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French actress Cotillard denies role in Jolie, Pitt split

LOS ANGELES - French actress Marion Cotillard on Wednesday denied any involvement in the sudden split between Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, wishing that the two will “find peace,” and confirming her pregnancy with her longtime partner.

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Cotillard, 40, posted a statement on her verified Instagram page a day after Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, amid some media reports that Cotillard and Pitt may have been romantically involved.

Pitt and Cotillard star together in the upcoming war drama “Allied.”

The Oscar-winning French actress said the statement would be her only comment on the “whirlwind news that broke 24 hours ago and that I was swept up into.”

“As this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up.

Firstly, many years ago, I met the man of my life, father of our son and of the baby we are expecting. He is my love, my best friend, the only one that I need,” Cotillard said, referring to French actor Guillaume Canet.

She signed off by saying: “I do very much wish that Angelina and Brad, both whom I deeply respect, will find peace in this very tumultuous moment.”

Cotillard’s name was mentioned in some reports as media outlets and fans tried to understand what led to the sudden divorce of one of Hollywood’s most visible couples, known for their good looks, successful films and activism.

Jolie, 41 and Pitt, 52, known collectively by the tabloid press and gossip sites as “Brangelina,” married in 2014 after a decade together and have six children.

They were steady fodder for tabloids with reports focusing on what role Jolie played in the breakup of Pitt’s marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and, more recently, possible trouble in the marriage. (rtr)

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State of emergency called to quell Charlotte unrest over police shooting of black man CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Thursday after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man.

According to police, Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by officers on Tuesday after he refused to drop a handgun. His family and a witness to the shooting said Scott was holding a book, not a firearm.

A peaceful rally in response to the shooting turned violent on Wednesday as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police in riot gear, smashed windows and doors and looted stores in downtown Charlotte. Officers fired rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bang grenades and used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

One protester was shot and gravely wounded by a civilian, and four police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries, city officials said on Twitter.

It was the second night of unrest in North Caro-

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lina’s largest city, where several protesters and 16 officers were injured on Tuesday night. The turmoil prompted Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard and highway patrol officers to the city to help restore peace.

“Any violence directed toward our citizens or police officers or destruction of property should not be tolerated,” McCrory said in a statement.

Charlotte’s mayor Jennifer Roberts was considering a curfew as Bank of America told employees not to report to work at its uptown offices, local media reported.

There have also been protests in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in recent days demanding the arrest of a police officer seen in a video last week fatally shooting an unarmed

black man who had his hands in clear view at the time.

The deaths add to a torrent of accusations over racial bias in U.S. law enforcement and calls for greater police accountability for the killings of black people. A study by the Center for Policing Equity released in July shows police used force on blacks at rates more than three times higher than for whites.

President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Wednesday with the mayors of Charlotte and Tulsa, a White House official said.

The American Civil Liberties Union urged police to release their camera footage of the incident.

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‘New Bali’ good, if Bali used as gateway

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A protester places her arms in the air while on her knees in front of CMPD officers in riot gear at the intersection near the Epicentre in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

DENPASAR - Development of ten new tourist destinations by central government termed as the New Bali is considered excellent for the comfort of Bali. “If this works, it is surely good for Bali. In other words, Bali can distribute travelers to other regions so that the burden reduces.

When all going to Bali, Bali becomes crowded and jammed,” said Prof. Nyoman Darma Putra, a tourism academician from the Udayana University.

If travelers come to Indonesia through Bali and then spread to other regions in Indonesia, it will be good for Bali. Therefore, the development of new destinations should be welcomed by Bali well for the sake of even tourism development in Indonesia.

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Central government develops new tourist destinations to make tourism in Indonesia grow evenly.

Secondly, it is meant to anticipate the target of 20 million tourists visiting Indonesia in 2019. “Incoming

travelers would certainly say that I’ve been to Indonesia and to Bali what else can I see? Travelers can see Toba, Mandalika, Wakatobi and Raja Ampat,” he explained.

So, the development of ten new tourist destinations will provide new tourist destinations with the same facilities and fascination as

Tourists are enjoying the beautiful view of Buyan Lake

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those owned by Bali.

“Lest we want to achieve 20 million but there are no new destinations, no facilities and no flight.

So, the development carried out is the holistic one to invite travelers to come to Indonesia,” he hoped.

He still recalled the earlier condition where there were famous tour packages among Japanese travelers coming to Bali. They stayed in Bali and then took tour package to Jogjakarta for 1-2 days and returned to Bali. “When they went to Yogyakarta, here (Bali) would rather be deserted, rather than all of them (travelers) stayed here,” he said.

Travelers have great tendency with such tourism model because those having been to Bali would surely like to see other regions beyond Bali. The burden of Bali will not be heavy with such tourism models.

When viewed from the target of 20 million tourist arrivals in 2019, Bali is targeted to reach

half of which namely 8 million travelers. “If the eight million come to Bali and then are immediately distributed, it will be nice. Travelers can go to Bandung, Yogyakarta or to Lombok.

Bali only serves as a gate, but if then they are coming only to Bali and 8 million travelers truly come, then Bali will turn very crowded,” he explained.

Seeing the condition of current tourist visit reaching about 4 million, the discomfort of Bali has been experienced, such as crowded traffic and traffic congestion, of course it will become a boomerang for Bali. Travelers will complain about such dense conditions. However, if they are distributed, at least, the condition of Bali can still be as it is today. Bali can still contribute to the even tourism development in Indonesia.

Fears of losing travelers or declining tourist arrival to Bali with the presence ‘New Bali,’ according to him, does not need to be worried

because the appeal and popularity of Bali remains high outside as long as the appeal remains good and the service quality is good.

“If the tourist arrival reduces, perhaps the quality can be increased. In other words, if the price is increased, the incoming travelers can stay longer because Bali is comfortable if compared when the condition of Bali is crowded. Thus, they will be in a hurry to go and finally the length of stay becomes shorts,” he explained.

If Bali is competed as showed by the decline in the number of tourist arrival, Bali should be creative. “Bali may not feel very popular, but must further develop its appeal how to draw the people going to Lombok to persistently go to Bali, not to Lombok only,” said this Director of Tourism Studies at the Udayana University. Bali must answer the challenge if the appeals of the New Bali destinations cause the number of tourist visit to reduce. (kmb42)

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Trigger transnational crimes “It is very important considering that transnational crimes such as drug trafficking, human smuggling, human trafficking, corruption and money laundering and terrorism have tremendous impacts,” said Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna H Laoly, in a press release of the ASEAN Director General of

Immigration Meeting at the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel, Kuta, Badung, Wednesday (Sep. 21).

Aside from cooperation in the detection of illegal immigrants, added Yasona, it also needs to discuss about regional cooperation of crime prevention in the form of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF). Related to

FTF traffic, it is required the willingness to voluntarily coordinate data and disseminate data to other countries. Both illegal immigrants and FTF discussed in the meeting the ASEAN Director General of Immigration has equally given impact arising from transnational crimes.

“So, to overcome it, I really hope that we can work together and hand in hand to prevent the rampant transnational crimes as well as the crimes committed at the border,” he added.

In the meantime, Director General of Immigration, Ministry of

Law and Human Rights, Ronny F. Sompie hoped the ASEAN Director General of Immigration Meeting can formulate a partnership, particularly in preventing the rampant FTF problem. In addition to the meeting of the Director General of Immigration, the agenda also includes the meeting of the ASEAN Immigration Intelligence.

“Some things emerged in the talk at the forum, namely the prevention of terrorism crime in the Southeast Asian region, the prevention of crimes in immigration field

such as falsification of documents, violation of residence permit, human trafficking and smuggling, border security and immigration check point,” he explained.

Ronny added that both meetings were attended by ASEAN member countries except for Myanmar. In addition, it also involved the delegates from Australia for consultation forum. It is considering that this nearest neighboring country to ASEAN often becomes one of the destinations of illegal immigrants. (kmb32)

IDR 1.9 billion for eight toilets Finally only four toilets can be realized

SEMARAPURA - The government of Klungkung got a budget of IDR 1.9 billion for the making of public toilet from the special allocation fund (DAK) from Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing.

With the budget allocation worth billions of rupiahs, the government of Klungkung will make four toilets with respective budget of more than IDR 200 million. Such expensive toilet is planned to be made with tourism standard quality.

When confirmed, the Human

Settlement Division Head, I Gusti Lanang Agung Suratma with permission from the Head of Public Works I Gusti Nyoman Supartama delivered that only four of the eight toilets planned with the budget of IDR 1.9 billion have been tendered.

The four projects will be made in the Goa Lawah Temple at Pesinggahan, Kentel Gumi Temple at Besan, Watu Klotok Temple at Tojan and Swecapura Stadium at Gelgel. The four projects are averagely budgeted at IDR 230 million.

Related to the too high budget for the making of the toilet, according to Gusti Lanang, it happens because the sanitary fixtures such as wash basin, raised toilet seat and others should have a tourism quality standard considering the toilet procurement is located in the tourist areas. “Great budget for the procurement of sanitary fixtures need to use the standard of tourist spot,” he explained when met at the office of the Klungkung Public Works.

He admitted the budget of IDR

1.9 billion from central government cannot be realized entirely considering the four toilet projects experienced problems in the field. The four toilets that could not be realized are at Bakas village market, Semarapura market, Crystal Bay and Toya Pakeh Beach. “Constraint in the field happens because there is no place for the making of public toilet. At Crystal Bay cannot be realized because the land ownership has no clear status,” he explained.

Unfortunately, the Klungkung

Public Works cannot transfer the budget for the toilet project to other places due to limited workmanship time. To that end, the DAK fund worth billions of rupiah had to be returned. The toilet project will be built on an area sizing 6.3 meters x 6.3 meters or less than 50 square meters. It will be divided into two rooms, namely for women and men. Each room will then be provided with three booths containing raised toilet and other facilities. (dwa)

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Avoid building tourism facilities in Lake Tamblingan

SINGARAJA - Balinese people believe that nature is a part of the source of human life. Condition of sea and mountains is psychically protected from the threat of damages. Forest area around the Lake Tamblingan at Munduk, Banjar, for instance, is cared for and guarded by local community as a heritage so that it may not be destroyed.

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Nine team leader of Catur Dalem Tamblingan customary village, Jro Putu Ardana, did not dismiss that rapid development of the world has changed people’s behavior and mindset indirectly. He reminded the importance of nature. This ancestral heritage is biological wealth and the preservation must be well maintained. He cited that cool air at Tamblingan makes people linger and enjoy nature with fog. To preserve the beauty of Lake Tamblingan, it is not allowed building any tourism facilities in the vicinity.

“Conservation area of Lake Tamblingan becomes one of the tourist destinations. Indeed, it needs tourist facilities such as lodging or restaurants, but it should not be built there. Essentially the area should be intact as it is,” said Jro Putu Ardana, Tuesday (Sep. 20).

He considered that seeing many travelers make a visit to Tamblingan it can be fitted with seating and pedestrian. If found any investors wishing to build tourism facilities, he will clearly not allow. “If Lake Tamblingan is equipped with pedestrian or seating, it does not matter. In short, it is not allowed to build tourism facilities in the area of Lake Tamblingan,” added Jro Ardana.

He asserted that the area made sacred has been protected for hundreds of years by the community. “We have dozens of temples at the location and in the forest. We make them sacred. We call the forest as Mertajati forest and this means our real source of life. Obviously we should still preserve it,” he said. (kmb34)

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Conservation area of Lake Tamblingan becomes one of the tourist destinations.

After charged for 16 years

Defense delayed, pedophilia tourist falls sick

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis (c)

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DENPASAR - Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, a tourist from Australia, convicted for pedophile case against dozens of children is in sick condition. He should undergo a trial on Wednesday (Sep. 20) with the agenda of defense after being charged for 16 years in prison by public prosecutor. Besides, the postponement of the hearing also happened because the defendant’s legal team has not finished making a plea of memorandum, so the trial was postponed until next week.

