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New sex charge against Spacey: US prosecutors LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney’s office has received a second sexual assault complaint against Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, whose acting career has nosedived following allegations by more than a dozen men in the United States and Britain.

“A case of sexual assault was filed yesterday (21/8) in our office by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, involving Kevin Spacey, and is under review,” Greg Risling with the prosecutors’ office told AFP Wednesday.

A separate investigation was opened back in April for a complaint about an alleged assault in 1992 involving a man.

Risling did not specify details about this new complaint, or the status of the previous one.

The two-time Academy Awardwinner has seen allegations against him pile up on the heels of the

#MeToo movement, which began with the fall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Spacey also has open investigations in London, where he directed The Old Vic Theater between 2004 and 2015, and in Nantucket, an island resort near Boston.

The first report that was made public was that of actor Anthony Rapp, 46, who claimed that the actor sexually abused him at age 14, back in 1986.

Spacey apologized to Rapp, claiming not to remember the incident, but remained silent as accusations against him mushroomed.

One actor anonymously told the Vulture portal that Spacey tried to rape him in 1984, when he was 14 years old. And eight members of the production team of his popular Netflix series “House of Cards” who also denounced “predatory” behavior by Spacey. (afp)

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This combination of file pictures made on August 1, 2018, shows French rapper Booba (L) on May 19, 2014, in Cannes, southern France, and French rapper Kaaris (R) on March 25, 2015, in Paris.

French rappers freed after brawl shuts Paris airport

PARIS - Two of France’s biggest rap stars were released on bail Thursday after a brawl between their entourages forced a partial shutdown of a Paris airport.

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The rumble between bitter rivals Booba and Kaaris in the departures hall of Orly airport three weeks ago was filmed by holidaymakers on their phones, as the two groups fought in a duty-free shop.

A judge later ordered that the rappers be locked up until September 6 because of the “persistent animosity between the two groups”.

But an appeal court in Paris on Thursday overruled the decision, freeing the rappers and eight members of their respective posses on bail.

It was set at 30,000 euros ($34,700) for the two artists, who were also ordered to stay away from each other and to hand over

their passports.

A ninth follower had earlier been freed by a local court near the airport.

The two rappers, who were on their way to a concert in Barcelona, have waged a feud over social media where some users mocked the duo and called on them to settle differences with their fists.

- ‘Perfume used as weapons’ Airport bosses said the brawl had “endangered the lives of others”, and lodged a public order complaint against the singers after the ruckus forced officials to temporarily shut down the departures hall.

The rappers have been held in separate prisons near Paris since the fight on August 3.

Booba, aka Elie Yaffa, reportedly fell out with Kaaris, 38, after failing to support him in a dispute with fellow French artist Rohff.

Rohff was sentenced in November to five years in jail for aggravated assault in a fashion boutique owned by 41-year-old Booba.

Kaaris’ lawyers Arash Derambarsh and Yacine Yakouti told a court earlier this month that the singer was “taken aside by Booba, who insulted his child and his wife”, before several people “jumped on him”. (afp)

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Surfers ride waves in Waikiki beach ahead of Hurricane Lane approaching the archipielago, in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 22, 2018. Residents of Hawaii on August 22 were bracing for a rare landfall by a powerful hurricane as they stocked up on water, food and emergency supplies. Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile-per-hour winds and is expected to reach the archipelago’s Big Island by nightfall.

Rare hurricane warning as Hawaii braces for major storm

Residents of Hawaii were bracing for a rare landfall by a powerful hurricane as they stocked up on water, food and emergency supplies. Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile (250-kilometre) -per-hour winds and was expected to reach the archipelago’s Big Island by nightfall Wednesday.

President Donald Trump urged residents to prepare for the storm, which was expected to bring torrential rains, high winds and dangerous surf. “Everyone in the path of #HurricaneLane please prepare yourselves, heed the advice of State and local officials, and follow @NWSHonolulu for updates. Be safe!” he tweeted.

The National Weather Service said a hurricane warning has been issued for Maui County and Hawaii County while a hurricane watch was in effect in Kauai and Oahu.

“The center of Lane will track dangerously close to the Hawaiian Islands from Thursday through Saturday,” it said. It added that though Lane is forecast to weaken in the next 48 hours it will remain a dangerous hurricane as it nears the Hawaiian Islands.

“Lane is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 10 to 15 inches (250 to 380 millimetres) with isolated amounts greater than 20 inches over the Hawaiian Islands,” the NWS said. It added that regardless of the

exact track of the storm, the state should brace for the potentially lifethreatening impacts.

- Bracing for the worst “It’s not a question of whether they’re going to be hit or not,” Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told a press briefing. “They’re going to see impacts from this storm.” He said the priority at this point was to ensure residents were prepared for the storm. “Right now the priority that we

have is life safety,” he said. “We are asking citizens to proactively heed all of the warning order information coming from the governor and the local county emergency management agencies within the state.”

Hurricanes rarely make landfall in Hawaii and the last major storm to strike the state was nearly three decades ago, when Hurricane Iniki barrelled into the island of Kauai, leaving six people dead and causing billions of dollars in damage. In preparation for the latest storm, state officials have closed schools and public offices in the counties affected while residents rushed to stores to stock up on water, food and other supplies. Many were also boarding up their houses.

Governor David Ige on Tuesday declared a state of emergency on Big Island to help provide relief for damage from the hurricane. “Hurricane Lane is not a well-behaved hurricane,” he said in a statement.

“I’ve not seen such dramatic changes in the forecast track as I’ve seen with this storm.

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Boost SVF

First Day Enlivened by Jukung Race and ILP

The 2018 Boost Sanur Village Festival was held on Wednesday, August 22nd. The first day was enlivened by the Jukung race until Indra Lesmana’s musician performance with his new group.

Race of traditional boat begin the SVF Boost series which was held from August 22 to 26. Although the fishermen had difficulty speeding up the jukung because the wind was not blowing hard, it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the annual agenda that this year held in Matahari Terbit Beach.

Boost SVF Chairperson, IB Gede Sidharta Putra said that jukung race is a legendary activity for the people of Sanur and has been done long before the start of this annual festival since 2006. Jukung race is now a part of SVF and developed to remain sustainable and become an attractive tourist attraction.

The man who is familiarly called Gusde, said the involvement of this traditional boat was also a form of conservation of the heritage which had become one of the regional icons managed under the auspices of the Sanur Development Foundation (YPS). “We are doing conservation as our consistency to pay attention to the existence of traditional jukung in Sanur. Because we support it as an icon of tourism on Sanur Beach,” he said.

The competition involved 50 participants from 5 groups. Each group sought 5 best to compete in the final. “There are 25 participants that will compete in final. They have to cross a distance of about 8 kilometers by starting and finishing at Segara Ayu Beach,” he added.

Gusde, who is also Chair of Denpasar’s Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) Denpasar and Chairman of the Denpasar’s Tourism Development Agency (BPPD), said that besides the Jukung race there were also workshop activities and various other activities. Including, entertainments on the main stage which is always awaited by visitors.

Since the afternoon, the main stage has been filled with a variety of entertainment including Balaram Ethnic Fussion, Cisjis Dancesport Sanur, Sangaji Musik Indonesia, Ratrocker, Gambleer, fashion shows, and ballet performances from Sanur. In addition there is also the appearance of Keva Amir, one of the participants who is currently following the competition for The Voice Kids Indonesia Seasons 3.

The most awaited performance was Indra Lesmana Project (ILP), a new group of progressive metal music genre initiated by jazz musician Indra Lesmana. He said, the formation of ILP was inspired by the eruption of Mount Agung 2017, while SVF which carried the Mandala Giri theme was also an effort to refocus the attention of the audience to Mount Agung which became a spiritual center in Bali.

“Let us make the eruption of Mount Agung a creative energy that makes us united, mutual cooperation, and maintaining the preservation of Mount Agung which is a spiritual center in Bali,” said Indra.

The ceremony for the opening of the SVF Boost will be carried out by Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya, Thursday night. On the second day a series of activities were prepared, including painting on the spot, fashion shows and the appearance of Gus Teja and singer Andien. (kmb18)

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According to the result of the monitoring, there are indeed frequent aftershocks but the magnitude is declining,” an official of the Denpasar BMKG Melki Adi Kurniawan said here on Friday.

Melki Adi Kurniawan said based on the observation of the agency there was an increase in the frequency of aftershocks but the impact was

not as serious as the damage caused several days earlier. “Therefore, we want to assure tourists and the local people that no need for them to be worried too much as the quakes in Lombok have no significant effect in Bali,” he said.

The authorities said the death toll already reached 259 until Friday following the Aug 5 quake,

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Shaken by earthquake, Dalem Temple’s wantilan hall of Bunutin collapses BANGLI - A 7-magnitude earthquake that returned to shake Bali on Sunday night (Aug.19) resulted in damages to buildings at a number of points. In the home village of the regent of Bangli, namely Bunutin village, Kintamani, a wantilan hall standing in the local Dalem Temple area collapsed. Severity of the earthquake that occurred several times from that noon also caused the rear wall of the building belonging to a resident at Tamanbali village to collapse.

Headman of Bunutin, I Made Subrata, when contacted on Monday afternoon (Aug. 20) justified the incident. He said the collapse of the wantilan building at Dalem Temple occurred shortly after the earthquake striking around 23:00 Local Time. Severity of the earthquake shocks caused the roof of the building to collapse and several pillars to be broken. “The roof fell out. As consequence, the wantilan building cannot be used at all,” he explained.

According to Subrata, the collapse of the wantilan building, which had just been completed two years ago, is alleged to happen because the structure of the land and construction of the building experienced a shift after being shaken by the earthquake for many times since last August 5. Fortunately, no fatalities were reported due to the incident because the earthquake occurred at night. “This wantilan is a versatile building.

It can be used for cockfight arena, dance stage and venue of cultural activities,” he explained. He added that due to the damage to the 27x20 meters building, the material losses that had to be borne by the local villagers reached IDR 1.2 billion.

In addition to causing the collapse of the wantilan building at Dalem Temple of Bunutin village, the earthquake shocks also resulted in the collapse of the rear wall of the bale daja (northern pavilion) building owned by Ketut Rai Puspani, a resident of Gaga hamlet, Tamanbali village, Bangli. Rai said that the broken wall of her bale occurred just after the earthquake shook on Sunday afternoon. The broken wall material also hit the warehouse behind it.

“Having been shaken by the first earthquake, some parts of the wall began to crack. Actually I want to repair it, but I have no time before it broke down because it was rocked by subsequent earthquake yesterday (Sunday) afternoon,” she said.

Rai added there were no family members or valuables affected by the collapsed materials because since few days before the northern pavilion building formerly occupied by his mother-in-law has been emptied.

Separately, the Chief Executive Officer of the Bangli Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Karmawan, accompanied by the Head of Emergency and Logistics Section, Ketut Agus Sutapa, said that in addition to impacting damages in the two locations, the earthquake that occurred on Sunday night also resulted in destruction of four houses at Undisan village, Tembuku. The earthquake shock which was quite hard also returned to make Abang Hill at Buahan village landslide and impact on the disruption of traffic.

“There were no fatalities due to the earthquake yesterday. So far, we are still collecting data on the impact of the earthquake,” said Karmawan. (kmb40)

Tourists no need to be worried by Lombok aftershocks

DENPASAR - The Denpasar office of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said no need for foreign and domestic tourists in Bali to be worried by earthquakes and aftershocks that continued to rock neigboring Lombok island since July 29. “After the July 29`s quakes we have continued observations.

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but no foreign tourists among the death victims. Melki said the condition in Bali was not affected by the aftershocks that continued to rock the neighboring island of Lombok.

Beside the death of 259 people, the Aug 5` quakes with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter Scale caused extensive damage with the collapse of 42,239 houses, 1,447 people

seriously injured and evacuation of 165,003 people. Less than 10 days earlier on July 29, a major quake of 6.4 on the Richter scale quake hit Lombok causing the death of 16 people. On Thursday, a strong aftershock of 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted the island and number of other neighboring islands including Bali. (ant)

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After a nightcap at The RitzCarlton Lounge and Bar return to your beautifully-appointed suite or

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With a dramatic setting on Bali’s majestic east coast, The Ritz-Carlton, Bali is blessed with the most stunning sunrises. Wake up to this special moment with a tropical breakfast at a private gazebo by the beach. Guests staying in villas and pool access suites can also treat themselves to a novel Floating Breakfast, served on a customized tray that floats on the water. Or perhaps start your day with a Sunrise yoga class. Feel the gentle morning sun on your face and the ocean breeze in your hair as you stretch towards the rising sun.

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Australian eco-friendly ‘Clothes Library’ fights fast fashion

IN a small shop along one of Sydney’s busiest streets, Sarah Freeman is encouraging Australians to slow down and break their addiction to fast fashion.

Shocked by the speed at which Australians buy and throw away cheap garments, she is trying to harness an ancient concept -- libraries -- to persuade shoppers to rent instead of purchase clothes.

“Today’s society just seem to wear clothes like condoms. They wear them once and they throw them away,” the passionate vintage garment aficionado told AFP at her Clothes Library in the inner suburb of Potts Point.

“That’s not how clothes are supposed to be designed.

The clothes nowadays are manufactured for six wears, I think, which is terrible.”

Globally, clothing production doubled from 2000-14, with the number of garments bought each year by consumers soaring by 60 percent, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

A booming part of the industry, including in Australia, is fast fashion, which quickly turns catwalk designs into apparel sold at low or ultra-low prices and easily accessible via online sites.

In Australia, where the demand for textiles is one of the highest per capita in the world, the fast fashion sector grew by 19.5 percent over five years to Aus$1.8 billion (US$1.4 billion) in 2017-18, research firm IBISWorld reported.

A recent YouGov survey also found that almost a quarter of Australians have thrown away an item of clothing after wearing it just once, and four in 10 admitted they had binned unwanted garments, adding to landfill.

“They don’t always see it as something that is a valuable product to keep in your wardrobe,” Alison Gwilt, a sustainable fashion expert and researcher at the University of South Australia, told AFP. “So already the mindset from the very beginning when you buy that type of product is that you think of it as something that’s short-lived.”

At the Sydney distribution centre of St Vincent de Paul Society, a major charity recycling clothes, manager George

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This photo taken on August 1, 2018 shows Sarah Freeman, founder of the Clothes Library store where customers can borrow and return goodquality secondhand clothes for a small monthly subscription fee, posing at her shop in Sydney.

The rock bottom prices for consumers contrast with the high cost paid by the environment.

Tonnes of cheap clothes are churned out every year in developing countries, using up copious amounts of energy and resources and polluting waterways near factories with toxic chemicals.

The materials used are often synthetic and non-biodegradable, meaning even washing can be hazardous, with some textiles shedding plastic micro-fibres that make their way to water catchments and oceans in consumer countries like Australia.

In recent months, the devastating impact of waste has made headlines after China, Australia’s biggest market for recycling waste, cracked down on foreign imports.

Beijing’s restrictions on “contaminated” recycled materials including fabric has forced Australians to think about how much waste they produce and galvanised efforts to explore more sustainable approaches.

Producers have been proactive with natural fibres -- Australia is a key supplier of wool and high-quality cotton -- Australian Fashion Council chief executive David Giles-Kaye told AFP. Retailers including major player Cotton On are pledging to make their manufacturing chains transparent and ethical.

