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Dancers aim to qualify for Argentina’s World Tango Championship

BUENOS AIRES - Salon tango dancers glided onto a dance floor in Buenos Aires on Monday in the hopes of qualifying for the World Tango Festival and Championship held every year in the Argentine capital.

“My expectation is to have the experience of being here, of having personal growth in dance,” said Uruguayan tango dancer Maria Poggio, 38.

“If everything goes our way and we qualify ... that would be great, but the most important thing is to participate and prepare for this, an expectation to grow,” she said.

Andre Magro, 35, who is originally from Brazil, said dancing was about having fun.

“There are more than 400 couples dancing, participating and it is very

difficult if you want to go through to the finals because there are people who dance very well, around the world,” Magro said. He said anyone who reached the semifinal would be very happy, but “the result is what least matters because people are here to meet other people, to dance and have fun.”

The tango originated in the early 19th century in the working-class port areas of Buenos Aires. Now a ballroom dance popular around the world, couples still can be seen passionately dancing the tango on the streets of

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After rice, the poor spends much money on cigarettes

Buenos Aires neighborhoods like San Telmo. Chilean Omar Aguilera, 30, spoke about being transported to another world while dancing.

“Well, it’s a championship, so the (skill) level is always very high. You’re always watching championships and you realize the level grows even more every year,” Aguilera said. “During the round we danced in, one could feel the powerful energy of tango, so I get lost in that. I can’t see but you feel it when you’re on the floor dancing in full swing.” The World Tango Festival and Championship opened on August 22 and is scheduled to run until August 31 at Usina del Arte, a cultural center in the neighborhood of La Boca. (rtr)

Couples compete in the Salon Tango style qualifier round at the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 22, 2016.

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APPARENTLY many poor people in Bali set aside their earnings to buy cigarette filter. Expenditure on the cigarette is even ranked the second after the expenditure on rice. In other words, there is still indeed a correlation between smoking and poverty even though the poverty rate in Bali has dropped from 5.25 percent to 4.25 percent.

“Expenditure of the poor is divided into two, namely the food and non-food commodities. For food commodities, the highest spending is clearly for the rice. Well, the second is on cigarette. This means, it is the expenditure of the poor in a month calculated by the Center for Statistics Agency (BPS), not what has made them poor,” said the Head of Bappeda Bali, I Putu Astawa, when confirmed in Denpasar, Monday (Aug. 22).

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The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for “Peace Valley”, is seen in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq August 3, 2016.

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World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as Shi’ite militias bury their dead

BAGHDAD - The world’s largest cemetery, in Iraq’s Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation’s death rate increased with the war on Islamic State.

The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for “Peace Valley,” has a special place in the hearts of Shi’ite Muslims as it surrounds the Mausoleum of their first imam, Ali Bin Abi Talib, a cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad.

The pace of daily burials rose

to 150-200 after Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group overran a third of the country in 2014, said Jihad Abu Saybi, a historian of the cemetery. The rate was 80-120 a day previously, he said.

Shi’ite paramilitary often visit Ali’s golden-domed shrine before

heading to the frontlines to battle Islamic State, and request to be laid to rest in Wadi al-Salam should they be killed, as a reward for their sacrifice.

As land becomes scarce, the cost of a standard 25 square metre family burial lot has risen to about 5 million Iraqi dinars ($4100) almost double the amount paid for the same lots before violence escalated as IS exerted control over large swathes

of north and western Iraq in 2014.

Millions of graves of different shapes lie in the roughly 10 square km (4 square miles) cemetery that attracts burials from Shiites all over the world. By nationality, Iraq’s Iranian neighbours are thought to come second in number people interred near Ali’s golden-domed shrine.

Often built with baked bricks and plaster, decorated with Koranic

calligraphy, some graves are above ground tombs, reflecting the wealth of those within. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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According to the data of BPS Bali per September 2015, continued Astawa, the expenditure of the poor people in urban areas for filter cigarettes reached 5.50 percent of their revenue. Conversely, the poor people in rural areas have the expenditure on cigarettes by 3.43 percent. Ironically, the percentage of cigarette is much greater than their expenditure on education in non-food commodities. “Expenditure of the urban poor on education reaches 2.14 percent, while in rural areas only reaches 1.24 percent,” he explained.

Chairman of Commission IV, Nyoman Parta, said that smoking is highly correlated to poverty in Bali. “Well, it’s quite clear that they produce IDR 1.5 million a month but spend IDR 1 million on buying cigarettes. Instead, the cost of education is put in the seventh position, while cigarette on the second,” he said.

Parta added that it is inseparable from the inexpensive price of cigarettes in Indonesia. Actually in other countries such as Singapore, Thailand and even Vietnam, the price of cigarettes is much more expensive.

In addition, cigarette is also easy to obtain and can be sold at retail. Cur-

rently there has been a discourse of the central government to double the price of cigarettes. According to him, it will not have an impact on the poverty alleviation as long as the cigarettes can still be sold at retail.

“Many people in Indonesia smoke because this is the only country where cigarettes are sold at retail, so that it can be purchased anywhere. At stalls and road side people can buy cigarette at retail, so that everyone can buy.

When wishing to reduce smokers, one of the ways is to no longer allow the retail cigarette sales opportunities.

This is the most important,” said this PDI-P politician from Gianyar.

According to Parta, retail sales plus the cheap price of cigarettes have also caused the number of smokers of early age between 8-14 years to continuously increase every year.

Actually, children of elementary and junior high school age have not yet owned any income. In the meantime, smokers are the persons having militancy and loyalty to particular brand of cigarettes.

“They’ve been in the position to addiction. So, our fellow smokers cannot be provided with regulations.

Presented them with awful pictures on cigarette pack does not work, so this is not the answer. The answer is to multiply the dissemination on the

hazards of smoking,” he added.

Parta added that the government can provide more spaces for smoking cessation consultations. In addition, they must be prepared with herbal medicines as substitute for cigarettes. Cost of the dissemination and provision of herbal medicine can be taken from the cigarette tax revenue of the Customs. In 2016, Bali is allocated with IDR 58,620,011,100 or 30 percent of the budget limit for the regions across Bali reaching IDR 195,400,037,000. This amount increased from 2015 reaching IDR 58,226,803,353 or 30 percent of the realization across Bali at IDR 194,089,344,510.

“Unfortunately, such funds are not taken advantage by the provincial and district/municipal governments in Bali for the benefit of dissemination, preparation of consultants to quit smoking and preparation of materials used for cigarette substitute. It is even used for other interests,” he said.

an easy achievement. Therefore, the provincial government will continue to address and study more if there are new criteria used to determine the overall poverty in Indonesia.

“We continuously improve in terms of quality and quantity. In terms of quality, all the drawbacks in what has been running must be further improved, so that it will be nice and the pleasure found by the people can be enjoyed,” he said.

In terms of quantity, added Sudikerta, the government will multiply the poverty alleviation programs to resolve the remaining number of poor people. There are four clusters when talking about poverty. The first cluster is the very poor communities and they

International

SINGARAJA - Foreign travelers are extermely interested in enjoying dolphin watching on Lovina Beach. The Buleleng Chapter of the Indonesia Hotel and Restauratn Association (PHRI) have proposed that instead of chasing the dolphins in fishing boats that the dolphins should instead be diverted usingfish aggregation deveices (FAD) or similar equipment so that the dophins gather in particualr locations.

According to Chairman of the PHRI Buleleng, Dewa Suardipa, tourism in Lovina has not been

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Expenditure on the cigarette is even ranked the second after the expenditure on rice.

Sanghyang Grodog

A legendary and sacred dance of Nusa Lembongan SEMARAPURA - Sanghyang Grodog dance is one of the traditions remaining to exist in Nusa Penida up to these days.

The dance containing the attraction is staged every new moon of sasih karo (July-August). This dance is not common as most other sanghyang (sacred) dances in Bali. It is different as comprising 23 sanghyang dances incorporated into the Aci Sanghyang Grodog staged at the time. It is a sacred dance presented in the ritual at Lembongan customary village for 11 consecutive days starting from day seven of sasih karo (Aug. 9-21).

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This dance is not common as most other sanghyang (sacred) dances in Bali.

Chairman of the Ritual Committee, I Putu Bali, said in his report that the ceremony is held at the central intersection (Catus Pata) of Lembongan customary village serving as nature for the life of universe having contributed selflessly.

Surely the sacred dance drew the interest of many travelers happening to enjoy the visit on the island.

Putu Bali conveyed that the dance commonly known as the Sanghyang Perahu in the region has a magicalritual function to reject catastrophe, contagious disease outbreak and livestock disease such as in cows,

pigs and chickens. It is also used as a means of invoking rain when rainy season comes too late.

The 23 types of Sanghyang Grodog include the Sanghyang Sampat, Sanghyang Bumbung, Sanghyang Penyalin, Sanghyang Lingga, Sanghyang Joged, Sanghyang Dukuh Ngaba Cicing, Sanghyang Jaran, Sanghyang Dukuh Masang Bubu, Sanghyang Sampi, Sanghyang Bangu-Bangu, Sanghyang Kebo, Sanghyang Tiling-Tiling, Sanghyang Enjo-Enjo, Sanghyang Manjangan, Sanghyang Tutut, Sanghyang Jangolan Dukuh Ngaba

Penyu, Sanghyang Barong, Sanghyang Kelor, Sanghyang Capah, Sanghyang Perahu, Sanghyang Sumbul, Sanghyang Payung and Sanghyang Bunga.

At the special night, the Regent of Klungkung I Nyoman Suwirta along with the spouse Mrs. Ayu Suwirta attended the closing ceremony denoting the last series in the Aci Sanghyang Grodog ceremony at Lembongan village. Such an event was also attended by Chairman of the Klungkung House of Representatives I Wayan Baru accompanied by the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida I Gusti Agung Putra Mahajaya, headman of Lembongan Ketut Gede Arjaya and headman of Jungut Batu Made Gede Suryawan, Saturday (Aug. 20). Regent Suwirta stated that the Sanghyang Grodog belongs to a sacred and sanctified dance. The ceremony was sincerely held for the third time at Lembongan village. (dwa)

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are targeted with house refurbishment assistance. The second cluster is the poor communities targeted through house refurbishment done in synergy with the district / municipal government.

“The third and fourth clusters are those almost and vulnerable to be poor targeted by the provincial government of Bali with the provision of job opportunity through relevant agencies. Some are given the help in the form of community-based economic strengthening, nurseries, et cetera so that gradually my expectation and that of governor can harmonize the life of Balinese people from the crush of poverty and they can live a feasible life,” he said. (kmb32)

Decreases

When talking about poverty, Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta claimed that poverty on the Island of the Gods has decreased from 5.25 percent to 4.25 percent. According to him, the decrease in the poverty rate amounting to one digit is not

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exploited to its full potential and lacks innovatoin and good packagin gby the government. He pointed to the dolphins as one example. Presently he said, fishermen compete to chase down thedolphins which causes the dolphins to become stresses and so sometimes they do not appear at all.

He suggested that there be a sserious discussion about using FADs to organize dolphinssightseeing.

Dophins could be called using a whistle and then fed fish by guests when they approach., he suggested.

“ I recommend that FADs be made or floating dolphin homes whereguests could sit comfortably. Dolphin trainers cold then blow a whistle or use some other way to call the dolphins and the mammals would then approach to be fed fish”, he said.

Suardipa hopes that the dolphins can be enjoyed not just in the early morning but also at midday and in the evening when the sun goes down. He added that he is confident that tourism in Lovinacan be developed if it supported by new inovations.

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What are the origins of life?

There’s a rocket for that

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu in 2018 to find clues about the origins of life.

“We are days away from encapsulating into our rocket faring and lifting this spacecraft on to the Atlas V vehicle and beginning the journey to Bennu and back,” Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of the mission told Reuters at the Kennedy Space Center. The $1 billion mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, is scheduled for launch on Sept. 8, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft which will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth for study is seen in an undated NASA artist rendering.

The solar-powered robotic spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, is set to rendezvous with asteroid 1999 RQ36, nicknamed Bennu, in two years’ time for mapping and surveys, then use a robotic arm to collect samples for return in 2023.

Scientists are interested in studying what minerals and chemicals the asteroid contains. Similar asteroids crashing into Earth are believed to have provided the organic materials and water needed for life to form.

“We expect to find materials that pre-date our solar system,” said Lauretta, adding that physical samples from the 1960s and 1970s Apollo moon missions are still bearing scientific fruit to this day.

“To understand the chemistry down to the molecular level we have to get a sample back and take them to the best labs in this country and around the world now and for generations to come,” added mission project scientist Jason Dworkin.

In 2010, Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft was the first to bring back physical samples of an Asteroid to Earth. Along with sample retrieval, the Orisis-Rex spacecraft is equipped with a suit of cameras and sensors designed to study what forces influence the asteroids orbit.

Even planning the spacecraft’s flight plan for rendezvous with Bennu was difficult because the physics of asteroid trajectories isn’t a perfect science, said Lauretta. “This turned out to be a much larger challenge than we originally anticipated because other forces like solar radiation pressure, even thermal emission off the asteroid itself will push the spacecraft around,” Lauretta added. The mission, Dworkin said, will give astronomers new insights into how heat from the sun influences the movement of space rocks, data critical in protecting Earth from potential asteroid collisions in the future. (rtr)

Protecting the environment in Senegal?

There’s an app for that

DAKAR - Hunched over her laptop, eyes locked on the screen, Marième Seye listens to the stepby-step instructions given by her teacher.

The 18-year-old isn’t studying math or history, however. With 24 other Senegalese students, she is learning to develop a mobile app to raise awareness about the environment. In small groups, the students develop apps focusing on environmental issues, in the format of their choice - such as a game, quiz or a platform to look up potentially unfamiliar terms, such as “endangered species”. Seye has called her app “Weer Weeldé”, which means “a healthy planet for a healthy life” in Wolof.

Users must choose which between four pictures - for example, a person drinking dirty water, another smoking, industrial fumes and people planting trees - to pick what represents the most positive

contribution to the planet. Choosing the correct image - in this case, tree planting - rewards the user with points, before all pictures appear with a caption explaining the dangers or benefits linked to the activities.

