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Chief of Indonesia’s Press Council Bagir Manan signed the press independence petition after a discussion that held in Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat on Wednesday, December 21, 2011.

Bagir Manan:

Freedom of Press is threaten The activities in the press are not enough to be stated as a profession and industrial but there is a greater community in it which combines many concepts to fight for the freedom of press. Ina broader definition, press as a large community must stay together in facing anything including intimidation. That came up to the surface in the “Press Freedom Dialog” in Jayakarta Hotel in Senggigi, Lombok on Wednesday, December 21, 2011.

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The dialog coordinated by Mataram Journalist Association (Kawan) which is the combination of Western Nusa Tenggara Journalist Association (PWI), Alliance

of Independent Journalist (AJI), Television Journalist Association (IJTI) and Multimedia Journalist Association (Perwami).

The dialog was attended by the

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JAKARTA — Search teams say bodies from an overcrowded ship that sank off Indonesia over the weekend have started to show up in waters off the popular resort island of Bali.

The vessel — carrying 250 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran — capsized after being slammed by a huge wave in stormy weather. Only 49 people are known to have survived.

Sutrisno, a rescue official, says that 86 bloated corpses have been plucked from the sea so far, many of them carried as many as 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the capsize site by swift currents, including 13 found Thursday off Bali. A 7-year-old boy was among them. The Indonesian archipelago’s thousands of miles (kilometers) of unpatrolled coastline make it a key transit point for smuggling migrants.

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Head of Indonesian Press Council , Prof. Dr. Bagir Manan and other elements of journalism. It discussed the violence happened to the journalist in Western Nusa

Tenggara and Papua and also the lawsuit face by Bali Post Bagir Manan urged all journalists to stay together. “There is a certain feeling that we are from the same community,” he added.

However, during his time leading the press council, there are some cases that show the differences among the press members.

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Indonesian Search Team personnel wrap up the body of a victim of the sinking of the ship that carries asylum seekers. The body was found in Mengening Beach, Cemagi, Badung Regency on Thursday, December 22, 2011. Search teams say bodies from an overcrowded ship that sank off Indonesia over the weekend have started to show up in waters off the popular resort island of Bali.

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Bali News Robbers attack Circle K, IDR 5.5 Million Gone Denpasar (Bali Post)-

The 24 minimarkets are back being a target to robbers such as last Wednesday (21/12) the Circle K at Letda Made Putra Street got IDR 5 million cash and two mobile phones owned by the worker taken. The case is now being investigated by police and it is known that the act was captured by CCTV placed by Para Motor, a secondhand car showroom located next to the crime scene.

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One of the member of Bali HOuse of Representative pass by infront of the banner placed by farmers from Jimbaran regarding the rejection of Bali International Park project

Badung House or Representatives ‘let in’ Bali International Park Mangupura (Bal I Post) –

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ing that the recommendation has been done rightly and the recommendation is not a law tool that can be a guide DOVR QRW WR SXVK WKH JRYHUQPHQW WR VWUDLJKW DZD\ SURFHVV %,3 SHUPLWV \HW to remind them so the process is as regulated. “With the recommendation out, doesn’t mean it is done as if there are problems to the people it can be discussed in the next meeting such as the farmers outside now (demonstratLQJ GXULQJ WKH PHHWLQJ UHG WKDW FDQ be an agenda after the recommendation is produced,� Prasta explained in a high note.

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It was explained the robbery happened around 5 am local time where Komang Ardi was on duty.

7KH ¿YH UREEHUV FDPH E\ D VLOYHU Suzuki APV car wearing hats which four of them went in and the one waiting outside. While pretending shopping, one of them asked Komang where the drinks are and before he answered a crescent was RQ KLV QHFN ³'RQœW PRYH RWKHUZLVH , NLOO \RX *LYH HYHU\WKLQJ that’s in the drawer,� witness Gede Genjek, worker of Para Mortor, imitated the robber.

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and Komang reported it to the police straight after. Witness explained WKH UREEHUVÂś FKDUDFWHULVWLFV KDYH EHHQ LGHQWLÂżHG ZKLFK FDQ EH VHHQ from the CCTV. “This Circle K is also owned by the same owner of Para Motor named Pak Lesmana Putra,â€? Genjek explained.

Meanwhile Head of Denpasar Police, GPC Suryanbodo Asmoro when asked for confirmation VWDWHG KDYHQÂśW UHFHLYHG WKH UHSRUW yet he explained there was also a robbery at a house estate. “What’s known there are three mobile phones taken yet there’s still unclear information about it. We’re VWLOO LQYHVWLJDWLQJ RQ LW ´ $VPRUR concluded. (kmb21)

Playing bamboo cannon, D FKLOG FDXJKW RQ ‍ۋ‏UH Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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around 10:00 a.m. Local time. On that morning, Hitayana was playing bamboo cannon with his brother and some friends.

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Bali tourism only enjoyed by great investors Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Uneven Bali tourism development has not been capable of prospering the middle to lower class communities. Actually, HTXDOL]DWLRQ RI WRXULVP EHQHÂżW WKDW FXUUHQWO\ HQMR\HG E\ PRUH large investors, hoteliers, restaurateurs and owners of travel agencies can be reached by developing tourism village. “Meanwhile, the producer is the community where the small community in general can only obtain its seepage. The community can only enjoy a small fraction of the tourism benefits,â€? said Deputy of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, Gde Made Sadguna, in Denpasar, Wednesday (Dec 21).

He said that developing the eco-tourism was also intended to provide more options of tourist attractions and tourist objects.

The tourism concept based on nature, culture and spiritual was unique because it could meet the desires of tourists visiting Bali selectively. Moreover, many visitors coming to Bali today also wished to luxuriate in such a package. “The package is very appropriate to be applied in the tourism village where the tourism village has had what travelers look for, such as natural beauty, culture and religious ceremonies,� he said.

According to him, as the central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI) had a mandate to equally realize the noble ideals, namely creating high economic growth and providing wider job opportunities.

Therefore, BI Denpasar would like to develop the tourism concept based on nature as well as Balinese spiritual and culture.

He explained that develop-

ment of the concept would be undertaken by facilitating the establishment of tourism village in the area having potential as a tourism area. He did hope the development of tourism village would become one of the alternative travel options for tourists.

Additionally, it could also enrich the existing tourism products offered by Bali. By doing so, if tourism village could be realized, people’s income would increase and at the same time it would sustain the national economic growth. “High economic growth, low inflation and wide job opportunities that can be realized will make the economic growth sustainable,� he said.

Similarly, Sadguna hoped that all parties had to have the same perception, conception and commitment to realize the Bali tourism as expected together. “Any kind of tourism should be developed. However, it should not be deviated from the concept of tourism, namely tourism for the community, not community for tourism,� he said.

Meanwhile, another speaker, I Made Subaga Wirya, said the concept of eco-tourism had to be accepted first by the local community. “There should be a clarity which party should run and be responsible for the program,� he said. SDU

Crafters received Mother’s Day present Gianyar-

Home crafters who are mostly women received packages from Gianyar National Crafts Council last Wednesday (21/12) as a form of giving an aware to the women also to increase their prosperity.

Seven from eight crafters were all housewives filling their time to fill up their family’s economy such as Ni Ketut Kariani, a sewer

who felt happy and touched when she received a new sewing machine from the Council. This aid is huge for her as all this time she has been borrowing a sewing machine for her work to sew udeng.

The aid was given by Head of the Council, Mrs. Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati accompanied by Mrs. Cokorda Putra Nindia. (kmb16)

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The Hindus pray in Watu Klotok Temple

To invoke safety of universe

Bumi Sudha ritual organized in Watu Klotok Temple Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Many ways can be undertaken by human beings to maintain the safety of universe from disasters, both material and spiritual efforts.

Such ritual will be held in Watu Klotok Temple, Klungkung falling on the black moon of the sixth month in Balinese calendar or on Saturday (Dec 24). It is called Bumi Sudha ritual meant to anticipate negative things that can harm the society and nature. On the same day, a similar ritual will also be held in Batur Temple, Kintamani, Bangli and Besakih Temple, Karangasem.

This matter was revealed by Section Head of Ceremony, Dewa Ketut

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He mentioned the Bumi Sudha ritual would be held in response to many problems occurred recently.

They did not only take place in Bali, but also in various regions across Indonesia, even in all parts of the world. Those disasters comprised floods, earthquakes, landslides, and other diseases. “Bumi Sudha ritual itself is held to neutralize in order all living beings on earth can be free from disaster,� said Dewa Soma while mentioning that such ritual was based on the palm-leaf manuscript called Roga Sanghara Bhumi and Tutur Babad Dewa.

