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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

‘Beauty and the Beast’ Smashes Records With Towering $170 Million Debut

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Canada’s asylum process

Depending on where an asylum seeker claims asylum, the process differs.

Here's a look at the current process: CANADA-U.S. LAND BORDER The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will warn people detected outside official points of entry that they are entering Canada illegally and inform them of the nearest official border crossing.

POINT OF ENTRY (AIRPORT/SEAPORT) Asylum seeker presents him/herself to border officers.

LOS ANGELES - This is what makes Disney such a powerhouse. “Beauty and the Beast,” the studio’s latest live action update of a cartoon classic, waltzed its way to a towering $170 million debut this weekend, setting a new record for a March opening and solidifying the Mouse House’s status as the dominant player in the film business. No other company can match the streak that Disney is currently enjoying, thanks to a series of multibillion acquisitions that put the likes of Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilm in its Magic Kingdom.

“Beauty and the Beast” represents another part of Disney’s branded strategy. It’s the latest fairy tale adaptation to hit screens.

Others in the lucrative group include “Alice in Wonderland,” which picked up $1 billion worldwide, “Cinderella” with its $543.5 million global haul, and last year’s “The Jungle Book,” which racked up a mighty $966.6 million after finishing its run. Remakes of “Dumbo” and “Mulan” are already in the works, as Disney commits to putting a live action spin on the bulk of its animated properties (Fans of “Treasure Planet” may be out of luck).

The latest fairy tale follows Belle, a bookish girl in France played by Harry Potter film veteran Emma Watson, who helps a tortured Beast (Dan Stevens of “Downton Abbey” fame) break out of his shell. In the process she lifts a curse that’s left the Beast’s kingdom populated by talking household items. “Beauty and the Beast” didn’t muck about with the elements that made the 1991 film so beloved. Director Bill Condon kept the basic plot intact, while fleshing out a bit more of Belle’s backstory, and retaining a soundtrack that includes “Be Our Guest” and “Belle.” All those elaborate musical numbers and chatty cutlery don’t come cheap.

“Beauty and the Beast” carries a hefty $160 million budget. It should make that money back manyfold after ticket sales are tallied and new lines of princess wear are whipped up to satisfy new generations of Belle lovers. (rtr)

POINT OF ENTRY ILLEGAL CROSSING (CANADA-U.S. LAND BORDER) AT LAND BORDER Asylum seeker presents If the person proceeds to cross illegally, the RCMP will detain him/her. him/herself to border officers.

QUESTIONING AND BACKGROUND CHECKS The person is held for questioning and checks are made to ensure he/she does not pose a threat to national security.**

TRANSFER OF CUSTODY TO BORDER SERVICES AGENCY

SAFE THIRD COUNTRY ACT EXEMPTIONS* Eg. Have a close relative living in Canada

YES

NO

SCREENING After obtaining identification documents, border officers will interview the asylum seeker and determine if he/she is eligible to be referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB).

NOT ELIGIBLE FILE CLAIM The asylum seeker will file his/her claim and be given a date for a hearing with IRB (usually in 60 days). The claimant will be allowed to stay in Canada temporarily while IRB reviews the case and makes a decision.

IRB APPROVES CLAIM

IRB REJECTS CLAIM

APPEAL***

APPEAL SUCCESSFUL

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo

A group that claimed to be from Turkey is met by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after they crossed the U.S.-Canada border illegally leading into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada March 6, 2017.

Disney via AP

This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic “Beauty and the Beast.”

Kim Kardashian West ‘mentally prepped’ for rape during heist LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian West says she “mentally prepped” herself to be raped while being held at gunpoint during a Paris jewelry heist last year.

Kardashian West discussed the incident on Sunday night’s episode of the E! network’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

She says two robbers wearing police uniforms entered her hotel room last October. One of the robbers duct-taped her mouth while she was in

bed, grabbed her legs and pulled her toward him.

She says she wasn’t raped, but had a gun held to her head.

Kardashian West says the men picked her up and put her in a bathtub before making off with jewelry.

She said on Twitter Sunday that she “learned some valuable lessons” through the experience.

Ten people have been charged in connection with the case. (ap)

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APPEAL DENIED

DEPORTATION The asylum seeker has to leave Canada.

REFUGEE STATUS The claimant is granted refugee status and is resettled in Canada.

Sources: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Reuters C. Chan, A. Paperny 20/03/2017

Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported - Reuters poll

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA - Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.

A significant minority, four out of 10 respondents, said the border crossers could make Canada “less safe,” underlining the potential political risk for Trudeau’s Liberal government.

The increasing flow of hundreds of asylum-seekers of African and Middle Eastern origin from the United States in recent months has become a contentious issue in Canada.

There has been broad bipartisan support for high levels of legal immigration for decades in Canada.

But Trudeau has come under pressure over the flow of the illegal migrants. He is questioned about it every time he appears in parliament, from opponents on the left, who want more asylum-seekers to

be allowed in, and critics on the right, who say the migrants pose a potential security risk.

Canadians appeared to be just as concerned about illegal immigration as their American neighbors, according to the poll, which was conducted between March 8-9.

Some 48 percent of Canadians said they supported “increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally.” (For graphics on asylum process, immigration poll see http://tmsnrt.rs/2nyY8CJ) When asked specifically about the recent border crossings from the United States, the same number - 48 percent - said Canada should “send these migrants back to the U.S.” Another 36 percent said Canada should “accept these migrants” and

let them seek refugee status.

In the United States, where President Donald Trump was elected partly on his promise to boost deportations, 50 percent of adults supported “increasing the deportation of illegal immigrants,” according to a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that was conducted during the same week in the United States.

Illegal migrants interviewed by Reuters in Canada said they had been living legally in the United States and had applied for asylum there. But they had fled to Canada for fear of being caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

WARMING WEATHER POSES RISK In the poll, support for deporting the border crossers was strongest among men, adults who do not have a college degree, people who are older and those with higher levels of income.

“There are so many people in the

world who want to come in and go through the right channels,” said Greg Janzen, elected leader of a Manitoba border municipality that has seen hundreds of border crossers. “That’s what’s pissing most people off. These guys are jumping the border,” he said.

Forty-six percent of Canadians feel the influx would have no effect on safety, while 41 percent said it would make Canada less safe, according to the poll.

“Refugees are much more welcomed when we have gone and selected them ourselves as a country, as opposed to refugees who have chosen us,” said Janet Dench, executive director of Canadian Council for Refugees.

Of those polled, 46 percent disagreed with how Trudeau was handling the situation, 37 percent agreed, while 17 percent did not know. In January, a separate Ipsos poll found that 59 percent of Canadians approved of Trudeau, while

41 percent disapproved.

Trudeau faces no immediate threat, since the next elections are not until 2019. Trudeau’s office declined to comment on the poll, as did the opposition Conservative Party.

Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute public policy think-tank, said the number of illegal migrants could spike as the weather warms, and “if people become convinced there’s a large uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants, I think that will be a very serious political issue for the government.” Canadian authorities dismiss the idea they are being lax.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Investor plans to build cable car in geopark area

MANGUPURA — Who knows if the favorite chocolate in Germany and France originates from Bukit Gumbrih, Jembrana? Gede Ngurah Oka Perdana is one of the participants of the Interfood Exhibition held on March 1618, 2017 in Nusa Dua Convention Center. Participants of the largest food and beverage festival consist of prominent companies and have successfully become the market leader in the food industry in Indonesia. Unexpectedly, in this event there are cacao products of farmers with label of Cho-Jaensan carrying organic cacao that is ready-to-use, single-origin and fair-trade.

“Some chefs and other food industry experts come to our booth to taste chocolate denoting the Bali local product. They give a very positive response and some praises to the characteristic of Bali’s original chocolate flavor that tends to be sour,” said Oka Perdana who is also a product marketing head of Bali’s processed chocolate to the media.

“Bali is unique. Aside from its cultural and natural treasures, its potential is also unique. Due to such uniqueness, many young people do not want to pursue profession as a farmer, whereas they have been already given complete knowledge on economic calculation. The market of chocolate here especially in Bali is available. Horeca still uses compound chocolate that is no longer authentic. It is composed of many mixtures including chemical substance,” he continued.

Oka Perdana also explained that he participated in the Interfood event to introduce to Horeca about the Bali original product whose flavor definitely exceeds the existing chocolate in the market in general. Oka Perdana said that currently he still peddles cacao en masse for the ingredient of pastry, baking and sauces. “Some people having got involved in this industry are willing to use our products.

For further development, just wait and there must be a surprise,” he concluded. (win)

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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ARTOTEL CELEBRATING EARTH HOUR 2017 WITH THEME OF “60+60”

BANGLI — The Batur geopark area in Kintamani draws the interest of investors.

This time, an investor who intends to invest is Bali FT. Initial assessment has been carried out with the government of Bangli. This foreign investor is planning to participate in the tourism development of Kintamani by building a cable car.

Head of the Bangli Investment and Integrated Services, Made Alit Parwata, stated on Sunday (Mar. 19) that Bali FT already delivered the intention to make investment in Bangli recently. As a preliminary illustration presented, Bali FT plans to build a cable car in the caldera of Mount Batur with the start at the post of climbing tour guides association of Mount Batur (P3GB). However, Alit Parwata cannot explain in details about the length of the route. “It is just provided in short preview,” he explained.

Alit Parwata said that in principle the government of Bangli very much welcomes the presence of investor who will build a cable car in the geopark area. He said that the investment will greatly help the tourism development in Kintamani. Existence of the cable car in the Batur Geopark is also believed to give a multiplier effect to the surrounding communities.

However, he claimed to still conduct a study and prepare the regulations considering the land to be used for the investment mostly belongs to the forestry agency and BKSDA. On that account, his service must also make coordination with relevant stakeholders regarding the form of cooperation.

In this process, the district government will also conduct outreach to local communities to anticipate the problems that may occur in the future.

“Under the direction of the regent, we are asked to address this immediately. In the meantime, the investor hoped the agreement should have been accomplished by December 31,” he explained. When asked about previous the investors having conducted similar assessments without clear follow up, Alit Parwata said that there are obstacles causing investors to invest in Bangli to finally cancel. The obstacle is related to land matter. In addition, the previous investors had been planned to build a golf course in the neighborhood of Batur geopark and a flying fox rides. (kmb40)

Indonesia’s chocolate shocking in Nusa Dua

Activities

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS EVERY SATURDAY Meditation class by Mangku Budi Dharma 14-16:30 Bona, Blahbatuh meet at Ubud Cocomarket at 13:00 Saturday Market Oldman’s Cafe Canggu, Batu Bolong Beach, pottery fresh produce, clothing Sand Beach Club and Restaurant, Sanur Every second Saturday Biasa Art Space, Jl. Raya Seminyak 24, Seminyak, Fresh produce, potted plants, meat pie, sshie, coffee and more.

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud

Farmland must be expanded

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DENPASAR —

Actually Bali is categorized into agricultural area because approximately 70.74 percent of the existing land remains potential for agricultural and livestock activities. Based on the data from the Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) of Bali, the farmland areas in Bali are currently cultivated by 408,114 farmers. However, the area of paddy field harvest has steadily decreased from 153,228 hectares in 2000 to 80,000 hectares these days.

“This has direct impact on the decline in rice production, but its productivity remains 5.5 tons per hectares. The average land ownership is about 0.35 hectare per family,” said Chairman of the HKTI Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta, in Denpasar on Sunday (Mar. 19).

Suparta saw that paddy field conversion in particular into residential use has become so massive

in every region of this Island of the Gods. The land conversion occurs at the extent of 600 hectares to 1,000 hectares per year. When the land conversion had occurred, it is very difficult to restore them to the original condition.

“We will attempt to increase the acreage of farmers’ land. Currently, the cultivated land only reaches 0.35 hectare per farmer family.

Nothing can be done and it will be difficult to increase farmers’ income. Therefore, we will strive so that it can be increased to one hectare per farmer family,” he explained.

Even though the number of farmer family decreases, added Suparta, the increasing land will be able to improve farmers’ productivity and welfare. (kmb32)

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EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

Jakarta, March 2017. ARTOTEL will be participating on Earth Hour 2017, 25th March 2017 with ‘’60+60’’ as the main theme, keeping the light’s out for 120 minutes.

With ’60+60’’ as the main theme, ARTOTEL would like to extend its contribution to the environment for 120 minutes in total during Earth Hour from 08.30 – 10.30 PM (local time). These event is organized simultaneously at all ARTOTEL properties in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bali, with many fun activities when light’s out such as Light Painting, Face Painting, and live acoustic performance. During 2 hours (120 minutes) the hotel team will be encouraging the guest to paint with glow in the dark ink in canvas at the lobby area or in their face (face painting), along with acoustic performance.

During EARTH HOUR, ARTOTEL offers many promotions for guests who want to celebrate EARTH HOUR at ARTOTEL, from room package to food and beverage promotions.

1. Room package for IDR 600.000 net.

• 2 nights stay in ARTOTEL Surabaya on 25 - 27 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net including breakfast for 2 persons.

• 1 night stay ARTOTEL Thamrin – Jakarta on 25 – 26 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net / night including breakfast for 2 persons.

1 night stay ARTOTEL Sanur - Bali on 25 – 26 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net / night including breakfast for 2 persons.

2. Food and beverage for IDR 60.000 net / item.

This promotion is valid only on 25 March 2017 from 08.30 – 10.30 PM (local time) at ROCA and BART in every ARTOTEL units.

• Every food value more than IDR 60.000 will be counted as IDR 60.000 net/ portion.

• Every Cocktail and Shooter only IDR 60.000 net / glass.

• Every purchase of 2 bottle of beer only IDR 60.000 net.

Corporate General Manager of ARTOTEL Indonesia, Mr. Eduard R. Pangkerego, said ‘’ARTOTEL chose theme “60 + 60” on Earth Hour 2017 to encourage people to give more contribution to the environment, by not only turn off the lights for 60 minutes. We can do more by keep the lights out in all ARTOTEL units simultaneously for 2 hours from 08.30 until 10.30 PM local time.

Furthermore, we would like to give special offers and art activities for our guests to celebrate EARTH HOUR as a memorable and joyful event.”

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Disabled painter GM Lanang Agung from Manduang

Paint Kamasan puppet in laptop, his work used for postcard overseas

SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

LOS ANGELES — A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.

The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5½ hours earlier.

The Dragon flew to the space station a month ago from the same Florida launch pad used for NASA’s Apollo moon shots. It took up more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and brought back just

as much in completed experiments and used equipment.

NASA’s other supplier, Orbital ATK, plans to launch its own supply ship Friday, also from Cape Canaveral, Florida. That one, however, burns up on re-entry.

The space station is home to one Frenchman, two Americans and three Russians. (ap)

In this photo provided by SpaceX, the Dragon cargo ship parachutes into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station about 5½ hours earlier.

Egyptian statue recently Thai “piggy bank” turtle slips into unearthed is not Ramses II coma after op to remove coins

CAIRO — A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country’s most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country’s antiquities minister said Thursday.

Khaled el-Anani said the colossus discovered last week in a Cairo suburb by an Egyptian-German team almost certainly depicts Psamtek I, a little known pharaoh from the 26th dynasty who ruled Egypt between 664 and 610 B.C. “We are not going to be categorical, but there is a strong possibility that it’s of Psamtek I,” el-Anani told reporters in the front yard of the famed Egyptian museum in the heart of Cairo.

Sitting just meters (yards) away were parts of the statue, including the torso and a partial head, which were ferried across the city before dawn on Thursday. The statue was thought to be of Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

“There is a possibility, albeit small, that Psamtek I reused an older statue that may be of Ramses II,” el-Anani said.

Psamtek I, credited for bringing stability to Egypt after years of turmoil, ruled some 600 years after Ramses II and sat on Egypt’s throne for about 50 years. Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, ruled for around 60 years.

The discovery of the quartzite statue has offered a piece of welcome

news at a time when most of Egypt’s 92 million people are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis. The tourism industry has yet to recover from the years of unrest following the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian officials appeared keen to bring international attention to the find.

The press conference called to clarify the statue’s identity was held at the Egyptian museum, which houses the world’s largest collection of pharaonic artifacts, and was attended by senior government officials and diplomats.

