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Monday, June 25, 2012

Thai Buddhist film festival seeks to spark faith Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Religion can be a tough sell nowadays, so instead of waiting for disciples to make their way to temple, some promoters brought 36 films with Buddhist themes to the heart of modern Thailand earlier this month. The International Buddhism Film Festival was an effort by the government and private religious groups to popularize Buddhism among the younger generations.

“It’s like prescribing medicine to children, you have to add a little sweetener there,” said Somchai Seanglai, the permanent secretary of Thailand’s Culture Ministry. “City dwellers or our young people are not used to the traditional way of practicing Buddhism, so we insert Buddhist dharma into art and culture that people love to consume.”

Dharma refers to the Buddha’s teachings on the meaning of existence.

Initiated by the California-based Buddhism Film Foundation, the movie festival came to Bang-

kok for the first time this year since its debut in Los Angeles in 2003, and pulled in 3,700 visitors.

“Now many youngsters think of Buddhism as a religion for old people, so the film festival is trying to engage Buddhism with the contemporary world,” said Santi Opaspakornkij, executive director of the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives, an education center dedicated to promoting Buddhism through new channels in Thailand.

About 90 percent of Thailand’s population is Buddhist, but many view the religion simply as a rough guide to social do’s and don’ts, with vague notions encouraging good behavior.

“I don’t go to temples very often,” said Napasamon Jeeramaneemai, a third-year architecture student at Bangkok’s Thammasat University attending the festival. “Buddhism for me is just a better way to resolve bad situations. Sometimes when you blame them on ‘karma,’ it’s easier to accept them.” Buddhists believe “Karma” rules a person’s destiny depending on their deeds throughout their

The Daytime Emmys showered “General Hospital” with five trophies, including best drama, while giving Regis Philbin a fond farewell as a departing talk-show host. NBC’s “Today” show won as best morning show and the syndicated “Jeopardy!” was named best game show at the annual ceremony Saturday.

“Live with Regis and Kelly” was saluted as best entertainment talk show (its first-ever nod in that category) and for best talk-show hosts. Philbin ended his long run as its co-host last November, with a replacement yet to be named to join Kelly Ripa as the syndicated series continues.

Heather Tom, who won as best lead actress for CBS’ “The Bold and the

Beautiful,” made history as the first to win in that category after having previously won as both best younger actress and supporting actress. Anthony Geary won as lead actor for “General Hospital.”

The ABC soap also won for supporting actress (Nancy Lee Grahn), supporting actor (Jonathan Jackson), and directing team.

The syndicated “Dr. Oz” was named

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Spain coach hails match-winner Alonso’s ‘team’ ethic Page 8

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Alonso double puts Spain into semis Reuters

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In this photo taken Friday, June 15, 2012, women prays to Buddhist statues in front of a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand.

best informative talk show. Bill Geddie, longtime associate of Barbara Walters and executive producer of her ABC talk show “The View,” received the life achievement award.

“There’s not a lot of glamour and glory in daytime,” Geddie told the room in his acceptance remarks. “But when you think about it, we’re all here with the best of intentions: We just love making TV!” Held in Beverly Hills, Calif., the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards was telecast on the HLN channel, having moved to cable for the first time after airing on CBS the past two years. The awards are bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The cast and crew of “General Hospital” accept the award for drama series onstage at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, June 23, 2012 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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‘General Hospital’ wins big with 5 Daytime Emmys Associated Press Writer

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DONETSK - Xabi Alonso struck twice in his 100th international to lead Spain to a comfortable 2-0 win over a feeble France on Saturday and through to a Euro 2012 semi-final against Portugal. It was an efficient and calm performance from world champions Spain, who started without a recognised striker before clinching their first competitive win over the French.

But it was a display which left most of the crowd at the Donbass Arena indifferent to its cautious pragmatism. France coach Laurent Blanc’s tactics of playing two right backs in a defensive lineup failed as Spanish left back Jordi Alba skipped through to the goalline after 19 minutes and picked out an unmarked Alonso who headed firmly home at the far post.

The experienced midfielder coolly converted a penalty in stoppage time to give the holders the victory margin their dominance deserved. “We controlled the match well from start to finish and Iker (Casillas) hardly had a save to make. The important thing now is that we recuperate for the next game,” said Spain coach Vicente del Bosque.

Alonso added: “The team was phenomenal and personally I am very satisfied with the two goals. We didn’t have that many chances but we completely controlled the match.”

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PATIENT POSSESSION

France, who had won five and drawn one of the teams’ six previous competitive meetings, were spectators for long spells as Spain played their usual patient possession game without TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ FRANCK FIFE taking any risks.

Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso (R) celebrates with midfielder Santi Cazorla after he scored a goal during the Euro 2012 football championships quarter-final match Spain vs France on June 23, 2012 at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk.

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Pollution in Denpasar worrying

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DENPASAR - Environmental pollution in Denpasar should receive more serious handling. If environmental pollution is ignored, it will have a great impact on the environment. The main sources of pollution in Denpasar are dominated by vehicle exhaust emissions and screen printing waste.

It was confirmed by the Head of the Denpasar Environment Agency, AA Bagus Sudharsana, met on the sidelines of tree planting activity on Padanggalak Beach, Kesiman, Friday (Jun 22).

Sudharsana said that strategic environmental issues in Denpasar

were still preoccupied by two issues, namely vehicle exhaust emissions and screen printing waste. Both pollution sources were understandable because the number of vehicles passing in Denpasar reaching 700,000 so that they provided significant air pollution. Moreover, the results of

emission testing conducted by the Environment Agency found that 19 percent of those vehicles did not pass the test.

Aside from air pollution, Denpasar was also quite prone to water pollution in rivers and seas. Sources of pollution, he said, were the persistence of screen printing business that did not have a good waste processing system. As a result, the waste produced by batik screen printing entrepreneurs was channeled into the river. “It has come to our attention in the Environment Agency,” said the official from Peguyangan.

To overcome the problem, his party had been cooperating with police in the Bali Police, especially for the prosecution against violators of environmental pollution by ensnaring them with a particular crime.

“We also asked the board of dyeing association to cultivate its members in order they prepare a good waste processing system. Thus, it will not pollute the environment,” he said.

Sudharsana said in a series of the Environmental Day this year,

his party had also made an effort to conserve the environment. One of them was by organizing a tree planting on some beaches in Denpasar, clean and river clean-up as well as other cleaning action.

The activities, he said, were intended to improve the three key performance indicators of the environmental sector, namely air, water and groundwater. “This should be implemented in Denpasar,” he said. (kmb12)

See schedule and news of Bali Art Festival in P3.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

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Autopsy is done for Mark Oven body Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The Australian, Mark Ovenden (34), body found iin an empty land at Kutuh Village last Thursday (21/6) at last autopsied last Saturday (23/6) from 9 am to 11 am local time at Sanglah Hospital as stated

by Head of Forensic Department of the Hospital, dr. Dudut Rustyadi, SpF. From the autopsy, a number of serious wounds were found

such as on the head, face, neck and stomach, while little wounds also on the feet and hand. From the result, there were no open wounds on the bodies while the body will still remain at Sanglah Hospital until further instructions. “Symptom of dying while weak was also found as there is a pressure mark on the neck which means victim died from this,” Rustyadi concluded. (san)

Murder to Australian tourist affects Bali tourism Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The garbage is seem in front of Buleleng Hospital.

Residents complain about medical wastes behind hospital Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Residents living around the Buleleng Hospital complained about the piles of medical waste behind the hospital. Allegedly, the piles of medical waste had been going on for a long time and left without being transported to landfill or being incinerated.

Such medical wastes were encased in red plastic bags. They were piled up at all so that they were mounting. To that end, local residents expected the medical wastes could be incinerated because they feared it would kindle a pollution being hazardous to health.

Director of Buleleng Hospital, Nyoman Merdana, admitted on Friday (Jun 22) that the wastes wrapped in red plastic bags behind the hospital were medical wastes.

However, he denied if the piles of waste had happened for long time.

According to him, such piles of medical waste had occurred since the Pagerwesi Day. “Since it was a holiday the wastes could not be incinerated. But, this afternoon

the waste will be transported to be incinerated,” said Merdana in his office.

According to him, production of medical waste in the government hospital depended on the number of treated patients. With a capacity of 253 beds, the Buleleng Hospital could generate 50 kg-100 kg of medical waste every day.

Admittedly, the medical wastes generated were not proportional to the capacity of incinerator owned.

Since the incinerator owned by the hospital only had the capacity of 1 kilogram, so that within a day it could only incinerate medical waste around 35 to 50 kg. To address the medical wastes, his party teamed up with Parama

Sidhi Hospital, Singaraja, which also had incinerator of the same capacity. In addition, the cooperation of medical waste incineration was also carried out with Sanglah Hospital.

Considering the production of medical waste in Buleleng Hospital was very high, in the near future his party would procure an incinerator with greater capacity of 2-5 kilograms. Its procurement was under tender process. He added the device put into tender would not generate noise and black smoke. “The device now being tendered is soundproofed and does not generate black smoke so as not to interfere with health,” he said. (kmb15)

The death of Mark Ovenden, 35, a resident from Sunshine Coast, Australia, found dead in a bush in the area of Kutuh, South Kuta, was feared to have an impact on the image of tourism in Bali. It was revealed by Chairman of the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, Friday (Jun 22). He said he was surprised by the incident.

Related to the incident, Ngurah Wijaya had asked police to investigate and arrest the culprit immediately. It was very worrying and could damage the image of Bali tourism as well as affect the tourist visit from the Kangaroo country to Bali.

“Indeed, it has not affected their visit to Bali. However, we expect the crime against foreigners spending holidays in Bali will not frequently happen because it will affect the security condition and interest of foreign tourists, including domestic tourists,” he said.

Ngurah Wijaya also deeply regretted the incident. Moreover, the incident alone happened in Badung Regency which had been known as a world tourist destination. Bali tourism was also facing serious challenges related to public order, security, and comfort of tourists. Criminal cases against foreign nationals were ascertained to have an impact on the Bali tourism if police did not act quickly.

“This case should be followed up soon by police. Similarly, police must find out the perpetrators of crime action and announce them to the community,” he said.

Criminal acts against foreign nationals, recognized Ngurah Wijaya, were also prevalent in a number

of other tourist destinations in the world. However, their publication did not reach the outside community. “Similar events like these are actually happening everywhere. Yet, their publication did not reach our country,” he said.

Aside from police, Ngurah Wijaya also reminded the important role of the whole community in the effort to maintain the security in Bali.

“Security is not just the responsibility of police. All parties should get involved in maintaining the security, including the tourists coming to Bali,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that arrival of foreign tourists coming to Bali during the period January-April 2012 reached 935,724 people, an increase of 10.23 percent compared to JanuaryApril 2011 reaching 848,899 people.

The countries of origin of those tourists for that period were dominantly occupied by Australia, PRC, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea with their respective percentage of 25.43 percent, 13.28 percent, 5.92 percent, 5.67 percent and 4.46 percent.

The Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, said in Denpasar that Australia occupied the first rank among the ten largest countries supplying tourists to Bali. They mostly came through the Ngurah Rai Airport. “Australian tourists are getting more excited about spending holidays in Bali because they consider this region as their second home. Aside from being not so far airline mileage, it is also motivated by the country’s economy that is getting better as well as supported by the increasingly more stable situation and security of Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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41 and Still Rockin’ !!

KUTA- If you love music, memorabilia, shop for merchandise, good food and great times, Hard Rock is the place! In 1971, two music-loving Americans founded the first Hard Rock Cafe in an old Rolls Royce showroom in London, and an icon was born. Four decades later, Hard Rock celebrates Founders’ Day (still true to) the brand’s core mantra “Love all – Serve All.” On Tuesday, June 14, 2012, Hard Rock Bali including; Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Hard Rock Cafe Bali and Hard Rock Radio Bali celebrated 41 years since the first day it was born.

This is the time of the year when we get together as a family and party in pure hard rock style. On this day, to honor 41 community heroes from Bali’s Fire Brigade and 41 children from orphanage for street kids were invited to enjoy a burger bash and to release 41 turtles to their habitats.

Hard Rock’s Burger Badge Bash is offered to police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or other community servants in recognition of their dedication and service to the community.

“On this 41st Anniversary of

Founders’ Day, we look forward to celebrating with local heroes and all Hard Rock fans around the world.

Today we will honor and serve those who serve and protect us everyday.” said Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

In true spirit of Founder’s Day, Sara Wijayanto, an Indonesian rising star, performed at a foam party. She performed 4 songs and her voice is certainly as great as she looks.

After the performance, Sara signed a guitar for Hard Rock Hotel’s memorabilia collection at Splash Bistro. Pictured from right; Ms. Sara Wijayanto and Ms. Aulianty Fellina Rizal, Director of Marketing Communications Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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

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

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

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

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

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The 34th Bali Art Festival

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AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua

In this image made off the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, China’s Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft, left, conducts docking with the Tiangong-1 space lab module shortly after 2 p.m. Beijing time (0600 GMT) on Monday, June 18, 2012, 343 kilometers (213 miles) above Earth.

Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked manually with an orbiting module on Sunday, a first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space. The Shenzhou 9 capsule’s maneuver with the Tiangong 1 module was shown live on national television.

It follows a docking last week that was carried out by remote control from a ground base in China.

The Chinese astronauts have been living and working in the module for the past week as part of preparations for manning a permanent space station. They returned to the Shenzhou 9 capsule early Sunday and disconnected in preparation for the manual reconnection.

Wu Ping, spokeswoman for China’s manned space program, told reporters in Beijing that hand levers were used to control Shenzhou 9 and position it to dock with the orbiting module.

The maneuver was “precise and perfect” and the three astronauts carried it out “calmly and skillfully,” Wu said. “This success in manual docking represents a major breakthrough in our space rendezvous and docking technologies,” Wu said.

China’s next goals include another manned mission to the module later this year and replacing Tiangong 1, which was launched last year, with a permanent space station around 2020.

Possible future missions could also include sending a man to the moon.

China’s permanent space station is to weigh about 60 tons, slightly smaller than NASA’s Skylab of the 1970s and about one-sixth the size of the 16-nation International Space Station.

The Shenzhou 9 crew includes 33-year-old Liu Yang, an air force pilot and China’s first female space traveler. Liu is joined by mission commander and veteran astronaut Jing Haipeng, 45, and crew mate Liu Wang, 43. Their mission, which is expected to last at least 10 days, is China’s fourth manned mission. Shenzhou 9 launched June 16 from the Jiuquan center on the edge of the Gobi desert in northern China.

Wu said the astronauts will spend three to four more days in the module before returning to the capsule and manually separating from Tiangong 1. Once back in Shenzhou 9, they will return to Earth within a day, she said.

NEW YORK — E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing whether their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study.

The Pew Research Center published a survey Friday that reports around 12 percent of e-book users 16 years and older downloaded a text from the library over the past year.

Earlier in 2012, Pew issued a study showing that around 20 percent of adults had read an e-book recently.

Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and other major publishers have limited e-book offerings to libraries or refused to make any available, citing concerns that the ease of free downloads would hurt sales.

Lack of awareness may be another factor.

Around 60 percent of those 16 and older couldn’t say whether their libraries had ebooks.

Pew’s Internet & American Life Project study, conducted with nearly 3,000 respondents between Nov. 16 and Dec. 11, 2011, suggests that library patrons trying to borrow digital texts have been deterred by the selection and by not having the right e-book device. Just over half of respondents said their library did not have the book they were looking for and nearly 20 percent found that the device they owned could not receive a given title.

