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Rihanna’s ‘Anti’ reclaims Billboard 200 top spot

LOS ANGELES - R&B star Rihanna reclaimed the top spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday, holding off Adele and Justin Bieber in a slow sales week.

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“Anti,” the eighth album by Rihanna, moved to No. 1 from No. 3 with sales of 54,000 units from albums, songs and streaming activity, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

“Anti” has sold nearly 300,000 albums in the United States since its February release. Apart from sales, a million copies given to fans who signed up for music streaming platform Tidal.

Rihanna’s “Anti” world tour kicked off last week and will play in Europe this summer.

In a week where no album came close to 100,000 units, British singer Adele’s “25” album held onto No. 2 with another 51,000 units sold. Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” climbed two spots to No. 3 with 48,000 units.

The only new entries in the Billboard 200 top 10 this week were metalcore band Killswitch Engage’s latest album “Incarnate” at No. 6 and Brooklyn hip hop ground Flatbush Zombies’ debut album “3001: A Laced Odyssey” at No. 10.

On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, Danish artist Lukas Graham held onto the top spot with “7 Years” selling 125,000 downloads. (rtr)

Hulk Hogan-Gawker jury awards $25M in punitive damages FLORIDA — Moments after a Florida jury hit Gawker Media and its founder with $25 million in punitive damages for publishing a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, the former pro wrestler told a gaggle of reporters that he and his legal team “made history.”

Hogan said Monday evening that he thought “we’ve protected a lot of people from going through what I went through.”

The smiling 62-year-old, who wore all black throughout the three-week trial, added that he’s been overwhelmed with support by fans.

“Everywhere I show up, people treat me like I’m still the champ,” he said.

On Monday, the jury hit Gawker

Media with a $15 million judgment and its owner, Nick Denton, with $10 million.

It also assessed $100,000 against A.J. Daulerio, the Gawker editor who decided to post the edited sex video and wrote the post that accompanied it.

The punitive damages come on top of $115 million the jury imposed Friday after two weeks of trial.

Hogan sued Gawker after it posted a video of him having sex with his then-best friend’s wife.

Hogan said he didn’t know he was being taped.

The president and general counsel of Gawker Media said in a statement that the media company expects the multimillion dollar award will be overturned by an ap-

peals court.

Heather Dietrick said in an email Monday night that because the jury was prohibited from knowing about “prior court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem,” that an appeals court could overturn the case.

“We are confident we will win this case ultimately based on not only on the law but also on the truth,” she said.

Hogan’s lawyer had asked jurors Monday to add punitive damages to the $115 million judgment. Gawker’s lawyer pleaded that the existing verdict was already “debilitating” for the company. (ap)

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Man City chases global success but struggles at home

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Tourism of Ubud

Investors target Ubud, homestay owners cut prices

GIANYAR - High interest of investors to build accommodation in Ubud and surrounding areas has an impact on the low room occupancy rate. This condition is mostly experienced by local community of Ubud, dominantly still relying on homestay.

Ironically, they often have to cut room rates to attract tourists.

Made Suardiana, a homestay owner, revealed that the number of tourists staying in Ubud this time declines when compared to the opening of his homestay at Sambahan hamlet, Ubud, in 1986. “When compared to the past, the current condition is very much different. Well, more and more homestay appear today, and so do hotels tending to grow in numbers in Ubud and surrounding areas,” he said.

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U.S. pop star Madonna (L) and husband Guy Ritchie (2nd L) stand with their children Rocco and Lourdes (R) as they attend the premiere of the film “Arthur and the Invisibles” in Leicester Square, London January 25, 2007.

British judge urges Madonna, Ritchie to end son custody dispute LONDON - A British judge made a fresh plea on Monday to pop star Madonna and her film director ex-husband Guy Ritchie to work out an amicable solution to their custody battle over their teenage son.

The “Material Girl” singer and “Sherlock Holmes” director, whose litigation over 15-year old Rocco has been taking place in New York and London, divorced in 2008 and agreed their son would live with the songstress.

But since late last year Rocco has been in London living with Ritchie and in December ignored a New York court order to return to the United States to stay with his mother.

Madonna, 57, issued legal proceedings in the British capital last December but later sought to withdraw them.

At Monday’s hearing -- which neither Madonna nor Ritchie attended -- judge Justice Alistair MacDonald granted the singer permission to end the proceedings in Britain and appealed to both sides

to settle the matter, according to a transcript of his judgment. “... At the root of these proceedings ... is a temporary breakdown in trust. For all the media coverage, comment and analysis, this is a case born out of circumstances that arise for countless separated parents the world over,” he said.

“I renew, one final time, my plea for the parents to seek, and to find an amicable resolution to the dispute between them ... It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the precious and fastreceding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute.”

His appeal echoes that of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Deborah Kaplan, who earlier this month also urged both sides to work together to resolve the dispute. A hearing in New York was set for June 1.

Madonna wrapped up her “Rebel Heart” world tour at the weekend with shows in Sydney. Rocco had travelled with her for the tour’s initial stages, working backstage.

He also toured with the singer in 2012. (rtr)

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In this photo provided by Georgian Public Broadcaster and photographed by Ketevan Kardava a man is wounded in Brussels Airport in Brussels, Belgium, after explosions were heard Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill 26

BRUSSELS - At least 26 people were killed in twin attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, triggering security alerts across western Europe and bringing some cross-border transport to a halt.

A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport.

The federal prosecutor said one of the blasts was probably triggered by a suicide bomber.

The Belgian health minister said 11 people were killed in the airport bombing and 81 wounded.

The blasts at the airport and metro station occurred four days after the arrest in Brussels of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

Belgian police and combat troops on the streets had been on alert for any reprisal action but the attacks took place in crowded public areas where people and bags are not searched.

Video showed devastation in the hall with ceiling tiles and glass scattered across the floor. Some passengers emerged from

the terminal with blood spattered over their clothes. Smoke rose from the building through shattered windows and passengers fled down a slipway, some still hauling their bags.

Many of the dead and wounded were badly injured in the legs, one airport told Reuters, suggesting at least one bomb in a bag. Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands, all wary of spillover from conflict in Syria, were among states announcing extra security measures.

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Brussels blasts Dozens of people were killed when two explosions tore through Brussels airport and another blast struck Maelbeek metro station close to European Union institutions on Tuesday.

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NATO headquarters U.S. embassy Bourse

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COVER STORY Ubud ...

From page 1 He said that of the eight rooms available for tourists, he is only capable of filling a half of them.

Actually the room rate he offers is very cheap, namely IDR 300,000 per night. “I also have cheaper rooms. Unfortunately, the competition is very tight,” he said.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, did not reject this condition. He said the difficulty to meet occupancy rate is not caused by the decline in the tourist arrivals. It is indeed caused by the increased number of accommodation, such as hotels and villas in Ubud and the surrounding areas, while the tourist arrival does not increase, and even tends to decline.

“For example, on last Nyepi, we got guests from Nusa Dua wishing to enjoy Nyepi in Ubud. However, our occupancy rate was still around 40 percent. Surely this occupancy rate is lower than the occupancy in last year’s Nyepi reaching over 50 percent,” he said.

This leader of Ubud Palace said

that the government has to seek protection for local entrepreneurs, especially in Ubud, which is now working hard to face competition against foreign investors. “Clearly the government should provide protection for local entrepreneurs because they also make hotel for organizing rituals such as ngodalin, while foreign investors are obvious.

If they get profits, they will invest again,” he said.

This former regent of Gianyar also lamented the rampant establishment of accommodation in Ubud by investors paying less attention to local wisdom, especially in the architectural design of the buildings like the one in front of the Dalem Puri cemetery. “We do not prohibit building a hotel, but we just deplore the development concept because physically we consider it to go up against the values and concepts of the countryside,” he explained.

Seeing this condition, he planned to form the management board that will be set to maintain Ubud based on the concept having been agreed upon as well as select and monitor the development of accommodation in Ubud.

He said that such management

board has been established at a number of destinations such as Tanah Lot and Sanur. Currently, some other tourist attractions

are also in the process of establishing similar management like Besakih Temple and Ubud. “For the management of Ubud, it is

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Related to Benoa Bay reclamation, respond to people’s aspirations “Please listen to people’s aspirations. Meet the request of Balinese residents,” he said. According to him, the rejection against the reclamation seems to only originate from customary community. Actually the administrative government also includes in the customary residents. “Government in Bali has dualism namely the administrative and customary.

But the administrative government in Bali also belongs to customary residents,” he said.

He added if the Benoa Bay reclamation is continued, it will further

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The ogoh-ogoh that symbolize the rejection on the reclamation plan was carried during the rally on Sunday, March 20.

harm the environment of Bali. For example, in the area of Kelating customary village, the Kelating Beach has even been experiencing abrasion prior to this reclamation. “Moreover, if the reclamation is implemented, the abrasion can be worse,” he said.

After the backfill of Sakenan Beach, he said the Kelating Beach is now experiencing quite severe abrasion. Many paddy fields of local residents have been eroded by waves and leave only the certificate. Suaba could not ensure if the abrasion on Kelating Beach was caused by the backfilling project on the Sakenan Beach, but since then the abrasion on the Kelating Beach started. Though having got assistance in the form of revetment from provincial government, it is still far from the land

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still in progress, obviously I already met the regent of Gianyar yesterday and he has agreed it,” he said. (nik)

One of the tourism accomodations in Ubud. The development of cheap accomodation is uncontrolled in Ubud.

TABANAN — Rejection against reclamation of Benoa Bay in Bali has been widespread. Nevertheless, so far the reclamation plan has not been canceled. Chief of Kelating customary village, Wayan Suaba, said that the rejection against the reclamation should be heard by the government.

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owned by residents so that there is still people’s land eroded by waves.

According to him, as resident living near the beach, he expected the project not to be resumed. “If resumed, the abrasion on Kelating Beach is feared to widen and lots of people’s land will get eroded,” he said.

He admitted the reclamation is intended for the advancement of Bali tourism, but Bali does not only have the potential in tourism but also in agriculture and culture. Thus, they must also be considered. “If it is continued for the sake of tourism, the agriculture will be destroyed. More and more land of farmers will reduce due to the abrasion,” he said.

Similarly, cultural activities like the implementation of melasti and cremation are strongly associated with the beach. “Uniqueness of Bali lies in the customs and culture. If only beautiful scenery, it can be found everywhere around the globe,” he said. (kmb24)

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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.

The Kopi Pot Restaurant

Into its 26th year with a staunch following amongst its guests, the highly popular Kopi Pot Restaurant leaves no wonder as to why its customers keep coming back for more.

Continuously serving up fresh, home-style cooked fare for a whole generation, the dining establishment has been building a keen following and hardy fan base since it first made its appearance in Kuta in 1990.

It is the sister restaurant of the

Kuta institution, Poppies, of Poppies Cottage fame, that was the original landmark on a dusty palm tree road that once led to the beautiful Kuta Beach when it first opened 41 long years ago. So be assured – this local family-run hospitality business certainty know a thing or two when it comes to cooking traditional Indonesian cuisine for those visiting the island, as well as crafting the settings of each of their

restaurants in a “Balinese” feel, yet comfortable enough to hang out at for several hours.

Open from 8am until Midnight, The Kopi Pot is within walking distance to most places in Kuta. Throw in a good free wifi connection on top of the wonderful fresh fare at excellent value for your money, and you can be certain your visit to Kopi Pot will convert you into one of their raving fans…

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FBI might have way to unlock attacker’s iPhone without Apple

LOS ANGELES — A much-anticipated court hearing on the federal government’s effort to force Apple Inc. to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack was abruptly vacated Monday after the FBI revealed it may have a way to access data without the company’s help.

Federal prosecutors made the surprising announcement on the eve of Tuesday’s hearing in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. In court papers they said the FBI has been researching methods to access the data on Syed Rizwan Farook’s encrypted phone since obtaining it on Dec. 3, the day after the attack.

“An outside party” came forward over the weekend and showed the FBI a possible method, the government said in court papers requesting the hearing be postponed.

Authorities need time to determine “whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data” on the phone.

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This Feb. 17, 2016 file photos an iPhone is seen in Washington. The dispute over whether Apple must help the FBI hack into a terror suspect’s iPhone is about to play out in a Southern California courtroom. The hearing Tuesday, March 22, in U.S. District Court in Riverside is the first in the battle that has seen Cook and FBI Director James Comey spar over issues of privacy and national security.

If viable, “it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple,” according to the filing.

The government did not identify the third party or explain what the proposed method entailed.

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym granted that request and ordered the government to file a status report by April 5. Pym also stayed her Feb. 16 order compelling Apple to create software that would disable security features on the phone, including one that erases all information if a passcode is incorrectly entered more than 10 times.

In a conference call with reporters, Apple attorneys said it’s premature to declare victory in the case because it’s possible that authorities could come back in a few weeks and insist they still need the company’s help. The attorneys spoke under an Apple policy that wouldn’t allow them to be quoted by name.

