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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

King Tut’s chariot heads to New York Power plants in Nusa Penida not working PAGE 8

‘Inception’ trumps ‘Salt’ with $43.5M weekend PAGE 12

Agence France-Presse CAIRO – A chariot belonging to King Tutankhamun that may provide clues to the boy king’s final moments, will leave Egypt for the first time to go on display in New York, the culture minister said on Monday.

The chariot, which will arrive in New York on Wednesday, will be part of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit in New York, Faruk Hosni said in a statement.

“This is the first time that the chariot will travel outside Egypt,” antiquities chief Zahi Hawass was quoted as saying.

“It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the people of New York to see something of such great significance from the boy king’s life,” he said.

The chariot, one of five discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, is undecorated and its wheels are worn out, suggesting it had been used frequently by King Tut. Hawass said that during recent CT scans and DNA tests, medical teams had found that Tutankhamun had an accident a few hours before he died causing a fracture in the king’s left leg.

“This makes the inclusion of Tutankhamun’s chariot to the New York exhibit even more interesting as the young king may have fallen from this very chariot,” Hawass said.

“As we discover more about Tutankhamun’s death, we may find that this very chariot is an important piece of the puzzle that we’ve been working for decades to solve,” he said. Last month German scientists said Tutankhamun was probably killed by the genetic blood disorder sickle cell disease, rejecting the conclusions of a major Egyptian study released in February which suggested he had died of malaria.

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The head and torso of Tutankhamun is on display at the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs”

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DENPASAR - Five Balinese students who were victims of human trafficking in Malaysia were scheduled to be flown home on Monday, a local government official said.

“The students will have arrived here today,” Head of Bali Province’s Workforce, Population and Transmigration Office I Made Artadana said.

He said he had coordinated with the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur for their return to Bali.

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“The students have left Malaysia at 9 am (Malaysia time),” Artadana said.

He said his office had also coordinated with the parents of the students and the Badung-based Mengwitani School of Tourism (PLP) to welcome them.

Before being flown back to the resort island, the ill-fated female students were giving shelter at the Indonesian embassy.

According to the embassy’s labor attache, Agus Trianto, last Saturday, he would accompany the students in their trip home.

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Four out of five women who were stranded in Malaysia while trying to become foreign workers, cover their faces when arrive in Ngurah Rai Airport on Monday, July 26th 2010.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Bali News National Children’s Day:

Hundreds of children in Karangasem displaced and begging Bali Post

AMLAPURA - The National Children’s Day (HAN) was stipulated on July 1. Celebration of this year looked less vivacious either in the form of ceremony or activity. Meanwhile, celebration of HAN in Karangasem was organized in coincident with that of particular company having a concern. The celebration on last Sunday (Jul 25) organized by non-governmental organization (NGO) and assisted by a number of donators having a care was filled with the presentation of school equipment such as school bags, uniforms and books.

Despite hundreds of children receiving the parcel looked happy, Ni Nyoman Suparni, Counselor of the Integrated Service Centre for Women’s Empowerment and Children (P2TP2A) Karangasem, last Sunday, said the fate of hundreds of children in Karangasem remained apprehensive. They were abandoned in the sense they got less attention and good care from their parents and poor education because of disability or indigent condition of the families.

Suparni said the more apprehensive was that over 70 children were still exploited by their parents to become homeless and beggars.

None of the children went to school. They begged because were taken by mother, grandmother or other women in rumpled conditions with the aim to attract the sympathy of people who were asked for money. Those beggars were not only toddler, but also many schoolage children.

“Last Sunday I found a begging mother bringing along her child. The baby had a severe fever and we took it to the Karangasem Hospital and paid the cost for its medical services,” said Suparni who often accompanied children becoming the victims of sexual abuse or rape.

On the one hand, begging was partly because of their laziness and had become a parental legacy.

They felt good to get money easily by begging. Meanwhile, on the other hand, Suparni said they were indeed from poor families. Those beggars came from poor mountains and barren territory of Kubu. They lived scattered in the areas always facing water crisis during the dry

season.

A legislator of Karangasem House, Nyoman Sadra, also admitted that there were still many children in Karangasem whose parents belonging to poor families. Because of inability of parents, their children often did not get a decent education, such as dropouts. “We in the ashram picked up a number of school-age children originating from Kubu and sent them to school until graduated,” revealed the caregiver of Gedong Gandhi Ashram of Candidasa.

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Last year, two school-age children were taken to beg by his grandmother. One of her grandsons taken to begging suffered from permanent blindness, while another though normal but did not attend school. They were not only originating from orphans but also from broken-home families. “In fact, many children in Karangasem are neglected or get less proper attention from their parents. They are not only from the orphan but also from disharmonious family. Some of them experienced problems, victim of underage sexual abuse and victim of rape by adult men or even by underage boy. Meanwhile, cases of early marriage were caused by adequately high free sex behavior in Karangasem,” he said.

In fact, such condition continued or commonly generated a less harmonious family. Some couples were not ready to get married because still young in terms of age as well as economy. In the end, if the young couple gave birth to their children, they eventually became the victims of disharmonious parents. “It needs an immediate solution in or-

der to disconnect the less harmonious chains,” she said.

In relation to the handling of beggars and their children, Suparni said Regency Government did not succeed because root of the problems was not sought and addressed. It required a halfway house. When beggars and their children were arrested, they were preferably collected and given life skills at halfway house.

Once they were ready they would be returned to the community. “Some of them did begging because they were poor and did not have any life skills,” she said.

In the meantime, based on the search most beggars were operating in Amlapura night market and junction of Abang market and dozens of begging children stayed or slept at shop or kiosk porch. Those children admitted not to go to school. When questioned why they did not go to school, no one knew what to answer.

Some others simply replied by saying they were poor and had no money for an expensive school, few said they were lazy because school was far enough from home while others preferred to work as beggars because it was easy to get money rather than going to school requiring a lot of money.

Seemingly, among the number of begging children and mothers were also indeed lazy. When they asked for money, some mothers offered them to bring up groceries at the terminal. Although they were promised to be given more money up to IDR 2000, they did not want and hanged out to go. Actually, those beggars would like to ask for money easily without working. Though they were only given as much as IDR 500, it would be okay. (bud)

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Buyers are seen picking fruits on a store. The price of fruit could also increase following the other product due to the Ramadhan.

Raided when enjoying methamphetamine party

Confined and admitted to steal at 13 crime scenes Bali Post

DENPASAR — Released from jailhouse did not make Helmi Yon, 33, from Karangasem and Ketut Suardika alias Karmen, 39, from Blahbatuh, Gianyar, learn their lesson. Although they had enjoyed stale ambience of the free accommodation in jailhouse, the two suspects were even taking more serious risks. Not only as a connoisseur of drugs, but also committed the crime of theft at a number of scenes.

Even, the two suspects were confined when they were absorbed in luxuriating in full flow of methamphetamine in room number 4 of boarding house located on Jalan Buana Raya, Gang Surya No. 1 Denpasar. Afterward, they were taken to headquarters of West Denpasar Police for further investigation. “Aside from enjoyer of methamphetamine, the two suspects apparently are breaker-in specialists of boarding houses,” said Chief of West Denpasar Police, Andi Prihastomo, last Sunday (Jul 25).

They were both former convicts. The suspect Helmi was a former convict of theft cases in Klungkung and West Denpasar. He had languished in Kerobokan Jailhouse for 19 months. Meanwhile, the suspect Karmen had languished in police custody of Gianyar Police due to illegal Toto case. “The suspect Karmen was sentenced to three months imprisonment,” he said ac-

companied by Chief of Criminal Detective Unit, Wayan Wesnawa.

Apart from these two suspects, police were still chasing the suspect Komang XL. He was the perpetrator selling methamphetamine to the suspect Karmen. The suspect Karmen knew him when Komang XL was equally in prison.

“Each suspect has separate roles. The suspect Yon Helmi played the role to break-in the boarding house, while Karmen purchased methamphetamine to Komang,” he explained.

So far, 13 scenes had been successfully broken-in by the suspect Yon Helmi. A number of victim’s belongings had been taken away. Their stolen goods were later on sold and the money used to purchase methamphetamine. Well, the suspect Karmen was also in charge of buying the methamphetamine. “From the results of the raid, we found two more suspects of the methamphetamine party. Since they admitted to have stolen, a number of stolen goods were also confiscated,” he added.

In the meantime, based on provisional result of the examination, the suspects had burglarized at 13 crime scenes located in the area of Nusa Dua, Kuta, Jalan Imam Bonjol, Jalan Gunung Salak and Panjer. Their targeted goods consisted of laptops, cell phones, digital cameras and some other valuables. “The two suspects had been arrested. They were examined intensively in the room of investigators,” he added. (kmb21)

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Captured, Three Transvestites Took Tourist Items Bali Post

DENPASAR - The situation of the Kuta Police Sector areal has always been covered by criminal acts and with its being a drunken place for either local or foreign tourists, the place became an easy target.

Just like what the three transvestites did, with each initialed SF alias Audy (24), KH alias Rizky/Icha (28) and RP alias Bella (19), used the Irish initialed EC (28) while drunk. As the Irish was asleep at its staying place Berlian Inn Hotel, Popies I Street, Gang Sorga, Kuta, some of its items were gone taken by the accused.

Head of Kuta Police Sector, Adjunct Police Commissioner joined

by Head of Criminal Detectives Unit, First Inspector Made Dayendra, confirmed the case on Sunday (25/7). The three accused were captured at each of their house, “The case is on development. The three accused are being jailed while waiting its law processed.”

According to Wimboko, it started when victim finished clubbing in a discotheque at Legian on Tuesday (13/7) at 3 am mid-Indonesia time (wita). Victim was going home and in the middle of the journey the accused followed, “They all (victim and accused, red) had a chat before victim was asleep.”

As victim’s asleep, the situation was used by the accused to go through victim’s stuffs which then a laptop, two iPods, a Nokia cell phone and a digital camera were taken, “Victim just knew the items were gone when the victim woke up. They weren’t at their places anymore.”

