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Argento sex accuser Bennett opens up on Italian TV

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ROME - US actor Jimmy Bennett, who accuses Asia Argento of sexually assaulting him as a teenager, said in his first television interview since the allegation emerged that they had a “complete” sexual relationship.

Argento, who shot into the headlines for accusing disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, reportedly paid Bennett money after he said she had sex with him in a California hotel room in 2013. The actor and rock musician was 17

years old at the time of the alleged assault. The legal age of consent in California is 18. Argento was 37.

She has denied having sex with him or paying hush money.

“It all happened very fast,” Bennett told Italy’s La 7 channel, accompanied by his US lawyer, Gordon Sattro.

“She started kissing me longer and longer... and it started to feel to me that it was less of just a friendly thing and more of something she was trying to push or explore,” Bennett told sceptical interviewer Massimo Gilletti.

“It turned into her placing her hands on me and following that was when she pushed me onto the bed and took my pants off,”

he said. Asked whether it was a “complete” relationship, Bennett confirmed that it was, implying they had sex, but declined to go into detail.

Bennett was seven years old when he played Argento’s son in the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things”.

“The power that she had over the situation made me feel powerless in a way,” Bennett said.

The New York Times reported in August that Argento paid Bennett $380,000 after his lawyers launched legal action, a month after Argento’s accusations against Weinstein were made public.

Argento says she only gave Bennett money to help him out during a difficult period. (afp)

Versace luxury fashion house ‘to be sold shortly’: media

MILAN - Italian fashion giant Versace is about to be sold, the country’s biggest-selling newspaper said Monday, citing anonymous sources who suggested the deal could come in the next few hours.

Donatella Versace, the brand’s artistic director and vice-president of the group, has called a staff meeting in Milan for Tuesday, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Celebrity shoemaker Jimmy Choo, luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co and US fashion group

Michael Kors Holdings were listed as possible buyers.

The company in its entirety is estimated to be worth some $2.0 billion (1.7 billion euros), the report said. Versace could not immediately confirm the news to AFP. Twenty percent of the brand, known for its Medusa head logo, was bought by US private equity group Blackstone in 2014, and the family owns the rest.

The group, founded by designer Gianni Versace in 1978, boasted

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This picture taken in Bandung, West Java on September 23, 2018, shows Indonesian policemen standing guard during a match between Bandung’s football club “Persib” against Jakarta football club “Persija” in Bandung. More than a dozen people have been arrested after an Indonesian football fan was clubbed to death with iron bars and wood planks by supporters of a rival team, police said on September 24. The deadly incident happened on September 23 before a match between host club Bandung and Persija Jakarta, bitter rivals in Indonesia’s top flight professional league.

sales of 686 million euros in 2016 and turnover is expected to exceed one billion euros in the “short term”, CEO Jonathan Akeroyd said in June. (afp)

Indonesian football fan beaten to death by rival supporters

British singer Rita Ora (L) and US rap singer Nicki Minaj attend the Versace fashion show during the Women’s Spring/Summer 2019 fashion week in Milan, on September 21, 2018.

More than a dozen people have been arrested after supporters of a rival team clubbed an Indonesian football fan to death with iron bars and planks, police said Monday. The deadly incident happened Sunday before a match between host club Persib Bandung and Persija Jakarta, bitter rivals in Indonesia’s top professional league.

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Haringga Sirla, a 23-year-old Persija Jakarta fan, died after a group of Bandung supporters beat him outside the main stadium in the city of Bandung, 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast of Jakarta.

Some 16 people had since been arrested in connection with the attack, police added.

It was the seventh death of a fan linked to a match between the two clubs since 2012, according to football analyst Akmal Marhali.

The Indonesian football association expressed its “deep condolences”.

“We hope this kind of incident will not happen again in Indonesian football,” it said in a statement. Sir-

la was the 70th Indonesian football fan to die in match-related violence since 1994, said analyst Marhali.

“This keeps happening because of neglect” by authorities, he said.

“In the past there hasn’t been any firm punishment for violence and vandalism... it’s become a habit in Indonesian football.”

In July Indonesian fans hurled stones and bottles at the visiting Malaysia team after the home side lost their semi-final match in the AFF Cup Under-19 football match.

Football in Southeast Asia’s biggest nation has been racked by crisis for years, with an explosive row between the domestic association and government prompting FIFA to temporarily ban Indonesia from international competition in 2015. It was lifted last year.

Foreign players have also been

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16 kilograms of garbage collected in conservation dive

The gamelan makers are working

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Rai Mantra supports selection of gamelan as UNESCO intangible heritage

DENPASAR - The Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, supports the nomination of gamelan as one of Indonesia’s intangible heritages. Gamelan is found in various parts of Indonesia including in the city of Denpasar and throughout Bali.

“We support the nomination of gamelan to be included in the list of intangible cultural heritages by the UNESCO Committee, considering that gamelan is one Indonesia’s noble cultural heritages”, said Rai Mantra as he received the Research and Development Team Leader of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Ihya Ulumuddin, at Tukad Bindu, East Denpasar, on Sunday (Sep. 23).

Rai Mantra said that Balinese gamelan has its own unique characteristics. As the accompaniment of traditional and religious ceremonies and part of the Panca Gita in Bali, gamelan must be preserved.

Furthermore, Mayor Rai Mantra accompanied by the Head of the Denpasar Culture Agency, IGN Bagus Mataram, stated that his government highly appreciated and thanked the ministry for submitting gamelan as an intangible heritages to UNESCO. UNESCO has already established Subak, Baris Cina Dance (Renon and Sanur

villages), Baris Wayang Dance (Lumintang village), Legong Keraton Dance, Basmerah and Ngerebong Traditions (Kesiman village) as the world’s heritage.

“We hope that the team form the ministry will review the great variety of traditions and cultural practices that we have in Denpasar and other parts of Bali so that more of them can be submitted to UNESCO as world intangible heritages which serves to encourage artists, communities and activists”, stated Rai Mantra.

Research and Development Team Leader, Ihya Ulumuddin, said that his agency had already agreed with the Expert Council and the Minister about submitting gamelan as a world heritage to UNESCO along with Reog Ponorogo and Kulintang. They have agreed to propose gamelan and have been surveying Bali, Java, Sunda, Sumatra and Kalimantan to assess the indicators for qualifying which includes community efforts to pass on the cultural values contained in said heritage.

“We hope that gamelan will not only be proposed as a world intangible heritage to to UNESCO but that this art form will also get the attention it deserves from local, national and world communities so that gamelan can continue to develop and be practiced by more and more people”, concluded Ulumuddin, adding that the surveying process includes taking visual record. (kmb)

NEGARA -Coral reef is not only vulnerable to damage by plastic garbage but also by starfish (Acanthaser planci). The beautiful underwater world of the West Bali National Park (TNBB) is under threat by such starfish, so last weekend hundreds of divers plunged in to collect plastic garbage and starfish from the coral reef areas.

Diving for Conservation (DfC) which took place around the TNNB’s Menjangan Island included monitoring the condition of the coral reef, an underwater cleanup entitled Dive for Trash, underwater photography, coral reef pest control, conservation campaigns, coral reef transplantation, and adoption of mooring buoys.

During the underwater garbage cleanup, hundreds of divers from Surabaya Diving, tourism awareness groups (Pokdarwis), dive operators, Indonesian Military and National Police, student professional associations (Pajajaran University, Gadjah Mada University, Udayana University, Ganesha University of Education) obtained three bags of rubbish weighing 16 kilograms.

They also collected 580 starfish from four dive areas around Menjangan Island. Coral reef monitoring was conducted all around Menjagana Island and

Brumbun Bay as well.

Ketut Danu, a representative of Biorock Indonesia, a non-governmental organization, engaged coral reef conservation, said that they will soon be sending volunteers to the TNNB Agency to help with controlling pests as they are the main threat to coral reefs.

Head of the TNBB Agency, Agus Ngurah Krisna Kepakisan, emphasized the importance of community and stakeholder involvement in the management of the national park, especially at Western Bali’s premiere destination: Menjangan Island.

The tourists that the island’s underwater beauty attracts provide direct benefits to the local community. Therefor the local community is urged to continue protecting the natural environment of Menjangan Island.

This is the third time that DfC-TNBB coral conservation activity was held as part of National Nature Conservation Day (HKAN) and World Cleanup Day (September 15). Apart from the promoting nature tourism, the conservation activities are also meant to introduce the the local community to involvement in ecosystem management and setting up mooring buoys which allow boats to anchor without damaging the coral reef. (kmb26)

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Can science build a better burger?

THIS isn’t as extreme as if the federal government had decided to regulate time travel. But it’s almost as surprising. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step toward rules for growing nutritious, delicious, juicy meat in labs, not farms.

The notion of growing, say, just the beef instead of the whole cow has been floating around since at least the 1890s. This sci-fi fantasy got a bit more real at a 2013 televised tasting of a lab-grown hamburger, though the patty cost about as much as a Rolls-Royce.

In July, the movement passed a new milestone: In a packed auditorium in suburban Maryland, the FDA convened the first public hearing (the U.S. Department of Agriculture is jumping in too) to discuss federal regulation of food grown from cells — no hooves or fins or feathers in sight.

What to call such fare is a point of contention. Enthusiasts suggest “clean meat” or “cultured meat.” But calling this stuff “meat” doesn’t sit well with traditional farmers. “They’re hijacking our brand,” Montana rancher Maggie Nutter testified on behalf of the United States Cattlemen’s Association.

Meat is harvested from a real animal. Period. (Yet the cells to start a meat-growing culture come from a real animal too.)

Whatever it’s called, cultured meat is one of two highscience endeavors to get animals, at least in the traditional sense, out of agriculture.

The other camp wants to take every bit of the animal out of agriculture and make “meat” from plants. These dreamers, including Patrick O. Brown of Impossible Foods in Redwood City, Calif., do not want to make another veggie burger. (Brown goes icy at the v-b label.) Instead they want to focus the full glory of molecular biology on identifying the proteins or other molecules that give meats their seductive flavors and textures. Then, sourcing each vital component from some nonanimal origin, these pioneers want to build plant “meat” so delicious that die-hard carnivores will sigh happily and take another bite.

“Animals happened to be the technology that was available 10,000 years ago” for making meat, Brown says. “We stuck with that same technology, and it’s incredibly inefficient by any measure — and destructive.”

Brown is convinced that science can come up with something better, for the sake of the environment, food security and animal welfare. He’s going the plant path, but says if the clean meat scientists can make their dream financially viable, “I’ll be their biggest fan.” The looming questions for both of these approaches, however, may arise from the not-so-scientific swerves of human desire.

Brave new meat

Many people like meat the way it is. Yet they may not always grasp what technological change could look like, says Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Good Food

Institute based in Washington, D.C. In another sign that the alternate-meat movement may be gaining traction, he and Brown were on a panel in June explaining their visions of future meat to a meeting of international economists at the headquarters of the World Bank.

On the panel, Friedrich conjures another weighty gathering. “It’s 1898. The world’s first-ever urban planning conference is convening.” The focus: “175,000 horses on the streets of New York ... laying down 50,000 tons of horse excrement every month.” Failing to come up with a solution, the planners “go home despondent,” Friedrich says. “Ten years later Henry Ford introduces the Model T.” Cars and other horseless vehicles caught on quickly, and within a decade, horse-drawn carriages were clop-clopping their way to the shrunken status of tourist attraction. What most people had really loved about equine transportation was not the workhorse itself so much as its speed, convenience and capacity. People still raise horses for pleasure, but when cars offered speed without manure, horse transport was history.

Likewise, most people don’t love modern industrial animal agriculture itself, Friedrich contends, with its high-density animal facilities and its greenhouse gases and other environmental consequences. What people do love is the beef, pork, chicken and eggs that make current agriculture seem inevitable.

Change, he argues, will take the Model T of meat.

Call it a Model M

That Model M will have to be affordable, but maybe more importantly, it has to deliver on flavor, a formidable challenge.

Meat scientist Hannah Laird runs a sensory evaluation lab

at Texas A&M University in College Station. She recruits beef lovers to spend six months to a year learning to pick out and score some 40 flavors and aromas that can show up in ground beef. For two hours a day, trained panelists sniff, taste and rate beef samples against reference foods on characteristics such as “brown/roasted” (beef suet ranks an 8) and “metallic” (Dole canned pineapple juice, 6).

Raw beef is bland, Laird says. It provides mainly an aroma and flavor known as “bloody/serumy” with a few other components such as “overall sweet.” Cook it though, and oh my.

Brown/roasted! Fatlike! Umami! Maybe smoky-charcoal (or, perhaps, smoky-wood), cocoa, salty, buttery, cumin, floral.

For a less-than-perfect patty, testers could report “barnyard.”

The sensory experience of cooked ground beef is so embedded in American culture and so singular that one flavor is called “beef identity.” Cooked beef exerts such pull on its devotees in large part because of its sheer beefiness.

Laird is finishing a project probing for changes in this intense culinary romance. “People say they want low-fat ground beef,” she says. But in blind taste tests, they’ll choose the 20 percent fat over the 10 percent fat almost every time.

Taste preferences start forming in the womb, says Gary Beauchamp, who studies food preferences at Philadelphia’s Monell Chemical Senses Center. Tests there have detected an influence of mom’s diet during pregnancy on baby’s food preferences. But preferences can change. In Beauchamp’s own work on salty flavors, he finds that people who switch to low-salt diets are often miserable at first, but months later, these dieters rate a taste of their once-beloved foods as too salty. It would be daunting to predict what might happen with meat preferences, he says. “The complexity of something like a hamburger is astounding.” (IBP/net)

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Two groups of scientists, for similar reasons, are exploring opposite ways of changing how meat is made. One approach grows just the edible parts of the animal; the other tries to simulate meat with plants (meatless Impossible Burger, shown).

Over-the-hill cells may cause trouble in the aging brain

CELLS past their prime may have a role in dementia.

Culling these cells protected the brains of mice that were otherwise destined for brain decline, a new study finds.

Senescent cells, which accumulate with age, are still alive but in a state of suspended animation — they stop doing their jobs and they stop dividing. Getting rid of these cells in the body extends the life spans of mice and improves their heart and kidney health, scientists have found. The new research, published online September 19 in Nature, suggests that senescent cells also make mischief in the aging brain.

Molecular biologist Darren Baker of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues studied mice with mutations that led nerve cells in their brains to accumulate a toxic form of the protein tau. Damaging globs of this protein, called neurofibrillary tangles, are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease IBP/net and other dementias.