El-Anani allowed the anticipation to build, delivering his remarks after four archaeologists and restoration experts spoke. He said the size of the statue — with an estimated height of some 9 meters (26 feet) and a weight of seven tons — was typical of Ramses II’s era, but that hieroglyphs discovered at the statue’s back-pillar after it was unearthed showed that it was of Psamtek I. “We will not be 100 percent certain that it is of Psamtek I, but give us days, weeks or months and we will be certain,” he said.

For now, said the Egyptian museum’s chief of restoration, Moamen Othman, the challenge is to prepare the statue to survive in an environment different from the one in which it was submerged: Water and mud. (ap)

BANGKOK - A 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand slipped into a coma on Sunday after an operation to remove 915 coins from her stomach earlier this month.

The green sea turtle named Omsin, “piggy bank” in Thai, had been finding it hard to swim normally after swallowing 5 kg (11

lb) of coins thrown into her pool for good luck.

Omsin underwent a seven-hourlong operation earlier this month, but concerns rose among Thais after she was rushed to an intensive care unit on Sunday night.

“She is in a coma and breathes very slowly,” one of the veterinar-

ians taking care of Omsin told Reuters.

“There’s a chance of survival if she can make it through tonight.”

Nantarika Chansue, of Chulalongkorn University’s veterinary science faculty, urged people to pray for Omsin in a Facebook post on Monday. (rtr)

SEMARAPURA - Physical disability does not discourage someone to work as showed by I Gusti Made Lanang Agung, 23. Although being paralyzed since his birth, this young man from Tengah hamlet, Manduang, keeps painting puppet of Kamasan style. Moreover, the puppet paintings he created have been sent abroad and used as postcards by Swiss travelers.

To note, Gusti Lanang Agung has a physical disability since his birth.

He is the second child of six siblings. Two of his brothers already died, while the youngest brother, Gusti Ngurah Putra Paramana, 9, also experiences the same condition. His younger brother is paralyzed since entering the age of one year. Only two sisters, namely Gusti Ayu Nadia, 13, in the first grade of junior high school, and Gusti Ayu Putri Setiawati, in the fourth grade of elementary school, are normal.

His parents, Gusti Ngurah Purwana and Dewa Ayu Adiani, initially did not suspect if Gusti Lanang Agung will have a physical disability.

When he was eight months, he could crawl like a normal baby. But after entering the age of one year, his condition continued to decline and could not walk. “My son (Gusti Lanang—Ed) only went to kindergarten. He actually wanted to continue his school but was banned by school because of his condition. At the disabled school, he was often beaten and mocked by his classmates at kindergarten,” said his mother, Dewa Ayu Adiani.

Being compassionate with his condition, his parents then bought him books and laptop to study at home. Gusti Lanang is a clever child. He studies autodidactically at home with the help of his parents. Painting puppet of Kamasan style is also carried out by self-taught just by looking at the image samples. There are dozens of Kamasan puppet painting he has created. Unfortunately, when entering the age of 14 years, his condition began to become paralyzed. So, he can no longer work.

However, due to his vivacity to still paint, Gusti Lanang then channeled his hobby in painting puppet of Kamasan style through laptop.

By simply relying on his thumb and sitting in a wheelchair, he makes a puppet painting by using his laptop. Admittedly, to make a painting by using a laptop is faster than manual painting that only takes him a month.

While manual painting will take him up to three months. “The problem only lies in the touchpad of laptop because it can move on its own,” said Gusti Lanang.

Meanwhile, his expertise of painting puppet of Kamasan style gets the attention of the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta. The regent had time to visit Gusti Lanang at his home and saw in person the result of his work. Seeing the skill of Gusti Lanang to paint by using a laptop, Regent Suwirta planned to invite and involve him in an exhibition to show off his work. Thus, his work can be known by wider communities. “While showing off his work, Gusti Lanang can directly make demonstration in the exhibition,” said Regent Suwirta. (wia)

REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Omsin, a 25 year old female green sea turtle, had 915 coins removed from her stomach earlier this month is pictured inside an ICU room at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, March 20, 2017.

IBP/wia

The puppet paintings he created have been sent abroad and used as postcards by Swiss travelers.

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Following the outbreak of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS), a number of sectors related to pork are severely impacted.

Post-MSS, pork-related sector getting sluggish

DENPASAR - Following the outbreak of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS), a number of sectors related to pork are severely impacted. A Bangli-origin pig farmer, I Dewa Gede Saputra, claimed to worry about the presence of the MSS. He is going to sell his pigs before the feast.

Some people would like to purchase his suckling pigs a few days ago, but the purchase was cancelled for fear of being infected by MSS disease. He raises 20 pigs consisting of broodstock and piglets. The pigs are raised in the moor located away from the residence.

Meanwhile, out of 142 roasted suckling pig food stalls in Denpasar and Badung, they averagely sold out one roasted suckling pig every day.

In both regions are required 142 pigs every day for roasted suckling pig.

“It can be imagined the subsequent impact if the food stalls go bankrupt.

Where pig farmers will sell their pig?” said Chief of the Indonesia pig breeder scientist association, Prof. Budarsa.

If this continues, he worried it can eliminate some Balinese traditions.

For instance, the usaba dalem puts the offerings containing roasted suckling pig even reaching thousands of pieces.

Another tradition namely mapinton at Bugbug village, Karangasem, is also delivering thousands of roasted suckling pigs. Various ways of processing pork can be done to kill bacteria in it.

Clearly the bacteria can be killed by high temperature when the pork is cooked. Thus, various components of the pig will be safe for consumption if

cooked well-done.

Besides, lime juice with salt is also believed to kill bacteria. This was conveyed by a lecturer of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Udayana University, Prof. Budarsa. However, he urged people to postpone first to consume lawar with raw blood.

Some traditions passed down by Balinese ancestors surely have benefits.

For example, the menu of pork will usually be combined with ares (young banana trunk) that is rich in fiber. Fiber itself can prevent cholesterol. So, the cholesterol produced by pig fat may be poised by fiber in ares. Base genep or complete seasoning is also said to have capability of killing most bacteria. It contains assorted spices that can boost antioxidant and be good for health.

All this time, some people are phobia to consume pork. In terms of health, the content of fatty acid in pork is better than that of beef.

According to Sandra Herman

and Anna Muawanah (2009), pork contains higher essential fatty acid than beef fat. Among them, there is 24.94 percent of linoleic acid in pig fat, while beef contains 1.17 percent.

Oleic acid in lard is 40.74 percent, while in beef fat amounts to 20.53 percent. Moreover, arachidonic acid in lard amounts to 0.43 percent, while in beef fat amounts to 0 percent.

Beef tallow contains more saturated fatty acids, where 29.40 percent contains palmitic acid, while in pork lard amounts to 7.01 percent. Myristic acid in beef fat amounts to 4.36 percent, while in pork only amounts to 1.07 percent. “It is the reason why beef fat is denser than lard,” they said.

If associated with atherosclerosis (fatty buildup in arteries), it is even more saturated and more risky fatty acids. When atherosclerosis occurs in the arteries leading to the heart (coronary arteries), it can cause a heart attack. (kmb42)

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Coordination meeting ahead of Nyepi

Drinking alcohol banned when parading ogoh-ogoh

N.Korea engine test may be prelude to partial ICBM flight

AMLAPURA - Ahead of Nyepi celebration for the Hindus, some elements of government and security continuously make coordination to the level of subdistrict and village. This is to prevent the anarchistic action that can disfigure the implementation of Nyepi. One of the emphases is that people should not drink alcohol while parading ogoh-ogoh. It is feared to result in commotion because people have lost control.

This was revealed during crossagency security of Nyepi followed up by leadership forum coordination (Forkopinca) of Abang subdistrict through a coordination meeting at the office of the Abang subdistrict head on Friday (Mar. 17).

Abang Subdistrict Head, I Gusti Nyoman Darsana, said that in a series of Nyepi, his authority has stressed to each village to coordinate every resident when parading ogoh-ogoh. It is important to maintain security and order on the day before Nyepi. Other than with customary village, he also made coordination with the police and the military.

Chief of Abang Police, I Nyoman Sugita Yasa, affirmed that in the implementation of Nyepi, his institution has monitored the preparation of the ogoh-ogoh parade in Abang subdistrict. Pursuant to the record, Abang residents make a total of 118 pieces of ogoh-ogoh.

It will be paraded with 16 rallying points throughout Abang subdistrict. However, the data are likely to change because there are also people ordering ogoh-ogoh and have finished. The more ogoh-ogoh

paraded, the more festive the Tawur Kesanga will be. According to him, it surely has potential to increase vulnerability and disruption to social order because every ogoh-ogoh parade will require groups to bear.

According to Abang Subdistrict Military Commander, I Nyoman Suta, the ogoh-ogoh parade has possibility to trigger friction between groups of people and in the internal mass bearing the ogoh-ogoh. Therefore, he called on each group that make ogoh-ogoh to be responsible.

In the parade they should also avoid to consume alcohol. “It is meant to minimize the trigger of commotion during the parade in the field,” said Nyoman Suta.

Headmen across the Abang subdistrict also participated in the coordination meeting. They affirmed to always work together with the security and military personnel in their respective village, such as pecalang, mass security and community leaders to jointly maintain security and order in the implementation of Nyepi.

Other than before Nyepi, during the Nyepi should also be anticipated. The problems that are likely

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, attends a ceremony marking the 102nd anniversary of Battle of Canakkale, also known as the Gallipoli Campaign, at Turkish memorial in Canakkale, Turkey, March 18, 2017.

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One of the emphases is that people should not drink alcohol while parading ogoh-ogoh. It is feared to result in commotion because people have lost control. to arise during the implementation of the bratha penyepian include the people who fall ill and have to be brought to hospital or people who are just passing by car. The security officers are affirmed to conduct

a humanistic inspection so as to avoid miscommunication.

Besides, the tourism service providers are also required to provide information to travelers who are staying in each tourist attraction to maintain

orderliness in the implementation of Nyepi Day. Hoteliers are affirmed to tell foreign travelers not to engage in activities outside the home environment or tourist accommodation for the whole day. (kmb31)

To support tourism development, district govt asks for more budgets

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More budgets could be provided for the improvement of quality of service at tourist attraction. It includes physical improvement such as damaged road access to tourist attraction.

BANGLI - So far, the government of Bangli has not received the distribution of hotel and restaurant tax (PHR) from Badung district.

If the distribution has been given, the district government hopes to be given larger portions than other districts for tourism development in the region. This was expressed by the Head of the Bangli Finance, Revenue and Regional Asset Agency, I Gede Suryawan, on Friday (Mar 17).

Suryawan said that so far Bangli has not received the distribution of the PHR from Badung government.

He did not dare to ascertain the exact amount of it to be distributed by Badung to Bangli district.

“Indeed, we have not received the distribution of the tax revenue from Badung district. We are still waiting for it from the Badung district. After being transferred, there

must be a notice from the province.

We do not know when it will be given and it depends on the giver.

The point, we are in Bangli kept waiting for the tax distribution,” said Suryawan.

Suryawan hoped the tax revenue distribution from Badung government to Bangli could be given more portions. It is based on consideration that Bangli in terms of population is pretty much, poverty rate is relatively high, and the potential for tourism owned by Bangli is great enough. Therefore, it is expected to be given more with such consideration.

“The budget provided will be used to support tourism development in Bangli. It includes the support to cultural preservation in the context of tourism development.

Obviously, more budgets could be provided for the improvement

of quality of service at tourist attraction. It includes physical improvement such as damaged road access to tourist attraction. For the non-physical purpose, it is for the preparation of the Bali Arts Festival (BAF).

Further, he said that if the tourism development can be made evenly and advanced in all districts or cities in Bali, it will be able to increase the number of tourist arrival in Bali. So, the incoming travelers can enjoy all the tourist attractions in Bali, especially in Bangli. By doing so, the revenue from tourism is increasingly greater. “As an impression, when travelers come to Bangli, the attractions have been good and so have the other regions.

If all the regions have been good, travelers will get impression that all tourist attractions have been good,” said Suryawan. (kmb41)

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Turkey detains more than 2,000 people over militant, coup links

ANKARA - Turkish authorities detained more than 2,000 people over the last week for suspected links to militant groups or last year’s failed coup attempt, the interior ministry said on Monday.

Turkey, which faces multiple security threats, including the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Islamic State militant group, has also widened a crackdown on alleged supporters of the July coup attempt.

In a statement, the interior ministry said 2,063 people had been detained for questioning in the past week.

A total of 999 of those were

suspected of links to the autonomyseeking PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency against the government and is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, Turkey and Europe.

Another 966 were detained for suspected ties to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for orchestrating an attempted coup in July.

Gulen denies any involvement and

has condemned the coup.

Seventy people were detained over alleged links to Islamic State, while 28 more were held for suspected ties to “leftist terrorist groups”, the ministry said.

The ministry also said 24 militants had been “neutralised” in operations over the past week, and of those, 13 killed. It did not give further details.

Following the July 15 coup, Turkey has arrested more than 40,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 100,000 in the military, civil service and private sector. (rtr)

SEOUL - North Korea has likely mastered the technology to power the different stages of an intercontinental ballistic missile and may show it off soon, analysts say, but is likely still a long way from being able to hit the mainland United States.

North Korean state media announced its latest rocket-engine test on Sunday, saying it would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite-launch capability, indicating a new type of rocket engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The test showed “meaningful” progress, a spokesman for South Korea’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, with the firing of a main engine and four auxiliary engines as part of the development of a new rocket booster.

The announcement of the test came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Beijing at the end of his first visit to Asia for talks dominated by concern about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.

“Through this test, it is found that engine function has made meaningful progress but further analysis is needed for exact thrust and possible uses,” Lee Jin-woo, the spokesman for the South Korean defence ministry, told a briefing. North Korea’s state media released pictures of the high-thrust engine test overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, and reported him hailing it as “a new birth” of its rocket industry.

A South Korean expert on rocket engineering said the test was ominous.

“This was a comprehensive test for the first-stage rocket for an ICBM, and that is why it was dangerous,” Kim Dong-yub of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul told Reuters.

“It appears that North Korea has worked out much of its development of the first-stage rocket booster.”

But Kim said the North had still not mastered the atmospheric re-entry technology needed for an ICBM, so it had work to do before being able to hit the United States. Nevertheless, it might soon demonstrate that it has perfected the system’s booster rocket stage.

“What could be next is they would make a new type of ICBM with this new engine system and launch it, but not the entire stages, but to make only the first stage, fly about 400 km and drop.

“They are not going to show it all at once.” (rtr)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched the ground jet test of a Korean-style high-thrust engine newly developed by the Academy of the National Defence Science in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on March 19, 2017.

“Don’t use Taiwan”, Taipei frets ahead of Trump-Xi meeting TAIPEI - Taiwan’s government, worried about being used as a pawn

by China and the United States, said on Monday the self-ruled island must protect its own interests as concerns in Taipei rise ahead of an expected meeting of U.S and Chinese leaders.

China has never renounced the use of force to take back what it deems a wayward province and has been pressuring Taiwan President

Tsai Ing-wen, who leads an independence-leaning ruling party, to concede Taiwan is a part of China. The United States is Taiwan’s only major political ally and sole arms supplier, and weapons sales to Taiwan have repeatedly upset Beijing.

“We call on the United States and China, when they improve relations, to not use Taiwan in their own interest or as a chess piece,” Catherine Chang, Taiwan’s

minister in charge of China affairs, the Mainland Affairs Council, told reporters. Chang urged Beijing to communicate with Taipei “in order to maintain stability and peace in the Asia Pacific region.”

The comments come after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday in Beijing that U.S. President Donald Trump anticipates a meeting “soon.”

At issue for Taipei is whether a Trump-Xi meeting will harm Taipei’s interests as Washington begins considering a big, new arms package for Taiwan, a move sure to anger China. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China’s resolute opposition to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan was clear and consistent.

“We hope the U.S. fully recognises the high sensitivity and serious harm-

fulness of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan,” she told a daily news briefing, adding that the United States should handle the Taiwan issue cautiously.

There is contact between Taiwan and the new administration on the arms sale issue, but a specific request list has not been drawn up for this year, though there are pending requests from last year, defence ministry official Wu Pao-kun told lawmakers. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Dire straits: Gibraltar faces Brexit chaos against its will

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Do you still remember Bindu village? The tourism village located at Buana Mekar village, Abiansemal, Badung, is now equipped with water attraction such as tubing game. This type of water attraction is relatively new and even has not been officially opened. Nevertheless, many people are intrigued to enjoy this attraction. Local children, for instance, seem to have tried to relieve their curiousness.

