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Canada, UK to urge other nations not to pay ransoms -Trudeau

KANANASKIS - Canada and Britain will urge other nations not to pay ransoms to free kidnap victims, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, the day after a Canadian hostage was found dead in the Philippines.

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In this March 23, 2016 file photo, singer Alicia Keys performs at the coffee company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. Keys will debut new music at the upcoming UEFA Champions League Final in Milan, Italy on May 28.

Alicia Keys to debut new music at Champions League Final

NASHVILLE — Alicia Keys will debut new music from her next album during the first-ever live musical performance as a part of the opening ceremony for the UEFA Champions League Final in Italy next month.

UEFA and Pepsi announced that the Grammy-winning singer will be the first musical act to perform as a part of the final, which is aired in more than 220 countries.

The singer has been working on a follow-up to her 2012 studio album “Girl on Fire,” but she was coy about the new songs she’ll be performing on May 28.

“I have to leave it as a surprise for sure ‘cause that’s ... part of the fun of it,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York on Tuesday.

“But you’re definitely going to hear some new music.”

The multi-platinum singer, songwriter and pianist was feeling the energy and excitement of spring

as she talked about the upcoming performance and new music. The mother of two is also going to be the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” on May 7 and will be a judge on the next season of “The Voice,” alongside Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Miley Cyrus.

“It’s such a fresh time for music.

To me, it’s my favorite time,” Keys said.

She’ll have a global stage to introduce her new music to millions of football fans worldwide from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan.

And as the inaugural performance for the opening ceremony, she said wants to put her own creative stamp on the show.

“It’s pretty insane. I know there is going to be 80,000 people there in person and people are all over the world are going to witness it and watch this and celebrate,” Keys said. “It’s a huge space to fill.”

Music, Keys said, transcends language, so she’s excited to perform for fans all around Europe.

“No matter what you speak, you understand. You understand the emotion, you understand the feeling,” she said. “And I think that’s what is so magical about music, what makes us love it so much.”

Keys also said she is looking forward to returning to Italy, a place that feels like home to her.

“My mother’s family is from Italy, so whenever I go, I always feel the most loved,” Keys said. “I feel like it’s a homecoming of love in a lot of ways.” (ap)

Trudeau said if Canada paid ransoms it would put at risk all of its citizens who traveled or lived abroad. Islamist militants beheaded the Canadian man this week after a deadline passed.

Asked about nations that do pay off kidnappers, Trudeau said he had discussed the matter with British Prime Minister David Cameron and both were convinced the practice was wrong.

“We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world,” Trudeau told reporters after a cabinet retreat in the Alberta resort of Kananaskis.

“We need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence (by) taking innocents hostage,” he said.

John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was executed by Abu Sayyaf militants who captured him and three others in 2015 while they were on vacation on a Philippine island. Another Canadian, Robert Hall, is still in captivity.

“We are working with our allies, including the Philippines, to ensure the perpetrators of

this heinous act are brought to justice,” said Trudeau, who dismissed media reports saying he had been involved in talks to free the hostages.

Last year Canadian police arrested a Somali man in Ottawa for what they say was his role in the 2008 hostage-taking of a Canadian freelance journalist in Somalia. Police said the arrest came after extraterritorial undercover operations, but gave no details.

Abu Sayyaf, which is linked to Islamic State, has collected tens of millions of dollars from ransoms since it was formed in the 1990s, security experts say. The Philippines rarely publicizes payments of ransom, but it is widely believed no captives are released without them.

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Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spars at Gleason’s Boxing Gym in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Thursday, April 21, 2016.

No infrastructural development to overcome inequality in 2016 DENPASAR - In 2016, infrastructure development in Bali will continue to remains local in nature. Infrastructure projects intended to overcome the inequality in development on

the island, include the airport in North Bali, Kuta-Canggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road and the Mengwitani-Singaraja shortcut. But it looks like these are still on the backburner.

“This year, it is only the local ones, like the new ring road in Nusa Penida that will go ahead. There is no effort to resolve congestion and

the imbalance of development. In fact the shortcut and toll road have been planned but they are still in the process of DED preparation or planning”, said Secretary of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, from Denpasar on Monday (Apr. 25).

In terms of rules, added Kariya-

sa, some infrastructural plans have been accommodated in Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on Bali’s provincial spatial planning (RTRWP).

For example, the detailed engineering design (DED) of the KutaCanggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road were created in 2010. However, until this time it has not been realized. In the meantime, given the

current spatial planning, the toll road cannot possibly be built due to the constraints of acquiring land.

Many villas have been established along Sunset Road to Soka (Tabanan) thanks to violation of the spatial plan.

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“Well ... this does not bode well for future plans. So far, infrastructure development tends to be influenced by real estate investors.

When there are investors, then the government rushes to to create infrastructure. Thus, the development of Bali cannot be well arranged” said this PDI-P politician.

Kariyasa asked the provincial government to speed up the realization of infrastructure such as the toll road, shortcuts and airports in North Bali. After all, one of the causes of the imbalance in economic and social development is the uneven access to infrastructure.

That is why there are only a few investors wishing to invest beyond Southern Bali.

“Investors tend to think they will only make a profit if there is good infrastructure. So, whatever the district

government does in northern Bali and eastern Bali to attract investors, is for naught if there isn’t adequate infrastructure –investors just won’t want to put their money there”, he said.

When interviewed separately, chief of the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda), I Putu Astawa, said that the shortcut plan for the Mengwitani-Singaraja road remains in the stage of feasibility study (FS) this year. The plan and preparation or detailed engineering design (DED) and land acquisition are scheduled to take place in 2017.

Meanwhile the Kuta-Canggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road remains in the process of having a feasibility study done by PT. Waskita.

“During the national development plan meeting we intensely discussed the stages that need to be realized”, said Astawa, adding that IDR 210 billion has been budgeted for the regular maintenance of provincial roads, while physical developments being undertaken are the construction

of Bali Mandara Hospital and Bali Mandara Eye Hospital (Indera Hospital—Ed). Next year, development will be resumed with the construction of the broken Tukadaya Bridge in Jembrana.

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Calendar of events April 27 - 29

“The Buleleng airport requires substantial funds and the regional budget cannot possible cover it and the central government does not consider Bali a priority. As a result, we are encouraging po-

tential investors wishing to build the airport. There is a prospective investor –Canada Kinesis that has been requested to provide a detailed explanation by the governor” he added. (kmb32)

Wednesday, April 27 -6:30pm Exhibition opening: Alla duly, I made ada Wood Inside and outside Museum Puri Lukisan free exhibition runs from April 27- Mai 23rd Thursday, April 28th, 7:30Pm Jalanan The Movie (2013) Award winning documentary about 3 charismatic buskers in Jakarta.

Bar Luna, Jalan Raya Ubud Friday, April 29th +30th Kollektiv & Mini Kino: 7:30pm film screening White shoes& the Couples Company di Cikini Berry Biz Hotel, Jalan Raya Sunset road no 99, kuta www.minikino.org 25K Friday, April 29th , 7:00Pm International Jazz Day eith bali Gypsy, Underground Jazz movement, Dian Prawiti, Rumah Sanur, Jalan Damau Poso 51A, Sanur 50k Friday, April 29th 8pm Body painting exhibition: ISI Denpasar Art students , Pagung Terbuka Ksirarnawa (open stage), Art Center, Jalan Nusa Indah, Denpasar Free

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The crowded Ngurah Rai Airport. Currently there is no development on the other side of the island to make tourism equal in Bali.

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5300 Dengue cases, 24 dead

DENPASAR - The Province of Bali’s Health Agency has recorded 5300 cases of Dengue on the island of the gods between January and April 2016.

Of this number 24 people died of dengue. Head Bali’s Health Agency, Dr. Ketut Suarjaya said that the outbreak has been handled according to standard operating procedures in hospitals and clinics on the island. Cases where patients with dengue died were due to having been diagnosed too late.

One of the hospital in Bali is crowded with patients.

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“For example if someone has had a fever for a few days without realizing that they have dengue may arrive at the hospital once they are already in the shock phase of the illness.

Whereas patients who get immediate care can be cured with normal treatment”, said Saurjaya during a press conference at Bali’s health agency on Tuesday (Apr 26).

Suarjaya added that there are three ways of treating dengue: total rest, rehydration and by taking vitamins so strengthen the body. WIthin five days, the dengue virus will weaken as witnessed by the increase in white blood cell counts by the sixth day. The most important aspect of handling the spread of dengue is to prevent it from spreading. “The dengue virus thrives in the rainy season between January- Mai so we hope that measures can be taken a few months before, by preforming the “3m’s” around September”, he said.

Governor of Bali’s representative Ketut Sudikerta then asked that all hospital and medical staff to do their utmost to take care of patients with dengue, especially when these patients first seek medical attention Hospital staff were also asked to provide suitable places for these patients to recover.

“Apart from responding quickly to patients that have already become infected with dengue, it is also important to do “the 3ms”; routinely clean out any and all area that hold water, empty all containers of stagnant water, cover stored water -especially water used for human consumption” he explained. (kmb32)

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Friday, April 29th 6:30PM Mahendratta: Jejak Arkeologis dan sosok historis runs form april 30th to mai 7th Exhibition of photos and artefacts from the 10 and 11th century Bali related to Mahendratta who was the illustrious wife of then King Udayana.

In conjunction with Rumah Perabadan and the bureau of Archeology. bentara Budaya, Free Friday, April 29th, Rizal& Rasendriya: Live music by multi talented west javanese playing his independently created new musical instrument made from bamboo.

7:30Pm Bar Luna, jalan Raya Ubud, Friday, April 29th 7:30-9:30pm Live music with Yudele and friends Balinese instrument maker and musician performs his uplifting songs.

Paradiso, Jlaan Goutama Selatan 50K

ONGOING EVENTS March 2- August 31th A Love Affair With Asia: Bridges Cafe, Jalan Campuhan, Ubud www.bridges.com FREE Every Tuesday Ecstastic Tuesday Morning Dance 9AM-12Noon Guided improvised movement Paradiso, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud www.paradisoubud.com 100K Every Thursday African Drum Class with Catur Sang Klang Wijaya 4PM-6PM Experience the healing power of drumming. all levels welcome Ashram Satya Graha, Nyuh Kining, Ubud

BY DONATION Every Friday Exploration in Motion 6:30PM-8PM The art of exploration in movement Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang Linjong 38, Echo Beach, Canggu www.samadibali.com 130K Every Sunday Batu Jimbar Cafe Sunday Market 10AM-1PM Organic produce, Bali honey, homemade jams, european specialties Batu jimbar Cafe, Jalan Danau Tambligan No75, Sanur www,batujimbarcafe.com Samadi Bali Sunday Organic Market Organic food, handmade creative clothes and jewellery, yoga for kids, music Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang, Linjong 39, Kuta www.samadibali.com

Paon Bali Resto and Bar Reopening Soon At Grand Nikko Bali

Grand Nikko Bali is delighted to announce the reopening of its newly refurbished Paon Bali Resto and Bar. Previously known as Paon Bali and Oolooloos Bar, this dining venue closed its doors in February 2016 to undergo an extensive refur-

bishment and is scheduled to unveil its new look on May 3rd, 2016.

Paon Bali Resto & Bar has revamped its menu to serve a wider selection of authentic Balinese cuisine for lunch and dinner. There’s also a delicious variety of finger foods in the

form of Balinese Tapas that can be paired with refreshing drinks.

Located at the resort’s lower lobby, Paon Bali Resto & Bar is open daily for lunch from 12.00 pm – 6.00 pm, dinner from 6.00pm – 10.00pm and supper from 10.00pm - 01.00am.

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Artificial limbs offer Syrians new chances at life

REYHANLI — Every time 3-year-old Seif wears his new prosthetic legs, the toddler puts up a fight. He has already made peace with walking on his stumps, but there is no dodging his daily rehabilitation session at a prosthetic clinic in southern Turkey.

In a small clinic in the dusty border town of Reyhanli, dozens of wounded Syrians come to be fitted each month with prosthetic limbs, their best shot at restoring a semblance of a normal life.

Treatment at the clinic is free and only for Syrian civilians and fighters who have lost body parts in the Syrian conflict. Workers at the clinic manufacture prosthetic body parts while patients are in therapy.

Seif, whose last name wasn’t disclosed, was riding in the back seat of a car in the Syrian city of Aleppo in February, when a rocket struck the car blowing off his two legs and the leg of his older brother.

Their parents, who were sitting in the front, survived with minor injuries.

The family recently crossed into Turkey so that the brothers could be fitted with artificial limbs at the National Syrian Project for Prosthetic Limbs (NSPPL), a Syrianrun venture supported by three agencies: Syria Relief, SEMA, and Every Syrian.

“The number of wounded people is growing,” said Raed al-Masri, who has been running the clinic since it opened in February 2013.

He’s unsure what is causing the

spike in numbers.

“Perhaps it is the Russian bombing or maybe people have become more aware of the center,” he told The Associated Press. By his count, more than 50,000 Syrians are amputees in need of treatment. The clinic works on an average of 100 cases per month.

The technicians working at the clinic are all Syrian refugees. They largely learned their craft on the go, but training has brought personnel up to European standards, al-Masri said.

It takes about five days to manufacture a limb, test it and fit it on a patient. The rehabilitation process can stretch from one week to several months depending on the condition and morale of the patient.

“People who have prosthetic limbs are in a very difficult psychological state, so what about the people who have no limbs, or have a handicap?” al-Masri said. “They are in a different category, in an even more difficult state.”

Those in the clinic are the lucky ones and, generally, they know it.

Ahmed Abdullah, a 30-year-old rebel who lost both legs in 2012 while fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, said his life was transformed after

being fitted with artificial limbs.

“Before I had a prosthetic limb, I would get annoyed sometimes because I couldn’t get things for myself,” said the lightly-bearded former fighter. “I would need my

brother or sister to get it for me.

After ... my life became — I can’t say 100 percent — but 90 to 95 percent good.”

