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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Audiard’s ‘Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or in upset Cannes finale CANNES, France — The 68th Cannes Film Festival was brought to a surprising close Sunday with Jacques Audiard’s Sri Lankan refugee drama taking the festival’s coveted top honor, the Palme d’Or. The choice of “Dheepan,” as selected by a jury led by Joel and Ethan Coen, left some critics scratching their heads.

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Director Jacques Audiard holds the Palme d’Or award for the film Dheepan as he poses for photographers during a photo call following the awards ceremony at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 24, 2015.

While the dapper French filmmaker has drawn widespread acclaim for films such as “A Prophet” and “Rust and Bone,” some critics were disappointed by the thriller climax of Audiard’s film.

“Dheepan” is about a trio of Sri Lankans who pretend to be a family in order to flee their war-torn country and are settled in a violent housing project outside Paris.

“This isn’t a jury of film critics,” Joel Coen told reporters after the awards ceremony, alongside fellow jurors like Guillermo del Toro and Jake Gyllenhaal.

“This is a jury of artists who are looking at the work.”

The win for “Dheepan” comes at

a time when Europe is particularly attuned to the experience of immigrants, following the recent deaths of hundreds crossing the Mediterranean, seeking Italian shores. Jury members, though, said “Dheepan” was chosen for its overall strength as a film, rather than any topicality.

“We all thought it was a very beautiful movie,” said Ethan Coen, calling the decision “swift.” ‘’Everyone had some high level of excitement and enthusiasm for it.” Audiard, springing to the podium at the Palais des Festivals, accepted the award with warm gratitude, bowing to the jury. He was joined by the makeshift

parents of his film: Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who himself was Tamil Tiger child soldier before finding political asylum in France.

The runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, went to “Son of Saul,” a grim Holocaust drama by first-time Hungarian director László Nemes. Some expected Nemes’ horrifying plunge into the life of an Auschwitz worker to take the top award, but it’s been 26 years since a debut film (Steven Soderbergh’s “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”) was given the Palme.

English actress Sienna Miller and Canadian actor Xavier Dolan, both jury members, sounded especially moved by “Son of Saul.” Miller called it “breathtaking” and an extraordinary accomplishment for a first-time filmmaker.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the masterful 68-year-old Taiwanese filmmaker, won best director for his first feature in eight years: “The Assassin,” a lushly painterly martial arts drama.

The best actress prize was split but not the way some expected. It was given to both Rooney Mara, half of the romantic pair of Todd Haynes’ ‘50s lesbian drama “Carol,” and Emmanuelle Bercot, the French star of the roller coaster marriage drama “My King.” (Bercot also directed the festival opener, “Standing Tall,” about a delinquent teenager.) Any split was presumed to go to Mara and her “Carol” co-star, Cate Blanchett.

Best actor was awarded to Vincent Lindon, the veteran French actor of Stéphane Brizé’s “The Measure of a Man.” He plays a man struggling to make a living after a long period of unemployment. The visibly moved Lindon won over some big-name competition, including Michael Caine, the star of Paolo Sorrentino’s unrewarded “Youth,” a wry, melancholy portrait of old age. (ap)

Entertainment ‘Tomorrow land’ tops North American box office LOS ANGELES - Sci-fi adventure-drama “Tomorrow land” starring George Clooney went straight to the top of the North American box office on its debut weekend, estimates showed Sunday.

The Disney movie, which has had mixed reviews, was projected to pull in $40.7 million over the Memorial Day long weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Directed by Brad Bird, the film tells the story of former boy genius Frank (Clooney) and the precocious Casey (Britt Robertson) in their danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of a mysterious place known only as “Tomorrowland.”

The movie relegated musical comedy sequel “Pitch Perfect 2” into second place in the box office standings, expected to rake in $38 million over four days to Monday in the United States and Canada.

Starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, it follows the fortunes of the Barden Bellas singing team as they chase international success after being banned from the competitive circuit. Third was the reboot of Australian director George Miller’s “Mad Max” franchise, with $30 million.

It is the fourth film of the iconic series and the first since 1985’s “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”

Fourth in the box office was a new entry for horror classic “Poltergeist” ($27.7 million) on its debut weekend in movie theaters. The new, 3D take on the 1982 hit tells the disturbing story of a family whose home is haunted by evil forces that abduct their youngest daughter.

The movie just sneaked in ahead of superhero blockbuster “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” which was shunted down to fifth spot with $26.8 million for a total haul of $410 million since release. (afp)

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Malaysia: Human traffickers’ camps had 139 suspected graves

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John Nash: A life of great struggle and even greater success

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IDR 7 billion worth of capital to encourage entrepreneurs IBP/Wawan

Tourist is looking for souvenirs at kiosk in Sanur area. As a way to encourage novice entrepreneurs in Bali to continue developing their businesses and absorb more labour, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI has prepared capital worth IDR 7 billion for distribution in 2015.

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From left, U.S actor George Clooney, English actress Raffey Cassidy, U.S director Brad Bird and U.S actress Britt Robertson pose for photographers during the presentation of the film ‘Tomorrow Land’ at Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

DENPASAR - As a way to encourage novice entrepreneurs in Bali to continue developing their businesses and absorb more labour, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI has prepared capital worth IDR 7 billion for distribution in 2015. In addition, training and mentoring for novice entrepreneurs will also be provided so that they can take their businesses to the next level.

Division Head of the Entrepreneurial Mentoring and Deputy Assistant of Enterprise Affairs and Human Resources Development, for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI, Indriana, announced the good news during an entrepreneurship training session for novices on Sunday (May 24).

The training session that is being held over three days from May 22 until 25 is the result of cooperation

between the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises, The Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency, Bali TV and Bank Mandiri.

Indriana stated that the training session is aimed at improving the management skills of novice humans resources in SME’s. The main priority of the training program is to attempt to upgrade the class of business that these novice entrepreneurs are running, once they have the tools that

they gain though this training. “They are also learning to create business development plans,” said Indriana.

After assessing the post-training presentations of these entrepreneurs, the amount of capital required to help develop their businesses can be assessed. At a later date, these entrepreneurs will also be given support and capital if need be for further business development. With a combination of training and financial assistance, it is expected that these businesses will grow considerably. “The most important thing is that these businesses are able to grow which in turn will provide jobs. Currently these businesses are self run but naturally with a little growth, these entrepreneurs will begin to

hire friends and relatives,” added Indriana.

For Bali, the target is very much the development of novice entrepreneurs. In addition to providing training, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises is also cooperating with the Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency to undertake similar activities. “The Ministry will be providing funds for the Provincial Cooperative Agency for the same kind of training with more focus on vocational skills,” said Indriana.

The Bali Cooperative Agency will therefor be providing support and assistance for entrepreneurs in the form of training and capital.

Hopefully, after following the training sessions, these entrepreneurs

will be able to run their business well, expand and provide job opportunities as well as share what they have learned with their colleagues. “The Ministry of Co-ops and SME’s aims to develop the skills of 1 million entrepreneurs in five years. We will not be working alone, but in collaboration with ten ministerial institutions, agencies and professional institutions,” Indriana concluded. (kmb36) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Lack of clean drinking water, residents consume mossy lake water

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The rice seller is having problem because of the distribution of plastic rice

To prevent plastic rice distribution

Trade Agency oversees rice supply from Java

BANGLI - Though known as an area with many natural springs, hundreds of families in Alengkong, Songan B, Kintamani do not have access to clean drinking water. To meet their daily needs, the people living in this hamlet are forced to consume rainwater that they have caught and as well as water from Lake Batur that they store in their wells. Sometimes the water they consume is mossy and dirty.

One local residents, Jero Erna, for instance admitted that she and her family consume stored rain water everyday.

They collect rainwater and fetch water from Lake Batur. This water is not only used for their cattle and for bathing but for their own consumption as well, without so much as being boiled. “I have gotten used to drinking it so I don’t get sick,” she explained. Local residents of Alengkong hamlet are forced to drink unclean water because they have yet to be served by the municipal waterworks (PDAM) or other sources of clean water.

Hamlet chief of Alengkong, Nengah Mandiyasa recognises the shortage of

clean water that local residents face and said that all 210 of families of Alengkong rely on rain and lake water to meet their daily needs.

According to Mandiyasa, the community of Alengkong actually never faces water shortages per se, because during rainy season they catch rainwater, while in dry season they collect lake water that is stored in a reservoir. In fact the real problem that the residents of Alengkong face, is that there is no pipeline from the reservoir to people’s houses so the water ends up getting dirty from stagnating and then becomes discolored and filled with moss.

Mandiyasa therfore hopes that the government can help with the installation of a pipeline connecting the reservoir directly to people’s homes.

Hopefully, local people will no longer need to store water in their wells. “Despite consuming this water every day -fortunately, our residents have never complained about getting sick from it,” said Mandiyasa. (kmb40)

SINGARAJA - Though the problem of plastic rice being distributed to the public has not made its way to Buleleng, the government is nonetheless being vigilant. The regency of Buleleng has instructed the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency to oversee the rice supplies coming to Bulelelng from Java. Buleleng still relies on rice supplied from Central Java and East Java to meet their demands.

Head of the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency, Ni Made Arnika, when contacted on Sunday (May 24) confirmed that such vigilance is being enforced. Following the discovery of the circulation of plastic rice in Java recently, Arnika wants to make sure that no platic rice is found circulating in Buleleleng. She added that a lot of Javanese rice is brought into Buleleng because in some seasons local farmers are not able to supply local demands. Rice is brought into to Buleleng from Central and East Java, every two weeks with 2 and 3 tons orders from each distributor in North Bali. Most of the orders are for premium class rice which has recently been in high demand by consumers in Bali. “Local Balinese rice produced by our farmers cannot be mixed with synthetic rice. So the focus of our small team is on rice coming in from Java,” she said.

To prevent the plastic rice from entering Buleleng,

her agency has deployed a small team to closely monitor the supply of rice from Java though distributors in Buleleng. “The supply from Java cannot just be cut off, because Javanese rice is much sought after by Balinese consumers, especially in North Bali where there are sometimes shortages of local rice,” she said.

Other than tightening the supervision of Javanese rice distribution, the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency has been supervising the sale of rice by retailers at traditional markets in Buleleng. Based on such supervision, Buleleng has been declared to be plastic rice free. Nevertheless, the issue of plastic rice is quite disturbing to people in North Bali. Many of whom are concerned that they might have already consumed synthetic rice. Many rice merchants have even said that their sales have gone down due to such fears, whereas demands are only slightly less than before the scare. (kmb38)

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The residents of Alengkong, Songan B, Kintamani, Bangli must use dirty water due to the drought

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Owl Stone Café & Bakery KUTA - This is a great spot to unwind with family and friends in casual surroundings. With so many bakery stores arround Kuta area, OWL Stone Café and Bakery, has a slightly different menu. With 40 seat capacity OWL Stone Café & Bakery to be one answer to the present in the middle of society. Owl Stone is specializing in visually attractive kind of cakes, bread and pastry. To add variety in the food, at the same time OWL also sell a variety of sandwiches, burgers, or finger food. Owl Stone Café & Bakery located at Jalan Raya Tuban No. 2, Ground floor of H Sovereign Hotel Bali.

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Profile

Wahyu A Bayuaji

Employess are assets

Creative, fun and energetic are simple phrases representing the young man named Wahyu A Bayuaji. Currently this man occupying the position of General Manager at Club Bali Suites does not only focus on improving the quality of personality, but also has a hobby to share knowledge for the development of his team.

Wahyu is his familiarly address working as tourism practitioner in early 2003.

Wahyu began to actively brush up his skills by trying various challenges. Previously, he attended overseas internship program for Room Division at the Albert Court Hotel Singapore and the Food & Beverage Division at Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After successfully earned an undergraduate degree from the National Hotel Institute (NHI), now the Bandung Tourism College (STPB) he developed his career to international arena and joined the Golden Tulip Hotels & Resorts Group, The Netherlands.

Later on, he returned to Indonesia and developed a career in the field of sales and marketing as Sales Manager at Bali Gardenia Resort, Corporate Sales Manager at Club Bali Hotels & Resorts Group and Assistant Director of Sales & Marketing at Karma Resorts (Karma Royal Group).

Ultimately he was offered to come back to the Club Bali Hotels & Resorts Group as General Manager at Club Bali Suites Legian and Head of Corporate Sales & Marketing. At his new workplace, Wahyu is committed to advancing the Club Bali Suites Legian, not only in terms of op-

eration management but also in terms of human resources. “Employees are assets that we will always prioritize to get improvement in terms of the quality of human resources, including their communication, transparency, teamwork, responsibility and discipline,” he said.

For the hotel itself, added Wahyu, the most important is the quality of products and services. Currently the Club Bali Suites Legian has become one of the best family accommodation options in Legian area. It offers a complete accommodation option for families like one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom suites.

“Club Bali Suites Legian has a privileged location, located in the heart of the tourism oasis near Double Six Legian Beach, Kuta Beach, Kuta Art Market, Waterbom Kuta as well as recreation spots and nightlife in the area of Legian, Kuta and Seminyak.

It is only a few minutes from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport by car,” he explained.

In the future, Wahyu will continue to motivate, provide full support and share his experience with the team happily. It is only meant to build a positive image of the Club Bali Suites Legian among the local and global communities. Having high skills in the field and proficiency in the use of certain equipment is required in the implementation of the tasks concerned with the above mentioned areas.

His team is expected to have knowledge, experience and intelligence to analyze a problem and sensitivity to read situation quickly and carefully is very important in making the best decisions.

Besides, it is required to have visionary attitude, namely the ability to anticipate environmental developments. (kmb)

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

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

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

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

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

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Science

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

International

Dogs domesticated over 27,000 years ago

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In this photo taken May 10, 2015, a dead dolphin washes ashore in the Gulf of Mexico on Grand Isle, La.

Scientists link dolphin deaths in Gulf to 2010 BP spill

NEW ORLEANS — In a new study, a team of scientists says there’s a definite link between the massive BP oil spill in 2010 and a record number of dolphin deaths along the northern Gulf of Mexico.

The scientists on Wednesday said large numbers of dead bottlenose dolphins found along shores since the spill suffered from lung and adrenal lesions caused by swimming in oilcontaminated seas.

The research paper backs up previous findings linking dolphin deaths to the oil spill. The study involved federal scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

BP has rejected the contention linking the deaths to the oil spill. Instead, it said, the dolphins were likely suffering from common respiratory illnesses.

The new study was published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS ONE. With the release of the study, researchers and federal government made the most direct link yet between the spill and the dolphin deaths.

“No feasible alternative causes remain that can reasonably explain the timing, location and nature of these distinct lesions and increase in deaths,” said Stephanie Venn-Watson, the study’s lead researcher with National

Marine Mammal Foundation.

From 2002 to 2009, the Gulf averaged 63 dolphin deaths a year. That rose to 125 in the seven months after the spill in 2010 and 335 in all of 2011, averaging more than 200 a year since April 2010.

That’s the longest and largest dolphin die-off ever recorded in the Gulf. The number of deaths has started to decline, according to federal scientists.

Researchers said oil contamination caused chronic adrenal problems for dolphins and this in turn hurt their chances of surviving cold temperatures, infections and bacterial pneumonia.

Also, the dolphins suffering from oil contamination had problems with pregnancy.

Venn-Watson said dolphins were vulnerable to oil contamination because they take deep breaths at the sea’s surface — the same place where oil sheens covered the Gulf following the spill.

“Dolphins were swimming into the oil,” she said. “Their lungs are large, they take big deep breaths at the water’s surface and hold it for extended

periods of time.”

The study looked at 46 dead dolphins found in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama between June 2010 and December 2012. Researchers tested lung and adrenal gland tissues.

The study looked at 22 dead dolphins found in Barataria Bay, a heavily oiled water body south of New Orleans where researchers first began noticing and tracking dolphin deaths after the spill.

Venn-Watson said further studies would be needed to track and monitor the long-term effects of the contamination on the dolphin populations.

BP questioned the validity of the study because it was based on what it termed “just a small sample set” of dolphins. The company accused the federal government of not releasing in a timely manner hundreds of necropsies.

