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Big, mean and making the green: ‘Jurassic’ tops N. America box office

YouTube’s alliance with two powerhouse names in Hollywood comes as competition intensifies in an online streaming video market with players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Apple.

Google-owned YouTube’s subscription service Premium offers ad-free viewing of shared videos along with original content for $12 a month.

Original content has become a battlefront in online video, with Netflix and Amazon Prime spending billions of dollars on shows.

The YouTube series titled “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” will center on the US cult of unbridled entrepreneurship and a woman’s intense pursuit of the American Dream.

The series will be set in the 1990s, and is scheduled for release next year.

YouTube Premium, formerly named YouTube Red, had a hit with its first big original series, “Cobra Kai,” inspired by the “Karate Kid” martial arts underdog film from 1984.

The first episode of “Cobra Kai” has logged more than 40 million views since it was made available at YouTube on May 2 and a second season has been ordered.

Launched in late 2015, YouTube Premium includes an online streaming music service and is seen as part of a broader effort by Google-parent Alphabet to expand how it makes money beyond advertising revenue. (afp)

HOLLYWOOD - Huge, green and scary stomped on cute, young and funny this weekend as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” debuted at $148 million to dislodge “Incredibles 2” from the top spot at the North American box office, sales data showed Monday.

The dinosaur sequel -- executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the original two movies -- fell short of the then-record $208 million opening by the last “Jurassic” film in 2015, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Still, “Fallen Kingdom” has passed the $700 million mark worldwide -- despite tepid reviews like the suggestion by The New York Times that the film is little more than “a way for people with no other plans to grab some air conditioning.”

The movie stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard as they try to rescue genetically recreated dinosaurs from a volcanothreatened island and move them to -- why not? -- a sprawling California mansion. Sliding to second, Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” earned a respectable $80.3 million as North American theaters continued to recover from last summer’s downturn.

The film, about a quirky superhero family, raked in $182 million in its debut weekend, a record for an animated feature in the US and Canada, easily surpassing the $135 million debut of 2016’s “Finding Dory.”

The film tells the story of the Parr family -- centered this time on matriarch Helen (Holly Hunter) as she battles to help bring the world’s hiding superheroes back into the open.

Husband Bob (Craig T. Nelson) is left at home in charge of their frighteningly talented but scarily unpredictable kids, and finds the homemaker’s job more challenging than being a superhero.

In third spot was Warner Bros.’s heist movie “Ocean’s 8,” at $11.5 million. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - YouTube Premium has commissioned a dark comedy co-produced by George Clooney and Kirsten Dunst, who will also star in the series, according to a source familiar with the deal.

General atmosphere during the IMAX exclusive experience for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom at AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX on June 20, 2018 in New York City.

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Bali to Choose its New Governor

Denpasar (Bali Post) - If you come to Bali these days, you will be “welcomed” by a lot of campaign materials in different forms. Signs, banners, backdrops, flags, many of which in amazingly gigantic size as well as people wearing similar kind of clothes and accessories. The general election will be held on today. Bali will then have a new Governor to lead the provincial administration for the following 5 years. By Indonesian law, the current governor can not be nominated as he is now in his second period.

Running into the election are Rai Mantra, the current Mayor of Denpasar and Wayan Koster who is currently representing Bali in Indonesian national House of Representatives. Vice Governor candidate to Rai Mantra is the current Vice Governor Sudikerta. On the opposing front, candidate for Vice Governor to Wayan Koster comes from Ubud Royal Family who is also the current Regent of Gianyar, Cok Ace. At the same time, the Regency of Klungkung will also elect a new Regent. Bali and Klungkung are among 171 Indonesia province, cit-

ies, and regencies to have regional general election.

Whilst Balinese is known for friendly manner, tension gets warmer as each candidates are trying to mobilize their supporter to gain votes. Nevertheless, the authority are working intensively to have everything in check whilst the Police Department guarantees that Bali remains a save and friendly destination to visiting tourists. If you happen to come to Bali during this period, you will witness a significant event in Indonesian democracy.

Something that you may have

to be aware is that campaigns and rallies that involve vast number of people may affect the traffic. You may find them attractive event to see. Otherwise you may want to talk to your driver or guide to plan your trip so you are not trapped in traffic congestion. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Domestic visitors begin departing from Bali

DENPASAR - Domestic visitors, who spent the long 2018 Eid al-Fitr, or Lebaran holidays in Bali, have gradually begun departing from the Indonesian island resort.

Some of the holidaymakers were seen leaving on Monday evening from the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport for their respective home areas.

PT Angkasa Pura-I Public Relations Chief for Ngurah Rai Airport Arie Ahsanurrohim remarked here on Tuesday that the reverse flow of Lebaran holiday travelers from Bali will peak on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Ahsanurrohim noted that Wednesday is the last day of the long collective Lebaran holidays this year for holiday travelers to return to work on Thursday.

According to Ahsanurrohim, the surge was witnessed in the number of passengers on domestic flights departing from the Ngurah Rai Airport since Monday at the domestic departure terminal of the airport and is forecast to peak on Wednesday.

Integrated Command Post of Lebaran Transport Monitoring at the airport recorded that 19,627 domestic passengers had left Bali on Monday.

The number is greater than 18,764 domestic passengers, who arrived in Bali via the Ngurah Rai Airport.

Airlines had earlier begun operating 724 additional flights to handle the high number of domestic tourists vacationing in Bali. (ant)

Dozens of tourists enjoy free horse-drawn vehicle in Denpasar

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DENPASAR - Dozens of domestic tourists were enthusiastic to enjoy a free ride on an ornamental horse-drawn vehicle to explore several attractions in Denpasar City, Bali Province, during the 2018 Lebaran holidays.

“Now, several people throng this city to spend their Lebaran holidays,” Ketut Nedeng, one of the bus drivers, stated here on Saturday.

According to Nedeng, free horse cart programs, held every Saturday and Sunday, are more in demand among domestic tourists than those from foreign countries.

Every tourist, who will ride the free horse-drawn vehicle, must register and wait for the departure schedule in accordance with the order. Moreover, one is free to choose the

route to take around the city of Denpasar.

Visitors can enjoy several historical tours, such as to the Bali Museum, Pasar Badung area, and Catur Muka statue.

One of the tourists from Denpasar Gung Tu De expressed happiness on being able to ride the free horse cart along with his family.

He said it was unique to ride the free ornamental horsedrawn vehicle to enjoy Denpasar City.

Another tourist Luh Winda also echoed the same view when she rode the horse cart for traveling. “It feels different to ride the horse-drawn vehicle rather than use our own vehicle,” she added.

Hopefully, the free horse cart program would continue to be enjoyed by tourists, she stated. (ant)

Three traditional boats capsize due to bad weather

NEGARA - Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana on Sunday (Jun. 24) causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves. 50 year old I Wayan Wanda from Mekra Sari , Perancak suffered IDR 500,000 in losses from damage to his fibreglass boat, 58 year old fishermen Negah Narsa from Lemodang, Perancak lost three cedik , fishing gear and his outboard motor for an estimated IDR 10 million in losses while 50 year old Nengah Warsa from Tibu Kleneng Perancak also suffered damage to his boat values at about IDR 500,000.

The large waves struck the fishermen as they were returning to the mainland after looking for fish at sea. Strong winds caused their boats to capzied and other fishemrne then at sea contacted local security forces.

The quick response team from the Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Jembrana deployed 4 personnel and ambulances to the scene to rescue the victims.

The fishermen were successfully evacuated and their were no casualties.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, Ketut Eko Susila Permana, confirmed that there were no casualties and that the fishermen had only suffered material losses. “The weather was bad with very strong winds. We hope fishermen will be careful. Boat captains and harbour officials should also remain vigilant”, he said.

Data from the National Weather Service (BMKG) indicated that weather situation was generally cloudy in the north of the Bali Strait and light rain in the southern waters, the average wind blew from the East - Southeast direction with a speed of 2 - 20 knots. High waves in the northern waters ranged from 0.25 to 1.25 meters and in the Southern waters ranged from 0.25 to 3.5 meters. (120)

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Meet Like a Local - Unique, Bali-style events at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali.

Combine business with pleasure on the beautiful island of Bali. Just 20 minutes from the international airport, the luxury beachfront resort The Ritz-Carlton, Bali makes an inspired choice for your next conference or business event in Bali. With an exciting range of meeting offers and optional add-ons, the experienced organizers at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will bring your event to life while granting a unique glimpse into life on the beautiful island of Bali. Local traditions inspire meeting offerings, and the catering team has created Balinese-styled coffee breaks and lunch menus that include Fruit Market Break, Balinese Sweet Market and Balinese Warung Lunch. Beachfront

Balinese-themed dinners can also be arranged that showcase local specialities, from spicy bebek betutu to fragrant sate lilit, while Balinese music and dance performances provide wonderful entertainement.

Unique team building activities are a specialty and you will feel like a local when you host your next meeting at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali. The resort’s pristine white sand beach is ideal for fun Indonesian and Balinese games, and low impact beach games like sack races, tug of war or marble and spoon races. Inspiring Balinese cooking classes take place in the atmospheric Culinary Cave and include a visit to a local market.

On the wellness front, Sunrise Yoga sessions balance mind, body and spirit while ritualistic Soul

Purification Ceremonies cleanse the spirit.

“The Ritz Carlton, Bali offers award-winning indoor and outdoor venues and the ultimate in corporate event spaces, while at the same time providing a fully immersive Balinese cultural experience that thrills its guests and ensures the most interesting and successful events,” says General Manager Karim Tayach.

For those who wish to venture further afield, the Ladies and Gentleman of The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will be happy to tailor make land tours that take in the incredible sites of the island, from steeply terraced rice fields, to towering volcanoes and ornamental Hindu temples. Cultural visits to museums and traditional dance performances can also be included.

Elegant and highly contemporary, the resort provides a superb cliff-top conference venue with well-appointed meeting rooms, state-of-the-art facilities, vast array of outdoor venues and extravagant spaces, as well as superb accommodation options. Over 800 square meters of conducive business areas are available, including an elegant ballroom – complete with four breakout rooms, wraparound terrace and an abundance of space and light to deliver the ambience of the tropics backed by full technological support.

No matter how large or small your next event is, the luxury meeting rooms, fabulous event spaces and inspiring range of Balinese-based activities at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will ensure it is a resounding success.

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Fireproof robot can map burning building and predict explosions

IN a development welcomed by firefighters, a group of European researchers has developed a robot that can enter blazing buildings to map the terrain and gauge the risk of explosions.

The “SmokeBot”, still in development, is designed to go where it is unsafe for humans, equipped with gas sensors, radar, a laser scanner and a thermal camera, relaying data in real time back to an operative.

“At present, there is no robot with this combination of features,” said computer science professor Achim Lilienthal, of Sweden’s Örebro University, who is leading the project.

As well as “seeing” without using the visible light spectrum, the bot can analyse the air around it and give a percentage breakdown of the gases present to assess the risk of explosion.

Data collected by the bot are sent to a human operator over an internet connection. Should the robot lose its connection, it will automatically make its way back to the last location at which it could access the internet.

Sylvia Pratzler-Wanczura, a fire and rescue researcher with the Dortmund fire department, said the robot offered a “considerable advantage” in situations where it was too risky to send in rescue personnel or when rescuers had to search through large areas, as is the case with forest fires.

However, she added that its data processing capacity needed to be increased. “At this time, it takes about 15-30 minutes for the robot to collect data on the accident location, which means that it cannot yet be used in the most urgent of rescue efforts.”

The project to develop the robot has received €3.5m in EU funds and is now in its fourth year.

Other partners in the research besides are the Leibniz University of Hannover, The University of Warwick, the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques in IBP/net Wachtberg, the Taurob manufacturing company, The “SmokeBot”, still in development, is designed to go where it is unsafe for humans, equipped with gas sensors, which is based in Vienna, and the Fire Departradar, a laser scanner and a thermal camera, relaying data in real time back to an operative. ment of Dortmund. (net)

Eindhoven to print five boulder-shaped homes in park

THE Netherlands is about to begin another ground-breaking project in the world of additive construction with a Flintstone-like cluster of five printed concrete houses, earmarked for the city of Eindhoven.

Holland is already leading the way in printed bridges, and now it hopes to challenge for leadership in printed homes – the front runner here being France, which successfully printed a five-room dwelling in Nantes earlier this year.

Called “Milestone”, the scheme will develop over five years, and the project team hope to make the process slicker as it gets the measure of the practical difficulties involved.

Van Wijnen is the contractor,

and the design was by Houben/Van Mierlo architects.

The property side is being handled by Vesteda, with Saint GobainWeber Beamix looking after the concrete, and Witteveen + Bos as the engineer. The project is being overseen by the city council and the Technical University of Eindhoven, which has previously worked on 3D -printed bridges.

Thanks to a research group that has formed around Professor Theo Salet, and the university’s concrete printer, TU Eindhoven has become a centre of 3D printing.

A park, the Groenplaats Bosrijk in Eindhoven, will be the setting for the houses, which are meant to resemble boulders deposited by a retreating ice sheet.

From a design point of view their irregular shape is one of the advantages of printing, which can be used to construct “almost any shape”, the university said.

Van Wijnen comments on its website: “The houses will be printed one after the other, which means that each can benefit from what was learned on the previous, and can be adapted directly to the wishes of the residents. For example, the first house will be a single-storey structure printed off-site. The ambition is to print the fifth home on location as three layers.

“We see Milestone not as an experiment, but as a pioneering innovation that will cause a stir in the construction sector.” (net)

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Holland is already leading the way in printed bridges, and now it hopes to challenge for leadership in printed homes.

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Tribuana port at Kusamba

Used to look beautiful with many salt farming working away in the sun

TRIBUANA port in Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung, one of the port from which visitors can reach Nusa Penida Island has changed a lot over the years.

