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Angelina Jolie rips world powers on Syria’s refugee crisis UNITED NATIONS — Actress Angelina Jolie pleaded with world powers Friday to help the millions of Syrian refugees, sharply criticizing the U.N. Security Council for being paralyzed by its division over Syria’s four-year conflict.

Jolie briefed the council as special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues. Syria’s ambassador said simply of her presence, “She’s beautiful.”

Jolie spoke during a full day of briefings on Syria that also included details of a new series of talks next month in Geneva aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis. The U.N. humanitarian chief made a powerful call for sanctions against those blocking the delivery of aid.

Nearly 4 million Syrians have fled the conflict into neighboring countries, which warn they are dangerously overstretched.

“We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent,” Jolie said.

Jolie, who said she has made 11 visits to Syrian refugees in the region since the crisis began in 2011, called strongly for the political will to act. She said the council’s powers lie unused because its members cannot agree on how to address the conflict.

Russia, a top Syria ally and backed by China, has vetoed multiple council resolutions on Syria, including an effort last year to refer the situation there to the International Criminal Court. British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, in his final council meeting, urged his colleagues to try again and said his “greatest regret” in his post was their collective failure to end the conflict.

Jolie said she would like to see the foreign minister of each of the 15 council members come to the table to negotiate a political solution. She also urged council members to visit Syrian refugees and see the crisis for

themselves.

In addition, Jolie spoke briefly about the rising migrant crisis on the Mediterranean, where more than 1,300 migrants fleeing Syria and other places have drowned at sea over the past three weeks. (ap)

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Adam Sandler movie sparks debate over Native American images

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — When a group of Native American actors walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie this week, their decision generated praise and scorn on social media.

But everyone agreed on one thing: Despite growing awareness, outdated Native American stereotypes in Hollywood remain. And more Native Americans are voicing their opinions.

This week, eight actors quit the production of the satirical Western “The Ridiculous Six” over complaints about offensive names and religious scenes. The actors said they couldn’t participate in a movie depicting a Native American woman urinating while smoking a peace pipe.

California writer Megan Red ShirtShaw, founder of Natives in America, an online publication for Native American youth, said the walkout generated praise from American Indian advocates because people were tired of the images and now have outlets to

express their outrage.

“In the past, Native actors did speak out but they didn’t have the technology to share their views widely,” Red Shirt-Shaw said. “It’s different now.”

On social media, activists used the hashtag #NotYourHollywoodIndian to denounce Sandler’s project and to thank the actors for their “bravery.”

Meanwhile, other Native Americans say more actors and writers are needed in media to battle hurtful images. They argued the actors should have stayed on set.

The Sandler film is set for a Netflix-only release, and the streaming service says it was designed to lampoon stereotypes popularized in Western movies.

A spokesman for Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison Productions, didn’t immediately return a phone message.

In recent years, Native Americans have been more outspoken. (ap)

Bruce Jenner comes out as transgender, says ‘I am a woman’

NEW YORK — In the 1970s, Bruce Jenner was a symbol of American masculinity as an Olympic champion. Nearly 40 years later, in an extraordinary television interview, Jenner told the world that he identifies as a woman and has felt gender confusion since he was a little boy growing up in the New York suburbs.

Jenner, a reality TV star and stepfather to Kim Kardashian, let his hair down — literally loosening

a ponytail and letting his hair flow past his shoulders — in a symbolic moment at the start of his two-hour interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that was televised Friday.

“Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”

He said his stepdaughter Kim has been a big supporter, urged on by her husband, rapper Kanye West.

“Your honesty has opened the doors for others to be courageous and live an authentic life!” Kardashian

tweeted.

For the transgender community, it was a moment as significant as comedian and TV host Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out as a lesbian was for gays nearly 20 years ago. DeGeneres tweeted support to Jenner, saying the former Olympian was “saving lives and opening minds.”

“My whole life has been getting me ready for this,” said Jenner, 65, known to a younger generation as the patriarch of television’s omni-

present Kardashian clan. “It’s not just the last few years as they’ve been treating me as a joke.”

Jenner said he self-identifies as “her,” not a specific name. But he told Sawyer he felt comfortable using the pronouns “he” and “him,” a designation that is an important issue for many in the transgender community, which believes that transgender people should be referred to by the pronouns with which they choose to identify.

Jenner said his “brain is more female than it is male.” He said he began gender reassignment therapy in the 1980s — taking hormones, having surgery to make his nose smaller and having hair removed from his face and chest — but gave it up. As Jenner got older, he realized that if he got sick and faced death without facing up to this issue, “I’d be so mad that I didn’t explore that side of my life.” (ap)

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First survivors of Mount Everest avalanche reach Kathmandu

Messi scores in Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Espanyol

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Aftershocks cause more terror as Nepal quake toll tops 2,200

KATHMANDU - Powerful aftershocks rocked Nepal Sunday, panicking survivors of a quake cloud of snow and debris cascading that killed more than 2,200 and triggering fresh avalanches at Everest base camp, as rescuers onto base camp, burying scores of climbers and flattening tents. dug through rubble in the devastated capital Kathmandu.

Terrified residents, many forced to camp out in the capital after Saturday’s quake reduced buildings to rubble, were jolted by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock that compounded the worst disaster to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in more than 80 years.

At overstretched hospitals, where medics were also treating patients in hastily erected tents, staff were forced to flee from buildings for fear of further collapses.

“Electricity has been cut off, communication systems are con-

gested and hospital are crowded and are running out of room for storing dead bodies,” Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke told AFP. Climbers reported that the aftershock caused more avalanches at Mount Everest, just after helicopters airlifted to safety those injured when a wall of snow hit base camp on Saturday, killing at least 17 people.

The deadliest disaster in Everest’s history comes almost exactly a year after an avalanche

killed 16 sherpa guides, forcing the season to be cancelled, and as around 800 mountaineers were gathered at the start of the new season.

AFP’s Nepal bureau chief Ammu Kannampilly, who was on assignment at base camp, reported that six helicopters had managed to reach the mountain on Sunday after the weather improved overnight.

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known to have died in Nepal had risen to 2,152 while 4,629 people had been injured.

Officials in India said the toll there now stood at 57, while Chinese state media said 17 people had been killed in the Tibet region.

“We have deployed all our resources for search and rescues,” Bam told AFP. “Helicopters have been sent to remote areas. We are sifting through the rubble where buildings have collapsed to see if we can find anyone.”

The Red Cross said it was concerned about the fate of villages near the epicentre of the quake northwest of Kathmandu.

“People being stretchered out as choppers land -- half a dozen this morning,” Kannampilly said in a text message. “Weather clear, some snowfall.”

Offers of help poured in from around the world, with the United States and European Union announcing they were sending in disaster response teams.

India flew out its stranded citizens in military planes while a 62strong Chinese rescue team arrived with sniffer dogs.

National police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said the number

Earthquake in Nepal

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, the country’s worst in 81 years.

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EPICENTER Time: 1411 GMT Magnitude: 7.8 Depth: 15 km

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A Nepalese man walks through destruction caused by Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. A powerful, magnitude 6.7 aftershock shook the Kathmandu area of Nepal on Sunday, a day after the massive earthquake devastated the region and destroyed homes and infrastructure.

INDIA Source: USGS W. Foo, 25/04/2015

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Prevent from extinction, Arja needs innovation

The marijuana confiscated by the police is increasing in number.

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Beware of drug!

They come in various forms

GIANYAR - During its heyday, the performance of arja operetta becomes an icon on piodalan or temple birthday in Bali. This performance has even penetrated foreign countries, especially Europe. However, it begins to fade or is even almost never seen. Fortunately, the government of Gianyar is still trying to pack a variety of old performing arts to prevent them from extinction.

Wayan Latri, an artist of arja operetta from Kramas village, said that in the 1980s the Singapadu and Kramas village were the center of arja operetta artists. During its heyday, the arja performance was always favorite not only Bali, but even in European continent such as France, the Netherlands and Germany where people flocked to watch the arja operetta. “Overseas, the committee disseminates a leaflet on the synopsis of storyline in local language before performance. There is also official introducing the crews and explaining the storyline by cutting the story plot in each session,” she explained.

However, the current performance of the arja begins to decrease and the artists even begin to disappear. In addition, the lack of education for regeneration becomes the cause of the disappearance of the arja artists. Another cause of the decline is the development of technology such as television because viewers can easily watch the show repeatedly. “As a result, the live arja performance is only watched by few spectators and can be

counted on the fingers. However, in some places people are still hungering for the arja entertainment,” she said.

To prevent the arja performance from extinction, Wayan Latri took proactive action such as by submitting herself to pay devotional work (ngaturang ayah). “When there is a temple festival, we can submit to the committee for making a performance, but it can only be done around here. But, for outside this village we maybe think twice to do it, considering the cost of transport and equipment is not cheap,” she said.

The Head of Gianyar Culture Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Wijana, admitted if staging of the arja art begins to be increasingly rare. According to him, it happens because the play is considered less attractive by society. “Spectators decline. Probably, they consider it less attractive or they have been saturated. In the past, it was even so iconic in temple festivals or other grandiose temple rituals,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he is still trying to revive various rare arts in Gianyar like the topeng panca and gambuh, including the arja operetta. But he wants to pack the performing art in order to become more attractive.

He cited the prembon that is currently liked best by society, namely in the form of fragmentary show by combining the elements of drama and arja operetta. “It should be packed in contemporary style.

If it remains monotonous as the old style, it may be extinct, but we do not want this to happen,” he said. (kmb35)

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but first observe. The BNN also consistently disseminates information and promotes anti-drug activities such as those that take place in schools through the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN). It is expected that an anti-drug attitude can be instilled in every teenager.

There are 351 new types of illicit drugs in the world, 26 of which are known to be available in Indonesia. “However, only a few types have been discovered in Bali,” she said.

The primary new type of drug at issue is marijuana brownies. She explained that marijuana in brownies is not something new -previously

drug traffickers have mixed it in food such as candy and ajapajapa. “But marijuana brownies have not been on sale in Bali,” she added.

Additionally, there is also a new kind of drug namely CC4 in the form of a stamp which is a derivate of cannabis (marijuana). Drug traffickers will look for various ways to package their drugs to entice people to use them. “Putting them in foods is just one way to reach their market, there are also many ways that they use to transport these substances.

Drug distribution has begun to enter campuses,” deplored Lisdiani. (kmb42)

The Arja performance

JIMBARAN - Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran reveals the new concept of its signature rooftop bar & lounge, Jim’bar’N. The venue has been well-known for its relaxing atmosphere and excellent view overlooking Southern Bali.

The northern view of the Jim’bar’N offers a picture-postcard vista with a vivid sight of the airport, Jimbaran Bay and the magnificent silhouette of Mount Agung with the deep blue Indian Ocean spreading infinitely in the background.

Opens daily from 4pm till 1am, free-ofcharge entry is applied for everyone.

Since its opening in mid-2013, Jim’bar’N rooftop bar & lounge has offered a promise to “reintroduce a cool and different side of Bali” by blending in the magnificent view of tropical sunset with the captivating sparkles of city

lights in the evening from far below.

“After one-and-a-half year of ‘testing the water’, this newly-introduced concept of Jim’bar’N rooftop bar & lounge will be a must-try social hub for both local socialites and international tourists, offering topnotch services and amazing food and beverage to relish with your loved ones,” added Said Faisal, Event Sales & Entertainment Manager, “the idea is (also) to provide a place for everyone to enjoy the unforgettable Bali!”

Seated gracefully on the 6th floor (at

the top level) of HARRIS Hotel Bukit Jimbaran, the new redesign features a direct access to the rooftop from the hotel’s main lobby. Adjoining with live kitchen, the venue has also rearranged its seating area to suit your needs for intimate privacy.

In addition to the delightful atmosphere, Jim’bar’N also gives prominence to its wine cellar, showcasing a collection of illustrious house wines – namely: Dom Perignon, Louis Roderer, Penfolds, Bernard Magrez, Moet & Chandon Brut

Imperial and many more.

Jim’bar’N is also available for exclusive uses such as birthday, wedding, nightlife party, football NoBar and casual conference. The dedicated and seasoned entertainment team will be there to support any private function inquiries from both individual and corporate clients.

It features white canopies is also the perfect getaway for those seeking a peaceful place away from the crowded Kuta.

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DENPASAR - Various methods are used by drug traffickers to sell their illicit goods ranging from the method of trafficking to transportation processes.

The Division Head of Prevention and Community Empowerment of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Bali, Ketut Adi Lisdiani, appealed to people to be vigilant of drug trafficking.

She suggested strengthening each individual so that they are not easily persuaded by the seduction of illegal drugs. “Do not take anything that could cause harm, do not try things out of curiosity,” she said over the weekend.

She suggested purchasing food that have clear labels because homed foods could have unclear ingredients. If some substance seems popular, we should not be tempted to try it

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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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For Dubai biz travelers, Ngurah Rai Airport soak up the sun and souq ranked world’s 7th best

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — If you’re visiting Dubai for a long stopover or business trip, make sure to leave a little space in your bag for a bathing suit, flip-flops and souvenirs.

For business travelers with just a few hours or half-day to spare in the emirate, head to the Dubai Mall.

There pick up a cold drink or frozen yogurt and head outside to watch one of the world’s most beautiful dancing fountains and be mesmerized by base views of the world’s tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa.

If you feel like getting some exercise in, skip the hotel gym and head out for a run or brisk walk by Kite Beach, where a safe 3-mile-long (5-kilometer) track runs along the coast. Don’t forget to stop and take a selfie on the beach with the sea and Dubai’s iconic sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel behind you.

For spinning enthusiasts, head to Fly Dubai where there’s no membership cost. Just call ahead to book a bike at one of Fly Dubai’s two locations for indoor spinning classes, but make sure to order a taxi ahead of time if you go during peak rush hours.

The metro does not connect to either location and taxis are hard to find between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

For a quieter afternoon, head to Dubai’s man-made island The Palm.

Go for a day pass at the Atlantis or the Jumeira Zabeel Saray hotel.

A day pass during the workweek, which in the Middle East runs from Sunday to Thursday, is significantly

cheaper and the beach quieter than the weekend days of Friday and Saturday.

Most hotels that offer day passes also include lunch.

If what you need is a few, short hours of complete serenity to clear your head, go for the ultimate pampering experience and head to the spa at the One & Only Royal Mirage across from Dubai Media City or the Talise Spa in Madinat Jumeirah.

Once at Madinat Jumeirah, shop in its famous souq where you can pick up some reasonably priced souvenirs like postcards and Middle Eastern-inspired printed artworks at Gallery One. Unlike most Middle Easter mar-

kets, this souq is indoors and there isn’t too much haggling over prices.

The upside is that what the market misses in authentic folkloric experience it makes up for in air-conditioned comfort between the hot months of April and October.

Also at the souq are some of Dubai’s most popular restaurants with views of the Burj al-Arab and a man-made waterway that connects the three hotels that comprise Madinat Jumeirah.

If you are in Dubai between November and March, when the weather is great outdoors, visit The Walk at Jumeirah Beach Residence, better known as JBR. There, visitors can soak up some sun on the beach, enjoy a lavish meal and shop for unique

finds at boutiques like Sauce — a homegrown chain of edgy concept stores in Dubai.

The hotels along The Walk are home to some of Dubai’s best restaurants, but meals there don’t come cheap. For something a little less formal, enjoy a bite to eat at one of JBR’s many outdoor cafes and restaurants. At night on the weekends, JBR turns into a bustling street for people watching.

The Gulf’s wealthy cruise along the strip in their Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys.

Nearby are some of the world’s most architecturally stunning skyscrapers in Marina. There, too. you’ll find a mall, outdoor cafes and some of the city’s most expensive real estate overlooking the yachts. (ap)

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With Burj al Arab hotel in background, tourists visit Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. At Madinat Jumeirah, shop in its famous souq where you can pick up some reasonably priced souvenirs like postcards and Middle Eastern-inspired printed artworks at Gallery One.

AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

Tourists and visitors enjoy riding boats by the Souk Al Bahar fountain lake in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. If you’re visiting Dubai for a long stopover or business trip, make sure to leave a little space in your bag for a bathing suit, flip flops and souvenirs.

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Tourists and visitors watch and take photos of the Dubai Fountain in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. For business travelers with just a few hours or half-day to spare in the emirate, head to the Dubai Mall.

AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

People enjoy dining out at “The Walk” in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

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DENPASAR - The glitzy Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Indonesian island resort of Bali, which is known for its grandiose construction, had been ranked the seventh best airport globally, its General Manager, Herry A.Y Sikado, said.

“The Ngurah Rai Airprt is the pride of the Balinese community and is now ranked as the 7th best airport in the world,” Sikado said on Saturday.

