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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Singer George Michael of Wham! fame dies at 53

LONDON - British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday. He was 53.

In the mid-1980s, “Wham! was one of the most successful pop duos ever, ahead even of Simon & Garfunkel, with singles like ““Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, ““Careless Whisper”, ““Last Christmas” and ““The Edge of Heaven”.

“It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period,” his publicist

said in a statement.

“The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage,” the statement said.

British police said Michael’s death was “unexplained but not suspicious.”

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou June 25, 1963 in London to Greek Cypriot immigrant parents

in a flat above a north London laundrette, Michael once played music on the London underground train system before finding fame with Wham!.

With a school friend, Andrew Ridgeley, he formed Wham! in 1981, a partnership that would produce some of the most memorable pop songs and dance-floor favorites of the 1980s.

“I am in deep shock,” said Elton John. “I have lost a beloved friend the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans. @ GeorgeMichael #RIP.” (rtr) British singer and actor George Michael waves as he leaves a news conference to introduce the film ‘George Michael: A Different Story’ by Southan Morris which is not part of the competition at the 55th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 16, 2005.

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A man wearing a respiratory protection mask walks toward an office building during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing’s central business district, China, December 21, 2016.

China smog war moves to courts with range of crimes to widen

SHANGHAI - China’s courts will widen the range of offences that constitute “environmental crimes” to make it easier to take legal action against polluters, a senior judiciary official told a news briefing on Monday.

The new rules could allow prosecutors to take on persistent offenders in northern China’s Hebei province, which was engulfed in heavy smog last week despite being on the front line of China’s nearly three-year “war on pollution”.

Yan Maokun, head of a research office at the Supreme People’s Court, told reporters authorities had struggled to gather evidence required to prosecute, according to

a transcript of a briefing published on China’s official court website (http://www.chinacourt.org).

“Air pollution is different from water pollution or soil pollution, and it is extremely difficult to get evidence for air pollution crimes because after the pollution is emitted it undergoes a large degree of dispersal, and is very quickly diluted,” Yan said.

Prosecutors would focus on

specific offences such as tampering with sensor equipment or providing false emissions data, and firms found guilty would be punished regardless of the amount of pollution involved, he said.

“It doesn’t matter how much you emit because in fact that is very hard to detect, but if you have distorted or fabricated data or interfered with the operation of equipment, this ... will constitute an environmental crime,” Yan said.

Public anger is mounting in China about pollution, and what many see as government talk, but little action, to end it. Worry about

pollution has on occasion sparked protests.

Eight cities in Hebei launched “red alerts” last week in response to the smog, which reached record levels at some monitoring stations.

Hebei came under fire from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and a number of its steel firms were singled out for failing to suspend operations.

Governor Zhang Qingwei said in the province’s first official response that the province would learn lessons and step up its efforts.

“We need to seriously study and

analyse our responses, sum up our experiences, and find problems and deficiencies in order to draw up more focused measures,” Zhang was quoted as saying on an official website (http://www.hebei. gov.cn).

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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Art heritage of Jagaraga needs resurrecting

SINGARAJA - Art heritage of Jagaraga village in Sawan subdistrict needs to be raised back by opening the adequate staging space. One of the attempts to open this opportunity is by making performance on cruise ship berthing at Benoa Harbor last weekend.

A number of artists featured the dances and baleganjur gamelan music at noon. Then, in the evening they presented the Taruna Jaya dance on cruise ship. This performance was inseparable from the efforts made by former cruise ship worker, Gede Angastia, who is currently Chairman of the Buleleng Development Observation Forum (FPPMB).

Manager of the Global Cruise Line Bali, Daniel Ferdinand, amid the performance said that the art heritage of Jagaraga also has taksu or divine vibration that should be raised. He mentioned the names of famous artists like Gde Manik as the maestro of Taruna Jaya dance has gone worldwide. Against the

heritage, younger generation is required to continuously preserve it. Other than the art, the patriotism of Jagaraga War having owned international relations to a number of cruise ship captains is greatly admired in the country they ever stop by.

“Now, it is required to awaken young generation of Jagaraga village. The names like Gde Manik and Pan Wandres have been already known in Europe and other countries. Hopefully, it will not stop there. Current generation should be able to create something that can go globally,” he said.

In the meantime, Director of Global Cruise Line Bali, Gede Sumitra Adnyana, said that it is not

a program specifically designed for Jagaraga, but this measure introduces Buleleng tourism in general.

Aboard the dancers and gamelan musicians can interact with the ship crews and distribute brochures about the Buleleng tourism. “In the future, there is an opportunity to do promotions by disseminating brochures aboard including ship crews from Bali delivered by the Global Cruise Line Bali. Well, at least we can convey information about Buleleng tourist destination,” he said.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that the efforts made by the Jagaraga village to reawaken the art heritage is a positive measure and should be supported by all parties. In the future, all artists have the opportunity to make performance so as to promote Buleleng through the art and culture.

He asked the customary apparatus to make a legal basis, so that the

community group pursuing the art activity is well recognized.

“Gong Kebyar in Jagaraga may not become extinct and so may the Gedong Kirtya. The other heritages

should be preserved. Hopefully, the Jagaraga War memorial park will complement this revival so that it can become a tourist attraction in our region,” he added. (kmb38)

brings in rapid changes in society.

This is in line with the progress of technology used by the perpetrators.

In some cases, the criminals employ far more advanced technology.

“For instance, it is applied in the ATM fraud case, the online trading and new trends in Internet crime,” he said.

In 2017, he predicted that prominent crimes will occur in the internet because they are always looking for the opportunities in the latest trends of technology. Terrorists will also become a trend, so that we all need to be careful, especially the public participation in doing early

detection. Furthermore, narcotic crimes need to be alerted chiefly in the emergence of new substances that are very hazardous and can harm young people and children.

Crimes against women and children must also be alerted. “In my prediction, the crimes in general election will increase next year related to the simultaneous regional leader election,” he said.

Hopefully, the crime of corruption could be decreased. This is supported by the growing strength of the government’s commitment to eradicating extortion and corruption accompanied by real

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movements like the red-handed operation.

A legal practitioner, Haposan Sihombing, revealed that crime prediction in 2017 will highly depend on the safeguards carried out by state officials and the fund received from the state budget. According to him, the budget greatly affects the operations. In addition, crime will reduce if the government can improve people’s welfare. “Public awareness of the law in 2017, in my prediction, will decline due to minimal extension activities and the unstable economic condition,” he said.

When asked about prominent cases, this lawyer known to be friendly answered that it will have something to do with drug cases.

Moreover, the drug seems difficult to be eradicated because its circulation has occurred massively.

Actually, it has severe impact that can damage families and communities.

“I heard that the police budget has not been maximized. Nevertheless, I hope that police still maximize the performance, including suppressing the cases of motorcycle theft and mugging in tourism areas,” he said. (rah)

Christmas celebration takes place peacefully

DENPASAR - Community participated in helping the National Police (Polri) and Indonesian Military (TNI) to secure people conducting Christmas worship in churches in Bali on December 24 to 25. Until now, the celebration of Christmas took place safely and smoothly. Besides, the Muslims on this Island of the Gods also showed a high tolerance by taking guard at churches.

“The condition is peaceful and smooth. On Saturday afternoon until night, the regional leadership council (Forkopimda) inspected several churches in Denpasar and Badung. Governor of Bali, Bali police chief and commander of the IX/Udayana military region inspected the security system,”

said Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyoman Cantiasa.

Commander of the military resort said that he is proud and appreciate to the integrated security system on Christmas. In addition to Christmas committee, the security was assisted by police, military, pecalang (customary security guard), Muslims and other relevant agencies. “They genuinely strengthen the security at churches. Tolerance of this kind must be nurtured and strengthened in the future,” said Cantiasa.

From his monitoring at some churches, the Mass worship took place in three sessions due to high interest of Christians in celebrating Christmas. Moreover, foreign

citizen who were accidentally vacationing in Bali also participated in the worship at some churches.

“Activities of the security forces are not just focused on places of worship. However, we are also roving and spreading, specifically for the intelligence personnel in the region of Bali,” he said.

Joint patrol was also conducted by involving the military, police, municipal police and pecalang in their respective territories. It is meant to provide a sense of security and comfort for the people of Bali, both those who are saying prayers and spending holidays in Bali before the New Year 2017. “Bali is one of the favorite destinations for domestic and foreign travelers in the world. So, the safety and

Ubud, BALI–Desa Visesa Ubud become one of a luxury destinations that stand to honor past tradition cordially invite all colleagues to visit the open house event with the theme “MelaliKe Desa” on Friday, December 16, 2016 until Sunday, December 18, 2016 located at JalanSuweta, Ubud beginning at 10 am to 6 pm.

The event was held with the aim to introduce the Desa Visesa to the local community, hospitality industry, travel agent, wedding

organizer, event organizer and media in Bali to feel the village ambience and see the uniqueness of the existing facilities and diverse traditional activities that tells about the life of the Balinese farmer. Additionally, you can also see some choice of venues for wedding with theme and attractive decoration, family gathering, corporate team building and even for spa & wellness surrounded by the breathtaking view of rice paddies. Beginning by a village tour,

EVERY SATURDAY Meditation class by Mangku Budi Dharma 14-16:30 Bona, Blahbatuh meet at Ubud Cocomarket at 13:00 The art group from Jagaraga

comfort should be created for them in Bali to celebrate the transition of 2016 to 2017,” he said.

Similar opinion was also conveyed by the Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo. “Overall the celebration of Christmas in our region already took place safely and favorably,” he said.

According to him, it happened due to the support of all the people of Bali. There are 21 churches including the large ones receiving special attention so that they are guarded heavily by personnel of armed mobile brigade.

“We maintain the security until the activities of worship end. We call upon the people of Bali, especially of Denpasar and Badung, to still maintain the security and

conduciveness until the New Year celebration,” he hoped.

Chief of Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, admitted to be very grateful and thank all parties because the celebration of Christmas could run safely, serenely and peacefully.

This could only be realized due to the participation of all stakeholders that already helped safeguard the churches.

According to him, all the churches in Badung got special attention to anticipate undesirable things. In addition, security of the church was also helped by pecalang security guard, municipal police and other relevant agencies. “Hopefully, this condition could be maintained well in the future,” said Ruddi. (kmb36)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Melali Ke Desa Visesa

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS

Cyber and drug crimes, prominent cases in 2017

WHERE there are communities, there are certainly crimes as well.

Crimes emerging on the surface are very small when compared to the hidden crimes. This was stated by the academician Prof. Dr. Rai Setiabudhi on Sunday (Dec. 25).

According to him, crime always goes with the times and is getting more and more sophisticated pursuant to technological development that can lead to changes in society.

At the same time, criminals also commit their actions in the more sophisticated way. With rapid technological advances, especially in information technology, it also

Activities

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Saturday Market Oldman’s Cafe Canggu, Batu Bolong Beach, pottery fresh produce, clothing Sand Beach Club and Restaurant, Sanur Every second Saturday Biasa Art Space, Jl. Raya Seminyak 24, Seminyak, Fresh produce, potted plants, meat pie, sshie, coffee and more.

Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

the event was enlivened by the Balinese Gamelan, ‘Bali Tempo Doeloe’ photo booth, traditional food and beverage, special offers ended by door prize.

About Desa Visesa Ubud

Desa Visesa aims to help people rediscover and maintain the vertical and horizontal relationship between mankind, nature and God Almighty in accordance to the Hindu philosophy of Tri

Hita Karana. Offers uplifting activities to take curious guests on a journey that explores the island’s culture, nature and spiritual nuance through respectful interactions with the local community. Engaging pastimes such as making offerings, traditional dance lesson and water blessing ceremony will enable guests to experience Bali’s traditions on a more personal level.

A vast area of permaculture gar-

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dening has been developed alongside productive rice fields that are traditionally ploughed with cows and nurtured by a team of in-house farmers. Various fruit trees, palms, herbs and spices have also been planted to support the resort and provide a fresh supply of local produce. In Visesa, being eco-friendly is not an empty promise aiming at luring devoted guests, it’s a daily lifestyle at the core of our unique hospitality concept.

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Science

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Bite the dust: meek dinosaur lost its teeth as it hit adulthood

WASHINGTON - A modest little dinosaur that scampered across northwestern China 160 million years ago boasted a unique trait not seen in any other dinosaur or other prehistoric creature yet unearthed: it was born with teeth but became toothless by adulthood.

Scientists on Thursday said fossils of 19 individuals of a dinosaur called Limusaurus, ranging in age from under a year to 10 years, showed that juveniles had small, sharp teeth but adults developed a

toothless beak.

This cluster of dinosaurs, found in Xinjiang Province, apparently became hopelessly trapped in a mud pit and died.

Only rarely have scientists

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Limusaurus are seen in this illustration provided in this handout to Reuters, December 22, 2016.

found fossils of a dinosaur species ranging from babies to adults, a sequence revealing various anatomical changes that unfold as an animal matures.

Limusaurus was a lightly built two-legged dinosaur with short arms and long, slender legs. It may have had down-like feathers covering at least part of its body.

The largest ones were about 6 feet long (under 2 meters).

“It probably looked something like an emu with a long tail,” said George Washington University paleontologist Joey Stiegler, one of the researchers in the study published in the journal Current Biology.

Such tooth loss is called ontogenetic edentulism. Some animals alive today have it, including the egg-laying Australian mammal the platypus.

The adult Limusaurus individuals also were found with stones called gastroliths that some plant-eating dinosaurs swallowed to grind up plant material in the stomach. The babies lacked these.

The tooth loss and gastroliths indicate Limusaurus underwent a dramatic dietary change from birth to adulthood, starting life perhaps eating insects and small vertebrates before later turning to plants.