Senescent brain cells that no longer do their jobs In some of these mice, Baker and colleagues also engiproperly may have a hand in creating tangles of neered in a genetic trick — a “kill switch” that destroys cells tau (illustrated in blue inside a nerve cell) and, ulti- as soon as they become senescent. In mutated mice with this switch, tau didn’t accumulate as fast. What’s more, these mice mately, dementia, a mouse study suggests.

were better able to recognize new smells and objects than mice with more senescent cells in their brains. An anticancer drug called navitoclax that targets senescent cells also had protective effects in these mutated mice’s brains.

Specifically, the senescent troublemakers in mice were glial cells — support cells that help nerve cells do their jobs.

The researchers suspect that neurons in trouble, such as those with toxic tau, may prod glial cells to become senescent, and once senescent, those glial cells damage nerve cells by causing even more tau to accumulate. “It’s a back-and-forth kind of system,” Baker says.

The results are early evidence that senescent cells in the brain may have a role in aging, says neuroscientist Mark Mattson of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore. But “there are a lot of open questions that are unanswered by this study,” he says, such as what signals cause glial cells to become senescent, and how those senescent cells harm nerve cells.

Baker and his colleagues plan to study whether destroying senescent cells in animals that already have signs of disease can slow or even reverse brain damage. (IBP/net)

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The venue inaugurated on Saturday (Sep. 22) was established as a forum to introduce Buddhism culture in Bali and promote dharma and arouse love.

Famous entrepreneur from China builds cultural exchange center in Kintamani

BANGLI — A cultural center named the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center is established by a famous Chinese businessman, Peter Wang, in the area of Sekardadi village, Kintamani. The venue inaugurated on Saturday (Sep. 22) was established as a forum to introduce Buddhism culture in Bali and promote dharma and arouse love.

Inauguration of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center was attended by the Honorary Chairperson of the institution, I Made Mangku Pastika, Second Assistant of the Governor of Bali, Dewa Sunarta, Representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Great Monk Guangping and a number of other invitees. The inauguration ceremony began with the ritual of singing holy songs at the altar led by a Buddhist professor from Putuoshan Temple in China.

Founder of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center, Peter Wang, said The Belt and Road Entrepreneurs Association is a non-profit organization approved by the Australian Government and has opened a public office in Bali. The association has vision to promote mutually beneficial cooperation among the entrepreneurs along one lane one region based on trade, tourism and cultural service platforms and actively supports the creation of cross-border and resource sharing platforms.

Kintamani is chosen as the location of the Bodhi cultural exchange center project invested by the One Belt One Road Employers Association because it has good feng shui geomancy and was blessed by the gods. The cultural exchange center spreading across the area of 10,000 square meters has a main hall and library that can be used for many cultural activities, meditation, moral education, and Buddhist cultural exchange. Later on, it will also be developed orphanages, colleges, vocational schools and others benefiting the community.

This cultural exchange center will begin in Bali and be devel-

oped to Australia, Cambodia and other countries along the line of the One Belt One Road. This Bodhi Cultural Exchange Center is said to be beneficial for the people of both countries. “We welcome your support and advice for the cultural center,” said Peter Wang.

Meanwhile, the Honorary Chairperson of the Bodhi One Belt One Road, I Made Mangku Pastika, in his speech said that Bali has a strong historical relationship with China. The selection of Kintamani as location of the cultural center is considered very appropriate because Kintamani is the home to Balinese king and Chinese princess named Kang Cing Wie. The historical relations with China are evident from the existence of Balingkang Temple and other temples in Kintamani having Chinese shrines as well as several villages in Kintamani using Chinese names.

“Balinese culture has been very much integrated with Chinese culture,” he said. The cultural exchange center inaugurated is expected to be beneficial and strengthen friendship between China and Bali.

Meanwhile, the Representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Vincent Sucimaru, said that Ministry of Tourism is very happy and welcomes positively the presence of the cultural exchange center initiated by Peter Wang. The existence of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center will add to the repertoire of tourist objects in Bali and gives a new color to Indonesian tourism. The establishment of this cultural exchange center is expected that in the future more and more Chinese tourists will come to Indonesia. He said that since the past few years Chinese tourists occupied the first position of tourist arrivals to Indonesia.

“In terms of the market segmentation, this belongs to spiritual tourism. More interestingly, this place is not only intended for Buddhism, but also for accommodating other existing religions and faith followers,” he said. (kmb40)

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High tolerance makes tourists feel at home in Bali

DENPASAR — Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, is never tired of echoing that Bali is safe and comfortable to be visited.

One of the contributing factors is the high tolerance of Balinese people so that foreign tourists feel at home in Bali. This was conveyed while attending the Bali International Film Festival (BalinaleX), Industry Forum 2018, on Sunday (Sep. 23) in Nusa Dua. In his remarks, he stated that Bali is also known as the Island of Paradise, the Island of Peace, the Island of Love and the Island of Tolerance. In front of national and international filmmakers and experts, Golose emphasized that Bali is an island that must be visited by both domestic and foreign tourists. Due to high tolerance of the community, tourists feel at home to visit and even settle on the Island of Bali. “This be-

comes basic capital for the region to develop,” he said.

In addition to the community, the security factor is also a major supporting element in every activity in Bali. As evidence, on the upcoming October 8-14, 2018, the biggest meeting in the world in the field of economics and finance will be held here namely the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting 2019. The event will be attended by the governors of central bank and finance minister from 189 member countries and the number of participants reaches tens of thousands.

He said the BalinaleX Industry Forum 2018 is very appropriate to be organized in Bali. This graduate of the Police Academy in 1988 hoped that more and more international events will be organized in Bali.

“Apart from offering the potential of Indonesia, and Bali in particular, to the whole world, Bali is also an appropriate and attraction location for the making of international films,” he added. (kmb36)

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One of the contributing factors is the high tolerance of Balinese people so that foreign tourists feel at home in Bali.

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Ten-dollar levy plan collection per tourist

will not feel burdensome. On the other hand, the number of tourist accidents is statistically low.

As reported previously, the provincial government of Bali, in this case the Tourism Office, already discussed again about the plan of collecting levy to tourists for protection and insurance of Balinese culture. In the past, this plan was rejected because it did not have legal instrument. Actually, the levies in the form of taxes or levies are needed to maintain the continuity of tourism on the Island of the Gods.

“It will be used for many purposes such as cultural and environmental protection as well as insurance and infrastructure.

As planned, each tourist will be charged as much as 10 dollars. We have tried this policy before, but it was rejected due to the absence of regulations,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra.

According to Yuniartha, it is indeed not easy to implement this policy in Bali. Besides, the discussion cannot be done in a hurry. His office remains to discuss it with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs, and the tourism component. “We are still looking for an appropriate formula so that we will not do something wrong when collecting it from tourists,” he explained. (kmb32)

SYDNEY - Australia’s pins-in-punnets strawberry crisis prompted a spate of social-media driven hoaxes, but sites like Facebook and Twitter are also helping stir a revival in sales that has left some farmers struggling to meet resurgent demand.

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ting back on their berries.

Wholesalers are reporting an uptick in sales, thanks in part to social media campaigns that encouraged Australians to bake a strawberry pavlova or just “#Smashastrawb” and eat it.

“Things are on the up,” said Jim Ripepi of Australian Strawberry Distributors, a family-owned com-

pany that grows and sells strawberries wholesale.

“The public support has been really overwhelming. Sales are picking up,” he told AFP. “I was selling out every day this week.”

Supermarkets are starting to report a similar trend and are even struggling to meet demand after many of their usual suppliers

KUALA LUMPUR - A pair of young orangutans, baby crocodiles and rare birds were among over 400 animals rescued from a boat off Malaysia as they were being smuggled from neighbouring Indonesia, officials said Monday.

Three suspected Indonesian traffickers were arrested after customs officials thwarted the bid to transport the animals to Thailand in an operation Friday off the Malaysian holiday island Langkawi.

The unusual cargo included two “frightened-looking” orangutans and dozens of baby saltwater crocodiles, Malaysian wildlife official Mohamad Zaki Rahim told AFP. There were also about 350 sugar gliders -- a type of small marsupial

-- cockatoos, parrots and parakeets found in boxes on board, he said, adding the smugglers intended to sell all the animals as pets.

The smugglers were seeking to transport the animals under cover of darkness in a cargo vessel from the vast, jungle-clad Indonesian island of Sumatra, through the Malacca Strait to Thailand, customs chief T. Subromaniam told the Star newspaper.

But Malaysian customs officers received information about the boat and intercepted it, Subromaniam said.

The arrested Indonesians, who were on the vessel when it was stopped, are expected to be charged in court for breaking wildlife laws

and could face up to 10 years in jail, Mohamad Zaki said.

Elizabeth John, spokeswoman for wildlife trade watchdog Traffic, said that the number and variety of animals seized showed “how tremendous the pressure is on wildlife due to demand for pets”.

Authorities in Malaysia, a tropical Southeast Asian country that is home to many rare species, regularly thwart smuggling attempts, but finding 400 animals at the same time is unusual.

In June 2017, Thai authorities nabbed a Malaysian trying to smuggle two juvenile orangutans and some 60 other animals in a taxi through the country’s southern border. (afp)

This undated handout photo released by the Royal Malaysian Customs on September 24, 2018 shows Royal Malaysian Customs Department director-general Subromaniam Tholasy (2nd-L) looking at a seized baby orangutan during a press conference in Perlis state, northern Malaysia.

To help guests understand

Chief of the Gedong Kirtya, Gede Wiriasa, stated recently that so far the manuscript collection in Gedong Kirtya is recorded to reach 1,808 copies. The transliteration and translation process were begun in 2002 and remains to be ongoing until this year. In addition, there are 5,200 copies of palm-leaf manuscript collected in Gedong Kirtya, privately owned by residents, as well as undergoing the process of translation. The 1,808 copies owned by Gedong Kirtya belong to ancient manuscript.

Moreover, the oldest lontar written in 350 AD tells about the story of Ramayana epic. He admitted this effort is meant to add the collections and make visitors easier to understand the contents of the manuscripts. Currently, two manuscripts namely the usadha (healing) and purana (legend and folklore) have been translated.

Both manuscript collections will later undergo the process of translation by the staff of the Gedong

Kirtya.”A total 40 of 81 titles have been translated and published into a book,” he said.

In carrying out the main duties and functions of the Gedong Kirtya, Wiriasa programmed the lontar copying, so that the collection at the Kirtya Building increases. However, so far the local government is still constrained by budgeting problems. The transliteration and translation are done gradually.

The most sought after manuscripts by people and tourists such as the usadha (healing), wariga (almanac) and kawisesan (supernatural power) are prioritized for translation.

The transliteration and translation works take a long time. A manuscript expert can only accomplish approximately 2 and 3 manuscripts each year. At first, a manuscript will be transliterated from Balinese script into Latin scripts. After that, it will be translated from the early Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Ancient Balinese languages into Indonesian, so that the readers can easily

understand it.

In the meantime, the Buleleng House of Representatives support the endeavor to rescue the palm-leaf manuscripts through the translation effort. In order to further optimize the transliteration, the people’s representatives agreed to encourage the government to prioritize budget allocations to Gedong Kertya. This can be done by dividing the ‘ration’ of the Restaurant and Hotel Taxes (PHR).

So far, the revenues from the hotel and restaurant taxes in the regional budget are mostly allocated for tourism infrastructure improvement programs and other non-physical activities in the tourism sector. Meanwhile, the cultural sector shoring up the tourism industry in North Bali has never received a ‘share’ of hotel and restaurant taxes. On this condition, the Buleleng parliament urged the regional government in the future to allocate such taxes for the activities of the Culture Agency. (kmb38)

appear in control, using its parliamentary majority to introduce longer potential jail sentences for deliberate contamination.

Strawberry farmers “were having their livelihoods threatened”, Morrison said Monday, heralding the parliamentary response.

“We had mums and dads worried about what they were putting in the school kids’ lunches. We were able to act swiftly and get that through the parliament in about 36 hours.” In the latest twist, needles have turned up in a punnet of Australian strawberries in New Zealand, prompting the authorities there to say each punnet would be screened.

Strawberry Growers NZ said there had been no reports of problems with locally-grown fruit.

“While this is naturally of concern to our industry, this is an Australian strawberry issue and there is no evidence to suggest any connection to New Zealand-grown strawberries,” executive manager Michael Ahern said.

New Zealand Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said it was unclear whether the strawberries had been tampered with before or after they entered New Zealand.

But he did not rule out the prospect of copycat sabotage.

“It’s the kind of sordid and sick proposition that does arise when these situations are publicised,” he told Radio New Zealand.

“We hope that it would not be a New Zealander doing a copycat, we hope that it wouldn’t happen at all.” (afp)

For almost two weeks, reports of pins and needles being found in fruit across Australia have delivered a gut punch to industry, set grocery-shoppers on edge and left police struggling to find needles in a haystack of copycat pranks.

But now Australians -- adopting a shrug-and-get-on-with-it attitude -- have had enough. They are get-

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packed up tools fearing the worst.

For some farmers it may be too little too late, but for the industry at large, it’s a godsend.

- Mystery remains The crisis began almost two weeks ago with needles being found in two brands of strawberries in the northeast state of Queensland.

The cause of the initial scare and the scale of the problem remain a mystery. Police in Queensland say only that the initial investigation is ongoing, leaving the public to speculate about the motives -could it be a disgruntled employee or competitor? -- or how close they are to solving the crime.

The Australian government has instructed police and other agencies to avoid giving specific numbers about how many pins or needles have actually been found in fruit -- including bananas, apples and a mango. Indications are that of the 100 or so instances looked at by police, the vast majority were hoaxes or pranks.

Two kids are believed to have been cautioned for such copycat stunts and in Adelaide in southern Australia, a father has reportedly been charged with making a false claim to police about his daughter eating tainted fruit.

Australian state governments have offered cash rewards and indemnity from prosecution for anyone providing information about the culprit.

Throughout the crisis, the government of new Prime Minister Scott Morrison has strained to

The management of Gedong Kertya has recently continued to boost the translation of various palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) stored in the library built by the Dutch colonialists.

SINGARAJA - Recently, the tourist visits to Gedong Kertya Singaraja is increasingly crowded. Amid this condition, many visitors to this object are still hard to understand the contents written in the palm-leaf manuscripts. For this reason, the management of Gedong Kertya has recently continued to boost the translation of various palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) stored in the library built by the Dutch colonialists.

Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya.

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Australia strawberry crisis now tastes a little sweeter for farmers

Must be designed creatively

MANGUPURA - The plan to impose a 10-dollar levy per tourist is actually not a new thing. Some countries have even implemented this policy. However, the levy should be later packaged creatively so that it will not surprise tourists.