“This new paper fails to show that the illnesses observed in some dolphins were caused by exposure to Macondo oil,” said Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman. (ap)

WASHINGTON - Man’s best friend may have been his companion for far longer than believed, scientists reported, publishing an analysis that dates domesticated dogs to over 27,000 years ago.

Humans possibly domesticated dogs 27,000 to 40,000 years ago, according to Swedish researchers whose work was published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

The scientists based their analysis on an ancient Siberian jaw fragment. Previous estimates said modern dogs diverged from their wolf ancestors 16,000 years ago after the last ice age.

The “Taimyr” wolf bone in the study, dated to 35,000 years ago, shows that the animal was the most recent ancestor of wolves and modern dogs.

“Dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than is generally believed,” said Love Dalen from the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Dalen said the only other explanation for the unusual bone was the less likely possibility that a major divergence between wolf populations took place at that time that gave birth to modern wolves while the wolf population became extinct.

The Taimyr wolf lived a few thousand years after Neanderthals disappeared and modern humans spread throughout Asia and Europe, the study said.

DNA analysis also showed modern Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs have an “unusually large” number of gene in common with the Taimyr wolf. (afp)

Future for warming US: More extreme heat

WASHINGTON — The combination of global warming and shifting population means that by mid-century, there will be a huge increase in the number of Americans sweating through days that are extremely hot, a new study says.

People are migrating into areas — especially in the Southeast — where the heat is likely to increase more, said the authors of a study published Monday by the journal Nature Climate Change. The study highlighted the Houston-Dallas-San Antonio and Atlanta-CharlotteRaleigh corridors as the places where the double whammy looks to be the biggest.

“It’s not just the climate that is changing in the future,” said study co-author Linda Mearns, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. “It is many things: how many people and where people are that affects their exposure to climate changes.”

In a unique study looking at the interplay of projected changes in climate and population, scientists tried to characterize the number of people who will feel temperatures of 95 degrees (35 Celsius) or higher and how often they will feel it. They used a figure called person days for the extreme heat to reflect both the length of time heat waves continued and how many people felt it by multiplying people affected by how many days they felt the heat.

Between 1970 and 2000, the U.S. averaged about 2.3 billion person days of extreme heat each year. But between 2040 and 2070 that number will be between 10 and 14 billion person days a year, according to the study.

The scientists used 11 different climate models based on current trends of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions and matched those with demographic trends. Both the increased heat and population shifts had about equal effects but together they made matters even worse, said lead author Bryan Jones, a population geographer at the City University of New York.

The question is, will be people adapt by changing their lifestyle, such as staying indoors and using more air conditioning, or will they move to cooler climates. Jones said it is unlikely that people will move to cooler areas to escape the heat, saying historically people tend to move away from colder areas and into warmer areas like Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.

Several outside scientists praised the study. University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd said the problem is likely even worse when you take into consideration the fact that cities get hotter than rural areas. (ap)

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Perched Keramas Beach

A restaurant and villa allegedly in violation GIANYAR - The coastal areas of Gianyar have become the target of investors wishing to establish tourist accommodations. Unfortunately, many tourism facilities such as villas and restaurant have not followed the rules of the the official spatial plan which dictate that buildings must be built at least a 100 meters from the shore. One of the restaurant that is established on the shoreline of Keramas, Blahbatuh, is additionally alleged to not have a permit.

Tourist accommodations that perch on the edge of Keramas Beach, Blahbatuh, can be reached by taking Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra to the Jalan Pantai Keramas. There is a restaurant on the beach and next to it several villas are under construction.

The newly built restaurant clearly violates the rules of the spatial plan, as it is definetly less than 100 meters form the shore. Such violations do occur not only on Keramas Beach but similar constructions can also be found on other beaches, such as Siyut, Lebih, Purnama, Masceti and Saba to Ketewel.

Head of the Gianyar Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT), Ngakan Putu Darmajati, when asked for his confirmation about these offenses, expressed surprise. He said that he has never issued any permits for the construction of tourist facilities such as restaurants nor villas located on the coastal line of Keramas

Beach.

“Around Keramas Beach there are indeed some villas but they are quite far from the beach. I have just now heard about the restaurant and villa located close to shoreline of Keramas -I have never issued any permit for a restaurant at that location (Keramas Beach—Ed),” he said.

After being informed, Darmajati promised to look into the situation and to coordinate with the Gianyar Municipal Police in order to discipline those in violation. “To my recollection, I have indeed never issued any permits for buildings at that location. I will forward this information to the municipal police so that they can take decisive action,” he said.

When asked about similar occurrences at other locations along the coast of Gianyar, Ngakan Dharmajati explained that such conditions are often the result of coastal abrasion,

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The coastal areas of Gianyar have become the target of investors wishing to establish tourist accommodations. Unfortunately, many tourism facilities such as villas and restaurant have not followed the rules of the the official spatial plan which dictate that buildings must be built at least a 100 meters from the shore. whereas when these buildings first went up, they met the requirement of being 100 meters from shore

“The abrasion of Gianyar’s coast is happening very rapidly, so villas or hotels that previously were in

request. This former sub-district head of Kubu said that the government of Karangasem has organized several meetings the committee that they set up and the customary village of Besakih. The meetings have not yielded agreement between the two parties, particularly regarding profit sharing.

Arta Sedana said that in the last meeting, Besakih village asked to be given 70 percent of the profits gained from the Besakih tourist attractions, with a suggested 30 percent going to the government of Karangasem. The government of Karangasem committee proposed allotting 55 percent of the profits to the village and 45 percent to the government. The committee’s figures are based on a comparison with the Tanah Lot tourist attraction.

Sedana said that the amount of money to be divided is based on the net revenue or whatever profits remain after operations costs have been paid out (including the salary of employees). The cooperation being discussed involves everything outside of the temple

courtyard, while the temples themselves remain the obligation of the government or the supporting devotees. The governing body of the tourist attraction is not allowed to interfere.

According to Arta Sedana, the Besakih tourist attraction should be made into a pilot project, but both parties must first arrive at a preliminary agreement. Later on, after the site is running as a tourist attraction, if there is a lot of many being made, the clauses of the agreement can be amended pursuant to the necessity of both parties.

He added that there is a structuring team for the Besakih tourist attraction. The team is led by the subdistrict head of Rendang and was established based on a decree by the Regent of Karangasem. Until now, there are still complaints from visitors about having been inconvenienced when visiting Besakih Temple. As well, street vendors also frequently offer their merchandise right up until the temple gates and sometimes inside the grounds as well. (013)

compliance with the requirements may appear to be in violation,” he explained. (kmb35)

Authority of Besakih tourist attraction expected to be established soon AMLAPURA - The Besakih tourist attraction authority (BPDTOWB) is expected to be established as soon as possible so that they can organize and maintain the

sanctity of the Besakih Temple.

In Almapura recently, Division Head of the Governance Affairs, Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Ketut Arta Sedana, annouced this

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People flocked at Besakih Temple during a Hindu ceremony.

The Besakih tourist attraction authority (BPDTOWB) is expected to be established as soon as possible so that they can organize and maintain the sanctity of the Besakih Temple.

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Tabanan now has a museum of ceramic art TABANAN - Pejaten village is not only famous for manufacturing earthenware but they have also developed ceramic craft products, which could very well be highlighted as a tourist attraction. Pejaten village is in fact well on its way to becoming a tourism village. To achieve this objective, the village has built a museum of ceramic art with a collection of hundreds of artificial ceramic items made by local artisans as well as heritage ceramics from the nineteenth century. It is expected to become a tourist destinations for travelers visiting Pejaten village.

According to the Operations Manager of the Museum, I Putu Oka Mahendra, the museum of ceramic art has hundreds of pieces in its collection that has been amassed since 2011. The museum also shows the historical development of ceramics in Pejaten village.

Mahendra explained that initially the development of ceramics at Pejaten village began with the manufacture of pottery and roof tiles used in bartering for agricultural commodities with other regions because Pejaten village was arid and barren. “In the 1960s the manufacture of pottery here still used traditional techniques. Then, in 1980 there was assistance from the Dutch government in teaching new manufacturing techniques that allowed the craft to evolve,” said Mahendra.

He explained that after learning from the Dutch government 15 different groups of craftsmen at Pejaten village began to produce

ceramics with a layer of glass or glaze. The development of ceramics at Pejaten is divided into several decades starting in the 1960s. Each period shows differences in forms, motifs, and levels of difficulty in the creation process.

Aside from collecting contemporary ceramic from Tabanan, the museum also has a collection of ceramic tiles estimated to be more than a thousand years old and originate from northern Thailand, specifically, 9th century Sawankhalok “We obtained this collection from fishermen on the coast of West Java. The ceramics no longer have their glaze as they were buried in the sand for so long,” said Oka. He also explained that a team from the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar investigated and found that the ceramics that were found on the coast of West Java in fact have the characteristic traits of ceramics from Sawankhalok. (kmb24)

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John Nash: A life of great struggle and even greater success TRENTON, N.J. — Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success.

That he achieved, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994, but not without a struggle with mental illness that would make him a household name even more so than his achievements in mathematics.

The Vice Regent of Tabanan, Sanjaya visited the ceramic museum

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On highway operation, three contraband puppies secured

The joint operation held by Jembrana Police

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NEGARA - Three puppies smuggled were secured by the ranks of Jembrana Police when making a highway operation on Jalan Sudirman, Denpasar-Gilimanuk, Saturday night (May 23). Aside from contraband animals, the operation led by the Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police, Anak Agung Rai Laba, also found a car without vehicle registration and toy gun.

The operation held before the dawn was actually targeting drugs in anticipating the entry of drugs smuggled to Bali through land line.

But from the operation involving at least 70 police officers from the Jembrana Police and Negara Police found 20 traffic violations. Of the many trucks inspected, the officers found a truck with destination to Flores transporting three puppies without official documents. From the description of the driver, Benyamin Bato, 43, from Flores, the truck with license plate L 9837 UP delivered puppies from Surabaya to Flores with a cost of IDR 1 million.

Recipient of the puppy delivery is on behalf of Fiki with the address at Trikora village, Bajawa subdistrict, Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara.

Since having no document from the Agricultural Quarantine, the three puppies belonging to Hasky type were secured by police. The puppies placed in small cage were estimated to be two months old.

“We have also secured a unit of Mercedes with license plate L 1207 DW without registration document and a toy pistol,” said Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police to reporters. The sedan without vehicle registration document brought a land pass, but it is only valid in the area of East Java.

According to him, it poses a regular operation to maintain the security of Bali including the anticipation against drug trafficking.

In addition to such joint operation, the highway operation is also held regularly at each police station across the subdistrict police in Jembrana to back up the examination at Gilimanuk. (kmb26)

Nash had read the classic “Men of Mathematics” by E.T. Bell by the time he was in high school. He planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and studied for three years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh — now Carnegie Mellon University — but instead followed his passion for math.

He then went to Princeton, where he worked on his equilibrium theory and, in 1950, received his doctorate with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the Nash equilibrium.

But it was while teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, when his wife, Alicia, was pregnant with their son, that schizophrenia began to emerge, a yearslong fight that was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning blockbuster “A Beautiful Mind.”

The Nashes died in a car accident late Saturday on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86; she was 82.

“John’s remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory, and the story of his life with Alicia moved millions of readers and moviegoers who marveled at their courage in the face of daunting challenges,” Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement.

In an autobiography written for The Nobel Foundation website, Nash said delusions caused him to resign as a faculty member at MIT. He also spent several months in New Jersey hospitals on an involuntary basis. However, Nash’s schizophrenia diminished through the 1970s and 1980s as he “gradually began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking,” he wrote.

2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” was based on an unauthorized biography

by Sylvia Nasar, who wrote that Nash’s contemporaries found him “immensely strange” and “slightly cold, a bit superior, somewhat secretive.” Much of his demeanor likely stemmed from mental illness. “A Beautiful Mind” won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and generated interest in John Nash’s life story.

Russell Crowe, who was nominated for best actor for playing Nash, tweeted that he was “stunned” by news of the couple’s death. “An amazing partnership,” he wrote.

“Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

Jennifer Connelly, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash, called the couple “an inspiration,” and the film’s director, Ron Howard, tweeted that “it was an honor telling part of their story.” The Nashes split in 1963 then resumed living together several years later and finally remarried in 2001.

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1994 file photo, Princeton University professor John Nash speaks during a news conference at the school in Princeton, N.J., after being named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for economics. Nash, whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” died in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey on Saturday, May 23, 2015, police said.

John Nash held a research post at Brandeis University before eventually returning to Princeton. Known as brilliant and eccentric, he was associated with Princeton for many years, most recently serving as a senior research mathematician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work in game theory, which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry. It

is considered one of the most influential ideas of the 20th century.

Just days before his death, Nash received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo with New York University mathematician Louis Nirenberg, who called Nash a truly great mathematician and “a kind of genius.”

Nirenberg said he had chatted

with the Nashes for an hour at the airport in Newark, New Jersey before they’d gotten into a taxi to return home to Princeton Township. New Jersey State Police say the Nashes were thrown out of the taxi when it crashed around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Monroe Township, about 12 miles from their home. The cab driver was hospitalized. (ap)

North Ireland leader hospitalized over suspected heart attack

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FILE- In this file photo dated Thursday, May 7, 2015, Northern Ireland First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Peter Robinson gives the thumbs up to waiting media after casting his vote in the General Election in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.

DUBLIN — First Minister Peter Robinson, the Protestant leader of Northern Ireland’s unity government, has been hospitalized after a suspected heart attack, his party said Monday. The 66-yearold leader of the Democratic Unionist Party was taken by ambulance to the Ulster Hospital east of Belfast near his home, then transferred to the cardiac specialist unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Catholic west Belfast.

The Royal Victoria Hospital said in a statement that Robinson “underwent a procedure this morning and is currently recovering.” It declined to elaborate. The Democratic Unionist Party, which represents the British territory’s Protestant majority, asked media not to contact Robinson’s

family.

Robinson has led Northern Ireland’s five-party government since 2008. Long a fierce critic of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party, Robinson has defied expectations and worked with Irish Catholic colleagues — particularly former IRA commander Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein official who is co-leader of the government.

Deputy First Minister McGuinness said in a tweet he was concerned about Robinson’s hospitalization. “My thoughts and prayers are with him, (wife) Iris and family,” he wrote. In London, Prime Minister David Cameron also tweeted that he hopes Robinson “has a speedy recovery.” (ap)

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APEC trade chiefs vow to speed up work in WTO

MANILA — Trade ministers from 21 Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday issued strong support to the World Trade Organization’s efforts to boost global trade amid a flurry of regional free trade agreements.

The ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping of nations vowed at the end of their two-day meeting on the central Philippine resort island of Boracay to ratify by December a landmark trade facilitation deal and to contribute to a work program to conclude the much-delayed Doha round of trade negotiations.

They reaffirmed in a separate document from their annual joint statement “the centrality and primacy of the multilateral trading system under the auspices of the WTO” in promoting trade and economic growth.

They also promised to exercise restraint in implementing measures consistent with WTO provisions but which have a significant protectionist effect, “and to promptly rectify such measures, where they are implemented.”

At the same time, the ministers’ joint statement welcomed progress on a collective study on opportunities and challenges ahead of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. They instructed officials to report updates on it by November and to have a final report by next year’s ministerial meeting.

APEC leaders agreed in Beijing in November to accelerate efforts to create the FTAAP “as early as possible” and endorsed a road map to its creation.

The FTAAP goal is being pursued as talks for the TransPacific Partnership free trade initiative of 12 countries — including the United States, Japan and Australia, but excluding China — have been delayed by legislative debate in the U.S. over President Barack Obama’s controversial “fast-track” trade bill to complete the TPP deal.

The bill was finally passed the by U.S. Senate on Friday, but it is expected to face a tougher time in the House, which resumes sessions on June 1.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told a news conference in Boracay that ministers from TPP member countries took the opportunity to meet over breakfast Sunday to review the status of the negotiations and talk about the work program going forward.

“Our negotiators are working as we speak and working through issues,” he said. “We hope to conclude it soon; we’re very much in the end game.”

