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ABC’s ‘Marvel’s Agents’ bows to strong ratings

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Indonesia to host Miss World final despite Muslim anger

Muddy island formed by Pakistan quake may not last

Roma maintains perfect start; Napoli held to draw

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NEW YORK — The action franchise “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is off to a fast start for ABC. “Lucky 7” is not so lucky.

AP Photo/ABC, Bob D’Amico, File

This publicity photo released by ABC shows from left, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, and Brett Dalton in Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

Marvel’s was seen by 12.2 million people in its series debut on Tuesday, the Nielsen company said. More importantly for ABC, it had the best ratings of any new broadcast drama in four years on all of broadcast television among the 18-to-49 -year-old demographic that executives consider most important.

CBS’ “NCIS,” the most popular show on television last year, debuted its new season to 20 million viewers directly competing with Marvel’s.

But the ABC series actually had more viewers in the youthful demographic, which advertisers consider most valuable.

The strong start is no surprise. The research firm Networked Insights, using its measurements of social media conversations over the summer, concluded that “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” was the most anticipated new program of the fall television season.

ABC quickly announced it would rerun the series debut Thursday at 8 p.m., bumping a rerun of “Shark Tank.”

Not all of ABC’s news was good on Tuesday. The TV By the Numbers website reported that the 10 p.m. debut of “Lucky 7,” a series about a group of co-

De Niro takes over Gandolfini miniseries role Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — HBO says Robert De Niro will step into a project that was thrown into question by the death of James Gandolfini. HBO said Wednesday that De Niro is taking on the role of a New York City attorney handling a murder case in the miniseries “Criminal Justice.”

Gandolfini had played the attorney in the pilot episode. The star of “The Sopranos” died in June at age 51 after suffering a heart attack.

“Criminal Justice” was one of Gandolfini’s last projects. Another is the film “Enough Said,” which is now in theaters.

An air date for “Criminal Justice” hasn’t been announced.

Photo by Dario Cantatore/Invision/AP

FILE - In this April 27, 2013 file photo, actor Robert De Niro attends “The King of Comedy” screening in New York.

workers who win the lottery, was the network’s lowest rated drama debut ever.

NBC’s two-hour Tuesday edition of “The Voice” was seen by 14.4 million viewers, and had the same rating among young viewers as “Marvel’s,” Nielsen said. NBC said the show’s audience grew through the night — doing 42 percent better in its last half hour than it did in the first. That’s an indication that at least some of “Marvel’s” viewers turned to the singing competition when the drama was done.

Ahead of APEC Summit

People encouraged not flying kites

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Youngster playing Balinese traditional kite in a field.

Rampant kites looked to be flown in the air of Denpasar and Badung area will certainly affect the safety of flight. not to fly kites ahead of the APEC Summit to anticipate any flight

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DENPASAR - Rampant kites looked to be flown in the air of Denpasar and Badung area will cer- disruptions. “For the time being, the flying kite activities cannot tainly affect the safety of flight. Moreover, in the next few days there will be the APEC Summit held be done during the APEC Summit lasting on October 1-9, 2013,” in Bali. The authority of Bali Police and the IX/Udayana Military Regional Command appealed to he told reporters.

Further, Chief Benny Mokalu hoped the people of Bali in all communities not to fly kites during the APEC Summit took place.

“For the time being, we appeal to all communities, particularly those in the area of Denpasar and Badung no to fly kites considering the flight schedule at the Ngurah Rai Airport ahead of the APEC Summit is pretty busy, both the departure and arrival,” said Chief of Bali Police,

Benny Mokalu.

He explained that in conjunction with the 21st APEC Summit, he and the Commander of the IX Udayana Military Regional Command, Wisnu Bawa Tanaya, as Chief of the Regional Security Taskforce appealed to community

general and those of Denpasar and Badung in particular could tolerate the condition. Hopefully, the international event could take place in Bali smoothly, safely and successfully. “The success of this event will definitely increase the confidence of the world community to Indonesia in general and Bali in particular,” he said. (nik/kmb21)

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Rejection against the inclusion of Besakih in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) was also revealed by IGA Rai Wirajaya. This Member of Parliament of the Commission XI considered it inappropriate because the area was not intended for tourism, but for sacred area.

Rai Wirajaya: Rejects inclusion of Besakih in KSPN Bali Post

DENPASAR - Rejection against the inclusion of Besakih in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) was also revealed by IGA Rai Wirajaya. This Member of Parliament of the Commission XI considered it inappropriate because the area was not intended for tourism, but for sacred area.

“Temple poses a spiritual area, not a tourist area based on economic aspect.

To that end, I strongly disagree if Besakih Temple is included in the KSPN. It is a sacred area having been sanctified and passed down through generations, so do not be bothered,” said Rai Wirajaya when met in Denpasar, Wednesday (Sep 25).

It was said the decision on the inclusion of Besakih in the KSPN could trigger commotion because it was issued without any coordination with local government and Hindu leaders in Bali. “Necessarily, the government should discuss it with the PHDI. So, just because holding the authority then takes action arbitrarily without consultation,” he said.

According to him, the central and local governments along with Balinese people should have a vision and mission to carry out the development on the island. Thus, it would not result in a conflict in the future because the program went up against the applicable regulations.

“This should become a concern of the

leaders whoever they are. Do not instantly make a decision because it is not the area of the government, but that of people who preserve the temple,” he said.

He also asked the government to disclose the KSPN program that included Besakih to the public, so there would be no prejudice in society. “It must be questioned and exposed, do not let the issue prolong resulting in restlessness. Government may not wait, but it has to give an explanation to the public what exactly the KSPN means,” he said.

A lecturer at the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali, I Made Mandra, agreed that central and local government should expose fairly regarding the inclusion of Besakih in the KSPN. So far, there had been no clarity from the stakeholders regarding the direction of the program.

“We have not known what to do in Besakih Temple in relation to the KSPN program, whether it would be made an arrangement to the tourist object or Besakih is included in the category of tourist destination,” he said.

It was mentioned that the definition of destination arrangement and tourist object arrangement was different. Arrangement of tourist object was arranging the region from poorly managed condition into the more comfortable one such as by construction of pedestrian and gazebo to shelter. By contrast, the destination arrangement included the development of accommodation such as hotel.

“If intended for object arrangement, it’s fine, but if it poses a destination arrangement it is inappropriate because in destination certainly includes the accommodation.

Meanwhile, Besakih belongs to a sacred area, not tourism area. To that end, it is required the firmness of the government to describe the program,” he said.

He argued the KSPN program should involve the local community, in addition to involving the local government and central government. “The public should be involved in this arrangement, while the government may not take action independently,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

Poor students provided with assistance worth IDR 1.3 billion Bali Post

DENPASAR - In this fiscal year 2013, the Denpasar Municipality allocated IDR 1.3 billion fund to save the education of 1,050 students categorized into poor students. The provision of scholarship for poor students posed a regular program of the Denpasar Municipality. The Division Head of Planning, the Denpasar Education Agency, Made Merta, revealed the matter, Wednesday (Sep 25).

According to Merta, the scholarship was earmarked for poor students from elementary to high school/vocational school. In details, the poor students meeting the requirement to receive the scholarship were 350 students of elementary school, 300 students of junior high school and 400 students of high school/vocational school spreading evenly across four subdistricts in Denpasar. “This scholarship is not only intended for completing the Nine-Year Compulsory Basic Education, but also for reducing the dropout rate for the overall education from elementary to high school/vocational school,” he said.

Those deserving to receive the scholarship, he added, were students of poor families that were potentially threatened by dropouts. Each elementary student was eligible for tuition assistance worth IDR 75,000 per month, while junior high and high school/vocational school students got IDR 125,000 per month. For practical and efficient consideration, the distribution of scholarships was done once a year. “Within a year, each elementary school student gets scholarship at IDR 900,000 per year and junior high and high school/vocational get IDR 1.5 million per year,” he explained.

The amount of scholarships disbursed for poor students by Denpasar Municipality in fiscal year 2013 showed multiple increases compared to the previous fiscal year. In the fiscal year 2012, the Denpasar Municipality allocated a budget of IDR 1.2 billion to help tuition fee of 350 elementary school students, 300 junior high school students and 340 high/vocational school students around Denpasar. “We are grateful because the amount of scholarship for poor students is increased in this fiscal year 2013. In others words, more poor students can be helped this year,” he said.

He added the scholarship of 1,050 poor students of poor families would be distributed starting December 2013. With the implementation of this program, he hoped the dropout rate among the students of poor family could be minimized as low as possible. “Providing educational scholarship for poor students to save their education is also conducted by schools,” he said. (kmb13)

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Cleaning Blitz and Rocking

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SEMINYAK - The spirit to work hand in hand in the clean up activity entitled “Cleaning Blitz and Rocking the Street and Environment” which was held on Lebak Sari Street, Seminyak. The social activity is held gradually every month and involving hundreds of participants which are the staffs and employees of Maca Villa, The Kunja, Centra Taum dan Villa Kayu Raja (VKR). VKR was led by the General Manager Gede Nik Sukarta also plant trees along the street. He stated that the cleaning blitz is one of the forms of responsibilities of the villas to the environment and to take part in the APEC. “We realize that everyone has their own part in conserving the environment. This act is also to create better relationship among the villas in the location,” he said.

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Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih 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 Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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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Paris fashion goes from peasants to space-age DAMIR DOMA

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Gold, space-age sheens, peasant garb, gravity-defying skirts and 1950s boudoir slippers all made for a dramatic - if incongruous - array for Paris’ first full day of spring-summer 2014 fashion shows.

But what Wednesday’s ready-towear displays lacked in unity they by far made up for in energy and inventiveness, as showcased by Dries Van Noten, whose unchallenged mastery of contradictory styles was on full view in his dizzying fashion spectacle. The inimitable Belgian designer produced the strongest show of the day.

With seven days to go before the season ends, it’s too early to spot the Paris trends - but flowers, metallic sheens, and white made strong statements across the day’s 11 official shows.

Elsewhere, several shows - such as Gareth Pugh and Rochas - used dramatic hairstyles and make up to strengthen the statement of their increasingly imaginative catwalk presentations. The shows continue Thursday with Lanvin, Nina Ricci and Balmain.

DRIES VAN NOTEN Only at a Van Noten show can opulent gold hang from sportswear vest straps, peasant blouses meet luxurious colorful damasks, ethnic beading come alongside John Lennonstyle shades, and flattened torsos jar with billowing multi-directional 3-D frills, and, still, all succeed and prompt whooping applause.

It’s no small feat. This season saw

Van Noten explore his Midas touch.

Gently flirting with the metallics craze this season, in one look a huge gold waist-flap set off the contradictory styles with glamor.

In the ensemble, a vertical loose cream jacket on a flat-fronted gray top was set alight by the horizontal gold accordion-pleats - finished off with a suitably out-of-place, decoratively textured black skirt. Van Noten must have had great fun in putting this collection together.

The show ended on a high with one dizzying ensemble of floralshaped rouching that the program notes said used up around 16 meters (52 feet) of silk.

In warm cream, black and golden ochre, this incredible creation turned the whole body into a billowing, 3-D experience and blurred the line between fashion and art.

ROCHAS Creative director Marco Zanini used Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” as an inspiration behind his 1950s-themed catwalk show. The feathery boudoir slippers and messy bed-hair nicely evoked Amanda Wingfield, the play’s faded Southern belle and unstable single mother.

But Zanini used Williams only as a

jumping board in this Rochas show’s fascinating ode to the fifties.

Not all the 41 looks worked — far from it — but each formed part of a carefully-crafted shopping list of all things in-vogue during this time: Pointed winklepickers, full skirts and box coats, as well as the must-have hues of pale peach and pale turquoise.

Meanwhile, sheeny material with floral patterns perfectly captured the American society’s then obsession with the latest material to hit the stores: Nylon chiffon.

GARETH PUGH London’s enfant terrible produced one of his most sculptural shows to date, with stone-smooth fabric producing clean folds and engineering planes around the body. As ever with Pugh, it was high drama.

Whether in stiff exaggerated collars in white, which billowed out like an unfurling rose, space-age circular shoulders in gray or black, or bright turquoise silk column skirts which elongated the leg, surreal elements dominated the 38 looks.

Three-dimensional makeup which enlarged the brow, alongside huge enveloping feathered headdresses, had the Star Trek fans in the audience smiling.

“It feels very light and easy and at peace, and this is how I feel myself,” said Croatian-born designer Damir Doma of his unusually delicate Paris show. Antwerp-trained Doma’s niche in the Paris fashion week calendar is often found in his hip monkish, dark and medieval styles.

So when the first looks filed by in breezy white cotton it certainly felt like a welcome new direction. Neatly embroidered perforated holes punctuated dresses, gauze skirts and boxy tops. They were distributed almost randomly like a feminine blossom that broke up what might have been a stark monochrome.

Doma’s signature asymmetry was still here though - and in abundance with a series of truncated toga styles.

But the story of the show was Doma’s exploration of his often-neglected feminine side. In a seismic shift for the designer who prefers menswear tailor-

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

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ing, he included actual dresses in his womenswear for the first time.

GUY LAROCHE Futurism infused Guy Laroche’s show. The result was a collection with some great ideas, but that seemed to lack somewhat in energy.

High notes were hit in a series of sporty skirts that could be described as intergalactic tennis-wear. Cut on the bias this techo-fabric had a voluminous and exaggerated natural flounce - going upward as it would in zero-gravity.

The science fiction musing continued with an all-white shattered glass-effect zipper jacket and crossover top.

The gray fringing details that appeared on several ensembles and white shirt and black masculinetailored pant looks didn’t, however, feel very fresh. Marongiu, it seems, worked best in zero-gravity.

ANTARA FOTO/Nyoman Budhiana

Miss World 2012, Yu Wenxia (left) with several contestants of Miss World 2013 during a session called “Beauty With Purpose Day” at Nusa Dua, Bali Island, recently. The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

Indonesia to host Miss World final despite Muslim anger Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

AP Photo/Christophe Ena

A model presents a creation as part of British fashion designer Gareth Pugh’s ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013.

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A model wears a creation for Belgian fashion house Dries van Noten’s readyto-wear Spring/ Summer 2014 fashion collection, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept.25, 2013.

Police and traditional Balinese security personnel, wearing sarongs and armed with daggers, will be out in force on the Hindumajority island as the beauty queens take to the stage.

A total of 129 contestants will parade in the glittering finale of the three-week event, which will be broadcast to more than 180 countries.