The company hopes the government will tell Apple about whatever method it uses to access the phone’s encrypted files. But the attorneys said it may be up to the FBI to decide whether to share the information.

The fact that a third party may have found a way into the phone

without Apple’s help appears to contradict every sworn affidavit and filing put that the Justice Department has put forward in the last month. The government has argued in each of its filings that Apple’s help is necessary and that the company was the only entity that could provide investigators with what was needed.

FBI Director James Comey told the House Judiciary Committee in sworn testimony earlier this month that agency investigators had approached even the National Security Agency for help but did not have success.

Apple has previously said in court filings that the government did not exhaust all its options, and lawmakers have criticized the FBI for not doing more to try to crack the iPhone itself before seeking Apple’s help.

“To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn’t understand the technology or they weren’t giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way” of examining the phone without Apple’s help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Both of those are scary to me.”

The ACLU has filed a court brief supporting Apple’s position. (ap)

Space station delivery rich in science and technology

CAPE CANAVERAL — A space station supply ship is set to blast off Tuesday night with a commercial-quality 3-D printer for astronaut as well as public use — for a price — and the makings for a large-scale fire.

Don’t worry: The blaze is for scientific purposes only and won’t ignite until the unmanned craft is clear of the International Space Station at mission’s end. NASA project manager Gary Ruff said this blaze will be second in size only to the 1997 fire on the Russian Mir space station, which was caused by a defective oxygengenerating canister.

Orbital ATK’s capsule, named Cygnus after the swan constellation, holds nearly 8,000 pounds of station supplies for NASA. One-fourth of that is scientific re-

search, including robotic grippers inspired by the tiny, sticky hair on geckos’ feet.

An Atlas rocket provided by United Launch Alliance will provide the ride from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Excellent weather is forecast for the 11:05 p.m. launch.

NASA will deliberately set a fire inside the trash-packed Cygnus cargo ship, once it leaves the space station in May and is a safe distance away. Researchers want to understand how a fire spreads in weightlessness — how fast and how big does it get? The goal is to improve fire safety on future spacecraft. An electrical igniter will be used to light a yard-long cotton-fiberglass sheet inside a box. The burn should last 15 to 20 minutes, with a pair of cameras

recording the flames and sensors making measurements. A week or so later, the capsule will burn up as planned over the Pacific. The test is called Saffire, short for Spacecraft Fire Experiment. (ap) The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft stack sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, March 21, 2016. The cargo carrier is scheduled to launch Tuesday, March 22, and holds a commercial-quality 3D printer for astronaut as well as public use, for a price.

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Legislator proposes to form a taskforce

DENPASAR — Water overflowing from the drains on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur, has repeatedly caused local residents to complain -yet so far the problem has yet to be resolved. Moreover, the water does not just overflow during rainy season, but also in dry season. This road that is crowded with traffic is thus unsanitary. The flooding it tunrs out is caused by garbage that clogs the drains.

Legislator of the Denpasar House of Representatives from Sanur Kaja, I.B. Ketut Kiana, in a recent meeting with a number of agencies from the Municipality of Denpasar asked that this problem be dealt with. He mentioned that residents have complained again and again about the overflowing gutter and consequent damage to the pavement in the area.

Apparently flooding occurs just a few meters away from a fast food restaurant and an auto dealer. Such flooding has caused the area to be photographed by passing tourist as an anomaly. The question as to why there is flooding in the dry season naturally arises” he sneered.

On that account, Kiana suggested that a waste management

taskforce be established in the affected villages and hamlets. Surely a taskforce can help to resolve the issue. “I am confident that the problem can be resolved if it is observed everyday” he added.

Irrigation Division Head at the Denpasar Public Works Agency, IGN Putra Sanjaya, confirmed that the area is often flooded. “We’ll go and clean it up again”, he said. As for the proposal to widen the drains, Sanjaya said that they need to coordinate with the Natinoal Road Institute for Region VIII. Separately, the Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, said that he hopes the waste flood can be handled with intelligence. This problem is not just about a dirty appearance but is also a health concern –so environmental management must be planned carefully. Quality of life is strongly influenced by health issues not just education. People’s behavior in maintaining health through proper waste management is important. “Actually the main problem is our attitude towards waste management” said Rai Mantra. (kmb12)

Products of 80 MSMEs in Bali have export values DENPASAR - Bali with the 80 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have products with export value. “So, there are many enterprises having the product with export value,” said the Head of the Bali MSME and Cooperatives Agency, Dewa Nyoman Patra, recently.

All the superior products have been submitted to the ministry and as expected they can be facilitated in terms of marketing.

However, the ability of the government to facilitate the marketing is limited due to budget constraints. Marketing carried out to outside of the region requires the cost of transportation and accommodation so that not all the MSMEs can be facilitated.

By facilitating them to go outside the region, the MSMEs with superior products can gain the market so that later on they can become independent.

In terms of products and capital, the MSMEs of Bali are considered to have been ready. The obstacles encountered are only in terms of human resources particularly in the matter of language mastery so that it is considered it necessary to be further increased.

Moreover, when facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the most important is the function of language so that human resources need to be further facilitated. In addition, the quality of human resources in terms of management and capital also need to be improved.

“For example, when getting revenue, how much we should use. Well, sometimes it’s unclear, how much is allocated for the next production and for daily needs. It remains unclear, so that we need to provide them with more facilitations and training,” he explained. (kmb42)

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The action of Canggu residents to block the access into the Canggu Hotel Intercontinental (HCI) development project led to crime.

Blockers of access to HCI reported to police

MANGUPURA - The action of Canggu residents to block the access into the Canggu Hotel Intercontinental (HCI) development project led to crime. The incident was reported to Badung Police by representative of PT Canggu International, Sunday (Mar. 20) at 17:30. The report is related to the closure of the access to the project and CCTV vandalism.

Chief of the Badung Police, Tony Binsar, when asked for his confirmation on Monday (Mar. 21) justified the report on the case. “We will study the report and summon the witnesses,” he said.

Examination of witnesses, said Tony, is very important to hear their testimony related to the report. In addition, it is meant to clarify the causes of road closure because there are rules to be followed. “When about to transferring or closing road section, it must conform Traffic Act. Moreover, there is CCTV vandalism so that it will be studied as well,” said Tony.

To anticipate the potential of horizontal conflicts, the legal process is still

continued to educate the public about the importance of obeying the rules of applicable laws. When wishing to express an aspiration, he hoped to avoid things resulting in new legal problems.

“We hope this report does not have to go to legal process before the court, but will be pursued a mediation outside the law so that this problem can be resolved better,” he said.

So, what is solution of police authority? “Certainly, the problem does not only lie in the police authority. There are demands of the local people, but I do not know whether it can be agreed by the hotel. So far, the residents and HCI had several meetings but found a dead end,” said Tony.

He hoped the other party, namely the local government as a stakeholder, to take part to resolve this issue. Previously, the polemics on the Hotel Canggu Intercontinental development project with local residents ended in the blocking of the access to the hotel on the edge of the beach. Hundreds of residents of Canggu, North Kuta, coming to the location on Sunday (Mar. 20) blocked the access to the hotel by using limestone materials.

The action was led by chief of Canggu customary village I Nyoman Sujapa, hamlet chief of Canggu I Wayan Mustara and customary hamlet chief of Canggu I Gugus Bades. The heating up mass was only met by a representative of PT Canggu International in charge of HRD Department, Abdul Facmy.

Residents thronging the location had heated up because the hotel security guard dismantled the banners mounted by residents. (kmb36)

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Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are considered to be lacking in innovation. Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are nature based, whereas in fact many aspects of the local culture could be developed as tourist attractions too

Tourism sector assessed to lack innovation

BANGLI - Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are considered to be lacking in innovation. Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are nature based, whereas in fact many aspects of the local culture could be developed as tourist attractions too, using the large amont of money that is invested in tourism generally.

Legislator of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Wayan Jamin, said on Sunday (Mar. 20) that nearly all of the tourist attractions in the area rely on the beauty of nature as a selling point. Without developing other attractions, visitors could quickly become bored. “In general, tourist attractions in Bangli only rely on nature without any innovations been made – it could be seen as monotonous” he said.

Jamin explained that Bangli has a lot of unique cultural practices that are not seen in other areas of Bali. Some of these cultural practices, he said should be taken advantage of to complement existing tourist attractions so that there is some variety. “There are many arts in our region, many of remain unknown to visitors, Ideally they could compliment natural tourist attractions”, he said.

By, including art and culture in Bangli’s tourism not only will people working in tourism benefit but artists and art studios can also receive economic benefits., explained Jamin. “When all parties are involved, prosperity will not be restricted to one walk of life. The artists that diligently create their works will also be positively affected. There is no need to wait for the Bali Arts Festival for this works to be showcased,” he said.

Similar opinions were expressed

by Bangli legislator, I Dewa Gede Oka. The Culture and Tourism Agency, he said has not been quick to see opportunities and remains too

focused on tourism itself. Cultural activities are only given attention on special occasions, whereas in fact culture art and tourism all work hand in hand. “Geopark, for example, is the only one of its kind in Indonesia. If it only offers natural beauty, visitors will quickly get bored. Hence, local culture needs to be featured and staged. Tourist swill certainly become more interested in visiting”, he said.

Innovations in tourism will certainly help to open up Bangli as a tourist destination in its own right.

Likewise, our culture as a public heritage will also end up being preserved. “The tourism sector should

be more innovative. Culture should be seen as a strength and something that can draw more visitors” said this Gerindra politician.

Dewa Oka also highlighted the fact that government attention to tourism in North Bangli, Kintamani and South Bangli is rarely followed up on. Actually, there is a lot of potential oto generate significant revenue, he said. “Tourist attractions in South Bangli have a lot of potential to draw local tourists and so should be given serious attention.

Attention should not be singularly focused in North Bangli –kindly pay attention to both areas equally” he concluded. (kmb45)

Ijogading River filled by waste

NEGARA - Condition of Ijogading River along 7 km to Perancak estuary is very dirty and nasty. As observation at West Loloan, Negara, Monday (Mar. 21), the Ijogading River looked very dirty filled with plastic waste. Moreover, people living at riverside also appeared to throw and pile up waste in the river, especially in the arising land at the river borderline.

According to several residents, the communities at West Loloan are very difficult to dispose of their waste to temporary disposal site because of located far enough. As solution, the residents pile up in the river and then burn it. “Hopefully, the relevant agencies have other solution so that residents can dispose of their IBP/kmb waste in place,” he said.

Condition of Ijogading River along 7 km to Perancak estuary is very dirty Headman of West Loloan West, Sadikin, and nasty. when asked for his confirmation at his office

admitted that the obstacles are the residents living at riverside. “The waste at riverside is not only disposed by our residents. People from outside our village also dispose of waste here.

Sometimes there are people from the south or the north disposing of their waste in the river.

When the river water overflow the waste is certainly going up and mixing,” he explained.

If the waste along the Ijogading River is handled simultaneously, all parties should participate and not just residents. “Actually, there has been regional bylaw and it just needs to be applied. It can be applied along with the sanctions, but relevant agencies like the LHKP can form a taskforce and oversees the littering,” he explained. He also hoped his territory can be free from waste so that it can look cleaner. (kmb)

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, March 21, 2016.

UNHCR says won’t work in Greek ‘detention centres’ in swipe at EU-Turkey deal

LESBOS - The United Nations refugee agency said on Monday it would not operate in “detention centres” on the Greek island of Lesbos for migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, dealing a blow to the European Union’s agreement with Ankara last week.

The UNHCR said migrants and refugees were being held against their will at the reception facilities on Lesbos, and it would no longer transfer them there. The European Union-Turkey deal has crossed a red line in its policy, the UNHCR said.

The deal, in effect since Sunday, is aimed at putting new arrivals in Greece who seek asylum on a fasttrack for processing.

Until Sunday, arrivals to Lesbos had been free to leave the Moria migrant camp and head

for ferries to the mainland from where they would mostly head north via the Balkans in a bid to reach western Europe, particularly Germany.

Now, they are supposed to be held in Moria or one of four other centres set up on the Aegean islands of Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos, pending the outcome of their asylum applications.

“UNHCR is opposed to the mandatory detention of all arrivals as alternatives to detention on these islands are or should be made avail-

able,” a UNHCR spokesman on the island told Reuters in a statement.

“We have taken a principled decision to disengage from transportation to and from Moria, as since Sunday, freedom of movement is not guaranteed,” he said.

The UNHCR will continue providing assistance to refugees and migrants on Lesbos’s shoreline and in the port, and will focus on “monitoring and counseling” at Moria, he said.

The UNHCR is concerned that the EU-Turkey deal was “prematurely implemented”, it said, and that Greece does not currently have the systems in place on its islands to assess asylum claims nor the proper conditions in place to accommodate people awaiting the decision. (rtr)

SYDNEY - Australian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to support operations of the Islamic State militant group.

The arrests in a Sydney suburb on Monday of the schoolgirl and a man, aged 20, were part of counter-terrorism operations aimed at thwarting attacks by domestic radicals at home and disrupting the flow of funds to foreign fighters overseas.