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In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017 photo, a Spanish flag flies on top of the customs house on the Spanish side of the border between Spain and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar with the Rock as a background, in La Linea de la Concepcion, Southern Spain. As Gibraltar braces itself to be dragged out of the European Union along with the United Kingdom, the livelihoods of nearly 300,000 people living in an economic region spanning two countries, have been thrown up in the air. out having to renounce their British one.

Acknowledging such an agreement with Britain is unlikely, Spain is taking a tough line. Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis recently said that Madrid’s position remains that Britain’s control of Gibraltar “violates the territorial integrity of our country.”

In its divorce talks with the EU, Britain’s focus on controlling borders and limiting migration means it is unlikely to retain access to the bloc’s single market, as the EU has said the country cannot have it both ways. That has left many in Gibraltar wondering whether their fate will be considered in Britain’s negotiations with the EU. Picardo argues it is possible to limit migration somewhat while keeping borders open to workers and tourists to Gibraltar.

It’s an arrangement he believes could also work for Britain’s land border with Ireland, for example. Nobody expects Gibraltar’s border to be fully closed. But disruptions

and queues — which already happen at times of diplomatic tensions between Britain and Spain — are a nightmare for workers and employers.

Molina’s boss, Redwood International general manager Danny Gabay, says his logistics business is already affected by increased border checks at customs. “Gibraltar is paying a price due to political situations, and obviously our businesses are in the front line,” he says.

Gabay’s office is in an airport terminal building that stops abruptly over the frontier fence, a powerful symbol of the lack of cooperation at the official level. The Spanish side never built a terminal on its side because Madrid considers the airstrip built on illegally occupied land.

That leaves the airport servicing flights linking only with destinations in Britain.

And Spain has threatened to block the airport from getting EU air travel permits once

Brexit happens.

European mediation has been key to solving past British-Spanish disputes over Gibraltar. But now, workers here feel like they’ll be an afterthought in Britain’s twoyear negotiations with the EU. Jesus Verdu, an international public law professor at the University of Cadiz, believes Gibraltar overall is well positioned to navigate uncharted waters. The biggest losers if Spain takes a hard line, he says, will be workers like Molina and others in the region around Gibraltar, where unemployment remains high and 25 percent of economic output is linked to jobs in Gibraltar or spending by Gibraltarians.

“There are so many things at stake that are essential both for the U.K. and for the EU that the issue of Gibraltar is being diluted and pushed right to the margins, and that is obviously a source of great concern for our region,” Verdu says.(ap)

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Bindu Tourism Village Equipped with Tubing Attraction

GIBRALTAR — All Antonio Molina has to do to cross the border into Gibraltar for work is wave an identity card, barely slowing his motorbike’s pace.

The Spanish delivery man’s job depends on the border being open, a fact that’s under threat as Britain leaves the European Union, dragging the overseas territory with it. Molina’s livelihood, like that of some 300,000 people who work in the region, is on the line.

“There is much fear because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” says the 46 year-old father of two, a Spanish citizen and resident who is applying for his first passport ever in case border controls become stricter.

“We live in limbo; you hear one thing today and a different thing tomorrow.”

Britain has controlled the rocky speck of land for three centuries against Spain’s wishes. But being in the EU has meant the border has been open to the unlimited flow of workers, goods and money. That could end if Britain leaves the EU without retaining access to the bloc’s single market. And Spain could use the situation to press for greater control of the territory.

Gibraltar, which is barely twice the size of Central Park and home to 32,000 people, has thrived economically under Britain’s rule and open trade with Spain. Its low corporate taxes, business-friendly regulation and links to the EU market since 1973 have attracted investment. Tourists can often be seen taking selfies with the Barbary macaques, the only free-roaming monkeys in Europe, that live on the promontory known as The Rock. They can pay with pounds or euros.

With the prospect of losing easy access to Spain and the wider EU market, Gibraltar’s government says the territory is rebranding itself as a gateway for the U.K. and new markets in northern Africa just across the strait.

“It’s unfortunate. We don’t want to turn our backs to Europe, but those are the cards that we have been dealt and we have to play this hand the best as possible,” Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, told The Associated Press.

It doesn’t matter that 96 percent of Gibraltarians voted to remain in the EU in last year’s referendum. Since then, pleas for a special deal that would allow Gibraltar to retain access to the EU single market and keep borders open have been blocked by Spain, which wants joint sovereignty of the territory.

Madrid’s proposal is to share foreign and defense matters with London, which keeps a strategic military presence in Gibraltar, in return for ample autonomy, investments and special tax conditions. Gibraltarians would be allowed to have a Spanish passport with-

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is

expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

It passes one of the rivers at Bindu customary village with a distance of about 2 km and can be covered within about 1.5 hours. Though not too wide, this river has swift enough streams. So, it can offer a bit of challenge, but surrounding nature remains pristine and beautiful. “Travelers can see the activities of local village farmers, a variety of local plants and animals,” said a management of tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis), IGN Suastawa.

For this game, it has been prepared 10 pieces of tubing with super quality. It is started from Subak Gaga and resumed by gliding on the river and finishing at Subak Yeng area, near Bindu village. During the course, unlimited experiences will be obtained to be told to sisters or friends.

“The tubing path is indeed sloping so that it is suitable for children and beginners. Playing with a girlfriend or boyfriend will surely be very exciting,” he said.

In the meantime, participants of the tubing activities have not been covered by insurance because the track is not too challenging. However, it offers beautiful countryside views and is really clean. Singing of birds or sounds of naughty grasshopper often make people amazed. Grass, green paddy fields and crops belonging to farmers look so fresh and greet every single traveler.

Previously, Bindu tourism village has opened trekking paths that offers hospitality of rural communities, agriculture and farmers’ activities of Subak Gaga as well as dining delight with local agricultural produce. Besides, the village also has a spiritual tourist spot called Tanah Hyang Healing Center and Herbal Garden. The location with exclusive aura is often taken advantage by travelers to perform meditation, yoga and agnihotra ritual.

This Tanah Hyang seems to have healing power. The location is hidden because of sitting behind the people’s settlement. Nevertheless, many people come to invoke healing. Some come after getting information from a medium or getting a clue through a dream. “On certain days, it holds an organic market by involving travelers,” said Suastawa.

This tubing tourist attraction gets support from Furama Villas & Spa, an accommodation located at local village.

Hotel management keeps promoting to hotel guests as well as to travelers outside the hotel, in addition to the other activities at local village. “We strongly support the existence of Bindu tourism village. It also includes the promotion of tubing attraction to travelers,” said Resort Manager of Furama Villas & Spa, Wayan Sumandia. (kmb)

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Norway unseats Denmark as world’s happiest country

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Dan Brien, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said “trying to slip across the border in an irregular manner is not a ‘free’ ticket to Canada,” noting that all asylumseekers were detained.

“If they are found to be inadmissible without a valid claim, deportation procedures are begun,” he said by email when asked about the poll.

According to a separate Ipsos poll in Canada, 23 percent of Canadians listed immigration control as among the top national issues in March, up from 17 percent in December. It ranks behind healthcare, taxes, unemployment and poverty as

top concerns.

The Canadian government set an immigration target of 300,000 for 2017, or just under 1 percent of the population, the same level as 2016. It reduced the 2017 target for resettled refugees to 25,000 from 44,800 in 2016, a year when it welcomed 25,000 refugees from Syria.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English and French throughout Canada. It included responses from 1,001 people who were at least 18 years old. Individual responses were weighted according to the latest population estimates in Canada, so that the results reflect the entire population. The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 4 percentage points.(ap)

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JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesian indigenous people gathered on Sumatra island on Friday to call on the government to protect their land rights as fears grow some tribes could become extinct. A sprawling archipelago with more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia is home to an estimated 50 to 70 million indigenous people, but many do not have formal title to the land their families have lived on for generations.

General view of a small harbour and snow-capped mountains in Bals-Fiord, north of the Arctic Circle, near the village of Mestervik in northern Norway September 30, 2014.

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Homelands under threat, Indonesian tribes rally for land rights

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Wales on Monday as part of a plan to engage with all the nations of the United Kingdom before she formally launches Britain’s departure from the European Union.

May is due to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, beginning two years of formal divorce talks, by the end of this month, and her office said she would be visiting Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to hear people’s views.

Last year’s Brexit referendum exposed splits that could threaten the unity of the UK, with Scotland and Northern Ireland delivering pro-EU majorities but finding themselves outvoted by the English and Welsh, who were in favour of leaving the bloc.

In a sharp challenge to May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said last week she would be pushing for a fresh independence vote after having been met by “a brick wall of intransigence” in London when seeking for Scotland to have its own Brexit deal. May rebuffed that, saying now was not the right time.

Northern Ireland’s largest Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has also said it wants a referendum on splitting from the United Kingdom “as soon as possible” to unite with the Republic of Ireland.

On Monday May and Brexit minister David Davis will meet with Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones and business representatives to discuss how Wales can make the most of opportunities offered by Brexit, her office said. (rtr)

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NEW YORK - Norway displaced Denmark as the world’s happiest country in a new report released on Monday that called on nations to build social trust and equality to improve the wellbeing of their citizens.

The Nordic nations are the most content, according to the World Happiness Report 2017 produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative launched by the United Nations in 2012.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with Syria and Yemen, are the least happy of the 155 countries ranked in the fifth annual report released at the United Nations.

“Happy countries are the ones that have a healthy balance of prosperity, as conventionally measured, and social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality and confidence in government,” Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the SDSN and a special advisor to the United Nations SecretaryGeneral, said in an interview.

The aim of the report, he add-

ed, is to provide another tool for governments, business and civil society to help their countries find a better way to wellbeing.

Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden rounded out the top ten countries.

South Sudan, Liberia, Guinea, Togo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Central African Republic were at the bottom.

Germany was ranked 16, followed by the United Kingdom (19) and France (31). The United States dropped one spot to 14.

Sachs said the United States is falling in the ranking due to inequality, distrust and corruption. Economic measures that the administration of President Donald Trump is trying to pursue, he added, will make things worse.

“They are all aimed at increasing inequality – tax cuts at

the top, throwing people off the healthcare rolls, cutting Meals on Wheels in order to raise military spending. I think everything that has been proposed goes in the wrong direction,” he explained.

The rankings are based on six factors -- per capita gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, social support and absence of corruption in government or business.

“The lowest countries are typically marked by low values in all six variables,” said the report, produced with the support of the Ernesto Illy Foundation.

Sachs would like nations to follow United Arab Emirates and other countries that have appointed Ministers of Happiness.

“I want governments to measure this, discuss it, analyze it and understand when they have been off on the wrong direction,” he said. (rtr)

For decades they have been locked in bitter battles with logging, palm oil and mining companies that have been expanding into their homelands in the resourcerich Southeast Asian nation.

President Joko Widodo has pledged to improve their lives, but activists say his ambitious plans to boost infrastructure and energy production - including by building dams - mean more tribes are at risk of being displaced.

“Even though the government has nice policies on paper, we continue to face land grabs... and

forced evictions throughout Indonesia,” said Rukka Sombolinggi, deputy head of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago. “We are willing to share, but development has to be done with our consent,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

More than 5,000 people from 2,000 indigenous communities convened in Tanjung Gusta village outside North Sumatra’s provincial capital Medan. The gathering is organised by the alliance and held every five years.

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court

ruled in 2013 indigenous people have the right to manage forests where they live, in a verdict hailed as a victory for indigenous land rights. The government last December announced it would return 13,000 hectares of customary lands to nine indigenous communities, and committed to giving back a total of 12.7 million hectares roughly the size of Greece - to local and indigenous groups.

Indonesia’s environment and forestry minister reiterated on Friday the government’s commitment to indigenous rights. (rtr)

The leaders of Indonesian indigenous people

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Scavenger arrested for allegedly molesting 16 children

YOGYAKARTA - A 29-yearold scavenger has been arrested for allegedly molesting at least 16 children in Karanganyar regency, Central Java.

Karanganyar Police chief Adj. Comr. Ade Safri Simanjuntak said on Monday that the man, whose name is Fajar, admitted to having abused and sodomized the children, aged from 8 to 10, between 2003 and 2016.

“So, some of the victims are now adults,” Ade said, adding that

Fajar was arrested at his house in Ngawoh, Tegalgede subdistrict, on Monday.

The police said the arrest was triggered by one of the victims telling his teacher that he was once sodomized by Fajar. “The teacher reported it to the pupil’s parents, and the latter reported it to the police,” said Ade. The scavenger admitted to having offered the victims between Rp 5,000 (37 US cents) to Rp 10,000 or books and shoes. He then raped the

boys at a local mosque, Ade said.

A medical examination of two victims confirmed the sexual abuse, Ade said, adding that the police had identified five victims, one of whom was sodomized more than once. “The victim was afraid to report the incident [to the police] because he felt threatened.

“We will approach the families [of the rest of the victims] as some parents do not yet know that their children have been the victims of sodomy.”(ant)

NUSA TENGGARA - West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) plans to build a deer sanctuary this year to reverse the decline in the deer population.

NTB Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) head Widada said on Monday that the planned 1.5-hectare sanctuary for the animal, which is the mascot of West Nusa Tenggara, will be located in Gunung Tunak Nature Park in Central Lombok.

“We will place 20 to 30 deer within the sanctuary,” Widada said, adding that the deer population in the province was no more than 2,000, scattered around Mount Rinjani, Mount Tambora, Moyo Island, the protected forests in Lombok and Sumbawa, and in breeding centers. In 2005, the deer population reached 6,000 in Lombok and Sumbawa, he added.

Illegal hunting, climate change

and habitat destruction were the reasons behind the decreasing number, said Widada.

The BKSDA coordinator for forest ecosystem control, Tri Endang, said the ecosystem of the deer sanctuary would be made similar to that of their natural habitat.

“Hopefully they will breed well within the sanctuary,” said Tri, adding that the deer reproduction cycle was one year.(ant)

Deer sanctuary to be built in West Nusa Tenggara

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GIANYAR - Bali Zoo, locally referred to as ‘Kebun Binatang Bali’, is the only animal attraction in Bali using ‘zoo’ in its name. The zoo is set over 8ha of lush tropical gardens in the village of Singapadu, Gianyar regency. The zoo is a convenient stopover before Ubud on tours from the island’s south. Bali Zoo is home to various tropical plants and an extensive collection of fauna ranging from mammals, birds and reptiles. The zoo is shady and pleasant to walk through and also features a range of experiences, such as elephant and pony rides, photo sessions with animals, as well as outbound adventures.

Since its inception in 2002, Bali Zoo has extended its range of features in addition to its existing daily programs. The zoo prepared its night attraction package in 2007 which takes visitors to observe the hundreds of animals after dusk. This ‘Night at The Zoo’ enables you to observe Bali Zoo’s large number of nocturnal animals, held on Wednesday and Saturday nights from 18:00 to 21:00 local time, which is concluded by a fire dance show. By day, the zoo is a place where families and children can meet the various animals in the se-

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Bali Zoo

cure enclosures, including Sumatran tigers, white tigers, lions, babi rusa, deer, orang-utans, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, iguanas, turtles, snakes, Bali starlings, cassowaries, peacocks and many other exotic creatures.

The zoo has also successfully bred a number of animals. Its Bengal tiger pair, named Buntung and Kartini, have produced seven generations of cubs, the most recent being the trio, Punja, Delta and Gangga. The successful breeding program has produced over 15 tigers since 2007.

Daily programs include feeding the animals, and if it’s cute and cuddly that you’re after - why not head down to the petting area and snuggle with a baby monkey? The zoo staff will help take a photo for you or assist in taking one with your own camera. All of the inhabitants are fully cared for by the resident veterinarian.

The Bali Zoo Park is within close reach of all the main tourist centres in central Bali, with signs strategically posted just after the main Ubud-Gianyar junction. The zoo is situated within the quaint locality of Singapadu. Dining facilities at the zoo include the Elephant View Restaurant, which serves Asian and is situated in

the middle of the zoo with an open-air view of the elephant trail and gardens.

The Okavango Restaurant, near the entrance is where to enjoy western selections while viewing the African lion enclosure daily from 09:00 to 17:00.