At Melbourne’s Deakin University, researchers won support from Swedish mega-retailer H&M to develop “circular denim”, where old jeans are used to colour new ones, reducing the impact on landfills and of dye run-off.

St Vincent’s has joined the efforts at the recycling level, examining better ways to sort donated clothes into different fibre types and repurpose garments to extend their life-cycle.

“We have to become a lot... smarter and really use technology to try and break things down into their base form so that things can actually be reused and we can become a true circular economy,” the charity’s retail development manager Jacqui Dropulic told AFP. Although the efforts could lead to significant change within the fashion industry, Giles-Kaye believes the key to solving the issue ultimately lies with consumers and their desire for even quicker and cheaper clothing.

“It’s still very much a fringe movement... When consumers continue to want more product at a lower price it really drives the producers into less sustainable areas of manufacturing,” he said.

Freeman is convinced that if concepts like hers allowing shoppers to borrow and return quality secondhand clothes for a small monthly subscription fee take off, people power can make a difference.

“Hopefully it will catch on and people will start being more conscious and just make an effort to not go out and purchase the fast fashion items,” she said.

“I mean if we stop demanding it, then they (retailers) have to stop supplying it.” (afp)

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Candidasa tourist information center turns useless

Blakely has seen the longevity of some donated items decline in recent years.

“Some products only last two or three washes, which is not favourable... The volume they get through here is usually increasing, because people are turning over products in their own home more quickly,” Blakely said.

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Cult brand reformation launches sustainable underwear

CULT, sustainable LA brand Reformation has launched the latest part of its extensive expansion plan. Lucky Americans (it’s only available to buy here via collaborations with global e-tailers, unless you’re willing to pay international shipping and import costs) have seen denim, swimwear and plussize pieces filter into its offering of covetable dresses over the past seasons. And now, Reformation lingerie has landed.

The limited-edition line-up of two bras and one bralette and two styles of briefs – thongs and boy shorts – are in line with the brand’s commitment to circular fashion.

Each piece in the $12-$45 priced collection is made from Lenzing Tencel, recycled lace and eco mesh.

Though Reformation has recruited four “real” women to model the underwear in its social campaign imagery, its sizing is not as inclusive as the lingerie recently released by brands with similar price points. Where R i h a n n a ’s Savage x Fenty range made inc l u -

sivity a priority, Reformation’s sizes range from S-L in bottoms and XS-L in bras.

Still, Daisy, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Rachel, the founder and CEO of Swipe Out Hunger; JoAnna, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon; and Jamie, an entertainment attorney, highlight the fact that Reformation is a female-founded company with a leadership team made up of 80 per cent women.

“In today’s culture, our selfworth is too often based on appearance, and lingerie campaigns tend to focus only on our bodies,” the brand captions the Instagram images. “While it’s arguably hard to show lingerie without getting half-naked, today we wanted to hone in on other qualities as well. Like, you know, brains and accomplishments.

Because that’s hot.”

Here’s hoping Browns, Net-a-Porter or any other potential collaborators make a sustainable overhaul of the underwear drawer, à la Reformation, affordable in the UK soon. (net)

AMLAPURA - Public facilities like the tourist information center in the Candidasa rest area have long been dormant.

Actually, during the period of July-August, tourist visits to Candidasa soared sharply. Many tourists had come to the location, but never got information because it is always locked tightly. This gives impression if this place is useless to support Candidasa tourism.

Reportedly, it had some employees that could provide explanations about Candidasa. So, every tourist coming to Candidasa would get a correct explanation about the existence of Candidasa tourism along with its potential.

Such a situation was justified by the Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem Chapter, I Wayan Kariasa, when asked for his response regarding the existence of the tourist information center. “The center no longer has activity,” said Kariasa on Wednesday (Aug. 22).

All this time, tourists have received information regarding Candidasa ranging from each hotel and restaurant owner in the vicinity. However, he also regret-

ted the tourist information center or the rest area in the vicinity is not used to support the comfort for travelling tourists. “This facility has not been used for a long time. Like in the current situation, it should be used well, including the one at Yeh Malet so it becomes more effective,” he added.

The Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, Wayan Astika, cannot be asked for his response regarding the existence of many useless rest areas. Having been contacted for several times, Astika has not been able to respond.

Kariasa added that natural disasters that occurred in Lombok have caused tourists to choose to stay longer in Karangasem. The hotel occupancy rate reaches 70 percent as seen in Candidasa. It is also inseparable from the current calm activities of Mount Agung.

Since the situation in Lombok has not been conducive yet, Kariasa said that many tourists cancel their tour packages to Lombok and choose to stay longer in Karangasem. His organization hoped such natural disaster will pass quickly and the situation will return to normal. (kmb31)

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the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Buleleng found six houses at Pegayaman village, Sukasada, heavily damaged.

Six houses at Pegayaman damaged due to Lombok earthquake

DENPASAR — The impact of the earthquake centered in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) increases. At this time, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Buleleng found six houses at Pegayaman village, Sukasada, heavily damaged. In addition, the compound wall of the Amerta Sari hamlet hall and Melanting Temple at the local village was also damaged by the earthquake.

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Public facilities like the tourist information center in the Candidasa rest area have long been dormant.

Interestingly, this damage was just discovered by the Rapid Response Team (TRC) of the BPBD after receiving the reports from relevant village officials.

Actually, the houses were damaged by the first earthquake on Sunday (Aug. 5).

Results of the data collection by the TRC of the BPBD Buleleng indicated if the six houses had various damages. The residents having the houses consist of Nyoman Nita, 60, Wayan Jati, 60, Kadek Bagiata 38, Wayan Mastra, 60, Made Gawa, 55, and Made Kadung, 85. From the data collection, the damage includes the cracked wall, collapsed roof and collapsed shrine building. Although their homes suffered severe damage, the villagers do not evacuate by building emergency tents. Meanwhile, the damages to public facilities happened to compound wall and the shrine falling out due to earthquake shock.

Chief Executive of the BPBD Buleleng, Ida Bagus Suadnyana, stated on Wednesday (Aug. 22) that the report of the earthquake at Amerta Sari hamlet, Pegayaman, was indeed late in entering the BPBD. Moreover, the damage was barely monitored because the BPBD had not received any data from village official. However, last Wednesday there was a report on the damage, so the TRC personnel immediately carried out data collection to the location.

From the data collection, it was found that seven houses are damaged by a series of the earthquake. “We have information from the subdistrict, and tomorrow (Aug. 23) we’ll make further assessment,” he said.

According to him, temporarily the scattered data on the damages caused by the earthquake are included in the data on the damages of houses and public facilities having been collected previously. Later on, the data will also be submitted to the BNPB Bali or will be submitted back to the central BNPB. Until now, it is waiting for further instructions related to the requests for the assistance to handle damages caused by the earthquake. Meanwhile, the BNPB Bali has been checking the damage and it just needs to complete the data of the victims affected by the earthquake.

“We continuously input the data to be submitted to the province or followed up to central government. The proposal has been checked. The BNPB Bali has already checked and requested to complete the administrative requirements,” he explained. (kmb38)

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To create a useful fintech ecosystem

Taiwan marks 60 years since China attack as tensions rise

OJK inaugurates the operation of OJK Infinity

DENPASAR - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) inaugurated the operation of the OJK Innovation Center for Digital Financial Technology (OJK Infinity) on Monday (Aug. 20). OJK Infinity aims to build a fintech ecosystem into a part of the national financial system benefiting the community and encouraging economic growth.

“Through OJK Infinity, the fintech industry is expected to be able to provide innovative, effective and efficient financial services while still prioritizing consumer protection,” said Wimboh Santoso, OJK’s Board of Commissioners, in the launch of the OJK Infinity, on Monday (Aug. 20).

The establishment of OJK Infinity is part of the OJK’s digital financial vision, namely providing effective, efficient and useful services; supporting financial inclusion; and improving community welfare.

OJK Infinity will serve as a forum for discussion and collaboration between the industry, regulators, government, academicians and other innovation hubs to reach the three functions of the OJK Infinity. It will facilitate regulatory sandbox as a Fintech incubator to balance innovation with consumer protection and serves as an innovation hub for the development of the Digital Financial Industry (IKD) as well as the development of the IKD ecosystem as a whole.

As an educational center for financial service players, consumers and academicians will become IKD activists and Indonesian economic players in the future. In carrying out these three functions, the OJK will

cooperate in terms of exchanging information and resources with various stakeholders, including the ministry and state institutions, as well as all financial service industry players, associations and universities to form a comprehensive digital financial ecosystem.

The OJK Infinity can also be used by general public to obtain information regarding the IKD, while the IKD players will know more about the IKD regulations.

In the future, OJK Infinity will expand its collaboration with educational institutions and the private sector having commitments that are in line with the development of the digital financial sector, one of which is that OJK makes collaboration with Telkom University through a Memorandum of Understanding within the scope of research and the establishment of a Master Education program in the IKD field.

The OJK will issue an OJK regulation on Digital Financial Innovation that will become a legal instrument to protect all innovations in the digital financial sector.

The OJK Regulation is established based on the need for a legal basis for financial innovation that currently exists in the community so that it can provide wider benefits for the community and protect the

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Student volunteers manage and take stock of packed relief material for flood victims at SMV School, Trivandrum’s largest relief material collection centre, in the south Indian state of Kerala, on August 22, 2018.

Wimboh Santoso interests of society.

The regulation implements market conduct-based supervision where the OJK Regulation will only regulate principle-based matters and govern regulatory sandbox activities to study, analyze as well

as understand the risks, governance of the business model for a fintech including in the sandbox with the aim to knowing the risk profile and supervision as well as appropriate regulatory models for certain IKD business models.

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To date, the OJK has registered 63 peer-to-peer lending companies / products with a total distribution of peer-to-peer funds reaching IDR 7.64 trillion as of June 2018, and has been channeled to 1.09 million borrower accounts. (kmb42)

As form of tolerance, Muslims in Tabanan share sacrificial meat

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This sharing tradition is one form of religious tolerances carried out for a long time.

TABANAN - The ngejot or tradition of sharing is not only carried out on Hindu religious days. Muslims, especially in Tabanan, have the same tradition. When celebrating the Eid al-Adha, the Muslims at Tunggal Sari hamlet, Delod Peken, Tabanan, has the tradition of slaughtering or distributing sacrificial meat to non-Muslim residents living around the Tabanan Great Mosque on Wednesday (Aug. 22).

This sharing tradition is one form of religious tolerances carried out for a long time.

Dozens of kilograms of beef and mutton were distributed on the Eid al-Adha. Chairperson of the Tabanan Great Mosque sacrifice committee, Muhammad Badrian, said the

program began at 13:00 Local Time.

Some members of the sacrificial committee at the Tabanan Great Mosque moved to the homes of non-Muslim residents with the aim of distributing sacrificial meat after they said Id prayers at the local mosque. Badrian continued that the distribution of sacrificial meat is a form of interfaith tolerance on the Island of Bali.

He added the sacrificial animals collected in the Tabanan Great Mosque amounted to 23 goats and 5 cows. From this number was obtained a total of 1,200 packages of sacrificial meat and have been distributed to residents.

Badrian said the moment becomes a form of interfaith tolerance in Tabanan that had been well

established. “It becomes a concern among the Tunggal Sari community,” he said.

Badrian, who is also the neighborhood chief, said the interfaith tradition of distributing sacrificial meat at Tunggal Sari hamlet has taken place since 1950 and so far the tradition is still practiced every Eid al-Adha with the aim of strengthening religious tolerance.

Meanwhile, the Hindus welcomed the way of Muslims to maintain tolerance between religious communities. “Every year, we always get sacrificial meat during the celebration of Eid al-Adha,” said one of the residents who received a package of sacrificial meat, I Made Suastika. (kmb24)

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Flood-stricken Kerala angry after UAE $100m offer rejected

KINMEN - Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen called for unity and vowed not to bow to pressure from Beijing on Thursday as the island marked the 60th anniversary of a deadly Chinese artillery attack.

The anniversary of the assault on tiny Kinmen island, known as the “823 bombardment”, comes as China steps up pressure on selfruling Taiwan, which it sees as part of its territory to be reunified.

China’s People’s Liberation Army fired 470,000 shells at Kinmen and nearby islets in 1958, killing 618 servicemen and civilians in an attack that lasted 44 days.

Kinmen is part of Taiwan, but lies less than two miles off mainland China, at the narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait.

“When we remember the ‘823 bombardment’ 60 years later, we will not forget the spirit of solidarity,” Tsai said on her Facebook page.

“When we face diplomatic suppression we will not forget how strong our country can be when we are united,” she added, saying that while Taiwanese people cherished peace they would not take national security for granted.

Tensions with Beijing have worsened under Tsai because she refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of “one China”.

In response, China has ramped up military drills and poached Taiwan’s official diplomatic allies -- El Salvador became the third this year to switch ties from Taipei to Beijing on Tuesday.

At an anniversary ceremony held in a former army bunker and combat centre in Kinmen, Taiwan’s Defence Minister Yen De-fa said today’s troops in Taiwan must again make “combat preparations” in the face of what he described as a growing military threat from China.

Hundreds of soldiers, relatives and veterans, some in their 80s and 90s, gathered at a Kinmen cemetery where victims of the 1958 bombardment were buried.

Lai Jen-hsien, 83, remembered the attack.

“We were joking it was firecrackers, but then all of a sudden it was a rain of them (artillery),” said Lai, who was in the combat engineer battalion in Kinmen at the time.

He told AFP he did not think history would repeat itself on Kinmen.

“Peace is priceless. War is ruthless. We should try our best to peacefully handle the fate of people from both sides of the (Taiwan) Strait,” Lai said.

China has sought to bring Taiwan back into the fold since nationalist troops fled to the island after their defeat by communist forces on the mainland in 1949.

Kinmen historically often found itself on the frontline, although now the island is a popular tourist attraction for both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese visitors.

Its most famous souvenirs are kitchen knives made from the remnants of artillery shells. (afp)

KOCHI - Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India’s national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.

More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.

The New Delhi government infuriated the Kerala administration by rejecting the cash offer from the wealthy Gulf state.

Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of adopting a “dog-in-the-manger” policy by refusing the money.

The communist minister added in a Twitter attack that if the right wing national government takes a “negative stance” on the UAE offer “they should compensate Kerala.”

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan called for “high level” talks with the national government on the dispute.

There are an estimated three million Indians in the UAE, with

many from Kerala which has a large Muslim population.

India’s foreign ministry announced late Wednesday however that the government would stick to its policy of “meeting the requirements for relief and rehabilitation through domestic efforts” and not accept money from foreign governments.

It added that outside money could only be donated through Indian-origin individuals or foundations.

India has a record of refusing foreign aid after disasters, turning down foreign help after the 2004 tsunami, which killed thousands in India. Experts said Indian governments want to prove they can handle any emergency themselves.

The UAE offer was higher than the $97 million so far given by the central government to handle the

floods which state authorities estimate have caused damage worth more than $3 billion.

They say 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles) of roads have been destroyed or damaged, while estimates of the number of houses to be rebuilt vary from 20,000 to 50,000.

Many of the new arrivals in relief camps are people who have returned to their homes to find them uninhabitable.

One 68-year-old man committed suicide Wednesday after seeing the state of his home at Kothad in Ernakulam district. A 19-year-old boy took his own life earlier this week because his school certificates were destroyed by the floods, police said.

Vijayan said there were now 1.34 million people in 3,300 relief camps, up 300,000 in two days. (afp)

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A soldier puts a flower on a grave in a cemetery for soldiers during the 60th anniversary of the ‘823 bombardment’ in Kinmen on August 23, 2018.

