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HAVANA - The Rolling Stones rocked a massive crowd at a free, outdoor concert in Havana on Friday, capping a week of engagement with the West for the Communist-led country that once censored the veteran British band’s music. The Stones started their firstever show in Cuba with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” a song recorded in 1968, when Cuban rock fans were secretly sharing pirated vinyl records and risked being sent to rural work brigades to cure “ideological deviation.” “We know that years back it was hard to hear our music in Cuba, but here we are playing. I also think the times are changing,” lead singer Mick Jagger said in Spanish to a roar from the crowd. The singer spoke in Spanish throughout of the 18-song show of hits that lasted more than two hours. The band played “Sympathy for the Devil” as a yellow moon rose through clouds, and they finished a two-song encore with “Satisfaction.” Fans started gathering 18 hours ahead of time at Havana’s Sports City football and baseball fields, including Cubans who traveled from across the Caribbean’s largest island and foreigners who flew in for the occasion. While no official estimate was
immediately available for the crowd size, Cuban state media estimated half a million people could fit in the venue, which was nearly full. The audience ranged from teenagers to pensioners and reserved some of the biggest cheers for Jagger’s snakey dance moves. “I love Mick Jagger so much. I’ve always dreamed about this. I couldn’t sleep knowing he would be here,” said Angela Menendez, who cleans floors in a hospital. Security was low key and there was a noticeable absence of wouldbe entrepreneurs selling T-shirts or memorabilia. People were dressed in all manner of jeans, T-shirts and boots with the Stones’ tongue and lips logo. Cubans have taken to coloring the tongue with the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag, whether in the mistaken belief that the British rock stars were American or in the spirit of this week’s historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Stones formed in London
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Oversupply of hotel rooms could spell doom
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Fans attend a free outdoor concert by the Rolling Stones at Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex in Havana, Cuba March 25, 2016. in 1962, three years after Fidel Castro’s bearded rebels toppled a pro-American government.
Castro’s revolutionary government came to see counterculture bands like the Stones and the Beat-
les as dangerously subversive and prohibited their music on TV and radio. (rtr)
Australian actor Hugh Jackman helps swimmers to safety from dangerous surf
SYDNEY - Australian actor Hugh Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Saturday, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. Jackman is shown linking hands with a man and pulling him from a fast-flowing channel on to a sandbar, where the water is shallow, in television footage broadcast by the Nine Network. The network said Jackman later helped his own son, Oscar, 15, from the same current. Peter Adam, who told Nine he was the man Jackman helped, said he wasn’t REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files rescued by the film star. Actor Hugh Jackman arrives for the premiere of the film “Chappie” in New York in this March “He wasn’t rescuing me, I was as4, 2015 file photo. Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on March 26, sisting him to get his daughter up to 2016, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand
to get us up,” Adam said. The actor is also shown beckoning other swimmers to shore, away from a rip current flowing out to sea. Jackman was at the beach with his family, Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. Witness Lynzey Murphy told the paper that surf conditions changed quickly, but that Jackman stayed calm. “When we got in the water 20 minutes earlier it was fine. Then the water just came up suddenly,” she said. “Hugh just pulled them calmly on to the sandbar. He then said: ‘All right, we are going to walk towards the flags.’” A lifeguard told the paper that the beach was later closed because of dangerous surf. (rtr)
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In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, photo, North Korean soldiers march across the Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. With tensions high and the United States and South Korea preparing to hold their massive annual wargames, Pyongyang is warning it will respond to any violations of its territory with “merciless” retaliation, including strikes on Seoul and the U.S. mainland itself.
MANGUPURA - Currently Bali has about 130,000 hotel rooms, most of which are located in South Bali. In Badung district alone there are 95,000 rooms with occupancy rates below 60 percent for star hotels and 40 percent for non-star hotels. Results of a study conducted by the Badung Tourism Promotion Board (BPBD) in 2015 shows that hotel rooms are in oversupply. “The increase tin the number of hotel rooms has occired too quickly and they are all concentrated in the South. Ideally, the occupancy rate should be around 70-80 percent or more for star hotels, and above 50 percent for budget hotels. An occupancy rate of just 40 percent, is only enough to cover operation costs” said member of BPBD Badung, I Putu Anom, during a tourism seminar in Kuta. Rooms... Continued on page 2
North Korea warns of strike on Seoul’s presidential palace
PYONGYANG — North Korea warned Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul’s presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes for “treason” and publicly executes officials responsible for what Pyongyang says are plans to attack its leadership. The warning, issued by state media in the name of a unit of the Korean People’s Army, is the latest in a barrage of threats against Washington and Seoul over joint military drills now underway that the North sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion. It also came shortly after a North Korean propaganda outlet posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. The joint military exercises are held annually, but tensions are particularly high this year because the drills
are bigger than ever and come on the heels of North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch. Further angering Pyongyang have been reports in South Korean media that this year’s exercises include simulated training for a “decapitation strike” targeting North Korea’s top leaders. The warning Saturday said the South Korean presidential palace is within striking range of the North’s artillery units, and that if an order to attack is made it is “just a click away.”
North Korea is believed to have artillery capable of striking Seoul with little or no warning and causing severe damage and casualties in the city of 10 million. A strike on Seoul, however, is highly unlikely, and Pyongyang has previously issued similar threats without following through. There were few signs Saturday of the heightened tensions in Pyongyang, where residents went about their daily routines as usual. Earlier on Saturday, the North Korean propaganda website DPRK Today posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington. The four-minute video, titled “Last Chance,” showed a digitally
created scene of a missile fired from a submerged vessel in the sea soaring through the clouds, darting back to Earth, and crashing into the streets near Washington’s Lincoln Memorial before the explosion wipes out the city. “Choose, United States. Whether the country called United States continues to exist in this planet depends on your choice,” read a message that flashed on the screen to the background of a burning U.S. Capitol building and American flag. The video also warned that the North would “not hesitate” to attack the United States with its nuclear weapons if “American imperialists even make the slightest move against us.”
A similar video got a great deal of attention in 2013, when North Korea also conducted a nuclear test and satellite launch. North Korea has been developing its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, but is not believed to have perfected either enough to pose a credible threat to major U.S. cities.(ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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The oversupply of hotel rooms, said Anom, causes competition to be far too tight. Tariff wars are unavoidable and are ongoing these days. Actually, in 2000 his organization warned the government to be careful about issuing permits for new hotels until 2010. “Again and again we have proposed that a moratorium be issued. Small local entrepreneurs with little capital are now in a difficult situation and increasingly marginalized. Their needs to be an interlude with no more additional rooms being created in South Bali” emphasized Anom who is also Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Intellectuals (ICPI) Bali. Anom added that on average local hotel entrepreneurs are only able to break even. Nay more new hotel projects will surely make the competition even worse and likely many local hotels –especially in South Bali, will go bankrupt. It would appear that investors are still reluctant to invest in other parts of Bali. “Indeed, Bali still remains appealing but the problem is traffic congestion. Everything is concentrated on South Bali. Not to mention, the problem on land and water availability” he said.
Member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that the government has only been looking at the prosperity of Bali using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of growth, whereas a more accurate indicator of the prosperity of society is the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GDP explained Ardhana only takes income into account while the GPI looks at both income and expenses. “For example, if a city faces traffic congestion, for the GDP this indicates that people are earning enough money to buy a car. While the GPI looks at the increase in people’s income but also factors in additional costs such as fuel, pollutants that are generated and long delays in peoples’ mobility that also need to be calculated as part of prosperity which also affect overall prosperity”, he explained. Similarly, in the tourism sector, said Ardhana the GPI looks at more than just high hotel and restaurant taxes. “Does the amount of money generated through the hotel and restaurant tax indicate that tourism has provided prosperity for the people?” he questioned. In other words, the GPI also considers to what extent cultural tourism has been undermined despite the large number of tourists as an indication of a prosperous society.
“A regional leader should have the courage and confidence to impose a moratorium. We must consider things on this basis and look at whether the cost of sacrificing our culture is equal to the amount of income or hotel and restaurant tax received and is it providing the welfare to the people as we expect” he explained. Ardhana asserted that it is impossible for people to become prosperous at the expense of cultural tourism because cultural tourism is the lifeblood of the Balinese people. If cultural tourism is abandoned for the
sake of ‘modern tourism’, this will automatically mean that Balinese people will have handed over their possessions to others, he said. “In other words, we have given “the cooking pot of the Balinese people” to others so instead of being able to cook for ourselves, we have to ask for food to eat. Local businessmen are giving up, it is enough to become someone’s employee because capitalism now rules here”, he lamented. Ardhana went on to say that it is time for Bali to stop talking about accommodations and start thinking
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about destinations that can produce the same amount of income as the hotel and restaurant tax. Bali has so many unique tourist destinations but what is needed said Ardhana is a management board to oversee the creation of good infrastructure, promotion and ways of increasing the value of tourists attractions. “Is it accommodations that have made Singapore’s tourism flourish? Not really it is high levies. We already now that we have many destinations, they just need to be managed well” stated Ardhana. (kmb32)
Bali’s culture: supporting pillar of the economy
MANGUPURA — Advisor to the Minister of Multicultural Affairs in the Ministry of Tourism, Hari Untoro Dradjat said that the core value of Bali tourism lies in its Hinduism inspired culture. Dradjat said that he is confident that 60 percent of the interest that travelers have in visiting Bali is based on the culture found here, 30 percent is based on the island natural beauty and 10 percent of traveler interest in visiting Bali is for so-called ‘artificially-made’ tourism. “All creativity that emerges here is based on the local culture. Artificial tourism -like zoos and such, remain nonetheless associated with environmental preservation” said Dradjat in his key note address to IBP/file participants at a tourism seminar Giving offerings everyday is one of the culture of the Hindus held in Kuta. Hari added that tourism is not in Bali.
just about visitors going home with souvenirs. Visitors also need to bring home a collection of memories so that they will feel inspired to return again and again. “On that account, we continue to promote Bali and Bali remains on the leading edge of tourism even though the central government is
currently developing 10 other ‘priority tourist destinations’ in Indonesia that are being referred to as the ‘10 new Balis’, he explained. Bali is very strong in terms of its cultural appeal, but Bali also faces two threats to its tourism sector; social issues like bomb or terrorism threats and natural disasters that cause people to cancel their trips, said Hari. He therefore hopes that the media can help to dampen these threats by establishing positive information. According to data from the Ministry of Tourism, visitors to Bali account for 4.6 million or 40% of the foreign visitors who come to Indonesia (kmb32)
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Hot weather dries up paddy fields
BANGLI - The hot weather of the last few days has caused drought for dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Pengiangan Kawan, Pengiangan village, Susut. As a result, farmers have been forced to cancel the planting of their rice seedlings teven thought the seedlings are ready to be planted. The extremly hot weather is also threatening the rice plants that were planted a few weeks ago. Local farmers, I Nyoman Subagia, explained on Tuesday (Mar. 22) that hot weather over the last few days has resulted in a reduced flow of water to the irrigation channels. Therefore, the paddy fields , which are he and other farmers’ only source of income are facing drought making it impossible for them to grow rice even though the seedlings have been prepared long in advance. “After the hot weather hit, the water flow stopped and the paddy fields dried out, so I cannot grow rice” he said. Apparently this is the worst drought in ten years. Subagia said that usually when the dry season comes, only about half of the paddy fields remain wet enough to be planted but this year the land does not produce at all causing man farmers to suffer losses. “This is the first time that this has happened so farmers are nervous about their future. The seedlings that are ready to be raised have become useless” he said. Subagia, who also works as a sea sand carver added: “I am forced to switch to planting other crops like corn and sweet potatoes so that I can earn some income”. Farmer, I Nyoman Nedeng is facing AP Photo/Alastair Grant
This Saturday, March 26, 2016 photo shows chocolate Easter Eggs and bunnies on display in a shop near the EU Commission in Brussels. While chocolatiers throughout the city are quick to offer condolences to the victims of the tragedy, they are equally fast to express concern about the future. Their livelihoods depend on people from around the globe streaming into their shops to indulge in their world famous goodies _ and they know tourists don’t go anywhere to be afraid.