The ‘Treewalk Adventure’ is an outbound activity facility that enables guests to take on the high ropes which will also provide a half-hour adrenaline rush. The feature is also complemented with a Flying Fox zoom line of approximately 125 metres. Activities outside the zoo grounds include an interesting village trek, which takes you on a trek through forests, lush rice paddies, rushing rivers, and rural Balinese village life at large. The two hour trek also includes a visit the area’s subak Gunung Temple, and return stopovers to the artisan homes of gold, silversmiths and stone carvers. Bali Zoo is wheelchair friendly, and the staff members on location are ready to assist visitors with disabilities. Special Bali Zoo souvenirs, such as photo frames, T-shirts, mugs, egg paintings and many other interesting handicrafts are available at the souvenir shop inside the zoo and at the restaurants. (IBP/net)

Roger Federer, of Switzerland, poses with his trophy and the Swiss flag after defeating Stan Wawrinka, also of Switzerland, in their final match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Sunday, March 19, 2017, in Indian Wells, Calif.

Federer tops Wawrinka in all-Swiss Indian Wells final AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

CALIFORNIA - A rejuvenated Roger Federer beat fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-5 in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday to earn a record-tying fifth Indian Wells title and the distinction of being the tournament’s oldest winner.

The 35-year-old Swiss, who made a stunning return from a six-month injury layoff to win the Australian Open in January, capped an impressive run in the California desert in which he did not lose a set.

“I have totally exceeded my expectations. My goal was to be top eight by Wimbledon. This is just a dream start,” Federer, who will climb four spots to world number six on Monday, told Sky Sports courtside.

“I understand the talk about (me getting back to) world number one with Andy (Murray) and Novak (Djokovic) not playing well and I’ll try to back it up. But this is my 90th (tour-level) title so I’ll try to enjoy this first.”

The rematch of the Australian Open semi-final saw the close friends hold serve until the 10th game of the

opening set when Federer, ahead 5-4, outlasted Wawrinka in a thrilling 21shot rally for the service break.

Wawrinka, making his first appearance in an Indian Wells final, came out firing in the second set as he became the first player to break Federer this fortnight and then saved a pair of break points in the next game to move ahead 2-0.

But Federer never wavered as he coolly won the next three games and then broke Wawrinka in the 12th game to close out the match in 80 minutes. On championship point, Federer jumped right on Wawrinka’s serve and quickly had his compatriot running back and forth along the baseline.

Finally, when Wawrinka reached out desperately to send a forehand back, Federer charged to the net and

slammed down a running forehand to clinch the title.

While the defeat left Wawrinka an emotional wreck, with the teary-eyed U.S. Open champion calling himself Federer’s “biggest fan”, the popular champion was left to soak up a standing ovation.

Federer now joins Djokovic as a five-time winner at the event and becomes the oldest champion in the tournament’s history, surpassing Jimmy Connors who was 31 when he triumphed in 1984.

“I was very sad when I couldn’t come here last year so just being here is a beautiful feeling,” Federer said during the trophy presentation.

“It’s been just a fairytale week.

I’m still on the comeback. I hope my body is going to allow me to keep on playing.

“I came here for the first time 17 years ago so to be here again as the champion is an amazing feeling. And I can’t tell you enough what it means to me.” (rtr)

Hamilton’s F1 title bid might prove harder without Rosberg

PARIS — Lewis Hamilton’s bid to regain his Formula One title might actually prove harder without Nico Rosberg around.

Rosberg retired days after becoming the 2016 world champion and finally getting the better of Hamilton, ending their acrimonious rivalry at Mercedes just as he got the upper hand.

With Rosberg gone, a key factor this season — starting Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix — will be how three-time champion Hamilton gets on with his new teammate.

Valtteri Bottas was plucked from Williams after Rosberg’s shock announcement. The calm Finnish driver is seen as the perfect foil for the tempestuous Hamilton, an outspoken driver not afraid to stand up to management.

A perfect match in theory, perhaps not in reality.

Hamilton and Rosberg had a tense relationship and openly feuded at times, forcing Mercedes management to intervene. Crucially, however, the quick and consistent Rosberg also brought the best out of Hamilton — forcing him to up his pace in qualifying and on race day.

Even though he lost the title, at times last year Hamilton’s driving was the best of his career. Some credit for that must also go to Rosberg’s relentless competitiveness.

Rosberg quit F1 with 23 wins, but the 27-year-old Bottas has never won a race at this level. He has only nine career podiums and never finished higher than fourth in the championship. If he does not challenge Hamilton in the same way that Rosberg did, then Hamilton’s level might drop. If so, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, a four-time F1 champion, and Red Bull pair Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo will be poised to take advantage. (rtr)

AP Photo/Francisco Seco, FILE

In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain has his tyres changed during a Formula One pre-season testing session at the Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, outside Barcelona, Spain. Nico Rosberg retired days after becoming world champion but Lewis Hamilton’s bid to regain his Formula One title might actually prove harder without him around.

Marsh rearguard earns draw for Australia

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RANCHI - Resolute rearguard action by Peter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh helped Australia escape with a remarkable draw against India on the final day of the third test on Monday.

Having conceded a 152-run first innings lead, the tourists were reeling when skipper Steve Smith departed, leaving his team at 63-4 with more than two sessions to go and the hosts confident of a win.

But Handscomb and Marsh battled on through the entire second session to first erase the deficit and then ensure Australia were safe by

the time they were separated.

Handscomb made 72 not out, his third test fifty, to help Australia finish on 204 for six before the players shook hands.

Marsh made 53, the duo frustrating India for nearly four hours with a dour 124-run stand to shatter the hosts’ chances of going 2-1 up in the four-test series.

India, buoyant after making 603 in their first innings and with Ravindra Jadeja having taken a couple of late wickets the previous evening, came out hard at the Australians in the morning.

Overnight batsmen Smith and Matt Renshaw resumed with Australia on 23 for two and denied the hosts for about 21 overs before falling in quick succession.

Left-arm spinner Jadeja relentlessly attacked the rough outside Renshaw’s off-stump, while Ishant Sharma bowled to Smith with a seven-two off-side field.

Pumped up after an altercation with Renshaw, Sharma earned the breakthrough for India when he trapped the opener leg-before for 15 with a fuller delivery.

A bigger blow awaited Australia

in the next over when Jadeja, who claimed nine wickets in the match to go with an unbeaten fifty with the bat, spun one past Smith’s advancing pad and uprooted the off-stump.

Smith managed 21.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann had asked his team on Sunday to learn from the focus and application shown by India’s Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha whose 199-run partnership gave the hosts their commanding position.

Handscomb and Marsh certainly did, thwarting the Indian bowlers

for 62 overs on a fifth day wicket at the Jharkhand State Cricket Association Stadium.

Ravichandran Ashwin nearly got Marsh stumped in the final session, while Handscomb survived a review after being hit on the pad by a ball that, replays suggested, would have hit the top of the middle stump. Jadeja eventually dismissed Marsh and Ashwin sent back Glenn Maxwell but Australia were safe by then.

The teams now move to Dharamsala for the final match from Saturday. (rtr)

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Guardiola rejoices after 1-1 thriller vs Liverpool in EPL

Pique blasts supporters for booing Gomes

MANCHESTER — Across his stellar managerial career, Pep Guardiola has won the Champions League twice, captured 19 other major trophies and coached perhaps the greatest ever club team in Barcelona’s class of 2009-11. It was surprising then that the Manchester City coach thought a 1-1 draw against Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday represented “one of happiest days of my career.”

AP Photo/Dave Thompson

Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino reacts after a missed chance to score during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday March 19, 2017.

City’s players, Guardiola revealed, had been moping around the training ground — “they were so, so sad” — since the team’s Champions League elimination by Monaco on Wednesday, and were now facing a direct rival for the top four that specializes in winning heavyweight Premier League games.

When Liverpool took the lead through James Milner’s penalty in the 51st minute, City’s resolve was tested again. That his players managed to come out of the game with a point, through Sergio Aguero’s 69th-minute goal, gave Guardiola a special feeling.

“It is one of the days I am proud of the most,” an animated Guardiola said. His Liverpool counterpart, Juergen Klopp, felt Guardiola was caught up in the moment — “He is Spanish, They are a little bit more emotional than Germans” — but perhaps it was understandable after the riveting fare that the two teams had just served up.

Aided by some weak defending, there were chances galore at Etihad Stadium and it came as a surprise that only two goals were scored.

A penalty was always likely in this game — played on a slick surface after pre-match rain — because of the last-ditch defending on show. In the first half alone, there was Nicolas Otamendi’s pull on Sadio Mane as the Liverpool forward ran clean on goal, Milner’s clip on the ankle of Raheem Sterling as the City winger looked set for a tap-in, and Ragnar Klavan’s apparent tug on Aguero in the same move.

All three were 50-50 calls and not given but City defender Gael Clichy’s foul on Roberto Firmino was clear, with the left back having previously lost his man by slipping over. Milner, a former City player who had been jeered by sections of the home crowd in the first half, sent Willy Caballero the wrong way from the spot for his seventh successful penalty of the season. City’s equalizer was slickly executed, with Kevin De Bruyne delivering a teasing low cross from the right that Aguero tucked home from just outside the six-yard box.

Aguero has scored in all five homes games against Liverpool in the Premier League. In an end-to-end final 20 minutes, De Bruyne struck a shot

against the post, Adam Lallana kicked fresh air from close range with the goal at his mercy, and Sterling missed a one-on-one chance.

Possibly the best opportunity fell to Aguero in injury time, but he volleyed over from close range. A draw was probably a fair result in the end, keeping the teams in the last two Champions League qualifying places. Chelsea is seemingly running away with the title, so the objective for City and Liverpool is to finish in the top four.

Liverpool kept up its excellent record against its rivals in the top six this season, with Klopp’s team winning five and drawing five from 10 games. How the Reds regret slipping up so often against the league’s lowerplaced side.

“There is one outstanding, consistent side this year and they will be champions probably,” Klopp said.

“The rest fight with all they have for the Champions League.” Fourthplaced Liverpool is four points ahead of fifth-placed Manchester United, having played two games more. The race for Champions League qualification is going down to the wire.(ap)

Juventus wins 1-0 at Sampdoria but loses Dybala to injury

MILAN — Juventus ground out a 1-0 win at Sampdoria on Sunday but will be left counting the cost after losing Paulo Dybala to injury ahead of a tough run of matches.

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri is hopeful that Dybala will recover during the international break and that the Argentina forward will be fit to face Napoli in the league and then in the second leg of their Italian Cup semifinal, which it leads 3-1.

Dybala limped off shortly before the half-hour mark with a muscle problem and was replaced by Marko Pjaca. “Paulo felt a twinge at the back of his thigh but shouldn’t be anything serious,” Allegri said. “He is a player who has unique characteristics in linking up the lines, Pjaca doesn’t

have this type of play among his skills.”

Juventus hosts Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on April 11. “Playing a quarterfinal against Barcelona has to become a norm for Juve,” Allegri said.

“You can go out or you can go through but the other teams have to respect us and I think that in the last few seasons they’ve begun to do so. “ Juventus remained on course for an unprecedented sixth successive Serie A title as it stayed eight points clear of Roma and 10 ahead of Napoli.

“It was an important step,” Allegri said. “It was fundamental to win this match because we play Napoli after the break. We had one of the best first halves of the season, for our intensity

and the chances we created.” Juan Cuadrado scored the only goal of the match in the seventh minute, heading in Kwadwo Asamoah’s cross.

Reserve goalkeeper Christian Puggioni was in for the suspended Emiliano Viviano and he pulled off several fine saves to deny Gonzalo Higuain. Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon set a new club record when he passed 39,681 Serie A minutes for the Bianconeri.

“I’m happy to have reached this number,” the 39-year-old Juventus and Italy captain said. “To have done so as part of such a strong team, winning so many trophies, is even more pleasing ... I hope to have many more crucial minutes in my legs, my head, my heart and my hands.”(ap)

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala in action against Sampdoria.

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Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe celebrates with teammates after he scored the first goal during their French League One soccer match against Caen, in Caen, north western France, Sunday, March 19, 2017.

Unstoppable Mbappe scores twice in Monaco’s 3-0 win PARIS — Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe was so good that even Caen supporters treated the rising star of French football to an ovation when he left the pitch.

The teenage striker tormented their team throughout the afternoon, posting yet another remarkable performance in the French league. Mbappe scored twice Sunday and earned a penalty as Monaco kept its three-point lead intact at the top of the standings with a 3-0 away win.

Mbappe, who has now scored nine of Monaco’s last 18 league goals, took his personal tally to 12 league goals this season with the composure of a seasoned striker.

Mbappe put Monaco in front in the 13th minute after making the most of a long ball from defender Jemerson. Mbappe controlled the ball with a fine first touch, combined well with Valere Germain for a one-two, evaded two defenders and unleashed a left-footed shot past

‘keeper Remi Vercoutre to cap the move.

The 18-year-old Mbappe, whose skills have led to comparisons with France great Thierry Henry, showed unselfishness four minutes later when he let a ball go through his legs, a move that set up Germain in the box.

The striker had his shot blocked by a defender and the ball was slightly wide.

Mbappe’s speed was on display after the interval when he burst down the left flank and won a penalty after running half the pitch before defender Damien Da Silva fouled him. Fabinho made it 2-0 from the spot and Mbappe completed his brace with nine minutes left with a header from Bernardo Silva’s cross.

Monaco stayed three points clear of defending champion Paris Saint-Germain, which beat Lyon 2-1 in the late game.

Third-placed Nice is four points behind PSG and 14 points ahead of fourth-placed Lyon. Mbappe was included Thursday in France

coach Didier Deschamp’s squad for a World Cup qualifier in Luxembourg and a friendly against Spain.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger recently said he could see similarities between Mbappe and Henry, who also played for Monaco early in his career.

Mbappe’s talent has been noticed by big European sides and Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said this week that the Spanish giants tried to lure him before he signed with Monaco.

Monaco could have been rewarded with another penalty at the stroke of halftime after Thomas Lemar was stopped by Da Silva, but referee Antony Gautier did not agree.

Caen was overrun throughout and created only a few worthwhile moves. Its best chance was foiled by Danijel Subasic in the 72nd, a header from Alaeddine Yahia that the Monaco ‘keeper easily stopped. Caen is four points above the relegation zone.(ap)

BARCELONA - Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has urged supporters to stop booing midfielder Andre Gomes, who scored his first goal for the Catalans in Sunday’s 4-2 win over Valencia after 36 appearances. The Portuguese player bore the brunt of the criticism for the team’s 4-0 thrashing by Paris St Germain in the Champions League last-16 first leg and was loudly booed in the team’s next game against Leganes when he was substituted off.

He was dropped from the starting line-up for the second leg against PSG but came on as a substitute in the historic 6-1 turnaround which saw Barca reach the quarter-finals.

Gomes was greeted with more whistles when he came on in the 74th minute against Valencia on Sunday but 15 minutes later sealed victory by turning Neymar’s cross in from close range, although he chose not to celebrate the strike against his former club.

“I’m in total disagreement with the people who boo players, they’d be

better off staying at home,” Pique told reporters after the game on Sunday.

“It’s intolerable and I think treating any player like that before they come on the pitch doesn’t help anyone.

People need to take a good look at themselves.

“It’s one thing if someone plays badly and then the people whistle to show their discontent but quite another to whistle before they come on because it kills their confidence.”

Gomes was a surprise summer signing from Valencia for 35 million euros ($37.6 million) plus add-ons and has struggled to adapt to the Spanish champions, often looking out of place in the team’s midfield and out of sync with the rest of the team.

Luis Enrique has persisted with Gomes despite the continued criticism and at one spell in the season preferred the him to Ivan Rakitic, although the Croatian has since won his place in the team back at Gomes’ expense.

“I’m so pleased he scored, it was the happiest moment of the game,” said the coach.(rtr)

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Guardiola rejoices after 1-1 thriller vs Liverpool in EPL

Pique blasts supporters for booing Gomes

MANCHESTER — Across his stellar managerial career, Pep Guardiola has won the Champions League twice, captured 19 other major trophies and coached perhaps the greatest ever club team in Barcelona’s class of 2009-11. It was surprising then that the Manchester City coach thought a 1-1 draw against Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday represented “one of happiest days of my career.”

AP Photo/Dave Thompson

Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino reacts after a missed chance to score during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday March 19, 2017.