Limusaurus is a member of the theropod dinosaur group within which birds evolved.

George Washington University paleontologist James Clark said the findings suggest “species close to the origin of birds may have gone through a similar development, and tooth loss may have been gradual during the evolutionary origin of birds.”

“This is important in showing that growth and development in dinosaurs was more complex than previously suspected, and it provides a model for a stage that birds may have gone through in evolving their beak,” Clark added.

Birds, first appearing about 150 million years ago, evolved from small feathered dinosaurs. The earliest ones had teeth. Over tens of millions of years, many evolved toothless beaks like those in today’s birds. The last birds with teeth died with the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. (rtr)

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Swat team: scientists track humongous number of flying bugs

WASHINGTON - Counting the number of bugs whizzing high overhead annually may seem all but impossible, but researchers in Britain have completed the most comprehensive tally ever conducted.

And the headcount they came up with was almost un-bee-lievable.

A total of 3.5 trillion insects weighing a combined 3,200 tons annually migrated annually over a region in south-central England monitored with specialized radar and a balloon-supported aerial netting system, the scientists said on Thursday.

“High-altitude aerial migration of insects is enormous,” said University of Exeter entomologist Jason Chapman, whose research was published in the journal Science. “These aerial flows are an unappreciated aspect of terrestrial ecosystems, equivalent to the oceanic movements of plankton which power the oceanic food chains.”

The researchers tracked the migration of insects at altitudes between 492 feet and 3,937 feet (150-1,200-meters) over a 10-year period. They suspect even more migrating bugs could be found elsewhere.

“The numbers will be considerably higher in most parts of the world, but we lack the data to extrapolate the total numbers yet,” Chapman said.

In terms of biomass, the insects greatly exceeded migratory birds in

Britain. Their biomass was seven times that of the 30 million songbirds flying from Britain to Africa each autumn.

While the study did not plot the departure and destination points for the migrating bugs, they were thought to be traveling back and forth numerous miles (km), and sometimes over the English Channel and North Sea. “Some of the butterflies and moths we studied migrate hundreds of kilometers (miles) in each generation, and thousands of kilometers (miles) over the course of the year, which may include six generations,” Chapman said.

Insects play important roles, pollinating plants, facilitating productive soil through decomposing, serving as food sources for birds and bats, spreading disease, and serving both as crop pests and predators of crop pests.

“We could not function without them,” Chapman said.

The mass insect migrations generally headed north in spring and south in autumn.

The most abundant day-flying insects in the study included cereal aphids and the tiny parasitoid wasps that attack them. The most abundant medium-sized day-flying insects included hoverflies and ladybirds, also called ladybugs, and the most common big ones included large butterflies such as the painted lady. (rtr)

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Some road sections to Kuta Beach will be sterilized from vehicles starting on Saturday (Dec. 31) at 4 p.m. Denpasar Police have set up several parking lots for people that will celebrate the New Year’s Eve on Kuta Beach.

Security of New Year’s Eve

Road section to Kuta Beach free from vehicles

MANGUPURA - As in previous years, the security in welcoming the celebration of the New Year 2017 will be focused in Kuta, particularly on Kuta Beach. Some road sections to Kuta Beach will be sterilized from vehicles starting on Saturday (Dec. 31) at 4 p.m. Denpasar Police have set up several parking lots for people that will celebrate the New Year’s Eve on Kuta Beach.

“Road section to Kuta Beach will be specifically intended for pedestrians only. Starting today (Wednesday—Ed) we’ve disseminated brochures regarding the closing of the traffic,” said Chief of the Denpasar Police, Heri Supriawan, on Wednesday (Dec. 21).

Heri explained that the closure and diversion of traffic will be made at the intersection of Jalan

Patih Jelantik-Legian heading for Ground Zero to Jalan Legian Utara.

Furthermore, the traffic of vehicles from the intersection of Jalan Patih Jelantik-Sriwijaya is diverted to Jalan Patih Jelantik to Raya Kuta. Traffic from the intersection of Jalan Patih Jelantik-Jalan Dewi Sri to Legian will be closed and diverted eastward to Jalan Raya Kuta.

“Intersection of Jalan Raya Kuta-

Jalan Setiabudi to Kuta will be closed. Then, the intersection of Bemo Corner to Kuta Beach will be closed and diverted to the east.

We have prepared parking space at Central Parking and a few other places,” he said.

Especially for the intersection of the Art Market, he said, vehicles coming from Jalan Dewi Sartika will be directed to Jalan Ciung Wanara or Jalan Singosari. Change of traffic will be made on Jalan Singosari, from the east to the west, while on the New Year’s Eve it will be reversed, from the west to the east. Nevertheless, his authority will remain to see and take into consideration the situation in the field.

In the meantime, Jalan Legian

Selatan, Jalan Pantai Kuta and Jalan Melasti will be totally closed to vehicles. “In other words, the road section will be totally free from vehicle traffic and parking,” he said.

In addition, police also made a post at 42 points by involving 250 personnel from all the police units.

Open-close of traffic will be imposed in accordance with the situation in the field. In addition, the traffic closure will be done gradually starting at 2 a.m. until 4 a.m. in the afternoon.

Chief of traffic affairs also said that the locations frequented by visitors are Kuta Beach, Ground Zero, Matahari Kuta Square, Centro and Joger. In the meantime, the locations prone to traffic congestion include

the intersection of Jalan Legian-Jalan Patih Jelantik, Jalan Patih JelantikDewi Sri, Art Market, Jalan Raya Kuta in front of Joger and Temacun intersection. Police prepare parking space at Central Parking located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Tri Sakti Square on Jalan Patih Jelantik and hotel parking lot, restaurants, malls and other businesses.

“We have also prepared a tow truck, fire truck and ambulance alerted at the Central Parking and Kuta security post. We appealed to visitors and the people that will celebrate the New Year on Kuta Beach to obey the prevailing rules. They should care of personal safety and luggage,” he said. (kmb36)

High logistics costs in Bali becomes an obstacle for export

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The silver Y moth (Autographa gamma), pictured, is a major component of the large night-flying insect migrants studied by radar in the new study, measuring migration annually over a region in south-central England monitored with specialized radar and a balloon-supported aerial netting system, scientists said, December 22, 2016.

DENPASAR - High logistics cost of export in Bali still becomes a problem. This problem occurs from year to year, but there is no clear way out or it has not yet been resolved.

The cost increases from year to year, but what deplored is the comparison of the cost from Surabaya to Singapore only reaching 200 dollars, but from Bali to Surabaya with quite closer distance, the cost could reach three times reaching 500-600 dollars per TEU. This is expressed by Chairman of Association of Indonesian Forwarders (ALFI) Bali, Bagus John Sujayana, on Thursday (Dec. 22) at the ALFI meeting for Bali region.

“Seeing the high cost of logistics for export, we are trying to embrace the existing stakeholders to help

resolve this problem,” he said. The solution offered is direct delivery to Singapore from Benoa Harbor.

If it can be done, from a variety of costs at the harbor can be reduced. He was optimistic it could be realized because there will be operator to enter. “Hopefully, there is a way out in this discussion, but this requires a policy and solution of the government because apart from the sea is expensive, the land line is crowded. Well, the land line needs to be shifted to the sea,” he said.

If the cost can be affordable, then it can be shifted so that it needs a regulation from the government.

All this time there is just one vessel operated by Meratus, while the government is also somewhat hesitant to take further action be-

cause of concerns about monopoly.

However, with the presence of new operators to come in, he hoped the competition will occur and result in healthier business climate.

Going forward, the mission carried by ALFI Bali is to reduce logistics costs for exports in particular, considering that the ALFI members do export business, not the domestic shipping business.

Their main export market is the US, approximately reaching 20 percent, Europe (30 percent), Japan (10 percent) and some other countries where the dominant product exported by Bali are that of small industries like furniture, handicrafts and marine products.

“But we know that to encourage the Benoa Harbor into the only

export harbor is constrained by the existence of the only one operator, and the existing operator is not enough so that it needs the other operators,” he explained.

If there have been the other operators, the capacity becomes larger so that the commodities previously delivered by land line can be transferred by sea line. “Actually, it will bring in innumerable benefits but why it has not been going on well. This seems to us a bit odd. On that account, the government has to intervene in this,” he said.

Due to being unable to compete, the ALFI members initially amounting to 214 then reduced to 183 because 31 members have closed their operation. They have been abandoned by the owner and

management. “I think the challenge in this business is very large. Only those who are strong and having durability that can survive,” he said.

General Treasurer of the ALFI, Wisnu W. Pettalolo, said that the potential of Bali export is quite large. “Export of Bali is high enough particularly for the products of the SMEs with the market share of Europe, the US and the Middle East,” he said.

However, he deplored the high cost of logistics for export because it must first pass through Surabaya.

On that account, he hoped the local ALFI and government can strive so that the policy can be taken for the export and can be carried out from Bali to make efficiency. (kmb42)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Bali News

International The price of some staple commodities started to rise at a number of traditional markets in Gianyar when entering the middle of December.

Agricultural commodities damaged, prices soar

GIANYAR - The price of some staple commodities started to rise at a number of traditional markets in Gianyar when entering the middle of December. This condition is estimated to happen due to damages to agricultural commodity production. Despite skyrocketing prices, the Gianyar Industry and Commerce Agency confirmed that the stock of basic needs remain safe.

Based on the data of commodity price survey conducted in the past three days, it is known that the price of long bean rose significantly as much as 87 percent from the previous price of IDR 8,000 to IDR 15,000 per bundle. It was

followed by the price of cabbage rising 40 percent from IDR 10,000 to IDR 14,000.

The price hike of other commodities is high enough, like red chili reaching IDR 70,000 per kg from IDR 60,000 per kg. Then,

the price of green chili increased 17 percent from IDR 34,000 to IDR 40,000.

“The soaring price of chili usually happens due to natural factor, such as continuous rain since entering this December, so that a lot of chili and other agricultural commodities production perished,” explained the Head of the Gianyar Industry and Commerce Agency, I Wayan Suamba, on Tuesday (Dec. 22).

In the meantime, the price of

other staple commodities like rice remains stable namely in the range of IDR 9,000 to IDR 12,000 including the price of meat remaining stable. “It’s just the price of beef that has increased slightly, but the need for meat is very little. So, it has no effect on the purchasing power,” he said.

Suamba explained that price hike of some commodities such as basic needs can still be affordable to the public so as not to affect the purchasing power in general.

Growth of Russian tourist visit negative DENPASAR - Ivan was sitting listless while holding his head.

Since the beginning of December, this man working as a Russian tour guide has not handled any travelers yet. Actually, during the period of December to January is the peak of the Russian tourist arrivals to Bali.

“This is the third year of handling no guests, it’s deserted. But this is the worst,” said the man having the real name Nyoman Miarsa. He said that in the past four years was a golden period especially for tour guide of Russian guests. Moreover, at that time the Transaero flight still operated four times a week flying Russian guests

to Bali and the number of Russian tour guide was still a few.

“In the past, Russian language course was free of charge and given subsidies by the Indonesia Guides Association (HPI) because there were only a few Russian tour guides. At that time, it was still overwhelmed because Russian guests were abundant. New course participants were not a problem and they were given the opportunity to handle guests,” he recalled.

Ivan himself admitted not to have time to sleep. During peak season of Russian tourist visit, this man having a house in Denpasar must quite often stay in Nusa Dua. Russian guests used to travel from

October to March. “In the past, the number of guest was abundant.

None handled them and they scattered. On the contrary, today we have more time to sleep at home,” he complained.

According to Ivan, guiding Russian guests can be said the easiest when compared to guests from other countries. Russian travelers generally favor animal-related destinations, such as the bird park, wildlife safari or monkey forest. In addition, they are also fairly generous in spending money in Bali.

“In the past the arrival was high, but now they are reluctant to shop. Since the crisis three years ago, they claim to always have no

money,” said the man who also mastered Spanish language.

A member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that potential of Russian travelers was only seen during the price booming of oil and commodity. The slumped price of commodity and oil also affects the Russian tourist visit to Bali. Nothing is wrong when the country is experiencing a crisis and the portion of Russian travelers becomes small. So, it does not solely happen due to the absence of direct flight from Russia to Bali.

“Certainly transportation is also an important thing in the tourism industry. Easy flight will surely

make their travel to Bali easier.

Above all, the percentage and potential of the Russian tourism market should also be seen in terms of economic development of the country,” he explained.

The data of the Bali Tourism Office accessed through its website at the http://disparda.baliprov.go.id indicate that the arrival of Russian travelers is ranked 14th with 72,127 people in 2014. In 2015, the number of visits dropped drastically to negative 28.18 percent, to 51,805 travelers and the rank dropped to the 15th. As of October 2016, the Russian tourist arrival was still ranked 15th with 50,432 people. (kmb32)

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A girl plays near rubble of damaged buildings in al-Rai town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria December 25, 2016.

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“Which is better, the price of goods is expensive or there are absolutely no goods?” he asked.

He said that in general the staple supplies in Gianyar are brought in from other districts in Bali and outside Bali. “Probably, in other district or municipality the price hike has an impact, but in Gianyar it does not. Other that being a small town, the supply of major vegetable commodities can still be brought in from other districts in Bali,” he added. (kmb35)

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International

Aleppo Christians celebrate holiday in hope peace has returned

AMMAN - Christians in Aleppo celebrated under a giant Christmas tree lit up for the first time in five years, hailing what many described as the return of peace to a city that came back under full government control last week.

The fall of rebel-held east Aleppo was the biggest victory of Syria’s nearly six-year-old civil war for supporters of President Bashar alAssad, and many in pro-government parts of the city have been jubilant.