“We anticipate that both these people will be charged later today and attend court and the charge that we anticipate they will have is one of financing terrorism,” New South Wales state police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters.

“We will be alleging that they were involved in obtaining money to send offshore to assist the Islamic State in its activities,” she said.

Australia’s anti-money laundering agency said in November reports of suspected militant financing had tripled in the past year, with more than A$50 million ($38 million) that could be used to support militants being investigated.

The amounts being sent in this particular case were small and most likely used to help facilitate the travel of foreign fighters into Syria, an Australian Federal Police source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

“They are doing it usually by credit cards or ATM cards - pretty easy. It’s not that much money. Some of it is a very small amount of money ... sometimes less than $1,000,” he said.

Authorities believe dozens of Australians have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Islamic State militants.

Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals since 2014 and authorities say they have thwarted a number of potential attacks, while there have been several “lone wolf” assaults.

Islamic State raises the majority of its funding from oil, kidnapping and other illicit activities in far greater amounts than what is sent by individuals, said Greg Barton, a terrorism expert at Deakin University.

Arrests like those made this week were more valuable in identifying and arresting Australians who may be at risk of further radicalisation than they in putting a dent in militant finances.

“It’s more this gives us the basis for figuring out the connection and it also gives us the basis for laying charges,” he told Reuters.

Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said the latest arrests were not connected to any threat of an imminent attack.

In 2014, police shot dead a Melbourne teenager after he stabbed two counter-terrorism officers. Three months later, two hostages were killed when police stormed a Sydney cafe to end a siege by a lone gunman, who was also killed.

A 15-year-old boy fired on an accountant at police headquarters in a Sydney suburb last October and was then killed in a gunfight with police. (rtr)

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New South Wales (NSW) Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn speaks during a media conference in Sydney, Australia, March 22, 2016.

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Germany’s Ifo confidence index up after 3 monthly falls

FRANKFURT — Germany’s Ifo Institute says its index of business confidence, a closely watched gauge of economic activity in Europe’s largest economy, has risen after three months of declines.

Munich-based Ifo said Tuesday that its main index rose to 106.7 points from 105.7 points the month before.

The increase was also more than anticipated.

Market expectations were for a more modest rise to 106.0 points. Industrial firms saw stronger demand for consumer goods, the institute said in a statement.

The improvement comes as fears about global trade and financial market turmoil seem to be easing after a shaky start to the year. Economist Carsten Brzeski at ING-DiBa said that “German businesses seem to have shaken off fears of long-lasting global slowdown.”

The Germany economy grew by a quarterly rate of 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, and enjoys a low unemployment rate of 4.3 percent that has helped buoy consumption.

Ifo surveys 7,000 businesses about their assessment of current conditions and their view of the future, both of which rose in the current survey.

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender The index is considered a leading indicator, mean- Sculptures by artist Rainer Opolka stand at the market square in Dresden, Germany, March 21, 2016. The 66 metal ing it suggests where the economy may be going in wolf sculptures are part of the exhibition “The wolves are back” which is to focus on the hazards of xenophobia, coming months.(ap) hate and right-wing extremism and will remain at Neumarkt in Dresden until March 23.

Rising China risk tarnishes Hong Kong business hub luster

AP Photo/Vincent Yu

In this Jan. 7, 2016 photo, books featuring with photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials on the coverage are displayed at a book shop in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG — For decades, Hong Kong thrived as an Asian business hub thanks to its killer combination of Western freedoms, independent courts and closeness to mainland China’s booming market. Now political and economic ills from the mainland are eroding that edge.

Swedish-Chinese author Gui Minhai was counting on Hong Kong’s freedoms when he chose the city as the base for the publishing empire he has built up over the past decade, churning out exposes on elite Chinese politics that were snapped up by visitors from mainland China, where they are prohibited.

The recent temporary disappearances of Gui and four colleagues, including his British chief editor Lee Bo, rising political volatility and slowing growth in China are undermining confidence in Beijing’s promises to leave the city’s freedoms intact for a half-century after taking control of Hong Kong in 1997.

Local frustrations will likely intensify as the city’s pro-Beijing elite prepares to choose a new leader for the specially administered Chinese region next year.

In unusually blunt comments, Financial Secretary John Tsang predicted recently that Hong Kong’s economy would eke out its smallest expansion in

four years in 2016.

“Politics and economics are closely intertwined.

Political volatility will unavoidably impact on our economy,” Tsang said in his budget speech last month. Tension and turbulence have left many in Hong Kong feeling suffocated by an confrontational atmosphere, said Tsang, warning of “even greater chaos” ahead if tensions aren’t resolved.

Hong Kong remains wealthier and freer than the mainland, but the city of 7.2 million is riven with inequality and faces growing competition from other Chinese business hubs like nearby Shenzhen and Shanghai. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to crush dissent in other regions like Xinjiang and Tibet, showing little sympathy for the yearning among many in Hong Kong for greater democracy.

Investors aren’t rushing for the exits yet, but in the financial industry, backbone of the economy, the mood is darkening.

“If Hong Kong is gradually being taken over by all these Chinese business practices and also politically there’s more and more pressure and influence coming from mainland China, this will definitely destroy Hong Kong in the end,” said Edward Chan, an investment fund manager.(ap)

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A coffin containing the body of one of the victims of a military helicopter crash in Poso, Central Sulawesi, is loaded into a cargo plane to be transported to Jakarta at the airport in the provincial capital of Palu, Indonesia, Monday, March 21, 2016. The helicopter was on a mission Sunday to capture the country’s most wanted militant when it crashed and burst into flames.

Drivers demand blocking of online transportation services

JAKARTA - Thousands of drivers rallied in front of the office of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding the blocking of online transportation service applications.

The drivers began congregating in front of the office at 1 p.m. local time, with their vehicles, including taxis, three-wheeled cabs known locally as “bajaj”, vans, and and minibuses being parked at the Monas Square nearby.

Some demonstrators stopped taxis that had continued to operate and forced their passengers to leave.

Some taxis that continued to operate during the demonstration had also been vandalized. A metro-mini bus was damaged, and rocks were found nearby. “We were attacked just now in Semanggi area,” the metro-mini driver revealed.(ant)

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A taxi is attacked for not taking part in protest by taxi drivers who are demanding that the government ban ride-hailing apps in Jakarta, Indonesia March 22, 2016.

JAKARTA - The government of Indonesia, through Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, has lodged a protest with the Chinese Charge dAffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide over Chinese coast guard violations in Indonesian waters.

“I have just summoned the Chinese charge daffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide. We have expressed our strong protest and have submitted a memorandum during that meeting,” Foreign Minister Marsudi noted here on Monday.

Minister Marsudi revealed that the protest note addressed to the Chinese Embassy contained at least three main points.

First, the Indonesian government has objected to the violations committed by the Chinese coast guard against the countrys sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

Second, the Indonesian government has raised a protest on the violation by the Chinese coast guard against its law enforcement agencies on the EEZ and continental shelf.

Third, the Indonesian government has protested to the violation committed by the Chinese coast guard on its marine territorial sovereignty.

The minister said the Indonesian government had sought clarification from the Chinese government over the incident.

Marsudi also stressed that as part of sound state relations, each country must respect the principles of international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1982.

“Finally, I would like to emphasize that Indonesia is not a claimant state in the South China Sea and not a claimant state in the South China Sea dispute,” affirmed Minister Marsudi.

The foreign minister summoned the Chinese charge daffaires of Jakarta since the current Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia was in Beijing.

Earlier, the Chinese authorities had intervened in the law enforcement efforts undertaken by Indonesian authorities to seize a Chineseorigin ship MV Kway Fey 10078 after it was suspected of committing illegal fishing in the Natuna waters of Indonesia.

The Chinese Coast Guard attempted to intimidate the Indonesian Navys Hiu 11 patrol boat, which was in the process of taking into custody the 300 gross ton (GT) ship, on Saturday, March 19.(ant)

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi set to steer cabinet from within

NAYPYITAW - Myanmar’s president-elect nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading.

Suu Kyi guided the NLD to a historic landslide election win in November, but cannot assume the presidency under the charter drafted by the former junta because her two sons are British citizens, as was her late husband.

She has pledged to circumvent the ban by running the country through a proxy president, and last week the parliament nominated Suu Kyi’s confidant, Htin Kyaw, for the top job.

Until the cabinet nominations were read out to parliament by the speaker on Tuesday, it had been unclear whether Suu Kyi would join the executive or would chose to guide the government from outside as the leader of the ruling party.

The constitution bars serving ministers from political party activities or sitting in parliament as

lawmakers.

“It doesn’t matter how many ministries she takes, as she will run the whole government anyway,” said Win Htein, a senior NLD politician close to Suu Kyi. The 18-member cabinet list submitted by President-elect Htin Kyaw to parliament did not specify the portfolios each minister would hold.

But a separate, unofficial list obtained by Reuters from sources in parliament showed Nobel peace prize laureate Suu Kyi’s name next to four ministries: minister of the president’s office, foreign affairs, electric power and energy, and education.

It was unclear whether Suu Kyi would run all four departments when the new government takes office next month. A senior NLD

member told Reuters her name was put forward for several ministries after some prospective candidates declined to join the cabinet at the last minute or could not be identified.

Serving as foreign minister would allow Suu Kyi to formally meet foreign diplomats and represent Myanmar overseas, while also guaranteeing a seat on the National Defence and Security Council, an important presidential advisory group dominated by the still-powerful military.

Running the power and energy ministry would give her direct responsibility for decisions on the controversial Chinese-backed Myitsone dam project, one of the thorniest issues facing the new government.

Outgoing President Thein Sein angered Beijing by suspending the project shortly after the military ceded power to his quasi-civilian government in 2011. Last week Beijing signalled it will push the new government to resume it. (rtr)

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Obama ends Cuba trip with dissident meeting, baseball and hope

HAVANA - President Barack Obama will meet with Cuban dissidents on Tuesday and watch a baseball game with the communist country’s president after delivering a speech that will conclude his historic trip with a hopeful vision for future relations.

After a day spent tussling verbally with President Raul Castro over human rights, Obama will address the Cuban people in a speech from the Grand Theater of Havana that will be broadcast live by state media across the Caribbean island.

Obama, whose White House tenure ends in January, also will meet with civil society leaders at the U.S. embassy to back up his warning to Castro that a failure to improve Cuba’s human rights record would hinder momentum toward ending the decades-old U.S. embargo.

The White House has not released a list of the activist leaders Obama plans to meet. Castro bristled at a rare news conference on Monday when asked by a U.S. journalist about detention of political opponents. He denied such practices and demanded a list of examples. The White House said it had shared many such lists with the Cuban government before.

Obama’s meeting with dissidents underscores lingering tensions between the former Cold War foes despite the rapprochement in 2014 that led to Sunday’s one-time un-

thinkable arrival of Air Force One on Cuban soil.

It also reflects Obama’s need to convince critics at home that his visit, the first by a U.S. president in nearly 90 years, would not be used to prop up the Castro government.

Obama often visits with civil society leaders on foreign trips, particularly in countries such as China, where Washington has raised human rights concerns as well.

Beyond that meeting, aides said Obama planned to use his speech to offer a vision for warmer relations extending beyond his own time in office.

“It’s the one point to step back and talk to the Cuban people, and I mean all of the Cuban people,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Monday.

“He’ll pull together all of these themes he’s been discussing ... to say why he believes we should be hopeful for the future.”

Obama wraps up his trip with a baseball game. He and his family, who accompanied him on the trip, will join Castro at a Major League Baseball exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National Team.

The White House wants the event to highlight common bonds between Cubans and Americans. Obama leaves for a two-day trip to Argentina after the game. (rtr)

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black time for our country”.

“What we feared has come to pass. Our country has been struck by attacks which are blind, violent and cowardly.”

The STIB public transport operator said 15 were killed on board the metro train and 55 injured. Belga news agency cited the fire brigade as saying 11 were killed at the airport, but there was still some uncertainty about casualties.

The blast hit the train as it left Maelbeek station, close to European Union institutions, heading to the city centre.

The VRT public broadcaster carried a photograph of a metro carriage at a platform with doors and windows completely blown out, its structure deformed and the interior mangled and charred. A local journalist tweeted a photograph of a person lying covered in blood among smoke outside Maelbeek metro station, on the main Rue de la Loi avenue which connects central Brussels with the EU institutions. Ambulances were ferrying the wounded away and sirens rang out across the area.

The federal prosecutor told a news conference one of the two explosions at the airport was likely to have been caused by a suicide bomber. (rtr)

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Htin Kyaw, left, newly elected president of Myanmar, walks with National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, at Myanmar’s parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Myanmar’s parliament elected Htin Kyaw as Myanmar’s new president Tuesday, a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government.

All public transport in Brussels was shut down, as it was in London during 2005 islamist militant attacks there that killed 52. Authorities appealed to citizens not to use overloaded telephone networks, extra troops were sent into the city and the Belgian Crisis Centre, clearly wary of a further incident, appealed to the population: “Stay where you are”.