Nearly half of those who have not borrowed an e-book said they would be “very”

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“Gedebong Goyang” entertaint audiences in BAF Antara

DENPASAR - Foreign artists from a group calls Gedebong Goyang entertaint audiences during the 34th Bali Art Festival. Their performanced made audiences laugh and smile.

According to Kadek Balon, a coordinator of the group, the group performed something unique, entertain, and different.

The group that consist of foreign artists was established 9 year ago after Bomb Bali I. All the artists came from Australia, Italia, Swizertland, Unites States of America, and Britain. They all married with Balinese people and able to speak Indonesian and Balinese language.

They joking with that languages and made audiences laugh because their unusual dialec. Even non-Balinese audience laughing at their jokes because they also showing funny moves that attract laughter from audiences.

AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Emily Spartz, File

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, Heather Stephenson, a librarian at the Siouxland Library main branch, demonstrates how to download a book from siouxlandlib.org onto an e-reader. or “somewhat” interested if they were lent an e-reading device with a book already downloaded.

Officials from the American Library Association have been meeting with publishers in an effort to work out a system that would satisfy both sides. On Thursday, Penguin Group (USA) announced a pilot program with the New York and Brooklyn library systems that will make e-books available six months after they first go on sale. Penguin had suspended its e-book program with libraries last year.

“I applaud Penguin’s decision today to restart e-book sales to libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers,” library association president Molly Raphael said in a statement.

Vatican calls for free AIDS treatment across Africa Agence France Presse

A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide “free and efficient treatment” for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies.

During an international conference organised by the Sant’Egidio Community, the number two in the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, made the call “to states and to donors” to “rapidly provide those sick with AIDS with free and efficient treatment.”

“Let universal access to health care be agreed on. Let us begin with mothers and children. In the name of the Holy Father, I speak for all those sick people who do not have a voice. Let us not waste time and invest the necessary resources,” he added.

According to Bertone, “universal access to care is not a Utopian idea. In Africa as in Europe, we have a duty to contact all seropositive pregnant women, to give them retroviral therapy, to enable them to give life to a child who is spared AIDS and to help him grow up in a maternal presence.” The cardinal added that the disappearance of mothers in Africa due to AIDS deaths was destroying families and economies.

The Sant’Egidio Community has organised a conference attended by government ministers and officials from around 20 countries to mark the 10th anniversary of the launching

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Bhaswari Padmanari Women Gong Kebyar Troupe from Blahbatuh subdistrict serving as the envoy of Gianyar Regency performed Cleopatra creation.

Gianyar presents Cleopatra creation Bali Post

GIANYAR - Cleopatra has been known as an icon of the Egyptian female beauty. Her elegance, beauty, charm, ambition and competitive spirit remind us of the Egyptian history. Such characters are perfectly expressed into a creation of gamelan composition containing the elements of music, melody, tempo, rhythm, dynamism and vocal performances by Bhaswari Padmanari Women Gong Kebyar Troupe from Blahbatuh subdistrict serving as the envoy of Gianyar Regency.

AFP Photo/Alexander Joe

A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide “free and efficient treatment” for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies. of the DREAM programme (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) in Mozambique in 2002. The programme has since been extended to nine other African countries.

The Sant’Egidio Community holds that the transmission of AIDS to nursing babies and small children can be drastically reduced if retroviral drugs are provided to the mother during pregnancy and the breast-feeding period.

Of 180,000 people who benefit from the DREAM programme, about 20,000 cases of seropositive mothers have been followed, with an average AIDS transmission rate of three percent before the child reaches the age of 18 months.

Its gamelan music was directed

by Ketut Cater and Gusti Ngurah Agung Jaya Kesuma. The presentation of the Gong Kebyar Parade was witnessed by Deputy Regent of Gianyar Regency, Dewa Made Sutanaya, Gianyar Leadership Council and thousands of spectators thronging the Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Denpasar Art Center, Friday (Jun 22).

Other than featuring the creation gamelan entitled Cleopatra, the art envoy of Gianyar also amazed the audience with its Tabuh Pisan gamelan performance entitled Kenyang-Lempung whose music was directed by I Wayan Darya. The Tabuh Pisan of Kenyang-Lempung was composed based on the Balinese classical pegongan pattern with the structure of kawitan, pengawak, peng-

isep, pengiba and pengecet. With a slight touch of contemporary nuance, the gamelan composition was expected to be an entertaining presentation and remind us of the glory of pegongan gamelan music in the past.

To jazz up the presentation of Bhaswari Padmanari Gong Kebyar, two dances were also performed comprising the Kebyar Duduk depicting the skill of a young man dancing lively and with both legs crossed he followed the rhythm of gamelan. The dance was directed by I Kadek Sudiarta, while the gamelan music by AA Suadnyana. Afterward, the second dance was the Wiranata where the dance was directed by Ni Wayan Swasti and gamelan music directed by I Ketut Yudhanegara.

Due to its charm, the dance could

beautify the appearance of Gong Kebyar envoy of Gianyar.

Meanwhile, the Buleleng Regency represented by Srikandi Petak Women Gong Kebyar Gamelan Troupe from Bengkel village, Busung Biu subdistrict, presented a Tabuh Pisan entitled Bangun Anyar under gamelan music direction of Putu Putrawan and Creation Gamelan entitled Putri Gunung with gamelan direction by I Made Terip and Putu Putrawan. The envoy also presented two dances consisting of the Kebyar Duduk where the dance was directed by Putu Arif Mahendra and gamelan music by Putu Putrawan. Then, the second dance was Panji Semirang where Ani Taurina served as dance director and Putu Putrawan as gamelan music director. (kmb16)

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Expatriate women from Gedebong Goyang group performed Bondres, a Balinese funny performances during the 34th Bali Art Festival.

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Tourist guides question about competency test program Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Tourist guides coalescing into the Tourist Guides Association of Indonesia (HPI) of Bali questioned about the competency test program for tourism workers launched by central government. Actually the tourist guides already have a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. Law No. 10/2009 concerning with tourism mandates that workers in the field of tourism should have competency standards through certification.

“As tourist guides, we have had a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. Then, what is the function of the competency test conducted by the tourism professional certification agency?” said Chairman of the HPI Bali, Sang Putu Subaya, Friday (Jun 22).

According to him, despite hav-

ing certification of competency, it was very difficult for tourist guides in Bali to work in other countries.

On the contrary, tourist guides from other Asian countries would be reluctant to work in Bali. “Situation of job competition in Asia in 2015 will not greatly have an impact on the activities of tourist guides in Bali.

Meanwhile, hotel employees can work abroad, including on cruise ships, but tourist guides are hard to work abroad,” he said.

He said that possession of competency certificate would not affect the payroll system to tourist guides in Bali. Moreover, the tourist guides should pay for the competency test at their own expense. This condition would make the tourist guides consider joining the program.

“Tourist guides have already had a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. To obtain this license, tourist guides must attend training and examination conducted by the tourism office. When having had a license, is it necessary for

tourist guides to have a certificate of competency test?” he questioned.

Government was expected to clarify the profession obliged to follow the competency test whether it was required to prospective tourist guides that had not owned a license yet or those who had owned the license.

“There is no positive correlation to benefits for tourist guides who have had licensed so that they are reluctant to take the certificate of competency test,” said Sangtu while adding it was difficult for tourist guides in Bali to take the competency test without clear benefits. Moreover, there was not clear sanction for tourist guides in

Bali that did not follow the competency test.

Inspector General of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Putu Laksaguna, previously said the certification was just like a driving license indicating the competency of the workers. The certification recognized professional competency such as the one owned by professionals in financial sector.

Development of the tourism sector should be followed by a standard of tourism businesses evidenced by certification against the existing business. The law stated that products, services and management of tourism businesses should have business standards. (kmb27)

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Water route of Tegalasih collapsed Negara (Bali Post) –

The support of a water route at gang II, Banjar Tegalasih, Batuagung Village these past few months have collapsed and hoped it will be fixed soon. One local, Wayan Werken (65) m when met on location last Friday (22/6) stated the support have been like that since three months ago and happened bit by bit. It has been fixed before but the quality is still poor so

it is hoped a better quality repair will be given to it. Until now, a lot of holes can be seen while on the west there’s a two meters wide hole. This support is located on a three way crossroad which means a lot of vehicles pass by and now every heavy rain flood will come by to locals’ houses. “This route is to accommodate the waters from the North (above) and now due to it no good, flood happens all the time,” Werken stated.

Other local, Ni Komang Nibek (60), stated the collapse happened during a heavy rain few months ago including the drainage towards the river also almost collapsed. The water from above fell to the drainage causing the water route couldn’t accommodate it all and cause flood. Nibek with her children luckily had its house position a bit higher causing it could avoid the flood.

It is hoped this situation will be solved soon. (kmb26)

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Paraguay’s Lugo denounces ouster as president

Associated Press Writer

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Fernando Lugo emerged early Sunday to denounce his ouster as Paraguay’s president as a “parliamentary coup” and a “foreordained sentence” that was not based on proper evidence.

Lugo said his truncated presidency was targeted because he tried to help the South American nation’s poor majority. Asked whether he had any hope of retaking office, Lugo exhorted his followers to remain peaceful but suggested that popular national and international clamor could lead Paraguayan lawmakers to reverse his impeachment.

“In politics, anything is possible,” Lugo said.

He added that he was visited by Roman Catholic bishops before Friday’s Senate trial for alleged poor performance of duties, and agreed to accept the outcome of a process he considered illegitimate only to avoid bloodshed.

Lugo spoke in a pre-dawn special televised “open microphone” program hosted by a state-funded public television channel that was created by his government. As Saturday turned into Sunday, a long line of speakers queued up in front of the station’s headquarters to vent their frustration

over what they called an institutional coup, calling for strikes and protests to demand his return.

“We will not recognize any other president,” chanted the crowd of at least 200 people, waving Paraguayan flags and bundled up against the Southern Hemisphere winter.

The nighttime protest broke the quiet of an otherwise sleepy day when many shops were closed and streets were largely empty. Some alleged that the public station was being censored by the nascent government of Federico Franco, who took the oath of office the previous day.

AP Photo/Jorge Saenz Earlier Saturday, Franco set about Paraguay’s new President Federico Franco gives a thumbs up as he arrive to give a news conference at forming his new government as he the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, June 23, 2012. promised to honor foreign commitments, respect private property and day after lawmakers overwhelmingly who will be tasked with maintaining “Our foreign minister will go to reach out to Latin American leaders voted to kick Lugo out of office. public order in this poor, landlocked Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay to to minimize diplomatic fallout and “The country is calm. I was elected South American nation, and Foreign meet with authorities and explain to keep his country from becoming a (as vice president) in 2008 by popular Minister Jose Felix Fernandez, who them that there was no break with regional pariah. vote. Activity is normal and there is will immediately hit the road to try democracy here. The transition of In a brief appearance before in- no protest,” Franco said. to appease fellow members of the power through political trial is estabternational journalists, Franco tried His first two appointments were Mercosur and Unasur regional trade lished in the national constitution,” to broadcast a sense of normality a Interior Minister Carmelo Caballero, blocs.

Franco said.

Massacre tests judicial reform in the Philippines

Mangupura (Bali Post) –

Mengwi Terminal officially operated fully last Friday (22/6) yet even so there are still a number of vital problems still happening one of them passengers are still confused if they want to continue their travel to Denpasar or other areas.

A number were confused they arrived here as before they would go to Ubung Terminal which has other transportation to continue by.

Other problems, with arriving in Mengwi, automatically additional fee has to be paid by passengers causing them sitting around waiting for someone to pick them up or wait for other transportations like taxi, small busses and motorcycle taxi. One passenger from Surabaya, Arianto, admitted shocked to be stopped at Mengwi and admitted just knew that busses stop here now. Arianto doesn’t know how much fee he has to take out to get to Ubung which usually becomes the terminal all busses stop to.

The same stated by Ariani, a mother from Jember who admitted have to pay again towards Ubung. Usually she had to pay IDR 70 thousand from Jember to Kampung Jawa, Denpasar, now IDR 60 thousand for bus and another IDR 10 thousand for a motorcycle taxi from Ubung to Kampung Jawa. Meanwhile transportation between cities of one province (AKDP) Gilimanuk-Ubung still not maximal in btinging passengers from Mengwi to Ubung moreover on that day it was empty. Head of Badung Transportation, Communication and Informatics, Made Sutama, did nto deny the situation when confirmed.

According to Sutama ths problem happens as the new terminal just operated causing passengers not used to it. The problem on transportation to Denpasar also is a problem and Sutama have suggested to have Sarbagita come to Mengwi.

It is explained by 22 June, Transporation Between Provinces (AKAP) will no longer stop at Ubung Terminal and only AKDP that goes to Ubung. Meanwhile for MengwiUbung route is still coordinated in the Province. AKDP will be optimized in bringing passengers to Denpasar, City and Village Transportation mini bus (angkot and angdes) Sutama obliged them to go to Mengwi Terminal as well. (kmb25)

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FILE - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, a Turkish pilot salutes before take-off at an air base in Konya, Turkey.

Turkey says downed jet was not spying on Syria Associated Press Writer

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister says a Turkish jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.

Ahmet Davutoglu says the plane entered Syrian airspace on Friday, but quickly left when warned by Turkey.

He says the plane had no “covert mission related to Syria,” and it was

purely on a training flight to test Turkey’s radar capabilities.

Davutoglu says the plane was shot down by Syria in “international airspace” several minutes after it left.

He spoke on state-run TRT television Sunday, two days after the downing of the jet in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Syria on Saturday insisted the shooting down of the plane was “not an attack,” and that the plane had violated its airspace.

MANILA - Esmael Enog heard crackling gunfire and saw men armed with high-powered rifles carry out one of the most heinous crimes in Philippine history: the massacre of 57 people, including 31 journalists, on a November morning three years ago. But nine months after testifying in court last July and pointing a finger at a politically powerful family, Enog vanished. His body was found in a sack near marshland last month, chain-sawed into pieces, according to his lawyer.

Two other witnesses have been murdered, casting doubt over whether anyone will be brought to justice for the nation’s bloodiest election-related violence and the deadliest single attack on the press ever documented. The difficulty of securing witnesses - and keeping them alive - is emerging as a formidable test for the two-year-old government of President Benigno Aquino, who has nurtured a graftfighting image and vowed swift resolution of the case.

Whether he can do that depends, in part, on how deeply he can reform a judicial system plagued for decades by corruption. The Washingtonbased Heritage Foundation think tank rates the country’s judiciary

as inefficient and says it remains susceptible to political interference.

“Despite some progress, the government’s anti-corruption efforts have been too inconsistent to eradicate bribery and graft effectively.”

Corruption and lax rule of law remain among the biggest turnoffs to foreign investors, who favor the nearby emerging markets of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The 2009 massacre in the southern province of Maguindanao was horrific

even by the standards of the Philippines, whose restive south is riven by political and insurgent violence.

Then, a convoy of vehicles en route to register Esmael Mangudadatu, an opposition candidate for provincial governor, was ambushed by about 100 gunmen on a lonely stretch of highway. The victims were driven to the top of a hill, separated into groups of men and women and then shot with highpowered firearms at close range.

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Philippine soldiers recover weapons of a private army under the control of the powerful Ampatuan political clan in Sharif Aguak, Maguindanao December 6, 2009.