“I’m interested in developing a phone app because I use them all the time,” Seye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The three-day workshop, organised by the Goethe Institute and mJangale, a Senegalese after-school programme, aims to improve students’ literacy, numeracy, and foreign language skills.

Christelle Scharff, co-founder of mJangale and professor of computer science at Pace University in New York, teaches participants to use MIT App Inventor - a drag-anddrop tool allowing users to create a basic phone app. The students follow her every click on a computer screen projected on the wall.

“The goal is to introduce young people to computing, as well as to make them more knowledgeable about the environment,” Scharff explained, walking between the groups to check their progress.

“So it’s applying computing to something. We didn’t want kids to just develop an app, but also to gain knowledge in another area.”

The Android apps will be made available on Google Play, where they can be downloaded for free.

Idriss Sall Diop, 18, just passed his baccalaureate. “This is totally new to me, I’ve never studied IT and just started using computers,” he admitted from his front-row seat.

“Young people are interested in social media but not necessarily in the environment,” he added. “I think these apps are a way around that - we’re always keen to learn about new things.”Adja Aissatou Sy, communications manager at Senegal’s Ministry of Environ-

ment, said at the workshop that teenagers have limited awareness when it comes to environmental issues.

“Mobile apps are a good way to share information and broaden young people’s knowledge on this topic,” she explained.

The African continent has been slow to adopt digital technologies in education, according to Thierry Zomahoun, chairperson of the Next Einstein Forum, a conference to advance science innovation in Africa. The first conference was held in Dakar in March.

He believes more advanced equipment in schools - from computers to scientific laboratories - will broaden students’ horizon and better prepare them for the job market.

“We can’t just stand idle while there are more African engineers in the U.S. than there are on the African continent - we need to

reverse that trend,” he said at the conference.Scharff added that “as big consumers of technology, Facebook and all these tools, young people can also contribute to tons of solutions here in Senegal.”According to Senegal’s Telecoms Regulation Authority report released in March, the country’s mobile phone penetration rate reached 113.7 percent in the first quarter of 2016 - which can be explained by the fact that some mobile users hold several SIM cards.Sy agrees that youth need a context in which to create a link with the environment.

“For example, there doesn’t exist, as far as I know, an app that focuses on biodiversity in Senegal,” she said.”I would like to see a game on identifying our endangered species - like chimpanzees or panthers - and asking questions that would empower young people to protect their environment.” (rtr)

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Questioned, tourism projects cannot be realized yet

BANGLI - Dozens of physical programs in the provision of supporting facilities for a number of tourist attractions handled by the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency have not been realized. Actually, they have been approved in the parent budget in November 2015. It raised a question of the Commission III of the Bangli House of Representatives in the joint working meeting with the Culture and Tourism Agency, Public Works Agency, BPMPD as well as General Affairs, Assets and Equipment of the Bangli Regional Secretariat, Monday (Aug. 22).

A member of Commission III, I Dewa Gede Oka, assessed the unrealized program of the Culture and Tourism Agency drafted in the regional budget approaching to the end of this year is considered very ironic. It gives unserious impression in developing the tourist destination having been the largest revenue contributor to the region. “I think the program is vague and cannot been realized so far. What happens next if the realization is like this?” he asked. Due to being furious, this Gerindra politician asked to reveal the problem faced all this time in the work meeting, so that everything will be entirely clear in the future. “Then, please specify the obstacles encountered all this time,” he asked.

Responding to the question, the Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, accompanied by a number division heads revealed the physical programs including the repair of road, parking space and toilet cannot be realized at

15 locations. His agency faced difficult problem in the matter of assets.

He stated to have often made coordination with relevant agencies, one of which is the asset bureau.

However, the information received remains confusing. In addition, the tight control by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) also results in fear in the realization of the program.

“The construction is passing on land belonging to customary village, private property or natural resources conservation agency (BKSDA). This makes the program unable to run.

Nevertheless, we do not keep silent and have made coordination with relevant agencies,” he explained.

What revealed by Adnyana was responded back by Dewa Oka. The fears perceived all this time and considered as an obstacle, according to him, are not an excuse. Realizing a program has become a responsibility. However, to avoid legal entanglement, it is needed to find out a proper solution

accompanied with the more intense coordination with other agencies. “I’d like to know why his obstacle is just delivered in this working meeting. If there is no working meeting, will this not be discussed? Please intensify the coordination. We want everything is clear,” he affirmed.

Amid the quite heating debate, Subdivision Head of General Affairs, Assets and Equipment, Putu Agus Mulyawan, admitted to have made coordination with the Culture and Tourism Agency regarding the solution to the existing problems.

According to him, the program dealing with land can be resolved, one of which is through borrowing base utilization, mainly the land belonging to customary village. “Borrowing base utilization cannot be applied to movable assets. But, the land is still possible as long as everything is clear and made in written agreement. Based on our experiences, the process does not take very long,” he explained.

The solution delivered is positively responded by a member of Commission III, I Made Sudiasa. By that way, the asset issue could be resolved shortly and the realization of the development can be assured before the discussion of budget amendment.

“This asset issue must be resolved immediately. Everything should be clear and the asset committee is also ready

Defrauded to work overseas

Dozens of students report the case to Bali Police

DENPASAR - A lecturer of hospitality training center in Nusa Dua with the initials PSS was reported to Bali Police by five students with the allegation of having defrauded them to work overseas, Monday (Aug. 22). In the meantime, the victims amounting to 36 people are estimated to suffer total loss of billions of rupiahs.

One of the victims, I Gede Agus Angga Purnama, 21, after reporting the case to the integrated public service of the Bali Police, told that PSS nicknamed Miss Ayu recruited workers to be employed overseas through her employment agency. PSS opened job opportunity program to Germany and the Netherlands in May 2015.

“My friends and I were promised to be departed in August 2015,” said Angga accompanied by his lawyer from the Bali Advocacy and the Indonesia Legal Aid Institute (LABHI).

Angga explained that PSS promised the victims to get a salary of around EUR 2,700 (IDR 40 million) and provided a working visa.

She took advantage of her status as a lecturer at the training center so that the victims easily believed and have paid at an average of IDR 63 million. “The payment was made gradually. While waiting for settlement process, we are required to undergo training,” said Angga, while showing off the evidence of report Number: TBL/314 / VIII/2016/SPKT Polda Bali.

In the meantime, the victim’s lawyer, Ni Luh Sukawati, affirmed that after the victims already made full payment, but PSS did not keep her promise. “She always overextended, but finally the departure was canceled for unclear reason,” she said.

Action of PSS was finally revealed with the presence of notification letter from the German Consulate in Indonesia that mentioned if the PSS-

owned enterprise is in fact a contractor, not an employment agency.

Of the 36 victims, only five people have officially reported the case to Bali Police namely I Gede Agus Angga Purnama, 21, Komang Agus Sunada, 27, Ni Putu Sri Antari, 22, Kadek Krisna Wijaya, 22, and Desak Putu Agustiani, 20.

“The victims would like to resolve the case through familial approach so as to get back the money.

However, when the defendant was contacted, her mobile phone was off. When searched directly to her home, she was always not at home,” said Sukawati accompanied

by Ni Luh Desi Swandari.

Spokesman of Bali Police, Anak Agung Made Sudana, when asked for his confirmation said that the report on the fraud allegation is still under initial investigation. According to him, every report received by Bali Police will be followed up by the investigators. (kmb36)

to lend a hand,” he said.

Similar opinion was expressed by Chairman of Commission I, Ketut Suastika, who was also leading the meeting. Identification of the land issues is expected to be completed no later than two weeks. “Whatever the problems are, they must be available no later than two weeks,” he said The question was also addressed

to the hot mix road program handled by the Public Works Agency, namely related to the number of road sections to be worked on in 2017 and 2018.

However, since the secretary of the Public Works Agency I Made Soma and Division Head of Highways I Putu Wina Gunawan forgot to bring the data, the working meeting had to be postponed. (kmb45)

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Dozens of physical programs in the provision of supporting facilities for a number of tourist attractions handled by the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency have not been realized.

Actually, they have been approved in the parent budget in November 2015.

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Bali News

International SVF schedule on Wednesday (Aug. 24): From the morning, it is filled with various activities and competitions such as traditional regatta, village cycling tour, Sanur SME creative exhibition, food bazaar and coral reef planting. In the afternoon, visitors will be jazzed up with Keroncong music concert (17:30 to 18:30) followed by the opening ceremony (18:30 to 20:00); and the appearance of the Cahya Atsyuka studio. After that, the main stage will present fashion show by the Endek Envoy of Denpasar (20:00 to 20:30) as well as the appearance of Indra Lesmana and Dewa Budjana Project featuring the Penggak Men Mersi and Eva Celia Lesmana. The series of performances will be closed with the appearance of Gus Teja World Music and the Un’broken (22:05 to 23:05).

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Indra Lesmana explained about Sanur Village Festival that will be open on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 in the press conference that held on Monday.

Today SVF officially opened

Enlivened by Indra, Budjana, Penggak Men Mersi and Gus Teja

DENPASAR - Gus Teja World Music will grace a series of ceremonies at the opening night of the Sanur Village Festival XI, Wednesday (Aug. 24). In addition, the jazz musicians Indra Lesmana and Dewa Budjana will make collaboration with an art troupe of Denpasar, Penggak Men Mersi, featuring the singer Eva Celia Lesmana.

Committee Chairman of the Sanur Village Festival, Ida Bagus Gde Sidharta Putra, said that the first night of the festival will be arranged more neatly and orderly as well as flow so that can make the audience and visitors comfortable.

“The committee has been organizing the entertainment activities,

SME product exhibition, culinary booths and other attractions so that visitors are free to enjoy and feel homey in the festival arena,” he said, Tuesday (Aug. 23).

Sidharta Putra familiarly called Gusde said that armed with the experiences of holding similar festival for ten years has made the

committee mostly consisting of Sanur residents under the Sanur Development Foundation increasingly solid and professional.

He added that the opening ceremony will be attended by Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya and Minister of Cooperatives and the SMEs Anak Agung Ngurah Puspayoga that have provided great support for the implementation of the community-based and independent tourism promotion. Gusde did not explain about the opening procession in details, but invited the community to witness it firsthand, including the

ballet that will be presented by the Cahya Atsyuka Studio.

Mayor of Denpasar, Ida Bagus Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, said that the cultural activities of the townspeople have given significant contribution in developing the life of Denpasar as a heritage city, creative city and the culture-based city.

A number of cultural events, including the Sanur Village Festival, have showed the urban civilization that always invites residents to innovate and make creativity in various fields. “Cultural activities have become the marker of Denpasar as a

heritage city that we must constantly promote,” he said when opening the Denpasar Art Space initiated by the municipal government of Denpasar.

General Coordinator of the SVF, Wisnu Diwangkara, said that the stand of food bazaar keeps drawing thousands of people through the years because they offer five-star hotel menus with a special and affordable price. In addition, a number of SME products for domestic use, fashion and other trinkets are offered at a special stand and the arena of the Sanur Creative Expo. (kmb18)

Village leaders establish MWMBA

To realize Bali Aga into tourism village

SINGARAJA - All this time the villages known as the Bali Aga (native villages to Bali) including the Sidatapa, Cempaga, Tigawasa, Pedawa and Banyusri are increasingly more serious in developing the potential owned by the region.

The five villages have now established a joint management known as the big family of the SCTPB Bali native villages (MWMBA—Ed).

In the structure of the management, the chief of the five customary villages is appointed an adviser.

In the meantime, composition of the main structure in the management is taken from headman of the five administrative villages. This organization is led by the headman of Tigawasa, Made Suadarma Yasa.

He is accompanied by a deputy who is also the headman of Pedawa I Putu Sudarmaja and headman of Sidatapa. In the meantime, the secretary is the headman of Cempaga Putu Suarjaya, while the headman of Banyusri Nyoman Sukadana serves as the treasurer. Basically, establishment of the management aims to make the Bali Aga villages into integrated with culture- and nature-based tourism village. Each village has different potentials so that they should be explored and maximized.

Headman of Cempaga, Putu Suarjaya, said that establishment of the management is to accommodate all forms of development and used as the medium to find a

solution related to the issues faced by the Bali Aga villages. Having been established, he has held the data on several things becoming the attention related to the village boundaries between the five villages. Village boundary issues must be addressed together by promoting the principle of kinship because anyway the five villages belong to one area. “As the management, after having been established we will find solutions related to the arising problems. All solutions must be made amicably so as not to result in other problems,” he said.

Aside from boundary issues, the management will also focus on the security maintenance in the entire regions of the Bali Aga village. This

security will be related to the goals and ideals of the Bali Aga in the development process through various programs such as the establishment of tourism village based on local wisdom, customs and cultures as well as the remaining beautiful environment. “We have agreed that environmental and sanitation issues will be addressed jointly and not separately. However, the headman must also be able to urge its residents to consciously maintain the healthy and beautiful environment of each of neighborhood,” he explained.

In the meantime, a number of people coalesced into the five villages also put signpost if the five Bali Aga villages are tourism

village. The signpost also carries the message associated with the efforts for environmental and nature conservation. One of the figures that are now keen to stimulate the awareness of protecting the environment is Wayan Ariawan, a resident of Sidatapa village. He said that some signposts are installed at each village, including in the tourism lane from Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan towards one of the Bali Aga villages. “Installation of the signpost carrying the message is meant to invite people so as to have more awareness of protecting the environment as a manifestation of commitment and the Bali Aga village can become a tourism village,” he affirmed. (kmb38)

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Over 1,900 killed in “chilling” Philippines war on drugs

MANILA - More than 1,900 people, or about 36 per day, have been killed in a violent campaign against drugs in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office seven weeks ago, the country’s national police chief said on Tuesday.

Director-General Ronald dela Rosa told a Senate hearing there was no declared policy to kill drug users and pushers and that about 1,100 deaths were still being investigated.

“We are not butchers,” he said.

The rest of the dead were people killed in police anti-narcotics operations, dela Rosa said.

“This has a chilling effect,” said Senator Frank Drilon after the police chief’s deposition. “We are all concerned about the number of deaths, by any language this is alarming.”

