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Stewart, director issue apologies for affair Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “Twilight” fans are heartbroken by Kristen Stewart’s public admission that she cheated on her boyfriend and co-star Robert Pattinson. Some on Twitter are blasting the actress with no shortage of nasty names, while others are pledging support for Pattinson, calling him “sexy” and promising they’d be faithful.

But the scandal involving the on- and off-screen couple is unlikely to affect box-office returns for the final installment in the vampire-romance juggernaut due this fall, or even harm the image of the 22year-old actress.

“It could make her actually more alluring,” said Ian Drew, a senior editor at Us Weekly magazine, which features compromising photos of Stewart and her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders in its latest issue, out Friday. “She plays a bad girl. It’s not like Sally Field did this, so it could actually

enhance her appeal and make her even bigger.”

Stewart, whom Forbes named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress last month, issued an apology to People magazine Wednesday, saying she is “deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I’ve caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected.” “This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob,” she said. “I love him, I love him, I’m so sorry.”

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several years after meeting on the set of “Twilight,” in which they play lovers. Sanders, who is married and has two children, followed with his own apologetic statement to People.

“I am utterly distraught about the pain I have caused my family,” he said. “My beautiful wife and heavenly children are all I have in this world, I love them with all my heart.

I am praying that we can get through this together.”

A spokesman for the director confirmed the statement Wednesday.

Representatives for Stewart and Pattinson did not respond to requests for comment.

FILE - This May 29, 2012 file photo shows actress Kristen Stewart and director Rupert Sanders attending the “Snow White and the Huntsman” screening in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES — A paparazzo photographer faces criminal charges in connection with a high-speed chase of Justin Bieber earlier this month, marking the first use of a new state law designed to clamp down on photographers’ reckless pursuit of celebrities.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office on Wednesday filed four misdemeanor charges against Paul Raef, 30, including reckless driving with the intent to capture pictures for commercial gain, reckless driving, failure to obey a peace officer and following another vehicle too closely.

Bieber pulled over for police and was given a speeding ticket. Paparazzi pursuit of celebrities has long been identified as a risk in Los Angeles.

“It’s Hollywood. There are a huge number of celebrities and there’s a lot of money paid for these pictures,” said attorney Harland Braun, who has defended cases involving paparazzi and who said he has had to fend off photographers chasing his celebrity clients.

“Unfortunately, innocent people get caught up in these chases,” he said. “I think the law is a good thing.” City attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said the Raef case meets all the criteria spelled out in the law which has not been used before this.

“We’re very confident in our case,” he said.

FILE - This July 22, 2012 file photo shows singer Justin Bieber arriving at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif.

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People crowded in Changi International Airport, Singapore. If referring to condition of the other modern international airports such as the Changi Airport, the traders filling in the outlets were dominated by well-known international brands. Similar condition was feared to occur at Ngurah Rai Airport so that it was very difficult to predict the opportunity of local businessmen to get the outlet quota at Ngurah Rai Airport.

New Ngurah Rai Airport to finish in 2013

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DENPASAR - Arrangement of the Ngurah Rai Airport is targeted to complete in 2013. As a consequence, the arrangement is feared to have an impact on the existence of local businessmen who contracted outlets at the airport.

Reportedly, local businessmen were starting to feel anxious to think of their business continuity.

Moreover, they should struggle for business premises against foreign

investor having a great reputation.

One of the business owners at the Ngurah Rai Airport appointed as Chairman of the Communication Forum of the Ngurah Rai Traders,

Wayan Sukses, admitted that local businessmen began to question about the sustainability of their fate at Ngurah Rai. According to him, the arrangement of commercial area at the airport would surely be made and it automatically changed the ‘quota’ of local businessmen.

If referring to condition of the other modern international airports such as the Changi Airport (Singapore), the traders filling in the outlets

were dominated by well-known international brands. Similar condition was feared to occur at Ngurah Rai Airport so that it was very difficult to predict the opportunity of local businessmen to get the outlet quota at Ngurah Rai Airport. Moreover, it would apply an international open tender system.

“We want to ask for the clarity about our fate. We do hope the airport authority can provide the assurance.

If the rules indeed require some relocations or some contracts will be no longer extended, we are ready to comply with the rules as long as we are told earlier,” he said.

He explained the forum established by traders at Ngurah Rai Airport consisted of 150 members.

In the existing outlets, the traders were selling food and drink, statue or postcard.

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A farmer is working on his ricefield in Jatiluwih, Tabanan Regency.

Water discharge down, farmer at Jatiluwih anxious Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Farmers at the tourist area of Jatiluwih, Penebel, were recently hit by unrest. It was triggered by persistent decline in water discharge flowing to their rice field when entering the growing season. Such condition made farmers anxious. Moreover, they only relied on income from rice farming.

“Few days ago, there were officials checking the condition of the irrigation channels. Reportedly, we will get a repair project soon,” he said.

If the water supply reduced, said Semarajaya, the process of growing rice would certainly be disturbed because the red rice variety required abundant water supply. This man added the harvest of red rice at Jatiluwih continued encouraging the farmers.

This year, the harvest yields had been averagely met the expected target. He gave an example that an area of 0.45 hectare could produce 3 tons of grain. Price of the red rice was also tempting. Despite massive harvest, the price of grain was relatively normal, around IDR 4,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, the price of red rice was IDR 20,000 per kilogram. With such

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Low budget, School buildings repair onnly half

The receding water discharge was triggered by the arrival of dry season, while another cause was the damaged irrigation channels that were never repaired. “We began planting rice after massive harvest but the water discharge declined. As a result, farmers were anxious,” complained the Secretary of Jatiluwih Subak Chief, Semarajaya, Wednesday (Jul 25).

It was described, though not too sharp, the decline in water flow was quite disturbing the farmers because they required adequate water supply before planting season. It was intended to prepare their rice seedlings.

As the water level declined, the seedling activity was not optimal.

According to Semarajaya, the dry season drained adequate water supply to rice field area. This man hoped the irrigation repair at Jatiluwih could be realized.

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stable prices, farmers expected there was repair to the infrastructure at Jatiluwih, especially the irrigation channel so the supply of water to rice fields remained normal all the time. Moreover, the Jatiluwih had been included in the world cultural heritage.

With this predicate, the perennial agriculture could keep on running optimally. “If the irrigation channel is good, the water supply seems normal, despite the drought,” he said.

The total farmland area at Subak Jatiluwih reached 303 hectares worked on by 395 farmers. Of that amount, they all relied on the harvest yield of red rice. Most recently, local farmers began to switch to organic farming. Aside from being healthy, the organic red rice had been favored by world market so that the demand increasingly skyrocketed. (kmb30)

The suggestion of using the remaining budget (Silpa) to be used to build new class rooms seemed hasn’t got its response from the executives moreover the budget from this year’s Regional Budget and Expenses (APBD) was very minim as proved by a school building rehab and new classrooms construction only half of them fulfilled.

This condition was then questioned by members of Budget Board of Denpasar House of Representatives in their meeting with Denpasar Council APBD team last Wednesday (25/7). Besides questioning about the rehab, the board also question on the subside of HIV/AIDS counseling, Wangaya Hospital master plan, PHR MoU, and the decrease on direct shopping budget in the amended planned APBD. Indonesia Raya Fraction Head, I Ketut Resmiyasa, suggested that the new class-

rooms extend is demanding and should use last year’s Silpa which reached up to IDR 203 billion. It is assured that if it is used it could manage the overload numbers of pupils with the number of classrooms existing now. With the number of questions stated, Secretary of the City Council, A.A. Rai Iswara, along with Head of other Agencies such as Health, Education, Youth and Sports, also a number of areal leaders of Denpasar, stated that schools in need of renovation has been on data yet the budget was minim to fulfill all so from the 84 units of elementary schools only 46 have been rehabbed while the 22 new classrooms have been fulfilled. For Junior High, High and Vocational Schools were delayed which means it can’t be applied this year which at least 12 Junior High and 4 High Schools will have to wait for the next budget. (kmb12)

Hundreds of irrigation channels unusable BEARING the title as the rice granary of Bali, Tabanan still has the agricultural infrastructure whose condition is beyond expectation. As evidence, of approximately 500 irrigation channels, only 45 percent of them are in quite good condition. Meanwhile, the remaining 55 percent are unusable because they are still made of soil. As a result, they are easily damaged and not functioning optimally.

Ideally, the irrigation construction used river stone materials to supply water to paddy fields. The stone materials were capable of holding and maintaining the water flow from the upstream to downstream. “Only about 45 percent of our irrigation channels are in good condition. The remaining units are still in need of repair,” said the Division Head of Water Resources (SDA), Tabanan Public Works Agency, Ketut Sadra, Wednesday (Jul 25). They were divided into two groups, namely primary channel and secondary channel. Most of the primary channels had been categorized into good condition and they spread over 10 subdistricts in Tabanan.

He described the most damages to irrigation channel occurred in Penebel subdistrict. Of the existing 208 units, a total of 73 channels should be repaired immediately. With the improvement, the irrigation system to rice field was expected to run maximally so there would be no water leakage. A large

number of unusable irrigation channels caused the Public Works Agency through the SDA Division to persistently make improvement breakthrough. This year, a total of 33 repair packages of irrigation channel would be worked on.

Its total budget reached IDR 5.5 billion taken from the Special Allocation Fund (DAK). The budget was also accompanied with matching fund obtained from the Tabanan Regional Budget as much as 10 percent.

“So far, we only rely on the budget of special allocation fund for the repair of irrigation channels,” said Sadra. It occurred because the fund of Tabanan Regional Budget could not cover the total needs for the existing irrigation networks. With the repair, he hoped the farmers could do their activities and the channel could function properly. According to Sadra, every year his party had always prioritized the improvement of irrigation infrastructure. It was intended to support the agricultural development in Tabanan.Meanwhile, farmers in the area of Jatiluwih, Penebel, asked the promise of irrigation improvement in the local area. Damage to the irrigation channels had caused the water supply to their rice field to decline. As a result, farmers were getting anxious. “The irrigation channel here has long broken, but it does not get any improvement so far,” said one of the farmers at Jatiluwih, Semarajaya. (kmb30)

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Sales Training with Kenneth Law IBP

Banyan Tree Ungasan recently expanded its sales team with the appointment of four new professionals in the last three months. The expansion compliments and supports increased business in the areas of online sales and MICE events.

The newly appointed sales members join Banyan Tree Ungasan’s already strong team of professionals working in sales, marketing and reservations headed up by Melinda Taylor, Director of Sales and Marketing and Director of Sales, Made Darmawan.

To better equip the team to succeed in Bali’s fast changing market place, as well as hone their individual strengths; the group attended a two day intensive sales training event that addressed Banyan Tree’s core brand strategies, a messaging workshop and selling techniques designed to maximize opportunities in the hospitality industry.

The training was conducted by Kenneth Law, Banyan Tree Hotel and Resorts’ Field Performance Specialist. Mr. Law also holds the position of Country Head – Hong Kong, an additional role to his position as Assistant Vice President, Field Performance Support at Banyan Tree’s corporate office in Singapore. For the last three years, Mr. Law led a team responsible for bringing new hotels to market speedily and effectively. His role also involved consulting with operating hotels on revenue performance and sales force manage-

ment.

Four new professionals Banyan Tree Ungasan’s latest sales team members those are, Firmanullah Halimy, Sales Manager, with over 15 years hospitality industry experience working with many leading chains in Bali and Bintan, Indonesia, as well as further afield in Brunei. At Banyan Tree, he is responsible for ASEAN markets.

Sherly – Manger, Wedding Sales, has over 11 years experience in marketing and events working having worked for wedding planners and leading Bridal photography studios in Bali and Jakarta. Sherly graduated from the London School of Public Relations with a degree in Marketing.

Cindy Gozali – Senior Manager, eCommerce, has worked extensively for leading luxury hotel chains, holding management positions in sales and online distribution. Cindy graduated from Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland and holds a Bachelors degree in Hospitality and Marketing Management.

Dwinoer Kumalasari, Manager Events & Sales, joins Banyan Tree Ungasan from Banyan

Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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Tree Bintan. With many years experience working in hospitality sales, she also worked in different parts of Indonesia and internationally in Malaysia and the Middle East.

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

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

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

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

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

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Homemade South Korean satellite to go boldly into space Reuters

“ripen” -- change color from green to red when people take photos of it with flashes.

After working as an intern at a private satellite company, he came up with the idea for his “Open Satellite Initiative,” which in turn led him to contact space professionals from Slovenia to Paris.

“I’m just an individual, not someone working for big universities, corporations or armies, so they open up to me and easily give out information,” said Song.

The bespectacled Song spent nearly six years combing through academic papers, shopping online at sites that specialize in components that can be used for space projects, and rummaging through electronic stores hidden in the back alleys of Seoul.

Mexico will start vaccinating some 10 million poultry Thursday against the highly contagious bird flu strain that has already led to the deaths of five million birds which either fell ill or were slaughtered.

“Starting tomorrow, we are going to vaccinate hens and chicks across

the country to put an end to this bird flu epidemic,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon said.

The president indicated that the ultimate goal is to have a batch of 80 million vaccinations, so that “in the coming weeks, (Mexico can) end this economic impact on poultry producers.”

The virus responsible for the

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Chickens at a farm under quarantine in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State, Mexico on July 4, 2012.

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Chilean navy warship visits Bali

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DENPASAR - A Chilean Navy warship with 321 personnel on board arrived here on Wednesday for a visit for several days before continuing its world tour.

The photo shows officers in the Chilean Navy Warship that visit Denpasar for several days. The warship “Esmeralda” anchored in Benoa Port and open for public from July 26-29.

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Song Ho-Jun poses with his satellite during an interview with Reuters at his house in Seoul July 10, 2012.

Mexico to vaccinate 10 million birds in flu outbreak Agence France Presse

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The “Esmeralda” is open for the public from July 26-29, ship captain Guillermo Luttged Mathieu said.

He said during the visit several activities would be carried out for the public and for deepening military cooperation as well as relations between the two countries.

“We have also scheduled a visit to the Indonesian navy base in Denpasar,” he said.

SEOUL - Years of rummaging through back-alley electronics stores will pay off later this year for a South Korean artist when he fulfills his dream of launching a homemade, basement-built satellite into space.

“Making a satellite is no more difficult than making a cellphone,” said Song Hojun, 34, who said he built the $500 OpenSat to show people they could achieve their dreams.

“I believe that not just a satellite, but anything can be made with the help of the Internet and social platforms. I chose a satellite to show that symbolically.”

There’s a long history of do-ityourself satellites being launched by universities and scientific groups around the world, as well as amateur radio clubs, but Song said his is the first truly personal satellite designed and financed by an individual.

An engineering student at university, Song regularly incorporated technology into his art pieces. In a work called Apple he used light bulbs that would

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outbreak, H7N3, has occasionally affected humans in various parts of the world, according to the United Nations, but has not shown itself to be easily transmittable between humans.

The prices of both eggs and chickens have soared in the wake of the outbreak, leading inflation to rise as well. According to Mexico’s national statistics agency, the first half of July saw an inflation rate of 4.45 percent, the highest level in 18 months.

The agriculture ministry has said poultry farming “contributes up to 40 percent of the total volume” of the country’s livestock production, and the “economic loss” from this epidemic “is and will be irreparable.”

The outbreak was first detected June 20 in the western state of Jalisco. A national animal health emergency was declared at the beginning of July.