He noted that the ratings has been released by the Airport Council International (ACI), and based on the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey during the October to December 2014 period.

“Based on a survey conducted by the Airport Council International, Ngurah Rai is the world’s seventh best airport in the category of 15 to 25 million passengers per year,” he remarked.

Sikado confirmed that as one of the busiest airports in Indonesia, the Ngurah Rai Airport, was ranked above the Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan; the San Diego Airport in California, United States; the Surich Airport in Swiss, Switzerland; the Brisbane Airport in Queensland, Australia; and the Manchester Airport in England.

Meanwhile, the best ranked airport in the ASQ survey was the Wuhan Tianhe Airport in China.

He explained that the assessment of the level of customer satisfaction conducted by ACI had become a reference for the Ngurah ANTARA FOTO/Andika Wahyu Rai Airport in improving its services.

“It has certainly added value, as well en- Passengers walked in Ngurah Rai Airport. The glitzy Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Indonesian island resort couraged us to make Nugurah Rai one of the of Bali, which is known for its grandiose construction, had been ranked the seventh best airport globally, its General Manager, Herry A.Y Sikado, said. ten best airports in Asia,” he added. (ant)

Bamboo crafts with a touch of traditional art DENPASAR - When going along Jalan Gunung Soputan, our eyes will be drawn to various bamboo craft products on display at Axel Art and Craft shop which seeps onto the side of the road along with other such shops. The bamboo wares include; standalone cupboards, chairs, towel racks, shoe racks, tables, ladders as well as home decor. The bamboo craft shop is owned by Edo. Edo’s brother-in-law Muhammad Imam, who manages the bamboo handicraft shop, explained to Bali Post on Sunday that they use golden bamboo also known as chinese bamboo. This bamboo is obtained from the slopes of the mountains of East, West and Central Java. “This kind of bamboo can only grow in certain areas,” he said.

The bamboo goes through a three part process before being crafted into different objects. First it is smoked to get rid of insects,

then it is heated to straighten it out and finally it is sanded down to remove sharp protrusions.

Imam himself has made handicraft products as samples for bamboo handicraft lovers. The various bamboo crafts can be ordered according to customers’ desired style, design and size.

The bamboo poles are perforated to allow for the different pieces to fit together and form the shape of the different objects: “we cut, and drill the bamboo a certain way depending on what we are making, then we glue the pieces together using ‘Fox’ glue and a special adhesive fluid,” explained Imam.

Both glues are used to ensure maximum strength. The largest bamboo poles used here are 3.5 cm in diameter which can be mixed and matched with smaller poles.

Imam said that Axel Arts and Crafts have been exported to the

UK, Brazil and Australia and recently took an order for 500 ladders to be sent to England. Ladders, and other products like shoe racks are in demand by foreign markets. “To work on the orders, we require at least two months because the heating process takes a long time,” he said.

In Bali, bamboo handicrafts are mostly ordered by hotels and villas. “They mostly order towel racks,” he added.

According to Imam, the process of making bamboo crafts is somewhat tricky because the heating process used to straighten the bamboo poles must be done carefully, “otherwise, the bamboo will crack,” he said.

The process of making a round chairs must also be done carefully and requires accuracy when bending the bamboo poles into a circle after they have been heated to the right temperature. “These chars take the most time to make out

of all our crafts -namely 5 to 7 days,” he said.

The store currently employs 6 other craftsmen: “five people are placed in Java, and one in Bali,” he said.

To handle the smaller craft orders between 1 and 9 pieces for example, we can handle it here in Bali, but for more than 10 pieces, we have them made in Java where “we can produce hundreds of handicrafts at a time” he said. People can also buy raw materials from the shop on japan Gunung Soputan for making crafts in Ubud.

Axel Art and craft shop uses approximately 3,000-4,000 bamboo poles per month to make the handicrafts and his average turnover is valued at IDR 40-50 million. Prices of the handicrafts range from IDR 125,000 to IDR 1.7 million. “The most expensive product is our stand alone cupboard” he said. (kmb42)

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Settlement of residents at Tamblingan displaced by force

SINGARAJA - Dozens of semi-permanent houses in the neighborhood of the Gubug Temple land property at Tamblingan hamlet, Munduk village, Banjar subdistrict, were finally dismantled by the community of four Dalem Tamblingan customary villages. Hundreds of people in light customary attires and armed with a crowbar, hammer, axes, hoes and wood dismantled the building by force. Pursuant to the deadline and joint coordination, 17 families having semipermanent building were already given a final reprimand. They were obliged to leave the location and evacuate the contents of the house along with their valuables.

deadlock of communication in the previous deliberation, the migrant homeowners near the Gubug Temple and Lake Tamblingan have been repeatedly reprimanded to immediately evacuate.

Chief of Munduk customary village, Putu Ardana, affirmed that the number of residents in the settlement actually reached 50 families. After provided with an understanding, the residents were given a deadline until April 10.

As the results of checking in the field, in fact there are 17 families

From eight o’clock in the morn- the homes and directly burned the Dalem Tamblingan customary viling, the house owners were not able remaining building materials, so lages, the Bali Natural Resources to do much considering the amount that nothing was left or could be Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and the Regent of Buleleng Putu of people from the four Dalem Tam- used again.

Decision on the demolition is Agus Suradnyana with residents’ blingan customary villages, consisting of Munduk, Gesing, Umajero the result of a joint agreement of representatives whose home will and Gobleg considerably exceeded the team nine of the Dalem four be demolished. Though facing a and were ready to dismantle their house. The demolition is done as a concrete step for sterilization of the Lake Tamblingan arrangement as a spiritual tourist and conservation area.

One of the residents whose house was demolished, Ketut Meriawan, admitted that he resigned over the demolition of his house.

He lives with his wife and a child, and must rush to find out a new residence. “I have been living here (settlement near the Gubug Temple land property—Ed) for almost 27 years. This house has been inhabited through generations and most families are fishermen. Our family will flee to grandfather’s house at Munduk village,” said Meriawan, Saturday (Apr. 25).

The first building demolished is the meeting hall of the Astiti Amerta fisherman group and then resumed to dozens of people’s house predominantly made of wooden planks. Dozens of pecalang or customary security guard of Dalem Tamblingan, Buleleng Municipal Police and Indonesian Army and Police personnel supervised the demolition process. One by one of the houses were demolished, including zinc roof and the wall.

Enthusiastically, residents flattened The houses on Tamblingan area were set on fire during the clean the area.

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remaining to hold on. After that, he discussed again with the government of Buleleng, the four customary villages and the BKSDA. As the result of discussion, they were given a reprimand letter and final deadline until April 25 to vacate the house. The sterilization aims to keep the sacred and conservation area as water catchment area.

“Total fishermen only amount to 22 people, while the rest claims as fishermen. Fishermen have a special position in our customary system to maintain the forest and lake because Munduk customary village and the four villages will manage it. Later, we will only give priority to fishermen (menega) because they pay devotional work (ngaturang ngayah) at 18 temples, including the responsibility for handling the sanitation and pilgrims coming to say prayers. Should there be any benefits from tourism, they must be prioritized because so far they have been quite marginalized,” he said.

When confirmed separately, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, explained that the arrangement of Lake Tamblingan is devoted to spiritual tourist area in the future.

After the arrangement, more visitors are expected to come to Lake Tamblingan. The four customary villages become an integral community in the tourism development and different culture. “Hopefully, after the area of Lake Tamblingan has been vacated from settlements, we will resume with the arrangement of sacred place, tourist area and the activities of fishermen. This year, we are allocating nearly IDR 10 billion for infrastructural development in the four customary villages,” he explained. (kmb34)

“Bali Nine” duo execution

Prosecutor team departed to Nusa Kambangan

DENPASAR - After the issuance of the warrant for the implementation of executions made to the general crime division from the Attorney General for the executor team, officials of the Bali and Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office have made preparations. A number of officers of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office departed to Nusa Kambangan, through Ngurah Rai International Airport, on Friday afternoon (Apr. 24).

“Yes, I am now departing but I’m not attending the execution. I am just handling the administra-

tion. For further information, ask our Spokesperson,” said prosecutor Edy Artha Wijaya, shortly before leaving the entourage at the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office.

In addition to general staff, the Head of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Emmanuel Zebua, also set out for the execution of the two inmates on death row, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Other information obtained stated that the entourage of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office will be there for a week to handle the administrative

processes and corpses of the death row inmates.

Spokesperson for the Bali Prosecutor’s Office, Ashari Kurniawan, did not want to give anymore comments related to the confirmation of the departure of the prosecutor team. When asked whether will join the entourage, this official from Yogyakarta said that he indeed left but was heading to his home town.

In essence, the spokesperson did not want to give a formal statement regarding the execution plan of the Bali Nine duo from Australian.

Other information obtained stated that the prosecuting team arrived in advance to prepare for the administration and delivery of the convicts. Three days prior to the execution, the prosecutors must inform the convicts, including conveying their rights.

As widely reported, the execution of the Bali Nine duo had been delayed. The issue of their execution became a world shaking case prior to their evacuation from Kerobokan. On March 4, 2015, both convicts were transported by Bar-

racuda vehicle by the Bali Police Mobile Brigade and escorted by heavily armed police. At Ngurah Rai International Airport, security was further tightened and the Wings Air charter aircraft of ATR-72-600, flight number PK-WGO, was escorted by a Sukhoi fighter aircraft before Myuran and Andrew Chan finally arrived at Tunggul Wulung Airport Cilacap, Central Java.

There was no special request from the convicts of the 8.2-kg drug case when they were moved from Kerobokan Prison. (kmb37)

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Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, left, chats with Philippines’ Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario as they arrive for the 26th ASEAN Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday, April 26, 2015.

Philippines urges ASEAN to stop China in South China Sea

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Philippines on Sunday urged its fellow Southeast Asian countries to take immediate steps to halt land reclamation by China in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, warning that failure to do so will see Beijing take “de facto control” of the area.

Malaysia’s foreign minister, however, said that the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations will avoid confrontation with China and continue negotiations with Beijing on a binding code of conduct that would govern behavior in the area. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers that if China’s construction of artificial islands on reefs claimed by other countries is allowed to be completed, Beijing will impose its claim over more than 85 percent of the sea.

Rosario urged the grouping to “stand up” to China by urging it to halt its reclamation work, which threatened to militarize the region, infringe on rights of other states and damage the marine environment.

He warned that China, which has been dragging its foot on ASEAN’s push for a code of conduct, will aim to complete its reclamation activities before it agrees to conclude the code. If this happens, he said the code will legitimize China’s reclamation.

“The threats posed by these massive reclamations are real and cannot be ignored or denied,” he said. “ASEAN should assert its leadership, centrality and solidarity. ASEAN must show the world that it has the resolve to act in the

common interest.” China, Taiwan and ASEAN members Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei have overlapping claims in the South China Sea, which includes busy sea lanes and rich fishing grounds, and is believed to have large undersea deposits of oil and natural gas. ASEAN has maintained a cautious stand in the dispute to avoid angering China, a key trading partner.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told reporters that ASEAN is “very much concerned” about the reclamation, but that sending an ultimatum to China to stop work could backfire and hurt peace and stability in the region.

“It will be much appreciated if China can stop work and sit down with ASEAN countries to find a solution,” he said. “ASEAN must send the right signal and make the right move. We must avoid any measures that are counterproductive either to ourselves or to China.”

Officials from ASEAN nations and China are scheduled to meet in May and June to discuss the issue, he said.

The Philippines filed a case with an international arbitration tribunal in 2013 challenging China’s claim.

Beijing has defended the reclamation, saying it is Chinese territory and the structures are for public service use and to support Chinese fishermen.

Anifah has said that ASEAN leaders are expected to raise concerns over Chinese land reclamation at their two-day summit starting Monday and will seek to speed up plans for the code of conduct with China. (ap)

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Obama turns 2016 hopefuls into comic fodder for media dinner

WASHINGTON — A presidential election just getting into gear provided U.S. President Barack Obama plenty of new material to work with on the night he describes as Washington celebrating itself. “It’s amazing how time flies,” Obama told those attending the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association on Saturday night. “Soon, the first presidential contest will take place, and I for one cannot wait to see who the Koch brothers pick. It’s exciting.”

Obama added: “Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker ... who will finally get that red rose?” On the Democratic side, Obama observed that Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked things off by going unrecognized to Chipotle.

Meanwhile, he said, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley went completely unrecognized at an O’Malley campaign event.

Taking a playful poke at himself and at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is considering a bid, Obama said: “Apparently, some folks want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all.” The dinner also gave the president an opportunity to rib some of his loudest critics.

“Just this week Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now, that’s a legacy,” he

said. “That’s big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington, they didn’t do that.”

The correspondents’ dinner brings in some big names from Hollywood. Some of the cast members from the TV series “Black-ish” attended, and Obama said he had to give ABC fair warning about the show. “Being blackish only makes you popular for so long,” he said. “Trust me, there’s a shelf life to that thing.” Of course, he had to give a shout-out to his health care law. “Today, thanks to Obamacare, you no longer have to worry about losing your insurance, if you lose your job,” he said. “You’re welcome, Senate Democrats.”

The featured entertainer of the night, Cecily Strong from “Saturday Night Live,” got some big laughs with some tough subjects.

For example, she observed that the Secret Service is the one law

enforcement agency that could get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

“Your hair is so white now,” she told the president, “it can talk back to police.”

And she had the journalists repeat after her and solemnly swear they will not talk about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s appearance “because that is not journalism.”

Few of the politicians who may want to succeed Obama showed up for the dinner. One on hand was Donald Trump, who again has been teasing Republicans about running for national office.

Most of the prospective and declared Republican candidates stayed away. Many chose to meet potential supporters and donors at conservative gatherings in Las Vegas and Des Moines, Iowa. The dinner helps fund scholarships and awards that recognize journalists. (ap)

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Comedian Cecily Strong delivers remarks the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Washington.

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ASEAN, EU to seek jump-start of free-trade talks

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU had launched negotiations in 2007, but broke them off in 2009 amid disagreements largely centering on European concerns over ASEAN member Myanmar’s human rights record.

“Senior officials of ASEAN and EU will meet towards the end of the

year to take stock and explore the way forward and report back to the ministers,” the two sides said in a joint statement.

The statement was released in Malaysia following discussions between delegations on the sidelines of ASEAN’s annual diplomatic gathering, hosted this year

by ASEAN chair Malaysia.

“The EU is committed to have a region-to-region free-trade agreement,” European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told reporters after the talks.

“But it is important that we get it right and that is why we proposed this roadmap, a stock-taking event by the end of the year.”

The EU is already holding sepa-

Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

It concluded an agreement with Singapore, another ASEAN member, in December 2012.

Indonesia, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Cambodia round out ASEAN’s membership.

The EU is ASEAN’s secondlargest trading partner with total trade amounting to $248 billion

in 2014 and was Southeast Asia’s largest source of foreign direct investment in 2014 with $29.1 billion or 21.3 percent of foreign inflows to the region, the joint statement said.

Myanmar was plunged into isolation by a military regime that seized power in 1962. But it has won praise for widespread economic and political reforms since it emerged from outright military rule in 2011. (afp)

Europe pushes Greece in bogged down debt talks

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An elderly man watches a small protest by municipal workers, in central Athens, on Friday, April 24, 2015. European ministers heaped pressure on Greece Friday to speed up negotiations to unblock critically needed bailout funds and avert a dangerous default, showing frustration after months of bogged down talks.

RIGA, Latvia - European ministers heaped pressure on Greece Friday to speed up negotiations to unblock critically needed bailout funds and avert a dangerous default, showing frustration after months of bogged down talks.

The eurozone’s 19 finance ministers ended a meeting in Riga without a breakthrough to unlock 7.2 billion euros ($7.8 billion) in bailout cash, with the threat of a messy exit by Greece from the euro still hanging in the balance.

“It was a very critical discussion,” said Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem after the talks ended, with eurozone ministers angry at the lack of progress as a hefty payment of 200 million euros to the IMF stands due on May 1.

“There remain big, big problems to be solved for Greece,” he said.

Athens is fast running out of money to pay its creditors and carry out everyday government duties, raising the risk of a default as a long series of huge loan repayments to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank approach.

On Friday, Greece’s parliament adopted a controversial decree ordering all public institutions to hand over their cash reserves to the central bank to help Athens pay civil servants’ wages and service its debt.

But increasingly irate eurozone ministers have refused to release any cash without a comprehensive list of reforms that the hard-left Syriza government has so far refused to accept.

Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the talks in Riga were heated but pointed the finger to mixed messages from his European partners, all while adding that a deal was within reach.

“The cost of not finding an agree-

ment would be enormous,” Varoufakis said.