One of the defendant’s attorneys, Beny Hariyanti, confirmed that the trial was postponed because the attorney is not ready. “Just now, the defendant also delivered to the judge that he is sick, suffering leg cramps and hard led. Thus, he’s hard to walk. Besides, he is coughing and shortness of breath like the

symptoms of hepatitis,” he said.

With such condition, the defendant’s party has submitted before the court. The judge panel led by Wayan Sukanila granted the request so that Robert can be immediately checked by a doctor. Benny added that the convicted pedophile had been ill since a few months ago, but it is unclear what hepatitis illness he suffers. He is going to be examined in the laboratory at health clinic of Kerobokan Prison. “After that, probably he will be referred to hospital and even hospitalized,” he said.

In addition, added this young lawyer, he is also going to make coordination with the Australian consulate about the treatment.

“Now, the doctor of Kerobokan Prison is still making coordination with the Australian consulate,” he explained.

To note, public prosecutors consisting of Suasti Ariani, Purwanti Murtiasih and Alit Suastika sued the defendant for 16 years in prison.

Moreover, the defendant Robert is also sentenced to a fine of IDR 2 billion with the subsidiary of eight months in prison.

Prosecutors in the warrant stated that the defendant Robert has been proved legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal offense.

“He has committed obscene acts against children repeatedly.” It is stipulated and punishable under Article 76 E in conjunction with Article 82, paragraph (1) Law No. 35/2014 regarding the amendments to the Law No. 23/2002 on child protection in conjunction with Article 65 paragraph (1) Criminal Code. (kmb37)

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Kayang hamlet

Process bamboo into various craft products

BANGLI- Kayang is one of the hamlets at Kayubuhi village, Bangli. This hamlet bordering with Kubu village has been famous for a variety of bamboo craft products, one of which is sokasi.

Among the sokasi products on sale in the market, more than a half is the craft product of Kayang hamlet.

Hamlet chief of Kayang, I Wayan Budiarta, told on Wednesday (Sep. 21) that his hamlet is bordered with four other hamlets namely the Cingang in the east and Mampeh in the north, Kubu village in the south and Tiga village, Susut, in the west.

Budiarta mentioned that about 80 percent of 192 families at Kayang hamlet have been living as a bamboo craftsman. Their bamboo craft products include baskets, trays, sokasi and others. Among these bamboo craft products, he mentioned, the most famous product of Kayang hamlet is the sokasi.

“All this time, the most famous is the sokasi craft. This craft has been made by residents through generations. This serves as their main livelihood,” he explained.

Since the making of this craft has been inherited from time immemorial, it is no wonder the skills of weaving bamboo craft is not just owned by adult residents, but also school children. Budiarta added that the majority of the population deeply involves in the profession as a bamboo craftsman because almost one third of the total area of Kayang consists of bamboo forest. “Almost all residents have bamboo in their back yard,” he explained.

Aside from being bamboo craftsman, he told that currently a number of residents also begin to develop horticulture such as vegetable, chili and beans. Besides, the long-term agriculture like tangerine also starts to be widely developed as done by farmers in Kintamani. According to him, tangerine plant is currently cultivated by many farmers because the price is quite promising. (kmb40)

Lack of awareness, rubbish harms irrigation channels GIANYAR - Low public awareness in waste management does not only have an impact on the spread of disease and interfere with the environmental aesthetics.

However, the rubbish littered into the river is already disrupting the drains to damaging irrigation channel of farmers.

The Head of the Gianyar Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Made Raka, said on Wednesday (Sep. 21) that based on his observation many subak irrigation channels are filled with rubbish owned by residents in the upstream. “It mostly consists of plastic waste and cannot decompose naturally, while leaves can do. Finally, it piles up and clog the irrigation channels,” he said.

The most difficult condition to handle is when the rubbish blocks the irrigation tunnel. Other than triggering floods at that point, this condition certainly reduces water supply to the downstream. “Such conditions are commonly found, but we

have checked and repaired gradually,” he said.

He exemplified that damaged irrigation channel occurs at a number of subak areas in the Tampaksiring subdistrict.

More severe condition is found at Subak Batuan Kangin, Sukawati. The main subak covering about 126 hectares of land is divided into 13 smaller subak areas, where the area is frequently affected by drought, as the irrigation channel is clogged by rubbish. Most subak irrigation channels are underground, while some others are crossing under the road.

To cope with the drought due to blockage of irrigation channel, the Agriculture Agency helped with the installation of water pumps to take up the irrigation water.

“So far, a pump has been installed at Subak Batuan Kangin, while ongoing basis the irrigation channels are also repaired,” he affirmed. (kmb35)

The bamboo craftsman in Bangli.

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Promising prospect,Carver of sea sand difficult to get workers BANGLI - Bangli district is not only famous for its bamboo craft business having been capable of penetrating a number of local and national markets. This region with cool air also has sea sand carving business with the quality that is not less competitive to other regions, such as Gianyar. For instance, this business is growing at Selat village, Susut.

Amid the growing demand, in fact the worker still becomes an issue.

One of the local crafters, I Wayan Natra, said that this business is involved by most communities. A few people make this business their primary source of income. Though the sand stone carving is growing rapidly, this carving still does not lose competitiveness.

The demand is still quite high, namely coming from Badung, Gianyar, Klungkung and Bangli. Some enthusiasts should order long in advance. “This carving business is still quite promising. It is comparable to sand stone carving,” he explained, Wednesday (Sep. 21).

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The type of carvings produced is very diverse. They include the ornament of shrine, compound wall and northern pavilion. The selling price is adjusted to the level of complexity. Behind its promising prospect, in fact the business having developed since in the 2000s is still having trouble in finding workers.

“Lately, we are difficult to get employees.

Formerly, we were assisted by children in carving. But, now they no longer do it because must attend school until the afternoon whereas the wage is good enough,” said Natra.

He also faces another issue where the price of sea sand tends to soar. Three years ago, he usually purchased at IDR 700,000 per truck with the depth of 40 cm. But now it has reached IDR 1.7 million. “We take too long time to get the sand, reaching a few weeks. We usually get it from Negara,” he added. (kmb45)

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Taiwan asks Google to blur images showing new S.China Sea facilities

TAIPEI - Taiwan’s defence ministry said it is asking Google to blur satellite images showing what experts say appear to be new military installations on Itu Aba, Taipei’s sole holding in the hotly disputed South China Sea. The revelation of new military-related construction could raise tensions in the contested waterway, where China’s building of airstrips and other facilities has worried other claimants and the United States.

The images seen on Google Earth show four three-pronged structures sitting in a semi-circle just off the northwestern shoreline of Itu Aba, across from an upgraded airstrip and recently constructed port that can dock 3,000-ton frigates.

“Under the pre-condition of protecting military secrets and security, we have requested Google blur images of important military facilities,” Taiwan Defence Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said on Wednesday, after local media published the images on Itu Aba. The United States has urged against the militarisation of the South China Sea, following the rapid land reclamation by China on several disputed reefs through dredging, and building air fields and port facilities.

Taiwan’s defence ministry and coast guard, which directly oversees Itu Aba, said details about the structures are confidential and have not commented on their nature.

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said it was reviewing the request from Taiwan, but that to date such requests have not resulted in Google blurring imagery.

Satellite images used on Google Earth and Google Maps come from third-party

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Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy May 21, 2015. providers, which Google purchases for use in its mapping system, according to the search giant.

“We take security concerns very seriously, and are always willing to discuss them with public agencies and officials,” Google spokesman Taj Meadows said in an emailed

response.

Defence experts in Taiwan said that based on the imagery of the structures and their semi-circular layout, the structures were likely related to defence and could be part of an artillery foundation.

“I think definitely it will be for military

purposes, but I cannot tell if it is for defending, attacking or monitoring,” said Dustin Wang, a scholar and a former government advisor who has regularly visited Itu Aba. Wang said given the structures’ location which faces the main seaborne traffic, they may relate to surveillance. (rtr)

Just do it: Chinese city tells cadres to set example and have second child

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A poster advocating couples to have a second child, is seen in Changde, Hunan Province, China, July 14, 2016. Picture taken July 14, 2016. Red Chinese characters read “the nation advocates one couple to have two children”.

SHANGHAI - With China facing a demographic crisis of stalling birth rates and a fast-ageing population, one city has taken a novel approach: a direct call to action aimed at young government officials to lead the way and have a second child.

The government of Yichang city in central Hubei province posted an open letter calling for young cadres to have more children to stem a slide in birth rates in the city which has started to hit economic growth.

China’s demographic time-bomb has become increasingly urgent of late as the country faces its slowest economic growth in a quarter of a century, with a sluggish manufacturing sector hit by a dearth of cheap labor due in part to a shrinking workforce.

“Young cadres have to take the

lead having a second child, while elder cadres should urge them on,” the letter said, citing the need to bolster the city’s working population and raise a fertility rate that has fallen below one child per woman.

“If things continue as they are, it will bring huge risk and damage to our city’s economic and social development, as well as the livelihood of our families,” said the letter, stamped by official departments including the city’s health bureau.

China last year said it would ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, a move aimed at relieving demographic strains on the world’s second largest economy.

Beijing has loosened the rules over the last few years in the face of

concerns the strict policy was leading to a shrinking workforce unable to support a fast-growing elderly population. By around the middle of this century, one in every three Chinese is forecast to be over 60.

“The low birth rate has aggravated the risk of the one-child policy, led to an ageing population, a shortfall in the labour force, and lagging urbanisation, which hits the city’s labour productivity and overall competitiveness,” the letter said.

The open letter, picked up by domestic media late on Wednesday but dated Sept. 13, has received a mixed response.

“Our jobs are stable so it’s easier to have two children. Those with a busier job have to sacrifice more if they want a second kid,” said Yan Liu, a civil servant with a 14month-old girl in Shanghai. (rtr)

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BUSINESS

Indonesia Today

SINGAPORE/SYDNEY - Asian shares rallied on Thursday, taking their cue from Wall Street, after the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged and slowed the pace of future hikes, knocking the dollar and lifting commodity prices. European markets are likely to follow suit, with financial spreadbetters predicting Britain’s FTSE 100 will open up as much as 0.6 percent, and Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 will start the day about 0.8 percent higher.

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Rescuers pull a motorbike through the mud at a village badly hit by flash flood in Garut, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Java, leaving a number of people dead or missing.

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Sign board of Ant Financial is seen at its office in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China September 21, 2016.

December hike.”

The dollar rose as high as 102.755 yen after the BOJ’s announcement on Thursday, but the yen took back its lost ground after the BOJ’s announcement left some unimpressed and following the Fed’s less-hawkish statement.

“Fundamentally, (the BOJ decision) did not amount to an easing of monetary policy, but merely offers policy tweaks at the margin and a strengthening of forward guidance,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of economic research at HSBC in Hong Kong.

“The BOJ now essentially promises to purchase JGBs for even longer, until inflation exceeds, and not merely meets, its 2 percent inflation target.”

The greenback slipped 0.1 percent to 100.25 yen, having already weakened 1.4 percent on Wednesday to touch a 3-1/2 week low of 100.34. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six

major peers, slipped 0.3 percent to $95.386.

It touched a six-week high of 96.333 on Wednesday, before ending the day down 0.4 percent from its previous close. The euro rose 0.2 percent to $1.1204, after gaining 0.3 percent on Wednesday.

CENTRAL BANKS STILL TRYING Another central bank struggling with toolow inflation is the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which held rates steady on Thursday but renewed a pledge to cut again even as much of the domestic economy grows briskly. The RBNZ’s blunt statement that further easing would be needed knocked the local dollar down 0.2 percent to $0.7334 , but the market has found it hard to sell a currency that still offers an overnight interest rate of 2 percent.

The Australian dollar edged up 0.25 percent to an almost two-week high of $0.7641 after Reserve Bank of Australia Governor

Philip Lowe said interest rate cuts and a weaker currency are helping the economy, and that it was “not particularly useful” to keep cutting rates in the hope that it will eventually lift growth.