The missing items made the victim try to recall what happened be-

fore and remembered the three transvestites came to the hotel as well. Victim was then suspicious about them and so reported it to the Kuta Police Sector, “We are investigating this and inspecting some witnesses as well.”

From the investigation, one of the accused was known to have used a motorcycle branded Yamaha Mio Soul blue colored with plate number DK 5429 B. Turns out that was owned

by SF who lives at Sriwijaya Street, Kuta. SF, from Balikpapan, now has been captured with no fight back.

Then police also captured accused KH from South Sulawesi who lives at Nakula Street, Gang Kalianyar, Kuta and RP from Jakarta lives at Nakula Street, Gang Dewi Sri, Kuta. (kmb21)

Marked Slow, Realization on Disaster Aid at Bandung Bali Post

MANGUPURA – Badung Region House of Representatives insists Region Government to do a realization on the disaster aid budget. As it was marked slow to do this responsibility, Head of Commission C from the House of Representatives, I Nyoman Satria, last Sunday (25/7) mentioned the Region Government should have not take time on this as to the people, this is important. Just like this year, natural disasters that happened especially at Petang sub district were not taken care of when actually most of it happened in the earlier times of the year.

For example: landslides at Belok-

Sidan route and four disasters at Getasan village which are Buangga Bridge, Pura (Temple) Merajapati at Banjar Buangga, Pemukiman Street at Banjar Buangga and Kindergarten School at the village.

Badung itself has its own special budget through a spare budget around IDR 3 Billion taken from the main Budget and Expenses year 2010. To realize it, Head of Public Relations and Protocol, Badung Region Secretary I Gede Wijaya actually said the opposite by still waiting the Representatives’ agreement.

Replying to this, Satria mentioned, as the Direction from Domestic Minister Number 13 Year 2006 says, handling a disaster does not

need a House Of Representatives agreement but only just with sending a statement letter to the Representatives connecting to the use of the budget, “Only statement, no need an agreement as it is urgent.”

Comission C member I Putu Alit Yandinata also added, the IDR 3 Billion is enough to have taken care of the disasters that happened all this time. And so Yandinata asked the Region Government to use the budget now for the people’s principals, “This is emergency. There’s no reason Region Government delays it. It doesn’t need an agreement, because it has been agreed in the Main Budget and Expenses year 2010.” (ded)

Indonesian President arrives in Bali Antara

DENPASAR - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrived in Denpasar, Bali at 10 am local time on Monday for a working visit.

On the island resort of Bali, the head of state would attend the National Student Art Creation Contest at Tampaksiring Presidential Palace.

President Yudhoyono’s entourage included First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, Energy and Mineral Resources Min-

ister Darwin Z Saleh, Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hassan, Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, presidential spokesman Julian A Pasha, and Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah replacing Dino Patti Djalal.

Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said earlier that the National Student Art Creation Contest, organized annually in the run up to Independence Day (August 17), was a follow up of President Yudhoyono’s ini-

tiative when opening National Children’s Day on July 23, 2006 at Cipanas Flower Park, West Java.

President Yudhoyono was of the opinion that such a contest for elementary and secondary school students were intended to instill national character in the students.

According to Jero Wacik, the contest was the right media for the students to competitively increase their artistic creativity and develop their character.

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4212 Teachers rationed,Non Teacher rationed 265 People Denpasar (Bali Post) â € “ In fiscal year 2010, the central government through the Education Quality Assurance Institution (LPMP) Balinese back poured to support the education subsidy program for improving the academic qualifications of teachers and educational staff of non-qualified teachers who have not S1/D4. Total non S1/D4 teachers throughout Bali allocated to receive education subsidies running it reached 4212 people. While nonteacher education personnel allocated 265 people. The head of LPMP Bali Dr. I Wayan Sunata, M. Pd., M. Si. Said that to the Bali Post, Sunday (25 / 7) yesterday.

According to Sunata, each teacher and non teacher educators that education subsidies allocated Rp 2 million per person. This means, the total central government budget disbursed for the sake of it reaches Rp8.9 billion more. Total non S1/ D4 teacher in Bali who becomes the target of this program decreased compared to the previous budget year. In the 2009 budget a year ago, the number of teachers who received education subsidy disbursement of central government teachers carrying 4320 people or less 18 people.

Next year, each teacher also receive

education subsidies to Rp 2 million per person. However, the number of teachers being targeted this year has decreased,? he said.

Sunata asserted, the education subsidy the central government disbursed it will be distributed proportionately to the nine districts in Bali.

This means that areas with a population of non S1/D4 highest teacher certainly get the highest quotas. Conversely, areas with low population of teachers of non S1/D4 certainly will get a quota??. The same pattern also applied in the distribution of educational subsidies for non-teacher educators such as general administration and the like. At the end of July 2010, Disdikpora districts are expected to deposit the names of teachers and educational staff that the proposed non-teachers receive educational subsidies. Furthermore, LPMP Bali will hold a special meeting with Disdikpora Bali and Disdikpora district-related distribution of education subsidies allocated the central government, ? he said and added, teachers and education staff who receive education subsidies were required to take college-accredited college of A or B. (kmb13)

Again, Two Pura at Samplangan Robbed Bali Post

GIANYAR - Not long after the robbery at Pura (temple) Dalem Koripan or Pura Sekar Pule at Samplangan village on Saturday evening (24/7) another robbery known has happened on Sunday morning (25/7). The neighboring Pura, Pura Hyang Api and Pura Dalem Samplangan, had its sacred items such as prerai (face realization) of two pratima (religious statues) and a genta (bell) owned

by Pura Dalem Samplengan’s priest were gone.

The case at the two Pura was predicted to have happened at the same time as the stolen pratima at Pura Dalem Koripan. Only just, it was known on Sunday morning after Village chief and the Pura’s priest were checking around. It was known at 7 am wita (mid-Indonesia time). Samplangan Village chief was checking the other Pura after what happened on Saturday evening. The Pura Dalem Samplangan priest was also told of what happened so the priest checked its own Pura on Sunday morning.

When checking Pura Hyang

Api, it was found the Pura’s pratima box was outside the Pura which was behind a small shop. Meanwhile at Pura Dalem Samplangan, the priest saw the wire on the door to the pratima saving was damaged. After checked, it’s all still there but the clothing saving place at the Pura was forced open. The bell owned by the priest was taken.

The robbery case was then spread to the locals and caused grieve for them. It was suspected the robber is very clever in reading the location as the Pura is located at the main road and surrounded by residents’ houses. Only just, when it happened, the locals were busied by the Ngaben (cremation) ceremony happening at Siyut Beach.

Police have investigated the crime scene and have also brought the Satwa (animal/dogs) unit to track the robbers. Sadly, with rain coming down and the incident happened more than 9 hours, the dogs couldn’t do much according to Head of Gianyar Police Sector, Adjunct Police Commissioner I Gede Putra Astawa who was also investigating the crime scene. (kmb16)

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International

South Korea, US stage anti-submarine drill Agence France-Presse

SEOUL – The United States and South Korea staged anti-submarine drills Monday on the second day of a major naval exercise aimed at deterring North Korea despite its threats of nuclear retaliation.

The two allies, who accuse the North of sending a submarine to torpedo a South Korean warship, have assembled about 20 ships including a 97,000-ton US aircraft carrier, 200 aircraft and 8,000 personnel. Seoul and Washington say the four-day exercise which began Sunday — their biggest for years — is intended to stress that future attacks will meet a decisive response.

The communist North denies responsibility for the attack on the South’s corvette in March which cost 46 lives. It describes the drill named “Invincible Spirit” as a rehearsal for war.

Monday’s manoeuvres “focus on better detecting intrusions by an enemy’s submarines and attacking them”, a spokesman for the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters.

The South’s military came in for strong criticism for failing to detect the alleged submarine attack near the disputed Yellow Sea border.

A squadron of fighter jets was to hold live-fire drills later in the day.

On Tuesday the allies would fire naval guns at a target representing a North Korean sub, the spokesman said. Four F-22 Raptor stealth

fighters are flying missions in and around Korea for the first time.

The exercise is being held in international waters in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), far south of North Korean waters.

But the North’s powerful National Defence Commission warned Saturday it would “start a retaliatory sacred war” of its own style at “any time necessary” to counter the drills.

It said the country’s army and people “will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the US and the South Korean puppet forces”.

Ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reiterated the criticism Monday, but less stridently.

“The sabre-rattling is a prelude to the second Korean War, to all intents and purposes,” it said in a commentary, one day before the 57th anniversary of the armistice which ended the three-year conflict.

The US and South Korea “will have to pay a dear price if they persist in the criminal act of harassing peace and security on the peninsula, defying our repeated warnings”, the paper added without restating the nuclear threat.

Seoul’s defence ministry said no

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File photo of South Korean Navy Patrol Combat Corvettes staging an anti-submarine exercise

abnormal military activities by the North have been detected.

In addition to the current exercise, the first in a series this year, the United States last week announced new sanctions to punish the North for the sinking and push it to scrap its nuclear weapons

programme. In response to Beijing’s protests, the current exercise was switched from the Yellow Sea separating China and Korea to the other side of the peninsula.

But officials said future drills would be held in the Yellow Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.

China, the North’s sole major ally, has called for restraint from all sides.

“All involved parties should commit to providing peace and security on the Korean peninsula,” Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Sunday in Vienna.

Divisive ex-Thai leader marks birthday on Twitter AP

BANGKOK – Thailand’s deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra marked his 61st birthday Monday with tweets from exile that called for peace, a day after a grenade exploded in downtown Bangkok that left one person dead and 10 wounded.

There have been no claims of responsibility for Sunday’s blast at a bus stop in a busy shopping district, which coincided with a parliamentary election that pitted a jailed leader of recent pro-Thaksin protests against a government candidate who narrowly won.