Chocolate and beer: Belgians fear attacks will hurt tourism
BRUSSELS — At the aptly named Planete Chocolat, the shelves are laden with enticing Easter treasures for shoppers: bunnies with bows, pastel-wrapped eggs and elegant boxes of pralines. Swannee Vranckx, a clerk at the shop near Brussels’ main square, said she would normally have seen 50 to 100 customers by midafternoon in the days before one of the biggest holidays of the Christian year. But after the bombing attacks that shattered the tranquility of Belgium’s capital, only a handful had come in search of Easter treats. While the city’s chocolatiers are quick to offer condolences to the victims of the tragedy, they are equally fast to express their concerns about the future. Their livelihoods depend on people from around the globe streaming into their shops to indulge in their
world-famous goodies — and they know that tourists don’t go places they don’t feel safe. “I’m sure it will happen — people will cancel their trips,” Vranckx said. “They think it is a place for terrorists.” The March 22 attacks that killed 31 people and wounded 270 are only Brussels’ latest brush with violence. Just days before the bombings, Belgian and French police arrested Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris, in his Brussels hideout. In May 2014, three people were killed when a gunman targeted the Jewish museum of Belgium. The notion that Belgium, a small Western European nation of 11 million, might become known for terrorism is shocking to many here. This is a place where U.S. President Barack Obama says it was “easy to
love a country known for chocolate and beer.” And at Easter, the nation’s sweet tooth is on full display: shop windows are crammed with chocolate. Belgians are said to eat more than 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of the stuff every year — ranking them among the world’s top consumers. The country traces its love affair with chocolate to King Leopold II’s control of the Congo in the late 19th century, which provided the country with a ready supply of cocoa. Things really began to take off after 1912, when the son of a Swiss pharmacist created the first filled chocolates, which he called pralines, at his family’s Brussels factory. Today, Belgian chocolatiers ship their wares around the world and Brussels shopkeepers compete with artistic window displays in hopes of luring in tourists on their way to the
art museums or the Grand Place, the UNESCO world heritage site. This year, not far from there, residents and visitors alike gathered to remember the victims and scrawl messages of sadness and hope in the aftermath of the attacks. The bombings will cut consumer spending on recreation, leisure and tourism but they are likely to have only a short-term impact on the whole Belgian economy, according to Francesca Peck, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London. The losses may be magnified because the attacks occurred so close to the long Easter weekend, when restaurants and bars are typically busy. As a result, the Belgian economy is expected to grow 1.45 percent this year, down from a previous forecast of 1.6 percent, IHS estimated. But the slowdown will probably be temporary, as it was after the November attacks in Paris, where
shoppers refused to change their habits in the face of terror threats, Peck said. “As terrible as the events in Brussels have been, economic activity is typically pretty resilient to terrorist attacks,” she wrote. Belgians, though, are worried about what this means for the longer term — will people in Japan, the United States and China change their minds about visiting their beloved cobblestone streets and classic European cafes? Shopkeepers were just beginning to hope things were about to improve as the months after the Paris attacks had passed uneventfully. Now all bets are off. At the sleek Neuhas chocolate shop near from the Grand Place, manager Tim Verstraeten could only shake his head. “We don’t know what is going to happen,” he said. (ap)
similar conditions and said that the hot weather has put a damper on his intention to grow rice. The land was ploughed some time ago, but because the irrigation water is not flowing, the land has dried up. “Out of necessity we planted rice at the beginning of March but the hot weather has dried out the land. My rice seedlings will go to waste” he complained. Nedeng, who relies on agriculture for his livelihood said that there is not much that he can do -the water is just not flowing. Planting corn is the only way around this problem. “Hopefully, this can provide income” he said hopefully. Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Plantation Unit for Susut subdistrict, I Wayan Arimbawa, confirmed that hot weather has impacted the agricultural sector but added that not all subak (irrigation cooperative) in the area have been adversely affected. “This hot weather has indeed caused paddy fields to dry out and prevented farmers from planting rice. But this only happened to Subak Pengiangan Kawan that covers approximately fourteen hectares” he explained. (kmb45)
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The hot weather of the last few days has caused drought for dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Pengiangan Kawan, Pengiangan village, Susut.
Leko art, the only one in Jembrana In need of attention of government
NEGARA - The region of Jembrana has more gamelan musical instruments made of bamboo and or wood than East and North Bali where gamelans tend to be made of copper, iron and bronze. One of the unique bamboo gamelans made in Jembrana is known as Leko that are produced in Pancardawa hamlet, Pendem. The leko is estimated to
have first emerged in 1915. Pendem community leader Nyoman Dika, said that the birth of leko was inspired by gogo paddy (nonirrigated variety of rice paddy). It is said that as the farmers waited to harvest this slow growing crop, they sat in the shacks and yearned for entertainment. Using the materials that were readily available,
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One of the unique bamboo gamelans made in Jembrana is known as Leko that are produced in Pancardawa hamlet, Pendem.
farmers in the area started to create one instrument at a time, until a full gamelan set was created. Eventually they combined these bamboo gamelans with other instruments such as cymbals drums, explained Dika. “Their additional instruments were mostly made of bamboo and wood” he added. Before dancers accompanied the leko gamelan, the set comprised five tangguh, with two barangan, two kantilan, and the largest one called undir. Each bamboo gamelan instrument has 14 noted. After a time dancers started to accompany the leko players and then two more tangguh were added comprised of three barangan, three kantilan, and one undir, as well as two drums: a bamboo kenong, an iron gong along with some cymbals and flutes. A leko art troupe usually consists of 25 people, including a reserve player. Dika who leads an leko troup said that researched this art form by compiling information a number of leko players and from the elders of Pendem village who were involved in developing this unique art form, including dancers Nengah Lawar and Ni Ketut Weti as well as the late I Wayan Teragi who created one of the original leko gamelans and the late I Wayan Dresta who first cho-
reographed the leko dance. These and others provided important contributions to the development of this art form. “In the past, leko was only used to supplement ritual ceremonies in the homes of local residents. the royal family for example often held perfomances of leko gamelan” explained Dika. Over the course of time, art of leko swa some changes and in 1991 Dika along with other members of the troupe breathed new life into it –particularly in terms of the dance. Today, leko is not only used to complement ritual procession, like the deva yajña but also to accompany social dances (ibing- ibingan), given that there is no “gong” or metallic gamelan orchestra back then. A year later in 1992, the former regent of Jembrana I.B. Indugosa declared leko a rare art because there was only one troupe in Jembrana. “At the inauguration, he was present with local government officials Gusti Windia and Ketut Surung, and asked that leko be preserved. After that, whenever there was an official celebration or the welcoming of guests in the district of Jembrana, the leko gamelan troupe would play. They have also performed at the Bali Arts Festival
at the Denpasar Arts Center. Etymologically, the term leko cannot be interpreted, but artistically leko dance resembles the joged bumbung dance except that instead of just one dancer there are two dancers in leko. Leko dancers wear a costume quite similar to that worn by Legong Kraton dancers but the kebaya is white with a scarf tied around the chest of the dancers and both arms are richly ornamented with bracelets. The dancers wear the same headdress as the condong and their wear a sarong but without any anklets. The music of leko is played much slower than the music for joged bumbung and after the pengungkab sabda (opening music) the two dancers on the stage area known as pedum karan, begin their graceful movements similar to the condong dancers’ movements. After this prelude, typically there is a 20 minute social dance time (ibingibingan), followed by another two formal dancers who dance to leko compositions known as sebitan penyalin, tetangisan, cunguh landak and endih-endih api, bayan sangit and others. Every dancer is guarded by a customary security guard (pecalang), who is armed with a sword. Leko performances end with a closing musical interlude. (kmb)
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ITDC launched new logo
Islamic State driven out of Syria’s ancient Palmyra city
NUSA DUA - The management of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) launched a new logo as symbol of commitment to develop tourism area. The launched initiated by President Director of ITDC, Abdulbar M. Mansyur, took place in ITDC’s office on Wednesday, March 23rd. According to Abdulbar this logo is symbol to management’s commitment on supporting government in national development by developing tourism area. He explained the blue and green color in the new logo symbolized the lanscape of Indonesia that dominated by green forest and blue ocean. He mentioned the Nusa Dua area have around 5,000 rooms and employeed 10 thousand employees. As a high quality tourism area, Nusa Dua hoped to give benefit to Bali and Indonesia. Abdulbar explained that besides developing Nusa Dua area, ITDC also develops Mandalika tourism area. “The best practices in Nusa Dua can be a role model for Mandalika and others tourism area development,” he said. He feels optimistic through
increasing quality and developing sustainable tourism area, the 20 millions tourists’ target can be reached by 2019. Operational Director A.A. Ngurah Wirawan added ITDC’s management focus in increasing Nusa Dua’s infrastructure to become the best destination in the world. As for today, ITDC has invest USD 1 million to develop waste treatment. The company also develop system information application for security so tourists can enjoy the beauty of Nusa Dua area with more secure and comfortable. Not only that, ITDC will launched digital information about ITDC, both hotels and restaurants, also the menus. “Tourists only have to download the app to find out all about ITDC. We will develop digital area with 5G, 5S, and 5B,” he stated. (kmb18)
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Supporters of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who are allies of Shiite rebels known as Houthis, attend a rally to mark the first anniversary of the Saudi-led military campaign against them, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
The launching of the new ITDC logo
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Presence of modern store harms small merchants
BANGLI - In fact, the existence of the mushrooming chain modern store in Bangli has an impact on the bankruptcy of several people’s small businesses. In Kintamani, a number of merchants at Singamandawa market gradually go bankrupt because they are unable to compete against one of the modern stores standing close to the market. Such reality was revealed by the chief security of Singamandawa market, Kintamani, Made Sadia, when the Special Committee
of the Bangli House of Representatives in charge of the protection and management of shopping center and modern stores to conduct site inspection, Thursday (Mar. 24). Sadia explained that from the beginning he and several other merchants actually quite objected to the presence of modern stores located right in front of the market. However, he does not have the right to prohibit the modern store business. He added that since the modern stores was
in operation a number of merchants originally having a stall at the Singamandawa market slowly decided to close their business. The closure, he said, happened due to competition against modern stores selling from morning till night. “In the past, there were many merchants from Gianyar and Klungkung selling here. But since the past few years, they choose to shut down because they are unable to compete,” he explained. To protect small merchants in the competi-
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The existence of the mushrooming chain modern store in Bangli has an impact on the bankruptcy of several people’s small businesses.
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tion against modern stores, the government is asked to tighten licensing. According to Sadia, the government should be able to set the radius of modern stores from traditional market so as not to harm the small merchants. Since the modern stores are already established, he hoped the government can arrange the operation hours. “Hopefully, open hours of the modern stores can be arranged in such a way so that they do not cause our business to go bankrupt,” he said. In the site inspection on Thursday (Mar. 24), none of the modern stores visited by the Special Committee can present the completeness of their operating permit. Various reasons were given by store management. There is a reason if the licensing was submitted by the central office, while the other told if the licensing document is being brought by the superior. Chairman of the Special Committee, I Nengah Darsana, who led the inspection, alleged if the inspected modern stores do not have a permit. As follow-up of the inspection, he claimed to be inviting the executives to get together and discuss about it. Aspiration of merchants at traditional market will also be followed up in the discussion of the regional bylaw draft on the Protection and Structuring of Traditional Markets, Shopping Centers and Modern Stores. Darsana confirmed if the regional bylaw draft being discussed this time is not to impede and obstruct the operation of modern stores. Rather, it simply wanted to organize and curb licensing completeness. “As a follow up, we suggest the owners to submit the permit of modern store to local government,” he said. (kmb40)
Tens of thousands of Yemenis mark a year of war, denounce Saudi-led offensive
SANAA - Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the war between a coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Iranallied fighters who had overthrown the government. More than 6,200 people have been killed since the coalition joined the war to try to stop the Houthis from taking control of Yemen the country and to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power. Hadi had been ousted after Houthi forces took over the capital Sanaa in Septemer 2014. Saudi-led foreign forces intervened on the side of fighters loyal to Hadi six months later. The demonstration, one of the biggest in Yemen since mass protests in 2011 forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, took place ahead of a ceasefire and U.N.sponsored peace talks next month. Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, made a rare appearance at the demonstration, his first since the war began, offering an olive branch to the Saudi-led coalition.
“We extend a hand of peace, the peace of the brave, for the direct talks with the Saudi regime without a return to the (U.N.) Security Council, which is incapable of resolving anything,” Saleh told flag-waving supporters who also held up large posters of the former president. The United Nations says the war has displaced some 2.3 million people and precipitated a humanitarian disaster across large parts of the Arab world’s poorest country. “We came out today to tell the world, that the Yemeni people remain steadfast, that we have endured a whole year despite the siege and the hunger and the airstrikes and the planes,” said one participant, named Kamel alKhodani. The United Nations envoy an-
nounced this week that the warring parties had agreed to a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 followed by peace talks in Kuwait from April 18 as part of a fresh push to end the crisis following two rounds of failed talks last year. Later on Saturday, Houthi supporters also held a separate protest to mark the anniversary. “Today, all Yemenis, from all different sects, and regardless of their political affiliations, came out today in the masses to show the world that the Yemeni people can never be shaken nor defeated,” said Houthi leader Ibrahim al Ubaidi. The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement said on Friday he wanted efforts to end a year-long war to succeed but his group was ready to confront its enemies if violence persisted. “We hope that efforts to end the aggression will be successful, it is in the interest, and a demand, of our people” Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said in a televised speech. (rtr)
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a “mortal blow” to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army general command said that its forces took over the city with support from Russian and Syrian air strikes, opening up the huge expanse of desert leading east to the Islamic State strongholds of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor. Palmyra would become “a launchpad to expand military operations” against the group in those two provinces, it said, promising to “tighten the noose on the terrorist group and cut supply routes ... ahead of their complete recapture”. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were still clashes on the eastern edge of Palmyra on Sunday morning, around the prison and inside the airport, but the bulk of the Islamic State force had withdrawn and retreated east, leaving the city under President Bashar al-Assad’s control. Amaq, a news agency close
to Islamic State, said its fighters launched a twin suicide attack against government forces in west Palmyra, without giving details. Syrian state-run television broadcast from inside the city on Sunday morning, showing largely deserted streets and several badly damaged buildings. It quoted a military source saying Syrian and Russian jets were targeting Islamic State fighters as they fled, hitting dozens of vehicles on the roads leading east from the city. Russia’s intervention in September turned the tide of Syria’s five-year conflict in Assad’s favour. Despite its declared withdrawal of most military forces two weeks ago, Russian jets and helicopters carried out dozens of strikes daily over Palmyra as the army pushed into the city. “This achievement represents a mortal blow to the terrorist organisation and lays the foundation for a great collapse in the morale of its mercenaries and the beginning of its defeat,” the army command statement said. In a pointed message to the United States, which has led a separate Western and Arab coalition against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq since 2014, the military command said its gains showed that the army “and its friends” were the only force able to uproot terrorism. (rtr)
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Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad take positions on a look-out point overlooking the historic city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 27, 2016.
