inflation and ultra-low borrowing costs. The upturn is boosting tax revenues and the budget surplus, which should help Chancellor Angela Merkel seal a tricky three-way coalition agreement in coming weeks.

Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.8 percent on the quarter, data from the Statistics Office showed on Tuesday. This beat a consensus forecast of in a Reuters poll of 0.6 percent, which was also the second quarter growth rate.

“The upswing continues and it’s broad-based,” Sal. Oppenheim economist Ulrike Kastens said, noting that companies were also contributing to the expansion by stepping up investments.

The German economy grew by 2.3 percent on the year in the third quarter, unadjusted data showed. This was in line with a consensus forecast.

Adjusted for calendar affects, the yearly growth rate rose to 2.8 percent in the July-September period from 2.3 percent in the previous quarter, the office said. This was the strongest reading since the beginning of 2014.

The Federal Statistics Office also revised up the quarterly growth rate

for the first quarter to 0.9 percent from 0.7 percent. “This makes an upward revision for overall growth estimates likely,” DekaBank analyst Andreas Scheuerle said.

The government expects the economy to grow 2.0 percent in 2017 and 1.9 percent in 2018. This would translate into calendar-adjusted rates of 2.2 percent and 2.0 percent respectively.

The Statistics Office said positive impulses for growth in the third quarter came mainly from net foreign trade as exports increased more strongly than imports.

“While state and household consumption remained roughly on the previous quarter’s level, gross capital investments contributed to overall growth,” the office said. “Especially investments in equipment rose on the quarter.”

In its monthly report, the economy ministry said that the solid economic upswing would stretch into the fourth quarter.

“The indicators point to a brisk continuation of the upswing in the final quarter of the year,” it said.

SHANGHAI - China’s main Shanghai stock market fell on Tuesday morning after a batch of data showed the economy cooled further last month and as Chinese treasury yields continued to creep up in a sign of tightening liquidity By lunch time, the Shanghai index was down 15.42 points or 0.45 percent at 3,432.41. Data on Tuesday showed that China’s economy lost steam in October, with industrial output, fixed asset investment and retail sales missing expectations as the government extended a crackdown on debt risks and factory pollution.

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A worker controls a tapping of a blast furnace at Europe’s largest steel factory of Germany’s industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in the western German city of Duisburg in this December 6, 2012 file photo.

BOOST FOR MERKEL The surprisingly strong figures will make welcome reading for Merkel as her conservatives try to forge a coalition government with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the left-leaning Greens, an alliance untested on a national level.

“As firms are now investing more, this will also increase productivity,”

DZ Bank analyst Michael Holstein said. “This can also lead to stronger pay hikes - the upswing is entering a new phase.”

But the upswing in Europe’s biggest economy has yet to start pushing up inflation on a sustained basis.

EU-harmonised consumer prices edged down 0.1 percent in October from the previous month, separate data from the Statistics Office showed.

The annual inflation rate fell to 1.5

percent from 1.8 percent in September, dropping further below the European Central Bank’s target of nearly 2 percent despite its unprecedented monetary stimulus programme.

The Mannheim-based ZEW research institute said its monthly survey on investor morale showed that its economic sentiment index rose to 18.7 from 17.6 in October.

A separate gauge measuring investors’ assessment of the economy’s current conditions shot up to 88.8

from 87.0 last month.

“The prospects for the German economy remain encouragingly positive,” ZEW President Achim Wambach said, adding that strong growth rates across Europe were supporting future growth in Germany and boosting expectations for the coming six months.

“This favourable economic climate should be used to create a stronger and more robust basis for future growth,” Wambach added. (rtr)

Sentiment was further dented by signs that liquidity in the banking system remains tight, with China’s benchmark 10-year treasury yields almost touching 4 percent, the highest level in three years.

The smaller Shenzhen index was down 0.6 percent while H-shares listed in Hong Kong fell 0.39 percent at 11,639.14.

China’s blue-chip CSI300 index was down 0.7 percent, with its financial sector sub-index off 0.48 percent, the consumer staples sector down 1.6 percent, the real estate index up 1.33 percent and healthcare sub-

index down 0.78 percent. Around the region, MSCI’s Asia ex-Japan stock index slipped 0.2 percent.

The largest percentage gainers in the main Shanghai Composite index were SJEC Corp, up 10.03 percent, followed by Hebei Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co Ltd gaining 10 percent and Shanghai Material Trading Co Ltd , up by 9.99 percent.

The largest percentage losses in the index were Hna Innovation Co Ltd, down 6.19 percent, followed by Hubei Wuchangyu Co Ltd losing 4.95 percent and BTG Hotels Group Co Ltd down by 4.76 percent.

So far this year, the Shanghai stock index is up 11.09 percent, while China’s H-share index is up 24.4 percent, supported by a domestic economic recovery that benefited from fiscal stimulus and a construction boom.

Shanghai stocks have risen 1.6 percent this month.

The top gainers among H-shares were Air China Ltd up 2.75 percent, followed by China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd gaining 2.53 percent and Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd up 2 percent.

The three biggest H-shares percentage decliners were PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd which fell 2.83 percent, China Telecom Corp Ltd down 1.8 percent and China Pacific Insurance Group Co Ltd off 1.6 percent.

China’s A-shares were trading at a premium of 28.62 percent over the Hong Kong-listed H-shares.(rtr)

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Mapinton, a Tradition of Self-Notification at Temple

Many traditions are carried out by Hindu communities in Bali. Moreover, such traditions are closely related to religion.

One of the traditions remaining to be practiced by the people until now is mintonang toddlers / children that are newly invited to say prayers, both in merajan, clan temple and village trinity temple. Mapinton is one of the traditions that Balinese society possesses, chiefly those remaining to undertake it. The tradition is carried out in relation to family members that have toddlers that are newly invited to say prayers.

“Mapinton tradition is carried out as a form of self-notification on the existence of new family members, especially newborn toddlers and are first invited to say prayers to the temple,” said Ida Rsi Bhagawan Smerti Kusuma Wijaya Sebali.

Ida Rsi gave an example. Devotees should do mapinton for the newborn toddlers at clan temple (kawitan) or at village trinity temple. It is meant to notify that there is a new family member by mentioning the name of the toddlers to Ida Bhatara abiding in the temple and expressing gratitude because they have been endowed with the offspring. In addition, mapinton also states that the newborn toddlers will be bound by the rules contained in the temple, especially related to the implementation of Hindu religious ceremonies.

Mapinton is not only implemented for the newborn toddlers,

but also by dancers that will dance having just held the initiation process (mediksa) at their spiritual teacher. “It has similar meaning namely as notification in the holy place, clan temple, village trinity temple or other sanctums,” said Ida Rsi. Actually, the mapinton means the initiation of self-notification regarding what will be done.

Even though the implementation is different, the most important thing is the purpose of implementing the mapinton tradition.

Regarding the age of the toddlers that can carry out the tradition in the temple, Ida said that it can be carried out after 42 days or in accordance with location, time and condition (desa, kala, patra). In one region, toddlers are allowed to do mapinton tradition just after three months old. “By and large, the toddlers having been one month and seven days old (42 days) can be invited to

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say prayers, starting with mapinton.”

Regarding the course of mapinton tradition, the procedures must be implemented in outermost courtyard first, in representative shrine, and

then resumed to the innermost courtyard of the temple (uttama mandala). The ritual paraphernalia in use usually consists of banten pejati.

Is the mapinton tradition only held in clan temple or village

trinity temple? Ida asserted if possible, mapinton is also carried out in all the temples visited, such as the Kahyangan Jagat (universal temple) and Dang Kahyangan (tribute temple to ancient sages). (kmb)

Make Special Look with Bracelet, Get Interested?

China stocks fall on higher bond yields, weak data; Hong Kong little changed

Hong Kong In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng stock market was up 0.1 percent at 29,198.17. The sub-index of the Hang Seng index tracking energy shares dipped 0.8 percent while the IT sector rose 0.2 percent.

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Bracelet accessory handicraft combining buffalo horn and gold is never deserted of the enthusiasts. A bracelet with a dragon head carving is still hunted by consumers, especially men to serve as complementary accessories when putting customary attires.

An accessory craftsman combining buffalo horn and gold from Bangli, Nyoman Sukanta, said that such combined bracelet is actually not new creation. This bracelet has been on the market since the 1990s. Nevertheless, consumer demand for this blackbased color bracelet never subsides. “So far, there are still many demands. Aside from the elderly, many young people still favor it as well,” he explained.

He added the bracelet with circular design and a dragon head at one end is able to make people’s appearance wearing it look more preferred. It is especially when they are wearing Balinese attires.

To make this combined bracelet, he uses buffalo horn as the

main material. The making process is by carving it manually.

Once formed, the semi-finished bracelet is then decorated with gold carvings. At least, this bracelet requires about 5 grams of gold.

Other than gold, the combined bracelet can also be optionally replaced with silver carvings.

But in general, consumers are more interested in gold carvings. “I produce this craftwork in cooperation with my nephew who is a goldsmith,” said the man who is also craftsman engraving ostrich eggs.

To make a combined bracelet, it takes him approximately one week. It happens because he is quite difficult to get the material especially buffalo horn, and the entire manufacturing process is still carried out manually.

Sukanta told the price varies depending on the size and the gold carvings installed as decoration on the bracelet. The lowest price usually set for consumers is approximately IDR 2 million. (kmb)

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Iran ends quake rescue operations as hungry survivors battle the cold

ANKARA - Rescue operations have ended in areas of Iran hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands, state television reported on Tuesday, as many survivors, in need of food and water, battled the cold.

Sunday’s 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck villages and towns in the mountainous area of Kermanshah province that borders Iraq while many people were at home asleep. At least 14 provinces in Iran were affected.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in the morning in the earthquake-stricken area in Kermanshah and promised that the government “will use all its power to resolve the problems in the shortest time”.

State television said thousands were huddling in makeshift camps while many others spent a second night in the open for fear of more tremors after some 193 aftershocks.

A homeless young woman in Sarpol-e Zahab, one of the hardest-hit towns, told state TV that her family was exposed to the night cold because of lack of tents.

“We need help. We need everything. The authorities should speed up their help,” she said.

Television showed footage of rescue workers frantically combing through the rubble of dozens of villages immediately after the quake. But Iranian officials said the chances of finding any more survivors were extremely low.