For Seif, who comes to the clinic dressed in prim shorts and shirt,

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the transition is impossible to put into words. The routine starts with tears but ends in a burst of laughter as he takes his first steps with the help of his mother. “He’s happier,” she said. (ap)

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Residents held demonstration against reclamation of Benoa Bay

Benoa Bay Reclamation

Working Parliamentary Meeting

DENPASAR - The contentious issue of the reclamation of Benoa Bay was discussed in a working meeting involving Bali’s house of representatives (DPRD) and the Governor of Bali in the parliamentary building on Tuesday (Apr. 26).

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Syrian Mahmoud Shamoo, left, a technician and therapist helps a Syrian patient, who didn’t want to be identified, with his first steps on his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, where hundreds of wounded Syrians come in every week to receive prosthetic limbs, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Treatment at the clinic is for free and only for Syrian civilians and fighters who lost their limbs in the war in their home country.

Brazil says Zika-linked microcephaly cases stable at 4,908

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An Aedes aegypti larva is seen through a microscope at Colombia’s National Institute of Health in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 26, 2016.

BRASILIA - The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus remained stable at 4,908 in the week through April 23, just one case more than a week earlier, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 1,198 from 1,168 a week earlier, but suspected ones under investigation continued to decline to 3,710 from 3,741 a week ago.

Cases that have been ruled out rose to 2,320 in the week through April 23, from 2,241 a week earlier, the ministry said.

Brazil considered most of the cases of babies born with abnormally small heads to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established.

Brazil has registered 91,387 likely cases of the Zika virus from February until April 2, the health ministry said earlier on Tuesday, in its first national report on the epidemic.

The country’s populous southeast, which includes Olympic city Rio de Janeiro, registered the most diagnoses of any region, with 35,505 likely cases. (rtr)

The primary points on the agenda of the working meeting were the Report of Gubernorial Responsibility 2015 (LKPJ), and the Second Regional Regulation Plan regarding REgional Taxation Regulations.

However, member of Commision II, A. A” Ngurah Adhi Ardhana said that he was offended that the staunch opposition to reclamation that the coastal villages of Benoa Bay have expressed about reclamation, has been virtually ignored. “In my opinion, as our patriarch, as a the leader of the Balinese people, all you have to do let the President of the Republic of Indonesia know. Let it be known that this is going on (mass opposi-

tion). Please sir, speak on behalf of the Balinese people”, he said.

Adhi emphasized that this opinion of his is neither pro nor contra.

The Governor as regional representative need not be afraid of being called a rebel by the central government. Especially because the governor would only be transiting information about what is going on In Bali at the moment. For whatever follows, it is up to the President to decide what needs to be done. “I think that it would make us looking very good as regional representatives” said this PDI-P politician.

Governor of Bali Mangku Pastika said that his position regarding

the reclamation of Benoa Bay is still awaiting word form the central government. He and his staff surrender the entire reclamation process -whether it goes ahead or not, to the central government.

“If it goes forward, good, it it does not also not a problem. I have no personal interest in the matter, I just think that Benoa Bay could be in a better condition than it is now”, he said. Pastika added that the question of why the province does not just dredge the bay themselves has come up. He explained that Benoa Bay is a “National Strategic Area”, so it is not within the Province of Bali’s authority. Secondly, the Provincial government does not have the funds to dredge the harbour.

“Let us count our funds: 20 percent goes to education, 20 percent is transferred to the regencies, 20

percent for government officer spending, 10 percent for health, and 10 percent for infrastructure. That ti already 80 percent of the regional budget. The remaining 20 percent goes to grants issued by the house of representatives for The National Red Cross , The National Sports Comity, and Scouts” he said.

Governor Pastika emphasized that all he knows is that Benoa Bay is damaged now. There are no longer any mangroves, seaweed nor other marine biota there. At low tide, there is only mud in Benoa Bay and at high tide sea water rises by 1 meter therefor actions must be taken to save Benao Bay. “Besides, even though our current unemployment rate is the lowest nationally, every year there are 25 thousand young people in Bali graduating from University.

Where will they work? This is also a problem. If we do not create new and diverse tourist destinations, we will loose out to the competition” he said.

Pastika added that we should not hope for economic growth without there being investments. Even if the government forces investments to be made in North Bali there is no guarantee that investors will want to put their money there. He gave the example of the plan to build an airport in Buleleng that has yet to materialize. After calculating the amount of money that would need to be invested in building the airport -some IDR 30 trillion, investors that had been interested suddenly withdrew their offer.

“Anyoen who puts money down wants to see a return. That is the problem”, he explained. (kmb32)

Environment Agency conducts vehicle emission tests for Earth Day

DENPASAR - As part of Earth Day celebrations this year, Denpasar’s Environmental Affairs Agency (BLH), took action by conducting vehicle emission tests on 2000 cars over 4 days. Head of BLH Denpasar, Anak Agung Bagus Sudharsana, said on Tuesday (Apr 26) that the emission testing that took place in Sesetan involved the police and the Denpasar Communications Agency. He explained that by holding such random testing, they hope to improve air quality by ensuring that vehicles are only emitting the allotted amount of pollution.

The vehicle emission testing took place in the area of Sesetan on Jalan Puputan Renon, Jalan Mulawarman and finally on Jalan Teuku Umar Barat. Sudharsana that the amount of pollution that a vehicle emits does not necessarily depend on the age of the vehicle but has more to do with how well the vehicle is taken care of”, he said.

For cars with fuel injection motors, the CO2 limit is 3.5 percent, Ac 300 PPM, CO2 of 12 percent, 02 2 percent and motor parameter of 97-1-03.

The emission test that took place in four different neighbourhoods,

targeted vehicles with a higher potential of being polluting and both moving cars and parked cars were tested in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from motor vehicles. It is hopes that after ongoing such tests vehicle owners will take steps to reduce the amount of pollution that is being released into the air and which affects people’s health by having their e=vehicles tuned up or have parts changed if necessary.

“We are working with the Communications Agency to deal with vehicles that do not pass the emissions tests”, added Sudharsana, (kmb12)

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Denpasar’s Environmental Affairs Agency (BLH), took action by conducting vehicle emission tests on 2000 cars over 4 days.

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Visitors disturbed by beggars exploiting babies and young children

GIANYAR - The increasingly rampant presence or beggars in the tourism village of Ubud requires serious attention. Aside from disturbing the comfort of visitors, the presence of beggars exploiting babies and young children is generally especially considering that Gianyar has been named as a ‘child-worthy town’ (KLA).

As observed on Monday (Apr. 25) at around 23:00, a number of beggars were active on Jalan Raya Ubud, carrying babies and/ or accompanied by small children as a way to illicit sympathy.

The beggars and the small children would extend their hands in a begging gesture to every passing visitor. Some of them were even relentlessly pursuing pedestrians.

Chief of Ubud’s People’s Empowerment Agency (LPM) Dr. Tjokorda Gede Raka Sukawati aknowledged the numerous beggars that have been very much disturbing the comfort of visitors to Ubud. He added that may visitors had admitted to feeling ill at ease witnessing people exploiting children as they begged for money. “Many visitors have complained, particularly regarding the exploitation of children. People are very uncomfortable about children being exploited this way as is common in Jakarta” he said with much dismay.

Ubud’s People’s Empowerment Agency (LPM) has been seeking to address this problem by recruiting security officers to help cut down on the number of beggars, illegal merchants and migrants.

“However LPM can only recruit three officers who are focused on cutting down on illegal merchants and illegal migrants in Ubud.

Dealing with the beggars is much harder and we are often overwhelmed because even after they have been disciplined, they return again, as if they are organized”, explained Sukawati.

This lecturer at the Udayana University also worries that if the beggars persist in operating in Ubud, it will have a negative impact on the impression that international visitors have of Ubud. He therefore hopes that the government of Gianyar would pay more attention to the problem and help to deal with it. “We expect extra measures to be taken by the municipal police in response to the presence of these beggars. The government needs to look for solutions to the problem of large number of beggars operating in Gianyar in general and Ubud in particular”, he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Municipal Police, I Made Krya Gunarta, when asked for his assessment of the situation, said that Gianyar’s police is planning to intensify disciplinary action against beggars in the near future. “Since celebrations of the Town of Gianyar’s anniversary have ended, we have received numerous reports on the emergence of beggars so we will be taking disciplinary actions soon – specifically in Ubud”, said Gunarta.

This former head of the sub-district of Blahbatuh added that his officers will be operating in plain clothes because if they wear their uniforms, the beggars can escape before the officers approach “This has already happened quite frequently. When the beggars see officers’ uniforms, they run away. So we will be coordinating with the sub-district head and Ubud’s headman and deploy officers in plain clothes to conduct operations”, he explained.(kmb35)

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The increasingly rampant presence or beggars in the tourism village of Ubud requires serious attention.

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Students in Singaraja have taken to expressing their creativity by using plastic trash as their medium.

Students in Singaraja learn to use trash as artistic medium

SINGARAJA - Painting on canvas is commonplace, but students in Singaraja have taken to expressing their creativity by using plastic trash as their medium thanks to a Waste Care Movement Volume III workshop that was initiated by Manik Bumi Foundation at the Sasana Budaya Cultural Hall in Singaraja last weekend.

The students were by mentored by local artist Made Bayak, who has become an expert in using trash as a medium for creating works of art. Normally students are taught to paint on canvas, but as Bayak says this mainstream medium is being changed up for plastic waste that can also be used for expressing one’s creativity. “We encourage the younger generation to transform plastic waste into valuable works of art” said Made Bayak on Sunday (Apr. 24).

While introducing the students to the idea of painting on plastic garbage, Bayak also educated the students about maintaining and caring for the environment.

While plastic is usually discarded as useless, he explained, it can in fact be made into works of art that

art lovers may be interested in collecting – giving new meaning to the phrase ‘trash collecting’.

Processing plastic waste can generate economic value by being turned into art and can also create job opportunities. “Hopefully, these activities will have an impact on the younger generation and they will feel inspired to come up with imaginative ideas about developing a variety of creative products made from plastic garbage” added Bayak.

In the “Plasticology” workshop, a student from SMPN 4 Singaraja junior high school, Putu Eka, took up environmental issues wanting to promote public awareness and sensitize people about caring for nature and the surrounding environment. “We created a painting based

on the theme of protecting the earth, depicting the globe being held by human hands. Essential we are expressing the fact that humans are expected to think about and actively maintain the health of the earth and its contents”, said Eka. Member of the Manik Bumi Foundation’s founding board, Luh Gede Juli Wirahmini, explained that these activities were initiated for the benefit of the entire community, and involve elementary, junior high and high school students participating in protecting the environment.

Wirahmini said that she hopes that people will stop littering in the rivers and instead keep them clean.

“Our mission is to come to expect that each community will care more about and take a more active role in processing plastic trash. This year waste care movement volume III was able to go directly into schools.

In residential areas in Kampong Singaraja, students and the general public have become agents of change in managing plastic waste”, she said (kmb34)

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Protesters react as they hold placards and listen to speakers during a rally in support of refugees in central Sydney, Australia, October 19, 2015.

Australia rules out settling 800 asylum seekers as PNG says it will close camp

SYDNEY - Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday it will close an Australian immigration centre on a northern island after its Supreme Court ruled it unlawful, but Australia ruled out accepting more than 800 asylum seekers detained there.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton stressed the success of Australia’s hard-line policy that has been strongly criticised by the United Nations and human rights agencies.

Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea. They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said the detention centre would close after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the detentions breached the country’s constitution and would have to stop.

Dutton said that it was still government policy that asylum seekers sent to offshore detention centres would never be resettled in

Australia.

“As I have said, and as the Australian government has consistently acted, we will work with our PNG partners to address the issues raised by the Supreme Court of PNG,” Dutton said in a statement after the announcement.

O’Neill said he would ask Australia to make arrangements for the asylum seekers held on Manus Island, adding that they would be able to stay in Papua New Guinea if they wanted.

A spokesperson for Dutton did not immediately respond for requests for comment on the closure but Dutton said in Melbourne that the Manus detainees could return home or go to another country willing to accept them.

The detainees on Manus and Nauru are mostly refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East, Af-

ghanistan and South Asia.

While Australia maintains its hard-line stance, a second case concerning the fate of the detainees on Manus is set to be heard by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court later this week.

Lawyers acting on behalf of nearly all the Manus Island detainees will argue that they should be taken to Australia and be compensated for being held in custody.

The detention centre on Nauru houses about 500 people and has been widely criticised by the United Nations and human rights agencies for harsh conditions and reports of systemic child abuse.

Against such a backdrop, many of the detainees have self-harmed, with Dutton on Wednesday confirming that a 23-year-old man from Iran had set himself on fire on Nauru. Dutton said the man would be evacuated from Nauru later on Wednesday.

Broadspectrum Ltd, which runs the detention centres on Manus and Nauru, declined to comment. (rtr)

TAIPEI - Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen said she will maintain the status quo in the island’s relationship with China, but that her policy will be based on democratic principles and transcend party politics, a nuance likely to be lost on Communist Party leaders in Beijing.

China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary and wants the new government to stick to the “one China” policy agreed upon with the outgoing China-friendly Nationalist government.

Beijing distrusts Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which it believes supports formal independence for Taiwan.

“Only in this way, can the cross-Strait relationship last and give ‘maintaining the status quo’ real meaning,” Tsai, referring to the body of water separating the two sides, said in a speech.

“In these 10 years or so, the rise of China’s economy and its increasing overall influence has changed the structure of the cross-Strait relationship,” Tsai said. “It has also resulted in far-reaching impact in all aspects of interaction.”

Her comments come less than a month before she takes power amid keen interest in what she will say during her inauguration speech on May 20.

Tsai has always said she will maintain the status quo but has not elaborated on how she will engage Beijing beyond broad principles.

Tsai and her independence-leaning DPP were voted into power in January on growing concern, particularly among younger citizens, that the island was not benefiting from its economic ties with China.

China has been stepping up pressure on Taiwan. In the past few weeks, China has established ties with former Taiwan ally Gambia, sent a top general to inspect troops based in a frontline province and scooped up dozens of Taiwanese from Kenya wanted in China for fraud - a move denounced by Taipei as being more about politics than crime.

Only 22 countries recognise Taiwan as the “Republic of China”, with most having diplomatic relations with the “People’s Republic of China”, with its leaders in Beijing.