Health officials keep a close watch on such outbreaks since socalled swine flu broke out in Mexico in 2009. The H1N1 virus spread into a global pandemic that claimed the lives of 17,000 people.

‘Maiden’ inca mummy suffered lung infection before sacrifice The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday (July 25).

The researchers analyzed tissue proteins, rather than DNA, from the Maiden and another young Inca mummy who died at the same time.

Over the last decade, DNA techniques have proven useful in helping solve ancient mysteries, such as how King Tut died.

But these techniques aren’t without faults. For example, finding evidence of a malariacausing parasite in King Tut’s system doesn’t necessarily mean the Egyptian king suf-

fered any malaria symptoms.

Additionally, the environment can easily contaminate DNA samples, if researchers aren’t careful.

On the other hand, analyzing a sample’s proteins, which are less susceptible to environmental contamination, yields a whole different set of information. “Being the expression of DNA, proteins really show you what the body is producing at the time when the individual is being sampled — or, in our case, at the time of death,” study researcher Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York, told LiveScience. In particular, proteins can tell you if the body’s immune system has activated to fight a disease, she added.

University scholars leadership symposium to be held in Bali

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DENPASAR - Humanitarian Affairs United Kingdom, the London based Social Enterprise, will be holding their 3rd annual University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Bali from August 1st to 7th, 2012.

Janice Leong, Regional Director of Humanitarian Affairs Asia said this in the release that receive by IBP. According to Leong, this symposium was implemented with the goal to bring college students from

outstanding universities around the world together to learn about, explore and address global issues concerning the plight of those suffering from extreme poverty.

This year, it will bring together a total of 400 dynamic and enthusiastic students from 33 countries actively involved in sustainable development to gather in Bali to discuss global issues concerning their future.

“This will give or promising leaders the unique opportunity to meet and network with youth leaders from

around the world, all working toward the same goal: alleviating the plight of the poor in developing countries,” she explained.

Geraldine Cox, the President and Founder of the Non-Profit Organization Sunrise Children Home will share the challenges she encountered while setting up her children home in Cambodia.

On Friday August 3rd, the day will start with a presentation by Mr. Raoul Wijffels, Founder and Executive Director of the One Dollar For Music

Foundation in Bali. He will share his creative concept of getting the youths off the street to create music for their future. Robin Lim, Founder of the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation and CNN Hero of the Year 2011 will captivate the delegates with her inspiring story of helping the poor to deliver healthy baby.

“In addition, we will have the pleasure to have among us Mr. El-Mostafa Benlamlih, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Indonesia who will grace the Closing

Ceremony,” she added.

Another highlights of the Symposium is when the 400 delegates will each write a postcard to the United Nations Secretary General, His Excellency, Ban Ki-Moon expressing their thoughts of the future they would want to see.

The 400 youth leaders will be participating in a Learning Journey where they will spend a day helping the less fortunate in their host city. This will allow them to better understand the needs of the community. (kmb18)

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President Barack Obama pauses as he talks about the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting as he addresses the National …In his broadest remarks on gun control yet in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, President Barack Obama called late Wednesday for tougher background checks designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

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Soybean farmers in the region of Klungkung can only lament their fate on seeing the price of soybean continuing to rise in the market. They are not affected by the increasing price of imported soybeans. Even, they are now becoming the ‘victim’ because the soybean price they sell to traders is only IDR 5,500 per kilogram. bean. She was afraid if the soybean planted on the two plots of land would be unsold and not be purchased by trader. “Therefore, I directly sold the soybeans after the harvest because I have had a buyer,” said Ayu. Similar opinion was also revealed by another soybean farmer, Nyoman Ludra. The farmer from Besan village, Dawan, equally did not know if there was an increase in soybean price in the market. Instead, he heard the price hike of soybean from watching television.

In addition, Ludra admitted that so far his soybean had already held a buyer and it only purchased his soybean at standard price. Similarly, he estimated there was a pricing strategy because so far the price of soybean he sold was only for IDR 5,500 per kilogram. “Until now, there has been no price hike, sir. Its standard price is still at IDR 12,000 per hamper,” he said. (119)

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President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.

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SMKN 1 Kubutambahan students rallied Money counterfeit distributor captured at Gilimanuk Singaraja (Bali Post)-

A day before handing over his position to the new Regent last Monday (23/7) turns out former Regent Bagiada has produced an authority letter in mutating a number of schools’ principals in Buleleng yet only known to be true

by Wednesday (25/7). One of them is principal of vocational schools SMKN 1 Kubutambahan, Gede Sukanaya, which caused pupils of the schools held a demonstration and halt studying in asking for their principal not to be mutated.

From what’s seen, since the school bell rings pupils did not go in and instead they gathered in the school field, girls and boys, holding a white cloth stating their disappointment as their principal have been mutated to another school. Not only that they also took one of the boards in a class

room and wrote their aspiration in not accepting Sukanaya who have succeeded in managing this school moved to another. One pupil from the student committee (OSIS), Komang Manday Sari, stated this is done to show their disappointment knowing that their principal was mutated with no clear reason when actually all pupils and teachers are close to him.

“We hope he will be brought back here,” Sari stated which followed with other pupils’ agreement.

Secretary of the School’s Committee also Head Village of Kubutambahan, Ketut Sandirat, explained that this act is purely pupils’ aspiration as Sukanaya has been mutated from being a principal here and became a general teacher in another school.

This mutation seemed not at all based on Sukanaya’s ability and achievement moreover pupils

“A lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities,” the president, who has called for reimposing the Assault Weapons Ban, said in a speech to the National Urban League.

“I believe the majority of gun owners would agree that we should do everything possible to prevent criminals and fugitives from purchasing weapons; that we should check someone’s criminal record before they can check out a gun seller; that a mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily,” he said. “These steps shouldn’t be controversial. They should be common sense.”

But Obama also offered a nod to the difficult politics of gun control, portraying himself as a believer in the individual right to bear arms, and acknowledging that calls to action after an incident like the one in Aurora often fade. “When there is an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy like the one we saw, there’s always an outcry immediately after for action. And there’s talk of new reforms, and there’s talk of new legislation,” Obama

Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack

The soybean farmer in Klungkung Regency

think he has been good in leading and managing this school which then it worried pupils the new principal will not be as good as Sukanaya. “We can’t forbid the pupils and it is purely from them in doing this demonstration not from anyone’s initiative.

Moreover pupils actually wanted to go to the Regent’s office to complain yet we forbid them so at this time their halt studying act is granted. The mutation of Sukanaya to become a general teacher was based on an Authority Letter signed by former Regent Putu Bagiada dating 23rd July 2012 or a day before the inauguration of new regent and vice regent on Tuesday (24/7). The letter was received on Wednesday (25/7) which stated Sukanaya will be as general teacher in SMKN 1 Sawan at Menyali Village,” Sandirat explained. (kmb)

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Jembrana Police captured fake money IDR 100,000 distributor from Banyuwangi who was about to cross to Java. It is signaled that there are still more of them in this network. Head of Jembrana Police Criminal Research Section, First Inspector Muh. Wahyudin Latif as permitted by Head Police, GAPC Komang Sandi Arsana, last Wednesday (25/7) stated accused initialed KS (48) was captured during vehicle documents checking at Pos I Gilimanuk Harbour. Accused was with a Honda Supra motorcycle numbered DK 2737 QY. The documents accused brought did not match with the motor’s number and so accused was intensively investigated at Gilimanuk Sea Police.

In one of accused jacket pocket a bundle of IDR 100,000 was found

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Face low selling price

One of the soybean farmers from Tribuana hamlet, Kusamba village, Dawan, Nyoman Ayu, admitted on Wednesday (Jul 25) there was no increase in soybean price in recent years. According to her, the price of soybean she sold to traders was still at standard. For a hamper containing two kilograms was sold for IDR 12,000. “The price of soybean does not increase. A hamper of soybean is sold for IDR 12, 000,” he said.

Nyoman Ayu herself did not know at all about the increase in soybean price in the market.

So far, she just planted soybean at Subak Dawan. After three months, she harvested and the soybean was then sold to traders.

However, the soybean offered to traders was purchased at standard price and there was no increase.

So far, Ayu admitted to earn IDR 300,000 to IDR 400,000 from the selling of soybean. Besides, Nyoman Ayu could only submit to her fate when selling the soy-

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which physically it looked non fake as it has its serial numbers which from the 595 bills has four serial numbers GGT 887578, GGT 887588, GGT 887575 and GGT 887878.

Accused admitted that the total fake money he brought to Bali was IDR 60million which means IDR 500,000 of it has been used as only IDR 59,500,000 is on him. Police admitted have been capturing other suspects and still developing the case as there are still more of them around and it is not known if the network is based in Java or Bali.

Besides the fake money bundle as evidence, police also confiscated official money totaling IDR 300,000, the motorcycle and a cell phone.

Accused has been stated to have violated section 245 of the Criminal Codes in distributing fake money with possible punishment 15 years of jail. (kmb26)

UNITED NATIONS - Iran’s U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed. A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Israel has accused Iran and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah of the bombing.

Iran has denied the accusations. “It’s amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a U.N. Security Council debate on the Middle East. “We

have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on ... innocent people.”

“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains,” Khazaee said. “I could provide ... many examples showing that this regime killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Haim Waxman said Iran’s fingerprints were all over the bomb attack in Bulgaria, as well as dozens of other plots in recent months around the world.

“These comments are appalling, but not surprising from the same government that says the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy theory and denies the Holocaust,” Waxman said in a statement.

A member of an Israeli Rescue and Recovery team works at the site of the Wednesday bomb blast at the parking lot of Burgas Airport, some 400km (248miles) east of Sofia July 19, 2012.

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said in his speech. “And too often, those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere.”

“And I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms. And we recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation -— that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,” he said.

The president also singled out youth violence, and warned that government can only do so much. “It’s up to us, as parents and as neighbors and as teachers and as mentors, to make sure our young people don’t have that void inside them,” he said.

It’s unclear how much political capital Obama will risk in an election-year gun-control fight. On the way to Aurora on Sunday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether there would be no renewed push for the assault weapons ban. “I wouldn’t argue with your assessment about that,” Carney replied. And White House officials have repeatedly emphasized that they are focused on enforcing “existing law.”

A woman signs a book of remembrance for the late Ghana President John Atta Mills, seen in the photo, at his party headquarters in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.

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Ghana president’s death shakes up December vote

Associated Press Writer

ACCRA, Ghana — Ghana’s governing party vowed Wednesday to carry out the “unfinished job” of the country’s late president as questions swirled about who would replace him on the ticket for December’s election.

John Atta Mills, who took power in 2009 after winning a presidential runoff vote by a razorthin margin, died Tuesday at the age of 68.

There was no immediate word on the cause of his death, though there had been rumors about a serious illness in recent months.

Vice President John Mahama was sworn in late Tuesday only hours after Atta Mills passed away, underscoring the West African nation’s stability in a part of the world where the deaths of other leaders have sparked coups.

Atta Mills’ death, though, could harm his party’s chances of staying in power in December’s vote. Some already have speculated that the 53-year-old Mahama may become the party’s

nominee, although some critics say he lacks the name recognition of his predecessor.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who came in second in the 2008 election with 49.77 percent of the vote, is running again. His party has temporarily suspended campaigning during the period of national mourning. Richard Downie, deputy director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the December elections are expected to pose “a strong test” of Ghana’s democratic credentials.

“The two leading parties remain evenly matched, as they were in 2008, but the stakes are much higher this time round,” Downie said in a statement released Wednesday. “The winning party knows it will get to enjoy the best years of Ghana’s oil wealth.” Atta Mills served as president as Ghana began grappling with how to deal with its newfound oil wealth from offshore fields discovered in the last five years.

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Embattled Qantas in talks on Emirates alliance Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - Embattled Qantas said Thursday it was in talks with carriers including Emirates to revive its struggling international arm, an alliance that could see its Europe-bound flights routed through Dubai.

The revelation, which saw Qantas’s share price soar almost 10 percent, is part of the Australian airline’s drive to turn around its fortunes after an 83 percent slump in first-half net profit in the six months to December.

“Qantas confirms it is in discussions with a number of airlines about potential alliances,” it said in a statement as its shares, which have been trading at record lows, surged as high as Aus$1.10.

“These airlines include Emirates, among others.

“Qantas’s policy is not to comment on the nature or status of these discussions.”

Last month Emirates chief executive Tim Clark told Dow Jones Newswires he was not interested in an equity investment

in Qantas but was keen on other types of commercial arrangements, such as codesharing.

Qantas is primarily losing money on its international routes.

The tie-up would see Qantas fly to Dubai for the first time and rely on its new partner to transfer passengers to destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the newspaper said.

This would mean most London and other European flights going through Dubai instead of Singapore, casting a cloud over its long-standing joint venture with British Airways.

The newspaper said a linkup with Emirates would allow Qantas to maintain a global focus without having to use its own planes, as high fuel costs sap profits.

It would also give the carrier scope to fly more aggressively to Asia, a stated goal of chief executive Alan Joyce.

In return Emirates would get access to Qantas’s market-leading share of Australian domestic traffic.

DENPASAR - Denpasar City remains to face a shortage of rice with the production only reaching 32,000 tons per year on farmland area of 2,650 hectares. This capital of Bali Province has been unable to cover the needs of the community’s rice consumption reaching 80,000 tons per year or about 240 kilograms per capita per year.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus of Bangladesh speaks to the press in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. Yunus is in Tokyo to attend a symposium for social business.

Disaster-hit Japan could use microfinance

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TOKYO - Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that microfinance could help disaster-struck Japan rebuild, even though the concept he pioneered is usually associated with poor and developing nations.

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This file photo taken on October 30, 2011 shows Qantas aircraft grounded at Sydney Airport. Embattled Qantas Airways said on July 26, 2012 it was in talks with carriers including Emirates to revive its international arm, an alliance that could see most of its London-bound flights routed through Dubai.

Yunus, seen as one of the world’s leading anti-poverty activists, said extending small loans could help people in regions devastated by last year’s quake-tsunami disaster, despite Japan being one of Asia’s richest countries.

“It’s needed everywhere -- it doesn’t matter where you are,” the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of

Japan.

“When you come to a disaster area like Tohoku (in northeast Japan), it’s all the more important... You have to rebuild everything all over again.

There’s no house, there’s nothing.”

About 19,000 people died or remain missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast triggered a giant tsunami on March 11 last year.

Many had to evacuate communities near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, leaving thousands without jobs or homes.

“You used to have a job. Now you have no job because of the disaster.

Can I create my own job? Self-employment,” Yunus said, citing the benefits of small microfinance loans.

Yunus was the founder of Grameen Bank, which has been credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty by offering rural families small loans to start small business ventures.

But last year he was sacked as head of the bank, apparently on the orders of the Bangladeshi government, sparking widespread international anger.

South Korean economic growth falls to over 2-year low Associated Press

SEOUL — South Korea’s economic growth fell to a two-year low in the second quarter as exports and capital expenditures shrank due to a slowdown in its largest trading partner, China, and debt-crippled Europe.

The Bank of Korea said Thursday in its preliminary estimate that South Korea’s economy expanded 2.4 percent over a year earlier in the three months ending in June, the lowest growth since the third quarter of 2009.

Asia’s fourth-largest economy was widely expected to report weak

growth for the April-June period, as the central bank unexpectedly cut its key policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point earlier this month, its first rate cut in more than three years.