“The rescue operations in Kermanshah province have ended,” Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services, said on state TV. Iran’s top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offered his condolences on Monday and

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called on government agencies to do all they could to help.

Iranian police, the elite Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated Basij militia forces were dispatched to affected areas on Sunday night.

BITTER COLD

Hospitals in nearby provinces took in many of the injured, state television said, airing footage of survivors waiting to be treated. Hundreds of critically injured people were dispatched to hospitals in Tehran.

Iran’s Red Crescent said emergency shelter had been provided for thousands of homeless people, but a lack of water and electricity as well as blocked roads in some areas hindered aid supply efforts.

Local authorities said traffic chaos on roads, caused by people from nearby provinces who were rushing to help, further hampered the flow of aid.

“People in some villages are still in dire need of food, water and shelter,” governor of Qasr-e Shirin Faramarz Akbari told state television.

More than 30,000 houses in the area were damaged and at least two villages were completely destroyed, Iranian authorities said.

Houses in Iranian villages are often made of concrete blocks or mudbrick that can crumble and collapse in a strong quake. Some people are angry that among the collapsed buildings were houses that the government has built in recent years under its affordable housing programme.

Iran is crisscrossed by major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that reduced the historic southeastern city of Bam to dust and killed some 31,000 people. (rtr)

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People gather around a levelled building in the mountainous town of Darbandikhan in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 13, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit the Iraq-Iran border area.

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Indonesian volunteers save six beached whales

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People walk out after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration’s emergency request to put his travel ban into effect immediately while the legal battle continues, in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2017.

U.S. court lets Trump travel ban go partially into effect

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday let President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Muslimmajority countries with no connections to the United States.

A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially granted a Trump administration request to block at least temporarily a judge’s ruling that had put the new ban on hold. Trump’s ban was announced on Sept. 24 and replaced two previous versions that had been impeded by federal courts.

The action means the ban will apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad who do not have connections to the United States.

Those connections are defined as family relationships and “formal, documented” relationships with U.S.-based entities such as universities and resettlement agencies.

Those with family relationships that would allow entry include grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people in the United States.

“We are reviewing the court’s order and the government will begin enforcing the travel proclamation consistent with the partial stay.

We believe that the proclamation should be allowed to take effect in its entirety,” Justice Department spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said.

The state of Hawaii, which sued to block the restrictions, argued that federal immigration law did not give Trump the authority to impose them on six of those countries. The lawsuit did not challenge restrictions toward people from the two other countries listed in Trump’s

ban, North Korea and Venezuela.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu ruled last month that Hawaii was likely to succeed with its argument.

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said the court’s decision tracked what the Supreme Court said in June when it partially revived Trump’s second travel ban, which has now expired.

“I’m pleased that family ties to the U.S., including grandparents, will be respected,” Chin added.

Separately on Monday, a group of refugee organizations and individuals filed a lawsuit in Seattle federal court challenging Trump’s decision to suspend entry of refugees from 11 countries, nine of which are majority Muslim, for at least 90 days.

Trump issued his first travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries in January, just a week after he took office, and then issued a revised one after the first was blocked by the courts. The second one expired in September after a long court fight and was replaced with another revised version.

Trump has said the travel ban is needed to protect the United States from terrorism by Muslim militants. As a candidate, Trump had promised “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Critics of the travel ban in its various iterations call it a “Muslim ban” that violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion.

The 9th Circuit is due to hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 6. In a parallel case from Maryland, a judge also ruled against the Trump administration and partially blocked the ban from going into effect. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesian volunteers managed to save six whales beached on the northern tip of Sumatra but four died, a conservation official said on Tuesday. The rescuers worked late into Monday night to free six of 10 massive sperm animals using ropes and patrol boats and turn them back into the waters off Aceh province.

“Some people got injured on the coral and the high tide was also an obstacle but we tried our best,” said Sapto Aji Prabowo, head of the

Aceh conservation agency. “It is an important lesson for us on how to evacuate such huge animals if it happens again.”

Prabowo said it was not known why the sperm whales, which among the biggest mammals on the planet, had washed up in shallow water.

“We plan to collect samples from the dead whales to determine the cause of death and for future research,” he said.

Officials will bury the dead whales as soon as possible as there is a risk of gases building up and causing the carcasses to explode.

Earlier this year, authorities in New Zealand had to cut holes in hundreds of pilot whales that washed up on beaches on the South Island to keep them from bloating and exploding. “If we leave them there to rot, that could also cause disease,” said Prabowo.

Volunteers will use excavators to move and bury the animals. An adult sperm whale can grow up to 12 metres and weigh up to 57 tonnes.

Though unusual, whale beachings have been seen in other parts of Indonesia, a vast archipelago of over 17,000 islands.

In 2016, 29 pilot whales were briefly trapped in a mangrove swamp off the eastern coast of Java, but managed to free themselves or were helped back out to sea by fishermen.

Officials previously said 12 whales had been stranded in Aceh. (rtr)

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Children look at a dead sperm whale, one of four that died after a small pod became stranded yesterday in Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia November 14, 2017.

Minister says government won’t achieve growth target

National Development Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro has expressed his pessimism that the government will achieve its target of 5.2 percent economic growth.

The estimation was made based on the 5.03 percent growth in the third quarter. “The government is struggling to achieve 5.2 percent economic growth,” said Bambang as quoted by tempo.co.

However, he added, to achieve the target, economic growth in the fourth quarter must reach 5.5 percent.

Even if the government could boost exports, investment and government spending in the fourth quarter, the economy is estimated to grow between 5.2 percent and 5.4 percent. In the third quarter,

investment grew 7.11 percent, while exports grew 17.27 percent. “So the economy will grow about 5.1 percent annually.” He added.

Bambang, however, expressed his optimism that in 2018, the economy could grow above 5.2 percent.

“But if investment grew similar to the level in the third quarter of 2017,” said Bambang.

Previously, Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo said the economic growth was supported by the development of infrastructure and government spending.

“In the first half of 2017, government spending was not optimal,” he said, adding that government spending was expected to improve in the second half. (ant)

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Honda team principal Suppo to leave MotoGP HONDA announced the departure of MotoGP team principal Livio Suppo on Monday, a day after Spaniard Marc Marquez secured his fourth top-flight world championship in five years.

The 53-year-old Italian, who joined the Repsol Honda team from Ducati in 2010 and assumed the principal role in 2013, said he needed a change and was leaving the sport with a year to run on his contract.

“After 22 seasons in the motorcycle racing world, I feel that it is time for me to look for new challenges,” he said in a Honda statement.

“I leave HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) knowing that in 2018 they will be competitive, because Marc and Dani (Pedrosa) are very strong and the engineers will as always prepare a good package for them to fight for the championship again.”

Suppo oversaw five MotoGP titles in his time at Honda’s works team, with Australian Casey Stoner winning in 2011. Stoner also won the championship at Ducati in 2007, when Suppo was in charge there. (rtr)

Amuk Bay Beach AMLAPURA - Amuk Bay Beach is beauty of white sandy beaches which is completed by the fascinate structure of the rock hills that jutted into the sea. This beach is located in Banjar Labuhan, Antiga village, Karangasem district and is around 6km across with the villages of Padangbai to the south and Candidasa to the north. Two islands (Tepekong and Mimpang) outside the bay and Biaha a little to the north offer some of the most breathtaking diving in Bali.

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The tours can be enjoyed by all ages, especially those looking to enjoy the underwater beauty of tropical marine life, but do not have the expertise or diving experience, or simply don’t want to bother getting wet. Prior to boarding, a team of instructors brief passengers on safety instructions as life jackets are distributed. From the shore, a boat transports guests to the sub. Photos are taken on the deck before climbing down through the top hatch and removing the vests. Inside, wide chairs are lined up through the centre of the vessel.

The smooth operating battery-

powered submarine carries up to 36 passengers in its single air conditioned compartment. Side portholes enable passengers to view the marine life at depths of over 40m. The submarine ride is a fun feature for families, as kids get to match the types of fish with the posters inside the cabin. Usually included in the tours are hotel transfers, a barbecue lunch, and the 45min submarine ride, as well as safety equipment and guides.

The submarine dive location is just north of the Padangbai turn-off on the road to Candidasa, in the eastern part of the island, featuring a clean, black-sand beach with a mountainous backdrop. During the submerged vessel’s usual route around Amuk Bay Beach, the underwater views are alive with bright and colorful tropical fish, corals and occasional stingrays and sea turtles. Along the journey, you will pass coral plantations that are part of a coral regeneration project to maintain the reef and marine habitat in the area. (IBP/net)

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd after losing his singles match against Belgium’s David Goffin on day two of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the O2 Arena in London on November 13, 2017.

Nadal’s season ends in painful defeat by Goffin

LONDON - Rafael Nadal’s unforgettable season came to a painful end when he withdrew from the ATP Finals with a knee injury after defeat in his opening round-robin match against David Goffin on Monday.

The Spaniard, already assured of ending the year as world number one having won a 10th French Open title and the U.S. Open, was clearly hobbling as he went down 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4.

“No, I’m off,” the 31-year-old Nadal told reporters when asked if he would be fit enough to play his remaining round-robin matches against Dominic Thiem and Grigor Dimitrov.

“My season is finished. I had the commitment with the event, with the city, with myself. I tried hard.

“I did the thing that I had to do to try to be ready to play. But I am really not ready to play.

“I fought a lot during the match, but knowing that probably ...(it was going to be) the last match of the season.”

Two weeks ago Nadal had withdrawn from the Paris Masters before his quarter-final match after experiencing pain in his right knee.

He had hoped to recover in time to attempt to claim the only

major title to elude him -- having twice lost in the final.

There was no questioning his fighting spirit as he still managed to push world number eight Goffin all the way, saving four match points in the second set, but his movement was hampered in the final set.

He will now begin the process of recovering full fitness in time for the start of next year.

“I tried, but seriously it was a miracle to be very close in the score during the match,” Nadal, who missed the end of last season to fully recover from a wrist injury, said.

Nadal has been plagued by knee injuries throughout a career which has earned him 16 grand slam titles.

“I know what I have to do.

I know all the things that happened in the past when I had these things, and I know the treatment that I had to do,” he said.

“I know the periods of time that I need to work. Then if the treat-

ment works or not, we will see.

“The good thing is (this is) nothing new. Everybody in my team, we have the right experience (to deal with) this thing. We hope to manage it well, to have the right rest, the right work, and try to be ready for the beginning of the next season.”

Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta will now step in to complete Nadal’s round-robin matches.

Nadal, whose 75 career titles include only one indoors, said it had been “no fun” to play on Monday and he would have withdrawn even if he had beaten Goffin.

“Win or lose I was going to pull out because I was not enjoying on court at all,” he said. “Was not fun to play like this. I don’t deserve (this) after this great season to spend two more days on court with this terrible feelings.

“I am, of course, disappointed.

But I am not going to cry. I had a great season... (an) unforgettable one.” (rtr)

JOHANNES EISELE / AFP

This file photo taken on February 23, 2013 shows France’s David Poisson reacting during the FIS World Cup men’s downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany.

Frenchman Poisson dies in training accident

PARIS - French Alpine skier David Poisson has died following a crash during training at the Canadian resort of Nakiska, the French skiing federation said in a statement on Monday.

Poisson, 35, won the bronze medal in the downhill at the world championships in 2013.

A specialist in speed events, he finished seventh in the downhill event at the 2010 Olympics. He also took part in the 2014 Games.

The International Ski Federation said in a statement: “FIS extends its sincerest condolences to the team mates, friends, and loved ones of David Poisson... who died accidentally ... after a fall during downhill training at the Canadian resort of Nakiska.” (rtr)

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Sp rt Stunned Italy fail to reach World Cup as Sweden qualify

MILAN - Italian football boss Carlo Tavecchio said recently that failure to qualify for the World Cup would be the apocalypse and his worst fears came true on Monday as they missed out on the finals for the first time in 60 years. A desperate 0-0 draw at home to a defiant, belligerent and technically inferior Sweden ended the four-time world champions’ hopes of reaching next year’s finals in Russia and with it the international careers of several of Italy’s biggest names.

The Swedes, whose starting lineup included only four players based with teams in Europe’s so-called big five leagues, will take their place after qualifying for the first time since 2006. Italy’s 1-0 aggregate defeat in their European playoff, after Jakob Johansson’s deflected strike in Stockholm, is likely to go down alongside elimination by North Korea at the 1966 World Cup as one of their greatest football debacles.

The Italians have only failed to qualify for the tournament once before - missing out on the 1958 finals in Sweden - after not entering the first World Cup in 1930. The players sank to their knees as the final whistle went, the starkest possible contrast to the Swedish joy, knowing that the match will leave an indelible stain on their careers.

It was also the tear-jerking end to the career of their 39-year-old goalkeeper and captain Gianluigi Buffon who made his Italy debut 20 years ago against Russia - on the last occasion that Italy had to face a playoff for a World Cup place.

SYDNEY - Honduras accused Australia of spying on their training sessions with a drone on Monday, as tensions heated up ahead of Wednesday’s decisive World Cup playoff match.

The Honduran National Football Federation (FENAFUTH) posed 18 seconds of

footage of a drone flying above Sydney’s Olympic Stadium, where the team trained on Monday after their long flight from central America.

“Australia spied on Honduras’s official training session from a drone, causing discomfort among the Honduran team

and delegation,” FENAFUTH said on its Twitter feed.

Honduras face the Socceroos at the same stadium on Wednesday night for the deciding second leg of their intercontinental playoff with the scores level at 0-0 after a tightly fought first leg in San Pedro Sula on Friday.

Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus has the technical ability and mental toughness to emulate former World

Cup winning striker Ronaldo, Dani Alves has said ahead of Tuesday’s friendly against England.

Jesus has enjoyed a terrific start to his club career in England with Manchester City and the 20-year-

REUTERS/Eric Vidal

United’s dip in form made it tough for me to score: Lukaku

REUTERS/Max Rossi

After a scrappy opening 20 minutes, Italy took Sweden’s Sebastian Larsson celebrates after control and pressed forward in waves. They had pen- the match

According to Honduran newspaper La Prensa, Honduras team management sent up drones of their own in 2016 to ensure no unauthorised party was monitoring their training sessions. Nobody at Football Federation Australia (FFA) was immediately available for comment. (rtr)

Jesus can emulate Brazil great Ronaldo, says Alves

Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring their second goal

“It’s upsetting that my last Italy game coincides with our elimination for the World Cup,” said Buffon, a World Cup winner in 2006. “That’s my only regret, because time goes by and its cruel but that’s how it is.” “Sport teaches you to lose and win as a group and share joy and pain. The coach has the same degree of blame as us.” Daniele De Rossi, Italy’s fearsome bearded midfielder who was surprisingly left on the bench on Monday, also announced his international retirement at 34 after 117 appearances.

Defenders Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli are almost certain to follow suit. However, Gian Piero Ventura, at 69 the oldest coach Italy has ever had, refused to confirm that he would step down, saying he needed to talk to the federation first.

Ventura made four changes to the team which lost 1-0 in Stockholm on Friday in the first leg and which was fiercely criticised for its lack of flair in attack. Brazilian-born midfielder Jorginho was thrust into his first competitive international while Napoli’s flamboyant winger Lorenzo Insigne was once again on the bench.

POOR FINISHING

Honduras accuses Australia of spying by drone before playoff

alty appeals turned down and were repeatedly denied by outstanding Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen but were also let down by some desperately poor finishing and final passes, possibly born of desperation. As the game wore on, Italy’s moves became more rushed and their passing increasingly sloppy and the clear-cut chances dried up.

There is likely to be some long and deep soulsearching once the dust has settled as Italians wonder how it all came to this. “I absolutely apologise for the result but not for the effort we put in or our desire to win,” said Ventura, whose deadpan style could not be further removed from the high-energy approach of his predecessor Antonio Conte.

His opposite number Jan Andersson admitted his side had to cling on to their first-leg lead. “We had no weapons left. We just had to sit there and hope that we could hang on,” he said. “We couldn’t do it in any other way, they are so skilful.” (rtr)

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Striker Romelu Lukaku believes his recent goal drought at Manchester United is a result of the club not playing at the level they did at the start of the Premier League season.

Lukaku has scored seven goals from 11 league games but has failed to find the net in the last four as United, who have lost two of their last three matches, dropped to second in the table, eight points below runaway leaders Manchester City.

The 24-year-old struck a brace for Belgium in Friday’s 3-3 draw in the friendly against Mexico and said he hoped to regain his scoring touch to help his club catch up with the leaders.

“We started by blowing teams away, being dominant and creating chances. But in the last few weeks, we didn’t play at the same level and that made it more difficult for me,” Lukaku told Sky Sports.

“That’s the sort of thing you have to go through in the season, but now there are players coming back from injury and hopefully we

can deliver performances even better than at the start of the season.

We can create more chances and goals.”

Lukaku said the return of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from injury will motivate him to do even better. The Swede is currently working his way towards regaining full fitness after suffering a knee injury last season.

“It motivates me really because he’s another good player to add to the squad... When you face a team like us, it’s difficult for opponents,” Lukaku said. “Ibrahimovic coming back will help us to chase Manchester City (in the title race).”

Lukaku’s brace in Brussels took his international tally to 30 goals to match Bernard Voorhoof and Paul van Himst and he could overtake them when Belgium face Japan in a friendly on Tuesday.

“I feel great... I was born to score,” added Lukaku. “I don’t think many strikers of my generation have as many goals as me.

I am like a leopard in the box.” (rtr)

Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus and Thiago Silva warm up before the match

REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

old has also formed a potent combination with Neymar that helped Brazil book their spot in next year’s

World Cup finals in Russia.

“I wasn’t joking when I called him the new Ronaldo,” Alves told British media of similarities to the three-times FIFA World Player of the Year. “He’s already great and will get better. For all that he’s done, all that he’s achieved, there’s no pressure. “He’s doing what he loves.”

Brazil come into the game at Wembley on the back of a 3-1 win over Japan in a friendly on Friday. (rtr)

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Sp rt Stunned Italy fail to reach World Cup as Sweden qualify

MILAN - Italian football boss Carlo Tavecchio said recently that failure to qualify for the World Cup would be the apocalypse and his worst fears came true on Monday as they missed out on the finals for the first time in 60 years. A desperate 0-0 draw at home to a defiant, belligerent and technically inferior Sweden ended the four-time world champions’ hopes of reaching next year’s finals in Russia and with it the international careers of several of Italy’s biggest names.

The Swedes, whose starting lineup included only four players based with teams in Europe’s so-called big five leagues, will take their place after qualifying for the first time since 2006. Italy’s 1-0 aggregate defeat in their European playoff, after Jakob Johansson’s deflected strike in Stockholm, is likely to go down alongside elimination by North Korea at the 1966 World Cup as one of their greatest football debacles.

The Italians have only failed to qualify for the tournament once before - missing out on the 1958 finals in Sweden - after not entering the first World Cup in 1930. The players sank to their knees as the final whistle went, the starkest possible contrast to the Swedish joy, knowing that the match will leave an indelible stain on their careers.

It was also the tear-jerking end to the career of their 39-year-old goalkeeper and captain Gianluigi Buffon who made his Italy debut 20 years ago against Russia - on the last occasion that Italy had to face a playoff for a World Cup place.

SYDNEY - Honduras accused Australia of spying on their training sessions with a drone on Monday, as tensions heated up ahead of Wednesday’s decisive World Cup playoff match.

The Honduran National Football Federation (FENAFUTH) posed 18 seconds of

footage of a drone flying above Sydney’s Olympic Stadium, where the team trained on Monday after their long flight from central America.

“Australia spied on Honduras’s official training session from a drone, causing discomfort among the Honduran team

and delegation,” FENAFUTH said on its Twitter feed.

Honduras face the Socceroos at the same stadium on Wednesday night for the deciding second leg of their intercontinental playoff with the scores level at 0-0 after a tightly fought first leg in San Pedro Sula on Friday.

Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus has the technical ability and mental toughness to emulate former World

Cup winning striker Ronaldo, Dani Alves has said ahead of Tuesday’s friendly against England.