British Sky News television’s Alex Rossi, at the airport, said he heard two “very, very loud explosions”.

“I could feel the building move.

There was also dust and smoke as well...I went towards where the explosion came from and there were people coming out looking very dazed and shocked.”

Alphonse Youla, 40, who works at the airport, told Reuters he heard a man shouting out in Arabic before the first explosion. “Then the glass ceiling of the airport collapsed.”

“I helped carry out five people dead, their legs destroyed,” he said, his hands covered in blood.

A witness said the blasts occurred at a check-in desk. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel spoke of “a

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Cavaliers blast Nuggets, clinch Central title

AMLAPURA - Candidasa is located in the Samuh neigborhood of the Bugbug Village, 12 kilometres southwest of Amlapura, the main town and capital of the Karangasem regency. It was formerly known as Teluk Kehen (Kehen Bay), but since the tourism industry was introduced the name was changed to Candidasa.

Only one thing is for sure, Candidasa is a tranquil coast offering varying accommodation, from basic to five-star resorts and few good restaurants in between. It is also a strategic place from where to explore the east of the island, which boasts exotic cultural highlights and a range of historical sites and exciting tours to enjoy.

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Cleveland (50-20) endured frustrating moments of inconsistency throughout the season, but it still sealed the fifth division crown in team history and its ninth 50-win season.

“All is not bad,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said. “We’re still growing, we’re still getting better on a night-to-night basis and we can celebrate this, but we gotta keep moving forward.”

The Cavs scrapped some of their defensive principles that haven’t been working the last few weeks and returned to the simplified format that carried them to the NBA Finals last season. They held the Nuggets to 39.5 percent shooting Monday and led by as many as 36 in the fourth quarter after Denver’s

five starters combined to match James’ 33 points.

“It was embarrassing,” Nuggets coach Mike Malone said. “An embarrassing effort. I haven’t seen that from our team most of the year. I’m very disappointed with that.”

The Cavs built a 19-point lead in the first quarter when they scored 38 points, their most in an opening quarter all season. However, they give it all back in the second when Nuggets reserve guard Will Barton scored 16 of his team-high 27.

Cleveland went scoreless for more than six minutes while the Nuggets scored 17 consecutive points mainly off the Cavs’ reserves. When James and the starters returned, the Cavs reclaimed momentum.

The game was essentially over after three quarters, and James left to an ovation with six minutes remaining after securing his second triple-double of the season and the 41st of his career.

In this season of the unexpected, however, James again made a stir by unfollowing the Cavs from his Twitter account. James’ cryptic messages a few weeks ago on social media set the internet on fire, as did Monday’s revelation he no longer follows the Cavs.

Asked about the reasoning behind it, James stared down a reporter momentarily before responding simply, “Next question.”

The Cavs have fought to stay out of their own way most of the season.

Locker room issues led to the firing of coach David Blatt at midseason, while the play of fellow stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love seemed to aggravate James at times this season.

Still, Cleveland remains atop the conference and holds a slim onegame lead on the Toronto Raptors for home-court advantage in the East playoffs. The Cavs’ blowout victory Monday, led by a dazzling performance from James, followed an embarrassing loss at Miami on Saturday when Cleveland trailed by 33 in the fourth quarter. That is the way it has gone most of the season. (rtr)

LONDON - The drug that has produced more than 100 positive sports doping tests since being outlawed on Jan. 1 can take “several months” to completely leave the body, the manufacturer of meldonium told Reuters on Monday.

A number of athletes say they took the cardiac drug before it was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Latvian manufacturer Grindeks said meldonium has a half-life of between four and six hours but “its terminal elimination from the body may last for several months” depending on factors such as dose, duration of treatment, and sensitivity of testing methods.

Meldonium has been in the spotlight since Russia’s former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova stunned the sporting world by announcing this month that she had failed a doping test for the drug after a loss to Serena Williams at this year’s Australian Open.

At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, including speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since the ban came into effect, along with dozens of competitors from other countries.

While the comments by Grindeks would appear to offer one reason why there have been so many positive tests for meldonium, WADA said athletes were made aware that the substance would be added to the banned list last October.

“The date an athlete sample is collected is the date any subsequent anti-doping rule violation is asserted to have taken place,” a WADA spokesman said on Monday.

“At any hearing that follows, the onus is then on the athlete to explain how the substance was in his or her body.

“It is important to note that every year all stakeholders are advised on any changes to the Prohibited List three months before it enters into force which provides sufficient time to be educated on any changes to the list.”

Sharapova, who is provisionally banned while the International Tennis Federation (ITF) investigates, said she had been taking the drug legally for 10 years for health reasons and had not realised it had been added to WADA’s banned list.

Russia’s four-times world champion swimmer Yulia Efimova also tested positive for meldonium, but said in an interview with Russia 24 on Monday she had never been informed it was banned.

“The last time I took meldonium was when it was still legal. I took it for medical reasons and read the instructions carefully,” she said.

“Experts are now looking at how traces of meldonium could be in my sample months after I stopped taking it.”

Four Russian track-and-field athletes have also tested positive, adding further scrutiny to a nation currently banned from international track-and-field competitions after last year’s disclosures of widespread cheating and corruption. (rtr)

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Mildronate (Meldonium) medication is pictured in the pharmacy in Saulkrasti, Latvia, in this March 9, 2016 file photo.

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after explosions BRUSSELS - Belgium’s national team cancelled a training session on Tuesday to show respect to the victims after explosions hit Brussels leaving at least 13 people dead.

Two explosions tore through Brussels airport in what Belgian public broadcaster VRT called a suicide attack, and a further blast struck a metro station in the capital shortly afterwards.

Belgium coach Marc Wi l m o t s c a l l e d o f f a planned afternoon practice for his squad at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.

“We are all together with our thoughts with the victims. Football is unimportant today. Training cancelled,” the team said on their Twitter feed (@BelRedDevils). “ C a n ’t b e l i e v e I ’ m reading these things again ...,” added defender Jan Vertonghen (@JanVertonghen).

The Belgian side, top of the FIFA world rankings, usually attract large crowds to their home training sessions and the public are encouraged to attend.

The attacks also threaten next Tuesday’s friendly against Portugal in Brussels, which is a preparatory game for both teams ahead of this year’s European Championship in France.

Belgium’s last scheduled international, against Spain on Nov. 17 in Brussels, was cancelled following the attacks in Paris. (rtr)

LONDON — Manchester City is on a mission to become soccer’s global power, with a network of clubs sweeping up trophies from east to west. There’s one major stumbling block in the grand project being masterminded from City’s sprawling Manchester campus: The parent team can’t even dominate at home.

With an aging squad and lame-duck manager, Manchester City is regressing in the Premier League while it is ambitiously expanding internationally with off-shoot clubs in New York, Melbourne, Yokohama and another mooted in China.

The City Football Group, run from Manchester but owned by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was valued at $3 billion when a Chinese consortium took a 13 percent stake last year.

“Each one of these (teams) are different but all of them are progressing,” City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said last year. “All of them, I guarantee you, are going to be a journey of progress, growth and — above all — success.” It’s just taking longer than expected.

City did win the Premier League in 2012 and 2014 but meekly surrendered the trophy on both occasions.

This season, City isn’t even a contender as Manuel Pellegrini keeps the hot-seat warm for the incoming Pep Guardiola and even Champions League qualification is in the balance.

The squad Guardiola inherits after swapping Munich for Manchester from July is in desperate need of a revamp. City’s shortcomings were visible in Sunday’s home humbling by United, its apparently ailing neighbor.

The 1-0 loss was its third consecutive game without scoring; a barren run not seen at City since its destiny was transformed in 2008 by a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family deciding to invest billions of dollars into awaking a dormant team.

Sunday’s wretched derby afternoon was encapsulated by Pellegrini’s explanation for substituting Martin Demichelis early in the second half. It didn’t reflect well on the coaching abilities of Pellegrini, the man who restored calm to City after the chaotic reign of Roberto Mancini.

“He was nervous,” Pellegrini said of an experienced international who played for Argentina in the semifinals at the last World Cup. The 35-year-old defender’s lack of pace was brutally exposed when 18-year-old forward Marcus Rashford went past him with ease before scoring the only goal of the game at the Etihad Stadium on his derby debut.

United didn’t just secure local bragging rights but barged back into contention for the fourth Champions League place.

It is not completely bleak in the blue half of Manchester, however, with the League Cup already collected and a first-ever Champions League quarterfinal game to come next month against Paris Saint-Germain.

But City’s grip on the top four has never looked more precarious, as West Ham and United sit only

a point behind with eight matches to go.

This isn’t just a blip but a trend that will be causing alarm not just in the boardroom but in the current Bayern Munich manager’s office. Guardiola is preparing to leave Germany’s ultimate power for a club 15 points behind Leicester, which has surged to the top of the Premier League with a modest outlay on players. Pellegrini’s plans have been hampered by an expanding injury list.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart (calf) and forward Raheem Sterling (groin) now face a month out after being injured on Sunday.

City’s defense has already been shorn of captain Vincent Kompany while the midfield trio of Kevin De Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Samir Nasri remain sidelined.

“It is a really sad weekend,” said goalkeeper Willy Caballero, who came off the bench to replace Hart. “It is really hard to lose one or two players again. We are in the fourth position and we need to keep it.” Little this season justifies City’s presence in the top four.

City hasn’t beaten any team in the top six, taking only three points off them: Draws against Leicester, West Ham and United in the away derby. Delving deeper into the table doesn’t show City’s well-paid collection of internationals in any better light. Southampton is the only team in the top nine they have beaten.

Does Guardiola know what he’s let himself in for by taking his first job in the seriously competitive Premier League from next season? Medals won’t be a certainty.

This is the man who won a hat trick of Spanish titles and the Champions League twice among 14 major honors between 2008 and 2011 at Barcelona. In Germany, he is on course to leave after another treble of domestic titles although the European Cup has eluded him so far at Bayern Munich. (ap)

Dempsey to play for US at World Cup qualifying in Guatemala

MIAMI — Clint Dempsey is expected to play his first game with the U.S. since October when the national team plays a World Cup qualifying match Friday in Guatemala. The 33-year-old Dempsey was left off the USA roster for two qualifying matches in November. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann cited the need to look at younger players.

“It’s not really up to me,” said Dempsey, in reference to not playing last fall. “It is and it isn’t. It is in that you have to keep working hard and playing. But it’s up to the coaching staff to make the decisions, and I’m happy to be a part of these important games.”

The Americans could use his scoring touch. Dempsey has 48 goals while playing for the U.S., second in history behind the 57 scored by Landon Donovan. He’s also the all-

time leading scorer against Guatemala with five goals.

Dempsey last played for the national team on Oct. 10 in the Confederations Cup loss to Mexico. Jozy Altidore has been slowed by an injury, so Klinsmann could pair Dempsey with forward Bobby Wood, a 23-year-old Hawaiian and prolific scorer on his German team FC Union Berlin.

Dempsey also might be used in the midfield. Either way, Dempsey will add a dangerous dynamic to the offense. He’s added 13 goals in World Cup qualifiers — tied with Donovan for the most in team history — and Altidore has 12.

“He’s got experience,” Wood said of Dempsey. “He’s been around for a while. It adds another leader to the team, and I think everyone is excited about that.”

The U.S. is 13-0-1 against Guatemala in qualifying matches on its home soil. However, the match at Guatemala shapes up differently. USA has just one win and five ties in its past six matches there.

The lone win in that span was a

1-0 victory in 2008.

The match Friday is the first of home-and-home qualifiers. Guatemala will play the Americans on March 29 in Columbus, Ohio. With two victories over Guatemala, the Americans would clinch advancing to the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. That final six-team round kicks off in 2017.

Dempsey said playing any road game while attempting to qualify for the World Cup is difficult because of the nationalistic fervor among the fans.

“You can really feel that home-field advantage,” Dempsey said of the atmosphere in Guatemala.

“It’s always a hostile crowd. They support their team very passionately. The trick is to try to get as many points as you can from away games.”

Dempsey said the U.S. team can’t get too emotional. (ap)

Petr Cech voted player of the year in Czech Republic PRAGUE — Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has been voted the Czech Republic’s player of the year for 2015. The 33-year-old Czech international won Monday’s poll of players, coaches, football federation officials and journalists for a record eighth time overall.

Cech left Chelsea in 2015 — following 11 successful years — and moved to English Premier League rival Arsenal. He also helped the Czech national team qualify for the 2016 European Championship in France.

He sustained a calf muscle injury earlier in March and won’t play in the forthcoming international matches against Scotland and Sweden.

Last year’s poll winner, Sparta Prague striker David Lafata, finished second while Hertha Berlin midfielder Vladimir Darida came third. National team coach Pavel Vrba was voted best coach for the sixth straight year. (ap)

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U.S. soccer team forward Clint Dempsey speaks to the press before the start of practice at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla., Monday March 21, 2016. The U.S. men’s soccer team is preparing for its pivotal home-and-home World Cup qualifiers against Guatemala.