Emphasising the dangerous line Athens is walking, ECB chief Mario Draghi, also at the talks, again evoked the possibility of pulling back emergency financing to Greece’s crippled banks, a lifeline to the Greek economy.

Greek officials and Athens’ international creditors have been locked in technical discussions over the reforms Greece must adopt in exchange for the funds, with a deadline originally set for the end of the month.

However, ministers said this process was showing its limits and that the negotiations needed a new approach, which some reports said would mean relocating the talks back to Athens.

Varoufakis dismissed the idea, arguing the Greek people would interpret it as a return of the dreaded ‘troika’ of auditors that oversaw the bailout programme before the radical leftists took power.

“The notion that we go back to the troika is simply groundless,” he said.

Greece’s radical-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras swept to power in January on a promise to break with austerity demanded by its EU-IMF creditors.

Defying his paymasters, Tsipras pushed welfare laws through parliament last month and has continued to refuse measures agreed by the previous government.

The anti-austerity measures have angered creditors, but in a blog posted on Friday, Varoufakis said differences with the eurozone could be resolved.

“The current disagreements with our partners are not unbridgeable,” Varoufakis said, adding a list of potential compromises on some of the thorniest issues such as pension reforms and privatisations. (afp)

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Pipeline excavation project cuts down hundreds of trees

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KUALA LUMPUR - Southeast Asia and the European Union (EU) agreed on Sunday to take rate talks on potential free-trade agreements with ASEAN members steps toward resuming stalled talks on a free-trade agreement between the two regions.

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MANGUPURA - The pipeline excavation project worked on by the Human Settlements Agency (DCK) along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai has to sacrifice about 100 shade giving trees. This clean water supply project extends from Tuban village to Nusa Dua. IBP/File Photo

If you are a spiritualist, try to make a visit to Dedari Temple. It is very unique and different from the others temple. It is situated at Lebah hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or approximately 20 km from the city of Denpasar.

Dedari Temple, a place to meditate and invoke healing

GIANYAR - If you are a spiritualist, try to make a visit to Dedari Temple. It is very unique and different from the others temple. It is situated at Lebah hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or approximately 20 km from the city of Denpasar. It has very cool atmosphere because perching on a cliff top of Petanu River.

The temple area is often used as trekking route by nature lovers.

Travelers usually prefer to have a promenade from Goa Gajah towards the south. Along the journey, travelers can feel typical aura because it belongs to sacred area or a place to carry out purificatory rite or melukat. There visitor will see the sudamala shower, go up to the temple and sanctuary and ultimately arrive at Dedari Temple.

The priest of Dedari Temple, Gusti Ngurah Agung, said that the temple is estimated to have existed during the administration of King Udayana. It can be proved by seeing the motif of the building and the statue known as Mahesa Sura Durga Mandini. The statue in the form of an eight-armed man was made of stone. “This statue is no longer complete and the face is damaged,” he said.

Although it is called Dedari Temple, physically in the temple area there is no dedari or angel.

However, spiritualists often see a beautiful woman like an angel.

“During the establishment of a villa situated on the cliff of the temple, construction workers often see a beautiful woman and then he asked me. Previously, no one saw it. Honestly, I’ve never seen it,” he explained.

According to the priest, spiritualists often conduct meditation

or yoga. Reportedly they see the temple area as a very beautiful village. The others see it like a geriya (house of high priest), a place to hang gold located in north of the Dedari Temple. This temple has a spring with constant volume of water even though in rainy and dry seasons.

The water of shower is used to for purificatory rite. Other than the Dedari Temple, there is also a shrine as representation of Ratu on Mount Agung, Ratu on Mountain Lebah, on Mount Batukaru and Uluwatu. It belongs to ancient temple. “At this temple, people also invoke the divine inspiration of performing arts, healing of the sick and others,” he said.

By and large, travelers from Australia and Europe like doing meditation at this temple. Local people also used to do meditation here. “Guests from Australia say that it is a very nice place to meditate. It is said there are many villages whose people often play gamelan music and dance. “Once upon a time, a man directly danced when he arrived at the temple. He said that he saw a man dancing, so that he was interested to follow,” he said.

Piodalan or birthday of the Dedari Temple falls every six months exactly on Buda Umanis Kulantir.

However, when a piodalan is celebrated with small ritual, another will be celebrated with grandiose ritual. Most people of Bedulu will come to temple to say prayers on the piodalan. The others are from Tengkulak, Pejeng and Wanayu village. “As the descendants of Arya Pengalasan across Bali, we greatly support the Dedari Temple,” he said. (kmb)

The Head of the Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), I Putu Eka Merthawan, admitted that water supply project had cut down hundreds of tress in laying the pipe. His agency coordinated with the DCK that organized the project as well as the contractors, PT Adhi Karya.

“A agreement was made that the tress would be replaced. So, our agreement with the DCK and PT Adhi Karya as contractor is clear,” said Eka Merthawan on Sunday.

Marthawan explained that said that the cutting down of the trees could not be avoided because the pipeline excavation project is needed in order to provide clean water to South Kuta where many communities, including those

living in the Bukit area, still face water shortages.

“This project aims to overcome the issue of clean water shortages.

So we though that sacrificing shade giving trees, was a worthwhile exchange for the benefits that people will be able to enjoy,” he said.

Furthermore, he explained that his party has stipulated strict requirements before the trees were cleared, such as that only the very minimum possible number of trees should be cut down, that they should be replaced with golden trumpet tress, that traffic should not be disturbed and that once the tress were cut cut, that they should not be disposed of carelessly. “All the requirements have been met, so for us there is no problem,” he stated.

Methawan emphasized that the the sacrifice of these tress was made for the sole purpose of being able to provide clean water to these communities. “So, it is reasonable and once the project is completed, the beautiful appearance of this part of Badung will be returned to the condition that it was in before the project began. All the cleared trees must be replaced by planting new trees,” he said.

As of three days ago, up to 90 had been cut down but said Merthawan: “probably, this number will increase due to technical issues in the field,” he said.

Head of the CK Badung, Ni Putu Dessy Dharmayanti, could not be contacted in order to ask for her confirmation about the project. (kmb27)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The pipeline excavation project worked on by the Human Settlements Agency (DCK) along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai has to sacrifice about 100 shade giving trees. This clean water supply project extends from Tuban village to Nusa Dua.

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Malaysia detains 12 suspected of Islamic State group links KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have detained 12 men suspected of being linked to the Islamic State group and who are believed to be plotting attacks on strategic government targets in the country. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar says the men, all Malaysians aged from 17 to 41, were detained during an operation this weekend.

He said Sunday that the men

were believed to be responding to calls by Islamic State group leaders in Syria to attack secular Islamic countries.

Khalid said police also seized ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate powder, kerosene and wires, among other items that could be used to make bombs.

Malaysia has detained nearly 100 suspected supporters of the Islamic State group in the past two years. (ap)

Aftershocks...

Azim Afif via AP

In this photo provided by Azim Afif, people are examined for injuries and prepared for helicopter evacuation at the International Mount Guide (IMG) camp at Everest Base Camp, Nepal on Sunday, April 26, 2015.

First survivors of Mount Everest avalanche reach Kathmandu

KATHMANDU — The first group of survivors from an earthquake-triggered avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp were flown to Nepal’s capital on Sunday and taken to hospitals. None appeared to have life-threatening injuries.

At least 17 people were killed when Saturday’s avalanche, set off by a massive earthquake, obliterated part of the rocky village of nylon tents, where dozens of teams were training and acclimatizing themselves to higher altitudes as they prepared to make summit attempts in the next few weeks.

Twenty-two of the most seriously injured had already been taken by helicopter for treatment in the village of Pheriche, the location of the nearest medical facility. But bad weather and communications were hampering more helicopter flights, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

Later Sunday, a plane carrying 15 injured people arrived in the capital, Kathmandu, from Lukla, home of the closest airport to Mount Everest. Officials refused to provide details on their conditions, but most appeared to have broken bones or other treatable injuries. Of those evacuated, 12 were Nepalese Sherpas. There was also one person each from China, South Korea and Japan. The Sherpa survivors said

they feared that many more people could be dead on Everest.

Pemba Sherpa, a 43-year-old guide with the right side of his face bandaged, was surprised he had survived. He rushed from his tent when the earthquake hit Saturday and was standing in the open when “I heard a big noise, and the next thing I know I was swept away by the snow,” he said. “I must have been swept almost 200 meters (yards).”

Later, he regained consciousness.

“I was in a tent surrounded by some foreigners. I did not know what happened or where I was,” he said after being taken to Kathmandu Medical College Hospital. For generations, thousands of ethnic Sherpas, many of whom also use “Sherpa” as a surname, have made their livings working on mountaineering expeditions as guides, porters or cooks.

Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 quake struck at around noon, just over a year after the deadliest avalanche on record hit Everest, killing 16 Sherpa guides on April 18, 2014.

Witnesses said the avalanche began on Mount Kumori, a 7,000-

meter (22,966-foot) -high mountain just a few kilometers (miles) from Everest, gathering strength as it headed toward base camp and the lower reaches of Everest. Numerous climbers may now be cut off on routes leading to the top of the world’s highest peak. Bhim Bahadur Khatri, 35, another survivor flown to Kathmandu, said he was cooking in a meal tent when the quake struck.

“We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me,” he said in a brief airport interview before being driven to a nearby hospital. “I managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive.”

When he finally dug his way out, gulping in fresh air, he was surrounded by devastation. Part of the base camp village was gone. “I looked around and saw the tents all torn and crushed. Many people were injured,” he said. “I had lived but lost many of my friends.” (ap)

From page 1 The country’s cellphone network was working only sporadically, while large parts of the capital were without electricity.

AFP correspondents in Kathmandu reported that tremors were felt throughout the night, including one strong aftershock at dawn before the 6.7-magnitude follow-up quake that struck in the afternoon.

“It has been a sleepless night, how can we sleep? It has been shaking all night. We are just praying that this will end and we can return home,” said Nina Shrestha, a 34-year-old banker who spent the night with hundreds of people on open ground in the capital’s Tudhikhel district.

The historic nine-storey Dharahara tower, a major tourist attraction, was among the buildings brought down in Kathmandu Saturday, with at least a dozen bodies recovered from the ruins of the 19th-century structure.

As rescuers sifted through the huge mounds of rubble in the capital, hospitals were overwhelmed with victims who suffered multiple fractures and trauma.

“We have treated many people since yesterday, the majority children,” said Samir Acharya, a doctor at Nepal’s Annapurna Neurological Hospital.

“Most patients have head injuries or fractures. Two of our patients died, two are critical.”

Acharya said medics were working out of a tent set up in a parking lot to cope with the number of injured, while some patients were too scared to stay in the building.

Families had grabbed whatever possessions they could muster and sought shelter on the streets, many of which had been split asunder.

Weather forecasters warned that rain was on the way, with dark clouds looming over Kathmandu and promising more mis-

ery for displaced survivors.

‘Just flattened me’

Google executive Dan Fredinburg was one of the climbers to have been confirmed as having been killed in the Everest avalanche.

Experienced mountaineers said panic erupted at base camp, which has been “severely damaged”, while one described the avalanche as “huge”.

“Seventeen have been reported dead so far and 61 are injured,” said Tulsi Gautam of Nepal’s tourism department which issues permits to climb the world’s highest mountain.

“Those who are able are walking down. Others are being airlifted.”

Kannampilly said many of those stranded at the scene were walking down the mountain rather than risk being stuck for days.

George Foulsham, a Singapore-based marine biologist, described the moment that the disaster struck.

“I was outside, saw a white 50-storey building of white come at me. I ran and it just flattened me,” he told AFP. “I tried to get up and it flattened me again. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was dead. When I finally stood up, I couldn’t believe it passed me over and I was almost untouched.

“I saved for years to climb Everest. It feels like the mountain is saying it’s not meant to be climbed for now. Too much of a coincidence to see this twice in two years.”

Nepal and the rest of the Himalayas are particularly prone to earthquakes because of the collision of the Indian and Eurasia plates.

An 6.8 magnitude quake hit eastern Nepal in August 1988 killing 721 people, and a magnitude 8.1 quake killed 10,700 people in Nepal and India in 1934. (afp)

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INDONESIA Indonesia gives 72-hour executions notice

JAKARTA — Indonesia notified nine foreigners and a local man convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days, ignoring appeals by the U.N. chief and foreign leaders to spare them.

Authorities also asked the four Nigerian men, two Australian men, a Filipino woman, and one man each from Brazil, France and Indonesia for their last wish, the spokesman for the attorney general, Tony Spontana, said Sunday.

He said the legal options of nine of them have been exhausted, while Frenchman Serge Atlaoui still has an outstanding legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency. Spontana said he expects the Supreme Court to rule on it Monday.

The 72-hour notice indicates the executions by firing squad in Besi prison on Nusakambangan Island will be carried out at the earliest on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The pending executions have caused an international outcry, particularly in Australia, France and the Philippines, which are opposed to the death penalty.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to “urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition.”

French President Francois Hollande has warned of diplomatic consequences if Atlaoui is executed,

and said Saturday that there could be possible economic fallout as well.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose government has been pressuring Indonesia to spare the two Australians, arrived on a visit to Paris on Saturday night and was expected to discuss the situation with Hollande.

Australian heroin traffickers Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, were the ringleaders of a gang of nine Australians arrested in April 2005, while trying to smuggle more than 8 kilograms (18 pounds) of heroin from the resort island of Bali to Sydney.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday he would again appeal the case of Filipino convict Mary Jane Veloso to Jokowi when they meet at an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Malaysia on Monday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila issued over the weekend Veloso’s handwritten letters from her Indonesian prison where she pleaded to Aquino and other officials to continue efforts to save her. She repeated that she was tricked by a compatriot into carrying illegal drugs in a luggage as she traveled in the hope of landing a job

ANTARAFOTO/Idhad Zakaria

Diplomats and family of executioners visit Nusakambangan Island on Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Indonesia notified nine foreigners and a local man convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days, ignoring appeals by the U.N. chief and foreign leaders to spare them. as a house helper.

“Please save my life, I have two children who need the love of their mother,” Veloso wrote to Aquino.

“We’re poor and I wanted to change our life but I could never commit the crime they have accused me of.”

Consular officials and relatives

were arriving on Sunday at a town near Nusakambangan, the highsecurity prison island, for the last visit to the convicts.

Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and often executes smugglers.

More than 130 people are on death row, mostly for drug crimes. About

a third of them are foreigners.

In January, six convicted drug smugglers, including five from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Nigeria and Malawi, were executed at the same prison, prompting the Netherlands and Brazil to recall their ambassadors in protest. (ap)

Frenchman’s execution in Indonesia may be suspended

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Protesters hold placards including one reading “Let’s save Serge Altlaoui” in Paris on Saturday, April 25, 2015, to show support for Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman on death row in Indonesia, after being convicted of drug offences. Atlaoui is among nine foreign drug criminals who are facing execution by firing squad despite clemency appeals from several of their governments.

PARIS — France is stepping up efforts to save the life a Frenchman facing a firing squad in Indonesia on drug charges, amid signs that his execution may be suspended.

Serge Atlaoui is among 10 foreigners slated for execution in the coming days in Indonesia. His case has drawn national attention in France, which vigorously opposes the death penalty.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said Saturday the government is intensifying its mobilization and is determined to prevent the execution.

Scores of people gathered in Paris and Atlaoui’s hometown of Metz on Saturday to urge Indonesia to halt his execution, some shouting “Hope! Hope!”

Atlaoui’s fate may be on hold because of a legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency.

The French ambassador was not summoned to a meeting with Indonesian authorities Saturday for formal notification of the execution, unlike consular officials from other countries. A lawyer for Atlaoui,

Richard Sedillot, said the decision was apparently linked to the legal complaint.

“Mr. Atlaoui thought that he would leave last night” for the execution site, Sedillot said. “He prepared his bag and finally he discovered that he wasn’t on the list of those who are going to be executed.”

Sedillot said he remained “very, very prudent” about Atlaoui’s fate. And Atlaoui’s wife Sabine called into the Paris rally from Indonesia, telling his supporters, “The fight has not ended .... We should continue to mobilize.”

French President Francois Hollande has warned of diplomatic consequences if Atlaoui is executed, and said Saturday that there could be possible economic fallout as well, according to French media reports.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose government is protesting Indonesia’s impending execution of two Australians, arrives in Paris on Saturday night and is expected to discuss the situation with Hollande. (ap)

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Atuh Beach

SEMARAPURA - Atuh Beach is tranquilly situated at beautiful bay with natural white sand, while in the left side lies the Juntil Cape and on the right (south) stands the Labuan Ampuak. Then, in the east occur the magnificent Gili Batu Melawang, Gili Batu Pedasan, Gili Batu Abah and Gili Batu

Metegen.