Especially the Bumi Sudha ritual in Watu Klotok Temple would use the ritual paraphernalia in the form of penyamblehan or slaughter of male suckling pig, red chicken, striped ducks and others. The ritual itself would be chaired by Ida Pedanda Gede Putra Tembau from Geria Aan around 10:00 a.m. Local Time and attended by Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika. Meanwhile, the ritual in Batur Temple would be attended

by Deputy Governor of Bali, AA Puspayoga and the one in Besakih Temple would be going to be attended by Chairman of Bali House, AA Oka Ratmadi. NPE

Compound wall of SMPN 4 Abang collapses Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Compound wall in the area of SMPN 4 junior high school at Datah Abang, Abang, Karangasem, collapsed a few days ago due to flooding. No fatalities or injuries occurred in the incident. When the wall along some 25 meters with a height of about three meters, said Headmaster of SMPN 4, I Nengah Rai, Wednesday (Dec 21) in Karangasem, the teachers and students had left school.

Moreover, the collapsed area was far enough from the teacher’s office or classroom.

The collapsed wall happened up to the base. Aside from being unable to withstand the load of land and water due

to the flooding during heavy rains, there was no sewer around the old wall. According to Nengah Rai, his party had submitted a report on the collapse of compound wall of the only SMPN at Datah to Headman of Datah, Nyoman Sweta and Subdistrict Head of Abang, Wayan Ardika.

Previously, he had consulted the matter with the Head of Karangasem Education Agency, I Gede Ariyasa, and he was advised to submit a report on the collapsed wall due to natural disaster of heavy rain and flooding. He expected the compound wall could get an immediate handling, for example through natural disaster funding.

Apart from the collapsed compound wall, some door locks of the school build ings were also damaged. As consequence, several rooms were forced to remain open and unlocked. Additionally, he expected such damage would also get additional funding for repairs, so the school supplies stored inside became more secure. He also said that currently the school got a direct appointment project for the parapet of school yard. The school area needed some parapets because it was situated on hillside so the school area terraced. Expectedly, the parapets could strengthen the foundation of school buildings.

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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti faces a confidence vote on Thursday that he called to speed up final approval of a 33billion-euro ($43 billion) austerity package aimed at restoring market confidence in the euro zone’s thirdbiggest economy.

Just five weeks ago Monti replaced Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister and formed an administration of technocrats with broad parliamentary support to pass the so-called “Save Italy” measures. The law, which the Senate will vote on in the early afternoon, should pass easily. Berlusconi’s failure to tackle major reforms put Italy at the centre of the euro zone debt crisis. Monti managed to put together a painful series of tax hikes, spending cuts and a pension overhaul.

The government passed the package in the lower house with a confidence vote last week to eliminate debate on dozens of amendments.

A confidence vote was called in the Senate to ensure the law’s passage before Christmas.

The confidence votes also allow

the parties supporting Monti’s government to say that they are backing the law out of a sense of responsibility, even if they don’t agree with many of the measures.

Both Berlusconi’s People of Liberty Party (PDL) and the centre-left Democratic Party have misgivings about the tax increases and the pension changes respectively, but know they cannot sabotage its passage without unleashing an economic catastrophe and a possible default.

Monti has argued that restoring confidence in Italy is paramount to saving the euro zone, but the severity of the package has taken a toll on his popularity, which fell to 46 percent from 61 percent the previous week, according to a poll published in Corriere della Sera on Sunday.

BLEAK OUTLOOK The austerity package will also hurt economic growth at a time when the economic outlook is already bleak, economists say.

Monti has said he was confident that markets will eventually react positively to Italy’s efforts, arguing that lower interest rates would help offset the effects of the austerity measures on growth.

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Cambodian soldiers are pictured in February at a military base near the Preah Vhear temple in Preah Vihear province, northwest of Phnom Penh.

Thailand, Cambodia agree on troop withdrawal Agence France Presse

Thailand and Cambodia said they agreed Wednesday to redeploy troops “completely and simultaneously” from a shared border area that has been the scene of deadly clashes.

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Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti looks on before a meeting with Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Chigi Palace in Rome December 15, 2011.

The neighbours’ defence ministers and army chiefs agreed to redeploy troops away from the disputed area near an ancient temple, where bloody spats have broken out twice this year, killing 28 people.

They agreed to set up a working group on “redeployment of their military personnel completely and simultaneously from their current positions in the provisional demili-

tarised zone at the earliest,” said a joint statement released after the meeting.

The withdrawal should be organised in the presence of observers from Indonesia, it said.

In February, 10 people were killed in fighting at the Preah Vihear temple site and fresh clashes broke out further west in April, leaving 18 dead.

Tensions have eased since Thai-

land’s new premier Yingluck Shinawatra came to power in August.

Her brother, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, is a friend and former economics adviser of Cambodian premier Hun Sen. The Hague-based International Court of Justice in July asked both nations to withdraw military personnel from around the temple complex, but neither side has pulled out yet, though the border has been calm.

Thailand does not dispute Cambodia’s ownership of Preah Vihear, but both sides claim a 4.6-squarekilometre (1.8-square-mile) area of adjacent land.

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The only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people died used his “final interview” to vow he would clear his name, British newspapers reported Thursday.

A Scottish court in 2001 convicted Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet alMegrahi of the 1988 attack on Pan Am flight 103, but he was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after doctors said he had only three months to live.

Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, told investigator and friend George Thomson on Sunday “I am an innocent man” in an interview published in several British newspapers, includ-

ing The Times and the Daily Mail.

“I am about to die and I ask now to be left in peace with my family,” he said.During the interview, which will be broadcast on television in February, the Libyan revealed he had helped investigative journalist John Ashton with a new book that will contain “dramatic” new evidence.

“I will not be giving any more interviews, and no more cameras will be allowed into my home,” he explained. “I am an innocent man, and the book will clear my name.”

Megrahi claimed that he had “never seen” a Maltese shopkeeper whose testimony and identification proved central to the original guilty verdict. “I never bought clothes from

him,” he added. “He dealt with me very wrongly. I have never seen him in my life before he came to court.”

According to Megrahi, US agencies “led the way” in securing his conviction.

The front pages of British newspapers from August, 2009, show the departure from Scotland and arrival in Libya of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people died. Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, claimed his innocence in a “final” interview published in several British newspapers Thursday

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UBUD - Green Globe have announced certification for the sustainable management and operation of Maya Ubud Resort & Spa - Bali. The certification cemented the resort’s commitment to conduct business in a more sustainable and responsible manner.

Maya Ubud Resort & Spa General Manager, Paul Blake commented, ‘‘The commitment of our entire management team and involvement of all our employees under the guidance of our Executive Assistant Manager & Environmental Officer, Romy Anggara, to re-evaluate the way we conducted business, and the mindset change that transcended into daily actions, were the key contributory factors that resulted in the resort obtaining Green Globe credentials”.

“The challenge is now to continue to build on this strong sense of pride that has been developed in our employees in belonging to a company that is committed to further enhance our business

model to establish a common and global approach to environmental issues”.

Commenting on the award, Irene Miller, Eco Leadership co-founder said “Maya Ubud impressed with their commitment not only to pass the audit, but to do well in the ultra-competitive hospitality industry working with the local community. The hotel and spa operations were scrutinized and measured against the rigorous Green Globe standards in 4 key areas Sustainable Management, Socio/Economic, Cultural Heritage and Environmental. Eco Leadership is the Preferred Partner of Green Globe in Bali, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Romy Anggara added, “Whilst celebrating our success in achieving this certification, we are fully aware there are more opportunities for improvement in operating more sustainable in an ever changing global climate. Our commitment to doing business with a responsible mindset augurs well for the longevity of the whole organization”.

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Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for December 3 through 28, 2011 3 Dec Tumpek Landep Pasek Gelgel Temple Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Agung Pasek Temple Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Agung Pasek Temple Silamadeg Tabanan Pasek Tangkas Temple Kediri Tabanan Kerta Temple Banyuning Barat Buleleng Dalem Tenggaling Temple Sengguan Singapadu Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana Taman Desa Temple Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Penataran Pande Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Dalem Pingit Temple Taro Kaje Tegalalang dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Ida ratu Pande Temple Besakih Mr. Pasek Temple Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Penataran Pande Temple Kusamba Klungkung Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar 4 Dec Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 7 Dec Buda Wage Uki Pasar Agung Temple Besakih Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Ibuwanasari Tegal Puseh/ Desa Temple Bebalang Bangli Dalem Temple Perancak Badung Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Dec Purnama Kenam Kiduling Kereteg Besakih Lingsar Temple Lombok Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Dalem Putra Belingkang Benawah Gianyar Prajapati Temple Balikpapan

13 Dec Anggar Kasih Kulantir Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Dalem Lagan Temple Bebalang Bangli Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Gaduh Temple Sanding Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 14 Dec Buda Umanis Kulantir Pasek Tangkas Temple kaler Tabanan Gaduh Benoh Temple Ubung Denpasar 18 Dec Redite Keliwon Tolu Dalem Alas Harum Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan.