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after explosions BRUSSELS - Belgium’s national team cancelled a training session on Tuesday to show respect to the victims after explosions hit Brussels leaving at least 13 people dead.

Two explosions tore through Brussels airport in what Belgian public broadcaster VRT called a suicide attack, and a further blast struck a metro station in the capital shortly afterwards.

Belgium coach Marc Wi l m o t s c a l l e d o f f a planned afternoon practice for his squad at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.

“We are all together with our thoughts with the victims. Football is unimportant today. Training cancelled,” the team said on their Twitter feed (@BelRedDevils). “ C a n ’t b e l i e v e I ’ m reading these things again ...,” added defender Jan Vertonghen (@JanVertonghen).

The Belgian side, top of the FIFA world rankings, usually attract large crowds to their home training sessions and the public are encouraged to attend.

The attacks also threaten next Tuesday’s friendly against Portugal in Brussels, which is a preparatory game for both teams ahead of this year’s European Championship in France.

Belgium’s last scheduled international, against Spain on Nov. 17 in Brussels, was cancelled following the attacks in Paris. (rtr)

LONDON — Manchester City is on a mission to become soccer’s global power, with a network of clubs sweeping up trophies from east to west. There’s one major stumbling block in the grand project being masterminded from City’s sprawling Manchester campus: The parent team can’t even dominate at home.

With an aging squad and lame-duck manager, Manchester City is regressing in the Premier League while it is ambitiously expanding internationally with off-shoot clubs in New York, Melbourne, Yokohama and another mooted in China.

The City Football Group, run from Manchester but owned by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was valued at $3 billion when a Chinese consortium took a 13 percent stake last year.

“Each one of these (teams) are different but all of them are progressing,” City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said last year. “All of them, I guarantee you, are going to be a journey of progress, growth and — above all — success.” It’s just taking longer than expected.

City did win the Premier League in 2012 and 2014 but meekly surrendered the trophy on both occasions.

This season, City isn’t even a contender as Manuel Pellegrini keeps the hot-seat warm for the incoming Pep Guardiola and even Champions League qualification is in the balance.

The squad Guardiola inherits after swapping Munich for Manchester from July is in desperate need of a revamp. City’s shortcomings were visible in Sunday’s home humbling by United, its apparently ailing neighbor.

The 1-0 loss was its third consecutive game without scoring; a barren run not seen at City since its destiny was transformed in 2008 by a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family deciding to invest billions of dollars into awaking a dormant team.

Sunday’s wretched derby afternoon was encapsulated by Pellegrini’s explanation for substituting Martin Demichelis early in the second half. It didn’t reflect well on the coaching abilities of Pellegrini, the man who restored calm to City after the chaotic reign of Roberto Mancini.

“He was nervous,” Pellegrini said of an experienced international who played for Argentina in the semifinals at the last World Cup. The 35-year-old defender’s lack of pace was brutally exposed when 18-year-old forward Marcus Rashford went past him with ease before scoring the only goal of the game at the Etihad Stadium on his derby debut.

United didn’t just secure local bragging rights but barged back into contention for the fourth Champions League place.

It is not completely bleak in the blue half of Manchester, however, with the League Cup already collected and a first-ever Champions League quarterfinal game to come next month against Paris Saint-Germain.

But City’s grip on the top four has never looked more precarious, as West Ham and United sit only

a point behind with eight matches to go.

This isn’t just a blip but a trend that will be causing alarm not just in the boardroom but in the current Bayern Munich manager’s office. Guardiola is preparing to leave Germany’s ultimate power for a club 15 points behind Leicester, which has surged to the top of the Premier League with a modest outlay on players. Pellegrini’s plans have been hampered by an expanding injury list.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart (calf) and forward Raheem Sterling (groin) now face a month out after being injured on Sunday.

City’s defense has already been shorn of captain Vincent Kompany while the midfield trio of Kevin De Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Samir Nasri remain sidelined.

“It is a really sad weekend,” said goalkeeper Willy Caballero, who came off the bench to replace Hart. “It is really hard to lose one or two players again. We are in the fourth position and we need to keep it.” Little this season justifies City’s presence in the top four.

City hasn’t beaten any team in the top six, taking only three points off them: Draws against Leicester, West Ham and United in the away derby. Delving deeper into the table doesn’t show City’s well-paid collection of internationals in any better light. Southampton is the only team in the top nine they have beaten.

Does Guardiola know what he’s let himself in for by taking his first job in the seriously competitive Premier League from next season? Medals won’t be a certainty.

This is the man who won a hat trick of Spanish titles and the Champions League twice among 14 major honors between 2008 and 2011 at Barcelona. In Germany, he is on course to leave after another treble of domestic titles although the European Cup has eluded him so far at Bayern Munich. (ap)

Dempsey to play for US at World Cup qualifying in Guatemala

MIAMI — Clint Dempsey is expected to play his first game with the U.S. since October when the national team plays a World Cup qualifying match Friday in Guatemala. The 33-year-old Dempsey was left off the USA roster for two qualifying matches in November. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann cited the need to look at younger players.

“It’s not really up to me,” said Dempsey, in reference to not playing last fall. “It is and it isn’t. It is in that you have to keep working hard and playing. But it’s up to the coaching staff to make the decisions, and I’m happy to be a part of these important games.”

The Americans could use his scoring touch. Dempsey has 48 goals while playing for the U.S., second in history behind the 57 scored by Landon Donovan. He’s also the all-

time leading scorer against Guatemala with five goals.

Dempsey last played for the national team on Oct. 10 in the Confederations Cup loss to Mexico. Jozy Altidore has been slowed by an injury, so Klinsmann could pair Dempsey with forward Bobby Wood, a 23-year-old Hawaiian and prolific scorer on his German team FC Union Berlin.

Dempsey also might be used in the midfield. Either way, Dempsey will add a dangerous dynamic to the offense. He’s added 13 goals in World Cup qualifiers — tied with Donovan for the most in team history — and Altidore has 12.

“He’s got experience,” Wood said of Dempsey. “He’s been around for a while. It adds another leader to the team, and I think everyone is excited about that.”

The U.S. is 13-0-1 against Guatemala in qualifying matches on its home soil. However, the match at Guatemala shapes up differently. USA has just one win and five ties in its past six matches there.

The lone win in that span was a

1-0 victory in 2008.

The match Friday is the first of home-and-home qualifiers. Guatemala will play the Americans on March 29 in Columbus, Ohio. With two victories over Guatemala, the Americans would clinch advancing to the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. That final six-team round kicks off in 2017.

Dempsey said playing any road game while attempting to qualify for the World Cup is difficult because of the nationalistic fervor among the fans.

“You can really feel that home-field advantage,” Dempsey said of the atmosphere in Guatemala.

“It’s always a hostile crowd. They support their team very passionately. The trick is to try to get as many points as you can from away games.”

Dempsey said the U.S. team can’t get too emotional. (ap)

Petr Cech voted player of the year in Czech Republic PRAGUE — Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has been voted the Czech Republic’s player of the year for 2015. The 33-year-old Czech international won Monday’s poll of players, coaches, football federation officials and journalists for a record eighth time overall.

Cech left Chelsea in 2015 — following 11 successful years — and moved to English Premier League rival Arsenal. He also helped the Czech national team qualify for the 2016 European Championship in France.

He sustained a calf muscle injury earlier in March and won’t play in the forthcoming international matches against Scotland and Sweden.

Last year’s poll winner, Sparta Prague striker David Lafata, finished second while Hertha Berlin midfielder Vladimir Darida came third. National team coach Pavel Vrba was voted best coach for the sixth straight year. (ap)

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U.S. soccer team forward Clint Dempsey speaks to the press before the start of practice at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla., Monday March 21, 2016. The U.S. men’s soccer team is preparing for its pivotal home-and-home World Cup qualifiers against Guatemala.

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LeBron James had 33 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Cavs used a new-look defense to clinch the Central Division title with a 124-91 victory Monday night against the Denver Nuggets.

Cleveland (50-20) endured frustrating moments of inconsistency throughout the season, but it still sealed the fifth division crown in team history and its ninth 50-win season.

“All is not bad,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said. “We’re still growing, we’re still getting better on a night-to-night basis and we can celebrate this, but we gotta keep moving forward.”

The Cavs scrapped some of their defensive principles that haven’t been working the last few weeks and returned to the simplified format that carried them to the NBA Finals last season. They held the Nuggets to 39.5 percent shooting Monday and led by as many as 36 in the fourth quarter after Denver’s

five starters combined to match James’ 33 points.

“It was embarrassing,” Nuggets coach Mike Malone said. “An embarrassing effort. I haven’t seen that from our team most of the year. I’m very disappointed with that.”

The Cavs built a 19-point lead in the first quarter when they scored 38 points, their most in an opening quarter all season. However, they give it all back in the second when Nuggets reserve guard Will Barton scored 16 of his team-high 27.

Cleveland went scoreless for more than six minutes while the Nuggets scored 17 consecutive points mainly off the Cavs’ reserves. When James and the starters returned, the Cavs reclaimed momentum.

The game was essentially over after three quarters, and James left to an ovation with six minutes remaining after securing his second triple-double of the season and the 41st of his career.

In this season of the unexpected, however, James again made a stir by unfollowing the Cavs from his Twitter account. James’ cryptic messages a few weeks ago on social media set the internet on fire, as did Monday’s revelation he no longer follows the Cavs.

Asked about the reasoning behind it, James stared down a reporter momentarily before responding simply, “Next question.”

The Cavs have fought to stay out of their own way most of the season.

Locker room issues led to the firing of coach David Blatt at midseason, while the play of fellow stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love seemed to aggravate James at times this season.

Still, Cleveland remains atop the conference and holds a slim onegame lead on the Toronto Raptors for home-court advantage in the East playoffs. The Cavs’ blowout victory Monday, led by a dazzling performance from James, followed an embarrassing loss at Miami on Saturday when Cleveland trailed by 33 in the fourth quarter. That is the way it has gone most of the season. (rtr)

LONDON - The drug that has produced more than 100 positive sports doping tests since being outlawed on Jan. 1 can take “several months” to completely leave the body, the manufacturer of meldonium told Reuters on Monday.

A number of athletes say they took the cardiac drug before it was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Latvian manufacturer Grindeks said meldonium has a half-life of between four and six hours but “its terminal elimination from the body may last for several months” depending on factors such as dose, duration of treatment, and sensitivity of testing methods.

Meldonium has been in the spotlight since Russia’s former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova stunned the sporting world by announcing this month that she had failed a doping test for the drug after a loss to Serena Williams at this year’s Australian Open.

At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, including speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since the ban came into effect, along with dozens of competitors from other countries.

While the comments by Grindeks would appear to offer one reason why there have been so many positive tests for meldonium, WADA said athletes were made aware that the substance would be added to the banned list last October.

“The date an athlete sample is collected is the date any subsequent anti-doping rule violation is asserted to have taken place,” a WADA spokesman said on Monday.

“At any hearing that follows, the onus is then on the athlete to explain how the substance was in his or her body.

“It is important to note that every year all stakeholders are advised on any changes to the Prohibited List three months before it enters into force which provides sufficient time to be educated on any changes to the list.”

Sharapova, who is provisionally banned while the International Tennis Federation (ITF) investigates, said she had been taking the drug legally for 10 years for health reasons and had not realised it had been added to WADA’s banned list.

Russia’s four-times world champion swimmer Yulia Efimova also tested positive for meldonium, but said in an interview with Russia 24 on Monday she had never been informed it was banned.

“The last time I took meldonium was when it was still legal. I took it for medical reasons and read the instructions carefully,” she said.

“Experts are now looking at how traces of meldonium could be in my sample months after I stopped taking it.”

Four Russian track-and-field athletes have also tested positive, adding further scrutiny to a nation currently banned from international track-and-field competitions after last year’s disclosures of widespread cheating and corruption. (rtr)

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Mildronate (Meldonium) medication is pictured in the pharmacy in Saulkrasti, Latvia, in this March 9, 2016 file photo.

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi set to steer cabinet from within

NAYPYITAW - Myanmar’s president-elect nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading.

Suu Kyi guided the NLD to a historic landslide election win in November, but cannot assume the presidency under the charter drafted by the former junta because her two sons are British citizens, as was her late husband.

She has pledged to circumvent the ban by running the country through a proxy president, and last week the parliament nominated Suu Kyi’s confidant, Htin Kyaw, for the top job.

Until the cabinet nominations were read out to parliament by the speaker on Tuesday, it had been unclear whether Suu Kyi would join the executive or would chose to guide the government from outside as the leader of the ruling party.

The constitution bars serving ministers from political party activities or sitting in parliament as

lawmakers.

“It doesn’t matter how many ministries she takes, as she will run the whole government anyway,” said Win Htein, a senior NLD politician close to Suu Kyi. The 18-member cabinet list submitted by President-elect Htin Kyaw to parliament did not specify the portfolios each minister would hold.