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Euro’s big four agree growth boost Reuters

ROME - German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure on Friday for common euro zone bonds or a more flexible use of Europe’s rescue funds but agreed with leaders of France, Italy and Spain on a 130 billion euros ($156 billion) package to revive growth.

After four-way talks in Rome’s Renaissance Villa Madama, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said the European Union should adopt pro-growth measures worth about 1 percent of the region’s gross domestic product at a crucial summit next week.

But the three others made no perceptible progress in pushing Merkel, who leads Europe’s most powerful economy and the main contributor to its rescue funds, towards mutualising Europe’s debts or using existing bailout resources

more flexibly.

“Growth can only have solid roots if there is fiscal discipline, but fiscal discipline can be maintained only if there is growth and job creation,” Monti told a joint news conference after talks that lasted just an hour and 40 minutes.

The measures, already in the works in Brussels, include increasing the European Investment Bank’s capital, redirecting unspent EU regional aid funds and launching project bonds to co-finance major public

investment programs. No new steps were announced on Friday.

The four leaders did agree to move ahead on creating a tax on financial transactions even though not all EU members will be on board. About a dozen EU states support setting up the so-called “Tobin tax”, more than the nine required to go ahead as a group within the EU, a French presidential source said.

Merkel made no mention, however, of any move towards mutualising past euro zone debt or new borrowing. French President Francois Hollande voiced impatience with Berlin’s reluctance, saying it should not take 10 years to create jointly underwritten euro bonds.

He said greater solidarity was needed among member states be-

fore they abandon more sovereignty to EU institutions.

“I consider euro bonds to be an option ... but not in 10 years,” Hollande said in a direct challenge to Merkel. “There can be no transfer of sovereignty if there is not an improvement in solidarity.”

The German position essentially amounts to the reverse. Merkel argues that members of the 17-nation currency union must transfer control over national budget and economic policies to Brussels before Germany would consider common debt issuance.

“Liability and control belong together,” she said, citing as an example that EU treaties ruled out letting euro zone rescue funds lend directly to Spanish banks because

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MADRID — Spain is pushing to have European rescue funds go directly to its troubled banks, rather than through the government, so that they do not add to the country’s already heavy sovereign debt load and push it closer toward financial collapse.

The country has access to as much as €100 billion ($125 billion) for the banks, but current rules say the government needs to take responsibility for them. That has raised fears that, should the government not be able to get the money back from its banks, it will be overwhelmed by the new debt and need a bailout of its own.

“Right now there is no instrument to inject capital directly to banks.

That’s the reality, “said Economy Minister Luis de Guindos in Luxembourg. But he said momentum is building toward creation of a European banking union with the independent firepower to bail out banks, bypassing national governments.

De Guindos said such a banking union would include greater cooperation on oversight of banks, a common fund to guarantee deposits and new instruments to rescue ailing banks directly. He acknowledged that setting up such a banking union would take time, but said Spain will be pushing to have such terms apply to its banks’ bailout.

“It’s not something available today but it could be in the near future,” he said.

A day earlier, two independent audit

reports estimated that Spain’s troubled banks would need a maximum of €62 billion ($77.74 billion), out of the €100 billion ($125.39 billion) the European Union has offered, to survive a severe economic downturn.

The International Monetary Fund backs the idea of a single European fund injecting funds directly into needy banks but key EU member Germany has so far ruled it out.

Berlin insists on abiding by current regulations under which the money must be given to a government, adding to its sovereign debt pile.

De Guindos earlier said the possibility of direct funding was “a fundamental question that we will have to make progress on over the coming weeks.”

He said the size of the bank bailout Spain will request will be determined and published July 9, when Spain and its single currency partners reach agreement on the terms of the loan, such as the interest rate. He estimated the rate would be around 3-4 percent. A letter formally requesting the loan will be delivered Monday but it will be only two paragraphs long, with no mention of terms or amount.

The independent audit reports were initially met with caution in financial markets on Friday, with investors continuing to demand high interest rates for Spanish bonds, an indicator of what the government would have to pay in official debt auctions.

Market pressure did ease over the course of the day, however, as de Guindos hinted Spain would

Participants race to the sea in Jimbaran Bay during the Bali Interna-

only the Spanish state could enforce conditions on the banks.

The contrasting comments left much work for diplomats to produce a convincing blueprint for closer fiscal and banking union at a full EU summit next Thursday and Friday, which Monti called a defining moment in the crisis.

That plan is expected to include the first steps towards a banking union, starting by putting the European Central Bank in charge of supervising large cross-border euro zone banks. Without progress on bank sector integration or other financial stability measures, France is not ready to commit to ratifying an EU budget discipline pact agreed earlier this year, French diplomatic sources said.

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tional Triathlon competition on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on June 24, 2012. Hundreds of participants from 24 countries took part in the race.

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“Bali TV” House restoration Program in Buleleng and Jembrana Bali Post

Buleleng/Jembrana – After being done for a month, the House Restoration Program entitled “Wirasa Bali TV” is finally finished. The program is carried out by Bali Vice Governor, A.A. Puspayoga and other donators.

A homeless person sleeps in the doorway of a bank in Madrid Thursday June 7, 2012. Spain is pushing to have European rescue funds go directly to its troubled banks, rather than through the government, so that they do not add to the country’s already heavy sovereign debt load and push it closer toward financial collapse.

push for the bank loans to not add to government debt.

After rising in the morning, the benchmark 10-year bond yield was down 0.19 percentage points at 6.35 percent, a still painfully high rate.

Concern that Spain’s economy is so weak that it could not afford the

cost of propping up its banks has sent its borrowing costs soaring to levels not seen since it joined the European single currency in 1999.

The worry is that Spain could soon find itself unable to finance its debts by itself and join Greece, Ireland and Portugal in seeking a

rescue loan for not just the banks but the whole country. Spain is the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy and a sovereign bailout would seriously test the bloc’s finances.

The country is struggling through a recession with a 24.4 percent jobless rate.

The Vice Governor visited the three houses on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

He pointed out that the quality of the house build through the funding of the program can be followed by others who want to create the similar program.

The owner of the newly build houses are Made Sutama, Wayan Yasa, and Gede Tirta, all of them in Buleleng Regency. A.A Puspayoga was satisfied with the newly restored house. All of the owner of the house said that they are very happy.

“I am thankful for the assistance given to us to build the house and I am happy that the furniture is also provided,” said Gede Tirta. Wayan Yasa also said the same thing. He used to be disturbed by the crabs that enter the house but now he and his family can sleep well.

Puspayoga said that he is very grateful that the people are happy with the result of the program and he also would like to say thank you for everyone who support it including Bali TV. He stated that the program is directly on target because it is targeting the poor and needed and also it has high quality.

“This kind of house with good quality is needed by them. We cannot give them a poor quality house because it will make them devastated,’ he added.

Jembrana

The similar program is also being done in Jembrana Regency. A.A Puspayoga visited the house belong to I Putu Swiana located in Banjar Tangi Meyeh, Berangbang Village. The house will receive 20 million rupiah so it can be restored to better house.

The Vice Governor was also accompanied by the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha along with other related officers. The Regent was saying his gratitude to The Vice Governor and Bali TV for helping the poor people in the regency.

Swiana as the receiver of the assistance was very happy. He stated he really needs the funding because his house currently is not suitable to be lived on. The wall is very fragile and the roof is almost collapsed. In the house Swiana live with his mother and his four children. (kmb15/kmb26)

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Vice Governor of Bali, Puspayoga, handed over donation for Buleleng residents that get house renovation from Bali TV’s Wirasa Program on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

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Australia ends search for survivors of refugee boat Agence France Presse

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Photo illustration shows a Filipino-owned fishing boat sailing off from Masinloc town, north of Manila, for a fishing expedition near the Scarborough Shoal in May.

Chinese ship ‘accidentally rams’ Philippines boat Agence France Presse

The Philippines alleged on Sunday that a Chinese vessel accidentally rammed a local fishing boat north of a disputed South China Sea shoal, killing one and leaving four others missing.

The fishing boat set out from the northern coastal town of Bolinao, in Pangasinan province, last Monday and was reported to have sunk two days later, Office of Civil Defence chief Benito Ramos told AFP. “Of the eight fishermen aboard, four were plucked out of sea only yesterday, but one of them died in a hospital,” Ramos said. “Four more are still missing.”

The rescued fishermen told authorities they believed the vessel which collided with their boat was Chinese, Ramos said, though this could not be independently verified.

Chinese embassy officials were not available for comment on Sunday.

Ramos said the incident occurred north of Scarborough Shoal where the Philippines and China have been engaged in a tense stand off since April.

“It’s north of the Scarborough, though we could not determine how far in terms of distance or nautical miles,” he said.

President Benigno Aquino earlier this month ordered two Philippine ships to pull out from the shoal

during bad weather, a move that the Chinese said calmed tensions in the area.

While China said it would also ask its fishermen to leave the area, it stressed it had no intention of pulling out its bigger ships from there.

As of last week, there were still seven Chinese ships at the shoal, according to the Philippines foreign ministry.

The dispute began in April after Chinese government vessels blocked Philippine ships from arresting Chinese fishermen near the shoal.

Since then, both countries have maintained ships there to press their respective claims to the area.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, even waters close to the coasts of neighbouring countries. The Philippines says the shoal is well within its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

The shoal sits about 230 kilometres (140 miles) from the Philippines’ main island of Luzon. The nearest major Chinese landmass is 1,200 kilometres northwest of the shoal, according to Philippine navy maps.

Australia late Saturday ended a three-day search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off remote Christmas Island, with little hope for around 90 people still missing.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said searches of the sea north of the island had failed to find any more survivors, with the last living person found Thursday night.

“Reports from the aerial and surface search crews confirm that no survivors remain in the extensive search area,” the AMSA said in a statement late Saturday announcing the search had been called off.

Rescuers managed to save 110 people from the stricken people-smuggling ship, which capsized with some 200 people on board in the Indian Ocean on Thursday afternoon, two days after first issuing a distress call.

Six bodies have been recovered, with an estimated 90 people still missing.

“It is believed over 200 people may have been on board the vessel, but an accurate number may never be known,” the AMSA said.

The boat is believed to have originated in Sri Lanka and to have been carrying mostly Afghan asylum-seekers. The survivors include a 13-yearold boy.

Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said earlier that the critical 36-hour search window had passed and conditions had steadily deteriorated, with the situation “looking grimmer by the hour”.

“There may still be people alive, but we’re past that window,” Clare told ABC Television.

“I’ve been on the phone to Border Protection Command. Their advice is that they’ve now instructed the men and women out in the search and rescue area to now identify people that have perished and retrieve those bodies.”

The capsize is the latest in a series of refugee boat disasters in the Indian Ocean in recent years, as rickety, overloaded vessels packed with desperate migrants struggle to reach Australia.

Six divers missing off Malaysian island: official Agence France Presse

Search teams were on Sunday looking for six scuba divers who went missing a day earlier off a Malaysian resort island after apparently failing to resurface, a maritime official said.

The group, including a diver from Singapore, one from China and four Malaysians, disappeared after going diving off Tioman island on Malaysia’s east coast Saturday, according to an official with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.

Only one person with the group, whose members were aged between 25 and 33 and which included two women, resurfaced after the dive, he said.

Three boats and eight navy divers are involved in the search.

Malaysia’s east coast islands, famed for their corals and marine life, are a popular dive destination. Accidents are rare.

Alonso...

From page 1 The only real goal French effort on goal in the first half was a 32ndminute free kick from Yohan Cabaye which was curling into the top corner before Casillas pushed it around the post.

France livened up marginally after the break with Mathieu Debuchy heading just over after Franck Ribery had wriggled into space for a cross. Blanc brought on attacking midfielders Samir Nasri and Jeremy Menez just after the hour as he sought a way back into the game but they were unable to make any real impact against a solid Spanish defence.

Alonso added his second goal from the penalty spot in stoppage time after substitute Pedro was tripped by Anthony Reveillere.

Spain are now unbeaten in 18 competitive games since their 1-0 defeat by Switzerland in the group stage of the 2010 World Cup and have not conceded a goal in their last eight knockout games in tournaments.

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INDONESIA Endangered Sumatran rhino gives birth in Way Kambas Associated Press

JAKARTA — A highly endangered Sumatran rhinoceros gave birth to a calf Saturday in western Indonesia, a forestry official said. It is only the fifth known birth in captivity for the species in 123 years.

The mother, Ratu, delivered the male calf after a nearly 16-month pregnancy at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province, said Novianto Bambang, director of biodiversity conservation at the Forestry Ministry.

“This is a historic birth because Sumatran rhinos are on the brink of extinction,” Bambang said.

He said both mother and calf are doing well.

The U.S.-based International Rhino Foundation called the first birth of a Sumatran rhino at an Indonesian facility “monumental” and said it was one of the

most significant advances in conservation efforts for the species.

There are an estimated 200 Sumatran rhinos living in the wild in small groups in Indonesia and Malaysia, half the number of 15 years ago. Another 10 live in captivity, including Ratu and four others in a rhino sanctuary at the Way Kambas National Park.

Ratu, who was born in the wild, had miscarried twice. She was paired with Andalas, who was born in the United States and brought to Indonesia in 2007.

The first captive birth of a Sumatran

rhino was recorded at the Calcutta Zoo in 1889. The three others, including Andalas, occurred at the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States.

Sumatran rhinos are the smallest rhino species, standing little more than 4 feet (120 centimeters) at the shoulder.

They are the most endangered of all rhinoceros species because of their rapid rate of decline.

An estimated 70 percent of the Sumatran rhino population has been lost since 1985, mainly to poaching and the loss of their tropical habitat in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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In this 2010 file photo released by the Indonesian Rhino Foundation, locally known as Yayasan Badak Indonesia (YABI) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a female Sumatran rhino named Ratu is seen at Way Kambas Rhino Reservation in Lampung, Indonesia.

No more victims found Indonesia promotes “blue economy” in Rio+20 Meeting after Fokker’s crash Associated Press

JAKARTA — Rescuers finished searching damaged and burned homes Friday without finding more victims of a military plane crash in Indonesia’s capital that killed seven airmen and four people in a house.

The Fokker F-27 turboprop was making a routine training flight when it crashed into the military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) from the runway where it was trying to land.

The dead were two children, their grandmother and aunt in one of the eight damaged houses, and the plane’s pilot, co-pilot and five trainees.

“Search and rescue efforts have been finished,” said air force spokesman Col. Agung Sasongko Jati on Friday morning. “All the wreckage has been removed and there is no more new victim.”

Eleven people were injured in the crash that sent raging orange flames jumping several meters into the air and a huge column of black smoke billowing over the homes. The two children killed were 2 and 6 and their

grandmother and aunt had been visiting, Jati said.

An investigation into the cause of the crash was continuing and might take three months, deputy chief of air force Rear Marshall Dede Rusamsi said. “We have been collecting data since last night,” he said.

Initial reports indicate that the pilots were fit to fly, Rusami said.

The aircraft, which was built in 1958 and has been used by Indonesia’s air force for the past 35 years with 14,900 flight hours, was declared airworthy before it took off for its second training flight of the day under clear skies, Jati said.

“It seemed that the pilot was trying to land on a nearby paddy field,” Jati told The Associated Press. “But it was not clear whether it was because of an emergency.”

He said the plane did not have a black box, which holds flight data and is common on passenger planes.