This port is now crowded with local and foreign visitors waiting for their boat to so they can go to Nusa Penida Island. The passenger lounge is often crowdedespecially on holidays, so many sit on the beach instead.

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This port is now crowded with local and foreign visitors waiting for their boat to so they can go to Nusa Penida Island.

The parking area is also full and passengers seek shelter in any shade they can find. Although the boat operators are sometimes overwhelmed, they certainly welcome the business.

Such scenes only started to become commonplace in the early 2000’s. According to 71 year old local residents Ni Wayan Kari, in the 1970”s and 80”s the port was very small and the black sandy beach was covered in salt drying platforms made out of coconut trees, neatly arranged from East to West. “The beach used to look beautiful with salt drying platforms lining the beach from Pesinggahan village to the west”, she recalled recently.

Thatched-roofed huts with bamboo walls were also part of the scenery, but as the price of salt slowly dropped, the happy smiles of the salt farmers turned to wistful ones. Enthusiasm for salt farming shrivelled with time and now there are very few people pouring sea water onto the flattened sand. “Many salt farmers have stopped this activity. There are only three of us left”, she said.

This white-haired woman chooses to keep going because she owns the land she works on and her son who works in Denpasar often comes to help out. “Otherwise I would have given up like the others”, she said.

This work that she inherited from her parents requires patients and in recent years she has been encouraged by rising salt prices – now in the range of IDR 15,000-20,00 per kilo depending on the quality. Also the new port provides hope for a boost in sales. “Sometimes people will buy slat for their family here”, said Keri.

The local government has also started paying attention to supporting the salt famers by proving sea water pumps so Kari no longer has to haul the water up herself. Dewa Nyoman Suyasa who used to work as a fishermen now works at the port loading ladders onto the boats. “Yes I remember there used to be a lot of salt farmers here, back when the port was still small”, he recollected. (sos)

Semara Wijaya art studio in BAF

Angantelu style Rejang Renteng

DENPASAR — Semara Wijaya Art Studio was entrusted to create a performance for the 40th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in the form of dance and contemporary gamelan music presented on the Ayodya stage of the Denpasar Art Center on Sunday afternoon (Jun. 24). The art studio was actually founded only a year ago, but quickly amassed some 200 members. In the future, they would like to work on the Rejang dance style that is typical of Angatelu village, Karangasem as this is where the dance studio is based (Antiga Kelod village, Manggis to be precise).

Head of the art studio, I Gede Bawa Setiawan,, said that there is a lot of enthusiasm for dance and gamelan music amongst the people of Angantelu but there was nowhere to practice until the Semeara WIjaya Art Studio was

established in 2017.

“The children are particularly enthusiastic but their parents also support us in the studio. Without them we are nothing. We will work together to preserve our culture”, said Setiawan.

Everyday the studio holds dance, gamelan and pesantian (Psalmody chanting) practice at the studio and also explore specifically local culture and wisdom including the Angatelu style of Rejang that is different than other regions.

“Actually we frequently perform in the village temple as a form of devotional work, but only in the traditional style. It is not easy to explore this tradition as here is no template”, he added.

The Rejang of Angantelu, added Setiawan has its own unique characteristics. For one the dancers wear rice husks around their waist.

According to the pangeling-eling local village palm-leaf manuscript it says that the dancer in the rear would disappeared – prayed on by the manifestation of a black tiger. “So the dancers wear husks that will leave a trail behind them is case they disappear. Also the dancers carry a twisted thread with 200 perforated coins in the front and bananas in the read. It is is danced in a sequence so it is called Rejang Renteng (in a series),”, he explained.

IN this year’s BAD, the Semara Wijaya Art Studio is presenting a contemporary samara pegulingan gamelan composition entitled Pandan Harum, the Dharma Putri dance, the Gajah Mada hard mask dance, a contemporary semara pegulingan

by Surya Kumara, Kembang Menuh contemporary dance and a Jauk Durga Manis dance. (kmb32)

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Semara Wijaya Art Studio was entrusted to create a performance for the 40th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in the form of dance and contemporary gamelan music.

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Bali Life Studio expands the field of possibilities

UBUD has become known for its many yoga studios and dance classes and Bali more broadly is known for its unique culture that is rooted in ancestral practices yet ever expanding as it integrates influences from other parts of Indonesia and the world. Bali Life Studio incorporates these two features of Bali by offering dance, martial arts, yoga, breath-work and healing classes, workshops and events based on local wisdom, reflecting this ability that Balinese culture has to maintain its integrity while absorbing new forms.

and Sufi Whirling dance from the Middle East, all of their instructors are from Bali and other parts of Indonesia and bring with them a uniquely Indonesia perspective to their approach. This Indonesian approach is based on harmony, beauty and togetherness as guiding principles that inform how they share their experience and knowledge.

They also offer distinctly Indonesian classes including their ‘Graceful Warrior -Kalimantan dance’, ‘Embodying Beauty –Balinese Legong dance’, ‘Communication and Leadership- Kecak Dance’ as well as their popular ‘Nusantara Healing Workshop’, that uses traditional Indonesia musical instruments to transmit healing vibrations and more.

As one of Bali Life Studio’s instructors Coki explained: “I studied dance in university but I also studied many things about my Kalimantan Dayak culture from my elders. In Bali, I learned that there is a way to transmit this valuable wisdom to the younger generation of Dayak in a way that can be applied to this technological era. I love sharing about my culture with anyone who is interested and Bali Life Studio allows me to do this in a way I can feel good about”.

“It is hard to define what the common thread that informs the many and diverse cultures of Indonesia is but I feel that the national motto

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specific events, places and themes. Their 8 Directions of the Wind dance, martial arts and spoken word performance based on Balinese spiritual wisdom was staged at Indigenous Celebration at Arma Museum last month and adapted to a consciousness festival in Canggu a few weeks later, and will be further adapted to the particular context of a private event at Bamboo Indah at end of June. They are currently working on a performance about coffee farmers.

Bali Life Studio located in the mystical village of Petulu just minute from downtown Ubud, will be officially opening in early July but are also holding a Full Moon Whirling Dance even on June 28th with live music by Cosmic Ornament. (kmb)

Ministry ready to add funds to hold festival

TABANAN - The Ulundanu Art Festival IV received direct appreciation from the Ministry of Tourism as example of an inclusive festival as it involves all stakeholders. Deputy Marketing Develop-

ment Division I of the Ministry of Tourism, I Gede Pitana representing the Minister of Tourism assured that his ministry is ready to provide additional funding for next year’s festival.

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The Ulundanu Art Festival IV received direct appreciation from the Ministry of Tourism as example of an inclusive festival as it involves all stakeholders.

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced growing outrage on Tuesday in his largely Catholic nation after calling God “stupid”, the latest furore he has sparked with an unfiltered broadside.

Bali Life Studio sharing Indonesian wisdom through breath and movement in Petulu.

“Binneka Tungal Ika” or unity in diversity reflects this shared awareness of the love that that is at the basis of life itself. What unifies all beings in the world is our connection to welasasih or loving-kindness. It is from love that all things come and to which all things return and love that supports life -but this love can take endless forms. For me, breath and movement are an easy way to connect to this love within ourselves, to strengthen our awareness of it and share it with others”, explained founder of Bali Life Studio, dancer and dance anthropologist Tebo Aumbara.

Along with their ongoing classes, weekly workshops and monthly events, all of Bali Life Studio’s instructors are also actively engaged in creating performances staged for

“Responding to the challenges expressed by local leader (regent of Tabanan—Ed) in obtaining continuous support form the central government for tourism promotion activities, The Ministry of Tourism is ready to double the budget”, said Pitana during the official opening Ulundanu Art Festival IV on Sunday (Jun. 24).

The festival’s opening ceremony was also attended by Deputy of Production and Marketing of SMEs representing the Minister of Cooperatives, Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, Head of the Bali Tourism Office representing governor of Bali, Central House of Representatives I Made Urip, Regional Representative Council (DPD), IGN Arya Wedakarna, Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives and a number of other officials.

Pitana added that the district of Tabanan district has excellent tourism resources based on nature,

culture and a variety of creative community activities. Moreover, the potential of the tourism market is currently growing rapidly, so it is appropriate for the district of Tabanan to prioritize the regional development of this sector.

As an official from the subdistrict of Baturiti, Pitana said that Tabanan is also very strong in environmental and cultural preservation. “There is a prevailing view that the more nature and culture are preserved the more tourism can help the community prosper”, he added.

Similarly, he said the Lake Beratan Festival is an iconic tourism event that draws visitors to the area. Furthermore this festival has helped motivate local residents to get involved in creating tourism businesses based on local arts, the preservation of culture as basic capital for building tourism. Some have criticized the festival as a

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Outrage after Philippines’ Duterte calls God ‘stupid’

Ancient wisdom practices in the technological era

Although Bali has been particularly successful at maintaining its core values and the forms in which these are expressed, this ability is also at the basis of Indonesian culture more broadly speaking. Indonesia has a staggering wealth of cultural heritage customs and practices that take form in innumerable visual and performing arts, making this island nation the richest country in the world in terms of diversity of art forms.

This wealth is not limited to visual forms however. In fact these forms are only the physical manifestations of an even richer heritage of wisdom knowledge and understanding about how to live a happy and fulfilling life as a human being, how to have a healthy relationship with our physical and social environment and how to strengthen our connection with the divine source of all things.

It is this wisdom heritage that inspired the creation of Bali Life Studio. Drawing on ancient practices from Indonesia and beyond, this studio like no other seeks to share methods for developing our loving nature as human beings though breath and movement.

Although many of their classes, workshops and events include practices from elsewhere – such as Ju-Jitsu from Brazil, Kundalini healing techniques from India

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waste of money however Pitana stressed that this is an investment – away to introduce the area as a tourist destination that will ultimately support the welfare of local residents.

“We must not stop with at the holding of the festival itself but do pre-and post festival activity including setting a specific date for this festival every year so that it can be included in the national calendar of events”, he concluded.

Related to the promise made by the ministry, Operations Manager of Ulundanu Attraction, I Wayan Mustika, said his management very much welcomes this event adding that if they are provided with additional budget they plan to extend the festival to include many activities including some on the lake itself”, said Mustika. (kmb28)

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Peak Japan: Hello Kitty bullet train debuts this week

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Duterte took aim at the biblical creation story during a speech, raising the question of why God would create Adam and Eve and then expose them to temptation.

Original Sin is something Christian theologians have struggled to explain for two millennia. Duterte opted for characteristically colourful language as he broached this thorny catechism.

“Who is this stupid God?” the Philippine leader asked on Friday. “You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work.”

Leaders of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, which counts some 80 percent of the nation’s more than 100 million people as believers, have condemned the statement.

“How can he be a President for all Filipinos if he does not have respect for the Catholic faithful?”, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David wrote on Facebook.

The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches joined in the denunciation on Tuesday, saying it is “completely inappropriate for our nation’s president to derisively curse at the God of the Christian faith who is deeply worshipped... by a majority of Filipinos.”

Duterte defended his comments in a speech on Monday, but on Tuesday his spokesman announced the president had formed a three-person committee for “dialogue” with religious groups about his comments.

“The theme will be how to lessen the rift between the government and Church,” Harry Roque, told reporters.

Duterte has locked horns repeatedly with the nation’s historically powerful Catholic Church, especially over its criticism of his deadly narcotics crackdown that has killed thousands. He has also repeatedly used speeches to attack Australian nun Patricia Fox, who faces deportation proceedings over allegations she violated the terms of her visa by engaging in human rights activism.

Watchdogs have voiced concerns that the drug war killings have encouraged an environment of impunity in the Philippines that has spilled over into areas unrelated to narcotics.

Three priests have been slain since December, including one who was shot dead inside his church as he prepared to hold a mass.

Those killings sparked debate over whether clergymen should be armed for their own protection, a proposal the Church pushed back against.

The furore surrounding Duterte’s comments on God follows a string of foul-mouthed insults against world leaders and institutions since he came to power two years ago.

He called then US president Barack Obama a “son of a whore” and levelled a similar insult at Pope Francis, while branding the European Union “stupid” over its criticism of his drug war. (afp)

TOKYO - Resplendent in shocking pink, a sleek “Hello Kitty” bullet train, complete with special carriages festooned with images of the global icon from Japan, has been unveiled before it chugs into service this week.

The special shinkansen or bullet train will run for the next three months between the western cities of Osaka and Fukuoka from Saturday, the West Japan Railway firm said, hoping that one of the country’s most famous exports will boost tourism.

Passengers will be in left in no doubt what train they are on, with Hello Kitty smiling down from the shades of every window and adorning every passenger seat cover.

One car will feature a “life-sized Hello Kitty doll” -- the character is “five apples” tall, according to creator Sanrio -- so fans can take selfies, a West Japan Railway spokesman told AFP. Another car will have no passenger seats but offer regional specialities, including a selection of goods and foods, in a bid to boost the local economy and tourism.

Handout / West Japan Railway / AFP Hello Kitty, the mouthless character, has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry since Sanrio introduced it in 1974. It This handout picture taken on June 25, 2018 and released by West Japan Railway on June 26, 2018 adorns everything from pencil cases and pyjamas to double- shows a Shinkansen train adorned with special livery bearing popular character Hello Kitty, at the decker buses and airliners. (afp) Hakata car maintenance centre in Fukuoka prefecture

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Mnuchin rebuts reports on new China investment restrictions

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday denounced media reports detailing plans to impose restrictions on Chinese investment in US companies and on tech exports to China. The reports were widely cited Monday as helping to spark a global stocks selloff, with investors increasingly gloomy about the prospects of de-escalation in the emerging US-China trade war.

The White House in late May announced plans to impose steep tariffs on Chinese goods, and follow up by June 30 with “specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls for Chinese persons and entities related to the acquisition of industrially significant technology.”