19 Dec Soma Umanis Tolu Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Kawitan Sakula Gotra Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Lembongan Nusa Penida Batu Madeg Temple Besakih Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih 21 Dec Buda Pon Tolu Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 22 Dec Wraspati Wage Tolu Peninjoan Temple Besakih 28 Dec Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Puseh/ Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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

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

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

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

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

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Almost 70 reporters killed worldwide in 2011: RSF Reuters

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Gloria Arroyo delivers her speech at the military headquarters in Manila 2010. A Philippine court on Wednesday rejected detained former president Arroyo’s request to spend Christmas at home or use her mobile phone and computer in the hospital where she is being held

No Christmas at home for Arroyo: Philippine court

PARIS - Sixty-six journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab revolutions, gang crime in Mexico or political turmoil in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday. Ten journalists were killed in Pakistan, most of them murdered, making it the most dangerous country for news coverage for the second year running.

With pro-democracy demonstrations prompting violent reprisals from Arab governments, the number of reporters killed in the Middle East doubled to 20 this year. A similar number were killed in Latin America, where criminal violence was rife, the Paris-based RSF said in a statement.

Some 1,044 journalists were arrested this year - nearly double WKH ÂżJXUH GXH ODUJHO\ WR WKH $UDE 6SULQJ DV ZHOO DV VWUHHW protests in countries including Greece, Belarus, Uganda, Chile and the United States. “From Cairo’s Tahrir Square to Khuzdar in southwestern Pakistan, from Mogadishu to the cities of the Philippines, the risks of working as a journalist at times of political instability were highlighted more than ever in 2011,â€? RSF said. China, Iran and Eritrea remained the biggest prisons for the media, it said, without specifying how many journalists were in jail there.

The 10 locations that RSF considered the most dangerous for journalists included Abidjan, the business capital of Ivory Coast, where at least two reporters were killed in electoral violence, and Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where journalists were systematically attacked by supporters of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak before he stepped down in February.

7KH $UDE 6SULQJ ÀDVKSRLQWV RI 'HUDD +RPV DQG 'DPDVFXV LQ Syria, Change Square in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, and the Libyan rebel stronghold of Misrata were also on the list.

Last year 57 journalists were killed for their work the world over.

The worst year of the past decade for journalists was 2007, when war in Iraq pushed the global toll up to 87.

Agence France Presse

A Philippine court on Wednesday rejected detained former president Gloria Arroyo’s request to spend Christmas at home or use her mobile phone and computer in the hospital where she is being held.

The 64-year-old Arroyo, who says she is suffering from a rare spinal illness, is expected to be tried as early as next month on charges of rigging the 2007 senatorial elections.

She was arrested in her hospital bed at a private Manila hospital last month and held without bail, but the court later ordered her to be moved to the government-run military hospital. “They (Arroyo’s family) are

allowed to spend Christmas at the (hospital) from December 24 to 26 and from December 31 to January 2,� court clerk Joel Pelicano said.

But Arroyo won other concessions from the court, including an hour’s walk on the hospital grounds and a visit to the hospital chapel every day. “We respect the decision of the court if that is (the judge’s) decision,� said Ferdinand Topacio, a

member of Arroyo’s legal team.

President Benigno Aquino, who was elected to replace Arroyo in 2009, has accused his predecessor of election sabotage and of massive corruption during her term from 2001 to 2010.

He blocked a Supreme Court order to let Arroyo travel abroad for medical care in November ahead of her arrest, and has made convicting Arroyo the centrepiece of his anti-corruption campaign.

Fukushima reactors may take 40 years to dismantle Agence France Presse

Japan said Wednesday that decommissioning the tsunamiwrecked reactors at Fukushima could take as long as 40 years, with melted nuclear fuel possibly stuck where it is for a quarter of a century.

A roadmap produced by the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) envisages engineers will use much of the next decade just trying to work out how to get at the fuel,

which has partly eaten through its containment vessels.

Underlining the challenges involved in dealing with the disaster, the plan says that as-yet uninvented technology will be key to safely disposing of the waste left behind by the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. “Each and every one of the steps toward decommissioning currently poses many technological challenges,� said Goshi Hosono, the government minister

with responsibility for dealing with the Fukushima disaster. Âł:H H[SHFW H[WUHPHO\ GLIÂżFXOW work to remove fuel debris (from the reactors). We must accelerate work to develop technologies, particularly remote control robots,â€? he told reporters. “We will gradually make progress by assessing both the situation on site and the state of research and development work,â€? he said, adding that the government will pay whatever necessary WR ÂżQLVK WKH ZRUN

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A Somali journalist looks at the dead body of his colleague Abdisalan Sheikh Hasan in southern Mogadishu, December 18, 2011. A journalist with a Somali television channel was shot dead in the capital on Sunday by a man wearing a government soldier’s uniform, witnesses said.

Freedom...

From page 1 “The industrial differences cannot be separated with the media so if there is a problem with other media, other will not interested with it.,� said the former head of constitution. The problem in press is getting more complex so he urged everyone to think more comprehensively.

There is a must to increase the responsibility and accountability.

The way is that the freedom of press must be keep preserved. But it will be useless of there is no sense of responsibility to the profession.

The power of press lay on the professionalism and the ethic code of journalism.

However Manan thinks that currently, the government is trying to limit the room for press. The government makes the rule for press where the journalist can be imprison if the violate it. Not to mention RWKHU UXOHV ³%XW ZH VWLOO KDYH WKH SRZHU RU RXU PRUDOLW\ WR ¿JKW LW ´ he added (ars/sir)

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Women also determine national progress, SUHVLGHQW VD\V Antara

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Indonesian police officers check their outfit during a show of force ahead of Christmas celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011.

JAKARTA - The women of Indonesia play an important role in various sectors and also determine the progress of the nation, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.

Speaking at a function to mark the peak event of the 83th National Mothers` Day at Balai Kartini in South Jakarta on Thursday, the president said the women should also have a wider access to improving their capability.

“By understanding the process and direction of the women movement, we know that the struggle of women remains relevant to date in their effort to improve the life of the nation,” the president said.

The head of state pointed out that the role of women in the field of education, and the tree planting and tree keeping movement should highly be appreciated.

Therefore the president noted that the women should continue to step up their role in various fields which at present needed a serious attention.

“I am optimistic that the women of Indonesia are able to become forerunners in numerous successful development programs,” the president said.

He also encouraged the women to play their role in keeping clean the environment.

“We have to keep our environment clean, because if it is dirty, it will affect our hearts and minds as well. Therefore, together let us make our environment and our country clean,” the president said.

After missing for seven years

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MEULABOH - A 15-year-old girl who was considered lost in the tsunami that engulfed Aceh in December 2004 proves to be still alive and has found her way back to her home in Lr Sangkis, Ujong Baroh village, West Aceh.

Wati was eight years old when Ujong Baroh village was hit by the tsunami. Her mother, Yusniar, was trying to take her and her two siblings to a safe place but somehow she lost her grip on her mother`s arm and was carried away by the

rushing waters, leaving her mother powerless to help her.

Yusniar was able to save her two other children but she and the rest of the family eventually had to resign themselves to the notion that Wati was lost as she never returned nor

had anybody in the neigborhood seen her again dead or alive.

But on Wednesday, Ibrahim, Wati`s grandfather in Meulaboh city received an acquaintance at his home who was accompanied by a teenaged girl wearing a blue head scarf. The acquaintance said the girl had come to the Simpang Pelor coffee shop where she just sat in silence. People thought she was a beggar and tried to engage her in conversation.

She claimed she had come to

Meulaboh by bus from Banda Aceh and was trying to find her way back home but did not know how. She also could not remember any of her parents` or relatives` names except Ibrahim.

After listening to the acquintance`s account, Ibrahim immediately sensed the girl could be his long lost grandchild and, after a closer look at the dark-skinned girl, was indeed convinced she was Wati who went missing in the tsunami seven years ago,

Ibrahim then sent word to Yusniar and her husband Yusuf to come to his home and meet Wati.

The two parents confirmed Wati`s identity after recognizing a small mole and a scar over her eyebrow that Wati got when she was six years old.

What had happened to Wati after she was carried away by the tsunami currents was not immediately disclosed to reporters except that over the years she had been to places in other districts in Aceh province.

President invites Hakka Chinese businessmen to invest in MP3EI projects Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a meeting with representatives of Asia`s Hakka Chinese community and asked them to participate in MP3EI (Economic Development Acceleration and Expansion Master Plan) projects.