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The United States slapped steep tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on Thursday, triggering a swift tit-for-tat retaliation from Beijing, even as negotiators from both sides seek to soothe trade tensions. The latest action completes the first round of $50 billion in Chinese products that President Donald Trump targeted with Beijing striking back at American products dollar-for-dollar at each step.

Rudat Art Remains to Survive in Karangasem

downside risk for real activity”, according to the minutes of its July 31-August 1 policy meeting.

A large-scale and prolonged dispute likely would adversely impact business sentiment, investment spending and employment, the officials warned, and boost prices, which would “reduce the purchasing power of US households”.

- Next round Still pending is the possibility of new duties on another $200 billion in Chinese goods, which are the subject of public hearings this week, as well as Trump’s proposed 25 percent taxes on all auto imports to protect the US car industry.

China has responded by threatening to impose new tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods, while Beijing could also target the local operations of US corporations with inspections and boycotts as it has done in past disputes with South Korea and Japan.

China’s state media has taken aim at Apple in recent weeks, accusing the US titan of allowing illegal apps to proliferate on its platform. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said China will not be able to continue to retaliate at the same pace as the United States.

“Naturally they’ll retaliate a little bit. But at the end of the day, we have many more bullets than they do. They

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Sweet and Mellow Taste of Jaje Cerorot

US, China swap tariffs on billions in goods as sides hold talks

China “firmly opposes the tariffs and has no choice but to continue to make the necessary counterattacks”, the commerce ministry said in a statement. Beijing hit back with tariffs on an equal amount of US goods, targeting iconic products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, dump trucks and asphalt, among hundreds of others.

China’s commerce ministry said the US tariffs were “cleary suspected of violating WTO rules” and noted it would file a lawsuit against them under the WTO’s dispute resolution mechanism. The escalation came as the world’s two largest economies hold their first formal discussions since June on the spiralling trade war.

Trump has pushed aggressive trade actions to lower the US trade deficit, which he equates with theft from Americans. But US trading partners have retaliated aggressively, which is hurting American farmers, manufacturers and consumers.

US businesses have become increasingly concerned about the tariffs, which are raising prices for manufacturers and could hurt the economy, although the prospect of a negotiated solution buoyed world markets this week.

However, Federal Reserve officials have warned that “an escalation in international trade disputes was a potentially consequential

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This file photo taken on August 7, 2018 shows a worker watching as bags of chemicals are unloaded at a port in Zhangjiagang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The United States slapped steep tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on August 23, 2018, triggering a swift tit-for-tat retaliation from Beijing, even as negotiators from both sides seek to soothe trade tensions. know it,” Ross said on CNBC. “We have a much stronger economy than they have, they know that too.”

Trump, who has threatened to target all $500 billion in goods the US imports from China, has made that same point, noting that Beijing cannot continue to retaliate in kind since it imports less than $200 billion a year in American goods.

- Talks continue US Treasury’s David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs, is leading two days of talks with China’s Vice Commerce

Minister Wang Shouwen and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min that began Wednesday. The talks were to continue Thursday morning, but the Treasury has not specified what topics are being discussed.

Trump said earlier this week that he was not expecting much from the dialogue. “We are a country that has been ripped off by anybody and we are not going to be ripped off anymore,” he said at a campaign rally in West Virginia on Tuesday.

“It has to be a two-way street. We only have one-way streets not only with China but everybody.”

Thousands of large and small companies and industry groups have urged the Trump administration to reconsider the tariffs, which some say could put them out of business. But so far it has largely been deaf to the complaints, as only a handful of product lines have been shielded from the punitive duties. The administration has already been forced to announce a $12 billion aid programme for farmers hurt by the trade row, as US agricultural products, like soybeans, were an easy target for China and others. (afp)

Brazil’s real below $0.25 amid uncertainty ahead of election SAO PAULO - Brazil’s currency is falling against the U.S. dollar, continuing a slide fueled by uncertainty ahead of presidential elections.

The real fell below $0.25 on Tuesday. It has lost about 20 percent of its value against the American currency in the past year. The last time it was so weak against the dollar was in early 2016.

Part of the slide can be attributed to the dollar’s strength against many currencies. But Brazil’s

economy has also struggled to bounce back from a protracted recession, and it’s unclear who will win the October presidential election.

A poll released Monday showed far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro maintaining his lead if former President Luiz Inacio da Silva is barred from the race, as expected. Investors tend to prefer a center-right candidate, former Gov. Geraldo Alckmin. (ap)

The art of Rudat is still preserved and passed down for generations at Saren Jawa village, Budakeling, Karangasem. This art is danced at various celebrations, such as weddings and Mauludan fest. A coach of Rudat at the (MI) Nurulhidayah Islamic Elementary School from Saren Jawa, Komang Samsuhari, said that he is often invited to make performance at wedding events. According to Samsuhari, who is also a principal at the local MI, he specially trains children. In the meantime, the adult Rudat art troupe consisting of high school students is also taught by his father H. Ahmad Astari, who is also the hamlet chief of Saren Jawa.

He said that there are only three Rudat arts in Karangasem. Other than at Saren Jawa, this art also exists at Islamic kampongs like the Sindu, Sidemen. The Rudat dance at Saren Jawa and Sindu shows a similarity. “Perhaps the Muslims of Saren Jawa and Sindu originate of the same region, equally from

Java. While that of Kecicang originates from Sasak, Lombok,” he said.

Aside from Rudat dance, there is also Burdah art. According to Samsuhari, it is the only one in Karangasem. Burdah contains the praise to the Prophets. “We always preserve the arts and customs. So

far, the residents at our village remain to use Balinese first name like Wayan, Nengah, Made or Ketut,” he said. On Thursday (Apr. 14), the Rudat and Burdah dance were presented by MI students in a series of the launching of the family planning kampong at Saren Jawa. (kmb)

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje.

There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries.

Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it.

If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the

pointed end of the wrapper so that the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made. Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour. This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper. Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

Festival ke Uma, Children Play Traditional Games

Hundreds of children played so cheerfully, shouted and even clapped their friends to encourage. Not afraid of being muddy, exposed to rain and sunlight, they were always happy and laughing so happily. It is the atmosphere of the Festival ke Uma held for two days (Jun. 24-25) at Subak Uma Ole, Ole, Marga Dauh Puri village, Marga, Tabanan.

They initially did not know each other, but after joining the game, they came into intimate atmosphere, happiness and full of togetherness. Space and time seem to have no limit to perform activities.

Nature and environment of paddies are very friendly providing various tools and means for them to play.

Children did not only entertain by seeing the festival alone, but were also given the opportunity to participate.

Everything served on the show is not to be watched, but to be enjoyed together. The children, are mostly from Ole hamlet, coalesced into Buratwangi Studio and Wintang Rare Studio, those from other areas such as Geluntung village, Kukuh and Penebel (Tabanan), Mengwi (Badung), Denpasar, Karangasem and Buleleng. “We designed a participative festival, where visitors can participate in the activity not just serve as spectator,” said the Coordinator, I Putu Edi Novalia Artha.

Festival ke Uma presents various types of traditional games divided into two categories namely exhibition and competition. The exhibition shows megandu, medempul, mapoh-pohan, kancing lait, obek-obek uang, colek-colek tain belek, tangklak-tingklik and gala-gala. The kinds of game con-

tested include metimbang, nyuun sigih, matulupan, paid upih and megandong di nyanyad (mud).

The second day was flushed by rain, but no children complained and protested against nature, no one thought about the rain-stopper or the cloud-breaking laser beam. Players of the show looked like farmers, receiving abundant water and sunshine with gratitude. The children faithfully waited for the rain to stop. When the rain subsided, they returned to play happily even though the paddy fields that had previously been dried as the arena had really been back like paddy fields.

In addition to traditional games, it was also filled with yoga workshop

by IGS Raka Panji Tisna, herbal medicine workshop by Bagus Arya (Padma Herbal) and workshop of making kites from Buratwangi art studio. The workshop involved the

community from children to adults.

“This festival also has a vision to invite children and society to cultivate a clean and healthy life by reducing the use of materials from plastic,” said Putu Edi. In the evening, the Festival ke Uma was also enlivened with the

art performance such as Monolog

by Putu Satria, musicalization by Mahima Community, Tantric Tales

by Bumi Bajra Sandhi, Monolog of Cupak Gerantang by a student of the ISI Denpasar, Kambing Takutin Macan art and music by Jalan Air Community. (kmb)

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Defiant Australia PM Turnbull refuses to ‘give in to bullies’ SYDNEY - Defiant Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vowed not to “give in to bullies” Thursday in the face of a new leadership challenge, but said he will quit politics if his party no longer supports him.

Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, an expolice officer and right-wing conservative, said he was confident he now had the numbers to unseat Turnbull, considered a moderate.

And with senior ministers defecting, Turnbull’s near three-year grip on power is tenuous despite surviving a snap ballot on his leadership on Tuesday, winning the vote 48-35.

He said Dutton had yet to prove he has majority backing from the Liberal Party -- a requirement for him to force another meeting to have a second crack at the top job ahead of national elections due by mid-2019.

If a petition arrives showing that support -- and reports late in the day said Dutton was closing in on his target -- the meeting will be held at midday on Friday (0200 GMT).

Turnbull said that if that happens, he will not stand as a leadership candidate and will leave parliament, sparking a by-election which could be problematic for the government which has a wafer-thin one-seat parliamentary majority.

In a twist to the plot, ABC and Sky News reported that Treasurer Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister

Julie Bishop, both Turnbull allies, may also stand in a leadership ballot, in a bid to derail Dutton’s power grab.

Turnbull accused Dutton and his supporters of intimidation in a crisis that snowballed from Monday after months of poor opinion polls and a revolt by fellow Liberal politicians over plans to embed carbon emissions targets in law.

“What began as a minority has by a process of intimidation persuaded people that the only way to stop the insurgency is to give in to it,” he said.

“I do not believe in that. I have never done that. I have never given in to bullies, but you can imagine the pressure it’s put people under.”

He added that what Australia was witnessing was “a very deliberate effort to pull the Liberal Party further to the right”.

Dutton earlier told reporters he had advised Turnbull by phone that “it was my judgement that the majority of the party room no longer supported his leadership”.

“As such, I asked him to convene a meeting of the Liberal Party at which I would challenge for the leadership of the parliamentary Liberal Party,” he added.

In a major blow, Turnbull’s influential Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, along with the employment and education ministers, then said he no longer had their backing.

They joined at least 10 other ministers who have either resigned or offered to. (afp)

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

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“I urge our residents and visitors to take this threat seriously and prepare for a significant impact.” FEMA associate administrator Jeff Byard said authorities were bracing for the worst, stocking up on emergency food and

water and readying shelters. “We have emergency food in the form of MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat) and water that are currently on all four counties of the state,” he said.

“And we’re also working with the private sector, with the grocery retailers, to make sure that we are working in a coordinated fashion to provide food for a number of days

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should we lose power in a catastrophic manner.” He said FEMA was also working with utility companies to co-ordinate the repair of any damaged power infrastructure.

Ige also urged President Donald Trump to declare a federal state emergency and approve immediate US federal military help. Hawaii “requires immediate support from

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Indonesian officials defend parade of veiled kids with guns

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In this handout photograph released by the National Assembly (NA) on August 17, 2018, Pakistan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) addresses the lawmakers after been elected by National Assembly in Islamabad on August 17, 2018.

Can Imran Khan bring Pakistan in from the diplomatic cold?

ISLAMABAD - Tensions with Afghanistan, faltering relations with the US, and chronically poor ties with India. Pakistan today stands isolated, observers say, and bringing it back into the fold is a formidable task for its new premier Imran Khan.

“We have a very big foreign policy challenge right now. If there is one country that needs peace and stability right now, it’s Pakistan,” the former cricket champion said in his victory speech after last month’s election.

Achieving that is not likely to be easy for the first-time PM and foreign affairs novice who Saturday took the reins of a country that has been widely accused of stoking regional insecurity by backing extremists -- claims Islamabad has repeatedly denied.

Ties with the US cooled further in January when President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of “lies” and “duplicity” in the war on terror, suspending military assistance worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Khan has repeatedly blamed Pakistan’s participation in the US-

Department of Defense assets for strategic airlift between the islands,” Ige said And Hawaii “anticipates the need for immediate access to federal resources for search and rescue, mass care and sheltering commodities, and temporary power generation,” he warned. Meanwhile the US Navy said some of its ships and submarines based in Hawaii had begun to deploy

led anti-terror campaign for the surge in terrorism on home soil over the last decade.

Now as premier, in a tone noticeably softer than his earlier anti-US comments, Khan has said he wants a “balanced relationship” instead of “fighting America’s war” in exchange for aid.

Khan has long advocated a negotiated settlement with Islamist insurgents, a commitment that led to criticism that he is soft on militants and earned him the nickname “Taliban Khan”.

If not in Washington, he may find a sympathetic ear in Kabul.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has also been pushing for talks with the Taliban, and offered a new, conditional ceasefire on Sunday.

“Imran Khan is very well positioned in building trust again with Afghanistan,” observed Huma Yusuf, an analyst at the Wilson Center in Washington. “He is seen as a fresh face with a credible voice.”

But given the current freeze with Washington, said Yusuf, Pakistan’s “drift from the US camp to the China camp will continue”. (afp)

to avoid getting caught in the storm.

“Based on the current track of the storm, we made the decision to begin to sortie the Pearl Harbor-based ships,” said Rear Adm. Brian Fort, commander of the Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific. “This allows the ships enough time to transit safely out of the path of the storm.” (afp)

JAKARTA — Indonesian officials have defended a street parade that involved veiled kindergarteners carrying replica weapons, with police saying they will arrest the person who uploaded a video of the event to Facebook.

The video of children dressed head-to-toe in black marching with wooden guns has caused a sensation in Indonesia, which in May suffered one of its worst attacks in years when militants used their children as suicide bombers in the second-largest city, Surabaya.

The parade in East Java was one of thousands held across Indonesia last Friday to mark independence.

Probolinggo Police Chief Alfian Nurrizal told The Associated Press on Tuesday that police were investigating who uploaded the video. He said it may have been edited to convey the wrong impression.

“He or she did not upload the entire footage,” Nurrizal said.

“There are allegations of intentionally cutting the footage for a certain purpose.” If the parade was “filmed completely since the beginning, there will be no misunderstanding,” he said.

Local media reported that Education and Culture Minister Muhajir Effendy said the parade was misinterpreted and the staff of the school, located inside a local military command, had no intention to instill radicalism in children.

It contained many elements, he said, including symbols of Muslims who struggled for Indonesia’s independence and the red and white of Indonesia’s national flag.

“It was recorded when these veiled children carried only replica guns,” he told reporters. “In fact, there were themes raised by these children, namely the struggle of Islam. Until finally this piece of video spread on social media and was very biased.”

However, the principal of the school apologized. And the head of prevention at the National Counter-Terrorism Agency said public outrage over the incident was a positive sign.

“For us, people’s reaction against such a parade was a sign of good awareness about radicalism,” Brig. Gen. Hamli told AP. “In the past, maybe people didn’t care about these kinds of activities,” he said, “but now at least people were concerned that it was inappropriate activities for these children and they responded immediately.”

Nurrizal said the provincial police’s cyber unit is helping to track down the video uploader.