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News cited several sources saying the heightened US scrutiny of Chinese investment would fall under emergency national security powers.

The law in question, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, allows the president to regulate trade in response to foreign threats and has frequently been used to respond to armed conflict, weapons and narcotics trafficking and political instability.

The Wall Street Journal also said the investment restrictions would apply to companies with 25 percent Chinese ownership.

But Mnuchin said Monday the news reports were “false, fake news.”

“The leaker either doesn’t exist or know the subject very well,” he said on Twitter.

“Statement will be out not specific to China but to all countries that are trying to steal our technology,” Mnuchin said, even though that seems to contradict the White House statement issued May 29.

- Continued escalation US officials accuse China of using cybertheft and forced transfers to steal the “crown jewels” of American innovation, allowing

Natural Hot Springs at Angseri Village

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In this handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah II (R) in Washington DC, on June 22, 2018. their own industries to advance unfairly.

Beijing on Monday said Chinese investment has created jobs and increased tax revenue in the US. “China-US trade, investment and cooperation are mutually beneficial in nature,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at press conference.

“We hope the US can view Chinese companies’ commercial activities in an objective way, and provide a fair, sound and predictable investment environment,” Geng said.

The White House this month pressed ahead with plans to impose up to $50 billion on Chinese goods starting July 6.

The goods targeted are those US officials say are tied to Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” industrial development plan to achieve global dominance in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, aeronautics and new-energy vehicles.

After Beijing announced it would retaliate, Trump threatened another $200 billion in Chinese goods that could be subject to

fresh tariffs and said this could rise by $200 billion if China responded further.

China, also affected by US steel tariffs, has denounced Trump’s approach as “extreme pressure and blackmail,” warning it would “take strong, powerful countermeasures” if the president enacts his threats.

The tensions, which for weeks have struck fear into the hearts of global investors, add to those sparked by the trade dispute between the United States and the European Union. (afp)

Tokyo stocks inch higher on bargain-hunting

Tokyo stocks edged up at the close Tuesday as bargain-hunting purchases wiped out earlier losses caused by worries over US-China trade frictions. After a session spent mainly in the red, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index gained 0.02 percent or 3.85 points to 22,342.00, while the broader Topix index was up 0.16 percent or 2.80 points at 1,731.07.

Tokyo stocks had opened lower after global stocks sold off sharply on Monday with investors fretting about a ballooning trade war amid reports President Donald Trump plans new curbs on Chinese investment in the United States.

Later Tuesday, “bargain-hunting purchases were surpassing”, partly helped by a stable dollar-yen exchange rate, said Okasan Online

Securities’ strategist Yoshihiro Ito. The dollar was trading at 109.58 yen against 109.77 yen in New York Monday afternoon.

Utilities were higher, with Tokyo Electric gaining 2.16 percent to 520 yen and Chubu Electric rallying 2.33 percent to 1,686 yen.

Nippon Yusen closed up 1.32 percent at 2,218 yen after reports said one of Japan’s royal family

members will get engaged to an employee of the company, while its rival Mitsui O.S.K. Lines rose 2.38 percent to 2,705 yen.

Fujifilm fell 0.66 percent to 4,194 yen after Xerox’s new chief executive said it was preparing to sell products directly in the AsiaPacific region.

The Japanese firm sued Xerox, seeking more than $1 billion in

damages for scrapping a takeover bid but Xerox denounced the action as “nothing more than a desperate and misguided negotiating ploy to save their takeover attempt”.

SoftBank dropped 2.45 percent to 7,997 yen after the Nikkei business daily reported the group is seeking to list its mobile unit on the Tokyo bourse as early as this year. (afp)

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Pamper Visitors with Open and Closed Pools

Tabanan district now has another alternative in terms of natural hot spring pools. This tourist attraction is not only found at Penatahan village, but also at Angseri village, Baturiti, Tabanan. It is located about 200 meters to the west of Puncak Tinggah Temple. Currently, this natural hot spring is more crowded with visitors.

The arrangement is very neat and beautiful. Aside from being pampered with two outdoor pools, visitors are also offered with ten closed hot spring pool attractions.

The open pools on the north side look very natural because it comes into direct contact with the river against the background of the waterfall. Some supporting facilities are also available. There are some stalls selling drinks and snacks.

Similarly, there is a food stall with scenic backdrop.

Chief of Angseri Hot Spring Attraction, I Wayan Sukada, said that Angseri village has some natural hot spring points spreading over the private land of the local village.

Of the many hot springs owned by Angseri village, so far only one point has been managed since 2006.

Sukada revealed the hot springs managed by the tourism group was previously handled by local village since 1995. Previously, the

management had been dormant to totally get terminated.

Seeing the potential of the abandoned nature, he and some Angseri villagers in 2006 through a meeting with figures and various components of local village then formed a tourism group. One of them is managing the hot springs currently always crowded with visitors.

Sukada said the hot spring also has health benefits, especially for skin health. Moreover, a number of visitors come specifically for such medicinal purposes. Indeed, the management itself provides a closed pool specifically used by visitors with the purpose of treatment. By and large, the coming visitors also bring along ritual paraphernalia pursuant to their affordability.

In addition to domestic tourists, Angseri hot spring tourist attraction is also often visited by foreign tourists. They are mostly from Europe.

“Usually a busy visit happens during Galungan holidays, New Year and other holidays,” he said.

Furthermore, Sukada said the Angseri village tourism group is not willing to stand by relying solely on natural hot springs. Together with the members, the group is targeting some other tourism potential owned by Angseri Village.

Sukada hoped that with more and more tourism potentials to be exploited at Angseri village, they will create more job opportunities for local people. Currently, with the natural hot spring management, it has been able to provide employment for local residents. “As the native residents to Angseri village, we are proud when we realize to have a lot of potential, especially in the tourism sector, as more natural potential can be managed. They will be able to create more job opportunities for our citizens,” he concluded. (kmb)

Hundreds of residents participated in the mapeed tradition held in a series of pujawali (temple anniversary) at Dalem Gede Temple of Sukawati on Anggara Kliwon Tambir. Aside from being a sacred activity, the tradition adorning every anniversary of trinity temples of Sukawati village is also held by maintaining Balinese customary fashion with the typical style of Sukawati village.

Hundreds of male and female residents walked in pair and dressed in Balinese makeup and fashion ranging from children, teenagers, housewives coalesced into PKK group to the elderly. They were enthusiastic to walk from Dalem Temple to Beji Cengcengan Temple of Sukawati village bordered with Guwang village.

Sacred value of this tradition lies in the purpose of mepeed namely picking up holy water at Taman Beji Temple. Furthermore, this holy water will be used for ritual in the temple anniversary that lasted for four days). “So during the pujawali, the mapeed procession is held every day in the afternoon,” said Chief of Sukawati customary village, I Nyoman Suwantha.

Like the mepeed procession elsewhere, at Sukawati village it began with rows of lolentakan, umbrella, pasepan and other ritual paraphernalia, while male or female residents in Balinese makeup and fashion were in the middle. In the

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rear, the participants of the mapeed were accompanied with baleganjur gamelan orchestra.

Different hamlets were involved in the four-day mapeed tradition. At Sukawati, there is a term known as krama penyatusan. “We have 12 hamlets which coalesced into 4 satusan (group), where on the first day was the turn of Tebuana, then Palak on the second day, Telabah on the third day and Gelumpang on the last day,” he explained.

Chief of customary village, I Nyoman Suwantha, affirmed that mepeed on every temple anniversary must always be held. In addition to maintaining the tradition, it also serves as cultural preservation.

He also always reminded his residents to maintain the makeup and fashion having become the typical styles of Sukawati. One is them is the use of rear kancut for adult women. “Balinese makeup and fashion style indeed have dynamic nature. In the past, they were dominated by modified style, but now we gradually start to improve,” he explained.

He also involved specifically the association of customary village apparatus spouse to provide coaching for residents that would participate in the mapeed. They were asked to promote Balinese makeup and fashion with the simple style of Sukawati. “So, in terms of cost, it is affordable to all levels of society,” he added. (kmb)

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Argentina paralyzed by anti-IMF deal strike

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina ground to a halt Monday as public service unions blocked road, rail and air transport with a nationwide 24-hour strike in protest at the government’s latest deal with the International Monetary Fund.

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People watch the World Cup football match between Egypt and Saudi Arabia at a bar in Retiro bus station in Buenos Aires on June 25, 2018, during a 24-hour general strike called by Argentina’s unions in protest of the government’s deal with the International Monetary Fund.

In a massive show of force against the center-right government of President Mauricio Macri, organizers said at least one million workers were taking part in the industrial action which halted trains, subways, buses and flights in Latin America’s third-largest economy.

“The strike had a very high level of compliance throughout the country,” Juan Carlos Schmid, leader of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT), told a news conference.

Banks and schools remained shut and Buenos Aires slowly emptied of traffic as the day progressed.

“These stoppages don’t help at all, they don’t add anything, and I don’t think that there has been a government in decades that cared as much about employment and the workers and creating new opportunities,” said Macri, a former mayor of the capital.

Although the CGT called only for a strike, more radical groups organized demonstrations that cut off access to Buenos Aires.

From 7:00 am (1000 GMT), activists began to close off the main routes into the capital where hundreds of federal law enforcement personnel were deployed.

“The strike is against the economic program ... The IMF has always brought hardship to the Argentines,” Schmid told AFP earlier, calling the strike “the biggest in eight years.”

The unions are demanding that salary negotiations for this year be reopened in order to align them with projected inflation, calculated at 27 percent by the central bank and which could rise to 30 percent by year’s end.

Negotiations mostly took place at the start of the year, when the annual inflation target was 15 percent -- a goal which had been abandoned by May. In the interest of maintaining dialogue with the unions, labor minister Jorge Triaca said his office was in favor of such negotiations. (afp)

Spain’s first Franco-era ‘stolen babies’ trial begins

MADRID - An 85-year-old Spanish doctor will appear in a Madrid court on Tuesday, the first person to go on trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era.

In a dark and often overlooked chapter of General Francisco Franco’s 1939-75 dictatorship, the newborns of some left-wing opponents of the regime, or unmarried or poor couples, were removed from their mothers and adopted.

New mothers were frequently told their babies had died suddenly

within hours of birth and the hospital had taken care of their burials when in fact they were given or sold to another family.

The practice began after Franco came to power after Spain’s 193639 civil war pitting left-wing Republicans against conservative Nationalists loyal to the general who was seeking to purge Spain of Marxist influence.

Beginning in the 1950s it was expanded to remove new newborns from poor families as well as illegitimate babies.

The guiding principle was

that the child would be better off raised by an affluent, conservative and devout Roman Catholic family.

The system -- which allegedly involved a vast network of doctors, nurses, nuns and priests -- outlived Franco’s death in 1975 and carried on as an illegal baby trafficking network until 1987 when a new law regulating adoption was introduced.

Campaigners estimate tens of thousands of babies may have been stolen from their parents over the decades. (afp)

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Demonstrators holding baby dolls and placards reading “Human rights for stolen babies” outside a provincial court in Madrid, on June 26, 2018 on the first day of the first trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era.

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Three killed in fresh Papua violence: Indonesia authorities

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Three people were killed by Papuan rebels on Monday, Indonesian authorities said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region ahead of regional elections.

The separatists fired on a small plane carrying 15 police officers -- travelling to oversee the polls -- just after it landed at Nduga in the centre of the province, Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi said.

The plane’s pilot was injured in the attack, he added.

Several rebels then killed a trio of street vendors as they fled the scene, Aidi said. “As they were fleeing, they shot and attacked vendors near the airport,” he said.

“Three of them were shot dead while another was seriously injured.” A Papua police spokesman said authorities were looking for the shooters. The incident comes days after a pilot on another plane was shot and injured at the same airport.

Indonesia holds regional elections on Wednesday that are

seen as a bellwether for the 2019 presidential polls.

Papua, on the western half of New Guinea island, has been the scene of a simmering insurgency since it was annexed by Indonesia in the late 1960s. US-based firm Freeport McMoRan’s gold and copper mine has been a frequent flashpoint in the struggle for independence and a bigger share of the region’s rich resources.

In April, an Indonesian soldier and at least one separatist rebel were killed near the huge mine. (afp)

50 monkeys rescued from street masked monkey show BEKASI - The Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) has rescued at least 50 monkeys from persons running the “topeng monyet,” local term for masked monkey show, in several regions of Indonesia`s West Java Province.

“As of June 2018, we have rescued 50 monkeys through a joint program, called Stop Topeng Monyet, with the West Java Provincial Administration,” Coordinator of Wildlife Trade Confiscations of JAAN Wildlife Division, Zai, said here on Monday.

The long-tailed macaques were rescued from several districts, such as Bandung, Cirebon, Tasikmalaya, Bogor, and Bekasi.

JAAN revealed that the longtailed macaques are extremely popular in Indonesia as they are

used as dancing monkeys. They are called Topeng Monyet in Indonesian language.

Having conducted observations during the Stop Topeng Monyet program, JAAN and the local administration of West Java have set a target to rescue 500 animals from street masked monkey shows in the region.

They revealed that Bekasi District has the most Topeng Monyet shows than the other regions in West Java.

“We found out that these monkeys were brought from Tasikmalaya. We have data showing that there are 500 families that train monkeys for Topeng Monyet shows there,” Zai revealed.

The rescued monkeys will undergo rehabilitation and treatment for three years before being

released to the Tilu Mountain of Soreang, Bandung, West Java.

They will be divided into four groups, each consisting of 15 monkeys.

JAAN`s program in rescuing long-tailed macaques from being exploited as performers in the Topeng Monyet show is in line with the instruction of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to protect wild animals.