But he declined to specify a timetable. A ministerial meeting originally scheduled for this week has been delayed after other members preferred to wait until after the U.S. House of Representatives also gives Obama authority to complete trade deals that Congress could approve or reject, but not change.

“We reaffirm our shared vision that regional economic integration should not create unnecessary barriers between economies and lead to fragmentation of trade and investment flows,” APEC ministers said in their statement.

They are also endorsing to their leaders a raft of measures bolstering micro enterprises’ ability to take part in global trade. Small companies comprise 97 percent of businesses in APEC countries, and contribute significantly to employment and poverty alleviation.

The action plan includes streamlining rules of origin requirements, promoting greater use of information technology, cutting customs red tape, assisting micro enterprises in meeting requirements and widening their options for financing. (ap)

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In this April 22, 2015 file photo, people walk in front of a container ship docked at a container terminal in Tokyo.

Japan trade account returns to deficit in April TOKYO - Japan swung back to a trade deficit in April after the first surplus in almost three years in March, but the shortfall shrank drastically year-on-year thanks to stronger exports and lower energy bills, official data showed Monday.

The monthly deficit came in at 53.4 billion yen ($440 million), about one-15th of the 825.5 billion yen posted a year earlier, finance ministry data showed.

Exports rose 8.0 percent year-onyear chiefly on robust shipments of cars, electronics components and machinery as the yen was 17 percent cheaper against the dollar than last year.

Imports dropped 4.2 percent as the cost of oil and gas fell.

By region, US-bound shipments soared 21.4 percent, far outpacing a 2.4 percent increase in exports to China and a 0.8 percent rise in exports to the European Union.

“Japan’s economy will be more robust this year, led by domestic consumption and external demand,” said Yoshitaka Suda, an economist at Nomura Holdings.

“We think that the US economy will continue to recover moderately, helping to boost Japan’s exports,” he told Bloomberg News.

The April data came after a stronger-than-expected economic growth report last week.

Data from the Cabinet Office showed Japan’s economy grew a faster-than-expected 0.6 percent onquarter in the first three months of 2015 as it crawls back from a brief recession.

The Bank of Japan on Friday held off launching more stimulus and governor Haruhiko Koroda said the world’s number-three economy was on the upswing after taking a hit from a sales tax hike in April last year.

Since taking office in late 2012, Japan’s prime minister has embarked on a high-profile policy blitz -- including big government spending and huge

central bank monetary easing -- in a bid to end years of deflation and lacklustre growth.

The April deficit was much smaller than market expectations for a deficit of more than 300 billion yen although it reversed March’s 227.4 billion yen in surplus, which was the first blackink since June 2012.

Capital Economics expects Japan’s balance to remain in the red in the near term.

“If the exchange rate starts to weaken again in the second half of the year as we expect, crude oil imports will become more expensive again, soon,” said Marcel Thieliant, Japan economist at Capital Economics.

“Overall, therefore, the trade balance will likely remain in the red in coming months.” he said in a note.

Economists at SMBC Nikko Securities said “the trade balance will be likely to move around the break-even point for a while” due to stalling export growth, a pick-up in imports, and an upturn in oil prices. (afp)

TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction is no longer bizarre to foreign and domestic tourists. Other than offering a magnificent sunset, the existing temples also exude a strong spiritual aura, that’s why more and more tourists coming to see them. So do not be surprised, if the tourist attraction located at Beraban village, Kediri - Tabanan or about 13 km from Tabanan town and about 20 km north of Denpasar is always flooded with tourists.

There are 5 temples spreading across the tourist attraction becoming a perfect blend of nature and culture.

Almost all the temples have their own uniqueness. Batu Mejan, for instance, is a temple situated about 100 meters west of Batu Bolong Temple. Hindu

community in Bali knows the Batu Mejan Temple as Beji Temple. Beji is a sacred place to get holy spring for Hindu ceremony.

Interestingly, local villagers have confidence that Batu Mejan Temple is sanctum to invoke forgiveness of

Tipat Bangkit

Tipat Bangkit is a combination of various types of tipat or rice bag denoting the part of the bebangkit offering. This kind of ritual paraphernalia of the Hindu community in Bali commonly used when organizing the five kinds of holy sacrifice or pancha yajña (deva yajña, rishi yajña, pitri yajña, manusha yajña and bhuta yajña) especially in the ritual belonging to middle- and large-sized ceremony. Tipat Bangkit in the bebangkit offerings is dedicated to the Goddess Durga (in a state of anger) in order that she gets back into Goddess Uma (in the tender state).

This offering is aimed at enhancing the quality of life. The tipat bangkit consists of tipat cakra, tipat ninjeng, tipat lawangan, tipat pageh, tipat terompong, tipat sarin buana, tipat nasi, tipat siungan, tipat Sidakarya, tipat blayag, tipat sai, tipat sari, tipat bagia, tipat taluh, tipat kukur and tipat dampulan sari. However, when presenting the offering, it comes with jaja bulan matanai (lunar solar cake). (kmb)

God through holy water. Started by delivering an oblation, the procession is resumed with invoking holy water to get rid of evil natures. “We strongly believe the deity venerated in Batu Mejan Temple has bestowed us, the family and all the people of Bali with a safety,” said Wayan Sudarpa, a resident of Tabanan who was conducting a purificatory rite.

A miracle will appear in the temple area where along the coast in the south of Batu Mejan Temple can be found some springs. It is clearly seen during low tide. If lucky, at

the verge of beach can be found nine springs coming out from the bottom of the sea, and the water is fresh. Hindu community believes if the springs are holy water used to purify all the impurities.

Piodalan or temple anniversary in Batu Mejan coincides with the one of Pakendungan and Patok Temple falling on Saturday Kliwon Kuningan. At that time, the atmosphere is ascertained to be crowded as Hindu devotees from outside Bali will also come to pay homage.

Other than for saying prayers, Bali-

nese people and those from outside of Bali also come to relax and enjoy the beauty of the beach.

Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, I Ketut Toya Adnyana, said that every ceremony held in one of the temples at Tanah Lot, it was always prepared with additional parking space in an attempt to anticipate the flood of visitors. Additionally, his party also improved the security services by involving pecalang (customary security taskforce) to help the existing security guards. (kmb)

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A Malaysian police officer stands guard at an outpost before the entry point to the Malaysia-Thailand border in Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Monday, May 25, 2015. Malaysian authorities said Monday they have discovered 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand where Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar were believed to have been held.

Malaysia: Human traffickers’ camps had 139 suspected graves WANG KELIAN, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities said Monday a cluster of abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers contained 139 suspected graves as well as barbed-wire pens likely used to cage migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said forensics experts were exhuming the suspected graves found at 28 vacated camps in the hilly jungle area on the border with Thailand where trafficking syndicates were known to operate.

“It is a very sad scene,” Khalid told reporters at a police outpost in the town of Wang Kelian several kilometers (miles) from the camps, one of which appeared large enough to hold about 300 people. “I am shocked. We never expected this kind of cruelty.”

At one forest camp, police found several parts of a decomposed body inside a wooden pen. The parts were placed into white bags and brought to Wang Kelian, and district police chief Rizani Ismail said they would be examined by forensics experts.

Police said they would begin digging up other suspected graves — mounds of earth, covered with leaves and marked by sticks — on Tuesday. “We have discovered 139 of what we believe to be graves,” Khalid said. “We believe they are victims of human trafficking.”

Prime Minister Najib Razak, in Tokyo on an official visit, vowed to find the perpetrators. “I am deeply concerned with graves found on Malaysian soil purportedly connected to people smuggling. We will find those responsible,” he said on Twitter early Monday.

The finding in the northern Malay-

sian state of Perlis follows a similar discovery earlier this month by police in Thailand who unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the border. Thai police Maj. Gen. Puthichart Ekkachan said 36 bodies had been found there in seven abandoned camps.

The discoveries have exposed hidden networks of jungle camps run by human smugglers, who have for years held countless desperate people captive while extorting ransoms from their families. Most of those who have fallen victim to the trafficking networks are members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community or impoverished migrants from Bangladesh, part of a wave of people who have fled their homelands to reach countries like Malaysia, where they hope to find work or live freely.

As Southeast Asian governments have launched crackdowns in recent weeks amid intensified international pressure and media scrutiny, traffickers have abandoned camps on land and boats at sea to avoid arrest.

Khalid said at least two of the camps found in Malaysia appeared to have been abandoned within the past few weeks, based on the condition of items left behind such as vegetables, rice and almost new cooking utensils. Scattered personal possessions included a pink teddy bear and white children’s sandals, he said, indicating

the possible presence of children at the camp.

On three large whiteboards, police pasted dozens of pictures taken at the camps, which ranged in size, with the largest capable of holding about 300 people and smaller ones just a few dozen. Some of the pictures showed large, crudely built pens made from wooden sticks and barbed wire that were believed to be used as cages.

“We think the migrants were imprisoned in these wooden pens,” Khalid said. “They were not allowed to move freely and traffickers kept watch at sentry posts.” Other items left behind included a rifle pouch, used bullets and bullet casings, he said.

Police also found white muslin cloth, used by Muslims in Malaysia to wrap dead bodies, and a wooden stretcher believed to have carried bodies.

The findings were the result of an operation Malaysian authorities conducted from May 11-23, during which they combed the steep jungle area along 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the border with Thailand. Due to the difficult terrain, Khalid said the investigation and forensics analysis could take a few weeks.

Human rights groups and activists say the area on the Thai-Malaysia border has been used for years to smuggle migrants and refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. (ap)

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Female peace activists say Korean DMZ walk is still on PYONGYANG — A group of female activists, including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, said Friday they will go ahead with their plan to walk across the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas despite reluctance by officials to guarantee their safety and criticism they are being used as propaganda tools by North Korea’s government. The rare crossing of the DMZ is to take place Sunday.

The group of 30 women from 15 countries will not go through the symbolic truce village of Panmunjom, where the Korean War armistice was signed in 1953, because officials in South Korea and the United Nations Command responsible for security in the area said they could not guarantee the group’s safety. Instead, the women will take a route that links the two Koreas to the Kaesong industrial complex, a joint NorthSouth business venture near the border. Despite the last-minute change, members of the group said they feel the crossing in itself is a breakthrough.

“We bought one-way tickets for Pyongyang not even knowing whether we would need to fly back to Beijing,” said Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel laureate from Liberia.

“Not only have we received the blessing for our historic crossing, we’ve gotten both Korean governments to communicate. That is a success.”

North and South Korea have technically been in a state of conflict since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Their border along the DMZ is one of the most heavily fortified in the world. There is little direct contact between the two Koreas and, with few exceptions, it is considered a crime for citizens of either country to cross the DMZ. The plan to walk across the DMZ, which organizers say is intended to start a dialogue and bring international attention to the need for a formal end to the Korean War and the peninsula’s division, has been controversial. It has also been looked at very differently in the North and South.

On Thursday, North Korean state media reported on a peace symposium held by the women in Pyongyang with representatives of North Korean women’s groups, saying they branded the U.S. “a kingdom of terrorism and a kingpin of human rights abuses” — words none of the international group’s speakers used, though many did criticize U.S. military policies around the world.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, meanwhile, picking up on the North Korean reports, quoted academics in the South as saying the group’s activities would not help efforts to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program or improve its human rights record. (ap)

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian soldier opened fire on fellow troops at a military barracks in an unusual attack in the capital Monday, and the state news agency said the gunman and three others were killed. Citing medical officials, news agency TAP said 15 people were also wounded in the attack.

It wasn’t immediately clear what motivated the soldier. Police reinforcements were sent to the area after the shooting and were combing nearby streets, and a helicopter circled overhead.

The Defense Ministry said a nearby school was also evacuated.

Authorities sought to calm the public in a city where tensions remain high after an attack on the National Bardo Museum on March 18 that killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists. The

shooting at the Bouchoucha barracks was about a kilometer from the museum.

Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said Monday’s incident is not being viewed as a terrorist attack. Speaking on national radio, he said shots were fired only inside the barracks, suggesting it was an internal dispute. Defense Ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati said the situation was under control by mid-morning. Oueslati said the soldier had been forbidden from carrying a weapon, and seized another man’s weapon for the attack. He didn’t elaborate.

Since overthrowing its secular dictator in in 2011, Tunisia has been battling militant groups with links to the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, which have carried out attacks on security forces. (ap)

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INDONESIA Economic development in easter Indonesia must involve community

JAKARTA - The government should use an inclusive concept that involves the people’s contributions to drive economic development in eastern Indonesia, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Suryo Bambang Sulisto stated.

“Economic development in eastern Indonesia should use an inclusive concept that involves the people’s contributions,” Sulisto noted on Monday.

Sulisto remarked that the concept of an inclusive economy will be easily realized through the development of small- and medium-sized

enterprises.

He said that Indonesia’s development is divided into western and eastern regions, with potential in the maritime sector.

Contrary to the handling of development in Indonesia’s western region, Sulisto remarked that the the eastern Indonesian region should be

developed in accordance with its local characteristics and cultures.

“With the concept of an inclusive economy, I think industry and maritime tourism will grow rapidly,” he said.

Based on President Joko Widodo’s program, he affirmed that the development of the eastern region

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expressed hope that Indonesia’s medical herbs would become typical national products that could be promoted in the global market and help boost the national industry.

“Medical herbs are our cultural heritage. I think we should be serious in developing our ‘jamu’ (medical herbs) as a product, which portrays the image that

‘jamu is Indonesia and Indonesia is jamu’,” Jokowi stated while opening the Seventh National Meeting of jamu producers at the State Palace on Monday.

The president noted that Indonesia’s medical herb exports were still constrained by the stringent protection system on food and beverages abroad.

“However, if they are in the form of therapeutic products, med-

ical herbs could still be exported easily,” Jokowi, who claimed to have routinely consumed ginger and buffoonery medical herbs in the past 17 years, asserted.

He said that with regard to medical herbs, the government was also obligated to provide guidance, supervision, and protection in a bid to improve the country’s herbal medicine industry. (ant)

President optimistic of medical herbs becoming national product

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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expressed hope that Indonesia’s medical herbs would become typical national products that could be promoted in the global market and help boost the national industry.

will be focused on the priority sectors, which are directly related to the needs of the society.

“So, it takes a strong will from several parties, both at the central and local government levels,” he noted.

Sulisto stated that various parties, including the local governments, should benefit from the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).

“I hope that the local govern-

ments can be more proactive in playing a strategic role,” he said.

The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized the “Trade & Investment Forum: East Indonesian Regions” in Jakarta, on Monday.

The event aims to promote the potential of eastern Indonesia and support business cooperation and investment that are open to domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Corrutpion Eradication Commission has summoned a Pertamina commissioner Sahala Lumbangaol, who is also an expert staff of the state energy company to testify in a big graft case over the imports of tetra ethyl lead (TEL).

The case, known as Innospec case, was over the imports of TEL

by Pertamina in 2004-2005 from Britain with Innospec supplying.

“Sahala Lumbangaol is summoned as witness in the case with SAM (Suroso Atmomartoyo) as the suspect,” KPK spokesman Priharsa Nugraha said on Monday.

Suroso was formerly processing director of PT Pertamina charged with accepting US$190,000 in bribery from the director of PT Sugih Interjaya (SI), Willy Sebastian Liem to approve Innospec through PT SI as a supplier of Tetraethyl Lead (TEL) for oil refineries of PT Pertamina from December 2004 to 2005.

Willy also paid the travel cost of Suroso Atmomartoyo to London and Innospec official David P Turner including for accommodation at May Fair Radisson Ewardian Hotel 23-26 April in 2005 worth 749.66 pounds and at a Manchester Hotel on 27 April 2005 at 149.5 pounds.

PT SI was named by The Associated Octel Company Limited (OCTEL) or Innospec to become sole agent for TEL sales in Indo-

nesia in 1982.

However, the Indonesian government launched what was called blue sky program banning the use of TEL in gasoline and diesel oil as from Dec. 31 in 2004.

Willy reported the program and plan to delay the process of implementing the regulation under a joint decision of the energy ands mineral resources minister, the state minister for the environment and the finance minister.