In commodity markets, gold traded down 0.3 percent at $1,332.63 an ounce, having climbed 1.7 percent as the U.S. dollar declined on Wednesday.

Oil prices added as much as 3 percent on Wednesday after a third surprise weekly drop in U.S. crude stockpiles boosted the demand outlook in the world’s largest oil consumer.

Another supportive factor was an oil workers’ strike in Norway, which threatened to cut North Sea crude output.

U.S. crude (WTI) futures advanced 0.9 percent to $45.75 after soaring 2.9 percent on Wednesday. Brent crude futures rose 0.8 percent to $47.21, adding to gains of 2 percent on Wednesday.(rtr)

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Indonesia launches new campaign to end female genital mutilation - minister

Asian shares soar, dollar falters on slow-motion Fed

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan extended gains to 1.2 percent in its sixth straight session of increases, just 0.9 percent shy of its one-year high touched earlier this month.

China’s CSI 300 index jumped 0.9 percent, and the Shanghai Composite moved up 0.7 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 0.4 percent. Asia’s strong gains follow surges of 1.1 percent for the S&P 500, 0.9 percent for the Dow Jones industrial average and 1.3 percent for the Nasdaq Composite, which closed at a record high.

“The market got what it expected/wanted,” said Daniel Morris, senior investment strategist at BNP Paribas Investment Partners in London. “Another dose of central bank support for markets following the Bank of Japan meeting.”

While Tokyo is on holiday on Thursday, stocks closed up 1.9 percent on Wednesday after the BOJ’s shift to targeting a positive yield curve, a move that was considered bullish for banks, insurers and pension funds. But “Japan equities may lag as the bank relief rally runs its course and the yen is strengthening,” BNP Paribas’s Morris said.

“Japan needed a Fed hike in order to push the yen down.”

The Fed did signal it could hike rates by year-end as the labour market improved further, but cut the number of rate increases expected in 2017 and 2018. It also reduced its longer-run interest rate forecast to 2.9 percent from 3 percent. That left investors feeling any tightening would be glacial at best. Market pricing for a December move rose only a fraction to 59.3 percent <0#FF:>, from 59.2 percent, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

Richard Franulovich, an analyst at Westpac, noted that back in June the median dot plot showed five hikes to end-2017. Now it is down to just three. “We do not feel that the dollar has the wherewithal to make a more concerted run higher in the next few weeks,” he added. “The FOMC is unlikely to deliver anything more than a very ‘dovish’

Friday, September 23, 2016

MPR speaker expresses condolences for Garut flood victims

JAKARTA - Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Zulkifli Hasan expressed condolences for the victims of the flash floods and landslides that killed scores of residents in Garut, West Java.

“I express my condolences for the victims. I hope their families will remain patient and strong in the face of this disaster,” the MPR speaker said.

He noted that he shared the agony of the victims of the floods and landslides. “I hope that all the victims will be served soon and receive humanitarian assistance.”

Zulkifli praised the fast action and steps taken by the central and local governments as part of their emergency response and in providing the victims with medical facilities, including establishing temporary public health centers.

The MPR speaker also called

on the Indonesian people to hold prayers for the victims and to support the central and local governments in taking post-disaster steps in the affected areas.

“I also call on all sides to help restore the physical and psychological condition of the victims,” he said.

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Parawansa visited the victims of flash floods in Garut, West Java, on Thursday to see their condition for herself.

During the visit, the minister also handed over compensation to the heirs of victims who died in the flash floods that hit Garut district and Sumedang, West Java, on Tues-

day evening.

By Wednesday evening, the Garut flash flood death toll had risen to 23, while 27 people had suffered minor injuries and 15 had gone missing.

Public relations officer of the West Java regional police Yusri Yunus said here on Wednesday night that the 23 victims were identified at Guntur Garut Army hospital at 8 pm local time.

The deceased were identified as Nawawi, 65; Lis, 35; Irsyad, 8; Ahmad, 3.5 months; Resal, 4 months; Deni, 23; Siti, 38; Santi, 38; Revina, 7; Nunung, 75; Sari, 25; Jana, 35; Aceng Taryana, 50; Welis, 25; Suryati, 58; Neng Fitriani, 9; Entin Kartini, 62; Diana, 4; Fika, 4; Ny Oom, 82; and Ny Nonoh, 59, as well as an unnamed nine-year-old and four-year-old.(ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia is embarking on a renewed campaign to end female genital mutilation (FGM), according to its women’s minister Yohana Yembise, despite opposition from religious leaders who have stymied past efforts to combat a practice that is common.

Home to the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia tried to ban FGM a decade ago but opposition from influential Islamic clerics has meant it is still widely practised.

Almost half of Indonesian girls aged 11 and under have undergone some form of FGM, the United Nations’ children agency, UNICEF, said in February, citing government statistics from Indonesia for the first time in a global study of FGM. Together, Indonesia, Egypt and Ethiopia account for half of the estimated 200 million women and girls around the world who have been cut, according to UNICEF. Yembise, Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, said the government has begun working with women’s and religious groups to raise awareness of the dangers of FGM and a survey was underway to provide “scientific evidence” to support the government’s goal to halt the practice.

“We try to approach the traditional and religious leaders to understand and to be aware that we have to end this female genital mutilation,” Yembise told foreign journalists.

FGM, which involves the partial

or total removal of a girl’s external genitalia, is practised across a swathe of African countries and in pockets of Asia and the Middle East.

FGM can cause a host of health problems. In some cases girls may bleed to death or die from infections.

Others may suffer fatal childbirth complications later in life.

Rights groups in Indonesia have long called for a ban on FGM, while supporters of the practice argue that in Indonesia a less drastic form of cutting is usually carried out. The UNICEF study showed that three in four Indonesian girls underwent FGM when they were under six months old, and the procedure was usually carried out by midwives.

After the government tried to ban FGM in 2006, the country’s top Muslim clerical body issued an edict arguing that the practice was a required part of religious tradition.

Grata Endah Werdaningtyas, a senior foreign ministry official, said the new campaign would target families.

“We have to target the concerned groups like the parents because they are the one who decide (on children’s circumcision) - not the doctors, not the religious leaders,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But widespread superstition remains a hindrance, she said.

“In some parts of Indonesia, they say a girl has to be circumcised or else she can’t cook rice properly, or she can’t get a husband,” Werdaningtyas said.(rtr)

Yohana Yembise

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Pakistani Kashmiri takes part in a protest led by All Parties Hurriyat Conference who have gathered to express solidarity with Kashmiris who are resisting Indian rule in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

Indian authorities re-arrest Kashmir rights activist

SRINAGAR — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have charged a leading human rights activist under a controversial security law after immediately taking him back into custody when a local court ordered him freed from police detention.

Police on Thursday said Khurram Parvez was formally booked on Wednesday night under the Public Safety Act that allows detention for up to six months without a trial.

Parvez and local and international human rights groups have long campaigned for abrogation of the act, saying it violates India’s obligations under international law.

Police gave no other details.

The rights group Amnesty International, which has called the act a “lawless law,” urged authorities to immediately release Parvez, “or charge him with a recognizable criminal offense and prosecute him in a fair trial.”

Last Thursday, immigration officials at New Delhi’s international airport barred Parvez from boarding a plane to Geneva, although he had a valid visa and a letter of invitation to participate in a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

A day later, Parvez was arrested by police at his home in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar to prevent him from “causing a breach of peace.” A local court ordered his release Tuesday but police imme-

diately rearrested him at the prison gate. He was then charged under the Public Safety Act on Wednesday and sent to a prison 300 kilometers (180 miles) from his home.

“Detaining a person right after he is released, without any intention to charge him or bring him to trial, amounts to using a revolving door of persecution,” said Aakar Patel, who heads the Indian chapter of Amnesty International. “This kind of arbitrary use of the law suggests that the ... police are determined to lock up Khurram Parvez at any cost.”

Patel said Parvez “must be protected from torture or other ill-treatment, given access to his family and lawyers, and provided adequate medical care.” Parvez uses a prosthetic limb because his left leg was amputated due to a land mine injury in 2004.

His detention comes amid the largest protests against Indian rule in Kashmir in recent years, sparked by the July 8 killing of a popular rebel commander by Indian soldiers. The protests, and a sweeping military crackdown, have all but paralyzed life in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

More than 80 civilians have

been killed and thousands injured, mostly by government forces firing bullets and shotgun pellets at rock-throwing protesters. Two policemen have also been killed and hundreds of government forces have been injured in the clashes.

Parvez, 39, and his organization, the Coalition of Civil Society, were the first to report and draw attention to thousands of unmarked mass graves in remote parts of Kashmir and to demand that the government investigate them to determine who the dead were and how they were killed.

His organization also has written scathing reports about brutality involving some of the hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the region and highlighted widespread powers granted to troops which led to a culture of impunity and widespread rights abuses. He currently also heads a Philippine-based rights group, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances.

The disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but claimed by both. Most people in the Indiancontrolled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan.

A militant uprising and subsequent Indian military crackdown since 1989 have killed more than 68,000 people. (ap)

International

Tsipras sketches out path for Greece to exit crisis

NEW YORK - Greece’s prime minister on Tuesday sketched out a path he hopes will finally allow his country to exit its seven-year-old economic crisis, holding out the possibility of positive growth this year and a partial return to the bond markets in 2017.

Alexis Tsipras told Reuters in a rare interview that government revenues and tourist flows have been strong and that Greece could grow by 0.2 to 0.4 percent this year, well above Eurostat’s forecast for a 0.3 percent contraction.

Asked if he thought Greece could meet or exceed Eurostat’s forecast of 2.7 percent growth for next year, Tsipras noted that it had exceeded the predictions so far this year and said that he expected “the same” for 2017. However, he said this would depend on the messages sent to the financial markets and whether there is a return of foreign investment.

He also said he hoped Greece could within the next six months be included in the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) program from which it has so far been excluded because of its low credit rating.

If that happens, it could then test markets’ appetite for Greek debt next year. “I think that will be a strong message we will be ready

to prepare the procedure to issue bonds,” he said.

Tsipras said Greece’s ability to issue some bonds next year, and to make a full return to the bond markets in 2018, depends on its getting debt relief, its growth improving, and its obtaining an ECB debt analysis showing whether its debt is sustainable and how the country can live within its means.

He also said “one way or the other there should really be a breakthrough by the end of the year” on a debt relief proposal.

Greece, which has received three international bailouts since 2010 and was nearly forced out of the euro zone last year, faces enormous hurdles to overcoming its financial crisis.

Greece, the most heavily indebted country in the euro zone, has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 175 percent. Hardly the least of its obstacles is whether debt relief will materialize before Germany’s 2017 election.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under political pressure from Europe’s refugee crisis and domestic hostility to repeated Greek bailouts, faces national elections in late 2017 but has yet to say whether she will run for a fourth term. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras poses for a portrait on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 21, 2016.

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Police vehicles typically have a dashboard camera and officers are required to carry cameras on their persons.

Roberts said she planned to view the footage on Thursday, but did not indicate if or when it would be

made public.

“We call for the full release of all facts available,” said William Barber, president of the state’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in a statement.

Barber said NAACP officials planned to meet with city officials and members of Scott’s family on Thursday. (rtr)

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Team North America stun Sweden at World Cup

GIANYAR - Belega village including the Blahbatuh Gianyar, whereas the Bona village was the Belega Village territory. Belega Village was known as the centre of diligence of bamboo, that in part take the form of : the seat, the bed, the dressing table, cupboard and so on. Bona village was known as the centre of diligence of the leaves threw and the kecak dance.

Almost every day the Belega Village and Bona was visited by foreign tourists and domestic tourists that want to bought or ordered bamboo diligence or the leaves threw for the need of the household or the hotel/ restaurant. Besides this Bona also famous with the dance kecak that took the Ramayana story.