But protests by Islamic radicals in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, have overshadowed the contest and prompted authorities to order the whole event be moved to Bali, where hardliners have little influence.

Radical anger has not been appeased, however. The hardliners are threatening to stage fresh protests on Saturday and even to try

to break through heavy security to get into Bali to demonstrate at the venue. “ We a r e g o i n g t o p r o t e s t against it, because it is unacceptable,” said Haidar Al-Hamid, head of the East Java province branch of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).

The province sits just across the water from Bali, and he said that the group planned to head to the island on Saturday, although they will face a tough time as main entry points will be heavily guarded.

Hundreds of FPI members have already made one attempt to cross to Bali from East Java earlier this month -- but the group was stopped from getting onto a ferry by a line of female police backed by hundreds of elite of-

ficers.

Adding to concerns, the American, British and Australian embassies have said that radicals could attack the pageant, a chilling warning on an island where bombings in 2002 killed more than 200 people, most of them foreign tourists.

“Extremist groups may be planning to disrupt the Miss World pageant... potentially through violent means,” said the US embassy in Jakarta.

Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, corporate secretary of TV network RCTI, which is broadcasting Miss World and helping to organise it, said security was the “main concern”.

“We are confident that the police will do everything necessary to ensure safety,” he said.

Bali Post/Yudi Karnaedi

Indonesian soldiers line up during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept.

26, 2013. A Hindu priest gives holy water to Indonesian military personnel during that parade to wish everything will go as it plan.

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Immigration counter burglarized by Taiwanese

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Security in the arrival terminal of the Ngurah Rai International Airport started to be getting annoyed by theft action. Moreover, such criminal action occurred in the special immigration counter for the APEC Summit delegates. An immigration officer named Endro Eko Saputro reported to have lost a laptop placed on top of the counter, Tuesday (Sep 24). After being investigated, in fact the culprit was a foreign citizen.

His name was Chen Ming Hsien, 42, from Taiwan staying at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, room 308. The culprit was arrested the next day at the hotel and immediately taken to Ngurah Rai Airport Police (KP3). “We have arrested the culprit at his hotel on Wednesday morning (Sep 25). Now, he is still undergoing an investigation,” said Chief of Ngurah Rai Airport Police, Ida Bagus Arta.

According to Chief Arta, before the incident the victim put a HP laptop at special immigration counter for the APEC Summit delegates in the international arrival terminal, Ngurah Rai Airport. Suddenly, the laptop of the victim vanished from the previous place. Afterward, the victim reported the case to the Ngurah Rai Airport Police. “The laptop was known missing around 7:10 p.m.,” he said.

In response to the report, police were investigating the crime scene and examined the witnesses. The results of investigation led to the culprit. Having been investigated further, the culprit was known to stay at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, room 308. The culprit was arrested without resistance. “Other than the culprit, we also seized the laptop,” he told reporters last Wednesday.

Before the investigator, the culprit admitted to arrive by the flight of Malaysia MH 851 from Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday night.

Upon the arrival at the Ngurah Rai Airport, he passed through in front of the immigration counter.

At that time, the culprit saw the laptop and picked it up. Furthermore, the culprit fled to his hotel.

“This theft is a common crime and has nothing to do with the APEC Summit. He came to Bali as tourist,” he said. (kmb21)

Food traders raids amid two cases mass poisoning

Bali Post

GIANYAR - After the poisoning case experienced by Gianyar residents some time ago, the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency improved the oversight to the existence of groceries in public market across Gianyar County. Even, a number of grocery samples were taken from traders in Gianyar Market, Payangan Market and Sukawati Market, Wednesday (Sep 25).

Food samples taken from traders were made in a series of market inspection led in person by the Head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, Gede Widarma Suharta. This special team of consumer protection was spread to several traders in the market to take food samples such as sauces, noodles, crackers, meatballs, tofu, tempeh and other foods generally sold in the market. Subsequently, all the samples were examined in the Bina Medika Laboratory, Denpasar, he said.

The food samples taken were tested to know the compositions whether the they contained substances such dyes or other compounds such as borax and formalin. The results of laboratory test were estimated to be known within two weeks. If the examination results in the laboratory indicated harmful substances, then the team would go down again to follow up by disciplining the product distribution.

Meanwhile, the raid was carried out to prevent any food poisoning from happening again as it did previously. Within a month, there were two cases of mass food poisoning occurred in Gianyar. The inspection would be conducted on an ongoing basis in order to monitor the health of food on sale. Aside from targeting traders in public markets, the food inspection would also target food stalls or shops existing in rural and urban areas. (kmb16)

SEMARAPURA - Several physical projects of Klungkung government failing in tender process made the executive lineups dizzy. Apparently, the international agendas taking place in Bali such as the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Miss World made the physical projects in Klungkung ignored by partners. Related to the international agenda, there were many other projects of central government having greater value.

The Division Head of Highways, Klungkung Public Works, AA Gede Lesmana, said on Wednesday (Sep 25) that many partners had lately been overloaded with the preparatory works related to the two international agendas in Bali. Partners said they had already been working on the projects belonging to central government, so they were not interested in the physical project of Klungkung County.

“In the field of Highways, the hot mix works were slightly difficult lately because partners running the business of Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) are only a few,” he said.

He added there were only two partners in Klungkung that had the AMP unit namely PT Sinar Bali and Kresna Karya. All this

Small plane crashes near bank in Chicago suburb

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BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Authorities say one person was killed and another injured when a single-engine plane crashed in suburban Chicago.

Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil says a woman aboard the single-engine aircraft was killed Wednesday when it slammed into a parking lot outside a Bolingbrook bank. O’Neil says her name is being withheld until a Thursday autopsy establishes a positive identification and relatives are notified.

A man was hospitalized at Loyola University Medical Center with burns.

His condition isn’t known.

Bolingbrook Police Lt. Michael Rompa says the victims are believed to be the plane’s pilot and passenger. Photos showed the plane ablaze after the crash.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the plane took off from Georgetown-Scott County Airport in Kentucky and was trying to land at Clow Airport in Bolingbrook.

Poor and desperate, Syrian refugees beg on Yemen’s streets

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After the poisoning case experienced by Gianyar residents some time ago, the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency improved the oversight to the existence of groceries in public market across Gianyar County.

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time, only PT Sinar Bali remained active, while Kresna Karya never proposed bidding or participated in tender process. Other than the seven projects of Highways sector previously undergoing a bidding failure, another road improvement project at Calik-Salang in Nusa Penida that previously reported to hold a bidding process was finally facing a similar fate. “There are three partners submitting on offer, but they all failed. A partner did not pass the administrative selection, while two others did not meet technical requirements,” he said.

If the value was highlighted, he said to have made a survey since last July before determining the value of project. Averagely, the failed projects had been re-tendered for three times. Even, there was a project whose tender had been announced four times, but no contractors showed their interest. Admittedly, the hot mix stayed to have time to re-tender because the work of hot mix did not take long time. “To make a direct appointment is impossible because there are no offers.

Even, if there are, they are not eligible,” he explained.

One of the partners, Wayan Mardika from PT Sinar Bali, said last Wednesday that tender

process of physical project in Klungkung was too close to the period of completion. Thus, there were no partners submitting an offer in the tender process. If it was forced, it might affect the quality of project. He denied if the partners were said to have got excessive jobs as delivered by the Division Head of Highways, the Klungkung Public Works.

He re-affirmed the failure of many physical projects in Klungkung was caused by the short time to complete.

Similar failure also occurred to the building expansion project of Klungkung government. As planned, the project to be funded by special allocation fund (DAK) worth IDR 4.9 billion also failed due to short time to complete because it should have been accomplished by this yearend.

The Head of Human Settlements, Public Works Agency, I Gusti Lanang Suratma, admitted last Wednesday that no partners submitted the offer. When re-tendered, he was pessimistic if it could not be completed by this yearend. Related to this issue, the acting Regent of Klungkung, Tjokorda Gede Agung, would summon the Head of Public Works to make coordination and determine the next measures. (kmb31)

SANAA/ADEN, Yemen - Fleeing the bloodshed and destruction of civil war in Syria, Yosra Mustafa and 15 members of her extended family crossed into Turkey, but found life there too expensive. They tried their luck with Jordan, but were refused entry. Lebanon came to nothing.

Never would they have expected to end up in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, itself riven by Islamist insurgency, rebellion by a northern Shi’ite group and separatist unrest in the south.

“There is nowhere else to go to now. We’re begging on the streets,” said Mustafa, who, dressed in black from head to toe, stationed herself at one of Sanaa’s main thoroughfares hoping cars would slow down to pay her a few Yemeni riyals.

Bruno Geddo, UNHCR’s representative in Yemen, says the country already hosts 240,000 refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Iraq. But the scale of the Syrian conflict, which has virtually laid waste to Mustafa’s home town of Aleppo, seems to have prompted people “to run in all directions”.

The Syrian civil war, pitting rebel groups against President Bashar al-Assad, has created two million refugees, primarily in the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. With no end in sight after more than two years, those neighbors are increasingly wary conflict could spread to their soil.

Many refugees endure hard camp conditions as prospects of a speedy return home fade, eking out a living as best they can.

But for some desperate Syrians the cost of living even in those tent cities is too high. Yemen, where nearly half of 25 million inhabitants are either hungry or on the edge of hunger, offers a last hope of sanctuary for a growing number.

Mustafa said she and her family paid for their flight to Yemen, where Syrian families do not generally require a visa.

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks during an interview with Venezuela’s state-run Telesur network, in Damascus, Syria.

Assad says he doesn’t rule out US attack Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he does not discount the possibility of a U.S. military attack even though threatened action was forestalled when he agreed to give up chemical weapons.

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A Syrian refugee begs on a main street in Sanaa September 26, 2013.

The Syrian civil war, pitting rebel groups against President Bashar alAssad, has created two million refugees, primarily in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.

Assad also said in an interview broadcast by Venezuela’s state-run Telesur network that his government has confessions from rebels that they brought chemical weapons into the civil war-wracked nation.

According to the broadcast’s Spanish dubbing, Assad said all evidence pointed to rebel responsibility for the attack.

He said that Syrian authorities had uncovered chemical arms caches and labs and that the evidence had been turned over to Russia, which brokered the deal that helped persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to pull back from

threatened military action over an Aug. 21 gas attack that killed civilians in a Damascus suburb.

In a speech at the U.N. on Tuesday, Obama said he would not use military force to depose Assad. But Washington and Moscow remain at odds on how to hold Syria accountable if it does not live up to its pledge to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpile.

Assad predicted during the 40minute interview that “terrorists” would try to block access of U.N. inspectors who enter Syria to secure the government’s chemical arsenal.

While Assad said he had evidence that countries including Saudi Arabia were arming Syrian rebels, he said he had no proof that any particular country had supplied them with chemical weapons.

He was also asked about the apparent thaw in relations between the U.S. and Iran, his government’s chief patron in the region.

Assad called the development positive but added that he did not consider it to mean that Tehran’s leaders trust Washington. He said it was important that the U.S. stop pressuring Iran not to have nuclear technology.

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Airbus nets 68 A320 orders in China Agence France-Presse

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Trader Fred DeMarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Investors continue to worry about the economy and the growing possibility of a government shutdown.

Global stocks meander as US budget debate looms Associated Press

BANGKOK — Worries about the U.S. economy and a looming budget battle in Washington kept global stock markets in check Thursday.

Data released Wednesday showed orders for long-lasting durable goods increased by only 0.1 percent in August after a sharp drop the month before, raising concerns that third quarter U.S. economic growth may not be as strong as anticipated.

Meanwhile, two financial deadlines for the U.S. government loom.

Congress needs to pass a funding bill to keep the federal government operating after Oct. 1, when its new fiscal year starts. And the nation’s borrowing limit needs to be raised before Oct. 17.

“The prospect of a U.S. Federal government shutdown is likely to undermine equity prices further in the coming days,” said analysts at Capital Economics in an email commentary.

The White House and Repub-

lican lawmakers, who disagree on spending cuts and other key budget issues, have just days to reach a compromise. In 2011, a similar situation roiled markets at a time when Europe’s debt crisis was flaring, and prompted Standard & Poor’s to strip the U.S. of its triple A credit rating.

European stocks fell in early trading. Britain’s FTSE 100 was down less than 0.1 percent to 6,547.49. Germany’s DAX shed 0.2 percent to 8,646.49. France’s CAC40 lost 0.3 percent to 4,181.72.

Wall Street looked set to recover ground lost after five straight losing sessions. Dow Jones industrial future rose 0.1 percent to 15,231 and S&P 500 futures gained 0.2 percent to 1,688.90.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index overcame initial losses to advance 1.2

percent, closing at 14,799.12. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.5 percent to 2,007.32. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.4 percent to 5,294.50. Benchmarks in Indonesia and India rose, while those in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines fell.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.4 percent to 23,125.03 and the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.9 percent to 2,155.81. Chinese banking shares fell after reports showed a sharp drop in total yuan deposits.

“The banks in China lost about 200 billion in deposits. The money probably went into shadow banking, which means they created a liquidity problem for banks,” said Francis Lun, chief economist at GE Oriental Financial Group in Hong Kong.

BEIJING - Three Chinese companies have ordered a total of 68 A320 aircraft, Airbus said Wednesday as it also announced a lighter version of a wide-bodied jet aimed at emerging markets.

In deals worth more than $6.75 billion at list prices, the aircraft-leasing firm BOC Aviation ordered 25 planes, Qingdao Airlines requested 23 planes and Zhejiang Loong Airlines sought 20.

The European planemaker announced the orders in statements on the sidelines of an air show in Beijing.

Air travel is rising steadily in Asia and other emerging markets, with passenger trips in China reaching 320 million in 2012, up nine percent from the year before.

The orders marked a “vote of confidence in the long-term appeal of our popular A320 family”, John Leahy, Airbus’s chief operating officer for customers, said in a statement.

Separately, Airbus announced a new lighter version of its A330-300 wide-body jet which it said was aimed at high-growth markets.

“The new lower-weight A330-300 variant specially designed for regional and domestic use is Airbus’ solution for markets with large populations and fast-growing, concentrated air traffic flows,” Fabrice Bregier, Airbus president and CEO, said in a statement.

Bregier, visiting China for the air show, said the announcement was being made in the country “because here we see strong pent-up demand for efficient and reliable wide-body aircraft connecting mega cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou”.