Ties warmed considerably when Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalists was elected Taiwan president in 2008, ushering in regular high-level exchanges and overseeing the signing of a series of landmark economic deals.

China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since 1949, when Mao Zedong’s forces won the Chinese civil war and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island.

Tsai reiterated that the new government would maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and forge a consistent, predictable and sustainable relationship with China. (rtr)

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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-Jeou (R) shakes hands with President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (L) after discussing the transfer of power in a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan March 30, 2016.

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A man watches an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 27, 2016.

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Task force investigates Chinese fugitive boat FILE - This is a Thursday, April 14, 2016. file photo of Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne as he gestures while speaking at a news conference during the the G5 Ministers of Finance meeting during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington.

Osborne has put a price tag on leaving the European Union costing Britain the equivalent of $6,100 per household.

Global stocks mixed on oil outlook, central banks watch MANILA — Global stocks were mixed Wednesday as an overnight surge in oil prices raised questions about the outlook for the energy sector. Investors are watching for the outcome of policy meetings by the U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan.

KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 0.3 percent at 6,268.63 in early trading. Germany’s DAX gained 0.1 percent to 10,267.21. France’s CAC 40 also edged 0.1 percent higher, to 4,538.12. U.S. futures indicated a lower opening on Wall Street, with the Dow and S&P futures both down 0.3 percent.

APPLE DECLINE: Apple says quarterly revenue fell for the first time in more than a decade, as iPhone sales fell compared with a year ago. That’s putting more pressure on the world’s most valuable public company to come up with its next big product. Apple sold more than 51.2 million iPhones in the first three months of 2016 — while racking up $10.5 billion in quarterly profit. That was more than many analysts expected, but still fewer than the 61 million iPhones sold a year earlier.

OIL PRICES: Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose 82 cents to $44.88 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

It gained $1.40, or 3.3 percent, to $44.04 a barrel on Tuesday, its highest close since early November. Brent crude, the international standard, added 98 cents to $46.72.

THE QUOTE: “The concern is that at $45 (a barrel) a significant amount of oil plays become profitable again and we still have not seen a big enough decline in oil output to bring about the appropriate supply and demand rebalancing,” said Angus Nicholson of IG. “Everyone in the market is concerned that we could see a repeat of 2015, where after a dramatic price decline, prices began to rise again and prompted a huge influx of oversupply and an even more severe sell-off.”

ASIA’S DAY; Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.4 percent to 17,290.49. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.2 percent to 21,361.60.

The Shanghai Composite index fell 0.4 percent to 2,953.67. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 shed early gains, slipping 0.6 percent to 5,250.90. South Korea’s KOSPI edged 0.2 percent lower to 2,015.40.

Southeast Asian markets were mixed.

CURRENCIES: The euro rose to $1.1303 from $1.1297 on Tuesday. The dollar fell to 111.28 yen from 111.32 yen.(ap)

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Economic watchdog warns on UK leaving European Union

LONDON — The head of the global economic forum OECD warned Britain that leaving the European Union would be tantamount to taxing its citizens — another in a growing cavalcade of cautionary advice ahead of a June 23 referendum on membership in the 28-nation bloc.

The warning by Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, came just days after expressions of concern by President Barack Obama, the U.K. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He described the notion that Britain might gain a better trade deal outside the union as somewhat fanciful.

“Brexit is like a tax,” he told the BBC ahead of publishing a full analysis of the implications of the vote. “It is the equivalent to roughly missing out on about one month’s income within four years but then it carries on to 2030.”

Gurria’s assessment follows that made by the U.K. Treasury last week, which determined that leaving the European Union would cost Britain the equivalent of $6,100 per household. The estimate was based

on an analysis of the long-term costs and benefits of EU membership and its alternatives.

The ever-more dire OECD judgment came the same day that authorities reported Britain’s economy slowed in the first threemonths of the year amid concerns about the global economy as well as the vote on EU membership.

The U.K. economy grew by a quarter-on-quarter rate of 0.4 percent in January-March, down from 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. Services, which comprise 78 percent of the British economy, continued to grow, expanding by 0.6 percent. But other sectors declined, including construction, mining and manufacturing.

Chris Williamson, chief economist of Markit, said uncertainty

about the economic outlook “appears to have intensified” ahead of a June 23 referendum on EU membership.

“The danger is that this will cause a lull in businesses decision making as the June vote draws closer, which will in turn reduce business spending, investment and hiring in the second quarter,” he said.

One of the leading members of the campaign to leave the EU, Nigel Farage, dismissed the concerns and the people who made them. yeah, yeah — IMF, OECD, a whole series of international organizations stuffed full of overpaid people who failed in politics mostly,” he told the BBC. When asked to name organizations that backed the so-called Brexit idea, he said: “They are called markets, they are called consumers, they are called people and they are called the real world.”

Farage said Britain would obtain a “bespoke” deal better than those obtained by “little countries like Norway and Switzerland” where people had been “betrayed by their politicians.”(ap)

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 1965, file photo, members of the Youth Wing of the Indonesian Communist Party (Pemuda Rakjat) are watched by soldiers as they are taken to prison in Jakarta following a crackdown on communists after an abortive coup against President Sukarno’s government earlier in the month.

Indonesia’s search for mass graves met with skepticism

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government’s decision to investigate anti-communist massacres in 1965 is being met with wariness by rights groups, some of which are reluctant to share information about mass graves until the government shows how it will conduct the probe.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo instructed security minister Luhut Pandjaitan this week to investigate the killings by the military and religious groups and gather information about mass graves. His directive followed a conference earlier this month that broke a half-century taboo on public discussion of an atrocity that historians say killed half a million people.

But Pandjaitan, a retired army general, has not instilled confidence that a genuine investigation will take place, saying the government would never apologize and that the death toll is wildly exaggerated, and demanding that advocacy groups prove that mass graves exist.

Haris Azhar of advocacy group Kontras said Wednesday he was involved in mapping 16 burial sites nearly a decade ago, mainly in central Java, and at the time had information about hundreds of other sites including on Bali, now Indonesia’s top tourist island, and Sulawesi.

But he said for his group to share

its information, the government must announce a clear and highly specific plan for the investigation.

Thirty to 40 groups throughout Indonesia have information about graves, Azhar said.

“From our side, we decided not to give it to them if there’s no clear agenda on what they will do with the data,” he said.

The killings began in October 1965, shortly after an apparent failed coup in which six right-wing generals were killed. The dictator Suharto, a largely unknown major general at the time, filled the power vacuum and blamed the assassinations on Indonesia’s Communist Party, which was then the largest outside the Soviet Union and China, with 3 million members.

Within Indonesia, widely accepted accounts of the era portray the events as a heroic uprising against communism and gloss over the deaths. Today, millions of descendants of Communist Party members remain stigmatized and face legal

discrimination that prevents them from holding government jobs.

A four-year investigation released in 2012 by Indonesia’s human rights commission described the killings as violence on a “truly massive scale” and called for the prosecution of perpetrators still living, but was ignored by the government of then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Despite doubts over Pandjaitan’s role, the government’s tentative step toward a reckoning with one of the worst atrocities of the last century has been welcomed by rights groups and survivors.

“This is a very important step for the future of Indonesia,” said Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher for Human Rights Watch. “It’s just the opening battle.”

Bedjo Untung, a survivor of the massacre and head of YPKP 65, or the Research Foundation for 1965 Murder Victims, said his group will soon hand over its information to the government.

“We already have evidence and records of mass graves in various places in Java and Sumatra,” Bedjo said. “We will show evidence that an incredible crime against humanity occurred in 1965.”(ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesias Illegal Fishing Eradication Task Force, Satgas 115, is investigating a Chinaflagged fugitive fishing vessel FV Hua Li-8 which was caught in the Aceh waters last Friday (April 22).

“Satgas 115 arrived (in Medan, North Sumatra) in line with international cooperation in illegal fishing eradication,” Chairman of Satgas 115 expert staff Mas Achmad Santosa said in a statement issued by the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry here on Tuesday.

The Interpol had earlier informed Satgas 115 that FV Hua Li-8 would pass the Malacca Strait. The Interpol had issued a purple notice for the Chinese boat allegedly poaching in Argentines waters.

The Navy deployed two warships - KRI Viper-820 and KRI Pati Unus 384 - to chase the boat sought by the Argentinean authorities for involvement in two legal cases.

“There is already one warrant

issued by an Argentinean court that asks for the Indonesian governments assistance to check and arrest it,” he said. The Task Force is currently in Belawan, Medan, North Sumatra Province, to check the boat and its documents detailing its fishing activity and the protection available to its crew members.

FV Hua Li-8 manned by 29member crew had allegedly poached in Argentinean waters on February 29, and also along the route it sailed.

The boat was also allegedly involved in human trafficking and slavery, according to First Admiral Edi Sucipto, spokesman of the Indonesian Navy, on Friday.

According to media reports, four of the crew members are Indonesians but were accorded the same treatment.

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti had earlier said no fishing boat from any country found poaching in Indonesian waters would enjoy any privilege.

BEKASI - The Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency has recorded that the people bore annual financial losses, reaching Rp150 trillion, owing to traffic congestions.

“The Indonesian Transportation Society has provided us the data on the losses caused by traffic congestions,” Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency Chief Andri Yansyah informed newsmen in Bekasi, West Java, on Monday.

Yansyah pointed out that traffic congestions had forced the public to spend significantly on fuel costs for their cars and health costs due to air pollution. The losses incurred are a huge figure, which had been borne by the public until now.

At present, some two million people, with varied interests, from Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Bodetabek) commute to

and from Jakarta on a daily basis.

The Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency is currently mapping out several points of congestion in Jakarta based on the road capacity and the increase in the number of vehicles in the local area.

Various attempts to parse the traffic congestion in Jakarta were made through several policies, by improving mass transportation services, such as operating commuter line trains and buses of large-, medium-, and smallscale capacity, among other things.

“We are currently expanding the route of the Transjakarta network to link the Bodetabek area in our efforts to make private vehicle users switch to using public transportation,” Andri remarked.

He noted that until now, 13 percent of the targeted 60 percent private vehicle users had switched to using mass transport fleet.(ant)

Traffic congestions in Jakarta inflict Rp150 trillion yearly losses

The traffic jam in Jakarta.

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Big wins by Trump, Clinton give rivals little breathing room

INDIANAPOLIS - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up wins in Northeastern states on Tuesday in a major show of strength and immediately turned their fire on each other in a possible preview of a general election matchup.

The New York billionaire easily defeated rivals John Kasich and Ted Cruz in all five states that held contests, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, with a margin of victory rivaling that of his home state of New York a week ago. He was on a path to winning the vote in every county in each state.

Clinton, already in control of the Democratic race, defeated challenger Bernie Sanders in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Her only loss of the night was to Sanders in Rhode Island.

The race now pivots immediately

to Indiana, which is shaping up to be Cruz’s best, and perhaps last, chance to slow Trump’s momentum toward the Republican nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.

If Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, can win a large share of the state’s 57 delegates on May 3, it will boost the chances that Trump will not be able to amass the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention in July. That could give Cruz a shot at convincing delegates to back him for president instead.

A loss to Trump in Indiana would

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effectively cripple Cruz’s already faltering bid, and increase pressure on the party to rally around Trump as the prospective nominee.

Katie Packer, head of the antiTrump political-action committee Our Principles, said her organization would be active in the state with “TV, mail, phones, digital, all of it.”

“We’re going to be playing in a lot of different congressional districts,” Packer said.

The Club for Growth, a conservative pro-business group, has bought $1.5 million worth of anti-Trump TV ads in the state.

Both groups worked to hand Trump a defeat at the hands of Cruz earlier this month in Wisconsin.

“Tonight, this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain,” Cruz said in Knightstown, Indiana on Tuesday. (rtr)

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Participants debate reasons to stay in and leave the EU at a Brexit event called “The Morning After the Vote” hosted

by Thomson Reuters at Clifford Chance, in London, Britain, April 25, 2016. The panel comprised of (L-R), MP Jo Johnson, MP Craig Mackinlay, Michael Rake, and Nigel Webber and was mediated by Reuters Editor-at-Large, Axel Threlfall.

“Out means out”, German lawmakers warn Britain on Brexit

BERLIN - Britain should not get special treatment from the European Union if it leaves the bloc and should expect tough talks in sealing bilateral deals, lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition said on Tuesday.

The British people should be aware of the risks if a Brexit went ahead, the lawmakers said, and applauded U.S. President Barack Obama for his comment last week that it would take years for Britain to negotiate a trade deal with the United States if it voted to leave the bloc on June 23.

Volker Kauder, the leader of Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, said Britain would lose all the benefits it enjoys as a full member of the European Union: “Out means out!”

Opinion polls suggest the sides are evenly matched, with a survey by ICM showing a slight lead for those in favour of Brexit while a survey in the Telegraph newspaper gave a slight lead to those preferring to stay.

“Rules will be without doubt set for the internal European market. Discussions among leaders will take place as usual and Britain will not be there,” Michael Grosse-Broemer, deputy floor leader of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) said.

He thanked Obama for “making it clear one more time that

Britain, also in his view, has an important status in Europe, and this is also our belief”.

Gerda Hasselfeldt, parliamentary group head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel’s Bavarian allies, said Britain should not expect to have preferential treatment in case of a Brexit.

“To me, it is clear: exit means exit. Citizens have to know that with this decision there will be no special treatment for Britain,” Hasselfeldt said.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble last month warned that a British vote to leave would “poison” the British, European and global economies.

Schaeuble said that while Britain would still be able to trade with the EU after leaving, it could not have the advantage of access to the bloc’s single market without accepting free movement of EU citizens or paying in to the EU’s budget.

“We went some way toward accommodating Britain’s demands,” Thomas Oppermann, parliamentary faction leader of the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD) said, referring to a deal that British Prime Minister David Cameron sealed at an EU summit in February that gave Britain “special status” in the bloc. (rtr)

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prime minister at the time, denied Canada had paid any money to secure the men’s freedom.

In October 2009, the Globe and Mail newspaper cited Mali government sources as saying the African nation had released four al Qaeda members in exchange for the two Canadians. (rtr)

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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton points while addressing supporters during her five state primary night rally held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 26, 2016.