After Jakarta’s minority Christian governor was convicted of blasphemy last year and imprisoned, police also prosecuted the individual who helped trigger massive street protests against the governor by posting a video online of him making offending comments. (ap)

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Firefighters tackle large blaze outside Asian Games venue

A large blaze broke out right next to the Asian Games site in the Indonesian city of Palembang on Tuesday as firefighters scrambled to prevent clouds of smoke affecting competition events. Helicopters scooped up water to douse the flames in fields bordering the sports complex while dozens of firefighters on the ground helped extinguish the blaze, as athletes competed close by in shooting and beach volleyball.

Chinese shooter Wang Xiaojing, 26, told AFP that she saw the fire during the trap mixed team final but kept her focus, later taking the bronze medal with teammate Yu Du. A southerly wind helped prevent too much embarrassment for organisers of the world’s second-biggest multi-sport event, blowing the smoke away from the athletes. South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin said at the scene that he was “100 percent confident” that haze would not mar the regional Olympics, adding that 10 fire trucks and a helicopter had been deployed in less than 15 minutes.

Palembang is one of two host cities of the Asian Games, along with Jakarta. A couple of buildings housing some of the sport stars directly overlooked the blaze.

The threat of haze has been a particularly sensitive issue for officials, with fires and pollution common in the country during peak hot season. The conflagration came on the same day that environmental activists

scaled a huge billboard in central Jakarta to get their anti-pollution message across. Greenpeace members covered it with a mural showing a person wearing a gas mask and the message “#WeBreatheTheSameAir”.

It also displayed the number 152 -- the day’s airquality index reading for the sprawling city notorious for its traffic jams. Anything over 150 is considered a health threat to the general population.

“The government must find a real solution because we are in the spotlight as the organiser of Asia’s biggest sports party,” said Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Bondan Andriyanu.

About 17,000 athletes and officials from 45 Asian countries -- along with hordes of sports-crazy tourists -- are in Jakarta and Palembang for the Asian sporting extravaganza, which runs until September 2. (afp)

ADEK BERRY / AFP

Athletes compete in the trap mixed team final shooting event at the 2018 Asian Games as a helicopter from the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) conducts a water bombing run over a land fire in Palembang on August 21, 2018. Thick black smoke from a grass fire in Palembang could be seen from the shooting range and beach volleyball venues as well as the athletes village on August 21, with the mixed trap shooting final held as helicopters passed overhead to dump water on the blaze.

Anak Krakatau erupts sending volcanic ashes as high as 300 meters

LAMPUNG - Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda strait separating Java and Sumatra, has continued to show activities over the past several days. On Wednesday night the volcano erupted at least twice sending volcanic ashes as high as 300 meters to the sky, the Lampung Meteorology, Climatol-

ogy and Geophysics (BMKG) office said here on Thursday.

Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatau) surfaced in 1927 in a location where the old Mount Krakatau exploded in May 1883 with an eruption , one of the most devastating in the world history.

The Meteorology, Climatology

and Geophysics (BMKG) office, however, described the level of condition as Waspada (alert) only prohibiting people including tourists to stay at least 2 kilometers away from the crater.

White smokes from the crater formed thick cloud 50 meters above the peak that night with the crater

vomiting glowing materials in weak explosions, the BMKG said.

The sea looked quite that night around the volcano, and the air was cloudy. Gentle winds blew from north to the south and east. The air temperature was around 24-31 C degrees with air humidity of 60-92 percent, it said.

On Thursday, however, BMKG issued an early warning of high waves of the sea off the Port of Krui, in the district of Pesisir Barat of Lampung from Thursday and Friday not far from Anak Krakatau.

The sea waves could be as high as 2.7 meters in the sea off the port of Krui. (ant)

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No holiday blues as Hamilton set to close in on fifth title SPA FRANCORCHAMPS - Lewis Hamilton will return refreshed and ready to close in on his fifth world title this weekend when Formula One resumes after the summer break at the Belgian Grand Prix.

After three weeks of inactivity, punctuated by retirement and transfer announcements, the defending fourtime champion and his Mercedes team will relish a chance to extend their threerace winning run at the majestic Spa-Francorchamps circuit set in the Ardennes forests.

Hamilton, who is 24 points clear of Ferrari’s

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-- No clear favourites -His Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff has been busy damping down any signs of over-optimism and warned that the final months are likely to remain as hotlycontested as the earlier part of the season.

“The competitive balance swings back and forth from circuit to circuit,” he said, in a team preview.

“What is clear is that our competitors are pushing extremely hard and put up a very tough fight.

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“There are no clear favourites at specific tracks anymore and it’s not always the fastest car that wins.”

Hamilton’s healthy position at the head of the title race owes as much to fickle weather conditions and some good fortune -– or bad luck for rivals -- as it does to his mesmerising talent in wet conditions.

He will be fully prepared for a wet-and-dry contest this weekend at a track where it can be raining in one corner and bathed in sunshine in another.

Hamilton would be wise too to be ready for a challenge from Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who is something of a Spa specialist and is within reach of his 100th podium finish after taking a top three spot in all of his last five outings.

The 38-year-old has won four times at Spa including claiming Ferrari’s last victory in 2009. But he is without a win in 106 races since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix.

A Belgian triumph would be a timely boost for his hopes of retaining his seat at Ferrari next year when it has been widely suggested that Monegasque protege Charles Leclerc, of Sauber, will step up and replace him. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will go headto-head in a winner-take-all $9 million (7.78 million euro) duel in Las Vegas in November, it was announced Wednesday.

Woods and Mickelson, who have 19 Major titles between them, will face off at the Shadow Creek Golf Course on November 23, coinciding with Thanksgiving weekend in the United States.

The match play duel between the two veterans, a head-to-head meeting that has been mooted repeatedly over the years, will be screened on pay-per-view.

“It’s an opportunity for us to bring golf to the masses in prime time during a period where we don’t have much going on in the world of golf,” Mickelson told ESPN on Wednesday.

“It’s a way to show a side you don’t normally see by having us miked up to hear some of the interaction between us.”

Mickelson and Woods had an occasionally frosty relationship during their prime years at the summit of men’s golf but have enjoyed warmer ties recently after working closely during various Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup campaigns.

Mickelson said there was no chance of the duo carving up the lucrative purse between them, insisting that the event would be

winner-take-all.

“If you (don’t) do that, it undermines it,” Mickelson said. “The whole point is the winner-takeall thing. That’s the exciting part about it.”

Former world number one Woods only returned to golf this year after missing most of the previous two years due to recurring back problems. The 42-year-old bagged a second place finish at the PGA Championship earlier this month while 48-year-old Mickelson missed the cut. (afp)

This combination of pictures created on August 22, 2018 shows US golfer Tiger Woods waits beside the 12th tee during his first round on day one of The 147th Open golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, on July 19, 2018, and US golfer Phil Mickelson waits to play his shot at tee 17, during the third round of the World Golf Championship in Mexico City, on March 03, 2018.

ALFREDO ESTRELLA, Glyn KIRK / AFP

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Schooling swims to Asian gold as crashes mar paragliding

Olympic champion Joseph Schooling showed who’s boss as he trounced the competition to successfully defend his 100 metres butterfly title and win Singapore’s first gold medal at the Asian Games on Wednesday. Schooling was a rising star when he won at Incheon 2014 but, returning as one of the region’s premier athletes, he swam a Games-record 51.04sec to beat China’s Li Zhuhao into second place.

Otherwise it was Japan’s night in the Jakarta pool as the 2020 Olympics hosts edged China by four wins to three to draw level at 14 golds apiece at the top of the swimming medals table.

Sun Yang’s bid for a record ninth Games title for China was derailed by Japan in the 4x100m freestyle relay, while Japanese starlet Rikako Ikee’s attempt for a fifth gold in Jakarta was halted by Chinese opposition in the 4x100m mixed medley relay. At the end of day four, China were leading the overall medals table with 38 golds, ahead of Japan on 20 and South Korea with 11. Paragliding’s Games debut saw two hair-raising crashes with Afghanistan’s Lida Hozoori and Wang Jianwei of China both helicoptered to hospital.

Hozoori, a TV presenter in Afghanistan, plunged 15 metres (50 feet) to the ground after stalling in mid-air, emergency services said. Team-mates told AFP her injuries were not serious.

Wang suffered a broken leg when his parachute folded 20 metres from the finishing area. Paragliding has come under

scrutiny following the death of Hong Kong flier Patrick Chung last month.

- Hockey record -

The crashes came on a day when eight-time Olympic men’s hockey champions India registered their biggest tournament win with a merciless 26-0 thrashing of Hong Kong. The defending champions broke an 86-year-old record, surpassing their 24-1 victory over the United States at the 1932 Olympics -- while Hong Kong didn’t have a single shot on target.

In badminton, former world champion Nozomi Okuhara beat He Bingjiao as Japan downed China 3-1 to win the women’s team title. But China silenced a baying home crowd when they beat Indonesia 3-1 in the men’s team final. Allaround champion Lin Chaopan led China to an emphatic win over Japan, missing stars such as “King Kohei” Uchimura, in the men’s team gymnastics final.

And Hossein Nouri was swamped by fans after winning the 87kg Greco-Roman category as Iran finished the wrestling as top dogs with five gold medals. Earlier, South Korean cyclist Na Ah-reum won the women’s road race to claim her second Asian Games gold medal in sweltering conditions near Jakarta.

In temperatures reaching 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit), the 2014 time trial champion crossed the line in 2hr 55min 47sec, 80 seconds ahead of China’s Pu Yixian. In co-host city Palembang, Rahi Sarnobat became India’s first ever female

shooting champion at the Asian Games when she won the 25m air pistol.

Mongolia’s Nandinzaya Gankhuyag shot a Games record 458.8 to win the women’s 50m rifle three positions ahead of defending champion and compatriot Narantuya Chuluunbadrakh. About 17,000 athletes and officials are taking part in the two-week, 40-sport Games -- the biggest sports event in Indonesia’s history. (afp)

Selfies and kisses as Iran dominates wrestling honours Iran’s Hossein Nouri was swamped by selfie-taking fans after clinching gold in the 87kg Greco-Roman style to help his country reign supreme in the Asian Games wrestling on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Nouri outclassed Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov 6-1 to give wrestling powerhouse Iran their fifth gold in four days of competition.

Nouri was given a standing ovation by a raucous crowd of Iranian fans who couldn’t get enough of their new hero, taking selfies and planting kisses on the out-of-breath athlete.

His win came after compatriot Mohammad Ali Geraei, also participating in his first regional Olympics, outclassed Kyrgyzstan’s Akzhol Makhmudov 7-3 in the 77kg Greco-Roman final. He took a victory lap with the Iran flag wrapped around him. Iran had already won three golds and three bronze medals in freestyle events, but the country’s wrestling association president Rasoul Khadem told AFP they could have won more.

“In freestyle they did okay.

But I think Iran wrestling can be better. For instance in Greco-

Roman we could have been three finalists and maybe one more gold,” said the former Olympic medallist. “But it is almost good.

Our boys did live up to the potential,” he added.

Widely regarded as Iran’s national sport, wrestling has given the country many heroes including Khadem, who won gold in the 1996 Olympics. However Khadem, also head coach of Iran’s freestyle wrestling team, rued the fact that his popular and ancient sport does not receive enough funding. “Wrestling does not have much money as compared to many other sports, so it can’t

Martin BUREAU / AFP

Singapore’s prepares to Joseph Schooling compete in a heat of the men’s 50m butterfly swimming event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 23, 2018.

Emotional North Korean dedicates shock gold to his late mother

MONEY SHARMA / AFP

Gold medallist O Kang Chol of North Korea celebrates on the podium during the victory ceremony of the men’s 69kg weightlifting event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 22, 2018.

North Korea’s O Kang Chol broke down in tears as he dedicated his country’s third weightlifting gold medal of the Asian Games to his mother, who passed away earlier this year. Second-string lifter O screamed and then wept as he took a surprise gold with a 336kg total (151kg snatch/185kg clean and jerk) on Wednesday after North Korea’s number one Kim Myong Hyok crashed out, failing all three attempts at his opening weight.

“I could not hold back the tears when I climbed on to the top step of the podium to receive the gold medal,” an emotional O told AFP after he sobbed throughout the medal ceremony and national anthem at the JI Expo Arena in Jakarta.

“I was thinking of my motherland, first. But also especially my own mother, who always dreamed of me winning a gold medal in this competition,” he added.

Still fighting to choke back the tears, he told reporters: “I will visit my mother’s grave and give her this gold medal.” Doston Yokubov of Uzbekistan put in a consistent series of lifts to take advantage of the Korean lapses and secure silver with 331kg (145kg/186kg). But there was a highly controversial bronze for Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan with 330kg (147kg/183kg), competing in his first event since completing a two-year ban for testing positive for a banned stimulant at the Rio Olympics and being stripped of bronze there.

Local hero Triyatno, who like many Indonesians is known by only one name, failed with a final attempt at 186kg that would have given him silver and came fourth to huge groans of disappointment from a fervent home support.

- Snatch blowout -

The secretive nation’s Kim had started as a heavy favourite but blew it straight away in the snatch to gasps from the large North and South Korean contingents in the capacity 2,000-strong crowd. Kim’s night was over quickly when he failed three times at his opening 150kg -- 10kg below his 2014 Asian Games record.

Kim, for such an accomplished lifter, never looked at ease, his eyes flickering nervously from side to side as he grasped the bar before crumpling on his final attempt. It was a repeat of the stage fright that afflicted him in the 2016 Rio Olympics when he failed with all three clean and jerk attempts after lying in bronze medal place following a 157kg snatch.

It left the way clear for O, whose best previous result was silver at last year’s Asian championships, to take the early lead with 151kg, from Artykov and Triyatno locked on 147kg and Yokubov 2kg further back.

Artykov was in his first competition since being testing positive for strychnine, better known as a deadly poison but in trace doses classed as a banned stimulant, and he only completed his two-year punishment for that offence on August 9. South Korea’s hope Won Jeongsik was never comfortable, tumbling dangerously backwards off the platform after collapsing in his failed last snatch attempt. He eventually got to his feet and dusted himself down, but worse followed when he failed to register a lift in the clean and jerk and was also eliminated. (afp)

AAMIR QURESHI / AFP

(L-R) Silver medallist Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov, gold medallist Iran’s Hossein Nouri, bronze medallists Turkmenistan’s Shyhazberdi and Kazakhstan’s Azamat Kustubayev pose with their medals at the men’s greco-roman 87kg wrestling medal ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 22, 2018.

reach heights like basketball or football,” said 46-year-old Khadem.

“Wrestlers anywhere around the world do not come from rich families. It is a hard sport.” But he insisted the “future is looking bright” for Iran’s wrestlers and said they will not just stop at Asian Games success. South Korea also had its moment on the mat after Cho Hyo Chul came from behind to edge out China’s

Xiao Di 5-4 in a nail-biting final of the 97kg Greco-Roman. An overwhelmed Chul, wrapped around the South Korean flag, first took his little daughter in his arms and then hugged her crying mother in the stands.