After the performance of the kecak dance, was shown also the dance Hyang Dedari that was danced by 2 small girls in consciousness (trance), and finally was shown by the Sang Hyang Jaran Dance, where a man danced while kicking the ember that was very big with naked foot. (IBP/ net)

TORONTO - Team North America caught Group B favourites Sweden off guard with an explosive start before securing a thrilling 4-3 overtime win at the World Cup of Hockey on Wednesday to keep alive their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

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Team North America goaltender John Gibson (36) makes a save in the second period on top of teammate left winger Johnny Gaudreau (13) against Team Sweden during preliminary round play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.

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LONDON - Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is not overly enthusiastic about the possibility of a neutral venue hosting the Davis Cup finals, but backed proposals to shorten matches in the competition.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is considering plans to select fixed-venue cities in advance for the Davis and Fed Cup finals, switching from the current format where one of the finalists host the decider.

Croatia will host Argentina for the 2016 Davis Cup title after winning their semi-finals last weekend, but a host city has yet to be named.

“I am not sold on that (neutral venue),” Murray told British media. “I do love the home and away atmosphere

that we get in the Davis Cup. “It is something that we as tennis players aren’t really used to because we are playing in neutral venues a lot of the time and the home and away aspect is something that I enjoy and makes it special.”

The world number two however supported the idea to host the finals over two days instead of three.

“The last three days, coming off the back of the Olympics, Cincinnati, the US Open, and then being on court for 10 or 11 hours, was really hard,” the Olympic champion added.

“Maybe playing it over Saturday and Sunday, best of three sets, I like that idea. If it doesn’t work you can always change back.” (rtr)

Sweden, who got the point they needed to secure a berth in the semis, began the eight-team tournament as a clear favourite to reach the finals but speedy Team North America wasted little time in showing they were not intimidated.

Team North America, an explosive mix of U.S. and Canadian players 23 and younger, scored two goals in the opening 95 seconds of the game but Sweden did not panic and twice erased two-goal deficits to force overtime.

Canadian Nathan MacKinnon roofed the winning goal with 49 seconds to play in overtime when he was in alone deep in the Swedish zone and used a series of dekes to avoid a pokecheck from Henrik Lundqvist before backhanding the puck into the net.

“Johnny (Gaudreau) made a great pass to me and I just thought I’d put it away because I wouldn’t have been able to backcheck, I would’ve been too tired,” said MacKinnon.

“I was just kind of juggling the puck and I saw him trying to pokecheck me so I knew I had to toe drag him. I was just thankful it got up.”

MacKinnon’s goal came moments after Sweden’s Daniel Sedin had a chance to end the game but was denied on a breakaway.

Despite the win by Team North America (2-1), Russia (1-1) hold the tiebreaker over the youngsters and earn the other semi-final berth if they beat Finland (0-2) on Thursday to close out Group B play.

Team North America, a talentladen squad dismissed by many as gimmicky when the tournament format was announced, got off to a dream start when American Auston Matthews cashed in a rebound 30 seconds into the game.

They doubled their lead when American Vincent Trocheck corralled a rebound that he sent into the back of the Swedish net moments after Gaudreau missed a penalty shot. The stunned Swedes finally took some of the wind out of Team North America’s sails just before the midway mark of the first period when Filip Forsberg sent a puck underneath the right arm of American goalie John Gibson.

But Team North America restored their two-goal lead five minutes later when Gaudreau, who took off all alone from the U.S. blueline, used a nifty deke to beat a sprawled Lundqvist.

Nicklas Backstrom pulled Sweden back to within a goal later in the period when his shot ricocheted off the toe of a U.S. defenseman and into an open net with the goalie out of position. (rtr)

Great Britain’s Andy Murray applauds during Dan Evans’ match against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer.

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Sp rt Balotelli strikes twice as Nice routs Monaco 4-0 to go top

PARIS — Anyone who thinks Mario Balotelli is not committed to his new club Nice should watch a replay of Wednesday’s 4-0 home win against Monaco, and listen to the fans chanting his name when he came off late in the second half after scoring twice.

The Italian striker has scored four goals in two league games since joining on a free transfer after an unhappy spell in England with Liverpool. “La-la-la-lala-la-la, Su-per Ma-rio” the Nice fans at the Allianz Riviera sang over and over when he was taken off 12 minutes from the end.

As well as being involved in a physical altercation with Monaco defender Jemerson, squaring up to the Brazilian defender in the first half, he worked hard for his teammates. They have clearly taken to the controversial player once tipped for greatness after breaking into the Inter Milan side as a lightning-quick 17-year-old.

“He must keep going like this, he’ll get back to the highest level if he stays professional in every way,” Nice coach Lucien Favre said. “After many difficult years, the way he recovers (physically) is going to be decisive in getting back to the top. Step by step, we will help him.”

He was mobbed after both of his goals, the first an excellent solo effort, the second a clinical finish.

So much for the Balotelli criticized for being lazy in training by former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers.

Liverpool’s former stalwart defender Ja-

mie Carragher openly mocked his move to Nice, saying on Twitter that even a free transfer was paying “over the odds” for Balotelli.

Yet he has galvanized Nice, which sits top of the league, one point ahead of Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco. Ten days ago, Balotelli scored with a firsthalf penalty and with a late header in a 3-2 win against Marseille. His first goal was much more special this time.

Midfielder Younes Belhanda picked him out in the 30th minute with a raking 40-meter pass across the field to where Balotelli was making a surging run down the right.

He controlled it on his thigh, knocked it into his stride with the next touch, surged away from Jemerson. He then drew goalkeeper Danijel Subasic toward him before slotting the ball into the opposite corner. Midway through the second half, he latched onto a pass from defender Ricardo Pereira and calmly steered the ball past Subasic as if shooting in training.

Cool finishing, for a player ridiculed for having scored only two league goals in the past two seasons combined. Captain Paul Baysse and forward Alassane Plea scored the other goals.

Balotelli’s career has been punctuated by antics such as letting off fireworks at his home when he played for Manchester City.

He still hopes to win his place back for Italy — more than four years after scoring both in a 2-1 victory over Germany in the 2012 European Championship semifinals.(ap)

Nice’s Mario Balotelli reacts.

Juventus go top, Napoli frustrated at Genoa

ROME - Champions Juventus returned to the top of Serie A with a 4-0 home rout of Cagliari on Wednesday, while former leaders Napoli dropped to second after being held to a goalless draw at Genoa.

First-half efforts from Daniele Rugani, Gonzalo Higuain and Dani Alves and a late own goal from Luca Ceppitelli helped Juve ease to their fourth win of the season and up to 12 points, one ahead of Napoli on 11.

Inter Milan beat Empoli 2-0 away after a first-half double from Mauro Icardi to go fifth on 10 points, while Roma jumped to third, also on 10, after thrashing Crotone 4-0. Juve were criticised after their loss to Inter on Sunday and boss Massimiliano Allegri made six changes to his team, with record signing Gonzalo Higuain restored to the starting lineup.

However, it was defender Rugani who opened the scoring with a poacher’s finish, reacting first to tap past Marco Storari after the keeper saved from Higuain’s volley.

Higuain did get on the scoresheet in the 34th minute when he fired home the rebound after Storari had blocked Miralem Pjanic’s effort.

Dani Alves added a third six minutes later with his first for Juve, lashing the ball into the bottom

corner from the edge of the box after being picked out by a Pjanic corner.

“I’m happy to return to the top of the table and we played well,” Allegri told Sky Sport Italia. “The boys took the right approach, although maybe when we were 2-0 up we should’ve controlled the tempo instead of pushing forward looking for a third goal too unreservedly.”

Juve replaced goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon at halftime due to injury, but added to their tally in the 83rd minute when Ceppitelli deflected the ball past Storari.

“It was a good response to the rather excessive criticism of our performance against Inter on Sunday,” Allegri concluded.

NAPOLI FALL SHORT

Napoli, Serie A’s top scorers heading into Wednesday, were held at Genoa despite enjoying the lion’s share of possession and were left ruing two penalty appeals that were turned down. Marek Hamsik struck the woodwork as Maurizio Sarri’s side were forced to settle for a point, with a foul on Arkadiusz Milik in the box and Lucas Ocampos’s handball going unpunished.

“We commanded the match for 85 minutes,” Sarri lamented.

“It does disappoint me that I am the one who always has to talk about it, but we should’ve had two penalties.”

Inter took the lead against Empoli after 10 minutes when Icardi met Antonio Candreva’s delightful chipped cross with a diving header.

They doubled their advantage seven minutes later when Icardi was picked out by Mario and slotted calmly past Lukasz Skorupski for his sixth goal of the season.

“I want to see (this attitude) not just against a great side like Juve, but also other teams,” said Inter coach Frank de Boer. “We’ve proved that we’re in good shape.”

At the Stadio Olimpico, Roma eased past promoted Crotone in a 4-0 triumph that hinted that Luciano Spalletti’s side could be title contenders again.

Stephan El Shaarawy struck in the 26th minute after a sustained period of pressure from the home side, while Mohamed Salah added a second with a thunderous leftfooted finish from close range 11 minutes later.

Edin Dzeko bagged two in the second half, the first after a remarkable assist from Francesco Totti, while Wojciech Szczesny saved Raffaele Palladino’s penalty. (rtr)

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Messi hurt in Barca draw with Atletico, Madrid misses record

REUTERS/Albert Gea

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi sits on the pitch injured, next to Andres Iniesta and medical staff member Ricard Pruna.

BARCELONA — Barcelona lost Lionel Messi to injury and a chance to beat a title rival on Wednesday, when it was held to a 1-1 draw by Atletico Madrid in the Spanish league. Messi gingerly walked off the Camp Nou pitch in the 58th minute, just moments before Atletico substitutes Angel Correa and Fernando Torres went on and linked up to equalize.

The defending champions said Messi will be sidelined for three weeks with a groin strain. “With Leo Messi out, football loses, we all lose,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “We now have to look for different solutions. Of course we are stronger with Messi, but we are still strong enough.”

The night couldn’t have started better for Barcelona, after seeing Real Madrid’s hopes of breaking its

Spanish league record for consecutive wins dashed by a 1-1 draw with Villarreal.

Barcelona was in control after Ivan Rakitic broke through Atletico’s staunch defense in the 41st with a header from Andres Iniesta’s cross. But the match quickly changed course when Messi came up lame following a sprint to fight for a ball with Diego Godin.

The Argentina star grimaced as he touched his right thigh. After walking gingerly for a few minutes, he sat on the turf, pulled out his shin guards and unlaced his boots.

Arda Turan hastily warmed up and rushed on to replace him.

Sensing an opportunity to transform the game, Atletico coach Diego Simeone sent on Torres and Correa.

The move immediately paid off

when they caught Barcelona napping after a foul. Torres’ glancing touch of a pass left Correa clear to rifle a low shot off the post and into the net in the 61st.

Simeone said that the goal coming on the heels of Messi’s exit was “coincidence, pure coincidence.”

“The key to the match was the change we made at the start of the second half,” Simeone said. “We defended very well throughout, but in the second half we were able to be protagonists as well.”

Neymar tried to lead Barcelona in Messi’s absence, while Godin drew a save from goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen in the final minutes.

League leader Real Madrid leads Sevilla by two points. Barcelona is three behind, followed by Atletico four points back. (ap)

Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain kicks the ball against Cagliari.

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

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FIFA denies Serbia bid to recruit Spain player Bojan Krkic

ZURICH — FIFA has denied Serbia’s request to transfer former Barcelona forward Bojan Krkic’s international eligibility because he already played a World Cup qualifying match for Spain. That appearance in September 2008 was the only time Bojan represented Spain, where he was born. The Stoke player’s father is Serbian.

FIFA says it referred the Serbian football federation to two rules governing players’ national team eligibility.

Bojan Krkic

Serbia made the request despite a long-established FIFA rule that locks in players with a national team after they appear in a competitive match.