Duterte, nicknamed “the Punisher”, was voted to power promising to wipe out drugs and warning traffickers they risked death if they did not mend their ways.

The inquiry is being conducted by a staunch critic of the president, Senator Leila de Lima, who has summoned top police and antinarcotics officials to explain the “unprecedented” rise in the body count and reports of vigilante killings.

Duterte has warned legislators

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Family members of people alleged by police as drug pushers and were killed during an illegal drugs “meth raid”, wear masks during a Senate hearing regarding people killed during a crackdown on illegal drugs in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines August 23, 2016. not to interfere with his campaign, saying they could be killed if they blocked efforts aimed at improving the country.

Nearly 700,000 drug users and drug peddlers have turned themselves in to escape the crackdown, police chief dela Rosa said. He said there was a decrease in overall

crime, although murders and homicides had increased.

Outside the senate building, dozens of supporters cheered dela Rosa for leading the war against drugs, chanting his nickname, “Bato, Bato”.

Some carried placards reading: “We are with you Bato in the fight

against drugs”.

The United States, a close ally of the Philippines, said overnight it was “deeply concerned” by the reports of the killings and the State Department urged Duterte’s government to abide by human rights norms.

New York-based Human Rights

Watch said the United States and European Union members “should make it clear to Duterte that inciting such violence is unacceptable and will reap potentially severe diplomatic and economic costs”.

“Otherwise, it’s hard to envision when these killings will end,” it said. (rtr)

Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate Clinton Foundation

AKRON - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of cheering supporters in Akron, Ohio, as he tries to rebound from a slide in national opinion polls with little more than two months to go until the Nov. 8 election.

Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a “pay-for-play” scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s 20092013 tenure as the country’s top diplomat. Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey cited her careless handling of classified emails but opted not to prosecutor her.

“The Justice Department is required to appoint a special prosecutor because it has proved to be, sadly,

a political arm of the White House,” Trump said.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like it before.”

Trump’s appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band. Trump’s call for an independent investigation followed an announcement by the Clinton Foundation that it would no longer accept foreign donations should Clinton be elected president.

The Clinton campaign fired back at Trump, saying the foundation had already laid out “the unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hillary Clinton becomes president.”Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement that Trump “needs to come clean with voters about his complex network” of businesses that are in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China, after a New York Times report on the subject.

“Donald Trump should stop hiding behind fake excuses and release his tax returns and immediately disclose the full extent of his business interests,” Podesta said. (rtr)

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks onstage during a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, U.S., August 22, 2016.

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Riau police name 85 suspects over wildfire cases

UK manufacturing export orders highest in 2 years after Brexit vote

LONDON - Orders for British manufacturing exports hit a two-year peak in August following a Brexit-induced fall in sterling, as the weaker pound also pushed up price expectations to their highest in over a year, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The Confederation of British Industry said its measure of overall factory orders dipped slightly in August to -5. But that beat a median forecast of -9 in a Reuters poll of economists, and export orders improved to -6 from -22, their highest since August 2014.

Manufacturers were more optimistic as output expectations for the next three months rose to +11 from +6 in July.

Supporters of Britain’s departure from the European Union have argued that a post-referendum decline in sterling was likely to help the economy, while opponents say the outcome of the June 23 vote could tip the country into recession.

Economists cautioned against reading too much into the CBI survey.

Samuel Tombs, at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said export orders had jumped in August in the past two years only to fall back in September, and the overall reading from manufacturing was consistent with stagnation in output.

Allan Monks at JP Morgan said the survey suggested the economy was set for a sharp slowdown but not a recession.

Anna Leach, CBI Head of Economic Analysis and Surveys, said stronger-than-expected manufacturing output growth and some

Surplus predicted in Indonesia`s rice supply

JAKARTA - The agriculture ministry said the country is expected to have a surplus of 11.38 million tons in supply of milled rice by the end of this year.

signs that the fall in sterling was helping to bolster export orders were positives.

“But the pound’s weakness is a double-edged sword, as it benefits exporters but also pushes up costs and prices,” she said.

The CBI said average prices that manufacturers expected to charge over the next three months

rose to +8 in August from +5 in July, their highest since February 2015.

The survey reinforced recent data showing inflation gathering pace after Brexit, highlighting the challenge the Bank of England might face in trying to stimulate the economy while price pressures pick up.

Separate data on Tuesday added to signs that consumers have shrugged off the outcome of the referendum, at least for now.

Grocery sales in Britain saw their fastest rise since March, according to industry data, while British housebuilder Persimmon said it had seen a jump in reservations by buyers of new homes over the last

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two months.

Data published last week showed retail sales jumped in July.

However, Brexit is expected to hurt consumer spending over time as the economy slows, inflation picks up and uncertainty over Britain’s relationship with the EU weighs on investment and hiring decisions. (rtr)

Euro zone business growth stable in August, France surprises upwards

LONDON - Surprisingly strong growth in France supported stable euro zone private business activity during August but factories could face a tougher September as new order growth stumbled, surveys showed on Tuesday.

Muddying the outlook for the coming months is the United Kingdom’s vote in late June to leave the European Union, although so far the economic repercussions seem

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Agung Hendriadi

Shoppers cross the road in Oxford Street, in London, Britain August 14, 2016.

to have been confined to Britain, not its main trading partner.

“August’s slight rise in the euro zone Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index suggests that, despite shrugging off the UK’s Brexit vote, economic conditions remain fairly subdued,” said Stephen Brown at Capital Economics.

France’s private sector shrugged off its neighbour’s vote and accelerated to levels last seen just before

the militant attacks in Paris in November, as an upturn in the service sector offset continued weakness in manufacturing.

Those attacks, and the recent one in Nice in July, hit the country’s service industry - the hotel and restaurant sector in particular - and resulted in lower demand for travel to Europe.

In France, the travel and tourism sector’s contribution to GDP will

grow 1.1 percent this year, down from a previous forecast of 2.9 percent, the World Travel and Tourism Council said on Monday.

Still, the brighter overall picture should alleviate fears the French economy continued to slow down this quarter after unexpectedly stagnating in the second quarter of the year.

German private sector growth slowed in August, but remained

robust overall, its PMI showed, suggesting Europe’s biggest economy is set to keep on expanding in the summer months after it grew more than expected in the second quarter.

Consumer confidence remained tepid across the currency bloc this month, another sign of low morale after the British decision to leave the EU, official data is expected to show later on Tuesday. (rtr)

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Chief spokesman of the ministry Agung Hendriadi said rice supply is estimated to reach 43.69 million tons as against requirement of 32.3 million tons this year.

“A surplus , therefore, is expected to reach 11.38 million tons, even there would be an excess of 20 million tons in supply on stocks including early year stock and Bulog stocks and harvest 8.8 million tons,” Agung said.

Similarly excesses are also estimated in the supply of other foodstuff including 2.1 million tons of corn grains, 339,400 tons of sugar, 18.5 million tons of cooking oil, 131,800 tons of red onion, 414,400 tons of chili, 1.59 million tons of chicken meat and 1.44 million tons of eggs.

Meanwhile, deficit is expected in the supply of beef and soybeans.

Deficit in beef supply is esti-

mated to reach 220,000 tons with supply totaling 441,8000 tons as against consumption of 662,300 tons, and deficit in soybean is around 1.09 million tons with supply totaling only 1.5 million tons as against consumption of 2.59 million tons.

Agung, however, said in general supply of the 11 strategic commodities is relatively safe until the end of the year.

“Deficit would be recorded only in the supply of two commodities until the end of the year,” he said. (ant)

PEKANBARU - The Riau Police have named 85 suspects over wildfires during the January-August 2016 period.

The cases are being handled by 11 resort police stations across Riau, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Guntur Aryo Tejo, spokesman of the Riau Police, remarked here, Monday.

The suspects comprise land owners or farmers who used slash and burn methods to clear land for farming or plantation, the policeman noted, adding that no plantation company was involved in the wildfires.

The Riau provincial authorities have extended the emergency status for wildfires from March to November 2016 to optimize the efforts to control the fires.

As the result, Riau, which had been shrouded by haze every year for the past 18 years, is now almost free from it.

Head of the Riau Disaster Mitigation Office Edwar Sanger, however, reported that from January to August 2016, a total of 1,559.9 hectares of forest, peatland, and plantation areas had been razed by fires across the province.

Last Saturday, Indonesias National Institute of Aeronautics and Space reported that the number of hotspots across Sumatra Island had reached 74, seven more than the 67 reported a day earlier.

Of the 74 hotspots, 34 were found in Riau, 15 in South Sumatra, nine in North Sumatra, six in Bangka Belitung, five in West Sumatra, four in Lampung, and one in Aceh. (ant)

Adjunct Senior Commissioner Guntur Aryo Tejo

BNPB declares six provinces in emergency of forest fires

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said six of Indonesian provinces are in emergency of forest and bush fires.

“BNPB, therefore, has put into operation eight water bombing helicopters,” chief spokesman of the agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said here on Tuesday.

The six provinces are Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

Sutopo said it is feared the worst of dry

season is yet to come, adding normally in September forest fires are more devastating.

Sumatra and Kalimantan always had the largest number of hot spots from August until October with the worst in September, he warned.

The West Kalimantan Governor has even extended the emergency period until November for that province, he added.

“The declaration of emergency status

would give BNPB and its regional units easier access to potential sources in its efforts to mobilize fire fighting forces,” he said.

Currently, BNPB already has in its disposal eight units of water bombing helicopters, two units of water bombing fixed wing aircraft and another two planes for artificially made rain.

“Three of the water bombing helicopters, two water bombing fixed planes and a a CASA plane for artificial rains would be

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placed in Riau,” he said.

Riau has always been the most devastated by forest and peat land fires, which comes almost every year.

Sutopo said this year , preparations in dealing with the forest fire emergency situation is better than in previous years.

“In 2015, preparation and action came late in dealing with forest and bush fires resulting in greater difficulties in poutting out the fires,” he said. (ant)

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U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy

AUSTIN - A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year.

While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger legal and cultural battle over transgender rights that could be headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following milestone achievements in gay rights including same-sex marriage becoming legal nationwide in 2015, transgender rights have become an increasingly contentious issue in the United States, with advocates saying the law should afford them the same rights extended to racial and religious minorities.

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, issued a nationwide injunction siding with the 13 states and blocking the Obama administration’s bathroom guidelines on Sunday, the evening before students in much of Texas and some of the other affected states were due back in school.

O’Connor found the federal

government failed to provide states with sufficient notice and opportunity for comment before issuing the guidelines. He also said the guidelines had the effect of law and contradicted existing legislative and regulatory texts.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement it was disappointed by the decision and was reviewing its options. Legal experts expected it to appeal, likely asking to put O’Connor’s ruling on hold until the case could be litigated.

In May, the Justice and Education departments issued guidance that public schools must allowtransgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other intimate facilities of their choice rather than those matching their gender assigned at birth. The Justice Department has called the guidelines nonbinding, saying they had no legal consequences.

But they were also backed up by a threat to withhold federal educa-

tion money from states that refused to comply, drawing objections from 13 states, led by Texas, that sued.

Some conservatives have fought an expansion of transgender rights which thy see as an attack on privacy and an example of federal government overreach.

In test cases around the country, various lower courts have differed in their interpretation on whether anti-discrimination laws apply to transgender people, potentially sending the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court for a definitive resolution.

O’Connor’s ruling is “just one small part of an unfolding process,” said Aaron Bruhl, a professor at William & Mary Law School in Virginia.

“This won’t be the last word on this subject, obviously,” he said.

“There’s a decent chance the U.S. Supreme Court could address this issue in the near future.”

Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia University, said it was “shocking” that O’Connor had applied his injunction to the entire nation, especially since “there’s an opposite decision from the 4th Circuit (Court of Appeals) and eight other lawsuits pending.” (rtr)

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Participants attend the 5th annual LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) pride parade entitled “Viet Pride - Path of Pride” in Hanoi, Vietnam August 21, 2016.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and French President Francois Hollande (L) lead a news conference on the Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi off the coast of Ventotene island, central Italy, August 22, 2016.

Germany, France, Italy say Europe must move forward after Brexit vote

ABOARD ITALIAN WARSHIP GARIBALDI - The leaders of the euro zone’s biggest economies held talks on Monday in the aftermath of Britain’s shock decision to leave the European Union and said Europe had to turn its back on populists who blamed Brussels for all its problems.

Speaking on an aircraft carrier off the Italian island of Ventotene, Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Francois Hollande and Italy’s Matteo Renzi issued calls for closer security cooperation and better opportunities for young people. In a meeting heavy on symbolism, the three leaders visited Ventotene to lay a wreath on the tomb of Altiero Spinelli, an Italian intellectual seen as a founding father of European unity.

They then boarded the Garibaldi, which is in the front line of an EU mission to combat people traffickers who have carried hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe across the Mediterranean.

“For many populists, Europe is to blame for everything that goes wrong,” Renzi said at the joint news conference before the leaders sat down for talks aboard the ship.

“Immigration, it’s Europe’s fault, the economy is bad, it’s Europe’s fault. But that is not the case.” The meeting was designed to lay the groundwork for an EU summit in Bratislava next month.

Monday’s talks marked the beginning of a week of meetings for Merkel with other European governments that will see her travel to four countries and receive leaders from another eight. “We respect Great Britain’s decision but we also want to make clear that the other 27 (member states) are banking on

a safe and prospering Europe,” the German chancellor said.

But questions of how to bring about prosperity have divided the three countries.

Heavily-indebted Italy, whose economy has barely grown since the introduction of the euro currency in 1999, has repeatedly chafed against stern EU budget rules, and both Renzi and Hollande want greater flexibility to help boost growth. Germany is keen for rules to be respected, and Renzi and Merkel sidestepped a question on deficit limits.

All three leaders are threatened at home. Merkel faces discontent over her controversial decision to let in a million mainly Muslim migrants last year. France is reeling from a wave of Islamist attacks and Renzi faces a referendum on constitutional reform this autumn that could trigger his downfall.