In the final wrestling match of the Asian Games, Muminjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan defeated Kazakhstan’s Nurmakhan Tinaliyev 8-0 to clinch the 130kg Greco-Roman gold. (afp)

Asian Games 2018 Medal Tally No. Countries

Gold

Silver Bronze

Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

49 20 11 9 6 5 4 4 4 3

33 23 18 7 5 2 6 3 2 5

97 70 54 23 19 10 17 15 18 17

China Japan Korea Iran Indonesia North Korea Uzbekistan India Thailand Chinese Taipei

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Schooling swims to Asian gold as crashes mar paragliding

Olympic champion Joseph Schooling showed who’s boss as he trounced the competition to successfully defend his 100 metres butterfly title and win Singapore’s first gold medal at the Asian Games on Wednesday. Schooling was a rising star when he won at Incheon 2014 but, returning as one of the region’s premier athletes, he swam a Games-record 51.04sec to beat China’s Li Zhuhao into second place.

Otherwise it was Japan’s night in the Jakarta pool as the 2020 Olympics hosts edged China by four wins to three to draw level at 14 golds apiece at the top of the swimming medals table.

Sun Yang’s bid for a record ninth Games title for China was derailed by Japan in the 4x100m freestyle relay, while Japanese starlet Rikako Ikee’s attempt for a fifth gold in Jakarta was halted by Chinese opposition in the 4x100m mixed medley relay. At the end of day four, China were leading the overall medals table with 38 golds, ahead of Japan on 20 and South Korea with 11. Paragliding’s Games debut saw two hair-raising crashes with Afghanistan’s Lida Hozoori and Wang Jianwei of China both helicoptered to hospital.

Hozoori, a TV presenter in Afghanistan, plunged 15 metres (50 feet) to the ground after stalling in mid-air, emergency services said. Team-mates told AFP her injuries were not serious.

Wang suffered a broken leg when his parachute folded 20 metres from the finishing area. Paragliding has come under

scrutiny following the death of Hong Kong flier Patrick Chung last month.

- Hockey record -

The crashes came on a day when eight-time Olympic men’s hockey champions India registered their biggest tournament win with a merciless 26-0 thrashing of Hong Kong. The defending champions broke an 86-year-old record, surpassing their 24-1 victory over the United States at the 1932 Olympics -- while Hong Kong didn’t have a single shot on target.

In badminton, former world champion Nozomi Okuhara beat He Bingjiao as Japan downed China 3-1 to win the women’s team title. But China silenced a baying home crowd when they beat Indonesia 3-1 in the men’s team final. Allaround champion Lin Chaopan led China to an emphatic win over Japan, missing stars such as “King Kohei” Uchimura, in the men’s team gymnastics final.

And Hossein Nouri was swamped by fans after winning the 87kg Greco-Roman category as Iran finished the wrestling as top dogs with five gold medals. Earlier, South Korean cyclist Na Ah-reum won the women’s road race to claim her second Asian Games gold medal in sweltering conditions near Jakarta.

In temperatures reaching 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit), the 2014 time trial champion crossed the line in 2hr 55min 47sec, 80 seconds ahead of China’s Pu Yixian. In co-host city Palembang, Rahi Sarnobat became India’s first ever female

shooting champion at the Asian Games when she won the 25m air pistol.

Mongolia’s Nandinzaya Gankhuyag shot a Games record 458.8 to win the women’s 50m rifle three positions ahead of defending champion and compatriot Narantuya Chuluunbadrakh. About 17,000 athletes and officials are taking part in the two-week, 40-sport Games -- the biggest sports event in Indonesia’s history. (afp)

Selfies and kisses as Iran dominates wrestling honours Iran’s Hossein Nouri was swamped by selfie-taking fans after clinching gold in the 87kg Greco-Roman style to help his country reign supreme in the Asian Games wrestling on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Nouri outclassed Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov 6-1 to give wrestling powerhouse Iran their fifth gold in four days of competition.

Nouri was given a standing ovation by a raucous crowd of Iranian fans who couldn’t get enough of their new hero, taking selfies and planting kisses on the out-of-breath athlete.

His win came after compatriot Mohammad Ali Geraei, also participating in his first regional Olympics, outclassed Kyrgyzstan’s Akzhol Makhmudov 7-3 in the 77kg Greco-Roman final. He took a victory lap with the Iran flag wrapped around him. Iran had already won three golds and three bronze medals in freestyle events, but the country’s wrestling association president Rasoul Khadem told AFP they could have won more.

“In freestyle they did okay.

But I think Iran wrestling can be better. For instance in Greco-

Roman we could have been three finalists and maybe one more gold,” said the former Olympic medallist. “But it is almost good.

Our boys did live up to the potential,” he added.

Widely regarded as Iran’s national sport, wrestling has given the country many heroes including Khadem, who won gold in the 1996 Olympics. However Khadem, also head coach of Iran’s freestyle wrestling team, rued the fact that his popular and ancient sport does not receive enough funding. “Wrestling does not have much money as compared to many other sports, so it can’t

Martin BUREAU / AFP

Singapore’s prepares to Joseph Schooling compete in a heat of the men’s 50m butterfly swimming event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 23, 2018.

Emotional North Korean dedicates shock gold to his late mother

MONEY SHARMA / AFP

Gold medallist O Kang Chol of North Korea celebrates on the podium during the victory ceremony of the men’s 69kg weightlifting event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 22, 2018.

North Korea’s O Kang Chol broke down in tears as he dedicated his country’s third weightlifting gold medal of the Asian Games to his mother, who passed away earlier this year. Second-string lifter O screamed and then wept as he took a surprise gold with a 336kg total (151kg snatch/185kg clean and jerk) on Wednesday after North Korea’s number one Kim Myong Hyok crashed out, failing all three attempts at his opening weight.

“I could not hold back the tears when I climbed on to the top step of the podium to receive the gold medal,” an emotional O told AFP after he sobbed throughout the medal ceremony and national anthem at the JI Expo Arena in Jakarta.

“I was thinking of my motherland, first. But also especially my own mother, who always dreamed of me winning a gold medal in this competition,” he added.

Still fighting to choke back the tears, he told reporters: “I will visit my mother’s grave and give her this gold medal.” Doston Yokubov of Uzbekistan put in a consistent series of lifts to take advantage of the Korean lapses and secure silver with 331kg (145kg/186kg). But there was a highly controversial bronze for Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan with 330kg (147kg/183kg), competing in his first event since completing a two-year ban for testing positive for a banned stimulant at the Rio Olympics and being stripped of bronze there.

Local hero Triyatno, who like many Indonesians is known by only one name, failed with a final attempt at 186kg that would have given him silver and came fourth to huge groans of disappointment from a fervent home support.

- Snatch blowout -

The secretive nation’s Kim had started as a heavy favourite but blew it straight away in the snatch to gasps from the large North and South Korean contingents in the capacity 2,000-strong crowd. Kim’s night was over quickly when he failed three times at his opening 150kg -- 10kg below his 2014 Asian Games record.

Kim, for such an accomplished lifter, never looked at ease, his eyes flickering nervously from side to side as he grasped the bar before crumpling on his final attempt. It was a repeat of the stage fright that afflicted him in the 2016 Rio Olympics when he failed with all three clean and jerk attempts after lying in bronze medal place following a 157kg snatch.

It left the way clear for O, whose best previous result was silver at last year’s Asian championships, to take the early lead with 151kg, from Artykov and Triyatno locked on 147kg and Yokubov 2kg further back.

Artykov was in his first competition since being testing positive for strychnine, better known as a deadly poison but in trace doses classed as a banned stimulant, and he only completed his two-year punishment for that offence on August 9. South Korea’s hope Won Jeongsik was never comfortable, tumbling dangerously backwards off the platform after collapsing in his failed last snatch attempt. He eventually got to his feet and dusted himself down, but worse followed when he failed to register a lift in the clean and jerk and was also eliminated. (afp)

AAMIR QURESHI / AFP

(L-R) Silver medallist Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov, gold medallist Iran’s Hossein Nouri, bronze medallists Turkmenistan’s Shyhazberdi and Kazakhstan’s Azamat Kustubayev pose with their medals at the men’s greco-roman 87kg wrestling medal ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 22, 2018.

reach heights like basketball or football,” said 46-year-old Khadem.

“Wrestlers anywhere around the world do not come from rich families. It is a hard sport.” But he insisted the “future is looking bright” for Iran’s wrestlers and said they will not just stop at Asian Games success. South Korea also had its moment on the mat after Cho Hyo Chul came from behind to edge out China’s

Xiao Di 5-4 in a nail-biting final of the 97kg Greco-Roman. An overwhelmed Chul, wrapped around the South Korean flag, first took his little daughter in his arms and then hugged her crying mother in the stands.

In the final wrestling match of the Asian Games, Muminjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan defeated Kazakhstan’s Nurmakhan Tinaliyev 8-0 to clinch the 130kg Greco-Roman gold. (afp)

Asian Games 2018 Medal Tally No. Countries

Gold

Silver Bronze

Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

49 20 11 9 6 5 4 4 4 3

33 23 18 7 5 2 6 3 2 5

97 70 54 23 19 10 17 15 18 17

China Japan Korea Iran Indonesia North Korea Uzbekistan India Thailand Chinese Taipei

15 27 25 7 8 3 7 8 12 9

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No holiday blues as Hamilton set to close in on fifth title SPA FRANCORCHAMPS - Lewis Hamilton will return refreshed and ready to close in on his fifth world title this weekend when Formula One resumes after the summer break at the Belgian Grand Prix.

After three weeks of inactivity, punctuated by retirement and transfer announcements, the defending fourtime champion and his Mercedes team will relish a chance to extend their threerace winning run at the majestic Spa-Francorchamps circuit set in the Ardennes forests.

Hamilton, who is 24 points clear of Ferrari’s

Frankenstein’s Laboratory

-- No clear favourites -His Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff has been busy damping down any signs of over-optimism and warned that the final months are likely to remain as hotlycontested as the earlier part of the season.

“The competitive balance swings back and forth from circuit to circuit,” he said, in a team preview.

“What is clear is that our competitors are pushing extremely hard and put up a very tough fight.

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“There are no clear favourites at specific tracks anymore and it’s not always the fastest car that wins.”

Hamilton’s healthy position at the head of the title race owes as much to fickle weather conditions and some good fortune -– or bad luck for rivals -- as it does to his mesmerising talent in wet conditions.

He will be fully prepared for a wet-and-dry contest this weekend at a track where it can be raining in one corner and bathed in sunshine in another.

Hamilton would be wise too to be ready for a challenge from Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who is something of a Spa specialist and is within reach of his 100th podium finish after taking a top three spot in all of his last five outings.

The 38-year-old has won four times at Spa including claiming Ferrari’s last victory in 2009. But he is without a win in 106 races since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix.

A Belgian triumph would be a timely boost for his hopes of retaining his seat at Ferrari next year when it has been widely suggested that Monegasque protege Charles Leclerc, of Sauber, will step up and replace him. (afp)

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four-time champion Sebastian Vettel with nine races remaining, has won two of the last three Belgian races and is seeking his fourth overall.

“The second half of the season, after the summer break, is usually better for us,” said Hamilton.

“It is always exciting, always intense and particularly so when we go to the long-haul races... It usually gets better for us.”

Hamilton will expect a very tough battle with Vettel, however, as Ferrari bid to bounce back for the championship run-in starting with back-to-back weekend races in Belgium and then on home soil at Monza in Italy.

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LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will go headto-head in a winner-take-all $9 million (7.78 million euro) duel in Las Vegas in November, it was announced Wednesday.

Woods and Mickelson, who have 19 Major titles between them, will face off at the Shadow Creek Golf Course on November 23, coinciding with Thanksgiving weekend in the United States.

The match play duel between the two veterans, a head-to-head meeting that has been mooted repeatedly over the years, will be screened on pay-per-view.

“It’s an opportunity for us to bring golf to the masses in prime time during a period where we don’t have much going on in the world of golf,” Mickelson told ESPN on Wednesday.

“It’s a way to show a side you don’t normally see by having us miked up to hear some of the interaction between us.”

Mickelson and Woods had an occasionally frosty relationship during their prime years at the summit of men’s golf but have enjoyed warmer ties recently after working closely during various Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup campaigns.

Mickelson said there was no chance of the duo carving up the lucrative purse between them, insisting that the event would be

winner-take-all.

“If you (don’t) do that, it undermines it,” Mickelson said. “The whole point is the winner-takeall thing. That’s the exciting part about it.”

Former world number one Woods only returned to golf this year after missing most of the previous two years due to recurring back problems. The 42-year-old bagged a second place finish at the PGA Championship earlier this month while 48-year-old Mickelson missed the cut. (afp)

This combination of pictures created on August 22, 2018 shows US golfer Tiger Woods waits beside the 12th tee during his first round on day one of The 147th Open golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, on July 19, 2018, and US golfer Phil Mickelson waits to play his shot at tee 17, during the third round of the World Golf Championship in Mexico City, on March 03, 2018.

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Defiant Australia PM Turnbull refuses to ‘give in to bullies’ SYDNEY - Defiant Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vowed not to “give in to bullies” Thursday in the face of a new leadership challenge, but said he will quit politics if his party no longer supports him.

Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, an expolice officer and right-wing conservative, said he was confident he now had the numbers to unseat Turnbull, considered a moderate.

And with senior ministers defecting, Turnbull’s near three-year grip on power is tenuous despite surviving a snap ballot on his leadership on Tuesday, winning the vote 48-35.

He said Dutton had yet to prove he has majority backing from the Liberal Party -- a requirement for him to force another meeting to have a second crack at the top job ahead of national elections due by mid-2019.

If a petition arrives showing that support -- and reports late in the day said Dutton was closing in on his target -- the meeting will be held at midday on Friday (0200 GMT).

Turnbull said that if that happens, he will not stand as a leadership candidate and will leave parliament, sparking a by-election which could be problematic for the government which has a wafer-thin one-seat parliamentary majority.

In a twist to the plot, ABC and Sky News reported that Treasurer Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister

Julie Bishop, both Turnbull allies, may also stand in a leadership ballot, in a bid to derail Dutton’s power grab.

Turnbull accused Dutton and his supporters of intimidation in a crisis that snowballed from Monday after months of poor opinion polls and a revolt by fellow Liberal politicians over plans to embed carbon emissions targets in law.

“What began as a minority has by a process of intimidation persuaded people that the only way to stop the insurgency is to give in to it,” he said.

“I do not believe in that. I have never done that. I have never given in to bullies, but you can imagine the pressure it’s put people under.”

He added that what Australia was witnessing was “a very deliberate effort to pull the Liberal Party further to the right”.

Dutton earlier told reporters he had advised Turnbull by phone that “it was my judgement that the majority of the party room no longer supported his leadership”.

“As such, I asked him to convene a meeting of the Liberal Party at which I would challenge for the leadership of the parliamentary Liberal Party,” he added.

In a major blow, Turnbull’s influential Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, along with the employment and education ministers, then said he no longer had their backing.

They joined at least 10 other ministers who have either resigned or offered to. (afp)

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

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“I urge our residents and visitors to take this threat seriously and prepare for a significant impact.” FEMA associate administrator Jeff Byard said authorities were bracing for the worst, stocking up on emergency food and

water and readying shelters. “We have emergency food in the form of MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat) and water that are currently on all four counties of the state,” he said.

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should we lose power in a catastrophic manner.” He said FEMA was also working with utility companies to co-ordinate the repair of any damaged power infrastructure.

Ige also urged President Donald Trump to declare a federal state emergency and approve immediate US federal military help. Hawaii “requires immediate support from

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Indonesian officials defend parade of veiled kids with guns

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In this handout photograph released by the National Assembly (NA) on August 17, 2018, Pakistan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) addresses the lawmakers after been elected by National Assembly in Islamabad on August 17, 2018.