The surprise rate cut was seen as a sign that South Korea’s exportdriven economy will face height-

ened external challenges down the road. Europe appears to be far from resolving its debt crisis and the world’s major economies, including key South Korean trading partners China and the United States, feel the pinch of the Europe’s woes.

The Bank of Korea forecast

South Korea’s economy to grow just 3 percent this year, slower than its previously forecast 3.5 percent.

An increase in government spending during the second half of this year is expected to contribute 0.2 percentage points, helping South Korea narrowly avoid 2 percent level growth.

The Head of Denpasar Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Gede Ambara Putra, said that in terms of the average rice consumption, the shortage or deficit of rice need amounted to some 48,000 tons per year.

“In terms of the production yield, we are still minus because of limited agricultural land while the population growth is high.

However, as Denpasar is the center of trade, we are never overwhelmed to meet the needs of community,” said Ambara Putra in Denpasar.

He said the production yields of a number of regions having surplus production such as Tabanan, Banyuwangi and other supplying regencies would be marketed to Denpasar. On that account, the needs of Denpasar dwellers now reaching 565,635 people would be satisfied.

“Aside from the high mobility of Denpasar dwellers, the conversion of land use occurred also becomes a challenge in improving the production yield.

Therefore, we have budgeted IDR 3 billion for the agricultural sector channeled through several programs,” he said.

He added the municipal government had made various efforts to prevent the conversion of agricultural land by empowering the existing paddy fields. However, such an endeavor could not have preserved the agricultural land in Denpasar.

“One of the efforts currently

taken by the Denpasar municipality is providing property tax relief, rice seed and fertilizer assistance to the 41 subak organizations, other than allowing the post-harvest payment program known as Yarnen,” he said.

According to him, the program involved some businesspeople (third parties) to provide the assurance of post-harvest absorption. All the costs incurred, either for the purchase of seeds and fertilizers were borne by third parties. Therefore, farmers were only working on the existing farmland. Similarly, after the harvest season came, the businesspeople would purchase the yield pursuant to market price.

“Other than constant farmland shrinkage, virtually 80 percent of the farmers cultivating the land existing in Denpasar today are share-croppers or non-landowners. With such condition, it is very difficult to hold the commitment of those farmers,” he said.

For information, of the four subdistricts in Denpasar, South Denpasar and East Denpasar records the largest farmland shrinkage. In 2009, the farmland area in South Denpasar reached 929 hectares and 726 hectares in East Denpasar. However, in 2010 the farmland in South Denpasar reduced to 907 hectares and 700 hectares in East Denpasar. Then in 2011, the farmland in South Denpasar reduced again to 896 hectares and 694 hectares in East Denpasar. (kmb27)

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Denpasar City remains to face a shortage of rice with the production only reaching 32,000 tons per year on farmland area of 2,650 hectares. This capital of Bali Province has been unable to cover the needs of the community’s rice consumption reaching 80,000 tons per year or about 240 kilograms per capita per year.

Flowers Signify a Holy Mind and Sincerity

FLOWER occupies a privileged position in the religious practices of Balinese people. Every single offering presented by Balinese always contains canang sari filled with various colorful flowers. Such flowers also make the offerings of Balinese look beautiful and festive.

An author of Hindu religious books, I Ketut Wiana, revealed that flower has very profound meaning.

In the Prakerti Yajna palm-leaf manuscript is mentioned that such flowers signified a sacred symbol of mind sincerity.

Wiana himself called that flower has two meanings. Firstly, it is a symbol of God’s blessing. In the Ramayana poetry was told that when

the Prince Rama struggled against Ravana, the gods in the sky bestowed the blessing to Rama by showering various and fragrant flowers.

Similarly, the Arjuna Vivaha poetry told that Arjuna meditated on Mount Indrakila and got a severe test of the gods. When facing the temptation on the arrival of Lord Shiva as great warrior, a bitter struggle exploded between Arjuna and the warrior. Arjuna was almost lost out. Once he woke up to fight back, he was showered with flowers signifying that Lord Shiva had blessed his meditation.

Flowers also symbolized the soul and the mind. According to Wiana, the atma or individual soul becom-

ing the source of life is often depicted with flowers in various kinds of religious ceremonies. Flowers also symbolized an expression of feelings and thought. For example, in the funeral ceremony in Bali, when the corpse is carried to cemetery, in the course from the funeral home the flowers known as sekar ura are sprinkled at every intersection. It is a mixture of flower, yellow rice and perforated coin.

“Sekar ura is the epitome of farewell expression to the deceased and those who are still alive. Flowers in the sekar ura represents sincerity to release the deceased who will go to the afterlife realm,” said Wiana.

In a memukur or nyekah ritual, the

astral body of people who are given a ritual is symbolized by human figure made of flowers or puspa lingga. It was described in the Ligya and Yama Purwana Tattva palm-leaf manuscript.

Such representation contained blossoming lotus, water lily, calotropis leaf and ficus leaf. Since the flowers were used to make the offerings, they should be well selected, not just flowers of any kind. A number of palm-leaf manuscripts had given instruction and guidance about flowers that should be used for making oblations or praying facilities.

In the Jnana Siddhanta palm-leaf manuscript was mentioned that flowers worth using for making oblation or a means of worship were

blooming and endlessly scented flowers. It was also signified if such flowers were used to symbolize holy scripts. Meanwhile, the Shivaratri Kalpa written by Mpu Tanakung mentioned a provision that the flowers used to worship Lord Shiva should be the flowers deliberately picked.

The flowers used for prayer or means of offerings should indeed be clean, pure, fragrant, blooming, fresh and picked directly from the tree. It would be useless to present the offerings if the flowers employed were withered and used flowers. This provision was written in the Tantri Nandaka Arana palmleaf manuscript. (BTN/kmb)

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After GDP shock, Cameron pledges to do more

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LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Thursday to do more for the economy after GDP data released this week showed the economy had contracted more than expected in the second quarter of 2012.

“We’ve got to do more. We’re going to roll up our sleeves and do everything possible to get business going in Britain, to get housing going, to get jobs going,” he told the BBC during an interview at his Number 10 Downing Street residence.

“One of the things (the GDP figures) show is the extent of damage that was done to the economy in the boom-and-bust years. We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households, and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country in the world. It takes time to recover from there,” he said.

Taiwanese vegetable vendor among Asia’s Nobel winners Reuters

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a young woman believed to be Ri Sol-Ju enjoy a concert in Pyongyang on July 6. Kim is married, state media has confirmed, ending weeks of speculation about the identity of a stylish young woman seen accompanying him at official events

Wife of N. Korea’s Kim is former singer: media Agence France Presse

The wife of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un is a former singer who caught the leader’s eye while she was giving a performance, South Korean media said Thursday after Pyongyang disclosed the marriage.

Official media in the secretive state revealed late Wednesday that a stylish young woman pictured accompanying Kim this month is his wife, Ri Sol-Ju. It gave no details about her and did not say when they wed, but analysts said the mere fact that the couple were presented in public marked a new departure for the nation’s dynastic leadership.

The world has been scrambling for information about Jong-Un since he took over the impoverished but nuclear-armed state after his father Kim Jong-Il died suddenly last December.

He is believed to be in his late 20s, but even his exact age is unknown outside the North.

The International Crisis Group think-tank said in a report this week that Jong-Un appears to be fully in charge, despite speculation he would have to rely on close advisers because of his youth and inexperience.

But it said there was nothing to suggest he would take measures to improve the lot of his people amid se-

vere food shortages, or reduce regional frictions over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes.

In public, Jong-Un has presented a relaxed and confident image in an apparent attempt to emphasise his readiness to rule.

In contrast to his late father, he has cultivated an outgoing and informal style -- hugging soldiers, posing for photos with troops and linking arms with women.

Neither his father nor grandfather Kim Il-Sung were ever pictured with their wives at public events.

But the disclosure of Jong-Un’s marriage is partly to show “he is not a child”, said Chang Yong-Suk, of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University.

“If he went around alone, people would look down on him as a young lad, but with his wife present, he could show he is the head of the family and also an adult,” Chang told AFP. South Korean media reports generally agreed that the short-haired and smiling woman, apparently in her twenties, is a former songstress who

was specially trained to become Kim’s consort.

Yonhap news agency said she could be seen singing on video footage of a performance released by the North in February last year. Ri had taken a six-month course in the duties of a first lady, the agency said.

Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Ri was active in the North’s Unhasu orchestra until last year and had performed for Jong-Un and his father on New Year’s Eve 2010.

“There is a possibility Jong-Un chose her as his wife after seeing her at the concert hall,” it quoted a source as saying.

Another source told the paper that after the marriage Ri had undergone a six-month course in duties of a first lady at Kim Il-Sung University, the nation’s most prestigious academic institution.

JoongAng Ilbo also described Ri as a former singer who came to the young Kim’s notice during a performance. It said Jong-Un’s father had singled her out as first lady while he was working on his succession plan

MANILA - A Taiwanese vegetable vendor, who has personally given away over 7 million Taiwanese dollars ($231,800) to several charities for children, was among six winners of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel prize this year, its foundation said on Thursday.

The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Chen Shu-chu as one of six winners, citing her for “personal giving, which reflects a deep, consistent, quiet compassion, and has transformed the lives of the numerous Taiwanese she has helped”.

From her daily earnings as a vegetable vendor, Chen, who reached only the sixth grade and sleeps on the floor, was able to help build library and feed and shelter children-at-risk as well as families displaced by disasters.

“Money serves its purpose only when it is used for those who need it,” she said. “I feel

happy whenever I could help other people.”

The awards also honored Filipino Romulo Davide, who helped farmers fight pest infestation on rice, bananas and other crops; Indian Kulandei Francis, head of a village self-help group; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, an environmental lawyer from Bangladesh; Cambodian agronomist Yang Saing Koma who helps farmers’ improve rice production; a n d I n d o n e s i a n A m b r o s iu s Ruwindrijarto who is fighting to stop illegal logging. The winners will receive a prize of $50,000 with a ceremony set for late August.

“The Magsaysay awardees of 2012 are six remarkable individuals, all deeply involved in creating sustainable solutions to poverty and its accompanying disempowerment -- whether in the forests or on farmlands, in exploitative industries or in inadequate education,” Carmencita Abella, foundation president, said in a statement.

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From page 1 Contract agreement of the traders was made every two years, where as of December 31, 2012, their contract would expire. Meanwhile, according to the existing issue, the tender to fill in the outlets at Ngurah Rai Airport would be made this September. It was said the local businessmen would only get a quota of 10 percent.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung House, I Ketut Suiasa, who heard about the aspiration of local businessmen, stated that his party would attempt to communicate the matters to relevant parties so that local communities could become a priority. Even, if there would be standards specified later, Suiasa asked the airport authority to further disseminate them to local traders so they could make adjustment.

“Obviously, we do hope the potential of local communities could be utilized as widely as possible so that local community can also enjoy it.

The economic growth should also be enjoyed by local people, not only by large investors and even foreign investors,” he said. (kmb25)

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INDONESIA Indonesia to sue English football club Everton Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The organisers behind Indonesia’s Java Cup said Wednesday they will sue English football club Everton and Turkey’s Galatasaray after the teams withdrew from the tournament.

Everton said on Tuesday it was forced to abandon plans to play the pre-season tournament, stating “unresolved issues mean that the risk of travelling was too great”.

The withdrawal came one day after Galatasaray, forcing the inaugural Java Cup, which was scheduled for July 26-29, to be postponed indefinitely. “(The) consequences of the cancellation for Everton is (they) pay back all the damages,” Patrick Mbyaya, a lawyer representing the tournament, told a press conference.

“We will also contact the England Football Association to give disciplinary (sanctions) to Everton. If they refuse to pay back, we’ll take this to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (in Switzerland),” he said.

The lawyer added the same applied to Galatasaray.

Widjajanto, chief executive of The Liga Prima Indonesia Sportindo (LPIS) which organised the event, said: “This withdrawals are very odd and we really regretted their decision...the investors clearly suffered a big loss of money.”

The organiser showed to reporters a letter dated July 25 from the English Premier League’s chairman David Richards as the first official notification that Everton would not attend the event.

The letter said: “Both Everton and the Barclays Premier League deeply regret that their involvement in the competition in Jakarta will not be possible.

“The club’s decision to stay here in the UK was not meant to show any disrespect to neither your country, the Indonesian Football Association nor any of the other stakeholders involved in the competition,” Richards said. The tournament, which was to include an Indonesian XI and a Malaysian XI, had been scheduled to be held at Jakarta’s Gelora Bung Karno stadium, scene of a deadly stampede in November and fatal clashes between fans in May. The latest events provide further embarrassment for Indonesian football, which has long been mired in controversy and was threatened with suspension by world body FIFA following the launch of a rebel league.

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days,” Sutrisno said.

“Early this morning the boat somehow drifted ashore to a smaller island near Raas. Police and the village chief have put them in a community hall and given them food,” Sutrisno said, adding they were believed to be heading for Australia.

They were “all safe and healthy” and would be picked up and handed to immigration authorities, he added.

More than 5,200 asylum-seekers have arrived in Australia so far this year on boats, many of them from transit hubs in Indonesia.

Early this month, Australia and Indonesia agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying his people were victims of the trade as well.

Australia-bound migrants land on island near Bali

SURABAYA - Sixty Iraqi and Iranian migrants, believed to be headed for Australia and adrift at sea for three days with engine trouble, were safe on a small Indonesian island near Bali, an official said Thursday.

East Java provincial search and rescue agency chief Sutrisno said the stricken boat had landed near Raas island, northwest of Bali, after authorities received a distress call Wednesday but were unable to find the vessel.

A crew member had phoned the Australian authorities, he said.

“Australian authorities gave us the cellphone of the crew, and we called them last night. They said the boat had engine trouble and was drifting for three

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An Indonesian vendor fries a tofu dish in Jakarta on July 25, 2012. Indonesian makers of tofu and tempeh went on strike on July 25 and soybean products virtually disappeared from shops, as the effects of a US drought hit this Southeast Asian nation.

Rising soybean prices anger tofu makers

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JAKARTA - Indonesian makers of tofu and tempeh went on strike Wednesday and soybean products virtually disappeared from shops, as the effects of a US drought hit this Southeast Asian nation.

The drought scouring the farming heartlands of the United States -- the world’s biggest producer of corn and soybeans -- is the worst in 25 years, reportedly affecting 11 percent of soybean crops.

In the Indonesian capital Jakarta and in West Java around 23,000 tofu and tempeh makers -mostly small family-owned businesses -- first demanded that a five percent import duty be removed, then said they would strike anyway after the government dropped the levy.

“We are upset because the soybean price just keeps rising. Producers have been forced to make the size of the cakes smaller and consumers are angry.” said Sutaryo, chairman of the Indonesian Tofu and Tempeh Cooperative.

Locally, the price of soybeans has risen from 5,500 rupiah ($0.58) a kilogram in January to 8,000 rupiah now, in turn driving up prices of tofu and tempeh by 30 percent since April, Sutaryo said.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa told reporters that

import duties in place since January would be suspended beginning this month.

“We have agreed to provide an exemption of the five percent import duty on soybeans until the end of the year. We hope the traders will adjust their prices accordingly and not take advantage,” he said.

That did not placate manufacturers, who said they were not objecting to the levy alone but to prices driven up by shortages, caused by the drought.

“We stopped production today and will continue until Friday, even with the levy lifted,” Sutaryo said.

“Tofu and tempeh are poor man’s food. Poor people can’t afford meat, and now if they can’t afford tofu and tempeh too, what do they eat?” he said.