However, the rebel defeat has also brought severe hardship on civilians who fled from insurgent-held areas, thousands of whom have been forced to camp in wilderness under

the snow. Aid groups say many are in peril and children have died from exposure to severe winter weather.

In the war ravaged St. Elias Cathedral located on what was long the frontline in Aleppo’s historic Old City, priests prayed for peace at the first Christmas Eve Mass for five years, attended by dozens of worshippers, including some Russian officers.

“The festive atmosphere is great.

It’s a new birth for Jesus Christ and a new birth for the city of Aleppo,” said George Bakhash, a Christian community leader.

He said the numbers attending mass across the city had surged, now that worshippers no longer feared missiles from rebel-held areas.

Many Syrian Christians supported the government in the civil war, viewing Assad, a member of a Shi’ite-derived minority sect, as a protector against rebel fighters mainly drawn from Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority.

In the comparatively undamaged parts of the city that had long been held by the government, restaurants were thronged by Christians late into the night.

Hundreds of people danced and celebrated in the Azizya neighbourhood, where the public Christmas tree had gone unlit since rebels took the eastern half of the city in 2012.

Giant posters depicted Assad and his Christian ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In live footage shown on state television, a woman identified as the mother of slain Syrian soldier

carried her son’s picture alongside an image of the Virgin Mary.

“I am sure his soul is in peace now because Aleppo has been liberated,” she said.

Although some Christians stayed on the sidelines of the civil war, many saw the rise of Islamic State and other Sunni Muslim insurgent groups as a threat to the very existence of their communities, some as old as the bible. The Christian population of Aleppo has shrunk since the start of the conflict to around 50,000 from 250,000 according to Bakhash. (rtr)

Typhoon weakens but Philippines braces for floods, mudslides

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Children celebrate Christmas Day at the evacuation center before Typhoon Nock-ten is expected to strike Legazpi City, Albay province, central Philippines December 25, 2016.

MANILA - A typhoon weakened as it cut across the Philippines on Monday with strong wind felling trees and power lines, and authorities warned of flash floods and mudslides but there were no official reports of casualties.

Typhoon Nock-ten, locally known as Nina, weakened to 150 kph (93 mph) as it headed west towards provinces south of the capital Manila, picking up speed to 20 kph.

A storm alert was in place and land, sea and air transport were all suspended as authorities told the public to take precautions and prepare for strong wind and heavy rain.

The Philippines is one of the

world’s worst-affected countries when it comes to typhoons, with an average of 20 a year passing or hitting the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands.

Tens of thousands of people in the predominantly Christian country spent Christmas in shelters after authorities moved them to safety on higher ground.

Emergency workers were mobilised to clear roads of debris, like fallen trees and power lines in the coconut-growing region, with some central areas plunged into darkness.

The typhoon was due to make a fifth landfall in Batangas on Monday

then move towards Manila after its arrival in the country at Catanduanes province on Sunday evening.

Ricardo Jalad, head of the national disaster risk reduction management council, said there were no reports of deaths or missing people but communications were disrupted.

“We expect to get reports from the field as soon as power and telephone services are restored,” Jalad said.

Radio DZBB reported a boy was killed in Quezon province when he was pinned down by a coconut tree and another girl injured in Camarines Sur when a house collapsed. The reports could not be immediately verified. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai Motor trims costs, perks

SEOUL - Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat; scaling back on business class flights and annual family home trips for overseas employees, executives told Reuters.

The South Korean automaker has been hit by its exposure to weak emerging markets, and a product line-up that features more sedans than sport utility vehicles, just as SUVs have become more popular across many global markets.

The belt-tightening - which also includes cutting back on printing and fluorescent light bulbs - aims to buy Hyundai time to prepare new models and a design revamp.

“We’re trying to address a mismatch between the market trend and our product line-up,” said one Hyundai insider, referring to a need for more SUV models. “That’s a longer term plan. For now we’re trying to save every penny,” he said, declining to be identified because the plans are not public.

Since October, Hyundai Motor Group executives have taken a 10 percent pay cut, the first such move in seven years. The number of executives at Hyundai Motor alone has risen by 44 percent in five years, to 293 last year.

The group has also downgraded hotel rooms for executive travel, and is encouraging video conferencing as a cheaper alternative to travel, insiders said.

“We’re in emergency management mode,” said another insider, who didn’t want to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

In a response to Reuters for this article, Hyundai Motor said it is “making various cost-saving efforts”, with shrinking global demand and growing business uncertainty, but did not elaborate.

Other costs, such as low-margin supplier parts and labour at the heavily-unionised automaker, are tougher to pare back, said Ko Tae-bong, analyst at Hi Investment & Securities, noting Hyundai needs also to spend more on research and development in self-driving and other new technologies.

While Hyundai remains cash-rich, its costs as a proportion of revenue have risen for five straight years, to 81 percent so far this year, regulatory filings show.

“Cutting expenses are stopgap measures, and won’t do much to improve its bottom line,” Ko said, calling them more “symbolic”.

SALES DECLINE Hyundai grew quickly after the global financial crisis, with brisk sales of its Sonata and Elantra sedans. It was the only major automaker to increase sales in the United States in 2009.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Indonesian militants planned New Year’s assault with machetes - police

JAKARTA - Indonesian militants supporting Islamic State planned to attack a police post on New Year’s eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said on Monday.

The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the wouldbe attackers who led them to their hideout, where police shot dead their two co-conspirators on Sunday after police said they tried to attack officers with machetes.

“The four of them were planning to attack a police post in Purwakarta. They planned to attack on New Year’s Eve,” Rikwanto, a national police spokesman, told reporters, referring to a district about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Jakarta.

Sunday’s raid was the latest in a series over recent weeks that police say have disrupted attacks, raising concern that homegrown militants in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation are getting bolder.

Police said last week that at least 14 people were being interrogated over suicide bomb plots targeting the presidential palace in Jakarta and an another undisclosed location. Both involved female suicide bombers - a new tactic for Indonesian militants.

Police were still investigating whether the militants involved in the plot disrupted on Sunday had been trying to make bombs.

The suspects were members of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a militant group supporting Islamic State, but it was not yet clear whether they been in direct communication with Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant who fled to Syria about two years ago, the spokesman said.

Police say many of the recent plots uncovered have been inspired, if not directed, by Naim.

Police have arrested dozens of suspected militants in recent months, including a group on an island near Singapore who police say were planning to attack the city-state with a rocket.

Indonesia’s elite police unit, Special Detachment 88, has foiled at least 15 attacks this year and made more than 150 arrests..

A gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta in January 2016 killed four people and was the first attack in Southeast Asia claimed by Islamic State.(rtr)

REUTERS/Fatima El-Kareem

Indonesia National Police spokesman Rikwanto talks to reporters about suspected terrorists who were arrested, at police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 26, 2016.

Fighting back: How Indonesia’s elite police turned the tide on militants

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A worker fixes the Hyundai logo on a vehicle at a plant of Hyundai Motor in Asan, south of Seoul, February 9, 2012.

But it has struggled to maintain that momentum as rivals’ sales of SUVs have boomed and emerging market economies have weakened. Hyundai Motor shares have fallen 40 percent in the past three years, the worst performer among global automakers.

The automaker’s top U.S. executive has resigned, and the South Korea sales chief and China head have been replaced.

Sales of Hyundai cars, and those of its affiliate Kia Motors , could drop to 8 million this year, a first decline since Hyundai bought its smaller domestic rival in 1998, said Ko, the analyst.

For next year, Hyundai-Kia Executive Vice President and research head Park Hong-jae, expects sales to pick up again.

“It was a difficult year this year. Things will get better,” he told reporters on Thursday, citing recovery in markets such as Brazil and Russia.

Another Hyundai source said the group has trimmed its preliminary 2017 sales target to 8.2 million vehicles, from 8.35 million forecast in mid-year.

MORE SUVS While it looks to manage its staff budget, Hyundai is beefing up its SUV offerings, freshening up its Sonata sedan, and redirecting exports from slow-demand markets such as the Middle East to the United States.

In the United States, SUVs accounted for 28 percent of Hyundai’s sales in JanuaryNovember, up from 23 percent a year earlier, according to Autodata Corp, but less than half the industry average.

At its plant in Montgomery, Alabama, Hyundai has replaced some Sonata production with its popular Santa Fe SUV. Next year, Hyundai will look to plug a gap in its SUV offerings for developed markets by making a sub-compact model - under the project name “OS” - in South Korea for sale at home, in the United States and Europe, people inside the company said. Hyundai makes sub-compact SUVs locally in China, India and Russia.

“We need that small SUV in the U.S, much sooner than later,” Scott Fink, one of Hyundai’s biggest U.S. dealers, told Reuters.

In sedans, Hyundai is pushing sales of bigger, higher-margin models like the Azera, or Grandeur, and its Genesis luxury line. Its smaller sedans, including the Elantra and Sonata, have lost ground to rivals like Honda Motor’s Civic, which one Hyundai executive said has “wowing design”.

Hyundai is working on a next generation of cars with “a different flair” to hit the market from 2019, Luc Donckerwolke, senior vice president for design, told Reuters on the sidelines of a recent event.

The biggest holder of Hyundai Motor preferred shares, the Norway-based Skagen Kon-Tiki fund, expects the automaker to get back on track over the next couple of years, with new SUVs, recovering emerging market currencies and better plant utilisation.

Knut Harald Nilsson, the fund’s lead portfolio manager, reckons Hyundai’s margins should recover to above 7 percent over that period, from 6 percent earlier this year, but are unlikely to return to the 10 percent levels of a few years ago “anytime soon”.(rtr)

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JAKARTA - As the world battles a spike in assaults and plots

by Islamist militants, Indonesia’s anti-terrorism unit is drawing praise for stemming a wave of bloody attacks in the sprawling Muslimmajority nation.

Indonesia has foiled at least 15 attacks this year alone and made more than 150 arrests, disrupting plots ranging from suicide attacks in Jakarta to a rocket attack from Indonesia’s Batam island targeting Singapore.

Going back to 2010, a Reuters analysis of data shows the elite unit, Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88), has prevented at last 54 plots or attacks in the nation of 250 million people, the world’s fourth largest.

“Densus 88 has become better than pretty well any other counterterrorism group in the world,” said Greg Barton, a terrorism export and research professor in Global Islamic Politics at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne.

“They have had an incredible workload and they have become remarkably good at what they do.”

In the last six years, there has been only one major attack in Indonesia that caused civilian deaths, when assailants hit a Jakarta mall and police post with gunfire and bombs, resulting in the deaths of three Indonesians and a dual Algerian-Canadian national. All four attackers were also killed in the January 2016 attack.

Between 2002 to 2009, there were nine major attacks by militants, leaving 295 dead and hundreds of others wounded.

Since its formation in 2002, the unit has put a premium on clandestine intelligence gathering.

Now much of that intelligence work is done online, by infiltrating and monitoring chat rooms, social media and messaging apps popular with militants.

SELF-SUFFICIENT Few details about Densus 88 are publicly available. “We built our organization to learn from the enemy,” said a senior counterterrorism officer who provided some insight into the working of

the unit but spoke on condition of anonymity.

Created in the aftermath of the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, Densus 88 has about 400 to 500 members, state-of-the-art weaponry and training, said another official. It has received more than $200 million of funding from Western allies such as Australia and the United States.

The unit is headed by a task force, a core of 30 or so senior members, said the Indonesian law enforcement source.

“Many of them possess doctorates and have specialties like psychology and social behaviour,” the source added. “They are not like regular police.”

The black clad, heavily armed members of Densus 88 sometimes seen during raids on suspected militant hideouts make up a small proportion of the unit, officials say.

Far more personnel are dedicated to gathering intelligence in the field and monitoring communications and online activity. There is also a large team of investigators

analysing that intelligence and forensically examining explosives and other evidence.

Sidney Jones, the director of Institute for Policy Aanalysis of Conflict (IPAC), said the key to Densus 88’s success lies in its intelligence gathering.

“They know the radical networks and have a good set of informers,” she said. “It is unparalleled in terms of its ability to understand the sources of possible threats.”

STRATEGIC INTERROGATION Densus 88 has long been accused by human rights groups of abuses, including beatings of alleged separatists and Islamist suspects.

Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission has identified 121 terrorism suspects who have died in custody since 2007 but the police routinely deny using torture or inappropriate force in interrogation.

Amnesty International said earlier this year there was an “endemic

culture of impunity” in Indonesia’s police service and a need for an investigation into the “torture” of suspects by Densus 88.

However, Barton said the unit has adopted a unique, “strategic” approach to interrogations that aids intelligence gathering. Suspects were kept at police stations rather than in jails and allowed to meet their families.

“They sit down and listen to their story,” Barton said. “They get them talking and that’s an effective way of getting intelligence.”

Despite Densus 88’s recent successes, the worry is that the militant threat to Indonesia is mounting as Islamic State fighters return battlehardened from Syria and Iraq. The ultra-radical group also commands support from some Indonesians who have stayed at home.

About 800 Indonesians have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State and 169 have been stopped en route and deported, according to Indonesia’s national counterterrorism agency.(rtr)

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Experts say enforcement is lax amid concern about the impact on economic growth and jobs in Hebei, which surrounds Beijing and was home to seven of China’s 10 smoggiest cities last year.

In the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, average concentrations of small breathable particles known as PM2.5 were higher than 500 micrograms per cubic metre for three consecutive days last week 50 times higher than World Health Organization recommendations.

In comments published on Monday, Zhang said better “top-level planning” was needed as Hebei sought to adjust its industrial and

energy structures.

Hebei would also draw up more detailed plans to deal with issues like the direct combustion of coal, the provincial government said on its website (http://www.hebei.gov.cn).