At the easternmost tip of Juntil Cape and in the east of Gili Padasan lies a very ideal fishing spot.

Meanwhile, in the south of Labuan Ampuak can be found a natural cave becoming the native home to swallows to nest. The land at the Atuh Valley is very fertile and

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there stand two temples namely the Segara Temple functioned to venerate Lord Varuna whose piodalan or anniversary falls on Sasih Kedasa (tenth month of Balinese calendar).

In the inner courtyard of the temple lie two sacred wells containing very clear water.

Access leading to the beach can

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be taken through two routes, namely Pelilit hamlet (20 km from Buyuk boat quay) then it is connected to unpaved road along about 2 km.

Meanwhile, another can be reached through Kelodan hamlet (17 km from Buyuk) and connected to unpaved road along approximately 5 km.

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Curry too hot for Pelicans as Warriors sweep series

NEW ORLEANS — Golden State’s Stephen Curry put in a match-winning performance as the Warriors became the first team to reach the second round of the NBA playoffs by beating New Orleans 109-98 on Saturday, completing a 4-0 series sweep. Memphis moved to the brink of also progressing to the last eight by defeating Portland and taking a 3-0 lead. Elsewhere, Milwaukee staved off elimination by beating Chicago and Brooklyn beat Atlanta to cut the series deficit to 2-1.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) reacts after hitting a 3-point basket during the second half of Game 4 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Golden State’s Curry had 39 points, eight rebounds and nine assists while Klay Thompson added 25 points for the Warriors, the NBA’s top overall seed, who will wait to host Game 1 of their second-round series against the winner of the Portland-Memphis matchup. Draymond Green added 22 points and 10 rebounds for Golden State, which led 67-54 at halftime and widened the gap to as many as 24 points in the second half before the Pelicans briefly cut the deficit to single digits in the final minutes.

Anthony Davis had 36 points and 11 rebounds for the Pelicans and Eric Gordon had 29 points. Golden State shot 50.6 percent from the field, including 13 of 24 from 3-point range. Curry was 6 of 8 from deep, while Thompson was 4 of 7 and Green 3 of 6.

Milwaukee avoided a sweep and stayed alive against Chicago by edging the Bulls 92-90.

With 1.3 seconds left, Jared Dudley threw a high-arcing pass toward the basket from side court. Jerryd Bayless caught the ball and quickly threw up the layup for the game-winning basket.

Bulls guard Derrick Rose walked away in frustration after trying to guard Bayless. The Bucks won their first playoff game in five years.

Chicago had a chance to win with the game tied 90-90. But M i l w a u k e e ’s Khris Middleton tipped a dribble

Marquez has surgery on hand injury

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MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has undergone surgery after injuring his left hand in a training crash on Saturday. Marquez had an accident while riding on a dirt track and fractured his little finger.

He was operated on by regular MotoGP surgeon Dr Xavier Mir at Barcelona’s Quiron Dexeus University hospital and had a titanium plate fitted.

The next MotoGP round is just a week away, as the European season starts with the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. Dr Mir said: “The patient presented a deformity to the little finger of his left hand and

a subsequent x-ray showed a fracture of the proximal phalanx, with displacement.

“Therefore, we decided to treat the injury - as we would in the case of any other patient by fixing a titanium plate to his finger. “This will allow us to initiate functional recovery after 24 hours and give him a chance of racing at Jerez.” Marquez is currently only fifth in the MotoGP standings following a collision with championship leader Valentino Rossi as they battled for the lead in the last round in Argentina.

away from Rose to force a steal. Bucks coach Jason Kidd called a timeout to set up the final play. Game 5 is Monday in Chicago.

Jimmy Butler had a playoff career-high 33 points for the Bulls. Rose finished with 14 points, while Pau Gasol had 16 points and 10 rebounds.

O.J. Mayo finished with 18 points, including a 3-pointer with 1:42 left, for the Bucks while Dudley had 13 points and five assists and Bayless had 10 points. Memphis won 115-109 at Portland to move within one win of a berth in the last eight.

Marc Gasol had 25 points, Courtney Lee had 20 points and Mike Conley added 14 before leaving the game late in the third quarter with a facial injury. Memphis was already thin at point guard with reserve Beno Udrih sidelined with a sprained ankle. Game 4 is Monday at Portland.

Nicolas Batum’s 3-pointer got Portland as close as 94-91 with 2:23 left. But Tony Allen’s basket ended Portland’s 9-0 run and Randolph added free throws to close it out. Batum finished with 27 points for the Blazers, who have dropped seven straight games, including the last four of the regular season, and C.J. McCollum added 26. Zach Randolph had 16 points and the Grizzlies won their seventh straight against Portland.

Brooklyn’s Brook Lopez had 22 points and 13 rebounds and Thaddeus Young added 18 points and 11 rebounds as the Nets beat Atlanta 91-83 to cut the Hawks’ series lead. (ap)

It is the Honda rider’s second dirt-bike training injury in as many years. He broke his right leg in a crash on the eve of the 2014 season and missed much of winter testing, Honda although he recovered in time for MotoGP the opening grand prix in Qatar and rider Marc went on to win the first 10 races of Marquez of the year.

Spain celeIt remains unclear whether Honda’s other full-time rider Dani brates his pole position after the qualifying sesPedrosa will be fit for Jerez, as he sion at Argentina’s MotoGP continues to recover from radical surgery to attempt to cure a persis- Grand Prix at the Termas de Rio Hondo International cirtent arm pump problem. Test rider cuit in Termas de Rio Hondo, Hiroshi Aoyama has been standing April 18, 2015. in for Pedrosa. (net)

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Messi scores in Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Espanyol

BARCELONA — Lionel Messi and Neymar kept frontrunner Barcelona on pace to reclaiming the Spanish league title after scoring in a 2-0 win at Espanyol to provisionally increase its lead over Real Madrid on Saturday. Luis Suarez, the third member of the star-studded attack, played a part in both goals against Barcelona’s cross-town rival.

Messi’s incisive pass started a move that Neymar finished off in the 17th minute after Suarez coolly let the ball run between his legs. Suarez then crossed for Messi to double the visitors’ advantage in the 25th with his 47th goal in 48 games this season.

Barcelona leads the league by five points from second-place Madrid, which visits Celta Vigo on Sunday.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, who has also guided the team into a Champions League semifinal against Bayern Munich and the Copa del Rey final, called his side’s first half “the best” of the season. “We are feeling good vibrations, but good vibrations don’t mean anything. Points and wins count,” Luis Enrique said. “We have five rounds left, and our attitude must remain the same. I’m not worried about my players relaxing.”

Barcelona lost left back Jordi Alba to back-to-back bookings in the 54th after he continued to protest, but the leaders didn’t miss a beat, and three minutes later Messi hit the post.

Espanyol also finished with 10 men after referee Mateu Lahoz showed two yellow cards just moments apart to Hector Moreno for complaining in stoppage time.

Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid for-

ward Antoine Griezmann recorded his third brace in as many league games as last season’s champions brushed aside Elche 3-0 at home, strengthening their hold on third place. Griezmann headed in a rebound for his 21st league goal in the 55th, and added a 22nd after Raul Garcia struck from long range.

Levante also edged away from the relegation zone with a 1-0 victory at Getafe from Victor Casadesus’ headed goal in the 35th, while sixth-place Villarreal drew 0-0 at Real Sociedad as both failed to break winless runs. Sociedad remained in 12th just ahead of Getafe, while Levante moved into 15th at five points above the drop. With Messi in fine form, Barcelona dominated the derby from the start.

He fell back into midfield where he picked Espanyol with his passes over the defense, and only goalkeeper Kiko Casilla prevented the hosts from suffering a bigger defeat.

Messi had already spotted runs by Neymar and Alba that ended in saves

by Casilla before his long pass was squared by Alba and fell to Neymar to drive home after Suarez let it run past. It was Neymar’s fourth goal in five matches, and his 31st in all

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FC Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, right, duels for the ball against Espanyol’s Lucas Vazquez during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at Cornella-El Prat stadium in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Saturday, April 25, 2015. competitions this season. “Messi is one of a kind,” Espanyol manager Sergio Gonzalez said.

Suarez also continued to excel as a playmaker when he interchanged passes with Andres Iniesta before finding Messi alone at the far post to slot a shot under Casillas from a tight angle. Down 2-0, Espanyol finally

emerged from its half, but that left its defense only more exposed. Casilla was called on to parry Neymar’s strike after Suarez set him up before halftime, and block the Brazilian’s chip shot just after the break.

Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez went on as a second-half substitute to make his 500th league

appearance, the eighth most in the history of the competition.

Espanyol took advantage of its extra man only in the final 20 minutes with a series of corner kicks that Barcelona defended without problems, before goalie Claudio Bravo denied substitute Christian Stuani four minutes from time. (ap)

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Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Roma at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

ROME — Mauro Icardi scored in added time as Inter Milan beat visiting Roma 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday to signal a late charge for a spot in Europe. Roma remained level second with Lazio, which hosts Chievo Verona on Sunday. Also, AC Milan’s four-match unbeaten run was halted by a 2-1 loss at Udinese.

On Sunday, Juventus can clinch its fourth straight title if it beats Torino in a derby and Lazio loses. At the San Siro, midfielder Hernanes put Inter ahead 15 minutes in with a spectacular shot from beyond the area after creating some space amid several defenders.

Four minutes later, Roma forward Victor Ibarbo hit the post. Roma’s Radja Nainggolan equalized in the

63rd, finishing off a counterattack with a long angled shot that left goalkeeper Samir Handanovic immobile.

Icardi wasted a golden chance to win it for Inter when he shot high in the 84th but he made up for it a few minutes later, finding the target through the legs of defender Jose Holebas after being set up by Lukas Podolski. Inter moved up to seventh, five points from the Europa League places. “Now we’re doing what the coach is asking of us,” Icardi said. “We’re fighting.”

Earlier, Udinese scored twice in the second half to end a six-game winless run. Giampiero Pinzi was left unmarked to score from the center of the area through a crowd of defenders following a corner in the 58th, and

Emmanuel Badu doubled the lead in the 75th from close range, redirecting a cross following a rebound.

Filippo Inzaghi’s side was completely dominated until Giampaolo Pazzini pulled one back in the 88th with a leaping header on Milan’s only on-target attempt of the match.

Udinese moved up to 12th.

“We played a very ugly match,” Inzaghi said. “I’m very, very angry.

There are no excuses. When a squad plays like that the coach is more responsible for it than anyone else.

“I want to apologize to the president and fans,” added Inzaghi, a former standout striker for Milan who is having a difficult first season as a top-level manager. (ap)

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PSG crushes Lille 6-1 to move 3 points ahead of Lyon

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain bounced back from its lackluster performance against Barcelona by thrashing Lille 6-1 to move three points ahead of Lyon at the top of the French league on Saturday. Lyon still has a marginally better goal difference and can move back to the top if it wins away at Reims on Sunday.

Wi n g e r E z e q u i e l L a v e z z i grabbed a hat trick and striker Edinson Cavani scored twice in what midfielder Blaise Matuidi called PSG’s “best performance of the season.” “It’s important to get six goals because Lyon scores a lot,” Matuidi said.

League Cup winner PSG remains on course for an unprecedented domestic treble, and will be looking to plunder more goals on Tuesday when it plays its game in hand at home to 19th-place Metz. “Winning the treble is a big motivation for us, it would be historic, and that’s why we’re playing for PSG,” Matuidi said. “We’ll keep going like this, without getting carried away. We’re playing Metz, which is fighting to stay up, so it won’t be easy.”

PSG was comprehensively beaten 5-1 on aggregate by Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals, but against a very poor Lille side scored twice inside the first four minutes. “We regret how we played against Barcelona, but that’s in the past now, and we have to win the two trophies remaining,” Matuidi said. PSG will be heavy favorite when it faces second-division Auxerre in the French Cup final next month.

Left back Maxell scored after 24 seconds when he turned in Serge Aurier’s cross from the right with a neat first-time shot for the quickest goal in PSG’s league history — two seconds faster than Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goal two seasons ago. Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac’s goal after 20 seconds against Evian is the quickest this season.

Attacking midfielder Javier Pastore then played Cavani through with a superb pass, and the forward’s brilliant lob from the edge of the penalty area sailed over goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama. Cavani missed good chances in the first leg of PSG’s 3-1 defeat against Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinal, and was totally anonymous in the second leg on Tuesday, but he

ran Lille’s defense ragged.

Midfielder Thiago Motta picked out Cavani galloping down the right in the 29th, and he squared the ball to Lavezzi for the third goal. Lavezzi grabbed his second in the 44th with Cavani and Matuidi combining to set him up for a close-range volley.

PSG goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu limped off injured shortly after, replaced by Nicolas Douchez, and right back Serge Aurier — only recently back from injury — also went off with a thigh injury just before the interval. “(Sirigu) has a peculiar injury.

From what I’ve heard, his boot was bothering him and it’s a heel problem,” PSG coach Laurent

Blanc said.

Defender Marko Basa pulled a goal back when he headed in from a corner in the 59th, but the visitors finished the match with 10 players after right back Sebastian Corchia was sent off for fouling Lavezzi in the 71st.

Cavani converted the penalty and Lavezzi completed his hat trick in the 77th, drilling a low shot past Enyeama after running onto another pass from the irrepressible Pastore.

Even the normally indifferent Ibrahimovic applauded from the stands. In other matches, it was Bordeaux 1, Metz 1; Caen 0, Guingamp 2; Evian 1, Bastia 2; Rennes 2, Nice 1; and Toulouse 1, Nantes 1. (ap)

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PSG’s Ezequiel Lavezzi controls the ball during the quarterfinal first leg Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

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Manchester City’s Yaya Toure lies on the pitch after being injured during his team’s English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Aston Villa at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday April 25, 2015.

Man City leaves it late to beat Aston Villa 3-2 in EPL

MANCHESTER — Fernandinho volleyed in an 89th-minute winner as Manchester City survived throwing away a two-goal lead to beat Aston Villa 3-2 and cement a place in the English Premier League’s top four for the soon-to-be-deposed champions.

Sergio Aguero pounced on an early mistake by goalkeeper Brad Guzan to give City a third-minute lead, and Aleksandar Kolarov made it 2-0 in the 66th when he curled a free kick through the defensive wall.

Villa looked like salvaging a point after goals by Tom Cleverley and Carlos Sanchez — following misjudgments by goalie Joe Hart — pulled the relegation strugglers level by the 85th.

There was still time for a City corner to drift through a crowded penalty box to Fernandinho, who chested the ball down before finding the net from eight meters.

“It’s important to continue with the spirit like today,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. “It’s not easy to go from 2-0 to 2-2. With this spirit, maybe we don’t lose another game.” City moved provisionally to second place — above Arsenal and Manchester United, who both play on Sunday — and more importantly was nine points clear of Liverpool and Tottenham in the chase for the Champions League qualification places.

Yet, it was another unconvincing display by City in a season that will end trophyless, leaving Pellegrini facing an uncertain future. “It was one of our worst games in possession,” Pellegrini said. “It was strange to see the important number of passes we lost.” Yaya Toure was replaced at halftime because of a hamstring injury, at the end of a week when doubts also emerged over the Ivory Coast international’s future at City.

Defensive or goalkeeping errors led to the first four goals at Etihad Stadium — and Guzan’s blunder was the worst. He was dropped for Shay Given last weekend when Villa beat

Liverpool at Wembley Stadium to reach the FA Cup final. Guzan came straight back into the team — he is a regular for Villa in the league, despite the pressure being applied by Given — and made a dreadful error with one of his first touches.

Fielding a back-pass, Guzan attempted a first-time pass with his left foot, only to mis-hit the ball. It dropped into the path of Aguero, who slotted the ball into an empty net from eight meters for his league-leading 21st goal of the campaign. City scored at least four goals against Villa in their last four meetings at the Etihad, but the visitors’ response to going behind suggested this would not be another walkover.

Christian Benteke wasted a one-onone chance by shooting straight at Hart in the 27th, while City’s defense struggled to handle Villa’s up-and-coming playmaker Jack Grealish in the final part of the first half. Kolarov extended City’s lead, and Villa’s players again had only themselves to blame. The left back’s free kick attempt found a gap in the defensive wall between Leandro Bacuna and Kieran Richardson, and the ball crept inside the post despite the efforts of Guzan.

Villa pulled a goal back two minutes later when Cleverley — a former Manchester United player — drove home a shot after Eliaquim Mangala and then Fernando failed to clear the ball adequately from a Villa free kick.

Hart initially come out to collect the cross and was backpedalling as Cleverley’s low effort flew past him.