Jesus has enjoyed a terrific start to his club career in England with Manchester City and the 20-year-

REUTERS/Eric Vidal

United’s dip in form made it tough for me to score: Lukaku

REUTERS/Max Rossi

After a scrappy opening 20 minutes, Italy took Sweden’s Sebastian Larsson celebrates after control and pressed forward in waves. They had pen- the match

According to Honduran newspaper La Prensa, Honduras team management sent up drones of their own in 2016 to ensure no unauthorised party was monitoring their training sessions. Nobody at Football Federation Australia (FFA) was immediately available for comment. (rtr)

Jesus can emulate Brazil great Ronaldo, says Alves

Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring their second goal

“It’s upsetting that my last Italy game coincides with our elimination for the World Cup,” said Buffon, a World Cup winner in 2006. “That’s my only regret, because time goes by and its cruel but that’s how it is.” “Sport teaches you to lose and win as a group and share joy and pain. The coach has the same degree of blame as us.” Daniele De Rossi, Italy’s fearsome bearded midfielder who was surprisingly left on the bench on Monday, also announced his international retirement at 34 after 117 appearances.

Defenders Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli are almost certain to follow suit. However, Gian Piero Ventura, at 69 the oldest coach Italy has ever had, refused to confirm that he would step down, saying he needed to talk to the federation first.

Ventura made four changes to the team which lost 1-0 in Stockholm on Friday in the first leg and which was fiercely criticised for its lack of flair in attack. Brazilian-born midfielder Jorginho was thrust into his first competitive international while Napoli’s flamboyant winger Lorenzo Insigne was once again on the bench.

POOR FINISHING

Honduras accuses Australia of spying by drone before playoff

alty appeals turned down and were repeatedly denied by outstanding Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen but were also let down by some desperately poor finishing and final passes, possibly born of desperation. As the game wore on, Italy’s moves became more rushed and their passing increasingly sloppy and the clear-cut chances dried up.

There is likely to be some long and deep soulsearching once the dust has settled as Italians wonder how it all came to this. “I absolutely apologise for the result but not for the effort we put in or our desire to win,” said Ventura, whose deadpan style could not be further removed from the high-energy approach of his predecessor Antonio Conte.

His opposite number Jan Andersson admitted his side had to cling on to their first-leg lead. “We had no weapons left. We just had to sit there and hope that we could hang on,” he said. “We couldn’t do it in any other way, they are so skilful.” (rtr)

LAST GAME

9

Striker Romelu Lukaku believes his recent goal drought at Manchester United is a result of the club not playing at the level they did at the start of the Premier League season.

Lukaku has scored seven goals from 11 league games but has failed to find the net in the last four as United, who have lost two of their last three matches, dropped to second in the table, eight points below runaway leaders Manchester City.

The 24-year-old struck a brace for Belgium in Friday’s 3-3 draw in the friendly against Mexico and said he hoped to regain his scoring touch to help his club catch up with the leaders.

“We started by blowing teams away, being dominant and creating chances. But in the last few weeks, we didn’t play at the same level and that made it more difficult for me,” Lukaku told Sky Sports.

“That’s the sort of thing you have to go through in the season, but now there are players coming back from injury and hopefully we

can deliver performances even better than at the start of the season.

We can create more chances and goals.”

Lukaku said the return of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from injury will motivate him to do even better. The Swede is currently working his way towards regaining full fitness after suffering a knee injury last season.

“It motivates me really because he’s another good player to add to the squad... When you face a team like us, it’s difficult for opponents,” Lukaku said. “Ibrahimovic coming back will help us to chase Manchester City (in the title race).”

Lukaku’s brace in Brussels took his international tally to 30 goals to match Bernard Voorhoof and Paul van Himst and he could overtake them when Belgium face Japan in a friendly on Tuesday.

“I feel great... I was born to score,” added Lukaku. “I don’t think many strikers of my generation have as many goals as me.

I am like a leopard in the box.” (rtr)

Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus and Thiago Silva warm up before the match

REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

old has also formed a potent combination with Neymar that helped Brazil book their spot in next year’s

World Cup finals in Russia.

“I wasn’t joking when I called him the new Ronaldo,” Alves told British media of similarities to the three-times FIFA World Player of the Year. “He’s already great and will get better. For all that he’s done, all that he’s achieved, there’s no pressure. “He’s doing what he loves.”

Brazil come into the game at Wembley on the back of a 3-1 win over Japan in a friendly on Friday. (rtr)

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Honda team principal Suppo to leave MotoGP HONDA announced the departure of MotoGP team principal Livio Suppo on Monday, a day after Spaniard Marc Marquez secured his fourth top-flight world championship in five years.

The 53-year-old Italian, who joined the Repsol Honda team from Ducati in 2010 and assumed the principal role in 2013, said he needed a change and was leaving the sport with a year to run on his contract.

“After 22 seasons in the motorcycle racing world, I feel that it is time for me to look for new challenges,” he said in a Honda statement.

“I leave HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) knowing that in 2018 they will be competitive, because Marc and Dani (Pedrosa) are very strong and the engineers will as always prepare a good package for them to fight for the championship again.”

Suppo oversaw five MotoGP titles in his time at Honda’s works team, with Australian Casey Stoner winning in 2011. Stoner also won the championship at Ducati in 2007, when Suppo was in charge there. (rtr)

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The tours can be enjoyed by all ages, especially those looking to enjoy the underwater beauty of tropical marine life, but do not have the expertise or diving experience, or simply don’t want to bother getting wet. Prior to boarding, a team of instructors brief passengers on safety instructions as life jackets are distributed. From the shore, a boat transports guests to the sub. Photos are taken on the deck before climbing down through the top hatch and removing the vests. Inside, wide chairs are lined up through the centre of the vessel.

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd after losing his singles match against Belgium’s David Goffin on day two of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the O2 Arena in London on November 13, 2017.

Nadal’s season ends in painful defeat by Goffin

LONDON - Rafael Nadal’s unforgettable season came to a painful end when he withdrew from the ATP Finals with a knee injury after defeat in his opening round-robin match against David Goffin on Monday.

The Spaniard, already assured of ending the year as world number one having won a 10th French Open title and the U.S. Open, was clearly hobbling as he went down 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4.

“No, I’m off,” the 31-year-old Nadal told reporters when asked if he would be fit enough to play his remaining round-robin matches against Dominic Thiem and Grigor Dimitrov.

“My season is finished. I had the commitment with the event, with the city, with myself. I tried hard.

“I did the thing that I had to do to try to be ready to play. But I am really not ready to play.

“I fought a lot during the match, but knowing that probably ...(it was going to be) the last match of the season.”

Two weeks ago Nadal had withdrawn from the Paris Masters before his quarter-final match after experiencing pain in his right knee.

He had hoped to recover in time to attempt to claim the only

major title to elude him -- having twice lost in the final.

There was no questioning his fighting spirit as he still managed to push world number eight Goffin all the way, saving four match points in the second set, but his movement was hampered in the final set.

He will now begin the process of recovering full fitness in time for the start of next year.

“I tried, but seriously it was a miracle to be very close in the score during the match,” Nadal, who missed the end of last season to fully recover from a wrist injury, said.

Nadal has been plagued by knee injuries throughout a career which has earned him 16 grand slam titles.

“I know what I have to do.

I know all the things that happened in the past when I had these things, and I know the treatment that I had to do,” he said.

“I know the periods of time that I need to work. Then if the treat-

ment works or not, we will see.

“The good thing is (this is) nothing new. Everybody in my team, we have the right experience (to deal with) this thing. We hope to manage it well, to have the right rest, the right work, and try to be ready for the beginning of the next season.”

Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta will now step in to complete Nadal’s round-robin matches.

Nadal, whose 75 career titles include only one indoors, said it had been “no fun” to play on Monday and he would have withdrawn even if he had beaten Goffin.

“Win or lose I was going to pull out because I was not enjoying on court at all,” he said. “Was not fun to play like this. I don’t deserve (this) after this great season to spend two more days on court with this terrible feelings.

“I am, of course, disappointed.

But I am not going to cry. I had a great season... (an) unforgettable one.” (rtr)

JOHANNES EISELE / AFP

This file photo taken on February 23, 2013 shows France’s David Poisson reacting during the FIS World Cup men’s downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany.

Frenchman Poisson dies in training accident

PARIS - French Alpine skier David Poisson has died following a crash during training at the Canadian resort of Nakiska, the French skiing federation said in a statement on Monday.

Poisson, 35, won the bronze medal in the downhill at the world championships in 2013.

A specialist in speed events, he finished seventh in the downhill event at the 2010 Olympics. He also took part in the 2014 Games.

The International Ski Federation said in a statement: “FIS extends its sincerest condolences to the team mates, friends, and loved ones of David Poisson... who died accidentally ... after a fall during downhill training at the Canadian resort of Nakiska.” (rtr)

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Iran ends quake rescue operations as hungry survivors battle the cold

ANKARA - Rescue operations have ended in areas of Iran hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands, state television reported on Tuesday, as many survivors, in need of food and water, battled the cold.

Sunday’s 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck villages and towns in the mountainous area of Kermanshah province that borders Iraq while many people were at home asleep. At least 14 provinces in Iran were affected.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in the morning in the earthquake-stricken area in Kermanshah and promised that the government “will use all its power to resolve the problems in the shortest time”.

State television said thousands were huddling in makeshift camps while many others spent a second night in the open for fear of more tremors after some 193 aftershocks.

A homeless young woman in Sarpol-e Zahab, one of the hardest-hit towns, told state TV that her family was exposed to the night cold because of lack of tents.

“We need help. We need everything. The authorities should speed up their help,” she said.

Television showed footage of rescue workers frantically combing through the rubble of dozens of villages immediately after the quake. But Iranian officials said the chances of finding any more survivors were extremely low.

“The rescue operations in Kermanshah province have ended,” Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services, said on state TV. Iran’s top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offered his condolences on Monday and

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called on government agencies to do all they could to help.

Iranian police, the elite Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated Basij militia forces were dispatched to affected areas on Sunday night.

BITTER COLD

Hospitals in nearby provinces took in many of the injured, state television said, airing footage of survivors waiting to be treated. Hundreds of critically injured people were dispatched to hospitals in Tehran.

Iran’s Red Crescent said emergency shelter had been provided for thousands of homeless people, but a lack of water and electricity as well as blocked roads in some areas hindered aid supply efforts.

Local authorities said traffic chaos on roads, caused by people from nearby provinces who were rushing to help, further hampered the flow of aid.

“People in some villages are still in dire need of food, water and shelter,” governor of Qasr-e Shirin Faramarz Akbari told state television.

More than 30,000 houses in the area were damaged and at least two villages were completely destroyed, Iranian authorities said.