“Just see the benchmark, some countries have applied it. So, in marketing there is a term known as elasticity. If the price of a product is increased, surely it (the visit) will go down,” said Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the GWK Statue at Bukit Ungasan, Badung, on Saturday (Sep. 22).

According to Arief, it is necessary to calculate the 10-dollar levy to give an increase at what percentage and how sensitive the tourists are to the increase. If remaining positive, such a plan is certainly possible. Conversely, if it has an impact on the quite sharp decrease in tourist visits or negative, then Bali must be careful before applying it.

“Probably, the best way to impose a levy making people not to feel too burdensome is by not making people surprised. For example, the levies may not be too large and apply gradually,” he added.

Arief added the levy must be packaged creatively. For example, it is included in an insurance premium for tourists while on vacation in Bali. By that way, tourists

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Braetop Berries strawberry farmer Aidan Young stands amid strawberries he will destroy following a nationwide needle scare, on his farm in the Glass House Mountains in Queensland on September 20, 2018.

Orangutans saved as Malaysia foils high-seas smuggling bid

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BUSINESS Why the ‘gig’ economy may not be the workforce of the future

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movers who find work through online apps.

Amazon, for example, now uses independent drivers to deliver some packages. Fewer than one-quarter of drivers performed gig work for seven months or more, the study found.

The study also reviewed online platforms that provide home improvement work. These include TaskRabbit as well as dog-walking, home cleaning and other services. Two-thirds of those workers perform gig work for only three months a year or less.

Low pay likely helps explain the frequent turnover of workers who use the gig platforms.

For transportation workers, who mostly include Uber and Lyft but also package delivery services, average monthly incomes have fallen from $1,535 in October 2012 to just $762 in March of this year, not adjusted for inflation, the study found.

That drop may at least partly reflect the fact that many drivers are likely working fewer hours, Grieg said. As the number of independent drivers has ballooned over the past five years, drivers have faced intensifying competition.

And many have likely found other sources of income as the job market has strengthened. Still, some platforms may be paying their workers less, Grieg said.

How much Uber drivers make on an hourly basis is a hotly debated subject. A 2015 analysis

by Princeton University economist Alan Kruger found that drivers in 20 large markets earned $19.04 an hour. But those figures, like JPMorgan’s, do not factor in expenses, such as gas and wear and tear, that drivers themselves must shoulder. Competition among drivers has clearly intensified. The number of independent workers in taxi and limousine services, which includes ride-hailing companies, jumped 46 percent in 2016, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the Census Bureau.

Todd Suffreti has seen the difference in the two years that he’s driven for Uber. Suffreti,

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In this Jan. 31, 2018, file photo, a Lyft logo is installed on a Lyft driver’s car next to an Uber sticker in Pittsburgh. The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all. From Uber to Lyft to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, so-called gig work has been widely seen as ideally suited for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, they don’t deliver the financial returns many expect. who works out of Frederick, Maryland, says his weekly income has dropped by a quarter since he began.

“It’s really saturated, and the calls don’t come in as often,” said Suffreti, 45. “It’s not like it used to be. I have to work harder and longer to get what I used to get.”

For drivers, online income now makes up just 26 percent of their total annual earnings, the JPMorgan study found — down from nearly 52 percent in October 2013.

Research by Uber’s chief economist, Jonathan Hall, and John Horton of New York University found that when Uber raised its fares, drivers initially earned more money. But there were offsetting effects: The higher rates attracted more drivers while reducing the number of trips consumers made. Overall earnings for

drivers soon fell back to their previous levels.

The JPMorgan study found that transportation — including package delivery and moving — is increasingly the dominant force in the gig economy. Transportation makes up 56 percent of all gig work, up from just 6 percent in 2013.

Selling items through such online sites as eBay and Etsy has sunk to 19 percent of gig work, down from 72 percent.

“It’s really those transportation platforms that have grown tremendously and now represent the lion’s share of the dollars and participation,” Grieg said. People who participate in leasing websites, such as Airbnb and car rental site Truro, are earning much more — averaging $2,113 in March of this year. But just 0.2 percent of households participate in such sites, the study found. (ap)

Turkey expects lower growth amid currency turmoil

ISTANBUL - Turkey expects lower economic growth in coming years amid concerns over inflation and a sliding currency.

Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak presented the government’s economic plan Thursday, which estimates 2.3 percent growth in 2019 and 3.5 percent in 2020.

The previous forecast was 5.5 percent for both years.

Albayrak estimated inflation this year would be 20.8 percent, a high rate that will be eroding standards of living. The Turkish lira has lost around 40 percent against the dollar so far this year, sharply raising the price of imports.

To fight inflation and support the currency, the central bank last week raised interest rates sharply, from 17.75 percent to 24 percent.

Higher rates, however, will also dent growth.

Investors have been selling the Turkish currency because they’re worried by the country’s high levels of foreign debt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic policies and a diplomatic and trade dispute with the United States.

Albayrak said the new economic plan would ensure “sustainable and

healthy” growth and would reassure investors. The lira was down slightly, by 0.9 percent at 6.3 per dollar, following the announcement.

Albayrak also said the government will try to create 2 million new jobs by 2021 and expects to make savings worth 60 billion Turkish lira ($9.6 billion) in the coming year.

The savings will be made by

curtailing spending on construction projects in 2019, turning instead to foreign investment for financing.

“The public projects whose tender had not been carried out, or the tender has been carried out without any operation... will be suspended,” Albayrak said. “They will be brought to life with direct foreign investments or international financing.” (ap)

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Apart from the beauty of sunset view, Tanah Lot also features another attraction showing off millions of fruit bats embellishing the sky over the exotic Tanah Lot. The nocturnal animals fly very beautifully, going here and there while looking for food and decorating the sky after the nightfall. This animal having the mouth like that of mouse can fly very fast while catching insects as the prey.

WASHINGTON The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all. From Uber to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, socalled gig work has been widely seen as ideal for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, they don’t deliver the financial returns many expect.

And they don’t appear to be reshaping the workforce. Over the past two years, for example, pay for gig workers has dropped, and they are earning a growing share of their income elsewhere, a new study finds. Most Americans who earn income through online platforms do so for only a few months each year, according to the study by JPMorgan Chase being released Monday. One reason is that some people who experimented with gig work have likely landed traditional jobs as the economy has improved.

Drivers for Uber, Lyft and other transportation services, for example, now collectively earn only about half as much each month as they did five years ago.

The new data echo other evidence that such online platforms, despite deploying cuttingedge real-time technology, now look less like the future of work. A government report in July concluded that the proportion of independent workers has actually declined slightly in the past decade.

“People aren’t relying on platforms for their primary source of income,” said Fiona Grieg, director of consumer research at JPMorgan and co-author of the study.

The data is derived from a sample of 39 million JPMorgan checking accounts studied over 5½ years. In March 2018, about 1.6 percent of families participated in the gig economy, equivalent to about 2 million households. That is barely up from the 1.5 percent of a year earlier.

Most participants cycle in and out of gig work to supplement their incomes from other jobs. Previous research by JPMorgan has found that in any given month, one in six workers on online platforms are new — and more than half will have left the gig economy after a year of entering it.

For drivers, 58 percent work just three months or less each year through online economy websites. These include ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft as well as delivery drivers and

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The movement of foraging bats becomes a unique attraction favored by foreign tourists. The bats scattered in the sky after sunset become the target of camera shots of tourists.

They are even willing to postpone their time of departure from the object in order to watch the bats clustering at night. For tourists, the attraction is very attractive.

This animal becoming the identity of Batman superhero can indeed be found everywhere. However, the bats at Tanah Lot attraction indeed look beautiful. They are looking for fruits or flying insects.

The bats live in the caves around the Tanah Lot Beach. Some others also live in the local leaves grow-

ing nearby. “The habit of foraging bats becomes a concern of tourists. Lately, their action is eagerly awaited by tourists to capture this natural moment,” said Made, a local security officer.

Meanwhile, Jero Niti, Promotion Section Officer of the Tanah Lot Attraction, said that lately the action of foraging bats looks very beautiful as natural tourist attraction. This attraction has been available from long time ago, but the number was not so much. “Lately, millions of bats appear and fly around the sky.

Even though it looks vague because of approaching the night, tourists still want to wait for them,” she explained. (kmb)

Berawa Beach Becomes Playground of Surfing Lovers

Berawa Beach in Canggu area has developed quite well because the surrounding locations are possible to be developed into tourist destination if managed properly.

Many villas are growing like mushrooms in rainy season. Since the development of tourism industry in Bali is quite well, sometimes travelers are also looking for an alternative to Kuta and Legian, so that Canggu located next to them also gets the impact. More travelers in need of peace will enjoy natural atmosphere as well as stay in the Canggu area.

Talking about coastal tourist attraction in Bali seems neverending. Although the island is fairly small, it has numerous hidden pearls. Berawa Beach, for instance, located in the same coastline as Petitenget, Batubelig and Canggu, is located at Berawa hamlet, Canggu. Local high waves become an attractive place for surfers. It can be taken approximately 20 minutes by car or motorcycle from Kuta and turn left on the road section to Tanah Lot. Lately, Berawa Beach sufficiently develops because the beach is

actually not too far from the glamour of Kuta or Canggu tourist destination earlier known by travelers coming on holidays to Bali. Road access to Berawa Beach can pass through Batubelig, but, and the best is through the access adjacent to the Villa Legong Keraton precisely located on the Berawa Beach.

An interesting point offered

by Berawa Beach is the extreme wave because it is located in the South of the Bali Island directly getting in touch with the Indian Ocean. For surfing lovers, here is the right playground. Atmosphere

of this coastal area is quieter and emptier of visitors. Local residents commonly spend time and relieve fatigue during holidays or weekends, so that travelers can more freely enjoy this beautiful nature.

Ocean view on the Berawa Beach can adequately make every visitor feel at home. When wishing to enjoy the beauty of Berawa Beach maximally, simply stay for a few days in this area. There are many types of villa rentals, resorts and homestays.

Superiority of Berawa Beach lies in the beautiful coast and prox-

imity to various tourist facilities, airport and tranquility. So, Berawa Beach is worth choosing as destination considering there are many objects around the Berawa Beach such as Tanah Lot, horseback safari, Canggu Club and pilgrimage destination on Seseh Beach.

Apart from having good and enchanting waves, Berawa Beach also presents a beautiful natural scenery, especially during sunset time. The atmosphere is very quiet, giving better privacy than its neighboring beaches like Legian and Petitenget. (kmb)

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Indonesia teen rescued after 49 days adrift at sea An Indonesian teenager survived seven weeks adrift at sea after his tiny fishing trap lost its moorings and ended up some 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) away in waters near the Pacific island of Guam, his family said Monday.

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Forces loyal to the government of national reconciliation patrol a street during renewed clashes in the south of the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 22, 2018. Libya’s internationally recognised government has called on the UN to take “concrete and effective” action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people since late August.

500,000 children face ‘immediate danger’ in Libya capital: UN

TRIPOLI - Half a million children are in “immediate danger” in Libya’s capital Tripoli due to fighting, the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF said on Monday.

Clashes that broke out between rival militias in late August had killed at least 115 people and wounded nearly 400 by Saturday night, according to Libya’s health ministry.

UNICEF said Monday that “over 1,200 families have been displaced in the past 48 hours alone as clashes intensified in southern Tripoli”.

That brings the total number of people displaced by the recent fighting to over 25,000, half of whom are children,

UNICEF said.

“More children are reportedly being recruited to fight, putting them in immediate danger. At least one child was killed as a result,” said Geert Cappelaere, the UN agency’s Middle East and North Africa director.

UNICEF also said schools are increasingly being used to shelter displaced families, which is likely to delay the start of the academic year beyond October 3.

It said residents are facing food, power and water shortages, adding that the clashes have exacerbated the plight of migrants.

“Hundreds of detained refugees and migrants, including children, were forced to move because of violence.

Aldi Novel Adilang’s harrowing tale began in mid-July when the 18-year-old was working solo on a fishing hut anchored about 125 kilometres (77 miles) off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

His job was to keep the vessel’s lamps lit to attract fish. Its owner would reportedly come by weekly to drop off food, clean water, fuel and other supplies.

The floating fishing trap, known as a rompong, had no engine and was anchored to the seabed with a long rope, but heavy winds knocked it off its moorings and sent Adilang out to sea, local media said.

Rompongs are a traditional form of trapping fish in Indonesia, but are often unmanned, secured by buoys and ropes. Local media reported that the owner of Adilang’s rompong had as many as 50 moored in the surrounding waters

“His boss told my husband that he went missing,” Adilang’s mother Net Kahiking told AFP from her home in Sulawesi. “So we just surrendered to God and kept praying hard.”

The teen, who only had enough food to last several days, survived by catching fish, Mirza Nurhidayat, the Indonesian consul general in Osaka, who oversaw his eventual return, told the Jakarta Post.

“After he ran out of the cooking gas, he burned the rompong’s wooden fences to make a fire for cooking,” he was quoted as saying.

“He drank by sipping water from his clothes that had been wetted by sea water.” About ten ships passed the malnourished teen before a Panamanian-flagged vessel rescued him on August 31 near Guam and brought him to Japan, its original destination.

“I was shocked when his boss told us,” he had been rescued, Adilang’s mother said. “I was so happy.”

Adilang is the youngest of four siblings and arrived back home on September 8, in good health despite his ordeal. “He is now back at home and he will be 19 on September 30 -- we’re going to celebrate,” his mother said.(afp)

Others are stranded in centres in dire conditions”, Cappelaere said.

Despite a UN-brokered ceasefire on September 4, fighting broke out again last week in southern districts of the capital.

The clashes have pitted armed groups from Tarhuna and Misrata against Tripoli militias nominally controlled by Libya’s UN-backed unity government.

The Libyan capital has been at the centre of a battle for influence between armed groups since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was ousted in a NATO-backed 2011 uprising.

The country’s unity government has struggled to exert its control in the face of a multitude of militias and a rival administration based in eastern Libya. (afp)

Russia says plane downing result of ‘premeditated’ actions by Israeli pilots

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The Russian Defence Ministry headquarters is pictured on September 18, 2018, in Moscow. Russia blamed Israel on September 18, 2018 for the loss of a military IL-20M jet to Syrian fire, which killed all 15 servicemen on board, and threatened a response.

MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Monday accused Israeli pilots of “premeditated actions” over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last week, warning it will harm relations between the two countries.

“According to information of our military experts, the reason (behind the downing) were premeditated actions by Israeli pilots which certainly cannot but harm our relations,” Kremlin spokesman

Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

Peskov’s remarks followed an announcement by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu that Moscow will be sending an advanced S-300 air defence system to the Syrian military as well as jamming communications of any military planes that attack Syria from over the Mediterranean.

