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Mary Lambert was ‘last resort’ for ‘Same Love’

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NEW YORK — In just six hours, Mary Lambert’s life changed drastically. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis had written and produced a song called “Same Love,” but they needed a special hook to finalize the emotional track. Like the rap duo, Lambert is from Seattle, though she had never met them before.

“I was sort of a last resort,” said Lambert. “It was a match made in heaven.”

Lambert was given “about two or three hours” to write the song’s chorus and then record it the same night in front of the breakthrough newcomers, who were instantly impressed by the soft singer.

“They loved it. It was like this beautiful minute of silence after I sung the chorus,” she recalled.

Others love it, too — including members of the Recording Academy. “Same Love” is nominated for the coveted song of the year at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, pitting the rap song supporting gay love and acceptance against No. 1 smashes from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lorde and Pink. “Same Love” didn’t top the charts — it peaked at No. 11 on the

Hot 100 — but it sold 2 million copies and helped propel Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to even greater heights. The duo is nominated for seven awards, including best new artist and album of the year for “The Heist.”

“We’d probably all agree that the nomination for song of the year for ‘Same Love’ in particular is quite meaningful for us, in what the song has turned out to be and (what it) means to people,” said Zach Quillen, manager for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. “We regard it as our highest accomplishment,” he said.

The Grammys also will celebrate another song about gay pride Sunday with Sara Bareilles’ “Brave,” which she wrote to encourage her friend to come

out of the closet. It’s nominated for best pop solo performance and appears on her third album, “The Blessed Unrest,” which is up for album of the year. Keith Caulfield, Billboard’s associate director of charts, said “Brave” could be getting a boost because of its Grammy nominations.

“It does seem like something happened since the Grammy nominations came out in early December. You can probably tie the two together,” he said of “Brave,” which reached its peak at No. 26 last week.

Lambert, who is openly gay, said having her first mainstream song be about a topic that’s close to home and nominated for a top Grammy at the same time is a blessing.

PASADENA, California — Sting and Paul Simon are rehearsing for their upcoming tour, a couple of longtime friends and neighbors preparing to take turns singing some of each other’s big-

gest hits. It was Simon’s idea for the tour, hatched when he came downstairs in their New York apartment building to ask if Sting would be interested. Of course, Sting told him, having first heard Simon & Garfunkel when he was a 15-year-old in England.

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FILE - This June 13, 2013 file photo, Sting performs at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala in New York.

“He’s the master,” Sting said Monday, speaking by satellite from New York.

“If I ever wanted to emulate a literary and literate songwriter, then Paul Simon would be the person I would go to.”

They have started the process of selecting the set list for the tour, which opens Feb. 8 in Houston. Sting said Simon has asked him to sing “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and Sting asked if they could include “America.”

“Paul had a long partnership with Art Garfunkel for many, many years, and it’s not my job to impersonate Art,” Sting said. “He has one of the most iconic, beautiful voices in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

But my job is to interpret and honor the notes and the lyrics that have been written, and I will be me. But I’m delighted to sing songs from that canon.”

Simon is eager to sing Sting’s songs “Fields of Gold” and “Fragile.” “I think the gentler side of my repertoire interests him,” Sting told the Television Critics Association while promoting his PBS special, “Sting: The Last Ship,” airing Feb. 21 on “Great Performances.”

The two men, separated by a 10-year age difference, first sang together at a charity benefit in New York last year.

Sting said he was surprised by how well his voice blended with that of the 72year-old Simon.

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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013 file photo, Mary Lambert, left, Macklemore, center, and Ryan Lewis accept the award for best video with a social message for “Same Love” at the MTV Video Music Awards, at the Barclays Center, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Sting and Paul Simon rehearsing for upcoming tour

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Growth of hotel rooms in Bali triggers cannibalism Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Competition of hotels in Bali is assessed to lead increasingly unfair condition. As the indicator, the price is made cheaper without paying attention to the class of service. This condition is triggered by the uncontrollable growth of rooms. Ultimately, it will result in the cannibalism in the offer of hotel room rates.

Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Nyoman Suwidjana, said the growth in the number of rooms in Bali was much higher than the

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growth in tourist arrivals. This condition drove the creation of gaps in the management of accommodation on the Island of the Gods. “The number of rooms leading to oversupply affects the

offers of hotel room rates. This condition can threaten the Bali tourism industry which has been cheap to be more depressed,” complained Nyoman Suwidjana, Monday (Jan 20).

According to him, the uncontrollable growth of the number of hotel rooms would harm. This condition would kindle cannibalism where the new hotels would annex the market shares belonging to small hotels and traditional hotels owned by local people whereas the local

hotels had been in operation for a long time.

“The hotels owned by local people have been greatly giving contribution of services since the beginning to the growth of Bali tourism. However, the existence of hotels owned by local people is now at risk of being shifted by new hotels owned by investors from outside Bali,” he revealed.

The impact of uncontrolled growth in hotel room was also recognized by the Honorary Consul of Russia,

Chairul Nuku Kamka. Foreign tourists, including those from Russia could easily get a hotel room at the lower class room rate to upscale room rate.

“The number of hotel rooms has been excessive, so foreign tourists coming to spend holiday in Bali become the object of conquest because tourists have too many choices of hotel rooms due to the large number of hotel availability,” he said.

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Tourists flocked at Benoa Bay to play watersport during a high season of tourists’ visit at Bali Island. The high number of tourists that visit Bali every year make hotel investment still robust.

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Alleged to embezzle land certificates, Adi Wiryatama reported to police Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The ATM machine which was burglarized in Denpasar

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ATM of BRI burglarized

Culprit fails to carry off hundreds of millions Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The burglary to the automated teller machine (ATM) reoccurred in Denpasar. Recently, the ATM of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) located on Jalan Cokroaminoto, precisely in front of Kimia Farma Pharmacy, West Denpasar, was burglarized, Monday (Jan 20). Luckily, the culprit failed to carry off hundreds of millions stored in the ATM. The burglary case was being investigated by the officers of West Denpasar Police assisted

by Denpasar Police.

Information at the scene mentioned the ATM burglary was just known around 08:00 a.m. At that time, a customer was about to withdraw money at the ATM. Another witness who was sweeping in the courtyard of Kimia Farma Pharmacy told if the ATM was out of order. “The first person knowing it was the cleaning service officer that would like to clean up the ATM room. He is Arif Frangki, 18,” said one of the officers when met at the scene last Monday.

Knowing it, the witness immediately reported the incident to the bank.

Furthermore, the report was forwarded to West Denpasar Police. A number of police officers of West Denpasar Police immediately came down to the scene.

Even, Deputy Chief of West Denpasar Police, I Gusti Kade Budi Harryarsana also came to the scene. To facilitate the investigation at the scene, the officers set

up police line. “The identification team of Denpasar Police has made crime scene investigation,” he said while asking not to be named in the paper.

Apparently, he said, the culprit failed to carry off the cash in the machine because two safe deposit boxes containing IDR 400 million remained intact. However, to ascertain, at that time PT Kejar directly took the money safe. Afterward, the money was counted. Meanwhile, police had not received a report from the BRI management about the losses suffered.

Police merely conducted a crime scene, examined witnesses and checked the CCTV footage.

Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police Harryarsana when met at the scene claimed that the case was being explored. He said to have received the report around 08:00 a.m. So far, it was still unknown the losses suffered. Chief of West Denpasar Police

Erwin Pratomo also revealed the same thing. His party remained to make investigation, including the pursuit of the culprit.

“We’re coordinating with the bank. The CCTV footage will be examined. Hopefully, there are recordings and the culprit is seen in the footage,” he hoped.

Chief Erwin suspected the culprit took action early morning because every night the local rural security guard continued to patrol the area. Incidentally, it possibly rained at the time of incident so no one saw it. “Condition of the ATM is severely damaged. However, the loss is not known yet,” he told reporters last Monday.

Other information received told if the money worth IDR 400 million was just topped up two days before the incident.

“It was just topped up on January 18, 2014 with the amount of IDR 400 million,” said one of the PT Kejar officers while taking the remaining money. (kmb21)

Former Regent of Tabanan, Adi Wiryatama, has now to deal with the Bali Police. He was reported

by I Made Sarja alias Mangku Sarja to Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Detective as alleged to have embezzled 15 land certificates. Other than Wiryatama, the victim also reported the notary I Ketut Nuridja assessed to get involved in the case.

Previously, the ownership of the land certificate on behalf of the victim was then changed to be on behalf of Wiryatama.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, claimed on Monday (Jan 20) that his party needed to see the case details to the Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Detective because the report numbered LP/497/IX/2013/SPKT was made on September 2, 2013. “We need to look at it first and make coordination with the General Criminal Detective because the report has been a little longer,” said the former Director of Traffic Affairs of the Central Sulawesi Police when asked for his confirmation by reporters last Monday.

Meanwhile, according to the victim (Mangku Sarja—Ed), the allegations of land certificate fraud was directed at two defendants because he considered there was something wrong. A total of 15 land certificates with an area of 2.5 hectares and was worth IDR 40 billion suddenly changed in terms of ownership without his knowledge. “The 15 land certificates were taken by my son named Made Harum Bawa. Then, they were given to Wiryatama through the notary,” he explained last Monday.

When it was taken by his son, the victim did not know at all. In other words, his son stole the certificates.

Later on, it was known if the certificates were used as collateral by his son due to debts valued at IDR 3 billion. Knowing this, the victim went straight to the notary and asked where the certificates were. However, he did not get clear answer. Even, the notary claimed that he would make coordination with Wiryatama.

In short, the land certificates had change ownership to be on behalf of Wiryatama. Actually, there was no land sale agreement. Even if his son had a debt worth IDR 3 billion, one certificate only was worth more than IDR 3 billion. In August 2013, together with his legal counsel, Zulfikar Ramly, Mangku Sarja came to the office of National Land Agency (BPN) in Tabanan to block before the ownership was changed. However, the blocking was considered to have never happened.

After the certificate underwent a change of ownership, the victim reported the case to Bali Police. Even, so far, of the 15 certificates, a total of 12 copies had been confiscated by Bali Police as evidence. Not only that, the inquiry had also been upgraded to investigation. However, the investigator had not yet to determine a suspect. “Moreover, the concerned has also been examined by investigator,” he said. (kmb21)

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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Inna Grand Bali Beach

SANUR - Inna Grand Bali Beach is situated on the long white sandy beach of Sanur, Bali’s most popular area and shaded by coconut palm, from the luxurious ten-storey central tower building, the highest in Bali, landscaped tropical garden and cottages spread out over 45 hectares land.

Originally opened on 1 November 1966, re-launched, after major upgrading, on 4 October 1993. INNA Grand Bali Beach is the most complete resort complex in Bali, featuring state-of-the-art visitor facilities, but also numerous artistic amenities that bring to life the cultural excellence of the Balinese people and their many talented neighbors.

Inna Grand Bali Beach offers a good value and genuine hospitality. The east facing location provides guests with the best opportunity to see magical Bali sunrise. 523 room in 3 types of accommodation; 100 cottages, 197 rooms of 4 blocks two storey

buildings and 226 rooms of a ten storey Tower Wing, including a Presidential Suite and spacious suites. All rooms have individually controllable air conditioning, humidity control, private bath/ shower, satellite TV, fridge/ mini bar, hair dyer, tea & coffee making facility, in-house movie channel, international direct dial telephones, bathrobes, balcony or terrace.

Tower Wing rooms also have in room safes and card key door locks.

Guests can enjoy views of the blue sea or the lush tropical gardens, so come and enjoy the Grandeur of Bali, Inna Grand Bali Beach.

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Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014 1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel Bebetin Pura Maspahit Sesetan Pura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan Bangli Pura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud Pura Benua Besakih Pura Gunung Rena Sidemen Karangasem Pura Pasek Gelgel Abadi Karangasem Pura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem 16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Gunung Pangsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar Pura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Badung

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran ped Nusa Penida Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Kelungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kayangan Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih 31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Kayangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang 6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih 14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen Karangasem Pura Buana Kawan Besakih 15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Krambitan Tabanan Pura Pucak Taman bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Gianyar 26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian Semal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Technology

China loses 27.8 million microblog users in 2013 Associated Press Writer

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, file photo, a person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow as the Gateway Arch appears in the distance, in St. Louis.

The deep freeze that gripped much of the nation this week wasn’t unprecedented, but with global warming we’re getting far fewer bitter cold spells, and many of us have forgotten how frigid winter used to be.

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UN warns against delayed action on global warming

BEIJING — The number of online microblog users in China dropped by more than 27.8 million last year, marking the first major decline in popularity of a social media genre that has offered a way to share unfiltered information in a country with strict controls.

The drop comes amid a crackdown on microblogs deemed sensitive by government authorities and new controls on what can be posted and reposted, and reflects an overall decline in use of traditional social media in China that once had explosive growth. At the same time, Chinese Web users are migrating to cellphone-based instant messaging services, giving a huge boost to the mobile applications that have increasingly incorporated social media functions, including microblog-like features.

The China Internet Network Information Center said in an annual report Thursday that there were 281 million users of Twitter-like microblogs such as Sina Weibo at the end of 2013, down 9 percent from the previous year. It also reported an overall decline in users of social media as a percentage of the entire population of Internet users.

“I think there are several reasons, with the crackdown being one,” said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “People don’t want to get into trouble, and they have found other means of communications.”

One prominent alternative is WeChat, a mobile instant-messaging service that has risen in popularity since 2012 and has threatened the dominance of Sina Weibo in information sharing.

Statistics from the information center show that mobile instantmessaging services experienced rapid growth in 2013, adding 78.6 million users, or 22.3 percent.

The field leader is WeChat, which allows users to share information within circles of friends or open a public account that others can subscribe to, similar to the Twitter feature of having followers, but without a word limit.

The decline in online social media, especially in microblogging — known in Chinese as weibo — was palpable last year, following a heavy-handed government campaign against what it considered rumors, negativity and unruliness in online discourse. A new legal interpretation allows the government to jail microbloggers who post false information that has been reposted 500 times or viewed 5,000 times.

Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS — Delaying action on global warming will only increase the costs and reduce the options for dealing with the worst effects of climate change, according to a draft report by U.N. experts. The final draft of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, says that global warming will continue to increase unless countries shift quickly to clean energy and cut emissions.

It said that despite national policies and international efforts aimed at mitigating climate change, emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are warming the planet grew 2.2 percent per year on average between 2000 and 2010, compared to 1.3 percent per year from 1970 to 2000. The two main drivers for the increasing emissions are economic growth, which has risen sharply, and population growth, which has remained roughly steady, the report said.

The largest contributor to global emissions results from the burning of oil and coal — and the draft report said its contribution is expected to rise. Unless “explicit efforts” are made to reduce greenhouse

gas emissions, the experts warned that increased conservation and efficiency will not be sufficient to counter their rise.

With increasing demand for energy and the growing use of coal to generate electricity, the experts said emissions from the sector are projected to double or triple by 2050 from the level in 2010 unless improvements in clean energy are “significantly accelerated.” International climate negotiators agreed at the 2009 U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen that global warming this century must increase by less than 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) from now to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Scientists say that target requires

atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, to stay below 530 parts per million. The level surpassed 400 parts per million briefly in the spring, but annually it is still barely below 400.