But a separate, unofficial list obtained by Reuters from sources in parliament showed Nobel peace prize laureate Suu Kyi’s name next to four ministries: minister of the president’s office, foreign affairs, electric power and energy, and education.

It was unclear whether Suu Kyi would run all four departments when the new government takes office next month. A senior NLD

member told Reuters her name was put forward for several ministries after some prospective candidates declined to join the cabinet at the last minute or could not be identified.

Serving as foreign minister would allow Suu Kyi to formally meet foreign diplomats and represent Myanmar overseas, while also guaranteeing a seat on the National Defence and Security Council, an important presidential advisory group dominated by the still-powerful military.

Running the power and energy ministry would give her direct responsibility for decisions on the controversial Chinese-backed Myitsone dam project, one of the thorniest issues facing the new government.

Outgoing President Thein Sein angered Beijing by suspending the project shortly after the military ceded power to his quasi-civilian government in 2011. Last week Beijing signalled it will push the new government to resume it. (rtr)

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Obama ends Cuba trip with dissident meeting, baseball and hope

HAVANA - President Barack Obama will meet with Cuban dissidents on Tuesday and watch a baseball game with the communist country’s president after delivering a speech that will conclude his historic trip with a hopeful vision for future relations.

After a day spent tussling verbally with President Raul Castro over human rights, Obama will address the Cuban people in a speech from the Grand Theater of Havana that will be broadcast live by state media across the Caribbean island.

Obama, whose White House tenure ends in January, also will meet with civil society leaders at the U.S. embassy to back up his warning to Castro that a failure to improve Cuba’s human rights record would hinder momentum toward ending the decades-old U.S. embargo.

The White House has not released a list of the activist leaders Obama plans to meet. Castro bristled at a rare news conference on Monday when asked by a U.S. journalist about detention of political opponents. He denied such practices and demanded a list of examples. The White House said it had shared many such lists with the Cuban government before.

Obama’s meeting with dissidents underscores lingering tensions between the former Cold War foes despite the rapprochement in 2014 that led to Sunday’s one-time un-

thinkable arrival of Air Force One on Cuban soil.

It also reflects Obama’s need to convince critics at home that his visit, the first by a U.S. president in nearly 90 years, would not be used to prop up the Castro government.

Obama often visits with civil society leaders on foreign trips, particularly in countries such as China, where Washington has raised human rights concerns as well.

Beyond that meeting, aides said Obama planned to use his speech to offer a vision for warmer relations extending beyond his own time in office.

“It’s the one point to step back and talk to the Cuban people, and I mean all of the Cuban people,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Monday.

“He’ll pull together all of these themes he’s been discussing ... to say why he believes we should be hopeful for the future.”

Obama wraps up his trip with a baseball game. He and his family, who accompanied him on the trip, will join Castro at a Major League Baseball exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National Team.

The White House wants the event to highlight common bonds between Cubans and Americans. Obama leaves for a two-day trip to Argentina after the game. (rtr)

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black time for our country”.

“What we feared has come to pass. Our country has been struck by attacks which are blind, violent and cowardly.”

The STIB public transport operator said 15 were killed on board the metro train and 55 injured. Belga news agency cited the fire brigade as saying 11 were killed at the airport, but there was still some uncertainty about casualties.

The blast hit the train as it left Maelbeek station, close to European Union institutions, heading to the city centre.

The VRT public broadcaster carried a photograph of a metro carriage at a platform with doors and windows completely blown out, its structure deformed and the interior mangled and charred. A local journalist tweeted a photograph of a person lying covered in blood among smoke outside Maelbeek metro station, on the main Rue de la Loi avenue which connects central Brussels with the EU institutions. Ambulances were ferrying the wounded away and sirens rang out across the area.

The federal prosecutor told a news conference one of the two explosions at the airport was likely to have been caused by a suicide bomber. (rtr)

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Htin Kyaw, left, newly elected president of Myanmar, walks with National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, at Myanmar’s parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Myanmar’s parliament elected Htin Kyaw as Myanmar’s new president Tuesday, a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government.

All public transport in Brussels was shut down, as it was in London during 2005 islamist militant attacks there that killed 52. Authorities appealed to citizens not to use overloaded telephone networks, extra troops were sent into the city and the Belgian Crisis Centre, clearly wary of a further incident, appealed to the population: “Stay where you are”.

British Sky News television’s Alex Rossi, at the airport, said he heard two “very, very loud explosions”.

“I could feel the building move.

There was also dust and smoke as well...I went towards where the explosion came from and there were people coming out looking very dazed and shocked.”

Alphonse Youla, 40, who works at the airport, told Reuters he heard a man shouting out in Arabic before the first explosion. “Then the glass ceiling of the airport collapsed.”

“I helped carry out five people dead, their legs destroyed,” he said, his hands covered in blood.

A witness said the blasts occurred at a check-in desk. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel spoke of “a

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Germany’s Ifo confidence index up after 3 monthly falls

FRANKFURT — Germany’s Ifo Institute says its index of business confidence, a closely watched gauge of economic activity in Europe’s largest economy, has risen after three months of declines.

Munich-based Ifo said Tuesday that its main index rose to 106.7 points from 105.7 points the month before.

The increase was also more than anticipated.

Market expectations were for a more modest rise to 106.0 points. Industrial firms saw stronger demand for consumer goods, the institute said in a statement.

The improvement comes as fears about global trade and financial market turmoil seem to be easing after a shaky start to the year. Economist Carsten Brzeski at ING-DiBa said that “German businesses seem to have shaken off fears of long-lasting global slowdown.”

The Germany economy grew by a quarterly rate of 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, and enjoys a low unemployment rate of 4.3 percent that has helped buoy consumption.

Ifo surveys 7,000 businesses about their assessment of current conditions and their view of the future, both of which rose in the current survey.

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender The index is considered a leading indicator, mean- Sculptures by artist Rainer Opolka stand at the market square in Dresden, Germany, March 21, 2016. The 66 metal ing it suggests where the economy may be going in wolf sculptures are part of the exhibition “The wolves are back” which is to focus on the hazards of xenophobia, coming months.(ap) hate and right-wing extremism and will remain at Neumarkt in Dresden until March 23.

Rising China risk tarnishes Hong Kong business hub luster

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In this Jan. 7, 2016 photo, books featuring with photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials on the coverage are displayed at a book shop in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG — For decades, Hong Kong thrived as an Asian business hub thanks to its killer combination of Western freedoms, independent courts and closeness to mainland China’s booming market. Now political and economic ills from the mainland are eroding that edge.

Swedish-Chinese author Gui Minhai was counting on Hong Kong’s freedoms when he chose the city as the base for the publishing empire he has built up over the past decade, churning out exposes on elite Chinese politics that were snapped up by visitors from mainland China, where they are prohibited.

The recent temporary disappearances of Gui and four colleagues, including his British chief editor Lee Bo, rising political volatility and slowing growth in China are undermining confidence in Beijing’s promises to leave the city’s freedoms intact for a half-century after taking control of Hong Kong in 1997.

Local frustrations will likely intensify as the city’s pro-Beijing elite prepares to choose a new leader for the specially administered Chinese region next year.

In unusually blunt comments, Financial Secretary John Tsang predicted recently that Hong Kong’s economy would eke out its smallest expansion in

four years in 2016.

“Politics and economics are closely intertwined.

Political volatility will unavoidably impact on our economy,” Tsang said in his budget speech last month. Tension and turbulence have left many in Hong Kong feeling suffocated by an confrontational atmosphere, said Tsang, warning of “even greater chaos” ahead if tensions aren’t resolved.

Hong Kong remains wealthier and freer than the mainland, but the city of 7.2 million is riven with inequality and faces growing competition from other Chinese business hubs like nearby Shenzhen and Shanghai. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to crush dissent in other regions like Xinjiang and Tibet, showing little sympathy for the yearning among many in Hong Kong for greater democracy.

Investors aren’t rushing for the exits yet, but in the financial industry, backbone of the economy, the mood is darkening.

“If Hong Kong is gradually being taken over by all these Chinese business practices and also politically there’s more and more pressure and influence coming from mainland China, this will definitely destroy Hong Kong in the end,” said Edward Chan, an investment fund manager.(ap)

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A coffin containing the body of one of the victims of a military helicopter crash in Poso, Central Sulawesi, is loaded into a cargo plane to be transported to Jakarta at the airport in the provincial capital of Palu, Indonesia, Monday, March 21, 2016. The helicopter was on a mission Sunday to capture the country’s most wanted militant when it crashed and burst into flames.

Drivers demand blocking of online transportation services

JAKARTA - Thousands of drivers rallied in front of the office of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding the blocking of online transportation service applications.

The drivers began congregating in front of the office at 1 p.m. local time, with their vehicles, including taxis, three-wheeled cabs known locally as “bajaj”, vans, and and minibuses being parked at the Monas Square nearby.

Some demonstrators stopped taxis that had continued to operate and forced their passengers to leave.

Some taxis that continued to operate during the demonstration had also been vandalized. A metro-mini bus was damaged, and rocks were found nearby. “We were attacked just now in Semanggi area,” the metro-mini driver revealed.(ant)

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A taxi is attacked for not taking part in protest by taxi drivers who are demanding that the government ban ride-hailing apps in Jakarta, Indonesia March 22, 2016.

JAKARTA - The government of Indonesia, through Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, has lodged a protest with the Chinese Charge dAffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide over Chinese coast guard violations in Indonesian waters.

“I have just summoned the Chinese charge daffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide. We have expressed our strong protest and have submitted a memorandum during that meeting,” Foreign Minister Marsudi noted here on Monday.

Minister Marsudi revealed that the protest note addressed to the Chinese Embassy contained at least three main points.

First, the Indonesian government has objected to the violations committed by the Chinese coast guard against the countrys sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

Second, the Indonesian government has raised a protest on the violation by the Chinese coast guard against its law enforcement agencies on the EEZ and continental shelf.

Third, the Indonesian government has protested to the violation committed by the Chinese coast guard on its marine territorial sovereignty.

The minister said the Indonesian government had sought clarification from the Chinese government over the incident.

Marsudi also stressed that as part of sound state relations, each country must respect the principles of international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1982.

“Finally, I would like to emphasize that Indonesia is not a claimant state in the South China Sea and not a claimant state in the South China Sea dispute,” affirmed Minister Marsudi.

The foreign minister summoned the Chinese charge daffaires of Jakarta since the current Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia was in Beijing.

Earlier, the Chinese authorities had intervened in the law enforcement efforts undertaken by Indonesian authorities to seize a Chineseorigin ship MV Kway Fey 10078 after it was suspected of committing illegal fishing in the Natuna waters of Indonesia.

The Chinese Coast Guard attempted to intimidate the Indonesian Navys Hiu 11 patrol boat, which was in the process of taking into custody the 300 gross ton (GT) ship, on Saturday, March 19.(ant)

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Australia arrests two suspected of Islamic State financing - police

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Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are considered to be lacking in innovation. Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are nature based, whereas in fact many aspects of the local culture could be developed as tourist attractions too

Tourism sector assessed to lack innovation

BANGLI - Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are considered to be lacking in innovation. Most of Bangli’s tourist attractions are nature based, whereas in fact many aspects of the local culture could be developed as tourist attractions too, using the large amont of money that is invested in tourism generally.

Legislator of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Wayan Jamin, said on Sunday (Mar. 20) that nearly all of the tourist attractions in the area rely on the beauty of nature as a selling point. Without developing other attractions, visitors could quickly become bored. “In general, tourist attractions in Bangli only rely on nature without any innovations been made – it could be seen as monotonous” he said.

Jamin explained that Bangli has a lot of unique cultural practices that are not seen in other areas of Bali. Some of these cultural practices, he said should be taken advantage of to complement existing tourist attractions so that there is some variety. “There are many arts in our region, many of remain unknown to visitors, Ideally they could compliment natural tourist attractions”, he said.

By, including art and culture in Bangli’s tourism not only will people working in tourism benefit but artists and art studios can also receive economic benefits., explained Jamin. “When all parties are involved, prosperity will not be restricted to one walk of life. The artists that diligently create their works will also be positively affected. There is no need to wait for the Bali Arts Festival for this works to be showcased,” he said.

Similar opinions were expressed

by Bangli legislator, I Dewa Gede Oka. The Culture and Tourism Agency, he said has not been quick to see opportunities and remains too

focused on tourism itself. Cultural activities are only given attention on special occasions, whereas in fact culture art and tourism all work hand in hand. “Geopark, for example, is the only one of its kind in Indonesia. If it only offers natural beauty, visitors will quickly get bored. Hence, local culture needs to be featured and staged. Tourist swill certainly become more interested in visiting”, he said.

Innovations in tourism will certainly help to open up Bangli as a tourist destination in its own right.

Likewise, our culture as a public heritage will also end up being preserved. “The tourism sector should

be more innovative. Culture should be seen as a strength and something that can draw more visitors” said this Gerindra politician.