“I invite you first as business players in Indonesia who certainly wish to serve your

own country in an exemplary way by investing in areas you yourselves choose and think are the best for you,” the president said at the meeting with the Association of Prosperous Hakka Indonesians (PHIS) at Hall D of the Jakarta Exhibition Arena here on Wednesday.

He said foreign investors were expected to come to Indonesia in larger numbers in the days ahead but before that happened

he wished to offer existing investment opportunities to domestic business players first.

President Yudhoyono asked around 5,000 invitees who attended the gathering not to miss the momentum to create various new opportunities.

Through economic mechanisms, he said, businesses could also help improve the welfare of the Indonesian people by reducing poverty and unemployment.

“Do not wait. To those who can invest, mobilize businesses, let us cooperate to invest, develop the economy so that all people can enjoy the benefits,” he said.

PHIS`s chief patron Murdaya Poo in his speech called on the Hakka Chinese community numbering around six million to invest in the country.

“Hakka community as economic players, please hurry, use your savings to invest in Indonesia.

Do not worry about the imperfect regulations or bureaucrats,” he said.

President Yudhoyono in the company of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono said Hakka Chinese had the same rights and obligations as other Indonesian citizens.

Therefore, he called on them to participate in maintaining security and order as well as political and social stability for the sake of a better life for the nation.

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Bali Today Bali women asked to be smart in utilizing opportunities Antara

DENPASAR - Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has asked local women to be smart in utilizing every opportunity for their self-development.

Speaking at a function to observe the 83rd Mothers’ Day here on Thursday, the governor said, “There is no substantive difference between men and women in Bali to achieve their goals in life.�

According to Pastika, Balinese women had an outstanding position in the community because almost all of them were LQYROYHG LQ HYHU\ ÂżHOG RI OLIH including politics, government, entrepreneurship, non-governmental organizations. “Now is the time for the women of Bali to seize all existing good opportunities for DGYDQFHPHQW LQ DOO ÂżHOGV RI OLIH without abandoning their basic nature as women,â€? the governor said.

Meanwhile, Woman’s Em-

powerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar at a similar occasion in Jakarta on Thursday said Mothers’ Day was a momentum to enhance the role Indonesian women.

Linda said this year’s Mothers’ Day, themed “The Role of Women and Men in Building Economic Resilience Towards National Welfare�, was relevant to the real conditions being faced by the community that needed common role and struggle to build economic resilience, especially the economy of family. “Good economy - supported by adequate infrastructure and facility, education and health - is the key to a harmonious and prosperous family,� Linda said.

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

A dancer performed Joged Bumbung during the Mass Jodeg Bumbung Performance to celebrated Mothers Day at Tanah Aron Field, Karangasem, Bali. Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has asked local women to be smart in utilizing every opportunity for their self-development.

Julah Village

An Ancient Balinese village retaining uniqueness If you happen to travel to Buleleng Regency, try to drop by at Julah Village, Tejakula Subdistrict. This village is unique because it belongs to ancient village with unique ancient Balinese civilization. According to Julah Headman, Nengah Wijaya, the life of local residents was still quite original, although it had now been in modern civilization.

Population of the village, according to him, was around 4,000 people or 1,600 families. Major livelihood of the residents was farming in rice ¿HOG DQG SODQWDWLRQ DV ZHOO DV PDNLQJ a living outside the village as selfemployed workers. Wijaya, a former tour guide, then said that as an ancient village, Julah certainly had uniqueness and frequently been chosen as object of research by foreign and national scholars. They wanted to know some information starting the people’s life, architecture and culture. Based on data from the Buleleng Tourism and Cultural Agency, the village had a quite long history.

In days of old, the Bale Agung Temple of Julah Village had 20 sheets

of bronze inscriptions, but now only 11 pieces left, while 9 others were stored in the Bale Agung Temple of Sembiran. The 20 sheets of inscription can be divided into 6 groups, namely: 1. Period of King Ugrasena 2. Period of King Tabanendra Warmadewa 3. Period of King Janasadhu Warmadewa 4. Period of Queen Sang Ajnadewi 5. Period of King Anak Wungsu 6. Period of King Jaya Pangus

The whole inscriptions had been published a foreign scholar named Dr. Brandes in the magazine Tijdschrift, Bataviaasch Genootschap in 1889.

Later, the remaining inscriptions were published by Dr. Goris in his book entitled Bali Inscription in 1954.

In Caka Year 844 (January 24, 923 AD), the King Sri Ugrasena organized a meeting with his tall employees and Julah headmen in the royal meeting hall of Singhamandewa. The meeting discussed about the problems

where the villagers were very chaotic, restless and nervous because a gang of robbers frequently captured and abducted Julah villagers. Such chaos WULJJHUHG PDQ\ -XODK YLOODJHUV WR ÀHH to some safer places. In response to such condition, the meeting could formulate some stipulations, such as (1) all the Julah villagers remaining in the refuges should immediately come back home; (2) stipulation on the ritual implementation for people who dead due to robbery and accident, as well as regulations for ritual of normal death; and (3) exemption to income tax to village community, but contributions to temple ceremony remained valid.

Another decision was that residents were also prohibited from arresting the others. If there were stranded ship or vessel at sea, then freights of the vessel would become the property of temple or utilized for temple activities.

Meanwhile, village boundaries had also been established in the statute of the King Ugrasena.

Apparently, the effort of King Ugrasena to pacify the Julah villagers was in vain. Furthermore, the king was

replaced by Sri Aji Tabanendra Warmadewa. This king ruled in Bali in 955AD. Due to his wisdom in ruling the kingdom, majority of the villagers living in refuges were willing to come home. Later, the king decided that villages including the Julah Village administration comprised the Kutur, Tukad Memurpur, Poh Talur, Tring Wor, Ratu Kamodi, Lijong, Baringin, Air Puhun,Air Belatuk,Air Ranusan, Air Tampikan, Air Hepu, Air Poh Tanduk, Balimbing, Renek, Bakar and Candi. This charter was made in Caka Year 873 (December 19, 951) Then, the administration of SriAji TabanendraWarmadewawasreplaced by the King Sri Janasadhu Warmadewa. In Caka Year 897 (April 6, 975 AD), the king together with his tall royal servants could gather the leaders ortheJulahheadmenwhojustrecently returned home from their refuges. In the talks the King decided as follows: “If there are damaged buildings such as temples, tombs, fountains, baths, temples and roads, they should be repaired on the account of the four villages namely Julah Village, Indra

Pura Village (now called Depehe), Buhundalem Village (now Bondalem) and Hiliran Village (now Tejakula).

Similarly, if any robbery happened to the Dharmakuta hermitage, then all the villagershadtogooutcarryingweapons and help the monastery.

Meanwhile, regarding the contributions to temple ceremony remained to follow the stipulation as decided by the former kings. The laws of the King Janasadhu Warmadewa were made on April 6, 975 AD. They were carved on the surface of bronze plate and made

by Banacri. From the administration of Sri Janasadhu until Dharma Udayana Warmadesa (1011AD), the situation of Julah Village and entire territory was very peaceful and safe. The robbers seemed no longer to take action during the period because the population grew stronger and united.

After ruling for 41 years in Bali, Janasadhu Warmadewa was then replaced by a queen with the title of Sang Ajna Dewi. Since her administration in Bali, the Julah Village came back to live through some damages and anxiety. (BTN/055)

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Balinese Culture BASE SATAY (Satay Sauce) INGREDIENTS: 500 gr raw peanuts, deep fried (2 min.)

5 cloves garlic, peeled 8 – 10 bird’s-eye chilies 50 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped 50 gr palm sugar, chopped 2 ltr fresh coconut milk 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce 2 ea lime leaves 1 tbsp fresh limejuice, squeezed 1 tbsp shallots, fried PREPARATION: 1. Combine peanuts, garlic, chilies and kencur in a food processor and puree, or grind coarsely in a stone mortar.

2. Place in heavy sauce pan with coconut milk, sweet soy sauce and lime leaves. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered, stirring frequently to prevent the sauce from sticking, for 15 minutes.

3. Add limejuice and sprinkle with shallots just before serving as a dipping sauce for satay. Season to taste with salt.

Bali restaurants include in Asia’s Top 20 Restaurants LQJ IURP ¿IWK SODFH ODVW \HDU WR WKH second place this year, delights diners JAKARTA - Two restaurants in with contemporary dishes that draw Indonesia, Mozaic and Sarong, place inspiration from all over Asia.

The remaining spots in Indonein the 12th and 18th spot respectively in The Miele Guide 2011/2012Asia’s sia’s Top 5 restaurants include the beachfront Seminyak lifestyle desTop 20 restaurants.

