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Miss Universe winner says next dream is to be a Bond girl
MANILA — The reigning Miss Universe has her eyes set on her next big dream: being a Bond girl. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach returned home to the Philippines for the first time since her crowning — and that awkward moment when host Steve Harvey mistakenly announced Miss Colombia as the winner instead of her. She said Sunday she’s using the intense attention she got after that controversy to focus on her causes like fighting HIV and AIDS. “I’m using the attention to talk about my causes. Now, I have everybody’s attention,” she said. She told a news conference that she plans to be tested for HIV publicly in New York to encourage other people to be tested, including in the Philippines, where HIV cases have risen alarmingly in recent years. Asked about her plans after her reign, Wurtzbach said she would consider possible job offers in the United States, adding: “I might be the next Bond girl, who knows? So, we’ll see, that’s the next dream.” Many international actresses have been cast
alongside actors playing British agent James Bond and are popularly known as “Bond girls.” Wurtzbach, 26, has worked as an actress and model in the Philippines before winning the crown. The Miss Universe pageant is a big deal in the Philippines, where two other women have brought home the crown before her, with the last one winning in 1973. On Monday, Wurtzbach will meet President Benigno Aquino III, a bachelor who is rumored to have gone on a date with her before. She’ll receive a citation from the Senate for her victory then join a motorcade around Manila that will end with a fireworks show. Wurtzbach told reporters she was so overwhelmed with her triumph that she constantly checked on her crown in the initial days and even took a nap beside it but decided not to do that again because she might break it. (ap)
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Tina Fey returns as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL,’ Oscars parodied NEW YORK — Tina Fey returned to “Saturday Night Live” to reprise her impression of Sarah Palin and give a rambling, sometimes-rhyming endorsement to Donald Trump. The sketch kicked off the cold open to “SNL” on Saturday, with Fey and Darrell Hammond skewering the former Alaska governor’s endorsement speech in Iowa on Tuesday. As Palin, Fey said she had come to Iowa to break from “my full-time career of writing things on Facebook.”
“SNL” also parodied this year’s all-white Oscar nominees in a mock award show that nominated white actors playing bit roles in AfricanAmerican dramas. Last week, the only Oscar nominations that the “Rocky” sequel “Creed” and the N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” received were for white people: Sylvester Stallone for “Creed,” and “Compton” writers Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff. In the sketch, an award was given
to “all the white guys” in predominantly black films modeled after “Creed,” ‘’Compton” and “Beasts of No Nation.” The roles were barely cameos, like: “White Man With Camera” and “Unseen Voice On Phone.” “Saturday Night Live,” however, has also been much-criticized in the past about its own diversity. Following an uproar in 2013, it added Sasheer Zamata, Leslie Jones and writer LaKendra Tookes. (ap)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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Arrak producers ‘dying off’
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Water.org co-founders Matt Damon, left, and Gary White take part in a panel discussion on the global water crisis at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Park City, Utah.
Matt Damon brings call for clean water for all to Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah — Actor Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of the nonprofit Water.org, came to the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday to call attention to the desperate need for clean water in impoverished regions around the world. He said the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, is something millions of people across the globe experience every day. “Imagine this outrage we feel about Flint — this justified outrage, I should say, because that should never happen in the United States of America, ever,” Damon said in an interview with The Associated Press. “But there are people for whom life is such a desperate struggle, that they’re faced every day with the choice of giving their children dirty water or no water at all.” Damon and White appeared alongside Todd Allen of Stella Artois to discuss the global water crisis and to announce their “Buy a Lady a Drink” campaign — so named because water shortages disproportionately affect women, who spend hours each day searching for water for their families. The beer maker is introducing a limited-edition collection of decorated glass chalices representing water-poor countries such as Ethiopia, Haiti, India and Honduras. The sale of each $13 goblet will provide a woman in one of these countries with five years of clean water. The water crisis in Flint shows how heartbreaking and horrifying life without clean water is, Damon said. He recalled a trip to Ethiopia several years ago where he witnessed schoolchildren filling bottles with water “the color of chocolate milk.” Their parents knew the water would make the children sick, but without it, they would have nothing to drink. “I have four daughters,” Damon said. “When you start having kids, it’s hard not to see other kids as your own ... It’s incumbent upon me to do whatever I can within my sphere of influence” to help. (ap)
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An Indonesian Muslim woman holds a poster outside a Starbucks cafe where Thursday’s attack took place, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Indonesian extremist groups received international financing from Australia and Syria, the country’s security minister said Monday, adding to fears that jihadists are targeting the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
THE FATE of arrak makers in Sidemen subdistrict, Karangasem, looks increasingly uncertain. Not only are they frequently raided by police, but lack of rain is interfering with the growth of coconut trees. Although the long dry season has ended and it does rain occasionally, there has not been enough rainfall to restore the coconut trees of the arrack makers. A number of arrack makers in Tri Eka Bhuana village, Sidemen, are extremely distraught. I Nyoman Masta, for example, said that he and his relatives are usually able to produce 14 bottles of arrak (containing 10 liters) every three days. However, over the past three months, production has become erratic as raw coconut has become hard to come by. “The coconuts cannot grow when the weather is this hot for this long,” said Masta. Tri Eka Bhuana village is the largest arrak producing village in Karangasem, so the village’s economy is greatly affected by such conditions. About 95 percent of the 600 families (approximately 2,193 persons) rely on arrak sales to earn a living. Continue to page 2 Generations ...
Indonesian extremist groups getting international financing
SINGAPORE - Indonesian extremist groups received international financing from Australia and Syria, the country’s security minister said Monday, adding to fears that jihadists are targeting the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Luhut Panjaitan was speaking at a defence forum in Singapore less than two weeks after coordinated gun and bomb attacks in Jakarta left four civilians dead. He said about $800,000 were found last week to have been sent to Indonesian extremist groups. The Islamic State group (IS) has claimed responsibility for the January 14 attacks, spurring concerns it is getting a foothold in southeast Asia. “We are tracing right now...
how do they (Indonesian extremist groups) get finance,” Panjaitan said. He said about $100,000 came from the Syrian city of Raqa, the capital of IS’s self-styled caliphate, to support extremist activities in Indonesia, and about $700,000 came from Australia. He said it was not known where the money had come from in Australia. “Right now our agencies are working very hard, trying to moni-
tor this financing support, because without financing I don’t think they can move more aggressively,” Panjaitan said. He did not give other details about the funds. Panjaitan stressed the need for greater international cooperation, saying no country could fight the threat alone. He cited information shared by Australia with Indonesia on the flow of funds, in addition to a communication hotline with Singapore as examples of “good cooperation” between countries. Panjaitan also said the weapons used in the Jakarta attacks were smuggled from the southern Phil-
ippine island of Mindanao to the Indonesian town of Poso. Panjaitan and Singaporean Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said financing and logistics support from overseas were evidence that terror groups in the region were improving their coordination. “There is an international financing network which you must try to strangle and choke to cut off the flow of funds,” Ng told reporters at a joint news conference with Panjaitan. “The more we cooperate the stronger we become. This is a fight that may last many decades, we need many partners in this,” Ng said. Singapore last week disclosed it had arrested 27 Bangladeshi
construction workers last year for supporting “the armed jihad ideology” of militant groups like IS and deported 26 of them. Officials said that while the workers were being groomed to carry out attacks in their home country and elsewhere, they could have easily turned against Singapore. (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.