Airbus said the increased fuel efficiency from the lighter weight of about 200 tonnes “will result in an overall cost reduction by up to 15 percent compared with today’s long-range A330-300 variants”.

Eric Chen, president of Airbus China, told a press conference the company plans to deliver the first of the new A330-300 aircraft by the end of 2015 or early 2016.

“The Chinese market has special features: concentrated airports and a large population,” he added. “That’s why we think this aircraft will be a popular solution to these challenges.”

BOC Aviation’s order for A320s includes 12 A320neos, which are designed to cut emissions and fuel consumption, while Qingdao Airlines’ includes 18 neos and Zhejiang Loong Airlines’ has nine.

The two latter carriers are both start-up airlines. Qingdao Airlines will begin operations next year and take delivery of the first A320s in 2016, the statement said. Zhejiang Loong will begin business this year.

Singapore-based BOC Aviation is the aircraft-leasing arm of the major state-owned Bank of China. Airbus A320s make up a core part of its fleet.

A BOC spokeswoman in Singapore told AFP the list price for the 25 planes it ordered is $2.6 billion.

The list prices for the orders from Qingdao Airlines and Zhejiang Loong Airlines amounted to more than $4.15 billion, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

BOC Aviation had ordered another 50 A320s in January, half of them from the “neo” series, with delivery to begin next year and continue through 2019.

Air China also ordered 100 A320s in May, due to be handed over between 2014 and 2020. Airbus has a factory in China that assembles A320-series planes.

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National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali from October 6 to 9, 2013, said its official.

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JAKARTA - National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali from October 6 to 9, 2013, said its official.

“Due to the APEC CEO Summit 2013 in Denpasar, Bali, from October 6 to 9, Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules from various cities to Denpasar,” noted Garuda’s Vice President for Corporate Communications Pujobroto.

He said Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar will be closed from October 6 to 8, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on October 9 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time because of the APEC summit.

“Garuda Indonesia will not be operating 139 flights from Denpasar to Narita, Osaka, Haneda, Singapore, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Bandung, Lombok, Makassar, and Jakarta when the airport is closed,” he added.

Pujobroto explained that Garuda will also adjust the departure time of 91 flights from Denpasar to Australia, Korea, Singapore, and some other domestic flights.

He added that the routes of 12 flights will be changed - Cengkareng-DenpasarKupang will be changed to CengkarengSurabaya-Kupang, and Cengkareng-Denpasar-Jayapura-Timika will be changed to Cengkareng-Makassar-Jayapura-Timika.

FTA will impede domestic businessmen Bali Post

DENPASAR - Implementation of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is not solely facilitated businessmen in conducting international transactions in Asia. But more importantly is how strong the businessmen are capable of backing up themselves to survive in facing businessmen from other countries.

“Indeed, the existence of FTA is very much needed for the benefit of free trade. However, on the other hand it will become a barrier in the free trade for weak countries because they lose in the competition when facing the competitors from stronger countries (international businessmen),” said Chairman of the Indonesian Economist Association (ISEI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda,” Denpasar.

According to him, the countries having advanced industrial technology and manufacturing would enable them to control the market potential of weak countries.

If business people in the weak countries were not vigilant, like Indonesia against the unfair competition, then the concept of liberalism would be a powerful weapon for the control of trade. Moreover, the Indonesian market was easily controlled

as a colony by the players of free market, especially for the sector of automotive industry market share, telecoms and other manufacturing sectors.

“Indonesian people can be said to be unready to confront the various free trade agreements (FTA) because Indonesia remained to improve various sectors related to quality and product capacity into superior products that are ready to compete,” he said.

He said the entrepreneurs in Indonesia did not only face businessmen from China, but also from India, Australia and New Zealand as well as the ASEAN Economic Community. “Even though Indonesia is losing in the international trade, this country can actually be improved further.

In terms of macro perspective, Indonesia still has a competitive advantage and in fact it is not owned by the other competitors, where Indonesia is rich in natural and human resources,” he explained.

He argued that being rich in human resources in terms of quantity would become a very big market potential for powerful countries to make goods or service transaction. Unluckily, if the (natural and human) resource advantages could not be managed optimally, Indonesian

would become a low grade nation that lost in the competition all the time and be unable to compete in the world.

“Indonesia is very weak in the infrastructure development. Firstly, the weakness happens due to limited funds allocated in the state budget to build, develop and even improve the infrastructure of the nation located in each province across Indonesia,” he said.

On that account, he said the lack of infrastructure had an impact on the competitiveness in the free trade getting less efficient. For example, it resulted in low embarkation to product/services of exports and imports, including the supporting technologies.

“To determine the competitiveness of a nation, it is required a sustainable economic stability,” he said.

He added with the creation of labor market efficiency and discovery of sustainable production factors were expected to realize the economic stability of Indonesian. In 2013, the economic condition of Indonesia remained to be disrupted by macroeconomic conditions such as the increasingly tighter global trade with upheaval of the worsening world economic development. (kmb27)

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In this photo released by the Gwadar local government office on Wednesday, Sept 25, 2013, people walk on an island that reportedly emerged off the Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

Muddy island formed by Pakistan quake may not last Associated Press Writer

KARACHI, Pakistan - Alongside the carnage of Pakistan’s massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

Experts say the island was formed by the massive movement of the earth during the 7.7-magnitude quake that hit Pakistan’s Baluchistan province on Tuesday, killing at least 285 people.

“That big shock beneath the earth causes a lot of disturbance,” said Zahid Rafi, director of the National Seismic Monitoring Center.

The island appeared off the coast of Gwadar, a port about 330 miles (533 kilometers) from Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi and 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Iran.

Navy geologist Mohammed Danish told Pakistan’s Geo Television that a Pakistani Navy team visited the island Wednesday. He said the mass was about 60 feet (18 meters) high, 100 feet (30 meters) wide and 250 feet (76 meters) long, making it a little wider than a tennis court and slightly shorter than a football field.

Such islands are not entirely unusual to scientists who study the earth and its sometimes violent movements. Marco Bohnhoff,

a professor of seismology at the German Center for Geosciences in Potsdam said there are two ways such islands can be created.

In the first scenario, the earth’s crust violently lifts up out of the water. In the second, the earthquake triggers the movement and release of gases locked in the earth resulting in a flow called a “mud volcano.”

Experts are still trying to determine what caused this island, but it could have been a mud volcano, Rafi said. Scientists will have to analyze the material to see what it’s made of.

The island’s appearance electrified people along the coast who flocked to the beach and took to boats to visit the island, despite warnings from officials who worried about gas emanating from the island.

The deputy commissioner of Gwadar district, Tufail Baloch, traveled by boat to the island Wednesday. Water bubbled along the edges of the island, in what

appeared to be gas discharging, Baloch said. He said the area smelled of gas that caused a flash when people lit cigarettes.

Dead fish floated on the water’s surface, and local residents took stones from the land mass as souvenirs, he said.

Unlike lava volcanoes that harden when they come to the surface and cool, mud volcanoes generally don’t create steep or hard rock structures, Bornhoff said, although they can last for long periods of time.

Such land masses have appeared before off Pakistan’s Makran coast, said Muhammed Arshad, a hydrographer with the navy. After quakes in 1999 and 2010, new land masses rose up along a different part of the coast about 175 miles (282 kilometers) east of Gwadar, he said.

Each of those disappeared back into the sea within a year during the stormy monsoon season that sweeps Pakistan every summer, he said.

BEIJING - The teenage son of two celebrity singers for the Chinese military was convicted of rape Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison, in a case the public closely watched for signs of leniency because of his family ties.

Li Tianyi, 17, and four other defendants took an 18-year-old woman they met in a Beijing bar in February to a hotel room, where they beat her and sexually assaulted her, the Haidan Court in northwest Beijing said in delivering its verdict. Li had denied the charges at his trial last month, saying he was drunk at the time, but the court identified him as the ringleader.

Only one of the defendants was an adult. He pleaded not guilty but was sentenced to 12 years.

Li, who also pleaded not guilty and was tried as a minor, was sentenced to 10 years, in what the court said was a punishment that took into account his minor status. The other three - all of whom pleaded guilty - were sentenced to three to four years.

Sentences for rape normally range from three to 10 years, but in cases deemed severe - including gang rapes and those causing serious injury or death - the sentences for adults can range up to life in prison and even death. Li’s lawyers said the family will appeal.

Russian court jails 2 Greenpeace team members Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - A Russian court on Thursday jailed a photographer and a Greenpeace activist who were part of the 30-member Greenpeace team protesting near an oil platform in the Arctic last week.

The Coast Guard disrupted an attempt by Greenpeace activists on Sept. 18 to scale the Russian Arctic platform. Russian authorities seized Greenpeace’s ship the next day and towed it with the 30 activists aboard to Murmansk. The activists are being investigated for piracy.

The court on Thursday denied bail and sanctioned a twomonth jail term for photographer Denis Sinyakov and Greenpeace spokesman Roman Dolgov, pending the investigation.

Both are Russians. No charges have been brought against them yet. The judge has yet to rule in the cases of the other 28 people.

Although Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the activists aren’t pirates, he defended their detention.

The detained activists are from 18 countries, including Russia, and a long detention or trials could draw unwelcome international attention to Russia’s tough policy against protests.

Judges in six courtrooms were hearing the cases of each activist individually and have not yet ruled in the case of foreign activists.

The Arctic Sunrise sails under the Dutch flag. The Netherlands has asked Russia to release the ship and its crew immediately, explain the legal basis for its actions, the exact location where the ship was seized and any charges against the activists.

The platform, which belongs to an oil subsidiary of the state gas company Gazprom, is the first offshore rig in the Arctic. It was deployed to the vast Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea in 2011, but its launch has been delayed by technological challenges. Gazprom said earlier this month it was to start pumping oil this year, but no precise date has been set.

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An activist of Koalisi Pejalan Kaki (Pedestrian Coalition) in a zebra suit to represent zebra crossing gestures at motorists to stop behind the white line during a campaign to promote safety driving for pedestrians at a busy intersection in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Road accidents that cause fatal injuries to pedestrians are common in Indonesia due to poor safety standards and infrastructures.

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Indonesia asked to take firm stance Antara

DEPOK - International law expert at the University of Indonesia (UI) Hikmahanto Juwana has reminded the Indonesian government to take a firm stance on the Australian government’s boat people policy.

Despite being a polite host, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should be firm and not tolerate any requests, which are against the country’s Constitution and sovereignty and which might be posed by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Juwana said on Thursday.

Abbott, Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister, plans to visit Jakarta on September 30. He is expected to discuss his government’s new policy regarding refugees and asylum seekers entering Australia by boat. Most of these asylum seekers and refugees use Indonesia as a transit country before proceeding to Australia.

Juwana, who is also UI’s International Law dean, said Indonesia should refuse if Australia expected the country to resolve the boat people’s problems alone, as well as provide money for it.

Indonesia should also refuse to allow Australian ships from entering Indonesia’s territorial waters as they try to drive the boat people away, he added.

The boat people’s problem should be addressed jointly by the concerned countries, including Australia as the destination country, Indonesia as the transit country, and the boat people’s country of origin.

He reminded President Yudhoyono not to agree to any barter of Australia providing foreign assistance in place of letting Indonesia resolve the boat people issue.

“Don’t be persuaded by promises that foreign aid for Indonesia will not be cut, as long as long Indonesia allows its soil to become ‘a killing field’ for asylum seekers and refugees wanting to go to Australia,” Juwana stated.

He said it was about time for In-

donesia to regain its sovereignty.

Some nations have used financial assistance as a means to intervene in Indonesia’s sovereignty.

Earlier, Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa had issued a warning against Australia’s plan to implement its policy on boat people, which could violate Indonesia’s sovereignty.

The minister had also reiterated the country’s stance at a bilateral meeting with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Monday.

Natalegawa and Bishop met a day before the opening of the 68th U.N. General Assembly.

“We have reiterated that Indonesia cannot accept any Australian policy that would, in nature, violate Indonesia’s sovereignty,” he told reporters after holding a series of multilateral and bilateral meetings.

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) Zaenal Abidin justified the act of doctors at Tangerang Selatan Regional Hospital, who had protested against a Malaysian doctor working at the hospital.

“What the doctors have done is right. They have upheld medical honour in the country,” he said on Thursday.

Zaenal added that the presence of foreign doctors in the country is for the transfer of technology and not for practising at hospitals.

With regard to technology transfer, he said “it must be done based on certain requirements as set in the law on medical practice and health minister’s regulation.”

He added that foreign doctors should come to Indonesia upon the request of education hospitals, education institutions, professional organisations, or the health ministry and not local governments or regional hospitals.

“Doctors at Tangerang Selatan have upheld the country’s honour and respect of medical professionals in Indonesia; therefore, they should not be dismissed,” he said.

He mentioned that there are ample Indonesian doctors who are competent; hence, foreign doctors are not needed.“I have appealed to the regional hospital to follow the rules on foreign doctors,” he said.

Five doctors on a contract had recently been fired for participating in a protest against the presence of a Malaysian doctor at Tangerang Selatan Regional Hospital in Banten province.

Ministry to promote development of low-carbon sustainable tourism Antara

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday with the National Council on Climate Change, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) to promote low-carbon sustainable tourism development.

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Marie Elka Pangestu said the cooperation was aimed at boosting national tourism development and increasing job opportunities.

“This will also become one of our contributions to the APEC forum this year, as well as help create a tourism sector that can reduce poverty and preserve nature,” Pangestu revealed.

The MoU underlines energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy in addition to establishing a creative economy that values nature conservation and promotes the implementation of local wisdom. It will also involve some prioritized action plans within the next two years.

“We have a plan to build a pilot project that will involve the implementation of low-carbon sustainable tourism development in Bali,” the minister added. Meanwhile, the Executive Director of the National Council on Climate Change, Rachmat Witoelar stated that the council was very supportive of the concept of low carbon development.

“However, it must be powered by effective budget allocation and technology,” he said. WWF Executive Director Efransjah noted that within the agreement, there would be programs on climate, energy and conservation, as well as social welfare improvement surrounding conservation areas in Indonesia.

The concept of sustainable tourism development will entail more than just economic interests.

According to the Deputy Director of Kadin’s Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department Shina W. Kamdani, Kadin had launched an initial project in Nusa Dua, Bali, to develop ecotourism that was based and supported by local wisdom.

Kamdani said he was pleased as there were a growing number of people developing environment-based ecotourism in the country.