Mozaic, set amidst a lush back- tination, KU DE TA, serving Chef drop in Ubud, remains a consistent Philip Davenport’s brand of gourmet inclusion in Asia’s Top 20 list as global cuisine that incorporates the Chef Chris Salans continues to win freshest ingredients from the island. over foodies with his distinctive use KU DE TA is joined in the list by RI %DOLQHVH LQJUHGLHQWV DQG ÀDYRXUV its neighbour La Lucciola, which combined with Western techniques. offers a rustic, romantic appeal, and Chef Will Meyrick’s Sarong, ascend- Cascades Restaurant that presents Antara

French fare with an Asian hint in its open Balinese pavilions.

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BUBUH INJIN (Black Rice Pudding) OVERVIEW: Different versions of this Balinese snack are a great favorite with visitors to Bali.

INGREDIENTS: 1 cup black glutinous rice ž cup white glutinous rice 2 pandan leaves 5 cups water ½ cup palm sugar syrup 1½ cup freshly squeezed thick coconut milk PREPARATION: 1. Rinse both lots of rice well for 2 minutes under running water. Drain 2. Put 5 cups water, both lots of rice and pandan leaf into heavy stockpot. Simmer over medium heat approximately 40 minutes.

3. Add palm sugar syrup and continue to cook until most liquid has evaporated. Season with a pinch of salt.

Remove from heat and allow cooling.

4. Serve at room temperature, topped with freshly squeezed coconut milk.

Helpful hints: As fresh coconut milk turns rancid fairly quickly, a pinch of salt is usually added to the milk to help preserve it for few hours. A more effective alternative is to cook the coconut milk with 1 teaspoon of cornstarch diluted in a little water: heat gently, stirring constantly for a couple of minutes. This coconut sauce will keep overnight.

Milk made from instant powdered coconut will not turn rancid, although the avor is not as good as fresh coconut milk.

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Beratan Lake IBP

Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231m above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destinations in Bali. This lake have wide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to 22 meters. The water volume in this lake is about 0,049 km3, so Beratan Lake is the closed lake. Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat motorize to circle the lake, parasailing, canoeing with the traditional boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others. Fishing activities are also available in this places for who one love ďŹ shing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magniďŹ cence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it. If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch face in painting mini studio at the lakeside with a short time as a souvenir.

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BUSINESS After a year of disasters, Toyota sees record sales in 2012 Reuters

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp forecast a 20 percent jump in global sales to a record 8.48 million vehicles next year as it claws back from this year’s output losses caused by natural disasters in Japan and Thailand.

Toyota overtook General Motors Co as the world’s top-selling automaker in 2008 but is set to lose that crown this year as supplychain disruptions from the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan and flooding in Thailand cut production around the world.

With estimated sales this year of 7.90 million vehicles for the group, which includes units Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd, Toyota will likely rank third behind General Motors and Volkswagen AG. Toyota could regain the top ranking next year as it builds inventory to meet pent-up demand and adds output capacity in China and Brazil, among other countries. GM and VW have not disclosed their 2012 sales plans, and Toyota did not provide group forecasts.

“The reason they lost sales this year was because they couldn’t build the cars. Now that they can, it’s possible they’ll take back the top spot,” said Satoru Takada, analyst at Tokyo-based T.I.W. “But it depends on which markets the growth will come from,” he said, noting Toyota was dominant in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but faces tougher competition in China and South America.

Toyota’s parent-only plan for 2012 beats its previous peak of 8.43 million vehicles in 2007.

“I believe the target is achievable given Toyota is quickly recovering production and launching new models,” said Lee Hyun-soo, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities in Seoul.

“There will be cut-throat competition between Toyota, GM and Volkswagen for the top spot in the global market next year.”

Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, has said he was not interested in a race to be the biggest automaker, while VW has a goal of selling 10 million vehicles to grab the title by 2018.

Measured by stock value, Toyota is way above its rivals, at $111 billion - more than VW and GM combined.

At its peak in 2007, however, Toyota was valued at more than twice that, and analysts said a sales recovery would struggle to translate into similar profit gains at today’s exchange rates.

“Rather than an increase in its production plans, the market is focusing on how (Toyota) will limit the losses with the dollar at 77-78 yen,” said Yoshihiko Tabei, chief analyst at Kazaka Securities in Tokyo.

“Even if they increase production, there are questions about how much that will lift profits.”

Toyota’s shares have lost 22 percent so far this year and are down 70 percent from a peak in early 2007, when the dollar fetched around 120 yen. On Thursday, they fell 0.6 percent in a Tokyo market that lost 0.4 percent.

Once the envy of the auto industry, Toyota has had a torrid couple of years from a quality crisis that triggered the recall of more than 10 million vehicles globally, a tarnished image and a subsequent slide in sales.

Just as it was recovering from that the March 11 quake and tsunami that destroyed hundreds of kilometers of Japan’s northeastern coastline forced it and other domestic automakers to scale back output for months.

In October, damage to suppliers from Thailand’s floods did the same, hampering plans to make up for earlier output losses.

Production disrupted by the Thai floods has mostly returned to normal, keeping output only in Japan and Thailand reduced.

But Toyota has also lagged because of a relatively slow push into emerging markets as it scrambled to meet runaway demand in mature markets such as North America in the years OHDGLQJ XS WR WKH JOREDO ¿QDQFLDO FULVLV Toyota now aims to sell half its cars in emerging markets by 2015, up from around 40 percent now. “The numerical plans announced today reflect that strategy,” said spokeswoman Amiko Tomita.

With growth in developing markets such as India and China slowing and Europe in the middle of a debt crisis, some said Toyota’s plans may be optimistic.

“With these factors in mind, I think some investors are somewhat skeptical that they will reach these numbers,” said Fujio Ando, a senior analyst at Chibagin Asset Management. “There might be a slight gap between the company’s numbers and what investors expect,” he said.

Toyota also announced plans to sell 8.95 million Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles worldwide in 2013 and build 8.98 million vehicles. It gave no regional breakdown for the forecasts outside Japan.

It plans to build 3.40 million vehicles and sell 1.53 million vehicles at home in 2012.

Asian shares, euro ease as bank funding doubts persist Reuters

TOKYO - Asian shares fell and the euro struggled on Thursday as doubts remained over how much of the funds that banks raised from an inaugural long-term European Central Bank tender will actually flow into struggling euro zone economies and help restore confidence.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.7 percent, after climbing to a one-week high on Wednesday, while Tokyo’s Nikkei stock average ended down 0.8 percent.

Despite the drop, Japanese equities have been least affected by the volatility stemming from the euro zone debt woes, with daily swings in the benchmark exceeding 2.5 percent for only 16 trading sessions this year, compared with 88 such days for the Euro STOXX 50 and 41 for the S&P 500 .

The euro was virtually unchanged around $1.3043, with traders seeing major support around $1.3000, the December 14 low, above 2011’s trough of $1.2860. The euro reached a one-week high near $1.32 on Wednesday.

European shares were likely to inch up, with financial spreadbetters expecting London’s FTSE to open up 0.2 percent, Frankfurt’s DAX up 0.2 percent, and Paris’ CAC-40 to begin 0.3 percent higher.

At the ECB’s first ever three-year lending operation on Wednesday, 523 banks borrowed a record 489 billion euros ($638 billion), well above the 310 billion euro take-up forecast.

The tender eased concerns about an immediate credit crunch, but it does not directly lead to resolving the huge indebtedness of some euro zone countries, which has discouraged investors from lending to euro zone banks because of their large exposure to sovereign debt.

“The ECB’s funding operation is not a fundamental fix to the euro zone’s debt problems and is only a way to buying time, so flight-to-safety bids remain firmly in place,” said Shinsuke Kanabu, general manager at Central Tanshi, a Japanese money brokerage.

In further evidence that Japan has become a preferred destination for global funds, government data on Thursday showed non-Japanese investors bought a net 2.6615 trillion yen in short-term Japanese government securities in the week to December 17, the second largest after a record 2.9752 trillion yen net purchase in the week to August 13.

It was the third straight week of

such net buying of bills. Non-Japanese investors also were net buyers of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) in the same week.

“Foreign investors have helped drive down yields on Japanese shortterm securities in recent months as Europe’s debt crisis deepened, suggesting they see Japanese treasury bills as a safe-haven and put priority on safety over returns,” Kanabu said.

Despite Japan’s huge public debts and a domestic rating agency cutting its top credit rating on Wednesday, JGB markets remain unfazed. More than 90 percent of JGB holders are Japanese, giving the country a solid financing backing, unlike countries such as Italy, where foreigners account for some 40 percent of sovereign debt holdings.