The province aimed to cut PM2.5 concentrations to an average of about 67 micrograms per cubic meter this year, down from 77 in 2015, but officials have warned that targets will be difficult to reach.

According to a separate notice, officials said on Sunday that despite the recent smog, caused in part by “the most unfavourable weather conditions since 1998”, Hebei was on course to meet its goals, with emissions in Shijiazhuang set to drop about 12 percent this year. (rtr)

MOSCOW - Russia held a national day of mourning on Monday, a day after a Syria-bound military plane crashed into the Black Sea killing all 92 people on board, and expanded a search operation to try to recover passengers’ bodies and the jet’s black box.

The plane, a Russian Defence Ministry TU-154, was carrying dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members to Syria where they were meant to entertain Russian troops in the run-up to the New Year.

Nine Russian reporters were also on board as well as military servicemen and Elizaveta Glinka, a prominent member of President Vladimir Putin’s advisory human rights council.

Flags were flown at half-mast on Monday, mourners placed flowers at the airport in Sochi, southern Russia, where the plane took off from, and in front of the Moscow headquarters of the Russian Army’s Alexandrov song and dance troupe.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim

Sokolov told reporters on Monday that pilot error or a technical fault were the most likely explanations for the tragedy.

“The main versions (for the crash) do not include the idea of a terrorist act,” Sokolov told a news conference in Sochi, the RIA news agency reported.

“So we are working on the assumption that the reasons for the catastrophe could have been technical or a pilot error.”

The jet, a Soviet-era Tupolev plane built in 1983, had been carrying 84 passengers and eight crew members.

Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a Defence Ministry spokesman, said on Monday that 11 bodies had been recovered so far and that a huge sea and air search operation involving around 3,500 people was being expanded.

Thirty nine ships, five helicopters, a drone, and more than 100 divers were involved, he said, and soldiers were scouring the Black Sea coastline as well. (rtr)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office December 25, 2016.

Israeli PM, angered by anti-settlement UN vote, summons US ambassador

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.

Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday, and Netanyahu had more harsh words for Washington over Friday’s U.N. vote.

An Israeli spokesman gave no details of when Netanyahu would meet U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro.

The resolution was passed in the 15-member Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, instead abstaining.

Netanyahu put his personal imprint on Israel’s show of anger by repeating at the weekly cabinet meeting what an unidentified Israeli government official contended on Friday - that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama had conspired with the Palestinians to push for the resolution’s adoption.

The White House has denied the

allegation.

“According to our information, we have no doubt the Obama administration initiated it (the resolution), stood behind it, coordinated the wording and demanded it be passed,” Netanyahu told the cabinet in public remarks.

Another official said Netanyahu had ordered that for the coming three weeks, until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, cabinet ministers refrain from travelling to or meeting officials of countries that voted in favour of the resolution.

The envoys from 10 of the 14 countries that voted for the resolution and have embassies in Israel - Britain, China, Russia, France, Egypt, Japan, Uruguay, Spain, Ukraine and New Zealand - were summoned to the Foreign Ministry.

Sunday is a regular work day in Israel, but most embassies are closed, and calling in envoys on

Christmas Day is highly unusual.

At the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu described a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, when Israel and President-elect Donald Trump successfully pressed Egypt to drop the anti-settlement resolution it had put forward.

It was resubmitted a day later by New Zealand, Senegal, Venezuela and Malaysia.

“Over decades American administrations and Israeli governments disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the security council was not the place to resolve this issue,” Netanyahu said.

“We knew that going there would make negotiations harder and drive peace farther away. As I told John Kerry on Thursday, ‘Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council’,” he said, switching from Hebrew to English.

Israel has pursued a policy of constructing settlements on territory it captured in a 1967 war with its Arab neighbours - the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians seek for a state. (rtr)

Russia mourns 92 killed in Black Sea jet crash, hunts for black box

AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin

Ministry of Emergency Situations employees prepare rescue boats at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military’s Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi.

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International

World-record breaking circumnavigator heads home to France

PARIS - Sailor Thomas Coville was due to arrive in the French port of Brest on Monday hours after smashing the world record for a single-handed non-stop sailing circumnavigation of the globe.

Frenchman Coville, aged 48, crossed a finish line off the Brittany coast on Sunday after a voyage of 49 days three hours seven minutes and 38 seconds, slashing more than eight days off the previous record in his 31-metre trimaran multihull, according to his sponsor Sodebo.

It was Coville’s fifth attempt to beat a record set in 2008 by Francis Joyon, another Frenchman. His Sodebo Ultim yacht achieved an average speed of 24.1 knots.

“Mentally I had my highs and my lows but I knew where I wanted to get to,” he told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview after a voyage in which he said he did not sleep more than three hours at a stretch.

“Physically I could not have gone much further.” (rtr)

Air Jeruk Beach

GIANYAR - Air Jeruk Beach lies about four kilometers from Sukawati, on the southeast coast of Bali. The presence of the old Pura Air Jeruk temple, popular with pilgrims, makes the beach a wonderfully attractive spot to visit. People come from afar to purify their minds and bodies in the water and at the beach a ceremony called melasti in Balinese. Hindus believe that the sea is the domain of many spirits and that they must provide offerings to these spirits, whilst at the same time pray for health, fertility and well-being. (IBP/net)

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Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) takes a shot against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) at Quicken Loans Arena. Cleveland defeats Golden State 109-108.

CLEVELAND - As Kyrie Irving waded through a sea of reporters and made his way to his locker on Sunday, teammate LeBron James saw him coming and shook his head.

“He’s special,” James said.

Irving certainly seems to have a special gift: torturing the Golden State Warriors. His turnaround jumper with 3.4 seconds left over Klay Thompson gave the Cleveland Cavaliers a stunning 109-108 home victory in an NBA Finals rematch after Cleveland trailed by 14 earlier in the fourth quarter.

“He’s just a killer on the court,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said.

Irving’s jumper over Thompson was reminiscent of his dagger 3-pointer in the final minute of Game 7, when he completed the Cavs’ rally from a 3-1 deficit and delivered Cleveland its first championship in 52 years. That

was an off-balance 3-pointer over Steph Curry off his wrong foot and exhausted legs. This one was over Thompson’s superior defense.

“I’m pretty sure Klay wanted to be on me and I’m pretty sure I wanted Klay to be on me as well,” Irving said. “It was just a great play that ended up happening but it was toughly defended.”

The Warriors led most of the game and extended their lead to 94-80 while James rested on the bench early in the fourth. But James’ rim-rattling dunk with 1:43 left gave the Cavs a 105-103 lead -- their first since early in the first quarter -- and the Warriors managed just 13 points over the game’s final nine minutes.

“We had a chance to put them away,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said.

“We had several bad possessions in a row. We had too many

turnovers. We had control of the game and we did not execute at all in the fourth quarter. It’s a great tape to look at. It will be quite valuable for us to look at that tape because we know we let it slip away.”

Irving scored 25 points while James had 31 points and 13 rebounds. Kevin Love added 20 points and six rebounds.

Kevin Durant was sensational in his first chapter of the best rivalry in the NBA. Durant scored 36 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, but couldn’t get off a chance at a game winner following Irving’s basket.

Golden State inbounded to Durant, who got tangled up with Richard Jefferson and lost his balance. He fell to the floor on a no-call as time ran out again on the Warriors.

“I was trying to make a move,” Durant said. “I didn’t fall on my own.” (rtr)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Sp rt Chelsea, Conte standing out as normality returns to EPL

MANCHESTER — In one sense, normality has returned to the English Premier League after the craziness of Leicester’s improbable surge to the title last season.

The top six on Christmas Day are the teams most pundits predicted would be challenging for the title: Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United.

There’s nothing normal about Chelsea’s current form, however.

After 11 straight wins, Chelsea leads the league by six points from Liverpool, heading into the hectic period of festive fixtures that is unique to British soccer. Only once — Arsenal in 2001-02, with 13 straight wins — has a top-tier club had a longer winning streak in one season since World War II. In the first year of the “super-coach” era in the Premier League, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is standing head and shoulders above the rest, although it needed a September switch to his favored 3-4-3 formation to get the team to click.

With a stingy defense (two goals conceded in the last 11 games), a dynamic midfield marshalled by N’Golo Kante and a forward line led by the league’s top scorer, Diego Costa, there are no apparent weaknesses in Conte’s lineup. On current evidence, it’s hard to see how the team from southwest London can be stopped.

One thing is for sure, there’ll be no miracle sequel for Leicester in the Premier League. Languishing in 15th place in the 20-team standings, the reigning champions are closer to the relegation

zone than the Champions League qualification spots.

It’s back to the heavyweights challenging for the title. And Chelsea is the big favorite.

TITLE RACE

One factor is particularly helping Chelsea and Liverpool in their quests for the title: No European competition.

Such was the extraordinary nature of last season that neither team qualified for the Champions League or even the Europa League. That failure is now allowing them to focus purely on the domestic games, give their players more rest, and have a full week of preparation for Premier League games.

Chelsea hasn’t dropped a point since a 3-0 loss at Arsenal on Sept. 24, during which Antonio Conte changed formation to a 3-4-3 and hasn’t looked back. Like Chelsea, Liverpool has two losses so far.

Man City is in third place, a point behind Liverpool, as coach Pep Guardiola gets to grips with the physical and non-stop demands of English soccer, including no rest at Christmas.

Arsenal is a further two points back on 34 points in fourth, Tottenham has 33 and Jose Mourinho’s Man United has 30. For United, some 13 points behind Chelsea, the target has already switched from winning the league to securing Champions League qualification with a top-four finish.

Chelsea has three tough away games left — at Spurs, Liverpool and United — and is proving adept at eking out 1-0 wins. Four of its last six games have finished with that scoreline, including the last three. (ap)

Allardyce says priority is plugging leaks at Palace

LONDON - Plugging the leaks in Crystal Palace’s porous defence will be the first priority for the south London club’s new manager Sam Allardyce as he looks ahead to a hectic Christmas period.

Former England boss Allardyce replaced the sacked Alan Pardew on Friday with Palace just above the relegation zone with the third-worst defensive record in the Premier League.

“We have a very important job of stopping the goals going in at the other end,” Allardyce, said in a

video on Palace’s website (www. cpfc.co.uk).

“Attacking players when you are in possession are fantastic this season. The strengthening in that area by the club and by Alan has brought a lot of flair to the team and I think that has brought quite a lot more goals.

“But the other side is that when we are not in possession we have got to stop conceding and make sure that those goals we score win us games. It sounds simple but it’s

not that easy.”

Allardyce is seen as one of the best managers in English football when it comes to surviving a relegation scrap.

The experienced 62-year-old was available to Palace after his short reign as England manager ended after just 67 days in September following comments he made in a newspaper sting about “getting around” FA rules on player transfers.

Allardyce is hoping to bolster

LONDON - Former England midfielder Frank Lampard says he will be “in close contact” with his old club Chelsea as he decides on his next career move.

The 38-year-old left New York City in November and media speculation has mounted that he could return to the London team in a coaching role or some other capacity.

Lampard watched Premier League leaders Chelsea’s 1-0 home win over West Bromwich Albion earlier this month and was an onlooker at training on Wednesday when manager Antonio Conte said he was in good enough shape to continue his playing career.

“I’m still waiting for the five-year contract to come through from Chelsea, they haven’t called yet,” Lampard joked during an interview on Sky Sports television on Saturday.

“Whatever happens, in some capacity I will be at Chelsea, whether that’s with my season ticket watching them...I don’t know. I will be in very close contact.

“Whether I have a role is not all in my hands so I can’t go any further than that. I am very relaxed about it which is a nice place to be.

“I’m not kind of eager that the end of my career is coming and thinking, ‘What’s going to happen now?’,” added Lampard.

“If the right thing comes then I’ll take it. Obviously Chelsea, I would love that, but it doesn’t always work that way.”

Lampard won three Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League with Chelsea and is the club’s all-time record scorer with 211 goals. He also netted 29 times in 106 appearances for England.

“I’ve taken this Christmas to enjoy family, a couple of beers and an extra turkey and I’ll make a decision in January whether I carry on playing -- I have a few options -- or finish and move on to whatever the next thing will be,” he said. (rtr)

REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

the squad by signing some players in the January transfer window.

“We are certainly trying to make the squad a bit bigger with more strength in depth,” he said. “The players here are good enough but if we can add to that let’s try and do it.”

Palace have been in the top

flight since 2013 but only one win in their last 11 league matches has seen them slide into danger near the foot of the table.

They are fourth from bottom, one point above Allardyce’s former club Sunderland, ahead of Monday’s match at Watford. (rtr)

Lampard to stay in close contact with Chelsea

AP Photo/Rui Vieira

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte gestures during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.

UANL Tigres win Mexican championship via penalty shootout

Andre-Pierre Gignac of Mexico’s Tigres celebrates with the trophy after winning the Mexican first division final.

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Goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman was the hero in a penalty shootout as the UANL Tigres won the Mexican Apertura championship against Club America in Monterrey on Sunday.

Club America could not find a way past Guzman in the shootout, the keeper saving all three shots he faced from the spot after the teams had finished the two-leg final locked at 2-2 on aggregate.

The Tigres were flawless from the spot, converting three out of three to claim their fifth league title in unlikely circumstances.

Only minutes earlier, the home side had seemed headed for defeat

as the clock ticked into the 119th minute in the second leg of the final, before Jesus Duenas sent the Estadio Universitario crowd into a frenzy when he scored with a powerful header to make it 1-1 on the night.

An ecstatic Duenaz celebrated by jumping onto the back of a police officer near the corner flag.