Moreover, the scope of the cooperation will include the promotion scheme and international and domestic social education on low-carbon sustainable tourism development.

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The name of Bukit Jambul was given when the Dutch colonial coming to Indonesia. At that moment the tourist saw a high hill in the south way that related the Regency of Klungkung and Besakih. In the top of mountain, there is holy place named Puncak Sari Temple. Uniquely, the temple surrounded by many big trees.

From the top of mountain, the visitor can see rice the beautiful panoramaof ricefield. The combination view of high hill and big trees make it named Bukit Jambul ( crest hill) Bukit Jambul is located in Pesaban Traditional Village, Nongan, Rendang Subdistrict. It is 8 km from Klungkung Regency and 51 km from Denpasar, while from Besakih Temple it is just 15 km. In this tourism area, there are many restaurant and others facilities such large parking area.

Bukit Jambul is very popular as a good place to feel and explore the harmony combination of hills, rice field, valley and sea.

TOKYO - Venus Williams beat Canadian teen Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 to advance to the Pan Pacific Open semifinals for the first time on Thursday.

Williams, whose previous best in Tokyo was the quarterfinals in 2004, broke Bouchard with a forehand down the line to go up 5-2 in the third set and held on to win the match that lasted three hours at Ariake Colosseum.

“She played so well,” Williams said. “She’s going to be a great player - she’s already a great player - and it was just a fight to the end.” Williams will face either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Petra Kvitova in the semis.

The 19-year-old Bouchard put Williams on notice when she built a 3-1 lead in the quarterfinal. Williams fought back to break the teenager three times in the first meeting of their careers.

In the second set, Bouchard capitalized on her second set point, winning the tiebreak 7-4. “I was just fighting until the end,” Williams said.

“It was disappointing to lose the second set, but to win the third set is the goal, so I’m happy.”

Kvitova of the Czech Republic defeated Madison Keys of the United States, 6-2, 6-2 while Kuznetsova of Russia beat Sorana Cirstea Romania, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in third-round matches.

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany has his car tyre changed in the pit during the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.

Vettel marching toward F1 title The pattern has been the same for weeks for Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. His win at the Singapore Grand Prix over the weekend was his third in a row and it put him 60 points clear in the drivers’ championship with six races remaining. The dominant manner in which he won in Belgium, Italy and Singapore meant his rivals have all but abandoned hope of preventing him taking a fourth-straight title.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was second in the race and is second in the championship standings, but even the Italian team knew his chances of catching up to the German were unrealistic.

“The only thing we can try and

do is to stay there in second and if there is an opportunity, we will take it,” team principal Stefano Domenicali said. “Without a problem for Vettel, it’s very difficult to fight for the championship, but you never know.”

Vettel’s performance under the lights of Singapore’s Marina Bay circuit for F1’s only night race was staggering. When it mattered most, in the early laps and again after the restart following a mid-race safety-car period, he was often two seconds per lap quicker than his nearest pursuers.

Such dominance delighted his team and F1 purists, but was a turnoff for fans wanting a closer

race. Vettel was heavily booed when interviewed on the podium, following similar abuse he received in Italy. He might have fewer fans here after events in Malaysia earlier this year: Vettel ignored team orders and overtook teammate Mark Webber, a move later compounded by his pointed lack of repentance and harsh comments about the Australian. The German laughed off the latest boos, dismissing the critics as jealous Ferrari fans.

“I just don’t think it is right, I don’t think it is sporting,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said of the booing in Singapore. “The clearest thing is that it is not fair, and no matter what Sebastian says, he is a human being. He has driven his socks off, he has produced an absolutely stunning performance, and that should be applauded. It shouldn’t be booed.”

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UCI presidential election.

While British challenger Brian Cookson is attempting to end the eight-year reign of Ireland’s Pat McQuaid as head of cycling’s world governing body, riders are taking an apathetic view.

Wiggins says “it’s not something I’ve really followed” and “we’re just pawns in everyone’s game and what goes on goes on.” Cancellara says, “I have (more) important things to do than follow what is going on.”

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BANGKOK - Another runaway win. Another chorus of boos. And another step toward the Formula One title.

Cyclists just don’t seem to care about UCI vote AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Venus Williams of the U.S. reacts after getting a point against Eugenie Bouchard of Canada during their quarterfinal match of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013.

FLORENCE, Italy — From Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins to Swiss time trial specialist Fabian Cancellara, riders don’t seem to care much about Friday’s contentious

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Roma maintains perfect start; Napoli held to draw Associated Press Writer

MILAN - Roma maintained its perfect start to the Serie A season with a 2-0 win at Sampdoria on Wednesday and took sole lead of the table after Napoli was surprisingly held to a 1-1 draw at home to Sassuolo. Two-time defending champion Juventus’ abject start to the season continued as it had to come from behind for a controversial 2-1 win at Chievo Verona, while AC Milan again scored twice in the dying minutes to draw 3-3 at Bologna.

Mehdi Benatia scored a stunning first goal in Italian football for Roma and Gervinho sealed the result. The capital club has won its opening five matches and moved two points clear of Napoli and Juventus. “I’m happy with our five consecutive wins, but I’m more interested in entering the history books at the end of the season, not now,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “It’s too early to evaluate everything, but I’m happy for the squad. I have a fantastic group and that’s important for the future.”

Elsewhere, Lazio bounced back from its derby defeat to Roma to beat 10-man Catania 3-1. In other results it was: Parma 4, Atalanta 3; Torino 2, Hellas Verona 2; and Livorno 1, Cagliari 1. Napoli had won its opening

four matches, while Sassuolo was the only team without a point in Serie A and was still reeling from a 7-0 defeat at home to Inter Milan on the weekend.

Napoli took the lead in the 15th minute when a cross was cleared straight at Blerim Dzemaili, who lashed it into the bottom left corner from 25 yards.

Sassuolo had scored just one goal in its opening four matches and Simone Zaza was again the scorer five minutes later, firing into the roof of the net from a tight angle following a Jasmin Kurtic through ball.

And Sassuolo held on for its first ever Serie A point. The result means that Roma is the only team still with a perfect record following its victory against Sampdoria. Roma was strug-

gling to break down a resilient Sampdoria defense and Garcia’s frustration got the better of him as he was sent to the stands 10 minutes into the second half for his protests.

Benatia broke the deadlock 10 minutes later with a wonderful solo effort. The Morocco striker wove his way through the Sampdoria defense, beating four players on his way into the penalty area. He then tripped but fired home as he fell. Gervinho also scored his first Serie A goal after he was sent clear by Francesco Totti, two minutes from time. Sampdoria winger Antonino Barilla was sent off for a second booking in stoppages Milan was unbeaten at Bologna since 2002 but had endured a miserable start to the

season with just four points from as many games and was missing the suspended Mario Balotelli as well as a number of injured players.

It took the lead in the 12th minute when Andrea Poli fired Robinho’s smart pass across goal into the bottom left corner but Diego Laxalt leveled for Bologna in the 33rd following a swift counter. Milan missed a series of incredible chances and Laxalt - who is on loan from the Rossoneri’s bitter rival Inter Milan - headed in Lazaros Christodolopoulos cross seven minutes into the second half to put Bologna in front.

Cristaldo also celebrated his first Serie A start with a goal, extending Bologna’s lead shortly after the hour with a diving header into the bottom right corner following Alessandro

Diamanti’s cross. Phillipe Mexes had a shot crash off the crossbar and it seemed as if Milan was heading for a third defeat of the season.

However, Milan had recently come back with two late goals at Torino to secure a draw and it did so again. Robinho pulled one back in the 89th and played a part in the equalizer two minutes later. The Brazilian’s header was saved but the rebound ricocheted to Ignazio Abate to snatch a share of the points.

“I believe that before Christmas we will be in another position,” Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “The other teams have started well and we have dropped points, but the team is growing and I have faith in my lads. I know that it won’t be easy to finish in the top three but we have everything to go for it.

Bayern eases past Hannover 4-1 in German Cup Associated Press Writer

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AC Milan Brazilian forward Robinho holds his face after missing a scoring chance during the Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Milan, at Bologna’s Renato Dall’Ara stadium, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

FRANKFURT, Germany - Title holder Bayern Munich got two goals from Thomas Mueller to cruise past Hannover 4-1 in the second round of the German Cup on Wednesday.

But last season’s runner-up, Stuttgart, crashed out in Freiburg.

Matthias Ginter and Mike Hanke scored in the second half for Freiburg, while Vedad Ibisevic cut the deficit late in the match.

Bayern beat Hannover in the Bundesliga 2-0 less than two weeks ago and dominated the cup match as well. Mueller opened the scoring in the 17th, Claudio Pizarro doubled the lead in the 27th, before Didier Ya Konan pulled one back for Hannover. But second-half goals from Mueller and substitute Franck Ribery secured Bayern’s victory.

Bayern had no trouble overcoming Hannover despite coach Pep Guardiola resting several players, including striker Mario Mandzukic. “When we use our chances, it’s going to be difficult to resist us,” Pizarro said.

Hannover was knocked out by Bayern in the semifinals last season.

Bayern completed an unprecedented treble for a German club by also capturing the Champions League and the Bundesliga.

Schalke advanced by winning 3-1 at third-division Darmstadt, Hertha Berlin went out against second-division Kaiserslautern 3-1 and Eintracht Frankfurt beat second-tier Bochum 2-0 on goals from Takashi Inui and Stefan Aigner.

Over two days, 10 Bundesliga, five second-tier and one thirddivision tier club, Saarbruecken, advanced to the third round. Saarbrucken, which had knocked out Werder Bremen in the first round, this time eliminated second-tier Paderborn 2-1.

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Monaco’s Falcao of Colombia, right, challenges for the ball with Bastia’s Fethi Harek of Algeria during their French League One soccer match, in Monaco stadium, Wednesday, Sept, 25, 2013.

Monaco maintains 2-point lead over PSG as both win Associated Press Writer

PARIS - Forward Radamel Falcao scored twice and Emmanuel Riviere got the other goal as Monaco beat Bastia 3-0 at home Wednesday to maintain its two-point lead over Paris Saint-Germain at the top of the French league.

It was a night for strike partners, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic setting up the winning goal for Edinson Cavani in PSG’s scrappy 1-0 win at Valenciennes as both teams maintained their unbeaten start to the season.

But while Falcao and Riviere have 13 goals between them, despite

playing less time together, Ibrahimovic and Cavani have only five and the highly-anticipated partnership between two of the world’s best strikers has yet to click.

Falcao tops the scoring charts with seven goals in as many games and the pair have all of Monaco’s goals this season.

Coach Claudio Ranieri, who got Monaco promoted, has taken charge of prestigious clubs like Chelsea, Juventus, Valencia and Roma. He edged the tactical battle against Laurent Blanc when Monaco drew 1-1 at PSG on Sunday and has made a positive start to the season.

“When the players are good, every system works,” Ranieri said, deflecting the praise away from him. “The most important thing is the team.”

Bastia started brightly and winger Wahbi Khazri tested goalkeeper Danijel Subasic with a low show, before Monaco hit back and goalie Mickael Landreau made a superb save to deny Riviere.

“We didn’t play with fluidity for the first 25 minutes, so there’s still work to be done,” Ranieri said.

Riviere broke the stalemate in the 39th and Falcao made it 2-0 moments later.

Egypt to hold World Cup playoff in Cairo Associated Press Writer

Egypt’s national football team will play in Cairo for the first time in two years, and for a spot in the World Cup. The Egyptian football association decided Wednesday to hold the second leg of the World Cup playoff against Ghana in November at a military stadium in the violence-hit capital.

The EFA also said that fans would be allowed in to watch the Nov. 15 game at the 30 June Stadium.

The decision to play in Cairo for the first time since late 2011 was taken after discussions between the national football body, sports minister Taher Abouzeid, a former

Egyptian international player, and state authorities.

Egypt hasn’t qualified for the World Cup since 1990, but under former United States coach Bob Bradley it progressed to the final two-leg playoffs for a place in Brazil next year with a perfect six wins in its group, the only team out of 40 to do that.

Bradley also had called for the playoff against 2010 World Cup quarterfinalist Ghana to be held in Cairo and in front of fans to boost the Egyptians’ chances of making it to football’s main event. The 30 June Stadium has a capacity of 30,000 and the EFA said it would be full for the Ghana game.

“We would love to play in Cai-

ro,” Bradley had said after the playoff draw last week in Cairo. “That is the dream of the team.”

Egypt’s last game in Cairo was a 3-0 win over Niger in October 2011, four months before a deadly riot at a league game in the Mediterranean city of Port Said left more than 70 fans dead in the midst of the country’s political turmoil.

Since then, Egypt’s national team has played in Alexandria and more recently in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna to avoid the unrest that has swept through Cairo and other major cities. The games have largely been played behind closed doors, although a few thousand supporters were allowed in to watch in El Gouna.

LONDON — While pleased Luis Suarez is back in action following a biting ban, Liverpool is still concerned about the damage the striker caused for the club’s brand globally.

The 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during a game in April came after Suarez had been banned for eight games after racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra in 2011.

“Any types of incident of that nature are damaging to a brand,” Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said on Thursday. Suarez returned to action in a 1-0 loss to Manchester United in the League Cup on Wednesday, although the Uruguay striker hoped not to be playing in a Liverpool shirt again.

Throughout the offseason, rather than focusing on repairing his image, Suarez was publicly pushing for a transfer away from Liverpool in search of Champions League football. Liverpool, though, was steadfast in rejecting bids from Arsenal for the Uruguay international and put him through a rehabilitation process to try and ensure there are no further incidents that harm the club.

“Luis is a footballer, he’s a street fighter, he’s a larger-than-life character,” Ayre said at the Sport Industry Group Breakfast Club in London. “Nobody is condoning any bad behavior but it’s just something you have to deal with. He is what he is, he is the character he is, and we have to try and harness that.

“We have worked a lot with Luis since the last incident with Ivanovic and he has responded well to that. He has been prepared to commit to that sort of work on his character.”

While Ayre said Suarez’s misdemeanors haven’t hit sponsorship revenue, the 121-year-old club wants to ensure its principles are upheld.

“We are very much an institution and we base ourselves on family values, and when your kids are naughty you tell them off and you try to teach them the error of your ways — it’s no different,” Ayre said.

“Every time you have a negative issue like that particular one then of course it’s damaging, but the important thing is to put it right and restore the integrity of the football club. And I believe that’s what we did.”