Can Imran Khan bring Pakistan in from the diplomatic cold?

ISLAMABAD - Tensions with Afghanistan, faltering relations with the US, and chronically poor ties with India. Pakistan today stands isolated, observers say, and bringing it back into the fold is a formidable task for its new premier Imran Khan.

“We have a very big foreign policy challenge right now. If there is one country that needs peace and stability right now, it’s Pakistan,” the former cricket champion said in his victory speech after last month’s election.

Achieving that is not likely to be easy for the first-time PM and foreign affairs novice who Saturday took the reins of a country that has been widely accused of stoking regional insecurity by backing extremists -- claims Islamabad has repeatedly denied.

Ties with the US cooled further in January when President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of “lies” and “duplicity” in the war on terror, suspending military assistance worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Khan has repeatedly blamed Pakistan’s participation in the US-

Department of Defense assets for strategic airlift between the islands,” Ige said And Hawaii “anticipates the need for immediate access to federal resources for search and rescue, mass care and sheltering commodities, and temporary power generation,” he warned. Meanwhile the US Navy said some of its ships and submarines based in Hawaii had begun to deploy

led anti-terror campaign for the surge in terrorism on home soil over the last decade.

Now as premier, in a tone noticeably softer than his earlier anti-US comments, Khan has said he wants a “balanced relationship” instead of “fighting America’s war” in exchange for aid.

Khan has long advocated a negotiated settlement with Islamist insurgents, a commitment that led to criticism that he is soft on militants and earned him the nickname “Taliban Khan”.

If not in Washington, he may find a sympathetic ear in Kabul.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has also been pushing for talks with the Taliban, and offered a new, conditional ceasefire on Sunday.

“Imran Khan is very well positioned in building trust again with Afghanistan,” observed Huma Yusuf, an analyst at the Wilson Center in Washington. “He is seen as a fresh face with a credible voice.”

But given the current freeze with Washington, said Yusuf, Pakistan’s “drift from the US camp to the China camp will continue”. (afp)

to avoid getting caught in the storm.

“Based on the current track of the storm, we made the decision to begin to sortie the Pearl Harbor-based ships,” said Rear Adm. Brian Fort, commander of the Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific. “This allows the ships enough time to transit safely out of the path of the storm.” (afp)

JAKARTA — Indonesian officials have defended a street parade that involved veiled kindergarteners carrying replica weapons, with police saying they will arrest the person who uploaded a video of the event to Facebook.

The video of children dressed head-to-toe in black marching with wooden guns has caused a sensation in Indonesia, which in May suffered one of its worst attacks in years when militants used their children as suicide bombers in the second-largest city, Surabaya.

The parade in East Java was one of thousands held across Indonesia last Friday to mark independence.

Probolinggo Police Chief Alfian Nurrizal told The Associated Press on Tuesday that police were investigating who uploaded the video. He said it may have been edited to convey the wrong impression.

“He or she did not upload the entire footage,” Nurrizal said.

“There are allegations of intentionally cutting the footage for a certain purpose.” If the parade was “filmed completely since the beginning, there will be no misunderstanding,” he said.

Local media reported that Education and Culture Minister Muhajir Effendy said the parade was misinterpreted and the staff of the school, located inside a local military command, had no intention to instill radicalism in children.

It contained many elements, he said, including symbols of Muslims who struggled for Indonesia’s independence and the red and white of Indonesia’s national flag.

“It was recorded when these veiled children carried only replica guns,” he told reporters. “In fact, there were themes raised by these children, namely the struggle of Islam. Until finally this piece of video spread on social media and was very biased.”

However, the principal of the school apologized. And the head of prevention at the National Counter-Terrorism Agency said public outrage over the incident was a positive sign.

“For us, people’s reaction against such a parade was a sign of good awareness about radicalism,” Brig. Gen. Hamli told AP. “In the past, maybe people didn’t care about these kinds of activities,” he said, “but now at least people were concerned that it was inappropriate activities for these children and they responded immediately.”

Nurrizal said the provincial police’s cyber unit is helping to track down the video uploader.

After Jakarta’s minority Christian governor was convicted of blasphemy last year and imprisoned, police also prosecuted the individual who helped trigger massive street protests against the governor by posting a video online of him making offending comments. (ap)

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Firefighters tackle large blaze outside Asian Games venue

A large blaze broke out right next to the Asian Games site in the Indonesian city of Palembang on Tuesday as firefighters scrambled to prevent clouds of smoke affecting competition events. Helicopters scooped up water to douse the flames in fields bordering the sports complex while dozens of firefighters on the ground helped extinguish the blaze, as athletes competed close by in shooting and beach volleyball.

Chinese shooter Wang Xiaojing, 26, told AFP that she saw the fire during the trap mixed team final but kept her focus, later taking the bronze medal with teammate Yu Du. A southerly wind helped prevent too much embarrassment for organisers of the world’s second-biggest multi-sport event, blowing the smoke away from the athletes. South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin said at the scene that he was “100 percent confident” that haze would not mar the regional Olympics, adding that 10 fire trucks and a helicopter had been deployed in less than 15 minutes.

Palembang is one of two host cities of the Asian Games, along with Jakarta. A couple of buildings housing some of the sport stars directly overlooked the blaze.

The threat of haze has been a particularly sensitive issue for officials, with fires and pollution common in the country during peak hot season. The conflagration came on the same day that environmental activists

scaled a huge billboard in central Jakarta to get their anti-pollution message across. Greenpeace members covered it with a mural showing a person wearing a gas mask and the message “#WeBreatheTheSameAir”.

It also displayed the number 152 -- the day’s airquality index reading for the sprawling city notorious for its traffic jams. Anything over 150 is considered a health threat to the general population.

“The government must find a real solution because we are in the spotlight as the organiser of Asia’s biggest sports party,” said Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Bondan Andriyanu.

About 17,000 athletes and officials from 45 Asian countries -- along with hordes of sports-crazy tourists -- are in Jakarta and Palembang for the Asian sporting extravaganza, which runs until September 2. (afp)

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Athletes compete in the trap mixed team final shooting event at the 2018 Asian Games as a helicopter from the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) conducts a water bombing run over a land fire in Palembang on August 21, 2018. Thick black smoke from a grass fire in Palembang could be seen from the shooting range and beach volleyball venues as well as the athletes village on August 21, with the mixed trap shooting final held as helicopters passed overhead to dump water on the blaze.

Anak Krakatau erupts sending volcanic ashes as high as 300 meters

LAMPUNG - Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda strait separating Java and Sumatra, has continued to show activities over the past several days. On Wednesday night the volcano erupted at least twice sending volcanic ashes as high as 300 meters to the sky, the Lampung Meteorology, Climatol-

ogy and Geophysics (BMKG) office said here on Thursday.

Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatau) surfaced in 1927 in a location where the old Mount Krakatau exploded in May 1883 with an eruption , one of the most devastating in the world history.

The Meteorology, Climatology

and Geophysics (BMKG) office, however, described the level of condition as Waspada (alert) only prohibiting people including tourists to stay at least 2 kilometers away from the crater.

White smokes from the crater formed thick cloud 50 meters above the peak that night with the crater

vomiting glowing materials in weak explosions, the BMKG said.

The sea looked quite that night around the volcano, and the air was cloudy. Gentle winds blew from north to the south and east. The air temperature was around 24-31 C degrees with air humidity of 60-92 percent, it said.

On Thursday, however, BMKG issued an early warning of high waves of the sea off the Port of Krui, in the district of Pesisir Barat of Lampung from Thursday and Friday not far from Anak Krakatau.

The sea waves could be as high as 2.7 meters in the sea off the port of Krui. (ant)

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The United States slapped steep tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on Thursday, triggering a swift tit-for-tat retaliation from Beijing, even as negotiators from both sides seek to soothe trade tensions. The latest action completes the first round of $50 billion in Chinese products that President Donald Trump targeted with Beijing striking back at American products dollar-for-dollar at each step.

Rudat Art Remains to Survive in Karangasem

downside risk for real activity”, according to the minutes of its July 31-August 1 policy meeting.

A large-scale and prolonged dispute likely would adversely impact business sentiment, investment spending and employment, the officials warned, and boost prices, which would “reduce the purchasing power of US households”.

- Next round Still pending is the possibility of new duties on another $200 billion in Chinese goods, which are the subject of public hearings this week, as well as Trump’s proposed 25 percent taxes on all auto imports to protect the US car industry.

China has responded by threatening to impose new tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods, while Beijing could also target the local operations of US corporations with inspections and boycotts as it has done in past disputes with South Korea and Japan.

China’s state media has taken aim at Apple in recent weeks, accusing the US titan of allowing illegal apps to proliferate on its platform. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said China will not be able to continue to retaliate at the same pace as the United States.

“Naturally they’ll retaliate a little bit. But at the end of the day, we have many more bullets than they do. They

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US, China swap tariffs on billions in goods as sides hold talks

China “firmly opposes the tariffs and has no choice but to continue to make the necessary counterattacks”, the commerce ministry said in a statement. Beijing hit back with tariffs on an equal amount of US goods, targeting iconic products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, dump trucks and asphalt, among hundreds of others.

China’s commerce ministry said the US tariffs were “cleary suspected of violating WTO rules” and noted it would file a lawsuit against them under the WTO’s dispute resolution mechanism. The escalation came as the world’s two largest economies hold their first formal discussions since June on the spiralling trade war.

Trump has pushed aggressive trade actions to lower the US trade deficit, which he equates with theft from Americans. But US trading partners have retaliated aggressively, which is hurting American farmers, manufacturers and consumers.

US businesses have become increasingly concerned about the tariffs, which are raising prices for manufacturers and could hurt the economy, although the prospect of a negotiated solution buoyed world markets this week.

However, Federal Reserve officials have warned that “an escalation in international trade disputes was a potentially consequential

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This file photo taken on August 7, 2018 shows a worker watching as bags of chemicals are unloaded at a port in Zhangjiagang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The United States slapped steep tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on August 23, 2018, triggering a swift tit-for-tat retaliation from Beijing, even as negotiators from both sides seek to soothe trade tensions. know it,” Ross said on CNBC. “We have a much stronger economy than they have, they know that too.”

Trump, who has threatened to target all $500 billion in goods the US imports from China, has made that same point, noting that Beijing cannot continue to retaliate in kind since it imports less than $200 billion a year in American goods.

- Talks continue US Treasury’s David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs, is leading two days of talks with China’s Vice Commerce

Minister Wang Shouwen and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min that began Wednesday. The talks were to continue Thursday morning, but the Treasury has not specified what topics are being discussed.

Trump said earlier this week that he was not expecting much from the dialogue. “We are a country that has been ripped off by anybody and we are not going to be ripped off anymore,” he said at a campaign rally in West Virginia on Tuesday.

“It has to be a two-way street. We only have one-way streets not only with China but everybody.”

Thousands of large and small companies and industry groups have urged the Trump administration to reconsider the tariffs, which some say could put them out of business. But so far it has largely been deaf to the complaints, as only a handful of product lines have been shielded from the punitive duties. The administration has already been forced to announce a $12 billion aid programme for farmers hurt by the trade row, as US agricultural products, like soybeans, were an easy target for China and others. (afp)

Brazil’s real below $0.25 amid uncertainty ahead of election SAO PAULO - Brazil’s currency is falling against the U.S. dollar, continuing a slide fueled by uncertainty ahead of presidential elections.

The real fell below $0.25 on Tuesday. It has lost about 20 percent of its value against the American currency in the past year. The last time it was so weak against the dollar was in early 2016.

Part of the slide can be attributed to the dollar’s strength against many currencies. But Brazil’s

economy has also struggled to bounce back from a protracted recession, and it’s unclear who will win the October presidential election.

A poll released Monday showed far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro maintaining his lead if former President Luiz Inacio da Silva is barred from the race, as expected. Investors tend to prefer a center-right candidate, former Gov. Geraldo Alckmin. (ap)

The art of Rudat is still preserved and passed down for generations at Saren Jawa village, Budakeling, Karangasem. This art is danced at various celebrations, such as weddings and Mauludan fest. A coach of Rudat at the (MI) Nurulhidayah Islamic Elementary School from Saren Jawa, Komang Samsuhari, said that he is often invited to make performance at wedding events. According to Samsuhari, who is also a principal at the local MI, he specially trains children. In the meantime, the adult Rudat art troupe consisting of high school students is also taught by his father H. Ahmad Astari, who is also the hamlet chief of Saren Jawa.

He said that there are only three Rudat arts in Karangasem. Other than at Saren Jawa, this art also exists at Islamic kampongs like the Sindu, Sidemen. The Rudat dance at Saren Jawa and Sindu shows a similarity. “Perhaps the Muslims of Saren Jawa and Sindu originate of the same region, equally from

Java. While that of Kecicang originates from Sasak, Lombok,” he said.

Aside from Rudat dance, there is also Burdah art. According to Samsuhari, it is the only one in Karangasem. Burdah contains the praise to the Prophets. “We always preserve the arts and customs. So

far, the residents at our village remain to use Balinese first name like Wayan, Nengah, Made or Ketut,” he said. On Thursday (Apr. 14), the Rudat and Burdah dance were presented by MI students in a series of the launching of the family planning kampong at Saren Jawa. (kmb)

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje.

There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries.

Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it.

If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the

pointed end of the wrapper so that the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made. Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour. This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper. Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

Festival ke Uma, Children Play Traditional Games

Hundreds of children played so cheerfully, shouted and even clapped their friends to encourage. Not afraid of being muddy, exposed to rain and sunlight, they were always happy and laughing so happily. It is the atmosphere of the Festival ke Uma held for two days (Jun. 24-25) at Subak Uma Ole, Ole, Marga Dauh Puri village, Marga, Tabanan.

They initially did not know each other, but after joining the game, they came into intimate atmosphere, happiness and full of togetherness. Space and time seem to have no limit to perform activities.

Nature and environment of paddies are very friendly providing various tools and means for them to play.

Children did not only entertain by seeing the festival alone, but were also given the opportunity to participate.

Everything served on the show is not to be watched, but to be enjoyed together. The children, are mostly from Ole hamlet, coalesced into Buratwangi Studio and Wintang Rare Studio, those from other areas such as Geluntung village, Kukuh and Penebel (Tabanan), Mengwi (Badung), Denpasar, Karangasem and Buleleng. “We designed a participative festival, where visitors can participate in the activity not just serve as spectator,” said the Coordinator, I Putu Edi Novalia Artha.

Festival ke Uma presents various types of traditional games divided into two categories namely exhibition and competition. The exhibition shows megandu, medempul, mapoh-pohan, kancing lait, obek-obek uang, colek-colek tain belek, tangklak-tingklik and gala-gala. The kinds of game con-

tested include metimbang, nyuun sigih, matulupan, paid upih and megandong di nyanyad (mud).

The second day was flushed by rain, but no children complained and protested against nature, no one thought about the rain-stopper or the cloud-breaking laser beam. Players of the show looked like farmers, receiving abundant water and sunshine with gratitude. The children faithfully waited for the rain to stop. When the rain subsided, they returned to play happily even though the paddy fields that had previously been dried as the arena had really been back like paddy fields.

In addition to traditional games, it was also filled with yoga workshop

by IGS Raka Panji Tisna, herbal medicine workshop by Bagus Arya (Padma Herbal) and workshop of making kites from Buratwangi art studio. The workshop involved the

community from children to adults.