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rice they once grew, and outsiders hold most of the plantation jobs. Despite promised development, many roads are still dirt. Kop Let, wife of a village chief, says her family has struggled since the plantation swallowed most of their 12 hectares (30 acres). She grows cassava on their remaining land, sells homemade rice wine and has taken out a $3,000 loan. “I have now become a poor woman,” she says. “Our identity as a people is disappearing little by little.” The Bunong say they never were warned their land would be taken and were not offered compensation before the land started to be cleared — two steps required under Cambodian law. Many say they felt forced to accept what they considered to be inadequate compensation. Socfin, the Luxembourg-based agro-industrial company whose unit owns most of all three Bousra plantations, said it was invited by the government and that villagers were informed and compensated beforehand, but declined to provide evidence. Its joint venture with Cambodian developer Khaou Chuly Development Co., or KCD, operates two of the plantations. “We brought wealth to a place where there was nothing,” Socfin CEO Luc Boedt told The Associated Press in an interview in Brussels.(ap)
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In this Feb. 23, 2015 photo, Cambodian Environment Minister Say Sam Al gives an interview to the Associated Press in Phnom Penh. Minister Say Sam Al defended the economic land concession program as a way to promote growth in the poor country as it struggled to recover from decades of civil war, but acknowledged problems in carrying it out.
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Indonesia invites parties to avoid conflict in South China Sea
Cambodia’s zeal for rubber drives ethnic group from land BOUSRA — For generations, the indigenous Bunong were famous as the elephant keepers and masters of the forests in eastern Cambodia. They called the fertile, rolling hills of their ancestral homeland “meh ne,” or mother. From its rich red soil, they harvested rice, pumpkins and bananas. From the forests, they gathered honey, resin and medicinal plants. Under the leafy canopies, they buried their dead and worshipped spirits. That changed in 2008, when without warning, bulldozers made way for rubber plantations the government granted to a European-Cambodian joint venture in poor, rural Mondulkiri province. Such economic land concessions were meant to promote development, but for 800 Bunong families, the long-term leases have brought mostly hardship and loss. The Cambodian human rights group LICADHO estimates more than 200 state-linked land deals have harmed 500,000 people, and the U.N. has called land-rightsrelated conflicts Cambodia’s top human-rights problem. Josie Cohen, land campaigner at Global Witness, which investigates economic networks behind environmental destruction, said land leases are “altering the very fabric of rural societies” in Cambodia and nearby Laos and Myanmar. The Bunong of Bousra commune now must earn money to buy
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, job seekers create resumes at the NJ Department of Labor’s resume clinic in the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, N.J.
Job totals trail prerecession levels in 10 US states
WASHINGTON — Ten U.S. states still have not regained all the jobs they lost in the Great Recession, even after six and a half years of recovery, while many more have seen only modest gains. The figures help illustrate the uneven nature of the economic rebound since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. They also suggest why many Americans feel the improvement has passed them by. Ongoing economic anxiety, despite some data suggesting the economy has recovered, is fueling much of the support for insurgent presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Wyoming had 3 percent fewer jobs last month than it did in December 2007, when the recession began, the Labor Department said Friday. That is the biggest percentage decline among the states. Alabama’s job total trails its prerecession level by 2.7 percent, followed by New Mexico, where job totals are 2.6 percent lower. Some larger states are also still
behind. New Jersey has nearly 1 percent fewer jobs than it did at the end of 2007, and Missouri is just below its pre-recession level. The other five are: Mississippi, Nevada, Maine, Connecticut, and West Virginia. Other states have notched very small gains that likely trail population growth. Illinois has 8,600 more jobs than it did in December 2007, a gain of just 0.1 percent. Arizona’s job count is up just 9,200, or 0.3 percent. And Ohio has added 58,100 jobs, or 1.1 percent. All those gains are far below the 4 percent increase in jobs nationwide from December 2007 through February 2016, according to government figures. Three-fifths of states have seen job gains below that national average. Some areas have seen much
greater hiring. Four states have recorded double-digit increases in their total payrolls, along with Washington, D.C.: North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. The oil and gas drilling boom has lifted North Dakota’s job count by more than 20 percent, even though falling energy prices have caused significant layoffs in the past year. Texas has also benefited from the energy boom, as well as greater high-tech hiring in cities like Austin. Utah and Colorado have also benefited from fast-growing information technology companies. The data also shows how the decline in the unemployment rate in some states has exaggerated the improvement in their economies. The rate in Michigan, for example, fell to 4.8 percent last month, down from 5.9 percent a year ago and onetenth of a point below the national average. Yet Michigan’s job count has increased just 1.6 percent since the recession began, less than half the nationwide gain.(ap)
HAINAN - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has invited all parties to maintain peace and security in the South China Sea area to avoid direct conflict that can cause losses. Indonesia is a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute, Kalla stated during a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, China, on Thursday. However, Indonesia realizes that the dispute has the potential to turn into a direct conflict that can be detrimental to the region, noted Kalla. The conflict can negatively impact the economic conditions in all countries involved in the South China Sea dispute, Kalla affirmed. The Indonesian government believes that all countries must prioritize mutual respect and refrain in order to maintain peace and security in the South China Sea area, Kalla pointed out. “I want to emphasize our commitment to reaching a peaceful resolution through diplomatic and political processes. I also call upon all countries to respect the principles of international law as set out in the UNCLOS,” Kalla stated. Earlier, an incident had occurred in the Indonesian waters off Natuna involving a Chinese fishing vessel and a coast guard ship. The incident began when the Hiu 11 vessel of the Marine and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) intercepted and
detained the KM Kway Fey 10078, a Chinese fishing vessel on Saturday afternoon. When KM Kway Fey was being escorted to base by the KKP officers, a Chinese coast guard ship rammed into the Chinese fishing vessel, apparently to prevent it from being taken away by the ministrys personnel. In a bid to prevent conflict, the KKP officers returned to the Hiu 11 vessel along with the eight detained crew members of the Chinese fishing vessel. Indonesia, through Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, has lodged a protest with Chinas Charge dAffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide over Chinese coast guard violations in its waters. As part of the protest, the Indonesian government has firstly objected to the violations committed by the Chinese coast guard against the countrys sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental shelf. Secondly, the Indonesian government has raised a protest on the violation by the Chinese coast guard against its law enforcement agencies on the EEZ and continental shelf. Third, the Indonesian government has protested to the violation committed by the Chinese coast guard on its marine territorial sovereignty.(ant)
Vice President Jusuf Kalla
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Landslides displace 158 inhabitants of Banjarnegara
BANJARNEGARA - Landslides hit Clapar village in Madukara Sub-district, Banjarnegara District, displacing 158 people on Friday. Incessant heavy rains since Thursday caused three consecutive landslides on Thursday afternoon and Friday at 1:39 a.m. and 6 a.m. local time respectively, Catur Sub-
andrio, head of the Banjarnegara disaster mitigation office, stated here, Friday. Nine houses were seriously damaged, three suffered mod-
erate damage, and two others incurred minor damage, he revealed. Some 29 houses are at a high risk of being hit by a landslide, he added. The landslide victims were evacuated to safer places, and a public kitchen has been set up to provide food for them.(ant)
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Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi benediction at the end of the Easter Mass in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 27, 2016.
Use “weapons of love” to fight evil of terrorism, pope says on Easter
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of sombre religious events commemorating Jesus’ death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people in a sun-drenched St. Peter’s Square. Afterwards, in his traditional, twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message, he spoke of violence, injustice and threats to peace in many parts of the world. “May he (the risen Jesus) draw us closer on this Easter feast to the victims of terrorism, that blind and brutal form of violence which continues to shed blood in different parts of the world,” he said, speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. He mentioned recent attacks in Belgium, where at least 31 people were killed by Islamist militants, as well as those in Turkey, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Iraq. “With the weapons of love, God has defeated selfishness and death,” the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholic said from the same
balcony from where he first appeared to the world on the night of his election on March 13, 2013. The 79-year-old Argentine pontiff urged people to channel the hope of Easter in order to defeat “the evil that seems to have the upper hand in the life of so many people”. The pope condemned the Brussels attacks several times during the past week, including at a Good Friday service where he said followers of religions who carried out acts of fundamentalism or terrorism were profaning God’s name.. The former king and queen of Belgium, Albert II and Paola, who is Italian, attended the Mass and the pope greeted them afterwards. In other parts of his address, Francis expressed the hope that recent talks could resolve the conflict in Syria in order to end the “sad wake of destruction, death, contempt for humanitarian law and the breakdown of civil concord”. He urged Europe “not to forget those men and women seeking a
better future, an ever more numerous throng of migrants and refugees - including many children - fleeing from war, hunger, poverty and social injustice.” The European Union and Turkey have agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in return for political and financial concessions for Ankara. Turkey and The Aegean islands have been the main route for migrants and refugees pouring into Europe in the past year. Francis called for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, and resolutions to conflicts and political tensions in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Burundi, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and Ukraine. Security was very tight around the square, which was bedecked with more than 35,000 flowers and plants donated by the Netherlands. Police checked people several times at various points along the approach the square and subjected those with entry tickets to body and bag searches even before they passed through metal detectors. Security sources said police reinforcements had arrived in Rome from other Italian cities. (rtr)
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Democrat Bernie Sanders wins Alaska, Washington, Hawaii caucuses
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on Saturday, chipping away at front-runner Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead in the race to pick the party’s candidate for the White House. Sanders still faces a steep climb to overtake Clinton but the big victories in the West generated more momentum for his upstart campaign and could stave off calls from Democratic leaders that he should wrap up his bid in the name of party unity. Sanders appeared headed to victory margins of more than 50 percentage points in both Alaska and Washington, and led by about 40 points in Hawaii with some 90 percent of the results tallied there. “We are making significant inroads in Secretary Clinton’s lead and ... we have a path to victory,” Sanders told cheering, chanting supporters in Madison, Wisconsin. “It is hard for anybody to deny that our campaign has the momentum.” Clinton, the former secretary of state, has increasingly turned her attention toward a potential Nov. 8 general election showdown against Republican front-
runner Donald Trump, claiming she is on the path to wrapping up the nomination. Heading into Saturday, she led Sanders by about 300 pledged delegates in the race for the 2,382 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s July convention in Philadelphia. Adding in the support of superdelegates - party leaders who are free to back any candidate - she has 1,690 delegates to 946 for Sanders. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, needs to win up to twothirds of the remaining delegates to catch Clinton, who will keep piling up delegates even when she loses under a Democratic Party system that awards them proportionally in all states. “These wins will help him raise more funds for the next few weeks but I don’t think it changes the overall equation,” said Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a Clinton supporter. “Hillary Clinton has too big a lead.” But Sanders has repeatedly said he is staying in the race until the convention, pointing to big crowds at his rallies and high turnout among young and first-time voters as proof of his viability. After raising $140 million, he has the money to fight on as long as he wants. (rtr)
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a rally at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington March 25, 2016.