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Liverpool’s Luis Suarez prepares to take a corner during his team’s 1-0 loss at Manchester United in their English League Cup soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday Sept. 25, 2013.

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Roma maintains perfect start; Napoli held to draw Associated Press Writer

MILAN - Roma maintained its perfect start to the Serie A season with a 2-0 win at Sampdoria on Wednesday and took sole lead of the table after Napoli was surprisingly held to a 1-1 draw at home to Sassuolo. Two-time defending champion Juventus’ abject start to the season continued as it had to come from behind for a controversial 2-1 win at Chievo Verona, while AC Milan again scored twice in the dying minutes to draw 3-3 at Bologna.

Mehdi Benatia scored a stunning first goal in Italian football for Roma and Gervinho sealed the result. The capital club has won its opening five matches and moved two points clear of Napoli and Juventus. “I’m happy with our five consecutive wins, but I’m more interested in entering the history books at the end of the season, not now,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “It’s too early to evaluate everything, but I’m happy for the squad. I have a fantastic group and that’s important for the future.”

Elsewhere, Lazio bounced back from its derby defeat to Roma to beat 10-man Catania 3-1. In other results it was: Parma 4, Atalanta 3; Torino 2, Hellas Verona 2; and Livorno 1, Cagliari 1. Napoli had won its opening

four matches, while Sassuolo was the only team without a point in Serie A and was still reeling from a 7-0 defeat at home to Inter Milan on the weekend.

Napoli took the lead in the 15th minute when a cross was cleared straight at Blerim Dzemaili, who lashed it into the bottom left corner from 25 yards.

Sassuolo had scored just one goal in its opening four matches and Simone Zaza was again the scorer five minutes later, firing into the roof of the net from a tight angle following a Jasmin Kurtic through ball.

And Sassuolo held on for its first ever Serie A point. The result means that Roma is the only team still with a perfect record following its victory against Sampdoria. Roma was strug-

gling to break down a resilient Sampdoria defense and Garcia’s frustration got the better of him as he was sent to the stands 10 minutes into the second half for his protests.

Benatia broke the deadlock 10 minutes later with a wonderful solo effort. The Morocco striker wove his way through the Sampdoria defense, beating four players on his way into the penalty area. He then tripped but fired home as he fell. Gervinho also scored his first Serie A goal after he was sent clear by Francesco Totti, two minutes from time. Sampdoria winger Antonino Barilla was sent off for a second booking in stoppages Milan was unbeaten at Bologna since 2002 but had endured a miserable start to the

season with just four points from as many games and was missing the suspended Mario Balotelli as well as a number of injured players.

It took the lead in the 12th minute when Andrea Poli fired Robinho’s smart pass across goal into the bottom left corner but Diego Laxalt leveled for Bologna in the 33rd following a swift counter. Milan missed a series of incredible chances and Laxalt - who is on loan from the Rossoneri’s bitter rival Inter Milan - headed in Lazaros Christodolopoulos cross seven minutes into the second half to put Bologna in front.

Cristaldo also celebrated his first Serie A start with a goal, extending Bologna’s lead shortly after the hour with a diving header into the bottom right corner following Alessandro

Diamanti’s cross. Phillipe Mexes had a shot crash off the crossbar and it seemed as if Milan was heading for a third defeat of the season.

However, Milan had recently come back with two late goals at Torino to secure a draw and it did so again. Robinho pulled one back in the 89th and played a part in the equalizer two minutes later. The Brazilian’s header was saved but the rebound ricocheted to Ignazio Abate to snatch a share of the points.

“I believe that before Christmas we will be in another position,” Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “The other teams have started well and we have dropped points, but the team is growing and I have faith in my lads. I know that it won’t be easy to finish in the top three but we have everything to go for it.

Bayern eases past Hannover 4-1 in German Cup Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Paolo Ferrari

AC Milan Brazilian forward Robinho holds his face after missing a scoring chance during the Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Milan, at Bologna’s Renato Dall’Ara stadium, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

FRANKFURT, Germany - Title holder Bayern Munich got two goals from Thomas Mueller to cruise past Hannover 4-1 in the second round of the German Cup on Wednesday.

But last season’s runner-up, Stuttgart, crashed out in Freiburg.

Matthias Ginter and Mike Hanke scored in the second half for Freiburg, while Vedad Ibisevic cut the deficit late in the match.

Bayern beat Hannover in the Bundesliga 2-0 less than two weeks ago and dominated the cup match as well. Mueller opened the scoring in the 17th, Claudio Pizarro doubled the lead in the 27th, before Didier Ya Konan pulled one back for Hannover. But second-half goals from Mueller and substitute Franck Ribery secured Bayern’s victory.

Bayern had no trouble overcoming Hannover despite coach Pep Guardiola resting several players, including striker Mario Mandzukic. “When we use our chances, it’s going to be difficult to resist us,” Pizarro said.

Hannover was knocked out by Bayern in the semifinals last season.

Bayern completed an unprecedented treble for a German club by also capturing the Champions League and the Bundesliga.

Schalke advanced by winning 3-1 at third-division Darmstadt, Hertha Berlin went out against second-division Kaiserslautern 3-1 and Eintracht Frankfurt beat second-tier Bochum 2-0 on goals from Takashi Inui and Stefan Aigner.

Over two days, 10 Bundesliga, five second-tier and one thirddivision tier club, Saarbruecken, advanced to the third round. Saarbrucken, which had knocked out Werder Bremen in the first round, this time eliminated second-tier Paderborn 2-1.

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Monaco’s Falcao of Colombia, right, challenges for the ball with Bastia’s Fethi Harek of Algeria during their French League One soccer match, in Monaco stadium, Wednesday, Sept, 25, 2013.

Monaco maintains 2-point lead over PSG as both win Associated Press Writer

PARIS - Forward Radamel Falcao scored twice and Emmanuel Riviere got the other goal as Monaco beat Bastia 3-0 at home Wednesday to maintain its two-point lead over Paris Saint-Germain at the top of the French league.

It was a night for strike partners, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic setting up the winning goal for Edinson Cavani in PSG’s scrappy 1-0 win at Valenciennes as both teams maintained their unbeaten start to the season.

But while Falcao and Riviere have 13 goals between them, despite

playing less time together, Ibrahimovic and Cavani have only five and the highly-anticipated partnership between two of the world’s best strikers has yet to click.

Falcao tops the scoring charts with seven goals in as many games and the pair have all of Monaco’s goals this season.

Coach Claudio Ranieri, who got Monaco promoted, has taken charge of prestigious clubs like Chelsea, Juventus, Valencia and Roma. He edged the tactical battle against Laurent Blanc when Monaco drew 1-1 at PSG on Sunday and has made a positive start to the season.

“When the players are good, every system works,” Ranieri said, deflecting the praise away from him. “The most important thing is the team.”

Bastia started brightly and winger Wahbi Khazri tested goalkeeper Danijel Subasic with a low show, before Monaco hit back and goalie Mickael Landreau made a superb save to deny Riviere.

“We didn’t play with fluidity for the first 25 minutes, so there’s still work to be done,” Ranieri said.

Riviere broke the stalemate in the 39th and Falcao made it 2-0 moments later.

Egypt to hold World Cup playoff in Cairo Associated Press Writer

Egypt’s national football team will play in Cairo for the first time in two years, and for a spot in the World Cup. The Egyptian football association decided Wednesday to hold the second leg of the World Cup playoff against Ghana in November at a military stadium in the violence-hit capital.

The EFA also said that fans would be allowed in to watch the Nov. 15 game at the 30 June Stadium.

The decision to play in Cairo for the first time since late 2011 was taken after discussions between the national football body, sports minister Taher Abouzeid, a former

Egyptian international player, and state authorities.

Egypt hasn’t qualified for the World Cup since 1990, but under former United States coach Bob Bradley it progressed to the final two-leg playoffs for a place in Brazil next year with a perfect six wins in its group, the only team out of 40 to do that.

Bradley also had called for the playoff against 2010 World Cup quarterfinalist Ghana to be held in Cairo and in front of fans to boost the Egyptians’ chances of making it to football’s main event. The 30 June Stadium has a capacity of 30,000 and the EFA said it would be full for the Ghana game.

“We would love to play in Cai-

ro,” Bradley had said after the playoff draw last week in Cairo. “That is the dream of the team.”

Egypt’s last game in Cairo was a 3-0 win over Niger in October 2011, four months before a deadly riot at a league game in the Mediterranean city of Port Said left more than 70 fans dead in the midst of the country’s political turmoil.

Since then, Egypt’s national team has played in Alexandria and more recently in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna to avoid the unrest that has swept through Cairo and other major cities. The games have largely been played behind closed doors, although a few thousand supporters were allowed in to watch in El Gouna.

LONDON — While pleased Luis Suarez is back in action following a biting ban, Liverpool is still concerned about the damage the striker caused for the club’s brand globally.

The 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during a game in April came after Suarez had been banned for eight games after racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra in 2011.

“Any types of incident of that nature are damaging to a brand,” Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said on Thursday. Suarez returned to action in a 1-0 loss to Manchester United in the League Cup on Wednesday, although the Uruguay striker hoped not to be playing in a Liverpool shirt again.

Throughout the offseason, rather than focusing on repairing his image, Suarez was publicly pushing for a transfer away from Liverpool in search of Champions League football. Liverpool, though, was steadfast in rejecting bids from Arsenal for the Uruguay international and put him through a rehabilitation process to try and ensure there are no further incidents that harm the club.

“Luis is a footballer, he’s a street fighter, he’s a larger-than-life character,” Ayre said at the Sport Industry Group Breakfast Club in London. “Nobody is condoning any bad behavior but it’s just something you have to deal with. He is what he is, he is the character he is, and we have to try and harness that.

“We have worked a lot with Luis since the last incident with Ivanovic and he has responded well to that. He has been prepared to commit to that sort of work on his character.”

While Ayre said Suarez’s misdemeanors haven’t hit sponsorship revenue, the 121-year-old club wants to ensure its principles are upheld.

“We are very much an institution and we base ourselves on family values, and when your kids are naughty you tell them off and you try to teach them the error of your ways — it’s no different,” Ayre said.

“Every time you have a negative issue like that particular one then of course it’s damaging, but the important thing is to put it right and restore the integrity of the football club. And I believe that’s what we did.”

AP Photo/Jon Super

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez prepares to take a corner during his team’s 1-0 loss at Manchester United in their English League Cup soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday Sept. 25, 2013.

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Bukit Jambul IBP

Associated Press Writer

The name of Bukit Jambul was given when the Dutch colonial coming to Indonesia. At that moment the tourist saw a high hill in the south way that related the Regency of Klungkung and Besakih. In the top of mountain, there is holy place named Puncak Sari Temple. Uniquely, the temple surrounded by many big trees.

From the top of mountain, the visitor can see rice the beautiful panoramaof ricefield. The combination view of high hill and big trees make it named Bukit Jambul ( crest hill) Bukit Jambul is located in Pesaban Traditional Village, Nongan, Rendang Subdistrict. It is 8 km from Klungkung Regency and 51 km from Denpasar, while from Besakih Temple it is just 15 km. In this tourism area, there are many restaurant and others facilities such large parking area.

Bukit Jambul is very popular as a good place to feel and explore the harmony combination of hills, rice field, valley and sea.

TOKYO - Venus Williams beat Canadian teen Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 to advance to the Pan Pacific Open semifinals for the first time on Thursday.

Williams, whose previous best in Tokyo was the quarterfinals in 2004, broke Bouchard with a forehand down the line to go up 5-2 in the third set and held on to win the match that lasted three hours at Ariake Colosseum.

“She played so well,” Williams said. “She’s going to be a great player - she’s already a great player - and it was just a fight to the end.” Williams will face either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Petra Kvitova in the semis.

The 19-year-old Bouchard put Williams on notice when she built a 3-1 lead in the quarterfinal. Williams fought back to break the teenager three times in the first meeting of their careers.

In the second set, Bouchard capitalized on her second set point, winning the tiebreak 7-4. “I was just fighting until the end,” Williams said.

“It was disappointing to lose the second set, but to win the third set is the goal, so I’m happy.”

Kvitova of the Czech Republic defeated Madison Keys of the United States, 6-2, 6-2 while Kuznetsova of Russia beat Sorana Cirstea Romania, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in third-round matches.

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany has his car tyre changed in the pit during the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.

Vettel marching toward F1 title The pattern has been the same for weeks for Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. His win at the Singapore Grand Prix over the weekend was his third in a row and it put him 60 points clear in the drivers’ championship with six races remaining. The dominant manner in which he won in Belgium, Italy and Singapore meant his rivals have all but abandoned hope of preventing him taking a fourth-straight title.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was second in the race and is second in the championship standings, but even the Italian team knew his chances of catching up to the German were unrealistic.

“The only thing we can try and

do is to stay there in second and if there is an opportunity, we will take it,” team principal Stefano Domenicali said. “Without a problem for Vettel, it’s very difficult to fight for the championship, but you never know.”

Vettel’s performance under the lights of Singapore’s Marina Bay circuit for F1’s only night race was staggering. When it mattered most, in the early laps and again after the restart following a mid-race safety-car period, he was often two seconds per lap quicker than his nearest pursuers.

Such dominance delighted his team and F1 purists, but was a turnoff for fans wanting a closer

race. Vettel was heavily booed when interviewed on the podium, following similar abuse he received in Italy. He might have fewer fans here after events in Malaysia earlier this year: Vettel ignored team orders and overtook teammate Mark Webber, a move later compounded by his pointed lack of repentance and harsh comments about the Australian. The German laughed off the latest boos, dismissing the critics as jealous Ferrari fans.

“I just don’t think it is right, I don’t think it is sporting,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said of the booing in Singapore. “The clearest thing is that it is not fair, and no matter what Sebastian says, he is a human being. He has driven his socks off, he has produced an absolutely stunning performance, and that should be applauded. It shouldn’t be booed.”

Associated Press Writer

UCI presidential election.

While British challenger Brian Cookson is attempting to end the eight-year reign of Ireland’s Pat McQuaid as head of cycling’s world governing body, riders are taking an apathetic view.

Wiggins says “it’s not something I’ve really followed” and “we’re just pawns in everyone’s game and what goes on goes on.” Cancellara says, “I have (more) important things to do than follow what is going on.”

Associated Press Writer

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BANGKOK - Another runaway win. Another chorus of boos. And another step toward the Formula One title.