“Wild animals are better in the forest,” Zai stated. JAAN is a non-governmental and non-profit organization dedicated to improve the lives of Indonesia`s animals.

JAAN has for years been at the forefront of the campaign against illegal trade of endangered and rare animals, wildlife conservation, and animal adoption. (ant)

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Rockets ace Harden crowned NBA MVP

LOS ANGELES - Houston star James Harden was crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for 2018 on Monday, taking home the honour despite a disappointing end to the season which saw the Rockets beaten in the NBA Finals.

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The 28-year-old Rockets guard beat out competition from Cleveland Cavaliers icon LeBron James and the New Orleans Pelicans’ Anthony Davis.

Harden’s award came after a season which saw him average more than 30 points per game, with 5.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists.

Although Houston finished the regular season on top of the Western Conference, they were beaten 4-3 in the playoffs by the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors would go on to beat Cleveland 4-0 in the finals.

Although the Warriors clinched their third title in four seasons this season, they were largely ignored in the main end-of-season awards categories at Monday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons was named Rookie of the Year ahead of Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Boston’s Jayson Tatum.

Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz won Defensive Player of the Year, edging out New Orleans’ Davis and the Sixers Joel Embiid.

Meanwhile Coach of the Year honours went to Dwane Casey, who was fired by the Toronto Raptors after they were swept by Cleveland in the second round of the playoffs.

Casey’s honour came despite a successful regular season which saw the Raptors finish with a franchise-record 59 wins.

Widely admired across the league, Casey was snapped up

by Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores, roughly one month after being sacked by Toronto.

“When you get fired, which I did recently, you always doubt yourself a little bit, you think ‘Okay, can I do this? Do I want to do this again?’” Casey said.

Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images/AFP “Then I interviewed with (Pistons owner) Tom Gores. We James Harden, winner of the 2017-2018 MVP award, poses with his mom Monja Willis in the back- connected, he’s given me an opportunity. All you want as a coach stage photo room during the 2018 NBA Awards at Barker Hangar on June 25, 2018 in Santa Monica, or as a player is an owner that believes in you and trusts you with his franchise. (afp) California.

Federer eyes ninth Wimbledon title but wary of Nadal threat

LONDON - Having seen longtime rival Rafael Nadal tighten his iron-grip on Roland Garros, Roger Federer aims to extend his personal dominance of Wimbledon by claiming a ninth title at the All England Club.

Despite his 37th birthday fast approaching, and having been stunned by Borna Coric in the Halle grasscourt final last weekend, Federer will still start Wimbledon as the overwhelming favourite to clinch a 21st major.

Federer set new records 12 months ago when he defeated a hobbling Marin Cilic in the final, becoming both the tournament’s oldest champion and first to claim eight titles.

That victory came after he decided to skip the entire claycourt season, a strategy he repeated this year as the Swiss sit at home watching Nadal romp to an 11th French Open.

“I’m really going to love going to Wimbledon but being the defending champion always creates pressure,” said Federer, who was quick to shrug off his loss to Coric which ended a 20-match win streak on grass.

A week earlier, he had been buoyed by capturing the grass court title at Stuttgart.

“Regardless of whether I won or lost in Halle I will be one of the favourites at Wimbledon.”

Federer won his first Wimbledon -- and maiden Slam title -- in 2003.

Since that time he has added seven more at the All England Club with Nadal winning twice, Novak Djokovic three times and Andy Murray taking two titles.

Lleyton Hewitt, back in 2002, was the last man outside the modern-day ‘Big Four’ to win the championship.

Hardly surprising then that Federer cannot see any great upheaval anytime soon, even tipping Nadal -- and his notoriously unreliable knees on a grass court -- to go deep in the tournament.

“I think Rafa is one of the big favourites,” said Federer who famously lost the 2008 final to the Spaniard in what is widely regarded as one of the finest Slam showdown of all time. (afp)

Roger Federer

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Sweden must bounce back fast with World Cup group on knife-edge

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Iranian women watch the World Cup Group B soccer match between Portugal and Iran at Azadi stadium in Tehran on June 25, 2018.

World Cup sees Iranian women score spot in the stands

For many of the thousands of joyful women packed into Tehran’s largest football stadium, their first ever chance to watch a game at a sports arena was a victory for freedom despite Iran’s agonising World Cup elimination.

Cheering and with their cheeks painted with the national colours, women showed they were just as caught up in the World Cup fever sweeping the country as they seized the opportunity to attend a live screening at the 100,000 capacity Azadi (Freedom) Stadium, which, like other sports arenas, has been off-limits to them since the the Islamic revolution of 1979.

While the exuberance turned to tears when Iran missed the chance to snatch a last gasp winner against Portugal, ending their tournament dreams, some in the mixed gender stands said they would still treasure the landmark night watching an open-air screening of the national team.

“It felt weird to buy my ticket online, it’s so exciting to come to the stadium,” said Arezou, a psychologist in her thirties.

“When I felt the heat of the crowd in the stadium, I told myself I really wanted to remember this moment as one of the best of my life.”

The decision to throw open the gates of the iconic stadium came after Iran’s opening victory over Morocco, when tens of thousands took to the streets of the capital in rare and wild celebration, many of them women.

Many Iranian clerics oppose women attending football matches, saying they must be protected from the masculine atmosphere, though the ruling is frequently criticised from across the political spectrum.

“It’s the first time I have come to the stadium. I really wanted to be here and I am so happy! Even if we don’t win, it will still be a victory and we are proud of our players,” said Raana, a flight attendant.

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A good natured family atmosphere prevailed among the young crowd in the stands, who watched the crunch match in Russia on a screen placed below

twin portraits of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The match was one of nail-biting drama and controversy after Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo caught Iran defender Morteza Pouraliganji with an elbow to the face.

In an electrifying game that went down to the wire, Portugal defender Cedric was penalised in stoppage time for a handball, and Karim Ansarifard converted from the spot to give Iran a lifeline.

Mehdi Taremi nearly snatched a dramatic winner after a deflected shot rolled into his path, but he fired into the side netting as Iran were eliminated, ending their hopes of reaching the knockout phase for the first time.

- New freedoms? -

The vacillation by Iranian authorities over whether mixed spectators would be allowed to attend open-air screenings of the country’s World Cup bid shows their deep sensitivity over women’s rights.

Iran’s opening game had initially been due to be shown live in stadiums and parks but authorities cancelled all open-air screenings just hours before kick-off forcing fans to watch in cinemas.

After the public celebrations of that victory, Tehran provincial council buckled and again said stadiums would screen the games.

“I really hope this is the start of a culture in which women can go see games in stadiums. From now on, it’s possible,” said Arezou.

At half-time, from a podium on the Tehran pitch, well-known actress Behnoosh Bakhtiari thanked President Hassan Rouhani for the evening and expressed hope that similar opportunities will follow.

A moderate conservative, who was re-elected in May 2017, Rouhani has said repeatedly he wants to see women at sports stadiums, but the idea has met fierce opposition from hardliners.

After the game, fans both female and male celebrated in the streets into the early hours, undaunted

by Iran’s elimination. (afp)

Sweden coach Janne Andersson must find a way to pick up his deflated players following their devastating defeat to Germany in a World Cup Group F that stands tantalisingly poised.

Sweden were on course for the last 16 until Toni Kroos stepped up with a wonderful winner in the fifth minute of injury time to rescue the reigning champions 2-1 in a Saturday-night thriller.

It left Group F on a knife-edge going into the final round of games on Wednesday, when Sweden face Mexico in Yekaterinburg while at the same time Germany play South Korea in Kazan.

Mexico have six points and one foot in the knockout rounds, with Germany and the Swedes both on three points and with the same goal difference and having scored the same number. Sweden will progress if they better Germany’s result.

Several Sweden players were left prone on the turf such was the late, excruciating nature of the defeat to Germany.

Andersson said: “The whole group is still alive so we will have to lick our wounds and come back for the last game.” The 55-year-old, who accused Germany’s backroom staff of “rubbing it in our faces”, also needs to deal with the delicate fall-out surrounding his winger Jimmy Durmaz.

Durmaz, born in Sweden to Assyrian parents who emigrated from Turkey, was subjected to racial hatred and death threats on social media for giving away the foul that led to Kroos’s late winner.

The 29-year-old was moved to read out a statement to reporters at the team’s Black Sea coast base in Gelendzhik on Sunday, saying of the abuse: “Who the hell does such things? “It is completely unacceptable.”

- Record-breaker -

The biggest problem for Mexico, who will have the majority of the Yekaterinburg Arena behind them on Wednesday, will be complacency.

A deserved 1-0 victory over Germany was followed by a 2-1 win against the Koreans to put them in control of the group, but they still need a point to make absolutely sure of reaching the knockout rounds.

Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa said Mexico are determined to secure the result they need to make sure of top spot, revealing that the squad is fired by criticism they received from home fans before arriving in Russia.

The Mexicans were booed during a friendly win over Scotland at the Azteca Stadium. Several members of the squad, including Ochoa, were also lambasted for their presence at a farewell party attended by around 30 prostitutes.

“We always knew we would have to fight all the way to the last game,” Ochoa said. “We remember everything this squad has been through. We haven’t forgotten hearing the boos at the Azteca, and that has strengthened us mentally,” Ochoa said.

West Ham United striker Javier Hernandez became the first Mexican player to score 50 goals for his country -- in 104 appearances -- with his strike against South Korea.

As West Ham fans know well, the 30-year-old can be hit and miss, yet “Chicharito” seems to reserve his best performances for the green of Mexico.

“He’s a great goalscorer, but offers a lot more than that,” said Mexico team-mate Miguel Layun.

“He’s an incredibly dynamic player. He makes four or five runs when others might just make one.

“And he’s always in the right place at the right time,” the Porto defender told FIFA.com. (afp)

VAR drama as Portugal and Spain reach World Cup last 16

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal and 2010 winners Spain progressed to the World Cup knockout rounds on a Monday night of high drama dominated by VAR decisions, as Uruguay pipped Russia to top spot in their group.

Spain ended up topping Group B by virtue of goals scored after an injury-time strike by Iago Aspas -- confirmed by the video assistant referee -- rescued a 2-2 draw against Morocco in Kaliningrad and will take on the host nation in Moscow on Sunday.

Portugal, who finished level with Spain on five points, conceded a late penalty as Iran drew level at 1-1 and faced a heart-stopping moment as Mehdi Taremi put a shot inches wide -- a goal that would have sent the European champions crashing out.

Ronaldo was at the heart of a series of VAR incidents in Saransk.

First he had a penalty saved by Ali Beiranvand and was later saved by

a review as Iran’s players called for him to be sent off following an incident with Morteza Pouraliganji.

Furious Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said Portugal captain Ronaldo, who was booked, should have been sent off for using an elbow and lashed out against VAR, saying it was “not going well”.

“I don’t want to talk too much, it’s about my country and a player.

I know it’ll be a war against me,” said Queiroz, who coached his native Portugal at the 2010 finals in South Africa.”

“But the reality is you stopped the game for VAR, there is an elbow,” he added. “An elbow is a red card in the rules. In the rules it doesn’t say if it is (Lionel) Messi or Ronaldo.” Portugal will face Uruguay in the last 16 in Sochi on Saturday.

Relieved Spain boss Fernando Hierro, who took over as coach on the eve of the World Cup, said he knew the group was going to be

tough, acknowledging his side had to tighten up.

“The first conclusion I draw is that despite all these challenges we ended on top. I’m looking at the silver lining,” he said.

“Obviously we can improve.

Five goals in three matches is not the way forward. The players are professional, they understand what the situation.”

- VAR penalties -

There have now been 19 penalties taken at the 2018 World Cup -- more than in any other edition of the competition. Earlier, 10-man Russia were handed a World Cup reality check, losing 3-0 to Uruguay as the South Americans topped Group A with a perfect record.

The host nation rode a wave of national euphoria in their first two matches, sweeping aside Saudi Arabia and Egypt despite being initially written off as no-hopers but could not keep the magic alive

OZAN KOSE / AFP

A screen displays the VAR goal review confirming Spain’s second goal during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group B football match between Spain and Morocco at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad on June 25, 2018.

Nelson Almeida / AFP

Sweden’s forward Ola Toivonen celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group F football match between Germany and Sweden at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi on June 23, 2018.

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against the South Americans.

An early free-kick from Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, an own goal from Denis Cheryshev and a late strike from Edinson Cavani sealed top spot for Uruguay, with Russia through to the knockout stages as runners-up.

“Obviously, the first few matches you’re tense and don’t want to make any mistakes or lose,” said man-of the-match Suarez.

“One mistake can be very expensive. Today we came to the pitch with a different attitude and perspective and that’s made the pressure better. That’s what we saw on the pitch.”

Disappointed Russian coach Stanislav Cherchesov said it was better to lose heavily now than in future games, adding his players had shown nerves for the first time but were psychologically prepared for the knockout stages.

“The outcome is very simple.

We did what we had to do,” he

said. “But you cannot start a game of this level with such a mistake -we gave up a goal. “Uruguay then started playing their type of football. And then we got a red card.”

In the other match in Group A, Saudi Arabia beat Mohamed Salah’s Egypt 2-1 in a matchup of two eliminated sides in Volgograd but the main talking point was Egypt goalkeeper Essam el-Hadary becoming the oldest player ever to appear in a World Cup. El Hadary, 45 years and 161 days old, smashed the record set by Colombia goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon, who was aged 43 years and three days when he played against Japan in Brazil in 2014.

The veteran goalkeeper produced a stunning save from a Fahad al-Muwallad penalty after Salah had given Egypt the lead with his second World Cup goal, but could not keep out another spot kick by Salman al-Faraj in first-half injury time. (afp)

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Sweden must bounce back fast with World Cup group on knife-edge

ATTA KENARE / AFP

Iranian women watch the World Cup Group B soccer match between Portugal and Iran at Azadi stadium in Tehran on June 25, 2018.