City’s players, Guardiola revealed, had been moping around the training ground — “they were so, so sad” — since the team’s Champions League elimination by Monaco on Wednesday, and were now facing a direct rival for the top four that specializes in winning heavyweight Premier League games.

When Liverpool took the lead through James Milner’s penalty in the 51st minute, City’s resolve was tested again. That his players managed to come out of the game with a point, through Sergio Aguero’s 69th-minute goal, gave Guardiola a special feeling.

“It is one of the days I am proud of the most,” an animated Guardiola said. His Liverpool counterpart, Juergen Klopp, felt Guardiola was caught up in the moment — “He is Spanish, They are a little bit more emotional than Germans” — but perhaps it was understandable after the riveting fare that the two teams had just served up.

Aided by some weak defending, there were chances galore at Etihad Stadium and it came as a surprise that only two goals were scored.

A penalty was always likely in this game — played on a slick surface after pre-match rain — because of the last-ditch defending on show. In the first half alone, there was Nicolas Otamendi’s pull on Sadio Mane as the Liverpool forward ran clean on goal, Milner’s clip on the ankle of Raheem Sterling as the City winger looked set for a tap-in, and Ragnar Klavan’s apparent tug on Aguero in the same move.

All three were 50-50 calls and not given but City defender Gael Clichy’s foul on Roberto Firmino was clear, with the left back having previously lost his man by slipping over. Milner, a former City player who had been jeered by sections of the home crowd in the first half, sent Willy Caballero the wrong way from the spot for his seventh successful penalty of the season. City’s equalizer was slickly executed, with Kevin De Bruyne delivering a teasing low cross from the right that Aguero tucked home from just outside the six-yard box.

Aguero has scored in all five homes games against Liverpool in the Premier League. In an end-to-end final 20 minutes, De Bruyne struck a shot

against the post, Adam Lallana kicked fresh air from close range with the goal at his mercy, and Sterling missed a one-on-one chance.

Possibly the best opportunity fell to Aguero in injury time, but he volleyed over from close range. A draw was probably a fair result in the end, keeping the teams in the last two Champions League qualifying places. Chelsea is seemingly running away with the title, so the objective for City and Liverpool is to finish in the top four.

Liverpool kept up its excellent record against its rivals in the top six this season, with Klopp’s team winning five and drawing five from 10 games. How the Reds regret slipping up so often against the league’s lowerplaced side.

“There is one outstanding, consistent side this year and they will be champions probably,” Klopp said.

“The rest fight with all they have for the Champions League.” Fourthplaced Liverpool is four points ahead of fifth-placed Manchester United, having played two games more. The race for Champions League qualification is going down to the wire.(ap)

Juventus wins 1-0 at Sampdoria but loses Dybala to injury

MILAN — Juventus ground out a 1-0 win at Sampdoria on Sunday but will be left counting the cost after losing Paulo Dybala to injury ahead of a tough run of matches.

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri is hopeful that Dybala will recover during the international break and that the Argentina forward will be fit to face Napoli in the league and then in the second leg of their Italian Cup semifinal, which it leads 3-1.

Dybala limped off shortly before the half-hour mark with a muscle problem and was replaced by Marko Pjaca. “Paulo felt a twinge at the back of his thigh but shouldn’t be anything serious,” Allegri said. “He is a player who has unique characteristics in linking up the lines, Pjaca doesn’t

have this type of play among his skills.”

Juventus hosts Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on April 11. “Playing a quarterfinal against Barcelona has to become a norm for Juve,” Allegri said.

“You can go out or you can go through but the other teams have to respect us and I think that in the last few seasons they’ve begun to do so. “ Juventus remained on course for an unprecedented sixth successive Serie A title as it stayed eight points clear of Roma and 10 ahead of Napoli.

“It was an important step,” Allegri said. “It was fundamental to win this match because we play Napoli after the break. We had one of the best first halves of the season, for our intensity

and the chances we created.” Juan Cuadrado scored the only goal of the match in the seventh minute, heading in Kwadwo Asamoah’s cross.

Reserve goalkeeper Christian Puggioni was in for the suspended Emiliano Viviano and he pulled off several fine saves to deny Gonzalo Higuain. Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon set a new club record when he passed 39,681 Serie A minutes for the Bianconeri.

“I’m happy to have reached this number,” the 39-year-old Juventus and Italy captain said. “To have done so as part of such a strong team, winning so many trophies, is even more pleasing ... I hope to have many more crucial minutes in my legs, my head, my heart and my hands.”(ap)

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ Paulo Dybala in action against Sampdoria.

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AP Photo/David Vincent

Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe celebrates with teammates after he scored the first goal during their French League One soccer match against Caen, in Caen, north western France, Sunday, March 19, 2017.

Unstoppable Mbappe scores twice in Monaco’s 3-0 win PARIS — Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe was so good that even Caen supporters treated the rising star of French football to an ovation when he left the pitch.

The teenage striker tormented their team throughout the afternoon, posting yet another remarkable performance in the French league. Mbappe scored twice Sunday and earned a penalty as Monaco kept its three-point lead intact at the top of the standings with a 3-0 away win.

Mbappe, who has now scored nine of Monaco’s last 18 league goals, took his personal tally to 12 league goals this season with the composure of a seasoned striker.

Mbappe put Monaco in front in the 13th minute after making the most of a long ball from defender Jemerson. Mbappe controlled the ball with a fine first touch, combined well with Valere Germain for a one-two, evaded two defenders and unleashed a left-footed shot past

‘keeper Remi Vercoutre to cap the move.

The 18-year-old Mbappe, whose skills have led to comparisons with France great Thierry Henry, showed unselfishness four minutes later when he let a ball go through his legs, a move that set up Germain in the box.

The striker had his shot blocked by a defender and the ball was slightly wide.

Mbappe’s speed was on display after the interval when he burst down the left flank and won a penalty after running half the pitch before defender Damien Da Silva fouled him. Fabinho made it 2-0 from the spot and Mbappe completed his brace with nine minutes left with a header from Bernardo Silva’s cross.

Monaco stayed three points clear of defending champion Paris Saint-Germain, which beat Lyon 2-1 in the late game.

Third-placed Nice is four points behind PSG and 14 points ahead of fourth-placed Lyon. Mbappe was included Thursday in France

coach Didier Deschamp’s squad for a World Cup qualifier in Luxembourg and a friendly against Spain.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger recently said he could see similarities between Mbappe and Henry, who also played for Monaco early in his career.

Mbappe’s talent has been noticed by big European sides and Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said this week that the Spanish giants tried to lure him before he signed with Monaco.

Monaco could have been rewarded with another penalty at the stroke of halftime after Thomas Lemar was stopped by Da Silva, but referee Antony Gautier did not agree.

Caen was overrun throughout and created only a few worthwhile moves. Its best chance was foiled by Danijel Subasic in the 72nd, a header from Alaeddine Yahia that the Monaco ‘keeper easily stopped. Caen is four points above the relegation zone.(ap)

BARCELONA - Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has urged supporters to stop booing midfielder Andre Gomes, who scored his first goal for the Catalans in Sunday’s 4-2 win over Valencia after 36 appearances. The Portuguese player bore the brunt of the criticism for the team’s 4-0 thrashing by Paris St Germain in the Champions League last-16 first leg and was loudly booed in the team’s next game against Leganes when he was substituted off.

He was dropped from the starting line-up for the second leg against PSG but came on as a substitute in the historic 6-1 turnaround which saw Barca reach the quarter-finals.

Gomes was greeted with more whistles when he came on in the 74th minute against Valencia on Sunday but 15 minutes later sealed victory by turning Neymar’s cross in from close range, although he chose not to celebrate the strike against his former club.

“I’m in total disagreement with the people who boo players, they’d be

better off staying at home,” Pique told reporters after the game on Sunday.

“It’s intolerable and I think treating any player like that before they come on the pitch doesn’t help anyone.

People need to take a good look at themselves.

“It’s one thing if someone plays badly and then the people whistle to show their discontent but quite another to whistle before they come on because it kills their confidence.”

Gomes was a surprise summer signing from Valencia for 35 million euros ($37.6 million) plus add-ons and has struggled to adapt to the Spanish champions, often looking out of place in the team’s midfield and out of sync with the rest of the team.

Luis Enrique has persisted with Gomes despite the continued criticism and at one spell in the season preferred the him to Ivan Rakitic, although the Croatian has since won his place in the team back at Gomes’ expense.

“I’m so pleased he scored, it was the happiest moment of the game,” said the coach.(rtr)

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

GIANYAR - Bali Zoo, locally referred to as ‘Kebun Binatang Bali’, is the only animal attraction in Bali using ‘zoo’ in its name. The zoo is set over 8ha of lush tropical gardens in the village of Singapadu, Gianyar regency. The zoo is a convenient stopover before Ubud on tours from the island’s south. Bali Zoo is home to various tropical plants and an extensive collection of fauna ranging from mammals, birds and reptiles. The zoo is shady and pleasant to walk through and also features a range of experiences, such as elephant and pony rides, photo sessions with animals, as well as outbound adventures.

Since its inception in 2002, Bali Zoo has extended its range of features in addition to its existing daily programs. The zoo prepared its night attraction package in 2007 which takes visitors to observe the hundreds of animals after dusk. This ‘Night at The Zoo’ enables you to observe Bali Zoo’s large number of nocturnal animals, held on Wednesday and Saturday nights from 18:00 to 21:00 local time, which is concluded by a fire dance show. By day, the zoo is a place where families and children can meet the various animals in the se-

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cure enclosures, including Sumatran tigers, white tigers, lions, babi rusa, deer, orang-utans, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, iguanas, turtles, snakes, Bali starlings, cassowaries, peacocks and many other exotic creatures.

The zoo has also successfully bred a number of animals. Its Bengal tiger pair, named Buntung and Kartini, have produced seven generations of cubs, the most recent being the trio, Punja, Delta and Gangga. The successful breeding program has produced over 15 tigers since 2007.

Daily programs include feeding the animals, and if it’s cute and cuddly that you’re after - why not head down to the petting area and snuggle with a baby monkey? The zoo staff will help take a photo for you or assist in taking one with your own camera. All of the inhabitants are fully cared for by the resident veterinarian.

The Bali Zoo Park is within close reach of all the main tourist centres in central Bali, with signs strategically posted just after the main Ubud-Gianyar junction. The zoo is situated within the quaint locality of Singapadu. Dining facilities at the zoo include the Elephant View Restaurant, which serves Asian and is situated in

the middle of the zoo with an open-air view of the elephant trail and gardens.

The Okavango Restaurant, near the entrance is where to enjoy western selections while viewing the African lion enclosure daily from 09:00 to 17:00.

The ‘Treewalk Adventure’ is an outbound activity facility that enables guests to take on the high ropes which will also provide a half-hour adrenaline rush. The feature is also complemented with a Flying Fox zoom line of approximately 125 metres. Activities outside the zoo grounds include an interesting village trek, which takes you on a trek through forests, lush rice paddies, rushing rivers, and rural Balinese village life at large. The two hour trek also includes a visit the area’s subak Gunung Temple, and return stopovers to the artisan homes of gold, silversmiths and stone carvers. Bali Zoo is wheelchair friendly, and the staff members on location are ready to assist visitors with disabilities. Special Bali Zoo souvenirs, such as photo frames, T-shirts, mugs, egg paintings and many other interesting handicrafts are available at the souvenir shop inside the zoo and at the restaurants. (IBP/net)

Roger Federer, of Switzerland, poses with his trophy and the Swiss flag after defeating Stan Wawrinka, also of Switzerland, in their final match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Sunday, March 19, 2017, in Indian Wells, Calif.

Federer tops Wawrinka in all-Swiss Indian Wells final AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

CALIFORNIA - A rejuvenated Roger Federer beat fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-5 in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday to earn a record-tying fifth Indian Wells title and the distinction of being the tournament’s oldest winner.

The 35-year-old Swiss, who made a stunning return from a six-month injury layoff to win the Australian Open in January, capped an impressive run in the California desert in which he did not lose a set.

“I have totally exceeded my expectations. My goal was to be top eight by Wimbledon. This is just a dream start,” Federer, who will climb four spots to world number six on Monday, told Sky Sports courtside.

“I understand the talk about (me getting back to) world number one with Andy (Murray) and Novak (Djokovic) not playing well and I’ll try to back it up. But this is my 90th (tour-level) title so I’ll try to enjoy this first.”

The rematch of the Australian Open semi-final saw the close friends hold serve until the 10th game of the

opening set when Federer, ahead 5-4, outlasted Wawrinka in a thrilling 21shot rally for the service break.

Wawrinka, making his first appearance in an Indian Wells final, came out firing in the second set as he became the first player to break Federer this fortnight and then saved a pair of break points in the next game to move ahead 2-0.

But Federer never wavered as he coolly won the next three games and then broke Wawrinka in the 12th game to close out the match in 80 minutes. On championship point, Federer jumped right on Wawrinka’s serve and quickly had his compatriot running back and forth along the baseline.

Finally, when Wawrinka reached out desperately to send a forehand back, Federer charged to the net and

slammed down a running forehand to clinch the title.

While the defeat left Wawrinka an emotional wreck, with the teary-eyed U.S. Open champion calling himself Federer’s “biggest fan”, the popular champion was left to soak up a standing ovation.

Federer now joins Djokovic as a five-time winner at the event and becomes the oldest champion in the tournament’s history, surpassing Jimmy Connors who was 31 when he triumphed in 1984.

“I was very sad when I couldn’t come here last year so just being here is a beautiful feeling,” Federer said during the trophy presentation.

“It’s been just a fairytale week.

I’m still on the comeback. I hope my body is going to allow me to keep on playing.

“I came here for the first time 17 years ago so to be here again as the champion is an amazing feeling. And I can’t tell you enough what it means to me.” (rtr)

Hamilton’s F1 title bid might prove harder without Rosberg

PARIS — Lewis Hamilton’s bid to regain his Formula One title might actually prove harder without Nico Rosberg around.

Rosberg retired days after becoming the 2016 world champion and finally getting the better of Hamilton, ending their acrimonious rivalry at Mercedes just as he got the upper hand.

With Rosberg gone, a key factor this season — starting Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix — will be how three-time champion Hamilton gets on with his new teammate.

Valtteri Bottas was plucked from Williams after Rosberg’s shock announcement. The calm Finnish driver is seen as the perfect foil for the tempestuous Hamilton, an outspoken driver not afraid to stand up to management.

A perfect match in theory, perhaps not in reality.

Hamilton and Rosberg had a tense relationship and openly feuded at times, forcing Mercedes management to intervene. Crucially, however, the quick and consistent Rosberg also brought the best out of Hamilton — forcing him to up his pace in qualifying and on race day.

Even though he lost the title, at times last year Hamilton’s driving was the best of his career. Some credit for that must also go to Rosberg’s relentless competitiveness.

Rosberg quit F1 with 23 wins, but the 27-year-old Bottas has never won a race at this level. He has only nine career podiums and never finished higher than fourth in the championship. If he does not challenge Hamilton in the same way that Rosberg did, then Hamilton’s level might drop. If so, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, a four-time F1 champion, and Red Bull pair Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo will be poised to take advantage. (rtr)

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In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain has his tyres changed during a Formula One pre-season testing session at the Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, outside Barcelona, Spain. Nico Rosberg retired days after becoming world champion but Lewis Hamilton’s bid to regain his Formula One title might actually prove harder without him around.

Marsh rearguard earns draw for Australia

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RANCHI - Resolute rearguard action by Peter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh helped Australia escape with a remarkable draw against India on the final day of the third test on Monday.

Having conceded a 152-run first innings lead, the tourists were reeling when skipper Steve Smith departed, leaving his team at 63-4 with more than two sessions to go and the hosts confident of a win.

But Handscomb and Marsh battled on through the entire second session to first erase the deficit and then ensure Australia were safe by

the time they were separated.

Handscomb made 72 not out, his third test fifty, to help Australia finish on 204 for six before the players shook hands.

Marsh made 53, the duo frustrating India for nearly four hours with a dour 124-run stand to shatter the hosts’ chances of going 2-1 up in the four-test series.

India, buoyant after making 603 in their first innings and with Ravindra Jadeja having taken a couple of late wickets the previous evening, came out hard at the Australians in the morning.

Overnight batsmen Smith and Matt Renshaw resumed with Australia on 23 for two and denied the hosts for about 21 overs before falling in quick succession.