Earlier, the Tigres hit the post twice in regulation -- including a 25-metre strike by Frenchman Andre-Pierre Gignac -- before the 90 minutes finished without a score.

Gignac played all 120 minutes -- and scored the first goal of the

shootout -- despite being warned it would be risky to play again only three days after suffering a neck injury.

Club America substitute Edson Alverez broke the deadlock with a header in the 95th minute, but the visitors played the final 15 minutes with only nine men, after having two players sent off, one after a chaotic, massive brawl on the touchline.

The Tigres were down to 10 men, but the one-man advantage gave them plenty of space and Duenaz finally exploited it, making amends for hitting the bar with a header in regulation. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Frank Lampard and wife Christine Bleakley in the stands before the match

Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce and Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Sp rt Chelsea, Conte standing out as normality returns to EPL

MANCHESTER — In one sense, normality has returned to the English Premier League after the craziness of Leicester’s improbable surge to the title last season.

The top six on Christmas Day are the teams most pundits predicted would be challenging for the title: Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United.

There’s nothing normal about Chelsea’s current form, however.

After 11 straight wins, Chelsea leads the league by six points from Liverpool, heading into the hectic period of festive fixtures that is unique to British soccer. Only once — Arsenal in 2001-02, with 13 straight wins — has a top-tier club had a longer winning streak in one season since World War II. In the first year of the “super-coach” era in the Premier League, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is standing head and shoulders above the rest, although it needed a September switch to his favored 3-4-3 formation to get the team to click.

With a stingy defense (two goals conceded in the last 11 games), a dynamic midfield marshalled by N’Golo Kante and a forward line led by the league’s top scorer, Diego Costa, there are no apparent weaknesses in Conte’s lineup. On current evidence, it’s hard to see how the team from southwest London can be stopped.

One thing is for sure, there’ll be no miracle sequel for Leicester in the Premier League. Languishing in 15th place in the 20-team standings, the reigning champions are closer to the relegation

zone than the Champions League qualification spots.

It’s back to the heavyweights challenging for the title. And Chelsea is the big favorite.

TITLE RACE

One factor is particularly helping Chelsea and Liverpool in their quests for the title: No European competition.

Such was the extraordinary nature of last season that neither team qualified for the Champions League or even the Europa League. That failure is now allowing them to focus purely on the domestic games, give their players more rest, and have a full week of preparation for Premier League games.

Chelsea hasn’t dropped a point since a 3-0 loss at Arsenal on Sept. 24, during which Antonio Conte changed formation to a 3-4-3 and hasn’t looked back. Like Chelsea, Liverpool has two losses so far.

Man City is in third place, a point behind Liverpool, as coach Pep Guardiola gets to grips with the physical and non-stop demands of English soccer, including no rest at Christmas.

Arsenal is a further two points back on 34 points in fourth, Tottenham has 33 and Jose Mourinho’s Man United has 30. For United, some 13 points behind Chelsea, the target has already switched from winning the league to securing Champions League qualification with a top-four finish.

Chelsea has three tough away games left — at Spurs, Liverpool and United — and is proving adept at eking out 1-0 wins. Four of its last six games have finished with that scoreline, including the last three. (ap)

Allardyce says priority is plugging leaks at Palace

LONDON - Plugging the leaks in Crystal Palace’s porous defence will be the first priority for the south London club’s new manager Sam Allardyce as he looks ahead to a hectic Christmas period.

Former England boss Allardyce replaced the sacked Alan Pardew on Friday with Palace just above the relegation zone with the third-worst defensive record in the Premier League.

“We have a very important job of stopping the goals going in at the other end,” Allardyce, said in a

video on Palace’s website (www. cpfc.co.uk).

“Attacking players when you are in possession are fantastic this season. The strengthening in that area by the club and by Alan has brought a lot of flair to the team and I think that has brought quite a lot more goals.

“But the other side is that when we are not in possession we have got to stop conceding and make sure that those goals we score win us games. It sounds simple but it’s

not that easy.”

Allardyce is seen as one of the best managers in English football when it comes to surviving a relegation scrap.

The experienced 62-year-old was available to Palace after his short reign as England manager ended after just 67 days in September following comments he made in a newspaper sting about “getting around” FA rules on player transfers.

Allardyce is hoping to bolster

LONDON - Former England midfielder Frank Lampard says he will be “in close contact” with his old club Chelsea as he decides on his next career move.

The 38-year-old left New York City in November and media speculation has mounted that he could return to the London team in a coaching role or some other capacity.

Lampard watched Premier League leaders Chelsea’s 1-0 home win over West Bromwich Albion earlier this month and was an onlooker at training on Wednesday when manager Antonio Conte said he was in good enough shape to continue his playing career.

“I’m still waiting for the five-year contract to come through from Chelsea, they haven’t called yet,” Lampard joked during an interview on Sky Sports television on Saturday.

“Whatever happens, in some capacity I will be at Chelsea, whether that’s with my season ticket watching them...I don’t know. I will be in very close contact.

“Whether I have a role is not all in my hands so I can’t go any further than that. I am very relaxed about it which is a nice place to be.

“I’m not kind of eager that the end of my career is coming and thinking, ‘What’s going to happen now?’,” added Lampard.

“If the right thing comes then I’ll take it. Obviously Chelsea, I would love that, but it doesn’t always work that way.”

Lampard won three Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League with Chelsea and is the club’s all-time record scorer with 211 goals. He also netted 29 times in 106 appearances for England.

“I’ve taken this Christmas to enjoy family, a couple of beers and an extra turkey and I’ll make a decision in January whether I carry on playing -- I have a few options -- or finish and move on to whatever the next thing will be,” he said. (rtr)

REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

the squad by signing some players in the January transfer window.

“We are certainly trying to make the squad a bit bigger with more strength in depth,” he said. “The players here are good enough but if we can add to that let’s try and do it.”

Palace have been in the top

flight since 2013 but only one win in their last 11 league matches has seen them slide into danger near the foot of the table.

They are fourth from bottom, one point above Allardyce’s former club Sunderland, ahead of Monday’s match at Watford. (rtr)

Lampard to stay in close contact with Chelsea

AP Photo/Rui Vieira

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte gestures during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.

UANL Tigres win Mexican championship via penalty shootout

Andre-Pierre Gignac of Mexico’s Tigres celebrates with the trophy after winning the Mexican first division final.

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Goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman was the hero in a penalty shootout as the UANL Tigres won the Mexican Apertura championship against Club America in Monterrey on Sunday.

Club America could not find a way past Guzman in the shootout, the keeper saving all three shots he faced from the spot after the teams had finished the two-leg final locked at 2-2 on aggregate.

The Tigres were flawless from the spot, converting three out of three to claim their fifth league title in unlikely circumstances.

Only minutes earlier, the home side had seemed headed for defeat

as the clock ticked into the 119th minute in the second leg of the final, before Jesus Duenas sent the Estadio Universitario crowd into a frenzy when he scored with a powerful header to make it 1-1 on the night.

An ecstatic Duenaz celebrated by jumping onto the back of a police officer near the corner flag.

Earlier, the Tigres hit the post twice in regulation -- including a 25-metre strike by Frenchman Andre-Pierre Gignac -- before the 90 minutes finished without a score.

Gignac played all 120 minutes -- and scored the first goal of the

shootout -- despite being warned it would be risky to play again only three days after suffering a neck injury.

Club America substitute Edson Alverez broke the deadlock with a header in the 95th minute, but the visitors played the final 15 minutes with only nine men, after having two players sent off, one after a chaotic, massive brawl on the touchline.

The Tigres were down to 10 men, but the one-man advantage gave them plenty of space and Duenaz finally exploited it, making amends for hitting the bar with a header in regulation. (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Frank Lampard and wife Christine Bleakley in the stands before the match

Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce and Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew

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International

World-record breaking circumnavigator heads home to France

PARIS - Sailor Thomas Coville was due to arrive in the French port of Brest on Monday hours after smashing the world record for a single-handed non-stop sailing circumnavigation of the globe.

Frenchman Coville, aged 48, crossed a finish line off the Brittany coast on Sunday after a voyage of 49 days three hours seven minutes and 38 seconds, slashing more than eight days off the previous record in his 31-metre trimaran multihull, according to his sponsor Sodebo.

It was Coville’s fifth attempt to beat a record set in 2008 by Francis Joyon, another Frenchman. His Sodebo Ultim yacht achieved an average speed of 24.1 knots.

“Mentally I had my highs and my lows but I knew where I wanted to get to,” he told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview after a voyage in which he said he did not sleep more than three hours at a stretch.

“Physically I could not have gone much further.” (rtr)

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Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) takes a shot against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) at Quicken Loans Arena. Cleveland defeats Golden State 109-108.

CLEVELAND - As Kyrie Irving waded through a sea of reporters and made his way to his locker on Sunday, teammate LeBron James saw him coming and shook his head.

“He’s special,” James said.

Irving certainly seems to have a special gift: torturing the Golden State Warriors. His turnaround jumper with 3.4 seconds left over Klay Thompson gave the Cleveland Cavaliers a stunning 109-108 home victory in an NBA Finals rematch after Cleveland trailed by 14 earlier in the fourth quarter.

“He’s just a killer on the court,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said.

Irving’s jumper over Thompson was reminiscent of his dagger 3-pointer in the final minute of Game 7, when he completed the Cavs’ rally from a 3-1 deficit and delivered Cleveland its first championship in 52 years. That

was an off-balance 3-pointer over Steph Curry off his wrong foot and exhausted legs. This one was over Thompson’s superior defense.

“I’m pretty sure Klay wanted to be on me and I’m pretty sure I wanted Klay to be on me as well,” Irving said. “It was just a great play that ended up happening but it was toughly defended.”

The Warriors led most of the game and extended their lead to 94-80 while James rested on the bench early in the fourth. But James’ rim-rattling dunk with 1:43 left gave the Cavs a 105-103 lead -- their first since early in the first quarter -- and the Warriors managed just 13 points over the game’s final nine minutes.

“We had a chance to put them away,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said.

“We had several bad possessions in a row. We had too many

turnovers. We had control of the game and we did not execute at all in the fourth quarter. It’s a great tape to look at. It will be quite valuable for us to look at that tape because we know we let it slip away.”

Irving scored 25 points while James had 31 points and 13 rebounds. Kevin Love added 20 points and six rebounds.

Kevin Durant was sensational in his first chapter of the best rivalry in the NBA. Durant scored 36 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, but couldn’t get off a chance at a game winner following Irving’s basket.

Golden State inbounded to Durant, who got tangled up with Richard Jefferson and lost his balance. He fell to the floor on a no-call as time ran out again on the Warriors.

“I was trying to make a move,” Durant said. “I didn’t fall on my own.” (rtr)

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RLD China...

Experts say enforcement is lax amid concern about the impact on economic growth and jobs in Hebei, which surrounds Beijing and was home to seven of China’s 10 smoggiest cities last year.

In the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, average concentrations of small breathable particles known as PM2.5 were higher than 500 micrograms per cubic metre for three consecutive days last week 50 times higher than World Health Organization recommendations.

In comments published on Monday, Zhang said better “top-level planning” was needed as Hebei sought to adjust its industrial and

energy structures.

Hebei would also draw up more detailed plans to deal with issues like the direct combustion of coal, the provincial government said on its website (http://www.hebei.gov.cn).

The province aimed to cut PM2.5 concentrations to an average of about 67 micrograms per cubic meter this year, down from 77 in 2015, but officials have warned that targets will be difficult to reach.

According to a separate notice, officials said on Sunday that despite the recent smog, caused in part by “the most unfavourable weather conditions since 1998”, Hebei was on course to meet its goals, with emissions in Shijiazhuang set to drop about 12 percent this year. (rtr)

MOSCOW - Russia held a national day of mourning on Monday, a day after a Syria-bound military plane crashed into the Black Sea killing all 92 people on board, and expanded a search operation to try to recover passengers’ bodies and the jet’s black box.

The plane, a Russian Defence Ministry TU-154, was carrying dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members to Syria where they were meant to entertain Russian troops in the run-up to the New Year.

Nine Russian reporters were also on board as well as military servicemen and Elizaveta Glinka, a prominent member of President Vladimir Putin’s advisory human rights council.

Flags were flown at half-mast on Monday, mourners placed flowers at the airport in Sochi, southern Russia, where the plane took off from, and in front of the Moscow headquarters of the Russian Army’s Alexandrov song and dance troupe.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim

Sokolov told reporters on Monday that pilot error or a technical fault were the most likely explanations for the tragedy.

“The main versions (for the crash) do not include the idea of a terrorist act,” Sokolov told a news conference in Sochi, the RIA news agency reported.

“So we are working on the assumption that the reasons for the catastrophe could have been technical or a pilot error.”

The jet, a Soviet-era Tupolev plane built in 1983, had been carrying 84 passengers and eight crew members.

Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a Defence Ministry spokesman, said on Monday that 11 bodies had been recovered so far and that a huge sea and air search operation involving around 3,500 people was being expanded.

Thirty nine ships, five helicopters, a drone, and more than 100 divers were involved, he said, and soldiers were scouring the Black Sea coastline as well. (rtr)

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REUTERS/Dan Balilty/Pool

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office December 25, 2016.

Israeli PM, angered by anti-settlement UN vote, summons US ambassador

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.

Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday, and Netanyahu had more harsh words for Washington over Friday’s U.N. vote.

An Israeli spokesman gave no details of when Netanyahu would meet U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro.

The resolution was passed in the 15-member Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, instead abstaining.

Netanyahu put his personal imprint on Israel’s show of anger by repeating at the weekly cabinet meeting what an unidentified Israeli government official contended on Friday - that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama had conspired with the Palestinians to push for the resolution’s adoption.