World Cup sees Iranian women score spot in the stands

For many of the thousands of joyful women packed into Tehran’s largest football stadium, their first ever chance to watch a game at a sports arena was a victory for freedom despite Iran’s agonising World Cup elimination.

Cheering and with their cheeks painted with the national colours, women showed they were just as caught up in the World Cup fever sweeping the country as they seized the opportunity to attend a live screening at the 100,000 capacity Azadi (Freedom) Stadium, which, like other sports arenas, has been off-limits to them since the the Islamic revolution of 1979.

While the exuberance turned to tears when Iran missed the chance to snatch a last gasp winner against Portugal, ending their tournament dreams, some in the mixed gender stands said they would still treasure the landmark night watching an open-air screening of the national team.

“It felt weird to buy my ticket online, it’s so exciting to come to the stadium,” said Arezou, a psychologist in her thirties.

“When I felt the heat of the crowd in the stadium, I told myself I really wanted to remember this moment as one of the best of my life.”

The decision to throw open the gates of the iconic stadium came after Iran’s opening victory over Morocco, when tens of thousands took to the streets of the capital in rare and wild celebration, many of them women.

Many Iranian clerics oppose women attending football matches, saying they must be protected from the masculine atmosphere, though the ruling is frequently criticised from across the political spectrum.

“It’s the first time I have come to the stadium. I really wanted to be here and I am so happy! Even if we don’t win, it will still be a victory and we are proud of our players,” said Raana, a flight attendant.

- Nail-biter -

A good natured family atmosphere prevailed among the young crowd in the stands, who watched the crunch match in Russia on a screen placed below

twin portraits of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The match was one of nail-biting drama and controversy after Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo caught Iran defender Morteza Pouraliganji with an elbow to the face.

In an electrifying game that went down to the wire, Portugal defender Cedric was penalised in stoppage time for a handball, and Karim Ansarifard converted from the spot to give Iran a lifeline.

Mehdi Taremi nearly snatched a dramatic winner after a deflected shot rolled into his path, but he fired into the side netting as Iran were eliminated, ending their hopes of reaching the knockout phase for the first time.

- New freedoms? -

The vacillation by Iranian authorities over whether mixed spectators would be allowed to attend open-air screenings of the country’s World Cup bid shows their deep sensitivity over women’s rights.

Iran’s opening game had initially been due to be shown live in stadiums and parks but authorities cancelled all open-air screenings just hours before kick-off forcing fans to watch in cinemas.

After the public celebrations of that victory, Tehran provincial council buckled and again said stadiums would screen the games.

“I really hope this is the start of a culture in which women can go see games in stadiums. From now on, it’s possible,” said Arezou.

At half-time, from a podium on the Tehran pitch, well-known actress Behnoosh Bakhtiari thanked President Hassan Rouhani for the evening and expressed hope that similar opportunities will follow.

A moderate conservative, who was re-elected in May 2017, Rouhani has said repeatedly he wants to see women at sports stadiums, but the idea has met fierce opposition from hardliners.

After the game, fans both female and male celebrated in the streets into the early hours, undaunted

by Iran’s elimination. (afp)

Sweden coach Janne Andersson must find a way to pick up his deflated players following their devastating defeat to Germany in a World Cup Group F that stands tantalisingly poised.

Sweden were on course for the last 16 until Toni Kroos stepped up with a wonderful winner in the fifth minute of injury time to rescue the reigning champions 2-1 in a Saturday-night thriller.

It left Group F on a knife-edge going into the final round of games on Wednesday, when Sweden face Mexico in Yekaterinburg while at the same time Germany play South Korea in Kazan.

Mexico have six points and one foot in the knockout rounds, with Germany and the Swedes both on three points and with the same goal difference and having scored the same number. Sweden will progress if they better Germany’s result.

Several Sweden players were left prone on the turf such was the late, excruciating nature of the defeat to Germany.

Andersson said: “The whole group is still alive so we will have to lick our wounds and come back for the last game.” The 55-year-old, who accused Germany’s backroom staff of “rubbing it in our faces”, also needs to deal with the delicate fall-out surrounding his winger Jimmy Durmaz.

Durmaz, born in Sweden to Assyrian parents who emigrated from Turkey, was subjected to racial hatred and death threats on social media for giving away the foul that led to Kroos’s late winner.

The 29-year-old was moved to read out a statement to reporters at the team’s Black Sea coast base in Gelendzhik on Sunday, saying of the abuse: “Who the hell does such things? “It is completely unacceptable.”

- Record-breaker -

The biggest problem for Mexico, who will have the majority of the Yekaterinburg Arena behind them on Wednesday, will be complacency.

A deserved 1-0 victory over Germany was followed by a 2-1 win against the Koreans to put them in control of the group, but they still need a point to make absolutely sure of reaching the knockout rounds.

Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa said Mexico are determined to secure the result they need to make sure of top spot, revealing that the squad is fired by criticism they received from home fans before arriving in Russia.

The Mexicans were booed during a friendly win over Scotland at the Azteca Stadium. Several members of the squad, including Ochoa, were also lambasted for their presence at a farewell party attended by around 30 prostitutes.

“We always knew we would have to fight all the way to the last game,” Ochoa said. “We remember everything this squad has been through. We haven’t forgotten hearing the boos at the Azteca, and that has strengthened us mentally,” Ochoa said.

West Ham United striker Javier Hernandez became the first Mexican player to score 50 goals for his country -- in 104 appearances -- with his strike against South Korea.

As West Ham fans know well, the 30-year-old can be hit and miss, yet “Chicharito” seems to reserve his best performances for the green of Mexico.

“He’s a great goalscorer, but offers a lot more than that,” said Mexico team-mate Miguel Layun.

“He’s an incredibly dynamic player. He makes four or five runs when others might just make one.

“And he’s always in the right place at the right time,” the Porto defender told FIFA.com. (afp)

VAR drama as Portugal and Spain reach World Cup last 16

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal and 2010 winners Spain progressed to the World Cup knockout rounds on a Monday night of high drama dominated by VAR decisions, as Uruguay pipped Russia to top spot in their group.

Spain ended up topping Group B by virtue of goals scored after an injury-time strike by Iago Aspas -- confirmed by the video assistant referee -- rescued a 2-2 draw against Morocco in Kaliningrad and will take on the host nation in Moscow on Sunday.

Portugal, who finished level with Spain on five points, conceded a late penalty as Iran drew level at 1-1 and faced a heart-stopping moment as Mehdi Taremi put a shot inches wide -- a goal that would have sent the European champions crashing out.

Ronaldo was at the heart of a series of VAR incidents in Saransk.

First he had a penalty saved by Ali Beiranvand and was later saved by

a review as Iran’s players called for him to be sent off following an incident with Morteza Pouraliganji.

Furious Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said Portugal captain Ronaldo, who was booked, should have been sent off for using an elbow and lashed out against VAR, saying it was “not going well”.

“I don’t want to talk too much, it’s about my country and a player.

I know it’ll be a war against me,” said Queiroz, who coached his native Portugal at the 2010 finals in South Africa.”

“But the reality is you stopped the game for VAR, there is an elbow,” he added. “An elbow is a red card in the rules. In the rules it doesn’t say if it is (Lionel) Messi or Ronaldo.” Portugal will face Uruguay in the last 16 in Sochi on Saturday.

Relieved Spain boss Fernando Hierro, who took over as coach on the eve of the World Cup, said he knew the group was going to be

tough, acknowledging his side had to tighten up.

“The first conclusion I draw is that despite all these challenges we ended on top. I’m looking at the silver lining,” he said.

“Obviously we can improve.

Five goals in three matches is not the way forward. The players are professional, they understand what the situation.”

- VAR penalties -

There have now been 19 penalties taken at the 2018 World Cup -- more than in any other edition of the competition. Earlier, 10-man Russia were handed a World Cup reality check, losing 3-0 to Uruguay as the South Americans topped Group A with a perfect record.

The host nation rode a wave of national euphoria in their first two matches, sweeping aside Saudi Arabia and Egypt despite being initially written off as no-hopers but could not keep the magic alive

OZAN KOSE / AFP

A screen displays the VAR goal review confirming Spain’s second goal during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group B football match between Spain and Morocco at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad on June 25, 2018.

Nelson Almeida / AFP

Sweden’s forward Ola Toivonen celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group F football match between Germany and Sweden at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi on June 23, 2018.

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against the South Americans.

An early free-kick from Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, an own goal from Denis Cheryshev and a late strike from Edinson Cavani sealed top spot for Uruguay, with Russia through to the knockout stages as runners-up.

“Obviously, the first few matches you’re tense and don’t want to make any mistakes or lose,” said man-of the-match Suarez.

“One mistake can be very expensive. Today we came to the pitch with a different attitude and perspective and that’s made the pressure better. That’s what we saw on the pitch.”

Disappointed Russian coach Stanislav Cherchesov said it was better to lose heavily now than in future games, adding his players had shown nerves for the first time but were psychologically prepared for the knockout stages.

“The outcome is very simple.

We did what we had to do,” he

said. “But you cannot start a game of this level with such a mistake -we gave up a goal. “Uruguay then started playing their type of football. And then we got a red card.”

In the other match in Group A, Saudi Arabia beat Mohamed Salah’s Egypt 2-1 in a matchup of two eliminated sides in Volgograd but the main talking point was Egypt goalkeeper Essam el-Hadary becoming the oldest player ever to appear in a World Cup. El Hadary, 45 years and 161 days old, smashed the record set by Colombia goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon, who was aged 43 years and three days when he played against Japan in Brazil in 2014.

The veteran goalkeeper produced a stunning save from a Fahad al-Muwallad penalty after Salah had given Egypt the lead with his second World Cup goal, but could not keep out another spot kick by Salman al-Faraj in first-half injury time. (afp)

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Rockets ace Harden crowned NBA MVP

LOS ANGELES - Houston star James Harden was crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for 2018 on Monday, taking home the honour despite a disappointing end to the season which saw the Rockets beaten in the NBA Finals.

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The 28-year-old Rockets guard beat out competition from Cleveland Cavaliers icon LeBron James and the New Orleans Pelicans’ Anthony Davis.

Harden’s award came after a season which saw him average more than 30 points per game, with 5.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists.

Although Houston finished the regular season on top of the Western Conference, they were beaten 4-3 in the playoffs by the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors would go on to beat Cleveland 4-0 in the finals.

Although the Warriors clinched their third title in four seasons this season, they were largely ignored in the main end-of-season awards categories at Monday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons was named Rookie of the Year ahead of Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Boston’s Jayson Tatum.

Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz won Defensive Player of the Year, edging out New Orleans’ Davis and the Sixers Joel Embiid.

Meanwhile Coach of the Year honours went to Dwane Casey, who was fired by the Toronto Raptors after they were swept by Cleveland in the second round of the playoffs.

Casey’s honour came despite a successful regular season which saw the Raptors finish with a franchise-record 59 wins.

Widely admired across the league, Casey was snapped up

by Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores, roughly one month after being sacked by Toronto.

“When you get fired, which I did recently, you always doubt yourself a little bit, you think ‘Okay, can I do this? Do I want to do this again?’” Casey said.

Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images/AFP “Then I interviewed with (Pistons owner) Tom Gores. We James Harden, winner of the 2017-2018 MVP award, poses with his mom Monja Willis in the back- connected, he’s given me an opportunity. All you want as a coach stage photo room during the 2018 NBA Awards at Barker Hangar on June 25, 2018 in Santa Monica, or as a player is an owner that believes in you and trusts you with his franchise. (afp) California.

Federer eyes ninth Wimbledon title but wary of Nadal threat

LONDON - Having seen longtime rival Rafael Nadal tighten his iron-grip on Roland Garros, Roger Federer aims to extend his personal dominance of Wimbledon by claiming a ninth title at the All England Club.

Despite his 37th birthday fast approaching, and having been stunned by Borna Coric in the Halle grasscourt final last weekend, Federer will still start Wimbledon as the overwhelming favourite to clinch a 21st major.

Federer set new records 12 months ago when he defeated a hobbling Marin Cilic in the final, becoming both the tournament’s oldest champion and first to claim eight titles.

That victory came after he decided to skip the entire claycourt season, a strategy he repeated this year as the Swiss sit at home watching Nadal romp to an 11th French Open.

“I’m really going to love going to Wimbledon but being the defending champion always creates pressure,” said Federer, who was quick to shrug off his loss to Coric which ended a 20-match win streak on grass.

A week earlier, he had been buoyed by capturing the grass court title at Stuttgart.

“Regardless of whether I won or lost in Halle I will be one of the favourites at Wimbledon.”

Federer won his first Wimbledon -- and maiden Slam title -- in 2003.

Since that time he has added seven more at the All England Club with Nadal winning twice, Novak Djokovic three times and Andy Murray taking two titles.

Lleyton Hewitt, back in 2002, was the last man outside the modern-day ‘Big Four’ to win the championship.

Hardly surprising then that Federer cannot see any great upheaval anytime soon, even tipping Nadal -- and his notoriously unreliable knees on a grass court -- to go deep in the tournament.

“I think Rafa is one of the big favourites,” said Federer who famously lost the 2008 final to the Spaniard in what is widely regarded as one of the finest Slam showdown of all time. (afp)

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Argentina paralyzed by anti-IMF deal strike

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina ground to a halt Monday as public service unions blocked road, rail and air transport with a nationwide 24-hour strike in protest at the government’s latest deal with the International Monetary Fund.

Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP

People watch the World Cup football match between Egypt and Saudi Arabia at a bar in Retiro bus station in Buenos Aires on June 25, 2018, during a 24-hour general strike called by Argentina’s unions in protest of the government’s deal with the International Monetary Fund.