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GIANYAR - Tegalalang Rice Terrace is one of the famous tourist objects in Bali situated in Tegalalang Village north of Ubud Bali featured by the amazing rice terrace set the cliff. Tegalalang Village is located on 600 m above sea levels covered by good temperature where most of the villagers as a farmer. It offers the stunning view of rice terrace where we can see from the main road from Kintamani to Ubud. This rice terrace is one of the alternative tourist destinations to visit during Kintamani Tour or Ubud Village tour. This village is formerly as usually traditional Balinese village in Bali where most of the villagers are working on the rice field and some of them are working as government officer and other private sectors. Nowadays, Tegalalang Village is become famous because of the beautiful rice terrace that the tourist to come and see this amazing panorama. The visitors who visit this village will discover the beautiful green rice terrace on the cliff bank and understanding how does the local farmer work on it hardly to make rice. It is a beautiful site that you must go and visit directly and you will be in real Balinese ambiance. (IBP/net)
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Dizzy Nadal retires in Florida heat, Murray moves on
MIAMI - Spaniard Rafa Nadal retired from his secondround match at the Miami Open on Saturday due to a bout of dizziness, while Andy Murray advanced despite blowing hit top at an umpire after finding a women’s ball among those he was using. Sporadic boos broke out when 14-times grand slam champion Nadal decided he could not continue in the third set after feeling ill in typically humid conditions in south Florida. Nadal trailed 94th-ranked Damir Dzumhur 2-6 6-4 3-0, with the Bosnian 30-15 up on serve, when he called it a day. It was the first time Nadal had quit during a match since a quarter-final against Murray at the 2010 Australian Open. “Everything was fine until the end of the first set,” Nadal said. “Then I started to feel dizzy, not very good. It was getting worse and worse. “I wanted to finish the match, but I seriously could not. It was tough, because I felt I was playing well. I stopped because I was concerned for my health.” Nadal twice called for a trainer, and had his blood pressure checked on the second occasion, but resumed play both times after a short break. Dzumhur was also affected by the heat early in the match and was the first to call a trainer, but he
battled on and after a poor first set eventually gained control to post his first career victory against a world top-10 player. In the night session, Briton Murray had a heated exchange with the chair umpire en route to a 6-3 7-5 victory over Uzbek Denis Istomin. Murray faced break point at 2-2 in the second set when he noticed that a women’s ball had somehow got into the mix. Women use different balls at the Miami Open, and they have a red stamping to differentiate them. “That’s unbelievable. That’s one of the women’s balls. I could have just hit a shot with it,” Murray complained. Though the rogue ball was removed from play, Murray was clearly flustered and netted a groundstroke in the next rally to lose the game. Murray then gave the umpire another earful. “It’s not right. Do you know how different the balls are?” he asked. The umpire said he was fully aware but could do nothing about what had transpired.
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Rafael Nadal speaks with the media after retiring from his match against Damir Dzumhur (not pictured) on day five of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center. Dzumhur won 2-6, 6-4, 3-0(ret.). “The point stands. It’s the same for both,” he said. Murray then settled down, immediately broke back and closed
out the match without further incident. Number four Stan Wawrinka was the highest seed to lose on
Saturday after the Swiss was sent packing 6-4 6-3 by Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, who saved eight break points. (rtr)
Kamworor wins half-marathon gold as Kenya dominates
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Kenya’s Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor wins the Men’s Elite 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff, Wales, Saturday March 26, 2016.
CARDIFF - Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor recovered from falling flat on his face at the start to retain his world half-marathon title in rainswept Cardiff on Saturday. Kamworor and compatriot Bedan Karoki Muchiri, who kept up near world-record pace throughout the race, were shoulder to shoulder approaching the final mile before Kamworor forged ahead through horizontal rain and gusting winds for victory. Olympic and world 5,000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah gave the sodden home fans something to cheer on a dismal Easter weekend as the Briton kept plenty in the tank to produce a late dash and take the bronze medal. Kenya’s women completed a second successive clean sweep of the podium with Peres Jechirchir kicking away from pre-race favourite Cynthia Limo near the finish to take the title. Mary Wacera Ngugi was third. Kamworor’s race began farcically as he slipped over on the start line and was almost buried under a
stampede of athletes before climbing back to his feet and carrying on. “I was trying to get up, but people kept coming from behind. It was very difficult,” Kamworor said of his fall. He was quickly up with the leaders, though, and while the world record of 58:23 minutes was ultimately beyond him in the atrocious conditions his winning time of 59:10 was impressive. “If Geoffrey can run this fast in these conditions, I think he can break the world record,” Farah said. “It was an incredible pace, from the 10km splits you can see they were going for it. For quite a bit of the race I was alone. It was a fast time but as an athlete, you always want to win. “The better athlete won on the day, they went for it and I could not quite go with it.” Kamworor, who was second to Farah in the 10,000m world championship race in Beijing last year and could be a threat in Rio this August, was the first man to retain the half-marathon title since Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadese in 2009. (rtr)
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Sp rt England comes from behind to beat Germany 3-2 in Berlin
BERLIN — Jamie Vardy scored his first England goal two minutes after coming on as a substitute and Eric Dier scored in injury time to beat Germany 3-2 and preserve the team’s unbeaten record in Berlin on Saturday. Vardy, who came on in the 72nd minute, produced an audacious flick with his right heel behind his left leg to send Nathaniel Clyne’s cross inside the near post to equalize, and Dier headed in the winner in the first minute of injury time. Toni Kroos opened the scoring just before halftime and Mario Gomez made it 2-0 to Germany just after with his first international goal since Euro 2012, but Harry Kane sparked the comeback four minutes later with a fine turn and shot inside the far post. “It’s annoying for a coach to see your team squander a 2-0 lead. Even when we were leading we weren’t fully in control,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “It wasn’t undeserved that the English won.” Sami Khedira, who was captaining Germany in Bastian Schweinsteiger’s injury-induced absence, agreed: “We did lots right until 2-0, then England punished us. We lost our order. We played a good game for 60 minutes, we’ll have to do that for 90 minutes at the European Championship.” England has won six and drawn three of the nine games against Germany played in Berlin. England coach Roy Hodgson called it his “best night so far” but warned against the rising expectations that come after beating World Cup winners. “This is a team which is definitely a work in progress,” Hodgson said.
“Let’s not get carried away.” With regular captain Wayne Rooney out with a knee injury, Hodgson turned to Premier League topscorer Kane to lead his attack, leaving Vardy - who Loew called “spectacular” - on the bench. Danny Rose made his debut at left back, and Gary Cahill captained the side for the second time in Rooney’s absence. Defender Jonathan Tah came on for the second half to make his Germany debut. The visitors in no way appeared overawed by the 71,000-crowd at the sold-out Olympiastadion, though they were fortunate Gomez had a goal ruled out for offside when TV replays showed he was in line with the last defender. Germany threatened only intermittently and looked like cantering to the break until Kroos broke the deadlock with a thunderbolt. Nobody closed down the midfielder, who took several touches forward before unleashing a powerful curving strike inside the left post. England goalkeeper Jack Butland injured himself in the lead-up and had to be carried off before the game resumed. Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer wasn’t really tested until the 52nd, when Alli drew a smart save with a fierce strike, before Jordan Henderson had the next effort deflected over.
Gomez then scored with a perfect header inside the right post from Khedira’s floated cross. It was as good as it got for Germany, with Kane then sparking a stirring comeback. “Of course the result is important, otherwise we could all just stay at home,” Kroos said. “We played very well in the first half, then we defended badly. We left way too much room and didn’t hold our ground.” It was Germany’s first match since the 2-0 defeat to France in Paris on Nov. 13, a game overshadowed by the attacks outside the stadium and across the city that killed 130 people. The game against the Netherlands in Hannover four days later was called off due to the threat of an attack. Some 1,500 police officers were on duty, around 400 of whom were drafted in from other federal states. Security was tight with tents erected so supporters and workers at the game could be searched, scanned, and screened beforehand. A police background check was compulsory for workers. Sniffer dogs checked the area around the stadium for explosives two hours before kickoff. Elsewhere, Poland routed Finland 5-0 in Warsaw, Austria scored two early goals to defeat Albania 2-1 in Vienna, Hungary drew with Croatia 1-1, and Kazakhstan won in Azerbaijan 1-0. Russia cruised past Lithuania 3-0 in Moscow in its last home game before Euro 2016. Brazilian-born goalkeeper Guilherme came on for the second half to become the first naturalized foreigner to play for Russia. (ap) England’s Jamie Vardy celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during a friendly soccer match between Germany and England in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
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FC Barcelona supporters offers their respects to the late Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 26, 2016. Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who revolutionized the game as the personification of “Total Football,” has died. He was 68.
Cruyff fans pay their respects at Barcelona memorial BARCELONA — Thousands of fans mourning the death of Johan Cruyff paid their respects to the former player and coach at a temporary memorial in Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium on Saturday. The Spanish club said more than 15,000 fans passed through the memorial over nine hours. It will remain open through Tuesday, when Barcelona’s players will attend after returning from international competition. Attendees could sign a book of condolences and file past a large photo of the Dutch great inside the stadium lobby. The photo was flanked by club and Catalonia flags, and rose bouquets. Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu inaugurated the memorial early Saturday for the “maestro” who “changed our club.” “These are sad, very sad days for the world of Barcelona and also for the world of football,” Bartomeu said. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Catalonia regional president Carles Puigdemont paid their respects along with other dignitaries fans. Some fans left scarves, flowers, and lollipops — which Cruyff ate as a manager after stopping smoking following heart surgery — outside the stadium. Bartomeu said the book of condolences will be given to Cruyff’s family. After winning three consecutive European Cups with Ajax as a player, Cruyff joined Barcelona midseason in 1973 and led the middle-of-the-table team to its first national title in a decade. He later returned as a coach and guided Barcelona to four consecutive Spanish leagues from 1991-94 and the club’s first European Cup in 1992. Barcelona considers Cruyff the mastermind of its signature passing-based attack that has made it the world’s dominant club for the past decade. Bartomeu and seven former presidents wrote in a public letter that the “professional and personal footprint he left at our club is enormous.” Cruyff died on Thursday of lung cancer. (ap)
AMSTERDAM - Dimitri Payet received a resounding vote of approval from France coach Didier Deschamps after the midfielder made an impressive return to international football with a starring role in the 3-2 win over the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Friday. “He confirmed with us what he has been doing with his club,” said Deschamps of Payet’s form with West Ham United over the last months. “Every time he touched the ball, he made something happen. He has enormous qualities and made a massive effort. He is on top form,” the coach told reporters after the game at the Amsterdam Arena. Payet last played for France in June last year against Albania but forced a return to the side after starring roles for his London club and was preferred on Friday to Anthony Martial in the French starting line-up. He revelled in an attacking midfield role, forcing the first save of the match from Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen after only four minutes. On the hour mark his strong run from the middle and subsequent shot struck the base of the post. The 29-year-old Payet, who has 16 caps, is now a strong candidate for a place in the French squad for the European Championships in mid-year. The team continue their preparations on Tuesday against Russia in Paris and the squad will be named on May 12. (rtr)
France’s national soccer team player Dimitri Payet attends a training session at the team training centre of Clairefontaine, near Paris, France, March 22, 2016.
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Guatemala’s Carlos Ruiz, right, celebrates with a teammate after scoring against the United States during a 2018 Russia World Cup qualifying soccer match at Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City, Friday, March 25, 2016.
Guatemala beats US 2-0 in qualifier, pressuring Klinsmann
With a 2-0 loss at Guatemala, the United States forced itself into what basically amounts to a mustwin situation when the teams meet again Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio. American coach Jurgen Klinsmann made some puzzling lineup choices and the team’s defense self-destructed Friday night in Guatemala City. “I think it was a lack of focus, concentration, and wrong decisions,” Klinsmann said. “We have to take responsibility for it, every one of us — coaches, players — and move on and get it done on Tuesday.” Edgar Castillo’s poor backpass set up corner kicks that led to Rafael Morales’ goal in the seventh minute. A goal kick by Paulo Motta went most of the length of the field in the 15th, and 36-year-old Carlos Ruiz ran onto the ball, came in alone on goalkeeper Tim Howard and doubled the lead. “Sloppy,” Howard said. “It’s almost some-
thing like you can’t account for.” Seeking their eighth straight World Cup berth, the Americans had been unbeaten in 21 games against Guatemala since January 1988 and had never lost to Los Chapines in World Cup qualifying. “Maybe it was a lack of focus, but these places are very difficult to come play at,” defender Omar Gonzalez said. Trinidad and Tobago (2-1) leads Group C with seven points after rallying for a 3-2 win at St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guatemala (2-0-1) is one point back. The U.S. (1-1-1) has four points and St. Vincent (0-3) is last. In September, the Americans play at St. Vincent and host Trinidad to complete the regional semifinals. The top two teams advance to the six-nation regional finals. “We always said that World Cup qualifying is a long road, a tricky road, a difficult road,” Klinsmann
said. Klinsmann already was criticized following his team’s semifinal elimination in last year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup and a loss to Mexico in the Confederations Cup playoff. He started Gonzalez and Michael Orozco in central defense after John Brooks returned to Germany on Friday because of a bruised left knee and defender Matt Besler sustained a concussion in training Thursday. Fabian Johnson, a midfielder and defender who has a groin injury, didn’t dress; midfielder Jermaine Jones is suspended; and Jozy Altidore, the top American forward, was limited to entering in the 66th minute as he recovers from yet another hamstring injury. Howard started for the U.S. at the last two World Cups, but lost his starting job at Everton and was appearing in his first match since Jan. 24. (ap)
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Sp rt England comes from behind to beat Germany 3-2 in Berlin
BERLIN — Jamie Vardy scored his first England goal two minutes after coming on as a substitute and Eric Dier scored in injury time to beat Germany 3-2 and preserve the team’s unbeaten record in Berlin on Saturday. Vardy, who came on in the 72nd minute, produced an audacious flick with his right heel behind his left leg to send Nathaniel Clyne’s cross inside the near post to equalize, and Dier headed in the winner in the first minute of injury time. Toni Kroos opened the scoring just before halftime and Mario Gomez made it 2-0 to Germany just after with his first international goal since Euro 2012, but Harry Kane sparked the comeback four minutes later with a fine turn and shot inside the far post. “It’s annoying for a coach to see your team squander a 2-0 lead. Even when we were leading we weren’t fully in control,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “It wasn’t undeserved that the English won.” Sami Khedira, who was captaining Germany in Bastian Schweinsteiger’s injury-induced absence, agreed: “We did lots right until 2-0, then England punished us. We lost our order. We played a good game for 60 minutes, we’ll have to do that for 90 minutes at the European Championship.” England has won six and drawn three of the nine games against Germany played in Berlin. England coach Roy Hodgson called it his “best night so far” but warned against the rising expectations that come after beating World Cup winners. “This is a team which is definitely a work in progress,” Hodgson said.