The report said the majority of scenarios to stay below 530 parts per million throughout the 21st century would require a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 40 percent and 70 percent of 2010 levels by 2050. The experts said this will require new patterns of investment and a transformation into a low-carbon economy. The global total annual investment in the energy system is presently about $1.2 trillion, it said.

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FILE - In this March 12, 2010 file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang, in central China’s Anhui province.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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Frenchman may face death for drugs smuggling Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - A Frenchman has been arrested for trying to smuggle more than $500,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine into the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an offence punishable by death, an official said Monday.

Francois Giuily, 48, was detained Sunday at Ngurah Rai airport with more than three kilograms (6.8 pounds) of the drug hidden in plastic bags in his suitcase lining.

Airport customs chief I Made Wijaya said the drugs had a street value of $511,280. Giuily could face the death penalty under Indonesia’s tough anti-narcotics laws as well as a 10 billion rupiah ($830,000) fine, he said.

Several foreign nationals are on death row for drug-related offences in Indonesia.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in January last year after being found with $2.4 million worth of cocaine in her luggage as she arrived on Bali.

The latest arrest came as another French national, 40-year-old Michael Blanc, was freed Monday on parole from an Indonesian jail more than 14 years after he was caught smuggling drugs into Bali.

Blanc had been imprisoned in a jail in the south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Under the conditions of his parole, he must remain in Indonesia until the end of his sentence, on July 21, 2017.

Last Wednesday another Frenchman, Thierry Verchere, was arrested for possession of cocaine with a street value of almost $50,000 on the island.

As Verchere faces a possession charge, and not a smuggling charge, he will not receive the death penalty.

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French national Francois Jacques Giuily being showed with the evidence during a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Jan. 20, 2014.

Keep sanitation, municipality drives people’s participation

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The main problem experienced by Denpasar as a big city is waste. The waste handling cannot be resolved properly if it is only carried out by the government. Therefore, at the moment Denpasar municipality encourages residents to participate in making a clean city. This effort will be started in the moment of the 226th anniversary of Denpasar falling in this February as milestone of the movement.

It was affirmed by Regional Secretary of Denpasar, AAN Rai Iswara, when receiving the social visit of the ranks of Bali Post in his office on Monday (Jan 20). Rai Iswara accompanied by the Assistant Government I Ketut Mister recognized that it was not enough to create the urban sanitation when only relying on the government. Participation of all societal components and private sector should also be involved. “We begin to encourage public participation in the sanitation program,” said Rai Iswara.

Rai Iswara added that his party would make improvement in three main aspects to create good governance. The three aspects

included the sanitation, creative values and public services. In terms of sanitation, said Rai Iswara, it had become a must that all parties should be involved.

For instance, the government had put a notice to bring out the waste according to the specified time. However, today there were still people who put out waste outside the allotted time. As a result, the rubbish was left on temporary disposal site. “This kind of people’s attitude must be changed,” said Rai Iswara.

Besides, in a series of the anniversary at this time, the Denpasar municipality invited all elements of society to participate in enlivening and filling in the various activities.

Peak of the Denpasar anniversary celebration would be marked with a rally on February 27 in Lumintang Square. This year, Denpasar had been 226 years old. With a central theme ‘My City My House’ Rai Iswara expected the anniversary of this time had a deep meaning and all elements of society could participate in enlivening the anniversary of the Denpasar City.

“We do not want the festive anniversary is just enjoyed by civil servants of Denpasar mu-

nicipality, but also by people as well as they can enjoy and participate in filling in various events,” said Rai Iswara. All ranks of the Denpasar regional working units (SKPD) were asked to create activities that involved the community. He did not want if the public only served as spectator, but they could also actively get involved in various activities, so as to feel if the Denpasar city was celebrating its anniversary.

Rai Iswara also added in order the development of Denpasar as a creative city based on excellence could presuppose the presence of exemplary, quality and synergy of cross-time and cross-generation to encourage the development in the city of Denpasar.

Meanwhile, Assistant to Administrative Affairs of Denpasar Municipality, Ketut Mister, added that other than rally on February 27 and its night would be graced with the art and cultural appreciation as well as the exhibition of public service. Besides, it would also be jazzed up with various programs and community events packaged in a simple activity dedicated to the community of Denpasar. (kmb12)

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People cleaning up garbage that pile up at the river on Denpasar, Bali Island recently.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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Kindergarten remains apprehensive

Condition of kindergarten in Gianyar County remains poor. It was the finding of the Indonesian Kindergarten Organizer Association (GOPTKI) of Gianyar County while making social activities and conferment of educational toys (APE) to two kindergartens in Gianyar.

The kindergartens visited and getting assistance last Saturday (Jan 18) included the Santi Yasa Kindergarten at Petak Kaja, Asrama Kindergarten at Pejeng Kelod, Lila Kumara Kindergarten at Pejeng Kangin and Ratna Kumara Kindergarten at Medahan village. Seeing such apprehensive condition, either due to the room condition and narrow space for a kindergarten, Chairperson of the GOPTKI Gianyar, Mrs. Ambari Gaga Adi Saputra asked the Chairperson of the GOPTKI in each subdistrict, in this case held by the spouse of subdistrict head secretary and the Advisor to GOPTKI held by the spouse of subdistrict head, to identify all the problems faced by the kindergartens in their area. Furthermore, it should be coordinated with leadership of the GOPTKI in county level to find out a solution, she said.

Such a curt statement was delivered after having a closer look at the problems faced by kindergarten teachers in performing their duties. As experienced by the Santi Yasa Kindergarten at Petak Kaja, the principal Ni Ketut Budiasih revealed that her party lacked of land for outdoor educative games, while her party only had a swing and rope game. Related to teaching staff, her party only had internship teacher.

Similar problem was also faced by Ratna Kumala Kindergarten at Medahan village, Blahbatuh. Although the room and environment of the kindergarten had been clean and nicely arranged, the roof of its classroom leaked so during the rainy season the water flooded its classrooms.

In addition, during its visit the GOPTKI reminded the teachers in order they did not impose the kindergarten students to learn to read and count first. It was enough to be given an introduction course. Kindergarten was the time to play and performing orientation with peers or the environment. “I do realize the task of kindergarten teachers is very hard and am very grateful for all the devotion extended,” she said. (kmb16)

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Super typhoon victims flee again as rains flood southern Philippines Reuters

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines - Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people across the southern Philippines on Tuesday, including many already made homeless by a typhoon in November, after three days of rain flooded towns and farmland. Hundreds of survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, were forced to flee by tropical depression “Agaton” after emergency shelters were damaged or destroyed on the eastern central island of Samar.

Tents collapsed under the weight of the rain and emergency plastic sheets have been torn away, humanitarian agency Oxfam said.

An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year with Haiyan slamming into central islands on November 8, killing more than 6,100 and wiping out entire coastal communities in Leyte and Samar.

More than 200,000 people have been taken to shelters over the last three days as flood waters rose, but hundreds were still marooned

on the roofs of their houses on Tuesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

Del Rosario said 42 people had been killed, 65 had been injured and damage to property and farms had reached 367 million pesos ($8.13 million). “Our troops are trying to reach them and bring them to safer ground,” del Rosario said.

Nenita Matuda, 45, and her children perched on their neighbors’

roof as she watched the rampaging waters outside Butuan City in the north of Mindanao island. “Thank God we are safe but we just lost our house,” she told Reuters as she wiped tears from her eyes.

A state of calamity has been declared in Agusan del Norte and 15 other towns in the Davao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur areas of Mindanao even as weather bureau lifted alert levels as the storm weakened.

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One of the kindergarten in Gianyar visited by the members of Indonesian Kindergarten Organizer Association (GOPTKI) of Gianyar County

After disappearing for a day, a fisherman found alive

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A fisherman having disappeared for a day was finally found on Sunday (Jan 19) around 10:00 a.m. on the shore of Penuktukan village, Tejakula subdistrict. The fisherman was Gede Konten, 44, a resident of Sukadarma hamlet, Tajakula village, Tejakula subdistrict. Konten who had reportedly drowned while fishing at sea was found in good condition by Gede Nadi, a resident of the same village.

Information collected in the field last Sunday told that villagers were surprised due the disappearance of Konten from Friday (Jan 17). Families and residents had attempted to conduct a search, but he could not be found. His family then reported the incident to police and local village official.

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it was fruitless. Konten was finally found in good condition on Sunday morning and immediately evacuated by the officers. When found, Konten was stranded on the beach in a limp body condition. He was then helped and evacuated to his house.

Spokesperson of Buleleng Police, Made Mustiada, with permission from Chief of Buleleng Police, Benny Arjanto, when asked for his confirmation justified if his party

had received a report from a resident related to the victim missing when catching fish at sea. After that, the report was followed up by assigning marine police assisted by personnel of the National SAR Team (Basarnas) and the BPBD. The search by conducting eastward failed to produce a result. It was hampered by strong winds and high waves. Luckily, the victim was eventually discovered by a local fisherman in a safe condition.

“Yes, there has been a report on missing fisherman and we have done a search. Unluckily, he could just be found on Sunday morning, and the victim has been received by his family,” he said.

According to Mustiada, before the victim decided to go to sea, the wind was strong and the waves were

slightly high. Family had banned him, for fear of unwanted things happened to him. However, the victim remained to be determined to go to sea and directly took his boat with the equipment. After being at sea, the victim did not go home until late so his family began to panic. Family had looked for him but could not find, so it was then reported to police. “At that time, the victim had been banned from fishing but he ignored. Finally, his boat was hit by waves amid the ocean and drowned. Fortunately, the victim was found alive and has been submitted to his family members,” he said.

Meanwhile, the victim Gede Konten told he went to sea to catch fish on Saturday (Jan 18) around 04:00 a.m. Initially, the

marine weather looked normal and the waves were sloping. Around 10:00 a.m. when he was absorbed in catching fish, suddenly strong winds accompanied by high waves came. Seeing such condition, he attempted to return to mainland.

But before starting the boat engine, a large wave suddenly rolled up to the boat upside down. He tried to swim and save himself by turning the boat, but the waves continued to roll until he finally stranded on the beach of Penuktukan.

“At that time, the weather was fine but when arriving amid the ocean strong winds and big waves came. My boat was upside down as hit by the waves. I have tried to swim but the waves kept dragging until reaching the edge of the beach,” he said. (mud)

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View of houses submerged in heavy flooding brought by tropical depression “Agaton”, in Butuan on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao January 21, 2014.

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Protesters clad in improvised protective gear prepare for a clash with police in central Kiev, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014.

After a night of vicious street battles, anti-government protesters and police clashed again Monday in Ukraine’s capital.

President warns clashes threaten all Ukraine as fighting rages

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Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday warned bloody clashes between protesters and police threatened all of Ukraine as new fighting rocked the capital Kiev. The clashes, the worst in Kiev in recent times, marked a spiralling of tensions after two months of demonstrations against Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a pact for closer integration with the EU. Amid growing fears the police could act to violently disperse the protest, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka warned protesters to halt “mass rioting”, describing it as a crime against the state. In a second day of clashes after 200 were injured in Sunday’s fighting, thousands of Ukrainians braved temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) to take part in the standoff with police.

In the epicentre of the clashes outside the entrance to the iconic Dynamo Kiev football stadium in central Kiev, both sides hunkered down behind barricades. The protesters lobbed stones dug up from the cobbled road, flung Molotov cocktails and threw fireworks over a 20-metre (65-foot) noman’s land at police lines.

Police responded by throwing stun grenades and occasionally using rubber bullets and tear gas. “I am convinced that such phenomena are a threat not only to the public in Kiev but all of Ukraine,” Yanukovych said in an address to the nation broadcast on state TV. “I urge dialogue, compromise and calm in our native land,” he said in his first public

comments on the violence.

Showing increasing impatience with the events, he added: “I ask you not to follow those who urge violence, who are seeking to provoke a split between the state and society.” But even after his comments, some 10,000 protesters remained around the centre of the clashes, with the most radical using lasers to blind police firing stun grenades.

“Who, if not us, and when, if not now,” read a banner carried by one group of protesters.

Tymoshenko backs radical protesters The burned-out wrecks of half a dozen police vehicles torched and destroyed the day earlier were used by the protesters as a barricade. According to the Kiev health authorities, more than 100 protesters were wounded in Sunday’s clashes, with four people sustaining serious injuries to eyes and limbs.

The interior ministry said more than 100 members of the security forces had been wounded. The ministry added that 30 people had been arrested for mass rioting.

US-funded Ukrainian radio station Radio Svoboda said two of its journalists had been arrested Monday morning while filming at the scene. Opposition leaders, including former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, appeared unable to have any influence on the hard core of radical protesters and stopped short of supporting their actions.

But Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko came out in support of those clashing with police, saying she would be with them if she could.

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BUSINESS GENEVA - Global unemployment climbed by five million people in 2013 to 202 million despite green shoots in the world economy, signalling a jobless recovery, the International Labour Organisation said on Monday.

Business activity is picking up but the misery of unemployment continues to pile up.

“We continue to be on an upward trajectory in terms of unemployment in the world,” Guy Ryder, the UN labour agency’s director general, told reporters.

“What is perhaps equally concerning is that, on current trends, and notwithstanding the modest recovery in growth that we are seeing, unemployment will continue to increase in coming years,” Ryder said as he released the ILO’s annual

employment report.

By 2018, about 215 million people worldwide are expected to be unemployed, according to the ILO. “At current rates of growth, we’re simply not able to produce any improvement in these figures.

Indeed, they’re going to get worse,” Ryder said.

“We believe that employment needs to be put at the centre of international policy-making,” he underlined.

“There is a clear linkage between

these unacceptable levels of unemployment in the world, and growing inequality,” he added, noting that inequality functions as a “brake on growth”.

A global labour market recovery is being held back by a shortfall in demand, the ILO said, noting that in many developed economies, cuts in public spending and increases in income and consumption taxes were weighing heavily on businesses and households.

In addition, the financial sector remains troubled, credit is stills hard to obtain for small businesses in many economies, and wage rises have lagged behind increases in productivity.

North Africa remained the hardest-hit region of the globe in 2013, with an unemployment rate of 12.2

percent, followed by the Middle East on 10.9 percent.

Europe, North America and other developed economies followed on 8.6 percent, ahead of ex-Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union’s 8.2 percent, and Sub-Saharan Africa’s 7.6 percent.

The rate in Latin America and the Caribbean was 6.5 percent.

In East Asia -- a label covering China -- the level was 4.5 percent, while the rates in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia, were 4.2 percent and 4.0 percent respectively.

Youth unemployment -- which the ILO counts as covering potential workers aged between 15 and 24 years -- remained a major concern.

It stood at 13 percent last year,

far outstripping the 6.0 percent average global rate of joblessness.

“Young people continue to be on the front line,” Ryder said, warning of the impact on social stability.

He urged governments to pay particular attention to the so-called “NEETS” -- young people who are neither in employment, education nor training -- whose levels he said had reached “epidemic proportions” in hard-hit nations.

“The lesson is not to fall into any fatality, that we are in some way condemned to jobless growth,” said Ryder.

“It is absolutely to intervene to make sure jobs are stimulated as the way out of the crisis. The definition of the exit from the crisis is when people are back at work,” he added.