In a massive show of force against the center-right government of President Mauricio Macri, organizers said at least one million workers were taking part in the industrial action which halted trains, subways, buses and flights in Latin America’s third-largest economy.

“The strike had a very high level of compliance throughout the country,” Juan Carlos Schmid, leader of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT), told a news conference.

Banks and schools remained shut and Buenos Aires slowly emptied of traffic as the day progressed.

“These stoppages don’t help at all, they don’t add anything, and I don’t think that there has been a government in decades that cared as much about employment and the workers and creating new opportunities,” said Macri, a former mayor of the capital.

Although the CGT called only for a strike, more radical groups organized demonstrations that cut off access to Buenos Aires.

From 7:00 am (1000 GMT), activists began to close off the main routes into the capital where hundreds of federal law enforcement personnel were deployed.

“The strike is against the economic program ... The IMF has always brought hardship to the Argentines,” Schmid told AFP earlier, calling the strike “the biggest in eight years.”

The unions are demanding that salary negotiations for this year be reopened in order to align them with projected inflation, calculated at 27 percent by the central bank and which could rise to 30 percent by year’s end.

Negotiations mostly took place at the start of the year, when the annual inflation target was 15 percent -- a goal which had been abandoned by May. In the interest of maintaining dialogue with the unions, labor minister Jorge Triaca said his office was in favor of such negotiations. (afp)

Spain’s first Franco-era ‘stolen babies’ trial begins

MADRID - An 85-year-old Spanish doctor will appear in a Madrid court on Tuesday, the first person to go on trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era.

In a dark and often overlooked chapter of General Francisco Franco’s 1939-75 dictatorship, the newborns of some left-wing opponents of the regime, or unmarried or poor couples, were removed from their mothers and adopted.

New mothers were frequently told their babies had died suddenly

within hours of birth and the hospital had taken care of their burials when in fact they were given or sold to another family.

The practice began after Franco came to power after Spain’s 193639 civil war pitting left-wing Republicans against conservative Nationalists loyal to the general who was seeking to purge Spain of Marxist influence.

Beginning in the 1950s it was expanded to remove new newborns from poor families as well as illegitimate babies.

The guiding principle was

that the child would be better off raised by an affluent, conservative and devout Roman Catholic family.

The system -- which allegedly involved a vast network of doctors, nurses, nuns and priests -- outlived Franco’s death in 1975 and carried on as an illegal baby trafficking network until 1987 when a new law regulating adoption was introduced.

Campaigners estimate tens of thousands of babies may have been stolen from their parents over the decades. (afp)

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Demonstrators holding baby dolls and placards reading “Human rights for stolen babies” outside a provincial court in Madrid, on June 26, 2018 on the first day of the first trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era.

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Three killed in fresh Papua violence: Indonesia authorities

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Three people were killed by Papuan rebels on Monday, Indonesian authorities said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region ahead of regional elections.

The separatists fired on a small plane carrying 15 police officers -- travelling to oversee the polls -- just after it landed at Nduga in the centre of the province, Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi said.

The plane’s pilot was injured in the attack, he added.

Several rebels then killed a trio of street vendors as they fled the scene, Aidi said. “As they were fleeing, they shot and attacked vendors near the airport,” he said.

“Three of them were shot dead while another was seriously injured.” A Papua police spokesman said authorities were looking for the shooters. The incident comes days after a pilot on another plane was shot and injured at the same airport.

Indonesia holds regional elections on Wednesday that are

seen as a bellwether for the 2019 presidential polls.

Papua, on the western half of New Guinea island, has been the scene of a simmering insurgency since it was annexed by Indonesia in the late 1960s. US-based firm Freeport McMoRan’s gold and copper mine has been a frequent flashpoint in the struggle for independence and a bigger share of the region’s rich resources.

In April, an Indonesian soldier and at least one separatist rebel were killed near the huge mine. (afp)

50 monkeys rescued from street masked monkey show BEKASI - The Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) has rescued at least 50 monkeys from persons running the “topeng monyet,” local term for masked monkey show, in several regions of Indonesia`s West Java Province.

“As of June 2018, we have rescued 50 monkeys through a joint program, called Stop Topeng Monyet, with the West Java Provincial Administration,” Coordinator of Wildlife Trade Confiscations of JAAN Wildlife Division, Zai, said here on Monday.

The long-tailed macaques were rescued from several districts, such as Bandung, Cirebon, Tasikmalaya, Bogor, and Bekasi.

JAAN revealed that the longtailed macaques are extremely popular in Indonesia as they are

used as dancing monkeys. They are called Topeng Monyet in Indonesian language.

Having conducted observations during the Stop Topeng Monyet program, JAAN and the local administration of West Java have set a target to rescue 500 animals from street masked monkey shows in the region.

They revealed that Bekasi District has the most Topeng Monyet shows than the other regions in West Java.

“We found out that these monkeys were brought from Tasikmalaya. We have data showing that there are 500 families that train monkeys for Topeng Monyet shows there,” Zai revealed.

The rescued monkeys will undergo rehabilitation and treatment for three years before being

released to the Tilu Mountain of Soreang, Bandung, West Java.

They will be divided into four groups, each consisting of 15 monkeys.

JAAN`s program in rescuing long-tailed macaques from being exploited as performers in the Topeng Monyet show is in line with the instruction of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to protect wild animals.

“Wild animals are better in the forest,” Zai stated. JAAN is a non-governmental and non-profit organization dedicated to improve the lives of Indonesia`s animals.

JAAN has for years been at the forefront of the campaign against illegal trade of endangered and rare animals, wildlife conservation, and animal adoption. (ant)

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Peed tradition of Sukawati maintains its fashion style

Mnuchin rebuts reports on new China investment restrictions

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday denounced media reports detailing plans to impose restrictions on Chinese investment in US companies and on tech exports to China. The reports were widely cited Monday as helping to spark a global stocks selloff, with investors increasingly gloomy about the prospects of de-escalation in the emerging US-China trade war.

The White House in late May announced plans to impose steep tariffs on Chinese goods, and follow up by June 30 with “specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls for Chinese persons and entities related to the acquisition of industrially significant technology.”

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News cited several sources saying the heightened US scrutiny of Chinese investment would fall under emergency national security powers.

The law in question, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, allows the president to regulate trade in response to foreign threats and has frequently been used to respond to armed conflict, weapons and narcotics trafficking and political instability.

The Wall Street Journal also said the investment restrictions would apply to companies with 25 percent Chinese ownership.

But Mnuchin said Monday the news reports were “false, fake news.”

“The leaker either doesn’t exist or know the subject very well,” he said on Twitter.

“Statement will be out not specific to China but to all countries that are trying to steal our technology,” Mnuchin said, even though that seems to contradict the White House statement issued May 29.

- Continued escalation US officials accuse China of using cybertheft and forced transfers to steal the “crown jewels” of American innovation, allowing

Natural Hot Springs at Angseri Village

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In this handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah II (R) in Washington DC, on June 22, 2018. their own industries to advance unfairly.

Beijing on Monday said Chinese investment has created jobs and increased tax revenue in the US. “China-US trade, investment and cooperation are mutually beneficial in nature,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at press conference.

“We hope the US can view Chinese companies’ commercial activities in an objective way, and provide a fair, sound and predictable investment environment,” Geng said.

The White House this month pressed ahead with plans to impose up to $50 billion on Chinese goods starting July 6.

The goods targeted are those US officials say are tied to Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” industrial development plan to achieve global dominance in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, aeronautics and new-energy vehicles.

After Beijing announced it would retaliate, Trump threatened another $200 billion in Chinese goods that could be subject to

fresh tariffs and said this could rise by $200 billion if China responded further.

China, also affected by US steel tariffs, has denounced Trump’s approach as “extreme pressure and blackmail,” warning it would “take strong, powerful countermeasures” if the president enacts his threats.

The tensions, which for weeks have struck fear into the hearts of global investors, add to those sparked by the trade dispute between the United States and the European Union. (afp)

Tokyo stocks inch higher on bargain-hunting

Tokyo stocks edged up at the close Tuesday as bargain-hunting purchases wiped out earlier losses caused by worries over US-China trade frictions. After a session spent mainly in the red, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index gained 0.02 percent or 3.85 points to 22,342.00, while the broader Topix index was up 0.16 percent or 2.80 points at 1,731.07.

Tokyo stocks had opened lower after global stocks sold off sharply on Monday with investors fretting about a ballooning trade war amid reports President Donald Trump plans new curbs on Chinese investment in the United States.

Later Tuesday, “bargain-hunting purchases were surpassing”, partly helped by a stable dollar-yen exchange rate, said Okasan Online

Securities’ strategist Yoshihiro Ito. The dollar was trading at 109.58 yen against 109.77 yen in New York Monday afternoon.

Utilities were higher, with Tokyo Electric gaining 2.16 percent to 520 yen and Chubu Electric rallying 2.33 percent to 1,686 yen.

Nippon Yusen closed up 1.32 percent at 2,218 yen after reports said one of Japan’s royal family

members will get engaged to an employee of the company, while its rival Mitsui O.S.K. Lines rose 2.38 percent to 2,705 yen.

Fujifilm fell 0.66 percent to 4,194 yen after Xerox’s new chief executive said it was preparing to sell products directly in the AsiaPacific region.

The Japanese firm sued Xerox, seeking more than $1 billion in

damages for scrapping a takeover bid but Xerox denounced the action as “nothing more than a desperate and misguided negotiating ploy to save their takeover attempt”.

SoftBank dropped 2.45 percent to 7,997 yen after the Nikkei business daily reported the group is seeking to list its mobile unit on the Tokyo bourse as early as this year. (afp)

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Pamper Visitors with Open and Closed Pools

Tabanan district now has another alternative in terms of natural hot spring pools. This tourist attraction is not only found at Penatahan village, but also at Angseri village, Baturiti, Tabanan. It is located about 200 meters to the west of Puncak Tinggah Temple. Currently, this natural hot spring is more crowded with visitors.

The arrangement is very neat and beautiful. Aside from being pampered with two outdoor pools, visitors are also offered with ten closed hot spring pool attractions.

The open pools on the north side look very natural because it comes into direct contact with the river against the background of the waterfall. Some supporting facilities are also available. There are some stalls selling drinks and snacks.

Similarly, there is a food stall with scenic backdrop.

Chief of Angseri Hot Spring Attraction, I Wayan Sukada, said that Angseri village has some natural hot spring points spreading over the private land of the local village.

Of the many hot springs owned by Angseri village, so far only one point has been managed since 2006.

Sukada revealed the hot springs managed by the tourism group was previously handled by local village since 1995. Previously, the

management had been dormant to totally get terminated.

Seeing the potential of the abandoned nature, he and some Angseri villagers in 2006 through a meeting with figures and various components of local village then formed a tourism group. One of them is managing the hot springs currently always crowded with visitors.

Sukada said the hot spring also has health benefits, especially for skin health. Moreover, a number of visitors come specifically for such medicinal purposes. Indeed, the management itself provides a closed pool specifically used by visitors with the purpose of treatment. By and large, the coming visitors also bring along ritual paraphernalia pursuant to their affordability.

In addition to domestic tourists, Angseri hot spring tourist attraction is also often visited by foreign tourists. They are mostly from Europe.

“Usually a busy visit happens during Galungan holidays, New Year and other holidays,” he said.

Furthermore, Sukada said the Angseri village tourism group is not willing to stand by relying solely on natural hot springs. Together with the members, the group is targeting some other tourism potential owned by Angseri Village.

Sukada hoped that with more and more tourism potentials to be exploited at Angseri village, they will create more job opportunities for local people. Currently, with the natural hot spring management, it has been able to provide employment for local residents. “As the native residents to Angseri village, we are proud when we realize to have a lot of potential, especially in the tourism sector, as more natural potential can be managed. They will be able to create more job opportunities for our citizens,” he concluded. (kmb)

Hundreds of residents participated in the mapeed tradition held in a series of pujawali (temple anniversary) at Dalem Gede Temple of Sukawati on Anggara Kliwon Tambir. Aside from being a sacred activity, the tradition adorning every anniversary of trinity temples of Sukawati village is also held by maintaining Balinese customary fashion with the typical style of Sukawati village.

Hundreds of male and female residents walked in pair and dressed in Balinese makeup and fashion ranging from children, teenagers, housewives coalesced into PKK group to the elderly. They were enthusiastic to walk from Dalem Temple to Beji Cengcengan Temple of Sukawati village bordered with Guwang village.

Sacred value of this tradition lies in the purpose of mepeed namely picking up holy water at Taman Beji Temple. Furthermore, this holy water will be used for ritual in the temple anniversary that lasted for four days). “So during the pujawali, the mapeed procession is held every day in the afternoon,” said Chief of Sukawati customary village, I Nyoman Suwantha.

Like the mepeed procession elsewhere, at Sukawati village it began with rows of lolentakan, umbrella, pasepan and other ritual paraphernalia, while male or female residents in Balinese makeup and fashion were in the middle. In the

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rear, the participants of the mapeed were accompanied with baleganjur gamelan orchestra.

Different hamlets were involved in the four-day mapeed tradition. At Sukawati, there is a term known as krama penyatusan. “We have 12 hamlets which coalesced into 4 satusan (group), where on the first day was the turn of Tebuana, then Palak on the second day, Telabah on the third day and Gelumpang on the last day,” he explained.

Chief of customary village, I Nyoman Suwantha, affirmed that mepeed on every temple anniversary must always be held. In addition to maintaining the tradition, it also serves as cultural preservation.

He also always reminded his residents to maintain the makeup and fashion having become the typical styles of Sukawati. One is them is the use of rear kancut for adult women. “Balinese makeup and fashion style indeed have dynamic nature. In the past, they were dominated by modified style, but now we gradually start to improve,” he explained.