The EU plans to offer incentives to African governments to help slow the flow of migrants into Europe, but divisions among member states are stark. Italy, the main entry point for Africans but rarely their planned destination, is struggling to house migrants turned back from neighbouring countries including France, and disagrees with Germany over how to finance the response.

Hollande stressed the need to protect the EU from militant violence by tightening borders and sharing intelligence. “To have security we need frontiers that are controlled so that is why we are working to reinforce coastguards and border guards,” he said. “We want more coordination in the fight against terrorism.” (rtr)

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Gaduh Temple GIANYAR - Gaduh Temple In the village Blahbatuh about 10 kilometers west of the city of Gianyar, is the southernmost temple of ancient antiquity Pejeng Kingdom. Currently, the exterior of Gaduh Temple is still very much needed facelift and interior will remain the same. Gaduh Temple was actually destroyed by an earthquake in 1917 and was rebuilt and repaired.

The interior of the church is structured like all Balinese Pura than a little fanciful sculpture that can be seen on the main staircase inside Candi Bentar. Notable Antiquity of Pura is a massive stone head of Kebo Iwo-portrait. Comes of 14 C, however it is strangely distant from the Hindu / Javanese icons structured in this period.

Kebo Iwo served as minister last Balinese king Bedulu, who was a despot by nature and a boar’s head. During the invasion in 1343 AD Majapahit king Bedulu kingdom was defeated Gadjah Mada. The interior of the temple is structured the same as all Balinese Pura except for the rather fanciful carvings which can be seen on the main stairway inside the Candi Bentar.

The remarkable antiquity of this Pura is the massive stone head-portrait of Kebo Iwo. It dates from the 14th C, however it is strangely afar from the Hindu/Javanese icons structured during this period. Kebo Iwo served as a minister to the last Balinese king, Bedulu, who was a despot by nature and had the head of a boar. (IBP/net) Dolphin Tourism Should Be Designed with FAD System Foreign travelers are extermely interested in enjoying dolphin watching on Lovina Beach. The Bulelelgn Chapter of the Indonesia Hotel and Restauratn Association (PHRI) have proposed that instead of chasing the dolphins in fishing boats that the dolphins should instead be diverted usingfish aggregation deveices (FAD) or similar equipment so that the dophins gather in particualr locations.

According to Chairman of the PHRI Buleleng, Dewa Suardipa, tourism in Lovina has not been exploited to its full potential and lacks innovatoin and good packagin gby the government. He pointed to the dolphins as one example. Presently he said, fishermen compete to chase down thedolphins which causes the dolphins to become stresses and so sometimes they do not appear at all.

He suggested that there be a sserious discussion about using FADs to organize dolphinssightseeing. Dophins could be called using a whistle and then fed fish by guests when they approach., he suggested. “ I recommend that FADs be made or floating dolphin homes whereguests could sit comfortably. Dolphin trainers cold then blow a whistle or use some other way to call the dolphins and the mammals would then approach to be fed fish”, he said.

Suardipa hopes that the dolphins can be enjoyed not just in the early morning but also at midday and in the evening when the sun goes down. He added that he is confident that tourism in Lovinacan be developed if it supported by new inoovations. (IBP/net)

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Brazil didn’t mess up Games, nor did it make most of them

RIO DE JANEIRO - As the Olympic hoardings are taken down in Rio de Janeiro and the Carnival atmosphere subsides, there is relief that cash-strapped Brazil avoided making a mess of the Games but also a nagging suspicion it did not make the most of them either.

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Two years ago, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) warned that Brazil’s preparations were the worst he had ever seen.

Yet a last-minute scramble meant that venues and a new metro line to the Olympic Park were ready in time. Security fears, which prompted the deployment of 85,000 police and security for the Games, were also proved wrong - there was no major attacks of the kind seen recently in Europe.

Yet in terms of the long-term benefits to residents and the image of Rio to the outside world, the Games could have been so much more.

“If we’re content to call the absence of catastrophe an Olympic success, then I suppose it was a success but if that is the case we

are setting the bar too low,” said Jules Boykoff, a professor at Pacific University in Oregon and author of a book on the political history of the Games.

“From the point of view of the lives of ordinary people in Rio, it was not a successful Games. It was a massively missed opportunity.”

In 2009, when a triumphant Brazil won the right to host the Games by a landslide at an IOC meeting in Copenhagen, a tearful President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it would seal Brazil’s entry into the club of “first-class” nations.

“The world has recognised that the time has come for Brazil!” Lula said, predicting the Games would showcase the nation’s improved governance and booming economic growth.

Seven years later, the Games arrived at just the wrong moment for Brazil. Its economy has been ravaged by a commodities collapse while a sweeping corruption scandal has ensnared the construction companies building infrastructure

for the Games and swept Lula’s leftist Workers Party from power.

The run-up to the Games, an unrivalled moment to showcase Brazil’s most picturesque city, was dominated instead by headlines over the impeachment of Lula’s successor, Dilma Rousseff, the spread of Zika, and resurgent crime levels in the city’s slums due to rising unemployment and underfunded police.

The enduring images of the Games will be not just the great sporting achievements - from U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps’ 28th Olympic medal to Usain Bolt’s historic sprint ‘triple triple’ - but also the organizational problems, empty seats and crime.

Locals’ angry reaction to U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte, who made up a story about being robbed at gunpoint, was partly due to the knowledge their nation was being tarnished internationally.

“The country put its image at risk in bidding for the Games and the risk did not work out because it became brutally obvious Brazil has not resolved its problems,” said Christopher Gaffney, an Olympic expert and geographer at the University of Zurich who lived in Rio until last year. (rtr)

NOTTINGHAM - U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte lost all four of his major sponsors on Monday, including Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren Corp, following his apology for an “exaggerated” story about being robbed at gunpoint at the Rio Games.

Lochte’s version of the incident embarrassed the host city, angered local officials and further revelations about it - casting doubt on Lochte’s story - dominated news coverage of South America’s first Olympics. The U.S. Olympic Committee issued an apology on Thursday, and Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, made his own apology on Saturday in an interview with Brazil’s largest broadcaster, Globo TV. “I wasn’t lying to a certain extent,” he said. “I over-exaggerated what was happening to me.”

Within hours of the Games coming to a close on Sunday night, swimwear maker Speedo USA issued a statement saying it would drop Lochte as one of its endorsers, while luxury retailer Ralph Lauren said it would not be renewing its contract with the swimmer.

Hair removal company Syneron Candela also ended its partnership with Lochte, four months after naming him its global brand ambassador for one of its products. Japanese mattress maker Airweave, which last week had said it would stand by Lochte, on Monday said it had decided it would not renew the endorsement, which had been made for the Rio 2016 Olympic games. Sponsorship and endorsement deals typically include “morals clauses” that allow sponsors to terminate deals early if they feel the athlete has behaved poorly in public.

Nottingham, UK-based Speedo’s U.S. unit said on Monday it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children, a global charity partner of Speedo. Lochte said in an email that he respected Speedo’s decision. “I was immature and I made a stupid mistake. I’m human. I made a mistake and I definitely learned from this,” Lochte said in an interview on the Today show.

“They (the people of Rio) put on a great Games... And my immature, intoxicated behavior tarnished that a little,” Lochte said.

Ralph Lauren had taken down references to the gold medalist from its website last week, and on Monday it said it would not renew the Olympic-specific deal, which featured Lochte and other Olympic athletes wearing Ralph Lauren-branded Olympic merchandise. (rtr)

AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File

In this Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, United States’ Ryan Lochte checks his time in a men’s 4x200-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Speedo announced Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, that they are dropping their sponsorship of Lochte.

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Sp rt Don’t panic, says Klopp, as Liverpool seek instant bounce back

Tite brings changes for Brazil’s Cup qualifiers

LIVERPOOL - Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp called for his players to “stay calm” and does not expect to expect wholesale changes against Burton Albion on Tuesday as they seek to quickly bounce back from their 2-0 defeat at Burnley. Much of the excitement generated by the club’s thrilling opening weekend win at Arsenal has been replaced by concern by their subsequent setback in a game in which they failed to score despite 81 percent possession.

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp

Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith

On Tuesday they travel to Burton from England’s second tier in the League Cup, a competition they have won a record eight times but now enter at an early stage because of their failure to qualify for Europe this season.

“Of course we respect the opponent, so it’s not the moment to ‘rest’ players. We won’t make seven or eight changes,” said Klopp, who last season saw his team lose the League Cup final on penalties at Wembley. “We have to show we want to be in this competition. It’s about respecting the game, working hard.” Liverpool have surrendered home advantage to their opponents, who they have never previously faced, because of continued building work at Anfield and face a third successive away game.

Klopp said he still doesn’t “feel good” about Saturday’s defeat, but will be looking for an instant reaction from his players. “We have to do better. I lost a few games in my life, and I accept that I will lose a few more in future. You can lose a game. The first game (against Arsenal) was good, the second game not. So what’s the truth now? “Nobody wants the information we got from Burnley, but we got it and now we have to use it and find a way to win. We have to stay calm. My job is to bring the players in and around the box, with movement. But then we have to use our skills in the most decisive area.”

Saturday’s defeat led to instant demands from supporters for Klopp to strengthen his squad ahead of the Aug. 31 transfer deadline but Liverpool’s manager, who has been seeking a new left back this summer, refused to reveal his hand. “We must look at these things without looking at the results. Until. Aug 31, everything is possible. But we do not feel we cannot work with the players. Getting in others is not the main thing to do.”

Burton are managed by Nigel Clough, who expects the side he played for from 1993-96 to continue improving under Klopp. “When he came here he reminded people that it took him two or three seasons at Dortmund. But there are signs of encouragement that they will be back challenging for the Premier League. If we score tonight it will probably because of luck and industry rather than great creativity.” (rtr)

Aguero cannot ‘disappear’ when City lose possession: Guardiola

MANCHESTER - Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has urged striker Sergio Aguero to help his side maintain pressure on opponents and not “disappear” when his side do not have possession of the ball.

The Argentine scored twice in City’s 4-1 win against Stoke City on Saturday to take his season’s tally to six goals in all competitions.

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager said Aguero must help his team mates with his movements off the ball.

“It’s not enough to receive the ball from his team mates, he has to help us in the first pressure and run a lot and help us a lot with movement,” Guardiola told British media.

“You cannot be brilliant when you disappear when you (don’t) have the ball. It’s impossible.

“Until now he’s doing it and, when that happens, you are involved in defensive tasks and the offensive.”

Guardiola also praised young striker Kelechi Iheanacho, who came off the bench and proved

influential in City’s third and fourth goals against Stoke.

“He (Iheanacho) is always ready,” Guardiola added. “We will need him. Sergio can’t play all season and Kelli is going to play.

“We can’t achieve anything with just 11 or 12 players. We need everybody and I hope they realise that.”

City next face Steaua Bucharest in the second leg of their Champions League playoff on Wednesday, before hosting West Ham United in their next league clash on Sunday. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola during training.

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Liverpool fans peer over the wall to watch a training session at the club’s Melwood training complex in Liverpool, northern England, April 7, 2009.

As China’s soccer spree accelerates, rival suitors eye Liverpool stake

SHANGHAI - A consortium led by state-owned financial conglomerate Everbright is not the only Chinese group to have looked at investing in English soccer giant Liverpool, with the club attracting interest from Fosun, propertyto-film group Dalian Wanda and others, a person familiar with the matter said. Though none have put together a formal bid, according to the person, interest expressed over recent months in one of England’s most storied clubs reflects a significant step-up in China’s drive to become a soccer powerhouse. A senior Liverpool source on Sunday denied the club’s American owners were planning to sell, but indicated they could be open to offers for a minority stake.

Since the start of last year, Chinese buyers have spent some $4 billion on soccer assets large and

small, from Italy’s Inter Milan to French second-tier side Auxerre.

The soccer land grab has accelerated this year with around $3 billion worth of deals announced since December, when a state-backed group spent $400 million for a minority stake in the firm that owns Manchester City. In recent months, though, small, lesser known Chinese buyers have dominated, as in the case of AC Milan, sold by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Fininvest to a group of virtually unknown Chinese investors.

Liverpool’s list of admirers suggests large, high-profile Chinese groups could still be in the wings with the potential for deals to dramatically alter the dynamics of European football. Already, teams in China are offering some of the highest salaries in the game.

Fosun, which has close ties to ‘super agent’ Jorge Mendes, bought Wolverhampton Wanderers in a deal completed last month. Wanda, led by China’s richest man, owns a 20 percent stake in Atletico Madrid and is a major sponsor of FIFA, football’s world governing body.

Neither group replied to requests for comment.”Many Chinese are interested,” said the person, who declined to be named as the discussions are not public. “No-one has bid, (but) letters of interest? There are many.”He added Liverpool’s Boston-based owners, Fenway Sports Group, want a valuation of 780 million pounds ($1.02 billion) and had been looking for a while to sell a minority stake.Liverpool declined to comment. The club reaffirmed over the weekend that it is not for sale. (rtr)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Spurs midfielder Paulinho was the surprise inclusion in a revamped Brazil squad for crucial World Cup qualifiers against Ecuador and Colombia next month, new coach Tite said on Monday. Paulinho, who left Spurs for Guangzhou Evergrande last year, won the Copa Libertadores with Corinthians when Tite was in charge but has not played for Brazil since the 2014 World Cup. Weverton, the uncapped keeper whose penalty save helped the Olympic side to their first gold medal against Germany on Saturday, was also included, along with six other Olympic medalists.

Shakhtar Donetsk striker Taison, Corinthians full back Fagner, and Rafael Carioca, defensive midfielder with Atletico Mineiro, were the other three uncapped players called up by the coach who will lead the team for the first time after replacing Dunga last month.

“It isn’t about renewal,” said Tite when asked about the widespread changes from the squad that went to the Centenary Copa America in June. “It’s about form.” Brazil will face Ecuador in Quito on Sept. 1 and then Colombia in Manaus five days later. The five-time champions currently sit sixth in the South American group for the 2018 World Cup, outside the qualifying places for Russia.

“There are two teams above us and they are two teams that are ready,” Tite said. “They have confidence and move the ball forward quickly. They will be very difficult matches.” Brazil is the only country to have qualified for every World Cup but they are going through a poor phase, having failed to win a major tournament since the 2007 Copa America.