Yet another poor result for Pellegrini looked on when Sanchez hooked in a neat finish after Hart’s weak punch from a corner, but Fernandinho’s late goal sealed City’s eighth straight home win over Villa. Villa is only two points clear of the relegation zone despite an improvement under new manager Tim Sherwood. “If we perform like that in the remaining games, we’ll be OK,” Sherwood said. (ap)

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Messi scores in Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Espanyol

BARCELONA — Lionel Messi and Neymar kept frontrunner Barcelona on pace to reclaiming the Spanish league title after scoring in a 2-0 win at Espanyol to provisionally increase its lead over Real Madrid on Saturday. Luis Suarez, the third member of the star-studded attack, played a part in both goals against Barcelona’s cross-town rival.

Messi’s incisive pass started a move that Neymar finished off in the 17th minute after Suarez coolly let the ball run between his legs. Suarez then crossed for Messi to double the visitors’ advantage in the 25th with his 47th goal in 48 games this season.

Barcelona leads the league by five points from second-place Madrid, which visits Celta Vigo on Sunday.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, who has also guided the team into a Champions League semifinal against Bayern Munich and the Copa del Rey final, called his side’s first half “the best” of the season. “We are feeling good vibrations, but good vibrations don’t mean anything. Points and wins count,” Luis Enrique said. “We have five rounds left, and our attitude must remain the same. I’m not worried about my players relaxing.”

Barcelona lost left back Jordi Alba to back-to-back bookings in the 54th after he continued to protest, but the leaders didn’t miss a beat, and three minutes later Messi hit the post.

Espanyol also finished with 10 men after referee Mateu Lahoz showed two yellow cards just moments apart to Hector Moreno for complaining in stoppage time.

Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid for-

ward Antoine Griezmann recorded his third brace in as many league games as last season’s champions brushed aside Elche 3-0 at home, strengthening their hold on third place. Griezmann headed in a rebound for his 21st league goal in the 55th, and added a 22nd after Raul Garcia struck from long range.

Levante also edged away from the relegation zone with a 1-0 victory at Getafe from Victor Casadesus’ headed goal in the 35th, while sixth-place Villarreal drew 0-0 at Real Sociedad as both failed to break winless runs. Sociedad remained in 12th just ahead of Getafe, while Levante moved into 15th at five points above the drop. With Messi in fine form, Barcelona dominated the derby from the start.

He fell back into midfield where he picked Espanyol with his passes over the defense, and only goalkeeper Kiko Casilla prevented the hosts from suffering a bigger defeat.

Messi had already spotted runs by Neymar and Alba that ended in saves

by Casilla before his long pass was squared by Alba and fell to Neymar to drive home after Suarez let it run past. It was Neymar’s fourth goal in five matches, and his 31st in all

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FC Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, right, duels for the ball against Espanyol’s Lucas Vazquez during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at Cornella-El Prat stadium in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Saturday, April 25, 2015. competitions this season. “Messi is one of a kind,” Espanyol manager Sergio Gonzalez said.

Suarez also continued to excel as a playmaker when he interchanged passes with Andres Iniesta before finding Messi alone at the far post to slot a shot under Casillas from a tight angle. Down 2-0, Espanyol finally

emerged from its half, but that left its defense only more exposed. Casilla was called on to parry Neymar’s strike after Suarez set him up before halftime, and block the Brazilian’s chip shot just after the break.

Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez went on as a second-half substitute to make his 500th league

appearance, the eighth most in the history of the competition.

Espanyol took advantage of its extra man only in the final 20 minutes with a series of corner kicks that Barcelona defended without problems, before goalie Claudio Bravo denied substitute Christian Stuani four minutes from time. (ap)

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Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Roma at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

ROME — Mauro Icardi scored in added time as Inter Milan beat visiting Roma 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday to signal a late charge for a spot in Europe. Roma remained level second with Lazio, which hosts Chievo Verona on Sunday. Also, AC Milan’s four-match unbeaten run was halted by a 2-1 loss at Udinese.

On Sunday, Juventus can clinch its fourth straight title if it beats Torino in a derby and Lazio loses. At the San Siro, midfielder Hernanes put Inter ahead 15 minutes in with a spectacular shot from beyond the area after creating some space amid several defenders.

Four minutes later, Roma forward Victor Ibarbo hit the post. Roma’s Radja Nainggolan equalized in the

63rd, finishing off a counterattack with a long angled shot that left goalkeeper Samir Handanovic immobile.

Icardi wasted a golden chance to win it for Inter when he shot high in the 84th but he made up for it a few minutes later, finding the target through the legs of defender Jose Holebas after being set up by Lukas Podolski. Inter moved up to seventh, five points from the Europa League places. “Now we’re doing what the coach is asking of us,” Icardi said. “We’re fighting.”

Earlier, Udinese scored twice in the second half to end a six-game winless run. Giampiero Pinzi was left unmarked to score from the center of the area through a crowd of defenders following a corner in the 58th, and

Emmanuel Badu doubled the lead in the 75th from close range, redirecting a cross following a rebound.

Filippo Inzaghi’s side was completely dominated until Giampaolo Pazzini pulled one back in the 88th with a leaping header on Milan’s only on-target attempt of the match.

Udinese moved up to 12th.

“We played a very ugly match,” Inzaghi said. “I’m very, very angry.

There are no excuses. When a squad plays like that the coach is more responsible for it than anyone else.

“I want to apologize to the president and fans,” added Inzaghi, a former standout striker for Milan who is having a difficult first season as a top-level manager. (ap)

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PSG crushes Lille 6-1 to move 3 points ahead of Lyon

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain bounced back from its lackluster performance against Barcelona by thrashing Lille 6-1 to move three points ahead of Lyon at the top of the French league on Saturday. Lyon still has a marginally better goal difference and can move back to the top if it wins away at Reims on Sunday.

Wi n g e r E z e q u i e l L a v e z z i grabbed a hat trick and striker Edinson Cavani scored twice in what midfielder Blaise Matuidi called PSG’s “best performance of the season.” “It’s important to get six goals because Lyon scores a lot,” Matuidi said.

League Cup winner PSG remains on course for an unprecedented domestic treble, and will be looking to plunder more goals on Tuesday when it plays its game in hand at home to 19th-place Metz. “Winning the treble is a big motivation for us, it would be historic, and that’s why we’re playing for PSG,” Matuidi said. “We’ll keep going like this, without getting carried away. We’re playing Metz, which is fighting to stay up, so it won’t be easy.”

PSG was comprehensively beaten 5-1 on aggregate by Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals, but against a very poor Lille side scored twice inside the first four minutes. “We regret how we played against Barcelona, but that’s in the past now, and we have to win the two trophies remaining,” Matuidi said. PSG will be heavy favorite when it faces second-division Auxerre in the French Cup final next month.

Left back Maxell scored after 24 seconds when he turned in Serge Aurier’s cross from the right with a neat first-time shot for the quickest goal in PSG’s league history — two seconds faster than Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goal two seasons ago. Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac’s goal after 20 seconds against Evian is the quickest this season.

Attacking midfielder Javier Pastore then played Cavani through with a superb pass, and the forward’s brilliant lob from the edge of the penalty area sailed over goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama. Cavani missed good chances in the first leg of PSG’s 3-1 defeat against Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinal, and was totally anonymous in the second leg on Tuesday, but he

ran Lille’s defense ragged.

Midfielder Thiago Motta picked out Cavani galloping down the right in the 29th, and he squared the ball to Lavezzi for the third goal. Lavezzi grabbed his second in the 44th with Cavani and Matuidi combining to set him up for a close-range volley.

PSG goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu limped off injured shortly after, replaced by Nicolas Douchez, and right back Serge Aurier — only recently back from injury — also went off with a thigh injury just before the interval. “(Sirigu) has a peculiar injury.

From what I’ve heard, his boot was bothering him and it’s a heel problem,” PSG coach Laurent

Blanc said.

Defender Marko Basa pulled a goal back when he headed in from a corner in the 59th, but the visitors finished the match with 10 players after right back Sebastian Corchia was sent off for fouling Lavezzi in the 71st.

Cavani converted the penalty and Lavezzi completed his hat trick in the 77th, drilling a low shot past Enyeama after running onto another pass from the irrepressible Pastore.

Even the normally indifferent Ibrahimovic applauded from the stands. In other matches, it was Bordeaux 1, Metz 1; Caen 0, Guingamp 2; Evian 1, Bastia 2; Rennes 2, Nice 1; and Toulouse 1, Nantes 1. (ap)

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PSG’s Ezequiel Lavezzi controls the ball during the quarterfinal first leg Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

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Manchester City’s Yaya Toure lies on the pitch after being injured during his team’s English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Aston Villa at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday April 25, 2015.

Man City leaves it late to beat Aston Villa 3-2 in EPL

MANCHESTER — Fernandinho volleyed in an 89th-minute winner as Manchester City survived throwing away a two-goal lead to beat Aston Villa 3-2 and cement a place in the English Premier League’s top four for the soon-to-be-deposed champions.

Sergio Aguero pounced on an early mistake by goalkeeper Brad Guzan to give City a third-minute lead, and Aleksandar Kolarov made it 2-0 in the 66th when he curled a free kick through the defensive wall.

Villa looked like salvaging a point after goals by Tom Cleverley and Carlos Sanchez — following misjudgments by goalie Joe Hart — pulled the relegation strugglers level by the 85th.

There was still time for a City corner to drift through a crowded penalty box to Fernandinho, who chested the ball down before finding the net from eight meters.

“It’s important to continue with the spirit like today,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. “It’s not easy to go from 2-0 to 2-2. With this spirit, maybe we don’t lose another game.” City moved provisionally to second place — above Arsenal and Manchester United, who both play on Sunday — and more importantly was nine points clear of Liverpool and Tottenham in the chase for the Champions League qualification places.

Yet, it was another unconvincing display by City in a season that will end trophyless, leaving Pellegrini facing an uncertain future. “It was one of our worst games in possession,” Pellegrini said. “It was strange to see the important number of passes we lost.” Yaya Toure was replaced at halftime because of a hamstring injury, at the end of a week when doubts also emerged over the Ivory Coast international’s future at City.

Defensive or goalkeeping errors led to the first four goals at Etihad Stadium — and Guzan’s blunder was the worst. He was dropped for Shay Given last weekend when Villa beat

Liverpool at Wembley Stadium to reach the FA Cup final. Guzan came straight back into the team — he is a regular for Villa in the league, despite the pressure being applied by Given — and made a dreadful error with one of his first touches.

Fielding a back-pass, Guzan attempted a first-time pass with his left foot, only to mis-hit the ball. It dropped into the path of Aguero, who slotted the ball into an empty net from eight meters for his league-leading 21st goal of the campaign. City scored at least four goals against Villa in their last four meetings at the Etihad, but the visitors’ response to going behind suggested this would not be another walkover.

Christian Benteke wasted a one-onone chance by shooting straight at Hart in the 27th, while City’s defense struggled to handle Villa’s up-and-coming playmaker Jack Grealish in the final part of the first half. Kolarov extended City’s lead, and Villa’s players again had only themselves to blame. The left back’s free kick attempt found a gap in the defensive wall between Leandro Bacuna and Kieran Richardson, and the ball crept inside the post despite the efforts of Guzan.

Villa pulled a goal back two minutes later when Cleverley — a former Manchester United player — drove home a shot after Eliaquim Mangala and then Fernando failed to clear the ball adequately from a Villa free kick.

Hart initially come out to collect the cross and was backpedalling as Cleverley’s low effort flew past him.

Yet another poor result for Pellegrini looked on when Sanchez hooked in a neat finish after Hart’s weak punch from a corner, but Fernandinho’s late goal sealed City’s eighth straight home win over Villa. Villa is only two points clear of the relegation zone despite an improvement under new manager Tim Sherwood. “If we perform like that in the remaining games, we’ll be OK,” Sherwood said. (ap)

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Atuh Beach

SEMARAPURA - Atuh Beach is tranquilly situated at beautiful bay with natural white sand, while in the left side lies the Juntil Cape and on the right (south) stands the Labuan Ampuak. Then, in the east occur the magnificent Gili Batu Melawang, Gili Batu Pedasan, Gili Batu Abah and Gili Batu

Metegen.

At the easternmost tip of Juntil Cape and in the east of Gili Padasan lies a very ideal fishing spot.

Meanwhile, in the south of Labuan Ampuak can be found a natural cave becoming the native home to swallows to nest. The land at the Atuh Valley is very fertile and

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In the inner courtyard of the temple lie two sacred wells containing very clear water.

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Meanwhile, another can be reached through Kelodan hamlet (17 km from Buyuk) and connected to unpaved road along approximately 5 km.

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Curry too hot for Pelicans as Warriors sweep series

NEW ORLEANS — Golden State’s Stephen Curry put in a match-winning performance as the Warriors became the first team to reach the second round of the NBA playoffs by beating New Orleans 109-98 on Saturday, completing a 4-0 series sweep. Memphis moved to the brink of also progressing to the last eight by defeating Portland and taking a 3-0 lead. Elsewhere, Milwaukee staved off elimination by beating Chicago and Brooklyn beat Atlanta to cut the series deficit to 2-1.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) reacts after hitting a 3-point basket during the second half of Game 4 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Golden State’s Curry had 39 points, eight rebounds and nine assists while Klay Thompson added 25 points for the Warriors, the NBA’s top overall seed, who will wait to host Game 1 of their second-round series against the winner of the Portland-Memphis matchup. Draymond Green added 22 points and 10 rebounds for Golden State, which led 67-54 at halftime and widened the gap to as many as 24 points in the second half before the Pelicans briefly cut the deficit to single digits in the final minutes.

Anthony Davis had 36 points and 11 rebounds for the Pelicans and Eric Gordon had 29 points. Golden State shot 50.6 percent from the field, including 13 of 24 from 3-point range. Curry was 6 of 8 from deep, while Thompson was 4 of 7 and Green 3 of 6.

Milwaukee avoided a sweep and stayed alive against Chicago by edging the Bulls 92-90.

With 1.3 seconds left, Jared Dudley threw a high-arcing pass toward the basket from side court. Jerryd Bayless caught the ball and quickly threw up the layup for the game-winning basket.

Bulls guard Derrick Rose walked away in frustration after trying to guard Bayless. The Bucks won their first playoff game in five years.

Chicago had a chance to win with the game tied 90-90. But M i l w a u k e e ’s Khris Middleton tipped a dribble

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MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has undergone surgery after injuring his left hand in a training crash on Saturday. Marquez had an accident while riding on a dirt track and fractured his little finger.

He was operated on by regular MotoGP surgeon Dr Xavier Mir at Barcelona’s Quiron Dexeus University hospital and had a titanium plate fitted.

The next MotoGP round is just a week away, as the European season starts with the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. Dr Mir said: “The patient presented a deformity to the little finger of his left hand and

a subsequent x-ray showed a fracture of the proximal phalanx, with displacement.

“Therefore, we decided to treat the injury - as we would in the case of any other patient by fixing a titanium plate to his finger. “This will allow us to initiate functional recovery after 24 hours and give him a chance of racing at Jerez.” Marquez is currently only fifth in the MotoGP standings following a collision with championship leader Valentino Rossi as they battled for the lead in the last round in Argentina.

away from Rose to force a steal. Bucks coach Jason Kidd called a timeout to set up the final play. Game 5 is Monday in Chicago.

Jimmy Butler had a playoff career-high 33 points for the Bulls. Rose finished with 14 points, while Pau Gasol had 16 points and 10 rebounds.

O.J. Mayo finished with 18 points, including a 3-pointer with 1:42 left, for the Bucks while Dudley had 13 points and five assists and Bayless had 10 points. Memphis won 115-109 at Portland to move within one win of a berth in the last eight.

Marc Gasol had 25 points, Courtney Lee had 20 points and Mike Conley added 14 before leaving the game late in the third quarter with a facial injury. Memphis was already thin at point guard with reserve Beno Udrih sidelined with a sprained ankle. Game 4 is Monday at Portland.

Nicolas Batum’s 3-pointer got Portland as close as 94-91 with 2:23 left. But Tony Allen’s basket ended Portland’s 9-0 run and Randolph added free throws to close it out. Batum finished with 27 points for the Blazers, who have dropped seven straight games, including the last four of the regular season, and C.J. McCollum added 26. Zach Randolph had 16 points and the Grizzlies won their seventh straight against Portland.

Brooklyn’s Brook Lopez had 22 points and 13 rebounds and Thaddeus Young added 18 points and 11 rebounds as the Nets beat Atlanta 91-83 to cut the Hawks’ series lead. (ap)

It is the Honda rider’s second dirt-bike training injury in as many years. He broke his right leg in a crash on the eve of the 2014 season and missed much of winter testing, Honda although he recovered in time for MotoGP the opening grand prix in Qatar and rider Marc went on to win the first 10 races of Marquez of the year.