Authorities have declined to speculate whether the bombing was related to Thailand’s continued political turbulence in the wake of the street demonstrations that paralyzed much of the capital for weeks. During two months of unrest that ended with an army crackdown May 19, almost 90 people died — mostly protesters — and more than 1,400 were hurt.

“I am 61 today,” Thaksin tweeted. “I want to see good things happening in our country and am prepared to cooperate with all sides.”

He did not elaborate.

“Please do not resort to violence. I don’t like it. I disagree with it,” Thaksin added. The ex-leader and former tycoon is widely believed to have financed the so-called Red Shirt anti-government movement.

Thailand has been in a state of political turmoil since 2006, when a coup ousted thenReuters People give food offerings to Buddhist monks on Asanha Puja Day, the eve of the Bud- Prime Minister Thaksin, who was popular among the rural and urban poor. Since then, dhist Lent, in Nakhon

his supporters and opponents have staged a bitter struggle for power and called for the return of Thaksin who fled into exile to avoid a 2007 corruption conviction. He is believed to spend most of his time in Dubai.

The Red Shirts, made up of Thaksin’s supporters and other opponents of the coup, staged protests in April last year and then relaunched their campaign against Abhisit in March this year and occupied parts of Bangkok for more than two months.

Thaksin supporters held birthday celebrations for him Monday in several parts of the country.

Thaksin phoned in to a birthday gathering at a Buddhist temple in his northern hometown of Chiang Mai, telling the hundreds of people assembled that he wants to come home.

Pro-Thaksin groups accused government supporters of orchestrating Sunday’s blast to justify a state of emergency still in place in Bangkok and other provinces and the detention of several top protest leaders.

Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said an investigation was under way and it was too soon “to point a finger.”

Bangkok deputy police chief Panupong Singhrra Na Ayutthaya said that Sunday’s blast was caused by an M67 grenade stashed in a garbage bin next to a bus stop that had been modified to be detonated remotely. He said the grenade had a 15-meter blast radius.

Authorities were searching for suspects whose images were captured by closed-circuit cameras in the area, he said.

International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate General Jalan Tantular 32 Renon Denpasar Phone: +62 361 241118 Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

General Info

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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026

TAXIS Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090 Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111 Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724 Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366 Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

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Police: 26 killed in Afghan bus crash AP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A speeding bus flipped over Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing 26 people who were on board, Afghan police said.

The bus ran off the road in Daman district south of Kandahar city just after dawn and flipped over, said the head of traffic police for the province, Mohammadullah Khan.

Twenty-two people had originally been reported killed, and Khan said another four died of their injuries later in the day. More than 20 were injured, he said. He did not say how many people were in the bus.

The bus was heading toward the capital of Kabul and was driving well over normal speeds, Khan said.

In the capital, a helicopter made a “hard landing” on the perimeter of a NATO base early Monday, the coalition said in a statement. Four

people aboard received minor injuries, the statement said.

A spokeswoman for NATO forces declined to rule out hostile fire or give any indication of what led to the emergency landing, saying only that the incident was under investigation.

Lt. Commander Katie Kendrick also declined to specify which NATO base in the capital was involved and whether the craft had landed inside the perimeter or just outside.

In the east, meanwhile, a unit of Afghan army commandos retook a remote but volatile area of Nuristan province that has changed between government hands and insurgents multiple times in recent months, the

Defense Ministry said.

The commandos dropped into Barg-e-Matal district from helicopters and recaptured the area. The insurgents set fire to the district headquarters building before fleeing, the ministry said in a statement. There were no details about casualties but the ministry said it believed the insurgents had suffered losses. There were no army casualties, the statement said.

Afghan residents look on as British soldiers patrol through a village in Nahr e Saraj, Helmand Province

Police hunt killer of foreigners in Philippines AFP

ANGELES CITY, Philippines (AFP) – Police in the Philippines were hunting a man on Monday suspected of murdering three foreigners in separate attacks inside gated communities this month, authorities said.

The victims — an American, a Canadian and a Briton — were among nine people believed to have been killed by 28-year-old Mark Dizon in the northern city of Angeles, according to police.

“We are conducting a massive manhunt for his arrest,” Angeles police chief Danilo Bautista told AFP. Dizon, a computer technician and reflexologist, is suspected of killing American Albert Mitchell, 70, his 53year-old Filipina wife, Janet, and their three domestic helpers inside their Angeles home last week, Bautista said.

He is believed to have murdered Briton James Porter, 51, and his 22year-old Filipina girlfriend in their home a few days earlier, according to Bautista.

Dizon is also suspected of murdering Canadian Geoffrey Bennun, 60, and his 20-year-old Filipina girlfriend in similar circumstances on July 12.

All the men were retirees and lived

LONDON – Detectives were questioning a man on Monday after a nurse was stabbed to death in a hospital staff car park in Lancashire.

The woman, who has not been named, was attacked as she walked to her car outside Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Sunday night, Lancashire Police said.

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A team of Philippino policeman outside a provincial bus terminal. in separate gated communities that are popular with foreigners in Angeles, according to Bautista.

Dizon would befriend his victims and gain their trust before entering their communities on the premise that he was going to repair their computers, Angeles mayor Edgardo Pamintuan told reporters at the weekend.

He is then alleged to have killed his victims with a 9mm pistol and stolen electronic gadgets from their homes, which he then pawned.

A local pawn-shop owner, who saw pictures of the suspect on television, handed over to police a laptop, cameras, lenses and mobile phones all recently pawned by Dizon.

Angeles is well-known for its redlight nightlife, which began when the city serviced a US airbase. The base closed in 1991 but the city retains a large population of foreign residents.

Mitchell, the murdered American, was a retired US air force serviceman, according to Bautista.

Nurse stabbed to death in hospital car park Agence France-Presse

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“Officers were called at shortly before 8.30pm on Sunday, July 25 after a 26-year-old-woman was attacked as she approached her car in the staff car park at the hospital,” a police spokesman said.

“She was taken to the Accident and Emergency Department but sadly died.”

He added that police believe the victim may have been known to her attacker.

A 30-year-old man, of no fixed address, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Monday morning, in Barrowford, Nelson, police confirmed.

Detective Chief Inspector Neil Esseen, who is leading the investigation, said: “We have launched a murder inquiry following this incident and I would appeal for anyone with information to get in touch with us as a matter of urgency.”

“I will accompany them to Indonesia and hand them over directly to their parents on July 26,” he said.

They arrived in Malaysia last April under a working contract between their school and a local employment recruiting official, named Samuel. They were promised internships at five-star hotels.

Instead of being placed at the promised five-star hotels, they were brought to Penang from Kuala Lumpur to be employed at an electronic factory there, he said.

Nyoman, one of the five girl students, said they were offered an internship program at Malaysia’s fivestar hotels by their school’s principal.

“Our school was said to be cooperating with a manpower recruitment agent in Indonesia named Samuel,” Nyoman said.

However, to be able to work in the neighboring country, Nyoman said she had to pay Rp10.5 million while two of her friends each had to pay Rp6.5 million, she said.

The money was used for buy-

ing one-way tickets, obtaining passports, airport tax, and health checkups, she said.

“We arrived at Sepang, Malaysia, at midnight on April 13. The Malaysian agent came to pick us on April 14. He took us to a dormitory in Penang Island,” Nyoman said.

Instead of sending them to the promised five-star hotels for working under the internship program, he put them in an electronic factory in Penang, she said.

“Finding the different reality, we immediately called our parents.

They were very concerned because we were not in an internship program at the hotels as promised,” she said.

In response to the case of the the five Balinese students, Agus Trianto said they were indeed victims of human trafficking.

“If Samuel is arrested, he can be prosecuted under the anti-human trafficking law,” he said.

In Malaysia, more than a million Indonesians are working in such sectors as construction projects and plantations.

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Green cars have great market potential in RI Antara

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Visitors fill an exhibition hall of the 18th Indonesia International Motor Show in Jakarta on July 25, 2010.

JAKARTA - Industry Minister MS Hidayat said green cars had great market potentials in Indonesia, particularly among middle-class consumers.

“There is now a trend to use green and low-priced vehicles,” the minister said after accompanying Vice President Boediono in opening the Indonesian International Motor Show (IIMS) 2010.

He said such four-wheel vehicles were now in high demand in Indonesia. Low-cost , energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cars had great market potentials among middle-class people in Indonesia.

However, he said, he could not promise incentives for environmentally friendly cars to enable them to gain a large market. Cars with environmentally friendly technology are more expensive than cars with regular engines.

“If vehicle manufacturers in Indonesia already use environmentally friendly technology in most of their products, then we`ll talk about incentives,” said the former chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN).

But Hidayat also said t he supported the provision of incentives for environmentally-friendly cars. But the authority to give incentives, he said, was at the Ministry of Finance.

“I am not a finance minister,” said Hidayat when reporters asked about the matter of incentives.

Previously, auto sole agencies (ATPMs) had called on the government to provide tax incentives for environmentally-friendly cars so that they could be sold at lower than their present prices. The price of environmentally friendly cars, such as the Toyota Prius with a hybrid engine, is now almost twice the price of cars of the same type using conventional technology (gasoline engine).

Government urged to encourage renewable energy consumption Antara

JAKARTA - The Energy Care Society (MPE) urged on Sunday the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) to encourage the use of renewable energy as an alternative to fossil fuel.

“The government and the DPR need to issue a regulation to lay a firm basis to change fossil fuel’s market domination by encouraging the public to use more renewable

energy,” MPE Chairman Abdul Kadir said.

The regulation must contain clauses requiring companies operating under contracts of work in the

oil and gas mining sector to help meet power demand using renewable energy such as solar energy through corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, he said.

The companies’ participation in the fulfillment of power demand using alternative energy was badly needed to solve power shortage as well as to preserve the environment, he said.

“It is regrettable that people in oil- and mineral-rich regions have difficult access to electricity. This must draw the attention from all of us,” he said.

He said a number of companies such as Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Pertamina, Antam and Freeport had started building solar and micro hydro power plants to meet power demand however, the power plants still

had small capacity.