Bojan, then aged 18, came on as a 65th-minute substitute in Spain’s 4-0 win against Armenia in Albacete. Spain went on to win the 2010 World Cup. Serbia is in a six-team 2018 World Cup qualifying group that includes Wales, Austria and Ireland. (ap)

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Sp rt Balotelli strikes twice as Nice routs Monaco 4-0 to go top

PARIS — Anyone who thinks Mario Balotelli is not committed to his new club Nice should watch a replay of Wednesday’s 4-0 home win against Monaco, and listen to the fans chanting his name when he came off late in the second half after scoring twice.

The Italian striker has scored four goals in two league games since joining on a free transfer after an unhappy spell in England with Liverpool. “La-la-la-lala-la-la, Su-per Ma-rio” the Nice fans at the Allianz Riviera sang over and over when he was taken off 12 minutes from the end.

As well as being involved in a physical altercation with Monaco defender Jemerson, squaring up to the Brazilian defender in the first half, he worked hard for his teammates. They have clearly taken to the controversial player once tipped for greatness after breaking into the Inter Milan side as a lightning-quick 17-year-old.

“He must keep going like this, he’ll get back to the highest level if he stays professional in every way,” Nice coach Lucien Favre said. “After many difficult years, the way he recovers (physically) is going to be decisive in getting back to the top. Step by step, we will help him.”

He was mobbed after both of his goals, the first an excellent solo effort, the second a clinical finish.

So much for the Balotelli criticized for being lazy in training by former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers.

Liverpool’s former stalwart defender Ja-

mie Carragher openly mocked his move to Nice, saying on Twitter that even a free transfer was paying “over the odds” for Balotelli.

Yet he has galvanized Nice, which sits top of the league, one point ahead of Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco. Ten days ago, Balotelli scored with a firsthalf penalty and with a late header in a 3-2 win against Marseille. His first goal was much more special this time.

Midfielder Younes Belhanda picked him out in the 30th minute with a raking 40-meter pass across the field to where Balotelli was making a surging run down the right.

He controlled it on his thigh, knocked it into his stride with the next touch, surged away from Jemerson. He then drew goalkeeper Danijel Subasic toward him before slotting the ball into the opposite corner. Midway through the second half, he latched onto a pass from defender Ricardo Pereira and calmly steered the ball past Subasic as if shooting in training.

Cool finishing, for a player ridiculed for having scored only two league goals in the past two seasons combined. Captain Paul Baysse and forward Alassane Plea scored the other goals.

Balotelli’s career has been punctuated by antics such as letting off fireworks at his home when he played for Manchester City.

He still hopes to win his place back for Italy — more than four years after scoring both in a 2-1 victory over Germany in the 2012 European Championship semifinals.(ap)

Nice’s Mario Balotelli reacts.

Juventus go top, Napoli frustrated at Genoa

ROME - Champions Juventus returned to the top of Serie A with a 4-0 home rout of Cagliari on Wednesday, while former leaders Napoli dropped to second after being held to a goalless draw at Genoa.

First-half efforts from Daniele Rugani, Gonzalo Higuain and Dani Alves and a late own goal from Luca Ceppitelli helped Juve ease to their fourth win of the season and up to 12 points, one ahead of Napoli on 11.

Inter Milan beat Empoli 2-0 away after a first-half double from Mauro Icardi to go fifth on 10 points, while Roma jumped to third, also on 10, after thrashing Crotone 4-0. Juve were criticised after their loss to Inter on Sunday and boss Massimiliano Allegri made six changes to his team, with record signing Gonzalo Higuain restored to the starting lineup.

However, it was defender Rugani who opened the scoring with a poacher’s finish, reacting first to tap past Marco Storari after the keeper saved from Higuain’s volley.

Higuain did get on the scoresheet in the 34th minute when he fired home the rebound after Storari had blocked Miralem Pjanic’s effort.

Dani Alves added a third six minutes later with his first for Juve, lashing the ball into the bottom

corner from the edge of the box after being picked out by a Pjanic corner.

“I’m happy to return to the top of the table and we played well,” Allegri told Sky Sport Italia. “The boys took the right approach, although maybe when we were 2-0 up we should’ve controlled the tempo instead of pushing forward looking for a third goal too unreservedly.”

Juve replaced goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon at halftime due to injury, but added to their tally in the 83rd minute when Ceppitelli deflected the ball past Storari.

“It was a good response to the rather excessive criticism of our performance against Inter on Sunday,” Allegri concluded.

NAPOLI FALL SHORT

Napoli, Serie A’s top scorers heading into Wednesday, were held at Genoa despite enjoying the lion’s share of possession and were left ruing two penalty appeals that were turned down. Marek Hamsik struck the woodwork as Maurizio Sarri’s side were forced to settle for a point, with a foul on Arkadiusz Milik in the box and Lucas Ocampos’s handball going unpunished.

“We commanded the match for 85 minutes,” Sarri lamented.

“It does disappoint me that I am the one who always has to talk about it, but we should’ve had two penalties.”

Inter took the lead against Empoli after 10 minutes when Icardi met Antonio Candreva’s delightful chipped cross with a diving header.

They doubled their advantage seven minutes later when Icardi was picked out by Mario and slotted calmly past Lukasz Skorupski for his sixth goal of the season.

“I want to see (this attitude) not just against a great side like Juve, but also other teams,” said Inter coach Frank de Boer. “We’ve proved that we’re in good shape.”

At the Stadio Olimpico, Roma eased past promoted Crotone in a 4-0 triumph that hinted that Luciano Spalletti’s side could be title contenders again.

Stephan El Shaarawy struck in the 26th minute after a sustained period of pressure from the home side, while Mohamed Salah added a second with a thunderous leftfooted finish from close range 11 minutes later.

Edin Dzeko bagged two in the second half, the first after a remarkable assist from Francesco Totti, while Wojciech Szczesny saved Raffaele Palladino’s penalty. (rtr)

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Messi hurt in Barca draw with Atletico, Madrid misses record

REUTERS/Albert Gea

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi sits on the pitch injured, next to Andres Iniesta and medical staff member Ricard Pruna.

BARCELONA — Barcelona lost Lionel Messi to injury and a chance to beat a title rival on Wednesday, when it was held to a 1-1 draw by Atletico Madrid in the Spanish league. Messi gingerly walked off the Camp Nou pitch in the 58th minute, just moments before Atletico substitutes Angel Correa and Fernando Torres went on and linked up to equalize.

The defending champions said Messi will be sidelined for three weeks with a groin strain. “With Leo Messi out, football loses, we all lose,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. “We now have to look for different solutions. Of course we are stronger with Messi, but we are still strong enough.”

The night couldn’t have started better for Barcelona, after seeing Real Madrid’s hopes of breaking its

Spanish league record for consecutive wins dashed by a 1-1 draw with Villarreal.

Barcelona was in control after Ivan Rakitic broke through Atletico’s staunch defense in the 41st with a header from Andres Iniesta’s cross. But the match quickly changed course when Messi came up lame following a sprint to fight for a ball with Diego Godin.

The Argentina star grimaced as he touched his right thigh. After walking gingerly for a few minutes, he sat on the turf, pulled out his shin guards and unlaced his boots.

Arda Turan hastily warmed up and rushed on to replace him.

Sensing an opportunity to transform the game, Atletico coach Diego Simeone sent on Torres and Correa.

The move immediately paid off

when they caught Barcelona napping after a foul. Torres’ glancing touch of a pass left Correa clear to rifle a low shot off the post and into the net in the 61st.

Simeone said that the goal coming on the heels of Messi’s exit was “coincidence, pure coincidence.”

“The key to the match was the change we made at the start of the second half,” Simeone said. “We defended very well throughout, but in the second half we were able to be protagonists as well.”

Neymar tried to lead Barcelona in Messi’s absence, while Godin drew a save from goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen in the final minutes.

League leader Real Madrid leads Sevilla by two points. Barcelona is three behind, followed by Atletico four points back. (ap)

Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain kicks the ball against Cagliari.

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

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FIFA denies Serbia bid to recruit Spain player Bojan Krkic

ZURICH — FIFA has denied Serbia’s request to transfer former Barcelona forward Bojan Krkic’s international eligibility because he already played a World Cup qualifying match for Spain. That appearance in September 2008 was the only time Bojan represented Spain, where he was born. The Stoke player’s father is Serbian.

FIFA says it referred the Serbian football federation to two rules governing players’ national team eligibility.

Bojan Krkic

Serbia made the request despite a long-established FIFA rule that locks in players with a national team after they appear in a competitive match.

Bojan, then aged 18, came on as a 65th-minute substitute in Spain’s 4-0 win against Armenia in Albacete. Spain went on to win the 2010 World Cup. Serbia is in a six-team 2018 World Cup qualifying group that includes Wales, Austria and Ireland. (ap)

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Team North America stun Sweden at World Cup

GIANYAR - Belega village including the Blahbatuh Gianyar, whereas the Bona village was the Belega Village territory. Belega Village was known as the centre of diligence of bamboo, that in part take the form of : the seat, the bed, the dressing table, cupboard and so on. Bona village was known as the centre of diligence of the leaves threw and the kecak dance.

Almost every day the Belega Village and Bona was visited by foreign tourists and domestic tourists that want to bought or ordered bamboo diligence or the leaves threw for the need of the household or the hotel/ restaurant. Besides this Bona also famous with the dance kecak that took the Ramayana story.

After the performance of the kecak dance, was shown also the dance Hyang Dedari that was danced by 2 small girls in consciousness (trance), and finally was shown by the Sang Hyang Jaran Dance, where a man danced while kicking the ember that was very big with naked foot. (IBP/ net)

TORONTO - Team North America caught Group B favourites Sweden off guard with an explosive start before securing a thrilling 4-3 overtime win at the World Cup of Hockey on Wednesday to keep alive their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports

Team North America goaltender John Gibson (36) makes a save in the second period on top of teammate left winger Johnny Gaudreau (13) against Team Sweden during preliminary round play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.

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LONDON - Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is not overly enthusiastic about the possibility of a neutral venue hosting the Davis Cup finals, but backed proposals to shorten matches in the competition.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is considering plans to select fixed-venue cities in advance for the Davis and Fed Cup finals, switching from the current format where one of the finalists host the decider.

Croatia will host Argentina for the 2016 Davis Cup title after winning their semi-finals last weekend, but a host city has yet to be named.

“I am not sold on that (neutral venue),” Murray told British media. “I do love the home and away atmosphere

that we get in the Davis Cup. “It is something that we as tennis players aren’t really used to because we are playing in neutral venues a lot of the time and the home and away aspect is something that I enjoy and makes it special.”

The world number two however supported the idea to host the finals over two days instead of three.

“The last three days, coming off the back of the Olympics, Cincinnati, the US Open, and then being on court for 10 or 11 hours, was really hard,” the Olympic champion added.

“Maybe playing it over Saturday and Sunday, best of three sets, I like that idea. If it doesn’t work you can always change back.” (rtr)

Sweden, who got the point they needed to secure a berth in the semis, began the eight-team tournament as a clear favourite to reach the finals but speedy Team North America wasted little time in showing they were not intimidated.

Team North America, an explosive mix of U.S. and Canadian players 23 and younger, scored two goals in the opening 95 seconds of the game but Sweden did not panic and twice erased two-goal deficits to force overtime.

Canadian Nathan MacKinnon roofed the winning goal with 49 seconds to play in overtime when he was in alone deep in the Swedish zone and used a series of dekes to avoid a pokecheck from Henrik Lundqvist before backhanding the puck into the net.

“Johnny (Gaudreau) made a great pass to me and I just thought I’d put it away because I wouldn’t have been able to backcheck, I would’ve been too tired,” said MacKinnon.

“I was just kind of juggling the puck and I saw him trying to pokecheck me so I knew I had to toe drag him. I was just thankful it got up.”

MacKinnon’s goal came moments after Sweden’s Daniel Sedin had a chance to end the game but was denied on a breakaway.

Despite the win by Team North America (2-1), Russia (1-1) hold the tiebreaker over the youngsters and earn the other semi-final berth if they beat Finland (0-2) on Thursday to close out Group B play.