Malaysia eases auto curbs to woo foreign makers

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KUALA LUMPUR \ Malaysia unveiled a new auto policy Monday, offering incentives and easing curbs on the production of small, energyefficient cars to vie for investment with neighboring rivals Thailand and Indonesia.

Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamad said new manufacturing licenses will be issued for carmakers producing green vehicles. It is a significant change in policy as the government previously only issued new manufacturing licenses for vehicles with engine size of 1.8 liters and above to protect national car makers Proton and Perodua.

Mustapa said the new auto policy aims to raise total industry production to 1.25 million vehicles and exports to 250,000 vehicles by 2020. Last year, Malaysia’s vehicle production was around 570,000 vehicles and exports at 20,000. That was dwarfed by Thailand which makes more than 2 million vehicles a year and by Indonesia with annual production exceeding 1 million.

The policy also aims to double exports of auto parts and components to 10 billion ringgit ($3 billion) by 2020, Mustapa said.

“We want to promote a competitive and sustainable domestic automotive industry. The most important objective is to make Malaysia a regional auto hub for energy efficient vehicles, including the production of hybrids and

electric vehicles,” he told a news conference.

Malaysia is trying to play catch up with its neighbors. Thailand has a lead with its “Eco Car” program launched five years ago while Indonesia introduced its “Green Car” scheme last year, both focusing on small, fuel efficient cars.

Mustapa said incentives including tax rebates and grants will be offered to manufacturers based on their investment. More than 2 billion ringgit ($603 million) in soft loans will also be offered to promote the development of energy efficient vehicles, he said.

He said there will be no limit on foreign ownership of ventures under the green car program.

“You have this (program) in Indonesia and Thailand too, but we believe ours is more comprehensive. We will open up the whole car market for energy efficient vehicles,” he said.

Mustapa said some car models produced by compact car maker Perodua as well as Japan’s Honda and Mazda have met fuel efficiency standards to qualify as energy efficient vehicles, and recently announced plans to expand production.

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imposes excise duties of up to 105 percent that kept prices of foreign cars high.

Mustapa said the government collected 9.83 billion ringgit ($3 billion) in tax revenue from the auto industry last year, with excise duties accounting for 75 percent of the total. The industry contributes about 3.4 percent of gross national product.

Due to the government’s high

budget deficit, he ruled out any move to cut excise duties but said the government “is open to the possibility of reducing excise duties gradually” if its fiscal situation improves.

The new policy will bring more competition for struggling national carmaker Proton.

Proton’s new chairman Mohamad Khamil Jamil told reporters

that Proton will implement “new programs in tandem with the new policy” but didn’t elaborate. “Proton will continue to survive and God willing, be strong and better.”

Once the king of the road in Malaysia, Proton’s fortunes have dwindled, with its market share falling to under 30 percent from more than two-thirds a decade ago due to greater competition.

Tawan karang or the right to plunder vessels that foundered off the reefs surrounding Bali is one of the legal traditions or customs prevailing in Bali in the ancient time. This law allowed a king or a coastal community to seize the stranded vessels along with its cargo in their territory and make the passengers as slaves or sometimes killed.

The right is applicable if there was a vessel stranded on the rocks or the coastal territories, including its passengers and cargo, and only local people who could help or save them. The right aimed at maintaining and protecting the territorial jurisdiction from foreign enemies.

It is considered as the local genius and becomes an embryo and the birth of international customary law giving birth to the nationalistic perspective. (kmb)

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Labuan Aji Temple:

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BULELENG - Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict. Almost every day, the temple situated on the edge of Seririt-Singaraja road section is visited by Hindus from different parts of Bali and beyond to pray whereas the temple anniversary falls on the full moon of the fourth month (Kapat) in Balinese calendar.

The age and magical power of Labuan Aji Temple can be seen

from its distinctive architecture and carvings. Its walls are still made

of ancient stones engraved with carving style of Northern Bali. Big

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A man looks at a new car at a car showroom in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

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trees such as banyan tree and other coastal trees still look well maintained and shade the temple area.

Meanwhile, the overlay of swamps and vacant land stretches next to the temple to the north down to the sea sand.

Jero Mangku Made Mantra who is almost in charge in the temple every day said pujawali or anniversary of the temple fell on full moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar (around SeptemberOctober). However, there were Hindus saying prayers every day, especially on Pagerwesi, Galungan and Kuningan. As consequence, it resulted in long queue in the temple.

To facilitate the Hindus performing the prayers, the supporting devotees then established a representative shrine on the road side. On that account, people passing through on the Singaraja-Seririt road section usually stopped there to worship for safety in their journey.

For devotees who wanted to say prayers more solemnly, they usually came into the temple area not far from the road. In the temple, Jero Mangku Made Mantra was ready to provide guidance and lead them to say prayers. “Every day, there are people worshipping here. Some of them usually invoke safety, while others pray for specific request like recovery from illness or job opportunity,” said Jero Mangku Made Mantra.

According to Jero Mantra, the innermost courtyard of the temple had a number of shrines like that of Lord Shakti, Lord Tulak Sanjata and Lord Taksu. Interestingly, in the outermost courtyard could also be found some shrines so that it

gave impression if the temple was surrounded by many small shrines.

“The temple has three main shrines in the innermost courtyard, while in the outermost courtyard there are a number of auxiliary shrines,” he said.

Only few people knew in detail about the history of the Labuan Aji Temple. However, based on the records in the profile of Temukus Village was known if the establishment of Labuan Aji Temple had association with the establishment of Melanting Temple in West Buleleng. Mentioned, when the deity from Majapahit traveled to Bali, he dropped by at Temukus after making his time to stop in Pulaki. When resuming the journey eastwards, the deity of Majapahit reached the Karang Kripit (Karang Upit). There, he was picked up by Teja Kukus. He was invited to have a promenade to see the situation of the village. Teja Kukus was then sought by his father and was found to unwind with the son of the deity.

Then the son of the deity named the village Temukus and worshipped a temple, the Labuan Aji Temple.

Spiritually, the Labuan Aji Temple also related to temples located in the vicinity of Lake Tamblingan venerated by four customary villages (namely the Munduk, Gobleg, Gesing and Umajero). As evidence, when the four villages held a series of ceremony in the temple at Lake Tamblingan, they usually ended with melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. By and large, devotees of the four villages performed the ceremony for about three days in the temple and on the beach around the temple. (kmb)

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INDONESIA HK police arrest employer of ‘tortured’ Indonesian maid

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Riot police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during a rally against a bill which would, among other things, allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to directly block access to websites or remove content deemed to be violating privacy without a court decision, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.

Embattled Turkey PM faces tough talks with EU

OMAHA, Nebraska - Explosions in two U.S. states, one at an animal feed plant in Nebraska and another at a steel plant in Oklahoma, killed at least four people and injured almost a dozen on Monday, authorities said. An explosion and fire flattened part of an animal feed plant in Omaha, Nebraska, killing two people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.

In the Omaha incident, about 38 employees were working at the International Nutrition plant at midmorning when there was an explosion and part of the building collapsed, interim Fire Chief Bernard Kanger told a news conference. One body has been recovered and the other is expected to be recovered on Tuesday from the industrial accident, Kanger said. Of the 10 injured, four were in critical condition, he said.

All employees have been accounted for, but authorities are not sure if there were any visitors in the plant, he said. In a separate incident, two workers likely “burned to death” when a furnace exploded at about 4 p.m. local time at an Oklahoma steel plant, a Marshall County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher said.

A third person was injured at Mid American Steel and Wire in Madill, Oklahoma, but treated for burns and released from a local hospital, said Madill Fire Department Fire Chief Keith Pruitt. The identities of those killed and injured were not immediately known, the officials said.

The plant, which was established in 2004, according to its website, did not respond to requests for comment. It is about 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Officials said investigations into the causes of both explosions and the fire would take days, if not weeks.

In the Omaha, Nebraska incident, Forklift operator Kendrick Houston told the Omaha World-Herald newspaper he was returning to work from a break when the floor began to tremble.

“There was this real loud crackling sound and the lights went off,” Houston was quoted as saying on the paper’s website. “I saw a spark and there was a big ball of flame coming from the southwest corner of the building.” Houston said he fled the building. He then tried to go back in to find his co-workers, but heat and smoke forced him to turn back, he added.

late last year following a threeyear freeze.

But he told reporters before leaving that the government would not back down on the plans to reform the top judicial body, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), and that it would move ahead with a “brave” reform agenda this year. Earlier in Ankara, new EU Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Muslim-majority Turkey, which has sought for decades to join the European club, would be pushing in Brussels for a timeline for negotiations to ensure that the process is not “open-ended.”

“We hope, we wish and we believe that the process concerning the HSYK will not provoke a serious crisis with the EU,” Cavusoglu said, although he conceded that there were “some difficulties” in aspects of the membership talks.

‘Opportunity to explain reforms’

The sons of three cabinet ministers were detained in a series of police raids in December, along with several business leaders, on an array of allegations including bribery in construction projects, gold smuggling and illicit dealings with Iran.

The Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has accused supporters of an erstwhile ally, exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, of acting as a “state within a state” and instigating the probe as a “coup plot” ahead of key elections this year.

“Our visit to Brussels will provide us with the opportunity to explain to our counterparts what’s happening in Turkey in the most accurate and most impartial way,” Erdogan said. “God willing, the game of this treacherous network will be destroyed.”

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Resident evacuated from flood area at Tangerang, Bekasi. The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the death toll due to the floods in Jakarta has reached 11.

Death toll of Jakarta floods reaches 11 JAKARTA - The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the death toll due to the floods in Jakarta has reached 11.

Ankara - Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels late Monday, hoping to put his country’s EU accession talks back on track amid upheaval at home over highly contested judicial reforms. Erdogan’s trip to Brussels -- his first in five years -- has been overshadowed by a graft scandal and his government’s subsequent mass purge of police and the judiciary, which critics see as a bid to stifle the investigation.

Some 2,000-3,000 supporters of the Turkish prime minister gathered in front of a Brussels hotel as he arrived there, waving Turkish flags in a festive display.

The crowd dispersed calmly before midnight, police said, after Erdogan had addressed them.

Before boarding his flight to the Belgian capital Erdogan sought to downplay the risk of a crisis with the European Union.

European officials have voiced deep concern about the state of democracy in Turkey and the independence of its institutions after the government, facing its worst crisis since coming to power over a decade ago, moved to tighten its control on the judiciary in the wake of a vast corruption probe.

Erdogan insisted 2014 would be a “turning point” in Turkey’s relations with the EU, after the resumption of membership talks

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Part of the International Nutrition plant in Omaha Neb., is collapsed Monday Jan. 20, 2014 in Omaha Neb. At least nine people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.

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He said that to push down the number of hotel rooms in Bali the government should restrict the number of new hotel license. If the emergence of new hotel was not restricted, it was natural that foreign tourists visiting Bali would increasingly become a bone of contention object in the hospitality sector in Bali.

“It will be useless to have a lot of hotel rooms in Bali if many of those hotels are vacant. When the hotel room occupancy is low, the hotel management will not be able to prosper the hotel employees,” he said.

He argued the issuance of new hotel licensing should be tightened.

Regulation on the hotel construction had to be applied consistently.

Otherwise, the government policies wishing to organize the number of hotels in Bali would only leave a discourse. “Multiple supervisions by government and the parliament would be able to restrict the growth of new hotels. The reason of issuing new hotel license must be based on survey on the number of tourist arrivals,” he said. (kmb27)

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“Since the onset of the floods until today (January 12-20), the death toll has reached 11 people,” Head of Jakarta BPBDs Control Section, Basuki Rakhmat, stated on Monday.

The deaths were caused mainly due to illness, electrocution, and drowning, he added.

“Apart from the above mentioned figure, another victim, a resident of Lubang Buaya (East Jakarta) has

gone missing after being swept away by the flood waters,” he claimed.

The floods have displaced a total of 63,958 Jakarta residents and they are currently being accommodated at 293 refugee camps.

Over the past eight days, around 293 urban villages in Jakarta have also been flooded.

East Jakarta was the worst-affected area, as the flood waters reached

heights ranging between 20 centimeters to two meters.

Until Monday, January 20, heavy rains continued to drench Jakarta and its neighboring cities, including Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi, particularly during the night, reported the agency.

“The intensity of rainfall is forecast to reduce over the next two days (January 22-23),” Sutopo quoted.

Bad weather

Merpati plane fails to land in Maumere Antara

KUPANG - A Merpati Nusantara Air Service plane failed to land at Frans Seda Airport in Maumere, returning instead to El Tari Airport in Kupang (both in East Nusa Tenggara Province) on Monday, due to bad weather.

“At 1:30 p.m. eastern Indonesia time, the M-60 plane left El Tari Airport in Kupang for Frans Seda Airport, but it could not land at Frans Seda Airport due to bad weather. The plane returned to Kupang and landed at the airport there at 3 p.m.,” stated

duty manager of El Tari Airport Gabriel Lusi Keraf when contacted on her cell phone on Monday.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued an early warning to all the people of East Nusa Tenggara Province to stay alert over the next two days as weather forecasts indicate heavy rains and strong winds.

Despite the bad weather, flights to and from El Tari Airport were still normal, with only one plane failing to land at the airport, Gabriel said.

“Flights to and from El Tari

Airport are still normal, despite the strong winds and heavy rains over the past few days caused by the lower pressure front covering almost all of Indonesia,” she explained.

A number of planes took off from the airport on Monday, including the Jakarta-bound Lion Air Boeing plane, TransNusa, Susi Air, and Merpati Nusantara Airs narrow body planes, she noted.

“The bad weather has led to a delay in a number of flights to El Tari Airport as visibility is less than 10 meters,” she added.

HONG KONG - Police at Hong Kong airport Monday arrested a woman who allegedly tortured two Indonesian domestic helpers, a day after thousands staged a march to call for better migrant worker rights in the city.

The unnamed woman, a 44-year-old housewife alleged to have beaten domestic helper Erwiana Sulistyaningsih and another maid, was arrested at the city’s Chek Lap Kok airport as she attempted to board a flight to Thailand.

“At about 4 o’clock today, Hong Kong police arrested a housewife of age 44. She is believed to be (involved) in connection with Erwiana’s case and another abuse on an Indonesian domestic helper in Hong Kong,” police officer Chan Wai-man told reporters some five hours after police detained the woman.

“She was trying to leave Hong Kong for Thailand,” he added.

Sulistyaningsih, 22, was reportedly abused over a period of eight months while employed by the woman. Media reports said she was unable to walk due to her injuries when she flew home from the southern Chinese city this month.

Her ordeal sparked an outcry among domestic helpers and many locals, renewing concerns about the treatment of maids in the city.

The arrest came as police investigators on Monday travelled to Indonesia to interview the young maid.

They visited Sulistyaningsih in hospital in Sragen on the main island of Java in the evening and said they planned to take a formal statement later.

“All the information will be passed back to Hong Kong,” police official Chung Chi-ming told reporters.

“She is also willing to go back to Hong Kong to assist in our investigation after her recovery,” he said, adding that police took a “very serious” view of the case.

Indonesian police assisting their Hong Kong counterparts said the statement would be taken early Tuesday.

Over the weekend a second maid came forward saying she was allegedly brutalised by the same employers. Chan said Monday’s arrest was based partly on evidence collected from that helper.