Left-arm spinner Jadeja relentlessly attacked the rough outside Renshaw’s off-stump, while Ishant Sharma bowled to Smith with a seven-two off-side field.

Pumped up after an altercation with Renshaw, Sharma earned the breakthrough for India when he trapped the opener leg-before for 15 with a fuller delivery.

A bigger blow awaited Australia

in the next over when Jadeja, who claimed nine wickets in the match to go with an unbeaten fifty with the bat, spun one past Smith’s advancing pad and uprooted the off-stump.

Smith managed 21.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann had asked his team on Sunday to learn from the focus and application shown by India’s Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha whose 199-run partnership gave the hosts their commanding position.

Handscomb and Marsh certainly did, thwarting the Indian bowlers

for 62 overs on a fifth day wicket at the Jharkhand State Cricket Association Stadium.

Ravichandran Ashwin nearly got Marsh stumped in the final session, while Handscomb survived a review after being hit on the pad by a ball that, replays suggested, would have hit the top of the middle stump. Jadeja eventually dismissed Marsh and Ashwin sent back Glenn Maxwell but Australia were safe by then.

The teams now move to Dharamsala for the final match from Saturday. (rtr)

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PM May starts UK tour before pulling Brexit trigger

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Norway unseats Denmark as world’s happiest country

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Dan Brien, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said “trying to slip across the border in an irregular manner is not a ‘free’ ticket to Canada,” noting that all asylumseekers were detained.

“If they are found to be inadmissible without a valid claim, deportation procedures are begun,” he said by email when asked about the poll.

According to a separate Ipsos poll in Canada, 23 percent of Canadians listed immigration control as among the top national issues in March, up from 17 percent in December. It ranks behind healthcare, taxes, unemployment and poverty as

top concerns.

The Canadian government set an immigration target of 300,000 for 2017, or just under 1 percent of the population, the same level as 2016. It reduced the 2017 target for resettled refugees to 25,000 from 44,800 in 2016, a year when it welcomed 25,000 refugees from Syria.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English and French throughout Canada. It included responses from 1,001 people who were at least 18 years old. Individual responses were weighted according to the latest population estimates in Canada, so that the results reflect the entire population. The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 4 percentage points.(ap)

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JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesian indigenous people gathered on Sumatra island on Friday to call on the government to protect their land rights as fears grow some tribes could become extinct. A sprawling archipelago with more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia is home to an estimated 50 to 70 million indigenous people, but many do not have formal title to the land their families have lived on for generations.

General view of a small harbour and snow-capped mountains in Bals-Fiord, north of the Arctic Circle, near the village of Mestervik in northern Norway September 30, 2014.

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Homelands under threat, Indonesian tribes rally for land rights

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Wales on Monday as part of a plan to engage with all the nations of the United Kingdom before she formally launches Britain’s departure from the European Union.

May is due to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, beginning two years of formal divorce talks, by the end of this month, and her office said she would be visiting Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to hear people’s views.

Last year’s Brexit referendum exposed splits that could threaten the unity of the UK, with Scotland and Northern Ireland delivering pro-EU majorities but finding themselves outvoted by the English and Welsh, who were in favour of leaving the bloc.

In a sharp challenge to May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said last week she would be pushing for a fresh independence vote after having been met by “a brick wall of intransigence” in London when seeking for Scotland to have its own Brexit deal. May rebuffed that, saying now was not the right time.

Northern Ireland’s largest Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has also said it wants a referendum on splitting from the United Kingdom “as soon as possible” to unite with the Republic of Ireland.

On Monday May and Brexit minister David Davis will meet with Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones and business representatives to discuss how Wales can make the most of opportunities offered by Brexit, her office said. (rtr)

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NEW YORK - Norway displaced Denmark as the world’s happiest country in a new report released on Monday that called on nations to build social trust and equality to improve the wellbeing of their citizens.

The Nordic nations are the most content, according to the World Happiness Report 2017 produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative launched by the United Nations in 2012.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with Syria and Yemen, are the least happy of the 155 countries ranked in the fifth annual report released at the United Nations.

“Happy countries are the ones that have a healthy balance of prosperity, as conventionally measured, and social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality and confidence in government,” Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the SDSN and a special advisor to the United Nations SecretaryGeneral, said in an interview.

The aim of the report, he add-

ed, is to provide another tool for governments, business and civil society to help their countries find a better way to wellbeing.

Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden rounded out the top ten countries.

South Sudan, Liberia, Guinea, Togo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Central African Republic were at the bottom.

Germany was ranked 16, followed by the United Kingdom (19) and France (31). The United States dropped one spot to 14.

Sachs said the United States is falling in the ranking due to inequality, distrust and corruption. Economic measures that the administration of President Donald Trump is trying to pursue, he added, will make things worse.

“They are all aimed at increasing inequality – tax cuts at

the top, throwing people off the healthcare rolls, cutting Meals on Wheels in order to raise military spending. I think everything that has been proposed goes in the wrong direction,” he explained.

The rankings are based on six factors -- per capita gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, social support and absence of corruption in government or business.

“The lowest countries are typically marked by low values in all six variables,” said the report, produced with the support of the Ernesto Illy Foundation.

Sachs would like nations to follow United Arab Emirates and other countries that have appointed Ministers of Happiness.

“I want governments to measure this, discuss it, analyze it and understand when they have been off on the wrong direction,” he said. (rtr)

For decades they have been locked in bitter battles with logging, palm oil and mining companies that have been expanding into their homelands in the resourcerich Southeast Asian nation.

President Joko Widodo has pledged to improve their lives, but activists say his ambitious plans to boost infrastructure and energy production - including by building dams - mean more tribes are at risk of being displaced.

“Even though the government has nice policies on paper, we continue to face land grabs... and

forced evictions throughout Indonesia,” said Rukka Sombolinggi, deputy head of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago. “We are willing to share, but development has to be done with our consent,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

More than 5,000 people from 2,000 indigenous communities convened in Tanjung Gusta village outside North Sumatra’s provincial capital Medan. The gathering is organised by the alliance and held every five years.

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court

ruled in 2013 indigenous people have the right to manage forests where they live, in a verdict hailed as a victory for indigenous land rights. The government last December announced it would return 13,000 hectares of customary lands to nine indigenous communities, and committed to giving back a total of 12.7 million hectares roughly the size of Greece - to local and indigenous groups.

Indonesia’s environment and forestry minister reiterated on Friday the government’s commitment to indigenous rights. (rtr)

The leaders of Indonesian indigenous people

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Scavenger arrested for allegedly molesting 16 children

YOGYAKARTA - A 29-yearold scavenger has been arrested for allegedly molesting at least 16 children in Karanganyar regency, Central Java.

Karanganyar Police chief Adj. Comr. Ade Safri Simanjuntak said on Monday that the man, whose name is Fajar, admitted to having abused and sodomized the children, aged from 8 to 10, between 2003 and 2016.

“So, some of the victims are now adults,” Ade said, adding that

Fajar was arrested at his house in Ngawoh, Tegalgede subdistrict, on Monday.

The police said the arrest was triggered by one of the victims telling his teacher that he was once sodomized by Fajar. “The teacher reported it to the pupil’s parents, and the latter reported it to the police,” said Ade. The scavenger admitted to having offered the victims between Rp 5,000 (37 US cents) to Rp 10,000 or books and shoes. He then raped the

boys at a local mosque, Ade said.

A medical examination of two victims confirmed the sexual abuse, Ade said, adding that the police had identified five victims, one of whom was sodomized more than once. “The victim was afraid to report the incident [to the police] because he felt threatened.

“We will approach the families [of the rest of the victims] as some parents do not yet know that their children have been the victims of sodomy.”(ant)

NUSA TENGGARA - West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) plans to build a deer sanctuary this year to reverse the decline in the deer population.

NTB Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) head Widada said on Monday that the planned 1.5-hectare sanctuary for the animal, which is the mascot of West Nusa Tenggara, will be located in Gunung Tunak Nature Park in Central Lombok.

“We will place 20 to 30 deer within the sanctuary,” Widada said, adding that the deer population in the province was no more than 2,000, scattered around Mount Rinjani, Mount Tambora, Moyo Island, the protected forests in Lombok and Sumbawa, and in breeding centers. In 2005, the deer population reached 6,000 in Lombok and Sumbawa, he added.

Illegal hunting, climate change

and habitat destruction were the reasons behind the decreasing number, said Widada.

The BKSDA coordinator for forest ecosystem control, Tri Endang, said the ecosystem of the deer sanctuary would be made similar to that of their natural habitat.

“Hopefully they will breed well within the sanctuary,” said Tri, adding that the deer reproduction cycle was one year.(ant)

Deer sanctuary to be built in West Nusa Tenggara

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BUSINESS Dire straits: Gibraltar faces Brexit chaos against its will

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Do you still remember Bindu village? The tourism village located at Buana Mekar village, Abiansemal, Badung, is now equipped with water attraction such as tubing game. This type of water attraction is relatively new and even has not been officially opened. Nevertheless, many people are intrigued to enjoy this attraction. Local children, for instance, seem to have tried to relieve their curiousness.

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In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017 photo, a Spanish flag flies on top of the customs house on the Spanish side of the border between Spain and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar with the Rock as a background, in La Linea de la Concepcion, Southern Spain. As Gibraltar braces itself to be dragged out of the European Union along with the United Kingdom, the livelihoods of nearly 300,000 people living in an economic region spanning two countries, have been thrown up in the air. out having to renounce their British one.

Acknowledging such an agreement with Britain is unlikely, Spain is taking a tough line. Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis recently said that Madrid’s position remains that Britain’s control of Gibraltar “violates the territorial integrity of our country.”

In its divorce talks with the EU, Britain’s focus on controlling borders and limiting migration means it is unlikely to retain access to the bloc’s single market, as the EU has said the country cannot have it both ways. That has left many in Gibraltar wondering whether their fate will be considered in Britain’s negotiations with the EU. Picardo argues it is possible to limit migration somewhat while keeping borders open to workers and tourists to Gibraltar.

It’s an arrangement he believes could also work for Britain’s land border with Ireland, for example. Nobody expects Gibraltar’s border to be fully closed. But disruptions

and queues — which already happen at times of diplomatic tensions between Britain and Spain — are a nightmare for workers and employers.

Molina’s boss, Redwood International general manager Danny Gabay, says his logistics business is already affected by increased border checks at customs. “Gibraltar is paying a price due to political situations, and obviously our businesses are in the front line,” he says.

Gabay’s office is in an airport terminal building that stops abruptly over the frontier fence, a powerful symbol of the lack of cooperation at the official level. The Spanish side never built a terminal on its side because Madrid considers the airstrip built on illegally occupied land.

That leaves the airport servicing flights linking only with destinations in Britain.

And Spain has threatened to block the airport from getting EU air travel permits once

Brexit happens.

European mediation has been key to solving past British-Spanish disputes over Gibraltar. But now, workers here feel like they’ll be an afterthought in Britain’s twoyear negotiations with the EU. Jesus Verdu, an international public law professor at the University of Cadiz, believes Gibraltar overall is well positioned to navigate uncharted waters. The biggest losers if Spain takes a hard line, he says, will be workers like Molina and others in the region around Gibraltar, where unemployment remains high and 25 percent of economic output is linked to jobs in Gibraltar or spending by Gibraltarians.

“There are so many things at stake that are essential both for the U.K. and for the EU that the issue of Gibraltar is being diluted and pushed right to the margins, and that is obviously a source of great concern for our region,” Verdu says.(ap)

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Bindu Tourism Village Equipped with Tubing Attraction

GIBRALTAR — All Antonio Molina has to do to cross the border into Gibraltar for work is wave an identity card, barely slowing his motorbike’s pace.

The Spanish delivery man’s job depends on the border being open, a fact that’s under threat as Britain leaves the European Union, dragging the overseas territory with it. Molina’s livelihood, like that of some 300,000 people who work in the region, is on the line.

“There is much fear because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” says the 46 year-old father of two, a Spanish citizen and resident who is applying for his first passport ever in case border controls become stricter.

“We live in limbo; you hear one thing today and a different thing tomorrow.”

Britain has controlled the rocky speck of land for three centuries against Spain’s wishes. But being in the EU has meant the border has been open to the unlimited flow of workers, goods and money. That could end if Britain leaves the EU without retaining access to the bloc’s single market. And Spain could use the situation to press for greater control of the territory.

Gibraltar, which is barely twice the size of Central Park and home to 32,000 people, has thrived economically under Britain’s rule and open trade with Spain. Its low corporate taxes, business-friendly regulation and links to the EU market since 1973 have attracted investment. Tourists can often be seen taking selfies with the Barbary macaques, the only free-roaming monkeys in Europe, that live on the promontory known as The Rock. They can pay with pounds or euros.

With the prospect of losing easy access to Spain and the wider EU market, Gibraltar’s government says the territory is rebranding itself as a gateway for the U.K. and new markets in northern Africa just across the strait.

“It’s unfortunate. We don’t want to turn our backs to Europe, but those are the cards that we have been dealt and we have to play this hand the best as possible,” Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, told The Associated Press.

It doesn’t matter that 96 percent of Gibraltarians voted to remain in the EU in last year’s referendum. Since then, pleas for a special deal that would allow Gibraltar to retain access to the EU single market and keep borders open have been blocked by Spain, which wants joint sovereignty of the territory.

Madrid’s proposal is to share foreign and defense matters with London, which keeps a strategic military presence in Gibraltar, in return for ample autonomy, investments and special tax conditions. Gibraltarians would be allowed to have a Spanish passport with-

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Ngibing Joged Bungbung at Tanah Lot

On releasing the year 2016 and welcoming the New Year 2017, the management of Tanah Lot tourist attractions organized an open house activity. The event lasting for three days (Dec. 30-31, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017) specifically involved the driver, guide and tour leader. “This activity aims to provide appreciation and express gratitude for the cooperation of stakeholders in order to contribute positively to Tanah Lot tourist attraction,” said Operations Manager Toya Adnyana.

Open house provides various types of special traditional food served to the shareholders. Besides, it also graced with dance performance like Joged Bumbung at 17:00 in front of the office of the operation management. “This performance is

expected to entertain visitors while enjoying the New Year holidays at Tanah Lot. Tour guide, domestic and foreign travelers even joined the dance (ngibing),” said Toya Adnyana proudly.

Since day seven before the New Year, the incoming travelers to Tanah Lot have started soaring as coincide with school holidays.

Thousands of the travelers came from various cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Makassar. From the afternoon until evening, from viewing post on a cliff top of ??Tanah Lot Beach could be seen that travelers used various types of cameras and video cameras to capture the sunset moments.

Tanah Lot tourist attraction remains to become prominent destination for travelers to spend the remaining times of 2016 and welcome the New Year 2017. During holiday season, visitors to Tanah Lot continue to abound. Festive atmosphere happened when the sun set and thousands of visitors, as if being commanded, immediately applauded in unison.

The sun went down into west horizon and became an immeasurably exotic scenery. “The sunset view is so pretty this afternoon, the highlight of the round was clearly visible although its central part is slightly covered in cloud,” commented a visitor when capturing the moment of the sun back into the dusk. (kmb)

It passes one of the rivers at Bindu customary village with a distance of about 2 km and can be covered within about 1.5 hours. Though not too wide, this river has swift enough streams. So, it can offer a bit of challenge, but surrounding nature remains pristine and beautiful. “Travelers can see the activities of local village farmers, a variety of local plants and animals,” said a management of tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis), IGN Suastawa.

For this game, it has been prepared 10 pieces of tubing with super quality. It is started from Subak Gaga and resumed by gliding on the river and finishing at Subak Yeng area, near Bindu village. During the course, unlimited experiences will be obtained to be told to sisters or friends.

“The tubing path is indeed sloping so that it is suitable for children and beginners. Playing with a girlfriend or boyfriend will surely be very exciting,” he said.

In the meantime, participants of the tubing activities have not been covered by insurance because the track is not too challenging. However, it offers beautiful countryside views and is really clean. Singing of birds or sounds of naughty grasshopper often make people amazed. Grass, green paddy fields and crops belonging to farmers look so fresh and greet every single traveler.

Previously, Bindu tourism village has opened trekking paths that offers hospitality of rural communities, agriculture and farmers’ activities of Subak Gaga as well as dining delight with local agricultural produce. Besides, the village also has a spiritual tourist spot called Tanah Hyang Healing Center and Herbal Garden. The location with exclusive aura is often taken advantage by travelers to perform meditation, yoga and agnihotra ritual.