“This must become a common movement including the involvement of the extractive industry to think of a solution to this problem by providing CSR programs,” he said.

He said the MPE had discussed the matter with the extractive industry at a seminar in Bandung, West Java, on July 22-23.

Gas cylinder explodes, 10 injured DPR urges police to probe low quality gasoline Antara

JAKARTA - A gas cylinder explosion occurred at a location on Jalan Mandalika 1, Tanjung Duren Selatan, West Jakarta, injuring 10 people with burns. The 3-kg LPG cylinder burst on Sunday at 3.30 am at a leased house of a chicken porridge seller.

Tanjung Duren police said the explosion occurred when the man was preparing his porridge. Some of the other sellers also preparing their porridge, smelt a leaking gas canister.

He then put the looking canister into a vessel of water. But it appeared that another leaking gas canister was not quick enough to be put into the

vessel of water, and triggered by a stove and exploded, injuring 10 people, who were immediately rushed to Sumber Waras hospital in Grogol area. Three of the victims were women and seven men, all still under treatment at the hospital. The police are still trying to find the cause of the lead and ensuing explosion.

President asks ulemas to improve national morality Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked ulemas on Sunday to help improve the morality of some Indonesian people, hoping the country will make progress in all aspects of life, including their moral value.

“I sincerely hope that ulemas will always be in the forefront of the struggle to rescue the morality, etiquette and characters of our nation,” the President said when opening the 8th National Congress of the Indonesian

Ulemas Council (MUI) at the Jakarta Convention Center. Yudhoyono said Indonesia was facing the issues of morality, wisdom and etiquette.

One of the worrying issues was porn videos which made the people upset in recent months, he said.

He said the porn video case was a tragedy that must be prevented.

“Let’s prevent the worrying tragedy from recurrence,” he said.

The head of state noted that some of the people had often ignored morality as they were too busy dis-

cussing politics and the economy.

He asked all sides to respect legal and social norms in the country.

Ulemas should set an example to the entire nation, he said. The MUI congress was a good momentum to improve the morality and character of the nation, he said.

The President said Ulemas must be empowered to make Indonesia prosperous and religious.

“I hope that MUI can play a greater role particularly in creating a tranquil and religious life,” he said.

Antara

JAKARTA - The House of Representatives (DPR) urged police on Sunday to investigate the low quality of premium grade gasoline circulating in the community.

“The police must conduct a comprehensive investigation to solve the case as soon as possible. Don’t let the case drag on,” Bambang Soesatyo of the House Commission III said.

State oil and gas company Pertamina and police must provide true explanations on the quality of premium grade gasoline, he said.

“That’s why Pertamina and its distributors must support the police’s step to probe the low quality of premium grade gasoline,” he said.

He said he was concerned about the fact that some people had accused Pertamina of lowering pre-

mium grade gasoline’s octane intentionally.

“I don’t believe Pertamina has the courage to do the improper thing.

But some people have accused Pertamina of doing it so as to reduce premium grade (subsidized) gasoline consumption and encourage consumers to switch to its other products of better quality such as Pertamax,” he said.

He said one week before the case came under the spotlight he heard a taxi driver who supposed premium grade gasoline contained lead.

“Consequently, many cars have their fuel pumps damaged,” he said.

“I hope Pertamina will not underestimate the problem merely as an “attack” to tarnish the image of the state-owned company. Neither will it blame the car industry and taxi companies or the other way around,” he said.

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Bali Today Ni Ketut Cenik, maestro of jogged dance, pass away Antara

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The wind power plant (PLTB) and solar power plant (PLTS) on Puncak Mundi, Nusa Penida

Power plants in Nusa Penida not working

DENPASAR – Ni Ketut Cenik, a maestro of jogeg pingit and legong playon dance, passed away on Saturday, July 24th 2010 at 9 p.m. The artist was 86 years old and passed away while being treated in Sanglah hospital.

I Nyoman Budiartha, the head of Seni Panti Pusaka Budaya art group in Batuan village, Gianyar, said “the body was directly brought to her house in Batuan viilage, Gianyar.

The late Ni Ketut Cenik was buried on Sunday, July 25th 2010. She was hospitalized for two weeks because suffering from heart problem.”

She was buried while waiting a good date to carry out the ngaben ceremony. Cenik made Balinese traditional music and dances as a part of her daily life. She was also often go abroad to perform and her last outing was in 2008 when she went to Japan.

She was also the guest on the 3rd Batuan Art Festival (BAF) which was held on May 29th through June

2nd 2008. Several travel agents that saw Cenik performances during the festival were attracted to ask her to perform in Japan.

Ni Ketut Cenik received many awards for her achievement and dedication in art and one of them was Dharma Kusuma, the highest award from Bali Government in the field of art.

She was also teaching hundreds of students who eventually become great artists. She hoped that her students can continue her effort in preserving Balinese art and culture.

Cenik who has two children, seven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren was learning how to dance from I Wayan Kuir and Anak Agung Mandra Ukiran.

After that, she was teaching Balinese dances to the people in her neighborhood before became famous and received students from all over the world.

Cenik took part in preparing the representative of Gianyar Regency especially in Joged Pingitan dance on the Bali Art Festival which was held in 1978.

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SEMARAPURA - Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) of the Republic of Indonesia apparently could not stand watching the wind power plant (PLTB) and solar power plant (PLTS) on Puncak Mundi, Nusa Penida, did not work. Moreover, the local community until now disputed the existence of the power plants and then demanded the dismantling of the plants rather than being let disturb the scene and take the land. As consequence, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources planned to observe directly the existence of PLTB and PLTS on Monday (Jul 26).

When asked for confirmation, last Sunday (Jul 25), operator of two out of the nine PLTBs and PLTSs established, Made Suryana, justified the plan on the arrival of Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to Nusa Penida to observe the PLTB and PLTS on Puncak Mundi. Even, to ensure the plan, Suryana admitted to have asked for confirmation to Jakarta for several times.

“So far (last Sunday afternoon—ed), there is no cancellation related to the plan visit of Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources,” he said. However, Suryana admitted he did not dare ensure whether the arrival of the Ministry related to the non-func-

tioning of PLTB and PLTS and the urge to dismantle or there would be another plan related to the existence of the power plants.

Strangely, the visit plan of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources was not coordinated with the local government of Klungkung, including the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, as the owner of the region. “Yes, I indeed heard the visit plan was not coordinated with the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida. As a result, the subdistrict head itself did not know definitely about the plan,” added Suryana.

When contacted separately, the Head of Klungkung Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda), A.A.

Agung Ngurah, said he had received no information about the arrival of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to Nusa Penida. “Frankly, so far I have not received any notification about it,” he said.

Previously, a community figure of Nusa Penida who is also a legislator of Klungkung House, Wayan Baru, mentioned the existence of not-functioning PLTB and PLTS was complained by the public. Apart from disturbing the view, existence of the two power plants also spent a land space and did not produce anything for society. On that account, Baru considered the PLTS and PLTB were better to be dismantled. (kmb20)

Fire kills 85-year-old woman in Bali Antara

GIANYAR - An 85-year-old woman in the resort island of Bali was killed after her house caught fire on Saturday night.

The fire broke out at around 11.30 p.m. on Saturday when the woman, identified as Ni Wayan Sangkrung, was fast asleep, spokesman for the Gianyar police resort Comr I Gde

Sujana said on Sunday.

The woman who suffered burns in all of her body died on Sunday morning after being treated at the Sanglah Hospital overnight, he said.

Sangkrung had earlier been admitted to the Ari Santhi hospital in Ubud but she was later referred to the Sanglah Hospital, he said.

The fire also destroyed the con-

tents of the house including electronics causing around Rp25 million in material losses, he said.

“Local residents had tried to rescue her by putting out the blaze but to no avail,” he said.

Police are still looking into the cause of the fire.

“We don’t know the exact cause of the fire. We are still investigating it,” he said.

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The dance maestro from Bali Ni Ketut Cenik (86) teaching tourists to dance. She passed away during the intensive care at Sanglah Hospital.

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President strongly guarded in Tampak Siring Palace visit Antara

GIANYAR - The visit of President Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono and First Lady Ani Bambang Yodhyono to the Tampaksiring Palace in Gianyar, Bali, is strongly guarded by local police personnel.

The President from Batubulan to Tampaksiring was strongly guarded by police and military personnel.

“In the morning at 8, some 453 security personnel had been sent to guard the Head of State

beginning from Ngurah Rai airport to Tampaksiring Palace,” head of Gianyar police operations Police Commissioner Made Wartamana said Monday.

He said of the 453 security personnel included 298 from Gianyar police, 110 traffic personnel from throughout Bali, and the rest consisted of mobile brigade police officers, deployed around Tampaksiring Palace.

Wartamana said many of the security personnel had been deployed at security-prone locations like Batubulan, Sukawati arts mar-

ket, Blahbatuh, and Tampaksiring.

He said they security force will be withdrawn on Tuesday at 9 am.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the First Lady arrived at Denpasar airport on board Presidential aircraft Boeing 737-800 which landed at 9.30 am.

The President and his wive will be in Bali for a night and leave for Lombok tomorrow.

The President’s visit to Tampaksiring was particularly aimed at opening the National Student Art Competition 2010 today’s afternoon.

Bali’s Vanilla exports 43 percent Antara

DENPASAR - Bali’s vanilla exports in the first five months of 2010 jumped 43 percent to US$382,113 from the same period the year before.

Nearly 80 percent of the vanilla exports went to the United States, Head of the Export Section at the Bali Provincial Industry and Trade Office Putu Bagiada said here on Saturday.

Bagiada said rising demand in

the export market was responsible for the increase in vanilla exports in the five-month period.

The growing demand for vanilla in the export market would hopefully encourage Balinese farmers to cultivate the commodity on large scale, he said.

He said the vanilla exports in the January-May 2010 period came not only from Bali but also the rest of Indonesia.