The crash comes after a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet slammed into an Indonesian volcano during a demonstration flight for potential buyers last month, killing all 45 people aboard.

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JAKARTA - Government of Indonesia in Rio+20 Forum proposed the principle of “Blue Economy” in order to promote a global awareness toward marine management and coastal resources.

The principle of blue economy is considered appropriate in helping the world to face the challenges of climate change, marine ecosystem which is increasingly vulnerable toward the impact of climate change and ocean acidification.

This is important in order to control the global warming threat such as exhaust gas energy and carbon so the integrated sustainable development and the effort to alleviate poverty can be realized.

As conveyed by Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo in Rio+20 Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday (6/21).

As spoken by Sharif, the climate change is now increasingly threatens world life, such as the rise of sea level, temperature in-

crease of sea surface, increasing storm activity, followed by harmful effects of ocean acidification which can be the biggest threat to the marine health.

On that basis, Sharif considers that fast and precise act of mitigation and adaptation is needed in dealing with the reef ecosystem.

“Perhaps the marine ecosystem is the first one to collapse without adaptation and mitigation act,” he explained.

Therefore the Blue Economy is considered to have potential in the new development paradigm by implementing new business development model that synergizes growth, development and environment.

On that basis, the Government of Indonesia is determined to immediately adopt the concept of blue economy, given the growing trend of green economy concept implementation toward the blue economy.

“Country such as Indonesia, the green economy is absolutely necessary, but as the world`s largest

archipelago nation, implementing green economy is not enough and need to be coupled with the concept of blue economy,” as Sharif continued.

As the realization of Indonesia`s commitment toward coastal and marine resources management, Government has set 3.5 million hectares of Sawu as marine conservation area.

This marine conservation area is the largest in South East Asia and one of the largest of its kind in the world. MMAF is not only expand the conservation area, but also will emphasize the effectiveness of conservation management.

By the mid of 2012, Indonesia has managed to establish marine conservation area of 15.35 million ha or 76.75 percent of the 20 million ha set target in 2020.

He said that the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has previously stated his commitment that Blue Economy principles should be applied to achieve the sustainable growth based on equity.

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Sharapova comes back down to earth at Wimbledon Reuters

AP Photo/David Santiago, el Nuevo Herald

LeBron James speaks to the media after the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in game 5 of the NBA Finals at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on Thursday, June 21, 2012.

Bali Art Center IBP

Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is the culture building complex with the best style of Balinese traditional architecture.

It is featuring the good lay-out building of amphitheater to be a place/hall of show performance purpose. It is symbolizing the twiddling of Mandara Giri mount in the milk ocean and spattering the Amerta holy water for the life of endless as according to nature of dynamic culture and stayed alive during

the human being still dwell the earth planet.

This amphitheater can accommodate up to 6.000 audiences for the show of colossal both for modern and also traditional.

This Taman Budaya (Cultural Park) is opened in the year 1973 with the Bali Artistry Party (Pesta Kesenian Bali) within one month. On that month, there are full of entertainment amusement traditional dance, exhibition, and other cultural activities. At the opening ceremony enlivened by artistic parade started from Puputan Park and finish

at the Art Center.

Its distance is about 2 Km and this parade is followed by entire regencies and towns in Bali by delivering their artistry mission. This event is often followed by other provinces in Indonesia as well as from outside country like Japan, Korea, Europe, America etc. In this culture parade is presented in so many forms those are from the sacral until contemporary traditional.

There are also type of marry and custom clothes from each area, instrument of music

or gamelan, forms Sesajen (offering) and others.

In fact this event is not tourist event due to visitor and audience are mostly come from the local resident. But some of tourists can enjoy this party which is every year. The person who is propose this yearly culture event is Mr. Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra (who was been a Bali Governor. Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is published as one of place to visit in Bali or tourist destination in Bali.

Not as easy as one-twothree for Miami Heat Reuters

The ‘Big Three’ of the Miami Heat won their first NBA titles together when they silenced the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games of the championship series, but the achievement was not as easy as one, two, three. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh had to make sacrifices in the blending of their talents under an emerging young coach in Erik Spoelstra.

The trio arranged to play for the Heat two years ago in a quest for championships, but fell short against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals in their first season before finding the winning formula in the second. James had to step up into the role of team leader and polish his post-up game. Wade had to step aside as the team’s ‘closer’ to allow James room to grow, and Bosh had to shift from power forward to center to make the grand plan work.

“We all knew that this team was built a little bit differently, and we needed to absolutely embrace what some would see as unconventional,” said Spoelstra, whose team could attack the basket while kicking out for three-pointers without the benefit of

a dominant center. “We would need an inside presence to be able to play inside out. LeBron knew that, as well. We were all on the same page about it,” added Spoelsra.

“He dedicated the summer to develop that game, and that allowed us to play like the power teams that you see with a big center. Dwyane Wade also helped with that.” James, driven in his pursuit of an NBA crown, dedicated himself to improving his play down low, and went to work with Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon to boost his scoring moves near the basket.

Last year the team seemed unsure of who would take charge at the end of games, particularly in the Finals series, but James emerged as

the team’s go-to man and brought a greater resolve to the court. “Just to see the perseverance that he’s had, and just to witness every day, day in, day out, his progression as a leader and his will to win, I mean, it’s been incredible,” Bosh said about James. “I’m really proud to call myself a team mate of his. It’s just been unbelievable to witness.”

Having the slender, sweet-shooting Bosh, who had thrived as a power forward, to play center was critical to the plan. “Chris embracing the center position really took our team to another level,” Spoelstra said. “Because of his speed, his skill set, he could defend multiple positions. But as a center, he became one of the tougher (guys to) cover in the league.” Bosh did not resist the challenge.

“I didn’t fight it. I just wanted to be the best big man I could be.

I knew how important defense was and is, and I just wanted to make sure I could play the best basketball I possibly could at that role for this team,” he said.

LONDON - After the stellar delight of winning the French Open to complete a career grand slam, Maria Sharapova has come back down to earth at Wimbledon, scene of one of her greatest disappointments a year ago.

“I was walking around for three days with the biggest smile,” Sharapova told a Wimbledon news conference on Saturday, recalling her Roland Garros triumph a fortnight ago. “Then I got here and I better get back to reality.”

Reality meant getting used to grass again, and learning from the experience of losing to Czech Petra Kvitova in last year’s Wimbledon final, said Sharapova, world number one since her Paris victory.

“As tough as it is to lose grand slam finals, probably one of the toughest things for a tennis player, it’s really about getting yourself back out there and improving and hoping for another chance,” the Russian said.

First, she had needed to get used to grass again, with a week of practice at Wimbledon, after dominating the red clay at Roland Garros.

“I think it’s the toughest back-to-back grand slam-wise, no doubt, especially if you’re coming off a French Open win or a final. As much as you want to celebrate and enjoy, you come here and it’s like a whole new ballgame.

“It’s certainly an adjustment. The first two days you’re like: ‘Wait, I can’t really slide that much’. So you have to take a few more steps.

“But the first few days are always so much fun.

It’s such a different balance, a fast game. I feel like coming from the clay you learn so much about the point and the development of the rally.

You get on grass and... you’re not playing more than five-ball rallies.”

Sharapova, who still has to take particular care of her shoulder after surgery in 2008, said she would be careful not to get over-confident at Wimbledon.

“I always think if you think everything is great and you’re feeling good, then you should be extremely worried,” said Sharapova, who AP Photo/Joel Ryan won Wimbledon in 2004 Maria Sharapova, women’s world numand faces Australian ber one ranked tennis player, arrives for Anastasia Rodionova a pre-Wimbledon party, at Kensington in her opening match Roof Gardens, west London, Thursday, this time.

June 21, 2012.

Sebastien Loeb wins Rally New Zealand Agence France Presse

Frenchman Sebastien Loeb won the Rally New Zealand to extend his lead at the top of the World Rally Championship to 38 points.

The eight-time defending world champion on Sunday finished 29.6 seconds ahead of Citroen teammate Mikko Hirvonen to secure his third

Rally New Zealand title after winning in 2005 and 2008.

It was Loeb’s fifth win in seven rounds of this year’s championship and the 72nd of a stellar career in which he has monopolised the world title for the past eight years in a row.

Loeb entered the final day with a 6.4 second lead over Hirvonen and the Citroen drivers were under or-

ders to take no risks in the wet conditions to ensure a one-two finish for the French car manufacturer.

“It’s been a long weekend and my driving has not been perfect,” Loeb said.

“We made a few mistakes in the closing power stage, when we were pushing too hard but the most important thing is that we have won.”

Norway’s Petter Solberg came third in the fastest of the Fords and said he could have finished higher if not for a mistake in tyre selection on the opening day Friday.

“We came here to win but a third place is still good so we must be happy with that,” he said. “The team and the car is fantastic, but we just need to keep going and hopefully

one day soon a win will follow.”

Solberg’s teammate Jari-Matti Latvala qualified fastest but had to settle for seventh after crashing into a fence on day one.

The major drama on the final day came when Ott Tanak of Estonia rolled his Ford during the 22nd special stage. He was unharmed but had to retire from the race.

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France plan ruined by early goal, says Blanc Reuters

DONETSK - France had a cunning plan to deny Spain but unfortunately it was ruined after less than 20 minutes and they lacked the sharpness to turn the situation around in their Euro 2012 quarter-final on Saturday. Coach Laurent Blanc fielded two right backs with Anthony Reveillere in the defensive position and Mathieu Debuchy higher up the pitch to contain the threat of Andres Iniesta and Jordi Alba.

But Iniesta broke down the wing to feed Alba and Xabi Alonso ran on to his cross to open the scoring with a downward header in the 19th minute. Alonso completed Spain’s 2-0 win with a stoppagetime penalty. “The plan was to reach halftime at 0-0,” Blanc told a news conference.

“We had analysed the Spanish line-up well because they had two very strong players on the left but what is the most frustrating thing is that we conceded the goal from that side,” he added. France were left chasing ghosts for the remainder of the game and failed to turn their very few chances into goals.

“What I regret is that we conceded the goal early in the game,” said Blanc. “But let’s be real-

istic, Spain are a better team and tonight’s game proved it once again.” Blanc, however, waited until after the hour to make his substitutions, with Samir Nasri and Jeremy Menez coming in for Florent Malouda and Debuchy.

“We had very few chances. We could have taken more risks but when you play against Spain, you run a lot and you lose your lucidity,” said centre back Laurent Koscielny. “But we gave everything, everybody fought on the pitch.”

But being 1-0 down against a team who dominate possession makes it almost impossible to win, especially when you do not have a killer instinct. “Scoring two goals when you don’t have the ball much is really tough,” said Blanc.

“On two or three occasions we had chances but we were a bit clumsy.”

France leave the tournament with one win, a draw and two defeats. Although they made it to the knockout stages of a major tournament for the first time since the 2006 World Cup, they were never looked like beating Spain, rated as Euro 2012 favourites by Blanc. “All the big nations will be in the semi-finals and unfortunately we will not be there,” said Blanc.

Reuters

DONETSK - Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque hailed Xabi Alonso’s role as an influential cog in a side without a recognised striker after the midfielder’s double secured a 2-0 win over France and a place in the Euro 2012 semi-finals. Alonso, playing in his 100th international, headed in Jordi Alba’s cross for the opening goal after 19 minutes and clinched victory for the holders with a stoppage time penalty.

S p a i n now face a mouthwatering semi-final with Iberian neighbours Portugal in Donetsk on We d n e s -

day. “Xabi is a very good team player, he knows how to help on the flanks. He is one of the attacking strengths we have but overall it was the teamwork,” Del Bosque told reporters after Alonso’s 14th and 15th goals in international football.

“I think Xabi scores a lot. If we talk about Xabi and (Sergio) Busquets I think they are not too

defensive. They know how to attack.” Spain fielded the same team that started against Italy in their opening Group C game, meaning forward Fernando Torres was on the bench.

Del Bosque’s wisdom of playing without a designated centre forward has been questioned in some quarters but the coach made clear his reasoning for his

striker-free selection. “I don’t think there is an absolute truth that playing with a true forward gives you more depth, but we wanted to dominate to have possession and create chances,” he said.

Spain were too good for a meek French side, who offered little hope that they could continue their mastery of the Spaniards in competitive meetings having won five and drawn one of their previous six encounters.

“I don’t think it is an unfair result. We were in control most of the time,” said Del Bosque.

“We were strong on the left with Jordi and (Andreas) Iniesta,

that’s where the first goal came from. We played well as a team and that’s what caused France problems.”

Del Bosque said Spain were at a “little disadvantage” with Portugal having an extra two days rest to recuperate before the semi-final after beating the Czech Republic on Thursday.

“We were tired at the end of the game but we will have to do our best to rest as much as we can,” he added.

Reuters

DONETSK - France midfielder Samir Nasri was involved in a row with a French reporter after his team were knocked out of the Euro 2012 quarter-finals 2-0 by Spain on Saturday.

Nasri, who came in as a second-half substitute, went through the mixed zone without a word for text reporters after the match.

Asked by a reporter for a quote, he answered: “You are looking for shit, you are looking for trouble.” The reporter replied: “Get lost.”

Nasri then turned back and said “fuck you” followed by a stream of further abuse, inviting the reporter to have a conversation with him man-to-man.

Nasri had already been involved in a row with the media at the tournament when he muttered “shut up” after scoring the equaliser in France’s 1-1 draw against England in their opening game.

Familiar foe Ronaldo awaiting Spain in last four

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Spain head coach Vicente del Bosque instructs his players during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Spain and France in Donetsk, Ukraine, Saturday, June 23, 2012.

Spain coach hails match-winner Alonso’s ‘team’ ethic

Nasri in foul-mouthed rant at reporter

Reuters

GNIEWINO, Poland Spain’s Euro 2012 semi-final against Portugal will almost certainly hinge on how effectively the holders manage to shackle a familiar foe. Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo is a Real Madrid team mate of Spain players like Iker Casillas, Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos and a bitter La Liga rival of their Barcelona contingent including Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas.

Joint top scorer at the tournament with three goals, Ronaldo typically operates down the left, where he will be looking to get the better of another Real colAP Photo/Armando Franca

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates his side’s 1-0 win after during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Czech Republic and Portugal in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, June 21, 2012.

league Alvaro Arbeloa, the Spanish right back. He would never admit it publicly but there is probably little Ronaldo would enjoy more - apart from getting one over on nemesis Lionel Messi - than being the man who sends the world and European champions packing in Donetsk on Wednesday.

Portugal have insisted they are not a one-man team and in Nani they have another dangerous forward, a fact acknowledged by Alonso, who netted both goals in Spain’s 2-0 quarter-final win against France on Saturday. “Portugal have forwards who can cause problems for us and above all the two wingers Cristiano and Nani are superb players,” Alonso, who made his 100th international appearance against France, told reporters.

“We know Cristiano perfectly and he has been playing at an incredible level all season at Real Madrid,” added the 30-year-old former Liverpool player. “But the important thing is to focus on ourselves and make sure we are playing at our optimum level.”

WARMER GREETING

The Spanish players are also familiar with two of Portugal’s defenders, centre back Pepe and left back Fabio Coentrao, who both play for Real. “They also know how to close ranks in defence and they are very solid,” Alonso said. “Maybe before the game there will be a warmer greeting than usual because he’s your club team mate but in the end you are going to be fighting your own corner,” he added.