Questions about whether Ottawa has paid kidnappers arose in April 2009, after the release of two Canadian diplomats who were seized in Mali in December 2008.

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Celuk Village

UBUD - Celuk Village is a traditional village located near to Ubud in the Gianyer Regency where you can appreciate the mountain culture which in many ways is similar to that of the traditional areas of Ubud and the other surrounding villages except for one major factor, Celuk Village is famous for the incredible gold and silver handicrafts which are available around this area for very low prices.

In the Sukawati area you will find that the craftsmen are of a very high standard and you can barter over these goods or even buy in wholesale capacity. As well as the shopping opportunities there is a lot to see around Celuk Village and the culture of the area is fascinating as well as relaxing to see where the pace of life is slow and you will find some interesting characters as well as plenty of place to try

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the local dishes and international dinning.

There are some other attractions as well as in the area as well as a number of facilities and hotels which are usually top end or midrange boutique little places hidden away in the village.

Approximately, the distance separating Celuk Vilage and Denpasar is 8 km.

It’s located right after Batubulan Village which you’re bound to pass on the way to Ubud. The famous Sukowati Traditional Market is also near this village, so it’s always a good idea to stop at Celuk after a whole day shopping in the market. Simply ask local vendors in the market about the direction to Celuk Village; they will be more than happy to guide you there.

The neighborhood stands out from the surrounding, thanks to gold and silver works gallery trimming both sides of the road. (IBP/net)

SAO PAULO - Brazil has long been known as a country that can throw a great party as long as the guests do not mind a location that still has the builders in it.

With 100 days to go before the Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the nation famous for doing things at the last minute faces a novel situation: The venues are ready, but the host does not appear to be.

With the president fighting impeachment and the economy on track for its worst recession in more than a century, Brazilians are both angry and distracted.

“People are paying no attention” to the Olympics, said longtime Rio resident Julia Michaels, who chronicles the city through her Rio Real blog. “No one is talking about it at all because there are so many other things to talk about.”

When Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the Games in 2009, Brazil was the darling of the developing world. Its economy had grown briskly for most of the decade, 30 million people had been lifted from poverty and the nation was assuming a prominent role in world affairs.

Since then, a collapse in commodities prices has dragged down the economy, and President Dilma Rousseff faces the prospect of being

suspended from office next month on charges of budgetary fraud.

The twin meltdowns have consumed Brazil, and the Olympics have all but disappeared from the front pages and TV news. In a nation where football has long been the sport that matters, politics is the only game in town.

“Brazil is going through a political crisis, and the situation has still to sort itself out,” said Agatha Bednarczuk, one of the beach volleyball players who will represent her homeland.

“I think we just need to resolve the politics, and then people’s attention will turn to sport.”

The venues are complete except for the velodrome, which will not be ready in time for an official test event, and the athletics stadium, where the running track is being laid. Officials say both will be finished well before the Games begin on Aug. 5.

Some 36 test events have taken place at arenas and stadiums as well as on the area’s beaches and mountains.

But the deep recession has prompted last-minute cutbacks.

Organizers withdrew plans for

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An aerial view shows Rio Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 25, 2016. With 100 days to go before the Olympic games begin in Rio de Janeiro, a host nation famous for doing things at the last minute faces a novel situation - the organisation is not an issue, political turmoil and apathy are. temporary seating at some venues, reduced the number of volunteers and briefly considered scrapping plans to provide athletes’ rooms

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The International Olympic Committee visited the city this month and expressed satisfaction

with progress so far, albeit with the caveat that “thousands” of small details had to be finalized. (rtr)

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Rafa Nadal celebrates his victory over Fabio Fognini of Italy during the Barcelona open tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, April 22, 2016.

LONDON - Rafa Nadal has asked the International Tennis Federation to publish the results of his drug tests following an accusation of doping by a former French cabinet minister.

The 14-times grand slam champion said on Monday he was suing Roselyne Bachelot, a former health, sports and social affairs minister, after she alleged the Spaniard had failed a drugs test.

The Spaniard wrote to the ITF asking his drug test results to be made public, British media have reported.

“It can’t be free any more in our tennis world to speak and to accuse without evidence,” media reports quoted the 29-year-old as saying.

“Please make all my information public, please make public my biological passport and my complete history of anti-doping

controls and tests. From now on I ask you to communicate when I am tested, and the results, as soon as they are ready from your labs.”

Nadal has never failed a drug test.

The ITF declined Nadal’s request but said the player was free to publish them himself.

“Mr Nadal ... has access to his anti-doping records through WADA’s ADAMS database and is free to make them available,” the governing body said in a statement.

“The accuracy of any such release would be verified by the ITF.” Failed drug tests in elite tennis are rare but doping has been in the spotlight since former women’s world number one Maria Sharapova announced last month she had returned a positive test for banned substance meldonium. (rtr)

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Man City hold Ronaldo-less Real to stay in hunt for final

MANCHESTER - Manchester City survived a late grilling

by Real Madrid thanks to goalkeeper Joe Hart to hold on for a 0-0 draw on Tuesday that keeps alive their hopes of reaching the Champions League final for the first time. Playing in their first European semi-final for 45 years, Premier League City produced a cagey first-leg display that offered little menace, although crucially they denied free-scoring Real an away goal.

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Manchester City’s Joe Hart looks on as Real Madrid’s Jese (not pictured) hits the crossbar

Ten-times champions Real suffered a setback before kickoff when Cristiano Ronaldo, the leading scorer in this season’s competition with 16 goals, was ruled out with a thigh injury. His spark was badly missed in a turgid first half at City’s Etihad Stadium, but Real finally came alive after the break and the hosts needed two instinctive late saves from Hart to keep them in the hunt for the second leg at the Bernabeu next week.

“It’s too close to call at the moment,” City captain Vincent Kompany said. “We couldn’t have wished for more. We have 90 minutes left

and we’ll look forward to next week.” Neither side managed a shot on target in the opening 45 minutes, but Real gradually upped their tempo after the break with Gareth Bale increasingly influential.

The Welshman curled one effort wide and had a penalty appeal turned down before substitute Jese looped a header against the crossbar with Hart at full stretch.

Hart saved a Casemiro header with his left foot and then shortly after Pepe looked certain to break the deadlock from point-blank range but Hart blocked the shot with his chest. City striker Ser-

gio Aguero had a quiet night and their creative department was not helped when David Silva limped off with a hamstring injury after 40 minutes.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini said he would not be fit for the return, although the Chilean was confident his side could prevail in the Spanish capital despite Real having racked up 18 goals without conceding at home in this year’s competition.

“If you can’t win, then the best draw is zero-zero,” he said. “This season we have played very well away. Now we go to the Bernabeu with the same attitude as playing at home. “Real Madrid must attack a little bit more.”

The hosts did produce a late flurry after Raheem Sterling joined the fray from the bench and the winger forced a timely interception from Pepe, while Kevin De Bruyne’s inswinging free kick forced Keylor Navas into some rare action.(rtr)

Mahrez says Leicester still have to work for league title

Playmaker Riyad Mahrez and his Leicester City team mates are taking nothing for granted, despite the club being just one win away from winning a maiden Premier League title.

The Foxes have a seven-point advantage at the top of the standings over Tottenham Hotspur and

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will win the title with two games to spare if the beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.

“It is not done yet,” Mahrez told the Daily Telegraph. “We have to keep going and focus on every game because it is difficult.

“We don’t need to be nervous.

This is just a bonus for us. No-

body expected us to be where we are so this is a bonus. If we do it, we do it. If not, that’s life,” the Algerian international added.

“Like I said, we are not a big club.

We don’t have to win the Premier League.”

Mahrez, who was named PFA Player of the Year on Sunday after

chipping in with 17 goals and 11 assists to aid Leicester’s title charge, said he only began considering the possibility of Leicester winning the league in January.

“I speak a lot with (midfielder) N’golo Kante and maybe January we started to talk about the league.

We just said: ‘Imagine if...’,” he

added.

“But that was only for about 30 seconds and then we would say: ‘No, let’s stay focused and let’s see.’ It was still a long way to go.

Maybe 15 games to go. “Nowadays we are like: ‘It’s not done yet because Tottenham are very close to us.’”(rtr)

Petrov plans Villa comeback after beating leukaemia

Former Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov, who retired from football after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia in 2012, wants to resume his playing career with the relegated Premier League club.

Petrov, who played more than 200 games for Villa and earned more than 100 caps for Bulgaria, said he was keen to help his beleaguered former club return to the top-flight as soon as possible.

“I’ve told Aston Villa that I’m ready to start a pre-season with them,” the 36-year-old midfielder was quoted as saying by British media.

“I’ve spoken to a lot of doctors and fitness coaches, and everybody looked at it and assessed it and I have received very positive news. I’m looking forward to a return to football again.”

Villa, the Premier League’s basement side, are without a manager and will be relegated to the Championship (second-tier) once the season ends, but that has not deterred Petrov from offering them his services.

“I’m 36, but players are playing at 39 and 40,” he added.

“I’ve looked after myself well and I think I’ve got a good shout. Even if it doesn’t happen, I’ve tried.

“I understand the odds are against me. It’s about how much you put into it and... I’m really looking forward to it.

“I’m getting my life back to where it used to be and it’s a way forward. I want to show people there is a life afterwards.

I’ve worked hard all my life to be a footballer and it was taken away from me. I’ve been given a chance again to do it.”(rtr)

MILAN - Juventus have no intention of selling their top players and are determined to assert themselves as a major force in Europe next season after wrapping a fifth successive Serie A title.

Despite their domestic dominance, Juve’s European form has been patchy over the last few seasons with one group stage elimination and two defeats to Bayern Munich - in the quarterfinals and this season in the round of sixteen.

Even when they reached the final last season, they were seen as upstarts rather than equals of teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona. Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri, who has been in charge for the last two seasons, wants that to change and is determined to strengthen the squad still further in the close season.

“The club will focus on improving the squad, as it did last summer, bringing in young players with great technique. Next year we must focus on winning the Champions League. It’s somewhat narrow-minded just to focus just on Serie A,” he said.

“It was hard to digest this year.

We got knocked out this year on the final cross of the game against Bayern Munich but we need to do better next year.”

Serie A is no longer regarded as one of Europe’s top leagues and its clubs often have trouble holding onto their players in the face of the greater financial power of their English and Spanish counterparts.

However, Juventus have already stated that they intend to keep Paulo Dybala and Paul Pogba, their two most precocious talents. Pogba, 23, has come

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ supporters celebrate after their soccer club won the Italian Serie A in downtown Turin, Italy, April 25, 2016. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens. on in leaps and bounds this season after being given more responsibility after the departure of veteran playmaker Andrea Pirlo to ply his trade in North America.

A player who combines finesse and physical power, Pogba could fetch more than 100 million euros if sold, Juventus estimates. Allegri, however, said jokingly last week that he would rather keep the Frenchman than have the money to spend in the transfer market.

Dybala, one year younger, has also shone in his first season following his move from Palermo, scoring 16 goals.

“Over the course of our history, Juventus have very rarely let our best players go. Paul, as well as Dybla, is part of the core of this team and we do not intend to put them on the market,” said chief executive Giuseppe Marotta.

“We want to go out and get great players while keeping our most valuable pieces. We will only sell players

who have told us they want to leave, but that is not the case with Pogba or Dybla or any of the others.”

Juventus won Serie A without kicking a ball on Monday after Napoli, the only team that could have caught them, were sunk 1-0 by a late Radja Nainggolan goal at AS Roma. In many ways, this year’s title has been the most unexpected of the last five.

Juventus got off to a miserable start after losing Pirlo as well as top scorer Carlos Tevez to his native Argentina and tireless midfielder Arturo Vidal to Bayern Munich, and were 11 points off the pace by the end of October.

But after taking 73 points out of their last 75, they clinched another title with five games to spare.

“To win this season would be really crazy and unbelievable,” said goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon after the 2-1 win at Fiorentina on Sunday. “We’ve shown the technical and moral strength of the group, the determination not to give in and our ability to astonish.”(rtr)

Infantino brings vision of new FIFA to Asia

SEOUL - FIFA President Gianni Infantino dangled the carrot of more World Cup spots for Asia during a visit to Seoul on Wednesday but while the Swiss was keen to press his case for an enlarged 40-team tournament, he will not try to twist anyone’s arm.

Infantino, who arrived in South Korea earlier in the day to meet with sponsors Hyundai Motor Group, said his visit was aimed at rebuilding trust with corporate partners and presenting his vision of a ‘new FIFA’.

World football’s scandal-hit governing body is in the midst of the worst crisis in its 112-year history, with more than 40 individuals and entities, including many former FIFA officials, charged with corruption-related offences in the United States.

Infantino, elected in February to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, told reporters that adding eight more teams to the World Cup from 2026 was “perfectly justified”.

“Football is not only Europe and South America. Football is the world,” he said.

“I’m not a dictator so I can’t impose anything but I’m trying to convince everyone. I believe we have to increase the number of teams... because we have to be more inclusive.”

Asia currently has four automatic spots at the World Cup, with a fifth up for grabs in an inter-confederation playoff, and Infantino said that number could rise to at least six under an expanded format.

FIFA has struggled to find new sponsors since the current crisis erupted and Asia’s financial muscle

could see the region play a bigger role. Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers and affiliates of the Hyundai conglomerate, have extended their partnership with FIFA until 2022.

China has also shown its ambition on the global football stage with Dalian Wanda Group, the country’s biggest commercial property developer, becoming the first Chinese top level sponsor of FIFA last month.

A source close to the deal said the 15-year sponsorship agreement with Wanda would be worth “hundreds of millions of dollars”.

Infantino said the nature of football took the sport beyond borders to new frontiers and that the organisation could work as a vehicle to bring people together,

though his suggestion for a goodwill match between the two Koreas fell somewhat flat.

“FIFA went through a difficult time... but times have changed,”

he added. “This is a new FIFA.” Infantino will next travel to Bangkok on Thursday to take part in the Thai FA’s 100th anniversary celebrations. (rtr)

News1/Park Se-yeon/via REUTERS

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, April 27, 2016.