Many local vanilla growers

seemed to be reluctant to develop the commodity on large scale because they were still traumatized by stem rot pest which could kill vanilla plant, he said.

Vanilla is currently grown on 806 hectares of land in Bali.

Actually, the province had 4,500 hectares of land suitable for vanilla cultivation, he said.

In 2008, Bali produced around 33 tons of vanilla, up significantly compared to 22 tons a year earlier, he said.

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INGREDIENTS: 3 cups blanched long bean cut in ½ cm slices ½ cups grated coconut, roasted 6 clove garlic, peeled, sliced and fried 6 - 8 shallots, peeled, sliced and fried 2 large red chilies, seeded and cut in fine strips 4 - 6 bird’s-eye chilies, finely sliced 3 tsp fried chili 2 tbsp chicken spice paste Fried shallots to garnish DRESSING: 250g boneless chicken, minced 2tbsp chicken spice paste 1tsp freshly squeezed limejuice 1tsp salt ½tsp black peppercorns, crushed Banana leaf cut in 30 cm (12 in) square PREPARATION: Combine beans, coconut, garlic, shallots, all the chilies and chicken spice paste in a large bowl and mix well.

To prepare the dressing, combine chicken mince with 2 tbsp of chicken spice paste and mix well. Place minced chicken lengthwise in center of banana leaf and roll up very tightly. Place banana leaf roll on aluminum foil and roll up again very tightly. Turn sides simultaneously in opposite directions to tighten the roll.

Steam roll for 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil and banana leaf; break up with fork to its original minced form.

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Lovina is officially located in Kalibukbuk area and covering some countryside like Pemaron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan and Kalibukbuk countryside. Kalibugbug countryside it self is located in Buleleng sub district, meanwhile the Kaliasem and Temukus countryside are located in Banjar sub district where it both of them are belong to Buleleng regency. The eastern

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There are no clear sources or evidence hit the name of Lovina genesis. Pursuant to the reference of the children from Anak Agung Panji Tisna, the clan of famous Buleleng King that the name of Lovina is given by him which is located in Kaliasem countryside, where at the first time he build a bungalow as a resort. He said that the name of Lovina is taken away from a name of small hotel in India that is lafeina whereabouts he stayed and write the book with the title of Ni Ketut Widhi. This book is translated into some languages. In memory of the hotel name, hence the ownership lands give the Lovina name. But there is also other version that is Lovina Name is given caused by its 2 Santen trees are planted by him and grow embracing each other.

In this case Lovina is coming from Latin Language that mean is loving each other or love. Then Lovina’s name is interpreted as abbreviation from Love and Ina and it is interpreted as Love to Indonesia.

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BUSINESS South Korea economy grows faster-than-expected Agence France-Presse

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SEOUL - South Korea’s economy expanded by a faster than expected 1.5 percent in AprilJune from three months earlier, and the central bank said Monday that growth had returned to the pre-crisis level.

Year-on-year, gross domestic product grew 7.2 percent.

For the whole of the first half, Asia’s fourth largest economy expanded 7.6 percent from the previous year, the Bank of Korea said in an advance estimate.

“The Korean economy is continuing stronger than expected growth, indicating that growth has recovered to the pre-crisis level and the local economy may have entered an expansionary phase,” said Kim Myung-Kee, head of the economic statistics division.

Kim told a news conference exports remained brisk and the contribution from domestic demand to the economy had risen since the fourth quarter of last year.

But he said global uncertainties remained a concern and it was unclear whether the central bank would raise its full-year growth forecast of 5.9 percent.

Growth in April-June slowed from the first quarter on lower government stimulus spending. The economy had grown a revised 2.1

percent quarter-on-quarter in January-March, and 8.1 percent yearon-year.

But the second-quarter performance beat the bank’s initial estimate of a 1.2 percent quarter-onquarter rise and a 6.8 percent yearon-year expansion.

The bank said manufacturing grew further in the second quarter from the previous quarter, but the construction sector recorded a decline due to a big fall in new home construction.

Government spending rose just 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in April-June compared to a 5.8 percent rise in January-March.

Construction investment fell 3.4 percent following a 1.3 percent rise in the first quarter.

But exports jumped 7.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in AprilJune after expanding 3.7 percent in the first quarter. Private spending rose 0.8 percent compared with a 0.7 percent gain in the preceding quarter.

Capital investment increased

8.1 percent after advancing 2.4 percent in the first quarter.

This month the central bank in a surprise move increased the key interest rate by 25 basis points from a record low — the first rise since late 2008.

But bank governor Kim Choong-Soo said at the time that any subsequent rise would be done without hurting growth and would be within market expectations.

The bank has previously forecast that growth would slow to 0.7 percent in the third quarter before picking up to 0.9 percent in the fourth.

“The local economy showed a better than expected performance in the second quarter. The growth momentum is being led by the private sector,” Yoon Chang-Yong, an economist for IBK Securities, told Yonhap news agency.

“I think the economic conditions and inflation outlooks warrant one or two more rate hikes this year, but the Bank of Korea may take a pause in August.”

EU, IMF experts set for new Greece visit Agence France-Presse

ATHENS - A team of European and IMF experts will Monday begin a second visit to Greece to assess the impact of government austerity measures aimed at taming the country’s debt crisis, the finance ministry said.

The visit follows an earlier trip in June when the group declared Greece’s recovery programme to be on track.

Greece’s Socialist government adopted the draconian spending cuts in May, in exchange for the release of a first installment of loans from a three-year 110-billion-euro (136-billion-dollar) EU-IMF bailout package.

Leading International Monetary Fund representative Poul Thomsen and his European Union

counterpart Servaas Deroose, are to meet Greek Finance Minister Georges Papaconstantinou during the two-week visit, said the ministry.

They are also set to have several meetings with officials charged with the execution of the budget.

“Our main objective is to solve the short and long term problems of the deficit and public debt, and to ensure the viability of public finances,” Deroose said in an interview with the Kathimerini newspaper published Sunday.

Deroose predicted that the Greek economy would contract by four percent in coming months but that the situation would begin to improve in the second quarter of 2011.

The austerity program is

aimed at helping Greece reduce a huge public debt and deficit that eroded its credibility on financial markets and raised fears that other eurozone states could also be vulnerable.

On Friday five out of six Greek banks passed EU-wide crash tests despite fears that the country’s lenders were too heavily dependent on central bank funding.

Papaconstantinou said the results were “positive and show that the Greek banking system can cope even in the extreme conditions of a stress test.”

The Bank of Greece and some lenders noted that the simulation was even worse the real situation in the country, which remains mired in recession and was only just saved from debt default by the EU-IMF bailout.

A pedestrian passes before a share prices board in Tokyo on July 26, 2010. Japan’s share prices rose 72.70 points to close at 9,503.6 points at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, on a weaker yen and growing hopes of strong quarterly earnings by major Japanese firms.

Japan export growth slows but beats forecasts Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese exports continued to rise in June on shipments to Asia but the pace of growth was the slowest this year amid signs that recovery may be losing steam as global demand falls, data showed Monday.

“We previously saw a robust, Vshaped recovery in exports after the financial crisis. Now the speed of the recovery is tapering off,” said Atsushi Kamio, economist at the Daiwa Research Institute.

However, the slowdown was less sharp than economists had expected.

Exports rose 27.7 percent to 5.87 trillion yen (67 billion dollars), their seventh consecutive monthly rise, beating market expectations of a 23.1 percent increase but still below May’s rise of 32.1 percent, the finance ministry said.

Imports jumped 26.1 percent to 5.18 trillion yen, led by crude oil, liquefied natural gas and non-ferrous metals.

Strong demand for automobiles, high-tech products and factory parts have helped offset a weaker domestic picture, enabling Japan’s biggest companies to return to profit and bring about a tentative economic recovery.

But anxiety remains about the impact that the withdrawal of global stimulus measures and European debt will have on Japanese exports, with equipment and components makers also facing a knock-on effect from falling demand for Chinese goods.

Analysts warn that risks to export demand remain as world leaders embrace tighter fiscal policies to help rebalance a global economy knocked off its axis by the financial crisis.

The recent appreciation of the yen versus the euro and the dollar may also pose a risk, government officials have warned recently, as it threatens to erode the overseas profits of exporters such as Sony and Honda.

“We have to monitor the effects

of the global trend of fiscal tightening,” said Kamio.

A slightly softer yen encouraged Japanese investors Monday, sending the Tokyo market 0.77 percent higher, but it remained relatively high at more than 87 to the dollar.

However, Kamio added that Japan’s recovery was expected to continue despite external challenges, albeit more slowly.

Robust Asian demand for Japanese cars and steel also contributed to the seventh straight monthly increase in exports, the finance ministry said.

Japanese exports to Asia rose 31.7 percent, with those to China up 22.0 percent at 1.1 trillion yen, led by demand for automobiles and engines.

Imports from China also jumped 27.5 percent to 1.1 trillion, led by electronics and audio products.

The figures compared with USbound exports valued at 914.5 billion yen, up 21.1 percent, and American imports to Japan estimated at 537.1 billion yen, up 9.6 percent.

However, Japan’s exports to EU nations slowed more drastically. They increased just 9.0 percent to 611.2 billion yen, compared to a 17.4 percent rise in May. Despite the comparatively weak figure, the overseas slowdown was unlikely to derail Japan’s economy, Norio Miyagawa at Mizuho Securities Research & Consulting told Dow Jones Newswires.

“The economy has recovered to a good level. You don’t need to worry that this slowdown in exports will lead to the double-dip recession or another severe economic downturn in Japan,” he said.

Japan’s trade surplus reached 687.0 billion yen in June, marking the 13th straight month of improvement on year-earlier levels, according to the Ministry of Finance.

For the first half, Japanese exports reached 33.1 trillion yen, up 37.9 percent from a year ago, while imports rose 23.3 percent to 29.7 trillion yen.