“Ultimately everyone is fighting for their own goals.” If Spain get past Portugal they will meet either Germany, whom they beat 1-0 in the 2008 European Championship final and who are already through to the last four, or the winners of Sunday’s remaining quarter-final between England and Italy.

Vicente del Bosque’s side are seeking to become the first nation to win back-to-back continental titles with a World Cup in between.

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France plan ruined by early goal, says Blanc Reuters

DONETSK - France had a cunning plan to deny Spain but unfortunately it was ruined after less than 20 minutes and they lacked the sharpness to turn the situation around in their Euro 2012 quarter-final on Saturday. Coach Laurent Blanc fielded two right backs with Anthony Reveillere in the defensive position and Mathieu Debuchy higher up the pitch to contain the threat of Andres Iniesta and Jordi Alba.

But Iniesta broke down the wing to feed Alba and Xabi Alonso ran on to his cross to open the scoring with a downward header in the 19th minute. Alonso completed Spain’s 2-0 win with a stoppagetime penalty. “The plan was to reach halftime at 0-0,” Blanc told a news conference.

“We had analysed the Spanish line-up well because they had two very strong players on the left but what is the most frustrating thing is that we conceded the goal from that side,” he added. France were left chasing ghosts for the remainder of the game and failed to turn their very few chances into goals.

“What I regret is that we conceded the goal early in the game,” said Blanc. “But let’s be real-

istic, Spain are a better team and tonight’s game proved it once again.” Blanc, however, waited until after the hour to make his substitutions, with Samir Nasri and Jeremy Menez coming in for Florent Malouda and Debuchy.

“We had very few chances. We could have taken more risks but when you play against Spain, you run a lot and you lose your lucidity,” said centre back Laurent Koscielny. “But we gave everything, everybody fought on the pitch.”

But being 1-0 down against a team who dominate possession makes it almost impossible to win, especially when you do not have a killer instinct. “Scoring two goals when you don’t have the ball much is really tough,” said Blanc.

“On two or three occasions we had chances but we were a bit clumsy.”

France leave the tournament with one win, a draw and two defeats. Although they made it to the knockout stages of a major tournament for the first time since the 2006 World Cup, they were never looked like beating Spain, rated as Euro 2012 favourites by Blanc. “All the big nations will be in the semi-finals and unfortunately we will not be there,” said Blanc.

Reuters

DONETSK - Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque hailed Xabi Alonso’s role as an influential cog in a side without a recognised striker after the midfielder’s double secured a 2-0 win over France and a place in the Euro 2012 semi-finals. Alonso, playing in his 100th international, headed in Jordi Alba’s cross for the opening goal after 19 minutes and clinched victory for the holders with a stoppage time penalty.

S p a i n now face a mouthwatering semi-final with Iberian neighbours Portugal in Donetsk on We d n e s -

day. “Xabi is a very good team player, he knows how to help on the flanks. He is one of the attacking strengths we have but overall it was the teamwork,” Del Bosque told reporters after Alonso’s 14th and 15th goals in international football.

“I think Xabi scores a lot. If we talk about Xabi and (Sergio) Busquets I think they are not too

defensive. They know how to attack.” Spain fielded the same team that started against Italy in their opening Group C game, meaning forward Fernando Torres was on the bench.

Del Bosque’s wisdom of playing without a designated centre forward has been questioned in some quarters but the coach made clear his reasoning for his

striker-free selection. “I don’t think there is an absolute truth that playing with a true forward gives you more depth, but we wanted to dominate to have possession and create chances,” he said.

Spain were too good for a meek French side, who offered little hope that they could continue their mastery of the Spaniards in competitive meetings having won five and drawn one of their previous six encounters.

“I don’t think it is an unfair result. We were in control most of the time,” said Del Bosque.

“We were strong on the left with Jordi and (Andreas) Iniesta,

that’s where the first goal came from. We played well as a team and that’s what caused France problems.”

Del Bosque said Spain were at a “little disadvantage” with Portugal having an extra two days rest to recuperate before the semi-final after beating the Czech Republic on Thursday.

“We were tired at the end of the game but we will have to do our best to rest as much as we can,” he added.

Reuters

DONETSK - France midfielder Samir Nasri was involved in a row with a French reporter after his team were knocked out of the Euro 2012 quarter-finals 2-0 by Spain on Saturday.

Nasri, who came in as a second-half substitute, went through the mixed zone without a word for text reporters after the match.

Asked by a reporter for a quote, he answered: “You are looking for shit, you are looking for trouble.” The reporter replied: “Get lost.”

Nasri then turned back and said “fuck you” followed by a stream of further abuse, inviting the reporter to have a conversation with him man-to-man.

Nasri had already been involved in a row with the media at the tournament when he muttered “shut up” after scoring the equaliser in France’s 1-1 draw against England in their opening game.

Familiar foe Ronaldo awaiting Spain in last four

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Spain head coach Vicente del Bosque instructs his players during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Spain and France in Donetsk, Ukraine, Saturday, June 23, 2012.

Spain coach hails match-winner Alonso’s ‘team’ ethic

Nasri in foul-mouthed rant at reporter

Reuters

GNIEWINO, Poland Spain’s Euro 2012 semi-final against Portugal will almost certainly hinge on how effectively the holders manage to shackle a familiar foe. Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo is a Real Madrid team mate of Spain players like Iker Casillas, Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos and a bitter La Liga rival of their Barcelona contingent including Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas.

Joint top scorer at the tournament with three goals, Ronaldo typically operates down the left, where he will be looking to get the better of another Real colAP Photo/Armando Franca

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates his side’s 1-0 win after during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Czech Republic and Portugal in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, June 21, 2012.

league Alvaro Arbeloa, the Spanish right back. He would never admit it publicly but there is probably little Ronaldo would enjoy more - apart from getting one over on nemesis Lionel Messi - than being the man who sends the world and European champions packing in Donetsk on Wednesday.

Portugal have insisted they are not a one-man team and in Nani they have another dangerous forward, a fact acknowledged by Alonso, who netted both goals in Spain’s 2-0 quarter-final win against France on Saturday. “Portugal have forwards who can cause problems for us and above all the two wingers Cristiano and Nani are superb players,” Alonso, who made his 100th international appearance against France, told reporters.

“We know Cristiano perfectly and he has been playing at an incredible level all season at Real Madrid,” added the 30-year-old former Liverpool player. “But the important thing is to focus on ourselves and make sure we are playing at our optimum level.”

WARMER GREETING

The Spanish players are also familiar with two of Portugal’s defenders, centre back Pepe and left back Fabio Coentrao, who both play for Real. “They also know how to close ranks in defence and they are very solid,” Alonso said. “Maybe before the game there will be a warmer greeting than usual because he’s your club team mate but in the end you are going to be fighting your own corner,” he added.

“Ultimately everyone is fighting for their own goals.” If Spain get past Portugal they will meet either Germany, whom they beat 1-0 in the 2008 European Championship final and who are already through to the last four, or the winners of Sunday’s remaining quarter-final between England and Italy.

Vicente del Bosque’s side are seeking to become the first nation to win back-to-back continental titles with a World Cup in between.

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Sharapova comes back down to earth at Wimbledon Reuters

AP Photo/David Santiago, el Nuevo Herald

LeBron James speaks to the media after the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in game 5 of the NBA Finals at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on Thursday, June 21, 2012.

Bali Art Center IBP

Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is the culture building complex with the best style of Balinese traditional architecture.

It is featuring the good lay-out building of amphitheater to be a place/hall of show performance purpose. It is symbolizing the twiddling of Mandara Giri mount in the milk ocean and spattering the Amerta holy water for the life of endless as according to nature of dynamic culture and stayed alive during

the human being still dwell the earth planet.

This amphitheater can accommodate up to 6.000 audiences for the show of colossal both for modern and also traditional.

This Taman Budaya (Cultural Park) is opened in the year 1973 with the Bali Artistry Party (Pesta Kesenian Bali) within one month. On that month, there are full of entertainment amusement traditional dance, exhibition, and other cultural activities. At the opening ceremony enlivened by artistic parade started from Puputan Park and finish

at the Art Center.

Its distance is about 2 Km and this parade is followed by entire regencies and towns in Bali by delivering their artistry mission. This event is often followed by other provinces in Indonesia as well as from outside country like Japan, Korea, Europe, America etc. In this culture parade is presented in so many forms those are from the sacral until contemporary traditional.

There are also type of marry and custom clothes from each area, instrument of music

or gamelan, forms Sesajen (offering) and others.

In fact this event is not tourist event due to visitor and audience are mostly come from the local resident. But some of tourists can enjoy this party which is every year. The person who is propose this yearly culture event is Mr. Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra (who was been a Bali Governor. Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is published as one of place to visit in Bali or tourist destination in Bali.

Not as easy as one-twothree for Miami Heat Reuters

The ‘Big Three’ of the Miami Heat won their first NBA titles together when they silenced the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games of the championship series, but the achievement was not as easy as one, two, three. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh had to make sacrifices in the blending of their talents under an emerging young coach in Erik Spoelstra.

The trio arranged to play for the Heat two years ago in a quest for championships, but fell short against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals in their first season before finding the winning formula in the second. James had to step up into the role of team leader and polish his post-up game. Wade had to step aside as the team’s ‘closer’ to allow James room to grow, and Bosh had to shift from power forward to center to make the grand plan work.

“We all knew that this team was built a little bit differently, and we needed to absolutely embrace what some would see as unconventional,” said Spoelstra, whose team could attack the basket while kicking out for three-pointers without the benefit of

a dominant center. “We would need an inside presence to be able to play inside out. LeBron knew that, as well. We were all on the same page about it,” added Spoelsra.

“He dedicated the summer to develop that game, and that allowed us to play like the power teams that you see with a big center. Dwyane Wade also helped with that.” James, driven in his pursuit of an NBA crown, dedicated himself to improving his play down low, and went to work with Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon to boost his scoring moves near the basket.

Last year the team seemed unsure of who would take charge at the end of games, particularly in the Finals series, but James emerged as

the team’s go-to man and brought a greater resolve to the court. “Just to see the perseverance that he’s had, and just to witness every day, day in, day out, his progression as a leader and his will to win, I mean, it’s been incredible,” Bosh said about James. “I’m really proud to call myself a team mate of his. It’s just been unbelievable to witness.”

Having the slender, sweet-shooting Bosh, who had thrived as a power forward, to play center was critical to the plan. “Chris embracing the center position really took our team to another level,” Spoelstra said. “Because of his speed, his skill set, he could defend multiple positions. But as a center, he became one of the tougher (guys to) cover in the league.” Bosh did not resist the challenge.

“I didn’t fight it. I just wanted to be the best big man I could be.

I knew how important defense was and is, and I just wanted to make sure I could play the best basketball I possibly could at that role for this team,” he said.

LONDON - After the stellar delight of winning the French Open to complete a career grand slam, Maria Sharapova has come back down to earth at Wimbledon, scene of one of her greatest disappointments a year ago.

“I was walking around for three days with the biggest smile,” Sharapova told a Wimbledon news conference on Saturday, recalling her Roland Garros triumph a fortnight ago. “Then I got here and I better get back to reality.”

Reality meant getting used to grass again, and learning from the experience of losing to Czech Petra Kvitova in last year’s Wimbledon final, said Sharapova, world number one since her Paris victory.

“As tough as it is to lose grand slam finals, probably one of the toughest things for a tennis player, it’s really about getting yourself back out there and improving and hoping for another chance,” the Russian said.

First, she had needed to get used to grass again, with a week of practice at Wimbledon, after dominating the red clay at Roland Garros.

“I think it’s the toughest back-to-back grand slam-wise, no doubt, especially if you’re coming off a French Open win or a final. As much as you want to celebrate and enjoy, you come here and it’s like a whole new ballgame.

“It’s certainly an adjustment. The first two days you’re like: ‘Wait, I can’t really slide that much’. So you have to take a few more steps.

“But the first few days are always so much fun.

It’s such a different balance, a fast game. I feel like coming from the clay you learn so much about the point and the development of the rally.

You get on grass and... you’re not playing more than five-ball rallies.”

Sharapova, who still has to take particular care of her shoulder after surgery in 2008, said she would be careful not to get over-confident at Wimbledon.

“I always think if you think everything is great and you’re feeling good, then you should be extremely worried,” said Sharapova, who AP Photo/Joel Ryan won Wimbledon in 2004 Maria Sharapova, women’s world numand faces Australian ber one ranked tennis player, arrives for Anastasia Rodionova a pre-Wimbledon party, at Kensington in her opening match Roof Gardens, west London, Thursday, this time.

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Sebastien Loeb wins Rally New Zealand Agence France Presse

Frenchman Sebastien Loeb won the Rally New Zealand to extend his lead at the top of the World Rally Championship to 38 points.

The eight-time defending world champion on Sunday finished 29.6 seconds ahead of Citroen teammate Mikko Hirvonen to secure his third

Rally New Zealand title after winning in 2005 and 2008.

It was Loeb’s fifth win in seven rounds of this year’s championship and the 72nd of a stellar career in which he has monopolised the world title for the past eight years in a row.

Loeb entered the final day with a 6.4 second lead over Hirvonen and the Citroen drivers were under or-

ders to take no risks in the wet conditions to ensure a one-two finish for the French car manufacturer.

“It’s been a long weekend and my driving has not been perfect,” Loeb said.

“We made a few mistakes in the closing power stage, when we were pushing too hard but the most important thing is that we have won.”

Norway’s Petter Solberg came third in the fastest of the Fords and said he could have finished higher if not for a mistake in tyre selection on the opening day Friday.

“We came here to win but a third place is still good so we must be happy with that,” he said. “The team and the car is fantastic, but we just need to keep going and hopefully

one day soon a win will follow.”

Solberg’s teammate Jari-Matti Latvala qualified fastest but had to settle for seventh after crashing into a fence on day one.

The major drama on the final day came when Ott Tanak of Estonia rolled his Ford during the 22nd special stage. He was unharmed but had to retire from the race.

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Australia ends search for survivors of refugee boat Agence France Presse

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Photo illustration shows a Filipino-owned fishing boat sailing off from Masinloc town, north of Manila, for a fishing expedition near the Scarborough Shoal in May.

Chinese ship ‘accidentally rams’ Philippines boat Agence France Presse

The Philippines alleged on Sunday that a Chinese vessel accidentally rammed a local fishing boat north of a disputed South China Sea shoal, killing one and leaving four others missing.

The fishing boat set out from the northern coastal town of Bolinao, in Pangasinan province, last Monday and was reported to have sunk two days later, Office of Civil Defence chief Benito Ramos told AFP. “Of the eight fishermen aboard, four were plucked out of sea only yesterday, but one of them died in a hospital,” Ramos said. “Four more are still missing.”

The rescued fishermen told authorities they believed the vessel which collided with their boat was Chinese, Ramos said, though this could not be independently verified.

Chinese embassy officials were not available for comment on Sunday.

Ramos said the incident occurred north of Scarborough Shoal where the Philippines and China have been engaged in a tense stand off since April.

“It’s north of the Scarborough, though we could not determine how far in terms of distance or nautical miles,” he said.

President Benigno Aquino earlier this month ordered two Philippine ships to pull out from the shoal

during bad weather, a move that the Chinese said calmed tensions in the area.

While China said it would also ask its fishermen to leave the area, it stressed it had no intention of pulling out its bigger ships from there.

As of last week, there were still seven Chinese ships at the shoal, according to the Philippines foreign ministry.