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MANCHESTER - Manchester City survived a late grilling

by Real Madrid thanks to goalkeeper Joe Hart to hold on for a 0-0 draw on Tuesday that keeps alive their hopes of reaching the Champions League final for the first time. Playing in their first European semi-final for 45 years, Premier League City produced a cagey first-leg display that offered little menace, although crucially they denied free-scoring Real an away goal.

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Manchester City’s Joe Hart looks on as Real Madrid’s Jese (not pictured) hits the crossbar

Ten-times champions Real suffered a setback before kickoff when Cristiano Ronaldo, the leading scorer in this season’s competition with 16 goals, was ruled out with a thigh injury. His spark was badly missed in a turgid first half at City’s Etihad Stadium, but Real finally came alive after the break and the hosts needed two instinctive late saves from Hart to keep them in the hunt for the second leg at the Bernabeu next week.

“It’s too close to call at the moment,” City captain Vincent Kompany said. “We couldn’t have wished for more. We have 90 minutes left

and we’ll look forward to next week.” Neither side managed a shot on target in the opening 45 minutes, but Real gradually upped their tempo after the break with Gareth Bale increasingly influential.

The Welshman curled one effort wide and had a penalty appeal turned down before substitute Jese looped a header against the crossbar with Hart at full stretch.

Hart saved a Casemiro header with his left foot and then shortly after Pepe looked certain to break the deadlock from point-blank range but Hart blocked the shot with his chest. City striker Ser-

gio Aguero had a quiet night and their creative department was not helped when David Silva limped off with a hamstring injury after 40 minutes.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini said he would not be fit for the return, although the Chilean was confident his side could prevail in the Spanish capital despite Real having racked up 18 goals without conceding at home in this year’s competition.

“If you can’t win, then the best draw is zero-zero,” he said. “This season we have played very well away. Now we go to the Bernabeu with the same attitude as playing at home. “Real Madrid must attack a little bit more.”

The hosts did produce a late flurry after Raheem Sterling joined the fray from the bench and the winger forced a timely interception from Pepe, while Kevin De Bruyne’s inswinging free kick forced Keylor Navas into some rare action.(rtr)

Mahrez says Leicester still have to work for league title

Playmaker Riyad Mahrez and his Leicester City team mates are taking nothing for granted, despite the club being just one win away from winning a maiden Premier League title.

The Foxes have a seven-point advantage at the top of the standings over Tottenham Hotspur and

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will win the title with two games to spare if the beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.

“It is not done yet,” Mahrez told the Daily Telegraph. “We have to keep going and focus on every game because it is difficult.

“We don’t need to be nervous.

This is just a bonus for us. No-

body expected us to be where we are so this is a bonus. If we do it, we do it. If not, that’s life,” the Algerian international added.

“Like I said, we are not a big club.

We don’t have to win the Premier League.”

Mahrez, who was named PFA Player of the Year on Sunday after

chipping in with 17 goals and 11 assists to aid Leicester’s title charge, said he only began considering the possibility of Leicester winning the league in January.

“I speak a lot with (midfielder) N’golo Kante and maybe January we started to talk about the league.

We just said: ‘Imagine if...’,” he

added.

“But that was only for about 30 seconds and then we would say: ‘No, let’s stay focused and let’s see.’ It was still a long way to go.

Maybe 15 games to go. “Nowadays we are like: ‘It’s not done yet because Tottenham are very close to us.’”(rtr)

Petrov plans Villa comeback after beating leukaemia

Former Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov, who retired from football after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia in 2012, wants to resume his playing career with the relegated Premier League club.

Petrov, who played more than 200 games for Villa and earned more than 100 caps for Bulgaria, said he was keen to help his beleaguered former club return to the top-flight as soon as possible.

“I’ve told Aston Villa that I’m ready to start a pre-season with them,” the 36-year-old midfielder was quoted as saying by British media.

“I’ve spoken to a lot of doctors and fitness coaches, and everybody looked at it and assessed it and I have received very positive news. I’m looking forward to a return to football again.”

Villa, the Premier League’s basement side, are without a manager and will be relegated to the Championship (second-tier) once the season ends, but that has not deterred Petrov from offering them his services.

“I’m 36, but players are playing at 39 and 40,” he added.

“I’ve looked after myself well and I think I’ve got a good shout. Even if it doesn’t happen, I’ve tried.

“I understand the odds are against me. It’s about how much you put into it and... I’m really looking forward to it.

“I’m getting my life back to where it used to be and it’s a way forward. I want to show people there is a life afterwards.

I’ve worked hard all my life to be a footballer and it was taken away from me. I’ve been given a chance again to do it.”(rtr)

MILAN - Juventus have no intention of selling their top players and are determined to assert themselves as a major force in Europe next season after wrapping a fifth successive Serie A title.

Despite their domestic dominance, Juve’s European form has been patchy over the last few seasons with one group stage elimination and two defeats to Bayern Munich - in the quarterfinals and this season in the round of sixteen.

Even when they reached the final last season, they were seen as upstarts rather than equals of teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona. Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri, who has been in charge for the last two seasons, wants that to change and is determined to strengthen the squad still further in the close season.

“The club will focus on improving the squad, as it did last summer, bringing in young players with great technique. Next year we must focus on winning the Champions League. It’s somewhat narrow-minded just to focus just on Serie A,” he said.

“It was hard to digest this year.

We got knocked out this year on the final cross of the game against Bayern Munich but we need to do better next year.”

Serie A is no longer regarded as one of Europe’s top leagues and its clubs often have trouble holding onto their players in the face of the greater financial power of their English and Spanish counterparts.

However, Juventus have already stated that they intend to keep Paulo Dybala and Paul Pogba, their two most precocious talents. Pogba, 23, has come

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ supporters celebrate after their soccer club won the Italian Serie A in downtown Turin, Italy, April 25, 2016. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens. on in leaps and bounds this season after being given more responsibility after the departure of veteran playmaker Andrea Pirlo to ply his trade in North America.

A player who combines finesse and physical power, Pogba could fetch more than 100 million euros if sold, Juventus estimates. Allegri, however, said jokingly last week that he would rather keep the Frenchman than have the money to spend in the transfer market.

Dybala, one year younger, has also shone in his first season following his move from Palermo, scoring 16 goals.

“Over the course of our history, Juventus have very rarely let our best players go. Paul, as well as Dybla, is part of the core of this team and we do not intend to put them on the market,” said chief executive Giuseppe Marotta.

“We want to go out and get great players while keeping our most valuable pieces. We will only sell players

who have told us they want to leave, but that is not the case with Pogba or Dybla or any of the others.”

Juventus won Serie A without kicking a ball on Monday after Napoli, the only team that could have caught them, were sunk 1-0 by a late Radja Nainggolan goal at AS Roma. In many ways, this year’s title has been the most unexpected of the last five.

Juventus got off to a miserable start after losing Pirlo as well as top scorer Carlos Tevez to his native Argentina and tireless midfielder Arturo Vidal to Bayern Munich, and were 11 points off the pace by the end of October.

But after taking 73 points out of their last 75, they clinched another title with five games to spare.

“To win this season would be really crazy and unbelievable,” said goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon after the 2-1 win at Fiorentina on Sunday. “We’ve shown the technical and moral strength of the group, the determination not to give in and our ability to astonish.”(rtr)

Infantino brings vision of new FIFA to Asia

SEOUL - FIFA President Gianni Infantino dangled the carrot of more World Cup spots for Asia during a visit to Seoul on Wednesday but while the Swiss was keen to press his case for an enlarged 40-team tournament, he will not try to twist anyone’s arm.

Infantino, who arrived in South Korea earlier in the day to meet with sponsors Hyundai Motor Group, said his visit was aimed at rebuilding trust with corporate partners and presenting his vision of a ‘new FIFA’.

World football’s scandal-hit governing body is in the midst of the worst crisis in its 112-year history, with more than 40 individuals and entities, including many former FIFA officials, charged with corruption-related offences in the United States.

Infantino, elected in February to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, told reporters that adding eight more teams to the World Cup from 2026 was “perfectly justified”.

“Football is not only Europe and South America. Football is the world,” he said.

“I’m not a dictator so I can’t impose anything but I’m trying to convince everyone. I believe we have to increase the number of teams... because we have to be more inclusive.”

Asia currently has four automatic spots at the World Cup, with a fifth up for grabs in an inter-confederation playoff, and Infantino said that number could rise to at least six under an expanded format.

FIFA has struggled to find new sponsors since the current crisis erupted and Asia’s financial muscle

could see the region play a bigger role. Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers and affiliates of the Hyundai conglomerate, have extended their partnership with FIFA until 2022.

China has also shown its ambition on the global football stage with Dalian Wanda Group, the country’s biggest commercial property developer, becoming the first Chinese top level sponsor of FIFA last month.

A source close to the deal said the 15-year sponsorship agreement with Wanda would be worth “hundreds of millions of dollars”.

Infantino said the nature of football took the sport beyond borders to new frontiers and that the organisation could work as a vehicle to bring people together,

though his suggestion for a goodwill match between the two Koreas fell somewhat flat.

“FIFA went through a difficult time... but times have changed,”

he added. “This is a new FIFA.” Infantino will next travel to Bangkok on Thursday to take part in the Thai FA’s 100th anniversary celebrations. (rtr)

News1/Park Se-yeon/via REUTERS

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, April 27, 2016.

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Celuk Village

UBUD - Celuk Village is a traditional village located near to Ubud in the Gianyer Regency where you can appreciate the mountain culture which in many ways is similar to that of the traditional areas of Ubud and the other surrounding villages except for one major factor, Celuk Village is famous for the incredible gold and silver handicrafts which are available around this area for very low prices.

In the Sukawati area you will find that the craftsmen are of a very high standard and you can barter over these goods or even buy in wholesale capacity. As well as the shopping opportunities there is a lot to see around Celuk Village and the culture of the area is fascinating as well as relaxing to see where the pace of life is slow and you will find some interesting characters as well as plenty of place to try

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the local dishes and international dinning.

There are some other attractions as well as in the area as well as a number of facilities and hotels which are usually top end or midrange boutique little places hidden away in the village.

Approximately, the distance separating Celuk Vilage and Denpasar is 8 km.

It’s located right after Batubulan Village which you’re bound to pass on the way to Ubud. The famous Sukowati Traditional Market is also near this village, so it’s always a good idea to stop at Celuk after a whole day shopping in the market. Simply ask local vendors in the market about the direction to Celuk Village; they will be more than happy to guide you there.

The neighborhood stands out from the surrounding, thanks to gold and silver works gallery trimming both sides of the road. (IBP/net)

SAO PAULO - Brazil has long been known as a country that can throw a great party as long as the guests do not mind a location that still has the builders in it.

With 100 days to go before the Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the nation famous for doing things at the last minute faces a novel situation: The venues are ready, but the host does not appear to be.

With the president fighting impeachment and the economy on track for its worst recession in more than a century, Brazilians are both angry and distracted.

“People are paying no attention” to the Olympics, said longtime Rio resident Julia Michaels, who chronicles the city through her Rio Real blog. “No one is talking about it at all because there are so many other things to talk about.”

When Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the Games in 2009, Brazil was the darling of the developing world. Its economy had grown briskly for most of the decade, 30 million people had been lifted from poverty and the nation was assuming a prominent role in world affairs.

Since then, a collapse in commodities prices has dragged down the economy, and President Dilma Rousseff faces the prospect of being

suspended from office next month on charges of budgetary fraud.

The twin meltdowns have consumed Brazil, and the Olympics have all but disappeared from the front pages and TV news. In a nation where football has long been the sport that matters, politics is the only game in town.

“Brazil is going through a political crisis, and the situation has still to sort itself out,” said Agatha Bednarczuk, one of the beach volleyball players who will represent her homeland.

“I think we just need to resolve the politics, and then people’s attention will turn to sport.”

The venues are complete except for the velodrome, which will not be ready in time for an official test event, and the athletics stadium, where the running track is being laid. Officials say both will be finished well before the Games begin on Aug. 5.

Some 36 test events have taken place at arenas and stadiums as well as on the area’s beaches and mountains.

But the deep recession has prompted last-minute cutbacks.

Organizers withdrew plans for

REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

An aerial view shows Rio Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 25, 2016. With 100 days to go before the Olympic games begin in Rio de Janeiro, a host nation famous for doing things at the last minute faces a novel situation - the organisation is not an issue, political turmoil and apathy are. temporary seating at some venues, reduced the number of volunteers and briefly considered scrapping plans to provide athletes’ rooms

with air-conditioning.

The International Olympic Committee visited the city this month and expressed satisfaction

with progress so far, albeit with the caveat that “thousands” of small details had to be finalized. (rtr)

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Rafa Nadal celebrates his victory over Fabio Fognini of Italy during the Barcelona open tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, April 22, 2016.

LONDON - Rafa Nadal has asked the International Tennis Federation to publish the results of his drug tests following an accusation of doping by a former French cabinet minister.

The 14-times grand slam champion said on Monday he was suing Roselyne Bachelot, a former health, sports and social affairs minister, after she alleged the Spaniard had failed a drugs test.

The Spaniard wrote to the ITF asking his drug test results to be made public, British media have reported.

“It can’t be free any more in our tennis world to speak and to accuse without evidence,” media reports quoted the 29-year-old as saying.

“Please make all my information public, please make public my biological passport and my complete history of anti-doping

controls and tests. From now on I ask you to communicate when I am tested, and the results, as soon as they are ready from your labs.”

Nadal has never failed a drug test.

The ITF declined Nadal’s request but said the player was free to publish them himself.

“Mr Nadal ... has access to his anti-doping records through WADA’s ADAMS database and is free to make them available,” the governing body said in a statement.

“The accuracy of any such release would be verified by the ITF.” Failed drug tests in elite tennis are rare but doping has been in the spotlight since former women’s world number one Maria Sharapova announced last month she had returned a positive test for banned substance meldonium. (rtr)

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Big wins by Trump, Clinton give rivals little breathing room

INDIANAPOLIS - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up wins in Northeastern states on Tuesday in a major show of strength and immediately turned their fire on each other in a possible preview of a general election matchup.