With about half of Indonesia’s 240 million population living on less than $2 a day, many virtually survive on tofu and tempeh, which are rich in protein and were virtually absent from shops on Wednesday.

The price of a kilogram of tempeh rose from 6,000 rupiah in April to 8,000 rupiah presently, while a four-ounce piece of tofu jumped from 400 rupiah to 500 rupiah.

According to local reports, Indonesia imports 60 percent of its soybean from the United States.

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Badung Traditional Market IBP

Denpasar Traditional Market is a center of town’s economics which is located in Gajah Mada Street, that is main road and become a shopping centre of Bali. This traditional market is apposite to the village temple that is one of three biggest temples in Denpasar. It is initially does not as big as like now because have changed experiences and modification which is adapting to the requirement and town growth. This market cannot be discharged from the existence of an existing market in the cross Badung’s river that is called Kumbasari Market because the local society will feel incompletely go for shopping if they are not come to Kumbasari Market, especially for the Balinese who want to buy the ceremony items.

Denpasar Market is a market selling the costume and clothing items with the prices are relative cheaper than clothing items sold at the shops in Gajah Mada Street which are most owned by citizen of Chinese clan. Kumbasari Market is previously called by Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /jar like pot, pengedangan, cubek (plate from land), paso (pail from land), caratan (water jug from land), jeding (barrel from land), penyantokan (mixer from land), coblong (cup from land), kekeb (rice cover) and others. All of these items are the kitchenware and also

the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market. But now it sell the material or art items for tourist therefore it is one of tourist destinations in Denpasar Town.

Denpasar Market is opened on 24 April 1984 by Bali ‘s Governor, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra. Then after experiencing of the fire accident, it has been repaired in year 2000 at that moment Bali ‘s Governor is Mr. Dewa Made Berata. This market owns the broadness about 14.544 M² and broadly park 9064 M² which is built in four floors.

The local people who go for shopping at this market are not only from environment of Denpasar community but also come from outside of town. The moment before the big holiday like Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi and others, this market is always crowded by the buyer which are most of them the local society.

Denpasar Market is opened at 5 o’clock in the morning and close at 5 o’clock in the evening. Then, it is changed by the evening market opened from 05:00 pm until at 05:00 am the day after. Meanwhile at Senggol Market in Kumbasari is opened at 02:00 pm and closed at 11:30 pm. The unique of Senggol Market’s name is possibility taken away from the situation and condition of people movement on

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Stars out in London to honour great Ali Agence France Presse

Stars of sport and screen gathered in London to honour legendary heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion Muhammad Ali as the countdown to the 2012 Games neared its finale. The 70-year-old boxer attended Wednesday’s gala event at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London which was hosted

by Hollywood A-list couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Others guests at the UK-themed Sports For Peace dinner included Live Aid creator Bob Geldof, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and actress Rosario Dawson. Ali’s brother, Rahman, said the former champion was “very happy and proud to be here.

“He was a part of the 1960 team, and he’s glad to be here.

“He won in 1960, and he thinks the US team are going to be the champs this year.”

Former tennis star Boris Becker said it was a “big honour and a privilege” to be in the presence of “the greatest living sportsman. “He presented his sport all over the world. From an athlete he became a peacemaker, he became a global warrior and just a spokesperson for the right causes,” he explained. “He has had just an incredible life.”

Former hurdler and 1988 Olympic silver medalist, Colin Jackson said: “It’s absolutely wonderful to be here. “Any time we can celebrate anything with a sporting icon, it’s just fantastic.

Ali won gold at the Rome Olympics, but said in his autobiography that he threw the medal in the Ohio River after being denied a seat in an all-white restaurant. He was re-awarded the medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where he lit the flame to start the event.

The identity of this year’s flame carrier is shrouded in secrecy as final rehearsals for Friday’s opening ceremony take place at the 80,000 seater Olympic Stadium in east London.

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shopping where they each others jog because of visitor denseness.

This Senggol Market is selling the variety of food, from the cheap Balinese, Javanese and Chinese cookery. It is also sell the various

types of clothes from adult until children one.

Denpasar Market is encircled by shop along the street of Gajah Mada, in the right side there is Sulawesi Street which is famous of

cloth items. Denpasar Traditional Market is progressively strengthening the identity of a center of Denpasar’s economics which is opened within 24 hours and never silent by visitor.

AFP Photo/Robyn Beck

File photo shows boxing legend Muhammad Ali (R) on stage at the Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XVIII in Arizona in March. Stars of sport and screen gathered in London to honour Ali as the countdown to the 2012 Games neared its finale.

Red Bull forced to change engine mapping Agence France Presse

Defending constructors champions Red Bull have been forced to change their engine mapping for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Motor racing’s ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA), on Thursday confirmed a clarification to the technical regulations that effectively closed a loophole in the rules.

Red Bull are believed to have been running their cars - driven by defending drivers world champion German Sebastian Vettel and title contender Australian Mark Webber - with mapping that allowed them to run with reduced torque in the mid-rpm range.

This is perceived to have given them an illegal performance advantage that was identified last weekend at the German Grand Prix where the stewards, when presented with an FIA report on the matter, ruled that the cars were not breaking the rules as written.

The FIA has since re-written the rules and clarified the issues in order to ensure that the Red Bull cars will not continue to take any advantage. The FIA has issued a clarification of Article 5.5.3 within F1’s technical regulations to the teams ahead of this weekend’s race.

It is understood that the teams will be

required to supply one engine map - as a reference - that they used during the first four events of this season, which must then be approved by the governing body.

Once passed by the FIA, the engine torque curves above 6,000rpm must not vary by more than plus or minus two per cent from that reference map.

Teams will be allowed to make specific requests for changes when races take place in ‘exceptional atmospheric conditions’.

Red Bull have yet to make any official reaction to the new ruling, but McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale said he could not quantify the impact the clarification would have on Red Bull’s performance.

“The honest answer is I really don’t know,” Neale said. “None of us really knows what it is that has antagonised the FIA so much to provoke (FIA technical delegate) Jo Bauer into issuing the note he did last Sunday morning.

“That was quite an unusual step - I don’t think the FIA would have referred to the stewards unless they had very serious concerns. It’s really not for us to know or tell exactly what the Renault engine is doing in the Red Bull and therefore how much advantage they gain. “But I know we are not the only ones on the grid who are looking at it very carefully.”

AFP Photo/Ben Stansall

Red Bull Racing’s German driver Sebastian Vettel drives during the second practice session at the Silverstone circuit ahead of the British Formula One Grand Prix.

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Football fans cheer as the North Korea women’s team enters the pitch for their Olympic opener against Colombia in Glasgow on July 25.

North Korea flag blunder mars Olympics day one

AFP Photo/Graham Stuart

Agence France Presse

London’s Olympics got off to an embarrassing start when North Korea’s women footballers refused to play after a mix-up over their national flag, in one of a series of blunders. Hosts Great Britain had kicked off the sports festival, years in the making and costing billions of dollars, with a 1-0 win over New Zealand as women’s soccer got under way two days before the opening the ceremony. the 19-day Games, where the hosts’ capabilities are on show as thousands of athletes compete for 302 gold medals until August 12.

“Yes, we were angry because our players were introduced as if they are from South Korea, something that may affect us very greatly as you might know,” said North Korea coach Sin Ui-Gun. “Winning the game cannot compensate this. It is a different matter. We hope there is no repeat in the next matches,” he added.

But it was not the only problem on Wednesday. Elsewhere, Team GB sent out an email referring to the Great Britain women’s football team as “England”.

And organisers had to offer a refund to diving fans whose view will be partially obscured due to a defect in the purpose-built, wave-shaped Aquatics Centre.

Separately, Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou was kicked out of the Olympics for a racist tweet which poked fun at Africans

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Mancini says he’s not in charge of transfers Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said Thursday he was not in charge of transfers, after British media reported club officials were blocking his attempts to sign Arsenal captain Robin van Persie. Asked at a press conference in Beijing whether he was disappointed with his lack of progress in the transfer market, Mancini said: “For this question, you need to talk to the man in charge. I am not in charge of these things.”

Mancini was speaking to reporters ahead of his side’s all-Premier League pre-season friendly with Arsenal on Friday.

Pressed further on why he was not taking charge of transfer

The United States beat France 4-2 and Japan overcame Canada 2-1. But North Korea’s opener against Colombia was held up after their players were pictured next to South Korea’s flag on the big screen at Glasgow’s Hampden Park. The North Koreans were finally persuaded to take the field and the match, scheduled for 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), began at 8:50 pm. Red-faced organisers were quick to apologise for the howler.

“Today ahead of the women’s football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag,” said a statement from London 2012 organisers. “Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again.”

The incident -- involving two countries still officially at war -- ensured a nightmare debut for

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living in her country.

And athletics’ world governing body said 10 athletes had been barred for doping, including Morocco’s women’s 1500m runner Mariem Alaoui Selsouli who failed a test earlier this month.

Anti-drugs officials said the London Olympics would be most stringently patrolled Games yet, boosted by a sophisticated new test for human growth hormone.

“It’s a very significant step and it’s a very helpful one,” said World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Director General David Howman. “Every step is significant if it ends up catching someone who has been cheating with impunity.”

At the Games, Usain Bolt is hoping for a second successive sprint treble, Michael Phelps needs just three more swimming medals to become history’s most decorated Olympian, and Roger Federer leads a galaxy of tennis stars.

Blatter pessimistic about future GB football teams Agence France Presse

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has said the prospect of British teams competing at Olympic football tournaments beyond London 2012 is bleak.

Great Britain, as the host nation, qualified men’s and women’s teams for the football competition at this year’s Olympics where the women’s side, in the first competitive match of any sport at the Games, beat New Zealand 1-0 in Cardiff on Wednesday.

But both British teams for the 2012 Games emerged only in the face of fierce opposition from football officials in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, all fearful for their status as independent soccer nations. FIFA President Blatter said he was sympathetic to the desire of the British Olympic Association to field football teams at future Games but warned it

would be difficult to achieve in practice.

“This is a wish and a legitimate wish of the British Olympic Association because they want to have a football team,” Blatter told Britain’s Press Association on Wednesday.

“But this is quite a difficult task I can tell you. The four British associations would have to play a preliminary round because the qualification is the European Under-21 championships.

“Everything is possible but this would need a different approach and you have seen the difficulties they have already had to field a combined team here in London “So for the football family, and especially the four associations and UEFA (European football’s governing body), I don’t think it is likely to be done,” added Blatter before travelling from London to Cardiff for the women’s opener.

matters, he said: “I am not the man in charge of this.

We have a man that works for this and... I think that we are hoping that they can do a good job.”

British media reports suggest that bosses at City are attempting to scale back the club’s huge squad, ahead of new rules to be introduced by European football’s governing body in the next two years. The English Premier League champions are owned by Sheikh Mansour, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling Al-Nahyan family, and are one of the richest clubs in the world.

Mancini may be forced to sell another striker to balance the club’s bulging wage bill before he can move for Van Persie, reports in Britain claim. Van Persie has told Arsenal he will not be extending his contract with the north London club past the end of the forthcoming season.

Mancini refused to say if he was any nearer signing the player, but said he was one of the Dutch striker’s admirers. “It is difficult to say this at this moment because Van Persie is an Arsenal player and he is not our player,” Mancini said.

“We know that Van Persie is a fantastic striker, but we have four strikers and with these strikers we won the Championship last year. “But still, Van Persie is a top player. We can say different things about this - but he is an Arsenal player.” City have announced that captain Vincent Kompany has signed a new six-year contract with the club.

AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said he was not in charge of transfers, after British media reported club officials were blocking his attempts to sign Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, seen here in 2011.

MLS all-stars surprise Chelsea 3-2 Agence France Presse

European Champions League winners Chelsea suffered a shock 3-2 defeat to a Major League Soccer all-star team in an exhibition game, thanks to a late goal from Eddie Johnson. Johnson was the hero with the winning strike in the 91st minute with Chris Wondolowski and Chris Pontius also scoring for the all-stars, and John Terry and Frank Lampard scoring for Chelsea.

“That’s what coach brought me here for,” Johnson said. “I was just trying to pay it back.” The MLS scored two goals in the final 20 minutes of the game at PPL Park -- the home of the Philadelphia Union.

Johnson scored in injury time, breaking free as he got a lucky bounce off the leg of Chelsea defender David Luiz and his shot floated past goalkeeper Ross Turnbull. Pontius, who suffered a season-ending broken leg last September, was named the man of the match.

“I didn’t think I would be here, to be honest with you, not with the way everything went,” he said. David Beckham, Dwayne De Rosario and Pontius combined for the MLS’s second goal. Beckham made a long pass to De Rosario who threaded a nifty pass to the front of the goal to Pontius who beat Turnbull.

“I was just making a run and I was able to slot it home,” Pontius said. “It is an honour to be out here and play against such a great team as Chelsea. I am just taking it all in.” This marked the first win for an MLS all-stars side against a touring English Premier League team in four years.

Manchester United defeated MLS 4-0 last year and 5-2 in 2010. An MLS team lost on penalty kicks to Ever-

ton in 2009 but the all-stars beat Chelsea 1-0 in 2006.

Former Manchester United star Beckham received a loud ovation when he left the game in the second half after setting up Pontius’s goal. Beckham is now heading to London to take part in Friday’s opening ceremonies of the Olympics. “I can’t talk about exactly what I am doing but it is exciting and you can feel that excitement now,” he said.

Chelsea are in the midst of a four-game USA tour that featured the first soccer match at the new Yankee Stadium against Paris Saint-Germain and also a final exhibition against AC Milan in Miami as a warm up for the forthcoming season.

AFP Photo/Jim Watson

MLS All- Stars’ Eddie Johnson celebrates after scoring a winning goal during their exhibition game against Chelsea in Pennsylvania on July 25.

Brazil midfielder Oscar, pictured in 2011

AFP Photo/Vanderlei Almeida

Oscar seals Chelsea switch

Agence France Presse

Brazil midfielder Oscar on Wednesday completed a switch from Internacional to European champions Chelsea, the English Premier League club said on their website.

According to British media reports, the deal is reportedly worth 25million pounds (40 million dollars).

The 20-year-old Oscar, in London on London Olympics duty, had long been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge but he had Monday insisted his focus was entirely on winning Olympic gold.

“I am not really even thinking about it (a move to Chelsea) much, I am just focused on the Olympic Games,” Oscar, who played in the

Olympic warm-up over Team GB last Friday, said Monday.

“They (his agent and advisers) are sorting those other things out for me, and keeping me informed.

I just focus on playing here and on growing and becoming better. “Like all the team, I am totally focused on winning the gold medal.”

But he said he believed his game would be suited to England. Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior, to give him his full name, spent last season with Internacional of Porto Alegre, having started out with Sao Paulo.

He has six full caps after making his debut in a friendly draw with Argentina and scored a hattrick in the world under20 final win over Portugal.

Man United plans IPO launch within days-sources Reuters

NEW YORK - Manchester United is planning to launch the marketing road show for its proposed $300 million U.S. initial public offering within days, after a delay earlier this week, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The British soccer club, which is controlled by the Glazer family, may start the road show as soon as Friday or early next week, according to the sources.

The offering is expected to value the team at roughly $3 billion.

But sources warned that market conditions could lead to further delays. The S&P 500 fell for the fourth day on Wednesday amid worries about the European debt crisis and earnings, and the volatility has already led to at least one delay. Sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday that the club was planning a launch earlier this week but delayed it because of market conditions and was going to reevaluate conditions.