This Tanah Hyang seems to have healing power. The location is hidden because of sitting behind the people’s settlement. Nevertheless, many people come to invoke healing. Some come after getting information from a medium or getting a clue through a dream. “On certain days, it holds an organic market by involving travelers,” said Suastawa.

This tubing tourist attraction gets support from Furama Villas & Spa, an accommodation located at local village.

Hotel management keeps promoting to hotel guests as well as to travelers outside the hotel, in addition to the other activities at local village. “We strongly support the existence of Bindu tourism village. It also includes the promotion of tubing attraction to travelers,” said Resort Manager of Furama Villas & Spa, Wayan Sumandia. (kmb)

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Coordination meeting ahead of Nyepi

Drinking alcohol banned when parading ogoh-ogoh

N.Korea engine test may be prelude to partial ICBM flight

AMLAPURA - Ahead of Nyepi celebration for the Hindus, some elements of government and security continuously make coordination to the level of subdistrict and village. This is to prevent the anarchistic action that can disfigure the implementation of Nyepi. One of the emphases is that people should not drink alcohol while parading ogoh-ogoh. It is feared to result in commotion because people have lost control.

This was revealed during crossagency security of Nyepi followed up by leadership forum coordination (Forkopinca) of Abang subdistrict through a coordination meeting at the office of the Abang subdistrict head on Friday (Mar. 17).

Abang Subdistrict Head, I Gusti Nyoman Darsana, said that in a series of Nyepi, his authority has stressed to each village to coordinate every resident when parading ogoh-ogoh. It is important to maintain security and order on the day before Nyepi. Other than with customary village, he also made coordination with the police and the military.

Chief of Abang Police, I Nyoman Sugita Yasa, affirmed that in the implementation of Nyepi, his institution has monitored the preparation of the ogoh-ogoh parade in Abang subdistrict. Pursuant to the record, Abang residents make a total of 118 pieces of ogoh-ogoh.

It will be paraded with 16 rallying points throughout Abang subdistrict. However, the data are likely to change because there are also people ordering ogoh-ogoh and have finished. The more ogoh-ogoh

paraded, the more festive the Tawur Kesanga will be. According to him, it surely has potential to increase vulnerability and disruption to social order because every ogoh-ogoh parade will require groups to bear.

According to Abang Subdistrict Military Commander, I Nyoman Suta, the ogoh-ogoh parade has possibility to trigger friction between groups of people and in the internal mass bearing the ogoh-ogoh. Therefore, he called on each group that make ogoh-ogoh to be responsible.

In the parade they should also avoid to consume alcohol. “It is meant to minimize the trigger of commotion during the parade in the field,” said Nyoman Suta.

Headmen across the Abang subdistrict also participated in the coordination meeting. They affirmed to always work together with the security and military personnel in their respective village, such as pecalang, mass security and community leaders to jointly maintain security and order in the implementation of Nyepi.

Other than before Nyepi, during the Nyepi should also be anticipated. The problems that are likely

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, attends a ceremony marking the 102nd anniversary of Battle of Canakkale, also known as the Gallipoli Campaign, at Turkish memorial in Canakkale, Turkey, March 18, 2017.

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One of the emphases is that people should not drink alcohol while parading ogoh-ogoh. It is feared to result in commotion because people have lost control. to arise during the implementation of the bratha penyepian include the people who fall ill and have to be brought to hospital or people who are just passing by car. The security officers are affirmed to conduct

a humanistic inspection so as to avoid miscommunication.

Besides, the tourism service providers are also required to provide information to travelers who are staying in each tourist attraction to maintain

orderliness in the implementation of Nyepi Day. Hoteliers are affirmed to tell foreign travelers not to engage in activities outside the home environment or tourist accommodation for the whole day. (kmb31)

To support tourism development, district govt asks for more budgets

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More budgets could be provided for the improvement of quality of service at tourist attraction. It includes physical improvement such as damaged road access to tourist attraction.

BANGLI - So far, the government of Bangli has not received the distribution of hotel and restaurant tax (PHR) from Badung district.

If the distribution has been given, the district government hopes to be given larger portions than other districts for tourism development in the region. This was expressed by the Head of the Bangli Finance, Revenue and Regional Asset Agency, I Gede Suryawan, on Friday (Mar 17).

Suryawan said that so far Bangli has not received the distribution of the PHR from Badung government.

He did not dare to ascertain the exact amount of it to be distributed by Badung to Bangli district.

“Indeed, we have not received the distribution of the tax revenue from Badung district. We are still waiting for it from the Badung district. After being transferred, there

must be a notice from the province.

We do not know when it will be given and it depends on the giver.

The point, we are in Bangli kept waiting for the tax distribution,” said Suryawan.

Suryawan hoped the tax revenue distribution from Badung government to Bangli could be given more portions. It is based on consideration that Bangli in terms of population is pretty much, poverty rate is relatively high, and the potential for tourism owned by Bangli is great enough. Therefore, it is expected to be given more with such consideration.

“The budget provided will be used to support tourism development in Bangli. It includes the support to cultural preservation in the context of tourism development.

Obviously, more budgets could be provided for the improvement

of quality of service at tourist attraction. It includes physical improvement such as damaged road access to tourist attraction. For the non-physical purpose, it is for the preparation of the Bali Arts Festival (BAF).

Further, he said that if the tourism development can be made evenly and advanced in all districts or cities in Bali, it will be able to increase the number of tourist arrival in Bali. So, the incoming travelers can enjoy all the tourist attractions in Bali, especially in Bangli. By doing so, the revenue from tourism is increasingly greater. “As an impression, when travelers come to Bangli, the attractions have been good and so have the other regions.

If all the regions have been good, travelers will get impression that all tourist attractions have been good,” said Suryawan. (kmb41)

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Turkey detains more than 2,000 people over militant, coup links

ANKARA - Turkish authorities detained more than 2,000 people over the last week for suspected links to militant groups or last year’s failed coup attempt, the interior ministry said on Monday.

Turkey, which faces multiple security threats, including the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Islamic State militant group, has also widened a crackdown on alleged supporters of the July coup attempt.

In a statement, the interior ministry said 2,063 people had been detained for questioning in the past week.

A total of 999 of those were

suspected of links to the autonomyseeking PKK, which has carried out a three-decade insurgency against the government and is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, Turkey and Europe.

Another 966 were detained for suspected ties to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for orchestrating an attempted coup in July.

Gulen denies any involvement and

has condemned the coup.

Seventy people were detained over alleged links to Islamic State, while 28 more were held for suspected ties to “leftist terrorist groups”, the ministry said.

The ministry also said 24 militants had been “neutralised” in operations over the past week, and of those, 13 killed. It did not give further details.

Following the July 15 coup, Turkey has arrested more than 40,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 100,000 in the military, civil service and private sector. (rtr)

SEOUL - North Korea has likely mastered the technology to power the different stages of an intercontinental ballistic missile and may show it off soon, analysts say, but is likely still a long way from being able to hit the mainland United States.

North Korean state media announced its latest rocket-engine test on Sunday, saying it would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite-launch capability, indicating a new type of rocket engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The test showed “meaningful” progress, a spokesman for South Korea’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, with the firing of a main engine and four auxiliary engines as part of the development of a new rocket booster.

The announcement of the test came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Beijing at the end of his first visit to Asia for talks dominated by concern about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.

“Through this test, it is found that engine function has made meaningful progress but further analysis is needed for exact thrust and possible uses,” Lee Jin-woo, the spokesman for the South Korean defence ministry, told a briefing. North Korea’s state media released pictures of the high-thrust engine test overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, and reported him hailing it as “a new birth” of its rocket industry.

A South Korean expert on rocket engineering said the test was ominous.

“This was a comprehensive test for the first-stage rocket for an ICBM, and that is why it was dangerous,” Kim Dong-yub of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul told Reuters.

“It appears that North Korea has worked out much of its development of the first-stage rocket booster.”

But Kim said the North had still not mastered the atmospheric re-entry technology needed for an ICBM, so it had work to do before being able to hit the United States. Nevertheless, it might soon demonstrate that it has perfected the system’s booster rocket stage.

“What could be next is they would make a new type of ICBM with this new engine system and launch it, but not the entire stages, but to make only the first stage, fly about 400 km and drop.

“They are not going to show it all at once.” (rtr)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched the ground jet test of a Korean-style high-thrust engine newly developed by the Academy of the National Defence Science in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on March 19, 2017.

“Don’t use Taiwan”, Taipei frets ahead of Trump-Xi meeting TAIPEI - Taiwan’s government, worried about being used as a pawn

by China and the United States, said on Monday the self-ruled island must protect its own interests as concerns in Taipei rise ahead of an expected meeting of U.S and Chinese leaders.

China has never renounced the use of force to take back what it deems a wayward province and has been pressuring Taiwan President

Tsai Ing-wen, who leads an independence-leaning ruling party, to concede Taiwan is a part of China. The United States is Taiwan’s only major political ally and sole arms supplier, and weapons sales to Taiwan have repeatedly upset Beijing.

“We call on the United States and China, when they improve relations, to not use Taiwan in their own interest or as a chess piece,” Catherine Chang, Taiwan’s

minister in charge of China affairs, the Mainland Affairs Council, told reporters. Chang urged Beijing to communicate with Taipei “in order to maintain stability and peace in the Asia Pacific region.”

The comments come after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday in Beijing that U.S. President Donald Trump anticipates a meeting “soon.”

At issue for Taipei is whether a Trump-Xi meeting will harm Taipei’s interests as Washington begins considering a big, new arms package for Taiwan, a move sure to anger China. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China’s resolute opposition to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan was clear and consistent.

“We hope the U.S. fully recognises the high sensitivity and serious harm-

fulness of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan,” she told a daily news briefing, adding that the United States should handle the Taiwan issue cautiously.

There is contact between Taiwan and the new administration on the arms sale issue, but a specific request list has not been drawn up for this year, though there are pending requests from last year, defence ministry official Wu Pao-kun told lawmakers. (rtr)

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Disabled painter GM Lanang Agung from Manduang

Paint Kamasan puppet in laptop, his work used for postcard overseas

SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

LOS ANGELES — A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.

The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5½ hours earlier.

The Dragon flew to the space station a month ago from the same Florida launch pad used for NASA’s Apollo moon shots. It took up more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and brought back just

as much in completed experiments and used equipment.

NASA’s other supplier, Orbital ATK, plans to launch its own supply ship Friday, also from Cape Canaveral, Florida. That one, however, burns up on re-entry.

The space station is home to one Frenchman, two Americans and three Russians. (ap)

In this photo provided by SpaceX, the Dragon cargo ship parachutes into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station about 5½ hours earlier.

Egyptian statue recently Thai “piggy bank” turtle slips into unearthed is not Ramses II coma after op to remove coins

CAIRO — A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country’s most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country’s antiquities minister said Thursday.

Khaled el-Anani said the colossus discovered last week in a Cairo suburb by an Egyptian-German team almost certainly depicts Psamtek I, a little known pharaoh from the 26th dynasty who ruled Egypt between 664 and 610 B.C. “We are not going to be categorical, but there is a strong possibility that it’s of Psamtek I,” el-Anani told reporters in the front yard of the famed Egyptian museum in the heart of Cairo.

Sitting just meters (yards) away were parts of the statue, including the torso and a partial head, which were ferried across the city before dawn on Thursday. The statue was thought to be of Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

“There is a possibility, albeit small, that Psamtek I reused an older statue that may be of Ramses II,” el-Anani said.

Psamtek I, credited for bringing stability to Egypt after years of turmoil, ruled some 600 years after Ramses II and sat on Egypt’s throne for about 50 years. Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, ruled for around 60 years.

The discovery of the quartzite statue has offered a piece of welcome

news at a time when most of Egypt’s 92 million people are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis. The tourism industry has yet to recover from the years of unrest following the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian officials appeared keen to bring international attention to the find.

The press conference called to clarify the statue’s identity was held at the Egyptian museum, which houses the world’s largest collection of pharaonic artifacts, and was attended by senior government officials and diplomats.

El-Anani allowed the anticipation to build, delivering his remarks after four archaeologists and restoration experts spoke. He said the size of the statue — with an estimated height of some 9 meters (26 feet) and a weight of seven tons — was typical of Ramses II’s era, but that hieroglyphs discovered at the statue’s back-pillar after it was unearthed showed that it was of Psamtek I. “We will not be 100 percent certain that it is of Psamtek I, but give us days, weeks or months and we will be certain,” he said.

For now, said the Egyptian museum’s chief of restoration, Moamen Othman, the challenge is to prepare the statue to survive in an environment different from the one in which it was submerged: Water and mud. (ap)

BANGKOK - A 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand slipped into a coma on Sunday after an operation to remove 915 coins from her stomach earlier this month.

The green sea turtle named Omsin, “piggy bank” in Thai, had been finding it hard to swim normally after swallowing 5 kg (11

lb) of coins thrown into her pool for good luck.

Omsin underwent a seven-hourlong operation earlier this month, but concerns rose among Thais after she was rushed to an intensive care unit on Sunday night.

“She is in a coma and breathes very slowly,” one of the veterinar-

ians taking care of Omsin told Reuters.

“There’s a chance of survival if she can make it through tonight.”

Nantarika Chansue, of Chulalongkorn University’s veterinary science faculty, urged people to pray for Omsin in a Facebook post on Monday. (rtr)

SEMARAPURA - Physical disability does not discourage someone to work as showed by I Gusti Made Lanang Agung, 23. Although being paralyzed since his birth, this young man from Tengah hamlet, Manduang, keeps painting puppet of Kamasan style. Moreover, the puppet paintings he created have been sent abroad and used as postcards by Swiss travelers.

To note, Gusti Lanang Agung has a physical disability since his birth.

He is the second child of six siblings. Two of his brothers already died, while the youngest brother, Gusti Ngurah Putra Paramana, 9, also experiences the same condition. His younger brother is paralyzed since entering the age of one year. Only two sisters, namely Gusti Ayu Nadia, 13, in the first grade of junior high school, and Gusti Ayu Putri Setiawati, in the fourth grade of elementary school, are normal.

His parents, Gusti Ngurah Purwana and Dewa Ayu Adiani, initially did not suspect if Gusti Lanang Agung will have a physical disability.

When he was eight months, he could crawl like a normal baby. But after entering the age of one year, his condition continued to decline and could not walk. “My son (Gusti Lanang—Ed) only went to kindergarten. He actually wanted to continue his school but was banned by school because of his condition. At the disabled school, he was often beaten and mocked by his classmates at kindergarten,” said his mother, Dewa Ayu Adiani.

Being compassionate with his condition, his parents then bought him books and laptop to study at home. Gusti Lanang is a clever child. He studies autodidactically at home with the help of his parents. Painting puppet of Kamasan style is also carried out by self-taught just by looking at the image samples. There are dozens of Kamasan puppet painting he has created. Unfortunately, when entering the age of 14 years, his condition began to become paralyzed. So, he can no longer work.

However, due to his vivacity to still paint, Gusti Lanang then channeled his hobby in painting puppet of Kamasan style through laptop.

By simply relying on his thumb and sitting in a wheelchair, he makes a puppet painting by using his laptop. Admittedly, to make a painting by using a laptop is faster than manual painting that only takes him a month.

While manual painting will take him up to three months. “The problem only lies in the touchpad of laptop because it can move on its own,” said Gusti Lanang.

Meanwhile, his expertise of painting puppet of Kamasan style gets the attention of the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta. The regent had time to visit Gusti Lanang at his home and saw in person the result of his work. Seeing the skill of Gusti Lanang to paint by using a laptop, Regent Suwirta planned to invite and involve him in an exhibition to show off his work. Thus, his work can be known by wider communities. “While showing off his work, Gusti Lanang can directly make demonstration in the exhibition,” said Regent Suwirta. (wia)

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Omsin, a 25 year old female green sea turtle, had 915 coins removed from her stomach earlier this month is pictured inside an ICU room at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, March 20, 2017.

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The puppet paintings he created have been sent abroad and used as postcards by Swiss travelers.

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Following the outbreak of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS), a number of sectors related to pork are severely impacted.

Post-MSS, pork-related sector getting sluggish

DENPASAR - Following the outbreak of Streptococcus suis meningitis (MSS), a number of sectors related to pork are severely impacted. A Bangli-origin pig farmer, I Dewa Gede Saputra, claimed to worry about the presence of the MSS. He is going to sell his pigs before the feast.