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Warcrimes court delays Naomi Campbell’s testimony Agence France Presse

THE HAGUE – A war crimes court Monday delayed by a week to August 5 supermodel Naomi Campbell’s testimony about a “blood diamond” she allegedly re-

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Naomi Campbell

ceived from former Liberian president Charles Taylor in 1997. The fashion model was initially due to have testified on Thursday after the Special Court for Sierra Leone issued a subpoena for her to appear at the prosecution’s request, but her lawyers had asked for a delay, the court said in The Hague on Monday.

“The judges of SCSL trial chamber II have this morning approved Ms Naomi Campbell’s request to postpone her scheduled testimony in the trial of Charles Taylor to Thursday August 5, 2010, at 09:00 (0700 GMT),” a court statement said.

Taylor has been on trial since 2008 for his alleged role in the civil war in Sierra Leone, accused of arming rebels in return for illegally mined diamonds.

Campbell will have to testify about claims by her former agent Carole White and actress Mia Farrow that she was given a diamond

by Taylor after a celebrity dinner hosted by then South African president Nelson Mandela in September 1997.

Louis Prima gets posthumous Hollywood star Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – ‘King of Swing’ Louis Prima has received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a centennial celebration that included dancing in the street to his big-band sounds.

The influential band leader was honored at a Sunday ceremony on Vine Street attended by his son Louis Prima Jr., who continues the legacy of his father’s music, his

daughter Lena Prima, celebrities, dignitaries and fans.

“Louis Prima was a great entertainer and presented a great show.

But more than anything else, he brought happiness to his audiences,” said Bill Cosby in a congratulatory message read at the midday ceremony, which also included a concert of Prima’s music by Louis Prima Jr.’s big band, The Witnesses, as well as swing-dancing fans.

Prima, who died in 1978, would have been 100 years old this year.

Musician Louis Prima’s star and his trumpet are shown during the dedication ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Sunday, July 25, 2010.

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FILE - In this July 21, 2010 file photo, Director Christopher Nolan, left, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, center, and Japanese actor Ken Watanabe pose for photographers during a press conference of their new film ‘Inception’ in Tokyo, Japan.

‘Inception’ trumps ‘Salt’ with $43.5M weekend Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Inception” has won a battle of superstar action thrillers over Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” at the weekend box office.

“Inception” remained the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend with $43.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. thriller featuring DiCaprio as leader of a team that sneaks into people’s dreams raised its 10-day total to $143.7 million.

Sony’s spy caper “Salt” debuted a solid No. 2 with $36.5 million. The movie stars Jolie as a CIA operative who goes rogue after she’s accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.

Coming in at No. 3 with $24.1 million was Steve Carell’s family hit “Despicable Me.” The animated comedy raised its domestic total to $161.7 million.

In a rare convergence of fresh ideas, the top three movies all were original stories, not sequels or adaptations of comic books, best-sellers, video games or other pre-existing material.

“Typically in summer, all we’re seeing are rehashes and sequels and reboots, whatever you want to call

them,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “To have original stories as the top-three films is a lesson to studios that maybe audiences are open to more originality in the summer and to perhaps not play it so safe, even though that goes against the grain of every fiber in every studio executive’s being.”

The weekend’s other new wide release, 20th Century Fox’s family comedy “Ramona and Beezus,” took in $8 million to finish at No. 6. The movie is based on Beverly Cleary’s children’s books about a teenage girl and her accident-prone little sister.

“Inception” hung in strongly in its second weekend, its total down just 31 percent from its $62.8 million opening. During the busy summer, top hits often drop 50 percent or more in the second weekend and rarely repeat as the No. 1 movie.

The film will quickly shoot past the $200 million mark at the domestic box office and has a good shot at

topping $300 million, said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros. Repeat business is accounting for a good share of “Inception” revenues as fans return to delve deeper into the labyrinthine story concocted by writer-director Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”).

“There’s so much on the screen.

It’s so original and so smart that it raises questions that I think can be answered in different ways if you see the movie multiple times,” Fellman said.

While young males usually make up the bulk of the action audience, women and older crowds were the core fans of Jolie’s “Salt.” Females accounted for 53 percent of viewers, while 59 percent of the audience was older than 25, according to Sony.

“What the movie really has going for it just a kick-ass performance

by Angelina Jolie,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. “It just speaks well to the viability of our film for many weeks to come that you have such an incredible hold for ‘Inception,’ and we’re still able to open our picture. We coexisted really nicely.”

“Cats and Dogs” sequel a charmless tale Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Although critter movies have performed extremely well at the box office, “Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” will put that trend to a tough test when it opens on Friday.

This isn’t so much that the story

and characters are weak — though they very much are — but that animatronics and computer animation so anthropomorphize these critters that they bear more resemblance to cartoons than actual flesh-and-fur animals. When cats and dogs, not to mention a bird and a mouse, don’t act like animals, those story and character weaknesses really stand out.

Which is not to say young audiences won’t embrace these critters too. CGI is so accepted now in video games and movies that these “Cats and Dogs” may look goofy rather than grotesque. Let’s just hope no youngster returns home and flings the family feline across the lawn to see if she can fly like Kitty Galore.

The movie begins with a perfectly

actionable premise: It’s “Spy Kids” with critters. The opening-title sequence, easily the best thing in the movie, deliciously mimics those in James Bond movies. Then, true to form — for early Bond films at least — there’s an MI-6-like organization called DOGS, determined to keep the world safe for only one kind of pet, and an elite spy organization

called MEOWS, which challenges that assumption.

But where is the Bond character?

What you get for a protagonist, or at least the four-legged character with the most screen time, is a failed police dog, a German Shepherd named Diggs (voiced by James Marsden).

Only in human movie terms, he’s more like Inspector Clouseau.

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Professional vodka tasters keep Polish tipple pure Agence France Presse

POZNAN - For Poland’s army of vodka tasters, the rules are strict: no smoking, no coffee, and no perfume, not to mention the 6:00 am starts. While in France cellar masters ensure the quality of fine wines, in Poland professional vodka tasters keep the potent tipple, first distilled in the region in mediaeval times, smooth and pure.

Krystyna Gbiorczyk, in charge of quality and taste control at a distillery in Poznan, western Poland, has for many years used her keen sense of taste and smell to safeguard the reputation of a top-selling brand name.

Samples of crystal clear vodka made using rye are heated and poured into covered glasses to capture all their aroma, she says. The vodka is then closely observed, shaken, tasted and then evaluated on the basis of its strength, taste and smell.

“The regular tastings allow us to detect any significant differences between different batches of vodka and correct them to the standard we seek,” adds Danuta Maranda, a quality control expert.

Last year the distillery launched an internal recruitment drive to find talented new tasters. Candidates had to discern between sweet, salty, acid or metallic-tasting vodkas and classify them according to the degree of alcohol content.

Among the new recruits was Malgorzata Novak, who landed a spot on the quality control team. Now she samples more than twenty bottles over an eight hour shift with her first sip of vodka at 6:00 am.

Perfection in three months

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View of vodka bottles inside an alcohol shop in Warsaw on July 1, 2010. For Poland’s army of vodka tasters, the rules are strict: no smoking, no coffee, and no perfume, not to mention to the 6 am starts. While in France cellar masters ensure the quality of fine wines, in Poland professional vodka tasters keep the potent tipple, first distilled in the region in mediaeval times, smooth and pure.

“I check for clarity, consistency and taste, of course.

I do similar checks about every hour,” she explains. If her taste buds give the all clear, bottling goes ahead.

When they’re not tasting, the distillery’s experts concoct the vodkas of tomorrow. Recently, Maranda received an order to create a vodka using red fruit. Just as if she were creating a new perfume, she lines up a dozen vials of various natural fruity syrups and aromas ranging from the sweet flavour of cherry pits to the acidic smell of plums.

Pondering caramel-based colouring, like a modernday alchemist, she seeks perfection over a period of three months. “Its a difficult task to find harmony between the different elements, to get the right amounts and marry them well in the vodka we produce, like making a fine wine,” she explains.

The unique sensibilities of the distillery’s tasters are sometimes also solicited by the police to distinguish between authentic brands and black market counterfeit vodka.

“Counterfeit alcohol is often composed of products which give a similar taste to the original vodka, but large doses can be very dangerous,” says Katarzyna Gbiorczyk. “The problem is that people who want to save money are risking their health.”

In 2009, around 250 million litres (66 million US gallons) of vodka were sold in Poland, making the spirit second only in popularity to beer.

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Apple iPhone 4

Apple launches free bumper program APPLE (AAPL) released instructions on how iPhone 4 owners can claim a free bumper. And that nifty Flipboard app? It may not last too long. All this and more in today’s App Industry Roundup.

Bumper program starts A week after Apple apologized about the iPhone 4’s antenna problems, the company introduced its free bumper program. Starting today, iPhone 4 buyers can apply for a free bumper — or case by a thirdparty supplier — by following Apple’s plan. The first step is to download the iPhone 4 Case Program app and then follow the instructions displayed on the app.

You’ll be given a choice to select a bumper or a free case. There are a few things to keep in mind: If you bought your iPhone 4 before July 23, you must apply by Aug. 22. Otherwise, you need to apply within 30 days of buying your iPhone 4. The deal expires Sept. 30.

That expiration date is a bit of a mystery. By then, will bumpers ship with the iPhone 4? Or will we see a fresh antenna design on a reworked iPhone 4?

As for cases, they are just now

hitting the market for the iPhone 4. (Apple doesn’t provide case makers with prototypes before products are released, hence the delay.)

I did a quick scan of cases and here’s what I found. I do not know what cases will be available for Apple’s give-away (perhaps someone can put a comment at the end after downloading the app?) but here’s a sample from the big guns, Belkin and Griffin. (Those companies have built sizable businesses catering to Apple iThing owners since the iPod launched in 2001.)

Belkin currently sells about 10 iPhone 4 cases (all under $30) while Griffin has five (most less than $30). The PR bin in my email inbox also uncovered a nice looking iPhone 4 Vent Gel Case, for $17, from AGF, and the iPhone 4 Ballistic HC Series Case, a rugged model for the active iPhone owner — but it is $50.