Dewa Oka also highlighted the fact that government attention to tourism in North Bangli, Kintamani and South Bangli is rarely followed up on. Actually, there is a lot of potential oto generate significant revenue, he said. “Tourist attractions in South Bangli have a lot of potential to draw local tourists and so should be given serious attention.

Attention should not be singularly focused in North Bangli –kindly pay attention to both areas equally” he concluded. (kmb45)

Ijogading River filled by waste

NEGARA - Condition of Ijogading River along 7 km to Perancak estuary is very dirty and nasty. As observation at West Loloan, Negara, Monday (Mar. 21), the Ijogading River looked very dirty filled with plastic waste. Moreover, people living at riverside also appeared to throw and pile up waste in the river, especially in the arising land at the river borderline.

According to several residents, the communities at West Loloan are very difficult to dispose of their waste to temporary disposal site because of located far enough. As solution, the residents pile up in the river and then burn it. “Hopefully, the relevant agencies have other solution so that residents can dispose of their IBP/kmb waste in place,” he said.

Condition of Ijogading River along 7 km to Perancak estuary is very dirty Headman of West Loloan West, Sadikin, and nasty. when asked for his confirmation at his office

admitted that the obstacles are the residents living at riverside. “The waste at riverside is not only disposed by our residents. People from outside our village also dispose of waste here.

Sometimes there are people from the south or the north disposing of their waste in the river.

When the river water overflow the waste is certainly going up and mixing,” he explained.

If the waste along the Ijogading River is handled simultaneously, all parties should participate and not just residents. “Actually, there has been regional bylaw and it just needs to be applied. It can be applied along with the sanctions, but relevant agencies like the LHKP can form a taskforce and oversees the littering,” he explained. He also hoped his territory can be free from waste so that it can look cleaner. (kmb)

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, March 21, 2016.

UNHCR says won’t work in Greek ‘detention centres’ in swipe at EU-Turkey deal

LESBOS - The United Nations refugee agency said on Monday it would not operate in “detention centres” on the Greek island of Lesbos for migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, dealing a blow to the European Union’s agreement with Ankara last week.

The UNHCR said migrants and refugees were being held against their will at the reception facilities on Lesbos, and it would no longer transfer them there. The European Union-Turkey deal has crossed a red line in its policy, the UNHCR said.

The deal, in effect since Sunday, is aimed at putting new arrivals in Greece who seek asylum on a fasttrack for processing.

Until Sunday, arrivals to Lesbos had been free to leave the Moria migrant camp and head

for ferries to the mainland from where they would mostly head north via the Balkans in a bid to reach western Europe, particularly Germany.

Now, they are supposed to be held in Moria or one of four other centres set up on the Aegean islands of Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos, pending the outcome of their asylum applications.

“UNHCR is opposed to the mandatory detention of all arrivals as alternatives to detention on these islands are or should be made avail-

able,” a UNHCR spokesman on the island told Reuters in a statement.

“We have taken a principled decision to disengage from transportation to and from Moria, as since Sunday, freedom of movement is not guaranteed,” he said.

The UNHCR will continue providing assistance to refugees and migrants on Lesbos’s shoreline and in the port, and will focus on “monitoring and counseling” at Moria, he said.

The UNHCR is concerned that the EU-Turkey deal was “prematurely implemented”, it said, and that Greece does not currently have the systems in place on its islands to assess asylum claims nor the proper conditions in place to accommodate people awaiting the decision. (rtr)

SYDNEY - Australian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to support operations of the Islamic State militant group.

The arrests in a Sydney suburb on Monday of the schoolgirl and a man, aged 20, were part of counter-terrorism operations aimed at thwarting attacks by domestic radicals at home and disrupting the flow of funds to foreign fighters overseas.

“We anticipate that both these people will be charged later today and attend court and the charge that we anticipate they will have is one of financing terrorism,” New South Wales state police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters.

“We will be alleging that they were involved in obtaining money to send offshore to assist the Islamic State in its activities,” she said.

Australia’s anti-money laundering agency said in November reports of suspected militant financing had tripled in the past year, with more than A$50 million ($38 million) that could be used to support militants being investigated.

The amounts being sent in this particular case were small and most likely used to help facilitate the travel of foreign fighters into Syria, an Australian Federal Police source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

“They are doing it usually by credit cards or ATM cards - pretty easy. It’s not that much money. Some of it is a very small amount of money ... sometimes less than $1,000,” he said.

Authorities believe dozens of Australians have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Islamic State militants.

Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals since 2014 and authorities say they have thwarted a number of potential attacks, while there have been several “lone wolf” assaults.

Islamic State raises the majority of its funding from oil, kidnapping and other illicit activities in far greater amounts than what is sent by individuals, said Greg Barton, a terrorism expert at Deakin University.

Arrests like those made this week were more valuable in identifying and arresting Australians who may be at risk of further radicalisation than they in putting a dent in militant finances.

“It’s more this gives us the basis for figuring out the connection and it also gives us the basis for laying charges,” he told Reuters.

Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said the latest arrests were not connected to any threat of an imminent attack.

In 2014, police shot dead a Melbourne teenager after he stabbed two counter-terrorism officers. Three months later, two hostages were killed when police stormed a Sydney cafe to end a siege by a lone gunman, who was also killed.

A 15-year-old boy fired on an accountant at police headquarters in a Sydney suburb last October and was then killed in a gunfight with police. (rtr)

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New South Wales (NSW) Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn speaks during a media conference in Sydney, Australia, March 22, 2016.

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FBI might have way to unlock attacker’s iPhone without Apple

LOS ANGELES — A much-anticipated court hearing on the federal government’s effort to force Apple Inc. to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack was abruptly vacated Monday after the FBI revealed it may have a way to access data without the company’s help.

Federal prosecutors made the surprising announcement on the eve of Tuesday’s hearing in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. In court papers they said the FBI has been researching methods to access the data on Syed Rizwan Farook’s encrypted phone since obtaining it on Dec. 3, the day after the attack.

“An outside party” came forward over the weekend and showed the FBI a possible method, the government said in court papers requesting the hearing be postponed.

Authorities need time to determine “whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data” on the phone.

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This Feb. 17, 2016 file photos an iPhone is seen in Washington. The dispute over whether Apple must help the FBI hack into a terror suspect’s iPhone is about to play out in a Southern California courtroom. The hearing Tuesday, March 22, in U.S. District Court in Riverside is the first in the battle that has seen Cook and FBI Director James Comey spar over issues of privacy and national security.

If viable, “it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple,” according to the filing.

The government did not identify the third party or explain what the proposed method entailed.

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym granted that request and ordered the government to file a status report by April 5. Pym also stayed her Feb. 16 order compelling Apple to create software that would disable security features on the phone, including one that erases all information if a passcode is incorrectly entered more than 10 times.

In a conference call with reporters, Apple attorneys said it’s premature to declare victory in the case because it’s possible that authorities could come back in a few weeks and insist they still need the company’s help. The attorneys spoke under an Apple policy that wouldn’t allow them to be quoted by name.

The company hopes the government will tell Apple about whatever method it uses to access the phone’s encrypted files. But the attorneys said it may be up to the FBI to decide whether to share the information.

The fact that a third party may have found a way into the phone

without Apple’s help appears to contradict every sworn affidavit and filing put that the Justice Department has put forward in the last month. The government has argued in each of its filings that Apple’s help is necessary and that the company was the only entity that could provide investigators with what was needed.

FBI Director James Comey told the House Judiciary Committee in sworn testimony earlier this month that agency investigators had approached even the National Security Agency for help but did not have success.

Apple has previously said in court filings that the government did not exhaust all its options, and lawmakers have criticized the FBI for not doing more to try to crack the iPhone itself before seeking Apple’s help.

“To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn’t understand the technology or they weren’t giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way” of examining the phone without Apple’s help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Both of those are scary to me.”

The ACLU has filed a court brief supporting Apple’s position. (ap)

Space station delivery rich in science and technology

CAPE CANAVERAL — A space station supply ship is set to blast off Tuesday night with a commercial-quality 3-D printer for astronaut as well as public use — for a price — and the makings for a large-scale fire.

Don’t worry: The blaze is for scientific purposes only and won’t ignite until the unmanned craft is clear of the International Space Station at mission’s end. NASA project manager Gary Ruff said this blaze will be second in size only to the 1997 fire on the Russian Mir space station, which was caused by a defective oxygengenerating canister.

Orbital ATK’s capsule, named Cygnus after the swan constellation, holds nearly 8,000 pounds of station supplies for NASA. One-fourth of that is scientific re-

search, including robotic grippers inspired by the tiny, sticky hair on geckos’ feet.

An Atlas rocket provided by United Launch Alliance will provide the ride from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Excellent weather is forecast for the 11:05 p.m. launch.

NASA will deliberately set a fire inside the trash-packed Cygnus cargo ship, once it leaves the space station in May and is a safe distance away. Researchers want to understand how a fire spreads in weightlessness — how fast and how big does it get? The goal is to improve fire safety on future spacecraft. An electrical igniter will be used to light a yard-long cotton-fiberglass sheet inside a box. The burn should last 15 to 20 minutes, with a pair of cameras

recording the flames and sensors making measurements. A week or so later, the capsule will burn up as planned over the Pacific. The test is called Saffire, short for Spacecraft Fire Experiment. (ap) The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft stack sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, March 21, 2016. The cargo carrier is scheduled to launch Tuesday, March 22, and holds a commercial-quality 3D printer for astronaut as well as public use, for a price.

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Legislator proposes to form a taskforce

DENPASAR — Water overflowing from the drains on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur, has repeatedly caused local residents to complain -yet so far the problem has yet to be resolved. Moreover, the water does not just overflow during rainy season, but also in dry season. This road that is crowded with traffic is thus unsanitary. The flooding it tunrs out is caused by garbage that clogs the drains.

Legislator of the Denpasar House of Representatives from Sanur Kaja, I.B. Ketut Kiana, in a recent meeting with a number of agencies from the Municipality of Denpasar asked that this problem be dealt with. He mentioned that residents have complained again and again about the overflowing gutter and consequent damage to the pavement in the area.

Apparently flooding occurs just a few meters away from a fast food restaurant and an auto dealer. Such flooding has caused the area to be photographed by passing tourist as an anomaly. The question as to why there is flooding in the dry season naturally arises” he sneered.

On that account, Kiana suggested that a waste management

taskforce be established in the affected villages and hamlets. Surely a taskforce can help to resolve the issue. “I am confident that the problem can be resolved if it is observed everyday” he added.

Irrigation Division Head at the Denpasar Public Works Agency, IGN Putra Sanjaya, confirmed that the area is often flooded. “We’ll go and clean it up again”, he said. As for the proposal to widen the drains, Sanjaya said that they need to coordinate with the Natinoal Road Institute for Region VIII. Separately, the Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, said that he hopes the waste flood can be handled with intelligence. This problem is not just about a dirty appearance but is also a health concern –so environmental management must be planned carefully. Quality of life is strongly influenced by health issues not just education. People’s behavior in maintaining health through proper waste management is important. “Actually the main problem is our attitude towards waste management” said Rai Mantra. (kmb12)

Products of 80 MSMEs in Bali have export values DENPASAR - Bali with the 80 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have products with export value. “So, there are many enterprises having the product with export value,” said the Head of the Bali MSME and Cooperatives Agency, Dewa Nyoman Patra, recently.

All the superior products have been submitted to the ministry and as expected they can be facilitated in terms of marketing.

However, the ability of the government to facilitate the marketing is limited due to budget constraints. Marketing carried out to outside of the region requires the cost of transportation and accommodation so that not all the MSMEs can be facilitated.

By facilitating them to go outside the region, the MSMEs with superior products can gain the market so that later on they can become independent.

In terms of products and capital, the MSMEs of Bali are considered to have been ready. The obstacles encountered are only in terms of human resources particularly in the matter of language mastery so that it is considered it necessary to be further increased.

Moreover, when facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the most important is the function of language so that human resources need to be further facilitated. In addition, the quality of human resources in terms of management and capital also need to be improved.

“For example, when getting revenue, how much we should use. Well, sometimes it’s unclear, how much is allocated for the next production and for daily needs. It remains unclear, so that we need to provide them with more facilitations and training,” he explained. (kmb42)

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The action of Canggu residents to block the access into the Canggu Hotel Intercontinental (HCI) development project led to crime.

Blockers of access to HCI reported to police

MANGUPURA - The action of Canggu residents to block the access into the Canggu Hotel Intercontinental (HCI) development project led to crime. The incident was reported to Badung Police by representative of PT Canggu International, Sunday (Mar. 20) at 17:30. The report is related to the closure of the access to the project and CCTV vandalism.

Chief of the Badung Police, Tony Binsar, when asked for his confirmation on Monday (Mar. 21) justified the report on the case. “We will study the report and summon the witnesses,” he said.

Examination of witnesses, said Tony, is very important to hear their testimony related to the report. In addition, it is meant to clarify the causes of road closure because there are rules to be followed. “When about to transferring or closing road section, it must conform Traffic Act. Moreover, there is CCTV vandalism so that it will be studied as well,” said Tony.