“Let’s not get carried away.” With regular captain Wayne Rooney out with a knee injury, Hodgson turned to Premier League topscorer Kane to lead his attack, leaving Vardy - who Loew called “spectacular” - on the bench. Danny Rose made his debut at left back, and Gary Cahill captained the side for the second time in Rooney’s absence. Defender Jonathan Tah came on for the second half to make his Germany debut. The visitors in no way appeared overawed by the 71,000-crowd at the sold-out Olympiastadion, though they were fortunate Gomez had a goal ruled out for offside when TV replays showed he was in line with the last defender. Germany threatened only intermittently and looked like cantering to the break until Kroos broke the deadlock with a thunderbolt. Nobody closed down the midfielder, who took several touches forward before unleashing a powerful curving strike inside the left post. England goalkeeper Jack Butland injured himself in the lead-up and had to be carried off before the game resumed. Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer wasn’t really tested until the 52nd, when Alli drew a smart save with a fierce strike, before Jordan Henderson had the next effort deflected over.
Gomez then scored with a perfect header inside the right post from Khedira’s floated cross. It was as good as it got for Germany, with Kane then sparking a stirring comeback. “Of course the result is important, otherwise we could all just stay at home,” Kroos said. “We played very well in the first half, then we defended badly. We left way too much room and didn’t hold our ground.” It was Germany’s first match since the 2-0 defeat to France in Paris on Nov. 13, a game overshadowed by the attacks outside the stadium and across the city that killed 130 people. The game against the Netherlands in Hannover four days later was called off due to the threat of an attack. Some 1,500 police officers were on duty, around 400 of whom were drafted in from other federal states. Security was tight with tents erected so supporters and workers at the game could be searched, scanned, and screened beforehand. A police background check was compulsory for workers. Sniffer dogs checked the area around the stadium for explosives two hours before kickoff. Elsewhere, Poland routed Finland 5-0 in Warsaw, Austria scored two early goals to defeat Albania 2-1 in Vienna, Hungary drew with Croatia 1-1, and Kazakhstan won in Azerbaijan 1-0. Russia cruised past Lithuania 3-0 in Moscow in its last home game before Euro 2016. Brazilian-born goalkeeper Guilherme came on for the second half to become the first naturalized foreigner to play for Russia. (ap) England’s Jamie Vardy celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during a friendly soccer match between Germany and England in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
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Payet plays his way back into Euro 2016 contention AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
FC Barcelona supporters offers their respects to the late Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 26, 2016. Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who revolutionized the game as the personification of “Total Football,” has died. He was 68.
Cruyff fans pay their respects at Barcelona memorial BARCELONA — Thousands of fans mourning the death of Johan Cruyff paid their respects to the former player and coach at a temporary memorial in Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium on Saturday. The Spanish club said more than 15,000 fans passed through the memorial over nine hours. It will remain open through Tuesday, when Barcelona’s players will attend after returning from international competition. Attendees could sign a book of condolences and file past a large photo of the Dutch great inside the stadium lobby. The photo was flanked by club and Catalonia flags, and rose bouquets. Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu inaugurated the memorial early Saturday for the “maestro” who “changed our club.” “These are sad, very sad days for the world of Barcelona and also for the world of football,” Bartomeu said. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Catalonia regional president Carles Puigdemont paid their respects along with other dignitaries fans. Some fans left scarves, flowers, and lollipops — which Cruyff ate as a manager after stopping smoking following heart surgery — outside the stadium. Bartomeu said the book of condolences will be given to Cruyff’s family. After winning three consecutive European Cups with Ajax as a player, Cruyff joined Barcelona midseason in 1973 and led the middle-of-the-table team to its first national title in a decade. He later returned as a coach and guided Barcelona to four consecutive Spanish leagues from 1991-94 and the club’s first European Cup in 1992. Barcelona considers Cruyff the mastermind of its signature passing-based attack that has made it the world’s dominant club for the past decade. Bartomeu and seven former presidents wrote in a public letter that the “professional and personal footprint he left at our club is enormous.” Cruyff died on Thursday of lung cancer. (ap)
AMSTERDAM - Dimitri Payet received a resounding vote of approval from France coach Didier Deschamps after the midfielder made an impressive return to international football with a starring role in the 3-2 win over the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Friday. “He confirmed with us what he has been doing with his club,” said Deschamps of Payet’s form with West Ham United over the last months. “Every time he touched the ball, he made something happen. He has enormous qualities and made a massive effort. He is on top form,” the coach told reporters after the game at the Amsterdam Arena. Payet last played for France in June last year against Albania but forced a return to the side after starring roles for his London club and was preferred on Friday to Anthony Martial in the French starting line-up. He revelled in an attacking midfield role, forcing the first save of the match from Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen after only four minutes. On the hour mark his strong run from the middle and subsequent shot struck the base of the post. The 29-year-old Payet, who has 16 caps, is now a strong candidate for a place in the French squad for the European Championships in mid-year. The team continue their preparations on Tuesday against Russia in Paris and the squad will be named on May 12. (rtr)
France’s national soccer team player Dimitri Payet attends a training session at the team training centre of Clairefontaine, near Paris, France, March 22, 2016.
AP Photo/ Luis Soto
Guatemala’s Carlos Ruiz, right, celebrates with a teammate after scoring against the United States during a 2018 Russia World Cup qualifying soccer match at Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City, Friday, March 25, 2016.
Guatemala beats US 2-0 in qualifier, pressuring Klinsmann
With a 2-0 loss at Guatemala, the United States forced itself into what basically amounts to a mustwin situation when the teams meet again Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio. American coach Jurgen Klinsmann made some puzzling lineup choices and the team’s defense self-destructed Friday night in Guatemala City. “I think it was a lack of focus, concentration, and wrong decisions,” Klinsmann said. “We have to take responsibility for it, every one of us — coaches, players — and move on and get it done on Tuesday.” Edgar Castillo’s poor backpass set up corner kicks that led to Rafael Morales’ goal in the seventh minute. A goal kick by Paulo Motta went most of the length of the field in the 15th, and 36-year-old Carlos Ruiz ran onto the ball, came in alone on goalkeeper Tim Howard and doubled the lead. “Sloppy,” Howard said. “It’s almost some-
thing like you can’t account for.” Seeking their eighth straight World Cup berth, the Americans had been unbeaten in 21 games against Guatemala since January 1988 and had never lost to Los Chapines in World Cup qualifying. “Maybe it was a lack of focus, but these places are very difficult to come play at,” defender Omar Gonzalez said. Trinidad and Tobago (2-1) leads Group C with seven points after rallying for a 3-2 win at St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guatemala (2-0-1) is one point back. The U.S. (1-1-1) has four points and St. Vincent (0-3) is last. In September, the Americans play at St. Vincent and host Trinidad to complete the regional semifinals. The top two teams advance to the six-nation regional finals. “We always said that World Cup qualifying is a long road, a tricky road, a difficult road,” Klinsmann
said. Klinsmann already was criticized following his team’s semifinal elimination in last year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup and a loss to Mexico in the Confederations Cup playoff. He started Gonzalez and Michael Orozco in central defense after John Brooks returned to Germany on Friday because of a bruised left knee and defender Matt Besler sustained a concussion in training Thursday. Fabian Johnson, a midfielder and defender who has a groin injury, didn’t dress; midfielder Jermaine Jones is suspended; and Jozy Altidore, the top American forward, was limited to entering in the 66th minute as he recovers from yet another hamstring injury. Howard started for the U.S. at the last two World Cups, but lost his starting job at Everton and was appearing in his first match since Jan. 24. (ap)
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GIANYAR - Tegalalang Rice Terrace is one of the famous tourist objects in Bali situated in Tegalalang Village north of Ubud Bali featured by the amazing rice terrace set the cliff. Tegalalang Village is located on 600 m above sea levels covered by good temperature where most of the villagers as a farmer. It offers the stunning view of rice terrace where we can see from the main road from Kintamani to Ubud. This rice terrace is one of the alternative tourist destinations to visit during Kintamani Tour or Ubud Village tour. This village is formerly as usually traditional Balinese village in Bali where most of the villagers are working on the rice field and some of them are working as government officer and other private sectors. Nowadays, Tegalalang Village is become famous because of the beautiful rice terrace that the tourist to come and see this amazing panorama. The visitors who visit this village will discover the beautiful green rice terrace on the cliff bank and understanding how does the local farmer work on it hardly to make rice. It is a beautiful site that you must go and visit directly and you will be in real Balinese ambiance. (IBP/net)
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Dizzy Nadal retires in Florida heat, Murray moves on
MIAMI - Spaniard Rafa Nadal retired from his secondround match at the Miami Open on Saturday due to a bout of dizziness, while Andy Murray advanced despite blowing hit top at an umpire after finding a women’s ball among those he was using. Sporadic boos broke out when 14-times grand slam champion Nadal decided he could not continue in the third set after feeling ill in typically humid conditions in south Florida. Nadal trailed 94th-ranked Damir Dzumhur 2-6 6-4 3-0, with the Bosnian 30-15 up on serve, when he called it a day. It was the first time Nadal had quit during a match since a quarter-final against Murray at the 2010 Australian Open. “Everything was fine until the end of the first set,” Nadal said. “Then I started to feel dizzy, not very good. It was getting worse and worse. “I wanted to finish the match, but I seriously could not. It was tough, because I felt I was playing well. I stopped because I was concerned for my health.” Nadal twice called for a trainer, and had his blood pressure checked on the second occasion, but resumed play both times after a short break. Dzumhur was also affected by the heat early in the match and was the first to call a trainer, but he
battled on and after a poor first set eventually gained control to post his first career victory against a world top-10 player. In the night session, Briton Murray had a heated exchange with the chair umpire en route to a 6-3 7-5 victory over Uzbek Denis Istomin. Murray faced break point at 2-2 in the second set when he noticed that a women’s ball had somehow got into the mix. Women use different balls at the Miami Open, and they have a red stamping to differentiate them. “That’s unbelievable. That’s one of the women’s balls. I could have just hit a shot with it,” Murray complained. Though the rogue ball was removed from play, Murray was clearly flustered and netted a groundstroke in the next rally to lose the game. Murray then gave the umpire another earful. “It’s not right. Do you know how different the balls are?” he asked. The umpire said he was fully aware but could do nothing about what had transpired.
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Rafael Nadal speaks with the media after retiring from his match against Damir Dzumhur (not pictured) on day five of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center. Dzumhur won 2-6, 6-4, 3-0(ret.). “The point stands. It’s the same for both,” he said. Murray then settled down, immediately broke back and closed
out the match without further incident. Number four Stan Wawrinka was the highest seed to lose on
Saturday after the Swiss was sent packing 6-4 6-3 by Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, who saved eight break points. (rtr)
Kamworor wins half-marathon gold as Kenya dominates
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Kenya’s Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor wins the Men’s Elite 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff, Wales, Saturday March 26, 2016.
CARDIFF - Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor recovered from falling flat on his face at the start to retain his world half-marathon title in rainswept Cardiff on Saturday. Kamworor and compatriot Bedan Karoki Muchiri, who kept up near world-record pace throughout the race, were shoulder to shoulder approaching the final mile before Kamworor forged ahead through horizontal rain and gusting winds for victory. Olympic and world 5,000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah gave the sodden home fans something to cheer on a dismal Easter weekend as the Briton kept plenty in the tank to produce a late dash and take the bronze medal. Kenya’s women completed a second successive clean sweep of the podium with Peres Jechirchir kicking away from pre-race favourite Cynthia Limo near the finish to take the title. Mary Wacera Ngugi was third. Kamworor’s race began farcically as he slipped over on the start line and was almost buried under a
stampede of athletes before climbing back to his feet and carrying on. “I was trying to get up, but people kept coming from behind. It was very difficult,” Kamworor said of his fall. He was quickly up with the leaders, though, and while the world record of 58:23 minutes was ultimately beyond him in the atrocious conditions his winning time of 59:10 was impressive. “If Geoffrey can run this fast in these conditions, I think he can break the world record,” Farah said. “It was an incredible pace, from the 10km splits you can see they were going for it. For quite a bit of the race I was alone. It was a fast time but as an athlete, you always want to win. “The better athlete won on the day, they went for it and I could not quite go with it.” Kamworor, who was second to Farah in the 10,000m world championship race in Beijing last year and could be a threat in Rio this August, was the first man to retain the half-marathon title since Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadese in 2009. (rtr)
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Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi benediction at the end of the Easter Mass in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 27, 2016.