Analysts have said the ECB loans would lower the cost for euro zone banks to borrow euros in the open market, but would not reduce their dollar funding costs, and banks were likely to use the funds to repay their own debts as they strive to get rid of bad assets and improve their balance sheets, rather than lend.

“With bank balance sheets under stress and the system still required to raise capital ratios under Basel III, the temptation will surely be for banks to sit on this additional liquidity, rather than recycle it back through the economy,” wrote BNP Paribas in a daily note.

Italy alone faces about 150 billion euros of debt refinancing between April and March.

Italian and Spanish government bond yields rose on Wednesday, snapping an eight-session downtrend, and the spread between the Italian and German 10-year government bond yields widened by some 20 basis points to 488 bps on Wednesday from the day before.

Dollar funding strains reached their worst level since July 2009 when the London interbank offered rate for three-month dollars rose further to 0.57125 percent on Wednesday from 0.56975 percent.

Asian credit markets weakened as yields of highly indebted Italy and Spain inched higher despite strong demand at the ECB’s long-term funding operation, with spreads on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment grade index widening by several basis points.

Commodities markets were muted in thinning pre-holiday trade, with London Metal Exchange copper unchanged at $7,455 a tonne and Brent crude oil edging down 0.2 percent to around $107.50 a barrel.

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BUSINESS After a year of disasters, Toyota sees record sales in 2012 Reuters

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp forecast a 20 percent jump in global sales to a record 8.48 million vehicles next year as it claws back from this year’s output losses caused by natural disasters in Japan and Thailand.

Toyota overtook General Motors Co as the world’s top-selling automaker in 2008 but is set to lose that crown this year as supplychain disruptions from the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan and flooding in Thailand cut production around the world.

With estimated sales this year of 7.90 million vehicles for the group, which includes units Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd, Toyota will likely rank third behind General Motors and Volkswagen AG. Toyota could regain the top ranking next year as it builds inventory to meet pent-up demand and adds output capacity in China and Brazil, among other countries. GM and VW have not disclosed their 2012 sales plans, and Toyota did not provide group forecasts.

“The reason they lost sales this year was because they couldn’t build the cars. Now that they can, it’s possible they’ll take back the top spot,” said Satoru Takada, analyst at Tokyo-based T.I.W. “But it depends on which markets the growth will come from,” he said, noting Toyota was dominant in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but faces tougher competition in China and South America.

Toyota’s parent-only plan for 2012 beats its previous peak of 8.43 million vehicles in 2007.

“I believe the target is achievable given Toyota is quickly recovering production and launching new models,” said Lee Hyun-soo, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities in Seoul.

“There will be cut-throat competition between Toyota, GM and Volkswagen for the top spot in the global market next year.”

Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, has said he was not interested in a race to be the biggest automaker, while VW has a goal of selling 10 million vehicles to grab the title by 2018.

Measured by stock value, Toyota is way above its rivals, at $111 billion - more than VW and GM combined.

At its peak in 2007, however, Toyota was valued at more than twice that, and analysts said a sales recovery would struggle to translate into similar profit gains at today’s exchange rates.

“Rather than an increase in its production plans, the market is focusing on how (Toyota) will limit the losses with the dollar at 77-78 yen,” said Yoshihiko Tabei, chief analyst at Kazaka Securities in Tokyo.

“Even if they increase production, there are questions about how much that will lift profits.”

Toyota’s shares have lost 22 percent so far this year and are down 70 percent from a peak in early 2007, when the dollar fetched around 120 yen. On Thursday, they fell 0.6 percent in a Tokyo market that lost 0.4 percent.

Once the envy of the auto industry, Toyota has had a torrid couple of years from a quality crisis that triggered the recall of more than 10 million vehicles globally, a tarnished image and a subsequent slide in sales.

Just as it was recovering from that the March 11 quake and tsunami that destroyed hundreds of kilometers of Japan’s northeastern coastline forced it and other domestic automakers to scale back output for months.

In October, damage to suppliers from Thailand’s floods did the same, hampering plans to make up for earlier output losses.

Production disrupted by the Thai floods has mostly returned to normal, keeping output only in Japan and Thailand reduced.

But Toyota has also lagged because of a relatively slow push into emerging markets as it scrambled to meet runaway demand in mature markets such as North America in the years OHDGLQJ XS WR WKH JOREDO ¿QDQFLDO FULVLV Toyota now aims to sell half its cars in emerging markets by 2015, up from around 40 percent now. “The numerical plans announced today reflect that strategy,” said spokeswoman Amiko Tomita.

With growth in developing markets such as India and China slowing and Europe in the middle of a debt crisis, some said Toyota’s plans may be optimistic.

“With these factors in mind, I think some investors are somewhat skeptical that they will reach these numbers,” said Fujio Ando, a senior analyst at Chibagin Asset Management. “There might be a slight gap between the company’s numbers and what investors expect,” he said.

Toyota also announced plans to sell 8.95 million Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles worldwide in 2013 and build 8.98 million vehicles. It gave no regional breakdown for the forecasts outside Japan.

It plans to build 3.40 million vehicles and sell 1.53 million vehicles at home in 2012.

Asian shares, euro ease as bank funding doubts persist Reuters

TOKYO - Asian shares fell and the euro struggled on Thursday as doubts remained over how much of the funds that banks raised from an inaugural long-term European Central Bank tender will actually flow into struggling euro zone economies and help restore confidence.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.7 percent, after climbing to a one-week high on Wednesday, while Tokyo’s Nikkei stock average ended down 0.8 percent.

Despite the drop, Japanese equities have been least affected by the volatility stemming from the euro zone debt woes, with daily swings in the benchmark exceeding 2.5 percent for only 16 trading sessions this year, compared with 88 such days for the Euro STOXX 50 and 41 for the S&P 500 .

The euro was virtually unchanged around $1.3043, with traders seeing major support around $1.3000, the December 14 low, above 2011’s trough of $1.2860. The euro reached a one-week high near $1.32 on Wednesday.

European shares were likely to inch up, with financial spreadbetters expecting London’s FTSE to open up 0.2 percent, Frankfurt’s DAX up 0.2 percent, and Paris’ CAC-40 to begin 0.3 percent higher.

At the ECB’s first ever three-year lending operation on Wednesday, 523 banks borrowed a record 489 billion euros ($638 billion), well above the 310 billion euro take-up forecast.

The tender eased concerns about an immediate credit crunch, but it does not directly lead to resolving the huge indebtedness of some euro zone countries, which has discouraged investors from lending to euro zone banks because of their large exposure to sovereign debt.

“The ECB’s funding operation is not a fundamental fix to the euro zone’s debt problems and is only a way to buying time, so flight-to-safety bids remain firmly in place,” said Shinsuke Kanabu, general manager at Central Tanshi, a Japanese money brokerage.

In further evidence that Japan has become a preferred destination for global funds, government data on Thursday showed non-Japanese investors bought a net 2.6615 trillion yen in short-term Japanese government securities in the week to December 17, the second largest after a record 2.9752 trillion yen net purchase in the week to August 13.

It was the third straight week of

such net buying of bills. Non-Japanese investors also were net buyers of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) in the same week.

“Foreign investors have helped drive down yields on Japanese shortterm securities in recent months as Europe’s debt crisis deepened, suggesting they see Japanese treasury bills as a safe-haven and put priority on safety over returns,” Kanabu said.

Despite Japan’s huge public debts and a domestic rating agency cutting its top credit rating on Wednesday, JGB markets remain unfazed. More than 90 percent of JGB holders are Japanese, giving the country a solid financing backing, unlike countries such as Italy, where foreigners account for some 40 percent of sovereign debt holdings.

Analysts have said the ECB loans would lower the cost for euro zone banks to borrow euros in the open market, but would not reduce their dollar funding costs, and banks were likely to use the funds to repay their own debts as they strive to get rid of bad assets and improve their balance sheets, rather than lend.

“With bank balance sheets under stress and the system still required to raise capital ratios under Basel III, the temptation will surely be for banks to sit on this additional liquidity, rather than recycle it back through the economy,” wrote BNP Paribas in a daily note.

Italy alone faces about 150 billion euros of debt refinancing between April and March.

Italian and Spanish government bond yields rose on Wednesday, snapping an eight-session downtrend, and the spread between the Italian and German 10-year government bond yields widened by some 20 basis points to 488 bps on Wednesday from the day before.

Dollar funding strains reached their worst level since July 2009 when the London interbank offered rate for three-month dollars rose further to 0.57125 percent on Wednesday from 0.56975 percent.

Asian credit markets weakened as yields of highly indebted Italy and Spain inched higher despite strong demand at the ECB’s long-term funding operation, with spreads on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment grade index widening by several basis points.