He also involved specifically the association of customary village apparatus spouse to provide coaching for residents that would participate in the mapeed. They were asked to promote Balinese makeup and fashion with the simple style of Sukawati. “So, in terms of cost, it is affordable to all levels of society,” he added. (kmb)

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Bali Life Studio expands the field of possibilities

UBUD has become known for its many yoga studios and dance classes and Bali more broadly is known for its unique culture that is rooted in ancestral practices yet ever expanding as it integrates influences from other parts of Indonesia and the world. Bali Life Studio incorporates these two features of Bali by offering dance, martial arts, yoga, breath-work and healing classes, workshops and events based on local wisdom, reflecting this ability that Balinese culture has to maintain its integrity while absorbing new forms.

and Sufi Whirling dance from the Middle East, all of their instructors are from Bali and other parts of Indonesia and bring with them a uniquely Indonesia perspective to their approach. This Indonesian approach is based on harmony, beauty and togetherness as guiding principles that inform how they share their experience and knowledge.

They also offer distinctly Indonesian classes including their ‘Graceful Warrior -Kalimantan dance’, ‘Embodying Beauty –Balinese Legong dance’, ‘Communication and Leadership- Kecak Dance’ as well as their popular ‘Nusantara Healing Workshop’, that uses traditional Indonesia musical instruments to transmit healing vibrations and more.

As one of Bali Life Studio’s instructors Coki explained: “I studied dance in university but I also studied many things about my Kalimantan Dayak culture from my elders. In Bali, I learned that there is a way to transmit this valuable wisdom to the younger generation of Dayak in a way that can be applied to this technological era. I love sharing about my culture with anyone who is interested and Bali Life Studio allows me to do this in a way I can feel good about”.

“It is hard to define what the common thread that informs the many and diverse cultures of Indonesia is but I feel that the national motto

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specific events, places and themes. Their 8 Directions of the Wind dance, martial arts and spoken word performance based on Balinese spiritual wisdom was staged at Indigenous Celebration at Arma Museum last month and adapted to a consciousness festival in Canggu a few weeks later, and will be further adapted to the particular context of a private event at Bamboo Indah at end of June. They are currently working on a performance about coffee farmers.

Bali Life Studio located in the mystical village of Petulu just minute from downtown Ubud, will be officially opening in early July but are also holding a Full Moon Whirling Dance even on June 28th with live music by Cosmic Ornament. (kmb)

Ministry ready to add funds to hold festival

TABANAN - The Ulundanu Art Festival IV received direct appreciation from the Ministry of Tourism as example of an inclusive festival as it involves all stakeholders. Deputy Marketing Develop-

ment Division I of the Ministry of Tourism, I Gede Pitana representing the Minister of Tourism assured that his ministry is ready to provide additional funding for next year’s festival.

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The Ulundanu Art Festival IV received direct appreciation from the Ministry of Tourism as example of an inclusive festival as it involves all stakeholders.

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced growing outrage on Tuesday in his largely Catholic nation after calling God “stupid”, the latest furore he has sparked with an unfiltered broadside.

Bali Life Studio sharing Indonesian wisdom through breath and movement in Petulu.

“Binneka Tungal Ika” or unity in diversity reflects this shared awareness of the love that that is at the basis of life itself. What unifies all beings in the world is our connection to welasasih or loving-kindness. It is from love that all things come and to which all things return and love that supports life -but this love can take endless forms. For me, breath and movement are an easy way to connect to this love within ourselves, to strengthen our awareness of it and share it with others”, explained founder of Bali Life Studio, dancer and dance anthropologist Tebo Aumbara.

Along with their ongoing classes, weekly workshops and monthly events, all of Bali Life Studio’s instructors are also actively engaged in creating performances staged for

“Responding to the challenges expressed by local leader (regent of Tabanan—Ed) in obtaining continuous support form the central government for tourism promotion activities, The Ministry of Tourism is ready to double the budget”, said Pitana during the official opening Ulundanu Art Festival IV on Sunday (Jun. 24).

The festival’s opening ceremony was also attended by Deputy of Production and Marketing of SMEs representing the Minister of Cooperatives, Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, Head of the Bali Tourism Office representing governor of Bali, Central House of Representatives I Made Urip, Regional Representative Council (DPD), IGN Arya Wedakarna, Chairman of the Bali House of Representatives and a number of other officials.

Pitana added that the district of Tabanan district has excellent tourism resources based on nature,

culture and a variety of creative community activities. Moreover, the potential of the tourism market is currently growing rapidly, so it is appropriate for the district of Tabanan to prioritize the regional development of this sector.

As an official from the subdistrict of Baturiti, Pitana said that Tabanan is also very strong in environmental and cultural preservation. “There is a prevailing view that the more nature and culture are preserved the more tourism can help the community prosper”, he added.

Similarly, he said the Lake Beratan Festival is an iconic tourism event that draws visitors to the area. Furthermore this festival has helped motivate local residents to get involved in creating tourism businesses based on local arts, the preservation of culture as basic capital for building tourism. Some have criticized the festival as a

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Outrage after Philippines’ Duterte calls God ‘stupid’

Ancient wisdom practices in the technological era

Although Bali has been particularly successful at maintaining its core values and the forms in which these are expressed, this ability is also at the basis of Indonesian culture more broadly speaking. Indonesia has a staggering wealth of cultural heritage customs and practices that take form in innumerable visual and performing arts, making this island nation the richest country in the world in terms of diversity of art forms.

This wealth is not limited to visual forms however. In fact these forms are only the physical manifestations of an even richer heritage of wisdom knowledge and understanding about how to live a happy and fulfilling life as a human being, how to have a healthy relationship with our physical and social environment and how to strengthen our connection with the divine source of all things.

It is this wisdom heritage that inspired the creation of Bali Life Studio. Drawing on ancient practices from Indonesia and beyond, this studio like no other seeks to share methods for developing our loving nature as human beings though breath and movement.

Although many of their classes, workshops and events include practices from elsewhere – such as Ju-Jitsu from Brazil, Kundalini healing techniques from India

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waste of money however Pitana stressed that this is an investment – away to introduce the area as a tourist destination that will ultimately support the welfare of local residents.

“We must not stop with at the holding of the festival itself but do pre-and post festival activity including setting a specific date for this festival every year so that it can be included in the national calendar of events”, he concluded.

Related to the promise made by the ministry, Operations Manager of Ulundanu Attraction, I Wayan Mustika, said his management very much welcomes this event adding that if they are provided with additional budget they plan to extend the festival to include many activities including some on the lake itself”, said Mustika. (kmb28)

Rodrigo Duterte

Peak Japan: Hello Kitty bullet train debuts this week

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Duterte took aim at the biblical creation story during a speech, raising the question of why God would create Adam and Eve and then expose them to temptation.

Original Sin is something Christian theologians have struggled to explain for two millennia. Duterte opted for characteristically colourful language as he broached this thorny catechism.

“Who is this stupid God?” the Philippine leader asked on Friday. “You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work.”

Leaders of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, which counts some 80 percent of the nation’s more than 100 million people as believers, have condemned the statement.

“How can he be a President for all Filipinos if he does not have respect for the Catholic faithful?”, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David wrote on Facebook.

The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches joined in the denunciation on Tuesday, saying it is “completely inappropriate for our nation’s president to derisively curse at the God of the Christian faith who is deeply worshipped... by a majority of Filipinos.”

Duterte defended his comments in a speech on Monday, but on Tuesday his spokesman announced the president had formed a three-person committee for “dialogue” with religious groups about his comments.

“The theme will be how to lessen the rift between the government and Church,” Harry Roque, told reporters.

Duterte has locked horns repeatedly with the nation’s historically powerful Catholic Church, especially over its criticism of his deadly narcotics crackdown that has killed thousands. He has also repeatedly used speeches to attack Australian nun Patricia Fox, who faces deportation proceedings over allegations she violated the terms of her visa by engaging in human rights activism.

Watchdogs have voiced concerns that the drug war killings have encouraged an environment of impunity in the Philippines that has spilled over into areas unrelated to narcotics.

Three priests have been slain since December, including one who was shot dead inside his church as he prepared to hold a mass.

Those killings sparked debate over whether clergymen should be armed for their own protection, a proposal the Church pushed back against.

The furore surrounding Duterte’s comments on God follows a string of foul-mouthed insults against world leaders and institutions since he came to power two years ago.

He called then US president Barack Obama a “son of a whore” and levelled a similar insult at Pope Francis, while branding the European Union “stupid” over its criticism of his drug war. (afp)

TOKYO - Resplendent in shocking pink, a sleek “Hello Kitty” bullet train, complete with special carriages festooned with images of the global icon from Japan, has been unveiled before it chugs into service this week.

The special shinkansen or bullet train will run for the next three months between the western cities of Osaka and Fukuoka from Saturday, the West Japan Railway firm said, hoping that one of the country’s most famous exports will boost tourism.

Passengers will be in left in no doubt what train they are on, with Hello Kitty smiling down from the shades of every window and adorning every passenger seat cover.

One car will feature a “life-sized Hello Kitty doll” -- the character is “five apples” tall, according to creator Sanrio -- so fans can take selfies, a West Japan Railway spokesman told AFP. Another car will have no passenger seats but offer regional specialities, including a selection of goods and foods, in a bid to boost the local economy and tourism.

Handout / West Japan Railway / AFP Hello Kitty, the mouthless character, has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry since Sanrio introduced it in 1974. It This handout picture taken on June 25, 2018 and released by West Japan Railway on June 26, 2018 adorns everything from pencil cases and pyjamas to double- shows a Shinkansen train adorned with special livery bearing popular character Hello Kitty, at the decker buses and airliners. (afp) Hakata car maintenance centre in Fukuoka prefecture

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Fireproof robot can map burning building and predict explosions

IN a development welcomed by firefighters, a group of European researchers has developed a robot that can enter blazing buildings to map the terrain and gauge the risk of explosions.

The “SmokeBot”, still in development, is designed to go where it is unsafe for humans, equipped with gas sensors, radar, a laser scanner and a thermal camera, relaying data in real time back to an operative.

“At present, there is no robot with this combination of features,” said computer science professor Achim Lilienthal, of Sweden’s Örebro University, who is leading the project.

As well as “seeing” without using the visible light spectrum, the bot can analyse the air around it and give a percentage breakdown of the gases present to assess the risk of explosion.

Data collected by the bot are sent to a human operator over an internet connection. Should the robot lose its connection, it will automatically make its way back to the last location at which it could access the internet.

Sylvia Pratzler-Wanczura, a fire and rescue researcher with the Dortmund fire department, said the robot offered a “considerable advantage” in situations where it was too risky to send in rescue personnel or when rescuers had to search through large areas, as is the case with forest fires.

However, she added that its data processing capacity needed to be increased. “At this time, it takes about 15-30 minutes for the robot to collect data on the accident location, which means that it cannot yet be used in the most urgent of rescue efforts.”

The project to develop the robot has received €3.5m in EU funds and is now in its fourth year.

Other partners in the research besides are the Leibniz University of Hannover, The University of Warwick, the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques in IBP/net Wachtberg, the Taurob manufacturing company, The “SmokeBot”, still in development, is designed to go where it is unsafe for humans, equipped with gas sensors, which is based in Vienna, and the Fire Departradar, a laser scanner and a thermal camera, relaying data in real time back to an operative. ment of Dortmund. (net)

Eindhoven to print five boulder-shaped homes in park

THE Netherlands is about to begin another ground-breaking project in the world of additive construction with a Flintstone-like cluster of five printed concrete houses, earmarked for the city of Eindhoven.

Holland is already leading the way in printed bridges, and now it hopes to challenge for leadership in printed homes – the front runner here being France, which successfully printed a five-room dwelling in Nantes earlier this year.

Called “Milestone”, the scheme will develop over five years, and the project team hope to make the process slicker as it gets the measure of the practical difficulties involved.

Van Wijnen is the contractor,

and the design was by Houben/Van Mierlo architects.

The property side is being handled by Vesteda, with Saint GobainWeber Beamix looking after the concrete, and Witteveen + Bos as the engineer. The project is being overseen by the city council and the Technical University of Eindhoven, which has previously worked on 3D -printed bridges.

Thanks to a research group that has formed around Professor Theo Salet, and the university’s concrete printer, TU Eindhoven has become a centre of 3D printing.

A park, the Groenplaats Bosrijk in Eindhoven, will be the setting for the houses, which are meant to resemble boulders deposited by a retreating ice sheet.

From a design point of view their irregular shape is one of the advantages of printing, which can be used to construct “almost any shape”, the university said.

Van Wijnen comments on its website: “The houses will be printed one after the other, which means that each can benefit from what was learned on the previous, and can be adapted directly to the wishes of the residents. For example, the first house will be a single-storey structure printed off-site. The ambition is to print the fifth home on location as three layers.

“We see Milestone not as an experiment, but as a pioneering innovation that will cause a stir in the construction sector.” (net)

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Holland is already leading the way in printed bridges, and now it hopes to challenge for leadership in printed homes.

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Tribuana port at Kusamba

Used to look beautiful with many salt farming working away in the sun

TRIBUANA port in Kusamba village, Dawan, Klungkung, one of the port from which visitors can reach Nusa Penida Island has changed a lot over the years.

This port is now crowded with local and foreign visitors waiting for their boat to so they can go to Nusa Penida Island. The passenger lounge is often crowdedespecially on holidays, so many sit on the beach instead.

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This port is now crowded with local and foreign visitors waiting for their boat to so they can go to Nusa Penida Island.

The parking area is also full and passengers seek shelter in any shade they can find. Although the boat operators are sometimes overwhelmed, they certainly welcome the business.

Such scenes only started to become commonplace in the early 2000’s. According to 71 year old local residents Ni Wayan Kari, in the 1970”s and 80”s the port was very small and the black sandy beach was covered in salt drying platforms made out of coconut trees, neatly arranged from East to West. “The beach used to look beautiful with salt drying platforms lining the beach from Pesinggahan village to the west”, she recalled recently.

