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Actor Paul Walker’s father sues Porsche over fatal crash
LOS ANGELES — Paul Walker’s father sued Porsche for negligence and wrongful death Wednesday over the 2013 accident that killed the “Fast & Furious” star. Walker’s father, who is the executor of his son’s estate, filed the lawsuit claiming that the Porsche Carrera GT that his son was riding in lacked safety features that could have saved the actor’s life. The lawsuit cites features included in other pending lawsuits against the automaker over the crash that might have saved the actor’s life, including a stability control system, side-door reinforcements and a breakaway fuel line to help prevent the car from bursting into flames after a collision. Walker was on a break from filming the seventh film in the “Fast & Furious” franchise when he was killed. He was riding in the Carrera GT driven by friend and business associate Roger Rodas when the car spun out of control, struck three trees and burst into flames on a street in Santa Clarita, California. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. Rodas’ widow, Kristine, who has a pending
claim against Porsche in federal court, also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the carmaker in state court on Wednesday. An after-hours message sent to Porsche seeking comment was not immediately returned. The car company has denied in other lawsuits, including one filed by the actor’s daughter, that it is responsible for Walker’s death. On Nov. 12, Porsche stated in a court filing that the Carrera GT had been altered and improperly maintained and those factors contributed to the deaths of Walker and Rodas. The company also called Walker “a knowledgeable and sophisticated user of the 2005 Carrera GT,” Porsche’s lawyers stated in response to the lawsuit by Meadow Walker, the actor’s daughter. Meadow Walker’s attorney, Jeff Milam, criticized the filing, reiterating his claims that the car as sold was unsafe. “If Porsche had designed the car to include
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proper safety features, Paul would have survived, he would be filming ‘Fast and Furious 8,’ and Meadow Walker would have the father she adored,” Milam wrote in a statement. None of the cases have yet been set for trial. Wednesday’s lawsuit repeats a claim from Meadow Walker’s case that the Porsche was traveling between 63 and 71 mph (101 to 114 kph) before it spun out of control. (ap)
Leadership candidates should not mortgage out Bali
Jolie Pitt accepts honorary post at Cambodian film festival
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PHNOM PENH — The little-known Cambodia International Film Festival is getting a star-powered boost this year from Angelina Jolie Pitt. The Hollywood star, who is currently in Cambodia filming her latest movie, will serve as president of the festival’s honorary committee, organizers said. The festival held in the capital, Phnom Penh, runs Dec. 4-10 and is screening 130 films from 34 countries. “Cambodia’s rich history, long culture and talented people mean it has a huge amount to offer the region and the world,” Jolie Pitt said in a statement issued Tuesday by the festival. “I’m proud to support the Cambodia International Film Festival and Cambodia as a home for vibrant and innovative filmmaking.”
Festival adviser Cedric Eloy, head of the Cambodian Film Commission, said Jolie Pitt’s role would provide moral support and help “bring attention to the rebirth of the Cambodian film industry.” Cambodia’s film industry was devastated by the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. The regime executed artists, writers and filmmakers as part of its Maoist vision to eliminate the educated elite and transform the country into an agrarian utopia. More than 1.7 million people died under the regime. Jolie Pitt is currently filming an adaptation of a Khmer Rouge biography, “First They Killed My Father,” based on a 2000 memoir by Cambodian author and human rights activist Luong Ung. (ap)
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Tourists flocked at Tanah Lot, Tabanan during last year Christmas holiday. Christmas and New Year are usually a blessing for hotels in Bali, as visitors flock to the Island of the Gods for the end of year celebrations. However many are pessimistic about the projected figures for hotel occupancy rates fearing that they will be far below what they have been for the last few years.
CANDIDATES for regional leadership in the upcoming elections need to be selective and cautious about receiving donations from third parties. Although receiving such donations is permitted by the laws that govern regional elections, it has the potential to subvert governance, should these candidates be elected. “Everything must be transparent. If the donations are given without any terms or particular interests there is no problem, but there will certainly be problems if this is not the case and should therefore not be accepted,” said member of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, I Gusti Putu Widjera, in Denpasar recently. Widjera added that accepting a donation that is tied to an agreement is tantamount to mortgaging off the region which obvisouly has an impact on the people of that region. On that account, candidates are expected to have the courage and integrity to reject such donations from investors. Continue to page 2 Donation ...
PHRI Badung pessimistic about the Christmas holidays
MANGUPURA - Christmas and New Year are usually a blessing for hotels in Bali, as visitors flock to the Island of the Gods for the end of year celebrations. However many are pessimistic about the projected figures for hotel occupancy rates fearing that they will be far below what they have been for the last few years. Head of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Badung, IGN Rai Suryawijaya said that the overabundance of hotels rooms, that have sprung up recently is in part to blame for Badung’s lower occupancy rates. “In the past hotels in Badung
have even had to turn down guests around Christmas and New Year because. I doubt that anyone will be turned away or have to be redirected to other hotels this year,” said Suryawijaya. The increase in the number of hotel rooms in Bali has not been
commiserating with number of tourists visiting the island. Thousands of new hotels have been built in the last 5 years and as Suryawijaya said: “this shaw caused a decrease in quality and frequent price wars between hotels,” he said. He did admit that the government of Badung had issued a Regent Regulation stating the minimum requirements for new hotels, but added that this is only enough to slow down the excessive building of new hotels only very slightly. “Construction permits for the
building of new hotels should only be given out once the average occupancy rate has reached 80%, to avoid the rampant tariff wars that are happening today,” he said. Between 2009 and 2014 the total number of rooms available for rent in Badung went from 28,448 to 61,206. The number of non star hotels went from 505 to 855 (or 11, 463 rooms to 34,815 rooms). The number of cottages went form 395 to 999 (or 1,986 rooms to 3, 937 rooms, and there were only 7 condotels in 2009 but by 2014 there
were 38 with a total of 5, 141 compared to the 775 condotel rooms that existed in 2014. The number of rental houses also increased from 31 to 37 or from 513 rooms to 953 rooms. (kmb27) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.