The White House has denied the

allegation.

“According to our information, we have no doubt the Obama administration initiated it (the resolution), stood behind it, coordinated the wording and demanded it be passed,” Netanyahu told the cabinet in public remarks.

Another official said Netanyahu had ordered that for the coming three weeks, until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, cabinet ministers refrain from travelling to or meeting officials of countries that voted in favour of the resolution.

The envoys from 10 of the 14 countries that voted for the resolution and have embassies in Israel - Britain, China, Russia, France, Egypt, Japan, Uruguay, Spain, Ukraine and New Zealand - were summoned to the Foreign Ministry.

Sunday is a regular work day in Israel, but most embassies are closed, and calling in envoys on

Christmas Day is highly unusual.

At the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu described a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, when Israel and President-elect Donald Trump successfully pressed Egypt to drop the anti-settlement resolution it had put forward.

It was resubmitted a day later by New Zealand, Senegal, Venezuela and Malaysia.

“Over decades American administrations and Israeli governments disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the security council was not the place to resolve this issue,” Netanyahu said.

“We knew that going there would make negotiations harder and drive peace farther away. As I told John Kerry on Thursday, ‘Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council’,” he said, switching from Hebrew to English.

Israel has pursued a policy of constructing settlements on territory it captured in a 1967 war with its Arab neighbours - the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians seek for a state. (rtr)

Russia mourns 92 killed in Black Sea jet crash, hunts for black box

AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin

Ministry of Emergency Situations employees prepare rescue boats at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military’s Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi.

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BUSINESS Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai Motor trims costs, perks

SEOUL - Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat; scaling back on business class flights and annual family home trips for overseas employees, executives told Reuters.

The South Korean automaker has been hit by its exposure to weak emerging markets, and a product line-up that features more sedans than sport utility vehicles, just as SUVs have become more popular across many global markets.

The belt-tightening - which also includes cutting back on printing and fluorescent light bulbs - aims to buy Hyundai time to prepare new models and a design revamp.

“We’re trying to address a mismatch between the market trend and our product line-up,” said one Hyundai insider, referring to a need for more SUV models. “That’s a longer term plan. For now we’re trying to save every penny,” he said, declining to be identified because the plans are not public.

Since October, Hyundai Motor Group executives have taken a 10 percent pay cut, the first such move in seven years. The number of executives at Hyundai Motor alone has risen by 44 percent in five years, to 293 last year.

The group has also downgraded hotel rooms for executive travel, and is encouraging video conferencing as a cheaper alternative to travel, insiders said.

“We’re in emergency management mode,” said another insider, who didn’t want to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

In a response to Reuters for this article, Hyundai Motor said it is “making various cost-saving efforts”, with shrinking global demand and growing business uncertainty, but did not elaborate.

Other costs, such as low-margin supplier parts and labour at the heavily-unionised automaker, are tougher to pare back, said Ko Tae-bong, analyst at Hi Investment & Securities, noting Hyundai needs also to spend more on research and development in self-driving and other new technologies.

While Hyundai remains cash-rich, its costs as a proportion of revenue have risen for five straight years, to 81 percent so far this year, regulatory filings show.

“Cutting expenses are stopgap measures, and won’t do much to improve its bottom line,” Ko said, calling them more “symbolic”.

SALES DECLINE Hyundai grew quickly after the global financial crisis, with brisk sales of its Sonata and Elantra sedans. It was the only major automaker to increase sales in the United States in 2009.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Indonesian militants planned New Year’s assault with machetes - police

JAKARTA - Indonesian militants supporting Islamic State planned to attack a police post on New Year’s eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said on Monday.

The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the wouldbe attackers who led them to their hideout, where police shot dead their two co-conspirators on Sunday after police said they tried to attack officers with machetes.

“The four of them were planning to attack a police post in Purwakarta. They planned to attack on New Year’s Eve,” Rikwanto, a national police spokesman, told reporters, referring to a district about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Jakarta.

Sunday’s raid was the latest in a series over recent weeks that police say have disrupted attacks, raising concern that homegrown militants in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation are getting bolder.

Police said last week that at least 14 people were being interrogated over suicide bomb plots targeting the presidential palace in Jakarta and an another undisclosed location. Both involved female suicide bombers - a new tactic for Indonesian militants.

Police were still investigating whether the militants involved in the plot disrupted on Sunday had been trying to make bombs.

The suspects were members of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a militant group supporting Islamic State, but it was not yet clear whether they been in direct communication with Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant who fled to Syria about two years ago, the spokesman said.

Police say many of the recent plots uncovered have been inspired, if not directed, by Naim.

Police have arrested dozens of suspected militants in recent months, including a group on an island near Singapore who police say were planning to attack the city-state with a rocket.

Indonesia’s elite police unit, Special Detachment 88, has foiled at least 15 attacks this year and made more than 150 arrests..

A gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta in January 2016 killed four people and was the first attack in Southeast Asia claimed by Islamic State.(rtr)

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Indonesia National Police spokesman Rikwanto talks to reporters about suspected terrorists who were arrested, at police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 26, 2016.

Fighting back: How Indonesia’s elite police turned the tide on militants

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A worker fixes the Hyundai logo on a vehicle at a plant of Hyundai Motor in Asan, south of Seoul, February 9, 2012.

But it has struggled to maintain that momentum as rivals’ sales of SUVs have boomed and emerging market economies have weakened. Hyundai Motor shares have fallen 40 percent in the past three years, the worst performer among global automakers.

The automaker’s top U.S. executive has resigned, and the South Korea sales chief and China head have been replaced.

Sales of Hyundai cars, and those of its affiliate Kia Motors , could drop to 8 million this year, a first decline since Hyundai bought its smaller domestic rival in 1998, said Ko, the analyst.

For next year, Hyundai-Kia Executive Vice President and research head Park Hong-jae, expects sales to pick up again.

“It was a difficult year this year. Things will get better,” he told reporters on Thursday, citing recovery in markets such as Brazil and Russia.

Another Hyundai source said the group has trimmed its preliminary 2017 sales target to 8.2 million vehicles, from 8.35 million forecast in mid-year.

MORE SUVS While it looks to manage its staff budget, Hyundai is beefing up its SUV offerings, freshening up its Sonata sedan, and redirecting exports from slow-demand markets such as the Middle East to the United States.

In the United States, SUVs accounted for 28 percent of Hyundai’s sales in JanuaryNovember, up from 23 percent a year earlier, according to Autodata Corp, but less than half the industry average.

At its plant in Montgomery, Alabama, Hyundai has replaced some Sonata production with its popular Santa Fe SUV. Next year, Hyundai will look to plug a gap in its SUV offerings for developed markets by making a sub-compact model - under the project name “OS” - in South Korea for sale at home, in the United States and Europe, people inside the company said. Hyundai makes sub-compact SUVs locally in China, India and Russia.

“We need that small SUV in the U.S, much sooner than later,” Scott Fink, one of Hyundai’s biggest U.S. dealers, told Reuters.

In sedans, Hyundai is pushing sales of bigger, higher-margin models like the Azera, or Grandeur, and its Genesis luxury line. Its smaller sedans, including the Elantra and Sonata, have lost ground to rivals like Honda Motor’s Civic, which one Hyundai executive said has “wowing design”.

Hyundai is working on a next generation of cars with “a different flair” to hit the market from 2019, Luc Donckerwolke, senior vice president for design, told Reuters on the sidelines of a recent event.

The biggest holder of Hyundai Motor preferred shares, the Norway-based Skagen Kon-Tiki fund, expects the automaker to get back on track over the next couple of years, with new SUVs, recovering emerging market currencies and better plant utilisation.

Knut Harald Nilsson, the fund’s lead portfolio manager, reckons Hyundai’s margins should recover to above 7 percent over that period, from 6 percent earlier this year, but are unlikely to return to the 10 percent levels of a few years ago “anytime soon”.(rtr)

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JAKARTA - As the world battles a spike in assaults and plots

by Islamist militants, Indonesia’s anti-terrorism unit is drawing praise for stemming a wave of bloody attacks in the sprawling Muslimmajority nation.

Indonesia has foiled at least 15 attacks this year alone and made more than 150 arrests, disrupting plots ranging from suicide attacks in Jakarta to a rocket attack from Indonesia’s Batam island targeting Singapore.

Going back to 2010, a Reuters analysis of data shows the elite unit, Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88), has prevented at last 54 plots or attacks in the nation of 250 million people, the world’s fourth largest.

“Densus 88 has become better than pretty well any other counterterrorism group in the world,” said Greg Barton, a terrorism export and research professor in Global Islamic Politics at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne.

“They have had an incredible workload and they have become remarkably good at what they do.”

In the last six years, there has been only one major attack in Indonesia that caused civilian deaths, when assailants hit a Jakarta mall and police post with gunfire and bombs, resulting in the deaths of three Indonesians and a dual Algerian-Canadian national. All four attackers were also killed in the January 2016 attack.

Between 2002 to 2009, there were nine major attacks by militants, leaving 295 dead and hundreds of others wounded.

Since its formation in 2002, the unit has put a premium on clandestine intelligence gathering.

Now much of that intelligence work is done online, by infiltrating and monitoring chat rooms, social media and messaging apps popular with militants.

SELF-SUFFICIENT Few details about Densus 88 are publicly available. “We built our organization to learn from the enemy,” said a senior counterterrorism officer who provided some insight into the working of

the unit but spoke on condition of anonymity.

Created in the aftermath of the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, Densus 88 has about 400 to 500 members, state-of-the-art weaponry and training, said another official. It has received more than $200 million of funding from Western allies such as Australia and the United States.

The unit is headed by a task force, a core of 30 or so senior members, said the Indonesian law enforcement source.

“Many of them possess doctorates and have specialties like psychology and social behaviour,” the source added. “They are not like regular police.”

The black clad, heavily armed members of Densus 88 sometimes seen during raids on suspected militant hideouts make up a small proportion of the unit, officials say.

Far more personnel are dedicated to gathering intelligence in the field and monitoring communications and online activity. There is also a large team of investigators

analysing that intelligence and forensically examining explosives and other evidence.

Sidney Jones, the director of Institute for Policy Aanalysis of Conflict (IPAC), said the key to Densus 88’s success lies in its intelligence gathering.

“They know the radical networks and have a good set of informers,” she said. “It is unparalleled in terms of its ability to understand the sources of possible threats.”

STRATEGIC INTERROGATION Densus 88 has long been accused by human rights groups of abuses, including beatings of alleged separatists and Islamist suspects.

Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission has identified 121 terrorism suspects who have died in custody since 2007 but the police routinely deny using torture or inappropriate force in interrogation.

Amnesty International said earlier this year there was an “endemic

culture of impunity” in Indonesia’s police service and a need for an investigation into the “torture” of suspects by Densus 88.

However, Barton said the unit has adopted a unique, “strategic” approach to interrogations that aids intelligence gathering. Suspects were kept at police stations rather than in jails and allowed to meet their families.

“They sit down and listen to their story,” Barton said. “They get them talking and that’s an effective way of getting intelligence.”

Despite Densus 88’s recent successes, the worry is that the militant threat to Indonesia is mounting as Islamic State fighters return battlehardened from Syria and Iraq. The ultra-radical group also commands support from some Indonesians who have stayed at home.

About 800 Indonesians have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State and 169 have been stopped en route and deported, according to Indonesia’s national counterterrorism agency.(rtr)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Bali News

International The price of some staple commodities started to rise at a number of traditional markets in Gianyar when entering the middle of December.

Agricultural commodities damaged, prices soar

GIANYAR - The price of some staple commodities started to rise at a number of traditional markets in Gianyar when entering the middle of December. This condition is estimated to happen due to damages to agricultural commodity production. Despite skyrocketing prices, the Gianyar Industry and Commerce Agency confirmed that the stock of basic needs remain safe.

Based on the data of commodity price survey conducted in the past three days, it is known that the price of long bean rose significantly as much as 87 percent from the previous price of IDR 8,000 to IDR 15,000 per bundle. It was

followed by the price of cabbage rising 40 percent from IDR 10,000 to IDR 14,000.

The price hike of other commodities is high enough, like red chili reaching IDR 70,000 per kg from IDR 60,000 per kg. Then,

the price of green chili increased 17 percent from IDR 34,000 to IDR 40,000.

“The soaring price of chili usually happens due to natural factor, such as continuous rain since entering this December, so that a lot of chili and other agricultural commodities production perished,” explained the Head of the Gianyar Industry and Commerce Agency, I Wayan Suamba, on Tuesday (Dec. 22).

In the meantime, the price of

other staple commodities like rice remains stable namely in the range of IDR 9,000 to IDR 12,000 including the price of meat remaining stable. “It’s just the price of beef that has increased slightly, but the need for meat is very little. So, it has no effect on the purchasing power,” he said.

Suamba explained that price hike of some commodities such as basic needs can still be affordable to the public so as not to affect the purchasing power in general.

Growth of Russian tourist visit negative DENPASAR - Ivan was sitting listless while holding his head.

Since the beginning of December, this man working as a Russian tour guide has not handled any travelers yet. Actually, during the period of December to January is the peak of the Russian tourist arrivals to Bali.

“This is the third year of handling no guests, it’s deserted. But this is the worst,” said the man having the real name Nyoman Miarsa. He said that in the past four years was a golden period especially for tour guide of Russian guests. Moreover, at that time the Transaero flight still operated four times a week flying Russian guests

to Bali and the number of Russian tour guide was still a few.

“In the past, Russian language course was free of charge and given subsidies by the Indonesia Guides Association (HPI) because there were only a few Russian tour guides. At that time, it was still overwhelmed because Russian guests were abundant. New course participants were not a problem and they were given the opportunity to handle guests,” he recalled.