The New York billionaire easily defeated rivals John Kasich and Ted Cruz in all five states that held contests, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, with a margin of victory rivaling that of his home state of New York a week ago. He was on a path to winning the vote in every county in each state.

Clinton, already in control of the Democratic race, defeated challenger Bernie Sanders in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Her only loss of the night was to Sanders in Rhode Island.

The race now pivots immediately

to Indiana, which is shaping up to be Cruz’s best, and perhaps last, chance to slow Trump’s momentum toward the Republican nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.

If Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, can win a large share of the state’s 57 delegates on May 3, it will boost the chances that Trump will not be able to amass the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention in July. That could give Cruz a shot at convincing delegates to back him for president instead.

A loss to Trump in Indiana would

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effectively cripple Cruz’s already faltering bid, and increase pressure on the party to rally around Trump as the prospective nominee.

Katie Packer, head of the antiTrump political-action committee Our Principles, said her organization would be active in the state with “TV, mail, phones, digital, all of it.”

“We’re going to be playing in a lot of different congressional districts,” Packer said.

The Club for Growth, a conservative pro-business group, has bought $1.5 million worth of anti-Trump TV ads in the state.

Both groups worked to hand Trump a defeat at the hands of Cruz earlier this month in Wisconsin.

“Tonight, this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain,” Cruz said in Knightstown, Indiana on Tuesday. (rtr)

Reuters/Peter Nicholls

Participants debate reasons to stay in and leave the EU at a Brexit event called “The Morning After the Vote” hosted

by Thomson Reuters at Clifford Chance, in London, Britain, April 25, 2016. The panel comprised of (L-R), MP Jo Johnson, MP Craig Mackinlay, Michael Rake, and Nigel Webber and was mediated by Reuters Editor-at-Large, Axel Threlfall.

“Out means out”, German lawmakers warn Britain on Brexit

BERLIN - Britain should not get special treatment from the European Union if it leaves the bloc and should expect tough talks in sealing bilateral deals, lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition said on Tuesday.

The British people should be aware of the risks if a Brexit went ahead, the lawmakers said, and applauded U.S. President Barack Obama for his comment last week that it would take years for Britain to negotiate a trade deal with the United States if it voted to leave the bloc on June 23.

Volker Kauder, the leader of Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, said Britain would lose all the benefits it enjoys as a full member of the European Union: “Out means out!”

Opinion polls suggest the sides are evenly matched, with a survey by ICM showing a slight lead for those in favour of Brexit while a survey in the Telegraph newspaper gave a slight lead to those preferring to stay.

“Rules will be without doubt set for the internal European market. Discussions among leaders will take place as usual and Britain will not be there,” Michael Grosse-Broemer, deputy floor leader of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) said.

He thanked Obama for “making it clear one more time that

Britain, also in his view, has an important status in Europe, and this is also our belief”.

Gerda Hasselfeldt, parliamentary group head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel’s Bavarian allies, said Britain should not expect to have preferential treatment in case of a Brexit.

“To me, it is clear: exit means exit. Citizens have to know that with this decision there will be no special treatment for Britain,” Hasselfeldt said.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble last month warned that a British vote to leave would “poison” the British, European and global economies.

Schaeuble said that while Britain would still be able to trade with the EU after leaving, it could not have the advantage of access to the bloc’s single market without accepting free movement of EU citizens or paying in to the EU’s budget.

“We went some way toward accommodating Britain’s demands,” Thomas Oppermann, parliamentary faction leader of the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD) said, referring to a deal that British Prime Minister David Cameron sealed at an EU summit in February that gave Britain “special status” in the bloc. (rtr)

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prime minister at the time, denied Canada had paid any money to secure the men’s freedom.

In October 2009, the Globe and Mail newspaper cited Mali government sources as saying the African nation had released four al Qaeda members in exchange for the two Canadians. (rtr)

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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton points while addressing supporters during her five state primary night rally held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 26, 2016.

Questions about whether Ottawa has paid kidnappers arose in April 2009, after the release of two Canadian diplomats who were seized in Mali in December 2008.

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Task force investigates Chinese fugitive boat FILE - This is a Thursday, April 14, 2016. file photo of Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne as he gestures while speaking at a news conference during the the G5 Ministers of Finance meeting during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington.

Osborne has put a price tag on leaving the European Union costing Britain the equivalent of $6,100 per household.

Global stocks mixed on oil outlook, central banks watch MANILA — Global stocks were mixed Wednesday as an overnight surge in oil prices raised questions about the outlook for the energy sector. Investors are watching for the outcome of policy meetings by the U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan.

KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 0.3 percent at 6,268.63 in early trading. Germany’s DAX gained 0.1 percent to 10,267.21. France’s CAC 40 also edged 0.1 percent higher, to 4,538.12. U.S. futures indicated a lower opening on Wall Street, with the Dow and S&P futures both down 0.3 percent.

APPLE DECLINE: Apple says quarterly revenue fell for the first time in more than a decade, as iPhone sales fell compared with a year ago. That’s putting more pressure on the world’s most valuable public company to come up with its next big product. Apple sold more than 51.2 million iPhones in the first three months of 2016 — while racking up $10.5 billion in quarterly profit. That was more than many analysts expected, but still fewer than the 61 million iPhones sold a year earlier.

OIL PRICES: Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose 82 cents to $44.88 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

It gained $1.40, or 3.3 percent, to $44.04 a barrel on Tuesday, its highest close since early November. Brent crude, the international standard, added 98 cents to $46.72.

THE QUOTE: “The concern is that at $45 (a barrel) a significant amount of oil plays become profitable again and we still have not seen a big enough decline in oil output to bring about the appropriate supply and demand rebalancing,” said Angus Nicholson of IG. “Everyone in the market is concerned that we could see a repeat of 2015, where after a dramatic price decline, prices began to rise again and prompted a huge influx of oversupply and an even more severe sell-off.”

ASIA’S DAY; Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.4 percent to 17,290.49. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.2 percent to 21,361.60.

The Shanghai Composite index fell 0.4 percent to 2,953.67. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 shed early gains, slipping 0.6 percent to 5,250.90. South Korea’s KOSPI edged 0.2 percent lower to 2,015.40.

Southeast Asian markets were mixed.

CURRENCIES: The euro rose to $1.1303 from $1.1297 on Tuesday. The dollar fell to 111.28 yen from 111.32 yen.(ap)

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Economic watchdog warns on UK leaving European Union

LONDON — The head of the global economic forum OECD warned Britain that leaving the European Union would be tantamount to taxing its citizens — another in a growing cavalcade of cautionary advice ahead of a June 23 referendum on membership in the 28-nation bloc.

The warning by Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, came just days after expressions of concern by President Barack Obama, the U.K. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He described the notion that Britain might gain a better trade deal outside the union as somewhat fanciful.

“Brexit is like a tax,” he told the BBC ahead of publishing a full analysis of the implications of the vote. “It is the equivalent to roughly missing out on about one month’s income within four years but then it carries on to 2030.”

Gurria’s assessment follows that made by the U.K. Treasury last week, which determined that leaving the European Union would cost Britain the equivalent of $6,100 per household. The estimate was based

on an analysis of the long-term costs and benefits of EU membership and its alternatives.

The ever-more dire OECD judgment came the same day that authorities reported Britain’s economy slowed in the first threemonths of the year amid concerns about the global economy as well as the vote on EU membership.

The U.K. economy grew by a quarter-on-quarter rate of 0.4 percent in January-March, down from 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. Services, which comprise 78 percent of the British economy, continued to grow, expanding by 0.6 percent. But other sectors declined, including construction, mining and manufacturing.

Chris Williamson, chief economist of Markit, said uncertainty

about the economic outlook “appears to have intensified” ahead of a June 23 referendum on EU membership.

“The danger is that this will cause a lull in businesses decision making as the June vote draws closer, which will in turn reduce business spending, investment and hiring in the second quarter,” he said.

One of the leading members of the campaign to leave the EU, Nigel Farage, dismissed the concerns and the people who made them. yeah, yeah — IMF, OECD, a whole series of international organizations stuffed full of overpaid people who failed in politics mostly,” he told the BBC. When asked to name organizations that backed the so-called Brexit idea, he said: “They are called markets, they are called consumers, they are called people and they are called the real world.”

Farage said Britain would obtain a “bespoke” deal better than those obtained by “little countries like Norway and Switzerland” where people had been “betrayed by their politicians.”(ap)

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 1965, file photo, members of the Youth Wing of the Indonesian Communist Party (Pemuda Rakjat) are watched by soldiers as they are taken to prison in Jakarta following a crackdown on communists after an abortive coup against President Sukarno’s government earlier in the month.

Indonesia’s search for mass graves met with skepticism

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government’s decision to investigate anti-communist massacres in 1965 is being met with wariness by rights groups, some of which are reluctant to share information about mass graves until the government shows how it will conduct the probe.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo instructed security minister Luhut Pandjaitan this week to investigate the killings by the military and religious groups and gather information about mass graves. His directive followed a conference earlier this month that broke a half-century taboo on public discussion of an atrocity that historians say killed half a million people.

But Pandjaitan, a retired army general, has not instilled confidence that a genuine investigation will take place, saying the government would never apologize and that the death toll is wildly exaggerated, and demanding that advocacy groups prove that mass graves exist.

Haris Azhar of advocacy group Kontras said Wednesday he was involved in mapping 16 burial sites nearly a decade ago, mainly in central Java, and at the time had information about hundreds of other sites including on Bali, now Indonesia’s top tourist island, and Sulawesi.

But he said for his group to share

its information, the government must announce a clear and highly specific plan for the investigation.

Thirty to 40 groups throughout Indonesia have information about graves, Azhar said.

“From our side, we decided not to give it to them if there’s no clear agenda on what they will do with the data,” he said.

The killings began in October 1965, shortly after an apparent failed coup in which six right-wing generals were killed. The dictator Suharto, a largely unknown major general at the time, filled the power vacuum and blamed the assassinations on Indonesia’s Communist Party, which was then the largest outside the Soviet Union and China, with 3 million members.

Within Indonesia, widely accepted accounts of the era portray the events as a heroic uprising against communism and gloss over the deaths. Today, millions of descendants of Communist Party members remain stigmatized and face legal

discrimination that prevents them from holding government jobs.

A four-year investigation released in 2012 by Indonesia’s human rights commission described the killings as violence on a “truly massive scale” and called for the prosecution of perpetrators still living, but was ignored by the government of then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Despite doubts over Pandjaitan’s role, the government’s tentative step toward a reckoning with one of the worst atrocities of the last century has been welcomed by rights groups and survivors.

“This is a very important step for the future of Indonesia,” said Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher for Human Rights Watch. “It’s just the opening battle.”

Bedjo Untung, a survivor of the massacre and head of YPKP 65, or the Research Foundation for 1965 Murder Victims, said his group will soon hand over its information to the government.

“We already have evidence and records of mass graves in various places in Java and Sumatra,” Bedjo said. “We will show evidence that an incredible crime against humanity occurred in 1965.”(ap)

JAKARTA - Indonesias Illegal Fishing Eradication Task Force, Satgas 115, is investigating a Chinaflagged fugitive fishing vessel FV Hua Li-8 which was caught in the Aceh waters last Friday (April 22).

“Satgas 115 arrived (in Medan, North Sumatra) in line with international cooperation in illegal fishing eradication,” Chairman of Satgas 115 expert staff Mas Achmad Santosa said in a statement issued by the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry here on Tuesday.

The Interpol had earlier informed Satgas 115 that FV Hua Li-8 would pass the Malacca Strait. The Interpol had issued a purple notice for the Chinese boat allegedly poaching in Argentines waters.

The Navy deployed two warships - KRI Viper-820 and KRI Pati Unus 384 - to chase the boat sought by the Argentinean authorities for involvement in two legal cases.

“There is already one warrant

issued by an Argentinean court that asks for the Indonesian governments assistance to check and arrest it,” he said. The Task Force is currently in Belawan, Medan, North Sumatra Province, to check the boat and its documents detailing its fishing activity and the protection available to its crew members.

FV Hua Li-8 manned by 29member crew had allegedly poached in Argentinean waters on February 29, and also along the route it sailed.

The boat was also allegedly involved in human trafficking and slavery, according to First Admiral Edi Sucipto, spokesman of the Indonesian Navy, on Friday.

According to media reports, four of the crew members are Indonesians but were accorded the same treatment.

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti had earlier said no fishing boat from any country found poaching in Indonesian waters would enjoy any privilege.

BEKASI - The Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency has recorded that the people bore annual financial losses, reaching Rp150 trillion, owing to traffic congestions.

“The Indonesian Transportation Society has provided us the data on the losses caused by traffic congestions,” Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency Chief Andri Yansyah informed newsmen in Bekasi, West Java, on Monday.

Yansyah pointed out that traffic congestions had forced the public to spend significantly on fuel costs for their cars and health costs due to air pollution. The losses incurred are a huge figure, which had been borne by the public until now.

At present, some two million people, with varied interests, from Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Bodetabek) commute to

and from Jakarta on a daily basis.

The Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency is currently mapping out several points of congestion in Jakarta based on the road capacity and the increase in the number of vehicles in the local area.

Various attempts to parse the traffic congestion in Jakarta were made through several policies, by improving mass transportation services, such as operating commuter line trains and buses of large-, medium-, and smallscale capacity, among other things.

“We are currently expanding the route of the Transjakarta network to link the Bodetabek area in our efforts to make private vehicle users switch to using public transportation,” Andri remarked.

He noted that until now, 13 percent of the targeted 60 percent private vehicle users had switched to using mass transport fleet.(ant)

Traffic congestions in Jakarta inflict Rp150 trillion yearly losses

The traffic jam in Jakarta.

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Visitors disturbed by beggars exploiting babies and young children

GIANYAR - The increasingly rampant presence or beggars in the tourism village of Ubud requires serious attention. Aside from disturbing the comfort of visitors, the presence of beggars exploiting babies and young children is generally especially considering that Gianyar has been named as a ‘child-worthy town’ (KLA).

As observed on Monday (Apr. 25) at around 23:00, a number of beggars were active on Jalan Raya Ubud, carrying babies and/ or accompanied by small children as a way to illicit sympathy.