On September 17, a Russian Il-20 plane was hit by a Syrian S-200 air defence missile when

it was landing following strikes

by Israeli F-16 planes of western Syria. Moscow blamed the friendly fire incident on Israeli pilots using the larger Russian plane as “cover.”

Peskov said the new measures were decided on to boost the security of its troops in Syria.

“Russia in this case is acting in its interests only, these actions are not directed against third countries, but towards defending our own military,” he said. (afp)

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Dream Beach

NUSA LEMBONGAN - Fast becoming one of Bali’s most popular attractions this island paradise is a world away from the polution, hassles and hectic pace of Bali. There are no hawkers, no traffic, and magnificent scenery and is the perfect place to put your feet up and relax. Popular with families weary of travel warnings this island is a safe little spot to enjoy that perfect Bali Holiday.

The water is some of the clear-

est you can find and aqua blue in colors; good for diving and snorkeling. Surfing is crowded but nice waves. Nice coral sandy beach.

Learn about the cosmetic seaweed farming industry. Now with the development of the hills this area is fast becoming the main attraction and provides some of the best accommodation on the island. The views from the accommodation on the hills are second to none on Nusa

Lembongan and probably Bali.

Dream Beach is a secluded 115-metre stretch of white sand on the southwestern coast of Lembongan Island (the most popular holiday destination of Bali’s 3 Nusa Islands). The beach is one among Lembongan’s collection of beautiful and quiet beaches, with a landscape that’s mostly comprised of low-lying limestone cliffs and dramatic rock formations. You can

enjoy the breath-taking seascapes with bird’s-eye views from above the nearby cliff edges, or head down to the small cove and dig your feet into the soft sandy coast.

Highlights of Lembongan’s Dream Beach While Lembongan’s most popular side is its western coast with sea-view hotels and villas set along the village of Jungutbatu, Dream

Beach is well far-off from the crowds. Overlooking the secluded beach nearby is the thatched roof, castaway-style Dream Beach Huts and nearby is the Dream Beach Kubu, among a few others. The blue waters are clear and great for swimming during low tide, however, extra care must be taken as it can get pretty rough since it faces directly to the Indian Ocean.

Parts of the beach also have rocky features. A few spots offer cocktails and local light bites at Dream Beach, such as the Dream Beach Huts’ own Café Pandan, with its cliff-top pool and loungers (happy hours are between 16:00 and 18:00 with ‘buy-1, get-2’ deals on specified beverages). Towards the end of the year, as the sun leans slightly south during the southern equinox, you can expect Dream Beach to be another great spot for staying on after a day out on the coast for Lembongan Island’s wonderful sunsets. (IBP/net)

ATLANTA - Tiger Woods scored his first victory in more than five years on Sunday, completing a two-shot win at the Tour Championship to crown a fairy tale comeback after a near two-year absence.

The 42-year-old, 14-time major winner carded a one-over-par 71 at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Course to claim the 80th PGA Tour title of his glittering career.

Woods, who finished with an 11-under-par aggregate 269, raised his arms in delight after the victory, with several thousand fans ringing the green roaring their appreciation.

Woods admitted he had nearly been overcome with emotion as he walked up the 18th fairway.

“I was having a hard time not crying coming up the last hole,” Woods said, whose most recent win before Sunday had come 1,876 days ago at the 2013 WGCBridgestone Invitational.

“I kept saying ‘Hey, I could still play this out of bounds.’ But once I got the ball on the green I gave

(caddie) Joey (LaCava) a high five because I knew it was done.”

It was an emotional finale to a year which saw Woods return to the highest level after he had once feared he may never play golf again.

“It was just a grind out there,” Woods said of his final round. “I loved every bit of it. The fight, the grind, the tough conditions.

“To win it’s certainly up there with obviously all the major championships I’ve won, Players, World Golf Championships but then this is under different circumstances.

“I just didn’t know whether this would ever happen again. If I could somehow piece together a golf swing this year, I felt like I could do it ... somehow I’ve been able to do that, and here we are.”

Woods later revealed he had also fought back tears on the final green as he prepared for the par putt to complete the win.

“I realised all of sudden I was going to win the tournament,” he said. (afp)

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Team Europe Alexander Zverev of Germany and Team Europe Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrate with the trophy in the locker room after winning the Laver Cup on day three of the 2018 Laver Cup at the United Center on September 23, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Zverev seals Laver Cup win for Europe

CHICAGO - Europe retained their Laver Cup tennis crown here Sunday as Alexander Zverev defeated Kevin Anderson to complete a 13-8 win over the World team.

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Germany’s Zverev came from a set down to complete a 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 10-7 over Anderson as the Europeans successfully defended the title won in Prague last year.

“It was such a close match all around, not only this one but all weekend, a few points here and there and it could have been different,” said Zverev.

“I’m just happy to get the win and we defended the title, that’s the most important thing.”

Zverev’s win was the final act of an enthralling day of action at Chicago’s United Center, where the World team had roared back into contention in the day’s first rubber.

American duo John Isner and Jack Sock fought off two match

points to defeat Zverev and world number two Roger Federer in a gripping doubles battle.

Isner and Sock prevailed 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 11/9 to give the World team an 8-7 lead with the three singles rubbers remaining.

Europe responded superbly after that early setback however, with the 37-year-old Federer returning to secure a vital three points against Isner in the first singles match of the day.

The Swiss ace came from a set down to defeat the big-serving Isner 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (8/6), 10/7.

The win was testimony to Federer’s remarkable physical conditioning.

The 20-time Grand Slam singles champion outlasted Isner less than

an hour after he had been beaten in the day’s opening doubles game.

Federer celebrated the win by performing push-ups on court with his teammates to the delight of the crowd.

Europe skipper Bjorn Borg meanwhile praised the performance of the World team, who were captained by his old rival John McEnroe.

“I’m very proud of my team, we knew it’s going to be very difficult to beat Team World with John as the captain,” Borg said. “He has a great team, they’re very professional.”

The next Laver Cup, which is named after Australian legend Rod Laver, will be staged in Geneva in September 2019. (afp)

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Tiger Woods of the United States celebrates making a par on the 18th green to win the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on September 23, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Pogba takes aim at Mourinho’s negative tactics

Paul Pogba launched a blistering critique of Manchester United’s defensive-minded tactics in Saturday’s draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers, which is likely to infuriate manager Jose Mourinho.

The 25-year-old French World Cup winning midfielder said there were no excuses for not attacking in home games.

The draw -- played out in front of legendary former manager Alex Ferguson who made his first appearance at a match since undergoing emergency brain surgery in May -left United in seventh, eight points behind leaders Liverpool.

“We are at home and we should play much better against

Wolves. We are here to attack,” Pogba told the media after the match. “When we play like (that) it’s easier for us.”

Asked what is stopping United attacking more, Pogba said: “I can’t tell you because I’m a player. It’s not me.”

Pogba’s criticism comes shortly after it appeared that he and Mourinho were mending their rift, with the Portuguese manager saying on Friday that success at the World Cup had sparked Pogba into performing well.

Pogba, who hasn’t lived up to expectations since his then world record £89 million ($116 million) move from Juventus in 2016, had been angered by Mourinho’s remarks in July that he had played much better at the World Cup because he

was not surrounded by his entourage.

“I think teams are scared when they see Manchester United attacking and attacking. That was our mistake,” said Pogba.

“Maybe the attitude should be better and we should play better because, again, we are at Old Trafford and we should just attack and press like we did against Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal last season.”

Pogba laughed when it was put to him were United lacking pace and mobility. “I’m not the manager, I cannot say that,” he said. “Obviously we should show more options but I cannot say that because I’m a player. “That’s my way of thinking — we should move better, yeah.” (afp)

Greece imports referees as fix for soccer violence

ATHENS — When Greek league rivals AEK Athens and PAOK Thessaloniki met last season, a disallowed goal late in the match — which was, finally, allowed — threw the sport into chaos.

PAOK’s owner stormed onto the field in protest with a gun strapped to his belt, the league was suspended for two weeks, and FIFA forced Greece to make a series of urgent reforms or face expulsion from international competition.

On Sunday, the two teams played again, under new regulations that league organizers hope will finally keep the peace. Referees are now being imported for controversial matches involving major clubs where there is a potential for violence. Finnish referee Mattias Gestranius and his linesmen were

the first foreigners to be in charge of a Greek league game in 43 years.

By all accounts, the experiment at Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki was a success.

“Gestranius shut doubters up, no complaints from PAOK and AEK,” Greek sports website goalpost.gr wrote, adding that referee was impartial throughout the match.

Even those who had some criticisms remarked that the presence of an international official made players and coaches behave better.

“If he had been Greek, he would have heard an earful, because he allowed rough play, especially by the home team,” sports writer Yiannis Lambiris wrote in Monday’s edition of daily Ta Nea. “He did not wish to overuse the whistle ... in any case, the play-

InTime Sports via AP, File

In this Sunday, March 11, 2018 file photo PAOK owner, businessman Ivan Savvidis invades the pitch with a gun strapped to his belt during a Greek League soccer match between PAOK and AEK Athens in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. After this match the league was suspended for two weeks, and FIFA forced Greece to make urgent reforms or face expulsion from international competition, including importing international referees for controversial matches involving major clubs where there is a potential for violence.

ers and the benches behaved themselves, because they knew they could not get away (with protests).”

And, indeed, when an assistant on the PAOK bench started loudly protesting a referee decision in the 17th minute, he was immediately sent off.

In the end PAOK won 2-0, without any incident. PAOK now shares first place in the league, even though it started the season with minus-2 points, deducted for fan behavior last season.

Greek soccer has been troubled for decades by crowd violence and corruption allegations, and league organizers last experimented with overseas referees in the mid-1970s.

The powerful bosses of Greek soccer, with interests in shipping and the news media, routinely erupt in anger after lost matches, calling referee decisions into question as being manipulated and unfair. But four games into the new season and the league so far has been quiet.

Under the FIFA-supervised changes, a referee selection committee is headed by retired Portuguese referee Vitor Melo Pereira, along with two other overseas selections on the five-member panel.

After stepping in, Pereira brought sinceretired Spanish referee David Fernandez Borbalan for the Greek Cup final at a heavily policed Olympic Stadium in Athens. PAOK beat AEK 2-0 for the trophy but AEK went onto to win the league. More importantly, Borbalan’s refereeing was widely praised and the potentially explosive final ended without incident.

Gerstanius, unlike

Borbalan, is not classified as an “elite referee” in the international classification system, which includes four categories (Elite, First, Second and Third). As a First Category referee he was also reportedly paid less for the game, 3,000 euros ($3,500), than Borbalan’s 6,000 ($7,000).

AEK will have to play another foreignrefereed game next Sunday, against host Olympiakos.

Normally, both teams would now be bickering over the choice of referee, with club leaders competing in making inflammatory statements, setting the stage for another potentially explosive encounter. Now, sports authorities hope it will merely be another h a r d fought game. (ap)

Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP

Manchester United’s French midfielder Paul Pogba warms up ahead of the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Young Boys and Manchester United at The Stade de Suisse in Bern on September 19, 2018.

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France Football launches Women’s Ballon d’Or PARIS — A woman will win the most prestigious individual trophy in soccer for the first time this year.

Awarded every year by France Football magazine since Stanley Matthews won it in 1956, the Ballon d’Or for the best player of the year will be given to both a woman and a man on Dec. 3 in Paris.

Pascal Ferre, the magazine’s editor in chief, told The Associated Press women’s soccer has grown so much in recent years it was a logical step to create the new award. “ Wo m en’s soccer is a booming discipline that deserves the same respect as men’s soccer,” Ferre told the AP. “It’s coming to maturity and growing bigger. More than 760 million TV viewers

watched games at the last women’s World Cup in 2015, this did not happen by chance.”

France Football will make an official announcement in Tuesday’s edition of the magazine.

A list of 15 nominees for the prize will be announced on Oct. 8 alongside the 30-man selection. The players will be selected by France Football and a panel of international journalists specialized in women’s soccer will vote on a winner.

“The jury won’t be the same as the jury voting for the men,” Ferre said. “Only experts can vote. I’m confident we will get a jury of about 40 journalists, from countries where women’s soccer is growing.”

The Ballon d’Or merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year award from 2010-15, but the magazine and soccer’s governing body split two years ago. FIFA also awards a trophy to the best women’s player.

Ferre said most of the female players he spoke with about the new Ballon d’Or have been enthusiastic.

“They are thrilled and can’t wait for it,” Ferre said. “They are very

Di Francesco under fire as Roma owner ‘disgusted’

by Bologna defeat

R o m a’ s American owner James Pallotta said he was “disgusted” after the Serie A giants plunged further into defeat in Bologna ing the pressure on Eusebio Di Fran-

crisis with a 2-0 on Sunday, pilunder-fire coach cesco.

Roma - last year’s third-placed team in Serie A -have slumped to 14th position after five games with just five points after Bologna scored their first goals of the season, and achieved their first win.

“I am disgusted,” the club’s billionaire chairman Pallotta told RomaPress.US after the club have now gone six games in all competitions without a win.

The side from the capital won their opening Serie A game against Torino, but were held by Atalanta and

Chievo, and lost to AC Milan and now Bologna. Di Francesco was at a loss to explain what was lacking after last year’s Champions League semi-finalists also fell 3-0 to holders Real Madrid in Spain midweek.

“If I had an explanation for this, I’d give it to you,” he said.

Roma host promoted Frosinone on Wednesday looking for a boost before Saturday’s derby against bitter city rivals Lazio, who are fifth after a 4-1 win over Genoa on Sunday.

“I’ll make changes based on what I’ve seen, when things have simmered down I’ll find the right solutions,” promised Di Francesco.

“One thing is for sure – we’re lacking defensive solidity, that’s where these errors come from.”

The club has been struggling to rebuild after losing goalkeeper Alisson to Liverpool during the summer with midfielders Radja Nainggolan and Kevin Strootman also exiting the Italian capital. “When you’ve got matches in quick succession you can’t always pick the same players. (afp)

proud to see that the world of soccer considers that women should be treated in the same respect as men.”

France Football is also launching a new award for the best young player of the year, the Kopa trophy, named after the late Raymond Kopa. The former Real Madrid attacking midfielder

who became the first French player to win the Ballon d’Or back in 1958 died last year at 85. Only former winners will be entitled to choose the winner from a list of 10 under-21 players.

The award ceremony will be broadcast live in more than 120 countries. (ap)

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

The Golden Ball is pictured in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. A woman will lift the most prestigious individual trophy in soccer for the first time this year. Awarded every year by France Football magazine since Stanley Matthews won it in 1956, the Ballon d’Or for the best player of the year will be given to both a woman and a man on Dec. 3 in Paris.