Houses in Iranian villages are often made of concrete blocks or mudbrick that can crumble and collapse in a strong quake. Some people are angry that among the collapsed buildings were houses that the government has built in recent years under its affordable housing programme.

Iran is crisscrossed by major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that reduced the historic southeastern city of Bam to dust and killed some 31,000 people. (rtr)

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People gather around a levelled building in the mountainous town of Darbandikhan in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 13, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit the Iraq-Iran border area.

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Indonesian volunteers save six beached whales

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People walk out after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration’s emergency request to put his travel ban into effect immediately while the legal battle continues, in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2017.

U.S. court lets Trump travel ban go partially into effect

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday let President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Muslimmajority countries with no connections to the United States.

A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially granted a Trump administration request to block at least temporarily a judge’s ruling that had put the new ban on hold. Trump’s ban was announced on Sept. 24 and replaced two previous versions that had been impeded by federal courts.

The action means the ban will apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad who do not have connections to the United States.

Those connections are defined as family relationships and “formal, documented” relationships with U.S.-based entities such as universities and resettlement agencies.

Those with family relationships that would allow entry include grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people in the United States.

“We are reviewing the court’s order and the government will begin enforcing the travel proclamation consistent with the partial stay.

We believe that the proclamation should be allowed to take effect in its entirety,” Justice Department spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said.

The state of Hawaii, which sued to block the restrictions, argued that federal immigration law did not give Trump the authority to impose them on six of those countries. The lawsuit did not challenge restrictions toward people from the two other countries listed in Trump’s

ban, North Korea and Venezuela.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu ruled last month that Hawaii was likely to succeed with its argument.

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said the court’s decision tracked what the Supreme Court said in June when it partially revived Trump’s second travel ban, which has now expired.

“I’m pleased that family ties to the U.S., including grandparents, will be respected,” Chin added.

Separately on Monday, a group of refugee organizations and individuals filed a lawsuit in Seattle federal court challenging Trump’s decision to suspend entry of refugees from 11 countries, nine of which are majority Muslim, for at least 90 days.

Trump issued his first travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries in January, just a week after he took office, and then issued a revised one after the first was blocked by the courts. The second one expired in September after a long court fight and was replaced with another revised version.

Trump has said the travel ban is needed to protect the United States from terrorism by Muslim militants. As a candidate, Trump had promised “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Critics of the travel ban in its various iterations call it a “Muslim ban” that violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion.

The 9th Circuit is due to hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 6. In a parallel case from Maryland, a judge also ruled against the Trump administration and partially blocked the ban from going into effect. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesian volunteers managed to save six whales beached on the northern tip of Sumatra but four died, a conservation official said on Tuesday. The rescuers worked late into Monday night to free six of 10 massive sperm animals using ropes and patrol boats and turn them back into the waters off Aceh province.

“Some people got injured on the coral and the high tide was also an obstacle but we tried our best,” said Sapto Aji Prabowo, head of the

Aceh conservation agency. “It is an important lesson for us on how to evacuate such huge animals if it happens again.”

Prabowo said it was not known why the sperm whales, which among the biggest mammals on the planet, had washed up in shallow water.

“We plan to collect samples from the dead whales to determine the cause of death and for future research,” he said.

Officials will bury the dead whales as soon as possible as there is a risk of gases building up and causing the carcasses to explode.

Earlier this year, authorities in New Zealand had to cut holes in hundreds of pilot whales that washed up on beaches on the South Island to keep them from bloating and exploding. “If we leave them there to rot, that could also cause disease,” said Prabowo.

Volunteers will use excavators to move and bury the animals. An adult sperm whale can grow up to 12 metres and weigh up to 57 tonnes.

Though unusual, whale beachings have been seen in other parts of Indonesia, a vast archipelago of over 17,000 islands.

In 2016, 29 pilot whales were briefly trapped in a mangrove swamp off the eastern coast of Java, but managed to free themselves or were helped back out to sea by fishermen.

Officials previously said 12 whales had been stranded in Aceh. (rtr)

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Children look at a dead sperm whale, one of four that died after a small pod became stranded yesterday in Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia November 14, 2017.

Minister says government won’t achieve growth target

National Development Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro has expressed his pessimism that the government will achieve its target of 5.2 percent economic growth.

The estimation was made based on the 5.03 percent growth in the third quarter. “The government is struggling to achieve 5.2 percent economic growth,” said Bambang as quoted by tempo.co.

However, he added, to achieve the target, economic growth in the fourth quarter must reach 5.5 percent.

Even if the government could boost exports, investment and government spending in the fourth quarter, the economy is estimated to grow between 5.2 percent and 5.4 percent. In the third quarter,

investment grew 7.11 percent, while exports grew 17.27 percent. “So the economy will grow about 5.1 percent annually.” He added.

Bambang, however, expressed his optimism that in 2018, the economy could grow above 5.2 percent.

“But if investment grew similar to the level in the third quarter of 2017,” said Bambang.

Previously, Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo said the economic growth was supported by the development of infrastructure and government spending.

“In the first half of 2017, government spending was not optimal,” he said, adding that government spending was expected to improve in the second half. (ant)

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BUSINESS German economy powers on with trade, investments driving growth

BERLIN - Germany’s economy shifted into an even higher gear in the third quarter, propelled by buoyant exports and rising company investments in equipment, data showed on Tuesday.

In a further positive sign for Europe’s biggest economy, the ZEW institute said investor morale improved in November and prospects for the economy remained “encouragingly positive” thanks to high levels of growth across Europe.

Germany is enjoying a consumerled upswing, helped by record-high employment, moderate inflation and ultra-low borrowing costs. The upturn is boosting tax revenues and the budget surplus, which should help Chancellor Angela Merkel seal a tricky three-way coalition agreement in coming weeks.

Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.8 percent on the quarter, data from the Statistics Office showed on Tuesday. This beat a consensus forecast of in a Reuters poll of 0.6 percent, which was also the second quarter growth rate.

“The upswing continues and it’s broad-based,” Sal. Oppenheim economist Ulrike Kastens said, noting that companies were also contributing to the expansion by stepping up investments.

The German economy grew by 2.3 percent on the year in the third quarter, unadjusted data showed. This was in line with a consensus forecast.

Adjusted for calendar affects, the yearly growth rate rose to 2.8 percent in the July-September period from 2.3 percent in the previous quarter, the office said. This was the strongest reading since the beginning of 2014.

The Federal Statistics Office also revised up the quarterly growth rate

for the first quarter to 0.9 percent from 0.7 percent. “This makes an upward revision for overall growth estimates likely,” DekaBank analyst Andreas Scheuerle said.

The government expects the economy to grow 2.0 percent in 2017 and 1.9 percent in 2018. This would translate into calendar-adjusted rates of 2.2 percent and 2.0 percent respectively.

The Statistics Office said positive impulses for growth in the third quarter came mainly from net foreign trade as exports increased more strongly than imports.

“While state and household consumption remained roughly on the previous quarter’s level, gross capital investments contributed to overall growth,” the office said. “Especially investments in equipment rose on the quarter.”

In its monthly report, the economy ministry said that the solid economic upswing would stretch into the fourth quarter.

“The indicators point to a brisk continuation of the upswing in the final quarter of the year,” it said.

SHANGHAI - China’s main Shanghai stock market fell on Tuesday morning after a batch of data showed the economy cooled further last month and as Chinese treasury yields continued to creep up in a sign of tightening liquidity By lunch time, the Shanghai index was down 15.42 points or 0.45 percent at 3,432.41. Data on Tuesday showed that China’s economy lost steam in October, with industrial output, fixed asset investment and retail sales missing expectations as the government extended a crackdown on debt risks and factory pollution.

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A worker controls a tapping of a blast furnace at Europe’s largest steel factory of Germany’s industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in the western German city of Duisburg in this December 6, 2012 file photo.

BOOST FOR MERKEL The surprisingly strong figures will make welcome reading for Merkel as her conservatives try to forge a coalition government with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the left-leaning Greens, an alliance untested on a national level.

“As firms are now investing more, this will also increase productivity,”

DZ Bank analyst Michael Holstein said. “This can also lead to stronger pay hikes - the upswing is entering a new phase.”

But the upswing in Europe’s biggest economy has yet to start pushing up inflation on a sustained basis.

EU-harmonised consumer prices edged down 0.1 percent in October from the previous month, separate data from the Statistics Office showed.

The annual inflation rate fell to 1.5

percent from 1.8 percent in September, dropping further below the European Central Bank’s target of nearly 2 percent despite its unprecedented monetary stimulus programme.

The Mannheim-based ZEW research institute said its monthly survey on investor morale showed that its economic sentiment index rose to 18.7 from 17.6 in October.

A separate gauge measuring investors’ assessment of the economy’s current conditions shot up to 88.8

from 87.0 last month.

“The prospects for the German economy remain encouragingly positive,” ZEW President Achim Wambach said, adding that strong growth rates across Europe were supporting future growth in Germany and boosting expectations for the coming six months.

“This favourable economic climate should be used to create a stronger and more robust basis for future growth,” Wambach added. (rtr)

Sentiment was further dented by signs that liquidity in the banking system remains tight, with China’s benchmark 10-year treasury yields almost touching 4 percent, the highest level in three years.

The smaller Shenzhen index was down 0.6 percent while H-shares listed in Hong Kong fell 0.39 percent at 11,639.14.

China’s blue-chip CSI300 index was down 0.7 percent, with its financial sector sub-index off 0.48 percent, the consumer staples sector down 1.6 percent, the real estate index up 1.33 percent and healthcare sub-

index down 0.78 percent. Around the region, MSCI’s Asia ex-Japan stock index slipped 0.2 percent.

The largest percentage gainers in the main Shanghai Composite index were SJEC Corp, up 10.03 percent, followed by Hebei Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co Ltd gaining 10 percent and Shanghai Material Trading Co Ltd , up by 9.99 percent.

The largest percentage losses in the index were Hna Innovation Co Ltd, down 6.19 percent, followed by Hubei Wuchangyu Co Ltd losing 4.95 percent and BTG Hotels Group Co Ltd down by 4.76 percent.

So far this year, the Shanghai stock index is up 11.09 percent, while China’s H-share index is up 24.4 percent, supported by a domestic economic recovery that benefited from fiscal stimulus and a construction boom.

Shanghai stocks have risen 1.6 percent this month.

The top gainers among H-shares were Air China Ltd up 2.75 percent, followed by China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd gaining 2.53 percent and Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd up 2 percent.