Use “weapons of love” to fight evil of terrorism, pope says on Easter
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of sombre religious events commemorating Jesus’ death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people in a sun-drenched St. Peter’s Square. Afterwards, in his traditional, twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message, he spoke of violence, injustice and threats to peace in many parts of the world. “May he (the risen Jesus) draw us closer on this Easter feast to the victims of terrorism, that blind and brutal form of violence which continues to shed blood in different parts of the world,” he said, speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. He mentioned recent attacks in Belgium, where at least 31 people were killed by Islamist militants, as well as those in Turkey, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Iraq. “With the weapons of love, God has defeated selfishness and death,” the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholic said from the same
balcony from where he first appeared to the world on the night of his election on March 13, 2013. The 79-year-old Argentine pontiff urged people to channel the hope of Easter in order to defeat “the evil that seems to have the upper hand in the life of so many people”. The pope condemned the Brussels attacks several times during the past week, including at a Good Friday service where he said followers of religions who carried out acts of fundamentalism or terrorism were profaning God’s name.. The former king and queen of Belgium, Albert II and Paola, who is Italian, attended the Mass and the pope greeted them afterwards. In other parts of his address, Francis expressed the hope that recent talks could resolve the conflict in Syria in order to end the “sad wake of destruction, death, contempt for humanitarian law and the breakdown of civil concord”. He urged Europe “not to forget those men and women seeking a
better future, an ever more numerous throng of migrants and refugees - including many children - fleeing from war, hunger, poverty and social injustice.” The European Union and Turkey have agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in return for political and financial concessions for Ankara. Turkey and The Aegean islands have been the main route for migrants and refugees pouring into Europe in the past year. Francis called for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, and resolutions to conflicts and political tensions in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Burundi, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and Ukraine. Security was very tight around the square, which was bedecked with more than 35,000 flowers and plants donated by the Netherlands. Police checked people several times at various points along the approach the square and subjected those with entry tickets to body and bag searches even before they passed through metal detectors. Security sources said police reinforcements had arrived in Rome from other Italian cities. (rtr)
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Democrat Bernie Sanders wins Alaska, Washington, Hawaii caucuses
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on Saturday, chipping away at front-runner Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead in the race to pick the party’s candidate for the White House. Sanders still faces a steep climb to overtake Clinton but the big victories in the West generated more momentum for his upstart campaign and could stave off calls from Democratic leaders that he should wrap up his bid in the name of party unity. Sanders appeared headed to victory margins of more than 50 percentage points in both Alaska and Washington, and led by about 40 points in Hawaii with some 90 percent of the results tallied there. “We are making significant inroads in Secretary Clinton’s lead and ... we have a path to victory,” Sanders told cheering, chanting supporters in Madison, Wisconsin. “It is hard for anybody to deny that our campaign has the momentum.” Clinton, the former secretary of state, has increasingly turned her attention toward a potential Nov. 8 general election showdown against Republican front-
runner Donald Trump, claiming she is on the path to wrapping up the nomination. Heading into Saturday, she led Sanders by about 300 pledged delegates in the race for the 2,382 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s July convention in Philadelphia. Adding in the support of superdelegates - party leaders who are free to back any candidate - she has 1,690 delegates to 946 for Sanders. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, needs to win up to twothirds of the remaining delegates to catch Clinton, who will keep piling up delegates even when she loses under a Democratic Party system that awards them proportionally in all states. “These wins will help him raise more funds for the next few weeks but I don’t think it changes the overall equation,” said Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a Clinton supporter. “Hillary Clinton has too big a lead.” But Sanders has repeatedly said he is staying in the race until the convention, pointing to big crowds at his rallies and high turnout among young and first-time voters as proof of his viability. After raising $140 million, he has the money to fight on as long as he wants. (rtr)
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a rally at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington March 25, 2016.
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rice they once grew, and outsiders hold most of the plantation jobs. Despite promised development, many roads are still dirt. Kop Let, wife of a village chief, says her family has struggled since the plantation swallowed most of their 12 hectares (30 acres). She grows cassava on their remaining land, sells homemade rice wine and has taken out a $3,000 loan. “I have now become a poor woman,” she says. “Our identity as a people is disappearing little by little.” The Bunong say they never were warned their land would be taken and were not offered compensation before the land started to be cleared — two steps required under Cambodian law. Many say they felt forced to accept what they considered to be inadequate compensation. Socfin, the Luxembourg-based agro-industrial company whose unit owns most of all three Bousra plantations, said it was invited by the government and that villagers were informed and compensated beforehand, but declined to provide evidence. Its joint venture with Cambodian developer Khaou Chuly Development Co., or KCD, operates two of the plantations. “We brought wealth to a place where there was nothing,” Socfin CEO Luc Boedt told The Associated Press in an interview in Brussels.(ap)
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In this Feb. 23, 2015 photo, Cambodian Environment Minister Say Sam Al gives an interview to the Associated Press in Phnom Penh. Minister Say Sam Al defended the economic land concession program as a way to promote growth in the poor country as it struggled to recover from decades of civil war, but acknowledged problems in carrying it out.
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Indonesia invites parties to avoid conflict in South China Sea
Cambodia’s zeal for rubber drives ethnic group from land BOUSRA — For generations, the indigenous Bunong were famous as the elephant keepers and masters of the forests in eastern Cambodia. They called the fertile, rolling hills of their ancestral homeland “meh ne,” or mother. From its rich red soil, they harvested rice, pumpkins and bananas. From the forests, they gathered honey, resin and medicinal plants. Under the leafy canopies, they buried their dead and worshipped spirits. That changed in 2008, when without warning, bulldozers made way for rubber plantations the government granted to a European-Cambodian joint venture in poor, rural Mondulkiri province. Such economic land concessions were meant to promote development, but for 800 Bunong families, the long-term leases have brought mostly hardship and loss. The Cambodian human rights group LICADHO estimates more than 200 state-linked land deals have harmed 500,000 people, and the U.N. has called land-rightsrelated conflicts Cambodia’s top human-rights problem. Josie Cohen, land campaigner at Global Witness, which investigates economic networks behind environmental destruction, said land leases are “altering the very fabric of rural societies” in Cambodia and nearby Laos and Myanmar. The Bunong of Bousra commune now must earn money to buy
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, job seekers create resumes at the NJ Department of Labor’s resume clinic in the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, N.J.
Job totals trail prerecession levels in 10 US states
WASHINGTON — Ten U.S. states still have not regained all the jobs they lost in the Great Recession, even after six and a half years of recovery, while many more have seen only modest gains. The figures help illustrate the uneven nature of the economic rebound since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. They also suggest why many Americans feel the improvement has passed them by. Ongoing economic anxiety, despite some data suggesting the economy has recovered, is fueling much of the support for insurgent presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Wyoming had 3 percent fewer jobs last month than it did in December 2007, when the recession began, the Labor Department said Friday. That is the biggest percentage decline among the states. Alabama’s job total trails its prerecession level by 2.7 percent, followed by New Mexico, where job totals are 2.6 percent lower. Some larger states are also still
behind. New Jersey has nearly 1 percent fewer jobs than it did at the end of 2007, and Missouri is just below its pre-recession level. The other five are: Mississippi, Nevada, Maine, Connecticut, and West Virginia. Other states have notched very small gains that likely trail population growth. Illinois has 8,600 more jobs than it did in December 2007, a gain of just 0.1 percent. Arizona’s job count is up just 9,200, or 0.3 percent. And Ohio has added 58,100 jobs, or 1.1 percent. All those gains are far below the 4 percent increase in jobs nationwide from December 2007 through February 2016, according to government figures. Three-fifths of states have seen job gains below that national average. Some areas have seen much
greater hiring. Four states have recorded double-digit increases in their total payrolls, along with Washington, D.C.: North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. The oil and gas drilling boom has lifted North Dakota’s job count by more than 20 percent, even though falling energy prices have caused significant layoffs in the past year. Texas has also benefited from the energy boom, as well as greater high-tech hiring in cities like Austin. Utah and Colorado have also benefited from fast-growing information technology companies. The data also shows how the decline in the unemployment rate in some states has exaggerated the improvement in their economies. The rate in Michigan, for example, fell to 4.8 percent last month, down from 5.9 percent a year ago and onetenth of a point below the national average. Yet Michigan’s job count has increased just 1.6 percent since the recession began, less than half the nationwide gain.(ap)
HAINAN - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has invited all parties to maintain peace and security in the South China Sea area to avoid direct conflict that can cause losses. Indonesia is a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute, Kalla stated during a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, China, on Thursday. However, Indonesia realizes that the dispute has the potential to turn into a direct conflict that can be detrimental to the region, noted Kalla. The conflict can negatively impact the economic conditions in all countries involved in the South China Sea dispute, Kalla affirmed. The Indonesian government believes that all countries must prioritize mutual respect and refrain in order to maintain peace and security in the South China Sea area, Kalla pointed out. “I want to emphasize our commitment to reaching a peaceful resolution through diplomatic and political processes. I also call upon all countries to respect the principles of international law as set out in the UNCLOS,” Kalla stated. Earlier, an incident had occurred in the Indonesian waters off Natuna involving a Chinese fishing vessel and a coast guard ship. The incident began when the Hiu 11 vessel of the Marine and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) intercepted and
detained the KM Kway Fey 10078, a Chinese fishing vessel on Saturday afternoon. When KM Kway Fey was being escorted to base by the KKP officers, a Chinese coast guard ship rammed into the Chinese fishing vessel, apparently to prevent it from being taken away by the ministrys personnel. In a bid to prevent conflict, the KKP officers returned to the Hiu 11 vessel along with the eight detained crew members of the Chinese fishing vessel. Indonesia, through Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, has lodged a protest with Chinas Charge dAffaires in Jakarta Sun Weide over Chinese coast guard violations in its waters. As part of the protest, the Indonesian government has firstly objected to the violations committed by the Chinese coast guard against the countrys sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental shelf. Secondly, the Indonesian government has raised a protest on the violation by the Chinese coast guard against its law enforcement agencies on the EEZ and continental shelf. Third, the Indonesian government has protested to the violation committed by the Chinese coast guard on its marine territorial sovereignty.(ant)
Vice President Jusuf Kalla
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The landslide which happen in Banjarnegara, Central Java
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Landslides displace 158 inhabitants of Banjarnegara
BANJARNEGARA - Landslides hit Clapar village in Madukara Sub-district, Banjarnegara District, displacing 158 people on Friday. Incessant heavy rains since Thursday caused three consecutive landslides on Thursday afternoon and Friday at 1:39 a.m. and 6 a.m. local time respectively, Catur Sub-
andrio, head of the Banjarnegara disaster mitigation office, stated here, Friday. Nine houses were seriously damaged, three suffered mod-
erate damage, and two others incurred minor damage, he revealed. Some 29 houses are at a high risk of being hit by a landslide, he added. The landslide victims were evacuated to safer places, and a public kitchen has been set up to provide food for them.(ant)
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ITDC launched new logo
Islamic State driven out of Syria’s ancient Palmyra city
NUSA DUA - The management of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) launched a new logo as symbol of commitment to develop tourism area. The launched initiated by President Director of ITDC, Abdulbar M. Mansyur, took place in ITDC’s office on Wednesday, March 23rd. According to Abdulbar this logo is symbol to management’s commitment on supporting government in national development by developing tourism area. He explained the blue and green color in the new logo symbolized the lanscape of Indonesia that dominated by green forest and blue ocean. He mentioned the Nusa Dua area have around 5,000 rooms and employeed 10 thousand employees. As a high quality tourism area, Nusa Dua hoped to give benefit to Bali and Indonesia. Abdulbar explained that besides developing Nusa Dua area, ITDC also develops Mandalika tourism area. “The best practices in Nusa Dua can be a role model for Mandalika and others tourism area development,” he said. He feels optimistic through
increasing quality and developing sustainable tourism area, the 20 millions tourists’ target can be reached by 2019. Operational Director A.A. Ngurah Wirawan added ITDC’s management focus in increasing Nusa Dua’s infrastructure to become the best destination in the world. As for today, ITDC has invest USD 1 million to develop waste treatment. The company also develop system information application for security so tourists can enjoy the beauty of Nusa Dua area with more secure and comfortable. Not only that, ITDC will launched digital information about ITDC, both hotels and restaurants, also the menus. “Tourists only have to download the app to find out all about ITDC. We will develop digital area with 5G, 5S, and 5B,” he stated. (kmb18)
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Supporters of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who are allies of Shiite rebels known as Houthis, attend a rally to mark the first anniversary of the Saudi-led military campaign against them, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
The launching of the new ITDC logo
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Presence of modern store harms small merchants
BANGLI - In fact, the existence of the mushrooming chain modern store in Bangli has an impact on the bankruptcy of several people’s small businesses. In Kintamani, a number of merchants at Singamandawa market gradually go bankrupt because they are unable to compete against one of the modern stores standing close to the market. Such reality was revealed by the chief security of Singamandawa market, Kintamani, Made Sadia, when the Special Committee
of the Bangli House of Representatives in charge of the protection and management of shopping center and modern stores to conduct site inspection, Thursday (Mar. 24). Sadia explained that from the beginning he and several other merchants actually quite objected to the presence of modern stores located right in front of the market. However, he does not have the right to prohibit the modern store business. He added that since the modern stores was
in operation a number of merchants originally having a stall at the Singamandawa market slowly decided to close their business. The closure, he said, happened due to competition against modern stores selling from morning till night. “In the past, there were many merchants from Gianyar and Klungkung selling here. But since the past few years, they choose to shut down because they are unable to compete,” he explained. To protect small merchants in the competi-
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The existence of the mushrooming chain modern store in Bangli has an impact on the bankruptcy of several people’s small businesses.