Innospec then agreed to bribe Suroso, who had the authority to sign the purchase of TEL by PT Pertamina and approve the price of TEL before the president of PT Pertamina gave the final approval.

On memorandum from Suroso the board of directors of PT Pertamina approved the TEL procurement for Pertamina’a refineries to be handled by PT SI. The bribery of US$190,000 for Suroso was transferred to his account at Bank UOB Singapore by phases from January 2004 to September 2005.

The case was a follow-up of the Oil for Food Investigation by the US and British governments.

The case against Suroso and Willy followed the arrest and conviction of four directors of Innospec by British court. The investigations of the convicts led to KPK arresting Suroso and Willy on 24 February 2015. (ant)

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LeBron’s triple-double helps Cavs top Hawks in thriller CLEVELAND — LeBron James shook off an atrocious shooting start and withstood Atlanta’s gritty comeback to record a triple-double as the Cleveland Cavaliers moved within one win of the NBA Finals by beating the Hawks 114-111 in overtime on Sunday to take a 3-0 series lead.

Enjoying canoe on Sanur Beach SANUR - Want to enjoy the beach charms while exercising? Simply come to Sanur Beach.

Aside from enjoying the beautiful sunrise, the Sanur tourist attraction also poses a simple and cheap sport destination. At the very least, you can have a promenade on the white sandy beach.

This first tourist beach resort in Bali located at Sanur village is about 40 minutes drive from the Ngurah Rai Airport. Travelers having a

hobby to sport usually make a visit to the beach. A variety of facilities are available such as bicycle, canoe, fishing, traditional boat and jogging track.

Most uniquely, you can ride a bike along the coastal areas ranging from the area in front of the Inna Grand Bali Beach taking place approximately for an hour. The bike path is located in front of the beach, so that visitors can enjoy the view of the beach and hotels.

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James missed his first 10 shots, but finished with 37 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists. The Cavs needed every single one of them to hold off the top-seeded Hawks, who fought Cleveland until the final seconds despite being without injured shooter Kyle Korver and losing Al Horford, who was ejected in the first half.

James hit a 3-pointer with 36.4 seconds left to put the Cavs ahead by one, and the superstar dropped a runner with 12.8 left to make it 114-111. “He just wouldn’t let us lose,” coach David Blatt said.

Atlanta had two chances to tie it in the final seconds, but Shelvin Mack missed two 3-pointers.

When the final horn sounded, an exhausted James, who was favoring his right leg for most of overtime, dropped to the floor and had to be helped to his feet. “I worked extremely hard and for me as a leader no matter how I’m feeling I’ve got to try to make some plays,” James said.

He’ll have just one day to rest up before the Cavs try to earn their second Finals trip — and the fifth in a row for James — in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Jeff Teague scored

30 points and Paul Millsap 22 for the Hawks, who scratched and clawed for 53 minutes.

Down 10 in the fourth, the Hawks showed championship toughness and nearly pulled off a win that would have guaranteed them another home game on Thursday. They’ll have to dig deep again, and they are facing long odds to win the series as no NBA team has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit.

Teague dropped a nasty, stepback jumper with 55 seconds left to put the Hawks up 111-109, but James answered — following an offensive rebound by Tristan Thompson — to knock down a corner 3 like the one he made at the buzzer to beat Chicago in the second round, making it 112-111 with 36.4 seconds left.

James then hit his runner over Millsap and the Cavs and 20,000 fans held their breath as Mack took two cracks at the rim. The Cavs were again missing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, sidelined for his second straight game with an injured left knee.

But Cleveland has James, and even on a night when his shot wasn’t falling, he carried the Cavs,

AP Photo/Ron Schwane

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, lies exhausted on the floor after the Cavaliers beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-111 in overtime in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals of the NBA basketball playoffs Sunday, May 24, 2015, in Cleveland.

who can earn their first trip to the Finals since James took them there in 2007. Matthew Dellavedova and J.R. Smith added 17 points each for

Cleveland.

The Hawks took a one-point lead into third quarter when James decided to seize control of the game. He re-

corded 15 points, six rebounds and six assists in the period, but it only resulted in Cleveland having a 10point lead early in the fourth. (ap)

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Monaco Grand Prix winner Nico Rosberg never considered making a late pitstop in the race, adding he was surprised leader Lewis Hamilton was called in by the Mercedes team.

A strategy blunder by Mercedes after a safety car was deployed for a lap-64 crash involving Max Verstappen and Romain Grosjean cost Hamilton dear, handing a third successive triumph around Monte Carlo to Rosberg.

For Rosberg, there was never any question he would make a pit stop of his own, not with so few laps left in the race at that stage.

“Stopping wasn’t on my mind at all,” he said.

“There were just a few laps to go, so I didn’t consider it.

“Instead I was very, very surprised to see the safety car and not see Lewis. “It was a big surprise and I thought ‘where the hell did he go?’ “Then all of a sudden I saw wheelbanging behind me between a Mercedes and a Ferrari, and I thought ‘what the hell is going on there?’”

Rosberg empathised with Hamilton afREUTERS/Robert Pratta Mercedes Formula One drivers Nico Rosberg (leading) of Germany and Lewis Hamil- ter stealing a victory he suggested was the ton (third placed) of Britain are seen with Ferrari Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel luckiest of his Formula 1 career. Expressing (second placed) of Germany as they follow the safety car during the Monaco Grand “mixed” emotions over his 10th F1 success, Prix in Monaco May 24, 2015.

Rosberg said: “Lewis did a great job, he de-

served to win.

“I’m very well aware of that, and I also feel for him. It’s a horrible way to lose a race.

“I have a lot of space for empathy towards him because I know how horrible a day it is for him after such a strong weekend, and to lose it right at the end like that, that sucks. “On the other side a win is a win, and in sport luck plays a big factor in all these things, so I’ve learned to just take it.

“I’m aware I got lucky, very lucky, probably the luckiest I’ve ever been in my career, but I’ll take it and enjoy it.” Although overtaking is almost impossible on the streets of Monte Carlo, Rosberg was not confident about holding on to win the race on much older tyres than Hamilton.

“I still thought Lewis would win because he was on fresh super-softs and we were on stone-cold hard tyres,” said Rosberg. “It was going to be a massive mission to not hit the wall after the restart because it felt treacherous out there. “I still thought he was going to come through and it was going to be a big battle, and I was sure he would win it. “But I went for it, the temperature came back quick and I could do some good lap times.” (rtr)

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Record in sight for Europa League masters Sevilla

REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Sevilla’s Aleix Vidal celebrates after scoring a goal against Malaga during their Spanish First Division soccer match at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, southern Spain, May 23, 2015.

admirers, having claimed only six wins since the start of the group stage, losing four times and scoring 13 goals, less than one a game.

They have, however, proved masters of a format that seems perfectly designed to test will and stamina of all who take part, having begun their campaign with a qualifying playoff back in August.

It probably seemed unthinkable they would reach the final when they picked up only one point in their first three group games, including a 1-0 defeat to Azerbaijani minnows Qarabag. But they are nothing if not resilient, which is to be expected from a team who have had to overcome the disadvantage of staging home games in Kiev due to Dnipropetrovsk’s proximity to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Coach Myron Markevych, who took

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Real coach Ancelotti to have surgery on neck condition MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is suffering from cervical stenosis and will travel to Vancouver, Canada for an operation to correct it, the Italian was quoted as saying on Monday. Ancelotti is waiting to hear whether he will be replaced as Real coach after they ended the season without winning a major trophy, with an

announcement expected in coming days.

The 55-year-old has a contract until the end of next term but Real president Florentino Perez is widely expected to make him the scapegoat for the club’s failure. Ancelotti told Italian daily Il Giornale the stenosis was part of the reason he was planning to take a year out if Real

sacked him.

The condition, a narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck area or upper part of the spine, had been causing tingling in his hands, he added. “If I lose any more time it may spread to the legs so I have made an appointment for the surgery,” Ancelotti said, without specifying when.

GENEVA — FIFA lacks credibility while Sepp Blatter is president, according to UEFA leader Michel Platini, saying his former mentor fears the “emptiness” of life after leaving soccer’s world governing body. Blatter is clinging to power “at all costs,” Platini told French sports daily L’Equipe in an interview published on Monday.

Ahead of the FIFA presidential election on Friday, Platini said the 79-year-old Blatter had no grand plans for FIFA and it was “not credible” to claim he needed a fifth fouryear term to complete an unfinished mission.

“No, he is simply scared of the future, as he has given his life to the institution, to the point where he now identifies himself fully with FIFA,” Platini said.

“I understand the fear of that emptiness that he (Blatter) must have, it’s natural. But if he really loves FIFA,

over from Juande Ramos in May last year, has crafted a tactically astute side, who get results when it really matters, including a 2-1 aggregate win over a heavily fancied Napoli in the semi-finals.

They will need to be just as resilient if they are to shock Sevilla, who unlike some clubs from Europe’s bigger leagues, take this competition, which now offers a Champions League place to the winners, very seriously. “It means something,” Emery told UEFA.com “The team want the fans to feel the vibrations that this competition gives us. We’ve achieved something that makes us bigger, it gives us prestige, it gives us a place in history and recognition in Europe for our hard work.” (ap)

he should have put its interests ahead of his own.”

Though Platini said he likes Blatter on a personal level, his explicit criticism of the FIFA chief points to a deep rift between the two men.

Blatter seeks to extend his 17-year reign at an election many saw as a natural time for the former France great to get the top job. He opted last August not to challenge Blatter in the election of 209 FIFA member federations and now supports the only opponent: FIFA vice president Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.

“I am firmly convinced that Ali, whom I have known on a personal level for years, would make a great FIFA President. He has everything it takes,” Platini said of the prince, praising his “great freedom of spirit and independence.”

However, Blatter is strongly favored to win another vote with widespread support in five of FIFA’s six continental regions. He noted his longevity in office in a newspaper interview in his native Switzerland on Sunday. Blatter compared him-

self to a mountain goat, telling the Neue Zurcher Zeitung he “cannot be stopped, I just keep going.”

Platini, now 59, was a key campaigner helping Blatter become FIFA president in 1998 and then a long-time heir apparent. “I have nothing against Sepp. I like him as a person and I respect him,” Platini said in an interview transcript provided by UEFA. “We have had some good times together, and nothing and no one can take that away.”

Still, Platini has not forgiven Blatter for going back on a promise at the 2011 UEFA Congress in Paris that the current FIFA mandate would be his last. Blatter has since said he had the right to change his mind.

“And now here we are again, as if none of it had ever happened,” said the UEFA president, adding he felt he asked his members four years ago to support Blatter “on the basis of a lie.” Then, Blatter was in a battle with Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar who withdrew days before the election when accused of offering Caribbean voters $40,000 bribes. (ap)

AFC Cup hopefuls Pahang hit out Player dies in second-division at PSSI over visa foul up match in Argentina KUALA LUMPIR - Malaysian club Pahang have criticised the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) after being forced to return home when four of their players encountered visa problems ahead of an AFC Cup clash. Pahang were scheduled to face Persipura Jayapura in the last 16 of the second tier Asian club tournament on Tuesday but they landed back in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Malaysian media reported.

Nigerian Dickson Nwakaema, Jamaican Damian Stewart, Pakistani Zesh Rahman and Argentine Matias Conti were the four players denied entry into Indonesia.

Pahang FA honorary-secretary Fuzeimi Ibrahim told the New Straits Times that the required paperwork had been lodged with the Indonesians last week and laid the blame at the door of the crisis-hit PSSI, who have been suspended by local government. “We were promised that everything will be sorted out and the players will be issued visa on arrival. Sadly, the players were left stranded at the airport and Pahang FA decided to return home,” Fuzeimi told the paper.

“We will lodge an official complaint to the Football Association of Malaysia and the Asian Football

Confederation on Monday.” Indonesian football is in a dire state with the government taking charge of the game’s governance after a row and subsequent suspension of the PSSI over who competes in the local top flight.

The PSSI, having failed to restart the league, cancelled the season with the AFC Cup the only action for Indonesian clubs this term.

Persib Bandung have also made it through to the last 16 and host Hong Kong’s Kitchee on Wednesday.

FIFA have said Indonesia face suspension if the row is not resolved

by Friday and the PSSI reinstated as decision makers. (rtr)

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“And I really do not know how long I have to remain physically immobile for the post-operative phase and the subsequent rehabilitation.”

Ancelotti, who has always said he may return one day to coach his former club AC Milan, told Il Giornale he would rest between Madrid and Vancouver after the surgery.

“Because the two years spent at

Real were very tiring, believe me, and especially challenging,” he said. “No one can imagine what it costs, in terms of physical and nervous energy, coaching Real.”

Spanish media have reported that Napoli’s Spanish coach Rafa Benitez, who had a stint working in Real’s youth ranks, is the front runner to succeed Ancelotti. (rtr)

Platini: FIFA led by Blatter will always lack credibility

LONDON - The road to Europa League success is renowned for being one of football’s greatest slogs, making it all the more impressive that holders Sevilla stand on the brink of lifting the trophy for a record fourth time in the last nine years. The roll of honour for Europe’s second tier competition is headed by some illustrious clubs, yet victory over Ukrainian outsiders Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Wednesday’s final will allow Sevilla to edge ahead of Inter Milan, Juventus and Liverpool.

Unsurprisingly, Sevilla, whose first two successes in 2006 and 2007 came in the competition’s former guise as the UEFA Cup, will start the showpiece in Warsaw as clear favourites. They are facing a club who are playing their first European final and are without silverware of any variety since 1989.

Sevilla are, in footballing terms, everything that Dnipro are not -- an exciting, high-scoring outfit who have eased through to the final in style, winning 10 of their 14 matches, losing only once and scoring a competition high 26 goals in the process.

Dnipro, befitting a team whose historic roots lie in Soviet era industry, are rugged, hard-working and wellorganised, but far from easy on the eye.

They have scrapped their way through to the final, winning respect but few

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Cristian Gomez, a player with Argentine club Atletico Parana, died on Sunday after collapsing during a second-division match.

The Argentine Football Association match supervisor for the game, Ramon Gomez, said the 27-year-old defender collapsed on the field in the first half of the match against Boca Unidos.

The official said the player was taken to General San Martin hospital in the city of Corrientes, where doctors were unable to revive him.

The cause of death was not

immediately known. Alfredo Schweitzer, the president of Boca Unidos, confirmed the death but offered no details. “We are awaiting the medical report,” he said.

Boca Unidos player Jose Vizcarra said Gomez seemed to die almost instantly. “When they took him off the field, it seemed he had already died,” Vizcarra said.

The defender is the second player to die in just under two weeks in Argentina. Emanuel Ortega, a player for fourth-division team San Martin de Burzaco, died after hitting his head on a post used to support fencing at the stadium. (ap)

REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

German Chancellor Angela Merkel adjusts her glasses next to UEFA President Michel Platini before the UEFA Women’s Champions League final soccer match between FFC Frankfurt and Paris St Germain in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2015.

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Radamel Falcao waves to supporters as he is substituted during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday, May 17, 2015.

Falcao returns to Monaco after disappointing spell at United

MANCHESTER — Manchester United sent Radamel Falcao back to Monaco on Sunday after a disappointing season-long loan in which the Colombia international failed to show the predatory instincts that once made him one of the world’s top strikers.

United announced the club would not be exercising the option to sign the 29year-old Falcao on a permanent deal, which would have cost 43.2 million pounds ($67 million) for a player who scored just four goals in 29 matches this season.

“Falcao is a top professional and a good human being,” United manager Louis van Gaal. “On behalf of myself and everyone at the club I would like to wish him well for the future.”

United paid around 6 million pounds (then $9 million) to Monaco on deadline day in Europe’s summer transfer window last year to take Falcao on loan for the season, with an option to buy.

However, Falcao hasn’t managed

to reproduce the kind of form that made him stand out during prolific spells with Porto and Atletico Madrid.

He doesn’t appear to have recovered fully from the serious knee injury that ruled him out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and robbed him of his explosive pace and movement.