The dispute began in April after Chinese government vessels blocked Philippine ships from arresting Chinese fishermen near the shoal.

Since then, both countries have maintained ships there to press their respective claims to the area.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, even waters close to the coasts of neighbouring countries. The Philippines says the shoal is well within its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

The shoal sits about 230 kilometres (140 miles) from the Philippines’ main island of Luzon. The nearest major Chinese landmass is 1,200 kilometres northwest of the shoal, according to Philippine navy maps.

Australia late Saturday ended a three-day search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off remote Christmas Island, with little hope for around 90 people still missing.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said searches of the sea north of the island had failed to find any more survivors, with the last living person found Thursday night.

“Reports from the aerial and surface search crews confirm that no survivors remain in the extensive search area,” the AMSA said in a statement late Saturday announcing the search had been called off.

Rescuers managed to save 110 people from the stricken people-smuggling ship, which capsized with some 200 people on board in the Indian Ocean on Thursday afternoon, two days after first issuing a distress call.

Six bodies have been recovered, with an estimated 90 people still missing.

“It is believed over 200 people may have been on board the vessel, but an accurate number may never be known,” the AMSA said.

The boat is believed to have originated in Sri Lanka and to have been carrying mostly Afghan asylum-seekers. The survivors include a 13-yearold boy.

Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said earlier that the critical 36-hour search window had passed and conditions had steadily deteriorated, with the situation “looking grimmer by the hour”.

“There may still be people alive, but we’re past that window,” Clare told ABC Television.

“I’ve been on the phone to Border Protection Command. Their advice is that they’ve now instructed the men and women out in the search and rescue area to now identify people that have perished and retrieve those bodies.”

The capsize is the latest in a series of refugee boat disasters in the Indian Ocean in recent years, as rickety, overloaded vessels packed with desperate migrants struggle to reach Australia.

Six divers missing off Malaysian island: official Agence France Presse

Search teams were on Sunday looking for six scuba divers who went missing a day earlier off a Malaysian resort island after apparently failing to resurface, a maritime official said.

The group, including a diver from Singapore, one from China and four Malaysians, disappeared after going diving off Tioman island on Malaysia’s east coast Saturday, according to an official with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.

Only one person with the group, whose members were aged between 25 and 33 and which included two women, resurfaced after the dive, he said.

Three boats and eight navy divers are involved in the search.

Malaysia’s east coast islands, famed for their corals and marine life, are a popular dive destination. Accidents are rare.

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From page 1 The only real goal French effort on goal in the first half was a 32ndminute free kick from Yohan Cabaye which was curling into the top corner before Casillas pushed it around the post.

France livened up marginally after the break with Mathieu Debuchy heading just over after Franck Ribery had wriggled into space for a cross. Blanc brought on attacking midfielders Samir Nasri and Jeremy Menez just after the hour as he sought a way back into the game but they were unable to make any real impact against a solid Spanish defence.

Alonso added his second goal from the penalty spot in stoppage time after substitute Pedro was tripped by Anthony Reveillere.

Spain are now unbeaten in 18 competitive games since their 1-0 defeat by Switzerland in the group stage of the 2010 World Cup and have not conceded a goal in their last eight knockout games in tournaments.

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INDONESIA Endangered Sumatran rhino gives birth in Way Kambas Associated Press

JAKARTA — A highly endangered Sumatran rhinoceros gave birth to a calf Saturday in western Indonesia, a forestry official said. It is only the fifth known birth in captivity for the species in 123 years.

The mother, Ratu, delivered the male calf after a nearly 16-month pregnancy at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province, said Novianto Bambang, director of biodiversity conservation at the Forestry Ministry.

“This is a historic birth because Sumatran rhinos are on the brink of extinction,” Bambang said.

He said both mother and calf are doing well.

The U.S.-based International Rhino Foundation called the first birth of a Sumatran rhino at an Indonesian facility “monumental” and said it was one of the

most significant advances in conservation efforts for the species.

There are an estimated 200 Sumatran rhinos living in the wild in small groups in Indonesia and Malaysia, half the number of 15 years ago. Another 10 live in captivity, including Ratu and four others in a rhino sanctuary at the Way Kambas National Park.

Ratu, who was born in the wild, had miscarried twice. She was paired with Andalas, who was born in the United States and brought to Indonesia in 2007.

The first captive birth of a Sumatran

rhino was recorded at the Calcutta Zoo in 1889. The three others, including Andalas, occurred at the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States.

Sumatran rhinos are the smallest rhino species, standing little more than 4 feet (120 centimeters) at the shoulder.

They are the most endangered of all rhinoceros species because of their rapid rate of decline.

An estimated 70 percent of the Sumatran rhino population has been lost since 1985, mainly to poaching and the loss of their tropical habitat in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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In this 2010 file photo released by the Indonesian Rhino Foundation, locally known as Yayasan Badak Indonesia (YABI) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a female Sumatran rhino named Ratu is seen at Way Kambas Rhino Reservation in Lampung, Indonesia.

No more victims found Indonesia promotes “blue economy” in Rio+20 Meeting after Fokker’s crash Associated Press

JAKARTA — Rescuers finished searching damaged and burned homes Friday without finding more victims of a military plane crash in Indonesia’s capital that killed seven airmen and four people in a house.

The Fokker F-27 turboprop was making a routine training flight when it crashed into the military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) from the runway where it was trying to land.

The dead were two children, their grandmother and aunt in one of the eight damaged houses, and the plane’s pilot, co-pilot and five trainees.

“Search and rescue efforts have been finished,” said air force spokesman Col. Agung Sasongko Jati on Friday morning. “All the wreckage has been removed and there is no more new victim.”

Eleven people were injured in the crash that sent raging orange flames jumping several meters into the air and a huge column of black smoke billowing over the homes. The two children killed were 2 and 6 and their

grandmother and aunt had been visiting, Jati said.

An investigation into the cause of the crash was continuing and might take three months, deputy chief of air force Rear Marshall Dede Rusamsi said. “We have been collecting data since last night,” he said.

Initial reports indicate that the pilots were fit to fly, Rusami said.

The aircraft, which was built in 1958 and has been used by Indonesia’s air force for the past 35 years with 14,900 flight hours, was declared airworthy before it took off for its second training flight of the day under clear skies, Jati said.

“It seemed that the pilot was trying to land on a nearby paddy field,” Jati told The Associated Press. “But it was not clear whether it was because of an emergency.”

He said the plane did not have a black box, which holds flight data and is common on passenger planes.

The crash comes after a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet slammed into an Indonesian volcano during a demonstration flight for potential buyers last month, killing all 45 people aboard.

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JAKARTA - Government of Indonesia in Rio+20 Forum proposed the principle of “Blue Economy” in order to promote a global awareness toward marine management and coastal resources.

The principle of blue economy is considered appropriate in helping the world to face the challenges of climate change, marine ecosystem which is increasingly vulnerable toward the impact of climate change and ocean acidification.

This is important in order to control the global warming threat such as exhaust gas energy and carbon so the integrated sustainable development and the effort to alleviate poverty can be realized.

As conveyed by Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo in Rio+20 Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday (6/21).

As spoken by Sharif, the climate change is now increasingly threatens world life, such as the rise of sea level, temperature in-

crease of sea surface, increasing storm activity, followed by harmful effects of ocean acidification which can be the biggest threat to the marine health.

On that basis, Sharif considers that fast and precise act of mitigation and adaptation is needed in dealing with the reef ecosystem.

“Perhaps the marine ecosystem is the first one to collapse without adaptation and mitigation act,” he explained.

Therefore the Blue Economy is considered to have potential in the new development paradigm by implementing new business development model that synergizes growth, development and environment.

On that basis, the Government of Indonesia is determined to immediately adopt the concept of blue economy, given the growing trend of green economy concept implementation toward the blue economy.

“Country such as Indonesia, the green economy is absolutely necessary, but as the world`s largest

archipelago nation, implementing green economy is not enough and need to be coupled with the concept of blue economy,” as Sharif continued.

As the realization of Indonesia`s commitment toward coastal and marine resources management, Government has set 3.5 million hectares of Sawu as marine conservation area.

This marine conservation area is the largest in South East Asia and one of the largest of its kind in the world. MMAF is not only expand the conservation area, but also will emphasize the effectiveness of conservation management.

By the mid of 2012, Indonesia has managed to establish marine conservation area of 15.35 million ha or 76.75 percent of the 20 million ha set target in 2020.

He said that the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has previously stated his commitment that Blue Economy principles should be applied to achieve the sustainable growth based on equity.

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Euro’s big four agree growth boost Reuters

ROME - German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure on Friday for common euro zone bonds or a more flexible use of Europe’s rescue funds but agreed with leaders of France, Italy and Spain on a 130 billion euros ($156 billion) package to revive growth.

After four-way talks in Rome’s Renaissance Villa Madama, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said the European Union should adopt pro-growth measures worth about 1 percent of the region’s gross domestic product at a crucial summit next week.

But the three others made no perceptible progress in pushing Merkel, who leads Europe’s most powerful economy and the main contributor to its rescue funds, towards mutualising Europe’s debts or using existing bailout resources

more flexibly.

“Growth can only have solid roots if there is fiscal discipline, but fiscal discipline can be maintained only if there is growth and job creation,” Monti told a joint news conference after talks that lasted just an hour and 40 minutes.

The measures, already in the works in Brussels, include increasing the European Investment Bank’s capital, redirecting unspent EU regional aid funds and launching project bonds to co-finance major public

investment programs. No new steps were announced on Friday.

The four leaders did agree to move ahead on creating a tax on financial transactions even though not all EU members will be on board. About a dozen EU states support setting up the so-called “Tobin tax”, more than the nine required to go ahead as a group within the EU, a French presidential source said.

Merkel made no mention, however, of any move towards mutualising past euro zone debt or new borrowing. French President Francois Hollande voiced impatience with Berlin’s reluctance, saying it should not take 10 years to create jointly underwritten euro bonds.

He said greater solidarity was needed among member states be-

fore they abandon more sovereignty to EU institutions.

“I consider euro bonds to be an option ... but not in 10 years,” Hollande said in a direct challenge to Merkel. “There can be no transfer of sovereignty if there is not an improvement in solidarity.”

The German position essentially amounts to the reverse. Merkel argues that members of the 17-nation currency union must transfer control over national budget and economic policies to Brussels before Germany would consider common debt issuance.

“Liability and control belong together,” she said, citing as an example that EU treaties ruled out letting euro zone rescue funds lend directly to Spanish banks because

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MADRID — Spain is pushing to have European rescue funds go directly to its troubled banks, rather than through the government, so that they do not add to the country’s already heavy sovereign debt load and push it closer toward financial collapse.

The country has access to as much as €100 billion ($125 billion) for the banks, but current rules say the government needs to take responsibility for them. That has raised fears that, should the government not be able to get the money back from its banks, it will be overwhelmed by the new debt and need a bailout of its own.

“Right now there is no instrument to inject capital directly to banks.

That’s the reality, “said Economy Minister Luis de Guindos in Luxembourg. But he said momentum is building toward creation of a European banking union with the independent firepower to bail out banks, bypassing national governments.

De Guindos said such a banking union would include greater cooperation on oversight of banks, a common fund to guarantee deposits and new instruments to rescue ailing banks directly. He acknowledged that setting up such a banking union would take time, but said Spain will be pushing to have such terms apply to its banks’ bailout.

“It’s not something available today but it could be in the near future,” he said.

A day earlier, two independent audit

reports estimated that Spain’s troubled banks would need a maximum of €62 billion ($77.74 billion), out of the €100 billion ($125.39 billion) the European Union has offered, to survive a severe economic downturn.

The International Monetary Fund backs the idea of a single European fund injecting funds directly into needy banks but key EU member Germany has so far ruled it out.

Berlin insists on abiding by current regulations under which the money must be given to a government, adding to its sovereign debt pile.

De Guindos earlier said the possibility of direct funding was “a fundamental question that we will have to make progress on over the coming weeks.”

He said the size of the bank bailout Spain will request will be determined and published July 9, when Spain and its single currency partners reach agreement on the terms of the loan, such as the interest rate. He estimated the rate would be around 3-4 percent. A letter formally requesting the loan will be delivered Monday but it will be only two paragraphs long, with no mention of terms or amount.

The independent audit reports were initially met with caution in financial markets on Friday, with investors continuing to demand high interest rates for Spanish bonds, an indicator of what the government would have to pay in official debt auctions.

Market pressure did ease over the course of the day, however, as de Guindos hinted Spain would

Participants race to the sea in Jimbaran Bay during the Bali Interna-

only the Spanish state could enforce conditions on the banks.

The contrasting comments left much work for diplomats to produce a convincing blueprint for closer fiscal and banking union at a full EU summit next Thursday and Friday, which Monti called a defining moment in the crisis.

That plan is expected to include the first steps towards a banking union, starting by putting the European Central Bank in charge of supervising large cross-border euro zone banks. Without progress on bank sector integration or other financial stability measures, France is not ready to commit to ratifying an EU budget discipline pact agreed earlier this year, French diplomatic sources said.

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tional Triathlon competition on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on June 24, 2012. Hundreds of participants from 24 countries took part in the race.

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“Bali TV” House restoration Program in Buleleng and Jembrana Bali Post

Buleleng/Jembrana – After being done for a month, the House Restoration Program entitled “Wirasa Bali TV” is finally finished. The program is carried out by Bali Vice Governor, A.A. Puspayoga and other donators.

A homeless person sleeps in the doorway of a bank in Madrid Thursday June 7, 2012. Spain is pushing to have European rescue funds go directly to its troubled banks, rather than through the government, so that they do not add to the country’s already heavy sovereign debt load and push it closer toward financial collapse.

push for the bank loans to not add to government debt.

After rising in the morning, the benchmark 10-year bond yield was down 0.19 percentage points at 6.35 percent, a still painfully high rate.

Concern that Spain’s economy is so weak that it could not afford the

cost of propping up its banks has sent its borrowing costs soaring to levels not seen since it joined the European single currency in 1999.

The worry is that Spain could soon find itself unable to finance its debts by itself and join Greece, Ireland and Portugal in seeking a

rescue loan for not just the banks but the whole country. Spain is the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy and a sovereign bailout would seriously test the bloc’s finances.

The country is struggling through a recession with a 24.4 percent jobless rate.

The Vice Governor visited the three houses on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

He pointed out that the quality of the house build through the funding of the program can be followed by others who want to create the similar program.

The owner of the newly build houses are Made Sutama, Wayan Yasa, and Gede Tirta, all of them in Buleleng Regency. A.A Puspayoga was satisfied with the newly restored house. All of the owner of the house said that they are very happy.

“I am thankful for the assistance given to us to build the house and I am happy that the furniture is also provided,” said Gede Tirta. Wayan Yasa also said the same thing. He used to be disturbed by the crabs that enter the house but now he and his family can sleep well.

Puspayoga said that he is very grateful that the people are happy with the result of the program and he also would like to say thank you for everyone who support it including Bali TV. He stated that the program is directly on target because it is targeting the poor and needed and also it has high quality.

“This kind of house with good quality is needed by them. We cannot give them a poor quality house because it will make them devastated,’ he added.

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The similar program is also being done in Jembrana Regency. A.A Puspayoga visited the house belong to I Putu Swiana located in Banjar Tangi Meyeh, Berangbang Village. The house will receive 20 million rupiah so it can be restored to better house.