Team North America, a talentladen squad dismissed by many as gimmicky when the tournament format was announced, got off to a dream start when American Auston Matthews cashed in a rebound 30 seconds into the game.

They doubled their lead when American Vincent Trocheck corralled a rebound that he sent into the back of the Swedish net moments after Gaudreau missed a penalty shot. The stunned Swedes finally took some of the wind out of Team North America’s sails just before the midway mark of the first period when Filip Forsberg sent a puck underneath the right arm of American goalie John Gibson.

But Team North America restored their two-goal lead five minutes later when Gaudreau, who took off all alone from the U.S. blueline, used a nifty deke to beat a sprawled Lundqvist.

Nicklas Backstrom pulled Sweden back to within a goal later in the period when his shot ricocheted off the toe of a U.S. defenseman and into an open net with the goalie out of position. (rtr)

Great Britain’s Andy Murray applauds during Dan Evans’ match against Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer.

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Pakistani Kashmiri takes part in a protest led by All Parties Hurriyat Conference who have gathered to express solidarity with Kashmiris who are resisting Indian rule in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

Indian authorities re-arrest Kashmir rights activist

SRINAGAR — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have charged a leading human rights activist under a controversial security law after immediately taking him back into custody when a local court ordered him freed from police detention.

Police on Thursday said Khurram Parvez was formally booked on Wednesday night under the Public Safety Act that allows detention for up to six months without a trial.

Parvez and local and international human rights groups have long campaigned for abrogation of the act, saying it violates India’s obligations under international law.

Police gave no other details.

The rights group Amnesty International, which has called the act a “lawless law,” urged authorities to immediately release Parvez, “or charge him with a recognizable criminal offense and prosecute him in a fair trial.”

Last Thursday, immigration officials at New Delhi’s international airport barred Parvez from boarding a plane to Geneva, although he had a valid visa and a letter of invitation to participate in a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

A day later, Parvez was arrested by police at his home in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar to prevent him from “causing a breach of peace.” A local court ordered his release Tuesday but police imme-

diately rearrested him at the prison gate. He was then charged under the Public Safety Act on Wednesday and sent to a prison 300 kilometers (180 miles) from his home.

“Detaining a person right after he is released, without any intention to charge him or bring him to trial, amounts to using a revolving door of persecution,” said Aakar Patel, who heads the Indian chapter of Amnesty International. “This kind of arbitrary use of the law suggests that the ... police are determined to lock up Khurram Parvez at any cost.”

Patel said Parvez “must be protected from torture or other ill-treatment, given access to his family and lawyers, and provided adequate medical care.” Parvez uses a prosthetic limb because his left leg was amputated due to a land mine injury in 2004.

His detention comes amid the largest protests against Indian rule in Kashmir in recent years, sparked by the July 8 killing of a popular rebel commander by Indian soldiers. The protests, and a sweeping military crackdown, have all but paralyzed life in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

More than 80 civilians have

been killed and thousands injured, mostly by government forces firing bullets and shotgun pellets at rock-throwing protesters. Two policemen have also been killed and hundreds of government forces have been injured in the clashes.

Parvez, 39, and his organization, the Coalition of Civil Society, were the first to report and draw attention to thousands of unmarked mass graves in remote parts of Kashmir and to demand that the government investigate them to determine who the dead were and how they were killed.

His organization also has written scathing reports about brutality involving some of the hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the region and highlighted widespread powers granted to troops which led to a culture of impunity and widespread rights abuses. He currently also heads a Philippine-based rights group, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances.

The disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but claimed by both. Most people in the Indiancontrolled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan.

A militant uprising and subsequent Indian military crackdown since 1989 have killed more than 68,000 people. (ap)

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Tsipras sketches out path for Greece to exit crisis

NEW YORK - Greece’s prime minister on Tuesday sketched out a path he hopes will finally allow his country to exit its seven-year-old economic crisis, holding out the possibility of positive growth this year and a partial return to the bond markets in 2017.

Alexis Tsipras told Reuters in a rare interview that government revenues and tourist flows have been strong and that Greece could grow by 0.2 to 0.4 percent this year, well above Eurostat’s forecast for a 0.3 percent contraction.

Asked if he thought Greece could meet or exceed Eurostat’s forecast of 2.7 percent growth for next year, Tsipras noted that it had exceeded the predictions so far this year and said that he expected “the same” for 2017. However, he said this would depend on the messages sent to the financial markets and whether there is a return of foreign investment.

He also said he hoped Greece could within the next six months be included in the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) program from which it has so far been excluded because of its low credit rating.

If that happens, it could then test markets’ appetite for Greek debt next year. “I think that will be a strong message we will be ready

to prepare the procedure to issue bonds,” he said.

Tsipras said Greece’s ability to issue some bonds next year, and to make a full return to the bond markets in 2018, depends on its getting debt relief, its growth improving, and its obtaining an ECB debt analysis showing whether its debt is sustainable and how the country can live within its means.

He also said “one way or the other there should really be a breakthrough by the end of the year” on a debt relief proposal.

Greece, which has received three international bailouts since 2010 and was nearly forced out of the euro zone last year, faces enormous hurdles to overcoming its financial crisis.

Greece, the most heavily indebted country in the euro zone, has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 175 percent. Hardly the least of its obstacles is whether debt relief will materialize before Germany’s 2017 election.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under political pressure from Europe’s refugee crisis and domestic hostility to repeated Greek bailouts, faces national elections in late 2017 but has yet to say whether she will run for a fourth term. (rtr)

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras poses for a portrait on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 21, 2016.

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Police vehicles typically have a dashboard camera and officers are required to carry cameras on their persons.

Roberts said she planned to view the footage on Thursday, but did not indicate if or when it would be

made public.

“We call for the full release of all facts available,” said William Barber, president of the state’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in a statement.

Barber said NAACP officials planned to meet with city officials and members of Scott’s family on Thursday. (rtr)

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SINGAPORE/SYDNEY - Asian shares rallied on Thursday, taking their cue from Wall Street, after the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged and slowed the pace of future hikes, knocking the dollar and lifting commodity prices. European markets are likely to follow suit, with financial spreadbetters predicting Britain’s FTSE 100 will open up as much as 0.6 percent, and Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 will start the day about 0.8 percent higher.

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Sign board of Ant Financial is seen at its office in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China September 21, 2016.

December hike.”

The dollar rose as high as 102.755 yen after the BOJ’s announcement on Thursday, but the yen took back its lost ground after the BOJ’s announcement left some unimpressed and following the Fed’s less-hawkish statement.

“Fundamentally, (the BOJ decision) did not amount to an easing of monetary policy, but merely offers policy tweaks at the margin and a strengthening of forward guidance,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of economic research at HSBC in Hong Kong.

“The BOJ now essentially promises to purchase JGBs for even longer, until inflation exceeds, and not merely meets, its 2 percent inflation target.”

The greenback slipped 0.1 percent to 100.25 yen, having already weakened 1.4 percent on Wednesday to touch a 3-1/2 week low of 100.34. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six

major peers, slipped 0.3 percent to $95.386.

It touched a six-week high of 96.333 on Wednesday, before ending the day down 0.4 percent from its previous close. The euro rose 0.2 percent to $1.1204, after gaining 0.3 percent on Wednesday.

CENTRAL BANKS STILL TRYING Another central bank struggling with toolow inflation is the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which held rates steady on Thursday but renewed a pledge to cut again even as much of the domestic economy grows briskly. The RBNZ’s blunt statement that further easing would be needed knocked the local dollar down 0.2 percent to $0.7334 , but the market has found it hard to sell a currency that still offers an overnight interest rate of 2 percent.

The Australian dollar edged up 0.25 percent to an almost two-week high of $0.7641 after Reserve Bank of Australia Governor

Philip Lowe said interest rate cuts and a weaker currency are helping the economy, and that it was “not particularly useful” to keep cutting rates in the hope that it will eventually lift growth.

In commodity markets, gold traded down 0.3 percent at $1,332.63 an ounce, having climbed 1.7 percent as the U.S. dollar declined on Wednesday.

Oil prices added as much as 3 percent on Wednesday after a third surprise weekly drop in U.S. crude stockpiles boosted the demand outlook in the world’s largest oil consumer.

Another supportive factor was an oil workers’ strike in Norway, which threatened to cut North Sea crude output.

U.S. crude (WTI) futures advanced 0.9 percent to $45.75 after soaring 2.9 percent on Wednesday. Brent crude futures rose 0.8 percent to $47.21, adding to gains of 2 percent on Wednesday.(rtr)

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Asian shares soar, dollar falters on slow-motion Fed

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan extended gains to 1.2 percent in its sixth straight session of increases, just 0.9 percent shy of its one-year high touched earlier this month.

China’s CSI 300 index jumped 0.9 percent, and the Shanghai Composite moved up 0.7 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 0.4 percent. Asia’s strong gains follow surges of 1.1 percent for the S&P 500, 0.9 percent for the Dow Jones industrial average and 1.3 percent for the Nasdaq Composite, which closed at a record high.

“The market got what it expected/wanted,” said Daniel Morris, senior investment strategist at BNP Paribas Investment Partners in London. “Another dose of central bank support for markets following the Bank of Japan meeting.”

While Tokyo is on holiday on Thursday, stocks closed up 1.9 percent on Wednesday after the BOJ’s shift to targeting a positive yield curve, a move that was considered bullish for banks, insurers and pension funds. But “Japan equities may lag as the bank relief rally runs its course and the yen is strengthening,” BNP Paribas’s Morris said.

“Japan needed a Fed hike in order to push the yen down.”

The Fed did signal it could hike rates by year-end as the labour market improved further, but cut the number of rate increases expected in 2017 and 2018. It also reduced its longer-run interest rate forecast to 2.9 percent from 3 percent. That left investors feeling any tightening would be glacial at best. Market pricing for a December move rose only a fraction to 59.3 percent <0#FF:>, from 59.2 percent, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

Richard Franulovich, an analyst at Westpac, noted that back in June the median dot plot showed five hikes to end-2017. Now it is down to just three. “We do not feel that the dollar has the wherewithal to make a more concerted run higher in the next few weeks,” he added. “The FOMC is unlikely to deliver anything more than a very ‘dovish’

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MPR speaker expresses condolences for Garut flood victims

JAKARTA - Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Zulkifli Hasan expressed condolences for the victims of the flash floods and landslides that killed scores of residents in Garut, West Java.

“I express my condolences for the victims. I hope their families will remain patient and strong in the face of this disaster,” the MPR speaker said.

He noted that he shared the agony of the victims of the floods and landslides. “I hope that all the victims will be served soon and receive humanitarian assistance.”

Zulkifli praised the fast action and steps taken by the central and local governments as part of their emergency response and in providing the victims with medical facilities, including establishing temporary public health centers.

The MPR speaker also called

on the Indonesian people to hold prayers for the victims and to support the central and local governments in taking post-disaster steps in the affected areas.

“I also call on all sides to help restore the physical and psychological condition of the victims,” he said.

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Parawansa visited the victims of flash floods in Garut, West Java, on Thursday to see their condition for herself.

During the visit, the minister also handed over compensation to the heirs of victims who died in the flash floods that hit Garut district and Sumedang, West Java, on Tues-

day evening.

By Wednesday evening, the Garut flash flood death toll had risen to 23, while 27 people had suffered minor injuries and 15 had gone missing.

Public relations officer of the West Java regional police Yusri Yunus said here on Wednesday night that the 23 victims were identified at Guntur Garut Army hospital at 8 pm local time.

The deceased were identified as Nawawi, 65; Lis, 35; Irsyad, 8; Ahmad, 3.5 months; Resal, 4 months; Deni, 23; Siti, 38; Santi, 38; Revina, 7; Nunung, 75; Sari, 25; Jana, 35; Aceng Taryana, 50; Welis, 25; Suryati, 58; Neng Fitriani, 9; Entin Kartini, 62; Diana, 4; Fika, 4; Ny Oom, 82; and Ny Nonoh, 59, as well as an unnamed nine-year-old and four-year-old.(ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia is embarking on a renewed campaign to end female genital mutilation (FGM), according to its women’s minister Yohana Yembise, despite opposition from religious leaders who have stymied past efforts to combat a practice that is common.