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Pogba takes aim at Mourinho’s negative tactics

Paul Pogba launched a blistering critique of Manchester United’s defensive-minded tactics in Saturday’s draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers, which is likely to infuriate manager Jose Mourinho.

The 25-year-old French World Cup winning midfielder said there were no excuses for not attacking in home games.

The draw -- played out in front of legendary former manager Alex Ferguson who made his first appearance at a match since undergoing emergency brain surgery in May -left United in seventh, eight points behind leaders Liverpool.

“We are at home and we should play much better against

Wolves. We are here to attack,” Pogba told the media after the match. “When we play like (that) it’s easier for us.”

Asked what is stopping United attacking more, Pogba said: “I can’t tell you because I’m a player. It’s not me.”

Pogba’s criticism comes shortly after it appeared that he and Mourinho were mending their rift, with the Portuguese manager saying on Friday that success at the World Cup had sparked Pogba into performing well.

Pogba, who hasn’t lived up to expectations since his then world record £89 million ($116 million) move from Juventus in 2016, had been angered by Mourinho’s remarks in July that he had played much better at the World Cup because he

was not surrounded by his entourage.

“I think teams are scared when they see Manchester United attacking and attacking. That was our mistake,” said Pogba.

“Maybe the attitude should be better and we should play better because, again, we are at Old Trafford and we should just attack and press like we did against Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal last season.”

Pogba laughed when it was put to him were United lacking pace and mobility. “I’m not the manager, I cannot say that,” he said. “Obviously we should show more options but I cannot say that because I’m a player. “That’s my way of thinking — we should move better, yeah.” (afp)

Greece imports referees as fix for soccer violence

ATHENS — When Greek league rivals AEK Athens and PAOK Thessaloniki met last season, a disallowed goal late in the match — which was, finally, allowed — threw the sport into chaos.

PAOK’s owner stormed onto the field in protest with a gun strapped to his belt, the league was suspended for two weeks, and FIFA forced Greece to make a series of urgent reforms or face expulsion from international competition.

On Sunday, the two teams played again, under new regulations that league organizers hope will finally keep the peace. Referees are now being imported for controversial matches involving major clubs where there is a potential for violence. Finnish referee Mattias Gestranius and his linesmen were

the first foreigners to be in charge of a Greek league game in 43 years.

By all accounts, the experiment at Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki was a success.

“Gestranius shut doubters up, no complaints from PAOK and AEK,” Greek sports website goalpost.gr wrote, adding that referee was impartial throughout the match.

Even those who had some criticisms remarked that the presence of an international official made players and coaches behave better.

“If he had been Greek, he would have heard an earful, because he allowed rough play, especially by the home team,” sports writer Yiannis Lambiris wrote in Monday’s edition of daily Ta Nea. “He did not wish to overuse the whistle ... in any case, the play-

InTime Sports via AP, File

In this Sunday, March 11, 2018 file photo PAOK owner, businessman Ivan Savvidis invades the pitch with a gun strapped to his belt during a Greek League soccer match between PAOK and AEK Athens in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. After this match the league was suspended for two weeks, and FIFA forced Greece to make urgent reforms or face expulsion from international competition, including importing international referees for controversial matches involving major clubs where there is a potential for violence.

ers and the benches behaved themselves, because they knew they could not get away (with protests).”

And, indeed, when an assistant on the PAOK bench started loudly protesting a referee decision in the 17th minute, he was immediately sent off.

In the end PAOK won 2-0, without any incident. PAOK now shares first place in the league, even though it started the season with minus-2 points, deducted for fan behavior last season.

Greek soccer has been troubled for decades by crowd violence and corruption allegations, and league organizers last experimented with overseas referees in the mid-1970s.

The powerful bosses of Greek soccer, with interests in shipping and the news media, routinely erupt in anger after lost matches, calling referee decisions into question as being manipulated and unfair. But four games into the new season and the league so far has been quiet.

Under the FIFA-supervised changes, a referee selection committee is headed by retired Portuguese referee Vitor Melo Pereira, along with two other overseas selections on the five-member panel.

After stepping in, Pereira brought sinceretired Spanish referee David Fernandez Borbalan for the Greek Cup final at a heavily policed Olympic Stadium in Athens. PAOK beat AEK 2-0 for the trophy but AEK went onto to win the league. More importantly, Borbalan’s refereeing was widely praised and the potentially explosive final ended without incident.

Gerstanius, unlike

Borbalan, is not classified as an “elite referee” in the international classification system, which includes four categories (Elite, First, Second and Third). As a First Category referee he was also reportedly paid less for the game, 3,000 euros ($3,500), than Borbalan’s 6,000 ($7,000).

AEK will have to play another foreignrefereed game next Sunday, against host Olympiakos.

Normally, both teams would now be bickering over the choice of referee, with club leaders competing in making inflammatory statements, setting the stage for another potentially explosive encounter. Now, sports authorities hope it will merely be another h a r d fought game. (ap)

Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP

Manchester United’s French midfielder Paul Pogba warms up ahead of the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Young Boys and Manchester United at The Stade de Suisse in Bern on September 19, 2018.

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France Football launches Women’s Ballon d’Or PARIS — A woman will win the most prestigious individual trophy in soccer for the first time this year.

Awarded every year by France Football magazine since Stanley Matthews won it in 1956, the Ballon d’Or for the best player of the year will be given to both a woman and a man on Dec. 3 in Paris.

Pascal Ferre, the magazine’s editor in chief, told The Associated Press women’s soccer has grown so much in recent years it was a logical step to create the new award. “ Wo m en’s soccer is a booming discipline that deserves the same respect as men’s soccer,” Ferre told the AP. “It’s coming to maturity and growing bigger. More than 760 million TV viewers

watched games at the last women’s World Cup in 2015, this did not happen by chance.”

France Football will make an official announcement in Tuesday’s edition of the magazine.

A list of 15 nominees for the prize will be announced on Oct. 8 alongside the 30-man selection. The players will be selected by France Football and a panel of international journalists specialized in women’s soccer will vote on a winner.

“The jury won’t be the same as the jury voting for the men,” Ferre said. “Only experts can vote. I’m confident we will get a jury of about 40 journalists, from countries where women’s soccer is growing.”

The Ballon d’Or merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year award from 2010-15, but the magazine and soccer’s governing body split two years ago. FIFA also awards a trophy to the best women’s player.

Ferre said most of the female players he spoke with about the new Ballon d’Or have been enthusiastic.

“They are thrilled and can’t wait for it,” Ferre said. “They are very

Di Francesco under fire as Roma owner ‘disgusted’

by Bologna defeat

R o m a’ s American owner James Pallotta said he was “disgusted” after the Serie A giants plunged further into defeat in Bologna ing the pressure on Eusebio Di Fran-

crisis with a 2-0 on Sunday, pilunder-fire coach cesco.

Roma - last year’s third-placed team in Serie A -have slumped to 14th position after five games with just five points after Bologna scored their first goals of the season, and achieved their first win.

“I am disgusted,” the club’s billionaire chairman Pallotta told RomaPress.US after the club have now gone six games in all competitions without a win.

The side from the capital won their opening Serie A game against Torino, but were held by Atalanta and

Chievo, and lost to AC Milan and now Bologna. Di Francesco was at a loss to explain what was lacking after last year’s Champions League semi-finalists also fell 3-0 to holders Real Madrid in Spain midweek.

“If I had an explanation for this, I’d give it to you,” he said.

Roma host promoted Frosinone on Wednesday looking for a boost before Saturday’s derby against bitter city rivals Lazio, who are fifth after a 4-1 win over Genoa on Sunday.

“I’ll make changes based on what I’ve seen, when things have simmered down I’ll find the right solutions,” promised Di Francesco.

“One thing is for sure – we’re lacking defensive solidity, that’s where these errors come from.”

The club has been struggling to rebuild after losing goalkeeper Alisson to Liverpool during the summer with midfielders Radja Nainggolan and Kevin Strootman also exiting the Italian capital. “When you’ve got matches in quick succession you can’t always pick the same players. (afp)

proud to see that the world of soccer considers that women should be treated in the same respect as men.”

France Football is also launching a new award for the best young player of the year, the Kopa trophy, named after the late Raymond Kopa. The former Real Madrid attacking midfielder

who became the first French player to win the Ballon d’Or back in 1958 died last year at 85. Only former winners will be entitled to choose the winner from a list of 10 under-21 players.

The award ceremony will be broadcast live in more than 120 countries. (ap)

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

The Golden Ball is pictured in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. A woman will lift the most prestigious individual trophy in soccer for the first time this year. Awarded every year by France Football magazine since Stanley Matthews won it in 1956, the Ballon d’Or for the best player of the year will be given to both a woman and a man on Dec. 3 in Paris.

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Tiger Woods seals first win in five years with Tour Championship

Dream Beach

NUSA LEMBONGAN - Fast becoming one of Bali’s most popular attractions this island paradise is a world away from the polution, hassles and hectic pace of Bali. There are no hawkers, no traffic, and magnificent scenery and is the perfect place to put your feet up and relax. Popular with families weary of travel warnings this island is a safe little spot to enjoy that perfect Bali Holiday.

The water is some of the clear-

est you can find and aqua blue in colors; good for diving and snorkeling. Surfing is crowded but nice waves. Nice coral sandy beach.

Learn about the cosmetic seaweed farming industry. Now with the development of the hills this area is fast becoming the main attraction and provides some of the best accommodation on the island. The views from the accommodation on the hills are second to none on Nusa

Lembongan and probably Bali.

Dream Beach is a secluded 115-metre stretch of white sand on the southwestern coast of Lembongan Island (the most popular holiday destination of Bali’s 3 Nusa Islands). The beach is one among Lembongan’s collection of beautiful and quiet beaches, with a landscape that’s mostly comprised of low-lying limestone cliffs and dramatic rock formations. You can

enjoy the breath-taking seascapes with bird’s-eye views from above the nearby cliff edges, or head down to the small cove and dig your feet into the soft sandy coast.

Highlights of Lembongan’s Dream Beach While Lembongan’s most popular side is its western coast with sea-view hotels and villas set along the village of Jungutbatu, Dream

Beach is well far-off from the crowds. Overlooking the secluded beach nearby is the thatched roof, castaway-style Dream Beach Huts and nearby is the Dream Beach Kubu, among a few others. The blue waters are clear and great for swimming during low tide, however, extra care must be taken as it can get pretty rough since it faces directly to the Indian Ocean.

Parts of the beach also have rocky features. A few spots offer cocktails and local light bites at Dream Beach, such as the Dream Beach Huts’ own Café Pandan, with its cliff-top pool and loungers (happy hours are between 16:00 and 18:00 with ‘buy-1, get-2’ deals on specified beverages). Towards the end of the year, as the sun leans slightly south during the southern equinox, you can expect Dream Beach to be another great spot for staying on after a day out on the coast for Lembongan Island’s wonderful sunsets. (IBP/net)

ATLANTA - Tiger Woods scored his first victory in more than five years on Sunday, completing a two-shot win at the Tour Championship to crown a fairy tale comeback after a near two-year absence.

The 42-year-old, 14-time major winner carded a one-over-par 71 at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Course to claim the 80th PGA Tour title of his glittering career.

Woods, who finished with an 11-under-par aggregate 269, raised his arms in delight after the victory, with several thousand fans ringing the green roaring their appreciation.

Woods admitted he had nearly been overcome with emotion as he walked up the 18th fairway.

“I was having a hard time not crying coming up the last hole,” Woods said, whose most recent win before Sunday had come 1,876 days ago at the 2013 WGCBridgestone Invitational.

“I kept saying ‘Hey, I could still play this out of bounds.’ But once I got the ball on the green I gave

(caddie) Joey (LaCava) a high five because I knew it was done.”

It was an emotional finale to a year which saw Woods return to the highest level after he had once feared he may never play golf again.

“It was just a grind out there,” Woods said of his final round. “I loved every bit of it. The fight, the grind, the tough conditions.

“To win it’s certainly up there with obviously all the major championships I’ve won, Players, World Golf Championships but then this is under different circumstances.

“I just didn’t know whether this would ever happen again. If I could somehow piece together a golf swing this year, I felt like I could do it ... somehow I’ve been able to do that, and here we are.”

Woods later revealed he had also fought back tears on the final green as he prepared for the par putt to complete the win.

“I realised all of sudden I was going to win the tournament,” he said. (afp)

Clive Brunskill/Getty Images for The Laver Cup/AFP

Team Europe Alexander Zverev of Germany and Team Europe Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrate with the trophy in the locker room after winning the Laver Cup on day three of the 2018 Laver Cup at the United Center on September 23, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Zverev seals Laver Cup win for Europe

CHICAGO - Europe retained their Laver Cup tennis crown here Sunday as Alexander Zverev defeated Kevin Anderson to complete a 13-8 win over the World team.

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Germany’s Zverev came from a set down to complete a 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 10-7 over Anderson as the Europeans successfully defended the title won in Prague last year.

“It was such a close match all around, not only this one but all weekend, a few points here and there and it could have been different,” said Zverev.

“I’m just happy to get the win and we defended the title, that’s the most important thing.”

Zverev’s win was the final act of an enthralling day of action at Chicago’s United Center, where the World team had roared back into contention in the day’s first rubber.

American duo John Isner and Jack Sock fought off two match

points to defeat Zverev and world number two Roger Federer in a gripping doubles battle.

Isner and Sock prevailed 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 11/9 to give the World team an 8-7 lead with the three singles rubbers remaining.

Europe responded superbly after that early setback however, with the 37-year-old Federer returning to secure a vital three points against Isner in the first singles match of the day.

The Swiss ace came from a set down to defeat the big-serving Isner 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (8/6), 10/7.

The win was testimony to Federer’s remarkable physical conditioning.

The 20-time Grand Slam singles champion outlasted Isner less than

an hour after he had been beaten in the day’s opening doubles game.

Federer celebrated the win by performing push-ups on court with his teammates to the delight of the crowd.

Europe skipper Bjorn Borg meanwhile praised the performance of the World team, who were captained by his old rival John McEnroe.

“I’m very proud of my team, we knew it’s going to be very difficult to beat Team World with John as the captain,” Borg said. “He has a great team, they’re very professional.”

The next Laver Cup, which is named after Australian legend Rod Laver, will be staged in Geneva in September 2019. (afp)

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Tiger Woods of the United States celebrates making a par on the 18th green to win the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on September 23, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Indonesia teen rescued after 49 days adrift at sea An Indonesian teenager survived seven weeks adrift at sea after his tiny fishing trap lost its moorings and ended up some 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) away in waters near the Pacific island of Guam, his family said Monday.