The three biggest H-shares percentage decliners were PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd which fell 2.83 percent, China Telecom Corp Ltd down 1.8 percent and China Pacific Insurance Group Co Ltd off 1.6 percent.

China’s A-shares were trading at a premium of 28.62 percent over the Hong Kong-listed H-shares.(rtr)

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Mapinton, a Tradition of Self-Notification at Temple

Many traditions are carried out by Hindu communities in Bali. Moreover, such traditions are closely related to religion.

One of the traditions remaining to be practiced by the people until now is mintonang toddlers / children that are newly invited to say prayers, both in merajan, clan temple and village trinity temple. Mapinton is one of the traditions that Balinese society possesses, chiefly those remaining to undertake it. The tradition is carried out in relation to family members that have toddlers that are newly invited to say prayers.

“Mapinton tradition is carried out as a form of self-notification on the existence of new family members, especially newborn toddlers and are first invited to say prayers to the temple,” said Ida Rsi Bhagawan Smerti Kusuma Wijaya Sebali.

Ida Rsi gave an example. Devotees should do mapinton for the newborn toddlers at clan temple (kawitan) or at village trinity temple. It is meant to notify that there is a new family member by mentioning the name of the toddlers to Ida Bhatara abiding in the temple and expressing gratitude because they have been endowed with the offspring. In addition, mapinton also states that the newborn toddlers will be bound by the rules contained in the temple, especially related to the implementation of Hindu religious ceremonies.

Mapinton is not only implemented for the newborn toddlers,

but also by dancers that will dance having just held the initiation process (mediksa) at their spiritual teacher. “It has similar meaning namely as notification in the holy place, clan temple, village trinity temple or other sanctums,” said Ida Rsi. Actually, the mapinton means the initiation of self-notification regarding what will be done.

Even though the implementation is different, the most important thing is the purpose of implementing the mapinton tradition.

Regarding the age of the toddlers that can carry out the tradition in the temple, Ida said that it can be carried out after 42 days or in accordance with location, time and condition (desa, kala, patra). In one region, toddlers are allowed to do mapinton tradition just after three months old. “By and large, the toddlers having been one month and seven days old (42 days) can be invited to

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say prayers, starting with mapinton.”

Regarding the course of mapinton tradition, the procedures must be implemented in outermost courtyard first, in representative shrine, and

then resumed to the innermost courtyard of the temple (uttama mandala). The ritual paraphernalia in use usually consists of banten pejati.

Is the mapinton tradition only held in clan temple or village

trinity temple? Ida asserted if possible, mapinton is also carried out in all the temples visited, such as the Kahyangan Jagat (universal temple) and Dang Kahyangan (tribute temple to ancient sages). (kmb)

Make Special Look with Bracelet, Get Interested?

China stocks fall on higher bond yields, weak data; Hong Kong little changed

Hong Kong In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng stock market was up 0.1 percent at 29,198.17. The sub-index of the Hang Seng index tracking energy shares dipped 0.8 percent while the IT sector rose 0.2 percent.

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Bracelet accessory handicraft combining buffalo horn and gold is never deserted of the enthusiasts. A bracelet with a dragon head carving is still hunted by consumers, especially men to serve as complementary accessories when putting customary attires.

An accessory craftsman combining buffalo horn and gold from Bangli, Nyoman Sukanta, said that such combined bracelet is actually not new creation. This bracelet has been on the market since the 1990s. Nevertheless, consumer demand for this blackbased color bracelet never subsides. “So far, there are still many demands. Aside from the elderly, many young people still favor it as well,” he explained.

He added the bracelet with circular design and a dragon head at one end is able to make people’s appearance wearing it look more preferred. It is especially when they are wearing Balinese attires.

To make this combined bracelet, he uses buffalo horn as the

main material. The making process is by carving it manually.

Once formed, the semi-finished bracelet is then decorated with gold carvings. At least, this bracelet requires about 5 grams of gold.

Other than gold, the combined bracelet can also be optionally replaced with silver carvings.

But in general, consumers are more interested in gold carvings. “I produce this craftwork in cooperation with my nephew who is a goldsmith,” said the man who is also craftsman engraving ostrich eggs.

To make a combined bracelet, it takes him approximately one week. It happens because he is quite difficult to get the material especially buffalo horn, and the entire manufacturing process is still carried out manually.

Sukanta told the price varies depending on the size and the gold carvings installed as decoration on the bracelet. The lowest price usually set for consumers is approximately IDR 2 million. (kmb)

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Besakih tourist object reopened

Defecting N.Korean soldier critical after escape in hail of bullets

Hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan return home

Canada’s Trudeau raises rights issues as Asia summit winds down

SEOUL - A North Korean soldier is expected to survive critical wounds he received when his old comrades fired a hail of bullets at him as he made a defection dash to South Korea, the South’s government and military said on Tuesday.

The soldier had on Monday sped towards the border in a “peace village” in the heavily guarded demilitarised zone, in a four-wheel drive vehicle.

But when a wheel came loose, he fled on foot as four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at him, said Suh Wook, chief director of operations at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefing lawmakers.

“Until this morning, we heard he had no consciousness and was unable to breathe on his own but his life can be saved,” Suh said.

Surgeons had removed five bullets from the soldier’s body, leaving two inside, Suh added, to murmurs from lawmakers who said the soldier’s escape was “right out of a movie”.

The soldier took cover behind a South Korean structure in a Joint Security Area (JSA) inside the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas.

South Korean and U.S. soldiers, fearing more North Korean fire, later crawled to him to rescue him, the United Nations Command said in a separate statement.

North Korea has not said anything about the soldier. Its military had not given any indication of unusual movements on Tuesday, the South’s military said.

While on average more than 1,000 North Koreans defect to the South every year, most travel via China and it is unusual for a North Korean to cross the land border dividing the two Koreas, which have been in a technical state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

The U.N. Command, in place since the end of the war, said an investigation into the incident was being conducted.

South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said it was the first time North Korean soldiers had fired towards the South’s side of the JSA, prompting complaints from some lawmakers that the South’s military should have returned fire.

Moon Sang-gyun, the South’s defence ministry spokesman, said military operations at the JSA were usually conducted under the orders of the U.N. Command, which is in turn under orders from the U.S. military. (rtr)

There was no pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump over the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs during a meeting on Monday with President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of the summit.

A joint statement after the meeting said the two sides “underscored that human rights and the dignity of human life are essential, and agreed to continue mainstreaming the human rights agenda in their national programmes.”

However, Trudeau said that during his conversation with Duterte in Manila, he “mentioned human rights, rule of law and specifically extrajudicial killings as being an issue that Canada is concerned with.”

“The president was receptive to my comments and it was throughout a very cordial and positive exchange,” Trudeau told a news conference.

More than 3,900 pushers and users have been killed in the war on drugs that Duterte declared when he took office last year. His government says the police act in self-defence, but

South Korean soldiers walk past birds as they patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the demilitarized zone (DMZ), which separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, March 11, 2013.

BANGLI — Hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan hamlet, Besakih, Rendang, that all this time have been occupying the Nakula Building at the Kubu Bangli evacuation post decided to go home. They begin to leave the evacuation post following the re-opening of schools and Besakih tourist object since the alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch in the past two weeks.

The information compiled at the Mount Agung Disaster Relief Post in Bangli on Monday (Nov. 13) mentioned that hundreds of refugees from Besakih Kawan began to leave the evacuation post around 10:00. In addition, the refugees from Besakih Kangin were also reported to have returned home.

One of the officers when met at the post said the homecoming of several refugees from Besakih Kawan had come to the post and asked for permission to go home.

They went home with personal belongings by vehicle. “They also ask for permission to return to the post if the eruption happens later on,” he said.

The officer added the refugees chose to go home even though their village is included in the disaster-prone area (KRB) III because the village area is considered safe. Moreover, since

the decrease in the alert level of Mount Agung from warning to watch, some schools and Besakih tourist attraction have been reopened. “Some refugees have profession as merchant so they choose to go home after the Besakih attraction was re-opened,” he said.

Other than refugees returning home, on the other hand, there are also Karangasem residents evacuating to Bangli. Approximately they consist of five people originating from Kesimpar hamlet, Besakih. Before evacuating to Bangli, they had to evacuate at Rendang village. At Kubu Refugee Post, they currently occupy the Bima Building.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Disaster Emergency Response Post, Wayan Karmawan, through Section Head of Emergency of the BPBD, Ketut Agus Sutapa, said the total refugees that have returned home

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Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte holds hands with Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a family photo during the ASEAN-Canada 40th anniversary commerative summit in metro Manila, Philippines November 14, 2017.

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Hundreds of refugees begin to leave the evacuation post following the re-opening of schools and Besakih tourist object since the alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch in the past two weeks. reached 144 people, where 33 families (118 people) of whom come from Besakih Kawan, while six other families (26 people) come from Besakih Kangin.

Agus Sutapa added that currently the refugees remaining to survive in Bangli region amount to approximately 300 people. A total of 241 people are accommo-

dated in Kubu and Gurukula, and 72 of them occupy the SKB posts.

“The surviving refugees are from Ban village and several other red zones,” he said. (kmb40)

Tabanan Fiesta 1 held in Marga

Village declares to stop defecate carelessly

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The event was graced with various art performances presented by local artists and youths.

TABANAN — Tabanan Fiesta 1 event was held on Sunday night (Nov. 12). This time, the event in the form of roadshow was meant to jazz up the commemoration of the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town held in Marga subdistrict.

The event was also filled with declaration of Open-Defecation Free (ODF) or stop to defecate carelessly by Peken village, Belayu. The declaration aims at raising public awareness to live cleanly by defecating in its place and increase the ownership of toilet in the community.

This activity was officially opened by Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Komang Gede Sanjaya.

Apart from the declaration of the ODF, the event was graced with various art performances presented by local artists and youths. They included music and Sekar Pelangi ethnic dance by Selem Bawak, gender gamelan

music from Ole village, Bumbung Gebyok from Pinge village and Janger Dance by Geluntung village which is rarely performed.

“In this event, we should appreciate to some innovations such as the Sekar Pelangi Ethnic Dance that looks different from other dances. This makes Tabanan have many dance artists from various studios,” he said.