The top four teams in the South American group qualify automatically for Russia and the fifth-placed team go into an intercontinental play off. (rtr)

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Sp rt Don’t panic, says Klopp, as Liverpool seek instant bounce back

Tite brings changes for Brazil’s Cup qualifiers

LIVERPOOL - Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp called for his players to “stay calm” and does not expect to expect wholesale changes against Burton Albion on Tuesday as they seek to quickly bounce back from their 2-0 defeat at Burnley. Much of the excitement generated by the club’s thrilling opening weekend win at Arsenal has been replaced by concern by their subsequent setback in a game in which they failed to score despite 81 percent possession.

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp

Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith

On Tuesday they travel to Burton from England’s second tier in the League Cup, a competition they have won a record eight times but now enter at an early stage because of their failure to qualify for Europe this season.

“Of course we respect the opponent, so it’s not the moment to ‘rest’ players. We won’t make seven or eight changes,” said Klopp, who last season saw his team lose the League Cup final on penalties at Wembley. “We have to show we want to be in this competition. It’s about respecting the game, working hard.” Liverpool have surrendered home advantage to their opponents, who they have never previously faced, because of continued building work at Anfield and face a third successive away game.

Klopp said he still doesn’t “feel good” about Saturday’s defeat, but will be looking for an instant reaction from his players. “We have to do better. I lost a few games in my life, and I accept that I will lose a few more in future. You can lose a game. The first game (against Arsenal) was good, the second game not. So what’s the truth now? “Nobody wants the information we got from Burnley, but we got it and now we have to use it and find a way to win. We have to stay calm. My job is to bring the players in and around the box, with movement. But then we have to use our skills in the most decisive area.”

Saturday’s defeat led to instant demands from supporters for Klopp to strengthen his squad ahead of the Aug. 31 transfer deadline but Liverpool’s manager, who has been seeking a new left back this summer, refused to reveal his hand. “We must look at these things without looking at the results. Until. Aug 31, everything is possible. But we do not feel we cannot work with the players. Getting in others is not the main thing to do.”

Burton are managed by Nigel Clough, who expects the side he played for from 1993-96 to continue improving under Klopp. “When he came here he reminded people that it took him two or three seasons at Dortmund. But there are signs of encouragement that they will be back challenging for the Premier League. If we score tonight it will probably because of luck and industry rather than great creativity.” (rtr)

Aguero cannot ‘disappear’ when City lose possession: Guardiola

MANCHESTER - Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has urged striker Sergio Aguero to help his side maintain pressure on opponents and not “disappear” when his side do not have possession of the ball.

The Argentine scored twice in City’s 4-1 win against Stoke City on Saturday to take his season’s tally to six goals in all competitions.

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager said Aguero must help his team mates with his movements off the ball.

“It’s not enough to receive the ball from his team mates, he has to help us in the first pressure and run a lot and help us a lot with movement,” Guardiola told British media.

“You cannot be brilliant when you disappear when you (don’t) have the ball. It’s impossible.

“Until now he’s doing it and, when that happens, you are involved in defensive tasks and the offensive.”

Guardiola also praised young striker Kelechi Iheanacho, who came off the bench and proved

influential in City’s third and fourth goals against Stoke.

“He (Iheanacho) is always ready,” Guardiola added. “We will need him. Sergio can’t play all season and Kelli is going to play.

“We can’t achieve anything with just 11 or 12 players. We need everybody and I hope they realise that.”

City next face Steaua Bucharest in the second leg of their Champions League playoff on Wednesday, before hosting West Ham United in their next league clash on Sunday. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola during training.

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Liverpool fans peer over the wall to watch a training session at the club’s Melwood training complex in Liverpool, northern England, April 7, 2009.

As China’s soccer spree accelerates, rival suitors eye Liverpool stake

SHANGHAI - A consortium led by state-owned financial conglomerate Everbright is not the only Chinese group to have looked at investing in English soccer giant Liverpool, with the club attracting interest from Fosun, propertyto-film group Dalian Wanda and others, a person familiar with the matter said. Though none have put together a formal bid, according to the person, interest expressed over recent months in one of England’s most storied clubs reflects a significant step-up in China’s drive to become a soccer powerhouse. A senior Liverpool source on Sunday denied the club’s American owners were planning to sell, but indicated they could be open to offers for a minority stake.

Since the start of last year, Chinese buyers have spent some $4 billion on soccer assets large and

small, from Italy’s Inter Milan to French second-tier side Auxerre.

The soccer land grab has accelerated this year with around $3 billion worth of deals announced since December, when a state-backed group spent $400 million for a minority stake in the firm that owns Manchester City. In recent months, though, small, lesser known Chinese buyers have dominated, as in the case of AC Milan, sold by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Fininvest to a group of virtually unknown Chinese investors.

Liverpool’s list of admirers suggests large, high-profile Chinese groups could still be in the wings with the potential for deals to dramatically alter the dynamics of European football. Already, teams in China are offering some of the highest salaries in the game.

Fosun, which has close ties to ‘super agent’ Jorge Mendes, bought Wolverhampton Wanderers in a deal completed last month. Wanda, led by China’s richest man, owns a 20 percent stake in Atletico Madrid and is a major sponsor of FIFA, football’s world governing body.

Neither group replied to requests for comment.”Many Chinese are interested,” said the person, who declined to be named as the discussions are not public. “No-one has bid, (but) letters of interest? There are many.”He added Liverpool’s Boston-based owners, Fenway Sports Group, want a valuation of 780 million pounds ($1.02 billion) and had been looking for a while to sell a minority stake.Liverpool declined to comment. The club reaffirmed over the weekend that it is not for sale. (rtr)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Spurs midfielder Paulinho was the surprise inclusion in a revamped Brazil squad for crucial World Cup qualifiers against Ecuador and Colombia next month, new coach Tite said on Monday. Paulinho, who left Spurs for Guangzhou Evergrande last year, won the Copa Libertadores with Corinthians when Tite was in charge but has not played for Brazil since the 2014 World Cup. Weverton, the uncapped keeper whose penalty save helped the Olympic side to their first gold medal against Germany on Saturday, was also included, along with six other Olympic medalists.

Shakhtar Donetsk striker Taison, Corinthians full back Fagner, and Rafael Carioca, defensive midfielder with Atletico Mineiro, were the other three uncapped players called up by the coach who will lead the team for the first time after replacing Dunga last month.

“It isn’t about renewal,” said Tite when asked about the widespread changes from the squad that went to the Centenary Copa America in June. “It’s about form.” Brazil will face Ecuador in Quito on Sept. 1 and then Colombia in Manaus five days later. The five-time champions currently sit sixth in the South American group for the 2018 World Cup, outside the qualifying places for Russia.

“There are two teams above us and they are two teams that are ready,” Tite said. “They have confidence and move the ball forward quickly. They will be very difficult matches.” Brazil is the only country to have qualified for every World Cup but they are going through a poor phase, having failed to win a major tournament since the 2007 Copa America.

The top four teams in the South American group qualify automatically for Russia and the fifth-placed team go into an intercontinental play off. (rtr)

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Gaduh Temple GIANYAR - Gaduh Temple In the village Blahbatuh about 10 kilometers west of the city of Gianyar, is the southernmost temple of ancient antiquity Pejeng Kingdom. Currently, the exterior of Gaduh Temple is still very much needed facelift and interior will remain the same. Gaduh Temple was actually destroyed by an earthquake in 1917 and was rebuilt and repaired.

The interior of the church is structured like all Balinese Pura than a little fanciful sculpture that can be seen on the main staircase inside Candi Bentar. Notable Antiquity of Pura is a massive stone head of Kebo Iwo-portrait. Comes of 14 C, however it is strangely distant from the Hindu / Javanese icons structured in this period.

Kebo Iwo served as minister last Balinese king Bedulu, who was a despot by nature and a boar’s head. During the invasion in 1343 AD Majapahit king Bedulu kingdom was defeated Gadjah Mada. The interior of the temple is structured the same as all Balinese Pura except for the rather fanciful carvings which can be seen on the main stairway inside the Candi Bentar.

The remarkable antiquity of this Pura is the massive stone head-portrait of Kebo Iwo. It dates from the 14th C, however it is strangely afar from the Hindu/Javanese icons structured during this period. Kebo Iwo served as a minister to the last Balinese king, Bedulu, who was a despot by nature and had the head of a boar. (IBP/net) Dolphin Tourism Should Be Designed with FAD System Foreign travelers are extermely interested in enjoying dolphin watching on Lovina Beach. The Bulelelgn Chapter of the Indonesia Hotel and Restauratn Association (PHRI) have proposed that instead of chasing the dolphins in fishing boats that the dolphins should instead be diverted usingfish aggregation deveices (FAD) or similar equipment so that the dophins gather in particualr locations.

According to Chairman of the PHRI Buleleng, Dewa Suardipa, tourism in Lovina has not been exploited to its full potential and lacks innovatoin and good packagin gby the government. He pointed to the dolphins as one example. Presently he said, fishermen compete to chase down thedolphins which causes the dolphins to become stresses and so sometimes they do not appear at all.

He suggested that there be a sserious discussion about using FADs to organize dolphinssightseeing. Dophins could be called using a whistle and then fed fish by guests when they approach., he suggested. “ I recommend that FADs be made or floating dolphin homes whereguests could sit comfortably. Dolphin trainers cold then blow a whistle or use some other way to call the dolphins and the mammals would then approach to be fed fish”, he said.

Suardipa hopes that the dolphins can be enjoyed not just in the early morning but also at midday and in the evening when the sun goes down. He added that he is confident that tourism in Lovinacan be developed if it supported by new inoovations. (IBP/net)

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Brazil didn’t mess up Games, nor did it make most of them

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Brazil overcame fears over the Zika virus, a painful recession that left government coffers bare, and the suspension of its president just three months before the opening ceremony of the first Games in South America.

Two years ago, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) warned that Brazil’s preparations were the worst he had ever seen.

Yet a last-minute scramble meant that venues and a new metro line to the Olympic Park were ready in time. Security fears, which prompted the deployment of 85,000 police and security for the Games, were also proved wrong - there was no major attacks of the kind seen recently in Europe.

Yet in terms of the long-term benefits to residents and the image of Rio to the outside world, the Games could have been so much more.

“If we’re content to call the absence of catastrophe an Olympic success, then I suppose it was a success but if that is the case we

are setting the bar too low,” said Jules Boykoff, a professor at Pacific University in Oregon and author of a book on the political history of the Games.

“From the point of view of the lives of ordinary people in Rio, it was not a successful Games. It was a massively missed opportunity.”

In 2009, when a triumphant Brazil won the right to host the Games by a landslide at an IOC meeting in Copenhagen, a tearful President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it would seal Brazil’s entry into the club of “first-class” nations.

“The world has recognised that the time has come for Brazil!” Lula said, predicting the Games would showcase the nation’s improved governance and booming economic growth.

Seven years later, the Games arrived at just the wrong moment for Brazil. Its economy has been ravaged by a commodities collapse while a sweeping corruption scandal has ensnared the construction companies building infrastructure

for the Games and swept Lula’s leftist Workers Party from power.

The run-up to the Games, an unrivalled moment to showcase Brazil’s most picturesque city, was dominated instead by headlines over the impeachment of Lula’s successor, Dilma Rousseff, the spread of Zika, and resurgent crime levels in the city’s slums due to rising unemployment and underfunded police.

The enduring images of the Games will be not just the great sporting achievements - from U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps’ 28th Olympic medal to Usain Bolt’s historic sprint ‘triple triple’ - but also the organizational problems, empty seats and crime.

Locals’ angry reaction to U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte, who made up a story about being robbed at gunpoint, was partly due to the knowledge their nation was being tarnished internationally.

“The country put its image at risk in bidding for the Games and the risk did not work out because it became brutally obvious Brazil has not resolved its problems,” said Christopher Gaffney, an Olympic expert and geographer at the University of Zurich who lived in Rio until last year. (rtr)

NOTTINGHAM - U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte lost all four of his major sponsors on Monday, including Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren Corp, following his apology for an “exaggerated” story about being robbed at gunpoint at the Rio Games.

Lochte’s version of the incident embarrassed the host city, angered local officials and further revelations about it - casting doubt on Lochte’s story - dominated news coverage of South America’s first Olympics. The U.S. Olympic Committee issued an apology on Thursday, and Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, made his own apology on Saturday in an interview with Brazil’s largest broadcaster, Globo TV. “I wasn’t lying to a certain extent,” he said. “I over-exaggerated what was happening to me.”

Within hours of the Games coming to a close on Sunday night, swimwear maker Speedo USA issued a statement saying it would drop Lochte as one of its endorsers, while luxury retailer Ralph Lauren said it would not be renewing its contract with the swimmer.

Hair removal company Syneron Candela also ended its partnership with Lochte, four months after naming him its global brand ambassador for one of its products. Japanese mattress maker Airweave, which last week had said it would stand by Lochte, on Monday said it had decided it would not renew the endorsement, which had been made for the Rio 2016 Olympic games. Sponsorship and endorsement deals typically include “morals clauses” that allow sponsors to terminate deals early if they feel the athlete has behaved poorly in public.

Nottingham, UK-based Speedo’s U.S. unit said on Monday it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children, a global charity partner of Speedo. Lochte said in an email that he respected Speedo’s decision. “I was immature and I made a stupid mistake. I’m human. I made a mistake and I definitely learned from this,” Lochte said in an interview on the Today show.

“They (the people of Rio) put on a great Games... And my immature, intoxicated behavior tarnished that a little,” Lochte said.

Ralph Lauren had taken down references to the gold medalist from its website last week, and on Monday it said it would not renew the Olympic-specific deal, which featured Lochte and other Olympic athletes wearing Ralph Lauren-branded Olympic merchandise. (rtr)

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, United States’ Ryan Lochte checks his time in a men’s 4x200-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Speedo announced Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, that they are dropping their sponsorship of Lochte.

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U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy

AUSTIN - A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year.