You can bet there will be plenty of choices very soon, whether you get a case or bumper free from Apple, or buy one on your own. For the first time, you need a case to make a call — not just protect your phone.

Sega releases Ecco the Dolphin, Space Harrier for iPhone FEW things tickle this generation’s nostalgia nerves like vintage video games. While the older generation might play original Beatles vinyls to travel back to days of youthful glory, today’s 20 and 30-somethings pop in their old NES or Sega game cartridges to zip back to times of Crystal Pepsi and Fresh Prince. Sega has been doing its part to cash in on nostalgic generation Y’ers by releasing a steady stream of old Sega ports for the iPhone, including Columns and the Sonic the

Hedgehog series. Now the company’s adding two more classics to its line up: Ecco the Dolphin and Space Harrier II. The games are part of a series of Sega Genesis apps the company plans on releasing throughout the summer. Earlier this year there was speculation of an official Sega emulator that would run Sega games that you’d download in-app. While the stand-alone emulator never materialized, Sega has been releasing individual classic games that run in their own emulators.

Ecco the Dolphin is an underwater side scroller in which you play as a dolphin in search of its missing family. Swim, flip, and communicate with other creatures via sonar as you explore the game’s 25 levels.

Space Harrier II is a third person alien blasting, projectile dodging action game set in the year 6,236. It includes 13 levels, each with its own boss, plus 2 bonus stages.

The Space Harrier II and Ecco the Dolphin apps are available for $1 and $3 respectively, and both games require iOS 3 or later.

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A scene from the game Ecco the Dolphin

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Richards lifts Red Bulls past Man City Agence France Presse

HARRISON - Dane Richards scored from 25 metres in the 70th minute to give the New York Red Bulls a 2-1 victory over big-spending Manchester City of the English Premiership in a friendly Sunday.

Macoumba Kandji scored in the seventh minute off a pass from Richards to give the hosts the lead.

“Dane can run, and when I saw him I took off and found the blind spot in the defense,” Kandji said. But Jo equalized for City in the 55th minute, setting the stage for the long-range winner from Richards.

It was the first victory for New York since the arrival of Frenchman Thierry Henry, who scored in his debut Thursday, a 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur.

Henry had two shots blocked and a third soared wide right of the Spurs goal before being pulled in the second half. He will play his first Major League Soccer league match Saturday at Houston.

“The most important thing is the Houston game,” Henry said. “I’m trying not to think too much about it.” City had lost 2-0 to Sporting Lisbon in their Friday opener.

The friendlies were part of an event dubbed the New York Challenge. The Portugese side won the title after drawing 2-2 with Spurs

earlier Sunday, winning on goal difference after both Sporting and Spurs finished with a victory and draw.

Manchester United

Kei Kamara scored one goal and set up another to give the Kansas City Wizards a 2-1 victory over Manchester United in an international football friendly on Sunday. Kamara’s through ball set up Davy Arnaud in the 11th minute to give the Wizards the lead.

United’s Dimitar Berbatov equalized on a penalty kick in the 41st minute after Wizards defender Jimmy Conrad was given a red card after a sliding tackle on Berbatov. But Kamara fired the winner for the 10-man Wizards in the 42nd minute, heading home a corner kick just under the crossbar.

A crowd of 52,342 watched in the first event at Arrowhead Stadium since a 325 million-dollar renovation, although Manchester United lacked such star players as Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick and Park Ji-Sung. United will next face the Major League Soccer All-Stars in Houston on Wednesday.

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Thierry Henry (L) of the New York Red Bulls makes a shot past Alex Tchuimeni-Nimely (R) of Manchester City during a friendly match July 25, 2010 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.

Jol turns focus to Ajax’s Real prepare Monday adios for Raul European ambitions Agence France Presse

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PARIS - Barely a week after being denied a move to Fulham, Ajax coach Martin Jol must prepare his team to face Greek side PAOK Salonika in the Champions League third qualifying round on Wednesday. Jol guided four-time European champions Ajax to a second-place finish behind FC Twente in the Dutch Eredivisie last season but grew frustrated this summer at what he saw as the club’s reluctance to hold onto their best players.

It was in this state of mind that he reacted favourably to the approach from Fulham, but having being refused permission to leave the Amsterdam Arena he has vowed to put the matter behind him.

“It took a long time, which was probably not good for this club, because it’s a big club with one and a half million fans in Holland,” he said.

“I had to tell them (Fulham) I had to stay. All the problems, going to court, I didn’t want that, because Ajax is too big to be put through that misery.” Jol says Ajax must take control of the tie in Wednesday’s first-leg match, as he is wary of the role the Greek club’s “fanatical fans” could play if Ajax have to travel to Thessalonika in need of a positive result.

Perhaps the most intriguing tie

of the third qualifying round pitches Scottish giants Celtic against Champions League debutants Sporting Braga, who finished second to Benfica in last season’s Portuguese Liga.

Former player Neil Lennon is embarking on his first full campaign as Celtic coach and says he may opt for the counter-attacking 4-5-1 formation that he deployed in the 3-1 friendly defeat by Manchester United in Toronto on July 17.

“We’ve looked at a few variations on it. With (Marc-Antoine) Fortune, (Shaun) Maloney, (Aiden) McGeady and young Jamie Forrest we have lots of pace,” Lennon told the Daily Record.

“Fortune played the striker’s role really well against United and we had good midfield players backing him up like (Scott) Brown, Marc Crosas and (Joe) Ledley.”

Tuesday’s matches see Norwegian champions Rosenborg travel to Swedish counterparts AIK, while Ukrainian heavyweights Dynamo Kiev host Belgian outfit Gent and Romanians Unirea Urziceni tackle Zenit St Petersburg of Russia.

Welsh minnows The New Saints’ reward for upsetting Irish champions Bohemians in the second qualifying round is a lucrative date with Belgian champions Anderlecht. The second legs take place on August 3 and 4, with the victors qualifying for the play-off round.

MADRID - Real Madrid have confirmed that captain and record-breaking striker Raul will leaved the club on Monday after 16 years in the first team and with German side Schalke his destination. Raul, who has played for Real since 1994, won six La Liga championships and three Champions League titles during his time with the Spanish giants.

He has scored 323 times in 740 appearances for the club. Fellow veteran Guti, a product of Real’s youth system who made his pro debut in 1995, said earlier Sunday that he was leaving with Besiktas in Turkey his likely new home.

Both men have been told by new coach Jose Mourinho that they do not form part of his plans for the new season.

A statement on the Real official website on Sunday announced that 33year-old Raul would be afforded a farewell celebration at the Bernabeu. “The farewell party will start at 1pm. Club president Florentino Perez will be present, and it will be followed by a press conference by Raul and general director Jorge Valdano,” said a club statement.

Guti said Sunday that he was closing a “glorious stage” in his career as he parted ways with Real Madrid after 15 seasons. “I believe you have to be aware that there are stages that close and in this case for me it is a very glorious stage at Real Madrid which is coming to an end,” the 33-year-old told

a news conference.

Guti, who had another year on his contract, said he was considering an offer from Besiktas, where he would be coached by German’s Bernd Schuster, who managed Real between 2007 and 2008. “I have a good offer from them, an interesting one, now we will see,” he said.

“I think you have to make room for younger players and know that football is like that.” “It is a complicated and difficult moment but you have to know that these things happen in football and that at certain moments, regardless of the talent you have, it is your time to leave a club or leave football and life goes on.”

Guti, a product of the club’s youth

system, made his pro debut in 1995.He helped Real win five domestic league titles and three European Champions League titles, having scored 86 goals in 542 appearances for the club. Only eight other players have played more matches for the club in its history.

Guti, who can play as an attacking midfielder, striker or central midfielder, has also honour of being the man who scored the team’s 5,000th goal. Real Madrid director general Jorge Valdano thanked the player “for giving the best years of his life to this club.”

“He is a unique player, a very special player who is capable of surprising during each match,” he said as he sat beside Guti at the news conference.

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Fish wins second title in a row with Atlanta triumph Agence France Presse

ATLANTA - Mardy Fish won his second straight title as he outlasted fellow American John Isner in brutal heat, claiming the trophy 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) at the ATP Atlanta Championships on Sunday. The 49th-ranked Fish followed up title success at his prior event, the grass tournament this month at Newport the week after Wimbledon.

The match win was the ninth in a row for the inspired American, who came through in just under three hours in blistering 37 Celsius conditions.

“It feels great. This is what I’ve been putting in the work for. I feel as good as I’ve ever felt in my career,” said Fish, winner of his last 10 matches and a winner of two tournametns in a year for the first time in his career.

“Playing in the heat, you have to convince yourself you feel better than the other guy, even if you’re feling it. I struggled at the end of the match. I wasn’t used to the weather as I had played at night.

“I felt great until about 5-all in the third set, but I didn’t want to

leave anything out there. I was maybe a little lucky to pull through. It was a extremely physical match with all of the heat. His no fun to play. He gives a lot of people trouble. “My confidence is really high right now.”

Second seed Isner, winner of the longest match ever played in the sport when he won in the first round at Wimbledon, may still not have totally overcome the mental physical drain from that 11-hour contest a month ago. Isner remains on one title this season, obtained at the start of the season in Auckland.

“Conditions were brutal again,” said Isner. “The first hour was the hottest. It took a lot out of both of

us. I’ve never played in conditions this hot and humid.

“We were both just scrapping it out. This is the third final this year that I could have won. It’s disappointing - four finals this year and I’ve lost my last three. “I know that sooner or later it will happen - I’ll make sure of that. It stinks to lose this tournament.”

The second seed was unable to put the match away after winning the first set with the break of serve which counted at the end after missing on his first five.

But Fish, playing in the faster daytime conditions which speed up the court and ball, managed to find his rhythm in the second as the heat began to war down big man Isner.