Spain celeIt remains unclear whether Honda’s other full-time rider Dani brates his pole position after the qualifying sesPedrosa will be fit for Jerez, as he sion at Argentina’s MotoGP continues to recover from radical surgery to attempt to cure a persis- Grand Prix at the Termas de Rio Hondo International cirtent arm pump problem. Test rider cuit in Termas de Rio Hondo, Hiroshi Aoyama has been standing April 18, 2015. in for Pedrosa. (net)

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Malaysia detains 12 suspected of Islamic State group links KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have detained 12 men suspected of being linked to the Islamic State group and who are believed to be plotting attacks on strategic government targets in the country. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar says the men, all Malaysians aged from 17 to 41, were detained during an operation this weekend.

He said Sunday that the men

were believed to be responding to calls by Islamic State group leaders in Syria to attack secular Islamic countries.

Khalid said police also seized ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate powder, kerosene and wires, among other items that could be used to make bombs.

Malaysia has detained nearly 100 suspected supporters of the Islamic State group in the past two years. (ap)

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In this photo provided by Azim Afif, people are examined for injuries and prepared for helicopter evacuation at the International Mount Guide (IMG) camp at Everest Base Camp, Nepal on Sunday, April 26, 2015.

First survivors of Mount Everest avalanche reach Kathmandu

KATHMANDU — The first group of survivors from an earthquake-triggered avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp were flown to Nepal’s capital on Sunday and taken to hospitals. None appeared to have life-threatening injuries.

At least 17 people were killed when Saturday’s avalanche, set off by a massive earthquake, obliterated part of the rocky village of nylon tents, where dozens of teams were training and acclimatizing themselves to higher altitudes as they prepared to make summit attempts in the next few weeks.

Twenty-two of the most seriously injured had already been taken by helicopter for treatment in the village of Pheriche, the location of the nearest medical facility. But bad weather and communications were hampering more helicopter flights, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

Later Sunday, a plane carrying 15 injured people arrived in the capital, Kathmandu, from Lukla, home of the closest airport to Mount Everest. Officials refused to provide details on their conditions, but most appeared to have broken bones or other treatable injuries. Of those evacuated, 12 were Nepalese Sherpas. There was also one person each from China, South Korea and Japan. The Sherpa survivors said

they feared that many more people could be dead on Everest.

Pemba Sherpa, a 43-year-old guide with the right side of his face bandaged, was surprised he had survived. He rushed from his tent when the earthquake hit Saturday and was standing in the open when “I heard a big noise, and the next thing I know I was swept away by the snow,” he said. “I must have been swept almost 200 meters (yards).”

Later, he regained consciousness.

“I was in a tent surrounded by some foreigners. I did not know what happened or where I was,” he said after being taken to Kathmandu Medical College Hospital. For generations, thousands of ethnic Sherpas, many of whom also use “Sherpa” as a surname, have made their livings working on mountaineering expeditions as guides, porters or cooks.

Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 quake struck at around noon, just over a year after the deadliest avalanche on record hit Everest, killing 16 Sherpa guides on April 18, 2014.

Witnesses said the avalanche began on Mount Kumori, a 7,000-

meter (22,966-foot) -high mountain just a few kilometers (miles) from Everest, gathering strength as it headed toward base camp and the lower reaches of Everest. Numerous climbers may now be cut off on routes leading to the top of the world’s highest peak. Bhim Bahadur Khatri, 35, another survivor flown to Kathmandu, said he was cooking in a meal tent when the quake struck.

“We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me,” he said in a brief airport interview before being driven to a nearby hospital. “I managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive.”

When he finally dug his way out, gulping in fresh air, he was surrounded by devastation. Part of the base camp village was gone. “I looked around and saw the tents all torn and crushed. Many people were injured,” he said. “I had lived but lost many of my friends.” (ap)

From page 1 The country’s cellphone network was working only sporadically, while large parts of the capital were without electricity.

AFP correspondents in Kathmandu reported that tremors were felt throughout the night, including one strong aftershock at dawn before the 6.7-magnitude follow-up quake that struck in the afternoon.

“It has been a sleepless night, how can we sleep? It has been shaking all night. We are just praying that this will end and we can return home,” said Nina Shrestha, a 34-year-old banker who spent the night with hundreds of people on open ground in the capital’s Tudhikhel district.

The historic nine-storey Dharahara tower, a major tourist attraction, was among the buildings brought down in Kathmandu Saturday, with at least a dozen bodies recovered from the ruins of the 19th-century structure.

As rescuers sifted through the huge mounds of rubble in the capital, hospitals were overwhelmed with victims who suffered multiple fractures and trauma.

“We have treated many people since yesterday, the majority children,” said Samir Acharya, a doctor at Nepal’s Annapurna Neurological Hospital.

“Most patients have head injuries or fractures. Two of our patients died, two are critical.”

Acharya said medics were working out of a tent set up in a parking lot to cope with the number of injured, while some patients were too scared to stay in the building.

Families had grabbed whatever possessions they could muster and sought shelter on the streets, many of which had been split asunder.

Weather forecasters warned that rain was on the way, with dark clouds looming over Kathmandu and promising more mis-

ery for displaced survivors.

‘Just flattened me’

Google executive Dan Fredinburg was one of the climbers to have been confirmed as having been killed in the Everest avalanche.

Experienced mountaineers said panic erupted at base camp, which has been “severely damaged”, while one described the avalanche as “huge”.

“Seventeen have been reported dead so far and 61 are injured,” said Tulsi Gautam of Nepal’s tourism department which issues permits to climb the world’s highest mountain.

“Those who are able are walking down. Others are being airlifted.”

Kannampilly said many of those stranded at the scene were walking down the mountain rather than risk being stuck for days.

George Foulsham, a Singapore-based marine biologist, described the moment that the disaster struck.

“I was outside, saw a white 50-storey building of white come at me. I ran and it just flattened me,” he told AFP. “I tried to get up and it flattened me again. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was dead. When I finally stood up, I couldn’t believe it passed me over and I was almost untouched.

“I saved for years to climb Everest. It feels like the mountain is saying it’s not meant to be climbed for now. Too much of a coincidence to see this twice in two years.”

Nepal and the rest of the Himalayas are particularly prone to earthquakes because of the collision of the Indian and Eurasia plates.

An 6.8 magnitude quake hit eastern Nepal in August 1988 killing 721 people, and a magnitude 8.1 quake killed 10,700 people in Nepal and India in 1934. (afp)

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INDONESIA Indonesia gives 72-hour executions notice

JAKARTA — Indonesia notified nine foreigners and a local man convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days, ignoring appeals by the U.N. chief and foreign leaders to spare them.

Authorities also asked the four Nigerian men, two Australian men, a Filipino woman, and one man each from Brazil, France and Indonesia for their last wish, the spokesman for the attorney general, Tony Spontana, said Sunday.

He said the legal options of nine of them have been exhausted, while Frenchman Serge Atlaoui still has an outstanding legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency. Spontana said he expects the Supreme Court to rule on it Monday.

The 72-hour notice indicates the executions by firing squad in Besi prison on Nusakambangan Island will be carried out at the earliest on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The pending executions have caused an international outcry, particularly in Australia, France and the Philippines, which are opposed to the death penalty.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to “urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition.”

French President Francois Hollande has warned of diplomatic consequences if Atlaoui is executed,

and said Saturday that there could be possible economic fallout as well.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose government has been pressuring Indonesia to spare the two Australians, arrived on a visit to Paris on Saturday night and was expected to discuss the situation with Hollande.

Australian heroin traffickers Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, were the ringleaders of a gang of nine Australians arrested in April 2005, while trying to smuggle more than 8 kilograms (18 pounds) of heroin from the resort island of Bali to Sydney.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday he would again appeal the case of Filipino convict Mary Jane Veloso to Jokowi when they meet at an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Malaysia on Monday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila issued over the weekend Veloso’s handwritten letters from her Indonesian prison where she pleaded to Aquino and other officials to continue efforts to save her. She repeated that she was tricked by a compatriot into carrying illegal drugs in a luggage as she traveled in the hope of landing a job

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Diplomats and family of executioners visit Nusakambangan Island on Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Indonesia notified nine foreigners and a local man convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days, ignoring appeals by the U.N. chief and foreign leaders to spare them. as a house helper.

“Please save my life, I have two children who need the love of their mother,” Veloso wrote to Aquino.

“We’re poor and I wanted to change our life but I could never commit the crime they have accused me of.”

Consular officials and relatives

were arriving on Sunday at a town near Nusakambangan, the highsecurity prison island, for the last visit to the convicts.

Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and often executes smugglers.

More than 130 people are on death row, mostly for drug crimes. About

a third of them are foreigners.

In January, six convicted drug smugglers, including five from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Nigeria and Malawi, were executed at the same prison, prompting the Netherlands and Brazil to recall their ambassadors in protest. (ap)

Frenchman’s execution in Indonesia may be suspended

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Protesters hold placards including one reading “Let’s save Serge Altlaoui” in Paris on Saturday, April 25, 2015, to show support for Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman on death row in Indonesia, after being convicted of drug offences. Atlaoui is among nine foreign drug criminals who are facing execution by firing squad despite clemency appeals from several of their governments.

PARIS — France is stepping up efforts to save the life a Frenchman facing a firing squad in Indonesia on drug charges, amid signs that his execution may be suspended.

Serge Atlaoui is among 10 foreigners slated for execution in the coming days in Indonesia. His case has drawn national attention in France, which vigorously opposes the death penalty.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said Saturday the government is intensifying its mobilization and is determined to prevent the execution.

Scores of people gathered in Paris and Atlaoui’s hometown of Metz on Saturday to urge Indonesia to halt his execution, some shouting “Hope! Hope!”

Atlaoui’s fate may be on hold because of a legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency.

The French ambassador was not summoned to a meeting with Indonesian authorities Saturday for formal notification of the execution, unlike consular officials from other countries. A lawyer for Atlaoui,

Richard Sedillot, said the decision was apparently linked to the legal complaint.

“Mr. Atlaoui thought that he would leave last night” for the execution site, Sedillot said. “He prepared his bag and finally he discovered that he wasn’t on the list of those who are going to be executed.”

Sedillot said he remained “very, very prudent” about Atlaoui’s fate. And Atlaoui’s wife Sabine called into the Paris rally from Indonesia, telling his supporters, “The fight has not ended .... We should continue to mobilize.”

French President Francois Hollande has warned of diplomatic consequences if Atlaoui is executed, and said Saturday that there could be possible economic fallout as well, according to French media reports.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose government is protesting Indonesia’s impending execution of two Australians, arrives in Paris on Saturday night and is expected to discuss the situation with Hollande. (ap)

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ASEAN, EU to seek jump-start of free-trade talks

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU had launched negotiations in 2007, but broke them off in 2009 amid disagreements largely centering on European concerns over ASEAN member Myanmar’s human rights record.

“Senior officials of ASEAN and EU will meet towards the end of the

year to take stock and explore the way forward and report back to the ministers,” the two sides said in a joint statement.

The statement was released in Malaysia following discussions between delegations on the sidelines of ASEAN’s annual diplomatic gathering, hosted this year

by ASEAN chair Malaysia.

“The EU is committed to have a region-to-region free-trade agreement,” European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told reporters after the talks.

“But it is important that we get it right and that is why we proposed this roadmap, a stock-taking event by the end of the year.”

The EU is already holding sepa-

Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

It concluded an agreement with Singapore, another ASEAN member, in December 2012.

Indonesia, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Cambodia round out ASEAN’s membership.

The EU is ASEAN’s secondlargest trading partner with total trade amounting to $248 billion

in 2014 and was Southeast Asia’s largest source of foreign direct investment in 2014 with $29.1 billion or 21.3 percent of foreign inflows to the region, the joint statement said.

Myanmar was plunged into isolation by a military regime that seized power in 1962. But it has won praise for widespread economic and political reforms since it emerged from outright military rule in 2011. (afp)

Europe pushes Greece in bogged down debt talks

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An elderly man watches a small protest by municipal workers, in central Athens, on Friday, April 24, 2015. European ministers heaped pressure on Greece Friday to speed up negotiations to unblock critically needed bailout funds and avert a dangerous default, showing frustration after months of bogged down talks.

RIGA, Latvia - European ministers heaped pressure on Greece Friday to speed up negotiations to unblock critically needed bailout funds and avert a dangerous default, showing frustration after months of bogged down talks.

The eurozone’s 19 finance ministers ended a meeting in Riga without a breakthrough to unlock 7.2 billion euros ($7.8 billion) in bailout cash, with the threat of a messy exit by Greece from the euro still hanging in the balance.

“It was a very critical discussion,” said Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem after the talks ended, with eurozone ministers angry at the lack of progress as a hefty payment of 200 million euros to the IMF stands due on May 1.

“There remain big, big problems to be solved for Greece,” he said.

Athens is fast running out of money to pay its creditors and carry out everyday government duties, raising the risk of a default as a long series of huge loan repayments to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank approach.

On Friday, Greece’s parliament adopted a controversial decree ordering all public institutions to hand over their cash reserves to the central bank to help Athens pay civil servants’ wages and service its debt.

But increasingly irate eurozone ministers have refused to release any cash without a comprehensive list of reforms that the hard-left Syriza government has so far refused to accept.

Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the talks in Riga were heated but pointed the finger to mixed messages from his European partners, all while adding that a deal was within reach.

“The cost of not finding an agree-

ment would be enormous,” Varoufakis said.

Emphasising the dangerous line Athens is walking, ECB chief Mario Draghi, also at the talks, again evoked the possibility of pulling back emergency financing to Greece’s crippled banks, a lifeline to the Greek economy.

Greek officials and Athens’ international creditors have been locked in technical discussions over the reforms Greece must adopt in exchange for the funds, with a deadline originally set for the end of the month.

However, ministers said this process was showing its limits and that the negotiations needed a new approach, which some reports said would mean relocating the talks back to Athens.

Varoufakis dismissed the idea, arguing the Greek people would interpret it as a return of the dreaded ‘troika’ of auditors that oversaw the bailout programme before the radical leftists took power.

“The notion that we go back to the troika is simply groundless,” he said.

Greece’s radical-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras swept to power in January on a promise to break with austerity demanded by its EU-IMF creditors.

Defying his paymasters, Tsipras pushed welfare laws through parliament last month and has continued to refuse measures agreed by the previous government.

The anti-austerity measures have angered creditors, but in a blog posted on Friday, Varoufakis said differences with the eurozone could be resolved.

“The current disagreements with our partners are not unbridgeable,” Varoufakis said, adding a list of potential compromises on some of the thorniest issues such as pension reforms and privatisations. (afp)

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Pipeline excavation project cuts down hundreds of trees

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KUALA LUMPUR - Southeast Asia and the European Union (EU) agreed on Sunday to take rate talks on potential free-trade agreements with ASEAN members steps toward resuming stalled talks on a free-trade agreement between the two regions.

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MANGUPURA - The pipeline excavation project worked on by the Human Settlements Agency (DCK) along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai has to sacrifice about 100 shade giving trees. This clean water supply project extends from Tuban village to Nusa Dua. IBP/File Photo

If you are a spiritualist, try to make a visit to Dedari Temple. It is very unique and different from the others temple. It is situated at Lebah hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or approximately 20 km from the city of Denpasar.

Dedari Temple, a place to meditate and invoke healing

GIANYAR - If you are a spiritualist, try to make a visit to Dedari Temple. It is very unique and different from the others temple. It is situated at Lebah hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or approximately 20 km from the city of Denpasar. It has very cool atmosphere because perching on a cliff top of Petanu River.

The temple area is often used as trekking route by nature lovers.

Travelers usually prefer to have a promenade from Goa Gajah towards the south. Along the journey, travelers can feel typical aura because it belongs to sacred area or a place to carry out purificatory rite or melukat. There visitor will see the sudamala shower, go up to the temple and sanctuary and ultimately arrive at Dedari Temple.

The priest of Dedari Temple, Gusti Ngurah Agung, said that the temple is estimated to have existed during the administration of King Udayana. It can be proved by seeing the motif of the building and the statue known as Mahesa Sura Durga Mandini. The statue in the form of an eight-armed man was made of stone. “This statue is no longer complete and the face is damaged,” he said.

Although it is called Dedari Temple, physically in the temple area there is no dedari or angel.

However, spiritualists often see a beautiful woman like an angel.

“During the establishment of a villa situated on the cliff of the temple, construction workers often see a beautiful woman and then he asked me. Previously, no one saw it. Honestly, I’ve never seen it,” he explained.

According to the priest, spiritualists often conduct meditation

or yoga. Reportedly they see the temple area as a very beautiful village. The others see it like a geriya (house of high priest), a place to hang gold located in north of the Dedari Temple. This temple has a spring with constant volume of water even though in rainy and dry seasons.