Ivan himself admitted not to have time to sleep. During peak season of Russian tourist visit, this man having a house in Denpasar must quite often stay in Nusa Dua. Russian guests used to travel from

October to March. “In the past, the number of guest was abundant.

None handled them and they scattered. On the contrary, today we have more time to sleep at home,” he complained.

According to Ivan, guiding Russian guests can be said the easiest when compared to guests from other countries. Russian travelers generally favor animal-related destinations, such as the bird park, wildlife safari or monkey forest. In addition, they are also fairly generous in spending money in Bali.

“In the past the arrival was high, but now they are reluctant to shop. Since the crisis three years ago, they claim to always have no

money,” said the man who also mastered Spanish language.

A member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that potential of Russian travelers was only seen during the price booming of oil and commodity. The slumped price of commodity and oil also affects the Russian tourist visit to Bali. Nothing is wrong when the country is experiencing a crisis and the portion of Russian travelers becomes small. So, it does not solely happen due to the absence of direct flight from Russia to Bali.

“Certainly transportation is also an important thing in the tourism industry. Easy flight will surely

make their travel to Bali easier.

Above all, the percentage and potential of the Russian tourism market should also be seen in terms of economic development of the country,” he explained.

The data of the Bali Tourism Office accessed through its website at the http://disparda.baliprov.go.id indicate that the arrival of Russian travelers is ranked 14th with 72,127 people in 2014. In 2015, the number of visits dropped drastically to negative 28.18 percent, to 51,805 travelers and the rank dropped to the 15th. As of October 2016, the Russian tourist arrival was still ranked 15th with 50,432 people. (kmb32)

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A girl plays near rubble of damaged buildings in al-Rai town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria December 25, 2016.

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“Which is better, the price of goods is expensive or there are absolutely no goods?” he asked.

He said that in general the staple supplies in Gianyar are brought in from other districts in Bali and outside Bali. “Probably, in other district or municipality the price hike has an impact, but in Gianyar it does not. Other that being a small town, the supply of major vegetable commodities can still be brought in from other districts in Bali,” he added. (kmb35)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

International

Aleppo Christians celebrate holiday in hope peace has returned

AMMAN - Christians in Aleppo celebrated under a giant Christmas tree lit up for the first time in five years, hailing what many described as the return of peace to a city that came back under full government control last week.

The fall of rebel-held east Aleppo was the biggest victory of Syria’s nearly six-year-old civil war for supporters of President Bashar alAssad, and many in pro-government parts of the city have been jubilant.

However, the rebel defeat has also brought severe hardship on civilians who fled from insurgent-held areas, thousands of whom have been forced to camp in wilderness under

the snow. Aid groups say many are in peril and children have died from exposure to severe winter weather.

In the war ravaged St. Elias Cathedral located on what was long the frontline in Aleppo’s historic Old City, priests prayed for peace at the first Christmas Eve Mass for five years, attended by dozens of worshippers, including some Russian officers.

“The festive atmosphere is great.

It’s a new birth for Jesus Christ and a new birth for the city of Aleppo,” said George Bakhash, a Christian community leader.

He said the numbers attending mass across the city had surged, now that worshippers no longer feared missiles from rebel-held areas.

Many Syrian Christians supported the government in the civil war, viewing Assad, a member of a Shi’ite-derived minority sect, as a protector against rebel fighters mainly drawn from Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority.

In the comparatively undamaged parts of the city that had long been held by the government, restaurants were thronged by Christians late into the night.

Hundreds of people danced and celebrated in the Azizya neighbourhood, where the public Christmas tree had gone unlit since rebels took the eastern half of the city in 2012.

Giant posters depicted Assad and his Christian ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In live footage shown on state television, a woman identified as the mother of slain Syrian soldier

carried her son’s picture alongside an image of the Virgin Mary.

“I am sure his soul is in peace now because Aleppo has been liberated,” she said.

Although some Christians stayed on the sidelines of the civil war, many saw the rise of Islamic State and other Sunni Muslim insurgent groups as a threat to the very existence of their communities, some as old as the bible. The Christian population of Aleppo has shrunk since the start of the conflict to around 50,000 from 250,000 according to Bakhash. (rtr)

Typhoon weakens but Philippines braces for floods, mudslides

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Children celebrate Christmas Day at the evacuation center before Typhoon Nock-ten is expected to strike Legazpi City, Albay province, central Philippines December 25, 2016.

MANILA - A typhoon weakened as it cut across the Philippines on Monday with strong wind felling trees and power lines, and authorities warned of flash floods and mudslides but there were no official reports of casualties.

Typhoon Nock-ten, locally known as Nina, weakened to 150 kph (93 mph) as it headed west towards provinces south of the capital Manila, picking up speed to 20 kph.

A storm alert was in place and land, sea and air transport were all suspended as authorities told the public to take precautions and prepare for strong wind and heavy rain.

The Philippines is one of the

world’s worst-affected countries when it comes to typhoons, with an average of 20 a year passing or hitting the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands.

Tens of thousands of people in the predominantly Christian country spent Christmas in shelters after authorities moved them to safety on higher ground.

Emergency workers were mobilised to clear roads of debris, like fallen trees and power lines in the coconut-growing region, with some central areas plunged into darkness.

The typhoon was due to make a fifth landfall in Batangas on Monday

then move towards Manila after its arrival in the country at Catanduanes province on Sunday evening.

Ricardo Jalad, head of the national disaster risk reduction management council, said there were no reports of deaths or missing people but communications were disrupted.

“We expect to get reports from the field as soon as power and telephone services are restored,” Jalad said.

Radio DZBB reported a boy was killed in Quezon province when he was pinned down by a coconut tree and another girl injured in Camarines Sur when a house collapsed. The reports could not be immediately verified. (rtr)

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Science

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Bite the dust: meek dinosaur lost its teeth as it hit adulthood

WASHINGTON - A modest little dinosaur that scampered across northwestern China 160 million years ago boasted a unique trait not seen in any other dinosaur or other prehistoric creature yet unearthed: it was born with teeth but became toothless by adulthood.

Scientists on Thursday said fossils of 19 individuals of a dinosaur called Limusaurus, ranging in age from under a year to 10 years, showed that juveniles had small, sharp teeth but adults developed a

toothless beak.

This cluster of dinosaurs, found in Xinjiang Province, apparently became hopelessly trapped in a mud pit and died.

Only rarely have scientists

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Limusaurus are seen in this illustration provided in this handout to Reuters, December 22, 2016.

found fossils of a dinosaur species ranging from babies to adults, a sequence revealing various anatomical changes that unfold as an animal matures.

Limusaurus was a lightly built two-legged dinosaur with short arms and long, slender legs. It may have had down-like feathers covering at least part of its body.

The largest ones were about 6 feet long (under 2 meters).

“It probably looked something like an emu with a long tail,” said George Washington University paleontologist Joey Stiegler, one of the researchers in the study published in the journal Current Biology.

Such tooth loss is called ontogenetic edentulism. Some animals alive today have it, including the egg-laying Australian mammal the platypus.

The adult Limusaurus individuals also were found with stones called gastroliths that some plant-eating dinosaurs swallowed to grind up plant material in the stomach. The babies lacked these.

The tooth loss and gastroliths indicate Limusaurus underwent a dramatic dietary change from birth to adulthood, starting life perhaps eating insects and small vertebrates before later turning to plants.

Limusaurus is a member of the theropod dinosaur group within which birds evolved.

George Washington University paleontologist James Clark said the findings suggest “species close to the origin of birds may have gone through a similar development, and tooth loss may have been gradual during the evolutionary origin of birds.”

“This is important in showing that growth and development in dinosaurs was more complex than previously suspected, and it provides a model for a stage that birds may have gone through in evolving their beak,” Clark added.

Birds, first appearing about 150 million years ago, evolved from small feathered dinosaurs. The earliest ones had teeth. Over tens of millions of years, many evolved toothless beaks like those in today’s birds. The last birds with teeth died with the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. (rtr)

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International

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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Swat team: scientists track humongous number of flying bugs

WASHINGTON - Counting the number of bugs whizzing high overhead annually may seem all but impossible, but researchers in Britain have completed the most comprehensive tally ever conducted.

And the headcount they came up with was almost un-bee-lievable.

A total of 3.5 trillion insects weighing a combined 3,200 tons annually migrated annually over a region in south-central England monitored with specialized radar and a balloon-supported aerial netting system, the scientists said on Thursday.

“High-altitude aerial migration of insects is enormous,” said University of Exeter entomologist Jason Chapman, whose research was published in the journal Science. “These aerial flows are an unappreciated aspect of terrestrial ecosystems, equivalent to the oceanic movements of plankton which power the oceanic food chains.”

The researchers tracked the migration of insects at altitudes between 492 feet and 3,937 feet (150-1,200-meters) over a 10-year period. They suspect even more migrating bugs could be found elsewhere.

“The numbers will be considerably higher in most parts of the world, but we lack the data to extrapolate the total numbers yet,” Chapman said.

In terms of biomass, the insects greatly exceeded migratory birds in

Britain. Their biomass was seven times that of the 30 million songbirds flying from Britain to Africa each autumn.

While the study did not plot the departure and destination points for the migrating bugs, they were thought to be traveling back and forth numerous miles (km), and sometimes over the English Channel and North Sea. “Some of the butterflies and moths we studied migrate hundreds of kilometers (miles) in each generation, and thousands of kilometers (miles) over the course of the year, which may include six generations,” Chapman said.

Insects play important roles, pollinating plants, facilitating productive soil through decomposing, serving as food sources for birds and bats, spreading disease, and serving both as crop pests and predators of crop pests.

“We could not function without them,” Chapman said.

The mass insect migrations generally headed north in spring and south in autumn.

The most abundant day-flying insects in the study included cereal aphids and the tiny parasitoid wasps that attack them. The most abundant medium-sized day-flying insects included hoverflies and ladybirds, also called ladybugs, and the most common big ones included large butterflies such as the painted lady. (rtr)

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Some road sections to Kuta Beach will be sterilized from vehicles starting on Saturday (Dec. 31) at 4 p.m. Denpasar Police have set up several parking lots for people that will celebrate the New Year’s Eve on Kuta Beach.

Security of New Year’s Eve

Road section to Kuta Beach free from vehicles

MANGUPURA - As in previous years, the security in welcoming the celebration of the New Year 2017 will be focused in Kuta, particularly on Kuta Beach. Some road sections to Kuta Beach will be sterilized from vehicles starting on Saturday (Dec. 31) at 4 p.m. Denpasar Police have set up several parking lots for people that will celebrate the New Year’s Eve on Kuta Beach.

“Road section to Kuta Beach will be specifically intended for pedestrians only. Starting today (Wednesday—Ed) we’ve disseminated brochures regarding the closing of the traffic,” said Chief of the Denpasar Police, Heri Supriawan, on Wednesday (Dec. 21).

Heri explained that the closure and diversion of traffic will be made at the intersection of Jalan

Patih Jelantik-Legian heading for Ground Zero to Jalan Legian Utara.

Furthermore, the traffic of vehicles from the intersection of Jalan Patih Jelantik-Sriwijaya is diverted to Jalan Patih Jelantik to Raya Kuta. Traffic from the intersection of Jalan Patih Jelantik-Jalan Dewi Sri to Legian will be closed and diverted eastward to Jalan Raya Kuta.

“Intersection of Jalan Raya Kuta-

Jalan Setiabudi to Kuta will be closed. Then, the intersection of Bemo Corner to Kuta Beach will be closed and diverted to the east.

We have prepared parking space at Central Parking and a few other places,” he said.

Especially for the intersection of the Art Market, he said, vehicles coming from Jalan Dewi Sartika will be directed to Jalan Ciung Wanara or Jalan Singosari. Change of traffic will be made on Jalan Singosari, from the east to the west, while on the New Year’s Eve it will be reversed, from the west to the east. Nevertheless, his authority will remain to see and take into consideration the situation in the field.

In the meantime, Jalan Legian

Selatan, Jalan Pantai Kuta and Jalan Melasti will be totally closed to vehicles. “In other words, the road section will be totally free from vehicle traffic and parking,” he said.

In addition, police also made a post at 42 points by involving 250 personnel from all the police units.

Open-close of traffic will be imposed in accordance with the situation in the field. In addition, the traffic closure will be done gradually starting at 2 a.m. until 4 a.m. in the afternoon.

Chief of traffic affairs also said that the locations frequented by visitors are Kuta Beach, Ground Zero, Matahari Kuta Square, Centro and Joger. In the meantime, the locations prone to traffic congestion include

the intersection of Jalan Legian-Jalan Patih Jelantik, Jalan Patih JelantikDewi Sri, Art Market, Jalan Raya Kuta in front of Joger and Temacun intersection. Police prepare parking space at Central Parking located on Jalan Raya Kuta, Tri Sakti Square on Jalan Patih Jelantik and hotel parking lot, restaurants, malls and other businesses.

“We have also prepared a tow truck, fire truck and ambulance alerted at the Central Parking and Kuta security post. We appealed to visitors and the people that will celebrate the New Year on Kuta Beach to obey the prevailing rules. They should care of personal safety and luggage,” he said. (kmb36)

High logistics costs in Bali becomes an obstacle for export

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The silver Y moth (Autographa gamma), pictured, is a major component of the large night-flying insect migrants studied by radar in the new study, measuring migration annually over a region in south-central England monitored with specialized radar and a balloon-supported aerial netting system, scientists said, December 22, 2016.

DENPASAR - High logistics cost of export in Bali still becomes a problem. This problem occurs from year to year, but there is no clear way out or it has not yet been resolved.