While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger legal and cultural battle over transgender rights that could be headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following milestone achievements in gay rights including same-sex marriage becoming legal nationwide in 2015, transgender rights have become an increasingly contentious issue in the United States, with advocates saying the law should afford them the same rights extended to racial and religious minorities.

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, issued a nationwide injunction siding with the 13 states and blocking the Obama administration’s bathroom guidelines on Sunday, the evening before students in much of Texas and some of the other affected states were due back in school.

O’Connor found the federal

government failed to provide states with sufficient notice and opportunity for comment before issuing the guidelines. He also said the guidelines had the effect of law and contradicted existing legislative and regulatory texts.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement it was disappointed by the decision and was reviewing its options. Legal experts expected it to appeal, likely asking to put O’Connor’s ruling on hold until the case could be litigated.

In May, the Justice and Education departments issued guidance that public schools must allowtransgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other intimate facilities of their choice rather than those matching their gender assigned at birth. The Justice Department has called the guidelines nonbinding, saying they had no legal consequences.

But they were also backed up by a threat to withhold federal educa-

tion money from states that refused to comply, drawing objections from 13 states, led by Texas, that sued.

Some conservatives have fought an expansion of transgender rights which thy see as an attack on privacy and an example of federal government overreach.

In test cases around the country, various lower courts have differed in their interpretation on whether anti-discrimination laws apply to transgender people, potentially sending the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court for a definitive resolution.

O’Connor’s ruling is “just one small part of an unfolding process,” said Aaron Bruhl, a professor at William & Mary Law School in Virginia.

“This won’t be the last word on this subject, obviously,” he said.

“There’s a decent chance the U.S. Supreme Court could address this issue in the near future.”

Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia University, said it was “shocking” that O’Connor had applied his injunction to the entire nation, especially since “there’s an opposite decision from the 4th Circuit (Court of Appeals) and eight other lawsuits pending.” (rtr)

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Participants attend the 5th annual LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) pride parade entitled “Viet Pride - Path of Pride” in Hanoi, Vietnam August 21, 2016.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and French President Francois Hollande (L) lead a news conference on the Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi off the coast of Ventotene island, central Italy, August 22, 2016.

Germany, France, Italy say Europe must move forward after Brexit vote

ABOARD ITALIAN WARSHIP GARIBALDI - The leaders of the euro zone’s biggest economies held talks on Monday in the aftermath of Britain’s shock decision to leave the European Union and said Europe had to turn its back on populists who blamed Brussels for all its problems.

Speaking on an aircraft carrier off the Italian island of Ventotene, Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Francois Hollande and Italy’s Matteo Renzi issued calls for closer security cooperation and better opportunities for young people. In a meeting heavy on symbolism, the three leaders visited Ventotene to lay a wreath on the tomb of Altiero Spinelli, an Italian intellectual seen as a founding father of European unity.

They then boarded the Garibaldi, which is in the front line of an EU mission to combat people traffickers who have carried hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe across the Mediterranean.

“For many populists, Europe is to blame for everything that goes wrong,” Renzi said at the joint news conference before the leaders sat down for talks aboard the ship.

“Immigration, it’s Europe’s fault, the economy is bad, it’s Europe’s fault. But that is not the case.” The meeting was designed to lay the groundwork for an EU summit in Bratislava next month.

Monday’s talks marked the beginning of a week of meetings for Merkel with other European governments that will see her travel to four countries and receive leaders from another eight. “We respect Great Britain’s decision but we also want to make clear that the other 27 (member states) are banking on

a safe and prospering Europe,” the German chancellor said.

But questions of how to bring about prosperity have divided the three countries.

Heavily-indebted Italy, whose economy has barely grown since the introduction of the euro currency in 1999, has repeatedly chafed against stern EU budget rules, and both Renzi and Hollande want greater flexibility to help boost growth. Germany is keen for rules to be respected, and Renzi and Merkel sidestepped a question on deficit limits.

All three leaders are threatened at home. Merkel faces discontent over her controversial decision to let in a million mainly Muslim migrants last year. France is reeling from a wave of Islamist attacks and Renzi faces a referendum on constitutional reform this autumn that could trigger his downfall.

The EU plans to offer incentives to African governments to help slow the flow of migrants into Europe, but divisions among member states are stark. Italy, the main entry point for Africans but rarely their planned destination, is struggling to house migrants turned back from neighbouring countries including France, and disagrees with Germany over how to finance the response.

Hollande stressed the need to protect the EU from militant violence by tightening borders and sharing intelligence. “To have security we need frontiers that are controlled so that is why we are working to reinforce coastguards and border guards,” he said. “We want more coordination in the fight against terrorism.” (rtr)

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BUSINESS

Riau police name 85 suspects over wildfire cases

UK manufacturing export orders highest in 2 years after Brexit vote

LONDON - Orders for British manufacturing exports hit a two-year peak in August following a Brexit-induced fall in sterling, as the weaker pound also pushed up price expectations to their highest in over a year, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The Confederation of British Industry said its measure of overall factory orders dipped slightly in August to -5. But that beat a median forecast of -9 in a Reuters poll of economists, and export orders improved to -6 from -22, their highest since August 2014.

Manufacturers were more optimistic as output expectations for the next three months rose to +11 from +6 in July.

Supporters of Britain’s departure from the European Union have argued that a post-referendum decline in sterling was likely to help the economy, while opponents say the outcome of the June 23 vote could tip the country into recession.

Economists cautioned against reading too much into the CBI survey.

Samuel Tombs, at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said export orders had jumped in August in the past two years only to fall back in September, and the overall reading from manufacturing was consistent with stagnation in output.

Allan Monks at JP Morgan said the survey suggested the economy was set for a sharp slowdown but not a recession.

Anna Leach, CBI Head of Economic Analysis and Surveys, said stronger-than-expected manufacturing output growth and some

Surplus predicted in Indonesia`s rice supply

JAKARTA - The agriculture ministry said the country is expected to have a surplus of 11.38 million tons in supply of milled rice by the end of this year.

signs that the fall in sterling was helping to bolster export orders were positives.

“But the pound’s weakness is a double-edged sword, as it benefits exporters but also pushes up costs and prices,” she said.

The CBI said average prices that manufacturers expected to charge over the next three months

rose to +8 in August from +5 in July, their highest since February 2015.

The survey reinforced recent data showing inflation gathering pace after Brexit, highlighting the challenge the Bank of England might face in trying to stimulate the economy while price pressures pick up.

Separate data on Tuesday added to signs that consumers have shrugged off the outcome of the referendum, at least for now.

Grocery sales in Britain saw their fastest rise since March, according to industry data, while British housebuilder Persimmon said it had seen a jump in reservations by buyers of new homes over the last

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two months.

Data published last week showed retail sales jumped in July.

However, Brexit is expected to hurt consumer spending over time as the economy slows, inflation picks up and uncertainty over Britain’s relationship with the EU weighs on investment and hiring decisions. (rtr)

Euro zone business growth stable in August, France surprises upwards

LONDON - Surprisingly strong growth in France supported stable euro zone private business activity during August but factories could face a tougher September as new order growth stumbled, surveys showed on Tuesday.

Muddying the outlook for the coming months is the United Kingdom’s vote in late June to leave the European Union, although so far the economic repercussions seem

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Shoppers cross the road in Oxford Street, in London, Britain August 14, 2016.

to have been confined to Britain, not its main trading partner.

“August’s slight rise in the euro zone Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index suggests that, despite shrugging off the UK’s Brexit vote, economic conditions remain fairly subdued,” said Stephen Brown at Capital Economics.

France’s private sector shrugged off its neighbour’s vote and accelerated to levels last seen just before

the militant attacks in Paris in November, as an upturn in the service sector offset continued weakness in manufacturing.

Those attacks, and the recent one in Nice in July, hit the country’s service industry - the hotel and restaurant sector in particular - and resulted in lower demand for travel to Europe.

In France, the travel and tourism sector’s contribution to GDP will

grow 1.1 percent this year, down from a previous forecast of 2.9 percent, the World Travel and Tourism Council said on Monday.

Still, the brighter overall picture should alleviate fears the French economy continued to slow down this quarter after unexpectedly stagnating in the second quarter of the year.

German private sector growth slowed in August, but remained

robust overall, its PMI showed, suggesting Europe’s biggest economy is set to keep on expanding in the summer months after it grew more than expected in the second quarter.

Consumer confidence remained tepid across the currency bloc this month, another sign of low morale after the British decision to leave the EU, official data is expected to show later on Tuesday. (rtr)

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Chief spokesman of the ministry Agung Hendriadi said rice supply is estimated to reach 43.69 million tons as against requirement of 32.3 million tons this year.

“A surplus , therefore, is expected to reach 11.38 million tons, even there would be an excess of 20 million tons in supply on stocks including early year stock and Bulog stocks and harvest 8.8 million tons,” Agung said.

Similarly excesses are also estimated in the supply of other foodstuff including 2.1 million tons of corn grains, 339,400 tons of sugar, 18.5 million tons of cooking oil, 131,800 tons of red onion, 414,400 tons of chili, 1.59 million tons of chicken meat and 1.44 million tons of eggs.

Meanwhile, deficit is expected in the supply of beef and soybeans.

Deficit in beef supply is esti-

mated to reach 220,000 tons with supply totaling 441,8000 tons as against consumption of 662,300 tons, and deficit in soybean is around 1.09 million tons with supply totaling only 1.5 million tons as against consumption of 2.59 million tons.

Agung, however, said in general supply of the 11 strategic commodities is relatively safe until the end of the year.

“Deficit would be recorded only in the supply of two commodities until the end of the year,” he said. (ant)

PEKANBARU - The Riau Police have named 85 suspects over wildfires during the January-August 2016 period.

The cases are being handled by 11 resort police stations across Riau, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Guntur Aryo Tejo, spokesman of the Riau Police, remarked here, Monday.

The suspects comprise land owners or farmers who used slash and burn methods to clear land for farming or plantation, the policeman noted, adding that no plantation company was involved in the wildfires.

The Riau provincial authorities have extended the emergency status for wildfires from March to November 2016 to optimize the efforts to control the fires.

As the result, Riau, which had been shrouded by haze every year for the past 18 years, is now almost free from it.

Head of the Riau Disaster Mitigation Office Edwar Sanger, however, reported that from January to August 2016, a total of 1,559.9 hectares of forest, peatland, and plantation areas had been razed by fires across the province.

Last Saturday, Indonesias National Institute of Aeronautics and Space reported that the number of hotspots across Sumatra Island had reached 74, seven more than the 67 reported a day earlier.

Of the 74 hotspots, 34 were found in Riau, 15 in South Sumatra, nine in North Sumatra, six in Bangka Belitung, five in West Sumatra, four in Lampung, and one in Aceh. (ant)

Adjunct Senior Commissioner Guntur Aryo Tejo

BNPB declares six provinces in emergency of forest fires

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said six of Indonesian provinces are in emergency of forest and bush fires.

“BNPB, therefore, has put into operation eight water bombing helicopters,” chief spokesman of the agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said here on Tuesday.

The six provinces are Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

Sutopo said it is feared the worst of dry

season is yet to come, adding normally in September forest fires are more devastating.

Sumatra and Kalimantan always had the largest number of hot spots from August until October with the worst in September, he warned.

The West Kalimantan Governor has even extended the emergency period until November for that province, he added.

“The declaration of emergency status

would give BNPB and its regional units easier access to potential sources in its efforts to mobilize fire fighting forces,” he said.

Currently, BNPB already has in its disposal eight units of water bombing helicopters, two units of water bombing fixed wing aircraft and another two planes for artificially made rain.

“Three of the water bombing helicopters, two water bombing fixed planes and a a CASA plane for artificial rains would be

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placed in Riau,” he said.

Riau has always been the most devastated by forest and peat land fires, which comes almost every year.

Sutopo said this year , preparations in dealing with the forest fire emergency situation is better than in previous years.

“In 2015, preparation and action came late in dealing with forest and bush fires resulting in greater difficulties in poutting out the fires,” he said. (ant)

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Bali News

International SVF schedule on Wednesday (Aug. 24): From the morning, it is filled with various activities and competitions such as traditional regatta, village cycling tour, Sanur SME creative exhibition, food bazaar and coral reef planting. In the afternoon, visitors will be jazzed up with Keroncong music concert (17:30 to 18:30) followed by the opening ceremony (18:30 to 20:00); and the appearance of the Cahya Atsyuka studio. After that, the main stage will present fashion show by the Endek Envoy of Denpasar (20:00 to 20:30) as well as the appearance of Indra Lesmana and Dewa Budjana Project featuring the Penggak Men Mersi and Eva Celia Lesmana. The series of performances will be closed with the appearance of Gus Teja World Music and the Un’broken (22:05 to 23:05).

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Indra Lesmana explained about Sanur Village Festival that will be open on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 in the press conference that held on Monday.

Today SVF officially opened

Enlivened by Indra, Budjana, Penggak Men Mersi and Gus Teja

DENPASAR - Gus Teja World Music will grace a series of ceremonies at the opening night of the Sanur Village Festival XI, Wednesday (Aug. 24). In addition, the jazz musicians Indra Lesmana and Dewa Budjana will make collaboration with an art troupe of Denpasar, Penggak Men Mersi, featuring the singer Eva Celia Lesmana.

Committee Chairman of the Sanur Village Festival, Ida Bagus Gde Sidharta Putra, said that the first night of the festival will be arranged more neatly and orderly as well as flow so that can make the audience and visitors comfortable.

“The committee has been organizing the entertainment activities,

SME product exhibition, culinary booths and other attractions so that visitors are free to enjoy and feel homey in the festival arena,” he said, Tuesday (Aug. 23).

Sidharta Putra familiarly called Gusde said that armed with the experiences of holding similar festival for ten years has made the

committee mostly consisting of Sanur residents under the Sanur Development Foundation increasingly solid and professional.

He added that the opening ceremony will be attended by Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya and Minister of Cooperatives and the SMEs Anak Agung Ngurah Puspayoga that have provided great support for the implementation of the community-based and independent tourism promotion. Gusde did not explain about the opening procession in details, but invited the community to witness it firsthand, including the

ballet that will be presented by the Cahya Atsyuka Studio.