Home to the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia tried to ban FGM a decade ago but opposition from influential Islamic clerics has meant it is still widely practised.

Almost half of Indonesian girls aged 11 and under have undergone some form of FGM, the United Nations’ children agency, UNICEF, said in February, citing government statistics from Indonesia for the first time in a global study of FGM. Together, Indonesia, Egypt and Ethiopia account for half of the estimated 200 million women and girls around the world who have been cut, according to UNICEF. Yembise, Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, said the government has begun working with women’s and religious groups to raise awareness of the dangers of FGM and a survey was underway to provide “scientific evidence” to support the government’s goal to halt the practice.

“We try to approach the traditional and religious leaders to understand and to be aware that we have to end this female genital mutilation,” Yembise told foreign journalists.

FGM, which involves the partial

or total removal of a girl’s external genitalia, is practised across a swathe of African countries and in pockets of Asia and the Middle East.

FGM can cause a host of health problems. In some cases girls may bleed to death or die from infections.

Others may suffer fatal childbirth complications later in life.

Rights groups in Indonesia have long called for a ban on FGM, while supporters of the practice argue that in Indonesia a less drastic form of cutting is usually carried out. The UNICEF study showed that three in four Indonesian girls underwent FGM when they were under six months old, and the procedure was usually carried out by midwives.

After the government tried to ban FGM in 2006, the country’s top Muslim clerical body issued an edict arguing that the practice was a required part of religious tradition.

Grata Endah Werdaningtyas, a senior foreign ministry official, said the new campaign would target families.

“We have to target the concerned groups like the parents because they are the one who decide (on children’s circumcision) - not the doctors, not the religious leaders,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But widespread superstition remains a hindrance, she said.

“In some parts of Indonesia, they say a girl has to be circumcised or else she can’t cook rice properly, or she can’t get a husband,” Werdaningtyas said.(rtr)

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Kayang hamlet

Process bamboo into various craft products

BANGLI- Kayang is one of the hamlets at Kayubuhi village, Bangli. This hamlet bordering with Kubu village has been famous for a variety of bamboo craft products, one of which is sokasi.

Among the sokasi products on sale in the market, more than a half is the craft product of Kayang hamlet.

Hamlet chief of Kayang, I Wayan Budiarta, told on Wednesday (Sep. 21) that his hamlet is bordered with four other hamlets namely the Cingang in the east and Mampeh in the north, Kubu village in the south and Tiga village, Susut, in the west.

Budiarta mentioned that about 80 percent of 192 families at Kayang hamlet have been living as a bamboo craftsman. Their bamboo craft products include baskets, trays, sokasi and others. Among these bamboo craft products, he mentioned, the most famous product of Kayang hamlet is the sokasi.

“All this time, the most famous is the sokasi craft. This craft has been made by residents through generations. This serves as their main livelihood,” he explained.

Since the making of this craft has been inherited from time immemorial, it is no wonder the skills of weaving bamboo craft is not just owned by adult residents, but also school children. Budiarta added that the majority of the population deeply involves in the profession as a bamboo craftsman because almost one third of the total area of Kayang consists of bamboo forest. “Almost all residents have bamboo in their back yard,” he explained.

Aside from being bamboo craftsman, he told that currently a number of residents also begin to develop horticulture such as vegetable, chili and beans. Besides, the long-term agriculture like tangerine also starts to be widely developed as done by farmers in Kintamani. According to him, tangerine plant is currently cultivated by many farmers because the price is quite promising. (kmb40)

Lack of awareness, rubbish harms irrigation channels GIANYAR - Low public awareness in waste management does not only have an impact on the spread of disease and interfere with the environmental aesthetics.

However, the rubbish littered into the river is already disrupting the drains to damaging irrigation channel of farmers.

The Head of the Gianyar Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Made Raka, said on Wednesday (Sep. 21) that based on his observation many subak irrigation channels are filled with rubbish owned by residents in the upstream. “It mostly consists of plastic waste and cannot decompose naturally, while leaves can do. Finally, it piles up and clog the irrigation channels,” he said.

The most difficult condition to handle is when the rubbish blocks the irrigation tunnel. Other than triggering floods at that point, this condition certainly reduces water supply to the downstream. “Such conditions are commonly found, but we

have checked and repaired gradually,” he said.

He exemplified that damaged irrigation channel occurs at a number of subak areas in the Tampaksiring subdistrict.

More severe condition is found at Subak Batuan Kangin, Sukawati. The main subak covering about 126 hectares of land is divided into 13 smaller subak areas, where the area is frequently affected by drought, as the irrigation channel is clogged by rubbish. Most subak irrigation channels are underground, while some others are crossing under the road.

To cope with the drought due to blockage of irrigation channel, the Agriculture Agency helped with the installation of water pumps to take up the irrigation water.

“So far, a pump has been installed at Subak Batuan Kangin, while ongoing basis the irrigation channels are also repaired,” he affirmed. (kmb35)

The bamboo craftsman in Bangli.

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Promising prospect,Carver of sea sand difficult to get workers BANGLI - Bangli district is not only famous for its bamboo craft business having been capable of penetrating a number of local and national markets. This region with cool air also has sea sand carving business with the quality that is not less competitive to other regions, such as Gianyar. For instance, this business is growing at Selat village, Susut.

Amid the growing demand, in fact the worker still becomes an issue.

One of the local crafters, I Wayan Natra, said that this business is involved by most communities. A few people make this business their primary source of income. Though the sand stone carving is growing rapidly, this carving still does not lose competitiveness.

The demand is still quite high, namely coming from Badung, Gianyar, Klungkung and Bangli. Some enthusiasts should order long in advance. “This carving business is still quite promising. It is comparable to sand stone carving,” he explained, Wednesday (Sep. 21).

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The type of carvings produced is very diverse. They include the ornament of shrine, compound wall and northern pavilion. The selling price is adjusted to the level of complexity. Behind its promising prospect, in fact the business having developed since in the 2000s is still having trouble in finding workers.

“Lately, we are difficult to get employees.

Formerly, we were assisted by children in carving. But, now they no longer do it because must attend school until the afternoon whereas the wage is good enough,” said Natra.

He also faces another issue where the price of sea sand tends to soar. Three years ago, he usually purchased at IDR 700,000 per truck with the depth of 40 cm. But now it has reached IDR 1.7 million. “We take too long time to get the sand, reaching a few weeks. We usually get it from Negara,” he added. (kmb45)

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Taiwan asks Google to blur images showing new S.China Sea facilities

TAIPEI - Taiwan’s defence ministry said it is asking Google to blur satellite images showing what experts say appear to be new military installations on Itu Aba, Taipei’s sole holding in the hotly disputed South China Sea. The revelation of new military-related construction could raise tensions in the contested waterway, where China’s building of airstrips and other facilities has worried other claimants and the United States.

The images seen on Google Earth show four three-pronged structures sitting in a semi-circle just off the northwestern shoreline of Itu Aba, across from an upgraded airstrip and recently constructed port that can dock 3,000-ton frigates.

“Under the pre-condition of protecting military secrets and security, we have requested Google blur images of important military facilities,” Taiwan Defence Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said on Wednesday, after local media published the images on Itu Aba. The United States has urged against the militarisation of the South China Sea, following the rapid land reclamation by China on several disputed reefs through dredging, and building air fields and port facilities.

Taiwan’s defence ministry and coast guard, which directly oversees Itu Aba, said details about the structures are confidential and have not commented on their nature.

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said it was reviewing the request from Taiwan, but that to date such requests have not resulted in Google blurring imagery.

Satellite images used on Google Earth and Google Maps come from third-party

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Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy May 21, 2015. providers, which Google purchases for use in its mapping system, according to the search giant.

“We take security concerns very seriously, and are always willing to discuss them with public agencies and officials,” Google spokesman Taj Meadows said in an emailed

response.

Defence experts in Taiwan said that based on the imagery of the structures and their semi-circular layout, the structures were likely related to defence and could be part of an artillery foundation.

“I think definitely it will be for military

purposes, but I cannot tell if it is for defending, attacking or monitoring,” said Dustin Wang, a scholar and a former government advisor who has regularly visited Itu Aba. Wang said given the structures’ location which faces the main seaborne traffic, they may relate to surveillance. (rtr)

Just do it: Chinese city tells cadres to set example and have second child

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A poster advocating couples to have a second child, is seen in Changde, Hunan Province, China, July 14, 2016. Picture taken July 14, 2016. Red Chinese characters read “the nation advocates one couple to have two children”.

SHANGHAI - With China facing a demographic crisis of stalling birth rates and a fast-ageing population, one city has taken a novel approach: a direct call to action aimed at young government officials to lead the way and have a second child.

The government of Yichang city in central Hubei province posted an open letter calling for young cadres to have more children to stem a slide in birth rates in the city which has started to hit economic growth.

China’s demographic time-bomb has become increasingly urgent of late as the country faces its slowest economic growth in a quarter of a century, with a sluggish manufacturing sector hit by a dearth of cheap labor due in part to a shrinking workforce.

“Young cadres have to take the

lead having a second child, while elder cadres should urge them on,” the letter said, citing the need to bolster the city’s working population and raise a fertility rate that has fallen below one child per woman.

“If things continue as they are, it will bring huge risk and damage to our city’s economic and social development, as well as the livelihood of our families,” said the letter, stamped by official departments including the city’s health bureau.

China last year said it would ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, a move aimed at relieving demographic strains on the world’s second largest economy.

Beijing has loosened the rules over the last few years in the face of

concerns the strict policy was leading to a shrinking workforce unable to support a fast-growing elderly population. By around the middle of this century, one in every three Chinese is forecast to be over 60.

“The low birth rate has aggravated the risk of the one-child policy, led to an ageing population, a shortfall in the labour force, and lagging urbanisation, which hits the city’s labour productivity and overall competitiveness,” the letter said.

The open letter, picked up by domestic media late on Wednesday but dated Sept. 13, has received a mixed response.

“Our jobs are stable so it’s easier to have two children. Those with a busier job have to sacrifice more if they want a second kid,” said Yan Liu, a civil servant with a 14month-old girl in Shanghai. (rtr)

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Avoid building tourism facilities in Lake Tamblingan

SINGARAJA - Balinese people believe that nature is a part of the source of human life. Condition of sea and mountains is psychically protected from the threat of damages. Forest area around the Lake Tamblingan at Munduk, Banjar, for instance, is cared for and guarded by local community as a heritage so that it may not be destroyed.

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Nine team leader of Catur Dalem Tamblingan customary village, Jro Putu Ardana, did not dismiss that rapid development of the world has changed people’s behavior and mindset indirectly. He reminded the importance of nature. This ancestral heritage is biological wealth and the preservation must be well maintained. He cited that cool air at Tamblingan makes people linger and enjoy nature with fog. To preserve the beauty of Lake Tamblingan, it is not allowed building any tourism facilities in the vicinity.

“Conservation area of Lake Tamblingan becomes one of the tourist destinations. Indeed, it needs tourist facilities such as lodging or restaurants, but it should not be built there. Essentially the area should be intact as it is,” said Jro Putu Ardana, Tuesday (Sep. 20).

He considered that seeing many travelers make a visit to Tamblingan it can be fitted with seating and pedestrian. If found any investors wishing to build tourism facilities, he will clearly not allow. “If Lake Tamblingan is equipped with pedestrian or seating, it does not matter. In short, it is not allowed to build tourism facilities in the area of Lake Tamblingan,” added Jro Ardana.

He asserted that the area made sacred has been protected for hundreds of years by the community. “We have dozens of temples at the location and in the forest. We make them sacred. We call the forest as Mertajati forest and this means our real source of life. Obviously we should still preserve it,” he said. (kmb34)

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Conservation area of Lake Tamblingan becomes one of the tourist destinations.