The water of shower is used to for purificatory rite. Other than the Dedari Temple, there is also a shrine as representation of Ratu on Mount Agung, Ratu on Mountain Lebah, on Mount Batukaru and Uluwatu. It belongs to ancient temple. “At this temple, people also invoke the divine inspiration of performing arts, healing of the sick and others,” he said.

By and large, travelers from Australia and Europe like doing meditation at this temple. Local people also used to do meditation here. “Guests from Australia say that it is a very nice place to meditate. It is said there are many villages whose people often play gamelan music and dance. “Once upon a time, a man directly danced when he arrived at the temple. He said that he saw a man dancing, so that he was interested to follow,” he said.

Piodalan or birthday of the Dedari Temple falls every six months exactly on Buda Umanis Kulantir.

However, when a piodalan is celebrated with small ritual, another will be celebrated with grandiose ritual. Most people of Bedulu will come to temple to say prayers on the piodalan. The others are from Tengkulak, Pejeng and Wanayu village. “As the descendants of Arya Pengalasan across Bali, we greatly support the Dedari Temple,” he said. (kmb)

The Head of the Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), I Putu Eka Merthawan, admitted that water supply project had cut down hundreds of tress in laying the pipe. His agency coordinated with the DCK that organized the project as well as the contractors, PT Adhi Karya.

“A agreement was made that the tress would be replaced. So, our agreement with the DCK and PT Adhi Karya as contractor is clear,” said Eka Merthawan on Sunday.

Marthawan explained that said that the cutting down of the trees could not be avoided because the pipeline excavation project is needed in order to provide clean water to South Kuta where many communities, including those

living in the Bukit area, still face water shortages.

“This project aims to overcome the issue of clean water shortages.

So we though that sacrificing shade giving trees, was a worthwhile exchange for the benefits that people will be able to enjoy,” he said.

Furthermore, he explained that his party has stipulated strict requirements before the trees were cleared, such as that only the very minimum possible number of trees should be cut down, that they should be replaced with golden trumpet tress, that traffic should not be disturbed and that once the tress were cut cut, that they should not be disposed of carelessly. “All the requirements have been met, so for us there is no problem,” he stated.

Methawan emphasized that the the sacrifice of these tress was made for the sole purpose of being able to provide clean water to these communities. “So, it is reasonable and once the project is completed, the beautiful appearance of this part of Badung will be returned to the condition that it was in before the project began. All the cleared trees must be replaced by planting new trees,” he said.

As of three days ago, up to 90 had been cut down but said Merthawan: “probably, this number will increase due to technical issues in the field,” he said.

Head of the CK Badung, Ni Putu Dessy Dharmayanti, could not be contacted in order to ask for her confirmation about the project. (kmb27)

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The pipeline excavation project worked on by the Human Settlements Agency (DCK) along Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai has to sacrifice about 100 shade giving trees. This clean water supply project extends from Tuban village to Nusa Dua.

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Settlement of residents at Tamblingan displaced by force

SINGARAJA - Dozens of semi-permanent houses in the neighborhood of the Gubug Temple land property at Tamblingan hamlet, Munduk village, Banjar subdistrict, were finally dismantled by the community of four Dalem Tamblingan customary villages. Hundreds of people in light customary attires and armed with a crowbar, hammer, axes, hoes and wood dismantled the building by force. Pursuant to the deadline and joint coordination, 17 families having semipermanent building were already given a final reprimand. They were obliged to leave the location and evacuate the contents of the house along with their valuables.

deadlock of communication in the previous deliberation, the migrant homeowners near the Gubug Temple and Lake Tamblingan have been repeatedly reprimanded to immediately evacuate.

Chief of Munduk customary village, Putu Ardana, affirmed that the number of residents in the settlement actually reached 50 families. After provided with an understanding, the residents were given a deadline until April 10.

As the results of checking in the field, in fact there are 17 families

From eight o’clock in the morn- the homes and directly burned the Dalem Tamblingan customary viling, the house owners were not able remaining building materials, so lages, the Bali Natural Resources to do much considering the amount that nothing was left or could be Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and the Regent of Buleleng Putu of people from the four Dalem Tam- used again.

Decision on the demolition is Agus Suradnyana with residents’ blingan customary villages, consisting of Munduk, Gesing, Umajero the result of a joint agreement of representatives whose home will and Gobleg considerably exceeded the team nine of the Dalem four be demolished. Though facing a and were ready to dismantle their house. The demolition is done as a concrete step for sterilization of the Lake Tamblingan arrangement as a spiritual tourist and conservation area.

One of the residents whose house was demolished, Ketut Meriawan, admitted that he resigned over the demolition of his house.

He lives with his wife and a child, and must rush to find out a new residence. “I have been living here (settlement near the Gubug Temple land property—Ed) for almost 27 years. This house has been inhabited through generations and most families are fishermen. Our family will flee to grandfather’s house at Munduk village,” said Meriawan, Saturday (Apr. 25).

The first building demolished is the meeting hall of the Astiti Amerta fisherman group and then resumed to dozens of people’s house predominantly made of wooden planks. Dozens of pecalang or customary security guard of Dalem Tamblingan, Buleleng Municipal Police and Indonesian Army and Police personnel supervised the demolition process. One by one of the houses were demolished, including zinc roof and the wall.

Enthusiastically, residents flattened The houses on Tamblingan area were set on fire during the clean the area.

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remaining to hold on. After that, he discussed again with the government of Buleleng, the four customary villages and the BKSDA. As the result of discussion, they were given a reprimand letter and final deadline until April 25 to vacate the house. The sterilization aims to keep the sacred and conservation area as water catchment area.

“Total fishermen only amount to 22 people, while the rest claims as fishermen. Fishermen have a special position in our customary system to maintain the forest and lake because Munduk customary village and the four villages will manage it. Later, we will only give priority to fishermen (menega) because they pay devotional work (ngaturang ngayah) at 18 temples, including the responsibility for handling the sanitation and pilgrims coming to say prayers. Should there be any benefits from tourism, they must be prioritized because so far they have been quite marginalized,” he said.

When confirmed separately, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, explained that the arrangement of Lake Tamblingan is devoted to spiritual tourist area in the future.

After the arrangement, more visitors are expected to come to Lake Tamblingan. The four customary villages become an integral community in the tourism development and different culture. “Hopefully, after the area of Lake Tamblingan has been vacated from settlements, we will resume with the arrangement of sacred place, tourist area and the activities of fishermen. This year, we are allocating nearly IDR 10 billion for infrastructural development in the four customary villages,” he explained. (kmb34)

“Bali Nine” duo execution

Prosecutor team departed to Nusa Kambangan

DENPASAR - After the issuance of the warrant for the implementation of executions made to the general crime division from the Attorney General for the executor team, officials of the Bali and Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office have made preparations. A number of officers of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office departed to Nusa Kambangan, through Ngurah Rai International Airport, on Friday afternoon (Apr. 24).

“Yes, I am now departing but I’m not attending the execution. I am just handling the administra-

tion. For further information, ask our Spokesperson,” said prosecutor Edy Artha Wijaya, shortly before leaving the entourage at the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office.

In addition to general staff, the Head of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Emmanuel Zebua, also set out for the execution of the two inmates on death row, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Other information obtained stated that the entourage of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office will be there for a week to handle the administrative

processes and corpses of the death row inmates.

Spokesperson for the Bali Prosecutor’s Office, Ashari Kurniawan, did not want to give anymore comments related to the confirmation of the departure of the prosecutor team. When asked whether will join the entourage, this official from Yogyakarta said that he indeed left but was heading to his home town.

In essence, the spokesperson did not want to give a formal statement regarding the execution plan of the Bali Nine duo from Australian.

Other information obtained stated that the prosecuting team arrived in advance to prepare for the administration and delivery of the convicts. Three days prior to the execution, the prosecutors must inform the convicts, including conveying their rights.

As widely reported, the execution of the Bali Nine duo had been delayed. The issue of their execution became a world shaking case prior to their evacuation from Kerobokan. On March 4, 2015, both convicts were transported by Bar-

racuda vehicle by the Bali Police Mobile Brigade and escorted by heavily armed police. At Ngurah Rai International Airport, security was further tightened and the Wings Air charter aircraft of ATR-72-600, flight number PK-WGO, was escorted by a Sukhoi fighter aircraft before Myuran and Andrew Chan finally arrived at Tunggul Wulung Airport Cilacap, Central Java.

There was no special request from the convicts of the 8.2-kg drug case when they were moved from Kerobokan Prison. (kmb37)

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Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, left, chats with Philippines’ Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario as they arrive for the 26th ASEAN Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday, April 26, 2015.

Philippines urges ASEAN to stop China in South China Sea

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Philippines on Sunday urged its fellow Southeast Asian countries to take immediate steps to halt land reclamation by China in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, warning that failure to do so will see Beijing take “de facto control” of the area.

Malaysia’s foreign minister, however, said that the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations will avoid confrontation with China and continue negotiations with Beijing on a binding code of conduct that would govern behavior in the area. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers that if China’s construction of artificial islands on reefs claimed by other countries is allowed to be completed, Beijing will impose its claim over more than 85 percent of the sea.

Rosario urged the grouping to “stand up” to China by urging it to halt its reclamation work, which threatened to militarize the region, infringe on rights of other states and damage the marine environment.

He warned that China, which has been dragging its foot on ASEAN’s push for a code of conduct, will aim to complete its reclamation activities before it agrees to conclude the code. If this happens, he said the code will legitimize China’s reclamation.

“The threats posed by these massive reclamations are real and cannot be ignored or denied,” he said. “ASEAN should assert its leadership, centrality and solidarity. ASEAN must show the world that it has the resolve to act in the

common interest.” China, Taiwan and ASEAN members Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei have overlapping claims in the South China Sea, which includes busy sea lanes and rich fishing grounds, and is believed to have large undersea deposits of oil and natural gas. ASEAN has maintained a cautious stand in the dispute to avoid angering China, a key trading partner.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told reporters that ASEAN is “very much concerned” about the reclamation, but that sending an ultimatum to China to stop work could backfire and hurt peace and stability in the region.

“It will be much appreciated if China can stop work and sit down with ASEAN countries to find a solution,” he said. “ASEAN must send the right signal and make the right move. We must avoid any measures that are counterproductive either to ourselves or to China.”

Officials from ASEAN nations and China are scheduled to meet in May and June to discuss the issue, he said.

The Philippines filed a case with an international arbitration tribunal in 2013 challenging China’s claim.

Beijing has defended the reclamation, saying it is Chinese territory and the structures are for public service use and to support Chinese fishermen.

Anifah has said that ASEAN leaders are expected to raise concerns over Chinese land reclamation at their two-day summit starting Monday and will seek to speed up plans for the code of conduct with China. (ap)

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Obama turns 2016 hopefuls into comic fodder for media dinner

WASHINGTON — A presidential election just getting into gear provided U.S. President Barack Obama plenty of new material to work with on the night he describes as Washington celebrating itself. “It’s amazing how time flies,” Obama told those attending the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association on Saturday night. “Soon, the first presidential contest will take place, and I for one cannot wait to see who the Koch brothers pick. It’s exciting.”

Obama added: “Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker ... who will finally get that red rose?” On the Democratic side, Obama observed that Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked things off by going unrecognized to Chipotle.

Meanwhile, he said, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley went completely unrecognized at an O’Malley campaign event.

Taking a playful poke at himself and at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is considering a bid, Obama said: “Apparently, some folks want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all.” The dinner also gave the president an opportunity to rib some of his loudest critics.

“Just this week Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now, that’s a legacy,” he

said. “That’s big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington, they didn’t do that.”

The correspondents’ dinner brings in some big names from Hollywood. Some of the cast members from the TV series “Black-ish” attended, and Obama said he had to give ABC fair warning about the show. “Being blackish only makes you popular for so long,” he said. “Trust me, there’s a shelf life to that thing.” Of course, he had to give a shout-out to his health care law. “Today, thanks to Obamacare, you no longer have to worry about losing your insurance, if you lose your job,” he said. “You’re welcome, Senate Democrats.”

The featured entertainer of the night, Cecily Strong from “Saturday Night Live,” got some big laughs with some tough subjects.

For example, she observed that the Secret Service is the one law

enforcement agency that could get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

“Your hair is so white now,” she told the president, “it can talk back to police.”

And she had the journalists repeat after her and solemnly swear they will not talk about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s appearance “because that is not journalism.”

Few of the politicians who may want to succeed Obama showed up for the dinner. One on hand was Donald Trump, who again has been teasing Republicans about running for national office.

Most of the prospective and declared Republican candidates stayed away. Many chose to meet potential supporters and donors at conservative gatherings in Las Vegas and Des Moines, Iowa. The dinner helps fund scholarships and awards that recognize journalists. (ap)

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Comedian Cecily Strong delivers remarks the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Washington.

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For Dubai biz travelers, Ngurah Rai Airport soak up the sun and souq ranked world’s 7th best

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — If you’re visiting Dubai for a long stopover or business trip, make sure to leave a little space in your bag for a bathing suit, flip-flops and souvenirs.

For business travelers with just a few hours or half-day to spare in the emirate, head to the Dubai Mall.

There pick up a cold drink or frozen yogurt and head outside to watch one of the world’s most beautiful dancing fountains and be mesmerized by base views of the world’s tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa.

If you feel like getting some exercise in, skip the hotel gym and head out for a run or brisk walk by Kite Beach, where a safe 3-mile-long (5-kilometer) track runs along the coast. Don’t forget to stop and take a selfie on the beach with the sea and Dubai’s iconic sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel behind you.

For spinning enthusiasts, head to Fly Dubai where there’s no membership cost. Just call ahead to book a bike at one of Fly Dubai’s two locations for indoor spinning classes, but make sure to order a taxi ahead of time if you go during peak rush hours.

The metro does not connect to either location and taxis are hard to find between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

For a quieter afternoon, head to Dubai’s man-made island The Palm.

Go for a day pass at the Atlantis or the Jumeira Zabeel Saray hotel.

A day pass during the workweek, which in the Middle East runs from Sunday to Thursday, is significantly

cheaper and the beach quieter than the weekend days of Friday and Saturday.

Most hotels that offer day passes also include lunch.

If what you need is a few, short hours of complete serenity to clear your head, go for the ultimate pampering experience and head to the spa at the One & Only Royal Mirage across from Dubai Media City or the Talise Spa in Madinat Jumeirah.

Once at Madinat Jumeirah, shop in its famous souq where you can pick up some reasonably priced souvenirs like postcards and Middle Eastern-inspired printed artworks at Gallery One. Unlike most Middle Easter mar-

kets, this souq is indoors and there isn’t too much haggling over prices.

The upside is that what the market misses in authentic folkloric experience it makes up for in air-conditioned comfort between the hot months of April and October.

Also at the souq are some of Dubai’s most popular restaurants with views of the Burj al-Arab and a man-made waterway that connects the three hotels that comprise Madinat Jumeirah.

If you are in Dubai between November and March, when the weather is great outdoors, visit The Walk at Jumeirah Beach Residence, better known as JBR. There, visitors can soak up some sun on the beach, enjoy a lavish meal and shop for unique

finds at boutiques like Sauce — a homegrown chain of edgy concept stores in Dubai.

The hotels along The Walk are home to some of Dubai’s best restaurants, but meals there don’t come cheap. For something a little less formal, enjoy a bite to eat at one of JBR’s many outdoor cafes and restaurants. At night on the weekends, JBR turns into a bustling street for people watching.

The Gulf’s wealthy cruise along the strip in their Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys.

Nearby are some of the world’s most architecturally stunning skyscrapers in Marina. There, too. you’ll find a mall, outdoor cafes and some of the city’s most expensive real estate overlooking the yachts. (ap)

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With Burj al Arab hotel in background, tourists visit Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. At Madinat Jumeirah, shop in its famous souq where you can pick up some reasonably priced souvenirs like postcards and Middle Eastern-inspired printed artworks at Gallery One.

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Tourists and visitors enjoy riding boats by the Souk Al Bahar fountain lake in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. If you’re visiting Dubai for a long stopover or business trip, make sure to leave a little space in your bag for a bathing suit, flip flops and souvenirs.

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Tourists and visitors watch and take photos of the Dubai Fountain in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 13, 2015. For business travelers with just a few hours or half-day to spare in the emirate, head to the Dubai Mall.

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People enjoy dining out at “The Walk” in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

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DENPASAR - The glitzy Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Indonesian island resort of Bali, which is known for its grandiose construction, had been ranked the seventh best airport globally, its General Manager, Herry A.Y Sikado, said.

“The Ngurah Rai Airprt is the pride of the Balinese community and is now ranked as the 7th best airport in the world,” Sikado said on Saturday.