Mayor of Denpasar, Ida Bagus Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, said that the cultural activities of the townspeople have given significant contribution in developing the life of Denpasar as a heritage city, creative city and the culture-based city.

A number of cultural events, including the Sanur Village Festival, have showed the urban civilization that always invites residents to innovate and make creativity in various fields. “Cultural activities have become the marker of Denpasar as a

heritage city that we must constantly promote,” he said when opening the Denpasar Art Space initiated by the municipal government of Denpasar.

General Coordinator of the SVF, Wisnu Diwangkara, said that the stand of food bazaar keeps drawing thousands of people through the years because they offer five-star hotel menus with a special and affordable price. In addition, a number of SME products for domestic use, fashion and other trinkets are offered at a special stand and the arena of the Sanur Creative Expo. (kmb18)

Village leaders establish MWMBA

To realize Bali Aga into tourism village

SINGARAJA - All this time the villages known as the Bali Aga (native villages to Bali) including the Sidatapa, Cempaga, Tigawasa, Pedawa and Banyusri are increasingly more serious in developing the potential owned by the region.

The five villages have now established a joint management known as the big family of the SCTPB Bali native villages (MWMBA—Ed).

In the structure of the management, the chief of the five customary villages is appointed an adviser.

In the meantime, composition of the main structure in the management is taken from headman of the five administrative villages. This organization is led by the headman of Tigawasa, Made Suadarma Yasa.

He is accompanied by a deputy who is also the headman of Pedawa I Putu Sudarmaja and headman of Sidatapa. In the meantime, the secretary is the headman of Cempaga Putu Suarjaya, while the headman of Banyusri Nyoman Sukadana serves as the treasurer. Basically, establishment of the management aims to make the Bali Aga villages into integrated with culture- and nature-based tourism village. Each village has different potentials so that they should be explored and maximized.

Headman of Cempaga, Putu Suarjaya, said that establishment of the management is to accommodate all forms of development and used as the medium to find a

solution related to the issues faced by the Bali Aga villages. Having been established, he has held the data on several things becoming the attention related to the village boundaries between the five villages. Village boundary issues must be addressed together by promoting the principle of kinship because anyway the five villages belong to one area. “As the management, after having been established we will find solutions related to the arising problems. All solutions must be made amicably so as not to result in other problems,” he said.

Aside from boundary issues, the management will also focus on the security maintenance in the entire regions of the Bali Aga village. This

security will be related to the goals and ideals of the Bali Aga in the development process through various programs such as the establishment of tourism village based on local wisdom, customs and cultures as well as the remaining beautiful environment. “We have agreed that environmental and sanitation issues will be addressed jointly and not separately. However, the headman must also be able to urge its residents to consciously maintain the healthy and beautiful environment of each of neighborhood,” he explained.

In the meantime, a number of people coalesced into the five villages also put signpost if the five Bali Aga villages are tourism

village. The signpost also carries the message associated with the efforts for environmental and nature conservation. One of the figures that are now keen to stimulate the awareness of protecting the environment is Wayan Ariawan, a resident of Sidatapa village. He said that some signposts are installed at each village, including in the tourism lane from Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan towards one of the Bali Aga villages. “Installation of the signpost carrying the message is meant to invite people so as to have more awareness of protecting the environment as a manifestation of commitment and the Bali Aga village can become a tourism village,” he affirmed. (kmb38)

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Over 1,900 killed in “chilling” Philippines war on drugs

MANILA - More than 1,900 people, or about 36 per day, have been killed in a violent campaign against drugs in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office seven weeks ago, the country’s national police chief said on Tuesday.

Director-General Ronald dela Rosa told a Senate hearing there was no declared policy to kill drug users and pushers and that about 1,100 deaths were still being investigated.

“We are not butchers,” he said.

The rest of the dead were people killed in police anti-narcotics operations, dela Rosa said.

“This has a chilling effect,” said Senator Frank Drilon after the police chief’s deposition. “We are all concerned about the number of deaths, by any language this is alarming.”

Duterte, nicknamed “the Punisher”, was voted to power promising to wipe out drugs and warning traffickers they risked death if they did not mend their ways.

The inquiry is being conducted by a staunch critic of the president, Senator Leila de Lima, who has summoned top police and antinarcotics officials to explain the “unprecedented” rise in the body count and reports of vigilante killings.

Duterte has warned legislators

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Family members of people alleged by police as drug pushers and were killed during an illegal drugs “meth raid”, wear masks during a Senate hearing regarding people killed during a crackdown on illegal drugs in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines August 23, 2016. not to interfere with his campaign, saying they could be killed if they blocked efforts aimed at improving the country.

Nearly 700,000 drug users and drug peddlers have turned themselves in to escape the crackdown, police chief dela Rosa said. He said there was a decrease in overall

crime, although murders and homicides had increased.

Outside the senate building, dozens of supporters cheered dela Rosa for leading the war against drugs, chanting his nickname, “Bato, Bato”.

Some carried placards reading: “We are with you Bato in the fight

against drugs”.

The United States, a close ally of the Philippines, said overnight it was “deeply concerned” by the reports of the killings and the State Department urged Duterte’s government to abide by human rights norms.

New York-based Human Rights

Watch said the United States and European Union members “should make it clear to Duterte that inciting such violence is unacceptable and will reap potentially severe diplomatic and economic costs”.

“Otherwise, it’s hard to envision when these killings will end,” it said. (rtr)

Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate Clinton Foundation

AKRON - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of cheering supporters in Akron, Ohio, as he tries to rebound from a slide in national opinion polls with little more than two months to go until the Nov. 8 election.

Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a “pay-for-play” scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s 20092013 tenure as the country’s top diplomat. Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey cited her careless handling of classified emails but opted not to prosecutor her.

“The Justice Department is required to appoint a special prosecutor because it has proved to be, sadly,

a political arm of the White House,” Trump said.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like it before.”

Trump’s appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band. Trump’s call for an independent investigation followed an announcement by the Clinton Foundation that it would no longer accept foreign donations should Clinton be elected president.

The Clinton campaign fired back at Trump, saying the foundation had already laid out “the unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hillary Clinton becomes president.”Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement that Trump “needs to come clean with voters about his complex network” of businesses that are in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China, after a New York Times report on the subject.

“Donald Trump should stop hiding behind fake excuses and release his tax returns and immediately disclose the full extent of his business interests,” Podesta said. (rtr)

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks onstage during a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, U.S., August 22, 2016.

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What are the origins of life?

There’s a rocket for that

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu in 2018 to find clues about the origins of life.

“We are days away from encapsulating into our rocket faring and lifting this spacecraft on to the Atlas V vehicle and beginning the journey to Bennu and back,” Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of the mission told Reuters at the Kennedy Space Center. The $1 billion mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, is scheduled for launch on Sept. 8, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft which will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth for study is seen in an undated NASA artist rendering.

The solar-powered robotic spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, is set to rendezvous with asteroid 1999 RQ36, nicknamed Bennu, in two years’ time for mapping and surveys, then use a robotic arm to collect samples for return in 2023.

Scientists are interested in studying what minerals and chemicals the asteroid contains. Similar asteroids crashing into Earth are believed to have provided the organic materials and water needed for life to form.

“We expect to find materials that pre-date our solar system,” said Lauretta, adding that physical samples from the 1960s and 1970s Apollo moon missions are still bearing scientific fruit to this day.

“To understand the chemistry down to the molecular level we have to get a sample back and take them to the best labs in this country and around the world now and for generations to come,” added mission project scientist Jason Dworkin.

In 2010, Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft was the first to bring back physical samples of an Asteroid to Earth. Along with sample retrieval, the Orisis-Rex spacecraft is equipped with a suit of cameras and sensors designed to study what forces influence the asteroids orbit.

Even planning the spacecraft’s flight plan for rendezvous with Bennu was difficult because the physics of asteroid trajectories isn’t a perfect science, said Lauretta. “This turned out to be a much larger challenge than we originally anticipated because other forces like solar radiation pressure, even thermal emission off the asteroid itself will push the spacecraft around,” Lauretta added. The mission, Dworkin said, will give astronomers new insights into how heat from the sun influences the movement of space rocks, data critical in protecting Earth from potential asteroid collisions in the future. (rtr)

Protecting the environment in Senegal?

There’s an app for that

DAKAR - Hunched over her laptop, eyes locked on the screen, Marième Seye listens to the stepby-step instructions given by her teacher.

The 18-year-old isn’t studying math or history, however. With 24 other Senegalese students, she is learning to develop a mobile app to raise awareness about the environment. In small groups, the students develop apps focusing on environmental issues, in the format of their choice - such as a game, quiz or a platform to look up potentially unfamiliar terms, such as “endangered species”. Seye has called her app “Weer Weeldé”, which means “a healthy planet for a healthy life” in Wolof.

Users must choose which between four pictures - for example, a person drinking dirty water, another smoking, industrial fumes and people planting trees - to pick what represents the most positive

contribution to the planet. Choosing the correct image - in this case, tree planting - rewards the user with points, before all pictures appear with a caption explaining the dangers or benefits linked to the activities.

“I’m interested in developing a phone app because I use them all the time,” Seye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The three-day workshop, organised by the Goethe Institute and mJangale, a Senegalese after-school programme, aims to improve students’ literacy, numeracy, and foreign language skills.

Christelle Scharff, co-founder of mJangale and professor of computer science at Pace University in New York, teaches participants to use MIT App Inventor - a drag-anddrop tool allowing users to create a basic phone app. The students follow her every click on a computer screen projected on the wall.

“The goal is to introduce young people to computing, as well as to make them more knowledgeable about the environment,” Scharff explained, walking between the groups to check their progress.

“So it’s applying computing to something. We didn’t want kids to just develop an app, but also to gain knowledge in another area.”

The Android apps will be made available on Google Play, where they can be downloaded for free.

Idriss Sall Diop, 18, just passed his baccalaureate. “This is totally new to me, I’ve never studied IT and just started using computers,” he admitted from his front-row seat.

“Young people are interested in social media but not necessarily in the environment,” he added. “I think these apps are a way around that - we’re always keen to learn about new things.”Adja Aissatou Sy, communications manager at Senegal’s Ministry of Environ-

ment, said at the workshop that teenagers have limited awareness when it comes to environmental issues.

“Mobile apps are a good way to share information and broaden young people’s knowledge on this topic,” she explained.

The African continent has been slow to adopt digital technologies in education, according to Thierry Zomahoun, chairperson of the Next Einstein Forum, a conference to advance science innovation in Africa. The first conference was held in Dakar in March.

He believes more advanced equipment in schools - from computers to scientific laboratories - will broaden students’ horizon and better prepare them for the job market.

“We can’t just stand idle while there are more African engineers in the U.S. than there are on the African continent - we need to

reverse that trend,” he said at the conference.Scharff added that “as big consumers of technology, Facebook and all these tools, young people can also contribute to tons of solutions here in Senegal.”According to Senegal’s Telecoms Regulation Authority report released in March, the country’s mobile phone penetration rate reached 113.7 percent in the first quarter of 2016 - which can be explained by the fact that some mobile users hold several SIM cards.Sy agrees that youth need a context in which to create a link with the environment.

“For example, there doesn’t exist, as far as I know, an app that focuses on biodiversity in Senegal,” she said.”I would like to see a game on identifying our endangered species - like chimpanzees or panthers - and asking questions that would empower young people to protect their environment.” (rtr)

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Questioned, tourism projects cannot be realized yet

BANGLI - Dozens of physical programs in the provision of supporting facilities for a number of tourist attractions handled by the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency have not been realized. Actually, they have been approved in the parent budget in November 2015. It raised a question of the Commission III of the Bangli House of Representatives in the joint working meeting with the Culture and Tourism Agency, Public Works Agency, BPMPD as well as General Affairs, Assets and Equipment of the Bangli Regional Secretariat, Monday (Aug. 22).

A member of Commission III, I Dewa Gede Oka, assessed the unrealized program of the Culture and Tourism Agency drafted in the regional budget approaching to the end of this year is considered very ironic. It gives unserious impression in developing the tourist destination having been the largest revenue contributor to the region. “I think the program is vague and cannot been realized so far. What happens next if the realization is like this?” he asked. Due to being furious, this Gerindra politician asked to reveal the problem faced all this time in the work meeting, so that everything will be entirely clear in the future. “Then, please specify the obstacles encountered all this time,” he asked.

Responding to the question, the Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, accompanied by a number division heads revealed the physical programs including the repair of road, parking space and toilet cannot be realized at

15 locations. His agency faced difficult problem in the matter of assets.

He stated to have often made coordination with relevant agencies, one of which is the asset bureau.

However, the information received remains confusing. In addition, the tight control by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) also results in fear in the realization of the program.

“The construction is passing on land belonging to customary village, private property or natural resources conservation agency (BKSDA). This makes the program unable to run.

Nevertheless, we do not keep silent and have made coordination with relevant agencies,” he explained.

What revealed by Adnyana was responded back by Dewa Oka. The fears perceived all this time and considered as an obstacle, according to him, are not an excuse. Realizing a program has become a responsibility. However, to avoid legal entanglement, it is needed to find out a proper solution

accompanied with the more intense coordination with other agencies. “I’d like to know why his obstacle is just delivered in this working meeting. If there is no working meeting, will this not be discussed? Please intensify the coordination. We want everything is clear,” he affirmed.

Amid the quite heating debate, Subdivision Head of General Affairs, Assets and Equipment, Putu Agus Mulyawan, admitted to have made coordination with the Culture and Tourism Agency regarding the solution to the existing problems.

According to him, the program dealing with land can be resolved, one of which is through borrowing base utilization, mainly the land belonging to customary village. “Borrowing base utilization cannot be applied to movable assets. But, the land is still possible as long as everything is clear and made in written agreement. Based on our experiences, the process does not take very long,” he explained.

The solution delivered is positively responded by a member of Commission III, I Made Sudiasa. By that way, the asset issue could be resolved shortly and the realization of the development can be assured before the discussion of budget amendment.