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tion against modern stores, the government is asked to tighten licensing. According to Sadia, the government should be able to set the radius of modern stores from traditional market so as not to harm the small merchants. Since the modern stores are already established, he hoped the government can arrange the operation hours. “Hopefully, open hours of the modern stores can be arranged in such a way so that they do not cause our business to go bankrupt,” he said. In the site inspection on Thursday (Mar. 24), none of the modern stores visited by the Special Committee can present the completeness of their operating permit. Various reasons were given by store management. There is a reason if the licensing was submitted by the central office, while the other told if the licensing document is being brought by the superior. Chairman of the Special Committee, I Nengah Darsana, who led the inspection, alleged if the inspected modern stores do not have a permit. As follow-up of the inspection, he claimed to be inviting the executives to get together and discuss about it. Aspiration of merchants at traditional market will also be followed up in the discussion of the regional bylaw draft on the Protection and Structuring of Traditional Markets, Shopping Centers and Modern Stores. Darsana confirmed if the regional bylaw draft being discussed this time is not to impede and obstruct the operation of modern stores. Rather, it simply wanted to organize and curb licensing completeness. “As a follow up, we suggest the owners to submit the permit of modern store to local government,” he said. (kmb40)
Tens of thousands of Yemenis mark a year of war, denounce Saudi-led offensive
SANAA - Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the war between a coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Iranallied fighters who had overthrown the government. More than 6,200 people have been killed since the coalition joined the war to try to stop the Houthis from taking control of Yemen the country and to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power. Hadi had been ousted after Houthi forces took over the capital Sanaa in Septemer 2014. Saudi-led foreign forces intervened on the side of fighters loyal to Hadi six months later. The demonstration, one of the biggest in Yemen since mass protests in 2011 forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, took place ahead of a ceasefire and U.N.sponsored peace talks next month. Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, made a rare appearance at the demonstration, his first since the war began, offering an olive branch to the Saudi-led coalition.
“We extend a hand of peace, the peace of the brave, for the direct talks with the Saudi regime without a return to the (U.N.) Security Council, which is incapable of resolving anything,” Saleh told flag-waving supporters who also held up large posters of the former president. The United Nations says the war has displaced some 2.3 million people and precipitated a humanitarian disaster across large parts of the Arab world’s poorest country. “We came out today to tell the world, that the Yemeni people remain steadfast, that we have endured a whole year despite the siege and the hunger and the airstrikes and the planes,” said one participant, named Kamel alKhodani. The United Nations envoy an-
nounced this week that the warring parties had agreed to a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 followed by peace talks in Kuwait from April 18 as part of a fresh push to end the crisis following two rounds of failed talks last year. Later on Saturday, Houthi supporters also held a separate protest to mark the anniversary. “Today, all Yemenis, from all different sects, and regardless of their political affiliations, came out today in the masses to show the world that the Yemeni people can never be shaken nor defeated,” said Houthi leader Ibrahim al Ubaidi. The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement said on Friday he wanted efforts to end a year-long war to succeed but his group was ready to confront its enemies if violence persisted. “We hope that efforts to end the aggression will be successful, it is in the interest, and a demand, of our people” Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said in a televised speech. (rtr)
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a “mortal blow” to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army general command said that its forces took over the city with support from Russian and Syrian air strikes, opening up the huge expanse of desert leading east to the Islamic State strongholds of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor. Palmyra would become “a launchpad to expand military operations” against the group in those two provinces, it said, promising to “tighten the noose on the terrorist group and cut supply routes ... ahead of their complete recapture”. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were still clashes on the eastern edge of Palmyra on Sunday morning, around the prison and inside the airport, but the bulk of the Islamic State force had withdrawn and retreated east, leaving the city under President Bashar al-Assad’s control. Amaq, a news agency close
to Islamic State, said its fighters launched a twin suicide attack against government forces in west Palmyra, without giving details. Syrian state-run television broadcast from inside the city on Sunday morning, showing largely deserted streets and several badly damaged buildings. It quoted a military source saying Syrian and Russian jets were targeting Islamic State fighters as they fled, hitting dozens of vehicles on the roads leading east from the city. Russia’s intervention in September turned the tide of Syria’s five-year conflict in Assad’s favour. Despite its declared withdrawal of most military forces two weeks ago, Russian jets and helicopters carried out dozens of strikes daily over Palmyra as the army pushed into the city. “This achievement represents a mortal blow to the terrorist organisation and lays the foundation for a great collapse in the morale of its mercenaries and the beginning of its defeat,” the army command statement said. In a pointed message to the United States, which has led a separate Western and Arab coalition against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq since 2014, the military command said its gains showed that the army “and its friends” were the only force able to uproot terrorism. (rtr)
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Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad take positions on a look-out point overlooking the historic city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 27, 2016.
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Hot weather dries up paddy fields
BANGLI - The hot weather of the last few days has caused drought for dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Pengiangan Kawan, Pengiangan village, Susut. As a result, farmers have been forced to cancel the planting of their rice seedlings teven thought the seedlings are ready to be planted. The extremly hot weather is also threatening the rice plants that were planted a few weeks ago. Local farmers, I Nyoman Subagia, explained on Tuesday (Mar. 22) that hot weather over the last few days has resulted in a reduced flow of water to the irrigation channels. Therefore, the paddy fields , which are he and other farmers’ only source of income are facing drought making it impossible for them to grow rice even though the seedlings have been prepared long in advance. “After the hot weather hit, the water flow stopped and the paddy fields dried out, so I cannot grow rice” he said. Apparently this is the worst drought in ten years. Subagia said that usually when the dry season comes, only about half of the paddy fields remain wet enough to be planted but this year the land does not produce at all causing man farmers to suffer losses. “This is the first time that this has happened so farmers are nervous about their future. The seedlings that are ready to be raised have become useless” he said. Subagia, who also works as a sea sand carver added: “I am forced to switch to planting other crops like corn and sweet potatoes so that I can earn some income”. Farmer, I Nyoman Nedeng is facing AP Photo/Alastair Grant
This Saturday, March 26, 2016 photo shows chocolate Easter Eggs and bunnies on display in a shop near the EU Commission in Brussels. While chocolatiers throughout the city are quick to offer condolences to the victims of the tragedy, they are equally fast to express concern about the future. Their livelihoods depend on people from around the globe streaming into their shops to indulge in their world famous goodies _ and they know tourists don’t go anywhere to be afraid.
Chocolate and beer: Belgians fear attacks will hurt tourism
BRUSSELS — At the aptly named Planete Chocolat, the shelves are laden with enticing Easter treasures for shoppers: bunnies with bows, pastel-wrapped eggs and elegant boxes of pralines. Swannee Vranckx, a clerk at the shop near Brussels’ main square, said she would normally have seen 50 to 100 customers by midafternoon in the days before one of the biggest holidays of the Christian year. But after the bombing attacks that shattered the tranquility of Belgium’s capital, only a handful had come in search of Easter treats. While the city’s chocolatiers are quick to offer condolences to the victims of the tragedy, they are equally fast to express their concerns about the future. Their livelihoods depend on people from around the globe streaming into their shops to indulge in their
world-famous goodies — and they know that tourists don’t go places they don’t feel safe. “I’m sure it will happen — people will cancel their trips,” Vranckx said. “They think it is a place for terrorists.” The March 22 attacks that killed 31 people and wounded 270 are only Brussels’ latest brush with violence. Just days before the bombings, Belgian and French police arrested Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris, in his Brussels hideout. In May 2014, three people were killed when a gunman targeted the Jewish museum of Belgium. The notion that Belgium, a small Western European nation of 11 million, might become known for terrorism is shocking to many here. This is a place where U.S. President Barack Obama says it was “easy to
love a country known for chocolate and beer.” And at Easter, the nation’s sweet tooth is on full display: shop windows are crammed with chocolate. Belgians are said to eat more than 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of the stuff every year — ranking them among the world’s top consumers. The country traces its love affair with chocolate to King Leopold II’s control of the Congo in the late 19th century, which provided the country with a ready supply of cocoa. Things really began to take off after 1912, when the son of a Swiss pharmacist created the first filled chocolates, which he called pralines, at his family’s Brussels factory. Today, Belgian chocolatiers ship their wares around the world and Brussels shopkeepers compete with artistic window displays in hopes of luring in tourists on their way to the
art museums or the Grand Place, the UNESCO world heritage site. This year, not far from there, residents and visitors alike gathered to remember the victims and scrawl messages of sadness and hope in the aftermath of the attacks. The bombings will cut consumer spending on recreation, leisure and tourism but they are likely to have only a short-term impact on the whole Belgian economy, according to Francesca Peck, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London. The losses may be magnified because the attacks occurred so close to the long Easter weekend, when restaurants and bars are typically busy. As a result, the Belgian economy is expected to grow 1.45 percent this year, down from a previous forecast of 1.6 percent, IHS estimated. But the slowdown will probably be temporary, as it was after the November attacks in Paris, where
shoppers refused to change their habits in the face of terror threats, Peck said. “As terrible as the events in Brussels have been, economic activity is typically pretty resilient to terrorist attacks,” she wrote. Belgians, though, are worried about what this means for the longer term — will people in Japan, the United States and China change their minds about visiting their beloved cobblestone streets and classic European cafes? Shopkeepers were just beginning to hope things were about to improve as the months after the Paris attacks had passed uneventfully. Now all bets are off. At the sleek Neuhas chocolate shop near from the Grand Place, manager Tim Verstraeten could only shake his head. “We don’t know what is going to happen,” he said. (ap)
similar conditions and said that the hot weather has put a damper on his intention to grow rice. The land was ploughed some time ago, but because the irrigation water is not flowing, the land has dried up. “Out of necessity we planted rice at the beginning of March but the hot weather has dried out the land. My rice seedlings will go to waste” he complained. Nedeng, who relies on agriculture for his livelihood said that there is not much that he can do -the water is just not flowing. Planting corn is the only way around this problem. “Hopefully, this can provide income” he said hopefully. Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Plantation Unit for Susut subdistrict, I Wayan Arimbawa, confirmed that hot weather has impacted the agricultural sector but added that not all subak (irrigation cooperative) in the area have been adversely affected. “This hot weather has indeed caused paddy fields to dry out and prevented farmers from planting rice. But this only happened to Subak Pengiangan Kawan that covers approximately fourteen hectares” he explained. (kmb45)
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The hot weather of the last few days has caused drought for dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Pengiangan Kawan, Pengiangan village, Susut.