Colombia’s all-time top scorer scored for United in his fourth game — a 2-1 win over Everton — but only netted three more times since October, and not in his last 13 matches.

Falcao was left out of United’s squad for the final game of the season, at Hull on Sunday, through injury, according to Van Gaal. His last match was the 1-1 draw against Arsenal at Old Trafford last weekend. The departure of Falcao leaves United short of options up front, especially with doubts surrounding the future of striker Robin van Persie. Falcao joined Monaco from Atletico in 2013 in a deal worth 60 million euros (then $78 million). (ap)

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Record in sight for Europa League masters Sevilla

REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Sevilla’s Aleix Vidal celebrates after scoring a goal against Malaga during their Spanish First Division soccer match at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, southern Spain, May 23, 2015.

admirers, having claimed only six wins since the start of the group stage, losing four times and scoring 13 goals, less than one a game.

They have, however, proved masters of a format that seems perfectly designed to test will and stamina of all who take part, having begun their campaign with a qualifying playoff back in August.

It probably seemed unthinkable they would reach the final when they picked up only one point in their first three group games, including a 1-0 defeat to Azerbaijani minnows Qarabag. But they are nothing if not resilient, which is to be expected from a team who have had to overcome the disadvantage of staging home games in Kiev due to Dnipropetrovsk’s proximity to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Coach Myron Markevych, who took

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Real coach Ancelotti to have surgery on neck condition MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is suffering from cervical stenosis and will travel to Vancouver, Canada for an operation to correct it, the Italian was quoted as saying on Monday. Ancelotti is waiting to hear whether he will be replaced as Real coach after they ended the season without winning a major trophy, with an

announcement expected in coming days.

The 55-year-old has a contract until the end of next term but Real president Florentino Perez is widely expected to make him the scapegoat for the club’s failure. Ancelotti told Italian daily Il Giornale the stenosis was part of the reason he was planning to take a year out if Real

sacked him.

The condition, a narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck area or upper part of the spine, had been causing tingling in his hands, he added. “If I lose any more time it may spread to the legs so I have made an appointment for the surgery,” Ancelotti said, without specifying when.

GENEVA — FIFA lacks credibility while Sepp Blatter is president, according to UEFA leader Michel Platini, saying his former mentor fears the “emptiness” of life after leaving soccer’s world governing body. Blatter is clinging to power “at all costs,” Platini told French sports daily L’Equipe in an interview published on Monday.

Ahead of the FIFA presidential election on Friday, Platini said the 79-year-old Blatter had no grand plans for FIFA and it was “not credible” to claim he needed a fifth fouryear term to complete an unfinished mission.

“No, he is simply scared of the future, as he has given his life to the institution, to the point where he now identifies himself fully with FIFA,” Platini said.

“I understand the fear of that emptiness that he (Blatter) must have, it’s natural. But if he really loves FIFA,

over from Juande Ramos in May last year, has crafted a tactically astute side, who get results when it really matters, including a 2-1 aggregate win over a heavily fancied Napoli in the semi-finals.

They will need to be just as resilient if they are to shock Sevilla, who unlike some clubs from Europe’s bigger leagues, take this competition, which now offers a Champions League place to the winners, very seriously. “It means something,” Emery told UEFA.com “The team want the fans to feel the vibrations that this competition gives us. We’ve achieved something that makes us bigger, it gives us prestige, it gives us a place in history and recognition in Europe for our hard work.” (ap)

he should have put its interests ahead of his own.”

Though Platini said he likes Blatter on a personal level, his explicit criticism of the FIFA chief points to a deep rift between the two men.

Blatter seeks to extend his 17-year reign at an election many saw as a natural time for the former France great to get the top job. He opted last August not to challenge Blatter in the election of 209 FIFA member federations and now supports the only opponent: FIFA vice president Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.

“I am firmly convinced that Ali, whom I have known on a personal level for years, would make a great FIFA President. He has everything it takes,” Platini said of the prince, praising his “great freedom of spirit and independence.”

However, Blatter is strongly favored to win another vote with widespread support in five of FIFA’s six continental regions. He noted his longevity in office in a newspaper interview in his native Switzerland on Sunday. Blatter compared him-

self to a mountain goat, telling the Neue Zurcher Zeitung he “cannot be stopped, I just keep going.”

Platini, now 59, was a key campaigner helping Blatter become FIFA president in 1998 and then a long-time heir apparent. “I have nothing against Sepp. I like him as a person and I respect him,” Platini said in an interview transcript provided by UEFA. “We have had some good times together, and nothing and no one can take that away.”

Still, Platini has not forgiven Blatter for going back on a promise at the 2011 UEFA Congress in Paris that the current FIFA mandate would be his last. Blatter has since said he had the right to change his mind.

“And now here we are again, as if none of it had ever happened,” said the UEFA president, adding he felt he asked his members four years ago to support Blatter “on the basis of a lie.” Then, Blatter was in a battle with Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar who withdrew days before the election when accused of offering Caribbean voters $40,000 bribes. (ap)

AFC Cup hopefuls Pahang hit out Player dies in second-division at PSSI over visa foul up match in Argentina KUALA LUMPIR - Malaysian club Pahang have criticised the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) after being forced to return home when four of their players encountered visa problems ahead of an AFC Cup clash. Pahang were scheduled to face Persipura Jayapura in the last 16 of the second tier Asian club tournament on Tuesday but they landed back in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Malaysian media reported.

Nigerian Dickson Nwakaema, Jamaican Damian Stewart, Pakistani Zesh Rahman and Argentine Matias Conti were the four players denied entry into Indonesia.

Pahang FA honorary-secretary Fuzeimi Ibrahim told the New Straits Times that the required paperwork had been lodged with the Indonesians last week and laid the blame at the door of the crisis-hit PSSI, who have been suspended by local government. “We were promised that everything will be sorted out and the players will be issued visa on arrival. Sadly, the players were left stranded at the airport and Pahang FA decided to return home,” Fuzeimi told the paper.

“We will lodge an official complaint to the Football Association of Malaysia and the Asian Football

Confederation on Monday.” Indonesian football is in a dire state with the government taking charge of the game’s governance after a row and subsequent suspension of the PSSI over who competes in the local top flight.

The PSSI, having failed to restart the league, cancelled the season with the AFC Cup the only action for Indonesian clubs this term.

Persib Bandung have also made it through to the last 16 and host Hong Kong’s Kitchee on Wednesday.

FIFA have said Indonesia face suspension if the row is not resolved

by Friday and the PSSI reinstated as decision makers. (rtr)

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“And I really do not know how long I have to remain physically immobile for the post-operative phase and the subsequent rehabilitation.”

Ancelotti, who has always said he may return one day to coach his former club AC Milan, told Il Giornale he would rest between Madrid and Vancouver after the surgery.

“Because the two years spent at

Real were very tiring, believe me, and especially challenging,” he said. “No one can imagine what it costs, in terms of physical and nervous energy, coaching Real.”

Spanish media have reported that Napoli’s Spanish coach Rafa Benitez, who had a stint working in Real’s youth ranks, is the front runner to succeed Ancelotti. (rtr)

Platini: FIFA led by Blatter will always lack credibility

LONDON - The road to Europa League success is renowned for being one of football’s greatest slogs, making it all the more impressive that holders Sevilla stand on the brink of lifting the trophy for a record fourth time in the last nine years. The roll of honour for Europe’s second tier competition is headed by some illustrious clubs, yet victory over Ukrainian outsiders Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Wednesday’s final will allow Sevilla to edge ahead of Inter Milan, Juventus and Liverpool.

Unsurprisingly, Sevilla, whose first two successes in 2006 and 2007 came in the competition’s former guise as the UEFA Cup, will start the showpiece in Warsaw as clear favourites. They are facing a club who are playing their first European final and are without silverware of any variety since 1989.

Sevilla are, in footballing terms, everything that Dnipro are not -- an exciting, high-scoring outfit who have eased through to the final in style, winning 10 of their 14 matches, losing only once and scoring a competition high 26 goals in the process.

Dnipro, befitting a team whose historic roots lie in Soviet era industry, are rugged, hard-working and wellorganised, but far from easy on the eye.

They have scrapped their way through to the final, winning respect but few

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Cristian Gomez, a player with Argentine club Atletico Parana, died on Sunday after collapsing during a second-division match.

The Argentine Football Association match supervisor for the game, Ramon Gomez, said the 27-year-old defender collapsed on the field in the first half of the match against Boca Unidos.

The official said the player was taken to General San Martin hospital in the city of Corrientes, where doctors were unable to revive him.

The cause of death was not

immediately known. Alfredo Schweitzer, the president of Boca Unidos, confirmed the death but offered no details. “We are awaiting the medical report,” he said.

Boca Unidos player Jose Vizcarra said Gomez seemed to die almost instantly. “When they took him off the field, it seemed he had already died,” Vizcarra said.

The defender is the second player to die in just under two weeks in Argentina. Emanuel Ortega, a player for fourth-division team San Martin de Burzaco, died after hitting his head on a post used to support fencing at the stadium. (ap)

REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

German Chancellor Angela Merkel adjusts her glasses next to UEFA President Michel Platini before the UEFA Women’s Champions League final soccer match between FFC Frankfurt and Paris St Germain in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2015.

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Radamel Falcao waves to supporters as he is substituted during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday, May 17, 2015.

Falcao returns to Monaco after disappointing spell at United

MANCHESTER — Manchester United sent Radamel Falcao back to Monaco on Sunday after a disappointing season-long loan in which the Colombia international failed to show the predatory instincts that once made him one of the world’s top strikers.

United announced the club would not be exercising the option to sign the 29year-old Falcao on a permanent deal, which would have cost 43.2 million pounds ($67 million) for a player who scored just four goals in 29 matches this season.

“Falcao is a top professional and a good human being,” United manager Louis van Gaal. “On behalf of myself and everyone at the club I would like to wish him well for the future.”

United paid around 6 million pounds (then $9 million) to Monaco on deadline day in Europe’s summer transfer window last year to take Falcao on loan for the season, with an option to buy.

However, Falcao hasn’t managed

to reproduce the kind of form that made him stand out during prolific spells with Porto and Atletico Madrid.

He doesn’t appear to have recovered fully from the serious knee injury that ruled him out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and robbed him of his explosive pace and movement.

Colombia’s all-time top scorer scored for United in his fourth game — a 2-1 win over Everton — but only netted three more times since October, and not in his last 13 matches.

Falcao was left out of United’s squad for the final game of the season, at Hull on Sunday, through injury, according to Van Gaal. His last match was the 1-1 draw against Arsenal at Old Trafford last weekend. The departure of Falcao leaves United short of options up front, especially with doubts surrounding the future of striker Robin van Persie. Falcao joined Monaco from Atletico in 2013 in a deal worth 60 million euros (then $78 million). (ap)

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LeBron’s triple-double helps Cavs top Hawks in thriller CLEVELAND — LeBron James shook off an atrocious shooting start and withstood Atlanta’s gritty comeback to record a triple-double as the Cleveland Cavaliers moved within one win of the NBA Finals by beating the Hawks 114-111 in overtime on Sunday to take a 3-0 series lead.

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James missed his first 10 shots, but finished with 37 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists. The Cavs needed every single one of them to hold off the top-seeded Hawks, who fought Cleveland until the final seconds despite being without injured shooter Kyle Korver and losing Al Horford, who was ejected in the first half.

James hit a 3-pointer with 36.4 seconds left to put the Cavs ahead by one, and the superstar dropped a runner with 12.8 left to make it 114-111. “He just wouldn’t let us lose,” coach David Blatt said.

Atlanta had two chances to tie it in the final seconds, but Shelvin Mack missed two 3-pointers.

When the final horn sounded, an exhausted James, who was favoring his right leg for most of overtime, dropped to the floor and had to be helped to his feet. “I worked extremely hard and for me as a leader no matter how I’m feeling I’ve got to try to make some plays,” James said.

He’ll have just one day to rest up before the Cavs try to earn their second Finals trip — and the fifth in a row for James — in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Jeff Teague scored

30 points and Paul Millsap 22 for the Hawks, who scratched and clawed for 53 minutes.

Down 10 in the fourth, the Hawks showed championship toughness and nearly pulled off a win that would have guaranteed them another home game on Thursday. They’ll have to dig deep again, and they are facing long odds to win the series as no NBA team has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit.

Teague dropped a nasty, stepback jumper with 55 seconds left to put the Hawks up 111-109, but James answered — following an offensive rebound by Tristan Thompson — to knock down a corner 3 like the one he made at the buzzer to beat Chicago in the second round, making it 112-111 with 36.4 seconds left.

James then hit his runner over Millsap and the Cavs and 20,000 fans held their breath as Mack took two cracks at the rim. The Cavs were again missing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, sidelined for his second straight game with an injured left knee.

But Cleveland has James, and even on a night when his shot wasn’t falling, he carried the Cavs,

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Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, lies exhausted on the floor after the Cavaliers beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-111 in overtime in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals of the NBA basketball playoffs Sunday, May 24, 2015, in Cleveland.

who can earn their first trip to the Finals since James took them there in 2007. Matthew Dellavedova and J.R. Smith added 17 points each for

Cleveland.

The Hawks took a one-point lead into third quarter when James decided to seize control of the game. He re-

corded 15 points, six rebounds and six assists in the period, but it only resulted in Cleveland having a 10point lead early in the fourth. (ap)

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Monaco Grand Prix winner Nico Rosberg never considered making a late pitstop in the race, adding he was surprised leader Lewis Hamilton was called in by the Mercedes team.

A strategy blunder by Mercedes after a safety car was deployed for a lap-64 crash involving Max Verstappen and Romain Grosjean cost Hamilton dear, handing a third successive triumph around Monte Carlo to Rosberg.

For Rosberg, there was never any question he would make a pit stop of his own, not with so few laps left in the race at that stage.

“Stopping wasn’t on my mind at all,” he said.

“There were just a few laps to go, so I didn’t consider it.

“Instead I was very, very surprised to see the safety car and not see Lewis. “It was a big surprise and I thought ‘where the hell did he go?’ “Then all of a sudden I saw wheelbanging behind me between a Mercedes and a Ferrari, and I thought ‘what the hell is going on there?’”

Rosberg empathised with Hamilton afREUTERS/Robert Pratta Mercedes Formula One drivers Nico Rosberg (leading) of Germany and Lewis Hamil- ter stealing a victory he suggested was the ton (third placed) of Britain are seen with Ferrari Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel luckiest of his Formula 1 career. Expressing (second placed) of Germany as they follow the safety car during the Monaco Grand “mixed” emotions over his 10th F1 success, Prix in Monaco May 24, 2015.

Rosberg said: “Lewis did a great job, he de-

served to win.

“I’m very well aware of that, and I also feel for him. It’s a horrible way to lose a race.

“I have a lot of space for empathy towards him because I know how horrible a day it is for him after such a strong weekend, and to lose it right at the end like that, that sucks. “On the other side a win is a win, and in sport luck plays a big factor in all these things, so I’ve learned to just take it.

“I’m aware I got lucky, very lucky, probably the luckiest I’ve ever been in my career, but I’ll take it and enjoy it.” Although overtaking is almost impossible on the streets of Monte Carlo, Rosberg was not confident about holding on to win the race on much older tyres than Hamilton.

“I still thought Lewis would win because he was on fresh super-softs and we were on stone-cold hard tyres,” said Rosberg. “It was going to be a massive mission to not hit the wall after the restart because it felt treacherous out there. “I still thought he was going to come through and it was going to be a big battle, and I was sure he would win it. “But I went for it, the temperature came back quick and I could do some good lap times.” (rtr)

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A Malaysian police officer stands guard at an outpost before the entry point to the Malaysia-Thailand border in Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Monday, May 25, 2015. Malaysian authorities said Monday they have discovered 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand where Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar were believed to have been held.

Malaysia: Human traffickers’ camps had 139 suspected graves WANG KELIAN, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities said Monday a cluster of abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers contained 139 suspected graves as well as barbed-wire pens likely used to cage migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said forensics experts were exhuming the suspected graves found at 28 vacated camps in the hilly jungle area on the border with Thailand where trafficking syndicates were known to operate.