If the launch happens as planned now, the club could price the offering in the week of Aug. 13, the sources said.

Manchester United could not be reached for comment.

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Football fans cheer as the North Korea women’s team enters the pitch for their Olympic opener against Colombia in Glasgow on July 25.

North Korea flag blunder mars Olympics day one

AFP Photo/Graham Stuart

Agence France Presse

London’s Olympics got off to an embarrassing start when North Korea’s women footballers refused to play after a mix-up over their national flag, in one of a series of blunders. Hosts Great Britain had kicked off the sports festival, years in the making and costing billions of dollars, with a 1-0 win over New Zealand as women’s soccer got under way two days before the opening the ceremony. the 19-day Games, where the hosts’ capabilities are on show as thousands of athletes compete for 302 gold medals until August 12.

“Yes, we were angry because our players were introduced as if they are from South Korea, something that may affect us very greatly as you might know,” said North Korea coach Sin Ui-Gun. “Winning the game cannot compensate this. It is a different matter. We hope there is no repeat in the next matches,” he added.

But it was not the only problem on Wednesday. Elsewhere, Team GB sent out an email referring to the Great Britain women’s football team as “England”.

And organisers had to offer a refund to diving fans whose view will be partially obscured due to a defect in the purpose-built, wave-shaped Aquatics Centre.

Separately, Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou was kicked out of the Olympics for a racist tweet which poked fun at Africans

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Mancini says he’s not in charge of transfers Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said Thursday he was not in charge of transfers, after British media reported club officials were blocking his attempts to sign Arsenal captain Robin van Persie. Asked at a press conference in Beijing whether he was disappointed with his lack of progress in the transfer market, Mancini said: “For this question, you need to talk to the man in charge. I am not in charge of these things.”

Mancini was speaking to reporters ahead of his side’s all-Premier League pre-season friendly with Arsenal on Friday.

Pressed further on why he was not taking charge of transfer

The United States beat France 4-2 and Japan overcame Canada 2-1. But North Korea’s opener against Colombia was held up after their players were pictured next to South Korea’s flag on the big screen at Glasgow’s Hampden Park. The North Koreans were finally persuaded to take the field and the match, scheduled for 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), began at 8:50 pm. Red-faced organisers were quick to apologise for the howler.

“Today ahead of the women’s football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag,” said a statement from London 2012 organisers. “Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again.”

The incident -- involving two countries still officially at war -- ensured a nightmare debut for

Friday, July 27, 2012

living in her country.

And athletics’ world governing body said 10 athletes had been barred for doping, including Morocco’s women’s 1500m runner Mariem Alaoui Selsouli who failed a test earlier this month.

Anti-drugs officials said the London Olympics would be most stringently patrolled Games yet, boosted by a sophisticated new test for human growth hormone.

“It’s a very significant step and it’s a very helpful one,” said World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Director General David Howman. “Every step is significant if it ends up catching someone who has been cheating with impunity.”

At the Games, Usain Bolt is hoping for a second successive sprint treble, Michael Phelps needs just three more swimming medals to become history’s most decorated Olympian, and Roger Federer leads a galaxy of tennis stars.

Blatter pessimistic about future GB football teams Agence France Presse

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has said the prospect of British teams competing at Olympic football tournaments beyond London 2012 is bleak.

Great Britain, as the host nation, qualified men’s and women’s teams for the football competition at this year’s Olympics where the women’s side, in the first competitive match of any sport at the Games, beat New Zealand 1-0 in Cardiff on Wednesday.

But both British teams for the 2012 Games emerged only in the face of fierce opposition from football officials in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, all fearful for their status as independent soccer nations. FIFA President Blatter said he was sympathetic to the desire of the British Olympic Association to field football teams at future Games but warned it

would be difficult to achieve in practice.

“This is a wish and a legitimate wish of the British Olympic Association because they want to have a football team,” Blatter told Britain’s Press Association on Wednesday.

“But this is quite a difficult task I can tell you. The four British associations would have to play a preliminary round because the qualification is the European Under-21 championships.

“Everything is possible but this would need a different approach and you have seen the difficulties they have already had to field a combined team here in London “So for the football family, and especially the four associations and UEFA (European football’s governing body), I don’t think it is likely to be done,” added Blatter before travelling from London to Cardiff for the women’s opener.

matters, he said: “I am not the man in charge of this.

We have a man that works for this and... I think that we are hoping that they can do a good job.”

British media reports suggest that bosses at City are attempting to scale back the club’s huge squad, ahead of new rules to be introduced by European football’s governing body in the next two years. The English Premier League champions are owned by Sheikh Mansour, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling Al-Nahyan family, and are one of the richest clubs in the world.

Mancini may be forced to sell another striker to balance the club’s bulging wage bill before he can move for Van Persie, reports in Britain claim. Van Persie has told Arsenal he will not be extending his contract with the north London club past the end of the forthcoming season.

Mancini refused to say if he was any nearer signing the player, but said he was one of the Dutch striker’s admirers. “It is difficult to say this at this moment because Van Persie is an Arsenal player and he is not our player,” Mancini said.

“We know that Van Persie is a fantastic striker, but we have four strikers and with these strikers we won the Championship last year. “But still, Van Persie is a top player. We can say different things about this - but he is an Arsenal player.” City have announced that captain Vincent Kompany has signed a new six-year contract with the club.

AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said he was not in charge of transfers, after British media reported club officials were blocking his attempts to sign Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, seen here in 2011.

MLS all-stars surprise Chelsea 3-2 Agence France Presse

European Champions League winners Chelsea suffered a shock 3-2 defeat to a Major League Soccer all-star team in an exhibition game, thanks to a late goal from Eddie Johnson. Johnson was the hero with the winning strike in the 91st minute with Chris Wondolowski and Chris Pontius also scoring for the all-stars, and John Terry and Frank Lampard scoring for Chelsea.

“That’s what coach brought me here for,” Johnson said. “I was just trying to pay it back.” The MLS scored two goals in the final 20 minutes of the game at PPL Park -- the home of the Philadelphia Union.

Johnson scored in injury time, breaking free as he got a lucky bounce off the leg of Chelsea defender David Luiz and his shot floated past goalkeeper Ross Turnbull. Pontius, who suffered a season-ending broken leg last September, was named the man of the match.

“I didn’t think I would be here, to be honest with you, not with the way everything went,” he said. David Beckham, Dwayne De Rosario and Pontius combined for the MLS’s second goal. Beckham made a long pass to De Rosario who threaded a nifty pass to the front of the goal to Pontius who beat Turnbull.

“I was just making a run and I was able to slot it home,” Pontius said. “It is an honour to be out here and play against such a great team as Chelsea. I am just taking it all in.” This marked the first win for an MLS all-stars side against a touring English Premier League team in four years.

Manchester United defeated MLS 4-0 last year and 5-2 in 2010. An MLS team lost on penalty kicks to Ever-

ton in 2009 but the all-stars beat Chelsea 1-0 in 2006.

Former Manchester United star Beckham received a loud ovation when he left the game in the second half after setting up Pontius’s goal. Beckham is now heading to London to take part in Friday’s opening ceremonies of the Olympics. “I can’t talk about exactly what I am doing but it is exciting and you can feel that excitement now,” he said.

Chelsea are in the midst of a four-game USA tour that featured the first soccer match at the new Yankee Stadium against Paris Saint-Germain and also a final exhibition against AC Milan in Miami as a warm up for the forthcoming season.

AFP Photo/Jim Watson

MLS All- Stars’ Eddie Johnson celebrates after scoring a winning goal during their exhibition game against Chelsea in Pennsylvania on July 25.

Brazil midfielder Oscar, pictured in 2011

AFP Photo/Vanderlei Almeida

Oscar seals Chelsea switch

Agence France Presse

Brazil midfielder Oscar on Wednesday completed a switch from Internacional to European champions Chelsea, the English Premier League club said on their website.

According to British media reports, the deal is reportedly worth 25million pounds (40 million dollars).

The 20-year-old Oscar, in London on London Olympics duty, had long been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge but he had Monday insisted his focus was entirely on winning Olympic gold.

“I am not really even thinking about it (a move to Chelsea) much, I am just focused on the Olympic Games,” Oscar, who played in the

Olympic warm-up over Team GB last Friday, said Monday.

“They (his agent and advisers) are sorting those other things out for me, and keeping me informed.

I just focus on playing here and on growing and becoming better. “Like all the team, I am totally focused on winning the gold medal.”

But he said he believed his game would be suited to England. Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior, to give him his full name, spent last season with Internacional of Porto Alegre, having started out with Sao Paulo.

He has six full caps after making his debut in a friendly draw with Argentina and scored a hattrick in the world under20 final win over Portugal.

Man United plans IPO launch within days-sources Reuters

NEW YORK - Manchester United is planning to launch the marketing road show for its proposed $300 million U.S. initial public offering within days, after a delay earlier this week, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The British soccer club, which is controlled by the Glazer family, may start the road show as soon as Friday or early next week, according to the sources.

The offering is expected to value the team at roughly $3 billion.

But sources warned that market conditions could lead to further delays. The S&P 500 fell for the fourth day on Wednesday amid worries about the European debt crisis and earnings, and the volatility has already led to at least one delay. Sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday that the club was planning a launch earlier this week but delayed it because of market conditions and was going to reevaluate conditions.

If the launch happens as planned now, the club could price the offering in the week of Aug. 13, the sources said.

Manchester United could not be reached for comment.

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Badung Traditional Market IBP

Denpasar Traditional Market is a center of town’s economics which is located in Gajah Mada Street, that is main road and become a shopping centre of Bali. This traditional market is apposite to the village temple that is one of three biggest temples in Denpasar. It is initially does not as big as like now because have changed experiences and modification which is adapting to the requirement and town growth. This market cannot be discharged from the existence of an existing market in the cross Badung’s river that is called Kumbasari Market because the local society will feel incompletely go for shopping if they are not come to Kumbasari Market, especially for the Balinese who want to buy the ceremony items.

Denpasar Market is a market selling the costume and clothing items with the prices are relative cheaper than clothing items sold at the shops in Gajah Mada Street which are most owned by citizen of Chinese clan. Kumbasari Market is previously called by Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /jar like pot, pengedangan, cubek (plate from land), paso (pail from land), caratan (water jug from land), jeding (barrel from land), penyantokan (mixer from land), coblong (cup from land), kekeb (rice cover) and others. All of these items are the kitchenware and also

the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market. But now it sell the material or art items for tourist therefore it is one of tourist destinations in Denpasar Town.

Denpasar Market is opened on 24 April 1984 by Bali ‘s Governor, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra. Then after experiencing of the fire accident, it has been repaired in year 2000 at that moment Bali ‘s Governor is Mr. Dewa Made Berata. This market owns the broadness about 14.544 M² and broadly park 9064 M² which is built in four floors.

The local people who go for shopping at this market are not only from environment of Denpasar community but also come from outside of town. The moment before the big holiday like Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi and others, this market is always crowded by the buyer which are most of them the local society.

Denpasar Market is opened at 5 o’clock in the morning and close at 5 o’clock in the evening. Then, it is changed by the evening market opened from 05:00 pm until at 05:00 am the day after. Meanwhile at Senggol Market in Kumbasari is opened at 02:00 pm and closed at 11:30 pm. The unique of Senggol Market’s name is possibility taken away from the situation and condition of people movement on

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Stars out in London to honour great Ali Agence France Presse

Stars of sport and screen gathered in London to honour legendary heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion Muhammad Ali as the countdown to the 2012 Games neared its finale. The 70-year-old boxer attended Wednesday’s gala event at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London which was hosted

by Hollywood A-list couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Others guests at the UK-themed Sports For Peace dinner included Live Aid creator Bob Geldof, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and actress Rosario Dawson. Ali’s brother, Rahman, said the former champion was “very happy and proud to be here.

“He was a part of the 1960 team, and he’s glad to be here.

“He won in 1960, and he thinks the US team are going to be the champs this year.”

Former tennis star Boris Becker said it was a “big honour and a privilege” to be in the presence of “the greatest living sportsman. “He presented his sport all over the world. From an athlete he became a peacemaker, he became a global warrior and just a spokesperson for the right causes,” he explained. “He has had just an incredible life.”

Former hurdler and 1988 Olympic silver medalist, Colin Jackson said: “It’s absolutely wonderful to be here. “Any time we can celebrate anything with a sporting icon, it’s just fantastic.

Ali won gold at the Rome Olympics, but said in his autobiography that he threw the medal in the Ohio River after being denied a seat in an all-white restaurant. He was re-awarded the medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where he lit the flame to start the event.

The identity of this year’s flame carrier is shrouded in secrecy as final rehearsals for Friday’s opening ceremony take place at the 80,000 seater Olympic Stadium in east London.

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shopping where they each others jog because of visitor denseness.

This Senggol Market is selling the variety of food, from the cheap Balinese, Javanese and Chinese cookery. It is also sell the various

types of clothes from adult until children one.

Denpasar Market is encircled by shop along the street of Gajah Mada, in the right side there is Sulawesi Street which is famous of

cloth items. Denpasar Traditional Market is progressively strengthening the identity of a center of Denpasar’s economics which is opened within 24 hours and never silent by visitor.

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File photo shows boxing legend Muhammad Ali (R) on stage at the Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XVIII in Arizona in March. Stars of sport and screen gathered in London to honour Ali as the countdown to the 2012 Games neared its finale.

Red Bull forced to change engine mapping Agence France Presse

Defending constructors champions Red Bull have been forced to change their engine mapping for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Motor racing’s ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA), on Thursday confirmed a clarification to the technical regulations that effectively closed a loophole in the rules.

Red Bull are believed to have been running their cars - driven by defending drivers world champion German Sebastian Vettel and title contender Australian Mark Webber - with mapping that allowed them to run with reduced torque in the mid-rpm range.

This is perceived to have given them an illegal performance advantage that was identified last weekend at the German Grand Prix where the stewards, when presented with an FIA report on the matter, ruled that the cars were not breaking the rules as written.

The FIA has since re-written the rules and clarified the issues in order to ensure that the Red Bull cars will not continue to take any advantage. The FIA has issued a clarification of Article 5.5.3 within F1’s technical regulations to the teams ahead of this weekend’s race.

It is understood that the teams will be

required to supply one engine map - as a reference - that they used during the first four events of this season, which must then be approved by the governing body.

Once passed by the FIA, the engine torque curves above 6,000rpm must not vary by more than plus or minus two per cent from that reference map.

Teams will be allowed to make specific requests for changes when races take place in ‘exceptional atmospheric conditions’.

Red Bull have yet to make any official reaction to the new ruling, but McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale said he could not quantify the impact the clarification would have on Red Bull’s performance.

“The honest answer is I really don’t know,” Neale said. “None of us really knows what it is that has antagonised the FIA so much to provoke (FIA technical delegate) Jo Bauer into issuing the note he did last Sunday morning.

“That was quite an unusual step - I don’t think the FIA would have referred to the stewards unless they had very serious concerns. It’s really not for us to know or tell exactly what the Renault engine is doing in the Red Bull and therefore how much advantage they gain. “But I know we are not the only ones on the grid who are looking at it very carefully.”

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Red Bull Racing’s German driver Sebastian Vettel drives during the second practice session at the Silverstone circuit ahead of the British Formula One Grand Prix.

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LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Thursday to do more for the economy after GDP data released this week showed the economy had contracted more than expected in the second quarter of 2012.

“We’ve got to do more. We’re going to roll up our sleeves and do everything possible to get business going in Britain, to get housing going, to get jobs going,” he told the BBC during an interview at his Number 10 Downing Street residence.