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Forces loyal to the government of national reconciliation patrol a street during renewed clashes in the south of the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 22, 2018. Libya’s internationally recognised government has called on the UN to take “concrete and effective” action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people since late August.

500,000 children face ‘immediate danger’ in Libya capital: UN

TRIPOLI - Half a million children are in “immediate danger” in Libya’s capital Tripoli due to fighting, the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF said on Monday.

Clashes that broke out between rival militias in late August had killed at least 115 people and wounded nearly 400 by Saturday night, according to Libya’s health ministry.

UNICEF said Monday that “over 1,200 families have been displaced in the past 48 hours alone as clashes intensified in southern Tripoli”.

That brings the total number of people displaced by the recent fighting to over 25,000, half of whom are children,

UNICEF said.

“More children are reportedly being recruited to fight, putting them in immediate danger. At least one child was killed as a result,” said Geert Cappelaere, the UN agency’s Middle East and North Africa director.

UNICEF also said schools are increasingly being used to shelter displaced families, which is likely to delay the start of the academic year beyond October 3.

It said residents are facing food, power and water shortages, adding that the clashes have exacerbated the plight of migrants.

“Hundreds of detained refugees and migrants, including children, were forced to move because of violence.

Aldi Novel Adilang’s harrowing tale began in mid-July when the 18-year-old was working solo on a fishing hut anchored about 125 kilometres (77 miles) off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

His job was to keep the vessel’s lamps lit to attract fish. Its owner would reportedly come by weekly to drop off food, clean water, fuel and other supplies.

The floating fishing trap, known as a rompong, had no engine and was anchored to the seabed with a long rope, but heavy winds knocked it off its moorings and sent Adilang out to sea, local media said.

Rompongs are a traditional form of trapping fish in Indonesia, but are often unmanned, secured by buoys and ropes. Local media reported that the owner of Adilang’s rompong had as many as 50 moored in the surrounding waters

“His boss told my husband that he went missing,” Adilang’s mother Net Kahiking told AFP from her home in Sulawesi. “So we just surrendered to God and kept praying hard.”

The teen, who only had enough food to last several days, survived by catching fish, Mirza Nurhidayat, the Indonesian consul general in Osaka, who oversaw his eventual return, told the Jakarta Post.

“After he ran out of the cooking gas, he burned the rompong’s wooden fences to make a fire for cooking,” he was quoted as saying.

“He drank by sipping water from his clothes that had been wetted by sea water.” About ten ships passed the malnourished teen before a Panamanian-flagged vessel rescued him on August 31 near Guam and brought him to Japan, its original destination.

“I was shocked when his boss told us,” he had been rescued, Adilang’s mother said. “I was so happy.”

Adilang is the youngest of four siblings and arrived back home on September 8, in good health despite his ordeal. “He is now back at home and he will be 19 on September 30 -- we’re going to celebrate,” his mother said.(afp)

Others are stranded in centres in dire conditions”, Cappelaere said.

Despite a UN-brokered ceasefire on September 4, fighting broke out again last week in southern districts of the capital.

The clashes have pitted armed groups from Tarhuna and Misrata against Tripoli militias nominally controlled by Libya’s UN-backed unity government.

The Libyan capital has been at the centre of a battle for influence between armed groups since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was ousted in a NATO-backed 2011 uprising.

The country’s unity government has struggled to exert its control in the face of a multitude of militias and a rival administration based in eastern Libya. (afp)

Russia says plane downing result of ‘premeditated’ actions by Israeli pilots

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The Russian Defence Ministry headquarters is pictured on September 18, 2018, in Moscow. Russia blamed Israel on September 18, 2018 for the loss of a military IL-20M jet to Syrian fire, which killed all 15 servicemen on board, and threatened a response.

MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Monday accused Israeli pilots of “premeditated actions” over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last week, warning it will harm relations between the two countries.

“According to information of our military experts, the reason (behind the downing) were premeditated actions by Israeli pilots which certainly cannot but harm our relations,” Kremlin spokesman

Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

Peskov’s remarks followed an announcement by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu that Moscow will be sending an advanced S-300 air defence system to the Syrian military as well as jamming communications of any military planes that attack Syria from over the Mediterranean.

On September 17, a Russian Il-20 plane was hit by a Syrian S-200 air defence missile when

it was landing following strikes

by Israeli F-16 planes of western Syria. Moscow blamed the friendly fire incident on Israeli pilots using the larger Russian plane as “cover.”

Peskov said the new measures were decided on to boost the security of its troops in Syria.

“Russia in this case is acting in its interests only, these actions are not directed against third countries, but towards defending our own military,” he said. (afp)

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BUSINESS Why the ‘gig’ economy may not be the workforce of the future

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movers who find work through online apps.

Amazon, for example, now uses independent drivers to deliver some packages. Fewer than one-quarter of drivers performed gig work for seven months or more, the study found.

The study also reviewed online platforms that provide home improvement work. These include TaskRabbit as well as dog-walking, home cleaning and other services. Two-thirds of those workers perform gig work for only three months a year or less.

Low pay likely helps explain the frequent turnover of workers who use the gig platforms.

For transportation workers, who mostly include Uber and Lyft but also package delivery services, average monthly incomes have fallen from $1,535 in October 2012 to just $762 in March of this year, not adjusted for inflation, the study found.

That drop may at least partly reflect the fact that many drivers are likely working fewer hours, Grieg said. As the number of independent drivers has ballooned over the past five years, drivers have faced intensifying competition.

And many have likely found other sources of income as the job market has strengthened. Still, some platforms may be paying their workers less, Grieg said.

How much Uber drivers make on an hourly basis is a hotly debated subject. A 2015 analysis

by Princeton University economist Alan Kruger found that drivers in 20 large markets earned $19.04 an hour. But those figures, like JPMorgan’s, do not factor in expenses, such as gas and wear and tear, that drivers themselves must shoulder. Competition among drivers has clearly intensified. The number of independent workers in taxi and limousine services, which includes ride-hailing companies, jumped 46 percent in 2016, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the Census Bureau.

Todd Suffreti has seen the difference in the two years that he’s driven for Uber. Suffreti,

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In this Jan. 31, 2018, file photo, a Lyft logo is installed on a Lyft driver’s car next to an Uber sticker in Pittsburgh. The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all. From Uber to Lyft to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, so-called gig work has been widely seen as ideally suited for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, they don’t deliver the financial returns many expect. who works out of Frederick, Maryland, says his weekly income has dropped by a quarter since he began.

“It’s really saturated, and the calls don’t come in as often,” said Suffreti, 45. “It’s not like it used to be. I have to work harder and longer to get what I used to get.”

For drivers, online income now makes up just 26 percent of their total annual earnings, the JPMorgan study found — down from nearly 52 percent in October 2013.

Research by Uber’s chief economist, Jonathan Hall, and John Horton of New York University found that when Uber raised its fares, drivers initially earned more money. But there were offsetting effects: The higher rates attracted more drivers while reducing the number of trips consumers made. Overall earnings for

drivers soon fell back to their previous levels.

The JPMorgan study found that transportation — including package delivery and moving — is increasingly the dominant force in the gig economy. Transportation makes up 56 percent of all gig work, up from just 6 percent in 2013.

Selling items through such online sites as eBay and Etsy has sunk to 19 percent of gig work, down from 72 percent.

“It’s really those transportation platforms that have grown tremendously and now represent the lion’s share of the dollars and participation,” Grieg said. People who participate in leasing websites, such as Airbnb and car rental site Truro, are earning much more — averaging $2,113 in March of this year. But just 0.2 percent of households participate in such sites, the study found. (ap)

Turkey expects lower growth amid currency turmoil

ISTANBUL - Turkey expects lower economic growth in coming years amid concerns over inflation and a sliding currency.

Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak presented the government’s economic plan Thursday, which estimates 2.3 percent growth in 2019 and 3.5 percent in 2020.

The previous forecast was 5.5 percent for both years.

Albayrak estimated inflation this year would be 20.8 percent, a high rate that will be eroding standards of living. The Turkish lira has lost around 40 percent against the dollar so far this year, sharply raising the price of imports.

To fight inflation and support the currency, the central bank last week raised interest rates sharply, from 17.75 percent to 24 percent.

Higher rates, however, will also dent growth.

Investors have been selling the Turkish currency because they’re worried by the country’s high levels of foreign debt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic policies and a diplomatic and trade dispute with the United States.

Albayrak said the new economic plan would ensure “sustainable and

healthy” growth and would reassure investors. The lira was down slightly, by 0.9 percent at 6.3 per dollar, following the announcement.

Albayrak also said the government will try to create 2 million new jobs by 2021 and expects to make savings worth 60 billion Turkish lira ($9.6 billion) in the coming year.

The savings will be made by

curtailing spending on construction projects in 2019, turning instead to foreign investment for financing.

“The public projects whose tender had not been carried out, or the tender has been carried out without any operation... will be suspended,” Albayrak said. “They will be brought to life with direct foreign investments or international financing.” (ap)

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Apart from the beauty of sunset view, Tanah Lot also features another attraction showing off millions of fruit bats embellishing the sky over the exotic Tanah Lot. The nocturnal animals fly very beautifully, going here and there while looking for food and decorating the sky after the nightfall. This animal having the mouth like that of mouse can fly very fast while catching insects as the prey.

WASHINGTON The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all. From Uber to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, socalled gig work has been widely seen as ideal for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, they don’t deliver the financial returns many expect.

And they don’t appear to be reshaping the workforce. Over the past two years, for example, pay for gig workers has dropped, and they are earning a growing share of their income elsewhere, a new study finds. Most Americans who earn income through online platforms do so for only a few months each year, according to the study by JPMorgan Chase being released Monday. One reason is that some people who experimented with gig work have likely landed traditional jobs as the economy has improved.

Drivers for Uber, Lyft and other transportation services, for example, now collectively earn only about half as much each month as they did five years ago.

The new data echo other evidence that such online platforms, despite deploying cuttingedge real-time technology, now look less like the future of work. A government report in July concluded that the proportion of independent workers has actually declined slightly in the past decade.

“People aren’t relying on platforms for their primary source of income,” said Fiona Grieg, director of consumer research at JPMorgan and co-author of the study.

The data is derived from a sample of 39 million JPMorgan checking accounts studied over 5½ years. In March 2018, about 1.6 percent of families participated in the gig economy, equivalent to about 2 million households. That is barely up from the 1.5 percent of a year earlier.

Most participants cycle in and out of gig work to supplement their incomes from other jobs. Previous research by JPMorgan has found that in any given month, one in six workers on online platforms are new — and more than half will have left the gig economy after a year of entering it.

For drivers, 58 percent work just three months or less each year through online economy websites. These include ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft as well as delivery drivers and

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The movement of foraging bats becomes a unique attraction favored by foreign tourists. The bats scattered in the sky after sunset become the target of camera shots of tourists.

They are even willing to postpone their time of departure from the object in order to watch the bats clustering at night. For tourists, the attraction is very attractive.

This animal becoming the identity of Batman superhero can indeed be found everywhere. However, the bats at Tanah Lot attraction indeed look beautiful. They are looking for fruits or flying insects.

The bats live in the caves around the Tanah Lot Beach. Some others also live in the local leaves grow-

ing nearby. “The habit of foraging bats becomes a concern of tourists. Lately, their action is eagerly awaited by tourists to capture this natural moment,” said Made, a local security officer.

Meanwhile, Jero Niti, Promotion Section Officer of the Tanah Lot Attraction, said that lately the action of foraging bats looks very beautiful as natural tourist attraction. This attraction has been available from long time ago, but the number was not so much. “Lately, millions of bats appear and fly around the sky.

Even though it looks vague because of approaching the night, tourists still want to wait for them,” she explained. (kmb)

Berawa Beach Becomes Playground of Surfing Lovers

Berawa Beach in Canggu area has developed quite well because the surrounding locations are possible to be developed into tourist destination if managed properly.

Many villas are growing like mushrooms in rainy season. Since the development of tourism industry in Bali is quite well, sometimes travelers are also looking for an alternative to Kuta and Legian, so that Canggu located next to them also gets the impact. More travelers in need of peace will enjoy natural atmosphere as well as stay in the Canggu area.

Talking about coastal tourist attraction in Bali seems neverending. Although the island is fairly small, it has numerous hidden pearls. Berawa Beach, for instance, located in the same coastline as Petitenget, Batubelig and Canggu, is located at Berawa hamlet, Canggu. Local high waves become an attractive place for surfers. It can be taken approximately 20 minutes by car or motorcycle from Kuta and turn left on the road section to Tanah Lot. Lately, Berawa Beach sufficiently develops because the beach is

actually not too far from the glamour of Kuta or Canggu tourist destination earlier known by travelers coming on holidays to Bali. Road access to Berawa Beach can pass through Batubelig, but, and the best is through the access adjacent to the Villa Legong Keraton precisely located on the Berawa Beach.

An interesting point offered

by Berawa Beach is the extreme wave because it is located in the South of the Bali Island directly getting in touch with the Indian Ocean. For surfing lovers, here is the right playground. Atmosphere

of this coastal area is quieter and emptier of visitors. Local residents commonly spend time and relieve fatigue during holidays or weekends, so that travelers can more freely enjoy this beautiful nature.

Ocean view on the Berawa Beach can adequately make every visitor feel at home. When wishing to enjoy the beauty of Berawa Beach maximally, simply stay for a few days in this area. There are many types of villa rentals, resorts and homestays.

Superiority of Berawa Beach lies in the beautiful coast and prox-

imity to various tourist facilities, airport and tranquility. So, Berawa Beach is worth choosing as destination considering there are many objects around the Berawa Beach such as Tanah Lot, horseback safari, Canggu Club and pilgrimage destination on Seseh Beach.

Apart from having good and enchanting waves, Berawa Beach also presents a beautiful natural scenery, especially during sunset time. The atmosphere is very quiet, giving better privacy than its neighboring beaches like Legian and Petitenget. (kmb)

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will not feel burdensome. On the other hand, the number of tourist accidents is statistically low.

As reported previously, the provincial government of Bali, in this case the Tourism Office, already discussed again about the plan of collecting levy to tourists for protection and insurance of Balinese culture. In the past, this plan was rejected because it did not have legal instrument. Actually, the levies in the form of taxes or levies are needed to maintain the continuity of tourism on the Island of the Gods.

“It will be used for many purposes such as cultural and environmental protection as well as insurance and infrastructure.

As planned, each tourist will be charged as much as 10 dollars. We have tried this policy before, but it was rejected due to the absence of regulations,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra.