Cyclists just don’t seem to care about UCI vote AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Venus Williams of the U.S. reacts after getting a point against Eugenie Bouchard of Canada during their quarterfinal match of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013.

FLORENCE, Italy — From Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins to Swiss time trial specialist Fabian Cancellara, riders don’t seem to care much about Friday’s contentious

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INDONESIA IDI supports protest against foreign doctors’ practice

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In this photo released by the Gwadar local government office on Wednesday, Sept 25, 2013, people walk on an island that reportedly emerged off the Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

Muddy island formed by Pakistan quake may not last Associated Press Writer

KARACHI, Pakistan - Alongside the carnage of Pakistan’s massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

Experts say the island was formed by the massive movement of the earth during the 7.7-magnitude quake that hit Pakistan’s Baluchistan province on Tuesday, killing at least 285 people.

“That big shock beneath the earth causes a lot of disturbance,” said Zahid Rafi, director of the National Seismic Monitoring Center.

The island appeared off the coast of Gwadar, a port about 330 miles (533 kilometers) from Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi and 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Iran.

Navy geologist Mohammed Danish told Pakistan’s Geo Television that a Pakistani Navy team visited the island Wednesday. He said the mass was about 60 feet (18 meters) high, 100 feet (30 meters) wide and 250 feet (76 meters) long, making it a little wider than a tennis court and slightly shorter than a football field.

Such islands are not entirely unusual to scientists who study the earth and its sometimes violent movements. Marco Bohnhoff,

a professor of seismology at the German Center for Geosciences in Potsdam said there are two ways such islands can be created.

In the first scenario, the earth’s crust violently lifts up out of the water. In the second, the earthquake triggers the movement and release of gases locked in the earth resulting in a flow called a “mud volcano.”

Experts are still trying to determine what caused this island, but it could have been a mud volcano, Rafi said. Scientists will have to analyze the material to see what it’s made of.

The island’s appearance electrified people along the coast who flocked to the beach and took to boats to visit the island, despite warnings from officials who worried about gas emanating from the island.

The deputy commissioner of Gwadar district, Tufail Baloch, traveled by boat to the island Wednesday. Water bubbled along the edges of the island, in what

appeared to be gas discharging, Baloch said. He said the area smelled of gas that caused a flash when people lit cigarettes.

Dead fish floated on the water’s surface, and local residents took stones from the land mass as souvenirs, he said.

Unlike lava volcanoes that harden when they come to the surface and cool, mud volcanoes generally don’t create steep or hard rock structures, Bornhoff said, although they can last for long periods of time.

Such land masses have appeared before off Pakistan’s Makran coast, said Muhammed Arshad, a hydrographer with the navy. After quakes in 1999 and 2010, new land masses rose up along a different part of the coast about 175 miles (282 kilometers) east of Gwadar, he said.

Each of those disappeared back into the sea within a year during the stormy monsoon season that sweeps Pakistan every summer, he said.

BEIJING - The teenage son of two celebrity singers for the Chinese military was convicted of rape Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison, in a case the public closely watched for signs of leniency because of his family ties.

Li Tianyi, 17, and four other defendants took an 18-year-old woman they met in a Beijing bar in February to a hotel room, where they beat her and sexually assaulted her, the Haidan Court in northwest Beijing said in delivering its verdict. Li had denied the charges at his trial last month, saying he was drunk at the time, but the court identified him as the ringleader.

Only one of the defendants was an adult. He pleaded not guilty but was sentenced to 12 years.

Li, who also pleaded not guilty and was tried as a minor, was sentenced to 10 years, in what the court said was a punishment that took into account his minor status. The other three - all of whom pleaded guilty - were sentenced to three to four years.

Sentences for rape normally range from three to 10 years, but in cases deemed severe - including gang rapes and those causing serious injury or death - the sentences for adults can range up to life in prison and even death. Li’s lawyers said the family will appeal.

Russian court jails 2 Greenpeace team members Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - A Russian court on Thursday jailed a photographer and a Greenpeace activist who were part of the 30-member Greenpeace team protesting near an oil platform in the Arctic last week.

The Coast Guard disrupted an attempt by Greenpeace activists on Sept. 18 to scale the Russian Arctic platform. Russian authorities seized Greenpeace’s ship the next day and towed it with the 30 activists aboard to Murmansk. The activists are being investigated for piracy.

The court on Thursday denied bail and sanctioned a twomonth jail term for photographer Denis Sinyakov and Greenpeace spokesman Roman Dolgov, pending the investigation.

Both are Russians. No charges have been brought against them yet. The judge has yet to rule in the cases of the other 28 people.

Although Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the activists aren’t pirates, he defended their detention.

The detained activists are from 18 countries, including Russia, and a long detention or trials could draw unwelcome international attention to Russia’s tough policy against protests.

Judges in six courtrooms were hearing the cases of each activist individually and have not yet ruled in the case of foreign activists.

The Arctic Sunrise sails under the Dutch flag. The Netherlands has asked Russia to release the ship and its crew immediately, explain the legal basis for its actions, the exact location where the ship was seized and any charges against the activists.

The platform, which belongs to an oil subsidiary of the state gas company Gazprom, is the first offshore rig in the Arctic. It was deployed to the vast Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea in 2011, but its launch has been delayed by technological challenges. Gazprom said earlier this month it was to start pumping oil this year, but no precise date has been set.

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An activist of Koalisi Pejalan Kaki (Pedestrian Coalition) in a zebra suit to represent zebra crossing gestures at motorists to stop behind the white line during a campaign to promote safety driving for pedestrians at a busy intersection in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Road accidents that cause fatal injuries to pedestrians are common in Indonesia due to poor safety standards and infrastructures.

Australia’s boat people policy

Indonesia asked to take firm stance Antara

DEPOK - International law expert at the University of Indonesia (UI) Hikmahanto Juwana has reminded the Indonesian government to take a firm stance on the Australian government’s boat people policy.

Despite being a polite host, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should be firm and not tolerate any requests, which are against the country’s Constitution and sovereignty and which might be posed by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Juwana said on Thursday.

Abbott, Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister, plans to visit Jakarta on September 30. He is expected to discuss his government’s new policy regarding refugees and asylum seekers entering Australia by boat. Most of these asylum seekers and refugees use Indonesia as a transit country before proceeding to Australia.

Juwana, who is also UI’s International Law dean, said Indonesia should refuse if Australia expected the country to resolve the boat people’s problems alone, as well as provide money for it.

Indonesia should also refuse to allow Australian ships from entering Indonesia’s territorial waters as they try to drive the boat people away, he added.

The boat people’s problem should be addressed jointly by the concerned countries, including Australia as the destination country, Indonesia as the transit country, and the boat people’s country of origin.

He reminded President Yudhoyono not to agree to any barter of Australia providing foreign assistance in place of letting Indonesia resolve the boat people issue.

“Don’t be persuaded by promises that foreign aid for Indonesia will not be cut, as long as long Indonesia allows its soil to become ‘a killing field’ for asylum seekers and refugees wanting to go to Australia,” Juwana stated.

He said it was about time for In-

donesia to regain its sovereignty.

Some nations have used financial assistance as a means to intervene in Indonesia’s sovereignty.

Earlier, Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa had issued a warning against Australia’s plan to implement its policy on boat people, which could violate Indonesia’s sovereignty.

The minister had also reiterated the country’s stance at a bilateral meeting with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Monday.

Natalegawa and Bishop met a day before the opening of the 68th U.N. General Assembly.

“We have reiterated that Indonesia cannot accept any Australian policy that would, in nature, violate Indonesia’s sovereignty,” he told reporters after holding a series of multilateral and bilateral meetings.

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) Zaenal Abidin justified the act of doctors at Tangerang Selatan Regional Hospital, who had protested against a Malaysian doctor working at the hospital.

“What the doctors have done is right. They have upheld medical honour in the country,” he said on Thursday.

Zaenal added that the presence of foreign doctors in the country is for the transfer of technology and not for practising at hospitals.

With regard to technology transfer, he said “it must be done based on certain requirements as set in the law on medical practice and health minister’s regulation.”

He added that foreign doctors should come to Indonesia upon the request of education hospitals, education institutions, professional organisations, or the health ministry and not local governments or regional hospitals.

“Doctors at Tangerang Selatan have upheld the country’s honour and respect of medical professionals in Indonesia; therefore, they should not be dismissed,” he said.

He mentioned that there are ample Indonesian doctors who are competent; hence, foreign doctors are not needed.“I have appealed to the regional hospital to follow the rules on foreign doctors,” he said.

Five doctors on a contract had recently been fired for participating in a protest against the presence of a Malaysian doctor at Tangerang Selatan Regional Hospital in Banten province.

Ministry to promote development of low-carbon sustainable tourism Antara

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday with the National Council on Climate Change, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) to promote low-carbon sustainable tourism development.

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Marie Elka Pangestu said the cooperation was aimed at boosting national tourism development and increasing job opportunities.

“This will also become one of our contributions to the APEC forum this year, as well as help create a tourism sector that can reduce poverty and preserve nature,” Pangestu revealed.

The MoU underlines energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy in addition to establishing a creative economy that values nature conservation and promotes the implementation of local wisdom. It will also involve some prioritized action plans within the next two years.

“We have a plan to build a pilot project that will involve the implementation of low-carbon sustainable tourism development in Bali,” the minister added. Meanwhile, the Executive Director of the National Council on Climate Change, Rachmat Witoelar stated that the council was very supportive of the concept of low carbon development.

“However, it must be powered by effective budget allocation and technology,” he said. WWF Executive Director Efransjah noted that within the agreement, there would be programs on climate, energy and conservation, as well as social welfare improvement surrounding conservation areas in Indonesia.

The concept of sustainable tourism development will entail more than just economic interests.

According to the Deputy Director of Kadin’s Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department Shina W. Kamdani, Kadin had launched an initial project in Nusa Dua, Bali, to develop ecotourism that was based and supported by local wisdom.

Kamdani said he was pleased as there were a growing number of people developing environment-based ecotourism in the country.

Moreover, the scope of the cooperation will include the promotion scheme and international and domestic social education on low-carbon sustainable tourism development.

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Airbus nets 68 A320 orders in China Agence France-Presse

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Trader Fred DeMarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Investors continue to worry about the economy and the growing possibility of a government shutdown.

Global stocks meander as US budget debate looms Associated Press

BANGKOK — Worries about the U.S. economy and a looming budget battle in Washington kept global stock markets in check Thursday.

Data released Wednesday showed orders for long-lasting durable goods increased by only 0.1 percent in August after a sharp drop the month before, raising concerns that third quarter U.S. economic growth may not be as strong as anticipated.

Meanwhile, two financial deadlines for the U.S. government loom.

Congress needs to pass a funding bill to keep the federal government operating after Oct. 1, when its new fiscal year starts. And the nation’s borrowing limit needs to be raised before Oct. 17.

“The prospect of a U.S. Federal government shutdown is likely to undermine equity prices further in the coming days,” said analysts at Capital Economics in an email commentary.

The White House and Repub-

lican lawmakers, who disagree on spending cuts and other key budget issues, have just days to reach a compromise. In 2011, a similar situation roiled markets at a time when Europe’s debt crisis was flaring, and prompted Standard & Poor’s to strip the U.S. of its triple A credit rating.

European stocks fell in early trading. Britain’s FTSE 100 was down less than 0.1 percent to 6,547.49. Germany’s DAX shed 0.2 percent to 8,646.49. France’s CAC40 lost 0.3 percent to 4,181.72.

Wall Street looked set to recover ground lost after five straight losing sessions. Dow Jones industrial future rose 0.1 percent to 15,231 and S&P 500 futures gained 0.2 percent to 1,688.90.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index overcame initial losses to advance 1.2

percent, closing at 14,799.12. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.5 percent to 2,007.32. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.4 percent to 5,294.50. Benchmarks in Indonesia and India rose, while those in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines fell.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.4 percent to 23,125.03 and the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.9 percent to 2,155.81. Chinese banking shares fell after reports showed a sharp drop in total yuan deposits.

“The banks in China lost about 200 billion in deposits. The money probably went into shadow banking, which means they created a liquidity problem for banks,” said Francis Lun, chief economist at GE Oriental Financial Group in Hong Kong.

BEIJING - Three Chinese companies have ordered a total of 68 A320 aircraft, Airbus said Wednesday as it also announced a lighter version of a wide-bodied jet aimed at emerging markets.

In deals worth more than $6.75 billion at list prices, the aircraft-leasing firm BOC Aviation ordered 25 planes, Qingdao Airlines requested 23 planes and Zhejiang Loong Airlines sought 20.

The European planemaker announced the orders in statements on the sidelines of an air show in Beijing.

Air travel is rising steadily in Asia and other emerging markets, with passenger trips in China reaching 320 million in 2012, up nine percent from the year before.

The orders marked a “vote of confidence in the long-term appeal of our popular A320 family”, John Leahy, Airbus’s chief operating officer for customers, said in a statement.

Separately, Airbus announced a new lighter version of its A330-300 wide-body jet which it said was aimed at high-growth markets.

“The new lower-weight A330-300 variant specially designed for regional and domestic use is Airbus’ solution for markets with large populations and fast-growing, concentrated air traffic flows,” Fabrice Bregier, Airbus president and CEO, said in a statement.

Bregier, visiting China for the air show, said the announcement was being made in the country “because here we see strong pent-up demand for efficient and reliable wide-body aircraft connecting mega cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou”.

Airbus said the increased fuel efficiency from the lighter weight of about 200 tonnes “will result in an overall cost reduction by up to 15 percent compared with today’s long-range A330-300 variants”.

Eric Chen, president of Airbus China, told a press conference the company plans to deliver the first of the new A330-300 aircraft by the end of 2015 or early 2016.

“The Chinese market has special features: concentrated airports and a large population,” he added. “That’s why we think this aircraft will be a popular solution to these challenges.”

BOC Aviation’s order for A320s includes 12 A320neos, which are designed to cut emissions and fuel consumption, while Qingdao Airlines’ includes 18 neos and Zhejiang Loong Airlines’ has nine.

The two latter carriers are both start-up airlines. Qingdao Airlines will begin operations next year and take delivery of the first A320s in 2016, the statement said. Zhejiang Loong will begin business this year.

Singapore-based BOC Aviation is the aircraft-leasing arm of the major state-owned Bank of China. Airbus A320s make up a core part of its fleet.

A BOC spokeswoman in Singapore told AFP the list price for the 25 planes it ordered is $2.6 billion.