“This festival also has a vision to invite children and society to cultivate a clean and healthy life by reducing the use of materials from plastic,” said Putu Edi. In the evening, the Festival ke Uma was also enlivened with the

art performance such as Monolog

by Putu Satria, musicalization by Mahima Community, Tantric Tales

by Bumi Bajra Sandhi, Monolog of Cupak Gerantang by a student of the ISI Denpasar, Kambing Takutin Macan art and music by Jalan Air Community. (kmb)

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To create a useful fintech ecosystem

Taiwan marks 60 years since China attack as tensions rise

OJK inaugurates the operation of OJK Infinity

DENPASAR - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) inaugurated the operation of the OJK Innovation Center for Digital Financial Technology (OJK Infinity) on Monday (Aug. 20). OJK Infinity aims to build a fintech ecosystem into a part of the national financial system benefiting the community and encouraging economic growth.

“Through OJK Infinity, the fintech industry is expected to be able to provide innovative, effective and efficient financial services while still prioritizing consumer protection,” said Wimboh Santoso, OJK’s Board of Commissioners, in the launch of the OJK Infinity, on Monday (Aug. 20).

The establishment of OJK Infinity is part of the OJK’s digital financial vision, namely providing effective, efficient and useful services; supporting financial inclusion; and improving community welfare.

OJK Infinity will serve as a forum for discussion and collaboration between the industry, regulators, government, academicians and other innovation hubs to reach the three functions of the OJK Infinity. It will facilitate regulatory sandbox as a Fintech incubator to balance innovation with consumer protection and serves as an innovation hub for the development of the Digital Financial Industry (IKD) as well as the development of the IKD ecosystem as a whole.

As an educational center for financial service players, consumers and academicians will become IKD activists and Indonesian economic players in the future. In carrying out these three functions, the OJK will

cooperate in terms of exchanging information and resources with various stakeholders, including the ministry and state institutions, as well as all financial service industry players, associations and universities to form a comprehensive digital financial ecosystem.

The OJK Infinity can also be used by general public to obtain information regarding the IKD, while the IKD players will know more about the IKD regulations.

In the future, OJK Infinity will expand its collaboration with educational institutions and the private sector having commitments that are in line with the development of the digital financial sector, one of which is that OJK makes collaboration with Telkom University through a Memorandum of Understanding within the scope of research and the establishment of a Master Education program in the IKD field.

The OJK will issue an OJK regulation on Digital Financial Innovation that will become a legal instrument to protect all innovations in the digital financial sector.

The OJK Regulation is established based on the need for a legal basis for financial innovation that currently exists in the community so that it can provide wider benefits for the community and protect the

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Student volunteers manage and take stock of packed relief material for flood victims at SMV School, Trivandrum’s largest relief material collection centre, in the south Indian state of Kerala, on August 22, 2018.

Wimboh Santoso interests of society.

The regulation implements market conduct-based supervision where the OJK Regulation will only regulate principle-based matters and govern regulatory sandbox activities to study, analyze as well

as understand the risks, governance of the business model for a fintech including in the sandbox with the aim to knowing the risk profile and supervision as well as appropriate regulatory models for certain IKD business models.

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To date, the OJK has registered 63 peer-to-peer lending companies / products with a total distribution of peer-to-peer funds reaching IDR 7.64 trillion as of June 2018, and has been channeled to 1.09 million borrower accounts. (kmb42)

As form of tolerance, Muslims in Tabanan share sacrificial meat

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This sharing tradition is one form of religious tolerances carried out for a long time.

TABANAN - The ngejot or tradition of sharing is not only carried out on Hindu religious days. Muslims, especially in Tabanan, have the same tradition. When celebrating the Eid al-Adha, the Muslims at Tunggal Sari hamlet, Delod Peken, Tabanan, has the tradition of slaughtering or distributing sacrificial meat to non-Muslim residents living around the Tabanan Great Mosque on Wednesday (Aug. 22).

This sharing tradition is one form of religious tolerances carried out for a long time.

Dozens of kilograms of beef and mutton were distributed on the Eid al-Adha. Chairperson of the Tabanan Great Mosque sacrifice committee, Muhammad Badrian, said the

program began at 13:00 Local Time.

Some members of the sacrificial committee at the Tabanan Great Mosque moved to the homes of non-Muslim residents with the aim of distributing sacrificial meat after they said Id prayers at the local mosque. Badrian continued that the distribution of sacrificial meat is a form of interfaith tolerance on the Island of Bali.

He added the sacrificial animals collected in the Tabanan Great Mosque amounted to 23 goats and 5 cows. From this number was obtained a total of 1,200 packages of sacrificial meat and have been distributed to residents.

Badrian said the moment becomes a form of interfaith tolerance in Tabanan that had been well

established. “It becomes a concern among the Tunggal Sari community,” he said.

Badrian, who is also the neighborhood chief, said the interfaith tradition of distributing sacrificial meat at Tunggal Sari hamlet has taken place since 1950 and so far the tradition is still practiced every Eid al-Adha with the aim of strengthening religious tolerance.

Meanwhile, the Hindus welcomed the way of Muslims to maintain tolerance between religious communities. “Every year, we always get sacrificial meat during the celebration of Eid al-Adha,” said one of the residents who received a package of sacrificial meat, I Made Suastika. (kmb24)

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Flood-stricken Kerala angry after UAE $100m offer rejected

KINMEN - Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen called for unity and vowed not to bow to pressure from Beijing on Thursday as the island marked the 60th anniversary of a deadly Chinese artillery attack.

The anniversary of the assault on tiny Kinmen island, known as the “823 bombardment”, comes as China steps up pressure on selfruling Taiwan, which it sees as part of its territory to be reunified.

China’s People’s Liberation Army fired 470,000 shells at Kinmen and nearby islets in 1958, killing 618 servicemen and civilians in an attack that lasted 44 days.

Kinmen is part of Taiwan, but lies less than two miles off mainland China, at the narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait.

“When we remember the ‘823 bombardment’ 60 years later, we will not forget the spirit of solidarity,” Tsai said on her Facebook page.

“When we face diplomatic suppression we will not forget how strong our country can be when we are united,” she added, saying that while Taiwanese people cherished peace they would not take national security for granted.

Tensions with Beijing have worsened under Tsai because she refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of “one China”.

In response, China has ramped up military drills and poached Taiwan’s official diplomatic allies -- El Salvador became the third this year to switch ties from Taipei to Beijing on Tuesday.

At an anniversary ceremony held in a former army bunker and combat centre in Kinmen, Taiwan’s Defence Minister Yen De-fa said today’s troops in Taiwan must again make “combat preparations” in the face of what he described as a growing military threat from China.

Hundreds of soldiers, relatives and veterans, some in their 80s and 90s, gathered at a Kinmen cemetery where victims of the 1958 bombardment were buried.

Lai Jen-hsien, 83, remembered the attack.

“We were joking it was firecrackers, but then all of a sudden it was a rain of them (artillery),” said Lai, who was in the combat engineer battalion in Kinmen at the time.

He told AFP he did not think history would repeat itself on Kinmen.

“Peace is priceless. War is ruthless. We should try our best to peacefully handle the fate of people from both sides of the (Taiwan) Strait,” Lai said.

China has sought to bring Taiwan back into the fold since nationalist troops fled to the island after their defeat by communist forces on the mainland in 1949.

Kinmen historically often found itself on the frontline, although now the island is a popular tourist attraction for both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese visitors.

Its most famous souvenirs are kitchen knives made from the remnants of artillery shells. (afp)

KOCHI - Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India’s national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.

More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.

The New Delhi government infuriated the Kerala administration by rejecting the cash offer from the wealthy Gulf state.

Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of adopting a “dog-in-the-manger” policy by refusing the money.

The communist minister added in a Twitter attack that if the right wing national government takes a “negative stance” on the UAE offer “they should compensate Kerala.”

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan called for “high level” talks with the national government on the dispute.

There are an estimated three million Indians in the UAE, with

many from Kerala which has a large Muslim population.

India’s foreign ministry announced late Wednesday however that the government would stick to its policy of “meeting the requirements for relief and rehabilitation through domestic efforts” and not accept money from foreign governments.

It added that outside money could only be donated through Indian-origin individuals or foundations.

India has a record of refusing foreign aid after disasters, turning down foreign help after the 2004 tsunami, which killed thousands in India. Experts said Indian governments want to prove they can handle any emergency themselves.

The UAE offer was higher than the $97 million so far given by the central government to handle the

floods which state authorities estimate have caused damage worth more than $3 billion.

They say 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles) of roads have been destroyed or damaged, while estimates of the number of houses to be rebuilt vary from 20,000 to 50,000.

Many of the new arrivals in relief camps are people who have returned to their homes to find them uninhabitable.

One 68-year-old man committed suicide Wednesday after seeing the state of his home at Kothad in Ernakulam district. A 19-year-old boy took his own life earlier this week because his school certificates were destroyed by the floods, police said.

Vijayan said there were now 1.34 million people in 3,300 relief camps, up 300,000 in two days. (afp)

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A soldier puts a flower on a grave in a cemetery for soldiers during the 60th anniversary of the ‘823 bombardment’ in Kinmen on August 23, 2018.

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Australian eco-friendly ‘Clothes Library’ fights fast fashion

IN a small shop along one of Sydney’s busiest streets, Sarah Freeman is encouraging Australians to slow down and break their addiction to fast fashion.

Shocked by the speed at which Australians buy and throw away cheap garments, she is trying to harness an ancient concept -- libraries -- to persuade shoppers to rent instead of purchase clothes.

“Today’s society just seem to wear clothes like condoms. They wear them once and they throw them away,” the passionate vintage garment aficionado told AFP at her Clothes Library in the inner suburb of Potts Point.

“That’s not how clothes are supposed to be designed.

The clothes nowadays are manufactured for six wears, I think, which is terrible.”

Globally, clothing production doubled from 2000-14, with the number of garments bought each year by consumers soaring by 60 percent, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

A booming part of the industry, including in Australia, is fast fashion, which quickly turns catwalk designs into apparel sold at low or ultra-low prices and easily accessible via online sites.

In Australia, where the demand for textiles is one of the highest per capita in the world, the fast fashion sector grew by 19.5 percent over five years to Aus$1.8 billion (US$1.4 billion) in 2017-18, research firm IBISWorld reported.

A recent YouGov survey also found that almost a quarter of Australians have thrown away an item of clothing after wearing it just once, and four in 10 admitted they had binned unwanted garments, adding to landfill.

“They don’t always see it as something that is a valuable product to keep in your wardrobe,” Alison Gwilt, a sustainable fashion expert and researcher at the University of South Australia, told AFP. “So already the mindset from the very beginning when you buy that type of product is that you think of it as something that’s short-lived.”

At the Sydney distribution centre of St Vincent de Paul Society, a major charity recycling clothes, manager George

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This photo taken on August 1, 2018 shows Sarah Freeman, founder of the Clothes Library store where customers can borrow and return goodquality secondhand clothes for a small monthly subscription fee, posing at her shop in Sydney.

The rock bottom prices for consumers contrast with the high cost paid by the environment.

Tonnes of cheap clothes are churned out every year in developing countries, using up copious amounts of energy and resources and polluting waterways near factories with toxic chemicals.

The materials used are often synthetic and non-biodegradable, meaning even washing can be hazardous, with some textiles shedding plastic micro-fibres that make their way to water catchments and oceans in consumer countries like Australia.

In recent months, the devastating impact of waste has made headlines after China, Australia’s biggest market for recycling waste, cracked down on foreign imports.

Beijing’s restrictions on “contaminated” recycled materials including fabric has forced Australians to think about how much waste they produce and galvanised efforts to explore more sustainable approaches.

Producers have been proactive with natural fibres -- Australia is a key supplier of wool and high-quality cotton -- Australian Fashion Council chief executive David Giles-Kaye told AFP. Retailers including major player Cotton On are pledging to make their manufacturing chains transparent and ethical.

At Melbourne’s Deakin University, researchers won support from Swedish mega-retailer H&M to develop “circular denim”, where old jeans are used to colour new ones, reducing the impact on landfills and of dye run-off.

St Vincent’s has joined the efforts at the recycling level, examining better ways to sort donated clothes into different fibre types and repurpose garments to extend their life-cycle.

“We have to become a lot... smarter and really use technology to try and break things down into their base form so that things can actually be reused and we can become a true circular economy,” the charity’s retail development manager Jacqui Dropulic told AFP. Although the efforts could lead to significant change within the fashion industry, Giles-Kaye believes the key to solving the issue ultimately lies with consumers and their desire for even quicker and cheaper clothing.

“It’s still very much a fringe movement... When consumers continue to want more product at a lower price it really drives the producers into less sustainable areas of manufacturing,” he said.

Freeman is convinced that if concepts like hers allowing shoppers to borrow and return quality secondhand clothes for a small monthly subscription fee take off, people power can make a difference.

“Hopefully it will catch on and people will start being more conscious and just make an effort to not go out and purchase the fast fashion items,” she said.

“I mean if we stop demanding it, then they (retailers) have to stop supplying it.” (afp)

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Candidasa tourist information center turns useless

Blakely has seen the longevity of some donated items decline in recent years.

“Some products only last two or three washes, which is not favourable... The volume they get through here is usually increasing, because people are turning over products in their own home more quickly,” Blakely said.

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Cult brand reformation launches sustainable underwear

CULT, sustainable LA brand Reformation has launched the latest part of its extensive expansion plan. Lucky Americans (it’s only available to buy here via collaborations with global e-tailers, unless you’re willing to pay international shipping and import costs) have seen denim, swimwear and plussize pieces filter into its offering of covetable dresses over the past seasons. And now, Reformation lingerie has landed.

The limited-edition line-up of two bras and one bralette and two styles of briefs – thongs and boy shorts – are in line with the brand’s commitment to circular fashion.

Each piece in the $12-$45 priced collection is made from Lenzing Tencel, recycled lace and eco mesh.

Though Reformation has recruited four “real” women to model the underwear in its social campaign imagery, its sizing is not as inclusive as the lingerie recently released by brands with similar price points. Where R i h a n n a ’s Savage x Fenty range made inc l u -

sivity a priority, Reformation’s sizes range from S-L in bottoms and XS-L in bras.

Still, Daisy, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Rachel, the founder and CEO of Swipe Out Hunger; JoAnna, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon; and Jamie, an entertainment attorney, highlight the fact that Reformation is a female-founded company with a leadership team made up of 80 per cent women.

“In today’s culture, our selfworth is too often based on appearance, and lingerie campaigns tend to focus only on our bodies,” the brand captions the Instagram images. “While it’s arguably hard to show lingerie without getting half-naked, today we wanted to hone in on other qualities as well. Like, you know, brains and accomplishments.

Because that’s hot.”

Here’s hoping Browns, Net-a-Porter or any other potential collaborators make a sustainable overhaul of the underwear drawer, à la Reformation, affordable in the UK soon. (net)

AMLAPURA - Public facilities like the tourist information center in the Candidasa rest area have long been dormant.

Actually, during the period of July-August, tourist visits to Candidasa soared sharply. Many tourists had come to the location, but never got information because it is always locked tightly. This gives impression if this place is useless to support Candidasa tourism.

Reportedly, it had some employees that could provide explanations about Candidasa. So, every tourist coming to Candidasa would get a correct explanation about the existence of Candidasa tourism along with its potential.

Such a situation was justified by the Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Karangasem Chapter, I Wayan Kariasa, when asked for his response regarding the existence of the tourist information center. “The center no longer has activity,” said Kariasa on Wednesday (Aug. 22).