The cost increases from year to year, but what deplored is the comparison of the cost from Surabaya to Singapore only reaching 200 dollars, but from Bali to Surabaya with quite closer distance, the cost could reach three times reaching 500-600 dollars per TEU. This is expressed by Chairman of Association of Indonesian Forwarders (ALFI) Bali, Bagus John Sujayana, on Thursday (Dec. 22) at the ALFI meeting for Bali region.

“Seeing the high cost of logistics for export, we are trying to embrace the existing stakeholders to help

resolve this problem,” he said. The solution offered is direct delivery to Singapore from Benoa Harbor.

If it can be done, from a variety of costs at the harbor can be reduced. He was optimistic it could be realized because there will be operator to enter. “Hopefully, there is a way out in this discussion, but this requires a policy and solution of the government because apart from the sea is expensive, the land line is crowded. Well, the land line needs to be shifted to the sea,” he said.

If the cost can be affordable, then it can be shifted so that it needs a regulation from the government.

All this time there is just one vessel operated by Meratus, while the government is also somewhat hesitant to take further action be-

cause of concerns about monopoly.

However, with the presence of new operators to come in, he hoped the competition will occur and result in healthier business climate.

Going forward, the mission carried by ALFI Bali is to reduce logistics costs for exports in particular, considering that the ALFI members do export business, not the domestic shipping business.

Their main export market is the US, approximately reaching 20 percent, Europe (30 percent), Japan (10 percent) and some other countries where the dominant product exported by Bali are that of small industries like furniture, handicrafts and marine products.

“But we know that to encourage the Benoa Harbor into the only

export harbor is constrained by the existence of the only one operator, and the existing operator is not enough so that it needs the other operators,” he explained.

If there have been the other operators, the capacity becomes larger so that the commodities previously delivered by land line can be transferred by sea line. “Actually, it will bring in innumerable benefits but why it has not been going on well. This seems to us a bit odd. On that account, the government has to intervene in this,” he said.

Due to being unable to compete, the ALFI members initially amounting to 214 then reduced to 183 because 31 members have closed their operation. They have been abandoned by the owner and

management. “I think the challenge in this business is very large. Only those who are strong and having durability that can survive,” he said.

General Treasurer of the ALFI, Wisnu W. Pettalolo, said that the potential of Bali export is quite large. “Export of Bali is high enough particularly for the products of the SMEs with the market share of Europe, the US and the Middle East,” he said.

However, he deplored the high cost of logistics for export because it must first pass through Surabaya.

On that account, he hoped the local ALFI and government can strive so that the policy can be taken for the export and can be carried out from Bali to make efficiency. (kmb42)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Bali News

International

Art heritage of Jagaraga needs resurrecting

SINGARAJA - Art heritage of Jagaraga village in Sawan subdistrict needs to be raised back by opening the adequate staging space. One of the attempts to open this opportunity is by making performance on cruise ship berthing at Benoa Harbor last weekend.

A number of artists featured the dances and baleganjur gamelan music at noon. Then, in the evening they presented the Taruna Jaya dance on cruise ship. This performance was inseparable from the efforts made by former cruise ship worker, Gede Angastia, who is currently Chairman of the Buleleng Development Observation Forum (FPPMB).

Manager of the Global Cruise Line Bali, Daniel Ferdinand, amid the performance said that the art heritage of Jagaraga also has taksu or divine vibration that should be raised. He mentioned the names of famous artists like Gde Manik as the maestro of Taruna Jaya dance has gone worldwide. Against the

heritage, younger generation is required to continuously preserve it. Other than the art, the patriotism of Jagaraga War having owned international relations to a number of cruise ship captains is greatly admired in the country they ever stop by.

“Now, it is required to awaken young generation of Jagaraga village. The names like Gde Manik and Pan Wandres have been already known in Europe and other countries. Hopefully, it will not stop there. Current generation should be able to create something that can go globally,” he said.

In the meantime, Director of Global Cruise Line Bali, Gede Sumitra Adnyana, said that it is not

a program specifically designed for Jagaraga, but this measure introduces Buleleng tourism in general.

Aboard the dancers and gamelan musicians can interact with the ship crews and distribute brochures about the Buleleng tourism. “In the future, there is an opportunity to do promotions by disseminating brochures aboard including ship crews from Bali delivered by the Global Cruise Line Bali. Well, at least we can convey information about Buleleng tourist destination,” he said.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that the efforts made by the Jagaraga village to reawaken the art heritage is a positive measure and should be supported by all parties. In the future, all artists have the opportunity to make performance so as to promote Buleleng through the art and culture.

He asked the customary apparatus to make a legal basis, so that the

community group pursuing the art activity is well recognized.

“Gong Kebyar in Jagaraga may not become extinct and so may the Gedong Kirtya. The other heritages

should be preserved. Hopefully, the Jagaraga War memorial park will complement this revival so that it can become a tourist attraction in our region,” he added. (kmb38)

brings in rapid changes in society.

This is in line with the progress of technology used by the perpetrators.

In some cases, the criminals employ far more advanced technology.

“For instance, it is applied in the ATM fraud case, the online trading and new trends in Internet crime,” he said.

In 2017, he predicted that prominent crimes will occur in the internet because they are always looking for the opportunities in the latest trends of technology. Terrorists will also become a trend, so that we all need to be careful, especially the public participation in doing early

detection. Furthermore, narcotic crimes need to be alerted chiefly in the emergence of new substances that are very hazardous and can harm young people and children.

Crimes against women and children must also be alerted. “In my prediction, the crimes in general election will increase next year related to the simultaneous regional leader election,” he said.

Hopefully, the crime of corruption could be decreased. This is supported by the growing strength of the government’s commitment to eradicating extortion and corruption accompanied by real

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movements like the red-handed operation.

A legal practitioner, Haposan Sihombing, revealed that crime prediction in 2017 will highly depend on the safeguards carried out by state officials and the fund received from the state budget. According to him, the budget greatly affects the operations. In addition, crime will reduce if the government can improve people’s welfare. “Public awareness of the law in 2017, in my prediction, will decline due to minimal extension activities and the unstable economic condition,” he said.

When asked about prominent cases, this lawyer known to be friendly answered that it will have something to do with drug cases.

Moreover, the drug seems difficult to be eradicated because its circulation has occurred massively.

Actually, it has severe impact that can damage families and communities.

“I heard that the police budget has not been maximized. Nevertheless, I hope that police still maximize the performance, including suppressing the cases of motorcycle theft and mugging in tourism areas,” he said. (rah)

Christmas celebration takes place peacefully

DENPASAR - Community participated in helping the National Police (Polri) and Indonesian Military (TNI) to secure people conducting Christmas worship in churches in Bali on December 24 to 25. Until now, the celebration of Christmas took place safely and smoothly. Besides, the Muslims on this Island of the Gods also showed a high tolerance by taking guard at churches.

“The condition is peaceful and smooth. On Saturday afternoon until night, the regional leadership council (Forkopimda) inspected several churches in Denpasar and Badung. Governor of Bali, Bali police chief and commander of the IX/Udayana military region inspected the security system,”

said Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyoman Cantiasa.

Commander of the military resort said that he is proud and appreciate to the integrated security system on Christmas. In addition to Christmas committee, the security was assisted by police, military, pecalang (customary security guard), Muslims and other relevant agencies. “They genuinely strengthen the security at churches. Tolerance of this kind must be nurtured and strengthened in the future,” said Cantiasa.

From his monitoring at some churches, the Mass worship took place in three sessions due to high interest of Christians in celebrating Christmas. Moreover, foreign

citizen who were accidentally vacationing in Bali also participated in the worship at some churches.

“Activities of the security forces are not just focused on places of worship. However, we are also roving and spreading, specifically for the intelligence personnel in the region of Bali,” he said.

Joint patrol was also conducted by involving the military, police, municipal police and pecalang in their respective territories. It is meant to provide a sense of security and comfort for the people of Bali, both those who are saying prayers and spending holidays in Bali before the New Year 2017. “Bali is one of the favorite destinations for domestic and foreign travelers in the world. So, the safety and

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The event was held with the aim to introduce the Desa Visesa to the local community, hospitality industry, travel agent, wedding

organizer, event organizer and media in Bali to feel the village ambience and see the uniqueness of the existing facilities and diverse traditional activities that tells about the life of the Balinese farmer. Additionally, you can also see some choice of venues for wedding with theme and attractive decoration, family gathering, corporate team building and even for spa & wellness surrounded by the breathtaking view of rice paddies. Beginning by a village tour,

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comfort should be created for them in Bali to celebrate the transition of 2016 to 2017,” he said.

Similar opinion was also conveyed by the Chief of Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo. “Overall the celebration of Christmas in our region already took place safely and favorably,” he said.

According to him, it happened due to the support of all the people of Bali. There are 21 churches including the large ones receiving special attention so that they are guarded heavily by personnel of armed mobile brigade.

“We maintain the security until the activities of worship end. We call upon the people of Bali, especially of Denpasar and Badung, to still maintain the security and

conduciveness until the New Year celebration,” he hoped.

Chief of Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, admitted to be very grateful and thank all parties because the celebration of Christmas could run safely, serenely and peacefully.

This could only be realized due to the participation of all stakeholders that already helped safeguard the churches.

According to him, all the churches in Badung got special attention to anticipate undesirable things. In addition, security of the church was also helped by pecalang security guard, municipal police and other relevant agencies. “Hopefully, this condition could be maintained well in the future,” said Ruddi. (kmb36)

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Cyber and drug crimes, prominent cases in 2017

WHERE there are communities, there are certainly crimes as well.

Crimes emerging on the surface are very small when compared to the hidden crimes. This was stated by the academician Prof. Dr. Rai Setiabudhi on Sunday (Dec. 25).

According to him, crime always goes with the times and is getting more and more sophisticated pursuant to technological development that can lead to changes in society.

At the same time, criminals also commit their actions in the more sophisticated way. With rapid technological advances, especially in information technology, it also

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Every Saturday 9AM-2PM OrganIc Farmer’s Market Pizza Bagus (Jl. Pengosekan), Ubud EVERY SUNDAY Soul to soul spirituall dialogue Anand Ashram, Ubud Jl Sri Wedari KM 3 Mantra chanting 6-6:30pm Navaraha Arati 6:30-6:45pm Meditation, Satsang and celebration 6:45-8:30pm www.ubudashram.org SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

the event was enlivened by the Balinese Gamelan, ‘Bali Tempo Doeloe’ photo booth, traditional food and beverage, special offers ended by door prize.

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Hita Karana. Offers uplifting activities to take curious guests on a journey that explores the island’s culture, nature and spiritual nuance through respectful interactions with the local community. Engaging pastimes such as making offerings, traditional dance lesson and water blessing ceremony will enable guests to experience Bali’s traditions on a more personal level.

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Singer George Michael of Wham! fame dies at 53

LONDON - British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday. He was 53.

In the mid-1980s, “Wham! was one of the most successful pop duos ever, ahead even of Simon & Garfunkel, with singles like ““Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, ““Careless Whisper”, ““Last Christmas” and ““The Edge of Heaven”.

“It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period,” his publicist

said in a statement.

“The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage,” the statement said.

British police said Michael’s death was “unexplained but not suspicious.”

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou June 25, 1963 in London to Greek Cypriot immigrant parents

in a flat above a north London laundrette, Michael once played music on the London underground train system before finding fame with Wham!.

With a school friend, Andrew Ridgeley, he formed Wham! in 1981, a partnership that would produce some of the most memorable pop songs and dance-floor favorites of the 1980s.

“I am in deep shock,” said Elton John. “I have lost a beloved friend the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans. @ GeorgeMichael #RIP.” (rtr) British singer and actor George Michael waves as he leaves a news conference to introduce the film ‘George Michael: A Different Story’ by Southan Morris which is not part of the competition at the 55th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 16, 2005.

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A man wearing a respiratory protection mask walks toward an office building during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing’s central business district, China, December 21, 2016.

China smog war moves to courts with range of crimes to widen

SHANGHAI - China’s courts will widen the range of offences that constitute “environmental crimes” to make it easier to take legal action against polluters, a senior judiciary official told a news briefing on Monday.

The new rules could allow prosecutors to take on persistent offenders in northern China’s Hebei province, which was engulfed in heavy smog last week despite being on the front line of China’s nearly three-year “war on pollution”.

Yan Maokun, head of a research office at the Supreme People’s Court, told reporters authorities had struggled to gather evidence required to prosecute, according to

a transcript of a briefing published on China’s official court website (http://www.chinacourt.org).

“Air pollution is different from water pollution or soil pollution, and it is extremely difficult to get evidence for air pollution crimes because after the pollution is emitted it undergoes a large degree of dispersal, and is very quickly diluted,” Yan said.

Prosecutors would focus on

specific offences such as tampering with sensor equipment or providing false emissions data, and firms found guilty would be punished regardless of the amount of pollution involved, he said.

“It doesn’t matter how much you emit because in fact that is very hard to detect, but if you have distorted or fabricated data or interfered with the operation of equipment, this ... will constitute an environmental crime,” Yan said.

Public anger is mounting in China about pollution, and what many see as government talk, but little action, to end it. Worry about

pollution has on occasion sparked protests.

Eight cities in Hebei launched “red alerts” last week in response to the smog, which reached record levels at some monitoring stations.

Hebei came under fire from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and a number of its steel firms were singled out for failing to suspend operations.

Governor Zhang Qingwei said in the province’s first official response that the province would learn lessons and step up its efforts.

“We need to seriously study and

analyse our responses, sum up our experiences, and find problems and deficiencies in order to draw up more focused measures,” Zhang was quoted as saying on an official website (http://www.hebei. gov.cn).

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