Hong Kong employs nearly 300,000 domestic helpers, mainly from Indonesia and the Philippines.

But the latest abuse case has strained relations between the southern Chinese city and Jakarta.

Reyna Usman, an Indonesian labour ministry official, said that Jakarta may review the placement of maids in Hong Kong if the city does not deal with the case seriously.

“In this particular case, the Indonesian (labour) minister wants a commitment from Hong Kong to take action against the agency and the employer,” she said.

“The Indonesian minister will review cooperation on the placement of maids in Hong Kong if this matter is not dealt with seriously.”

The financial hub’s leader Leung Chun-ying insisted abuse of maids would be dealt with severely. “Our laws do not allow anyone to impose violence on, or torture anyone’s body and mind. Police have arrested the suspect in connection with the case,” he said.

Several thousand domestic helpers and rights activists staged a protest on Sunday, calling for justice for Sulistyaningsih.

In September a Hong Kong couple were jailed for savagely beating their Indonesian domestic helper, including burning her with an iron and hitting her with a bicycle chain.

Amnesty International in November condemned the “slavery-like” conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian domestic helpers in Hong Kong and accused authorities of “inexcusable” inaction.

It said Indonesians were exploited by recruitment and placement agencies who seize their documents and charge them excessive fees, with false promises of high salaries and good working conditions.

The government stipulates a minimum wage and other conditions for foreign domestic helpers, but unscrupulous employers and agencies sometimes ignore this.

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Driven teen Bouchard starts to fulfil her promise

Pabean Beach

GIANYAR - Without doubt, every hobbyist of surfing surely knows the existence Pabean Beach located at Pabean Hamlet, Ketewel, Gianyar. It is approximately 45 minutes’ drive from the Ngurah Rai Airport. The huge waves of the beach are very good to perform marine activities. In dry season (June-October), the wind blowing from the land will come, so that it will enable visitors to perform such activities until late afternoon.

Many surfers from around the world choose this black sandy beach to pit their guts by conquering the waves. It is appropriate for beginners or those who have a wealth of experience. Aside from being quiet, the beach also offers a very beautiful panorama. On that account, it’s natural if many villas and other accommodation are established around the Pabean Beach.

Formerly, livelihood of most residents here was catching fish. Their catches were then sold to the market. Aside from catching fish, local people also had a habit of looking for seaweed and they called it paper seaweed. It grew well on the surface of sea rocks. When the tide was low, then the sea rock overgrown by seaweeds would appear. At that time, many local residents would throng the beach to pick them.

Like the other beaches, the Pabean Beach is also a center of ritual activities of Hindu community Bali. Every celebration of Nyepi or Day of Silence, the community of Gianyar, chiefly Ubud and other areas, used to carry out their ritual procession on the beach. As consequence, it can beautify the coastal panorama.

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MELBOURNE - When Canada’s Genie Bouchard won the junior Wimbledon title in 2012, it did not take long for her to be tipped as the next big thing in women’s tennis. On Tuesday, the 19-year-old began to fulfil those prophecies when she beat Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic 5-7 7-5 6-2 to become the first Canadian to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

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Eugenie Bouchard of Canada hits a return to Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during their women’s quarter-final tennis match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 21, 2014.

Named after Princess Eugenie of York, seventh in line to the British throne, Bouchard exudes a calmness on the court way beyond her years, and is equally assured off it. “I think I’m pretty similar on (and off the court),” she told reporters after setting up a semi-final against Li Na of China.

“I’m a really focused person, really driven. So off the court I’m kind of almost impatient in a way. I like to get things done.

On the court I’m the same way.

“In the point, I really just want to play my game, be aggressive, take it to my opponent, and not just wait around and wait for opportunities.”

With her looks and a game that is improving all the time, Bouchard is a sponsor’s dream, even if she plays a pretty straight bat to any questions slightly off-message.

Backed into a corner in an oncourt interview and asked who in the world she would most like to share a date with, she blurted out: “Justin Bieber”.

But when asked later in a press conference: “Why in the hell did you say Justin Bieber?” she clammed up, saying: “There was a swear word in that question. I don’t think I’m going to answer that.” While Bouchard is from Westmount, an English-speaking town in Quebec, she also speaks excellent French.

GETTING BETTER Her victory on Tuesday also made her the first Canadian into the last four at any grand slam since Carling Bassett at the 1984 U.S. Open. That statistic is slightly skewed by the fact that the two most prominent Canadian-born players of recent years, twice grand

slam champion Mary Pierce and men’s former world number four Greg Rusedski, both ended up playing for other countries.

Still, Bouchard realises that coming from a country where ice hockey is the most popular sport, she is facing an uphill battle to bring tennis to the masses. If she beats Li Na to reach the final in Melbourne, however, things may change just a little. “Hopefully they’ll care a little bit more about tennis now,” she said.

“It’s definitely not the most popular sport there but I think it’s growing, I think it’s getting better.

I’m just trying to do the best I can for myself, for the country as well.”

Dealing with the fame that comes with success appears to be easy for Bouchard and the Canadian said reaching the semi-finals was not a shock.

“It’s something I’ve been doing since I was five years old and working my whole life for and sacrificing a lot of things for,” she said. “So it’s not exactly a surprise.

I always expect myself to do well.

“I’m just happy to have gone through this step. I’m not done. I have a match on Thursday. I’m just looking forward to that.”

Millsap has 26, Hawks hold off Heat 121-114 Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Paul Millsap scored 26 points as the Atlanta Hawks overcame LeBron James’ 30 points to beat the Miami Heat 121-114 Monday. DeMarre Carroll added 19 points and Pero Antic had 17 for the Hawks, who ended a nine-game losing streak against the Heat. Chris Bosh had 21 points for Miami, which was without Dwyane Wade for the second straight game.

Atlanta took its first win over Miami since Jan 2, 2012 and its first home win in the series since Nov. 18, 2009. Indiana’s Paul George scored 23 points, and Roy Hibbert had 14 points and 13 rebounds as the NBAleading Pacers built a big lead before holding off the Golden State Warriors 102-94 for their

fifth straight win.

The Pacers (33-7) went ahead by 20 in third quarter, watched the Warriors whittle the lead to two and then regrouped in the closing minutes to open a fivegame West Coast trip with a victory. David West added 17 points and Lance Stephenson finished with 14 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists to help the Pacers pull away for good.

Stephen Curry had 24 points and nine assists, and David Lee had 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Warriors, who have lost four of six since their 10-game winning streak. At New York, Joe Johnson scored 25 points as the Brooklyn Nets sent the Knicks to a fourth straight loss 103-80 to level this season’s New York rivalry at one game each.

Making a triumphant return

from London and completing a three-game, three-country road trip, the Nets improved to 7-1 in 2014 and avenged last month’s blowout loss.

Andray Blatche had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and Alan Anderson scored 15 points for the Nets. Carmelo Anthony had 26 points and 12 rebounds for the Knicks. The Chicago Bulls edged the Los Angeles Lakers 102-100 after Taj Gibson made a layup at the buzzer in overtime.

Atlanta Hawks power forward Paul Millsap (4) drives to the basket under Miami Heat shooting guard Ray Allen (34) in the third period of an NBA basketball game in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

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Barca president offers to testify in Neymar contract case

Underperforming China gets new football head

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — China’s former table tennis coach was named head of the national football association Tuesday in the latest bid to lift the country’s dismal performance in the sport. China dominates world table tennis and Cai Zhenhua’s appointment speaks to the nation’s hopes that those winning ways will rub off on its footballers.

China has only qualified for one World Cup, in 2002, and its poor football results contrast starkly with the country’s stellar performance in other sports. Although China came second in the medal tally at the London Olympics, its football team currently stands at 92 in FIFA’s world rankings,

one rung above tiny Estonia.

Local analysts say China’s problems are deep seated, with not enough young people enrolled in football academies and a weak domestic league. Corruption has also been a serious issue, with two former association heads among eight officials and players sentenced in 2012 for taking bribes and other crimes.

Cai was a world champion as a table tennis player and was head coach of the men’s team from 1991 to 2004, a period when China won repeated Olympic and world championships. His most pressing task will be hiring a head coach for the men’s national team, leaderless since the firing of Spaniard Jose Antonio Camacho in June.

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BARCELONA - Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has offered to testify before a judge to try to resolve a legal challenge filed by a club member over the signing of Brazil forward Neymar. Neymar was paraded as the Spanish champions’ marquee signing when they beat off competition from Real Madrid to lure him from Santos in the close season and the club said he had cost 57.1 million euros ($77.5 million). now. “The second is a request, with all my respect for the judge in this case. I ask him to initiate proceedings and calls me to testify, precisely so I can tell the judge anything he would like to hear because there is nothing to hide,” said Rosell.

“Everything is absolutely legal and absolutely clean. Any confidentially clause that existed was always because it was asked for by the other side.” Spanish daily El Mundo reported on Monday it had access to court documents that showed Neymar had cost a total of 95 million euros including various commissions and fees paid to the player’s family.

That would make him the second most expensive player in history after Real paid Tottenham Hotspur 100 million euros for Wales winger Gareth Bale last year. In an interview with Barcelona-based daily Sport last week, Neymar said he believed there was nothing illegal about his transfer.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Stadium hosting World Cup opener almost ready

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However, precise details of the contract were not revealed with Barca pointing out the existence of confidentiality agreements.

A club member, Jordi Cases, having not received the information he requested about the deal, then took legal action. Rosell denies wrongdoing and the club reacted angrily after the state prosecutor asked the judge to open proceedings for possible misappropriation of funds.

Neymar’s signing was “complex” and an example of “business engineering” and they would act forcefully to defend the honour of the club and the president, Barca said.

“Having anticipated you would ask about this, there are two points I would like to make,” Rosell told a news conference on Monday to unveil Barca’s plans to remodel their stadium.

“The first is a reaffirmation...that Neymar cost 57.1 million euros, full stop. I am saying it for the umpteenth time and that’s enough

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“I know that a lot is being said about my contract. I have spoken to (my father) to see what they were talking about exactly.

My father was the one who signed the contracts and he is someone in whom I have total trust,” the 21-year-old said.

“There is nothing illegal. If anyone has any doubts they should ask my dad because I’m concentrating on my job which is playing football.”

AP Photo/Gabriel Pecot

Barcelona’s Neymar from Brazil gestures during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Atletico de Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014.

Athletic Bilbao beats Valladolid 4-2 in Spain

SAO PAULO - The venue that will stage the opening World Cup game in Brazil in June is almost complete, officials said on Monday, even though work has not restarted on the collapsed roof that killed two workers in November.

“The stadium is 97 percent ready,” said Andres Sanchez, the former Corinthians president who is overseeing construction of the Arena Corinthians.

“We have some things pending because of the accident but we’ve got the all-clear and by the end of the month they will remove the damaged piece.

We will hand the stadium over by April 15.” World soccer’s ruling body FIFA said on Monday it was delighted with the progress made although secretary general Jerome Valcke pointed out the stadium was supposed to be ready last month.

“We are very happy with what we’ve seen today,” added Valcke. “A lot of work has been done, a lot of work has still to be done where the accident took place, but we are very confident that all is on track.” The stadium on the outskirts of Sao Paulo is one of the most expensive of the 12 World Cup venues and was one of the last to get started.

Two workers died in November when a crane moving parts of the roof into place toppled over and the delivery date was subsequently put back four months.

LEANING STRUCTURE

The fallen structure, a massive 420-ton piece of metal tubing, is still where it fell, leaning against one side of a stand. When asked how the venue could be deemed 97 percent ready when a large part of the roof was still clearly damaged, the stadium’s chief engineer told Reuters the affected area was relatively minor.

“It’s a very small part,” said Federico Barbosa. “Everything else is done or almost done.” The delays at the venue that will stage the opening match between Brazil and Croatia on June 12 is one of the issues affecting the country’s preparations to host the first World Cup in South America since 1978. None of the six stadiums that were due to be finished in December were ready on time.

Six were completed last year and used in the Confederations Cup test event.

Public transport projects in several cities have also been abandoned or scaled back and there is concern new terminals at some airports will not be ready.

Valcke said he would only talk about other venues after visiting them on this his first visit to Brazil in 2014.

He travels to Cuiaba later on Monday and then to Curitiba on Tuesday.

Valcke flies to Natal on Wednesday when he will attend the opening ceremony of the Arena das Dunas. He said he would spend a week each month in Brazil until the competition begins.

Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Two goals by Ibai Gomez helped Athletic Bilbao come from behind to beat Valladolid 4-2 at the new San Mames stadium in the Spanish league Monday. Valladolid opened the scoring against the flow of play when Oscar Gonzalez struck the back of the net from what appeared to be an offside position in the 15th minute.

But in an eventful last 25 minutes, Gomez pounced on Valladolid goalkeeper David Marino punched-out save to equalize in the 65th, before Oscar de Marcos added another for Athletic 10 minutes later.

Gomez doubled his tally in the 82nd and Ander Herrera made it 4-1 four minutes later. “The squad is in good shape, finishing games and reaching 90 minutes well, which is very important,” Gomez said.

Valdet Rama pulled one back when he beat three Athletic defenders before shooting into goal in injury time. “Our rivals flattened us even though we spent 60 minutes defending well,” Marino said.

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Jerome Valcke, Secretary General of FIFA, right, and Aldo Rebelo, Brazil Sports Minister, center, inspect Arena de Sao Paulo stadium, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

Members of FIFA and the 2014 World Cup Local Organizing Committee started an inspection tour of stadiums in host cities across Brazil.

AP Photo/PA, David Davies

Everton’s Romelu Lukaku jumps over West Bromwich Albion’s Steven Reid during their English Premier League soccer match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich, England, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

West Brom draws 1-1 with Everton in Premier League Associated Press Writer

BIRMINGHAM, England — Diego Lugano scored his first goal for West Bromwich Albion to rescue a 1-1 draw against Everton on Monday in new manager Pepe Mel’s first Premier League game in charge. The Uruguay international’s 75th-minute header prevented a misfiring Everton side to go back into the top four after Kevin Mirallas had given the visitors a first-half lead.

Everton had a goal correctly disallowed for offside with the last kick of the game, leaving the team in sixth place, a point behind Liverpool and Tottenham.

“I think it was a fair result in the end,” Everton midfielder Gareth Barry said.

Mel replaced Steve Clarke, who was fired last month, having been sacked by Real Betis himself. He said he still needed time to make the team play the way he wants, but was pleased with the performance.

“First half, we were too open. But (in the) second half we were compact,” Mel said.

Mel started striker Nicolas Anelka after its shirt sponsor announced it would not be renewing its deal because of the controversy surrounding the

Frenchman’s “quenelle” gesture at West Ham last month, which has been branded anti-Semitic by some observers.

Anelka has promised to not to repeat the gesture and denied he was being anti-Semitic or racist by celebrating in such a way, claiming he did it in support of controversial anti-establishment comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala. He could face a fivematch ban if he is charged by The Football Association and found guilty.

Anelka began this game energized and motivated, but didn’t have a large impact and was substituted just after West Brom’s equalizer. Mirallas put his team ahead after Romelu Lukaku — who spent last season on loan at West Brom — headed down a long pass into the Belgian’s path and he slotted a low shot into the net.