According to Yuniartha, it is indeed not easy to implement this policy in Bali. Besides, the discussion cannot be done in a hurry. His office remains to discuss it with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs, and the tourism component. “We are still looking for an appropriate formula so that we will not do something wrong when collecting it from tourists,” he explained. (kmb32)

SYDNEY - Australia’s pins-in-punnets strawberry crisis prompted a spate of social-media driven hoaxes, but sites like Facebook and Twitter are also helping stir a revival in sales that has left some farmers struggling to meet resurgent demand.

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ting back on their berries.

Wholesalers are reporting an uptick in sales, thanks in part to social media campaigns that encouraged Australians to bake a strawberry pavlova or just “#Smashastrawb” and eat it.

“Things are on the up,” said Jim Ripepi of Australian Strawberry Distributors, a family-owned com-

pany that grows and sells strawberries wholesale.

“The public support has been really overwhelming. Sales are picking up,” he told AFP. “I was selling out every day this week.”

Supermarkets are starting to report a similar trend and are even struggling to meet demand after many of their usual suppliers

KUALA LUMPUR - A pair of young orangutans, baby crocodiles and rare birds were among over 400 animals rescued from a boat off Malaysia as they were being smuggled from neighbouring Indonesia, officials said Monday.

Three suspected Indonesian traffickers were arrested after customs officials thwarted the bid to transport the animals to Thailand in an operation Friday off the Malaysian holiday island Langkawi.

The unusual cargo included two “frightened-looking” orangutans and dozens of baby saltwater crocodiles, Malaysian wildlife official Mohamad Zaki Rahim told AFP. There were also about 350 sugar gliders -- a type of small marsupial

-- cockatoos, parrots and parakeets found in boxes on board, he said, adding the smugglers intended to sell all the animals as pets.

The smugglers were seeking to transport the animals under cover of darkness in a cargo vessel from the vast, jungle-clad Indonesian island of Sumatra, through the Malacca Strait to Thailand, customs chief T. Subromaniam told the Star newspaper.

But Malaysian customs officers received information about the boat and intercepted it, Subromaniam said.

The arrested Indonesians, who were on the vessel when it was stopped, are expected to be charged in court for breaking wildlife laws

and could face up to 10 years in jail, Mohamad Zaki said.

Elizabeth John, spokeswoman for wildlife trade watchdog Traffic, said that the number and variety of animals seized showed “how tremendous the pressure is on wildlife due to demand for pets”.

Authorities in Malaysia, a tropical Southeast Asian country that is home to many rare species, regularly thwart smuggling attempts, but finding 400 animals at the same time is unusual.

In June 2017, Thai authorities nabbed a Malaysian trying to smuggle two juvenile orangutans and some 60 other animals in a taxi through the country’s southern border. (afp)

This undated handout photo released by the Royal Malaysian Customs on September 24, 2018 shows Royal Malaysian Customs Department director-general Subromaniam Tholasy (2nd-L) looking at a seized baby orangutan during a press conference in Perlis state, northern Malaysia.

To help guests understand

Chief of the Gedong Kirtya, Gede Wiriasa, stated recently that so far the manuscript collection in Gedong Kirtya is recorded to reach 1,808 copies. The transliteration and translation process were begun in 2002 and remains to be ongoing until this year. In addition, there are 5,200 copies of palm-leaf manuscript collected in Gedong Kirtya, privately owned by residents, as well as undergoing the process of translation. The 1,808 copies owned by Gedong Kirtya belong to ancient manuscript.

Moreover, the oldest lontar written in 350 AD tells about the story of Ramayana epic. He admitted this effort is meant to add the collections and make visitors easier to understand the contents of the manuscripts. Currently, two manuscripts namely the usadha (healing) and purana (legend and folklore) have been translated.

Both manuscript collections will later undergo the process of translation by the staff of the Gedong

Kirtya.”A total 40 of 81 titles have been translated and published into a book,” he said.

In carrying out the main duties and functions of the Gedong Kirtya, Wiriasa programmed the lontar copying, so that the collection at the Kirtya Building increases. However, so far the local government is still constrained by budgeting problems. The transliteration and translation are done gradually.

The most sought after manuscripts by people and tourists such as the usadha (healing), wariga (almanac) and kawisesan (supernatural power) are prioritized for translation.

The transliteration and translation works take a long time. A manuscript expert can only accomplish approximately 2 and 3 manuscripts each year. At first, a manuscript will be transliterated from Balinese script into Latin scripts. After that, it will be translated from the early Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Ancient Balinese languages into Indonesian, so that the readers can easily

understand it.

In the meantime, the Buleleng House of Representatives support the endeavor to rescue the palm-leaf manuscripts through the translation effort. In order to further optimize the transliteration, the people’s representatives agreed to encourage the government to prioritize budget allocations to Gedong Kertya. This can be done by dividing the ‘ration’ of the Restaurant and Hotel Taxes (PHR).

So far, the revenues from the hotel and restaurant taxes in the regional budget are mostly allocated for tourism infrastructure improvement programs and other non-physical activities in the tourism sector. Meanwhile, the cultural sector shoring up the tourism industry in North Bali has never received a ‘share’ of hotel and restaurant taxes. On this condition, the Buleleng parliament urged the regional government in the future to allocate such taxes for the activities of the Culture Agency. (kmb38)

appear in control, using its parliamentary majority to introduce longer potential jail sentences for deliberate contamination.

Strawberry farmers “were having their livelihoods threatened”, Morrison said Monday, heralding the parliamentary response.

“We had mums and dads worried about what they were putting in the school kids’ lunches. We were able to act swiftly and get that through the parliament in about 36 hours.” In the latest twist, needles have turned up in a punnet of Australian strawberries in New Zealand, prompting the authorities there to say each punnet would be screened.

Strawberry Growers NZ said there had been no reports of problems with locally-grown fruit.

“While this is naturally of concern to our industry, this is an Australian strawberry issue and there is no evidence to suggest any connection to New Zealand-grown strawberries,” executive manager Michael Ahern said.

New Zealand Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said it was unclear whether the strawberries had been tampered with before or after they entered New Zealand.

But he did not rule out the prospect of copycat sabotage.

“It’s the kind of sordid and sick proposition that does arise when these situations are publicised,” he told Radio New Zealand.

“We hope that it would not be a New Zealander doing a copycat, we hope that it wouldn’t happen at all.” (afp)

For almost two weeks, reports of pins and needles being found in fruit across Australia have delivered a gut punch to industry, set grocery-shoppers on edge and left police struggling to find needles in a haystack of copycat pranks.

But now Australians -- adopting a shrug-and-get-on-with-it attitude -- have had enough. They are get-

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packed up tools fearing the worst.

For some farmers it may be too little too late, but for the industry at large, it’s a godsend.

- Mystery remains The crisis began almost two weeks ago with needles being found in two brands of strawberries in the northeast state of Queensland.

The cause of the initial scare and the scale of the problem remain a mystery. Police in Queensland say only that the initial investigation is ongoing, leaving the public to speculate about the motives -could it be a disgruntled employee or competitor? -- or how close they are to solving the crime.

The Australian government has instructed police and other agencies to avoid giving specific numbers about how many pins or needles have actually been found in fruit -- including bananas, apples and a mango. Indications are that of the 100 or so instances looked at by police, the vast majority were hoaxes or pranks.

Two kids are believed to have been cautioned for such copycat stunts and in Adelaide in southern Australia, a father has reportedly been charged with making a false claim to police about his daughter eating tainted fruit.

Australian state governments have offered cash rewards and indemnity from prosecution for anyone providing information about the culprit.

Throughout the crisis, the government of new Prime Minister Scott Morrison has strained to

The management of Gedong Kertya has recently continued to boost the translation of various palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) stored in the library built by the Dutch colonialists.

SINGARAJA - Recently, the tourist visits to Gedong Kertya Singaraja is increasingly crowded. Amid this condition, many visitors to this object are still hard to understand the contents written in the palm-leaf manuscripts. For this reason, the management of Gedong Kertya has recently continued to boost the translation of various palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) stored in the library built by the Dutch colonialists.

Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya.

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Must be designed creatively

MANGUPURA - The plan to impose a 10-dollar levy per tourist is actually not a new thing. Some countries have even implemented this policy. However, the levy should be later packaged creatively so that it will not surprise tourists.

“Just see the benchmark, some countries have applied it. So, in marketing there is a term known as elasticity. If the price of a product is increased, surely it (the visit) will go down,” said Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the GWK Statue at Bukit Ungasan, Badung, on Saturday (Sep. 22).

According to Arief, it is necessary to calculate the 10-dollar levy to give an increase at what percentage and how sensitive the tourists are to the increase. If remaining positive, such a plan is certainly possible. Conversely, if it has an impact on the quite sharp decrease in tourist visits or negative, then Bali must be careful before applying it.

“Probably, the best way to impose a levy making people not to feel too burdensome is by not making people surprised. For example, the levies may not be too large and apply gradually,” he added.

Arief added the levy must be packaged creatively. For example, it is included in an insurance premium for tourists while on vacation in Bali. By that way, tourists

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Braetop Berries strawberry farmer Aidan Young stands amid strawberries he will destroy following a nationwide needle scare, on his farm in the Glass House Mountains in Queensland on September 20, 2018.

Orangutans saved as Malaysia foils high-seas smuggling bid

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Can science build a better burger?

THIS isn’t as extreme as if the federal government had decided to regulate time travel. But it’s almost as surprising. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step toward rules for growing nutritious, delicious, juicy meat in labs, not farms.

The notion of growing, say, just the beef instead of the whole cow has been floating around since at least the 1890s. This sci-fi fantasy got a bit more real at a 2013 televised tasting of a lab-grown hamburger, though the patty cost about as much as a Rolls-Royce.

In July, the movement passed a new milestone: In a packed auditorium in suburban Maryland, the FDA convened the first public hearing (the U.S. Department of Agriculture is jumping in too) to discuss federal regulation of food grown from cells — no hooves or fins or feathers in sight.

What to call such fare is a point of contention. Enthusiasts suggest “clean meat” or “cultured meat.” But calling this stuff “meat” doesn’t sit well with traditional farmers. “They’re hijacking our brand,” Montana rancher Maggie Nutter testified on behalf of the United States Cattlemen’s Association.

Meat is harvested from a real animal. Period. (Yet the cells to start a meat-growing culture come from a real animal too.)

Whatever it’s called, cultured meat is one of two highscience endeavors to get animals, at least in the traditional sense, out of agriculture.

The other camp wants to take every bit of the animal out of agriculture and make “meat” from plants. These dreamers, including Patrick O. Brown of Impossible Foods in Redwood City, Calif., do not want to make another veggie burger. (Brown goes icy at the v-b label.) Instead they want to focus the full glory of molecular biology on identifying the proteins or other molecules that give meats their seductive flavors and textures. Then, sourcing each vital component from some nonanimal origin, these pioneers want to build plant “meat” so delicious that die-hard carnivores will sigh happily and take another bite.

“Animals happened to be the technology that was available 10,000 years ago” for making meat, Brown says. “We stuck with that same technology, and it’s incredibly inefficient by any measure — and destructive.”

Brown is convinced that science can come up with something better, for the sake of the environment, food security and animal welfare. He’s going the plant path, but says if the clean meat scientists can make their dream financially viable, “I’ll be their biggest fan.” The looming questions for both of these approaches, however, may arise from the not-so-scientific swerves of human desire.

Brave new meat

Many people like meat the way it is. Yet they may not always grasp what technological change could look like, says Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Good Food

Institute based in Washington, D.C. In another sign that the alternate-meat movement may be gaining traction, he and Brown were on a panel in June explaining their visions of future meat to a meeting of international economists at the headquarters of the World Bank.

On the panel, Friedrich conjures another weighty gathering. “It’s 1898. The world’s first-ever urban planning conference is convening.” The focus: “175,000 horses on the streets of New York ... laying down 50,000 tons of horse excrement every month.” Failing to come up with a solution, the planners “go home despondent,” Friedrich says. “Ten years later Henry Ford introduces the Model T.” Cars and other horseless vehicles caught on quickly, and within a decade, horse-drawn carriages were clop-clopping their way to the shrunken status of tourist attraction. What most people had really loved about equine transportation was not the workhorse itself so much as its speed, convenience and capacity. People still raise horses for pleasure, but when cars offered speed without manure, horse transport was history.

Likewise, most people don’t love modern industrial animal agriculture itself, Friedrich contends, with its high-density animal facilities and its greenhouse gases and other environmental consequences. What people do love is the beef, pork, chicken and eggs that make current agriculture seem inevitable.

Change, he argues, will take the Model T of meat.

Call it a Model M

That Model M will have to be affordable, but maybe more importantly, it has to deliver on flavor, a formidable challenge.

Meat scientist Hannah Laird runs a sensory evaluation lab

at Texas A&M University in College Station. She recruits beef lovers to spend six months to a year learning to pick out and score some 40 flavors and aromas that can show up in ground beef. For two hours a day, trained panelists sniff, taste and rate beef samples against reference foods on characteristics such as “brown/roasted” (beef suet ranks an 8) and “metallic” (Dole canned pineapple juice, 6).

Raw beef is bland, Laird says. It provides mainly an aroma and flavor known as “bloody/serumy” with a few other components such as “overall sweet.” Cook it though, and oh my.

Brown/roasted! Fatlike! Umami! Maybe smoky-charcoal (or, perhaps, smoky-wood), cocoa, salty, buttery, cumin, floral.

For a less-than-perfect patty, testers could report “barnyard.”

The sensory experience of cooked ground beef is so embedded in American culture and so singular that one flavor is called “beef identity.” Cooked beef exerts such pull on its devotees in large part because of its sheer beefiness.

Laird is finishing a project probing for changes in this intense culinary romance. “People say they want low-fat ground beef,” she says. But in blind taste tests, they’ll choose the 20 percent fat over the 10 percent fat almost every time.

Taste preferences start forming in the womb, says Gary Beauchamp, who studies food preferences at Philadelphia’s Monell Chemical Senses Center. Tests there have detected an influence of mom’s diet during pregnancy on baby’s food preferences. But preferences can change. In Beauchamp’s own work on salty flavors, he finds that people who switch to low-salt diets are often miserable at first, but months later, these dieters rate a taste of their once-beloved foods as too salty. It would be daunting to predict what might happen with meat preferences, he says. “The complexity of something like a hamburger is astounding.” (IBP/net)

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Two groups of scientists, for similar reasons, are exploring opposite ways of changing how meat is made. One approach grows just the edible parts of the animal; the other tries to simulate meat with plants (meatless Impossible Burger, shown).