The beggars and the small children would extend their hands in a begging gesture to every passing visitor. Some of them were even relentlessly pursuing pedestrians.

Chief of Ubud’s People’s Empowerment Agency (LPM) Dr. Tjokorda Gede Raka Sukawati aknowledged the numerous beggars that have been very much disturbing the comfort of visitors to Ubud. He added that may visitors had admitted to feeling ill at ease witnessing people exploiting children as they begged for money. “Many visitors have complained, particularly regarding the exploitation of children. People are very uncomfortable about children being exploited this way as is common in Jakarta” he said with much dismay.

Ubud’s People’s Empowerment Agency (LPM) has been seeking to address this problem by recruiting security officers to help cut down on the number of beggars, illegal merchants and migrants.

“However LPM can only recruit three officers who are focused on cutting down on illegal merchants and illegal migrants in Ubud.

Dealing with the beggars is much harder and we are often overwhelmed because even after they have been disciplined, they return again, as if they are organized”, explained Sukawati.

This lecturer at the Udayana University also worries that if the beggars persist in operating in Ubud, it will have a negative impact on the impression that international visitors have of Ubud. He therefore hopes that the government of Gianyar would pay more attention to the problem and help to deal with it. “We expect extra measures to be taken by the municipal police in response to the presence of these beggars. The government needs to look for solutions to the problem of large number of beggars operating in Gianyar in general and Ubud in particular”, he said.

Chief of the Gianyar Municipal Police, I Made Krya Gunarta, when asked for his assessment of the situation, said that Gianyar’s police is planning to intensify disciplinary action against beggars in the near future. “Since celebrations of the Town of Gianyar’s anniversary have ended, we have received numerous reports on the emergence of beggars so we will be taking disciplinary actions soon – specifically in Ubud”, said Gunarta.

This former head of the sub-district of Blahbatuh added that his officers will be operating in plain clothes because if they wear their uniforms, the beggars can escape before the officers approach “This has already happened quite frequently. When the beggars see officers’ uniforms, they run away. So we will be coordinating with the sub-district head and Ubud’s headman and deploy officers in plain clothes to conduct operations”, he explained.(kmb35)

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Taiwan’s Tsai says democratic principles will rule ties with China

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Students in Singaraja have taken to expressing their creativity by using plastic trash as their medium.

Students in Singaraja learn to use trash as artistic medium

SINGARAJA - Painting on canvas is commonplace, but students in Singaraja have taken to expressing their creativity by using plastic trash as their medium thanks to a Waste Care Movement Volume III workshop that was initiated by Manik Bumi Foundation at the Sasana Budaya Cultural Hall in Singaraja last weekend.

The students were by mentored by local artist Made Bayak, who has become an expert in using trash as a medium for creating works of art. Normally students are taught to paint on canvas, but as Bayak says this mainstream medium is being changed up for plastic waste that can also be used for expressing one’s creativity. “We encourage the younger generation to transform plastic waste into valuable works of art” said Made Bayak on Sunday (Apr. 24).

While introducing the students to the idea of painting on plastic garbage, Bayak also educated the students about maintaining and caring for the environment.

While plastic is usually discarded as useless, he explained, it can in fact be made into works of art that

art lovers may be interested in collecting – giving new meaning to the phrase ‘trash collecting’.

Processing plastic waste can generate economic value by being turned into art and can also create job opportunities. “Hopefully, these activities will have an impact on the younger generation and they will feel inspired to come up with imaginative ideas about developing a variety of creative products made from plastic garbage” added Bayak.

In the “Plasticology” workshop, a student from SMPN 4 Singaraja junior high school, Putu Eka, took up environmental issues wanting to promote public awareness and sensitize people about caring for nature and the surrounding environment. “We created a painting based

on the theme of protecting the earth, depicting the globe being held by human hands. Essential we are expressing the fact that humans are expected to think about and actively maintain the health of the earth and its contents”, said Eka. Member of the Manik Bumi Foundation’s founding board, Luh Gede Juli Wirahmini, explained that these activities were initiated for the benefit of the entire community, and involve elementary, junior high and high school students participating in protecting the environment.

Wirahmini said that she hopes that people will stop littering in the rivers and instead keep them clean.

“Our mission is to come to expect that each community will care more about and take a more active role in processing plastic trash. This year waste care movement volume III was able to go directly into schools.

In residential areas in Kampong Singaraja, students and the general public have become agents of change in managing plastic waste”, she said (kmb34)

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Protesters react as they hold placards and listen to speakers during a rally in support of refugees in central Sydney, Australia, October 19, 2015.

Australia rules out settling 800 asylum seekers as PNG says it will close camp

SYDNEY - Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday it will close an Australian immigration centre on a northern island after its Supreme Court ruled it unlawful, but Australia ruled out accepting more than 800 asylum seekers detained there.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton stressed the success of Australia’s hard-line policy that has been strongly criticised by the United Nations and human rights agencies.

Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea. They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said the detention centre would close after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the detentions breached the country’s constitution and would have to stop.

Dutton said that it was still government policy that asylum seekers sent to offshore detention centres would never be resettled in

Australia.

“As I have said, and as the Australian government has consistently acted, we will work with our PNG partners to address the issues raised by the Supreme Court of PNG,” Dutton said in a statement after the announcement.

O’Neill said he would ask Australia to make arrangements for the asylum seekers held on Manus Island, adding that they would be able to stay in Papua New Guinea if they wanted.

A spokesperson for Dutton did not immediately respond for requests for comment on the closure but Dutton said in Melbourne that the Manus detainees could return home or go to another country willing to accept them.

The detainees on Manus and Nauru are mostly refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East, Af-

ghanistan and South Asia.

While Australia maintains its hard-line stance, a second case concerning the fate of the detainees on Manus is set to be heard by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court later this week.

Lawyers acting on behalf of nearly all the Manus Island detainees will argue that they should be taken to Australia and be compensated for being held in custody.

The detention centre on Nauru houses about 500 people and has been widely criticised by the United Nations and human rights agencies for harsh conditions and reports of systemic child abuse.

Against such a backdrop, many of the detainees have self-harmed, with Dutton on Wednesday confirming that a 23-year-old man from Iran had set himself on fire on Nauru. Dutton said the man would be evacuated from Nauru later on Wednesday.

Broadspectrum Ltd, which runs the detention centres on Manus and Nauru, declined to comment. (rtr)

TAIPEI - Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen said she will maintain the status quo in the island’s relationship with China, but that her policy will be based on democratic principles and transcend party politics, a nuance likely to be lost on Communist Party leaders in Beijing.

China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary and wants the new government to stick to the “one China” policy agreed upon with the outgoing China-friendly Nationalist government.

Beijing distrusts Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which it believes supports formal independence for Taiwan.

“Only in this way, can the cross-Strait relationship last and give ‘maintaining the status quo’ real meaning,” Tsai, referring to the body of water separating the two sides, said in a speech.

“In these 10 years or so, the rise of China’s economy and its increasing overall influence has changed the structure of the cross-Strait relationship,” Tsai said. “It has also resulted in far-reaching impact in all aspects of interaction.”

Her comments come less than a month before she takes power amid keen interest in what she will say during her inauguration speech on May 20.

Tsai has always said she will maintain the status quo but has not elaborated on how she will engage Beijing beyond broad principles.

Tsai and her independence-leaning DPP were voted into power in January on growing concern, particularly among younger citizens, that the island was not benefiting from its economic ties with China.

China has been stepping up pressure on Taiwan. In the past few weeks, China has established ties with former Taiwan ally Gambia, sent a top general to inspect troops based in a frontline province and scooped up dozens of Taiwanese from Kenya wanted in China for fraud - a move denounced by Taipei as being more about politics than crime.

Only 22 countries recognise Taiwan as the “Republic of China”, with most having diplomatic relations with the “People’s Republic of China”, with its leaders in Beijing.

Ties warmed considerably when Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalists was elected Taiwan president in 2008, ushering in regular high-level exchanges and overseeing the signing of a series of landmark economic deals.

China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since 1949, when Mao Zedong’s forces won the Chinese civil war and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island.

Tsai reiterated that the new government would maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and forge a consistent, predictable and sustainable relationship with China. (rtr)

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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-Jeou (R) shakes hands with President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (L) after discussing the transfer of power in a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan March 30, 2016.

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Artificial limbs offer Syrians new chances at life

REYHANLI — Every time 3-year-old Seif wears his new prosthetic legs, the toddler puts up a fight. He has already made peace with walking on his stumps, but there is no dodging his daily rehabilitation session at a prosthetic clinic in southern Turkey.

In a small clinic in the dusty border town of Reyhanli, dozens of wounded Syrians come to be fitted each month with prosthetic limbs, their best shot at restoring a semblance of a normal life.

Treatment at the clinic is free and only for Syrian civilians and fighters who have lost body parts in the Syrian conflict. Workers at the clinic manufacture prosthetic body parts while patients are in therapy.

Seif, whose last name wasn’t disclosed, was riding in the back seat of a car in the Syrian city of Aleppo in February, when a rocket struck the car blowing off his two legs and the leg of his older brother.

Their parents, who were sitting in the front, survived with minor injuries.

The family recently crossed into Turkey so that the brothers could be fitted with artificial limbs at the National Syrian Project for Prosthetic Limbs (NSPPL), a Syrianrun venture supported by three agencies: Syria Relief, SEMA, and Every Syrian.

“The number of wounded people is growing,” said Raed al-Masri, who has been running the clinic since it opened in February 2013.

He’s unsure what is causing the

spike in numbers.

“Perhaps it is the Russian bombing or maybe people have become more aware of the center,” he told The Associated Press. By his count, more than 50,000 Syrians are amputees in need of treatment. The clinic works on an average of 100 cases per month.

The technicians working at the clinic are all Syrian refugees. They largely learned their craft on the go, but training has brought personnel up to European standards, al-Masri said.

It takes about five days to manufacture a limb, test it and fit it on a patient. The rehabilitation process can stretch from one week to several months depending on the condition and morale of the patient.

“People who have prosthetic limbs are in a very difficult psychological state, so what about the people who have no limbs, or have a handicap?” al-Masri said. “They are in a different category, in an even more difficult state.”

Those in the clinic are the lucky ones and, generally, they know it.

Ahmed Abdullah, a 30-year-old rebel who lost both legs in 2012 while fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, said his life was transformed after

being fitted with artificial limbs.

“Before I had a prosthetic limb, I would get annoyed sometimes because I couldn’t get things for myself,” said the lightly-bearded former fighter. “I would need my

brother or sister to get it for me.

After ... my life became — I can’t say 100 percent — but 90 to 95 percent good.”

For Seif, who comes to the clinic dressed in prim shorts and shirt,

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the transition is impossible to put into words. The routine starts with tears but ends in a burst of laughter as he takes his first steps with the help of his mother. “He’s happier,” she said. (ap)

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Residents held demonstration against reclamation of Benoa Bay

Benoa Bay Reclamation

Working Parliamentary Meeting

DENPASAR - The contentious issue of the reclamation of Benoa Bay was discussed in a working meeting involving Bali’s house of representatives (DPRD) and the Governor of Bali in the parliamentary building on Tuesday (Apr. 26).

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Syrian Mahmoud Shamoo, left, a technician and therapist helps a Syrian patient, who didn’t want to be identified, with his first steps on his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, where hundreds of wounded Syrians come in every week to receive prosthetic limbs, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Treatment at the clinic is for free and only for Syrian civilians and fighters who lost their limbs in the war in their home country.

Brazil says Zika-linked microcephaly cases stable at 4,908

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An Aedes aegypti larva is seen through a microscope at Colombia’s National Institute of Health in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 26, 2016.

BRASILIA - The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus remained stable at 4,908 in the week through April 23, just one case more than a week earlier, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Of these, the number of confirmed cases climbed to 1,198 from 1,168 a week earlier, but suspected ones under investigation continued to decline to 3,710 from 3,741 a week ago.

Cases that have been ruled out rose to 2,320 in the week through April 23, from 2,241 a week earlier, the ministry said.

Brazil considered most of the cases of babies born with abnormally small heads to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established.

Brazil has registered 91,387 likely cases of the Zika virus from February until April 2, the health ministry said earlier on Tuesday, in its first national report on the epidemic.

The country’s populous southeast, which includes Olympic city Rio de Janeiro, registered the most diagnoses of any region, with 35,505 likely cases. (rtr)

The primary points on the agenda of the working meeting were the Report of Gubernorial Responsibility 2015 (LKPJ), and the Second Regional Regulation Plan regarding REgional Taxation Regulations.

However, member of Commision II, A. A” Ngurah Adhi Ardhana said that he was offended that the staunch opposition to reclamation that the coastal villages of Benoa Bay have expressed about reclamation, has been virtually ignored. “In my opinion, as our patriarch, as a the leader of the Balinese people, all you have to do let the President of the Republic of Indonesia know. Let it be known that this is going on (mass opposi-

tion). Please sir, speak on behalf of the Balinese people”, he said.

Adhi emphasized that this opinion of his is neither pro nor contra.

The Governor as regional representative need not be afraid of being called a rebel by the central government. Especially because the governor would only be transiting information about what is going on In Bali at the moment. For whatever follows, it is up to the President to decide what needs to be done. “I think that it would make us looking very good as regional representatives” said this PDI-P politician.

Governor of Bali Mangku Pastika said that his position regarding

the reclamation of Benoa Bay is still awaiting word form the central government. He and his staff surrender the entire reclamation process -whether it goes ahead or not, to the central government.

“If it goes forward, good, it it does not also not a problem. I have no personal interest in the matter, I just think that Benoa Bay could be in a better condition than it is now”, he said. Pastika added that the question of why the province does not just dredge the bay themselves has come up. He explained that Benoa Bay is a “National Strategic Area”, so it is not within the Province of Bali’s authority. Secondly, the Provincial government does not have the funds to dredge the harbour.

“Let us count our funds: 20 percent goes to education, 20 percent is transferred to the regencies, 20

percent for government officer spending, 10 percent for health, and 10 percent for infrastructure. That ti already 80 percent of the regional budget. The remaining 20 percent goes to grants issued by the house of representatives for The National Red Cross , The National Sports Comity, and Scouts” he said.