The hosts ramped up the pressure in the second half, and Lugano met a cross from James Morrison to thump a powerful header past Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard. Sylvain Distin thought he had won it for Everton with the last kick of the game when he diverted Barry’s shot into the net, but he was clearly offside.

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Barca president offers to testify in Neymar contract case

Underperforming China gets new football head

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — China’s former table tennis coach was named head of the national football association Tuesday in the latest bid to lift the country’s dismal performance in the sport. China dominates world table tennis and Cai Zhenhua’s appointment speaks to the nation’s hopes that those winning ways will rub off on its footballers.

China has only qualified for one World Cup, in 2002, and its poor football results contrast starkly with the country’s stellar performance in other sports. Although China came second in the medal tally at the London Olympics, its football team currently stands at 92 in FIFA’s world rankings,

one rung above tiny Estonia.

Local analysts say China’s problems are deep seated, with not enough young people enrolled in football academies and a weak domestic league. Corruption has also been a serious issue, with two former association heads among eight officials and players sentenced in 2012 for taking bribes and other crimes.

Cai was a world champion as a table tennis player and was head coach of the men’s team from 1991 to 2004, a period when China won repeated Olympic and world championships. His most pressing task will be hiring a head coach for the men’s national team, leaderless since the firing of Spaniard Jose Antonio Camacho in June.

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BARCELONA - Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has offered to testify before a judge to try to resolve a legal challenge filed by a club member over the signing of Brazil forward Neymar. Neymar was paraded as the Spanish champions’ marquee signing when they beat off competition from Real Madrid to lure him from Santos in the close season and the club said he had cost 57.1 million euros ($77.5 million). now. “The second is a request, with all my respect for the judge in this case. I ask him to initiate proceedings and calls me to testify, precisely so I can tell the judge anything he would like to hear because there is nothing to hide,” said Rosell.

“Everything is absolutely legal and absolutely clean. Any confidentially clause that existed was always because it was asked for by the other side.” Spanish daily El Mundo reported on Monday it had access to court documents that showed Neymar had cost a total of 95 million euros including various commissions and fees paid to the player’s family.

That would make him the second most expensive player in history after Real paid Tottenham Hotspur 100 million euros for Wales winger Gareth Bale last year. In an interview with Barcelona-based daily Sport last week, Neymar said he believed there was nothing illegal about his transfer.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Stadium hosting World Cup opener almost ready

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However, precise details of the contract were not revealed with Barca pointing out the existence of confidentiality agreements.

A club member, Jordi Cases, having not received the information he requested about the deal, then took legal action. Rosell denies wrongdoing and the club reacted angrily after the state prosecutor asked the judge to open proceedings for possible misappropriation of funds.

Neymar’s signing was “complex” and an example of “business engineering” and they would act forcefully to defend the honour of the club and the president, Barca said.

“Having anticipated you would ask about this, there are two points I would like to make,” Rosell told a news conference on Monday to unveil Barca’s plans to remodel their stadium.

“The first is a reaffirmation...that Neymar cost 57.1 million euros, full stop. I am saying it for the umpteenth time and that’s enough

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“I know that a lot is being said about my contract. I have spoken to (my father) to see what they were talking about exactly.

My father was the one who signed the contracts and he is someone in whom I have total trust,” the 21-year-old said.

“There is nothing illegal. If anyone has any doubts they should ask my dad because I’m concentrating on my job which is playing football.”

AP Photo/Gabriel Pecot

Barcelona’s Neymar from Brazil gestures during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Atletico de Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014.

Athletic Bilbao beats Valladolid 4-2 in Spain

SAO PAULO - The venue that will stage the opening World Cup game in Brazil in June is almost complete, officials said on Monday, even though work has not restarted on the collapsed roof that killed two workers in November.

“The stadium is 97 percent ready,” said Andres Sanchez, the former Corinthians president who is overseeing construction of the Arena Corinthians.

“We have some things pending because of the accident but we’ve got the all-clear and by the end of the month they will remove the damaged piece.

We will hand the stadium over by April 15.” World soccer’s ruling body FIFA said on Monday it was delighted with the progress made although secretary general Jerome Valcke pointed out the stadium was supposed to be ready last month.

“We are very happy with what we’ve seen today,” added Valcke. “A lot of work has been done, a lot of work has still to be done where the accident took place, but we are very confident that all is on track.” The stadium on the outskirts of Sao Paulo is one of the most expensive of the 12 World Cup venues and was one of the last to get started.

Two workers died in November when a crane moving parts of the roof into place toppled over and the delivery date was subsequently put back four months.

LEANING STRUCTURE

The fallen structure, a massive 420-ton piece of metal tubing, is still where it fell, leaning against one side of a stand. When asked how the venue could be deemed 97 percent ready when a large part of the roof was still clearly damaged, the stadium’s chief engineer told Reuters the affected area was relatively minor.

“It’s a very small part,” said Federico Barbosa. “Everything else is done or almost done.” The delays at the venue that will stage the opening match between Brazil and Croatia on June 12 is one of the issues affecting the country’s preparations to host the first World Cup in South America since 1978. None of the six stadiums that were due to be finished in December were ready on time.

Six were completed last year and used in the Confederations Cup test event.

Public transport projects in several cities have also been abandoned or scaled back and there is concern new terminals at some airports will not be ready.

Valcke said he would only talk about other venues after visiting them on this his first visit to Brazil in 2014.

He travels to Cuiaba later on Monday and then to Curitiba on Tuesday.

Valcke flies to Natal on Wednesday when he will attend the opening ceremony of the Arena das Dunas. He said he would spend a week each month in Brazil until the competition begins.

Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Two goals by Ibai Gomez helped Athletic Bilbao come from behind to beat Valladolid 4-2 at the new San Mames stadium in the Spanish league Monday. Valladolid opened the scoring against the flow of play when Oscar Gonzalez struck the back of the net from what appeared to be an offside position in the 15th minute.

But in an eventful last 25 minutes, Gomez pounced on Valladolid goalkeeper David Marino punched-out save to equalize in the 65th, before Oscar de Marcos added another for Athletic 10 minutes later.

Gomez doubled his tally in the 82nd and Ander Herrera made it 4-1 four minutes later. “The squad is in good shape, finishing games and reaching 90 minutes well, which is very important,” Gomez said.

Valdet Rama pulled one back when he beat three Athletic defenders before shooting into goal in injury time. “Our rivals flattened us even though we spent 60 minutes defending well,” Marino said.

AP Photo/Nelson Antoine

Jerome Valcke, Secretary General of FIFA, right, and Aldo Rebelo, Brazil Sports Minister, center, inspect Arena de Sao Paulo stadium, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

Members of FIFA and the 2014 World Cup Local Organizing Committee started an inspection tour of stadiums in host cities across Brazil.

AP Photo/PA, David Davies

Everton’s Romelu Lukaku jumps over West Bromwich Albion’s Steven Reid during their English Premier League soccer match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich, England, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

West Brom draws 1-1 with Everton in Premier League Associated Press Writer

BIRMINGHAM, England — Diego Lugano scored his first goal for West Bromwich Albion to rescue a 1-1 draw against Everton on Monday in new manager Pepe Mel’s first Premier League game in charge. The Uruguay international’s 75th-minute header prevented a misfiring Everton side to go back into the top four after Kevin Mirallas had given the visitors a first-half lead.

Everton had a goal correctly disallowed for offside with the last kick of the game, leaving the team in sixth place, a point behind Liverpool and Tottenham.

“I think it was a fair result in the end,” Everton midfielder Gareth Barry said.

Mel replaced Steve Clarke, who was fired last month, having been sacked by Real Betis himself. He said he still needed time to make the team play the way he wants, but was pleased with the performance.

“First half, we were too open. But (in the) second half we were compact,” Mel said.

Mel started striker Nicolas Anelka after its shirt sponsor announced it would not be renewing its deal because of the controversy surrounding the

Frenchman’s “quenelle” gesture at West Ham last month, which has been branded anti-Semitic by some observers.

Anelka has promised to not to repeat the gesture and denied he was being anti-Semitic or racist by celebrating in such a way, claiming he did it in support of controversial anti-establishment comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala. He could face a fivematch ban if he is charged by The Football Association and found guilty.

Anelka began this game energized and motivated, but didn’t have a large impact and was substituted just after West Brom’s equalizer. Mirallas put his team ahead after Romelu Lukaku — who spent last season on loan at West Brom — headed down a long pass into the Belgian’s path and he slotted a low shot into the net.

The hosts ramped up the pressure in the second half, and Lugano met a cross from James Morrison to thump a powerful header past Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard. Sylvain Distin thought he had won it for Everton with the last kick of the game when he diverted Barry’s shot into the net, but he was clearly offside.

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Pabean Beach

GIANYAR - Without doubt, every hobbyist of surfing surely knows the existence Pabean Beach located at Pabean Hamlet, Ketewel, Gianyar. It is approximately 45 minutes’ drive from the Ngurah Rai Airport. The huge waves of the beach are very good to perform marine activities. In dry season (June-October), the wind blowing from the land will come, so that it will enable visitors to perform such activities until late afternoon.

Many surfers from around the world choose this black sandy beach to pit their guts by conquering the waves. It is appropriate for beginners or those who have a wealth of experience. Aside from being quiet, the beach also offers a very beautiful panorama. On that account, it’s natural if many villas and other accommodation are established around the Pabean Beach.

Formerly, livelihood of most residents here was catching fish. Their catches were then sold to the market. Aside from catching fish, local people also had a habit of looking for seaweed and they called it paper seaweed. It grew well on the surface of sea rocks. When the tide was low, then the sea rock overgrown by seaweeds would appear. At that time, many local residents would throng the beach to pick them.

Like the other beaches, the Pabean Beach is also a center of ritual activities of Hindu community Bali. Every celebration of Nyepi or Day of Silence, the community of Gianyar, chiefly Ubud and other areas, used to carry out their ritual procession on the beach. As consequence, it can beautify the coastal panorama.

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MELBOURNE - When Canada’s Genie Bouchard won the junior Wimbledon title in 2012, it did not take long for her to be tipped as the next big thing in women’s tennis. On Tuesday, the 19-year-old began to fulfil those prophecies when she beat Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic 5-7 7-5 6-2 to become the first Canadian to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

REUTERS/Jason Reed

Eugenie Bouchard of Canada hits a return to Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during their women’s quarter-final tennis match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 21, 2014.

Named after Princess Eugenie of York, seventh in line to the British throne, Bouchard exudes a calmness on the court way beyond her years, and is equally assured off it. “I think I’m pretty similar on (and off the court),” she told reporters after setting up a semi-final against Li Na of China.

“I’m a really focused person, really driven. So off the court I’m kind of almost impatient in a way. I like to get things done.

On the court I’m the same way.

“In the point, I really just want to play my game, be aggressive, take it to my opponent, and not just wait around and wait for opportunities.”

With her looks and a game that is improving all the time, Bouchard is a sponsor’s dream, even if she plays a pretty straight bat to any questions slightly off-message.

Backed into a corner in an oncourt interview and asked who in the world she would most like to share a date with, she blurted out: “Justin Bieber”.

But when asked later in a press conference: “Why in the hell did you say Justin Bieber?” she clammed up, saying: “There was a swear word in that question. I don’t think I’m going to answer that.” While Bouchard is from Westmount, an English-speaking town in Quebec, she also speaks excellent French.

GETTING BETTER Her victory on Tuesday also made her the first Canadian into the last four at any grand slam since Carling Bassett at the 1984 U.S. Open. That statistic is slightly skewed by the fact that the two most prominent Canadian-born players of recent years, twice grand

slam champion Mary Pierce and men’s former world number four Greg Rusedski, both ended up playing for other countries.

Still, Bouchard realises that coming from a country where ice hockey is the most popular sport, she is facing an uphill battle to bring tennis to the masses. If she beats Li Na to reach the final in Melbourne, however, things may change just a little. “Hopefully they’ll care a little bit more about tennis now,” she said.

“It’s definitely not the most popular sport there but I think it’s growing, I think it’s getting better.

I’m just trying to do the best I can for myself, for the country as well.”

Dealing with the fame that comes with success appears to be easy for Bouchard and the Canadian said reaching the semi-finals was not a shock.

“It’s something I’ve been doing since I was five years old and working my whole life for and sacrificing a lot of things for,” she said. “So it’s not exactly a surprise.

I always expect myself to do well.

“I’m just happy to have gone through this step. I’m not done. I have a match on Thursday. I’m just looking forward to that.”

Millsap has 26, Hawks hold off Heat 121-114 Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Paul Millsap scored 26 points as the Atlanta Hawks overcame LeBron James’ 30 points to beat the Miami Heat 121-114 Monday. DeMarre Carroll added 19 points and Pero Antic had 17 for the Hawks, who ended a nine-game losing streak against the Heat. Chris Bosh had 21 points for Miami, which was without Dwyane Wade for the second straight game.

Atlanta took its first win over Miami since Jan 2, 2012 and its first home win in the series since Nov. 18, 2009. Indiana’s Paul George scored 23 points, and Roy Hibbert had 14 points and 13 rebounds as the NBAleading Pacers built a big lead before holding off the Golden State Warriors 102-94 for their

fifth straight win.

The Pacers (33-7) went ahead by 20 in third quarter, watched the Warriors whittle the lead to two and then regrouped in the closing minutes to open a fivegame West Coast trip with a victory. David West added 17 points and Lance Stephenson finished with 14 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists to help the Pacers pull away for good.

Stephen Curry had 24 points and nine assists, and David Lee had 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Warriors, who have lost four of six since their 10-game winning streak. At New York, Joe Johnson scored 25 points as the Brooklyn Nets sent the Knicks to a fourth straight loss 103-80 to level this season’s New York rivalry at one game each.

Making a triumphant return

from London and completing a three-game, three-country road trip, the Nets improved to 7-1 in 2014 and avenged last month’s blowout loss.

Andray Blatche had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and Alan Anderson scored 15 points for the Nets. Carmelo Anthony had 26 points and 12 rebounds for the Knicks. The Chicago Bulls edged the Los Angeles Lakers 102-100 after Taj Gibson made a layup at the buzzer in overtime.

Atlanta Hawks power forward Paul Millsap (4) drives to the basket under Miami Heat shooting guard Ray Allen (34) in the third period of an NBA basketball game in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

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Riot police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during a rally against a bill which would, among other things, allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to directly block access to websites or remove content deemed to be violating privacy without a court decision, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.

Embattled Turkey PM faces tough talks with EU

OMAHA, Nebraska - Explosions in two U.S. states, one at an animal feed plant in Nebraska and another at a steel plant in Oklahoma, killed at least four people and injured almost a dozen on Monday, authorities said. An explosion and fire flattened part of an animal feed plant in Omaha, Nebraska, killing two people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.

In the Omaha incident, about 38 employees were working at the International Nutrition plant at midmorning when there was an explosion and part of the building collapsed, interim Fire Chief Bernard Kanger told a news conference. One body has been recovered and the other is expected to be recovered on Tuesday from the industrial accident, Kanger said. Of the 10 injured, four were in critical condition, he said.

All employees have been accounted for, but authorities are not sure if there were any visitors in the plant, he said. In a separate incident, two workers likely “burned to death” when a furnace exploded at about 4 p.m. local time at an Oklahoma steel plant, a Marshall County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher said.