“It is a very sad scene,” Khalid told reporters at a police outpost in the town of Wang Kelian several kilometers (miles) from the camps, one of which appeared large enough to hold about 300 people. “I am shocked. We never expected this kind of cruelty.”

At one forest camp, police found several parts of a decomposed body inside a wooden pen. The parts were placed into white bags and brought to Wang Kelian, and district police chief Rizani Ismail said they would be examined by forensics experts.

Police said they would begin digging up other suspected graves — mounds of earth, covered with leaves and marked by sticks — on Tuesday. “We have discovered 139 of what we believe to be graves,” Khalid said. “We believe they are victims of human trafficking.”

Prime Minister Najib Razak, in Tokyo on an official visit, vowed to find the perpetrators. “I am deeply concerned with graves found on Malaysian soil purportedly connected to people smuggling. We will find those responsible,” he said on Twitter early Monday.

The finding in the northern Malay-

sian state of Perlis follows a similar discovery earlier this month by police in Thailand who unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the border. Thai police Maj. Gen. Puthichart Ekkachan said 36 bodies had been found there in seven abandoned camps.

The discoveries have exposed hidden networks of jungle camps run by human smugglers, who have for years held countless desperate people captive while extorting ransoms from their families. Most of those who have fallen victim to the trafficking networks are members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community or impoverished migrants from Bangladesh, part of a wave of people who have fled their homelands to reach countries like Malaysia, where they hope to find work or live freely.

As Southeast Asian governments have launched crackdowns in recent weeks amid intensified international pressure and media scrutiny, traffickers have abandoned camps on land and boats at sea to avoid arrest.

Khalid said at least two of the camps found in Malaysia appeared to have been abandoned within the past few weeks, based on the condition of items left behind such as vegetables, rice and almost new cooking utensils. Scattered personal possessions included a pink teddy bear and white children’s sandals, he said, indicating

the possible presence of children at the camp.

On three large whiteboards, police pasted dozens of pictures taken at the camps, which ranged in size, with the largest capable of holding about 300 people and smaller ones just a few dozen. Some of the pictures showed large, crudely built pens made from wooden sticks and barbed wire that were believed to be used as cages.

“We think the migrants were imprisoned in these wooden pens,” Khalid said. “They were not allowed to move freely and traffickers kept watch at sentry posts.” Other items left behind included a rifle pouch, used bullets and bullet casings, he said.

Police also found white muslin cloth, used by Muslims in Malaysia to wrap dead bodies, and a wooden stretcher believed to have carried bodies.

The findings were the result of an operation Malaysian authorities conducted from May 11-23, during which they combed the steep jungle area along 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the border with Thailand. Due to the difficult terrain, Khalid said the investigation and forensics analysis could take a few weeks.

Human rights groups and activists say the area on the Thai-Malaysia border has been used for years to smuggle migrants and refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. (ap)

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Female peace activists say Korean DMZ walk is still on PYONGYANG — A group of female activists, including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, said Friday they will go ahead with their plan to walk across the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas despite reluctance by officials to guarantee their safety and criticism they are being used as propaganda tools by North Korea’s government. The rare crossing of the DMZ is to take place Sunday.

The group of 30 women from 15 countries will not go through the symbolic truce village of Panmunjom, where the Korean War armistice was signed in 1953, because officials in South Korea and the United Nations Command responsible for security in the area said they could not guarantee the group’s safety. Instead, the women will take a route that links the two Koreas to the Kaesong industrial complex, a joint NorthSouth business venture near the border. Despite the last-minute change, members of the group said they feel the crossing in itself is a breakthrough.

“We bought one-way tickets for Pyongyang not even knowing whether we would need to fly back to Beijing,” said Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel laureate from Liberia.

“Not only have we received the blessing for our historic crossing, we’ve gotten both Korean governments to communicate. That is a success.”

North and South Korea have technically been in a state of conflict since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Their border along the DMZ is one of the most heavily fortified in the world. There is little direct contact between the two Koreas and, with few exceptions, it is considered a crime for citizens of either country to cross the DMZ. The plan to walk across the DMZ, which organizers say is intended to start a dialogue and bring international attention to the need for a formal end to the Korean War and the peninsula’s division, has been controversial. It has also been looked at very differently in the North and South.

On Thursday, North Korean state media reported on a peace symposium held by the women in Pyongyang with representatives of North Korean women’s groups, saying they branded the U.S. “a kingdom of terrorism and a kingpin of human rights abuses” — words none of the international group’s speakers used, though many did criticize U.S. military policies around the world.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, meanwhile, picking up on the North Korean reports, quoted academics in the South as saying the group’s activities would not help efforts to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program or improve its human rights record. (ap)

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian soldier opened fire on fellow troops at a military barracks in an unusual attack in the capital Monday, and the state news agency said the gunman and three others were killed. Citing medical officials, news agency TAP said 15 people were also wounded in the attack.

It wasn’t immediately clear what motivated the soldier. Police reinforcements were sent to the area after the shooting and were combing nearby streets, and a helicopter circled overhead.

The Defense Ministry said a nearby school was also evacuated.

Authorities sought to calm the public in a city where tensions remain high after an attack on the National Bardo Museum on March 18 that killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists. The

shooting at the Bouchoucha barracks was about a kilometer from the museum.

Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said Monday’s incident is not being viewed as a terrorist attack. Speaking on national radio, he said shots were fired only inside the barracks, suggesting it was an internal dispute. Defense Ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati said the situation was under control by mid-morning. Oueslati said the soldier had been forbidden from carrying a weapon, and seized another man’s weapon for the attack. He didn’t elaborate.

Since overthrowing its secular dictator in in 2011, Tunisia has been battling militant groups with links to the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, which have carried out attacks on security forces. (ap)

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INDONESIA Economic development in easter Indonesia must involve community

JAKARTA - The government should use an inclusive concept that involves the people’s contributions to drive economic development in eastern Indonesia, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Suryo Bambang Sulisto stated.

“Economic development in eastern Indonesia should use an inclusive concept that involves the people’s contributions,” Sulisto noted on Monday.

Sulisto remarked that the concept of an inclusive economy will be easily realized through the development of small- and medium-sized

enterprises.

He said that Indonesia’s development is divided into western and eastern regions, with potential in the maritime sector.

Contrary to the handling of development in Indonesia’s western region, Sulisto remarked that the the eastern Indonesian region should be

developed in accordance with its local characteristics and cultures.

“With the concept of an inclusive economy, I think industry and maritime tourism will grow rapidly,” he said.

Based on President Joko Widodo’s program, he affirmed that the development of the eastern region

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expressed hope that Indonesia’s medical herbs would become typical national products that could be promoted in the global market and help boost the national industry.

“Medical herbs are our cultural heritage. I think we should be serious in developing our ‘jamu’ (medical herbs) as a product, which portrays the image that

‘jamu is Indonesia and Indonesia is jamu’,” Jokowi stated while opening the Seventh National Meeting of jamu producers at the State Palace on Monday.

The president noted that Indonesia’s medical herb exports were still constrained by the stringent protection system on food and beverages abroad.

“However, if they are in the form of therapeutic products, med-

ical herbs could still be exported easily,” Jokowi, who claimed to have routinely consumed ginger and buffoonery medical herbs in the past 17 years, asserted.

He said that with regard to medical herbs, the government was also obligated to provide guidance, supervision, and protection in a bid to improve the country’s herbal medicine industry. (ant)

President optimistic of medical herbs becoming national product

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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expressed hope that Indonesia’s medical herbs would become typical national products that could be promoted in the global market and help boost the national industry.

will be focused on the priority sectors, which are directly related to the needs of the society.

“So, it takes a strong will from several parties, both at the central and local government levels,” he noted.

Sulisto stated that various parties, including the local governments, should benefit from the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).

“I hope that the local govern-

ments can be more proactive in playing a strategic role,” he said.

The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized the “Trade & Investment Forum: East Indonesian Regions” in Jakarta, on Monday.

The event aims to promote the potential of eastern Indonesia and support business cooperation and investment that are open to domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Corrutpion Eradication Commission has summoned a Pertamina commissioner Sahala Lumbangaol, who is also an expert staff of the state energy company to testify in a big graft case over the imports of tetra ethyl lead (TEL).

The case, known as Innospec case, was over the imports of TEL

by Pertamina in 2004-2005 from Britain with Innospec supplying.

“Sahala Lumbangaol is summoned as witness in the case with SAM (Suroso Atmomartoyo) as the suspect,” KPK spokesman Priharsa Nugraha said on Monday.

Suroso was formerly processing director of PT Pertamina charged with accepting US$190,000 in bribery from the director of PT Sugih Interjaya (SI), Willy Sebastian Liem to approve Innospec through PT SI as a supplier of Tetraethyl Lead (TEL) for oil refineries of PT Pertamina from December 2004 to 2005.

Willy also paid the travel cost of Suroso Atmomartoyo to London and Innospec official David P Turner including for accommodation at May Fair Radisson Ewardian Hotel 23-26 April in 2005 worth 749.66 pounds and at a Manchester Hotel on 27 April 2005 at 149.5 pounds.

PT SI was named by The Associated Octel Company Limited (OCTEL) or Innospec to become sole agent for TEL sales in Indo-

nesia in 1982.

However, the Indonesian government launched what was called blue sky program banning the use of TEL in gasoline and diesel oil as from Dec. 31 in 2004.

Willy reported the program and plan to delay the process of implementing the regulation under a joint decision of the energy ands mineral resources minister, the state minister for the environment and the finance minister.

Innospec then agreed to bribe Suroso, who had the authority to sign the purchase of TEL by PT Pertamina and approve the price of TEL before the president of PT Pertamina gave the final approval.

On memorandum from Suroso the board of directors of PT Pertamina approved the TEL procurement for Pertamina’a refineries to be handled by PT SI. The bribery of US$190,000 for Suroso was transferred to his account at Bank UOB Singapore by phases from January 2004 to September 2005.

The case was a follow-up of the Oil for Food Investigation by the US and British governments.

The case against Suroso and Willy followed the arrest and conviction of four directors of Innospec by British court. The investigations of the convicts led to KPK arresting Suroso and Willy on 24 February 2015. (ant)

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APEC trade chiefs vow to speed up work in WTO

MANILA — Trade ministers from 21 Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday issued strong support to the World Trade Organization’s efforts to boost global trade amid a flurry of regional free trade agreements.

The ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping of nations vowed at the end of their two-day meeting on the central Philippine resort island of Boracay to ratify by December a landmark trade facilitation deal and to contribute to a work program to conclude the much-delayed Doha round of trade negotiations.

They reaffirmed in a separate document from their annual joint statement “the centrality and primacy of the multilateral trading system under the auspices of the WTO” in promoting trade and economic growth.

They also promised to exercise restraint in implementing measures consistent with WTO provisions but which have a significant protectionist effect, “and to promptly rectify such measures, where they are implemented.”

At the same time, the ministers’ joint statement welcomed progress on a collective study on opportunities and challenges ahead of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. They instructed officials to report updates on it by November and to have a final report by next year’s ministerial meeting.

APEC leaders agreed in Beijing in November to accelerate efforts to create the FTAAP “as early as possible” and endorsed a road map to its creation.

The FTAAP goal is being pursued as talks for the TransPacific Partnership free trade initiative of 12 countries — including the United States, Japan and Australia, but excluding China — have been delayed by legislative debate in the U.S. over President Barack Obama’s controversial “fast-track” trade bill to complete the TPP deal.

The bill was finally passed the by U.S. Senate on Friday, but it is expected to face a tougher time in the House, which resumes sessions on June 1.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told a news conference in Boracay that ministers from TPP member countries took the opportunity to meet over breakfast Sunday to review the status of the negotiations and talk about the work program going forward.

“Our negotiators are working as we speak and working through issues,” he said. “We hope to conclude it soon; we’re very much in the end game.”

But he declined to specify a timetable. A ministerial meeting originally scheduled for this week has been delayed after other members preferred to wait until after the U.S. House of Representatives also gives Obama authority to complete trade deals that Congress could approve or reject, but not change.

“We reaffirm our shared vision that regional economic integration should not create unnecessary barriers between economies and lead to fragmentation of trade and investment flows,” APEC ministers said in their statement.

They are also endorsing to their leaders a raft of measures bolstering micro enterprises’ ability to take part in global trade. Small companies comprise 97 percent of businesses in APEC countries, and contribute significantly to employment and poverty alleviation.

The action plan includes streamlining rules of origin requirements, promoting greater use of information technology, cutting customs red tape, assisting micro enterprises in meeting requirements and widening their options for financing. (ap)

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In this April 22, 2015 file photo, people walk in front of a container ship docked at a container terminal in Tokyo.

Japan trade account returns to deficit in April TOKYO - Japan swung back to a trade deficit in April after the first surplus in almost three years in March, but the shortfall shrank drastically year-on-year thanks to stronger exports and lower energy bills, official data showed Monday.

The monthly deficit came in at 53.4 billion yen ($440 million), about one-15th of the 825.5 billion yen posted a year earlier, finance ministry data showed.

Exports rose 8.0 percent year-onyear chiefly on robust shipments of cars, electronics components and machinery as the yen was 17 percent cheaper against the dollar than last year.

Imports dropped 4.2 percent as the cost of oil and gas fell.

By region, US-bound shipments soared 21.4 percent, far outpacing a 2.4 percent increase in exports to China and a 0.8 percent rise in exports to the European Union.

“Japan’s economy will be more robust this year, led by domestic consumption and external demand,” said Yoshitaka Suda, an economist at Nomura Holdings.

“We think that the US economy will continue to recover moderately, helping to boost Japan’s exports,” he told Bloomberg News.

The April data came after a stronger-than-expected economic growth report last week.

Data from the Cabinet Office showed Japan’s economy grew a faster-than-expected 0.6 percent onquarter in the first three months of 2015 as it crawls back from a brief recession.

The Bank of Japan on Friday held off launching more stimulus and governor Haruhiko Koroda said the world’s number-three economy was on the upswing after taking a hit from a sales tax hike in April last year.

Since taking office in late 2012, Japan’s prime minister has embarked on a high-profile policy blitz -- including big government spending and huge

central bank monetary easing -- in a bid to end years of deflation and lacklustre growth.

The April deficit was much smaller than market expectations for a deficit of more than 300 billion yen although it reversed March’s 227.4 billion yen in surplus, which was the first blackink since June 2012.

Capital Economics expects Japan’s balance to remain in the red in the near term.

“If the exchange rate starts to weaken again in the second half of the year as we expect, crude oil imports will become more expensive again, soon,” said Marcel Thieliant, Japan economist at Capital Economics.

“Overall, therefore, the trade balance will likely remain in the red in coming months.” he said in a note.

Economists at SMBC Nikko Securities said “the trade balance will be likely to move around the break-even point for a while” due to stalling export growth, a pick-up in imports, and an upturn in oil prices. (afp)

TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction is no longer bizarre to foreign and domestic tourists. Other than offering a magnificent sunset, the existing temples also exude a strong spiritual aura, that’s why more and more tourists coming to see them. So do not be surprised, if the tourist attraction located at Beraban village, Kediri - Tabanan or about 13 km from Tabanan town and about 20 km north of Denpasar is always flooded with tourists.

There are 5 temples spreading across the tourist attraction becoming a perfect blend of nature and culture.

Almost all the temples have their own uniqueness. Batu Mejan, for instance, is a temple situated about 100 meters west of Batu Bolong Temple. Hindu

community in Bali knows the Batu Mejan Temple as Beji Temple. Beji is a sacred place to get holy spring for Hindu ceremony.

Interestingly, local villagers have confidence that Batu Mejan Temple is sanctum to invoke forgiveness of

Tipat Bangkit

Tipat Bangkit is a combination of various types of tipat or rice bag denoting the part of the bebangkit offering. This kind of ritual paraphernalia of the Hindu community in Bali commonly used when organizing the five kinds of holy sacrifice or pancha yajña (deva yajña, rishi yajña, pitri yajña, manusha yajña and bhuta yajña) especially in the ritual belonging to middle- and large-sized ceremony. Tipat Bangkit in the bebangkit offerings is dedicated to the Goddess Durga (in a state of anger) in order that she gets back into Goddess Uma (in the tender state).