The Vice Governor was also accompanied by the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha along with other related officers. The Regent was saying his gratitude to The Vice Governor and Bali TV for helping the poor people in the regency.

Swiana as the receiver of the assistance was very happy. He stated he really needs the funding because his house currently is not suitable to be lived on. The wall is very fragile and the roof is almost collapsed. In the house Swiana live with his mother and his four children. (kmb15/kmb26)

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Vice Governor of Bali, Puspayoga, handed over donation for Buleleng residents that get house renovation from Bali TV’s Wirasa Program on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

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Tourist guides question about competency test program Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Tourist guides coalescing into the Tourist Guides Association of Indonesia (HPI) of Bali questioned about the competency test program for tourism workers launched by central government. Actually the tourist guides already have a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. Law No. 10/2009 concerning with tourism mandates that workers in the field of tourism should have competency standards through certification.

“As tourist guides, we have had a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. Then, what is the function of the competency test conducted by the tourism professional certification agency?” said Chairman of the HPI Bali, Sang Putu Subaya, Friday (Jun 22).

According to him, despite hav-

ing certification of competency, it was very difficult for tourist guides in Bali to work in other countries.

On the contrary, tourist guides from other Asian countries would be reluctant to work in Bali. “Situation of job competition in Asia in 2015 will not greatly have an impact on the activities of tourist guides in Bali.

Meanwhile, hotel employees can work abroad, including on cruise ships, but tourist guides are hard to work abroad,” he said.

He said that possession of competency certificate would not affect the payroll system to tourist guides in Bali. Moreover, the tourist guides should pay for the competency test at their own expense. This condition would make the tourist guides consider joining the program.

“Tourist guides have already had a license issued by the Bali Government Tourism Office. To obtain this license, tourist guides must attend training and examination conducted by the tourism office. When having had a license, is it necessary for

tourist guides to have a certificate of competency test?” he questioned.

Government was expected to clarify the profession obliged to follow the competency test whether it was required to prospective tourist guides that had not owned a license yet or those who had owned the license.

“There is no positive correlation to benefits for tourist guides who have had licensed so that they are reluctant to take the certificate of competency test,” said Sangtu while adding it was difficult for tourist guides in Bali to take the competency test without clear benefits. Moreover, there was not clear sanction for tourist guides in

Bali that did not follow the competency test.

Inspector General of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Putu Laksaguna, previously said the certification was just like a driving license indicating the competency of the workers. The certification recognized professional competency such as the one owned by professionals in financial sector.

Development of the tourism sector should be followed by a standard of tourism businesses evidenced by certification against the existing business. The law stated that products, services and management of tourism businesses should have business standards. (kmb27)

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Water route of Tegalasih collapsed Negara (Bali Post) –

The support of a water route at gang II, Banjar Tegalasih, Batuagung Village these past few months have collapsed and hoped it will be fixed soon. One local, Wayan Werken (65) m when met on location last Friday (22/6) stated the support have been like that since three months ago and happened bit by bit. It has been fixed before but the quality is still poor so

it is hoped a better quality repair will be given to it. Until now, a lot of holes can be seen while on the west there’s a two meters wide hole. This support is located on a three way crossroad which means a lot of vehicles pass by and now every heavy rain flood will come by to locals’ houses. “This route is to accommodate the waters from the North (above) and now due to it no good, flood happens all the time,” Werken stated.

Other local, Ni Komang Nibek (60), stated the collapse happened during a heavy rain few months ago including the drainage towards the river also almost collapsed. The water from above fell to the drainage causing the water route couldn’t accommodate it all and cause flood. Nibek with her children luckily had its house position a bit higher causing it could avoid the flood.

It is hoped this situation will be solved soon. (kmb26)

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Paraguay’s Lugo denounces ouster as president

Associated Press Writer

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Fernando Lugo emerged early Sunday to denounce his ouster as Paraguay’s president as a “parliamentary coup” and a “foreordained sentence” that was not based on proper evidence.

Lugo said his truncated presidency was targeted because he tried to help the South American nation’s poor majority. Asked whether he had any hope of retaking office, Lugo exhorted his followers to remain peaceful but suggested that popular national and international clamor could lead Paraguayan lawmakers to reverse his impeachment.

“In politics, anything is possible,” Lugo said.

He added that he was visited by Roman Catholic bishops before Friday’s Senate trial for alleged poor performance of duties, and agreed to accept the outcome of a process he considered illegitimate only to avoid bloodshed.

Lugo spoke in a pre-dawn special televised “open microphone” program hosted by a state-funded public television channel that was created by his government. As Saturday turned into Sunday, a long line of speakers queued up in front of the station’s headquarters to vent their frustration

over what they called an institutional coup, calling for strikes and protests to demand his return.

“We will not recognize any other president,” chanted the crowd of at least 200 people, waving Paraguayan flags and bundled up against the Southern Hemisphere winter.

The nighttime protest broke the quiet of an otherwise sleepy day when many shops were closed and streets were largely empty. Some alleged that the public station was being censored by the nascent government of Federico Franco, who took the oath of office the previous day.

AP Photo/Jorge Saenz Earlier Saturday, Franco set about Paraguay’s new President Federico Franco gives a thumbs up as he arrive to give a news conference at forming his new government as he the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, June 23, 2012. promised to honor foreign commitments, respect private property and day after lawmakers overwhelmingly who will be tasked with maintaining “Our foreign minister will go to reach out to Latin American leaders voted to kick Lugo out of office. public order in this poor, landlocked Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay to to minimize diplomatic fallout and “The country is calm. I was elected South American nation, and Foreign meet with authorities and explain to keep his country from becoming a (as vice president) in 2008 by popular Minister Jose Felix Fernandez, who them that there was no break with regional pariah. vote. Activity is normal and there is will immediately hit the road to try democracy here. The transition of In a brief appearance before in- no protest,” Franco said. to appease fellow members of the power through political trial is estabternational journalists, Franco tried His first two appointments were Mercosur and Unasur regional trade lished in the national constitution,” to broadcast a sense of normality a Interior Minister Carmelo Caballero, blocs.

Franco said.

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Mangupura (Bali Post) –

Mengwi Terminal officially operated fully last Friday (22/6) yet even so there are still a number of vital problems still happening one of them passengers are still confused if they want to continue their travel to Denpasar or other areas.

A number were confused they arrived here as before they would go to Ubung Terminal which has other transportation to continue by.

Other problems, with arriving in Mengwi, automatically additional fee has to be paid by passengers causing them sitting around waiting for someone to pick them up or wait for other transportations like taxi, small busses and motorcycle taxi. One passenger from Surabaya, Arianto, admitted shocked to be stopped at Mengwi and admitted just knew that busses stop here now. Arianto doesn’t know how much fee he has to take out to get to Ubung which usually becomes the terminal all busses stop to.

The same stated by Ariani, a mother from Jember who admitted have to pay again towards Ubung. Usually she had to pay IDR 70 thousand from Jember to Kampung Jawa, Denpasar, now IDR 60 thousand for bus and another IDR 10 thousand for a motorcycle taxi from Ubung to Kampung Jawa. Meanwhile transportation between cities of one province (AKDP) Gilimanuk-Ubung still not maximal in btinging passengers from Mengwi to Ubung moreover on that day it was empty. Head of Badung Transportation, Communication and Informatics, Made Sutama, did nto deny the situation when confirmed.

According to Sutama ths problem happens as the new terminal just operated causing passengers not used to it. The problem on transportation to Denpasar also is a problem and Sutama have suggested to have Sarbagita come to Mengwi.

It is explained by 22 June, Transporation Between Provinces (AKAP) will no longer stop at Ubung Terminal and only AKDP that goes to Ubung. Meanwhile for MengwiUbung route is still coordinated in the Province. AKDP will be optimized in bringing passengers to Denpasar, City and Village Transportation mini bus (angkot and angdes) Sutama obliged them to go to Mengwi Terminal as well. (kmb25)

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FILE - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, a Turkish pilot salutes before take-off at an air base in Konya, Turkey.

Turkey says downed jet was not spying on Syria Associated Press Writer

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister says a Turkish jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.

Ahmet Davutoglu says the plane entered Syrian airspace on Friday, but quickly left when warned by Turkey.

He says the plane had no “covert mission related to Syria,” and it was

purely on a training flight to test Turkey’s radar capabilities.

Davutoglu says the plane was shot down by Syria in “international airspace” several minutes after it left.

He spoke on state-run TRT television Sunday, two days after the downing of the jet in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Syria on Saturday insisted the shooting down of the plane was “not an attack,” and that the plane had violated its airspace.

MANILA - Esmael Enog heard crackling gunfire and saw men armed with high-powered rifles carry out one of the most heinous crimes in Philippine history: the massacre of 57 people, including 31 journalists, on a November morning three years ago. But nine months after testifying in court last July and pointing a finger at a politically powerful family, Enog vanished. His body was found in a sack near marshland last month, chain-sawed into pieces, according to his lawyer.

Two other witnesses have been murdered, casting doubt over whether anyone will be brought to justice for the nation’s bloodiest election-related violence and the deadliest single attack on the press ever documented. The difficulty of securing witnesses - and keeping them alive - is emerging as a formidable test for the two-year-old government of President Benigno Aquino, who has nurtured a graftfighting image and vowed swift resolution of the case.

Whether he can do that depends, in part, on how deeply he can reform a judicial system plagued for decades by corruption. The Washingtonbased Heritage Foundation think tank rates the country’s judiciary

as inefficient and says it remains susceptible to political interference.

“Despite some progress, the government’s anti-corruption efforts have been too inconsistent to eradicate bribery and graft effectively.”

Corruption and lax rule of law remain among the biggest turnoffs to foreign investors, who favor the nearby emerging markets of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The 2009 massacre in the southern province of Maguindanao was horrific

even by the standards of the Philippines, whose restive south is riven by political and insurgent violence.

Then, a convoy of vehicles en route to register Esmael Mangudadatu, an opposition candidate for provincial governor, was ambushed by about 100 gunmen on a lonely stretch of highway. The victims were driven to the top of a hill, separated into groups of men and women and then shot with highpowered firearms at close range.

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Philippine soldiers recover weapons of a private army under the control of the powerful Ampatuan political clan in Sharif Aguak, Maguindanao December 6, 2009.

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In this image made off the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, China’s Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft, left, conducts docking with the Tiangong-1 space lab module shortly after 2 p.m. Beijing time (0600 GMT) on Monday, June 18, 2012, 343 kilometers (213 miles) above Earth.

Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked manually with an orbiting module on Sunday, a first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space. The Shenzhou 9 capsule’s maneuver with the Tiangong 1 module was shown live on national television.

It follows a docking last week that was carried out by remote control from a ground base in China.

The Chinese astronauts have been living and working in the module for the past week as part of preparations for manning a permanent space station. They returned to the Shenzhou 9 capsule early Sunday and disconnected in preparation for the manual reconnection.

Wu Ping, spokeswoman for China’s manned space program, told reporters in Beijing that hand levers were used to control Shenzhou 9 and position it to dock with the orbiting module.

The maneuver was “precise and perfect” and the three astronauts carried it out “calmly and skillfully,” Wu said. “This success in manual docking represents a major breakthrough in our space rendezvous and docking technologies,” Wu said.

China’s next goals include another manned mission to the module later this year and replacing Tiangong 1, which was launched last year, with a permanent space station around 2020.

Possible future missions could also include sending a man to the moon.

China’s permanent space station is to weigh about 60 tons, slightly smaller than NASA’s Skylab of the 1970s and about one-sixth the size of the 16-nation International Space Station.

The Shenzhou 9 crew includes 33-year-old Liu Yang, an air force pilot and China’s first female space traveler. Liu is joined by mission commander and veteran astronaut Jing Haipeng, 45, and crew mate Liu Wang, 43. Their mission, which is expected to last at least 10 days, is China’s fourth manned mission. Shenzhou 9 launched June 16 from the Jiuquan center on the edge of the Gobi desert in northern China.

Wu said the astronauts will spend three to four more days in the module before returning to the capsule and manually separating from Tiangong 1. Once back in Shenzhou 9, they will return to Earth within a day, she said.

NEW YORK — E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing whether their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study.

The Pew Research Center published a survey Friday that reports around 12 percent of e-book users 16 years and older downloaded a text from the library over the past year.

Earlier in 2012, Pew issued a study showing that around 20 percent of adults had read an e-book recently.

Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and other major publishers have limited e-book offerings to libraries or refused to make any available, citing concerns that the ease of free downloads would hurt sales.

Lack of awareness may be another factor.

Around 60 percent of those 16 and older couldn’t say whether their libraries had ebooks.

Pew’s Internet & American Life Project study, conducted with nearly 3,000 respondents between Nov. 16 and Dec. 11, 2011, suggests that library patrons trying to borrow digital texts have been deterred by the selection and by not having the right e-book device. Just over half of respondents said their library did not have the book they were looking for and nearly 20 percent found that the device they owned could not receive a given title.

Nearly half of those who have not borrowed an e-book said they would be “very”

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“Gedebong Goyang” entertaint audiences in BAF Antara

DENPASAR - Foreign artists from a group calls Gedebong Goyang entertaint audiences during the 34th Bali Art Festival. Their performanced made audiences laugh and smile.

According to Kadek Balon, a coordinator of the group, the group performed something unique, entertain, and different.

The group that consist of foreign artists was established 9 year ago after Bomb Bali I. All the artists came from Australia, Italia, Swizertland, Unites States of America, and Britain. They all married with Balinese people and able to speak Indonesian and Balinese language.

They joking with that languages and made audiences laugh because their unusual dialec. Even non-Balinese audience laughing at their jokes because they also showing funny moves that attract laughter from audiences.

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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, Heather Stephenson, a librarian at the Siouxland Library main branch, demonstrates how to download a book from siouxlandlib.org onto an e-reader. or “somewhat” interested if they were lent an e-reading device with a book already downloaded.

Officials from the American Library Association have been meeting with publishers in an effort to work out a system that would satisfy both sides. On Thursday, Penguin Group (USA) announced a pilot program with the New York and Brooklyn library systems that will make e-books available six months after they first go on sale. Penguin had suspended its e-book program with libraries last year.

“I applaud Penguin’s decision today to restart e-book sales to libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers,” library association president Molly Raphael said in a statement.

Vatican calls for free AIDS treatment across Africa Agence France Presse

A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide “free and efficient treatment” for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies.

During an international conference organised by the Sant’Egidio Community, the number two in the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, made the call “to states and to donors” to “rapidly provide those sick with AIDS with free and efficient treatment.”

“Let universal access to health care be agreed on. Let us begin with mothers and children. In the name of the Holy Father, I speak for all those sick people who do not have a voice. Let us not waste time and invest the necessary resources,” he added.

According to Bertone, “universal access to care is not a Utopian idea. In Africa as in Europe, we have a duty to contact all seropositive pregnant women, to give them retroviral therapy, to enable them to give life to a child who is spared AIDS and to help him grow up in a maternal presence.” The cardinal added that the disappearance of mothers in Africa due to AIDS deaths was destroying families and economies.

The Sant’Egidio Community has organised a conference attended by government ministers and officials from around 20 countries to mark the 10th anniversary of the launching

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Bhaswari Padmanari Women Gong Kebyar Troupe from Blahbatuh subdistrict serving as the envoy of Gianyar Regency performed Cleopatra creation.