According to him, the innovation marked the excitement of the community, especially the young men, in running and developing the tradition inherited from the ancestors. In addition, Deputy Regent Sanjaya also appreciated to Janger Dance presented by Geluntung village, Marga. This dance is very rarely performed by people in the community events, and this time appeared in a series of roadshow related to the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town in

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Marga subdistrict.

Deputy Regent Sanjaya hoped the moment of commemorating the 524th anniversary of Tabanan town could be an opportunity to develop all the potentials owned by each subdistrict in Tabanan in all areas such as the art, culture and economy.

Chairman of the Committee who is also subdistrict head of Marga, I Gusti Agung Alit Adiatmika, in his speech said that he would like to develop people’s creativity in Marga subdistrict for the Tabanan Fiesta 1, so that people can enjoy the art performance from various villages in Marga subdistrict. Besides, it is also a good moment for people to get entertainment as well as foster their love and preserve Balinese culture for next generation, especially in Marga subdistrict to realize sustainable Bali,” he affirmed. (kmb24)

MANILA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the plight of Rohingya refugees and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at a summit of Asian and Western leaders on Tuesday, sensitive human rights issues skirted by almost all the others. critics say executions are taking place with no accountability.

Duterte cursed Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, last year for raising concerns about the war on drugs and he subsequently declared that he was breaking with the United States, a close ally of the Philippines since World War Two. Trump, by contrast, said on Monday he had a “great relationship” with Duterte.

ROHINGYA CRISIS Trudeau said he also met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and raised the plight of Rohingya refugees, although he did not mention the Muslim minority by name.

“This is a tremendous concern to Canada and to many, many countries around the world,” he said.

The government in mostly-Buddhist Myanmar regards the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and does not recognise the term.

Over 600,000 Rohingya have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh since military clearance operations were

launched in response to attacks by Rohingya militants on Aug. 25.

The plight of the Rohingya has brought outrage from around the world and there have been calls for democracy champion Suu Kyi to be stripped of the Nobel peace prize she won in 1991 because she has not condemned the military’s actions.

Some countries in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly Muslimmajority Malaysia, have voiced strong concern over the issue recently.

However, in keeping with ASEAN’s principle of non-interference in each others’ internal affairs, it appeared to have been put aside at the summit, which brought Southeast Asian nations together with the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia and Canada.

The summit ends later on Tuesday, also bringing to a close Trump’s marathon trip to Asia that took him to Japan, South Korea, China and Vietnam as well as the Philippines. (rtr)

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Meet the Company That’s Using Face Recognition to Reshape China’s Tech Scene

BEIJING - In China, you can use your face to get into your office, get on a train, or get a loan. in China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.

Employees at e-commerce giant Alibaba in Shenzhen can show their faces to enter their office building instead of swiping ID cards. A train station in western Beijing matches passengers’ tickets to their government-issued IDs by scanning their faces. If their face matches their ID card photo, the system deems their tickets valid and the station gate will open. The subway system in Hangzhou, a city about 125 miles southwest of Shanghai, employs surveillance cameras capable of recognizing faces to spot suspected criminals.

The technology powering many of these applications? Face++, the world’s largest face-recognition technology platform, currently used by more than 300,000 developers in 150 countries to identify faces, as well as images, text, and various kinds of government-issued IDs. Other Chinese companies, such as Baidu and the startup SenseTime, also provide face-recognition technology to developers, but Face++’s popularity has been a boon for Megvii, the Beijing-based company that created and runs the platform. Founded in 2011 by three Tsinghua University graduates, Megvii is now valued at roughly a billion dollars and boasts approximately 530 employees, up from about 30 employees in 2014.

Megvii believes that as the Internet takes over more and more

commercial and social functions, face recognition will become part of the Web’s infrastructure as a means of identification, though only for activities that require real identities. Other tech companies seem to be betting on this scenario, too; Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones support face recognition (for unlocking the devices), and Apple is rumored to be equipping its upcoming iPhone 8 with the technology.

Face ID, Megvii’s online identity authentication platform, is one way Face++ is being integrated into the Internet’s infrastructure.

(Face ID’s face-comparison API interface utilizes Face++ technology.) Nearly 90 percent of China’s roughly 200 top Internet companies use Face ID, according to Yin. It’s particularly popular with online financial services since they need to authenticate user identities remotely. (To avoid people tricking them with a photograph, these apps usually perform a “liveness test” that requires users to speak or move their heads.)

Xiaohua, which operates a virtual bank that grants loans and offers payments by installments through a mobile app called Xiaohua Qianbao (“Little Flower Wallet”), is a typical Face ID customer.

Users scan their face using the app to get approved for loans and to ensure that nobody can authorize actions in the app if their phone is lost or stolen. “Xiaohua Qianbao is a purely online borrowing and lending product, so our first need is fraud prevention,” says Lingpeng

Huang, a cofounder of Xiaohua.

“Face recognition has eliminated the risk of fake identities.”

Megvii trains the algorithms that power Face++ and Face ID by feeding large data sets into a deeplearning engine called Brain++.

(Deep learning involves feeding examples into a large, many-layered neural network, and tweaking its parameters until it accurately recognizes the desired features, such as a particular person’s face.)

To amass huge amounts of training data, Megvii let most developers use Face++ for free during the platform’s first two years of availability in 2012 and 2013. Megvii also purchases photos from data-collection companies to aid its training. The company built Brain++ in 2015 and says having a self-developed deep-learning engine helps it train its algorithms more efficiently. “[It] translates into more competitiveness for our products,” says Jian Sun, Megvii’s chief scientist.

Another advantage of having its own deep-learning platform: Megvii can customize its facerecognition technology for different customers easily. That matters because a police department, for example, will value accuracy above everything else, but a company looking to use face recognition in a mobile app needs to ensure that the software is small enough to fit inside the app—without sacrificing too much accuracy.

When CEO Qi Yin launched Megvii, he wanted to gain traction in a few key areas. “An AI com-

pany has to be No. 1 in one or two core industries first [to succeed],” he says.

Now that Face++ is entrenched in banking and finance, Megvii’s cofounders have plans to integrate its face recognition and other computer-vision technologies into more industries, such as retail and

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House found blazing, now sleeps under tarp

self-driving cars. For that to happen, the company needs to show those industries how they will benefit, such as how much fraud its technology can reduce every year, says Jiansheng Chen, an associate professor at Tsinghua University who studies computer vision. (IBP/ net)

DECREASE in the alert level to watch of Mount Agung makes refugees relieved. They rushed home after getting confidence if the situation is already improving. However, the couple refugees namely Made Astawa and Ni Luh Suami experienced a disaster when returning home. Their simple house was on fire coinciding with Kuningan feast day or Saturday morning (Nov. 11). Now, this small family with single child is forced to sleep under tarpaulin around their burned building.

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Badung in first alert to face marine debris MANGUPURA — To anticipate rainy season that already commenced, various preparations have been made by the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (DLHK). In addition to be on mainland, waste problem has started to haunt coastal areas.

When confirmed on Monday (Nov. 13), the Head of DLHK Badung, Putu Eka Merthawan, said that at this time his agency already began to deal with natural conditions coinciding with the arrival of sea breezes and conditions on mainland. For mainland, it began to be surrounded by rain that results in flooding phenomenon.

Then for the sea, his agency will be surely faced with marine debris.

“On mainland, the rain will result in flooding phenomenon that will cause waste, while for the sea, we will be definitely faced with marine debris,” he said.

Eka Merthawan said that his agency is ready to face such phenomenon. Firstly, for the sea his

agency had prepared quick response officers, while on mainland he will optimize the officers in charge of sweeping road side.

“Our employee almost reaches 700 people. They are ready to work all out in resolving waste problem,” he concluded.

To overcome the waste from the sea, now his agency has received an additional loader. Thus, his agency has owned totally four units of loader. In addition, he has alerted trucks. Although the number is still lacking, he claimed to be optimizing them.

The loaders will be operated in crucial locations. Certainly, it will be adjusted to condition in the field. Obviously, his agency kept on making preparation. Moreover, he already announced that Badung is currently in the first alert to face garbage. “Currently, the condition remains normal, but we are in alert condition. Hopefully, the waste conditions will not the same as three years ago,” he hoped. (kmb23)

This resident of Darmawinangun administrative hamlet, Tianyar village, Kubu, finally came home to celebrate Kuningan after the condition is considered safe. His area belongs to a safe zone after Mount Agung is declared to be in the watch alert level as their area belongs to disaster-prone area (KRB) II. After getting happy as they are able to go home, around 04:00, this family was prepared to say prayers. After that, they put offerings as usual around the house. Upon completion at home, the family planed to continue praying to the location where they fled around the Peradi area, Songan village, Bangli.

After leaving home, around 07:30, the surrounding residents saw flaming fire and burned out the whole simple house. A blast of strong winds around this area made the fire quickly spread to all this family’s prop-

erty to the ground. Moreover, his house is walled with plaited bamboo and roofed with used zinc. “Apparently, it was triggered by incense smoke,” said a member of Karangasem House of Representatives from local village, Komang Musna Antara, who had seen the last condition of the victim’s house at Darmawinangun administrative hamlet, on Sunday (Nov. 12).

He admitted to be concerned about the condition of the family. They have nothing else left. Moreover, his simple house was built on other’s land or they are just sharecroppers. In order to survive, the victim’s possession left is only a piece of tarpaulin. To shelter from rain and the sun, this family spreads the tarpaulin next to the burned simple building.

“Temporarily, they sleep on the tarpaulin first, while waiting for emergency assistance from the village or the Social Service of Karangasem,” said Musna Antara, a politician of Golkar Party.

He hoped the village authority, Social Service or the private sectors can immediately help this family.

At least, there are emergency assistances like kitchen utensils, bedding and groceries, before this family can support themselves because they have long been unemployed while evacuating. He himself has contacted directly the Head of Karangasem Social Services, Puspa Kumari. As planned, Musna Antara will facilitate this family to get the home refurbishment program. He hoped this plan can be realized in 2018. (kmb31)

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Devy Syahbana added the drone flight will still be done in the north or in Kubu because in Kubu there is a long enough runway to fly the drone. “To fly a drone indeed takes a long runway. If the land area is not sufficient, the drone cannot fly,” she said.

She said the drone flight will be done to know the latest development occurred at the bottom of Mount Agung after the alert level was lowered on October 29. Results of the monitoring through the drone will be used as reference to determine the status of Mount Agung whether it will remain at watch alert level or

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lowered to advisory.