To anticipate the potential of horizontal conflicts, the legal process is still

continued to educate the public about the importance of obeying the rules of applicable laws. When wishing to express an aspiration, he hoped to avoid things resulting in new legal problems.

“We hope this report does not have to go to legal process before the court, but will be pursued a mediation outside the law so that this problem can be resolved better,” he said.

So, what is solution of police authority? “Certainly, the problem does not only lie in the police authority. There are demands of the local people, but I do not know whether it can be agreed by the hotel. So far, the residents and HCI had several meetings but found a dead end,” said Tony.

He hoped the other party, namely the local government as a stakeholder, to take part to resolve this issue. Previously, the polemics on the Hotel Canggu Intercontinental development project with local residents ended in the blocking of the access to the hotel on the edge of the beach. Hundreds of residents of Canggu, North Kuta, coming to the location on Sunday (Mar. 20) blocked the access to the hotel by using limestone materials.

The action was led by chief of Canggu customary village I Nyoman Sujapa, hamlet chief of Canggu I Wayan Mustara and customary hamlet chief of Canggu I Gugus Bades. The heating up mass was only met by a representative of PT Canggu International in charge of HRD Department, Abdul Facmy.

Residents thronging the location had heated up because the hotel security guard dismantled the banners mounted by residents. (kmb36)

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COVER STORY Ubud ...

From page 1 He said that of the eight rooms available for tourists, he is only capable of filling a half of them.

Actually the room rate he offers is very cheap, namely IDR 300,000 per night. “I also have cheaper rooms. Unfortunately, the competition is very tight,” he said.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, did not reject this condition. He said the difficulty to meet occupancy rate is not caused by the decline in the tourist arrivals. It is indeed caused by the increased number of accommodation, such as hotels and villas in Ubud and the surrounding areas, while the tourist arrival does not increase, and even tends to decline.

“For example, on last Nyepi, we got guests from Nusa Dua wishing to enjoy Nyepi in Ubud. However, our occupancy rate was still around 40 percent. Surely this occupancy rate is lower than the occupancy in last year’s Nyepi reaching over 50 percent,” he said.

This leader of Ubud Palace said

that the government has to seek protection for local entrepreneurs, especially in Ubud, which is now working hard to face competition against foreign investors. “Clearly the government should provide protection for local entrepreneurs because they also make hotel for organizing rituals such as ngodalin, while foreign investors are obvious.

If they get profits, they will invest again,” he said.

This former regent of Gianyar also lamented the rampant establishment of accommodation in Ubud by investors paying less attention to local wisdom, especially in the architectural design of the buildings like the one in front of the Dalem Puri cemetery. “We do not prohibit building a hotel, but we just deplore the development concept because physically we consider it to go up against the values and concepts of the countryside,” he explained.

Seeing this condition, he planned to form the management board that will be set to maintain Ubud based on the concept having been agreed upon as well as select and monitor the development of accommodation in Ubud.

He said that such management

board has been established at a number of destinations such as Tanah Lot and Sanur. Currently, some other tourist attractions

are also in the process of establishing similar management like Besakih Temple and Ubud. “For the management of Ubud, it is

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Related to Benoa Bay reclamation, respond to people’s aspirations “Please listen to people’s aspirations. Meet the request of Balinese residents,” he said. According to him, the rejection against the reclamation seems to only originate from customary community. Actually the administrative government also includes in the customary residents. “Government in Bali has dualism namely the administrative and customary.

But the administrative government in Bali also belongs to customary residents,” he said.

He added if the Benoa Bay reclamation is continued, it will further

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The ogoh-ogoh that symbolize the rejection on the reclamation plan was carried during the rally on Sunday, March 20.

harm the environment of Bali. For example, in the area of Kelating customary village, the Kelating Beach has even been experiencing abrasion prior to this reclamation. “Moreover, if the reclamation is implemented, the abrasion can be worse,” he said.

After the backfill of Sakenan Beach, he said the Kelating Beach is now experiencing quite severe abrasion. Many paddy fields of local residents have been eroded by waves and leave only the certificate. Suaba could not ensure if the abrasion on Kelating Beach was caused by the backfilling project on the Sakenan Beach, but since then the abrasion on the Kelating Beach started. Though having got assistance in the form of revetment from provincial government, it is still far from the land

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still in progress, obviously I already met the regent of Gianyar yesterday and he has agreed it,” he said. (nik)

One of the tourism accomodations in Ubud. The development of cheap accomodation is uncontrolled in Ubud.

TABANAN — Rejection against reclamation of Benoa Bay in Bali has been widespread. Nevertheless, so far the reclamation plan has not been canceled. Chief of Kelating customary village, Wayan Suaba, said that the rejection against the reclamation should be heard by the government.

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owned by residents so that there is still people’s land eroded by waves.

According to him, as resident living near the beach, he expected the project not to be resumed. “If resumed, the abrasion on Kelating Beach is feared to widen and lots of people’s land will get eroded,” he said.

He admitted the reclamation is intended for the advancement of Bali tourism, but Bali does not only have the potential in tourism but also in agriculture and culture. Thus, they must also be considered. “If it is continued for the sake of tourism, the agriculture will be destroyed. More and more land of farmers will reduce due to the abrasion,” he said.

Similarly, cultural activities like the implementation of melasti and cremation are strongly associated with the beach. “Uniqueness of Bali lies in the customs and culture. If only beautiful scenery, it can be found everywhere around the globe,” he said. (kmb24)

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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.

The Kopi Pot Restaurant

Into its 26th year with a staunch following amongst its guests, the highly popular Kopi Pot Restaurant leaves no wonder as to why its customers keep coming back for more.

Continuously serving up fresh, home-style cooked fare for a whole generation, the dining establishment has been building a keen following and hardy fan base since it first made its appearance in Kuta in 1990.

It is the sister restaurant of the

Kuta institution, Poppies, of Poppies Cottage fame, that was the original landmark on a dusty palm tree road that once led to the beautiful Kuta Beach when it first opened 41 long years ago. So be assured – this local family-run hospitality business certainty know a thing or two when it comes to cooking traditional Indonesian cuisine for those visiting the island, as well as crafting the settings of each of their

restaurants in a “Balinese” feel, yet comfortable enough to hang out at for several hours.

Open from 8am until Midnight, The Kopi Pot is within walking distance to most places in Kuta. Throw in a good free wifi connection on top of the wonderful fresh fare at excellent value for your money, and you can be certain your visit to Kopi Pot will convert you into one of their raving fans…

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Rihanna’s ‘Anti’ reclaims Billboard 200 top spot

LOS ANGELES - R&B star Rihanna reclaimed the top spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday, holding off Adele and Justin Bieber in a slow sales week.

REUTERS/Paul Hackett

“Anti,” the eighth album by Rihanna, moved to No. 1 from No. 3 with sales of 54,000 units from albums, songs and streaming activity, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

“Anti” has sold nearly 300,000 albums in the United States since its February release. Apart from sales, a million copies given to fans who signed up for music streaming platform Tidal.

Rihanna’s “Anti” world tour kicked off last week and will play in Europe this summer.

In a week where no album came close to 100,000 units, British singer Adele’s “25” album held onto No. 2 with another 51,000 units sold. Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” climbed two spots to No. 3 with 48,000 units.

The only new entries in the Billboard 200 top 10 this week were metalcore band Killswitch Engage’s latest album “Incarnate” at No. 6 and Brooklyn hip hop ground Flatbush Zombies’ debut album “3001: A Laced Odyssey” at No. 10.

On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, Danish artist Lukas Graham held onto the top spot with “7 Years” selling 125,000 downloads. (rtr)

Hulk Hogan-Gawker jury awards $25M in punitive damages FLORIDA — Moments after a Florida jury hit Gawker Media and its founder with $25 million in punitive damages for publishing a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, the former pro wrestler told a gaggle of reporters that he and his legal team “made history.”

Hogan said Monday evening that he thought “we’ve protected a lot of people from going through what I went through.”

The smiling 62-year-old, who wore all black throughout the three-week trial, added that he’s been overwhelmed with support by fans.

“Everywhere I show up, people treat me like I’m still the champ,” he said.

On Monday, the jury hit Gawker

Media with a $15 million judgment and its owner, Nick Denton, with $10 million.

It also assessed $100,000 against A.J. Daulerio, the Gawker editor who decided to post the edited sex video and wrote the post that accompanied it.

The punitive damages come on top of $115 million the jury imposed Friday after two weeks of trial.

Hogan sued Gawker after it posted a video of him having sex with his then-best friend’s wife.

Hogan said he didn’t know he was being taped.

The president and general counsel of Gawker Media said in a statement that the media company expects the multimillion dollar award will be overturned by an ap-

peals court.

Heather Dietrick said in an email Monday night that because the jury was prohibited from knowing about “prior court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem,” that an appeals court could overturn the case.

“We are confident we will win this case ultimately based on not only on the law but also on the truth,” she said.

Hogan’s lawyer had asked jurors Monday to add punitive damages to the $115 million judgment. Gawker’s lawyer pleaded that the existing verdict was already “debilitating” for the company. (ap)

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Tourism of Ubud

Investors target Ubud, homestay owners cut prices

GIANYAR - High interest of investors to build accommodation in Ubud and surrounding areas has an impact on the low room occupancy rate. This condition is mostly experienced by local community of Ubud, dominantly still relying on homestay.

Ironically, they often have to cut room rates to attract tourists.

Made Suardiana, a homestay owner, revealed that the number of tourists staying in Ubud this time declines when compared to the opening of his homestay at Sambahan hamlet, Ubud, in 1986. “When compared to the past, the current condition is very much different. Well, more and more homestay appear today, and so do hotels tending to grow in numbers in Ubud and surrounding areas,” he said.

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U.S. pop star Madonna (L) and husband Guy Ritchie (2nd L) stand with their children Rocco and Lourdes (R) as they attend the premiere of the film “Arthur and the Invisibles” in Leicester Square, London January 25, 2007.

British judge urges Madonna, Ritchie to end son custody dispute LONDON - A British judge made a fresh plea on Monday to pop star Madonna and her film director ex-husband Guy Ritchie to work out an amicable solution to their custody battle over their teenage son.

The “Material Girl” singer and “Sherlock Holmes” director, whose litigation over 15-year old Rocco has been taking place in New York and London, divorced in 2008 and agreed their son would live with the songstress.

But since late last year Rocco has been in London living with Ritchie and in December ignored a New York court order to return to the United States to stay with his mother.

Madonna, 57, issued legal proceedings in the British capital last December but later sought to withdraw them.

At Monday’s hearing -- which neither Madonna nor Ritchie attended -- judge Justice Alistair MacDonald granted the singer permission to end the proceedings in Britain and appealed to both sides

to settle the matter, according to a transcript of his judgment. “... At the root of these proceedings ... is a temporary breakdown in trust. For all the media coverage, comment and analysis, this is a case born out of circumstances that arise for countless separated parents the world over,” he said.

“I renew, one final time, my plea for the parents to seek, and to find an amicable resolution to the dispute between them ... It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the precious and fastreceding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute.”

His appeal echoes that of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Deborah Kaplan, who earlier this month also urged both sides to work together to resolve the dispute. A hearing in New York was set for June 1.

Madonna wrapped up her “Rebel Heart” world tour at the weekend with shows in Sydney. Rocco had travelled with her for the tour’s initial stages, working backstage.

He also toured with the singer in 2012. (rtr)

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In this photo provided by Georgian Public Broadcaster and photographed by Ketevan Kardava a man is wounded in Brussels Airport in Brussels, Belgium, after explosions were heard Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill 26

BRUSSELS - At least 26 people were killed in twin attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, triggering security alerts across western Europe and bringing some cross-border transport to a halt.

A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport.

The federal prosecutor said one of the blasts was probably triggered by a suicide bomber.

The Belgian health minister said 11 people were killed in the airport bombing and 81 wounded.

The blasts at the airport and metro station occurred four days after the arrest in Brussels of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

Belgian police and combat troops on the streets had been on alert for any reprisal action but the attacks took place in crowded public areas where people and bags are not searched.

Video showed devastation in the hall with ceiling tiles and glass scattered across the floor. Some passengers emerged from

the terminal with blood spattered over their clothes. Smoke rose from the building through shattered windows and passengers fled down a slipway, some still hauling their bags.

Many of the dead and wounded were badly injured in the legs, one airport told Reuters, suggesting at least one bomb in a bag. Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands, all wary of spillover from conflict in Syria, were among states announcing extra security measures.

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Brussels blasts Dozens of people were killed when two explosions tore through Brussels airport and another blast struck Maelbeek metro station close to European Union institutions on Tuesday.

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European Economic and Social Committee

NATO headquarters U.S. embassy Bourse

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Council of the European Union

Maelbeek metro station European Parliament

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Royal Palace 1 mile 1 km

Source: Reuters G. Cabrera, C. Inton, 22/03/2016

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