The list prices for the orders from Qingdao Airlines and Zhejiang Loong Airlines amounted to more than $4.15 billion, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

BOC Aviation had ordered another 50 A320s in January, half of them from the “neo” series, with delivery to begin next year and continue through 2019.

Air China also ordered 100 A320s in May, due to be handed over between 2014 and 2020. Airbus has a factory in China that assembles A320-series planes.

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National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali from October 6 to 9, 2013, said its official.

During APEC Summit

Garuda cancels 139 flights, adjust 91

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JAKARTA - National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali from October 6 to 9, 2013, said its official.

“Due to the APEC CEO Summit 2013 in Denpasar, Bali, from October 6 to 9, Garuda Indonesia will adjust its flight schedules from various cities to Denpasar,” noted Garuda’s Vice President for Corporate Communications Pujobroto.

He said Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar will be closed from October 6 to 8, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on October 9 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time because of the APEC summit.

“Garuda Indonesia will not be operating 139 flights from Denpasar to Narita, Osaka, Haneda, Singapore, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Bandung, Lombok, Makassar, and Jakarta when the airport is closed,” he added.

Pujobroto explained that Garuda will also adjust the departure time of 91 flights from Denpasar to Australia, Korea, Singapore, and some other domestic flights.

He added that the routes of 12 flights will be changed - Cengkareng-DenpasarKupang will be changed to CengkarengSurabaya-Kupang, and Cengkareng-Denpasar-Jayapura-Timika will be changed to Cengkareng-Makassar-Jayapura-Timika.

FTA will impede domestic businessmen Bali Post

DENPASAR - Implementation of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is not solely facilitated businessmen in conducting international transactions in Asia. But more importantly is how strong the businessmen are capable of backing up themselves to survive in facing businessmen from other countries.

“Indeed, the existence of FTA is very much needed for the benefit of free trade. However, on the other hand it will become a barrier in the free trade for weak countries because they lose in the competition when facing the competitors from stronger countries (international businessmen),” said Chairman of the Indonesian Economist Association (ISEI) of Bali, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda,” Denpasar.

According to him, the countries having advanced industrial technology and manufacturing would enable them to control the market potential of weak countries.

If business people in the weak countries were not vigilant, like Indonesia against the unfair competition, then the concept of liberalism would be a powerful weapon for the control of trade. Moreover, the Indonesian market was easily controlled

as a colony by the players of free market, especially for the sector of automotive industry market share, telecoms and other manufacturing sectors.

“Indonesian people can be said to be unready to confront the various free trade agreements (FTA) because Indonesia remained to improve various sectors related to quality and product capacity into superior products that are ready to compete,” he said.

He said the entrepreneurs in Indonesia did not only face businessmen from China, but also from India, Australia and New Zealand as well as the ASEAN Economic Community. “Even though Indonesia is losing in the international trade, this country can actually be improved further.

In terms of macro perspective, Indonesia still has a competitive advantage and in fact it is not owned by the other competitors, where Indonesia is rich in natural and human resources,” he explained.

He argued that being rich in human resources in terms of quantity would become a very big market potential for powerful countries to make goods or service transaction. Unluckily, if the (natural and human) resource advantages could not be managed optimally, Indonesian

would become a low grade nation that lost in the competition all the time and be unable to compete in the world.

“Indonesia is very weak in the infrastructure development. Firstly, the weakness happens due to limited funds allocated in the state budget to build, develop and even improve the infrastructure of the nation located in each province across Indonesia,” he said.

On that account, he said the lack of infrastructure had an impact on the competitiveness in the free trade getting less efficient. For example, it resulted in low embarkation to product/services of exports and imports, including the supporting technologies.

“To determine the competitiveness of a nation, it is required a sustainable economic stability,” he said.

He added with the creation of labor market efficiency and discovery of sustainable production factors were expected to realize the economic stability of Indonesian. In 2013, the economic condition of Indonesia remained to be disrupted by macroeconomic conditions such as the increasingly tighter global trade with upheaval of the worsening world economic development. (kmb27)

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Immigration counter burglarized by Taiwanese

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Security in the arrival terminal of the Ngurah Rai International Airport started to be getting annoyed by theft action. Moreover, such criminal action occurred in the special immigration counter for the APEC Summit delegates. An immigration officer named Endro Eko Saputro reported to have lost a laptop placed on top of the counter, Tuesday (Sep 24). After being investigated, in fact the culprit was a foreign citizen.

His name was Chen Ming Hsien, 42, from Taiwan staying at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, room 308. The culprit was arrested the next day at the hotel and immediately taken to Ngurah Rai Airport Police (KP3). “We have arrested the culprit at his hotel on Wednesday morning (Sep 25). Now, he is still undergoing an investigation,” said Chief of Ngurah Rai Airport Police, Ida Bagus Arta.

According to Chief Arta, before the incident the victim put a HP laptop at special immigration counter for the APEC Summit delegates in the international arrival terminal, Ngurah Rai Airport. Suddenly, the laptop of the victim vanished from the previous place. Afterward, the victim reported the case to the Ngurah Rai Airport Police. “The laptop was known missing around 7:10 p.m.,” he said.

In response to the report, police were investigating the crime scene and examined the witnesses. The results of investigation led to the culprit. Having been investigated further, the culprit was known to stay at Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, room 308. The culprit was arrested without resistance. “Other than the culprit, we also seized the laptop,” he told reporters last Wednesday.

Before the investigator, the culprit admitted to arrive by the flight of Malaysia MH 851 from Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday night.

Upon the arrival at the Ngurah Rai Airport, he passed through in front of the immigration counter.

At that time, the culprit saw the laptop and picked it up. Furthermore, the culprit fled to his hotel.

“This theft is a common crime and has nothing to do with the APEC Summit. He came to Bali as tourist,” he said. (kmb21)

Food traders raids amid two cases mass poisoning

Bali Post

GIANYAR - After the poisoning case experienced by Gianyar residents some time ago, the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency improved the oversight to the existence of groceries in public market across Gianyar County. Even, a number of grocery samples were taken from traders in Gianyar Market, Payangan Market and Sukawati Market, Wednesday (Sep 25).

Food samples taken from traders were made in a series of market inspection led in person by the Head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, Gede Widarma Suharta. This special team of consumer protection was spread to several traders in the market to take food samples such as sauces, noodles, crackers, meatballs, tofu, tempeh and other foods generally sold in the market. Subsequently, all the samples were examined in the Bina Medika Laboratory, Denpasar, he said.

The food samples taken were tested to know the compositions whether the they contained substances such dyes or other compounds such as borax and formalin. The results of laboratory test were estimated to be known within two weeks. If the examination results in the laboratory indicated harmful substances, then the team would go down again to follow up by disciplining the product distribution.

Meanwhile, the raid was carried out to prevent any food poisoning from happening again as it did previously. Within a month, there were two cases of mass food poisoning occurred in Gianyar. The inspection would be conducted on an ongoing basis in order to monitor the health of food on sale. Aside from targeting traders in public markets, the food inspection would also target food stalls or shops existing in rural and urban areas. (kmb16)

SEMARAPURA - Several physical projects of Klungkung government failing in tender process made the executive lineups dizzy. Apparently, the international agendas taking place in Bali such as the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Miss World made the physical projects in Klungkung ignored by partners. Related to the international agenda, there were many other projects of central government having greater value.

The Division Head of Highways, Klungkung Public Works, AA Gede Lesmana, said on Wednesday (Sep 25) that many partners had lately been overloaded with the preparatory works related to the two international agendas in Bali. Partners said they had already been working on the projects belonging to central government, so they were not interested in the physical project of Klungkung County.

“In the field of Highways, the hot mix works were slightly difficult lately because partners running the business of Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) are only a few,” he said.

He added there were only two partners in Klungkung that had the AMP unit namely PT Sinar Bali and Kresna Karya. All this

Small plane crashes near bank in Chicago suburb

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BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Authorities say one person was killed and another injured when a single-engine plane crashed in suburban Chicago.

Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil says a woman aboard the single-engine aircraft was killed Wednesday when it slammed into a parking lot outside a Bolingbrook bank. O’Neil says her name is being withheld until a Thursday autopsy establishes a positive identification and relatives are notified.

A man was hospitalized at Loyola University Medical Center with burns.

His condition isn’t known.

Bolingbrook Police Lt. Michael Rompa says the victims are believed to be the plane’s pilot and passenger. Photos showed the plane ablaze after the crash.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the plane took off from Georgetown-Scott County Airport in Kentucky and was trying to land at Clow Airport in Bolingbrook.

Poor and desperate, Syrian refugees beg on Yemen’s streets

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After the poisoning case experienced by Gianyar residents some time ago, the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency improved the oversight to the existence of groceries in public market across Gianyar County.

Fail to win tender due to APEC and Miss World

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time, only PT Sinar Bali remained active, while Kresna Karya never proposed bidding or participated in tender process. Other than the seven projects of Highways sector previously undergoing a bidding failure, another road improvement project at Calik-Salang in Nusa Penida that previously reported to hold a bidding process was finally facing a similar fate. “There are three partners submitting on offer, but they all failed. A partner did not pass the administrative selection, while two others did not meet technical requirements,” he said.

If the value was highlighted, he said to have made a survey since last July before determining the value of project. Averagely, the failed projects had been re-tendered for three times. Even, there was a project whose tender had been announced four times, but no contractors showed their interest. Admittedly, the hot mix stayed to have time to re-tender because the work of hot mix did not take long time. “To make a direct appointment is impossible because there are no offers.

Even, if there are, they are not eligible,” he explained.

One of the partners, Wayan Mardika from PT Sinar Bali, said last Wednesday that tender

process of physical project in Klungkung was too close to the period of completion. Thus, there were no partners submitting an offer in the tender process. If it was forced, it might affect the quality of project. He denied if the partners were said to have got excessive jobs as delivered by the Division Head of Highways, the Klungkung Public Works.

He re-affirmed the failure of many physical projects in Klungkung was caused by the short time to complete.

Similar failure also occurred to the building expansion project of Klungkung government. As planned, the project to be funded by special allocation fund (DAK) worth IDR 4.9 billion also failed due to short time to complete because it should have been accomplished by this yearend.

The Head of Human Settlements, Public Works Agency, I Gusti Lanang Suratma, admitted last Wednesday that no partners submitted the offer. When re-tendered, he was pessimistic if it could not be completed by this yearend. Related to this issue, the acting Regent of Klungkung, Tjokorda Gede Agung, would summon the Head of Public Works to make coordination and determine the next measures. (kmb31)

SANAA/ADEN, Yemen - Fleeing the bloodshed and destruction of civil war in Syria, Yosra Mustafa and 15 members of her extended family crossed into Turkey, but found life there too expensive. They tried their luck with Jordan, but were refused entry. Lebanon came to nothing.

Never would they have expected to end up in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, itself riven by Islamist insurgency, rebellion by a northern Shi’ite group and separatist unrest in the south.

“There is nowhere else to go to now. We’re begging on the streets,” said Mustafa, who, dressed in black from head to toe, stationed herself at one of Sanaa’s main thoroughfares hoping cars would slow down to pay her a few Yemeni riyals.

Bruno Geddo, UNHCR’s representative in Yemen, says the country already hosts 240,000 refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Iraq. But the scale of the Syrian conflict, which has virtually laid waste to Mustafa’s home town of Aleppo, seems to have prompted people “to run in all directions”.

The Syrian civil war, pitting rebel groups against President Bashar al-Assad, has created two million refugees, primarily in the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. With no end in sight after more than two years, those neighbors are increasingly wary conflict could spread to their soil.

Many refugees endure hard camp conditions as prospects of a speedy return home fade, eking out a living as best they can.

But for some desperate Syrians the cost of living even in those tent cities is too high. Yemen, where nearly half of 25 million inhabitants are either hungry or on the edge of hunger, offers a last hope of sanctuary for a growing number.

Mustafa said she and her family paid for their flight to Yemen, where Syrian families do not generally require a visa.

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks during an interview with Venezuela’s state-run Telesur network, in Damascus, Syria.

Assad says he doesn’t rule out US attack Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he does not discount the possibility of a U.S. military attack even though threatened action was forestalled when he agreed to give up chemical weapons.

REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

A Syrian refugee begs on a main street in Sanaa September 26, 2013.

The Syrian civil war, pitting rebel groups against President Bashar alAssad, has created two million refugees, primarily in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.

Assad also said in an interview broadcast by Venezuela’s state-run Telesur network that his government has confessions from rebels that they brought chemical weapons into the civil war-wracked nation.

According to the broadcast’s Spanish dubbing, Assad said all evidence pointed to rebel responsibility for the attack.

He said that Syrian authorities had uncovered chemical arms caches and labs and that the evidence had been turned over to Russia, which brokered the deal that helped persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to pull back from

threatened military action over an Aug. 21 gas attack that killed civilians in a Damascus suburb.

In a speech at the U.N. on Tuesday, Obama said he would not use military force to depose Assad. But Washington and Moscow remain at odds on how to hold Syria accountable if it does not live up to its pledge to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpile.

Assad predicted during the 40minute interview that “terrorists” would try to block access of U.N. inspectors who enter Syria to secure the government’s chemical arsenal.

While Assad said he had evidence that countries including Saudi Arabia were arming Syrian rebels, he said he had no proof that any particular country had supplied them with chemical weapons.

He was also asked about the apparent thaw in relations between the U.S. and Iran, his government’s chief patron in the region.

Assad called the development positive but added that he did not consider it to mean that Tehran’s leaders trust Washington. He said it was important that the U.S. stop pressuring Iran not to have nuclear technology.

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Paris fashion goes from peasants to space-age DAMIR DOMA

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PARIS — Gold, space-age sheens, peasant garb, gravity-defying skirts and 1950s boudoir slippers all made for a dramatic - if incongruous - array for Paris’ first full day of spring-summer 2014 fashion shows.

But what Wednesday’s ready-towear displays lacked in unity they by far made up for in energy and inventiveness, as showcased by Dries Van Noten, whose unchallenged mastery of contradictory styles was on full view in his dizzying fashion spectacle. The inimitable Belgian designer produced the strongest show of the day.

With seven days to go before the season ends, it’s too early to spot the Paris trends - but flowers, metallic sheens, and white made strong statements across the day’s 11 official shows.

Elsewhere, several shows - such as Gareth Pugh and Rochas - used dramatic hairstyles and make up to strengthen the statement of their increasingly imaginative catwalk presentations. The shows continue Thursday with Lanvin, Nina Ricci and Balmain.