“To reduce to advisory alert level, we will obviously observe first the development of the mountain after the monitoring through the air or other supporting equipment installed to monitor Mount Agung. If the magmatic gas and seismicity stays high as well as other activities have not showed a decline, the alert level will remains on watch. If all the parameters have decreased, we will possibly lower the alert level.

Before decreasing, we will definitely do evaluation again,” said Devy Syahbana.

When asked about the latest development of Mount Agung, Syahbana stated the seismicity is still high that can be seen from the smoke coming out this morning (Monday—Ed) that remained quite high.

Moreover, it was accompanied with a fairly large gas secretion. Considering the magmatic gas stays high, it means there are still activities in the volcano.

Likewise, the mountain expansion reaches 6 cm and has not experienced deflation. So far, the deflation is still the same.

“Until now, the magma has not frozen and the energy supply remains in the magma chamber as evidenced by the outflow of smoke to the surface. These indicate there remains a warming in the volcano. If there is no heating, there is no smoke coming out of the cracks at the bottom of the crater,” added Devy Syahbana. (kmb41)

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AMLAPURA - After the alert level of Mount Agung was lowered from level IV (warning) to level III (watch), the Center for Volcanology Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) will fly a drone again to monitor the latest development at the bottom of the crater. The drone flight is scheduled to be held on November 18.

“We are going to fly two drones to monitor the bottom of Mount Agung crater. They are our newly purchased drones. One will be used specifically for thermal and visual monitoring.

Another drone is used to monitor the gases in Mount Agung,” said Subdivision Head of Eastern Region Volcanic Mitigation, Devy Kamil Syahbana, on Monday (Nov. 13).

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AMLAPURA - Alert level of Mount Agung has been lowered to watch for two weeks, but the activities of this highest volcano in Bali stays to seriously affect the tourism industry of Karangasem. Only a few tourist attractions look active. Chairman of Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem, I Wayan Tama, revealed this on Monday (Nov. 13). “Since the announcement of the warning alert level until now, there are 3,000 cancellations of hotel reservation,” he said.

Cancellation of the planned tourist visits to Karangasem is certainly more than this number because 3,000 cancellations are just obtained from the three safe areas namely Candidasa, Padangbai and Sidemen. As for the area of Amed to Tulamben in Kubu and Abang subdistrict it is practically zero since the announcement of warning alert level. In Kubu and Abang areas, according to Tama, there are at least 1,500 rooms ranging from starrated to jasmine category hotel.

This member of Karangasem parliament did not dismiss that until now only Candidasa, Padangbai and Sidemen remain to survive. Meanwhile, the other tourist areas are still very sluggish. Several hotels in Tulamben and Amed areas offering underwater tourism have started to operate. However, tourist visits are still very minimal.

“Amed belonging to safe area has not recovered. A number of hotels and restaurants are open again but the level of occupancy remains very minimal,” he said while adding that tourist visit to Karangasem stays to be dominated

by European tourists. A businessman from Amed, I Ketut Dayuh, acknowledged that Amed tourism remains sluggish. This owner of Arya Amed Beach Resort admitted that November

belongs to a low season.

However, the current conditions are very severe even though Amed actually belongs to a safe zone because it is about 25 kilometers from the summit of Mount Agung. “Last year, it was much more crowded. Only two of totally 24 rooms at my hotel were occupied,” he explained.

Dayuh himself is said to be an optimistic person. He is confident that Amed can still survive despite the increased volcanic activities of Mount Agung. However, to realize it, he hoped the district government in particular could take advantage of this situation to do improvement.

Other than improvement to infrastructure such as roads leading to and in Amed region, it should also do arrangements in transportation sector.

According to him, all this time Amed and other tourist attractions in Kubu and Abang subdistrict areas become the second choice for foreign tourists due to transportation constraints. To reach Kubu or Abang, tourists must spend at least IDR 500,000 for return transportation. “Tourists coming with a small budget will become reluctant to make a visit. The money as much as IDR 500,000 at least can be spent for a one-night stay at jasmine hotel in Kuta area,” he explained.

The hope to district government of Karangasem to make the current condition of Mount Agung into a moment of improving the supporting tourism facilities was also revealed by Wayan Tama. At the same time, the government must also promote that many attractions in Karangasem remain safe to be visited. “One of which can be realized by inviting foreign travel agencies. Through them, indirectly we can fight the fake news about Karangasem,” he concluded. (117)

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DUBLIN - Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “a hand maiden to genocide” on Monday as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims.

“I don’t want to be on a very select roll of wonderful people with a killer,” Geldof told state broadcaster RTE. “Someone who is at best a handmaiden to genocide and an accomplice to murder.”

More than 600,000 Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh after military operations described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Their plight has drawn outrage around the world. But Suu Kyi, long seen as a champion of human rights, has been criticsed for failing to speak out against violence. There have been calls for her to be stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991.

Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of Dublin in 1999 while she was held under house arrest by Mayanmar’s then military government. She received her award at a reception in Ireland in 2012, two years after her release.

“Her association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default. We honoured her, now she appals and shames us,” Geldof said in a statement.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Micheal Mac Donncha, said the city council had discussed taking away the honour and the matter was still under review.

Last month she was stripped of a similar honour by the British university city of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate.

But Mac Donncha, a councillor for the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, also criticised Geldof’s gesture, saying it was ironic as Geldof held a British knighthood despite “the shameful record of British imperialism across the globe”.

The former Boomtown Rats singer was given an honorary knighted in 1986 in recognition of his charity work, including organising the 1985 Live Aid concert to help those suffering from starvation and disease in Ethiopia.

Other foreign recipients of the Freedom of Dublin include John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev. (rtr)

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Director and star James Franco (C) and cast members (L to R) Nathan Fielder, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Ari Graynor and Josh Hutcherson, arrive for the gala presentation of “The Disaster Artist” at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 12, 2017.

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LOS ANGELES - When James Franco set out to direct “The Disaster Artist,” a faux behindthe-scenes look at the making of 2003’s “The Room,” often called one of the worst films ever made, he said it was not to poke fun at the “Room” creator Tommy Wiseau.

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Bob Geldof arrives to return his ‘Freedom of the City of Dublin’ with local councillor Mannix Flynn and Oonagh Casey of Dublin’s City Manager’s office, after saying he could not continue to hold the honour with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Dublin, Ireland, November 13, 2107.

Franco, who also stars as the eccentric, strangely accented Wiseau in “The Disaster Artist,” said he believed the film conveyed Wiseau’s passion for the medium, despite “The Room” being critically panned.

“He is an artist in that sense, so (‘The Room’) is a disaster and it’s a piece of art,” Franco said in an interview at Sunday’s premiere of “The Disaster Artist” at the American Film Institute (AFI) festival in Los Angeles.

Franco recruited his brother Dave Franco to star as Wiseau’s co-star

and friend Greg Sestero, who cowrote the book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made,” which Franco’s film is based on.

“We never wanted to make fun of ‘The Room’ or Tommy Wiseau,” said Dave Franco.

“On the contrary, we wanted to celebrate Tommy and we wanted to celebrate this movie and celebrate people who have dreams and don’t take no for an answer,” he added.

In “The Disaster Artist,” rolling out in U.S. theaters from Dec. 1, Wiseau and Sestero become

disillusioned with Hollywood and decide to make their own film, which Wiseau funded, directed and starred in.

The film shows that even now, nobody knows Wiseau’s age, where he is originally from and how he had $6 million to create the “worst film ever made.”

“People would make fun of ‘The Room’ but 15 years later it’s still selling out cinemas across the world,” Sestero said.

“At this point, how can you call it the worst movie? It’s a success, you know.” (rtr)

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Smog chokes Indian capital as emergency measures fail to bring relief NEW DELHI - A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is well into its second week. A U.S. embassy measure showed levels of poisonous airborne particles, known as PM 2.5, had reached 498 on Monday afternoon, compared with the upper limit of “good” quality air at 50.

India’s weather office said rain was forecast over the next three days which could help clear the smog. “Light rainfall is likely in states surrounding Delhi and in Delhi over the next three days, and this could result in a change in wind pattern in the region,” Charan Singh, a scientist at India Meteorological Department, told Reuters.

“Smog will start to abate starting tomorrow.” But Skymet, India’s only private weather forecaster, said dense smog would continue over Delhi and the surrounding area for at least the next two days.

The Supreme Court is due to hear a petition filed by a New Delhi lawyer to direct government authorities to

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The Delhi state government declared a public health emergency last week after pollution levels spiked, a yearly phenomenon blamed on a combination of illegal crop burning in northern states, vehicle exhaust and dust. Over the weekend, authorities began using fire trucks to spray water in parts of the capital to keep the dust and other air particles down, but it has had little effect.

A senior federal government official said there was little more that could be done. “We can only do this much, and now we will have to wait for rains to clean the atmosphere,”

said Prashant Gargava, an official at the Central Pollution Control Board.

Gargava, who is in charge of monitoring air quality, said Delhi’s air has been consistently in the “hazardous” zone, despite measures such as a halt to construction and increasing car parking charges four-fold to encourage people to use public transport.

EVERY BREATH The PM 2.5 airborne particles are about 30 times finer than a human hair. The particles can be inhaled deep into the lungs, causing respiratory diseases and other ailments. Hospitals have seen a surge of patients coming in with respiratory complaints, according

to media reports. “Every second we are damaging our lungs, but we cannot stop breathing,” said Arvind Kumar, the head of the chest and lung surgery department at the Sir Ganga Ram hospital.

United Airlines said it had resumed flights from Newark, New Jersey, to New Delhi on Sunday, after suspending the service temporarily over concern about the bad air. Authorities decided to reopen schools on Monday after closing them temporarily for a few days last week, but the decision is likely to add more vehicles on the road. Enforcement agencies said they were unable to impose a blanket ban on the movement of commercial trucks.

Primary school teacher Aarti Menon said her family had been wearing face masks, even when indoors.

“Not everyone can afford an air purifier or air-conditioned car. We are all living in hell,” said Menon,

a mother of two teenage daughters.

The National Green Tribunal, an environment court, has directed the city government and neighbouring states to stop farmers from burning crop stubble. But the governments have not been able to do so.

New Delhi-based non-government group TARA Homes for Children, which supports 60 poor children, said it was seeking donations to buy at least five air purifiers. “Some of the children have breathing issues and couldn’t go to school,” said a volunteer at the group.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.