He noted that the ratings has been released by the Airport Council International (ACI), and based on the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey during the October to December 2014 period.

“Based on a survey conducted by the Airport Council International, Ngurah Rai is the world’s seventh best airport in the category of 15 to 25 million passengers per year,” he remarked.

Sikado confirmed that as one of the busiest airports in Indonesia, the Ngurah Rai Airport, was ranked above the Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan; the San Diego Airport in California, United States; the Surich Airport in Swiss, Switzerland; the Brisbane Airport in Queensland, Australia; and the Manchester Airport in England.

Meanwhile, the best ranked airport in the ASQ survey was the Wuhan Tianhe Airport in China.

He explained that the assessment of the level of customer satisfaction conducted by ACI had become a reference for the Ngurah ANTARA FOTO/Andika Wahyu Rai Airport in improving its services.

“It has certainly added value, as well en- Passengers walked in Ngurah Rai Airport. The glitzy Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Indonesian island resort couraged us to make Nugurah Rai one of the of Bali, which is known for its grandiose construction, had been ranked the seventh best airport globally, its General Manager, Herry A.Y Sikado, said. ten best airports in Asia,” he added. (ant)

Bamboo crafts with a touch of traditional art DENPASAR - When going along Jalan Gunung Soputan, our eyes will be drawn to various bamboo craft products on display at Axel Art and Craft shop which seeps onto the side of the road along with other such shops. The bamboo wares include; standalone cupboards, chairs, towel racks, shoe racks, tables, ladders as well as home decor. The bamboo craft shop is owned by Edo. Edo’s brother-in-law Muhammad Imam, who manages the bamboo handicraft shop, explained to Bali Post on Sunday that they use golden bamboo also known as chinese bamboo. This bamboo is obtained from the slopes of the mountains of East, West and Central Java. “This kind of bamboo can only grow in certain areas,” he said.

The bamboo goes through a three part process before being crafted into different objects. First it is smoked to get rid of insects,

then it is heated to straighten it out and finally it is sanded down to remove sharp protrusions.

Imam himself has made handicraft products as samples for bamboo handicraft lovers. The various bamboo crafts can be ordered according to customers’ desired style, design and size.

The bamboo poles are perforated to allow for the different pieces to fit together and form the shape of the different objects: “we cut, and drill the bamboo a certain way depending on what we are making, then we glue the pieces together using ‘Fox’ glue and a special adhesive fluid,” explained Imam.

Both glues are used to ensure maximum strength. The largest bamboo poles used here are 3.5 cm in diameter which can be mixed and matched with smaller poles.

Imam said that Axel Arts and Crafts have been exported to the

UK, Brazil and Australia and recently took an order for 500 ladders to be sent to England. Ladders, and other products like shoe racks are in demand by foreign markets. “To work on the orders, we require at least two months because the heating process takes a long time,” he said.

In Bali, bamboo handicrafts are mostly ordered by hotels and villas. “They mostly order towel racks,” he added.

According to Imam, the process of making bamboo crafts is somewhat tricky because the heating process used to straighten the bamboo poles must be done carefully, “otherwise, the bamboo will crack,” he said.

The process of making a round chairs must also be done carefully and requires accuracy when bending the bamboo poles into a circle after they have been heated to the right temperature. “These chars take the most time to make out

of all our crafts -namely 5 to 7 days,” he said.

The store currently employs 6 other craftsmen: “five people are placed in Java, and one in Bali,” he said.

To handle the smaller craft orders between 1 and 9 pieces for example, we can handle it here in Bali, but for more than 10 pieces, we have them made in Java where “we can produce hundreds of handicrafts at a time” he said. People can also buy raw materials from the shop on japan Gunung Soputan for making crafts in Ubud.

Axel Art and craft shop uses approximately 3,000-4,000 bamboo poles per month to make the handicrafts and his average turnover is valued at IDR 40-50 million. Prices of the handicrafts range from IDR 125,000 to IDR 1.7 million. “The most expensive product is our stand alone cupboard” he said. (kmb42)

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Prevent from extinction, Arja needs innovation

The marijuana confiscated by the police is increasing in number.

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Beware of drug!

They come in various forms

GIANYAR - During its heyday, the performance of arja operetta becomes an icon on piodalan or temple birthday in Bali. This performance has even penetrated foreign countries, especially Europe. However, it begins to fade or is even almost never seen. Fortunately, the government of Gianyar is still trying to pack a variety of old performing arts to prevent them from extinction.

Wayan Latri, an artist of arja operetta from Kramas village, said that in the 1980s the Singapadu and Kramas village were the center of arja operetta artists. During its heyday, the arja performance was always favorite not only Bali, but even in European continent such as France, the Netherlands and Germany where people flocked to watch the arja operetta. “Overseas, the committee disseminates a leaflet on the synopsis of storyline in local language before performance. There is also official introducing the crews and explaining the storyline by cutting the story plot in each session,” she explained.

However, the current performance of the arja begins to decrease and the artists even begin to disappear. In addition, the lack of education for regeneration becomes the cause of the disappearance of the arja artists. Another cause of the decline is the development of technology such as television because viewers can easily watch the show repeatedly. “As a result, the live arja performance is only watched by few spectators and can be

counted on the fingers. However, in some places people are still hungering for the arja entertainment,” she said.

To prevent the arja performance from extinction, Wayan Latri took proactive action such as by submitting herself to pay devotional work (ngaturang ayah). “When there is a temple festival, we can submit to the committee for making a performance, but it can only be done around here. But, for outside this village we maybe think twice to do it, considering the cost of transport and equipment is not cheap,” she said.

The Head of Gianyar Culture Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Wijana, admitted if staging of the arja art begins to be increasingly rare. According to him, it happens because the play is considered less attractive by society. “Spectators decline. Probably, they consider it less attractive or they have been saturated. In the past, it was even so iconic in temple festivals or other grandiose temple rituals,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he is still trying to revive various rare arts in Gianyar like the topeng panca and gambuh, including the arja operetta. But he wants to pack the performing art in order to become more attractive.

He cited the prembon that is currently liked best by society, namely in the form of fragmentary show by combining the elements of drama and arja operetta. “It should be packed in contemporary style.

If it remains monotonous as the old style, it may be extinct, but we do not want this to happen,” he said. (kmb35)

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but first observe. The BNN also consistently disseminates information and promotes anti-drug activities such as those that take place in schools through the Student Group Caring for AIDS and Drugs (KSPAN). It is expected that an anti-drug attitude can be instilled in every teenager.

There are 351 new types of illicit drugs in the world, 26 of which are known to be available in Indonesia. “However, only a few types have been discovered in Bali,” she said.

The primary new type of drug at issue is marijuana brownies. She explained that marijuana in brownies is not something new -previously

drug traffickers have mixed it in food such as candy and ajapajapa. “But marijuana brownies have not been on sale in Bali,” she added.

Additionally, there is also a new kind of drug namely CC4 in the form of a stamp which is a derivate of cannabis (marijuana). Drug traffickers will look for various ways to package their drugs to entice people to use them. “Putting them in foods is just one way to reach their market, there are also many ways that they use to transport these substances.

Drug distribution has begun to enter campuses,” deplored Lisdiani. (kmb42)

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JIMBARAN - Harris Hotel Bukit Jimbaran reveals the new concept of its signature rooftop bar & lounge, Jim’bar’N. The venue has been well-known for its relaxing atmosphere and excellent view overlooking Southern Bali.

The northern view of the Jim’bar’N offers a picture-postcard vista with a vivid sight of the airport, Jimbaran Bay and the magnificent silhouette of Mount Agung with the deep blue Indian Ocean spreading infinitely in the background.

Opens daily from 4pm till 1am, free-ofcharge entry is applied for everyone.

Since its opening in mid-2013, Jim’bar’N rooftop bar & lounge has offered a promise to “reintroduce a cool and different side of Bali” by blending in the magnificent view of tropical sunset with the captivating sparkles of city

lights in the evening from far below.

“After one-and-a-half year of ‘testing the water’, this newly-introduced concept of Jim’bar’N rooftop bar & lounge will be a must-try social hub for both local socialites and international tourists, offering topnotch services and amazing food and beverage to relish with your loved ones,” added Said Faisal, Event Sales & Entertainment Manager, “the idea is (also) to provide a place for everyone to enjoy the unforgettable Bali!”

Seated gracefully on the 6th floor (at

the top level) of HARRIS Hotel Bukit Jimbaran, the new redesign features a direct access to the rooftop from the hotel’s main lobby. Adjoining with live kitchen, the venue has also rearranged its seating area to suit your needs for intimate privacy.

In addition to the delightful atmosphere, Jim’bar’N also gives prominence to its wine cellar, showcasing a collection of illustrious house wines – namely: Dom Perignon, Louis Roderer, Penfolds, Bernard Magrez, Moet & Chandon Brut

Imperial and many more.

Jim’bar’N is also available for exclusive uses such as birthday, wedding, nightlife party, football NoBar and casual conference. The dedicated and seasoned entertainment team will be there to support any private function inquiries from both individual and corporate clients.

It features white canopies is also the perfect getaway for those seeking a peaceful place away from the crowded Kuta.

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DENPASAR - Various methods are used by drug traffickers to sell their illicit goods ranging from the method of trafficking to transportation processes.

The Division Head of Prevention and Community Empowerment of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Bali, Ketut Adi Lisdiani, appealed to people to be vigilant of drug trafficking.

She suggested strengthening each individual so that they are not easily persuaded by the seduction of illegal drugs. “Do not take anything that could cause harm, do not try things out of curiosity,” she said over the weekend.

She suggested purchasing food that have clear labels because homed foods could have unclear ingredients. If some substance seems popular, we should not be tempted to try it

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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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Angelina Jolie rips world powers on Syria’s refugee crisis

UNITED NATIONS — Actress Angelina Jolie pleaded with world powers Friday to help the millions of Syrian refugees, sharply criticizing the U.N. Security Council for being paralyzed by its division over Syria’s four-year conflict.

Jolie briefed the council as special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues. Syria’s ambassador said simply of her presence, “She’s beautiful.”

Jolie spoke during a full day of briefings on Syria that also included details of a new series of talks next month in Geneva aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis. The U.N. humanitarian chief made a powerful call for sanctions against those blocking the delivery of aid.

Nearly 4 million Syrians have fled the conflict into neighboring countries, which warn they are dangerously overstretched.

“We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent,” Jolie said.

Jolie, who said she has made 11 visits to Syrian refugees in the region since the crisis began in 2011, called strongly for the political will to act. She said the council’s powers lie unused because its members cannot agree on how to address the conflict.

Russia, a top Syria ally and backed by China, has vetoed multiple council resolutions on Syria, including an effort last year to refer the situation there to the International Criminal Court. British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, in his final council meeting, urged his colleagues to try again and said his “greatest regret” in his post was their collective failure to end the conflict.

Jolie said she would like to see the foreign minister of each of the 15 council members come to the table to negotiate a political solution. She also urged council members to visit Syrian refugees and see the crisis for

themselves.

In addition, Jolie spoke briefly about the rising migrant crisis on the Mediterranean, where more than 1,300 migrants fleeing Syria and other places have drowned at sea over the past three weeks. (ap)

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Adam Sandler movie sparks debate over Native American images

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — When a group of Native American actors walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie this week, their decision generated praise and scorn on social media.

But everyone agreed on one thing: Despite growing awareness, outdated Native American stereotypes in Hollywood remain. And more Native Americans are voicing their opinions.

This week, eight actors quit the production of the satirical Western “The Ridiculous Six” over complaints about offensive names and religious scenes. The actors said they couldn’t participate in a movie depicting a Native American woman urinating while smoking a peace pipe.

California writer Megan Red ShirtShaw, founder of Natives in America, an online publication for Native American youth, said the walkout generated praise from American Indian advocates because people were tired of the images and now have outlets to

express their outrage.

“In the past, Native actors did speak out but they didn’t have the technology to share their views widely,” Red Shirt-Shaw said. “It’s different now.”

On social media, activists used the hashtag #NotYourHollywoodIndian to denounce Sandler’s project and to thank the actors for their “bravery.”

Meanwhile, other Native Americans say more actors and writers are needed in media to battle hurtful images. They argued the actors should have stayed on set.

The Sandler film is set for a Netflix-only release, and the streaming service says it was designed to lampoon stereotypes popularized in Western movies.

A spokesman for Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison Productions, didn’t immediately return a phone message.

In recent years, Native Americans have been more outspoken. (ap)

Bruce Jenner comes out as transgender, says ‘I am a woman’

NEW YORK — In the 1970s, Bruce Jenner was a symbol of American masculinity as an Olympic champion. Nearly 40 years later, in an extraordinary television interview, Jenner told the world that he identifies as a woman and has felt gender confusion since he was a little boy growing up in the New York suburbs.

Jenner, a reality TV star and stepfather to Kim Kardashian, let his hair down — literally loosening

a ponytail and letting his hair flow past his shoulders — in a symbolic moment at the start of his two-hour interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that was televised Friday.

“Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”

He said his stepdaughter Kim has been a big supporter, urged on by her husband, rapper Kanye West.

“Your honesty has opened the doors for others to be courageous and live an authentic life!” Kardashian

tweeted.

For the transgender community, it was a moment as significant as comedian and TV host Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out as a lesbian was for gays nearly 20 years ago. DeGeneres tweeted support to Jenner, saying the former Olympian was “saving lives and opening minds.”

“My whole life has been getting me ready for this,” said Jenner, 65, known to a younger generation as the patriarch of television’s omni-

present Kardashian clan. “It’s not just the last few years as they’ve been treating me as a joke.”

Jenner said he self-identifies as “her,” not a specific name. But he told Sawyer he felt comfortable using the pronouns “he” and “him,” a designation that is an important issue for many in the transgender community, which believes that transgender people should be referred to by the pronouns with which they choose to identify.

Jenner said his “brain is more female than it is male.” He said he began gender reassignment therapy in the 1980s — taking hormones, having surgery to make his nose smaller and having hair removed from his face and chest — but gave it up. As Jenner got older, he realized that if he got sick and faced death without facing up to this issue, “I’d be so mad that I didn’t explore that side of my life.” (ap)

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Aftershocks cause more terror as Nepal quake toll tops 2,200

KATHMANDU - Powerful aftershocks rocked Nepal Sunday, panicking survivors of a quake cloud of snow and debris cascading that killed more than 2,200 and triggering fresh avalanches at Everest base camp, as rescuers onto base camp, burying scores of climbers and flattening tents. dug through rubble in the devastated capital Kathmandu.

Terrified residents, many forced to camp out in the capital after Saturday’s quake reduced buildings to rubble, were jolted by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock that compounded the worst disaster to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in more than 80 years.

At overstretched hospitals, where medics were also treating patients in hastily erected tents, staff were forced to flee from buildings for fear of further collapses.

“Electricity has been cut off, communication systems are con-

gested and hospital are crowded and are running out of room for storing dead bodies,” Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke told AFP. Climbers reported that the aftershock caused more avalanches at Mount Everest, just after helicopters airlifted to safety those injured when a wall of snow hit base camp on Saturday, killing at least 17 people.

The deadliest disaster in Everest’s history comes almost exactly a year after an avalanche

killed 16 sherpa guides, forcing the season to be cancelled, and as around 800 mountaineers were gathered at the start of the new season.

AFP’s Nepal bureau chief Ammu Kannampilly, who was on assignment at base camp, reported that six helicopters had managed to reach the mountain on Sunday after the weather improved overnight.

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known to have died in Nepal had risen to 2,152 while 4,629 people had been injured.

Officials in India said the toll there now stood at 57, while Chinese state media said 17 people had been killed in the Tibet region.

“We have deployed all our resources for search and rescues,” Bam told AFP. “Helicopters have been sent to remote areas. We are sifting through the rubble where buildings have collapsed to see if we can find anyone.”

The Red Cross said it was concerned about the fate of villages near the epicentre of the quake northwest of Kathmandu.

“People being stretchered out as choppers land -- half a dozen this morning,” Kannampilly said in a text message. “Weather clear, some snowfall.”

Offers of help poured in from around the world, with the United States and European Union announcing they were sending in disaster response teams.

India flew out its stranded citizens in military planes while a 62strong Chinese rescue team arrived with sniffer dogs.

National police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said the number

Earthquake in Nepal

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, the country’s worst in 81 years.

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EPICENTER Time: 1411 GMT Magnitude: 7.8 Depth: 15 km

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A Nepalese man walks through destruction caused by Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. A powerful, magnitude 6.7 aftershock shook the Kathmandu area of Nepal on Sunday, a day after the massive earthquake devastated the region and destroyed homes and infrastructure.

INDIA Source: USGS W. Foo, 25/04/2015

Biratnagar Muzaffarpur * Modified Mercalli intensity