Leko art, the only one in Jembrana In need of attention of government
NEGARA - The region of Jembrana has more gamelan musical instruments made of bamboo and or wood than East and North Bali where gamelans tend to be made of copper, iron and bronze. One of the unique bamboo gamelans made in Jembrana is known as Leko that are produced in Pancardawa hamlet, Pendem. The leko is estimated to
have first emerged in 1915. Pendem community leader Nyoman Dika, said that the birth of leko was inspired by gogo paddy (nonirrigated variety of rice paddy). It is said that as the farmers waited to harvest this slow growing crop, they sat in the shacks and yearned for entertainment. Using the materials that were readily available,
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One of the unique bamboo gamelans made in Jembrana is known as Leko that are produced in Pancardawa hamlet, Pendem.
farmers in the area started to create one instrument at a time, until a full gamelan set was created. Eventually they combined these bamboo gamelans with other instruments such as cymbals drums, explained Dika. “Their additional instruments were mostly made of bamboo and wood” he added. Before dancers accompanied the leko gamelan, the set comprised five tangguh, with two barangan, two kantilan, and the largest one called undir. Each bamboo gamelan instrument has 14 noted. After a time dancers started to accompany the leko players and then two more tangguh were added comprised of three barangan, three kantilan, and one undir, as well as two drums: a bamboo kenong, an iron gong along with some cymbals and flutes. A leko art troupe usually consists of 25 people, including a reserve player. Dika who leads an leko troup said that researched this art form by compiling information a number of leko players and from the elders of Pendem village who were involved in developing this unique art form, including dancers Nengah Lawar and Ni Ketut Weti as well as the late I Wayan Teragi who created one of the original leko gamelans and the late I Wayan Dresta who first cho-
reographed the leko dance. These and others provided important contributions to the development of this art form. “In the past, leko was only used to supplement ritual ceremonies in the homes of local residents. the royal family for example often held perfomances of leko gamelan” explained Dika. Over the course of time, art of leko swa some changes and in 1991 Dika along with other members of the troupe breathed new life into it –particularly in terms of the dance. Today, leko is not only used to complement ritual procession, like the deva yajña but also to accompany social dances (ibing- ibingan), given that there is no “gong” or metallic gamelan orchestra back then. A year later in 1992, the former regent of Jembrana I.B. Indugosa declared leko a rare art because there was only one troupe in Jembrana. “At the inauguration, he was present with local government officials Gusti Windia and Ketut Surung, and asked that leko be preserved. After that, whenever there was an official celebration or the welcoming of guests in the district of Jembrana, the leko gamelan troupe would play. They have also performed at the Bali Arts Festival
at the Denpasar Arts Center. Etymologically, the term leko cannot be interpreted, but artistically leko dance resembles the joged bumbung dance except that instead of just one dancer there are two dancers in leko. Leko dancers wear a costume quite similar to that worn by Legong Kraton dancers but the kebaya is white with a scarf tied around the chest of the dancers and both arms are richly ornamented with bracelets. The dancers wear the same headdress as the condong and their wear a sarong but without any anklets. The music of leko is played much slower than the music for joged bumbung and after the pengungkab sabda (opening music) the two dancers on the stage area known as pedum karan, begin their graceful movements similar to the condong dancers’ movements. After this prelude, typically there is a 20 minute social dance time (ibingibingan), followed by another two formal dancers who dance to leko compositions known as sebitan penyalin, tetangisan, cunguh landak and endih-endih api, bayan sangit and others. Every dancer is guarded by a customary security guard (pecalang), who is armed with a sword. Leko performances end with a closing musical interlude. (kmb)
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The oversupply of hotel rooms, said Anom, causes competition to be far too tight. Tariff wars are unavoidable and are ongoing these days. Actually, in 2000 his organization warned the government to be careful about issuing permits for new hotels until 2010. “Again and again we have proposed that a moratorium be issued. Small local entrepreneurs with little capital are now in a difficult situation and increasingly marginalized. Their needs to be an interlude with no more additional rooms being created in South Bali” emphasized Anom who is also Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Tourism Intellectuals (ICPI) Bali. Anom added that on average local hotel entrepreneurs are only able to break even. Nay more new hotel projects will surely make the competition even worse and likely many local hotels –especially in South Bali, will go bankrupt. It would appear that investors are still reluctant to invest in other parts of Bali. “Indeed, Bali still remains appealing but the problem is traffic congestion. Everything is concentrated on South Bali. Not to mention, the problem on land and water availability” he said.
Member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that the government has only been looking at the prosperity of Bali using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of growth, whereas a more accurate indicator of the prosperity of society is the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GDP explained Ardhana only takes income into account while the GPI looks at both income and expenses. “For example, if a city faces traffic congestion, for the GDP this indicates that people are earning enough money to buy a car. While the GPI looks at the increase in people’s income but also factors in additional costs such as fuel, pollutants that are generated and long delays in peoples’ mobility that also need to be calculated as part of prosperity which also affect overall prosperity”, he explained. Similarly, in the tourism sector, said Ardhana the GPI looks at more than just high hotel and restaurant taxes. “Does the amount of money generated through the hotel and restaurant tax indicate that tourism has provided prosperity for the people?” he questioned. In other words, the GPI also considers to what extent cultural tourism has been undermined despite the large number of tourists as an indication of a prosperous society.
“A regional leader should have the courage and confidence to impose a moratorium. We must consider things on this basis and look at whether the cost of sacrificing our culture is equal to the amount of income or hotel and restaurant tax received and is it providing the welfare to the people as we expect” he explained. Ardhana asserted that it is impossible for people to become prosperous at the expense of cultural tourism because cultural tourism is the lifeblood of the Balinese people. If cultural tourism is abandoned for the
sake of ‘modern tourism’, this will automatically mean that Balinese people will have handed over their possessions to others, he said. “In other words, we have given “the cooking pot of the Balinese people” to others so instead of being able to cook for ourselves, we have to ask for food to eat. Local businessmen are giving up, it is enough to become someone’s employee because capitalism now rules here”, he lamented. Ardhana went on to say that it is time for Bali to stop talking about accommodations and start thinking
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about destinations that can produce the same amount of income as the hotel and restaurant tax. Bali has so many unique tourist destinations but what is needed said Ardhana is a management board to oversee the creation of good infrastructure, promotion and ways of increasing the value of tourists attractions. “Is it accommodations that have made Singapore’s tourism flourish? Not really it is high levies. We already now that we have many destinations, they just need to be managed well” stated Ardhana. (kmb32)
Bali’s culture: supporting pillar of the economy
MANGUPURA — Advisor to the Minister of Multicultural Affairs in the Ministry of Tourism, Hari Untoro Dradjat said that the core value of Bali tourism lies in its Hinduism inspired culture. Dradjat said that he is confident that 60 percent of the interest that travelers have in visiting Bali is based on the culture found here, 30 percent is based on the island natural beauty and 10 percent of traveler interest in visiting Bali is for so-called ‘artificially-made’ tourism. “All creativity that emerges here is based on the local culture. Artificial tourism -like zoos and such, remain nonetheless associated with environmental preservation” said Dradjat in his key note address to IBP/file participants at a tourism seminar Giving offerings everyday is one of the culture of the Hindus held in Kuta. Hari added that tourism is not in Bali.
just about visitors going home with souvenirs. Visitors also need to bring home a collection of memories so that they will feel inspired to return again and again. “On that account, we continue to promote Bali and Bali remains on the leading edge of tourism even though the central government is
currently developing 10 other ‘priority tourist destinations’ in Indonesia that are being referred to as the ‘10 new Balis’, he explained. Bali is very strong in terms of its cultural appeal, but Bali also faces two threats to its tourism sector; social issues like bomb or terrorism threats and natural disasters that cause people to cancel their trips, said Hari. He therefore hopes that the media can help to dampen these threats by establishing positive information. According to data from the Ministry of Tourism, visitors to Bali account for 4.6 million or 40% of the foreign visitors who come to Indonesia (kmb32)
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Rolling Stones tell giant crowd “times are changing” at Cuba debut
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HAVANA - The Rolling Stones rocked a massive crowd at a free, outdoor concert in Havana on Friday, capping a week of engagement with the West for the Communist-led country that once censored the veteran British band’s music. The Stones started their firstever show in Cuba with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” a song recorded in 1968, when Cuban rock fans were secretly sharing pirated vinyl records and risked being sent to rural work brigades to cure “ideological deviation.” “We know that years back it was hard to hear our music in Cuba, but here we are playing. I also think the times are changing,” lead singer Mick Jagger said in Spanish to a roar from the crowd. The singer spoke in Spanish throughout of the 18-song show of hits that lasted more than two hours. The band played “Sympathy for the Devil” as a yellow moon rose through clouds, and they finished a two-song encore with “Satisfaction.” Fans started gathering 18 hours ahead of time at Havana’s Sports City football and baseball fields, including Cubans who traveled from across the Caribbean’s largest island and foreigners who flew in for the occasion. While no official estimate was
immediately available for the crowd size, Cuban state media estimated half a million people could fit in the venue, which was nearly full. The audience ranged from teenagers to pensioners and reserved some of the biggest cheers for Jagger’s snakey dance moves. “I love Mick Jagger so much. I’ve always dreamed about this. I couldn’t sleep knowing he would be here,” said Angela Menendez, who cleans floors in a hospital. Security was low key and there was a noticeable absence of wouldbe entrepreneurs selling T-shirts or memorabilia. People were dressed in all manner of jeans, T-shirts and boots with the Stones’ tongue and lips logo. Cubans have taken to coloring the tongue with the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag, whether in the mistaken belief that the British rock stars were American or in the spirit of this week’s historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Stones formed in London
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Fans attend a free outdoor concert by the Rolling Stones at Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex in Havana, Cuba March 25, 2016. in 1962, three years after Fidel Castro’s bearded rebels toppled a pro-American government.
Castro’s revolutionary government came to see counterculture bands like the Stones and the Beat-
les as dangerously subversive and prohibited their music on TV and radio. (rtr)
Australian actor Hugh Jackman helps swimmers to safety from dangerous surf
SYDNEY - Australian actor Hugh Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Saturday, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. Jackman is shown linking hands with a man and pulling him from a fast-flowing channel on to a sandbar, where the water is shallow, in television footage broadcast by the Nine Network. The network said Jackman later helped his own son, Oscar, 15, from the same current. Peter Adam, who told Nine he was the man Jackman helped, said he wasn’t REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files rescued by the film star. Actor Hugh Jackman arrives for the premiere of the film “Chappie” in New York in this March “He wasn’t rescuing me, I was as4, 2015 file photo. Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on March 26, sisting him to get his daughter up to 2016, when he helped his son and another man to safety from strong currents in the surf. the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand
to get us up,” Adam said. The actor is also shown beckoning other swimmers to shore, away from a rip current flowing out to sea. Jackman was at the beach with his family, Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. Witness Lynzey Murphy told the paper that surf conditions changed quickly, but that Jackman stayed calm. “When we got in the water 20 minutes earlier it was fine. Then the water just came up suddenly,” she said. “Hugh just pulled them calmly on to the sandbar. He then said: ‘All right, we are going to walk towards the flags.’” A lifeguard told the paper that the beach was later closed because of dangerous surf. (rtr)
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In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, photo, North Korean soldiers march across the Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. With tensions high and the United States and South Korea preparing to hold their massive annual wargames, Pyongyang is warning it will respond to any violations of its territory with “merciless” retaliation, including strikes on Seoul and the U.S. mainland itself.
MANGUPURA - Currently Bali has about 130,000 hotel rooms, most of which are located in South Bali. In Badung district alone there are 95,000 rooms with occupancy rates below 60 percent for star hotels and 40 percent for non-star hotels. Results of a study conducted by the Badung Tourism Promotion Board (BPBD) in 2015 shows that hotel rooms are in oversupply. “The increase tin the number of hotel rooms has occired too quickly and they are all concentrated in the South. Ideally, the occupancy rate should be around 70-80 percent or more for star hotels, and above 50 percent for budget hotels. An occupancy rate of just 40 percent, is only enough to cover operation costs” said member of BPBD Badung, I Putu Anom, during a tourism seminar in Kuta. Rooms... Continued on page 2
North Korea warns of strike on Seoul’s presidential palace
PYONGYANG — North Korea warned Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul’s presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes for “treason” and publicly executes officials responsible for what Pyongyang says are plans to attack its leadership. The warning, issued by state media in the name of a unit of the Korean People’s Army, is the latest in a barrage of threats against Washington and Seoul over joint military drills now underway that the North sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion. It also came shortly after a North Korean propaganda outlet posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. The joint military exercises are held annually, but tensions are particularly high this year because the drills
are bigger than ever and come on the heels of North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch. Further angering Pyongyang have been reports in South Korean media that this year’s exercises include simulated training for a “decapitation strike” targeting North Korea’s top leaders. The warning Saturday said the South Korean presidential palace is within striking range of the North’s artillery units, and that if an order to attack is made it is “just a click away.”
North Korea is believed to have artillery capable of striking Seoul with little or no warning and causing severe damage and casualties in the city of 10 million. A strike on Seoul, however, is highly unlikely, and Pyongyang has previously issued similar threats without following through. There were few signs Saturday of the heightened tensions in Pyongyang, where residents went about their daily routines as usual. Earlier on Saturday, the North Korean propaganda website DPRK Today posted a video depicting a nuclear attack on Washington. The four-minute video, titled “Last Chance,” showed a digitally
created scene of a missile fired from a submerged vessel in the sea soaring through the clouds, darting back to Earth, and crashing into the streets near Washington’s Lincoln Memorial before the explosion wipes out the city. “Choose, United States. Whether the country called United States continues to exist in this planet depends on your choice,” read a message that flashed on the screen to the background of a burning U.S. Capitol building and American flag. The video also warned that the North would “not hesitate” to attack the United States with its nuclear weapons if “American imperialists even make the slightest move against us.”
A similar video got a great deal of attention in 2013, when North Korea also conducted a nuclear test and satellite launch. North Korea has been developing its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, but is not believed to have perfected either enough to pose a credible threat to major U.S. cities.(ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.