Thatched-roofed huts with bamboo walls were also part of the scenery, but as the price of salt slowly dropped, the happy smiles of the salt farmers turned to wistful ones. Enthusiasm for salt farming shrivelled with time and now there are very few people pouring sea water onto the flattened sand. “Many salt farmers have stopped this activity. There are only three of us left”, she said.

This white-haired woman chooses to keep going because she owns the land she works on and her son who works in Denpasar often comes to help out. “Otherwise I would have given up like the others”, she said.

This work that she inherited from her parents requires patients and in recent years she has been encouraged by rising salt prices – now in the range of IDR 15,000-20,00 per kilo depending on the quality. Also the new port provides hope for a boost in sales. “Sometimes people will buy slat for their family here”, said Keri.

The local government has also started paying attention to supporting the salt famers by proving sea water pumps so Kari no longer has to haul the water up herself. Dewa Nyoman Suyasa who used to work as a fishermen now works at the port loading ladders onto the boats. “Yes I remember there used to be a lot of salt farmers here, back when the port was still small”, he recollected. (sos)

Semara Wijaya art studio in BAF

Angantelu style Rejang Renteng

DENPASAR — Semara Wijaya Art Studio was entrusted to create a performance for the 40th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in the form of dance and contemporary gamelan music presented on the Ayodya stage of the Denpasar Art Center on Sunday afternoon (Jun. 24). The art studio was actually founded only a year ago, but quickly amassed some 200 members. In the future, they would like to work on the Rejang dance style that is typical of Angatelu village, Karangasem as this is where the dance studio is based (Antiga Kelod village, Manggis to be precise).

Head of the art studio, I Gede Bawa Setiawan,, said that there is a lot of enthusiasm for dance and gamelan music amongst the people of Angantelu but there was nowhere to practice until the Semeara WIjaya Art Studio was

established in 2017.

“The children are particularly enthusiastic but their parents also support us in the studio. Without them we are nothing. We will work together to preserve our culture”, said Setiawan.

Everyday the studio holds dance, gamelan and pesantian (Psalmody chanting) practice at the studio and also explore specifically local culture and wisdom including the Angatelu style of Rejang that is different than other regions.

“Actually we frequently perform in the village temple as a form of devotional work, but only in the traditional style. It is not easy to explore this tradition as here is no template”, he added.

The Rejang of Angantelu, added Setiawan has its own unique characteristics. For one the dancers wear rice husks around their waist.

According to the pangeling-eling local village palm-leaf manuscript it says that the dancer in the rear would disappeared – prayed on by the manifestation of a black tiger. “So the dancers wear husks that will leave a trail behind them is case they disappear. Also the dancers carry a twisted thread with 200 perforated coins in the front and bananas in the read. It is is danced in a sequence so it is called Rejang Renteng (in a series),”, he explained.

IN this year’s BAD, the Semara Wijaya Art Studio is presenting a contemporary samara pegulingan gamelan composition entitled Pandan Harum, the Dharma Putri dance, the Gajah Mada hard mask dance, a contemporary semara pegulingan

by Surya Kumara, Kembang Menuh contemporary dance and a Jauk Durga Manis dance. (kmb32)

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Semara Wijaya Art Studio was entrusted to create a performance for the 40th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) in the form of dance and contemporary gamelan music.

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Domestic visitors begin departing from Bali

DENPASAR - Domestic visitors, who spent the long 2018 Eid al-Fitr, or Lebaran holidays in Bali, have gradually begun departing from the Indonesian island resort.

Some of the holidaymakers were seen leaving on Monday evening from the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport for their respective home areas.

PT Angkasa Pura-I Public Relations Chief for Ngurah Rai Airport Arie Ahsanurrohim remarked here on Tuesday that the reverse flow of Lebaran holiday travelers from Bali will peak on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Ahsanurrohim noted that Wednesday is the last day of the long collective Lebaran holidays this year for holiday travelers to return to work on Thursday.

According to Ahsanurrohim, the surge was witnessed in the number of passengers on domestic flights departing from the Ngurah Rai Airport since Monday at the domestic departure terminal of the airport and is forecast to peak on Wednesday.

Integrated Command Post of Lebaran Transport Monitoring at the airport recorded that 19,627 domestic passengers had left Bali on Monday.

The number is greater than 18,764 domestic passengers, who arrived in Bali via the Ngurah Rai Airport.

Airlines had earlier begun operating 724 additional flights to handle the high number of domestic tourists vacationing in Bali. (ant)

Dozens of tourists enjoy free horse-drawn vehicle in Denpasar

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DENPASAR - Dozens of domestic tourists were enthusiastic to enjoy a free ride on an ornamental horse-drawn vehicle to explore several attractions in Denpasar City, Bali Province, during the 2018 Lebaran holidays.

“Now, several people throng this city to spend their Lebaran holidays,” Ketut Nedeng, one of the bus drivers, stated here on Saturday.

According to Nedeng, free horse cart programs, held every Saturday and Sunday, are more in demand among domestic tourists than those from foreign countries.

Every tourist, who will ride the free horse-drawn vehicle, must register and wait for the departure schedule in accordance with the order. Moreover, one is free to choose the

route to take around the city of Denpasar.

Visitors can enjoy several historical tours, such as to the Bali Museum, Pasar Badung area, and Catur Muka statue.

One of the tourists from Denpasar Gung Tu De expressed happiness on being able to ride the free horse cart along with his family.

He said it was unique to ride the free ornamental horsedrawn vehicle to enjoy Denpasar City.

Another tourist Luh Winda also echoed the same view when she rode the horse cart for traveling. “It feels different to ride the horse-drawn vehicle rather than use our own vehicle,” she added.

Hopefully, the free horse cart program would continue to be enjoyed by tourists, she stated. (ant)

Three traditional boats capsize due to bad weather

NEGARA - Bad weather occurred in the waters of Jembrana on Sunday (Jun. 24) causing three fishing boats to capsize after being hit by strong waves. 50 year old I Wayan Wanda from Mekra Sari , Perancak suffered IDR 500,000 in losses from damage to his fibreglass boat, 58 year old fishermen Negah Narsa from Lemodang, Perancak lost three cedik , fishing gear and his outboard motor for an estimated IDR 10 million in losses while 50 year old Nengah Warsa from Tibu Kleneng Perancak also suffered damage to his boat values at about IDR 500,000.

The large waves struck the fishermen as they were returning to the mainland after looking for fish at sea. Strong winds caused their boats to capzied and other fishemrne then at sea contacted local security forces.

The quick response team from the Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Jembrana deployed 4 personnel and ambulances to the scene to rescue the victims.

The fishermen were successfully evacuated and their were no casualties.

Head of the BPBD Jembrana, Ketut Eko Susila Permana, confirmed that there were no casualties and that the fishermen had only suffered material losses. “The weather was bad with very strong winds. We hope fishermen will be careful. Boat captains and harbour officials should also remain vigilant”, he said.

Data from the National Weather Service (BMKG) indicated that weather situation was generally cloudy in the north of the Bali Strait and light rain in the southern waters, the average wind blew from the East - Southeast direction with a speed of 2 - 20 knots. High waves in the northern waters ranged from 0.25 to 1.25 meters and in the Southern waters ranged from 0.25 to 3.5 meters. (120)

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Meet Like a Local - Unique, Bali-style events at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali.

Combine business with pleasure on the beautiful island of Bali. Just 20 minutes from the international airport, the luxury beachfront resort The Ritz-Carlton, Bali makes an inspired choice for your next conference or business event in Bali. With an exciting range of meeting offers and optional add-ons, the experienced organizers at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will bring your event to life while granting a unique glimpse into life on the beautiful island of Bali. Local traditions inspire meeting offerings, and the catering team has created Balinese-styled coffee breaks and lunch menus that include Fruit Market Break, Balinese Sweet Market and Balinese Warung Lunch. Beachfront

Balinese-themed dinners can also be arranged that showcase local specialities, from spicy bebek betutu to fragrant sate lilit, while Balinese music and dance performances provide wonderful entertainement.

Unique team building activities are a specialty and you will feel like a local when you host your next meeting at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali. The resort’s pristine white sand beach is ideal for fun Indonesian and Balinese games, and low impact beach games like sack races, tug of war or marble and spoon races. Inspiring Balinese cooking classes take place in the atmospheric Culinary Cave and include a visit to a local market.

On the wellness front, Sunrise Yoga sessions balance mind, body and spirit while ritualistic Soul

Purification Ceremonies cleanse the spirit.

“The Ritz Carlton, Bali offers award-winning indoor and outdoor venues and the ultimate in corporate event spaces, while at the same time providing a fully immersive Balinese cultural experience that thrills its guests and ensures the most interesting and successful events,” says General Manager Karim Tayach.

For those who wish to venture further afield, the Ladies and Gentleman of The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will be happy to tailor make land tours that take in the incredible sites of the island, from steeply terraced rice fields, to towering volcanoes and ornamental Hindu temples. Cultural visits to museums and traditional dance performances can also be included.

Elegant and highly contemporary, the resort provides a superb cliff-top conference venue with well-appointed meeting rooms, state-of-the-art facilities, vast array of outdoor venues and extravagant spaces, as well as superb accommodation options. Over 800 square meters of conducive business areas are available, including an elegant ballroom – complete with four breakout rooms, wraparound terrace and an abundance of space and light to deliver the ambience of the tropics backed by full technological support.

No matter how large or small your next event is, the luxury meeting rooms, fabulous event spaces and inspiring range of Balinese-based activities at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali will ensure it is a resounding success.

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Big, mean and making the green: ‘Jurassic’ tops N. America box office

YouTube’s alliance with two powerhouse names in Hollywood comes as competition intensifies in an online streaming video market with players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Apple.

Google-owned YouTube’s subscription service Premium offers ad-free viewing of shared videos along with original content for $12 a month.

Original content has become a battlefront in online video, with Netflix and Amazon Prime spending billions of dollars on shows.

The YouTube series titled “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” will center on the US cult of unbridled entrepreneurship and a woman’s intense pursuit of the American Dream.

The series will be set in the 1990s, and is scheduled for release next year.

YouTube Premium, formerly named YouTube Red, had a hit with its first big original series, “Cobra Kai,” inspired by the “Karate Kid” martial arts underdog film from 1984.

The first episode of “Cobra Kai” has logged more than 40 million views since it was made available at YouTube on May 2 and a second season has been ordered.

Launched in late 2015, YouTube Premium includes an online streaming music service and is seen as part of a broader effort by Google-parent Alphabet to expand how it makes money beyond advertising revenue. (afp)

HOLLYWOOD - Huge, green and scary stomped on cute, young and funny this weekend as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” debuted at $148 million to dislodge “Incredibles 2” from the top spot at the North American box office, sales data showed Monday.

The dinosaur sequel -- executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the original two movies -- fell short of the then-record $208 million opening by the last “Jurassic” film in 2015, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Still, “Fallen Kingdom” has passed the $700 million mark worldwide -- despite tepid reviews like the suggestion by The New York Times that the film is little more than “a way for people with no other plans to grab some air conditioning.”

The movie stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard as they try to rescue genetically recreated dinosaurs from a volcanothreatened island and move them to -- why not? -- a sprawling California mansion. Sliding to second, Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” earned a respectable $80.3 million as North American theaters continued to recover from last summer’s downturn.

The film, about a quirky superhero family, raked in $182 million in its debut weekend, a record for an animated feature in the US and Canada, easily surpassing the $135 million debut of 2016’s “Finding Dory.”

The film tells the story of the Parr family -- centered this time on matriarch Helen (Holly Hunter) as she battles to help bring the world’s hiding superheroes back into the open.

Husband Bob (Craig T. Nelson) is left at home in charge of their frighteningly talented but scarily unpredictable kids, and finds the homemaker’s job more challenging than being a superhero.

In third spot was Warner Bros.’s heist movie “Ocean’s 8,” at $11.5 million. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - YouTube Premium has commissioned a dark comedy co-produced by George Clooney and Kirsten Dunst, who will also star in the series, according to a source familiar with the deal.

General atmosphere during the IMAX exclusive experience for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom at AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX on June 20, 2018 in New York City.

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Bali to Choose its New Governor

Denpasar (Bali Post) - If you come to Bali these days, you will be “welcomed” by a lot of campaign materials in different forms. Signs, banners, backdrops, flags, many of which in amazingly gigantic size as well as people wearing similar kind of clothes and accessories. The general election will be held on today. Bali will then have a new Governor to lead the provincial administration for the following 5 years. By Indonesian law, the current governor can not be nominated as he is now in his second period.

Running into the election are Rai Mantra, the current Mayor of Denpasar and Wayan Koster who is currently representing Bali in Indonesian national House of Representatives. Vice Governor candidate to Rai Mantra is the current Vice Governor Sudikerta. On the opposing front, candidate for Vice Governor to Wayan Koster comes from Ubud Royal Family who is also the current Regent of Gianyar, Cok Ace. At the same time, the Regency of Klungkung will also elect a new Regent. Bali and Klungkung are among 171 Indonesia province, cit-

ies, and regencies to have regional general election.

Whilst Balinese is known for friendly manner, tension gets warmer as each candidates are trying to mobilize their supporter to gain votes. Nevertheless, the authority are working intensively to have everything in check whilst the Police Department guarantees that Bali remains a save and friendly destination to visiting tourists. If you happen to come to Bali during this period, you will witness a significant event in Indonesian democracy.

Something that you may have

to be aware is that campaigns and rallies that involve vast number of people may affect the traffic. You may find them attractive event to see. Otherwise you may want to talk to your driver or guide to plan your trip so you are not trapped in traffic congestion. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.