A third person was injured at Mid American Steel and Wire in Madill, Oklahoma, but treated for burns and released from a local hospital, said Madill Fire Department Fire Chief Keith Pruitt. The identities of those killed and injured were not immediately known, the officials said.

The plant, which was established in 2004, according to its website, did not respond to requests for comment. It is about 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Officials said investigations into the causes of both explosions and the fire would take days, if not weeks.

In the Omaha, Nebraska incident, Forklift operator Kendrick Houston told the Omaha World-Herald newspaper he was returning to work from a break when the floor began to tremble.

“There was this real loud crackling sound and the lights went off,” Houston was quoted as saying on the paper’s website. “I saw a spark and there was a big ball of flame coming from the southwest corner of the building.” Houston said he fled the building. He then tried to go back in to find his co-workers, but heat and smoke forced him to turn back, he added.

late last year following a threeyear freeze.

But he told reporters before leaving that the government would not back down on the plans to reform the top judicial body, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), and that it would move ahead with a “brave” reform agenda this year. Earlier in Ankara, new EU Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Muslim-majority Turkey, which has sought for decades to join the European club, would be pushing in Brussels for a timeline for negotiations to ensure that the process is not “open-ended.”

“We hope, we wish and we believe that the process concerning the HSYK will not provoke a serious crisis with the EU,” Cavusoglu said, although he conceded that there were “some difficulties” in aspects of the membership talks.

‘Opportunity to explain reforms’

The sons of three cabinet ministers were detained in a series of police raids in December, along with several business leaders, on an array of allegations including bribery in construction projects, gold smuggling and illicit dealings with Iran.

The Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has accused supporters of an erstwhile ally, exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, of acting as a “state within a state” and instigating the probe as a “coup plot” ahead of key elections this year.

“Our visit to Brussels will provide us with the opportunity to explain to our counterparts what’s happening in Turkey in the most accurate and most impartial way,” Erdogan said. “God willing, the game of this treacherous network will be destroyed.”

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Resident evacuated from flood area at Tangerang, Bekasi. The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the death toll due to the floods in Jakarta has reached 11.

Death toll of Jakarta floods reaches 11 JAKARTA - The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the death toll due to the floods in Jakarta has reached 11.

Ankara - Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels late Monday, hoping to put his country’s EU accession talks back on track amid upheaval at home over highly contested judicial reforms. Erdogan’s trip to Brussels -- his first in five years -- has been overshadowed by a graft scandal and his government’s subsequent mass purge of police and the judiciary, which critics see as a bid to stifle the investigation.

Some 2,000-3,000 supporters of the Turkish prime minister gathered in front of a Brussels hotel as he arrived there, waving Turkish flags in a festive display.

The crowd dispersed calmly before midnight, police said, after Erdogan had addressed them.

Before boarding his flight to the Belgian capital Erdogan sought to downplay the risk of a crisis with the European Union.

European officials have voiced deep concern about the state of democracy in Turkey and the independence of its institutions after the government, facing its worst crisis since coming to power over a decade ago, moved to tighten its control on the judiciary in the wake of a vast corruption probe.

Erdogan insisted 2014 would be a “turning point” in Turkey’s relations with the EU, after the resumption of membership talks

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Part of the International Nutrition plant in Omaha Neb., is collapsed Monday Jan. 20, 2014 in Omaha Neb. At least nine people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.

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He said that to push down the number of hotel rooms in Bali the government should restrict the number of new hotel license. If the emergence of new hotel was not restricted, it was natural that foreign tourists visiting Bali would increasingly become a bone of contention object in the hospitality sector in Bali.

“It will be useless to have a lot of hotel rooms in Bali if many of those hotels are vacant. When the hotel room occupancy is low, the hotel management will not be able to prosper the hotel employees,” he said.

He argued the issuance of new hotel licensing should be tightened.

Regulation on the hotel construction had to be applied consistently.

Otherwise, the government policies wishing to organize the number of hotels in Bali would only leave a discourse. “Multiple supervisions by government and the parliament would be able to restrict the growth of new hotels. The reason of issuing new hotel license must be based on survey on the number of tourist arrivals,” he said. (kmb27)

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“Since the onset of the floods until today (January 12-20), the death toll has reached 11 people,” Head of Jakarta BPBDs Control Section, Basuki Rakhmat, stated on Monday.

The deaths were caused mainly due to illness, electrocution, and drowning, he added.

“Apart from the above mentioned figure, another victim, a resident of Lubang Buaya (East Jakarta) has

gone missing after being swept away by the flood waters,” he claimed.

The floods have displaced a total of 63,958 Jakarta residents and they are currently being accommodated at 293 refugee camps.

Over the past eight days, around 293 urban villages in Jakarta have also been flooded.

East Jakarta was the worst-affected area, as the flood waters reached

heights ranging between 20 centimeters to two meters.

Until Monday, January 20, heavy rains continued to drench Jakarta and its neighboring cities, including Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi, particularly during the night, reported the agency.

“The intensity of rainfall is forecast to reduce over the next two days (January 22-23),” Sutopo quoted.

Bad weather

Merpati plane fails to land in Maumere Antara

KUPANG - A Merpati Nusantara Air Service plane failed to land at Frans Seda Airport in Maumere, returning instead to El Tari Airport in Kupang (both in East Nusa Tenggara Province) on Monday, due to bad weather.

“At 1:30 p.m. eastern Indonesia time, the M-60 plane left El Tari Airport in Kupang for Frans Seda Airport, but it could not land at Frans Seda Airport due to bad weather. The plane returned to Kupang and landed at the airport there at 3 p.m.,” stated

duty manager of El Tari Airport Gabriel Lusi Keraf when contacted on her cell phone on Monday.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued an early warning to all the people of East Nusa Tenggara Province to stay alert over the next two days as weather forecasts indicate heavy rains and strong winds.

Despite the bad weather, flights to and from El Tari Airport were still normal, with only one plane failing to land at the airport, Gabriel said.

“Flights to and from El Tari

Airport are still normal, despite the strong winds and heavy rains over the past few days caused by the lower pressure front covering almost all of Indonesia,” she explained.

A number of planes took off from the airport on Monday, including the Jakarta-bound Lion Air Boeing plane, TransNusa, Susi Air, and Merpati Nusantara Airs narrow body planes, she noted.

“The bad weather has led to a delay in a number of flights to El Tari Airport as visibility is less than 10 meters,” she added.

HONG KONG - Police at Hong Kong airport Monday arrested a woman who allegedly tortured two Indonesian domestic helpers, a day after thousands staged a march to call for better migrant worker rights in the city.

The unnamed woman, a 44-year-old housewife alleged to have beaten domestic helper Erwiana Sulistyaningsih and another maid, was arrested at the city’s Chek Lap Kok airport as she attempted to board a flight to Thailand.

“At about 4 o’clock today, Hong Kong police arrested a housewife of age 44. She is believed to be (involved) in connection with Erwiana’s case and another abuse on an Indonesian domestic helper in Hong Kong,” police officer Chan Wai-man told reporters some five hours after police detained the woman.

“She was trying to leave Hong Kong for Thailand,” he added.

Sulistyaningsih, 22, was reportedly abused over a period of eight months while employed by the woman. Media reports said she was unable to walk due to her injuries when she flew home from the southern Chinese city this month.

Her ordeal sparked an outcry among domestic helpers and many locals, renewing concerns about the treatment of maids in the city.

The arrest came as police investigators on Monday travelled to Indonesia to interview the young maid.

They visited Sulistyaningsih in hospital in Sragen on the main island of Java in the evening and said they planned to take a formal statement later.

“All the information will be passed back to Hong Kong,” police official Chung Chi-ming told reporters.

“She is also willing to go back to Hong Kong to assist in our investigation after her recovery,” he said, adding that police took a “very serious” view of the case.

Indonesian police assisting their Hong Kong counterparts said the statement would be taken early Tuesday.

Over the weekend a second maid came forward saying she was allegedly brutalised by the same employers. Chan said Monday’s arrest was based partly on evidence collected from that helper.

Hong Kong employs nearly 300,000 domestic helpers, mainly from Indonesia and the Philippines.

But the latest abuse case has strained relations between the southern Chinese city and Jakarta.

Reyna Usman, an Indonesian labour ministry official, said that Jakarta may review the placement of maids in Hong Kong if the city does not deal with the case seriously.

“In this particular case, the Indonesian (labour) minister wants a commitment from Hong Kong to take action against the agency and the employer,” she said.

“The Indonesian minister will review cooperation on the placement of maids in Hong Kong if this matter is not dealt with seriously.”

The financial hub’s leader Leung Chun-ying insisted abuse of maids would be dealt with severely. “Our laws do not allow anyone to impose violence on, or torture anyone’s body and mind. Police have arrested the suspect in connection with the case,” he said.

Several thousand domestic helpers and rights activists staged a protest on Sunday, calling for justice for Sulistyaningsih.

In September a Hong Kong couple were jailed for savagely beating their Indonesian domestic helper, including burning her with an iron and hitting her with a bicycle chain.

Amnesty International in November condemned the “slavery-like” conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian domestic helpers in Hong Kong and accused authorities of “inexcusable” inaction.

It said Indonesians were exploited by recruitment and placement agencies who seize their documents and charge them excessive fees, with false promises of high salaries and good working conditions.

The government stipulates a minimum wage and other conditions for foreign domestic helpers, but unscrupulous employers and agencies sometimes ignore this.

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BUSINESS GENEVA - Global unemployment climbed by five million people in 2013 to 202 million despite green shoots in the world economy, signalling a jobless recovery, the International Labour Organisation said on Monday.

Business activity is picking up but the misery of unemployment continues to pile up.

“We continue to be on an upward trajectory in terms of unemployment in the world,” Guy Ryder, the UN labour agency’s director general, told reporters.

“What is perhaps equally concerning is that, on current trends, and notwithstanding the modest recovery in growth that we are seeing, unemployment will continue to increase in coming years,” Ryder said as he released the ILO’s annual

employment report.

By 2018, about 215 million people worldwide are expected to be unemployed, according to the ILO. “At current rates of growth, we’re simply not able to produce any improvement in these figures.

Indeed, they’re going to get worse,” Ryder said.

“We believe that employment needs to be put at the centre of international policy-making,” he underlined.

“There is a clear linkage between

these unacceptable levels of unemployment in the world, and growing inequality,” he added, noting that inequality functions as a “brake on growth”.

A global labour market recovery is being held back by a shortfall in demand, the ILO said, noting that in many developed economies, cuts in public spending and increases in income and consumption taxes were weighing heavily on businesses and households.

In addition, the financial sector remains troubled, credit is stills hard to obtain for small businesses in many economies, and wage rises have lagged behind increases in productivity.

North Africa remained the hardest-hit region of the globe in 2013, with an unemployment rate of 12.2

percent, followed by the Middle East on 10.9 percent.

Europe, North America and other developed economies followed on 8.6 percent, ahead of ex-Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union’s 8.2 percent, and Sub-Saharan Africa’s 7.6 percent.

The rate in Latin America and the Caribbean was 6.5 percent.

In East Asia -- a label covering China -- the level was 4.5 percent, while the rates in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia, were 4.2 percent and 4.0 percent respectively.

Youth unemployment -- which the ILO counts as covering potential workers aged between 15 and 24 years -- remained a major concern.

It stood at 13 percent last year,

far outstripping the 6.0 percent average global rate of joblessness.

“Young people continue to be on the front line,” Ryder said, warning of the impact on social stability.

He urged governments to pay particular attention to the so-called “NEETS” -- young people who are neither in employment, education nor training -- whose levels he said had reached “epidemic proportions” in hard-hit nations.

“The lesson is not to fall into any fatality, that we are in some way condemned to jobless growth,” said Ryder.

“It is absolutely to intervene to make sure jobs are stimulated as the way out of the crisis. The definition of the exit from the crisis is when people are back at work,” he added.

Malaysia eases auto curbs to woo foreign makers

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KUALA LUMPUR \ Malaysia unveiled a new auto policy Monday, offering incentives and easing curbs on the production of small, energyefficient cars to vie for investment with neighboring rivals Thailand and Indonesia.

Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamad said new manufacturing licenses will be issued for carmakers producing green vehicles. It is a significant change in policy as the government previously only issued new manufacturing licenses for vehicles with engine size of 1.8 liters and above to protect national car makers Proton and Perodua.

Mustapa said the new auto policy aims to raise total industry production to 1.25 million vehicles and exports to 250,000 vehicles by 2020. Last year, Malaysia’s vehicle production was around 570,000 vehicles and exports at 20,000. That was dwarfed by Thailand which makes more than 2 million vehicles a year and by Indonesia with annual production exceeding 1 million.

The policy also aims to double exports of auto parts and components to 10 billion ringgit ($3 billion) by 2020, Mustapa said.

“We want to promote a competitive and sustainable domestic automotive industry. The most important objective is to make Malaysia a regional auto hub for energy efficient vehicles, including the production of hybrids and

electric vehicles,” he told a news conference.

Malaysia is trying to play catch up with its neighbors. Thailand has a lead with its “Eco Car” program launched five years ago while Indonesia introduced its “Green Car” scheme last year, both focusing on small, fuel efficient cars.

Mustapa said incentives including tax rebates and grants will be offered to manufacturers based on their investment. More than 2 billion ringgit ($603 million) in soft loans will also be offered to promote the development of energy efficient vehicles, he said.

He said there will be no limit on foreign ownership of ventures under the green car program.

“You have this (program) in Indonesia and Thailand too, but we believe ours is more comprehensive. We will open up the whole car market for energy efficient vehicles,” he said.

Mustapa said some car models produced by compact car maker Perodua as well as Japan’s Honda and Mazda have met fuel efficiency standards to qualify as energy efficient vehicles, and recently announced plans to expand production.

Malaysia was once Southeast Asia’s top passenger car market but lost out to Thailand years ago, partly due to policies to protect home grown car brands. Import taxes have dropped under the region’s free trade pact but Malaysia

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imposes excise duties of up to 105 percent that kept prices of foreign cars high.

Mustapa said the government collected 9.83 billion ringgit ($3 billion) in tax revenue from the auto industry last year, with excise duties accounting for 75 percent of the total. The industry contributes about 3.4 percent of gross national product.

Due to the government’s high

budget deficit, he ruled out any move to cut excise duties but said the government “is open to the possibility of reducing excise duties gradually” if its fiscal situation improves.

The new policy will bring more competition for struggling national carmaker Proton.

Proton’s new chairman Mohamad Khamil Jamil told reporters

that Proton will implement “new programs in tandem with the new policy” but didn’t elaborate. “Proton will continue to survive and God willing, be strong and better.”

Once the king of the road in Malaysia, Proton’s fortunes have dwindled, with its market share falling to under 30 percent from more than two-thirds a decade ago due to greater competition.

Tawan karang or the right to plunder vessels that foundered off the reefs surrounding Bali is one of the legal traditions or customs prevailing in Bali in the ancient time. This law allowed a king or a coastal community to seize the stranded vessels along with its cargo in their territory and make the passengers as slaves or sometimes killed.

The right is applicable if there was a vessel stranded on the rocks or the coastal territories, including its passengers and cargo, and only local people who could help or save them. The right aimed at maintaining and protecting the territorial jurisdiction from foreign enemies.