This offering is aimed at enhancing the quality of life. The tipat bangkit consists of tipat cakra, tipat ninjeng, tipat lawangan, tipat pageh, tipat terompong, tipat sarin buana, tipat nasi, tipat siungan, tipat Sidakarya, tipat blayag, tipat sai, tipat sari, tipat bagia, tipat taluh, tipat kukur and tipat dampulan sari. However, when presenting the offering, it comes with jaja bulan matanai (lunar solar cake). (kmb)

God through holy water. Started by delivering an oblation, the procession is resumed with invoking holy water to get rid of evil natures. “We strongly believe the deity venerated in Batu Mejan Temple has bestowed us, the family and all the people of Bali with a safety,” said Wayan Sudarpa, a resident of Tabanan who was conducting a purificatory rite.

A miracle will appear in the temple area where along the coast in the south of Batu Mejan Temple can be found some springs. It is clearly seen during low tide. If lucky, at

the verge of beach can be found nine springs coming out from the bottom of the sea, and the water is fresh. Hindu community believes if the springs are holy water used to purify all the impurities.

Piodalan or temple anniversary in Batu Mejan coincides with the one of Pakendungan and Patok Temple falling on Saturday Kliwon Kuningan. At that time, the atmosphere is ascertained to be crowded as Hindu devotees from outside Bali will also come to pay homage.

Other than for saying prayers, Bali-

nese people and those from outside of Bali also come to relax and enjoy the beauty of the beach.

Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, I Ketut Toya Adnyana, said that every ceremony held in one of the temples at Tanah Lot, it was always prepared with additional parking space in an attempt to anticipate the flood of visitors. Additionally, his party also improved the security services by involving pecalang (customary security taskforce) to help the existing security guards. (kmb)

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Tabanan now has a museum of ceramic art TABANAN - Pejaten village is not only famous for manufacturing earthenware but they have also developed ceramic craft products, which could very well be highlighted as a tourist attraction. Pejaten village is in fact well on its way to becoming a tourism village. To achieve this objective, the village has built a museum of ceramic art with a collection of hundreds of artificial ceramic items made by local artisans as well as heritage ceramics from the nineteenth century. It is expected to become a tourist destinations for travelers visiting Pejaten village.

According to the Operations Manager of the Museum, I Putu Oka Mahendra, the museum of ceramic art has hundreds of pieces in its collection that has been amassed since 2011. The museum also shows the historical development of ceramics in Pejaten village.

Mahendra explained that initially the development of ceramics at Pejaten village began with the manufacture of pottery and roof tiles used in bartering for agricultural commodities with other regions because Pejaten village was arid and barren. “In the 1960s the manufacture of pottery here still used traditional techniques. Then, in 1980 there was assistance from the Dutch government in teaching new manufacturing techniques that allowed the craft to evolve,” said Mahendra.

He explained that after learning from the Dutch government 15 different groups of craftsmen at Pejaten village began to produce

ceramics with a layer of glass or glaze. The development of ceramics at Pejaten is divided into several decades starting in the 1960s. Each period shows differences in forms, motifs, and levels of difficulty in the creation process.

Aside from collecting contemporary ceramic from Tabanan, the museum also has a collection of ceramic tiles estimated to be more than a thousand years old and originate from northern Thailand, specifically, 9th century Sawankhalok “We obtained this collection from fishermen on the coast of West Java. The ceramics no longer have their glaze as they were buried in the sand for so long,” said Oka. He also explained that a team from the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar investigated and found that the ceramics that were found on the coast of West Java in fact have the characteristic traits of ceramics from Sawankhalok. (kmb24)

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John Nash: A life of great struggle and even greater success TRENTON, N.J. — Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success.

That he achieved, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994, but not without a struggle with mental illness that would make him a household name even more so than his achievements in mathematics.

The Vice Regent of Tabanan, Sanjaya visited the ceramic museum

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On highway operation, three contraband puppies secured

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NEGARA - Three puppies smuggled were secured by the ranks of Jembrana Police when making a highway operation on Jalan Sudirman, Denpasar-Gilimanuk, Saturday night (May 23). Aside from contraband animals, the operation led by the Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police, Anak Agung Rai Laba, also found a car without vehicle registration and toy gun.

The operation held before the dawn was actually targeting drugs in anticipating the entry of drugs smuggled to Bali through land line.

But from the operation involving at least 70 police officers from the Jembrana Police and Negara Police found 20 traffic violations. Of the many trucks inspected, the officers found a truck with destination to Flores transporting three puppies without official documents. From the description of the driver, Benyamin Bato, 43, from Flores, the truck with license plate L 9837 UP delivered puppies from Surabaya to Flores with a cost of IDR 1 million.

Recipient of the puppy delivery is on behalf of Fiki with the address at Trikora village, Bajawa subdistrict, Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara.

Since having no document from the Agricultural Quarantine, the three puppies belonging to Hasky type were secured by police. The puppies placed in small cage were estimated to be two months old.

“We have also secured a unit of Mercedes with license plate L 1207 DW without registration document and a toy pistol,” said Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police to reporters. The sedan without vehicle registration document brought a land pass, but it is only valid in the area of East Java.

According to him, it poses a regular operation to maintain the security of Bali including the anticipation against drug trafficking.

In addition to such joint operation, the highway operation is also held regularly at each police station across the subdistrict police in Jembrana to back up the examination at Gilimanuk. (kmb26)

Nash had read the classic “Men of Mathematics” by E.T. Bell by the time he was in high school. He planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and studied for three years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh — now Carnegie Mellon University — but instead followed his passion for math.

He then went to Princeton, where he worked on his equilibrium theory and, in 1950, received his doctorate with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the Nash equilibrium.

But it was while teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, when his wife, Alicia, was pregnant with their son, that schizophrenia began to emerge, a yearslong fight that was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning blockbuster “A Beautiful Mind.”

The Nashes died in a car accident late Saturday on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86; she was 82.

“John’s remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory, and the story of his life with Alicia moved millions of readers and moviegoers who marveled at their courage in the face of daunting challenges,” Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement.

In an autobiography written for The Nobel Foundation website, Nash said delusions caused him to resign as a faculty member at MIT. He also spent several months in New Jersey hospitals on an involuntary basis. However, Nash’s schizophrenia diminished through the 1970s and 1980s as he “gradually began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking,” he wrote.

2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” was based on an unauthorized biography

by Sylvia Nasar, who wrote that Nash’s contemporaries found him “immensely strange” and “slightly cold, a bit superior, somewhat secretive.” Much of his demeanor likely stemmed from mental illness. “A Beautiful Mind” won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and generated interest in John Nash’s life story.

Russell Crowe, who was nominated for best actor for playing Nash, tweeted that he was “stunned” by news of the couple’s death. “An amazing partnership,” he wrote.

“Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

Jennifer Connelly, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash, called the couple “an inspiration,” and the film’s director, Ron Howard, tweeted that “it was an honor telling part of their story.” The Nashes split in 1963 then resumed living together several years later and finally remarried in 2001.

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1994 file photo, Princeton University professor John Nash speaks during a news conference at the school in Princeton, N.J., after being named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for economics. Nash, whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” died in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey on Saturday, May 23, 2015, police said.

John Nash held a research post at Brandeis University before eventually returning to Princeton. Known as brilliant and eccentric, he was associated with Princeton for many years, most recently serving as a senior research mathematician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work in game theory, which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry. It

is considered one of the most influential ideas of the 20th century.

Just days before his death, Nash received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo with New York University mathematician Louis Nirenberg, who called Nash a truly great mathematician and “a kind of genius.”

Nirenberg said he had chatted

with the Nashes for an hour at the airport in Newark, New Jersey before they’d gotten into a taxi to return home to Princeton Township. New Jersey State Police say the Nashes were thrown out of the taxi when it crashed around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Monroe Township, about 12 miles from their home. The cab driver was hospitalized. (ap)

North Ireland leader hospitalized over suspected heart attack

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FILE- In this file photo dated Thursday, May 7, 2015, Northern Ireland First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Peter Robinson gives the thumbs up to waiting media after casting his vote in the General Election in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.

DUBLIN — First Minister Peter Robinson, the Protestant leader of Northern Ireland’s unity government, has been hospitalized after a suspected heart attack, his party said Monday. The 66-yearold leader of the Democratic Unionist Party was taken by ambulance to the Ulster Hospital east of Belfast near his home, then transferred to the cardiac specialist unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Catholic west Belfast.

The Royal Victoria Hospital said in a statement that Robinson “underwent a procedure this morning and is currently recovering.” It declined to elaborate. The Democratic Unionist Party, which represents the British territory’s Protestant majority, asked media not to contact Robinson’s

family.

Robinson has led Northern Ireland’s five-party government since 2008. Long a fierce critic of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party, Robinson has defied expectations and worked with Irish Catholic colleagues — particularly former IRA commander Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein official who is co-leader of the government.

Deputy First Minister McGuinness said in a tweet he was concerned about Robinson’s hospitalization. “My thoughts and prayers are with him, (wife) Iris and family,” he wrote. In London, Prime Minister David Cameron also tweeted that he hopes Robinson “has a speedy recovery.” (ap)

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Dogs domesticated over 27,000 years ago

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In this photo taken May 10, 2015, a dead dolphin washes ashore in the Gulf of Mexico on Grand Isle, La.

Scientists link dolphin deaths in Gulf to 2010 BP spill

NEW ORLEANS — In a new study, a team of scientists says there’s a definite link between the massive BP oil spill in 2010 and a record number of dolphin deaths along the northern Gulf of Mexico.

The scientists on Wednesday said large numbers of dead bottlenose dolphins found along shores since the spill suffered from lung and adrenal lesions caused by swimming in oilcontaminated seas.

The research paper backs up previous findings linking dolphin deaths to the oil spill. The study involved federal scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

BP has rejected the contention linking the deaths to the oil spill. Instead, it said, the dolphins were likely suffering from common respiratory illnesses.

The new study was published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS ONE. With the release of the study, researchers and federal government made the most direct link yet between the spill and the dolphin deaths.

“No feasible alternative causes remain that can reasonably explain the timing, location and nature of these distinct lesions and increase in deaths,” said Stephanie Venn-Watson, the study’s lead researcher with National

Marine Mammal Foundation.

From 2002 to 2009, the Gulf averaged 63 dolphin deaths a year. That rose to 125 in the seven months after the spill in 2010 and 335 in all of 2011, averaging more than 200 a year since April 2010.

That’s the longest and largest dolphin die-off ever recorded in the Gulf. The number of deaths has started to decline, according to federal scientists.

Researchers said oil contamination caused chronic adrenal problems for dolphins and this in turn hurt their chances of surviving cold temperatures, infections and bacterial pneumonia.

Also, the dolphins suffering from oil contamination had problems with pregnancy.

Venn-Watson said dolphins were vulnerable to oil contamination because they take deep breaths at the sea’s surface — the same place where oil sheens covered the Gulf following the spill.

“Dolphins were swimming into the oil,” she said. “Their lungs are large, they take big deep breaths at the water’s surface and hold it for extended

periods of time.”

The study looked at 46 dead dolphins found in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama between June 2010 and December 2012. Researchers tested lung and adrenal gland tissues.

The study looked at 22 dead dolphins found in Barataria Bay, a heavily oiled water body south of New Orleans where researchers first began noticing and tracking dolphin deaths after the spill.

Venn-Watson said further studies would be needed to track and monitor the long-term effects of the contamination on the dolphin populations.

BP questioned the validity of the study because it was based on what it termed “just a small sample set” of dolphins. The company accused the federal government of not releasing in a timely manner hundreds of necropsies.

“This new paper fails to show that the illnesses observed in some dolphins were caused by exposure to Macondo oil,” said Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman. (ap)

WASHINGTON - Man’s best friend may have been his companion for far longer than believed, scientists reported, publishing an analysis that dates domesticated dogs to over 27,000 years ago.

Humans possibly domesticated dogs 27,000 to 40,000 years ago, according to Swedish researchers whose work was published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

The scientists based their analysis on an ancient Siberian jaw fragment. Previous estimates said modern dogs diverged from their wolf ancestors 16,000 years ago after the last ice age.

The “Taimyr” wolf bone in the study, dated to 35,000 years ago, shows that the animal was the most recent ancestor of wolves and modern dogs.

“Dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than is generally believed,” said Love Dalen from the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Dalen said the only other explanation for the unusual bone was the less likely possibility that a major divergence between wolf populations took place at that time that gave birth to modern wolves while the wolf population became extinct.

The Taimyr wolf lived a few thousand years after Neanderthals disappeared and modern humans spread throughout Asia and Europe, the study said.

DNA analysis also showed modern Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs have an “unusually large” number of gene in common with the Taimyr wolf. (afp)

Future for warming US: More extreme heat

WASHINGTON — The combination of global warming and shifting population means that by mid-century, there will be a huge increase in the number of Americans sweating through days that are extremely hot, a new study says.

People are migrating into areas — especially in the Southeast — where the heat is likely to increase more, said the authors of a study published Monday by the journal Nature Climate Change. The study highlighted the Houston-Dallas-San Antonio and Atlanta-CharlotteRaleigh corridors as the places where the double whammy looks to be the biggest.

“It’s not just the climate that is changing in the future,” said study co-author Linda Mearns, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. “It is many things: how many people and where people are that affects their exposure to climate changes.”

In a unique study looking at the interplay of projected changes in climate and population, scientists tried to characterize the number of people who will feel temperatures of 95 degrees (35 Celsius) or higher and how often they will feel it. They used a figure called person days for the extreme heat to reflect both the length of time heat waves continued and how many people felt it by multiplying people affected by how many days they felt the heat.

Between 1970 and 2000, the U.S. averaged about 2.3 billion person days of extreme heat each year. But between 2040 and 2070 that number will be between 10 and 14 billion person days a year, according to the study.

The scientists used 11 different climate models based on current trends of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions and matched those with demographic trends. Both the increased heat and population shifts had about equal effects but together they made matters even worse, said lead author Bryan Jones, a population geographer at the City University of New York.

The question is, will be people adapt by changing their lifestyle, such as staying indoors and using more air conditioning, or will they move to cooler climates. Jones said it is unlikely that people will move to cooler areas to escape the heat, saying historically people tend to move away from colder areas and into warmer areas like Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.

Several outside scientists praised the study. University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd said the problem is likely even worse when you take into consideration the fact that cities get hotter than rural areas. (ap)

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Perched Keramas Beach

A restaurant and villa allegedly in violation GIANYAR - The coastal areas of Gianyar have become the target of investors wishing to establish tourist accommodations. Unfortunately, many tourism facilities such as villas and restaurant have not followed the rules of the the official spatial plan which dictate that buildings must be built at least a 100 meters from the shore. One of the restaurant that is established on the shoreline of Keramas, Blahbatuh, is additionally alleged to not have a permit.

Tourist accommodations that perch on the edge of Keramas Beach, Blahbatuh, can be reached by taking Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra to the Jalan Pantai Keramas. There is a restaurant on the beach and next to it several villas are under construction.

The newly built restaurant clearly violates the rules of the spatial plan, as it is definetly less than 100 meters form the shore. Such violations do occur not only on Keramas Beach but similar constructions can also be found on other beaches, such as Siyut, Lebih, Purnama, Masceti and Saba to Ketewel.

Head of the Gianyar Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT), Ngakan Putu Darmajati, when asked for his confirmation about these offenses, expressed surprise. He said that he has never issued any permits for the construction of tourist facilities such as restaurants nor villas located on the coastal line of Keramas

Beach.

“Around Keramas Beach there are indeed some villas but they are quite far from the beach. I have just now heard about the restaurant and villa located close to shoreline of Keramas -I have never issued any permit for a restaurant at that location (Keramas Beach—Ed),” he said.

After being informed, Darmajati promised to look into the situation and to coordinate with the Gianyar Municipal Police in order to discipline those in violation. “To my recollection, I have indeed never issued any permits for buildings at that location. I will forward this information to the municipal police so that they can take decisive action,” he said.