Commodities markets were muted in thinning pre-holiday trade, with London Metal Exchange copper unchanged at $7,455 a tonne and Brent crude oil edging down 0.2 percent to around $107.50 a barrel.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

International

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LOS ANGELES — “The X Factorâ€? judges didn’t want to stop listening to Melanie Amaro. The powerful 19-year-old vocalist from Sunrise, Fla., wowed the Fox talent competition’s panel with her soaring rendition of Beyonce’s “Listenâ€? during Wednesday’s ďŹ nal performance round, prompting head judge Simon Cowell to declare that Amaro should win the show’s grand prize: a $5 million recording contract and a starring role in a Pepsi commercial. “That wasn’t a $5 million performance,â€? declared judge L.A. Reid. “That was a $50 million performance.â€? The panel also poured praise on the other two ďŹ nalists: soulful 30year-old single father Josh Krajcik of Wooster, Ohio, and 28-year-old singer-rapper Chris Rene of Santa Cruz, Calif. Krajcik accompanied himself on guitar for his ďŹ nal performance of

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FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 ďŹ le image released by Fox, judges, from left, Nicole Sherzinger, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and L.A. Reid attend “The X Factorâ€? screening at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles.

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NEW YORK — The time off from James Bond has been very good to Daniel Craig. In the three years since the release of “Quantum of Solace,�

Craig has made his Broadway debut (“A Steady Rainâ€?); starred in the World War II-era tale of Jewish rebellion, “DeďŹ anceâ€?; joined up with Steven Spielberg again (“The Adventures of Tintin,â€? following their earlier collaboration in “Munichâ€?); and starred in the summer blockbuster “Cowboys & Aliens.â€? Now, he’s adding yet another major franchise to his plate, with David Fincher’s remake

AP Photo/Evan Agostini, ďŹ le

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 ďŹ le photo, actor Daniel Craig attends the premiere of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattooâ€? at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.

“At Last,â€? while Rene delivered his original tune “Young Homieâ€? with a group of dancers and singers. “You make everyone fall in love with you,â€? judge Paula Abdul told Rene. Before the ďŹ nal showdown, each singer awkwardly dueted with established artists. Krajcik was joined

by Alanis Morissette on “Uninvited,�

Rene teamed up with Avril Lavigne

of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.�

At this point, the early misgivings of the “Blond Bond� seem laughable. Craig has emerged as one of the biggest British movie stars. More than that, he’s already managed to prove that — maybe more than any previous guardian of the tuxedoed spy — he won’t be pigeonholed by the role. Craig has not just grown into Bond, but, perhaps, beyond it. “It’s a very fortunate time for me at the moment,�

Craig said in a recent interview. “So I’m just trying to grab it with both hands.�

Though the 43-year-old actor is known for being careful of his privacy, Craig, dressed casually in a jean jacket and jeans, comes across as relaxed. Selfdeprecation is his fallback, and he often chortles sheepishly at his own wit. Though his screen presence is bleak and still, his manner is more loose and jocular. He meets a reporter in the lobby of a New York hotel for a recent interview, but Craig isn’t visiting — this is his hometown now. “It was one of those decisions in my life where it was like going, ‘I want to be here.’ Thankfully, I’ve got very good reasons,â€? he says, presumably alluding to his wife Rachel Weisz and her 4-year-old son. Craig and Weisz (his co-star in Jim Sheridan’s horror ick “Dream House,â€? released earlier this year) wed privately in June.

He has a teenage daughter from an early marriage.

Though Craig’s personal life has become an increasing interest to tabloids, he’s maintained a degree of elusiveness. Even in risible concepts such as “Cowboys and Aliens,� he seems somehow above the fray, consistently projecting an air of professionalism and intellect.

Fincher calls him the “giant planetary body,� of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,� around which the other characters (such as Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth Salander) orbit. The director is clearly taken

by Craig, whom he compares to Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas — agile leading men with calm exteriors and smoldering eyes.

for “Complicated,â€? and Amaro partnered with R. Kelly on “I Believe I Can Fly,â€? which marked the ďŹ rst time that the R&B star performed his motivational anthem with another singer.

The winner, which will be decided by viewer votes, will be announced on Thursday’s show.

The contest thus far hasn’t achieved the same success as “American Idol,� which Cowell left last year to import “X Factor� from the U.K. to the U.S. Last Wednesday’s performance episode drew 10.79 million viewers, less than half of the average “Idol� audience.

Unlike “Idol,� the competition is open to solo singers and groups and has a lower minimum age of 12 and no upper age limit. The judges also serve as mentors: Cowell represented female vocalists, including Amaro; Reid headed male singers, including Rene; Nicole Scherzinger was in charge of over-30 singers, including Krajcik; and Abdul helmed the groups.

In this undated image provided

by Kudos Film and Television, British actors from left Dominic West who plays Hector Madden, and Romola Garai who plays Bel Rowley, pose for photo stills for BBC drama series The Hour.

AP Photo/Kudos Film and Television, Nick Wall

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LONDON — Dominic West is no stranger to award ceremonies — he’s just not used to being nominated. The British actor is on the shortlist for his performance in BBC America’s period newsroom drama, “The Hour.� “In my 37 years in show business I’ve yet to win an award,� West grinned. “So yes, we had a little jump up and down at home, cracked open another bottle.�

Talking Tuesday to The Associated Press on the TV program’s south London set, West said he had worried about how the program would be received, noting the tough competition it faced from “great�

American dramas like “Mad Men.� “The Hour� has been nominated for three Globes in all; best miniseries or movie, West for the actor category and co-star Romola Garai for best actress.

West plays blustery anchorman Hector Madden, while fellow Brits Garai

and Ben Whishaw round out the love triangle that is taking place behind the scenes of an hour-long British news TV program. Garai is Bel, the producer, while Whishaw gets into all sorts of trouble as an investigative reporter.

West says the news of the Globe nominations, which came at the start of shooting for six new episodes in the second season, has put a spring into the step of the cast and crew. “It’s always nice to know that what you’re doing is actually being watched and appreciated by people,� he said. “Especially when audience figures aren’t so big. And in England, we were on over the summer holidays, so I wasn’t ever sure if anyone saw it,� he laughed.

The Golden Globes ceremony is being held Jan. 15 at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles. And West is hoping his old co-star from HBO’s celebrated series “The Wire,� Idris Elba, will be there to share the fun — Elba is nominated in the same category as West for “Luther.�

Science

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Friday, December 23, 2011

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6R\X] ERXQG IRU VSDFH VWDWLRQ EODVWV RII Associated Press Writer

AFP Photo/Alain Jocard

File illustration photo shows a lab technician preparing to perform an autopsy on a dead bird. Top US scientists have defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic.

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Top US scientists on Wednesday defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic. Meanwhile, scientists involved in the experiments said they are cooperating with government officials and the editors of the journals Science and Nature to pare down their research for publication in the coming weeks.

The controversy arose when two separate research teams -- one in the Netherlands and the other in the United States -- separately found ways to alter the H5N1 avian influenza so it could pass easily between mammals. Until now, bird flu has been rare in humans, but particularly fatal in those who do get sick. H5N1 first infected humans in 1997 and has killed more than one

in every two people that it infected, for a total of 350 deaths.

The concern is the virus could mutate and mimic past pandemic flu outbreaks such as the “Spanish flu” of 1918-1919 which killed 50 million people, and outbreaks in 1957 and 1968 that killed three million. The recommendations from a non-governmental advisory panel that key details of the newly

altered virus be withheld drew fire from some scientists who saw it as censorship of material that is essential for surveillance and the hunt for vaccines.

Some experts have pointed out that the data does not show whether the engineered virus is actually transmissible between humans, and a major risk is that the virus would emerge on its own in nature.

But the chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Paul Keim, told AFP that even though the research has already been discussed by Dutch scientists at public forums, all 23 members voted unanimously to urge editors to withhold the data in case it fell into the wrong hands.

MOSCOW —A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off flawlessly from Russia’s launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Mission commander Oleg Kononenko and his colleagues, American Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are to dock with the space station on Friday.

The blastoff from the snowy launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, took place without a hitch and the spacecraft reached Earth orbit about nine minutes later. Video from inside the craft showed the three crew members gripping each others’ hands in celebration as the final stage of the booster rocket separated.

The three aboard the Russian spacecraft will join three others already on the ISS, NASA’s Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

The six are to work together on the station until March.

The launch came amid a period of trouble for Russia’s space program, which provides the only way for crew to reach the space station since the United States retired its space shuttle program in July.

The launch of an unmanned supply ship for the space station failed in August and the ship crashed in a Siberian forest. The Soyuz rocket carrying that craft was the same type used to send up Russian manned spacecraft, and the crash prompted officials to postpone the next manned launch while the rockets were examined for flaws.