Over-the-hill cells may cause trouble in the aging brain

CELLS past their prime may have a role in dementia.

Culling these cells protected the brains of mice that were otherwise destined for brain decline, a new study finds.

Senescent cells, which accumulate with age, are still alive but in a state of suspended animation — they stop doing their jobs and they stop dividing. Getting rid of these cells in the body extends the life spans of mice and improves their heart and kidney health, scientists have found. The new research, published online September 19 in Nature, suggests that senescent cells also make mischief in the aging brain.

Molecular biologist Darren Baker of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues studied mice with mutations that led nerve cells in their brains to accumulate a toxic form of the protein tau. Damaging globs of this protein, called neurofibrillary tangles, are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease IBP/net and other dementias.

Senescent brain cells that no longer do their jobs In some of these mice, Baker and colleagues also engiproperly may have a hand in creating tangles of neered in a genetic trick — a “kill switch” that destroys cells tau (illustrated in blue inside a nerve cell) and, ulti- as soon as they become senescent. In mutated mice with this switch, tau didn’t accumulate as fast. What’s more, these mice mately, dementia, a mouse study suggests.

were better able to recognize new smells and objects than mice with more senescent cells in their brains. An anticancer drug called navitoclax that targets senescent cells also had protective effects in these mutated mice’s brains.

Specifically, the senescent troublemakers in mice were glial cells — support cells that help nerve cells do their jobs.

The researchers suspect that neurons in trouble, such as those with toxic tau, may prod glial cells to become senescent, and once senescent, those glial cells damage nerve cells by causing even more tau to accumulate. “It’s a back-and-forth kind of system,” Baker says.

The results are early evidence that senescent cells in the brain may have a role in aging, says neuroscientist Mark Mattson of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore. But “there are a lot of open questions that are unanswered by this study,” he says, such as what signals cause glial cells to become senescent, and how those senescent cells harm nerve cells.

Baker and his colleagues plan to study whether destroying senescent cells in animals that already have signs of disease can slow or even reverse brain damage. (IBP/net)

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The venue inaugurated on Saturday (Sep. 22) was established as a forum to introduce Buddhism culture in Bali and promote dharma and arouse love.

Famous entrepreneur from China builds cultural exchange center in Kintamani

BANGLI — A cultural center named the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center is established by a famous Chinese businessman, Peter Wang, in the area of Sekardadi village, Kintamani. The venue inaugurated on Saturday (Sep. 22) was established as a forum to introduce Buddhism culture in Bali and promote dharma and arouse love.

Inauguration of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center was attended by the Honorary Chairperson of the institution, I Made Mangku Pastika, Second Assistant of the Governor of Bali, Dewa Sunarta, Representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Great Monk Guangping and a number of other invitees. The inauguration ceremony began with the ritual of singing holy songs at the altar led by a Buddhist professor from Putuoshan Temple in China.

Founder of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center, Peter Wang, said The Belt and Road Entrepreneurs Association is a non-profit organization approved by the Australian Government and has opened a public office in Bali. The association has vision to promote mutually beneficial cooperation among the entrepreneurs along one lane one region based on trade, tourism and cultural service platforms and actively supports the creation of cross-border and resource sharing platforms.

Kintamani is chosen as the location of the Bodhi cultural exchange center project invested by the One Belt One Road Employers Association because it has good feng shui geomancy and was blessed by the gods. The cultural exchange center spreading across the area of 10,000 square meters has a main hall and library that can be used for many cultural activities, meditation, moral education, and Buddhist cultural exchange. Later on, it will also be developed orphanages, colleges, vocational schools and others benefiting the community.

This cultural exchange center will begin in Bali and be devel-

oped to Australia, Cambodia and other countries along the line of the One Belt One Road. This Bodhi Cultural Exchange Center is said to be beneficial for the people of both countries. “We welcome your support and advice for the cultural center,” said Peter Wang.

Meanwhile, the Honorary Chairperson of the Bodhi One Belt One Road, I Made Mangku Pastika, in his speech said that Bali has a strong historical relationship with China. The selection of Kintamani as location of the cultural center is considered very appropriate because Kintamani is the home to Balinese king and Chinese princess named Kang Cing Wie. The historical relations with China are evident from the existence of Balingkang Temple and other temples in Kintamani having Chinese shrines as well as several villages in Kintamani using Chinese names.

“Balinese culture has been very much integrated with Chinese culture,” he said. The cultural exchange center inaugurated is expected to be beneficial and strengthen friendship between China and Bali.

Meanwhile, the Representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Vincent Sucimaru, said that Ministry of Tourism is very happy and welcomes positively the presence of the cultural exchange center initiated by Peter Wang. The existence of the Bodhi One Belt One Road Cultural Exchange Center will add to the repertoire of tourist objects in Bali and gives a new color to Indonesian tourism. The establishment of this cultural exchange center is expected that in the future more and more Chinese tourists will come to Indonesia. He said that since the past few years Chinese tourists occupied the first position of tourist arrivals to Indonesia.

“In terms of the market segmentation, this belongs to spiritual tourism. More interestingly, this place is not only intended for Buddhism, but also for accommodating other existing religions and faith followers,” he said. (kmb40)

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High tolerance makes tourists feel at home in Bali

DENPASAR — Chief of Bali Police, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose, is never tired of echoing that Bali is safe and comfortable to be visited.

One of the contributing factors is the high tolerance of Balinese people so that foreign tourists feel at home in Bali. This was conveyed while attending the Bali International Film Festival (BalinaleX), Industry Forum 2018, on Sunday (Sep. 23) in Nusa Dua. In his remarks, he stated that Bali is also known as the Island of Paradise, the Island of Peace, the Island of Love and the Island of Tolerance. In front of national and international filmmakers and experts, Golose emphasized that Bali is an island that must be visited by both domestic and foreign tourists. Due to high tolerance of the community, tourists feel at home to visit and even settle on the Island of Bali. “This be-

comes basic capital for the region to develop,” he said.

In addition to the community, the security factor is also a major supporting element in every activity in Bali. As evidence, on the upcoming October 8-14, 2018, the biggest meeting in the world in the field of economics and finance will be held here namely the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting 2019. The event will be attended by the governors of central bank and finance minister from 189 member countries and the number of participants reaches tens of thousands.

He said the BalinaleX Industry Forum 2018 is very appropriate to be organized in Bali. This graduate of the Police Academy in 1988 hoped that more and more international events will be organized in Bali.

“Apart from offering the potential of Indonesia, and Bali in particular, to the whole world, Bali is also an appropriate and attraction location for the making of international films,” he added. (kmb36)

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16 kilograms of garbage collected in conservation dive

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Rai Mantra supports selection of gamelan as UNESCO intangible heritage

DENPASAR - The Mayor of Denpasar, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, supports the nomination of gamelan as one of Indonesia’s intangible heritages. Gamelan is found in various parts of Indonesia including in the city of Denpasar and throughout Bali.

“We support the nomination of gamelan to be included in the list of intangible cultural heritages by the UNESCO Committee, considering that gamelan is one Indonesia’s noble cultural heritages”, said Rai Mantra as he received the Research and Development Team Leader of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Ihya Ulumuddin, at Tukad Bindu, East Denpasar, on Sunday (Sep. 23).

Rai Mantra said that Balinese gamelan has its own unique characteristics. As the accompaniment of traditional and religious ceremonies and part of the Panca Gita in Bali, gamelan must be preserved.

Furthermore, Mayor Rai Mantra accompanied by the Head of the Denpasar Culture Agency, IGN Bagus Mataram, stated that his government highly appreciated and thanked the ministry for submitting gamelan as an intangible heritages to UNESCO. UNESCO has already established Subak, Baris Cina Dance (Renon and Sanur

villages), Baris Wayang Dance (Lumintang village), Legong Keraton Dance, Basmerah and Ngerebong Traditions (Kesiman village) as the world’s heritage.

“We hope that the team form the ministry will review the great variety of traditions and cultural practices that we have in Denpasar and other parts of Bali so that more of them can be submitted to UNESCO as world intangible heritages which serves to encourage artists, communities and activists”, stated Rai Mantra.

Research and Development Team Leader, Ihya Ulumuddin, said that his agency had already agreed with the Expert Council and the Minister about submitting gamelan as a world heritage to UNESCO along with Reog Ponorogo and Kulintang. They have agreed to propose gamelan and have been surveying Bali, Java, Sunda, Sumatra and Kalimantan to assess the indicators for qualifying which includes community efforts to pass on the cultural values contained in said heritage.

“We hope that gamelan will not only be proposed as a world intangible heritage to to UNESCO but that this art form will also get the attention it deserves from local, national and world communities so that gamelan can continue to develop and be practiced by more and more people”, concluded Ulumuddin, adding that the surveying process includes taking visual record. (kmb)

NEGARA -Coral reef is not only vulnerable to damage by plastic garbage but also by starfish (Acanthaser planci). The beautiful underwater world of the West Bali National Park (TNBB) is under threat by such starfish, so last weekend hundreds of divers plunged in to collect plastic garbage and starfish from the coral reef areas.

Diving for Conservation (DfC) which took place around the TNNB’s Menjangan Island included monitoring the condition of the coral reef, an underwater cleanup entitled Dive for Trash, underwater photography, coral reef pest control, conservation campaigns, coral reef transplantation, and adoption of mooring buoys.

During the underwater garbage cleanup, hundreds of divers from Surabaya Diving, tourism awareness groups (Pokdarwis), dive operators, Indonesian Military and National Police, student professional associations (Pajajaran University, Gadjah Mada University, Udayana University, Ganesha University of Education) obtained three bags of rubbish weighing 16 kilograms.

They also collected 580 starfish from four dive areas around Menjangan Island. Coral reef monitoring was conducted all around Menjagana Island and

Brumbun Bay as well.

Ketut Danu, a representative of Biorock Indonesia, a non-governmental organization, engaged coral reef conservation, said that they will soon be sending volunteers to the TNNB Agency to help with controlling pests as they are the main threat to coral reefs.

Head of the TNBB Agency, Agus Ngurah Krisna Kepakisan, emphasized the importance of community and stakeholder involvement in the management of the national park, especially at Western Bali’s premiere destination: Menjangan Island.

The tourists that the island’s underwater beauty attracts provide direct benefits to the local community. Therefor the local community is urged to continue protecting the natural environment of Menjangan Island.

This is the third time that DfC-TNBB coral conservation activity was held as part of National Nature Conservation Day (HKAN) and World Cleanup Day (September 15). Apart from the promoting nature tourism, the conservation activities are also meant to introduce the the local community to involvement in ecosystem management and setting up mooring buoys which allow boats to anchor without damaging the coral reef. (kmb26)

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Argento sex accuser Bennett opens up on Italian TV

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ROME - US actor Jimmy Bennett, who accuses Asia Argento of sexually assaulting him as a teenager, said in his first television interview since the allegation emerged that they had a “complete” sexual relationship.

Argento, who shot into the headlines for accusing disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, reportedly paid Bennett money after he said she had sex with him in a California hotel room in 2013. The actor and rock musician was 17

years old at the time of the alleged assault. The legal age of consent in California is 18. Argento was 37.

She has denied having sex with him or paying hush money.

“It all happened very fast,” Bennett told Italy’s La 7 channel, accompanied by his US lawyer, Gordon Sattro.

“She started kissing me longer and longer... and it started to feel to me that it was less of just a friendly thing and more of something she was trying to push or explore,” Bennett told sceptical interviewer Massimo Gilletti.

“It turned into her placing her hands on me and following that was when she pushed me onto the bed and took my pants off,”

he said. Asked whether it was a “complete” relationship, Bennett confirmed that it was, implying they had sex, but declined to go into detail.

Bennett was seven years old when he played Argento’s son in the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things”.

“The power that she had over the situation made me feel powerless in a way,” Bennett said.

The New York Times reported in August that Argento paid Bennett $380,000 after his lawyers launched legal action, a month after Argento’s accusations against Weinstein were made public.

Argento says she only gave Bennett money to help him out during a difficult period. (afp)

Versace luxury fashion house ‘to be sold shortly’: media

MILAN - Italian fashion giant Versace is about to be sold, the country’s biggest-selling newspaper said Monday, citing anonymous sources who suggested the deal could come in the next few hours.

Donatella Versace, the brand’s artistic director and vice-president of the group, has called a staff meeting in Milan for Tuesday, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Celebrity shoemaker Jimmy Choo, luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co and US fashion group

Michael Kors Holdings were listed as possible buyers.

The company in its entirety is estimated to be worth some $2.0 billion (1.7 billion euros), the report said. Versace could not immediately confirm the news to AFP. Twenty percent of the brand, known for its Medusa head logo, was bought by US private equity group Blackstone in 2014, and the family owns the rest.

The group, founded by designer Gianni Versace in 1978, boasted

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This picture taken in Bandung, West Java on September 23, 2018, shows Indonesian policemen standing guard during a match between Bandung’s football club “Persib” against Jakarta football club “Persija” in Bandung. More than a dozen people have been arrested after an Indonesian football fan was clubbed to death with iron bars and wood planks by supporters of a rival team, police said on September 24. The deadly incident happened on September 23 before a match between host club Bandung and Persija Jakarta, bitter rivals in Indonesia’s top flight professional league.

sales of 686 million euros in 2016 and turnover is expected to exceed one billion euros in the “short term”, CEO Jonathan Akeroyd said in June. (afp)

Indonesian football fan beaten to death by rival supporters

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Haringga Sirla, a 23-year-old Persija Jakarta fan, died after a group of Bandung supporters beat him outside the main stadium in the city of Bandung, 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast of Jakarta.

Some 16 people had since been arrested in connection with the attack, police added.

It was the seventh death of a fan linked to a match between the two clubs since 2012, according to football analyst Akmal Marhali.

The Indonesian football association expressed its “deep condolences”.

“We hope this kind of incident will not happen again in Indonesian football,” it said in a statement. Sir-

la was the 70th Indonesian football fan to die in match-related violence since 1994, said analyst Marhali.

“This keeps happening because of neglect” by authorities, he said.

“In the past there hasn’t been any firm punishment for violence and vandalism... it’s become a habit in Indonesian football.”

In July Indonesian fans hurled stones and bottles at the visiting Malaysia team after the home side lost their semi-final match in the AFF Cup Under-19 football match.

Football in Southeast Asia’s biggest nation has been racked by crisis for years, with an explosive row between the domestic association and government prompting FIFA to temporarily ban Indonesia from international competition in 2015. It was lifted last year.

Foreign players have also been

badly treated by Indonesian clubs, with at least two known to have died after going unpaid and being unable to afford medical treatment. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.