When asked about similar occurrences at other locations along the coast of Gianyar, Ngakan Dharmajati explained that such conditions are often the result of coastal abrasion,

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The coastal areas of Gianyar have become the target of investors wishing to establish tourist accommodations. Unfortunately, many tourism facilities such as villas and restaurant have not followed the rules of the the official spatial plan which dictate that buildings must be built at least a 100 meters from the shore. whereas when these buildings first went up, they met the requirement of being 100 meters from shore

“The abrasion of Gianyar’s coast is happening very rapidly, so villas or hotels that previously were in

request. This former sub-district head of Kubu said that the government of Karangasem has organized several meetings the committee that they set up and the customary village of Besakih. The meetings have not yielded agreement between the two parties, particularly regarding profit sharing.

Arta Sedana said that in the last meeting, Besakih village asked to be given 70 percent of the profits gained from the Besakih tourist attractions, with a suggested 30 percent going to the government of Karangasem. The government of Karangasem committee proposed allotting 55 percent of the profits to the village and 45 percent to the government. The committee’s figures are based on a comparison with the Tanah Lot tourist attraction.

Sedana said that the amount of money to be divided is based on the net revenue or whatever profits remain after operations costs have been paid out (including the salary of employees). The cooperation being discussed involves everything outside of the temple

courtyard, while the temples themselves remain the obligation of the government or the supporting devotees. The governing body of the tourist attraction is not allowed to interfere.

According to Arta Sedana, the Besakih tourist attraction should be made into a pilot project, but both parties must first arrive at a preliminary agreement. Later on, after the site is running as a tourist attraction, if there is a lot of many being made, the clauses of the agreement can be amended pursuant to the necessity of both parties.

He added that there is a structuring team for the Besakih tourist attraction. The team is led by the subdistrict head of Rendang and was established based on a decree by the Regent of Karangasem. Until now, there are still complaints from visitors about having been inconvenienced when visiting Besakih Temple. As well, street vendors also frequently offer their merchandise right up until the temple gates and sometimes inside the grounds as well. (013)

compliance with the requirements may appear to be in violation,” he explained. (kmb35)

Authority of Besakih tourist attraction expected to be established soon AMLAPURA - The Besakih tourist attraction authority (BPDTOWB) is expected to be established as soon as possible so that they can organize and maintain the

sanctity of the Besakih Temple.

In Almapura recently, Division Head of the Governance Affairs, Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Ketut Arta Sedana, annouced this

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People flocked at Besakih Temple during a Hindu ceremony.

The Besakih tourist attraction authority (BPDTOWB) is expected to be established as soon as possible so that they can organize and maintain the sanctity of the Besakih Temple.

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Lack of clean drinking water, residents consume mossy lake water

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The rice seller is having problem because of the distribution of plastic rice

To prevent plastic rice distribution

Trade Agency oversees rice supply from Java

BANGLI - Though known as an area with many natural springs, hundreds of families in Alengkong, Songan B, Kintamani do not have access to clean drinking water. To meet their daily needs, the people living in this hamlet are forced to consume rainwater that they have caught and as well as water from Lake Batur that they store in their wells. Sometimes the water they consume is mossy and dirty.

One local residents, Jero Erna, for instance admitted that she and her family consume stored rain water everyday.

They collect rainwater and fetch water from Lake Batur. This water is not only used for their cattle and for bathing but for their own consumption as well, without so much as being boiled. “I have gotten used to drinking it so I don’t get sick,” she explained. Local residents of Alengkong hamlet are forced to drink unclean water because they have yet to be served by the municipal waterworks (PDAM) or other sources of clean water.

Hamlet chief of Alengkong, Nengah Mandiyasa recognises the shortage of

clean water that local residents face and said that all 210 of families of Alengkong rely on rain and lake water to meet their daily needs.

According to Mandiyasa, the community of Alengkong actually never faces water shortages per se, because during rainy season they catch rainwater, while in dry season they collect lake water that is stored in a reservoir. In fact the real problem that the residents of Alengkong face, is that there is no pipeline from the reservoir to people’s houses so the water ends up getting dirty from stagnating and then becomes discolored and filled with moss.

Mandiyasa therfore hopes that the government can help with the installation of a pipeline connecting the reservoir directly to people’s homes.

Hopefully, local people will no longer need to store water in their wells. “Despite consuming this water every day -fortunately, our residents have never complained about getting sick from it,” said Mandiyasa. (kmb40)

SINGARAJA - Though the problem of plastic rice being distributed to the public has not made its way to Buleleng, the government is nonetheless being vigilant. The regency of Buleleng has instructed the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency to oversee the rice supplies coming to Bulelelng from Java. Buleleng still relies on rice supplied from Central Java and East Java to meet their demands.

Head of the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency, Ni Made Arnika, when contacted on Sunday (May 24) confirmed that such vigilance is being enforced. Following the discovery of the circulation of plastic rice in Java recently, Arnika wants to make sure that no platic rice is found circulating in Buleleleng. She added that a lot of Javanese rice is brought into Buleleng because in some seasons local farmers are not able to supply local demands. Rice is brought into to Buleleng from Central and East Java, every two weeks with 2 and 3 tons orders from each distributor in North Bali. Most of the orders are for premium class rice which has recently been in high demand by consumers in Bali. “Local Balinese rice produced by our farmers cannot be mixed with synthetic rice. So the focus of our small team is on rice coming in from Java,” she said.

To prevent the plastic rice from entering Buleleng,

her agency has deployed a small team to closely monitor the supply of rice from Java though distributors in Buleleng. “The supply from Java cannot just be cut off, because Javanese rice is much sought after by Balinese consumers, especially in North Bali where there are sometimes shortages of local rice,” she said.

Other than tightening the supervision of Javanese rice distribution, the Buleleng Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency has been supervising the sale of rice by retailers at traditional markets in Buleleng. Based on such supervision, Buleleng has been declared to be plastic rice free. Nevertheless, the issue of plastic rice is quite disturbing to people in North Bali. Many of whom are concerned that they might have already consumed synthetic rice. Many rice merchants have even said that their sales have gone down due to such fears, whereas demands are only slightly less than before the scare. (kmb38)

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The residents of Alengkong, Songan B, Kintamani, Bangli must use dirty water due to the drought

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Owl Stone Café & Bakery KUTA - This is a great spot to unwind with family and friends in casual surroundings. With so many bakery stores arround Kuta area, OWL Stone Café and Bakery, has a slightly different menu. With 40 seat capacity OWL Stone Café & Bakery to be one answer to the present in the middle of society. Owl Stone is specializing in visually attractive kind of cakes, bread and pastry. To add variety in the food, at the same time OWL also sell a variety of sandwiches, burgers, or finger food. Owl Stone Café & Bakery located at Jalan Raya Tuban No. 2, Ground floor of H Sovereign Hotel Bali.

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Employess are assets

Creative, fun and energetic are simple phrases representing the young man named Wahyu A Bayuaji. Currently this man occupying the position of General Manager at Club Bali Suites does not only focus on improving the quality of personality, but also has a hobby to share knowledge for the development of his team.

Wahyu is his familiarly address working as tourism practitioner in early 2003.

Wahyu began to actively brush up his skills by trying various challenges. Previously, he attended overseas internship program for Room Division at the Albert Court Hotel Singapore and the Food & Beverage Division at Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After successfully earned an undergraduate degree from the National Hotel Institute (NHI), now the Bandung Tourism College (STPB) he developed his career to international arena and joined the Golden Tulip Hotels & Resorts Group, The Netherlands.

Later on, he returned to Indonesia and developed a career in the field of sales and marketing as Sales Manager at Bali Gardenia Resort, Corporate Sales Manager at Club Bali Hotels & Resorts Group and Assistant Director of Sales & Marketing at Karma Resorts (Karma Royal Group).

Ultimately he was offered to come back to the Club Bali Hotels & Resorts Group as General Manager at Club Bali Suites Legian and Head of Corporate Sales & Marketing. At his new workplace, Wahyu is committed to advancing the Club Bali Suites Legian, not only in terms of op-

eration management but also in terms of human resources. “Employees are assets that we will always prioritize to get improvement in terms of the quality of human resources, including their communication, transparency, teamwork, responsibility and discipline,” he said.

For the hotel itself, added Wahyu, the most important is the quality of products and services. Currently the Club Bali Suites Legian has become one of the best family accommodation options in Legian area. It offers a complete accommodation option for families like one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom suites.

“Club Bali Suites Legian has a privileged location, located in the heart of the tourism oasis near Double Six Legian Beach, Kuta Beach, Kuta Art Market, Waterbom Kuta as well as recreation spots and nightlife in the area of Legian, Kuta and Seminyak.

It is only a few minutes from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport by car,” he explained.

In the future, Wahyu will continue to motivate, provide full support and share his experience with the team happily. It is only meant to build a positive image of the Club Bali Suites Legian among the local and global communities. Having high skills in the field and proficiency in the use of certain equipment is required in the implementation of the tasks concerned with the above mentioned areas.

His team is expected to have knowledge, experience and intelligence to analyze a problem and sensitivity to read situation quickly and carefully is very important in making the best decisions.

Besides, it is required to have visionary attitude, namely the ability to anticipate environmental developments. (kmb)

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

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

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

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

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

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Audiard’s ‘Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or in upset Cannes finale CANNES, France — The 68th Cannes Film Festival was brought to a surprising close Sunday with Jacques Audiard’s Sri Lankan refugee drama taking the festival’s coveted top honor, the Palme d’Or. The choice of “Dheepan,” as selected by a jury led by Joel and Ethan Coen, left some critics scratching their heads.

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Director Jacques Audiard holds the Palme d’Or award for the film Dheepan as he poses for photographers during a photo call following the awards ceremony at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 24, 2015.

While the dapper French filmmaker has drawn widespread acclaim for films such as “A Prophet” and “Rust and Bone,” some critics were disappointed by the thriller climax of Audiard’s film.

“Dheepan” is about a trio of Sri Lankans who pretend to be a family in order to flee their war-torn country and are settled in a violent housing project outside Paris.

“This isn’t a jury of film critics,” Joel Coen told reporters after the awards ceremony, alongside fellow jurors like Guillermo del Toro and Jake Gyllenhaal.

“This is a jury of artists who are looking at the work.”

The win for “Dheepan” comes at

a time when Europe is particularly attuned to the experience of immigrants, following the recent deaths of hundreds crossing the Mediterranean, seeking Italian shores. Jury members, though, said “Dheepan” was chosen for its overall strength as a film, rather than any topicality.

“We all thought it was a very beautiful movie,” said Ethan Coen, calling the decision “swift.” ‘’Everyone had some high level of excitement and enthusiasm for it.” Audiard, springing to the podium at the Palais des Festivals, accepted the award with warm gratitude, bowing to the jury. He was joined by the makeshift

parents of his film: Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who himself was Tamil Tiger child soldier before finding political asylum in France.

The runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, went to “Son of Saul,” a grim Holocaust drama by first-time Hungarian director László Nemes. Some expected Nemes’ horrifying plunge into the life of an Auschwitz worker to take the top award, but it’s been 26 years since a debut film (Steven Soderbergh’s “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”) was given the Palme.

English actress Sienna Miller and Canadian actor Xavier Dolan, both jury members, sounded especially moved by “Son of Saul.” Miller called it “breathtaking” and an extraordinary accomplishment for a first-time filmmaker.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the masterful 68-year-old Taiwanese filmmaker, won best director for his first feature in eight years: “The Assassin,” a lushly painterly martial arts drama.

The best actress prize was split but not the way some expected. It was given to both Rooney Mara, half of the romantic pair of Todd Haynes’ ‘50s lesbian drama “Carol,” and Emmanuelle Bercot, the French star of the roller coaster marriage drama “My King.” (Bercot also directed the festival opener, “Standing Tall,” about a delinquent teenager.) Any split was presumed to go to Mara and her “Carol” co-star, Cate Blanchett.

Best actor was awarded to Vincent Lindon, the veteran French actor of Stéphane Brizé’s “The Measure of a Man.” He plays a man struggling to make a living after a long period of unemployment. The visibly moved Lindon won over some big-name competition, including Michael Caine, the star of Paolo Sorrentino’s unrewarded “Youth,” a wry, melancholy portrait of old age. (ap)

Entertainment ‘Tomorrow land’ tops North American box office LOS ANGELES - Sci-fi adventure-drama “Tomorrow land” starring George Clooney went straight to the top of the North American box office on its debut weekend, estimates showed Sunday.

The Disney movie, which has had mixed reviews, was projected to pull in $40.7 million over the Memorial Day long weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Directed by Brad Bird, the film tells the story of former boy genius Frank (Clooney) and the precocious Casey (Britt Robertson) in their danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of a mysterious place known only as “Tomorrowland.”

The movie relegated musical comedy sequel “Pitch Perfect 2” into second place in the box office standings, expected to rake in $38 million over four days to Monday in the United States and Canada.

Starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, it follows the fortunes of the Barden Bellas singing team as they chase international success after being banned from the competitive circuit. Third was the reboot of Australian director George Miller’s “Mad Max” franchise, with $30 million.

It is the fourth film of the iconic series and the first since 1985’s “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”

Fourth in the box office was a new entry for horror classic “Poltergeist” ($27.7 million) on its debut weekend in movie theaters. The new, 3D take on the 1982 hit tells the disturbing story of a family whose home is haunted by evil forces that abduct their youngest daughter.

The movie just sneaked in ahead of superhero blockbuster “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” which was shunted down to fifth spot with $26.8 million for a total haul of $410 million since release. (afp)

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IDR 7 billion worth of capital to encourage entrepreneurs IBP/Wawan

Tourist is looking for souvenirs at kiosk in Sanur area. As a way to encourage novice entrepreneurs in Bali to continue developing their businesses and absorb more labour, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI has prepared capital worth IDR 7 billion for distribution in 2015.

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From left, U.S actor George Clooney, English actress Raffey Cassidy, U.S director Brad Bird and U.S actress Britt Robertson pose for photographers during the presentation of the film ‘Tomorrow Land’ at Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

DENPASAR - As a way to encourage novice entrepreneurs in Bali to continue developing their businesses and absorb more labour, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI has prepared capital worth IDR 7 billion for distribution in 2015. In addition, training and mentoring for novice entrepreneurs will also be provided so that they can take their businesses to the next level.

Division Head of the Entrepreneurial Mentoring and Deputy Assistant of Enterprise Affairs and Human Resources Development, for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the RI, Indriana, announced the good news during an entrepreneurship training session for novices on Sunday (May 24).

The training session that is being held over three days from May 22 until 25 is the result of cooperation

between the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises, The Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency, Bali TV and Bank Mandiri.

Indriana stated that the training session is aimed at improving the management skills of novice humans resources in SME’s. The main priority of the training program is to attempt to upgrade the class of business that these novice entrepreneurs are running, once they have the tools that

they gain though this training. “They are also learning to create business development plans,” said Indriana.

After assessing the post-training presentations of these entrepreneurs, the amount of capital required to help develop their businesses can be assessed. At a later date, these entrepreneurs will also be given support and capital if need be for further business development. With a combination of training and financial assistance, it is expected that these businesses will grow considerably. “The most important thing is that these businesses are able to grow which in turn will provide jobs. Currently these businesses are self run but naturally with a little growth, these entrepreneurs will begin to

hire friends and relatives,” added Indriana.

For Bali, the target is very much the development of novice entrepreneurs. In addition to providing training, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises is also cooperating with the Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency to undertake similar activities. “The Ministry will be providing funds for the Provincial Cooperative Agency for the same kind of training with more focus on vocational skills,” said Indriana.

The Bali Cooperative Agency will therefor be providing support and assistance for entrepreneurs in the form of training and capital.

Hopefully, after following the training sessions, these entrepreneurs

will be able to run their business well, expand and provide job opportunities as well as share what they have learned with their colleagues. “The Ministry of Co-ops and SME’s aims to develop the skills of 1 million entrepreneurs in five years. We will not be working alone, but in collaboration with ten ministerial institutions, agencies and professional institutions,” Indriana concluded. (kmb36) 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.