Governor Pastika emphasized that all he knows is that Benoa Bay is damaged now. There are no longer any mangroves, seaweed nor other marine biota there. At low tide, there is only mud in Benoa Bay and at high tide sea water rises by 1 meter therefor actions must be taken to save Benao Bay. “Besides, even though our current unemployment rate is the lowest nationally, every year there are 25 thousand young people in Bali graduating from University.

Where will they work? This is also a problem. If we do not create new and diverse tourist destinations, we will loose out to the competition” he said.

Pastika added that we should not hope for economic growth without there being investments. Even if the government forces investments to be made in North Bali there is no guarantee that investors will want to put their money there. He gave the example of the plan to build an airport in Buleleng that has yet to materialize. After calculating the amount of money that would need to be invested in building the airport -some IDR 30 trillion, investors that had been interested suddenly withdrew their offer.

“Anyoen who puts money down wants to see a return. That is the problem”, he explained. (kmb32)

Environment Agency conducts vehicle emission tests for Earth Day

DENPASAR - As part of Earth Day celebrations this year, Denpasar’s Environmental Affairs Agency (BLH), took action by conducting vehicle emission tests on 2000 cars over 4 days. Head of BLH Denpasar, Anak Agung Bagus Sudharsana, said on Tuesday (Apr 26) that the emission testing that took place in Sesetan involved the police and the Denpasar Communications Agency. He explained that by holding such random testing, they hope to improve air quality by ensuring that vehicles are only emitting the allotted amount of pollution.

The vehicle emission testing took place in the area of Sesetan on Jalan Puputan Renon, Jalan Mulawarman and finally on Jalan Teuku Umar Barat. Sudharsana that the amount of pollution that a vehicle emits does not necessarily depend on the age of the vehicle but has more to do with how well the vehicle is taken care of”, he said.

For cars with fuel injection motors, the CO2 limit is 3.5 percent, Ac 300 PPM, CO2 of 12 percent, 02 2 percent and motor parameter of 97-1-03.

The emission test that took place in four different neighbourhoods,

targeted vehicles with a higher potential of being polluting and both moving cars and parked cars were tested in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from motor vehicles. It is hopes that after ongoing such tests vehicle owners will take steps to reduce the amount of pollution that is being released into the air and which affects people’s health by having their e=vehicles tuned up or have parts changed if necessary.

“We are working with the Communications Agency to deal with vehicles that do not pass the emissions tests”, added Sudharsana, (kmb12)

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Denpasar’s Environmental Affairs Agency (BLH), took action by conducting vehicle emission tests on 2000 cars over 4 days.

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“Well ... this does not bode well for future plans. So far, infrastructure development tends to be influenced by real estate investors.

When there are investors, then the government rushes to to create infrastructure. Thus, the development of Bali cannot be well arranged” said this PDI-P politician.

Kariyasa asked the provincial government to speed up the realization of infrastructure such as the toll road, shortcuts and airports in North Bali. After all, one of the causes of the imbalance in economic and social development is the uneven access to infrastructure.

That is why there are only a few investors wishing to invest beyond Southern Bali.

“Investors tend to think they will only make a profit if there is good infrastructure. So, whatever the district

government does in northern Bali and eastern Bali to attract investors, is for naught if there isn’t adequate infrastructure –investors just won’t want to put their money there”, he said.

When interviewed separately, chief of the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda), I Putu Astawa, said that the shortcut plan for the Mengwitani-Singaraja road remains in the stage of feasibility study (FS) this year. The plan and preparation or detailed engineering design (DED) and land acquisition are scheduled to take place in 2017.

Meanwhile the Kuta-Canggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road remains in the process of having a feasibility study done by PT. Waskita.

“During the national development plan meeting we intensely discussed the stages that need to be realized”, said Astawa, adding that IDR 210 billion has been budgeted for the regular maintenance of provincial roads, while physical developments being undertaken are the construction

of Bali Mandara Hospital and Bali Mandara Eye Hospital (Indera Hospital—Ed). Next year, development will be resumed with the construction of the broken Tukadaya Bridge in Jembrana.

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Calendar of events April 27 - 29

“The Buleleng airport requires substantial funds and the regional budget cannot possible cover it and the central government does not consider Bali a priority. As a result, we are encouraging po-

tential investors wishing to build the airport. There is a prospective investor –Canada Kinesis that has been requested to provide a detailed explanation by the governor” he added. (kmb32)

Wednesday, April 27 -6:30pm Exhibition opening: Alla duly, I made ada Wood Inside and outside Museum Puri Lukisan free exhibition runs from April 27- Mai 23rd Thursday, April 28th, 7:30Pm Jalanan The Movie (2013) Award winning documentary about 3 charismatic buskers in Jakarta.

Bar Luna, Jalan Raya Ubud Friday, April 29th +30th Kollektiv & Mini Kino: 7:30pm film screening White shoes& the Couples Company di Cikini Berry Biz Hotel, Jalan Raya Sunset road no 99, kuta www.minikino.org 25K Friday, April 29th , 7:00Pm International Jazz Day eith bali Gypsy, Underground Jazz movement, Dian Prawiti, Rumah Sanur, Jalan Damau Poso 51A, Sanur 50k Friday, April 29th 8pm Body painting exhibition: ISI Denpasar Art students , Pagung Terbuka Ksirarnawa (open stage), Art Center, Jalan Nusa Indah, Denpasar Free

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The crowded Ngurah Rai Airport. Currently there is no development on the other side of the island to make tourism equal in Bali.

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5300 Dengue cases, 24 dead

DENPASAR - The Province of Bali’s Health Agency has recorded 5300 cases of Dengue on the island of the gods between January and April 2016.

Of this number 24 people died of dengue. Head Bali’s Health Agency, Dr. Ketut Suarjaya said that the outbreak has been handled according to standard operating procedures in hospitals and clinics on the island. Cases where patients with dengue died were due to having been diagnosed too late.

One of the hospital in Bali is crowded with patients.

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“For example if someone has had a fever for a few days without realizing that they have dengue may arrive at the hospital once they are already in the shock phase of the illness.

Whereas patients who get immediate care can be cured with normal treatment”, said Saurjaya during a press conference at Bali’s health agency on Tuesday (Apr 26).

Suarjaya added that there are three ways of treating dengue: total rest, rehydration and by taking vitamins so strengthen the body. WIthin five days, the dengue virus will weaken as witnessed by the increase in white blood cell counts by the sixth day. The most important aspect of handling the spread of dengue is to prevent it from spreading. “The dengue virus thrives in the rainy season between January- Mai so we hope that measures can be taken a few months before, by preforming the “3m’s” around September”, he said.

Governor of Bali’s representative Ketut Sudikerta then asked that all hospital and medical staff to do their utmost to take care of patients with dengue, especially when these patients first seek medical attention Hospital staff were also asked to provide suitable places for these patients to recover.

“Apart from responding quickly to patients that have already become infected with dengue, it is also important to do “the 3ms”; routinely clean out any and all area that hold water, empty all containers of stagnant water, cover stored water -especially water used for human consumption” he explained. (kmb32)

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Friday, April 29th 6:30PM Mahendratta: Jejak Arkeologis dan sosok historis runs form april 30th to mai 7th Exhibition of photos and artefacts from the 10 and 11th century Bali related to Mahendratta who was the illustrious wife of then King Udayana.

In conjunction with Rumah Perabadan and the bureau of Archeology. bentara Budaya, Free Friday, April 29th, Rizal& Rasendriya: Live music by multi talented west javanese playing his independently created new musical instrument made from bamboo.

7:30Pm Bar Luna, jalan Raya Ubud, Friday, April 29th 7:30-9:30pm Live music with Yudele and friends Balinese instrument maker and musician performs his uplifting songs.

Paradiso, Jlaan Goutama Selatan 50K

ONGOING EVENTS March 2- August 31th A Love Affair With Asia: Bridges Cafe, Jalan Campuhan, Ubud www.bridges.com FREE Every Tuesday Ecstastic Tuesday Morning Dance 9AM-12Noon Guided improvised movement Paradiso, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud www.paradisoubud.com 100K Every Thursday African Drum Class with Catur Sang Klang Wijaya 4PM-6PM Experience the healing power of drumming. all levels welcome Ashram Satya Graha, Nyuh Kining, Ubud

BY DONATION Every Friday Exploration in Motion 6:30PM-8PM The art of exploration in movement Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang Linjong 38, Echo Beach, Canggu www.samadibali.com 130K Every Sunday Batu Jimbar Cafe Sunday Market 10AM-1PM Organic produce, Bali honey, homemade jams, european specialties Batu jimbar Cafe, Jalan Danau Tambligan No75, Sanur www,batujimbarcafe.com Samadi Bali Sunday Organic Market Organic food, handmade creative clothes and jewellery, yoga for kids, music Samadi Bali, Jalan Padang, Linjong 39, Kuta www.samadibali.com

Paon Bali Resto and Bar Reopening Soon At Grand Nikko Bali

Grand Nikko Bali is delighted to announce the reopening of its newly refurbished Paon Bali Resto and Bar. Previously known as Paon Bali and Oolooloos Bar, this dining venue closed its doors in February 2016 to undergo an extensive refur-

bishment and is scheduled to unveil its new look on May 3rd, 2016.

Paon Bali Resto & Bar has revamped its menu to serve a wider selection of authentic Balinese cuisine for lunch and dinner. There’s also a delicious variety of finger foods in the

form of Balinese Tapas that can be paired with refreshing drinks.

Located at the resort’s lower lobby, Paon Bali Resto & Bar is open daily for lunch from 12.00 pm – 6.00 pm, dinner from 6.00pm – 10.00pm and supper from 10.00pm - 01.00am.

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Canada, UK to urge other nations not to pay ransoms -Trudeau

KANANASKIS - Canada and Britain will urge other nations not to pay ransoms to free kidnap victims, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, the day after a Canadian hostage was found dead in the Philippines.

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In this March 23, 2016 file photo, singer Alicia Keys performs at the coffee company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. Keys will debut new music at the upcoming UEFA Champions League Final in Milan, Italy on May 28.

Alicia Keys to debut new music at Champions League Final

NASHVILLE — Alicia Keys will debut new music from her next album during the first-ever live musical performance as a part of the opening ceremony for the UEFA Champions League Final in Italy next month.

UEFA and Pepsi announced that the Grammy-winning singer will be the first musical act to perform as a part of the final, which is aired in more than 220 countries.

The singer has been working on a follow-up to her 2012 studio album “Girl on Fire,” but she was coy about the new songs she’ll be performing on May 28.

“I have to leave it as a surprise for sure ‘cause that’s ... part of the fun of it,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York on Tuesday.

“But you’re definitely going to hear some new music.”

The multi-platinum singer, songwriter and pianist was feeling the energy and excitement of spring

as she talked about the upcoming performance and new music. The mother of two is also going to be the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” on May 7 and will be a judge on the next season of “The Voice,” alongside Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Miley Cyrus.

“It’s such a fresh time for music.

To me, it’s my favorite time,” Keys said.

She’ll have a global stage to introduce her new music to millions of football fans worldwide from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan.

And as the inaugural performance for the opening ceremony, she said wants to put her own creative stamp on the show.

“It’s pretty insane. I know there is going to be 80,000 people there in person and people are all over the world are going to witness it and watch this and celebrate,” Keys said. “It’s a huge space to fill.”

Music, Keys said, transcends language, so she’s excited to perform for fans all around Europe.

“No matter what you speak, you understand. You understand the emotion, you understand the feeling,” she said. “And I think that’s what is so magical about music, what makes us love it so much.”

Keys also said she is looking forward to returning to Italy, a place that feels like home to her.

“My mother’s family is from Italy, so whenever I go, I always feel the most loved,” Keys said. “I feel like it’s a homecoming of love in a lot of ways.” (ap)

Trudeau said if Canada paid ransoms it would put at risk all of its citizens who traveled or lived abroad. Islamist militants beheaded the Canadian man this week after a deadline passed.

Asked about nations that do pay off kidnappers, Trudeau said he had discussed the matter with British Prime Minister David Cameron and both were convinced the practice was wrong.

“We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world,” Trudeau told reporters after a cabinet retreat in the Alberta resort of Kananaskis.

“We need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence (by) taking innocents hostage,” he said.

John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was executed by Abu Sayyaf militants who captured him and three others in 2015 while they were on vacation on a Philippine island. Another Canadian, Robert Hall, is still in captivity.

“We are working with our allies, including the Philippines, to ensure the perpetrators of

this heinous act are brought to justice,” said Trudeau, who dismissed media reports saying he had been involved in talks to free the hostages.

Last year Canadian police arrested a Somali man in Ottawa for what they say was his role in the 2008 hostage-taking of a Canadian freelance journalist in Somalia. Police said the arrest came after extraterritorial undercover operations, but gave no details.

Abu Sayyaf, which is linked to Islamic State, has collected tens of millions of dollars from ransoms since it was formed in the 1990s, security experts say. The Philippines rarely publicizes payments of ransom, but it is widely believed no captives are released without them.

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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Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spars at Gleason’s Boxing Gym in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Thursday, April 21, 2016.

No infrastructural development to overcome inequality in 2016 DENPASAR - In 2016, infrastructure development in Bali will continue to remains local in nature. Infrastructure projects intended to overcome the inequality in development on

the island, include the airport in North Bali, Kuta-Canggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road and the Mengwitani-Singaraja shortcut. But it looks like these are still on the backburner.

“This year, it is only the local ones, like the new ring road in Nusa Penida that will go ahead. There is no effort to resolve congestion and

the imbalance of development. In fact the shortcut and toll road have been planned but they are still in the process of DED preparation or planning”, said Secretary of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, from Denpasar on Monday (Apr. 25).

In terms of rules, added Kariya-

sa, some infrastructural plans have been accommodated in Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on Bali’s provincial spatial planning (RTRWP).

For example, the detailed engineering design (DED) of the KutaCanggu-Tanah Lot-Soka toll road were created in 2010. However, until this time it has not been realized. In the meantime, given the

current spatial planning, the toll road cannot possibly be built due to the constraints of acquiring land.

Many villas have been established along Sunset Road to Soka (Tabanan) thanks to violation of the spatial plan.

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