“One of the things (the GDP figures) show is the extent of damage that was done to the economy in the boom-and-bust years. We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households, and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country in the world. It takes time to recover from there,” he said.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a young woman believed to be Ri Sol-Ju enjoy a concert in Pyongyang on July 6. Kim is married, state media has confirmed, ending weeks of speculation about the identity of a stylish young woman seen accompanying him at official events

Wife of N. Korea’s Kim is former singer: media Agence France Presse

The wife of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un is a former singer who caught the leader’s eye while she was giving a performance, South Korean media said Thursday after Pyongyang disclosed the marriage.

Official media in the secretive state revealed late Wednesday that a stylish young woman pictured accompanying Kim this month is his wife, Ri Sol-Ju. It gave no details about her and did not say when they wed, but analysts said the mere fact that the couple were presented in public marked a new departure for the nation’s dynastic leadership.

The world has been scrambling for information about Jong-Un since he took over the impoverished but nuclear-armed state after his father Kim Jong-Il died suddenly last December.

He is believed to be in his late 20s, but even his exact age is unknown outside the North.

The International Crisis Group think-tank said in a report this week that Jong-Un appears to be fully in charge, despite speculation he would have to rely on close advisers because of his youth and inexperience.

But it said there was nothing to suggest he would take measures to improve the lot of his people amid se-

vere food shortages, or reduce regional frictions over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes.

In public, Jong-Un has presented a relaxed and confident image in an apparent attempt to emphasise his readiness to rule.

In contrast to his late father, he has cultivated an outgoing and informal style -- hugging soldiers, posing for photos with troops and linking arms with women.

Neither his father nor grandfather Kim Il-Sung were ever pictured with their wives at public events.

But the disclosure of Jong-Un’s marriage is partly to show “he is not a child”, said Chang Yong-Suk, of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University.

“If he went around alone, people would look down on him as a young lad, but with his wife present, he could show he is the head of the family and also an adult,” Chang told AFP. South Korean media reports generally agreed that the short-haired and smiling woman, apparently in her twenties, is a former songstress who

was specially trained to become Kim’s consort.

Yonhap news agency said she could be seen singing on video footage of a performance released by the North in February last year. Ri had taken a six-month course in the duties of a first lady, the agency said.

Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Ri was active in the North’s Unhasu orchestra until last year and had performed for Jong-Un and his father on New Year’s Eve 2010.

“There is a possibility Jong-Un chose her as his wife after seeing her at the concert hall,” it quoted a source as saying.

Another source told the paper that after the marriage Ri had undergone a six-month course in duties of a first lady at Kim Il-Sung University, the nation’s most prestigious academic institution.

JoongAng Ilbo also described Ri as a former singer who came to the young Kim’s notice during a performance. It said Jong-Un’s father had singled her out as first lady while he was working on his succession plan

MANILA - A Taiwanese vegetable vendor, who has personally given away over 7 million Taiwanese dollars ($231,800) to several charities for children, was among six winners of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel prize this year, its foundation said on Thursday.

The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Chen Shu-chu as one of six winners, citing her for “personal giving, which reflects a deep, consistent, quiet compassion, and has transformed the lives of the numerous Taiwanese she has helped”.

From her daily earnings as a vegetable vendor, Chen, who reached only the sixth grade and sleeps on the floor, was able to help build library and feed and shelter children-at-risk as well as families displaced by disasters.

“Money serves its purpose only when it is used for those who need it,” she said. “I feel

happy whenever I could help other people.”

The awards also honored Filipino Romulo Davide, who helped farmers fight pest infestation on rice, bananas and other crops; Indian Kulandei Francis, head of a village self-help group; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, an environmental lawyer from Bangladesh; Cambodian agronomist Yang Saing Koma who helps farmers’ improve rice production; a n d I n d o n e s i a n A m b r o s iu s Ruwindrijarto who is fighting to stop illegal logging. The winners will receive a prize of $50,000 with a ceremony set for late August.

“The Magsaysay awardees of 2012 are six remarkable individuals, all deeply involved in creating sustainable solutions to poverty and its accompanying disempowerment -- whether in the forests or on farmlands, in exploitative industries or in inadequate education,” Carmencita Abella, foundation president, said in a statement.

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From page 1 Contract agreement of the traders was made every two years, where as of December 31, 2012, their contract would expire. Meanwhile, according to the existing issue, the tender to fill in the outlets at Ngurah Rai Airport would be made this September. It was said the local businessmen would only get a quota of 10 percent.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung House, I Ketut Suiasa, who heard about the aspiration of local businessmen, stated that his party would attempt to communicate the matters to relevant parties so that local communities could become a priority. Even, if there would be standards specified later, Suiasa asked the airport authority to further disseminate them to local traders so they could make adjustment.

“Obviously, we do hope the potential of local communities could be utilized as widely as possible so that local community can also enjoy it.

The economic growth should also be enjoyed by local people, not only by large investors and even foreign investors,” he said. (kmb25)

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INDONESIA Indonesia to sue English football club Everton Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The organisers behind Indonesia’s Java Cup said Wednesday they will sue English football club Everton and Turkey’s Galatasaray after the teams withdrew from the tournament.

Everton said on Tuesday it was forced to abandon plans to play the pre-season tournament, stating “unresolved issues mean that the risk of travelling was too great”.

The withdrawal came one day after Galatasaray, forcing the inaugural Java Cup, which was scheduled for July 26-29, to be postponed indefinitely. “(The) consequences of the cancellation for Everton is (they) pay back all the damages,” Patrick Mbyaya, a lawyer representing the tournament, told a press conference.

“We will also contact the England Football Association to give disciplinary (sanctions) to Everton. If they refuse to pay back, we’ll take this to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (in Switzerland),” he said.

The lawyer added the same applied to Galatasaray.

Widjajanto, chief executive of The Liga Prima Indonesia Sportindo (LPIS) which organised the event, said: “This withdrawals are very odd and we really regretted their decision...the investors clearly suffered a big loss of money.”

The organiser showed to reporters a letter dated July 25 from the English Premier League’s chairman David Richards as the first official notification that Everton would not attend the event.

The letter said: “Both Everton and the Barclays Premier League deeply regret that their involvement in the competition in Jakarta will not be possible.

“The club’s decision to stay here in the UK was not meant to show any disrespect to neither your country, the Indonesian Football Association nor any of the other stakeholders involved in the competition,” Richards said. The tournament, which was to include an Indonesian XI and a Malaysian XI, had been scheduled to be held at Jakarta’s Gelora Bung Karno stadium, scene of a deadly stampede in November and fatal clashes between fans in May. The latest events provide further embarrassment for Indonesian football, which has long been mired in controversy and was threatened with suspension by world body FIFA following the launch of a rebel league.

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days,” Sutrisno said.

“Early this morning the boat somehow drifted ashore to a smaller island near Raas. Police and the village chief have put them in a community hall and given them food,” Sutrisno said, adding they were believed to be heading for Australia.

They were “all safe and healthy” and would be picked up and handed to immigration authorities, he added.

More than 5,200 asylum-seekers have arrived in Australia so far this year on boats, many of them from transit hubs in Indonesia.

Early this month, Australia and Indonesia agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying his people were victims of the trade as well.

Australia-bound migrants land on island near Bali

SURABAYA - Sixty Iraqi and Iranian migrants, believed to be headed for Australia and adrift at sea for three days with engine trouble, were safe on a small Indonesian island near Bali, an official said Thursday.

East Java provincial search and rescue agency chief Sutrisno said the stricken boat had landed near Raas island, northwest of Bali, after authorities received a distress call Wednesday but were unable to find the vessel.

A crew member had phoned the Australian authorities, he said.

“Australian authorities gave us the cellphone of the crew, and we called them last night. They said the boat had engine trouble and was drifting for three

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An Indonesian vendor fries a tofu dish in Jakarta on July 25, 2012. Indonesian makers of tofu and tempeh went on strike on July 25 and soybean products virtually disappeared from shops, as the effects of a US drought hit this Southeast Asian nation.

Rising soybean prices anger tofu makers

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JAKARTA - Indonesian makers of tofu and tempeh went on strike Wednesday and soybean products virtually disappeared from shops, as the effects of a US drought hit this Southeast Asian nation.

The drought scouring the farming heartlands of the United States -- the world’s biggest producer of corn and soybeans -- is the worst in 25 years, reportedly affecting 11 percent of soybean crops.

In the Indonesian capital Jakarta and in West Java around 23,000 tofu and tempeh makers -mostly small family-owned businesses -- first demanded that a five percent import duty be removed, then said they would strike anyway after the government dropped the levy.

“We are upset because the soybean price just keeps rising. Producers have been forced to make the size of the cakes smaller and consumers are angry.” said Sutaryo, chairman of the Indonesian Tofu and Tempeh Cooperative.

Locally, the price of soybeans has risen from 5,500 rupiah ($0.58) a kilogram in January to 8,000 rupiah now, in turn driving up prices of tofu and tempeh by 30 percent since April, Sutaryo said.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa told reporters that

import duties in place since January would be suspended beginning this month.

“We have agreed to provide an exemption of the five percent import duty on soybeans until the end of the year. We hope the traders will adjust their prices accordingly and not take advantage,” he said.

That did not placate manufacturers, who said they were not objecting to the levy alone but to prices driven up by shortages, caused by the drought.

“We stopped production today and will continue until Friday, even with the levy lifted,” Sutaryo said.

“Tofu and tempeh are poor man’s food. Poor people can’t afford meat, and now if they can’t afford tofu and tempeh too, what do they eat?” he said.

With about half of Indonesia’s 240 million population living on less than $2 a day, many virtually survive on tofu and tempeh, which are rich in protein and were virtually absent from shops on Wednesday.

The price of a kilogram of tempeh rose from 6,000 rupiah in April to 8,000 rupiah presently, while a four-ounce piece of tofu jumped from 400 rupiah to 500 rupiah.

According to local reports, Indonesia imports 60 percent of its soybean from the United States.

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Embattled Qantas in talks on Emirates alliance Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - Embattled Qantas said Thursday it was in talks with carriers including Emirates to revive its struggling international arm, an alliance that could see its Europe-bound flights routed through Dubai.

The revelation, which saw Qantas’s share price soar almost 10 percent, is part of the Australian airline’s drive to turn around its fortunes after an 83 percent slump in first-half net profit in the six months to December.

“Qantas confirms it is in discussions with a number of airlines about potential alliances,” it said in a statement as its shares, which have been trading at record lows, surged as high as Aus$1.10.

“These airlines include Emirates, among others.

“Qantas’s policy is not to comment on the nature or status of these discussions.”

Last month Emirates chief executive Tim Clark told Dow Jones Newswires he was not interested in an equity investment

in Qantas but was keen on other types of commercial arrangements, such as codesharing.

Qantas is primarily losing money on its international routes.

The tie-up would see Qantas fly to Dubai for the first time and rely on its new partner to transfer passengers to destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the newspaper said.

This would mean most London and other European flights going through Dubai instead of Singapore, casting a cloud over its long-standing joint venture with British Airways.

The newspaper said a linkup with Emirates would allow Qantas to maintain a global focus without having to use its own planes, as high fuel costs sap profits.

It would also give the carrier scope to fly more aggressively to Asia, a stated goal of chief executive Alan Joyce.

In return Emirates would get access to Qantas’s market-leading share of Australian domestic traffic.

DENPASAR - Denpasar City remains to face a shortage of rice with the production only reaching 32,000 tons per year on farmland area of 2,650 hectares. This capital of Bali Province has been unable to cover the needs of the community’s rice consumption reaching 80,000 tons per year or about 240 kilograms per capita per year.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus of Bangladesh speaks to the press in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. Yunus is in Tokyo to attend a symposium for social business.

Disaster-hit Japan could use microfinance

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TOKYO - Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that microfinance could help disaster-struck Japan rebuild, even though the concept he pioneered is usually associated with poor and developing nations.

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This file photo taken on October 30, 2011 shows Qantas aircraft grounded at Sydney Airport. Embattled Qantas Airways said on July 26, 2012 it was in talks with carriers including Emirates to revive its international arm, an alliance that could see most of its London-bound flights routed through Dubai.

Yunus, seen as one of the world’s leading anti-poverty activists, said extending small loans could help people in regions devastated by last year’s quake-tsunami disaster, despite Japan being one of Asia’s richest countries.

“It’s needed everywhere -- it doesn’t matter where you are,” the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of

Japan.

“When you come to a disaster area like Tohoku (in northeast Japan), it’s all the more important... You have to rebuild everything all over again.

There’s no house, there’s nothing.”

About 19,000 people died or remain missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast triggered a giant tsunami on March 11 last year.

Many had to evacuate communities near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, leaving thousands without jobs or homes.

“You used to have a job. Now you have no job because of the disaster.

Can I create my own job? Self-employment,” Yunus said, citing the benefits of small microfinance loans.

Yunus was the founder of Grameen Bank, which has been credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty by offering rural families small loans to start small business ventures.

But last year he was sacked as head of the bank, apparently on the orders of the Bangladeshi government, sparking widespread international anger.

South Korean economic growth falls to over 2-year low Associated Press

SEOUL — South Korea’s economic growth fell to a two-year low in the second quarter as exports and capital expenditures shrank due to a slowdown in its largest trading partner, China, and debt-crippled Europe.

The Bank of Korea said Thursday in its preliminary estimate that South Korea’s economy expanded 2.4 percent over a year earlier in the three months ending in June, the lowest growth since the third quarter of 2009.

Asia’s fourth-largest economy was widely expected to report weak

growth for the April-June period, as the central bank unexpectedly cut its key policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point earlier this month, its first rate cut in more than three years.

The surprise rate cut was seen as a sign that South Korea’s exportdriven economy will face height-

ened external challenges down the road. Europe appears to be far from resolving its debt crisis and the world’s major economies, including key South Korean trading partners China and the United States, feel the pinch of the Europe’s woes.

The Bank of Korea forecast

South Korea’s economy to grow just 3 percent this year, slower than its previously forecast 3.5 percent.

An increase in government spending during the second half of this year is expected to contribute 0.2 percentage points, helping South Korea narrowly avoid 2 percent level growth.

The Head of Denpasar Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Gede Ambara Putra, said that in terms of the average rice consumption, the shortage or deficit of rice need amounted to some 48,000 tons per year.

“In terms of the production yield, we are still minus because of limited agricultural land while the population growth is high.

However, as Denpasar is the center of trade, we are never overwhelmed to meet the needs of community,” said Ambara Putra in Denpasar.

He said the production yields of a number of regions having surplus production such as Tabanan, Banyuwangi and other supplying regencies would be marketed to Denpasar. On that account, the needs of Denpasar dwellers now reaching 565,635 people would be satisfied.

“Aside from the high mobility of Denpasar dwellers, the conversion of land use occurred also becomes a challenge in improving the production yield.

Therefore, we have budgeted IDR 3 billion for the agricultural sector channeled through several programs,” he said.

He added the municipal government had made various efforts to prevent the conversion of agricultural land by empowering the existing paddy fields. However, such an endeavor could not have preserved the agricultural land in Denpasar.

“One of the efforts currently

taken by the Denpasar municipality is providing property tax relief, rice seed and fertilizer assistance to the 41 subak organizations, other than allowing the post-harvest payment program known as Yarnen,” he said.