The delayed mission eventually took place on Nov. 14.

Just five days before that launch, Russia sent up its ambitious Phobos-Ground unmanned probe, which was to go to the Phobos moon of Mars, take soil samples and return them to Earth.

But engineers lost contact with the ship and were unable to propel it out of Earth orbit and toward Mars. The craft is now expected to fall to Earth in mid-January.

AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

In this photo taken with a fisheye lens and with long time exposure, people lwatchthe launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-03M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.

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AP Photo/Ubisoft Entertainment

This video game image courtesy of Ubisoft Entertainment shows the video game “Rocksmith.”

If “Guitar Hero” was the spunky teenager who made music gaming fun, “Rocksmith” is his older, cooler brother in a distressed leather jacket.

“Rocksmith” (Ubisoft, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, $79.99) trades in the now familiar plastic guitar with buttons for the real, six-stringed deal. You simply plug your electric guitar — or an acoustic guitar with a pickup — into your console or computer. For $199, you can get the software bundled with an entry-level Epiphone Les Paul Jr. guitar.

Generation after generation of would-be Eric Claptons have tried

learning the guitar with instructors, books, DVDs and other teaching tools. Most of us get stuck at the intro to “Stairway to Heaven.” With some minor guitar experience under my belt, I dared “Rocksmith” to teach me, entertain me and keep me engaged. It succeeded on all fronts.

Guitar lessons turn into a game: Keep in step with the colored, glowing and spinning rectangles that fall down the screen and land on a numbered fret. The more notes you get correct, the better your score.

It takes some getting used to. The descending rectangles are colored with a different hue for each of the six guitar strings. But most guitar strings aren’t colored, so you have

to mentally keep track of those color-and-string pairs — which change quickly during the action.

I was able to learn the melody to The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” within minutes, but the techniques get more complicated. For example, the doublestops technique requires covering two strings at the same time while muting the adjacent strings. It’s easy when you’re looking down and staring at your fingers with all the time in the world. It’s a lot harder when you have to look at the screen, remember where the correct frets are by muscle memory and strike them fast enough to get ready for the next set of notes.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

International

Transport strike threat forces Arsenal to delay match Reuters

LONDON - Arsenal have postponed Monday’s home Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers for 24 hours because of a planned strike by London Underground train drivers which threatens to plunge the capital into chaos.

The match at the Emirates Stadium will now be played on Tuesday at 1500 GMT, but Chelsea’s fixture against neighbours Fulham at Stamford Bridge on the Dec. 26 Boxing Day bank holiday is going ahead despite the threatened travel shutdown.

“This decision has had to be made now, before the result of the legal challenge to the proposed industrial action is finally known, due to the preparation period needed to safely operate Emirates Stadium by all the relevant agencies,” Arsenal

said in a statement on their website (www.arsenal.com) on Thursday.

“The paramount concern was always the duty of care towards the Arsenal supporters, Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters, matchday employees, workers and indeed everyone who was planning to attend the match on Boxing Day.” The club said that as there were no services operating on mainline train services into London on the day, there was likely to have been “severe disruption, or at worst, inability for supporters or matchday employees and workers” to get to the match.

The planned strike is the result of a dispute over workers’ bank holiday pay but the legality of the walkout has been challenged by the transport authorities and will be decided in the High Court in London later on Thursday.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck (C) celebrates with team mates Wayne Rooney (R) and Nani after scoring a goal during their English Premier League soccer match against Fulham at Craven Cottage in London December 21, 2011.

Manchester rivals win as City stay top for Christmas Reuters

LONDON - Premier League leaders Manchester City and champions Manchester United switched attention back to the action and away from controversies surrounding racism with HDV\ ZLQV RQ :HGQHVGD\ &LW\ HQVXUHG WKH\ ZLOO EH WRS DW &KULVWPDV IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH VLQFH with a 3-0 home win over Stoke City thanks to two goals from Sergio Aguero and one from Adam Johnson.

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Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie shoots at goal as he plays against Aston Villa during their English Premier League soccer match at Villa Park in Birmingham, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.

The performance delighhted boss Roberto Mancini who told the BBC: “We are happy to be top but as I said three days ago it’s important to stay top at the end of the season. “But for our supporters I think it’s a good Christmas. If we want to win the championship we should get 90 points because Manchester United keep winning.”

United remained two points behind City after thrashing Fulham 5-0 at Craven Cottage, although the victory was not without cost as manager Alex Ferguson explained. “The performance in the first half was as good as we have played all season, but we’ve got a couple of injuries,” he said “Phil Jones got an elbow to the jaw and we’ll send him for an

X-ray tomorrow. It doesn’t look good. Rio (Ferdinand) will be back for the Blackburn game on New Year’s Eve, Phil is a concern and Ashley (Young) is out for two or three weeks.” Among United’s scorers was 38-year-old Ryan Giggs who maintained his record of a goal in all 20 seasons since the Premier League began, although his effort just before halftime took D GHÀHFWLRQ RII )XOKDP GHIHQGHU Philippe Senderos.

“It was very impressive, we’ve not scored as many as we’d like to but we’d been playing well,” Giggs told the BBC. “The second part of the season we always kick on and put in performances and that’s pleasing. We don’t want to rely on the forwards for goals, we need to share them around.”

Danny Wellbeck, Nani with a rare header, Wayne Rooney with a stunning 30-metre shot and Dimitar Berbatov with a cheeky backheel sent Fulham to their heaviest home defeat for 24 years. ,W ZDV *LJJV¶ ¿UVW OHDJXH JRDO RI the season and it came just before Aston Villa’s Marc Albrighton scored the 20,000th since the Premier League started in 1992-93 to cancel out Robin Van Persie’s ¿UVW KDOI SHQDOW\ IRU $UVHQDO Villa’s relief was short-lived though as Yossi Benayoun struck with an 87th-minute header to give Arsenal a 2-1 win, their eighth in their last 10 league matches. Villa ended the match with 10 men after defender Alan Hutton was sent off after 88 minutes for a second yellow card.

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For Miami’s “Big Three�, winning the only option Reuters

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Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade (L), LeBron James (C) and Chris Bosh pose for photographers during media day at the team’s training camp in Miami, Florida December 12, 2011.

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Button : I can beat Red Bull next year Jenson Button believes that next year will give him his best opportunity yet of adding to his 2009 Formula 1 world title. The McLaren driver won three grands prix in 2011 and finished second in the world championship behind Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel.

And after out-scoring his team-mate Lewis Hamilton in seven of the last nine races of the year and signing a new deal during the same period, he now believes he is in a better position than ever before to challenge Red Bull. “We haven’t quite won the world championship in the last two years, but I have won quite a few races with this team and I feel that our time is coming,” Button said.

“We are in a very good position. And it couldn’t be better really so we are very excited about 2012.” Button said that he has achieved the aims he set when he signed for McLaren ahead of the 2010 season. In that time he has outscored Hamilton 484 points to 467, taken five grand prix wins and achieved the highest position in the championship for a McLaren driver since Hamilton took the 2008 title.

He still believes that more improve-

ment is needed, however, in order to knock Vettel off his perch at the top of the championship next year. “We have spent two years together now. It has flown by, and it is quite scary that it has been two seasons already,” Button added.

“My aim was to arrive at McLaren and win races, and be with a team that can always give me a chance of winning the world championship. “I feel that we have really improved and I feel that with a tiny bit more improvement we can fight for more victories in 2012.”

Although Button does not rate his season as on the same level as his titlewinning campaign with Brawn, he does believe that the Japanese Grand Prix marked the strongest race of his career.

“Japan meant a lot to me, because I have got a lot of connections with Japan over the last eight years,” he said.

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Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel (R) of Germany jokes with McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button of Britain after the qualifying session ahead of Sunday’s Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo November 26, 2011.

Kimi Raikkonen adamant he is as fast as before KIMI Raikkonen is adamant he will be as fast as he was before leaving Formula 1 when he returns to grand prix racing with Lotus next year. The Finn has secured a two-year deal with the team and will make his comeback in 2012 after a two-season absence from Formula 1.

Raikkonen, the world champion in 2007, says his motivation is higher than ever before and is confident he will be as quick as he was before he went rallying.

“I am more motivated than ever and I don’t think I’ve lost any speed,” said Raikkonen on Lotus Renault’s website.

“Getting on top of the tyres will be the hardest thing, of course, but I’m not really worried.

“Although the technical regulations don’t seem to change much, they apply to a lot of areas and quite a few elements will have to be re-designed. As a result, the cars will be significantly different next year. The order could be shaken up, which will make things very interesting.”

The Finn says his visits to the team’s factory have left him upbeat about his prospects for the year ahead.