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GIANYAR - Cleopatra has been known as an icon of the Egyptian female beauty. Her elegance, beauty, charm, ambition and competitive spirit remind us of the Egyptian history. Such characters are perfectly expressed into a creation of gamelan composition containing the elements of music, melody, tempo, rhythm, dynamism and vocal performances by Bhaswari Padmanari Women Gong Kebyar Troupe from Blahbatuh subdistrict serving as the envoy of Gianyar Regency.

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A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide “free and efficient treatment” for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies. of the DREAM programme (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) in Mozambique in 2002. The programme has since been extended to nine other African countries.

The Sant’Egidio Community holds that the transmission of AIDS to nursing babies and small children can be drastically reduced if retroviral drugs are provided to the mother during pregnancy and the breast-feeding period.

Of 180,000 people who benefit from the DREAM programme, about 20,000 cases of seropositive mothers have been followed, with an average AIDS transmission rate of three percent before the child reaches the age of 18 months.

Its gamelan music was directed

by Ketut Cater and Gusti Ngurah Agung Jaya Kesuma. The presentation of the Gong Kebyar Parade was witnessed by Deputy Regent of Gianyar Regency, Dewa Made Sutanaya, Gianyar Leadership Council and thousands of spectators thronging the Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Denpasar Art Center, Friday (Jun 22).

Other than featuring the creation gamelan entitled Cleopatra, the art envoy of Gianyar also amazed the audience with its Tabuh Pisan gamelan performance entitled Kenyang-Lempung whose music was directed by I Wayan Darya. The Tabuh Pisan of Kenyang-Lempung was composed based on the Balinese classical pegongan pattern with the structure of kawitan, pengawak, peng-

isep, pengiba and pengecet. With a slight touch of contemporary nuance, the gamelan composition was expected to be an entertaining presentation and remind us of the glory of pegongan gamelan music in the past.

To jazz up the presentation of Bhaswari Padmanari Gong Kebyar, two dances were also performed comprising the Kebyar Duduk depicting the skill of a young man dancing lively and with both legs crossed he followed the rhythm of gamelan. The dance was directed by I Kadek Sudiarta, while the gamelan music by AA Suadnyana. Afterward, the second dance was the Wiranata where the dance was directed by Ni Wayan Swasti and gamelan music directed by I Ketut Yudhanegara.

Due to its charm, the dance could

beautify the appearance of Gong Kebyar envoy of Gianyar.

Meanwhile, the Buleleng Regency represented by Srikandi Petak Women Gong Kebyar Gamelan Troupe from Bengkel village, Busung Biu subdistrict, presented a Tabuh Pisan entitled Bangun Anyar under gamelan music direction of Putu Putrawan and Creation Gamelan entitled Putri Gunung with gamelan direction by I Made Terip and Putu Putrawan. The envoy also presented two dances consisting of the Kebyar Duduk where the dance was directed by Putu Arif Mahendra and gamelan music by Putu Putrawan. Then, the second dance was Panji Semirang where Ani Taurina served as dance director and Putu Putrawan as gamelan music director. (kmb16)

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Expatriate women from Gedebong Goyang group performed Bondres, a Balinese funny performances during the 34th Bali Art Festival.

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Autopsy is done for Mark Oven body Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The Australian, Mark Ovenden (34), body found iin an empty land at Kutuh Village last Thursday (21/6) at last autopsied last Saturday (23/6) from 9 am to 11 am local time at Sanglah Hospital as stated

by Head of Forensic Department of the Hospital, dr. Dudut Rustyadi, SpF. From the autopsy, a number of serious wounds were found

such as on the head, face, neck and stomach, while little wounds also on the feet and hand. From the result, there were no open wounds on the bodies while the body will still remain at Sanglah Hospital until further instructions. “Symptom of dying while weak was also found as there is a pressure mark on the neck which means victim died from this,” Rustyadi concluded. (san)

Murder to Australian tourist affects Bali tourism Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The garbage is seem in front of Buleleng Hospital.

Residents complain about medical wastes behind hospital Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Residents living around the Buleleng Hospital complained about the piles of medical waste behind the hospital. Allegedly, the piles of medical waste had been going on for a long time and left without being transported to landfill or being incinerated.

Such medical wastes were encased in red plastic bags. They were piled up at all so that they were mounting. To that end, local residents expected the medical wastes could be incinerated because they feared it would kindle a pollution being hazardous to health.

Director of Buleleng Hospital, Nyoman Merdana, admitted on Friday (Jun 22) that the wastes wrapped in red plastic bags behind the hospital were medical wastes.

However, he denied if the piles of waste had happened for long time.

According to him, such piles of medical waste had occurred since the Pagerwesi Day. “Since it was a holiday the wastes could not be incinerated. But, this afternoon

the waste will be transported to be incinerated,” said Merdana in his office.

According to him, production of medical waste in the government hospital depended on the number of treated patients. With a capacity of 253 beds, the Buleleng Hospital could generate 50 kg-100 kg of medical waste every day.

Admittedly, the medical wastes generated were not proportional to the capacity of incinerator owned.

Since the incinerator owned by the hospital only had the capacity of 1 kilogram, so that within a day it could only incinerate medical waste around 35 to 50 kg. To address the medical wastes, his party teamed up with Parama

Sidhi Hospital, Singaraja, which also had incinerator of the same capacity. In addition, the cooperation of medical waste incineration was also carried out with Sanglah Hospital.

Considering the production of medical waste in Buleleng Hospital was very high, in the near future his party would procure an incinerator with greater capacity of 2-5 kilograms. Its procurement was under tender process. He added the device put into tender would not generate noise and black smoke. “The device now being tendered is soundproofed and does not generate black smoke so as not to interfere with health,” he said. (kmb15)

The death of Mark Ovenden, 35, a resident from Sunshine Coast, Australia, found dead in a bush in the area of Kutuh, South Kuta, was feared to have an impact on the image of tourism in Bali. It was revealed by Chairman of the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, Friday (Jun 22). He said he was surprised by the incident.

Related to the incident, Ngurah Wijaya had asked police to investigate and arrest the culprit immediately. It was very worrying and could damage the image of Bali tourism as well as affect the tourist visit from the Kangaroo country to Bali.

“Indeed, it has not affected their visit to Bali. However, we expect the crime against foreigners spending holidays in Bali will not frequently happen because it will affect the security condition and interest of foreign tourists, including domestic tourists,” he said.

Ngurah Wijaya also deeply regretted the incident. Moreover, the incident alone happened in Badung Regency which had been known as a world tourist destination. Bali tourism was also facing serious challenges related to public order, security, and comfort of tourists. Criminal cases against foreign nationals were ascertained to have an impact on the Bali tourism if police did not act quickly.

“This case should be followed up soon by police. Similarly, police must find out the perpetrators of crime action and announce them to the community,” he said.

Criminal acts against foreign nationals, recognized Ngurah Wijaya, were also prevalent in a number

of other tourist destinations in the world. However, their publication did not reach the outside community. “Similar events like these are actually happening everywhere. Yet, their publication did not reach our country,” he said.

Aside from police, Ngurah Wijaya also reminded the important role of the whole community in the effort to maintain the security in Bali.

“Security is not just the responsibility of police. All parties should get involved in maintaining the security, including the tourists coming to Bali,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that arrival of foreign tourists coming to Bali during the period January-April 2012 reached 935,724 people, an increase of 10.23 percent compared to JanuaryApril 2011 reaching 848,899 people.

The countries of origin of those tourists for that period were dominantly occupied by Australia, PRC, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea with their respective percentage of 25.43 percent, 13.28 percent, 5.92 percent, 5.67 percent and 4.46 percent.

The Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, said in Denpasar that Australia occupied the first rank among the ten largest countries supplying tourists to Bali. They mostly came through the Ngurah Rai Airport. “Australian tourists are getting more excited about spending holidays in Bali because they consider this region as their second home. Aside from being not so far airline mileage, it is also motivated by the country’s economy that is getting better as well as supported by the increasingly more stable situation and security of Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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KUTA- If you love music, memorabilia, shop for merchandise, good food and great times, Hard Rock is the place! In 1971, two music-loving Americans founded the first Hard Rock Cafe in an old Rolls Royce showroom in London, and an icon was born. Four decades later, Hard Rock celebrates Founders’ Day (still true to) the brand’s core mantra “Love all – Serve All.” On Tuesday, June 14, 2012, Hard Rock Bali including; Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Hard Rock Cafe Bali and Hard Rock Radio Bali celebrated 41 years since the first day it was born.

This is the time of the year when we get together as a family and party in pure hard rock style. On this day, to honor 41 community heroes from Bali’s Fire Brigade and 41 children from orphanage for street kids were invited to enjoy a burger bash and to release 41 turtles to their habitats.

Hard Rock’s Burger Badge Bash is offered to police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or other community servants in recognition of their dedication and service to the community.

“On this 41st Anniversary of

Founders’ Day, we look forward to celebrating with local heroes and all Hard Rock fans around the world.

Today we will honor and serve those who serve and protect us everyday.” said Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

In true spirit of Founder’s Day, Sara Wijayanto, an Indonesian rising star, performed at a foam party. She performed 4 songs and her voice is certainly as great as she looks.

After the performance, Sara signed a guitar for Hard Rock Hotel’s memorabilia collection at Splash Bistro. Pictured from right; Ms. Sara Wijayanto and Ms. Aulianty Fellina Rizal, Director of Marketing Communications Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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

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

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

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

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

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Thai Buddhist film festival seeks to spark faith Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Religion can be a tough sell nowadays, so instead of waiting for disciples to make their way to temple, some promoters brought 36 films with Buddhist themes to the heart of modern Thailand earlier this month. The International Buddhism Film Festival was an effort by the government and private religious groups to popularize Buddhism among the younger generations.

“It’s like prescribing medicine to children, you have to add a little sweetener there,” said Somchai Seanglai, the permanent secretary of Thailand’s Culture Ministry. “City dwellers or our young people are not used to the traditional way of practicing Buddhism, so we insert Buddhist dharma into art and culture that people love to consume.”

Dharma refers to the Buddha’s teachings on the meaning of existence.

Initiated by the California-based Buddhism Film Foundation, the movie festival came to Bang-

kok for the first time this year since its debut in Los Angeles in 2003, and pulled in 3,700 visitors.

“Now many youngsters think of Buddhism as a religion for old people, so the film festival is trying to engage Buddhism with the contemporary world,” said Santi Opaspakornkij, executive director of the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives, an education center dedicated to promoting Buddhism through new channels in Thailand.

About 90 percent of Thailand’s population is Buddhist, but many view the religion simply as a rough guide to social do’s and don’ts, with vague notions encouraging good behavior.

“I don’t go to temples very often,” said Napasamon Jeeramaneemai, a third-year architecture student at Bangkok’s Thammasat University attending the festival. “Buddhism for me is just a better way to resolve bad situations. Sometimes when you blame them on ‘karma,’ it’s easier to accept them.” Buddhists believe “Karma” rules a person’s destiny depending on their deeds throughout their

The Daytime Emmys showered “General Hospital” with five trophies, including best drama, while giving Regis Philbin a fond farewell as a departing talk-show host. NBC’s “Today” show won as best morning show and the syndicated “Jeopardy!” was named best game show at the annual ceremony Saturday.

“Live with Regis and Kelly” was saluted as best entertainment talk show (its first-ever nod in that category) and for best talk-show hosts. Philbin ended his long run as its co-host last November, with a replacement yet to be named to join Kelly Ripa as the syndicated series continues.

Heather Tom, who won as best lead actress for CBS’ “The Bold and the

Beautiful,” made history as the first to win in that category after having previously won as both best younger actress and supporting actress. Anthony Geary won as lead actor for “General Hospital.”

The ABC soap also won for supporting actress (Nancy Lee Grahn), supporting actor (Jonathan Jackson), and directing team.

The syndicated “Dr. Oz” was named

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In this photo taken Friday, June 15, 2012, women prays to Buddhist statues in front of a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand.

best informative talk show. Bill Geddie, longtime associate of Barbara Walters and executive producer of her ABC talk show “The View,” received the life achievement award.

“There’s not a lot of glamour and glory in daytime,” Geddie told the room in his acceptance remarks. “But when you think about it, we’re all here with the best of intentions: We just love making TV!” Held in Beverly Hills, Calif., the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards was telecast on the HLN channel, having moved to cable for the first time after airing on CBS the past two years. The awards are bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The cast and crew of “General Hospital” accept the award for drama series onstage at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, June 23, 2012 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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DONETSK - Xabi Alonso struck twice in his 100th international to lead Spain to a comfortable 2-0 win over a feeble France on Saturday and through to a Euro 2012 semi-final against Portugal. It was an efficient and calm performance from world champions Spain, who started without a recognised striker before clinching their first competitive win over the French.

But it was a display which left most of the crowd at the Donbass Arena indifferent to its cautious pragmatism. France coach Laurent Blanc’s tactics of playing two right backs in a defensive lineup failed as Spanish left back Jordi Alba skipped through to the goalline after 19 minutes and picked out an unmarked Alonso who headed firmly home at the far post.

The experienced midfielder coolly converted a penalty in stoppage time to give the holders the victory margin their dominance deserved. “We controlled the match well from start to finish and Iker (Casillas) hardly had a save to make. The important thing now is that we recuperate for the next game,” said Spain coach Vicente del Bosque.

Alonso added: “The team was phenomenal and personally I am very satisfied with the two goals. We didn’t have that many chances but we completely controlled the match.”

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PATIENT POSSESSION

France, who had won five and drawn one of the teams’ six previous competitive meetings, were spectators for long spells as Spain played their usual patient possession game without TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ FRANCK FIFE taking any risks.

Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso (R) celebrates with midfielder Santi Cazorla after he scored a goal during the Euro 2012 football championships quarter-final match Spain vs France on June 23, 2012 at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk.

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Pollution in Denpasar worrying

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Environmental pollution in Denpasar should receive more serious handling. If environmental pollution is ignored, it will have a great impact on the environment. The main sources of pollution in Denpasar are dominated by vehicle exhaust emissions and screen printing waste.

It was confirmed by the Head of the Denpasar Environment Agency, AA Bagus Sudharsana, met on the sidelines of tree planting activity on Padanggalak Beach, Kesiman, Friday (Jun 22).

Sudharsana said that strategic environmental issues in Denpasar

were still preoccupied by two issues, namely vehicle exhaust emissions and screen printing waste. Both pollution sources were understandable because the number of vehicles passing in Denpasar reaching 700,000 so that they provided significant air pollution. Moreover, the results of

emission testing conducted by the Environment Agency found that 19 percent of those vehicles did not pass the test.

Aside from air pollution, Denpasar was also quite prone to water pollution in rivers and seas. Sources of pollution, he said, were the persistence of screen printing business that did not have a good waste processing system. As a result, the waste produced by batik screen printing entrepreneurs was channeled into the river. “It has come to our attention in the Environment Agency,” said the official from Peguyangan.

To overcome the problem, his party had been cooperating with police in the Bali Police, especially for the prosecution against violators of environmental pollution by ensnaring them with a particular crime.

“We also asked the board of dyeing association to cultivate its members in order they prepare a good waste processing system. Thus, it will not pollute the environment,” he said.

Sudharsana said in a series of the Environmental Day this year,

his party had also made an effort to conserve the environment. One of them was by organizing a tree planting on some beaches in Denpasar, clean and river clean-up as well as other cleaning action.

The activities, he said, were intended to improve the three key performance indicators of the environmental sector, namely air, water and groundwater. “This should be implemented in Denpasar,” he said. (kmb12)

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