According to him, the program involved some businesspeople (third parties) to provide the assurance of post-harvest absorption. All the costs incurred, either for the purchase of seeds and fertilizers were borne by third parties. Therefore, farmers were only working on the existing farmland. Similarly, after the harvest season came, the businesspeople would purchase the yield pursuant to market price.

“Other than constant farmland shrinkage, virtually 80 percent of the farmers cultivating the land existing in Denpasar today are share-croppers or non-landowners. With such condition, it is very difficult to hold the commitment of those farmers,” he said.

For information, of the four subdistricts in Denpasar, South Denpasar and East Denpasar records the largest farmland shrinkage. In 2009, the farmland area in South Denpasar reached 929 hectares and 726 hectares in East Denpasar. However, in 2010 the farmland in South Denpasar reduced to 907 hectares and 700 hectares in East Denpasar. Then in 2011, the farmland in South Denpasar reduced again to 896 hectares and 694 hectares in East Denpasar. (kmb27)

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Denpasar City remains to face a shortage of rice with the production only reaching 32,000 tons per year on farmland area of 2,650 hectares. This capital of Bali Province has been unable to cover the needs of the community’s rice consumption reaching 80,000 tons per year or about 240 kilograms per capita per year.

Flowers Signify a Holy Mind and Sincerity

FLOWER occupies a privileged position in the religious practices of Balinese people. Every single offering presented by Balinese always contains canang sari filled with various colorful flowers. Such flowers also make the offerings of Balinese look beautiful and festive.

An author of Hindu religious books, I Ketut Wiana, revealed that flower has very profound meaning.

In the Prakerti Yajna palm-leaf manuscript is mentioned that such flowers signified a sacred symbol of mind sincerity.

Wiana himself called that flower has two meanings. Firstly, it is a symbol of God’s blessing. In the Ramayana poetry was told that when

the Prince Rama struggled against Ravana, the gods in the sky bestowed the blessing to Rama by showering various and fragrant flowers.

Similarly, the Arjuna Vivaha poetry told that Arjuna meditated on Mount Indrakila and got a severe test of the gods. When facing the temptation on the arrival of Lord Shiva as great warrior, a bitter struggle exploded between Arjuna and the warrior. Arjuna was almost lost out. Once he woke up to fight back, he was showered with flowers signifying that Lord Shiva had blessed his meditation.

Flowers also symbolized the soul and the mind. According to Wiana, the atma or individual soul becom-

ing the source of life is often depicted with flowers in various kinds of religious ceremonies. Flowers also symbolized an expression of feelings and thought. For example, in the funeral ceremony in Bali, when the corpse is carried to cemetery, in the course from the funeral home the flowers known as sekar ura are sprinkled at every intersection. It is a mixture of flower, yellow rice and perforated coin.

“Sekar ura is the epitome of farewell expression to the deceased and those who are still alive. Flowers in the sekar ura represents sincerity to release the deceased who will go to the afterlife realm,” said Wiana.

In a memukur or nyekah ritual, the

astral body of people who are given a ritual is symbolized by human figure made of flowers or puspa lingga. It was described in the Ligya and Yama Purwana Tattva palm-leaf manuscript.

Such representation contained blossoming lotus, water lily, calotropis leaf and ficus leaf. Since the flowers were used to make the offerings, they should be well selected, not just flowers of any kind. A number of palm-leaf manuscripts had given instruction and guidance about flowers that should be used for making oblations or praying facilities.

In the Jnana Siddhanta palm-leaf manuscript was mentioned that flowers worth using for making oblation or a means of worship were

blooming and endlessly scented flowers. It was also signified if such flowers were used to symbolize holy scripts. Meanwhile, the Shivaratri Kalpa written by Mpu Tanakung mentioned a provision that the flowers used to worship Lord Shiva should be the flowers deliberately picked.

The flowers used for prayer or means of offerings should indeed be clean, pure, fragrant, blooming, fresh and picked directly from the tree. It would be useless to present the offerings if the flowers employed were withered and used flowers. This provision was written in the Tantri Nandaka Arana palmleaf manuscript. (BTN/kmb)

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President Barack Obama pauses as he talks about the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting as he addresses the National …In his broadest remarks on gun control yet in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, President Barack Obama called late Wednesday for tougher background checks designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

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Soybean farmers in the region of Klungkung can only lament their fate on seeing the price of soybean continuing to rise in the market. They are not affected by the increasing price of imported soybeans. Even, they are now becoming the ‘victim’ because the soybean price they sell to traders is only IDR 5,500 per kilogram. bean. She was afraid if the soybean planted on the two plots of land would be unsold and not be purchased by trader. “Therefore, I directly sold the soybeans after the harvest because I have had a buyer,” said Ayu. Similar opinion was also revealed by another soybean farmer, Nyoman Ludra. The farmer from Besan village, Dawan, equally did not know if there was an increase in soybean price in the market. Instead, he heard the price hike of soybean from watching television.

In addition, Ludra admitted that so far his soybean had already held a buyer and it only purchased his soybean at standard price. Similarly, he estimated there was a pricing strategy because so far the price of soybean he sold was only for IDR 5,500 per kilogram. “Until now, there has been no price hike, sir. Its standard price is still at IDR 12,000 per hamper,” he said. (119)

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President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.

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SMKN 1 Kubutambahan students rallied Money counterfeit distributor captured at Gilimanuk Singaraja (Bali Post)-

A day before handing over his position to the new Regent last Monday (23/7) turns out former Regent Bagiada has produced an authority letter in mutating a number of schools’ principals in Buleleng yet only known to be true

by Wednesday (25/7). One of them is principal of vocational schools SMKN 1 Kubutambahan, Gede Sukanaya, which caused pupils of the schools held a demonstration and halt studying in asking for their principal not to be mutated.

From what’s seen, since the school bell rings pupils did not go in and instead they gathered in the school field, girls and boys, holding a white cloth stating their disappointment as their principal have been mutated to another school. Not only that they also took one of the boards in a class

room and wrote their aspiration in not accepting Sukanaya who have succeeded in managing this school moved to another. One pupil from the student committee (OSIS), Komang Manday Sari, stated this is done to show their disappointment knowing that their principal was mutated with no clear reason when actually all pupils and teachers are close to him.

“We hope he will be brought back here,” Sari stated which followed with other pupils’ agreement.

Secretary of the School’s Committee also Head Village of Kubutambahan, Ketut Sandirat, explained that this act is purely pupils’ aspiration as Sukanaya has been mutated from being a principal here and became a general teacher in another school.

This mutation seemed not at all based on Sukanaya’s ability and achievement moreover pupils

“A lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities,” the president, who has called for reimposing the Assault Weapons Ban, said in a speech to the National Urban League.

“I believe the majority of gun owners would agree that we should do everything possible to prevent criminals and fugitives from purchasing weapons; that we should check someone’s criminal record before they can check out a gun seller; that a mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily,” he said. “These steps shouldn’t be controversial. They should be common sense.”

But Obama also offered a nod to the difficult politics of gun control, portraying himself as a believer in the individual right to bear arms, and acknowledging that calls to action after an incident like the one in Aurora often fade. “When there is an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy like the one we saw, there’s always an outcry immediately after for action. And there’s talk of new reforms, and there’s talk of new legislation,” Obama

Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack

The soybean farmer in Klungkung Regency

think he has been good in leading and managing this school which then it worried pupils the new principal will not be as good as Sukanaya. “We can’t forbid the pupils and it is purely from them in doing this demonstration not from anyone’s initiative.

Moreover pupils actually wanted to go to the Regent’s office to complain yet we forbid them so at this time their halt studying act is granted. The mutation of Sukanaya to become a general teacher was based on an Authority Letter signed by former Regent Putu Bagiada dating 23rd July 2012 or a day before the inauguration of new regent and vice regent on Tuesday (24/7). The letter was received on Wednesday (25/7) which stated Sukanaya will be as general teacher in SMKN 1 Sawan at Menyali Village,” Sandirat explained. (kmb)

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Jembrana Police captured fake money IDR 100,000 distributor from Banyuwangi who was about to cross to Java. It is signaled that there are still more of them in this network. Head of Jembrana Police Criminal Research Section, First Inspector Muh. Wahyudin Latif as permitted by Head Police, GAPC Komang Sandi Arsana, last Wednesday (25/7) stated accused initialed KS (48) was captured during vehicle documents checking at Pos I Gilimanuk Harbour. Accused was with a Honda Supra motorcycle numbered DK 2737 QY. The documents accused brought did not match with the motor’s number and so accused was intensively investigated at Gilimanuk Sea Police.

In one of accused jacket pocket a bundle of IDR 100,000 was found

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Face low selling price

One of the soybean farmers from Tribuana hamlet, Kusamba village, Dawan, Nyoman Ayu, admitted on Wednesday (Jul 25) there was no increase in soybean price in recent years. According to her, the price of soybean she sold to traders was still at standard. For a hamper containing two kilograms was sold for IDR 12,000. “The price of soybean does not increase. A hamper of soybean is sold for IDR 12, 000,” he said.

Nyoman Ayu herself did not know at all about the increase in soybean price in the market.

So far, she just planted soybean at Subak Dawan. After three months, she harvested and the soybean was then sold to traders.

However, the soybean offered to traders was purchased at standard price and there was no increase.

So far, Ayu admitted to earn IDR 300,000 to IDR 400,000 from the selling of soybean. Besides, Nyoman Ayu could only submit to her fate when selling the soy-

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which physically it looked non fake as it has its serial numbers which from the 595 bills has four serial numbers GGT 887578, GGT 887588, GGT 887575 and GGT 887878.

Accused admitted that the total fake money he brought to Bali was IDR 60million which means IDR 500,000 of it has been used as only IDR 59,500,000 is on him. Police admitted have been capturing other suspects and still developing the case as there are still more of them around and it is not known if the network is based in Java or Bali.

Besides the fake money bundle as evidence, police also confiscated official money totaling IDR 300,000, the motorcycle and a cell phone.

Accused has been stated to have violated section 245 of the Criminal Codes in distributing fake money with possible punishment 15 years of jail. (kmb26)

UNITED NATIONS - Iran’s U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed. A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Israel has accused Iran and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah of the bombing.

Iran has denied the accusations. “It’s amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a U.N. Security Council debate on the Middle East. “We

have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on ... innocent people.”

“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains,” Khazaee said. “I could provide ... many examples showing that this regime killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Haim Waxman said Iran’s fingerprints were all over the bomb attack in Bulgaria, as well as dozens of other plots in recent months around the world.

“These comments are appalling, but not surprising from the same government that says the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy theory and denies the Holocaust,” Waxman said in a statement.

A member of an Israeli Rescue and Recovery team works at the site of the Wednesday bomb blast at the parking lot of Burgas Airport, some 400km (248miles) east of Sofia July 19, 2012.

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said in his speech. “And too often, those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere.”

“And I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms. And we recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation -— that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,” he said.

The president also singled out youth violence, and warned that government can only do so much. “It’s up to us, as parents and as neighbors and as teachers and as mentors, to make sure our young people don’t have that void inside them,” he said.

It’s unclear how much political capital Obama will risk in an election-year gun-control fight. On the way to Aurora on Sunday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether there would be no renewed push for the assault weapons ban. “I wouldn’t argue with your assessment about that,” Carney replied. And White House officials have repeatedly emphasized that they are focused on enforcing “existing law.”

A woman signs a book of remembrance for the late Ghana President John Atta Mills, seen in the photo, at his party headquarters in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.

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Ghana president’s death shakes up December vote

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ACCRA, Ghana — Ghana’s governing party vowed Wednesday to carry out the “unfinished job” of the country’s late president as questions swirled about who would replace him on the ticket for December’s election.

John Atta Mills, who took power in 2009 after winning a presidential runoff vote by a razorthin margin, died Tuesday at the age of 68.

There was no immediate word on the cause of his death, though there had been rumors about a serious illness in recent months.

Vice President John Mahama was sworn in late Tuesday only hours after Atta Mills passed away, underscoring the West African nation’s stability in a part of the world where the deaths of other leaders have sparked coups.

Atta Mills’ death, though, could harm his party’s chances of staying in power in December’s vote. Some already have speculated that the 53-year-old Mahama may become the party’s

nominee, although some critics say he lacks the name recognition of his predecessor.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who came in second in the 2008 election with 49.77 percent of the vote, is running again. His party has temporarily suspended campaigning during the period of national mourning. Richard Downie, deputy director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the December elections are expected to pose “a strong test” of Ghana’s democratic credentials.

“The two leading parties remain evenly matched, as they were in 2008, but the stakes are much higher this time round,” Downie said in a statement released Wednesday. “The winning party knows it will get to enjoy the best years of Ghana’s oil wealth.” Atta Mills served as president as Ghana began grappling with how to deal with its newfound oil wealth from offshore fields discovered in the last five years.

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Homemade South Korean satellite to go boldly into space Reuters

“ripen” -- change color from green to red when people take photos of it with flashes.

After working as an intern at a private satellite company, he came up with the idea for his “Open Satellite Initiative,” which in turn led him to contact space professionals from Slovenia to Paris.

“I’m just an individual, not someone working for big universities, corporations or armies, so they open up to me and easily give out information,” said Song.

The bespectacled Song spent nearly six years combing through academic papers, shopping online at sites that specialize in components that can be used for space projects, and rummaging through electronic stores hidden in the back alleys of Seoul.

Mexico will start vaccinating some 10 million poultry Thursday against the highly contagious bird flu strain that has already led to the deaths of five million birds which either fell ill or were slaughtered.

“Starting tomorrow, we are going to vaccinate hens and chicks across

the country to put an end to this bird flu epidemic,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon said.

The president indicated that the ultimate goal is to have a batch of 80 million vaccinations, so that “in the coming weeks, (Mexico can) end this economic impact on poultry producers.”

The virus responsible for the

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Chickens at a farm under quarantine in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State, Mexico on July 4, 2012.

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Chilean navy warship visits Bali

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DENPASAR - A Chilean Navy warship with 321 personnel on board arrived here on Wednesday for a visit for several days before continuing its world tour.

The photo shows officers in the Chilean Navy Warship that visit Denpasar for several days. The warship “Esmeralda” anchored in Benoa Port and open for public from July 26-29.

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Song Ho-Jun poses with his satellite during an interview with Reuters at his house in Seoul July 10, 2012.

Mexico to vaccinate 10 million birds in flu outbreak Agence France Presse

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The “Esmeralda” is open for the public from July 26-29, ship captain Guillermo Luttged Mathieu said.

He said during the visit several activities would be carried out for the public and for deepening military cooperation as well as relations between the two countries.

“We have also scheduled a visit to the Indonesian navy base in Denpasar,” he said.

SEOUL - Years of rummaging through back-alley electronics stores will pay off later this year for a South Korean artist when he fulfills his dream of launching a homemade, basement-built satellite into space.

“Making a satellite is no more difficult than making a cellphone,” said Song Hojun, 34, who said he built the $500 OpenSat to show people they could achieve their dreams.

“I believe that not just a satellite, but anything can be made with the help of the Internet and social platforms. I chose a satellite to show that symbolically.”

There’s a long history of do-ityourself satellites being launched by universities and scientific groups around the world, as well as amateur radio clubs, but Song said his is the first truly personal satellite designed and financed by an individual.

An engineering student at university, Song regularly incorporated technology into his art pieces. In a work called Apple he used light bulbs that would

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outbreak, H7N3, has occasionally affected humans in various parts of the world, according to the United Nations, but has not shown itself to be easily transmittable between humans.