It is considered as the local genius and becomes an embryo and the birth of international customary law giving birth to the nationalistic perspective. (kmb)

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Labuan Aji Temple:

Related to Majapahit Kingdom IBP

BULELENG - Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict. Almost every day, the temple situated on the edge of Seririt-Singaraja road section is visited by Hindus from different parts of Bali and beyond to pray whereas the temple anniversary falls on the full moon of the fourth month (Kapat) in Balinese calendar.

The age and magical power of Labuan Aji Temple can be seen

from its distinctive architecture and carvings. Its walls are still made

of ancient stones engraved with carving style of Northern Bali. Big

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A man looks at a new car at a car showroom in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

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trees such as banyan tree and other coastal trees still look well maintained and shade the temple area.

Meanwhile, the overlay of swamps and vacant land stretches next to the temple to the north down to the sea sand.

Jero Mangku Made Mantra who is almost in charge in the temple every day said pujawali or anniversary of the temple fell on full moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar (around SeptemberOctober). However, there were Hindus saying prayers every day, especially on Pagerwesi, Galungan and Kuningan. As consequence, it resulted in long queue in the temple.

To facilitate the Hindus performing the prayers, the supporting devotees then established a representative shrine on the road side. On that account, people passing through on the Singaraja-Seririt road section usually stopped there to worship for safety in their journey.

For devotees who wanted to say prayers more solemnly, they usually came into the temple area not far from the road. In the temple, Jero Mangku Made Mantra was ready to provide guidance and lead them to say prayers. “Every day, there are people worshipping here. Some of them usually invoke safety, while others pray for specific request like recovery from illness or job opportunity,” said Jero Mangku Made Mantra.

According to Jero Mantra, the innermost courtyard of the temple had a number of shrines like that of Lord Shakti, Lord Tulak Sanjata and Lord Taksu. Interestingly, in the outermost courtyard could also be found some shrines so that it

gave impression if the temple was surrounded by many small shrines.

“The temple has three main shrines in the innermost courtyard, while in the outermost courtyard there are a number of auxiliary shrines,” he said.

Only few people knew in detail about the history of the Labuan Aji Temple. However, based on the records in the profile of Temukus Village was known if the establishment of Labuan Aji Temple had association with the establishment of Melanting Temple in West Buleleng. Mentioned, when the deity from Majapahit traveled to Bali, he dropped by at Temukus after making his time to stop in Pulaki. When resuming the journey eastwards, the deity of Majapahit reached the Karang Kripit (Karang Upit). There, he was picked up by Teja Kukus. He was invited to have a promenade to see the situation of the village. Teja Kukus was then sought by his father and was found to unwind with the son of the deity.

Then the son of the deity named the village Temukus and worshipped a temple, the Labuan Aji Temple.

Spiritually, the Labuan Aji Temple also related to temples located in the vicinity of Lake Tamblingan venerated by four customary villages (namely the Munduk, Gobleg, Gesing and Umajero). As evidence, when the four villages held a series of ceremony in the temple at Lake Tamblingan, they usually ended with melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. By and large, devotees of the four villages performed the ceremony for about three days in the temple and on the beach around the temple. (kmb)

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Condition of kindergarten in Gianyar County remains poor. It was the finding of the Indonesian Kindergarten Organizer Association (GOPTKI) of Gianyar County while making social activities and conferment of educational toys (APE) to two kindergartens in Gianyar.

The kindergartens visited and getting assistance last Saturday (Jan 18) included the Santi Yasa Kindergarten at Petak Kaja, Asrama Kindergarten at Pejeng Kelod, Lila Kumara Kindergarten at Pejeng Kangin and Ratna Kumara Kindergarten at Medahan village. Seeing such apprehensive condition, either due to the room condition and narrow space for a kindergarten, Chairperson of the GOPTKI Gianyar, Mrs. Ambari Gaga Adi Saputra asked the Chairperson of the GOPTKI in each subdistrict, in this case held by the spouse of subdistrict head secretary and the Advisor to GOPTKI held by the spouse of subdistrict head, to identify all the problems faced by the kindergartens in their area. Furthermore, it should be coordinated with leadership of the GOPTKI in county level to find out a solution, she said.

Such a curt statement was delivered after having a closer look at the problems faced by kindergarten teachers in performing their duties. As experienced by the Santi Yasa Kindergarten at Petak Kaja, the principal Ni Ketut Budiasih revealed that her party lacked of land for outdoor educative games, while her party only had a swing and rope game. Related to teaching staff, her party only had internship teacher.

Similar problem was also faced by Ratna Kumala Kindergarten at Medahan village, Blahbatuh. Although the room and environment of the kindergarten had been clean and nicely arranged, the roof of its classroom leaked so during the rainy season the water flooded its classrooms.

In addition, during its visit the GOPTKI reminded the teachers in order they did not impose the kindergarten students to learn to read and count first. It was enough to be given an introduction course. Kindergarten was the time to play and performing orientation with peers or the environment. “I do realize the task of kindergarten teachers is very hard and am very grateful for all the devotion extended,” she said. (kmb16)

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Super typhoon victims flee again as rains flood southern Philippines Reuters

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines - Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people across the southern Philippines on Tuesday, including many already made homeless by a typhoon in November, after three days of rain flooded towns and farmland. Hundreds of survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, were forced to flee by tropical depression “Agaton” after emergency shelters were damaged or destroyed on the eastern central island of Samar.

Tents collapsed under the weight of the rain and emergency plastic sheets have been torn away, humanitarian agency Oxfam said.

An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year with Haiyan slamming into central islands on November 8, killing more than 6,100 and wiping out entire coastal communities in Leyte and Samar.

More than 200,000 people have been taken to shelters over the last three days as flood waters rose, but hundreds were still marooned

on the roofs of their houses on Tuesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

Del Rosario said 42 people had been killed, 65 had been injured and damage to property and farms had reached 367 million pesos ($8.13 million). “Our troops are trying to reach them and bring them to safer ground,” del Rosario said.

Nenita Matuda, 45, and her children perched on their neighbors’

roof as she watched the rampaging waters outside Butuan City in the north of Mindanao island. “Thank God we are safe but we just lost our house,” she told Reuters as she wiped tears from her eyes.

A state of calamity has been declared in Agusan del Norte and 15 other towns in the Davao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur areas of Mindanao even as weather bureau lifted alert levels as the storm weakened.

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One of the kindergarten in Gianyar visited by the members of Indonesian Kindergarten Organizer Association (GOPTKI) of Gianyar County

After disappearing for a day, a fisherman found alive

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

A fisherman having disappeared for a day was finally found on Sunday (Jan 19) around 10:00 a.m. on the shore of Penuktukan village, Tejakula subdistrict. The fisherman was Gede Konten, 44, a resident of Sukadarma hamlet, Tajakula village, Tejakula subdistrict. Konten who had reportedly drowned while fishing at sea was found in good condition by Gede Nadi, a resident of the same village.

Information collected in the field last Sunday told that villagers were surprised due the disappearance of Konten from Friday (Jan 17). Families and residents had attempted to conduct a search, but he could not be found. His family then reported the incident to police and local village official.

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it was fruitless. Konten was finally found in good condition on Sunday morning and immediately evacuated by the officers. When found, Konten was stranded on the beach in a limp body condition. He was then helped and evacuated to his house.

Spokesperson of Buleleng Police, Made Mustiada, with permission from Chief of Buleleng Police, Benny Arjanto, when asked for his confirmation justified if his party

had received a report from a resident related to the victim missing when catching fish at sea. After that, the report was followed up by assigning marine police assisted by personnel of the National SAR Team (Basarnas) and the BPBD. The search by conducting eastward failed to produce a result. It was hampered by strong winds and high waves. Luckily, the victim was eventually discovered by a local fisherman in a safe condition.

“Yes, there has been a report on missing fisherman and we have done a search. Unluckily, he could just be found on Sunday morning, and the victim has been received by his family,” he said.

According to Mustiada, before the victim decided to go to sea, the wind was strong and the waves were

slightly high. Family had banned him, for fear of unwanted things happened to him. However, the victim remained to be determined to go to sea and directly took his boat with the equipment. After being at sea, the victim did not go home until late so his family began to panic. Family had looked for him but could not find, so it was then reported to police. “At that time, the victim had been banned from fishing but he ignored. Finally, his boat was hit by waves amid the ocean and drowned. Fortunately, the victim was found alive and has been submitted to his family members,” he said.

Meanwhile, the victim Gede Konten told he went to sea to catch fish on Saturday (Jan 18) around 04:00 a.m. Initially, the

marine weather looked normal and the waves were sloping. Around 10:00 a.m. when he was absorbed in catching fish, suddenly strong winds accompanied by high waves came. Seeing such condition, he attempted to return to mainland.

But before starting the boat engine, a large wave suddenly rolled up to the boat upside down. He tried to swim and save himself by turning the boat, but the waves continued to roll until he finally stranded on the beach of Penuktukan.

“At that time, the weather was fine but when arriving amid the ocean strong winds and big waves came. My boat was upside down as hit by the waves. I have tried to swim but the waves kept dragging until reaching the edge of the beach,” he said. (mud)

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View of houses submerged in heavy flooding brought by tropical depression “Agaton”, in Butuan on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao January 21, 2014.

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Protesters clad in improvised protective gear prepare for a clash with police in central Kiev, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014.

After a night of vicious street battles, anti-government protesters and police clashed again Monday in Ukraine’s capital.

President warns clashes threaten all Ukraine as fighting rages

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Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday warned bloody clashes between protesters and police threatened all of Ukraine as new fighting rocked the capital Kiev. The clashes, the worst in Kiev in recent times, marked a spiralling of tensions after two months of demonstrations against Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a pact for closer integration with the EU. Amid growing fears the police could act to violently disperse the protest, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka warned protesters to halt “mass rioting”, describing it as a crime against the state. In a second day of clashes after 200 were injured in Sunday’s fighting, thousands of Ukrainians braved temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) to take part in the standoff with police.

In the epicentre of the clashes outside the entrance to the iconic Dynamo Kiev football stadium in central Kiev, both sides hunkered down behind barricades. The protesters lobbed stones dug up from the cobbled road, flung Molotov cocktails and threw fireworks over a 20-metre (65-foot) noman’s land at police lines.

Police responded by throwing stun grenades and occasionally using rubber bullets and tear gas. “I am convinced that such phenomena are a threat not only to the public in Kiev but all of Ukraine,” Yanukovych said in an address to the nation broadcast on state TV. “I urge dialogue, compromise and calm in our native land,” he said in his first public

comments on the violence.

Showing increasing impatience with the events, he added: “I ask you not to follow those who urge violence, who are seeking to provoke a split between the state and society.” But even after his comments, some 10,000 protesters remained around the centre of the clashes, with the most radical using lasers to blind police firing stun grenades.

“Who, if not us, and when, if not now,” read a banner carried by one group of protesters.

Tymoshenko backs radical protesters The burned-out wrecks of half a dozen police vehicles torched and destroyed the day earlier were used by the protesters as a barricade. According to the Kiev health authorities, more than 100 protesters were wounded in Sunday’s clashes, with four people sustaining serious injuries to eyes and limbs.

The interior ministry said more than 100 members of the security forces had been wounded. The ministry added that 30 people had been arrested for mass rioting.

US-funded Ukrainian radio station Radio Svoboda said two of its journalists had been arrested Monday morning while filming at the scene. Opposition leaders, including former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, appeared unable to have any influence on the hard core of radical protesters and stopped short of supporting their actions.

But Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko came out in support of those clashing with police, saying she would be with them if she could.

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China loses 27.8 million microblog users in 2013 Associated Press Writer

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, file photo, a person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow as the Gateway Arch appears in the distance, in St. Louis.

The deep freeze that gripped much of the nation this week wasn’t unprecedented, but with global warming we’re getting far fewer bitter cold spells, and many of us have forgotten how frigid winter used to be.

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BEIJING — The number of online microblog users in China dropped by more than 27.8 million last year, marking the first major decline in popularity of a social media genre that has offered a way to share unfiltered information in a country with strict controls.

The drop comes amid a crackdown on microblogs deemed sensitive by government authorities and new controls on what can be posted and reposted, and reflects an overall decline in use of traditional social media in China that once had explosive growth. At the same time, Chinese Web users are migrating to cellphone-based instant messaging services, giving a huge boost to the mobile applications that have increasingly incorporated social media functions, including microblog-like features.

The China Internet Network Information Center said in an annual report Thursday that there were 281 million users of Twitter-like microblogs such as Sina Weibo at the end of 2013, down 9 percent from the previous year. It also reported an overall decline in users of social media as a percentage of the entire population of Internet users.

“I think there are several reasons, with the crackdown being one,” said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “People don’t want to get into trouble, and they have found other means of communications.”

One prominent alternative is WeChat, a mobile instant-messaging service that has risen in popularity since 2012 and has threatened the dominance of Sina Weibo in information sharing.

Statistics from the information center show that mobile instantmessaging services experienced rapid growth in 2013, adding 78.6 million users, or 22.3 percent.

The field leader is WeChat, which allows users to share information within circles of friends or open a public account that others can subscribe to, similar to the Twitter feature of having followers, but without a word limit.

The decline in online social media, especially in microblogging — known in Chinese as weibo — was palpable last year, following a heavy-handed government campaign against what it considered rumors, negativity and unruliness in online discourse. A new legal interpretation allows the government to jail microbloggers who post false information that has been reposted 500 times or viewed 5,000 times.

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UNITED NATIONS — Delaying action on global warming will only increase the costs and reduce the options for dealing with the worst effects of climate change, according to a draft report by U.N. experts. The final draft of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, says that global warming will continue to increase unless countries shift quickly to clean energy and cut emissions.

It said that despite national policies and international efforts aimed at mitigating climate change, emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are warming the planet grew 2.2 percent per year on average between 2000 and 2010, compared to 1.3 percent per year from 1970 to 2000. The two main drivers for the increasing emissions are economic growth, which has risen sharply, and population growth, which has remained roughly steady, the report said.

The largest contributor to global emissions results from the burning of oil and coal — and the draft report said its contribution is expected to rise. Unless “explicit efforts” are made to reduce greenhouse

gas emissions, the experts warned that increased conservation and efficiency will not be sufficient to counter their rise.

With increasing demand for energy and the growing use of coal to generate electricity, the experts said emissions from the sector are projected to double or triple by 2050 from the level in 2010 unless improvements in clean energy are “significantly accelerated.” International climate negotiators agreed at the 2009 U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen that global warming this century must increase by less than 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) from now to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Scientists say that target requires

atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, to stay below 530 parts per million. The level surpassed 400 parts per million briefly in the spring, but annually it is still barely below 400.

The report said the majority of scenarios to stay below 530 parts per million throughout the 21st century would require a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 40 percent and 70 percent of 2010 levels by 2050. The experts said this will require new patterns of investment and a transformation into a low-carbon economy. The global total annual investment in the energy system is presently about $1.2 trillion, it said.

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Frenchman may face death for drugs smuggling Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - A Frenchman has been arrested for trying to smuggle more than $500,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine into the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an offence punishable by death, an official said Monday.

Francois Giuily, 48, was detained Sunday at Ngurah Rai airport with more than three kilograms (6.8 pounds) of the drug hidden in plastic bags in his suitcase lining.