After charged for 16 years

Defense delayed, pedophilia tourist falls sick

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis (c)

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DENPASAR - Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, a tourist from Australia, convicted for pedophile case against dozens of children is in sick condition. He should undergo a trial on Wednesday (Sep. 20) with the agenda of defense after being charged for 16 years in prison by public prosecutor. Besides, the postponement of the hearing also happened because the defendant’s legal team has not finished making a plea of memorandum, so the trial was postponed until next week.

One of the defendant’s attorneys, Beny Hariyanti, confirmed that the trial was postponed because the attorney is not ready. “Just now, the defendant also delivered to the judge that he is sick, suffering leg cramps and hard led. Thus, he’s hard to walk. Besides, he is coughing and shortness of breath like the

symptoms of hepatitis,” he said.

With such condition, the defendant’s party has submitted before the court. The judge panel led by Wayan Sukanila granted the request so that Robert can be immediately checked by a doctor. Benny added that the convicted pedophile had been ill since a few months ago, but it is unclear what hepatitis illness he suffers. He is going to be examined in the laboratory at health clinic of Kerobokan Prison. “After that, probably he will be referred to hospital and even hospitalized,” he said.

In addition, added this young lawyer, he is also going to make coordination with the Australian consulate about the treatment.

“Now, the doctor of Kerobokan Prison is still making coordination with the Australian consulate,” he explained.

To note, public prosecutors consisting of Suasti Ariani, Purwanti Murtiasih and Alit Suastika sued the defendant for 16 years in prison.

Moreover, the defendant Robert is also sentenced to a fine of IDR 2 billion with the subsidiary of eight months in prison.

Prosecutors in the warrant stated that the defendant Robert has been proved legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal offense.

“He has committed obscene acts against children repeatedly.” It is stipulated and punishable under Article 76 E in conjunction with Article 82, paragraph (1) Law No. 35/2014 regarding the amendments to the Law No. 23/2002 on child protection in conjunction with Article 65 paragraph (1) Criminal Code. (kmb37)

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Central government develops new tourist destinations to make tourism in Indonesia grow evenly.

Secondly, it is meant to anticipate the target of 20 million tourists visiting Indonesia in 2019. “Incoming

travelers would certainly say that I’ve been to Indonesia and to Bali what else can I see? Travelers can see Toba, Mandalika, Wakatobi and Raja Ampat,” he explained.

So, the development of ten new tourist destinations will provide new tourist destinations with the same facilities and fascination as

Tourists are enjoying the beautiful view of Buyan Lake

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those owned by Bali.

“Lest we want to achieve 20 million but there are no new destinations, no facilities and no flight.

So, the development carried out is the holistic one to invite travelers to come to Indonesia,” he hoped.

He still recalled the earlier condition where there were famous tour packages among Japanese travelers coming to Bali. They stayed in Bali and then took tour package to Jogjakarta for 1-2 days and returned to Bali. “When they went to Yogyakarta, here (Bali) would rather be deserted, rather than all of them (travelers) stayed here,” he said.

Travelers have great tendency with such tourism model because those having been to Bali would surely like to see other regions beyond Bali. The burden of Bali will not be heavy with such tourism models.

When viewed from the target of 20 million tourist arrivals in 2019, Bali is targeted to reach

half of which namely 8 million travelers. “If the eight million come to Bali and then are immediately distributed, it will be nice. Travelers can go to Bandung, Yogyakarta or to Lombok.

Bali only serves as a gate, but if then they are coming only to Bali and 8 million travelers truly come, then Bali will turn very crowded,” he explained.

Seeing the condition of current tourist visit reaching about 4 million, the discomfort of Bali has been experienced, such as crowded traffic and traffic congestion, of course it will become a boomerang for Bali. Travelers will complain about such dense conditions. However, if they are distributed, at least, the condition of Bali can still be as it is today. Bali can still contribute to the even tourism development in Indonesia.

Fears of losing travelers or declining tourist arrival to Bali with the presence ‘New Bali,’ according to him, does not need to be worried

because the appeal and popularity of Bali remains high outside as long as the appeal remains good and the service quality is good.

“If the tourist arrival reduces, perhaps the quality can be increased. In other words, if the price is increased, the incoming travelers can stay longer because Bali is comfortable if compared when the condition of Bali is crowded. Thus, they will be in a hurry to go and finally the length of stay becomes shorts,” he explained.

If Bali is competed as showed by the decline in the number of tourist arrival, Bali should be creative. “Bali may not feel very popular, but must further develop its appeal how to draw the people going to Lombok to persistently go to Bali, not to Lombok only,” said this Director of Tourism Studies at the Udayana University. Bali must answer the challenge if the appeals of the New Bali destinations cause the number of tourist visit to reduce. (kmb42)

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Trigger transnational crimes “It is very important considering that transnational crimes such as drug trafficking, human smuggling, human trafficking, corruption and money laundering and terrorism have tremendous impacts,” said Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna H Laoly, in a press release of the ASEAN Director General of

Immigration Meeting at the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel, Kuta, Badung, Wednesday (Sep. 21).

Aside from cooperation in the detection of illegal immigrants, added Yasona, it also needs to discuss about regional cooperation of crime prevention in the form of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF). Related to

FTF traffic, it is required the willingness to voluntarily coordinate data and disseminate data to other countries. Both illegal immigrants and FTF discussed in the meeting the ASEAN Director General of Immigration has equally given impact arising from transnational crimes.

“So, to overcome it, I really hope that we can work together and hand in hand to prevent the rampant transnational crimes as well as the crimes committed at the border,” he added.

In the meantime, Director General of Immigration, Ministry of

Law and Human Rights, Ronny F. Sompie hoped the ASEAN Director General of Immigration Meeting can formulate a partnership, particularly in preventing the rampant FTF problem. In addition to the meeting of the Director General of Immigration, the agenda also includes the meeting of the ASEAN Immigration Intelligence.

“Some things emerged in the talk at the forum, namely the prevention of terrorism crime in the Southeast Asian region, the prevention of crimes in immigration field

such as falsification of documents, violation of residence permit, human trafficking and smuggling, border security and immigration check point,” he explained.

Ronny added that both meetings were attended by ASEAN member countries except for Myanmar. In addition, it also involved the delegates from Australia for consultation forum. It is considering that this nearest neighboring country to ASEAN often becomes one of the destinations of illegal immigrants. (kmb32)

IDR 1.9 billion for eight toilets Finally only four toilets can be realized

SEMARAPURA - The government of Klungkung got a budget of IDR 1.9 billion for the making of public toilet from the special allocation fund (DAK) from Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing.

With the budget allocation worth billions of rupiahs, the government of Klungkung will make four toilets with respective budget of more than IDR 200 million. Such expensive toilet is planned to be made with tourism standard quality.

When confirmed, the Human

Settlement Division Head, I Gusti Lanang Agung Suratma with permission from the Head of Public Works I Gusti Nyoman Supartama delivered that only four of the eight toilets planned with the budget of IDR 1.9 billion have been tendered.

The four projects will be made in the Goa Lawah Temple at Pesinggahan, Kentel Gumi Temple at Besan, Watu Klotok Temple at Tojan and Swecapura Stadium at Gelgel. The four projects are averagely budgeted at IDR 230 million.

Related to the too high budget for the making of the toilet, according to Gusti Lanang, it happens because the sanitary fixtures such as wash basin, raised toilet seat and others should have a tourism quality standard considering the toilet procurement is located in the tourist areas. “Great budget for the procurement of sanitary fixtures need to use the standard of tourist spot,” he explained when met at the office of the Klungkung Public Works.

He admitted the budget of IDR

1.9 billion from central government cannot be realized entirely considering the four toilet projects experienced problems in the field. The four toilets that could not be realized are at Bakas village market, Semarapura market, Crystal Bay and Toya Pakeh Beach. “Constraint in the field happens because there is no place for the making of public toilet. At Crystal Bay cannot be realized because the land ownership has no clear status,” he explained.

Unfortunately, the Klungkung

Public Works cannot transfer the budget for the toilet project to other places due to limited workmanship time. To that end, the DAK fund worth billions of rupiah had to be returned. The toilet project will be built on an area sizing 6.3 meters x 6.3 meters or less than 50 square meters. It will be divided into two rooms, namely for women and men. Each room will then be provided with three booths containing raised toilet and other facilities. (dwa)

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French actress Cotillard denies role in Jolie, Pitt split

LOS ANGELES - French actress Marion Cotillard on Wednesday denied any involvement in the sudden split between Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, wishing that the two will “find peace,” and confirming her pregnancy with her longtime partner.

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Cotillard, 40, posted a statement on her verified Instagram page a day after Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, amid some media reports that Cotillard and Pitt may have been romantically involved.

Pitt and Cotillard star together in the upcoming war drama “Allied.”

The Oscar-winning French actress said the statement would be her only comment on the “whirlwind news that broke 24 hours ago and that I was swept up into.”

“As this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up.

Firstly, many years ago, I met the man of my life, father of our son and of the baby we are expecting. He is my love, my best friend, the only one that I need,” Cotillard said, referring to French actor Guillaume Canet.

She signed off by saying: “I do very much wish that Angelina and Brad, both whom I deeply respect, will find peace in this very tumultuous moment.”

Cotillard’s name was mentioned in some reports as media outlets and fans tried to understand what led to the sudden divorce of one of Hollywood’s most visible couples, known for their good looks, successful films and activism.

Jolie, 41 and Pitt, 52, known collectively by the tabloid press and gossip sites as “Brangelina,” married in 2014 after a decade together and have six children.

They were steady fodder for tabloids with reports focusing on what role Jolie played in the breakup of Pitt’s marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and, more recently, possible trouble in the marriage. (rtr)

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State of emergency called to quell Charlotte unrest over police shooting of black man CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Thursday after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man.

According to police, Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by officers on Tuesday after he refused to drop a handgun. His family and a witness to the shooting said Scott was holding a book, not a firearm.

A peaceful rally in response to the shooting turned violent on Wednesday as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police in riot gear, smashed windows and doors and looted stores in downtown Charlotte. Officers fired rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bang grenades and used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

One protester was shot and gravely wounded by a civilian, and four police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries, city officials said on Twitter.

It was the second night of unrest in North Caro-

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lina’s largest city, where several protesters and 16 officers were injured on Tuesday night. The turmoil prompted Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard and highway patrol officers to the city to help restore peace.

“Any violence directed toward our citizens or police officers or destruction of property should not be tolerated,” McCrory said in a statement.

Charlotte’s mayor Jennifer Roberts was considering a curfew as Bank of America told employees not to report to work at its uptown offices, local media reported.

There have also been protests in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in recent days demanding the arrest of a police officer seen in a video last week fatally shooting an unarmed

black man who had his hands in clear view at the time.

The deaths add to a torrent of accusations over racial bias in U.S. law enforcement and calls for greater police accountability for the killings of black people. A study by the Center for Policing Equity released in July shows police used force on blacks at rates more than three times higher than for whites.

President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Wednesday with the mayors of Charlotte and Tulsa, a White House official said.

The American Civil Liberties Union urged police to release their camera footage of the incident.

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‘New Bali’ good, if Bali used as gateway

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A protester places her arms in the air while on her knees in front of CMPD officers in riot gear at the intersection near the Epicentre in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

DENPASAR - Development of ten new tourist destinations by central government termed as the New Bali is considered excellent for the comfort of Bali. “If this works, it is surely good for Bali. In other words, Bali can distribute travelers to other regions so that the burden reduces.

When all going to Bali, Bali becomes crowded and jammed,” said Prof. Nyoman Darma Putra, a tourism academician from the Udayana University.

If travelers come to Indonesia through Bali and then spread to other regions in Indonesia, it will be good for Bali. Therefore, the development of new destinations should be welcomed by Bali well for the sake of even tourism development in Indonesia.

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