All this time, tourists have received information regarding Candidasa ranging from each hotel and restaurant owner in the vicinity. However, he also regret-

ted the tourist information center or the rest area in the vicinity is not used to support the comfort for travelling tourists. “This facility has not been used for a long time. Like in the current situation, it should be used well, including the one at Yeh Malet so it becomes more effective,” he added.

The Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, Wayan Astika, cannot be asked for his response regarding the existence of many useless rest areas. Having been contacted for several times, Astika has not been able to respond.

Kariasa added that natural disasters that occurred in Lombok have caused tourists to choose to stay longer in Karangasem. The hotel occupancy rate reaches 70 percent as seen in Candidasa. It is also inseparable from the current calm activities of Mount Agung.

Since the situation in Lombok has not been conducive yet, Kariasa said that many tourists cancel their tour packages to Lombok and choose to stay longer in Karangasem. His organization hoped such natural disaster will pass quickly and the situation will return to normal. (kmb31)

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the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Buleleng found six houses at Pegayaman village, Sukasada, heavily damaged.

Six houses at Pegayaman damaged due to Lombok earthquake

DENPASAR — The impact of the earthquake centered in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) increases. At this time, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Buleleng found six houses at Pegayaman village, Sukasada, heavily damaged. In addition, the compound wall of the Amerta Sari hamlet hall and Melanting Temple at the local village was also damaged by the earthquake.

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Public facilities like the tourist information center in the Candidasa rest area have long been dormant.

Interestingly, this damage was just discovered by the Rapid Response Team (TRC) of the BPBD after receiving the reports from relevant village officials.

Actually, the houses were damaged by the first earthquake on Sunday (Aug. 5).

Results of the data collection by the TRC of the BPBD Buleleng indicated if the six houses had various damages. The residents having the houses consist of Nyoman Nita, 60, Wayan Jati, 60, Kadek Bagiata 38, Wayan Mastra, 60, Made Gawa, 55, and Made Kadung, 85. From the data collection, the damage includes the cracked wall, collapsed roof and collapsed shrine building. Although their homes suffered severe damage, the villagers do not evacuate by building emergency tents. Meanwhile, the damages to public facilities happened to compound wall and the shrine falling out due to earthquake shock.

Chief Executive of the BPBD Buleleng, Ida Bagus Suadnyana, stated on Wednesday (Aug. 22) that the report of the earthquake at Amerta Sari hamlet, Pegayaman, was indeed late in entering the BPBD. Moreover, the damage was barely monitored because the BPBD had not received any data from village official. However, last Wednesday there was a report on the damage, so the TRC personnel immediately carried out data collection to the location.

From the data collection, it was found that seven houses are damaged by a series of the earthquake. “We have information from the subdistrict, and tomorrow (Aug. 23) we’ll make further assessment,” he said.

According to him, temporarily the scattered data on the damages caused by the earthquake are included in the data on the damages of houses and public facilities having been collected previously. Later on, the data will also be submitted to the BNPB Bali or will be submitted back to the central BNPB. Until now, it is waiting for further instructions related to the requests for the assistance to handle damages caused by the earthquake. Meanwhile, the BNPB Bali has been checking the damage and it just needs to complete the data of the victims affected by the earthquake.

“We continuously input the data to be submitted to the province or followed up to central government. The proposal has been checked. The BNPB Bali has already checked and requested to complete the administrative requirements,” he explained. (kmb38)

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Boost SVF

First Day Enlivened by Jukung Race and ILP

The 2018 Boost Sanur Village Festival was held on Wednesday, August 22nd. The first day was enlivened by the Jukung race until Indra Lesmana’s musician performance with his new group.

Race of traditional boat begin the SVF Boost series which was held from August 22 to 26. Although the fishermen had difficulty speeding up the jukung because the wind was not blowing hard, it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the annual agenda that this year held in Matahari Terbit Beach.

Boost SVF Chairperson, IB Gede Sidharta Putra said that jukung race is a legendary activity for the people of Sanur and has been done long before the start of this annual festival since 2006. Jukung race is now a part of SVF and developed to remain sustainable and become an attractive tourist attraction.

The man who is familiarly called Gusde, said the involvement of this traditional boat was also a form of conservation of the heritage which had become one of the regional icons managed under the auspices of the Sanur Development Foundation (YPS). “We are doing conservation as our consistency to pay attention to the existence of traditional jukung in Sanur. Because we support it as an icon of tourism on Sanur Beach,” he said.

The competition involved 50 participants from 5 groups. Each group sought 5 best to compete in the final. “There are 25 participants that will compete in final. They have to cross a distance of about 8 kilometers by starting and finishing at Segara Ayu Beach,” he added.

Gusde, who is also Chair of Denpasar’s Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) Denpasar and Chairman of the Denpasar’s Tourism Development Agency (BPPD), said that besides the Jukung race there were also workshop activities and various other activities. Including, entertainments on the main stage which is always awaited by visitors.

Since the afternoon, the main stage has been filled with a variety of entertainment including Balaram Ethnic Fussion, Cisjis Dancesport Sanur, Sangaji Musik Indonesia, Ratrocker, Gambleer, fashion shows, and ballet performances from Sanur. In addition there is also the appearance of Keva Amir, one of the participants who is currently following the competition for The Voice Kids Indonesia Seasons 3.

The most awaited performance was Indra Lesmana Project (ILP), a new group of progressive metal music genre initiated by jazz musician Indra Lesmana. He said, the formation of ILP was inspired by the eruption of Mount Agung 2017, while SVF which carried the Mandala Giri theme was also an effort to refocus the attention of the audience to Mount Agung which became a spiritual center in Bali.

“Let us make the eruption of Mount Agung a creative energy that makes us united, mutual cooperation, and maintaining the preservation of Mount Agung which is a spiritual center in Bali,” said Indra.

The ceremony for the opening of the SVF Boost will be carried out by Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya, Thursday night. On the second day a series of activities were prepared, including painting on the spot, fashion shows and the appearance of Gus Teja and singer Andien. (kmb18)

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According to the result of the monitoring, there are indeed frequent aftershocks but the magnitude is declining,” an official of the Denpasar BMKG Melki Adi Kurniawan said here on Friday.

Melki Adi Kurniawan said based on the observation of the agency there was an increase in the frequency of aftershocks but the impact was

not as serious as the damage caused several days earlier. “Therefore, we want to assure tourists and the local people that no need for them to be worried too much as the quakes in Lombok have no significant effect in Bali,” he said.

The authorities said the death toll already reached 259 until Friday following the Aug 5 quake,

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Shaken by earthquake, Dalem Temple’s wantilan hall of Bunutin collapses BANGLI - A 7-magnitude earthquake that returned to shake Bali on Sunday night (Aug.19) resulted in damages to buildings at a number of points. In the home village of the regent of Bangli, namely Bunutin village, Kintamani, a wantilan hall standing in the local Dalem Temple area collapsed. Severity of the earthquake that occurred several times from that noon also caused the rear wall of the building belonging to a resident at Tamanbali village to collapse.

Headman of Bunutin, I Made Subrata, when contacted on Monday afternoon (Aug. 20) justified the incident. He said the collapse of the wantilan building at Dalem Temple occurred shortly after the earthquake striking around 23:00 Local Time. Severity of the earthquake shocks caused the roof of the building to collapse and several pillars to be broken. “The roof fell out. As consequence, the wantilan building cannot be used at all,” he explained.

According to Subrata, the collapse of the wantilan building, which had just been completed two years ago, is alleged to happen because the structure of the land and construction of the building experienced a shift after being shaken by the earthquake for many times since last August 5. Fortunately, no fatalities were reported due to the incident because the earthquake occurred at night. “This wantilan is a versatile building.

It can be used for cockfight arena, dance stage and venue of cultural activities,” he explained. He added that due to the damage to the 27x20 meters building, the material losses that had to be borne by the local villagers reached IDR 1.2 billion.

In addition to causing the collapse of the wantilan building at Dalem Temple of Bunutin village, the earthquake shocks also resulted in the collapse of the rear wall of the bale daja (northern pavilion) building owned by Ketut Rai Puspani, a resident of Gaga hamlet, Tamanbali village, Bangli. Rai said that the broken wall of her bale occurred just after the earthquake shook on Sunday afternoon. The broken wall material also hit the warehouse behind it.

“Having been shaken by the first earthquake, some parts of the wall began to crack. Actually I want to repair it, but I have no time before it broke down because it was rocked by subsequent earthquake yesterday (Sunday) afternoon,” she said.

Rai added there were no family members or valuables affected by the collapsed materials because since few days before the northern pavilion building formerly occupied by his mother-in-law has been emptied.

Separately, the Chief Executive Officer of the Bangli Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Karmawan, accompanied by the Head of Emergency and Logistics Section, Ketut Agus Sutapa, said that in addition to impacting damages in the two locations, the earthquake that occurred on Sunday night also resulted in destruction of four houses at Undisan village, Tembuku. The earthquake shock which was quite hard also returned to make Abang Hill at Buahan village landslide and impact on the disruption of traffic.

“There were no fatalities due to the earthquake yesterday. So far, we are still collecting data on the impact of the earthquake,” said Karmawan. (kmb40)

Tourists no need to be worried by Lombok aftershocks

DENPASAR - The Denpasar office of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said no need for foreign and domestic tourists in Bali to be worried by earthquakes and aftershocks that continued to rock neigboring Lombok island since July 29. “After the July 29`s quakes we have continued observations.

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but no foreign tourists among the death victims. Melki said the condition in Bali was not affected by the aftershocks that continued to rock the neighboring island of Lombok.

Beside the death of 259 people, the Aug 5` quakes with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter Scale caused extensive damage with the collapse of 42,239 houses, 1,447 people

seriously injured and evacuation of 165,003 people. Less than 10 days earlier on July 29, a major quake of 6.4 on the Richter scale quake hit Lombok causing the death of 16 people. On Thursday, a strong aftershock of 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted the island and number of other neighboring islands including Bali. (ant)

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New sex charge against Spacey: US prosecutors LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney’s office has received a second sexual assault complaint against Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, whose acting career has nosedived following allegations by more than a dozen men in the United States and Britain.

“A case of sexual assault was filed yesterday (21/8) in our office by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, involving Kevin Spacey, and is under review,” Greg Risling with the prosecutors’ office told AFP Wednesday.

A separate investigation was opened back in April for a complaint about an alleged assault in 1992 involving a man.

Risling did not specify details about this new complaint, or the status of the previous one.

The two-time Academy Awardwinner has seen allegations against him pile up on the heels of the

#MeToo movement, which began with the fall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Spacey also has open investigations in London, where he directed The Old Vic Theater between 2004 and 2015, and in Nantucket, an island resort near Boston.

The first report that was made public was that of actor Anthony Rapp, 46, who claimed that the actor sexually abused him at age 14, back in 1986.

Spacey apologized to Rapp, claiming not to remember the incident, but remained silent as accusations against him mushroomed.

One actor anonymously told the Vulture portal that Spacey tried to rape him in 1984, when he was 14 years old. And eight members of the production team of his popular Netflix series “House of Cards” who also denounced “predatory” behavior by Spacey. (afp)

Friday, August 24, 2018

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This combination of file pictures made on August 1, 2018, shows French rapper Booba (L) on May 19, 2014, in Cannes, southern France, and French rapper Kaaris (R) on March 25, 2015, in Paris.

French rappers freed after brawl shuts Paris airport

PARIS - Two of France’s biggest rap stars were released on bail Thursday after a brawl between their entourages forced a partial shutdown of a Paris airport.

US actor Kevin Spacey

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The rumble between bitter rivals Booba and Kaaris in the departures hall of Orly airport three weeks ago was filmed by holidaymakers on their phones, as the two groups fought in a duty-free shop.

A judge later ordered that the rappers be locked up until September 6 because of the “persistent animosity between the two groups”.

But an appeal court in Paris on Thursday overruled the decision, freeing the rappers and eight members of their respective posses on bail.

It was set at 30,000 euros ($34,700) for the two artists, who were also ordered to stay away from each other and to hand over

their passports.

A ninth follower had earlier been freed by a local court near the airport.

The two rappers, who were on their way to a concert in Barcelona, have waged a feud over social media where some users mocked the duo and called on them to settle differences with their fists.

- ‘Perfume used as weapons’ Airport bosses said the brawl had “endangered the lives of others”, and lodged a public order complaint against the singers after the ruckus forced officials to temporarily shut down the departures hall.

The rappers have been held in separate prisons near Paris since the fight on August 3.

Booba, aka Elie Yaffa, reportedly fell out with Kaaris, 38, after failing to support him in a dispute with fellow French artist Rohff.

Rohff was sentenced in November to five years in jail for aggravated assault in a fashion boutique owned by 41-year-old Booba.

Kaaris’ lawyers Arash Derambarsh and Yacine Yakouti told a court earlier this month that the singer was “taken aside by Booba, who insulted his child and his wife”, before several people “jumped on him”. (afp)

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Surfers ride waves in Waikiki beach ahead of Hurricane Lane approaching the archipielago, in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 22, 2018. Residents of Hawaii on August 22 were bracing for a rare landfall by a powerful hurricane as they stocked up on water, food and emergency supplies. Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile-per-hour winds and is expected to reach the archipelago’s Big Island by nightfall.

Rare hurricane warning as Hawaii braces for major storm

Residents of Hawaii were bracing for a rare landfall by a powerful hurricane as they stocked up on water, food and emergency supplies. Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile (250-kilometre) -per-hour winds and was expected to reach the archipelago’s Big Island by nightfall Wednesday.

President Donald Trump urged residents to prepare for the storm, which was expected to bring torrential rains, high winds and dangerous surf. “Everyone in the path of #HurricaneLane please prepare yourselves, heed the advice of State and local officials, and follow @NWSHonolulu for updates. Be safe!” he tweeted.

The National Weather Service said a hurricane warning has been issued for Maui County and Hawaii County while a hurricane watch was in effect in Kauai and Oahu.

“The center of Lane will track dangerously close to the Hawaiian Islands from Thursday through Saturday,” it said. It added that though Lane is forecast to weaken in the next 48 hours it will remain a dangerous hurricane as it nears the Hawaiian Islands.

“Lane is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 10 to 15 inches (250 to 380 millimetres) with isolated amounts greater than 20 inches over the Hawaiian Islands,” the NWS said. It added that regardless of the

exact track of the storm, the state should brace for the potentially lifethreatening impacts.

- Bracing for the worst “It’s not a question of whether they’re going to be hit or not,” Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told a press briefing. “They’re going to see impacts from this storm.” He said the priority at this point was to ensure residents were prepared for the storm. “Right now the priority that we

have is life safety,” he said. “We are asking citizens to proactively heed all of the warning order information coming from the governor and the local county emergency management agencies within the state.”

Hurricanes rarely make landfall in Hawaii and the last major storm to strike the state was nearly three decades ago, when Hurricane Iniki barrelled into the island of Kauai, leaving six people dead and causing billions of dollars in damage. In preparation for the latest storm, state officials have closed schools and public offices in the counties affected while residents rushed to stores to stock up on water, food and other supplies. Many were also boarding up their houses.

Governor David Ige on Tuesday declared a state of emergency on Big Island to help provide relief for damage from the hurricane. “Hurricane Lane is not a well-behaved hurricane,” he said in a statement.

“I’ve not seen such dramatic changes in the forecast track as I’ve seen with this storm.

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