Airport customs chief I Made Wijaya said the drugs had a street value of $511,280. Giuily could face the death penalty under Indonesia’s tough anti-narcotics laws as well as a 10 billion rupiah ($830,000) fine, he said.

Several foreign nationals are on death row for drug-related offences in Indonesia.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in January last year after being found with $2.4 million worth of cocaine in her luggage as she arrived on Bali.

The latest arrest came as another French national, 40-year-old Michael Blanc, was freed Monday on parole from an Indonesian jail more than 14 years after he was caught smuggling drugs into Bali.

Blanc had been imprisoned in a jail in the south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Under the conditions of his parole, he must remain in Indonesia until the end of his sentence, on July 21, 2017.

Last Wednesday another Frenchman, Thierry Verchere, was arrested for possession of cocaine with a street value of almost $50,000 on the island.

As Verchere faces a possession charge, and not a smuggling charge, he will not receive the death penalty.

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French national Francois Jacques Giuily being showed with the evidence during a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Jan. 20, 2014.

Keep sanitation, municipality drives people’s participation

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The main problem experienced by Denpasar as a big city is waste. The waste handling cannot be resolved properly if it is only carried out by the government. Therefore, at the moment Denpasar municipality encourages residents to participate in making a clean city. This effort will be started in the moment of the 226th anniversary of Denpasar falling in this February as milestone of the movement.

It was affirmed by Regional Secretary of Denpasar, AAN Rai Iswara, when receiving the social visit of the ranks of Bali Post in his office on Monday (Jan 20). Rai Iswara accompanied by the Assistant Government I Ketut Mister recognized that it was not enough to create the urban sanitation when only relying on the government. Participation of all societal components and private sector should also be involved. “We begin to encourage public participation in the sanitation program,” said Rai Iswara.

Rai Iswara added that his party would make improvement in three main aspects to create good governance. The three aspects

included the sanitation, creative values and public services. In terms of sanitation, said Rai Iswara, it had become a must that all parties should be involved.

For instance, the government had put a notice to bring out the waste according to the specified time. However, today there were still people who put out waste outside the allotted time. As a result, the rubbish was left on temporary disposal site. “This kind of people’s attitude must be changed,” said Rai Iswara.

Besides, in a series of the anniversary at this time, the Denpasar municipality invited all elements of society to participate in enlivening and filling in the various activities.

Peak of the Denpasar anniversary celebration would be marked with a rally on February 27 in Lumintang Square. This year, Denpasar had been 226 years old. With a central theme ‘My City My House’ Rai Iswara expected the anniversary of this time had a deep meaning and all elements of society could participate in enlivening the anniversary of the Denpasar City.

“We do not want the festive anniversary is just enjoyed by civil servants of Denpasar mu-

nicipality, but also by people as well as they can enjoy and participate in filling in various events,” said Rai Iswara. All ranks of the Denpasar regional working units (SKPD) were asked to create activities that involved the community. He did not want if the public only served as spectator, but they could also actively get involved in various activities, so as to feel if the Denpasar city was celebrating its anniversary.

Rai Iswara also added in order the development of Denpasar as a creative city based on excellence could presuppose the presence of exemplary, quality and synergy of cross-time and cross-generation to encourage the development in the city of Denpasar.

Meanwhile, Assistant to Administrative Affairs of Denpasar Municipality, Ketut Mister, added that other than rally on February 27 and its night would be graced with the art and cultural appreciation as well as the exhibition of public service. Besides, it would also be jazzed up with various programs and community events packaged in a simple activity dedicated to the community of Denpasar. (kmb12)

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People cleaning up garbage that pile up at the river on Denpasar, Bali Island recently.

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Alleged to embezzle land certificates, Adi Wiryatama reported to police Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The ATM machine which was burglarized in Denpasar

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Culprit fails to carry off hundreds of millions Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The burglary to the automated teller machine (ATM) reoccurred in Denpasar. Recently, the ATM of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) located on Jalan Cokroaminoto, precisely in front of Kimia Farma Pharmacy, West Denpasar, was burglarized, Monday (Jan 20). Luckily, the culprit failed to carry off hundreds of millions stored in the ATM. The burglary case was being investigated by the officers of West Denpasar Police assisted

by Denpasar Police.

Information at the scene mentioned the ATM burglary was just known around 08:00 a.m. At that time, a customer was about to withdraw money at the ATM. Another witness who was sweeping in the courtyard of Kimia Farma Pharmacy told if the ATM was out of order. “The first person knowing it was the cleaning service officer that would like to clean up the ATM room. He is Arif Frangki, 18,” said one of the officers when met at the scene last Monday.

Knowing it, the witness immediately reported the incident to the bank.

Furthermore, the report was forwarded to West Denpasar Police. A number of police officers of West Denpasar Police immediately came down to the scene.

Even, Deputy Chief of West Denpasar Police, I Gusti Kade Budi Harryarsana also came to the scene. To facilitate the investigation at the scene, the officers set

up police line. “The identification team of Denpasar Police has made crime scene investigation,” he said while asking not to be named in the paper.

Apparently, he said, the culprit failed to carry off the cash in the machine because two safe deposit boxes containing IDR 400 million remained intact. However, to ascertain, at that time PT Kejar directly took the money safe. Afterward, the money was counted. Meanwhile, police had not received a report from the BRI management about the losses suffered.

Police merely conducted a crime scene, examined witnesses and checked the CCTV footage.

Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police Harryarsana when met at the scene claimed that the case was being explored. He said to have received the report around 08:00 a.m. So far, it was still unknown the losses suffered. Chief of West Denpasar Police

Erwin Pratomo also revealed the same thing. His party remained to make investigation, including the pursuit of the culprit.

“We’re coordinating with the bank. The CCTV footage will be examined. Hopefully, there are recordings and the culprit is seen in the footage,” he hoped.

Chief Erwin suspected the culprit took action early morning because every night the local rural security guard continued to patrol the area. Incidentally, it possibly rained at the time of incident so no one saw it. “Condition of the ATM is severely damaged. However, the loss is not known yet,” he told reporters last Monday.

Other information received told if the money worth IDR 400 million was just topped up two days before the incident.

“It was just topped up on January 18, 2014 with the amount of IDR 400 million,” said one of the PT Kejar officers while taking the remaining money. (kmb21)

Former Regent of Tabanan, Adi Wiryatama, has now to deal with the Bali Police. He was reported

by I Made Sarja alias Mangku Sarja to Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Detective as alleged to have embezzled 15 land certificates. Other than Wiryatama, the victim also reported the notary I Ketut Nuridja assessed to get involved in the case.

Previously, the ownership of the land certificate on behalf of the victim was then changed to be on behalf of Wiryatama.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, claimed on Monday (Jan 20) that his party needed to see the case details to the Directorate of Bali Police General Criminal Detective because the report numbered LP/497/IX/2013/SPKT was made on September 2, 2013. “We need to look at it first and make coordination with the General Criminal Detective because the report has been a little longer,” said the former Director of Traffic Affairs of the Central Sulawesi Police when asked for his confirmation by reporters last Monday.

Meanwhile, according to the victim (Mangku Sarja—Ed), the allegations of land certificate fraud was directed at two defendants because he considered there was something wrong. A total of 15 land certificates with an area of 2.5 hectares and was worth IDR 40 billion suddenly changed in terms of ownership without his knowledge. “The 15 land certificates were taken by my son named Made Harum Bawa. Then, they were given to Wiryatama through the notary,” he explained last Monday.

When it was taken by his son, the victim did not know at all. In other words, his son stole the certificates.

Later on, it was known if the certificates were used as collateral by his son due to debts valued at IDR 3 billion. Knowing this, the victim went straight to the notary and asked where the certificates were. However, he did not get clear answer. Even, the notary claimed that he would make coordination with Wiryatama.

In short, the land certificates had change ownership to be on behalf of Wiryatama. Actually, there was no land sale agreement. Even if his son had a debt worth IDR 3 billion, one certificate only was worth more than IDR 3 billion. In August 2013, together with his legal counsel, Zulfikar Ramly, Mangku Sarja came to the office of National Land Agency (BPN) in Tabanan to block before the ownership was changed. However, the blocking was considered to have never happened.

After the certificate underwent a change of ownership, the victim reported the case to Bali Police. Even, so far, of the 15 certificates, a total of 12 copies had been confiscated by Bali Police as evidence. Not only that, the inquiry had also been upgraded to investigation. However, the investigator had not yet to determine a suspect. “Moreover, the concerned has also been examined by investigator,” he said. (kmb21)

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SANUR - Inna Grand Bali Beach is situated on the long white sandy beach of Sanur, Bali’s most popular area and shaded by coconut palm, from the luxurious ten-storey central tower building, the highest in Bali, landscaped tropical garden and cottages spread out over 45 hectares land.

Originally opened on 1 November 1966, re-launched, after major upgrading, on 4 October 1993. INNA Grand Bali Beach is the most complete resort complex in Bali, featuring state-of-the-art visitor facilities, but also numerous artistic amenities that bring to life the cultural excellence of the Balinese people and their many talented neighbors.

Inna Grand Bali Beach offers a good value and genuine hospitality. The east facing location provides guests with the best opportunity to see magical Bali sunrise. 523 room in 3 types of accommodation; 100 cottages, 197 rooms of 4 blocks two storey

buildings and 226 rooms of a ten storey Tower Wing, including a Presidential Suite and spacious suites. All rooms have individually controllable air conditioning, humidity control, private bath/ shower, satellite TV, fridge/ mini bar, hair dyer, tea & coffee making facility, in-house movie channel, international direct dial telephones, bathrobes, balcony or terrace.

Tower Wing rooms also have in room safes and card key door locks.

Guests can enjoy views of the blue sea or the lush tropical gardens, so come and enjoy the Grandeur of Bali, Inna Grand Bali Beach.

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Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014 1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel Bebetin Pura Maspahit Sesetan Pura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan Bangli Pura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud Pura Benua Besakih Pura Gunung Rena Sidemen Karangasem Pura Pasek Gelgel Abadi Karangasem Pura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem 16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Gunung Pangsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar Pura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

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29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran ped Nusa Penida Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Kelungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kayangan Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih 31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Kayangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang 6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih 14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen Karangasem Pura Buana Kawan Besakih 15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Mary Lambert was ‘last resort’ for ‘Same Love’

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NEW YORK — In just six hours, Mary Lambert’s life changed drastically. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis had written and produced a song called “Same Love,” but they needed a special hook to finalize the emotional track. Like the rap duo, Lambert is from Seattle, though she had never met them before.

“I was sort of a last resort,” said Lambert. “It was a match made in heaven.”

Lambert was given “about two or three hours” to write the song’s chorus and then record it the same night in front of the breakthrough newcomers, who were instantly impressed by the soft singer.

“They loved it. It was like this beautiful minute of silence after I sung the chorus,” she recalled.

Others love it, too — including members of the Recording Academy. “Same Love” is nominated for the coveted song of the year at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, pitting the rap song supporting gay love and acceptance against No. 1 smashes from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lorde and Pink. “Same Love” didn’t top the charts — it peaked at No. 11 on the

Hot 100 — but it sold 2 million copies and helped propel Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to even greater heights. The duo is nominated for seven awards, including best new artist and album of the year for “The Heist.”

“We’d probably all agree that the nomination for song of the year for ‘Same Love’ in particular is quite meaningful for us, in what the song has turned out to be and (what it) means to people,” said Zach Quillen, manager for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. “We regard it as our highest accomplishment,” he said.

The Grammys also will celebrate another song about gay pride Sunday with Sara Bareilles’ “Brave,” which she wrote to encourage her friend to come

out of the closet. It’s nominated for best pop solo performance and appears on her third album, “The Blessed Unrest,” which is up for album of the year. Keith Caulfield, Billboard’s associate director of charts, said “Brave” could be getting a boost because of its Grammy nominations.

“It does seem like something happened since the Grammy nominations came out in early December. You can probably tie the two together,” he said of “Brave,” which reached its peak at No. 26 last week.

Lambert, who is openly gay, said having her first mainstream song be about a topic that’s close to home and nominated for a top Grammy at the same time is a blessing.

PASADENA, California — Sting and Paul Simon are rehearsing for their upcoming tour, a couple of longtime friends and neighbors preparing to take turns singing some of each other’s big-

gest hits. It was Simon’s idea for the tour, hatched when he came downstairs in their New York apartment building to ask if Sting would be interested. Of course, Sting told him, having first heard Simon & Garfunkel when he was a 15-year-old in England.

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FILE - This June 13, 2013 file photo, Sting performs at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala in New York.

“He’s the master,” Sting said Monday, speaking by satellite from New York.

“If I ever wanted to emulate a literary and literate songwriter, then Paul Simon would be the person I would go to.”

They have started the process of selecting the set list for the tour, which opens Feb. 8 in Houston. Sting said Simon has asked him to sing “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and Sting asked if they could include “America.”

“Paul had a long partnership with Art Garfunkel for many, many years, and it’s not my job to impersonate Art,” Sting said. “He has one of the most iconic, beautiful voices in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

But my job is to interpret and honor the notes and the lyrics that have been written, and I will be me. But I’m delighted to sing songs from that canon.”

Simon is eager to sing Sting’s songs “Fields of Gold” and “Fragile.” “I think the gentler side of my repertoire interests him,” Sting told the Television Critics Association while promoting his PBS special, “Sting: The Last Ship,” airing Feb. 21 on “Great Performances.”

The two men, separated by a 10-year age difference, first sang together at a charity benefit in New York last year.

Sting said he was surprised by how well his voice blended with that of the 72year-old Simon.

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Growth of hotel rooms in Bali triggers cannibalism Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Competition of hotels in Bali is assessed to lead increasingly unfair condition. As the indicator, the price is made cheaper without paying attention to the class of service. This condition is triggered by the uncontrollable growth of rooms. Ultimately, it will result in the cannibalism in the offer of hotel room rates.

Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Nyoman Suwidjana, said the growth in the number of rooms in Bali was much higher than the

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growth in tourist arrivals. This condition drove the creation of gaps in the management of accommodation on the Island of the Gods. “The number of rooms leading to oversupply affects the

offers of hotel room rates. This condition can threaten the Bali tourism industry which has been cheap to be more depressed,” complained Nyoman Suwidjana, Monday (Jan 20).

According to him, the uncontrollable growth of the number of hotel rooms would harm. This condition would kindle cannibalism where the new hotels would annex the market shares belonging to small hotels and traditional hotels owned by local people whereas the local

hotels had been in operation for a long time.

“The hotels owned by local people have been greatly giving contribution of services since the beginning to the growth of Bali tourism. However, the existence of hotels owned by local people is now at risk of being shifted by new hotels owned by investors from outside Bali,” he revealed.

The impact of uncontrolled growth in hotel room was also recognized by the Honorary Consul of Russia,

Chairul Nuku Kamka. Foreign tourists, including those from Russia could easily get a hotel room at the lower class room rate to upscale room rate.

“The number of hotel rooms has been excessive, so foreign tourists coming to spend holiday in Bali become the object of conquest because tourists have too many choices of hotel rooms due to the large number of hotel availability,” he said.

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Tourists flocked at Benoa Bay to play watersport during a high season of tourists’ visit at Bali Island. The high number of tourists that visit Bali every year make hotel investment still robust.