DRIES VAN NOTEN Only at a Van Noten show can opulent gold hang from sportswear vest straps, peasant blouses meet luxurious colorful damasks, ethnic beading come alongside John Lennonstyle shades, and flattened torsos jar with billowing multi-directional 3-D frills, and, still, all succeed and prompt whooping applause.

It’s no small feat. This season saw

Van Noten explore his Midas touch.

Gently flirting with the metallics craze this season, in one look a huge gold waist-flap set off the contradictory styles with glamor.

In the ensemble, a vertical loose cream jacket on a flat-fronted gray top was set alight by the horizontal gold accordion-pleats - finished off with a suitably out-of-place, decoratively textured black skirt. Van Noten must have had great fun in putting this collection together.

The show ended on a high with one dizzying ensemble of floralshaped rouching that the program notes said used up around 16 meters (52 feet) of silk.

In warm cream, black and golden ochre, this incredible creation turned the whole body into a billowing, 3-D experience and blurred the line between fashion and art.

ROCHAS Creative director Marco Zanini used Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” as an inspiration behind his 1950s-themed catwalk show. The feathery boudoir slippers and messy bed-hair nicely evoked Amanda Wingfield, the play’s faded Southern belle and unstable single mother.

But Zanini used Williams only as a

jumping board in this Rochas show’s fascinating ode to the fifties.

Not all the 41 looks worked — far from it — but each formed part of a carefully-crafted shopping list of all things in-vogue during this time: Pointed winklepickers, full skirts and box coats, as well as the must-have hues of pale peach and pale turquoise.

Meanwhile, sheeny material with floral patterns perfectly captured the American society’s then obsession with the latest material to hit the stores: Nylon chiffon.

GARETH PUGH London’s enfant terrible produced one of his most sculptural shows to date, with stone-smooth fabric producing clean folds and engineering planes around the body. As ever with Pugh, it was high drama.

Whether in stiff exaggerated collars in white, which billowed out like an unfurling rose, space-age circular shoulders in gray or black, or bright turquoise silk column skirts which elongated the leg, surreal elements dominated the 38 looks.

Three-dimensional makeup which enlarged the brow, alongside huge enveloping feathered headdresses, had the Star Trek fans in the audience smiling.

“It feels very light and easy and at peace, and this is how I feel myself,” said Croatian-born designer Damir Doma of his unusually delicate Paris show. Antwerp-trained Doma’s niche in the Paris fashion week calendar is often found in his hip monkish, dark and medieval styles.

So when the first looks filed by in breezy white cotton it certainly felt like a welcome new direction. Neatly embroidered perforated holes punctuated dresses, gauze skirts and boxy tops. They were distributed almost randomly like a feminine blossom that broke up what might have been a stark monochrome.

Doma’s signature asymmetry was still here though - and in abundance with a series of truncated toga styles.

But the story of the show was Doma’s exploration of his often-neglected feminine side. In a seismic shift for the designer who prefers menswear tailor-

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ing, he included actual dresses in his womenswear for the first time.

GUY LAROCHE Futurism infused Guy Laroche’s show. The result was a collection with some great ideas, but that seemed to lack somewhat in energy.

High notes were hit in a series of sporty skirts that could be described as intergalactic tennis-wear. Cut on the bias this techo-fabric had a voluminous and exaggerated natural flounce - going upward as it would in zero-gravity.

The science fiction musing continued with an all-white shattered glass-effect zipper jacket and crossover top.

The gray fringing details that appeared on several ensembles and white shirt and black masculinetailored pant looks didn’t, however, feel very fresh. Marongiu, it seems, worked best in zero-gravity.

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Miss World 2012, Yu Wenxia (left) with several contestants of Miss World 2013 during a session called “Beauty With Purpose Day” at Nusa Dua, Bali Island, recently. The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

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NUSA DUA - The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

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A model presents a creation as part of British fashion designer Gareth Pugh’s ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013.

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A model wears a creation for Belgian fashion house Dries van Noten’s readyto-wear Spring/ Summer 2014 fashion collection, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept.25, 2013.

Police and traditional Balinese security personnel, wearing sarongs and armed with daggers, will be out in force on the Hindumajority island as the beauty queens take to the stage.

A total of 129 contestants will parade in the glittering finale of the three-week event, which will be broadcast to more than 180 countries.

But protests by Islamic radicals in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, have overshadowed the contest and prompted authorities to order the whole event be moved to Bali, where hardliners have little influence.

Radical anger has not been appeased, however. The hardliners are threatening to stage fresh protests on Saturday and even to try

to break through heavy security to get into Bali to demonstrate at the venue. “ We a r e g o i n g t o p r o t e s t against it, because it is unacceptable,” said Haidar Al-Hamid, head of the East Java province branch of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).

The province sits just across the water from Bali, and he said that the group planned to head to the island on Saturday, although they will face a tough time as main entry points will be heavily guarded.

Hundreds of FPI members have already made one attempt to cross to Bali from East Java earlier this month -- but the group was stopped from getting onto a ferry by a line of female police backed by hundreds of elite of-

ficers.

Adding to concerns, the American, British and Australian embassies have said that radicals could attack the pageant, a chilling warning on an island where bombings in 2002 killed more than 200 people, most of them foreign tourists.

“Extremist groups may be planning to disrupt the Miss World pageant... potentially through violent means,” said the US embassy in Jakarta.

Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, corporate secretary of TV network RCTI, which is broadcasting Miss World and helping to organise it, said security was the “main concern”.

“We are confident that the police will do everything necessary to ensure safety,” he said.

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Indonesian soldiers line up during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept.

26, 2013. A Hindu priest gives holy water to Indonesian military personnel during that parade to wish everything will go as it plan.

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Rejection against the inclusion of Besakih in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) was also revealed by IGA Rai Wirajaya. This Member of Parliament of the Commission XI considered it inappropriate because the area was not intended for tourism, but for sacred area.

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DENPASAR - Rejection against the inclusion of Besakih in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) was also revealed by IGA Rai Wirajaya. This Member of Parliament of the Commission XI considered it inappropriate because the area was not intended for tourism, but for sacred area.

“Temple poses a spiritual area, not a tourist area based on economic aspect.

To that end, I strongly disagree if Besakih Temple is included in the KSPN. It is a sacred area having been sanctified and passed down through generations, so do not be bothered,” said Rai Wirajaya when met in Denpasar, Wednesday (Sep 25).

It was said the decision on the inclusion of Besakih in the KSPN could trigger commotion because it was issued without any coordination with local government and Hindu leaders in Bali. “Necessarily, the government should discuss it with the PHDI. So, just because holding the authority then takes action arbitrarily without consultation,” he said.

According to him, the central and local governments along with Balinese people should have a vision and mission to carry out the development on the island. Thus, it would not result in a conflict in the future because the program went up against the applicable regulations.

“This should become a concern of the

leaders whoever they are. Do not instantly make a decision because it is not the area of the government, but that of people who preserve the temple,” he said.

He also asked the government to disclose the KSPN program that included Besakih to the public, so there would be no prejudice in society. “It must be questioned and exposed, do not let the issue prolong resulting in restlessness. Government may not wait, but it has to give an explanation to the public what exactly the KSPN means,” he said.

A lecturer at the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali, I Made Mandra, agreed that central and local government should expose fairly regarding the inclusion of Besakih in the KSPN. So far, there had been no clarity from the stakeholders regarding the direction of the program.

“We have not known what to do in Besakih Temple in relation to the KSPN program, whether it would be made an arrangement to the tourist object or Besakih is included in the category of tourist destination,” he said.

It was mentioned that the definition of destination arrangement and tourist object arrangement was different. Arrangement of tourist object was arranging the region from poorly managed condition into the more comfortable one such as by construction of pedestrian and gazebo to shelter. By contrast, the destination arrangement included the development of accommodation such as hotel.

“If intended for object arrangement, it’s fine, but if it poses a destination arrangement it is inappropriate because in destination certainly includes the accommodation.

Meanwhile, Besakih belongs to a sacred area, not tourism area. To that end, it is required the firmness of the government to describe the program,” he said.

He argued the KSPN program should involve the local community, in addition to involving the local government and central government. “The public should be involved in this arrangement, while the government may not take action independently,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

Poor students provided with assistance worth IDR 1.3 billion Bali Post

DENPASAR - In this fiscal year 2013, the Denpasar Municipality allocated IDR 1.3 billion fund to save the education of 1,050 students categorized into poor students. The provision of scholarship for poor students posed a regular program of the Denpasar Municipality. The Division Head of Planning, the Denpasar Education Agency, Made Merta, revealed the matter, Wednesday (Sep 25).

According to Merta, the scholarship was earmarked for poor students from elementary to high school/vocational school. In details, the poor students meeting the requirement to receive the scholarship were 350 students of elementary school, 300 students of junior high school and 400 students of high school/vocational school spreading evenly across four subdistricts in Denpasar. “This scholarship is not only intended for completing the Nine-Year Compulsory Basic Education, but also for reducing the dropout rate for the overall education from elementary to high school/vocational school,” he said.

Those deserving to receive the scholarship, he added, were students of poor families that were potentially threatened by dropouts. Each elementary student was eligible for tuition assistance worth IDR 75,000 per month, while junior high and high school/vocational school students got IDR 125,000 per month. For practical and efficient consideration, the distribution of scholarships was done once a year. “Within a year, each elementary school student gets scholarship at IDR 900,000 per year and junior high and high school/vocational get IDR 1.5 million per year,” he explained.

The amount of scholarships disbursed for poor students by Denpasar Municipality in fiscal year 2013 showed multiple increases compared to the previous fiscal year. In the fiscal year 2012, the Denpasar Municipality allocated a budget of IDR 1.2 billion to help tuition fee of 350 elementary school students, 300 junior high school students and 340 high/vocational school students around Denpasar. “We are grateful because the amount of scholarship for poor students is increased in this fiscal year 2013. In others words, more poor students can be helped this year,” he said.

He added the scholarship of 1,050 poor students of poor families would be distributed starting December 2013. With the implementation of this program, he hoped the dropout rate among the students of poor family could be minimized as low as possible. “Providing educational scholarship for poor students to save their education is also conducted by schools,” he said. (kmb13)

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SEMINYAK - The spirit to work hand in hand in the clean up activity entitled “Cleaning Blitz and Rocking the Street and Environment” which was held on Lebak Sari Street, Seminyak. The social activity is held gradually every month and involving hundreds of participants which are the staffs and employees of Maca Villa, The Kunja, Centra Taum dan Villa Kayu Raja (VKR). VKR was led by the General Manager Gede Nik Sukarta also plant trees along the street. He stated that the cleaning blitz is one of the forms of responsibilities of the villas to the environment and to take part in the APEC. “We realize that everyone has their own part in conserving the environment. This act is also to create better relationship among the villas in the location,” he said.

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Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih 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 Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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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NEW YORK — The action franchise “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is off to a fast start for ABC. “Lucky 7” is not so lucky.

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This publicity photo released by ABC shows from left, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, and Brett Dalton in Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

Marvel’s was seen by 12.2 million people in its series debut on Tuesday, the Nielsen company said. More importantly for ABC, it had the best ratings of any new broadcast drama in four years on all of broadcast television among the 18-to-49 -year-old demographic that executives consider most important.

CBS’ “NCIS,” the most popular show on television last year, debuted its new season to 20 million viewers directly competing with Marvel’s.

But the ABC series actually had more viewers in the youthful demographic, which advertisers consider most valuable.

The strong start is no surprise. The research firm Networked Insights, using its measurements of social media conversations over the summer, concluded that “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” was the most anticipated new program of the fall television season.

ABC quickly announced it would rerun the series debut Thursday at 8 p.m., bumping a rerun of “Shark Tank.”

Not all of ABC’s news was good on Tuesday. The TV By the Numbers website reported that the 10 p.m. debut of “Lucky 7,” a series about a group of co-

De Niro takes over Gandolfini miniseries role Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — HBO says Robert De Niro will step into a project that was thrown into question by the death of James Gandolfini. HBO said Wednesday that De Niro is taking on the role of a New York City attorney handling a murder case in the miniseries “Criminal Justice.”

Gandolfini had played the attorney in the pilot episode. The star of “The Sopranos” died in June at age 51 after suffering a heart attack.

“Criminal Justice” was one of Gandolfini’s last projects. Another is the film “Enough Said,” which is now in theaters.

An air date for “Criminal Justice” hasn’t been announced.

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FILE - In this April 27, 2013 file photo, actor Robert De Niro attends “The King of Comedy” screening in New York.

workers who win the lottery, was the network’s lowest rated drama debut ever.

NBC’s two-hour Tuesday edition of “The Voice” was seen by 14.4 million viewers, and had the same rating among young viewers as “Marvel’s,” Nielsen said. NBC said the show’s audience grew through the night — doing 42 percent better in its last half hour than it did in the first. That’s an indication that at least some of “Marvel’s” viewers turned to the singing competition when the drama was done.

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People encouraged not flying kites

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Youngster playing Balinese traditional kite in a field.

Rampant kites looked to be flown in the air of Denpasar and Badung area will certainly affect the safety of flight. not to fly kites ahead of the APEC Summit to anticipate any flight

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DENPASAR - Rampant kites looked to be flown in the air of Denpasar and Badung area will cer- disruptions. “For the time being, the flying kite activities cannot tainly affect the safety of flight. Moreover, in the next few days there will be the APEC Summit held be done during the APEC Summit lasting on October 1-9, 2013,” in Bali. The authority of Bali Police and the IX/Udayana Military Regional Command appealed to he told reporters.

Further, Chief Benny Mokalu hoped the people of Bali in all communities not to fly kites during the APEC Summit took place.

“For the time being, we appeal to all communities, particularly those in the area of Denpasar and Badung no to fly kites considering the flight schedule at the Ngurah Rai Airport ahead of the APEC Summit is pretty busy, both the departure and arrival,” said Chief of Bali Police,

Benny Mokalu.

He explained that in conjunction with the 21st APEC Summit, he and the Commander of the IX Udayana Military Regional Command, Wisnu Bawa Tanaya, as Chief of the Regional Security Taskforce appealed to community

general and those of Denpasar and Badung in particular could tolerate the condition. Hopefully, the international event could take place in Bali smoothly, safely and successfully. “The success of this event will definitely increase the confidence of the world community to Indonesia in general and Bali in particular,” he said. (nik/kmb21)