The prices of both eggs and chickens have soared in the wake of the outbreak, leading inflation to rise as well. According to Mexico’s national statistics agency, the first half of July saw an inflation rate of 4.45 percent, the highest level in 18 months.

The agriculture ministry has said poultry farming “contributes up to 40 percent of the total volume” of the country’s livestock production, and the “economic loss” from this epidemic “is and will be irreparable.”

The outbreak was first detected June 20 in the western state of Jalisco. A national animal health emergency was declared at the beginning of July.

Health officials keep a close watch on such outbreaks since socalled swine flu broke out in Mexico in 2009. The H1N1 virus spread into a global pandemic that claimed the lives of 17,000 people.

‘Maiden’ inca mummy suffered lung infection before sacrifice The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday (July 25).

The researchers analyzed tissue proteins, rather than DNA, from the Maiden and another young Inca mummy who died at the same time.

Over the last decade, DNA techniques have proven useful in helping solve ancient mysteries, such as how King Tut died.

But these techniques aren’t without faults. For example, finding evidence of a malariacausing parasite in King Tut’s system doesn’t necessarily mean the Egyptian king suf-

fered any malaria symptoms.

Additionally, the environment can easily contaminate DNA samples, if researchers aren’t careful.

On the other hand, analyzing a sample’s proteins, which are less susceptible to environmental contamination, yields a whole different set of information. “Being the expression of DNA, proteins really show you what the body is producing at the time when the individual is being sampled — or, in our case, at the time of death,” study researcher Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York, told LiveScience. In particular, proteins can tell you if the body’s immune system has activated to fight a disease, she added.

University scholars leadership symposium to be held in Bali

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DENPASAR - Humanitarian Affairs United Kingdom, the London based Social Enterprise, will be holding their 3rd annual University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Bali from August 1st to 7th, 2012.

Janice Leong, Regional Director of Humanitarian Affairs Asia said this in the release that receive by IBP. According to Leong, this symposium was implemented with the goal to bring college students from

outstanding universities around the world together to learn about, explore and address global issues concerning the plight of those suffering from extreme poverty.

This year, it will bring together a total of 400 dynamic and enthusiastic students from 33 countries actively involved in sustainable development to gather in Bali to discuss global issues concerning their future.

“This will give or promising leaders the unique opportunity to meet and network with youth leaders from

around the world, all working toward the same goal: alleviating the plight of the poor in developing countries,” she explained.

Geraldine Cox, the President and Founder of the Non-Profit Organization Sunrise Children Home will share the challenges she encountered while setting up her children home in Cambodia.

On Friday August 3rd, the day will start with a presentation by Mr. Raoul Wijffels, Founder and Executive Director of the One Dollar For Music

Foundation in Bali. He will share his creative concept of getting the youths off the street to create music for their future. Robin Lim, Founder of the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation and CNN Hero of the Year 2011 will captivate the delegates with her inspiring story of helping the poor to deliver healthy baby.

“In addition, we will have the pleasure to have among us Mr. El-Mostafa Benlamlih, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Indonesia who will grace the Closing

Ceremony,” she added.

Another highlights of the Symposium is when the 400 delegates will each write a postcard to the United Nations Secretary General, His Excellency, Ban Ki-Moon expressing their thoughts of the future they would want to see.

The 400 youth leaders will be participating in a Learning Journey where they will spend a day helping the less fortunate in their host city. This will allow them to better understand the needs of the community. (kmb18)

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A farmer is working on his ricefield in Jatiluwih, Tabanan Regency.

Water discharge down, farmer at Jatiluwih anxious Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Farmers at the tourist area of Jatiluwih, Penebel, were recently hit by unrest. It was triggered by persistent decline in water discharge flowing to their rice field when entering the growing season. Such condition made farmers anxious. Moreover, they only relied on income from rice farming.

“Few days ago, there were officials checking the condition of the irrigation channels. Reportedly, we will get a repair project soon,” he said.

If the water supply reduced, said Semarajaya, the process of growing rice would certainly be disturbed because the red rice variety required abundant water supply. This man added the harvest of red rice at Jatiluwih continued encouraging the farmers.

This year, the harvest yields had been averagely met the expected target. He gave an example that an area of 0.45 hectare could produce 3 tons of grain. Price of the red rice was also tempting. Despite massive harvest, the price of grain was relatively normal, around IDR 4,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, the price of red rice was IDR 20,000 per kilogram. With such

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Low budget, School buildings repair onnly half

The receding water discharge was triggered by the arrival of dry season, while another cause was the damaged irrigation channels that were never repaired. “We began planting rice after massive harvest but the water discharge declined. As a result, farmers were anxious,” complained the Secretary of Jatiluwih Subak Chief, Semarajaya, Wednesday (Jul 25).

It was described, though not too sharp, the decline in water flow was quite disturbing the farmers because they required adequate water supply before planting season. It was intended to prepare their rice seedlings.

As the water level declined, the seedling activity was not optimal.

According to Semarajaya, the dry season drained adequate water supply to rice field area. This man hoped the irrigation repair at Jatiluwih could be realized.

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stable prices, farmers expected there was repair to the infrastructure at Jatiluwih, especially the irrigation channel so the supply of water to rice fields remained normal all the time. Moreover, the Jatiluwih had been included in the world cultural heritage.

With this predicate, the perennial agriculture could keep on running optimally. “If the irrigation channel is good, the water supply seems normal, despite the drought,” he said.

The total farmland area at Subak Jatiluwih reached 303 hectares worked on by 395 farmers. Of that amount, they all relied on the harvest yield of red rice. Most recently, local farmers began to switch to organic farming. Aside from being healthy, the organic red rice had been favored by world market so that the demand increasingly skyrocketed. (kmb30)

The suggestion of using the remaining budget (Silpa) to be used to build new class rooms seemed hasn’t got its response from the executives moreover the budget from this year’s Regional Budget and Expenses (APBD) was very minim as proved by a school building rehab and new classrooms construction only half of them fulfilled.

This condition was then questioned by members of Budget Board of Denpasar House of Representatives in their meeting with Denpasar Council APBD team last Wednesday (25/7). Besides questioning about the rehab, the board also question on the subside of HIV/AIDS counseling, Wangaya Hospital master plan, PHR MoU, and the decrease on direct shopping budget in the amended planned APBD. Indonesia Raya Fraction Head, I Ketut Resmiyasa, suggested that the new class-

rooms extend is demanding and should use last year’s Silpa which reached up to IDR 203 billion. It is assured that if it is used it could manage the overload numbers of pupils with the number of classrooms existing now. With the number of questions stated, Secretary of the City Council, A.A. Rai Iswara, along with Head of other Agencies such as Health, Education, Youth and Sports, also a number of areal leaders of Denpasar, stated that schools in need of renovation has been on data yet the budget was minim to fulfill all so from the 84 units of elementary schools only 46 have been rehabbed while the 22 new classrooms have been fulfilled. For Junior High, High and Vocational Schools were delayed which means it can’t be applied this year which at least 12 Junior High and 4 High Schools will have to wait for the next budget. (kmb12)

Hundreds of irrigation channels unusable

BEARING the title as the rice granary of Bali, Tabanan still has the agricultural infrastructure whose condition is beyond expectation. As evidence, of approximately 500 irrigation channels, only 45 percent of them are in quite good condition. Meanwhile, the remaining 55 percent are unusable because they are still made of soil. As a result, they are easily damaged and not functioning optimally.

Ideally, the irrigation construction used river stone materials to supply water to paddy fields. The stone materials were capable of holding and maintaining the water flow from the upstream to downstream. “Only about 45 percent of our irrigation channels are in good condition. The remaining units are still in need of repair,” said the Division Head of Water Resources (SDA), Tabanan Public Works Agency, Ketut Sadra, Wednesday (Jul 25). They were divided into two groups, namely primary channel and secondary channel. Most of the primary channels had been categorized into good condition and they spread over 10 subdistricts in Tabanan.

He described the most damages to irrigation channel occurred in Penebel subdistrict. Of the existing 208 units, a total of 73 channels should be repaired immediately. With the improvement, the irrigation system to rice field was expected to run maximally so there would be no water leakage. A large

number of unusable irrigation channels caused the Public Works Agency through the SDA Division to persistently make improvement breakthrough. This year, a total of 33 repair packages of irrigation channel would be worked on.

Its total budget reached IDR 5.5 billion taken from the Special Allocation Fund (DAK). The budget was also accompanied with matching fund obtained from the Tabanan Regional Budget as much as 10 percent.

“So far, we only rely on the budget of special allocation fund for the repair of irrigation channels,” said Sadra. It occurred because the fund of Tabanan Regional Budget could not cover the total needs for the existing irrigation networks. With the repair, he hoped the farmers could do their activities and the channel could function properly. According to Sadra, every year his party had always prioritized the improvement of irrigation infrastructure. It was intended to support the agricultural development in Tabanan.Meanwhile, farmers in the area of Jatiluwih, Penebel, asked the promise of irrigation improvement in the local area. Damage to the irrigation channels had caused the water supply to their rice field to decline. As a result, farmers were getting anxious. “The irrigation channel here has long broken, but it does not get any improvement so far,” said one of the farmers at Jatiluwih, Semarajaya. (kmb30)

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Sales Training with Kenneth Law IBP

Banyan Tree Ungasan recently expanded its sales team with the appointment of four new professionals in the last three months. The expansion compliments and supports increased business in the areas of online sales and MICE events.

The newly appointed sales members join Banyan Tree Ungasan’s already strong team of professionals working in sales, marketing and reservations headed up by Melinda Taylor, Director of Sales and Marketing and Director of Sales, Made Darmawan.

To better equip the team to succeed in Bali’s fast changing market place, as well as hone their individual strengths; the group attended a two day intensive sales training event that addressed Banyan Tree’s core brand strategies, a messaging workshop and selling techniques designed to maximize opportunities in the hospitality industry.

The training was conducted by Kenneth Law, Banyan Tree Hotel and Resorts’ Field Performance Specialist. Mr. Law also holds the position of Country Head – Hong Kong, an additional role to his position as Assistant Vice President, Field Performance Support at Banyan Tree’s corporate office in Singapore. For the last three years, Mr. Law led a team responsible for bringing new hotels to market speedily and effectively. His role also involved consulting with operating hotels on revenue performance and sales force manage-

ment.

Four new professionals Banyan Tree Ungasan’s latest sales team members those are, Firmanullah Halimy, Sales Manager, with over 15 years hospitality industry experience working with many leading chains in Bali and Bintan, Indonesia, as well as further afield in Brunei. At Banyan Tree, he is responsible for ASEAN markets.

Sherly – Manger, Wedding Sales, has over 11 years experience in marketing and events working having worked for wedding planners and leading Bridal photography studios in Bali and Jakarta. Sherly graduated from the London School of Public Relations with a degree in Marketing.

Cindy Gozali – Senior Manager, eCommerce, has worked extensively for leading luxury hotel chains, holding management positions in sales and online distribution. Cindy graduated from Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland and holds a Bachelors degree in Hospitality and Marketing Management.

Dwinoer Kumalasari, Manager Events & Sales, joins Banyan Tree Ungasan from Banyan

Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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Tree Bintan. With many years experience working in hospitality sales, she also worked in different parts of Indonesia and internationally in Malaysia and the Middle East.

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

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

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

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

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

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Stewart, director issue apologies for affair Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “Twilight” fans are heartbroken by Kristen Stewart’s public admission that she cheated on her boyfriend and co-star Robert Pattinson. Some on Twitter are blasting the actress with no shortage of nasty names, while others are pledging support for Pattinson, calling him “sexy” and promising they’d be faithful.

But the scandal involving the on- and off-screen couple is unlikely to affect box-office returns for the final installment in the vampire-romance juggernaut due this fall, or even harm the image of the 22year-old actress.

“It could make her actually more alluring,” said Ian Drew, a senior editor at Us Weekly magazine, which features compromising photos of Stewart and her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders in its latest issue, out Friday. “She plays a bad girl. It’s not like Sally Field did this, so it could actually

enhance her appeal and make her even bigger.”

Stewart, whom Forbes named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress last month, issued an apology to People magazine Wednesday, saying she is “deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I’ve caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected.” “This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob,” she said. “I love him, I love him, I’m so sorry.”

Stewart and Pattinson have been in a relationship for

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several years after meeting on the set of “Twilight,” in which they play lovers. Sanders, who is married and has two children, followed with his own apologetic statement to People.

“I am utterly distraught about the pain I have caused my family,” he said. “My beautiful wife and heavenly children are all I have in this world, I love them with all my heart.

I am praying that we can get through this together.”

A spokesman for the director confirmed the statement Wednesday.

Representatives for Stewart and Pattinson did not respond to requests for comment.

FILE - This May 29, 2012 file photo shows actress Kristen Stewart and director Rupert Sanders attending the “Snow White and the Huntsman” screening in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES — A paparazzo photographer faces criminal charges in connection with a high-speed chase of Justin Bieber earlier this month, marking the first use of a new state law designed to clamp down on photographers’ reckless pursuit of celebrities.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office on Wednesday filed four misdemeanor charges against Paul Raef, 30, including reckless driving with the intent to capture pictures for commercial gain, reckless driving, failure to obey a peace officer and following another vehicle too closely.

Bieber pulled over for police and was given a speeding ticket. Paparazzi pursuit of celebrities has long been identified as a risk in Los Angeles.

“It’s Hollywood. There are a huge number of celebrities and there’s a lot of money paid for these pictures,” said attorney Harland Braun, who has defended cases involving paparazzi and who said he has had to fend off photographers chasing his celebrity clients.

“Unfortunately, innocent people get caught up in these chases,” he said. “I think the law is a good thing.” City attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said the Raef case meets all the criteria spelled out in the law which has not been used before this.

“We’re very confident in our case,” he said.

FILE - This July 22, 2012 file photo shows singer Justin Bieber arriving at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif.

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People crowded in Changi International Airport, Singapore. If referring to condition of the other modern international airports such as the Changi Airport, the traders filling in the outlets were dominated by well-known international brands. Similar condition was feared to occur at Ngurah Rai Airport so that it was very difficult to predict the opportunity of local businessmen to get the outlet quota at Ngurah Rai Airport.

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DENPASAR - Arrangement of the Ngurah Rai Airport is targeted to complete in 2013. As a consequence, the arrangement is feared to have an impact on the existence of local businessmen who contracted outlets at the airport.

Reportedly, local businessmen were starting to feel anxious to think of their business continuity.

Moreover, they should struggle for business premises against foreign

investor having a great reputation.

One of the business owners at the Ngurah Rai Airport appointed as Chairman of the Communication Forum of the Ngurah Rai Traders,

Wayan Sukses, admitted that local businessmen began to question about the sustainability of their fate at Ngurah Rai. According to him, the arrangement of commercial area at the airport would surely be made and it automatically changed the ‘quota’ of local businessmen.

If referring to condition of the other modern international airports such as the Changi Airport (Singapore), the traders filling in the outlets

were dominated by well-known international brands. Similar condition was feared to occur at Ngurah Rai Airport so that it was very difficult to predict the opportunity of local businessmen to get the outlet quota at Ngurah Rai Airport. Moreover, it would apply an international open tender system.

“We want to ask for the clarity about our fate. We do hope the airport authority can provide the assurance.

If the rules indeed require some relocations or some contracts will be no longer extended, we are ready to comply with the rules as long as we are told earlier,” he said.

He explained the forum established by traders at Ngurah Rai Airport consisted of 150 members.

In the existing outlets, the traders were selling food and drink, statue or postcard.

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