“This asset issue must be resolved immediately. Everything should be clear and the asset committee is also ready

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Dozens of students report the case to Bali Police

DENPASAR - A lecturer of hospitality training center in Nusa Dua with the initials PSS was reported to Bali Police by five students with the allegation of having defrauded them to work overseas, Monday (Aug. 22). In the meantime, the victims amounting to 36 people are estimated to suffer total loss of billions of rupiahs.

One of the victims, I Gede Agus Angga Purnama, 21, after reporting the case to the integrated public service of the Bali Police, told that PSS nicknamed Miss Ayu recruited workers to be employed overseas through her employment agency. PSS opened job opportunity program to Germany and the Netherlands in May 2015.

“My friends and I were promised to be departed in August 2015,” said Angga accompanied by his lawyer from the Bali Advocacy and the Indonesia Legal Aid Institute (LABHI).

Angga explained that PSS promised the victims to get a salary of around EUR 2,700 (IDR 40 million) and provided a working visa.

She took advantage of her status as a lecturer at the training center so that the victims easily believed and have paid at an average of IDR 63 million. “The payment was made gradually. While waiting for settlement process, we are required to undergo training,” said Angga, while showing off the evidence of report Number: TBL/314 / VIII/2016/SPKT Polda Bali.

In the meantime, the victim’s lawyer, Ni Luh Sukawati, affirmed that after the victims already made full payment, but PSS did not keep her promise. “She always overextended, but finally the departure was canceled for unclear reason,” she said.

Action of PSS was finally revealed with the presence of notification letter from the German Consulate in Indonesia that mentioned if the PSS-

owned enterprise is in fact a contractor, not an employment agency.

Of the 36 victims, only five people have officially reported the case to Bali Police namely I Gede Agus Angga Purnama, 21, Komang Agus Sunada, 27, Ni Putu Sri Antari, 22, Kadek Krisna Wijaya, 22, and Desak Putu Agustiani, 20.

“The victims would like to resolve the case through familial approach so as to get back the money.

However, when the defendant was contacted, her mobile phone was off. When searched directly to her home, she was always not at home,” said Sukawati accompanied

by Ni Luh Desi Swandari.

Spokesman of Bali Police, Anak Agung Made Sudana, when asked for his confirmation said that the report on the fraud allegation is still under initial investigation. According to him, every report received by Bali Police will be followed up by the investigators. (kmb36)

to lend a hand,” he said.

Similar opinion was expressed by Chairman of Commission I, Ketut Suastika, who was also leading the meeting. Identification of the land issues is expected to be completed no later than two weeks. “Whatever the problems are, they must be available no later than two weeks,” he said The question was also addressed

to the hot mix road program handled by the Public Works Agency, namely related to the number of road sections to be worked on in 2017 and 2018.

However, since the secretary of the Public Works Agency I Made Soma and Division Head of Highways I Putu Wina Gunawan forgot to bring the data, the working meeting had to be postponed. (kmb45)

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Dozens of physical programs in the provision of supporting facilities for a number of tourist attractions handled by the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency have not been realized.

Actually, they have been approved in the parent budget in November 2015.

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According to the data of BPS Bali per September 2015, continued Astawa, the expenditure of the poor people in urban areas for filter cigarettes reached 5.50 percent of their revenue. Conversely, the poor people in rural areas have the expenditure on cigarettes by 3.43 percent. Ironically, the percentage of cigarette is much greater than their expenditure on education in non-food commodities. “Expenditure of the urban poor on education reaches 2.14 percent, while in rural areas only reaches 1.24 percent,” he explained.

Chairman of Commission IV, Nyoman Parta, said that smoking is highly correlated to poverty in Bali. “Well, it’s quite clear that they produce IDR 1.5 million a month but spend IDR 1 million on buying cigarettes. Instead, the cost of education is put in the seventh position, while cigarette on the second,” he said.

Parta added that it is inseparable from the inexpensive price of cigarettes in Indonesia. Actually in other countries such as Singapore, Thailand and even Vietnam, the price of cigarettes is much more expensive.

In addition, cigarette is also easy to obtain and can be sold at retail. Cur-

rently there has been a discourse of the central government to double the price of cigarettes. According to him, it will not have an impact on the poverty alleviation as long as the cigarettes can still be sold at retail.

“Many people in Indonesia smoke because this is the only country where cigarettes are sold at retail, so that it can be purchased anywhere. At stalls and road side people can buy cigarette at retail, so that everyone can buy.

When wishing to reduce smokers, one of the ways is to no longer allow the retail cigarette sales opportunities.

This is the most important,” said this PDI-P politician from Gianyar.

According to Parta, retail sales plus the cheap price of cigarettes have also caused the number of smokers of early age between 8-14 years to continuously increase every year.

Actually, children of elementary and junior high school age have not yet owned any income. In the meantime, smokers are the persons having militancy and loyalty to particular brand of cigarettes.

“They’ve been in the position to addiction. So, our fellow smokers cannot be provided with regulations.

Presented them with awful pictures on cigarette pack does not work, so this is not the answer. The answer is to multiply the dissemination on the

hazards of smoking,” he added.

Parta added that the government can provide more spaces for smoking cessation consultations. In addition, they must be prepared with herbal medicines as substitute for cigarettes. Cost of the dissemination and provision of herbal medicine can be taken from the cigarette tax revenue of the Customs. In 2016, Bali is allocated with IDR 58,620,011,100 or 30 percent of the budget limit for the regions across Bali reaching IDR 195,400,037,000. This amount increased from 2015 reaching IDR 58,226,803,353 or 30 percent of the realization across Bali at IDR 194,089,344,510.

“Unfortunately, such funds are not taken advantage by the provincial and district/municipal governments in Bali for the benefit of dissemination, preparation of consultants to quit smoking and preparation of materials used for cigarette substitute. It is even used for other interests,” he said.

an easy achievement. Therefore, the provincial government will continue to address and study more if there are new criteria used to determine the overall poverty in Indonesia.

“We continuously improve in terms of quality and quantity. In terms of quality, all the drawbacks in what has been running must be further improved, so that it will be nice and the pleasure found by the people can be enjoyed,” he said.

In terms of quantity, added Sudikerta, the government will multiply the poverty alleviation programs to resolve the remaining number of poor people. There are four clusters when talking about poverty. The first cluster is the very poor communities and they

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SINGARAJA - Foreign travelers are extermely interested in enjoying dolphin watching on Lovina Beach. The Buleleng Chapter of the Indonesia Hotel and Restauratn Association (PHRI) have proposed that instead of chasing the dolphins in fishing boats that the dolphins should instead be diverted usingfish aggregation deveices (FAD) or similar equipment so that the dophins gather in particualr locations.

According to Chairman of the PHRI Buleleng, Dewa Suardipa, tourism in Lovina has not been

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Expenditure on the cigarette is even ranked the second after the expenditure on rice.

Sanghyang Grodog

A legendary and sacred dance of Nusa Lembongan SEMARAPURA - Sanghyang Grodog dance is one of the traditions remaining to exist in Nusa Penida up to these days.

The dance containing the attraction is staged every new moon of sasih karo (July-August). This dance is not common as most other sanghyang (sacred) dances in Bali. It is different as comprising 23 sanghyang dances incorporated into the Aci Sanghyang Grodog staged at the time. It is a sacred dance presented in the ritual at Lembongan customary village for 11 consecutive days starting from day seven of sasih karo (Aug. 9-21).

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This dance is not common as most other sanghyang (sacred) dances in Bali.

Chairman of the Ritual Committee, I Putu Bali, said in his report that the ceremony is held at the central intersection (Catus Pata) of Lembongan customary village serving as nature for the life of universe having contributed selflessly.

Surely the sacred dance drew the interest of many travelers happening to enjoy the visit on the island.

Putu Bali conveyed that the dance commonly known as the Sanghyang Perahu in the region has a magicalritual function to reject catastrophe, contagious disease outbreak and livestock disease such as in cows,

pigs and chickens. It is also used as a means of invoking rain when rainy season comes too late.

The 23 types of Sanghyang Grodog include the Sanghyang Sampat, Sanghyang Bumbung, Sanghyang Penyalin, Sanghyang Lingga, Sanghyang Joged, Sanghyang Dukuh Ngaba Cicing, Sanghyang Jaran, Sanghyang Dukuh Masang Bubu, Sanghyang Sampi, Sanghyang Bangu-Bangu, Sanghyang Kebo, Sanghyang Tiling-Tiling, Sanghyang Enjo-Enjo, Sanghyang Manjangan, Sanghyang Tutut, Sanghyang Jangolan Dukuh Ngaba

Penyu, Sanghyang Barong, Sanghyang Kelor, Sanghyang Capah, Sanghyang Perahu, Sanghyang Sumbul, Sanghyang Payung and Sanghyang Bunga.

At the special night, the Regent of Klungkung I Nyoman Suwirta along with the spouse Mrs. Ayu Suwirta attended the closing ceremony denoting the last series in the Aci Sanghyang Grodog ceremony at Lembongan village. Such an event was also attended by Chairman of the Klungkung House of Representatives I Wayan Baru accompanied by the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida I Gusti Agung Putra Mahajaya, headman of Lembongan Ketut Gede Arjaya and headman of Jungut Batu Made Gede Suryawan, Saturday (Aug. 20). Regent Suwirta stated that the Sanghyang Grodog belongs to a sacred and sanctified dance. The ceremony was sincerely held for the third time at Lembongan village. (dwa)

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are targeted with house refurbishment assistance. The second cluster is the poor communities targeted through house refurbishment done in synergy with the district / municipal government.

“The third and fourth clusters are those almost and vulnerable to be poor targeted by the provincial government of Bali with the provision of job opportunity through relevant agencies. Some are given the help in the form of community-based economic strengthening, nurseries, et cetera so that gradually my expectation and that of governor can harmonize the life of Balinese people from the crush of poverty and they can live a feasible life,” he said. (kmb32)

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exploited to its full potential and lacks innovatoin and good packagin gby the government. He pointed to the dolphins as one example. Presently he said, fishermen compete to chase down thedolphins which causes the dolphins to become stresses and so sometimes they do not appear at all.

He suggested that there be a sserious discussion about using FADs to organize dolphinssightseeing.

Dophins could be called using a whistle and then fed fish by guests when they approach., he suggested.

“ I recommend that FADs be made or floating dolphin homes whereguests could sit comfortably. Dolphin trainers cold then blow a whistle or use some other way to call the dolphins and the mammals would then approach to be fed fish”, he said.

Suardipa hopes that the dolphins can be enjoyed not just in the early morning but also at midday and in the evening when the sun goes down. He added that he is confident that tourism in Lovinacan be developed if it supported by new inovations.

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Dancers aim to qualify for Argentina’s World Tango Championship

BUENOS AIRES - Salon tango dancers glided onto a dance floor in Buenos Aires on Monday in the hopes of qualifying for the World Tango Festival and Championship held every year in the Argentine capital.

“My expectation is to have the experience of being here, of having personal growth in dance,” said Uruguayan tango dancer Maria Poggio, 38.

“If everything goes our way and we qualify ... that would be great, but the most important thing is to participate and prepare for this, an expectation to grow,” she said.

Andre Magro, 35, who is originally from Brazil, said dancing was about having fun.

“There are more than 400 couples dancing, participating and it is very

difficult if you want to go through to the finals because there are people who dance very well, around the world,” Magro said. He said anyone who reached the semifinal would be very happy, but “the result is what least matters because people are here to meet other people, to dance and have fun.”

The tango originated in the early 19th century in the working-class port areas of Buenos Aires. Now a ballroom dance popular around the world, couples still can be seen passionately dancing the tango on the streets of

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Buenos Aires neighborhoods like San Telmo. Chilean Omar Aguilera, 30, spoke about being transported to another world while dancing.

“Well, it’s a championship, so the (skill) level is always very high. You’re always watching championships and you realize the level grows even more every year,” Aguilera said. “During the round we danced in, one could feel the powerful energy of tango, so I get lost in that. I can’t see but you feel it when you’re on the floor dancing in full swing.” The World Tango Festival and Championship opened on August 22 and is scheduled to run until August 31 at Usina del Arte, a cultural center in the neighborhood of La Boca. (rtr)

Couples compete in the Salon Tango style qualifier round at the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 22, 2016.

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APPARENTLY many poor people in Bali set aside their earnings to buy cigarette filter. Expenditure on the cigarette is even ranked the second after the expenditure on rice. In other words, there is still indeed a correlation between smoking and poverty even though the poverty rate in Bali has dropped from 5.25 percent to 4.25 percent.

“Expenditure of the poor is divided into two, namely the food and non-food commodities. For food commodities, the highest spending is clearly for the rice. Well, the second is on cigarette. This means, it is the expenditure of the poor in a month calculated by the Center for Statistics Agency (BPS), not what has made them poor,” said the Head of Bappeda Bali, I Putu Astawa, when confirmed in Denpasar, Monday (Aug. 22).

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The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for “Peace Valley”, is seen in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq August 3, 2016.

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World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as Shi’ite militias bury their dead

BAGHDAD - The world’s largest cemetery, in Iraq’s Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation’s death rate increased with the war on Islamic State.

The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for “Peace Valley,” has a special place in the hearts of Shi’ite Muslims as it surrounds the Mausoleum of their first imam, Ali Bin Abi Talib, a cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad.

The pace of daily burials rose

to 150-200 after Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group overran a third of the country in 2014, said Jihad Abu Saybi, a historian of the cemetery. The rate was 80-120 a day previously, he said.

Shi’ite paramilitary often visit Ali’s golden-domed shrine before

heading to the frontlines to battle Islamic State, and request to be laid to rest in Wadi al-Salam should they be killed, as a reward for their sacrifice.

As land becomes scarce, the cost of a standard 25 square metre family burial lot has risen to about 5 million Iraqi dinars ($4100) almost double the amount paid for the same lots before violence escalated as IS exerted control over large swathes

of north and western Iraq in 2014.

Millions of graves of different shapes lie in the roughly 10 square km (4 square miles) cemetery that attracts burials from Shiites all over the world. By nationality, Iraq’s Iranian neighbours are thought to come second in number people interred near Ali’s golden-domed shrine.

Often built with baked bricks and plaster, decorated with Koranic

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