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Mardy Fish poses with the trophy after defeating John Isner in the finals of the Atlanta Tennis Championships at the Atlanta Athletic Club on July 25, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Armstrong comes full circle as new trials begin City boss Mancini eyes Torres bid surprised when Armstrong showed the first signs of collapse on the first day in the high mountains on stage eight, when he crashed several times.

“I never once imagined Armstrong would finish almost a quarter-hour (11min 45sec) adrift in the stage to Morzine-Avoriaz,” said Prudhomme.

“It’s great to see him so determined to finish a race he loves so much, but just as astonishing to see a rider who won it seven times finish nearly 40 minutes down.”

In French they refer to the ‘Tour de Trop’, literally the ‘Tour too much’, and that term was used regularly in the 97th edition as Armstrong, who successfully battled cancer in 1998 to return to the sport, showed his limitations against younger and hungrier riders.

Hoping to build on his third-place finish last year after a near four-year

absence, Armstrong’s 2010 campaign looked doomed as early as PARIS - Lance Armstrong’s stage three when he punctured on the underwhelming performance in his cobblestones and lost time to key 13th and final Tour de France, rivals. which finished on Sunday, have It was the first hint that confirmed widespread expectations Armstrong, who has staunchly dethat there is likely to be no third nied all of Landis’s allegations, comeback. Yet while the romantimight not have his eye completely cists would suggest the American on the ball. During his seven-year has come full circle 17 years after reign with US Postal (1999-2004) making a humbling debut as a 22and Discovery Channel (2005), year-old, no one ever expected the Armstrong was celebrated as much seven-time champion to finish on for his ability to avoid bike racing’s such a low. numerous mishaps as he was for his Amid damaging doping accusacommand of the race peloton. tions from former team-mate Floyd On stage eight that myth began Landis that have prompted a fedto unravel. The first day in the high eral investigation, Armstrong finmountains finished with 25-year-old ished in 23rd place at nearly 40 Andy Schleck’s victory 10sec ahead minutes adrift of Spain’s Alberto of Contador at Morzine-Avoriaz, Contador. setting the pattern for their later duel Tour de France director Christian and 27-year-old Contador’s eventual Prudhomme was among the most third triumph.

Armstrong, who injured his hip in one of his several crashes, trailed in almost 12 minutes later to drop to 13:26 off the leader’s pace.

“It’s sad to see, but that’s sport,” said Armstrong’s team manager Johan Bruyneel, the Belgian who helped spearhead all seven of his Tour triumphs. “It’s certainly the end of his aspirations to win the Tour de France.”

Armstrong, now almost anonymous, resigned himself to helping team-mate Levi Leipheimer score a top-ten finish, while hoping for a final stage win in the “tough and steep” Pyrenees.

The 38-year-old American got his chance for a 26th and final stage success on the race when he jumped into a breakaway on stage 16.

AFP PHOTO / PASCAL PAVANI But at the end of the 199.5km ride US Lance Armstrong sprints at the end of the 52 km individual over four mountain passes, Frenchtime-trial and 19th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race man Pierrick Fedrigo dominated an run between Bordeaux and Pauillac, southwestern France, on eight-man bunch finish to leave Armstrong in sixth place.

July 24, 2010.

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MANCHESTER – Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini admits he is ready to bid for Fernando Torres if the Liverpool striker shows interest in moving to Eastlands. Mancini was given hope that he may be able to sign Torres when new Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson revealed the Spain star has a “beef” with the club in the aftermath of a woeful campaign last season.

Torres has yet to publicly commit his future to the Reds and Mancini hinted he would love to continue his spending spree by tempting the former Atletico Madrid player away from Anfield.

Mancini has already splashed out close to 90 million pounds on Jerome B o a t e n g , Aleksandar Kolarov, Yaya Toure and David Silva, but City’s Abu Dhabi-based owners are willing to pay the 50 million pound fee needed to land Torres, as well as chasing Aston Villa midfielder James Milner. “Torres is one of the best strikers in Europe and is already playing in the Premier League for three years and knows it very well,” Mancini said. “But it depends on his situation, his price and whether he wants to come.

“There are two or three strikers that we could go for, but it is the same situation as it is with James Milner. “First there is the price and then it depends if the players want to change team. Until today, Liverpool haven’t bought many players.”

Although Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill insists he won’t let Milner leave unless City meet his valuation of the England international -

believed to be around 30 million pounds - Mancini is adamant City won’t be held to ransom.

“When Manchester City enquire about a 10 million pounds player, the club asks for 20 million pounds. That is not good for us,” Mancini said.

“James is still a player who interests us but only at the right price.”

(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen)

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini admits he is ready to bid for Fernando Torres (seen here in March 2010) if the Liverpool striker shows interest in moving to Eastlands.

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Lorenzo wins US Grand Prix

JORGE Lorenzo took a commanding victory in the United States Grand Prix after Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead at one-third distance at Laguna Seca. The Yamaha rider’s sixth win of the season helped him to increase his world championship lead to 72 points over his fellow Spaniard Pedrosa.

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Jorge Lorenzo of Spain, driver of the #99 Fiat Yamaha, celebrates his victory with Casey Stoner of Australia, driver of the #27 Ducati Marlboro Team, and Valentino Rossi of Italy, driver of the #46 Fiat Yamaha Team, during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at the Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway on July 25, 2010 in Monterey, California.

Alonso wins German GP but Ferrari fined Associated Press Writer

HOCKENHEIM, Germany – Fernando Alonso won the German Grand Prix on Sunday for Ferrari, but the team was fined $100,000 afterward for orchestrating his pass of teammate Felipe Massa. Race stewards didn’t overturn Ferrari’s 12 finish, choosing to send the case to the sport’s governing body, which could impose more sanctions. Team orders that affect the result of a race are forbidden under Formula One rules.

“In the interests of the sport, we have decided not to go through a procedure of appealing against it, confident that the (FIA) world council will know how to evaluate the overall facts correctly,” Ferrari team chief Stefano Domenicali said.

Alonso had more points in the title race and the team apparently felt it would be better served if he collected the 25 points that go to the winner rather than Massa.

“I don’t think I have to say anything to that,” Massa said when asked after the race about the instructions. “We work for the team.”

There was no immediate comment from Ferrari.

Massa, racing on the first anniversary of a crash that nearly killed him, led the race for 49 of 67 laps before he was passed by Alonso following communications from Ferrari over the team radio. He looked unhappy after the race and the two drivers barely hugged as they climbed out of their red cars.

Stewards said Ferrari was in

breach of Article 39.1 of the International Auto Federation (FIA) 2010 sporting regulations. Article 39.1 says: “Team orders that interfere with race results are prohibited.”

Sebastian Vettel of Germany was third in his Red Bull. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was fourth. After 11 of 19 races, Hamilton leads the overall standings with 157 points ahead of McLaren teammate Jenson Button with 143.

Vettel has 136 points, tied for third

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Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso celebrates on the podium of the Hockenheimring circuit on July 25, 2010 in Hockenheim, after the Formula One German Grand Prix. Alonso won the race ahead of Ferrari’s Brazilian driver Felipe Massa and Red Bull’s German driver Sebastian Vettel.

with Red Bull teammate Mark Webber. Alonso is fifth with 123 points, 38 ahead of Massa.

“I can’t say I am fighting for the championship,” Massa said. Alonso won his second race of the season and Ferrari finished 1-2 for the second time this year.

“In some parts of the race we were fighting very hard for first place, maybe it was a bit dangerous. It’s a difficult race to overtake,” said Alonso, a two-time Formula One champion who earned his 23rd career victory. “We are professional, we try to do the best for the team.

“I don’t know what happened, but at the exit of turn six I saw Felipe a little bit slow. Sometimes you are quick, sometimes you are slow, and in some parts I was quicker than him, so it’s very difficult to judge.” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said Ferrari appeared to impose team orders.

“It was surprising what happened with the Ferraris, it looked to be a team order with the cars switching positions,” Horner said.

“If so, it’s a shame for Formula One and the fans that they were deprived of a race between the two Ferrari drivers today.”

The first of two decisive moments in the race took place at the start. Pole sitter Vettel moved wide to try to block Alonso. Massa, starting from third, used the gap to pass from the outside going into the first corner, where also Alonso managed to slip past Vettel. The two Ferraris stayed in front for the entire race.

Pedrosa, who started fourth, seized the lead into the Andretti hairpin on the first lap after making another of his now customary rocket starts, and held an early advantage of over a second over Casey Stoner and Lorenzo.

However, he lost the front end of his Honda entering the uphill Turn Five on the 11th lap and slid off into the gravel trap, his machine somersaulting several times before hitting the tyre barrier.

That left Lorenzo, who had passed Stoner’s Ducati on lap five, with a lead of almost three seconds.

He was able to control his pace for the rest of the race and took the chequered flag a similar margin ahead of the Australian, who scored his best result of 2010.

Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi took the final podium spot on what was his second race back after injury.

The seven-times world champion passed Andrea Dovizioso’s Honda at the final corner with seven laps left and, after running side-by-side with his rival along the start/finish straight, swept around him before

the Andretti Hairpin.

Nicky Hayden, who had been involved in a four-way fight with Rossi, Dovizioso and Ben Spies for the first half of the race, finished fifth. Spies (Tech 3 Yamaha) had held the spot, but outbraked himself at the last corner with eight laps left and fell to sixth.

Gresini Honda team-mates Marco Simoncelli and Marco Melandri battled with Colin Edwards’ Tech 3 Yamaha for the first half of the race in the lower reaches of the top 10.

However, Simoncelli crashed out at the same place at Pedrosa, handing seventh to Edwards and eighth to Melandri. Loris Capirossi’s Suzuki and Mika Kallio’s Pramac Ducati completed the top 10, but only after the Finn’s team-mate Aleix Espargaro had crashed out of ninth - again at Pedrosa’s corner with a handful of laps to go.

Roger Lee Hayden’s 12th place for LCR Honda meant that brothers scored points in the same premier class grand prix for the first time since Carlos and David Checa at the 2005 Dutch TT.