Some people would like to purchase his suckling pigs a few days ago, but the purchase was cancelled for fear of being infected by MSS disease. He raises 20 pigs consisting of broodstock and piglets. The pigs are raised in the moor located away from the residence.

Meanwhile, out of 142 roasted suckling pig food stalls in Denpasar and Badung, they averagely sold out one roasted suckling pig every day.

In both regions are required 142 pigs every day for roasted suckling pig.

“It can be imagined the subsequent impact if the food stalls go bankrupt.

Where pig farmers will sell their pig?” said Chief of the Indonesia pig breeder scientist association, Prof. Budarsa.

If this continues, he worried it can eliminate some Balinese traditions.

For instance, the usaba dalem puts the offerings containing roasted suckling pig even reaching thousands of pieces.

Another tradition namely mapinton at Bugbug village, Karangasem, is also delivering thousands of roasted suckling pigs. Various ways of processing pork can be done to kill bacteria in it.

Clearly the bacteria can be killed by high temperature when the pork is cooked. Thus, various components of the pig will be safe for consumption if

cooked well-done.

Besides, lime juice with salt is also believed to kill bacteria. This was conveyed by a lecturer of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Udayana University, Prof. Budarsa. However, he urged people to postpone first to consume lawar with raw blood.

Some traditions passed down by Balinese ancestors surely have benefits.

For example, the menu of pork will usually be combined with ares (young banana trunk) that is rich in fiber. Fiber itself can prevent cholesterol. So, the cholesterol produced by pig fat may be poised by fiber in ares. Base genep or complete seasoning is also said to have capability of killing most bacteria. It contains assorted spices that can boost antioxidant and be good for health.

All this time, some people are phobia to consume pork. In terms of health, the content of fatty acid in pork is better than that of beef.

According to Sandra Herman

and Anna Muawanah (2009), pork contains higher essential fatty acid than beef fat. Among them, there is 24.94 percent of linoleic acid in pig fat, while beef contains 1.17 percent.

Oleic acid in lard is 40.74 percent, while in beef fat amounts to 20.53 percent. Moreover, arachidonic acid in lard amounts to 0.43 percent, while in beef fat amounts to 0 percent.

Beef tallow contains more saturated fatty acids, where 29.40 percent contains palmitic acid, while in pork lard amounts to 7.01 percent. Myristic acid in beef fat amounts to 4.36 percent, while in pork only amounts to 1.07 percent. “It is the reason why beef fat is denser than lard,” they said.

If associated with atherosclerosis (fatty buildup in arteries), it is even more saturated and more risky fatty acids. When atherosclerosis occurs in the arteries leading to the heart (coronary arteries), it can cause a heart attack. (kmb42)

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Investor plans to build cable car in geopark area

MANGUPURA — Who knows if the favorite chocolate in Germany and France originates from Bukit Gumbrih, Jembrana? Gede Ngurah Oka Perdana is one of the participants of the Interfood Exhibition held on March 1618, 2017 in Nusa Dua Convention Center. Participants of the largest food and beverage festival consist of prominent companies and have successfully become the market leader in the food industry in Indonesia. Unexpectedly, in this event there are cacao products of farmers with label of Cho-Jaensan carrying organic cacao that is ready-to-use, single-origin and fair-trade.

“Some chefs and other food industry experts come to our booth to taste chocolate denoting the Bali local product. They give a very positive response and some praises to the characteristic of Bali’s original chocolate flavor that tends to be sour,” said Oka Perdana who is also a product marketing head of Bali’s processed chocolate to the media.

“Bali is unique. Aside from its cultural and natural treasures, its potential is also unique. Due to such uniqueness, many young people do not want to pursue profession as a farmer, whereas they have been already given complete knowledge on economic calculation. The market of chocolate here especially in Bali is available. Horeca still uses compound chocolate that is no longer authentic. It is composed of many mixtures including chemical substance,” he continued.

Oka Perdana also explained that he participated in the Interfood event to introduce to Horeca about the Bali original product whose flavor definitely exceeds the existing chocolate in the market in general. Oka Perdana said that currently he still peddles cacao en masse for the ingredient of pastry, baking and sauces. “Some people having got involved in this industry are willing to use our products.

For further development, just wait and there must be a surprise,” he concluded. (win)

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ARTOTEL CELEBRATING EARTH HOUR 2017 WITH THEME OF “60+60”

BANGLI — The Batur geopark area in Kintamani draws the interest of investors.

This time, an investor who intends to invest is Bali FT. Initial assessment has been carried out with the government of Bangli. This foreign investor is planning to participate in the tourism development of Kintamani by building a cable car.

Head of the Bangli Investment and Integrated Services, Made Alit Parwata, stated on Sunday (Mar. 19) that Bali FT already delivered the intention to make investment in Bangli recently. As a preliminary illustration presented, Bali FT plans to build a cable car in the caldera of Mount Batur with the start at the post of climbing tour guides association of Mount Batur (P3GB). However, Alit Parwata cannot explain in details about the length of the route. “It is just provided in short preview,” he explained.

Alit Parwata said that in principle the government of Bangli very much welcomes the presence of investor who will build a cable car in the geopark area. He said that the investment will greatly help the tourism development in Kintamani. Existence of the cable car in the Batur Geopark is also believed to give a multiplier effect to the surrounding communities.

However, he claimed to still conduct a study and prepare the regulations considering the land to be used for the investment mostly belongs to the forestry agency and BKSDA. On that account, his service must also make coordination with relevant stakeholders regarding the form of cooperation.

In this process, the district government will also conduct outreach to local communities to anticipate the problems that may occur in the future.

“Under the direction of the regent, we are asked to address this immediately. In the meantime, the investor hoped the agreement should have been accomplished by December 31,” he explained. When asked about previous the investors having conducted similar assessments without clear follow up, Alit Parwata said that there are obstacles causing investors to invest in Bangli to finally cancel. The obstacle is related to land matter. In addition, the previous investors had been planned to build a golf course in the neighborhood of Batur geopark and a flying fox rides. (kmb40)

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Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud

Farmland must be expanded

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DENPASAR —

Actually Bali is categorized into agricultural area because approximately 70.74 percent of the existing land remains potential for agricultural and livestock activities. Based on the data from the Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) of Bali, the farmland areas in Bali are currently cultivated by 408,114 farmers. However, the area of paddy field harvest has steadily decreased from 153,228 hectares in 2000 to 80,000 hectares these days.

“This has direct impact on the decline in rice production, but its productivity remains 5.5 tons per hectares. The average land ownership is about 0.35 hectare per family,” said Chairman of the HKTI Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta, in Denpasar on Sunday (Mar. 19).

Suparta saw that paddy field conversion in particular into residential use has become so massive

in every region of this Island of the Gods. The land conversion occurs at the extent of 600 hectares to 1,000 hectares per year. When the land conversion had occurred, it is very difficult to restore them to the original condition.

“We will attempt to increase the acreage of farmers’ land. Currently, the cultivated land only reaches 0.35 hectare per farmer family.

Nothing can be done and it will be difficult to increase farmers’ income. Therefore, we will strive so that it can be increased to one hectare per farmer family,” he explained.

Even though the number of farmer family decreases, added Suparta, the increasing land will be able to improve farmers’ productivity and welfare. (kmb32)

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Jakarta, March 2017. ARTOTEL will be participating on Earth Hour 2017, 25th March 2017 with ‘’60+60’’ as the main theme, keeping the light’s out for 120 minutes.

With ’60+60’’ as the main theme, ARTOTEL would like to extend its contribution to the environment for 120 minutes in total during Earth Hour from 08.30 – 10.30 PM (local time). These event is organized simultaneously at all ARTOTEL properties in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bali, with many fun activities when light’s out such as Light Painting, Face Painting, and live acoustic performance. During 2 hours (120 minutes) the hotel team will be encouraging the guest to paint with glow in the dark ink in canvas at the lobby area or in their face (face painting), along with acoustic performance.

During EARTH HOUR, ARTOTEL offers many promotions for guests who want to celebrate EARTH HOUR at ARTOTEL, from room package to food and beverage promotions.

1. Room package for IDR 600.000 net.

• 2 nights stay in ARTOTEL Surabaya on 25 - 27 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net including breakfast for 2 persons.

• 1 night stay ARTOTEL Thamrin – Jakarta on 25 – 26 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net / night including breakfast for 2 persons.

1 night stay ARTOTEL Sanur - Bali on 25 – 26 March 2017 for only IDR 600.000 net / night including breakfast for 2 persons.

2. Food and beverage for IDR 60.000 net / item.

This promotion is valid only on 25 March 2017 from 08.30 – 10.30 PM (local time) at ROCA and BART in every ARTOTEL units.

• Every food value more than IDR 60.000 will be counted as IDR 60.000 net/ portion.

• Every Cocktail and Shooter only IDR 60.000 net / glass.

• Every purchase of 2 bottle of beer only IDR 60.000 net.

Corporate General Manager of ARTOTEL Indonesia, Mr. Eduard R. Pangkerego, said ‘’ARTOTEL chose theme “60 + 60” on Earth Hour 2017 to encourage people to give more contribution to the environment, by not only turn off the lights for 60 minutes. We can do more by keep the lights out in all ARTOTEL units simultaneously for 2 hours from 08.30 until 10.30 PM local time.

Furthermore, we would like to give special offers and art activities for our guests to celebrate EARTH HOUR as a memorable and joyful event.”

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ Smashes Records With Towering $170 Million Debut

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Canada’s asylum process

Depending on where an asylum seeker claims asylum, the process differs.

Here's a look at the current process: CANADA-U.S. LAND BORDER The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will warn people detected outside official points of entry that they are entering Canada illegally and inform them of the nearest official border crossing.

POINT OF ENTRY (AIRPORT/SEAPORT) Asylum seeker presents him/herself to border officers.

LOS ANGELES - This is what makes Disney such a powerhouse. “Beauty and the Beast,” the studio’s latest live action update of a cartoon classic, waltzed its way to a towering $170 million debut this weekend, setting a new record for a March opening and solidifying the Mouse House’s status as the dominant player in the film business. No other company can match the streak that Disney is currently enjoying, thanks to a series of multibillion acquisitions that put the likes of Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilm in its Magic Kingdom.

“Beauty and the Beast” represents another part of Disney’s branded strategy. It’s the latest fairy tale adaptation to hit screens.

Others in the lucrative group include “Alice in Wonderland,” which picked up $1 billion worldwide, “Cinderella” with its $543.5 million global haul, and last year’s “The Jungle Book,” which racked up a mighty $966.6 million after finishing its run. Remakes of “Dumbo” and “Mulan” are already in the works, as Disney commits to putting a live action spin on the bulk of its animated properties (Fans of “Treasure Planet” may be out of luck).

The latest fairy tale follows Belle, a bookish girl in France played by Harry Potter film veteran Emma Watson, who helps a tortured Beast (Dan Stevens of “Downton Abbey” fame) break out of his shell. In the process she lifts a curse that’s left the Beast’s kingdom populated by talking household items. “Beauty and the Beast” didn’t muck about with the elements that made the 1991 film so beloved. Director Bill Condon kept the basic plot intact, while fleshing out a bit more of Belle’s backstory, and retaining a soundtrack that includes “Be Our Guest” and “Belle.” All those elaborate musical numbers and chatty cutlery don’t come cheap.

“Beauty and the Beast” carries a hefty $160 million budget. It should make that money back manyfold after ticket sales are tallied and new lines of princess wear are whipped up to satisfy new generations of Belle lovers. (rtr)

POINT OF ENTRY ILLEGAL CROSSING (CANADA-U.S. LAND BORDER) AT LAND BORDER Asylum seeker presents If the person proceeds to cross illegally, the RCMP will detain him/her. him/herself to border officers.

QUESTIONING AND BACKGROUND CHECKS The person is held for questioning and checks are made to ensure he/she does not pose a threat to national security.**

TRANSFER OF CUSTODY TO BORDER SERVICES AGENCY

SAFE THIRD COUNTRY ACT EXEMPTIONS* Eg. Have a close relative living in Canada

YES

NO

SCREENING After obtaining identification documents, border officers will interview the asylum seeker and determine if he/she is eligible to be referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB).

NOT ELIGIBLE FILE CLAIM The asylum seeker will file his/her claim and be given a date for a hearing with IRB (usually in 60 days). The claimant will be allowed to stay in Canada temporarily while IRB reviews the case and makes a decision.

IRB APPROVES CLAIM

IRB REJECTS CLAIM

APPEAL***

APPEAL SUCCESSFUL

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo

A group that claimed to be from Turkey is met by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after they crossed the U.S.-Canada border illegally leading into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada March 6, 2017.

Disney via AP

This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic “Beauty and the Beast.”

Kim Kardashian West ‘mentally prepped’ for rape during heist LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian West says she “mentally prepped” herself to be raped while being held at gunpoint during a Paris jewelry heist last year.

Kardashian West discussed the incident on Sunday night’s episode of the E! network’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

She says two robbers wearing police uniforms entered her hotel room last October. One of the robbers duct-taped her mouth while she was in

bed, grabbed her legs and pulled her toward him.

She says she wasn’t raped, but had a gun held to her head.

Kardashian West says the men picked her up and put her in a bathtub before making off with jewelry.

She said on Twitter Sunday that she “learned some valuable lessons” through the experience.

Ten people have been charged in connection with the case. (ap)

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APPEAL DENIED

DEPORTATION The asylum seeker has to leave Canada.

REFUGEE STATUS The claimant is granted refugee status and is resettled in Canada.

Sources: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Reuters C. Chan, A. Paperny 20/03/2017

Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported - Reuters poll

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA - Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.

A significant minority, four out of 10 respondents, said the border crossers could make Canada “less safe,” underlining the potential political risk for Trudeau’s Liberal government.

The increasing flow of hundreds of asylum-seekers of African and Middle Eastern origin from the United States in recent months has become a contentious issue in Canada.

There has been broad bipartisan support for high levels of legal immigration for decades in Canada.

But Trudeau has come under pressure over the flow of the illegal migrants. He is questioned about it every time he appears in parliament, from opponents on the left, who want more asylum-seekers to

be allowed in, and critics on the right, who say the migrants pose a potential security risk.

Canadians appeared to be just as concerned about illegal immigration as their American neighbors, according to the poll, which was conducted between March 8-9.

Some 48 percent of Canadians said they supported “increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally.” (For graphics on asylum process, immigration poll see http://tmsnrt.rs/2nyY8CJ) When asked specifically about the recent border crossings from the United States, the same number - 48 percent - said Canada should “send these migrants back to the U.S.” Another 36 percent said Canada should “accept these migrants” and

let them seek refugee status.

In the United States, where President Donald Trump was elected partly on his promise to boost deportations, 50 percent of adults supported “increasing the deportation of illegal immigrants,” according to a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that was conducted during the same week in the United States.

Illegal migrants interviewed by Reuters in Canada said they had been living legally in the United States and had applied for asylum there. But they had fled to Canada for fear of being caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

WARMING WEATHER POSES RISK In the poll, support for deporting the border crossers was strongest among men, adults who do not have a college degree, people who are older and those with higher levels of income.

“There are so many people in the

world who want to come in and go through the right channels,” said Greg Janzen, elected leader of a Manitoba border municipality that has seen hundreds of border crossers. “That’s what’s pissing most people off. These guys are jumping the border,” he said.

Forty-six percent of Canadians feel the influx would have no effect on safety, while 41 percent said it would make Canada less safe, according to the poll.

“Refugees are much more welcomed when we have gone and selected them ourselves as a country, as opposed to refugees who have chosen us,” said Janet Dench, executive director of Canadian Council for Refugees.

Of those polled, 46 percent disagreed with how Trudeau was handling the situation, 37 percent agreed, while 17 percent did not know. In January, a separate Ipsos poll found that 59 percent of Canadians approved of Trudeau, while

41 percent disapproved.

Trudeau faces no immediate threat, since the next elections are not until 2019. Trudeau’s office declined to comment on the poll, as did the opposition Conservative Party.

Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute public policy think-tank, said the number of illegal migrants could spike as the weather warms, and “if people become convinced there’s a large uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants, I think that will be a very serious political issue for the government.” Canadian authorities dismiss the idea they are being lax.

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